Chapter Summaries

Qin Yang tracked down the Third Tower Master of Black Fish Tower and confronted him in Yongning Prefecture City. After discovering Qin Yang had reached the True Gang Realm, the Third Tower Master unleashed his full strength, and their fierce battle continued.

• Qin Yang obtained the Third Tower Master's whereabouts from Leng Cang and negotiated a reward of eight hundred contribution points for killing him.
• Qin Yang found the Third Tower Master disguised as a calligraphy-stall owner and recognized his severed arm as a prosthetic.
• The Third Tower Master revealed himself and attacked Qin Yang, who met his palm strike with an elbow.
• The Third Tower Master activated Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown and challenged Qin Yang, while Qin Yang closed his eyes to sense the man's movements.
• Qin Yang and the Third Tower Master exchanged powerful techniques as their battle shattered the street's paving stones.

Qin Yang killed the Third Tower Master of Black Fish Tower after a brutal fight, then returned to the Sky Patrol Division to recover and reflect on his breakthrough into the Mind Realm. Meanwhile, Black Fish Tower sought to conceal the Third Tower Master's identity and suspected Song Yechen was testing its plans.

• The Third Tower Master pierced Qin Yang's shoulder, but Qin Yang activated the Yin Talisman and overwhelmed him with a barrage of attacks.
• Qin Yang and the Third Tower Master struck each other at the same time; Qin Yang survived, while the Third Tower Master died from a wound to his chest.
• Qin Yang searched the Third Tower Master's body for banknotes and a fist technique manual, then left as bailiffs arrived and took the corpse to the Prefecture Yamen.
• A long-haired man learned of the Third Tower Master's death, ordered a masked subordinate to retrieve the body, and suspected Song Yechen had sent Qin Yang to test Black Fish Tower.
• Qin Yang returned to the Sky Patrol Division, earned eight hundred contribution points for the kill, and recovered in his courtyard as he realized he had entered the Mind Realm.

Song Yechen concluded that Black Fish Tower’s silence confirmed his suspicions and assigned Ma Cheng to investigate while Leng Cang handled the Evil Extermination Department. After recovering, Qin Yang sought a training room but discovered Li Xin had deliberately blocked him, and his confrontation with the Internal Affairs Department escalated into a fight with Mo Yunlian.

• Song Yechen told Leng Cang that Black Fish Tower’s lack of response confirmed that the old Marquis was plotting something, then assigned Ma Cheng to investigate and Leng Cang to manage the Evil Extermination Department.
• Qin Yang exchanged contribution points for Water Nourishing Pills and Body Tempering Pills so he could train the Dragon Elephant Fist for longer.
• A steward told Qin Yang that every training ground was booked, though Li Xin secretly reserved the remaining room for himself to spite Qin Yang.
• Qin Yang caught a young man carrying the training-room plaque, learned that Li Xin had arranged the deception, and returned to confront him.
• Mo Yunlian came out to stop Qin Yang, but he challenged her authority, prompting her to attack him with a swift palm technique.

Qin Yang endured Mo Yunlian’s illusionary Nianhua Palm until he sensed her hostility and defeated her with a counterattack. As he demanded that Li Xin come out, Wu Qian arrived with armed soldiers and challenged him.

• Mo Yunlian’s Nianhua Palm repeatedly struck Qin Yang, but his Iron Body Skill and hardened body withstood her attacks.
• Qin Yang sensed Mo Yunlian’s hostility, blocked her strike to his temple, and counterattacked with punches and the Immeasurable Heavy Whip.
• Qin Yang shattered Mo Yunlian’s protective qi and kicked her into the Internal Affairs Department, frightening its members.
• Qin Yang called for Li Xin, who panicked at the thought that Qin Yang would cripple or kill him.
• Wu Qian arrived with several dozen armed soldiers, accused Qin Yang of causing havoc, and dismissed his victory over Mo Yunlian.

