Chapter Summaries

Qin Shi launched a lightning-fast solo assault on the Man-faced Spider clan’s administrative building while the Seventh Legion drove the Rakshasa Ants toward the nest. He broke through the defenders and reached the building, where the battle escalated as a Psionicist locked onto him.

• Qin Shi prepared for the assault by consuming Long Qiuyuan’s High-Energy Oral Liquid and Purified Element, then began his countdown as Long Qiuyuan and Ye Xiaotang prepared to support him.
• The Seventh Legion pushed the Rakshasa Ant swarm into the Man-faced Spider clan’s territory, where Jiang Shijie and Lin Xiong sensed an unfamiliar aura amid the distorted space.
• Qin Shi charged through the defenders and reached the administrative building in under twenty seconds, killing a Man-faced Spider Demonkin with his saber.
• Qin Shi cut through a packed wall of minions and knocked a massive Man-faced Spider Demonkin through the gate with a single punch.
• A Psionicist caught Qin Shi in a telekinetic lock as his speed slowed after the collision.

Qin Shi fought through Pro’s mental attacks and escalating transformations, then reached the Man-faced Spider clan’s guarded resource point as his Monument Panel began to change. The Chief Priest learned that Qin Shi had entered the lair and welcomed him as food for His Highness.

• Pro used his Withering trait to restrain Qin Shi, but Qin Shi defeated him in a mental clash and absorbed his Mental Power.
• After Pro’s body became a headless trap, Qin Shi’s amplification increased to fifteenfold, letting him break free and destroy Pro’s spirit.
• Qin Shi sensed Dikar approaching, seized Pro’s spirit by sealing the surrounding space, and burned it away.
• Qin Shi reached the resource point in the CEO’s office, where the Monument Panel’s achievements began to change as he opened a black doorway.
• The Chief Priest heard that the intruder had entered the lair and said His Highness needed food like Qin Shi.

Qin Shi entered the Man-faced Spider clan’s anomalous mother nest, where his powers were sealed, and defeated its Emperor through sheer physical strength. After draining the nest’s crystal relic to evolve his Monument Panel, he discovered that the True Dragon’s achievement had begun feminizing the Emperor, leaving him appalled.

• Nason dismissed concerns about Qin Shi entering the Man-faced Spider nest and discussed the Western Front with Queen Ros.
• Ye Xiaotang warned Qin Shi that the nest’s door led into an anomaly that trapped those who entered, but Qin Shi opened it anyway.
• The Man-faced Spider Emperor sealed Qin Shi’s Life Force and Mental Power, but Qin Shi overpowered it with his enhanced physical strength and slapped it around.
• Qin Shi sat on the Emperor’s crystal bed, drained its energy, and completed a major fusion that upgraded his Monument Panel and unlocked Adaptive Body.
• The True Dragon’s Dragon’s Breath achievement activated and began feminizing the Man-faced Spider Emperor, prompting Qin Shi to protest.

Qin Shi subdued the feminized Man-faced Spider Emperor, learned her name was Jianna, and asked whether she wanted to leave the nest. Meanwhile, Seventh Legion soldiers suspected Qin Shi’s disappearance was tied to a plot, and the Tribunal ordered a meteorite rescue after learning he might obtain He Lanchán’s Heavenly Imperial Secret Treasure.

• Qin Shi’s Dragon Might ability feminized the Man-faced Spider Emperor further, and she introduced herself as Jianna, a Recipient of Favor chosen by the maternal nest.
• Qin Shi decided to follow the [True Dragon] Pillar’s wishes and asked Jianna if she wanted to leave the nest.
• Wu Yong and Jiang Shijie recognized Qin Shi at the Frontline but kept his identity secret, while Wu Yong suspected the division commander had arranged a plot against him and considered reporting it.
• The Seventh Legion soldiers spotted a huge fireball descending from the sky.
• A Tribunal official learned that Qin Shi had gone missing and initially delayed activating protective measures, but changed his order after hearing Qin Shi had an 83 percent chance of obtaining He Lanchán’s Heavenly Imperial Secret Treasure.
• The Tribunal activated its highest-level rescue plan and deployed a meteorite using a gravitational capture device.

