Chapter Summaries

Xiao Han entered a hidden ruin tied to his twin Martial Souls and discovered frescoes depicting their ancient origins and a disastrous war. A powerful guardian attacked him, leaving him badly wounded as the chapter ended.

• Xiao Han found himself trapped in a twisted corridor after the Black Fog Forest vanished, and the Eternal Night King Martial Soul guided him through the unstable space.
• Xiao Han reached a ruined grand hall and saw frescoes showing the Chaos Green Lotus and Eternal Night Monarch battling strange enemies before their defeat and dispersal across worlds.
• Xiao Han wondered whether his transmigration and twin Martial Souls were connected to the ancient war depicted in the frescoes.
• A Martial Grandmaster Realm ruin guardian emerged from the shadows and struck Xiao Han with a spatial shadow ray.
• Xiao Han dodged most of the attack with A Step to the Ends of the Earth, but the ray cut his shoulder and drove destructive energy into his body before the Chaos Green Lotus began healing him.

Xiao Han was nearly killed by the ruin guardian’s swift, spatially distorting attacks, but the God-Level Choice System offered him escape or a near-impossible fight. He chose to challenge the Martial Grandmaster Realm guardian, awakened both Martial Souls at full power, and charged into its next strike with the Annihilation Divine Fist.

• The guardian struck Xiao Han from behind, tore through his shadow shield, and left him gravely wounded despite the Chaos Green Lotus healing him.
• As the guardian gathered energy for another attack, the God-Level Choice System offered Xiao Han a costly escape or a chance to defeat the guardian and claim the ruin’s core inheritance.
• Xiao Han rejected escape and chose to fight for the Shadow Void Scripture, an Eternal Night King Martial Soul evolution opportunity, and a clue to the next Annihilation Divine Fist fragment.
• The Chaos Green Lotus and Eternal Night Monarch manifested at full power, expanding their opposing Domain Prototypes and restoring Xiao Han’s strength.
• Xiao Han charged the guardian and unleashed the Annihilation Divine Fist, combining its fist intent with dark energy.

Xiao Han survived the guardian’s overwhelming attack by exploiting its momentary surprise and striking its black crystal core with a fusion of his Martial Souls’ powers. He cracked the crystal but was gravely injured, and the enraged guardian turned its full killing intent on him.

• The guardian’s destructive energy overwhelmed Xiao Han, whose injuries worsened despite the Chaos Green Lotus’s efforts to heal him.
• The guardian briefly reacted with surprise when the phantoms of Xiao Han’s two Martial Souls fully manifested, giving him an opening.
• Xiao Han used A Step to the Ends of the Earth to evade the guardian’s attack and struck its chest crystal with Annihilation Divine Fist.
• Xiao Han’s fused powers cracked the guardian’s crystal, causing it to roar in pain and release a violent energy storm.
• The storm hurled Xiao Han into a ruined pillar, but the Chaos Green Lotus kept him alive as he realized the guardian could be wounded.
• The guardian saw the crack in its core and became enraged, directing icy killing intent at Xiao Han.

Xiao Han struggled to evade the guardian’s pitch-black war spear while using his Martial Souls to endure his injuries and study its attacks. He provoked the guardian into a faster, more targeted assault, leaving himself trapped in a shrinking cage of spatial blades.

• The guardian forged a pitch-black war spear from darkness and shattered space, and Xiao Han realized he was too exhausted to block it.
• Xiao Han used “A Step to the Ends of the Earth” with his Eternal Night King Martial Soul to dodge the spear, but spatial rifts and shockwaves badly wounded him.
• The Chaos Green Lotus Martial Soul tried to heal Xiao Han, while its light and his Eternal Night Monarch’s heightened perception helped him detect fluctuations in the guardian’s attacks.
• Xiao Han noticed the guardian’s chest crystal and several body points flashed with energy during its spatial attacks, and he suspected those points were nodes controlling its precision.
• Xiao Han changed his evasions to move closer to the guardian and taunted it into changing its attack pattern.
• The guardian unleashed rapid, narrow spatial blades that predicted Xiao Han’s dodges and steadily closed off his room to escape.

Xiao Han discovered that the guardian's rapidly changing attack relied on vulnerable energy nodes, then gambled his remaining strength on a concentrated Annihilation Divine Fist. He fused the power of his two Martial Souls and charged straight for the black crystal at the guardian's core as it prepared a killing blow.

