Chapter Summaries

Shi Tiexin used his unusual support, quick analysis, and wind-and-fire tribulation techniques to outmaneuver Qiu Huang and wear down his Blood Sea True Body. After five minutes of circling combat, he struck a blade mark as it resurfaced, cracking Qiu Huang’s defense.

• Qiu Huang challenged Shi Tiexin to endure his inexhaustible Blood Sea True Body, while Shi Tiexin recognized that his own right arm was badly strained.
• Shi Tiexin decided to exploit his superior support and exhaust Qiu Huang rather than clash head-on.
• Shi Tiexin used agile footwork and his Unwavering Fire Tribulation Blade to circle Qiu Huang, striking him while avoiding most of his counterattacks.
• Scholar Stone processed Shi Tiexin’s combat information and helped him coordinate the Wind Tribulation Leg with the Fire Tribulation Blade.
• After five minutes, Shi Tiexin blocked Qiu Huang’s punch and struck a reemerging blade mark, cracking the Blood Sea True Body.

Shi Tiexin broke Qiu Huang’s Blood Sea True Body and overwhelmed him with a furious barrage of attacks, leaving him battered and challenging his arrogance. Qiu Huang remained defiant and began forming a strange hand seal as glowing characters moved across his face.

• Shi Tiexin unleashed a rapid assault that shattered Qiu Huang’s Blood Sea True Body.
• Qiu Huang tried to trap Shi Tiexin under his cape, but Shi Tiexin’s spinning kick broke Kasaya Concealing Demon and left Qiu Huang covered by the cape.
• Shi Tiexin held Qiu Huang’s cape and punched, kicked, and slammed him into the ground until the shoulder armor tore away and Qiu Huang landed battered.
• Shi Tiexin rebuked Qiu Huang for insulting Shi Yuwei and threatening his teacher, friend, and coach.
• Qiu Huang questioned whether Shi Tiexin could beat him, formed a strange hand seal, and caused the characters tattooed on his face to glow and move.

Shi Tiexin defeated Qiu Huang by combining the Wind and Fire Dual Tribulation into a decisive attack, winning the duel for his team. He declared his intention to enter Lumen Academy and represent Tumubao among the Eight Sages, then celebrated with his friends and hometown.

• Qiu Huang removed the Abhidharma Sutra’s restraint and unleashed his full Blood Sea Killing Intent, while Shi Tiexin vowed to defeat him and promised Tumubao would have an Eight Sage at Lumen Academy.
• Shi Tiexin charged into Qiu Huang’s demonic cloud and coordinated the Wind and Fire Dual Tribulation through his legs, creating a flaming tornado.
• Shi Tiexin struck Qiu Huang in the chest with Divine Dragon Tail Sweep, sending him flying and leaving him unable to rise.
• The secret realm shattered, confirming Shi Tiexin’s victory, and he told his teammates, “We won.”
• First Zhengxue Academy, the LiangTuan base, Tumubao’s people, and the teaching assistants celebrated as they lifted Shi Tiexin into the air.

Shi Tiexin and the Tumubao First Main School Representative Team won the Nine Cities Zhengxue Martial Arts Tournament, and Shi Tiexin was named Best in the Field. The Scholar Union gave him a rare Martial Heart Zen Seed, leaving him astonished by its connection to a Sub-Sage.

• The expert host announced Tumubao First Main School Representative Team as champion and Shi Tiexin as Best in the Field, and Heavenly Gifted Golden Light rewarded the winners.
• Shi Yuwei woke in the medical station and told Shi Yulei that Shi Tiexin was amazing, while Gu Shaohuai watched Shi Tiexin's victory in shock and fear.
• The Scholar Union awarded the team authorizations for Platinum Cultivation Methods and gave Shi Tiexin a second authorization for his Best in the Field award.
• Shi Tiexin met Sacrificial Wine Official Wang Xingshun in the VIP lounge and recalled receiving an award from him at the Tumubao Calligraphy Competition.
• Wang Xingshun presented Shi Tiexin with a box containing five Martial Heart Zen Seeds, created by the Scholar Union's Sub-Sage Zhi Xing Shang Ren.

