Chapter Summaries

Lu Sheng reunited with Wang Jing, then learned that his son Lu Ning had ended up in a futuristic world and was trying to grow stronger there. After more than a month of diplomacy and investigation, Lu Sheng prepared to pursue the Mandira Inducer and search for his family, while Li Shunxi reported leads about powerful groups and figures.

• Lu Sheng and Wang Jing escaped the destruction of a planet, and Wang Jing explained that a Red Moon Sect higher-up had taken her.
• Lu Ning met Nan Xin · Ka Du Si in a virtual world and accepted a mission to collect Star Spirit Grass Seeds and hunt Void Spirit Beasts before returning to school in the Mo Tu Empire.
• Wang Jing's body died during her exertions with Lu Sheng, but she regenerated; she then left to undergo Bitter Cultivation in hopes of becoming able to bear his child.
• Lu Sheng attended banquets and established friendly agreements with the Jadeite Empire, but the Purple Star Elder evaded his questions about the Mother of Pain.
• Yin E Shi Jia calculated traits of the Mandira Inducer, and Lu Sheng prepared to travel to its likely super high-energy world to investigate its attack on his relatives.
• Li Shunxi reported that Zhen had ties to Xidi, the Thousand-Foot Giant Turtle, and that the Eight-Headed Eagle Lion Beast clan seemed unfriendly toward Lu Sheng's faction.

Lu Sheng prepared to unite his forces and negotiate with the Ancient Beasts and Star Alliance before descending into a far more powerful world. There, he possessed Wang Mu, a librarian who had died of a heart attack, but found that the world’s laws severely suppressed his power.

• Lu Sheng told Li Shunxi to warn Xidi and said he would seek help from another Star Alliance faction if the Ancient Beasts pushed him too far.
• Lu Sheng ordered a Descent Array and an investigation into Mother of Pain’s whereabouts, and planned to send his soul-powered subordinates to the Heavenly Devil World.
• Lu Sheng and Li Shunxi joked about marriage and children while Lu Sheng hoped to gather enough God-Entrusting Power to take revenge, find his family, and return to Earth.
• Lu Sheng awoke in Wang Mu’s body, recovered the librarian’s memories, and learned that Wang Mu had died from a heart attack after practicing fraudulent inner-qi techniques.
• Lu Sheng discovered that the new world’s energy level and laws suppressed his soul power and Earth Qi, leaving him with little influence beyond sustaining Wang Mu’s body.

Lu Sheng began working as a librarian at Wen Da Library while investigating the ordinary technological world he had entered and trying to fulfill Wang Mu’s wish. After learning that the world had no special powers, he decided to start with basic physical training.

• Lu Sheng used Earth Qi soul power to repair Wang Mu’s heart disease, then went to work at Wen Da Library.
• Lu Sheng inspected the library and its outdated books and files, finding no useful training information.
• A few visitors borrowed books, and the library earned money from lending them.
• Xu Shao Gong called Lu Sheng and urged him to stop wasting his time as a librarian.
• Lu Sheng concluded that the world had no special powers and decided to begin with basic physical training.

Lu Sheng created the Spiral Nine Lives Method to cultivate his body under this world's restrictions and began strengthening his skin. He planned to earn money by teaching combat at the library, where Liu Cheng noticed his fluency in Cain Language and grew curious about him.

• Lu Sheng devised the Spiral Nine Lives Method, a nine-stage method that used external stimuli to drive the body toward evolution.
• Lu Sheng used Deep Blue and Earth Qi to advance the method to its First Life, hardening his outer skin with more than nine thousand units of God-Entrusting Power.
• Lu Sheng decided to earn money by teaching combat to students who sought him out, while continuing his work as a librarian.
• Liu Cheng returned a book to Wen Da Library and noticed Lu Sheng reading and annotating original Cain Language texts.
• Liu Cheng watched Lu Sheng change books several times, became curious about his knowledge, and eventually left without approaching him.

