Chapter Summaries

Chen Fan defeated Sun Rui with one finger and was named captain of the school team for the Tiannan Junior High Exchange Tournament. Wei Tianlong revealed that their rival Zhou Ye had reached 124 calories of qi and blood, while Chen Fan remained calm.

• Sun Rui attacked Chen Fan, who knocked him unconscious with a single finger and challenged Lu Qing and Xiao Ran to fight him together.
• Wei Tianlong entered the meeting room and sent medical workers to collect Sun Rui, describing him as having fainted from overtraining.
• Wei Tianlong announced that Chen Fan would captain the school team by joint decision of the principal and Teacher Gu Ci.
• Lu Qing swallowed his objections, while Xiao Ran silently regarded Chen Fan.
• Wei Tianlong showed the team a projection of Zhou Ye and revealed that Tiannan Middle School's top third-year student had reached 124 calories of qi and blood.
• Lu Qing and Xiao Ran reacted with grave concern, but Chen Fan watched the projection calmly.

Chen Fan traveled with Gu Ci, Lu Qing, and Xiao Ran to the No. 3 Exotic Beast Isolation Zone for an exchange competition. Gu Ci revealed why Chen Fan needed to win the individual battle and announced that he would take the high school entrance examination after the competition, while a rival school's students awaited their arrival.

• Wei Tianlong led Chen Fan, Lu Qing, and Xiao Ran to a hovercar, where he respectfully greeted the gray-robed Gu Ci.
• Gu Ci told Chen Fan that winning first place could earn him a Crimson Flame Earthheart Lotus, which he needed to break through the 112-calorie barrier.
• Gu Ci revealed that Chen Fan had reached 111 calories and planned to register him for next month's high school entrance examination; Chen Fan calmly agreed, stunning Lu Qing and Xiao Ran.
• The hovercar entered the No. 3 Exotic Beast Isolation Zone and landed on a steel platform beside aircraft from other schools.
• A tall, broad youth in black uniform watched the Jiangnan No. 1 High School hovercar descend with a provocative gaze.

Gu Ci led Jiangnan No. 1 High School’s team into the No. 3 Exotic Beast Isolation Zone, where his killing intent cowed Tiannan Middle School’s Zhou Ye and humbled Lu Qing and Xiao Ran. After learning Gu Ci’s fearsome reputation, Zhou Ye focused his resentment on Chen Fan, deciding he could provoke the young student instead.

• Gu Ci and Chen Fan stepped out of the hovercar with Lu Qing and Xiao Ran at the No. 3 Exotic Beast Isolation Zone.
• Zhou Ye mocked Chen Fan for being too young to compete, and Gu Ci’s killing intent left him unable to move or speak.
• Director Wang apologized to Gu Ci, who warned that Zhou Ye would have died repeatedly if he had behaved that way on the front line.
• Lu Qing and Xiao Ran lost their remaining objections to Chen Fan being captain after witnessing Gu Ci’s power.
• Director Wang told Zhou Ye that Gu Ci was a front-line veteran who was not to be provoked, and explained that he had recently taken Chen Fan as a student.
• Zhou Ye recognized Chen Fan as Gu Ci’s student and decided to take out his frustration on him.

Chen Fan entered the Quarantine Zone for the martial competition and immediately left his teammates behind to venture deeper alone. Lu Qing and Xiao Ran were left wondering whether they were merely burdens to him.

• Gu Ci led Chen Fan, Lu Qing, and Xiao Ran to the preparation area, where teachers warned their students not to provoke Jiangnan No. 1 High School.
• Lei Zhan announced that students would earn points by killing Anomalous Beasts or stealing opponents’ point bracelets, and that the individual champion would receive the Crimson Flame Earthheart Lotus.
• Zhou Ye revealed his 124-calorie Qi and Blood power and declared that the prize was his, but Chen Fan mocked him as resembling Jiahao.
• The Quarantine Zone opened, and Chen Fan entered with Lu Qing and Xiao Ran before telling them to choose their own approach.
• Chen Fan used a swift movement technique to disappear among the rocks, leaving Lu Qing and Xiao Ran behind to question his contempt for them.

Lu Qing and Xiao Ran continued into the wasteland while Chen Fan hunted alone, quickly deciding that killing low-tier beasts would not earn points fast enough. He approached a team from Tiannan No. 3 High School, whose captain recognized his Jiangnan No. 1 uniform and ordered his team to retreat.

