Chapter Summaries

Meng Chuan fought the Heavenly Demon possessing Chen Xuan and formed an Intent Manifestation Prototype to overcome it. He destroyed the demon with a decisive combination of water and fire techniques, leaving Chen Xuan alive but gravely weakened.

• The police chief and Zheng Chengcheng watched Meng Chuan battle Eight-Armed Chen Xuan while reinforcements rushed toward them.
• Meng Chuan realized he needed an Intent Manifestation Prototype to kill the intangible Sky Demon before his enhanced state expired.
• Meng Chuan fused his martial will, qi and blood, spiritual strength, and killing intent to unleash Surging Wave Hammer.
• Chen Xuan burned his incense-offering power to transform his weapon into a fire dragon, but Meng Chuan’s punch forced its flames back into the blade.
• Meng Chuan followed with Setting Sun Strike, and his Intent Manifestation Prototype and killing intent destroyed the Heavenly Demon possessing Chen Xuan.
• Chen Xuan fell with his eyes clear, badly weakened and covered in charred blackness.

Meng Chuan recovered from killing the Concept-Type Sky Demon and learned that his mission had cut off the source powering the Ancestor Lü Statues. After meeting Commander Qin, he learned why the statues still had to be collected and where the story left off: the military was continuing its searches across Fucheng.

• Meng Chuan fed Chen Xuan a Cloudwater Pill, then found no spoils from the Concept-Type Sky Demon and counted the mission merit points and Pei Shan's crystal ball as consolation.
• At the police department, Meng Chuan declined to give the mission summary and let the police chief take his place.
• Meng Chuan and Zheng Chengcheng waited for Commander Qin, who praised Meng Chuan's performance and met with them at the garrison camp.
• Meng Chuan asked what would happen if residents hid or refused to surrender their Ancestor Lü Statues.
• Commander Qin explained that confiscating the Godstrike Martial Arts Hall's source had cut off the statues' faith power, but the contaminated statues could still harm ordinary people through prolonged contact.

After the Fucheng branch hall was destroyed, Meng Chuan discussed the battle and his new Intent Manifestation Prototype with Commander Qin, then returned to Yong'an with Zheng Chengcheng. Li Xiao learned that Meng Chuan had reached the Second Limit and ordered his subordinates to target him.

• Qin Yue showed Meng Chuan and Zheng Chengcheng a Net Karma Fire Talisman that could purify Heavenly Demon contamination and help counter hidden Concept-Type Sky Demons.
• Meng Chuan reflected on strengthening his spiritual power to improve his Intent Manifestation, then consulted Qin Yue about martial principles while Zheng Chengcheng listened.
• Qin Yue decided not to recruit Meng Chuan into the military, believing his future potential would be better served elsewhere, and told the two that their mission rewards would arrive within three days.
• Meng Chuan and Zheng Chengcheng spent the night in Fucheng and returned to Yong'an the next morning.
• Li Xiao received news that the Fucheng branch hall had been uprooted, learned Meng Chuan was the culprit and had reached the Second Limit, then issued a new internal bounty targeting him.

After rescuing Chen Xuan from the Heavenly Demon, Meng Chuan visited him in the hospital with Zheng Chengcheng, then parted ways with Zheng on the road back to Mount Li. The chapter ended with Meng Chuan checking his improved martial skills.

• Meng Chuan and Zheng Chengcheng visited Chen Xuan, who thanked them for saving his life and was training while receiving treatment.
• Chen Xuan and Zheng Chengcheng thanked each other for helping him survive, and Chen Xuan proposed they fight Heavenly Demons together again after he recovered.
• Zheng Chengcheng invited Meng Chuan to visit Zheng Zhenzhen on Yan Hua Mountain, and Meng Chuan agreed if he had the chance.
• Zheng Chengcheng challenged Meng Chuan to a contest to reach the Third Limit first, but withdrew when Meng Chuan offered to give him a two-month head start.
• On the road back to Mount Li, Meng Chuan saw that Quaking River Eight Extremities and Melting Core Flame Burst Fist had both advanced.

