Chapter Summaries

Lu Ze used his Extreme Dao Deduction Panel to turn his perfected Basic Swordsmanship into the incomplete Grass Character Sword Art and tested its cutting power. Jia Lie Shan then interrupted him at the Jia Lie Family training ground, mocking his swordsmanship.

• Lu Ze reviewed his poor cultivation and saw that he had accumulated the materials and Deduction Points needed to use his panel.
• Lu Ze spent all ten Deduction Points to deduce the Grass Character Sword Art, gaining the move Sword Qi into Threads.
• Lu Ze used the new technique to slice a corner from a thousand-jin black iron stone with a fine strand of Sword Qi.
• Jia Lie Shan arrived with several lackeys, mocked Lu Ze's swordsmanship, and asked whether years of practice could make it bloom.
• Lu Ze put away his sword and calmly asked Jia Lie Shan why he had come looking for him.

Lu Ze rejected Jia Lie Shan’s order to scout the dangerous southern ore vein and defeated him with a single Sword Qi strike. After returning to his room, Lu Ze considered how to strengthen himself and planned to exploit the Jia Lie Family’s attempts to test him.

• Jia Lie Shan ordered Lu Ze to lead collateral-branch disciples as vanguard scouts at the southern ore vein, calling it a test with compensation if Lu Ze died.
• Jia Lie Shan secretly attacked Lu Ze with Dou Qi, but Lu Ze’s power nullified it.
• Lu Ze cut Jia Lie Shan’s Mysterious Tier longsword in two and left a hairline wound on his neck with one Sword Qi strike.
• Lu Ze refused the scouting assignment, demanded fifty gold coins for his damaged sword, and watched Jia Lie Shan flee to report to the clan leader.
• Lu Ze returned to his room, gained one Deduction Point, and considered improving Suction Palm and finding rare materials while preparing to draw resources from the Jia Lie Family.

After Lu Ze defeated Jia Lie Shan, Jia Lie Bi tried to secure the talented youth’s loyalty with family resources. Lu Ze demanded a Grade Jia residence and a large advance, and Jia Lie Bi offered a compromise in exchange for Lu Ze killing a high-ranking Xiao Clan steward during the mine conflict.

• Jia Lie Bi reprimanded Jia Lie Shan for provoking Lu Ze and feared the family would drive the gifted youth to the Xiao Clan.
• Jia Lie Bi sent Jia Lie Shan to the South City Mine Vein and summoned Lu Ze to the council hall.
• Lu Ze pointed out that the family’s treatment of him had been unfair and said he might be useless at the mine if sent there to die.
• Jia Lie Bi offered Lu Ze a Grade Bing residence and the resource allotment Jia Lie Shan received, but Lu Ze said it was insufficient.
• Lu Ze demanded a Grade Jia residence and a thousand gold coins in advance, prompting the elders to protest.
• Jia Lie Bi agreed to the Grade Jia residence and five hundred gold coins, on the condition that Lu Ze kill a high-ranking Xiao Clan steward during the mine conflict.

Lu Ze secured an allowance and a better residence from the Jia Lie Family while planning to leave once he strengthened himself. At the storeroom, he secretly acquired mysterious heavy iron ore needed to derive Suction Palm, and confirmed its quality after returning to his courtyard.

• Lu Ze negotiated with Jia Lie Bi for doubled cultivation resources, 500 gold coins, and permission to choose a weapon worth up to 300 gold coins.
• Jia Lie Bi told Jia Lie Nu that Lu Ze would be sent to the mine, where enemies might kill him and leave his resources with the family.
• Lu Ze packed his belongings and planned to derive Suction Palm and eventually leave the Jia Lie Family.
• Jia Lie Fu escorted Lu Ze to Grade Jia Courtyard Three and warned that 20 gold coins would be deducted monthly for its upkeep.
• Lu Ze chose the Emerald Water Sword and persuaded Jia Lie Fu to let him take the mysterious heavy iron ore being used to prop up a rack.
• Lu Ze carried the hundred-jin ore back to his courtyard and found its gravity attribute and quality better than expected.

Lu Ze perfected Suction Palm with the help of Mysterious Heavy Iron Ore and planned to buy gravity-attribute Magic Cores at the Mittel Auction House. Before he could go, the Jia Lie Clan sent him to scout a dangerous abandoned mine, where he found the Rock Rats whose cores he needed.

