Chapter Summaries

Chen Fan defeated Li Hao in the final match and won the exchange tournament for East Sea Martial Arts Elementary School. Director Qian urgently offered Chen Fan extraordinary recruitment benefits, but Principal Li Guangming intervened and took him away, leaving Director Qian furious.

• Li Hao revealed 23 calories of Qi and Blood and attacked Chen Fan with his perfected Wave-Stacking Fist.
• Chen Fan countered with a single straight punch, broke Li Hao's arms, and knocked him unconscious outside the arena.
• Wei Zhe, Liu Haifeng, and Wang Zhen celebrated as East Sea Martial Arts Elementary School claimed the championship.
• Director Qian jumped into the arena and offered Chen Fan an S-Rank Genius Special Recruitment Contract, personal instruction, and unrestricted access to the school's high-ranking resource repositories.
• Li Guangming stepped between Director Qian and Chen Fan, argued that the offers were too much pressure for an eight-year-old, and led Chen Fan away toward the award ceremony.
• Director Qian watched Li Guangming leave and angrily called him an old fox.

After Chen Fan defeated Li Hao, Li Guangming explained that the match had attracted attention from powerful schools and promised to help Chen Fan secure the best opportunities, even if he left East Sea City. Chen Fan used his new cultivation-room access to train for three days, reached a bottleneck, and then learned that important people had requested to meet him.

• Li Guangming sent Liu Haifeng and Wang Zhen back to arrange a victory banquet and spoke privately with Chen Fan.
• Li Guangming told Chen Fan that the Federation Education Network had circulated his match footage and Qi and Blood data to top schools across the region.
• Li Guangming promised to help Chen Fan obtain the best terms and platform, then gave him one month of special-grade cultivation-room access and doubled future resource allocations.
• Chen Fan went straight to the cultivation room, took four Primary Qi-Blood Potions, and cultivated there for three days.
• Chen Fan emerged with his Qi and Blood at a bottleneck, and Liu Haifeng hurried over to say important people had asked to see him.

Chen Fan heard recruitment offers from three top Martial Dao schools but politely delayed his decision, saying he needed to consult his family. After the recruiters left, Principal Li Guangming suggested that none of the schools was what Chen Fan wanted.

• Liu Haifeng rushed Chen Fan into a reception room where Principal Li Guangming introduced three school representatives.
• Qin Lan offered Chen Fan an A-rank cultivation technique and a path to the military academy preparatory camp at Jiang Hai City War God Middle School.
• Su Wen offered Chen Fan an SS-rank genius contract, grandmaster instructors, and access to Tian Nan City No. 1 Experimental Middle School’s resources.
• Hong Lei promised Chen Fan weekly high-tier exotic beast meat and unrestricted access to Beichen Martial Dao Academy’s gravity tower.
• Chen Fan thanked the representatives but said he needed time to consider their offers and discuss them with his family.
• After the representatives left, Li Guangming praised Chen Fan and asked whether none of the schools was what he wanted.

Li Guangming told Chen Fan that he would have to pass Jiangnan No. 1 High School’s entrance exam in six months to earn a place among the region’s strongest young talents. After spending those six months in intensive cultivation, Chen Fan reached the peak of perfection in the Five Elements Stance and raised his Qi and Blood to 56.8 calories, but remained unable to break through to become a martial artist.

• Li Guangming explained that Jiangnan No. 1 High School admitted fewer than a hundred students through a regional exam in Tiannan City six months later, and Chen Fan vowed to go.
• Chen Fan returned to his cultivation room and resolved to make the most of the six months before the exam.
• Li Guangming devoted the school’s top cultivation resources to Chen Fan and watched over his training throughout the six months.
• Chen Fan mastered the Five Elements Stance beyond perfection and blended the embryonic forms of five intents into a punch, shocking Li Guangming.
• Chen Fan measured his Qi and Blood at 56.8 calories and realized that an invisible membrane still kept him from breaking through as a martial artist.

Li Guangming explained that Chen Fan had reached a Qi and Blood bottleneck and needed a top-tier technique from Jiangnan No. 1 High School to break through. After farewells from his grandfather and classmates, Chen Fan traveled with Li Guangming to Tiannan City and arrived at the academy.

• Li Guangming told Chen Fan that his Qi and Blood had reached the fifty-calorie bottleneck and urged him to rest before the admissions exam.
• Chen Fan told Chen Ping he would be away for a school activity, and his grandfather happily prepared a bag of food for him.
• Chen Fan's Qi and Blood rose to 57.0 calories during three days of meditation, though his bottleneck remained.
• Wei Zhe, Zhao Jie, Wang Zhen, Liu Haifeng, and the other students gathered to cheer Chen Fan on as he left East Sea Martial Arts Elementary School with Li Guangming.
• Chen Fan and Li Guangming traveled by hovercar to Tiannan City and reached the imposing gates of Jiangnan No. 1 High School.

