Chapter Summaries

Fang Yu planned to steal low-grade Demon Beast meat from a major supplier and chose the Heavenly Exquisite Martial Hall as his target. After sneaking past night patrols and opening the inner storehouse, he found its stores of wealth and Demon Beast meat.

• Fang Yu decided to rob a major supplier because he needed large quantities of low-grade Demon Beast meat for cultivation.
• Fang Yu selected the Heavenly Exquisite Martial Hall, believing its warehouse held thousands of catties of meat.
• Fang Yu watched an Imperial Guard patrol pass before making his way to the martial hall at night.
• Fang Yu used his Divine Thought to avoid the hall's patrols and reached the inner storehouse.
• Fang Yu fashioned a key from silver, unlocked the storehouse, and found shelves of gold and silver alongside a large supply of Demon Beast meat.

Fang Yu robbed the Heavenly Exquisite Martial Hall’s storeroom, but the Yan Household blamed the missing goods on its keeper, Yao Liang, and claimed the loss was worth five million taels. At the ghost market, Fang Yu noticed Yan Household men searching for Yao Liang before he ran into Xiao Ji.

• Fang Yu collected more than five hundred thousand taels of gold and silver, Demon Beast meat, and everything else in the storeroom, then returned to his courtyard unseen.
• When the storeroom was found empty, Yao Liang killed the guards with him and fled the city, fearing the Yan Household would punish him.
• At a temple fair, Fang Yu read a notice claiming the stolen goods were worth five million taels and naming Yao Liang as the culprit.
• Fang Yu realized the Yan Household had inflated the theft’s value and wondered whether he had helped someone balance the books.
• At the ghost market, Fang Yu sensed three sixth-rank Yan Household men watching for Yao Liang, then spotted Xiao Ji and approached him.

Fang Yu traded with Xiao Ji for Blood-Horned Sheep meat and discovered that the Yang Household’s Heaven-Ascending Leg complemented his other techniques. After confronting Xiao Ji’s spy, Fang Yu wondered whether the Eight Great Aristocratic Clans’ Cultivation Methods were bait for harvesting cultivators, and the chapter left him questioning their safety.

• Xiao Ji gave Fang Yu a piece of Blood-Horned Sheep meat, and Fang Yu demanded meat from each of the remaining six of the Eight Great Aristocratic Clans.
• Xiao Ji told Fang Yu not to contact him again, then sent a man to follow Fang Yu and discover his identity.
• Fang Yu confronted the spy and told him to report that his name was Tang Hulu, warning Xiao Ji not to send another ordinary follower.
• Fang Yu returned to his original appearance and practiced the Yang Household’s Heaven-Ascending Leg with the Blood-Horned Sheep meat.
• Fang Yu considered whether the Eight Great Aristocratic Clans’ Cultivation Methods were bait and whether the demon martial world was another realm for harvesting cultivation pills.

Fang Yu compared eight top-tier cultivation methods and worried that their practice transformed humans into demons, then continued training while seeking to learn more about the world. At the ghost market, he received Demon Beast meat from Xiao Ji and asked where it came from, learning that Flesh Fields existed.

• Fang Yu wrote out and compared eight cultivation methods, concluding that their later stages transformed the body toward the corresponding Demon Beast.
• Fang Yu decided to build his strength while seeking more knowledge about Great Long, and he began practicing the newly unlocked Heaven-Ascending Leg.
• At the temple fair, Tang Hulu heard the storyteller recount Yao Liang’s arrest and confession about stealing the Yan Household’s silver with mountain bandits.
• Fang Yu met Xiao Ji at the ghost market and received Demon Beast meat from the remaining six Aristocratic Clans.
• Fang Yu asked where Demon Beast meat came from, and Xiao Ji revealed that it came from Flesh Fields.

Fang Yu paid Xiao Ji to arrange a visit to an ordinary meat field and learned that Northern Long’s great clans and imperial elites sent their strongest fighters to the frontier wilderness. He left the ghost market considering whether he would need to travel there to find the world’s most advanced Cultivation Methods.

• Fang Yu asked Xiao Ji what a meat field was, and Xiao Ji explained that Demon Beasts were transformed into meat fields and supplied with grain to produce meat.
• Fang Yu paid Xiao Ji to arrange a visit to an ordinary meat field within three days.
• Xiao Ji told Fang Yu that the great Aristocratic Clans’ main families were expanding into the Savage Wilderness, where martial artists fought Demon Beasts to reach Grandmaster and Supreme Grandmaster levels.
• Xiao Ji explained that Northern Long expanded to gain farmland and grain for meat fields, which supplied meat to train more high-rank martial artists.
• Fang Yu left the ghost market and considered visiting the frontier wilderness to find the strongest people and the most advanced Cultivation Methods.

