Chapter Summaries

Lu Chenzhou tested his new protective suit, equipped his parents with protective gear, and tracked the escalating void disasters across the world. As Great Xia and other nations prepared for worsening threats, he planned his training ahead of the Super Hidden Dragon Tournament and aimed to reach Martial Artist strength.

• Lu Chenzhou tested the protective suit’s defenses and gave protective suits to Lu Guoping and Li Xianghua, who continued practicing their fist arts.
• Void disasters worsened in Su City and across Great Xia, where three Void Kings were killed after emerging in different regions; authorities declared wartime readiness.
• Storm Lord Jia Gelie killed the Seven Devils of Hell in the Silver Eagle Federation, while Posuo Great Emperor Di Heng contained the disaster-class Feiponu in his spiritual kingdom.
• Lu Chenzhou read the school forum’s discussion of the Super Hidden Dragon Tournament, including Li Fu and other seeded contestants, as he worried that martial universities might be mobilized against the rising threats.
• Lu Chenzhou reviewed his Martial Dao Tree progress and planned to advance his skills and vital energy before the tournament so he could become a Martial Artist as soon as possible.

Rien traveled with Belrand toward the Saint Elephant Ruins while Lu Chenzhou advanced his cultivation and prepared for the Super Hidden Dragon Tournament. As Tang Zheng returned to Su City and revealed Grandmaster-level strength, Lu Chenzhou finally comprehended the spirit of Tiger Form boxing.

• Rien defeated charging bears and continued his pilgrimage with Belrand, hoping to learn advanced force-dissipation techniques at the Saint Elephant Ruins.
• Li Fu reached the limit of his current realm, while competitors across Dragon City campuses began preparing for the Super Hidden Dragon Tournament.
• Lu Chenzhou reached major mastery in the Iron Crotch Skill, increased his blood vitality, and trained the Heaven Stance under Chen Jiu.
• Lu Chenzhou accepted a new Diamond Group contact and considered pursuing the Golden Bell Jade Drum Wisdom King Body after advancing to martial artist.
• Tang Zheng ambushed River-Crossing Jiao Li Zhen on Tai Lake, pierced his defenses with a silver needle, and revealed that he had reached the Grandmaster realm.
• After studying and practicing Tiger Form techniques, Lu Chenzhou comprehended their shared tiger spirit on April 20.

Lu Chenzhou fused his perfected tiger-form martial arts into the quasi-Third Rank Black Tiger Mountain Venerable Divine Seed and completed a Void-hunting assessment. As Su City faced renewed danger and Li Fu advanced to become a martial artist, Lu continued cultivating toward his next acupoint.

• Lu Chenzhou fused Black Tiger Fist, Mountain-Crossing Body, and Tiger Venerable Fist into Black Tiger Mountain Venerable Fist, creating a quasi-Third Rank Divine Seed with strengthened abilities.
• Ji Xuantong warned Lu Chenzhou to remain on campus because Li Zhen, the master of Wandering Dragon Martial Arts Academy, had gone missing near the center of Tai Lake.
• Tang Zheng met with cultists on Su City's outskirts and agreed to cooperate with Protector Blade Dragon and the Void Kings.
• Lu Chenzhou killed a Human-Faced Catfish at an artificial lake, completed his individual practical assessment, and rose to 464th on the Hidden Dragon Rankings.
• Li Fu became a martial artist and left the newcomer competition, while Fang Xue and Liu Xiang discussed his breakthrough and Lu Chenzhou's growing reputation.
• By late April, Wang Hongdao had become a special-grade talent, and Lu Chenzhou had opened his wrist-bone acupoint and begun cultivating his twenty-third acupoint.

Lu Chenzhou advanced his Tiger Shadow Lost Track Step and prepared for the Dragon City First Son competition while learning how to counter opponents’ innate force. After Chen Jiu found that Lu Chenzhou’s Golden Body Method was progressing unusually fast, he went to speak with the principal.

