Recaps

Lu Feng used Demon Points to perfect three techniques and strengthen his Innate Primordial Qi, then spent three days practicing his new abilities. He was assigned to investigate demonic beasts killing disciples in the Fire Saber Sect’s territory and prepare to leave with four demon slayers.

• Lu Feng raised Gale Slash, Golden Bell Shield, and Cold Plum Jin to perfection, gaining a devastating attack, greater defense, and a lethal internal strike.
• Lu Feng spent his remaining Demon Points improving Innate Primordial Qi to 57%, but remained at Mid Nei Jin despite nearing a breakthrough.
• Lu Feng practiced combining his perfected techniques for three days before Xiaolian summoned him to meet Deputy Commandant Qin.
• Qin Shuang ordered Lu Feng to accompany four demon slayers to the Fire Saber Sect’s territory, investigate the deaths of more than ten disciples, and kill the demonic beasts.
• Lu Feng learned the group would depart the next morning, then Xiaolian followed him to his quarters.

Xiaolian told Lu Feng that Qin Shuang had sent him on the Fire Saber Sect mission to keep him beyond Zhao Long’s reach after Zhao An’s death. Lu Feng then raced with his companions to Nanxi City, revealing a perfected lightness skill, and the group arrived in half a day.

• Xiaolian told Lu Feng that Zhao An was dead and that Zhao Long, a Grandmaster, could not interfere in the Fire Saber Sect mission’s jurisdiction.
• Lu Feng realized Qin Shuang was protecting him and resolved to become strong enough to face Grandmasters himself.
• Zhou Si led Lu Feng, Liu Yong, Zhu Lin, and Luo Fang toward Nanxi City, while Liu Yong doubted Lu Feng could keep up.
• Lu Feng outpaced Liu Yong and the others with his perfected lightness skill, shortening the journey to half a day.
• At Nanxi City, Zhou Si introduced herself and the others, praised Lu Feng’s movement technique, and he explained that he had practiced it because he lacked other cultivation methods in Lin'an City.

Lu Feng and the others visited the Fire Saber Sect to investigate reports of demonic beasts eating people, but Sect Leader Zhu Ren denied knowing anything about the attacks. Lu Feng obtained a map of nearby beasts and proposed splitting up to search for clues.

• Zhou Si led Lu Feng, Liu Yong, Zhu Lin, and Luo Fang to the Fire Saber Sect outside Nanxi City.
• Zhu Ren welcomed the demon-slaying guards into his modest sect hall and denied that demonic beasts had killed anyone in his territory.
• Lu Feng asked Zhu Ren for a map of nearby demonic beasts, then told Zhou Si he would investigate the beasts while she stayed at the sect.
• Zhou Si offered to accompany Lu Feng, and Zhu Lin, Luo Fang, and Liu Yong agreed to the plan to divide their efforts.
• Zhu Ren gave Lu Feng a sheepskin map marked with several nearby beasts, and he arranged simple accommodations for the group.

Lu Feng and Zhou Si searched South Rear Mountain while the rest of the Demon-Slaying Bureau investigated the Fire Saber Sect. Lu Feng slaughtered demons at seven lairs, and the absence of any first-rank beasts led him to suspect someone had cleared them out or driven them away.

• Zhou Si assigned Lu Feng to scout alone, gave him a communication jade talisman, and planned to investigate the sect with Zhu Lin, Luo Fang and Liu Yong.
• Lu Feng studied a map of nine demon beast lairs and resolved to kill every demon beast in the area.
• A disciple told Zhu Ren that the Demon-Slaying Bureau had split up and that clues had been planted to implicate the ape demons; Zhu Ren ordered him to keep the sect’s people silent and wondered who had alerted the Bureau.
• Lu Feng and Zhou Si explored South Rear Mountain together, where Lu Feng killed more than a dozen unranked goat demons and then cleared six more lairs for over thirteen thousand Demon Points.
• After finding no first-rank demon beasts in any of the seven lairs, Zhou Si questioned the coincidence, and Lu Feng considered that the beasts might have left or been cleared out.

