Chapter Summaries

Lin Feng returned to Xiaohe Village with an enormous wild boar after killing two men and taking their hunting map and arrows. He sold the meat cheaply to the villagers and promised Sanbao pork, but a voice demanded that he give it away for free.

• Lin Feng killed the youth who attacked him, searched him and the middle-aged man, and took silver, a Sheepskin Map, and eight arrows.
• Lin Feng used the map to plan hunts for fierce beasts and carried the wild boar back to Xiaohe Village, where villagers praised his catch.
• Lin Feng agreed to sell wild boar meat to the villagers for ten copper coins a pound, accepting only silver.
• Lin Feng told Mother Lin he would sell some of the meat, and she supported his decision.
• Sanbao begged Lin Feng not to sell the pork, so Lin Feng promised to save some for him and provide meat at every meal.
• An unidentified voice interrupted the family’s celebration and demanded that Lin Feng give the villagers pork for free.

Lin Feng sold part of the family’s wild boar, shared a lavish meal with his family, and spent the night with Zhou Chunlan after she recovered. The next morning, he prepared to take the children to pay their respects to Mr. Hong as their teacher.

• Widow Wang demanded that the Lin Family give away pork, but Mother Lin and the villagers condemned her until she left in disgrace.
• Lin Feng sold half the wild boar to the villagers for four taels of silver, set aside meat for Mr. Hong, and stored the rest for his family.
• Mother Lin cooked a large feast, and the Lin Family ate their fill of pork and rice.
• Zhou Chunlan told Lin Feng she had recovered, and the two spent the night together while Mother Lin shut her door against the noise.
• Lin Feng practiced his fist forms the next morning as Mother Lin taught the five children etiquette for becoming disciples.
• Lin Feng gathered five cuts of pork, and the family dressed in new clothes and set out for Mr. Hong’s residence.

Lin Feng brought his family to ask Mr. Hong to teach his children, despite hearing that the old man was no longer accepting students. After seeing Yue'e and Mr. Hong's formidable status panels, Lin Feng hoped to win Mr. Hong's favor and revealed that he had mastered his father's fist technique.

• Aunt Lin warned Mother Lin that Mr. Hong had stopped taking students, but Zhou Chunlan urged the family to visit him anyway.
• Yue'e tried to turn Lin Feng's family away, but she let them into the courtyard after they offered wild boar meat for Mr. Hong.
• Mr. Hong remembered Hunter Lin's good deeds and agreed to assess the children's aptitude before deciding whether to accept them.
• Lin Feng saw that Mr. Hong had 120 Life and could not view his martial skills, while Mr. Hong asked whether Lin Feng had practiced martial arts.
• Lin Feng said he had perfected the Low-Tier Fist Technique inherited from his father, hoping to impress Mr. Hong.

Lin Feng arranged for Mr. Hong to teach his five children, cared for the injured scholar, and discussed law and governance with him. After half a month of peaceful life, Wang Shanxiong returned with his vitality recovered to twelve, and Lin Feng decided he had to strike first.

• Mr. Hong agreed to teach Lin Feng's five children reading and writing every three days, and Lin Feng carried him into the courtyard to sit in the sun.
• Lin Feng explained his views on law and governance to Mr. Hong, who was impressed and began teaching Lin Feng scholarly knowledge.
• Over the next half month, Lin Feng hunted, brought meat and pastries to Mr. Hong, and began making him a wheelchair, while saving fifteen Breakthrough Points.
• Wang Shanxiong returned to Lin Feng's home, and Lin Feng discovered that his vitality had recovered to twelve.
• Lin Feng feared Wang Shanxiong would try to kill him once fully healed, so he resolved to strike first.

Lin Feng advanced Beast Hunting Fist to the intent level and learned the Heart of the Beast intent, then planned to lure Wang Shanxiong away from their homes before killing him. Wang Shanxiong accepted Lin Feng's invitation to hunt the next day, each man believing he could kill the other.

• Wang Shanxiong hinted that he knew about Lin Feng's recent fights, and Lin Feng suspected he had inspected the robbers' homes and grown wary.
• Lin Feng perfected Mad Demon Staff Technique, then spent ten Breakthrough Points to advance Beast Hunting Fist to the intent level, gaining three vitality and the Heart of the Beast intent.
• Lin Feng ate hundreds of prawns to satisfy his breakthrough hunger and found that he could not yet activate the Heart of the Beast intent.
• Lin Feng decided to lure Wang Shanxiong into the mountains so their families would not be caught in a fight, and took braised pork to Wang Shanxiong's home to invite him hunting.
• Wang Shanxiong tested the braised pork for poison, accepted the invitation, and privately resolved to kill Lin Feng in the mountains.

