Chapter Summaries

Shi Tiexin trained hard before returning to Boxin Amusement City, where he defeated a growing series of challengers and rapidly sharpened his game sense. After he cleanly beat two quasi-professional players, the Boxin owner realized ordinary challengers could no longer test him and planned to bring in real experts the next day.

• Shi Tiexin replenished his pseudo-core, trained in the Hard Qi Technique, and recovered with help from his incarnations.
• The Boxin owner drew a larger crowd and arranged challengers of increasing skill to build Boxin’s reputation and give Shi Tiexin experience.
• Shi Tiexin defeated veteran players, including Fat Liu, Ponytail Twin Guns Jie, and the trap-setting Da Zha Bi, while learning from each match.
• Shi Tiexin beat the precise-shooting quasi-professional One Shot Meow Meow in a brief direct gunfight.
• The Boxin owner revised his estimate of Shi Tiexin’s ability and decided to arrange real experts to challenge him the following day.

On the third day of defending the arena, Shi Tiexin prepared for the strongest challengers and met with Boss Boxin, who questioned his motives and offered him a place on the team. Boss Boxin planned to send Xiao K against him, exploiting a weakness in Shi Tiexin’s gun control, while keeping his captain in reserve.

• Shi Tiexin wrote business cards and told Xiao Zhang that the day’s matches would decide whether their plan succeeded.
• Before the tournament, Shi Tiexin replenished his vitality, tempered his body, and strengthened his right arm with pink mist.
• At Boxin Amusement Arcade, Shi Tiexin met Boss Boxin, who asked why he was challenging the arena; Shi Tiexin said he only wanted to deliver two more orders.
• After Shi Tiexin left, Boss Boxin and a young man discussed his match videos and decided to send Xiao K rather than risk their captain.
• Boss Boxin instructed the young man to exploit Shi Tiexin’s imperfect gun hold and weaker recoil control, and the young man said Xiao K could win without a second gunshot.

Shi Tiexin faced Boxin Team’s first-string player, Xiao K, in a revolver duel after the team’s owner presented it as a fair test of skill. Xiao K’s planned advantage failed, and Shi Tiexin won with the first shot.

• No professional challengers appeared, so Boss Boxin announced that Xiao K would be Boxin Team’s sole challenger.
• Xiao K proposed a face-to-face duel with old revolvers, hoping their recoil would expose flaws in Shi Tiexin’s gun technique.
• Shi Tiexin accepted the duel, and both players entered a Western town map with identical revolvers.
• At the start signal, Shi Tiexin and Xiao K fired simultaneously, but Xiao K’s shot only grazed Shi Tiexin’s cheek.
• Xiao K’s head was blown apart, and his corpse fell after Shi Tiexin’s winning shot.

Shi Tiexin defeated Xiao K in the deciding match and won Boss Boxin’s Corona Battlefield arena challenge. The crowd celebrated him as the Gun King, and no one else dared to challenge him.

• Boss Boxin realized Shi Tiexin’s apparent flaws with thermal firearms had been genuine, but his own analysis had led him to misread the data.
• Shi Tiexin saw that Xiao K had lost his composure and considered whether to let the deciding match end in a draw.
• Xiao K charged and tried to dodge, but Shi Tiexin shot him before he could fire.
• Shi Tiexin asked the crowd and Boss Boxin if anyone else would challenge him, and no one stepped forward.
• Boss Boxin declared Shi Tiexin the arena champion, and Yin He led the crowd in chanting “Gun King.”

After winning his three-day challenge, Shi Tiexin revealed that he had staged it to promote his takeout delivery work and make connections. The crowd learned he was also a top scholar from an orphanage, and his offer to handle customers’ garbage won him a flood of support as he set off to take orders.

• Shi Tiexin told the crowd that he was a Liang Tuan deliveryman whose challenge had been meant to make people remember him and order takeout from him.
• Xiao Zhang handed out flyers, and Yin He revealed that Shi Tiexin was a top scholar from Muyuan District and an orphan from the Orphanage.
• Yin He asked what made Shi Tiexin’s deliveries special, and Shi Tiexin promised to take responsibility for customers’ trash and garbage sorting.
• The crowd enthusiastically pledged to order from Shi Tiexin, and he put on his delivery uniform and invited them to place orders.

