Chapter Summaries

After exceeding the standard in all seven basic tests, Zhou Leng applied for a One-Day Camp Breakthrough and traveled to Demon Lake Prison for a Siren hunt. He entered the artificial lake alone, where thirteen Sirens—including a mixed-blood and a mutated one—rose to attack.

• Zhou Leng explained how he had used his observations of the Ninth Bend to protect and catch both water balls, and Song Juesi praised his exceptional combat awareness.
• Zhou Leng chose the One-Day Camp Breakthrough, prompting the examiner to arrange his flight to Demon Lake Prison for a Siren hunt.
• Li Yuanhe learned that Zhou Leng had exceeded all seven tests, asked Zhang Xinglie about him, and sent Zhou Leng congratulations and a warning not to rush.
• The examiner and prison guards brought Zhou Leng to Demon Lake Prison, where they explained the danger of fighting Sirens in water and offered him a chance to withdraw.
• Zhou Leng entered the artificial lake, and a group of grotesque Sirens emerged from the murky water and rushed toward him.

Zhou Leng fought the sirens at the lakeside and used his martial arts to kill their fishfolk and fish demons. He defeated nearly the entire group, leaving only the blue-skinned siren alive.

• The sirens charged Zhou Leng, and he provoked them before fighting three fishfolk who entered the shallows.
• Zhou Leng killed the three fishfolk with his palm techniques and Cloud-Flying Leg, then pursued the blue-skinned siren as he retreated into the water.
• The blue-skinned siren ordered the remaining sirens to attack, and five large fish demons charged Zhou Leng while the others fired water arrows and a moray eel struck him with lightning.
• Zhou Leng recovered from the attacks, killed the moray eel with an uppercut, and then kicked the large black carp demon to death.
• Zhou Leng used Cloud-Flying Leg to kill the remaining fish demons, leaving only the blue-skinned siren alive.

Zhou Leng passed his One-Day Camp Breakthrough practical exam by killing a Siren, then reunited with Li Yuanhe and discussed his extraordinary stamina and the paths to Innateness. Li Yuanhe encouraged him to seek Elder Song’s guidance and eventually temper himself at West Sea Demon City.

• Zhou Leng killed the Sirens in the first artificial lake, but the mixed-blood Siren fled into deep water, so the examiner moved him to another testing ground.
• Zhou Leng defeated a Body-Refining Middle Stage Siren in minutes, and the examiner ruled that he had exceeded the practical exam standard.
• Zhou Leng returned to camp, met Li Yuanhe in the cafeteria, and ate more than thirty rounds of food while they caught up.
• Li Yuanhe explained the Threefold Innate Breakthrough and said Zhou Leng’s performance showed he had no weaknesses, while Li Yuanhe himself expected to pursue a true-qi breakthrough.
• Li Yuanhe described Elder Song’s exceptional martial insight and urged Zhou Leng to seek his advice on techniques and killing moves.

Zhou Leng trained with Song Juesi, who helped him refine his martial techniques and advised him to pursue Extreme Slaying. He then chose to fight all five First Tier members without resting, raising the stakes of his One-Day Camp Breakthrough.

• Li Yuanhe explained that experience in West Sea Demon City could help Zhou Leng, and Zhou Leng decided to visit the front and fight Sirens.
• Song Juesi sparred with Zhou Leng, helping him identify flaws in his techniques and develop ways to address them.
• Zhou Leng demonstrated Thousand Tides Pour into the Sea, and Song Juesi coached Li Yuanhe to test the killing move against him.
• Song Juesi explained the paths of Extreme Slaying and Varied Slaying, and Zhou Leng leaned toward Extreme Slaying.
• At the Second Lieutenant Camp arena, Zhou Leng chose to fight all five First Tier members without taking the permitted half-hour rests for increased rewards.

Zhou Leng defeated all five First Tier trainees in the continuous Tier Examination, using Qi-Shock Dew Release to grievously injure Wei Xianggan and earn a One-Day Camp Breakthrough. After receiving a six-month cultivation resource allowance, Zhou Leng asked the examiner how he would spend it.

