Chapter Summaries

Qin Shi tested his Life Force and learned it had reached fifteen points, then accepted Lin Yunqing’s offer of high-energy food. Meanwhile, Old Liang confronted Cheng Ze about his violent past and the price of trying to escape poverty; after Cheng Ze left, Qin Shi arrived to report that his Life Force had risen again.

• Qin Shi completed a Life Force test with Lin Yunqing and confirmed his level was fifteen points.
• Lin Yunqing invited Qin Shi to stay for high-energy food, and he accepted before she drove him home.
• Old Liang confronted Cheng Ze about how his criminal life had hurt his parents and challenged his reasons for becoming a thug.
• Cheng Ze warned Old Liang that Brother Hao planned to redevelop Old Factory Street and turn No. 9 Vocational Middle School into a Sports Academy.
• Old Liang advised Cheng Ze to retire before his employers discarded him, and Cheng Ze left without looking back.
• Qin Shi reached Old Liang’s dormitory and announced that his Life Force had risen again.

Qin Shi told Old Liang that his Life Force and Mental Strength had both reached fifteen points, shocking his master and prompting him to explain the potential of Spirit-Flesh Union. Old Liang introduced the Three Realms Theory and gave Qin Shi an early look at a Hong Sheng inheritance, but Qin Shi could not understand the booklet.

• Qin Shi told Old Liang that his Life Force had risen by about fifteen points, and Old Liang warned him not to boast about his rapid progress.
• Qin Shi revealed that his Mental Strength was also fifteen points, leaving Old Liang stunned by his balanced potential.
• Old Liang explained that Spirit-Flesh Union could enable a person to accommodate two career paths, undergo refinement, and possibly reach the highest ranks.
• Old Liang described the Three Realms Theory and explained that cultivating the mind and body depended on each other.
• Old Liang gave Qin Shi a booklet on Hundred Forms Cultivating Momentum, but Qin Shi said he could not make sense of it.

Qin Shi ate pages from Old Liang’s secret martial-arts manuscript and used the Monument to grasp the Hong Sheng movement “Swift as the Wind.” Meanwhile, Qin Lihao killed Wang Long for provoking Lin Yunqing and set his sights on the Old Factory Street redevelopment, unaware that the student who fought Wang Long was also surnamed Qin.

• Qin Shi struggled to read the secret script while Old Liang waited for him to ask for guidance.
• Qin Shi discovered the manuscript’s pages could be consumed, tore out several, and swallowed them despite Old Liang’s alarm.
• Qin Shi gained the temporary Enlightenment trait and mastered “Swift as the Wind,” sensing wind gather around his body and feet.
• Qin Lihao beat Wang Long to death for targeting Lin Yunqing and ordered an underling to prepare a gift and arrange an apology to her family.
• Qin Lihao learned that a student had helped defeat Wang Long, but his men knew only that the student’s surname was Qin.
• Qin Lihao ordered Aze to buy more land before approval for the Old Factory Street redevelopment and boasted that the Yancheng Qin Family could contend with the Lin Family.

Qin Shi comprehended the Spirit Cultivation Technique and learned how Hundred Forms Cultivating Momentum could strengthen and extend his martial abilities, while Old Liang cautioned him against overtraining. The next day, Lin Yunqing visited Lin Xiaohan at Qiguang Hengda University, told him she had sold the sports car Qin Lihao sent her, and asked whether special admissions had begun.

• Qin Shi deciphered the Spirit Cultivation Technique after swallowing the handwritten pages and understood that Hundred Forms Cultivating Momentum was a visualization method.
• Old Liang explained how momentum enhanced martial techniques, demonstrated a wind-powered cutting force, and warned Qin Shi not to overpractice before his Life Force reached twenty points.
• The next day, Lin Yunqing arrived at Lin Xiaohan's office with lunch and said she had sold the sports car Qin Lihao sent as an apology.
• Lin Xiaohan warned Lin Yunqing not to provoke the Yancheng Qin Family, and she said she wanted Qin Zhijie to stop bothering her.
• Lin Yunqing asked Lin Xiaohan whether Qiguang Hengda University's special admissions had started.