Shi Tiexin built a delivery operation at Boxin and used Garden District’s Dog Gang to test his improved body. The chapter ended with Yin Xiaofei once again named Disciple of the Month.

• Shi Tiexin assigned excess Boxin orders to low-ranking outer sect disciples under strict rules, and Boxin’s daily orders grew to more than four hundred.
• Shi Tiexin returned to Garden District, where a Dog Gang woman sent her native dog to attack him in a secret realm.
• Shi Tiexin defeated the woman and dog, then tied up the native dog so he could enter Garden District without it calling for help.
• Shi Tiexin fled Garden District as a pack of dogs chased him, and he resolved to keep returning to train against the Dog Gang.
• The Human Resources manager announced Yin Xiaofei as Disciple of the Month with 8,122 Gang Contribution.

Shi Tiexin reviewed the gang contribution exchange options and chose practical supplies and a leg technique over a cultivation art. After studying the manual, he comprehended Formless Wind Tribulation Leg, beginning with its first level, Gale Skimming.

• Shi Tiexin received the Rising Star commendation for earning 1,183 gang contribution points.
• Shi Tiexin examined exchange options across the outer disciple ranks and concluded that Body Nourishing Essence Food was more useful to him than a better cultivation art.
• Shi Tiexin noticed that the price of top-tier Essence Cultivation Arts rose sharply and wondered what advantages justified their cost.
• Shi Tiexin decided not to advance to Level Two, exchanged for Dazzling Gale Leg, and spent his remaining contribution on Body Nourishing Essence Food.
• Shi Tiexin studied the manual and comprehended Formless Wind Tribulation Leg, Level One, Gale Skimming.

Shi Tiexin discovered that Gale Leg was a foundational training method, not a combat technique, and began practicing it to strengthen his movement and make up for his weaknesses. He trained relentlessly, and Liang Tuan’s members began to notice his rapid improvement.

• Shi Tiexin used the Vision System to identify four levels of Formless Wind Tribulation Leg, although Liang Tuan’s exchange list showed only three.
• After studying the manual, Shi Tiexin realized that Gale Leg’s twelve forms trained basic legwork and laid the foundation for more advanced techniques, rather than serving as a fighting style.
• Shi Tiexin completed his comprehension of Gale Leg and received a buff that reduced the probability of Qi Deviation and added initial progress.
• Shi Tiexin began practicing stances and Gale Leg alongside his work and other cultivation, repeatedly training through slips, falls, and injuries.
• Liang Tuan’s members stopped laughing at Shi Tiexin as they saw him persist and improve with each practice.

Shi Tiexin made rapid progress in Gale Leg while growing his delivery business and gaining the loyalty of more followers. Just as his operations began to flourish, a large group stormed his dormitory and demanded to see him.

• Old Tang watched Shi Tiexin train and worried that he could no longer wait to act.
• Shi Tiexin recorded his insights about cultivating Gale Leg by climbing stairs and concluded that its catalog description concealed deeper guidance.
• Four of Shi Tiexin’s followers approached him intending to attack, then switched to flattering him and massaging his legs and shoulders.
• Skinny Xiao Zhang told Shi Tiexin that business at Leyou Entertainment City had expanded to more than 150 daily orders, with delivery orders across the major arcades exceeding a thousand per day.
• A large crowd barged into Shi Tiexin’s dormitory, dirtied the freshly mopped floor, and demanded that Shi Tiexin step forward.

Shi Tiexin confronted Hao Ge and the Big Shot Group members who came to intimidate him for building an independent faction. He crushed Hao Ge’s hand and sent him flying with a kick, leaving the other attackers defeated and his roommates stunned.

• Hao Ge and his men stormed Shi Tiexin’s dorm room and demanded that he step forward.
• Hao Ge grabbed Xiao Zhang by the face, but Shi Tiexin revealed himself and told Hao Ge to release him.
• Hao Ge attacked Shi Tiexin with a claw strike, but Shi Tiexin stopped him while remaining seated.
• Shi Tiexin crushed Hao Ge’s fingers, palm, and wrist, then kicked him in the chest and sent him crashing into his men.
• Shi Tiexin stood up as Xiao Zhang and the others watched in shock at how easily he had defeated Hao Ge.

