Chapter Summaries

Li Ziyu and Amamiya Eri were caught in an illusion and ambushed by Liu Zhan and his three accomplices, who wanted information about the ruins. Li Ziyu swiftly killed them all and revealed that he was enemies with the Extreme Path Martial Arts Hall.

• Liu Zhan revealed that the temple ruins were an illusion and demanded that Li Ziyu explain how to enter the real ruins.
• Li Ziyu awakened Amamiya Eri, who realized they were surrounded by Grandmaster Level Martial Artists and urged him to flee.
• Liu Zhan threatened Li Ziyu and Amamiya Eri, but Li Ziyu struck him with a devastating blow that killed him.
• Li Ziyu killed the coquettish woman with a kick and used a black-and-white technique to reduce the Bald Strongman to a skeleton.
• Li Ziyu killed the final attacker after learning that his cousin was an instructor at the Extreme Path Martial Arts Hall, saying he was already its enemy.

Li Ziyu and Amamiya Eri entered the real ruins, where Eri revealed a hidden passage beneath a statue of Sakura Country’s strongest ancient Onmyoji. They reached an enormous gate depicting even that Onmyoji kneeling before an empty throne, and Eri believed the inheritance of the throne’s master lay beyond it.

• Li Ziyu collected the Storage Bracelets of the defeated Grandmasters and led Amamiya Eri toward the real ruins.
• A half-step Level 8 Pig-Dragon followed the scent of blood to the temple, found no trace of humans, and settled outside to guard it.
• Amamiya Eri opened a passage beneath a statue of an ancient Onmyoji who was said to have sealed a serpent deity.
• Li Ziyu followed Eri down the passage to a massive gate carved with people, including the Onmyoji, prostrating themselves before an empty throne.
• Amamiya Eri told Li Ziyu she suspected the greatest inheritance in the world lay beyond the gate.

Li Ziyu opened a Yanhuang Empire relic and forced Amamiya Eri to bind herself to him through her Soul Contract so she could not reveal its location. After storing her away, he began exploring the relic and reached an Artificial Intelligence that recognized him as the sole citizen of the Yanhuang Empire.

• Amamiya Eri's shikigami failed to open the bronze door, but Li Ziyu pushed it open with a touch and identified the site as a Yanhuang Empire relic.
• Li Ziyu threatened to kill Amamiya Eri unless she gave him a reason to spare her, and she offered to submit through her Soul Contract.
• Amamiya Eri used the Soul Contract to become Li Ziyu's shikigami, giving him control over her life and actions.
• Li Ziyu tested the Crystal Ball that stored Amamiya Eri, told her to call him Classmate Li, and sealed the ball in a black box.
• Li Ziyu entered the relic, passed a corridor lined with statues, and reached an Artificial Intelligence that welcomed him as the sole citizen of the Yanhuang Empire.

Li Ziyu learned that the Yanhuang Empire’s Deity Research Center had studied deities and created a cultivation method called the Sun Melting Primordial Energy Manual. The Artificial Intelligence brain began a disassembly countdown after he asked who had sat on the empire’s throne, and the chapter left him reading about primordial energy’s immense potential.

• The Artificial Intelligence brain told Li Ziyu that deities existed as powerful beings from other worlds and that the Yanhuang Empire had established a center to study and create them.
• Li Ziyu asked who had sat on the throne depicted on the bronze gate, triggering a classified-secret protocol and a countdown to the Artificial Intelligence brain’s disassembly.
• Li Ziyu changed the subject and asked about the center’s research and what it had left behind.
• The Artificial Intelligence brain revealed that the institute had created twenty-one deity-level biological weapons and a cultivation method for attaining comparable strength.
• The Artificial Intelligence brain gave Li Ziyu access to the Sun Melting Primordial Energy Manual, which described primordial energy as a vastly more powerful alternative to blood energy.

