Chapter Summaries

Si Ming mocked Wei Mengchen during Earth Emperor University's gathering, then learned the Martial Dao League's seeded-team draw would be decided by a mountain search. While exploring campus, he met a gifted painter whose strength led Si Ming to suspect he practiced Super Martial Dao, leaving him eager for a more interesting competition.

• Si Ming teased Wei Mengchen by claiming he was more beautiful than Duke Wei, derailing the host's prepared speech and amusing the crowd.
• Wei Mengchen explained that representatives would search the mountain for numbered tags to determine their competition brackets, then announced lodging and a party.
• Si Jingyu handled the arrangements while Si Ming wandered Earth Emperor University and found a student painting a maid in a bamboo grove.
• Si Ming and the painter initially connected over art and maids, but fell out over whether a maid should be flat or voluptuous.
• Si Ming told Si Jingyu that the painter seemed stronger than Wei Mengchen and might cultivate Super Martial Dao, and said the tournament now seemed more interesting.

During the number-tag test at Earth Emperor University's rear mountain, Si Ming and Si Jingyu were challenged by contestants from other universities. Si Jingyu effortlessly dispelled Meng Meng’s staff attack, while he prepared to use his ultimate move against her.

• Si Ming and Si Jingyu discussed whether bloodline abilities might come from Super Martial Dao research, then decided to investigate and focus on the evening test.
• The representatives entered the rear mountain to search for seven glowing number tags, and Si Ming found the tag marked nine in a nearby tree.
• Jin Fengjing of Heavenly Black University attacked Si Ming to take his tag, while Meng Meng blocked Si Jingyu from intervening.
• Si Jingyu brushed aside Meng Meng’s staff shadows with a turn of her fan and revealed an overwhelming presence.
• Meng Meng steadied himself and unleashed his ultimate move, “Heaven Spins, Earth Shatters!”

Si Jingyu defeated Meng Meng while Si Ming outmaneuvered Jin Fengjing, ending the fight between the teams from Linked Mountains University and Heavenly Black University. After learning about Heavenly Black University’s stronger members, Si Ming and Si Jingyu considered what to do next with their numbered tag secured.

• Si Jingyu deflected Meng Meng’s attacks and sent him flying with a palm strike.
• Si Ming evaded Jin Fengjing’s rapid attacks, then used her predictable ultimate move to throw her into the air.
• Meng Meng stopped Jin Fengjing from continuing the fight, and the two asked Si Ming and Si Jingyu for their names.
• Si Ming introduced himself as “Mad Ink,” while Si Jingyu declined to give her name and explained she was not competing in the Martial Dao League.
• Meng Meng led Jin Fengjing away to find another numbered tag, and Si Jingyu told Si Ming that Heavenly Black University’s strongest members were Dong Hanwen and Xiang Donglai.
• Si Ming examined the numbered tag they had obtained and asked Si Jingyu what they should do next.

Si Jingyu confronted a coalition of contestants who had gathered to plan an ambush against Linked Mountains University. She overwhelmed them with her Spirit Transformation-level skill and left them reeling.

• Si Ming and Si Jingyu agreed to conceal themselves on the mountain and take numbered plaques from contestants they encountered.
• Tong Zhantang handed his plaque to Bai Xiangyu and stayed behind to hold off pursuers, but Si Jingyu soon intercepted Bai Xiangyu and took the plaque.
• Bai Xiangyu and contestants from three other teams gathered to plan how to reclaim plaques from Linked Mountains University.
• The contestants began plotting an ambush when Si Jingyu appeared and announced that she had come to eliminate them.
• Si Jingyu dodged their attacks and struck the group with Fuxi Phoenix Comes, then redirected Bai Xiangyu's Surging Waves Palm into another contestant.

Si Jingyu defeated the contestants who attacked her, including Tong Zhantang, Chu Yunlong, Li Yunfei, and Bai Xiangyu’s group, while protecting Wei Mengchen. After Li Yunfei mistook her for Murong Qing, she hinted that she would stop holding back; the chapter then shifted to the lot-drawing test, where Si Ming unexpectedly collected five number tags and the organizers called a meeting.

• Si Jingyu reflected Tong Zhantang’s finger blasts back at him, then defeated Chu Yunlong by evading his area attack and tapping an acupoint on his chest.
• Si Jingyu dodged Li Yunfei’s saber and used hidden finger Qi through her fan to make him collapse after eight clashes.
• Bai Xiangyu and three contestants attacked Si Jingyu together, but Countercurrent Divine Gang sent strikes back at them and left them badly injured.
• Li Yunfei identified Si Jingyu as Murong Qing, and she warned the group that she had been too gentle.
• At the lot-drawing test, the Earth Emperor University referee saw that Si Ming held five number tags and hurried off to consult the organizers.

