Chapter Summaries

Lin Feng used his Breakthrough Points and stored pills to reach the Five Elements Viscera Realm and strengthen several martial arts. After fusing multiple techniques into new Innate True Skills, he prepared to check his attributes, but a knock interrupted him.

• Lin Feng repeatedly allocated points to the Five-Tone Viscera Refining Technique, spending a hundred years of cultivation in his memories to reach the Five Elements Viscera Realm and raise his True Qi to ordinary grade five.
• Lin Feng decided to delay his breakthrough to the Innate Realm and exchanged 2,358 Sixty-Year Power-Boosting Pills for Breakthrough Points, bringing his total to 158,000.
• Lin Feng perfected Heaven-Breaking Sword and Ten Thousand Snakes Emerge, then raised the Undying Battle Body to its third level.
• Lin Feng perfected five sword arts and fused them with Yin Yang Swordplay into the entry-level Innate True Skill Yin Yang Five Elements Swordplay.
• Lin Feng perfected his leg techniques and fused them into Hurricane Cloud-Rolling Leg, then fused Qi Sword Art and Life Sword Art into the Innate True Skill Equal Sword.
• Lin Feng prepared to inspect his attribute panel, but someone knocked on his door.

Lin Feng prepared to travel to the Sword Sect despite the Dai Family’s threat, while Ji Yunfeng worried that his junior brother could not survive the journey. At the city gates, more than ten thousand Dai Family experts blocked their way, and Lin Feng declared he would face them alone.

• Ji Yunfeng visited Lin Feng and noticed that his junior brother seemed stronger; Lin Feng confirmed he had made a breakthrough.
• Lin Feng reviewed his attributes, saw that he had reached the fifth layer of the Viscera Refining Realm, and decided to delay entering the Innate Realm until he completed more Innate True Skills.
• At breakfast, Ji Yunfeng gave Lin Feng Ironclad Ox dried meat and explained that their agreement with the Dai Family prevented him from accompanying Lin Feng to the Sword Sect.
• As Lin Feng and Ji Yunfeng left the city, more than ten thousand first-class experts and Super-Class Masters ambushed them on the official road and called for Lin Feng’s death.
• Ji Yunfeng urged Lin Feng to return to the city, but Dai Haoyu claimed the Dai Family had not violated their agreement; Lin Feng stepped forward and vowed to face the attackers.

Zhang Xiaoyu agreed to become Maneater Old Demon's disciple and learned that Yun Mengwu may have been cultivating feelings with him so she could kill him to advance her art. After binding himself to his new master, Zhang Xiaoyu began learning the Maneater Demonic Art, while Maneater Old Demon secretly judged his body as unsuitable to bear his soul for several years.

• Maneater Old Demon demanded that Zhang Xiaoyu help kill his traitorous disciple Zhao Yulong, swear loyalty, and wear a golden circlet that could not be removed.
• Maneater Old Demon revealed that Joyful Union Sect disciples could cultivate the Three Lives, Three Worlds Art by finding a compatible man, nurturing his feelings, and then killing him.
• Zhang Xiaoyu felt betrayed by the possibility that Yun Mengwu had been using him, but he did not hate her because she had helped him survive the demonic art's backlash.
• Zhang Xiaoyu negotiated conditions with Maneater Old Demon, and the two swore to the Supreme to honor their mutual promises.
• Zhang Xiaoyu placed the golden ring against his brow, and it transformed into an unremovable circlet as Maneater Old Demon celebrated gaining a disciple.
• Maneater Old Demon began teaching Zhang Xiaoyu his demonic art and secretly decided Zhang's body would need seven to ten years of strengthening before it could bear his soul.

After learning the Maneater Demonic Art, Zhang Xiaoyu entered Blood Demon Divine Mountain to take part in the Blood Demon Saint Son trial. He drained three Blood Sword Sect martial artists of their strength and set his sights on rising further through the trial.

