Chapter Summaries

Fang Qianyuan accepted the Lin Family’s banquet invitation in Clearwind City and discussed the dangers of his growing fame with Lin Yanshan before continuing west. In Luoshui Town, an Earth Baleful Gate agent warned him that Shadow Division assassins had been hired to kill him nearby.

• Fang Qianyuan arrived in Clearwind City and accepted the Lin Family’s invitation to a banquet.
• At the banquet, Lin Yanshan discussed how Fang Qianyuan’s sudden fame could attract resentment and danger.
• Fang Qianyuan declared he would face whatever schemes came his way, then declined Lin Yanshan’s offer to stay overnight.
• Fang Qianyuan left Clearwind City and reached Luoshui Town, where he noticed a man watching him.
• An Earth Baleful Gate agent told Fang Qianyuan that an anonymous client had hired Shadow Division assassins to kill him near the town.

Fang Qianyuan returned to the Universal Trade Association’s inn despite an Earth Baleful Gate warning, but the expected assassins did not appear. During the night, an enemy entered his dreams with the Yin Spirit Dream-Entering Art and forced him into a deadly arena encounter.

• An Intelligence Department informant warned Fang Qianyuan that Shadow Division assassins were hunting him.
• Fang Qianyuan suspected the assassins might be waiting at the Universal Trade Association’s inn, but went there and prepared to defend himself.
• Fang Qianyuan summoned the Gale Berserker Wolf and the Rampaging Bear King to keep watch while he and Little White rested.
• An unseen presence slipped into Fang Qianyuan’s room, and he dreamed of fleeing a gigantic tornado across a barren plain.
• Fang Qianyuan woke inside a dream and heard an enemy explain that the Yin Spirit Dream-Entering Art would torment him until he died.
• Fang Qianyuan found himself shackled in an arena, where a freed prisoner charged at him.

Fang Qianyuan and Little White fought their way through a dream illusion created by a Dream Tapir, then woke and found the wounded dream user outside their inn. Fang recognized the danger of the Dream Dao Divine Ability as the man summoned the Dream Tapir.

• Fang Qianyuan resisted the dream arena's illusion and killed waves of attackers, despite being unable to summon his spirit creatures.
• Little White appeared inside the dream, and she and Fang joined forces to freeze and destroy the dream enemies.
• Fang and Little White woke after a scream, and Fang rushed from the inn to pursue the dream user.
• Fang found a frost-covered man struggling in the street and learned that the man's Dream Dao Divine Ability could make dream injuries affect reality.
• The man summoned a Dream Tapir, and Fang recognized it as a creature that entered dreams, fed on fear, and controlled nightmares.

Fang Qianyuan defeated two assassins who used a Dream Tapir’s abilities to attack him at an inn. After he left Luoshui Town, the assassins’ group suspended further operations because the Demon Alliance had appeared.

• Fang Qianyuan resisted the Dream Tapir’s sleep-inducing abilities while its handlers sent a second assassin to strike him.
• Fang Qianyuan unleashed Wind Blade Frost Sword and froze both assassins to death.
• The inn’s guards and steward arrived, but Fang Qianyuan declined to pursue compensation or investigate the attack further.
• Fang Qianyuan rested, then checked out and left Luoshui Town the next morning.
• In a secluded house, the aged voice ordered the assassins to suspend operations and assigned Number Six to hold the Dream Tapir.

Fang Qianyuan traveled west to test whether his enemies could track him through the wilderness, but the Demon Alliance’s Weapon Human Hall ambushed him in a mountain valley. As he fought the beast-transformed attackers, he recognized them as Weapon Humans, secret weapons created through Demon Beast and Demon Blood modifications.

• Fang Qianyuan left Luoshui Town and chose a remote route, hoping to learn how his enemies found him without relying on informants.
• A lizardlike Demon Alliance leader briefed Weapon Human Hall elites and ordered them to ambush Fang Qianyuan instead of continuing the assassination plan.
• Fang Qianyuan entered the valley with Little White, sent five Gray Wolves to hunt, and noticed a flash of murderous intent.
• The attackers rained arrows on Fang Qianyuan, but he froze them with his Spirit Essence before several half-beast figures charged him.
• Fang Qianyuan struck one attacker with frost, but the man shattered it with Blood Baleful Battle Aura.
• Fang Qianyuan recognized the attackers as Weapon Humans, people transformed through Demon Beast and Demon Blood to serve as secret weapons.

Fang Qianyuan and Little White were overwhelmed by coordinated Warriors until Fang Qianyuan unleashed the Ice Soul Divine Mirror. He froze the attackers one by one, including their leader, turning the battle in his favor.

