Chapter Summaries

Xiong Yingtian brought his grandnephew Xiong Lailer, who possessed the Hundred Victories Bone, to Treading Moon Martial Hall so Su Tu could temper him in a fight. Su Tu overwhelmed Xiong Lailer with one Mind Power-enhanced slap, leaving the youth crying and begging to go home.

• Xiong Yingtian told Zhou Wuliang that Xiong Lailer was born with the Hundred Victories Bone and needed stronger opponents to help him fight freely.
• Xiong Lailer challenged Su Tu after boasting about his hundred apertures and Heavenly Fiend Art.
• Luo Fan and Fat Zhuge recalled how easily Su Tu had suppressed Luo Fan in their sparring matches.
• Su Tu used Mind Power to reinforce his Prajna Seven Kills palm strike and sent Xiong Lailer flying, shattering his Heavenly Fiend aura.
• Xiong Lailer claimed he was fine, then burst into tears and told Xiong Yingtian he wanted to go home.

Su Tu defeated Xiong Lailer with a single palm strike, earning Xiong Yingtian’s admiration and a gift of the third-tier movement technique Void Step. After Zhou Wuliang and Xiong Yingtian left to talk, Xiong Lailer bowed to Su Tu and asked to become his little brother.

• Su Tu slapped Xiong Lailer’s Heavenly Fiend attack apart and sent him crying, leaving the Martial Arts Arena stunned.
• Xiong Yingtian explained that Su Tu had spotted and broken the flaw in Xiong Lailer’s attack, then praised Su Tu’s talent and tried to recruit him.
• Zhou Wuliang stopped Xiong Yingtian from poaching Su Tu, and Xiong Yingtian gave Su Tu the third-tier movement technique Void Step.
• Xiong Yingtian said the Martial Arts Department’s training camp plan had not been finalized, though those above wanted faster progress, then left with Zhou Wuliang to talk.
• Xiong Lailer bowed to Su Tu and asked him to accept him as his little brother.

Su Tu learned about the dangerous Training Camp and its promised rewards while Xiong Lailer joined his group and called him Boss. As Su Tu practiced Void Step with startling speed, Zhou Wuliang revealed that his time was running out.

• Xiong Lailer explained that his Hundred Victories Bone had made him imitate domineering fighters, then told Su Tu and the others about the Training Camp and its possible sixth-tier technique rewards.
• Su Tu realized he still needed to register for a martial artist certificate and decided to visit the Martial Arts Department before it closed.
• Su Tu began practicing Void Step and quickly learned to create two afterimages, though he could not yet switch places among them.
• Xiong Yingtian urged Zhou Wuliang to take Su Tu as a disciple, but Zhou Wuliang said his heavy karmic ties could taint the boy.
• Zhou Wuliang tapped the table only six times before inexplicable Rules stopped him, and he said there was not much time left.

Su Tu earned Proficiency from fighting Xiong Lailer and practicing Void Step, then obtained his martial artist certificate at the Martial Arts Department. Outside, he recognized the scent of “candy” on a smiling man and suspected a link to the Three Deviant Sect, but the man returned and suppressed Su Tu’s qi.

• Su Tu gained Combat and Body Strengthening Proficiency from his battle with Xiong Lailer and his Void Step training.
• Su Tu applied for and received his martial artist certificate after passing a cultivation verification.
• Su Tu encountered a smiling man in white outside the Martial Arts Department and sensed the scent of “candy” on him.
• Su Tu recognized the scent as connected to the Three Deviant Sect and prepared to call Li Hu.
• The man in white appeared behind Su Tu, pressed down on his shoulder, and locked Su Tu’s qi within his acupoints.

Su Tu was mistaken for a Soul-Entrusted Person by a member of the Three Deviant Sect, who unknowingly fed his divine thoughts to Su Tu’s Blood Moon. After learning of the sect’s plans from Li Hu, Su Tu was left with the dangerous opportunity to approach their real objective.

• A man in white mistook Su Tu for a fellow Soul-Entrusted Person and gave him a strand of divine thought, which the Blood Moon devoured.
• The man in white promised to bring Su Tu more divine thought and reported to the Sufferer that he had found the final Soul-Entrusted Person.
• The man in white asked for a gaze from the Benevolent Bone Father, and the Sufferer approved his request.
• The man in white told the Sufferer that the Suffering Nun was being cultivated, Paradise had recruited children, seeds had been planted in the Martial Arts Department, and Nightmare’s recovery plan was underway.
• Su Tu told Li Hu what had happened, and Li Hu explained that the Three Deviant Sect’s Soul-Entrusted People offered their bodies to the Three Gods.
• Li Hu hesitated to ask Su Tu to help investigate the sect’s true objective because approaching them could put Su Tu in grave danger.

