Chapter Summaries

After becoming a Martial Artist, Lu Chenzhou tested his new abilities and discussed his cultivation path with his master and senior sisters. He received guidance and training materials, rose to rank 400 on the Hidden Dragon Rankings, and began practicing Tiger Shadow and Lost Trail.

• Lu Chenzhou tested his heightened senses, strength, jumping ability, and water-walking technique, then confirmed that his blood vitality had reached 10.01.
• Ji Feiyan and Shi Ruyu congratulated Lu Chenzhou, and Qingtian Cang advised him on choosing a divine weapon, focusing on Tiger Form, postponing divine arts, and continuing horizontal training.
• Qingtian Cang gave Lu Chenzhou a top-secret copy of Complete Explanation of the Dragon-Tiger Heaven Stance and told him Li Gui would remain his Tiger Form teacher.
• Lu Chenzhou rose to rank 400 on the Hidden Dragon Rankings and noted the positions of his classmates and the top-ranked fighters.
• At four in the morning, Lu Chenzhou practiced Tiger Shadow and Lost Trail in the gymnasium.

Lu Chenzhou fused three tiger-form martial arts into the Heaven-Mandated Profound Tiger Fist, forming a quasi-fourth-rank Divine Seed and a Profound Tiger Spirit. After testing his acupoint progress, he left seclusion and returned to class, where his classmates greeted his arrival.

• Lu Chenzhou reflected on strengthening his mind and will, then resolved to find a suitable True Art and cultivate further.
• Lu Chenzhou fused the Tiger Soul Divine Striking Fist, Black Tiger Mountain Venerable Fist, and Tiger Shadow Lost Track Step into the Heaven-Mandated Profound Tiger Fist.
• Lu Chenzhou examined the new Divine Seed’s effects, discovered his Profound Tiger Spirit, and broke an ironwood stake with his strengthened strike.
• Lu Chenzhou tested his training pace and found that twelve hours of stance work advanced his thirty-first acupoint from one to six percent in a day.
• On February 27, Lu Chenzhou returned to fist-technique class, and Chen Xiaoyun teased Little He into calling him Senior Lu.

Lu Chenzhou became the genius class’s first Martial Artist and began learning the Tiger Demon Tai Sui Method from Li Gui. After several days of cultivation, he entered its first level and felt the method’s baleful aura painfully temper his body.

• Lu Chenzhou celebrated his breakthrough with Wang Hongdao and the other students, then told them to keep working toward the Martial Artist realm.
• Li Gui told Lu Chenzhou that Ouyang Qing had already registered the White-Browed Marquis title, and Lu Chenzhou planned to visit Dragon-Tiger Academy after handling his other affairs.
• Li Gui taught Lu Chenzhou about True Skills and introduced the Tiger Demon Tai Sui Method, explaining its six levels and their effects on cultivation and danger perception.
• Lu Chenzhou began studying the method as Li Gui demonstrated its Tai Sui imagery and explained how it cultivated baleful aura.
• After three days of avoiding campus attention and practicing at home, Lu Chenzhou entered the method’s first level on March 1st and felt its baleful aura painfully grind through his body.

Lu Chenzhou cultivated the Tiger Demon Tai Sui Method and rapidly mastered several ordinary tiger-form martial arts. Wu Zun called him to headquarters to collect his divine weapon reward and meet the legendary Four Symbols Adept.

• Lu Chenzhou sensed the Tai Sui God in his Martial Dao inner realm, and Li Gui demonstrated the mind-shattering power of the Tai Sui Life-Severing Saber.
• After three days of training, Lu Chenzhou advanced the Tiger Demon Tai Sui Method to 2% and planned his daily practice schedule.
• Lu Chenzhou borrowed study materials for Fierce Tiger Stance, Five Tigers Palm, and Tiger Roar Fist, then learned all three from Li Gui.
• Lu Chenzhou practiced Fierce Tiger Stance until he reached Mastery in one week and decided to develop his fist theory through ordinary tiger-form techniques before learning true method-level fist techniques.
• Wu Zun summoned Lu Chenzhou to headquarters, where he expected to receive his divine weapon reward and meet the Four Symbols Adept.

Lu Chenzhou met the Four Symbols Adept, who warned him about the growing danger of the Void Realm, then passed the Arms Vault’s Mind-Refining Passage. He chose the Tiger Gall Spear as his divine weapon.