Tribunal Commissioner Yin Jian authorized a meteorite strike to rescue Qin Shi from the Man-faced Spider nest, while considering whether to recruit him into the Rectification Protocol. Qin Shi escaped the brood nest after freeing Jianna from Nason’s control, only to face an unknown psychic attacker demanding her return.

• Yin Jian approved Qing Nü’s meteorite plan to protect Qin Shi and decided he would observe Qin before meeting him as his guardian.
• The Seventh Legion and the Man-faced Spider clan retreated as a meteorite descended toward the nest, while Wu Yong decided to raise concerns about his commander through division headquarters.
• Chief Priest Nason tried to open the brood-nest door, but Jianna could not obey because Qin Shi stopped her.
• Nason’s psychic mark drove Jianna into repeated frenzies, and Qin Shi beat her until she regained control of her mind.
• Qin Shi trained inside the energy-rich brood nest, then opened the door to find the administrative building reduced to scorched ruins and the Man-faced Spider clan gone.
• A hostile psychic voice accused Qin Shi of harming Jianna and demanded that he give her back.

Qin Shi endured Chief Priest Nason’s mental assault, unlocked [Ultimate Intent], and turned Nason’s mental space against him. He shattered the space, returned to the ruins, and crushed Nason’s body while Jianna watched.

• Chief Priest Nason attacked Qin Shi with his mental power, trapping him in a blood-rain mental space and draining his Life Force.
• Qin Shi realized Nason was absorbing his Life Force and used the Soldier Attack Warfare Method to push his Perfect Core toward evolution.
• Nason bombarded Qin Shi with red spears, triggering the [Layered Armor] achievement and unlocking [Ultimate Intent].
• Qin Shi recovered his strength, forged Nason’s mental space into black spears, and repeatedly struck Nason’s mind.
• Qin Shi split apart the mental space, seized Nason in the ruins, slammed him down, and crushed his body as Jianna watched.

Qin Shi killed Chief Priest Nason, made Jianna agree to reform and bind herself to an anomalous door, and led the squad to recover valuable energy crystals. Meanwhile, Old Zhang reached the Ninth Legion’s base, where Zhao Meng reluctantly agreed to let him in.

• Qin Shi destroyed Nason’s mental space, killed him, and offered Jianna a chance to become a state-contained guardian if she followed the containment manual.
• Jianna agreed to reform and tried to bind herself to the door, while Qin Shi reunited with Long Qiuyuan and Ye Xiaotang and ordered them to collect battlefield spoils.
• Ye Xiaotang found a nest full of high-concentration energy blocks, and Qin Shi told the squad to pack them up.
• Old Zhang traveled through the Scorpion Corridor aboard a merchant ship, using the journey to hunt raiding groups and recover his strength.
• Old Zhang reached the Ninth Legion’s defense zone and called for Zhao Meng to welcome him; Zhao Meng ordered the sentries to let him in.

Old Zhang visited Zhao Yunhan at the Ninth Legion’s eastern-front Command Center and planned to eliminate threats to the Nanhuang Dojo, beginning with Ying Xiao. At White Poplar Fortress City, Yao Guodong learned that Esoteric Cult groups had converged on new recruit Qin Shi, making him their top target.

• Old Zhang reunited with Zhao Yunhan, who explained how he had helped him rise through the Ninth Legion after Zhao Yunhan’s father was disgraced.
• Old Zhang said he had taken a new disciple and vowed to kill anyone who threatened the Nanhuang Dojo, beginning with Ying Xiao.
• Zhao Yunhan warned that Ying Xiao had powerful Legion connections, then proposed luring him out so Old Zhang could kill him while he handled the aftermath.
• Old Zhang asked about Mo Zhenting, and Zhao Yunhan explained that the rising Seventh Legion commander was being considered for the Gene Seed Program.
• At White Poplar Fortress City, Lord Tai’s Sub-body told Yao Guodong that Esoteric Cult groups were rushing toward the Man-faced Spider nest to target Qin Shi.

Yao Guodong and Fu Lei investigated whether recruit Qin Shi was the famed Young Prodigy, while Jin Chuan, Lu Yao, and Gao Pao waited at the Contaminated Zone. The Esoteric Cultist Beherit attacked them, but Fu Lei arrived before Beherit could force Jin Chuan to choose who would die.

