Chapter Summaries

Jiang Ning targeted Yan Bo’s illegal polluting factory, disrupting its power and blocking its sewage outlet while advancing his lightning body-tempering cultivation. Yan Bo’s factory remained shut down as he learned the electrical fault required the power grid workers to repair.

• Jiang Ning tracked the factory’s power line and drew electricity from its transformer, pushing his Nine Heavens Divine Lightning Body Tempering Art through a breakthrough.
• The falling voltage stopped the factory’s machines, and Yan Bo struggled to find an electrician willing to inspect the problem.
• Jiang Ning completed the beginner stage of body tempering, then cut a wire at the transformer and sealed the factory’s sewage pipe with hardened mud.
• Yan Bo’s factory lost power entirely, and an electrician found the fault at the Transformer Box and said the power grid workers had to be notified.

Jiang Ning traveled to Qiaozhou City to buy herbs for Qi Gathering Pills and Spirit Accumulation Pills, then returned toward Yuzhou City after arranging for most of his purchase to be shipped. With his herb supply secured, he turned his attention to finding materials to craft Magical Artifacts.

• Jiang Ning ran more than two hundred kilometers to Qiaozhou City using his physical strength and Aura Concealment Art.
• Jiang Ning ate breakfast at a mutton restaurant he remembered from his previous life.
• Jiang Ning bought the herbs needed for both Pills at the Qiaozhou Chinese Herbal Medicine Trading Center, spending ten thousand yuan for two months' worth.
• Jiang Ning arranged for most of the herbs to be sent by freight and agreed to be home that afternoon for broadband installation.
• Jiang Ning hid himself in a secluded alley and set off for Yuzhou City, thinking about how to craft Magical Artifacts from materials available in this world.

After returning to Yuzhou City, Jiang Ning rested before having broadband installed at his house. He let Xue Yuantong connect to his WiFi, leaving her happily watching videos next door.

• Jiang Ning arrived home, set up a Formation to preserve his herbs, washed up with Magic Arts, and slept until the broadband installers called.
• Jiang Ning met the installers and let them set up and test his broadband connection.
• Xue Yuantong asked about the WiFi speed and eagerly tried to connect after Jiang Ning offered her the password.
• Jiang Ning gave Xue Yuantong the password incorrectly at first, then corrected it so she could connect.
• Xue Yuantong opened a video app and claimed she would keep testing the fast WiFi, while Jiang Ning let her use it.

Jiang Ning used Divine Sense Tracking to find Song Sheng and waited outside a gym, preparing to deal with him while concealed. After seeing Ding Shuyan leave with Zhuang Jianhui and Lin Zida, Jiang Ning reflected on the distance between an immortal cultivator and ordinary mortals.

• Jiang Ning tracked Song Sheng with a Divine Sense Imprint and decided to stop him from causing future harm.
• Jiang Ning concealed himself and followed the tracking arrow to a gym near the city center.
• Jiang Ning recognized Zhuang Jianhui and Lin Zida as they left the gym with Ding Shuyan.
• Ding Shuyan sensed someone watching her, but Jiang Ning remained hidden.
• Jiang Ning wondered whether being the only immortal would leave him lonely.

Song Sheng left the gym still plotting revenge on Jiang Ning and imagining how he would use his strength to dominate weaker classmates. Jiang Ning followed him and smashed his calf with a wooden stick, leaving Song Sheng screaming on the ground with a broken leg.

• Song Sheng left the gym and brooded over Jiang Ning’s earlier humiliation while planning to get revenge someday.
• Lin Zida told Zhuang Jianhui and Ding Shuyan that Song Sheng was from Class 8 and had once been kicked flying by someone at school.
• Song Sheng spotted Zhuang Jianhui’s group but decided not to provoke them because his family had warned him about Zhuang Jianhui’s connections.
• Song Sheng walked home, imagining that good grades would help him bully weaker classmates.
• Jiang Ning struck Song Sheng’s calf with a wooden stick, breaking his leg and making him collapse and scream.

Jiang Ning secretly broke Song Sheng’s leg with a wooden stick before leaving the city. As Song Sheng went to the hospital, Ding Shuyan investigated the inexplicable attack and began to suspect an invisible attacker.

