Chapter Summaries

Chen Xia survived the destruction of a town by an immortal and chose to hide away, working as a Weixi Town constable while waiting for his system to grant an attribute point. After putting his first point into strength and emerging from a cave, he learned that Master Fugui’s youngest son had died.

• Chen Xia witnessed an enormous hand destroy a town and resolved to outlive the immortals by cultivating in seclusion.
• Chen Xia traveled to Weixi Town, became a constable, and carefully saved money while waiting for his first system point.
• Chen Xia allocated his point to strength and gained enough power to pulverize a pebble and punch his way out of his cave.
• Several drunken men mistook Chen Xia emerging from the earth for a corpse turning and fled to find Daoist Mu Xieyang.
• Master Fugui’s youngest son died with vacant eyes and a pale, withered body, prompting every constable in Weixi Town to investigate.

Chen Xia investigated the mysterious death of a wealthy household’s youngest son, then continued building strength and earning a reputation as an Outstanding Constable. When the court conscripted Weixi Town’s constables for war, Chen Xia was exempted and promised to look after Constable Captain’s daughter, Xu Zhen, leaving him as the town’s sole constable.

• Chen Xia and the other constables found the wealthy household’s youngest son dead, suspected an evil spirit, and failed to uncover any clues.
• The wealthy household’s master hired Daoist Mu Xieyang to investigate, while Chen Xia kept clear of dangerous matters and continued his routine of good deeds.
• Chen Xia won Outstanding Constable for the second year running and spent his second attribute point on strength, gaining enough power to crush a kitchen knife into an iron ball.
• In the third year, the court conscripted Weixi Town’s constables to fight a foreign war, but Chen Xia was exempted because he had no family or dependents and had twice been named Outstanding Constable.
• Before leaving for war, Constable Captain asked Chen Xia to care for his fifteen-year-old daughter, Xu Zhen, and left money for her upkeep.
• After autumn arrived, Chen Xia was the only constable left in Weixi Town.

Chen Xia helped Xu Zhen settle into life alone in Weixi Town while growing stronger, but a band of raiders planned to attack the town and abduct her. The raiders set out under cover of a moonless, windy night.

• Chen Xia began shopping for Xu Zhen, teaching her mathematics and physics, and helping her with daily needs.
• In the fourth year, Chen Xia's strength grew enough for him to punch deep holes in the ground.
• After a hunter was killed by bandits, Chen Xia investigated the mountains and warned Weixi Town's residents to stay alert.
• Weixi Town's blacksmith secretly told the raiders that the town was poorly defended and demanded Xu Zhen as his share.
• The raiders descended from the mountains at night to attack Weixi Town.

Chen Xia confronted the bandits raiding Weixi Town after discovering that the blacksmith had led them to Xu Zhen’s home. He effortlessly snapped the bandit chief’s bone-cleaving saber, leaving the bandits stunned.

• Chen Xia spotted lanterns approaching Weixi Town and hurried toward them.
• The blacksmith guided the bandits to Xu Zhen’s house, hoping to claim her for himself.
• Xu Zhen refused to open the door and tried to escape through the tunnel, but could not find its key.
• Chen Xia arrived and challenged the bandit chief while Xu Zhen watched anxiously from inside.
• The bandit chief swung his great saber at Chen Xia, who caught it and snapped its blade with one hand.

Chen Xia killed the bandits who attacked Xu Zhen’s home, then spent the following years growing stronger and luckier while caring for her in Weixi Town. When Xu Zhen was about to confess her feelings, a radiant light appeared and an announcement declared that an immortal master was accepting disciples.

• Chen Xia killed all the bandits, including their leader Yang Li and the blacksmith, and the mayor warned him that Yang Li’s brother Yang Gang might return to seek revenge.
• Chen Xia was promoted to captain of a one-constable force, and he taught Xu Zhen Military Boxing after she asked to learn martial arts.
• In the eleventh year, Chen Xia began adding points to luck, which brought him money, fish, and game with uncanny ease as his strength reached 10.
• Xu Zhen grew into a woman and stayed close to Chen Xia, while Chen Xia remained youthful and cared for her after she learned that her father had died.
• Xu Zhen asked Chen Xia whether anyone truly cared for her, and he answered that he did; as she began to confess her feelings, a radiant light appeared and they heard that an immortal master was accepting disciples.

Xu Zhen joined the Fuyao Immortal Sect after the Heavenly Secret Token identified her as a person of Great Emperor fortune, while Chen Xia stayed behind with a strange lifespan-burning cultivation method. Ten years later, Chen Xia had become Weixi Town’s mayor and reached Qi Refining Seventh Layer when his luck transformed the Turtle Breathing Technique into the Great Turtle Breathing Technique.

