Chapter Summaries

Zhou Feng repeatedly attempted Qi Induction until he converted spiritual energy into spiritual power, but the Bloodthirsty Gu devoured much of it and revealed the dangers of the Three Gu Sect’s cultivation path. As Zhou Feng continued stabilizing his new realm, Zhao Wu realized Zhao Jun had gone missing and decided to investigate.

• Zhou Feng used his Self-Healing Physique to repeatedly endure failed Qi Induction attempts until he successfully guided spiritual energy through his meridians and produced spiritual power.
• Zhou Feng discovered that Old Skin could strengthen his meridians after they were injured, though his Passive Skills had limits and might be upgradeable.
• The Bloodthirsty Gu devoured more than half of Zhou Feng’s new spiritual power, and Zhou Feng learned it would eventually force him to absorb spiritual energy even if doing so might kill him.
• Zhao Wu, having received no word from Zhao Jun, suspected something had happened in the Outer Sect and decided to send someone to investigate.

Zhou Feng mastered Qi Induction and returned to the Outer Sect, where he encountered Xiong Dan, who was searching for Zhao Jun’s Storage Bag. Xiong Dan recognized Zhou Feng and demanded the bag, confident that his new cultivation made him stronger.

• Zhou Feng learned to draw in spiritual energy directly and shattered a stone with a spiritual-power-enhanced punch.
• Zhou Feng decided to return to the Outer Sect and report his success so he could enter the Inner Sect.
• Zhou Feng found a crowd gathered at Courtyard No. 7, where Xiong Dan had killed its residents while plundering their resources.
• Xiong Dan’s Scent Gu reacted to Zhou Feng, whom he recognized as the person he suspected of killing Zhao Jun.
• Xiong Dan demanded that Zhou Feng hand over the Storage Bag, believing he could easily overpower him.

Zhou Feng confronted Xiong Dan, who had come on Zhao Wu’s orders, and defeated him using his newly acquired spiritual power and ruthless tactics. Xiong Dan refused to explain how he had found Zhou Feng, leaving Zhao Wu’s threat unresolved.

• Xiong Dan identified Zhou Feng as the man who had killed Zhao Jun and attacked him with a spiritual-power-enhanced punch.
• Zhou Feng revealed that he had reached the Qi Induction Realm and endured Xiong Dan’s strike with the help of Bone Plating.
• Zhou Feng counterattacked with a Heaven-Opening Kick, threw dirt and pebbles into Xiong Dan’s eyes, and kicked him between the legs.
• Zhou Feng broke Xiong Dan’s limbs and asked whether Zhao Wu had sent him and how he had found him.
• Xiong Dan refused to cooperate, declared that Zhao Wu would kill Zhou Feng, and Zhou Feng cleared the onlookers away before turning his cold gaze back to him.

Zhou Feng forced Xiong Dan to reveal how he had tracked him, why he served Zhao Wu, and what he knew about the cultivation realms beyond Qi Induction, then killed him. At the Hall of Transmitted Skills, Zhou Feng received the token and keepsake needed to enter the Inner Sect and learned he was expected to join the Flying Eagle Society.

• Zhou Feng kicked Xiong Dan and made him confess that he had tracked Zhou Feng with a Scent Gu.
• Xiong Dan explained that he served Zhao Wu because he lacked spirit stones and said Zhao Wu was preparing to reach the Gathering Qi Realm.
• Xiong Dan described the realms after Qi Induction as Gathering Qi, Condensing Qi, and Spirit Platform.
• Zhou Feng killed Xiong Dan, checked that he was dead, and left for the Hall of Transmitted Skills.
• An old voice gave Zhou Feng an Inner Sect token and a flying eagle keepsake and told him to join the Flying Eagle Society.
• Zhou Feng recognized the keepsake as one he had found on Xiong Dan.

Zhou Feng entered the Inner Sect without presenting the Flying Eagle Society token and discovered that its crowded town was not what he expected. An administrative worker revealed that the Outer Sect was actually a breeding ground where disciples were raised as feed for Flesh Gu, while the Inner Sect recruited from mortal towns under the Three Gu Sect’s control.

