Chapter Summaries

Chapter 1 Summary

• Plot and events: In the Su family’s hall, patriarch Su Zhengdao furiously berates Su Ye, accusing him of being a cultivation failure and of striking his adopted younger brother, Su Yang. Su Yang’s mother and two older sisters defend him and reject Su Ye. Confused at first, Su Ye realizes he has transmigrated into the body of the family’s long-lost biological son in a high-martial world. After a teacup cuts his cheek, he finally confronts the family, denying the accusations and challenging their treatment of him.
• Background revealed: Su Ye was lost as a newborn during a battle against star beasts. Raised by kind strangers, he was reunited with his powerful birth family only half a month ago. His parents had adopted Su Yang, the orphaned child of a comrade, and lavished attention and cultivation resources on him while treating Su Ye as an embarrassment because of his weak talent.
• Character developments: Su Ye shifts from disoriented and emotionally overwhelmed to openly defiant, voicing years of resentment that the original owner had suppressed. Su Zhengdao’s anger is shaken by Su Ye’s accusation that he values status and pride over his son. Su Yang presents himself as devoted and vulnerable, while his mother and sisters remain protective of him and hostile toward Su Ye.
• Interactions and themes: The confrontation pits Su Ye against his parents and sisters, who expect him to accept blame and apologize. His accusations expose a family that has failed to offer him trust, affection, or even a fair hearing. The chapter centers on favoritism, conditional parental love, class prejudice, false accusations, and the conflict between public reputation and private responsibility.

Plot and events

• In the Su Family Hall, Su Yang presents himself as willing to leave the family to make amends, while Su Mingyue, Su Xingchen, and Xuanyuan Mingmou defend him and insist he belongs.
• Su Xingchen attacks Su Ye with lightning, badly hurting him. Su Ye accuses Su Yang of engineering the recent accusations against him to drive him out and conceal that Su Yang is not the family’s biological son.
• Su Zhengdao strikes Su Ye and orders him to leave. Su Ye accepts, declares he is severing all ties with the family, and returns the 368 yuan he says he received, along with his necklace. He walks out without looking back.
• Alone outside, Su Ye’s Slaughter System activates and awakens his supernatural ability: an evolvable Vampire physique. The system lists his cultivation, basic combat skill, lack of talent, and 444.4 Slaughter Value, which can be spent to improve his abilities. Moonlight and starlight begin healing and strengthening him.

Character developments

• Su Ye shifts from a rejected, physically weak son to someone determined to choose his own path. His departure becomes the turning point that reveals his hidden potential.
• Su Yang acts conciliatory, but Su Ye suspects him of manipulating events. The narration hints that Su Yang’s concern may conceal satisfaction.
• Su Zhengdao rejects Su Ye outright, while Xuanyuan Mingmou and Su Mingyue openly prioritize Su Yang.
• Su Xingchen, confident in her superiority, injures Su Ye with a strike she did not intend to make so severe.

Relationships and interactions

• The family’s defense of Su Yang reinforces Su Ye’s exclusion. Su Ye directly confronts Su Yang, but Su Yang does not answer; others step in to protect him.
• Su Ye refuses reconciliation on the family’s terms and makes a clean break, insisting that neither side owes the other anything.

Significant themes

• Belonging and rejection: Su Ye is treated as an outsider despite being Su Zhengdao’s biological son.
• Deception and resentment: The conflict centers on Su Yang’s place in the family and Su Ye’s belief that he is being framed and pushed out.
• Self-determination and transformation: Leaving the family marks both an emotional break and the beginning of Su Ye’s supernatural awakening.
• Power emerging from adversity: The weak, dismissed Su Ye gains a system and a night-linked physique that may let him rise beyond the family that rejected him.

Key plot points and events

• After Su Ye leaves the Su family without taking anything, the family is stunned. Su Yang wants to find him, but Xuanyuan Mingmou warns him to stay away, believing Su Ye is a threat.
• Su Mingyue dismisses Su Ye’s departure as a ploy to make the family chase after him. Su Xingchen, however, notices the bank card he left contains only 368 yuan.
• Su Xingchen opens the necklace Su Ye left behind and finds the family portrait he once asked them to take. Seeing how carefully he kept it makes her reconsider how badly the family has treated him.
• When the family asks where Su Ye’s belongings are, the butler, Su Zhong, reveals that Su Ye lived in the basement and owned almost nothing.
• The family visits his room: a cramped former storage space, with only a bed, desk, books, and water—no clothes or personal terminal. Xuanyuan Mingmou admits she assumed someone else had provided for him.
• Su Xingchen realizes Su Ye may truly have left, alone and without resources, and wonders where he can go.

Character developments

• Su Xingchen shifts from dismissing Su Ye to confronting the evidence of his neglect and her own part in it.
• Xuanyuan Mingmou begins to recognize that she failed to care for Su Ye, recalling how her attention turned toward Su Yang and never returned to him.
• Su Zhong quietly reveals that Su Ye was repeatedly denied a proper room and basic consideration. He privately sees Su Ye as more like Su Zhengdao than Su Yang.
• Su Mingyue remains contemptuous and assumes Su Ye is manipulating the family; Su Yang appears concerned but is quickly discouraged from approaching him.

