Chapter Summaries

Shimizu’s Shadow Clone stalled Giant Brother with experimental weapons and wind techniques until the giant fell, while King was mistakenly credited with the kill. Afterward, Shimizu reviewed the battle, negotiated his share of the monster’s recovery price, and pressed the Hero Association to change his hero name; Sitch considered recommending him for S-Class as Shimizu began preparing to move into a larger home.

• Shimizu used the White Shockwave Grenade, chains, and wind techniques to delay Giant Brother, but dismissed his Shadow Clone when he could no longer hold on.
• Giant Brother crashed to the ground near King, who was wrongly believed to have killed the monster by people filming him.
• King left without correcting the witnesses, who celebrated his supposed victory and tried to get his autograph.
• Shimizu reviewed the battle recording and discussed the monster corpse’s recovery price and his hero name with the Hero Association.
• Sitch considered raising Shimizu’s possible promotion to S-Class and his name-change request at a meeting.
• Shimizu began packing his belongings because his equipment had outgrown his small apartment.

After moving into a new villa, Shimizu expected his role in the Giant Brother incident to improve his standing, while Fubuki secretly searched his old home and found her poster in his bedroom. The next morning, she invited him to lead the Blizzard Group, but Shimizu refused, leaving Fubuki to reconsider her approach.

• Shimizu moved his belongings into a villa in City D and considered how the Giant Brother incident might affect his hero rank and popularity.
• Fubuki visited Shimizu's empty old home, broke in with her psychic powers, and discovered a poster of herself beside his bed.
• Fubuki decided Shimizu's poster suggested he was a repressed shut-in and resolved to recruit him into the Blizzard Group before he rose further in rank.
• Fubuki messaged Shimizu, inviting him to join the Blizzard Group as its new leader.
• Shimizu rejected the invitation with a brief message, and Fubuki began thinking about how to persuade him.

Fubuki tried to use online advice to grow closer to Shimizu, while Tatsumaki discovered her searches and concluded she was secretly dating someone. Shimizu visited Bang’s dojo to learn the Water Stream Rock Smashing Fist and agreed to help Charanko preserve the dojo and its martial art.

• Fubuki read a guide on getting along with repressed nerds, awkwardly chatted with Shimizu, and left to buy him gifts.
• Tatsumaki found Fubuki’s browsing history and panicked, believing her little sister was secretly dating a man.
• Shimizu arrived at Bang’s dojo, where Bang and Charanko welcomed him and Bang explained how Garou’s betrayal had emptied the dojo.
• Bang asked Shimizu to support Charanko and help pass down the Water Stream Rock Smashing Fist, and Shimizu agreed.
• Bang demonstrated the Water Stream Rock Smashing Fist to Shimizu and Charanko.

Shimizu sparred with Bang, learned about Water Stream Rock Smashing Fist’s principles of technique, strength, and intent, and began training in the style. He continued balancing his training with plans to build wealth and resources, while Bang advised him to seek out Bomb later to study Whirlwind Iron Cutting Fist.

• Shimizu sparred with Bang using a bamboo sword and demonstrated Water Breathing before returning to Separation Breathing.
• Bang gained respect for Shimizu’s skill, but Shimizu acknowledged that Bang had defeated him when his bamboo sword split during their final exchange.
• Bang explained how Water Stream Rock Smashing Fist used intent to guide force and advised Shimizu to study different martial arts to discover an intent of his own.
• Shimizu began learning Water Stream Rock Smashing Fist while continuing to manage his company and pursue resources for strengthening his puppets.
• Shimizu considered the potential profits of synthetic materials and Regeneration Serum in One-Punch World.

Shimizu continued building his company and training, then flew to the southern district of City D to fight the Demon-level Selfie Queen. He identified her confidence-based Mind Domain and began studying it while protecting Fubuki from her attacks.