• Zhou Feng hid the Flying Eagle Society token because joining Zhao Wu’s faction would put him in danger.
• Zhou Feng passed the checkpoint with his badge and found an ancient-style town filled with people, including many who had not cultivated.
• At the administrative office, Zhou Feng refused to show his token and paid a Blood Pill to question a worker.
• The worker explained that the Outer Sect was called the Gu Cultivation Den because its disciples served as feed for Flesh Gu.
• Zhou Feng realized the three-year limit applied to disciples who failed to reach Qi Induction and understood why Xiong Dan had not returned.
• Zhou Feng learned that the Three Gu Sect drew its disciples from mortal towns along the mountainside, whose residents had long lived under the sect’s control.

Zhou Feng entered the Three Gu Sect’s Inner Sect and learned that he had been assigned to the Grand Elder’s Bitter Bamboo Peak, a notorious place of brutal ascetic training. His new Senior Disciple Brother Wang Ming welcomed him with an unsettling hunger and left him with the Demon Devouring Art and Origin Blood Pills.

• Zhou Feng learned that Inner Sect disciples received better Gu insects and access to cultivation methods, while Zhao Yang advised him to study the Scripture Repository and warned that the White Bone Monastery and Five Ghosts Sect were restless.
• The sect assigned Zhou Feng to the Grand Elder, while the other newcomers in his group joined the Second Elder, and their reactions suggested Bitter Bamboo Peak had a grim reputation.
• Zhou Feng learned that the Grand Elder forced his disciples into ascetic cultivation, ate those who failed annual assessments, and required other elders to send recruits to meet his quota.
• Wang Ming greeted Zhou Feng at Bitter Bamboo Peak with a predatory stare and led him to his residence as the other disciples watched him hungrily.
• Wang Ming gave Zhou Feng the first three levels of the Demon Devouring Art and a bottle of Origin Blood Pills, then left while Zhou Feng wondered what was wrong with the people on the mountain.

Zhou Feng studied the Demon Devouring Art and learned that it empowered its cultivators at the cost of an insatiable appetite that could turn them against one another. He upgraded his Gluttony skill to Level 2, which could protect him from appetite control, leaving him more willing to cultivate the art.

• After visitors including Wang Ming left him gifts, Zhou Feng examined the Demon Devouring Art and learned that it required transforming his Bloodthirsty Gu with Demon Devouring Pills.
• Zhou Feng discovered that Demon Devouring Gu made its host ravenous and could eventually consume the host’s heart, while favoring other Gu and their hosts as food.
• Zhou Feng learned that the art greatly enhanced the body and made Bitter Bamboo Peak disciples rely on brute strength, rapid healing, and resistance to poison.
• Zhou Feng noticed that his Skill Panel now showed Gluttony as upgradeable and used progress to raise it from Level 1 to Level 2.
• Zhou Feng read that Level 2 Gluttony improved digestion, could grant unknown attributes, and prevented appetite from controlling him, making him more willing to cultivate the Demon Devouring Art.

After ten days on Bitter Bamboo Peak, Zhou Feng advanced to the third level of the Qi Induction Realm and drew a new passive skill while preparing to kill Wang Ming. He planned to combine his passives for a surprise life-for-life attack, ideally with poison, and left the chapter looking for a way to obtain a deadly toxin.

• Zhao Wu stopped pursuing Zhou Feng after learning he had entered Bitter Bamboo Peak, unwilling to provoke its dangerous disciples over the lost resources.
• Zhou Feng's Bloodthirsty Gu transformed into a Demon Devouring Gu, his spiritual power turned black, and his cultivation reached the third level of the Qi Induction Realm.
• Wang Ming supported Zhou Feng with cultivation resources, but Zhou Feng suspected Wang Ming was waiting for him to reach the Qi Gathering Realm before attacking.
• Zhou Feng drew Full Charge Slash, a passive that increased the damage of his first attack by consuming accumulated momentum.
• Zhou Feng planned to combine Full Charge Slash, Bone Plating, and his Self-Healing Physique to ambush Wang Ming, and considered using poison to improve his odds.