• The Fuyao Immortal Sect’s mysterious woman used the Heavenly Secret Token to identify Xu Zhen as a person of great fortune, but the token revealed that Chen Xia had no fortune and the sect refused to take him.
• Xu Zhen accepted the chance to join the sect, confessed that she loved Chen Xia, and promised to stay with him in the future before ascending as the Soaring Holy Maiden.
• The Fuyao Immortal Sect’s elder gave Chen Xia the Turtle Breathing Technique and two Foundation Establishment Pills, and Chen Xia decided to practice the lifespan-burning method.
• Over the next ten years, Chen Xia became mayor of Weixi Town, reached Qi Refining Seventh Layer, and raised his strength to 20 points and luck to 6 points.
• Chen Xia received a notification that his luck had caused him to comprehend the Turtle Breathing Technique as the Great Turtle Breathing Technique.

Chen Xia’s Turtle Breathing Technique advanced into a Nascent Soul method, while martial-world visitors continued to gather in Weixi Town hoping to become his disciples. When two groups started a fight in the street, Chen Xia tried to stop them and the chapter ended with him warning them after they rejected his leniency.

• Chen Xia discovered that the Great Turtle Breathing Technique could cultivate to Nascent Soul and improved his cultivation efficiency by twenty percent.
• Martial-world visitors settled in Weixi Town seeking to become Chen Xia’s disciples, while Chen Xia refused to teach them.
• A man in a bamboo hat questioned whether Chen Xia was truly an immortal and proposed probing him.
• Chen Xia encountered two groups threatening to fight in the street, sent a trapped little girl home, and told them to pay for the damage and stop fighting in town.
• The groups insisted that martial-world grudges had to be settled, and Chen Xia warned them that Weixi Town was not the martial world.

Chen Xia defeated two bands of martial artists with a drop of tea, then refused an invitation to become Great Song’s Imperial Preceptor despite learning the kingdom was under invasion. Back home, he was summoned to investigate a corpse killed in the same manner as one from twenty years earlier, and waited for Daoist Mu Xieyang, only to learn that Mu was dead.

• Chen Xia struck the leader of the two bands with a drop of tea, forcing them to apologize, pay compensation, and leave town.
• A man in a bamboo hat asked Chen Xia to emerge from seclusion and protect Great Song, explaining that foreign foes were invading and that the realm had few immortals.
• Chen Xia learned about the Lower Realm and the Heavenly Realm, declined the offer of the Imperial Preceptor position, and returned home.
• A resident summoned Chen Xia to investigate a corpse whose death resembled those from twenty years earlier, and Chen Xia asked for Daoist Mu Xieyang.
• After waiting several hours for Daoist Mu Xieyang, Chen Xia learned from the terrified resident that Mu was dead.

Chen Xia learned from Daoist Mu’s bloodstained note that a great snake in the mountains was raising ghosts and nearing transformation into a flood dragon. He destroyed the mountain, killed the snake before it could transform, and gained Elementary Flood Dragon Qi.

• Two men brought Daoist Mu’s hollowed corpse to Chen Xia, who found a note describing the ruined village of Head Mountain Town and the flood dragon beneath the mountains.
• Chen Xia ordered Daoist Mu’s body buried and headed into the mountains to protect Weixi Town.
• Chen Xia struck the summit with a full-strength punch, collapsing the mountain and exposing a giant snake among the rubble.
• The snake claimed it needed to devour another hundred people to become a flood dragon, but Chen Xia crushed its skull and destroyed it.
• A wisp of dark yellow Qi entered Chen Xia, and he received the notification that he had acquired Elementary Flood Dragon Qi.

After destroying a mountain range and demonstrating his power, Chen Xia withdrew from worldly affairs and slept in seclusion as Weixi Town grew into Little Jianghu. Ten years later, Yang Gang arrived and challenged the town’s identity, insisting it was still Weixi Town.

• Chen Xia used Flood Dragon Qi to destroy a mountain range and stopped a raging river as he crossed it.
• Rumors made Chen Xia famous as a mountain-destroying immortal, while more martial artists flocked to Weixi Town.
• Chen Xia resigned as mayor and entered seclusion, leaving the town without his oversight as its martial artists grew unruly and civilians fled.
• The martial artists renamed Weixi Town Little Jianghu, formed sects, and protected Chen Xia’s abandoned house from trespassers.
• After Great Song’s war with the barbarians fluctuated, Yang Gang emerged from an immortal sect and traveled toward Little Jianghu.
• Yang Gang severed the ferry landing’s walkway, demanded to see the town’s leaders, and declared that the place was Weixi Town, not Little Jianghu.

