Chapter Summaries

Fang Cheng defeated Chen Rui after the Noah Organization cadre transformed and launched a final attack in the Slaughterhouse. With Chen Rui dying and his abilities crippled, Fang Cheng approached him to seek information about the Noah Organization.

• Fang Cheng sent Chen Rui crashing through the Slaughterhouse wall, but Chen Rui returned in a monstrous, wolf-like transformation.
• Chen Rui feinted with his flexibility and lunged at Fang Cheng, who redirected his punch into a Deflected Rising Dragon Fist that struck Chen Rui's jaw.
• Fang Cheng trapped Chen Rui in an Infinite Combo, battered him with rapid punches, and smashed him into a Steel Boiler.
• Fang Cheng checked the experience gained in Boxing, Sanda, and Jujutsu, then approached the dying Chen Rui to question him about the Noah Organization.
• Chen Rui asked Fang Cheng whether he was the real killer, and Fang Cheng remained silent.

Fang Cheng killed Chen Rui and another Noah Organization cadre, learning that the organization had dozens of Level 10 S-Class fighters before Chen Rui poisoned himself. He continued hunting Noah members through the rainy city, while Zhou Liang and A Li unknowingly watched him pass a police checkpoint; elsewhere, someone waited in an abandoned lighthouse.

• Fang Cheng questioned Chen Rui, who described Minister Luo and Noah's powerful Level 10 cadres as equivalent to S-Class Aberrants.
• Chen Rui swallowed a hidden poison capsule and died before he could explain what Pollution Sources were, so Fang Cheng staged the slaughterhouse crime scene and left.
• Fang Cheng killed a Level 7 Noah cadre at his residence, then drove toward another Noah stronghold near Midnight Forest Bar.
• Fang Cheng attached a portable police strobe to his sedan and used its siren to pass a checkpoint without being stopped.
• Zhou Liang and A Li ate instant noodles while patrolling and briefly remarked that the passing driver's profile resembled Zhou Liang.
• Someone waited patiently inside an abandoned lighthouse on the coast of Clearwater Bay.

Cheng Jiashu waited all night at the abandoned lighthouse for a meeting that never happened, while Fang Cheng trained at the Midnight Forest Bar and discussed the aftermath of the Demon Hunt Operation with Xu Hao. Fang Cheng told Xu Hao to present Cheng Jiashu as the Noah Organization’s former member White Owl, a fugitive who targeted the organization and could be portrayed as an ally of the Special Search Team.

• Cheng Jiashu waited through the storm until dawn at the lighthouse, but the person who had requested the meeting never arrived.
• Xu Hao woke up at the bar and found Fang Cheng performing hundreds of one-finger pull-ups in the VIP Lounge.
• Xu Hao told Fang Cheng that the Noah Organization had gone silent and that the Special Search Team had arrested many ordinary members but few senior figures.
• Fang Cheng told Xu Hao to explain that Cheng Jiashu was the former Noah member White Owl, who opposed the organization after falling out with its leaders.
• Fang Cheng advised Xu Hao to portray White Owl as someone who targeted Noah members and could be considered on the Special Search Team’s side.

Fang Cheng reviewed how his attacks on Noah Organization targets and the clues he planted would divert suspicion toward Cheng Jiashu, then completed an intense morning workout at Xu Hao’s bar. He ended the chapter anticipating that his near-level-up skills could push his physical abilities beyond their current limits.

• Fang Cheng told Xu Hao to deny knowing Cheng Jiashu if the Special Search Team questioned him, then asked him to bring an enormous breakfast.
• Fang Cheng recalled killing two Level 7 Cadres and raiding a Noah Organization stronghold, while planning to mislead both Noah and the Special Search Team into suspecting Cheng Jiashu.
• Fang Cheng completed hundreds of one-finger pull-ups and two-finger handstand push-ups as Xu Hao arrived with breakfast and was stunned by his strength.
• Fang Cheng checked his skill panel and saw that Pull-Ups and Handstand Push-Ups were close to reaching Lv3, which he hoped would raise his Physical Quality past the 60-point threshold.
• Fang Cheng watched the rain clear over Eastern Capital and felt confident about facing powerful enemies.

Gao Jin investigated the slaughterhouse massacre and linked its superhuman destruction and blood-painted smile to the Noah Organization’s hunt for the Smiling Devil. Meanwhile, Fang Cheng left the Midnight Forest bar carrying his bloodstained clothes, as two men watched the crime scene and a police car passed him.

