Chapter Summaries

After waking in a slum in Fengluo City as the orphan Ye Tianqi, Luo Tian received a strange book from an old man who vanished. The book proved to be crude illustrated poses rather than a cultivation manual, and Luo Tian called out for a system.

• Luo Tian woke in a dark alley and recovered memories that he had transmigrated into the body of Ye Tianqi, an orphan in the Heavenly Star Dynasty.
• An old man told Luo Tian he had found him unconscious outside Fengluo City and offered him a secret manual.
• The old man vanished after telling Luo Tian that he would learn the truth by becoming a powerhouse.
• A beggar tried to steal the book, but Luo Tian suddenly gained strength and kicked him away.
• Luo Tian opened the book, found it contained male-female poses, and cursed the old man before summoning a system.

Luo Tian activated the Sign-In Summoning System, used his first rewards to begin cultivating, and learned a basic martial skill. After vowing to grow stronger and confront the old man who had saved him, he checked his inventory for his beginner's gift pack.

• Luo Tian activated the Sign-In Summoning System and learned that daily sign-ins granted random rewards while missions could earn summoning cards.
• Luo Tian signed in and received 1,000 low-grade spirit stones, a one-month cultivation card, and a manual for Wind-Breaking Fist.
• Luo Tian used the cultivation card and advanced from an ordinary person to the Late Body Tempering Realm.
• Luo Tian practiced Wind-Breaking Fist until he grasped the basic skill and resolved to become stronger.
• Luo Tian asked about his beginner's gift pack and learned it was in his inventory.

After learning about the Profound Heaven Continent and the danger of revealing his heaven-tier technique, Luo Tian used his reward items to rapidly strengthen himself. He ended the chapter at the middle Purple Mansion Realm and prepared to use his bronze character summoning card.

• Luo Tian inspected his beginner gift pack and learned the cultivation ranks, the continent's regions and races, and that his heaven-tier technique had to remain secret.
• Luo Tian swallowed the supreme-grade Body Tempering Pill and endured its pain as it strengthened his body and raised him to peak Body Tempering Realm.
• Luo Tian used the ten-year cultivation advancement card, rising from peak Body Tempering Realm to middle Purple Mansion Realm.
• Luo Tian checked his status panel and wondered which character his bronze summoning card would summon.

Luo Tian received an A-rank quest to establish his first faction and set out to explore Fengluo City. After learning about the city’s major powers, he decided to use a Bronze-Grade Summoning Card to find potential recruits before making plans.

• The system gave Luo Tian an A-rank quest to establish a faction, offering spirit stones and three Bronze Summoning Cards as rewards.
• Luo Tian left the slums, bought a blue-green robe at the Brocade Workshop, and went to the Drunken Immortal Restaurant.
• Luo Tian overheard diners discuss the Wang Clan, the Huang Lineage, the Heavenly Wolf Gang, and the Wang Clan patriarch’s son, the Little Tyrant of Fengluo City.
• Luo Tian explored Fengluo City and observed its martial artists, judging that the city’s cultivators were generally not especially strong.
• Luo Tian decided to use a Bronze-Grade Summoning Card to recruit someone before choosing a name and making further plans for his faction.

Luo Tian summoned the Six Sword Slaves and founded Shadow Pavilion as an intelligence-gathering and assassination organization in Fengluo City. After the Six Sword Slaves began building its operations, Luo Tian received a Mystic-Rank Marrow Cleansing Liquid through his daily sign-in.

• Luo Tian used a Bronze Summoning Card to summon Zhen Gang, Duan Shui, Luan Shen, Wang Liang, Zhuan Po, and Mie Hun, who pledged absolute loyalty to him.
• Luo Tian established Shadow Pavilion, appointed the Six Sword Slaves as hall masters, and put Zhen Gang in charge of intelligence operations in Fengluo City.
• Luo Tian gave Zhen Gang one million low-grade spirit stones and ordered the Six Sword Slaves to secure a base, open an outpost, and recruit intelligence operatives and assassins.
• The Six Sword Slaves established a temporary base, recruited operatives to watch Fengluo City's major forces, and found an abandoned courtyard to use as an outpost.
• Luo Tian designed Shadow Pavilion's unicorn emblem and its four assassin ranks, then signed in to receive Mystic-Rank Marrow Cleansing Liquid.

