Chapter Summaries

Wang Teng let Zhuo Tai break through to the 2-Star War Soldier Level, then revealed that he had also reached that level and overwhelmed him. After stealing Zhuo Tai’s sword, Wang Teng prepared to answer his demand to settle both victory and death.

• Wang Teng fought Zhuo Tai empty-handed, using his speed and fists to overpower him.
• Zhuo Tai, angered by his disadvantage, broke through from the peak of the 1-Star War Soldier Level to the 2-Star War Soldier Level.
• Wang Teng revealed an even stronger 2-Star War Soldier Level aura, then charged at Zhuo Tai as he attacked with his sword.
• Wang Teng emerged from Zhuo Tai’s sword strike unharmed, struck him in the chest, and took his battle sword.
• Wang Teng said he would show Zhuo Tai real swordsmanship and swung the sword despite Teacher Chen’s urgent plea for mercy.

Wang Teng defeated Zhuo Tai in their duel after revealing that he had comprehended Sword Momentum and wielded powerful Fire Source Power. The onlookers recognized his extraordinary talent and feared that it would draw the attention of hostile forces and demons.

• Zhuo Tai survived Wang Teng's strike by using his newly revealed Sword Momentum, shocking the crowd and prompting Zhuo Tai's teacher to celebrate.
• Zhuo Tai gathered his Sword Momentum into a single attack and challenged Wang Teng to return a strike.
• Wang Teng revealed his own crimson Sword Momentum, which overwhelmed Zhuo Tai's weaker golden Sword Momentum and left him motionless on the arena floor.
• The crowd realized Wang Teng had Sword Momentum and that he was also a Dual Element Martial Warrior with Fire Source Power stronger than his previously displayed Ice Element Source Power.
• Zhuang He and the Martial Arts Club members warned that Wang Teng's talent would attract hostile forces and demons seeking to eliminate Earth's prodigies.

After Zhuo Tai died from his match with Wang Teng, Zhuo Tai’s teacher Chen Xiangming threatened Wang Teng, who answered by promising to challenge and defeat Chen Xiangming’s disciples and eventually Chen Xiangming himself. Chen Xiangming left without attacking, while Wang Teng checked the Attribute Panel and the bubbles Zhuo Tai had dropped.

• The medical staff examined Zhuo Tai and confirmed that he was dead, prompting his fellow sophomore students to glare at Wang Teng.
• Chen Xiangming rushed onto the arena, confirmed Zhuo Tai could not be saved, and threatened Wang Teng with future challenges from his other disciples.
• Zhuang He and the Martial Arts Club confronted Chen Xiangming, and the accompanying teachers mediated until Chen Xiangming picked up Zhuo Tai’s corpse and left the arena.
• Wang Teng declared he would challenge Chen Xiangming’s disciples at each matching level and eventually challenge Chen Xiangming, daring him to attack.
• Chen Xiangming considered killing Wang Teng but decided against it, while Wang Teng watched him leave and checked the Attribute Panel for Zhuo Tai’s dropped Attribute Bubbles.

After killing Zhuo Tai, Wang Teng absorbed his attributes and comprehended Metal Sword Force, while the school sent Chen Xiangming to the Other World Battlefield for six months. Military training ended, and Wang Teng continued collecting attributes as the freshmen began training during their break.

• Wang Teng picked up Zhuo Tai’s Attribute Bubbles, gained Intermediate Metal Element Talent, and comprehended Metal Sword Force in his dormitory.
• Wang Teng’s victory over Zhuo Tai ended the second-years’ challenges for the time being and earned him widespread support among students.
• Peng Yuanshan and the school leaders decided to send Chen Xiangming to the Other World Battlefield for six months, while postponing a decision on how to treat Wang Teng until the principal returned.
• The school escorted Chen Xiangming off campus, and Wang Teng decided he would still fight anyone who provoked him, though he could spare them a life-and-death duel if they did not.
• Military training ended, and the freshmen received two days to rest before classes; Wang Teng followed them to training rooms to collect Attribute Bubbles as Hou Pingliang and the others complained about his effort.

Wang Teng trained in the academy’s Gravity, Mechanical Combat, and Reaction Testing Rooms, collecting attributes and learning the Great Strength Wild Bull Skill. He left the Reaction Testing Room after scoring 94 points on Advanced Nine Palaces Piles and breaking the school record.

