Chapter Summaries

Jiaoxin attacked Zhou Fan’s group for their treasure, but after overpowering Zhao Qiu and surviving Duan Fei’s Curse, he caught Zhou Fan’s interest. Zhou Fan challenged him to join Dawn if he could defeat him.

• Jiaoxin tied up the Golden Eagle Group and revealed he wanted the treasure Zhou Fan’s group had brought from the Cave.
• Jiaoxin sent Zhao Qiu and Duan Fei flying, and then pierced Duan Fei’s heart with his detached, vein-connected fist.
• Duan Fei invoked his ritual and Curse, but Jiaoxin survived as a masked monster emerged from his back and dissipated.
• Zhou Fan stopped Duan Fei and asked Jiaoxin to join Dawn, explaining he wanted someone with Jiaoxin’s strength and money-making skills.
• Jiaoxin refused, but accepted Zhou Fan’s challenge to join Dawn if Zhou Fan defeated him.

Zhou Fan defeated Jiaoxin with Tsukuyomi and then overwhelmed him with his other abilities. After revealing that Jiaoxin had only two hearts left, Zhou Fan forced him to choose between joining [Dawn] and dying, and Jiaoxin agreed to join.

• Jiaoxin attacked Zhou Fan, but Zhou Fan trapped him in Tsukuyomi and made him experience twenty-four hours of torture in a single second.
• Jiaoxin refused to accept defeat and attacked again, but Zhou Fan destroyed his Earth Dragon Bomb and struck him with Flying Thunder God Slash.
• A mask detached from Jiaoxin and shattered, but he survived because the masks on his body served as extra hearts.
• Jiaoxin revealed two more masks, and Zhou Fan summoned Perfect Susanoo and carved a vast ravine through the earth with a single sword strike.
• Zhou Fan warned Jiaoxin that he could destroy his remaining hearts, and Jiaoxin agreed to join [Dawn].

Zhou Fan forced Jiaoxin to join [Dawn] and explained his plans for the small organization. The group decided to establish an off-campus base, pursue legitimate ways to earn money, and put Jiaoxin in charge of its finances.

• Jiaoxin agreed to join [Dawn] after Zhou Fan defeated him and left him no way to refuse.
• Zhou Fan introduced Jiaoxin to Lin Qianqian, Zhao Qiu, and Duan Fei, and explained that [Dawn] had five members and aimed to recruit only powerful elites.
• Jiaoxin asked what [Dawn] did, and Zhou Fan said the organization would focus on earning money through beast hunting, Secret Realm missions, and bounty jobs.
• Zhou Fan planned to keep himself and the other students at Xinghai University while Jiaoxin stayed at a new base outside campus.
• Zhou Fan appointed Jiaoxin to manage [Dawn]'s finances and forbade the group from earning money through evil deeds.

Zhou Fan assigned Jiaoxin to earn money for [Dawn] and paired him with Duan Fei to hunt bounty targets. After renting a house in Xinghai City as the organization's base, Zhou Fan left Jiaoxin and Duan Fei to begin working together.

• Jiaoxin explained that he became a Bounty Hunter to make money and eliminate evildoers, while screening targets to avoid unjustly accused people.
• Zhou Fan told Jiaoxin that [Dawn] had no funds and assigned him to earn money for the organization, pairing him with Duan Fei.
• Zhou Fan ordered Jiaoxin and Duan Fei to work together and never undertake missions alone, and they agreed.
• The next day, Zhou Fan rented a house with a courtyard in Xinghai City for [Dawn]'s base and told Jiaoxin and Duan Fei to look for bounty jobs.
• Zhou Fan left a Flying Thunder God Mark at the base and teleported away, while Jiaoxin trusted that Zhou Fan's strength would help [Dawn] become renowned.

Xia Qingran struggled to suppress the worsening backlash of her ice spirit body while worrying about Zhou Fan and the strain it was placing on her mother, Qin Lin. She rejected relying on the Eastern Family’s pure yang flame and placed her hopes on finding a lasting solution in the Void Rift, which would open in two months.

• Xia Qingran suppressed another outbreak of her ice spirit body and thought about Zhou Fan, whose messages she had stopped answering because she missed him.
• Qin Lin visited Xia Qingran and worried that passing on the ice spirit body had been a mistake.
• Xia Qingran reassured Qin Lin that she did not regret inheriting the constitution and promised to find a way to counter its backlash.
• Qin Lin explained that she had transferred some of Xia Qingran’s backlash onto herself two years earlier, and that the burden was damaging her health.
• Xia Qingran rejected the idea of relying on the Eastern Family’s pure yang flame and decided to seek a lasting solution in the Void Rift opening in two months.

