Chapter Summaries

Lu Chenzhou reached the mid-realm standard and tested the limits of his progress before joining martial artists from top universities for a month-long Void Realm trial. After Wang Kun laid out the military rules, Shentu Youshan led the participants toward the Void-Suppressing Force Field.

• Lu Chenzhou perfected Earth Tiger Step and Withered Tiger Palm, advanced his vitality and blood to 16.5, and found that he needed 60 acupoints to stabilize himself on the second viewing platform in his inner martial landscape.
• Lu Chenzhou joined the trial participants at Tai Lake, where he greeted Li Kongkong, Yin Shishi, and Dragon City University of Martial Arts schoolmates including Fang Xue and Li Fu.
• Wang Kun briefed the 300 participants on military discipline and warned them about the dangers of the Void Realm.
• Shentu Youshan took charge of the Dragon City squad, and Qingtian Cang told Lu Chenzhou and Fang Xue to look after the others before departing.
• Lu Chenzhou read final messages from Qingtian Cang, Ji Xuantong, and Wang Changming, put away his phone, and headed across the lake toward the Void-Suppressing Force Field.

Lu Chenzhou and the other trainees entered the Void Realm, learned how to survive its disasters, and arrived at Great Xia’s Nineteenth Oasis. The chapter ended with Shentu Youshan warning them about the life-forbidden zones and the powerful evil gods within them.

• Shentu Youshan equipped the trainees with Calamity Bracelets, Elephant-Swallowing Waist Bags, and Echo Devices, and explained their limits.
• Lu Chenzhou crossed the Void Realm passage and traveled with the trainees to Jiangnan City in an armored vehicle.
• The trainees saw Li Xiuying battling the remains of the Azure Flame Lord, the Demon Emperor responsible for Tai Lake’s Void Calamity.
• Heavenly King Li reflected on the forbidden zones and the evil gods who sought to grow stronger and invade the human world.
• Shentu Youshan assigned the trainees their lodging and warned them to avoid the Natural Disaster Forbidden Zone and deeper regions of the Void Realm.

Lu Chenzhou hunted Void creatures in Zone Nine during the pioneering trial, improving his Flying Tiger Fist while accumulating battle merit. After a dangerous encounter with a swarm of Blood-Faced Mosquitoes, his fist art reached mastery.

• Lu Chenzhou studied the battle merit exchange manual and set his sights on the Cold Silkworm Dharma Robe and Elephant-Swallowing Belt.
• Shentu Youshan led the Dragon City trialists into Zone Nine and explained the dangers of Void creatures and the use of thermal weapons.
• Lu Chenzhou, Wang Hongdao, and Li Jia hunted in Insect Valley, where Lu Chenzhou killed a Human-Faced Golden Cicada and collected its useful organ.
• Lu Chenzhou continued hunting and training, reaching 200 merit points and 56th place as his Flying Tiger Fist neared major accomplishment.
• The trialists learned that Yu Xiu had died in a restricted zone during the Withered Wind Calamity, prompting warnings to avoid such areas.
• Lu Chenzhou fought off a swarm of Blood-Faced Mosquitoes, collected their valuable proboscises, treated a venomous wound, and advanced his Flying Tiger Fist to mastery.

Lu Chenzhou killed a human-faced giant toad in Zone Nine and gained insight into the White Tiger Army-Breaking Spear. After combining Wind Step with his spear’s strongest move, he created the Wind-Thunder Stance and left the forest with his spear mastery newly advanced.

• Lu Chenzhou planned to focus on Tiger Form martial arts and true arts rather than spreading his effort across unfamiliar schools.
• On the twentieth day of the expedition, Lu Chenzhou lured a Greater Void human-faced giant toad from a swamp and killed it with the White Tiger Army-Breaking Spear.
• Lu Chenzhou recovered a valuable Toad Treasure and the giant toad’s tongue, then kept the treasure for a future weapon reforging.
• The Martial Dao Tree showed a flash of insight for the White Tiger Army-Breaking Spear, so Lu Chenzhou practiced until he developed the Wind-Thunder Stance by combining Wind Step with Army-Breaking Stance.
• Lu Chenzhou tested the new move by smashing through seven trees and saw that his White Tiger Army-Breaking Spear had reached Mastery at 1%.

Lu Chenzhou encountered cultists and a sudden wave of spirit-type Void creatures during the final days of the trial, then fled from a terrifying peak Shadow-class Great Ghost. The giant ghost appeared behind him just as he sensed approaching military support, leaving his escape uncertain.