• Wu Zun brought Lu Chenzhou to meet Li Jin and the Four Symbols Adept, who praised his potential and urged him to reach Grandmaster as the Void Realm’s threats grew.
• The Four Symbols Adept explained that the Void Realm was a mysterious dimension that devoured civilizations and warned Lu Chenzhou he might one day fight its creatures.
• Wu Zun escorted Lu Chenzhou to the underground Arms Vault, where Chen Tang required him to pass the Mind-Refining Passage before claiming a divine weapon.
• Lu Chenzhou confronted and drove off a Greater Void blood-shadow with Mystic Tiger Subdues Demons, then crossed the passage while suppressing other Void creatures.
• Lu Chenzhou entered the weapon vault and selected the Tiger Gall Spear from the inherited divine weapons.

Lu Chenzhou subdued the Tiger Gall Spear and challenged Ouyang Qing for the title of White-Browed Marquis. As the one-month notice period began, Lu Chenzhou continued training with the Tiger Demon Tai Sui Method.

• Lu Chenzhou defeated the Winged Tiger’s spirit in his martial inner landscape and made the Tiger Gall Spear recognize him as its master.
• Chen Tang warned Lu Chenzhou that the spear’s power could backlash if he tried to temper it with a powerful demon’s blood, and Wu Zun accompanied him back to Su City.
• Lu Chenzhou challenged Ouyang Qing for the title of White-Browed Marquis and asked the association to tell Ouyang he would use a weapon.
• Ouyang Qing learned of the challenge while hunting a Man-Headed Mountain Spider and accepted the prospect of fighting Lu Chenzhou.
• Lu Chenzhou trained with the Tiger Demon Tai Sui Method at his Stone Lake villa and noted that it had increased his vitality and blood.

Lu Chenzhou advanced his acupoint training with rare medicine, learned more about the stages of martial force, and perfected the Fierce Tiger Stance. As the April 10 deadline approached, he prepared to face Ouyang Qing in a supervised no-holds-barred duel.

• Lu Chenzhou asked Principal Wang about long-term use of acupoint-opening medicine, and Principal Wang advised him to use it while explaining the hardships of cultivation after Grandmaster.
• Lu Chenzhou bought ten Yellow Spirit Body-Breaking Pills and used one to defeat a Flying Tumor-Headed Beast's remnant will, temper his martial will, and accelerate the opening of his 32nd acupoint.
• Lu Chenzhou tested the Tiger's Courage Spear, considered taking Diamond Group missions, and continued cultivating until he reached Major Mastery in the Fierce Tiger Stance and measured 10.62 vitality.
• Lu Chenzhou told Ji Xuantong and the others that he had opened thirty-two acupoints, startling his master and fellow disciples.
• On April 10, Lu Chenzhou perfected the Fierce Tiger Stance as the deadline for his duel with Ouyang Qing approached.

Lu Chenzhou fused the Fierce Tiger Scorching Heart Divine Seed into his Heaven-Mandated Profound Tiger Fist and gained a stronger heat attack. He arrived at Dragon-Tiger Mountain after killing a Human-Eyed Frog and began his title battle with Ouyang Qing.

• Lu Chenzhou fused the Fierce Tiger Scorching Heart Divine Seed into his martial art, raising Scorching Heat to about 200°C.
• At Dragon-Tiger Mountain, Ouyang Qing waited as spectators gathered for his title battle with Lu Chenzhou.
• Lu Chenzhou arrived carrying a Human-Eyed Frog claw, explained that he had killed the demon on his way, and said he had already contacted the police.
• Lu Chenzhou and Ouyang Qing exchanged confident words before the female Martial Artist officially started their best-of-three battle.
• Lu Chenzhou planted his spear, drew Mountain Lord, and launched himself toward Ouyang Qing using the spear’s recoil.

Lu Chenzhou defeated Ouyang Qing in a title battle and claimed the title White-Browed Marquis, then toured Dragon-Tiger Mountain with Chen Yuan. At the Celestial Master Hall, he witnessed a vision of the Celestial Master’s failed attempt to reach the Fifth Realm and his departure into the Dao.