Zhou Feng went to guard a gate at Mountainside Market to earn resources, after discovering spirit stones could advance his Skill Panel. At the gate, Lin Xiaojiao noticed his strong blood vitality and proposed making him her male consort.

• Zhou Feng realized that absorbing spirit stones slowly advanced his Skill Panel and resolved to earn more spirit stones and learn how to raise Gu.
• Zhou Feng took his shift as a gate guard at Mountainside Market.
• Zhou Feng recognized Lin Ming among the attendants carrying Lin Xiaojiao’s sedan chair, and Lin Ming lowered his head in embarrassment.
• Lin Xiaojiao sensed Zhou Feng’s abundant blood vitality and asked him to become her male consort.
• Zhou Feng stiffened under Lin Xiaojiao’s oppressive presence.

Lin Xiaojiao tried to recruit Zhou Feng as her male concubine with a Thousand-Year Ginseng, but his Combat Instinct revealed a Starving Ghost centipede and his Demon Devouring Gu drove him to demand more food. Their confrontation was interrupted by a beautiful, dangerously powerful woman, leaving Zhou Feng facing a new threat.

• Lin Xiaojiao offered Zhou Feng a Thousand-Year Ginseng if he agreed to become her male concubine, but he remained silent.
• Zhou Feng's Combat Instinct warned him of danger, and he crushed a Starving Ghost centipede beneath his foot.
• Lin Xiaojiao recognized Zhou Feng as a disciple from Bitter Bamboo Peak and tried to leave, but he blocked the road as the Demon Devouring Gu's hunger stirred.
• Lin Xiaojiao tossed Zhou Feng a bottle of Blood Pills, but he demanded more, provoking her to prepare to fight.
• A beautiful woman in a revealing Flowing Immortal Dress stepped between Zhou Feng and Lin Xiaojiao, and Zhou Feng's Combat Instinct warned him she was extremely dangerous.

Zhou Feng witnessed Lin Xiaojiao slaughter her male concubines, then left his gate-guarding post to seek better ways to earn spirit stones. At Bitter Bamboo Peak, Junior Sister lured him to a remote place, but his Combat Instinct warned him, so he blinded her with lime and attacked.

• Lin Xiaojiao killed the male concubines who praised Liu Yan, including Lin Ming, while Liu Yan calmly approached Zhou Feng.
• Lin Xiaojiao departed with the sedan and warned Zhou Feng, while Liu Yan said they would meet again.
• Zhou Feng quit guarding the gate and returned to Bitter Bamboo Peak to ask Senior Disciple Brother about earning spirit stones.
• Junior Sister rushed up, claimed Senior Disciple Brother meant to harm Zhou Feng, and pulled him toward a remote area.
• Zhou Feng sensed malice through Combat Instinct, threw lime into Junior Sister's eyes, and attacked as she cried out that she was trying to save him.

Zhou Feng killed his junior sister after seeing through her ambush, then devoured her Demon Devouring Gu and rapidly advanced his cultivation. He decided to abandon his plan to lie low and instead grow stronger by taking resources and hunting other Bitter Bamboo Peak disciples.

• Zhou Feng defeated his junior sister’s protective spiritual power and killed her despite her Demon Devouring Gu’s attempt to heal her.
• Zhou Feng dug out and swallowed her dead Demon Devouring Gu, triggering feedback that raised him from the third to the fifth level of Qi Drawing and brought him close to the sixth.
• Zhou Feng’s level-two Gluttony passive gave him additional gains, and he drew the Natural Affinity passive when his Skill Panel progress bar filled.
• Zhou Feng concluded that slowly cultivating while guarding the gate would not keep him safe in the Three Gu Sect, so he planned to collect protection fees and hunt Bitter Bamboo Peak disciples for their Demon Devouring Gu.
• Zhou Feng found few resources on his junior sister’s corpse and returned toward Bitter Bamboo Peak, blaming the sect for forcing disciples into desperate choices.

