Chapter Summaries

Jiang Qiu led No.8 Middle School through the purple mist, where they slaughtered Mutated Spiders and rapidly gained points. They encountered the defeated No.4 Middle School students and the Ox King, and Jiang Qiu rose from the rubble to demand the beast help him complete his Flood Dragon Jade Tendons.

• Jiang Qiu used Flood Dragon Eye to lead the eighty-three No.8 Middle School students to Mutated Spider nests and directed their attack.
• Qian Cheng and the other students killed spiders across several nests, pushing their scores and team ranking upward.
• Jiang Qiu spotted a powerful orange-yellow presence in the mist and led his group toward it.
• Jiang Qiu's group found the Ox King amid the defeated No.4 Middle School students and other schools, with Zhang Heng badly injured.
• The Ox King knocked Jiang Qiu through a concrete wall and boasted that Jiang Qiu's Steel Bones Realm strength could not match his peak.
• Jiang Qiu emerged from the dust with a Flood Dragon phantom behind him and told the Ox King to help him complete his Flood Dragon Jade Tendons.

The Ox King attacked Jiang Qiu to seize the bloodline talent he had inherited from Lord Zhuli, but Jiang Qiu wounded it with his spear and sent it flying. As the Ox King prepared to fight again, students began fleeing through the purple mist while Qian Cheng chose to stay and stand by Jiang Qiu.

• The Ox King revealed its greed for Jiang Qiu's inherited bloodline and charged at him, frightening the students watching.
• Jiang Qiu pierced the Ox King's arm and struck it with a blood-colored Azure Dragon, hurling the demon beast more than fifty meters away.
• The injured Ox King praised Jiang Qiu's rapid growth, then formed red armor and summoned a towering bull demon phantom.
• Sun Yongsheng, Zhang Heng, and Ye Shu urged the students to run, while the purple mist blocked their signals and obscured the buildings.
• As many students retreated, Qian Cheng remembered Jiang Qiu's help and resolved to remain at his side.

Jiang Qiu combined Shadow Tread and Soaring Dragon Pierce to shatter Ox King’s right arm and knock him down. Ox King then fled into the purple mist, and Jiang Qiu pursued him with a full-power Azure Dragon Chasing Shadow arrow.

• Ox King taunted Jiang Qiu and charged him with a devastating punch.
• Jiang Qiu fused Shadow Tread with Soaring Dragon Pierce and struck Ox King’s fist, pulverizing his right arm and bringing him crashing to the ground.
• Zhang Heng and the surviving No.8 Middle School students recognized Jiang Qiu’s strength and watched him advance on Ox King.
• Ox King gathered his remaining power, then flipped into the purple mist and ran away.
• Jiang Qiu switched to his bow and fired Azure Dragon Chasing Shadow at the fleeing Ox King.

Jiang Qiu killed the Ox King, entered the Jade Tendons Realm, and evolved his bloodline talent into Flood Dragon Eye. He led more than three thousand students into the purple mist, where a strange toad’s croak stopped their procession.

• Jiang Qiu killed the Ox King with his Flood Dragon bow and gained enough Blood Qi to enter the Jade Tendons Realm.
• Jiang Qiu’s bloodline talent evolved into Flood Dragon Eye, and he discovered his Flood Dragon Jade Tendons awaited hatching with Spiritual Resonance still vacant.
• Students from several schools asked Jiang Qiu to lead them out of the purple mist, and he agreed to take everyone who could follow.
• Jiang Qiu organized more than three thousand students into a procession and led them into the mist.
• A strange toad croaked in the mist, the procession halted after students bumped into one another, and the cry sounded again.

Jiang Qiu killed Toad King and learned that the Crimson Flame Spider Matriarch planned to use human geniuses as supplements for her century-long pregnancy. A secret realm transported the students to a hall containing a lake of Fire Marrow and treasures, where a droopy-eyed student tossed the demon kings’ corpses into the water.

