Chapter Summaries

Shi Tiexin drew a mountain ape away from Youyou while the base’s Executive Officer prepared more apes and joined the hunt. Youyou secretly searched the officer’s office and discovered a plan to use the Mountain Ape Army to invade the mainland and destroy the Eastern Country.

• Shi Tiexin wounded a mountain ape but could not defeat it, so he drew its attention away while Youyou headed for the lowest level alone.
• Shi Tiexin used gunfire to keep the mountain ape pursuing him and to cover Youyou as it smashed through the underground base.
• The Executive Officer ordered the activation of nineteen mountain apes and went to the cultivation chamber to take the field himself.
• The Executive Officer ordered his subordinates to find Youyou and capture her alive, but they could not locate her.
• Youyou doubled back to the officer’s office, broke into his computer, and memorized a proposal to destroy the Eastern Country with the Mountain Ape Army.

Key Plot Points and Events

• The protagonist decides to take a day off from work to prepare for an upcoming party exam.
• They plan to use this day to study and revise, ensuring they're well-prepared for the exam.

Character Developments

• The protagonist demonstrates responsibility, prioritizing their academic goals over work.
• They show dedication and commitment to their studies, indicating a strong work ethic.

Significant Themes

• Education and Personal Growth: The protagonist's focus on studying for the exam highlights the theme of continuous learning and personal growth.
• Responsibility and Priorities: The decision to take a day off to study shows the character's understanding of priorities and responsibility towards their academic pursuits.

Character Interactions

• As the chapter is focused on the protagonist's internal decision-making process, there are no significant character interactions mentioned. However, the protagonist's actions reflect their relationship with their work and studies, implying a sense of responsibility towards both.

Youyou uncovered a detailed plan to turn humans, including children, into Mountain Apes for a growing military force and set out to stop it. Meanwhile, the Executive Officer volunteered to become the control brain of a Mountain Ape, accepting that he would be fused with it permanently.

• Youyou found plans detailing the production of multiple military troop types and realized the organization was carrying them out.
• Youyou discovered that Mountain Apes were made from human subjects, with children aged three to eight recommended as raw materials.
• Youyou read records describing the use of children and a parent's willingness to offer up his youngest son, then left to pursue a key location.
• At the submarine harbor, the Minister of Education warned the Executive Officer that controlling a Mountain Ape would permanently fuse him with it.
• The Executive Officer ordered the other nineteen Mountain Apes brought out and told their operators to prepare to enter.

Shi Tiexin defeated a Mountain Ape and crashed through the ceiling into the facility where the Executive Officer and nineteen pilots were undergoing fusion with their own Mountain Apes. He ended exhausted beside the fallen ape, only to realize he had landed among two of them.

• Researchers began fusing specially adapted pilots with the Mountain Apes, dissolving their bodies so their brains could join the creatures' neural systems.
• The Executive Officer entered his Mountain Ape and briefly remembered the boy Kyūbei before suppressing his human emotions and declaring his devotion to His Majesty and the Revered Divine Mother.
• Shi Tiexin fought an exhausted Mountain Ape through the ceiling and stabbed it in the back as they fell into the facility.
• Shi Tiexin crashed through a cultivation tank with the Mountain Ape and lay gasping on its back, pleased that he had won.
• Shi Tiexin noticed that there was another Mountain Ape on the ground beside him.

Surrounded by twenty mountain apes and hundreds of demons, Shi Tiexin rejected surrender and charged, awakening a fusion of wind, fire, and lightning. He redirected his blade at the last moment and exposed a terrified driver behind the motionless apes.

• Shi Tiexin realized he had entered a facility filled with cultivation vats and found himself surrounded by twenty mountain apes and hundreds of demons.
• He considered fleeing, breaking through to Sharp Will, or surrendering, but chose to fight rather than kneel.
• Shi Tiexin charged the mountain apes, and his resolve absorbed Shi Yulei’s example into his Sharp Will.
• His Immovable Tribulation Fire and Formless Tribulation Wind began to merge, while the Black Sovereign’s determination sparked the Interminable Tribulation Force.
• Shi Tiexin formed the Initial Fusion of Three Tribulations, then turned his blade away from a mountain ape to reveal a terrified driver standing behind it.

