Chapter Summaries

Lin Sheng and Nora fought their way out of the Rotting Woodland after Lin Sheng defeated the Nine-Eyed Ghost Vine and a Corrosion Beast awakened. They escaped its pursuit, and Nora explained that the creature was powerful enough to overwhelm the forces of Greenwood City.

• Nora recognized the Nine-Eyed Vines, but realized the Nine-Eyed Ghost Vine was targeting Lin Sheng as the ground collapsed beneath him.
• Lin Sheng transformed with the power of purgatory, killed the giant snake Eerie Beast, and burned the humanoid Nine-Eyed Ghost Vine to ash.
• Nora descended into the cavern and warned Lin Sheng to flee when a terrifying roar came from deep within the woodland.
• Lin Sheng and Nora raced through the Rotting Woodland, and Nora sent an eye-shaped pattern into the mist to suppress the pursuing Corrosion Beast.
• Lin Sheng and Nora escaped the woodland and stopped a hundred li away, where Nora explained how formidable Corrosion Beasts were.

Lin Sheng recovered the Nine-Eyed Wraith Vine and Nora returned to claim it before leaving Greenwood City. Back in the city, Li Suihan became Bai Jiushuang’s disciple, and Lin Sheng learned about her new master while considering his distance from her.

• Nora left Lin Sheng, but returned after sensing the Nine-Eyed Wraith Vine in his hand and took it, thanking him with a kiss on the cheek.
• Xiao Luo arrived to drive Lin Sheng back to Greenwood City and privately wondered about Nora’s lipstick mark on his face.
• Li Suihan became Bai Jiushuang’s disciple at the Swift Shadow Martial Hall, then told Tang Xue’er she would share the news with Li Wei.
• Li Suihan called Lin Sheng with the news, and he congratulated her while keeping their conversation brief because he was not truly Li Wei.
• Lin Sheng asked Xiao Luo about Bai Jiushuang’s strength, learned she was a peak Combat Master, and decided that rank could keep Li Suihan safer; Xiao Luo offered to take him to the martial hall.

Lin Sheng visited the Swift Shadow Martial Hall in a Black Lightning sports car and gave Li Suihan a large sum of money, stunning her and the other students. Zhou Fang, who had mocked Li Suihan and Tang Xue'er moments earlier, apologized and offered his help after realizing Lin Sheng might be connected to the Guard Army.

• On the way to the Swift Shadow Martial Hall, Lin Sheng asked Xiao Luo whether she had brought money.
• Qian Xinxin and Zhou Fang taunted Li Suihan and Tang Xue'er about their prospects and resources, prompting Tang Xue'er to defend her friend.
• A Black Lightning sports car arrived at the martial hall, and Lin Sheng stepped out, shocking Li Suihan, Tang Xue'er, Zhou Fang, and Qian Xinxin.
• Lin Sheng gave Li Suihan a bag containing roughly three or four hundred thousand Star Coins, then left in the car.
• Zhou Fang slapped Qian Xinxin for nearly implicating him, then apologized to Li Suihan and Tang Xue'er and offered them his assistance.

Lin Sheng advanced to Second-Tier Combat Master and discovered that the Blood-Red Vortex Mark strengthened his origin astral force beyond what other Combat Masters could produce. Yue Hongya identified his power as rare blood-refined origin gang and explained that it was a special talent recorded in the Iron Bone Martial Hall's history.

• Lin Sheng spent ten days cultivating in seclusion and broke through to Second-Tier Combat Master.
• Lin Sheng tested his origin astral force and found that it dealt far more damage than expected.
• Lin Sheng compared his power with other Combat Masters and suspected the Blood-Red Vortex Mark was responsible for its unusual strength.
• Lin Sheng searched the Iron Bone Biographies and learned that the First-Generation Hall Master had possessed a rare blood core talent.
• Yue Hongya and Meng Cheng tested Lin Sheng's power, and Yue Hongya recognized it as blood-refined origin gang.
• Yue Hongya explained that blood-refined origin gang was exceptionally rare and that Lin Sheng's strength was above average.

