Chapter Summaries

Zhou Muzhi explored the Zhong Family’s collection with Zhong Li, gaining Deduction Points and finding a broken halberd suited to deducing his Fourth Qi. After Zhou Muzhi left with the weapon, Zhong Li dismissed the Qian Family’s renewed offer and reflected on his past as a martial artist.

• Zhou Muzhi touched the Zhong Family’s collectibles as Zhong Li explained their histories, and he gained Deduction Points from several pieces, including an object from a temple beyond the Northern Frontier Beyond the Pass.
• Zhou Muzhi found that a broken halberd offered deduction paths for the Purple-Winged Two Modes Halberd or Yin Qi, and he asked Zhong Li to give it to him.
• Zhong Li gave Zhou Muzhi the broken weapon, and Zhou Muzhi promised to send him a Buddha Amulet collectible in return.
• After Zhou Muzhi left the estate, the steward told Zhong Li that the Qian Family had doubled its offer, and Zhong Li instructed him to keep delaying them.
• Zhong Li recalled that he had once studied martial arts before turning to scholarship as the Literary Dao of the Song Kingdom flourished.

Zhou Muzhi told Li Jingfei he had deduced the method for gathering a fourth qi, prompting his master to recognize him as a legendary Martial Dao Celestial. He endured a painful breakthrough in his room and successfully gathered Spirit Pivot.

• Zhou Muzhi returned to the Zhou Residence and found Li Jingfei coughing and lost in thought.
• Zhou Muzhi asked Li Jingfei to stand guard while he gathered his fourth qi, then claimed he had deduced the next cultivation method himself.
• Li Jingfei recalled the legendary Primordial Martial Seeds, or Martial Dao Celestials, and agreed to guard Zhou Muzhi during the breakthrough.
• Zhou Muzhi used the broken weapon to draw out yin qi and endured its painful effects as his other three qi suppressed and tempered it.
• Zhou Muzhi completed tempering the bones of all four limbs and gathered his fourth qi, Spirit Pivot.