Chen Fan registered for Jiangnan No. 1 High School’s independent admissions examination, stunning the staff with his age of eight. When admissions director Wei Tianlong saw Chen Fan’s recorded Qi and Blood of 57 calories, he ordered access to the boy’s examination-site monitoring and decided to invigilate personally.

• Li Guangming showed Chen Fan the elite students at Tian Nan City First Martial Dao Elementary School before they entered the registration hall.
• The registration teacher saw Chen Fan’s age was eight, completed his registration personally, and issued him bracelet A-37.
• Li Guangming urged Chen Fan to show the Jiangnan Region’s geniuses what a real monster looked like as Chen Fan headed into the examination site.
• Wei Tianlong reviewed the top candidates’ records before his optical computer flagged Chen Fan’s age and Qi and Blood result as abnormal.
• Wei Tianlong ordered the A-37 examination-site monitoring switched to his screen so he could invigilate Chen Fan personally.

Eight-year-old Chen Fan stunned the Jiangnan Region examination hall by recording 57.0 calories of Qi-Blood, far exceeding expectations. After passing the first assessment, he faced the martial arts aptitude test, where Hong Yi earned an excellent rating before Chen Fan was called to demonstrate his skill.

• The examiner eliminated examinees whose Qi-Blood readings fell below thirty-five calories, leaving only sixteen of nearly fifty candidates.
• Hong Yi recorded 69.5 calories, the highest reading so far, and impressed the examiner with his strength.
• Chen Fan's Qi-Blood reading climbed to 57.0 calories, shocking the examinees and prompting Wei Tianlong to recognize his extraordinary talent.
• The examiner began the martial arts aptitude assessment, requiring each candidate to demonstrate a basic martial art.
• Hong Yi performed Hong Fist at perfection and received an excellent rating.
• Chen Fan stepped forward for his assessment and stood casually without taking a stance or mobilizing his Qi and Blood.

Chen Fan revealed that his Five Elements Fist had reached the Pinnacle Realm, stunning the examinees and staff at Jiangnan No. 1 High School. Wei Tianlong interrupted the admissions exam to admit Chen Fan immediately, while outside, Principal Li Guangming mistook Chen Fan’s early exit for failure.

• Hong Yi and the other examinees doubted Chen Fan’s martial arts realm and mocked him before his demonstration.
• Chen Fan casually threw a Geng Metal Fist, revealing the five elements’ nascent intent and overwhelming everyone in the arena.
• The examiner recognized Chen Fan’s Pinnacle Realm, while Hong Yi’s confidence and fighting spirit crumbled.
• Wei Tianlong saw the replay, rushed to exam hall A-37, and ordered the area sealed off.
• Wei Tianlong announced Chen Fan’s immediate admission and waived all remaining assessments.
• Chen Fan walked out first, and Li Guangming assumed he had been eliminated as Zhang Jianguo mocked his boast.

Chen Fan revealed that he had been admitted early to Jiangnan No. 1 High School, and admissions director Wei Tianlong confirmed the news. Li Guangming celebrated by announcing Chen Fan’s achievement to East Sea Martial Arts Elementary School, where the students and teachers erupted in cheers.

• Li Guangming feared Chen Fan had failed and comforted him, but Chen Fan calmly said he had been admitted early.
• Wei Tianlong rushed from the examination hall and congratulated Li Guangming, praising Chen Fan as a priceless treasure.
• Li Guangming celebrated Chen Fan’s admission and smugly answered Zhang Jianguo’s earlier mockery before leaving with Chen Fan.
• Li Guangming brought Chen Fan straight to East Sea Martial Arts Elementary School and called an emergency assembly.
• Li Guangming announced Chen Fan’s unprecedented early admission to Jiangnan First High School, prompting the school to erupt in cheers while Chen Fan remained calm.

Chen Fan received Jiangnan No. 1 High School’s Star-Transferring Blood Art and risked severe injury trying to cultivate it, eventually drawing on real starlight to refine his Qi and Blood. The chapter ended with the school’s principal realizing no one had been sent to supervise Chen Fan and fearing for his life.

• Chen Ping heard news of a genius named Chen Fan but assumed it was someone else and avoided mentioning it to his grandson.
• Li Guangming gave Chen Fan the Star-Transferring Blood Art, which warned that cultivation without extraordinary talent, perseverance, and fortune would lead to death.
• Chen Fan repeatedly failed to circulate his Qi and Blood through the art’s complex route, suffering intense pain and spitting up blood.
• Chen Fan opened the cultivation room’s dome, drew in real starlight, and used it to begin refining his Qi and Blood.
• Wei Tianlong told Jiangnan No. 1 High School’s principal that he had given Chen Fan an S-grade contract, and the principal realized no teacher had been sent to guard him.