• Gao Jin, Zhou Liang, and A Li examined Chen Rui’s slaughterhouse, where the killer had torn apart dogs, killed Chen Rui, and painted a huge smile on the wall in blood.
• Zhou Liang identified a fan-shaped clean patch as the result of repeated directional force, and Gao Jin concluded it came from an aftershock during a fight.
• Liu Yuan told Gao Jin that an officer claiming to be from the Special Search Team had requisitioned a police car, which was later found on Yinhu Road.
• Gao Jin connected the blood-painted smile and the killer’s strength to the Noah Organization’s Demon Hunt Operation targeting the Smiling Devil, and requested the police car’s driving records.
• Two middle-aged men watched Gao Jin’s team leave the slaughterhouse, while Fang Cheng departed the Midnight Forest bar with his bloodstained clothes in a bag as a police car passed.

After the Demon Hunt Operation ended in defeat, Luo Lie ordered Zhuo Feng to hunt for the suspected informant and prepare to find Cheng Jiashu, while dismissing the threat of the Special Search Team. Meanwhile, Fang Cheng arranged his new apartment and had a huge freezer delivered.

• Luo Lie heard that the Eastern Capital Branch had lost members and three Level Seven cadres, including Chen Rui, and suspected Cheng Jiashu had retaliated against them.
• Luo Lie decided to confront Cheng Jiashu personally but learned that Cheng Jiashu had disappeared after visiting an orphanage.
• Zhuo Feng proposed narrowing the search for the leak to fourteen cadres and using false intelligence to expose the suspected informant, and Luo Lie approved his plan.
• Feng Jincai asked about the Special Search Team, and Luo Lie claimed Noah’s influence would soon end its threat.
• Fang Cheng directed movers as they brought a huge horizontal freezer into his newly renovated apartment.

Fang Cheng moved into his new apartment and tested the Living Room’s custom-built fighting equipment, gaining experience in several skills. While checking whether his workout had disturbed the neighbors, he met the unusually watchful man living directly below and returned home suspicious of him.

• Fang Cheng oversaw the delivery of his furniture and found that his apartment had been transformed into a well-equipped Fighting Training Room.
• Fang Cheng tested the heavy Sandbag, dummies, Horizontal Bar, and gymnastic rings, earning experience in Boxing, Sanda, Muay Thai, Pull-Ups, and Leg Raises.
• Fang Cheng visited nearby residents to ask whether his training had been noisy, and the neighbors who answered said they had heard nothing.
• Fang Cheng discovered someone hiding behind the door of Room 1803, then met the polite young man who lived there when he opened it.
• Fang Cheng sensed the neighbor scrutinizing him and, back at home, concluded that the man was no ordinary person and decided to watch him closely.

Fang Cheng balanced his graduate entrance exam preparation with meditation and plans to build a respectable cover for his dangerous life. He sensed an unfamiliar mind’s fearful distress signal and projected into the linked person’s consciousness, where he saw an unknown scene.

• Fang Cheng completed a mock law exam in under forty minutes, scored himself 97, and reflected on using graduate school as cover while preparing for threats from the Noah Organization and others.
• Fang Cheng ate dinner with Li Biyun, told her that his Haitian Garden home had been renovated, and agreed to show her the place the next day.
• Fang Cheng considered his slow progress in Cleaning and meditated, gaining experience in Meditation.
• Fang Cheng sensed an unfamiliar, fearful mental signal and entered the Memory Palace to locate its flickering point of light.
• Fang Cheng used Single-Directional Projection through the linked person's eyes and stared at an unfamiliar scene.

After Xiaosa was released from detention, the Red Tiger Gang ambushed and kidnapped him, but Fang Cheng established a Mental Link with him and instructed him to memorize the route. Fang Cheng learned from Ma Donghe that Xiaosa had been brought into the Three Wolves Gang, then wondered who was behind the abduction.

• Xiaosa left Jiangbei Second Detention Center and was followed through a wholesale market by Red Tiger Gang members.
• Scarface and four men caught Xiaosa in an alley, beat him, and forced him into a minivan.
• Fang Cheng used Mind Resonance to speak inside Xiaosa's mind and told him to memorize the route if he wanted to survive.
• The kidnappers stopped at an office building, knocked Xiaosa unconscious, and prepared to take him inside.
• Fang Cheng called Ma Donghe and learned that Ma Donghe had recruited Xiaosa into the Three Wolves Gang, while the other captive had been killed.
• Fang Cheng considered whether the Red Tiger Gang, the Noah Organization, or another force had ordered Xiaosa's kidnapping.

Chen Chen punished his thugs for beating Xiaosa, then treated him courteously and asked about Mr. Killer. He revealed that he wanted Xiaosa to arrange a meeting to discuss cooperation with Mr. Killer.

• Xiaosa was beaten and held captive by Chen Chen’s thugs while they waited in the office.
• Chen Chen arrived with Secretary Liu and A Wei, scolded the thugs for hurting Xiaosa, and ordered them to apologize and care for him.
• Secretary Liu scanned the office for surveillance devices before Chen Chen spoke privately with Xiaosa.
• Chen Chen asked whether Xiaosa was still in contact with Mr. Killer, and Xiaosa denied knowing him.
• Chen Chen praised Mr. Killer and revealed that he wanted to discuss cooperation with him.