• Lu Qing and Xiao Ran stuck to their original plan and advanced in the opposite direction from Chen Fan.
• Chen Fan killed a Black-Scaled Iron Wolf with a single fingertip strike and earned 10 points.
• After seeing Zhou Ye lead the leaderboard with 78 points, Chen Fan used the map to target a nearby group of five students.
• Zhang Heng and his Tiannan No. 3 High School team nearly defeated an Earthspike Boar before Zhang Heng sensed Chen Fan approaching.
• A teammate warned Zhang Heng not to provoke Jiangnan No. 1 High School, so Zhang Heng ordered the team to leave the boar and retreat.

Chen Fan pursued the five-person team from Tiannan No. 3 High School and told them he intended to take their points. After defeating them when they attacked, he seized their points and rose to ninth place.

• Zhang Heng and the four other students tried to escape Chen Fan, but he kept following them until Zhang Heng confronted him.
• Chen Fan pointed to Zhang Heng’s Points Terminal and said he was taking their points.
• Zhang Heng ordered the team to attack Chen Fan, but Chen Fan slipped through their encirclement and incapacitated two students in under three seconds.
• Chen Fan knocked the two remaining teammates unconscious with a punch, leaving Zhang Heng too frightened to resist.
• Chen Fan forcibly seized the team’s points, bringing his total to 364 and his rank to ninth place.

Chen Fan wondered why Zhou Ye’s score had reached 1,000 while his own remained low, as inspectors retrieved the incapacitated Tiannan No. 3 High School team. In the command center, a replay revealed Chen Fan’s effortless defeat of the team, and Commander Lei Zhan concluded that the nine-year-old had broken through the Qi and Blood Barrier, though Gu Ci dismissed him as too slow and Director Wang pointed to Zhou Ye’s greater Qi and Blood.

• Chen Fan noticed his ninth-place score was just over 300 points, while Zhou Ye had already reached 1,000.
• Two Education General Administration inspectors confirmed the Tiannan No. 3 High School team was incapacitated and requested medical retrieval.
• Director Liu watched the team’s five tracking points turn gray, then accused Zhou Ye of eliminating them.
• Commander Lei Zhan ordered a replay of Zhang Heng’s wristband footage, which showed Chen Fan defeating the five students with ease.
• Lei Zhan judged that Chen Fan had broken through the Qi and Blood Barrier, stunning the gathered teachers.
• Gu Ci called Chen Fan a little too slow, while Director Wang argued that Zhou Ye was already a Qi-Blood Realm martial artist.

Chen Fan defeated Tiannan No. 5 High School’s team and rose to sixth place, then headed straight for Zhou Ye. Zhou Ye had reached 1,358 points and planned to claim the Crimson Flame Earthheart Lotus to advance his Qi and Blood.

• Director Wang pointed to Zhou Ye’s 1,200-point lead as the command center watched the rankings, but Chen Fan’s name soon jumped from ninth to sixth.
• Chen Fan disguised himself as a timid child, then swiftly knocked out Tiannan No. 5 High School’s four-person team and took their 306 points.
• Chen Fan’s total reached 670 points and sixth place, and he set off toward Zhou Ye’s location on the map.
• Zhou Ye defeated a Steel-Armored Rhinoceros with help from two exhausted teammates, who transferred their points to him.
• Zhou Ye’s score reached 1,358, and he declared that he would take the Crimson Flame Earthheart Lotus and aim for the Blue Star Training Camp.

Chen Fan confronted Zhou Ye in the Quarantine Zone after mocking him for taking points from teammates, while the command center watched their encounter. Zhou Ye's attack was stopped cold in Chen Fan's palm, leaving their clash unresolved.

• Chen Fan appeared on a boulder and offered to take Zhou Ye's Steel-Armored Rhinoceros carcass and points.
• Zhou Ye unleashed his 124 calories of Qi and Blood, and Commander-in-Chief Lei Zhan ordered their encounter shown on the command center's main screen.
• Director Wang dismissed Chen Fan's chances against Zhou Ye, but Gu Ci said Chen Fan had already killed someone in the Qi-Blood Realm.
• Zhou Ye charged Chen Fan with Raging Wave Fist, and Chen Fan caught the punch with his palm, stopping it completely.

Chen Fan defeated Zhou Ye with one punch to claim first place in the competition and received the Crimson Flame Earthheart Lotus as his champion’s reward. Gu Ci took him back to Jiangnan No. 1 High School to pursue a breakthrough toward 112 calories, then made a long-sealed call after Chen Fan entered the training room.

