Chapter Summaries

Meng Chuan took the Armor Certification assessment, passed its temperament test, and escaped a real Heavenly Demon in the simulated demon nest. He collected his certificate after paying 20,000 yuan for the site damage.

• Meng Chuan registered for the Armor Certification assessment and passed the temperament test.
• A policewoman led Meng Chuan to the simulated demon nest, where he began searching for its hidden exit.
• A void-type Heavenly Demon attacked Meng Chuan, and he used the protective suit to resist its corrosion while searching for the way out.
• Meng Chuan smashed through a table, found the exit, and passed the practical assessment as the Heavenly Demon was confined inside.
• A police officer made Meng Chuan pay for the damage before he collected his certificate and had its information added to his electronic identity card.

Meng Chuan passed his Armor Certification and continued training while aiming for North Union University and more money. His Qi Nurturing Armor Skill reached 40%, and his uncle called him over the next morning.

• Meng Chuan checked his electronic ID, confirmed his Blood Qi Martial Warrior rank and five-year certification, and set his sights on North Union University and earning money.
• Le Ping congratulated Meng Chuan on passing the certification, then celebrated his own prospects of entering Yong'an Martial Arts University as the two met at the academy.
• Wang Yue joined Meng Chuan and Le Ping at the academy, and Meng Chuan teased him about his closeness with Qin Mengya and the treadmill he had given him.
• Meng Chuan had Le Ping and Wang Yue strike his body with wooden sticks, then noticed his skin had toughened as his Qi Nurturing Armor Skill advanced to 40%.
• Meng Chuan practiced his stance the next morning, and his uncle called him into the living room.

Meng Chuan continued cultivating toward a breakthrough while Yuan Huan prepared a demonic plot and hired Black Water to help carry it out. At school, Meng Chuan noticed Liang Weilong berating the Hu brothers and resumed his training.

• Meng Chuan watched Principal Yin discuss Yong'an Martial Arts University's admissions before heading to the rooftop to absorb morning purple qi.
• Yuan Huan tested the Blood Mother Bowl and explained how he planned to combine it with an array to trap and collect the fear of people nearing death.
• Yuan Huan intimidated Black Hawk and the Black Water Squad into accepting his instructions to set up the Scent Locking Soul Confusion Array.
• Meng Chuan absorbed purple qi and noticed a membrane beginning to form around his internal organs.
• At the Martial Arts Training Ground, Meng Chuan saw Liang Weilong scold Hu Jiarui and his brother, then practiced Luo Family Eight Extremities on a wooden dummy.

Meng Chuan recognized signs that the Hu Brothers were under the same sinister control as the Man-Demon and alerted Chief Long. When the brothers followed him into the restroom, he attacked through a stall partition and found them holding bloodied, bowl-shaped objects.

• Meng Chuan noticed the Hu Brothers’ lifeless behavior and recognized the scent associated with the Man-Demon.
• Meng Chuan pretended to prepare for a spar, then secretly called Chief Long and reported that the brothers might be controlled.
• Chief Long told Meng Chuan to keep the situation confidential, protect himself, and help ensure the students’ safety until help arrived.
• The Hu Brothers walked toward the restroom, and Meng Chuan hid inside a locked stall.
• Hearing strange sounds from the neighboring stall, Meng Chuan punched through the partition and saw the brothers holding bowl-shaped objects as the smell of blood reached him.

Meng Chuan knocked out the Hu Brothers and discovered their strange Blood Bowl, then fought Viper when he ambushed him outside the restroom. Meng Chuan killed Viper, while the Blood Bowl remained overturned in the ruined restroom.

• Meng Chuan kicked the Blood Bowl away and knocked out the Hu Brothers, prompting Yuan Huan to send Viper to investigate.
• Meng Chuan called Dragon Nine, who ordered the police into the school while Principal Zong and the instructors gathered the students in the auditorium.
• Yuan Huan decided to enter the school himself, driven by his desire to use the fear to break through to Martial Arts Grandmaster.
• Viper ambushed Meng Chuan as he cautiously opened the restroom door, and they fought while Viper concealed a dagger in his sleeve.
• Meng Chuan recognized the tell before Viper drew his dagger, let it pierce his protective suit, then crushed Viper's chest and punched through it, killing him.

Meng Chuan survived Viper’s attack and helped Dragon Nine capture Yuan Huan, the mastermind behind the plot. They returned to the wrecked training ground, where Dragon Nine identified the dangerous Cursed Bowl and praised Meng Chuan for preventing a disaster.