Lin Feng lured Wang Shanxiong into Big Black Mountain and launched a surprise attack, but neither man could quickly defeat the other. Wang Shanxiong recovered his sight and struck Lin Feng hard, leaving Lin Feng blasted away as the fight continued in the downpour.

• Lin Feng and Wang Shanxiong set out to hunt, while each secretly prepared to kill the other.
• Lin Feng used the umbrella and a thunderclap to conceal his attack, striking Wang Shanxiong’s throat and throwing lime powder into his eyes.
• Wang Shanxiong counterattacked with Stele Breaking Hand, but Lin Feng’s hidden steel plate protected him from a fatal blow.
• Lin Feng attacked again while Wang Shanxiong was blinded, and they fought at close quarters as rain poured down.
• Wang Shanxiong rinsed his eyes with rainwater, evaded Lin Feng’s attacks, and landed a punch that blasted Lin Feng away.

Lin Feng activated the intent realm of the Heart of the Beast after Wang Shanxiong left him near death and threatened his family. He overwhelmed Wang Shanxiong, who was left broken and terrified, as Lin Feng continued attacking.

• Wang Shanxiong beat Lin Feng and threatened to take his wife and kill his mother and child.
• Lin Feng, driven by grief and fury, activated the Heart of the Beast and regained his strength.
• Lin Feng rushed Wang Shanxiong and battered him with a rapid flurry of punches.
• Wang Shanxiong's old injuries flared up, preventing him from using Internal Energy, and Lin Feng continued to fracture his body.
• Wang Shanxiong offered Lin Feng martial arts manuals and silver, but Lin Feng ignored him and broke through his Golden Bell Shield.
• Wang Shanxiong's arms were shattered, and he whimpered in terror as Lin Feng kept attacking.

Lin Feng killed Wang Shanxiong and survived his own near-fatal injuries by spending his remaining Breakthrough Points and eating dried meat. He carried Wang Shanxiong's head back toward the village and hid it in the bandit's cellar before visiting Mr. Hong for food and hoping to become his disciple.

• Lin Feng broke Wang Shanxiong's neck, confirmed he was dead, and saw that his vitality had fallen from twenty to two.
• Lin Feng used his remaining Breakthrough Points and ate a bag of dried meat, restoring enough vitality to stand and move.
• Lin Feng took Wang Shanxiong's silver and head, then planned to hide the head and visit Mr. Hong for food and a chance to learn martial arts.
• Lin Feng slipped into Wang Shanxiong's empty home, found the vegetable cellar, and lowered a torch into it to check for anything unusual.

After being injured in a fight, Lin Feng sought refuge at Mr. Hong’s home, where he received medicine and learned about martial arts realms. Mr. Hong offered to accept him as a disciple if he gained entry into the sect’s Basic Swordplay within a month.

• Lin Feng hid Wang Shanxiong's head in Wang Shanxiong's empty vegetable cellar and went to Mr. Hong’s home to avoid alarming the villagers.
• Yue'e brought Lin Feng into Mr. Hong’s house, where Mr. Hong gave him healing pills and ointment and treated the wounds on his back.
• Mr. Hong identified the techniques and condition of Lin Feng’s attacker from his injuries, then explained the Skin Refining, Muscle Refining, and Bone Refining Realms and the difference between Internal Energy and true qi.
• Lin Feng asked Mr. Hong to teach him martial arts, and Mr. Hong offered him a month to gain entry into the sect’s Basic Swordplay before accepting him as a disciple.
• Lin Feng accepted the challenge and trusted that his system would help him master the swordplay quickly.

Lin Feng ate a basin of medicinal stewed meat before Mr. Hong had Yue'e teach him Basic Swordplay, privately setting a one-month test for him to master it. After watching Yue'e demonstrate the moves once, Lin Feng claimed he had remembered them all, and Mr. Hong told him to prove it.

• Yue'e brought Lin Feng a basin of medicinal stewed meat, which he quickly finished and praised.
• Mr. Hong told Lin Feng to keep his lessons secret and set a one-month deadline to learn Basic Swordplay.
• Yue'e demonstrated all 108 moves of Basic Swordplay while Lin Feng watched.
• Lin Feng's system recorded the moves as learned after one demonstration, and he told Mr. Hong he remembered them all.
• Mr. Hong doubted Lin Feng and ordered him to demonstrate the moves with Yue'e's wooden sword.

Lin Feng flawlessly performed the Basic Swordplay after seeing it once, then amazed Mr. Hong and Yue'e by demonstrating all 360 moves of the difficult Heart Nourishing Swordplay. Mr. Hong remained suspicious but decided to observe Lin Feng over the next month before teaching him his original Yin Yang Swordplay.

