Chapter Summaries

Lin Feng fought off the martial artists surrounding him in the town, killing more than a thousand while their attacks failed to break through his defenses. As four powerful Dai Family fighters unleashed Ten Thousand Snakes Emerge against him, Pale Scholar expected the battle to end soon.

• Lin Feng dodged coordinated volleys of weapons and iron balls, then killed the attackers with his sword and martial arts.
• The bearded brute and the old man identified Lin Feng’s perfected ultimate arts, and Pale Scholar declared that Lin Feng had to die.
• Lin Feng charged into the crowd, cutting down martial artists with Equal Sword and striking others with Ice Fire Thunder Palm.
• A swarm of hornets drained the Internal Energy of Lin Feng’s Indestructible Golden Body, so he killed them and stunned nearby martial artists with Lion's Roar.
• Four Dai Family fighters sent Sword Qi from four directions toward Lin Feng with Ten Thousand Snakes Emerge, prompting Pale Scholar to predict the battle would end soon.

Lin Feng burrowed beneath the Dai Family’s forces, killing hundreds with attacks from underground before emerging to confront Dai Haochen. After Dai Haochen’s shield shattered under Lin Feng’s strike, the young heir faced imminent danger.

• Lin Feng tunneled beneath the attackers and used sword light and poisoned beast-shaped True Qi to kill hundreds while evading their attacks.
• The Dai Family’s leaders debated how to stop Lin Feng, but their forces failed to trap him as he moved underground.
• Lin Feng reached Dai Haochen, who struck him with Heaven Splitting Sword Strike and wounded his Indestructible Golden Body.
• Lin Feng defeated Dai Haochen’s Rainbow Sword Strike and was swarmed by martial artists whom Dai Haochen sent to exhaust him.
• Lin Feng used Flying Fire Meteor to reach Dai Haochen and shattered the blue shield protecting him, leaving Dai Haochen terrified.

Lin Feng fought the Dai Family’s forces while conserving his strength and waiting for an Innate Realm Expert to attack so he could lure the expert away. After a failed attempt to kill the army’s commander revealed three Innate Realm Experts on a nearby cliff, the chapter left Lin Feng facing a far greater threat.

• Lin Feng saw Zhang Tianqing protect Dai Haochen and continued fighting the surrounding martial artists, planning to escape and draw an Innate Realm Expert into a secluded duel when one attacked.
• Lin Feng conserved his true qi while slaughtering enemies, then charged into the archers’ ranks and wrecked their coordinated formation.
• Lin Feng pursued the army’s commanding general through his shield-bearing guards and used Undefeated Divine Fist to send the commander flying.
• Lin Feng fired Crimson Gold Glaze at the airborne commander, but a true qi folding fan from the cliff blocked his shots.
• Lin Feng used Delusion-Breaking Ice Fire Eyes to identify the four Dai Family descendants and three Innate Realm Experts on the cliff, and Pale Scholar noticed Lin Feng could see them.

Lin Feng slaughtered the Dai Family martial artists and wounded their commanding officer before Hong Batian intervened to hold off three Dai Family Innate Realm Experts. Lin Feng fled, but when an Innate Realm Expert pursued him, he headed for the forest, eager to fight.

• Lin Feng kept attacking the Dai Family troops while Pale Scholar repeatedly blocked his attempts to hit the commanding officer.
• Lin Feng curved six arrows around Pale Scholar's fan, striking the commanding officer and revealing her as a woman; Pale Scholar cut off her poisoned arm to save her.
• Hong Batian arrived and challenged the three Dai Family Innate Realm Experts, gesturing for Lin Feng to escape.
• Lin Feng fled as Hong Batian battled the three experts, and the bearded brute ordered the Houtian Martial Artists to pursue him.
• Lin Feng spotted an Innate Realm Expert approaching and raced toward the forest to face him.

Lin Feng fought the pursuing Pale Scholar, an Innate Realm Expert, while trying to withstand the gap in their strength. The Pale Scholar trapped Lin Feng in a blizzard of cold true qi, slowing the circulation of his meridians and leaving him unable to use Flying Fire Meteor.

• The Pale Scholar pursued Lin Feng and attacked with pillars of true qi, which Lin Feng shattered with repeated volleys of Crimson Gold Glaze.
• Lin Feng broke the Pale Scholar’s fan-shaped true qi slashes after charging Crimson Gold Glaze in advance, alarming the Pale Scholar.
• The Pale Scholar summoned a lifelike true qi beauty, but Lin Feng used Undefeated Divine Fists to push her back and maintain distance.
• The Pale Scholar transformed the beauty into ice crystals, and Lin Feng used his martial techniques and defenses to endure their cold qi.
• The Pale Scholar engulfed Lin Feng in snowy-white true qi, which slowed the circulation in his meridians until he could no longer activate Flying Fire Meteor.

