Chapter Summaries

After learning he had been selected for mandatory conscription to fight alien civilizations, Lin Yuan searched for a way to avoid service but found none he could use. That night, a mysterious Door of Myriad Worlds appeared in his mind, identifying him as its wielder.

• The dean of students told Lin Yuan that he had been selected for mandatory conscription and that his family would receive benefits in exchange.
• Lin Yuan returned home, where Lin Shoucheng offered to ask a relative to help, but Lin Yuan refused and went to his room to seek another solution.
• Lin Yuan contacted the Goddess of Wisdom and learned that exemption required being an evolutionary, a Fourth Level Citizen, or earning recognition as a Second Level Citizen through contributions.
• The Goddess of Wisdom said that providing a new evolutionary pathway could earn massive contributions, but Lin Yuan knew he had no way to do so.
• As Lin Yuan slept, a strange force drew his mind into a light-filled gate, and an interface identified him as the Wielder of the Door of Myriad Worlds.

Lin Yuan used the Door of Myriad Worlds to descend into the body of a young novice monk at the Great Zen Temple, where he discovered his Heaven-Defying Comprehension could grant him martial arts by observation. After comprehending Great Arhat Buddha Fist and beginning to practice, he drew the astonished attention of the courtyard head, Hui Wen.

• Lin Yuan chose to cross over before recruitment surveillance began and entered another world through the Door of Myriad Worlds.
• Lin Yuan awoke as a young novice monk at the Great Zen Temple and learned he could remain in the world for twenty years.
• Lin Yuan observed a sparrow and an earthworm, comprehending Divine Sparrow Crossing the Sky Movement Technique and Earth Dragon Turning Over Technique.
• Lin Yuan watched martial monks practice Arhat Fist and comprehended the superior martial art Great Arhat Buddha Fist.
• Lin Yuan practiced the fist art alongside the other novices, and Hui Wen noticed his unusual movements and watched in shock.

Lin Yuan comprehended the superior Great Arhat Buddha Fist by watching martial monks practice Arhat Fist, and condensed Innate Inner Energy. Great Zen Temple’s leaders believed his explanation and wondered whether he was a once-in-a-millennium martial arts prodigy.

• Hui Wen watched Lin Yuan practice a fist technique far more profound than Arhat Fist and summoned Great Zen Temple’s leaders.
• Lin Yuan practiced the Great Arhat Buddha Fist until he condensed a wisp of Innate Inner Energy, then stopped because he was hungry.
• Abbot Hui Jue asked Lin Yuan where he had learned the unfamiliar superior fist technique.
• Lin Yuan said he had comprehended it by watching his senior brothers practice Arhat Fist.
• The Abbot and the Courtyard Heads considered the evidence and wondered whether Lin Yuan was a martial arts prodigy seen once in a millennium.

Lin Yuan became the Long Eyebrow Old Monk’s disciple after revealing that he had perfected a superior martial art and reached the Innate Realm. Five years later, while studying in the Scripture Storage Pavilion, he comprehended a powerful art that strengthened his body, blood, meridians, and spirit.

• The Long Eyebrow Old Monk confirmed Lin Yuan had naturally cultivated Innate Inner Energy and offered to take him as his disciple, which Lin Yuan accepted.
• After two months of teaching Lin Yuan, the Long Eyebrow Old Monk sent him to live in the Scripture Storage Pavilion because Lin Yuan’s comprehension had outstripped his ability to guide him.
• Lin Yuan began studying the Pavilion’s martial arts manuals, including the Muscle Tendon Change Classic.
• After three days of studying the classic, Lin Yuan comprehended the Muscle Tendon Marrow Cleansing, Body-Tempering, Blood-Changing, Spirit-Refining Divine Art and began strengthening his body and spirit.
• Lin Yuan remained in the Scripture Storage Pavilion for five years.

After five years studying in Great Zen Temple’s Scripture Storage Pavilion, Lin Yuan prepared to break through to Great Grandmaster using a secret technique he had refined to nearly eliminate the risk. His breakthrough released Mental Energy, revealing his achievement to the Abbot and Courtyard Heads and leaving them stunned that he had become a Great Grandmaster at eight.

• Lin Yuan reviewed the Great Li Dynasty’s Martial Dao Grandmasters and considered the danger of condensing Mental Energy to reach Great Grandmaster.
• Lin Yuan decided his one hundred and sixty-third breakthrough secret technique was safe enough and began his attempt to enter Great Grandmaster.
• The Abbot of Great Zen Temple and several Courtyard Heads discussed Lin Yuan’s years in the Scripture Storage Pavilion and speculated about his cultivation.
• A surge of Mental Energy erupted from the Scripture Storage Pavilion, and the Abbot and Courtyard Heads recognized it as Lin Yuan’s aura.
• The Abbot and Courtyard Heads realized Lin Yuan had seemingly become a Great Grandmaster at eight and wondered if he was even human.