• Jiang Qiu killed Toad King, then found a surviving little toad inside its body and questioned it about the captives being called sacrifices.
• The little toad revealed that the Crimson Flame Spider Matriarch needed human geniuses as supplements before giving birth, then triggered a secret realm fluctuation with a hidden pebble.
• The purple mist vanished as Jiang Qiu and more than three thousand students were transported into a vast stone hall with a blood-red lake at its center.
• Jiang Qiu’s panel identified a Reincarnation Medium that could help him forge ancient Jade Tendons by intercepting Heaven and Earth Spiritual Essence.
• A student recognized the lake’s treasures as Fire Marrow, and the droopy-eyed student threw Ox King and Toad King’s corpses into the water, saying supplements should be plentiful.

Sorrow forced the students into a deadly hot spring prepared by the Crimson Flame Spider Matriarch, but Jiang Qiu absorbed its Blazing Flame Spirit Charm through his Flood Dragon Eye and rapidly advanced. He remained trapped at the lake bottom, growing stronger as he secretly concealed his breakthroughs and vowed to kill Sorrow.

• Sorrow revealed that he was a Form Transformation Great Demon serving the Crimson Flame Spider Matriarch and explained that the hot spring was meant to temper the students into supplements.
• Sorrow swept the students, including Jiang Qiu, into the boiling lake, where they endured agonizing body tempering.
• Jiang Qiu's Flood Dragon Eye absorbed the Spirit Charm, opening the red egg in his pupils and advancing his Flood Dragon Jade Tendons.
• Sorrow observed that the survivors were rapidly reaching Steel Bones and recognized Jiang Qiu as a rare genius.
• Jiang Qiu absorbed more Spirit Charm and hot spring essence, concealed his breakthrough fluctuations with Obscuring Sight, and advanced to 3/9 Spirit Charm while plotting to kill Sorrow.

Jiang Qiu absorbed all the Blazing Flame Spirit Charm in Heavenly Xin Hall’s hot spring and reached the ninth level, prompting Sorrow to transform and attack him. Jiang Qiu used his flame-enhanced techniques to kill Sorrow, leaving the students alive but battered in the hot spring.

• Sorrow discovered that the hot spring’s Spirit Charm had nearly vanished and saw Jiang Qiu standing at the bottom of the lake.
• Jiang Qiu awakened after Sorrow’s roar and emerged from the hot spring with his Blazing Flame Spirit Charm at the ninth level.
• Sorrow transformed into his true demon form and demanded that Jiang Qiu return the Spirit Charm.
• Jiang Qiu revealed that the Spirit Charm had merged into his techniques and faced Sorrow with his spear.
• Sorrow’s claws struck only Jiang Qiu’s flame decoy, and Jiang Qiu counterattacked from behind with a flame-infused spear technique.
• Jiang Qiu’s attack tore through Sorrow’s heart and killed him.

Jiang Qiu gained Blazing Flame Spirit Charm and the Dragon Body Protoform after killing [Sorrow], then rescued more than six hundred students from the hot spring. As humans and demons clashed above, he learned that reinforcements were gathering to defend the halls and hot springs, and the little toad realized Jiang Qiu held [Sorrow]'s pebble.

• Jiang Qiu picked up a crystal pebble from [Sorrow]'s ashes and discovered that his Flood Dragon Eye had absorbed most of the hot spring's Blazing Flame Spirit Charm.
• A message warned that Luo Beixing and other Martial Arts Masters were attacking the halls, so Jiang Qiu returned to the hot spring and rescued Liu Zili, Sun Yongsheng, Zhang Shan, and more than six hundred survivors.
• Jiang Qiu received word that Beiming had been severely wounded and that a demon commander and twelve demon generals had been summoned to defend the Twelve Great Halls and Nine Great Hot Springs.
• A blade strike split the dome as humans and demons fought overhead, and the little toad fell into the hot spring chamber.
• Jiang Qiu grabbed the little toad and questioned it, while it recognized [Sorrow]'s pebble glowing in his hand.

Jiang Qiu emerged from a secret realm into southern Kunlun City as the Demon King began a Blood Sacrifice Reincarnation using human geniuses and the Nine Great Hot Springs. As the Crimson Flame Spider Matriarch’s ritual drew Jiang Qiu into its power, his Blazing Flame-filled blood-red egg seized a chance to hatch and steal the reincarnation’s source.

