Chapter Summaries

Meng Chuan discovered a National Task to arrest Wang Jian and recover the Immortal Tear Gold he had embezzled, then accepted it and prepared a police operation in Jiuyan City. The next morning, he arrived at the police department with the commissioner to lead the mission.

• Meng Chuan asked Shen Shuo about trading for resources, then learned that Shen would look for a treasure pill to help his mental strength.
• Meng Chuan read new National Tasks and grew concerned as more incense-worshipped immortals and Buddhas were confirmed to have suffered Demon Contamination.
• Meng Chuan found a task to capture Wang Jian in Jiuyan City and recover the Immortal Tear Gold, accepted it, and called Shen Shuo for information.
• Shen Shuo told Meng Chuan Wang Jian's home and company addresses and warned him not to keep the state-controlled stolen goods.
• Meng Chuan and the police commissioner arrived at the Jiuyan Police Department, where operations-unit officers had gathered for the arrest mission.

Meng Chuan took command of a Jiuyan police operation to arrest Wang Jian, a mining-company general manager accused of treason and trafficking Immortal Tear Gold. While the teams moved to seize his properties, Wang Jian continued cultivating demonic arts and trusted that a hidden treasure would help him escape overseas.

• Chief Xu Jinqiu briefed Meng Chuan on Wang Jian’s strength and ordered him to take Wang Jian alive.
• Xu Jinqiu introduced Meng Chuan as the mission commander to the Jiuyan police, who agreed to follow his orders.
• Meng Chuan assigned Captain Hou Zhibin to search Wang Jian’s home and sent other teams to seal and search his private residences.
• Meng Chuan led the team assigned to Yajiao Mountain Turquoise Mining Company and ordered everyone to protect Great Chu’s property.
• Wang Jian cultivated the Blood Refinement Great Art in his office, having already killed innocents to advance his demonic practice.
• Wang Jian resolved to make more money and flee overseas, believing a hidden treasure would secure his escape.

Wang Jian planned to escape overseas and become an immortal Demonic Path Grandmaster, but the police arrived to arrest him. Meng Chuan stopped his escape and returned him alive to the officers.

• Wang Jian fantasized about joining the Demon Summoning Hall and gaining immortality through demonic cultivation.
• Wang Jian opened his office door to find police officers waiting and tried to flee through a window.
• Wang Jian used the Blood Refinement Great Art to corrode incoming bullets and leaped toward a hidden tunnel beneath the artificial lake.
• Meng Chuan manipulated the lakewater with Kidney Water Qi to blast Wang Jian back into the air.
• Meng Chuan seized Wang Jian, slammed him into the building wall, and knocked him unconscious.
• Meng Chuan brought Wang Jian back to the office and handed him over alive to the police.

Meng Chuan captured Wang Jian and recovered Immortal Tear Gold hidden inside a piece of turquoise. After handing the treasure over as state property, he went to the police department hoping to learn whether he could obtain it to strengthen his spiritual foundation.

• Meng Chuan's current blasted Wang Jian back up before he could fall into the water, and the team escorted Wang Jian to the police department.
• Meng Chuan smashed Wang Jian's desk, found a box containing turquoise, and discovered Immortal Tear Gold hidden inside it.
• Meng Chuan handed the Immortal Tear Gold over as state property and offered Wang Jian's cigar collection to Shen Shuo.
• Two days later, Meng Chuan went to the Jiuyan Police Department to finish the case follow-up and ask about obtaining the Immortal Tear Gold.
• Meng Chuan completed the follow-up report on Wang Jian's case, but the chapter ended before he learned what Captain Hou Zhibin had found.

After Wang Jian’s arrest, Meng Chuan learned more about Sky Beyond Sky and discussed the spread of Demon Contamination with Xu Jinqiu. Xu Jinqiu warned that reforming Shouzi Temple and investigating the Eighteen Arhats were now unavoidable, while Meng Chuan planned to visit Jin Territory after his trip to Wudang and Shaolin.