• Zhou Leng defeated Tan Kaijie and the next two trainees by holding back at first, then overwhelming them with his control of true qi.
• Zhou Leng accepted the burly fourth trainee’s challenge to exchange three palms, used only eighty percent of his strength, and sent him tumbling out of the ring with an injured arm.
• Wei Xianggan attacked Zhou Leng with Spiral Fist, but Zhou Leng’s palm shook apart his qi and blood, leaving him badly injured as Zhou Leng walked off the ring.
• The examiner declared that Zhou Leng had completed three examinations and achieved a One-Day Camp Breakthrough, while trainees praised his Qi-Shock Dew Release.
• The examiner gave Zhou Leng a six-month resource agreement with a twenty-percent increase and a monthly allowance of 3, and Zhou Leng asked how the examiner would spend it.

Zhou Leng completed the Second Lieutenant Camp in one day and was assigned to join a dangerous mission against a Fishman Cult den. Meanwhile, Tian Wenhu was ordered by Twin Horns to end his grudge with Zhou Leng, but he secretly considered hiring Shen Jun to kill him.

• Zhou Leng chose his monthly resources, left the camp, and told Deng Zhijue he had cleared it in one day; Deng then arranged for him to join an actual combat mission.
• Wang Boxiong changed the mission so Zhou Leng would accompany Deng Zhijue and Huang Jingqiu to attack a mid-level Fishman Cult den, where he would face a real challenge.
• Tian Wenhu told Yan Fenggang that Fourth Senior Brother had recovered and promised to investigate Zhou Leng, but Mark arrived with Jax's order forbidding them from pursuing their grudge.
• After Mark left, Yan Fenggang urged Tian Wenhu to hire Shen Jun to kill Zhou Leng, and Tian Wenhu later considered paying thirty million for the job.

Zhou Leng trained beneath the Frost Giant Tree, discovered how much his speed had improved, and learned that the Fishman Cult was considering targeting him. The next morning, he met Deng Zhijue and Rao Mingxian, who revealed that he had formed a phantom of Will Mountain.

• Zhou Leng trained, drank water from Mammoth Lake with Big Yellow and Little Eight, and struggled to restrain Little Eight’s trunk.
• Zhou Leng pushed his Ten Inverse Beast Fist training further, studied Divine Script, and entered the Purgatory Gate.
• Zhou Leng raced Big Yellow and measured his own speed at fifty-four meters per second, while Big Yellow ran at about twenty-five meters per second.
• Fishman Cult members discussed Zhou Leng’s potential and decided to postpone dealing with him while they focused on Blood of Tyranny.
• Deng Zhijue summoned Zhou Leng to Ru University’s back gate, where Rao Mingxian noticed Zhou Leng’s Body-Refining progress and revealed his transparent phantom of Will Mountain.

Zhou Leng and Rao Mingxian joined a Martial Guard Bureau raid on a secret passage of the Changrong Pioneer Corporation, where Demon-Worshiping Cult members burst out and attacked. Zhou Leng fought a powerful Body-Refining Late Stage cultist, and the chapter left him successfully neutralizing the man’s enraged punch with Tide Rises, Tide Falls.

• Deng Zhijue briefed his team on coordinating in combat, and Zhou Leng impressed the Martial Guards by revealing that his Wave-Stacking Palm had reached the Extreme Realm.
• Zhou Leng’s team arrived in Mill Town and learned that their courtyard was a secret passage exit of the Changrong Pioneer Corporation, with Huang Jingqiu anchoring the operation.
• Huang Jingqiu ordered the courtyard wall broken, and waves of Demon-Worshiping Cult members burst from the house as the Martial Guards and military police intercepted them.
• Zhou Leng challenged a Body-Refining Late Stage cultist, while the man threw Rao Mingxian into a wall and sent him crashing through the bricks.
• Rao Mingxian hurled a slab of wall at the cultist to help Zhou Leng, who pressed the fight despite being struck in the chest.
• After the cultist drank a magic potion and unleashed a fierce punch, Zhou Leng used Tide Rises, Tide Falls and retreating steps to dissipate its force.