Shi Tiexin received five Martial Heart Zen Seeds from Sacrificial Wine Official Wang, who explained that their effects depended on mysterious fated affinity and could compensate for a cultivator’s weaknesses. Later, the Liang Group sought to trade for some of the seeds, and Shi Tiexin reminded its elder that he was already a member of the group.

• Shi Tiexin accepted five Martial Heart Zen Seeds from Sacrificial Wine Official Wang.
• Sacrificial Wine Official Wang explained that the seeds might bloom into a lotus that aided communication, comprehension, wisdom, or purity and compensated for a cultivator’s weakness, but only if they had the right affinity.
• Sacrificial Wine Official Wang warned Shi Tiexin that the seeds were unpredictable and left him free to trade or gift them, except to Wanted Criminals.
• A Liang Group elder toured Shi Tiexin through the group’s facilities and asked him to trade several Martial Heart Zen Seeds.
• Shi Tiexin replied that, as a Liang Group member, his seeds already belonged to the group in a sense, implicitly inviting the elder to make a clear offer.

Shi Tiexin claimed his tournament rewards, completing the Limitless Tribulation Divine Art and receiving the Platinum Driving Technique. After he returned to Tumubao with the expedition team, the city announced rewards for the contestants and teaching assistants.

• The elder offered Shi Tiexin a chance to become an inner disciple, and Shi Tiexin said he would prioritize the Liang Group if its working atmosphere matched Tumubao's.
• Shi Tiexin spent twenty Victory Points on the three transmissions that completed the Limitless Tribulation Divine Art and accepted the Platinum Driving Technique and one million in cash for the rest.
• The elder asked about Shi Tiexin's on-the-spot mastery of Unwavering Fire Tribulation Blade and Unwavering Tribulation Force, prompting Shi Tiexin to wonder whether his Vision System had granted him an advantage.
• The expedition team returned to Tumubao, where the school prepared a grand celebration and the City Lord's Manor promised cultivation methods to contestants and teaching assistants after their Burning Core Breakthrough.

Shi Tiexin integrated a Martial Heart Zen Seed through the Vision System and discovered that its lotus needed refined Heavenly Gifted Golden Light to mature. He decided to give the remaining seeds to his friends, but Sister Mengmeng summoned him and asked whether he had undergone Reverse Innate Transformation.

• Shi Tiexin integrated the Martial Heart Zen Seed as a plugin and unlocked the Martial Heart Zen Realm, where an illusory lotus floated in his heart lake.
• The Vision System revealed that the lotus had no current function and needed refined Heavenly Gifted Golden Light to grow to completion.
• Shi Tiexin decided to give his remaining Martial Heart Zen Seeds to his friends rather than the Liang Group.
• Sister Mengmeng invited Shi Tiexin to a restaurant, used Void Imprint to isolate their conversation, and asked whether he had completed his martial arts and undergone Reverse Innate Transformation.

Shi Tiexin learned that his Primordial Devourer Physique made him a rare Super Genius, and Sister Mengmeng advised him to delay his breakthrough so he could build the strongest foundations across his cultivation paths. She then explained how Sharp Will was forged and left him with one final requirement: blood.

• Shi Tiexin admitted that he had cultivated a new physique through the Freedom Minor Method, and Sister Mengmeng identified it as the Primordial Devourer Physique and called him a Super Genius.
• Sister Mengmeng advised Shi Tiexin to wait before Burning Core Breakthrough and pursue Reverse Innate Transformation to strengthen his vital essence, body refinement, and thought energy foundations.
• Sister Mengmeng described the ideal vital essence foundation as Dual Physique and Application Reversal with Nine Heavenly Bell Rings, and named Seven Orifice Literary Heart and Nine Earth Drum Tremors as the strongest thought energy foundation.
• Sister Mengmeng explained that Sharp Will required self-restraint, perseverance, and clear thoughts, then said that a Divine Weapon also needed blood.

