Chapter Summaries

Gu Yang read letters from Wancheng Martial Academy and his family, then continued cultivating Azure Dragon Force and bought the Thousand Mechanisms Stake to improve his training. When he entered the facility, its metal threads wrapped around him and left him shocked.

• Gu Yang read Hong Tao's letter congratulating him on his Grade A rating, offering him 2,500 Contribution Points, and reporting that his younger sister could enter the academy at ten.
• Gu Yang read Qin Hu's thanks for helping him obtain a Marrow Cleansing Pill and a letter describing his family's growing status in Wan City and Gu Yingying's longing for him.
• Gu Yang replied to the people in Wan City and resumed training, reaching Entry Level in the second layer of Azure Dragon Force after more than twenty days.
• Gu Yang asked Helian Feng about faster training methods and bought the Thousand Mechanisms Stake for 2,100 Contribution Points despite Helian Feng's reservations.
• The Thousand Mechanisms Stake arrived at the Training Ground, and Gu Yang entered its force field, where amplified senses and metal threads immediately surrounded him.

Gu Yang used the Thousand Mechanisms Stake to amplify his soul perception and rapidly master the second level of Azure Dragon Force. After four months on Canglong Island, a mountain at the center of the Qianwu Mountain Range opened its eyes.

• Gu Yang used his heightened soul perception to spot and correct subtle flaws in his Azure Dragon Force technique, then unleashed a nine-thousand-jin Power Burst.
• A week later, Helian Feng saw that Gu Yang had mastered the second level and asked whether the training facilities were responsible, but Gu Yang credited his talent without revealing their effect on soul perception.
• Helian Feng left dispirited, feeling he had little left to teach Gu Yang, who continued focusing on cultivation.
• Three months passed as Gu Yang settled into a regular routine on Canglong Island, while spring brought new Ferocious Beast cubs to the Qianwu Mountain Range.
• A mountain nearly a hundred zhang tall at the heart of the Qianwu Mountain Range rumbled and abruptly opened its eyes.

After learning that the Ferocious Beast Tide would arrive two months early, Gu Yang received orders to deploy to Qianwu Mountain in three days. Helian Feng warned him about the battlefield and taught him to release Azure Dragon Force through his feet, and Gu Yang discovered he could do so with surprising ease.

• Gu Yang hurried to Central Plaza, where Vice Island Master Qin Wujiu announced the early Beast Tide and ordered the island's disciples and forces to deploy to Qianwu Mountain in three days.
• Helian Feng explained the dangers of Qianwu Mountain and described the Beast Tide as the Ferocious Beast race's annual hunt against neighboring races.
• Helian Feng demonstrated how Gu Yang could use Azure Dragon Force through his feet to boost his speed and told him to practice before departure.
• Gu Yang returned to the Training Ground and found that he could sometimes unleash Azure Dragon Force through his feet naturally, though another attempt made him stumble.
• Gu Yang examined the proficiency displayed for Azure Dragon Force and realized it explained his inconsistent success.

Gu Yang prepared for the expedition to Qianwu Mountain by buying a powerful saber and armor, while cultivating the Fish Dragon Transformation and revealing his rapid mastery of Azure Dragon Force to Helian Feng. On the night before departure, his skin began changing as he neared a breakthrough.

• Gu Yang concluded that perfecting Azure Dragon Force's third layer would let him use triple Power Burst and decided to surprise Helian Feng.
• Gu Yang bought the Crimson Crystal Blade and Profound Crystal Armor to prepare for the battlefield.
• Gu Yang practiced the Fish Dragon Transformation, aiming to reach Minor Accomplishment and gain a new talent.
• Gu Yang demonstrated his rapid mastery of Azure Dragon Force to Helian Feng, who left embarrassed after arranging to pick him up at dawn two days later.
• After two days and one night of cultivation, Gu Yang completed a stance set and his skin began undergoing violent changes.