Zhou Leng helped the Martial Guard Bureau hunt down fleeing Demon-Worshiping Cultists, but the pursuit led the team into an ambush by Shen Jun and his followers. Zhou Leng fought fiercely, while Shen Jun wounded Deng Zhijue and escaped with the remaining cultists after displaying a Demon's Sealing Device.

• Zhou Leng and Deng Zhijue pursued scattered Demon-Worshiping Cultists, capturing or killing several in an abandoned village.
• After the team gathered with their captives, a drone appeared and Shen Jun ambushed them with more than a dozen hidden cultists.
• Zhou Leng killed one Fishman Cultist and badly injured Fan Yongrui, prompting Shen Jun to send a subordinate to carry Fan away.
• Shen Jun attacked Zhou Leng, but Deng Zhijue intercepted him until Shen Jun struck Deng with a gemstone-enhanced blow.
• Shen Jun and the surviving cultists fled, and Shen showed Huang Jingqiu a silver T-shaped Demon's Sealing Device as he retreated.

Zhou Leng and the Martial Guards returned after Shen Jun ambushed and severely injured Deng Zhijue, and they discussed the Demon-Worshiping Cult’s reach. After planning further training and combat experience, Zhou Leng learned that someone with high standing in the Rao family had spoken against him.

• Zhou Leng treated Deng Zhijue’s injuries, and Huang Jingqiu carried him back while the Martial Guards identified the attacker as Shen Jun, a disciple of Light of Redemption.
• The deputy captain warned the team about the Demon-Worshiping Cult’s powerful leaders, while Zhou Leng urged an investigation of the village and studied Shen Jun’s information.
• Zhou Leng and Rao Mingxian returned to Ru University and planned to train in the Bronze Man Formation before visiting Deng Zhijue.
• Rao Mingxian told Zhou Leng that someone with deep ties to his family and a high position had criticized him, leaving Zhou Leng to suspect the Rao family’s main branch.

After deciding to strengthen his training, Zhou Leng discovered that his Divine Script research had earned him enough Contribution Value to buy the equipment he needed. He answered Zhao Nandi’s questions about the Ancient River Stele, while she continued struggling to learn Divine Script Full Forms.

• Zhou Leng met Ji Changnian, who thanked him for saving him on the Heavenly Stair and planned to shine in the January midterm.
• After recalling the battle and Deng Zhijue’s injuries, Zhou Leng resolved to intensify his training and calculated the cost of demonized equipment.
• Zhou Leng discovered that his clerical rank had risen to Professor and that he had accumulated 22,073 Contribution Value from research on the Ancient River Stele.
• Zhou Leng read Zhao Nandi’s private message, answered her three questions anonymously, and decided to buy a True-Qi Rope and fifty-ton barbells and dumbbells.
• Zhao Nandi continued studying Divine Script Pronunciation and Full Forms, struggled to remember them, and finally smiled faintly despite her exhaustion.

Zhao Nandi received and celebrated a reply from the anonymous Divine Script master, while Zhou Leng bought heavy training equipment, impressed Mo Hai and his mother with his progress, and began training with it beneath the Frost Giant Tree. The next day, he advanced through the Bronze Man Formation and entered its notoriously difficult sixth floor.

• Zhao Nandi read the Mysterious Master's approving reply, posted a screenshot on her social feed, and received a flood of messages from Wuxin.
• Zhou Leng bought high-tonnage demonized equipment, and Mo Hai and his mother saw him leave the store with a heavy-equipment Demon Spirit Bag and decided to invite him to Mo Hai's birthday gathering.
• Zhou Leng carried the equipment to the Frost Giant Tree, set up fifty tons of weights, and filmed Big Yellow lifting a five-hundred-kilogram dumbbell.
• Zhou Leng ran with Rao Mingxian to the Bronze Man Formation, entered the third floor without queuing, and cleared the third and fourth floors easily.
• Zhou Leng suffered superficial injuries but defeated the five puppets on the fifth floor, healed and recovered his true qi, then entered the sixth floor, known as Beating Hell.