Lu Feng and Zhou Si found the ape demon lair and discovered a second-tier ape demon inside. After Lu Feng killed the guards and young ape demons, Zhou Si engaged the powerful ape demon while Lu Feng cleared the cavern, leaving their fight unresolved.

• Lu Feng and Zhou Si spent the night in a tree before continuing their search at dawn.
• Lu Feng and Zhou Si found the ape demon lair and sensed a second-tier beast inside.
• Lu Feng killed the two first-tier ape demons guarding the entrance and followed the fleeing young ape demons into the cave with Zhou Si.
• The golden-gray ape demon attacked Lu Feng and Zhou Si with sharpened hairs, and Zhou Si charged it while Lu Feng killed the young ape demons.
• Lu Feng finished clearing the young ape demons and turned to watch Zhou Si's fight with the golden-gray ape demon.

Lu Feng rescued Zhou Si from a golden-gray ape demon and revealed a perfection-level saber technique before killing it. He offered Zhou Si the demon as compensation for her injury, but she refused.

• Lu Feng killed the lesser ape demons, enraging the golden-gray ape demon and worsening Zhou Si’s disadvantage.
• The ape demon struck Zhou Si’s shoulder and sent her flying, and Lu Feng caught her and drove the beast back.
• Lu Feng used his perfection-level movement and saber techniques to evade the ape demon and steadily wound it while Zhou Si treated her injury.
• Lu Feng unleashed Gale Slash and decapitated the golden-gray ape demon, earning 10,000 Demon Points.
• Lu Feng offered Zhou Si the ape demon as compensation, but she refused to take it.

Lu Feng and Zhou Si searched South Rear Mountain again but found no first-tier demonic beasts, then returned to the Fire Saber Sect to compare findings with Zhu Lin and Luo Fang. Their investigation revealed that the sect’s violent cultivation technique could cause Qi deviation, and Lu Feng set out to inspect the room of a disciple who had recently died from it.

• Lu Feng gave Zhou Si the second-tier ape demon’s corpse and stayed on South Rear Mountain to investigate the suspicious lack of first-tier demonic beasts.
• After Zhou Si healed, she and Lu Feng searched the mountain again, found only scattered minor demons, and returned to the Fire Saber Sect.
• Zhou Si told Zhu Lin and Luo Fang about the demon nests, her fight with the ape demon, and Lu Feng killing the second-tier beast.
• Luo Fang reported that the Fire Saber Sect had over eighteen thousand disciples below Ru Jin, only eight Ming Jin disciples, and a violent cultivation technique that could cause Qi deviation without medicinal pills.
• Luo Fang revealed that a Ming Jin disciple had died from Qi deviation and been buried on the rear mountain; Lu Feng asked to inspect the disciple’s former room.
• Zhou Si arranged for Lu Feng and herself to search the room again while Luo Fang and Zhu Lin questioned ordinary disciples.

Lu Feng and Zhou Si found evidence that Zhu Qi had written the report about the Fire Saber Sect, raising suspicion that he was killed after discovering a secret. Although Liu Yong claimed the mission was complete after killing an ape demon, Lu Feng suggested there was a way to investigate the suspicious coincidences further.

• Lu Feng noticed that Luo Fang and Zhu Lin had not asked what kinds of demonic beasts had attacked people, so Zhou Si sent them to investigate while she and Lu Feng searched Zhu Qi's room.
• Lu Feng and Zhou Si found Zhu Qi's cultivation notes and recognized the handwriting as closely matching the report sent to the Demon-Slaying Bureau.
• Luo Fang, Zhu Lin, and Liu Yong returned with accounts confirming that ape demons had attacked townspeople, and Liu Yong presented a slain ape demon as evidence that the mission was complete.
• Zhou Si pointed out that the ape demons were the only creatures in the rear mountain with high-ranked members, and that they were also the only beasts attacking the town, making the evidence suspicious.
• Liu Yong argued that Zhu Qi's death had no proven connection to the attacks, but Lu Feng said there was a way to proceed.

