Chapter Summaries

Shen Qian discovered that his studying had improved, then met Wang Yangming, whose strength had surged after taking Shen Qian’s potion. Wang Yangming paid him fifty thousand yuan for it, and Shen Qian persuaded him to spend the night at the VR Hall.

• Shen Qian found that he remembered most of the history material he had studied and suspected the Obsidian Spirit Stone was improving his mind.
• Wang Yangming told Shen Qian that the potion had raised his Burst Strength from 109 to 114 and increased his speed.
• Shen Qian advised Wang Yangming to keep training so he could benefit from the potion’s remaining effects.
• Wang Yangming gave Shen Qian fifty thousand yuan for the potion, and Shen Qian accepted the payment.
• Shen Qian teased Wang Yangming by reading aloud from his embarrassing essay, then convinced him to go to the VR Hall, with Wang Yangming insisting Shen Qian pay.

After a night at the VR Hall, Shen Qian returned to school and was summoned by grade director Zhao Hanhai over the figures he had entered on a baseline assessment form. Zhao gathered Shen Qian and twelve other students at the abandoned Physical Testing Hall, where he told them to enter one at a time.

• Shen Qian teased Wang Yangming over what he had done during their night at the VR Hall, and they parted after breakfast.
• During martial arts theory class, Shen Qian laughed at a remark that reminded him of Wang Yangming and was summoned by Liu Simin.
• Liu Simin told Shen Qian that Zhao Hanhai had come because of the strength and speed figures Shen Qian had entered on his baseline assessment form.
• Zhao Hanhai took Shen Qian through several classes, gathering eleven more third-year students and one second-year girl.
• Zhao Hanhai brought the thirteen students to the old Physical Testing Hall and instructed them to go inside one at a time.

Shen Qian and the other selected students passed an unexpected inspection and learned they had been gathered for the Elite Training Class for Martial Studies. As training preparations began, Liu Changqing learned that Zhou Xiaoguang was holding back his breakthrough to pursue the path of an Extraordinary Quasi-Martial Artist.

• Shen Qian entered the dark passage, dodged a shadow's attack, and met Zheng Shaoyang after reaching the courtyard-sized room.
• Zhao Hanhai announced that everyone had passed the inspection, earned ten points, and qualified for the Elite Training Class for Martial Studies.
• Zhao Hanhai explained that the students would train together for two months and asked them to keep the class confidential.
• Liu Changqing complained to Huang Tao that prestigious universities had recruited the strongest students, but Huang Tao pointed out Zhou Xiaoguang's potential.
• Huang Tao told Liu Changqing that Zhou Xiaoguang was aiming to become an Extraordinary Quasi-Martial Artist, and Liu Changqing asked about the other students.

Huo Ling'er and Shen Qian joined the Training Class and met its other students, while Huang Tao and Liu Changqing discussed their potential. The class monitor Chen Feng was revealed to be an Intermediate Martial Artist, Ninth Rank, and he demonstrated vital energy as the students learned the class would have weekly rankings and rewards.

• Huang Tao told Liu Changqing that Huo Ling'er was a promising second-year student and mentioned that Teacher had once considered taking Ding Yi as a disciple.
• Huang Tao said Shen Qian's martial arts test scores had improved sharply, though Liu Changqing thought the four-month progress was plausible.
• Shen Qian and Huo Ling'er introduced themselves and awkwardly joined the other students as Zheng Shaoyang introduced Shen Qian to Zhou Xiaoguang.
• Zhao Hanhai introduced Chen Feng as the Training Class monitor, and Chen Feng said he was an Intermediate Martial Artist, Ninth Rank.
• Zhao Hanhai announced weekly rankings and generous rewards, then Chen Feng used vital energy to pull a whiteboard across the hall.

Shen Qian attended the first training session of the Seventh High School Martial Arts Youth Vanguard Group, then learned that his mother had been hospitalized with kidney failure. At Jingcheng Central Hospital, he discovered she had switched to cheaper medicine to save money and persuade him to attend an ordinary liberal arts university.

• Chen Feng ranked the students, placing Shen Qian twelfth, and announced that the bottom three would receive no rewards.
• Zhao Hanhai scheduled training three afternoons a week, and Huo Ling'er added the students to a group before dismissing them.
• Liu Simin checked that Shen Qian had not been punished, and Shen Qian asked her to keep his place in the training class secret.
• Shen Liang called Shen Qian and told him that Wang Xiaojuan had been admitted to Jingcheng Central Hospital with kidney failure.
• Shen Qian hurried to the hospital, where Shen Liang explained that Wang Xiaojuan had switched to cheaper medicine to save money for her son.