• Zhang Xiaoyu mastered the third level of the Maneater Demonic Art, and Maneater Old Demon warned him to kill anyone who witnessed him use it.
• Zhang Xiaoyu entered Blood Demon Divine Mountain and learned from Maneater Old Demon that trial participants often formed groups during the early melee.
• Three Blood Sword Sect martial artists ambushed Zhang Xiaoyu, mocking him for arriving too late to provide them with fresh meat.
• Zhang Xiaoyu used the Maneater Demonic Art to drain the three men, leaving them as desiccated corpses and greatly strengthening his Internal Energy.
• Maneater Old Demon urged Zhang Xiaoyu to keep fighting, calling Blood Demon Divine Mountain the place where he would rise.

Lin Feng advanced toward the Sword Sect through an army of martial artists hired by the Dai Family, killing wave after wave to gain Breakthrough Points and loot. When more than a thousand attackers pursued him into the forest and launched a combined assault, he braced himself to endure it head-on.

• Lin Feng left Ji Yunfeng by the road and killed a first-rate expert, a spear-wielding first-rate expert, and a Super-Class Master with Equal Sword.
• Lin Feng continued along the road and slew the Lingyun Five Blades, gaining Breakthrough Points and a saber technique manual.
• Lin Feng taunted the hidden martial artists until more than a thousand charged him and attacked with hidden weapons; he knocked down or dodged them and fired Crimson Gold Glaze shots into the crowd.
• Lin Feng plunged into the forest to fight with his sword, but hundreds of martial artists locked onto him and launched a simultaneous assault.
• Lin Feng activated Artistic Conception: Immovable as a Mountain, Protective Astral Qi, and a true qi shield, then planted himself in a horse stance to face the attacks.

Lin Feng survived the martial artists’ attack and spent the day hunting down his pursuers, collecting resources and strengthening Equal Sword. He hid to recover as the remaining martial artists grouped together, while rumors spread that the Dai Family had hired a top-ten Earth Ranking expert to kill him.

• Lin Feng endured the bombardment without injury, killed more than twenty martial artists as he escaped, and drew the survivors into pursuit.
• Lin Feng killed eight attackers, then hunted down lone martial artists and gained enough experience for Equal Sword to advance to its first level.
• Lin Feng killed more than three hundred martial artists over the next two hours, advanced Equal Sword to its second level, and expanded his Storage Space.
• Lin Feng killed over a thousand martial artists by sunset, advanced Equal Sword to its fourth level, and hid inside a hollow tree to recover from strain in his meridians.
• The surviving martial artists formed larger groups and discussed Lin Feng’s strength, the Earth Ranking, and the Dai Family’s hired expert as someone approached their bonfires.

The Golden Silver Twin Fiends, Wang Xiaojin and Wang Xiaoyin, confronted a group of martial artists hired to help surround and kill Lin Feng. After Wang Xiaoyin demanded they surrender their resources, Wang Xiaojin charged at them to kill.

• Wang Xiaoyin berated the martial artists for discussing the brothers and said they were unworthy of the Dai Family's support.
• Wang Xiaojin asked whether the gathered martial artists were playing drop the handkerchief, and Wang Xiaoyin kicked a man who laughed, killing him.
• Wang Xiaoyin demanded the martial artists hand over their resources and abandon the job of surrounding and killing Lin Feng.
• As the martial artists retreated without surrendering their resources, Wang Xiaoyin told Wang Xiaojin to kill them, and Wang Xiaojin charged forward.

Wang Xiaojin and Wang Xiaoyin slaughtered the martial artists who had come to kill Lin Feng, while Lin Feng watched from a tree hollow. After the brothers gathered and buried their spoils, Lin Feng emerged and interrupted them.

• Wang Xiaojin and Wang Xiaoyin fought off and killed most of the hundred-odd martial artists, with only a few escaping.
• Lin Feng watched the massacre and decided to spread the Equal Sword among his people.
• Wang Xiaojin and Wang Xiaoyin collected weapons and other spoils from the battlefield.
• Wang Xiaojin said they would bury the weapons and trade them later to buy food for Little Brother, and Wang Xiaoyin helped him dig.
• Lin Feng kicked open the tree hollow and stepped out, saying, “Sorry to interrupt your brotherly bond.”

