Chapter Summaries

Arro investigated the Fernando Family’s expulsion of its kinsmen and suspected it was trying to seize the Giant Anomaly Space after his accidental entry destabilized it. He decided to avoid the family and pursue a safer, long-term method of developing a Pure Logic computer.

• Arro asked Ian Boone when the explosion at the Fernando Wizard Family’s territory had occurred and learned it was more than half a month earlier.
• Arro connected the explosion to his entry into the Giant Anomaly Space and speculated that the Fernando Family had discovered the space and faced a counterattack from the Anomaly Giant.
• Arro concluded that the Fernando Family did not know he had caused the space’s upheaval and decided not to approach them while they prepared to fight for it.
• Arro chose to keep a low profile and asked Ian Boone for the machine’s Design Draft so he could study its logic while continuing to improve the underlying basics.
• Arro planned to reverse-engineer the computer’s logic from both ends, avoiding reliance on a puppet core and keeping control over anything intended for his dantian.

Arro searched the Maids for signs of the missing Viscountess, then explained to Bevan that his father could not truly create the Heaven Mending Ruins without understanding the Heaven Mending Technique’s sacred meaning. He left Bevan with the idea that practicing the Heaven Mending Will could make the fictional Heaven Mending Elder real.

• Arro watched the Maids train from afar but saw no sign that the Viscountess was among them, then set out with Bevan to find his father.
• Bevan expected his father to finish carving the Heaven Mending Ruins quickly, but Arro said the ruins still lacked their sacred essence.
• Arro used a flower to question whether things existed only when people could see them, leaving Bevan puzzled.
• Arro explained that material reality and spirit affected each other, and that grasping the Heaven Mending True Meaning could make the Heaven Mending Elder truly exist.

Claire weighed the risks of Bevan becoming Arro’s formally accepted disciple, while Bevan argued that their lives and organizations were already tied to Arro. Claire agreed to give Arro his answer and waited for him to return from the military camp.

• Claire explained Arro’s idea that a fictional person could exist through others thinking and acting in his place, and Bevan speculated that Arro had devised the Heaven Mending principles from witnessing injustice.
• Claire questioned whether Arro should become Bevan’s Master, noting the unusual age difference and the dangers that could come with the title.
• Bevan declared that he was willing to bear the risks because he admired Arro’s wisdom and strength and wanted to become his disciple.
• Bevan reminded Claire that their responsibilities across Lix Viscount Territory, Cat Faction Academy, Martial Arts Mountain, Bright Moon Palace, and Mending Heaven Sect already connected them to Arro.
• Claire agreed to accept Bevan’s decision and said he would tell Arro; Bevan said Arro was observing the military camp and would likely return soon.

Arro tried to make Bevan’s apprenticeship official with a simple tea ceremony, but the system did not recognize it. He declared that the ceremony needed rules and carved the words “Heaven, Earth” into a stone wall as the first objects of reverence for future martial artists.

• Arro returned to camp with two Wild Geese and told Claire he had developed a lightness art while scouting the Saint Fernando Empire’s military camp.
• Claire accepted Arro’s offer to take Bevan as his disciple, and Arro proposed a simple tea ceremony with a formal banquet as a possible fallback.
• Bevan served Arro tea and called him Master, but the apprenticeship task did not complete.
• Arro decided the ceremony needed rules for future martial artists and told Bevan that they should bow to heaven, earth, and their founding master.
• Arro used magic to carve the characters “Heaven, Earth” into the stone wall.

Arro led Bevan through a three-kowtow discipleship ceremony that taught reverence for Heaven and Earth, the ancient sages, and humanity, completing Arro’s system task. After Bevan set out to train, Claire reflected on the four realms and proposed that the Heaven Mending Elder and Arro had reached the realms of Governing the State and Bringing Peace to the World.

• Arro guided Bevan through three kowtows honoring Heaven and Earth, the ancient sages, and fellow humans, and Bevan accepted Arro as his master.
• Arro’s personal task to accept disciples was completed, granting him a skill point, and he wondered whether task completion depended on the wild geese being killed.
• Arro told Bevan to focus on strengthening his mind and martial power, especially by Opening the Dantian and reaching the Beginner stage of inner martial arts.
• Arro advised Claire to cultivate the Heaven Mending Technique, but Claire asked which of the four realms the Heaven Mending Elder had reached.
• Claire argued that the Heaven Mending Elder and Arro had achieved Governing the State and Bringing Peace to the World by establishing a sect, creating martial arts, and spreading the martial path.

