Chapter Summaries

Jiang Fan fought Serena’s six Level 11 Martial Arts Masters outside the lotus building and killed three of them in moments. Serena threatened the survivors into attacking again while she fled, and Jiang Fan prepared to strike them down.

• Jiang Fan burst through the roof of the lotus building and moved the fight outside after Serena surrounded him with six Level 11 Martial Arts Masters.
• Jiang Fan killed the first two attackers and mortally wounded Old Third, who died after Jiang Fan pierced his heart.
• The three surviving Masters tried to flee, but Serena threatened their families and promised reinforcements if they held off Jiang Fan.
• Jiang Fan warned the survivors that Serena was using them as shields, then attacked as they turned back toward him.
• Serena jumped down from the domed roof while Jiang Fan’s fist closed in on the remaining Masters.

Jiang Fan killed the Cost Group men pursuing him, then destroyed Serena’s aircraft and moved to finish her. Five elderly Cost Group experts arrived to protect her, and Jiang Fan challenged them to prove their strength.

• Jiang Fan killed the last two men who had attacked him, including one who tried to flee.
• Jiang Fan caught up with Serena’s aircraft and crushed it with a giant energy palm, but Serena and several guards escaped the wreckage.
• Jiang Fan knocked Serena’s guards aside and prepared to seize her, but Serena pleaded to negotiate.
• Five elderly Cost Group experts arrived and declared they would kill Jiang Fan for threatening Serena.
• Serena explained that the men Jiang Fan had defeated were only Guest Officials, while the newcomers were among Cost Group’s top forces.
• Jiang Fan dismissed the old men’s warnings and challenged them to defeat him first.

Jiang Fan fought the Cost Group’s elders and overwhelmed them with his strength and abilities. After killing the elders, he confronted Serena and asked what she had to say.

• Jiang Fan challenged the Cost Group and attacked its leading elder, who met his punches head-on.
• Jiang Fan broke through the elder’s golden defense and battered him until he spat blood.
• The elder ordered four others to join the fight, but Jiang Fan trapped them with his Gravity Field and Time Field.
• Jiang Fan sent Spatial Rifts through the surrounded elders, killing them, then tossed their corpses into the ocean.
• Jiang Fan approached Serena, hooked a finger around her neck, and asked what she had to say.

Jiang Fan forced Serena to lead him to Cost Group’s central mainframe and erase all of Blue Star’s coordinate data. After the deletion finished, Serena asked whether she had fulfilled his demand.

• Serena refused to help unless Jiang Fan promised to spare her, but she relented when he threatened her life.
• Jiang Fan secretly placed a Spiritual Power restraint on Serena’s Sea of Consciousness and ordered her to lead him to the mainframe.
• Serena called off the emergency forces and guided Jiang Fan through the damaged Lotus Building to Cost Group’s central-control area.
• A staff member explained that erasing Blue Star’s coordinates from the mainframe would remove the data throughout Cost Group’s systems, and Serena ordered him to proceed.
• The staff member completed the erasure, and Serena turned to Jiang Fan and asked whether it was enough.

Jiang Fan confirmed that Blue Star’s coordinates had been erased, then tried to kill Serena and was stopped by Lord Roger, a Level 12 expert hired by Cost Group. After Roger overwhelmed him in their first exchange, Jiang Fan realized the strength gap and decided to retreat.

• Jiang Fan learned that Cost Group had no backup of Blue Star’s information and that its coordinates could only be rediscovered through a costly search.
• Jiang Fan grabbed Serena and tried to kill her, but a powerful burst of energy sent him flying through buildings and out over the sea.
• Lord Roger emerged with Serena, and she explained that Cost Group had hired him to intervene if her life was in danger.
• Roger told Serena their agreement would be fulfilled after he killed Jiang Fan, then confronted Jiang Fan and acknowledged his talent.
• Jiang Fan attacked Roger with a powerful punch, but Roger casually shattered it and badly shook Jiang Fan with the counterforce.
• Jiang Fan judged that Roger was far stronger than he was and decided to retreat.

Jiang Fan tried to escape Roger, but Roger's superior spatial abilities repeatedly trapped and intercepted him. Jiang Fan seized Serena as a hostage to bargain for safe passage, but Roger claimed his contract allowed him to kill Jiang Fan after saving her once and offered Serena another agreement instead.

