Chapter Summaries

After learning that the Iron Bone Boxing Gym was being squeezed by business attacks and reduced potion supplies, Lin Sheng set out for the Rotting Forest to earn money and gather valuable materials. He reached the dangerous Green Ghost Forest area, where he encountered a powerful hunting team whose leader, Wild Wolf, concealed deep hostility toward him.

• Lin Sheng learned from Ding Le that the martial hall’s properties and trade were under attack, the Guard Army had halved its Nutritional Potion allotment, and Yue Hongya and the senior brothers had gone to oversee the properties.
• Ding Le gave Lin Sheng five Mid-Tier Nutritional Potions set aside by Yue Hongya, and Lin Sheng decided to seek more resources in the Rotting Forest.
• Lin Sheng left Greenwood City and traveled into the Rotting Forest, where he killed a giant lizard Eerie Beast with a single punch and collected two unusual plants from its den.
• Lin Sheng headed toward the Green Ghost Forest to search for valuable green ghost mushrooms and encountered seven masked hunters led by Wild Wolf.
• Wild Wolf introduced his group as hunters from the Black Valley Gathering Place and withdrew, but Lin Sheng sensed deep malice from them and vanished from the spot.

Lin Sheng killed Wild Wolf and his hunters, learned about Crimson Lightning weapons, and discovered that Wild Wolf suspected he was an outer-domain creature. After gathering more loot and heading back to Greenwood City, Lin Sheng approached the exit, where Guard Army members waited to ambush him for his supposed Crimson Grass discovery.

• Wild Wolf marked Lin Sheng and planned to follow him into the Green Ghost Forest, but Lin Sheng appeared and killed four of Wild Wolf's companions.
• Lin Sheng disarmed Wild Wolf, examined his Crimson Lightning firearm, and forced him to explain the company's weapon ratings and its place in the Alliance.
• Wild Wolf recognized Lin Sheng as an outer-domain creature and tried to contact the Bureau of Affairs, so Lin Sheng killed him and destroyed his phone.
• Lin Sheng took the hunters' supplies, killed other hostile hunters for their backpacks, and turned back toward Greenwood City instead of entering the Green Ghost Forest.
• Asi and two Guard Army members waited near the forest exit, plotting to ambush Lin Sheng because they believed he had found a patch of Crimson Grass.

Lin Sheng returned from the Rotting Forest, killed the three men who tried to rob him, and sold his haul for nutritional potions while learning that potion prices were rising across Jade Forest City. Meanwhile, Sister Hui and a giant from the Fighting Association investigated Wild Wolf’s death and classified the unknown attacker as a possible D-Rank Threat before leaving the matter to the Bureau of Affairs.

• Asi and his two companions confronted Lin Sheng at the forest entrance, and Lin Sheng killed them and burned their bodies and weapons.
• Lin Sheng entered Greenwood City with the Fierce Tiger Caravan, disguised himself, and sold his haul to the Mystic Light Trading House for five Mid-Tier Nutritional Potions and four Low-Tier Nutritional Potions.
• The manager told Lin Sheng that nutritional potion prices had risen amid rumors of reduced factory production, and Lin Sheng suspected someone was targeting the Iron Bone Boxing Gym.
• Lin Sheng asked about Planetary-Grade Firearms, learned that even the cheapest cost over five hundred thousand Star Coins, and headed to the Iron Bone Boxing Gym with his potions.
• Sister Hui and the giant investigated Wild Wolf’s death, found a fragment of his destroyed handgun, and concluded the attacker was likely a powerful, intelligent D-Rank Threat.
• Sister Hui dismissed further investigation as the Bureau of Affairs’ responsibility and left with the giant to focus on an upcoming elite quota and the boxing gyms.

Lin Sheng learned that the Bureau of Affairs handled extraterrestrial threats and prepared to advance his Iron Body Skill. Meanwhile, Yue Hongya arranged for the Jinmei Chamber of Commerce to undercut Heavy Peak’s potion scheme, prompting Wan Shan to order an investigation of the Iron Bone Boxing Gym and consider killing her.