Significant themes

• Neglect and unequal treatment: The family’s wealth contrasts sharply with Su Ye’s poverty and cramped living conditions.
• Belonging and rejection: The portrait shows that Su Ye once genuinely wanted to belong, even as the family treated him as an outsider.
• Late recognition and regret: The family only begins to understand their failure after Su Ye has left.
• Appearances versus reality: Su Ye’s departure is called a stunt, but the evidence suggests he has truly severed ties.

Character interactions

• Xuanyuan Mingmou protects Su Yang from Su Ye while overlooking the harm done to Su Ye.
• Su Mingyue rejects the idea that Su Ye has genuinely left; Su Xingchen’s discovery of the portrait challenges that assumption.
• Su Zhong’s revelations force the family to confront the reality of Su Ye’s living conditions.
• Su Xingchen questions her mother, prompting Xuanyuan Mingmou to face how little she actually knew about her son’s life.

Key plot points and events

• Homeless and nearly out of money after leaving the Yujing Su Family, Su Ye worries about where to go and how to build his strength.
• He receives a call from Liu Ruxin, the adoptive mother who raised him. She wishes him a happy eighteenth birthday and sends him money, despite her family’s limited means.
• Hearing how much she misses him, Su Ye decides to return home. He takes a Maglev Train to Fangyuan City and arrives at his family’s apartment at dawn.
• His parents welcome him without pressing him about what happened. Su Ye tells them he has cut ties with the Yujing Su Family and is returning to being the person he was before.
• He reunites with his seven-year-old sister, Su Baobao, and joins the family for a birthday meal.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Ye recognizes that his adoptive parents are his true family. Though he has little money and no clear path forward, he finds comfort and resolve in returning to them.
• Liu Ruxin expresses her love and longing through a birthday call and gift. She and Su Xiangdong welcome Su Ye warmly, choosing not to question him when he is not ready to explain.
• Su Baobao eagerly clings to her brother and asks him to defend her from a neighborhood bully. Their playful exchange shows their close bond and her delight at having him home.
• The family’s reunion is affectionate and understated: their care for one another matters more than the circumstances that brought Su Ye back.

Significant themes

• Chosen and adoptive family: Su Ye considers the parents who raised him his real parents, regardless of blood ties.
• Home and belonging: Despite their cramped, modest apartment, Su Ye feels safer and more at ease there than in the wealthy Su Family’s home.
• Love amid hardship: The family has little money and few advantages, yet continues to give one another care and support.
• Quiet determination: Su Ye does not boast about taking revenge or becoming powerful; he intends to prove himself through action.

Key plot points and events

• While preparing giant, spirit-energy-enhanced prawns, Su Ye discovers that killing living creatures earns him slaughter value: each prawn adds 0.1, for a total of 1.2.
• At lunch, his family celebrates his birthday. Su Ye gives his cake to his little sister, Baobao, and privately resolves to earn enough money to improve life for his family.
• Back at school after a two-week leave, Su Ye is mistaken by teacher Ren Ke for a student available to fetch coffee. He buys the drinks, then gathers classmates’ receipts for past unpaid coffee orders and has them compiled—apparently preparing to make Ren pay.
• Su Ye meets his class teacher, Lan Jingfei, who welcomes him back without pressing him about his absence.
• In front of Lan and Ren, Su Ye announces that he has awakened a supernatural ability and asks whether school rules entitle him to a reward.

Character developments

• Su Ye learns that even small creatures can add to his slaughter value, prompting him to reconsider how he accumulated his existing total.
• His affection for his family—and his awareness of their poverty—strengthen his determination to provide for them.
• He returns to school with a confident, mischievous streak, using Ren’s coffee habit as an opportunity to seek repayment for his classmates.
• Lan Jingfei remains a considerate, supportive teacher, while Ren Ke is portrayed as a shamelessly presumptuous freeloader.

Significant themes

• Family responsibility: Su Ye’s ambitions are driven partly by wanting a more comfortable life for his parents and sister.
• Power and survival: The supernatural system turns ordinary acts of killing into measurable value, revealing how broadly its rules apply.
• Fairness and accountability: Su Ye organizes evidence to challenge Ren’s exploitation of students.
• Second chances: Su Ye resumes his education after an unexplained absence, and Lan gives him room to return without demanding answers.

Character interactions

• Su Ye and Baobao share a warm sibling moment over the birthday cake, with their parents’ approval guiding Baobao’s eager treat.
• Ren treats Su Ye as an errand-runner; Su Ye plays along while quietly assembling classmates’ evidence against him.
• Lan warmly accepts Su Ye’s return and offers practical support.
• Su Ye’s revelation about awakening an ability surprises both Lan and Ren, ending the chapter on the prospect of a school reward.