• Lu Chenzhou reached minor mastery in Tiger Shadow Lost Track Step, gaining the ability to leap high and move silently.
• Lu Chenzhou learned that Su City would gain branch campuses of top martial universities and discussed possible Dragon City First Son opponents with his classmates and teachers.
• Lan Tian explained how to recognize and counter innate force, and Lu Chenzhou committed the advice to memory.
• Lu Chenzhou completed a Diamond Group mission, earned 700,000 and ten Diamond Points, and used twenty points to order Bright Jade Balm.
• Chen Jiu examined Lu Chenzhou’s body and found his Golden Body Method nearly at mastery after reaching proficiency in February.
• Chen Jiu hurried off to find the principal after realizing how exceptional Lu Chenzhou’s body-tempering progress was.

Lu Chenzhou broke through to mastery in the Golden Body Method, boosting his defenses and ranking, while Ji Xuantong investigated a student’s mysterious abduction in Su City. The chapter ended with Ji and Martial Dao Master Lu Jun preparing to review surveillance footage as they suspected a human culprit.

• Wang Changming told Chen Jiu that Lu Chenzhou’s body-tempering talent might justify considering the Dragon-Elephant Heaven-Supporting Divine Skill, while leaving the choice to Lu Chenzhou and his mentors.
• Lu Chenzhou broke through to mastery in the Eighteen Arhats Golden Body Art and tested his newly strengthened blue-stone body and golden membrane.
• Lu Chenzhou gained 3,000 Hidden Dragon Rankings points and measured blood vitality of 7.66, nearing his limit before perfecting the Tiger Soul Divine Striking Fist.
• A Flying Swallow Martial Arts Hall student saw a white figure and was abducted before he could alert Ji Xuantong.
• Ji Xuantong found the student’s phone, notified the police, and warned Lu Chenzhou and his senior sisters to stay on campus.
• Martial Dao Master Lu Jun arrived, and he and Ji Xuantong agreed to check surveillance footage while suspecting a human abductor.

Ji Xuantong moved his family to Su City Longwu after suspecting Tang Zheng had returned and begun targeting participants in an old operation. Meanwhile, Lu Chenzhou perfected Tiger Soul Divine Striking Fist, reached the eight-point vitality limit, and gained a Heavenly Mandate Black Tiger Divine Seed that accelerated acupoint condensation; the next morning, his ranking rose to 455 and Li Gui asked about his breakthrough.

• Surveillance footage showed a white figure abducting Little Zhao, and Ji Xuantong suspected Tang Zheng, the missing River-Crossing Jiao, might be behind the attack.
• Tang Zheng revealed that he had reached the Grandmaster realm through the forbidden Blood Dragon Heaven-Devouring Divine Art and offered his followers a simplified Blood-Transforming Method.
• Duan Lingyu learned that Lu Fang had returned and discovered that Lu Fang had become a Grandmaster, so he decided there was no need to request one for Pingjiang.
• Ji Xuantong closed Flying Swallow Martial Arts Hall and moved his family into Su City Longwu, where Qingtian Cang offered them shelter and guidance.
• Lu Chenzhou perfected Tiger Soul Divine Striking Fist, reached eight points of vitality and blood, and gained the Heavenly Mandate Black Tiger Divine Seed with a Tiger Acupoint effect that increased acupoint-condensation speed.
• The next morning, Lu Chenzhou's Hidden Dragon Rankings rank rose to 455, and Li Gui messaged to ask whether his fist art had broken through and his vitality had reached eight points.

Lu Chenzhou demonstrated his perfected Tiger Soul Divine Striking Fist to Li Gui, who judged him capable of contending for first place in the upcoming tournament. With his vitality and blood reaching the shackle, Lu Chenzhou studied Chen Jiu’s notes on uniting the three forces and planned his training before becoming a martial artist.

• Lu Chenzhou sparred with Li Gui, who confirmed he had perfected Tiger Soul Divine Striking and advised him to focus on the Heaven Stance, acupoints, and uniting the three forces.
• Li Gui told Hong Fu about Lu Chenzhou’s achievement and his ability to connect with the Heavenly Heart Imprint before becoming a martial artist.
• Lu Chenzhou told Ji Xuantong that his vitality and blood had reached 8, prompting Ji Xuantong to accept the possibility that his student might surpass him.
• Chen Jiu gave Lu Chenzhou his cultivation notes after confirming that his vitality and blood had reached the shackle, and encouraged him to honor their branch school at the Hidden Dragon Tournament.
• Lu Chenzhou reorganized his training schedule and studied Chen Jiu’s explanation of bright force, dark force, transforming force, and dantian force.

