Chapter Summaries

Key Plot Points and Events

• Fang Cheng introduces a new meditation method to Lin Chuqiao and Ye Zhi Ren, instructing them to visualize him as a sun and follow its light.
• Fang Cheng returns home, where his mother Li Biyun greets him. He gifts her a jade bracelet and plans to give Zhou Xiumei a sapphire necklace.
• Fang Cheng meditates in his room, preparing to try the new method.

Character Developments

• Fang Cheng shows care and consideration for his mother and Zhou Xiumei, demonstrating his affectionate side.
• Lin Chuqiao and Ye Zhi Ren show trust in Fang Cheng's guidance, agreeing to try the new meditation method.
• Li Biyun shows love and concern for her son, scolding him for spending too much money on the jade bracelet.

Significant Themes

• The theme of family and love is emphasized through Fang Cheng's interactions with his mother and his plans to support Zhou Xiumei.
• The contrast between the old city's human bustle and Fang Cheng's inner peace highlights the importance of balance in his life.
• The new meditation method suggests a shift from passive to active cultivation, reflecting Fang Cheng's growth and evolution.

Character Interactions

• Fang Cheng interacts warmly with his mother, showing filial piety and love.
• He shares a moment of understanding with Lin Chuqiao and Ye Zhi Ren, demonstrating his leadership and guidance.
• Fang Cheng's thoughts reveal his affection for Zhou Xiumei and his desire to support her dreams.

Fang Cheng tried to link Lin Chuqiao and Ye Zhi Ren through Mind Resonance, but powerful beings hidden behind gray mist repelled his first attempt. He focused on Lin Chuqiao and used the Solar True Fire to break through her barrier, bringing her into his Inner Scenery World.

• Fang Cheng surveyed the flourishing Inner Scenery World and used the Golden Throne to observe the Mental Links of his believers.
• He attempted to establish connections with Lin Chuqiao and Ye Zhi Ren, but ancient whispers and gray mist destroyed his mental probes.
• Fang Cheng concentrated on Lin Chuqiao, seeing her practice Visualization in a sealed room while a phantom bound her with gray threads.
• Fang Cheng used the Solar True Fire to drive back the phantom and break through the gray mist surrounding Lin Chuqiao.
• Fang Cheng pulled Lin Chuqiao into the Golden Palace, where she awoke on the red carpet and wondered where she was.

Fang Cheng brought Lin Chuqiao and Ye Zhi Ren into his growing Inner Scenery World, where they recognized its potential as a secure base and training ground for the Illumination Society. The chapter ended with the three envisioning the world’s future as an Eternal Divine Kingdom independent of reality.

• Fang Cheng welcomed Lin Chuqiao into his Inner Scenery World and explained how he had overcome the confinement in her bloodline to bring her there.
• Lin Chuqiao identified the world’s potential for secure communication and training, while Fang Cheng described how he could adjust its conditions.
• Fang Cheng summoned Ye Zhi Ren, who compared the world with his own Thought Hut and marveled at its stability and scale.
• Fang Cheng opened the palace doors to reveal a vast, living landscape beyond the hall.
• Ye Zhi Ren argued that the Inner Scenery World could become an Eternal Divine Kingdom and give the Illumination Society a secure foundation for its growth.

Fang Cheng intensified his training to prepare for the threat from Utopia and pursued a path of cultivating both spirit and body. After a long morning workout, his Running skill appeared close to leveling up, and the chapter ended as his panel suddenly shone during his run.

• Fang Cheng completed grueling rooftop exercises and reflected on how the Illumination Society and his own strength needed time to grow before Utopia found him.
• Fang Cheng reviewed how bringing Lin Chuqiao and Ye Zhiren into the Inner Scenery World had strengthened it, and resolved to cultivate both his spirit and body.
• Fang Cheng noticed that reaching 70 Strength would unlock a hidden Pull-Ups effect and that his Running skill needed only four more Experience Points to level up.
• Fang Cheng ran at Jiangbin Park, carefully controlling his powerful strides, and exchanged friendly words with an older runner who had tried to keep pace with him.
• After running for another half hour, Fang Cheng stopped beneath a willow tree as his panel suddenly appeared in dazzling light.

