Chapter Summaries

Shi Tiexin survived the Grand Roulette and won more than three million by landing all ten knives without harming the woman. He moved to the card table, where his enhanced perception and martial techniques gave him an edge as he prepared to manipulate the other gamblers.

• Shi Tiexin rejected the casino dealer’s restrictions on betting against the woman and threw all ten knives into the target while the roulette spun.
• The woman escaped unharmed, then vowed to gamble again and take revenge on the person she blamed.
• Shi Tiexin collected more than three million in winnings and went to a card table after strengthening his gambling-method buff.
• Shi Tiexin folded his first hand, then realized he could recognize and remember the cards.
• Shi Tiexin used his martial techniques, aura, and rhetoric to disguise his intentions and mislead the gamblers.

Shi Tiexin built a fortune at Yamagata House and defeated a ruined former Gambling Saint who tried to cheat him. After claiming the old beggar as his property, Shi Tiexin sought his Gambling Arts and learned that he had come to the casino for the Black Lord.

• Shi Tiexin won and lost strategically at increasingly upscale tables until his chips exceeded three hundred million and the casino struggled to find opponents for him.
• A disfigured old beggar challenged Shi Tiexin, wagering himself against Shi Tiexin's money, and revealed a hand of three Kings.
• Shi Tiexin also revealed three Kings, but the dealer found the remaining King in the deck, proving the old beggar had cheated; the casino cut off his arm under its rules.
• Shi Tiexin claimed the injured beggar, drank a poisoned cocktail without harm, and demanded to learn his Gambling Arts.
• Shi Tiexin's words stirred a hidden thought in the beggar, who had come to Yamagata House seeking the Black Lord.

Shi Tiexin entered the Yamagata House’s High Table after the old beggar told him that Yamagata Fuji would answer a winning gambler’s challenge. He defeated the first two opponents with flamboyant charm and a forceful kick, while the remaining games and Yamagata Fuji’s appearance were still ahead.

• The old beggar revealed his Gambling Arts and told Shi Tiexin that Yamagata Fuji would appear if he kept gambling and winning.
• Shi Tiexin learned that Yamagata Fuji would risk wealth, truth, and even his life on a gamble, and the casino manager invited him to the High Table.
• Shi Tiexin followed the manager to the High Table as the casino’s bodyguards and staff carried his chips behind him.
• A woman challenged Shi Tiexin to a dice game, but his display of charm made her crush her cup and lose while his dice landed on their edges.
• A martial artist challenged Shi Tiexin to Kung Fu Cards, but Shi Tiexin kicked him away before the game could begin.

Shi Tiexin defeated three gamblers at Sichuan Mahjong, then faced Yamagata Fuji, who tried to have him shot rather than gamble. Guo Bing and Violent D stormed the casino and subdued the Yamagata House, leaving Shi Tiexin to demand that the table and seats be set.

• Shi Tiexin won ten rounds of mahjong against three opponents, raising his chips to two billion and sending them away for emergency treatment.
• Shi Tiexin called out Yamagata Fuji, who arrived and refused to gamble with him.
• Yamagata Fuji summoned armed men and explained that he wanted Shi Tiexin to abandon reason and courage before joining the game.
• Shi Tiexin checked his watch as Guo Bing drove the King of the Five Peaks through the wall and attacked Yamagata Fuji's men.
• Violent D led reinforcements into the hall, and their coordinated assault suppressed the Yamagata House's resistance.
• After the firefight, Shi Tiexin pointed toward Yamagata Fuji and ordered the table moved and the seats set.

Shi Tiexin beat Yamagata Fuji in a one-round gamble and forced him to confess to killing Mai Ba, but Yamagata Fuji began revealing that Shi Tiexin had been chosen before he could finish. Meanwhile, Youyou uncovered a hidden room of human specimens and searched Yamagata Fuji’s files as a tank specimen suddenly opened her eyes.

• Shi Tiexin challenged Yamagata Fuji to a one-round gamble for their lives, and Yamagata Fuji accepted.
• Youyou entered Yamagata Fuji’s secret room, found human specimens and began searching his computer files, but someone remotely started deleting the data.
• A woman floating in a tank opened her eyes, revealing a field of purple beneath her eyelids.
• Shi Tiexin won the card game, and Yamagata Fuji admitted that he had killed Mai Ba.
• Yamagata Fuji tried to explain that Shi Tiexin had been chosen, while Zhou Nan warned Shi Tiexin that he felt something strange again.
• Shi Tiexin used his power to force Yamagata Fuji to continue, and Yamagata Fuji said Shi Tiexin had High Aptitude and was an advanced Compatible Body.

