Chapter Summaries

Xue Jing learned how Contemplation cultivated Dragon Qi and improved his control over emotion before beginning combat training with Meng Qing Jiao. After hours of repeated sparring and instruction from Li Qi, he lasted longer against her but collapsed from exhaustion.

• Xue Jing used Contemplation to visualize himself as a dragon, and Li Qi explained how Dragon Qi and Qi of Stillness affected martial arts.
• Li Qi ended Xue Jing's Hibernating Dragon Art practice and assigned Meng Qing Jiao to train him in fighting techniques.
• Meng Qing Jiao quickly defeated Xue Jing, and Li Qi told him to fight without hesitation and use every means to win.
• Xue Jing repeatedly sparred with Meng Qing Jiao as Li Qi corrected him, and he gradually lasted longer in each exchange.
• After training until nightfall, Xue Jing's legs gave out and he collapsed face-down on the floor.

Xue Jing recovered from exhausting combat training and advanced his running skill before continuing to train with Meng Qing Jiao. During a spar three days later, he found an opening and struck her chest with an explosive finger flick.

• Xue Jing pushed himself to exhaustion during combat training with Li Qi and Meng Qing Jiao, who praised and comforted him.
• Xue Jing woke fully recovered, discovered Maomao had returned from an unexplained outing, and reached Running Lv5 after his morning run.
• Xue Jing found Meng Qing Jiao eating burgers at the dojo and offered to cook for her, prompting her to begin another training session with him.
• After three days of sparring, Xue Jing spotted an opening in Meng Qing Jiao's defense and flicked his fingers toward her chest, then reacted to the soft sensation he felt.

After accidentally flicking Meng Qing Jiao during sparring, Xue Jing learned from Li Qi why she and Meng Bo Shang never spoke: a past attack left Qing Jiao’s mother missing and Qing Jiao unable to speak, while Bo Shang chose silence to stand by her. Xue Jing promised to crush Li Qi’s enemies someday, and Li Qi laughed and said he would look forward to it.

• Xue Jing accidentally flicked Meng Qing Jiao during training, and she sent him flying before Li Qi ended the sparring session.
• Xue Jing checked his progress panel and Li Qi praised his rapid improvement, then advised him to use deception in martial combat.
• Xue Jing asked Li Qi why Meng Qing Jiao and Meng Bo Shang never spoke, and Li Qi explained that Qing Jiao’s mother vanished after hiding her during an enemy attack.
• Li Qi said Qing Jiao had never spoken since that day, while Bo Shang stopped speaking so she would not feel alone, and the family left Inner Ring City for Sunny City.
• Xue Jing asked whether Li Qi wanted revenge, then vowed to crush all his enemies someday, making Li Qi laugh.

After improving his Contemplation skill, Xue Jing received a C-Rank containment assignment from Wu Youqing involving the Villainess’s Crown. He learned the plan depended on using a God Relic’s presence-suppressing glasses to draw out the crown wearer’s desires and remove the relic.

• Xue Jing ate a medicinal meal at the Hidden Dragon Dojo and trained the Hibernating Dragon Art, raising his Contemplation skill to Lv2.
• Xue Jing used his mental visualization to move around the training room with his eyes closed and wondered whether Contemplation could develop into a mind’s eye.
• Wu Youqing contacted Xue Jing about a job, and he hurried to the Qing Da library to meet her.
• Wu Youqing revealed that her rimless glasses were GOD-1280: Ordinary Glasses, which suppressed the wearer’s presence but made it erupt when removed.
• Xue Jing read the reports about GOD-1105: Villainess’s Crown, which amplified its wearer’s malice and physical abilities.
• Wu Youqing explained that Xue Jing would use the glasses and his appearance to provoke the crown wearer’s desires and remove the relic.

Xue Jing learned how other containment companies operated, tested the Ordinary Glasses’ charm effect, and prepared to deal with Lou Huiying, the wearer of the Villainess’s Crown. He upgraded Twin Life and doubled his physical strength, leaving the chapter after demonstrating its power by blasting a pebble into a tree.

• Wu Youqing explained that many containment companies handled God Relics and warned Xue Jing to be cautious around their workers.
• Xue Jing tested the Ordinary Glasses and saw that they gave someone a favorable impression of him.
• Xue Jing read the information on Lou Huiying, the Rose Gang leader whose Villainess’s Crown enhanced her physical abilities.
• At home, Xue Jing collected the Ordinary Glasses’ Divinity and upgraded Twin Life to Lv.2, choosing to double his physical strength.
• Xue Jing hurled a pebble into a camphor tree with explosive force, startling nearby pedestrians.

