Chapter Summaries

After completing ten hours of cultivation, Su Shijie sought another way to learn Faction Combat Techniques and hired coach Wang Duorou to teach him. They began three consecutive lessons at Wang's Martial Arts School, where Su Shijie noticed the female coaches openly flirting with him.

• Su Shijie and Theodora spent ten hours cultivating in silence before the training ground reminded them to stop for the day.
• Su Shijie asked a coach about ways to learn Faction Combat Techniques, and Wang Duorou explained that he had studied all three but never mastered their core abilities.
• Su Shijie hired Wang Duorou for three lessons and arranged to study all three factions' moves.
• Wang Duorou took Su Shijie to an empty ring at his martial arts school, where several female coaches greeted them and flirted with Su Shijie.

Su Shijie watched Wang Duorou demonstrate Gale Style, Extreme Force, and Shattered Armor Style, studying their techniques and judging their strengths. He arranged to meet other coaches the next day to see their demonstrations before returning to the training room.

• Wang Duorou explained and demonstrated Gale Style, while Su Shijie recognized its connection to Illusion and learned from its movements.
• Wang Duorou demonstrated Extreme Force and Shattered Armor Style, and Su Shijie assessed how each faction concentrated or delivered force.
• Wang Duorou invited Su Shijie to continue taking lessons, but Su Shijie asked to see demonstrations from other coaches first.
• Su Shijie offered to buy Wang Duorou ten extra classes for each coach he introduced, and Wang Duorou agreed to arrange demonstrations for the next day.
• Su Shijie left for the training room and reflected on the difference between the coaches' tuition income and the money Dawn saved him each day.

Su Shijie advanced his faction techniques and expanded his influence while continuing his spiritual energy cultivation. Meanwhile, Theodora became increasingly distracted by her attraction to him and, after he left, smelled the cushion where he had sat.

• Su Shijie practiced Gale Style, Extreme Force, and Shattered Armor Style, finding that he had made the most progress with Gale Style.
• Over several days, Su Shijie absorbed the essences of several coaches and pieced together all three factions while Hu Zhi connected two Contamination Sources.
• Theodora grew restless during cultivation sessions with Su Shijie, troubled by his scent and her increasingly distracting thoughts about him.
• Theodora struggled to finish a cultivation session, then approached Su Shijie's cushion and smelled it after he left.

Su Shijie concluded that the coaches at Wang Duorou’s gym had little left to teach him and asked about other styles. Wang Lang offered to teach him, but Su Shijie instead challenged him to spar and demonstrated Mindless Style, leaving the gym stunned.

• Su Shijie decided he had already learned all he could from the coaches’ demonstrations and asked Wang Duorou about other reliable styles.
• Wang Duorou declined to recommend outside gyms, and Wang Lang arrived, introduced himself, and offered to teach Su Shijie.
• Su Shijie agreed to spar with Wang Lang so he could compare the three major combat techniques against their true forms.
• Su Shijie took a wooden sword, announced that he practiced Mindless Style, and silenced the onlookers.

Su Shijie sparred with Wang Lang and revealed a far greater mastery of the Mindless Style than anyone expected. The match ended with Wang Lang badly injured after Su Shijie’s Extreme Force overwhelmed his attack.

• Wang Lang recognized Su Shijie’s surname and explained that Su Rou had kept the Mindless Style low-profile because of the Ye Family’s claim to it.
• Su Shijie defeated Wang Lang’s opening attack with a single block and counter, leaving the spectators stunned.
• Wang Lang asked Su Shijie to stop holding back, then attacked him in a fierce display of the Gale Style.
• Wang Lang’s Shattered Armor Style was neutralized, so he unleashed Extreme Force at Transformation Tier strength.
• Su Shijie’s Extreme Force shattered Wang Lang’s attack, sent him flying, and broke his wooden sword into fragments that flew toward the spectators.

After Su Shijie defeated Wang Lang in a spar, Wang Lang praised his talent and gave him two rare Gene Formulas before Su Shijie took him to the infirmary. On his way home, Su Shijie accepted a ride from Theodora, who offered to pick him up again the next day.

• Wang Lang dismissed Su Shijie's concern, drank a potion, and admitted that Su Shijie's techniques had impressed him.
• Wang Lang added Su Shijie as a friend and sent him the rare Illusionist and Swordsman Gene Formulas.
• Wang Lang tried to leave the martial arts school despite his injuries, so Su Shijie put him on a gurney and took him to the infirmary.
• Su Shijie left Wang's Martial Arts School and ran into Theodora, who offered him a ride home.
• Theodora drove Su Shijie and suggested picking him up the next day, and he agreed.