Li Ziyu obtained the Yanhuang Empire’s Primordial Energy Sun Fusion Manual and Crystal Key, then chose to destroy the ruins. As he left, Wang Sen’s group planned to lure the guarding Pig-Dragon away so they could explore the temple.

• Li Ziyu read the Primordial Energy Sun Fusion Manual, added it to his system panel, and stored its crystal panel in his Storage Bracelet.
• Li Ziyu agreed to destroy the ruins and received instructions to use the manual’s panel as the detonation switch.
• The Artificial Intelligence gave Li Ziyu a Crystal Key and told him to bring it and the Armor of Destiny to the central refuge base to obtain the Yanhuang Empire’s core secrets and highest technological research achievement.
• Li Ziyu searched the shelter, found nothing else valuable, and left while the Pig-Dragon slept outside the temple.
• Wang Sen spotted a small airship beside the temple and suspected that ruins lay inside, but his group could not pass the Level Seven Peak Pig-Dragon.
• Liu Wen suggested capturing martial artists to lure the Pig-Dragon away, and Wang Sen agreed to the plan.

Cang Miaoyin, Jiang Yuwei, and Xu Manting joined a vicious-beast hunt organized by the Extreme Path Martial Arts Hall, while Jiang Yuwei wondered whether she was now strong enough to pursue Li Ziyu. The group flew toward the temple, unaware that Wang Jun and Li Bo had lured them there as bait for a Level Seven Peak Pig-Dragon and planned to kill any survivors.

• Wang Sen's two disciples gathered martial artists outside the temple after recruiting them through the Wilderness Area No. 2 forum.
• Jiang Yuwei and Xu Manting questioned the hunt's reliability, but Cang Miaoyin reassured them and encouraged Jiang Yuwei to confess to Li Ziyu.
• Xu Manting teased Jiang Yuwei about her feelings for Li Ziyu, and Jiang Yuwei blushed and tickled her.
• Wang Jun and Li Bo watched the cabin cameras and leered at the women aboard the airship.
• Wang Jun and Li Bo revealed that their group had lured the martial artists to serve as bait for the Level Seven Peak Pig-Dragon, and they intended to kill any who survived.

Wang Sen and the Extreme Path Martial Arts Hall lured martial artists to the temple and forced one to provoke the Pig-Dragon. The beast killed the scout effortlessly, and Wang Sen concluded it was at least Half-Step Level Eight, deepening his conviction that the temple concealed an extraordinary ancient ruin.

• Wang Jun and Li Bo persuaded the martial artists, including Cang Miaoyin, Jiang Yuwei, and Xu Manting, to shut off their Communicators and follow them toward the temple.
• Cang Miaoyin recognized the Pig-Dragon as a likely Level Seven Peak beast and tried to lead Jiang Yuwei and Xu Manting away, while the other martial artists confronted Wang Yun and Li Bo for deceiving them.
• Wang Sen arrived, killed a protesting martial artist, and ordered a Level Five square-faced man to lure the Pig-Dragon away.
• The square-faced man struck the Pig-Dragon with a spear and ran, but the beast crushed him with a stone pillar and went back to sleep.
• Wang Sen judged that the Pig-Dragon was at least Half-Step Level Eight and declared that the temple must contain an extraordinary ancient ruin.

Wang Sen forced the gathered martial artists to provoke the Pig-Dragon so he could enter the temple ruin, killing two who resisted. When Li Ziyu emerged from the temple, Cang Miaoyin raced to save him, and Jiang Yuwei charged at the Pig-Dragon to draw its attention away.

• Wang Sen killed an old man who urged the martial artists to rebel against the Extreme Path Martial Arts Hall, then forced another man to approach the Pig-Dragon, which crushed him with a stone pillar.
• The provoked Pig-Dragon charged toward the group, and Wang Sen ordered Cang Miaoyin and her disciples to hold it back while he entered the ruin.
• Li Ziyu walked out of the temple, and Wang Sen raced toward him, delighted to find someone inside the ruin.
• Jiang Yuwei recognized Li Ziyu, and Cang Miaoyin left her and Xu Manting behind to pursue Wang Sen and save him.
• Jiang Yuwei drew her weapon and charged toward the Pig-Dragon to draw its attention away from Cang Miaoyin.