Lin Feng wounded Wang Xiaojin and refused Wang Xiaoyin’s plea to spare them. Song Dongming arrived claiming to be a hero, then demanded Lin Feng give up his life so Song could advance to the Innate Realm, prompting Lin Feng to decide to kill him too.

• Lin Feng pierced Wang Xiaojin’s throat with a sword strike, shattering his Indestructible Golden Body and severing the meridians in his neck.
• Wang Xiaoyin offered Lin Feng his possessions and secret manuals in exchange for sparing the brothers, but Lin Feng refused.
• Song Dongming arrived and praised Lin Feng for helping the people of Qinghe County.
• Song Dongming asked Lin Feng to surrender his head so Song could break through into the Innate Realm, promising to care for Lin Feng’s family.
• Lin Feng saw through Song Dongming’s self-serving appeal and decided he would kill him as well.

Lin Feng repelled Song Dongming and Wang Xiaoyin’s attacks, killed Wang Xiaojin, and pursued Wang Xiaoyin until he surrendered the method for learning the Phantom Clone Technique. Lin Feng crippled Wang Xiaoyin and left him alive, unaware that a surviving martial artist was hiding nearby.

• Song Dongming and Wang Xiaoyin launched a sneak attack, but Lin Feng’s Qi Shield stopped them, and he returned Song Dongming’s poisoned needles, leaving him poisoned and unable to reach his medicine.
• Wang Xiaoyin shoved his dying brother Wang Xiaojin at Lin Feng and fled, but Lin Feng’s Sword Qi pierced Wang Xiaojin after breaking his Indestructible Golden Body.
• Lin Feng pursued Wang Xiaoyin through repeated True Qi clones until Wang Xiaoyin exhausted his True Qi and begged for his life.
• Wang Xiaoyin revealed how to seek the Phantom Clone Technique in an ancient ruin guarded by the Sword Sect.
• Lin Feng struck Wang Xiaoyin’s dantian with Sword Qi, crippling him while sparing his life, then left without noticing a surviving martial artist hiding nearby.

After crippling Wang Xiaoyin, Lin Feng returned to the battlefield, recruited Liu Dongfang, and began building an organization to protect Commoner Martial Artists. He left Liu Dongfang to gather recruits and enemies while he prepared to absorb the martial arts he had obtained.

• Wang Xiaoyin tried to circulate his true qi, but a surviving martial artist pinned both his hands to a tree and gagged him.
• Lin Feng caught Liu Dongfang taking the Dai Family’s money and pills, then gave him some pills and recruited him after learning he belonged to the Divine Thief Sect.
• Lin Feng learned Liu Dongfang’s Air Grasping Hand, perfected it with Breakthrough Points, and demonstrated its power by snapping a distant tree.
• Lin Feng taught Liu Dongfang the Equal Sword after making him swear not to pass it on, then ordered him to find enemies and potential recruits separately.
• Lin Feng stored the battlefield’s weapons, pills, and money as Little Gold spat on the fallen martial artists, and Lin Feng sat down to absorb his newly acquired martial arts.

Lin Feng perfected several supreme martial arts, testing the defensive power of Indestructible Golden Body and improving Great Strength Vajra Foot. After Little Gold revealed that Song Dongming’s poison resisted its saliva, Lin Feng decided to test whether the Myriad Poisons True Scripture could absorb it.

• Lin Feng perfected Half Moon Curved Saber and Indestructible Golden Body, then fused the latter into the Undying Battle Body as Undying Battle Body - Golden Body 5.
• Lin Feng tested Indestructible Golden Body, finding that it greatly increased his strength and defense but slightly reduced his speed.
• Lin Feng perfected Great Strength Vajra Foot and returned to the place where he had crippled Wang Xiaoyin.
• Lin Feng found Wang Xiaoyin cut into pieces, and Little Gold dissolved the remains while announcing that it had counted 112.
• Little Gold told Lin Feng that Song Dongming’s poison was too potent for its saliva to dissolve, prompting Lin Feng to consider absorbing it with the Myriad Poisons True Scripture.

Lin Feng absorbed the poison from Song Dongming’s needle, raising the Myriad Poisons True Scripture and learning to produce the deadly toxin himself. As he rested in the forest, Liu Dongfang arrived with more than two hundred martial artists, bringing Lin Feng a new target.