• Yuan Huan recognized Meng Chuan and prepared to attack, but fled after Meng Chuan pretended Dragon Nine had arrived.
• Dragon Nine reached Meng Chuan, transformed into his Ape God Avatar, and carried him after Yuan Huan.
• Dragon Nine caught Yuan Huan and handed him over to the arriving reinforcements after discovering his identity.
• Meng Chuan and Dragon Nine returned to the restroom, where Dragon Nine confirmed Viper was dead and the Hu Brothers were alive but unconscious.
• Meng Chuan found the blood-red bowl, and Dragon Nine identified it as a Cursed Bowl and said Meng Chuan had saved everyone at the school.

After Meng Chuan survived the school attack, he reunited with his family while the Black Water Squad was arrested. At the police station, Ji Chengkong revealed himself as a Parasitic Assembly member, killed Yuan Huan, and was hunted down by Yin Tianshou.

• Meng Chuan reassured the principal and evacuated students, then reunited with Meng Yongzhi and Xue Na, who took him home.
• At three in the morning, Ji Chengkong disguised as a police officer confronted Yuan Huan in the Martial Artist detention room.
• Ji Chengkong extracted a small black gourd from Yuan Huan's spiritual platform and revealed that he was the Parasitic Assembly's third seat, Dread Shadow Eater.
• Yin Tianshou appeared at the hospital, where the Hu Brothers had also died, and pursued Ji Chengkong to the Chan River.
• Yin Tianshou crushed the tumor in Ji Chengkong's spiritual platform and left him as a charred skeleton in the dried riverbed.

After the attack at Meng Chuan’s school, he renewed his resolve to grow stronger and made rapid progress in Luo Family Eight Extremities. He planned to collect an unusual police reward and returned to the Infinite Martial Arts Academy to teach Inch Step.

• Yin Tianshou told Dragon Nine to repay his help by teaching at Yong'an Martial Arts University, then transformed into a fiery dragon and disappeared.
• In the Island Nation, the raven-cloaked girl recovered the Seed of Fear and ordered Mirror to tell the children in Osaka to nourish it.
• Meng Chuan reflected on the deaths and resolved to become stronger, then reached 60% proficiency in Luo Family Eight Extremities after practicing through a Sudden Enlightenment.
• Meng Chuan received a notice to collect a Police Department Assistance Reward at the research institute and learned from Dragon Nine that it was a new gadget.
• Dragon Nine worried about the upcoming security inspection and decided to delay assigning Meng Chuan investigation work until the situation stabilized.
• Meng Chuan returned to the Infinite Martial Arts Academy, where he began teaching the gathered students Inch Step.

Meng Chuan trained his Inch Step and boxing under Luo Guanyun while strengthening his body, unaware that Liu Ru was plotting to kill him and flee to the demon nest. Luo Guanyun praised his progress and promised to teach him a first-rate boxing art once he reached the Upper Three Gates.

• Meng Chuan demonstrated his perfected Inch Step and guided the martial arts school students, while Liu Ru silently judged him a growing threat.
• Luo Guanyun took Meng Chuan to the private training room and pushed him through hours of strenuous boxing practice.
• Meng Chuan tested his Qi Nurturing Armor Skill, then enlisted Le Ping and two students to pound his body and improve his hard skills.
• Luo Guanyun told Meng Chuan to focus on training and said he could perfect the Luo Family Eight Extremities before the martial arts examination.
• Luo Guanyun promised to teach Meng Chuan a new first-rate boxing art after he reached the Upper Three Gates as a martial artist.

Meng Chuan asked Luo Guanyun to teach him a new movement technique and continued training toward his next Blood Qi and stance milestones. The next evening, he prepared to study Cloud Ascending Steps, while his uncle told him he had been transferred to a safer, better-paid job.

• Meng Chuan asked Luo Guanyun for a movement technique after perfecting Inch Step, and Luo arranged to teach him Cloud Ascending Steps the following evening.
• Meng Chuan continued practicing while Venom, disguised as Liu Ru, probed his progress and tried to gauge how soon he might become a threat.
• Meng Chuan tested at a Blood Qi value of 27.56, confirming he remained at the Fifth Blood Qi Barrier and was over four points short of the Sixth.
• Meng Chuan studied an external martial arts lesson on the train, then practiced Human Stance and Luo's Eight Extremes Fist at home.
• The next evening, Meng Yongzhi brought food for Meng Chuan to share with Luo Guanyun and told him he had been transferred to the police station's new Intelligent Control Department.

Meng Chuan learned the Cloud Ascending Steps from Luo Guanyun and quickly reached its entry level, while the Yong'an Police Department received analysis results on the demonic seed taken from Hu Jiaxiang. The chapter left the seed under examination in the laboratory.