Si Ming resisted Earth Emperor University's effort to reclaim four of his number plates and bargained for a spar with the mysterious Shan Gu. Their fight began before a crowd of astonished spectators.

• Si Ming drew attention and envy for his strength and for Si Jingyu, while Meng Meng confirmed she would not enter the Martial Dao League.
• Earth Emperor University asked Si Ming to give up four of his five number plates, but he refused and demanded a spar with a student of his choosing.
• Si Ming identified the student as the distinctive young man who had painted Si Jingyu, and Earth Emperor University agreed to the condition.
• Shan Gu introduced himself and accepted Si Ming's challenge, while the two joked about their reasons for fighting.
• Si Ming opened the match with a dazzling sword technique that stirred a tornado of cutting Qi blades and shocked the spectators.

Si Ming tested Shan Gu’s strength in a devastating duel, then confirmed that Shan Gu could control Super Martial Dao’s effects. Back at the hotel, Si Jingyu explained her view of intimacy to Si Ming, leaving their relationship at the point of her proposal for spiritual union.

• Si Ming unleashed Wind Sweeps the Ten Directions, Riding the Dragon, but Shan Gu blocked it with Extremely High Potential Barrier and struck him back.
• Si Ming conceded the fight, agreed to pay for the ruined arena, and selected a number nine while returning the other four tags.
• Earth Emperor University’s martial arts club president tried to recruit Shan Gu, while Si Ming concluded that Shan Gu’s Super Martial Dao had made him reclusive rather than violent.
• Si Ming returned to his hotel room and found Si Jingyu waiting in the large bed, ready to warm it as his maid.
• Si Jingyu told Si Ming that blood ties belonged to the flesh and described spiritual union as the highest form of intimacy.

Si Ming and Si Jingyu practiced the ancient spiritual union method, the Phoenix Comes to Fill the Music Scripture, and overcame a surge of instinctive desire before their souls and True Qi joined. As the union continued, their feelings and memories began to fade, leaving Si Jingyu in sorrow that soon ebbed away.

• Si Jingyu explained that their bodies were suited to soul cultivation and proposed that she and Si Ming practice spiritual union.
• Si Jingyu gave Si Ming the Phoenix Comes to Fill the Music Scripture and its annotations, and he mastered the method after reading them.
• Si Ming and Si Jingyu sent out their soul bodies and intertwined their soul power and True Qi through the scripture.
• Their bloodline instincts stirred up lust, but Si Ming suppressed his Qi and blood until Si Jingyu regained control.
• They resumed spiritual union, and their memories and intense feelings gradually faded as Si Jingyu's sorrow also passed.

Si Ming and Si Jingyu’s spiritual union elevated their cultivation and blended the traits of their soul bodies, helping Si Ming discover and remove the lingering influence of the Super Martial Dao. After they ended their union, they compared what they had gained and prepared to return home.

• Si Ming and Si Jingyu’s intertwined souls reached a shared state of understanding the cycle of heaven and earth, and their soul bodies exchanged the traits of the Glazed Pure Body and Divine Firmament Soul Body.
• A lodging attendant interrupted them, and Si Ming and Si Jingyu ended their spiritual union, reluctant to leave the profound state they had experienced.
• Si Ming examined his purified soul and realized the Super Martial Dao’s side effects still fueled his desires, so he used Evil-Slaying Sword Intent to clear the corruption.
• Si Ming and Si Jingyu compared their cultivation gains, including breakthroughs in internal cultivation and newly accessible techniques.
• Si Ming and Si Jingyu agreed to put on their clothes and return home after completing their task.

Si Ming used two fingers to defeat four challengers, and the Second Martial Arts Club replaced Hao Shuai on its competition roster. While the team competed without him, Si Ming cultivated at school and later advised Hao Shuai about his breakup, leaving him to consider what had attracted his girlfriend to him.

• Si Ming defeated three challengers with the Finger-Snap Divine Art and threw the fourth from the martial arts hall using only two fingers.
• The Second Martial Arts Club replaced Hao Shuai with Wang Jinchao, who had beaten him fairly with the Horse-Toppling Flying Stake.
• Si Ming stayed at school while the team went to Earth Emperor University, spending time with Murong Qing, Hongdou, and Si Jingyu while continuing to cultivate.
• Hao Shuai came to Si Ming drunk and asked why his girlfriend wanted to break up despite his doing everything for her.
• Si Ming told Hao Shuai that catering to his girlfriend was not enough and asked him to identify the qualities that had attracted her.

After advising Hao Shuai to focus on cultivation, Si Ming continued improving his own strength and learned that the International Union Academy’s Bloodline Research Institute was studying a Super Martial Dao technique called the Dual-Polarity Box-Breaking True Scripture. The scripture could grant formidable abilities but reduced its practitioners’ intelligence, and Si Ming traveled toward Earth Emperor University with Murong Qing after the Second Martial Arts Club reached the top eight.