• Shimizu planned to expand his company into gaming and entertainment, using his Shadow Clone to manage its affairs while he trained.
• Shimizu practiced Water Stream Rock Smashing Fist and pushed his physical strength beyond twenty tons, though he judged himself far below the strongest S-Class heroes.
• After receiving news of a Demon-level monster in City D's southern district, Shimizu summoned Black Samurai and flew to the scene, while Fubuki traveled nearby with gifts for him.
• The Selfie Queen attacked Fubuki with explosive rays and charm-inducing hearts, weakening Fubuki's psychic power within her domain.
• Shimizu arrived, blocked the Selfie Queen's attacks, and explained that her confidence-based Mind Domain strengthened her while undermining insecure opponents.
• Shimizu told Fubuki to stand back and continued fighting, observing the Selfie Queen's ability so he could understand and potentially reproduce it.

Shimizu defeated and captured the Selfie Queen, learning how her confidence-based Mind Domain worked, while Fubuki evacuated civilians and later returned with a gift. As Shimizu prepared to treat Fubuki, Tatsumaki secretly watched from above and decided to test whether he was worthy of her sister.

• Shimizu sent Fubuki away with the civilians because her weakened psychic power would make her a liability against the Selfie Queen.
• The Selfie Queen enhanced her Mind Domain with makeup and her Influencer Filter, but Shimizu copied the ability and broke through her defenses with his sword techniques.
• Shimizu captured the Selfie Queen alive with the Blood Burial Seal, and Hero Association executive Makoi calculated a recovery price of 191 million yen.
• Fubuki returned with a gift box, and Shimizu eagerly offered to treat her injuries while she hoped to draw him closer and recruit him into the Blizzard Group.
• Tatsumaki secretly watched Shimizu and Fubuki from the sky, assumed they were romantically involved, and resolved to test his devotion to her sister.

Shimizu learned that his recent achievements could earn him an S-Class promotion if Sweet Mask approved his records, and he asked Makoi about the Hero Association’s monster research. After dinner, Shimizu discovered someone had paid his bill, leaving the identity of his benefactor unknown.

• Tatsumaki took Fubuki away from Shimizu, while Shimizu wondered whether Fubuki had romantic feelings for him and worried about Tatsumaki’s reaction.
• Makoi told Shimizu that the Association might promote him to the seventeenth S-Class hero if Sweet Mask approved his records.
• Shimizu asked Makoi about the sealing symbols and the Association’s monster research, then requested permission to visit the laboratory.
• Shimizu ate dinner at a restaurant and learned that someone had already paid his bill.

Sweet Mask summoned Shimizu to test whether he had the strength and judgment to become an S-Class hero, criticizing his handling of a Demon-level monster before attacking him. Their fierce duel showed that Shimizu could contend with Sweet Mask, and Sweet Mask acknowledged that he was qualified to serve as an S-Class hero.

• The waitress told Shimizu that Sweet Mask had paid his bill and left a note challenging him to prove his ability to become an S-Class hero.
• Shimizu went to the meteor crater on the outskirts of City D and met Sweet Mask, who criticized his approach to justice and the monster he had spared.
• Sweet Mask launched a physical assessment, and Shimizu blocked his punch before countering with sword energy and ranged attacks.
• The two exchanged blows across the crater as Sweet Mask demonstrated his strength and regeneration while Shimizu used varied attacks and fought to keep his distance.
• Sweet Mask recognized that Shimizu possessed the ability to serve as an S-Class hero.

After testing Shimizu in battle, Sweet Mask approved his promotion to S-Class and backed his request to change his hero name. Shimizu became the Association’s seventeenth S-Class hero, while his new fame drew attention from other heroes and Fukukiri, and Tatsumaki worried about her sister’s interest in him.

• Sweet Mask ended his fight with Shimizu, judged him worthy of S-Class, and supported his hero-name change and promotion.
• The Hero Association announced Shimizu’s promotion, prompting Bang to welcome the news and bringing a surge of students to Fukukiri Sword Dojo.
• Fukukiri considered joining the Hero Association to gain the fame and wealth of an S-Class hero, then decided to pursue a longer endorsement deal with Shimizu instead.
• Tatsumaki complained to Costers about Shimizu’s promotion, learned Sweet Mask had evaluated him, and warned Fubuki to be careful around him.
• Fubuki told Tatsumaki she wanted Shimizu in the Blizzard Group for his strength, knowledge, and abilities.