Shi Tiexin forced Yamagata Fuji to reveal that his wife had died and his daughter had been converted, but Yamagata died before explaining the Compatible Body or naming his daughter. Shi Tiexin ordered an investigation into the Yamagata House’s trafficking connections, while Youyou was caught after secretly planting a tracking and listening device on someone.

• Shi Tiexin used his fused lightning and fire tribulations to suppress the purple force controlling Yamagata Fuji, who revealed that the old beggar’s wife had died and his daughter had been converted before dying himself.
• Shi Tiexin recognized Yamagata Fuji’s blood as matching Fujiwara Kyoshin’s and ordered A Fei to secure his winnings, protect the old beggar, preserve Yamagata’s body, and investigate trafficking organizations.
• Shi Tiexin decided to leave the Yamagata House partly intact to draw out those behind the plot and seek stronger allies.
• Youyou escaped the Yamagata House on a motorcycle, but someone confronted her in an alley and exposed the tracking and eavesdropping device she had planted in their collar.

Youyou revealed that she worked for the Food and Drug Safety Supervision Bureau and had been investigating a hidden poison operation tied to human modification. Shi Tiexin recognized her familiar mannerisms and agreed to hear her out, leaving them poised to work together against the Modified Humans.

• Youyou took Shi Tiexin to her residence, secured the room against eavesdropping, and gave him a folder of investigation records.
• After reviewing the documents, Shi Tiexin identified Youyou as someone far more capable than a counterfeit expert, and she said she worked for the Food and Drug Safety Supervision Bureau.
• Youyou explained that she had come to Japan to investigate a hidden poison spreading through the central and western regions, then discovered links to illegal drugs and human modification.
• Youyou admitted she had targeted the Modified Human at Smile Entertainment City for information, but Shi Tiexin had knocked him out before she could approach him.
• Shi Tiexin worked out that Youyou had deliberately recruited him as a capable opponent for the Modified Humans, and she praised him as her chosen candidate.
• Youyou jokingly claimed her beauty was her strongest weapon, and Shi Tiexin recognized Ling Xingjian in her familiar vanity.

Shi Tiexin studied Youyou’s records on the modified humans and agreed to join her investigation after Destiny Mission 4, Soul of Freedom, activated. Youyou shared intelligence stolen from Yamagata Fuji and identified their next target in Tokyo, where Shi Tiexin had a useful cover.

• Shi Tiexin read Youyou’s classifications of the modified humans, including the Type Four Fujiwara Kyoshin, and asked what intelligence she had actually stolen.
• Youyou warned Shi Tiexin to leave Japan but said she would continue pursuing the dark organizations and their activities.
• Black Zun activated Destiny Mission 4, Soul of Freedom, and Shi Tiexin decided to ally with Youyou and help her.
• Youyou shared intelligence from Yamagata Fuji, and Shi Tiexin asked about the dying man’s final word, “Muna.”
• Youyou marked their next target on a map of Tokyo, and Shi Tiexin said he had a cover he could use.

Shi Tiexin and Youyou prepared weapons and diving equipment before descending into the depths of Tokyo Bay. They found a drainage pipe leading to a secret Human Modification Experiment Base and entered it.

• Wild Chicken asked A Fei why Shi Tiexin had not arrived at the yacht party, and A Fei said Shi Tiexin was not in a hurry to join them.
• Shi Tiexin and Youyou checked their equipment and packed weapons, armor, and specialized gear for their underwater mission.
• Youyou descended into the sea with her case, and Shi Tiexin followed with his heavily armored load.
• Shi Tiexin and Youyou reached the seabed and searched until they found a huge pipe embedded in a cliff.
• Shi Tiexin carried Youyou and their cases into the pipe, which led to the secret Human Modification Experiment Base.

Shi Tiexin and Youyou emerged from the sewers, changed into clean clothes, and followed the underground passage toward its source. After Shi Tiexin killed a swarm of giant insects, an enormous, diseased creature swallowed their remains and swam away.