• Meng Chuan sparred with Luo Guanyun, who recognized how much his strength had improved.
• Luo Guanyun explained and demonstrated the Cloud Ascending Steps, teaching Meng its principles and movements.
• Meng Chuan practiced on a thrown wooden stake, reached entry level in Cloud Ascending Steps, and gained the Cloud Traces trait.
• A young officer told Chief Long that the technical department had analyzed something extracted from the Hu brothers' bodies.
• Chief Long inspected the withered demonic seed taken from Hu Jiaxiang's spiritual platform.

Dragon Nine investigated the demon seeds linked to the Parasitic Assembly and learned from Huo Sanjiang about similar demonic techniques. After Peaceful High School resumed classes, Meng Chuan trained his stance and invited Chen Tie to spar.

• Dragon Nine’s technicians identified the demon seed as a likely man-made ancient demonic art from the Island Nation, and Dragon Nine ordered them to preserve it and investigate other Parasitic Assembly members in Yong'an City.
• Dragon Nine called Huo Sanjiang, who described a corpse-driving demonic art he had encountered in Gan Province and offered to consult Principal Ding.
• Huo Sanjiang scolded Dragon Nine over the violence in Yong'an City, and Dragon Nine promised to intensify the crackdown on demonic cultivators.
• Peaceful High School resumed classes, and Meng Chuan received special treatment from his classmates and Teacher Liang.
• Meng Chuan practiced his stance, reflected on its slowing progress, and then invited Chen Tie to trade strikes.

Meng Chuan collected a newly developed weapon from the North Forest District Research Institute and learned how to use its Heavenly Demon-derived armor. He tested the gloves’ protection against a Black-Patterned Steel pillar without hurting his hands.

• Meng Chuan trained his Qi Nurturing Armor Skill with Teacher Chen and raised its proficiency to 70%, then practiced Cloud Ascending Steps and improved it to 14%.
• Meng Chuan visited the North Forest District Research Institute to collect his police department reward, a weapon that had not yet entered mass production.
• A researcher explained that Steelbone Armor Gen 3 used Venom Heavenly Demon remains to let its wearer’s hands pass through a Lower Sky Demon’s force field.
• Meng Chuan paired the armor with his phone, configured its watch-like Daily Mode and hand-seal-activated Combat Mode, and tried it on.
• Meng Chuan repeatedly punched a Black-Patterned Steel pillar while wearing the armor and felt no recoil in his hands.

Meng Chuan tested the costly Steelbone Armor Gen 3 and then advanced his martial arts and body conditioning at the Infinite Martial Arts Academy. After breaking through the sixth Blood Qi barrier and improving his Cloud Ascending Steps and Qi Nurturing Armor Skill, he tested his tougher skin.

• Meng Chuan learned that Steelbone Armor Gen 3 could run for eight hours in combat mode, required expensive YM Energy Alloy to recharge, and would cost at least five million to manufacture.
• Four days later, Meng Chuan reached the sixth Blood Qi barrier and demonstrated a powerful Manifest Force punch that pierced the wooden training post's iron core.
• Meng Chuan practiced the Cloud Ascending Steps with his fist technique, experienced Sudden Enlightenment, and used Ninefold Ascension to race across the academy's high roof frame.
• Meng Chuan trained his body conditioning with the students and asked Instructor Chen Tie to strike him for an extra half hour.
• When the Qi Nurturing Armor Skill reached the proficient stage, Meng Chuan shed dead skin and tested his new defense, finding that a knife barely marked him and a pestle-shaped hand strike let him feel the impact.

Meng Chuan discovered that his Armored Body was already protecting his internal organs and devised a way to combine Great Chu external arts with an Esoteric Sect hard skill. After training and learning from Luo Guanyun, he received Chen Xuewu’s request to study the Luo Family Eight Extremities.

• Meng Chuan studied Esoteric Sect hard skills and decided to combine Armored Body training with Duo Mo Iron Arms, then searched for its oil and incense.
• Chen Tie helped Meng Chuan practice striking, confirmed his Armored Body had advanced, and warned that the two hard skills might have overlapping effects.
• Meng Chuan found advice online to seek Esoteric Body Forging Oil in Yong'an City's foreign resident district and planned to visit Waimin Street on Saturday.
• Luo Guanyun explained that a martial artist could sense attacks by observing movement, muscle tension, and breathing, and told Meng Chuan to train his perception.
• Chen Xuewu called Meng Chuan and asked to learn the Luo Family Eight Extremities, and Luo Guanyun nodded in approval.