Meng Chuan reflected on his growing martial arts and qi and blood after defeating Chen Xuan, while his victory went viral online. Yang Huan later discussed Demon Contamination and the demonic path with him, leaving Meng Chuan confident that no Heavenly Demon could sway his resolve.

• Meng Chuan reviewed his improved fist arts, rising qi and blood, and progress toward completing the Fire-Element Fist.
• A video of Meng Chuan defeating Zheng Chengcheng and Chen Xuan spread across social media, prompting widespread praise and jokes about the vast gap between him and other young fighters.
• Yang Huan returned and asked Meng Chuan about the Fucheng case and his encounter with a Concept-Type Sky Demon.
• Yang Huan explained how the demonic path exploited the Demon-Contaminated Ancestor Lü Statue and how temples could serve as teleportation arrays for a future counterattack into the Sky Demon Realm.
• Meng Chuan asked why martial artists joined the demonic path, and Yang Huan described those who were beguiled by Heavenly Demons and those who were already vile.
• Meng Chuan concluded that Heavenly Demons could not shake his Will of Martial Arts and doubted their claims of power.

Meng Chuan handed the crystal ball taken from Fucheng’s demonic path to Principal Yang and learned how Great Chu planned to use it. He then considered why the Eight Immortals had suffered Demon Contamination and suspected that their temple’s declining Martial Arts Aura had left them vulnerable.

• Meng Chuan asked Yang Huan about Pei Shan’s crystal ball, and Yang Huan explained its Western use for testing magical power and offered to buy it for the school’s research.
• Meng Chuan gave Yang Huan the crystal ball, which was expected to earn him more than a thousand points.
• Yang Huan told Meng Chuan to visit Wu Yang Daojun at the renamed Immortals Sanctum to receive thanks for what happened in Fucheng.
• Meng Chuan resumed his cultivation and recalled visiting the Eight Immortals Temple as a child.
• Meng Chuan reasoned that the temple’s failure to adapt to the Blood and Qi Martial Arts Era had weakened its Martial Arts Aura and contributed to the Eight Immortals’ Demon Contamination.
• Meng Chuan questioned the dangers of incense-based faith in the age of Heavenly Demons, then wondered whether Great Chu’s leaders had a hidden reason for allowing it to continue.

Meng Chuan prepared to leave on a journey to seek knowledge, but Aura Sight Technique revealed an ancient presence watching him from above. He planned to ask Wu Yang Daojun about it after setting out the next morning.

• Meng Chuan cultivated Aura Sight Technique and sensed an ancient, unfamiliar aura resonating in the void, possibly connected to a god or Buddha.
• Meng Chuan withdrew from the sensation and decided to sleep, planning to ask Wu Yang Daojun about it the next day.
• Meng Chuan submitted his assignment on Starflight Martial Hall's missing headmaster and exchanged his credits for Vein Nourishing Spirit Pills.
• Meng Chuan reviewed his limited Special Merit Points, arranged delivery for the Hundred-Year Snow Lotus, and considered whether to buy a Storage Waist Token.
• Meng Chuan packed Way-Finding Incense and reflected on how he might develop the incomplete blood-damaging hard-body technique from Shen Shuo.

Meng Chuan began his journey toward Wudang, stopping at Gangzi Club to visit Li Weigang, who taught him the Weituo Mountain Carrying Skill. He left with plans to investigate the anomaly at the Immortals Sanctum and seek more hard-body techniques along the way.

• Meng Chuan said farewell to Dong Yue and Qi Daoren, while Xu Qingfeng vowed to catch up to him in cultivation.
• Meng Chuan walked down the mountain, told his family he was leaving on a business trip, and headed toward the Immortals Sanctum to ask Wu Yang Daojun about the previous night's anomaly.
• Meng Chuan stopped at Gangzi Club and shared his Second Limit breakthrough insights with Li Weigang.
• Li Weigang taught Meng Chuan the Weituo Mountain Carrying Skill, a true art focused on increasing strength.
• Meng Chuan considered how the new technique could complement his other hard-body arts and planned to learn more techniques during his travels.

