Chapter Summaries

Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen received their Martial Arts Competition prize money and learned that the Student Union had blocked them from joining Songyang High School’s Physical Competition Team. Wang Hai gave them a one-month chance to qualify, but he believed the team’s special training would make catching up nearly impossible.

• Zhang Yu received his 50,000 prize, repaid Zhang Pianpian and his other debts, and worried about upcoming expenses.
• Bai Zhenzhen received Zhang Pianpian’s messages offering to cover her daily Spirit Root use, then resolved to cultivate more openly and win the next competition.
• Zhang Yu practiced the Back Dragon Overturning Mountain Hand and raised it from Level 2 to Level 3.
• Wang Hai selected Qian Shen, He Dayou, Zhao Tianxing, and five other students for the Physical Competition Team, excluding Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen because they could not afford its fees.
• Wang Hai told Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen they could still qualify by keeping their sports scores in the grade’s top five after a month, while privately believing the team’s training gave them no realistic chance.

Zhang Yu reached Level 10 in Back Dragon Overturning Mountain Hand and realized he could combine it with other Martial Arts. After discussing Synthetic Food and a competition challenge with his classmates, he and Bai Zhenzhen arrived at White Dragon High School to begin training with Song Hailong.

• Zhang Yu completed Back Dragon Overturning Mountain Hand and discovered that its Level 10 effect let him sense and break an opponent's center of gravity.
• Bai Zhenzhen tried the cafeteria's free Synthetic Food and was surprised by how closely its taste and texture resembled Pre-made Meals.
• Qian Shen and Zhao Tianxing told Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen that they had joined the Physical Competition Team, and Zhang Yu proposed settling the dispute by comparing PE scores in a month.
• Bai Zhenzhen told Zhang Yu that Song Hailong would pay them to train with him twice a week, but would dismiss them if neither won a match during a session.
• Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen traveled to White Dragon High School and found Song Hailong warming up in the Training Room, where he told Zhang Yu to lie down.

Zhang Yu and Song Hailong fought through repeated grappling rounds at White Dragon High School while Bai Zhenzhen analyzed their weaknesses. Afterward, Le Mulan saw Zhang Yu’s post about the paid training and reconsidered how he viewed money.

• Song Hailong set the training rules, and Zhang Yu quickly gained the upper hand with his superior grappling technique until his strength faded.
• Bai Zhenzhen analyzed the fighters during their breaks, while Zhang Yu drank White Dragon High School’s energy drink to recover.
• Zhang Yu and Song Hailong continued fighting, with Zhang Yu winning only once by controlling a joint, and Song Hailong warned that his strength would rise before the competition in two months.
• Bai Zhenzhen hurried Zhang Yu toward the subway because she needed a bathroom after drinking too much energy drink.
• Le Mulan stopped practicing the Purple Saint Heart Method and checked Zhang Yu’s moments, where she saw that Song Hailong had paid him for guidance.

Le Mulan tried to overcome her disgust toward Zhang Yu, while Zhang Yu mastered and rapidly advanced Scarlet Marrow Primordial Qi. At school, Zhao Tianxing and Qian Shen learned that the Special Training Program transplanted upperclassmen’s muscle and tendon fibers into students who paid for the boost.

• Le Mulan decided to start overcoming her revulsion by looking at Zhang Yu’s photos before attempting to touch his clothes.
• Zhang Yu bought a replacement Weighted Suit, mastered Scarlet Marrow Primordial Qi after one rough practice, and raised it to level 6 overnight.
• Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen ate Synthetic Food at school while Qian Shen and Zhao Tianxing struggled with what they had learned about the Special Training Program.
• Lan Ling explained that upperclassmen’s muscle and tendon fibers would be transplanted into lowerclassmen, who could buy increased Physical Strength with money.
• He Dayou selected his transplants and prepared to sign a contract, while Lan Ling said the daily transplant procedures would begin soon.