• Jiang Qiu returned to southern Kunlun City with several hundred others and learned from the emergency notices that the Demon King had emerged and Demon Commander Cang Yuan was confronting Tianshan City.
• Jiang Qiu sensed a familiar presence near the thunderclouds over central Kunlun City and heard a thought declare that the human experts were trapped in the Twelve Great Halls while the demons awaited their new king.
• Jiang Qiu rushed to a tall building and heard the ancient voice announce the Blood Sacrifice Reincarnation Method, using the Crimson Flame Spider Matriarch as a womb and human geniuses as supplements.
• The Crimson Flame Spider Matriarch rose from beneath Kunlun City and devoured students and treasures poured from a breach in the sky as human experts shouted that it was reincarnating a demon clan.
• Jiang Qiu’s blood and soul were pulled toward the ritual, and he saw the hot spring waters’ nine Spirit Charm sources descend as his Blazing Flame-filled blood-red egg began to hatch and seize the primordial source.

Jiang Qiu stole a wisp of the Demon King's origin, disrupting the Crimson Flame Spider Matriarch's birth ritual and awakening his Blazing Flame Dragon Body. The Matriarch died giving birth to Chen, a new Demon King who marked Jiang Qiu as his calamity, while Jiang vowed to kill him.

• Gao Yang and the human powerhouses attacked the Crimson Flame Spider Matriarch, but its protective aura rebuffed them as it devoured prodigies.
• The Blazing Flame Spirit Charm supply was interrupted, and tribulation lightning weakened the Matriarch before its unborn demon tore free and killed it.
• The newborn Chen declared that Jiang Qiu had stolen his origin and ruined his plan, then challenged the surrounding human powerhouses as Cang Yuan's army approached.
• Jiang Qiu awakened the Dragon Eye and Blazing Flame Dragon Body, reaching the Spirit Body Realm and realizing Chen had targeted him.
• Jiang Qiu swore to kill Chen, who gave his name and said he hoped Jiang would stand before him when humanity fell.

Jiang Qiu returned from the secret realm with hundreds of surviving examinees after being presumed dead, and his remarkable exam results brought recognition to him and his school. The chapter ended with Major General Gao Yang learning that Jiang Qiu had won first place in both the individual and team overall rankings and was named one of the Ten Leading Prodigies.

• Wu Shan mourned Jiang Qiu and the other missing examinees, then rejoiced when Jiang Qiu returned alive with hundreds of survivors.
• Zhao Gongzheng feared No.8 Middle School would need to prepare funerals, but Principal Sun told him that Jiang Qiu had survived and that Northwest Martial Arts University mentors wanted to recruit him.
• Sun De promoted Zhao Gongzheng to vice principal and gave him greater responsibility for recruiting and cultivating promising students.
• General Luo Beixing returned after defeating the demons in the Twelve Great Halls, while Jiang Qiu's fellow survivors told Gao Yang that Jiang Qiu had saved them.
• Gao Yang received word that the base under his command had produced both the individual and team overall champions, and that Jiang Qiu was among the Ten Leading Prodigies.

After the college entrance examination, Jiang Qiu returned to the Slum Area celebrated as Plateau City's top prodigy and prepared for a visit from Northwest Martial Arts University. His first prospective recruiter, Niu Yao, insulted his home before Liu Zili arrived with a young girl whom Niu Yao recognized as Instructor Shangguan.

• Liu Zili reflected on Jiang Qiu carrying her through the medicinal-pool ordeal and worried that her transformed body had left her even farther behind him.
• Jiang Qiu returned to Thirteenth Street, where neighbors celebrated his examination victory and praised the Slum Area for producing a prodigy.
• Jiang Qiu realized that killing the Form Transformation Great Demon [Sorrow] had earned him an overwhelming lead in examination points and recalled that instructors from Northwest Martial Arts University would seek him out.
• Niu Yao introduced himself as a disciple of Instructor Wang Tianheng, disparaged Jiang Qiu's home, and urged him to join the Body Tempering Institute.
• Liu Zili arrived with a young girl, and Niu Yao exclaimed in surprise when he recognized her as Instructor Shangguan.

