Chapter Summaries

Meng Chuan tested his newly mastered Heavy Blow in intense sparring, discovering that it increased his strength and endurance. After training with Liang Weilong, Zong Ping, and Teacher Chen, he returned home noticeably more muscular, surprising Xue Na.

• Meng Chuan used his improved muscle activity and Heavy Blow to spar with Liang Weilong for over twenty minutes, and Liang Weilong noticed his strength and toughness.
• After resting, Meng Chuan sparred with Zong Ping, who kept getting knocked backward and eventually quit.
• Meng Chuan continued training with Liang Weilong until lunchtime, then learned that Teacher Chen practiced external body-tempering arts and looked forward to training with him.
• Meng Chuan spent the afternoon sparring with Teacher Chen, whose tough defense left him eager to learn external arts.
• At dinner, Xue Na noticed Meng Chuan had grown much more muscular, and he credited his martial arts progress and her nutritional supplements.

Meng Chuan heard about the worsening Heavenly Demon threat and continued training his stance, slowly improving his proficiency. While browsing the Martial Arts Association Store late at night, he discovered that his Silver Lion status granted access to an empty honorary page.

• Meng Yongzhi told Meng Chuan that Chief Long had killed the Heavenly Demon responsible for a police officer's death.
• Meng Chuan watched a report from the Level 4 Demon Nest, where military experts battled inside while new equipment measured the Sky Demon Force Field.
• Meng Chuan practiced the Three Powers Stance for five hours and raised his Human Stance proficiency from 54% to 55%.
• Unable to sleep, Meng Chuan browsed the Martial Arts Association Store and saw a Purity Jade Gourd auction whose bid had exceeded nine figures.
• Meng Chuan opened a newly added honorary page, which welcomed him as Silver Lion but displayed nothing else.

Yuan Huan discovered that the Seed of Fear was draining his Blood Qi and resolved to feed it cautiously until he could become a grandmaster. At the academy, Meng Chuan demonstrated his improving footwork and began teaching students by sparring with them on wooden posts.

• Yuan Huan contacted the man in black about the Seed of Fear draining his Blood Qi, but the man told him to kill people to replenish it and ended the call.
• Yuan Huan crushed his phone and decided to endure the drain while feeding the seed on homeless people and beggars without drawing attention.
• Meng Chuan tested his Blood Qi at 14.81 and believed mastering Luo Family Eight Extremities would let him break through the fifth barrier.
• Meng Chuan led the students to the wooden-post area and showed how he used explosive, silent footwork to evade attacks.
• Meng Chuan called Le Ping up first to demonstrate the connection between footwork and fist art, and Le Ping attacked with Oncoming Cannon.

Meng Chuan demonstrated his growing strength during sparring, then visited Luo Guanyun’s home for dinner and heard that the Man-Demon had returned to Ba Willow District. He left determined to protect the innocent if he encountered the killer, but he did not plan to seek trouble deliberately.

• Meng Chuan swiftly defeated Le Ping and threw down every trainee who attacked him on the wooden posts, while offering them martial arts advice.
• Meng Chuan credited the Heavy Blow trait with boosting his endurance and striking power after sparring with more than a hundred people.
• Meng Chuan visited Luo Guanyun and Ren Ping for dinner, where Ren Ping gave him martial arts training slippers.
• Ren Ping and Luo Guanyun warned Meng Chuan that the Man-Demon had been targeting homeless people and low-level martial artists in Ba Willow District.
• Meng Chuan decided he would show no mercy if he encountered the Man-Demon, though he would not go looking for the killer.

Meng Chuan trained with Luo Guanyun, improving his combat judgment and learning how martial artists broke through the body's limits. The chapter ended with Ren Ping warning Luo Guanyun that the Thunder Seed inside him was growing, while Luo accused her of trying to arrange something involving Meng Chuan and Luo Meng.

• Luo Guanyun tested Meng Chuan's awareness and judgment with fast punches, teaching him to read an opponent's movements and balance attack with defense.
• Meng Chuan adapted during their sparring, improved his evasions and counterattacks, and continued fighting until both he and Luo Guanyun stopped from exhaustion.
• Luo Guanyun explained the body's eight shackles and how breaking limits expanded strength, vitality, and stamina, while Meng Chuan reflected on his own martial progress.
• Luo Guanyun had Meng Chuan stay overnight and told him the driver would take him to school the next morning.
• Ren Ping sensed that the Thunder Seed in Luo Guanyun had grown, and Luo accused her of trying to arrange something between Meng Chuan and Luo Meng.

Meng Chuan continued his training while the police reorganized their search for the Man-Demon, who had disappeared again. He pushed his Inch Step toward a breakthrough at school, and Zong Ping arrived with news that he had been accepted into North Union University’s preparatory program.

