Chapter Summaries

After Black Rose died, Lin Fei gave Bai Zhan a Qi Gathering Pill and planned to destroy the Dark Night Organization to find Red Spider Lily and Datura. Bai Zhan took the pill that night and became Rongcheng’s fourth grandmaster, surpassing Bai Pojun’s record as the youngest to reach the realm.

• Bai Zhan uncovered Black Rose’s crushed remains and burned them before leaving with Lin Fei.
• Lin Fei gave Bai Zhan a Qi Gathering Pill, which Bai Zhan initially refused because he believed it was extraordinarily precious.
• Lin Fei said he had a mountain of the pills and explained that he had not questioned Black Rose about Red Spider Lily because he disliked hassle.
• Lin Fei decided to eliminate the Dark Night Organization and capture its leader, Datura, alive.
• Bai Zhan returned to the Bai family villa and swallowed the pill, becoming Rongcheng’s fourth grandmaster that night.

Lin Fei arranged for Yao Zhicheng to investigate the Dark Night Organization, then searched for a worthy Go opponent. After Bai Zhan offered to introduce him to a ninth-dan player, Lin Fei dismissed the suggestion and became interested in playing against AlphaGo.

• Lin Fei tasked Yao Zhicheng with luring the Dark Night Organization into taking an assassination contract, and Yao Zhicheng agreed to set a fifty-million bounty on himself.
• Lin Fei lamented that he could not find a Go opponent who could challenge him.
• Bai Zhan thanked Lin Fei for helping him reach the Grandmaster Realm and offered to contact ninth-dan player Li Fengchan.
• Lin Fei lost interest when Bai Zhan explained that Li Fengchan was not the world's number one player.
• Lin Fei asked about AlphaGo and said he wanted to play against it, leaving Bai Zhan to wonder whether his master had masochistic tendencies.

Lin Fei went to Western Shu University to challenge AlphaGo, but Li Fengchan demanded he prove he had ninth-dan strength first. Lin Fei began a game against Li Qingxue, and his opening move at tengen drew laughter from the Go club.

• Bai Zhan took Lin Fei to Western Shu University to challenge AlphaGo.
• Li Fengchan refused to let Lin Fei play unless he proved he had at least ninth-dan strength.
• Lin Fei challenged Li Fengchan to a game, and Li Qingxue stepped in to play him instead.
• Li Qingxue let Lin Fei take black, and he placed his first stone at tengen as club members mocked him.

Lin Fei challenged professional sixth-dan Li Qingxue to Go and opened at tengen, drawing ridicule from the club members. He left her stones room to form a great dragon, then captured them in five moves, stunning Li Qingxue and the watching players.

• Lin Fei opened at tengen against Li Qingxue and dismissed her offer to let him take the move back.
• Li Qingxue attacked and captured three of Lin Fei's stones while the club members mocked him.
• Lin Fei announced that Li Qingxue would lose in five moves, and Li Fengchan recognized that she was already doomed.
• Li Fengchan estimated that Lin Fei would need seven moves, but Lin Fei said five would be enough and invited Li Qingxue to play on.
• Lin Fei completed the five-move capture, wiping out Li Qingxue's white stones and leaving her stunned.

Lin Fei defeated Li Qingxue with a startling tengen opening, then began a serious game against Li Fengchan, the nine-dan master. After predicting Li Fengchan’s loss in fourteen moves, Lin Fei started demonstrating the sequence as the skeptical spectators watched.

• Lin Fei asked Li Fengchan whether he still wanted to play, and Li Fengchan apologized for his earlier contempt before taking a seat.
• Lin Fei opened at tengen again, and he and Li Fengchan played while the crowd struggled to follow the complex board.
• Li Fengchan spent longer calculating as the game grew difficult, while Lin Fei continued placing stones without hesitation.
• Li Fengchan chose a move after weighing three options, and Lin Fei announced that Li Fengchan had lost in fourteen moves.
• Li Fengchan asked Lin Fei to demonstrate, so Lin Fei took exactly fourteen black stones and began playing out the sequence.
• The spectators doubted Lin Fei when they saw no captures, and Lin Fei told them to watch closely.

Lin Fei crushed Li Fengchan at Go and agreed to challenge AlphaGo immediately, refusing to wait for famous players to attend. The match began in the school plaza as spectators gathered, most convinced that AlphaGo could not be beaten by a human.

• Lin Fei's move captured most of Li Fengchan's white stones, leaving the Go club stunned by his decisive victory.
• Li Fengchan silenced the crowd and asked Lin Fei whether he would challenge AlphaGo, but Lin Fei rejected the idea of waiting for Ke Jie and other top players to arrive.
• Li Fengchan arranged a live match in the school plaza, and Lin Fei went there with Bai Zhan.
• Li Qingxue placed AlphaGo's stones for the machine while Li Fengchan commentated, as students gathered and doubted Lin Fei could win.