After doctors said Wang Xiaojuan needed a Mountain Sea Martial Artist to remove the toxins harming her organs, Shen Qian gave Shen Liang money borrowed from Ding Yi to cover her hospital bill. Shen Qian resolved to become a Beginner Martial Artist, then returned home and confronted Old Hu at the security booth after smelling hotpot inside.

• Doctor Qian said Wang Xiaojuan was stable for now but needed a Mountain Sea Martial Artist for a full cure, while stronger medicine could only slow the toxins for two or three years.
• Shen Qian gave Shen Liang forty thousand yuan borrowed from Ding Yi, and Shen Liang agreed to use it for the hospital bill while insisting they repay her with interest.
• After Shen Liang sent him home, Shen Qian decided to train toward becoming a Beginner Martial Artist and put off going to Jiuzhou Martial Arts Hall.
• Shen Qian smelled hotpot near the security booth, turned back, and claimed to be conducting a Police Warriors inspection to make Old Hu open the door.

Shen Qian learned from Old Hu about the dangerous Extraordinary Quasi-Martial Artist realm, which surpasses the usual limits before martial artist advancement. At Seventh High School’s first Martial Arts Youth Vanguard Group training, Chen Feng began teaching the group a method to draw out their potential.

• Shen Qian shared hot pot with Old Hu, who explained that Extraordinary Quasi-Martial Artists push beyond ordinary advancement standards and risk death or crippling for greater strength.
• Shen Qian searched for information about Extraordinary Quasi-Martial Artists but found nothing, then headed to the group’s first training session.
• Huo Ling'er proposed a Saturday group-building event, while Zhou Xiaoguang said he would not attend.
• Chen Feng assembled the group and announced they would try their first method for squeezing out their potential.

Shen Qian recorded his training, studies, family life, and calls with Ding Yi as he worked toward becoming a Beginner Martial Artist. The chapter ended with him preparing to earn ten thousand yuan a month, while the author added a note about upcoming updates and longer premium chapters.

• Shen Qian lost to Zheng Shaoyang and Huo Ling'er in training, then later beat Zheng Shaoyang once through his own strength.
• Shen Qian visited his recovering mother, spent time with friends at the VR Hall, and received calls from Ding Yi and Huo Ling'er.
• Shen Qian learned that publicly selling a prescription required numerous pharmacy credentials, so he planned to certify as a Beginner Martial Artist instead.
• Shen Qian ranked eighth in the first training camp standings after winning six of fourteen fights and received a Tiger Bone Elixir as a reward.
• Shen Qian noticed his Obsidian Spirit Stone was losing its glow, while his mother prepared to leave the hospital.
• Shen Qian looked forward to earning ten thousand yuan a month and reminded himself that Ding Yi's birthday was fifty-eight days away.

Shen Qian earned his Beginner Martial Artist certification and registered for a monthly subsidy at the Jing City Martial Arts Bureau. After running into Ding Anbai at a pharmaceutical summit, he was mistaken for someone seeking an easy shortcut and told to stop approaching him.

• Shen Qian passed the martial artist certification test without summoning the system and received a bronze badge.
• Shen Qian linked his bank card to the Martial Arts Bureau benefits program and learned his first subsidy would arrive within three business days.
• While wandering the bureau grounds, Shen Qian spotted Ding Anbai and followed him to the Martial Arts Medical and Pharmaceutical Research Institute.
• Shen Qian used Ding Anbai's greeting to get past the courtyard guards and joined him inside.
• Ding Anbai assumed Shen Qian had pursued him for personal gain, warned him not to aim too high, and told him not to seek him out again.

Shen Qian was drawn by the system into a research institute library, where it expanded its knowledge base from medical books. After meeting Wei Sijian, he used the young researcher’s access card to enter the Apothecary Storage Room.

• Shen Qian watched Ding Anbai greet Professor Cheng and then lost consciousness when the system activated AFK mode.
• Shen Qian woke in the institute library and learned from the AFK Record that he had followed Wei Sijian into the laboratory.
• Wei Sijian mistook Shen Qian for an assistant and asked him to fetch the Encyclopedia of Spirit Herbs.
• Shen Qian found the book, waited for the system’s knowledge base expansion to finish, and brought it to Wei Sijian in the laboratory.
• Shen Qian borrowed Wei Sijian’s access card and headed toward the Apothecary Storage Room.

Shen Qian found an Origin Fusion Pill in the Martial Arts Bureau’s apothecary storage room and took it after Wei Sijian said it was a low-grade pill. When Wei Sijian’s colleagues confronted him, Shen Qian claimed Wei’s research on improving the Body Tempering Potion was flawed, recognizing that its formula matched the system’s Stamina Potion; Wei Sijian demanded that he explain the mistake.