Meng Chuan learned the Weituo Mountain Carrying Skill from Li Weigang and gave him a handwritten Precious Image Golden Body Skill manual. He then visited the newly restructured Immortals Sanctum, where the vanished statues and empty halls showed how completely the old temple had changed.

• Li Weigang explained the three cultivation stages of the Weituo Mountain Carrying Skill as Meng Chuan practiced it.
• Meng Chuan quickly learned the Weituo Breathing Method and entered the beginner stage of the skill.
• Meng Chuan gave Li Weigang a handwritten Precious Image Golden Body Skill manual containing his insights, and Li Weigang thanked him.
• Meng Chuan checked his martial arts panel and saw that Weituo Mountain Carrying Skill was at beginner level with the Mountain-Carrying Strength trait awaiting a limit break.
• Meng Chuan arrived at the Immortals Sanctum and found its former halls stripped of their gods, statues, and incense.
• A tourist warned Meng Chuan that the temple and the school behind it were closed to visitors.

Meng Chuan visited the declining Immortals Sanctum Martial Arts Academy and met Wu Yang Daojun, whom he thanked no reward for his earlier help in removing Ancestor Lü’s poison. He told Wu Yang about the strange presence he had sensed while practicing Aura Sight, suggesting it might be Ancestor Lü’s heroic spirit.

• Meng Chuan surveyed the academy and sensed that its martial arts aura was weak apart from Wu Yang Daojun’s powerful presence.
• Meng Chuan asked the gatekeeper to arrange a meeting with Wu Yang, who summoned him to the west annex office.
• Wu Yang welcomed Meng Chuan and thanked him for removing the poison from Ancestor Lü in Fucheng.
• Meng Chuan explained the strange presence he had sensed during Aura Sight practice and cautiously proposed that it might be Ancestor Lü’s heroic spirit.

Wu Yang Daojun discovered that Zhengyang Ancestor had manifested through Meng Chuan’s cultivation and sent him into the ancestor’s Dharma realm. There, Zhengyang Ancestor asked Meng Chuan to enter a dream, which began with the young Lü Dongbin.

• Meng Chuan demonstrated the Aura Sight Technique and Qi Refinement Method, prompting Zhengyang Ancestor’s incense-powered manifestation through the Five Brightness Fan.
• Wu Yang Daojun showed Meng Chuan the Five Brightness Fan and Zhengyang Ancestor’s Purple-Gold Pill, then asked Meng Chuan to report the ancestor’s circumstances after meeting him.
• Wu Yang Daojun used the Universe Borrowing Technique to send Meng Chuan into Zhengyang Cave, Zhengyang Ancestor’s Dharma realm.
• Zhengyang Ancestor greeted Meng Chuan and used the Five Brightness Fan to put him into a dream about the young Lü Dongbin.

Meng Chuan underwent Zhengyang Ancestor’s dreamlike trial and resisted the temptation of an external shortcut to immortality, strengthening his Martial Arts Will and deepening his understanding of the Heart Demon Planting Divine Skill. Han Zhongli acknowledged his success, and Meng Chuan returned to Mount Zhongnan with a clearer path forward.

• Han Zhongli sent Lü Dongbin and Meng Chuan into a dream of yellow millet, where they experienced years of worldly success and devastating loss.
• Lü Dongbin awakened, rejected worldly fame, and bowed to Han Zhongli to seek the Dao.
• Meng Chuan nearly followed Lü Dongbin in surrendering to Han Zhongli, but his Dao Heart awakened him and he rejected immortality through an external shortcut.
• Meng Chuan burned the results sheet and firewood room with a punch, awakening new vitality in his Martial Arts Sky and seeing a path for Fist-and-Foot Arts to reach the Transcendent Realm.
• Han Zhongli revealed that the dream and firewood room were illusions in Zhengyang Ancestor’s trial, and Meng Chuan understood how his firm will had strengthened his Martial Arts and shaped his cultivation of the Heart Demon Planting Divine Skill.
• Han Zhongli brought Meng Chuan to the edge of a cliff, rapped him on the head, and sent him back to the Dharma Realm at Mount Zhongnan.