Zhou Fan decided to take building [Dawn] seriously and arranged custom uniforms for the organization. He left the group looking more imposing in their matching Red Cloud Black Robes.

• Lin Qianqian asked Zhou Fan whether he planned to build up [Dawn], and he said he would recruit more members and lead it toward becoming the strongest organization.
• Zhou Fan planned to reserve a place in [Dawn] for Xia Qingran and recruit four more members to fill the remaining spots.
• Zhou Fan visited the base, where Jiaoxin and Duan Fei were settling in and Zhao Qiu had come to claim a space.
• Zhou Fan revealed custom Red Cloud Black Robes that offered some protection against water, fire, punctures, and scratches.
• Zhou Fan, Zhao Qiu, and Duan Fei put on the matching uniforms and found that they looked and felt more imposing together.

Zhou Fan gave the members of [Dawn] code-name rings that let him teleport to them, then split the group into two bounty-hunting teams. In Flying Leaf City, a local thug’s protection racket faced a challenge when two members of [Dawn] confronted him.

• Zhou Fan handed Zhao Qiu, Duan Fei, and Jiaoxin rings with their code names and explained that the rings let him reach them in an emergency.
• Jiaoxin revealed he had accepted a five-hundred-thousand bounty, and Zhou Fan assigned him and Duan Fei to handle it.
• Jiaoxin found a three-hundred-thousand bounty targeting a criminal organization near Bright City, and Zhou Fan took the mission with Little Ball.
• In Flying Leaf City, a fourth-tier, four-star bald man and his lackeys collected protection money from local shopkeepers.
• The bald man’s group encountered two people wearing Red Cloud Black Robes, who introduced themselves as [Dawn].

Jiaoxin and Duan Fei captured Li Hu, the wanted boss of Flying Leaf City, after defeating him and his underlings. Jiaoxin killed Li Hu and took his heart, completing the bounty mission and bringing his total to three hearts.

• Li Hu mocked Jiaoxin, but Jiaoxin used the Body Flicker Technique to strike him and revealed his superior cultivation.
• Duan Fei charged into Li Hu's underlings, endured their attacks, and defeated them single-handedly.
• Jiaoxin used water and lightning attacks to overwhelm Li Hu before knocking him down and pinning him to the ground.
• Jiaoxin showed Li Hu his wanted notice and rejected his offer of money to avoid capture.
• Li Hu tried to attack Jiaoxin with compressed flames, but Jiaoxin punched through the flames, killed him, and took his heart.
• Jiaoxin declared the mission complete as Li Hu's underlings fled and Duan Fei complained that he had not had enough fighting.

Jiaoxin and Duan Fei killed Li Hu and learned how much the people of Flying Leaf City had suffered under him. In Dawn City, Zhou Fan and Zhao Qiu waited for the Dusk Butcher, who revealed himself to a seemingly helpless girl—just as she transformed into a man.

• Jiaoxin and Duan Fei accepted the gratitude of Flying Leaf City's residents after killing Li Hu, then said they were from Dawn.
• Zhou Fan and Zhao Qiu arrived in Dawn City to hunt the Dusk Butcher, a Lawbreaker who murdered people alone at dusk and removed their organs.
• Zhou Fan and Zhao Qiu decided to watch for the Dusk Butcher at dusk, when he was most likely to target someone.
• The Dusk Butcher cornered a frightened girl in an alley and bragged that he planned to take her organs.
• The girl calmly answered him in a man's voice and transformed into a man.

Zhou Fan and Zhao Qiu lured the Dusk Butcher into a fight, but he escaped through Flying Leaf City’s streets. The two pursued him to an abandoned building he used as a hideout.

• Zhou Fan transformed into a girl to lure out the Dusk Butcher, then survived a knife slash thanks to his rapid healing.
• The Dusk Butcher attacked Zhou Fan with knives, and Zhao Qiu emerged from hiding to send him flying.
• Zhou Fan revealed that he and Zhao Qiu belonged to the bounty-hunting organization Dawn and had come for the Dusk Butcher’s bounty.
• The Dusk Butcher unleashed metal objects at Zhou Fan and Zhao Qiu, then fled while Zhou Fan blocked the attack with the Great Fireball Technique.
• The Dusk Butcher reached an abandoned building he used as a hideout, but Zhou Fan and Zhao Qiu caught up with him.

