Chapter Summaries

Fang Li defeated the Black Scorpions on the Trial Tower’s second floor and earned an S-Class evaluation. After reflecting on his reliance on the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, he chose Strength and AGI to broaden his abilities and proceeded to the third floor.

• Fang Li killed the Black Scorpions with his dagger and used a Buzhen Bullet to blast those hiding beneath the sand into the open.
• Fang Li finished the remaining Black Scorpions and completed the trial in three minutes and fifty-two seconds, earning an S-Class evaluation.
• Fang Li considered how Sherlock had countered the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception and recognized that he had relied too heavily on them.
• Fang Li chose to increase Strength and AGI, beginning to make up for his weakness beyond speed.
• Fang Li accepted the chance to enter the third floor and was transported there.

After spending ten days challenging the Trial Tower, Fang Li reached the Fifth Level attribute limit and cleared its 20th floor. He applied for a Fourth Level Upgrade Mission and immediately entered matchmaking for his next Instance World.

• Fang Li challenged the Trial Tower throughout his ten-day rest period, abandoning floors when he expected a poor evaluation.
• Fang Li cleared the 20th floor with an S-Class evaluation and chose rewards that raised his Endurance and INT.
• Fang Li reached the Fifth Level attribute limit and declined to enter the 21st floor, returning to his residence to apply for an Upgrade Mission.
• Fang Li received three Fourth Level Upgrade Missions: earn three S-Class or higher evaluations, defeat a Fourth Level opponent, and complete all Main Quests in a more difficult Instance World.
• Fang Li noted that he had already completed the first mission and applied to enter an Instance World.

Fang Li entered the Asterisk City of Warring Academies instance, which required him to place in a Star Wars Festival, obtain Omni-element Crystals, and earn Exchange Points. He chose Jielong Seventh Academy over the more familiar Star Guidance Academy and arrived in an Eastern-style room, where the system announced that he could change into a Star Pulse Generation.

• The system assigned Fang Li three Main Quests in a solo, fourth-level instance, including placing in a Star Wars Festival, obtaining an Omni-element Crystal, and earning 20,000 Exchange Points.
• Fang Li decided not to use his Instance Group Order because Upgrade Missions fixed the number of participants at one and required at least three Main Quests.
• The system offered Fang Li a choice among six academies, and he learned that they represented rival Integrated Enterprise Conglomerates in Asterisk City.
• Although Star Guidance Academy would have offered him an advantage because he knew the original story, Fang Li chose Jielong Seventh Academy.
• Fang Li arrived in an Eastern-style room, and the system announced that those who could sense Omni-element could change into Star Pulse Generation and gain enhanced abilities.

Fang Li sensed Omni-element and changed classes into a Star Pulse Generation, gaining stronger attributes and Star Pulse Energy. He tested the new power and recognized it as Star Pulse Energy.

• Fang Li received the opportunity to change classes into a Star Pulse Generation if he could sense Omni-element.
• Fang Li focused on his surroundings and sensed the Omni-element particles in the air and matter.
• Fang Li chose to change classes, and Omni-element gathered around him as his body transformed.
• The system confirmed Fang Li had become a Star Pulse Generation, raising each of his attributes by twenty points.
• Fang Li concentrated the new power within him, producing starlight-like flames and identifying it as Star Pulse Energy.

Fang Li tested how Star Pulse Energy affected his abilities and reflected on the advantages and limits of his attributes. After looking around Jielong Seventh Academy, he heard that the Student Council President’s disciple selection test was about to begin.

• Fang Li found that Star Pulse Energy readily enhanced his defense, could boost his attack with training, and was difficult to use for other physical abilities.
• Fang Li compared Star Pulse Energy with attributes, noting that physical attributes included hidden enhancements while INT only increased energy.
• Fang Li recognized his room and pink-and-red uniform as part of his new identity as a freshman at Jielong Seventh Academy.
• Fang Li left his room and saw students rushing toward the Student Council President’s disciple selection test.

