Chapter Summaries

Zhou Shen killed Zhou Feng and defeated Zhou Zongming and the attackers who had ambushed the Zhou Family Village at its ancestral hall. Afterward, he resolved to use the Black Tiger Heart as an organization to gather cultivation techniques and great medicines.

• Zhou Shen called on Huang Guangyi to help him stop Zhou Zongming, then attacked Zhou Feng to seize the remaining White Tiger Heart.
• Zhou Zongming revealed his Blood Refining strength and fought Zhou Shen, while Shi Shibiao emerged from hiding and joined the attack.
• Zhou Shen blocked Shi Shibiao's strike, killed Zhou Feng, and overpowered Zhou Zongming despite his injuries beginning to heal.
• Zhou Shen tossed Zhou Zongming aside and swiftly pursued Shi Shibiao as he tried to flee.
• Zhou Shen concluded that he needed an organization to gather great medicines and cultivation techniques, and considered using the Black Tiger Heart for that purpose.

After taking control of Zhou Family Village, Zhou Feng studied its cultivation knowledge and used his Devouring Method to reach Bronze Skin, Iron Bones. The villagers suspected he had awakened the Big Stomach Physical Body Divine Ability, while Huang Wu left to alert the Longevity Cult.

• Zhou Feng dismissed the crowd, and three days later he had become the chief of Zhou Family Village and patriarch of the Zhou Clan.
• Zhou Feng examined the village’s books and learned about its cultivation realms, great medicines, and the improved Black Tiger Heart method found on Zhou Shen’s Beast Hide.
• After recovering and cultivating, Zhou Feng completed the first two realms of Body Tempering and Blood Refining with the help of his Devouring Method and passives.
• The villagers discussed whether Zhou Feng had awakened the Big Stomach Physical Body Divine Ability because he had eaten the village’s food stores in three days.
• Huang Wu, who had planned for the Huang Family to annex nearby stockades, decided the Longevity Cult might deal with Zhou Feng and left Zhou Family Village.

Zhou Feng abandoned his plan to eat huge amounts of ordinary food and decided to make compressed, energy-dense food while helping Zhou Family Village grow stronger by annexing other stockades. He attacked Huang Family Village alone, killing its guards and upper-ranked cultivators as he began his revenge.

• Zhou Feng realized that eating more had not improved his digestion, so he planned to make compressed food from high-energy ingredients such as demonic beast meat.
• Zhou Feng decided to strengthen Zhou Family Village by annexing other stockades, and the villagers prepared enthusiastically for battle despite Zhou Zongming's reservations.
• Huang Family Village dismissed rumors of an impending attack, while Huang Wu welcomed the chance to confront Zhou Feng with help from the Longevity Cult's Monster Persons.
• Zhou Feng left the village alone with a spear and charged into Huang Family Village, relying on his recovered passives and abundant blood energy.
• Zhou Feng killed the guards in his path and began slaughtering Huang Family Village's cultivators at the Marrow Refining stage or above.

Huang Wu attacked Huang Family Village and killed the Longevity Cult hall master Zhou Feng in a brutal fight. With Zhou Feng dead and the village’s leadership fleeing, Tang Lin was left to face the consequences of his alliance with the Longevity Cult.

• Huang Wu stormed Huang Family Village, slaughtering its elites and sending its members fleeing.
• Tang Lin invoked the Longevity Cult and hoped its hall master Zhou Feng could stop Huang Wu.
• Zhou Feng confronted Huang Wu, relying on his fourteen Spiritual Apertures, Bronze Skin, Iron Bones, and Divine Strength.
• Huang Wu endured Zhou Feng’s attacks, broke his spear, and kept punching until Zhou Feng died.
• Tang Lin watched Zhou Feng fall and felt his legs go weak.

After conquering Huang Family Village, Zhou Feng discovered its Medicine Field and learned of its connection to the Longevity Cult, while considering how its medicinal treasures could advance his cultivation. Meanwhile, White Tiger Daoist secretly revealed that he had deceived Zhou Feng into the War of Seizing Fortune and prepared to exploit his advantageous new descent.

• Zhou Feng searched Huang Family Village's secret treasury and found a Medicine Field that was an offshoot of Flesh Tai Sui.
• Zhou Feng discovered Huang Family Village's Water Crocodile Skin formula and considered incorporating medicinal treasure cultivation into his methods.
• Zhou Feng learned that the Longevity Cult had created Medicine Fields through its research into Flesh Tai Sui, and he resolved to leave the mountains while keeping White Tiger Daoist in mind.
• White Tiger Daoist descended into Mingzhou as a ten-year-old member of the prominent Bai Family and celebrated his improved starting position.
• White Tiger Daoist revealed that he had lied to Zhou Feng, sealed his own memories to hide his intentions, and started the War of Seizing Fortune between them.

