Chapter Summaries

Si Chen spent his days eating around Ancient Gaze City and searching for Yang Thunder while Lü Yan plotted to exploit the Ten Thousand Treasures Tower auction against him. At the auction entrance, Si Chen encountered the Flowing Cloud Sword Sect again and began wondering whether he should have killed them earlier.

• Si Chen noticed Zhao Qinghe's disciples tailing him but decided to ignore them as long as they did not interfere with his meals.
• After learning that Si Chen had asked about Yang Thunder and received a jade token, Lü Yan planned to use the upcoming auction to stir up trouble around him.
• Si Chen spent the next three days sampling food, cultivating the Yi Wood Eternal Spring Art, and asking around for information about Yang Thunder.
• Si Chen arrived at the Ten Thousand Treasures Tower auction and ran into Lü Yan, Zhao Qinghe, and the Flowing Cloud Sword Sect party.
• After recalling their repeated harassment, Si Chen wondered whether killing the sect members outside the city would have spared him this trouble.

Si Chen attended an auction and bought a soul-nourishing mushroom for his mother, Ye Fu, while Lü Yan deliberately drove up its price. When Lü Yan bid on a crimson sun fruit, Si Chen turned the tactic back on him, leaving Lü Yan furious as he left to find Almond Pudding.

• Si Chen ignored the Flowing Cloud Sword Sect and took a seat in the auction hall's general seating area.
• Si Chen bid ten thousand mid-grade spirit stones for a soul-nourishing mushroom after thinking it might help his mother, Ye Fu, and Lü Yan deliberately kept raising the price before conceding.
• The auction's finale was a crimson sun fruit, and Lü Yan bid against other Golden Core cultivators to buy it and improve his cultivation.
• After Lü Yan bid two hundred thousand mid-grade spirit stones for the fruit, Si Chen raised the price by only one hundred at a time, mirroring Lü Yan's earlier tactic.
• Si Chen repeated Lü Yan's words of concession, and the hammer fell on Lü Yan's three-hundred-thousand bid for the crimson sun fruit.
• Si Chen left the auction feeling less irritated and headed to enjoy Almond Pudding, while Lü Yan burned with fury.

After Si Chen humiliated Lü Yan at the auction, Lü Yan spread rumors branding him an evil cultivator to turn the city against him. Si Chen ignored the slander and decided to leave Ancient Gaze City after first dealing with the Flowing Cloud Sword Sect.

• Lü Yan left the auction furious and vowed to kill Si Chen and reclaim what he had lost.
• Steward Qian watched the aftermath and considered building ties with Si Chen if he survived Lü Yan's retaliation.
• Lü Yan secretly encouraged rumors that Si Chen drained children's vitality and practiced evil arts, and the name “Si Chen, the evil cultivator” spread through Ancient Gaze City.
• Si Chen heard people whispering about him while eating beef noodles, but remained calm and decided to leave the city.
• Si Chen finished his meal, looked toward the Flowing Cloud Sword Sect's compound, and resolved to kill before departing.

Zhao Qinghe questioned the Flowing Cloud Sword Sect’s slander of Si Chen as rumors spread through Ancient Gaze City. Si Chen arrived at the sect’s residence and declared that he had come to kill everyone there, including Lü Yan when he emerged from seclusion.

• Zhang Wan reported that rumors accused Si Chen of draining children’s life force, while Zhao Qinghe admitted the sect had attacked Si Chen first and doubted their actions.
• Si Chen walked toward the Flowing Cloud Sword Sect’s residence, drawing a crowd of curious onlookers.
• A disciple warned Zhao Qinghe that Si Chen was approaching, and Zhao Qinghe ordered the sect members to stay calm and not attack without his command.
• Si Chen knocked politely, then checked that everyone was present and said he had come to kill them.
• Si Chen confirmed that he knew Lü Yan was in seclusion and said he would kill him too once he came out.

Si Chen slaughtered the Flowing Cloud Sword Sect disciples in Ancient Gaze City, while Zhao Qinghe earned his respect with a final sword strike that wounded him. Si Chen killed Zhao Qinghe after learning the strike was called Moon Chaser, leaving the sect’s contingent wiped out.

• Zhao Qinghe ordered his disciples to form a sword formation, but Si Chen killed the square-faced disciple before they could assemble.
• Si Chen used his speed and strength to kill the Flowing Cloud Sword Sect disciples, whose spirit-artifact swords could barely harm him.
• Si Chen killed Zhang Wan, leaving Zhao Qinghe as the last disciple standing.
• Zhao Qinghe introduced himself and challenged Si Chen to receive his strongest strike, Moon Chaser, which grazed Si Chen’s neck.
• Si Chen praised Moon Chaser, killed Zhao Qinghe with a lightning strike, and remembered his name and sword technique.

