Chapter Summaries

Ling Wuyuan realized a gigantic meteorite was about to strike the mountain where he was hiking and accepted that he could not escape. Satisfied that he would die spectacularly, he punched at the meteorite before it erased him and devastated the surrounding region; similar impacts struck the planet elsewhere.

• Ling Wuyuan spotted crimson light spreading across the ground and saw a gigantic meteorite descending toward the mountain.
• He judged that impact was only seconds away and accepted that he could not get off the mountain in time.
• Ling Wuyuan felt satisfied that the meteorite would give him the spectacular death he had always wished for.
• He moved to the meteorite's impact point and punched toward it just before it struck.
• The meteorite erased Ling Wuyuan, destroyed the mountain, and left a vast crater as similar impacts occurred more than a dozen times across the planet.

Ling Wuyuan, a young beggar who had transmigrated into a world of extraordinary power, watched the Pei Family’s lavish birthday banquet from a rooftop while eating a chicken drumstick. After Pei Family Patriarch Pei Zhizong began his speech, Ling listened and studied the powerful figures, leaving the story as the crowd awaited what would happen next.

• The Pei Family held a three-day celebration for Patriarch Pei Zhizong’s four-hundredth birthday, offering food and festivities to Black Stone City residents.
• Ling Wuyuan ate a chicken drumstick on a nearby roof because his ragged appearance kept him from joining the banquet tables.
• Ling watched the free performances and admired the feast from a distance while reflecting on his difficult life as a young beggar.
• Pei Zhizong addressed the crowd, and Ling carefully listened to him and studied the powerful family members onstage.

At the Pei Family’s banquet, Pei Zhizong offered fifty children a free Spirit Awakening Ritual, then chose Ling Wuyuan after noticing his young relative’s interest in the beggar. Ling Wuyuan was summoned to participate despite never raising his hand, and he was left bewildered.

• Pei Zhizong announced that the Pei Family would randomly select fifty children for a free Spirit Awakening Ritual.
• Ling Wuyuan watched from a rooftop while eating a chicken leg and did not volunteer.
• Pei Zhizong selected fifty children, reserving about twenty places for the families of Pei Family servants.
• Pei Zhizong noticed his young relative watching Ling Wuyuan and asked whether she was concerned about him.
• Pei Zhizong told a family member to bring Ling Wuyuan over and add him to the ritual recipients.
• Ling Wuyuan was summoned and wondered why he had been chosen despite not raising his hand.

Ling Wuyuan joined the Pei Family’s Spirit Awakening Ritual and endured the other participants’ contempt while calmly observing everything around him. As he stepped onto the Black Stone Platform, Pei Zhizong judged him exceptional and offered to take him in as a family servant, leaving the decision to the girl beside him.

• Ling Wuyuan realized he had gained a place in the ritual, though the other children and onlookers scorned his ragged appearance.
• Ling Wuyuan noticed the Black Stone Platform and the Pei Family girl who had apparently helped him qualify, while Pei Zhizong watched him too.
• The white-haired elder began the Spirit Awakening Ritual, and the children took turns standing on the platform as its patterns glowed.
• Ling Wuyuan stepped onto the platform after remaining calm despite the other children ostracizing him.
• Pei Zhizong praised Ling Wuyuan’s composure and intelligence, then asked the girl whether she wanted him taken in as a family servant.

During the Spirit Awakening Ritual, Ling Wuyuan recovered some of the strength lost to malnutrition and quietly awakened a faint power within himself. The ritual ended with him feeling reborn, while the old man concluded that he had simply become healthier and stronger.

• Pei Zhizong told the little girl he would bring Ling Wuyuan into the family and find him a job if Ling Wuyuan was willing.
• Pei Zhizong and the little girl watched Ling Wuyuan undergo the Spirit Awakening Ritual and considered what opportunities he might receive.
• Ling Wuyuan felt the ritual improve his physical condition and awaken a faint inner power that he quickly learned to control.
• The ritual ended, and Ling Wuyuan opened his eyes feeling as if he had been reborn.
• The old man noticed Ling Wuyuan looked healthier, asked about any special changes, and heard him say he felt healthier and stronger.