Lou Huiying took over Lianming Street and attacked Duan Kaiping when he arrived with Razor Gang members to challenge her. Xue Jing followed the gang and secretly struck Duan Kaiping with a stone, leaving him motionless after Lou Huiying smashed him through a barbershop window.

• Lou Huiying terrorized Lianming Street, demanded the restaurant owner's sons, and declared she would take both of them.
• Duan Kaiping led Razor Gang members into the street to kill Lou Huiying and reclaim the protection money she had taken.
• Xue Jing recognized Duan Kaiping as the man who had tried to kidnap him and followed the group from a distance.
• Lou Huiying learned Duan Kaiping had arrived, picked up her baseball bat, and went out to confront him.
• Duan Kaiping's hand blade barely marked Lou Huiying's neck, while she swung her bat at his head.
• Xue Jing shot a stone through Duan Kaiping's thigh, and Lou Huiying's bat sent him crashing through a barbershop window.

Xue Jing, calling himself Brawler, challenged Lou Huiying and overwhelmed her with speed, strength, and ruthless fighting techniques. Lou Huiying got back up after being buried beneath a collapsed wall, and Xue Jing continued attacking her.

• After defeating Duan Kaiping, Lou Huiying encountered Xue Jing, who admitted he had caused the earlier incident.
• Xue Jing activated Twin Birth Speed and Power, introduced himself as Brawler, and charged at Lou Huiying.
• Xue Jing struck Lou Huiying repeatedly, driving her into a concrete wall until it collapsed and buried her.
• Lou Huiying emerged from the rubble with little serious damage and charged at Xue Jing in a fury.
• Xue Jing evaded her grab, yanked her hair, kneed her in the face, and struck her eye with a forceful finger flick.
• Xue Jing followed Li Qi's advice and launched a Spartan Front Kick at Lou Huiying's lower abdomen.

Xue Jing defeated Lou Huiying and recovered Villainess's Crown, but a powerful, strangely enhanced man arrived and demanded the relic. Xue Jing fled through the alleys as the man pursued him, while a new Divinity Skill began to form.

• Xue Jing kicked Lou Huiying unconscious, recovered Villainess's Crown, and sent Wu Youqing a photo confirming its containment.
• Xue Jing left Lou Huiying for her victims to deal with, but a pale, burly man with a red Bionic Eye demanded the crown.
• Xue Jing mocked the man, then attacked his crotch; the man's body resisted the kick, and he lunged at Xue Jing.
• Xue Jing dodged the grab and fled through the alleys as the man smashed through obstacles in pursuit.
• Xue Jing checked the progress of his emerging Divinity Skill and picked up a rusty, bent iron nail while looking for a way to buy time.

Xue Jing outmaneuvered a powerful pursuer in an alley and activated the new Shadow Flame Divinity Skill. The man recognized Xue Jing as one of The Blessed, but Xue Jing killed him with black flames.

• Xue Jing ambushed the man with a rusty nail driven into his Bionic Eye, then kept attacking until the man broke free and kicked him into a wall.
• Xue Jing dodged the man's charge and landed a precise kick to his chin, leaving him too disoriented to stand.
• Xue Jing beat the man with a pressure cooker lid, but the man's protective body endured the blows and he began recovering.
• Xue Jing activated Shadow Flame, drawing black energy from the alley's shadows and cloaking himself in flames.
• The terrified man realized Xue Jing was one of The Blessed, and Xue Jing killed him by pouring black flames into his mouth.

After defeating a powerful enemy, Xue Jing tested his new Shadow Flame and gained a surge of skill experience before arranging for Wu Youqing to handle the aftermath. At home, his glasses came off while he bathed with Maomao, triggering a transformation that left an alluring woman on his chest.

• Xue Jing experimented with Shadow Flame, discovered it could burn matter without heat, and used it to slowly pierce the tough man's arm.
• Xue Jing gained a large amount of experience from the battle, raising several skills and unlocking Shadow Flame as an offensive Divinity Skill.
• Xue Jing sent Wu Youqing a report and a photo of the corpse, and she told him to leave the body untouched and come see her at the library the next day.
• Xue Jing returned home, bathed with Maomao, and reassured her that he felt better after seeing her.
• Maomao removed Xue Jing's fogged glasses, and his unleashed presence made her tail ring shine before she transformed into an alluring woman.

After an awkward accident in the bathtub, Xue Jing and Ning Fengwan discovered that removing his glasses had triggered her transformation back into a human, though she still had cat features. Elsewhere, Jiao Hongyuan reprimanded Duan Kaiping and ordered him to release the growing Number One once it matured.