Qin Yang’s clash with Mo Yunlian brought Leng Cang, Wu Qian, Shen Sanxiu, and Division Chief Song Yechen into the dispute. Song removed Mo Yunlian from her post after confronting her with evidence of embezzlement, while Qin Yang’s complaint revealed broader misconduct in the Internal Affairs Department.

• Wu Qian tried to take Qin Yang to the Armory Department, but Leng Cang insisted that Division Chief Song Yechen should judge the dispute.
• Shen Sanxiu arrived and ordered Wu Qian to arrest Qin Yang, but Song Yechen arrived before Wu Qian could strike.
• Song Yechen questioned Mo Yunlian and ordered her to leave her supervisor post after she admitted defeat and he produced a ledger exposing her embezzlement.
• Mo Yunlian claimed Qin Yang had provoked her, while Qin Yang explained that he had come to apply for a martial arts cultivation room and Li Xin had denied him one despite vacancies.
• Song Yechen questioned Mo Yunlian about Li Xin’s conduct and concluded that the Internal Affairs Department needed a thorough cleanup.

After Song Yechen purged the Internal Affairs Department, the great families met to plan how to counter him while Qin Yang focused on training. Qin Yang completed the Dragon Elephant Fist and gained the Divine Ability Unrivaled Ferocity.

• Song Yechen dismissed Li Xin and vowed to rectify the Internal Affairs Department, then replaced Mo Yunlian and purged the department of corrupt officials.
• The Nine Great Families gathered at the Shen family hall and discussed how to deal with Song Yechen, deciding to approach Ma Cheng.
• Li Changkong told Mo Yunlian that the families pursued their own interests and she would have to seek revenge on Qin Yang herself.
• Qin Yang trained for more than half a month, completed the Dragon Elephant Fist, and punched through a pure refined iron training dummy.
• Qin Yang gained the Divine Ability Unrivaled Ferocity, which strengthened his body and let him unleash immense divine power.

Qin Yang accepted a mission to investigate an ancient city ruin in the Nine Wonders Mountain Range, which was believed to be connected to the Great Qian Kingdom. After reaching the valley where martial artists had gathered, he prepared to enter the ruins, where no major artifact had yet been found.

• Leng Cang told Qin Yang that the ruins might reveal secrets of the Mythological Era and invited him to investigate on behalf of the Sky Patrol Division.
• Qin Yang accepted the mission, packed his supplies, disguised himself, and traveled to the Nine Wonders Mountain Range.
• Qin Yang asked a tea-stall owner for directions and followed them into a secluded forest, where robbers ambushed him.
• Qin Yang killed the robbers and continued deeper into the mountains.
• Qin Yang reached a valley filled with martial artists and tents, learned that no major artifact had been found, and looked toward the entrance to the ruins.

Qin Yang explored the ancient city ruins and met Zhao Xinmo in a Great Qian Kingdom Reincarnation Pagoda. They followed a beam of golden light to a strange Daoist temple, where another group arrived searching for treasure.

• Qin Yang entered the ancient city ruins and explored a five-story pagoda filled with memorial tablets.
• Qin Yang encountered Zhao Xinmo on the pagoda’s top floor and learned that the ruins were from the Great Qian Kingdom and the pagoda was used for reincarnation rites.
• Zhao Xinmo asked Qin Yang to help investigate a small hole in the pagoda, and they used a beam of golden light to locate a distant building.
• Qin Yang led Zhao Xinmo to the building, which they identified as a strange Daoist temple.
• Another group arrived, saying they had seen the golden light and suspected treasure was nearby.

Qin Yang and Zhao Xinmo searched the abandoned Taoist temple while Zhou Fan's Tianyang Gate group explored nearby. They found nothing until the final courtyard, where they discovered ancient skeletal remains seated inside a room.