Fang Yu visited a Flesh Field with Xiao Ji and discovered that Demon Beast meat was grown from living flesh fed with grain. After learning that Flesh Fields required the cores of Master-level Demon Beasts, he suspected such beasts could only be found in the Savage Wilderness.

• Xiao Ji led Fang Yu to a grain-storehouse Flesh Field after Fang Yu paid three thousand taels of silver.
• An old man escorted Fang Yu and Xiao Ji past the storehouse grain into a room containing a living mountain of meat.
• Xiao Ji cut off a piece of meat, and Fang Yu watched the Flesh Field consume grain and rapidly regrow the missing flesh.
• Fang Yu retched at the sight and later asked Xiao Ji whether Jiaolong meat was grown the same way.
• Xiao Ji explained that Flesh Fields formed when a Master-level Demon Beast's core was placed in grain, leading Fang Yu to connect them with the Savage Wilderness.

After months of secluded training, Fang Yu advanced to Fourth Grade and asked Xiao Ji how to reach the border wilderness. Xiao Ji offered to arrange a Wilderness Permit and transport with a supply convoy, and Fang Yu paid a deposit as he prepared to leave next month.

• Fang Yu trained diligently for half a year, grew accustomed to eating Demon Beast meat, and advanced the Mysterious Armor Prison-Suppressing Art and his martial cultivation to Fourth Grade.
• On the fifteenth, Fang Yu met Xiao Ji at the ghost market, where Xiao Ji showed him a map of the border wilderness and explained its kingdoms and supply networks.
• Fang Yu asked how to reach the border wilderness, and Xiao Ji described traveling alone, joining a local association or sect, enlisting, or going through a martial arts hall.
• Xiao Ji offered to arrange passage with a supply convoy and obtain a Wilderness Permit for ten thousand taels, explaining its benefits for supplies, intelligence, and official recognition.
• Fang Yu agreed to Xiao Ji's offer, paid two thousand taels as a deposit, and left expecting to receive the permit on the fifteenth of the next month.

Fang Yu advanced the Mysterious Armor Prison-Suppressing Art to Organ Training and grew a second, Mystic Armor Elephant-like heart that transformed his body. He decided to pause other methods before Organ Training until he could learn more, and planned to seek experienced cultivators at the border of the Savage Wilderness.

• Fang Yu practiced the Mysterious Armor Prison-Suppressing Art until a second heart grew beside his original one and drained his Qi and Blood.
• The Yuanchen Pearl replenished Fang Yu, whose two hearts enlarged his body to three meters before it shrank back, leaving him stronger and tougher.
• Fang Yu recognized that he had reached Master-level Organ Training and temporarily disabled his martial path tracking system because he lacked understanding of the changes.
• Fang Yu ate Demon Beast meat to nourish his new heart and worried that further Organ Training might give him organs from multiple Demon Beasts.
• Fang Yu decided to cultivate other methods only to Fourth Grade for now and planned to seek guidance from martial artists near the Savage Wilderness border.

Fang Yu received a Wilderness Permit under the name Tang Meng and prepared to travel to the border wilderness. After stocking the Yuanchen Pearl with supplies, he left for the north gate before dawn to join a shipment heading there.

• Fang Yu met Xiao Ji at the ghost market and received a Wilderness Permit, a fish tally, supply permissions, and a map under the name Tang Meng.
• Xiao Ji offered to supply Fang Yu with equipment and provisions in the wilderness, and Fang Yu said they could discuss it when he needed help.
• Fang Yu went to Long City's east market and spent half a month buying tea, food, disguising supplies, and other goods for his journey.
• Fang Yu packed his courtyard belongings into the Yuanchen Pearl, assumed Tang Meng's appearance, and headed toward the north gate before dawn.

Fang Yu traveled with the army toward the border wilderness, riding in a carriage arranged through Tang Meng’s identity and eating dried meat to store Primordial Qi. After half a month on the road, Feng Tie asked to borrow Fang Yu’s Wilderness Permit to carry excess supplies from Ning'an Prefecture in exchange for a thousand jin in meat vouchers.

• Fang Yu presented his fish tally at the north gate, and Feng Wan arranged a carriage, two laborers, and a token for him.
• Fang Yu learned that the Bing Battalion would depart after noon, then rested in the carriage until Liu Da called him to set out.
• Fang Yu traveled with the army for half a month, eating dried meat to store Primordial Qi and sometimes walking beside the carriage on rough roads.
• Feng Tie met Fang Yu on the road near Ning'an Prefecture and asked to borrow his Wilderness Permit to transport excess supplies, offering a thousand jin in meat vouchers.

