Chapter Summaries

Fang Qianyuan advanced to the brink of the tenth transformation, and Jin Lu told him the sect would soon arrange a real trial against established Unorthodox Path experts. He gave Fang intelligence on Luo Zhen of the Blood Demon Sect, who was being considered as Fang’s first target after reaching the tenth transformation.

• Fang Qianyuan spent six months completing genuine missions, earning recognition and advancing to the ninth transformation and nearly the tenth.
• Jin Lu praised Fang Qianyuan’s progress and said the sect would prepare renowned experts for him to hunt once he reached the tenth transformation.
• Jin Lu warned Fang Qianyuan that the coming mission would be a genuine trial, though Fang remained confident he could face it.
• Jin Lu identified Luo Zhen, a veteran tenth-transformation expert and remnant of the Blood Demon Sect, as Fang’s likely first target.
• Jin Lu explained that the righteous city warden’s forces and the Azure Cloud Sect would contain reinforcements while Fang attacked Luo Zhen and the Blood Demon Gang’s leadership.

Fang Qianyuan learned about Luo Zhen’s Heart-Devouring Demon Bat and decided to grow stronger before confronting him. He practiced the Spirit Formation Borrowing Art with his Wolf Group, unleashing a powerful but costly and poorly controlled attack.

• Jin Lu told Fang Qianyuan that Luo Zhen’s Heart-Devouring Demon Bat had a desolate beast bloodline and needed to eat a human heart every ten days.
• Fang Qianyuan decided not to face Luo Zhen and his forces until he had reached the tenth transformation.
• Several days later, Fang Qianyuan took Little White and his thirty strengthened gray wolves outside Justice Ward to practice Manifestation Dao techniques.
• Fang Qianyuan used the Spirit Formation Borrowing Art to draw on the Wolf Group’s power and carve a long trench with a hurricane strike.
• Fang Qianyuan judged the technique powerful but difficult to control, and he spent dozens of pieces of spirit jade replenishing the group’s strength.

Fang Qianyuan spent months training the Wolf Group to use the Spirit Formation Borrowing Art and finally combined their Wind Blade Frost Sword into a vastly stronger attack. As the group continued practicing, his cultivation reached the tenth transformation, the limit of the human rank.

• Fang Qianyuan replenished the Wolf Group’s depleted spirit essence and trained them to master the powers needed for the Spirit Formation Borrowing Art.
• Fang Qianyuan used Fusion Refinement and extensive drills to help the wolf packs cultivate their abilities, despite the time and resources required.
• Fang Qianyuan mastered the Spirit Formation Borrowing Art by the end of June and used it with the Wolf Group to create a powerful storm of wind and ice.
• Fang Qianyuan continued practicing the formation with the Wolf Group while accumulating experience in its use.
• Fang Qianyuan absorbed spirit essence and the Treasure Pill’s medicinal power, reaching the tenth transformation and the limit of the human rank.

After Fang Qianyuan reached the tenth transformation of Human Rank, Jin Lu arranged for the sect to outfit and prepare him as a rising star. The chapter left Fang with new attendants and guards as he began taking on the public status the sect intended for him.

• Fang Qianyuan reached the limit of Human Rank cultivation and reflected on the need to strengthen himself beyond expanding his Spirit Sea.
• Jin Lu congratulated Fang Qianyuan on reaching the tenth transformation and advised him to consolidate his cultivation and improve his strength.
• Fang Qianyuan received letters from his master and senior brother, who warned him not to underestimate other experts.
• Jin Lu arranged for a craftsman to measure Fang Qianyuan for magical artifact clothing and hired teachers to instruct him in etiquette.
• Jin Lu introduced Ning'er, a maid from the Heavenly Fragrance Tower, and two ninth-transformation guards from the sect's Warrior Hall to Fang Qianyuan.