Plot points and events

• Su Ye tells Teacher Lan Jingfei that he has awakened a Supernatural Ability. Rather than conceal it, he intends to make his talent known so the school will support his rapid growth.
• Lan is delighted and recognizes how rare and valuable an awakening is. She takes Su Ye to Principal Zhang, who immediately arranges a trip to Tongtian Tower for official testing.
• Before leaving, Su Ye uses the visit to expose Teacher Ren Ke’s habit of making students buy him coffee without reimbursement. He presents evidence to Principal Zhang, prompting Ren to repay the students and face a fine, disciplinary action, and public self-criticism.
• Principal Zhang and Lan escort Su Ye to a secured branch of Tongtian Tower beneath the Star Energy Association. The tower scans him and confirms his awakening as a Special Physique, granting increased strength, speed, and recovery, with greater combat power at night.
• The system approves Su Ye for an upgraded Cultivation Method and asks him to choose one.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Ye shows strategic confidence: he knows he needs institutional support and chooses to reveal his awakening. He also proves mischievous and assertive by turning his trip into an opportunity to hold Ren accountable. His discomfort in sunlight hints at the nature of his Vampire physique.
• Lan Jingfei is proud and supportive, though surprised by Su Ye’s sudden bold, troublemaking side.
• Principal Zhang enthusiastically backs Su Ye at first, then realizes Su Ye has maneuvered him into disciplining Ren. His view shifts from seeing Su Ye as a favorite student to recognizing him as a troublemaker.
• Ren Ke is embarrassed and distressed when Su Ye’s complaint brings his unfair treatment of students to light.
• Su Ye remains polite to the adults even while using their authority to achieve his aims, and offers his coffee to Zhang and Lan after the confrontation.

Significant themes

• Talent and opportunity: An awakening can transform someone’s prospects, but Su Ye understands that recognition and resources must be actively secured.
• Power and accountability: Su Ye uses his new standing to challenge a teacher’s abuse of authority.
• Appearance and hidden nature: The cheerful school episode contrasts with the darker implication of Su Ye’s night-enhanced Vampire physique.

Key events

• Principal Zhang discovers that Su Ye has awakened a combat-oriented Special Physique, boosting his strength, speed, and recovery. He upgrades Su Ye’s access from the low-level Shadow Art to a high-level cultivation method.
• Su Ye chooses the Abyssal Demon Dragon Technique, a method focused on strength and killing intent. After absorbing its knowledge and intent, he uses his system to convert his cultivation method for 60 Slaughter Value.
• He then spends more Slaughter Value to advance rapidly, reaching the sixth level of Kaiyuan. He stops before exhausting his reserves, hoping to use them later to improve his martial skills.
• Principal Zhang is astonished by the speed of Su Ye’s conversion and advancement. He attributes it to the technique’s compatibility with Su Ye’s physique and the burst of growth that often follows an awakening.
• The school gives Su Ye two bottles of Primary Nutrient Solution, two bottles of dragon-type Star Beast essence blood, and a bank card containing 600,000. The money includes the school’s awakening reward and 10,000 from his teacher, Lan Jingfei.
• Su Ye accepts the support and resolves to enter the Elite Class.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Ye shows foresight: he delayed spending his Slaughter Value until he could convert a high-level technique, then carefully conserved some for future upgrades. He remains modest and plays down his extraordinary progress.
• Principal Zhang shifts from excitement about Su Ye’s awakening to disbelief at his rapid improvement, then takes a supportive role by securing training resources.
• Lan Jingfei demonstrates personal care by contributing her own money to help Su Ye, who comes from a financially struggling family. Zhang explains that she hopes he will grow stronger and succeed in the entrance examination.

Significant themes

• Talent and opportunity: Su Ye’s awakening earns him access to better training and resources.
• Power through disciplined investment: He uses his system strategically, balancing rapid growth against the need to save resources.
• Support and ambition: The school and Lan Jingfei invest in Su Ye, while he turns their confidence into a concrete goal: joining the Elite Class and achieving well on the Gaokao.

Plot points and events

• Second High School announces a new Elite Class to improve its recent Gaokao results. Each class will nominate ten students, and the schoolwide top fifty will be selected. Students outside the preliminary Martial Arts top ten can challenge for a place.
• Su Ye’s close friend and deskmate, Xia Zhiqiu, is ranked third in Martial Arts and expects to make the class list. He asks Su Ye how he persuaded the notoriously stingy Ren Ke to repay everyone, and comments that Su Ye has become even more handsome. Su Ye promises answers the next day.
• At home, Su Ye decides that entering the Elite Class will give him access to better resources. He uses Slaughter Value to raise his Basic Combat Technique to Perfection, then spends more to improve it further, though he is unsure how much more will be needed. His cultivation reaches the Sixth Level of Kaiyuan, but his remaining Slaughter Value is low.
• The next morning, Su Ye practices beside the Hai River. His combat movements now feel instinctive, and he grows more confident about qualifying for the Elite Class. He hopes to move his family from the poorer eastern district to the prosperous western district.
• Xiao Qiyue, the school’s celebrated beauty and an Eighth-Level Kaiyuan Awakener, recognizes Su Ye for his perfect score on a science question. Impressed by how much his combat technique and bearing have improved, she asks him to spar.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Ye is increasingly focused on strength, Elite Class admission, and improving his family’s circumstances. His Vampire awakening and system-assisted training have accelerated his physical and martial progress, but limited Slaughter Value remains a concern.
• Xia Zhiqiu shows his familiar teasing closeness with Su Ye, while openly anticipating his own advancement to the Elite Class.
• Xiao Qiyue shifts from distant school celebrity to direct interlocutor: she takes notice of Su Ye’s academic achievement and rapid martial improvement, then initiates a potential test of his abilities.