• Lin Sheng asked Ding Le about the Bureau of Affairs and learned it was the Extraterrestrial Threat Response Office, an agency with authority to respond to extraterrestrial threats.
• Lin Sheng decided to keep a low profile, then drank a yellow potion to pursue Great Completion of Iron Body Skill.
• Yue Hongya revealed that the Jinmei Chamber of Commerce would enter Greenwood City with a large supply of potions, countering Heavy Peak’s price manipulation.
• Yue Hongya warned Meng Cheng and Jelas to keep the plan secret and showed them photographs of two men, intending to retaliate for Heavy Peak’s attacks.
• After the Jinmei Chamber of Commerce’s arrival caused potion prices to collapse, Greenfang and Men Jie Fu confronted Wan Shan, who revealed he had grown stronger.
• Wan Shan ordered Chong'er to investigate Yue Hongya’s movements and said Sea Dog and Luby should kill her if an opportunity arose.

Yue Hongya killed Luby and Sea Dog after revealing that she had reached Eclipse Warrior Level, while Lin Sheng fully mastered the Iron Body Skill and gained a permanent Iron Body talent. When Lin Sheng emerged, he learned that the Iron Bone Boxing Gym had recovered and met a Bureau of Affairs commissioner investigating a possible extradimensional threat near Greenwood City.

• Yue Hongya defeated Luby and killed Sea Dog, who realized she had become an Eclipse Warrior.
• Lin Sheng fully mastered the Iron Body Skill, returned to the Divine Form peak, and gained the Iron Body talent on his status panel.
• Xiao Ying told Lin Sheng that the Jinmei Trading Company had helped the Iron Bone Boxing Gym recover, Yue Hongya had killed two wanted bandits, and the gym's reputation and enrollment had risen.
• Lin Sheng went to the main hall and found Yue Hongya speaking with Zhang Hui and Lu Ku, a special commissioner investigating a possible extradimensional threat.
• Lu Ku gave Yue Hongya an Aura Detector and asked her to report any unusual signs and assist if the Bureau of Affairs issued a requisition.
• Lu Ku sensed Lin Sheng outside the lobby, and Lin Sheng entered while suppressing his mental perception.

Lin Sheng passed Lu Ku’s investigation and impressed Yue Hongya with his Iron Body Skill, then entered the gym’s hidden chamber to learn about Flesh Observation and the Blackgold Body-Forging Art. After studying the strange remains, he found that the system identified them as He Jia of the Bloodbone Titan Race.

• Lu Ku questioned Lin Sheng about extraterrestrial beings and used a Detection Device, but found nothing unusual before leaving with Zhang Hui.
• Yue Hongya praised Lin Sheng’s progress, urged him to conceal his cultivation, and led him to the Iron Bone Boxing Gym’s secret chamber.
• Yue Hongya explained that Flesh Observation was the gym’s Visualization Source and taught Lin Sheng how its rule patterns guided the Blackgold Body-Forging Art.
• Lin Sheng touched the giant remains and memorized some of their patterns before Yue Hongya’s mental force pulled him back; he told her he had remembered about five percent.
• Yue Hongya gave Lin Sheng a drawing of the patterns, seven high-grade potions, and a USB drive recording the Blackgold Body-Forging Art.
• Back in his bedroom, Lin Sheng checked the system panel and saw that the remains were identified as He Jia of the Bloodbone Titan Race.

Lin Sheng discovered that the Iron Bone Boxing Gym’s Flesh Visualization came from a Bloodbone Titan and began studying the gym’s core cultivation method. After Li Suihan and Tang Xue’er invited him to meet them at the Feast Pavilion, he headed there, where the two girls confronted Qian Xinxin.

• Lin Sheng learned that the Flesh Visualization was a Bloodbone Titan whose blood essence could be extracted, but found he needed physical contact to begin extraction.
• Lin Sheng studied the Blackgold Body-Forging Art and realized he needed to memorize more rule trajectories before he could cultivate it.
• Li Suihan finished third in special training, and Tang Xue’er persuaded her to celebrate at the Feast Pavilion and invite Li Wei.
• Lin Sheng read Li Suihan’s message, decided to meet her, and set off for the Feast Pavilion.
• At the Feast Pavilion, Tang Xue’er mocked Qian Xinxin over her training-camp defeat, and Qian Xinxin angrily insulted the two girls.

Lin Sheng reunited with Li Suihan at the Feast Pavilion, frightened off Qian Xinxin and her bodyguard, and left his sister training resources while refusing to join her martial hall. As his taxi departed, a mysterious woman appeared in front of it.