Pei Zhizong judged Ling Wuyuan to be a promising candidate and arranged for the Pei Family to recruit him. Ling Wuyuan registered for the opportunity, then returned to his ruined shelter to celebrate with a roast duck and resolve to gain strength.

• Pei Zhizong praised the children's aptitude and planned to place Ling Wuyuan with a younger member of the Pei Family after further tests.
• A Pei Family representative offered Ling Wuyuan and the other candidates recruitment tokens and three days to decide whether to join.
• Ling Wuyuan registered his information, listing himself as a ten-year-old beggar with no family or relatives.
• Ling Wuyuan bought a roast duck with most of his savings and ate at a ruined temple, angry at how the shopkeeper had treated him.
• Ling Wuyuan steadied himself and vowed that he would soon gain strength and confidence of his own.

Ling Wuyuan discovered that his new power made him resistant to heat, then killed a beggar who tried to steal his roast duck. Standing over the corpse, he realized how easy killing someone was.

• Ling Wuyuan tested his resistance to heat and suspected it came from the power inside his body.
• A beggar entered the ruined temple, saw Ling Wuyuan's roast duck, and demanded that he hand it over.
• When the beggar kicked at him, Ling Wuyuan used his power to thrust the wooden skewer through the man's neck and knock him down.
• Ling Wuyuan pulled the roast duck from the skewer, then stomped on the beggar's head until he stopped moving.
• Ling Wuyuan looked at the corpse and reflected that killing someone was easy.

Ling Wuyuan tested his newly awakened speed-enhancing power and used it to kill a beggar who attacked him, realizing he could finally defend himself in a brutal world. After hiding the body and taking the man’s money, he prepared to report to the Pei Family as a household servant the next day.

• Ling Wuyuan discovered that activating his mysterious power greatly increased his movement, attack, and reaction speeds.
• Ling Wuyuan killed the beggar with a sharpened wooden stick while protecting his roast duck, and felt satisfied that he had escaped the bottom of the food chain.
• Ling Wuyuan searched the beggar’s belongings, found several silver coins and nearly a hundred copper coins, and covered the corpse in a dried-up well.
• Ling Wuyuan decided to join the Pei Family as a household servant, seeing the job as a chance to gain food, lodging, wages, and training despite his poverty and lack of education.

Ling Wuyuan celebrated the opportunity the Pei Family had given him, only for an attack to engulf their estate that same night. As he worried over his benefactors from the safety of the ruined temple, a familiar young woman fled into its rear courtyard.

• Ling Wuyuan finished cleaning the ruined temple and looked forward to joining the Pei Family the next morning, dreaming of gaining power and rising above others.
• Half an hour later, Ling Wuyuan heard impacts and cries and saw flames blazing in the direction of the Pei Family estate.
• Ling Wuyuan realized the Pei Family had come under attack and worried about Pei Zhizong and the girl who had helped him, but judged himself too weak to intervene.
• After more than ten minutes, Ling Wuyuan heard someone nearby and saw a familiar young woman climb over the wall into the ruined temple's rear courtyard; she recognized him too.

Ling Wuyuan helped the young survivor of the Pei Family prepare to escape Black Stone City after the family’s downfall. She had a secret passage to flee through, and Ling Wuyuan began disguising her so she would be less conspicuous.

• A man searched the ruined temple for someone he was pursuing, but Ling Wuyuan pretended to know nothing and sent him away.
• After the danger outside passed, Ling Wuyuan told the little girl to escape Black Stone City as soon as possible.
• The little girl revealed that the Patriarch had told her about a secret passage leading out of the city.
• Ling Wuyuan retrieved spare clothes and a dagger, gave her the clothes, and waited while she changed.
• Ling Wuyuan asked the little girl to sit by the campfire so he could cut her hair and alter her appearance.

Ling Wuyuan disguised the little girl by cutting her hair, changing her skin tone, and adding artificial scars so she could escape notice. He finished the disguise and prepared to get moving.

