Chapter Summaries

Qi Yuan began planning a simplified cultivation method and reunited with three former classmates, who discussed finding him a job and arranging a blind date. After Qi Yuan agreed to meet Xiao Mei, Cui Fan offered to connect him with loan sharks, unaware Qi Yuan was eager to borrow millions.

• Qi Yuan decided to create a simplified version of the Qi Yuan Sutra so he could grow stronger and prepare for the Martial Arts Tournament.
• Wang Xu, Li Yan, and Cui Fan visited Qi Yuan, and Wang Xu offered him an easy warehouse job while warning him that work could improve his marriage prospects.
• Cui Fan proposed introducing Qi Yuan to Xiao Mei, a woman seeking a Tian Yue City household registration, and Qi Yuan agreed to consider meeting her.
• After the visitors left, Qi Yuan messaged Cui Fan asking to borrow ten thousand, and Cui Fan suggested a meeting with Xiao Mei and a loan shark in three days.
• Cui Fan told Qi Yuan that the loan shark could lend four or five million using Qi Yuan's house as collateral, while Cui Fan and Xiao Mei planned to swindle the property from him.

Qi Yuan adapted a cultivation technique, began cultivating, and sought ways to strengthen his weakened body and earn money. He met Xiao Mei for their blind date, where her suspicious aura and his blunt remarks left their encounter off to an unusual start.

• Wang Xu told Li Yan that Sea Monsters had been smuggled into Tian Yue City and warned her that their meat was poisonous and dangerous.
• Qi Yuan completed the Super Invincible Somewhat Explosive Skill, advertised it online, and received no serious offers despite the growing attention.
• Ling Yi reported that their funds had fallen below two thousand yuan, and Qi Yuan began cultivating with medicinal liquids, reaching the second layer of Qi Refining.
• Qi Yuan asked Ling Yi about martial arts training and learned that the nearest martial hall charged 120,000 yuan annually for true martial arts.
• Qi Yuan went to Qin De Ji to meet Xiao Mei, called out her lie about being late, and ordered a Family Bucket while a nearby man laughed at him.
• Qi Yuan showed the man his certificate, prompting him to leave, while Xiao Mei smiled and said Qi Yuan was full of surprises.

Qi Yuan borrowed three hundred thousand from Xiao Mei and joined Bright Martial Martial Hall to learn true martial arts. After quickly mastering the first three levels of its signature manual, he stunned Second Senior Brother, who wondered whether Qi Yuan was Master's illegitimate son.

• Xiao Mei told Qi Yuan that Cui Fan had been arrested in a crackdown on usury lenders, then lent him three hundred thousand.
• Xiao Mei reported to her companions that Master's son was healthy, while they discussed his wish to practice martial arts and the recent rise in missions involving ancient tombs and ruins.
• Qi Yuan visited Bright Martial Martial Hall, passed its aptitude test with three lines, and enrolled in formal martial arts training.
• Second Senior Brother gave Qi Yuan the first three levels of Bright Martial Resonance Fist and began explaining its method.
• Qi Yuan quickly read the manual and demonstrated its technique with a powerful punch, prompting Second Senior Brother to ask if he was Master's illegitimate son.

Qi Yuan practiced the Bright Martial Resonance Fist and sensed that it held a deeper secret, while Bright Martial Martial Hall's leaders discussed his prospects in the Martial Arts Tournament. Seeking money for cultivation materials, he negotiated the sale of his technique with an arms dealer in Yue Lang Country and proposed a partnership to obtain rare plants.

• Qi Yuan collected his training clothes, practiced the Bright Martial Resonance Fist, and noticed that the technique affected his blood in a way he could not yet understand.
• Wang Shi Qiao demonstrated her punch to Qi Yuan, who asked whether she would jump from the fourth floor; she clarified that she had been teasing him and explained that martial arts could not make someone superhuman.
• Qiao Wu and Second Senior Brother watched Qi Yuan practice and discussed his diligence, his poor physical condition, and his possible participation in the Martial Arts Tournament.
• Qi Yuan checked his account, negotiated over the price of Super Invincible Somewhat Explosive Skill, and accepted a video call after the buyer tipped him another one hundred thousand yuan.
• The man in the black jacket considered buying Qi Yuan's technique while his companion prepared a sniper rifle to intimidate him, but Qi Yuan proposed a further partnership to acquire Yue Lang Country's rare plants, including Kun Qing Grass.