Lu Feng spent all his Demon Points to advance Innate Primordial Qi and break through to Nei Jin Perfection. The next day, he secretly followed Fire Saber Sect disciples to a village and discovered that they brought two taels of silver to the families of deceased disciples.

• Lu Feng assigned the investigation tasks with Zhou Si, Luo Fang, Zhu Lin, and Liu Yong before returning to his room.
• Lu Feng used 32,800 Demon Points to raise Innate Primordial Qi to 89.8% and break through to Nei Jin Perfection.
• At dawn, Lu Feng followed four Fire Saber Sect disciples from a side gate instead of going straight to the villages.
• Lu Feng watched the disciples enter a village inhabited only by elderly people and visit Auntie Zhang.
• The disciples gave Auntie Zhang two taels of silver, and Lu Feng realized the sect sent that amount to the family whenever a disciple died.

Lu Feng learned that Zhang Huai had already reached Ming Jin before he died, and that the sect leader may have been involved in his death. He offered Li Ming and the other disciples an Iron Wire Fist manual in exchange for answers.

• Auntie Zhang received and took the Qi-Nourishing Pill Zhang Huai had left for her.
• Liu Xiang questioned whether Zhang Huai had truly died from qi deviation, and Li Ming revealed that Zhang Huai had secretly broken through to Ming Jin.
• Li Ming said Zhang Huai had discovered that disciples could break through by switching from the flawed Fire Flame Art to another Ming Jin art, and suspected the sect leader had arranged his death.
• Lu Feng appeared, promised not to repeat their conversation, and offered the four disciples an Iron Wire Fist manual in exchange for answers.
• Li Ming agreed to answer Lu Feng's questions.

Lu Feng investigated the Fire Saber Sect’s past and learned that Zhu Ren’s secret might be inside Fragrant Virtue Hall. He and the others entered the hall at night, where Liu Yong confronted an injured Zhu Ren outside a stone door.

• Lu Feng questioned Li Ming and learned that disciples who suffered Qi deviation while practicing the Fire Flame Art self-destructed, and that only Zhu Ren could approach Fragrant Virtue Hall.
• Li Ming and the other disciples received the Iron Wire Fist cultivation art from Lu Feng and decided to find somewhere safe to break through to Ming Jin.
• Lu Feng visited nearby villages and heard that young people joined the Fire Saber Sect to protect their families from demonic beasts.
• Zhou Si reported that Zhu Ren had acted normally, and Lu Feng told the group what he had learned about Fragrant Virtue Hall.
• Liu Yong rushed into Fragrant Virtue Hall, injured its gatekeeping disciples, and confronted Zhu Ren by a stone door as Lu Feng and the others arrived.

Zhou Si and the others entered Xiangde Hall’s secret passage to search for demonic beasts, but Zhu Ren disappeared at a fork. Lu Feng found a cave full of monkey demons and human remains, killed several demons, and turned toward the cave’s depths as footsteps approached the entrance.

• Zhu Ren opened the secret chamber and led the group down its stone steps, then vanished when the passage split.
• Zhou Si divided the group between the two paths, and Lu Feng later split from her at another fork.
• Lu Feng found a cave where monkey demons played among trees hung with human heads and heard them discuss Zhu Ren and the Demon-Slaying Bureau.
• Lu Feng killed several first-rank monkey demons while two others fled deeper into the cave.
• Footsteps sounded from the cave entrance as Lu Feng looked toward the cave’s depths.

Lu Feng killed the second-tier monkey demon in its cave after it tried to flee and attack a captive Fire Saber Sect disciple. The disciple survived, and Lu Feng turned to face him after collecting the demon’s points.

