Chapter Summaries

Zhao Xinfeng spoke with his mother while the Moon Shadow Rebel Army planned to recover the Secret Key from Xu Qing. When Xu Qing escaped the warehouse and fought the ambush, a third attacker dropped from the roof with Twin Blades.

• Zhao Xinfeng refused his father's offer of manuals and training because he resented that his sister's heart had been used to save him.
• Chu Lun explained that the Moon Shadow Rebel Army needed the Secret Key to contact an ally in City Hall and planned to kill Xu Qing with a sniper rifle and three martial artists.
• Xu Qing dodged the sniper's armor-piercing bullet and charged out through the warehouse's weakest gate.
• Two martial artists in black Combat Suits attacked Xu Qing with a longsword and a battle blade, but he countered with a spear strike.
• A third attacker suddenly leaped from the warehouse roof, wielding Twin Blades.

Xu Qing fought Ye Yuan and two other martial artists who had tried to kill him, overwhelming them with his spear techniques. After defeating the attackers, he carried a corpse toward Chu Lun and Zhao Xinfeng, whose confidence in Ye Yuan’s victory had just collapsed.

• Ye Yuan recognized Xu Qing as a seventh-rank martial artist and offered him a chance to join their group, but Xu Qing attacked instead.
• Xu Qing evaded the three martial artists’ counterattack and launched a relentless assault, disabling one of them and injuring Ye Yuan.
• Xu Qing shattered Ye Yuan’s defenses with a series of spear strikes, while the last martial artist charged to protect Ye Yuan and was killed by Xu Qing.
• Ye Yuan, badly wounded, faced Xu Qing as Chu Lun and Zhao Xinfeng expected him to win; then they saw Xu Qing carrying a corpse toward them.

After defeating the Rebel Army ambush, Xu Qing killed Zhao Xinfeng, took the attackers’ weapons, and reflected on the strengths and weaknesses revealed by the battle. In the base city, Wang Mu offered to introduce him to someone who could provide discounted Gene Potions, while sharing City Hall’s search for the mysterious fighter Xu Qing pretended not to be.

• Xu Qing learned that Zhao Xinfeng had joined the Rebel Army after they rescued him, then killed him after hearing his last words.
• Xu Qing left the battlefield before police and County Government Hall martial artists arrived, taking the Rebel Army members’ weapons and bank cards as compensation.
• On the drive to the base city, Xu Qing reviewed his combat skills and decided to improve his Night Owl Swordplay and movement techniques.
• After Wang Mu returned his call, Xu Qing agreed to meet someone who could provide better-quality Gene Potions at a discount.
• Wang Mu told Xu Qing that City Hall was monitoring a mysterious spear expert who had wiped out a Rebel Army squad, and Xu Qing pretended to be curious about the fighter.

Wang Mu brought Xu Qing to meet City Defense Minister Gongsun Jin, who offered him covert missions against Rebel Army collaborators and registered him as a City Hall martial artist. Two weeks later, Xu Qing accepted his first mission in 0125 County, hoping to benefit from Gongsun Jin’s connections.

• Wang Mu told Xu Qing how Rebel Army infiltration and rising prices had thrown the counties around 0119 Base City into turmoil.
• Wang Mu introduced Xu Qing to Gongsun Jin, who asked him to secretly eliminate suspected Rebel Army collaborators.
• Gongsun Jin gave Xu Qing an official City Hall martial artist identification and said he would contact him with missions.
• Xu Qing returned to work and cultivation, then received his first mission notice two weeks later.
• Xu Qing accepted the mission in 0125 County, valuing Gongsun Jin’s connections more than the payment.

Xu Qing returned to Celestial God Company just as a Silver Moon Wolf attacked the factory, killing employees before fleeing. The Beast Tide’s aftermath left three company workers and several members of the Thunder Dragon Gang dead, and Xu Qing was left angry at the Rebel Army.

• Xu Qing found the Dragon Sunset Hunting Zone closed because Rebel Army activity had released Mutated Creatures, including some that had escaped nearby.
• After hearing a wolf howl near Celestial God Company, Xu Qing ran back and found a Silver Moon Wolf inside the factory, where it had killed two employees.
• Xu Qing approached the Rank 6-or-higher wolf with his B-rank Alloy Battle Sword, and it fled after sensing him as a threat.
• Luo Qingshan sent Chen Feng to follow the wolf while the Security Team checked for casualties and damage; the company later confirmed three employees had died.
• The Silver Moon Wolf later attacked the Thunder Dragon Gang headquarters, where Lei Yang and other experts killed it after seven or eight gang members died.