Shimizu chose the hero name Black Lightning and traveled with Feng Zhenghao’s family to the San Yi Sect’s reopening, where Feng Xingtong’s apprenticeship was planned. As leaders and experts gathered for the ceremony, Zhao Fangxu revealed that Qu Tong had united Quanxing and that Ruan Feng, creator of the Six Treasuries Immortal Thief, was among the targets of a planned encirclement.

• Tatsumaki mistook Fubuki’s interactions with Shimizu for a romance and said she would reluctantly accept him as Fubuki’s partner.
• Genos investigated a gang for information about the cyborg rampage, found none, and considered asking his doctor about Shimizu and other heroes.
• Shimizu rejected the suggested hero names and selected Black Lightning.
• Feng Zhenghao gave Shimizu Spirit Summoning as Feng Xingtong’s apprenticeship gift, and they arranged for the ceremony to take place at the San Yi Sect’s reopening.
• Zhang Zhiwei arrived at the San Yi Sect and exchanged friendly banter with Lu Jin as guests gathered for the ceremony.
• Zhao Fangxu told Shimizu that Qu Tong had unified Quanxing and revealed that Ruan Feng, the creator of the Six Treasuries Immortal Thief, was one of its members.

Zhao Fangxu revealed that Qu Tong and Quanxing had entered Twenty-Four Solar Terms Valley, where they might seek the secret behind the Eight Wonders and immortality. Shimizu agreed to send a Shadow Clone into the valley while his true body guarded the outside, as the authorities prepared to gather powerful allies and contain the operation.

• Zhao Fangxu told Shimizu that Qu Tong was likely hiding in Twenty-Four Solar Terms Valley and that Quanxing had been brought there by her operatives.
• Zhao Fangxu explained his theory that Wu Gensheng had found Ziyang Zhenren’s opportunity for immortality in the valley and that the Eight Wonders might recreate it if reunited.
• Zhao Fangxu proposed gathering powerful otherworlders to stop Qu Tong and control the secret, anticipating that holders of the Eight Wonders would be drawn to the valley.
• Zhao Fangxu suggested that Shimizu send a Shadow Clone in Platinum battle armor, and Shimizu agreed while insisting that his true body guard the valley’s perimeter.

At Lu Jin’s gathering on San Yi Peak, Shimizu introduced a Mind-Connecting Mirror that could test a prospective disciple’s heart by trapping them in Genjutsu. The seniors discussed how useful it might be, while Lu Jin still faced the challenge of finding and training suitable disciples.

• Thousands of Otherworlders celebrated at San Yi Peak as Lu Jin and the senior masters watched their performances.
• Wang Ai reflected on Wang Bing’s training, while Lu Ci lamented the Lu Clan’s lack of promising young heirs.
• Lu Jin worried about how to select disciples and whether he had enough time to train them.
• Shimizu presented his Mind-Connecting Mirror as a way to test candidates’ hearts and explained how it worked.
• The Old Heavenly Master used the mirror on Feng Zhenghao, who stayed inside its Genjutsu for half a minute before explaining that he had deliberately tested it.
• Wang Ai and Lu Jin debated whether the mirror could help in a real fight, with Wang Ai pointing out that a surprise attack could leave an opponent open to a decisive blow.

Shimizu helped Lu Jin reopen the San Yi Sect and accepted a secret role in preserving Longhu Mountain’s inheritance. After the masters agreed to confront Qu Tong, Zhang Zhiwei revealed the Zhengyi Alliance Talisman’s hidden power and asked Shimizu to learn how to repair it.

• Shimizu gave Lu Jin the Mind-Connecting Mirror, and Lu Jin selected twelve disciples for the rebuilt San Yi Sect.
• Shimizu and Zhao Fangxu gathered the masters to discuss entering Twenty-Four Solar Terms Valley, and Zhang Zhiwei agreed to join after arranging a month for preparations.
• Zhang Zhiwei told Shimizu that Zhang Chulan and Zhang Lingyu were the strongest candidates to inherit the Celestial Master’s Degree.
• Shimizu said he had learned the second-rank Taiyi Five Thunder Divine Talisman, and Zhang Zhiwei praised his strength and talent.
• Zhang Zhiwei revealed that the first-rank Zhengyi Alliance Talisman preserved the Celestial Master’s Degree if a Celestial Master died unexpectedly, and explained that repairing it could increase lifespan and power.