Zhou Feng left the mountains for Blackwater City, stopping in Great River Town, where he attracted attention by carrying a Flesh Tai Sui offshoot. After drawing a Spatial Ring in the Dream World, he continued deducing the Devouring Method as his Passives began to unseal.

• Zhou Feng sorted the resources and manuals of Huang Family Village and Zhou Family Village, then told Zhou Zongming he was leaving and left improved cultivation techniques behind.
• Zhou Feng traveled to Great River Town and bought a Black Armored Horse for ten Great Zhou Tongbao.
• Zheng Yuantu noticed the Tai Sui God aura from Zhou Feng's pack and suspected he might belong to the Longevity Cult, while other people also eyed him greedily.
• Zhou Feng checked his panel at the inn and drew the Spatial Ring Passive, giving him a ten-cubic-meter storage space.
• Zhou Feng used the Intelligent Brain to deduce the Devouring Method and Gluttony Stomach, while Born Close to Dao appeared to have unsealed.

Zhou Feng refined his understanding of the Devouring Method and awakened a ravenous hunger while cultivating it. When he encountered Zheng Yuantu, who was hunting the Flesh Tai Sui in his possession, both attacked, and Zhou Feng overwhelmed Zheng Yuantu with a single punch.

• Zhou Feng realized the Devouring Method required him to choose suitable things to consume and use Soul Power to cultivate a Taotie-like artistic conception.
• Zhou Feng's body consumed its own blood energy, leaving him skeletal and desperately hungry; he sensed a Flesh Tai Sui offshoot could replenish him.
• Zheng Yuantu tracked Zhou Feng to the inn with a Tai Sui detector, but the Spatial Ring concealed the offshoot from its detection.
• Zheng Yuantu decided to subdue Zhou Feng and claim the wild Flesh Tai Sui before anyone else could take it.
• Zhou Feng and Zheng Yuantu met at the door and both struck first; Zhou Feng's punch overwhelmed Zheng Yuantu with brute force.

Zhou Feng subdued Zheng Yuantu and interrogated him about the Dream World, the Longevity Cult, and its Planting Immortal Gu art. Zheng Yuantu unleashed the Immortal Gu to attack, but Zhou Feng killed him and survived the eruption unharmed.

• Zhou Feng defeated Zheng Yuantu, left him alive, and carried him to his room for questioning.
• Zhou Feng used his Soul Power to suppress Zheng Yuantu and learned about Physical Body Divine Abilities and the Longevity Cult's Evergreen Undying Technique.
• Zheng Yuantu revealed Planting Immortal Gu, a Longevity Cult secret that used a Flesh Tai Sui offshoot to cultivate an Immortal Gu inside the body.
• Zheng Yuantu secretly released his Immortal Gu, causing tentacles to burst from his chest in an attempt to turn the tables.
• Zhou Feng endured the tentacles, killed Zheng Yuantu, and remained unharmed as the Immortal Gu erupted from the corpse.

After killing Zheng Yuantu, Zhou Feng took his pills and learned that refining Immortal Insects required Nine Deaths Grass, then decided to seek out the Longevity Cult. He tracked its outpost, while its leader Shen Yi abandoned it, before Zhou Feng’s journey was interrupted by a sharp-featured young woman and her black-armored cavalry.

• Zhou Feng killed Zheng Yuantu, took the Immortal Insect and his pills, and absorbed the pills to strengthen his Devouring Method.
• Zhou Feng considered cultivating Immortal Insects and learned that he needed Nine Deaths Grass, so he decided to seek out or join the Longevity Cult.
• Shen Yi discovered that Zheng Yuantu’s Immortal Insect aura had vanished and ordered the Great River Town outpost abandoned.
• Zhou Feng used divination to track the Longevity Cult outpost after waking and eating.
• A sharp-featured young woman galloped through the street with black-armored cavalry, and Zhou Feng moved aside.

Mu Qingqing became interested in Zhou Feng and decided to investigate him, while Zhou Feng followed the Flesh Tai Sui’s aura to an underground Longevity Cult stronghold. He found the hideout, where Shen Yi’s danger-predicting ability had already warned him that something was wrong.

• Mu Qingqing stopped Zhou Feng on the road, introduced herself, and tried to get to know him, but he rode off without responding.
• Mu Qingqing sensed Zhou Feng’s immense vitality and potential, then decided to investigate him as a possible husband.
• Zhou Feng followed the faint aura of Flesh Tai Sui and realized the Longevity Cult’s branch was underground.
• Shen Yi hid in the underground stronghold with three trusted subordinates, but his Physical Body Divine Ability made him uneasy.
• Zhou Feng’s voice reached Shen Yi inside the stronghold, making goosebumps rise over his body.

