Chapter Summaries

Xue Jing subdued Xiahou Shen after the martial artist attacked him, then resolved the dispute by making Xiahou’s group compensate the taxi driver. He entered Cloud Heron Hotel with Yin Muhu, while Xiahou sought treatment for his ruined shoulder and Du Mingluan vowed to challenge Xue Jing.

• Xiahou Shen tried to break free from Xue Jing’s grip, so Xue Jing used True Dragon Bite to crush his shoulder and collarbone.
• Xiahou tore away part of his injured shoulder to escape, then struck Xue Jing’s neck, but Xue Jing’s defense stopped the punch and he lifted Xiahou by the throat.
• Uncle Li and Du Mingluan came outside, and Yin Muhu joined them; Xue Jing explained that Xiahou had crashed into the taxi and tried to flee.
• Yin Muhu admitted that Xiahou had tried to molest her, while Uncle Li agreed to compensate the driver, who accepted the payment and left with a tow truck.
• Xue Jing introduced himself as a disciple of Hidden Dragon Dojo and entered Cloud Heron Hotel with Yin Muhu, while Du Mingluan vowed to beat him in the arena.
• Xiahou asked Uncle Li to arrange an appointment with Miracle Doctor Zhang to treat his shoulder.

Xue Jing tested strength with Yin Muhu and discovered the exceptional power of Diamond Wishful Hand, then decided to copy the technique. After Yin Muhu left to recover from the exchange, his agent Jiang Siwei arrived at the hotel and was astonished by his looks and fighting ability.

• Xue Jing reviewed the experience he gained from fighting Xiahou and considered how to improve his Shadow Flame shield.
• Yin Muhu asked Xue Jing about the Jade City Three Heroes and explained her connection to Diamond Zhou and Diamond Wishful Hand.
• Yin Muhu tested her strength against Xue Jing, whose Hidden Dragon strength initially struggled against her precise, needle-like attacks.
• Xue Jing overpowered Yin Muhu with greater strength, while both acknowledged the other's abilities, and Yin Muhu left to arrange compensation for the damaged floor.
• Xue Jing decided to copy Diamond Wishful Hand and considered using it to combine two opposing Hidden Dragon Style techniques.
• Jiang Siwei arrived to meet Xue Jing and privately marveled at his potential as an exceptionally handsome and capable fighter.

Xue Jing signed an unrestricted contract to enter Maple City's U19 elimination tournament and arranged his competition schedule around an upcoming Intersection Zone mission. Back at the hotel, he studied Yin Muhu's Diamond Wishful Hand and figured out how its Supreme Yang Power could be reshaped.

• Jiang Siwei reviewed the contract, explained the tournament schedule, and gave Xue Jing detailed records of likely contestants.
• Xue Jing signed the contract and declined interviews and variety-show appearances.
• Xue Jing realized the tournament's second round fell on the day of his Intersection Zone mission and planned to go straight to the mission afterward.
• In his mind-space, Xue Jing materialized Yin Muhu and repeatedly endured her Diamond Wishful Hand attacks to study its Moving Strength.
• Xue Jing concluded that Supreme Yang Power became malleable by shattering its pure hardness into fragments, then declared that he had seen through the technique.

Xue Jing experimented with stripping supple strength from his True Dragon to pursue pure hard strength, then watched the U19 tournament draw with Yin Muhu and Jiang Siwei. The draw matched him against Li Chengxuan, who resolved to kill him in the arena despite feeling uneasy.

• Xue Jing used Inner Vision to remove most of the supple strength from his True Dragon, tested the rigid hard-strength technique against Yin Muhu, and concluded that adapting his body cultivation would be necessary to achieve a Purest Yang True Dragon.
• Xue Jing withdrew from the Consciousness Simulation, checked his experience gains, and fell asleep.
• Xue Jing, Yin Muhu, and Jiang Siwei watched the U19 Maple City Division draw ceremony and learned that Xue Jing was a seeded contestant representing the Galaxy Martial Arts Club.
• The livestream introduced Xue Jing as a mysterious Hidden Dragon Style contestant and revealed that he would face Li Chengxuan in Match Six.
• Li Chengxuan watched the draw from his hotel suite and vowed to kill Xue Jing, though he felt uneasy.

Xue Jing visited his older sister Xue Wan at Maple City University after learning his elimination-round opponent would be Li Chengxuan. As Xue Wan took him to the university’s Martial Arts Club, she explained that its president had been pursuing her and asked Xue Jing to hit him a little harder if he challenged him.