• Si Ming told Hao Shuai that he had lost his girlfriend because he had failed to develop his martial arts strength, and Hao Shuai vowed to cultivate until he became a Grandmaster.
• Hao Shuai spent the following days training while Si Ming’s cultivation efficiency increased by about thirty percent after his communion of spirits.
• Si Ming reflected on Internal Cultivation bottlenecks and how he had overcome earlier ones through fortuitous encounters and dual cultivation.
• After the Second Martial Arts Club made the top eight, Si Ming set out for Earth Emperor University with Murong Qing and received intelligence about the Bloodline Research Institute.
• Si Ming learned that the Dual-Polarity Box-Breaking True Scripture aimed to master the strong and weak nuclear forces and described a powerful temporary form.
• Si Ming learned that practitioners of the scripture suffered reduced intelligence, so scholars were studying the affected test subjects to devise a safer alternative.

Si Ming reunited with the injured Second Martial Arts Club before their opening match in the National Martial Dao League and arranged the lineup to give his teammates time to recover. At the arena, he encountered Lian Buqi, an old opponent who still resented him, just before the team’s match against the Kunlun Martial Alliance.

• Si Ming and Murong Qing arrived at Earth Emperor University and learned that the Second Martial Arts Club’s members had been injured in earlier bouts.
• Si Ming examined Nie Wanzhi’s lingering internal injury and recommended that she sit out while Si Shuiyun contacted Si Jingyu for treatment.
• Si Ming assigned himself and Murong Qing to the first and third bouts, with Liu Qingqing and Si Shuiyun taking the doubles match.
• At the crowded arena, Si Ming noticed a hostile young man who threatened to repay an old humiliation.
• Murong Qing identified the young man as Lian Buqi, whom Si Ming had beaten at the Youth Martial Arts Tournament; Ke Chajing explained that the team’s next opponent was the Kunlun Martial Alliance, followed by International Union Academy.

Si Ming faced Sima Liang, a fellow disciple of the Dinghu Sect, in the National Youth Martial Dao League quarterfinals. Their conversation revealed Sima Liang’s mixed feelings about Si Ming’s reputation and his own hopes of becoming sect leader, before the two prepared to fight in a library venue.

• Si Ming agreed that Murong Qing could seek a match against Lian Buqi if they advanced to face International Union Academy.
• Si Ming met Sima Liang, a Dinghu Sect disciple who recognized him as Yan Jinghong’s personal disciple and addressed him as Martial Uncle.
• Si Ming explained why he had never visited the Dinghu Sect, while privately wondering whether Yan Jinghong had a conflict with it.
• Sima Liang recalled fearing that Si Ming would compete for the sect leadership, but came to believe Si Ming considered that ambition beneath him.
• The referee urged Si Ming and Sima Liang to begin, and they drew a library as their match venue.

Si Ming decisively defeated Sima Liang in the competition, exposing the gap between their abilities. After conceding, Sima Liang abandoned his doubts and decided to support his Martial Uncle, then began defending Si Ming to his teammates.

• Si Ming outmaneuvered Sima Liang, countered his Drought God Palm, and forced him to concede.
• Sima Liang's teammates accused him of going easy on Si Ming and hurting the Kunlun Martial Alliance's reputation.
• Sima Liang insisted that Si Ming had overwhelmingly outclassed him and said he would cling to his Martial Uncle's support.
• Sima Liang told his teammates they did not know Si Ming's past record and asked Xie Xiangxiang to explain what had happened the night of the draw.

Sima Liang revealed Si Ming’s reputation to the Kunlun Martial Alliance, but Linked Mountains University defeated them 3:0. Si Ming warned the Glacier Martial Arts School about the International Union Academy before the Glacier team prepared to fight for a place in the semifinals.

• Sima Liang told his teammates that Si Ming was the famed Mad Ink, and the Kunlun Martial Alliance’s elder rallied the team by urging them to fight aggressively against Linked Mountains University.
• Si Shuiyun and Liu Qingqing won the second match, and Murong Qing overwhelmed her opponent in the third, giving Linked Mountains University a 3:0 victory.
• Ke Chajing and Si Ming discussed Murong Qing’s likely rise to fame, and Si Ming reminded her that her accomplishments could inspire the nation.
• Si Ming warned Liang Fan that the International Union Academy’s martial art could drive practitioners mad, especially Lian Buqi, and advised him to consider conceding if necessary.
• The Glacier Martial Arts School weighed its chances in the quarterfinals and resolved to fight for a place in the semifinals despite being an underdog.

Liang Fan watched Lian Buqi severely burn Song Caishuang and Song Xiaoshuang, then nearly attacked him before Mei Yan stopped him. As the competition continued, Tao Chengsi faced Liang Fan in the third match and explained why Liang’s anger put him at a disadvantage.