Yang Gang returned to Weixi Town to find the murderer of his younger brother, threatening the local sect leaders until they searched for the town’s former residents. He learned that the town’s former mayor was considered an immortal and had stayed there for thirty-five years, so he set out to confront him.

• Yang Gang told the four sect leaders that his brother had died in Weixi Town thirty-five years earlier and demanded they find the murderer, who had never left town.
• Yang Gang gave the sect leaders six hours to bring him useful information and killed one of them when they reported that all the original residents had moved away.
• The remaining sect leaders promised to track down the former residents, while Yang Gang asked about the current jianghu masters and dismissed most of them as ordinary mortals.
• The sect leaders revealed that a former mayor of Weixi Town was counted among two immortals and had stayed in town for thirty-five years, though he was now in seclusion.
• Yang Gang declared that he would visit the former mayor and prove whether he was a real immortal.

Chen Xia emerged from ten years of seclusion after Yang Gang threatened the three sect leaders and demanded to see him. Chen Xia went to the ferry landing and mistook Yang Gang for his dead younger brother.

• Yang Gang threatened to kill everyone connected to the three sect leaders unless Chen Xia came to him within three hours, and he shattered one leader's hand with his Sword Qi.
• Three hundred people from the sects knelt outside Chen Xia's house and woke him, explaining that Yang Gang had come to avenge his younger brother Yang Li.
• Chen Xia learned that ten years had passed and agreed to meet Yang Gang, then led the group toward the ferry landing.
• Yang Gang mocked the assembled crowd and threatened to hang their heads as bells, while the martial heroes opened a path for Chen Xia.
• Chen Xia approached Yang Gang and asked whether he was Yang Wei.

Chen Xia defeated and killed Yang Gang with a single finger, displaying power that severed the river and shattered a mountain. After learning more about Yang Gang’s immortal sect, Chen Xia left the martial heroes wondering whether its sect master was still alive.

• Chen Xia increased his strength and told Yang Gang that he had killed Yang Gang’s younger brother thirty-five years earlier.
• Yang Gang attacked with his sword, but Chen Xia stopped it with two fingers and sent him flying with a flick.
• Yang Gang used seven flying swords against Chen Xia, who destroyed the lotus-petal swords with a breath of Flood Dragon Qi and pinned the blue steel sword in the ground.
• Chen Xia gathered his strength into one finger and struck Yang Gang, splitting the river, collapsing a mountain summit, and vaporizing him.
• Chen Xia received a notification that his Elementary Flood Dragon Qi had become Intermediate Jiaolong Qi, then asked the three sect leaders about Yang Gang’s immortal sect.
• The sect leaders said Yang Gang had been the final disciple of an immortal whose sect master had entered closed-door cultivation, and Chen Xia said he sincerely hoped the immortal was dead.

Chen Xia refused to help Great Song against the invading barbarians until the eldest princess personally asked him, and a fortune notification made him agree to arrive in three days. He became Great Song’s National Preceptor and gained the blessing of 20% of the nation’s fortune.

• Chen Xia returned to his dilapidated house in Weixi Town and sent away a Constabulary expert who begged him to save Great Song from the barbarians.
• The Constabulary expert reported his failure to the eldest princess, who prepared to seek help from Chen Xia after learning that fewer martial heroes were coming to the frontier.
• The eldest princess visited Chen Xia and pleaded for him to defend Great Song, but he initially refused and dismissed her appeal.
• A fortune notification appeared after the eldest princess prepared to leave, so Chen Xia agreed to come in three days.
• The eldest princess promised to appoint Chen Xia National Preceptor, and he received the imperial family’s favor and the nation’s fortune blessing.

Chen Xia delayed his journey to the border while Tiemuwu and a Qi refiner-backed barbarian assault pushed Great Song’s defenders to the brink. As the city gates fell, Chen Xia appeared between the armies and ordered the barbarians to go crawling back.

• Chen Xia spent three days at home before setting out for the border, stopping along the way to watch a dispute between two women.
• The woman commanding the border city warned that Tiemuwu might be aided by overseas Qi refiners, while Tiemuwu’s cavalry wore down the defenders with a prolonged siege.
• Tiemuwu attacked the city with tens of thousands of cavalry, and Zuo Feiyang and the old monk fought him beneath the walls.
• A hidden Qi refiner restrained the old monk, allowing Tiemuwu to break Zuo Feiyang’s arm and gain the advantage.
• The city gates gave way, and Chen Xia appeared between the Great Song soldiers and the barbarian cavalry, telling the barbarians to go crawling back.