Luo Tian drank Jade Spirit Marrow-Cleansing Liquid and cultivated the Spirit-Devouring Great Art, advancing to the mid Sea Transformation Realm. He used a Silver Summoning Card to summon Lü Baichuan, a peak Yin-Yang Realm fighter who pledged his loyalty and agreed to protect him.

• Luo Tian drank the Jade Spirit Marrow-Cleansing Liquid and endured the painful process of cultivating the Spirit-Devouring Great Art.
• Luo Tian condensed three Qi vortices, greatly increased his Spiritual Qi absorption, and advanced to the mid Sea Transformation Realm.
• Luo Tian tested his Wind-Breaking Fist, then asked the system about his unawakened special physique.
• Luo Tian combined three Bronze Summoning Cards into a Silver Summoning Card and used it to summon Lü Baichuan.
• The system identified Lü Baichuan as a loyal character with peak Yin-Yang Realm cultivation and hidden weapons, and Luo Tian ordered him to protect him and call him Young Master outside.

Luo Tian sent the Six Sword Slaves and recruited assassins to destroy the Heavenly Wolf Gang and make the Shadow Pavilion known in Fengluo City. They killed Xiong Tian despite his warning that the Ghost King Sect backed his gang, and the Shadow Pavilion took over the gang’s holdings.

• Zhen Gang reported that the Heavenly Wolf Gang was a suitable first target, and Luo Tian accepted a mission to make the Shadow Pavilion’s name known throughout Fengluo City.
• Luo Tian ordered the Six Sword Slaves to attack the gang while keeping Lü Baichuan’s strength hidden, then sent Lü Baichuan to search the slums for an old man.
• The Six Sword Slaves infiltrated the Heavenly Wolf Gang headquarters and confronted its leader, Xiong Tian, in his bedroom.
• Xiong Tian revealed that the Ghost King Sect backed his gang, but Zhen Gang dismissed the threat and killed him.
• Shadow Pavilion assassins killed the gang members who resisted and seized the Heavenly Wolf Gang’s holdings in Fengluo City.

After the Heavenly Wolf Gang was destroyed, the Shadow Pavilion claimed its businesses and warned Fengluo City’s powers not to interfere. Luo Tian received a new martial skill and cultivated Bone-Dissolving Soft Palm to minor mastery.

• Wang Li and the Huang patriarch’s elders discussed the Heavenly Wolf Gang’s destruction but could not identify the force behind it.
• City Lord Liu Qi worried about the destruction and decided to report it to Heavenly Star City.
• The Shadow Pavilion announced that the Heavenly Wolf Gang’s businesses belonged to it and threatened anyone who tried to take them.
• Luo Tian received a Silver Summoning Card and the Bone-Dissolving Soft Palm manual, then used his daily sign-in to obtain a bottle of Indestructible Vajra Pills.
• Luo Tian studied Bone-Dissolving Soft Palm in the secret chamber and attained minor mastery several days later.

Luo Tian tested his newly learned Bone-Dissolving Soft Palm on Wang Zhan after the Wang Clan’s young master tried to drive him and Lü Baichuan from a restaurant. The delayed palm strike killed Wang Zhan, and the Wang Clan began investigating the attackers.

• Wang Zhan arrived at the Drunken Immortal Restaurant and demanded that Luo Tian and Lü Baichuan leave the second floor.
• Luo Tian used the Bone-Dissolving Soft Palm to send Wang Zhan and his guards flying, then left with Lü Baichuan.
• Wang Li scolded Wang Zhan and ordered an investigation into the two men, fearing they might be connected to Shadow Pavilion.
• At Shadow Pavilion’s base, Luo Tian waited as the delayed palm strike took effect and killed Wang Zhan.
• Wang Li ordered the elders to investigate Luo Tian and Lü Baichuan and circulate their portraits through the underground black market.