Lin Yunqing persuaded her brother Lin Xiaohan to consider mentoring Qin Shi, though he could not offer him university funding before enrollment. After Qin Shi woke with improved stats, he caught a falling spoon and activated Super Sensory Perception.

• Lin Yunqing told Lin Xiaohan that Qin Shi from Old Factory Street had exceptional Life Force and Mental Strength, and asked him to secure support for Qin Shi.
• Lin Xiaohan refused to arrange funding before Qin Shi enrolled but offered to meet him and find him a teacher if his talent proved genuine.
• Lin Xiaohan agreed to provide Qin Shi with Level 6 Energy Liquid and warned Lin Yunqing not to start a romance with him.
• Lin Yunqing messaged Lightning Whirlwind Chop about Lin Xiaohan’s plan to find a teacher for an Old Martial Arts prodigy.
• Qin Shi woke with improved stats, caught a spoon as it fell from Qin Lan’s hand, and activated Super Sensory Perception.

Qin Shi unlocked the Super Sensory Perception achievement and planned to raise his Life Force enough to enter a top university. He then discovered that Zhou Ning was rapidly gaining muscle and Life Force through Coach Luo’s suspicious drug-injection program.

• Qin Shi examined his new Super Sensory Perception achievement and considered how to advance it despite having few chances to face danger.
• Qin Lan worried that Qin Shi was overworking himself, but he reassured her that he was training toward his goals.
• Qin Shi calculated that he might reach twenty Life Force points in about six days and focused on qualifying for Hengzhou University or the University of Science and Technology.
• Qin Shi met Zhou Ning, who showed off his new bulk and said Coach Luo had enrolled him in the Nine Dragons Integration program.
• Zhou Ning revealed that his talent was drug resistance and that he could receive twelve injections a day, alarming Qin Shi.

Qin Shi learned that Zhou Ning was taking dangerous performance-enhancing drugs from Coach Luo and asked Lin Yunqing about reporting fake-drug sellers. Lin Yunqing drove them to Silver Horse Gym, where Qin Shi overheard Coach Luo steering another student toward injections and payday loans.

• Qin Shi used Internal Vision on Zhou Ning and saw the severe damage and disorder in his body, though Zhou Ning's extreme Drug Resistance kept him energetic.
• Zhou Ning invited Qin Shi to try Coach Luo's Nine Dragons Fusion Package for free, while Aunt Zhou praised Zhou Ning's rising Life Force and prospects.
• Lin Yunqing misread Qin Shi's question about rewards for reporting fake drugs as an excuse to meet her, offered to help, and drove to pick him up.
• Qin Shi and Zhou Ning arrived at Silver Horse Gym, where Coach Luo urged a student who could not afford drugs to take out payday loans.

Qin Shi accompanied Zhou Ning to Silver Horse Gym, where he and Lin Yunqing suspected Coach Luo of selling dangerous drugs. Coach Luo tested Qin Shi’s supposed talent by preparing an injection, but the Monument Panel identified the liquid as defective medication with minor effects and a chance to grant the title “Steroid Warrior.”

• Qin Shi sensed that the gym’s bodybuilders had powerful but broken auras, while Zhou Ning appeared exceptionally healthy.
• Lin Yunqing proposed gathering evidence by pretending to sign up for a trial package, then contacting a friend in the Inspection Department.
• Zhou Ning told Qin Shi that Coach Luo had saved him the last spot in the class and led him to meet the coach.
• Luo Hui dismissed Qin Shi’s physique and demanded that he prove his talent by taking an injection of Xisilon.
• A Qiang brought two vials of dark green liquid, and the Monument Panel identified their contents as low-quality defective medication.

Qin Shi drank the Nine Dragons Potion at Silver Horse Gym, helping the Inspection Department expose the illegal drug operation while upgrading his Overgrowth achievement. As Lin Yunqing took him away, his newly unlocked Predator skill remained unused, but Super Sensory Perception detected someone nearby with killing intent.