After He Dayou, Li Xianglu, and Wang Wenjie’s transplants boosted their Physical Strength, Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen secretly trained together and rapidly improved their body-tempering methods. Zhang Yu reached Level 10 in Scarlet Marrow Primordial Qi and Physical Strength Level 1.67, but rising food and pill costs left him short of money, so he and Bai Zhenzhen headed to shoot an advertisement.

• He Dayou, Li Xianglu, and Wang Wenjie returned from transplant surgery with increased Physical Strength, while He Dayou waited for Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen to witness his progress.
• Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen skipped PE to practice on the rooftop, each mistakenly believing the other was hiding exceptional abilities.
• Zhang Yu noticed Bai Zhenzhen’s Body Refinement Cultivation Method improving with every repetition and pushed himself to train harder.
• Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen spent the next several days training intensely, while Zhao Tianxing agonized over whether to leave the Competition Team.
• Zhang Yu raised Scarlet Marrow Primordial Qi to Level 10 and his Physical Strength to Level 1.67, but worried about the cost of food and Primordial Pills.
• Bai Zhenzhen told Zhang Yu it was time to go shoot an advertisement.

Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen filmed a group advertisement featuring Yu Xinghan, a newly announced Golden Core Disciple, and Zhang Yu used his earnings to buy a Primordial Pill that strengthened his cultivation. During Practical Combat Class, Zhang Yu faced He Dayou, who discovered that Zhang Yu could withstand his strength.

• Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen learned that the group advertisement was arranged because advertisers feared their grades would decline, while Yu Xinghan received special attention as Spark True Person's final disciple.
• At the studio, Yu Xinghan became the advertisement's centerpiece, and Le Mulan watched Zhang Yu and tried to get used to his presence.
• After filming, Zhang Yu spent his 30,000-yuan payment on a Primordial Pill and cultivated Scarlet Marrow Primordial Qi, raising his Physical Strength from Level 1.67 to Level 1.70 overnight.
• Over the next three days, Zhang Yu trained while the pill's medicinal power remained, increasing his Physical Strength to Level 1.87.
• Lei Jun paired Zhang Yu with He Dayou to teach He Dayou a lesson, but Zhang Yu matched He Dayou's strength and remained immovable as He tried to throw him out of bounds.

Zhang Yu discovered that the Ritual prioritized his earlier cultivation wishes over the Evil God's later commands, allowing him to resist her orders and restrain her doll. He threatened to destroy it despite the Ritual's warning, leaving the Evil God facing his apparent willingness to die rather than remain her servant.

• Zhang Yu used his force-exertion technique to throw He Dayou, whose strength had increased through the Physical Competition Team's training.
• Lan Ling told He Dayou that Zhang Yu had won through superior muscle control and urged him to continue his surgeries and training.
• The Evil God returned to Zhang Yu's room and ordered him to kneel, but the Ritual also urged him to cultivate, revealing that the conflicting wishes were governed by their order.
• Zhang Yu tested the Ritual's priorities by cultivating, then seized the doll and used Formless Cloud Gang to restrain it while suppressing its later commands.
• Zhang Yu threatened to destroy the doll and die rather than remain the Evil God's servant, while the Ritual warned him against harming her.

Zhang Yu negotiated with Wa Wa, revoked two wishes that bound him, and agreed to carry her while she helped him develop his potential. Wa Wa proposed that he earn money by joining the illegal Dark Tutoring World, leaving Zhang Yu wary of the risks.

• Zhang Yu challenged Wa Wa over his wishes and threatened to perish with her unless she revoked the wishes making him kneel and releasing her.
• Wa Wa revoked both wishes, and Zhang Yu demonstrated his Level 10 Limitless Cloud Hand to show he could threaten her.
• Wa Wa shrank into a black prayer bead, and Zhang Yu wore her around his neck as they agreed to cooperate.
• Wa Wa said Zhang Yu could raise his potential by eventually hunting another Evil God hidden near Songyang High School or White Dragon High School.
• When Zhang Yu looked for work to earn money, Wa Wa offered to connect him with the illegal Dark Tutoring World, and Zhang Yu worried it would provoke powerful institutions.