Wei Tianlong and Li Guangming rushed to the special-grade cultivation room, fearing Chen Fan had died while practicing the dangerous Star-Transferring Blood Art. Chen Fan emerged alive after reaching its entry level in one night, leaving both men stunned by his success.

• The white-haired principal sent Wei Tianlong to East Sea City with the Black Crow and warned him not to return if anything happened to Chen Fan.
• Wei Tianlong reached East Sea Martial Arts Elementary School and learned from Li Guangming that Chen Fan had cultivated alone through the night.
• Wei Tianlong explained that the Star-Transferring Blood Art required an expert to guide the cultivator or risk crippling or killing them, and he and Li Guangming raced to the cultivation room.
• The alloy doors opened before Wei Tianlong could force them, and Chen Fan walked out alive, pale and sweaty but with Star Power in his Qi and Blood.
• Wei Tianlong recognized that Chen Fan had reached the art's entry level, and Chen Fan said he had simply kept cultivating until he did.

Wei Tianlong recognized Chen Fan’s extraordinary talent and gave him a precious Nine-Orifice Dragon Blood Pill before rushing to report to the principal. After Li Guangming warned Chen Fan to be more careful, Chen Fan swallowed the pill and began cultivating as its power clashed with the Star-Transferring Blood Art.

• Wei Tianlong laughed with relief after Chen Fan explained that he had practiced until he reached the beginner level.
• Wei Tianlong gave Chen Fan a Nine-Orifice Dragon Blood Pill as an apology and hurried back to report his discovery to the principal.
• Li Guangming urged Chen Fan to avoid reckless cultivation, and Chen Fan promised to be more careful.
• Chen Fan swallowed the pill and activated the Star-Transferring Blood Art as the dragon-blood energy surged through his body.

Chen Fan broke through the prospective martial artist bottleneck and reached 65.3 calories of Qi and Blood, then received a major talent increase on his ninth birthday. Meanwhile, his parents fought on a distant battlefield and realized they could not contact him to wish him a happy birthday.

• Chen Fan used the Star-Transferring Blood Art and the Nine-Orifice Dragon Blood Pill to break through his bottleneck, raising his Qi and Blood to 65.3 calories.
• The principal of Jiangnan No. 1 High School ordered Wei Tianlong to place Chen Fan directly in the Prodigy Class when he enrolled.
• On his ninth birthday, Chen Fan gained 2560 Martial Dao Talent and saw his rating rise to 5110, inspiring him to pursue minor mastery of the Star-Transferring Blood Art.
• Chen Long and Luo Mengjie survived a battle on G-7 Resource Planet and returned wounded to their dormitory at No. 368 Battlefield Fortress.
• Luo Mengjie realized it was Chen Fan's birthday, and she and Chen Long grieved that battlefield communications kept them from reaching their son.

Chen Fan measured his Qi and Blood at 73.2 calories before leaving for Jiangnan No. 1 High School, where he had earned exceptional early admission as East Sea City’s Qilin Prodigy. After Chen Ping learned the truth and tearfully saw him off, he tried to tell Chen Fan’s parents, but the message could not reach them in the S-Rank interference zone.

• Chen Fan measured his Qi and Blood at 73.2 calories on the eve of school.
• Li Guangming arrived to escort Chen Fan to Jiangnan No. 1 High School and revealed his exceptional early admission to Chen Ping.
• Chen Ping learned that Chen Fan was East Sea City’s Qilin Prodigy and worried about his grandson leaving home.
• Chen Fan promised to care for himself and visit during breaks, then left with Li Guangming for Tiannan City.
• Chen Ping tried to send the news to Chen Fan’s parents on the Starry Sky Frontline, but the communication failed.

Chen Fan arrived at Jiangnan No. 1 High School and was placed in its elite Prodigy Class, where his former assessment opponent Hong Yi recognized him. The class’s new instructor, Feng Lie, overwhelmed the other students with his pressure but found Chen Fan unmoved.

• Chen Ping dismissed a warning on his military terminal as signal interference and planned to tell his son and daughter-in-law about his family’s glory once communications improved.
• Li Guangming brought Chen Fan to Jiangnan No. 1 High School, where Admissions Director Wei Tianlong welcomed Chen Fan with unusual deference and promised him the highest level of support.
• Wei Tianlong escorted Chen Fan to the Prodigy Class, where Hong Yi recognized him as the student who had defeated him during the admissions assessment.
• Chen Fan ignored the other prodigies’ scrutiny, sat in a corner, and began preparing to cultivate, provoking one student’s anger.
• Feng Lie kicked open the classroom’s heavy alloy door, introduced himself as the students’ third-stage Bone Tempering instructor, and suppressed the class with his aura.
• Feng Lie noticed that Chen Fan remained calm and continued sitting cross-legged under the pressure.