Fang Cheng reunited with Zhou Xiumei, gave her a lucky necklace for her upcoming singing audition, and earned nine free attribute points after reaching Master Level in running. He postponed spending the points until he could prepare for the physical changes and hunger, while worrying about Utopia and his mother's safety.

• Fang Cheng met Zhou Xiumei on the stairs and encouraged her before her weekend audition.
• Fang Cheng gave Zhou Xiumei a four-leaf-clover necklace, and she promised to return with a trophy.
• Fang Cheng brought pan-fried buns home for Li Biyun and washed up before breakfast.
• Fang Cheng's running skill reached Master Level, granting him nine free attributes, which he planned to put into Physique and Strength.
• Fang Cheng decided to buy food and prepare at Haitian Garden before spending the points, fearing the breakthrough's hunger and bodily changes.
• Fang Cheng recalled Utopia's threat and wished he had a large, loyal force to protect his mother.

Fang Cheng prepared to move his mother to Wanghu Town while he focused on strengthening himself and growing the Illumination Society. He raised his Constitution to 80, triggering a drastic transformation of his body and Inner Scenery World, and devoured enormous quantities of food and water to fuel it.

• Fang Cheng considered how to protect his family from Utopia and decided his uncle Li Dingjian should bring Li Biyun to Wanghu Town for safety.
• Fang Cheng resolved to gain strength and build the Illumination Society into a powerful organization.
• Fang Cheng stocked his home with food and water, then used four Free Attribute points to raise his Constitution from 76 to 80.
• Fang Cheng's body transformed as his cells and life force surged, while his Inner Scenery World expanded and became more complete.
• Fang Cheng experienced ravenous hunger and rapidly ate the prepared food, then consumed stewed meat, raw steaks, and several barrels of water to sustain his transformation.

After gorging himself to replenish his Life Energy, Fang Cheng adapted to the transformation brought by his 80-point Constitution milestone and tested his new durability, healing, and True Qi. He then spent his remaining 5 Free Attributes on Strength, pushing it past the 70-point Major Milestone.

• Fang Cheng stopped eating after consuming dozens of pounds of meat and felt his body rapidly digesting it into Life Energy.
• Fang Cheng examined his transformed body and discovered that his dense bones, powerful circulation, and compressed muscles had become far stronger than a human body's.
• Fang Cheng tested his Muscle Armor with a Boning Knife, then watched a cut heal almost completely in less than half a minute.
• Fang Cheng used condensed True Qi to cut through an aluminum alloy towel rack and realized his physical transformation had prepared him for Inner Scenery External Manifestation.
• Fang Cheng added all 5 remaining Free Attributes to Strength, breaking through the 70-point Major Milestone.

After reaching 70 Strength, Fang Cheng unlocked Charged Ejection, a new Pull-Ups skill effect that let him store power in his back muscles for intense training or explosive movement. He saw it as a way to overcome his lack of aerial mobility, then went to shower before preparing for an important task that night.

• Fang Cheng added Strength until his attribute reached 70 and watched his muscles swell into a more defined, powerful physique.
• Fang Cheng tested his enhanced strength with punches and learned that the Pull-Ups skill had unlocked the Charged Ejection effect.
• Fang Cheng read that Training Mode could intensify resistance training, while Combat Mode could release stored energy for explosive movement.
• Fang Cheng realized Charged Ejection could help him pursue airborne enemies and compensate for his limited mobility after recalling his battle with Luo Lie.
• Fang Cheng resisted another meal, decided to shower, and remembered that he had an important task to complete that night.