• Lu Chenzhou hid from Old Man Vulture, reported the Shadow-class Great Void, and received 50 battle merits.
• Fang Xue warned the group that cultists had attacked Li Guyi, and Shentu Youshan explained the danger and allowed qualified participants to remain at the outpost.
• Lu Chenzhou chose to keep hunting near the oasis, then turned back when descending mountain fog reduced visibility.
• A sudden spirit-type Void creature attacked Lu Chenzhou, and he destroyed it before recognizing the Heartjoy Church’s involvement.
• Lu Chenzhou spotted a peak Shadow-class Great Ghost within the incoming fog, fired a signal flare, and ran toward an approaching military aura.
• The giant ghost suddenly burst from the fog behind Lu Chenzhou and subjected him to overwhelming pressure and cold.

During the Void Tide, Lu Chenzhou returned to the stronghold and joined the defense against the invading creatures. While fighting, he mastered the Tiger Sniff Fist and destroyed a powerful Great Void with a strike of the Heaven-Mandated Profound Tiger Fist.

• Lu Chenzhou escaped the mist after Leopard Third Master intervened against a powerful Shadow-class Great Ghost.
• Wang Kun returned with the unconscious Wang Hongdao, who had connected with a whale-shaped Heavenly Heart Imprint, and ordered the trial participants to defend the stronghold.
• A vast face appeared over the Blackbone Mountains as King Li confronted the threat, and the mist began swallowing the city.
• Lu Chenzhou led Dragon City Class to defend researchers, using his tiger martial arts to destroy ordinary Void creatures.
• Lu Chenzhou entered a state of insight, advanced the Tiger Sniff Fist to mastery, and killed a car-sized Great Void with the Heaven-Mandated Profound Tiger Fist.

Lu Chenzhou improved his combat perception and continued fighting void creatures while Wang Hongdao recovered and took over the defense. When the dead Azure Flame Lord’s corpse began advancing on the outpost, Three Absolutes Divine Hand arrived with the tiger, dragon, and Vermilion Bird spirits and their divine weapons to stop it.

• Lu Chenzhou integrated Tiger Hairs into Heavenly Mandate Black Tiger, expanded its detection range to five meters, and used it to strike an enemy from behind.
• Fang Xue told Li Fu that Lu Chenzhou seemed as strong as she was after seeing him kill an early-stage Greater Void with a single palm strike.
• After fighting for five hours, Lu Chenzhou rested while Wang Hongdao used his Ten Thousand Whales Chasing the Current Fist to defend the wall.
• The headless Azure Flame Lord began moving toward the outpost, and rockets failed to break through the azure flames surrounding its body.
• Wang Changming, known as Three Absolutes Divine Hand, appeared before the Azure Flame Lord with the Black Tiger, White Dragon, and Vermilion Bird spirits and their three divine weapons.
• Lu Chenzhou recognized Wang Changming as his master and watched him step forward to confront the advancing corpse.

Wang Changming suppressed the Azure Flame Lord’s remaining will while Lu Chenzhou studied his master’s three Tiger Form divine arts and fought through a night of Void attacks. After reaching perfection in Thirteen Tiger Claw Slaps and collapsing from exhaustion, Lu Chenzhou was relieved by Ji Xuantong, who joined the battle to protect him.

• Wang Changming drove the Demon Emperor underground with three powerful Tiger Form attacks, then sealed the Azure Flame Lord’s lingering will and told Lu Chenzhou to continue the fight.
• Lu Chenzhou studied Wang Changming’s techniques, took over from the exhausted Wang Hongdao, and fought Void creatures while refining Thirteen Tiger Claw Slaps.
• Wan Shixian received reports of disturbances across Great Xia and discussed the restricted zones’ coordinated attacks and the plan to create three supreme-level will incarnations.
• After fighting through the night and reaching perfection in Thirteen Tiger Claw Slaps, Lu Chenzhou took a Heaven-Restoring Pill to heal his injuries.
• Ji Xuantong arrived at the stronghold, protected Lu Chenzhou from a Great Void Creature, and killed another attacker with the Yan Yun Blade.

Lu Chenzhou fought a final-realm Great Hollow during the Dragon City trial and defeated it with his mastered White Tiger Army-Breaking Spear. In Su City, Old Man Hanshan confronted Blood Heavenly Dog as the evil gods’ coordinated attack threatened to begin.