• Lu Chenzhou overcame Ouyang Qing’s tiger techniques and saber attacks, then defeated him with the Mountain Lord Knuckle Blades and claimed victory in the title contest.
• Ouyang Qing accepted his defeat, urged Lu Chenzhou to carry the White-Browed Marquis title to the All-Nations Martial Arts Tournament, and vowed to challenge him again.
• Lu Chenzhou reflected on his fight, deciding to focus on fist techniques while also training in spear and weapon combat; he registered to connect with Li Yun, Bean Lady.
• Chen Yuan walked with Lu Chenzhou to the Celestial Master Hall and spoke about his father’s guilt over the case involving Chen Yongjing.
• Lu Chenzhou became entranced by the hall’s plaque and witnessed a vision of the Celestial Master failing to reach the Fifth Realm before entering the Dao.

Lu Chenzhou gained insight from Zhang Tianshi’s ancient plaque at Dragon-Tiger Mountain and met the powerful Daoist Son Zhang Lingmiao. After Lu left, Zhang Lingmiao healed Ouyang Qing and identified Lu’s Void Blade as a divine weapon, while a surviving cultist sent blood-colored tadpoles to track down their target.

• Lu Chenzhou viewed Zhang Tianshi’s plaque, learned of the Celestial Master’s failed attempt to reach the fifth realm, and felt his understanding of fist principles improve.
• Chen Yuan guided Lu Chenzhou around the Celestial Master’s Mansion and saw him off at the mountain gate.
• Zhang Lingmiao returned from killing a Great Void creature, warned Chen Yuan about a likely Level Four convergence point, and asked about Lu Chenzhou and Ouyang Qing.
• Zhang Lingmiao healed Ouyang Qing, then revealed that Lu Chenzhou’s Void Blade was a divine weapon.
• A surviving Divine Child Cult creature discovered its Slug Fighter nest had been destroyed and sent two blood-colored tadpoles to find their mother.

Lu Chenzhou discovered that observing Zhang Tianshi’s relic had changed the Martial Dao Tree and brought life to his inner landscape, then repelled a Divine Child Cult tracking attack on his way to the airport. After reaching Su City, he learned that the Southern Border was under lockdown and asked Qingtian Cang about arts that could repel tracking and aura marks.

• Lu Chenzhou noticed that the Martial Dao Tree had grown and that green shoots had appeared in his inner landscape after he observed Zhang Tianshi’s relic.
• Two blood-red tadpoles attacked Lu Chenzhou in a taxi, but his Profound Tiger Spirit destroyed them; the taxi driver was knocked unconscious by the sound waves.
• Li Qi identified the tadpoles as an evil art used by a Divine Child Cult incense master, and Lu Chenzhou decided to investigate the cult instead of waiting for another taxi.
• A white-haired cultist’s tracking art backfired, and he chose to wait until the Southern Border was in chaos before pursuing Lu Chenzhou again.
• Lu Chenzhou arrived in Su City, told Qingtian Cang about the attack, and learned about the Bodhi Formula and Whisk-Dusting Qi as aura-cleansing arts.

Lu Chenzhou chose the Buddhist secret art Bodhi Formula and advanced his Five Tigers Palm while explaining to Li Gui that he hoped to create a true-art-level technique. Chen Jiu secured permission for him to learn Bodhi Formula through Songshan Martial University, and Chen Jiu began teaching him its four levels.

• Lu Chenzhou chose Bodhi Formula over Whisk-Dusting Qi because his Buddhist foundation was stronger and his time was limited.
• Lu Chenzhou practiced Five Tigers Palm, advanced it to Minor Accomplishment, and told Li Gui he wanted to develop his own true art after improving his fist principles.
• Li Gui explained how rare fundamental true arts were, but Lu Chenzhou assured him he trusted his own path.
• Lu Chenzhou asked Chen Jiu to teach him Bodhi Formula, and Chen Jiu sought permission from Songshan Martial University through his friend Chan Master Mingxin.
• Sky Supporting Mendicant and the Songshan Grandmasters approved the request, and Chen Jiu agreed to teach Lu Chenzhou without charge.
• Chen Jiu explained Bodhi Formula's uses and four levels, and Lu Chenzhou began learning the secret art.

Lu Chenzhou mastered the beginner level of the Bodhi Formula, developed a lightning effect through Five Tigers Palm, and continued building his martial foundation. Wang Hongdao became the branch campus’s second Martial Artist and then visited Lu to challenge him to a match.