Shimizu agreed to repair Longhu Mountain’s Zhengyi Alliance Talisman and studied its first-rank talisman inheritance, hoping to adapt its qi-conversion method for human use. On Heavenly Pardon Day, a large force of Otherworlder experts and soldiers gathered near Twenty-Four Solar Terms Valley to confront Qu Tong, and Shimizu prepared to lead an expedition inside.

• Zhang Zhiwei explained that the Zhengyi Alliance Talisman had only one use left and asked Shimizu to restore it after he became a First-rank Talisman Master; Shimizu agreed.
• Shimizu traveled with Zhang Zhiwei to Longhu Mountain, memorized the Celestial Master Mansion’s first-rank talisman, and studied how it converted qi into Innate Primordial Qi.
• Shimizu concluded that the talisman benefited the Celestial Master’s Degree rather than its human user, and considered how he might alter it.
• On the eighteenth day of the first lunar month, tens of thousands of troops conducted exercises near the Qinling Mountains as cover for preparations to contain Qu Tong.
• Nearly a hundred experts and a reinforced company of soldiers assembled to enter Twenty-Four Solar Terms Valley, while Shimizu stayed outside with his main body and sent a Shadow Clone in the Platinum Puppet Battle Armor.
• Shimizu ordered the group to gather and had Zhang Chulan, Feng Baobao, and Wang Zhenqiu prepare to lead the way into the valley.

Shimizu and the Otherworlder experts entered Twenty-Four Solar Terms Valley and found the enemy force waiting beneath it. The Old Heavenly Master faced them while Zhou Sheng explained his reasons for joining Qu Tong, and Shimizu sensed that Gu Jiting was also present.

• A reinforced company escorted Zhang Chulan, Feng Baobao, and the other Otherworlders to the entrance of Twenty-Four Solar Terms Valley, where Shimizu discussed the valley's Qi Field with Wang Ye.
• Shimizu reflected on how Wu Gensheng had altered the valley and destroyed much of Ziyang Ren's inheritance as the group traveled through it.
• At the valley's end, Zhang Zhiwei identified the remaining trial, and the Old Heavenly Master opened the underground entrance before leaping down to confront the people below.
• The Old Heavenly Master used his Golden Light Spell to separate the two sides, while Yuan Tao stood with Qu Tong, Ruan Feng, and Zhou Sheng.
• Zhou Sheng told Zhang Zhiwei that he had joined Qu Tong to save Old Seventeen and seek the Eight Wonders again, despite Wang Ye's presence.
• Shimizu sensed Gu Jiting in an apparently empty space beside Zhou Sheng, and Feng Zhenghao, Wang Ai, and Lu Jin also noticed someone there.

Shimizu, Zhou Sheng, and the other inheritors of the Eight Wonders reshaped Twenty-Four Solar Terms Valley to recreate the opportunity for immortality left by Ziyang Zhenren. After a point of light formed inside the new Body Refining Furnace, all 134 Otherworlders launched a sudden attack, and the battle spread across the valley.

• Gu Jiting appeared beside Zhou Sheng and asked Shimizu how he had changed fate, but Shimizu offered to explain only if Gu Jiting helped kill Qu Tong.
• Qu Tong and Zhou Sheng explained how they could use the Eight Wonders to restore the valley's flow of qi, and Zhang Zhiwei warned everyone not to sabotage the work.
• Zhou Sheng assigned the gathered sorcerers and experts tasks to reshape the valley, build a Body Refining Furnace in Nine-Turning Coiled Cave, and draw in and purify the qi of heaven and earth.
• Ma Xianhong, Qu Tong, and the others completed the furnace and its artificial spirit, causing Twenty-Four Solar Terms Valley to breathe in and out qi and form a point of light.
• All 134 Otherworlders attacked at once, with Lu Ci confronting Qu Tong and the remaining fighters engaging across several battlefields.
• Zhang Zhiwei overwhelmed Zhou Sheng while Ruan Feng pressed Lu Jin, who endured with help from his talismans and Zhang Zhiwei's occasional lightning strikes.