Li Hu asked Su Tu to help uncover the Three Deviant Sect’s plans, while warning him to stay safe at the martial arts school. Su Tu chose to make contact with the sect to eliminate the danger, and Li Hu equipped him with protective artifacts.

• Li Hu explained that the Three Deviant Sect’s apparent failures and the North Sea’s unnatural calm made him suspect a larger plan to summon the Three Abomination Gods.
• Li Hu revealed that the sect had mistaken Su Tu for a Soul-Entrusted Person and urged him to stay at the martial arts school until the faith traces vanished.
• Su Tu realized the Blood Moon in his True Self World had consumed the gods’ faith, so hiding would not stop the sect from identifying him.
• Su Tu volunteered to contact the Three Deviant Sect and help eliminate its members before the faith traces disappeared.
• Li Hu promised to protect Su Tu and gave him a Fight Character Talisman, a Mind Stabilizing Ring, and other life-saving artifacts.

Li Hu advised Su Tu to maintain his cover while the Martial Arts Department investigated the man in white, and Su Tu learned more about the threat posed by the Three Deviant Sect. After leaving the martial arts school with a protective stone bead from Zhou Wuliang, Su Tu found Old Gong Restaurant burning and a man standing on Uncle Gong’s back.

• Li Hu told Su Tu to live and cultivate normally while pretending to be a youth martial warrior, and said he was overseeing the investigation of the man in white.
• Li Hu explained that the Three Deviant Sect could send an alms-giver no stronger than the Zhui Ye Realm, and revealed that he had cultivated to that realm himself.
• Zhou Wuliang ordered Li Hu to complete training in the gravity chamber, then warned Su Tu that the Three Deviant Sect were madmen.
• Su Tu told Zhou Wuliang that martial warriors had to strive, and Zhou Wuliang silently sent him a stone bead carved with the character for seven.
• Su Tu left the martial arts school and headed for Old Gong Restaurant, where he saw it burning and a man standing on Uncle Gong’s back.

Su Tu intervened after a martial artist burned Uncle Gong’s restaurant and threatened to kill him, exposing the violence enabled by martial artists’ privilege. Su Tu crippled the attacker and ordered him to kneel and apologize.

• A Hundred Apertures Warrior burned Uncle Gong’s restaurant, beat him, and boasted that martial artists had immunity from punishment.
• A young public security officer tried to intervene, but his older colleague warned him that the Public Security Bureau had no authority over martial artists.
• Su Tu arrived, blasted the attacker away, and helped Uncle Gong, who mourned the destruction of his shop.
• The attacker admitted that he had burned the restaurant because Uncle Gong demanded payment and had reported him to the Martial Arts Department.
• When the attacker moved to kill Uncle Gong, Su Tu used Void Step to crush both his arms and knees.
• Su Tu stood over the crippled attacker and ordered him to kneel and apologize.

Su Tu crippled the martial artist who had destroyed Uncle Gong’s restaurant and carried him to the Martial Arts Department to challenge the privileges that protected him. When Director Wang ordered Su Tu arrested, Su Tu invoked his master Zhou Wuliang, leaving Wang panicked and falling from the second floor.

• Su Tu checked that Uncle Gong was unharmed, placed him in a Public Security Bureau vehicle, and carried the crippled martial artist toward the Martial Arts Department.
• Chen Yuan and Director Wang discussed using martial artists’ privileges to drive up Martial Dao Luck, with Chen Yuan’s junior brother serving as the catalyst.
• Director Wang recognized the injured man as a student of Thunder Edge Martial Hall and ordered the Martial Arts Department’s martial artists to arrest Su Tu.
• Su Tu declared that his master was Zhou Wuliang and his senior brother was Li Hu, prompting Director Wang to order everyone to stop.
• Director Wang panicked at Zhou Wuliang’s status and fell from the second floor.

Su Tu confronted the Martial Arts Department over its failure to protect an ordinary person and refused to back down, even when Chen Yuan tried to suppress him. The chapter ended with a murderous figure arriving and lifting Chen Yuan by the throat for threatening Su Tu.

• Su Tu confronted Director Wang and demanded to know whether the Martial Arts Department had ignored an old man's report and allowed martial artists to kill ordinary people.
• Director Wang realized Su Tu had derailed his plan to use martial artists and a staged hero to raise the Martial Dao's influence.
• Chen Yuan arrived and used Mind Power and Martial Intent to force Su Tu to release the man, but the Mind Stabilizing Ring blocked his Mind Power.
• Su Tu resisted Chen Yuan's pressure, opened another aperture, and mocked him for helping him approach Branch Peeking completion.
• A tall figure seized Chen Yuan by the throat and threatened him for daring to touch Su Tu, his junior brother.