Yue Hongya explained the levels and origins of special Origin Astral Force, then urged Lin Sheng to compete for an Elite Quota and enter the Heavy Peak Martial Hall’s tournament. Lin Sheng agreed and began preparing to develop more power and conceal his abilities, while Nora endured a painful ordeal in a Quiet Room.

• Yue Hongya described the Blood Draw, Blood Flow, and Blood Spring levels of Blood-Refined Origin Gang and said special Origin Astral Force usually depended on innate affinity.
• Yue Hongya told Lin Sheng she would secure him an Elite Quota nomination, and he agreed after learning about the Fighting Association’s resources and Transcendent Cultivation Arts.
• Yue Hongya announced that the Iron Bone Martial Hall would attend Heavy Peak Martial Hall’s tournament in twenty days, and Lin Sheng agreed to compete.
• After Lin Sheng left, Yue Hongya resolved to pay whatever was necessary for his Elite Quota, while Meng Cheng offered to seek funds from his family.
• Lin Sheng considered ways to develop another special Origin Astral Force and acquire concealment methods, messaged Nora, and resumed condensing Blood Seals.
• Nora writhed in agony in an underground Quiet Room as she chewed the remaining Deep Crimson Vine.

Wan Huo became a seventeen-year-old Combat Master with special yuan gang, while Heavy Peak Martial Hall prepared for the fighting tournament and planned to confront Lin Sheng there. After seven days of cultivation, Lin Sheng reached the Second-Tier Master realm, received concealment methods from Nora, and learned that inferno-oriented cultivation methods carried a severe risk of corruption.

• Wan Huo demonstrated his heavy mountain origin astral force, and Wan Shan praised his breakthrough while instructing him to train and learn a secret technique for the tournament.
• Wan Zhong reported that two resident martial masters sent to investigate Lin Sheng had disappeared, so Wan Shan decided to wait for the tournament rather than send more fighters.
• After seven days, Lin Sheng finished cultivating four blood seals and assessed that his progress toward becoming a Third-Tier Master would take at most two months.
• Nora visited Lin Sheng, gave him three concealment methods, and warned him that inferno-oriented cultivation methods could corrupt practitioners and transform them into demonic beasts.
• Nora agreed to look for an inferno cultivation method but warned Lin Sheng away from the black market, then explained the benefits and dangers of the Fighting Association's elite quota.

Lin Sheng studied concealment arts while the Fighting Association commissioners arrived in Greenwood City to select candidates for an elite quota. Carly tested Lin Sheng's special yuan gang and promised Iron Bone Boxing Gym fair consideration in the upcoming tournament.

• Lin Sheng chose the Phantom Image Breath-Concealment Method from three secret arts and planned to cultivate it alongside condensing blood seals.
• Wan Shan hosted commissioners Su Mingquan, Bai Hong, and Carly at Heavy Peak Martial Hall, where they agreed to use a Martial Combat Tournament to assess candidates for the elite quota.
• Wan Huo demonstrated his special yuan gang to the commissioners, impressing them with his talent.
• Carly and Su Mingquan visited the ailing Old Monster Tie at Iron Bone Boxing Gym, and Su Mingquan left after seeing that he was near death.
• Yue Hongya offered Carly a Domain Energy Resonance Elixir and explained that Iron Bone Boxing Gym hoped to secure an elite quota for a new disciple.
• Carly tested Lin Sheng, who appeared under the name Li Wei, confirmed that he had middle-grade special yuan gang, and promised to treat Iron Bone Boxing Gym fairly if he performed well in the tournament.

Lin Sheng met Nora at the Gloam Club to collect two Inferno cultivation methods, but she was in a strange state and drained much of his vital blood. After recovering, he studied the methods, chose the Purgatory Body-Burning Fist Manual, and hoped it would help him condense Special Yuan Gang.

• Lin Sheng finished mastering the Phantom Image Breath-Concealment Method and reached fifty-three Blood Seals, leaving him seven short of becoming a Third Tier Combat Master.
• Lin Sheng went to the Gloam Club, where Nora gave him an encrypted USB drive containing two Inferno cultivation methods and asked to borrow some of his vital blood.
• Nora clung to Lin Sheng and drained his vital blood for an hour before he left with the USB drive.
• Nora woke later and realized Li Wei had been there, then considered how his vital blood might help her cultivate through the Withered Bone Congealed Stillness stage.
• Lin Sheng replenished his vital blood with Nutritional Potions, compared the two methods, and chose the Purgatory Body-Burning Fist Manual.