• Lin Feng performed all 108 moves of the Basic Swordplay without error, astonishing Yue'e and prompting Mr. Hong to ask whether he had learned it before.
• Lin Feng denied having seen the Basic Swordplay, so Mr. Hong asked Yue'e to demonstrate the Heart Nourishing Swordplay as another test.
• Yue'e performed the 360-move Heart Nourishing Swordplay, and Lin Feng's attribute panel recorded it as a high-grade martial art he had not yet initiated.
• Lin Feng slowly performed all 360 moves with apparent mastery, further surprising Yue'e and deepening Mr. Hong's suspicions.
• Mr. Hong decided to watch Lin Feng for a month and promised himself he would teach him the Yin Yang Swordplay if he initiated the Basic Swordplay in that time.

Lin Feng learned the complete Basic Swordplay from Yue'e, impressing Mr. Hong with his ability to copy martial arts after seeing them once. After returning home, he agreed to teach Sibao Beast Hunting Fist, then planned to deliver Mr. Hong’s wheelchair and seek medicine before claiming the reward for Wang Shanxiong’s head.

• Lin Feng demonstrated the Heart Nourishing Swordplay, and Mr. Hong praised his talent before having Yue'e teach him all nine levels of Basic Swordplay.
• Lin Feng demonstrated the complete swordplay, and Mr. Hong decided to judge his talent by whether he reached its introductory stage within a month.
• Mr. Hong gave Lin Feng a set of clothes, and Lin Feng returned home and resumed making the wheelchair.
• Sibao asked Lin Feng to teach him martial arts so they could hunt together, and Lin Feng promised to teach him Beast Hunting Fist the next morning.
• Lin Feng planned to deliver the wheelchair to Mr. Hong, seek medicine for his injuries, and claim the reward for Wang Shanxiong’s head within the next few days.

Lin Feng delivered a wheelchair to Mr. Hong, took healing pills, and discovered that his Life attribute could rise beyond its previous limit while injured. He searched Wang Shanxiong's home for hidden valuables and martial arts manuals, ending when he noticed the stone table was hollow.

• Lin Feng finished the wheelchair and brought it to Mr. Hong, who was pleased and gave him three healing pills.
• Lin Feng demonstrated Basic Swordplay for Mr. Hong and passed the check without revealing that he had not practiced it.
• Lin Feng ate river prawns and found that his Life attribute had permanently increased to twenty.
• Lin Feng searched Wang Shanxiong's home and dismantled furniture and a stove but found nothing.
• Lin Feng tapped the stone table and realized its underside was hollow.

Lin Feng searched Wang Shanxiong’s house and uncovered a Golden Bell Shield manual, silver, and a precious saber. He planned to claim the reward for Wang Shanxiong’s head the next day, but woke at dawn after dreaming that he was killed and robbed.

• Lin Feng found a hidden Golden Bell Shield manual and silver beneath Wang Shanxiong’s stone table.
• Lin Feng read the manual, and his status panel recorded Golden Bell Shield as an inferior martial skill he had not started learning.
• Lin Feng discovered a precious saber hidden in the wall, then buried the manual, silver, and saber in his courtyard.
• Lin Feng planned to enter the city the next day to claim the reward and buy clothes and an iron sword.
• Lin Feng dreamed that men in black robbed and killed him, then woke at dawn.

Lin Feng spent a Breakthrough Point to initiate Golden Bell Shield, then traveled to the county town with Wang Shanxiong's head to claim the reward. After buying a Fine Steel Sword and new clothes to look the part, he entered the county yamen, where a minor official doubted he could safely leave with the silver.

• Lin Feng initiated Golden Bell Shield, raising his Vitality by one, and ate a large amount to sate his breakthrough hunger.
• Lin Feng took one hundred taels of silver and Wang Shanxiong's head and headed to the city.
• Lin Feng bought a Fine Steel Sword with a Sword Sheath and purchased new clothes and a bamboo hat.
• Lin Feng tore down Wang Shanxiong's Wanted Poster and entered the county yamen to claim the reward.
• The minor official examined Lin Feng's appearance and privately judged him a greenhorn unlikely to leave the city alive with the silver.

Lin Feng claimed the bounty for Wang Shanxiong and received silver from Steward Li, but Qian Wenshun and the Evil Wolf Gang plotted to rob him. Lin Feng realized the gang was tracking him and feared the nightmare he had anticipated was coming true.