Fang Cheng collected the Chen Family Curse Case reward at the Bridge of Helplessness and learned that his work had earned him S-Class VIP status. After splitting his payment between an overseas account and Credit Coins, he left while Shen Shuhuan secretly ordered him watched and decided the Bridge would protect him from Utopia.

• Fang Cheng submitted his mission receipt and was recognized as the S-Class VIP codename Little White, so the clerk escorted him to the VIP reception room.
• Manager Wang explained Fang Cheng’s membership privileges, including priority intelligence, black-market access, and safe houses.
• Fang Cheng questioned the deductions from his 26-million-yuan reward and accepted the 20.02 million yuan settlement after Manager Wang explained the fees and mission aftermath costs.
• Fang Cheng split the payment between an overseas account and Credit Coins, received his S-Class Membership Card, and declined the offer to rent an apartment.
• Shen Shuhuan ordered his assistant to encrypt Fang Cheng’s records and discreetly track him, then decided to protect him because Utopia wanted him dead.

Fang Cheng explored the City of Night while Black Shark assassins and Bridge of Helplessness guards secretly followed him, then watched their confrontation bring the City of Night Patrol Enforcement Officers. After Fang Cheng returned to the commercial district, Shen Shuhuan ordered pressure on Black Shark and told his staff not to watch Fang Cheng for now.

• Fang Cheng decided to find his own place to stay in the City of Night and left the Bridge of Helplessness, unaware that several figures were waiting outside.
• Three Black Shark members tailed Fang Cheng as he toured the city, while four Bridge of Helplessness guards also followed him to protect their VIP client.
• The two groups confronted each other in an alley and fought until a whistle summoned the Thousand-Mile Eye, whose green beam restrained them.
• The Black Shark members escaped with Magnetic Storm Thunder, while City of Night Patrol Enforcement Officers took the four guards in for questioning.
• Fang Cheng revealed himself after everyone left and returned to the crowded commercial district, wary of the city's rules-based power.
• Shen Shuhuan learned that Black Shark had attacked Fang Cheng and ordered pressure on the organization, while instructing his assistant not to monitor Fang Cheng for now.

Fang Cheng tested the newly unlocked Charged Ejection effect in Training Mode and discovered that it greatly increased his training pressure and experience gains. He began the day convinced he could grow stronger fast enough to face the threats from Utopia.

• Fang Cheng returned to Haitian Garden after an intense run and Shadow Boxing session, determined to increase his strength before Utopia could threaten him.
• Fang Cheng used weighted Pull-Ups to test Training Mode, finding that Internal Pressure doubled with each added second and reached ten tons at five seconds.
• Fang Cheng chose three-second repetitions as a sustainable training intensity and completed one hundred Pull-Ups under six tons of Internal Pressure.
• Fang Cheng gained 19 Pull-Ups experience points, roughly twelve times his usual return, and resolved to keep training as dawn broke.

Fang Cheng pushed through an extreme training regimen, while Lin Chuqiao prepared the Illumination Society and used her precognition to sketch a vision of Fang Cheng leaping from a burning building. The chapter left the meaning and circumstances of the vision unresolved.

• Fang Cheng practiced jujutsu breakfalls and movements but gained little experience without a sparring partner.
• Fang Cheng described his intense daily routine and neared a Pull-Ups level-up while training under tremendous internal pressure.
• Fang Cheng's workout was interrupted by a phone call as he started another set of pull-ups.
• Lin Chuqiao advanced the Illumination Society's preparations, including securing the old building and arranging renovations and company registration.
• Lin Chuqiao entered her private studio and used her precognition to draw a burning building, with Fang Cheng leaping from its ninth-floor rooftop while another figure pursued him.

Lin Chuqiao predicted that Utopia would attack Fang Cheng at his home on Old Factory Street within a day, possibly that night. Fang Cheng rejected her offer to help him leave, arranged for the Illumination Society to watch for the suspected assassin, and prepared to turn the attack into a trap.