Lin Feng endured Pale Scholar’s attacks, restored his Life attribute, and awakened Heart of the Beast, turning the fight around despite still being a Houtian Martial Artist. He traded blows with Pale Scholar and shattered the Ice Beauty, unaware that ice spikes were poised beneath him.

• Pale Scholar smashed Lin Feng into a crater with a massive true qi fan, leaving him badly injured and costing him more than ten thousand Life points.
• Lin Feng realized he had lost his willingness to risk his life, then shielded Little Gold from Pale Scholar’s attack and reassured it.
• Lin Feng spent Breakthrough Points to refill his Life attribute, activated Heart of the Beast, and caught and crushed Pale Scholar’s true qi fan barehanded.
• Lin Feng charged Pale Scholar, broke through his attacks, and struck him hard enough to send him flying during their close combat.
• Pale Scholar summoned an Ice Beauty to attack Lin Feng, but Lin Feng shattered her with Wind-Breaking Slash as three ice spikes formed beneath him.

Lin Feng fought Pale Scholar through the night, wearing down his opponent despite Pale Scholar’s powerful attacks and repeated Blood Escape. After Lin Feng tracked him down for a third time, Pale Scholar begged for his life and offered a secret about the Dai Family.

• Lin Feng used his Indestructible Golden Body to withstand Pale Scholar’s Thousand Layer Fan and hidden ice-spike attack, then tricked Pale Scholar into exhausting his true qi.
• When Pale Scholar tried to retreat, Lin Feng pursued him and pierced his Body Protection Qi with Heaven-Breaking Sword, forcing him to use Blood Escape.
• Lin Feng tracked Pale Scholar’s moving attribute panel and caught up with him after each of his first two Blood Escape attempts.
• Pale Scholar used Blood Escape a third time after Lin Feng raised his hand, mistaking Lin Feng’s gesture for an attack.
• Pale Scholar realized Lin Feng could detect him, stopped fleeing, and offered to reveal a secret concerning the Dai Family if Lin Feng spared him.

Lin Feng killed Pale Scholar after surviving his explosive final attack, then rebuffed a Huo Family expert who tried to recruit him. He searched the blast site for spoils and Little Gold uncovered a mysterious metal strip.

• Lin Feng's Heaven-Breaking Sword pierced Pale Scholar, who fused with a blood-red True Qi Ice Beauty and detonated himself, blasting Lin Feng through the trees.
• Lin Feng survived with serious injuries, restored his Life attribute with Breakthrough Points, and recovered by eating dried meat.
• A yellow-robed young man praised Lin Feng, warned him about the Dai Family, and invited him to join the Huo Family of Thunder Sword Peak; Lin Feng declined.
• The young man circled back to spy on Lin Feng, but Lin Feng spotted him and drove him away with a sword strike.
• Lin Feng returned to the blast site and found no trace of Pale Scholar, while Little Gold unearthed a narrow metal strip from the soil.

Lin Feng found the complete Mind Aspect Divine Skill and used Breakthrough Points to master it, then advanced it to Artistic Conception and gained a lifelike, full-strength clone. After testing the clone against Dai Family martial artists, Lin Feng hurried back toward the town to check on Hong Batian.

• Lin Feng accepted the metal plate Little Gold found and discovered it contained the sixth level of the Mind Aspect Divine Skill; Little Gold later uncovered all ten plates.
• Lin Feng read that the skill could create a clone and that its cultivation demanded a split mind and abundant true qi.
• Lin Feng traveled north, carved out an underground space, and spent Breakthrough Points to perfect the Mind Aspect Divine Skill and summon a clone identical to himself.
• Lin Feng’s realization about appearances let him advance the skill to Artistic Conception, making his clone lifelike and equal to his full strength within five li.
• Lin Feng used his clone to kill several Dai Family Houtian Martial Artists searching the mountain, then headed back toward town because he feared Hong Batian might be in danger.

Lin Feng used his clones to hunt Dai Family martial artists and reached a town where Hong Batian had been holding off two pursuers. After discovering a powerful expert secretly guarding four Dai Family youths, Lin Feng drew the guard away and prepared to attack them.

• Lin Feng learned that his True Qi clones could change into gas, burrow underground, kill enemies, and use his Storage Space.
• Hong Batian argued with Zhang Tianqing and a bearded Dai Family martial artist, then flew away on his Fang Tian Hua Ji, prompting them to chase him.
• Lin Feng considered killing four Dai Family disciples but spotted a hidden Innate Realm Expert protecting them.
• Lin Feng disguised himself and his clone with a Human Skin Mask, then sent the clone to lure the guard away while he moved off to prepare an attack.
• The hidden expert noticed Lin Feng's clone after it stepped on a dry branch and pursued it.