Gu Yang completed the Fish Dragon Transformation’s third transformation, gaining Golden Jade Radiance and the Heaven and Earth Dragon Scales talent before preparing to enter the Ferocious Beast Battlefield. Meanwhile, Yuan Xiong and a Giant Bear released a horde of Ferocious Beasts into Qianwu Mountain to hunt Human Race warriors.

• Gu Yang endured the transformation of his skin and fascia, consumed Blood Replenishing Pills, and completed the Fish Dragon Transformation’s third transformation with Golden Jade Radiance.
• Passerby A and B mistook Gu Yang’s glowing body for a display of hidden strength, and Gu Yang scolded them and sent them away.
• Gu Yang manifested the Heaven and Earth Dragon Scales talent, which let him form a protective dragon-scale membrane by drawing on the Power of Heaven and Earth.
• Gu Yang learned that the talent could multiply his defense up to tenfold at the cost of temporarily disabling its secret patterns, then prepared to face the Ferocious Beast Battlefield.
• In Qianwu Mountain, Yuan Xiong and a Giant Bear gathered Ferocious Beasts, killed a Human Race scout, and sent the beasts out to begin their hunt.

Gu Yang traveled with Canglong Island’s Genius Disciples to the Grade Bing Military Camp at Qianwu Mountain, where they were ordered to fight Ferocious Beasts on the front lines. After cultivating through the night, he set out with the others as the beasts gathered in their path.

• Gu Yang prepared his armor, weapons, and medicines, then joined Helian Feng and the other Genius Disciples aboard the Iron Winged Sky Peng.
• Elder Xin brought the Sky Peng to the Grade Bing Military Camp, where Feng Tianya and Qin Wujiu received the group.
• A camp commander warned the disciples that they had no privileges and would begin accepting battlefield missions the next morning.
• Gu Yang asked a soldier for directions to the Training Ground and cultivated the Azure Dragon Force until late at night.
• Canglong Island’s main force arrived, and Gu Yang and the other Genius Disciples entered the mountains as Ferocious Beasts gathered toward them.

Gu Yang, Zhou Qianyang, and Ye Qian were assigned to intercept Ferocious Beasts fleeing a Beast Tide in the mountains. Gu Yang held a narrow pass alone against repeated beast charges, but a Purple Sable suddenly attacked him with poisonous mist.

• Gu Yang and his companions reached the mountain rendezvous, showed their tokens, and received orders to intercept Ferocious Beasts along a route through the mountains.
• The trio encountered a mixed group of Ferocious Beasts and fought them at a narrow mountain pass.
• After Zhou Qianyang and Ye Qian grew exhausted, Gu Yang took the pass alone while they attacked the beasts from the sides.
• Gu Yang held back the charging hordes, killing Ferocious Beasts with each slash as Zhou Qianyang and Ye Qian watched in astonishment.
• A Purple Sable sprang toward Gu Yang and released poisonous mist that reduced nearby Ferocious Beasts to dry bones.

Gu Yang defeated the Purple Sable after evading its poison and overcoming its speed, while Zhou Qianyang and Ye Qian watched. The three moved deeper into Qianwu Mountain and encountered another Beast Tide, which Gu Yang faced alone after telling his teammates to retreat if needed.

• The Purple Sable ambushed Gu Yang with poisonous mist, but he evaded it and countered with his Crimson Crystal Blade.
• Gu Yang used Killing Instinct to sever one of the Purple Sable's wings, then crushed one of its claws and battered it to death.
• Zhou Qianyang acknowledged Gu Yang's strength, and Ye Qian praised him before the three left the corpse-filled passage to find another hunting site.
• The trio waited in a narrow passage in Qianwu Mountain and spotted a smaller Beast Tide containing several dozen Ferocious Beasts.
• A Cyan Giant Wolf led the Beast Tide toward them, and Gu Yang told Zhou Qianyang and Ye Qian to retreat if they could not win before advancing to fight.