• Lian Buqi's Cloud Mist Detonation engulfed the arena, and Liang Fan and the referee rescued the badly burned Song Caishuang and Song Xiaoshuang.
• Liang Fan confronted Lian Buqi, who denied wrongdoing and admitted provoking him only to bait him into a legally punishable attack.
• Mei Yan stopped Liang Fan from striking Lian Buqi, while the referee separated them and ordered the competition to continue.
• Tao Chengsi reassigned Lian Buqi to the fifth individual match after criticizing his conduct, and Lian Buqi reluctantly agreed.
• Tao Chengsi entered the third match against Liang Fan and warned that Liang's anger and ice-attribute cultivation gave Tao an advantage.

Tao Chengsi used psychological tactics and his Telekinesis ability to defeat Liang Fan, securing the International Union Academy’s third win and a place in the semifinals. Si Ming and the others discussed how to counter Tao Chengsi’s ability, while Lian Buqi challenged Si Ming to fight him the day after tomorrow.

• Si Ming and Murong Qing observed that Tao Chengsi had unsettled Liang Fan, while Si Ming confronted Lian Buqi, who challenged him to the first fight two days later.
• Tao Chengsi suppressed Liang Fan without using his Bloodline Ability, exploiting Liang Fan’s inability to control his anger.
• Liang Fan used Cold Moon Flying Stars, but Tao Chengsi redirected the attack, disrupted Liang Fan’s palm strike, and injured him with inch-force blows.
• Liang Fan forced out a forbidden finishing move, but Tao Chengsi used Telekinesis to attack his eyes and then blasted him out of the arena.
• The referee declared Tao Chengsi the winner and announced that the International Union Academy had advanced to the semifinals.
• Si Ming, Murong Qing, Hu Jixian, Ke Chajing, and Chen Shimi discussed Telekinesis and ways to defend against it.

Si Ming and Murong Qing visited the injured Glacier Martial Arts School team before the semifinals, then Si Ming’s team arrived at the deep-pit arena and made dramatic entrances. Si Ming ended his descent by silencing the arena, leaving the spectators focused on him.

• Wang Jinchao, Tai Gu, and Si Ming joked about ways to protect themselves from attacks before Ke Chajing urged the team to face whoever they drew without holding back.
• Si Ming and Murong Qing visited Song Caishuang, Song Xiaoshuang, and Liang Fan, and league officials promised to cover the injured fighters’ medical expenses.
• Liang Fan proposed to the Song sisters, and Song Caishuang revealed that her younger brother was a man before sending Liang Fan flying with an Air-Splitting Palm.
• Si Ming and his teammates surveyed the deep-pit arena and learned that Heavenly Black and Earth Emperor would face each other in the other semifinal.
• At Si Ming’s suggestion, the team made grand aerial entrances, with Ke Chajing splashing into the arena and Si Ming descending on a golden dragon.
• Si Ming appeared in white robes and used an invisible force to silence the crowd, settle the dust, and still the lake.

Si Ming challenged Lian Buqi in the Martial Dao League semifinal and provoked him into fighting rather than withdrawing. After withstanding Lian Buqi’s first attack without injury, Si Ming declared he would demonstrate the gap between them in three moves.

• Si Ming called out Lian Buqi, and the spectators’ chants pressured Lian Buqi to accept the match.
• Tao Chengsi advised Lian Buqi to avoid Si Ming and focus on helping their team advance, but Lian Buqi chose to fight.
• Si Ming stayed onstage until the organizers began the match early, then taunted Lian Buqi about his backbone and strength.
• Lian Buqi opened with the Shotgun Shell Seal, but Si Ming took the attack head-on without moving or being marked.
• Si Ming announced he would withstand three of Lian Buqi’s attacks to show the gap between them, while Murong Qing expressed confidence in him.

Si Ming effortlessly withstood Lian Buqi’s attacks and exposed the gulf between their abilities. The chapter ended with Lian Buqi wounded and furious as Si Ming continued to undermine his confidence.

• Lian Buqi attacked Si Ming with his Armor-Piercing Claw, but Si Ming absorbed and neutralized the force without injury.
• Lian Buqi unleashed Cloud-Mist Detonation, yet Si Ming emerged unharmed except for a scorched corner of his sleeve.
• Si Ming told Lian Buqi that their strength gap had widened, provoking him to attack with Grenade Hammer Hand.
• Si Ming deflected Lian Buqi’s punches, struck him with Shotgun Shell Seal, and followed with Blazing Sun Light Burst, leaving him bloodied.
• Si Ming called Lian Buqi unremarkable and replaceable, and Lian Buqi angrily demanded to know what Si Ming understood about him.