• Lu Feng killed the two first-tier monkey demons and fought the second-tier monkey demon, wounding it with Cold Plum Jin.
• Lu Feng questioned the second-tier monkey demon about Zhu Ren, but it ambushed him and fled deeper into the cave.
• Lu Feng found the demon forcing a black-and-red pill into a chained Fire Saber Sect disciple, then stopped it from biting the man.
• Lu Feng killed the second-tier monkey demon with a perfected Cold Plum Jin strike and finished it with his saber.
• Lu Feng pulled his saber from the stone pillar and turned to look at the injured Fire Saber Sect disciple.

Lu Feng rescued Gan Ping, a Ming Jin disciple imprisoned for three years, and learned that Zhu Ren received demonic beast essence blood in exchange for bringing captives to the caves. With Gan Ping as his guide, Lu Feng moved on to attack the ox demons, where the second-tier demon king had just awakened.

• Gan Ping told Lu Feng that Zhu Ren had captured him three years earlier and that the monkey demons planned to eat him after he reached Nei Jin.
• Gan Ping revealed that Zhu Ren received a drop of demonic beast essence blood whenever he delivered a Ming Jin disciple, and that eight second-tier demon kings commanded at least one or two hundred first-tier beasts in the caves.
• Gan Ping offered to guide Lu Feng through the caves and explain the demons' weaknesses, and Lu Feng accepted.
• Gan Ping described the ox demon king's strength and its vulnerable spot near its nose as they approached the ox demons' cave.
• Lu Feng entered the cave and drew the Six Harmonies Saber, alerting the first-tier ox demons and waking their king.

Lu Feng cleared the ox demon cave and then charged into a rat demon lair after finding Zhou Si badly wounded and poisoned. Zhou Si ordered Gan Ping to retrieve the heads of the two demon kings Lu Feng had slain while Lu Feng faced the swarm alone.

• Lu Feng killed the first-tier ox demons, then beheaded the second-tier ox demon king with Gale Slash.
• Gan Ping led Lu Feng toward the rat demon cave and warned him about its second-tier rat king, numerous demons, and poisonous attacks.
• Zhou Si stumbled out of the cave wounded and poisoned, and Lu Feng caught her and told her to treat her injuries.
• Lu Feng entered the rat demon cave and killed two pursuing rat demons before charging into the swarm.
• Zhou Si asked Gan Ping to retrieve the heads of the two demon kings, and he ran back to get them.

Lu Feng slaughtered the rat demons in the cave and killed their second-tier leader with a single Gale Slash. He returned with Zhou Si to the cave’s depths, where she saw the heaps of rat demon corpses.

• Zhou Si took an antidote pill and treated her poison while Lu Feng continued killing the rat demons.
• Lu Feng deflected the second-tier rat demon’s poisoned steel needles and finished off the first-tier swarm.
• The second-tier rat demon fled into a passage, but Lu Feng caught up and killed it with Gale Slash.
• Zhou Si told Lu Feng that a second-tier demon’s head could earn merit points, so they went back to retrieve it.
• Zhou Si and Lu Feng reached the depths of the cave, where she stopped at the sight of the rat demon corpses covering the floor.

Lu Feng and Zhou Si discovered that the blood was vanishing from demonic beast corpses in the cave, suggesting a hidden threat. After sending Zhou Si and Gan Ping back to investigate, Lu Feng found Zhu Lin, Luo Fang, and Liu Yong fighting four second-tier demonic beasts and rushed to help.

• Zhou Si examined the rat demon corpses and found that they had shriveled as their blood disappeared.
• Lu Feng told the injured Zhou Si to leave the cave, investigate formations or mechanisms in the Fire Saber Sect, and look for a possible entrance in Fragrant Virtue Hall.
• Gan Ping arrived with the bull demon and monkey demon heads and confirmed that their corpses had also lost all their blood.
• Lu Feng whispered instructions to Zhou Si, who took Gan Ping and the heads back toward the exit.
• Lu Feng found Zhu Lin, Luo Fang, and Liu Yong fighting a wolf demon, a pig demon, a snake demon, and a tiger demon.
• Lu Feng drew the Six Harmonies Saber and rushed into the cavern to help them.