Zhou Leng cleared the sixth floor of the Bronze Man Formation, tested the seventh-floor puppets, and withdrew after realizing how far they surpassed him. As he left with Rao Mingxian, students from West Sea Martial University confronted him, and You Lisheng challenged him to spar once his injuries healed.

• Zhou Leng endured the six bronze puppets' attacks and cleared the sixth floor before healing and entering the seventh-floor formation.
• Zhou Leng tested the humanoid puppets, was driven back by their strength, and surrendered to avoid breaking his bones.
• Zhou Leng and Rao Mingxian compared their injuries and discussed their trials as they left the formation.
• More than ten West Sea Martial University students confronted Zhou Leng, and You Lisheng proposed a future sparring match.
• Rao Mingxian questioned You Lisheng's challenge, while Zhou Leng asked whether the association planned to send fighters against him one after another.

Zhou Leng agreed to settle West Sea Martial University's challenges with You Lisheng through a harmless Leaf-Plucking Flower-Flying contest. After Zhou Leng dominated the first five throws, You Lisheng began shooting, and the chapter ended with Zhou Leng narrowly missing his first shot.

• Zhou Leng agreed to spar with You Lisheng on the condition that West Sea Martial University's Boxing Association would stop challenging him, and they settled on a skill contest.
• Zhou Leng chose Leaf-Plucking Flower-Flying, and he and You Lisheng agreed to take turns tossing and shooting five holly leaves.
• Zhou Leng used different martial techniques to make his first five leaves difficult to hit, and You Lisheng failed to strike any of them.
• You Lisheng began tossing, and Zhou Leng's first shooting leaf passed within a centimeter of You Lisheng's leaf.

Zhou Leng defeated You Lisheng in two rounds of a martial skill contest, first outmatching him in Leaf-Plucking Flower-Flying and then stacking thirty-three pinecones in Flower-Flying Chain Shots. You Lisheng asked about Zhou Leng’s Bronze Man Formation trial, and Zhou Leng said he had cleared six levels before leaving.

• Zhou Leng defeated You Lisheng’s four leaf throws, winning the first round of Leaf-Plucking Flower-Flying.
• You Lisheng proposed using pinecones for a round of Flower-Flying Chain Shots, and Zhou Leng agreed.
• Zhou Leng stacked pinecones into a stable chain while You Lisheng’s chain broke apart.
• Zhou Leng extended his chain to thirty-three pinecones before ending the contest, and You Lisheng admitted defeat.
• You Lisheng asked how many levels Zhou Leng had cleared in the Bronze Man Formation, and Zhou Leng answered that he had cleared six.

Zhou Leng visited the injured Deng Zhijue, then received a Golden Page revealing the Indestructible Star Body, a complete Martial Body method that could be cultivated with starlight. He decided to pursue it, but learned he should wait until he had mastered the Giant Physical Extraordinary Body and completed the twelve forms of the Standing Elephant Chapter.

• You Lisheng judged Zhou Leng to be first among the new students below Shanhe Yuan, while West Sea Martial University students debated whether Zhou Leng had broken through the sixth level.
• Zhou Leng and Rao Mingxian visited Deng Zhijue, who explained Shen Jun's criminal connections and urged Zhou Leng to begin training methods and hard techniques.
• Deng Zhijue and Rao Mingxian discussed how exceptional hard techniques could protect their users from bullets and Demonized Crossbow bolts.
• Zhou Leng visited the Frost Giant Tree, where Big Yellow brought him a Golden Page describing the Indestructible Star Body and its reliance on Stellar Power or Star Spiral Shells.
• Zhou Leng resolved to gather Star Spiral Shells and cultivate the method, but the Golden Page warned that he should first master the Giant Physical Extraordinary Body and complete all twelve forms of the Standing Elephant Chapter.

Zhou Leng dominated the monthly examination, setting records in the sprint and weightlifting and exceeding the maximum score in every event. The chapter ended as his class entered the striking device hall for the final examination.