• Lin Sheng arrived at the Feast Pavilion and found Qian Xinxin insulting Li Suihan and Tang Xue'er.
• Lin Sheng told Qian Xinxin to get lost, and she and her ninth-rank bodyguard fled in fear.
• Nora watched Lin Sheng from the third floor while asking Luca about the divine-aura disturbance.
• Lin Sheng told Li Suihan he had become a Fighter at the Iron Bone Martial Hall, refused to transfer, and left her a case of nutritional potions.
• Li Suihan and Tang Xue'er opened the case and were astonished by its contents before realizing Lin Sheng had also eaten their food.
• Lin Sheng reflected that Li Suihan was safe at the Swift Shadow Martial Hall, then his taxi braked when a shapely woman appeared in front of it.

Lin Sheng confronted Nora, a powerful woman who invited him to join her organization and revealed that she suspected he had drawn out a desolation aura three months earlier. He kept the invitation card, then studied the Flesh Observation at Iron Fist Headquarters and arranged to return daily to comprehend its law trajectory.

• Lin Sheng resisted a leather-clad woman's bewitching ability, dragged her into an alley, and demanded to know why she had blocked his taxi.
• Nora emerged from hiding, recognized Lin Sheng as the person who had stirred up a desolation aura, and invited him to join her organization; he refused but kept her black card.
• Nora ordered her subordinate to investigate Lin Sheng and his lineage after he left the alley.
• Lin Sheng returned to his residence, considered the risks of attracting attention in Greenwood City, and studied the law trajectory from an illustration.
• At Iron Fist Headquarters, Lin Sheng touched the Flesh Observation and began slowly extracting Bloodbone Titan blood essence while comprehending its law trajectory.
• Lin Sheng studied the Flesh Observation for ten minutes, drank Yue Hongya's Spirit-Restoring Potion, and asked to study it every day; Yue Hongya agreed and offered him a key.

At the Greenwood Club, Nora investigated Lin Sheng and ordered a background check on Lu Ku, while Lin Sheng learned about the Eye of the Dead and extracted Bloodbone Titan essence blood. After beginning to refine it, he endured severe pain and used several powerful void-beast possessions to withstand the transformation.

• Nora received Nine Eyes's message, dismissed his request that she return, and asked Xiao Luo about Lu Ku's arrival in Greenwood City.
• Xiao Luo showed Nora information about Lin Sheng and reported that Lu Ku had come from the Bureau of Affairs; Nora ordered an investigation into him.
• Lin Sheng questioned Ding Le about local and provincial factions, then searched online and identified the Eye of the Dead as the likely organization behind the woman he had encountered.
• Lin Sheng extracted Bloodbone Titan essence blood from the corpse in the secret chamber and learned that refining it could grant affinity with the flesh rule but risk physical mutation.
• After returning to his residence and resting, Lin Sheng swallowed a drop of essence blood and began refining it, using successive void-beast possessions to endure the pain.

After refining the Bloodbone Titan’s blood essence, Lin Sheng gained a flesh-and-blood affinity talent that let him comprehend the Blackgold Body-Forging Art’s rule trajectories and condense his first blood seal in half a day. He learned that the Iron Bone Boxing Gym was prospering under Yue Hongya’s leadership, while the Heavy Peak Martial Hall remained a threat, and discovered Yue Hongya had condensed her first blood seal in only ten days.

• Lin Sheng finished refining the Bloodbone Titan’s blood essence and gained the intermediate Flesh-and-blood affinity talent without any increase to his attributes.
• Lin Sheng used his new talent to understand the Color-Painting Set and memorize the rule trajectories from the skeleton in the secret chamber.
• Lin Sheng practiced the Blackgold Body-Forging Art and successfully condensed his first blood seal in half a day.
• Ding Le told Lin Sheng that the Iron Bone Boxing Gym was recovering and expanding after Yue Hongya defeated two Annihilation Forces experts and partnered with the Jinmei Chamber of Commerce.
• Ding Le explained that most students took months to condense their first blood seal, while Yue Hongya had done it in ten days.

Lin Sheng discovered that Flesh Affinity made him cultivate the Blackgold Body-Forging Art at an extraordinary pace, then secretly advanced to Combat Master in ten days. After agreeing to join Meng Cheng on an escort mission, he sensed a mysterious presence outside his window and confronted it.