• The guardian's spatial cuts tore into Xiao Han's leg and waist, suppressing the Chaos Green Lotus's healing.
• Xiao Han realized the guardian's violent energy fluctuations revealed the nodes supporting its attack pattern.
• As the guardian gathered energy for a stronger strike, Xiao Han concentrated his remaining power into the Annihilation Divine Fist.
• Xiao Han burned his life essence and fused annihilation, darkness, and purification through the power of the Chaos Green Lotus and Eternal Night Monarch.
• Xiao Han used A Step to the Ends of the Earth to charge at the guardian and target the black crystal at the center of its energy.

Xiao Han risked being gravely wounded to strike the guardian’s core crystal, cracking it and sending the guardian into a destructive rage. Though badly injured, he survived and began evading its erratic attacks, sensing a possible opening.

• Xiao Han used A Step to the Ends of the Earth to slip past the guardian’s spear at the cost of losing his left shoulder and part of his chest.
• Xiao Han struck the guardian’s core crystal with his right fist and spread cracks across it.
• The guardian’s damaged core caused its spear energy to explode, hurling Xiao Han into a wall and leaving him near death.
• The guardian unleashed chaotic blades of fractured space throughout the sacrificial hall while Xiao Han’s Chaos Green Lotus kept him alive and repaired his body.
• Xiao Han pulled himself from the wall and dodged the spatial blades, taking another wound as he recognized that the guardian’s rage had weakened its precision.
• Xiao Han began circulating the Creation-Heaven-Penetrating Art to draw power from the surrounding chaotic energy.

Xiao Han formed an unstable Domain by merging the Chaos Green Lotus and Eternal Night Monarch’s powers, giving him a brief reprieve against the guardian. As the guardian’s core began to heal, Xiao Han searched the sacrificial hall’s murals for a way to defeat it and spotted a depiction of the same hall at the end of an ancient battle.

• Xiao Han forced the Chaos Green Lotus and Eternal Night Monarch’s Domain powers to overlap, weakening the guardian’s suppression and making his evasive movements easier.
• Xiao Han harassed the guardian with Annihilation Fist Intent, but noticed its cracked core slowly healing from the surrounding shadow energy.
• Xiao Han searched the sacrificial hall’s murals and pillars for information about the guardian, but the guardian struck him and tore flesh from his waist.
• The system told Xiao Han it had given him a hint and warned that the guardian would soon recover fully.
• Xiao Han studied the murals, saw the guardian among the enemies’ servants or weapons, and recognized the sacrificial hall in a scene depicting the end of the ancient battle.

Xiao Han discovered that the guardian was controlled by a runic network throughout the sacrificial hall, with its chest crystal serving as the network’s hub. He raced toward a rune-covered pillar despite the guardian’s desperate assault, and prepared to strike with the last of his power.

• Xiao Han sensed a connection between his Eternal Night King Martial Soul and the ruins, revealing runes hidden in the hall’s pillars and murals.
• Xiao Han understood that the guardian drew power from the ruins through a network of runic nodes, and that the nodes were its true weakness.
• Xiao Han changed course and moved toward a rune-covered stone pillar.
• The guardian abandoned repairing its chest crystal and unleashed a fierce attack to stop Xiao Han from reaching the pillar.
• Xiao Han poured his remaining spiritual and origin power into his legs and right fist.

Xiao Han destroyed the core rune in the stone pillar, weakening the Guardian but triggering a lethal energy backlash that trapped him. Facing attacks from both sides, he gambled everything on striking the cracked crystal in the Guardian’s chest, and his fist began dissolving the incoming forces as the Guardian showed terror.

• Xiao Han charged through the Guardian’s spatial blades and smashed the stone pillar’s core rune with his fist.
• The shattered rune destabilized the pillar’s energy and weakened the Guardian, but its backlash pinned Xiao Han against the pillar as the Guardian’s beam pursued him.
• Xiao Han recognized the Guardian’s cracked chest crystal as its vulnerable point and gathered his remaining strength for a final attack.
• The Chaos Green Lotus poured life force into Xiao Han as he merged his powers into a fist that dissolved the backlash and the edge of the Guardian’s beam.
• The Guardian showed terror as Xiao Han’s chaotic fist advanced toward its chest crystal.

Xiao Han defeated the ruins guardian despite his far lower cultivation, earning major system rewards before collapsing from his injuries. As the Chaos Green Lotus began healing him, he struggled to sit up and discovered a deep, rotating energy vortex where the guardian had vanished.