• Meng Chuan reviewed Wang Jian’s interrogation report and learned that Sky Beyond Sky recruited and corrupted Great Chu Martial Artists, while Wang Jian had joined out of greed for eternal life.
• Meng Chuan refused Hou Zhibin’s offer to share Merit Points and explained that his role as a specially assigned Martial Artist required him to avoid setting a bad precedent.
• Xu Jinqiu revealed that Sky Beyond Sky had a branch in the mountains outside Jiuyan City and that Wang Jian’s information implicated Laste Company.
• Xu Jinqiu explained Magnetic Field Transformation to Meng Chuan and discussed the Demon Contamination of Laughing Buddha Arhat and Seated Deer Arhat.
• Xu Jinqiu told Meng Chuan that Shouzi Temple and the Eighteen Arhats would likely become the focus of upcoming missions, and Meng Chuan said he would visit Jin Territory after his trips to Wudang and Shaolin.

Meng Chuan secured the Immortal Tear Gold from Chief Xu at half price, choosing to pay in cash, while Luo Guanyun thanked Abbot Baibao for suppressing the resentment in his spiritual platform and completing the Shiva Elephant Wash secret art. The chapter left Meng Chuan planning how to cover the payment and Luo Guanyun hearing that his flawed Three Flowers would likely prevent him from attaining Heaven-Man Connection.

• Xu Jinqiu told Meng Chuan that Governor Lu Ang had approved the Immortal Tear Gold for half price in Special Merit Points or five hundred million in cash, and Meng Chuan chose cash.
• Xu Jinqiu handed the Immortal Tear Gold to Meng Chuan before payment, and Meng Chuan planned to borrow money from his Master or CEO Shen.
• Meng Chuan returned to the hotel intending to film more short videos and fist-art tutorials to increase his earnings.
• Luo Guanyun thanked Abbot Baibao for suppressing his spiritual resentment, securing his inner spiritual platform, and helping him complete the Shiva Elephant Wash secret art.
• Abbot Baibao warned Luo Guanyun that his ethically flawed method of achieving Three Flowers Gathering had made his Three Flowers insubstantial and would likely block his path to Heaven-Man Connection.

Luo Guanyun met with Abbot Baibao, copied the Shiva Elephant Wash, and discussed Meng Chuan’s martial art and upcoming Buddhist studies. Afterward, Meng Chuan called with an urgent request for money to buy Immortal Tear Gold, and Luo Guanyun agreed to let him withdraw funds and revealed he had bought him a Storage Waist Token.

• Abbot Baibao gave Luo Guanyun the Pure Thought Sin Elimination Dharani and asked about the hard skill enhancing his body.
• Luo Guanyun said Meng Chuan had created the hard skill himself and asked Baibao to guide him when he came to study Buddhism.
• Luo Guanyun copied down the Shiva Elephant Wash and left the mountain, planning to bring Meng Chuan to learn it in person.
• Meng Chuan called Luo Guanyun for help acquiring Immortal Tear Gold and asked to withdraw four hundred million from the martial arts school account.
• Luo Guanyun explained how Meng Chuan could withdraw the money and told him he had bought him a Storage Waist Token as a birthday gift.

Meng Chuan spoke with Luo Guanyun and learned that his master would teach him the perfected Shiva Elephant Wash, while Luo Meng failed to borrow money from the martial arts academy. The chapter left Luo Meng suspecting that Luo Guanyun had withdrawn four hundred million, as Meng Chuan continued advancing his Star Track cultivation.

• Meng Chuan offered Luo Guanyun a hundred-year-old snow lotus, and Luo Guanyun told him to save his Special Merit Points and gave him an address in the Island Nation.
• Luo Meng went to the Infinite Martial Arts Academy to borrow two hundred million for Rainbow Cloud Whip, but Liu Sanduo refused because she lacked authorization.
• Liu Sanduo and Luo Meng discovered that someone had withdrawn four hundred million from the academy account, and Luo Meng suspected Luo Guanyun.
• Meng Chuan inspected his Star Track, confirmed that he had connected sixty stars and lit twenty-five secondary stars, and noted that his qi and blood approached seven thousand points.

Meng Chuan reflected on the ancient martial arts masters who may have ascended to the Sky Demon Realm and considered how to improve his mental power. After swallowing Immortal Tear Gold, he used Master Dao Heart to polish it inside his Sea of Consciousness.