• Xue Jing, Yin Muhu, and Jiang Siwei watched the tournament draw, which placed Xue Jing in the sixth match and Yin Muhu in the ninth; Jiang Siwei warned him to avoid injuries during the elimination rounds.
• Xue Jing trained at the hotel, then traveled to Maple City University to visit Xue Wan, who introduced him to her classmates Zhao Lu, Shang Ping, and Wei Juan.
• Xue Wan showed Xue Jing around campus and took him toward the Martial Arts Club, where a student told the president, Brother Feng, that she was approaching with her younger brother.
• Xue Wan told Xue Jing that the club president would probably challenge him and asked him to hit harder because the president had persisted after she rejected him; Xue Jing said he should be a little stronger than him.

Xue Wan brought her younger brother, Xue Jing, to the Maple University Martial Arts Club and asked its president, Chen Feng, to teach him a lesson. Xue Jing immediately overwhelmed Chen Feng, leaving the club stunned and the Acting skill activated.

• Zhao Lu told Xue Jing about Chen Feng's possessive behavior toward Xue Wan.
• Xue Wan introduced Xue Jing to Chen Feng and asked him to test her brother's martial arts.
• Xue Wan said she would only consider a boyfriend who could beat and control Xue Jing.
• Xue Jing acted arrogantly and challenged the Martial Arts Club members.
• Xue Jing grabbed Chen Feng by the throat, slammed him into the floor, and asked what champion he was.
• The Acting skill activated.

Xue Jing overwhelmed Chen Feng at the Martial Arts Club and discovered that his newly activated Acting skill could summon powerful emotions and improve his bodily control. As he left Maple University, a hooded woman recruited him into the Flower God Society and introduced him to its revered Lord of a Thousand Reds and Myriad Colors.

• Xue Jing used Acting to embody an arrogant persona, defeated Chen Feng, and drove his head into the Martial Arts Club floor.
• Xue Wan and her friends praised Xue Jing, then Professor Lu summoned Xue Wan while Xue Jing left Maomao with her and headed for the school gate.
• Xue Jing examined Acting and concluded that it could generate Qi of Passion, improve his control, and help him cultivate the Hidden Dragon Style’s Reverse Scale profound meaning.
• A hooded woman met Xue Jing at the unusually deserted school gate and asked whether he had faith.
• The woman described the Flower God Society’s Benevolent Mother and invited Xue Jing to join the society and follow the Lord of a Thousand Reds and Myriad Colors.

Xue Jing refused the black-robed woman’s offer to join the Flower God Society and fought her forest-producing power with his own Black Flame magic. He revealed a towering armored construct called Susanoo, leaving their battle poised to escalate.

• The black-robed woman invited Xue Jing to undergo the Bestowal Ceremony, but he refused and tried to leave.
• The woman blocked Xue Jing with roots, then raised herself above a rapidly growing forest and attacked him.
• Xue Jing evaded the roots until the woman’s otherworldly plant consumed the surrounding oxygen and weakened his martial arts.
• Xue Jing drew black air from the shadows, ignited Black Flame, and attacked the woman with fireballs and crow-shaped flames.
• The woman asked which Heretical God empowered Xue Jing, while he formed a six-meter armored Black Flame figure and called it Susanoo.

Xue Jing fought the woman in black with his Shadow Flame giant and used a brief illusion to create an opening. He trapped her with the Shadow Shark and knocked her unconscious, leaving the fight decided for now.

• Xue Jing used his Shadow Flame giant to cut through the woman in black’s roots and fired arrows that destroyed her wooden sphere and wounded her.
• The woman in black formed drill-shaped roots to attack while Xue Jing defended himself and sent a Shadow Shark through the ground.
• The woman in black revealed her face and reached for her mottled left eye as she considered her next move.
• Xue Jing caught the woman in black’s gaze and used Tsukuyomi to distract her briefly.
• The Shadow Shark bound the woman in black in black steel bars, and Xue Jing knocked her unconscious with a frying pan.

Xue Jing defeated a Blessed of the Flower God Society, extracted divinity from her sacred mark, and activated the new Divinity Skill Plant Contract. With Wu Youqing’s help, he removed the woman’s sacred-mark eye and took her to the hotel to be detained.

• Xue Jing reflected on how the woman’s oxygen-draining plants had nearly trapped him, then extracted divinity from her multicolored left eye.
• The extraction unlocked Plant Contract, which Xue Jing activated as a new Divinity Skill.
• Xue Jing called Wu Youqing and told her that a Blessed of the Flower God Society had attacked him and tried to recruit him.
• Wu Youqing identified the woman’s left eye as her sacred mark and told Xue Jing to remove it to block her powers.
• Xue Jing gouged out the sacred-mark eye, then carried the unconscious woman toward the hotel to hold her there.

Xue Jing brought the unconscious Aqin back to his hotel and tested his new Divinity Skill, Plant Contract, on a spider plant. Aqin woke to find herself captive while Xue Jing casually ate nearby.

