Chapter Summaries

Qin Heng learned why martial arts comprehension mattered more than rank and discovered that he had glimpsed the essence of the Goddess of War’s inherited moves. Ning Fan recommended two foundational spear techniques for him to study, leaving Qin Heng to begin training in Overlord Spear Technique.

• Qin Heng questioned why Grandmaster Bi Mingcheng’s Dragon Subduing Spear Technique was SS rank, and Ning Fan explained that martial arts attainments depended on comprehension rather than realm.
• Qin Heng recognized that the Goddess of War’s inherited moves might come from World Extinction Ninefold Calamity and described the fearless, forward-driving rhythm he had sensed in the simulation.
• Ning Fan praised Qin Heng’s martial instinct and gave him Overlord Spear Technique and Soaring Dragon Spear Technique as foundations for future spear training.
• Ning Fan explained that he had switched from spear to saber because Blade Technique suited his strength and Mystic Gold Battle Qi better.
• Qin Heng opened Overlord Spear Technique and began studying it before his time in the Hall of Collections ran out.

Qin Heng studied the Overlord Spear Technique and Soaring Dragon Spear Technique, then headed to class the next morning after spending the night cultivating. At the lecture, he reunited with Chen Yuan and Su Kuang and saw how much his battlefield achievements had raised his profile among the students.

• Qin Heng read the Overlord Spear Technique, memorized its moves, and practiced its three ultimate moves in the Hall of Collections.
• Qin Heng studied the Soaring Dragon Spear Technique and learned how its unusual footwork could support both evasion and spear attacks.
• Qin Heng returned the manuals, left the Hall of Collections, and spent the night in the Cultivation Room after dinner.
• Qin Heng arrived early for a large lecture and found Chen Yuan and Su Kuang among the students.
• A long-haired girl offered Qin Heng her seat, and Chen Yuan and Su Kuang teased him about his new fame and female admirers.
• The class bell rang, and the students settled down.

Qin Heng attended a wilderness knowledge class, then bought an Alloy Long Spear and discovered how naturally he could wield it. After practicing spear techniques, he wondered whether he might one day understand the Goddess of War’s ultimate moves and uncover the identity of the figure in her recorded footage.

• Teacher Wu Fang introduced herself and taught the class about dangerous wilderness regions, Monsters, and Demon Plants.
• Qin Heng discussed the amount of knowledge he needed to learn with Su Kuang and Chen Yuan before they went to the cafeteria.
• During the lunch break, Qin Heng bought an A3-grade Alloy Long Spear called Army Destroyer Type 2 for 4,100 yuan.
• Qin Heng practiced the Overlord Spear Technique and Soaring Dragon Spear Technique in the empty Beast Fighting Arena and found that wielding a spear came naturally to him.
• Qin Heng wondered whether he could master the Goddess of War’s ultimate moves and discover who had left behind the footage of her instruction.

Qin Heng studied martial arts theory and trained hard, making rapid gains in strength and combat skill. Yu Xuan called him with a revelation about Fang Lingxue’s family: her father was a Great Grandmaster.

• Teacher Xun Ke explained cellular evolution, Gene Locks, cultivation realms, and how civilization helped humanity advance in martial arts.
• Qin Heng kept up his classes and training, steadily improving his spear skills and strength.
• Qin Heng defeated a starving Horned Leopard in under twenty seconds, astonishing Han Liang.
• After Zhu Qianqiu’s exhausting Saturday class, Qin Heng planned to test his punching force and received a call from Yu Xuan.
• Yu Xuan told Qin Heng that Fang Lingxue’s family background was not what he thought and that her father was a Great Grandmaster.

Yu Xuan told Qin Heng that Fang Lingxue was the daughter of Grandmaster Ji Dingjiang, and revealed that her mother had been killed by members of the Ji Family. Qin Heng realized Fang Lingxue had fled to the Slum District after the tragedy and had kept her past and possible blood feud from him.

• Yu Xuan told Qin Heng that Fang Lingxue had retrieved school records from a wealthy district school and that her original surname was Ji.
• Yu Xuan revealed that Fang Lingxue was Grandmaster Ji Dingjiang’s daughter and that Ye Jian'an was Ji Dingjiang’s trusted confidant.
• Yu Xuan explained that Ji Lingyun and his friends had killed Fang Lingxue’s mother while Ji Dingjiang was away, after which Fang Lingxue disappeared and the Ji Family silenced discussion of her.
• Yu Xuan warned Qin Heng that Fang Lingxue’s past could involve a blood feud, then ended the call.
• Qin Heng grieved over Fang Lingxue’s hidden hardships and realized she might have kept silent to stop him from seeking revenge against the Ji Family.