• Lu Chenzhou formed a Bodhi seed after days of practice, reaching beginner level in the Bodhi Formula and learning to conceal his aura.
• Chen Jiu tested Lu’s technique and compared his progress with Thunder Vajra Mingxin’s, while Lu studied the Divine Child Cult and worked to cleanse void creature aura from himself.
• Lu perfected Five Tigers Palm, gained the Five Tigers Encirclement Divine Seed, and fused its Palm Thunderclap effect into Heavenly Mandate Black Tiger, raising the discharge to five hundred volts.
• Wang Hongdao broke through to the Martial Artist realm, becoming the branch campus’s second Martial Artist, and Lu watched his whale-shaped manifestation rise above the villa district.
• Seven days later, Wang Hongdao visited Lu Chenzhou and challenged him to a match in the gymnasium’s private martial arena.

Lu Chenzhou defeated Wang Hongdao with his enhanced Heaven-Mandated Profound Tiger Fist and continued building his martial arts foundation. Principal Wang accepted him as a direct disciple and assigned Wang Xian to teach him, leaving the new senior and junior brothers practicing together.

• Lu Chenzhou injured Wang Hongdao in their arena match, surprising him with the power of the Heaven-Mandated Profound Tiger Fist.
• After reaching 11.11 vitality, Lu Chenzhou chose three tiger-form martial arts to study at the Myriad Scrolls Pavilion.
• Principal Wang demonstrated his spear technique, explained how a grandmaster could store a divine weapon, and accepted Lu Chenzhou as his direct disciple.
• Principal Wang introduced his disciples and appointed Wang Xian as Lu Chenzhou's teacher in spear techniques and tiger-form fist principles.
• Lu Chenzhou and Wang Xian practiced stances together, and Lu Chenzhou told him he had opened thirty-five apertures.

Lu Chenzhou learned the Layered Forest Spear Art from Wang Xian, advanced his Golden Body Method to major mastery, and discussed future martial arts competitions with his master's lineage. After Lu Fang offered him a mission to eliminate a Blue Lotus Church branch, Lu Chenzhou practiced the Tiger Roar Fist and awakened its Dominance effect.

• Wang Xian taught Lu Chenzhou the basics of spear arts and the Layered Forest Spear Art, which Lu Chenzhou quickly learned to use with Tiger-Gallbladder.
• Wang Xian reported to his master that Lu Chenzhou learned quickly, and his master warned Wang Xian to be careful on his upcoming Void Realm mission.
• By May 31, Lu Chenzhou reached major mastery in the Eighteen Arhats Golden Body Art and tested the strength of his enhanced defenses.
• At a gathering on June 1, Lu Chenzhou discussed the Sky Road Cup and All-Nations Martial Arts Tournament with his master's lineage, and he said he would rather witness the competitors than pursue a ranking.
• Lu Fang recruited Lu Chenzhou to help eliminate a Blue Lotus Church branch in exchange for at least three hundred Vajra Points, and promised to pair him with a martial artist from Xinghe Martial University.
• Lu Chenzhou practiced the perfected Tiger Roar Fist and discovered that its Tiger-Swallowing Momentum Divine Seed enhanced his Dominance.

Lu Chenzhou joined a police operation against the cultist Jiang Zixu and captured the demonic-art user Xia Xiaodao, who had plotted with Jiang Zixu to ambush Wang Hongdao. He found an ancient map of the Void Realm on Xia Xiaodao and took it with him.

• Lu Chenzhou fused a domineering-aura effect into his Profound Tiger Spirit, adding a Tiger Might that could briefly freeze or intimidate weak-willed opponents.
• Great Dao Industries transferred Lu Chenzhou 20 million in sponsorship funds, and he thanked Chen Ye.
• Duan Lingyu briefed Lu Chenzhou and Gu Lingtong on the mission to capture Jiang Zixu and warned them about Tang Zheng's Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art and Blood-Transforming Method.
• Xia Xiaodao visited Jiang Zixu and proposed that they work together to kill Wang Hongdao, but police arrived and Lu Chenzhou chased Xia Xiaodao across the rooftops.
• Lu Chenzhou defeated and crippled Xia Xiaodao after he attacked, then found a Netherworld Geomancy Map hidden in Xia Xiaodao's clothes.

