Chapter Summaries

Chen Chuan defeated Dou Bing by turning a wrestling throw against him, then used feints to make Ren Qiao lose his balance and surrender. After winning three bouts in a row, he left the field awaiting the next challenger.

• Dou Bing challenged Chen Chuan, who let himself be grabbed and then countered the throw, slammed Dou Bing to the ground, and defeated him.
• Ni Qianqian applauded Chen Chuan’s risky counter, and Liu Yin and the other spectators followed.
• Chen Chuan declined a rest, and Ren Qiao stepped forward to challenge him.
• Ren Qiao cautiously tested Chen Chuan, but Chen Chuan’s feints drew his defense out of position.
• Chen Chuan seized Ren Qiao’s waist and shoulder, made him drop to his knees, and Ren Qiao admitted defeat.

Chen Chuan defeated Ren Qiao and then Liu Yin at the exchange, revealing that he could overcome the gathering’s strongest young fighter. After Ni Qianqian ended the matches, Chen Chuan left and identified Cheng Zitong of Yangzhi Wuyi Academy as his teacher.

• Chen Chuan defeated Ren Qiao by using a move that made him lose his balance, and Sister Bai transferred two hundred yuan to Ni Qianqian after losing her bet.
• Liu Yin entered the field to fight Chen Chuan, while Xiao Jing and her brother watched from the audience.
• After receiving Ni Qianqian’s message that something had come up at the bureau, Chen Chuan released the restraints on his Mutated Tissue and accelerated toward Liu Yin.
• Chen Chuan endured two collisions, then struck Liu Yin in the chest and sent him flying from the field.
• Ni Qianqian ended the exchange, and Chen Chuan told the man who asked that Cheng Zitong of Yangzhi Wuyi Academy had taught him before leaving.

Chen Chuan defeated Liu Yin with a force-redirection technique, then investigated a massacre at a Fighting Hall with Ni Qianqian and learned that Wei Wusheng was the likely attacker. The chapter ends with Ni Qianqian telling him that Ling Jianxing proposed assigning students with Third Limit assessments below fifty percent as mentors for the academy’s fighting tournaments.

• Sister Bai explained that Chen Chuan had concealed his true strength and tactics, convincing Liu Yin and the other young Fighters that he had outthought them.
• Ni Qianqian drove Chen Chuan to a massacre at a nearby Fighting Hall, where thirty-five people had been killed by a single powerful attacker.
• The Bureau’s force signature comparison identified Wei Wusheng as the likely perpetrator, and Chen Chuan learned that the hall owner’s eldest son had attended the Rhino Horn Cruise matches.
• Chen Chuan warned Tan Zhi, Pan Xiaode, and Qi Huixin that Wei Wusheng might target them because they had also been at the cruise.
• Ni Qianqian told Chen Chuan that Ling Jianxing had proposed making students with Third Limit assessments below fifty percent serve as mentors at academy fighting tournaments.

Chen Chuan took his second assessment after Ni Qianqian warned him that the academy might force guidance trainees into arena competitions. His score showed an 81% chance of entering the Third Limit, and Assistant Ling planned to leak the result to Zhao Qian to test him further.

• Ni Qianqian warned Chen Chuan that becoming a guidance trainee could leave him trapped in arena competitions, so he decided to raise his Third Limit entry evaluation.
• Chen Chuan fought Red Dust through the night in his second assessment, unleashing his abilities without holding back.
• The assessment gave Chen Chuan an overall score of 84 points and an 81% Third Limit success probability.
• Assistant Ling discussed Chen Chuan's report with someone through a World Token and decided to leak it to Zhao Qian to provoke a response.

Zhao Qian learned that Chen Chuan had reached an 81 percent Third Limit assessment and hired a Secret Serpent Sect assassin to kill him. Meanwhile, Chen Chuan began practical combat training with Zheng Tongtong, where Teacher Zheng noticed he had independently developed a risky method of shifting force.

• Zhao Qian received Chen Chuan's student file and concluded that he had to eliminate him before he grew stronger.
• Zhao Qian submitted a cleanup request to the Secret Serpent Sect and designated the Cleaner Phantom Shape for the job.
• Chen Chuan declined the academy's offer to take his examination early, deciding he needed more time to improve his techniques.
• Teacher Zheng sensed that Chen Chuan had improved and began practical combat training with him and Zheng Tongtong.
• Chen Chuan probed Zheng Tongtong with a slash, and Teacher Zheng recognized that he was alternating force between two sets of Mutated Tissue despite the risk of injury.

Chen Chuan sparred with Zheng Tongtong, learned advanced force-control and breathing techniques from Teacher Zheng, and continued training. After shopping for gifts for his family, he learned that someone was secretly tracking him with a Boundary Point field.