• Lu Ze spent several months cultivating Suction Palm until it was perfected, but learned he still needed ten gravity-attribute Magic Cores to deduce the technique.
• After hearing about an auction at the Mittel Auction House, Lu Ze was ordered by Jia Lie Fu to report for duty at the South City Mine Vein.
• Jia Lie Xiong assigned Lu Ze to scout the deadly C-Class Abandoned Mine Vein with three others, but Lu Ze chose to go alone.
• Jia Lie Shan and Jia Lie Xiong sent Lu Ze into the mine, unaware that he had come seeking a rumored Mysterious Heavy Iron vein and its gravity-attribute Magic Cores.
• Lu Ze encountered more than a dozen Iron-Armored Rock Rats in the mine and prepared to test his sword against them.

Lu Ze used the Rock Rats’ magic cores to begin extrapolating [Suction Palm], but the process stalled at 50% until Xiao Ning and five Xiao Clan thugs entered the mine to kill him. After Lu Ze slaughtered them, the stolen earth-attribute origin resumed the extrapolation, which reached 99% as he looked toward Jia Lie Shan.

• Lu Ze killed sixteen Rock-Iron Armored Rock Rats with the Grass Character Sword Art and collected their gravity magic cores.
• Lu Ze absorbed the cores and began extrapolating [Suction Palm], but the process paused at 50% because it lacked energy.
• Jia Lie Shan sent Xiao Ning and five Xiao Clan thugs into the mine to kill Lu Ze, and Xiao Ning boasted that his Three-Star Dou Zhe strength would make the task easy.
• Xiao Ning attacked Lu Ze, but Lu Ze cut through Xiao Ning’s sword and killed him with the Grass Character Sword Art.
• Lu Ze killed the five fleeing Xiao Clan thugs, and the origins plundered from them resumed the extrapolation, bringing it to 99%.

Lu Ze completed the Great Wilderness Imprisoning Heaven Finger and used it to crush an Iron-Armored Earth Dragon in the mine. He emerged and told Jia Lie Shan that Xiao Ning and his five fighters were dead, then crushed Jia Lie Shan’s two Four-Star Dou Zhe subordinates with the new technique.

• Lu Ze completed his derivation of the Great Wilderness Imprisoning Heaven Finger, which allowed him to use Imprison Heaven and Earth.
• Lu Ze killed an Iron-Armored Earth Dragon with the Imprisoning Heaven Finger and replenished his Dou Qi.
• Jia Lie Shan waited outside the mine, convinced Lu Ze had died inside.
• Lu Ze emerged unharmed and told Jia Lie Shan that Xiao Ning and the five people with him were dead.
• Jia Lie Shan signaled his two Four-Star Dou Zhe subordinates to attack Lu Ze.
• Lu Ze used the Imprisoning Heaven Finger to slam both subordinates into the ground.

Lu Ze crippled Jia Lie Shan, staged the mine deaths to implicate the Xiao Clan, and went to the Mittel Auction House seeking a powerful business partner. After showing the receptionist a Tier 2 Magical Beast core, he drew Ya Fei down to meet him.

• Lu Ze crushed two four-star Dou Zhe and shattered Jia Lie Shan’s dantian, leaving him crippled before looting his money and pills.
• Lu Ze arranged the mine scene to make it look like the Xiao Clan and Jia Lie Shan’s men had killed each other, then left disguised as one of Jia Lie Shan’s confidants.
• Lu Ze traveled to Wutan City with money and magic cores and headed for the Mittel Auction House to obtain materials and approach its powerful network.
• Lu Ze showed the receptionist a Tier 2 Magical Beast core and claimed he had a steady supply of high-grade goods.
• Ya Fei came downstairs to meet Lu Ze after the receptionist hurried to fetch her.

Lu Ze negotiated a partnership with Ya Fei at the Mittel Auction House, proving his strength by cutting through a Mysterious Tier heavy sword with his sheathed blade. After receiving funds and cultivation supplies, he prepared to hunt in the Magical Beast Mountain Range for deduction points and materials.