• Wang Teng entered the Gravity Room, collected Primal Force attributes, and trained while the second-year students watched him with mixed feelings.
• Wang Teng picked up the Great Strength Wild Bull Skill while watching Cheng Wu train against a rune puppet, then learned that Cheng Wu had approved his application to the Martial Arts Club.
• Wang Teng trained in the Reaction Testing Room and collected speed attributes from the trainees there.
• Wang Teng cleared Advanced Nine Palaces Piles with a score of 94, breaking the school record and stunning the students nearby.

Wang Teng challenged third-year student Ning Ziyu to a Nightmare-level Nine Palaces Piles contest and beat her using Basic Footwork. Ning Ziyu invited him to dinner, leaving Wang Teng flustered as she teased him about dating.

• Ning Ziyu noticed Wang Teng's record-breaking Nine Palaces Piles score and challenged him to a spar.
• Wang Teng and Ning Ziyu competed on Nightmare-level, with Ning Ziyu using her footwork combat skill and Wang Teng relying on Basic Footwork.
• They finished nearly together, but the machine gave Wang Teng 86 points and Ning Ziyu 83.
• Ning Ziyu acknowledged Wang Teng's skill, then pulled him toward the stairs and invited him to dinner to discuss footwork.
• Wang Teng offered to pay, but Ning Ziyu teased that she had meant to give him a chance, leaving him speechless.

Wang Teng shared a meal and exchanged footwork insights with Ning Ziyu, then settled into classes and sparring as the new semester began. After asking Song Shuhang for the other colleges’ schedules, Wang Teng planned to visit their classes and collect Attribute Bubbles.

• Ning Ziyu treated Wang Teng to an expensive meal, and they exchanged insights on footwork techniques.
• Wang Teng reunited with Hou Pingliang and the others, who teased Hou Pingliang after his joke about Wang Teng choosing women over friends.
• Wang Teng adjusted to academy life by attending classes, collecting Attribute Bubbles, and sparring with Ning Ziyu.
• Wang Teng asked Song Shuhang to obtain schedules for the other colleges because he wanted to explore alchemy and forging classes.
• Song Shuhang gave Wang Teng the schedules, and Wang Teng planned to rush between overlapping classes to collect Attribute Bubbles.

Wang Teng visited the Logistics Building and accepted a school task to gather Illusion Flame Grass at Spring Bloom Mountain. He then reported to the Martial Arts Club, where Zhuang He asked him to stay behind after the newcomers’ meeting.

• Wang Teng explored the task center and learned that students could accept missions from official organizations and the school for credits.
• Wang Teng accepted a task to collect ten Illusion Flame Grass plants at Spring Bloom Mountain, confident he could handle the dangers there.
• Wang Teng went to the Martial Arts Club Building for the agreed meeting and arrived last, claiming he had gotten lost.
• Zhuang He introduced the club and its benefits, then sent Yang Lin to show the newcomers around while asking Wang Teng to stay behind.
• Surrounded by the club’s senior members, Wang Teng joked that joining the Martial Arts Club did not mean he had sold himself.

Wang Teng left the Martial Arts Club and set out for Spring Bloom Mountain to gather Illusion Flame Grass. In the village at the mountain’s foot, he learned that three armed young people had entered the mountain the day before and had not returned, then met Bai Xiaocao, who agreed to discuss guiding him.

• Wang Teng joked with the Martial Arts Club members, then returned to his dormitory to cultivate.
• Wang Teng left University City for Spring Bloom Mountain and hired the taxi driver to wait for him until sunset.
• A village woman warned Wang Teng that three young people had entered the mountain the previous day and had not come back.
• Wang Teng paid the woman for information and learned that the three had gone into the mountain searching for something with a local herbal gatherer.
• The woman brought Wang Teng to Old Man Bai’s home, where Bai Xiaocao agreed to talk with him about entering the mountain.

Wang Teng hired Bai Xiaocao to guide him to Illusion Flame Grass, and he overcame Terrifying Beasts to collect the plants. As Bai Xiaocao reunited with her father, the three men who had been traveling with him confronted Wang Teng over the grass.