Instructor Shangguan Yue recruited Jiang Qiu to the Refinement Department and offered Liu Zili a place as her direct disciple. Jiang Qiu rejected refinement in favor of combat, and an older voice interrupted Niu Yao as he argued for the Body Tempering Institute.

• Shangguan Yue told Jiang Qiu she wanted to recruit him to the Refinement Department and revealed that she also planned to take Liu Zili as her direct disciple.
• Jiang Qiu used his Dragon Eye and recognized Shangguan Yue as a powerful instructor, but said he had no refinement experience.
• Shangguan Yue offered to help Jiang Qiu transfer to another institute if refinement did not suit him.
• Jiang Qiu said he wanted to master methods of slaughter and combat, prompting Niu Yao to promote the Body Tempering Institute.
• Shangguan Yue argued that other institutes also taught combat and criticized the hardship of body tempering.
• An aged, vigorous voice challenged Niu Yao from outside as he began to dismiss the Soldier Cultivation Academy.

General Luo Beixing offered Jiang Qiu a chance to become President Wu Hong’s personal disciple and gifted him a future weapon and a cultivation method. He left Jiang with a warning about Demon King Chen’s return and a suggestion to seek the imprisoned Zhuli’s soul at Dongqi Lake.

• Luo Beixing arrived and told the group he had come to see Jiang Qiu.
• Luo Beixing offered to recommend Jiang Qiu as President Wu Hong’s personal disciple, and Jiang said he would prove worthy of the title.
• Luo Beixing revealed that he had commissioned an Artifact Forging Grandmaster to make Jiang a spear from ore taken from a Demon King’s hoard.
• Luo Beixing imparted his Soldier Cultivation Method to Jiang and warned that the wounded demons of the Northwest might regain their strength within three years.
• Luo Beixing advised Jiang to visit Dongqi Lake and see whether he could refine the imprisoned Zhuli’s soul.

Jiang Qiu received General Luo's Soldier Cultivation Method, moved into a villa in the Inner City, and returned to No.8 Middle School to say goodbye to his mentors. He called Shangguan Yue to arrange a trip to Dongqi Lake, hoping to refine Zhuli's remnant soul.

• Luo Beixing passed the Soldier Cultivation Method to Jiang Qiu, and Shangguan Yue offered to take him to Dongqi Lake after he visited his teacher and director.
• Niu Yao left resentfully, while Shangguan Yue and Liu Zili departed to study Refinement Department materials and forge genuine Jade Tendons.
• Jiang Qiu moved his parents' memorial photos and a wooden barrel from his old home into a villa provided by the Martial Arts Education Department.
• Jiang Qiu visited No.8 Middle School, where students celebrated him beside his statue, and Zhao Gongzheng and Wu Shan told him the school had gained resources and all its students had survived and entered Northwest Martial Arts University.
• Jiang Qiu said goodbye to Zhao Gongzheng and Wu Shan, then called Shangguan Yue to arrange a trip to Dongqi Lake and attempt to refine Zhuli's remnant soul.

Jiang Qiu visited the development base at Dongqi Lake to refine Zhuli’s remnant soul, which Lin Wei had failed to borrow for his weapon cultivator path. After Zhuli recognized Jiang Qiu’s Dragon Spirit, Jiang Qiu absorbed its soul and awakened the Dragon Spirit named Zhuli.

• Shangguan Yue brought Jiang Qiu to the development base’s soul-sealing chamber, where Lin Xiao and Lin Wei were inspecting Zhuli’s remnant soul.
• Jiang Qiu touched the glass container and used his soul to connect with Zhuli, whose arrogance and anger intensified when it sensed his bloodline.
• Zhuli recognized that Jiang Qiu carried its essence blood and had awakened an ancient inheritance, then attacked the glass container in a rage.
• Jiang Qiu revealed his Dragon Spirit, causing Zhuli to panic and offer to lend him spirit.
• Jiang Qiu refused, refined Zhuli’s remnant soul into his Dragon Spirit, and awakened the Dragon Spirit named Zhuli.

