Chapter Summaries

Su Hao challenged the Level 3 Students at Lingyun Warrior Academy and defeated them all, including their strongest fighter, Ye Xiaomeng. After the crowd celebrated his victory, he asked where the Level 4 Students were, leaving his next challenge unresolved.

• Su Hao handed He Qingqing to Little Fatty, then announced that he would challenge every Level 3 Student and began attacking them.
• Su Hao overwhelmed the Level 3 Students as onlookers, including Jin Dayan, Jin Xiaohan, Mo Xin, and Xiao Yushu, watched.
• A freckled girl summoned Ye Xiaomeng from the Trial Ground while Ye Xiaomeng was fighting a Crocodile-Toothed Beast.
• Ye Xiaomeng confronted Su Hao, but he knocked her down with Sliding Shadow Step and Ascending Fist; the other Level 3 Students charged and were defeated.
• The First-Level and Second-Level Students celebrated Su Hao's victory, and Su Hao asked a student where the Level 4 Students were.

Su Hao, using the name Wu Xiangwu, confronted Ye Xiaomeng after breaking up a group of Level 3 Students who had threatened a First-Level Student. He blamed Ye Xiaomeng and the other students for allowing wrongdoing, then left them shaken while Dean Xiao Jixuan watched from afar.

• Su Hao learned that Level 4 Students had mostly left for internships and decided to prepare for retaliation from the spiky-haired student before advancing to Grandmaster Warrior.
• Ye Xiaomeng stopped Su Hao as he tried to leave and demanded an explanation for beating the Level 3 Students.
• Su Hao told Ye Xiaomeng that the Level 3 Students had threatened a First-Level Student, and argued that she had failed in her duty as their strongest student.
• Su Hao accused Ye Xiaomeng and the other students of enabling wrongdoing, then punched her and sent her flying.
• Ye Xiaomeng, Xiao Yushu, and Jin Dayan were left questioning their own responsibility as Su Hao departed.
• Dean Xiao Jixuan watched the scene from a distant rooftop and found Su Hao interesting.

After learning that Dan Sui’s father had hired people to kill him, Su Hao sought advice from Teacher Liu about Martial Artists and advancing to Grandmaster Warrior. He demonstrated his High-Rank Elite Warrior strength, leaving Teacher Liu stunned.

• Little Fatty warned Su Hao that Dan Sui planned to take revenge and had hired assassins, and Su Hao asked him to gather information about Dan Sui.
• Su Hao decided to face the threat directly and went to find his homeroom teacher, Bald Old Liu.
• Old Liu confirmed that Dan Sui’s father had hired people to ambush Su Hao, but assured him that no outsider could kill an Academy student on campus.
• Su Hao told Old Liu that his Elite Blood Qi had reached his body’s limit and asked for guidance on advancing to Grandmaster Warrior within a few months.
• When Old Liu doubted his claim, Su Hao punched the ground and blasted a crater into it, demonstrating his strength.

Old Liu explained how the Human Race discovered the path beyond High-Rank Elite Warrior and began teaching Su Hao the power of the Grandmaster Realm. Su Hao’s strongest punch sent Old Liu stumbling, leaving him astonished that Su Hao was only a High-Rank Elite Warrior.

• Old Liu told Su Hao that knowledge of the Grandmaster Realm was usually guarded by powerful Lineages, but the Warrior Academy could teach its students.
• Old Liu explained that the Human Race’s bodies could not surpass High-Rank Elite Warrior naturally, and that Human Emperor Wu Zongzu had discovered and shared the method to reach the Grandmaster Realm.
• Old Liu demonstrated a Grandmaster Warrior’s powerful aura and compared its strength to a rushing river beside an Elite Warrior’s bucket of water.
• Old Liu asked Su Hao to strike him so he could experience the difference between their realms.
• Su Hao unleashed his strongest punch, sending Old Liu stumbling back five or six steps and making him question whether Su Hao was truly a High-Rank Elite Warrior.

Su Hao learned that advancing to Grandmaster required acquiring and imprinting a Ferocious Beast’s Beast Pattern, then chose one from the Academy’s collection. He left with the Perception pattern, despite Old Liu warning that it was difficult to imprint and had limited range.