Sister Mengmeng explained that flawless Sharp Will and nine Bell of Heaven rings required life-and-death combat, then described the dangerous routes Shi Tiexin could take to gain that experience. She assessed the strength of Inner Solar System geniuses, defined Level Three Geniuses as Immortal Seeds, and gave Shi Tiexin a cultivation guide tailored to him.

• Sister Mengmeng told Shi Tiexin that bloodshed and life-or-death battles forged flawless Sharp Will, and explained that modern fighters could seek such experience by hunting Wanted Criminals, training in the Asteroid Belt, or joining the Mist Wall Outpost Base army.
• Shi Tiexin told Sister Mengmeng he would still pursue perfection, and she lifted the seal so they could eat together.
• Sister Mengmeng explained that the Inner Solar System and Central Star had more talented martial artists, though few there could match Shi Tiexin's Essence Realm achievements.
• Sister Mengmeng defined Level Three Geniuses as people under twenty-four who reached transcendence on all three paths and opened all three Talent Domains, a combination known as the Golden Triangle and called Immortal Seeds.
• Sister Mengmeng gave Shi Tiexin a notebook containing cultivation advice tailored to his circumstances.

Sister Mengmeng visited Shi Tiexin and his classmates, leaving advice and notebooks before confronting Gu Shaohuai about his schemes. Gu Shaohuai’s fears of a hidden plot grew as Sister Mengmeng revealed how much she knew about him and Shi Tiexin.

• Sister Mengmeng declined Shi Tiexin’s Martial Heart Zen Seed and urged him to be careful with his breakthrough before leaving.
• Sister Mengmeng visited Shi Yuwei and Shu Wangzhou, offered each personal advice, and left them notebooks; she also visited Gao Chongxiao and Sima Liang.
• Gu Shaohuai worried that Shi Tiexin had mastered the Freedom Minor Method and feared that a hidden Tian Ming Cult plot would replace him.
• Sister Mengmeng visited Gu Shaohuai and revealed that she knew he was a Tian Ming Cult disciple who had given Shi Tiexin the flawed cultivation method.
• Sister Mengmeng told Gu Shaohuai that Shi Tiexin had repaired the method, completed it, undergone Reverse Innate Transformation, and cultivated the Primordial Devourer Physique.
• Sister Mengmeng identified Gu Shaohuai as an Asura Seed from the Tian Ming Killing Ground, shattering his composure.

Sister Mengmeng confronted Gu Shaohuai about his survival tactics and gave him a notebook of advice, but his attempt to decide whether to have her killed was erased from his memory. At the academy's commendation ceremony the next day, everyone except Shi Tiexin had forgotten Sister Mengmeng, and she was absent.

• Sister Mengmeng rebuked Gu Shaohuai for treating himself like a maggot and urged him to keep his own moral boundaries, then left him a notebook filled with advice.
• An unseen voice urged Gu Shaohuai to kill Sister Mengmeng before she could reveal that he was an Asura Seed, but he hesitated as he read her notebook.
• Gu Shaohuai tried to make a decision, but a strange change erased the decision from his memory, and he instead turned his attention to investigating Shi Tiexin.
• At First Zhengxue Academy's commendation ceremony, Shi Tiexin asked Gao Chongxiao why Sister Mengmeng was absent.
• Gao Chongxiao denied ever knowing Sister Mengmeng, leaving Shi Tiexin to realize that everyone else had forgotten her.

Shi Tiexin mourned that everyone had forgotten Sister Mengmeng, then gave Martial Heart Zen Seeds to Shi Yuwei and Shi Yulei. Shi Yuhui tried to decide how to repay him and left the chapter proposing that he help collect debts in exchange for shares in her company.