• Chen Chuan found a way to block Zheng Tongtong's three-slash attack during a transition between his Mutated Tissue sets, though the effort left him injured.
• Teacher Zheng taught Chen Chuan breathing and force-control techniques to improve his transitions, then invited him to continue practical training throughout the semester.
• Chen Chuan trained with Zheng Tongtong over the following days and asked Lao Qi to alert him to abnormalities with widespread effects.
• Chen Chuan bought gifts for his relatives at Treasure Fruit Market and arranged for delivery to the Baofeng District Patrol Bureau.
• Wu Bei warned Chen Chuan that someone was tracking him with a concealed Boundary Point field, and Chen Chuan suspected Wei Wusheng and his associates.

Chen Chuan encountered a man with stupor disease on the tram, then later faced a skull-masked figure during an apparent supernatural attack on his ride home from the Sea Realm Field. The figure vanished when Chen Chuan struck it, while an unknown man in Shen Wei District declared that his plan had worked and offered mutated tissue at a strange shrine.

• Chen Chuan restrained a convulsing man with suspected stupor disease on the tram and reported him to the station staff.
• An unseen observer watched Chen Chuan enter the Mystic Palace Building, and Chen Chuan later spent seven hours receiving Radiant Light irradiation at the Sea Realm Field.
• On the tram home, Chen Chuan lost contact with Wu Bei and noticed a spectral intrusion that seemed connected to his World Token.
• Chen Chuan let the intrusion affect him, saw a skull-masked figure rush toward him, and made it vanish with a sweep of the Snow Monarch Blade.
• In Shen Wei District, a hunched man realized the attack had worked, cut mutated tissue from his chest, and placed it on a strange statue's stone platter.

You Xing’s ritual failed to kill Chen Chuan, and its entity turned on You Xing while Chen Chuan endured the assault and destroyed the apparition. Chen Chuan and Wu Bei found traces of the signal used to interfere with his World Token, and Wu Bei began trying to locate whoever sent it.

• You Xing sacrificed parts of his body to unleash the Leopard Cat Stone Sculpture’s entity against Chen Chuan on the tram.
• Chen Chuan endured the attack at the Jinwei Drinks Shop, then used a binding ritual in the wasteland to pull the leopard-cat apparition from his back and make it vanish.
• The failed ritual wounded You Xing, who realized he would remain the entity’s target unless he killed Chen Chuan.
• Chen Chuan told Wu Bei about the attack, and Wu Bei identified how someone had used close-range domain field contact to interfere with Chen Chuan’s World Token.
• Chen Chuan brought the World Token to a temporary garage, where Wu Bei found the signal traces and began trying to track their source.

Wu Bei traced the powerful signal to a hillside in Shen Wei District, where Chen Chuan found You Xing and a Folktale Raccoon Dog statue. You Xing mistook Chen Chuan’s arrival for an opportunity to settle their conflict and prepared to fight.

• Wu Bei received permission through Ni Qianqian to use the boundary points and traced the signal to a location near a park in Shen Wei District.
• Chen Chuan traveled to the hillside, turned off his World Token, and climbed past domain field alarms and physical traps.
• You Xing struggled with wounds inflicted by the Folktale Raccoon Dog and realized he had only three to five days to solve his problem.
• Chen Chuan entered You Xing’s house and recognized the raccoon dog statue, confirming that he had found his target.
• You Xing scanned Chen Chuan, noticed the medicinal scent on him, and took up a staff to prepare for a fight.

Chen Chuan fought You Xing, whose damaged Mutated Tissue weakened his otherwise formidable staff techniques, and used the battle to hone his blade skills. After trapping You Xing and overwhelming him with a series of slashes, Chen Chuan pierced his heart and cut off his head.

• Chen Chuan recognized that You Xing was injured and drew the Snow Monarch Blade to face him.
• You Xing tested Chen Chuan with precise, forceful staff strikes, while Chen Chuan parried and studied his techniques.
• Chen Chuan exploited You Xing's damaged Mutated Tissue to overpower him and pin him in place.
• Chen Chuan struck You Xing with more than twenty slashes until You Xing's strength failed and his staff slipped away.
• Chen Chuan pierced You Xing's heart, then severed his head.

Chen Chuan defeated the attacker who used You Xing's corpse and recovered the man's damaged World Token. He discovered a Green Island Type Resonance Nest and arranged for Wu Bei to use it temporarily through the Handling Bureau, then found documents linking the attacker to the Secret Serpent Sect.