• The chapter explained that factions created Warriors by transplanting Demon Beast bodies into humans to produce controllable living weapons.
• Fang Qianyuan and Little White struggled against the Warriors’ coordinated attacks, and the lizard-featured leader joined the fight.
• The Warriors used a Military Formation Way technique to counter Fang Qianyuan’s wide-area Divine Ability and suppress him.
• Fang Qianyuan activated the Ice Soul Divine Mirror and froze a charging Warrior with its divine light.
• Fang Qianyuan repeatedly fired the mirror’s divine light, freezing more Warriors and finally turning the Warrior leader into an ice sculpture.

Fang Qianyuan defeated the Demon Alliance’s Warriors and was escorted back to the Azure Cloud Sect after learning the sect had sent rescuers for him. At the sect headquarters, he was summoned to meet Sect Master Yu Shixian.

• Fang Qianyuan reflected on the Ice Soul Divine Mirror’s power and waited for his spirit essence to recover after defeating the Warriors.
• Xiao Yu and Meng Du arrived on a giant winged serpent, and Fang Qianyuan greeted them after calming Little White.
• Meng Du revealed he had advanced to the Tenth Transformation, and he and Fang Qianyuan expressed interest in testing their strength against each other.
• Xiao Yu explained that the Demon Alliance had sent the Warriors to assassinate Fang Qianyuan and that the sect had ordered him brought back.
• Fang Qianyuan traveled with Xiao Yu to Golden City Ward, used its Teleportation Array to return to headquarters, and was led to meet Yu Shixian.

Fang Qianyuan learned that the Azure Cloud Sect would invest heavily in his growth and assign him to the Heavenly Dao Alliance. He accepted the plan, which would provide training and resources while exposing him to dangerous missions against the Unorthodox Path.

• Yu Shixian warned Fang Qianyuan that his talent made him a target, though his actions at Flowing Cloud Grotto had brought honor to the sect.
• Fang Qianyuan agreed to reasonable arrangements after Yu Shixian asked for his thoughts.
• Yu Shixian told Fang Qianyuan that the sect would devote substantial resources to nurturing him and had consulted his master.
• Yu Shixian explained that Fang Qianyuan would serve in the Heavenly Dao Alliance, where he could cultivate, gain experience, and build connections while pursuing criminals and facing the Unorthodox Path.
• Yu Shixian said the sect would help Fang Qianyuan obtain spirit creatures, inscribed talismans, cultivation methods, and treasures within the rules.

Fang Qianyuan returned to the Jiang Residence, where Sun Zhuo delivered Jiang Yunfeng’s advice on cultivating, gathering resources, and building a public reputation. The sect planned to send Fang Qianyuan to the Heavenly Dao Alliance and promote him toward the title of the Righteous Path’s Top Young Expert.

• Fang Qianyuan returned to the Jiang Residence and heard Sun Zhuo praise the strength he had shown in recent challenges.
• Sun Zhuo described how administrative work was wearing him down, prompting Fang Qianyuan to worry about becoming trapped in worldly affairs.
• Sun Zhuo gave Fang Qianyuan a confidential letter from Jiang Yunfeng recommending that he gain experience with the Heavenly Dao Alliance.
• Fang Qianyuan read Jiang Yunfeng’s three instructions: improve his cultivation, gather resources, and cooperate with the sect’s publicity efforts.
• Sun Zhuo explained that the sect would help build Fang Qianyuan’s reputation by publicizing his deeds as he fought monsters and demons and mediated disputes.

Sun Zhuo told Fang Qianyuan that the sect planned to publicize his achievements and make him a prominent young expert, then delivered Jiang Yunfeng’s news about a Thunder Civet that could counter illusion techniques. Fang Qianyuan agreed to capture it and arrange temporary care for two of his other spirit creatures.

• Sun Zhuo explained that the sect would spread word of Fang Qianyuan’s achievements and that he would face challenges as his fame grew.
• Sun Zhuo gave Fang Qianyuan a coded talisman describing where to find a supreme-grade Human Rank Thunder Civet, along with a Spirit-Sealing Treasure from Jiang Yunfeng.
• Sun Zhuo explained that the Thunder Civet’s void-piercing true eyes could penetrate illusions and strike opponents through the soul, helping address Fang Qianyuan’s weakness against illusory combat.
• Sun Zhuo suggested that Fang Qianyuan place the Gale Berserker Wolf and Rampaging Bear King in temporary care or return them to the wild and sell them.
• Fang Qianyuan agreed to pursue the Thunder Civet, and Sun Zhuo offered to bring Spirit-Sealing Treasures so the two creatures could be placed in care.