Xu Qing followed a Rebel Army plot to incite a riot in 0125 County and discovered Deputy County Magistrate Lu Jieping was conspiring with Rebel Army commander Kou Tianlang. After Lu Jieping’s convoy was attacked, a black spear struck his armored car, leaving the attacker’s identity unknown.

• Xu Qing traveled to 0125 County for Gongsun Jin’s mission and watched environmental demonstrators gather in the county center.
• A middle-aged official provoked the crowd with an inflammatory speech, and the demonstration erupted into a riot.
• Xu Qing followed the official to an underground club, where he saw Kou Tianlang praise Deputy County Magistrate Lu Jieping for stoking unrest and discuss seizing the county’s Weaponry Depot and energy weapon array.
• Lu Jieping left the club for 0126 County, and Xu Qing secretly followed his convoy.
• Three martial artists attacked Lu Jieping’s convoy, and two were killed while the last struggled against his defenders.
• A bolt of black lightning struck Lu Jieping’s armored car, leaving a large black spear embedded in its damaged plating.

Xu Qing killed Lu Jieping and three Rebel Army guards after discovering that Lu had been secretly working with the Rebel Army. He left the surviving freelance martial artist Huang Zhe behind, then reported that Gongsun Jin’s mission was complete.

• Xu Qing used his improved movement technique to evade Lu Jieping’s attack and kill him with a spear thrust.
• Xu Qing let four Alliance Martial Artists leave and killed the three Rebel Army guards who tried to flee.
• The surviving martial artist, Huang Zhe, introduced himself and told Xu Qing that he and his friends had sought to stop Lu Jieping.
• Xu Qing refused Huang Zhe’s request to follow him or exchange Communication Numbers, and Huang Zhe resolved to expose the Rebel Army.
• As Xu Qing rode back to the company, he called Gongsun Jin and confirmed that he had completed the mission.

After reaching the fifth style of the Night Owl Secret Technique, Xu Qing measured the immense power of his sixfold burst and continued training with both spear and sword. Gongsun Jin then sent him a mission in nearby 0122 County involving a dangerous young couple from a martial arts school.

• Xu Qing crossed twenty-two tons of physical strength, reached a maximum lifespan of 102 years, and gained 10 million Alliance Coins for assassinating Lu Jieping.
• Xu Qing advanced to craftsman and received a villa after Zhou Yu approved his work on A-grade Combat Suits.
• Xu Qing spent his Free Attribute Point to advance the Night Owl Secret Technique from the fourth style to the fifth.
• Xu Qing practiced Xingyi and estimated that his sixfold burst could reach roughly 130 tons of force, near the lowest strength threshold of an eighth-rank martial artist.
• Xu Qing received a mission from Gongsun Jin in nearby 0122 County and learned that its targets were a dangerous young couple from a martial arts school.

Xu Qing tracked Zhou Zhi and Xu Fengjiao to the Upright Wind Yoga Hall, where they secretly spread Rebel Army ideology, then confronted Zhou Zhi in the changing room. The chapter ended as Xu Qing grabbed Zhou Zhi by the throat.

• Li Feilong urged Li Hu to use the Rebel Army as a borrowed knife by framing the seventh-rank expert as the spear user who killed Rebel Army members.
• Xu Qing watched the Heavenly Path Martial Hall and confirmed that Zhou Zhi and Xu Fengjiao used the yoga hall to indoctrinate officials' families and children.
• Xu Qing followed the pair to the yoga hall and used a jammer to block nearby surveillance cameras.
• Xu Qing entered the changing room and pretended to be a prospective yoga student while speaking with Zhou Zhi.
• Xu Qing suddenly clamped a hand around Zhou Zhi's throat.

Xu Qing assassinated Zhou Zhi and Xu Fengjiao, then traveled to 0122 County on a Celestial God Company business trip. There, Li Bao tried to recruit him for a combat suit negotiation, but Xu Qing refused and challenged him to act.

• Xu Qing killed Zhou Zhi with a surprise attack and then killed Xu Fengjiao when she attempted to stab him.
• Xu Qing photographed the bodies, left evidence of their identities, and departed before anyone discovered the killings.
• After returning to the dormitory, Xu Qing accepted a business trip to introduce Celestial God Company's A-grade Combat Suits to a potential partner in 0122 County.
• Xu Qing arrived in 0122 County with the company team and went out to explore before negotiations began the next morning.
• Li Bao's men stopped Xu Qing outside Mingtang Hotel and tried to seize him, but Li Bao intervened and politely asked him to discuss a combat suit order.
• Xu Qing bluntly refused Li Bao's invitation and challenged him to attack him in the street.