After Fang Qianyuan reached the tenth transformation, Jin Lu arranged attendants and explained his coming promotion to Wind-Catching Envoy. As Fang Qianyuan waited for the promotion to be finalized, he continued cultivating and arranged to expand and strengthen his wolf pack.

• Jin Lu assigned Ning'er, Lin Xiong, and Lin Bao to serve Fang Qianyuan, and explained their roles and backgrounds.
• Jin Lu told Fang Qianyuan that he would be promoted from Jiachen Team captain to Wind-Catching Envoy, with the Jiachen Team becoming his direct subordinates.
• Fang Qianyuan agreed to keep the Jiachen Team and continued consolidating his cultivation while Jin Lu handled the promotion arrangements.
• Fang Qianyuan decided to buy more gray wolves and strengthen them through Fusion Refinement so they could join his Spirit Formation Borrowing Art.
• Fang Qianyuan asked Jin Lu to purchase gray wolves along with heavenly wind essence fragments and heavenly frost essence fragments.

After returning to sect headquarters as a tenth-transformation expert, Fang Qianyuan prepared to eliminate the Blood Demon Gang and fiend Luo Zhen. He received a Sword Qi Talisman, intelligence, and a new batch of wolf spirits, and decided to train them before launching the operation.

• Fang Qianyuan completed the sect’s registration and preparations for his advancement, then dressed in formal robes while Ning'er helped refine his bearing.
• Jin Lu praised Fang Qianyuan’s appearance and approved his plan to destroy the Blood Demon Gang and kill Luo Zhen, while warning him to prepare for the formidable enemy.
• Jin Lu gave Fang Qianyuan an ancient Sword Qi Talisman, intelligence, and contacts to support the operation.
• Fang Qianyuan decided to establish spiritual communion with his wolf spirits and train them before striking.
• Jin Lu showed Fang Qianyuan thirty wolf spirits in Spirit-Sealing Treasures and provided thirty heavenly wind essence fragments and thirty heavenly frost essence fragments.

Fang Qianyuan trained Little White and the gray wolves while preparing to confront the Blood Demon Gang. He traveled to Phoenix Forest Ward on Luo Yi’s tenth birthday, planning to attack when the gang’s leaders gathered to celebrate.

• Fang Qianyuan subdued the spirit creatures from the Spirit-Sealing Treasures and stored them in the pocket realm within the Moon-Reflecting Wolf Fang Chain.
• Fang Qianyuan trained Little White and sixty gray wolves to fight together, then urged Little White to improve her aim under pressure.
• Fang Qianyuan considered how his defenses and area attacks could counter the Blood Demon Gang’s bat-controlling fighters.
• Fang Qianyuan traveled through a Teleportation Array and rode a Thousand-League Soaring Cloud Roc to Phoenix Forest Ward.
• Fang Qianyuan learned that Luo Yi’s tenth birthday would draw the Blood Demon Gang’s senior members and leaders together, giving him a chance to attack them at once.

Luo Zhen celebrated his son Luo Yi’s tenth birthday at a grand gathering of the Blood Demon Gang, where members presented lavish gifts and offered congratulations. When Luo Yi asked about the rogue cultivator who had frightened him, Luo Zhen ordered his guards to bring the man before him so he could punish him.

• Luo Zhen arrived at the Blood Demon Gang’s headquarters and asked why Luo Yi had not yet appeared.
• Luo Yi arrived in splendid clothes, greeted Luo Zhen, and received birthday wishes from the gathered gang members.
• Gang members presented Luo Yi with valuable gifts, including a sea pearl, a Divine Wind Horse, and jade marrow.
• Luo Yi asked whether Luo Zhen had caught the rogue cultivator who had frightened him.
• Luo Zhen confirmed that the man had been caught and ordered the guards to bring him forward for punishment.

Luo Zhen punished a rogue cultivator who had insulted his son, Luo Yi, by feeding him Blood Crystals and unleashing Luo Yi’s Heart-Devouring Demon Bat. The bat attacked the captive as Luo Yi watched, and the chapter ended with the punishment underway.