• Lin Sheng deduced that Flesh Affinity explained his rapid progress and resumed cultivating the Blackgold Body-Forging Art.
• Tang Xue'er and Li Suihan became Elite Disciples of the Swift Shadow Martial Hall, and Tang Xue'er told Li Suihan that Li Wei had joined the Iron Bone Boxing Gym as an Official Student.
• Lin Sheng completed all twenty Blood Seals, reached Combat Master, and concealed his breakthrough by suppressing his aura.
• Yue Hongya and Meng Cheng urged Lin Sheng to gain combat experience, and Lin Sheng agreed to accompany Meng Cheng on an escort assignment.
• While cultivating late at night, Lin Sheng detected an unusual presence outside his window and challenged it, prompting a seductive voice to answer.

Nora confronted Lin Sheng in his bedroom, revealed that the Eye of the Dead welcomed intelligent Extradimensional Creatures, and offered to divert investigator Lu Ku in exchange for Lin Sheng finding something for her. Lin Sheng accepted the trade, though Nora had not yet revealed what she wanted him to find.

• Nora entered Lin Sheng's bedroom and warned him that investigator Lu Ku had confirmed an Extradimensional Creature was in Greenwood City.
• Lin Sheng attacked Nora in his transformed state, but she evaded him and weakened him with black mist before he stopped fighting.
• Nora invited Lin Sheng to join the Eye of the Dead and explained that the organization included Extradimensional Creatures and was led by a hybrid, but Lin Sheng refused.
• Nora offered to lure Lu Ku away from Greenwood City if Lin Sheng helped her find something, explaining that his Eye Clan blood would improve the odds of success.
• Lin Sheng asked what Nora wanted and agreed to the trade.

Nora explained the five great wills and the derived rules to Lin Sheng, then revealed her plan to use him to find the Thousand-Eyed Eerie Vine. Three days later, Lin Sheng joined Meng Cheng’s group on a wilderness mission from Greenwood City toward White Tower City.

• Nora explained that the five great wills underlay the rules of the endless void and that the return-to-quiescence will’s kin were destructive creatures targeted by the Bureau of Affairs.
• Nora told Lin Sheng that the Eye of the Dead stole the rule of desolation, then explained how she had discovered him through his unusual aura and mental strength.
• After leaving Lin Sheng, Nora told Xiao Luo that she wanted his help obtaining the Thousand-Eyed Eerie Vine and ordered Xiao Luo to confirm its location in the Rotting Woodland.
• Nora said she would lure Lu Ku away and admitted she could not safely capture Lin Sheng in her current condition, while Xiao Luo reported finding possible traces of the eerie vine.
• Three days later, Lin Sheng departed with Meng Cheng on a pickup convoy, and Meng Cheng warned him to study the map and stay inside the vehicle while crossing corrupted land.

Lin Sheng traveled with Meng Cheng’s convoy toward White Tower City, but a damaged glowstone road forced them to detour through the dangerous Blackwater Ravine. As the convoy crossed the ravine without the expected attacks, Lin Sheng sensed a powerful presence approaching.

• Lin Sheng studied the map Meng Cheng gave him and accepted a new phone as a gift before cultivating during the journey.
• After the Guard Army closed their route due to eerie poison contamination, Meng Cheng chose to take the convoy through Blackwater Ravine despite the danger.
• Xiao Kui explained that Blackwater Ravine’s abandoned road bordered a dangerous region and lay near a contaminated stream frequented by Eerie Beasts.
• During the night, Meng Cheng repeatedly killed attacking Eerie Beasts with his firearm while the convoy continued without losses.
• The convoy entered Blackwater Ravine wearing protective masks, and Lin Sheng perceived the heat and infernal eerie poison coming from the trees and stream.
• As the convoy crossed the ravine without encountering Eerie Beasts, Lin Sheng sensed a powerful, concealed presence rapidly approaching.

Lin Sheng left the convoy to kill a powerful Demon Beast-level Eerie Beast, incorporated it, and tested its talents. A humanoid Void Beast then ambushed him in the mist, survived his counterattack, and was identified as an Infernal Fiend.

• Meng Cheng left the truck to confront an approaching Eerie Beast while Xiao Kui drove the convoy onward.
• Lin Sheng sensed a stronger Eerie Beast approaching and left the truck to intercept it.
• Lin Sheng killed the Infernal-Melt Giant Rhinoceros and incorporated it, gaining its Infernal Aura and Infernal Flame Breath talents.
• Lin Sheng tested the giant rhinoceros's talents, then canceled the incorporation and hurried back toward the convoy.
• A humanoid Eerie Beast ambushed Lin Sheng in the mist, but he struck it and survived its counterattack.
• Lin Sheng identified the attacker as an Infernal Fiend, a humanoid Void Beast.