• Qin Shi drank two vials of Nine Dragons Potion, then persuaded Luo Hui to give him eighteen more so he could test his limits.
• After consuming the doses, Qin Shi gained only a small increase in physical strength and contacted Lin Yunqing for backup.
• Lin Yunqing and the Inspection Department raided Silver Horse Gym, arrested the staff, and began investigating the unlicensed drugs.
• Qin Shi’s Overgrowth achievement advanced to Intermediate, and he unlocked the Predator skill.
• As Lin Yunqing helped Qin Shi toward the rest area, he sensed killing intent and used Internal Vision and Mental Strength to seek its source.

After Silver Horse Gym was shut down, its Man in Suit hired Old Yan to silence three coaches but became more interested in learning from Qin Shi, the trainee who had demonstrated extraordinary drug tolerance. Old Yan placed a covert hit order and ended the chapter hoping to escape Hengzhou.

• The Man in Suit learned the inspection team had closed Silver Horse Gym and ordered his secretary to contain the fallout.
• The Man in Suit injected himself with Nine Dragon Fusion Supreme Edition and asked Old Yan to kill Luo Hui, Li Junqi, and Chang Qing.
• After hearing that Qin Shi had taken nineteen shots of Nine Dragons Integration, the Man in Suit decided to seek him out and join the Qin Family Gate as his disciple.
• Old Yan used the Kill or Not app to place an order on Luo Hui, Li Junqi, and Chang Qing, with the Metropolitan Area Inspection Team listed as their location.
• Old Yan performed a ritual with a Forging Emblem and worried about the dangers of Hengzhou's electronic devices and the city's frightening past.

Qin Shi stayed at Lin Yunqing’s villa and worried that the deaths of the fake-drug dealers might mean someone was targeting him. Lin Yunqing’s brother Lin Xiaohan arrived and learned she had spent millions investing in Qin Shi’s potential as a future warrior.

• Qin Shi ate high-energy food, reviewed his training progress, and resolved to ask Old Liang for tougher combat practice while considering whether to investigate Zhao Kun.
• Lin Yunqing told Qin Shi that the fake-drug dealers he had reported had died from suspected food poisoning, prompting him to fear retaliation from their syndicate.
• Lin Xiaohan arrived at Lin Yunqing’s villa and found Qin Shi there the morning after he had stayed overnight.
• Lin Yunqing explained that she viewed Qin Shi as a financial investment and had spent heavily on his training, including an eighteen-million-yuan Meditation Room and premium Energy Liquid.
• Lin Xiaohan doubted that Qin Shi would become another He Lanchán, but Lin Yunqing defended her gamble and joked that she could marry into wealth if it failed.

Lin Xiaohan explained Hengzhou’s martial arts history and the rise of New Martial Arts schools to Lin Yunqing and Qin Shi. He offered to help Qin Shi explore Qiguang Hengda University’s virtual Combat Room, leaving Qin with a possible path to study New Martial Arts.

• Lin Xiaohan warned Lin Yunqing that Qin Shi faced a steep disadvantage compared with Yu Li, but agreed to find Qin a New Martial Arts teacher once his Life Force exceeded twenty.
• Lin Xiaohan told Lin Yunqing that Hengzhou had once produced notable Martial Artists, described the Cadre School’s past, and warned her not to use outside communication devices or electronics there.
• Lin Xiaohan recalled Hengzhou’s martial arts figures and explained that He Lanchán’s Void Meditation Method had been designated an SSS-level textbook before disappearing after a military factory explosion.
• Lin Yunqing introduced Qin Shi to her older brother, Lin Xiaohan, and explained that Qiguang Hengda University offered many New Martial Arts styles.
• Lin Xiaohan described his own Limit Flow martial art and offered Qin Shi the use of Lin Yunqing’s Student Card to visit the university’s virtual Combat Room.