• Su Hao demonstrated overwhelming Blood Qi for an Elite Warrior, and Old Liu explained that Grandmasters gained their power by imprinting Beast Patterns.
• Old Liu described how to obtain a Beast Pattern and explained that Su Hao would need to adapt its structure to his body, a process that could take years or fail entirely.
• Old Liu took Su Hao to Lingyun Library’s third floor, where he showed him the Academy’s thirty-three Beast Patterns and advised him to keep his pattern secret.
• Su Hao examined the scrolls and chose Perception, and Old Liu warned that it was complicated to imprint and only sensed an area of about twenty meters.
• Su Hao paid 5 Gold Yuan for the scroll and received permission to borrow it for a year before paying an annual rental fee.

Old Liu taught Su Hao how to imprint Beast Patterns and told him he could learn a combat skill after advancing to Grandmaster. Su Hao used Little Light to study and repeatedly adjust the Perception Rune, ending the chapter as he began a second imprinting attempt.

• Old Liu explained Beast Pattern imprinting and told Su Hao about the upcoming Academic Year Competition and its first-place prize.
• Old Liu offered to teach Su Hao a combat skill once he advanced to Grandmaster, and Su Hao gratefully accepted.
• Su Hao recorded the Perception Beast Pattern in the Light of the Universe as a Rune and prepared to analyze how to adapt it to his body.
• Su Hao used Little Light to project his body and guide his first attempt, successfully imprinting the Rune in ten minutes.
• Su Hao observed that most of the Rune's nodes were unstable but three remained stable, recorded his findings, and began a second attempt with the Rune adjusted and rotated.

Su Hao perfected and solidified his Perception Rune, becoming an Initial Grandmaster Warrior and gaining a vast Blood Qi network. After half a month of replenishing its capacity, he noticed the Academic Year Competition was about to begin, followed by vacation.

• Su Hao used Little Light and repeated inscriptions to refine his Beast Pattern until the Rune's nodes flowed smoothly.
• Su Hao branded and Solidified the Rune, then slept after ten days of intense work.
• Two days later, the Rune connected his Nine Palaces and Blood Qi into a huge network, leaving him with a much greater capacity to fill.
• Su Hao spent half a month transforming Blood Qi but replenished only half the network, and he checked his status as an Initial Grandmaster Warrior.
• Su Hao noticed the Academic Year Competition was scheduled for the next two days and classes would end three days later.

Su Hao discovered that his Perception rune worked like radar and built a map program to track nearby living beings by their Blood Qi. As he tested it around the Academy, his strange behavior sparked a rumor that he was hunting for targets to attack.

• Su Hao sensed Little Fatty approaching and discussed the next day's Academic Year Competition with him and He Qingqing, who were both assigned to compete and wanted to rely on their own training.
• Su Hao tested Perception and determined that its range varied with a person's Blood Qi, while different people had distinct Blood Qi signatures.
• Su Hao created the Radar program in Marble Space, linking his perceptions to databases that identified people and displayed their locations and threat levels on a map.
• Su Hao walked around the Academy, recording students in Radar and confirming that the program worked.
• The students saw Su Hao wandering strangely around the Academy, and a rumor spread warning everyone to keep away from him.

Su Hao watched Little Fatty and He Qingqing compete in the Academic Year Competition, then discussed their plans for the two-month vacation. He decided to stay in Lingyun Town to study Runes and find a way to earn money for Beast Patterns.

• Su Hao used Radar to record students' and instructors' Blood Qi, and concluded that his own Blood Qi intensity exceeded that of the class instructors.
• Little Fatty defeated his first opponent with a series of feints, but was eliminated in the second round after his opponent hooked his foot.
• He Qingqing won her first three matches, then lost to a Level 3 Student when fatigue left her unable to withstand two powerful blows.
• Su Hao praised Little Fatty and He Qingqing after their losses, and they recovered their spirits beneath a tree.
• Little Fatty and He Qingqing said they would return to Tea Mountain Outpost to train with their fathers during vacation, while Su Hao chose to stay in Lingyun Town and visit its library.
• Su Hao planned to study Runes and collect Beast Patterns, but he needed to earn money because he could not afford their price.

Su Hao improved his Perception Radar and prepared supplies for his father before leaving Lingyun Town with Wu Yuntian, He Qingqing, Little Fatty, He Jianyong, and Old Li. On the road to Tea Mountain Outpost, he detected ten warriors lying in wait, including Dan Sui, and realized the group was targeting him.

• Su Hao expanded his Perception Radar’s basic range to two hundred meters and could extend it to a thousand meters by controlling his Blood Qi.
• Su Hao spent 75 Silver Yuan on clothes, bedding, weapon-maintenance supplies, spices, salt, and fruit wine for Wu Yuntian.
• Su Hao met He Qingqing and Little Fatty outside her dormitory, and the three departed with their fathers and Old Li.
• The group left Lingyun Town and headed toward Tea Mountain Outpost while the three warriors watched for Ferocious Beasts.
• Su Hao detected ten unfamiliar Blood Qi sources ahead, recognized Dan Sui and a High-Rank Elite Warrior among them, and realized the group planned to ambush him.
• Wu Yuntian noticed Su Hao slowing down and asked what was wrong.