Lu Sheng trained in the Spiral Nine Lives Method behind the library, where Liu Cheng and a chubby boy secretly watched him and mistook him for a hidden master. He began recruiting students to earn money and taught Liu Cheng, Chen Hongyuan, and the boy their first language lesson, leaving the girls eager to study more.

• Lu Sheng practiced the Spiral Nine Lives Method in an abandoned lot behind the library while Liu Cheng and a chubby boy watched from nearby.
• Several days later, the chubby boy confessed that he had seen Lu Sheng training and asked to become his apprentice.
• Lu Sheng pointed the boy toward his student recruitment notice, where Liu Cheng and Chen Hongyuan were waiting to begin tutoring.
• Lu Sheng agreed to teach the three teenagers La Language and offered Kain Language lessons for an additional fee.
• Lu Sheng taught the students La Language in the periodicals room, and Liu Cheng and Chen Hongyuan left eager to study through the night.

Lu Sheng accepted Bai Anyi as his first student and initiated him into the painful Load Fighting Art. That night, Lu Sheng advanced the Spiral Nine Lives Method to the Second Life and conceived of the Heavenly Emperor Realm, leaving him hopeful that its final stage could help him break through the Dead Star.

• Bai Anyi pleaded to learn martial arts, and Lu Sheng enrolled him in the Load Fighting Art for forty thousand a month after warning him about its pain and expense.
• Lu Sheng struck Bai Anyi three times to open hidden apertures and activate part of his body's Self-Restraint Wheel, leaving him convulsing for five minutes before sending him home to rest.
• Lu Sheng returned to his apartment and used Deep Blue to raise the Spiral Nine Lives Method from the First Life to the Second Life, consuming over one hundred and twenty thousand units of God-Entrusting Power.
• Lu Sheng sensed the transformation of his muscles and red blood cells as the Muscle Self-Restraint was removed.
• Lu Sheng formulated the Heavenly Emperor Realm as the method's final realm and sensed it might let him borrow the world's power to break through the Dead Star.

After breaking through to the Second Life, Lu Sheng tested his immense strength and began training Bai Anyi and Zhao Guoyou in his Self-Limiting Training Method. Once Bai Anyi qualified to learn the Load Fighting Art, Lu Sheng demonstrated its power by driving his enlarged arm through solid building debris.

• Lu Sheng tested his Second Life body and found that his strength and hardened skin gave him power comparable to the Restraint Rank in the Heavenly Devil World.
• Lu Sheng took Bai Xiaopang as a trainee, put him through painful full-body training, and watched him lose weight over the following week.
• Zhao Guoyou joined the training alongside Bai Anyi, while another trainee quit after enduring one class.
• Lu Sheng brought Bai Anyi and Zhao Guoyou to a construction-waste yard and told them Bai Anyi could begin learning the Load Fighting Art.
• Lu Sheng warned Zhao Guoyou not to reveal the art, then enlarged his arm and pierced two sections of building debris with it.

Lu Sheng’s students advanced through his training, and he opened a paid Outer Class that brought in six new students and steady income. As he considered expanding his training operation, he encountered his neighbor Zhen He and answered her question about his recent absence from their night runs.

• Lu Sheng trained Bai Anyi in Power Through, and Bai Anyi used a discarded simulation machine and supplements to progress rapidly over two months.
• Bai Anyi completed the Power Through stage while Zhao Guoyou finished her Self-Limiting Training, and Lu Sheng told them he would open an Outer Class for new students.
• Bai Anyi and Zhao Guoyou spread the word, bringing six wealthy students to Lu Sheng, who began training them for a monthly fee of one hundred thousand each.
• Lu Sheng earned seven hundred thousand a month from the Outer Class and considered buying a home and renting a training space.
• Lu Sheng met his neighbor Zhen He, who asked why she had not seen him out night running, and he said he had been busy.

Lu Sheng completed the third layer of the Spiral Nine Lives Method, spending nearly three million units of God-Entrusting Power, while his training school continued to grow. Bai Anyi’s returning older brother dismissed Lu Sheng’s teaching and challenged Bai Anyi to hit him, only to have his breastbone shattered by the punch.