• Adviser Qian Wenshun accepted Lin Feng’s Golden Bell Shield manual as evidence and then confirmed Wang Shanxiong’s identity through Steward Li.
• Steward Li paid Lin Feng five hundred taels and offered him hospitality, while the county yamen awarded him a two-thousand-tael bounty.
• Qian Wenshun told Lone Wolf Li Jingfeng to follow Lin Feng and rob him, claiming Lin Feng was an inexperienced poor man who had likely found Wang Shanxiong already wounded.
• Lin Feng bought jujube blossom cakes and searched the flea market for manuals as Evil Wolf Gang members began tracking him.
• Lin Feng overheard gang members asking the blacksmith about the sword and saber he had bought, and realized they had identified him.

Lin Feng learned that the Evil Wolf Gang was watching him and decided to spend his silver on a registered city residence rather than risk carrying it. With Steward Li's help, he bought a furnished courtyard, and the gang stopped following him; he then accepted Steward Li's invitation, hoping to ask about the Black Market.

• The blacksmith warned Lin Feng that members of the Evil Wolf Gang had asked about his sword purchase and explained the gang's place in Qinghe County.
• Lin Feng reasoned that he could not safely leave the city or hide indefinitely, so he decided to use his silver to buy a residence.
• Steward Li offered to help Lin Feng purchase his neighbor Old Zhang's courtyard for two thousand five hundred taels.
• Old Zhang agreed to sell Lin Feng the furnished courtyard at a discount after hearing that Lin Feng had killed the Flower Picking Bandit Wang Shanxiong.
• Lin Feng registered the ownership transfer at the county office, and the Evil Wolf Gang withdrew its watchers after learning that he had spent his silver.
• Steward Li invited Lin Feng to his home, and Lin Feng accepted so he could ask about the Black Market.

Lin Feng returned home safely and improved his family’s life through hunting while continuing to learn martial arts from Mr. Hong. When Madam Zhou and Zhou Haitao visited, they saw how much Zhou Chunlan and the children’s circumstances had changed, and Zhou Haitao challenged Lin Feng to spar.

• Lin Feng learned from Mr. Hong that the Righteous and Demonic Factions divided their territories at Big Black Mountain, and he resolved to build a strong martial arts foundation and eventually move farther from the front line.
• Madam Zhou and Zhou Haitao arrived to visit Zhou Chunlan, and Zhou Haitao scolded Lin Feng for buying new clothes while his family had supposedly been starving.
• Zhou Chunlan and Mother Lin welcomed the visitors, and the children happily greeted their grandmother and uncle.
• Madam Zhou noticed the family’s good clothes, healthy appearance, and rich meal, and Mother Lin and Zhou Chunlan explained that Lin Feng had quit drinking and earned silver by hunting.
• Zhou Haitao doubted that Lin Feng had changed so much and said he wanted to spar with his brother-in-law.

Lin Feng defeated his younger brother-in-law Zhou Haitao in a yard spar and offered to let him learn martial arts. Zhou Haitao and Madam Zhou stayed with the family, while Madam Zhou concealed that she had come to urge Zhou Chunlan to remarry and take two children.

• Lin Feng invited Zhou Haitao to spar after the family finished eating.
• Lin Feng evaded Zhou Haitao’s grabs, then threw him, tripped him, and struck him as the children cheered.
• Lin Feng pinned Zhou Haitao’s arms behind his back until Zhou Haitao admitted defeat and asked how he had become so strong.
• Zhou Haitao eagerly asked Lin Feng to teach him kung fu, and Lin Feng told him he could train alongside Lin Hu.
• Mother Lin invited Zhou Haitao to stay and learn martial arts and hunting, and Madam Zhou accepted.
• Madam Zhou hid her original plan to persuade Zhou Chunlan to remarry and let her raise two of the children.

Lin Feng raised his Six Arrow Hunter's Bow to perfection and trained the Golden Bell Shield to its sixth layer, but found he needed a Life attribute of forty to advance further. When he returned to Xiaohe Village, he found injured villagers and grieving women facing a group of iron-rod-wielding outsiders.

• Zhou Haitao escorted Madam Zhou home, then came to Lin Feng's house and asked him to teach martial arts.
• Lin Feng taught Zhou Haitao and Lin Hu the Beast Hunting Fist, and also taught Zhou Haitao the Golden Bell Shield.
• Lin Feng spent four Breakthrough Points to perfect the Six Arrow Hunter's Bow and sixteen to raise the Golden Bell Shield to the sixth layer, bringing his Life attribute to twenty-seven.
• Lin Feng discovered that he could not advance the Golden Bell Shield to major accomplishment until his Life attribute reached forty, so he decided to seek a higher-grade martial arts manual in town.
• Lin Feng tested the Golden Bell Shield by smashing a pebble, gathered shrimp, and returned to Xiaohe Village, where he saw injured men, crying women, and a group of people holding iron rods.
• Lin Feng hurried toward his home after realizing that outsiders had come to cause trouble in Xiaohe Village.