Si Chen slaughtered the Flowing Cloud Sword Sect's outpost in Ancient Gaze City, then disrupted Lü Yan's breakthrough by ordering him out of seclusion. Lü Yan's attempt failed, and he emerged in a fury to confront Si Chen.

• Si Chen killed the outpost's disciples, including Zhao Qinghe, while the crowd outside expected Lü Yan to avenge them.
• Si Chen inspected a fallen sword, dismissed it, and walked toward Lü Yan's meditation chamber.
• Si Chen knocked three times and told Lü Yan to come out and stop trying to break through.
• Lü Yan lost control of his medicinal power, spat blood, and failed to break through to middle Golden Core.
• Lü Yan burst from the shattered chamber and vowed to destroy Si Chen's soul.

Si Chen fought Lü Yan through the ruins of Ancient Gaze City, evading the Golden Core cultivator’s attacks while searching for a way to strike back. He finally condensed the surrounding thunder into a spear, leaving the watching cultivators stunned as the battle reached a new stage.

• Lü Yan attacked Si Chen in a furious pursuit, and Si Chen used Thunderbolt Flash to evade his strikes through the Flowing Cloud Sword Sect’s ruined residence.
• Cultivators from across Ancient Gaze City watched as Si Chen survived Lü Yan’s attacks, while other Golden Core experts chose not to intervene.
• Lü Yan used his control over spiritual energy to restrain Si Chen and landed a sword strike, but Si Chen’s injuries healed rapidly.
• Si Chen realized he needed a ranged attack and began gathering and compressing thunder around his right hand while continuing to dodge Lü Yan.
• Si Chen summoned a spear of brilliant white thunder, and the cultivators watching the battle were left in shock.

Si Chen used his lightning spear to fight Lü Yan on equal terms, then drove the Golden Core elder into a desperate retreat with a barrage of thrown spears. As the ruins of Ancient Gaze City crumbled around them, Lü Yan could only dodge while Si Chen continued attacking.

• Si Chen formed a lightning spear and clashed with Lü Yan, matching the elder’s strength and evading his sword techniques with Thunderbolt Flash.
• Si Chen hurled the spear past Lü Yan and destroyed the top half of a tower, then immediately formed another spear.
• Si Chen repeatedly threw lightning spears while keeping Lü Yan at a distance, forcing him to dodge and fend off attacks.
• Lü Yan’s robes and hair were scorched, and the spectators watched as the fight’s offense and defense completely reversed.

Si Chen defeated Lü Yan after the elder burned his essence blood and launched a desperate assault in Ancient Gaze City. Lü Yan died beneath Si Chen’s concealed net of Thunderbolt Spears, leaving the Flowing Cloud Sword Sect’s threat hanging over the aftermath.

• Lü Yan burned his essence blood, raised his power to the threshold of middle Golden Core, and attacked Si Chen in a frenzied exchange.
• Si Chen used Thunderbolt Flash to evade Lü Yan while repeatedly forming and throwing Thunderbolt Spears across the ruins.
• Lü Yan struck Si Chen with his killing move, but Si Chen emerged from the dust with only a fading mark on his skin.
• Si Chen activated the hidden lightning threads sustaining the scattered spears, surrounding Lü Yan with twenty Thunderbolt Spears.
• The lightning spears blasted Lü Yan into a crater, and he warned Si Chen that the Flowing Cloud Sword Sect would seek revenge.
• Si Chen approached the dying Lü Yan, broke his neck, and declared that all scores were settled.

After killing Lü Yan, Si Chen left Ancient Gaze City and became the subject of widespread talk for slaying a golden core cultivator as a foundation establishment cultivator. He healed his injuries in a remote cave, found a lightning-bearing scale that might lead him to Yang Thunder, and advanced to the late stage of foundation establishment.

• The cultivators who witnessed Si Chen kill Lü Yan marveled at his strength, and the head of the Li Household and other golden core experts tried to befriend him.
• Si Chen took Lü Yan's Storage Ring, declined the golden core experts' hospitality, and flew away from Ancient Gaze City.
• News of Si Chen's feat and his destruction of the Flowing Cloud Sword Sect's outpost spread throughout the region.
• Si Chen inspected his injuries in a remote cave and used the healing pills his mother, Ye Fu, had packed to recover.
• Si Chen searched Lü Yan's Storage Ring, found a scale containing a trace of unusually pure lightning aura, and kept it as a possible lead.
• Si Chen cultivated in the cave and reached the late stage of foundation establishment.