Su Shijie returned home after arranging training-room costs with Theodora and helped Bai Xinxin get front-row VIP tickets to Nan Mingxi’s performance. He discussed the Su family’s distant connections and his plans to learn another fighting style before eventually hunting at sea.

• Li Meier teased Su Shijie about Theodora, and he saw that his sister had regained her spirits.
• Su Shijie learned that Bai Xinxin had failed to get tickets to Nan Mingxi’s performance and promised her some.
• Su Shijie asked Dawn for the tickets, and Dawn sent him a family package of five consecutive front-row VIP seats.
• Bai Xinxin celebrated the tickets, and Su Shijie asked Su Ren about the Su family’s ancestry.
• Su Ren explained their branch’s background and reminded Su Shijie that he could not leave the city for more than half a month.
• Su Shijie said he planned to hunt at sea after reaching the Transformation Tier and asked his father for a reliable instructor to teach him another style.

Su Shijie visited a Huang Family bodyguard to learn their Ancient Well Without Waves school while Theodora continued cultivating with him and followed advice from Enthusiastic Netizen about winning his affection. Meanwhile, Huang Yixuan suspected Theodora was interested in Su Shijie and resolved to expand his smuggling operation; Su Shijie left Theodora’s car thinking she was easy to get along with.

• Su Shijie read about the Huang Family’s Ancient Well Without Waves school while waiting for Theodora to pick him up.
• A dashcam recorded Theodora taking Su Shijie away, and Huang Yixuan interpreted her makeup and their closeness as signs she liked him.
• Huang Yixuan recalled his failed attempts to target Su Shijie and chose to widen his smuggling network through a private channel.
• During cultivation, Su Shijie noticed Theodora’s appearance and nearly spat out his nutrient solution, while she followed Enthusiastic Netizen’s advice not to rush her approach.
• Theodora drove Su Shijie to the address his father had sent and told him to contact her the next day.
• Su Shijie approved of Theodora’s brisk, nonclingy manner and compared her favorably to Wang Lang.

Su Shijie visited Liu Dong to learn the Huang Family's "Ancient Well Without Waves" and met Liu Dong's spoiled son, Liu Zhi. He described surviving repeated Evil God Cultist attacks in several cities, leaving the family stunned by how much danger he had faced.

• Liu Dong welcomed Su Shijie into his villa and agreed to train him in "Ancient Well Without Waves."
• Liu Zhi complained about being bullied, snapped at his mother, and resisted joining the family meal until Liu Dong took away his virtual helmet.
• Su Shijie told Liu Dong that nearly dying had taught him to put cultivation first, prompting Liu Zhi to mock his experience.
• Su Shijie recounted Evil God Cultist attacks in Shelter P-314, Prosperous Sky City, and Jiangnan City before saying Binhai City had been peaceful.
• Liu Zhi, Liu Dong, and Liu Dong's wife fell silent as Su Shijie's account made the dangers he had endured feel real.

Su Shijie learned Ancient Well Without Waves from Liu Dong and inspired Liu Zhi to begin training. On the way to Wang's Martial Arts School with Theodora, Su Shijie sensed danger, cut an oncoming Hovercar in two, and escaped just before it exploded.

• Liu Zhi recognized Su Shijie as the Mindless Style expert rumored to have defeated Wang Lang, and Su Shijie clarified that they had sparred at equal strength.
• Liu Dong taught Su Shijie Ancient Well Without Waves, while Su Shijie quickly mastered it and corrected Liu Dong's movements.
• After training through the night, Su Shijie prompted Liu Zhi to tell Liu Dong that he wanted to train.
• Theodora drove Su Shijie toward Wang's Martial Arts School and gave him a refreshing balm after noticing he had not slept.
• Su Shijie sensed danger as a Hovercar sped toward them, sliced it in two, and carried Theodora away before the vehicle exploded in midair.

After a hovercar battery exploded, Su Shijie and Theodora concluded the blast was an assassination attempt and agreed to face the threat together. When city guards arrived, one of them aggressively ordered Su Shijie to drop his sword, signaling that the officials might be hostile too.