Xu Qing discovered that Li Hu planned to capture Celestial God Company personnel and work with the Rebel Army to lure him into a deadly ambush, so he passed information to Gongsun Jin. The next day, armed helicopters and armed figures surrounded Li Hu and Kou Tianlang at their meeting on Qingliang Mountain, and Kou accused Li Hu of betraying him.

• Li Bao told Xu Qing that the Hunting Tiger Gang wanted to discuss cooperation with Celestial God Company, then left after Xu Qing saved his contact number.
• Xu Qing followed Li Bao and overheard Li Hu planning to use the Rebel Army and captured company personnel to draw out and kill him.
• Xu Qing contacted Gongsun Jin and reported intelligence about the Rebel Army.
• Li Hu met Kou Tianlang at the Qingliang Mountain pavilion to discuss their plan.
• Three armed helicopters and armed figures surrounded the pavilion, and Kou Tianlang accused Li Hu of selling him out.

Xu Qing helped expose a secret meeting between Li Hu and Kou Tianlang, leading to their capture, but the authorities later ruled they lacked grounds to dismantle the Hunting Tiger Gang. As Xu Qing considered wiping out its remaining members himself, he was disturbed by how readily he had turned to killing.

• The 0119 Base City City Guard Army surrounded Li Hu and Kou Tianlang, and both men surrendered with their forces.
• Xu Qing received news that a client deal had gone smoothly and celebrated with his colleagues while the Rebel Army faced capture.
• After the Hunting Tiger Gang's collusion with the Rebel Army became public, Xu Qing trained and decided that improving his speed should be his priority.
• Xu Qing learned that the authorities could not bring serious charges against the Hunting Tiger Gang and that Vice Leader Li Feilong had taken charge.
• Xu Qing considered killing the gang's remaining members, then recoiled at realizing that murder had become his first solution.

Xu Qing struggled with the morality of killing until Li Chengguang convinced him that killing the Hunting Tiger Gang was justice, and he returned to Tiger Mountain to eliminate its remaining members. On New Year’s Eve, Zhou Tong brought him to dinner with her family, easing his loneliness away from home.

• Xu Qing wandered the city, troubled that killing might make him lose his humanity, until Li Chengguang argued that killing the evil Hunting Tiger Gang was justice.
• Xu Qing decided to eradicate the remaining Hunting Tiger Gang members and climbed Tiger Mountain, killing the gang members who tried to stop him.
• Xu Qing killed Li Feilong and returned to the company before midnight, where he felt lonely thinking of his family and childhood friends.
• Zhou Tong arrived with a lunchbox and invited Xu Qing to dinner with her family, and he accepted.
• On the way, Xu Qing and Zhou Tong joked about the cost of her trips home and her female classmate, until Zhou Tong told him to get lost.

After Zhao Xinfeng’s death, Zhao Changfeng planned to send a force to Blue Star to hunt Xu Qing and destroy the Rebel Army. Xu Qing killed Li Hu and his remaining gang members, while Li Chengguang ordered Number Nine to intercept the Moon’s force.

• Zhao Changfeng ordered his butler to assemble elite Ninth Order Martial Artists and Mental Power Masters, find Xu Qing, and later attack the Rebel Army.
• Li Hu returned to Tiger Mountain and vowed revenge for his son Flying Dragon, but Xu Qing killed him and the surviving Hunting Tiger Gang members.
• Li Yang’s officers arrived, and he ordered them to classify the killings as gangsters killing each other rather than investigate Xu Qing.
• A Liya told Li Chengguang that Zhao Changfeng was preparing a force to target Xu Qing, and Li Chengguang sent Number Nine to deal with them outside the atmosphere.

Xu Qing learned that Wang Mu’s daughter, Xiao DouDou, needed three billion for treatment and gave Wang Mu his thirty million in savings. Meanwhile, Lei Ze and Zhang Yuan secretly met at a small courtyard, revealing their friendly relationship despite leading rival gangs.

