Chapter Summaries

Meng Chuan continued trying to sense qi and asked Luo Guanyun to explain the True World. After learning what it was and the dangers of getting lost within it, Meng Chuan theorized that a martial artist’s unique Will of Martial Arts might determine how they entered it and sensed qi.

• Meng Chuan compressed his body to an ordinary build, then spent his days meditating on Nine Dragons Peak while trying to sense qi.
• Meng Chuan practiced the Five Elements Universe Fist and entered the Five Elements Imaginary World, where he wondered how the real world, Imaginary World, and True World related to each other.
• Meng Chuan called Luo Guanyun and asked about the True World, and Luo Guanyun explained that it revealed all things as qi and warned that getting lost there could leave a martial artist in a vegetative state.
• Meng Chuan considered how true qi, Three Flowers Qi, and the three worlds might connect, then concluded that sensing qi could depend on each martial artist’s unique Will of Martial Arts.

Meng Chuan connected his martial arts practice to the True World, achieved qi sensing, and glimpsed a pair of divine eyes searching beyond the sky’s boundary. He returned to his body shaken, suspecting the eyes might have been looking for him.

• Li Xiao used the Mountain Whispers statuette to report Qimu’s behavior to Mountain Whispers.
• Meng Chuan practiced the Five Elements Fist through the night, linking the seed of chaos in the Imaginary World with reality.
• Meng Chuan’s Will of Martial Arts fused with the True World, and he formed a Spirit Spring Treasure Land, achieving qi sensing.
• Meng Chuan saw a translucent boundary above the sky and a pair of enormous golden eyes that seemed to be searching for something.
• Meng Chuan returned to his body and wondered whether the eyes had specifically been searching for him.

Meng Chuan examined the black true qi awakened by the Heart Demon Planting technique, then entered a secluded cultivation room to break through to Martial Artist. His teachers and Luo Guanyun gathered outside, but after half an hour there was still no sign of the breakthrough.

• Meng Chuan studied his black true qi and wondered why it differed from Luo Guanyun's golden true qi.
• Meng Chuan decided to practice boxing and make his breakthrough, then informed Luo Guanyun as he headed to a secluded cultivation room.
• Luo Guanyun hurried to Mount Li, questioning why Meng Chuan had not told him that he had sensed qi.
• Meng Chuan sat on the Dao Jade Foundation, settled his mind, and prepared to break through while teachers gathered outside.
• Luo Guanyun arrived and learned Meng Chuan had been inside for at least half an hour, but no breakthrough signs had appeared.

Meng Chuan began breaking through the First Great Limit, awakening his six great apertures before using the Five Elements Seed to guide his bodily mutation instead of relying on the Extreme Yang Thunder Seed. The Thunder Seed rebelled and nearly destroyed him, but his Five Elements Universe Fist reached completion and drew both seeds into the Imaginary World, where a vast thunder pool threatened to overwhelm the five elements.

• Meng Chuan circulated his qi and blood to strengthen his body, then used the Ink Dragon to awaken his six great apertures.
• Meng Chuan began the final stage of bodily mutation by relying on the Five Elements Seed rather than letting the Extreme Yang Thunder Seed consume his qi and blood.
• The Extreme Yang Thunder Seed rebelled, ravaging Meng Chuan's meridians as he repaired his body and used his Five Elements Fist Force to resist it.
• Meng Chuan completed the final one percent of his Five Elements Universe Fist proficiency, and the Five Elements Seed carried the Thunder Seed into his crown.
• Meng Chuan entered the Imaginary World of the Five Elements Cosmos and saw the Thunder Seed transform the sky into a vast, storming thunder pool.

Meng Chuan chose to preserve Five Qi Unification and used the Five Elements Cosmos Fist to suppress the mutating Thunder Seed instead of letting it drive his breakthrough. He contained the seed and discovered that his limit-broken fist art had become a second Core Method, leaving him ready to resume the third step.

• Meng Chuan rejected the Thunder Seed’s power and entered the thunder pool in his Five Elements manifestation, using Limit Release at 200%.
• Luo Guanyun and the others watched the cultivation chamber’s aura fluctuate as Meng Chuan’s Five Elements qi clashed with the lightning, and Luo Guanyun waited outside with a healing pill.
• Meng Chuan fought through the thunder pool, seized the Thunder Seed after it transformed into a lightning wyrm, and realized it had developed a will of its own.
• The Thunder Seed tried to escape Meng Chuan’s body, but the Flesh Bloom’s markings trapped it and his Five Qi Unification forced it back into his Primordial Spirit.
• Meng Chuan’s Five Elements Cosmos Fist appeared as a new Core Method, the Five Elements Universe Art, with Five Qi Unification as its core trait.

Meng Chuan broke through the First Great Limit and began the weeklong secondary development of his body. After leaving seclusion, he reunited with Luo Guanyun and the teachers, then Dong Yue challenged him about hiding his abilities.