Xiaosa, held by Red Tiger Gang leader Chen Chen, received secret instructions from Fang Cheng and posed as his intermediary. Chen Chen asked Fang Cheng to assassinate Noah Organization cadre Scorpion, and Xiaosa pressed him about his motives and the terms of cooperation.

• Chen Chen offered Xiaosa medical care while urging him to contact the mysterious Mr. Killer, leaving Xiaosa afraid to admit he had no way to reach him.
• Fang Cheng secretly contacted Xiaosa and told him to stay calm, act tougher, and ask what the cooperation involved.
• Xiaosa demanded details and claimed he could decide whether to pass along Chen Chen's proposal; Chen Chen identified Scorpion, a Level 8 cadre in Noah's Eastern Capital Branch, as his target.
• At Fang Cheng's prompting, Xiaosa questioned why Chen Chen wanted to kill a Noah cadre, and Chen Chen said Noah's internal factions had obstructed him and might make him a scapegoat amid trouble in Xia Country.
• Chen Chen offered intelligence, manpower, evacuation help, and payment for the assassination, while Xiaosa demanded proof of sincerity and asked how much support the Red Tiger Gang would provide.

Xiaosa negotiated with Chen Chen on behalf of Fang Cheng, then returned home after escaping the Red Tiger Gang’s headquarters. He reunited with his blind mother, Li Guifen, and was overcome when he saw how little food she had to eat.

• Xiaosa relayed Fang Cheng’s ambiguous offer, and Chen Chen agreed to provide intelligence about Scorpion before discussing cooperation further.
• Chen Chen treated Xiaosa warmly, gave him new clothes and ten thousand yuan, and asked him to speak well of the Red Tiger Gang to Mr. Killer.
• Fang Cheng watched Xiaosa leave the Yuan Chen Group Building and noticed masked men following him, then chose to wait and see what Chen Chen planned.
• Xiaosa returned to his poor home, recalled his hardships and bad luck, and told his blind mother, Li Guifen, that he had been working on a ship.
• Xiaosa saw the stale bun and small bowl of pickled vegetables his mother had been living on, and struggled to hold back tears.

Xiaosa reunited with Li Guifen and vowed to give her a more stable life, while Fang Cheng spared him and drove off the men Chen Chen had sent to watch him. Fang Cheng warned Chen Chen through the thugs and returned home, where caring for his mother, Li Biyun, deepened his sympathy for Xiaosa.

• Xiaosa comforted Li Guifen by promising to take her to a hospital and find a steady life after seeing how hardship had affected her.
• Fang Cheng entered Xiaosa's home intending to kill him, but left after hearing Xiaosa and Li Guifen together and deciding not to kill him.
• Fang Cheng found four masked men watching Xiaosa's house, subdued them, and learned Chen Chen had sent them to monitor Xiaosa.
• Fang Cheng ordered the surviving thugs to tell Chen Chen to cooperate honestly, warning that he would confront him if he tried another trick.
• Fang Cheng returned home, where Li Biyun had stayed up to make him congee, and he thought of her alongside Xiaosa's mother.

Fang Cheng discovered that Xiaosa’s intense gratitude had strengthened their Mental Link and yielded unusually pure Wish Power that increased his Spirit. He decided to use Chen Chen’s cooperation and intelligence on Scorpion to target Noah, while Chen Chen resolved to ally with the Mysterious Killer against the organization.

• Fang Cheng sensed Xiaosa’s consciousness shining brightly in his Memory Palace after their renewed Mental Link formed during Xiaosa’s kidnapping, and he realized Xiaosa’s worship was producing powerful Wish Power.
• Fang Cheng absorbed Xiaosa’s Wish Power, saw his Spirit increase, and considered making Xiaosa his spokesman in dealings with Chen Chen.
• Fang Cheng decided to continue contact with Chen Chen and use the intelligence on Scorpion to test their cooperation and hunt Noah members.
• Chen Chen questioned the battered men who had pursued Xiaosa and learned that the White Evil Spirit Mask had warned him to leave Xiaosa alone.
• Chen Chen dismissed his men and, despite Secretary Liu’s concerns about Noah’s surveillance, chose to pursue cooperation with the Mysterious Killer as a stronger, crueler monster.

Chen Chen secretly plotted to use Scorpion as a test for the mysterious expert while seeking a way out from under Noah’s control. Two days later, Fang Cheng pushed his weighted pull-up training past its limit, reached Grandmaster-level Pull-Ups, and gained the special effect Absolute Control.