• Yao Guodong suspected Recruit Qin Shi was the Young Prodigy from Hengzhou, and Lord Tai's Sub-body estimated a sixty-seven percent chance they were the same person.
• Fu Lei drove out from Yellow Springs Training Camp to meet Qin Shi after receiving a message from the City Lord's Mansion.
• Jin Chuan, Lu Yao, and Gao Pao waited for Qin Shi at the edge of the Contaminated Zone, where a horde of Servant Creatures emerged under Beherit's command.
• Beherit introduced himself as a Broken Emissary and used his Mental Power to stop Jin Chuan and Gao Pao's gunfire before crushing Jin Chuan's arms and threatening Lu Yao and Gao Pao.
• Fu Lei arrived in his heavy truck, released his Life Force to break Beherit's oppressive darkness, and threatened the Esoteric Cultist.

Fu Lei rescued Lu Yao, Gao Pao, and Jin Chuan before confronting Beherit in the Netherworld. He trapped Beherit with the Incineration Art and destroyed his spirit at the cost of nearly his own life, and Qin Shi arrived as Fu Lei lay dying.

• Fu Lei broke Beherit's mental restraints, rescued Lu Yao and Gao Pao, and attacked Beherit.
• Fu Lei freed Jin Chuan, crushed a hidden mental-spike ambush, and examined him for further tampering before sending him away.
• Beherit tried to weaken Fu Lei with distorted arguments and an assault by thousands of divided blood-eagle forms.
• Fu Lei revealed he had activated the Incineration Art upon entering the Netherworld and trapped Beherit's spiritual core in his consciousness.
• Fu Lei used the Incineration Art and a self-destruct technique to burn Beherit's spirit to nothing, then collapsed with barely any Life Force remaining.
• Qin Shi arrived beside Fu Lei and told him he did not look too good.

Qin Shi rescued Instructor Fu Lei, learned how Fu Lei had defeated a fallen Esoteric Cultist, and was attacked by the ancient cultist Rengar. Rengar’s Immovable Stance turned attacks into strength, but Qin Shi grappled him as a golden bullet approached.

• Qin Shi revived the badly injured Fu Lei with Energy Liquid and helped him recover while Long Qiuyuan fought Beherit’s remaining Servant Creatures.
• Fu Lei told Qin Shi about his fight with a fallen Esoteric Cultist and advised him to study the Incineration Art.
• An old man emerged from unstable space, seized Long Qiuyuan, and attacked Qin Shi after tossing her aside.
• Qin Shi struck the old man with his Electric Shock Saber, but Rengar healed and revealed his Immovable Stance and Planetary Battle Body.
• Rengar battered Fu Lei with Mental Power and challenged Qin Shi to attack him, confident that his defenses could withstand any blow.
• Qin Shi lunged to grapple Rengar and hold him in place as a slow-moving golden bullet approached from the horizon.

Qin Shi used the Blood Queen sniper rifle and his own strength to kill Rengar, then prepared the body for containment. Far away, the Summit of the Stars recorded Qin Shi’s name on its Civilization Monument at rank ninety-seven.

• Qin Shi pinned Rengar in place while a slow-moving golden bullet from the Blood Queen approached the battlefield.
• Ye Xiaotang explained to Fu Lei that the Six-Star Blood Queen gained power with distance, and that the sniper had fired it from more than five thousand meters away.
• Qin Shi tore off Rengar’s arms, broke his jaw, and drove his head into the bullet, killing him with its Seven-Star impact.
• Qin Shi dismembered Rengar to ensure he could not recover, while the sniper was stunned that her shot had hit its target.
• Two Fourth Legion privates discussed the Summit of the Stars and the Stellar Cup as ripples from Hengzhou New Star reached the monument.
• The Civilization Monument wrote Qin Shi’s name and placed him at rank ninety-seven.

Qin Shi’s rapid rise in the Stellar Cup rankings drew the attention of observatory director Ai Xiangqian, who secretly bet on him as a Best Newcomer. After returning to Yellow Springs Training Camp from a dangerous mission, Qin Shi exchanged his merit points for an Afterimage Crystal, a risky relic containing a Martial Artist’s Spirit Imprint.