• Wang Teng agreed to pay Bai Xiaocao five thousand for guiding him into the mountains and helping her search for her missing father.
• Wang Teng burned a swarm of Terrifying Beast ants when Bai Xiaocao accidentally stepped on their nest.
• Wang Teng found Illusion Flame Grass on a cliff, defeated the green snakes guarding it, and collected more than a dozen plants.
• Wang Teng and Bai Xiaocao met Bai Xiaocao's father and the three men who had entered the mountains with him.
• The three men glared at Wang Teng and asked whether he had picked the Illusion Flame Grass.

Wang Teng refused to give up the Illusion Flame Grass to three students who had arrived too late, and their dispute was interrupted by a giant python. He killed the 1-star Star Beast with one punch and left the three young men backing down.

• Wang Teng told the three young men that he had already harvested the Illusion Flame Grass and rejected their request to hand it over.
• The buzz-cut youth and his companions prepared to take the grass by force after Wang Teng pointed out they would have done the same in his place.
• A giant python emerged from the cliff and attacked Wang Teng while Bai Xiaocao and her father panicked and the three young men retreated.
• Wang Teng killed the python with a single punch, stunning everyone present.
• Wang Teng asked the three young men what they had just said, and the hot-tempered youth nervously claimed there had been a misunderstanding.

Wang Teng defeated a giant python, shared its meat with Bai Xiaocao and her father, then returned home before completing his first mission at East Sea University. He rushed back to his dormitory and was struck by a sudden attack as he entered.

• Wang Teng intimidated three young men into abandoning their attempt to take the Illusion Flame Grass, then collected the python’s attribute bubbles and shared its meat with Bai Xiaocao and her father.
• The three young men fled down the mountain and speculated that Wang Teng might attend East Sea University or Yellow Sea Military Academy.
• Wang Teng returned to his family home, shared dinner with Li Xiumei, Wang Sheng Guo, and Dou Dou, then went to his rented apartment to retrieve the Crow Egg.
• Wang Teng reached East Sea University before the eight o’clock deadline, turned in the Illusion Flame Grass, and received his mission credits.
• Wang Teng entered Dormitory No. 1 in Bing Zone, where an unseen assailant suddenly attacked him and he countered with a punch.

Wang Teng fought a powerful intruder trapped inside his dormitory, then discovered the attacker was a woman who had been testing him rather than trying to kill him. She teased him after ending the fight, leaving him wary and irritated as he tried to learn who she was.

• A mysterious attacker ambushed Wang Teng in his dormitory, and a Rune Array sealed the room to prevent him from escaping or calling for help.
• Wang Teng used Gale Step and Spiritual Sight, then unleashed his sword intent and full strength against the attacker.
• Wang Teng struck the Rune Array until cracks appeared, but the energy wall vanished before he could break through it.
• The lights came on, revealing a young woman on the sofa, who told Wang Teng to stop fighting and teased him.
• The woman appeared beside Wang Teng and knocked him on the head after he joked that she was the bigger kid next door.

Wang Teng learned that the formidable woman who tested him was Tantai Xuan, his school's principal, and remained wary after she saw much of his strength. Tantai Xuan began discussing his abilities with him, while her remark about killing other Four-Element Martial Artists left her intentions unsettlingly unclear.

• Wang Teng realized Tantai Xuan had emerged unharmed from his attack and cautiously asked who she was.
• Tantai Xuan said she had returned from the battlefield to inspect the school's reported genius, and Peng Yuanshan arrived to confirm she was the principal.
• Peng Yuanshan explained that Tantai Xuan had only been testing Wang Teng, but Tantai Xuan dismissed him and told him to handle the school's affairs.
• After Peng Yuanshan left, Wang Teng asked Tantai Xuan to leave, but she insisted they discuss serious business.
• Tantai Xuan listed Wang Teng's four revealed elements and said she would not investigate his secrets, then remarked that she had killed several other Four-Element Martial Artists before they could mature.

Wang Teng accepted Tantai Xuan as his teacher after learning she was a War General Level martial artist, gaining a powerful backer while discovering that her other disciples would be his rivals. Tantai Xuan left after summoning him to her place the following night for lessons.

• Wang Teng feared Tantai Xuan after hearing she had beaten several Four-Element Martial Artists to death, then realized she was asking him to become her disciple.
• Wang Teng offered tea instead of kneeling, and Tantai Xuan accepted him as her disciple after explaining that his talent and temperament suited her.
• Tantai Xuan warned Wang Teng that her fellow War General Level martial artists had powerful disciples, including one who had reached 6-Star War Soldier Level half a year earlier.
• Tantai Xuan promised to protect Wang Teng from people who bullied him and told him to visit her place the next night for instruction.
• Wang Teng called Tantai Xuan “Lion-Tiger” as she left, and she struck him on the head before disappearing.