• Luo Zhen had two members of the Blood Demon Gang bring a wounded rogue cultivator before him, and the captive begged for his life.
• Luo Zhen ordered his men to force Blood Crystals down the captive’s throat, causing his body to swell.
• Luo Zhen told Luo Yi that he would let the boy’s pet demon beast avenge the insult.
• Luo Yi opened the cage holding the Heart-Devouring Demon Bat and petted the obedient beast.
• Luo Yi ordered the Heart-Devouring Demon Bat to bite the captive, and it lunged at him in a streak of red light.

Luo Yi watched a Heart-Devouring Demon Bat drain a captive to death while the Blood Crystals kept him alive through the ordeal. Meanwhile, Fang Qianyuan began his assault on the Blood Demon Gang’s headquarters, freezing and striking down its guards as he entered the Luo Residence.

• The Heart-Devouring Demon Bat drained a middle-aged Rogue Cultivator’s blood and ate his heart while the Blood Crystals prolonged his life.
• Fang Qianyuan dismissed Young Master Mu’s suggestion to organize a larger force and said he alone would slaughter the Blood Demon Gang’s gathered leaders.
• Fang Qianyuan walked toward the Luo Residence with Little White, Lin Xiong, and Lin Bao following him.
• Fang Qianyuan froze one gatekeeper, and Lin Bao struck another into the courtyard.
• Fang Qianyuan sent frost miasma over the servants and guards who emerged, freezing them before striding into the residence.

Fang Qianyuan stormed the Blood Demon Gang’s stronghold, killing his way into the inner courtyard and confronting Luo Zhen and the gang’s leaders. After identifying himself and declaring his intent to exterminate them, he drank at their banquet and unleashed his defenses and spirit creatures as the battle began.

• Fang Qianyuan slaughtered the Blood Demon Gang’s guards and members as he advanced through the Demon Cave.
• Fang Qianyuan reached the inner courtyard and recognized Luo Zhen, Luo Yi, Lin Xiaofeng, and Luo Zhong.
• Luo Zhen sensed Fang Qianyuan’s Tenth Transformation power and questioned him while the gang’s leaders prepared for a fight.
• Fang Qianyuan identified himself as an Azure Cloud Sect True Disciple and Heavenly Dao Alliance Wind-Catching Envoy, then declared he had come to exterminate the gang.
• Fang Qianyuan drank from a jar of liquor as the gang attacked him with demon bats, which his Ice Shields repelled.
• Fang Qianyuan summoned gray wolves that attacked the gang members while Little White drove them back with frost.

Fang Qianyuan faced Tang Ru and the Blood Demon Gang with his enhanced gray wolf spirits, overcoming the gang’s blood bats and sound-based attacks. The battle left the gang members stunned as Fang Qianyuan stood unharmed between the clashing forces.

• Tang Ru summoned his Heart-Devouring Demon Bat, which wounded the gray wolves before they tore it apart and it transformed into blood-colored bats.
• The blood-colored bats fed on the wolves, but the wolves’ wind-and-frost spirit essence froze them, forcing Tang Ru to recall them.
• Tang Ru unleashed the Demon Sound Divine Ability, but Fang Qianyuan prepared the wolves to resist its resonance attack.
• The Blood Demon Gang summoned more Demon Bats and Heart-Devouring Demon Bats, and their combined sound waves affected Little White.
• Little White howled with Gray Wolf Howls at the Moon, empowering the wolf pack and silencing both sides’ spirit creatures.
• Fang Qianyuan stood unharmed despite the sound-wave clash, leaving the Blood Demon Gang members in disbelief.

Fang Qianyuan used the Ice Soul Divine Mirror and his spirit creatures to fight Luo Zhen, Lin Xiaofeng, and the Blood Demon Gang. As the gang prepared a powerful spirit formation, Fang Qianyuan mounted Little White and began unleashing Wind Blade Frost Sword, leaving his enemies unable to stop him.