• Zhou Fan introduced himself as Tianyang Gate's senior disciple and led his group into the Taoist temple; Qin Yang and Zhao Xinmo followed after discussing the accompanying elder.
• Qin Yang and Zhao Xinmo searched the main hall and side halls but found them empty, then encountered Zhou Fan's group in a rear plaza.
• After the groups parted, Zhou Fan discussed watching Qin Yang and Zhao Xinmo while his uncle warned him to be cautious.
• Qin Yang and Zhao Xinmo searched the temple's courtyards, identified one as Lingyun Courtyard, and found nothing in several rooms.
• Qin Yang opened the final courtyard's room and showed Zhao Xinmo a set of ancient skeletal remains sitting cross-legged in a tattered Dharma robe.

Qin Yang and Zhao Xinmo uncovered the history of Forgetfulness River City and the Ghost Plague from a Daoist’s diary, then buried the temple’s last guardian. As they left Void Origin Temple, several figures appeared and blocked their way.

• Zhao Xinmo entered the room with Qin Yang and found a book beside the motionless corpse.
• Zhao Xinmo read the Daoist’s diary and learned that a ghost seed had caused the Ghost Plague that emptied Forgetfulness River City.
• Zhao Xinmo explained that Void Origin Temple’s master and followers had destroyed the ghost seed at great cost, leaving the diary’s author as the temple’s sole survivor.
• Qin Yang and Zhao Xinmo buried the Daoist in the temple’s graveyard, and Zhao Xinmo recited scriptures for the dead.
• Several figures appeared at the temple entrance and blocked Qin Yang and Zhao Xinmo from leaving.

Zhou Fan tried to seize the books Zhao Xinmo had taken from the Daoist guardian’s room, but Qin Yang attacked the Tianyang Gate disciples and fought Zhuo Tong. After Zhuo Tong sent him crashing through the temple wall, Qin Yang emerged unharmed and began transforming his physique for a new move.

• Zhou Fan surrounded Zhao Xinmo and Qin Yang with Tianyang Gate disciples and demanded the black bundle of books.
• Qin Yang struck Zhou Fan with a thunderous attack that shattered his shoulder and left arm.
• Zhuo Tong attacked Qin Yang, while Zhao Xinmo fought the surrounding disciples.
• Zhuo Tong activated Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown and clashed with Qin Yang, eventually knocking away his Cold Abyss Blade and sending him through the Daoist temple wall.
• Qin Yang emerged without injury, planted the Cold Abyss Blade, and began swelling with a cold, fierce aura.

Qin Yang defeated Zhuo Tong and Zhou Fan at Void Origin Temple, then escaped with Zhao Xinmo after they burned the Tianyang Gate corpses. The pair reached the ruins of Ge Mansion, where Qin Yang reflected on the power needed to destroy such a vast area and vowed to achieve it himself one day.

• Qin Yang used Dragon Elephant: Peerless Frenzied Dance to overwhelm Zhuo Tong, shatter his spine, and beat him to death.
• Qin Yang killed Zhou Fan, and Zhao Xinmo burned the Tianyang Gate corpses with Corpse Burning Talismans before they left the temple.
• Groups of explorers arrived at Void Origin Temple, where fighting soon erupted again.
• Qin Yang and Zhao Xinmo traveled for seven or eight hours to find Ge Mansion, the place where the Ghost Plague had originated.
• Zhao Xinmo explained that a high-grade ghost artifact could contaminate a prefecture and that only a Martial Saint or Primordial Spirit Spirit Master might stop a ghost seed.
• Qin Yang left the ruins wishing to one day destroy an area more than ten miles wide with a single punch.

Qin Yang connected Zhang Cangjun’s investigation of Great Qian ruins to a hidden treasure and began studying Great Qian history with Master Zhao. As others moved to investigate his suspicions, Master Zhao revealed that ancient accounts suggested ghostspawn may have caused the Great Qian Kingdom’s fall.