Gu Yang defeated a pack of Ferocious Beasts and learned that Variants had breached a War Fortress, prompting the military to redirect its forces toward hunting them. After receiving new orders in Qianwu Mountain, he parted ways with Zhou Qianyang and Ye Qian and continued alone into the forest.

• Gu Yang used a feint to expose and kill the Cyan Wolf King, then cleared the remaining Ferocious Beasts around Zhou Qianyang and Ye Qian.
• Military officers learned that an Advanced Burrowing Variant and a Top-tier Acid-Melting Variant had breached South No. 13 War Fortress, and they ordered warriors to hunt Variants while leaving the Beast Tide to other forces.
• Gu Yang continued fighting incoming Ferocious Beasts with Zhou Qianyang and Ye Qian, then met a messenger and wounded soldiers who shared the new orders and information about Variants.
• Gu Yang decided to go hunting alone and asked Zhou Qianyang and Ye Qian to escort the wounded soldiers back to the main camp.
• Zhou Qianyang and Ye Qian wished Gu Yang well, and he entered the forest by himself.

Gu Yang fought through the Qianwu Mountain Range as the Beast Tide war intensified, reunited with Qin Hu and met his teammate Chai Yunqing, then broke through to the third layer of Azure Dragon Force. He left camp at dawn eager to test his newly increased power against a Variant Ferocious Beast.

• Gu Yang hunted Ferocious Beasts in Qianwu Mountain but found no Variant and returned to the Outer Mountain Camp at night.
• Gu Yang reunited with Qin Hu, met his teammate Chai Yunqing, and thanked Qin Hu for helping him early in his training.
• Over the next three days, Gu Yang heard that Canglan had slain a fox Variant and that Martial Academy disciples had helped the army stabilize the front.
• Gu Yang broke through to the third layer of Azure Dragon Force and realized a threefold Power Burst could unleash over fifty thousand jin of force, though it could injure his body.
• Gu Yang practiced the fourth-layer stance of Fish Dragon Transformation, rested, and set out at dawn to test his strength in the mountain forest.

Gu Yang encountered the Great Earth Explosive Bear, a Variant Ferocious Beast known for its extraordinary defense, and tested it in battle. His strike failed to penetrate its protective layer, whose patterns resembled his Heaven and Earth Dragon Scales talent.

• Gu Yang met Qin Hu, Chai Yunqing, and their two teammates as they returned from an all-night hunt, then headed into Qianwu Mountain's middle region.
• Gu Yang hunted Black Wolves and searched the forest for Variant Ferocious Beasts before returning to the quiet place where he had found broken human armor and weapons.
• Gu Yang discovered the Great Earth Explosive Bear eating a human leg and recalled intelligence warning that it was nearly impossible to injure.
• The Great Earth Explosive Bear charged, and Gu Yang dodged behind it and struck its back with his longblade.
• The bear formed a protective layer with dense patterns that knocked Gu Yang's blade away, and Gu Yang recognized the defense as a talent resembling Heaven and Earth Dragon Scales.

Gu Yang tested the Great Earth Explosive Bear’s Earth Skin and learned how to break through its defense. He ambushed the bear with his full strength, shattered its arm, and killed it with a final punch.

• Gu Yang dragged the Great Earth Explosive Bear through the forest, probing its Earth Skin while avoiding its attacks.
• Gu Yang noticed a crack in the bear’s protective halo and confirmed that its wounds healed rapidly.
• Gu Yang unleashed his full strength and drove his Crimson Crystal Blade deep into the bear’s neck.
• Gu Yang activated Heaven and Earth Dragon Scales and shattered the bear’s arm with a fifty-thousand-jin punch.
• Gu Yang baited the Great Earth Explosive Bear into exposing itself, then punched its head into a pulp and pulled his blade from its corpse.

Gu Yang killed the Great Earth Explosive Bear, rescued a surviving soldier, and returned to camp with the bear’s hide. The Beast Kings learned of the bear’s death and threatened retaliation, while Qin Wujiu rewarded Gu Yang with a Dragon Blood Pill.