• Su Shijie rescued Theodora from the exploding hovercar battery and suspected someone had tampered with it.
• Theodora suggested they have less contact to keep Su Shijie out of danger, but he insisted they would face the threat together.
• Su Shijie connected the attack to Huang Yixuan and suspected Binhai smugglers had joined forces against Theodora.
• Theodora said she could narrow down the suspects and began contacting people through her Personal Terminal.
• City guards arrived, and one raised his pistol at Su Shijie and ordered him to drop his sword, making Su Shijie suspect the guard meant trouble.

Su Shijie used his Federal Heavy Industry weapons calibration identity to resist a city guard’s attempt to detain him, then killed one guard after the man opened fire. Dawn’s investigation treated Su Shijie and Theodora as victims, and Su Shijie left the station claiming the incident might involve spies or cultists targeting his experimental equipment.

• A city guard ordered Su Shijie to submit to a search, but Theodora stepped in and displayed her identity.
• Su Shijie revealed his Federal Heavy Industry weapons calibration credentials and agreed to accompany the guards to the station while warning that he would report their conduct.
• Su Shijie rattled the younger guard by naming details about his family, and the guard fired at him in anger.
• Su Shijie dodged the gunfire, caused the younger guard’s shots to kill the older guard, then struck the shooter and left him kneeling.
• At the station, Dawn’s review of surveillance and body-camera footage cleared Su Shijie and Theodora, who were treated as victims.
• Su Shijie told the precinct chief he suspected the attack targeted his experimental equipment and requested intervention from the Dawn Goddess.

Huang Yixuan denied involvement in the bombing while the Huang Family investigated him, and Su Shijie continued training with Theodora as he neared a breakthrough. Dawn told Su Shijie that investigators had traced the attack to a human-trafficking group but faced delays because of its interstellar backing.

• Huang Yixuan claimed that Evil God Cultists were framing him as the Huang Family questioned him about the investigation.
• Su Shijie continued training and realized his talent might let him pass the Late Level 9 standard and reach 100%.
• Theodora trained with Su Shijie overnight, invited him to a famous private restaurant, and received a reservation for that evening.
• Su Shijie asked Dawn about the bombing investigation, and Dawn said investigators had linked the attack to a human-trafficking group with interstellar connections.

Su Shijie and Theodora shared an extravagant meal and wagered over the cost, then encountered Wang Tiangai, who asked what it would take for them to drop their lawsuit. The chapter ended with Su Shijie challenging Wang Tiangai to name the price of giving up revenge after an assassination attempt.

• Theodora drove Su Shijie to a private restaurant and bet that the meal would cost more than the cultivation she had paid for the night before.
• Su Shijie eagerly ate the restaurant’s expensive Transformation Tier dishes, and Theodora offered to treat him at dozens of private restaurants in exchange for dropping his future training room fees.
• After they left, a refined man summoned Su Shijie and Theodora to speak with his employer, Wang Tiangai.
• Theodora told Su Shijie that Wang Tiangai led a trade and transportation company, had influence and interstellar connections, and was likely involved in the explosion.
• Su Shijie asked Wang Tiangai what price would make him abandon revenge if he had been assassinated, and Wang Tiangai replied that everything had a price.

Su Shijie learned that seven people had been handed over as scapegoats in the human-smuggling case and began using the Evil God Cultists to pressure Binhai Interstellar Trading Co., Ltd. After reaching Late Awakened Rank 9 with 100% Gene Imbuement, he prepared to compile new genes and ran into Wang Lang.

• Theodora told Su Shijie that seven people involved in the human-smuggling case had turned themselves in, and she believed Dawn's pressure had forced the company to sacrifice them.
• Su Shijie reported cultists who had contacted Huang Yixuan to Dawn, hoping to draw the Evil God Cultists into conflict with Binhai Interstellar Trading Co., Ltd.
• Su Shijie reached Late Awakened Rank 9 and completed Gene Imbuement at 100%.
• Su Shijie told Theodora he would stop attending the training room while he prepared to compile new genes, and she advised him to relax.
• Wang Lang stopped Su Shijie as Theodora was about to drive him home, and Su Shijie told Wang Lang he had misunderstood her.

Su Shijie sparred with Wang Lang, discussed Nan Mingxi’s concert, and told the Evil God Cultists to avoid causing trouble there. He planned to keep their focus on bringing Sacred Sources to the Coastal Diocese for baptism and eventually undermine the Binhai Interstellar Trade and Transportation Company.