Qin Shi entered Qiguang Hengda’s virtual Combat Room with Lin Yunqing, whose poor ranking clashed with her boasts about her fighting ability. After browsing the Martial Arts Department channel, Qin Shi chose a player and sent a match request, leaving his first fight about to begin.

• Lin Xiaohan told Qin Shi about Qiguang Hengda’s cutoff and urged him to live up to Lin Yunqing’s good opinion of him before leaving for a birthday banquet.
• Lin Xiaohan reflected on Hengzhou’s entrenched problems and asked Secretary Xu about the Qin Family’s sudden silence.
• Lin Yunqing brought Qin Shi to the basement, used a Spirit Realm helmet and his Student Card to create his Combat Room account, and dressed his avatar in an extravagant outfit with the name [Nine Heavens Thunder Double Kick].
• Qin Shi discovered Lin Yunqing ranked near the bottom of Qiguang Hengda’s school combat rankings and teased her about entering a fish-pond match.
• Qin Shi switched to the Martial Arts Department channel, browsed its match posts, selected a player, and sent a match request.

Qin Shi tested his Old Martial Arts skills in Qiguang Hengda University's Combat Room and narrowly lost to [Cat Head Killer], whose stronger stats could not prevent Qin Shi from nearly crippling him. [Cat Head Killer] publicized the mysterious fighter, and Dongfeng Nandu turned the discovery into a challenge for the Martial Arts Department.

• Qin Shi matched with [Cat Head Killer], a second-year Martial Arts Department student who used Ripple Qi Gong, and learned that his opponent's Life Force was far higher.
• Qin Shi dodged [Cat Head Killer]'s attacks, then traded injuries with him and used his Old Martial Arts strength to damage his opponent despite the stat gap.
• [Cat Head Killer] won after two minutes, but Qin Shi left eager to keep fighting and believed the intense match might spur his Life Force to grow.
• [Cat Head Killer] identified Qin Shi as an Old Martial Arts practitioner, posted screenshots and a report on the campus forum, and later returned to find the thread drawing widespread attention.
• Dongfeng Nandu announced an ultimate humiliation challenge for the Martial Arts Department, warning lower-ranked students that losing to the Psionic Department's Old Martial Arts fighter would bring lasting ridicule.

After sixty-nine solo matches against Hengda students, Qin Shi returned home and learned that a gym owner had come to see him. Cao Bin offered him a gift called Super Protein.

• Qin Shi fought sixty-nine solo matches, studying different martial arts styles while raising his cultivation and fighting skills close to their next levels.
• Lin Yunqing praised Qin Shi’s fighting spirit and prepared a training plan to help him grow stronger.
• Qin Shi returned to Old Factory Street, where Aunt Zhou told him that Zhou Ning’s hospital checkup had found him healthy but unusually resistant to drugs.
• Qin Shi found a burly visitor waiting at home and prepared for a possible fight before the man introduced himself as Cao Bin, owner of Silver Horse Gym.
• Cao Bin gave Qin Shi a small black box of Super Protein, saying Qin Shi’s dedication to muscle and innate talent had impressed him.

Qin Shi met Cao Bin, who mistook his drug tolerance for extraordinary physical talent and asked to join the Qin Family Gate. Qin Shi agreed to coach him for money and activated the Working Warrior achievement, which opened new professional skills.

• Qin Lan and Qin Shi used a coded exchange to stand down from alert and avoid calling the neighbors for help against Cao Bin.
• Cao Bin explained how his fear of becoming skinny again had led him to rely on injections and drugs, then praised Qin Shi’s ability to withstand Nine Dragons Integration and asked to join the Qin Family Gate.
• Qin Shi denied having special insights, but Cao Bin insisted on studying his routine and offered to pay for a training program.
• Qin Shi gave Cao Bin a plan involving exercise, reading, and a fitness meal prepared by Coach Qin, making the meal the main source of his fee.
• Qin Shi activated the Working Warrior achievement, which granted professional skills and increased Life Force cultivation for each certification.