• Ning Fengwan changed back into a human after taking off Xue Jing's glasses, and she covered herself and Xue Jing's eyes with her tail.
• Ning Fengwan slipped while trying to leave the bathtub, then fled after Xue Jing warned that he was losing control.
• Jiao Hongyuan questioned the injured Duan Kaiping, who explained that Lou Huiying had ambushed him and blown apart his head.
• Jiao Hongyuan learned that Number One had grown larger than a dog and ordered Duan Kaiping to release it when it was fully grown.

Xue Jing delivered the recovered God Relics to Wu Youqing, who raised his mission evaluation and offered compensation after identifying the man he killed. The chapter ended with Wu Youqing appointing Xue Jing as a C-Rank Containment Officer.

• Ning Fengwan changed back into a cat and told Xue Jing she could not transform into a human again, so he planned to consult someone knowledgeable about God Relics.
• Xue Jing visited Wu Youqing at Qing Da's library and handed over Villainess's Crown and Ordinary Glasses.
• Wu Youqing raised Xue Jing's mission evaluation to C+ Rank and increased his commission subsidy because an unexpected attacker had put him in danger.
• Wu Youqing identified the dead attacker as Zhu Yingkun, a C-Rank Containment Officer from Xu's Containment Company who had acted on his own, and promised to seek compensation for Xue Jing.
• Wu Youqing discussed Zhu Yingkun's unexplained internal injuries, accepted that Xue Jing would keep his abilities secret, and gave him a credential appointing him a specially appointed C-Rank Containment Officer.

Xue Jing received a C-Rank Containment Certificate and gained access to the God Relic database, where he discovered that the Cat Tail Ring could transform its wearer into the dangerous Bastet. Worried about Maomao, he asked Wu Youqing what Bastet was, and she began explaining the Heretical God Cult.

• Wu Youqing promoted Xue Jing to C-Rank Containment Officer and explained the certificate's privileges, limits, and increased mission compensation.
• Wu Youqing gave Xue Jing access to the official God Relic database, which he entered using the certificate's changing Dynamic Key.
• Xue Jing found that the Cat Tail Ring was classified as B-Rank and read a file describing how its wearer could merge with it and become Bastet.
• Xue Jing worried that Maomao might transform into Bastet and chose to ask Wu Youqing about the file despite risking exposure of his connection to the ring.
• Wu Youqing inferred that Xue Jing knew the Cat Tail Ring's wearer and began telling him about the Heretical God Cult.

Wu Youqing explained how the Heretical God Cult’s Bastet ritual gave GOD-1391 Tail Ring the power to fuse with compatible wearers, while warning Xue Jing that the Lion Saint Cult would try to reclaim it. After receiving his containment bonus, Xue Jing trained at the Hidden Dragon Dojo and impressed everyone with his rapid progress.

• Wu Youqing told Xue Jing that GOD-1391 Tail Ring had received Bastet’s blessing during a Bestowal Ceremony and could gradually transform a compatible wearer into Bastet’s incarnation.
• Wu Youqing warned Xue Jing that GOD-1391 was a Sacred Object of the Lion Saint Cult, which would retrieve it at any cost.
• Xue Jing received 231,511.31 Zhu Xia Currency as a containment mission bonus and decided to buy Maomao a nice meal.
• Xue Jing fought Meng Qing Jiao at the Hidden Dragon Dojo, where Li Qi and Chen Fu Guang watched his impressive progress.
• Li Qi compared Xue Jing’s rapid advancement with Chen Fu Guang’s nine months and seventeen days of training before qualifying to practice the Shaking Armor Skill.

Li Qi began teaching Xue Jing the Shaking Armor Skill, using a medicinal nebulizer to prepare him for its demanding movements. After completing the first set, Xue Jing discovered that his Fitness skill had a sublimation condition, though he lacked the requirements to meet it.

• Li Qi told Xue Jing he was ready to learn the Shaking Armor Skill and left to prepare the necessary equipment.
• Xue Jing exchanged messages with Xue Wan, who shared photos from an U19 Fighting Competition and of her unusual-looking horticulture professor.
• Li Qi returned with a nebulizer containing Hidden Dragon Style secret medicine and explained how it helped cleanse the blood during training.
• Li Qi guided Xue Jing through the Shaking Armor Skill's first set of twenty-seven skin-training movements, leaving him in severe pain.
• Xue Jing checked his status panel and found that Fitness had a sublimation condition, but he had not met its requirements.

Xue Jing discovered that Fitness could be sublimated, then trained in the Shaking Armor Skill under Li Qi and learned to absorb secret medicines through a Breathing Method. At Hidden Dragon Dojo’s monthly assessment, his casual punch destroyed the force-testing machine’s pad and revealed his mastery of Supple Strength.