Fang Li joined the students gathered at Huangchen Hall to take Fan Xinglu’s test for potential disciples. Fan Xinglu revealed her authority by transforming the pavilion courtyard into a throne and announced that the test had begun.

• Fang Li followed the crowd into Huangchen Hall and saw Fan Xinglu, Jielong’s nine-year-old Student Council President and the current Myriad Heavenly Net.
• Fang Li reflected that Fan Xinglu was a thousand-year-old Demon Immortal, while the gathered students grew restless at her apparent sleepiness.
• Fan Xinglu woke, welcomed the many students, and said she hoped to find promising disciples to nurture.
• Fan Xinglu transformed the pavilion courtyard into a throne, sat down, and announced that the test had begun.

Fan Xinglu challenged the students to touch her before they fell if they wanted to become her disciples, then effortlessly evaded their attacks with overwhelming speed. As she began to end the test, a figure suddenly shot toward her at lightning speed.

• Fang Li recognized Fan Xinglu's display as likely involving the Star Immortal Technique and sensed that her power was far beyond Fourth Level.
• Fan Xinglu offered to accept any student who could touch her before falling and warned that they might struggle to enter the rankings otherwise.
• The students charged at Fan Xinglu, but she vanished so quickly that even Fang Li could not follow her movement.
• Fan Xinglu hovered in midair and outpaced every student who tried to surround and catch her.
• Fan Xinglu lamented that she had found no promising students, then a figure shot toward her at lightning speed.

Fang Li watched Fan Xinglu demonstrate her speed and movement techniques during her test to accept disciples, then used his Mystic Eyes and Star Pulse Energy to make a sudden attempt to touch her. He missed as Fan Xinglu effortlessly dodged, but his attack reached her before he flew past.

• Fang Li studied Fan Xinglu's movements and recognized how she used Star Pulse Energy to amplify her speed.
• Fang Li activated his Ice-Blue Demon Eyes and read Fan Xinglu's Death Lines to understand her movement techniques.
• Fang Li gathered Star Pulse Energy beneath his feet and waited for Fan Xinglu to stop moving.
• When Fan Xinglu paused, Fang Li used Flash Run—Water Moon to rush toward her and followed with Flash Sheath—One Wind.
• Fan Xinglu dodged Fang Li's strike, and he flew past her with a faint smile.

Fang Li passed Fan Xinglu’s test by stealing her school badge, and she accepted him as her fifty-second direct disciple. After he agreed to her sole condition of eventually fighting her, Fan Xinglu sent the other students away and offered to show Fang Li around Huangchen Hall.

• Fang Li seized Fan Xinglu’s school badge while the other students distracted her.
• Fan Xinglu praised Fang Li’s movement technique and named him her fifty-second direct disciple.
• Fan Xinglu told Fang Li that he must one day satisfy her desire for battle, and Fang Li agreed.
• Fan Xinglu used her power to send the other students away from the hall.
• Fan Xinglu offered to show Fang Li around Huangchen Hall, and he followed her.

Fan Xinglu brought Fang Li through Huangchen Hall and led him into a Star Room that trained control over Star Pulse Energy. She left him there to practice under crushing gravity, beginning his training as her direct disciple.

• Fan Xinglu explained that Huangchen Hall contained shifting spaces and that Fang Li could enter and leave it as her direct disciple, though unfamiliar rooms could be dangerous.
• Fan Xinglu opened a training room and Fang Li followed her inside, triggering its crushing gravity.
• Fan Xinglu explained that the Star Room’s gravity affected Star Pulse Generation members with Star Pulse Energy and eased only as they gained control over it.
• Fan Xinglu criticized Fang Li’s crude control of Star Pulse Energy and ordered him to train in the room.
• Fan Xinglu left Fang Li alone to endure the gravity and practice.