Qin Heng told Fang Lingxue that he had learned about her family and her mother’s murder, and the two discussed why she had kept the past secret. He vowed to grow strong enough to confront the Ji Family, while Fang Lingxue warned that only a Martial God could defeat Ji Dingjiang.

• Qin Heng reflected that he would not ignore Fang Lingxue’s blood feud now that he knew about it, then answered her video call and revealed he knew her background.
• Fang Lingxue realized her school registration transfer had exposed her secret and explained that she had intended to tell Qin Heng after he became a Martial God.
• Qin Heng and Fang Lingxue discussed why she had hidden the feud, and she described the painful life she and her mother had endured in the Ji Family.
• Fang Lingxue admitted she had sometimes hoped Qin Heng would avenge her mother but believed it was too dangerous and unlikely to happen soon.
• Qin Heng vowed to become a Grandmaster and make those responsible pay, but Fang Lingxue warned that Ji Dingjiang would fight to the death if Qin Heng harmed Ji Lingyun.
• Qin Heng declared that he would become a Martial God if that was what it took to defeat Ji Dingjiang.

Fang Lingxue told Qin Heng the truth about her mother’s death and how she came to live in the District 7 Slums. Qin Heng vowed to grow strong enough to confront Ji Lingyun and Ji Dingjiang, while Fang Lingxue explained how she met Qin Heng and began supporting him.

• Qin Heng promised Fang Lingxue he would become strong enough to settle the matter with Ji Lingyun and Ji Dingjiang, and Fang Lingxue thanked him for listening.
• Fang Lingxue recounted how Ji Dingjiang assaulted her mother, Fang Qingmeng, after she accidentally broke a vase, and how she later gave birth to Fang Lingxue.
• When Fang Lingxue was fourteen, she found her mother dead outside the Ji Family villa, and the household offered no help or justice.
• Fang Lingxue confronted Ji Dingjiang after her mother’s death, but he dismissed the matter, so she cut ties with him and went to the District 7 Slums.
• Fang Lingxue met Qin Heng while they were doing odd jobs, and Ye Jian'an later arranged a milk tea shop job for her.
• Fang Lingxue found she earned more than she needed and invited Qin Heng into her plan to support him first, then have him support her.

After Fang Lingxue revealed her past, Qin Heng accepted her and began investigating her father and half-brother, Ji Dingjiang and Ji Lingyun. Discovering Ji Lingyun’s fearsome reputation and Decline Battle Qi pushed Qin Heng to test his own strength, and the chapter ended as the testing machine’s numbers began to leap.

• Fang Lingxue told Qin Heng she wanted to leave the past behind, and he agreed aloud while privately refusing to give up on revenge.
• Qin Heng realized Ji Dingjiang might have secretly protected Fang Lingxue and suspected there was more to their public estrangement than she knew.
• After ending the call, Qin Heng researched Ji Dingjiang and learned about his power and volatile reputation.
• Qin Heng read that Ji Lingyun was a Dragon God Martial Hall prodigy who cultivated the second-ranked Decline Battle Qi.
• Motivated to grow stronger, Qin Heng went to the fourth basement level and punched the testing machine with raw strength, making its display numbers jump wildly.

Qin Heng discovered that he had become an Intermediate Martial Warrior just fifteen days after reaching the Elementary level, and learned that he had nearly matched the global record. After testing his strikes, he kept his breakthrough secret and returned to cultivation.

• Qin Heng measured a punch at 2,970 kilograms, then used Python Mountain Force to strike with 3,609 kilograms and realized he had reached Intermediate Martial Warrior.
• Qin Heng calculated that he had advanced from Elementary to Intermediate in fifteen days and attributed his rapid growth to his Innate Martial Meridian, the Cultivation Room, and his intense training.
• Qin Heng researched global advancement records and learned that Lu Xi held the Elementary-to-Intermediate record at fourteen days, one day faster than him.
• Qin Heng tested his repeated punches at an average of 3,420 kilograms and struck a maximum of 7,222 kilograms using Thousand Jun Breaker.
• Qin Heng decided not to announce his breakthrough or take a master yet, and returned to the first basement level to meditate.

Qin Heng trained intensively and studied laws and spear manuals while his Energy Points dwindled. When he asked Chen Yu for another loan, she refused and suggested he seek help from the hall master or wait for a major mission.

• Qin Heng improved his martial skills through regular classes, spear practice, and physical training, while Yu Weiwei taught him laws and business in private lessons.
• Qin Heng studied spear manuals at the Hall of Collections every Sunday after Ning Fan disappeared.
• On July 21, Qin Heng realized his Energy Points had fallen below a hundred and considered borrowing more.
• Chen Yu told Qin Heng she had been quietly cultivating for the Martial Arts Tournament and asked whether he had enough Energy Points.
• Chen Yu refused Qin Heng's request for another loan and advised him to write an IOU to the hall master or wait for a major Transportation Squad mission.