Significant themes

• Competition and advancement: Martial Arts rank and access to elite resources shape students’ prospects.
• Effort, talent, and transformation: Su Ye’s extraordinary improvement contrasts with his earlier level of skill and attracts attention.
• Ambition and family responsibility: His goals extend beyond personal status to securing a better life for his family.
• Friendship and recognition: Xia’s banter reflects longstanding camaraderie, while Qiyue’s challenge signals that Su Ye’s progress is becoming visible.

Chapter summary

• Su Ye agrees to spar with Xiao Qiyue beside the Hai River. Though she initially offers to suppress her Star Power, their fight becomes a test of technique. Su Ye’s Basic Combat Technique is exceptionally refined, and his speed and strength force Xiao onto the defensive. When she switches to a more advanced fighting style, she briefly gains the advantage, but Su Ye adapts and eventually wins. He is exhilarated by the match and reflects on what he learned.
• After the spar, Xiao realizes her sweat-soaked uniform is clinging to her. Su Ye awkwardly lends her his jacket, and she blushes as she puts it on. They walk to school together, agreeing she’ll return the jacket the next morning.
• Su Ye reminds himself that his priorities are improving his cultivation, providing for his family, and dealing with the Yujing Su Family. At school, his friend Xia Zhiqiu immediately teases him about arriving with Xiao and lending her his jacket. Su Ye denies any romance and redirects Xia’s attention to the upcoming martial-arts matches.
• In Class 1, Zhang Xuan notices Xiao wearing a boy’s jacket and learns that Su Ye accompanied her. He dismisses Su Ye as a poor, weak student from the slums and decides not to confront him, believing Su Ye is only a passing presence in Xiao’s life.
• Just as Zhang Xuan settles into that attitude, he receives a call from Young Master Su Yang of Yujing, leaving him shocked and thrilled.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Ye demonstrates how far his combat ability has advanced, thanks to his improved technique and physical attributes. He is eager to learn from strong opponents but remains focused on his larger ambitions.
• Xiao Qiyue respects Su Ye after their fair fight and responds warmly to his kindness. Their shared spar and the borrowed jacket create a shy, suggestive closeness.
• Xia Zhiqiu acts as Su Ye’s teasing, gossip-loving friend, while also voicing his envy of Su Ye’s appeal.
• Zhang Xuan emerges as a status-conscious rival who looks down on Su Ye because of his background. His call from Su Yang introduces a possible connection to the powerful Yujing Su Family.

Significant themes

• Growth through challenge: Su Ye’s spar with Xiao helps him test and refine his skills.
• Kindness and emerging attraction: The jacket exchange turns a practical gesture into an awkwardly intimate moment.
• Class prejudice and status: Zhang Xuan assumes Su Ye is insignificant because he comes from the slums.
• Ambition and family responsibility: Su Ye’s personal goals remain more important to him than school gossip or romantic speculation.

Key plot points and events

• Zhang Xuan, after speaking with Su Yang, orders a lackey to take men and hurt Su Ye.
• In Yujing, Su Yang tells Su Mingyue that he wanted someone to look after Su Ye in Fangyuan City because Su Ye is the family’s true young master. Mingyue refuses, worried that public attention to Su Ye’s life in the Slums would embarrass the family.
• Su Xingchen overhears that Su Ye has returned to Fangyuan City. Though he dismisses his suspicion that Su Yang may have ill intentions, he decides to arrange for someone to keep an eye on Su Ye.
• At school, Class 37 announces its Martial Arts top ten and invites students to challenge them for their positions. Lü Zhengren challenges tenth-ranked Sun Shan, but Sun Shan wins with greater skill in the Basic Combat Technique.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Yang presents himself as considerate toward Su Ye, using concern for him to reassure Su Mingyue. His private call to Zhang Xuan, however, leads to an order for Su Ye to be beaten.
• Su Mingyue remains hostile toward Su Ye and protective of Su Yang, viewing Su Ye’s return to the Slums as foolish and potentially shameful to the family.
• Su Xingchen begins to question how Su Yang learned of Su Ye’s whereabouts, but quickly pushes the suspicion aside. He nevertheless decides Su Ye deserves some attention as a member of the family.
• Su Ye remains unaware of the family’s actions. At school, sunlight makes him uncomfortable, and he watches the challenge rather than immediately joining in.
• Sun Shan confirms his place in the top ten by defeating Lü Zhengren; their playful “grandfather” taunts turn into a straightforward contest.

Significant themes

• Appearance versus reality: Su Yang’s compassionate words conceal a hostile action, while Su Xingchen struggles to reconcile his suspicions with his favorable view of him.
• Family, belonging, and rejection: Su Ye’s adoptive home seems more meaningful to him than the Su Family, whose members debate his worth and reputation.
• Status and competition: The students’ challenge system makes rank public and encourages them to prove themselves through combat.
• Unexplained vulnerability: Su Ye’s discomfort in sunlight hints at a physical condition or mystery not yet explained.