• Xiao Han shattered the guardian's black crystal core with his final punch, causing the guardian to disintegrate.
• The system awarded Xiao Han an SSS+ evaluation, the title Fate-Defying Grandmaster Slayer, access to parts of the ruins' core area, an evolution opportunity for his Eternal Night King Martial Soul, and a clue to the Annihilation Divine Fist fragments.
• Xiao Han collapsed from his severe injuries, and the Chaos Green Lotus began slowly restoring his body and soul.
• After regaining a little strength, Xiao Han forced himself to sit against the wall and saw a dark energy vortex rotating where the guardian had disappeared.

Xiao Han touched the Shadow Vortex and received the Shadow Void Scripture along with vast shadow and spatial energy. He began cultivating the inheritance as his Eternal Night King Martial Soul evolved and his body recovered.

• Xiao Han dragged his wounded body to the Shadow Vortex, which called to his Eternal Night King Martial Soul.
• Xiao Han touched the vortex and received the Shadow Void Scripture, immense energy, and fragmented information about the Chaos Green Lotus and the Eternal Night Monarch.
• The Chaos Green Lotus used some of the energy to heal Xiao Han, while the Eternal Night King Martial Soul absorbed the shadow origin and power of space and evolved.
• Xiao Han discovered that the Shadow Void Scripture complemented his Creation-Heaven-Penetrating Art.
• Xiao Han sat cross-legged before the vortex and began cultivating the Shadow Void Scripture.

Xiao Han used the Shadow Vortex and the Shadow Void Scripture to refine its inheritance energy, coordinating his cultivation arts and Martial Souls as he advanced into the Martial Master Realm. He emerged with Shadow Void Gang Qi and heightened senses.

• Xiao Han coordinated the Creation-Heaven-Penetrating Art, the Shadow Void Scripture, the Eternal Night King Martial Soul, and the Chaos Green Lotus to absorb and refine the Shadow Vortex's energy.
• Xiao Han broke through the Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Levels of the Warrior Realm, reaching the peak of the Ninth Level.
• Xiao Han used his understanding of shadow and space to condense gang qi and break through to the Martial Master Realm.
• Xiao Han sensed the spiritual qi around him with newfound clarity and manifested a wisp of sharp, devouring Shadow Void Gang Qi at his fingertip.

Xiao Han absorbed energy from the Shadow Vortex and advanced from the Sixth Level of the Warrior Realm to the Third Level of the Martial Master Realm, while his Martial Souls and fighting strength grew substantially. He explored the ruin’s core chamber, collected rare shadow and spatial treasures, and noticed figures in unusual poses carved into a wall.

• Xiao Han’s cultivation surged to the Third Level of the Martial Master Realm as the Shadow Vortex’s energy poured into him.
• Xiao Han assessed his recovery, strengthened body and soul, and transformed Chaos Green Lotus and Eternal Night King Martial Souls.
• Xiao Han decided to explore the sacrificial hall’s core area now that the guardian no longer blocked his way.
• Xiao Han collected more than a dozen Void Dark Crystals and all the Solidified Shadow Essence he could find.
• Xiao Han spotted a relatively intact stone wall carved with human figures striking strange poses.

Xiao Han discovered three later moves of the Annihilation Divine Fist, then escaped the collapsing ruins with the Shadow Void Scripture and the evolved Eternal Night King Martial Soul. He headed for the secret realm’s exit while avoiding other Martial Artists, anticipating the reaction to his disappearance.

• Xiao Han studied the stone wall’s three new Annihilation Divine Fist moves and used one to briefly warp space.
• Xiao Han gathered his gains as the sacrificial hall trembled and began to collapse, then used the Shadow Void Scripture to conceal himself.
• The entrance barrier recognized Xiao Han’s shadow and spatial power, let him pass, and vanished behind him into the Black Mist Forest.
• Xiao Han sensed Martial Artists near the secret realm’s exit and chose to avoid them rather than reveal his increased strength.
• Xiao Han used A Step to the Ends of the Earth, enhanced by his new mastery of shadows and space, to race toward the exit unseen.

Xiao Han returned from the Black Mist Forest after others had assumed he was dead, disguising his strength and injuries to avoid drawing attention. At the registration desk, he revealed himself to Zero Class’s instructor Qin Zhen, then submitted only a few low-level beast cores.

• Xiao Han traveled toward the secret realm’s exit, avoiding other students and silently killing the few exotic beasts he encountered.
• Near the exit, Xiao Han overheard students say he had gone missing and was probably dead, while Qin Zhen watched for returning Zero Class students.
• Xiao Han suppressed his aura, faked wounds, and dirtied his clothes before leaving the secret realm.
• In the central square, Qin Zhen tensed when Xiao Han appeared, and Xiao Han registered his name and class.
• Xiao Han handed over a few ordinary low-level exotic beast cores instead of his valuable trophy.