Lu Chenzhou began defending the school arena daily to refine and unify his three forces through sparring. After weeks of defeating challengers from across Dragon City, he finally understood the unity of the three forces and drew the combined currents into his dantian.

• Lu Chenzhou posted that he would defend the public arena every noon through June 29, offering ten major merits to anyone who defeated him.
• At the first challenge session, Lu Chenzhou defeated three ninth-rank fighters and then won an intense match against Wang Hongdao, gaining insight into combining the three forces.
• After boxing class, Li Gui advised Lu Chenzhou to coordinate the two kinds of transformative force in his body to link overt and covert force.
• Over the following weeks, Lu Chenzhou fought challengers from Dragon City, including Huo Tianyuan, and continued winning while practicing at the arena.
• On June 25, Lu Chenzhou sensed the black and white currents of force blending through his body and drew them toward his dantian, realizing he had achieved the unity of the three forces.

Lu Chenzhou merged his three forces into innate force and endured an hour of turmoil while taming it. Afterward, he bought medicine for his internal injuries and prepared to recover before resuming training.

• Lu Chenzhou combined light and darkness in his dantian, creating a golden tiger-like strand of innate force that clashed with his vitality.
• Ji Feiyan and Shi Ruyu guarded Lu Chenzhou while Ji Xuantong arrived and explained how he needed to tame the newly formed force.
• After an hour, Lu Chenzhou opened his eyes and found his innate force settled, though the breakthrough had left him with internal injuries.
• Li Gui advised Lu Chenzhou to rest and recover before using innate force, then described the path toward breaking shackles.
• Lu Chenzhou bought a Blood-Replenishing Body-Repair Pill, took leave to heal, and observed its medicinal power repairing his injuries.

Lu Chenzhou learned about Void Realm creatures and dangerous aperture medicines before traveling to the main campus for the Hidden Dragon Tournament. After Panther Woman was injured by Ning De, Lu Chenzhou was paired against him in the round of sixteen.

• Lu Chenzhou learned that the Yellow Spirit Body-Breaking Pill retained a Flying Tumor-Headed Beast’s will imprint, and the medical room administrator warned him that only Martial Dao Masters could safely use it.
• Lu Chenzhou traveled with the branch campus contestants to the Dragon City University of Martial Arts main campus for the tournament.
• Panther Woman, Chen Xiaoyun, and Yao Sheng were eliminated, while Wang Hongdao advanced and the branch campus promised extra merits for strong tournament results.
• Ji Xuantong warned Lu Chenzhou that Guo Bai had opened thirty acupoints, comprehended innate force, and posed a major threat to the title.
• Ning De injured Panther Woman and advanced, while Wang Hongdao reached the top sixteen.
• The top sixteen matchups paired Lu Chenzhou against Ning De, and Panther Woman urged Lu Chenzhou to avenge her.

Lu Chenzhou crushed Ning De in the quarterfinals, demonstrating his innate force, while Wang Hongdao also won and advanced. In the semifinals, Lu faced Ding Jingqiu, whose Phoenix Form attack struck Lu’s golden body with enough force to scatter flecks of light.

• Lu Chenzhou defeated Ning De with a series of powerful strikes and forced him to concede.
• Lu Chenzhou stepped down to cheers, and Li Jin watched the competition and remarked that Lu was not bad.
• Wang Hongdao won his match after a brutal battle, becoming the second Su City Branch Campus student to advance.
• The semifinal matchups were announced, pairing Lu Chenzhou against Ding Jingqiu.
• Ding Jingqiu revealed he had long anticipated the fight, assumed Phoenix Form, and struck Lu Chenzhou’s arm with a claw that scattered golden light.

Lu Chenzhou defeated Ding Jingqiu and advanced through the tournament to face Guo Bai in the final, where their clash of tiger and dragon forms pushed both fighters to their limits. Guo Bai conceded defeat after his ultimate strike exhausted him, leaving Lu Chenzhou Dragon City's top student.