Zhou Fan and Zhao Qiu cornered the Dusk Butcher in his metal-filled hideout and defeated him without using Zhou Fan’s most destructive Susanoo form. They captured him in Flying Leaf City and used the arrest to publicize their bounty hunting organization, Dawn.

• The Dusk Butcher attacked Zhou Fan and Zhao Qiu with metal, but Zhou Fan’s Susanoo blocked his assaults and broke his fused spear.
• After the Dusk Butcher shattered Zhou Fan’s second-form Susanoo, Zhou Fan and Zhao Qiu activated their respective techniques and struck him together.
• Zhou Fan and Zhao Qiu overwhelmed the Dusk Butcher with a flurry of attacks and knocked him from the fifth floor.
• Zhou Fan and Zhao Qiu identified the captured man to the gathered crowd as the Dusk Butcher.
• Zhao Qiu announced that they belonged to Dawn and invited the people of Flying Leaf City to bring them bounty jobs.

After Zhou Fan and his companions earned money for Dawn's base, he gave Lin Qianqian a set of clothes, which she mistook for a personal gift until she saw the Red Cloud Black Robe. The chapter ended with Lin Qianqian staring in surprise at the organization's uniform.

• Zhou Fan explained that the eight hundred thousand earned from the bounty missions would fund the organization and promised members a base salary and mission expense reimbursement.
• Zhou Fan assigned Jiaoxin to manage the organization's accounts.
• Zhou Fan teleported himself and Zhao Qiu from Dawn's base to Xinghai University using the Flying Thunder God Technique.
• Zhao Qiu fled after Lin Qianqian opened the villa door and silently stopped their noisy banter.
• Zhou Fan gave Lin Qianqian a bag of clothes and asked her to check the size, while she wondered whether he had feelings for her.
• Lin Qianqian opened the bag, saw the Red Cloud Black Robe, and asked what it was.

Zhou Fan gave Lin Qianqian a custom-sized Red Cloud Black Robe and a coded ring as standard [Dawn] gear, leaving her embarrassed after she twice mistook them for romantic gifts. Over the next month, [Dawn] completed difficult bounty missions and became well known across the Southern District.

• Zhou Fan gave Lin Qianqian a custom-sized Red Cloud Black Robe and explained that it was [Dawn]'s uniform.
• Lin Qianqian mistook Zhou Fan's coded ring for a romantic gesture, then learned it was standard issue and stormed into her room.
• Lin Qianqian vented her embarrassment and anger by furiously beating a stuffed toy.
• Over the following month, Zhou Fan, Zhao Qiu, Jiaoxin, and Duan Fei completed more than a dozen bounty missions for [Dawn].
• [Dawn] gained a reputation in the Southern District as its difficult missions and takedowns of notorious Lawbreakers drew attention and new commissions.

Zhou Fan and [Dawn] celebrated their growing reputation and earnings before agreeing to investigate a Fourth Tier Chaos Secret Realm in the Yunmeng Mountains. While Jiaoxin and the others traveled ahead, Zhou Fan checked his emotion points and prepared to exchange them for Kamui.

• Zhao Qiu and Jiaoxin told Zhou Fan that [Dawn] had gained fame and attracted commissions, while Jiaoxin reported that the organization had earned two and a half million last month.
• Zhou Fan gave everyone a hundred-thousand bonus and declined a low-paying bounty mission.
• Jiaoxin told Zhou Fan about a Fourth Tier Chaos Secret Realm in the Yunmeng Mountains, where a Beast King might be close to reaching the Fifth Tier.
• Zhou Fan agreed to investigate the secret realm and sent Jiaoxin and the others ahead with Flying Thunder God Marks.
• Zhou Fan checked his system and found he had 108730 emotion points, then looked at the shop's Kamui dōjutsu.

Zhou Fan redeemed Kamui and prepared to travel to the Chaos Secret Realm as the masked Leader of [Dawn]. Meanwhile, Lin Qianqian began Xi Yan’s third-stage special training, determined to surpass Zhou Fan.

• Zhou Fan spent 100,000 emotion points to redeem Kamui and realized that his eternal Mangekyō Sharingan and Hashirama Senju’s cells let him use it without fear of blindness.
• Lin Qianqian met Xi Yan at the school training ground and began the third stage of his special training, hoping to grow strong enough to defeat Zhou Fan.
• Zhao Qiu messaged Zhou Fan that he, Jiaoxin, and the others had found the Chaos Secret Realm’s entrance in the Yunmeng Mountains.
• Zhou Fan donned his Red Cloud Black Robe and White Three-Tomoe Mask, then used Kamui to vanish into Alternate Space.