• Lu Sheng told Zhen He he planned to buy a home, then shut himself in his bedroom to break through the third layer.
• Lu Sheng consumed his prepared food and completed the endocrine layer, noting that the breakthrough cost nearly three million units of God-Entrusting Power.
• Over the following weeks, Bai Anyi’s progress drew new students to Lu Sheng’s Outer Class, which grew to ten members.
• Bai Anyi’s older brother returned and ordered him to quit Lu Sheng’s class, insisting technology-assisted training would be better.
• Bai Anyi struck his brother at the young man’s urging and shattered his breastbone.

Lu Sheng healed Bai Juncheng after Bai Anyi accidentally inflicted severe injuries on him, then accepted a series of gifts from the White Family. As Bai Anyi and Zhao Guoyou continued training, word of Lu Sheng’s healing ability spread and his class gained a growing reputation.

• Lu Sheng reprimanded Bai Anyi for using his full strength against Bai Juncheng, then promised to treat his brother and warned him to limit his power when sparring with ordinary people.
• Lu Sheng used precise vibrations and control of Bai Juncheng’s body to clear his injuries, leaving him able to stand and walk despite needing months for full recovery.
• Bai Juncheng sent Lu Sheng a car key and later arranged gifts including training equipment, a villa, and two luxury sedans.
• Lu Sheng continued modifying his body and training Bai Anyi, while Zhao Guoyou began practicing the Load Fighting Art at a slower pace.
• Students at the Outer Class heard that Lu Sheng had healed Bai Juncheng, and his reputation spread as people with difficult illnesses considered seeking his help.

Bai Juncheng’s enemies confronted him and Bai Anyi, while Lu Sheng established Nine Lives Hall, recruited two homeless siblings to help run it, and expanded its classes. Two months later, the Outer Class’s enrollment had begun to decline.

• Gold Chains and his Exoskeleton Armor-wearing men surrounded Bai Juncheng and Bai Anyi in the park, forcing Bai Anyi to fight them.
• Bai Anyi told Lu Sheng about the encounter and warned him that trouble might come because of their conflict; Lu Sheng named his growing tutoring group Nine Lives Hall.
• Lu Sheng learned that the library was being transferred and considered buying it, then decided to recruit helpers to manage practical affairs.
• Lu Sheng hired Wei Handong and Wei Zhenyu, two homeless siblings, and had them help organize Nine Lives Hall’s students and daily work.
• Lu Sheng rented a warehouse for training, and Nine Lives Hall’s Outer Class attracted overweight students before enrollment began to dwindle over the next two months.

Lu Sheng accepted Bai Anmin’s invitation to meet the White Family and secure a loan for buying Wen Da Library. At the gathering, he encountered Ding Ning, a celebrated Mind Power Master seeking funds to open an institute, while Nine Lives Hall received little attention.

• Lu Sheng made Bai Juncheng his disciple and began teaching him the Self-Limiting Training Method, while the Wei Handong siblings became half-core disciples.
• Bai Juncheng told Lu Sheng that Bai Anmin would lend him thirty million without interest, and Lu Sheng accepted an invitation to the White Family’s gathering.
• Lu Sheng arrived at Bai Anmin’s villa with his disciples, where Bai Anmin welcomed him and introduced him to the assembled guests.
• Ding Ning arrived in a decorated uniform and announced that he was opening a Mind Institute in Anming City.
• Bai Juncheng explained that Ding Ning was a rare Mind Power Master and that Bai Anmin had planned to raise funds for both Ding Ning and Lu Sheng.
• Bai Anmin gave Ding Ning’s fundraising effort priority in his speech, leaving Nine Lives Hall with only a brief mention and little interest from the guests.