• Wang Lang sparred with Su Shijie and won after Su Shijie let him take the match, then offered him a VIP ticket to Nan Mingxi’s concert.
• Wang Lang warned Su Shijie to watch what he said and how he behaved around Nan Mingxi, then received a call from his father and was questioned about the previous night.
• Dawn told Su Shijie that Wang Lang had spent the previous night petting cats, and she assured Su Shijie that she had not monitored him or entered his Personal Terminal.
• Su Shijie rejected Hu Zhi’s suggestion to cause trouble at Nan Mingxi’s concert and ordered the Evil God Cultists to keep a low profile while Sacred Sources came for baptism.
• Su Shijie planned to send Evil God Cultists through the Binhai Interstellar Trade and Transportation Company to expose its protection by interstellar forces.

Su Shijie and his family attended Nan Mingxi’s concert, where they met Wang Lang, Wang Jiajia, and Huang Jiangyong. Huang Jiangyong revealed that Su Shijie had beaten Wang Lang in a sparring match, leaving the young concertgoers shocked.

• Bai Xinxin, Bai Congcong, Li Meier, and Su Shijie prepared for Nan Mingxi’s concert, and Li Meier said her bodyguard client had given her paid leave to attend.
• Su Shijie’s family entered through the VIP passage and found Wang Lang and Wang Jiajia seated in the front row.
• Wang Jiajia blurted out that her brother was one of Binhai’s Four Young Masters, while Wang Lang awkwardly concealed that Su Shijie had beaten him.
• Wang Lang introduced Su Shijie as an out-of-town buddy, discouraging other young attendees from pressing him for details.
• Huang Jiangyong greeted Su Shijie and joked that he was the one who had beaten Wang Lang in a sparring match, stunning the people nearby.

Su Shijie attended Nan Mingxi’s performance, learned about her powerful family and personal guard, and discovered that she believed he was her husband chosen by an ancestor. Elsewhere, Theodora felt inexplicably distracted and irritated while watching the concert.

• Su Shijie realized how much stronger he had become as the crowd reacted to his identity as an heir of the Mindless Style.
• Wang Lang told Su Shijie that Ma Chao was a powerful descendant of the Ma Family who served as Nan Mingxi’s personal guard because he admired her music.
• Wang Lang explained that Nan Mingxi belonged to the Nan Family, the Sword Emperor’s family, and Su Shijie learned that the Sword Emperor’s surname was Nan.
• Nan Mingxi appeared and began singing, then used psychic power to examine Su Shijie and speak with him while performing.
• Nan Mingxi told Su Shijie that she wanted to see the husband her ancestor had chosen for her, leaving him privately determined to reject the idea.
• Theodora watched Ma Yiyi enjoy the performance but felt distracted and inexplicably irritated.

After the concert, Su Shijie avoided Nan Mingxi’s invitation and returned home to prepare for his Transformation Tier breakthrough. He studied the complex Spirit Caller Gene Formula, whose difficulty explained why Su Rou had struggled to advance.

• Su Shijie told Su Ren he was leaving to train for his Transformation Tier breakthrough, but Ma Chao stopped him and said Nan Mingxi wanted to meet him.
• Su Shijie refused to go, called the City Guard Office when Ma Chao threatened force, and left the venue; Ma Chao then stopped Wang Lang to suggest a spar.
• Dawn told Su Shijie she had arranged Nan Mingxi as a potential partner to help preserve his bloodline, and Su Shijie said he would break through that night.
• Su Shijie returned home, entered deep cultivation, and focused on the Spirit Caller Gene Formula, a forbidden profession with an exceptionally demanding sequence arrangement.

Su Shijie completed the first phase of his self-designed profession’s Transformation Tier gene compilation at astonishing speed, discovering that his tentacles let him correct errors directly. He told the Dawn Goddess about his progress and tried to prepare her for his unusual gene-compilation ability.

• Su Shijie used his tentacles to assemble and rearrange base pairs, realizing he could compile new genes through trial and error.
• Su Shijie finished compiling three thousand genes for Transformation Tier Rank 1’s early phase in less than ten hours and officially entered the Transformation Tier.
• Su Shijie contacted the Dawn Goddess and said he had modified a profession to suit himself, then revealed that he had already assembled its first phase.
• The Dawn Goddess asked Su Shijie to solve a Rubik’s Cube and questioned how many genes his profession contained.
• Su Shijie said the first phase had three thousand genes and three hundred million base pairs, claiming his foundation and a special knack made rapid compilation possible.