Crowds gathered at the entrance to a fourth-tier Chaos Secret Realm in the Yunmeng Mountains, where Xiong Biao of the Blood Wolf Society tried to drive everyone else away. As the crowd backed down, a plump figure in a Red Cloud Black Robe pushed past the Blood Wolf Society and approached the entrance.

• Espers and bounty hunters flocked to the Yunmeng Mountains to seek treasures in the Chaos Secret Realm.
• Groups gathered at the realm's entrance and assessed the dangers and rivals around them.
• Xiong Biao arrived with nearly thirty Blood Wolf Society members and declared that the secret realm belonged to his organization.
• Xiong Biao challenged anyone who opposed him, and the crowd fell silent.
• A plump figure in a Red Cloud Black Robe squeezed past the Blood Wolf Society and approached the entrance.

Zhou Fan and the members of [Dawn] confronted Xiong Biao and the Blood Wolf Society over control of the Chaos Secret Realm. The standoff ended with Zhou Fan declaring that [Dawn] claimed the realm and would beat anyone who tried to take it.

• Zhao Qiu, Duan Fei, and Jiaoxin interrupted Xiong Biao's show of force and revealed they belonged to [Dawn].
• Xiong Biao mocked Jiaoxin for joining [Dawn] and claimed the Blood Wolf Society would control the Chaos Secret Realm.
• Duan Fei and Zhao Qiu challenged Xiong Biao, who ordered his members to attack.
• Zhou Fan appeared between the groups, and his Sharingan and oppressive aura made the Blood Wolf Society members hesitate and retreat.
• Xiong Biao insisted that the Blood Wolf Society would allow no one to compete for the realm, and Zhou Fan declared that [Dawn] claimed it and would beat anyone who tried to take it.

Zhou Fan used Kamui to let the Blood Wolf Society’s attacks pass through him while striking Xiong Biao, leaving the onlookers bewildered. As Xiong Biao charged again, Zhou Fan raised his Mangekyō Sharingan and used Tsukuyomi.

• Zhou Fan declared that [Dawn] would claim the Chaos Secret Realm, drawing jeers and support from the watching crowd.
• Xiong Biao ordered the Blood Wolf Society to attack Zhou Fan, but their blades and techniques passed through him as he calmly walked forward.
• Xiong Biao’s punch passed through Zhou Fan, who seized his wrist and kicked him away; Xiong Biao’s counterattack also failed to connect.
• Zhou Fan approached again as Xiong Biao powered up and charged, then activated Tsukuyomi with his Mangekyō Sharingan.

Zhou Fan defeated Xiong Biao with Tsukuyomi and drove off the Blood Wolf Society, then entered the newly opened Chaos Secret Realm with Zhao Qiu and their companions. They set off through its ancient forest to search for the Beast King, and Zhou Fan admitted he had worn a mask to show off.

• Zhou Fan trapped Xiong Biao in Tsukuyomi, subjecting him to seventy-two hours of pain in an instant and leaving him too weak to fight.
• Zhou Fan identified himself as the Leader of [Dawn], Madara Uchiha, and the Blood Wolf Society retreated with the unconscious Xiong Biao.
• Zhao Qiu and the others congratulated Zhou Fan, who reminded Zhao Qiu to use his title while they were working.
• The Chaos Secret Realm opened, and Zhou Fan led his companions through the entrance into an ancient forest to search for the Beast King.
• Zhao Qiu asked why Zhou Fan had worn a mask, and Zhou Fan replied that it was to show off.

Zhou Fan and his companions explored the Chaos Secret Realm, fighting mutant beasts and collecting spirit stones as they headed toward the Beast King. They reached a vast, mist-shrouded lake in the realm’s depths, where they expected the Beast King to be nearby.

• Zhao Qiu killed a charging black panther, then he and the others defeated the dozens surrounding them while Zhou Fan stayed back.
• Zhao Qiu found a High-Grade Spirit Stone Mine, and Zhou Fan told the group to keep its stones for their own use.
• Zhou Fan and his companions passed groups of people fighting over resources but continued toward the Beast King.
• The group fought mutant beasts and gathered spirit stones and spirit herbs as they traveled deeper into the Secret Realm.
• Zhou Fan and his companions reached a huge lake covered in thick mist and suspected the Beast King was nearby.