Qi Yuan arranged a hundred-million transaction for Kun Qing Grass and other materials, then met the buyer, Carnival, aboard the Sea Star Ridge cruise ship. As Qi Yuan entered the reception hall, he encountered Wu Qi, a former schoolmate who thought she recognized him.

• Qi Yuan agreed to meet the man in the black jacket at the Sea Star Ridge and asked him to gather more materials, with the transaction paid after tax.
• The man in the black jacket told A Zhi to prepare the materials and rejected A Zhi’s suggestion to rob Qi Yuan, insisting the deal was legitimate.
• Qi Yuan joined the Bright Martial group, learned that martial artists needed costly secret items after reaching the seventh level of Bright Martial Resonance Fist, and continued training.
• Qi Yuan recalled that the Sixth Princess would be assassinated and Yue Lang Country would face a coup, though he thought Rebooters might prevent the assassination.
• Qi Yuan accepted a ride to the Sea Star Ridge, boarded through the VIP passage, and was led through the ship while its guards and guests filled the decks.
• Wu Qi thought she saw a handsome former schoolmate as Qi Yuan entered the reception hall, where the man in the black jacket introduced himself as Carnival.

Qi Yuan sold his improvised cultivation technique to arms dealer Kuanghuan and learned that the researchers who examined it found it profound. Meanwhile, Wu Qi and other celebrities gathered to meet Kuanghuan’s distinguished guest, while Wang Xu watched from elsewhere on the cruise ship.

• Qi Yuan assessed Kuanghuan’s poor aptitude, explained the realms of immortal cultivation, and accepted Kuanghuan’s offer of firearms and help upgrading his bank account.
• Kuanghuan transferred more than ninety million Qin Yuan Currency to Qi Yuan, who recited the Super Invincible Somewhat Explosive Skill for him.
• Kuanghuan showed excerpts of the technique to an old professor and researchers, who found it mysterious and profound, then arranged to deliver Qi Yuan’s requested medicinal herbs.
• Wu Qi prepared to attend a private banquet with other celebrities, while Wang Xu and a colleague spotted the group from aboard the cruise ship.
• Viscount Carnival arrived with eleven men carrying black wooden chests and told the celebrities to serve his distinguished guest well.

Qi Yuan attended Revelry’s private banquet, arranged a deal for cultivation materials, and discussed his wives’ future arrival with several suns appearing in the sky. The gathering ended with Qi Yuan and the others fishing for a mysterious sea creature he had spotted.

• Wu Qi recognized Qi Yuan at Revelry’s banquet, and Qi Yuan remembered her as the senior who had once eaten three sweet potatoes in one meal.
• Revelry presented Qi Yuan with cultivation herbs gathered with General Mu’s help, and Qi Yuan offered to exchange finished products for future materials.
• Qi Yuan declined the female stars’ advances and asked Revelry to arrange Marriage Certificates for Ning Tao and Little Bride when they arrived.
• Qi Yuan told Revelry that his wives would arrive in a few months, when several sun projections appeared in the sky.
• Wu Qi caught a Jin Li Bian, but Qi Yuan remained focused on catching a mysterious little cutie, prompting Revelry and the female stars to join the search.

Qi Yuan lured a mutated Sea Monster out of the sea while making medicinal liquid and helping Carnival begin cultivating. After catching the creature, Qi Yuan called it his little darling, ordered it deep-fried, and gave the mercenary who caught it a protective talisman.

• Qi Yuan explained that he had come to Arch Star to pursue martial arts and asked Carnival to find information about the Myriad Paths Martial Lord.
• Qi Yuan made medicinal liquid from plants, drank it to raise his cultivation, and helped Carnival circulate qi and begin cultivating.
• Qi Yuan scattered glowing liquid over the sea as bait, attracting fish and eventually a creature that several mercenaries could not haul in.
• Qi Yuan pulled the creature into the reception hall and identified it as his little cutie, while Carnival recognized it as a mutated Sea Monster.
• Qi Yuan stroked the trembling Sea Monster, ordered Carnival to have it deep-fried, and gave the mercenary who caught it a defensive talisman.

After discovering that mutated Sea Monster blood increased his martial arts talent, Qi Yuan accepted Carnival’s gifts and rode home with him. A sniper ambushed their car, but Qi Yuan caught the bullet and set out to deal with the attackers.

