Chapter Summaries

Meng Chuan impressed Wudang’s Daoists with his strength and learned that cultivating the hard skill he wanted might require worshipping the Great Emperor. He settled in to train while awaiting Headmaster Chen Tuan, as the Demon Summoning Hall remained a threat.

• Meng Chuan coiled the Thousand-Jin Coil, astonishing the Daoists and prompting Zhao Shousui to recognize his exceptional strength.
• Zhao Shousui explained that Meng Chuan might need to worship the Great Emperor to cultivate his desired hard skill, but suggested Headmaster Chen Tuan could find another way.
• Zhao Shousui arranged for Meng Chuan to stay on Wudang Mountain, train, and visit most of its halls and repositories.
• The Dan River Police Department told Meng Chuan that the Demon Summoning Hall had sent at least two High Priests to kill him and transferred him fifty million in bounty money.
• Meng Chuan returned the fifty million to the martial arts gym’s account, then joined the Wudang Daoists in their training.

Meng Chuan settled into life at Wudang, where daily sparring strengthened his martial skills and cultivation. After watching Wang Ye practice, he learned the Taiji Thirteen Forms and discovered a new trait that might help unify his different fist arts.

• Meng Chuan described Wudang’s combative Daoists and his growing fame from defeating challengers, while continuing to improve his cultivation and body-tempering skills.
• Meng Chuan watched Wang Ye practice Tai Chi Fist and then performed the Taiji Thirteen Forms himself, adapting each movement to his own powerful fighting style.
• Meng Chuan completed the forms and felt his breath and body harmonize as the panel recorded Taiji Thirteen Style Fist at Proficient with the trait Perfected Integration.
• Meng Chuan considered whether Perfected Integration could coordinate his different fist arts into a unified whole.

Meng Chuan advanced his Tai Chi Fist and impressed Wang Ye and Zhao Shousui with his exceptional martial talent and body-tempering arts. After his qi-and-blood value surpassed eight thousand, he asked Zhao Shousui for recommendations for a martial arts entry point like Azure Nether Energy.

• Meng Chuan practiced Tai Chi Fist until he reached Mastery, while Wang Ye watched in astonishment.
• Wang Ye told Zhao Shousui about Meng Chuan's talent, and the three drank Wudang's medicinal Kung Fu Wine together.
• Meng Chuan revealed that he had a Storage Waist Token and planned to take wine home to share with his friends on Mount Li.
• Zhao Shousui guided Meng Chuan's body-tempering practice and was shocked to learn that he cultivated three true Buddhist-grade hard arts at once.
• Meng Chuan's qi-and-blood value surpassed eight thousand, and he asked Zhao Shousui what could serve as a martial arts entry point like Azure Nether Energy.

Meng Chuan searched for a suitable treasure to help him develop a blood-related hard technique, settling on Tiger Saliva Jujube as the most promising option. After sparring with Jack, he broke the limit of Taiji Thirteen Style Fist and gained the Perfected Integration trait, leaving a Taiji diagram branded on his chest.

• Meng Chuan considered blood-related treasures and ruled out Fire Dragon Jujube as too rare, costly, and potent for him, while identifying second-grade Tiger Saliva Jujube as a likely fit for his hard technique.
• Meng Chuan noted that Winter Jujube could strengthen his Kidney Water Qi, but he lacked the Special Merit Points to buy either treasure yet.
• Meng Chuan sparred with Jack, a foreign Daoist who had come to Wudang Mountain to study Three Blossoms cultivation and Daoist culture.
• Meng Chuan practiced Tai Chi after the spar and gained insights into Taiji Thirteen Forms.
• Meng Chuan broke the limit of Taiji Thirteen Style Fist, acquired the Perfected Integration trait, and discovered a Taiji diagram on his chest.

Meng Chuan examined his newly unlocked trait, received a storage treasure from his Master, and began learning Zhao Shousui's difficult Nine Palaces Taiji Force. The lesson ended with Zhao sending him off to practice alone after Meng struggled with the technique's footwork and principles.