Li Ziyu mistook members of the Extreme Path Martial Arts Hall for assassins and killed their Peak Grandmaster leader with one punch. After learning what had happened, he killed the Pig-Dragon King with one strike and left the survivors dead, declaring that he would seek out the Sixth Elder himself.

• Li Ziyu killed Wang Sen with one punch when Wang Sen reached for him, believing the Extreme Path Martial Arts Hall had ambushed him.
• Cang Miaoyin told Li Ziyu she had come to save him, while Xu Manli, Wang Jun, Wang Yun, Li Bo, and the others stared in shock at Wang Sen's death.
• Li Ziyu spotted the Pig-Dragon chasing Jiang Yuwei and split the Pig-Dragon King in two with his Ninefold Thunder Blade.
• After Cang Miaoyin and the others explained the situation, Li Ziyu confronted Wang Yun and Li Bo, who threatened him with the Sixth Elder's retaliation.
• Li Ziyu killed Wang Yun and Li Bo with a snap of his fingers and said he would go after the Sixth Elder himself.

After killing Wang Yun and Li Bo, Li Ziyu exchanged contact information with Cang Miaoyin and Jiang Yuwei before leaving to hunt ferocious beasts. At dusk, he remembered Amamiya Eri, released her from the Crystal Ball, and prepared to return her to the Sakura Country.

• Jiang Yuwei worried that the Extreme Path Martial Arts Hall would retaliate for Wang Yun and Li Bo's deaths, but Cang Miaoyin agreed with Li Ziyu that leaving them alive would be dangerous.
• Li Ziyu exchanged communicator contacts with Jiang Yuwei and Cang Miaoyin, then departed to hunt ferocious beasts.
• Cang Miaoyin teased Jiang Yuwei about possibly marrying Li Ziyu, and the temple complex collapsed into the desert.
• At dusk, Li Ziyu realized he had left Amamiya Eri in the Crystal Ball and released her from its space.
• Amamiya Eri asked whether Li Ziyu had finished exploring the ruins and felt relieved that he had let her out.

Li Ziyu sent Amamiya Eri back to Sakura Country and told her to gain power so she could help him when the Fourth World Resonance arrived. Staying in Wilderness Area No. 2 to train, he learned of a Level Seven Peak mutated Black Dragon King and flew off to hunt it.

• Li Ziyu ordered Amamiya Eri to return to Sakura Country, strengthen herself, and seize influence in its leadership so she could help him in the future.
• Amamiya Eri cooked for Li Ziyu, then left by airship after he dismissed her; she privately wondered why he showed no interest in women.
• Li Ziyu declared he would hunt ferocious beasts and master the Primordial Energy Sun Fusion Manual.
• The All-Knowing learned that a Level Seven Peak mutated Black Dragon King was sleeping in a mountain cave two hundred kilometers east.
• Li Ziyu hurried to the All-Knowing, paid him with a large piece of Level 7 Asma Alloy for the location, and flew toward the beast.
• The All-Knowing and his two subordinates decided to follow Li Ziyu and see whether they could profit from the hunt.

Li Ziyu found and killed a mutated Level Seven Peak Black Dragon King, earning 5,000 qi-blood points and selling most of its remains to Bai Shitong and his companions. After Bai Shitong offered his help, Li Ziyu asked whether he had any special information about Wilderness Area No. 2.