• Qi Yuan extracted blood from a mutated Sea Monster, drank it, and found that his martial arts talent had increased.
• Qi Yuan theorized that martial arts were tied to bloodlines and told Carnival that even in his current weak state, defeating ten thousand people would be easy.
• Wang Xu handed over the Sea Monsters his team had collected to armed Lineage private soldiers sent by the higher-ups.
• Wu Qi lamented that her attempts to approach powerful people had failed, then resolved that she did not want to keep living that way.
• Carnival drove Qi Yuan home and offered him a nearby property to store the herbs and Sea Monsters; Qi Yuan accepted.
• When a sniper fired at their stopped car, Qi Yuan caught the bullet with his fingers and told Carnival to wait while he went to confront the attackers.

Qi Yuan confronted Wang Wei after she arranged multiple attempts on his life and easily destroyed her immortal-path artifact, revealing that he knew about Spiritual Qi. He killed Wang Wei and the sniper, then sensed that his fortune had grown stronger and wondered whether someone was cultivating Rebooters to make them kill one another.

• Wang Wei and a Black Crystal Earl household sniper tried to kill Qi Yuan with a rifle and a speeding truck, but he survived and overturned the truck.
• Wang Wei ignored Zhao Shiqi’s order to return and summoned the police against Qi Yuan before he appeared at her rooftop hideout.
• Wang Wei revealed that she was a Rebooter and attacked Qi Yuan with a red Xun Luo Curse Pearl, but he identified it as a mid-stage Qi Refinement artifact and shattered it.
• The black-clad sniper fired at Qi Yuan, but his shot killed Wang Wei, and Qi Yuan killed the sniper with a snap of his fingers.
• Qi Yuan sensed that killing Wang Wei had strengthened his fortune and wondered whether someone was raising Rebooters like venomous insects.

Qi Yuan used illusion techniques through a communicator to make Black Crystal Earl Zhao Renji shoot himself, then continued cultivating the Bright Martial Resonance Fist and signed up for the Martial Arts Tournament. He left the chapter training at Bright Martial Martial Hall, with three months remaining before the tournament.

• Qi Yuan dismissed Carnival’s suggestion to leave Tian Yue and used the communicator to make Zhao Renji kill himself at the Zhao Household estate.
• Zhao Shiqi witnessed his elder brother’s death and realized Qi Yuan might have caused it.
• Qi Yuan consumed mutated Sea Monster blood, improved his cultivation, and broke through to the third level of Bright Martial Resonance Fist.
• Qi Yuan went to Bright Martial Martial Hall and paid for all nine subsequent levels of the fist technique.
• Qi Yuan asked Second Senior Brother to register him for the upcoming Martial Arts Tournament and filled out an application form.
• Qi Yuan returned to training, brushed off Wang Shi Qiao’s questions, and continued practicing.

Qi Yuan advanced his Bright Martial Resonance Fist while preparing to win the Martial Arts Tournament, rejecting Xu Tiehua’s invitation to train as a team. After leaving the martial hall, Qi Yuan accepted a ride from Wu Qi because her blood seemed special to him.

• Qi Yuan reached the fourth level of the Bright Martial Resonance Fist and decided to pursue a martial artist certificate before seeking a secret relic.
• Wang Shi Qiao and Xing Yu discussed Qi Yuan’s background and Xu Tiehua’s status before Xu Tiehua invited Qi Yuan to practice for the tournament’s team matches.
• Qi Yuan refused Xu Tiehua’s invitation, saying he was focused on improving his strength and intended to win the Martial Arts Tournament.
• Wang Shi Qiao challenged Qi Yuan’s confidence, and he joked that she was trying to get free food by promising to eat his shit if he won.
• Wu Qi arranged to meet Qi Yuan outside the martial hall and offered him a ride, which he accepted after telling her he was not interested in intimacy.
• Qi Yuan told Wu Qi he had entered her car because she was special, then fixed his attention on her blood.

Qi Yuan took Wu Qi home, rejected a meeting with Zhao Shiqi, and became the subject of gossip at the martial hall after Wu Qi began driving him regularly. He learned about Talent Martial Skills from his neighbor Yang Shan, who demonstrated Flood Thunder Palm, while Qi Yuan claimed he was an alien from Blue Star.