Meng Chuan received Han Zhongli’s Longevity and Peace Method and learned that Han Zhongli had used his final incense power to pass it on. Wu Yang Daojun entrusted Han Zhongli’s inheritance items to Meng Chuan, who set out for Wudang and Shaolin to refine his martial arts path.

• Han Zhongli taught Meng Chuan the Longevity and Peace Method, imprinted its ballad in his Sea of Consciousness, and vanished.
• Meng Chuan told Wu Yang Daojun what had happened in the Dharma Realm Illusion, and Wu Yang explained the method’s history and origins.
• Wu Yang Daojun mourned Han Zhongli’s passing as Meng Chuan described the ancestor’s final departure.
• Wu Yang offered Meng Chuan the Five Brightness Fan and Purple-Gold Pill as Han Zhongli’s inheritance anchors, and Meng Chuan asked Wu Yang to hold them until his return.
• Wu Yang advised Meng Chuan to use his journey to Wudang and Shaolin to organize his martial arts and prepare to pursue Heaven-Man Connection.
• Meng Chuan declined an overnight stay and departed beneath the stars.

Meng Chuan visited Mount Hua and, during a moment of Sudden Enlightenment, began cultivating the Longevity and Peace Method. The practice strengthened his body and martial principles, and he resolved to make it a daily practice so his aunt and uncle could eventually benefit from it.

• Meng Chuan traveled from Yong'an to Mount Hua, intending to visit its historic landmarks and Hua Mountain Martial Arts University.
• As he climbed the mountain, Meng Chuan reflected on the ancient Sword Qi and Qi sect conflict and connected it to his goal of uniting the strengths of many martial arts schools.
• At North Peak, Meng Chuan experienced Sudden Enlightenment and began learning the introductory movements of the Longevity and Peace Method from Han Zhongli's guidance.
• Meng Chuan practiced the method and the Zhongli Eight Brocades, raising his proficiency to 50% while accumulating primordial qi and improving his physical foundations and martial principles.
• As his enlightenment faded, Meng Chuan resolved to practice the method daily so his aunt and uncle could eventually use it to extend their lives.

Meng Chuan visited Huashan Martial Arts University and reflected on his path of cultivating himself and proving truth through martial arts. He explored Contemplation Cliff and Ancestor He's Cave, finding no legendary sword inscriptions but learning about He Zhizhen's legacy.

• Meng Chuan resolved to worship neither Immortals nor Buddhas and to cultivate himself through harmony of body and soul.
• Huashan Martial Arts University students recognized Meng Chuan, and Wang Chong, chief disciple of the Qi Sect Academy, greeted him and offered to show him around.
• Wang Chong led Meng Chuan through the campus and pointed him toward Contemplation Cliff and its cave.
• Meng Chuan leaped to the cliff and searched the rock wall, finding no trace of the Nine Swords of Dugu.
• Meng Chuan entered Ancestor He's Cave, saw a statue of He Zhizhen, and recalled how He Zhizhen unified Huashan Swordsmanship with Daoist Qi Refinement.

Meng Chuan comprehended Ancestor He's Martial Dao True Resonance at Contemplation Cliff and found a new goal for his Five Elements Fist. After touring Huashan Martial Arts University's ancient sites, he reached a profound insight at Sword Debate Peak and prepared to leave his mark there.