Key plot points and events

• After defeating one challenger, Sun Shan accepts a second fight and beats Zheng Wang, but pretends to collapse from exhaustion to avoid further matches.
• Shi Zhi criticizes Sun Shan for fighting back-to-back, then challenges Su Ye. Su Ye defeats him with a single strike, stunning the class.
• Lan Jingfei names Su Ye a new member of the class’s top ten martial arts students and says he’ll represent Class Seventeen in its bid for Elite Class. She uses his success to encourage students with poor natural aptitude to work harder, then introduces a rule against consecutive challenges.
• The remaining challenges leave the top ten unchanged. Su Ye reassures his friend Xia Zhiqiu that he has only recently “broken through,” and offers to buy him cola; Xia happily asks for two bottles.
• After school, Su Ye goes to the Golden Moon Seafood Restaurant to ask about an evening kitchen-assistant job. He wants the work because preparing seafood will let him earn slaughter value through his system.
• As he waits for the manager, Liao Tingting—the attractive student from the neighboring class who once confessed to Su Ye—and a yellow-haired young man arrive with a group. The man mocks Su Ye for seeking restaurant work, implying he has given up on the Gaokao.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Ye reveals that his apparent lack of martial-arts talent conceals real strength: he defeats the seventh-ranked Shi Zhi effortlessly. He keeps his status as a supernatural ability awakener private rather than explaining his power, allowing Lan Jingfei to present his victory as a lesson in hard work.
• Sun Shan wins his second match through superior technique, then feigns illness to protect his standing and avoid another challenge.
• Shi Zhi’s confidence and pride in his rank collapse when Su Ye defeats him in one blow.
• Lan Jingfei shows confidence in Su Ye and turns his victory into a motivational example for the class.
• Xia Zhiqiu reacts with affectionate indignation that Su Ye hid his breakthrough, but is quickly cheered by the offer of cola.
• Liao Tingting and the yellow-haired young man confront Su Ye at the restaurant; their mocking exchange sets up a new conflict.

Significant themes

• Effort versus innate talent: Lan Jingfei argues that dedication can overcome poor natural aptitude, though Su Ye knows his hidden supernatural ability also explains his success.
• Public image versus concealed ability: The class still thinks of Su Ye as a handsome but weak student, while he hides the true source of his strength.
• Competition and face-saving: The challenge matches reveal students’ ambition, pride, and willingness to protect their status.
• Practical ambition: Su Ye seeks work not merely for money but to turn an ordinary job into a way to advance his abilities.

Plot points

• Su Ye recognizes Zheng Feng, a wealthy, bullying martial-arts-school heir who has targeted him because Liao Tingting once confessed to Su Ye—though Su Ye rejected her. Zheng Feng resents Su Ye despite now dating Tingting, partly because she has compared the two men.
• Su Ye comes to the Golden Moon Seafood Restaurant seeking an evening part-time job, but the manager initially says there are no openings.
• Zheng Feng insults Su Ye’s slum background and orders two trained lackeys to attack him. Su Ye prepares to fight back, but Xiao Qiyue intervenes and effortlessly knocks the attackers aside.
• Xiao reveals that her family owns the restaurant. She has Zheng Feng, his lackeys, and Tingting removed and banned, then arranges a part-time position for Su Ye.
• Su Ye accepts, explaining privately that the job supports his cultivation. Xiao understands and encourages him to improve his skills and reach Martial Arts University.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Ye remains composed when provoked, but is ready to defend himself when Zheng Feng’s harassment turns physical. He accepts Xiao’s help without embarrassment and is considerate enough to explain his real purpose.
• Zheng Feng is exposed as both entitled and insecure: his jealousy fuels his aggression, but his bravado collapses when Xiao’s security confronts him.
• Xiao Qiyue shows authority and concern for Su Ye. She considers whether to advise him against working but respects his independence, choosing instead to support his decision.
• Liao Tingting’s lingering comparisons with Su Ye help explain Zheng Feng’s jealousy, even though she is now with Zheng Feng.

Significant themes

• Bullying and insecurity: Zheng Feng’s status and group of followers conceal his resentment and fear of comparison.
• Self-reliance and support: Su Ye pursues his own cultivation goals, while Xiao offers practical help without taking control of his choices.
• Hidden purpose: The job appears to be about money, but Su Ye needs it as part of his cultivation path.

Plot points

• Su Ye begins a part-time job at the Golden Moon Seafood Restaurant, where Manager Liu guides him through preparing seafood and asks Old Zhao to help him.
• Discovering that slaughtering seafood earns him Slaughter Value, Su Ye works quickly through the orders. By closing time, he has gained 24.2 Slaughter Value.
• He calculates that regular work could help him advance his cultivation and improve his Basic Combat Technique before the martial arts entrance exam.
• Manager Liu pays him the restaurant’s standard rate of 300 yuan for the evening. Su Ye realizes the job was arranged through Xiao Qiyue, decides not to rely on her generosity, and resolves to repay her.
• On his way home with grilled seafood, Su Ye senses two groups following him. A crowd blocks his path and threatens to break his legs; an unseen, solitary pursuer also seems to be nearby.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Ye proves efficient and capable at the job, while his eagerness to gain Slaughter Value reveals his practical, goal-driven attitude. He is grateful to Xiao Qiyue but determined to improve his family’s circumstances through his own efforts.
• Manager Liu treats Su Ye warmly because of Xiao Qiyue and mistakes his focus on the work for the behavior of a wealthy young man trying out a job.
• Old Zhao initially assumes Su Ye may be an inexperienced rich kid, then is impressed by his speed and competence.
• Su Ye’s thoughts of his hard-working father and mother waiting at home underline his attachment to his family. His encounter with the attackers shifts the chapter from workplace progress to impending danger.