• Qin Yang reported that the ancient city ruins were empty, and Leng Cang awarded him five hundred contribution points while mentioning Zhang Cangjun had investigated another Great Qian ruin.
• Qin Yang recalled his Great Qian dictionary and reasoned that Zhang Cangjun’s death and the attempts to search his room were connected to a treasure tied to the Great Qian Kingdom.
• Qin Yang studied Great Qian history at the Myriad Books Pavilion and visited Master Zhao at Chunye Mountain, attracting the attention of people who suspected he had found Zhang Cangjun’s treasure.
• Master Zhao told Qin Yang that historical records did not explain the Great Qian Kingdom’s collapse, but ancient legends suggested ghostspawn may have caused it.

Master Zhao told Qin Yang how ghost seeds had brought about the fall of the Great Qian Kingdom and lent him a damaged book called the Remnant Ancient Scripture. That night, Qin Yang and Zhao Xinmo foiled an attempt to abduct Master Zhao and identified the attackers as Mo Qian and Han Chen, whom Qin Yang suspected of murdering Zhang Cangjun and framing Liu Yun.

• Master Zhao recounted how ghost seeds had devastated the Great Qian Kingdom before vanishing, and Qin Yang asked to study his Remnant Ancient Scripture.
• Master Zhao lent Qin Yang the damaged book, and Qin Yang stayed to question him until noon.
• That night, Han Chen infiltrated Master Zhao's courtyard to abduct him, but Qin Yang exposed the trap and knocked Han Chen unconscious.
• Zhao Xinmo brought in the other unconscious attacker, and Qin Yang let him leave before unmasking both men.
• Qin Yang recognized the attackers as Mo Qian and Han Chen and suspected they had murdered Zhang Cangjun and framed Liu Yun.

Qin Yang forced Mo Qian to reveal that Zhang Cangjun had hidden a map leading to an Immortal's Mansion Secret Realm, then killed Mo Qian and Han Chen. After searching Zhang Cangjun's courtyard, Qin Yang found the map hidden inside a wind chime.

• Qin Yang exposed Mo Qian and Han Chen's feigned unconsciousness and pressured Mo Qian into explaining their search for Zhang Cangjun's map.
• Mo Qian revealed that the map led to an Immortal's Mansion Secret Realm and that he and Han Chen had killed Zhang Cangjun to find it.
• Qin Yang promised Mo Qian that his family would be spared, then killed Mo Qian and Han Chen and burned their corpses.
• Qin Yang returned to the bamboo-grove courtyard, made Master Zhao unconscious, and erased the traces of his visit.
• Qin Yang searched the courtyard and found a rolled slip of paper hidden inside a wind chime.
• Qin Yang unfolded the slip and saw a small ancient map.

Qin Yang studied a map and a fragmentary scripture that hinted at the Great Qian Dynasty’s apocalyptic fall, then focused on growing stronger before pursuing the Five Flower Immortal's Mansion. Meanwhile, Ma Cheng investigated Han Chen and Mo Qian’s disappearance and heard Wu Qian’s warning that Song Yechen might purge him next.

• Qin Yang identified the map’s destination as the Five Flower Immortal's Mansion in White Dragon Stone Mountain and decided to investigate it only after reaching the Grandmaster Realm.
• Qin Yang translated a passage in the Remnant Ancient Scripture describing immortals and Buddhas becoming monsters, disasters ravaging Great Qian, and the account’s author waking from a dream in an ancient tomb.
• Ma Cheng learned from Zhao San that Han Chen and Mo Qian had secretly left the Sky Patrol Division and ordered him to continue investigating their disappearance.
• Ma Cheng received an invitation and met Wu Qian in a courtyard, where Wu warned that Song Yechen might be behind Han Chen and Mo Qian’s disappearance.
• Wu Qian argued that Song Yechen would purge Ma Cheng after removing the great families, while Ma Cheng questioned whether Wu was trying to sow discord.