The Martial Combat Tournament opened in Greenwood City, drawing the city’s major factions and offering large prizes. As Li Suihan endured Qian Xinxin’s taunts, Yue Hongya prepared Jelas for his event and wondered when their youngest junior brother would arrive; Li Wei appeared at the plaza entrance.

• Tang Xue'er and Li Suihan watched the gathered factions, and Bai Jiushuang introduced Yue Hongya as the Iron Bone Boxing Gym’s young hall master.
• Qian Xinxin insulted Li Wei in front of Li Suihan, while Zhou Fang left with her after deciding Li Wei was unremarkable.
• Yue Hongya told Jelas to compete for the peak master elite quota and learned that Li Wei was still expected to arrive late.
• Wan Shan opened the tournament and announced eight million Star Coins and Transcendent Potions among its rewards.
• Meng Cheng worried about the Heavy Peak Martial Hall’s ties to the Guard Army, then spotted Li Wei arriving at the plaza entrance.

Lin Sheng attended the tournament and watched the Fighter matches while concealing his presence and cultivating. The final bout ended with a young settlement fighter using origin astral force to defeat Yuan Kai, revealing an unexpectedly powerful contender.

• Lin Sheng took his seat beside Yue Hongya, drawing attention from the martial halls and unsettling Qian Xinxin when she realized he was a core disciple and Li Suihan’s brother.
• The Fighter tournament began, and Lin Sheng watched briefly before turning his attention to condensing blood seals; two hours later, only Yuan Kai and a young girl from an outside settlement remained.
• Yue Hongya said she had already sent someone to recruit the girl, whose eighth-rank strength had carried her past several ninth-rank Fighters.
• Yuan Kai hardened his body like black rock and charged the girl, confident that her blades could not hurt him.
• The girl’s blades flashed with origin astral force, opening two deep gashes across Yuan Kai’s chest and dropping him to the ground.

Mangya defeated Yuan Kai in the Fighter competition, revealing a rare talent that earned her an elite quota spot. Jelas lost to Wan Zhong in the peak Master final, and Lin Sheng entered the ring for the Master competition.

• Mangya defeated Yuan Kai with her special yuan gang, and the Fighting Association officials agreed to give her an elite quota spot.
• Jelas beat Shak in the peak Master competition, while Wan Zhong quickly defeated his first opponent.
• Jelas fought Wan Zhong in the final and lost, though he injured Wan Zhong before falling from the ring.
• The host announced Wan Zhong as the peak Master competition's victor and called the Master contestants to enter.
• Lin Sheng's senior disciples encouraged him before he walked toward the ring.

Wan Huo and Lin Sheng dominated their opening matches in the Master division, while Lin Sheng learned that his next tournament challenge might be more dangerous than expected. The chapter ended with Rorick gravely injured after Wan Huo defeated him brutally.

• Wan Shan told Wan Zhong that the last elite quota slot was reserved for Wan Huo, then planned to pair Wan Huo with the wilderness girl who had already secured a slot.
• Lin Sheng defeated Lokov of the Three Mountains Gang in seconds, revealing his strength as a second-tier Master with special origin gang.
• Tang Xue'er cheered for Lin Sheng before hastily insisting to Swift Shadow Martial Hall students that she remained loyal to their hall.
• Lin Sheng defeated a second-tier Master from the Greenfang Gang, while Rorick won his own match and promised to treat Lin Sheng to dinner.
• Wan Huo crushed Rorick in a brutal match, leaving him motionless and badly injured as Lin Sheng watched from the arena.

Wan Huo brutally injured Rorick and provoked Lin Sheng before they became the tournament’s final contestants. As Wan Huo vowed to cripple Lin Sheng with a Yuan Gang Secret Art, Lin Sheng entered the platform to face him.