Zhang Yu investigated the Dark Tutoring World after Wa Wa urged him to earn money illegally, then followed Zhang Pianpian’s address to a gang-run industrial park. He met a buyer and began demonstrating his Level 10 Limitless Cloud Hand.

• Wa Wa explained that gangs could operate under corporate protection in poorly monitored areas, and urged Zhang Yu to sell illegal tutoring courses.
• Zhang Yu asked Zhang Pianpian about the Dark Tutoring World, and she sent him an address and used a Stealth Talisman to conceal his background for twelve hours.
• Zhang Yu used Scarlet Marrow Primordial Qi to alter his appearance and traveled to the remote Songyang North Moon High-Tech Service Industry Park.
• Wa Wa identified the industrial park as territory of the Dark Learning Gang, which was backed by Deep Sea Education Group and dealt in illegal tutoring and cultivation methods.
• Zhang Yu told a refined middle-aged man that he had courses to sell, then demonstrated his Level 10 Limitless Cloud Hand by surrounding himself with astral-qi mist.

Zhang Yu interviewed with the Black Learning Gang for part-time teaching work and chose to demonstrate Excavation Palm and Sports Car Legs alongside Limitless Cloud Hand. After buying the two methods, he rapidly learned Excavation Palm and advanced to expert level, astonishing Wa Wa.

• The middle-aged man questioned Zhang Yu about his teaching experience, specialties, and willingness to fight or kill, and Zhang Yu refused to take part in combat.
• The middle-aged man arranged a trial lesson for five days later and explained that basic work-oriented cultivation methods had a larger tutoring market than Limitless Cloud Hand.
• Zhang Yu selected Excavation Palm and Sports Car Legs for the trial, then bought both methods after leaving with Wa Wa.
• Zhang Yu began practicing Excavation Palm at the Unfinished Building, and Wa Wa doubted he could learn it in time.
• Zhang Yu quickly mastered Excavation Palm and, in just over an hour, advanced from a beginner to an expert, leaving Wa Wa stunned.

Zhang Yu mastered four practical martial arts and traveled to the Dark Learning Gang’s underground tutoring base for a trial teaching class. After meeting three skeptical instructors, he began teaching Limitless Cloud Hand.

• Zhang Yu raised Excavation Palm and Sports Car Legs to Level 10, then mastered Crane Claw and Elevator Leap over the next five days while continuing to train Scarlet Marrow Primordial Qi.
• Zhang Yu used Sports Car Legs and Elevator Leap to travel to the tutoring base, where Black Crow explained the gang’s corporate-style workplace rules and showed him the classrooms.
• Zhang Yu saw students paying to experience White Dragon High School’s teaching style and overheard one complain that the class was too gentle.
• Cai Tou, Car Woman, and Big Shovel questioned whether Zhang Yu could teach struggling students and work-focused martial arts, while Cai Tou urged them to assess him first.
• Black Crow introduced Zhang Yu as Teacher Ma, and Zhang Yu activated Formless Cloud Gang and began his lesson on Limitless Cloud Hand.

Zhang Yu impressed the Dark Learning Gang with his Martial Arts knowledge and his experience at Key High Schools, earning approval to teach and securing a lucrative schedule. He began planning to use his new income to buy Primordial Pills and improve his Physical Strength.

• Zhang Yu taught Limitless Cloud Hand, Excavation Palm, and Sports Car Legs, impressing Cai Tou, Car Woman, and Big Shovel with his insights and teaching ability.
• At Black Crow's suggestion, Zhang Yu incorporated his experiences at White Dragon High School and Songyang High School into his teaching style, and the teachers approved him.
• Zhang Yu demonstrated Crane Claw and Elevator Leap, then agreed with Black Crow on his teaching arrangements and tax handling.
• Black Crow offered Zhang Yu ten Excavation Palm classes per week at 6,500 per session, and Zhang Yu agreed to start the next day.
• Wa Wa advised Zhang Yu on the dark tutoring business, and over the next few days Zhang Yu taught classes and saved enough to resume buying Primordial Pills.