• Meng Chuan speculated that ancient martial arts masters had brought qi-and-blood cultivation methods from the outside world and ascended to the Sky Demon Realm.
• Meng Chuan tested controlling a doorknob with true qi but stopped when the door began to creak, concluding that only Martial True Gang could manipulate it delicately.
• Meng Chuan considered learning Buddhist Heart Sutra Incantations to strengthen his mental power and potentially gain traits through the Limit-Breaking Panel.
• Meng Chuan swallowed Immortal Tear Gold and guided it into his Sea of Consciousness to polish its power into his Azure Stone Foundation.
• Meng Chuan summoned Master Dao Heart, which transformed into a small black sword and began polishing the Immortal Tear Gold.

Meng Chuan refined Immortal Tear Gold, strengthening his spiritual power while continuing to train his boxing in the Battle Soul Space. The Demon Summoning Hall waited in ambush near Jiuyan, while Meng Chuan remained unaware and prepared to continue his cultivation.

• Meng Chuan left the Immortal Tear Gold refining process on autopilot and stayed in Jiuyan to consult Grandmaster Xu if anything went wrong.
• Zhu Yun and the Demon Summoning Hall kept watch near Wudang Mountain, waiting for Meng Chuan to leave Jiuyan.
• By May 1, Meng Chuan had used up most of the Immortal Tear Gold, and his spiritual power had grown denser and stronger, though it had not yet reached the Mystic Iron Foundation.
• Meng Chuan realized his improved spiritual power might soon be strong enough to attack, and he wondered when the Three Flowers Numerical Display Instrument would become available.
• Meng Chuan practiced Five Thunders Strike the Summit in the Battle Soul Space, endured the Mad Daoist's lightning attacks, and raised the technique's proficiency from 1% to 3%.

Meng Chuan left the hotel to pursue a breakthrough and travel toward Danjiangkou, while Zheng Yulan escorted young talents to Zhou Yun’s preaching on Mount Taihang. After the youths departed, Zhou Yun watched the vast Mountain Whispers Demon Nest, where Great Chu’s strongest guarded against a major threat.

• Meng Chuan decided to leave the city, break through with the Limit-Breaking Spirit Breath Fist in a scenic place, and head for Danjiangkou while staying alert to a possible demonic plot.
• Zheng Yulan escorted a group of young national talents, including Zheng Chengcheng and Chen Xuan, to Little Wutai for Zhou Yun’s preaching; Meng Chuan was absent.
• Yang Yuelian asked Chen Xuan about Meng Chuan, and Chen Xuan admitted that Meng Chuan was impressive after defeating him and Zheng Chengcheng in a two-on-one fight.
• Yang Yuelian resolved to seek a spar with Meng Chuan, hoping her Battleheart Clarity trait would help her comprehend his combat principles.
• Zhou Yun preached to the young talents, then sent them down the mountain and remained alone in his hut.
• Zhou Yun looked toward the Mountain Whispers Demon Nest, whose immense demonic mist Great Chu’s Seven Limits Great Sages guarded in shifts.

Zhou Yun’s probe awakened Mountain Whispers, which said the human world’s laws were weakening and warned that someone’s heaven-defying act would hasten their collapse. Zhao Linyuan advanced toward perfecting his divine art, while Meng Chuan sensed that his Five Elements Spiritual Breath Fist was about to break through its limit.

• Zhou Yun severed his perception after Mountain Whispers used the mist to invade his Sea of Consciousness, then wondered how Zhao Linyuan was faring.
• Mountain Whispers told the crowned skull that the barrier had loosened and that the world’s laws would dissipate on their own because someone was committing an act that defied heaven.
• Zhao Linyuan rose from the ocean floor, parting the seawater and letting sunlight illuminate the depths.
• Zhao Linyuan planned to fight Xiang Liu to test his breakthrough and said that perfecting his Heaven Abyss Method could open humanity’s path to the Eighth Limit.
• Meng Chuan arrived at Fulong Mountain and felt heaven and earth urging him to practice his fist.
• Meng Chuan began practicing the Five Elements Spiritual Breath Fist, sensing that it would break through its limit that day.