• Li Ziyu flew across Wilderness Area No. 2 toward the Black Dragon King's territory after learning of the mutated beast.
• Li Ziyu knocked the Black Dragon King off a mountain with one punch, then killed it with a Ninefold Thunder Blade.
• Bai Shitong and his two underlings arrived to collect scraps and were stunned by Li Ziyu's swift victory.
• Li Ziyu kept the Black Dragon King's valuable parts and offered the rest to Bai Shitong and his companions at a discount.
• Bai Shitong and his companions pooled 30 billion Great Xia Coins and agreed to pay the remaining amount after leaving the wilderness area.
• Bai Shitong gave Li Ziyu his business card, and Li Ziyu asked whether he knew of any special information about Wilderness Area No. 2.

Li Ziyu learned that Eight-Level Great Grandmaster Zhang Zhicheng had led people toward the Death Black Forest, then searched for better cultivation resources as his Spirit Ore ran low. After joining a Wilderness Area No. 2 forum, he found a pinned exposé about the Extreme Path Martial Arts Hall had disappeared.

• Bai Shitong told Li Ziyu that Zhang Zhicheng had brought people to Wilderness Area No. 2 and seemed headed toward the Death Black Forest.
• Li Ziyu surveyed the Death Desert and lamented that its sparse mutated beasts made it a poor place to gather vitality.
• Li Ziyu swallowed the last of his Spirit Ore and asked Bai Shitong about resources with better effects, but Bai Shitong had no information.
• Li Ziyu registered on the Home of Wilderness Area No. 2 forum as “Mutated Beast Hunter” and browsed its posts.
• Li Ziyu tried to open a pinned post accusing the Extreme Path Martial Arts Hall of luring martial artists to their deaths, but the post vanished.

Li Ziyu asked the Wilderness Area No. 2 chatroom for locations of Level 6 to Level 8 fierce beasts, then flew toward a free tip about a Level 8 Giant Armored Sandworm King in the Death Desert. Andrew and Anna, who had shared the location as a taunt, realized Li Ziyu was really going and rushed after him to stop him.

• Li Ziyu noticed posts about the Extreme Path Martial Arts Hall had been deleted, then asked the chatroom for fierce beast locations from Level 6 to Level 8.
• Chatroom members praised Li Ziyu and sent him messages, while Master of a Hundred Matters concluded he was likely a Level Eight Great Grandmaster.
• Andrew mocked Li Ziyu and posted the Giant Armored Sandworm King's location, daring him to hunt the Level 8 beast.
• Li Ziyu recognized the Death Desert around him and flew toward the sandworm king's location, about six hundred kilometers away.
• Andrew told Anna he had shared the location as a joke, and Anna warned that the sandworm king was terrifying.
• Andrew and Anna saw Li Ziyu flying toward the beast and pursued him, fearing he would be killed.

Li Ziyu attacked the Level 8 Giant Armored Sandworm King with Ten Suns Same Sky, blasting away half its body but failing to kill it. As he continued dodging its corrosive spit and striking with Nine Heavens Thunder Blade, the wounded beast tried to burrow underground.

• Li Ziyu spotted the Giant Armored Sandworm King basking in the desert and unleashed Ten Suns Same Sky at full power.
• The attack melted the surrounding desert into glass and blew away half of the Sandworm King's body, but the beast survived.
• Li Ziyu used Nine Heavens Thunder Blade to slash the Sandworm King and expose its enormous, tooth-lined mouth.
• The Sandworm King sprayed corrosive black liquid at Li Ziyu, who dodged with Sky-Treading Steps and countered with another blade strike.
• Realizing its attacks were ineffective and its wounds were severe, the Sandworm King twisted around and tried to burrow underground.

Li Ziyu killed the Sandworm King but still couldn’t initiate the Origin Energy Melting Sun Canon, so he continued searching for powerful beasts. After Cang Miaoyin asked him to join a hunt, he reached the Cold Pond in Death Forest, where a group was preparing to fight the Ice Toad King.