Su Hao discovered that Dan Sui and his father had hired assassins to kill him, then revealed his Grandmaster strength and overwhelmed the attackers. Dan Liqin fled with Dan Sui and ordered the remaining assassins to seize hostages, while Su Hao rushed to stop one from reaching Wu Yuntian’s group.

• Su Hao warned Wu Yuntian that ten attackers were hiding ahead and asked him to protect He Qingqing and Little Fatty while Su Hao circled around.
• Dan Liqin waited with his son Dan Sui and the hired Elite Warrior assassins, while Dan Sui raged about killing Wu Xiangwu and He Qingqing.
• Su Hao was spotted as he approached and killed several assassins with his saber, revealing that he was a Grandmaster Warrior.
• Dan Liqin recognized Su Hao’s strength, slapped Dan Sui for provoking him, and fled with his son while ordering the assassins to seize hostages.
• One assassin charged toward Wu Yuntian’s group as the others scattered, and Su Hao raced after him; the assassin realized his companions had tricked him just before Su Hao struck.

Su Hao chased down and killed Dan Liqin and Dan Sui after they led assassins against him, then explained the incident to Wu Yuntian and the others. The group concealed the bodies and returned to the outpost with everyone stunned that Wu Xiangwu had become a Grandmaster.

• Su Hao tracked Dan Liqin and Dan Sui, killed Dan Sui after Dan Liqin threw him in his way, and then beheaded Dan Liqin.
• Wu Yuntian and the others arrived, and Su Hao explained that the conflict had begun when Dan Sui bullied He Qingqing and that he had since advanced to Grandmaster.
• He Jianyong told everyone to keep the incident secret, and the adults helped bury the bodies and clear away the traces.
• Old Li gave Su Hao the forty-three Silver Yuan found on the corpses, but Su Hao found no Beast Pattern on Dan Liqin.
• The group hurried back toward the outpost, while Little Fatty and He Qingqing asked Su Hao about his strength and doubted his modest answers.

Su Hao returned to Lingyun Warrior Academy after visiting Wu Yuntian, and began studying how to make martial advancement easier. As rumors spread about people disappearing in Lingyun Town, Su Hao dismissed the danger and returned to his books.

• Su Hao told Wu Yuntian about his year away and explained that Beast Patterns enabled advancement to Grandmaster, while Wu Yuntian revealed that his Blood Qi had not reached the required limit.
• Su Hao added tasks to simplify martial advancement and investigate Runes, hoping to share knowledge that could help Martial Artists and ordinary people.
• After three days at Tea Mountain Outpost, Su Hao returned to Lingyun Warrior Academy, where he studied in the quiet library and saw Xiao Mei again.
• Su Hao read books across Lingyun Town, recording material he could not afford and adding purchased books to Lingyun Library.
• Su Hao heard townspeople report that five more people had disappeared and that the incidents had been blamed on a Murder Ghost, but he decided to focus on reading.

Su Hao captured a corpse-like attacker controlled by a Rune and began experimenting with the Rune, but his attempt to reproduce it on a rat failed. He decided to seek Rune Masters and formed a plan to fund his research by selling complete Beast Patterns.

• Su Hao detected an attacker outside the Academy, dodged his ambush, and subdued him.
• Su Hao discovered a Rune on the attacker’s stomach, which vanished before the man died.
• Su Hao copied the Rune and tested it on a Big Yellow Rat, but the Blood Qi erupted and killed it.
• Su Hao concluded that he needed Rune Masters’ knowledge and added finding them as a subtask in his log.
• Su Hao recalled that complete Beast Patterns were valuable and began planning how to make money from them.

Su Hao tracked the attackers to a hidden cave and discovered a High-Rank Grandmaster Rune Master conducting experiments with kidnapped youths. He alerted the Guard Team and headed back toward the cave ahead of them, intending to use the time difference to pursue his own goals.