• Chen Fan overpowered Zhou Ye, knocked him unconscious with one punch, and rose to first place with 2028 points.
• Lei Zhan ended the competition early and awarded Chen Fan the Crimson Flame Earthheart Lotus, then invited him to join the Azure Edge Training Camp.
• Gu Ci refused Lei Zhan’s recruitment attempt and took Chen Fan away from the ceremony.
• Gu Ci told Chen Fan to use the lotus and Star Power for Ice-Fire Body Tempering and reach 112 calories within three days, invoking the path of the White Emperor.
• Chen Fan entered the A-Level Gravity Training Room, and Gu Ci called someone using a special encrypted communicator.

Gu Ci demanded that an old contact reserve a Blue Star Training Camp slot for Chen Fan a year in advance, then watched over him as he swallowed the Crimson Flame Earthheart Lotus. Chen Fan forced its fire energy to collide with his Star Power, and his consciousness fell into darkness as his body began to break down.

• Gu Ci told an old contact that his student needed a Blue Star Training Camp slot, and the old man agreed to secure one despite the cost.
• Gu Ci revealed that Chen Fan would report in a year, then ended the call after the old man angrily demanded to know why he needed a slot now.
• Chen Fan swallowed the Crimson Flame Earthheart Lotus inside the Class A Gravity Training Room and circulated the Star-Transferring Blood Art.
• The lotus's fire energy collided with Chen Fan's Star Power, scorching and freezing his body until his meridians began to crack.
• Chen Fan refused to stop and drove the opposing forces into a more violent collision, then lost consciousness as his body split with bloody gashes.

Chen Fan emerged from his breakthrough with strengthened meridians and star-infused Qi and Blood, then learned that Gu Ci had rejected Lei Zhan’s training camp offer for him. Gu Ci revealed the Invincible Path’s risks and ultimate goal: defeating the White Emperor for the Martial God’s throne.

• Chen Fan shed the black crust covering his body and discovered his meridians and Qi and Blood had been transformed.
• Chen Fan tested his power and reached 113.0 calories.
• Gu Ci praised Chen Fan, explained the elite training camps, and said he had reserved him a place at the Blue Star Training Camp if he could follow the White Emperor’s path.
• Gu Ci described the Invincible Path, warning that a single fair defeat would shatter its practitioner’s Dao Heart, and recounted a former genius who had been ruined by such a loss.
• Chen Fan chose to pursue the path despite its danger and asked about its rewards.
• Gu Ci revealed that the path’s end was the Martial God’s throne, which Chen Fan could claim only by defeating the White Emperor.

After breaking through, Chen Fan traveled from Jiangnan to Jiangbei to challenge the region’s top prodigy, Shen Xuan. Gu Ci abandoned him outside Jiangbei First Martial Dao Middle School, where Chen Fan unleashed his 113 calories of Qi and Blood and challenged the strongest student.

• Gu Ci told Chen Fan to defeat the top prodigies across Blue Star’s four regions, beginning with Shen Xuan of Jiangbei.
• After a night’s rest, Chen Fan found his new 113 calories of Qi and Blood fully integrated with his body.
• Gu Ci and Chen Fan left Jiangnan in a military hovercar as Principal Zhang Weimin worriedly saw them off.
• At Jiangbei First Martial Dao Middle School, Gu Ci told Chen Fan to provoke the students, then flew away and left him alone.
• Chen Fan released his overwhelming Qi and Blood in the school plaza and challenged the strongest student to fight.

Chen Fan challenged Jiangbei No. 1 High School and effortlessly defeated four students who attacked him. When Zhou Yi and two other prodigies confronted him, Chen Fan dismissed them as too weak and demanded a stronger opponent.

• Chen Fan announced his challenge at Jiangbei No. 1 High School, drawing mockery from the students gathered at the gate.
• A Discipline Department student tried to throw Chen Fan out, but Chen Fan struck him with one finger and knocked him unconscious.
• Three senior high students attacked Chen Fan together, but he evaded them and knocked all three unconscious in seconds.
• Zhou Yi and two other junior high prodigies stepped forward and threatened Chen Fan.
• Chen Fan turned to face them, called them too weak, and demanded that someone else come out.

Shen Xuan interrupted Zhou Yi and the other Jiangbei students before they could attack Chen Fan, then challenged him to fight at the Central Martial Arts Arena. Chen Fan accepted and refused time to recover, and Shen Xuan unleashed his Qi and Blood as their duel began.

• Shen Xuan watched Chen Fan fight from outside the school and admitted to his teacher that Chen Fan's Qi and Blood and control surpassed his own, but vowed to defend Jiangbei No. 1 High School's honor.
• Shen Xuan stopped Zhou Yi's punch and neutralized the other two Prodigies' attacks, then formally challenged Chen Fan to settle the dispute at the Central Martial Arts Arena.
• Chen Fan accepted Shen Xuan's challenge, and the two walked to the arena as Jiangbei students watched and cheered.
• At the arena, Shen Xuan offered Chen Fan fifteen minutes to rest, but Chen Fan declined and said he was in a hurry.
• Shen Xuan recognized Chen Fan's calm as confidence rather than arrogance, clenched his fists, and released a vast torrent of scorching Qi and Blood.