• Xue Jing carried the unconscious woman in black to his hotel room and tied her to a chair with steel-cable jump ropes.
• Xue Jing used Plant Contract on a spider plant, learning to control its leaves, make them grow and harden, and slash through a wooden chair.
• Xue Jing tested the plant's limits and concluded that contracting plants consumed the skill's energy, while controlling a contracted plant cost nothing; the leaves stopped growing at a little over ten meters.
• Xue Jing shrank the spider plant into a seed, ordered room service, and later sat eating while the captive woman remained unconscious.
• Aqin woke, recalled the battle and Xue Jing slapping her, and saw him smiling as he told her the surgery had succeeded.

Xue Jing interrogated Aqin about the Flower God Society, his sister Xue Wan’s divine blessing, and the dangers of aberration. After Wu Youqing confirmed the Society would not pursue the matter, Xue Jing secured Aqin’s promise to give him an Alien Plant and returned her Sacred Mark, leaving her to test whether anything felt wrong.

• Xue Jing threatened to boil Aqin’s Sacred Mark until she explained that Professor Lu had sent her and arranged Xue Wan’s Bestowal Ceremony.
• Aqin revealed that Xue Wan was a Divine Child who could reach the Near God Realm, but warned that mental contamination could cause Aberration Diseases such as Treant Syndrome.
• Aqin explained that Professor Lu may have tried to recruit Xue Jing so he would remain beside Xue Wan and ease her attachment to her family.
• Xue Jing demanded an Oxygen Absorbing Tree or one of its seeds, and Aqin agreed to provide one.
• Wu Youqing told Xue Jing that the Flower God Society considered Aqin’s actions unauthorized and would not pursue the matter.
• Xue Jing returned Aqin’s Sacred Mark to her eye, and she used its power to restore her vision as he asked whether she felt anything wrong.

Xue Jing learned that extracting divinity from Aqin’s Sacred Mark reduced her mutation rate without taking away her plant-controlling powers, then tested the limits of his Plant Contract skill with the Oxygen Absorbing Tree seed. At Maple City University, Xue Wan left the damaged campus after Professor Lu revealed something that unsettled her and arranged to meet Xue Jing.

• Aqin gave Xue Jing the Nagusumucharatoros seed and explained that Blessed Ones could summon plants only from soil or water.
• Aqin said her mutation rate seemed to have fallen after Xue Jing extracted divinity from her Sacred Mark, leading him to suspect divinity caused mutation without being the source of divine abilities.
• Xue Jing realized Plant Contract’s capacity depended on a plant’s energy cost, then contracted and briefly grew the Oxygen Absorbing Tree before shrinking it back into a seed.
• At Maple City University, Xue Wan stood amid the cracked ground after meeting Professor Lu, while Maomao considered telling Xue Jing what it had learned.
• Xue Wan answered Xue Jing’s call, asked for his location, and left the university to meet him after they agreed to share what they had learned.

Xue Jing told Xue Wan that he was Blessed by the Lord of No Form and a Thousand Forms, concealing the truth behind his powers with a fabricated god. After Xue Wan explained that he might be a rare Child of Divine Choice who could eventually vanish, Xue Jing began extracting the divinity from her sacred mark to address her contamination.

• Xue Wan admitted that Professor Lu had taken her to a Bestowal Ceremony two months earlier and that she had kept the danger from her family.
• Xue Jing explained that Aqin had tried to force Xue Wan into the cult and revealed that he had defeated Aqin with an abnormal power rather than martial arts.
• Xue Jing told Xue Wan he was Blessed by the Lord of No Form and a Thousand Forms, a god he had invented to explain his abilities.
• Xue Wan suggested Xue Jing might be a naturally Blessed Child of Divine Choice and warned that such people eventually disappeared without explanation.
• Xue Jing found the red gemstone sacred mark at Xue Wan's navel and used his power to extract its divinity, while Xue Wan sensed something being drawn out of her.

Xue Jing extracted corruption from Xue Wan’s holy marks, lowering her corruption rate and gaining divinity and plant-control abilities. After Xue Wan left, he reassured Ning Fengwan that he would not disappear because of the Divine Concealment Phenomenon, insisting that he was different from other Children of Divine Choice.

• Xue Wan sensed that her corruption rate had fallen below 10% as Xue Jing drew the contaminating force from her holy marks.
• Xue Jing completed the extraction, gained 696 divinity, and showed Xue Wan that he could control plants through the dark red seed.
• Xue Wan urged Xue Jing to keep his ability secret and asked him to promise he would not disappear before she found a solution to the Divine Concealment Phenomenon.
• Xue Wan left the hotel after dinner, leaving Maomao behind and saying she would return for Little Feng Wan the next day.
• Maomao questioned Xue Jing about becoming one of the Blessed and suggested finding a temple to pray.
• Ning Fengwan asked what Xue Jing would do about the Divine Concealment Phenomenon, and he reassured her that he was different from the other chosen.