Significant themes

• Self-reliance and family responsibility: Su Ye wants to help his family without depending on favors.
• Growth through practical effort: His job directly fuels his cultivation and exam preparation.
• Kindness and reciprocity: He appreciates Xiao Qiyue’s help and intends to repay it.
• Suspense and hidden threats: Su Ye’s heightened senses reveal that multiple parties are tracking him, setting up a confrontation.

Plot points and events

• Su Ye defeats more than a dozen street thugs who were hired to break his legs. Their low cultivation and lack of skill make them little challenge.
• Rather than force the gang leader to reveal the employer, Su Ye unlocks the leader’s phone with facial recognition and finds the pinned contact, saved as “Daddy Moneybags.”
• He video-calls the employer and recognizes him as Zhang Xuan, a fellow student. Zhang hangs up, then convinces himself Su Ye cannot retaliate because he is poor and has offended Young Master Su Yang.
• Su Ye uses the gang members’ phones and fingerprints to transfer money from their accounts, thanking each one politely as he goes.
• A hidden attacker ambushes him. Su Ye blocks the opening strike and fights the scar-faced man, an experienced combatant whose strength suggests he is at least at the Eighth Level of Kaiyuan.
• The attacker fires a concealed silver weapon. In a sudden surge of power under the moonlight, Su Ye dodges it and lands a crushing punch, sending the man into a wall.

Character development and interactions

• Su Ye is calm, courteous, and resourceful, even while overpowering his opponents. His confidence shows in how readily he handles the thugs, identifies Zhang Xuan, and anticipates the ambush. The near-fatal attack also reveals a mysterious power that dramatically enhances his abilities.
• Zhang Xuan is exposed as the person who hired the thugs. Though briefly frightened when Su Ye appears on the call, he quickly falls back on arrogance and his connection to Su Yang.
• The scar-faced attacker proves far more capable than the thugs. He initially fights with discipline and seeks an opening, but resorts to a hidden weapon when he realizes Su Ye may be too strong to defeat conventionally.
• Su Ye’s exchanges with the thugs mix courtesy with comic intimidation: he politely asks for access to their phones, takes their money, and thanks them after beating them.

Significant themes

• Hidden strength and underestimation: Su Ye’s opponents judge him by his status and presumed cultivation, only to discover his unusual power and skill.
• Composure and ingenuity: He turns the aftermath of an attack into an opportunity to identify his employer and recover money.
• Mystery and transformation: The moonlit surge hints at a deeper force or ability within Su Ye, introduced at a moment of mortal danger.

Plot points and events

• Su Ye defeats a group of local thugs who try to rob him. Scarface, a skilled martial artist who attacks after the thugs are subdued, is also overwhelmed. Su Ye breaks his limbs and, despite Scarface’s taunts and the approaching Patrol Bureau officers, kills him by snapping his neck.
• Su Ye discovers that killing people earns him Slaughter Value.
• He calmly surrenders to the patrol officers, describing the incident as self-defense.
• At the Jiangdong Patrol Bureau, investigators confirm Scarface was Song Si, a Ninth-Level Kaiyuan instructor carrying several prohibited weapons, including a wrist crossbow and poison. They also confirm Su Ye killed him after already incapacitating him, raising the question of excessive force.
• Bureau chief Zhang Baichuan observes Su Ye and is struck by his composure: Su Ye calls his family and teacher, eats his packed meal, and tidies up while in custody.
• When Zhang questions him, Su Ye says his misfortune was turning eighteen the day before—an answer that implies his age may affect how the incident is judged.
• Principal Zhang and Su Ye’s homeroom teacher, Lan Jingfei, arrive at the bureau.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Ye shows a dramatic increase in strength and speed, along with ruthless resolve. He refuses to be intimidated by Song Si’s threats or by the prospect of arrest, and remains strikingly calm afterward.
• Song Si/Scarface is defiant even while helpless. He threatens to stalk and kill Su Ye, believing the student would never dare kill him because of the legal and moral consequences. Su Ye proves him wrong.
• Zhang Baichuan is curious about Su Ye and recognizes that his behavior does not match the fear or worry expected of a student in his situation. He probes whether Su Ye understands the distinction between self-defense and excessive force.
• The patrol officers and investigators must weigh the fact that Su Ye was attacked against the severity of his response. Zhang Baichuan and Xiao Li discuss whether the killing was excessive.
• Su Ye’s family circumstances—his mother’s poor health, young sister, and father’s construction wages—are noted as reasons others might expect him to be anxious.