• Lu Chenzhou used a deliberate opening to trap Ding Jingqiu and beat him with a headbutt and follow-up takedown, forcing Ding to concede.
• Lu Chenzhou resolved to improve his movement technique after recognizing how the phoenix form had exploited his weakness.
• Guo Bai and Chen Dao advanced from the semifinals, and Lu Chenzhou easily defeated Zhou Qi before Guo Bai beat Chen Dao.
• Lu Chenzhou and Guo Bai traded powerful attacks in the final, injuring each other as they fought with their tiger and dragon forms.
• Guo Bai and Lu Chenzhou invoked their Heavenly Heart imprints and clashed with innate force in their decisive moves.
• Guo Bai fell after exhausting himself with Cloud Dragon Shaking the Earth and congratulated Lu Chenzhou as Dragon City's top student.

Lu Chenzhou defeated Guo Bai to become Dragon City's foremost representative, then joined the branch-campus students for a visit to the main campus. At a banquet, he encountered Dragon Soar Class 9 and its three dominant prodigies, including the first-ranked Li Ao.

• Guo Bai accepted his loss to Lu Chenzhou as he was taken for treatment, while Lu Chenzhou learned that his own injuries would heal with rest.
• Spring Breeze Palm, Zhang Cai, reassured Lu Chenzhou about the injuries and congratulated him on becoming Dragon City's foremost representative.
• Lu Chenzhou received his tournament rewards, recovered enough to join Ji Feiyan and Shi Ruyu on a main-campus tour, and reunited with the genius-class students.
• At Dragon City Restaurant, students from the main campus approached Lu Chenzhou before Dragon Soar Class 9 arrived and drew everyone's attention.
• Wang Hongdao introduced Li Ao, Wang Xian, and Sun Shisan as the top three on the Hidden Dragon Rankings and formidable Martial Arts Masters.

After winning Dragon City's top student title, Lu Chenzhou met Class 9's prodigies and received praise from Wei Fenghua, while Li Ao wondered why the Azure Heaven Dragon King had called him a future absolute peak. Lu returned to focused training and opened his twenty-sixth aperture by July 30th, leaving him four apertures short of becoming a martial artist.

• At the banquet, Wang Hongdao tried to console Lu Chenzhou, but Lu said he was excited to climb the martial arts path alongside the prodigies.
• Wei Fenghua hosted the gathering, and Fang Xue introduced herself as last year's top student and Class 9's monitor before befriending Lu and bringing several classmates to meet him.
• Li Ao recalled that the Azure Heaven Dragon King had said Lu Chenzhou possessed the bearing of the absolute peak, and wondered what the Dragon King had seen.
• Wei Fenghua praised Lu at the banquet and said she and Principal Li believed in him, then urged him to bring fame to the university.
• After returning to Su City, Lu accepted the school's commendation, resumed aperture training, and promised Li Gui he would focus on becoming a martial artist.
• By July 30th, Lu had opened his twenty-sixth aperture, the Chize acupoint.

Lu Chenzhou was officially named a Martial Arts Prodigy and explored the privileges and divine weapons available to him. After his old classmates arrived at Dragon City University of Martial Arts, he formed a hazy sea of qi in his dantian, marking a major step toward becoming a Martial Artist.

• Principal Wang congratulated Lu Chenzhou on becoming a Martial Arts Prodigy, and Qingtian Cang explained that he would receive treatment equal to a Class 9 student while staying at the branch campus.
• Lu Chenzhou read the school committee's list of prodigy privileges and browsed Dragon City's Arms Vault, where he inspected the Tiger's Courage Spear and other inherited divine weapons.
• After the college entrance examination, Lu Chenzhou congratulated his classmates, learned that Wang Gang had joined Xinghe Martial University's Star Class, and heard that Du Men had entered Class 2 at Pingjiang Martial University.
• Liu Huan and the other Fangshan High School students arrived at Dragon City University of Martial Arts, where Lu Chenzhou showed them around the school.
• Lu Chenzhou formed a hazy sea of qi in his dantian, and his Golden Tiger Innate Force swam through it as it was nurtured.

Lu Chenzhou advanced his Tiger Shadow Lost Track Step and discussed a possible title for when he became a Martial Artist. Elsewhere, Chen Yuan progressed at Dragon-Tiger Academy, and Ouyang Qing announced his attempt to break the shackles.