• Lu Fang and Duan Lingyu discussed the attacks on Su City and the possibility that the evil gods had formed an alliance, while Gu Qianqian, Tang Zheng, Protector Xu, and Blade Dragon prepared to carry out their plan.
• Blood Heavenly Dog confronted Old Man Hanshan at Hanshan Temple, but Old Man Hanshan used the Eight Dragon Sounds to strike it down.
• Lu Chenzhou recovered, drew Hudan, and demonstrated his spear technique as Fang Xue and the other Dragon City fighters battled void creatures.
• A final-realm Great Hollow attacked Ji Xuantong, and Lu Chenzhou stepped in to fight it despite being at the mid-realm of Blood Qi.
• Lu Chenzhou overcame the Great Hollow’s spiritual attacks and ghostfire, then destroyed its scattered faces with his spear and gained a fresh insight into his martial arts.

Lu Chenzhou’s fierce battles advanced his White Tiger Army-Breaking Spear to mastery, while events elsewhere saw Zhang Jizhi kill Blood Heavenly Dog and the trial stronghold survive another assault. After the fighting ended on day twenty-nine, Lu Chenzhou rested and examined the new effects of his spear Divine Seed.

• Lu Chenzhou drew inspiration from battle, raised his spear principles to the spear-momentum realm, and killed a high-risk Void creature with a Turning-Back Spear.
• Old Ji, the Dragon City students, and Yu Cheng watched Lu Chenzhou’s performance and judged that he had the makings of a Spear God.
• Zhang Jizhi used Eight Dragon Sounds to destroy weaker Void creatures across Su City, killed Blood Heavenly Dog, and received the Dragon King’s praise.
• Lu Fang killed Blade Dragon and demanded to know where Tang Zheng, Xu Cheng, and Gu Qianqian had gone; the three survivors then dispersed within the natural disaster restricted zone.
• On day twenty-nine, Lu Chenzhou and the other fighters helped defeat the Flying-Head Ghosts, and Wang Hongdao gave Lu Chenzhou a pill when his medicine ran out.
• Lu Chenzhou checked the Martial Dao Tree and found that White Tiger Army-Breaking Spear had reached Mastery, gaining a Tier 3 Divine Seed with weapon, spear, and army-breaking effects.

After the Azure Heaven Dragon King helped defeat the Moonlight Bodhisattva and uncovered the Heartjoy Church’s forbidden-zone lair, the trial ended early and Lu Chenzhou returned home. He learned he had ranked third in battle merits and prepared to exchange his rewards after reflecting on the dangers ahead.

• Lu Chenzhou celebrated mastering a first-rate spear technique and decided to cultivate both spear and fist techniques.
• The Azure Heaven Dragon King’s will projection helped Heavenly King Li defeat the Moonlight Bodhisattva, then confronted a colossal entity in the virtual realm and identified the Heartjoy Church’s lair as the Ghost Mother Forbidden Zone.
• The Martial Arts Department ended the trial early, honored the dead, doubled many exchange rewards, and sent 286 surviving young Martial Artists back to the human world.
• Lu Chenzhou returned to his family and reflected that the turbulent age of the virtual realm had begun, while his Golden Body Method reached major success at 50%.
• Qingtian Cang told Lu Chenzhou and Wang Hongdao that Lu had earned 2,600 merits and ranked third, while Wang had earned 1,400 merits.

Lu Chenzhou collected his rewards after the Void Tide, met a rival from Mount Hua, and advanced his training while supporting injured Shentu Youshan. By the end of November, he had perfected White Tiger Fist and gained the Gold-Swallowing Breath effect, which let him expel metal dust as a sharp air blade.

• Qingtian Cang told Lu Chenzhou about the school’s merit rewards and explained how Old Man Hanshan inherited Zen Master Wende’s Eight Dragon Sounds.
• Lu Chenzhou received 2,600 major merits, 5,000 Hidden Dragon Rankings points, and a 10-million transfer, then exchanged 1,000 military merits for an Elephant-Swallowing Belt.
• Lu Chenzhou visited Shentu Youshan, learned how badly he had been injured, and tactfully left Panther Woman and her father to talk.
• Yue Xiping introduced himself to Lu Chenzhou and agreed to meet him at the All-Nations Martial Arts Tournament or on the Mysterious Ranking.
• Chen Jiu revealed that he had become a Martial Dao Master, and Lu Chenzhou increased his body-tempering sessions.
• Lu Chenzhou perfected Emei’s White Tiger Fist and gained the Gold-Swallowing Breath effect, which he named Breath-Formed Sword.

Lu Chenzhou completed the first level of the Tiger Demon Tai Sui Method, increased his qi and blood, and learned about heavenly treasures that could aid martial artists. After Principal Wang gifted Ji Xuantong an Evergreen Fruit, Lu Chenzhou studied the Heavenly Treasure Compendium and continued integrating Tiger Form techniques.