• Ai Xiangqian noticed Qin Shi’s fast climb in the Youth Group rankings, found his file classified, and bet on him in the Best Newcomer market while misleading the Capital Crocodiles Group about his pick.
• Qin Shi returned to Yellow Springs Training Camp with the injured Fu Lei and Gao Pao after dealing with Rengar, and Fu Lei gave him his monthly ration of military High-Energy Food.
• Fu Lei asked Qin Shi what resources he needed, then warned him about Afterimage Crystals so conspicuously that his deputy accused him of leaking a hint.
• Qin Shi, Gao Pao, and Zhao Su settled the exploration mission and handed over their contaminated samples, earning eighty merit points and five jars of high-purity Black Medicine.
• Qin Shi exchanged merit points for a high-risk Afterimage Crystal, and Gao Pao explained that the crystals contained Martial Artists’ Spirit Imprints and could place users inside historical echoes.

After returning from the exploration mission, Qin Shi consumed concentrated Black Medicine and transformed his body and Saint Embryo by descending into the Netherworld. He activated an Afterimage Crystal, encountered the Martial Gods Qi Wuxiang and He Lanchán, and was beaten unconscious before waking eager to challenge them again.

• Qin Shi stored the Afterimage Crystals and Black Medicine, then drank a tube of the medicine while Gao Pao and Zhao Su guarded him.
• Qin Shi endured trials of fire and thunder in the Netherworld, strengthening his Saint Embryo and learning to wield symbols of those forces.
• Qin Shi drank the remaining four tubes of Black Medicine, raising his Life Force and bringing his Saint Embryo close to completion.
• Qin Shi activated an Afterimage Crystal and found himself on a barren planet, where Qi Wuxiang and He Lanchán appeared and mistook him for their opponent.
• Qi Wuxiang and He Lanchán's attacks knocked Qin Shi unconscious, and he awoke excited to face them again.

Qin Shi used an Afterimage Crystal containing the spiritual imprints of He Lanchán and Qi Wuxiang, but both killed him instantly when he tried to face them. After learning how to make contact, he provoked He Lanchán with insults attributed to Qi Wuxiang, leaving He Lanchán furious enough to halt a planet’s rotation and tear its surface apart.

• Qin Shi repeatedly entered the Afterimage Crystal and was instantly killed by He Lanchán and Qi Wuxiang, then asked Super Little He how to communicate with them.
• Gao Pao and Song Xing discovered that the crystal held the imprint of He Lanchán and Qi Wuxiang’s first clash in the Stellar Cup, and Song Xing called for emergency treatment.
• Qin Shi used the Void Meditation Method to make He Lanchán pause and addressed him as his teacher, claiming he had received He Lanchán’s inheritance in the future.
• Qin Shi told He Lanchán that Qi Wuxiang had offered to teach him and insulted He Lanchán’s scattered learning and many teachers.
• Qin Shi added that Qi Wuxiang had mocked He Lanchán for forgetting his true teacher, and He Lanchán’s fury stopped a planet’s rotation and split its surface with fissures.

He Lanchán criticized Qin Shi’s crude cultivation and began force-feeding him his insights into the Void Meditation Method’s Vast Void Immeasurable Field Domain. As Qin Shi resisted becoming a copy of He Lanchán, Qi Wuxiang appeared in his Sea of Consciousness and challenged He Lanchán’s path.

• Qin Shi saw He Lanchán’s power demonstrated on the asteroid and heard He Lanchán criticize his Void Meditation Method and unfinished Sacred Embryo.
• He Lanchán examined Qin Shi, learned he was not yet eighteen, and praised his exceptional talent.
• He Lanchán pressed a finger to Qin Shi’s forehead and transmitted his Vast Void Immeasurable Field Domain and cultivation insights.
• Qin Shi used his Inner Scenery and Super Little He to absorb the information while cutting away features forming on his Sacred Embryo to preserve his identity.
• Qi Wuxiang appeared above Qin Shi’s Sacred Embryo, introduced himself, and declared He Lanchán’s path wrong if it could not reach the end.