• Su Hao found two controlled attackers abducting students and followed them to a concealed cave on the edge of Lingyun Town.
• He detected three more controlled people, several kidnapped youths, and a powerful High-Rank Grandmaster whose Blood Qi matched the attackers'.
• Su Hao decided not to confront the Rune Master alone and planned to involve the Guard Team while seeking information and a chance to assess the enemy.
• Su Hao threw notes describing the Grandmaster and the cave toward the Guard Team headquarters, where Captain Luo ordered his Second Squadron to assemble.
• After sensing that the Guard Team had gathered twenty Elite Warriors and five Grandmaster Warriors, Su Hao set off toward the cave ahead of them.

Su Hao lured the Murder Ghost out of his cave, rescued books from a fire, and pursued him beyond the city. He caught up with the High-Rank Grandmaster in the wilderness and began a full-force saber attack.

• Jin Datong visited Guard Team headquarters, learned that Captain Luo had gone after the Murder Ghost, and left to drink alone.
• Su Hao reached the eastern cave ahead of the Guard Team and shouted that the Murder Ghost had been found, prompting him to flee through another exit.
• Su Hao entered the cave’s Secret Chamber, stopped a fire from consuming books, knocked out the captured trainees, and took the surviving books.
• Su Hao hid the books and chased the Murder Ghost beyond the city, while the Guard Team searched the cave without finding them.
• Su Hao caught up with the fleeing Murder Ghost and attacked with Mount Tai Stance and River-Severing Stance as the Murder Ghost raised his saber to block.

Su Hao fought Murder Ghost, overpowering him despite his defensive and blinding abilities. Jin Datong arrived just as Su Hao was about to finish Murder Ghost, forcing Su Hao to flee while Murder Ghost lay gravely wounded.

• Su Hao attacked Murder Ghost with heavy slashes and tricky footwork, but Murder Ghost survived a throat stab with his Barrier Rune and escaped using Strong Light.
• Su Hao caught up to Murder Ghost and repeatedly battered him until he fell, unable to rise or continue fighting.
• Su Hao sensed Jin Datong approaching and hurried to finish Murder Ghost, stabbing him through the chest and preparing to cut off his head.
• Jin Datong struck Su Hao's blade aside with a stone, leaving Murder Ghost with a deep chest wound.
• Su Hao judged Murder Ghost unlikely to survive and fled, while Jin Datong turned back and cursed at the wounded man.

After escaping with the stolen books and Beast Patterns, Su Hao studied the principles of Runes and began planning experiments to uncover how they worked. He decided his dormitory was unsuitable for the research and planned to sell the Beast Patterns and find a new location after school started.

• Su Hao returned to the Academy dormitory with the books and Beast Patterns, reflecting on his battle with Murder Ghost and his lack of experience handling surprises.
• Su Hao examined the loot, stored four Beast Pattern scrolls in Marble Space, and read the three books on Rune structure, application, and drawing fluid through the night and into the next afternoon.
• Su Hao learned that Runes came from Beast Patterns and used Blood Qi, then theorized that their effects arose from Blood Qi operating through Force Fields.
• Su Hao used Little Light to dismantle five Runes into categorized fragments and planned experiments to study how each fragment operated.
• Su Hao decided to move his research out of the dormitory, sell the four Beast Patterns once school started, and use the intervening days to study and plan purchases.

Su Hao studied forbidden books, learned to draw Runes, and found a way to use them without Drawing Fluid by drawing them in battle. After hearing that the Murder Ghost had returned and was abducting people again, he went looking for materials and information while vowing to kill the culprit if they met.

• Su Hao finished reading the salvaged books and used Little Light to guide him in drawing and activating a Strong Light Rune.
• Su Hao decided to keep the Extraction Beast Pattern secret because it could produce Blood Qi Crystals for breaking through bottlenecks.
• Su Hao reasoned that he could avoid the drawbacks of prepared Runes by drawing them during battle with Little Light's help.
• After two days of practice, Su Hao drew a Strong Light Rune without Drawing Fluid in ten seconds.
• Su Hao heard that the Murder Ghost had reappeared and was abducting more than a dozen people daily, then went through town seeking materials and information.

Su Hao tracked Murder Ghost to Jin Mansion and rescued Xiao Mei by killing him, but Jin Datong arrived and attacked. Su Hao wounded Jin Datong, only to discover that he could heal himself.

• Su Hao sensed Murder Ghost controlling someone who had captured Xiao Mei and followed them to Jin Mansion.
• Su Hao burst into the room and fought Murder Ghost, who called for his big brother Jin Datong.
• Su Hao blinded Murder Ghost with Strong Light and beheaded him before Jin Datong arrived.
• Jin Datong attacked Su Hao, who blinded him and drove a blade through his chest.
• Jin Datong pulled the blade from his chest and used Healing to close the wound, leaving Su Hao stunned.