• Ling Wuyuan used his hairdressing skills to cut and alter the little girl's hair.
• The little girl recalled the enemy attack on her clan and grieved over the heavy casualties.
• Ling Wuyuan retrieved a powder he had made to darken his complexion and checked that it was still usable.
• Ling Wuyuan changed the little girl's skin tone and added artificial scars, then she extended the disguise to her neck and hands.
• Ling Wuyuan declared the disguise complete and told the little girl to get up.

Ling Wuyuan and the little girl reached a hidden Pei Family safe house and uncovered a century-old escape passage leading out of the city. The girl invited him to join her and rebuild the Pei Family, but he refused, believing he would slow her down as they fled.

• Ling Wuyuan and the little girl arrived at a remote house and opened it with a key hidden beneath a tree.
• The little girl and Ling Wuyuan dug beneath the floorboards and uncovered a metal trapdoor to the Pei Family's secret passage.
• The little girl explained that the passage led to a cave outside the city and invited Ling Wuyuan to join the Pei Family's surviving forces and learn martial arts.
• Ling Wuyuan refused because he believed his presence would burden the little girl and make her escape more dangerous.

Ling Wuyuan and Pei Yiman discussed why she had given him access to the Spirit Awakening Ritual and acknowledged that their paths were about to separate. Before parting, they exchanged promises, remembered each other’s names, and Pei Yiman urged Ling Wuyuan to be ruthless and decisive.

• Ling Wuyuan asked Pei Yiman why she had given him the qualification to use the Spirit Awakening Ritual, and she explained that she had been curious about his carefree air and that her Patriarch had hoped to take him into the family.
• Ling Wuyuan thanked Pei Yiman for changing his fate and asked whether she had any wishes before they parted.
• Pei Yiman asked Ling Wuyuan to avenge the destruction of her family, and he promised to do so if he became strong enough.
• Ling Wuyuan said he wished to become strong enough to do as he pleased, then asked Pei Yiman to treat him to a meal if they met again.
• Pei Yiman and Ling Wuyuan exchanged their names, hugged, and promised to remember each other.
• Pei Yiman told Ling Wuyuan to be ruthless and decisive, and he agreed to remember her words.

Ling Wuyuan finished hiding the evidence at the Pei residence, prepared to leave his risky hideout, and surveyed the devastation left by the forces that destroyed the Pei Family. He became eager to gain extraordinary power and viewed those forces as future opponents whose defeat would prove he had gained a foothold in the world.

• Ling Wuyuan restored the floorboards over the hidden passage, considered taking blankets and other valuables, and decided to relocate from the ruined temple and burn the corpse in its dry well.
• The next morning, Ling Wuyuan saw that the Pei Family manor and surrounding homes had been reduced to ruins, with blood, ravines, and enormous craters marking the area.
• Ling Wuyuan realized that extraordinary fighters could devastate entire districts and that his current strength was insignificant by comparison.
• Ling Wuyuan saw the three banners belonging to the forces that had destroyed the Pei Family and imagined confronting them in the future for Pei Yiman's sake.
• Ling Wuyuan resolved to use those forces as trials and looked forward to proving himself by destroying their clans.

Three months after the Pei Family fell, Ling Wuyuan avenged himself on his former tormentors, saved enough money, and focused on recovering and training. His body and Special Ability grew stronger, and he planned to join a nearby force to learn martial arts and continue advancing.

• Ling Wuyuan used ambushes, assassinations, and arson to take revenge on his old enemies and build up his savings.
• Ling Wuyuan recognized that his youth, lack of martial training, and limited understanding of his Special Ability left him weak in direct combat.
• Ling Wuyuan stopped taking risks and spent the next months training and replenishing the nutrition he had lacked.
• Ling Wuyuan's health and physique improved, and he found that his Special Ability could now boost his speed and reactions by at least three times.
• Ling Wuyuan decided to apply to a nearby force so he could learn martial arts and keep improving.

Ling Wuyuan left Black Stone City in a carriage convoy and traveled toward Wucha Town, observing the wilderness and estimating the vast distances of the country. After a day and a night without incident, the convoy reached sight of Wucha Town.