• Shi Tiexin and Youyou surfaced in a sewer, where Shi Tiexin struggled with the stench while Youyou treated it as routine.
• Shi Tiexin and Youyou changed into fresh clothes, armed themselves, and set off through the dark sewer with Youyou leading.
• Youyou scraped a flesh-colored moss-like substance from the wall and collected it in a test tube.
• A swarm of apple-sized, foul-smelling insects charged at Shi Tiexin and Youyou, and Shi Tiexin killed them with his blade.
• Shi Tiexin swept the insect corpses into the water, where a huge creature with diseased-looking skin swallowed them and swam away.

Shi Tiexin and Youyou infiltrated an underground base, using their abilities and stealth skills to avoid detection. They made their way toward the commander's office to search for confidential information.

• Shi Tiexin carried Youyou over the polluted water and climbed to the iron door leading to the base.
• Youyou picked the lock, and they searched the empty maintenance room, finding a map and manual that revealed the base's history and possible locations for confidential materials.
• Shi Tiexin and Youyou compared their plans and chose a route toward the commander's office.
• They moved through the guarded, camera-monitored corridors, using the Formless Wind, Youyou's surveillance expertise, and Shi Tiexin's probing abilities to evade detection.
• Shi Tiexin quietly incapacitated guards they could not avoid, and the pair climbed two levels toward the commander's office.

The Executive Officer ordered his soldiers to hunt intruders, revealing that they could mutate into insect-like creatures and crawl through ventilation ducts. Shi Tiexin and Youyou reached an official residence, knocked out a politician and his companions, and prepared to interrogate him.

• The Executive Officer heard a faint scent, ordered his soldiers to find the intruders, and one soldier transformed into an insect-like creature that crawled into the ducts.
• Shi Tiexin and Youyou crawled through the ventilation system toward an official residence, complaining about the smell of a bug they had killed.
• Shi Tiexin identified a fat politician with two songstresses as a suitable target and knocked all three unconscious by throwing grenades at their heads.
• Youyou began searching the desk while Shi Tiexin lifted the politician and slapped him to begin the interrogation.

Shi Tiexin and Youyou interrogated Shimazu Heihachiro about the treasury and human body modification, but his answers revealed little before he and two attackers turned on them. After Shi Tiexin killed them, sounds in the ventilation ducts showed that they had been discovered.

• Shi Tiexin forced Shimazu Heihachiro to reveal that he was a former finance minister who knew about thirty trillion yen in reserves stored in Osaka.
• Youyou found no important information on the computer, and Shimazu pointed them toward the Education and Training Department while denying knowledge of secret research.
• When Shi Tiexin asked about human body modification, Shimazu stalled, and the two unconscious singing girls suddenly attacked.
• Shi Tiexin killed the two women and cut off Shimazu’s arm; Shimazu declared his loyalty to Japan before Shi Tiexin beheaded him.
• Youyou heard many sounds coming through the ventilation ducts, indicating that Shi Tiexin and she had been discovered.

Shi Tiexin launched a direct assault through the mansion, slaughtering the expressionless soldiers while Youyou watched and tried to support him. After using the blood on his blade to wound the enemies and shrugging off rifle fire with his armor, he lured another group around a corner and struck from hiding.

• Youyou’s grenade exposed a strange creature in the ventilation duct, and Shi Tiexin armed himself and charged into the corridors.
• Shi Tiexin used grenades, his blade, and acrobatic movement to wipe out the first group of soldiers and attack their reinforcements.
• The soldiers pinned Shi Tiexin beneath a pile of bodies and fired, but he escaped, kicked an unexploded grenade into their formation, and splashed Tribulation Force-infused blood into their eyes.
• Shi Tiexin told Youyou to hide, drew pursuing soldiers toward a T-junction, and slashed at them from behind its corner.

Shi Tiexin slaughtered the first wave of security forces and continued exploring the base with Youyou, while the Executive Officer prepared a stronger opponent to capture him. The chapter ended as the adjutant entered a dojo-like room on the base’s lowest level.

• The Executive Officer watched Shi Tiexin ambush and kill the first wave of security personnel, then ordered reinforcements and told his adjutant to notify Lord Nora Samurai.
• The Executive Officer learned that Mountain Ape’s basic modification was complete and ordered the Education and Training Department to prepare him for a combat test.
• Shi Tiexin reflected on the slaughter, met Youyou, and agreed to investigate the Ministry of Education with her.
• Shi Tiexin fired three shots into a ventilation duct after hearing movement inside it, and he and Youyou continued onward.
• The adjutant entered a tatami room on the base’s lowest level, where someone was seated.

