Vol. 2From Champion to Jiangzhong

Shen Qian became the national Martial Champion, investigated the forces tied to Jiang Chengye, and advanced through the Heaven-Seizing Array and the Goddess Tomb. He left Jing City for Jiangzhong Military University, where he enrolled under Tantai Qin and absorbed some of her origin force.

  • Shen Qian achieved perfect scores in all three entrance exams and accepted the Hundred Kings Hall’s invitation.
  • Shen Qian entered the Hundred Kings Hall with Wan Ning and began learning about it.
  • Shen Qian survived the Buya Valley disaster and became China’s national Martial Champion before beginning to teach at Northern Martial University.
  • The system stole Dao Stones from Cold Spring and took Tantai Qin’s Space Crystal Stone, revealing a memory fragment of her Great Dao Meridians.
  • Shen Qian joined the Dark Star Squad and entered the Goddess Tomb with Yuan You, where he obtained Nai Luoli’s tear.
  • Dao Jiu helped Shen Qian and Yuan You escape the tomb, and they returned to Small King Village to face an unidentified sight.
  • Shen Qian traveled to Jiangzhong, freed the Emperor Monkey, and enrolled at Jiangzhong Military University after excelling in the entrance assessment.
  • The AFK system contained Tantai Qin’s surging origin force and left Shen Qian with some of it to absorb.
Chapters 101–203 Read from ch. 101

Arc 5The Grand Slam Champion

Shen Qian broke through to become a Beginner Martial Artist, then earned perfect scores across the college entrance exams and became the first 300-point grand slam champion. After receiving an invitation from the Hundred Kings Hall, he accepted and entered its palace.

  • Yu Shouyi invited Shen Qian to enroll at Jiangzhong Military University and explained the university’s need to rebuild its reputation and Military Soul, but Shen Qian remained undecided.
  • Shen Qian reached his physical limit, broke through using the Jing City Weather Adjustment System, and fused 120 types of Origin Energy into Chaos Origin Energy.
  • Shen Qian traveled to Mingcheng City for the martial arts exams, scored a perfect physical fitness result, and passed the Willpower Exam after overcoming the full deck of card trials.
  • Shen Qian advanced through the Ascending Heavenly Ladder, where the system helped him defeat Li Jiaqi, other examinees, and a mirror copy of himself.
  • Ma Gongzuo confirmed that Shen Qian had earned perfect scores in all three subjects and offered him the national Martial Champion title, but advised him to delay its announcement.
  • Shen Qian rejected Sun Ping’s Thousand Stars Society assessment invitation, then received an invitation from the Hundred Kings Hall delivered by a seven-colored divine dragon.
  • After celebrating with his friends, Shen Qian departed Mingcheng with the Southwest Army and met Wan Ning inside the Hundred Kings Hall, where he agreed to join and began learning about the Hall.
Chapters 101–127 Summaries Read

Arc 6The Champion and the Dao Stones

Shen Qian survived the Buya Valley disaster, became the national Martial Champion, and began teaching at Northern Martial University while investigating the past connected to Jiang Chengye. After the system secretly stole Dao Stones from Duke of Yanshan’s Cold Spring, Shen Qian discovered it had also taken a memory fragment from Tantai Qin.

  • Shen Qian joined the fight at Buya Valley, helped the soldiers reach the altar, and killed He Yanfeng after he returned the baby to the ritual.
  • Ling Xiao and Shi Dingyan confronted Tang Shengzong, and Shen Qian later learned that the dimensional doors connected Earth to other worlds.
  • Shen Qian refined death energy, advanced his cultivation, and became China’s national Martial Champion after Ma Gongzuo inscribed his name on the Wu Zhao Platform.
  • Shen Qian received Dao Jiu as his guard, then heard Old Hu’s account of the students killed when Jiang Chengye and a Scavenger woman opened an A-rank door.
  • Shen Qian recognized himself in Jiang Xuan’s photographs, supported her family, and traveled to North Capital, where Ding Yi encouraged him to pursue work that helped soldiers.
  • Shen Qian passed his trial lecture at Northern Martial University by demonstrating an unconventional way to brew a Body Tempering Potion and correcting Cheng Shanhe’s Creation formula.
  • Shen Qian learned that Tantai Qin had gathered Dao Stones for Duke of Yanshan’s Heaven-Seizing Array, while Wang Shuo arranged an attack on him and the system later took control to defeat the attacker.
  • The system stole 112 jin of Dao Stone from Cold Spring and took Tantai Qin’s Space Crystal Stone, and Shen Qian found a memory fragment showing her Great Dao Meridians.
Chapters 128–152 Summaries Read