The Wang Clan posted a lucrative black-market bounty to identify the killers of Wang Zhan, while Luo Tian strengthened the Shadow Pavilion and prepared to investigate the black market. He and Lü Baichuan set out for the market in disguise.

• The Wang Clan offered an upper-grade Yellow-tier martial technique and 500,000 low-grade spirit stones for information about Wang Zhan’s two killers, and brokers traced one suspect to a clothing shop.
• Zhen Gang reported the Heavenly Wolf Gang’s captured wealth and resources to Luo Tian, who ordered them added to the Shadow Pavilion and gave the pavilion another three million low-grade spirit stones.
• Zhen Gang told Luo Tian that the Wang Clan was investigating him and that the underground black market was said to belong to the Heavenly Star imperial family.
• Luo Tian used his sign-in reward of 100 communication talismans and gave most of them to Zhen Gang to distribute through the Shadow Pavilion’s intelligence network.
• Luo Tian gave Lü Baichuan a communication talisman, then prepared to visit the black market with him and told him to wear a mask.

Luo Tian accepted a system mission to buy a broken sword in Fengluo City's black market and acquired it for far less than the seller’s asking price. After claiming a Gold Summoning Card and a Yin-Yang Realm Experience Card, he discussed with Lü Baichuan why they should avoid taking over the market for now.

• Luo Tian and Lü Baichuan entered Fengluo City's black market in masks, and the system gave Luo Tian a timed mission to purchase a broken sword.
• Luo Tian found the sword at a stall and learned from the system that it was a broken low Earth-grade sword with hidden energy fluctuations.
• Luo Tian bargained the old stallholder down from five million to six hundred thousand low-grade spirit stones, which Lü Baichuan paid for the sword.
• The system confirmed Luo Tian had completed the mission and awarded him a Gold Summoning Card; his daily check-in also earned him a Mid Yin-Yang Realm Experience Card.
• Luo Tian asked Lü Baichuan whether they could take over the underground black market, and Lü Baichuan advised against it because of the imperial family's backing and the risks posed by the Ghost King Sect and Heavenly Wolf Gang.

Luo Tian uncovered and cultivated the Azure Lotus Sword Art, then used a Silver Summoning Card to summon Han Tang. He appointed Han Tang an elder of the Shadow Pavilion and emerged from seclusion after half a month.

• Luo Tian unsealed the broken sword and discovered the lower earth-grade Azure Lotus Sword Art hidden inside it.
• Luo Tian practiced the sword art’s four moves for several days and gained insight into sword intent.
• Luo Tian reviewed his attributes and used a Silver Summoning Card, summoning Han Tang at the peak Yin-Yang Realm.
• Luo Tian appointed Han Tang an elder of the Shadow Pavilion and sent him to familiarize himself with the pavilion.
• After half a month, Luo Tian emerged from the secret chamber with assorted check-in rewards.

The Ghost King Sect and the Heavenly Star Dynasty learned that the Shadow Pavilion had destroyed the Heavenly Wolf Gang, prompting both powers to investigate the mysterious organization. The Ghost King Sect sent Yin Tiankui to Fengluo City to test its strength, while the emperor ordered secret guards to investigate and monitor the confrontation; Liu Ran of the Falling Rosy Clouds Sect also wondered who the Shadow Pavilion was.