Chen Xia stopped a charge of three hundred thousand barbarian cavalry with a single stomp, then subdued Tiemuwu and prepared to kill him. Before he could finish, a white-robed group summoned the upper sect, and the sky darkened as Tiemuwu rose into the air amid the destruction of the ground.

• Chen Xia identified himself as Great Song’s State Preceptor and warned the barbarian cavalry to retreat.
• The cavalry leader ordered a charge, and Chen Xia’s stomp killed nearly ten thousand riders and shattered the city wall.
• Chen Xia wounded Tiemuwu with a pebble and mocked his threat to challenge him in thirty years.
• Tiemuwu insulted Chen Xia, who crushed his bones and windpipe before taking a sword to finish him.
• White-robed figures performed a rite and called for the upper sect to descend; the sky darkened as Tiemuwu rose and the nearby ground began to shatter.

Chen Xia fought the immortal possessing Tiemuwu after the summoned spirit killed the Qi cultivator and threatened to harvest the martial world's souls. Chen Xia defeated the immortal's defenses and destroyed his soul, ending both the spirit and Tiemuwu.

• The immortal possessing Tiemuwu killed the Qi cultivator who had summoned him, then vowed to harvest the souls of everyone in the martial world.
• Chen Xia dismissed the immortal's attack and revealed his strength by striking the air and shattering it.
• Chen Xia transformed a stone pillar into a flood dragon and punched through the immortal's golden barrier, sending him a thousand meters underground.
• The wounded immortal warned Chen Xia about powerful beings in the myriad worlds, then offered to take him there in exchange for helping harvest souls.
• Chen Xia rejected the immortal's offer and threats, then punched through his head and destroyed the immortal's soul.

Chen Xia gained Invincible Intent and a cultivation method after defeating the upper-realm immortal, then killed the remaining Qi refiners and became Great Song’s celebrated Imperial Preceptor. As he traveled toward the capital, he told Song Qian that he would never appear in history books.

• Chen Xia gained three traces of Invincible Intent and volume one of the Mystic Primordial Dao Chapters after defeating the upper-realm immortal.
• Chen Xia sent the barbarian cavalry away and killed all fifty-six overseas Qi refiners outside the border city.
• Great Song reclaimed lost territory, and its people’s adoration raised Chen Xia’s Flood Dragon Qi to 50/100.
• The emperor ordered officials to memorize Chen Xia’s portrait, kneel to him, and prepare the capital for his arrival.
• Song Qian asked Chen Xia what he thought of Great Song, and he said that he could serve other dynasties and would never appear in history books.

Chen Xia traveled to the capital while reflecting on his strength and his former life as a constable. He arrived at morning court asleep in his sedan chair, and Emperor Song Wei greeted him by calling him his adoptive father.

• Song Qian accepted that Chen Xia could become a State Preceptor in another dynasty, then withdrew from his carriage.
• Chen Xia estimated that he would need roughly 1,000 to 1,200 strength to match the immense being who had destroyed a city, and recalled his days in Weixi Town.
• Officials and the emperor spent the night preparing for Chen Xia’s arrival, while Song Qian told Song Wei the State Preceptor would arrive soon.
• Chen Xia slept through his procession entering the capital, so guards carried his sedan chair into the court hall.
• Song Wei respectfully asked for an audience, and Chen Xia emerged from the sedan chair and joked that he might be the emperor’s father.
• Song Wei called Chen Xia his adoptive father, leaving the court officials silent.

Chen Xia attended Great Song’s morning court as its National Preceptor and the emperor’s foster father, then learned from Nine Thousand Years about the powerful immortal secluded in an immortal sect. The chapter left Chen Xia confident that he could face the immortal, calling himself a star destroyer.

• Song Wei seated Chen Xia beside the dragon throne and held morning court with him, while the officials hailed Chen Xia as the National Preceptor.
• Chen Xia grew bored during court, left for a stroll, and found a towering statue made in his likeness.
• Chen Xia met Nine Thousand Years by the palace wall and asked about the immortal secluded in the immortal sect.
• Nine Thousand Years recounted the immortal’s past feats and warned that he might emerge stronger after a century of death seclusion.
• Nine Thousand Years proposed exploiting the immortal’s vulnerable seclusion, but Chen Xia dismissed him as unqualified and declared, “I’m a star destroyer.”