Shi Tiexin defeated Hao Ge and challenged the Big Shot Group’s leaders over their demand for half his faction’s income. Just as three Big Shots confronted him, Teacher Tang stepped in to defend him and challenged all three himself.

• Shi Tiexin ordered Hao Ge’s lackeys to clean the dormitory, then left and led a growing crowd to the courtyard.
• Shi Tiexin called on the Big Shots to face him instead of sending lackeys, and Brother Social appeared with two other leaders.
• The three Big Shots demanded that Shi Tiexin’s faction hand over fifty percent of its income.
• Teacher Tang stepped between Shi Tiexin and the Big Shots, declared he would protect him, and challenged all three to fight.

Old Tang tried to stage a rescue that would make Shi Tiexin trust him, but Shi Tiexin stepped in and challenged the three Big Shots himself. He isolated Brother Social in a secret realm and overwhelmed him with powerful Gale Leg attacks.

• Old Tang prepared to fight the three Big Shots, hoping to appear as Shi Tiexin's heroic savior.
• Shi Tiexin quietly came up behind Old Tang, stopped him from intervening, and insisted on facing the three men himself.
• Brother Social grew frustrated with their argument and threatened both Old Tang and Shi Tiexin.
• Shi Tiexin suddenly attacked Brother Social and trapped him alone inside a secret realm.
• Shi Tiexin broke Brother Social's right hand with a side whip kick, then drove him into a horse stance with a powerful downward chop.

Shi Tiexin defeated Brother Social and then the round-faced fat man in separate secret realms, while Old Tang fought the middle-aged woman. The last opponent fell after Shi Tiexin offered peace only if he could withstand one kick.

• Shi Tiexin kicked Brother Social so hard that he was badly injured and expelled from the secret realm.
• Old Tang fought the middle-aged woman and realized Shi Tiexin might truly have broken through the limits of humanity.
• Shi Tiexin sealed the round-faced fat man in a secret realm and overwhelmed his Twin Palm Strike with Basic Boxing.
• The fat man recognized Shi Tiexin's strength and asked to make peace, but Shi Tiexin demanded that he withstand one kick first.
• Shi Tiexin's kick shattered the secret realm and left the fat man injured and unable to stand.

Shi Tiexin settled the confrontation with the Big Shot Group, expanded his delivery team, and recruited Old Tang, whose lewd stories and unexpected knowledge soon drew attention. The chapter ended with Shi Tiexin asking whether the Qian Su Cult and other Demonic Cults really existed.

• Shi Tiexin let the fat man go, while Old Tang defeated the middle-aged woman with a powerful palm and the HR manager dispersed the crowd.
• As workers fled the Big Shot Group’s high cuts, Shi Tiexin recruited honest and hardworking people and grew his team to around twenty members.
• Shi Tiexin invited Old Tang to join the team after Old Tang lost his orders for supporting him, and Old Tang accepted eagerly.
• Old Tang’s lewd stories attracted the younger workers, while Shi Tiexin discovered that Old Tang also knew a great deal about many subjects.
• Old Tang showed off a journal from the Qian Su Cult and described it as one of the seven great Demonic Cults, prompting Shi Tiexin to ask whether Demonic Cults truly existed.

Old Tang explained to Shi Tiexin how the Qian Su Cult used media and spiritual cultivation to gain power, and why the Federation tolerated the Demonic Cults. He left Shi Tiexin and the young men alarmed by how widely such cults might influence society.

• Old Tang told Shi Tiexin that the Qian Su Cult operated through a legitimate company and that its Saintesses cultivated power through their art.
• Old Tang explained that the cult’s true experts harvested spiritual yang from people who watched its magazines and films, prompting the young men to fear that idols did the same.
• When the young men suggested playing games or reading novels instead, Old Tang warned them that smaller Demonic Cults also influenced entertainment and other industries.
• Shi Tiexin asked why the Federation allowed the cults to exist, and Old Tang said their influence, powerful allies, and the strength of their leaders made them difficult to suppress.
• Old Tang described the Qian Su Cult’s leader as strong enough to challenge the Wan He School for years and concluded that Demonic Cults were formidable forces across society.