Zhou Feng decided to collect protection money from merchants in the Mountainside Market so he could earn resources for learning poison-making. He intervened when Zhao Wu’s lackeys tried to take over a shop, but the shopkeeper doubted Zhou Feng could protect it.

• Zhou Feng decided to visit the Mountainside Market and collect protection money to fund his study of poisons.
• Zhou Feng went to the market and found Zhao Wu’s lackeys pressuring Qian Shang to switch his shop’s backing from the injured Jia Ju.
• Qian Shang hesitated because he feared Zhao Wu was not strong enough to protect his shop.
• Zhou Feng stepped forward and offered to become Qian Shang’s backer, but Qian Shang lost hope when he saw Zhou Feng was only at the Qi Induction Realm.

Zhou Feng secured Qian Shang’s shop as a patronage client, then realized the Demon Devouring Art was filling him with violent emotions and decided to keep cultivating it while seeking a solution later. Qian Qianqian revealed that she had sensed his killing intent and suggested investing in him because his Bitter Bamboo Peak affiliation could keep them safe.

• Zhou Feng kicked away Zhao Wu’s lackeys and pressured Qian Shang until Qian Qianqian agreed to rely on him for protection.
• Zhou Feng left his name and Bitter Bamboo Peak affiliation with Qian Shang, then hurried out of the market after noticing the Demon Devouring Art’s negative effects on his emotions.
• Zhou Feng decided not to stop cultivating the Demon Devouring Art and planned to begin hunting the next day.
• Qian Shang asked Qian Qianqian why she had spoken up, and she explained that she had sensed Zhou Feng’s killing intent while her Treasure Rat grew restless.
• Qian Qianqian said Bitter Bamboo Peak disciples were feared by other Inner Sect disciples and suggested that they invest in Zhou Feng.

Qian Qianqian urged Qian Shang to invest in Zhou Feng, and her father resolved to make a large gamble on him. Meanwhile, Zhou Feng lured Senior Brother Zhou away from Bitter Bamboo Peak and killed him in a brutal hand-to-hand fight.

• Qian Shang recalled how Qian Qianqian's advice to invest in a beggar had helped them escape, then decided to bet heavily on Zhou Feng.
• Qian Qianqian asked Qian Shang to tell her about the marketplace, while he planned to hire shop assistants and pay Bitter Bamboo Peak's protection fee.
• Zhou Feng returned to Bitter Bamboo Peak and chose Senior Brother Zhou, a ninth-level Qi Induction Realm disciple, as his target.
• Zhou Feng led Senior Brother Zhou into a remote forest, where Senior Brother Zhou attacked him.
• Zhou Feng's charged punch pierced Senior Brother Zhou's abdomen, but Senior Brother Zhou grabbed and bit him during their vicious struggle.
• Zhou Feng tore free, pulled out Senior Brother Zhou's intestines, and kicked his head off.

After killing Senior Brother Zhou, Zhou Feng devoured his Demon Devouring Gu, gained a poison-resistance Passive, and discovered he had reached the ninth level of Qi Drawing. Learning that Senior Disciple Brother had secretly poisoned him, Zhou Feng abandoned his remaining hesitation and prepared to continue hunting the people of Bitter Bamboo Peak.

• Zhou Feng recovered from his fight with Senior Brother Zhou and recognized that he lacked effective offensive techniques.
• Zhou Feng removed Senior Brother Zhou's Demon Devouring Gu, swallowed it, and gained the Immunity to Poisons Passive.
• Zhou Feng's new Passive expelled numerous toxins and worms from his body, revealing that Senior Disciple Brother had poisoned him through the cultivation resources he provided.
• Zhou Feng vowed to continue his hunting plan against everyone on Bitter Bamboo Peak.
• Zhou Feng discovered that devouring the Gu had raised his cultivation to the ninth level of Qi Drawing, and he chose to keep advancing despite his unstable spiritual power.