• A Ghost King Sect steward reported to Qi Tianlong that the Shadow Pavilion had destroyed the sect’s subordinate Heavenly Wolf Gang.
• Yin Tiankui told Qi Tianlong that the Shadow Pavilion’s origins and Pavilion Master were unknown, and Qi Tianlong ordered him to investigate its strength in Fengluo City.
• An official informed Murong Fu that the Shadow Pavilion had appeared in Fengluo City and drawn the attention of major powers.
• Murong Fu ordered secret guards to investigate the Shadow Pavilion and the underground black market to monitor it and the Ghost King Sect.
• Liu Ran of the Falling Rosy Clouds Sect wondered who the newly risen Shadow Pavilion was.

The Ghost King Sect, led by Yin Tiankui, attacked the Shadow Pavilion in Fengluo City, while Luo Tian accepted a mission to resolve the crisis. Han Tang confronted Yin Tiankui, and their battle began before the watching factions.

• Luo Tian learned that Yin Tiankui and Ghost King Sect elders were approaching Fengluo City, then gave Zhen Gang six cultivation advancement cards and ordered Han Tang and Lü Baichuan to handle the enemy.
• Luo Tian accepted an SS-rank mission to resolve the Shadow Pavilion crisis, with a one-month deadline and summoning cards as rewards.
• Yin Tiankui arrived in Fengluo City, located the Shadow Pavilion base, and declared that his people would kill its members for destroying the Heavenly Wolf Gang.
• Luo Tian led Han Tang, Lü Baichuan, and the others outside to meet the Ghost King Sect, while Wang Li suspected Luo Tian might be the man who killed Zhan'er.
• Yin Tiankui attacked Luo Tian with Yin Wind Palm, but Han Tang blocked the blow and engaged Yin Tiankui in a sword fight.

Luo Tian and the Shadow Pavilion defeated the Ghost King Sect forces in Fengluo City. After the battle, witnesses spread word that the Shadow Pavilion’s power could change the balance across the Heavenly Star Dynasty.

• Yin Tiankui ordered his elders to attack Luo Tian, but Lü Baichuan joined the fight and battled them with the Ghost King Sect’s joint attack formation.
• Luo Tian used a Yin-Yang Realm Mid-Stage Time-Limited Card and unleashed the Azure Lotus Sword Art, breaking the elders’ formation and killing one of them.
• Lü Baichuan used the Seven Star Needles to kill the remaining Ghost King Sect elders, while the Six Sword Slaves and others killed the disciples.
• Han Tang took advantage of Yin Tiankui’s distraction and pierced his heart, killing him.
• The watching martial artists began sending reports about the Shadow Pavilion’s victory, and Luo Tian ordered the Six Sword Slaves to clean up the scene before entering the base.

After resolving the Shadow Pavilion crisis, Luo Tian recruited hundreds of operatives, strengthened his cultivation, and appointed Yan Nantian to lead the organization in the Heavenly Star Dynasty. News of the Shadow Pavilion’s defeat of Yin Tiankui reached the Ghost King Sect, where Qi Tiansi reacted with fury.

• Luo Tian ordered the Six Sword Slaves to expand his control in Fengluo City and demand half the underground black market’s annual profits.
• Luo Tian summoned three elite Net Trap leaders and 300 members, then sent them across the capital to gather intelligence and conduct assassinations.
• Luo Tian used a five-year cultivation reward to reach the mid yin-yang realm.
• Luo Tian summoned Yan Nantian, appointed him Shadow Pavilion branch master in the Heavenly Star Dynasty, and sent him to learn the organization’s operations.
• News spread that Yin Tiankui and others had died fighting the Shadow Pavilion, and Qi Tiansi smashed several tables in anger.

After the Shadow Pavilion killed the Ghost King Sect’s Fifth Elder and others in Fengluo City, Qi Tianlong convened his elders to decide how to respond. They chose to avoid an immediate confrontation and secretly hire the Blood Kill Organization to assassinate Shadow Pavilion leaders and test its strength.