• Shi Tiexin left the awards venue, distressed that nobody remembered Sister Mengmeng, and asked Shi Yuhui whether she remembered their agreement about her.
• Shi Yuhui listened as Shi Tiexin described Sister Mengmeng and discovered that neither she nor the reliable one remembered the events he described.
• Shi Tiexin gave Shi Yuwei a Martial Heart Zen Seed, and Shi Yuhui learned that Shi Yulei had received one too.
• Shi Yuhui considered marrying Shi Yuwei or Shi Yulei to Shi Tiexin as repayment, but Shi Yulei objected and Shi Yuhui dismissed both ideas.
• Shi Yuhui proposed giving Shi Tiexin ten percent of her company and having him help collect debts.

Si Chongtian’s father decided to send Shi Tiexin a treasured gift, while Qiu Huang and Lin Shuilian endured different trials that strengthened their resolve. On the Sky Layer rooftop, Shi Tiexin answered Black Venerable’s call and set out again after remembering Sister Mengmeng and his friends in Tokyo.

• Si Chongtian showed his father the Martial Heart Zen Seed, and his father decided to send Shi Tiexin the Guanlan Sky Eye despite the butler’s objections.
• Qiu Huang defeated students who ambushed him and revealed that he no longer needed the Abhidharma Sutra; he planned to seek life-and-death combat in the Asteroid Belt.
• Lin Shuilian’s Secret Realm failed to activate during a brutal pain trial, and she clung to Shi Tiexin’s name to keep from going insane.
• Shi Tiexin climbed to the Sky Layer rooftop and received a call from the Black Venerable Worldline.
• Shi Tiexin remembered his friends in Tokyo, drank to Sister Mengmeng, and set out again as dusk approached.

Black Zun’s men hunted down Kawamoto-san at an old factory, where Black Zun accused him of helping New Purge kidnap Mai Ba. Black Zun stabbed him and began a four-minute-fifty-second countdown, demanding that he reveal who was responsible.

• A terrified man fled through Tokyo as black-clad pursuers drove him toward an old factory.
• Violent D beat the man after he arrived, while Rascally Fei accused him of helping New Purge kidnap Mai Ba from his casino.
• Black Zun stopped Violent D and identified the beaten man as Kawamoto-san.
• Guo Bing brought a forklift, and the men in black strapped Kawamoto-san to its iron frame.
• Black Zun stabbed Kawamoto-san with a Katana and gave him four minutes and fifty seconds to identify the person responsible.

Shi Tiexin discovered that the Martial Heart Zen Lotus’s Slow Release safely adapted his body to the abilities brought across Worldlines, and he calculated how Black Sovereign’s limited Destiny Mission support worked. He planned to complete Black Sovereign’s next mission by rising to the highest level.

• Shi Tiexin saw that the Martial Heart Zen Lotus had grown into a Floating Lotus after he watered it with Heavenly Gifted Golden Light extract.
• Shi Tiexin found that Slow Release gradually adapted Black Sovereign’s body to the powerful attributes and thought energy carried across Worldlines, with the process expected to take eight days overall.
• Shi Tiexin reviewed Black Sovereign’s three Destiny Missions and noted that Wind of Freedom was complete while Eye of Freedom and Heart of Freedom remained partially complete.
• Shi Tiexin calculated that Black Sovereign received only 43.75% stamina and recovery support through the true self, with no direct support channel from Scholar Stone.
• Shi Tiexin decided to pursue Eye of Freedom by becoming the one at the highest level.

Shi Tiexin continued adapting to Tokyo while refining his strength, then Wang Dafa brought him to Daxing's headquarters to reveal a mysterious item locked in a safe. The chapter ended with Shi Tiexin about to see what Wang Dafa had called a good thing.

• Shi Tiexin bought ten breakfasts from a street vendor, and thugs drove the vendor away before Shi Tiexin tossed payment into the cart's cash box.
• Shi Tiexin reviewed his remaining Golden Light and ate enough to form Dragon Essence for the third time.
• Wang Dafa picked up Shi Tiexin in his Rolls-Royce and took him to Daxing's headquarters.
• Wang Dafa led Shi Tiexin through security to a workroom and pointed him toward a safe containing the mysterious good thing.