• Jiang Ning used Aura Concealment Art to strike Song Sheng’s leg with a wooden stick, breaking it, then left the city.
• Ding Shuyan and Lin Zida realized Song Sheng’s leg appeared to have been struck, though neither had seen an attacker.
• Song Sheng recalled feeling a stick hit his leg and showed them a rod-shaped wound before an ambulance took him away.
• Ding Shuyan decided to ask Uncle Han at Third People's Hospital about Song Sheng’s diagnosis.
• Ding Shuyan remembered her reliable Sixth Sense and suspected that an invisible person had watched her and attacked Song Sheng.

Jiang Ning found that Yan Bo’s factory had repaired the power line and sewage pipe, so he secretly disrupted the electricity and blocked the drainage again. The chapter ended with the factory losing power once more and Yan Bo furious as he ordered an investigation.

• Jiang Ning returned to the village and discovered that workers had repaired the transformer wire and sewage pipe while two men watched the area.
• Jiang Ning replenished his spiritual power, concealed himself, and drew electricity from the transformer wire to temper his body.
• Yan Bo restored the factory’s operations, but the machines soon slowed when the voltage dropped, forcing him to call an electrician.
• Jiang Ning watched Yan Bo and the electrician inspect the transformer box, then blocked the sewage pipe in two places and cut the wire.
• Yan Bo received word that the lights had gone out again and angrily ordered his men to investigate.

Jiang Ning refined Qi Gathering Pills at home and used one to boost his cultivation. He planned to improve the quality of his herbs, sell targeted medicines, and use the profits to build a cultivation base for himself.

• Jiang Ning prepared herbs and used his inherited Alchemy knowledge to refine their essences with Spirit Flame.
• Jiang Ning fused the ingredients, removed impurities, and polished the Pill Embryo into twelve Qi Gathering Pills bearing his symbol.
• Jiang Ning swallowed one Pill and found it could replace three or four days of cultivation, though its potency was weaker than pills from the cultivation world.
• Jiang Ning planned to sell medicines through a spokesperson, use the profits to buy land and establish a grand formation, and cultivate herbs to support his rise to Golden Core.

After sleeping through the day, Jiang Ning ate dumplings with Xue Yuantong, then rode her to school as she insisted she could ride a bicycle herself. Meanwhile, Lin Zida learned that Jiang Ning had beaten Song Sheng and asked Wang Yong to investigate whether the two had another conflict.

• Jiang Ning woke after cultivating through the night, and he and Xue Yuantong ate dumplings together while exchanging QQ contacts.
• Jiang Ning ignored Shen Qing'e’s message about the holiday and cultivated after dinner while Xue Yuantong washed the dishes.
• On the way to school, Xue Yuantong claimed she could ride a bicycle and perform tricks, but she avoided proving it when Jiang Ning challenged her.
• Lin Zida asked Wang Yong about Song Sheng’s fight after learning that Song Sheng’s fracture appeared to have been caused by a blow from an object.
• Wang Yong identified Jiang Ning as the one who had beaten Song Sheng, and Lin Zida told him to ask whether the two had any other conflict.

Jiang Ning spent the day chatting with Geng Lu while classmates crowded around Ma Shicheng’s newly discovered classroom Wi-Fi. Shen Qing'e saw them together, mistook their conversation for a new romance, and vowed not to speak to Jiang Ning again.

• Ma Shicheng used Universal Key to connect to the classroom Wi-Fi, and Hu Jun and other classmates joined in, slowing Ma Shicheng’s download.
• Geng Lu borrowed Jiang Ning’s phone to log into QQ, then asked whether he would run for class monitor or Study Committee Member; he declined and suggested Huang Zhongfei.
• Jiang Ning and Geng Lu chatted until evening self-study, and Geng Lu found talking with him comfortable.
• Shen Qing'e arrived, saw Jiang Ning talking with Geng Lu, and grew angry because Jiang Ning had not replied to her QQ message.
• Shen Qing'e decided she would never speak to Jiang Ning again.

Shan Qingrong took attendance, then had students move textbooks before opening nominations for class officers. Shen Qing'e won the Arts Committee position and privately savored the thought that Jiang Ning would regret their changed relationship.

