Chapter Summaries

Meng Chuan suppressed the Dragon Demon's surging desires and discovered that the Locking Dragon Body had advanced to Proficient. The Dragon Demon later began poking out of his body, and Meng Chuan spent the afternoon trying to control its strange behavior.

• The Dragon Demon tried to seize control of Meng Chuan as the Locking Dragon Body strengthened his bones and sinews, so Zhao Shousui taught him a Mind-Calming Incantation to suppress it.
• Meng Chuan calmed the Dragon Demon and found that his Azure Nether Dragon-Locking Body had reached Proficient, greatly strengthening his body and defense.
• When Xue Na brought Meng Chuan fruit, the Dragon Demon emerged from his neck and reached toward the platter, frightening her before Meng Chuan forced it back inside.
• Zhao Shousui advised Meng Chuan to seal the Middle Dantian with qi and blood and use the Dragon Capture Stance the next day to settle the Dragon Demon.
• Meng Chuan found that the Dragon Demon could extend from different parts of his body but had to keep its tail inside him, and he spent the afternoon pressing it back as he practiced.

Meng Chuan continued training while learning to suppress the Dragon Demon, and Shen Shuo agreed to seek compensation after the potion had no effect. His blood vitality passed 400, and after his master invited him over, Meng Chuan resolved to keep growing stronger as the dangerous Li Xiao remained at large.

• Meng Chuan told Shen Shuo that the potion had produced no effect, and Shen Shuo said Hanhai had overlooked the combination of Meng Chuan's physical limit and mental-image creature and would seek compensation.
• Luo Guanyun told Ren Ping that Meng Chuan had given him most of the money he earned, and he called taking Meng Chuan as his disciple a good fate.
• Meng Chuan tested his blood vitality at Preparatory High and reached 406.3 while continuing his fist training.
• Luo Guanyun invited Meng Chuan to dinner and drinks, then told him that Li Xiao had fled into the wilderness and a Venerable-level expert was pursuing him.
• Meng Chuan resolved to train harder for himself and his family, then cultivated Dragon Meditation late at night.

Meng Chuan visited Ren Ping and learned how Luo Guanyun’s cultivation of the Primordial Spirit Thunder Seed Technique had drained his vitality and forced him to balance it with another art. Despite the warning, Meng Chuan remained determined to cultivate the Thunder Arts carefully, believing his traits could help control his body and eventually resolve the technique’s drawbacks.

• Meng Chuan practiced the Five Elements Universe Fist at dawn and went to Hua Yun Estates that afternoon to visit Luo Guanyun.
• Ren Ping told Meng Chuan that Luo Guanyun had once been a martial arts prodigy who earned the Martial Zenith Legacy title and became a Martial Artist at twenty-three.
• Ren Ping explained that the Primordial Spirit Thunder Seed Technique had rapidly advanced Luo Guanyun’s cultivation but later consumed his blood and vitality, forcing him to cultivate a water-attributed art to balance it.
• Meng Chuan considered how his traits might let him control his body and resist the Thunder Seed, and resolved to develop steadily rather than rush into becoming a Martial Arts Grandmaster.
• Ren Ping added that Luo Guanyun believed the Thunder Arts could strengthen Meng Chuan’s mental power and help him reach Three Flowers Gathering before she went to answer a call.

Meng Chuan chose to cultivate the Thunder Arts despite their dangers, and Luo Guanyun agreed to teach him the Primordial Spirit Thunder Seed Technique once he reached the qi-sensing stage. Luo Guanyun revealed the origins of a dangerous demonic art and began exploring how its principles might help overcome the Thunder Arts’ drawbacks; by mid-August, Meng Chuan was still diligently practicing.

• Ren Ping told Luo Guanyun that Meng Chuan had heard about the Thunder Seed’s drawbacks, and Luo Guanyun returned to speak with his disciple.
• Luo Guanyun advised Meng Chuan to train his mental strength to control the Dragon Demon within him, and Meng Chuan declared that he wanted to cultivate the Thunder Arts.
• Luo Guanyun promised to teach Meng Chuan the Primordial Spirit Thunder Seed Technique when he reached the qi-sensing stage and showed him a tortoiseshell inscribed with the Spirit Platform Demon Seed - Fear Chapter.
• Luo Guanyun combined diagrams of Thunder Arts and demonic-art meridians into a new circulation route, then urged Meng Chuan to watch for other incomplete chapters while he investigated the Parasitic Assembly.
• Luo Guanyun advised Meng Chuan to consult Principal Yang about his unusual meridians and vital energy, and told him to prepare for United University and its coming resource reforms.
• By mid-August, Meng Chuan continued practicing his punches beneath the morning sun and focused on his panel.