• Lu Chenzhou used Geng Metal qi to shoot a blade of sword qi that cut down a wooden post, then planned to advance his Heaven-Mandated Profound Tiger Divine Seed.
• After more than nine months of cultivation, Lu Chenzhou completed the first level of the Tiger Demon Tai Sui Method and reached twenty points of qi and blood.
• Li Gui explained that the pale red aura in Lu Chenzhou's Niwan Palace was Tai Sui malignant qi, which could improve intuition and danger sense.
• At a New Year's gathering for Lu Chenzhou's birthday, Principal Wang discussed his cultivation and gave Ji Xuantong an Evergreen Fruit to help him overcome his bottleneck.
• Lu Chenzhou read the Heavenly Treasure Compendium, learned about rare treasures such as the Nine-Aperture Exquisite Grass, and studied the Netherworld Geomancy Map.
• Lu Chenzhou perfected another third-rate martial art and the second-rate Nether Tiger Palm, then integrated them into his Heaven-Mandated Profound Tiger Divine Seed.

Lu Chenzhou learned two Tiger Form True Skills from Li Gui and completed the Golden Body Method after ten days of shedding skin. The chapter ended with him manifesting a golden liquid armor as the Eighteen Arhats Golden Body Art reached mastery.

• Lu Chenzhou studied Tiger Roars Across Mountains and Rivers Fist and Tiger-Suppresses-Mountains-and-Rivers Fist under Li Gui, learning that both relied on tyrannical bearing.
• Li Gui told Lu Chenzhou that he had graduated from his tutelage and revealed plans to visit Li Yu; Lu Chenzhou teased him about their relationship.
• Chen Jiu confirmed Lu Chenzhou had completed the Golden Body Method and advised him to use Bright Jade Balm during his transformation.
• Lu Chenzhou asked Chen Jiu about True Skill-level groin training and learned that the Indestructible Daoist might teach Wudang's Pure Yang Shield.
• Lu Chenzhou used Bright Jade Balm, began shedding golden skin, and continued practicing Tiger Roars Across Mountains and Rivers Fist over the following days.
• On January 11th, Lu Chenzhou finished shedding and manifested golden liquid scale armor as the Eighteen Arhats Golden Body Art reached mastery.

Lu Chenzhou perfected the Arhat Golden Body and discovered that its golden liquid could defend against physical attacks and reflect some of their force. Over the following month he continued training, opened more acupoints, and cultivated the Little Bodhi Body to hide his aura, leaving him better prepared but still far below the strongest enemies he had encountered.

• Lu Chenzhou tested his perfected Golden Body Method and found that ordinary C2 alloy weapons could not harm him, while the golden liquid could reflect some physical force.
• Lu Chenzhou reviewed the Arhat Body Divine Seed’s effects and discussed further body-tempering practice with Teacher Chen Jiu, who told him to learn from Lu Fang.
• Lu Chenzhou focused on opening acupoints, internal cultivation, and fist and movement techniques as his classmates and master made progress.
• A month later, Lu Chenzhou had completed the foundation of his Flesh Divine Palace and reached fifty-seven Heavenly Star Acupoints, but he still could not stand on the Martial Dao Mountain’s viewing platform.
• Lu Chenzhou used the Spiritual Bracelet while reciting the Bodhi Formula to form the Little Bodhi Body and hide his aura within a bodhi seed in his spiritual sea.

Lu Chenzhou learned the Golden Bell Jade Drum Wisdom King Body from Lu Fang and began practicing it with unexpected speed. On his way to school, he was ambushed by a seemingly ordinary stray dog whose mental attack and strength nearly overwhelmed him, but he killed it and wondered what kind of monster it had been.

• Lu Chenzhou contacted Lu Fang to learn the Golden Bell Jade Drum Wisdom King Body, and Lu Fang agreed to teach him.
• Gu Qianqian revived Chen Yongjing’s severed arm with the White Bone Lotus Birth divine art and ordered him to gather his remaining forces in Su City.
• Lu Chenzhou met Wang Gang at the police station, asked about Wudang’s Pure Yang Shield, and then learned the Golden Bell Jade Drum Wisdom King Body from Lu Fang.
• Lu Chenzhou quickly reached the beginner stage of the art, and Lu Fang told him to practice alongside Chen Jiu and later cultivate the Ghost Tiger Overlord Body.
• While traveling to school, Lu Chenzhou was struck from behind by a blood-eyed stray dog and resisted its mental assault with Tiger Taisui.
• Lu Chenzhou killed the dog with his Wind-Thunder Stance, then returned home after having his wounds treated and suspected the creature was no ordinary monster.