• Meng Chuan used his rainbow-like Five Elements True Qi and exceptional control over his body to transform his qi and blood, raising his strength to more than three times its former level.
• Meng Chuan shattered the First Great Limit and learned that his body, mind, and aura would continue developing before he cultivated the Earth Stance to connect and mutate his six major acupoints.
• Meng Chuan discovered that he could see inside his body and noticed his six lit acupoints shining against the darkness.
• Meng Chuan left the cultivation room, and Luo Guanyun examined him, found him unusually healthy, and advised him to rest during his secondary development.
• Meng Chuan thanked Lu Zhuxiao and the other teachers, and Zhao Chun offered to teach him Divine Travel Hundred Transformations.
• Dong Yue confronted Meng Chuan about suppressing his strength and asked whether he remembered how the school media had praised Wu Hong.

Meng Chuan broke through to become a Martial Artist, celebrated the news with his family, and examined the power and new trait he had gained. He left the chapter resting through his second bodily development while considering his strengthened abilities.

• Meng Chuan transformed his body to demonstrate his newly awakened power, and Lu Zhuxiao reported his breakthrough to Principal Yang, who awarded him 1,000 credits.
• Meng Chuan returned home and told Meng Yongzhi and Xue Na that he had become a Martial Artist, showing them his True Qi.
• Meng Chuan tested his transformed physique in the attic, then learned to suppress his aura and conceal his strength.
• Meng Chuan inspected his new Five Qi Unification core trait and its effects on Five Elements Spiritual Breath, fist arts, recovery, and comprehension.

Meng Chuan discovered how Five Qi Unification absorbed Five Elements traits to raise the Five Elements Universe Art’s proficiency and strengthen his true qi. He planned to advance it by learning more Five Elements fist arts and began considering a comparable core method among hard skills, which might lead him to visit Wudang.

• Meng Chuan learned that Five Qi Unification could rise in rank as Five Elements traits were added to its disk, and that the Five Elements Universe Art could continue improving beyond its first limit break.
• He placed Heavy Blow and five low-level Five Elements traits into the disk, raising the art’s proficiency to 60% while retaining the traits’ effects.
• Meng Chuan tested other traits and learned that only traits gained through Five Elements fist arts or true arts could advance the art.
• He compared the strengthened Five Elements True Qi with Heart Demon Planting True Qi and planned to grind through more Five Elements fist arts to improve the art and Unification Wisdom.
• Meng Chuan suspected a core trait existed among hard skills and resolved to seek an all-encompassing Daoist hard skill at Wudang.

Meng Chuan registered as a Martial Artist and chose the title Infinite Fist. After celebrating with Luo Guanyun, Bai Junfeng, and Dong Yue, he went home to sleep, while Ren Ping and Luo Meng discussed his cultivation of Thunder Arts.

• Meng Chuan went to the Martial Arts Association with Luo Guanyun and Bai Junfeng to update his Martial Artist status.
• Meng Chuan registered the title Infinite Fist, which would be added to his online information three days later.
• Luo Guanyun invited Meng Chuan and Bai Junfeng to celebrate at his home, where Dong Yue joined them for drinks.
• Meng Chuan drank until he was drunk, then went home and slept while Luo Guanyun, Bai Junfeng, and Dong Yue continued drinking.
• Ren Ping told Luo Meng that Meng Chuan valued loyalty and sentiment by cultivating her father's Thunder Arts, and Luo Meng agreed the fierce arts suited him.

After completing his second bodily development, Meng Chuan assessed the Thunder Seed’s costs and benefits, tested his new Martial Artist strength, and received funding and anti-aging injections from Hanhai Corporation. He then went to Infinite Martial Arts Academy to find his Master.

• Ren Ping urged Luo Meng to reconcile with her father, and Luo Meng turned back after her mother whispered that her father’s Thunder Arts technique was unstable.
• Three days later, Meng Chuan examined his fully developed body and realized the Thunder Seed had restored itself by consuming his qi and blood while strengthening his spirit.
• Meng Chuan considered which acupoint to mutate next and resolved to gain control over the Thunder Seed rather than let it take qi and blood without his consent.
• Meng Chuan tested his power in an abandoned gravel yard, shattered a boulder, and discovered that he could glide through the air on a single breath.
• After Hanhai Corporation’s Dawn Launch funding arrived, Meng Chuan used his allowance and personal funds to obtain four Anti-Aging Injectables, planning to test one before giving the others to his elders.
• At two in the afternoon, Meng Chuan went to Infinite Martial Arts Academy to find his Master.

Meng Chuan became Infinite Martial Arts Academy’s eleventh boxing instructor, then met with Luo Guanyun to discuss his cultivation and reveal that he had turned the Five Elements Universe Fist into a true art Core Method. The chapter left Luo Guanyun baffled by the black true qi Meng Chuan displayed.