Chen Fan defeated Jiangbei’s top Middle School Division prodigy, Shen Xuan, with one punch, then challenged three High School Division martial artists to fight him together. The vice principal stopped the seniors from interfering, but Chen Fan invited them to face him anyway.

• Shen Xuan unleashed his Great Sun Fist, but Chen Fan revealed 113 calories of golden Qi and Blood and defeated him with one punch.
• Shen Xuan accepted his defeat, bowed to Chen Fan, and admitted that Chen Fan’s Qi and Blood was superior in quality.
• Three High School Division martial artists rose from the stands and threatened to teach Chen Fan a lesson.
• Jiangbei No. 1 High School’s vice principal intervened, berated the three seniors, and ordered them to leave.
• Chen Fan stopped the seniors from leaving and challenged all three Qi-Blood Realm martial artists to fight him together.

Chen Fan faced three Qi-Blood Realm students from Jiangbei No. 1 High School after Liu Kun accepted his challenge. He defeated all three within three seconds, leaving Jiangbei’s teachers and students stunned.

• Liu Kun accepted Chen Fan’s request for instruction and ordered Ma Feng and two companions to fight him.
• The three students used a Triangle Formation to attack Chen Fan, who slipped through their encirclement and knocked one unconscious with a single strike.
• Ma Feng and the remaining student attacked together, but Chen Fan’s Five Elements Fist overwhelmed their Qi and Blood and sent them crashing down.
• Chen Fan thanked Liu Kun as the defeated students lay motionless and the arena fell silent.

After Chen Fan defeated Jiangbei’s students, Gu Ci revealed that Chen Fan had begun walking the Invincible Path, and Liu Kun ordered Shen Xuan to follow him. Gu Ci chose Jiangdong Women’s Martial Dao Middle School as their next target, while Liu Kun anonymously publicized Chen Fan’s exploits on a martial arts forum.

• Liu Kun dismissed the students after Chen Fan’s victory left Jiangbei No. 1 High School’s pride shattered.
• Liu Kun confronted Gu Ci for putting nine-year-old Chen Fan on the dangerous Invincible Path, but Gu Ci said Chen Fan could handle it.
• Liu Kun ordered Shen Xuan to follow Chen Fan, and Shen Xuan accepted despite his defeat.
• Chen Fan agreed to let Shen Xuan join them, and Gu Ci chose Jiangdong Women’s Martial Dao Middle School as their next stop.
• Gu Ci took Chen Fan and Shen Xuan away in a military hovercar, while Liu Kun anonymously posted an exaggerated account of the battle on Martial Dao Home.

On the hovercar ride, Gu Ci explained the dangers of Psychic Masters to Chen Fan as he prepared to face Su Qingyue. Chen Fan wondered whether he could become a Psychic Master himself.

• Chen Fan read Su Qingyue’s profile and learned that she was a 15-year-old Psychic Master preparing to break through the Mental Gate.
• Shen Xuan warned Chen Fan that Psychic Masters could create illusions, manipulate memories, attack the soul, and use psychic power to control objects.
• Gu Ci explained that Psychic Object Manipulation could wield matter with immense force and that psychic secret arts could block physical attacks and strike the spiritual sea.
• Chen Fan concluded that he would need to evade Su Qingyue’s attacks and break through her invisible shield, then asked Gu Ci whether he could become a Psychic Master.

Gu Ci dropped Chen Fan and Shen Xuan outside Jiangdong, claiming they should adapt to the spiritual energy, then hurried away. When they reached Jiangdong Women's Martial Dao Middle School, the girls recognized them from a viral forum post and swarmed them as fans.

• Gu Ci told Chen Fan that spiritual power talent was innate and offered to take him for testing after they settled in Jiangdong.
• Gu Ci stopped the hovercar ten kilometers from the city, set Chen Fan and Shen Xuan down in the countryside, and sped away.
• Chen Fan and Shen Xuan walked toward Jiangdong Women's Martial Dao Middle School, where Shen Xuan grew increasingly nervous about challenging the girls there.
• A student recognized Chen Fan and Shen Xuan from a Martial Dao Home Forum post about Chen Fan sweeping through Jiangbei.
• The girls crowded around Chen Fan and Shen Xuan with questions and praise, leaving Shen Xuan flustered and eager to fight his way out.