Meng Chuan celebrated his friends’ admission to martial universities, learned about the coming Grandmaster Class placement test, and prepared to leave home for school. After training with Zhao Shousui, he noticed his Dragon Demon had turned completely black and felt his body growing stronger.

• Meng Chuan trained Surging Thunder Dispersing Hands and learned that his friends had been admitted to their chosen universities, while Wang Yue decided to train for another year.
• At the Everlasting Fortune Feast, Meng Jiaolong and Xu Qingfeng told Meng Chuan that United University credits determined access to valuable resources, and Meng Chuan resolved to do well on the placement test.
• Chen Jingyi warned Meng Chuan that Chu Yanhu was the strongest student in their Grandmaster Class and was close to becoming a Martial Artist, but Meng Chuan remained ready to compete.
• At the end of August, Meng Chuan packed for university and decided to bring the Shiva Elephant Wash manual to Teacher Luo in case it could help with his insufficient essence-qi.
• Meng Chuan completed his final body-striking session at Gangzi Club, increased his Azure Nether Dragon-Locking Body proficiency, and sensed that the Dragon Demon had turned pure black and his body had grown stronger.

Meng Chuan prepared to leave for United University, strengthened his resolve to take first place in the entrance assessment, and received advice from Li Weigang before traveling to Mount Li. News of Demon Nest Lords awakening across Great Chu revealed the dangers beyond campus as Meng Chuan began his university life.

• Meng Chuan sensed that the Dragon Demon's Heart Fire Essence-Qi had increased his strength and considered ways to improve his mental power.
• Li Weigang bid farewell to Meng Chuan and advised him about earning credits, handling off-campus tasks, and cultivating at United University.
• Chu Yanlong told Chu Yanhu that he expected him to lead the martial artist class and urged him to advance to Martial Artist within the year.
• Meng Chuan left a cultivation art for Luo Guanyun, who later read it and recognized its potential.
• Meng Chuan traveled with Meng Yongzhi and Xue Na to United University at Mount Li, while Xue Na urged him to avoid conflicts.
• The news reported Demon Nest Lords awakening across Great Chu, including a Corpse King slain by a Celestial Master Mansion Venerable and a Heavenly Demon King defeated by Zhao Linyuan.

As Great Chu entered a period of rising Demon Nest threats, Meng Chuan left home and arrived at North Union University to begin his studies. He registered as a Grandmaster Class student and toured the campus with Meng Jiaolong, ending at Huaqing Pool.

• News reported that Great Chu would enter Level Three combat readiness in September as Demon Nest riots spread, and Meng Chuan resolved to train hard and become a Martial Artist.
• Meng Chuan said goodbye to Meng Yongzhi and his aunt, then traveled alone up Mount Li to North Union University.
• Meng Jiaolong met Meng Chuan at the gates, and they registered and collected their red-and-gold Grandmaster Class access cards.
• As they toured campus, Meng Jiaolong explained the university's assessments and the pressure placed on Grandmaster Class students to prove their potential.
• Meng Jiaolong led Meng Chuan to Huaqing Pool, where the Mount Li Hot Spring was located.

Meng Chuan settled into his villa at North Union University and learned that his first day of classes would begin with a placement examination at True Dragon Hall. He trained before dawn, advanced Surging Thunder Dispersing Hands to Mastery, and drew the attention of Huaqing Pool’s elderly gatekeeper.