Fang Qianyuan trained against illusions while waiting for his formal appointment to the Heavenly Dao Alliance, then received orders naming him captain of the Jiachen Team in the Wind Pursuit Hall. Sun Zhuo explained that the combat post would send him after targets of the Unorthodox Path so he could earn merit and establish his reputation.

• Fang Qianyuan endured Luo Song’s illusions and judged that being trapped for a hundred breaths still left him vulnerable.
• Luo Song taught Fang Qianyuan to respond calmly to illusions and demonstrated how Five-Sense Confusion could hinder him even when his defenses held.
• Fang Qianyuan concluded that a Thunder Civet’s Void-Piercing True Eyes could counter the illusions and expose hidden illusionists.
• The sect appointed Fang Qianyuan captain of the Jiachen Team in the Heavenly Dao Alliance’s Wind Pursuit Hall and ordered him to report before the first of December.
• Sun Zhuo explained that the Wind Pursuit Hall tracked, captured, and killed targets, and that Fang Qianyuan’s new role would help him earn merit and fame.

Fang Qianyuan arrived at the Heavenly Dao Alliance's Southern Wilds Branch Headquarters, registered, and met the members of the Wind Pursuit Hall's Jiachen Team, which he had been appointed to lead. The team welcomed him respectfully as he began his new post.

• Sun Zhuo explained the separate duties of the Heavenly Net Hall and Wind Pursuit Hall and warned Fang Qianyuan about rivalry between them.
• Fang Qianyuan traveled to the alliance's Southern Wilds Branch Headquarters and presented his papers to the guards, who recognized him as the Lord of a Thousand Miles.
• Fang Qianyuan registered at the Administrative Hall, collected his team equipment, and kept his own brocade robes instead of changing into the standard uniform.
• Fang Qianyuan went to the Jiachen Team quarters and introduced himself to its seven other members.
• Fang Qianyuan learned that the team included three administrative staff and four ninth-transformation Spirit Tamers, including his fellow disciple Chang Yang.

Fang Qianyuan took command of the Jiachen Team and led it toward Floating Cloud Mountain, where he secretly hoped to capture a Thunder Civet while fulfilling a demon-slaying mission. The team reached a devastated village and found evidence of a brutal attack.

• Fang Qianyuan learned that demons were terrorizing villages near Floating Cloud Mountain and recognized the mission as a plan to help him capture the Thunder Civet.
• Fang Qianyuan departed with Lin Ziguan, Xie Fei, Zhou Renxiong, and Chang Yang, traveling by teleportation array and then by Thousand-League Soaring Cloud Roc.
• Fang Qianyuan and his team arrived near Floating Cloud Mountain after flying through the night and continued toward the mountain on their spirit-creature mounts.
• Fang Qianyuan and the others entered an unnamed village after hearing crying and found collapsed houses, rubble, pools of blood, and mutilated bodies.

Fang Qianyuan and his companions arrived at a village ravaged by demons, where a grieving father mistook their Spirit Creatures for monsters and attacked them. After learning that demons had killed several villagers’ children and two adults, Fang resolved to slay the demons and protect the countryside.

• Villagers fled when Fang Qianyuan and the others approached, while a bereaved father attacked Little White, mistaking her for a demon.
• Fang stopped Little White from seriously harming the man, and his companions restrained him without injuring him.
• The man's wife and the villagers explained that demons had devoured three children and killed two adults, and that the attacks had happened before.
• Lin Ziguan and the others reassured the villagers that the Heavenly Dao Alliance's Wind Pursuit Hall would deal with the demons.
• After seeing the ruined homes and bodies, Fang Qianyuan reflected on the Alliance's duty and vowed to slay the demons as soon as possible.

Fang Qianyuan led a group into Floating Cloud Mountain with Da Niu as their guide to find the demon lair. They reached the hollow where the demons were hiding, and a swift, catlike demon beast appeared as Zhou Renxiong and Chang Yang attacked it.

• Da Niu joined Fang Qianyuan and the others to guide them through the mountains toward the demons that had killed his sister.
• Fang Qianyuan used the Brush Immortal to map the terrain, and Da Niu identified the trail leading to the demons’ hiding place.
• Da Niu pointed out a hollow where villagers had lost track of the demons, and Fang Qianyuan sent Lin Ziguan and Xie Fei to guard him while he entered with Zhou Renxiong and Chang Yang.
• Fang Qianyuan, Zhou Renxiong, and Chang Yang advanced through the barren hollow as Fang Qianyuan reassured his companions that the demon should be manageable.
• A tawny, black-striped demon beast resembling a tabby cat appeared, and Zhou Renxiong and Chang Yang attacked it with a Fire Talisman and a Wind Blade, but it swiftly dodged.