Lin Fei played AlphaGo in a fast-paced Go match and won despite opening at tengen. He left the room convinced that AlphaGo’s computing power was limited, while the stunned observers urged him to play again.

• Lin Fei opened against AlphaGo at tengen, startling the onlookers and prompting AlphaGo to launch an attack.
• Lin Fei and AlphaGo played rapidly until AlphaGo’s thinking time increased as the board filled, baffling Li Qingxue and the spectators.
• Lin Fei called the game to an end when neither side had territory left to contest, and the result showed AlphaGo had lost by one stone: the black tengen stone.
• Li Fengchan celebrated through tears, while Li Qingxue and Bai Zhan stared at Lin Fei in shock.
• Li Qingxue asked Lin Fei to play again, but he said AlphaGo lacked sufficient computing power and estimated its calculation limit at thirty moves.

After defeating AlphaGo, Lin Fei rejected Li Qingxue’s plea to become his disciple and turned down an offer to lead the Huaxia Go Association. The next morning, Qing Fen told him that the Medicine Sect had threatened to kill him and exterminate the Ji Family unless he came to meet his death.

• Lin Fei defeated AlphaGo, then explained to Li Qingxue that her grandfather, Li Fengchan, could teach Go techniques but not his extraordinary information-processing and computational abilities.
• Lin Fei left the venue with Bai Zhan while spectators and livestream viewers discussed the match.
• Ji Yaoguang asked Lin Fei about defeating AlphaGo, and he warned that advanced artificial intelligence could bring destruction if it could not be controlled.
• Lin Fei declined the Huaxia Go Association president’s offer to join the association and succeed him as president.
• The following morning, Qing Fen told Lin Fei that Medicine Sect supreme elder Song Chengfeng demanded he come to die for Tao Qian’s blood debt or the sect would exterminate the Ji Family.

Lin Fei learned that the Medicine Sect was summoning Rongcheng’s ancient martial cultivators and planned to visit it, while Bai Zhan urged him to be cautious. When Qing Mingyu’s Thousand Spiders and Ten Thousand Poisons entered its final stage, Lin Fei set off alone for the Medicine Sect to save him.

• Lin Fei told Qing Fen he would visit the Medicine Sect, which might have the rare medicinal ingredients needed to save Qing Mingyu.
• Qing Fen warned Lin Fei that the Medicine Sect planned to intimidate Rongcheng’s ancient martial world and avenge Tao Qian.
• Bai Zhan urged Lin Fei to hide from the Medicine Sect, then assumed his master intended to rally Rongcheng’s four masters against it.
• Qing Fen reported that Qing Mingyu had begun secreting black spider silk, and Lin Fei warned that he would become a human-sized venomous spider within twenty-four hours.
• Lin Fei set off alone for the Medicine Sect and sent Bai Zhan a message, leaving Bai Zhan fearing his master was going to his death.

Bai Zhan and Bai Pojun mistakenly believed Lin Fei had gone to the Medicine Sect to sacrifice himself and gathered allies to support him. At the Medicine Sect, Lin Fei found Chen Xiangyu and Wang Long kneeling for treatment, recognized her demonic-qi affliction, and told them to get up, only for a sect disciple to reveal that Lin Fei was not one of them.

• Bai Zhan told Bai Pojun that Lin Fei had gone alone to the Medicine Sect, and Bai Pojun decided Lin Fei meant to sacrifice himself to protect Rongcheng.
• Bai Zhan and Bai Pojun resolved to contact Daoist Ye and Bai Zhan's second uncle, then gather grandmasters to support Lin Fei.
• Lin Fei arrived at the Medicine Sect and found Chen Xiangyu and Wang Long kneeling at its mountain gate after a night and half a day.
• Lin Fei recognized that demonic qi threatened Chen Xiangyu's life, dismissed the sect's waiting rule, and told the pair to get up.
• Wang Long explained that the Medicine Sect required patients to kneel for a full day and night, and he kowtowed to Lin Fei for help.
• A Medicine Sect disciple ordered Chen Xiangyu and Wang Long to leave, then revealed that Lin Fei was not from the sect.

Lin Fei offered to cure Chen Xiangyu by drawing out her demonic qi, but she distrusted him and turned to the Medicine Sect’s chief disciple, Song Huaibei. After Song Huaibei accepted her Spirit Stone as payment, Lin Fei insisted the Medicine Sect could not save her and offered to take over if it failed.