Lin Yuan’s breakthrough to the Great Grandmaster Realm shocked the Great Zen Temple, whose leaders accepted him as a Buddha’s Disciple. He shared guidance on reaching the Grandmaster Realm, giving the Abbot and Courtyard Heads hope of advancing.

• The Long Eyebrow Old Monk sensed Mental Energy from the Scripture Storage Pavilion and realized that Lin Yuan might have reached the Great Grandmaster Realm.
• Lin Yuan compared his Mental Energy with the Mind Power of the Cosmic Human Civilization and considered how the Martial Path could become a new Evolutionary Path.
• The Abbot, the Courtyard Heads, and the Long Eyebrow Old Monk entered the Scripture Storage Pavilion after Lin Yuan invited them in.
• The Long Eyebrow Old Monk and the others bowed to Lin Yuan and called him Buddha’s Disciple, while Lin Yuan neither confirmed nor denied the title.
• Lin Yuan explained methods for advancing from the Innate Realm to the Grandmaster Realm, leaving the Abbot and Courtyard Heads hopeful of becoming Masters.

Lin Yuan taught Long Eyebrow Old Monk a spirit-tempering art, mastered a powerful Mental Miracle Art, and broke through beyond Great Grandmaster into the Mythic Realm. After exhausting Great Zen Temple’s teachings, he descended the mountain to explore the world, leaving Hui Yuan and the Courtyard Heads startled by his departure.

• Lin Yuan recited the 'Muscle Tendon Marrow Cleansing, Body Tempering, Blood Changing, Spirit Refining Art' to Long Eyebrow Old Monk and the temple leaders, and Long Eyebrow Old Monk realized its immense value.
• Lin Yuan studied the 'Demon Subduing Wisdom Scripture' for half a month and gained the Mental Miracle Art 'Heaven Changing Earth Striking Great Art.'
• Five years later, Lin Yuan broke through Great Grandmaster and named his unprecedented realm the Mythic Realm.
• Lin Yuan decided to travel beyond Great Zen Temple to study the world’s other Martial Path techniques and secret arts.
• Hui Yuan and the Courtyard Heads discussed their improved prospects of reaching the Grandmaster Realm before a martial monk reported that Lin Yuan had descended the mountain to see the world.

Lin Yuan left Great Zen Temple to explore the realm and study other factions’ martial arts, creating the True Intent movement art Nine Steps of Divine Wind along the way. After learning Bright Moon Palace had fallen into disorder, he discovered that the Great Li Capital held martial arts manuals collected from every major sect and decided to go there.

• Abbot Hui Yuan assured the other Courtyard Heads that Lin Yuan would be safe outside Great Zen Temple and that temples across the realm would obey him.
• Lin Yuan traveled far from Great Zen Temple and, after sensing the wind, comprehended the True Intent Martial Art Nine Steps of Divine Wind.
• Lin Yuan reflected that True Intent Martial Arts drew on the power of heaven and earth, suggesting that the path ahead might involve them too.
• At Pudu Temple, Lin Yuan told its Abbot he wanted to study Bright Moon Palace’s martial arts, but learned that the palace’s Master had died and rebellion had scattered its manuals.
• The Abbot of Pudu Temple told Lin Yuan that the Great Li Founding Ancestor had collected martial arts manuals from the realm’s major factions and taken them to the Great Li Capital.
• Lin Yuan decided that visiting the Great Li Capital would be a more efficient way to study the martial arts of the major factions.

Lin Yuan went to Great Li’s capital to enter the Imperial Palace’s Martial Hall, where he met Huizhen, a monk connected to Great Zen Temple. Rejecting Huizhen’s slow plan to win the Emperor’s favor, Lin Yuan announced his request directly and overwhelmed the palace’s defenders with his voice.

• Lin Yuan heard a storyteller at Exquisite Pavilion recount tales about the Buddha’s Disciple and realized rumors about him had spread.
• Lin Yuan walked to the Imperial Palace, where Huizhen recognized him from a portrait sent by Great Zen Temple.
• Lin Yuan told Huizhen he wanted to enter the Martial Hall, and Huizhen proposed gaining the Empress Dowager’s favor before seeking the Emperor’s permission.
• Lin Yuan called out his request to enter the Martial Hall, and his Buddhist chant incapacitated the Imperial Guards, Grand Commanders, and five Masters.
• Huizhen stared in shock as the Imperial Palace fell into disarray.

Lin Yuan used Lion's Roar outside the Great Li Imperial Palace to overwhelm its defenders and request entry to the Martial Hall. The Great Li Emperor and the Old Ancestor came out, and the Emperor agreed to let him enter.