Zhang Yu continued raising his Physical Strength while preparing for upcoming competitions, then rescued Shuang Youpeng from a fall and heard his warning about the Physical Competition. At school, He Dayou celebrated his exam results and Zhao Tianxing regretted quitting the Competition Team, while Wa Wa told Zhang Yu that Bai Zhenzhen might have her own hidden Spirit Root.

• Zhang Yu swallowed a Primordial Pill and saw his Physical Strength reach Level 2.08, while he resolved to keep focusing on training.
• Zhang Yu caught Shuang Youpeng as he fell from the school building; Shuang Youpeng said he would not jump again and warned Zhang Yu to give up the Physical Competition.
• He Dayou learned Zhang Yu's tested Physical Strength was Level 2.05 and believed his own Level 2.3 gave him a growing advantage.
• Zhao Tianxing reflected that he had left the Competition Team because he feared failing after his parents spent their savings on him.
• Wa Wa told Zhang Yu that Bai Zhenzhen's Spirit Root might be her own, and Zhang Yu hurried to buy her another lunch.
• Bai Zhenzhen saw a message from Lian Tianji asking Zhang Yu to sell him a piece of worn clothing and realized Zhang Yu had secretly been earning money that way.

Le Mulan planned to overcome her feelings about Zhang Yu by getting used to his photos and clothes. Zhang Yu invited Bai Zhenzhen to earn money through the Dark Tutoring World, and she agreed after hearing about the pay and his explanation of the risks.

• Le Mulan paid Lian Tianji to get one of Zhang Yu's clothes and continued looking through Zhang Yu's photos.
• Bai Zhenzhen mistook Zhang Yu's offer to earn money together for an invitation into an intimate arrangement with Lian Tianji, then learned that Lian Tianji wanted to buy Zhang Yu's clothes.
• Zhang Yu raised Lian Tianji's offer for a worn piece of clothing from 2,000 yuan to 5,000 yuan.
• Zhang Yu told Bai Zhenzhen that he had been earning money as a tutor in the Dark Tutoring World and invited her to join him.
• Bai Zhenzhen worried about the danger and legal consequences, but agreed after Zhang Yu explained the work and its hourly pay.

Zhang Yu learned that Bai Zhenzhen had advanced her High School Basic Skills to level 9 or 10 and prepared to help her find tutoring work, while he continued cultivating Scarlet Marrow Primordial Qi. After Song Hailong canceled their training classes to spar with Yu Xinghan instead, Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen headed to interview with the Dark Learning Gang, disguised as teachers.

• Bai Zhenzhen told Zhang Yu that she had trained nearly every first-year Basic Cultivation Method to level 9 or 10, and he offered to help her find tutoring classes.
• Zhang Yu continued cultivating Scarlet Marrow Primordial Qi and used Primordial Pills to strengthen his body and foundation.
• Song Hailong told Zhang Yu that he was ending their training classes because Yu Xinghan had hired him as a combat sparring partner.
• Bai Zhenzhen decided that she and Zhang Yu would pursue tutoring work with the Dark Learning Gang after their income fell.
• Zhang Yu transformed into Teacher Ma, while Bai Zhenzhen disguised herself with tattoos, a wig, and padding before they traveled to the Dark Learning Gang's compound.

Zhang Yu carried Bai Zhenzhen to the Dark Learning Gang, where she secured a teaching job and the two decided to look for a shared rental. As they raced home at dawn, Bai Zhenzhen realized her Spirit Root had disappeared, while Zhang Yu felt something drill into him.

• Zhang Yu showed Bai Zhenzhen his Level 10 Light Body Technique and carried her to the Dark Learning Gang, where they asked Zhang Pianpian to activate a Stealth Talisman.
• Zhang Pianpian suggested that Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen rent a place between the gang and Songyang High School, and both agreed that sharing a home would save money.
• Zhang Yu taught an Excavation Palm class to construction workers while Bai Zhenzhen auditioned to teach at the gang and was offered two thousand per class.
• Zhang Yu carried Bai Zhenzhen back as she searched for a small, inexpensive rental with electricity and internet, preferably a basement.
• At dawn, Bai Zhenzhen discovered that her Spirit Root was gone, and Zhang Yu felt something drill into him from behind.