• Meng Chuan inspected his new villa, discovered its Starfall Springs hot spring, and joined the North Union University Martial Artist Grandmaster Class group chat.
• Shi Ying welcomed Meng Chuan, Meng Jiaolong, and Xu Qingfeng as the class’s three new admits, while Chen Qiushui announced a placement examination and warned students not to be late.
• Meng Chuan practiced fist techniques through his first day at school and set goals to win the Magic Capital championship by year’s end and reach Martial Artist by the first half of next year.
• Meng Chuan rose at five-thirty the next morning and practiced Surging Thunder Dispersing Hands until it advanced from Proficient to Mastery.
• The elderly gatekeeper watched Meng Chuan break through on his first day at Huaqing Pool and remarked that the place seemed to bring him good fortune.

Meng Chuan and Xu Qingfeng arrived at True Dragon Hall for the first day of the Grandmaster Class, where Meng Chuan drew attention with his strength and Dragon Demon's sudden appearance. Grandmaster Chen and Assistant Shi arrived as Meng Jiaolong approached Meng Chuan, leaving the class on the verge of beginning.

• Meng Chuan trained before breakfast, and Xu Qingfeng grew anxious about keeping up with the Grandmaster Class.
• Meng Chuan and Xu Qingfeng entered True Dragon Hall early and surveyed the elite students and training facilities.
• Students recognized Meng Chuan as the Northern Region Champion, while Meng Chuan assessed the powerful Chu Yanhu.
• Dragon Demon emerged from Meng Chuan's waist, startling the students, before Meng Chuan slapped it back into his body.
• Chen Jingyi explained that graded credit distribution had made the class tense, and Meng Chuan focused on competing for resources.
• Chen Jingyi and Assistant Shi arrived with Meng Jiaolong, who strode toward Meng Chuan as Chen Qiushui warned her with a cough.

Chen Qiushui introduced a tiered credit system for the Grandmaster Class, prompting the students to prepare to compete for their monthly rewards. Chu Yanhu claimed first place, and Meng Chuan stepped forward to challenge him as Chu Yanhu revealed he was near becoming a Martial Artist.

• Chen Qiushui had the three new students introduce themselves, and Meng Chuan briefly revealed his Intent Manifestation Creature, the Dragon Demon.
• Chen Qiushui explained her teaching schedule and announced that Grandmaster Class credits would be distributed by rank, with first place receiving 150 credits, second 100, and the rest 20 each.
• The students recognized that the new system raised the stakes, while Chen Qiushui warned them not to deliberately injure one another and left Shi Ying to oversee the competition.
• Chu Yanhu walked to the center and declared that he would take first place, and Xu Qingfeng urged Meng Chuan to challenge him.
• Meng Chuan stepped forward as the Dragon Demon emerged in the mist, and Chu Yanhu said he was at the limit of the Martial Artist stage and expected to become a Martial Artist next semester.

Meng Chuan defeated Chu Yanhu in a fierce contest for the top ranking, astonishing the students and Shi Ying with his overwhelming strength. After securing the win, he began looking for a fist technique instructor with Xu Qingfeng and Meng Jiaolong.

• Meng Chuan challenged Chu Yanhu for the top ranking, and Chu Yanhu revealed his Dragon Form as he attacked.
• Meng Chuan met Chu Yanhu’s dragon claw head-on with his Melting Core Flame Burst Fist and overwhelmed him with Heartfire attacks.
• Meng Chuan used Yaksha Plunging the Seas to defeat Chu Yanhu, while Li Tong conceded and the other students watched in shock.
• Chu Yanhu acknowledged Meng Chuan’s victory, and no one else dared challenge him for the remaining rankings.
• Shi Ying explained the Grandmaster Class’s one-on-one fist technique instruction system, and Meng Chuan began browsing instructors with Xu Qingfeng and Meng Jiaolong.
• Xu Qingfeng spotted Teacher Lu among the available instructors and remarked that he did not suit Xu Qingfeng’s Taiji.

Meng Chuan chose Lu Zhuxiao as his mentorship teacher, then faced Chen Xu’s retaliation after defeating Chu Yanhu. With Luo Guanyun’s intervention, Chen Xu paid compensation and Meng Chuan completed the mentorship contract, leaving him newly motivated to improve his strength.

