Chapter Summaries

Cheng Jiashu entered Fang Cheng’s Memory Palace and invited him to join a plan to expose Noah Pharmaceuticals and drive Noah out of Eastern Capital. Fang Cheng rejected the invitation, claiming he needed to give up killing and cultivate his mind.

• Cheng Jiashu appeared in Fang Cheng’s Memory Palace, astonishing him with the palace’s grandeur and the Golden Orb’s power.
• Cheng Jiashu explained that he had found Fang Cheng’s consciousness by sensing a nearby light, and admitted he had knocked on Fang Cheng’s door that morning.
• Cheng Jiashu reported his search for Jiang Chen’s hidden backup in the Western Mountains and asked Fang Cheng to notify him if he found Jiang Chen.
• Cheng Jiashu warned that Noah backed the Red Tiger Gang and explained that Gao Jin’s Special Search Team wanted to cooperate against Noah Pharmaceuticals’ human experiments.
• Cheng Jiashu asked whether Fang Cheng had sent him a warning note about the trap at Clearwater Bay’s Abandoned Lighthouse, but Fang Cheng denied knowing about it.
• Cheng Jiashu invited Fang Cheng to join the operation against Noah, but Fang Cheng declined, saying the abbot at Lone Peak Temple had urged him to rest, eat vegetarian food, chant sutras, and control his urge to kill.

Fang Cheng refused Cheng Jiashu’s invitation to join the operation against Noah, but accepted a commission to protect someone for fifty years if Cheng did not contact him by April 13th. He then secretly reached out to Xiaosa, whose improved life with his mother contrasted with the urgent mission Fang Cheng was about to assign.

• Fang Cheng declined to fight alongside Cheng Jiashu, claiming he feared losing control, and learned that the Special Search Team planned to act against Noah as early as that weekend.
• Cheng Jiashu asked Fang Cheng to look after an unnamed person if he failed to make contact by April 13th, offering one hundred million yuan for the fifty-year commission; Fang Cheng agreed to do his best.
• After Cheng Jiashu left, Fang Cheng resolved to assist the coming fight against Noah secretly as White Owl so Gao Jin would not identify him.
• Fang Cheng used the Golden Orb to observe Xiaosa having dinner with his blind mother, Li Guifen, and saw that Xiaosa had a better job and was providing for her.
• Fang Cheng contacted Xiaosa through their Mental Link, and Xiaosa discreetly went to his room and awaited the President’s instructions.

Fang Cheng ordered Xiaosa to steer Chen Chen and the Red Tiger Gang toward Noah Pharmaceuticals, while privately planning to use the coming operation to become a dangerous variable for both Noah and the Special Search Team. Days later, he met with the Martial Arts Research Association elders, who asked him to demonstrate his abilities.

• Xiaosa reported that Chen Chen feared being discarded by the Noah Organization and was seeking a powerful ally, and Fang Cheng praised his analysis.
• Fang Cheng told Xiaosa to urge Chen Chen to offer the Red Tiger Gang's help with Noah Pharmaceuticals' outer security, promising the Illumination Society could take the gang in and protect Chen Chen's family.
• After ending the Mental Link, Fang Cheng considered the threat posed by the Special Search Team after Noah's defeat and resolved to join the weekend operation on his own terms.
• On Saturday, Fang Cheng arrived at Tianxin Village, where the Martial Arts Research Association elders gathered to greet him and hear about his progress.
• The elders examined Fang Cheng's strength, and Dong Yunchuan urged him to demonstrate his abilities; Fang Cheng agreed and stepped into the courtyard.

Fang Cheng demonstrated his Tiger Leopard Thunder Sound technique, shocking the martial arts elders and prompting Ma Jianguo to explain the five Qi Gong levels. The elders recognized Fang Cheng’s extraordinary potential, and Ma Jianguo revealed that Li Guizhen had followed the same path they were now pursuing.

• Fang Cheng practiced Tiger Leopard Thunder Sound, producing thunderous vibrations and clouds of white vapor that stunned the elders.
• Zhang Haixiang, Chen Zizhen, and Dong Yunchuan examined Fang Cheng and questioned how he had mastered the technique.
• Ma Jianguo explained the five Qi Gong levels, from Qi Entry into Body to the legendary Inner Scenery External Manifestation.
• Fang Cheng concealed his true ability by saying he had only reached True Qi External Release and barely touched the fourth level.
• The elders discussed Li Guizhen’s past and wondered whether he was truly dead, while Dong Yunchuan suggested Fang Cheng might match his potential.
• Ma Jianguo told Fang Cheng that Li Guizhen had chosen the same path they were walking.