• Shan Qingrong marked Song Sheng absent after learning he had broken his leg and would miss a month of school.
• While the other students stayed in class, Wang Yong questioned Dong Qingfeng about Jiang Ning's past conflict with Song Sheng and planned to report what he learned to Lin Zida.
• Jiang Ning and the other boys returned with the textbooks, and Shan Qingrong began selecting class officers.
• Shen Qing'e and Geng Lu ran for Arts Committee Member, and Shen Qing'e narrowly won the vote.
• Shen Qing'e looked toward Jiang Ning and imagined him regretting his change of affections.

Grade One, Class Eight elected its class officers, and Jiang Ning observed the gap between ordinary and experimental students before meeting Lin Zida. After evening study, Jiang Ning walked Xue Yuantong home while Guo Kunnan and Shan Kaiquan made plans to pursue girls in their class.

• Huang Zhongfei won the class monitor election, Dong Qingfeng became Study Committee Member, Hu Jun was appointed Class Committee Member, and Zhang Chi became Sports Committee Member.
• Shan Qingrong told everyone to contribute ten yuan to the class fund and assigned Hu Jun to track its expenses publicly.
• Jiang Ning noticed Wang Yong's deference to Lin Zida but remained indifferent when Wang Yong introduced them.
• Jiang Ning walked Xue Yuantong home, while Guo Kunnan and Shan Kaiquan agreed to pursue Shen Qing'e and Bai Yuxia, respectively.
• Guo Kunnan treated Shan Kaiquan to snacks despite his limited weekly allowance.

Jiang Ning sabotaged the factory’s power again while tempering his body with electricity, leaving Yan Bo despondent. Meanwhile, Ding Shuyan pieced together clues about Song Sheng’s injury and began suspecting Jiang Ning, treating the investigation as an entertaining game.

• Jiang Ning found the Transformer Box and river pipeline guarded, then used its high-voltage current to temper his body before cutting the power wire with Sword Qi.
• Yan Bo watched the factory go dark and felt anger and helplessness over losing access to electricity.
• Lin Zida told Ding Shuyan what Wang Yong had said about Jiang Ning, and Ding Shuyan reviewed the information in the study.
• Ding Shuyan connected Song Sheng’s strange leg injury and behavior with Jiang Ning’s past clashes with him and her own sense of being watched.
• Ding Shuyan asked Uncle Han to check whether Song Sheng had a mental illness and wrote Jiang Ning’s name down as she planned to continue investigating.

On his first day at No.4 Middle School, Jiang Ning watched his classmates meet their teachers while reflecting on how cultivation affected learning but could not fundamentally change intelligence. He continued cultivating through class and concluded that school life was worth experiencing as he pursued Spirit Transformation.

• Chen Haiyang introduced himself as Class Eight’s English teacher, assessed the students’ English, and told them to meet his standards if they wanted to use their phones in class.
• Dong Qingfeng argued that English was important, while Ma Shicheng said most people would not need it after graduation; Chen Haiyang said students still had to master it for the college entrance exam.
• Hu Jun stared at the gentle Math Teacher, and Shan Kaiquan revealed that she had a young daughter.
• Ma Shicheng mocked physics teacher Dai Yongquan’s stutter, but Dai spoke fluently once he began teaching.
• Jiang Ning circulated the Star Transformation Art during class and reflected that cultivation could improve memory and perception but could not easily change intelligence.

Jiang Ning went to class with Xue Yuantong and met the new chemistry teacher, Guo Ran, whose future misfortune he resolved to prevent. After class, he added Geng Lu on QQ while Ma Shicheng tried to impress her with a trick for getting free game currency.

• Jiang Ning and Xue Yuantong cooked lunch together, then rode to No.4 Middle School for class.
• Guo Ran introduced herself as Class 8's new chemistry teacher, and Jiang Ning remembered how she would later be attacked because of her boyfriend's past relationship.
• Jiang Ning decided he would stop Guo Ran's future attack if he got the chance.
• Geng Lu asked Jiang Ning to add her on QQ, then refused Ma Shicheng's request because her friend list was full.
• Ma Shicheng explained how he used his phone settings to get free currency in Protect the Carrot, but Geng Lu dismissed it as playing a pirated game.