• Wu Zun urged Xiao He and the other students to work harder, citing Lu Chenzhou’s nine hours of daily stance training as an example.
• At Dragon-Tiger Academy, Chen Yuan reached the tenth rank and opened twenty-four acupoints, and Crane Sword True Man Zhang Jiangu offered to help him claim a title when he became a Martial Artist.
• Ouyang Qing announced that he had opened thirty acupoints and would try to break the shackles and open his inner landscape.
• Lu Chenzhou demonstrated major progress in the Tiger Shadow Lost Track Step, and Li Gui praised his movement through difficult terrain.
• Lu Chenzhou told Li Gui that his preferred title was already held by a great grandmaster, so Li Gui suggested the unclaimed title White-Browed Marquis.

Lu Chenzhou perfected the Iron Crotch Skill and gained a new divine seed, while Lu Fang suspected Tang Zheng was cultivating the Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art. The chapter ended with Lu Chenzhou approaching thirty apertures and preparing to open the final three.

• Li Gui told Lu Chenzhou the legend of the Seven Monsters of the Shu Mountains, and Lu Chenzhou accepted White-Browed Marquis as a possible title.
• Lu Fang investigated the disappearances in Su City, concluded Tang Zheng was likely using the Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art, and resolved to stop him before he went mad.
• Xia Xiaodao used the Blood-Transforming Method on a relative and planned to earn merit points to explore the Void Realm for a treasure shown on his family map.
• Lu Chenzhou perfected the Iron Crotch Skill, gaining the Dragon-Vigorous Tiger-Fierce divine seed and increased stamina, vitality, and flexibility.
• By October 1st, Lu Chenzhou had opened his twenty-seventh aperture, declined the Su City Hundred-Halls Exchange Tournament, and increased his Heaven Stance practice to ten hours a day.

Lu Chenzhou completed his thirty acupoints and began breaking the first shackle with Ji Xuantong guarding him. He shattered the barrier and declared that martial arts were not solitary and his path was not lonely.

• Wu Zun invited Lu Chenzhou to fish and share insights to help prepare him for becoming a Martial Artist.
• Shi Ruyu reached the ninth rank, and Qingtian Cang shared guidance about Lu Chenzhou's coming breakthrough and the school's field training.
• Lu Chenzhou's Golden Body Art advanced to Minor Achievement, and he opened his final acupoint after a forty-day effort.
• Lu Chenzhou paused his body conditioning and settled his mind through fist practice, reading, and fishing before attempting to break the shackles.
• On February 22, Lu Chenzhou resonated his thirty acupoints, expanded his qi and blood, and strengthened his innate force.
• Lu Chenzhou saw the martial ancestors' legacy, destroyed the first shackle's door with a tiger-backed punch, and proclaimed that his martial path was not lonely.

Lu Chenzhou entered his martial inner landscape and saw the thirteen supreme pinnacle imprints that shaped Great Xia’s martial path. After understanding the seven shackles and the first stage of the climb, he returned to awareness and saw his master.

• Lu Chenzhou reflected on how generations of martial artists had built the path he followed, then turned toward the mountain and its seven spiraling stairways.
• Lu Chenzhou identified the thirteen supreme pinnacle imprints, including Wan Shixian, the Azure Heaven Dragon King, and his principal, the Four Symbols Adept.
• Lu Chenzhou realized that supreme pinnacles left dominant imprints in the martial paths they embodied, and that the seven stairways represented the seven great shackles.
• Lu Chenzhou examined his inner landscape and understood how cultivating both the inner and outer body would strengthen its foundation.
• Lu Chenzhou tried to climb the first stairway but was held back by invisible shackles, then recognized the viewing platforms as stages of martial-artist cultivation.
• Lu Chenzhou withdrew from his inner landscape and opened his eyes to see his master.

Lu Chenzhou broke through his shackles and became the branch campus’s first Martial Artist, then spent three days recovering from the damage. After regaining his strength, he tested his transformed body and gained precise control over its external training membrane.

• Lu Chenzhou emerged from his martial inner landscape, and Ji Xuantong gave him a Blood-Replenishing Body-Repair Pill to treat his injuries.
• The teachers and Lu Chenzhou’s parents celebrated his breakthrough, while Ji Xuantong stayed behind to guard him during his recovery.
• Wang Changming approved a Master-grade divine weapon for Lu Chenzhou and told Wu Zun and Li Gui to let him face ordinary missions independently.
• After three days and three pills, Lu Chenzhou’s injuries healed, and he tested his powerful aura, blood, and tiger-and-leopard roar.
• Lu Chenzhou made his external training membrane disappear at will and restored it when he touched himself with his fist.