Meng Chuan agreed to spar with Chen Xuewu and discovered he could learn Sun-Punch by observing another student. He went to Waimin Street to find esoteric sect ointment, but the shop he located sold something entirely different, and he prepared to leave.

• Meng Chuan told Chen Xuewu that he had also reached the Sixth Blood Qi Barrier, and they arranged to spar on Sunday.
• Meng Chuan watched a student practice Sun-Punch, imitated the technique, and entered its basics without instruction.
• Meng Chuan checked his panel and saw that Sun-Punch had the Bone-Piercing limit-breaking trait, but decided to practice it only in his spare time.
• Meng Chuan traveled to Waimin Street and followed a vendor's directions into its quiet inner alleys while Liu Ru secretly tracked him.
• Meng Chuan found a shop called Mystic Oil of the Western Regions and discovered it sold products he had no use for, so he prepared to leave.

Meng Chuan bought forty bottles of Esoteric Body Forging Oil before heading home, while Liu Ru followed his trail to the shop. Elsewhere, General Manager Li led a secret sacrificial ritual at Huaqing Mountain and had a frightened worshipper dragged away for showing doubt.

• Meng Chuan bargained with the owner of the Mystic Oil of the Western Regions shop and bought forty bottles of Esoteric Body Forging Oil for two hundred and fifty thousand.
• Meng Chuan left Waimin Street with lamb skewers for his family and boarded a tram home.
• Liu Ru followed Meng Chuan’s scent to the shop, where the owner mistakenly assumed she was buying the oil for her boyfriend.
• General Manager Li gathered followers at Cloud Realm Estate and led them to the back mountain for a ritual offering sacrifices to his lord.
• General Manager Li accused a frightened young man of insincerity and ordered sunglass-wearing guards to drag him away.

Police arrested the wealthy followers at Huaqing Mountain, but Bishop Fan remained confident that the Thousand-Headed Master would awaken soon. Meng Chuan met Chen Xuewu at Pinnacle Martial Arts Hall, where their spar began before a crowd of students.

• Chief Long led the police in ambushing and arresting the cultists leaving Huaqing Mountain.
• Meng Chuan watched a report about the arrests with Meng Yongzhi, then left to meet Chen Xuewu at Pinnacle Martial Arts Hall.
• A cultist told Bishop Fan that police had seized the Huaqing Mountain base, but Bishop Fan said the Lord would awaken soon and the cultists there were predetermined sacrifices.
• Chen Xuewu defeated a sixth-gate instructor at Pinnacle Martial Arts Hall and invited Meng Chuan to spar.
• Meng Chuan joined Chen Xuewu on the platform, and Liu Sanduo started their match before the gathered students.

Meng Chuan decisively defeated Chen Xuewu in a sparring match, then shared martial arts insights with him at Liu Sanduo's Martial Arts Training Room. After their long exchange, Meng Chuan left with Chen Xuewu planning to challenge him again.

• Chen Xuewu attacked first, but Meng Chuan evaded his strikes and countered with a fierce claw that made Liu Sanduo realize Chen Xuewu was likely to lose.
• Meng Chuan pressed Chen Xuewu with rapid attacks that pierced the ring, then broke his grappling hold, lifted him, and threw him off the ring with a powerful charge.
• Chen Xuewu accepted his defeat and asked whether Meng Chuan practiced a hard-body art; Meng Chuan showed him his developed muscles, leaving Chen Xuewu convinced he was outmatched in every way.
• At Liu Sanduo's Martial Arts Training Room, Meng Chuan taught Chen Xuewu techniques from the Luo Family Eight Extremities and other martial arts, while they exchanged insights until nightfall.
• Chen Xuewu escorted Meng Chuan to the station and promised to challenge him again, and Meng Chuan joked that he should do so before he reached the seventh stage.

Chen Xuewu learned from Liu Sanduo that Meng Chuan could wield Killing Intent, while Meng Chuan deepened his understanding of that power and unleashed it after reflecting on Luo Guanyun’s warning. The chapter ended with the Venom Sky Demon controlling Liu Ru’s body as she swallowed her dressing mirror.

• Liu Sanduo told Chen Xuewu that Meng Chuan’s Killing Intent made him far more dangerous than their equal Sixth Gate status suggested.
• Meng Chuan practiced his fists and recalled how Luo Guanyun demonstrated Killing Intent and warned him to kill only those who deserved it.
• Meng Chuan resolved to raise his blade against evil and wrapped his arm in overwhelming invisible Killing Intent.
• The Venom Sky Demon took control of Liu Ru as she tried to apply makeup and swallowed her dressing mirror.