Significant themes

• Justice versus vengeance: Su Ye’s killing of an incapacitated attacker blurs the line between self-defense and excessive force.
• Composure and control: Su Ye’s calmness unsettles the authorities and suggests confidence—or a deeper detachment—in the aftermath of lethal violence.
• Power and fear: Song Si assumes social expectations will keep Su Ye from acting, but Su Ye’s newfound strength is matched by a willingness to defy threats and consequences.
• Uncertainty about the law: The chapter leaves open whether Su Ye’s actions will be treated as justified self-defense or as a crime.

Plot points and events

• Second High School Principal Zhang personally intervenes at the police station, and Su Ye is released without being charged with excessive self-defense.
• Su Ye explains that awakened ability users receive special protections, which is why he contacted the school immediately after the fight.
• He learns that the scar-faced attacker, Song Si, is a coach at the Zheng Family Martial Arts School. Suspecting Song Si may have acted beyond any orders to intimidate him, Su Ye urges Director Zhang to search Song Si’s home.
• At home, Su Ye reassures his worried parents, then reveals that he awakened a supernatural ability and earned a 600,000-yuan school reward.
• He offers the money to improve his family’s living conditions, but his parents refuse, insisting he use it for his cultivation. Su Ye agrees, while deciding to find other ways to provide for them.

Character developments

• Su Ye shows that he understands and uses the privileges available to ability users. He is also increasingly protective and generous toward his family, though he hides the full nature of his cultivation.
• Liu Ruxin and Su Xiangdong are first frightened by Su Ye’s apparent bloodied clothes, then overjoyed by his awakening. Their refusal of the money reflects their concern for his future over their own comfort.
• Principal Zhang demonstrates strong support for Su Ye by coming to the station in person.
• Su Ye’s birth family remains an emotional sore point: Liu Ruxin raises the possibility of contacting them, but Su Ye shuts down the subject.

Significant themes

• Privilege and responsibility: Ability users are treated differently from ordinary Martial Artists, and Su Ye relies on those protections after the fight.
• Family sacrifice and care: Su Ye wants to repay his parents and give his younger sister a better life; his parents, in turn, prioritize his education and cultivation.
• Opportunity and social mobility: Liu Ruxin sees the Gaokao as the family’s best path out of poverty, while Su Ye’s awakening offers another route to a secure future.
• Hidden truths and belonging: Su Ye’s strained relationship with his birth family contrasts with his closeness to the parents who raised him.

Character interactions

• Principal Zhang and Lan Jingfei accompany Su Ye out of the station; Su Ye questions Director Zhang about Song Si and advises him to investigate further.
• Liu Ruxin and Su Xiangdong anxiously check Su Ye for injuries, then listen as he explains his job, ability, and reward.
• Su Ye offers his parents the money for medical care, a better home, and a room for Baobao; they refuse it, and he avoids discussing his birth parents.

Plot points and events

• After killing the crossbow-wielding attacker, Su Ye checks his System Panel and discovers he has unlocked the Limit Break talent. It briefly doubles all his attributes for one second, but consumes stored energy and leaves him intensely hungry.
• He replenishes himself with Primary Nutrient Solution. Drinking it also advances his vampire ability’s evolution progress from “evolvable” to 1/100, revealing that resources can help it evolve.
• Su Ye realizes evolution will be expensive: each bottle gives one point, while a bottle costs ten thousand. Despite having savings, he concludes he needs to earn more money.
• At the Patrol Bureau, gang leader Huang Mao and his thugs are released on Zhang Xuan’s bail. Huang Mao tells Zhang that Su Ye is far stronger than expected, killed an attacker who tried to assassinate him, and was released without trouble.
• Zhang becomes uneasy about Su Ye’s strength, influence, and connection to Su Yang of the Yujing Su Family. He pays Huang Mao the promised balance.
• Huang Mao warns his men that their failure may have saved their lives: Su Ye has powerful backing, and antagonizing him could have been fatal.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Ye remains calm after killing and begins to understand how his new talent works. He is practical about using nutrient solution to manage its cost, but the discovery of vampire evolution gives him an expensive new goal.
• Zhang Xuan shifts from confidence to uncertainty and regret, realizing that his attempt to target Su Ye may have put him in danger.
• Huang Mao shows streetwise caution. He reports the facts to Zhang while carefully avoiding further provocation, then explains to his men why staying on Su Ye’s good side matters.
• Su Ye and the gang do not meet directly in this chapter, but the gang’s failed attack and Huang Mao’s report deepen the sense that Su Ye is becoming a dangerous, influential figure.

Significant themes

• Power has a cost: Limit Break boosts Su Ye’s abilities but drains his energy, while evolving his vampire power requires costly resources.
• Hidden strength and shifting perceptions: Su Ye’s abilities surprise both the gang and Zhang, who must reconsider who he is dealing with.
• Prudence and survival: Huang Mao’s decision to accept the failed attack and keep the payment reflects the value of knowing when not to fight.
• Ambition versus resources: Su Ye’s desire to evolve is immediately constrained by the need for money.