Shi Tiexin used Deadly Chicken Soup to disrupt the drivers’ fusion with the mountain apes, then killed them until only an unusual elite mountain ape remained. Elsewhere, Nora Samurai recovered from his wounds and set out after Youyou, while Shi Tiexin ended the chapter surrounded by Demon Soldiers.

• Shi Tiexin perfected Deadly Chicken Soup and used its blood-rush effect to interrupt the drivers’ fusions, making them vulnerable to his attacks.
• Shi Tiexin struck the Executive Officer, but an elite mountain ape broke free, shielded him, and fled with him inside its body.
• The Executive Officer’s split head was absorbed into the mountain ape, which healed over and protected him.
• Nora Samurai regenerated beneath the rubble, reattached his severed hand, and resumed his hunt for Youyou.
• Shi Tiexin killed the last ordinary mountain ape driver, then found himself surrounded by Demon Soldiers aiming their guns at him.

Shi Tiexin fought off the Demon Soldiers in the darkened harbor until the girl who had found confidential information rejoined him and revealed her plan. After she destroyed the exits and triggered a massive flood, the water swept through the underground base and into the submarine harbor.

• The harbor lights went out, and Shi Tiexin used the darkness and his techniques to evade gunfire while fighting the Demon Soldiers.
• Shi Tiexin took cover behind a tank, replaced his ruined bulletproof vest, and threw grenades to disrupt the enemy formation.
• The girl reunited with Shi Tiexin, said she had found confidential information, and gave him an oxygen mask.
• The girl revealed that she had destroyed the land exit and arranged a second explosion, which knocked down the surrounding Demon Soldiers and tanks.
• Shi Tiexin realized the girl had blown up the sewer's reverse-pressure drainage system, unleashing a flood that swept through the base and into the submarine harbor.

Shi Tiexin and Youyou escaped the flooding secret harbor through the sewers, where he used the Formless Water Tribulation Sword to navigate the dark, dangerous water. As a huge predator attacked them, Shi Tiexin perfected the technique’s fourth layer, transformed its attribute into Formless Tribulation Force, and killed the creature from within.

• Shi Tiexin sheltered Youyou inside a sealed canister as seawater flooded the secret harbor and asked her how they could escape.
• Youyou directed Shi Tiexin to return through the sewers, and they plunged underwater with masks and followed his map through the dark.
• Shi Tiexin used the Formless Water Tribulation Sword to move through the water and fend off creatures attacking in the flooded corridors.
• A massive underwater predator lunged at Shi Tiexin and Youyou, prompting him to perfect the technique’s fourth layer and raise Formless Water to +10.
• Shi Tiexin sent a ring of water into the predator’s mouth, transformed Formless Water into Formless Tribulation Force, and killed it with a hidden wound to its heart.

Shi Tiexin fought through the flooded sewer while carrying Youyou toward the open sea, then discovered she had no oxygen mask and had stopped breathing. He reached the boat and began emergency first aid, but the chapter ended before her condition was known.

• Shi Tiexin used Formless Tribulation Force to fight hostile creatures and navigate the dark underwater corridor, while Youyou guided him and gave him an underwater flashlight.
• Shi Tiexin swam upstream through the damaged sewer and reached its outlet, but Youyou's grip weakened and he realized she was not wearing an oxygen mask.
• Shi Tiexin gave Youyou his mask and charged against the current, combining wind and water Tribulation Forces to propel them out to sea and back to the boat.
• Shi Tiexin found seawater inside the mask, saw that Youyou's heart had stopped, and tore open her combat suit to begin emergency first aid.

Shi Tiexin rescued Youyou from the water and discovered she had only pretended to be unconscious to tease him. After they reached the yacht, they discussed the major discovery they had made and what to do next.

• Shi Tiexin drained seawater from Youyou and performed CPR when he thought her heart had stopped.
• Shi Tiexin realized Youyou was acting and tickled her until she laughed and regained her color.
• Youyou explained that she had given Shi Tiexin the only breathing mask because his skills were needed for their escape, and said she could hold her breath for about twenty minutes.
• Shi Tiexin and Youyou rode a small boat to Wild Chicken's yacht, where he carried her up the rope ladder.
• Shi Tiexin and Youyou went to a soundproof room, and he asked what they should do about their major discovery.