• Meng Chuan tested the Flesh Bloom mark and considered using his new trait to help integrate the Five Elements Fist.
• Meng Chuan received a tiger-head waist token made from Voidstone, imprinted it, and moved his possessions into its ten-cubic-meter space.
• Meng Chuan visited Zhao Shousui, expressed gratitude to his Master for the expensive storage treasure, and asked to learn a more advanced Tai Chi method.
• Zhao Shousui taught Meng Chuan the Nine Palaces positions and explained how its stances, palm forms, and force-redirection worked.
• Meng Chuan struggled to coordinate the Nine Palaces footwork and was sent home to practice after Zhao Shousui finished the lesson.

Meng Chuan reached beginner level in Nine Palaces Taiji Force and gained the Heart of Guarding the Palace trait, but decided to pause his Tai Chi practice and focus on other martial arts. He asked Zhao Shousui about Wudang's techniques and learned that the True Martial Core Method required sincere devotion, while Headmaster Chen Tuan could only send him into the Black Tortoise Dharma Realm.

• Meng Chuan practiced Nine Palaces Taiji Force until it reached beginner level and revealed the Heart of Guarding the Palace trait.
• Meng Chuan decided to study Daoist scriptures later and prioritize integrating his Five Elements fist arts and developing his body-tempering methods.
• Meng Chuan visited Zhao Shousui and asked about Wudang's supreme arts and hard skills.
• Zhao Shousui explained that Wudang had eight great divine arts and supreme techniques, including the Water Emperor's Imperial Conquest Demon Heart Sutra.
• Zhao Shousui told Meng Chuan that the True Martial Core Method required sincere worship and that Headmaster Chen Tuan could send him only into the Black Tortoise Dharma Realm, where he might learn the Profound Martial Method.

Meng Chuan asked Zhao Shousui for a body-tempering method that could support a core Hard Skill Trait, and Zhao pointed him toward the Profound Martial Dharma Body series. Zhao agreed to teach him the basics of Giant Turtle Iron Armor Skill and arranged for him to study the next prerequisite later, leaving Meng Chuan set to begin training the following day.

• Meng Chuan explained that he wanted a comprehensive body-tempering art and asked Zhao Shousui to help identify one.
• Zhao Shousui recommended the Profound Martial Dharma Body series and described the powerful Ren-Gui Profound Martial Imperishable Grand Dao Scripture, which Daoist Lord Zhang Jingshi had studied to the tenth level.
• Zhao Shousui explained that Profound Martial Body Refining required Giant Turtle Iron Armor Skill and Baxia Sky-Supporting Skill as prerequisites.
• Zhao Shousui offered to teach Meng Chuan Giant Turtle Iron Armor Skill and told him to visit the next day at noon, while arranging for him to learn Baxia Sky-Supporting Skill through the Dharma Realm later.

Meng Chuan began training the Giant Turtle Iron Armor Skill as preparation for the Baxia Sky-Supporting Skill, while Fang Jianxing weighed an attack and sought help from Venom. At Mountain Whispers, Xu Daoxian and Zhou Yun searched the Demon Nest and discussed the stakes of the Grand Ritual of Cosmic Salvation.

• Meng Chuan trained the Giant Turtle Iron Armor Skill under Zhao Shousui's guidance and reached the beginner stage, then chose to pause the Weituo Mountain Carrying Skill to make room for it.
• Fang Jianxing considered attacking Meng Chuan but hesitated over Luo Guanyun's whereabouts and Meng Chuan's unknown trump card, then contacted Venom for help.
• Xu Daoxian and Zhou Yun searched the Mountain Whispers Demon Nest for a long time but found nothing.
• Xu Daoxian told Zhou Yun that the Grand Ritual of Cosmic Salvation had to succeed because Mountain Whispers threatened to break free and the ritual concerned Zhao Linyuan's breakthrough to the eighth level.
• Xu Daoxian explained that Great Saints stayed away from the human realm because their power burdened its rules, and that the rules within Demon Nests could withstand them.