• Luo Zhen ordered the Blood Demon Gang to attack, and Fang Qianyuan summoned sixty gray wolves to fight them.
• Fang Qianyuan froze a charging gang leader with the Ice Soul Divine Mirror and struck Luo Zhen's Blood Shield with its divine light.
• Luo Zhen and Lin Xiaofeng sent their heart-devouring demon bats at Fang Qianyuan, whose spirit essence overcame their blood-controlling ability.
• Luo Zhen and Lin Xiaofeng formed a spirit formation with their demon bats, preparing an attack powerful enough to rival an Earth Rank expert.
• Fang Qianyuan mounted Little White and began preparing Wind Blade Frost Sword while frost defenses stopped the gang's attacks.
• Fang Qianyuan pointed and unleashed rolling white waves across the courtyard.

Fang Qianyuan unleashed a battlefield-wide frost storm and killed the Blood Demon Gang’s leaders, including Luo Zhen. Luo Zhen revived himself with Reversed Blood Return and struck Fang Qianyuan, but Fang healed and seized him, leaving Luo Zhen pinned and stunned.

• Fang Qianyuan used the Wind Blade Frost Sword to freeze the Blood Demon Gang’s fighters and scatter the demon bat army while his wolves prepared the Spirit Formation Borrowing Art.
• Fang Qianyuan unleashed a stronger frost storm, then rode through it with Little White and killed Luo Zhong, Lin Xiaofeng, and the gang’s other powerful leaders.
• Luo Zhen activated Reversed Blood Return, absorbing the blood essence of the gang’s bats and spirit creatures to regenerate and gain several times his former strength.
• Luo Zhen punched through Fang Qianyuan’s Frost Garment and injured his heart, but Fang healed with medicinal power and twisted Luo Zhen’s wrist, forcing him half-kneeling to the ground.

Fang Qianyuan killed Luo Zhen and defeated the Blood Demon Gang’s remaining spirit creatures, then allowed Luo Zhen’s family and guards to leave. As righteous cultivators clashed with them outside, Fang Qianyuan went inside to claim spoils before the gang’s destruction.

• Luo Zhen tried to bargain with Fang Qianyuan, then attacked him with a blood arrow when Fang refused.
• Fang Qianyuan and Little White dodged the attack, froze Luo Zhen, and killed him with a strike to the brain.
• Fang Qianyuan and the wolves wiped out most of the frenzied spirit creatures, while some bats fled.
• Fang Qianyuan spared Luo Zhen’s women and children, and guards escorted Luo Yi out of the courtyard.
• Lin Xiong and Lin Bao reported that the guards had clashed with righteous cultivators outside, and Fang Qianyuan sent them to search the bodies before going inside.

Fang Qianyuan’s defeat of the Blood Demon Gang became the talk of Phoenix Forest Ward, and the Mu Family celebrated their victory with him. That night, Fang Qianyuan examined his gains and found the Blood Demon Sect’s incomplete manual in Luo Zhen’s possession.

• Wagons carried hundreds of the Blood Demon Gang’s frozen corpses through the streets, shocking the people of Phoenix Forest Ward.
• Rogue Cultivators spread the news that Fang Qianyuan had led the assault and wiped out the Blood Demon Gang.
• Fang Qianyuan’s name spread throughout the city as people praised him for defeating the gang.
• The Mu Family hosted Fang Qianyuan at their clan grounds and thanked him during a banquet that lasted into the night.
• At the Jade Tower, Fang Qianyuan inspected his spoils and discovered the incomplete Blood Refinement manual, which contained cultivation methods for the first six levels.

Fang Qianyuan studied Luo Zhen’s annotated Blood Refinement Great Art and recognized its connection to the transcendent ability Flesh Regeneration. He left the chapter eager to learn its Essence-Blood Vital Energy methods, while deciding against testing whether his Treasure Pill could regrow lost limbs.