• Ya Fei invited Lu Ze to a private chamber to discuss his Tier 2 Magic Core, but he refused to sell it and proposed a partnership instead.
• Lu Ze offered additional Magic Cores and Hemostatic Grass as proof of his ability to supply materials, and requested a high-tier Sword Embryo, a Tier 3 wind-attribute Magic Core, and essence of gengjin.
• Ya Fei questioned whether Lu Ze could afford the requested materials, so he demonstrated his sword intent by splitting a Mysterious Tier Vajra Heavy Sword with his sheathed sword.
• Ya Fei agreed to partner with Lu Ze, who left with thirty thousand gold coins and cultivation supplies while she arranged to deliver the requested high-tier goods in a month.
• Lu Ze checked his deduction requirements and decided to hunt in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, where he hoped to encounter Xiao Yi Xian and gather beasts' blood for tempering his sword.

Lu Ze advanced to Three-Star Dou Zhe and hunted magical beasts in the Magical Beast Mountain Range to earn Deduction Points. After finding the poisoned Xiao Yi Xian cornered by Wolf Head mercenaries, he killed their leader and left the confrontation unresolved.

• Lu Ze broke through to Three-Star Dou Zhe, then went to the outskirts of the Magical Beast Mountain Range to hunt for Deduction Points.
• Lu Ze killed a Green-Scaled Python but found Tier 1 beasts yielded too few points, so he headed toward the boundary of the central region.
• Lu Ze crushed the magical beasts and mercenaries in Thorny Gorge with the Great Wilderness Imprisoning Heaven Finger, gaining 42 Deduction Points.
• Lu Ze followed a strange medicinal fragrance to a cliff, where he found Xiao Yi Xian poisoned and threatened by three Wolf Head mercenaries.
• Lu Ze killed the one-eyed mercenary with a sword strike as the man reached for Xiao Yi Xian.

Lu Ze killed the remaining mercenaries and revealed that Xiao Yi Xian had a woeful poison body. He suppressed its eruption with his gravity technique and the purple-leaf half-demon grass, then offered to keep helping her if she followed him.

• Lu Ze killed the two remaining mercenaries and claimed Xiao Yi Xian and her herb as his own.
• Lu Ze told Xiao Yi Xian that she possessed a woeful poison body and warned her of its deadly eruption.
• Xiao Yi Xian's poison body erupted, and Lu Ze confined the toxins in her dantian with the Great Wilderness Imprisoning Heaven Finger.
• Lu Ze crushed the purple-leaf half-demon grass and used its essence to temporarily suppress Xiao Yi Xian's poison.
• Lu Ze offered to help Xiao Yi Xian daily and find a cure if she stayed with him, and Xiao Yi Xian asked whether he truly wanted nothing else.

Lu Ze and Xiao Yi Xian were confronted by Tie Shan, a one-star Dou Shi from the Wolf Head Mercenary Group, after he tracked them to the canyon. Lu Ze’s ambush and sword attacks failed to defeat Tie Shan, and the chapter ended as Lu Ze, having recovered some Dou Qi, thrust his sword toward Tie Shan’s face.

• Lu Ze sensed a powerful pursuer approaching and identified him as a member of the Wolf Head Mercenary Group.
• Lu Ze hid Xiao Yi Xian behind a boulder and concealed himself in the thorn forest as Tie Shan arrived.
• Tie Shan spotted the corpses, and Lu Ze ambushed him with the Great Wilderness Imprisoning Heaven Finger, but Tie Shan broke free.
• Tie Shan overpowered Lu Ze in close combat, wounding his hand and shoulder and damaging his Dou Qi reserves.
• Lu Ze dodged Tie Shan while gathering Dou Qi, then advanced and thrust the Emerald Water Sword toward Tie Shan’s face.

Lu Ze killed Tie Shan and recovered at the Myriad Medicine Pavilion, where he took over as proprietor and expanded the herb-gathering routes despite the threat of the Wolf Head Mercenary Group. Over the next half month, he trained and Xiao Yi Xian developed a Cold Poison Pill to protect him from poison during hunts.