After learning that Song Sheng was hospitalized, Jiang Ning suspected Lin Zida was investigating him because Ding Shuyan had sensed something when he crippled Song Sheng. He secretly marked Lin Zida with a Divine Sense Imprint and tracked it to a residential complex, where the trail led to the sixteenth floor.

• Ma Shicheng learned from Wang Longlong that Song Sheng was hospitalized and that Wang Yong had asked which desks were knocked over in the fight.
• Ma Shicheng told Jiang Ning what Wang Longlong had revealed, and Jiang Ning suspected Lin Zida was investigating him through Ding Shuyan.
• Jiang Ning entered Experimental Class 1 unseen and placed a Divine Sense Imprint on Lin Zida while he played a 3DS.
• After evening self-study, Jiang Ning tracked Lin Zida's imprint to a residential complex and realized he would have to climb the stairs to reach the sixteenth floor.

Jiang Ning confronted Ding Shuyan after discovering she had ordered Lin Zida to investigate him, then used his supernatural powers to terrify her into stopping. He left her alive after she swallowed a pill to prove her submission.

• Jiang Ning waited outside Ding Shuyan's apartment and sensed her approach, while her unusually sharp Six Senses warned her that danger was near.
• Jiang Ning seized Ding Shuyan with Spiritual Energy and followed her into the apartment, where Lin Zida revealed the results of his investigation into Jiang Ning and Xue Yuantong.
• Jiang Ning attacked Ding Shuyan with a Soul Shocking Spike and wrote a warning telling her to stop investigating him.
• Ding Shuyan promised to erase her records and begged Jiang Ning to spare her, then swallowed the white pill he placed on her desk.
• Jiang Ning decided to keep Ding Shuyan alive, believing that killing her would prompt further investigations.

Jiang Ning received nearly three hundred jin of medicinal herbs and set up a Formation in his kitchen to preserve their efficacy. He left himself with the task of refining them into Pills soon, while Xue Yuantong continued to wonder about his generosity and tried to help carry the boxes.

• Jiang Ning arranged home delivery for the herbs and shared lunch with Xue Yuantong, who planned to ask why he treated her so well another day.
• The courier delivered the herbs, and Jiang Ning told Xue Yuantong he had bought them to condition his body.
• Xue Yuantong tried to carry a box but could not lift it, so Jiang Ning carried the boxes into the kitchen himself.
• Jiang Ning revealed that the shipment contained nearly three hundred jin of herbs and used most of his Spiritual Energy to create a Formation that preserved them.
• Jiang Ning decided he needed to refine the herbs into Pills within the next few days.

Jiang Ning continued tormenting the Transformer Box while refining pills and seeking Soul Submergence Incense to strengthen his Spiritual Sense. At school, Ma Shicheng was frightened by a disfigured girl and argued with Geng Lu about whether she should have been admitted.

• Jiang Ning repeatedly cut the Transformer Box’s electrical wires and water pipes instead of destroying its machines outright.
• Jiang Ning refined Qi Gathering Pills, increased his body-tempering progress, and learned that Soul Submergence Incense would be expensive and take time to obtain.
• During English class, Chen Haiyang called on Ma Shicheng, who could not answer and had to stand through the lesson.
• Ma Shicheng returned from the restroom shaken after seeing a disfigured girl, and Jiang Ning explained that she had been injured in a fire.
• Ma Shicheng said the girl’s appearance frightened him, while Geng Lu defended her right to an education; Jiang Ning replied that he would sit nearby and watch.

Jiang Ning recognized that Chen Siqing had switched identities with her twin sister, Chen Siyu, but let her believe she had fooled him. After he rejected her invitation to play ping pong, Chen Siqing left with Yu Wen, while Jiang Ning kept his knowledge of the switch to himself.

• Guo Kunnan borrowed ten yuan from Jiang Ning, who handed it over after revealing a wallet full of cash.
• Chen Siqing entered class disguised as Chen Siyu and reassured herself that Jiang Ning had not recognized her.
• Chen Siqing watched Guo Ran teach chemistry and settled into her sister's social circle without anyone noticing the switch.
• Before PE, Chen Siqing invited Jiang Ning to play ping pong, but he declined because he had already made plans with someone.
• Yu Wen called Chen Siqing Shen Qing'e, and the two girls left for the field.