• Fang Qianyuan examined the incomplete manual and concluded that its value lay in its accumulated insights, which could be incorporated into his own Dao path.
• Fang Qianyuan found annotations for the fourth through sixth stages and suspected an Unorthodox Path expert had exchanged them for a copy of Luo Zhen’s secret manual.
• Fang Qianyuan learned that Luo Zhen’s Reversed Blood Returning to the Flow drew on Flesh Regeneration, an ability that could transform Essence-Blood Vital Energy into organs and tissue.
• Fang Qianyuan realized Luo Zhen had needed Demon Bats to gather enough Essence-Blood Vital Energy to recover after being frozen.
• Fang Qianyuan considered whether the Treasure Pill could let him regrow a severed limb or achieve Flesh Regeneration, but refused to risk testing it.
• Fang Qianyuan returned to the manual’s Essence-Blood Vital Energy methods and discovered a body-refinement formula that could greatly strengthen his combat power.

Fang Qianyuan studied the Blood Refinement Art and considered how its essence-blood techniques could strengthen him and his spirit creatures. The next day, he attended the Mu Family’s public destruction of the Blood Demon Gang’s Heart-Devouring Demon Bats, which were declared forbidden creatures.

• Fang Qianyuan connected the Blood Refinement Art to Essence-Blood Spirit Offering and Reverse Blood Return, then decided to submit the manual to the sect and keep a copy for his own study.
• Fang Qianyuan assessed the Blood Demon Gang’s seized spirit jade, supplies, and businesses, expecting to receive personal loot and a share of future profits.
• The young master of the Mu Family invited Fang Qianyuan to witness the public destruction of the Blood Demon Gang’s evil spirit creatures.
• A Mu Family elder denounced the Blood Demon Gang, announced a ban on Heart-Devouring Demon Bats, and warned that unlawful users would be treated as unorthodox fiends.
• At the Mu Family patriarch’s command, servants killed and burned the captured Demon Beasts used to produce Heart-Devouring Demon Bats.

Fang Qianyuan returned to the Azure Cloud Sect after destroying the Blood Demon Gang, reported his deeds to Yu Shixian, and offered the Blood Refinement manual to the sect. A letter from Jiang Yunfeng praised him and revealed that his master had been in the Star Realm.

• Fang Qianyuan left Phoenix Forest Ward as news of his victory over the Blood Demon Gang spread throughout the Southern Wilds.
• Yu Shixian learned that Wuyouzi was heading for Phoenix Forest Ward and ordered the stewards to summon Fang Qianyuan back to the sect.
• Fang Qianyuan returned through a Teleportation Array and told Yu Shixian how he had destroyed the Blood Demon Gang's leadership.
• Fang Qianyuan gave Yu Shixian Luo Zhen's incomplete Blood Refinement manual, and Yu Shixian said he would exchange it for a true-disciple cultivation method.
• Fang Qianyuan met Sun Zhuo at the Jiang Residence and read a letter from Jiang Yunfeng that praised him and revealed Jiang Yunfeng had been in the Star Realm.

Fang Qianyuan learned that Jiang Yunfeng had gone to fight in the Star Realm, while Ye Tianming slaughtered a group of Spirit Tamers in the Southern Wilds. When Ye Tianming learned that Fang Qianyuan had wiped out the Blood Demon Gang, he stopped before leaving with his companions.

• Fang Qianyuan realized that Jiang Yunfeng had left to fight in the Star Realm and turned his attention back to his own affairs.
• Ye Tianming defeated and killed the Spirit Tamers gathered on a cliff near the Eastern Sea.
• A Swift Eagle delivered a message from a young woman, and Ye Tianming left the cliff on a Shadow Wolf.
• Ye Tianming reunited with a red-haired woman, a burly man, a short swordsman, and their Warrior followers in a grove.
• The red-haired woman told Ye Tianming that Fang Qianyuan had wiped out the Blood Demon Gang, and Ye Tianming stopped at the news.