Xiao Han returned from the secret realm with only five low-grade crystal cores and convinced Qin Zhen that bad luck had kept him from gaining much. He concealed his true gains and came back to the Zero Class rest area, where Xia Yubing welcomed him and Luo Bing challenged his survival.

• Xiao Han submitted three Ironback Gray Wolf crystal cores and two Shadow Leopard crystal cores, and the registration instructor recorded his evaluation as a pass.
• Qin Zhen questioned Xiao Han about the secret realm, and Xiao Han claimed he had been separated from his team, fled through a dangerous area, and gained little.
• Qin Zhen let Xiao Han leave but remained suspicious, while Xiao Han privately celebrated his hidden power and inheritance.
• Xia Yubing hurried to greet Xiao Han and expressed relief that he had returned safely.
• Luo Bing mocked Xiao Han for surviving the secret realm, and Qin Zhen appeared at the entrance to the rest area.

Xiao Han returned from the secret realm and explained his breakthrough as a lucky result of cultivating in an energy-rich area. Luo Bing challenged him to prove his worth in a sparring match, and the God-Level Choice System offered Xiao Han a choice between refusing and defeating Luo Bing.

• Qin Zhen questioned Xiao Han about abnormal energy absorption, and Xiao Han claimed he had hidden and cultivated in a dense-energy area until he reached the Peak Ninth Level of the Warrior Realm.
• Qin Zhen accepted Xiao Han's explanation for the time being, though his scrutiny remained.
• Luo Bing accused Xiao Han of hiding and mocked his Martial Souls, then challenged him to a sparring match to test whether he belonged in Zero Class.
• The God-Level Choice System presented Xiao Han with options to refuse the challenge or accept it and defeat Luo Bing, offering rewards for either choice.

Xiao Han accepted Luo Bing’s challenge despite the vast gap in their apparent cultivation, and the two entered Zero Class’s training ground before a crowd of spectators. After Qin Zhen started the duel, Luo Bing launched Ice Spikes at Xiao Han, whose response was left unresolved.

• Xiao Han accepted Luo Bing’s exchange match, reassuring the worried Xia Yubing while Luo Bing reacted angrily.
• Luo Bing led Xiao Han to Zero Class’s training ground, and Qin Zhen followed to watch the match.
• News of the challenge spread through the academy, drawing a large crowd that mostly expected Luo Bing to win quickly.
• Luo Bing revealed his peak Fifth Level Martial Master Realm cultivation and Frost Domain Prototype, while Xiao Han remained calm under the pressure.
• Qin Zhen announced the rules and started the duel, and Luo Bing attacked Xiao Han with dozens of Ice Spikes.

Xiao Han effortlessly evaded Luo Bing’s full-strength Ice Prison with his refined footwork, then exploited Luo Bing’s lapse to appear beside him and strike. The chapter ended as Luo Bing faced Xiao Han’s seemingly ordinary but terrifying punch.

• Luo Bing unleashed Ice Prison, filling the training field with ice spikes and blades aimed at Xiao Han.
• Xiao Han calmly dodged the attack with A Step to the Ends of the Earth, leaving Luo Bing’s ice unable to touch him.
• Luo Bing grew enraged and doubled the intensity of his attacks, but Xiao Han continued evading them.
• When Luo Bing’s breathing faltered and his attack rhythm broke, Xiao Han vanished and reappeared less than half a meter away.
• Xiao Han sent a seemingly harmless fist toward Luo Bing’s chest, and Luo Bing realized he could not escape or defend in time.

Xiao Han defeated Luo Bing with one punch, revealing strength at the Third Level of the Martial Master Realm and stunning the crowd. He left the Zero Class rest area as rumors about his hidden power spread across the Imperial Capital Academy.

• Xiao Han shattered Luo Bing’s frost armor and sent him flying unconscious with a single punch.
• The crowd erupted in disbelief, while Xia Yubing and Instructor Qin Zhen were shocked by Xiao Han’s strength.
• Xiao Han calmly left the training ground, satisfied that he had increased his Shadow Void Scripture proficiency by thirty percent.
• Students carried Luo Bing toward the medical room and debated Xiao Han’s speed, strength, and two SSS+ Martial Souls.
• News of the fight spread through the academy, and its internal forum exploded.