At a gathering meant to raise funds for Nine Lives Hall, Ding Ning’s Mind Institute drew the guests’ attention, while Lu Sheng remained uninterested in competing for the spotlight. When Lu Sheng discovered that the Zhou Family and Ding Ning were pressuring Bai Anmin to sell land hiding valuable Lie Ore, Wei Handong claimed Nine Lives Hall held a share in it and denounced the pressure.

• Ding Ning introduced his disciples Zhou Xiang and Zhou Mingxiang, and guests gathered around him while Bai Juncheng and Bai Anyi resented the snub to Nine Lives Hall.
• Bai Anmin warned his sons not to provoke Ding Ning, explaining that Mind Power Masters had formidable abilities and official status.
• Bai Anmin gave Bai Juncheng a thirty-million check for Lu Sheng, who exchanged a promissory note and prepared to leave.
• After hearing an alarm upstairs, Lu Sheng led his disciples to find Zhou Ying, Ding Ning, and their supporters pressuring Bai Anmin to sell his land at market price or 130 percent of that price.
• Lu Sheng learned that the Zhou Family wanted the land because Lie Ore lay beneath it, then signaled Wei Handong to claim Nine Lives Hall had a share and challenge the crowd.

At the Bai family’s land negotiation, Bai Anyi attacked Ding Ning, but Lu Sheng intervened and drove him off. Back at Nine Lives Hall, Lu Sheng explained that Bai Anyi should begin studying the Spirit Intent realm, a level beyond Power Through.

• Bai Juncheng asserted that Nine Lives Hall held a share in the land, prompting Ding Ning to challenge the group to a fight and threaten the Bai brothers.
• Bai Anyi punched at Ding Ning, broke through the Zhou brothers’ flaming chains, and continued his attack despite injuring his knuckles.
• Lu Sheng struck Ding Ning with a palm, sent him crashing into a wall, and told him to come to Nine Lives Hall if he wanted the land.
• Bai Juncheng cracked the floor with a heavy palm before following Lu Sheng out, while Bai Anmin watched Ding Ning leave and arranged repairs.
• At Nine Lives Hall, Lu Sheng praised Bai Anyi’s courage but warned him against overestimating himself, then agreed that Bai Juncheng should receive a share of the land.
• Lu Sheng explained that Spirit Intent followed Power Through and described how it combined major muscle groups with selected minor muscle groups.

Lu Sheng taught his four disciples three forms of Spirit Intent, expanded Nine Lives Hall, and prepared to buy a home. He postponed the house hunt to meet Xu Shao Gong and Xie Mei, where he reunited with former class monitor Xiao Changling and felt Wang Mu’s memories stir.

• Lu Sheng explained Wolf Form, Crane Form, and Vermilion Bird Form, and his four disciples each chose one to study.
• Nine Lives Hall’s Core Class grew to eight members, the organization expanded, and Lu Sheng bought Wen Da Library and accumulated more than ten million in funds.
• On June 7th, Lu Sheng set out to buy a home but went to meet Xu Shao Gong and Xie Mei after Xu called.
• At the restaurant, Lu Sheng found Xiao Changling dining with them and felt Wang Mu’s memories react strongly to seeing her.

Lu Sheng reunited with Xiao Changling and Xu Shao Gong at dinner, then left to meet Bai Juncheng. Xiao Changling briefly wondered whether she had seen Lu Sheng in a passing sports car, while Lu Sheng entered a warehouse full of Exoskeleton Armor and prepared to test its power.

• Lu Sheng met his former class monitor Xiao Changling at a meal with Xu Shao Gong and Xie Mei, and they reminisced about high school.
• Xiao Changling recalled her failed relationship with Duan Ran and learned that Lu Sheng worked at a private library.
• Xu Shao Gong joked that Xiao Changling should consider dating Lu Sheng, but Lu Sheng declined and the group parted after exchanging phone numbers.
• Xiao Changling entered a jewelry shop and wondered whether a man in a passing sports car had been Lu Sheng.
• Bai Juncheng drove Lu Sheng to a warehouse in the church district, where Lu Sheng found stacks of Exoskeleton Armor and announced that he would test one.