Wang Dafa showed Shi Tiexin a factory producing undetectable counterfeit US Dollars at a rate of up to one hundred million a day. After demonstrating that the bills passed a counterfeit detector and burning a pile of them to light cigars, Wang Dafa put Shi in charge of dealing with international brokers and opening sales channels.

• Shi Tiexin discovered that Wang Dafa’s team had perfected US Dollar printing plates, ink, and paper, and Wang said three automated production lines could print up to one hundred million dollars a day.
• Wang Dafa showed Shi Tiexin a pyramid of freshly printed bills and proved they passed the world’s best counterfeit detector.
• Wang Dafa set a bill alight and used the flames from burning cash to toast cigars with Shi Tiexin.
• Wang Dafa told his underlings that the money was nothing worth mentioning and promised rewards for working hard.
• Wang Dafa asked Shi Tiexin to handle international brokers and establish sales channels for their counterfeit bills.

Shi Tiexin, acting as Black Zun, began selling Wang Dafa’s counterfeit US Dollars to international brokers in exchange for Dragon Coins and quickly built a reputation in the trade. After winning over multiple buyers, he completed his Slow Release training on the eighth day.

• Shi Tiexin met broker Wild Chicken at a booked-out hotel, intimidated him by dismantling his gun, and revealed that Black Zun had a large force backing him.
• Shi Tiexin and Wild Chicken agreed on an exchange rate of five counterfeit US Dollars for one Dragon Coin, beginning with a twenty-million-dollar test batch.
• Shi Tiexin reported the successful deal to Wang Dafa, who praised him and felt relieved that the counterfeit business had gained its first buyer.
• With buyers found through Daxing’s connections, Shi Tiexin negotiated with brokers, white gloves, and local warlords, gaining repeat customers and rising in the counterfeit-currency world.
• On the eighth day, Shi Tiexin finished Slow Release.

Shi Tiexin discovered that essence force dramatically accelerated body tempering and could draw on food energy without relying on vital essence or spirit seeds. He then led an armed convoy transporting counterfeit bills to Tokyo Bay, where he and Wild Chicken agreed to another illegal deal.

• Shi Tiexin used essence force to heal Black Zun’s injuries and rapidly temper his body, realizing that the method could bypass vital-essence limits and might work without a spirit seed.
• Shi Tiexin ordered Black Zun and the riders to gear up and escort five container trucks through Tokyo to the cargo terminal.
• Wild Chicken praised Black Zun for clearing obstacles and said he wanted to work with him to prosper in Tokyo.
• The convoy delivered five containers to a cargo ship, with one carrying six hundred million dollars in counterfeit bills for exchange at a six-to-one ratio.
• Shi Tiexin asked Wild Chicken about avoiding inspections at sea, and the two sealed another illegal transaction after Wild Chicken hinted at other goods.

Shi Tiexin rapidly mastered the first three levels of the Unceasing Thunder Tribulation Hand, demonstrating its precision and power while strengthening Black Zun’s reputation. After A'gou completed a counterfeit-dollar deal, he presented Shi Tiexin with a case of mysterious purple crystalline powder as payment.

• Shi Tiexin perfected the first level of the Unceasing Thunder Tribulation Hand and gained the Interminable Thunder attribute.
• Shi Tiexin mastered the second level and demonstrated its precise finger and claw techniques by piercing paper and tearing out a wild boar’s vertebrae.
• Shi Tiexin perfected the third level and impressed a bar full of onlookers by throwing darts accurately from across the room.
• A'gou arrived to buy counterfeit American dollars, and Guo Bing completed the transaction on Shi Tiexin’s behalf.
• A'gou presented Guo Bing with a case of purple crystalline powder as the agreed payment, and Shi Tiexin recognized it as Unique Product.