• Gu Yang skinned the Explosive Bear, found a badly wounded soldier in a pit, and gave him medicine before carrying him back toward camp.
• The Heaven-Propping King Bear Wu awakened after sensing its descendant’s death and threatened to make Cangzhou run with blood; Qin Wujiu challenged the Beast Kings to a fight to the death.
• Yuan Xiong confirmed Gu Yang had not violated the agreement between the races and promised to send Yuan Jinshu to avenge the dead Earth Bear.
• Gu Yang returned to camp with the rescued soldier and bear hide, then was summoned to meet the Barracks Commander and Qin Wujiu.
• Qin Wujiu praised Gu Yang for killing the Great Earth Explosive Bear and awarded him a Dragon Blood Pill.

Gu Yang received and consumed a rare Dragon Blood Pill from King Qin, transforming his Blood Qi, then learned about the secret patterns on the Great Earth Explosive Bear’s hide. As Gu Yang stayed behind to master his changed Blood Qi, Yuan Xiong sent Yuan Jinshu and other Variant Ferocious Beasts to hunt him in the Southern Battlefield.

• Qin Wujiu rewarded Gu Yang with a Dragon Blood Pill, which Qin Hu identified as a rare pill that transformed Blood Qi with Dragon Power before a martial artist condensed a Blood Pill.
• Gu Yang swallowed the pill, and his Blood Qi began transforming; he later told Qin Hu about killing the Great Earth Explosive Bear and showed him its Heaven and Earth Secret Patterns.
• Qin Hu explained that the bear hide’s secret patterns could help martial artists comprehend the Power of Heaven and Earth, and Gu Yang kept the hide after seeing Qin Hu’s own collection.
• Yuan Xiong ordered Yuan Jinshu to find and kill Gu Yang, and Bear Wu sent other Variant Ferocious Beasts along to help track him down.
• Gu Yang stayed in the barracks to adapt to his transformed Blood Qi, unaware that the Ferocious Beasts were massing to kill him.

Gu Yang completed a day-long transformation of his Blood Qi while Ferocious Beast Variants launched a devastating hunt against Human Race martial artists in the Southern Battlefield. After Yuan Jinshu routed the Canglong Island disciples, Fan Yu vowed to fight the Giant Ape the next day, as Gu Yang's own power remained unknown to the camp.

• Gu Yang cultivated in the barracks as his Blood Qi grew denser and flecks of golden light appeared within it.
• Yuan Jinshu let Ferocious Beast Variants surround and kill two Canglong Island geniuses, then slaughtered many more Human Race martial artists during the battle.
• Wang Yiwan buried her younger brother Wang Yuan and asked Qu Zhongliang to help her avenge him.
• Canglong Island disciples entered the Southern Battlefield in force, but Yuan Jinshu defeated them and forced Wang Yiwan and Qu Zhongliang to retreat.
• The disciples discussed who could defeat Yuan Jinshu, and Fan Yu publicly declared that he would kill the Giant Ape the next day.
• Gu Yang opened his eyes after his Blood Qi transformation finally ended.

Gu Yang perfected Blood Nourishing Stance, formed a Blood Pill, and gained the upgraded talent Qi Like a Dragon, which manifested as a miniature Five-Clawed Golden Dragon that strengthened and tempered his body. After sensing Zhou Qianyang and Ye Qian waiting outside his room, he opened the door and invited them in.

• Gu Yang's Blood Qi transformed into Dragon Blood, gathered in his chest, and condensed into a pale golden Blood Pill.
• Gu Yang discovered that his Thick Vitality talent had upgraded to Qi Like a Dragon, and a miniature Five-Clawed Golden Dragon emerged from the Blood Pill.
• Gu Yang learned that the new talent greatly increased his Blood Qi and let the dragon temper his body from within.
• Gu Yang finished sensing his transformation after sitting still for a day, then noticed Zhou Qianyang and Ye Qian arguing outside his door.
• Gu Yang opened the door and asked Zhou Qianyang and Ye Qian to come in and explain what they needed.