Fang Cheng sought guidance from the Martial Arts Research Association’s seniors, who backed him as an Ancient Martial Arts Inheritor and taught him traditional palm, finger, and claw techniques. By combining what he learned from White Crane Fist, Bagua Zhang, and Eagle Claw Skill, he unlocked the Palm Technique skill.

• Ma Jianguo explained the martial arts path of meditation and promised to register Fang Cheng as an Ancient Martial Arts Inheritor with the Special Search Team.
• Wu Dewang demonstrated White Crane Fist palm techniques and explained how palm, finger, and claw methods worked with true qi.
• Dong Yunchuan taught Fang Cheng Bagua Zhang’s palm techniques, circle-walking, and roaming-body skills.
• Chen Zizhen demonstrated Eagle Claw Skill’s techniques for grabbing, locking, and attacking vital points and joints.
• Fang Cheng combined all three styles in practice and unlocked Palm Technique lv0.

Fang Cheng unlocked Palm Technique by blending the strengths of several martial arts, then used True Qi to slice a falling locust leaf and astonished the Martial Arts Research Association elders. After Ma Jianguo and Dong Yunchuan advised him on channeling force and qi, the gathering turned to preparing lunch.

• Fang Cheng unlocked Palm Technique and combined the essence of Karate, White Crane Fist, Bagua Zhang, and Eagle Claw Skill into his own practice.
• Fang Cheng infused his palm with True Qi and split a falling locust leaf, prompting the elders to recognize his achievement as Qi training like a blade.
• Fang Cheng told Dong Yunchuan that his True Qi did not fully follow his force, and Dong Yunchuan explained that qi followed intention.
• Wu Dewang compared qi to gunpowder and intention to a trigger, helping Fang Cheng understand how to apply internal power through Palm Technique.
• Ma Jianguo taught Fang Cheng to develop penetrating force by first learning to circulate force smoothly through a relaxed body.
• Dong Yunchuan headed to the kitchen to cook, while Zhang Haixiang, Chen Zizhen, and Fang Cheng helped prepare the meal.

Fang Cheng visited the Martial Arts Research Association, impressed the elders with his cooking, and received Ma Jianguo’s advice on preparing to learn the Visualization Method. After returning home, he used his Memory Palace to contact a familiar mental coordinate and asked A Ren whether Noah Pharmaceuticals had made a move.

• Ma Jianguo told Fang Cheng that Ma Donghe was undergoing bitter cultivation in a cave, then hurried to the Back Mountain after sensing trouble.
• Fang Cheng took over the cooking and prepared an elaborate meal that earned praise from the elders and increased his Cooking experience.
• Ma Jianguo advised Fang Cheng to spend a week calming his body and mind before attempting the Visualization Method, and Fang Cheng agreed.
• Fang Cheng left Tianxin Village and wondered why Cheng Jiashu and the others had not acted against the Noah Organization.
• At home, Fang Cheng linked his consciousness to A Ren’s mental coordinates and asked whether Noah Pharmaceuticals had made any moves.

Xiao Sa reported Noah Pharmaceuticals’ suspiciously quiet security situation to Fang Cheng, including Chen Chen’s disappearance into a meeting with Noah executives. While observing a shuttle bus carrying researchers, Fang Cheng spotted a woman who might be his target and identified her as Cui Xiuying.

• Xiao Sa told Fang Cheng that Noah Pharmaceuticals had shown no obvious disturbance, while Chen Chen and several other executives had remained inside Noah Tower since a meeting began around noon.
• Xiao Sa reported that Chen Chen’s phone was off and that Chen Chen had instructed him and Secretary Liu not to act rashly.
• Fang Cheng asked about the Special Search Team, and Xiao Sa said the authorities had made no visible moves around Noah Tower.
• Fang Cheng noticed a masked, long-haired researcher boarding a Noah shuttle bus and ordered Xiao Sa to follow her without being seen.
• Xiao Sa moved closer to the woman, allowing Fang Cheng to read her badge and identify her as Cui Xiuying.