Shi Tiexin decided to stay in Japan with Youyou and Black Zun rather than flee the looming threat, resolving to build an army of his own. He began by trying to convince Wild Chicken to procure thousands of guns.

• Youyou explained that a powerful organization behind the New Army was pursuing ambitious plans, and she refused to leave Japan because she needed to gather intelligence for national security.
• Shi Tiexin considered forcing Youyou to leave with him, but accepted that she and Black Zun were determined to stay.
• Shi Tiexin decided to recruit and train soldiers, acquire weapons, and build a force capable of resisting the enemy.
• Shi Tiexin inspected his shipment from Wild Chicken, settled the payment, and asked him to obtain ten thousand guns.
• Wild Chicken said he could not acquire that many guns, so Shi Tiexin tried to persuade him with speeches about fighting for his dreams.

Shi Tiexin expanded his forces and businesses, arranged for Sakuragi Kenji to lead a truck-modification team, then visited Xiao Wei at the hospital and asked A D about her condition. The chapter left her recovery status unanswered.

• Wild Chicken left determined to pursue his dream of becoming an International Broker and Arms Dealer.
• Shi Tiexin began a staged military buildup and used attacks by demons and monsters as training for his growing forces.
• Shi Tiexin revived factories, organized the production of clothing and bullets, and identified control of supply lines as a priority.
• Shi Tiexin recruited Sakuragi Kenji to lead a team modifying heavy trucks for transport and defense.
• Shi Tiexin visited Xiao Wei at the hospital, reassured her about returning to work, and asked A D about her condition.

Shi Tiexin brought A D and Xiao Wei from the hospital to Tokyo Prison, which he chose as a fortified headquarters for his group. As the prison was converted into a base and an armed force began training, someone elsewhere lost all sense of security.

• Shi Tiexin offered A D help caring for Xiao Wei and the option of leaving the martial world, but A D said he wanted to stay and care for her.
• Shi Tiexin took Xiao Wei from the hospital and brought her and A D to Tokyo Prison, his new base.
• Shi Tiexin inspected the prison and ordered its gates, walls, facilities, and defenses upgraded.
• Shi Tiexin's people turned the prison into a headquarters for training, operations, defense, and emergency shelter.
• Shi Tiexin's group recruited a thousand armed fighters, who began training at the prison.

Shi Tiexin attempted the most demanding method of cultivating the Impenetrable Earth Tribulation Body, fusing all four Tribulation Powers at once. As the strain threatened to overwhelm his consciousness, the Black Sovereign consciousness block trembled and shed a fragment.

• Shi Tiexin chose to cultivate Impenetrable Earth using the Four Great Tribulation Powers, the top-tier method described in Sister Mengmeng's notebook.
• Shi Tiexin used a saber, a sword, and his body to gather Unwavering, Interminable, Formless, and Formless Tribulation Powers, then fused them in pairs.
• Shi Tiexin brought the thunderfire sphere and wind-water circle together at his torso, beginning to unite all four Tribulation Powers.
• Shi Tiexin's consciousness strained under the violent fusion until the Black Sovereign consciousness block trembled and a fragment fell from it.

Shi Tiexin cultivated the Impenetrable Earth Tribulation Body and gained insight into its power to endure and harmonize the other tribulations. He achieved a natural breakthrough to perfect first-level cultivation, and his second level began cultivating as the Four Great Tribulation Powers circulated through his body.

• The Black Sovereign consciousness fragment silently helped Shi Tiexin persist through the colliding tribulations.
• Shi Tiexin broke through the illusions and understood the Impenetrable Earth Tribulation Body’s underlying nature of endurance, persistence, and eruption.
• Shi Tiexin recited lines from an unknown memory as the four tribulation powers converged and the earth power within him expanded.
• The Vision System showed that Shi Tiexin’s first-level Impenetrable Earth Tribulation Body had reached perfect cultivation and activated Impenetrable Earth +1 and Thick Earth Body +1.
• Shi Tiexin confirmed he had achieved a natural breakthrough without spending Golden Light, and felt the second level begin cultivating as the tribulation powers circulated.

Shi Tiexin’s cultivation, armed forces, construction projects, and weapons production all advanced rapidly, strengthening his position in Tokyo. When he met Wang Dafa at his new seaside mansion, A'cheng burst in and accused Shi Tiexin of raising private soldiers, stockpiling arms, and conspiring against the state.