After the Flowing Cloud Sword Sect learned that Si Chen had killed Lü Yan and its disciples, Lü Ci ordered the Night Rain Tower to assassinate him. Meanwhile, Si Chen followed a mysterious scale toward the Mountain of Ten Thousand Silences, but its signal faded and he got lost in the fog.

• Lü Ci learned that Si Chen had killed Lü Yan, Zhao Qinghe, and more than a dozen disciples, and ordered the sect to find and kill him.
• Lü Ci agreed to hire the Night Rain Tower and told the elder that the price did not matter as long as Si Chen was killed.
• Si Chen left the mountains, studied his map, and noticed that the dark scale from Lü Yan tugged toward the Mountain of Ten Thousand Silences.
• Si Chen entered the mountain range, but the scale stopped responding, so he tried searching the area himself.
• Si Chen found that fog and confusing terrain made it impossible to navigate, and he became lost.

After spending two years lost in the Mountain of Ten Thousand Silences, Si Chen found two injured demons fighting over a mysterious egg. He traded them healing pills for it, and they promised to lead him out once they had recovered.

• Si Chen followed the sounds of a battle and found the Mountain-Shaking Bear and Crimson-Eyed Giant Tiger fighting over a fiery-red egg.
• The exhausted demons accidentally sent the egg into Si Chen's arms, and he offered each of them a bottle of medicine in exchange for it.
• After the medicine healed most of their injuries, the bear and tiger treated Si Chen warmly and promised to guide him out of the mountains.
• Si Chen asked about the egg, and the bear explained that it had fallen from the sky a few days earlier.

Si Chen spent a happy month exploring the Mountain of Ten Thousand Silences with Black Mountain and Red Wind while the fiery-red egg he carried absorbed vitality. The egg hatched into a tiny bird that Si Chen named Red Bean, and he sensed a hidden aura of flame inside it.

• Black Mountain and Red Wind thanked Si Chen for healing them with pills and invited him to stay in the mountains.
• Si Chen agreed to remain, and he grew close to the two demons as they explored and gathered spiritual wild fruit together.
• As Si Chen cultivated, the fiery-red egg grew more lively, and a month later its shell cracked.
• A small red-feathered bird hatched, ate its shell, and nestled against Si Chen's finger.
• Si Chen named the bird Red Bean and sensed a faint, pure aura of flame within it.

Si Chen’s Flood Dragon Scale awakened and revealed the emergence of Dragonfall Land, a dangerous hoard tied to a Flood Dragon’s possible resurrection. He set out with Red Bean, Black Mountain, and Red Wind to investigate, hoping to find the Yang Thunder he sought.

• Si Chen grew closer to Black Mountain and Red Wind while Red Bean rapidly matured and showed unusual intelligence.
• The dark scale in Si Chen’s Storage Ring awakened, and Black Mountain and Red Wind identified it as a Flood Dragon Scale.
• Red Wind and Black Mountain explained that Flood Dragon Scales could lure the powerful to a treasure vault and slaughterhouse where a Flood Dragon might be revived.
• The Mountain of Ten Thousand Silences shook as Dragonfall Land emerged, drawing cultivators and demon beasts toward its dragon aura.
• Si Chen agreed to investigate Dragonfall Land with Red Bean, Black Mountain, and Red Wind, and the group followed the scale deeper into the mountains.

Si Chen arrived at the Heavenly Pit with Red Wind and Black Mountain, where he clashed with human cultivators and faced the vengeful Sect Master Lü Ci. The Flood Dragon Scales gathered and vanished into the pit, opening the Dragonfall Land and leaving the gathered humans and demons free to enter.

• Si Chen and the demons reached the Heavenly Pit, where humans and demons had gathered to seek the Flood Dragon's legacy.
• When a cultivator insulted Si Chen's parents, Si Chen attacked him with his Thunderbolt Spear and was recognized as the one who had killed Elder Lü.
• Lü Ci arrived and attacked Si Chen, but Red Wind and Black Mountain blocked his strike while the other demons prepared to fight; human leaders persuaded Lü Ci to stand down.
• Flood Dragon Scales held by Si Chen and others flew together, formed a Flood Dragon outline, and plunged into the Heavenly Pit.
• The barrier at the entrance vanished, and the Dragonfall Land opened.