Qin Heng learned how Moon Gold Crystals supplied the Martial Hall’s Energy Points and waited for the Transportation Squad to arrive so he could earn more. When the squad’s plane appeared, he joined Xue Qiang and several Elite Class students at the Military Affairs Building to claim a mission.

• Chen Yu explained that the Curator could lend Energy Points and that Moon Gold Crystals were mined on the Moon and refined into Energy Points.
• Qin Heng ran out of Energy Points and decided he might have to ask Curator Wang for a loan.
• Xue Qiang told Qin Heng that the Transportation Squad would arrive soon, and Qin Heng alerted the Elite Class group after Xue Qiang’s phone died.
• Qin Heng, Xue Qiang, Zhao Chong, Han Liang, and Chen Yu went to the Military Affairs Building after Xue Qiang treated them to breakfast.
• Xue Qiang led the group to the largest mission window when they spotted the Transportation Squad’s plane approaching.

Qin Heng and other Heavenly Dao Martial Hall students received an emergency mission to accompany the military in destroying an Advanced Beast King nest. They set out for the military camp under Vice Hall Master Chu Qingshan’s protection, eager to witness the battle and earn Energy Points.

• Old Bai assigned the students an emergency mission to destroy an Advanced Beast King nest and told them to report to the military camp.
• Chen Yu warned Han Liang and Qin Heng that they were too weak to join, but Old Bai said Chu Qingshan would lead the operation and ensure their safety.
• Xue Qiang, Han Liang, and Qin Heng agreed to go after learning that Chu Qingshan would personally take part.
• Old Bai added four ordinary-class students, including Yun Wei, Lin Yan, Su Zeyu, and Li Youyou, and warned everyone to obey their leaders.
• The nine students left the Heavenly Dao Martial Hall in a Wilderness Battle Vehicle as Qin Heng learned that the operation had been planned to counter the many Monsters near the Base City.

Qin Heng and the Heavenly Dao Martial Hall team reached the Border Wall camp for a large operation against a beast nest, where Xue Qiang reunited with his childhood friend Wang Wei. Qin Heng met Xiao Yang again and revealed a strength gap so wide that Xiao Yang conceded he was no match for him.

• Xue Qiang learned from Ren Hao that more than three hundred powerful fighters and two Grandmasters would take part in a swift, covert operation against a beast nest.
• Qin Heng and his teammates arrived at the camp and entered the rest area with elite students and reserves from other organizations.
• Xue Qiang reunited with Wang Wei, his childhood friend and rival from the Hero Martial Hall, and they traded insults while sparring.
• Wang Wei praised Xiao Yang's rapid progress, prompting Xue Qiang to introduce Qin Heng and boast that he was stronger.
• Wang Wei and Xiao Yang examined Qin Heng's heavy Army Destroyer Spear, and Xiao Yang admitted he was not as strong as Qin Heng.
• A group of elite students from the War God Martial Hall approached.

Qin Heng faced open hostility from Wang Jiye and the War God Martial Hall, but Ji Lingyun intervened to ease the confrontation. As the Martial Halls prepared for a military operation, Qin Heng learned his Energy Points would not cover his unusually long training sessions, and the group was called to depart.

• Wang Jiye introduced himself to Qin Heng and challenged him, while Xue Qiang stepped in to defend his junior brother.
• Wang Wei tried to defuse the standoff, and Ji Lingyun calmed both sides and invited Wang Jiye and Xue Qiang to have tea.
• Chen Yu warned Qin Heng that Wang Jiye's group might target him later, including during the Martial Arts Tournament, and Qin Heng said he would concede if outmatched.
• Chen Yu estimated Qin Heng would earn about 200 Energy Points from the operation, but Qin Heng explained that he used more than twenty points each day because he trained for a long time.
• A young military officer summoned the Martial Hall students and teachers to the checkpoint and announced that they would leave in fifteen minutes.

The convoy headed into the wilderness to destroy a High-level Beast King, and Ren Hao revealed that the operation’s main weapon would be twelve nuclear warheads. Along the way, the group discussed the Martial Arts Tournament and Ji Lingyun’s overwhelming strength.

• Qin Heng and the other martial warriors boarded armored vehicles and set out toward the border of the Liangguang and Wuping Mountain Ranges.
• Ren Hao showed the group a map marking Beast King territories and explained that their target was a High-level Beast King.
• Ren Hao said the operation would rely mainly on twelve fifty-thousand-ton nuclear warheads, with the Grandmasters ready to finish off the Beast King.
• Xue Qiang prepared to photograph the explosion, but Ren Hao and Qin Heng explained that the blast would make it difficult to capture anything nearby.
• Ren Hao discussed the upcoming Martial Arts Tournament, and Xue Qiang described Ji Lingyun as an exceptionally powerful fighter.