Lu Sheng confronted Nine Lives Hall students who had become dependent on Exoskeleton Armor, defeating them effortlessly and urging them to prioritize their own training while using technology only as support. His students recognized that his unexplained strength surpassed anything they had imagined, and Nine Lives Hall’s growing influence became clear.

• Lu Sheng defeated successive groups of students wearing Exoskeleton Armor, bending their gear and leaving them unable to injure him.
• Bai Juncheng explained that reliance on the armor could make the students weaker, while Red Thorn reaffirmed her devotion to Lu Sheng after witnessing his strength.
• Lu Sheng crushed and reshaped an armor component with his bare hands, then challenged the students to pursue strength through training rather than depend on the armor.
• Ansha admitted the students had been wrong to rely on the armor, and Lu Sheng advised them to use support devices without neglecting their fighting techniques.
• Ansha asked whether Lu Sheng had learned his body-tempering techniques on Garnado Star, but Lu Sheng denied ever visiting the planet or inheriting them from anyone.

Lu Sheng fought Zheng Huan, a high-level Mind Power Master, and withstood his Golden Flame Dragon’s attacks before severely injuring him. Lu Sheng offered Zheng Huan a purpose and demanded that he stay by his side, leaving him pointing a finger at Zheng Huan’s eye after drawing blood.

• Lu Sheng encountered Ding Ning and Zheng Huan on his walk home, and Zheng Huan challenged him with a golden chain.
• Lu Sheng broke through Zheng Huan’s chain defenses, then caught the Golden Flame Dragon and endured its Dragon Eye attack without injury.
• Lu Sheng struck Zheng Huan with a powerful blow that left him badly wounded, while Ding Ning realized Zheng Huan had not held back.
• Lu Sheng offered Zheng Huan a place at his side and urged him to make killing Lu Sheng his goal.
• Lu Sheng lifted Zheng Huan by the hair, pointed at his right eye, and drew blood while warning him to remember the fear of death.

After Lu Sheng defeated Zheng Huan and restored his ability to use mind power, he recruited him into Nine Lives Hall and planned to draw military candidates into his influence. The chapter ended as Colonel Terry’s elite troops prepared to meet Lu Sheng at the training base.

• Lu Sheng defeated Zheng Huan and injured Ding Ning after breaking through their mind power defenses.
• A crew-cut man tried to locate Zheng Huan and worried that his friend had abandoned their shared experiment and cause.
• At Nine Lives Hall, Lu Sheng gave Zheng Huan a metal ball to control and invited him to attend a military combat exchange.
• Lu Sheng told Zheng Huan he intended to make everyone within his sight a disciple of Nine Lives Hall and ordered him to train in Combat Arts.
• Colonel Terry assembled his elite trainees at the temporary training base to assess Lu Sheng’s combat techniques.

Lu Sheng demonstrated his fighting art at the Training Camp, leaving Colonel Terry and dozens of commandos under the influence of his Ten Directions Extinguishing Emotion Path. On the ride back, he reflected on losing the ideals that once drove him and considered Zheng Huan’s advice to keep pursuing them.

• Wang Mu and the Nine Lives Hall group arrived at the Training Camp, where Bai Juncheng struck Fei Na Duo after he stepped forward to challenge them.
• Lu Sheng began the exchange by preaching that fighting was slaughter and used his power to influence Colonel Terry and the commandos.
• Lu Sheng left the camp with Bai Juncheng and Zheng Huan after giving Colonel Terry and the commandos part of the Load Fighting Art.
• Lu Sheng explained that he had created the Ten Directions Extinguishing Emotion Path, which planted seeds of fanatical worship in those he defeated.
• Lu Sheng told Bai Juncheng and Zheng Huan that he had lost the anger and ideals that once made him want to correct the world.
• Zheng Huan urged Lu Sheng to keep acting on his old ideals, and the two joked about Lu Sheng having gouged out Zheng Huan’s eyes.