Xue Jing awakened the ability to sense and control his Life Force after Health Preservation reached Lv8, discovering rapid healing and extraordinary durability. After Xue Wan brought him part of Professor Lu’s stigmata, he gained Divinity and upgraded Plant Contract, then tested his stronger plant summons.

• Aqin warned Professor Lu that Xue Jing was dangerous and refused to help target him again.
• Xue Jing reached Health Preservation Lv8, guided his Life Force, grew nearly unbreakable nails, and healed a deep cut in seconds.
• Xue Wan visited Xue Jing with vines she had torn from Professor Lu’s stigmata, which yielded more than three hundred Divinity.
• Xue Jing spent Divinity to raise Plant Contract to Lv2 and discovered that his spider plant had grown stronger but still lost to the Oxygen Absorbing Tree.
• Maomao watched Xue Jing control the battling plants and wondered whether this was what being a Martial Artist meant.

Xue Jing entered the U19 elimination rounds and made a dramatic debut, overwhelming Li Chengxuan with a single devastating strike. He left Li Chengxuan defeated on the arena floor after dismissing his boast about sword qi.

• Xue Jing demonstrated his Black Flame and left the hotel with Yin Muhu to attend the competition.
• Xue Jing stopped Four Aspects Dojo disciples from shoving through the crowd, injured several of them, and met Ji Huaiyu.
• Xue Jing watched the opening ceremony and earlier matches before staff called him to compete in the sixth match.
• Xue Jing's entrance stunned the arena, and Li Chengxuan challenged him while boasting that he had mastered sword qi.
• Xue Jing warned that he would strike once, then unleashed a black tornado of blade force that swallowed Li Chengxuan and left him defeated.

Xue Jing defeated Li Chengxuan with a precise, overwhelming strike, then noticed his Charm Technique had reached a cap and sensed a breathing-like quality in the Futu Blade. Meanwhile, two envoys of the Lion Saint Cult arrived at Maple City docks with Mr. An and forced him to arrange a meeting with the Dragon Cult leader who possessed their Sacred Object.

• Xue Jing defeated Li Chengxuan with one strike, leaving him badly wounded but alive, and returned to the contestants' lounge as his match went viral.
• Xue Jing dismissed Jiang Siwei's suggestion that he pursue fame and checked his skill notifications, finding Charm Technique at Lv10 with a plus sign and Weapon Combat raised to Lv7.
• Xue Jing sensed the Futu Blade expanding and contracting as if it were breathing, then left the stadium and replied to messages on his way to the hotel.
• Beili Lu and Baze Bu landed at Maple City docks with Mr. An, whom they had brought to help locate the Dragon Cult leader who bought their Sacred Object.
• Beili Lu ordered Mr. An to arrange a meeting with the leader and threatened him when he explained that she could only be contacted after she logged into a website.

Xue Jing used his Life Force to recover from Shaking Armor Skill training, allowing him to train twice in one day and accelerate his growth. He and Ning Fengwan discussed a suspicious message from Mr. An and her concern for Yun Qin, but a knock at the door interrupted them before they decided what to do next.

• Xue Jing used his Life Force to heal his training injuries and completed a second Shaking Armor Skill session, doubling his daily training progress.
• Xue Jing explained that he could safely use his Life Force once a day to recover and expected to train even more often as his Health Preservation level rose.
• Ning Fengwan showed Xue Jing two messages from a new Inner World Forum account that he and she suspected belonged to Mr. An.
• Xue Jing told Ning Fengwan to ignore Mr. An for now and suggested asking him about Yun Qin before considering a meeting.
• Ning Fengwan said she was worried about Yun Qin but thought contacting Mr. An was too risky, and a knock sounded at the door.

Xue Jing spotted members of the Sky Pirate Gang flying over the tournament, then learned that his upcoming assignment would take him to the Roaring Waterfall Intersection Zone, where a Pure-Blooded Dragon Species had been confirmed. He planned to enter after his next match and place a monitor, though he doubted he could avoid trouble.

• Xue Wan teased Du Mingluan and Kou Chengjian about their relationship, and they denied being close while Xue Jing watched the sky.
• Xue Jing used the Eye Piercing Style to identify several flying figures as members of the Sky Pirate Gang, which Xue Wan said had recently appeared in the outer ring of the Fifth City Circle.
• Xue Jing watched Yin Muhu defeat her opponent with the Diamond Wishful Hand, then introduced her to Xue Wan, and the two women exchanged WeChat contacts.
• Void Blade called Xue Jing to confirm that he would join White Crow 838 Squad after his next day's match and sent him updated information about Intersection Zone R278.
• Xue Jing read that Roaring Waterfall contained a confirmed juvenile Pure-Blooded Dragon Species and resolved to avoid it while placing the monitor, though he admitted he might have to fight it.