• Meng Chuan tested his blood and qi, practiced Surging Thunder Dispersing Hands and Qi Jiguang's Thirty-Two Form Long Fist, and decided to focus on Earth Stance and his Thunder Arts.
• Meng Chuan was named Infinite Martial Arts Academy’s eleventh boxing instructor and accepted the position’s monthly stipend after Luo Guanyun urged him to take it.
• Luo Guanyun began explaining that Meng Chuan’s cultivation should prioritize the Primordial Spirit Thunder Seed Technique, which replenished blood and qi and supported advancement.
• Meng Chuan showed Luo Guanyun his Five Elements True Qi and explained that he had optimized the Five Elements Universe Fist into a true art Core Method, while concealing the role of Traits.
• Luo Guanyun saw black true qi sputter from Meng Chuan’s hand and wondered why it resembled demonic qi.

Meng Chuan showed Luo Guanyun his black Thunder Arts True Qi, and Luo warned him to conceal it while advising him on future martial training. Luo then explained the requirements for divine arts and ultimate techniques before teaching Meng the Earth Stance, which immediately appeared on his panel with a limit-breaking trait.

• Meng Chuan explained how he had acquired black Thunder Arts True Qi, and Luo Guanyun urged him to keep it hidden and use other techniques as cover.
• Luo Guanyun told Meng Chuan to wait until he became a Martial Arts Grandmaster before attempting divine arts and ultimate techniques, but suggested he cultivate a connection with Jueming to pursue the Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill later.
• Luo Guanyun began teaching Meng Chuan the Earth Stance, and after an hour Meng saw it recorded on his panel with the Earthly Fiend Treasure Body limit-breaking trait.

Meng Chuan began training in Earth Stance, enduring a painful six-hour session as Luo Guanyun explained how the stance strengthened meridians and expanded blood-and-qi capacity. As Meng Chuan headed home, Qimu secretly formed humanoid shapes beneath the ground in Chencang Demon Nest.

• Luo Guanyun explained that completing the three levels of Earth Stance would bring Meng Chuan to the limit of the Third Great Limit, and that he would cultivate Heaven Stance after becoming a Martial Arts Grandmaster.
• Luo Guanyun guided Meng Chuan through Earth Stance, teaching him to use blood and qi to stretch his meridians toward six acupoints.
• Meng Chuan sensed his meridians extending and becoming less bloated, while Luo Guanyun explained how Earth Stance affected blood-and-qi storage.
• Meng Chuan endured six hours of painful stance training until Luo Guanyun stopped him and warned that some of his progress would retract by the next day.
• Meng Chuan reminded Luo Guanyun of his promise to teach him to ride clouds and mist, but Luo Guanyun said he was not ready.
• Qimu secreted black fluid into the earth beneath Chencang Demon Nest, where it gathered soil and rocks into humanoid shapes.

Qimu created a force of demons and prepared to attack a human city under Mountain Whispers's orders, while Meng Chuan trained after advancing to Martial Artist. The chapter left Meng Chuan waiting for notice about his nomination to the National Talent Database.

• Qimu used Qimu's Demon Creation to produce Withered Wood Puppets, Thorned Abominations, and Azure Wood Beguilers, then worried that Mountain Whispers was nearing its emergence.
• Qimu recalled how Mountain Whispers had forced it to invade the human world and ordered it to ruin the city within a month.
• Meng Chuan trained at Hua Yun Estates and confirmed that his meridians had not sprung back, crediting One Proof, Eternal Proof with removing a limit on his qi and blood storage.
• Meng Chuan ate Xue Na's beef stew at home and received a call from Secretary Wang, who told him his name had been submitted for the National Talent Database.

Meng Chuan perfected the Surging Thunder Dispersing Hands and discovered that his martial spirit could resonate with nature. He then visited Luo Guanyun to begin learning the Thunder Arts, before preparing to return to United University and pursue the Martial Zenith Legacy.

• Meng Chuan practiced until the Surging Thunder Dispersing Hands reached perfection and found that his martial spirit could manifest lightning patterns and draw a faint resonance from heaven and earth.
• Meng Chuan sensed that the qi and blood gained from perfecting the technique had filled his meridians further, but concluded that advancing would require cultivating true arts such as the Heart Demon Planting.
• Meng Chuan visited Luo Guanyun's home, where he saw Luo Meng and agreed to interact with her normally despite the tension between her and his master.
• Luo Guanyun began guiding Meng Chuan in the Thunder Arts and urged him to return to United University to train for the June Martial Zenith Legacy.

Luo Guanyun guided Meng Chuan through cultivating the Heart Demon Planting mental method and explained how Core Methods produced qi and blood as well as True Qi. Meng Chuan endured twelve cycles before his six apertures reached their limit, and he left with his proficiency increased and a better sense of his training capacity.