Youyou and Shi Tiexin fought their way through the base’s elite mixed regiment as they headed for the Education and Training Department. As Youyou questioned how the soldiers had gained their enhanced abilities, she wondered whether the base’s mystical beliefs might be real.

• An adjutant warned the Tactical Response Department that Lord Nora Samurai could endure only five minutes and ordered senior personnel to avoid his path.
• The Tactical Response Department deployed its enhanced soldiers and Type Three bodies to suppress the intruders.
• Shi Tiexin smashed through the encirclement with Youyou supporting him, while she targeted the enemy sergeants to disrupt their squads.
• Shi Tiexin kicked a grenade back through a doorway, then continued fighting through the regiment with a gun and a blade.
• Youyou questioned how the base could field so many enhanced soldiers and wondered whether its mystical beliefs were genuine.

Shi Tiexin fought through the base, rapidly improving his swordsmanship as Nora Samurai broke free and descended into a killing frenzy. A scruffy ronin suddenly intercepted Shi Tiexin and took his sword, leaving Youyou alarmed.

• The Executive Officer ordered the release of the “Mountain Ape” after Shi Tiexin killed dozens of soldiers.
• Nora Samurai lost his reason, shattered a reinforced door, and charged through the base killing everyone in his path.
• Shi Tiexin fought through the soldiers, refined his blade techniques, and advanced the Formless Water Tribulation Sword to Profound Mastery.
• A scruffy ronin attacked Shi Tiexin from his blind spot and exchanged several blows with him.
• The ronin stood behind Shi Tiexin holding his sword, and Youyou realized that he had taken it.

Shi Tiexin and Youyou fought the Nora Samurai, who survived a barrage of shotgun blasts and a grenade before a giant attacker burst through the floor and struck. The chapter left Shi Tiexin facing the unknown attacker as a mangled body lay in the punch’s path.

• The Nora Samurai praised Shi Tiexin’s swordsmanship, while Shi Tiexin revealed that he had also taken the samurai’s Nodachi.
• The Nora Samurai licked the bloodied blade, then cleaved Youyou’s pistol bullet in half when she shot at him.
• Youyou repeatedly blasted the Nora Samurai with her shotgun and threw a grenade at him, tearing his body apart.
• Shi Tiexin drew the Nodachi and prepared to check the Nora Samurai’s remains, but sensed a shockwave through the ground and dodged.
• A giant attacker burst through the floor and smashed through a wall with a punch, mangling someone in its path.

Shi Tiexin and Youyou fled the pursuing Mountain Ape, using their coordination to evade its attacks and shoot it. They injured the monster but had not escaped it by the end of the chapter.

• Mountain Ape smashed through a wall, but Shi Tiexin tricked it into striking Nora Samurai and escaped with Youyou.
• Youyou climbed onto Shi Tiexin’s back and shot down a sergeant as they fought their way through an ambush.
• Shi Tiexin seized a heavy machine gun from Type Three while Mountain Ape tore through the wall and crushed the Demon Soldiers.
• Youyou fired the machine gun into Mountain Ape’s face, blinding one eye and blasting apart half its face.
• Shi Tiexin dodged Mountain Ape’s attacks while Youyou kept firing at its vital areas.

Shi Tiexin and Youyou killed a mountain ape after a prolonged fight, then reflected on its threat and their close coordination. Before they could rest, another mountain ape attacked, and Shi Tiexin moved to protect Youyou and countered it.

• Youyou crippled the mountain ape's feet, and Shi Tiexin maneuvered it into a wall and decapitated it.
• Shi Tiexin pierced the mountain ape's heart and used Formless Water Tribulation Sword to extinguish its life.
• Shi Tiexin judged that the mountain ape could threaten Yin Qingtai and wondered whether this worldline's human-body modifications had surpassed the All-Extreme limit.
• Youyou thanked Shi Tiexin, and they acknowledged how fortunate they were to have each other as partners.
• Another mountain ape burst through the wall and attacked Youyou, so Shi Tiexin shoved her clear and struck back with Interminable Tribulation Force.