Shi Tiexin reduced his false core to keep it from hindering his body-refining training, then devoted himself to building his strength. At the monthly settlement, Yin Xiaofei remained Disciple of the Month while Shi Tiexin was named Rising Star again.

• Shi Tiexin questioned how Old Tang knew so much about the Demonic Cult but could not get him to explain.
• Shi Tiexin realized that a larger false core slowed his body-refining progress, so he shrank it to just below the size that enhanced his physical abilities.
• Shi Tiexin trained for hours each day, digesting the pink mist from his essence and vitality while making steady progress.
• At the monthly settlement, Yin Xiaofei was named Disciple of the Month with 7,996 Gang Contribution points.
• The HR manager named Shi Tiexin Rising Star again, citing his 1,640 Gang Contribution points.

Shi Tiexin continued forging his body, improved his Gale Leg, and received notice to enroll at First Zhengxue Academy. He arrived for registration and recognized that the students enrolling alongside him were among Tumubao's most promising young people.

• Shi Tiexin decided to save his Gang Contribution for body forging rather than exchange it for hand techniques, and he sold mental art manuals to cover his training costs.
• Shi Tiexin raised his Formless Wind Tribulation Leg cultivation progress to Excellent after refining his Gale Leg practice.
• Shi Tiexin received notice to complete enrollment at First Zhengxue Academy in ten days and looked forward to starting school.
• Shi Tiexin arrived at First Zhengxue Academy on enrollment day and watched students from wealthy families gather with their parents.
• Shi Tiexin realized the new students were his most promising peers, though they still seemed weaker than he expected.

Shi Tiexin encountered Shi Yuwei again at First Zhengxue Academy and reflected on her remarkable talent despite her comical lack of direction. A boy approached and tried to impress her, but she did not realize he was speaking to her.

• Shi Tiexin judged the arriving freshmen to be weak and dismissed the idea of forming a clique with them.
• Shi Yuwei recognized Shi Tiexin and asked whether they had reached First Zhengxue Academy.
• Shi Tiexin recalled Shi Yuwei’s South City examination result and sensed that her cultivation had advanced rapidly.
• Shi Yuwei explained that she now lived in Upper City with her sister and had taken two hours to reach the academy on her own.
• A boy approached Shi Yuwei with a boastful introduction, and she pointed at herself and asked whether he meant her.

Shi Tiexin and Shi Yuwei arrived at First Zhengxue Academy, where Shi Yuwei mistook Tang Tianao for a swindler and revealed her terrifying strength. As the gates opened, the new students entered, and Shi Yuwei dragged Shi Tiexin into the academy at a run.

• Shi Yuwei failed to recognize Tang Tianao and pulled Shi Tiexin away, explaining that she had once torn off four people's arms.
• Shi Yuwei praised Shi Tiexin's physique and said she felt safe asking him for directions.
• Tang Tianao called Assistant Wang to investigate the previous Minor Provincial Examination's experts, then decided to target Shu Wangzhou.
• Sima Liang and Gao Chongxiao drew the crowd's attention as other promising students gathered outside the academy.
• First Zhengxue Academy opened its gates, and Shi Yuwei seized Shi Tiexin's arm and raced inside.

Shi Yuwei dragged Shi Tiexin into a campus-wide race because she feared getting lost in the crowd, and the other new students joined in. As Shi Yuwei accelerated toward the Reporting Office, Shi Tiexin tried to make her stop, while two observers judged the runners from a teaching building.

• Shi Yuwei sprinted ahead while dragging Shi Tiexin, and bewildered new students began following them.
• A student shouted that they were trying to win at the starting line, turning the run into a competition as Tang Tianao, Sima Liang, and Gao Chongxiao raced ahead.
• An old man asked Teacher Feiyan to assess the runners, and Teacher Feiyan called most of them trash while questioning why they were running.
• Shi Tiexin asked Shi Yuwei why she was running, and she explained that she feared losing sight of the road and accidentally hurting someone while asking for directions.
• Shi Yuwei heard someone catching up and accelerated again, while Shi Tiexin shouted that they had reached the Reporting Office and needed to stop.