• Wan Huo defeated Rorick with deliberate, severe injuries, leaving him unconscious and likely to need six months to recover.
• Yue Hongya confronted Wan Shan over Wan Huo’s actions, but officials dismissed her protest and she returned to her seat.
• Wan Huo provoked Lin Sheng, who stayed calm and turned away to rest rather than respond.
• The remaining matches ended with Wan Huo and Lin Sheng as the last contestants, while officials discussed their special Yuan Gang and Wan Huo’s secret art.
• Wan Huo promised Wan Shan and Wan Zhong that he would use the secret art to cripple Lin Sheng, then challenged him on the platform.
• Lin Sheng reassured Yue Hongya, Meng Cheng, and Jelas before leaping onto the platform to face Wan Huo.

Lin Sheng faced Wan Huo in the master tournament final and revealed overwhelming strength after surviving Wan Huo’s Yuan Gang Secret Art. He left Wan Huo nearly destroyed and stopped Wan Shan’s charge by holding up his disciple’s blood-soaked head.

• Wan Huo activated a fully mastered Yuan Gang Secret Art and charged Lin Sheng with a barrage of attacks.
• Lin Sheng endured Wan Huo’s assault without moving, then enlarged into a towering crimson form and knocked Wan Huo into the arena barrier with one blow.
• Wan Huo attacked again in a frenzy, but his arms shattered when they struck Lin Sheng’s body.
• Lin Sheng struck Wan Huo from above, crumbling his body until only his head and neck remained.
• Wan Shan broke through the protective barrier and lunged at Lin Sheng, but stopped when Lin Sheng held up Wan Huo’s head.
• Lin Sheng apologized to Wan Shan for not expecting Wan Huo to be so fragile.

Lin Sheng won the Master division final by unleashing the power stored in his blood-red mark, earning the tournament’s final elite quota and drawing the Heavy Peak Martial Hall’s hostility. Back at the Iron Bone Main Hall, Yue Hongya mistook the mark’s effects for a physical mutation talent, while Lin Sheng resolved to grow stronger and keep the stored energy as a trump card.

• Lin Sheng defeated Wan Huo, and Wan Shan threatened him but stopped when Lin Sheng held Wan Huo’s life in his hands; Su Mingquan and Zhou Ye intervened, and Lin Sheng released Wan Huo to the Heavy Peak Martial Hall.
• The referee announced Li Wei of the Iron Bone Boxing Gym as the Master division champion, and Su Mingquan provisionally awarded him the final elite quota despite Bai Hong’s objections.
• Lin Sheng and the Iron Bone Martial Hall group left the tournament as spectators celebrated, while Mangya watched them depart.
• At the Iron Bone Main Hall, Lin Sheng said his sudden strength came from a force released during cultivation; Yue Hongya examined his blood-red mark and identified it as a likely physical mutation talent that could overdraw his body.
• Yue Hongya warned Lin Sheng to stay inside the main hall until the commissioners took him away, then arranged a celebration for his victory.
• Alone in his room, Lin Sheng considered killing Wan Huo but rejected the risk, resolved to increase his strength, and recognized the vortex mark as a growing reserve of power.

After Wan Huo’s injury, Wan Shan vowed to claim the Elite Quota for him and punish Iron Bone Martial Hall once the immediate danger passed. Days later, Lin Sheng reached the Third-Tier Master level, examined his tournament rewards, and began cultivating the Purgatory Body-Burning Fist Manual while preparing for the dangers ahead in Senluo Province.

• Doctor Sun told Wan Shan that Wan Huo was out of danger but needed costly Super-Tier repair fluid to recover quickly, and Wan Shan ordered him to arrange it.
• Wan Zhong urged Wan Shan to attack Iron Bone Martial Hall, but Wan Shan refused and told him to cultivate until he could defeat Li Wei, while insisting the final Elite Quota would go to Wan Huo.
• Iron Bone Martial Hall’s business and student recruitment surged after Lin Sheng’s tournament performance, and Yue Hongya assigned Meng Cheng to keep managing the expanding operations.
• Lin Sheng broke through to Third-Tier Master, reaching sixty blood seals and increasing his attributes and Origin Astral Force.
• Lin Sheng received two million Star Coins and a Blood-Drawing Secret Elixir as tournament rewards, set them aside, and began cultivating the Purgatory Body-Burning Fist Manual.