• Luo Guanyun gave Meng Chuan a notebook containing his Thunder Arts research and practical guidance for using the Thunder Seed.
• Luo Guanyun explained the relationship between Core Methods, the Source Point, True Qi, and qi and blood before guiding Meng Chuan through Heart Demon Planting.
• Meng Chuan activated the mental method, and the Thunder Seed drew from the six apertures while internal breath circulated through his body.
• Meng Chuan completed ten cycles over four hours, gaining nearly seven points of qi and blood, while Luo Guanyun watched over him.
• Meng Chuan completed two more cycles before his six apertures dimmed and stopped producing qi and blood, raising Heart Demon Planting proficiency from one percent to two percent.

Luo Guanyun considered how he might help Meng Chuan if the Thunder Seed obstructed his advancement, while Wu Hong and Luo Qin prepared to challenge him. After two days, Meng Chuan returned to North Union University to bid farewell to his Grandmaster Class classmates.

• Luo Guanyun praised Meng Chuan's progress and considered taking him to the Island Nation for an artificial demon seed if he could not advance normally.
• Wu Hong told Shang Ruyi that he expected to fill his qi and blood and mutate his third major acupoint before June, and Shang Ruyi taught him the Evil Tiger Drives Changui fist technique.
• Luo Qin told his master he wanted to settle his grudge with Meng Chuan, demonstrated a move he had comprehended, and learned that his master would accompany him north.
• The purple-robed old Daoist failed to divine an omen and wondered whether the north or Meng Chuan's Infinite Fist was strange.
• Meng Chuan returned to North Union University's Yong'an Campus to say farewell to his Grandmaster Class classmates, where Xu Qingfeng and Meng Jiaolong greeted him.

Meng Chuan completed his First Great Limit breakthrough and learned about the responsibilities and benefits of joining United University’s Martial Artist Grandmaster Class. He left the school’s transition guidance offer aside, relying on what Teacher Dong Yue had already taught him.

• Meng Chuan congratulated Chu Yanhu on sensing qi and asked about his experience in the True World; Chu Yanhu described its strange sky and mountains, while Meng Chuan wondered whether golden eyes in the sky had been directed at him.
• Meng Chuan advised Chu Yanhu to nurture his spirit and trust his own judgment during a breakthrough, and Chu Yanhu decided against challenging him to a spar.
• Meng Chuan met Chen Qiushui, joined the Martial Artist Grandmaster Class group chat, and declined the school’s offer of half a month of one-on-one guidance.
• Chen Qiushui explained that Martial Artists could be summoned to Demon Nest missions, with penalties for refusing too many summons.
• Chen Qiushui outlined the Grandmaster Class benefits, including free resources and access to divine techniques, and contrasted them with the harsher conditions ordinary students faced after advancing.

Meng Chuan adjusted to the Grandmaster Class’s new credit rules and cultivated his Heart Demon Planting method, discovering the power of his black true qi. He then went to the Martial Repository to practice Five Elements Fist.

• Meng Chuan declined Chen Qiushui’s offer to change fist arts teachers, and Chen offered to answer his questions about martial principles.
• Meng Chuan received notice that his monthly credits would follow Martial Artist Class standards, checked the rankings, and saw that he had been removed from the Di Sha Rankings.
• Meng Chuan reviewed the Grandmaster Class’s three-year assessment requirement and reflected on how his cultivation speed differed from other students’.
• After four hours of mental cultivation, Meng Chuan tested his black true qi and blasted a deep hole in the floor with a lightning-shaped strike.
• Meng Chuan invited Xu Qingfeng to eat, then visited the Myriad Scrolls Martial Repository to practice Five Elements Fist and grind Five Qi Unification.

Meng Chuan studied five fire-element fist arts and began cultivating Beacon Smoke Fist and Candle Shadow Step Fist, while preparing to face Luo Qin in a rematch. Three mornings later, Luo Qin and his newly advanced personal disciple Master arrived at the school with Purple Sun True Lord, who appeared beside Meng Chuan under an overwhelming pressure.

• Meng Chuan borrowed five third-rate fire-element fist manuals and chose Beacon Smoke Fist and Candle Shadow Step Fist to cultivate first.
• Chen Qiushui informed Meng Chuan that Luo Qin was coming to challenge him, and Meng Chuan agreed to fight him after his breakthrough.
• Meng Chuan trained the two fist arts for three mornings, reaching Proficient in both and planning to continue improving them.
• Chen Qiushui summoned Meng Chuan to receive Luo Qin and his personal disciple Master, who had recently advanced to the Martial Arts Venerable realm.
• Purple Sun True Lord arrived with Luo Qin, warned him not to be rude, and appeared beside Meng Chuan with a display of pressure.