Jiang Qiu refined Zhuli’s remnant soul and spent a month cultivating until his Spirit Fusion reached completion. Shangguan Yue and Liu Zili arrived to take him to the provincial capital to report in, while his Natal Weapon match remained pending.

• Shangguan Yue extinguished the chamber’s pattern-light as Jiang Qiu absorbed Zhuli’s remnant soul, and the Dragon Spirit began to transform.
• Shangguan Yue told Hou Feng that Jiang Qiu had refined Zhuli’s soul and offered transformation-type Su Xiang as compensation for the base.
• Lin Xiao concluded that Jiang Qiu must possess exceptional Jade Tendons and a special Bloodline Talent, while Lin Wei asked where else he might find a sealed Ancestral Demon soul for Spirit Borrowing.
• Jiang Qiu returned to his villa and cultivated with Blazing Flame Spirit Charm, repeatedly practicing Spirit Fusion over the following month.
• Jiang Qiu accepted gifts from students he had helped, then left the villa on June 26 after Shangguan Yue and Liu Zili arrived to take him to the provincial capital.
• Jiang Qiu saw that his Spirit Fusion had reached 100/100 and was awaiting a Natal Weapon match.

Jiang Qiu arrived at Northwest Martial Arts University, where An Ling helped him register and introduced him to campus life. While waiting for his apartment key, Jiang Qiu heard about the upcoming Spirit Fusion Test and met Xue Zhang, who offered to connect him with resource suppliers.

• Instructor Shangguan Yue drove Jiang Qiu and Liu Zili through Yongjiang City to Northwest Martial Arts University.
• An Ling met Jiang Qiu at the university and guided him around while Shangguan Yue took Liu Zili to register.
• Jiang Qiu completed registration and waited at the apartment management office while An Ling collected his key.
• Xue Zhang introduced himself to Jiang Qiu, offered him contacts for acquiring martial arts resources, and gave him a slip with his number.
• When Jiang Qiu asked about the Spirit Fusion Test’s first-place reward, Xue Zhang pointed out a narrow-eyed young man who had once shaken the academy with his performance and was now an instructor’s direct disciple.

Jiang Qiu settled into his direct-disciple apartment at Northwest Martial Arts University and learned about the upcoming Spirit Fusion Test and the rarity of nine-stage Jade Tendons. He considered forming his own Martial Combat Team and planned to collect his newly forged spear the next day.

• Xue Zhang realized An Ling treated Jiang Qiu as a Martial Uncle and panicked after suspecting he had nearly tried to swindle the principal's direct disciple.
• An Ling showed Jiang Qiu his apartment in the Refinement Institute and delivered a letter explaining his direct-disciple privileges and recommending he take the Spirit Fusion Test in three days.
• An Ling explained how Jade Tendon stages reflected potential and described the choices between leading a Martial Combat Team and joining an existing one.
• Jiang Qiu decided he would prefer to form his own team and hoped Liu Zili and his other acquaintances would reach the required cultivation level.
• Jiang Qiu learned Liu Zili lived next door and considered recruiting her, then planned to collect the spear General Luo had commissioned and bind it as his Natal Weapon.

Jiang Qiu arrived at the Soldier Cultivation Academy with An Ling and drew the attention of the freshmen, many of whom recognized him as the top exam scorer who had rescued them. An Ling took him to meet Zhai Song, who revealed that Old Luo had arranged a weapon for him and invited him to test it as a potential Natal Weapon.

• An Ling led Jiang Qiu into the spear division’s Training Hall and silenced the bustling freshmen gathering.
• Freshmen recognized Jiang Qiu as God Jiang, praised his achievements, and watched him follow An Ling away from their assigned hall.
• An Ling brought Jiang Qiu to Zhai Song’s teaching room and addressed him as Martial Uncle, startling the hundred promising spear students.
• Zhai Song welcomed Jiang Qiu and told him Old Luo had left him a weapon forged by Yuan Shunhua.
• Zhai Song asked Jiang Qiu to test the weapon’s feel and said it might become his Natal Weapon after ten days to half a month of binding.