Zhou Feng defeated Shen Yi’s resistance and decided to join the Longevity Cult, learning how its branches operated and how Immortal Insects controlled its members. He took over Shen Yi’s branch and prepared to implant an Immortal Insect, determined to use the cult’s resources to grow stronger and face the White Tiger Daoist.

• Shen Yi and his three confidants surrendered after Zhou Feng’s aura crushed their fighting spirit.
• Zhou Feng questioned Shen Yi about Nine Deaths Grass and how to join the Longevity Cult.
• Shen Yi explained that anyone who implanted an Immortal Insect could join, and that branches attracted inspectors by causing trouble.
• Shen Yi revealed that inspectors could locate Immortal Insects and that one Immortal Insect could control another after it acknowledged it as master.
• Zhou Feng declared himself the new boss of Shen Yi’s branch and prepared to refine and implant an Immortal Insect.

Zhou Feng refined the Immortal Insect into the Flesh and Blood Gu, which transformed his body and awakened his Physical Body Divine Ability, Devour and Parasitize. He parasitized Shen Yi and the others with child Gu and ordered them to move to Blackwater City, where Shen Yi began undergoing the same transformation.

• Zhou Feng combined Gu Refining techniques with the Immortal Insect method, making the insects more docile as Shen Yi and the others watched his improvements.
• After days of work, Zhou Feng revived an Immortal Insect and let it enter his body, where it refined his blood qi, opened Spiritual Apertures, and brought him to perfection in the Spiritual Aperture Realm.
• Zhou Feng awakened the Physical Body Divine Ability Devour and Parasitize, which let detached flesh stay active, become Gu insects, and seek out hosts.
• Zhou Feng renamed the Immortal Insect the Flesh and Blood Gu, parasitized Shen Yi and the others with its child Gu, and ordered them to prepare to move to Blackwater City.
• Shen Yi noticed his body changing as the child Gu transformed him and slowly devoured the Immortal Insect already inside him.

After Zhou Feng's offspring Gu strengthened Shen Yi and the others, Zhou Feng traveled with them on a Mu Family tower ship while considering how to obtain a Sha Refining Method. Mu Qingqing offered him a Sha Attraction Cultivation Method in exchange for driving away her unwanted admirers, leaving Zhou Feng wary but interested in the opportunity.

• Zhou Feng's offspring Gu consumed Shen Yi's immortal insect and strengthened him, while Zhou Feng gained a group of capable subordinates to handle his routine work.
• Mu Qingqing investigated Zhou Feng and learned that he came from Zhou Family Village in the wilderness, which increased her interest in him.
• Zhou Feng studied the Mu Family tower ship and considered how to obtain a Sha Refining Method before entering the Sha Attraction Realm.
• Mu Qingqing approached Zhou Feng, introduced herself as a member of the Mu Family, and offered him a Sha Attraction Cultivation Method if he drove away some flies.
• Zhou Feng questioned Mu Qingqing's offer, and she said she invested in talented men with potential because he was good-looking.

Zhou Feng agreed to help Mu Qingqing drive off Li Han, who had been pursuing her, in exchange for a Sha Attraction Cultivation Method. He used his aura and killing intent to frighten Li Han into leaving, then asked Mu Qingqing about Blackwater City’s largest livestock breeder.

• Zhou Feng accepted Mu Qingqing’s request and agreed to their exchange.
• Li Han arrived and reacted cautiously after learning Zhou Feng’s surname, suspecting he might belong to the Divine Capital Zhou Clan.
• Zhou Feng drew Li Han aside and suppressed him with his aura, warning him to stop harassing Mu Qingqing.
• Li Han agreed, then made an excuse and hurried away from the deck.
• Zhou Feng reminded Mu Qingqing of their agreement and asked who raised the most livestock in Blackwater City.

Zhou Feng arrived in Blackwater City and planned to establish himself by leasing a slaughterhouse to cultivate Blood Sha and gathering information about the Longevity Cult. Meanwhile, the White Tiger Daoist advanced within the Bai Family and prepared to pursue its White Tiger Soldier Sha Art.

• Zhou Feng studied the Blackwater True Sha Art and considered using its principles to develop his own sha cultivation method.
• The Bai Family brought the White Tiger Daoist to its main branch after recognizing his potential, while he worried about the mysterious Bai Xiao and began opening his spiritual apertures.
• Zhou Feng reached Blackwater City aboard the Mu Family's tower ship and saw the city's busy streets, strong martial artists, and Demon Extermination Division members.
• Zhou Feng decided to lease a slaughterhouse to nurture Blood Sha and provide funds for his long-term plans.
• Shen Yi hesitated when Zhou Feng proposed seeking out the Longevity Cult's branch, and Zhou Feng said they would only gather information.