Zhou Yun agreed to represent Yan Hua at the Grand Ritual of Cosmic Salvation as Xu Daoxian weighed the risks of Zhao Linyuan’s Eighth Limit breakthrough and the looming threat of the Demon Gods. A week later, Meng Chuan learned that the Tianshan Martial Gathering had been postponed, leaving its new dates uncertain.

• Zhou Yun told Xu Daoxian he would attend the Grand Ritual of Cosmic Salvation on Yan Hua’s behalf.
• Xu Daoxian considered Zhao Linyuan’s planned breakthrough and the need to eradicate Great Chu’s most active Ultimate Darkness first.
• Xu Daoxian and Zhou Yun looked toward Shang Hao, a Demon God whose realm devoured worlds and whose true power threatened Blue Star.
• A week later, Meng Chuan read that the Tianshan Martial Gathering, including its Peak Competition and ranking matches, had been postponed indefinitely.

Meng Chuan trained at Wudang, perfected two fist arts, and integrated them into the Five Elements Universe Art. He realized that raising the art’s limits might unlock new effects for Five Qi Unification.

• Meng Chuan found no missions explaining the Tianshan Martial Gathering’s postponement and suspected it was tied to Headmaster Chen’s seclusion.
• After seven days beneath the Nine Dragon Pool waterfall, Meng Chuan reached proficiency in the Giant Turtle Iron Armor Skill.
• Meng Chuan combined Nine Palaces Steps with his fist techniques, improving his movement and the force of his attacks.
• Meng Chuan broke the limits of Earth Bearing Four Aspects Fist and Creation-Destruction Entangling Silk Hand, gaining low-level Earth Control and Coiling Force traits.
• Meng Chuan integrated the two fist arts and Spirit Breath Fist into the Five Elements Universe Art.
• Meng Chuan realized that raising the Five Elements Art’s upper limit could produce new trait effects for Five Qi Unification.

Meng Chuan merged martial principles to advance Five Qi Unification and open the fourth-rank ceiling of the Five Aggregates Universe Art. He left the chapter ready to keep grinding True Art techniques to improve his cultivation and gather qi and blood.

• Meng Chuan practiced and deduced how to merge martial principles, until the Five Aggregates Universe Art displayed that it was awaiting a limit breakthrough.
• Meng Chuan examined Five Qi Unification’s effects and realized that advancing it further would require merging complete Five Elements methods, then Divine Arts and supreme techniques.
• Meng Chuan filled the Five Elements Wheel with Earth Control and Coiling Force, receiving fresh reinforcement for his Five Elements Martial Principles.
• Meng Chuan added Five Elements Law Body to the Five Aggregates Universe Art and raised its proficiency from one percent to ten percent.
• Meng Chuan decided to keep grinding True Art techniques to gain more qi and blood and prepare for the Five Elements Dharma Wheel.

Meng Chuan tested Five Elements Control at Nine Dragon Pool and used his insights into water-aspect martial principles to create a new fist art. He left the chapter with Layered Wave Rock Crushing Fist at proficient level and forty-eight stars illuminated in his Star Track.

• Meng Chuan declined Wang Ye's invitation to watch the Wudang minor competition so he could test Five Elements Control and study more of King Xiang's Five Elements Universe Fist.
• At Nine Dragon Pool, Meng Chuan used Kidney Water Qi to lift and compress a huge volume of water, then struck it back into the pool with an icy, explosive punch.
• Meng Chuan practiced a new form of Manifest Force that penetrated a rock wall and detonated within it, collapsing the wall into rubble.
• Meng Chuan created Layered Wave Rock Crushing Fist, whose panel showed it at Proficient (1%) with the limit-break trait Water Ripple Law Body (Intermediate).
• The new fist art increased Meng Chuan's vitality and blood, lighting two more stars and bringing his Star Track total to forty-eight.

Meng Chuan created three Five Elements true kung fu fists at Wudang and shared one with Wang Ye, while advancing his Heart Demon Planting cultivation. He discovered that his Dao Heart’s growing demand was consuming the increased qi and blood his new cultivation level should have produced.