Gu Yang learned that the White Ape on the Southern Battlefield possessed overwhelming strength, then trained through the night to improve his Fish Dragon Transformation. The next morning, he bought Tendon-Strengthening Pills and resumed cultivating while the camp’s martial artists went into the mountains.

• Gu Yang visited Qin Hu to ask about the White Ape, and Chai Yunqing described its strength and staff technique.
• Qin Hu explained that the White Ape could unleash up to 150,000 jin of force, far beyond Gu Yang’s current strength.
• Gu Yang practiced Fish Dragon Transformation through the night, raising its proficiency to Minor Accomplishment (6/1200).
• Gu Yang exchanged Contribution Points for ten bottles of Tendon-Strengthening Pills and returned to his room.
• Gu Yang swallowed a Tendon-Strengthening Pill and continued cultivating as the camp’s martial artists entered the mountains.

Gu Yang cultivated for seven days, mastered the Fish Dragon Fourth Transformation, and broke through the Tendon Changing stage, raising his strength and upgrading Mighty Ox Strength to Five Ox Strength. He believed he might now be able to challenge the White Ape, while the camp’s leaders failed to agree on who should confront Yuan Jinshu.

• Gu Yang learned from Qin Hu and Chai Yunqing that the Giant Ape had only reached Major Accomplishment in the River-Overturning Sea-Draining Staff Technique but could still unleash about ninety thousand jin of force, so he continued cultivating.
• Human Race martial artists fled the Southern Battlefield under Yuan Jinshu’s pressure, and a camp meeting rejected a surprise attack before failing to choose a genius to face him.
• After seven days of cultivation, Gu Yang brought the Fish Dragon Fourth Transformation to perfected mastery and broke through, gaining three thousand jin of strength from the Tendon Changing stage.
• Mighty Ox Strength upgraded to Five Ox Strength, transforming Gu Yang’s body and raising his physical strength to ten thousand jin.
• Gu Yang tested his new strength by crushing the air in his fist and wondered whether he could now defeat the White Ape.

After gaining First-tier Strength, Gu Yang adapted to his increased power by slaughtering Beast Tides in the Southern Battlefield, where he found no human martial artists and sensed that something was wrong. As Yuan Jinshu charged toward him and Elder Xin warned him to flee, Gu Yang faced the approaching White Ape.

• Gu Yang accidentally destroyed his bed with his newly increased strength, then practiced Stance Training through the night to control it.
• Gu Yang learned Qin Hu's squad had entered the mountains two days earlier and had not returned, so he went into the mountains to adapt his strength through combat.
• Gu Yang cut down successive Beast Tides across the Southern Battlefield and wondered why no human martial artists were there to stop them.
• Bear Wu and Grand Elder Yuan Xiong spotted Gu Yang, while Elder Xin and other human cultivators also noticed his position.
• Elder Xin sent Gu Yang a warning to flee, but Yuan Jinshu charged toward him, and Gu Yang saw the White Ape approaching from two li away.

Gu Yang unleashed his full strength and defeated Yuan Jinshu in a brutal battle, beheading the White Ape while Qin Wujiu’s presence kept Yuan Xiong from intervening. As the camp celebrated Gu Yang’s victory, a Black-Striped Wasp appeared behind him and fired its venomous stinger.

• Yuan Jinshu charged Gu Yang with his Dazzling Gold Staff, but Gu Yang unleashed his full strength and knocked the staff aside with a First-tier Strength blade strike.
• Gu Yang pressed his advantage, countered Yuan Jinshu’s staff technique, broke through his protective light, and battered him with successive blows.
• Qin Wujiu’s Azure Dragon River Projection appeared over Qianwu Mountain, deterring Yuan Xiong from coming to Yuan Jinshu’s aid.
• Gu Yang disarmed Yuan Jinshu and beheaded him with a final slash.
• The camp celebrated Gu Yang’s victory until Elder Xin spotted a Black-Striped Wasp behind him as it launched its venomous stinger.