Chapter Summaries

Xia Guanxue took the arena challenge against He Qichang and fought him to a tense stalemate, showing skill with the Linked Mountains Sword Art. After they exchanged painful blows and paused to recover, Tao Chengsi identified Xia Guanxue’s sword art.

• Xia Guanxue asked Ke Chajing whether defeating the current opponent would count as passing the school team’s entrance test, and she let him take the arena.
• Si Ming was disappointed when Xia Guanxue stepped in before he could show off.
• Xia Guanxue and He Qichang began a fierce exchange, with Xia defending against He’s dual blades and gradually gaining the advantage.
• He Qichang unleashed Demon Blade: Torrent, but Xia Guanxue raised successive stone walls with Primordial Gen Raises a Lofty Mountain to stop its force.
• Xia Guanxue and He Qichang narrowly avoided each other’s attacks, then struck one another and backed away to assess their injuries.
• Tao Chengsi recognized Xia Guanxue’s sword art as the Linked Mountains Sword Art.

Si Ming recognized Xia Guanxue’s sword art as the Mohist School’s Linked Mountains Sword Art as Xia Guanxue and He Qichang resumed their fierce duel. Their escalating fire-based ultimate moves collided, and Ke Chajing intervened just as their ironwood weapons shattered.

• Si Ming explained the significance of the Linked Mountains Sword Art, and the students admired Xia Guanxue’s skill.
• He Qichang used the bamboo stalks to build up speed and cut Xia Guanxue’s shoulder, but his wound then split open and sent him crashing to the ground.
• Xia Guanxue unleashed Startling Frost Thunder, and He Qichang answered with Rushing Thunder; their attacks collided, injuring both fighters and dislocating He Qichang’s arm.
• He Qichang and Xia Guanxue launched Red Lotus and Melting Calamity Fire, refusing to yield despite their injuries.
• Ke Chajing rushed into the arena to stop them, but the ironwood blade and sword shattered under the force of the three streams of True Qi.

Xia Guanxue and He Qichang’s fight sent their combined attack into the spectators, but Si Ming survived the blast with only minor injuries while his uniform and hair burned. After He Qichang conceded defeat and the rivals argued over who should pay for the uniform, Ke Chajing doubled training, which Si Ming avoided by citing public decency.

• Xia Guanxue redirected his sword to avoid a deadly clash with He Qichang, but Ke Chajing’s intervention sent their combined force flying into the spectators.
• Si Ming endured the attack thanks to his Jade-Clad Dharma Body, though his upper clothes and hair caught fire.
• Si Ming asked Xia Guanxue and He Qichang to pay for a new uniform, and the two argued over who bore responsibility.
• He Qichang conceded the challenge to Ke Chajing and promised to give Tange No. 1 Middle School students a wide berth.
• Ke Chajing praised the new recruits and doubled training, while Si Ming avoided it by claiming his shirtless appearance offended public decency.

Si Ming returned home to find Murong Qing trying to teach Hongdou to dress more appropriately, but Hongdou misunderstood his advice and removed her bra. Auntie Liu then warned that the assassination organization Crimson Eye had been hired to kill Hongdou and asked Si Ming to protect her.

• Si Ming found Murong Qing lecturing Hongdou about her revealing clothes and learned Hongdou had received special admission to Tange No. 1 Middle School for her painting.
• Hongdou took Si Ming's warning about her underwear being visible literally and pulled off her bra, leaving Murong Qing and Si Ming exasperated.
• Auntie Liu visited Si Ming, assured him his novel was doing well, and revealed that Crimson Eye had been hired to assassinate Hongdou.
• Auntie Liu asked Si Ming to protect Hongdou as a Mohist Knight Guard and explained she knew of his identity and his fight against He Qichang's group at school.

Murong Qing proposed hiding Hongdou at the Mohist Knight Guard base and using occasional outings to lure her would-be assassin, Qingyan, into a trap. After struggling to find an opening, Qingyan met Captain in Tange City, where Captain explained why artists who knew they were targets made especially difficult assassination assignments.

• Murong Qing suggested moving Hongdou’s studio into the Mohist Knight Guard base and having experts protect her during occasional outings, and Auntie Liu and Si Ming accepted the plan.
• Qingyan found Hongdou staying inside the base and saw that her rare outings were guarded, so he decided the mission was not worth pursuing.
• Qingyan followed a rendezvous signal to a snack shop and met Captain while they ate lunch in disguise.
• Qingyan complained that Hongdou’s reclusive habits left him no opportunity to strike, and Captain explained that artists could outlast assassins in contests of patience.
• Captain urged Qingyan to ease his nerves and act normally, then joked about an assassin who had waited years for a sculptor who died of old age.