Fang Cheng connected Cui Xiuying to Noah Pharmaceuticals’ experiments on Majima Goro and suspected the organization had taken him for further experimentation. After arranging to send Cui Xiuying a note, Fang Cheng contacted Xu Hao and sensed a psychic-type aberrant monitoring him, leaving Xu Hao wary of the surveillance camera in his meeting room.

• Fang Cheng recognized Cui Xiuying as Majima Goro’s missing fiancée and suspected she had helped lure him into Noah Pharmaceuticals’ drug trials.
• Fang Cheng deduced that Cheng Jiashu and Gao Jin were likely conducting an unauthorized operation because Noah Pharmaceuticals’ political ties limited the Special Search Team’s involvement.
• Xiaosa told Fang Cheng that Chen Chen and the other meeting attendees were still being held at Noah Tower, so Fang Cheng ordered him to secretly give Cui Xiuying a note asking where Majima Goro had gone.
• Fang Cheng used the Mental Link to contact Xu Hao, sensed a psychic-type aberrant monitoring him, and warned Xu Hao not to contact anyone outside.
• Xu Hao recalled the strange loyalty tests and enforced confinement at his meeting, then noticed the room’s surveillance camera watching him.

Jia Sangyi detected a powerful, unfamiliar Mental Ability User while monitoring Noah Tower, and Luo Lie’s group planned to use a staged review meeting to expose the mole and their outside contacts. As the operation was set to begin, Luo Lie ordered Zone 3 sealed and its experiments suspended, hinting at a dangerous secret hidden there.

• Jia Sangyi sensed a powerful consciousness enter his mental network, but it escaped before he could identify or trace it.
• Luo Lie, Zhuo Feng, and Feng Jincai learned that the intruder was not White Owl, and Jia Sangyi proposed gathering the suspects and leaking information to draw out the mole and the outside force.
• Luo Lie approved the plan and told Zhuo Feng to arrange a convincing internal review meeting while keeping existing security measures in place.
• Luo Lie revealed that the Special Search Team had eased its manhunt after Noah Organization offered preliminary Tree of Life experimental data in return for its temporary cooperation.
• Feng Jincai raised concerns about the dangerous thing in Zone 3, and Luo Lie ordered the related experiments suspended, the area guarded by twice the usual manpower, and unauthorized visitors killed on sight.

Xiaosa witnessed Fang Cheng’s extreme morning training and committed himself to becoming stronger, then practiced the Great Sun Burning Body Art while Fang Cheng refined three ways of using force. Fang Cheng improved how he coordinated True Qi with his Palm Technique, though his ability to project it remained limited to about five centimeters.

• Xiaosa woke and watched Fang Cheng perform one-finger handstand push-ups, inspiring him to train harder and help the President.
• Fang Cheng asked Xiaosa about his cultivation and mission funds, then told him to order breakfast and spend what was needed.
• Xiaosa meditated on the Great Sun Burning Body Art while Fang Cheng practiced Palm Technique as a way to explore how to use force.
• Fang Cheng practiced Entangling Silk Force, Spiral Force, and Flicking Force, finding that they reduced his True Qi consumption and improved its coordination with his body.
• Fang Cheng found that his True Qi still extended only about five centimeters beyond his body, but continued refining his technique.

Fang Cheng refined his control of qi and force during morning training while Xiao Sa cultivated and prepared breakfast. After they spotted Cui Xiuying arriving at Noah Tower, Fang Cheng’s men slipped a note into her briefcase as part of their plan.

• Fang Cheng practiced force circulation and released condensed qi as a sharp blue blade, while Xiao Sa emerged from meditation with a lingering golden halo in his eyes.
• Fang Cheng gained experience in Tai Chi, Palm Technique, and Qi Gong, then reviewed the uses of entangling silk force, spiral force, and flicking force.
• Fang Cheng and Xiao Sa ate breakfast while waiting for the Noah Pharmaceuticals bus to arrive.
• Fang Cheng spotted Cui Xiuying among the employees and ordered Xiao Sa to tell their men to execute the plan discreetly.
• A Fei pretended to stumble into Cui Xiuying while A Bao caught her briefcase and secretly slipped a folded note into its side compartment.
• After Cui Xiuying entered Noah Tower, A Bao signaled Xiao Sa that the operation had succeeded.