Qin Shi entered Qi Wuxiang’s legacy and began training in the Eternal Only Dao, a method that made him fight countless versions of himself. Meanwhile, Fu Lei revealed Qin Shi’s identity as Hengzhou’s young Blazing Sun and warned Song Xing that a larger war was approaching.

• Qi Wuxiang entered Qin Shi’s Sea of Consciousness, explained the risks of his legacy, and offered to teach him the Three Gates of the Divine Gate and Eternal Only Dao.
• Qin Shi accepted Qi Wuxiang’s legacy and found himself facing rows of identical versions of himself as the first stage of training began.
• Song Xing confronted Fu Lei about recommending a contraband Afterimage Crystal to Qin Shi, and Fu Lei explained that Qin Shi was Hengzhou’s young Blazing Sun.
• Fu Lei told Song Xing that the Great Expedition would continue and that talent alone did not guarantee survival or greatness.
• Fu Lei warned that the war horn had already sounded and that its echo had not yet reached Hengzhou.

Qin Shi endured Qi Wuxiang’s Eternal Only Dao trials, defeating increasingly powerful versions of himself before being overwhelmed by two opponents and revived through his burning Life Force. Outside the trial, Qi Wuxiang and He Lanchán debated their rival paths to the divine realm and whether Qin Shi could carry their legacies, with Qi Wuxiang leaving convinced his path was superior.

• Qin Shi fought and defeated several of Qi Wuxiang’s selves, learning that each defeat would consume Life Force and that the opponents grew stronger as he progressed.
• Qin Shi overcame a self using nearly five hundred nodes of the Soldier Attack Warfare Method, and the Eternal Only Dao legacy imprinted itself in his Sea of Consciousness.
• Qin Shi faced multiple opponents whose legacies and levels had increased, but two struck him from both sides and killed him; his Life Force burned to bring him back.
• He Lanchán sensed Qi Wuxiang’s actions and unleashed a Mental Power attack, prompting Qi Wuxiang to leave Qin Shi’s Sea of Consciousness and confront him.
• Qi Wuxiang and He Lanchán argued over whether Qin Shi should follow Qi Wuxiang’s self-forging path or He Lanchán’s legacy, and He Lanchán said he had transferred part of his spirit to Qin Shi.
• Qi Wuxiang departed, insisting that his path was more compelling and brought him closer to the Martial God.

After repeatedly dying in the Eternal Only Dao challenge, Qin Shi realized he had to surpass his other selves to become the one and only. He Lanchán then offered to help by hypnotizing Qin Shi’s spirit, declaring, “You are Qin Wuxiang.”

• Qin Shi recovered from the first failed challenge, tempered his sacred embryo, and analyzed Qi Wuxiang’s dangerous Eternal Only Dao.
• Qin Shi repeatedly fought his other selves, burning years of his lifespan as he struggled to defeat increasingly difficult opponents.
• After failing to overcome ten opponents, Qin Shi asked He Lanchán for advice and learned that the path required an invincible conviction and surpassing himself.
• He Lanchán offered to hypnotize Qin Shi’s spirit, then declared that Qin Shi was Qin Wuxiang.

He Lanchán hypnotized Qin Shi and created a second personality modeled on Qi Wuxiang to help him cultivate an invincible heart. Qin Shi awoke with the new personality’s manner and immediately threatened He Lanchán, while his friends faced the arrival of White Poplar’s chief as Qin Shi’s body appeared lifeless.

• He Lanchán overwhelmed Qin Shi with his Manifestation Saint mind and began shaping a second personality modeled on Qi Wuxiang.
• Qin Shi’s heart and vital signs repeatedly stopped, alarming Fu Lei, Song Xing, Gao Pao, Zhao Su, and the doctor in the infirmary.
• Fu Lei and Song Xing learned that White Poplar’s chief was arriving to inspect the camp while Qin Shi remained unresponsive.
• In the Afterimage Crystal, He Lanchán completed the second personality, and its information merged into Qin Shi when he woke.
• Qin Shi confronted He Lanchán with Qi Wuxiang’s cold, arrogant manner, and He Lanchán declared him ready for a Qi-lookalike contest.