• Lin Feng used the Myriad Poisons True Scripture to resist and absorb the poison on Song Dongming’s needle, increasing the skill’s grade and gaining immunity to that poison.
• Lin Feng learned to generate the poison through his palm and used it to blacken a tree and wither a patch of grass.
• Lin Feng collected blood pearls for Little Gold, who showed him a silver scale and claimed he would reach the Innate Realm when his body turned silver.
• Lin Feng rested to recover his meridians while Little Gold slept around his wrist.
• Liu Dongfang led more than two hundred martial artists toward Lin Feng as the Demon Spirit Blood Drinking Sword stirred with killing intent.

Lin Feng slaughtered the martial artists who had gathered to attack him, then ordered Liu Dongfang and his companions to collect the spoils and bring surviving fighters to him. As Lin Feng rested, he considered using Liu Dongfang’s group to recruit more people and devised a way to make use of them while keeping his Sixty-Year Power-Boosting Pills.

• Lin Feng waited for more than two hundred martial artists to approach, then used his movement skills and swordsmanship to kill or incapacitate most of them as their attacks repeatedly struck their own allies.
• The surviving martial artists fled, but Lin Feng pursued them through the forest with Great Strength Vajra Foot and left more than two hundred thirty dead, with hundreds more killed or wounded overall.
• Lin Feng found Liu Dongfang hiding by a tree, praised him for luring in the enemies, and told him to gather the corpses, valuables, and surviving martial artists with help from his companions.
• Lin Feng asked Liu Dongfang to stop calling himself a subordinate, giving him a sense of dignity before Liu Dongfang went to organize the work.
• Lin Feng rested while nourishing his meridians and considered recruiting more people through Liu Dongfang’s group, then thought of a way to use them while retaining his Sixty-Year Power-Boosting Pills.

After recovering, Lin Feng founded the Martial Arts Alliance with Liu Dongfang and the six martial artists as its first elders. He demonstrated and perfected Earth Dragon's secret martial art, then guided Earth Dragon to make a breakthrough, leaving the others eager for his instruction.

• Liu Dongfang and the others gathered the dead and wounded, collected weapons and valuables, and questioned the fifteen severely wounded martial artists through the night.
• Lin Feng recovered by daybreak and gave each of the men Sixty-Year Power-Boosting Pills.
• Lin Feng named the new organization the Martial Arts Alliance and appointed Liu Dongfang and the six others as elders.
• Earth Dragon presented Lin Feng with the Bone Shrinking Skill and Earth Dragon Skill manuals, and Lin Feng demonstrated the perfected techniques.
• Lin Feng explained how to cultivate the Earth Dragon Skill, helping Earth Dragon reach minor accomplishment; Earth Dragon pledged to earn merit for further guidance, and the others wanted Lin Feng to teach them too.

Lin Feng mastered One-Eyed Dragon’s ocular technique, recruited the martial artists by teaching them in exchange for pills, and converted much of his haul into Breakthrough Points. At the Sword Sect, a man from the Dai Family ordered its allied sects to attack Lin Feng after learning he had survived the assault of more than a thousand martial artists.

• One-Eyed Dragon recited the Delusion-Breaking Ice Fire Eyes, and Lin Feng perfected the technique, demonstrated its power, and guided One-Eyed Dragon in its cultivation.
• Lin Feng offered to teach One-Eyed Dragon the Ice Fire Thunder Palm in exchange for merit, and One-Eyed Dragon handed over his Sixty-Year Power-Boosting Pills.
• Lin Feng taught martial arts to the other four, including the Indestructible Vajra Divine Skill to Little Zhi, and sent the group out to lure enemies to him.
• Lin Feng spared the injured martial artists, sorted through his haul, and discovered that the conversion rate for Sixty-Year Power-Boosting Pills had fallen as he exchanged them for Breakthrough Points.
• At the Sword Sect, a white-robed man learned Lin Feng had escaped the attack and ordered a golden-robed steward to mobilize the sects supported by the Dai Family.