• Meng Chuan requested Lu Zhuxiao as his mentor, and Lu accepted before taunting Chen Xu about their past rivalry.
• Chen Xu used his Martial Domain to intimidate Meng Chuan, but Meng resisted and warned that Luo Guanyun would soon confront him.
• Lu Zhuxiao struck Chen Xu down with a golden spear, and Luo Guanyun later beat Chen Xu and demanded compensation while Chen Qiushui arranged for the school to handle the case.
• Meng Chuan pretended to suffer severe injuries, and Chen Xu transferred twenty million to Luo Guanyun before Meng Chuan and Lu Zhuxiao signed their mentorship contract.
• Luo Guanyun departed, and Meng Chuan reflected on how far he was from a Martial Arts Grandmaster before returning to True Dragon Hall to practice.

Meng Chuan trained under Lu Zhuxiao, arranged to begin hard-body conditioning with an instructor, and received compensation for his earlier battle. The chapter left him seeking ways to earn more credits after learning about North Union University's strength rankings.

• Meng Chuan showed Lu Zhuxiao his boxing forms, and Lu Zhuxiao corrected his long-fist techniques during an afternoon of instruction.
• Lu Zhuxiao offered to teach Meng Chuan for six hours a day and arranged an appointment with the body-conditioning instructor Dong Yue.
• Meng Chuan received 150 credits and learned that boxing instruction cost credits, leaving him worried that hard-body training would strain his budget.
• CEO Shen told Meng Chuan that compensation had arrived in the form of a Middle Sky Demon core, which Meng Chuan could collect at home.
• After noticing Meng Chuan's rapid improvement, Lu Zhuxiao explained that North Union University had shared martial warrior and Martial Artist rankings, suggesting another way to earn credits.

Meng Chuan met Dong Yue to arrange regular body-tempering sessions, securing a discounted schedule that fit his many techniques. Dong Yue began tempering him with Dragon Capture Stance, and Meng Chuan endured the first test of true qi.

• Lu Zhuxiao told Meng Chuan that he would likely enter the Di Sha Rankings and receive monthly credits.
• Meng Chuan arrived at Steel Spear General's dormitory and saw Luo Meng teaching Chen Jingyi nearby.
• Dong Yue questioned Meng Chuan about his many cultivated techniques and agreed to temper him each morning.
• Meng Chuan learned that his Grandmaster Class benefits reduced the monthly cost of tempering to 160 credits.
• Dong Yue tested Meng Chuan's tolerance by striking an acupoint on his back with a thread of true qi.

Meng Chuan endured Dong Yue’s precise strikes while learning about acupoints and hard-body cultivation, then continued training and gained major progress in the Five Elements Universe Fist. He headed to True Dragon Hall to test his vitality and blood.

• Dong Yue struck Meng Chuan for four hours while the Dragon Capture Stance drained the Dragon Demon of its dragon qi, and he taught Meng Chuan about the body’s major acupoints and the limits of bodily control.
• Dong Yue recommended that Meng Chuan schedule the striking sessions every five days, and Meng Chuan agreed and decided he could focus on cultivation instead of rushing to take missions.
• Meng Chuan returned to his villa, applied Primal Forging Balm, and asked Xu Qingfeng to help reach his back before dragging him into fist practice.
• Meng Chuan practiced fist techniques with Lu Zhuxiao and triggered Dawn-Dusk Enlightenment, raising the Five Elements Universe Fist to major mastery at 25%.
• Meng Chuan left Lu Zhuxiao and walked to the vitality-and-blood testing room at True Dragon Hall.

Meng Chuan continued training, settled a misunderstanding with Chu Yanhu, and waited for Principal Yang Huan to return from a demon-nest extermination. After receiving a mysterious Sky Demon Core, he decided to test how the Dragon Demon would react to it under Teacher Dong’s supervision.

• Meng Chuan dismissed his concerns about Lin Yue and resolved to stay in Yong'an City until he became a Martial Artist.
• Chu Yanlong brought Chu Yanhu to apologize, and Meng Chuan accepted Chu Yanhu’s gift of Primal Forging Balm and agreed to put the conflict behind them.
• Chu Yanlong warned Chu Yanhu to train hard and avoid making enemies of Meng Chuan after learning about his remarkable growth.
• Principal Yang Huan joined Principal Yin and Venerable Huo Ting to exterminate a Level Three Demon Nest near Chencang, delaying Meng Chuan’s questions about advancing.
• Meng Chuan opened a package from CEO Shen and found a black crystal that looked like a Middle Sky Shadow Demon Core.
• The Dragon Demon burst out and tried to seize the core, but Meng Chuan suppressed it and decided to test the core’s effect with Teacher Dong watching over him.