Zheng Zitian taught Si Ming’s class and called on Chen Shimi to analyze a passage before ending the lesson at the bell. The chapter left the students to review their test papers at home.

• Zheng Zitian asked student number thirty-one to stand and answer a question.
• Chen Shimi explained how a passage introduced a tavern’s customers and established its social backdrop.
• Si Ming reflected that Chen Shimi behaved like an ordinary student in class despite his delusions.
• Zheng Zitian praised Chen Shimi’s answer and ended the lesson when the bell rang.

Si Ming turned down Xia Guanxue’s request to spar, explaining that Xia’s sword skills could not overcome his Jade-Clad Dharma Body. He left Xia to train until he found a way through Si Ming’s defense.

• Yan Rou was absent, so Murong Zhe replaced her medicine lesson with a fast-paced math class that ran fifteen minutes over.
• Xia Guanxue challenged Si Ming to spar and said he had mastered the fifth move of the Linked Mountains Sword Art.
• Si Ming refused, noting that their many previous matches had shown Xia could not break through his Jade-Clad Dharma Body.
• Xia admitted he had no way to overcome Si Ming’s defense, and Si Ming told him to return when he was confident he could do so.

Si Ming redirected Xia Guanxue toward Murong Qing, then encountered Chen Shimi and Hu Jixian, who invited him to spar. Their match was interrupted by an alarm warning that demonic beasts had appeared offshore, and the school rushed to its underground refuges.

• Si Ming told Xia Guanxue that Murong Qing was a stronger opponent and sent him to challenge her.
• Si Ming ran into Chen Shimi, who invited him to join a chuunibyou club, but Hu Jixian caught him and offered to spar instead.
• Hu Jixian explained that Ke Chajing planned to promote Si Ming to a regular martial arts team member for the winter state tournament.
• A campus alarm warned that large numbers of demonic beasts had been sighted offshore, forcing students and staff to head for the nearest refuge.
• Hu Jixian noted that the beast tide had arrived earlier than usual as the school evacuated in an orderly fashion.

Si Ming joined the military front during a beast tide and learned that demonic beasts came through a wormhole rather than from the sea. The commander assigned him to snipe two flying beasts guarding the wormhole so an elite squad could seal it, and Si Ming agreed to move closer with protection.

• Pan De sent Si Ming to the front by helicopter with both guns to support the army as a long-range shooter.
• Si Ming reached the battle and saw Su State's soldiers using crossbows, artillery-like weapons, and beach defenses to hold back the demonic beasts.
• The commander explained that an elite squad planned to reach the wormhole and seal it with a Boundary Sealing Stone, but two flying beasts threatened the operation.
• Si Ming located the wormhole and identified the two powerful insect-like demonic beasts guarding it.
• Si Ming said he could snipe the beasts from within two thousand meters, and the aide arranged for someone to protect him as he advanced.
• Ye Ziqian arrived with another person to accompany Si Ming.

Si Ming joined an assault team with Jiang Zhengtai and Ye Ziqian to break through the demonic beasts and reach their rear. As the team fought through reinforcements, Jiang and Ye protected Si Ming with their unusual weapons.

• Jiang Zhengtai demonstrated that his invisible threads could cut enemies and protect the team, convincing the aide of his combat ability.
• The army began its operation with a barrage of ballistae, crossbows, and crescent blades that devastated the demonic beasts on the beach.
• The ten-man assault team charged through the opening toward the demonic beasts' rear, with Si Ming, Jiang Zhengtai, and Ye Ziqian following.
• Demonic beasts rushed in from the rear and slowed the assault team, but its experts used Mohist Profound Armor to keep advancing.
• Jiang Zhengtai cut demonic beasts apart with invisible threads, while Ye Ziqian used poisoned judge's brushes to incapacitate them as Si Ming followed through the gaps.

Si Ming killed the Beedrill guarding the wormhole, then tried to help the assault squad overcome a geomagnetic field that was pinning them down. After he deduced the source was underground and led his companions into a retreat, the squad broke free, and its captain reached the wormhole and threw in the Boundary Sealing Stone.