Bai Zhenzhen’s unusual Spirit Root entered Zhang Yu’s body, greatly improving his ability to absorb Spiritual Energy, and the two discovered it could move between them. After Bai Zhenzhen lent it to him for further testing, Zhang Yu returned to school with her and gained time for intensive cultivation by skipping classes he had already mastered.

• Zhang Yu felt Bai Zhenzhen’s Spirit Root take root in his body, where it drew Spiritual Energy into him.
• Bai Zhenzhen explained that her Spirit Root had grown with her and could adapt to different bodies, then called it back from Zhang Yu.
• Bai Zhenzhen sent the Spirit Root into Zhang Yu again and left it there for a few hours while she tested her theory, taking his Talisman Book as collateral.
• Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen named it the True Spirit Root as she described its abilities on their way to school.
• The Evil God Wa Wa urged Zhang Yu to kill Bai Zhenzhen and take the Spirit Root, but knew he would not listen.
• Zhang Yu skipped Magical Power and Practical Combat classes with his teachers’ permission, freeing most of his school day for cultivation.

Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen discovered that the True Spirit Root adapted to both of their cultivation methods, so they began sharing it and gave up renting rooms to save money. A month later, they arrived at the day when Songyang High School would decide the Competition slots by comparing them with He Dayou’s group.

• Zhang Yu found that the True Spirit Root enhanced his Scarlet Marrow Primordial Qi cultivation and continued strengthening his body after he returned it to Bai Zhenzhen.
• Bai Zhenzhen discovered that the Spirit Root also enhanced her Thunderclap True Body, then decided she and Zhang Yu should share a place to exchange it conveniently.
• After rejecting several costly or unsuitable rentals, Bai Zhenzhen persuaded Zhang Yu to live wherever they could, and they moved out of their rented rooms a few days later.
• Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen alternated using the Spirit Root around their school and tutoring schedules while cultivating and saving money; Zhang Yu also continued selling clothes through Lian Tianji.
• A month after the Martial Arts Competition, Wang Hai, other PE teachers, Lan Ling, and Student Union members gathered at the stadium to witness the comparison that would determine the Competition slots.

Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen trained together and prepared to compete for slots on the Physical Competition team. At the stadium, their test results placed Zhang Yu first and Bai Zhenzhen fifth, both above Lan Ling’s stated cutoff.

• Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen sparred beneath the bridge until Bai Zhenzhen called a halt, then exchanged the True Spirit Root so she could cultivate.
• Zhang Yu reviewed his progress: his Dao Heart had reached level 4, his Magical Power was 34.8, and his Physical Strength was level 3.21, though his savings had fallen below twenty thousand.
• At the stadium, Wang Hai warned a student to drink enough Dao Heart Buffer, while He Dayou trained and was told he could soon undergo another surgery.
• Lan Ling tested the five students already training and praised He Dayou’s progress before Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen arrived.
• Lan Ling set level 2.94 as the cutoff, and the rankings showed Zhang Yu in first place at level 3.21 and Bai Zhenzhen in fifth at level 2.98.

Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen secured places on Songyang High School’s Physical Competition Team, and Bai Zhenzhen defeated Li Yong in a barbell strength test that left him injured. They asked to join the Special Training Program, but Lan Ling said they did not meet its selection criteria.

• Zhang Yu’s Physical Strength surprised He Dayou, Lan Ling, and Wang Hai, and Lan Ling agreed that Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen could join the Competition Team.
• After Ye Haitao collapsed in despair over losing her competition slot, Li Yong challenged Bai Zhenzhen because their Physical Strength scores were close.
• Bai Zhenzhen easily lifted 1,500 kilograms and then raised 2,000 kilograms, while Li Yong tore his arm trying to match her feat.
• Wang Hai caught the falling barbell and explained that Li Yong’s muscles had torn because his body could not handle the output enabled by Fascia Limitation-Removal Surgery.
• Lan Ling confirmed that Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen could compete next month, but denied their request to join the Special Training Program.