• Li Ziyu killed the fleeing Sandworm King with Ten Suns Together and gained 15,000 Combat Power points.
• Li Ziyu saw that the Origin Energy Melting Sun Canon remained uninitiated and resolved to hunt more Level 8 Fierce Beasts.
• Andrew and Anna arrived at the glassed-over battlefield, realized Li Ziyu had caused the destruction, and apologized to him in the chatroom.
• Cang Miaoyin contacted Li Ziyu to join a group hunting the Ice Toad King, and he agreed to travel to Death Forest.
• Li Ziyu arrived at the Cold Pond, where Cang Miaoyin welcomed him and began introducing him to Zhang Zhicheng.

Li Ziyu joined Zhang Zhicheng and Cang Miaoyin’s group to hunt the Level 8 Ice Toad King, learning that the beast used the deep, frigid Cold Pond to escape attackers. The Ice Toad King emerged before the group, and Li Ziyu looked forward to killing it for qi and blood points.

• Zhang Zhicheng mistook Li Ziyu for an ordinary student and asked Cang Miaoyin to explain the hunt while he tried to contact the hunter who had killed the Sand Worm King.
• Cang Miaoyin explained that the Ice Toad King fled into the Cold Pond, where even Level Eight Great Grandmasters struggled to pursue it.
• Li Ziyu probed the pond with Spiritual Sense and realized he could shield himself from its water, while Zhang Zhicheng warned that Psychic Masters were too physically frail to fight the beast below.
• Zhang Zhicheng assembled the martial artists to attack the Ice Toad King on the surface.
• The Ice Toad King leaped from the Cold Pond and landed before the group, and Li Ziyu anticipated gaining enough qi and blood points to advance his Primordial Energy Melting Sun Canon.

Li Ziyu overwhelmed the Level 8 Cold Toad King in a one-sided fight, but it escaped into the Cold Pond. Ignoring Zhang Zhicheng’s warning that the freezing water was too dangerous to pursue it in, Li Ziyu plunged into the pond after the beast.

• Zhang Zhicheng ordered the martial artists to form up and attack the Cold Toad King, but Li Ziyu charged ahead alone.
• Li Ziyu struck the Cold Toad King with Extreme Fist and Crazy Eighteen Strikes, overpowering it with his strength.
• Zhang Zhicheng offered to help, but Li Ziyu told him not to steal his kills.
• The wounded Cold Toad King escaped into the Cold Pond while Zhang Zhicheng warned that no one could pursue it safely.
• Li Ziyu ignored the warning, covered himself with Spiritual Sense, and dived into the pond.

Li Ziyu pursued the wounded Cold Toad King to the bottom of the Cold Pond and killed it in a brutal underwater fight. As he prepared to bring its valuable corpse back to the surface, a red glow inside the mountain caught his attention.

• Li Ziyu dove thousands of meters into the Cold Pond and found the injured Cold Toad King hiding at the bottom.
• Li Ziyu destroyed the Cold Toad King's right eye with Extreme Fist and crushed its skull with Battle Axe Leg, but the beast fled.
• Li Ziyu chased the Cold Toad King across the pond floor and killed it by smashing its head into a mountain peak.
• Li Ziyu received 15,000 Vitality Points and pulled the Cold Toad King's corpse free from the mountain.
• Li Ziyu noticed a red glow inside the hole where the Cold Toad King had crashed.

Li Ziyu explored the Cold Toad King's cave, found and collected a mysterious medicinal liquid and an unreadable parchment, then emerged from the Cold Pond with the beast's corpse. His companions were astonished by his victory, and he asked Zhang Zhicheng how to store the enormous body.

• Li Ziyu entered the Cold Toad King's cavern and collected a potent-looking liquid from a stone platform.
• Li Ziyu found a parchment covered in strange symbols and put it in his Storage Bracelet to have it studied later.
• At the pond's surface, Zhang Zhicheng prepared to dive in to rescue Li Ziyu, while Cang Miaoyin anxiously insisted she could not leave him in danger.
• Li Ziyu burst from the Cold Pond and threw the Cold Toad King's corpse onto the shore, stunning everyone with his victory.
• Li Ziyu told Zhang Zhicheng that the underwater fight had taken some effort and asked how to store the beast's body.