Zhou Feng cultivated blood sha using Taisui Meat while Shen Yi reported that their slaughterhouse had taken over most of Blackwater City's slaughter trade. Impressed by Shen Yi's management, Zhou Feng rewarded him with the improved Devouring Method and explained how it could lead to drawing in sha qi.

• Zhou Feng used Taisui Meat and abundant blood to cultivate blood sha, which strengthened his body and formed gang sha with devouring and mutating abilities.
• Shen Yi reported that their rapid expansion had angered local forces and brought Sha Attraction Realm cultivators into the conflict.
• Shen Yi explained that his methods and the Mu Family's name had helped them seize ninety percent of Blackwater City's slaughter business and eighty percent of its butcher shops.
• Zhou Feng praised Shen Yi's talent and rewarded him with his improved Devouring Method.
• Zhou Feng told Shen Yi that mastering the Devouring Method in the Spiritual Aperture Realm would let him begin drawing in sha qi.

Zhou Feng ordered Shen Yi to identify the Longevity Cult and martial arts schools targeting the slaughterhouse, then set out to eliminate the schools. He began his attack at Heishan Martial Arts School and confronted its strongest member, Heishan.

• Zhou Feng told Shen Yi to provide a list of the Longevity Cult and the martial arts schools, then dismissed him.
• Shen Yi reassured the slaughterhouse's butchers that they could take the day off and resume work tomorrow, easing their fears about threats from the martial arts schools.
• Zhou Feng entered the inner city at night and chose Heishan Martial Arts School as his first target.
• Zhou Feng silently killed the disciples guarding the school's gate and moved through the grounds without alerting its members.
• Heishan discovered that no one answered his calls, and Zhou Feng appeared before him as Heishan's Black Mountain Profound Body braced for a fight.

Zhou Feng wiped out Heishan Martial Arts School and two other schools, letting his Flesh and Blood Gu grow stronger as it devoured their masters. He left clues implicating the Longevity Cult, then avoided returning to the slaughterhouse as authorities began investigating the massacres.

• Zhou Feng defeated Heishan, planted a child gu in him, and absorbed his cultivation as the Flesh and Blood Gu turned him into a monster.
• Zhou Feng looted Heishan Martial Arts School and destroyed two more martial arts schools, while the Flesh and Blood Gu became increasingly active and intelligent.
• Zhou Feng left clues pointing the Demon Extermination Division toward the Longevity Cult and avoided returning to the slaughterhouse.
• Authorities and the Demon Extermination Division began investigating the massacres, and Shen Yi recognized Zhou Feng's handiwork and worried the slaughterhouse would be suspected.

After Zhang Ming investigated the slaughtered martial arts schools, Zhou Feng refused his request to search the slaughterhouse and sent him away without a fight. Zhou Feng then studied a Divine Intent Diagram and used his divine intent to begin transforming his Gluttony Stomach.

• Zhang Ming questioned Zhou Feng about his whereabouts, his conflict with Heishan Martial Arts School, and the Longevity Cult.
• Zhou Feng refused to let Zhang Ming search the slaughterhouse, and Zhang Ming sensed his bloodlust before leaving.
• Zhou Feng left the slaughterhouse’s affairs to Shen Yi and returned to the underground base to examine the martial arts schools’ spoils.
• Zhou Feng found a Divine Intent Diagram among Heishan Martial Arts School’s belongings and considered how divine intent could help develop his Gluttony Stomach.
• Zhou Feng imagined Taotie’s divine intent as a black hole in his stomach, and his stomach began to change.

Zhou Feng gained control of the Flesh and Blood Gu through his powerful Soul Power, unlocking its ability to parasitize, devour, and grow. As he planned to use the Gu to cultivate victims and frame the Longevity Cult, Fang Heng’s branch traced the attacks in Blackwater City to Zhou’s Slaughterhouse and considered seeking mediation.

• Zhou Feng used his Soul Power to crush the Flesh and Blood Gu’s emerging intelligence and gained precise control over it.
• Zhou Feng learned that the Flesh and Blood Gu could parasitize people, devour them to gain nutrients and cultivation experience, and help his body keep transforming.
• Zhou Feng decided to spread offspring Gu among more people and use the Longevity Cult as a scapegoat.
• Fang Heng learned that the Demon Extermination Division had destroyed Longevity Cult pharmacies and traced the investigation to Zhou’s Slaughterhouse.
• Fang Heng suspected a trap and his subordinates suggested asking the Longevity Cult inspector to mediate.