• Meng Chuan named his new Layered Wave Rock Crushing Fist’s ultimate move Frost Lance and considered how his Five Elements arts could eventually merge into a stronger fist technique.
• Over several days, Meng Chuan traveled Wudang’s peaks with Wang Ye and created the Mountain Crushing Earth Shaking Fist and Silk-Wrapping Power Accumulation Fist, leaving only the metal-element Armor Piercing Heart Thrust unfinished.
• Meng Chuan taught Wang Ye the Silk-Wrapping Power Accumulation Fist in exchange for Kung Fu Wine, then rested after creating three true kung fu fists in a week.
• By mid-July, Meng Chuan’s Heart Demon Planting advanced from the fifth layer to the sixth, but he noticed his qi and blood gains had not increased.
• Meng Chuan realized that his Dao Heart’s appetite grew with his cultivation level and was absorbing the additional qi and blood.

Meng Chuan sought the remaining Heart Demon Planting chapters to ease his declining qi and blood, while preparing to draw Fang Jianxing out. He completed his five elemental fist arts and trained at Wudang, where he planned to ask Dao Lord Chen Tuan for stronger techniques.

• Meng Chuan resolved to secure the six Heart Demon Planting chapters held by Fang Jianxing and the Parasitic Assembly, and to take the initiative against Fang Jianxing.
• After sparring with Daoist Moonlit Azure Lotus · Jack, Meng Chuan created Armor Piercing Heart Thrust and completed his set of five elemental True Skill Fists.
• Meng Chuan visited Wudang's Scripture Repository and began studying four more Five Elements Fists to support Five Qi Unification.
• The old Daoist managing the repository praised Meng Chuan's potential as a Dao Lord and lamented that he was unwilling to join Wudang.
• By late July, Meng Chuan trained beside Nine Dragon Pool on Lion Peak, combining the force of the waterfall with his Bajiquan.

Meng Chuan advanced his fist arts and body-tempering cultivation while his Blood Qi continued to grow rapidly. He left the chapter practicing the Giant Turtle Iron Armor Skill, whose mastery stunned Wang Ye.

• Meng Chuan brought Quaking River Eight Extremities to mastery and continued refining his combat techniques.
• Meng Chuan accompanied Wang Ye and Jack to test their Blood Qi, revealing a value of eleven thousand that left them amazed.
• Meng Chuan reviewed his martial arts progress and estimated that he could break through as a Martial Arts Grandmaster next year.
• Meng Chuan learned that Sect Master Chen Tuan had entered seclusion about a week before Wang Ye went to fetch him.
• Meng Chuan practiced the Giant Turtle Iron Armor Skill, and Wang Ye was shocked by the powerful changes across his back.

Meng Chuan trained his hard skills while Chen Tuan prepared the Demon-Slaying Heroic Sword for Wudang’s Grand Ritual of Cosmic Salvation. After half a month, Meng Chuan returned to the Battle Soul Space and charged at the Mad Daoist through a storm of lightning.

• Meng Chuan activated the Giant Turtle Iron Armor Skill and considered its defensive limits and the potential of breaking its limit.
• Meng Chuan practiced his four hard skills and planned to focus on the advanced Baxia Sky-Supporting Skill once he obtained it.
• Chen Tuan used incense divine power to raise the Demon-Slaying Heroic Sword and place it in the Great Emperor’s statue’s hand as he prepared it to leave Wudang for the Grand Ritual of Cosmic Salvation.
• Half a month later, Meng Chuan entered the Battle Soul Space and used the Nine Palaces Steps to evade the Mad Daoist’s lightning.
• Meng Chuan triggered the Storm Lord effect of Primal Thunder Vein Severance and charged toward the old Daoist with a punch.

Meng Chuan failed to defeat the old Daoist in the Battle Soul Space after the Daoist transformed and overwhelmed him with lightning. After waking, Meng Chuan planned to imitate the transformation by using lightning to boost his speed, and Luo Guanyun warned him that the technique could seriously damage his organs.