Sun Yu learned to balance his human cultivation with his awakened demonic bloodline and sought metal to advance toward becoming a Demon General. After buying two thousand jin of metal in Pingshui County, he left for a cave, unaware that the City Guards general planned to hunt him down.

• Sun Yu heard that Lin Feng had crippled Dai Haoran and fought off thousands of martial artists, and he believed Lin Feng had drawn the Dai Family's hatred to protect him.
• Sun Yu headed toward Qinghe County to check on Lin Feng's relatives and visit his mistress, but his growing demonic instincts drove him to burn a stretch of forest before he resolved to stay human-shaped.
• Sun Yu concluded that he needed to combine human wisdom with demonic bloodline strength, and he learned that absorbing metal could help him advance from Demon Soldier to Demon General.
• Sun Yu robbed several despised wealthy merchants, then went to Pingshui County, where he ate, listened to music, and bought two thousand jin of metal goods.
• The blacksmith shopkeeper reported Sun Yu to the City Guards general, who decided to pursue him with the shop's wolfhounds and claim his belongings.
• Sun Yu left the city for a cave to prepare for his breakthrough, unaware that the general was tracking him.

Sun Yu broke through to Demon General by consuming metal, then ambushed the City Guards who entered the cave to capture him. After absorbing the life essence of the soldiers he killed, he embraced the Blazing Fire Dragon King's instincts and charged toward the guards waiting outside.

• Sun Yu melted and swallowed a crate of metal weapons, breaking through to Demon General.
• City Guards entered the cave to find Sun Yu, while their Bone Refining Realm general waited outside.
• Sun Yu ambushed the guards inside with dragon fire and killed them, including their deputy general.
• Sun Yu absorbed the pale-blue flames containing the dead martial artists' life essence and recovered from his breakthrough.
• Sun Yu shed his distinction between humans and demons and charged toward the guards outside, intent on consuming them.

Sun Yu defeated the triangular-eyed City Guards general and consumed the flames and metal from his victims to strengthen himself. A foreboding drove him to flee, but Faji of Linghua Temple pursued him and attacked with Great Vajra Heavenly Dragon.

• Sun Yu fought off the City Guards soldiers and overpowered the triangular-eyed general with three pursuing pillars of fire.
• Sun Yu killed the general, consumed his flame, and felt his strength improve.
• Sun Yu sensed danger, transformed into a Fire Qilin, and ran deeper into the mountains.
• Faji of Linghua Temple chased Sun Yu and called on him to surrender.
• Faji unleashed Great Vajra Heavenly Dragon, sending a golden pillar of true qi down upon Sun Yu.

Sun Yu let Faji capture him so he could reach Linghua Temple and seek a chance to free its imprisoned demonic beasts. Meanwhile, Lin Feng destroyed his clone beside the Dai Family brothers, killing two and gravely injuring Dai Haochen and the Sixteenth Young Master; the Dai Family Patriarch sent ten Shadow Guards after the culprit.

• Sun Yu decided to surrender to Faji and follow him to Linghua Temple, hoping to rescue the demonic beasts imprisoned there.
• Sun Yu pretended to repent by reciting sutras with Faji, who bound him with a yellow rope and took him toward Linghua Temple.
• Lin Feng lured the Dai Family's Innate Realm guard away, then sent a clone underground toward the four young masters while his true body fled toward the Sword Sect.
• Lin Feng's clone self-destructed, killing the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Young Masters and leaving Dai Haochen and the Sixteenth Young Master gravely injured.
• The Innate Realm guard treated the survivors and sent up a Cloud-Piercing Arrow to report the attack to the Dai Family.
• The Dai Family Patriarch ordered ten Innate Realm Shadow Guards to descend the mountain and capture the culprit.

Lin Feng traveled to the Sword Sect to visit his teacher, treat his Cold Poison, and compete for first place, while keeping out of the Dai Family’s search. In Myriad Sword City, he encountered the fallen Zheng Tiejun, who invited him to hear what had happened.

• Lin Feng flew above the clouds, spotted an old man meditating there, and quickly descended, wary of powerful hidden experts.
• Lin Feng continued toward the Sword Sect by horse, avoiding flight in case Dai Family searchers were nearby.
• Lin Feng reached Myriad Sword City and bought a box of weapon-shaped pastries to take home to the children.
• Lin Feng recognized Zheng Tiejun entering an alley in ragged clothes and asked how he had ended up that way.
• Zheng Tiejun invited Lin Feng to his place for tea so they could talk about what had happened.