Ma Cheng accepted Wu Qian’s offer to cooperate against Song Yechen, while Qin Yang cultivated the Evil Flood Dragon Swallowing Fiend Blade to great accomplishment during a month of seclusion. He visited Zhao Xinmo and learned that the recovered books contained research into ghost seeds, though Zhao Xinmo’s findings had left him despairing.

• Wu Qian persuaded Ma Cheng that Song Yechen might turn against him and offered him a courtesan’s deed in exchange for cooperation; Ma Cheng kept the contract.
• Qin Yang spent a month cultivating, then used the Cold Abyss Blade to advance the Evil Flood Dragon Swallowing Fiend Blade to great accomplishment, unleashing a roar that shook other martial artists.
• Qin Yang left his training chamber and went to the Mystic Spirit Department, where he heard people gambling and wondered how Zhao Xinmo’s research was progressing.
• Zhao Xinmo told Qin Yang he had been studying the recovered books about ghost seeds and explained that the Daoist senior had devoted his life to investigating their origin.
• Zhao Xinmo showed Qin Yang his piles of reference books and admitted that the research had left him feeling despair.

Zhao Xinmo told Qin Yang that Ghost Seeds might return if the ancient sealing art failed, leaving Qin Yang determined to grow stronger rather than give in to despair. Meanwhile, Liu Yun faced a Black Fish Tower assassination attempt outside Xuan Yuan Temple.

• Zhao Xinmo explained that Ghost Seeds had ended the Mythological Era and that a sealing art had separated the world from the void, though it might now be weakening.
• Qin Yang considered Zhao Xinmo's theory that the increasing appearance of Ghost Artifacts signaled the seal's failure, then resolved to improve his strength through the Proficiency Panel.
• Qin Yang left the Sky Patrol Division and headed for Xuan Yuan Temple, remembering that he still owed someone an explanation.
• Liu Yun returned to Xuan Yuan Temple and found a Black Fish mask wearer waiting to kill him for meddling in other people's affairs.
• The Black Fish mask wearer signaled the hidden Black Fish Tower assassins, who emerged and fired poisoned crossbow bolts at Liu Yun.

Qin Yang arrived at Xuan Yuan Temple just in time to save Liu Yun from the Second Tower Master of Black Fish Tower. Qin Yang and the Second Tower Master fought through the collapsing temple, while Liu Yun continued battling the remaining assassins.

• Liu Yun used his Green Wood Longsword to repel arrows and kill several Black Fish Tower assassins, but the Second Tower Master overwhelmed him with his black iron sword.
• As the Second Tower Master launched a killing strike at Liu Yun, Qin Yang arrived and forced him to retreat with a saber attack.
• Qin Yang recognized the attacker as Black Fish Tower's Second Tower Master and challenged him after mentioning he had killed the Third Tower Master.
• The Second Tower Master unleashed his Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown power, but Qin Yang met his attacks with the Cold Abyss Blade and Unrivaled Ferocity.
• Qin Yang and the Second Tower Master fought into Xuan Yuan Temple, which soon collapsed around them, while Liu Yun fought the remaining assassins.

Qin Yang defeated and killed the Second Tower Master of Black Fish Tower, then joined Liu Yun in uncovering a human-trafficking network linked to Wenxin Temple. The two left the wilderness for Yongning City with the temple’s role in the trafficking still to be investigated.

• Qin Yang unleashed the Yin Talisman state and Unrivaled Ferocity, broke through the Second Tower Master's defense, and killed him with his blade and fist.
• Liu Yun finished off the remaining Black Fish Tower assassins, and he and Qin Yang burned the bodies before entering the city.
• Qin Yang and Liu Yun ate wontons as Liu Yun explained that his investigation into human trafficking had drawn Black Fish Tower's attention.
• Liu Yun revealed that the trafficked people were being sent to Wenxin Temple, and Qin Yang suspected the temple was connected to Black Fish Tower.