Si Chen entered the flood dragon’s lair, where a flight-suppressing restriction sent cultivators plunging toward a deadly corrosive lake. After Red Bean saved him and he regrouped with the surviving demons, Si Chen waited on the shore for Lü Ci, preparing to return his earlier attack.

• Si Chen killed the unconscious, one-armed cultivator who had insulted his parents, then evaded Lü Ci and entered the lair with Red Bean.
• Si Chen and the other intruders fell toward a corrosive lake after discovering the entrance suppressed flight, and Red Bean transformed into a great crimson bird and caught him.
• Black Mountain, Red Wind, and other demons reached shore by using their strength and abilities, while many humans died in the lake.
• Si Chen reunited with the surviving demons on the cavern shore, where they found that flight remained impossible and a dark passage led onward.
• Si Chen stayed behind to watch for Lü Ci and formed a Thunderbolt Spear as he waited to retaliate.

Si Chen ambushed Lü Ci with a barrage of lightning spears, forcing him to fight back while trapped above the death lake. After a massive clash sent two Golden Core elders into the lake, Si Chen left for the cave with Red Bean and the demons, while Young Master Fang took an interest in him.

• Lü Ci arrived over the lake with Young Master Fang and a gray-robed elder, and the Flight-Restricting Seal left them unable to fly.
• Si Chen unleashed repeated Thunderbolt Spears at Lü Ci, keeping him suspended over the death lake and disrupting his movement.
• Si Chen combined two spears into a giant Thunderbolt Spear, which clashed with Lü Ci's Sword Qi and sent two Golden Core elders tumbling into the lake.
• Si Chen waved farewell to Lü Ci and flew into the cave on Red Bean with Black Mountain and Red Wind following.
• Lü Ci stayed behind to rescue the elders, while Young Master Fang praised Si Chen's unusual abilities and found him interesting.

Si Chen and his companions found a pool of what the cultivators believed was flood dragon blood, but the energy inside made him uneasy. After Black Mountain and Red Wind entered the pool, its power drove those soaking in it into a murderous frenzy, and the chapter ended as the two demons opened scarlet eyes.

• Si Chen entered the cave with Black Mountain and Red Wind while Lü Ci rescued his elders and called Si Chen an evil cultivator to Young Master Fang.
• Red Wind guided Si Chen through the cave’s branching passages to a vast chamber containing a pool of dark red liquid believed to be flood dragon blood.
• Si Chen sensed something wrong with the blood pool, but Black Mountain and Red Wind entered it to absorb its power.
• After about an hour, the first person to enter the pool went mad and attacked others, and more red-eyed cultivators and demons rose to join the violence.
• Si Chen dodged the attackers and saw Black Mountain and Red Wind open their eyes, now scarlet like the others.

Si Chen fought off the blood-maddened humans and demons while trying to spare Black Mountain and Red Wind, then discovered that the Yi Wood Eternal Spring Art could briefly restore Black Mountain's clarity. Lü Ci and the others arrived before Si Chen could continue, and Black Mountain turned on him again.

• Black Mountain and Red Wind rampaged through the hall, killing cultivators as the survivors fled or attacked Si Chen.
• Si Chen evaded the maddened crowd and fought back with Thunderbolt Flash and Thunderbolt Spears, but Black Mountain and Red Wind turned their attacks on him.
• Si Chen used the Yi Wood Eternal Spring Art's vitality to strike Black Mountain's forehead, briefly bringing a flicker of clarity to his eyes.
• Lü Ci slashed Si Chen's arm as he tried to help Black Mountain, interrupting the attempt and causing Black Mountain to become frenzied again.
• Lü Ci, two injured Core Formation elders, Young Master Fang, and his gray-robed guardian entered the hall as Si Chen faced them and the beasts.

Lü Ci trapped Si Chen in the great hall with its maddened creatures by collapsing the exit, hoping they would kill him. While dodging the attackers, Si Chen realized he might purify the blood pool and use it to restore their sanity.

• Lü Ci and his companions entered the hall, drawing the maddened creatures’ attacks, while the gray-robed elder recognized that the Flood Dragon blood pool could bewitch minds.
• Lü Ci decided to abandon his pursuit of Si Chen and leave him trapped with Black Mountain, Red Wind, and the other attackers.
• Si Chen tried to reach the entrance, but Black Mountain and Red Wind forced him back, and Red Bean failed to rouse Black Mountain.
• Lü Ci collapsed the rocks above the passage entrance, sealing Si Chen inside the hall as he and his companions escaped.
• Si Chen recalled that his Yi Wood Eternal Spring Art had briefly affected Black Mountain and considered purifying the blood pool to restore the creatures’ sanity.