Chapter Summaries

Little Leopard discovered that the little creature’s apparent teleportation came from the unusual art Three Realms Minor Shift, carved into the cave wall. He memorized the technique and left the cave, planning to return for the creature later.

• Little Leopard tested the creature’s Yellow Cloth by throwing a Kunai, and its golden barrier knocked the blade into the cave wall.
• Little Leopard recalled Wang She’s method for subduing Old One-Eye and considered capturing the creature, but decided to leave it for later.
• Little Leopard noticed runes and pictures carved beside the Kunai and discovered they described Three Realms Minor Shift.
• Little Leopard learned that the technique required floating light killing intent and let its practitioner shift within a hundred zhang, while the creature could only move within ten.
• Little Leopard memorized the cultivation method and pulled the Kunai from the wall.

Little Leopard brought Blood Wuy a fifteen animals for his blood cultivation and received a detailed lesson in swordsmanship and martial arts. He left the valley wondering why Blood Wuy a had begun teaching him so carefully, and suspected the strange sword move was connected to an undisclosed task.

• Little Leopard wounded sixteen animals by the stream and brought fifteen blood offerings to Blood Wuy a in the Secluded Valley.
• After absorbing the animals’ blood, Blood Wuy a questioned Little Leopard about studying the sword move and scolded him for neglecting reflection.
• Blood Wuy a taught Little Leopard the fundamentals of swordsmanship and answered his cultivation questions over six hours.
• Little Leopard left the valley without studying the Three Realms Minor Shift and resolved to digest what he had learned.
• Little Leopard recalled Blood Wuy a’s suspicious manuscript and unusual sword lesson, then began to suspect the sword move was tied to an important undertaking.

Little Leopard used Soul-Dazing Powder to capture the clever little creature and take the Yellow Cloth, but he could not discover how the strange hide worked. He then turned his attention to studying the Three Realms Minor Shift.

• Little Leopard hunted a wild boar, ate, and spent the night struggling to understand the swordsmanship Blood Wuy a had taught him.
• After noticing the beasts had moved farther from the stream, Little Leopard decided to pursue the little creature and its Yellow Cloth with Soul-Dazing Powder.
• Little Leopard reached the clearing, tricked the little creature into inhaling the powder, and caught it when it fell unconscious.
• Little Leopard examined the Yellow Cloth and tried several ways to activate it, but it showed no response.
• Little Leopard put the Yellow Cloth away and began studying the Three Realms Minor Shift while the little creature slept.

Little Leopard cultivated the Three Realms Minor Shift by refining floating light killing intent, then attempted to use the art and collapsed from the effort. After he spent hours recovering, the little creature returned, stole his Yellow Jade, and left him unconscious.

• Little Leopard used his unusual eyes to merge his internal energy with floating light killing intent and formed a dark silver whirlwind.
• Little Leopard wrapped the whirlwind in scarlet mist, inhaled it, and condensed the energy around his body.
• Little Leopard attempted to shift toward a distant pine but reappeared only ten zhang away, struck a tree, and exhausted himself.
• Little Leopard lay motionless for two hours while his strength and internal energy slowly recovered.
• The little creature appeared, fouled Little Leopard’s face until he vomited and fainted, stole the Yellow Jade from his robe, and vanished.

Little Leopard endured a foul encounter while gathering Blood Wuy a’s blood food, then was assigned to find three rare herbs and taught a secret fist technique. He discovered he could use the technique with remarkable control, while Blood Wuy a privately reaffirmed his plan to kill him after obtaining the herbs.

• Little Leopard gathered fifteen animals for Blood Wuy a after a weasel’s stench left him exhausted and sick.
• Blood Wuy a ordered Little Leopard to find Rootless Grass, Drifting Glass Flower, and Bitter-Gall Orchid, but Little Leopard explained why the surrounding terrain made the task dangerous.
• Blood Wuy a taught Little Leopard a secret technique that concentrated internal energy into powerful punches and gave him six days to return with the herbs.
• Little Leopard tested the technique and found he could throw nine enhanced punches by controlling how he released his internal energy.
• Blood Wuy a watched Little Leopard leave and admitted he intended to kill him after using the herbs to lure and tame a Demon Beast.

Little Leopard searched the Vast Cang Mountains for medicinal herbs for Blood Wuy a, struggling through a dangerous forest and a day-long thunderstorm. After finding a large clump of Rootless Grass, he sensed a strange creature in the stream and spotted what appeared to be a loach.