• Meng Chuan studied the bamboo carving and its inscription in Ancestor He's Cave, but could not understand its meaning.
• Yu Chenghong explained the True Resonance and told Meng Chuan how it related to Huashan Sword Qi and the inward gathering of Force-Energy.
• Meng Chuan comprehended the principle of clinging to no form and leaving no trace, applying it to the martial principles of his Five Elements Fist.
• Meng Chuan thanked Yu Chenghong, then returned to the mountaintop and toured Huashan Martial Arts University's ancient sites with Wang Chong.
• At Sword Debate Peak, Meng Chuan gained an insight and, with Yu Chenghong's permission, prepared to carve it into the summit.

After leaving Huashan Martial Arts University, Meng Chuan headed toward Luoyang Mall to challenge Li Yuansheng on the Celestial Star Ranking. A Black Water Company team ambushed him on Mount Hua, but he detected their demonic qi as he neared their trap.

• Yu Chenghong admired Meng Chuan's martial resolve and anticipated that the words he left at the university would endure as a True Resonance.
• Meng Chuan planned to travel to Luoyang Mall, challenge Dragon Snake Dance - Li Yuansheng, and then continue south toward Wudang.
• Three Black Water Company assassins prepared an ambush at Ear-Scraping Cliff, while Li Xiao intended to use them to exhaust Meng Chuan's backup.
• Meng Chuan approached Ear-Scraping Cliff, smelled concealed demonic qi, and realized someone was waiting to attack him.

Meng Chuan survived a specialized sniper round and killed two assassins who ambushed him at Ear-Scraping Cliff. He pursued their fleeing captain, sensing that the Demonic Path Assassin had followed the martial arts path and reached the Second Limit.

• Meng Chuan used his blackened palm to catch and crush a special armor-piercing bullet fired by the assassins' captain.
• The captain saw that Meng Chuan was unharmed and fled, while two assassins attacked from behind Ear-Scraping Cliff.
• Meng Chuan unleashed Bing Fire Yang Lightning and killed both attackers, blasting trenches through Ear-Scraping Cliff.
• Meng Chuan pursued the fleeing captain by following his qi trail and realized the assassin had reached the Second Limit through a martial path devoted to killing.

Meng Chuan chased down a Black Water Company assassin captain, who demonized to escape but was killed by Meng Chuan's overwhelming strength. After collecting the captain's badge and Sky Demon Cores, Meng Chuan fed the cores to Dragon Demon and considered why Azure Dragon Lock had not caused the dismissal Grandmaster Zhao had described.

• The assassin captain swallowed a pill, transformed into a werewolf, and continued fleeing while blaming Meng Chuan for ruining his martial path.
• Meng Chuan transformed into a giant, caught up to the werewolf, and fatally punched through its chest before crushing its skull.
• Meng Chuan found a Gold-Level Assassin badge from Black Water Company and several mid-level Sky Demon Cores on the corpse.
• Meng Chuan summoned Dragon Demon and fed it the cores, then wondered why Azure Dragon Lock's dismissal situation had not occurred.
• Meng Chuan returned to Ear-Scraping Cliff and found only scattered blades among the two other assassins' belongings.

Meng Chuan killed three Black Water Company assassins who had attacked him on Mount Hua, and the police identified their leader as a wanted Demonic Path assassin. The Demon Summoning Hall was suspected of placing the bounty, while Meng Chuan collected his reward and awaited the police investigation.

• Meng Chuan called the police after the assassins’ gear had been destroyed, and Grandmaster Yu Chenghong arrived to inspect the scene and marvel at Meng Chuan’s power.
• Huayin police confirmed the assassins belonged to Black Water Company, and Meng Chuan told them he suspected the Demon Summoning Hall had arranged the attack.
• The police captain identified the sniper as Mo Shangfeng - Yao Junkai, a wanted assassin who had nearly reached the Third Limit, and noted that Meng Chuan had killed all three attackers.
• Meng Chuan said farewell to Yu Chenghong and left Mount Hua with the police, while Yu returned to the summit impressed by Meng Chuan’s talent.
• The next morning, Meng Chuan collected a fifty-million bounty from the Huayin Martial Arts Association, and the police said they would trace its source.