• Lu Ze narrowly dodged Tie Shan's saber and killed him with the Grass Character Sword Art, then took his money pouch and spatial ring and escaped with Xiao Yi Xian.
• At the Myriad Medicine Pavilion, Xiao Yi Xian treated Lu Ze's wounds and thanked him for saving her; Lu Ze told her he needed her to refine medicine for him.
• Lu Ze took over part of the Myriad Medicine Pavilion and ordered Lao Li to stop paying protection money and expand the gathering routes, despite Lao Li's warning about the Wolf Head Mercenary Group.
• For half a month, Lu Ze recovered and trained by hunting magical beasts and cultivating, while Xiao Yi Xian sorted medicinal materials and prepared remedies.
• Xiao Yi Xian showed Lu Ze a Cold Poison Pill made from Purple-Leaf Companion Demon Grass and Frost Poison Python venom that could protect him from poison for an hour.

Lu Ze discovered that reaching eighty Deduction Points would let him obtain the supreme immortal art "Answer to the Beggar Under the Mulberry," while Mu Li investigated the Myriad Medicine Pavilion’s new owner. After Lu Ze returned from a successful herb-gathering trip, Poison Wolf threatened the shop and Xiao Yi Xian, and Lu Ze faced a dozen attacking mercenaries.

• Lu Ze approved Xiao Yi Xian’s pills for sale and saw that he had reached Four-Star Dou Zhe with seventy-five Deduction Points.
• Lu Ze discovered the option to deduce "Answer to the Beggar Under the Mulberry" for eighty points and resolved to earn the amount quickly.
• Mu Li examined a fragment of the Emerald Water Mirror and ordered his men to investigate the Myriad Medicine Pavilion’s new owner.
• Lu Ze protected the herb-gathering team from a Green-Scaled Python, while Xiao Yi Xian distributed Cold Poison Pills to the workers.
• Poison Wolf demanded five hundred gold coins from Lao Li and tried to seize Xiao Yi Xian, but Lu Ze stopped him and identified himself as the shop’s owner.
• Poison Wolf ordered his mercenaries to attack Lu Ze, and they rushed forward as Xiao Yi Xian warned him to be careful.

Lu Ze drove Poison Wolf and the mercenaries from the Myriad Medicine Pavilion, then used Ya Fei’s intelligence to track Mu Li’s surveillance and the Xiao Clan’s purchases. The Wolf Head Mercenary Group remained cautious while Lu Ze investigated Xiao Yan’s alchemy ingredients.

• Lu Ze subdued Poison Wolf’s mercenaries with the Great Wilderness Imprisoning Heaven Finger and broke Poison Wolf’s Fine Steel Broadsword in a clash.
• Lu Ze spared Poison Wolf and sent him back to Mu Li with a warning that Lu Ze set the rules at the Myriad Medicine Pavilion.
• Five days later, Lao Li reported that the Wolf Head Mercenary Group had not acted, while the pavilion’s business had improved.
• Ya Fei told Lu Ze that Mu Li’s Blood Wolf Squad was monitoring the pavilion and gathering information about its visitors, supplies, and discarded rubbish.
• Ya Fei reported that Xiao Yan had been buying mild supplementary herbs for Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid, and Lu Ze asked how much Purple Leaf Orchid Grass the Xiao Clan had bought.

Lu Ze made a deal with Ya Fei to loot the Wolf Head Mercenary Group, then entered the Magical Beast Mountain Range to gain experience and Deduction Points. After defeating a Greenwood Demon Ape, he deduced three divine abilities and watched Xiao Yan’s party enter the mountains, unseen even by Yao Lao.

• Lu Ze agreed to give Ya Fei thirty percent of the Wolf Head Mercenary Group’s high-grade Magic Cores and valuables in exchange for her help with the raid.
• Lu Ze told Xiao Yi Xian to remain at Myriad Medicine Pavilion while he entered the Magical Beast Mountain Range to gather Deduction Points.
• Lu Ze fought and killed a Greenwood Demon Ape, taking its Magic Core and gaining five Deduction Points.
• Lu Ze deduced Answer to the Beggar Under the Mulberry and gained Do Not Investigate Me, Drinking the Blood of the People, and Earth Shaman.
• Lu Ze concealed his presence with Do Not Investigate Me as Xiao Yan’s party passed below; Yao Lao failed to detect him.

Lu Ze returned to the Myriad Medicine Pavilion, improved his cultivation with an immortal art, and tested two divine abilities while Xiao Yi Xian reported that the Wolf Head Mercenary Group had withdrawn to its base. Using Earth Shaman, he sensed a concealed, powerful energy beneath the group’s base and wondered what Mu Li had hidden there.