Lu Chenzhou ambushed Jiang Zixu during the cult incense master's escape and killed him after resisting the Blue Lotus Lord's spiritual attack. The battle left Gu Lingtong surprised by how quickly it ended, while Lu Chenzhou discovered a mysterious bracelet among Jiang Zixu's remains.

• Gu Lingtong and six military experts cornered Jiang Zixu, but Jiang burned divine power to break through their gunfire and flee.
• Lu Chenzhou ambushed Jiang Zixu with Tiger's Courage Spear, then fought him as Jiang unleashed a divine attack that Lu resisted with his martial will and Tiger Demon Tai Sui Method.
• Lu Chenzhou killed Jiang Zixu, whose body withered and whose blood had been drained by the righteous divine weapon.
• Gu Lingtong arrived and agreed to return with Lu Chenzhou, who declined to divide the spoils with him.
• Lu Chenzhou searched Jiang Zixu's remains and found an evil artifact, the Ancient Blue Lotus Scripture, and a twelve-bead bracelet that calmed his mind.

Lu Chenzhou learned that the bracelet taken from Jiang Zixu was a mind-protecting spirit artifact, while Chief Lu interrogated Xia Xiaodao and uncovered how Tang Zheng used the Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art to exploit and silence his followers. After consulting his teachers about the bracelet and a virtual realm map, Lu Chenzhou prepared to pursue greater strength as a virtual realm trial approached.

• Gu Lingtong identified Lu Chenzhou’s bracelet as a valuable spirit artifact, declined a share, and advised him to keep it.
• Lu Fang interrogated Xia Xiaodao with his Grandmaster martial intent, but Tang Zheng’s Blood Demon Brand killed Xia before he could reveal Tang Zheng’s location.
• Lu Fang explained that Tang Zheng used the Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art to feed on his followers and silence them, and vowed to stop him from becoming a Great Grandmaster.
• Lu Chenzhou showed the bracelet and virtual realm map to Qingtian Cang, Ji Xuantong, and Wang Changming; Wang confirmed the bracelet was safe and said a Tai Lake trial mission might soon occur.
• Lu Chenzhou received five million from the Su City Police Department and 400 Diamond Points, checked his healing wound, and resolved to keep strengthening himself.

After integrating the Gale-Force Tiger Body, Lu Chenzhou broke through to the fourth realm of fist principles and created the fourth-order Heaven-Mandated Profound Tiger Fist, greatly increasing his blood and qi and strengthening his divine-seed effects. A month later, he was close to the middle realm and bought more major medicines as his acupoint-opening speed accelerated.

• Lu Chenzhou tested the Gale-Force Tiger Body’s Wind Step, then integrated the art into his Heaven-Mandated Profound Tiger Divine Seed.
• Lu Chenzhou entered a vision where a black-clad martial artist challenged him, and their battle helped him break through to the fourth realm of fist principles.
• Lu Chenzhou combined his tiger-form martial arts into the Heaven-Mandated Profound Tiger Fist, reaching the fourth order and raising his blood and qi to 14 points.
• Lu Chenzhou tested his strengthened divine-seed effects and innate force, then found that he could dent a C1 alloy training dummy.
• A month later, Lu Chenzhou visited the medicine room for twenty major medicine pills, and the old man noticed he was nearing the middle realm.

Lu Chenzhou completed his Layered Forest Spear and began learning the White Tiger Army-Breaking Spear as he prepared for his first Void Realm expedition. He learned that the Tai Lake trial would help open a newly discovered oasis, and the chapter left him undergoing final training while grieving Old Zhang’s death.

• Lu Chenzhou read predictions for the All-Nations Martial Arts Tournament and dismissed the idea of holding back his progress to compete for the Yellow Ranking.
• Wang Xian sparred with Lu Chenzhou at Stone Lake, helping him complete Layered Forest Spear and form a new divine seed.
• Lu Chenzhou studied White Tiger Army-Breaking Spear and quickly learned its first forms, then received a message from Qingtian Cang inviting him to daily Void Realm training.
• Lu Chenzhou read a police report confirming that Carefree Wander had killed Old Zhang, intensifying his anger over the demonic arts attacks.
• Qingtian Cang told Lu Chenzhou and Wang Hongdao that their Void Realm trial would take place at Tai Lake, where they would join an effort to explore a newly discovered oasis and establish Starfire City.