• Shen Jun waited with the Demon-Worshiping Cult team for its new Weapon-Bearing Envoy and learned that she planned to burn Ru City's long streets with the Sirens in three days.
• Shen Jun recalled accepting fifty million from Tian Wenhu to arrange Zhou Leng's murder during the Siren attack, using five Body-Refining Middle Stage fighters and one Body-Refining Late Stage fighter.
• Zhou Leng ran the five-thousand-meter sprint in four minutes 6.3 seconds, setting Ru City's Early Body-Refining Stage record and earning 150 points above the maximum.
• Deng Zhijue moved the class to an advanced examination ground, where Zhou Leng exceeded the maximum score in every running event.
• Zhou Leng lifted 4,503.5 kilograms on the Demonized Weightlifting Platform, scored 185 points, and then joined his classmates for the remaining examinations.
• Zhou Leng and his classmates entered the striking device hall for their final event.

Zhou Leng endured the Striking Device long enough to destroy it, earned scores over the limit in every test, and continued training by taking steel-fist blows without True Qi. As Zhou Leng headed to cultivate beneath the Frost Giant Tree, Demon-Worshiping Cult members and Sirens prepared attacks on Ru City for the following day.

• Zhou Leng endured the Striking Device for an hour, emerged without a wound, and left its mechanical arms shattered.
• Deng Zhijue shared Zhou Leng’s test results, which exceeded the limit in every category and averaged 140.77 points.
• Zhou Leng trained at the Advanced Martial Arts Gym, using the maximum Skin-Patting Device setting before taking Level 2 steel-fist blows without True Qi and healing with pills.
• Fourth-year students inspected the bloodied Advanced Striking Device and concluded Zhou Leng had endured it with his body alone, then discussed recruiting him.
• Shen Jun directed Demon-Worshiping Cult members to disguise themselves as Sirens and assassinate targets amid the coming chaos, while Sirens advanced toward Ru City.
• Xu Qingjin messaged Zhou Leng about her plans, and Hu Yi smoked in a taxi while looking toward Ruge Mountain.

Zhou Leng used Beast Spirit Ginseng to strengthen his body and true qi, then discovered that training underwater in Mammoth Lake improved his martial techniques. The chapter left him exploring the lake’s advantages as he practiced Wave-Stacking Palm and Cloud-Flying Leg.

• Wang Boxiong reviewed Zhou Leng’s assessment and considered the New Youth Grand Fund slot he had secured with Chen Shouhu.
• Zhou Leng pushed through an intense training session, then ate a small portion of Beast Spirit Ginseng and refined its powerful medicinal effects by practicing Ten Inverse Beast Fist.
• The Beast Spirit Ginseng rapidly strengthened Zhou Leng’s body and slightly improved his true qi, bringing him close to the Body-Refining Middle Stage.
• After waking, Zhou Leng went to Mammoth Lake with Big Yellow, saw the injured Eight-Tusked Mammoths soaking there, and entered the water to investigate.
• Zhou Leng found that practicing Wave-Stacking Palm underwater improved his perception, then discovered that the water boosted Cloud-Flying Leg’s power by thirty percent.

Zhou Leng honed his martial arts underwater until Cloud-Flying Leg and Eight Trigrams Step reached Perfection, then rushed into Ru City during a Demonic Beast attack to find Xu Qingjin. He found Yueda Mall’s fourth shelter breached and joined the fight against the Sirens blocking the corridor.

• Zhou Leng practiced underwater with the Eight-Tusked Mammoth herd, discovered new ways to use Cloud-Treading Leap, and reached Perfection in Cloud-Flying Leg and Eight Trigrams Step.
• After alarms announced a Demonic Beast attack, Zhou Leng learned that Xu Qingjin had taken shelter at Yueda Mall and headed toward the burning city with Big Yellow.
• Zhou Leng and Big Yellow crossed the city, and Zhou Leng killed Demonic Beasts along the way before reaching Yueda Mall.
• Zhou Leng found the first three shelters sealed, but discovered the fourth shelter’s breached door and the bodies of humans and Sirens inside.
• Following Big Yellow’s faint scent of Xu Qingjin, Zhou Leng reached a corridor where Sirens were advancing on retreating martial artists.
• Zhou Leng secretly killed several Sirens from behind, but one spotted him, and the remaining Sirens turned to attack.