Chen Fan ignored Feng Lie’s pressure and learned that the Prodigy Class rewarded top rankings with abundant resources, then entered the initial assessment ranking in eighth place. When Lei Meng challenged him as an easy target, Chen Fan defeated him with one precise strike, shocking the class.

• Feng Lie focused most of his pressure on Chen Fan, but Chen Fan’s Star Power absorbed it while he continued contemplating the Star-Transferring Blood Art.
• Feng Lie announced weekly rankings, resource rewards, and elimination rules, and Chen Fan became eager to claim first place for the resources he needed to find his parents.
• At the Martial Dao training hall, the initial rankings placed Qin Wuyue first, Hong Yi second, and Chen Fan eighth, provoking resentment among the other prodigies.
• Feng Lie allowed anyone to challenge a student in the top ten, and Lei Meng challenged Chen Fan, expecting to seize his ranking.
• Chen Fan dodged Lei Meng’s Mountain-Crushing Fist and struck beneath his ribs with Metal-Element Fist Intent, sending him out of the arena and leaving the class stunned.

Chen Fan defeated three challengers with a single move each, then skipped over Hong Yi and challenged Qin Wuyue, the Prodigy Class's number one. Qin Wuyue accepted and revealed Qi and Blood of 75.2 calories as they prepared to fight.

• Feng Lie mocked the arena, and a defensive specialist challenged Chen Fan, only to be knocked unconscious by one punch.
• A speed-focused prodigy challenged Chen Fan, who struck him down with a single move before he could gain an advantage.
• Chen Fan's three victories silenced the crowd, and he looked past the higher-ranked students to Hong Yi.
• Chen Fan skipped past Hong Yi and challenged Qin Wuyue, leaving Hong Yi furious and humiliated.
• Qin Wuyue accepted the challenge, stepped onto the platform, and displayed Qi and Blood of 75.2 calories.

Chen Fan revealed 73.2 calories of Qi and Blood and fought Qin Wuyue to a draw, shocking the arena. Instructor Feng Lie declared them tied for first.

• Qin Wuyue’s Qi and Blood test showed 75.2 calories, and spectators expected her to defeat Chen Fan.
• Chen Fan stopped holding back and tested at 73.2 calories of Qi and Blood, stunning the arena and making Hong Yi realize how far beneath him he was.
• Qin Wuyue treated Chen Fan as her equal, and the match began as she attacked with a flurry of sword strikes.
• Chen Fan countered with his Pinnacle Realm Five Elements Fist and Star Fist Intent, and both fighters exchanged blows before stepping back three paces.
• Qin Wuyue bled from her sword hand while Chen Fan bore a shallow sword mark, and Instructor Feng Lie declared them tied for first.

Hong Yi challenged Chen Fan after watching his fight with Qin Wuyue, but Chen Fan defeated him with one precise punch. Feng Lie declared Chen Fan and Qin Wuyue tied for first and ordered the prodigies to prepare for their first real lesson.

• Hong Yi challenged Chen Fan and offered to wait an hour so Chen Fan could recover, but Chen Fan refused.
• Hong Yi unleashed Hong Sect Threefold Waves with his 69.5 cal of Qi and Blood.
• Chen Fan found an opening in Hong Yi's attack and struck it with Five Elements Fist, sending Hong Yi flying and leaving him unconscious.
• Feng Lie praised Chen Fan's victory, declared Chen Fan and Qin Wuyue tied for first, and ordered the prodigies to report to the training ground at seven the next morning.

Chen Fan asked Instructor Feng Lie to teach him a weapon-based martial art after mastering the Five Elements Fist, then chose Five Elements Basic Swordplay at the Arsenal. He received the inheritance and absorbed its principles, leaving Feng Lie eager to see how far he would develop it.

• After the other students left, Qin Wuyue meditated while Chen Fan approached Instructor Feng Lie and asked to learn a weapon-based martial art.
• Chen Fan told Feng Lie he had cultivated the Five Elements Fist to the Pinnacle Realm and had time to learn another basic art, so Feng Lie took him to the Arsenal.
• Chen Fan examined the basic swordplay techniques and chose Five Elements Basic Swordplay because it shared the Five Elements foundation of his existing martial arts.
• Feng Lie transferred the swordplay inheritance to Chen Fan, who quickly absorbed its essential principles and five basic movements.