Wan Shan bribed Bai Hong with Spiritheart Elixirs to secure the elite quota for Wan Huo, and Su Mingquan and Carly agreed to the decision despite Li Wei winning the tournament. The Iron Bone Boxing Gym learned of the reversal, and Lin Sheng accepted it outwardly while privately remembering Carly and Wan Huo.

• Wan Shan argued to Bai Hong that Wan Huo’s youth and potential outweighed his loss to Li Wei, then offered him a gift to sway the elite quota decision.
• Su Mingquan and Carly saw the Spiritheart Elixirs Bai Hong brought from Wan Shan and agreed to award the quota to Wan Huo.
• Carly and Su Mingquan accepted Wan Shan’s banquet invitation and rationalized abandoning the Iron Bone Boxing Gym in favor of the rewards and connections offered by Heavy Peak Martial Hall.
• Yue Hongya told Meng Cheng and Jelas that the Association had officially selected Wan Huo, citing his long-term potential and Origin Astral Force growth prospects.
• Lin Sheng told his senior disciples not to dwell on the decision, then privately repeated Carly and Wan Huo’s names after returning to his room.

Wan Shan celebrated Wan Huo’s elite training quota and arranged for him to travel with Mangya, while Lin Sheng mastered the first level of the Purgatory Body-Burning Fist Manual. He then hired Nora to kill Fighting Association commissioner Carly after the Association members left Greenwood City, paying her with a feeding of his vital blood.

• Wan Shan thanked Bai Hong, Su Mingquan, and Carly for securing Wan Huo’s elite quota, and Su Mingquan agreed to arrange for Wan Huo and Mangya to travel together.
• Lin Sheng practiced the Purgatory Body-Burning Fist Manual, reached its first level, and demonstrated how its infernal attacks withered a tree to ash.
• Lin Sheng met Nora and asked her to kill Carly, the Fighting Association commissioner.
• Nora initially resisted because Carly represented the powerful Fighting Association, but agreed after Lin Sheng offered her a favor and negotiated one feeding of his vital blood.
• Nora fed on Lin Sheng for an hour, and Lin Sheng told her to act after the Fighting Association members left Greenwood City in a few days.

After the Fighting Association awarded the final elite quota to Heavy Peak Martial Hall, Iron Bone Boxing Gym struggled with lost contracts while Lin Sheng advanced to the third level of the Purgatory Body-Burning Fist Manual. As the Association convoy left Greenwood City, Lin Sheng and Nora prepared to ambush it, with Lin Sheng insisting he would handle Carly himself.

• The final elite quota went to Heavy Peak Martial Hall, prompting businesses to abandon Iron Bone Boxing Gym, and Yue Hongya offered reduced commissions to partners who stayed.
• Meng Cheng suggested arranging a marriage for Li Wei, and Yue Hongya resolved to look for a suitable match for her junior brother.
• Lin Sheng completed the third level of the Purgatory Body-Burning Fist Manual after three days of cultivation, strengthening his infernal aura.
• Su Mingquan led the Fighting Association convoy out of Greenwood City toward the Province, while Wan Huo tried and failed to win Mangya's favor and Carly planned to use her connection to Vice President Chris.
• Nora and Lin Sheng waited near a Danger Zone to ambush the convoy, and Lin Sheng told Nora to hold off the other two experts while he dealt with Carly.

Nora and Lin Sheng ambushed the Fighting Association convoy, killing Carly and Wan Huo while stealing two briefcases. Su Mingquan emerged from Nora’s mist too late to stop them, then found Mangya alive and left with her as Bai Hong discovered his vehicle was empty.

• Nora attacked the convoy with a mental-toxin mist, trapping Su Mingquan and Bai Hong while Lin Sheng ambushed Carly.
• Lin Sheng broke through Carly’s defenses and killed her, then crushed Wan Huo’s vehicle and took a silver-gray briefcase.
• Lin Sheng fired Purgatory Flame at the fleeing Mangya but missed, then retrieved another briefcase from a wrecked vehicle.
• Nora and Lin Sheng fled as Su Mingquan broke free of the mist and found the convoy devastated.
• Su Mingquan found the unconscious Mangya alive and left with her, while Bai Hong discovered his vehicle was empty.