Li Hu arrived at the Martial Arts Department and brutally defeated Chen Yuan for mistreating Su Tu, forcing him to apologize. Su Tu learned the incident was part of a plan to raise Martial Dao Luck, received a temporary blessing from it, and was asked by Li Hu what outcome he wanted.

• Li Hu recognized that Su Tu had been involved in the restaurant incident and rushed to the Martial Arts Department to confront Chen Yuan.
• Li Hu overwhelmed Chen Yuan in a fight and forced him to apologize to Su Tu.
• Director Wang explained that Chen Yuan's actions had been part of a plan approved by Long Xiao Zhenren to raise North Sea's Martial Dao Luck.
• Su Tu received combat and body-strengthening rewards as well as a temporary Martial Dao Luck blessing.
• Li Hu asked Su Tu what outcome he wanted and promised to help him get it.

Su Tu confronted Chen Yuan and the Martial Arts Department after a martial artist threatened his family, then killed the man with the Heaven Flipping Seal. Li Hu and Director Wang blamed the death on Beasts to protect Su Tu, but the conflict was only beginning as they left.

• Director Wang offered to restore the restaurant, pay medical expenses, and compensate Su Tu's junior disciple with a challenger slot; he also agreed to restrict martial artists' privileges and introduce management laws.
• The unconscious martial artist woke and threatened to kill Su Tu's family and friends.
• Su Tu used the Heaven Flipping Seal to kill the martial artist in front of everyone at the Martial Arts Department.
• Chen Yuan reacted coldly, while Li Hu stepped in front of Su Tu and declared the death the work of Beasts.
• Director Wang and the Martial Arts Department members supported the Beast cover story, and Li Hu left with Su Tu.

After Su Tu stood by his actions at the Martial Arts Department, Li Hu reassured him and revealed how fiercely Zhou Wuliang protected his students. At home, Su Tu discovered the power of his Nothing Is Forbidden BUFF and saw the Federation’s supposed protection of the Ancestral Star as a web of taboos.

• Li Hu told Su Tu he had done nothing wrong and supported his desire to defeat Chen Yuan himself.
• Su Tu worried that Chen Yuan’s death might bring trouble to Zhou Wuliang, and Li Hu explained that his master was fiercely protective.
• Chen Yuan went to Tingfeng Martial Arts Hall to seek Long Xiao Zhenren, but found his master in seclusion and left for the Public Security Bureau after recalling Su Tu’s name in mission records.
• Zhou Wuliang confronted Long Xiao Zhenren in his inner chamber, warned him not to interfere in fights between students, and snapped his whisk into pieces.
• Su Tu returned home, realized the Heaven Flipping Seal might be a cultivable Ancient Art, and sensed the effects of the Nothing Is Forbidden BUFF.
• Su Tu looked beyond the window and recognized the Federation’s protection of the Ancestral Star as blockade, restraint, and imprisonment.

Su Tu saw three powerful taboos sealing the Ancestral Star and learned how Martial Dao Luck blessed native humans while suppressing other beings. He discovered Candy’s dark aura within the luck, then entered the True Self World after midnight.

• Su Tu witnessed a bronze coin, an ancient book, and a broken sword hilt suppressing the Ancestral Star through distortion, sealing, and restraint.
• Su Tu saw Martial Dao Luck blessing native humans and learned that martial artists and the desires of ordinary people could nourish it in return.
• Su Tu spotted Candy’s dark aura mixed into Martial Dao Luck and suspected the Three Deviant Sect had succeeded in connecting itself to the luck.
• Su Tu decided not to tell Li Hu what he had seen because the matter involved the Federation and the Ancestral Star’s taboos.
• Su Tu wondered why Martial Dao Luck had blessed him, then entered the True Self World at 12:01 and reclined on a stone rocking chair atop Black Mountain with Green Snake coiled around his hand.

Su Tu questioned the divine wonders in his True Self World and learned that Blood Moon claimed to be a god capable of consuming faith and thoughts within luck. Far away, a scholar realized someone on Ancestral Star had seen his book and ordered the Guardians summoned.

• Su Tu asked Blood Moon whether it could erase Compassionate Blood Mother's faith and consume divine thoughts mixed into luck, and Blood Moon said it could if it ate enough candy because it was a god.
• Su Tu wondered about the abilities of his sentient divine wonders, then began comprehending Dao Gathering as the White Tiger, Blood Moon, White Moon, Green Snake, and Black Mountain reacted around him.
• A scholar on a distant planet sensed that someone had seen his book, and the parrot questioned how anyone on Ancestral Star had uncovered his methods.
• The scholar explained that Martial God's restrictions and the Starry Sky Great Wall kept powerful outsiders from entering Ancestral Star, then said Beast and the Three Deviant Sect had been accidents.
• The scholar decided to add another log to Ancestral Star's fire and summoned the Guardians to see him.