Claire studied the Heaven Mending Technique and began cultivating it, while Arro considered how to spend his Skill Point. Arro decided to create a new martial art combining the New Blood Character Technique and the Go Sword Technique.

• Claire interpreted the Heaven Mending Elder’s teachings as a way for people to understand the world for themselves, then asked Arro about the purpose of spreading martial arts.
• Arro told Claire to read the Heaven Mending Technique, and Claire reached Beginner level while studying the manual.
• Arro weighed unlocking the New Blood Character Technique against supporting Bright Moon Palace’s cultivation, but decided neither required immediate attention.
• Arro considered unlocking the Go Sword Technique to improve his learning and create martial arts faster, then realized he could combine it with the New Blood Character Technique.

Arro designed a new internal cultivation method by combining the New Blood Character Technique with the Go Sword Technique, aiming to improve learning through rapid reading, memory, calmness, and focus. He named the method the Heaven's Heart Technique and began gathering his research to derive it with the system.

• Arro decided that the New Blood Character Technique would remain the foundation while the Go Sword Technique supplied visual-reading and information-storage functions.
• Arro designed the technique's Martial Dao True Meaning to cultivate rationality, calmness, and focus by regulating bodily hormones.
• Arro chose a Confucian creed for the technique, centered on serving Heaven and Earth, the common people, the sages, and lasting peace.
• Arro named the new method the Heaven's Heart Technique and planned to pair it with the Six Arts of the Gentleman.
• Arro assembled his notes and books, then used the system's Adding Points to begin deriving the technique.

Arro studied the Heaven's Heart Technique, a human-centered internal cultivation method that stored information by converting it into digital form as he read. Its visual-reading process was impractical, but Arro accepted the technique’s strengths and considered building a better reader later.

• Arro learned the Heaven's Heart Technique and found it combined internal cultivation with philosophical ideas that placed humans at the center of the world.
• Arro compared its Kingly Way and body-as-territory approach with the Heaven Mending Technique’s more individual-focused, Overbearing Way.
• Arro discovered that the technique’s information-storage system was complete, but its visual-reading system only offered a theoretical plan for sampling, quantizing, and encoding images.
• Arro realized that storing images would require him to calculate enormous strings of numbers himself, making the technique more like a humanoid USB drive than a photographic memory.
• Arro accepted that the technique could efficiently store text and strengthen internal power through learning, and he considered using Skill Points or Alchemy to create a dedicated visual reader.

Arro delayed practicing the Heaven's Heart Technique while he cultivated the Heaven Mending Technique and designed alchemical game consoles. Baron Claire immersed himself in imitating the Heaven Mending Elder, and Arro judged that he would return to normal after completing the Heaven Mending Ruins.

• Arro accepted that his Heaven's Heart Technique had not reached Beginner and planned to practice it after the Heaven Mending Technique reached Minor Success.
• Arro spent the next few days cultivating and developing game console designs to entertain the Wizard Apprentices in the Viscount Territory.
• Baron Claire studied his autobiography and imitated the Heaven Mending Elder so intensely that he alternated between lucidity and apparent madness.
• Bevan brought Arro to see Claire and asked him to help with his father's condition.
• Arro recognized Claire's behavior as getting into character and told Bevan that Claire should become lucid again after finishing the Heaven Mending Ruins.

Arro realized Claire’s interpretation of the Heaven Mending Elder gave Claire the ideal Martial Dao True Meaning for cultivating the Heaven Mending Technique. After confirming Bevan had opened his Dantian, Arro explained the Innate Realm and began outlining the other martial arts realms.

• Arro explained that Claire’s deeper interpretation of the Heaven Mending Elder could help Claire rapidly master the Heaven Mending Technique.
• Arro urged Bevan to study his father’s autobiography and keep cultivating, but Bevan revealed that he had opened his Dantian on the day he became Arro’s disciple.
• Arro examined Bevan’s Dantian by bringing his internal force near it and confirmed that it had opened.
• Arro wondered whether the apprenticeship ceremony had accelerated Bevan’s cultivation and considered how rituals might affect martial arts training.
• Arro explained that the Innate Realm involved establishing an energy transportation system around the Innate Heart and producing inexhaustible internal force.
• Bevan asked about the other martial arts realms, and Arro began explaining them.