• Shen Qian entered the apothecary storage room with Wei Sijian’s access card and found the cabinets of Body Tempering Potions secured by fingerprint locks.
• Shen Qian picked up an Origin Fusion Pill, and Wei Sijian told him it helped fuse origin energy when advancing to Martial Artist and was probably not worth much.
• Shen Qian took the pill and tried to leave, but four young researchers confronted him at the laboratory door.
• Shen Qian went back inside and criticized Wei Sijian’s notebook, claiming his Body Tempering Potion research was wrong.
• Shen Qian recognized Wei Sijian’s draft formula as the same as the system’s Stamina Potion formula, and learned that the Jing City Medical Association had commissioned the research.
• Wei Sijian pressed Shen Qian to explain where the formula was wrong.

Shen Qian helped Wei Sijian realize he could improve the Body Tempering Potion by adjusting its auxiliary herbs, then slipped away with an unidentified spiritual herb. On the way home, he learned his mother had been discharged and received his Martial Arts Bureau subsidy, deciding to tell his parents about his martial artist certification.

• Shen Qian advised Wei Sijian to keep Seven Flavors Fruit as the main herb and refine the auxiliary-herb ratios, prompting Wei Sijian to rush off and resume his experiments.
• Wei Sijian's colleagues realized Shen Qian had disappeared, and Wei Sijian forgot who he was but resolved to find him and swear brotherhood with him.
• Shen Qian left the Medical Research Institute with an unidentified spiritual herb and found online that Wei Sijian was a talented third-year Northern Martial University student and Cheng Shanhe's personal disciple.
• Shen Qian decided not to sell Wei Sijian's formula and considered refining finished Stamina Potions for profit instead.
• Shen Liang called Shen Qian home for dinner and told him Wang Xiaojuan had been discharged, so Shen Qian canceled his plans with Huo Ling'er.
• Shen Qian received a 10,000 Huaxia Coin Martial Arts Bureau subsidy and decided to tell his parents about becoming a Beginner Martial Artist.

Shen Qian returned home to find his parents worried about paying for Wang Xiaojuan’s treatment, then revealed that he had become a Beginner Martial Artist and qualified for benefits. His parents were so stunned that they went to fetch a thermometer and fever medicine.

• Wang Xiaojuan worried that her soaring medical bills would leave the family unable to cover basic expenses, and Shen Liang comforted her with ten thousand from his factory bonus.
• Shen Qian came home with expensive durian and Desert Rose grapes, startling his parents with how much he had spent.
• Shen Qian showed his parents his martial artist badge and told them he was a Beginner Martial Artist.
• Shen Qian explained the monthly allowance and other benefits available to young martial artists.
• Shen Liang and Wang Xiaojuan reacted to the news by going to find a thermometer and fever medicine.

Shen Qian told his parents he had become a Beginner Martial Artist and gave Wang Xiaojuan his monthly stipend to manage. After reassuring Ding Yi that he still planned to pursue martial arts, he noticed his training gains slowing as he neared the Quasi-Martial Artist threshold.

• Shen Liang examined Shen Qian’s badge and strength, decided it was genuine, and accepted Shen Qian’s explanation that his potential had awakened.
• Shen Qian gave Wang Xiaojuan his bank card so she could keep his monthly ten-thousand-yuan stipend, while Shen Liang received only two hundred yuan from her.
• Shen Qian spoke with Ding Yi, who said she would still help him even if he focused on academics; he insisted he planned to attend Northern Martial University.
• Shen Qian trained in AFK mode and saw that his training efficiency had sharply declined, suggesting he was close to the Quasi-Martial Artist threshold.

Shen Qian agreed to supply Lin Xiaoqian and four classmates with Special Effect Potions, while Wang Yangming misunderstood their meeting and believed he had been cuckolded. At training camp, Huo Ling'er told Shen Qian that the pervert who watched her had appeared again, and Shen Qian revealed the man was standing behind her.

• Shen Qian rode the public tram to school using his martial artist card and drew suspicious looks from other passengers.
• Lin Xiaoqian gathered four classmates in a storage room and asked Shen Qian to get them Special Effect Potions; he agreed to supply up to three bottles at a time and accept deposits.
• Wang Yangming saw Lin Xiaoqian and the other girls emerge after Shen Qian and wrongly concluded that Shen Qian had cuckolded him.
• Shen Qian declined Zhou Xu's invitation to the VR Hall and told him that Wang Yangming thought he had been cuckolded.
• At training camp, Huo Ling'er told Shen Qian that the pervert who watched her had appeared again, and Shen Qian said the man was standing behind her.

Shen Qian met Liu Changqing, a powerful stranger whose arrival unsettled the Training Class and sparked an argument with Chen Feng and Zhao Hanhai. After learning that Chen Feng could not tell him how to become an Extraordinary Quasi-Martial Artist, Shen Qian remained determined to find a way past the barrier blocking his progress.