After Tantai Xuan left, Wang Teng collected the attributes she had dropped and checked on his Crow Egg. It hatched into a hungry Little Crow, which Wang Teng fed Star Beast Blood Meat.

• Wang Teng picked up Wind Source Power, Metal Source Power, and Black-Bellied attributes left by Tantai Xuan.
• Wang Teng checked that the Crow Egg was safe, put it in an incubator, and later watched it crack and hatch.
• The Little Crow struggled out of its shell, and Wang Teng marveled at its large, awkward appearance.
• Wang Teng asked Lu Zhiqing what the Little Crow could eat, and she suggested Terrifying Beast meat or Star Beast Blood Meat.
• Wang Teng fed the hungry Little Crow pieces of Star Beast Blood Meat from his Space Ring.

Wang Teng took care of his newly hatched Little Crow, then secretly attended a Rune College class and collected rune knowledge. Lin Yisheng discovered Wang Teng’s unusually skilled rune work and was impressed.

• Little Crow ate nearly half a chunk of Star Beast Blood Meat, curled up in a quilt Wang Teng prepared, and fell asleep.
• Wang Teng reported the damage to his room at the School Logistics Building and asked them to repair it.
• Wang Teng sneaked into the Rune College class and collected Elementary Rune Foundation bubbles until his skill reached 32/100 Entry Level.
• Lin Yisheng approached Wang Teng, then examined the thirty foundational construction runes Wang Teng had drawn and recognized his skill.

Wang Teng audited classes at Rune College and Pill Cauldron College, then met Tantai Xuan for martial arts instruction and received her challenge assignment. The chapter ended when Tantai Xuan revealed that the fat man who delivered their glowing meal was a Spirit Chef Master.

• Wang Teng mastered thirty basic structural runes during Lin Yisheng's class, impressing the instructor and prompting him to invite Wang Teng to attend again.
• Wang Teng audited Sha Zhuxiu's Pill Cauldron College class and collected Spirit Herb Identification knowledge.
• Wang Teng visited Tantai Xuan, who advised him to challenge a top-hundred student each day until he reached the top of the academy.
• Tantai Xuan called Wang Teng “Little Teng” and sent him to answer the door for their food delivery.
• Tantai Xuan showed Wang Teng the glowing cuisine and explained that the fat delivery man was a Spirit Chef Master.

Tantai Xuan explained how spirit chefs used Primal Force in their food, then began training Wang Teng through a fierce fight in which she matched his realm. Wang Teng ended the session battered on the floor, while Tantai Xuan privately reflected that her return had not been wasted.

• Wang Teng watched Tantai Xuan eat glowing spirit food and learned that spirit chefs used ingredients containing Primal Force to aid cultivation.
• Tantai Xuan told Wang Teng she would train his combat experience and awareness by fighting him at his own realm.
• Tantai Xuan attacked Wang Teng in the Training Room, overwhelming him with her speed and combat instincts.
• Wang Teng fought back with his abilities but was beaten until he could barely stand.
• Tantai Xuan told Wang Teng to buy Black Jade Ointment and said he would be ready for training again the next day.
• After Wang Teng left, Tantai Xuan reflected that her trip back had not been wasted.

Wang Teng bought Black Jade Ointment to recover from training, then challenged Yue Qun, the student ranked one hundredth, as Tantai Xuan had ordered. When the duel drew a crowd, Wang Teng placed a bet on the challenger before stepping onto the Martial Arena himself.

• Wang Teng spent 100 credits on Black Jade Ointment, fed Little Crow, and soaked in the ointment to ease his fatigue and pain.
• Wang Teng visited Yue Qun and challenged him to fight at seven that evening; Yue Qun agreed after consulting his mentor.
• Yue Qun arrived at the Martial Arena early, and students spread word that a battle for the hundredth rank was about to take place.
• Zhuge Xiaoliang invited Wang Teng to bet on the duel, and Wang Teng wagered 100 credits on the challenger winning.
• Yu Xuexing and Zhuge Xiaoliang realized Wang Teng was the challenger when he stepped onto the arena.