• A deacon told Qi Tianlong that the Fifth Elder, several outer sect elders, and disciples had been wiped out in Fengluo City.
• Qi Tianlong learned that two peak Yin-Yang realm cultivators and the Shadow Pavilion’s mid Yin-Yang realm young master had been involved, and he summoned the elders.
• Gui Ming advised Qi Tianlong to watch the Shadow Pavilion’s movements rather than act rashly, warning that the Falling Rosy Clouds Sect and imperial family could exploit any losses.
• An elder proposed secretly hiring the Blood Kill Organization to attack the Shadow Pavilion and gauge its reserves.
• Qi Tianlong agreed to post the mission, while news of the Shadow Pavilion’s rise spread throughout the Heavenly Star Dynasty.

Luo Tian ordered the Shadow Pavilion to bring Fengluo City’s powers and black market under its control, while the First Prince agreed to the black market’s demands and arranged a test of the Pavilion’s strength. The chapter leaves Han Tang accepting a mission to assassinate the Ghost King Sect’s Grand Elder, Gui Ming.

• Luo Tian ordered the Six Sword Slaves to demand submission from Fengluo City’s powers and sent Han Tang to claim half of the black market’s profits.
• The Six Sword Slaves threatened the Wang Clan, the Huang Lineage, and the City Lord’s Manor; the clans submitted and agreed to pay sixty percent of their profits, while the officials fled to the capital.
• Han Tang demanded half the black market’s profits from its steward, Liu Gang, who contacted First Prince Murong Yi for instructions.
• Murong Yi agreed to the Shadow Pavilion’s demands and ordered Liu Gang to test its strength by requesting the assassination of Gui Ming, the Ghost King Sect’s Grand Elder.
• Han Tang accepted the assassination mission for an upper-grade profound-rank cultivation method or martial skill and eight million low-grade spirit stones, with completion required within a month.

Luo Tian considered the black market’s assassination mission against Gui Ming and planned to handle it carefully while continuing preparations against the Ghost King Sect. He summoned Ding Chunqiu, appointed him an elder of a branch pavilion, and promised to seek poisonous treasures to help him cultivate.

• Han Tang reported that the black market would share half its yearly profits and had offered an assassination commission against Gui Ming, the Ghost King Sect’s grand elder.
• Luo Tian recognized the mission as a scheme to test the Shadow Pavilion and said they would plan carefully, sending Yan Nantian if Gui Ming stayed within the sect.
• Luo Tian received a Silver-Tier Summoning Card, a Fatal Blow Blocking Card, and one million low-grade spirit stones for unifying Fengluo City, then checked in and obtained a Seven-Day Death Card.
• Luo Tian used the Silver-Tier Summoning Card and summoned Ding Chunqiu, whose poison spread through the Shadow Pavilion’s main hall.
• Luo Tian appointed Ding Chunqiu an elder of a branch pavilion and ordered the pavilion’s people to seek information about poisonous things and treasures for his cultivation.

Luo Tian reorganized the Shadow Pavilion, assigned its members new duties, and set his sights on expanding into Heavenly Star City. Disguised as an ordinary martial artist, he arrived at the capital with Ding Chunqiu.

• Luo Tian appointed Yan Nantian pavilion master in the Heavenly Star Dynasty and ordered the Shadow Pavilion to focus on intelligence and assassination.
• Jing Wuming warned that assassinating the Ghost King Sect's grand elder inside the sect would be dangerous, so Luo Tian considered stirring up conflict between the Ghost King Sect and the Falling Rosy Clouds Sect.
• Luo Tian named Ding Chunqiu, Han Tang, and Lü Baichuan Earth-grade assassins and branch elders, then gave Ding Chunqiu one million low-grade spirit stones to establish operations in the capital.
• Luo Tian told Ding Chunqiu to accompany him to Heavenly Star City while the Six Sword Slaves, Yan Nantian, Lü Baichuan, Han Tang, and the others remained behind to manage the Shadow Pavilion.
• Luo Tian and Ding Chunqiu reached Heavenly Star City's gates after several days of travel, with Luo Tian disguised as a young martial artist whose cultivation appeared to be at the middle stage of the Sea Transformation Realm.