• Luo Guanyun watched Meng Chuan practice before dawn and offered to take him to school.
• Chief Long formed a new joint task force, assigning Wu Jia, Tian Hu, and Liu Jinglong to lead its technical, intelligence, and action teams in the search for the Man-Demon.
• Meng Yongzhi warned Meng Chuan to be careful after the Man-Demon resurfaced, but the task force made little progress over the next half month.
• Meng Chuan evaded Chen Tie’s relentless pursuit during training and advanced his Inch Step to 69% mastery.
• Zong Ping told Meng Chuan and Wang Yue that his application to the North Union University preparatory program had been accepted.

Meng Chuan heard troubling reports about Wang Xudong, then advanced his Luo Family Eight Extremities and reached the fifth Blood Qi Barrier. The chapter left off with Meng Chuan beginning a sparring session with Luo Guanyun.

• Zong Ping told Meng Chuan he had passed the North Union University preparatory review, and the two promised to compete again after Zong Ping finished his studies.
• Hu Jiarui told Meng Chuan that Wang Xudong had become withdrawn and seemed bloodthirsty; Meng Chuan suspected demonic arts but advised involving the police if trouble arose.
• On the 27th, Meng Chuan tested his Blood Qi after practicing Luo Family Eight Extremities and achieved a value of 16.83, entering the fifth Blood Qi Barrier.
• Meng Chuan planned to reach Mastery in Luo Family Eight Extremities within seven days, then focus on Inch Step to pursue the Light Body trait.
• On the 3rd, Meng Chuan faced Luo Guanyun in his training room and launched the first attack.

Meng Chuan advanced Luo Family Eight Extremities to proficiency and learned he might qualify directly for North Union University's Grandmaster Class. The chapter ended with Luo Guanyun being called to respond to a rising threat at the demon nest outside the city, while Meng Chuan called his uncle.

• Meng Chuan broke through to proficient-level Luo Family Eight Extremities while sparring with Luo Guanyun.
• Luo Guanyun praised Meng Chuan's progress and explained that he had a strong chance of entering North Union University's Grandmaster Class.
• Luo Guanyun proposed that Meng Chuan take a suitable police bounty mission to earn bonus points and gain combat experience.
• Yong'an City Military Command called Luo Guanyun about the demon nest's rapidly rising Sky Demon Stance level and a possible awakening deep within.
• Luo Guanyun left to answer the call-up, warned Meng Chuan to stay home, and Meng Chuan called his uncle.

Meng Chuan learned that his uncle was caught in the Man-Demon crisis, then received a call from a stranger claiming to have kidnapped him and demanding that Meng Chuan come to Tianjiawan. Despite Luo Guanyun urging caution, Meng Chuan decided to go rescue his uncle.

• Meng Chuan warned Meng Yongzhi to stay home, but his uncle said he was helping cordon off the Man-Demon search operation.
• A wave of unnatural darkness swallowed Meng Yongzhi and his colleagues as a malicious voice said everyone but one person could be eaten.
• Meng Chuan trained late into the night and could not reach his uncle, though Luo Guanyun called to say the situation outside the city was safe.
• A stranger called Meng Chuan, claimed Meng Yongzhi was safe, and gave him half an hour to reach No. 1, Row 7, Tianjiawan.
• Meng Chuan told Luo Guanyun that his uncle had been kidnapped and insisted on going because he believed he had dragged him into the danger.

Meng Chuan raced through the storm to reach his uncle, but a monster blocked his way and revealed itself as Wang Xudong. After killing Wang Xudong by destroying the glowing object in his chest, Meng Chuan continued onward, unaware that Yuan Huan was watching him.

• Luo Guanyun agreed to send Dragon Nine to help Meng Chuan's uncle, while Meng Chuan set out alone on Teacher Luo's motorcycle.
• A black-eyed monster leapt in front of Meng Chuan, and he crashed into it before abandoning his motorcycle and getting back to his feet.
• Meng Chuan recognized the transformed monster as Wang Xudong, the Man-Demon of Yong'an City, and began fighting it in the rain.
• As the light in Wang Xudong's chest grew brighter, Meng Chuan identified it as the monster's weak point and struck it with Cannon Fist's Wind Sweeps Away Clouds.
• Meng Chuan shattered the seed in Wang Xudong's body and continued on his way, while Yuan Huan watched from a dark corner and grew furious.

Meng Chuan fought his way to the place where his uncle was being held, only to find him unharmed and meet a mysterious man who warned him that his future cultivation technique was demonic. Hat Man gave Meng Chuan a phone to keep in contact, leaving Meng Chuan with doubts about Teacher Luo and the Primordial Spirit Thunder Seed Technique.