• Chen Chuan watched an invisible creature consume You Xing's corpse, then retrieved the damaged World Token from its head and concluded the attack was unrelated to Wei Wusheng.
• Chen Chuan examined the bound urban legend's stone vessel and discovered a Green Island Type Resonance Nest in the building.
• Wu Bei identified the Nest and said he could use it, so Chen Chuan contacted Ni Qianqian, who offered to arrange temporary authorization through the Handling Bureau.
• Chen Chuan told Wu Bei the news and invited him to come to the park, then searched the building's second floor while waiting.
• Chen Chuan found cash, identity documents, and other papers in the owner's room, including a card belonging to the Secret Serpent Sect.

Chen Chuan searched You Xing’s hideout and uncovered weapons, supplies, and records that could help identify who had hired him. Wu Bei recovered recent conversations from You Xing’s World Token, and Chen Chuan asked him to investigate the Resonance Nest for further clues.

• Chen Chuan found coded notes, Esoteric Sect scripture, firearms, combat drugs, and a large stock of High-Energy Nutrient Solution in You Xing’s hideout.
• Chen Chuan discovered two vehicles and found a modified passenger vehicle and a Silver Lightning on the reinforced third floor.
• Wu Bei arrived, recognized the Resonance Nest as a valuable mobile Green Island model, and agreed to examine it.
• Wu Bei checked You Xing’s World Token and confirmed that it had not been burned out, then recovered recent domain field exchanges.
• Chen Chuan learned that a client had asked You Xing when the commissioned target would be eliminated and asked Wu Bei to investigate the Resonance Nest for residual information.

Chen Chuan searched You Xing’s stored records, glimpsed a mysterious Black Gate ritual, and found a message You Xing had sent to Wu Yi Academy before dying. He arranged to move You Xing’s equipment and vehicles, leaving the message unopened until he returned to the academy.

• Wu Bei connected to the Resonance Nest and shared You Xing’s assassination records and other stored information with Chen Chuan.
• Chen Chuan probed the records about Black Gate and briefly saw a ritual scene that made his Second Self grow faint and the Snow Monarch Blade tremble.
• Chen Chuan learned that You Xing had sent him a message through Wu Yi Academy’s platform, but he would need his original World Token at the academy to open it.
• Chen Chuan asked Wu Bei to conceal his location and help move the Resonance Nest, supplies, and vehicles to Wu Bei’s warehouse.
• Chen Chuan agreed that Wu Bei could pay for the equipment through their shared fund, then decided to keep the modified Garde Car and buried You Xing’s body.

Chen Chuan learned that “Ring Fat” referred to Lianwei Heavy Drive Company and suspected its executive Zhao Qian had hired You Xing to kill him. As Chen Chuan prepared to meet Gao Ming, Zhao Qian received confirmation that You Xing was dead and was offered a replacement assassin.

• Chen Chuan moved the remaining supplies to Wu Bei’s residence and returned to the academy, where You Xing’s message told him to find “Ring Fat.”
• Ni Qianqian explained that “Ring Fat” meant Lianwei Heavy Drive Company and found that Zhao Qian worked there as head of an external agency outpost.
• Chen Chuan concluded that Zhao Qian had commissioned You Xing’s attack and considered the risks of confronting an executive with company resources and security.
• Gao Ming called Chen Chuan from the Central City checkpoint, and Chen Chuan said he would pick him up.
• Zhao Qian received notice that You Xing had been verified dead and that the platform could recommend another candidate.

Zhao Qian cautiously responded to You Xing’s failed cleanup by ordering a discreet investigation into Chen Chuan and a Wu Yi Academy student. Meanwhile, Chen Chuan reunited with Gao Ming, then began a ritual to bind the Leopard Cat Stone Sculpture, whose release violently invaded him as it shattered.

• Zhao Qian canceled further cleanup plans, erased the communication records, and privately ordered an associate to investigate Chen Chuan and a Wu Yi Academy student within a month.
• Chen Chuan met Gao Ming at the North Passage Checkpoint and later briefed him on Zhao Qian’s role in the Mutual Aid Society and Senior Apprentice Shen’s incident.
• Chen Chuan collected the ritual materials from Wu Bei’s warehouse and transported the Leopard Cat Stone Sculpture to the wasteland where Teacher Wu had lived.
• Chen Chuan drew a containment circle and a binding ritual around the sculpture, then pressed his hand against its head to release the urban legend.
• The sculpture cracked and shattered as the urban legend invaded Chen Chuan, rapidly draining the Second Self’s overlap time while stimulating his Mutated Tissue.

Chen Chuan contained an anomaly, had it carved into a Leopard Cat plaque, and learned that Wei Wusheng had killed another Fighter. He reunited with Lu Fang in Central City, where Lu Fang revealed he was searching for Senior Apprentice Shen’s missing sister, who Zhao Qian had taken.