• Si Ming killed both Beedrill with his spirit gun and completed his sniping mission.
• Si Ming, Jiang Zhengtai, and Ye Ziqian saw the assault squad trapped by a geomagnetic field that hindered their Profound Armor.
• Si Ming reasoned that a demon beast was generating the field, searched the horde, and eventually realized the caster was underground.
• Si Ming warned the assault squad and led Jiang Zhengtai and Ye Ziqian into a breakout, leaving the squad to act on his warning.
• An assault squad member struck the earth with his hammer, killing underground creatures and ending the magnetic field.
• The captain charged through the demon horde, reached the wormhole, and threw the Boundary Sealing Stone inside.

After Captain sacrificed himself to destroy the giant hand reaching through the wormhole, Si Ming and his companions helped break through the demonic beasts and the army won the battle. The commander accepted responsibility for Zhihu’s death and thanked Si Ming, but news arrived that demonic beasts had appeared in the city campus district.

• Captain detonated his Profound Armor, forcing the giant hand to retreat and sacrificing himself to save his squad.
• Si Ming fought through the demonic beasts with Ye Ziqian and Jiang Zhengtai, killing a massive beast that blocked their path.
• With the wormhole closed and reinforcements cut off, the army exterminated the remaining demonic beasts and cleared the battlefield.
• The commander admitted responsibility for Zhihu’s sacrifice, and the assault squad members defended him and thanked Si Ming for his help.
• A messenger reported that a large number of demonic beasts had appeared in the city campus district.

Qingyan infiltrated Tange No. 1 Middle School during a demonic beast attack to assassinate Hongdou, but an eagle-shaped beast disrupted his attack and made him appear to have saved her. He left before Murong Zhe could suspect him, while Murong Zhe praised him as a hidden hero.

• Qingyan sneaked into the school and found Hongdou painting alone in the art room.
• Qingyan unlocked the door and lunged at Hongdou, but an eagle-shaped demonic beast burst through a window and landed in his path.
• Qingyan's sword strike killed the beast, and Hongdou mistook him for her rescuer.
• Murong Zhe arrived, thanked Qingyan for saving Hongdou, and asked his name.
• Qingyan called himself Nameless and hurried away after Hongdou recognized him as the man who sold pan-fried dumplings at the school gate.
• Murong Zhe admired Qingyan as a righteous hero hidden among ordinary people.

Xia Guanxue and Murong Qing joined forces to fight their way toward the back gate so Xia Guanxue could check on his younger sister. Meanwhile, Tao Chengsi directed a student defensive line against the Yao beasts, which received mysterious support from an unseen archer.

• Xia Guanxue wounded several Yao beasts but was knocked down by a heavily armored rhinoceros beetle Yao beast.
• Murong Qing froze the beetle Yao beast and killed it with her spear, then agreed to accompany Xia Guanxue to check on his sister.
• Tao Chengsi organized students defending the southern line while Xiong Aixin fought on the front line and Chen Shimi used his Sword Control Technique to kill Yao beasts.
• An ape-like Yao beast leaped into the students' defensive circle, but an unknown archer shot it through the mouth and senior students finished it off.
• Tao Chengsi wondered who was secretly firing arrows, while Chen Shimi credited the protection to Mother Earth.

At Heaven’s Will Palace, Xiao Xuan urged Yan Jinghong to join his plan for a violent revolution, while Yan defended gradual reform and the people’s right to decide when change was needed. The brothers accepted that they had taken different paths, and Xiao began explaining how the Exalting Unity Society had betrayed him.

• Yan Jinghong met Xiao Xuan at the altar of Heaven’s Will Palace, and they discussed how imprisonment and their experiences had changed them.
• Xiao Xuan argued that only an outside revolution could remove entrenched powers, while Yan Jinghong defended the Grandmaster’s peaceful reforms and warned that revolution would bring needless suffering.
• Xiao Xuan asked Yan Jinghong to join him, but Yan refused, saying the people should decide when revolution was necessary.
• The brothers realized they could not persuade each other and might one day face each other with drawn swords.
• Yan Jinghong asked what Xiao Xuan intended to do, and Xiao blamed the Exalting Unity Society for causing his Qi deviation, removing him as Grandmaster, and imprisoning him.

After the demonic beasts’ surprise attack on Tange City was contained, classes resumed at Tange No. 1 Middle School, where students argued over their teachers before Murong Zhe disciplined Lu Yifa for smoking. The chapter ended with Lu Yifa challenging Murong Zhe’s decision to summon his parents.