Shimizu battled Gu Jiting’s spirit body and exposed the limits of his cultivation, then offered him and Ruan Feng ways to survive without obtaining Immortal Fate. As the supreme masters weighed whether to stop fighting, Lu Jin continued risking everything to break through to Reverse Birth Third Level.

• Shimizu resisted Gu Jiting’s higher-dimensional mental assault and recognized that Gu Jiting’s spirit body was weakened by his lack of physical Life Cultivation.
• Gu Jiting admitted he had abandoned his body to survive Hu Haiwang’s attack, then fought Shimizu with fire, water, and Qimen techniques.
• Zhang Zhiwei told Zhou Sheng that the damaged Qi Veins could be repaired, while Shimizu offered to ease Ruan Feng’s condition and help Gu Jiting become an incense spirit.
• Zhou Sheng and Gu Jiting reconsidered continuing the battle as their forces suffered losses and they recognized they could not defeat their opponents.
• Lu Jin ordered everyone not to interfere as he endured Ruan Feng’s attacks and tried to break through to Reverse Birth Third Level.

At Twenty-Four Solar Terms Valley, Qu Tong defeated Wang Ai and badly wounded Lu Ci, but the other battles turned against her forces. After explaining that Qu Tong’s plans were doomed to fail, Shimizu and the Old Heavenly Master stopped her hostage attempt and killed her with their lightning.

• Qu Tong killed Wang Ai and severely wounded Lu Ci, while battles across the valley left many prominent fighters dead or injured.
• Shimizu confronted Qu Tong, and she admitted that her plan to seize power could not succeed against the nation’s institutions and experts.
• Qu Tong feigned surrender and tried to attack Zhang Chulan, but Shimizu cut off her hand and the gathered experts moved to stop her.
• Shimizu bound Qu Tong with an Immortal-Binding Net as he and the Old Heavenly Master struck her with lightning until she died.
• Lu Jin broke through to the Reverse Birth Third Level and fought Ruan Feng evenly, prompting Gu Jiting to complain that he still felt outclassed.

After Qu Tong was killed and Ruan Feng was captured, the survivors agreed to give the remaining spiritual essence in Nine-Turning Coiled Cave to Shimizu and Zhang Zhiwei. The two began cultivating in the sphere of light, where Shimizu advanced his Sage Arts research and gained a clearer perception of space, time, and reality.

• Shimizu and the Old Heavenly Master killed Qu Tong, while Zhou Sheng and Gu Jiting helped Lu Jin capture Ruan Feng alive.
• Shimizu treated Lu Ci enough to stabilize him, and Lu Ci and Lu Jin exchanged words about their lives and friendship with Wang Ai.
• Zhou Sheng proposed that Shimizu and Zhang Zhiwei receive the remaining spiritual essence, and Lu Jin, Feng Zhenghao, and the other survivors agreed.
• After the wounded and dead were evacuated, Shimizu and Zhang Zhiwei entered the sphere of light in Nine-Turning Coiled Cave to cultivate.
• Shimizu used the sphere's insight to refine Natural Energy into Innate Primordial Qi and study space, time, and reality.

Shimizu and the Old Heavenly Master gained new insights from the remaining heaven-and-earth qi essence, and the Old Heavenly Master revealed that he had cultivated an Inner World and had to ascend within three days. After Zhang Zhiwei passed the Heavenly Master position to Zhang Lingyu and ascended, Shimizu studied the Dragon Tiger Dao Inquiry True Chapter in the Naruto World.

• Shimizu explored his improved Innate Primordial Qi and newly mastered abilities in space, time, and reality.
• The Old Heavenly Master explained that his Dragon Tiger Golden Elixir had formed an Inner World, requiring him to leave before he was assimilated by the greater world.
• Zhang Zhiwei told Shimizu that mastering techniques could help complete an Inner World and strengthen its cultivator.
• More than a hundred thousand Otherworlders gathered at Longhu Mountain for the Grand Universal Ceremony, where the Old Heavenly Master expounded upon the Dao.
• Zhang Zhiwei passed the Heavenly Master position to Zhang Lingyu and ascended in broad daylight.
• In the Naruto World, Shimizu studied the Old Heavenly Master's Dragon Tiger Dao Inquiry True Chapter.