Qin Heng learned about Ji Lingyun’s Decline Battle Qi and God-Devil Left Arm, and considered what they meant for his future rival. As the convoy neared its mission target, it detected two High-level Beast Kings and was ordered to wait at a safer location.

• Xue Qiang told Qin Heng that Ji Lingyun’s God-Devil Left Arm made him exceptionally powerful, and admitted Ji Lingyun had once saved his life in the wilderness.
• Ren Hao explained that Ji Lingyun’s arm had been tempered using energy from a meteorite treasure and said Ji Lingyun could become the world’s strongest young martial artist.
• Ren Hao showed the students a list of 468 Grandmasters, while Xue Qiang noted that even the strongest Martial God had been powerless before the Goddess of War.
• Chu Qingshan told Ren Hao that radar had detected a second High-level Beast King near the target and ordered the convoy to take another route and wait.
• Qin Heng and the others realized that two Beast Kings would make the mission more dangerous, especially for students below the Martial Master realm.

After the young Martial Warriors split from the convoy for safety, they decided to hunt Monsters nearby, and Qin Heng revealed a startling rate of progress. His strength stunned his companions, who suspected he might possess an Innate Martial Meridian.

• Ren Hao led five vehicles carrying young Martial Warriors toward 3776 Mountain Area, away from the Grandmaster battle, and agreed to let them hunt Monsters nearby.
• Qin Heng told his companions that his base punching power had been nearly 3,000 kilograms ten days earlier, shocking everyone in the vehicle.
• Xue Qiang arm-wrestled Qin Heng and realized that his strength far exceeded what his training time should allow.
• Zhao Chong and Chen Yu each tested Qin Heng's strength and were likewise astonished by his rapid improvement.
• Ren Hao said Qin Heng might rank third in the world's cultivation-speed records, prompting Chen Yu and the others to suspect he had an Innate Martial Meridian.

Ren Hao learned that Qin Heng had an Innate Martial Meridian, but Curator Wang Daoyi and Chu Qingshan were already aware and focused on the mission. The students arrived at 3776 Mountain Area, where Qin Heng prepared to test his spear skills against the approaching Monsters and compete with Xiao Yang.

• Ren Hao called Curator Wang Daoyi and Chu Qingshan to report Qin Heng's Innate Martial Meridian, but both told him to focus on the mission.
• Qin Heng explained that Old Doctor Xu had discovered his condition during a medical examination and reported it to the Martial Hall's higher-ups.
• The students discussed Qin Heng's talent and encouraged him not to hold back against Xiao Yang in their Monster-killing competition.
• The convoy reached 3776 Mountain Area, where Ren Hao warned that Monsters were approaching after hearing the engines and smelling the humans.
• Xiao Yang challenged Qin Heng to see who would kill more Monsters, and Qin Heng readied his Army Destroyer Spear for his first real fight using spear techniques.

Qin Heng and Xiao Yang joined the other students in a battle against a huge pack of Monsters. Qin Heng’s spear techniques and sharp combat instincts stood out as the fight began.

• Qin Heng and Xiao Yang were identified as the only new-generation elites present, and their seniors warned them to stay cautious as Monsters gathered around the convoy.
• A giant tiger roared and led hundreds of Monsters in a charge, prompting twenty-one students to meet the attack while the experts stayed by the vehicles.
• Qin Heng charged into the pack and used the Overlord Spear Technique to kill an Advanced Monster and knock several others aside.
• Wang Jiye declared that he intended to kill Qin Heng, but Ren Hao stopped the argument and told everyone to watch the battle.
• Qin Heng fought more aggressively than the others, and Ren Hao observed that his skill with two spear arts and exceptional combat instincts set him apart.

Qin Heng fought through the Monsters and faced a Silver Sable whose battle qi wounded him and drove him onto the defensive. He outmaneuvered the ferocious beast by sacrificing his spear, caught it in midair, and tore it apart with his bare hands.

• Qin Heng's perception expanded as he fought, letting him sense Monsters across a wider area and kill even Advanced Monsters with ease.
• Chen Yu warned Qin Heng about the approaching Silver Sable, and he evaded its pounce before forcing it back with a series of spear techniques.
• The Silver Sable attacked with battle qi, wounding Qin Heng as he tried to defend himself with his spear.
• Qin Heng leaped over the Silver Sable's Qi Blades and thrust at it, then released his spear to block its claws and landed in position to seize it.
• Qin Heng grabbed the Silver Sable and tore it apart with Giant Python Coiling Mountain Force, suffering only bloody marks on his wrists.