• The Great Li Emperor asked the Old Ancestor whether anyone in the world could still oppose him, and the Old Ancestor said only the Great Grandmaster Realm could bring true supremacy.
• Lin Yuan used Lion's Roar to announce that Huizhen wished to visit the Imperial Palace's Martial Hall, leaving the palace's defenders weakened but not irreversibly injured.
• The middle-aged monk watched in shock as Lin Yuan said they would soon be able to enter.
• The Great Li Emperor and the Old Ancestor left the palace and met Lin Yuan outside.
• Lin Yuan repeated his request to see the Martial Hall, and the Great Li Emperor invited him inside.

After mastering the Great Li Imperial Palace’s martial arts, Lin Yuan arranged a tournament to study techniques from martial artists across the land and offered Masters a chance to challenge him. The South Sea Sword Saint entered the Martial Hall seeking to use Lin Yuan as a stepping stone, but left stunned by the gulf between their strength.

• Lin Yuan decided to hold a World Martial Arts Tournament, offering the top ten contestants three superior martial arts each and Mental Cultivation Arts to Masters who challenged him.
• The tournament rewards drew martial artists and Masters toward the Great Li Capital, and the first tournament confirmed that the promised superior martial arts were real.
• The South Sea Sword Saint arrived at the Imperial Palace with his young disciple, and the Lean Elder sensed that he had begun nurturing Mental Energy.
• The South Sea Sword Saint entered the Martial Hall to challenge Lin Yuan, but came back out less than half an incense stick later, visibly shaken.
• The South Sea Sword Saint told his disciple that Lin Yuan’s strength was like the blue heavens compared with a mayfly.

Yuwen Pan wondered whether Lin Yuan had surpassed the Great Grandmaster realm as Lin Yuan found a path beyond the Mythic Realm. Lin Yuan left the capital and returned to Great Zen Temple, where he resumed his secluded life.

• Yuwen Pan watched the South Sea Sword Saint leave and worried that Lin Yuan might have reached a realm beyond Great Grandmaster.
• After observing martial artists at the capital’s tournament, Lin Yuan used his Heaven-Defying Comprehension to identify a path beyond the Mythic Realm.
• Lin Yuan left the Martial Hall after half a month of meditation, and Yuwen Pan felt bereft as his master departed.
• Abbot Hui Yuan and the other Great Zen Temple leaders waited anxiously, fearing Lin Yuan might be in danger or changed by the martial world.
• Lin Yuan returned to Great Zen Temple, told the leaders that everything had been settled, and went back to the Scripture Storage Pavilion.

After eight years of secluded cultivation, Lin Yuan entered the realm beyond the Mythic Realm and recorded the Martial Path’s advancement for Great Zen Temple. As pressure from heaven and earth intensified, the Door of Myriad Worlds lit up, signaling the end of his first instance.

• Lin Yuan continued comprehending the Martial Path, aiming to raise its potential and earn a higher evaluation from the Goddess of Wisdom.
• The world learned that the Mysterious Monk was Huizhen, Buddha's Disciple of Great Zen Temple, and martial artists flocked to Shaoshi Mountain to see him.
• The South Sea Sword Saint visited Great Zen Temple with his young disciple and sensed Lin Yuan’s immense breakthrough aura.
• Lin Yuan emerged from the Scripture Storage Pavilion and told Abbot Hui Yuan and the others about the Mythic Realm and the realm beyond it.
• Lin Yuan recorded the Martial Path’s cultivation stages in books, then stopped cultivating and traveled as the pressure of heaven and earth grew stronger.
• Several months later, the Door of Myriad Worlds deep within Lin Yuan’s mind shone brilliantly.

After returning from twenty years in the Martial Arts World, Lin Yuan discovered that only ten minutes had passed in the Main World and learned more about the Door of Myriad Worlds. He realized his Innate Inner Energy made him an evolutionary and planned to obtain official certification so he could avoid conscription.

• Lin Yuan returned to the Main World and found that ten minutes there had passed during his twenty years in the Martial Arts World.
• Lin Yuan learned that the Door of Myriad Worlds could support Physical-Body Traversal and allow him to bring items back, though both options had costs.
• Lin Yuan condensed Innate Inner Energy and judged that his power qualified him as an evolutionary.
• Lin Yuan's younger sister brought him a cake at their parents' prompting, and Lin Yuan ate it while his family watched anxiously.
• Lin Yuan decided to visit the Evolutionary Association the next day to obtain an Evolutionary Certificate and apply for conscription exemption.

Lin Yuan revised and uploaded the Martial Scripture, a new evolutionary path adapted for citizens of the Main World. Its evaluation found broad applicability and third-rank potential, prompting the Goddess of Wisdom to contact Azure Wave Star's Archon, Song Wuyang.