• Little Leopard surveyed the area around the Secluded Valley and chose to search the forest after the swamp blocked his route along the stream.
• Little Leopard spent two days in the forest, found only two Bitter-Gall Orchids, and carefully cultivated the Nine-Dragon Divine Fire Art without risking his growth.
• Little Leopard reasoned that the forest interior was too damp to hold the herbs he needed, but a thunderstorm drove him toward the woods' edge and lightning knocked him off course.
• Little Leopard crossed a peak after the rain stopped and found a large clump of Rootless Grass growing in a crevice.
• Little Leopard heard strange squeaks by the stream, activated his unusual vision, and spotted a creature he thought was a loach.

Little Leopard encountered a strange armored creature guarding the Rootless Grass and survived its attacks, including a blast of black flame. After cutting the creature in half, he saw a tiny black flame emerge from its corpse and backed away from it.

• Little Leopard approached the Rootless Grass, mistaking the creature in the rocky crevice for a harmless loach.
• The creature lunged at Little Leopard, resisted his Kunai, and pursued him as he escaped with the Rootless Grass.
• The creature blasted black flames at Little Leopard, burning a nearby tree down to a stump.
• Little Leopard charged the exhausted creature and severed it in two with the Black Gold Short Sword.
• A soybean-sized black flame floated from the creature's corpse, and Little Leopard retreated from it.

Little Leopard was caught by the black flame and endured unbearable pain as it merged with his inner energy. He survived the ordeal long enough to discover a tiny black flame in his dantian, then lost consciousness again.

• The black flame pursued Little Leopard, caught him, and entered his body, merging with his nine-dragon divine fire inner qi.
• Little Leopard activated his strange eyes, drawing his scorching inner energy out of his meridians and into his eyes before it flowed back to his dantian.
• Little Leopard discovered a tiny black flame at the center of his dantian and noticed that his inner energy had grown more powerful and gained a faint black tint.
• Little Leopard was tortured by the pain and passed out again.
• The chapter revealed that the creature was a weakened Dragon-Eating Loach whose blackfire flame had exhausted it and caused its death.

Little Leopard survived the night after absorbing the mystic flame, then found that the power had changed his internal energy and awakened new abilities in his eyes. After a White-Scaled Python and a Black Eagle killed each other, he ate the snake’s gallbladder, triggering a painful evolution that let his eyes see across a thousand meters and release his fire-infused internal energy as flame; he later found Drifting Glass Flowers and completed Blood Wuy a’s assignment early.

• Little Leopard woke in the forest with painful but mostly intact meridians and discovered that his flame-infused internal energy now soothed them as it circulated.
• Little Leopard roasted and ate the strange loach, stored its tough skull, and wandered into a poisonous swamp.
• Little Leopard waited in a tree while a White-Scaled Python and a Black Eagle fought to the death, then took their inner cores and swallowed the snake’s gallbladder.
• Little Leopard’s eyes evolved, expanding his vision and allowing him to focus his internal energy into a blast of flame, but the process badly burned his hands and left him drained.
• Little Leopard recovered, searched for a way out of the swamp, found Drifting Glass Flowers, and completed Blood Wuy a’s five-day assignment on the second day.

Little Leopard learned that Blood Wuy a planned to lure out the Demon Toad on the full moon and realized he might kill him once he was no longer useful. He devised a plan to use Soul-Dazing Powder against Blood Wuy a, trained in the sword move meant to strike the Demon Toad, and the chapter ended as the full-moon night arrived.

• Blood Wuy a told Little Leopard to prepare to help subdue the Demon Toad in ten days and gave him Wound-Healing Salve for his burned hands.
• Little Leopard discovered that the sword move could unleash a powerful burst of sword qi but would leave him exhausted and badly injure his meridians.
• Little Leopard considered drugging Blood Wuy a's blood food with Soul-Dazing Powder, weighing whether to use it during the Demon Toad battle or afterward.
• Blood Wuy a explained that Elixir Perfume and moonlight would lure the Demon Toad out, then began personally guiding Little Leopard's sword practice.
• Little Leopard began delivering some unconscious beasts as blood food to conceal his use of Soul-Dazing Powder.
• The ten-day deadline arrived on the night of the full moon.