• Chen Chen ordered Secretary Liu to give Mr. Killer Scorpion’s abilities and hiding place, using the encounter to test the expert and explore a possible alliance.
• Chen Chen resolved to find protection from Noah, fearing the organization would make him a scapegoat, and suspected Xiaosa had ties to the killer behind the warehouse and treatment-plant massacres.
• Two days later, Fang Cheng completed extreme weighted training and used one-finger pull-ups with 250 kilograms to break through his Pull-Ups skill cap.
• Fang Cheng reached Grandmaster Level in Pull-Ups and gained Absolute Control, which boosted his grip strength and climbing ability.
• Fang Cheng learned that the skill would change again and unlock a hidden effect when his Strength Attribute reached 70.

After mastering the new effects of Absolute Control, Fang Cheng tested his greatly increased grip strength and ability to cling to surfaces. He left the chapter convinced that, with enough stamina and suitable structures, he could move through a city like Spider-Man.

• Fang Cheng used Absolute Control to squeeze deep fingerprints into a cast-iron dumbbell with his bare hand.
• Fang Cheng tested the enhanced fingertip friction on a wall, then propelled himself upward by alternating powerful grabs.
• Fang Cheng pinched the narrow edge of an overhead I-beam and swung through the steel framework.
• Fang Cheng somersaulted onto the ceiling and crawled across it before diving back to the floor.
• Fang Cheng estimated that his airtime had exceeded ten seconds and recognized his ceiling-clinging movement as a powerful form of urban mobility.

Fang Cheng trained hard, ate an enormous amount, and stocked his freezer to support his growing physical strength. While carrying his groceries upstairs, he encountered a young man waiting in the stairwell.

• Fang Cheng reviewed his training progress and planned to keep improving his skills before responding to Chen Chen's cooperation proposal.
• Fang Cheng devoured his food after training, then cleaned up and gained experience in his Cleaning skill.
• Fang Cheng decided to skip work at the Club and made several trips to buy enough meat, eggs, and milk to fill his freezer.
• Fang Cheng returned to Haitian Garden with his groceries and climbed the stairs because the elevator was under maintenance.
• On the landing between the fourteenth and fifteenth floors, Fang Cheng met a young man who greeted him.

Fang Cheng encountered his strange neighbor Su Zhe, then decided to move forward with a covert meeting about Cheng Jiashu and the Noah Organization. He contacted Xiaosa through Single-Directional Projection and ordered him to arrange talks with Chen Chen that night.

• Su Zhe helped Fang Cheng carry groceries upstairs, borrowed six hundred yuan, and left after Fang Cheng refused to let him inside.
• Fang Cheng stocked his freezer and read that Cheng Jiashu had been missing for six days, then considered the coming thunderstorms and the capture operation.
• Fang Cheng used Single-Directional Projection to contact Xiaosa at a demolition site.
• Fang Cheng told Xiaosa to contact Chen Chen, confirm that he agreed to cooperate, and arrange a meeting that night with all the intelligence prepared.
• Xiaosa eagerly accepted the task and ran off the construction site to make a call.

Chen Chen arranged to hire Xiaosa for a ten-million-yuan mission to eliminate the Field Operations Department, while Fang Cheng secretly directed Xiaosa through their mental link. The chapter ended with Fang Cheng learning Scorpion’s hiding place was still unknown and concluding that Scorpion was a pervert.

• Secretary Liu told Chen Chen that Xiaosa had agreed to cooperate, and Chen Chen ordered him to prepare a two-million-yuan cash deposit and arrange a discreet pickup.
• Chen Chen instructed Secretary Liu to locate Scorpion through a trusted subordinate and pass the intelligence to their killer once confirmed.
• Fang Cheng stayed home to avoid arousing his mother’s suspicions and used a mental link to contact Xiaosa, telling him to call him President while keeping him on probation.
• Xiaosa reported that he had negotiated the mission’s price from five million to ten million yuan and received the two-million-yuan deposit from Chen Chen.
• Fang Cheng let Xiaosa use two hundred thousand yuan as operating funds, and Xiaosa pledged his loyalty to the President.
• Fang Cheng reflected on Chen Chen’s information about the hunting target and realized that Scorpion was also a pervert.

Fang Cheng verified that the Rainy Night Butcher was Scorpion, a Noah Organization operative he intended to hunt. As heavy rain fell, Scorpion watched an apartment building, put on a mask, and began approaching his target.

• A Bang let Fang Cheng read the sealed Rainy Night Butcher case file, which described thirteen murders and the killer's distinctive yellow residue.
• Fang Cheng learned that a patrol officer who had glimpsed the killer later died from poisoning, though the connection remained uncertain.
• Fang Cheng compared the police evidence with intelligence from Chen Chen and concluded that Scorpion was likely the Rainy Night Butcher.
• A Bang left with his team after they received a report of a floating corpse, while Fang Cheng departed to prepare for his hunt.
• On a rainy night, Scorpion watched a darkened seventh-floor apartment window, put on a white mask, dropped from a rooftop, and headed toward the building.