Lu Chenzhou learned that the demon he had defeated was an avatar of Blood Heavenly Dog and that Tiger Gall Spear might evolve after absorbing its blood. As he advanced his martial arts, his cultivation reached sixty apertures, while Chen Jiu decided to seek training in the Void Realm.

• Lu Chenzhou asked Principal Wang to examine Tiger Gall Spear, and Principal Wang identified Blood Heavenly Dog’s spirit within it and destroyed it.
• Principal Wang explained that Blood Heavenly Dog had other avatars, while Blood Heavenly Dog in the Silver Eagle Federation vowed to destroy the spear and eliminate Lu Chenzhou.
• Lu Chenzhou defeated Wang Hongdao in a sparring match and continued improving his boxing and Ming King Body training.
• Chen Jiu reflected on Lu Chenzhou’s rapid progress and told his wife he planned to train in the Void Realm to seek a chance to become a Grandmaster.
• Lu Chenzhou opened his sixtieth aperture, strengthened his body and force, and found that the confinement at his inner landscape’s viewing platform no longer affected him.

Lu Chenzhou fused his Swallow Form techniques into Swallow Skimming the Sea Fist, gaining the ability to move lightly and use swallows as footholds. The chapter ended with an unknown black-coated figure stopping a demonic saber strike outside Su City.

• Lu Chenzhou failed to carve words into the mountain cliff and learned his willpower still fell short of the great experts. He tested at 24 Blood Qi, one point below the End Realm standard.
• At the weekly gathering, Lu Chenzhou told Ji Feiyan, Shi Ruyu, Ji Xuantong, and Qingtian Cang that he had opened sixty apertures and reached the second level of the Tiger Demon Tai Sui Method.
• Lu Chenzhou used the Swallow Lord effect to step across Stone Lake on swallows and discovered he could rise and travel through the air on them.
• Lu Chenzhou fused his Swallow Form techniques into Swallow Skimming the Sea Fist, gaining the Ride the Wind and Light as a Swallow effects alongside an enhanced Swallow Lord effect.
• On the outskirts of Su City, a lean man unleashed a crimson demonic saber strike, but a floating figure in a black trench coat stopped it and dispersed its light.

A hidden assassin accepted a contract to kill Lu Chenzhou in exchange for an ancient artifact and Demon King essence blood, while Lu continued advancing his cultivation and training at Su City Longwu. After Chen Xiaoyun challenged him to a spar, Lu defeated her with a perfected fist technique and displayed a hint of dominance.

• A trench-coated figure offered Blood Hidden Tower assassin Bai Jingming a low-grade ancient artifact and Demon King essence blood to assassinate Lu Chenzhou, and Bai accepted.
• Gu Qianqian told the Blood Duke that Chen Yongjing had hired a Silver-rank assassin and that they planned to wait for Lu to leave campus before attacking him.
• Lu opened his sixty-third acupoint, Yongquan, and formed a Spring of Life in his inner landscape.
• Lu watched Wang Xian reach the top eight and Li Ao reach the top four in the Hundred Schools Martial Tournament, where Qi Jingtian of Cloudrise Academy revealed himself as a grandmaster.
• Chen Xiaoyun broke her shackles and became a martial artist, then challenged Lu to spar the next day.
• Lu endured Chen Xiaoyun's whip strikes without using his Golden Body, defeated her with Mountain Echoes, Valley Responds, and perfected his Tiger Roars Across Mountains and Rivers Fist.

Lu Chenzhou advanced his body-tempering and martial arts cultivation while preparing to seek out historical sites that might deepen his fist theory. As danger grew across Great Xia, he remained on campus, replenished his supplies, and received a new sponsorship transfer.

• Lu Chenzhou formed the Tiger Roars Across Mountains and Rivers Divine Seed and realized he needed a higher fist theory realm before its aura effect could merge with his Heavenly Mandate Black Tiger.
• Wang Xian returned from the Imperial Capital, and Chen Jiu coached Lu Chenzhou until he mastered the Golden Bell Standing Firm stage of the Ming King Body.
• At the Sky Road Cup, Wang Xian lost to Zhending, who defeated Qi Jingtian in the final and became champion; Lu Chenzhou resolved to make his own mark at a future tournament.
• Lu Chenzhou opened his seventieth acupoint, tested his vitality and blood at 26 points, and planned a careful journey to investigate ancient sites.
• Bai Jingming learned that Lu Chenzhou had stayed on campus and ordered his subordinate to keep watching for a chance to target him.
• Lu Chenzhou received a 20-million transfer from Great Dao Industries, then bought forty Yellow Spirit Body-Breaking Pills from the school hospital.