• Song Huaibei mocked Lin Fei’s offer to treat Chen Xiangyu, while Wang Long suspected Lin Fei was connected to the Wu Family and threatened him.
• Chen Xiangyu stopped Wang Long from attacking Lin Fei at the Medicine Sect’s gates and asked Song Huaibei to save her.
• Chen Xiangyu revealed a nearly flawless High-Grade Spirit Stone, and Song Huaibei eagerly took it as his consultation fee.
• Lin Fei told Chen Xiangyu that the Medicine Sect could not save her and offered to treat her himself in exchange for learning where she had found the Spirit Stone.

Lin Fei wagered that Song Huaibei would fail to treat Chen Xiangyu, and Song Huaibei collapsed after sensing the hostile force within her. Song Chengfeng then recognized it as demonic qi, failed to treat her, and Lin Fei offered to take over.

• Song Huaibei wagered that if the Medicine Sect cured Chen Xiangyu, Lin Fei would serve as a servant, while Lin Fei demanded that Song Huaibei return her spirit stones and kowtow if he lost.
• Song Huaibei examined Chen Xiangyu, suffered a terrifying backlash from the force within her, and fled to fetch Song Chengfeng.
• Song Chengfeng entered the cabin and declared he could draw out Chen Xiangyu's evil aura, then fell from his chair after sensing it.
• Song Chengfeng identified the force as demonic qi and told Chen Xiangyu there was no saving her.
• Lin Fei smiled and said he would treat Chen Xiangyu after all.

Lin Fei cured Chen Xiangyu by using the Witch Blessing Arts to expel the demonic qi, then exposed himself as the man Song Huaibei wanted revenge on. Song Chengfeng threatened to imprison and torture Lin Fei for his inheritance, and the chapter ended as he trapped everyone in the wooden house.

• Song Chengfeng and Song Huaibei mocked Lin Fei and wagered that Song Chengfeng would kneel and accept him as a master if he cured Chen Xiangyu.
• Lin Fei used emerald-green light to expel Chen Xiangyu's demonic qi, leaving Song Huaibei unconscious and the others shaken by its effect.
• Chen Xiangyu thanked Lin Fei, and Song Chengfeng recognized the technique as the legendary Witch Blessing Arts.
• Lin Fei demanded that Song Chengfeng and Song Huaibei honor their wagers, but Song Chengfeng turned hostile and asked Lin Fei's name.
• After Song Huaibei identified Lin Fei as the man who had killed Elder Tao, Song Chengfeng revealed his intent to capture him and seize his inheritance.
• Chen Xiangyu worried about Lin Fei as Wang Long tried to lead her away, but Song Chengfeng sent everything flying and warned that none of them would leave alive.

Lin Fei effortlessly resisted Song Chengfeng’s attacks and revealed powers that astonished Chen Xiangyu and Wang Long. Song Chengfeng recognized him as Wu Xian’s successor, but Lin Fei denied that he was merely Wu Xian’s successor.

• Song Chengfeng attacked Wang Long, but Lin Fei appeared between them and took the palm strike without harm.
• Song Huaibei fled to summon Sect Master Song Yufeng while Lin Fei challenged Song Chengfeng to use every move he had.
• Song Chengfeng’s poisoned needles broke against Lin Fei, so he released poisonous smoke to target Chen Xiangyu and Wang Long.
• Lin Fei remained unharmed and swept away the poison, restoring the scorched plants and ground with emerald-green light.
• Song Chengfeng recognized Lin Fei as Wu Xian’s successor, and Lin Fei replied that he had it backward.

Lin Fei faced Song Chengfeng and the Medicine Sect, who sought Wu Xian's legacy and the spirit stones, and refused to back down. As the sect prepared to attack, Rongcheng's ancient martial arts families arrived to support Lin Fei and await his command.

• Song Huaibei returned with the Medicine Sect's elders and disciples, while Song Chengfeng learned that sect master Song Yufeng remained in secluded cultivation.
• Lin Fei offered the Medicine Sect's members a chance to withdraw, but Song Chengfeng accused him of possessing Wu Xian's legacy and stirred up the sect's greed.
• Elder Liu urged the Medicine Sect to spare Lin Fei, but Song Chengfeng silenced him and declared he would seize the legacy for the sect.
• Chen Xiangyu rebuked Song Chengfeng for taking her spirit stones and twisting the truth, as Song Chengfeng called on four elders to join him in the Five Elements Combined Attack Art.
• As the Medicine Sect prepared to kill Lin Fei and seize the treasures, Rongcheng's families and Qingcheng Daoist Sect arrived to support him and await his command.