• Qi Yuan told Wu Qi that her blood was special, then had her drive him to Jun An Residential District and paid her twenty-seven yuan for the fare.
• Carnival told Qi Yuan that Zhao Shiqi wanted to apologize, but Qi Yuan refused to meet him and said he had no reason to conceal that he had killed Zhao Renji.
• Wu Qi became Qi Yuan's regular driver, prompting the martial hall members to assume they were dating and changing how Wang Shi Qiao and Xing Yu viewed him.
• Qi Yuan returned home and spoke with his neighbor Yang Shan, who explained that becoming a martial artist required forming a Talent Martial Skill.
• Yang Shan demonstrated his Talent Martial Skill, Flood Thunder Palm, and Qi Yuan compared its power to what could impress people on Blue Star.
• Qi Yuan told Yang Shan that Blue Star was his home and that he was an alien, making Yang Shan question whether Qi Yuan's Mental Illness Certificate was genuine.

Qi Yuan identified bloodline as the basis of Talent Martial Skills and proposed that breaking martial arts limits required a stronger ancestral bloodline, impressing Yang Shan despite his bizarre advice. Back in his room, Qi Yuan traced his bloodline to an ancestor and awakened the Exploding Kill Flying Bird Fist, whose unimpressive movements matched its ridiculous name.

• Qi Yuan told Yang Shan that Talent Martial Skills were triggered by boiling blood and that martial arts potential could improve through an ancestor’s bloodline breaking its limits.
• Qi Yuan joked that Yang Shan should acknowledge him as a father, then left to refine his martial skill.
• Yang Shan told an old friend about Qi Yuan’s insights and discussed meeting him at Tian Yue City’s Martial Arts Tournament, while refusing to involve him in their old conflict with the Gui Ran People.
• Qi Yuan examined his bloodline, saw a mutated sea monster and a drop of blood falling from the heavens, and formed the Exploding Kill Flying Bird Fist.
• Qi Yuan performed the new skill and concluded that his ancestor had definitely hated birds.

Qi Yuan ate secret substances made from Sea Monster meat, assessed their effects on bloodlines, and gave Carnival more cultivation instructions and a materials list. A month later, while Qi Yuan trained at Bright Martial Martial Hall, the students discussed the war between Yue Lang Country and Wu Gui Country, and Wang Shi Qiao joked that she would pay Qi Yuan to kill someone who had insulted her online.

• Qi Yuan judged his Exploding Kill Flying Bird Fist powerful but concluded that his weakened body still left him far behind Yang Shan in physical ability.
• Carnival brought Qi Yuan secret substances made mainly from Sea Monster meat, and Qi Yuan ate them while reasoning that they strengthened martial artists but muddied their bloodlines.
• Qi Yuan gave Carnival an improved cultivation technique and a list of puppet-making and Foundation Establishment materials; Carnival said he would be away delivering weapons to Yue Lang Country.
• One month later, Qi Yuan had reached the ninth level of Bright Martial Resonance Fist and trained at Bright Martial Martial Hall.
• Xing Yu said she planned to use her inheritance to fund a school and company in her hometown, while Wang Shi Qiao and the other students discussed the war between Yue Lang Country and Wu Gui Country.
• Qi Yuan joked that he would track down and kill anyone who insulted him online, and Wang Shi Qiao jokingly offered him a million for the head of the person who had insulted her.

After discussing the violence in Gui Ran Country, Qi Yuan rode home with Wu Qi, gave her a spirit-money bird, and revealed that he could teach her to cultivate immortality. Meanwhile, Xie Xin Su remained trapped headfirst in a manhole, growing too weak to stay conscious.

• Wang Shi Qiao showed the students a video of a Gui Ran Country soldier's victims, and they argued over whether Qin Yuan Country should go to war.
• Wu Qi rejected her manager's suggestion that she meet Young Master Fang and decided to grow closer to Qi Yuan instead.
• Qi Yuan refused Wu Qi's offer to eat out, asked her to lower her driving fare, and gave her a spirit-money bird as interest while her blood remained inside her.
• Qi Yuan told Wu Qi that learning to fold the spirit-money bird required cultivating immortality, leaving her unsure whether he was serious.
• Xie Xin Su, a fairy maiden from the Profound Heaven Sect trapped in a cat's body, got stuck headfirst in a manhole and eventually fainted.