• Ling Wuyuan boarded a supply-laden carriage with seven other passengers as part of a convoy bound for Wucha Town.
• The driver explained the journey’s schedule and safety arrangements, then the convoy departed Black Stone City at dawn.
• Ling Wuyuan watched the city disappear behind them and observed the increasingly dense fog and vegetation along the highway.
• Ling Wuyuan estimated that Wucha Town was roughly three hundred kilometers from Black Stone City and reflected on the scale of White Mist Country.
• After a day and a night of travel without incident, Ling Wuyuan and the convoy caught sight of Wucha Town, estimating the route at roughly three hundred and eighty to four hundred and twenty kilometers.

Ling Wuyuan went to the White Crow Gang’s recruitment test at White Crow Mountain, where his bone age was confirmed as ten and he passed the strenuous running test. The chapter left him facing a weightlifting test that could determine his standing and future treatment in the gang.

• Ling Wuyuan arrived to take the White Crow Gang’s recruitment test near Wucha Town.
• Ling Wuyuan told the registration staff he did not know his age, and a physician examined him and confirmed his bone age was ten.
• Ling Wuyuan and the other eight-to-ten-year-old applicants ran nearly six kilometers in under twenty minutes, leaving only about twenty children still standing.
• Ling Wuyuan chose to show enough fitness to appear outstanding without drawing excessive attention, and the examiner gave his running performance a good grade.
• The examiner told Ling Wuyuan’s group to lift a sixty-kilogram stone pedestal overhead to pass, with heavier lifts earning better rankings.

After passing the White Crow Gang’s test, Ling Wuyuan held back his strength and learned about the gang’s prosperous territory as a guide showed the newcomers around. He chose a quiet single room in the dormitory and was overwhelmed to finally have a real bed.

• Ling Wuyuan lifted a one-hundred-kilogram stone pedestal during the strength test, hiding how strong he was.
• The examiner dismissed the newcomers after the test and assigned a guide to show them to their dormitories and explain White Crow Mountain.
• Ling Wuyuan listened to the guide describe White Crow Town, its population, defenses, and facilities while observing the gang’s buildings and members.
• After registering, Ling Wuyuan chose a small, quiet single room with a bed and basic furnishings.
• Ling Wuyuan felt both excited and sorrowful as he realized he finally had a real bed.

Ling Wuyuan settled into his new room at White Crow Mountain and learned about the White Crow Gang’s facilities. The next morning, newcomer manager Feng Shuyun sorted the recruits by literacy, sending Ling Wuyuan to the Gang Academy while literate recruits could begin martial training.

• Ling Wuyuan inspected his room, admired his reflection, and set out to explore White Crow Mountain and its dining halls.
• The following morning, Feng Shuyun introduced himself as manager of the Newcomer Training Grounds and told the recruits they would be trained under his command.
• Feng Shuyun asked illiterate or barely literate newcomers to step forward, and Ling Wuyuan eagerly joined them.
• The illiterate recruits were assigned to the Gang Academy for a year of reading and character study, with regular assessments and punishments for poor results.
• The literate recruits were allowed to begin martial training and choose a basic martial arts secret manual from the Treasure Library.

Ling Wuyuan attended his first lesson at the Gang Academy, where Teacher Zhao stressed the importance of learning and literacy. A year later, Ling Wuyuan had devoted himself to reading in the White Crow Gang’s Library Tower while gradually developing his speed-accelerating talent, though he had not yet begun martial arts training.

• Teacher Zhao warned the new recruits that monthly academic evaluations would be enforced and urged them to learn to read so they could understand martial arts manuals safely.
• Ling Wuyuan spent more than six hours a day reading in the Library Tower, studying books of every kind and carefully memorizing their contents.
• Other recruits saw Ling Wuyuan as a solitary weirdo because he avoided close friendships and seemed to skim through books at remarkable speed.
• Ling Wuyuan’s natural acceleration talent reached fourfold speed, and he learned to accelerate his thoughts and neural responses while keeping a constant onefold boost.