Su Tu discovered that Martial Dao Luck had helped him open another acupoint, then learned that a viral video of him confronting a Martial Warrior had made him famous. He reached the Martial Arts Academy after fleeing excited fans, while the mysterious video uploader ignored his request to delete the clip.

• Su Tu opened his seventy-eighth acupoint with unusual ease and attributed it to his Martial Dao Luck blessing.
• Chen Xi called Su Tu and told him he had become famous, then sent him a viral video of his confrontation with the Martial Warrior.
• Su Tu realized the video had sparked public interest in Martial Dao and boosted his Martial Dao Luck.
• Su Tu recognized the uploader as the account that had posted a video of him eating at Uncle Gong's Restaurant, but the uploader answered his questions with a dog-head meme.
• Su Tu fled a crowd of fans on his way to the Martial Arts Academy and asked the uploader to delete the video, receiving another dog-head meme in reply.

Su Tu linked his acupoints into a self-sustaining Cave Heaven Qi cycle while cultivating Burial of Immortals, triggering a breakthrough Zhou Wuliang identified as Three Shackles Breaking Limit. As Su Tu entered a strange vision of chained beasts and a skyward character, Zhou Wuliang and Li Hu watched in disbelief.

• Su Tu dismissed the online video dispute and worried that the Three Deviant Sect might recognize him.
• Su Tu cultivated Burial of Immortals and conceived a way to link his acupoints into a self-sustaining qi cycle.
• Zhou Wuliang warned Li Hu to watch over the students while he attended a meeting, and Li Hu asked whether he could teach Su Tu.
• Zhou Wuliang sensed a change and brought Li Hu to the Body Tempering Room, where they saw Su Tu radiating unusually powerful qi.
• Zhou Wuliang identified Su Tu's state as Cave Heaven Qi Refining, Three Shackles Breaking Limit, while Li Hu questioned how Su Tu had achieved it.
• Su Tu's consciousness entered a dark vision of chained giant beasts, tentacles, and corpses arranged into the character East.

Su Tu entered a strange space during cultivation, then emerged with a working Cave Heaven Qi Refining circulation and a major boost to his Body Strengthening Proficiency. After Zhou Wuliang and the others realized Su Tu had independently mastered a method to break the Three Shackles with only 78 acupoints open, Zhou Wuliang isolated them in a world where time appeared stopped.

• Su Tu saw an ominous East Character in a strange space before his consciousness returned to his body.
• Su Tu formed a Cave Heaven Qi Refining circulation, improving his qi and earning 50 Body Strengthening Proficiency.
• Tang Yangwu, Zhou Wuliang, Li Hu, and the other classmates questioned Su Tu about how he had learned Cave Heaven Qi Refining.
• Luo Fan explained the Three Shackles and revealed that Su Tu had achieved a feat usually attempted only by martial artists with all 108 acupoints open.
• Zhou Wuliang released an invisible ripple that froze everyone else in place, leaving only himself and Su Tu with their colors.

Zhou Wuliang warned Su Tu to keep his second comprehension of the Base Skill secret and erased the students’ memories of Su Tu’s Cave Heaven Qi Refining to protect them. He arranged for Su Tu to practice safely in his inner chamber, then announced he would be away while the Training Camp rankings approached; Chen Yuan raged over Su Tu’s achievement.

• Zhou Wuliang explained that his Mind Power had created a space where Su Tu’s thoughts accelerated, then warned him never to reveal that he had comprehended the Base Skill a second time.
• Zhou Wuliang explained that Su Tu had advanced the starting point for challenging the Body Lock by thirty acupoints, putting him at risk of attracting powerful figures’ attention.
• Zhou Wuliang erased the students’ memories of Su Tu’s Cave Heaven Qi Refining and told Su Tu to practice it in his inner chamber for safety.
• Zhou Wuliang said he would be away for a few days and urged the students to prepare for the Training Camp rankings.
• Chen Yuan watched a video of Su Tu and angrily complained that Su Tu had taken an honor he believed should have been his.

Chen Yuan arranged to become a Training Camp instructor so he could target Su Tu, unaware that Director Lin had allowed it for his own purposes. Director Lin killed Director Wang and set his sights on the First Sequence challenger qualification for Su Tu.

• Chen Yuan resented Su Tu for ruining his plans and called Director Wang to request an instructor position at the Training Camp.
• Director Wang agreed to arrange the position in exchange for a fourth-tier technique, and Chen Yuan planned to make Su Tu's life difficult.
• Director Lin revealed that he had instructed Director Wang to let Chen Yuan join the camp and considered the dangers awaiting Su Tu a gift.
• Director Lin killed Director Wang, saying his life was worthless as grass and would contribute to Martial Dao Luck.
• Director Lin decided that the First Sequence challenger qualification suited Su Tu.