• Meng Chuan broke through the old Daoist’s lightning nets and attacked him on the mountaintop, but the Daoist transformed into a lightning-powered form and defeated him.
• Meng Chuan woke from the Battle Soul Space with diminished mental power and realized that the old Daoist’s speed was the main obstacle to victory.
• Meng Chuan decided to learn how to use lightning to enhance his speed and called Luo Guanyun for guidance.
• Luo Guanyun explained that the method required imprinting a lightning anchor point in the body and warned that a mistake could scorch Meng Chuan’s internal organs.

Meng Chuan discussed using natural lightning to strengthen himself with Luo Guanyun, then learned that his Master's Spirit Altar Resentment was improving. They planned how to handle the Parasitic Assembly and Fang Jianxing, with Meng Chuan proposing they wait until after he left Shaolin and claiming he would have an eighty percent chance of defeating Fang Jianxing.

• Meng Chuan considered swallowing natural lightning after Luo Guanyun warned that his mental-image lightning was too weak to create an anchor point.
• Luo Guanyun said the snow lotus and Buddhist scriptures were reducing his Spirit Altar Resentment, and urged Meng Chuan to visit Abbot Baibao at Shaolin.
• Luo Guanyun told Meng Chuan that the Parasitic Assembly was drawing closer to Sky Beyond Sky and Heavenly Demons, prompting them to discuss acting against it.
• Meng Chuan explained that Sky Beyond Sky had possessed a Demon Contamination statue and connected this to the Eighteen Arhats.
• Meng Chuan proposed waiting until after Shaolin and capturing Fang Jianxing before Luo Guanyun moved against the Parasitic Assembly.
• Meng Chuan said he expected an eighty percent chance of defeating Fang Jianxing after leaving Shaolin and planned to choose a place where Fang Jianxing could not escape.

Meng Chuan intensified his training as he prepared to hunt Fang Jianxing and worked toward learning Drawing Thunder into the Body. He learned that Headmaster Chen Tuan was emerging from seclusion after communicating with the Great Emperor, though the extent of the power Chen could borrow remained unknown.

• Meng Chuan told his Master that he planned to kill Fang Jianxing and assured him that he had a foolproof plan for the Island Nation, then resolved to improve his speed and learn Drawing Thunder into the Body.
• Meng Chuan trained relentlessly and practiced with the Mad Daoist in the Battle Soul Space, mastering Five Thunders Strike the Summit and learning more about the old Daoist's transformation.
• Meng Chuan used a Nine Heavens Thunder Kill Talisman as a lightning rod to prepare for drawing heavenly thunder into his body.
• Meng Chuan broke through the limits of the Giant Turtle Iron Armor Skill, gaining the Turtle Shell trait, which let him breathe and swim underwater and passively protected his back.
• Zhao Shousui told Meng Chuan that Headmaster Chen Tuan would soon leave seclusion after communicating with the Great Emperor, whose power Chen could borrow in battle.

Meng Chuan suspected that Wudang was preparing to attack Ultimate Darkness and wondered how he could use the coming conflict to ensure Fang Jianxing could not escape. He continued studying Daoist scriptures and defeated Zhao Huanzhen again, before Zhao challenged Wang Ye to a sword match.

• Meng Chuan connected Chen Tuan’s seclusion, the suspended Tianshan Martial Gathering, and missions around Jin Territory, and suspected Wudang was preparing to attack Ultimate Darkness.
• Meng Chuan considered how the conflict could help him kill Fang Jianxing and prevent his escape.
• Meng Chuan asked Wang Ye to explain a passage from a Daoist scripture, but found the explanation vague.
• Zhao Huanzhen arrived to challenge Meng Chuan after perfecting his Cloud Parting Sun Grasping Hand, and Meng Chuan defeated him in seconds for the ninth time.
• Zhao Huanzhen reacted to Wang Ye’s teasing by drawing the Qingping Sword and challenging him, and the three took their stances.