Two months after setting out, Fang Yu reached Crouching Dragon Pass and entered the Savage Wilderness, where he exchanged a meat voucher, sampled Demon Beast meat, and disguised himself in local clothing. He asked an eatery server about finding a master, and the server began explaining the Savage Wilderness’s cultivation paths and factions.

• Fang Yu reached Crouching Dragon Pass with Inspector Feng’s supply convoy and received a thousand-jin meat voucher for allowing goods through under his Wilderness Permit.
• Fang Yu completed the entry formalities with Inspector Feng, then parted from him and entered the borderlands.
• Fang Yu exchanged his voucher into smaller denominations, ate spicy rabbit demon that gave him Qi and Blood to convert into Primordial Qi, and bought Savage Wilderness clothing from an eatery server.
• Fang Yu changed into the hide outfit and asked the server for recommendations on finding a master and learning skills.
• The server explained that Cultivation Methods required different Demon Beast meat and that associations and sects had distinct locations and disciple requirements; Fang Yu asked about the Eight Great Aristocratic Clans.

Fang Yu learned about the powers and Cultivation Methods of the Border Wilderness and decided to travel to the Zhao Kingdom. After revealing his cultivation and adopting the name Tang Meng, he went with Chen Shan to the Northern Long Merchant Association to find a caravan.

• Fang Yu asked Chen Shan about powers outside the Eight Kingdoms and learned that the Gu Yue Household and several small countries accepted mixed-blood martial artists.
• Fang Yu asked about the Zhao Kingdom and learned that it needed martial artists, practiced the Rooster Dance, and lay in dangerous territory.
• Fang Yu revealed that he was a Third Grade Master, causing Chen Shan to kneel before him and offer to find him a caravan to the Zhao Kingdom.
• Fang Yu gave Chen Shan a meat voucher, took the name Tang Meng, and said that he practiced the Mysterious Armor Prison-Suppressing Art.
• Chen Shan explained that the art was widely practiced and led Fang Yu into the Northern Long Merchant Association.

Fang Yu met Zhao He at the Northern Long Merchant Association and secured a place in a Zhao Kingdom caravan heading into the Border Wilderness. After agreeing to leave in three days, Fang Yu also accepted Chen Shan as a traveling companion.

• Chen Shan arranged for Fang Yu to meet Zhao He, a physician from the Zhao Kingdom’s Ministry of Revenue, at the association.
• Fang Yu demonstrated his strength by striking palms with Zhao He and forcing him back three steps.
• Fang Yu explained his background and goal of claiming wilderness land for his father, and Zhao He offered the Tang Household conquered territory and basic support from the Zhao Kingdom.
• Fang Yu agreed to travel with Zhao He’s caravan in three days and arranged a meeting place.
• Chen Shan asked to accompany Fang Yu, and Fang Yu accepted him despite warning that the journey would be dangerous.

Fang Yu joined a caravan traveling through the Savage Wilderness and began learning about its dangers and the Zhao Kingdom. During his night watch, he sensed a group of Sixth Grade pig demons charging the camp and moved to confront their leader.

• Fang Yu joined Zhao He's caravan, rode a Blood-Sweating Dragon Horse, and traveled beyond Crouching Dragon Pass into the Savage Wilderness.
• Azure Wolf Demons attacked the camp during the first night, but the guards killed them before they could cause trouble.
• Fang Yu asked Zhao He to assign him to the night watch so he could learn about the Savage Wilderness's Demon Beasts.
• Fang Yu patrolled with Zhao He and learned about the Zhao Kingdom's Masters, Grandmasters, and Demon Beast threats.
• Fang Yu sensed Sixth Grade pig demons charging from the forest and appeared before their leader to punch it.

Fang Yu killed a pack of pig demons and asked Zhao He for the Zhao Kingdom’s Rooster Dance Cultivation Method. After receiving its manual and Iron-Clawed Rooster meat, he studied the method and looked forward to meeting the King of Zhao.

• Fang Yu used his enlarged body and powerful punches and kicks to kill more than a dozen Sixth Grade pig demons attacking the camp.
• Fang Yu told Zhao He he wanted to learn the Rooster Dance, and Zhao He explained that Fang Yu would need to conquer a commandery to earn a great demon’s Qi and Blood.
• Zhao He gave Fang Yu the Rooster Dance manual and Iron-Clawed Rooster meat, explaining that the King of Zhao had created the method and annotated the manual himself.
• Fang Yu studied the Rooster Dance in his tent and gained insight from the King of Zhao’s annotations, resolving to discuss martial arts with him when they met.