• Lin Chuqiao drew a vivid prediction of an explosion and a rooftop pursuit at Fang Cheng’s building, then called him with the warning.
• Fang Cheng learned that the attacker was a fast, thin man in black with a mustache and a mole on his forehead, and that the attack was likely imminent.
• Fang Cheng reasoned that the assassin was acting alone and had probably decided to attack recently, after tracing him to Old Factory Street.
• Lin Chuqiao agreed to send Big Hammer and Monkey to watch the Sleeve Building and look for the suspected assassin, while Fang Cheng told her not to come to the scene.
• After ending the call, Fang Cheng began refining a plan and welcomed the coming fight with bloodthirsty excitement.

Fang Cheng prepared for a predicted attack on Old Factory Street, protecting the people close to him while setting a trap to draw the enemy away from the Sleeve Building. As his team spotted a suspicious man near a baozi shop, Fang Cheng sent Big Hammer to investigate.

• Fang Cheng meditated, armed himself, and packed clothes, a false Special Affairs Investigation Team ID, a fake top-secret folder, and an Evil Spirit Mask for the night's operation.
• Fang Cheng ate raw steak and drank milk to prepare for battle, then resolved to prevent the predicted explosion from endangering Zhou Xiumei, Wen Xin, and the Sleeve Building's residents.
• Fang Cheng contacted an associate who confirmed that actors and props were ready, while Monkey and Big Hammer continued their surveillance across the street.
• Monkey spotted a suspicious, thin man in a Gas Company uniform carrying a toolbox near Li Ji Baozi Shop and reported that he matched Lin Chuqiao's description.
• Fang Cheng ordered the team to keep watching, and Big Hammer approached the shop to buy baozi and listen in.

Fang Cheng and his allies confirmed that a disguised intruder was approaching his apartment, so Fang Cheng left and staged a chance encounter with him in the stairwell. The intruder, Ghost Sickle, reported the confusing encounter and was ordered to follow Fang Cheng in his SUV.

• Big Hammer identified a suspicious man posing as a gas worker and reported his unusual, trained movements to Fang Cheng.
• Fang Cheng sensed the intruder’s suppressed malice, confirmed the man lacked mental powers, and left his apartment disguised in a gray jacket and gold-rimmed glasses.
• Ghost Sickle planted small objects in cracks along the stairwell as he climbed toward Fang Cheng’s floor.
• Fang Cheng rushed downstairs with fake confidential documents, collided with Ghost Sickle, and acted like a harmless office worker in a hurry.
• Ghost Sickle nearly struck Fang Cheng but changed the attack into an excuse to return a piece of paper, then let him pass.
• Ghost Sickle watched Fang Cheng enter a black SUV and told Night Owl he suspected Fang Cheng’s identity was false; Night Owl ordered him to follow.

Ghost Sickle followed Fang Cheng after mistaking him for a harmless civilian, then learned that Fang Cheng had genuine Special Search Team credentials and a connection to a suspected Utopia defector. Night Owl ordered Ghost Sickle to keep pursuing him, and Fang Cheng drove toward the desolate Eastern Suburb Unfinished Building District.

• Ghost Sickle told Night Owl that Fang Cheng looked unlike the target in the files but might belong to the Special Search Team, and the two decided to follow him rather than abandon the hunt.
• Fang Cheng left Old Factory Street while Monkey and Big Hammer monitored the area, and Ghost Sickle tailed him in a silver-gray Jetta.
• At a five-star hotel, Fang Cheng presented Special Search Team credentials and received a message directing him to contact the person in charge of the Tiannan Province operation.
• Night Owl discovered that Fang Cheng was related by blood to Fang Shijie, a former Utopia member and Guangwu Gate shooting case defector, and urged Ghost Sickle to continue following him.
• Fang Cheng drove out of the city toward the Eastern Suburb Unfinished Building District as Ghost Sickle pursued him.