• Yuan Huan retreated into the darkness after sirens announced that the Man-Demon was dead.
• Meng Chuan reached an abandoned house in Tianjiawan and found his uncle alive but unconscious.
• Hat Man appeared and claimed he had brought Meng Chuan's uncle back unharmed because he wanted to talk.
• Hat Man said the Primordial Spirit Thunder Seed Technique was a demonic art called the Spirit Platform Demon Heart Sutra, and that its seed consumed those who received it.
• Hat Man realized Meng Chuan was stalling for reinforcements, gave him a simple phone, and urged him to keep their conversation secret.

Meng Chuan rescued his uncle from Hat Man and learned that the mysterious man had deliberately arranged his encounter with a Man-Demon to warn him away from the Primordial Spirit Thunder Seed Technique. After the police cleared him and he returned home, Meng Chuan began trying to identify Hat Man.

• Hat Man escaped through a void vortex, and Meng Chuan woke Meng Yongzhi just before Dragon Nine tore open the ceiling and arrived.
• Luo Guanyun joined Dragon Nine, and Meng Chuan explained that he had killed a Man-Demon and crashed his teacher’s motorcycle while rushing to save his uncle.
• At the police station, Dragon Nine vouched for Meng Chuan and arranged his reward, while Meng Yongzhi and Luo Guanyun checked whether killing had unsettled him.
• Meng Chuan returned home, received the reward, and put away the phone Hat Man had given him as he considered how to identify the man.
• Meng Chuan concluded that Hat Man likely knew him well and had arranged his encounter with Wang Xudong to dissuade him from learning the Primordial Spirit Thunder Seed Technique.

After Hat Man tried to recruit him, Meng Chuan investigated who might be targeting him and Teacher Luo. He identified Fang Jianxing as the likely culprit and told Teacher Luo, who took over the matter as morning came.

• Meng Chuan told Teacher Luo about Hat Man’s offer, and Teacher Luo offered to shelter Meng Chuan’s family and help find the attacker.
• Meng Chuan reviewed people he had encountered and grew suspicious of Fang Jianxing, the head of the Sky Net Department.
• Meng Chuan called Wang Yue, who confirmed that Meng Chuan had sensed Wang Yue’s ambush from behind at the martial arts school.
• Meng Chuan concluded Fang Jianxing was Hat Man because he had failed to sense Fang Jianxing approaching and touching him.
• Meng Chuan informed Teacher Luo of his discovery, and Teacher Luo said he would handle the matter.

Luo Guanyun and Dragon Nine confronted Fang Jianxing, exposing him as a Demonic Path Martial Artist, but he escaped using a Parasitic Assembly technique. The chapter leaves Fang Jianxing missing and badly injured, while the Bounty Hall’s wanted display introduces the notorious Blood-Drinking Demon Sword, Li Xiao.

• Luo Guanyun and Dragon Nine waited outside Fang Jianxing’s villa and attacked when he arrived.
• Fang Jianxing used a demonic seed and a black vortex to try to escape, but Luo Guanyun shattered the vortex and Dragon Nine struck him into a crater.
• Fang Jianxing shattered the Bewitching Heart Seed and vanished by shedding his skin, revealing a method used by the Parasitic Assembly.
• Dragon Nine said Fang Jianxing had left no trace and was unlikely to be caught, though his injuries would keep him from appearing again soon.
• At Yong'an City’s Martial Arts Association Bounty Hall, the wanted display showed Li Xiao, the Blood-Drinking Demon Sword, as its top-listed Demonic Path Martial Artist.

After Fang Jianxing escaped badly injured, Meng Chuan learned that his aunt and uncle could take shelter with Luo Guanyun while he pursued strength. The Police Department announced the Man-Demon case was solved, while Fang Jianxing contacted Liu Ru and prepared to return to the Island Nation.

• Luo Guanyun told Meng Chuan that Fang Jianxing had escaped but was seriously injured and would need years to recover, and offered to protect Meng Chuan's aunt and uncle.
• Two days later, Meng Yongzhi and Xue Na discussed Fang Jianxing's crimes over dinner as the Police Department announced that Fang Jianxing had created the Man-Demon.
• Yuan Huan learned that Xu Dong had been proven innocent and demanded to know who cleared his name, but Dragon Nine refused to reveal the confidential source and kept Yuan Huan under observation.
• Liu Ru saw Fang Jianxing appear in her mirror, and he told her to stay hidden while he recovered in the Island Nation.
• Liu Ru teased Fang Jianxing for losing to Meng Chuan, and Fang Jianxing admitted that he should have planted the Bewitching Heart Seed directly.