Lin Sheng fought and assimilated the Purgatory Flame Demon in Blackwater Ravine, barely resisting the purgatory aura that drove it to slaughter. He escaped the danger zone with Meng Cheng, and told him he had encountered a high-level Spirit Beast-level Eerie Beast.

• Lin Sheng assessed the Purgatory Flame Demon’s strength and activated his talents before meeting its charge head-on.
• Lin Sheng wrestled the demon and battered it for more than twenty minutes, enduring severe wounds and its corrosive yellow-red fluid.
• Lin Sheng tore the demon apart and assimilated it, then realized purgatory contamination had nearly overwhelmed his mind.
• Lin Sheng encountered Meng Cheng in the mist, and the two fled Blackwater Ravine to rejoin the convoy.
• Meng Cheng treated Lin Sheng’s injuries and warned him about purgatory toxins, while Lin Sheng claimed he had faced a high-level Spirit Beast-level Eerie Beast.

Lin Sheng reached White Tower City, tested the Purgatory Flame Demon's talents, and resumed cultivating before setting out with the convoy. In Greenwood City, Wan Shan focused on securing Elite Quota places while postponing action against the Iron Bone Martial Hall.

• Meng Cheng explained that the return-to-quiescence will encompassed destructive rules and that Extradimensional Creatures and corrupted cultists could create Danger Zones.
• Lin Sheng entered White Tower City, passed the Guard Army's Wicked Poison test, and found an inn where he tested the Purgatory Demon Body and Purgatory Affinity talents.
• Lin Sheng discovered that Purgatory Demon Body greatly enhanced his attributes and resilience but stirred a violent, bloodthirsty impulse, then prepared to condense Blood Seals.
• Meng Cheng praised Lin Sheng over a meal at the Milo Hotel and encouraged him to keep cultivating so he could eventually lead a team.
• Greenfang and Men Jie Fu left the Heavy Peak Martial Hall after failing to make Wan Shan cover their losses, while Wan Shan and Wan Zhong discussed the Iron Bone Martial Hall and the upcoming Elite Quota.
• Wan Shan said he would wait to avoid jeopardizing the Elite Quota and planned to train Huo'er for a second place after an Association representative arrived in Greenwood City.

Lin Sheng returned to Greenwood City, cultivated another Blood Seal, and discovered that Nora had dealt with two Heavy Peak Martial Hall agents sent to attack him. The next day, he accompanied Nora into the Rotting Woodland to retrieve something and repay his favor to her.

• Wan Shan ordered Wan Zhong to arrange for men to test Li Wei and cripple him if the chance arose.
• Lin Sheng returned from the escort trip with thirty Blood Seals, then cultivated in seclusion until he formed his thirty-first and examined the changing mark on his chest.
• Two men from the Heavy Peak Martial Hall tried to ambush Lin Sheng, but Nora incapacitated them and told him she had also diverted Lu Ku toward Sea City.
• Nora arranged for Lin Sheng to join her the next day, while Lin Sheng refused her offer to publicly name him her sworn little brother.
• Xiao Luo drove Lin Sheng to the Rotting Woodland, where Nora said he could repay his favor by finding something in its dangerous depths, and Lin Sheng led the way inside.

Lin Sheng and Nora searched the Rotting Forest for the Nine-Eyed Ghost Vine, using Lin Sheng’s Eye Clan blood and mental talent to find it while avoiding powerful Eerie Beasts. They reached the forest’s core, where Lin Sheng detected the vine hiding inside a tumor-covered tree, and Nora exposed it.

• Nora explained that the intelligent Nine-Eyed Ghost Vine could mimic its surroundings and was drawn to the Eye Clan, then recruited Lin Sheng because of his bloodline.
• Lin Sheng used the Thousand-Eyed Nether Lord’s power to sense the vine and drove off a group of Earth Fiend Pythons with his fear devour talent.
• Nora warned Lin Sheng that factions might extract Eye Clan blood, while he continued absorbing mental energy from Eerie Beasts and strengthened his mind.
• Lin Sheng and Nora crossed the Corruption Miasma Barrier and searched the dangerous forest core as Nora’s concealment steadily drained her strength.
• Lin Sheng sensed something watching them and located it inside a tumor-covered tree, where Nora broke open the trunk and confirmed the Nine-Eyed Ghost Vine was hiding there.