Lu Feng rescued Zhu Lin, Luo Fang, and Liu Yong by killing four tier-two demonic beasts, then discovered their blood was being absorbed by a formation. A hidden chamber revealed Zhu Ren using the blood to reach Nei Jin Perfection, and he thanked Lu Feng for supplying the beasts’ essence blood.

• Lu Feng arrived and killed the four tier-two demonic beasts with swift saber strikes.
• Lu Feng and Zhu Lin noticed the corpses were shrinking as their blood disappeared into the stone, and Lu Feng suspected a formation was absorbing it.
• Liu Yong collected the demon heads, while Zhu Lin said she had not seen Zhu Ren since entering the branching passages.
• The cavern shook, and a collapsing wall revealed Zhu Ren meditating beside a blood-lit Bagua disc in a secret chamber.
• Zhu Ren reached Nei Jin Perfection and told Lu Feng that killing the demonic beasts had helped his cultivation rise.

Lu Feng and the others overwhelmed Zhu Ren with coordinated attacks, but when Liu Yong rushed in to claim the final blow, Zhu Ren transformed into a towering, four-armed demon. The chapter leaves Zhu Lin and Luo Fang retreating as Zhu Ren tears Liu Yong in half.

• Lu Feng, Zhu Lin, Luo Fang, and Liu Yong attacked Zhu Ren together, discovering that his dark red palms were unnaturally hard but his fighting skills were crude.
• The four fighters unleashed their strongest techniques, wounded Zhu Ren, and Lu Feng cut a deep gash into his back with Cold Plum Jin.
• Liu Yong rushed forward to deliver the final blow, but Zhu Ren admitted he had been careless and began transforming.
• Zhu Ren grew to three meters tall, sprouted two arms and a pig-like face, then seized Liu Yong and tore him in half.
• Zhu Lin and Luo Fang came to their senses and retreated from the transformed Zhu Ren.

Lu Feng and Zhu Lin learned that Zhu Ren had become a Half-Demon, and Lu Feng fought him after Zhu Ren’s transformation overwhelmed the others. As Zhu Ren prepared a powerful attack, Lu Feng used Demon Points to perfect Innate Primordial Qi and broke through to Hua Jin.

• Zhu Lin explained that Demon Transformation greatly increased an evil cultivator’s strength but consumed three years of lifespan each time.
• Zhu Ren attacked, knocking Zhu Lin and Luo Fang down while Lu Feng survived the blow with Golden Bell Shield.
• Lu Feng wounded Zhu Ren with Gale Slash, then fought him through the cavern as both sustained injuries.
• Zhu Ren began charging a powerful attack, and Lu Feng spent 10,200 Demon Points to perfect Innate Primordial Qi.
• Lu Feng broke through to Hua Jin, but Zhu Ren was already upon him.

Lu Feng survived Zhu Ren’s strongest attack after breaking through to Hua Jin, then defeated and killed the Half-Demon. He rescued Zhu Lin and Luo Fang, cleared the remaining caves, and left with them.

• Lu Feng used Hua Jin Nei Jin to withstand Zhu Ren’s blood-red attack, revealing that he had reached Hua Jin.
• Lu Feng defeated Zhu Ren with three punches and killed him with the Six Harmonies Saber, earning the Hundred Beasts Body Tempering Art and 50,000 Demon Points.
• Lu Feng gave Zhu Lin and Luo Fang healing pills and used his Nei Jin to help them recover.
• Zhu Lin and Luo Fang woke and thanked Lu Feng for saving them, and he told them Zhu Ren was dead.
• Lu Feng searched the other caves, killed two first-tier demonic beasts, and found no other Fire Saber Sect disciples.
• After Zhu Lin recovered enough to stand, the three left the cave.

Lu Feng and the injured Zhu Lin and Luo Fang escaped the unstable cave and reported Liu Yong’s death and Zhu Ren’s identity to Zhou Si. Back in his room, Lu Feng discovered the Hundred Beasts Body-Tempering Art among his rewards and learned it required demon beast essence blood to strengthen his body.