Fang Cheng lured Ghost Sickle into revealing Utopia’s interest in Fang Shijie, then exposed his own extraordinary combat abilities. The chapter ended with Fang Cheng transforming into a towering, heat-shrouded figure and preparing to fight Ghost Sickle.

• Ghost Sickle followed Fang Cheng to an unfinished building, planted demolition charges along the stairs, and reported that he was waiting on the rooftop.
• Fang Cheng noticed Ghost Sickle, fired at his hiding place, and was confronted about his meeting and his connection to Fang Shijie.
• Fang Cheng claimed Fang Shijie was his father and offered information about a secret operation in exchange for learning who had framed him; Ghost Sickle pretended to agree while Night Owl hurried to the site.
• Fang Cheng suddenly fired four curving shots, but Ghost Sickle dodged three and lost his earpiece to the fourth.
• Fang Cheng discarded his empty pistol and glasses, then tore off his clothes as his body rapidly grew muscular and radiated golden heat.

Fang Cheng transformed and unleashed a supersonic barrage against Ghost Sickle, whose Demon Lizard eye redirected the force into bombs planted throughout the building. After Fang Cheng deduced the limits of Ghost Sickle’s ability, he discarded the confidential documents and put on an Evil Spirit mask, revealing himself as White Owl.

• Fang Cheng transformed into a golden-flamed powerhouse and charged Ghost Sickle with a supersonic punch.
• Ghost Sickle used his transplanted Demon Lizard eye to redirect Fang Cheng’s barrage into explosives, damaging the unfinished building and surviving the attack.
• Fang Cheng realized Ghost Sickle’s ability relied on special clay explosives and that his supply was limited.
• Ghost Sickle assumed Fang Cheng had entered a weak period and taunted him, while Fang Cheng threw the confidential documents away.
• Fang Cheng put on a white Evil Spirit mask, and Ghost Sickle recognized him as White Owl.

Fang Cheng fought Ghost Sickle on the upper floors of an unfinished building, enduring the killer’s clay-bomb attacks and overpowering him with relentless strikes. Their battle caused the building’s upper floors to collapse, sending both men falling into the darkness as Xu Hao and Xiaosa watched from nearby.

• Ghost Sickle recognized Fang Cheng as White Owl and deduced that Fang Cheng had deliberately severed his communication with Night Owl.
• Fang Cheng accepted Ghost Sickle’s challenge, and Ghost Sickle unleashed a swarm of explosive clay spiders.
• Fang Cheng withstood the explosions without serious injury, charged through the minefield, and attacked Ghost Sickle.
• Ghost Sickle used his Evil Eye to transfer the force of Fang Cheng’s punches into nearby clay bombs, but Fang Cheng continued his rapid assault.
• The repeated impacts and explosions caused the top floor and sections below it to collapse, and both fighters fell into the darkness.
• Xu Hao and Xiaosa watched the unfinished building shake and explode from their hidden vehicle.

Xiaosa Ge and Xu Hao kept watch over Fang Cheng’s battle and reaffirmed their faith in his strength as explosions rocked the unfinished building. During the collapse, Ghost Sickle struck Fang Cheng’s thigh with a shaped-charge metal jet, but Fang Cheng emerged standing, and the wound began regenerating.

• Xiaosa Ge and Xu Hao monitored the area, recalled how they had joined the Illumination Society, and watched explosions engulf the building where Fang Cheng fought.
• Xu Hao worried that Fang Cheng might be in danger, but Xiaosa Ge reminded him of the divine kingdom Fang Cheng had created, restoring Xu Hao’s confidence.
• The building’s floors collapsed, sending Fang Cheng and Ghost Sickle falling through the ruins.
• Ghost Sickle fired two focused armor-piercing attacks, and one pierced Fang Cheng’s right thigh despite Fang Cheng’s midair evasion.
• Fang Cheng stood on the twenty-ninth floor with the wound in his thigh, while Ghost Sickle watched in shock as granulation tissue began to grow.