After recovering from his injuries, Zhou Feng returned to Bitter Bamboo Peak, received protection fees from Qian Shang, and resumed cultivating while planning to learn offensive techniques. His takeover of Qian Shang’s shop angered Zhao Wu and Jia Ju, who both resolved to confront him at the upcoming Martial Arts Tournament.

• Zhou Feng recuperated, considered how to reach the Qi Gathering Realm, and decided to seek Bitter Bamboo Peak’s spells and martial techniques when he returned.
• Zhou Feng’s Self-Healing Physique healed his injuries, and Old Skin made his skin tougher.
• Qian Shang sent Zhou Feng more than ten spirit stones, an Origin Blood Pill, and Blood Pills as protection fees, and Zhou Feng decided to keep an eye on Qian Shang’s shop.
• Zhou Feng continued his regular cultivation instead of relying only on devouring Demon Devouring Gus.
• Zhao Wu learned Zhou Feng had become Qian Shang’s backer and planned to teach him a lesson at the Martial Arts Tournament.
• Jia Ju also learned Zhou Feng had taken over the protection fees and resolved to test him at the tournament.

Zhou Feng visited the summit of Bitter Bamboo Peak and memorized its Three Demon Devouring Arts and other secret techniques. He left with new ways to strengthen his defenses and a possible future solution to the flaws caused by the Demon Devouring Art.

• After his hunts made the other disciples wary of him, Zhou Feng went to the summit of Bitter Bamboo Peak during a lull in his hunting plans.
• Zhou Feng memorized the first six layers of Demon Devouring Armor, a defensive art that could bolster his close-combat survival.
• Zhou Feng studied Demon Devouring Body and memorized its first three layers, which offered a way to speed up his body's transformation.
• Zhou Feng read the Demon Devouring Combat Method, but his limited comprehension left him with only a rudimentary understanding of how to use it.
• Zhou Feng discovered detailed methods for refining Gu insects, including Blood Gu, Ice Heart Gu, and Pure Spirit Gu, which could alleviate the Demon Devouring Art's drawbacks but required the Spirit Platform Realm.

Zhou Feng drew a Passive Skill that granted him twenty extra years of lifespan and decided to prepare for the coming Martial Arts Tournament by cultivating the Demon Devouring Armor. At the Mountainside Market, Qian Qianqian urged Qian Shang to wait for the tournament results before expanding their business, worried they might need to flee the Three Gu Sect.

• Zhou Feng suspected the Three Gu Sect controlled the Gu worms planted in its disciples and resolved to learn more once his cultivation improved.
• With the Martial Arts Tournament approaching, Zhou Feng entered closed-door cultivation to practice the Demon Devouring Armor.
• Zhou Feng drew the Long Life Person Passive Skill, gaining an additional twenty years of lifespan.
• Qian Shang asked Qian Qianqian whether Zhou Feng had potential, and she cited his survival in the Gu Cultivation Den and at Bitter Bamboo Peak as evidence.
• Qian Qianqian told Qian Shang to wait for the Martial Arts Tournament before expanding their insect business because she sensed danger throughout the Three Gu Sect.

Zhou Feng cultivated the Demon Devouring Armor, broke through to the Qi Gathering Realm, and drew the Underwater Breathing Passive Skill. When he left his room, he sensed that several people on Bitter Bamboo Peak had begun targeting him while Wang Ming was in seclusion.

• Zhou Feng used spirit stones and the Demon Devouring Gu to form a crude Demon Devouring Armor after days of cultivation.
• Zhou Feng discovered he had broken through from the ninth level of the Qi Induction Realm to the first level of the Qi Gathering Realm.
• Zhou Feng drew the Underwater Breathing Passive Skill, which let him remain underwater for up to twelve hours.
• Zhou Feng left his room and sensed several unseen people watching him through his Combat Instinct.
• The chapter revealed that Wang Ming had poisoned and marked Zhou Feng, but his seclusion to forge a Spirit Platform left Zhou Feng exposed to others seeking his transformed Demon Devouring Gu.