• Liu Changqing introduced himself after his aura frightened Shen Qian and Huo Ling'er, then went to speak privately with Chen Feng and Zhao Hanhai.
• Zhou Xiaoguang told the students that Liu Changqing had an impressive background and suggested the Training Class might have another purpose, while Zheng Shaoyang relayed the rumor to Shen Qian and Huo Ling'er.
• Liu Changqing, Chen Feng, and Zhao Hanhai argued in private during training, and Zhao Hanhai left in anger before Liu Changqing departed as well.
• Shen Qian deliberately lost to Zheng Shaoyang, then asked Chen Feng how to become an Extraordinary Quasi-Martial Artist.
• Chen Feng said he did not know the method and warned Shen Qian that finding it would be difficult and dangerous.
• Shen Qian recalled that his physique had hit a barrier beyond which even Stamina Potions could not push him, and he remained unwilling to give up on becoming an Extraordinary Quasi-Martial Artist.

Shen Qian learned that Huo Ling'er was preparing to break through to Extraordinary Quasi-Martial Artist and arranged to observe her attempt so the system could copy her body-tempering method. After Huo Ling'er opened four apertures, she explained the Nine Apertures and left Shen Qian searching for what they were.

• Shen Qian learned that Huo Ling'er’s family would guide her breakthrough, but she did not know the body-tempering method or the details of the process.
• Shen Qian learned that Blood Coagulation Agent was needed and used the system to make it from Red Hyacinth, a spirit herb he had taken from Wei Sijian.
• Shen Qian waited near Huo Ling’er’s apartment while she underwent her breakthrough under her second aunt’s guidance.
• Huo Ling’er told Shen Qian that she had opened four apertures and that opening more of the nine apertures built a stronger foundation.
• Shen Qian searched online to find out which nine apertures the breakthrough referred to.

After Shen Qian began his breakthrough to Extraordinary Quasi-Martial Artist, he vanished, prompting his family, classmates, and teacher to search for him. The investigation uncovered his hotel stay and final contact with Huo Ling'er, while Shen Qian remained missing.

• Shen Qian took the Blood Coagulation Agent and began the system-guided breakthrough, losing consciousness before he could see the route.
• Liu Simin discovered Shen Qian had not come to school and learned from Wang Yangming that he had not stayed at Wang Yangming’s home.
• After Shen Qian remained missing for three days, Shen Liang and Wang Xiaojuan went to the police station, where Ding Yi joined them.
• Captain Song Ye told the group that Shen Qian had rented a room at Tongxinyuan Hotel and disappeared after leaving it the next morning.
• Song Ye revealed that Shen Qian’s last chat was with Huo Ling'er, whose residence was across from the hotel, and Ding Yi insisted on going to question her.
• Song Ye continued investigating Shen Qian’s case before turning his attention to the Scavenger corpses appearing in North City.

After waking in a hospital storage room, Shen Qian discovered that a week had passed and began reviewing the AFK records of his unconscious training. The records showed that he had opened at least six apertures with the Ice Soul Aperture Opening Method, but he suspected he had opened many more and wondered where the additional method had come from.

• Shen Qian crawled out of a hospital storage room covered in blood and grime, then learned from a taxi driver that it was April 17, a week after he had lost consciousness.
• Shen Qian returned to the Tongxinyuan Hotel, cleaned himself up, charged his wristband, and found that his AFK Record contained five new folders, with the final two days missing.
• Shen Qian opened the first new record and extracted the memory of the Ice Soul Aperture Opening Method, learning how it helped control blood and qi during aperture opening.
• Shen Qian read that the system had opened his eye, nostril, and ear apertures, and realized the method he remembered only covered the first six.
• Shen Qian sensed that he had opened far more than six apertures and opened the second AFK record to investigate.

Shen Qian read the AFK Records and learned how the system had opened his final three orifices through humiliating, dangerous, and brutal methods. After discovering that the fourth record ended with him opening the ninth orifice by killing Scavengers, he wondered what the fifth record contained.

• Shen Qian read that the system refined a method for opening the seventh orifice, then used cheesy advances on Huo Ling'er before she slapped him and left.
• The system took Shen Qian to Emperor KTV, where he watched singing companions dance and opened the Perineum Orifice with Blood of Desire, then fled through the sewers after losing blood.
• Shen Qian learned that he had opened the Tongue Orifice by enduring a childbirth simulator for four hours while remaining conscious and using qi and blood.
• Shen Qian read that the system led him to Hope Orphanage, where he fought Scavengers and killed three more over the next five hours.
• Shen Qian opened the Coccyx Orifice with Intent of Slaughter after his strength was exhausted and his will peaked, then wondered why a fifth AFK Record remained.