• Lu Ze returned to the Myriad Medicine Pavilion, where Xiao Yi Xian said the Wolf Head Mercenary Group had pulled its people back to its base and Mu Li had stopped troubling her.
• Lu Ze entered seclusion and used Answer to the Beggar Under the Mulberry to purify his Dou Qi, restoring it to its peak and bringing him close to a breakthrough.
• Lu Ze used Drinking the Blood of the People to absorb Blood Qi and medicinal potency from discarded ingredients.
• Lu Ze used Earth Shaman to sense the earth’s veins and detected a concealed, violent energy beneath the Wolf Head Mercenary Group’s base.
• Lu Ze sensed that the hidden energy carried fire and metal attributes and wondered what treasure Mu Li had concealed underground.

Lu Ze prepared to raid the Wolf Head Mercenary Group’s treasury, but first set out to eliminate Zhao Tu, the Nine-Star Dou Zhe watching the Myriad Medicine Pavilion. He ambushed Zhao Tu in a rainy alley, where their fight began with Lu Ze wounded and driven backward.

• Lu Ze sensed a vein of crimson flame crystal copper and a drop of fire spirit marrow beneath the Wolf Head Mercenary Group’s compound, but decided to protect the Myriad Medicine Pavilion before raiding the treasure.
• Xiao Yi Xian developed a poison that could briefly disrupt a Dou Zhe’s Dou Qi circulation and made three portable smoke pellets for Lu Ze.
• Lu Ze learned Mu Li had gone to Crimson Flame Valley and resolved to kill Zhao Tu to remove the Pavilion’s watcher and mislead Mu Li about the force behind it.
• Using the Withered Mulberry Leaves concealment, Lu Ze approached Zhao Tu in a Qingshan Town alley and released a poison smoke pellet.
• Zhao Tu dodged the poison and threw poisoned needles; Lu Ze avoided them, used Knee Slash to disrupt Zhao Tu’s footing, and let the poison seep through his Dou Qi Gauze Robe.
• Zhao Tu’s Dou Qi faltered, but he charged with a poisoned short blade; Lu Ze blocked with the sheathed Emerald Water Sword and was blasted backward with a bleeding hand.

Lu Ze killed Zhao Tu in a rainy alley, then infiltrated the Wolf Head Mercenary Group’s hidden treasury beneath the Wolf God Shrine. After taking the stored treasures, he faced a chained Crimson Flame Lizard whose fury threatened to destroy the fire spirit marrow and alert the guards.

• Lu Ze used a second poison pellet and the Grass Character Sword Art to kill Zhao Tu, then plundered his blood Qi and took his belongings.
• Lu Ze concealed Zhao Tu’s body with poison, disposed of his bamboo basket, and went to the Wolf Head Mercenary Group’s compound.
• Lu Ze discovered a poison trap beneath Mu Li’s bedroom and located the real treasury beneath the Wolf God Shrine.
• Lu Ze evaded the courtyard’s Dou Qi threads, opened the hidden passage, and entered the underground treasury.
• Lu Ze collected the Magic Cores and medicinal herbs, then approached the chained Crimson Flame Lizard as it began to thrash and overheat the ore.
• Lu Ze considered how to stop the beast without detonating the ore vein or alerting the guards.

Lu Ze killed the Crimson Flame Lizard and took the fire spirit marrow, but Mu Li confronted him before he could escape. Lu Ze triggered an explosion in the ore mother and plunged into an underground river to get away, leaving Mu Li behind in the collapsing chamber.

• Lu Ze used the falling chain to stop the Crimson Flame Lizard’s fireball, then killed the beast with a compressed Great Wilderness Imprisoning Heaven Finger.
• Lu Ze took the fire spirit marrow, but Mu Li arrived and demanded to know why Lu Ze had stolen it.
• Mu Li attacked, and Lu Ze dodged his sword strike before failing to pierce his Dou Qi gauze robe with the Grass Character Sword Art.
• After Mu Li knocked him into the wall, Lu Ze detonated the crimson flame gold-copper ore mother by combining gravity law with the Crimson Flame Lizard’s fire poison.
• Lu Ze used the blast to break through the rock wall and plunged into the underground river, letting the current carry him away.