Meng Chuan practiced the Five Elements Spiritual Breath Fist, refining his control and combat arts until the technique broke through its limit. His Five Elements Law Body also advanced to the Intermediate level, revealing powerful new effects and a path toward the Five Elements Dharma Wheel.

• Meng Chuan practiced the Spirit Breath Fist, using the Five Elements’ principles of mutual generation and restraint to develop his Martial Principles and combat arts.
• Meng Chuan’s fist technique broke through its limit after hours of practice, though he knew further work was needed to master its deeper principles.
• Meng Chuan’s body underwent a dramatic five-colored transformation as his Five Elements Law Body broke through its limit.
• Meng Chuan checked his panel and learned that his Intermediate Five Elements Law Body enhanced his Five Elements Fist comprehension and could increase his maximum mental strength.
• Meng Chuan realized that gathering the six traits needed to activate the Five Elements Dharma Wheel would be difficult, but he had already made progress toward the set.

Meng Chuan prepared to continue his journey to Wudang, while Wudang’s leaders agreed to join a Daoist grand ritual at Mount Taihang to suppress Mountain Whispers. Chen Tuan went to the True Martial Emperor’s temple to perform rites, leaving the preparations for the ritual underway.

• Meng Chuan guessed that he could find the remaining four Dharma Body Treasures by following Professor Li’s path at the United University main campus and using the Five Elements Fist, then set out for Dan River Mouth City.
• Dao Chief Xu Daoxian convened Wudang’s school heads and told them that the Dragon-Tiger Orthodox Unity Dao planned a Grand Ritual of Cosmic Salvation at Mount Taihang, with other Daoist schools joining to suppress malevolent spirits.
• Chen Tuan and the Wudang school heads agreed to participate, and Chen assigned Zhang Jingshi and Zhang Ziyu to discuss the ritual with the Celestial Master Mansion while Cheng Miaochang managed Wudang’s affairs.
• Chen Tuan entered the Jade Void Palace carrying the True Martial Dao Scripture and the Northern Black Galloping Horned Demon-Slaying Sword, presented the treasures before the True Martial Emperor’s statue, and began chanting.

Meng Chuan reunited with Wang Ye in Danjiangkou and set out to confront Zhengyang Taiji Fist Hall over its online attacks on him. Meanwhile, Zhu Yun and his men prepared an ambush, unaware that Meng Chuan and Wang Ye were heading toward Wudang Mountain.

• Meng Chuan called Wang Ye and asked him to meet in Danjiangkou so he could visit the Tai Chi Fist hall that had been hurting his online course sales.
• Wang Ye arrived at Meng Chuan's hotel, and they discussed his growing strength, his Dragon Demon, and Meng Chuan's unusual Traits.
• Meng Chuan and Wang Ye shared morning tea and headed to Zhengyang Taiji Fist Hall, with Meng Chuan explaining that its slander was costing him money.
• Zhu Yun and another Sixth Sublimation Realm Expert ambushed outside the city and planned to exhaust Meng Chuan's Image Stone methods before killing him.
• Zhu Yun reported Meng Chuan's arrival to Li Xiao, who ordered him to kill Meng Chuan and promised to seek the Divine Lord's favor.
• As Meng Chuan and Wang Ye approached Wudang Mountain, Wang Ye remarked that Meng Chuan's unleashed presence had frightened the hall master.

Meng Chuan sensed a Demonic Path ambush as he approached Wudang Mountain and sent Wang Ye away to summon help. Surrounded by attackers, he unleashed his strength and struck first, while Zhu Yun led the assault.

• Meng Chuan noticed an apology from the Little Haters hall master, then continued toward Wudang Mountain with Wang Ye.
• Meng Chuan detected hidden enemies and told Wang Ye to leave and contact his Master, while he continued up the mountain.
• Zhu Yun ordered the Demonic Path Martial Artists to kill Meng Chuan, preparing to die in the attack.
• Meng Chuan sensed the ambush, crushed the Image Stone’s wood chip underfoot, and unleashed his full power as the attackers emerged.
• Meng Chuan stomped three Demonic Path Martial Artists out of the ground and struck one man in the head, suspending himself in midair with the Cloud Traces effect.