Fang Cheng waited for Cui Xiuying’s response while keeping watch over Noah Tower, and the Noah Organization gathered its Eastern Capital leaders to announce the Tree of Life document would be destroyed at midnight. The meeting left Xu Hao fearing he had been exposed as the mole, while Jia Sangyi secretly spread a mental network nearby.

• Fang Cheng spent the day observing Noah Tower and the streets, then learned from Xiaosa that Cui Xiuying had replied.
• Feng Jincai and Zhuo Feng convened Noah Organization leaders after holding them under restriction for more than thirty hours.
• Feng Jincai revealed that attacks on the organization were tied to the leaked Tree of Life plan and announced that its document would be destroyed at midnight.
• Xu Hao suspected the meeting had been arranged to expose him as the mole and suppressed his urge to contact Fang Cheng through their Mental Link.
• Ma Biao denounced the suspected traitor, prompting several attendees to voice agreement.
• Jia Sangyi sat in a candlelit room and spread an invisible Mental network outward.

At Noah Tower, Luo Lie and Jia Sangyi monitored a meeting meant to expose traitors while attendees performed loyalty and concealed their suspicions. Outside, Gao Jin and Cheng Jiashu prepared to infiltrate during the gathering, and Cheng Jiashu teleported toward a marked location as the Night Owl Operation began.

• Jia Sangyi used his mental network to monitor the attendees, and Luo Lie confirmed that surveillance had detected no suspicious activity.
• Xu Hao noticed that two attendees who had left to use the restroom had not returned and realized the meeting was a trap, while Chen Chen worried that his secret dealings might be exposed.
• Gao Jin and Cheng Jiashu watched Noah Tower from a rooftop and decided to stick to their plan to infiltrate while the gathering left other areas less guarded.
• Gao Jin told Cheng Jiashu that the promised coordinate points were ready, and Cheng Jiashu sensed the spiritual mark at the target location.
• Cheng Jiashu entered a spatial vortex and disappeared, and Gao Jin announced to A Li and A Liang that the Night Owl Operation had begun.

Cheng Jiashu used his Mind's Eye Blink technique and a Noah Pharmaceuticals insider's help to infiltrate the company's core laboratory and copy its human experiment records. He then found the insider's friend, Majima Goro, alive in a culture tank, as the two prepared to rescue him before the lab's nighttime cleanup.

• Cheng Jiashu arrived in a restroom inside Noah Pharmaceuticals' core area and met the female researcher Gao Jin had arranged as an insider.
• The researcher guided Cheng Jiashu past patrols and surveillance to the confidential laboratory, where she opened the data room and began copying records of human experiments.
• The researcher explained that the records included decades of experiments originating with the Japanese Army's wartime 'Tree of Life' project, while a patrolling guard briefly approached the data room.
• With the cleanup deadline approaching, Cheng Jiashu followed the researcher to the culture room, where they found rows of human specimens and living subjects in tanks.
• The researcher identified her friend in a culture tank as Number 1053, Majima Goro, of the Eastern Ying Majima Clan Bloodline Branch.

Cheng Jiashu and the female researcher rescued Majima Goro and retrieved the data, but Cheng Jiashu was drawn toward a mysterious presence behind an opening iron door. Meanwhile, Luo Lie’s team prepared to capture the intruders, and Zhuo Feng exposed Ma Biao as the suspected traitor in the Conference Hall.

• The female researcher carefully shut down Majima Goro’s life-support system, sedated him, and helped Cheng Jiashu carry him out of the Culture Room.
• While the female researcher retrieved the USB drive, Cheng Jiashu heard a voice resembling his dead mother’s and saw an iron door crack open with red light and smoke behind it.
• Jia Sangyi detected mental signals from an infiltrator and someone in the Experiment Zone, so Luo Lie ordered the exits sealed and the Harp system activated.
• Luo Lie led masked hunters toward the Experiment Zone while Jia Sangyi tracked the targets through his mental network.
• Feng Jincai announced that the group would expose the traitor, and Zhuo Feng pointed at Ma Biao, shocking Xu Hao and Chen Chen.