Xie Xin Su woke as a cat in Qi Yuan’s home and decided to stay after sensing a powerful source of Spiritual Qi. Ling Yi forced her to make videos, then secretly recorded her meditating and posted footage claiming she could cultivate.

• Xie Xin Su overheard Qi Yuan and Ling Yi discuss sterilizing her or using a Cat Happiness Stick, then pleaded to stay in the house.
• Xie Xin Su sensed a treasure emitting dense Spiritual Qi and changed her mind about leaving, while Qi Yuan agreed to let Ling Yi keep her for videos.
• Xie Xin Su performed a backflip to prove her usefulness, and Ling Yi persuaded Qi Yuan that videos of the cat could earn money for upgrades.
• Ling Yi coerced Xie Xin Su into cooking and dancing for videos, leaving her exhausted and determined to cultivate.
• Xie Xin Su began meditating to cultivate, while Ling Yi secretly recorded her and posted a video claiming she could cook and cultivate.

Xie Xin Su coveted the Foundation Establishment Spiritual Objects Qi Yuan discarded as trash, while Qi Yuan reached Foundation Establishment and prepared for the Martial Arts Tournament. Elsewhere, the Rebooter Luo Ping learned about Qi Yuan’s martial talent but doubted he was worth cooperating with because he expected Qi Yuan to die within a year.

• Ling Yi checked the popular video of Xie Xin Su cooking and meditating, then continued filming her performing tricks, including wielding nunchucks.
• Xie Xin Su cultivated in her cat body and sensed that a nearby magic treasure was drawing her in, but Ling Yi’s constant supervision kept her away from Qi Yuan’s room.
• Qi Yuan reached Foundation Establishment, reflected on his curse and martial arts progress, and told Li Yan that his robot had filmed the cat videos.
• Qi Yuan ordered Zero One to throw away leftover Foundation Establishment Spiritual Objects, and Xie Xin Su recognized them as valuable treasures but failed to stop the robot.
• Luo Ping questioned Yang Shan about Qi Yuan’s martial arts talent, decided Qi Yuan was a poor choice for cooperation because he had only one year to live, but still planned to meet him.

Luo Ping revealed that Qi Yuan was a Rebooter who had died a year in the future, but Qi Yuan refused to join him and preferred his leisurely life. As Qi Yuan reached the martial arts limit, Yang Shan explained that breaking through might require Martial Dao Will, giving Qi Yuan new ideas about strengthening his own abilities.

• Luo Ping visited Qi Yuan, revealed that he was a Rebooter from the future, and invited Qi Yuan to follow him, but Qi Yuan refused.
• Luo Ping left after wishing Qi Yuan success in the Martial Arts Tournament, while Qi Yuan joked that his Mental Illness Certificate made pretending to be mentally ill more fun.
• Robot Ling Yi continued making Xie Xin Su film videos as Qi Yuan advanced to the twelfth level of Bright Martial Resonance Fist and approached the martial arts limit.
• Yang Shan praised Qi Yuan's talent and explained that Martial Dao Will might help a martial artist break through the limit.
• Yang Shan demonstrated his killing-intent-filled gaze, but Qi Yuan remained calm and said that killing more people could strengthen Martial Dao Will.
• Qi Yuan considered how will might improve his Talent Martial Skill, while Yang Shan boasted about killing more than ten Gui Ran People and dismissed Qi Yuan's claim that someone had killed over ten thousand.

Qi Yuan learned that Martial Dao Ruins might hold the key to breaking through martial arts limits, then left for Xin Yang after Carnival's wife told him Carnival had been captured by Wu Gui Country. In Xin Yang, Carnival's family had been abandoned by Qin Yuan Country's officials and hoped Qi Yuan could help rescue him.

• Ling Yi told Qi Yuan that 231 Martial Dao Ruins existed and that visiting one might help him break through the limits of martial arts.
• Qi Yuan declined Xu Tiehua's request to plan team competition tactics and told the martial hall students that he would handle opponents by knocking them down.
• Carnival's wife called Qi Yuan and said something had happened to Carnival, so Qi Yuan arranged to travel to Xin Yang.
• Carnival's wife and his sister Ecstasy explained that Wu Gui Country had captured Carnival after a traitor exposed his work for Qin Yuan Country's military.
• Qin Yuan Country's officials and Carnival's acquaintances refused to help, leaving Carnival's wife and Ecstasy hoping Qi Yuan could save him.