• Shi Tiexin advanced Deadly Chicken Soup to its third level and expanded his armed force to more than a thousand trained men, with over three thousand fighters in total.
• Shi Tiexin’s Earth Tribulation Body neared a breakthrough, while Sakuragi Kenji’s engineers completed a prototype armored truck and prison renovations sped ahead.
• Veteran technicians reported that they had successfully made bullets, and Shi Tiexin paid their promised bonuses and launched a project to reverse-engineer guns.
• Shi Tiexin considered shortages of agricultural goods and industrial raw materials as constraints on his growing power, then accepted Wang Dafa’s invitation to tea.
• At Wang Dafa’s seaside mansion, A'cheng interrupted their meeting and accused Shi Tiexin of raising private soldiers, stockpiling arms, and conspiring against the state.

Wang Dafa rejected A'cheng's accusation against Shi Tiexin and dismissed A'cheng, then earned Shi Tiexin's trust by openly supporting him. After Shi Tiexin confessed what he had learned about Yamagata House and New Purge, Wang Dafa asked whether they could cooperate with the mysterious faction.

• A'cheng accused Shi Tiexin of raising private soldiers and plotting rebellion, presenting photographs as evidence.
• Wang Dafa denounced A'cheng, had him dragged away, and dismissed him from his post as incense master.
• Wang Dafa told Shi Tiexin that he trusted his decisions and supported his troop training.
• Shi Tiexin revealed that Yamagata House financed New Purge and shared what he had discovered about the Ouyang Brothers, Fujiwara Gokushin, Yamagata Fuji, and the underground base.
• After hearing Shi Tiexin's account in a soundproof meeting room, Wang Dafa asked whether they could cooperate with that faction.

Wang Dafa considered working with the mysterious organization and sent Youyou to investigate it while preparing a military operation in Kyoto. In secret, he studied the bodies of unusual people, took two tablets, and summoned Daiyue to discuss her story.

• Shi Tiexin warned Wang Dafa that the organization was an enemy, then agreed to lead troops against Daxing's defiant spokesman in Kyoto.
• After Shi Tiexin left, Youyou told Wang Dafa about her time with him and argued that they should learn more about the organization before discussing cooperation.
• Wang Dafa assigned Youyou forces to investigate the organization and ordered her to handle a marked location during the Kyoto campaign.
• Wang Dafa reviewed his subordinates in a notebook, calling Shi Tiexin difficult to restrain and Jin Qing a possible three-faced spy.
• Wang Dafa entered a hidden basement where unusual people, including Fujiwara Kyoshin, were preserved for research, then took two tablets and asked someone to invite Daiyue.

Shi Tiexin led a large force from Tokyo toward Kyoto to confront the rebellious hall master, while secretly diverting elite troops to a shrine near the city. He and Youyou prepared to storm the shrine and draw Da Xing into the conflict.

• Shi Tiexin learned that the Kyoto hall master had formed the Kansai Corps and planned an advance using intelligence Wang Dafa had collected.
• Shi Tiexin assembled sixteen hundred men, while Wang Dafa dispatched another thousand along a separate route.
• Shi Tiexin's convoy departed before dawn and traveled toward Kyoto with equipment prepared for obstacles and ambushes.
• Shi Tiexin and Youyou met near a shrine outside Kyoto, where Shi Tiexin revealed that a hundred-man spearhead team and more troops were waiting nearby.
• Shi Tiexin told Youyou they would storm the shrine that night to force Da Xing into the conflict.

Shi Tiexin infiltrated a deserted shrine and found no people or obvious clues, while Youyou watched from outside. After noticing the shrine lacked any modern equipment or gift shop, he began to suspect the multi-handed idol and the shrine were hiding something.

• Shi Tiexin used Formless Power and careful leaps to enter the shrine without making much noise.
• Youyou watched the shrine from a hillside and told Shi Tiexin she believed it contained something valuable.
• Shi Tiexin searched the halls, rooms, courtyard, and space beneath the floorboards but found no one and nothing unusual.
• Youyou improvised a song about the shrine going bankrupt, prompting Shi Tiexin to realize it had no shop, electronics, or apparent source of oil for its lamps.
• Shi Tiexin looked at the Multi-handed Idol and recalled an old trope from Dispersed Literature.