Fan Xinglu told Zhao Hufeng that a new student named Fang Li had passed her challenge and become her disciple. Though Fang Li had mediocre aptitude, she believed his exceptional physical qualities and mastery of assassination techniques could make him a remarkable killer.

• Zhao Hufeng waited in the Audience Chamber and asked Fan Xinglu about her challenge for prospective disciples.
• Fan Xinglu revealed that a new student had passed the challenge and said he might eventually catch up to Wu Xiaohui.
• Fan Xinglu explained that Fang Li had ordinary aptitude and poor martial arts prospects, but abundant Star Pulse Energy, exceptional speed, and extraordinary skill with assassination techniques.
• Fan Xinglu looked forward to seeing how far Fang Li could go as her disciple.

Fang Li mastered control of Star Pulse Energy in the Star Chamber and used it to enhance his speed. As he prepared to leave, a giant wooden construct attacked him, and Fang Li dodged its first crushing blow.

• Fang Li spent ten days training in the Star Chamber until he could control Star Pulse Energy without leaking it.
• Fang Li used Star Pulse Energy to boost his speed and combined it with the Seven Nights Assassination Technique to run across the chamber’s floor, walls, and ceiling.
• Fang Li started toward the exit, but a four-meter wooden giant suddenly dropped from above and struck the floor.
• The wooden giant attacked Fang Li with a powerful punch, and Fang Li flashed aside as its fist smashed the floor.

Fan Xinglu watched Fang Li train against a powerful Immortal Tool while Zhao Hufeng questioned whether he could handle the fight without an Imperial Armament. Fang Li repeatedly failed to damage the giant, but when it attacked again, he used his Ice-Blue Demon Eyes and a dagger to strike back.

• Fan Xinglu and Zhao Hufeng watched Fang Li evade the giant's attacks in the Astral Arena.
• Zhao Hufeng identified the giant as a likely Immortal Tool and worried that Fang Li had no Imperial Armament.
• Fang Li's kicks staggered the giant but failed to harm its exceptionally tough body.
• Fang Li faced the giant's next punch, activated his Ice-Blue Demon Eyes, and drew a dagger.
• Fang Li slashed at the giant, producing a sound like a body being severed.

Fang Li defeated Fan Xinglu’s giant Immortal Tool with one strike, revealing that his eyes could perceive and exploit the death points of anything. Fan Xinglu recognized the ability as the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception and became eager to fight him, while Zhao Hufeng warned that Fang Li was dangerous.

• Fang Li used his blade to cut Fan Xinglu’s giant Immortal Tool in half and avoided its falling body.
• Fan Xinglu and Zhao Hufeng appeared in the Star Chamber, where Zhao Hufeng was stunned and Fan Xinglu focused on Fang Li.
• Zhao Hufeng accused Fang Li of using a spell, but Fang Li said his eyes were special.
• Fang Li explained that his eyes let him see weaknesses and bypass defenses to bring down opponents.
• Fan Xinglu identified Fang Li’s ability as the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception and delightedly praised its nature.
• Zhao Hufeng warned Fan Xinglu that Fang Li was extremely dangerous.

Zhao Hufeng urged Fan Xinglu to reject Fang Li as a disciple because of his deadly talents, but Fang Li challenged Zhao Hufeng’s judgment by pointing out Fan Xinglu’s own dangerous nature. Fan Xinglu defended her pursuit of strong opponents, and Zhao Hufeng apologized to Fang Li, leaving the dispute settled.

• Zhao Hufeng knelt before Fan Xinglu and asked her to revoke her decision to take Fang Li as a disciple, calling him too dangerous to nurture.
• Fang Li rejected Zhao Hufeng’s view and argued that Fan Xinglu was just as dangerous because she raised disciples to fight her.
• Fan Xinglu admitted that she trained disciples to seek strong opponents and did not care whether they were dangerous.
• Fang Li told Zhao Hufeng that possessing power did not determine how someone would use it, and Zhao Hufeng conceded that his thinking had been narrow-minded.
• Zhao Hufeng apologized to Fang Li, and Fan Xinglu declared that the quarrel between them was over.