Fang Jianxing ordered Liu Ru to kill Meng Chuan while he returned to the Island Nation to repair his Bewitching Heart Seed. Half a month later, Meng Chuan broke Inch Step's limit at school and gained the Light Body trait, then began testing his improved speed and jumping ability.

• Fang Jianxing told Liu Ru to kill Meng Chuan while he was away, and Liu Ru transformed and promised to eat him.
• Half a month later, Meng Chuan trained Inch Step while sparring with Chen Tie and realized the technique was close to breaking its limit.
• Meng Chuan moved his footwork practice to the school parking lot and endured intense pain as he jumped between the curbs.
• Meng Chuan broke Inch Step's limit and unlocked the Light Body trait, which improved his jumping and explosive power and his aptitude for footwork.
• Meng Chuan tested his increased speed on the parking curbs and prepared to test his jumping ability.

Meng Chuan showed off the power of his newly awakened traits, then impressed Luo Guanyun with a self-developed, limit-breaking punch. Luo Guanyun began teaching him hard-body techniques, leaving Meng Chuan questioning whether the techniques he dismissed were simply too weak.

• Meng Chuan leaped onto Principal Zong's car, and the principal praised his powerful jump.
• Yuan Huan killed a victim but found the nourishment insufficient for the Seed of Fear and decided he needed another sub-seed.
• Meng Chuan wondered why Fang Jianxing had targeted him, then set aside his suspicions and practiced his fists.
• Luo Guanyun tested Meng Chuan, who dodged his kick and countered with a powerful punch combining limit-breaking Cannon Fist and Inch Step.
• Meng Chuan admitted he had mastered Cannon Fist and developed a new killing move, and Luo Guanyun praised his persistence and urged him to carry on the Primordial Spirit Thunder Seed Technique.
• Luo Guanyun decided Meng Chuan should begin hard-body training early, and Meng Chuan asked whether greater techniques could truly make the body indestructible.

Luo Guanyun taught Meng Chuan the basics of Wudang’s Qi Nurturing Armor Skill, an advanced hardened-body art meant to strengthen his body and prepare him for future Thunder Arts. Ren Ping gave Meng a costly Z-Grade Protective Suit, which he accepted after she and Luo Guanyun urged him to take it.

• Luo Guanyun explained the limits and benefits of hardened-body arts, then introduced the Qi Nurturing Armor Skill and its connection to Mountain-Moving Taoist Zhao Shousui.
• Luo Guanyun taught Meng Chuan the art’s external-training stages and internal-nourishment breathing method, but Meng failed to grasp its entry level after hundreds of attempts.
• Luo Guanyun told Meng to rest and focus primarily on boxing techniques and raising his Blood Qi, while allowing him to practice the armor art in limited time.
• Ren Ping arrived with a Z-Grade Protective Suit that could resist demons and protect against mental erosion.
• Meng Chuan hesitated to accept the expensive suit, but Luo Guanyun and Ren Ping persuaded him to take it.

Meng Chuan began cultivating the Qi Nurturing Armor Body and prepared to train its external techniques with Chen Tie. The chapter left him ready to endure his first body-conditioning strikes.

• Luo Guanyun gave Meng Chuan a protective suit, explained Armor Certification, and helped him register for the assessment.
• Meng Chuan absorbed purple qi at sunrise, raising his Qi Nurturing Armor Skill to Beginner and gaining the Intermediate Flesh Bloom trait.
• Meng Chuan planned to combine morning cultivation with daytime body-conditioning training and bought Vitality Muscle Recovery Balm for recovery.
• At the training ground, Meng Chuan practiced the Luo Family Eight Extremities and spoke with Chen Tie about starting hard technique training.
• Chen Tie agreed to give Meng Chuan body-conditioning strikes, and Meng Chuan removed his training uniform and told him to give it his all.

Meng Chuan trained in hard-body conditioning and studied external training as he prepared for his Armor Certification exam. Meanwhile, Yuan Huan hired a Level 3 squad and assigned the Hu brothers a task; the chapter ended with Meng Chuan arriving at the New District Police Station Complex for his exam.

• Chen Tie conditioned Meng Chuan’s body, and Meng Chuan saw his Qi Nurturing Armor Skill proficiency increase before applying ointment to recover.
• Meng Chuan bought the remaining lessons in Chen Yu’s Fundamentals of External Training course and resolved to enter North Union University Grandmaster Class.
• Yuan Huan hired a Level 3 squad through Black Water Services, then summoned the Hu brothers and gave them an important task.
• A week passed as the Level 4 Demon Nest remained under lockdown, authorities pursued Fang Jianxing, and Meng Chuan continued training.
• Meng Chuan received a reminder to report for his Armor Certification exam, practiced punches against a wooden dummy, and hurried to the New District Police Station Complex.