Zhuo Feng and Feng Jincai exposed Ma Biao as a mole, but after Ma Biao transformed and jumped from Noah Tower, he inexplicably fell back into the conference hall as the city vanished into darkness and fog. Communications failed, strange threats emerged in the corridors, and Gao Jin watched the blackened tower from across the street, wondering who was there and what he intended.

• Zhuo Feng called in the Black Hawk Squad and Feng Jincai revealed that headquarters inspector Jia Sangyi could verify Ma Biao’s guilt by reading his memories.
• After hearing that Minister Luo had engaged his secret contact, Ma Biao transformed into a werewolf, fought the pursuers, and jumped through a window on the tower’s 90th floor.
• Ma Biao fell back into the conference hall from the ceiling, while the view outside Noah Tower became an endless darkness and rising fog.
• Zhuo Feng failed to contact Minister Luo or Black Hawk, and gray-white mist entered the corridor as gunfire gave way to screams and eerie laughter.
• Gao Jin, waiting on a rooftop across from Noah Tower, could not reach Cheng Jiashu and spotted an unknown figure on the tower’s dark glass wall.

A masked figure climbed Noah Tower’s rain-slick glass facade while Gao Jin watched, and Xiaosa mobilized the perimeter team. Inside, Zhou Liang reported supernatural fog and strange sounds on Floor 84, prompting Gao Jin to order a withdrawal as the team encountered signs of an approaching threat.

• A masked man climbed Noah Tower at astonishing speed, dodged falling glass, and vanished above as Gao Jin wondered whether he was White Owl.
• Xiaosa retrieved the man’s hoodie, recognized him as the President, and ordered his units to surround Noah Tower and watch its entrances and lower-floor windows.
• Zhou Liang contacted Gao Jin from Floor 84 and reported darkness, spreading freezing fog, gunfire, and eerie sounds inside the tower.
• Gao Jin ordered Zhou Liang’s team to withdraw with unconscious security guards and evacuate the onlookers outside.
• A Li reported seeing a white shadow, and Zhou Liang ordered his team to retreat through Emergency Stairwell B as the fog thickened and frost spread.

Cheng Jiashu fled the Experiment Zone with the unconscious Majima Goro and Cui Xiuying as gray mist unleashed monsters and disrupted his spatial ability. After revealing that a giant red eye had revived the dead subjects, he reached Exit 3 with his companions, only to find Luo Lie’s Pursuer Team waiting there.

• Black Hawk Squad 3 found a grotesque creature feeding on a Noah Pharmaceuticals guard in the ruined laboratory.
• Luo Lie learned that Jia Sangyi was tracking the fleeing target through mental fluctuations, despite the gray mist interfering with signals and Mental Power.
• Cheng Jiashu used Spatial Leap to evade a monster, then escaped through Exit 3 with Majima Goro and Cui Xiuying.
• Cheng Jiashu failed to open a spatial connection to Gao Jin and told Cui Xiuying that a huge red eye behind an iron door had seemed to revive the dead experimental subjects.
• A monster began breaking through the airtight door, so Cheng Jiashu hurried his companions toward Exit 3.
• Cheng Jiashu reached the exit and found a fully armed Pursuer Team waiting there.

Cheng Jiashu slaughtered the Noah Pursuer Squad at Exit No. 3, then fought Luo Lie, who overwhelmed him with psychic power. As Luo Lie attacked, Cheng Jiashu opened a dark vortex and escaped with Cui Xiuying and Majima Goro.

• Cheng Jiashu used Flash Step to kill Black Hawk and the Pursuer Squad while Cui Xiuying sheltered the unconscious Majima Goro.
• Luo Lie confronted Cheng Jiashu, revealed his hatred over A Jun’s death, and stopped Cheng Jiashu’s attacks with a psychic defense.
• Luo Lie’s force field restrained Cheng Jiashu and Cui Xiuying, but Cheng Jiashu sensed a familiar consciousness and prepared his ultimate move.
• Luo Lie charged Cheng Jiashu with a powerful punch, but Cheng Jiashu formed a dark vortex that threatened to pull him in.
• Luo Lie repelled himself away from the vortex, and Cheng Jiashu grabbed Cui Xiuying and Majima Goro before the vortex swallowed all three.