• Jiang Fan fled, but Roger pulled him back and shattered his giant energy sword with a palm strike.
• Jiang Fan teleported away several thousand li, only to find Roger had blocked his escape with Spatial Locks.
• Jiang Fan realized Serena was Roger's employer and returned to the Coste residence to seize her as a hostage.
• Roger arrived and refused Jiang Fan's demand for safe passage, arguing that he had already fulfilled the rescue portion of his contract.
• Roger told Serena they could sign another agreement if she wanted him to save her.

Jiang Fan killed Merrick and his two guards, leaving Cost Group weakened and vulnerable to rival factions. On Planet Namek, Zhan En urged Patriarch Geleik to save Jiang Fan, but Geleik refused to challenge the Blood Butcher Organization and chose to wait for Jiang Fan to survive.

• Merrick arrived with two guards and demanded that Jiang Fan release Serena, then asked Lord Roger to rescue her and offered part of Cost Group's wealth.
• Jiang Fan killed Merrick and both guards, declaring that there was no longer a client.
• Factions on Canglan Star began tracking Cost Group's collapse and preparing to seize its territory.
• Patriarch Geleik praised Zhan En for his information and promised him a share if Greck Group took over Cost Group's territory.
• Zhan En asked Geleik to help Jiang Fan, but Geleik said Greck Group could not oppose the Blood Butcher Organization.
• Geleik trusted Jiang Fan to find a way through the danger and proposed inviting him to share in the spoils if he survived.

Jiang Fan killed Serena to prevent her from renewing her contract with Roger, then tried to escape aboard a flying vessel. Roger destroyed the vessel and caught up with him, insisting that he would finish the assassination contract by killing Jiang Fan.

• Patriarch Grek offered Jiang Fan an additional share of Cost Group to secure Zhan En's support in taking it over.
• Serena offered Roger thirty percent of Cost Group and asked him to stop pursuing Jiang Fan, but Jiang Fan killed her before she could accept Roger's terms.
• Jiang Fan fled in a flying vessel, hoping to escape Roger by leaving Canglan Star.
• Roger caught up and smashed the vessel with a huge hand, forcing Jiang Fan to escape from the wreckage.
• Roger told Jiang Fan that the Blood Butcher Organization always completed its contracts and demanded that he kill himself.

Jiang Fan fled Roger through space and into the starry sky, hoping the harsh conditions would stop the Level 12 pursuer. Roger caught up and sealed his escape, and Jiang Fan's desperate counterattack ended with him seriously injured.

• Jiang Fan used his Gravity Field and Time Field to restrain Roger briefly, then escaped and tried to launch another spacecraft.
• Roger caught up and destroyed the spacecraft, forcing Jiang Fan to flee into the starry sky using Spatial Shuttle.
• Roger intercepted Jiang Fan again and sealed the surrounding space when Jiang Fan tried to escape farther.
• Jiang Fan fought Roger with layered force fields, astral force, and Spiritual Energy, but Roger broke free and withstood his attacks.
• Roger struck Jiang Fan in the chest, leaving him seriously injured and bleeding.

Jiang Fan unleashed a compressed Energy Sphere against Roger, and the resulting blast shattered the starry sky and swept them both into a Spatial Rift. Jiang Fan lost consciousness and later heard a brother and sister discussing food and his injuries as he began to wake.

• Jiang Fan pursued Roger with relentless attacks, forcing him to dodge rather than risk a direct clash.
• Roger decided to retreat, but Jiang Fan fired a tiny, heavily compressed Energy Sphere and slowed him with a force field.
• Roger tried to break free as the sphere struck, and the combined blast collapsed the surrounding starry sky.
• Jiang Fan was swept into a Spatial Rift and lost consciousness, wondering whether Roger had survived.
• Jiang Fan heard a brother and sister named Yan Yan talk about sharing chicken-leg rice and caring for an injured man.
• Jiang Fan groaned as pain surged through his body and his consciousness returned.

Jiang Fan woke in Gordon City's Holy Light District after two scavenger siblings rescued him from a junkyard and learned he was on Tulip Star. He agreed to leave once he recovered, while the boy explained the long-running rivalry between Gordon City and Wulan City.