Qin Shi accepted his Working Warrior profession and persuaded Cao Bin to try his muscle-building meals, while learning how deeply President Qin’s businesses shaped Smoke City. After parting from Xie Yucheng, Cheng Ze and Li Yuan went to inspect the streets slated for redevelopment, each youth heading toward a different future.

• Qin Shi reviewed his Working Warrior skills, welcomed the benefits, and wondered whether visiting new places could unlock more professions.
• Cao Bin agreed to test Qin Shi’s fitness plan and gave him Super Protein, then explained that President Qin’s Yuhai companies supplied drugs and had won the local redevelopment project.
• Qin Shi returned to Baogong Street and found Xie Yucheng leading a crowd that had gathered after hearing a musclehead was there.
• Xie Yucheng told Qin Shi that Cheng Ze and Li Yuan were checking the streets scheduled for demolition, but Qin Shi went home to cook for his little sister.
• Cheng Ze recalled Teacher Liang’s advice about putting down roots, then took Li Yuan and the others to see Jianshe Street’s future commercial center.

Qin Shi reflected on his rapid physical and mental growth, then learned Qi Lock from Old Liang after sensing the Life Force of those around him. Old Liang noted Qin Shi was approaching seventeen Life Force points and urged him to seek an opportunity to break his limits a second time.

• Qin Shi reviewed his Monument progress and resolved to have Old Cao's Super Protein checked by Old Liang before using it.
• Qin Shi dreamed of explosions and a piercing screech on Old Factory Street, but Deep Sleep shattered the nightmare and advanced its achievement.
• Qin Shi visited No. 9 Vocational Middle School, where Old Liang noticed his Life Force had grown more vigorous.
• Old Liang explained Qi Lock, and Qin Shi circulated his Qi and projected his aura, sensing Old Liang's immense but fading presence.
• Old Liang taught Qin Shi how Martial Artists concealed their Life Force and warned him about long-range attacks from Gunfighters and Gunners.
• Old Liang said Qin Shi was nearing seventeen Life Force points and urged him to find an opportunity to break his limits a second time.

Qin Shi learned that Old Liang would prepare materials to help him break the Second Limit, then watched his master demonstrate Hongsheng's signature killing move. The chapter left Qin Shi poised to learn the Whale Killer Hand.

• Old Liang explained how breaking the Seven Great Limits could transform Qin Shi's body and said the Bone Gate and Skin Gate would be among the next challenges.
• Qin Shi offered to pay for training materials, but Old Liang explained that rare Life Force resources were difficult to obtain in Hengzhou and outlined how nourishing blood could strengthen the bones.
• Old Liang said Qin Shi first needed to learn Hongsheng's signature killing move and demonstrated how combat techniques could draw out the body's potential.
• Old Liang used Hundred Forms Cultivating Momentum to sweep his palm through a thick steel bar, slicing it cleanly in half.
• Old Liang named the technique the First Form of Swift as the Wind: Whale Killer Hand.

Qin Shi struggled to understand the killing intent behind Whale Killer Hand, and Old Liang explained that Old Martial Arts momentum came from life-and-death experience. That night, Qin Shi witnessed the fallout of Uncle Li’s son’s gambling debts and spoke with Cheng Ze, who urged him to move west with his sister and keep pursuing university.

• Qin Shi trained Whale Killer Hand without grasping Swift as the Wind until Old Liang explained that Hundred Forms Cultivating Momentum required insight into killing techniques and experience with bloodshed.
• Qin Shi asked how the New Martial Arts Faction learned martial images, and Old Liang said battlefield combat forged its techniques.
• Qin Shi passed an ambulance carrying Uncle Li’s body and learned that his son’s gambling debts had driven him to suicide.
• Cheng Ze told Qin Shi to move west with his sister after the relocation proposal was signed and asked about his university plans.
• Cheng Ze took Qin Shi’s chicken frames, told him to stay away from Midnight Palace while continuing to pay his base salary, then lit his cigarette with a spark and disappeared into an alley.