Fang Qianyuan used himself as bait to wound a Thunder Civet, then tracked its glowing trail with a special lens. He followed it to a clearing, where a young noblewoman and her party had cornered the beast.

• Fang Qianyuan identified the Thunder Civet and lured it into attacking him.
• Fang Qianyuan blocked the Thunder Civet’s bite with ice and struck it with Wind Blade Frost Sword, wounding it as it fled.
• Fang Qianyuan revealed he had marked the Thunder Civet with special powder and used a lens to follow its trail.
• Fang Qianyuan, Zhou Renxiong, and Chang Yang pursued the Thunder Civet as it doubled back through the mountains.
• Fang Qianyuan found a young woman riding a Golden-Eyed White Tiger and her party attacking the wounded Thunder Civet.

Fang Qianyuan killed a weakened Thunder Civet and sealed its true spirit while the Lin clan tried to stop him. After learning the attackers were from the Lin clan of Huaning City, he kept the spirit and openly defied their furious young lady.

• Fang Qianyuan joined the fight against the Thunder Civet and froze it with Heavenly Frost Palm, allowing Little White to kill it.
• Fang Qianyuan began drawing a spirit-sealing array, prompting the Lin clan young lady to accuse him of stealing their prize and order Lin Da and Lin Er to seize him.
• Zhou Renxiong and Chang Yang fought Lin Da and Lin Er while the young lady sent her other attendants to attack Fang Qianyuan.
• Fang Qianyuan blocked the attacks with ice and captured the Thunder Civet's true spirit in his precious crystal.
• Fang Qianyuan learned the young lady belonged to the Lin clan of Huaning City, put the crystal away, and refused to hand it over.

Fang Qianyuan defeated Tu Yun when Lin Xiaoxiao ordered her guard to seize him, then left with Zhou Renxiong and Chang Yang. Lin Xiaoxiao, humiliated and furious, decided to return to the city and intercept them with Tu Mingshan’s help.

• Lin Xiaoxiao ordered Tu Yun to capture Fang Qianyuan despite Tu Yun warning that the Heavenly Dao Alliance members should not be provoked.
• Tu Yun attacked Fang Qianyuan with his Divine Ape Opens the Mountain technique, but Fang Qianyuan blocked his blows with ice.
• Fang Qianyuan used Wind Blade Frost Sword to encase Tu Yun in ice and subdue him.
• Fang Qianyuan told Lin Xiaoxiao’s group to stop causing trouble, then left with Zhou Renxiong and Chang Yang.
• Lin Xiaoxiao blamed Tu Yun for his defeat and resolved to return to the city to intercept Fang Qianyuan with Tu Mingshan’s support.

After Fang Qianyuan slew the demon that had terrorized Da Niu’s village, he returned the villagers’ thanks and reflected on how difficult it was for mortals to become Spirit Tamers. That night, he began a ritual to turn the Thunder Civet’s soul into a spirit creature, but its formidable soul abilities made the attempt dangerous.

• Fang Qianyuan showed Da Niu the Thunder Civet’s nose as proof that the demon had been slain, and Da Niu thanked him for avenging his family.
• Fang Qianyuan asked whether Da Niu could read, hoping to teach him a cultivation method, but Da Niu could not.
• Chang Yang explained that few mortals could become Spirit Tamers, and Fang Qianyuan discussed the many hurdles to cultivation.
• Fang Qianyuan and the others returned to the village, showed the villagers their proof, promised the Heavenly Dao Alliance would watch over the area, and departed.
• While camping, Fang Qianyuan arranged a Rebirth Ritual to transform the Thunder Civet’s sealed remnant soul into a spirit creature.
• Fang Qianyuan considered the Thunder Civet’s powerful soul abilities and realized that trying to subdue its will could seriously injure or kill him.

Fang Qianyuan repeatedly entered the Thunder Civet’s Treasure Crystal to exhaust its resistance, using yin pagoda wood to divert its lightning attacks. After the Mysterious Treasure Pill released more of its power and restored him, he sensed a new source of vital energy in his lower dantian and wondered whether his cultivation had advanced.

• Fang Qianyuan used a blood-marked talisman and yin pagoda wood before entering the Thunder Civet’s inner world.
• The Thunder Civet struck Fang Qianyuan with mental lightning, destroying his projection and leaving his mind in pain.
• Fang Qianyuan recovered and tried again several times, spending more yin pagoda wood to wear down the Thunder Civet.
• The Mysterious Treasure Pill released its medicinal power, clearing Fang Qianyuan’s mental exhaustion and soothing his pain.
• Fang Qianyuan sensed a source of vital energy in his lower dantian and considered whether he had advanced in essence refining into qi.