Arro explained the martial artist ranks to Bevan, from unranked practitioners to Innate Masters, and compared their abilities with those of Knights. Bevan grew eager to advance and devoted himself more actively to cultivation.

• Arro explained that Bevan was an unranked martial artist because he had opened his dantian but not his primary meridians, and said internal energy would gradually strengthen his body.
• Bevan accepted the unranked title and asked Arro what ranks came next.
• Arro described Third-rate Masters, who could use internal energy martial arts to threaten Formal Knights in specific areas, while warning Bevan not to underestimate Knights.
• Arro explained that Second-rate Masters formed a Minor Heavenly Cycle and that First-rate Masters completed their major and Minor Heavenly Cycles.
• Arro said Innate Masters transformed their internal energy alongside their bodies, and Bevan became more interested in cultivation and eager to reach the Third-rate rank.

Arro gave Bevan the Cloud Garment Crossing Void manual and explained its three levels, designed to let martial artists glide by using specially made clothing, internal force, or Gang Qi. He set Bevan’s training plan, which ended with the two of them digging a water well.

• Arro explained that First-rate Masters could wield combat power comparable to or greater than Formal Knights without reaching the innate realm.
• Arro gave Bevan the Cloud Garment Crossing Void manual and described its three levels and reliance on broad-sleeved Feather Garments.
• Arro explained that the lightness skill used the arms to channel internal force or Gang Qi, while strong legs supplied the speed needed for lift and gliding.
• Arro planned Bevan’s leg training and meridian cultivation, including basic strength, burst power, endurance, and wind resistance exercises.
• Arro turned Bevan’s training into digging pits and jumping into them, and they dug out a water well.

Arro realized his dantian had become linked to his emotions and five viscera, and its growing internal force was pushing him to open his meridians. With his preparation complete, he guided internal force through the first meridian route and reached the Third-rate Master level.

• Arro examined his dantian after feeling an urge to break through and discovered that Martial Dao True Meaning had made it function as a sixth organ connected to his emotions and five viscera.
• Arro considered the risks of the connection, including how injuries to the dantian or internal organs could affect both health and strength.
• Arro chose to open his meridians rather than reduce the internal force building in his dantian.
• Arro guided internal force from his dantian along the Ren Meridian and through the Hand Yangming Large Intestine Meridian without obstruction.
• Arro realized that he had successfully become a Third-rate Master.

Arro tested materials for the Cloud Clothes Void Crossing Technique after opening his meridians and became absorbed in cultivating through the night. He told Bevan that inner power changed the properties of materials in the Outside World, then began explaining his test results.

• Arro tried to use the Cloud Clothes Void Crossing Technique and found that its clothing material still needed testing.
• Arro tested plant, biological, metal, Magic Metal, and magic plant materials, recovering his inner power between trials.
• Bevan found Arro on a boulder at dawn and worried about his exhausted appearance.
• Arro explained how inner power conductivity varied across materials, then paused before revealing his most important discovery.

Arro explained his theory that Internal Power could transform materials into a body-like vessel that might store power and serve as a weapon, though he had not yet developed the method. He hoped processed materials could make the process easier and imagined Magic Treasures that could activate secret techniques or Demonic Beast magic.

• Arro told Bevan that materials reused in tests became more conductive, especially those with less magic, and asked what the result suggested.
• Arro proposed that Internal Power could imprint a person's bodily information onto another object and potentially create a new body that generated and stored Internal Power.
• Bevan argued that the new body could not produce Internal Power without Mental Strength and consciousness, and Arro suggested supplying it with Mental Strength.
• Arro explained that such a body could serve as a weapon and a testing ground for Internal Cultivation Methods, prompting Bevan to ask when he would teach him the new martial art.
• Arro clarified that he had only discovered the material-changing phenomenon and suggested refining a prepared semi-finished object with Internal Power.
• Arro imagined Magic Treasures that could store secret techniques such as Qi Blood Rampage or activate Demonic Beast magic through imprinted biological information.

Arro considered developing the Martial Path beyond the Innate realm by studying Magic Treasures and Demonic Beasts’ innate abilities, but recognized that the Tool Path would demand more time and research than he could currently spare. He then imagined founding a Mohist School and organizing his existing sects as competing schools of thought, leaving him excited by the possibility of creating a Contention of a Hundred Schools of Thought.