• Jiang Fan woke in a shabby room and learned that two siblings had found him badly injured at Luowu Junkyard three months earlier and kept him alive with scavenged equipment.
• Jiang Fan told the wary boy that he was neither from Gordon nor Wulan and asked to recover before leaving.
• The boy agreed to let Jiang Fan stay until he could move, but insisted he leave afterward.
• The boy explained that Tulip Star had two major cities, Gordon and Wulan, whose factions had split over whether strength or technology mattered more and now persecuted people associated with the rival city.

Jiang Fan learned about the conflict between Gordon City and Wulan City, the Federation’s hands-off rule over its provinces, and Tulip Star’s decline into a garbage dump. While recovering at the siblings’ home, she grew closer to Chen Yanchu and healed quickly, though her internal injuries still kept her bedridden.

• Jiang Fan asked about the rivalry between Gordon City and Wulan City, and the boy explained that their leaders enforced opposing priorities and suppressed dissent.
• The boy described how the Qiyuan Star Domain Federation allowed provinces broad autonomy as long as they paid taxes and did not seek independence.
• The boy said the Federation had abandoned Tulip Star after exhausting its resources, leaving it as a dumping ground for industrial waste.
• Jiang Fan stayed with the siblings and recovered from her external wounds within a week by refining Crystal Cores in Bead Space.
• Chen Yanchu marveled at Jiang Fan’s rapid healing and lamented that her big brother would make Jiang Fan leave once she recovered.

After a month recovering with Chen Yang and Chen Yanchu, Jiang Fan joined Chen Yang on a scavenging trip to Gordon City’s junkyard. He planned to keep cultivating before leaving, and the chapter ended as Chen Yang pointed out where he had found Jiang Fan.

• Jiang Fan decided to stay until he had healed and absorbed his remaining Crystal Cores, then planned to find Roger.
• Over the month, Jiang Fan grew close to Chen Yang and Chen Yanchu, and Chen Yang invited him to scavenge.
• Chen Yang warned Chen Yanchu not to mention Martial Artists because martial arts were prohibited in Gordon City.
• Chen Yang woke Jiang Fan before dawn so they could claim a good spot before a garbage-transport starship arrived.
• Chen Yang led Jiang Fan to the junkyard and pointed out the place where he had found him.

Jiang Fan used his perception and Bead Space to collect valuable machinery and metal from a junk mountain while scavenging with Chen Yang. Chen Yang recognized the haul’s value, but the crowd gathered around them before he could arrange a sale.

• A starship dumped a huge load of industrial waste into the junkyard, and scavengers rushed to climb the resulting mountain.
• Chen Yang and Jiang Fan climbed the junk mountain, where Chen Yang told Jiang Fan to look for intact machines, usable parts, and precious metals.
• Jiang Fan scanned the mountain, located valuable items, and secretly transferred them into his Bead Space.
• Jiang Fan reappeared with the items when Chen Yang returned with an electric fan, and Chen Yang declared they could sell the haul for years of food.
• As scavengers gathered around the items, Chen Yang went to fetch a potbellied middle-aged man.

Chen Yang scavenged valuable goods and tried to sell them to Manager Qian, who offered only ten thousand Star Coins. When Manager Qian’s gang threatened to rob Chen Yang, Jiang Fan told him to accept the deal, then said the money was buying their lives.

• Manager Qian offered Chen Yang ten thousand Star Coins for his salvaged goods, despite Chen Yang believing they were worth at least twice as much.
• Chen Yang refused the offer and decided to risk transporting the goods himself.
• Manager Qian left and signaled several young scavengers, who surrounded Chen Yang and falsely claimed the goods belonged to them.
• Jiang Fan recognized that the young men were working with Manager Qian and told Chen Yang to sell the goods before they took everything.
• Chen Yang accepted Manager Qian’s offer, took the money, and left with Jiang Fan.
• When Chen Yang asked why he had been made to sell, Jiang Fan said the ten thousand Star Coins were buying their lives.