The Medicine Sect activated the Bloodthirsty Spirit-Sealing Formation against Lin Fei and Rongcheng’s ancient martial artists, sealing their true qi and draining their blood. Lin Fei remained unaffected and calmly told everyone not to panic.

• Song Chengfeng announced that he would wipe out Rongcheng’s ancient martial arts community, while Elder Liu questioned the slaughter.
• Lin Fei identified the Bloodthirsty Spirit-Sealing Formation and revealed that the Medicine Sect’s founder, Suxuzi, had created it.
• Song Chengfeng activated the formation with an ink-jade token, sealing the cultivation of Rongcheng’s martial artists and Grandmasters.
• Lin Fei explained that Heart-Imprinting Grass protected the Medicine Sect’s members from the formation.
• The formation began drawing blood from Rongcheng’s people, who pleaded with Lin Fei for help.
• Lin Fei surveyed the Medicine Sect’s members and told everyone, “Nothing major, don't panic.”

Lin Fei healed Rongcheng's ancient martial artists after Song Chengfeng revealed his plan to sacrifice them for a breakthrough. He then killed Song Chengfeng with a single slap, leaving the Medicine Sect and the survivors stunned.

• Song Chengfeng admitted he had lured Rongcheng's ancient martial artists into the Bloodthirsty Spirit-Sealing Formation to seize their life sources and pursue the Great Grandmaster Realm.
• Lin Fei used Eight Gates Injury Healing to restore the wounded martial artists and reveal his Shennong Clan inheritance.
• Song Chengfeng ordered the Medicine Sect members to subdue Lin Fei and seize his inheritances, then attacked him with Dispel Clouds and Sever the Sky.
• Lin Fei slapped Song Chengfeng out of the air, shattering his Protective Gang Qi and killing him.

Lin Fei massacred the Medicine Sect members responsible for Song Chengfeng’s cruelty, spared those who had opposed him, and went to confront the sect master. After seeing Lin Fei’s memories, Song Yufeng recognized the power behind him and knelt to beg forgiveness.

• Tao Yingwu and the Medicine Sect members knelt before Lin Fei, who killed more than half of them and spared the survivors who had resisted Song Chengfeng’s cruelty.
• Lin Fei crushed the red-glowing black jade token, dispelling the formation and blood mist over Spirit Coffin Peak, then gave the Spirit Stone to Chen Xiangyu.
• Lin Fei ordered Elder Liu to lead him to the sect master, while the Rongcheng martial artists decided to wait for him.
• Lin Fei entered Song Yufeng’s cave abode and showed him the events at the Medicine Sect with spiritual light.
• Song Yufeng recognized Suxuzi and the Shennong Clan in Lin Fei’s memories, realized who Lin Fei was, and knelt to ask forgiveness.

Lin Fei spared Song Yufeng and the Medicine Sect members who had retained their kindness, while ordering them to devote themselves to healing others. He took the sect’s spirit herbs but left Song Yufeng with pills and the Shennong Medical Classic, warning him not to flaunt the inheritance.

• Lin Fei spared Song Yufeng and the Medicine Sect members who had not committed evil, but warned Song Yufeng that further wrongdoing would doom the sect.
• Song Yufeng led Lin Fei to Plain Questions Valley and offered him its medicinal ingredients.
• Lin Fei used his spatial ring to collect the spirit herbs and gave Song Yufeng two bottles containing ten High-Grade Foundation Establishment Pills.
• Lin Fei passed the Shennong Medical Classic to Song Yufeng, who knelt and thanked him.
• Lin Fei warned Song Yufeng not to flaunt the Medicine Sect’s powerful inheritance.

After defeating the Medicine Sect, Lin Fei declined to lead Rongcheng's ancient martial arts community and stayed behind to help Chen Xiangyu and meet Zhang Xiaoling. He gave Chen Xiangyu a life-extension method and spirit herbs, then asked Zhang Xiaoling if he remembered him, calling him Zhang Daoling.

• Lin Fei told Rongcheng's ancient martial artists to disperse and declined Bai Pojun's request to lead them.
• Lin Fei asked Ye Qiu about Zhang Xiaoling and then asked Chen Xiangyu where she had found the Spirit Stone and demonic qi.
• Chen Xiangyu explained that the Chen Family had sought a Blood Magnolia in Black Bamboo Valley, where the Wu Family had lured them into danger.
• Lin Fei taught Chen Xiangyu the Seven-Star Life-Extension Method and added her on WeChat, then gave her spirit herbs he said he had taken from Plain Questions Valley.
• Chen Xiangyu left after inviting Lin Fei to visit Jinling, and Lin Fei asked Zhang Xiaoling if he remembered him before calling him Zhang Daoling.