• Lin Yuan modified the Martial Path of Evolution for Main World citizens and compiled his teachings into the Martial Scripture.
• Lin Yuan uploaded the Martial Scripture's Innate Chapter and Grandmaster Chapter to the Goddess of Wisdom.
• The Goddess of Wisdom's deeper evaluation judged the path authentic, broadly applicable, stable, and capable of reaching the third rank.
• The Goddess of Wisdom invoked an Alliance contingency plan and identified Archon Song Wuyang as the highest-authority individual near Azure Wave Star.
• Song Wuyang learned that the requester was the Goddess of Wisdom.

The Goddess of Wisdom and Archon Song Wuyang evaluated Lin Yuan’s Martial Path of Evolution and awarded him two thousand Merit Points. Lin Yuan used half of them to become a Second Level Citizen.

• The Goddess of Wisdom contacted Song Wuyang to discuss a newly discovered Evolutionary Path with potential reaching Tier 3 or higher.
• Song Wuyang reviewed Lin Yuan’s Martial Scripture and learned that the Martial Path of Evolution ranked ninety-third on Azure Wave Star’s Evolution Chart.
• Song Wuyang agreed to award Lin Yuan two thousand Merit Points for developing the path.
• The Goddess of Wisdom informed Lin Yuan that his Evolutionary Path had Tier 3 potential and issued the Merit Points.
• Lin Yuan spent one thousand Merit Points to advance from First Level Citizen to Second Level Citizen.

After becoming a Second Level Citizen, Lin Yuan received five million and learned about his new privileges, including access to the Virtual World. He discovered that his Martial Path of Evolution would rank ninety-third on the Azure Wave Evolution Chart, then told his mother he no longer had to face conscription.

• Lin Yuan received five million from Cosmic Human Civilization and learned about the privileges of being a Second Level Citizen.
• Lin Yuan entered the Virtual World and saw the Azure Wave Evolution Chart, where the Goddess of Wisdom said his Martial Path of Evolution ranked ninety-third.
• Lin Yuan chose to hide his citizen ID before leaving the Virtual World.
• Lu Qiong offered Lin Yuan her savings and explained that his father had refused the conscription order.
• Lin Yuan told Lu Qiong he no longer needed to be conscripted, leaving her stunned.

Lin Yuan revealed to his parents that he had become an evolver, freeing him from Mandatory Conscription. Meanwhile, the Martial Path of Evolution entered the Azure Wave Evolution Chart, and Lin Yuan searched the marketplace for Advanced Nutrient Solution to restore his strength.

• Lin Yuan demonstrated his new power by reducing a ceramic bowl to powder, convincing Lu Qiong that he was an evolver.
• Lin Yuan told Lin Shoucheng and Lu Qiong that he had awakened as an evolver, and they celebrated his exemption from conscription.
• The Azure Wave Evolution Chart changed, replacing the Blood Evolution Route with the Martial Path of Evolution at rank ninety-three.
• Evolvers and high-level citizens in the Central Plaza Area reacted with shock and speculated about who had developed the Martial Path of Evolution.
• Lin Yuan browsed the marketplace and focused on Advanced Nutrient Solution to recover his strength.

Lin Yuan bought a secluded estate in Water Moon District and used Advanced Nutrient Solution to restore his strength. After absorbing twenty-one bottles, he fully recovered and reached his former level of power.

• Lin Yuan assessed his Evolutionary rank, chose Water Moon District, and used his Second Level Citizen benefits to buy an estate with an underground training room.
• Anna and Manager Wang treated Lin Yuan as an honored guest, while his classmate Zhao Qiwen recognized him and was warned not to ask about his identity.
• Lin Yuan changed the delivery address for his Advanced Nutrient Solution and swallowed the first bottle, advancing into the Grandmaster Realm.
• Lin Yuan bought twenty more bottles and absorbed them over two days, fully restoring his strength.

Lin Yuan recovered his strength, explored the Virtual World, and arranged to register with the Evolutionary Association. After his family discussed a dinner to celebrate his new status, the Association arranged special transportation for him as a Second Level Citizen, and someone unexpectedly recognized him while he waited.

• Lin Yuan explored Azure Wave Star's Virtual World and was amazed by how realistic its sensory simulations felt.
• Lin Yuan booked an appointment to register as an Evolutionary and obtain his certificate.
• Lu Qiong told Lin Yuan that relatives wanted to hold a family dinner, and Lin Yuan agreed to attend.
• An Evolutionary Association employee learned that Lin Yuan was a Second Level Citizen and offered to send transportation to collect him.
• Lin Yuan waited at a coffee shop, where someone suddenly asked why he was there.