Fan Xinglu put Fang Li through a month of intensive training in technique, real combat, and Star Pulse Energy control. The chapter left Fang Li battling Zhao Hufeng at high speed in Huangchen Hall while Fan Xinglu watched.

• Fan Xinglu trained Fang Li to improve his movement and force control by making him fight two Immortal Tools without using the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception.
• Fan Xinglu gave Fang Li a scroll of combat and killing techniques to study and practice.
• Fan Xinglu sent Fang Li into dangerous battles against varied opponents, forbidding him from using the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception.
• Fang Li lived in Between the Stars and practiced regulating his Star Pulse Energy, while also handling his own daily chores.
• After a month of intensive training, Fang Li fought Zhao Hufeng in Between the Black Tortoise as Fan Xinglu watched.

Fang Li gauged his strength against Zhao Hufeng and sparred with him at Jielong Seventh Academy. After Fan Xinglu ended the match, Fang Li asked for a day off so he could invite Zhao Hufeng to a concert.

• Fang Li concluded that his abilities matched Zhao Hufeng's in raw strength and technique, while his speed was superior.
• Fang Li and Zhao Hufeng exchanged powerful kicks during their sparring match, with neither gaining a decisive advantage.
• Fan Xinglu ended the sparring session, and Zhao Hufeng left to attend to his work.
• Fan Xinglu teased Fang Li about Zhao Hufeng wanting a proper rematch.
• Fang Li asked Fan Xinglu for the next day off and said he wanted to invite Senior Brother Zhao to a concert.

Fang Li invited Zhao Hufeng to Sylvia Runeheim’s concert, giving the two senior and junior brothers a chance to enjoy the event and ease their strained relationship. They entered the venue together, while Zhao Hufeng still hoped to settle their rivalry in a future spar.

• Fang Li and Zhao Hufeng walked through a crowded street toward a concert venue, and Zhao asked why Fang Li had invited him.
• Fang Li pointed out that Zhao was carrying glow sticks, and Zhao admitted he had brought them because the concert was Sylvia Runeheim’s.
• Fang Li explained that he had bought two tickets after seeing news of Sylvia’s concert and had invited Zhao because they both liked her songs.
• Fang Li said he also hoped to prevent Zhao from holding a grudge over their sparring, and Zhao insisted he still wanted to decide a winner.
• Fang Li and Zhao Hufeng followed the crowd into the concert venue.

Fang Li and Zhao Hufeng attended Sylvia Runeheim’s concert, where her genuine singing captivated the audience. They left the venue pleased and agreed to attend another concert together.

• Fang Li watched Zhao Hufeng enthusiastically wave a glow stick before Sylvia Runeheim appeared onstage.
• Sylvia sang with her All-Purpose ability, enchanting the audience, while Fang Li recognized that her popularity came from her genuine talent.
• The concert continued until evening, and the satisfied spectators streamed out of the venue.
• Zhao Hufeng left carrying Sylvia merchandise, and Fang Li suggested they attend her next concert together.

Fang Li got lost in the Redevelopment Zone after escaping the crowd outside Sylvia Runeheim’s concert. A mysterious girl offered to guide him out, but figures emerged from the abandoned buildings and surrounded them.

• Fang Li was swept away from Zhao Hufeng by Sylvia Runeheim’s fans and became lost in an alley.
• Fang Li used his phone’s map and discovered he had wandered into the Redevelopment Zone.
• A plain-looking girl with a beautiful voice approached Fang Li and offered to help him leave.
• The girl recognized the Sylvia charm on Fang Li’s phone and guessed he had come from the concert.
• As the girl began to lead Fang Li away, figures emerged from the abandoned buildings and closed in around them.