Arc 7The Goddess Tomb

Shen Qian advanced through the Heaven-Seizing Array, entered the Path Seeking stage, and joined the Dark Star Squad on its bounty missions. In Small King Village, he followed a strange fog into the Goddess Tomb, obtained Nai Luoli’s tear, and escaped back to the village with Yuan You and Dao Jiu as an unknown sight appeared before them.

  • Shen Qian returned to Jing City, chose Jiangzhou Military Martial University, and received a lieutenant appointment and admission notice from Yu Shouyi.
  • Shen Qian encouraged Jiang Xuan to become a warrior, studied martial arts in Hundred Kings Hall, and used the name “Martial God” to share improved techniques on its discussion forum.
  • The system used Shen Qian’s body to kill Scavengers, and Chai Haotian gave him a secret case file, a ten-million bounty, and an offer to pursue Jing City’s City Lord position, which Shen Qian declined.
  • Gao Wenyuan activated the Heaven-Seizing Array, and Shen Qian absorbed its starlight, entered the Dao Sea, and discovered that he could step onto the Blazing Fire Dao and step back out.
  • Shen Qian joined the Dark Star Squad with Gu Zifang, Ouyang Fei, and Chen Peng, then used his alchemy and scouting skills to complete missions and uncover danger in Small King Village.
  • When Candle Serpents surrounded the squads, Shen Qian summoned Dao Jiu, negotiated with the Serpent leader, and stayed behind to investigate the fog with Yuan You.
  • Shen Qian and Yuan You crossed the Goddess Tomb’s mosquito-filled formation, entered its bronze-gated maze, and fought the mummies and Nai Luoli, whose tear Shen Qian collected.
  • Dao Jiu helped Shen Qian and Yuan You escape the tomb, and the projection shattered to return them to Small King Village, where they saw an unidentified sight ahead.
Chapters 153–178 Summaries Read

Arc 8Jiangzhong Enrollment

Shen Qian left Jing City for Jiangzhong, where he secured a rare beast, arranged a weapon and a cure for Ran Feng, and entered Jiangzhong Military University. After topping the entrance assessment and choosing Tantai Qin as an instructor, he survived her uncontrolled power with help from the AFK system and absorbed some of her origin force.

  • Candle Dragon annihilated the Abyssal Ghost army, and Shen Qian returned to Jing City with Yuan You and Dao Jiu before forming the Old Days Squad and receiving Dragon Saliva from Xiao Dalong.
  • Shen Qian trained outside the city with Yuan You, completed bounty missions, advanced his cultivation, and was promoted to core membership in the Hundred Kings Hall.
  • Shen Qian said goodbye to Jing City and traveled to Jiangzhong, where he freed the Emperor Monkey from the Beast Fighting Arena and arranged for Master Gu to forge him a saber in exchange for helping Ran Feng.
  • Shen Qian arrived at Jiangzhong Military University and learned that its enrollment assessment would determine students’ housing, evaluations, and instructors.
  • Shen Qian excelled in Earl Pingyang’s spear assessment, chose Earl Pingyang as a mentor and Tantai Qin as his instructor, then settled into Villa No. 7.
  • Tantai Qin tested the freshmen’s ability to comprehend sword intent and later brought Shen Qian to her residence, where her power surged and the AFK system took control of him.
  • Shen Qian woke after two days and learned that the AFK system had used his formation flags and Ling Xiao’s wooden sword to contain Tantai Qin’s origin force, leaving him with some of it to absorb.
Chapters 179–203 Summaries Read
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