Lin Feng visited Zheng Tiejun in Myriad Sword City and learned how the Dai Family had crippled him after he lost his childhood sweetheart. Lin Feng restored Zheng Tiejun’s meridians, and Zheng Tiejun gave him several medical books left by a dying physician.

• Lin Feng followed Zheng Tiejun to his shabby courtyard and listened as Zheng Tiejun recounted his failed duel, ambush, and years of hardship.
• Lin Feng examined Zheng Tiejun and recognized that his damaged meridians could be healed.
• Lin Feng cleared Zheng Tiejun’s meridians and replenished his dantian with true qi, restoring his strength and health.
• Zheng Tiejun knelt to thank Lin Feng, who helped him stand and refused his formal gratitude.
• Zheng Tiejun gave Lin Feng several medical books entrusted to him by a dying wandering physician.

Lin Feng gave Zheng Tiejun medical books and martial techniques, then traveled to Sword Sect for the martial competition. After learning Lin Feng had killed an Innate Realm Expert, Senior Brother Wu Jinlei took him up the mountain to see their master and get dinner.

• Lin Feng accepted Zheng Tiejun’s three volumes of the Divine Farmer's Hundred Herbs Scripture and invited him to join the Martial Arts Alliance, then taught him several sword techniques.
• Lin Feng gave Zheng Tiejun money and medicine instructions before leaving Myriad Sword City for Sword Sect.
• Lin Feng registered at Mayi Guard headquarters, where Wu Jinlei recognized him and asked why he had arrived alone.
• Lin Feng told Wu Jinlei that he had killed an Innate Realm Expert named Bai Xiaotian after Senior Brother Hong helped him fend off two attackers.
• Wu Jinlei called Bai Xiaotian’s death a great merit for Sword Sect and took Lin Feng up the mountain to see their master and share a meal.

Wu Jinlei brought Lin Feng to Cloud Sword Peak and explained that their injured Master faced a challenge for the Peak Lord position that could cost him the peak and his life. They reached the courtyard where Yue'e lived, and she came to the gate expecting Wu Jinlei, unaware that Lin Feng was waiting outside.

• Wu Jinlei led Lin Feng past the Mayi Guard and City Guards headquarters, urging him to help weaken the City Lord's Mansion faction at the upcoming martial arts tournament.
• Wu Jinlei explained that the Wen Family had lost influence on Cloud Sword Peak and that three rival peak-level experts would compete against their injured Master for the Peak Lord position.
• Lin Feng reassured Wu Jinlei and resolved to try treating his Master's injuries and Cold Poison.
• Wu Jinlei brought Lin Feng through Cloud Sword Peak's summit city to the courtyard where Master and Yue'e lived.
• Yue'e told Wu Jinlei to leave because she had not saved him a meal, then hurried to open the gate after he promised her a surprise.

Lin Feng reunited with Yue'e and Mr. Hong at Cloud Sword Peak, received a sword and his master's support, and recounted his recent exploits. Mr. Hong warned that the Dai Family had changed the tournament rules to target Lin Feng and urged him to consider withdrawing.

• Yue'e warmly welcomed Lin Feng, and Wu Jinlei joined them for dinner at her invitation.
• Lin Feng kowtowed to Mr. Hong, who gave him the Green Light Sword and listened as Lin Feng described how his five children were doing.
• Lin Feng recounted killing Liu Xingde and White Face, and Mr. Hong praised his strength and revealed he had prepared over a hundred martial arts for him to study.
• Mr. Hong warned Lin Feng that the Dai Family had changed the Sword Sect tournament rules to target him and advised him to withdraw if possible.

Lin Feng reunited with Mr. Hong and Yue'e, shared a meal with them, and received ten kinds of precious pills. He then examined Mr. Hong's Cold Poison, discovered that it destroyed his true qi, and reached for his teacher's calf before Mr. Hong stopped him.

• Yue'e served dinner, and Lin Feng, Mr. Hong, and Wu Jinlei ate together until Wu Jinlei left for the Mayi Guard.
• Lin Feng helped Yue'e clear the table, and Mr. Hong had her bring out ten jade boxes of pills and secret manuals for his disciple.
• Lin Feng asked to examine Mr. Hong's leg injury, and Mr. Hong agreed after Yue'e urged him to let Lin Feng try.
• Lin Feng carried Mr. Hong to the bedroom and found his leg reduced to a frost-covered bone.
• Lin Feng tested Mr. Hong's pulse and saw the Cold Poison consume his true qi, then reached to touch the injured calf.
• Mr. Hong grabbed Lin Feng's wrist and asked what he was doing.