Lin Feng defeated a force of more than two thousand martial artists in the dense forest, breaking the Dai Family’s plan to use wandering martial artists against him. After gathering the spoils and parting from his allies, he moved to a new hiding place to strengthen himself, while an army of thirty thousand martial artists occupied a nearby town.

• Lin Feng spent Breakthrough Points to fuse and improve his martial arts, raising his true qi to Mortal Grade Ninth Rank.
• Liu Dongfang led more than two thousand martial artists to surround Lin Feng, but Lin Feng defeated them and drove the survivors to retreat.
• Lin Feng’s underlings cleared the battlefield, collecting weapons, money, pills, and secret manuals for him.
• Lin Feng gave the new recruits resources and carrier-pigeon tokens, then parted from Liu Dongfang and the others as they left to build the Martial Arts Alliance.
• Lin Feng stored the spoils and corpses, moved to a new hiding place, and began improving the manuals to prepare for the Dai Family’s retaliation.
• An army of thirty thousand martial artists entered a town outside the dense forest and drove out its residents.

Maneater Old Demon taught Zhang Xiaoyu Blood Shadow Steps and Soul Lock Needles, urging him to abandon righteous notions and use any means to become strong. After Zhang Xiaoyu betrayed two teams and advanced to the Muscle Refining Realm, he accepted his new ruthlessness and hoped Xiao Feng and the others would not follow the same path.

• Maneater Old Demon taught Zhang Xiaoyu Blood Shadow Steps and Soul Lock Needles and told him that shamelessness and despicability were essential to becoming strong.
• Maneater Old Demon described how righteous families had betrayed and erased the heroic predecessors after the war, but Zhang Xiaoyu struggled to believe the account.
• Maneater Old Demon tightened the golden hoop to punish Zhang Xiaoyu for doubting him, then ordered him to provoke a fight between two teams and eliminate them both.
• Zhang Xiaoyu joined an eleven-man squad, instigated a clash with another team, and used Soul Lock Needles to ambush his own captain and wipe out both groups.
• Zhang Xiaoyu absorbed the fallen fighters, broke through to the Muscle Refining Realm, and resolved to become shameless and despicable in pursuit of strength.
• Zhang Xiaoyu looked toward Qinghe County and hoped Xiao Feng and the others would not become like him.

After spending his Breakthrough Points and strengthening his martial arts, Lin Feng left the forest for a nearby town on his way to the Sword Sect. He discovered that the Dai Family had poisoned his meal and surrounded the town with high-level martial artists, leaving him trapped in their ambush.

• Lin Feng spent points on his martial arts, raised his true qi grade, and gained the ultimate skill Flying Fire Meteor after pushing Soaring Cloud Riding Mist to full speed.
• Lin Feng left the forest and encountered Leng Yu’s carriage, then continued into a nearby town for the night.
• Lin Feng ordered food and tea at a restaurant but recognized that the dishes and tea contained two herbs that formed a potent poison when combined.
• Lin Feng looked out the window and saw that the town’s pedestrians, vendors, and children were all high-level martial artists connected to factions including the Dai Family.

Lin Feng survived the Dai Family’s poisoned feast by refining the poison and spreading it through the town’s attackers. As a celestial sign drew everyone’s attention, he began a fierce battle against the surrounding martial artists, choosing to fight rather than flee.

• Lin Feng ate the poisoned meal, refined the White Heart poison with the Myriad Poisons True Scripture, and secretly spread it through the tavern and nearby streets.
• Lin Feng watched the attackers collapse as a bright star appeared in the sky, while the waiter realized Lin Feng had poisoned him too.
• When the attackers revealed themselves and began to encircle him, Lin Feng used Crimson Gold Glaze to kill more than a hundred martial artists with porcelain shards.
• Lin Feng fired True Qi bullets into the attackers, blasting apart a building as three observers on a nearby cliff assessed his power and the coming war between the righteous and demonic paths.
• Archers and martial artists attacked Lin Feng with True Qi arrows and Sword Qi, bringing down the tavern; Lin Feng leaped into the air and charged back at them with his Great Strength Vajra Meteor Foot.