Meng Chuan fed his Dragon Demon a costly Sky Demon Core, then searched North Union University’s Myriad Scrolls Martial Repository for a hard art that could strengthen his body internally. He found no blood-related techniques but chose Tiger's Roar Lung Forging, a little-practiced art that seemed suited to his training.

• Meng Chuan gave the Dragon Demon a Sky Demon Core while Dong Yue watched, but it swallowed the core and showed no immediate change.
• Meng Chuan saw that his Iron Cloth training had reached 99% mastery and planned to ask Dong Yue about blood-related hard arts.
• Meng Chuan visited the Myriad Scrolls Martial Repository and learned from the administrator that it held no blood-related techniques.
• Meng Chuan searched the hard arts section for an internal-training method and met Qi Ming, who helped him find two techniques.
• Meng Chuan chose the second-rate hard art Tiger's Roar Lung Forging after learning it used sound and qi to train the lungs and bones.

Meng Chuan joined Qi Ming’s hard-skill group, then returned to his villa to break Iron Cloth’s limit. He gained the Flexibility trait and decided to focus on Great Chu hard skills.

• Meng Chuan joined Qi Ming’s hard-skill group and learned that students had to spend credits to borrow martial arts manuals.
• Qi Ming realized Meng Chuan was the Grandmaster Class student known as God Meng, and the group welcomed him with red envelopes.
• Meng Chuan returned to his villa and submerged himself in the hot spring to break Iron Cloth’s limit.
• Meng Chuan shed his old skin and gained the beginner Flexibility trait, which improved his defense and adjusted his physique.
• Meng Chuan decided to focus on Great Chu hard skills and hoped to obtain the full Duo Mo set effect.

Meng Chuan discovered that a Sky Demon Core could feed his Dragon Demon and produce Heart Fire Essence-Qi, then began learning Tiger's Roar Lung Forging under Dong Yue. He learned he was not yet listed in the Di Sha Rankings because Principal Yang Huan had not submitted his information, and left with the new method started but its benefits still uncertain.

• Meng Chuan examined his Dragon Demon and realized that feeding it a Sky Demon Core produced Heart Fire Essence-Qi, though less pure than the energy from Qi Jiguang Long Fist.
• Meng Chuan found that higher-tier Sky Demon Cores cost more than five hundred credits and decided to wait until he could hunt in the Demon Nest himself.
• Meng Chuan called assistant instructor Shi Ying and learned that the Observation Committee was waiting for Principal Yang Huan to submit his information before placing him on the Di Sha Rankings.
• Meng Chuan practiced the Qi Nurturing Armor Skill and Duo Mo Iron Body under Dong Yue, who noticed his unusually tough skin and repair ability.
• Meng Chuan asked Dong Yue to teach him Tiger's Roar Lung Forging, got started with the method, and learned that its claims did not mean it could improve qi-consumption efficiency like the Five Elements Fist Qi Consumption Method.

Meng Chuan considered how to develop his lung-forging method and decided to explore the university’s ancient martial arts research labs after becoming a Martial Artist. He then captured Xu Linlin, a company director secretly cultivating the demonic Candlelight Godhood technique, and left her in police custody.

• Meng Chuan reflected that the lung-forging method might eventually improve his talent and planned to search for blood-related techniques in a research lab after advancing to Martial Artist.
• Meng Chuan accepted a mission to apprehend Xu Linlin and brought Xu Qingfeng along while Luo Guanyun watched from nearby.
• Police officers secured the Hundred Flavors Fragrance Group as Meng Chuan climbed the building to Xu Linlin’s office.
• Xu Linlin tried to destroy her scented candle, but Meng Chuan broke in and identified her by the corpse stench coming from it.
• Xu Linlin attacked Meng Chuan with sinister energy, but he dispelled it with his Tiger’s Roar Lung Forging technique and subdued her.
• Meng Chuan carried Xu Linlin out of the building, told Xu Qingfeng the mission was over, and handed her to the police.