• The people of Tange City defeated the demonic beasts, and the injured students at Tange No. 1 Middle School recovered while classes resumed after a day off.
• The students praised and criticized substitute teacher Deng and compared him with Murong Zhe and Teacher Yan.
• Murong Zhe entered the noisy classroom and silenced the students, making Ren Junshuang fear that he had heard her insults about him.
• Murong Zhe stopped Lu Yifa as he entered class, identified that he had been smoking, and ordered him to bring his parents to school the next day.
• Lu Yifa objected to Murong Zhe involving his parents and challenged him to punish Lu Yifa directly.

An intruder used a mysterious sword to crack the Yellow Dragon statue in the barrier separating clear and turbid Qi, triggering an enormous beast tide in Tange City. Yan Jinghong arrived too late to prevent the coastal defenses from falling, but he sealed the wormhole and sent a distress signal as a vast demon-beast army advanced.

• An unknown intruder entered the strange space and struck the Yellow Dragon statue, cracking it and disrupting the balance between clear and turbid Qi.
• Yan Jinghong found a rift into Tange City and saw tens of thousands of demon beasts pouring through an enormous wormhole toward the coastal defenses.
• Yan Jinghong killed a giant centipede with the Drought God Palm and fought through the beasts to seal the wormhole with a Boundary Sealing Stone.
• Yan Jinghong saw that more than a hundred thousand demon beasts remained and sent a distress signal to summon the Mohist Knight Guard and Spirit Transformation powerhouses.

Demonic beasts attacked the school before the students could reach the shelters, and the teachers struggled to hold the gates. After Bone-Softening Gentle Breeze poisoned many teachers and forced the principal to face the beasts alone, Si Ming arrived to take over the defense, unaware of the principal’s warning about the poison.

• The early beast attack threw the students into chaos, while the teachers fought the beasts and tried to guide them to safety.
• The principal arrived and crushed a group of beasts with his palm, then organized the teachers into formations to hold the front gate for five minutes.
• Bone-Softening Gentle Breeze disrupted the formations by preventing many teachers from circulating their True Qi, and the teachers realized a human must have poisoned them.
• The principal ordered the poisoned teachers to retreat and charged toward the gates alone to block the beasts.
• Si Ming crashed into the battlefield, told the principal to leave, and was warned that poison filled the air.

The six demons under Duke Azure Dragon’s command began their attack on Tange City, each weighing the risks and the chance to claim his vacant title. As Room Sun Rabbit revealed her hidden strength and doubts about the Demon King’s plan, Kang Gold Dragon was suddenly struck from the sky by an unseen attacker.

• Si Ming cleared the area outside the campus gates with Blue Moon Light Burst, allowing the principal to withdraw and gather the students and teachers.
• Jiao Wood Jiao, Kang Gold Dragon, Di Earth Raccoon Dog, Room Sun Rabbit, Tail Fire Tiger, and Winnowing Basket Water Leopard gathered atop the Star-Picking Building and discussed their orders and rivalry over becoming Duke Azure Dragon.
• Tail Fire Tiger rejected Kang Gold Dragon’s attempt to bait her into fighting Startling Rainbow Beyond the Heavens, then left with Winnowing Basket Water Leopard while the two dragon demons transformed and attacked the city.
• Di Earth Raccoon Dog hid inside the building, while Room Sun Rabbit revealed that she was the strongest of the six and suspected the mission was a trap set by the Demon King.
• Kang Gold Dragon was hit in the forehead by an unseen attacker and crashed through buildings as a voice mocked his showy flight.

Si Ming fought Kang Gold Dragon with overwhelming physical strength, badly injuring the dragon before Jiao Wood Jiao intervened. As Si Ming was trapped among rapidly growing trees, Kang Gold Dragon fled with Jiao Wood Jiao, leaving Si Ming to break free.

• Si Ming blinded Kang Gold Dragon with a sniper shot, then charged through the dragon's golden beam and struck him with a Shoryuken.
• Kang Gold Dragon swept Si Ming into a factory, but Si Ming grabbed his tail and slammed him into the ground, devastating the construction site.
• Si Ming rushed to finish Kang Gold Dragon, but Jiao Wood Jiao grew trees that swallowed and restrained him.
• Jiao Wood Jiao admitted he could not crush Si Ming and could only hold him for about twenty seconds.
• Kang Gold Dragon had Jiao Wood Jiao take human form, picked him up, and fled into the sky.