• Arro reasoned that creating Magic Treasures would require mature Sword Path techniques and extensive research into transferring and integrating information from different species.
• Arro decided that the Martial Path might progress beyond the Innate realm by incorporating the magic of Magic Treasures, with Demonic Beasts’ innate abilities as a transition.
• Arro considered founding a new sect to research the Tool Path and imagined naming it the Mohist School, with the ideals of “Inclusive Love and Non-Aggression, Will of Heaven and Understanding Ghosts.”
• Arro reclassified Martial Arts Mountain, the Mending Heaven Sect, and Bright Moon Palace as Taoist branches, and placed the Heaven’s Heart Technique under Confucianism.
• Arro wondered whether he was creating a Contention of a Hundred Schools of Thought and hoped its competing ideologies would spread the Martial Path and hasten the era’s bloodshed.

Arro realized he could use ideas from the Hundred Schools of Thought to shape the remaining Martial Dao True Meanings of the Eight Extremes Method and spread martial arts through distinct schools. After sleeping, he discovered his inner force had grown by roughly fifty percent and traced the surge to his exhausted Mental Strength recovering alongside the Heaven Mending Technique’s self-repair.

• Arro decided that ideas from the Hundred Schools of Thought could provide convincing, distinct foundations for the Devour, Qi, and open up Character Techniques, while reserving Yang for Martial Arts Mountain and Spirit until last.
• Arro fell into a deep sleep and awoke to find his inner force had increased by roughly fifty percent.
• Arro compared his physique, Life Force, and Mental Strength with his inner force and concluded that his inner force lagged far behind his other attributes.
• Arro recalled that his inner force and Mental Strength had both been depleted before he slept, while his Life Force remained abundant.
• Arro concluded that Mental Strength recovery during sleep had kept the linked processes of Refining Essence into Qi and Refining Qi into Spirit running, accelerating inner-force cultivation through the Heaven Mending Technique and his dantian.

Arro explained that exhausting mental strength and recovering through sleep could accelerate internal energy accumulation, though the method was risky and could not open meridians or acupoints. He then advised Claire to divide his martial arts into simpler techniques built around individual killing moves.

• Arro concluded that sleep after mental exhaustion could strengthen and stabilize existing internal energy, but he chose not to use the method for now.
• Arro inspected Bevan’s deepened training pit and found that Claire had carved an unarmed fighting method and a Gun Technique into the rock wall.
• Arro told Claire that each martial art was too complicated and that a fighter should focus on mastering a single killing move before expanding their skills.
• Arro explained that Claire’s fist technique could be split into Cannon Fist, Iron Arm Fist, and a Grappling Art, each built around one killing move.
• Claire listened as Arro proposed applying the same approach to the Gun Technique.

After proposing that martial arts be built around a single internal-force killing move, Arro watched Claire plunge into a frenzy of invention and considered how to help him obtain the Heaven Mending Inheritance. That night, Arro reviewed the meridian knowledge he could share and ate the food Bevan had left by the fire while debating whether to spend his reserved Skill Point.

• Arro explained that ordinary combat techniques should support a central internal-force killing move, and Claire immediately began furiously designing martial arts.
• Arro wondered whether Claire’s apparent madness was part of the inheritance process, then concluded that the task chiefly required the Heaven Mending Technique and thirty-six martial arts.
• Arro decided to organize the meridian and acupoint knowledge from the Heaven’s Heart Technique for Claire, and considered spending his reserved Skill Point if necessary.
• After night fell, Arro inspected the food Bevan had left by the fire, prepared bread in the meat soup, and ate while weighing whether to use the Skill Point.

Arro decided to spend his saved skill point to help Claire, then considered which Eight Extremes Method discipline to unlock next. He chose the Qi Character Technique as the best fit for developing a Legalist martial art and began exploring ways to add information input and internal-force control to the Heaven's Heart Technique.

• After weighing the risks of using his saved skill point, Arro decided that Claire's situation could not wait and committed to helping him.
• Arro considered the remaining Eight Extremes Method disciplines and concluded that the Qi Character Technique best suited a martial art based on Legalist thought and the authority of rulers.
• Arro rejected applying the Smart Chip research approach directly to the Qi Character Technique, since its theoretical foundations differed from those of the Heaven's Heart Technique.
• Arro proposed adding language input to the Heaven's Heart Technique through vibrations, making it faster to store information.
• Arro considered using external martial movements or a new internal control center to coordinate complex internal-force circulation during combat.