Meng Chuan fought Zhu Yun, the last Sixth Sublimation Realm Expert, after Principal Yang’s strike wiped out the other enemies. He evaded Zhu Yun’s attacks and struck back, but the chapter ended with him caught between Zhu Yun’s charging body and a corrosive black orb.

• Meng Chuan slew the remaining enemies, and Principal Yang’s attack obliterated the Demonic Path Martial Artists in the distance.
• Zhu Yun revealed his giant toad form and suppressed Meng Chuan with a demonic mental attack, but Meng Chuan’s defenses and Dao Heart overcame it.
• Meng Chuan charged Zhu Yun, whose tongue split into a flower-like blade and sprayed demonic blood that Meng Chuan expelled with Flesh Bloom.
• Meng Chuan used the mountain wind to evade Zhu Yun’s tongue and landed a heavy punch, but it failed to break through Zhu Yun’s defenses.
• Zhu Yun evaded Meng Chuan’s Evil-Slaying Divine Lightning strike by sinking into the ground and launched a black orb as he charged upward.
• Meng Chuan spun aside as the orb grazed his waist and bored a passage through Wudang Mountain, leaving him caught between the projectile and Zhu Yun.

Meng Chuan survived Zhu Yun’s attack until Zhao Shousui arrived and killed the giant toad, whose soul was reclaimed by a Heavenly Demon. After learning about Soul Palaces and receiving Zhu Yun’s strange black bead, Meng Chuan reunited with Wang Ye and the police.

• Meng Chuan questioned Zhu Yun about the Demon Summoning Hall, and Zhu Yun urged him to join the divine temple while claiming the gods would soon descend.
• Zhao Shousui arrived and split Zhu Yun in two; Zhu Yun’s head then exploded as his soul was reclaimed by the Heavenly Demon behind him.
• Zhao Shousui explained how a Soul Palace was formed and why it gave powerful martial artists an immortal foundation.
• Meng Chuan and Zhao Shousui searched the area, examined the black bead, and Zhao Shousui gave it to Meng Chuan as compensation for the ambush.
• Wang Ye returned with police officers, and he relaxed when he saw that Meng Chuan was safe.

Meng Chuan arrived at Wudang Mountain, where Zhao Shousui arranged for him to stay with Wang Ye and have a Daoist robe made to fit him. Elsewhere, Li Xiao abandoned a plan to steal the Eighteen Arhats' inheritance artifacts and learned that Zhu Yun and Priest Qian seemed to be dead.

• After the police station personnel saluted Meng Chuan, he exchanged contact information with their captain and headed up Wudang Mountain with Zhao Shousui and Wang Ye.
• Zhao Shousui told Meng Chuan to wear a Daoist robe and arranged for him to stay at Wang Ye's place because the available robes were too small.
• Meng Chuan mistook the hollow bed in Wang Ye's guest room for a pig trough before spreading a fresh straw mat over it.
• In Jin Territory, Li Xiao sensed an expert waiting at Zishou Temple and abandoned his plan to steal the Eighteen Arhats' core inheritance artifacts.
• Li Xiao called his subordinate, who reported that Meng Chuan had just arrived at Wudang, police had surrounded the mountain's foot, and Zhu Yun and Priest Qian seemed to be dead.

Li Xiao and Fang Jianxing discussed the failed attempt to kill Meng Chuan, while Meng Chuan recovered at Wudang Mountain and prepared to ask Zhao Shousui about Five Qi Unification. During Zhao Shousui’s class, Meng Chuan accepted a heavy Demon Iron Essence training tool as the other students gathered to see whether he could lift it.

• Li Xiao told Fang Jianxing that Meng Chuan’s backup plan had been forced out, but Fang Jianxing chose to keep watching for Luo Guanyun.
• Meng Chuan tested the black spherical artifact, then trained before dawn alongside Wang Ye and the other Wudang students.
• Wudang staff delivered a Daoist robe and a hood for Meng Chuan to cover his bald head.
• Meng Chuan followed Wang Ye to Zhao Shousui’s class, where the students practiced forearm strength with the Thousand-Jin Coil.
• Zhao Shousui gave Meng Chuan his Demon Iron Essence training tool, and the students crowded around to see if he could lift it.