• Xue Jing considered the requirements for sublimating Fitness and suspected the unknown condition was connected to the Shaking Armor Skill.
• Li Qi taught Xue Jing the Shaking Armor Skill’s Breathing Method, and Xue Jing learned to feel his skin breathing while absorbing medicinal mist and bathing in secret medicines.
• Li Qi taught Xue Jing the remaining Shaking Armor Skill movements over the next several days, using different medicines, baths, and acupuncture for each.
• Xue Jing recorded the disciples’ punching-force results at Hidden Dragon Dojo’s monthly assessment.
• After the disciples urged him to test himself, Xue Jing casually punched the force-testing machine and shattered its padded surface, leaving everyone to identify the strike as Supple Strength.

After demonstrating Supple Strength at Hidden Dragon Dojo, Xue Jing learned that the dojo had a commission for him: protecting wealthy second-generation heirs at a banquet in a hotel where a guest had been mysteriously murdered. The banquet was set for the following night, and Xue Jing agreed to attend.

• Xue Jing used Supple Strength to destroy a force tester's striking pad, then asked a disciple to fetch a replacement.
• Chen Fu Guang offered Xue Jing a commission and explained that he needed paid work to support his increasingly expensive martial arts training.
• Chen Fu Guang told Xue Jing that a woman had been killed in her room at Rui Zhu Hotel, her body gnawed, with no one caught on the corridor cameras.
• Chen Fu Guang explained that Rui Zhu Hotel had hired several dojos to protect a banquet of North District heirs, who insisted on holding it despite the murder.
• Xue Jing agreed to go to Rui Zhu Hotel the following night, and the disciples quietly resumed their tests after he returned to the training hall.

Xue Jing prepared Hidden Dragon Style's secret body-tempering medicine and practiced the Bone Refinement movements of the Shaking Armor Skill, hoping to understand their linked Killing Move. Elsewhere, Pei Tiancheng invited Pei Youguang to Young Master Ye's banquet and confidently dismissed the possibility of trouble despite rumors of a serial killer nearby.

• Xue Jing prepared a batch of secret body-tempering medicine that cost roughly twelve thousand Zhu Xia Currency.
• Xue Jing practiced the Bone Refinement movements and sensed a fleeting insight into Sealing Cloud Tail, which he thought a real battle might help him grasp.
• Xue Jing inhaled the medicinal mist while reviewing his improved skills and reflecting on how Shaking Armor Skill strengthened his body.
• At a gathering in a North District villa, Pei Tiancheng called Pei Youguang over and told him to dress properly for Young Master Ye's banquet the next day.
• A guest mentioned a serial killer near the banquet hotel, and Pei Tiancheng assured everyone there would be no unexpected incidents.

Duan Kaiping prepared to trap the wealthy guests at Rui Zhu Hotel while keeping a dangerous creature contained in a taped-up cage. Xue Jing dressed for the banquet and arrived at the hotel as a representative of Hidden Dragon Dojo, unaware of the danger awaiting him.

• Duan Kaiping apologized to a mysterious caller, reported that the creature had escaped its cage to hunt and returned, and said he had installed a device that would block communications across the banquet floor.
• Zhu Shan Ying and Chen Fu Guang debated what Xue Jing should wear to the banquet, but he chose the martial arts outfit Meng Qing Jiao brought him.
• Chen Fu Guang, Zhu Shan Ying, and Meng Qing Jiao urged Xue Jing to prioritize his safety before he left Hidden Dragon Dojo.
• Xue Jing met the driver Zhao Dequan, who took him to Rui Zhu Hotel in a luxury sedan.
• Xue Jing arrived at Rui Zhu Hotel and followed Zhao Dequan inside among the wealthy young guests attending the banquet.

Xue Jing arrived at Rui Zhu Hotel to guard a section of Ye Chenglin’s banquet and discovered that the elegant venue had first been used for a lively dance party. After a martial artist confronted him, Pei Youguang recognized Xue Jing and reacted in shock.

• Xue Jing entered Rui Zhu Hotel with Xiao Zhao, while Li Zhaoquan and Zhang Daqing speculated about his dojo and martial arts ability.
• Xiao Zhao showed Xue Jing the banquet hall map and assigned him an area to guard on the Twenty-Second Floor.
• Xue Jing entered the banquet hall, found a DJ and dancing guests, then began patrolling his assigned area.
• After the music stopped and staff removed the DJ booth, a muscular martial artist approached Xue Jing and asked if he was Hidden Dragon Dojo’s newly accepted personal disciple.
• Ye Chenglin and others went to watch the confrontation, and Pei Youguang recognized Xue Jing and sprayed out his wine in surprise.