• Xu Qing treated Wang Mu to dinner and confronted him about his poor condition.
• Wang Mu revealed that Xiao DouDou had a genetic defect requiring treatment on the moon, which would cost three billion.
• Xu Qing gave Wang Mu thirty million and later visited Xiao DouDou at home.
• Xu Qing decided to earn more money and messaged Gongsun Jin’s butler to look for missions.
• Lei Ze and Zhang Yuan met secretly at a courtyard and greeted each other like old friends.

Zhou Yu and Liu Zhankun finalized plans for the county uprising and decided to send Li Li to Base City. Zhou Yu asked Xu Qing to protect her there, revealing that he knew about Xu Qing’s strength and giving him until morning to decide.

• Lei Ze, Zhang Yuan, Liu Zhankun, and Zhou Yu met secretly and set the county uprising for Tuesday night, one week later.
• Zhou Yu and Liu Zhankun agreed that Li Li should go to Base City and that Xu Qing would be the best person to protect her.
• Zhou Yu summoned Xu Qing and explained that he had deduced Xu Qing hunted powerful mutated creatures to obtain materials for an A-rank combat suit.
• Zhou Yu revealed that he had divorced Li Li and planned for her to manage his company’s Base City branch while publicly appearing to be his enemy.
• Zhou Yu offered Xu Qing a branch HR manager position and asked him to protect Li Li, telling him to answer by the next morning.

Xu Qing moved to 0119 Base City to take a hands-off management job at Nimble Technology Company and looked for missions from Gongsun Jin. Outside a club, he stopped a woman from stabbing him, killed her, and carried off the drunk young man she had been supporting.

• Xu Qing accepted Zhou Yu’s offer, resigned, and moved to 0119 Base City with Wang Li.
• Xu Qing completed his onboarding at Nimble Technology Company, settled Wang Li into the Zhou Family’s house, and rented a villa for himself.
• Xu Qing spotted a nervous woman supporting a drunk young man outside Qing Zi Club, but initially walked away.
• The woman lunged at Xu Qing with a dagger, and he caught the blade between two fingers.
• Xu Qing snapped the woman’s neck, found the young man in a nearby alley, and carried him away as police arrived at the scene.

Xu Qing rescued Gongsun Li from a woman who had drugged him, then learned that Li was the Gongsun Family's heir. When Gongsun Jin offered him up to one billion in gratitude, Xu Qing declined the money and waited to hear about work.

• Xu Qing told Gongsun Li how he had saved him after the woman tried to kill Xu Qing, and Li eagerly exchanged Communication Numbers with him.
• Xu Qing visited Gongsun Jin's residence seeking missions, but the butler said few were available because Wang Mu had taken many of them.
• Gongsun Li arrived at the residence and reunited with Xu Qing, then the butler went to inform Gongsun Jin of Li's ordeal.
• Gongsun Jin personally thanked Xu Qing and offered him up to one billion, but Xu Qing declined the generous gift.

Xu Qing went to Jingzhe Martial Arts Academy to have his martial artist rank assessed. He passed the punch strength and speed tests at third-order level, and the chapter ended as Zeng Jun led him to the neural response test.

• Gongsun Jin arranged for Butler Li to take Xu Qing for an official strength assessment, while Gongsun Li went to kneel in the corner.
• Butler Li brought Xu Qing to Jingzhe Martial Arts Academy, where Coach Zeng Jun began his rank assessment.
• Xu Qing registered as a self-taught twenty-year-old and confirmed that he was not a slave.
• Xu Qing deliberately controlled his punch to score 4,001 kilograms, meeting the third-order standard.
• Xu Qing ran the track at 88.7 meters per second, and Zeng Jun led him to the neural response test.

Xu Qing passed the Neural Reaction Tester with a score of 41 and was certified as a Third-Order Martial Artist before Butler Li brought him to join the City Defense Department’s 3rd Special Patrol Team. The chapter ended with Zheng Yannan summoning Liu Zhang after Xu Qing asked where to collect his equipment.

• Xu Qing scored 41 points on the Neural Reaction Tester and received an official Third-Order Martial Artist rating.
• Butler Li told Xu Qing that the City Defense Minister had arranged a position for him in the 3rd Team of the Special Patrol Unit.
• Butler Li warned Xu Qing that the team captain, Zheng Yannan, was overbearing and advised him to avoid provoking him.
• Butler Li brought Xu Qing to the team courtyard, where Zheng Yannan finished practicing swordsmanship and told Xu Qing to register and collect his equipment before patrol.
• After Butler Li left, Xu Qing admitted he did not know where to collect his equipment, so Zheng Yannan called for Liu Zhang.