Jiang Fan reassured Chen Yang after Manager Qian seized their equipment, then secretly followed the recycler and his accomplices. Manager Qian recruited Ban Kai and the hooligans to exploit scavengers, but Jiang Fan confronted them in the warehouse and implied they had forfeited their lives.

• Chen Yang let go of some of his anger and went to buy supplies for a feast while Jiang Fan located Manager Qian and the hooligans.
• Manager Qian stored the equipment taken from Chen Yang and offered the hooligans cigarettes and a long-term partnership.
• Manager Qian recruited the group, appointed Ban Kai as their leader, and handed him Star Coins to distribute.
• Jiang Fan's voice suddenly sounded inside the closed warehouse, warning Manager Qian and the others that he would no longer spare them.
• Manager Qian realized Jiang Fan might be a Martial Artist and grew alarmed.

Jiang Fan killed Manager Qian and several thugs in the warehouse for cheating Chen Yang out of 10,000 Star Coins. After police examined the scene, an officer concluded that a Martial Cultivator had appeared in Luowu Junkyard.

• Jiang Fan told Manager Qian he was killing him for cheating Chen Yang and rejected his offer to repay the money with compensation.
• Jiang Fan killed Manager Qian and several thugs with an invisible blade, then disappeared.
• A child found the bodies and alerted the scavengers, who gathered at the warehouse and reported the murders to the police.
• A middle-aged police officer examined the bodies and traces, then ordered headquarters to be told that a Martial Cultivator had appeared in Luowu Junkyard.

Chen Yang returned with food for a hot-pot feast, and he, Chen Yanchu, and Jiang Fan celebrated the money they had earned. After Chen Yang tried to give Jiang Fan his earnings, Jiang Fan refused and suggested they use the money to find a better home, leaving Chen Yang agreeing to look for one the next day.

• Chen Yang brought home bags of vegetables and other food, then told Chen Yanchu that they were rich after recounting the day's events.
• Chen Yang, Chen Yanchu, and Jiang Fan prepared hot pot and shared a lively meal in the basement.
• After drinking, Chen Yang offered Jiang Fan the ten thousand Star Coins he had earned, but Jiang Fan refused to take them.
• Jiang Fan proposed that Chen Yang find a more spacious place for them to live, and Chen Yang agreed.

Chen Yang chose to move with Chen Yanchu to cheaper Yiling District, while Jiang Fan agreed and learned that Chen Yang had secretly practiced martial arts. Chen Yang revealed that his family had fled Wulan City after a powerful force targeted their inherited cultivation method, leaving him and his sister in Gordon City with their martial arts path cut off.

• Chen Yang and Chen Yanchu debated where to rent, and Chen Yang settled on Yiling District because it was cheaper and farther from the people at Luowu Junkyard.
• Chen Yanchu worried that the move would make Chen Yang’s daily work harder and wished he knew martial arts.
• Chen Yang explained that martial arts were forbidden in Gordon City, then demonstrated his skill by splitting a stone with his hand.
• Chen Yang told Jiang Fan that he and Chen Yanchu had moved from Wulan City, where their parents and the rest of the Chen Family had practiced martial arts.
• Chen Yang revealed that a force had pursued the Chen Family for its inherited cultivation method, their parents had died after years of hiding, and their father had sent the siblings to Gordon City to survive.

Jiang Fan learned why Chen Yang secretly practiced martial arts: he wanted to avenge his parents, who were killed by a powerful family in Wulan City. After police officers arrived at the siblings’ home to investigate murders at Luowu Junkyard, they identified Jiang Fan as their suspect and ordered him to come to the station.

• Chen Yang told Jiang Fan that his father had been a Level 6 Martial Artist and that his family’s enemies had reached Level 7, so he practiced martial arts in hopes of gaining revenge.
• Jiang Fan considered how difficult Chen Yang’s goal would be and thought that meeting him might change the siblings’ fortunes.
• Police officers forced their way into Chen Yang’s home and questioned him about Jiang Fan’s identity and whereabouts.
• Chen Yang claimed Jiang Fan was his cousin, but the officers exposed a flaw in his story when they could not find Jiang Fan’s records in Xiliu District.
• The officers accused Jiang Fan of being connected to the deaths of a recycler and seven scavengers at Luowu Junkyard and ordered him to accompany them.