• Chen Chuan completed the ritual that restrained the anomaly and took its stone with him.
• An Cheng and another trainee argued over Chen Chuan’s assessment and vowed to compete with him for entry into the Third Limit.
• Chen Chuan had the anomaly stone carved into a Leopard Cat plaque and learned from Ni Qianqian that Wei Wusheng had killed another Fighter.
• Chen Chuan met Lu Fang near Mystic Palace Building and invited him to a hot drink shop.
• Lu Fang told Chen Chuan he had come to find Senior Apprentice Shen’s sister, whom Zhao Qian had taken, though he knew Zhao Qian was now a Third Limit Fighter.

Lu Fang sought Zhao Qian to investigate Senior Apprentice Shen's missing sister, but Chen Chuan warned him against acting alone and hinted that Zhao Qian's ties to the Zhao Family's destruction might soon matter. Gao Ming then presented Chen Chuan with a plan to use the Handling Bureau against Zhao Qian, leaving the second approach unrevealed.

• Lu Fang told Chen Chuan he wanted to find Zhao Qian and trace what happened to Senior Apprentice Shen's sister, while Chen Chuan warned that Zhao Qian's security could put him in danger.
• Chen Chuan urged Lu Fang to wait for developments and suggested Zhao Qian might also care about the Zhao Family's destruction.
• Two senior apprentices at an underground Fighting Hall discussed the Heaven's Wrath Gang's offer and worried that Lu Fang's search would fail against a company executive.
• Chen Chuan exchanged contact information with Lu Fang, returned to his dormitory, and received a call from Gao Ming asking to meet about new leads.
• Gao Ming explained that the Handling Bureau had investigated Zhao Qian several times and proposed using its authority to pressure Lian Wei Re-Control Company into abandoning him.
• Chen Chuan asked Gao Ming about his second approach, but the chapter ended before Gao Ming answered.

Chen Chuan weighed ways to kill Zhao Qian from a distance and awaited results on a ritual contract, then visited Cao Guiqi for advice on reaching the Third Limit. Cao Guiqi said Chen Chuan was nearing the breakthrough and offered leads on medicines and training through Qingnang Jade Workshop and the Secret Serpent Sect.

• Gao Ming explained that Zhao Qian often left Central City on escort missions, but warned Chen Chuan that attacking his heavily guarded convoy would be dangerous.
• Chen Chuan considered using the strange tale and a redefined ritual contract to kill Zhao Qian remotely, and said he would wait for results from Director Lei before acting.
• After several quiet days, Chen Chuan visited Cao Guiqi, who tested his progress with a Zhu Jue Yin Cage and said its slight movement showed Chen Chuan was nearing the Third Limit.
• Cao Guiqi offered to seek experimental medicine from Qingnang Jade Workshop for Chen Chuan and said he could recommend him to the Secret Serpent Sect for a strengthening organism.

Chen Chuan accepted Cao Guiqi’s recommendation to join Qingnang Jade Workshop’s drug trial and studied Director Lei’s detailed notes on Esoteric Sect rituals. He prepared to alter the covenant controlling the Racoon Cat Rumor, completing the ritual preparations on the fourteenth and leaving the ritual ready to perform.

• Cao Guiqi arranged for Chen Chuan to receive Treasure Paste and Qingnang Jade Workshop drug-trial materials, and Chen Chuan later agreed to the trial after reviewing its terms.
• Chen Chuan learned that ownership of the Garde Car and Silver Lightning had been transferred and that he needed to obtain proper driving documents.
• Director Lei sent Chen Chuan annotated research on Esoteric Sects, explained that Chen Chuan’s discoveries might earn him merit, and offered guidance on ritual practices.
• Chen Chuan decided to modify the existing covenant ritual so he could direct the Racoon Cat Rumor against chosen targets without sacrificing his own Mutated Tissue.
• After studying the ritual for several days, Chen Chuan went to the wasteland near Teacher Wu’s residence on the fourteenth and prepared its release, binding, and covenant patterns.

Chen Chuan completed a covenant ritual and bound the leopard-cat strange tale, giving him a way to attack Zhao Qian. He and Gao Ming planned to pressure Lianwei Heavy Drive through the Handling Bureau and wait for an opportunity to strike Zhao Qian.

• Chen Chuan finished the ritual patterns, practiced through the day, and released the strange tale by completing the ritual at night.
• The leopard-cat phantom appeared and yielded to the Covenant Ritual, returning to the stone plaque and forming a successful covenant with Chen Chuan.
• Chen Chuan took the plaque to Gao Ming and explained that the leopard cat could attack a designated target once a month after a sacrifice.
• Gao Ming proposed filing a Handling Bureau lawsuit against Zhao Qian using You Xing's identification of Ring Fat, while preparing to strike when Zhao Qian went out.
• Gao Ming warned Chen Chuan that public pressure could deter Zhao Qian from attacking again and create an opening for Chen Chuan's plan.