• Lu Feng supported Zhu Lin and Luo Fang out of the cave, where Fire Saber Sect disciples and Zhou Si were waiting.
• Zhou Si brought the group back to their lodgings, and Zhu Lin recounted how Zhu Ren had attacked them and Liu Yong had died.
• Luo Fang handed Zhou Si Zhu Ren’s head and Liu Yong’s body, while Zhou Si said she had taken control of the Fire Saber Sect.
• Lu Feng and Zhou Si discussed the sect’s future, the fallen disciple’s funeral, their report, and the distribution of merit.
• Lu Feng checked his system panel and learned the five levels and essence-blood requirements of the Hundred Beasts Body-Tempering Art.
• Lu Feng realized he had no demon beast essence blood to begin practicing the art.

Lu Feng evolved Innate Primordial Qi into the Five Elements Primordial Chaos Art but chose to conceal his rapid cultivation. After Gan Ping became Fire Saber Sect’s new sect master, Lu Feng and his companions headed back toward Nanxi City, where masked fighters ambushed them.

• Lu Feng spent 100,000 Demon Points to evolve Innate Primordial Qi into the Five Elements Primordial Chaos Art, then decided not to raise its progress to avoid drawing attention to his cultivation.
• Gan Ping told the Fire Saber Sect’s disciples that Zhu Ren had imprisoned him and fed disciples to demonic beasts in exchange for essence blood, turning himself into a Half-Demon.
• Zhou Si confirmed that Zhu Ren had been executed and named Gan Ping the new sect master, while Gan Ping announced that the nearby demonic beasts had been wiped out and that Zhou Si had provided two complete Ming Jin cultivation arts.
• Lu Feng, Zhou Si, Zhu Lin, and Luo Fang left the Fire Saber Sect and traveled toward Nanxi City.
• Eight masked fighters, led by a Hua Jin martial artist, blocked the road and ordered their group killed; Lu Feng drew his saber and charged the leader.

Lu Feng killed a group of masked attackers and revealed that he had reached Hua Jin, while Zhou Si identified the Zhao household as their likely employer. After returning to Su Prefecture, Lu Feng learned that Chen Hu had been injured on a mission and examined his condition.

• Lu Feng broke through to Hua Jin, killed the masked leader and the other six attackers, and obtained Nine Layered Wave Slashes.
• Zhou Si recognized a scar on the leader's palm and said the Zhao household had sent the attackers; Lu Feng concluded Zhao Long was behind the ambush.
• Zhou Si warned Lu Feng about Zhao Long's influence and the Zhao household's fighters, and Lu Feng memorized information about their connections and territory.
• The group delivered eight second-tier demonic beast heads and a Half-Demon corpse to Merit Hall, earning 43,000 merit points, which Lu Feng agreed to split evenly.
• Lu Feng returned to Su Prefecture, learned from Xiaolian that Chen Hu had been injured on a mission, and examined Chen Hu in bed.

Lu Feng learned that Chen Hu was scheduled to fight Lin Shan in a life-and-death duel and equipped him with a new saber, a Jin Burst Pill, and a Jin Origin Pill. Chen Hu accepted the help and prepared for the fight the next day, determined to survive.

• Lu Feng treated Chen Hu's injuries and urged him to transfer to his side once he became a Demon-Slaying Envoy.
• Lu Feng overheard Chen Hu's debt collector warn that Chen Hu would face Lin Shan in a life-and-death duel the next day.
• Lu Feng confronted Chen Hu, who said he was confident because he had reached Late Ming Jin while Lin Shan was only at Early Ming Jin.
• Lu Feng took Chen Hu to the Merit Hall and bought him a thousand-point saber and a Jin Burst Pill.
• Lu Feng gave Chen Hu a thousand-point Jin Origin Pill, and Chen Hu accepted it after Lu Feng insisted it could help him survive the duel.