Key plot points and events

• Su Ye meets Xiao Qiyue at their usual training ground, where she returns the school uniform he lent her. They thank each other for the previous night, then spar again.
• Su Ye’s stamina and physical ability overwhelm Xiao Qiyue, prompting her to call a halt. She jokes that he can make it up to her by buying cola, and they share drinks on the way to school.
• Over cola, Xiao Qiyue reveals that she used to sneak drinks as a child despite her parents’ rules, showing a playful side behind her cool reputation.
• Xiao Qiyue advises Su Ye to learn another, preferably advanced, combat technique before reaching the Extraordinary level.
• She explains that breaking through to Extraordinary breaks the body’s Gene Lock Chains and establishes a martial foundation. The more energy the body can absorb during the breakthrough, the stronger that foundation can be.
• Combat techniques develop Genetic Potential and improve cells’ ability to absorb energy. Training should continue until the body reaches its physical limit; only then is it best to advance. Xiao Qiyue says the body itself signals when that point is reached.

Character developments

• Su Ye displays unusually high stamina, strength, speed, and agility, likely due to his Vampire physique. He is receptive to Xiao Qiyue’s advice and realizes that advancing too quickly could undermine his future foundation.
• Xiao Qiyue emerges as both a knowledgeable martial artist and a warm, teasing companion. Her childhood cola anecdote softens her elegant school-beauty image.

Significant themes

• Preparation over haste: A powerful breakthrough depends on building the body first, not simply advancing as soon as possible.
• Knowledge and mentorship: Xiao Qiyue’s explanation gives Su Ye crucial guidance he might otherwise have learned too late.
• Limits and growth: Training can increase the body’s potential only up to a natural threshold, after which breakthrough becomes appropriate.

Character interactions

• Su Ye and Xiao Qiyue’s mutual thanks and friendly sparring deepen their camaraderie.
• Their shared cola break creates an easy, personal moment, while Xiao Qiyue’s advice shifts their conversation toward Su Ye’s martial future.

Plot points and events

• Su Ye arrives at school, where Xia Zhiqiu teases him about coming in with Xiao Qiyue. Su Ye dismisses the idea and asks about the Elite Class selection.
• The top ten Martial Arts students from each of Second High School’s thirty senior classes gather in the gymnasium, making 300 contestants.
• Su Ye spots Xiao Qiyue beside Zhang Xuan, a wealthy Class One student at the Eighth Level of Kaiyuan. He suspects Zhang may have been behind the thugs who tried to injure him and privately considers retaliating.
• Xia introduces several leading students: Meng Li, the year’s top Martial Arts student, at the Ninth Level of Kaiyuan with an immense-strength ability; Mu Wanrou, a Class Three standout with a healing ability; and Xiao Qiyue, who has also awakened an unknown ability.
• Principal Zhang announces the three-stage selection: random matches, with three wins out of five needed to advance; a platform-defense round, where fifty students must win three defenses to qualify; and a final ranking round in which each student may challenge one higher-ranked defender.
• In the stands, teachers praise their gifted students and exchange polite boasts. Lan Jingfei’s colleague resents that Chen Ze, the vice principal’s nephew, became Class One’s teacher instead of her. Lan remains confident in Class Seventeen, especially when she looks toward Su Ye.

Character developments and interactions

• Su Ye remains indifferent to school gossip and other students’ reputations, but Zhang Xuan’s possible role in the attack gives him a personal reason to pay attention.
• Xia Zhiqiu acts as Su Ye’s teasing, sociable friend, supplying information about the competition’s likely stars.
• Lan Jingfei appears composed despite being overlooked for the Class One post. Her confidence in Class Seventeen suggests she sees promise others may miss.
• Zhang Xuan, Meng Li, Mu Wanrou, and Xiao Qiyue are established as prominent competitors, each with notable cultivation levels or abilities.
• The teachers’ compliments conceal rivalry and resentment, while Lan’s colleague openly voices frustration on her behalf.

Significant themes

• Talent, resources, and status: Students’ abilities and cultivation levels shape their reputations, while wealth and connections may also influence success.
• Competition and hierarchy: The selection system turns the school’s elite students into direct rivals and formalizes their rankings.
• Appearances versus reality: Mu Wanrou looks delicate but is a powerful student; similarly, the teachers’ gracious praise masks competition.
• Quiet confidence: Lan Jingfei’s faith in Class Seventeen hints that worth may not be determined solely by class rank or public recognition.

Key events and plot

• Su Ye begins the student tournament and quickly defeats his first two opponents. He shows gentle restraint toward a girl with twin ponytails, but gives a hostile boy no such consideration.
• In his third match, he faces Liu Shanzhen, the Eighth-Level Kaiyuan standout of Senior Class Four. When Liu says Su Ye is outmatched, Su Ye burns 70 Slaughter Value to break through to the Seventh Level on the platform.
• Su Ye then overwhelms Liu despite Liu’s higher cultivation. His polished Basic Combat Technique draws the attention and admiration of the teachers.

Character developments

• Su Ye demonstrates confidence, precise control, and extraordinary combat skill. His mid-match breakthrough reinforces how unusually fast he is progressing.
• Liu Shanzhen shifts from casual certainty to serious respect when he realizes Su Ye is far stronger and more skilled than expected.
• Lan Jingfei, Su Ye’s teacher, proudly reveals that he awakened a Supernatural Ability only days earlier and has advanced four minor cultivation levels in three days.

Themes

• Skill can outweigh raw cultivation: Su Ye’s Perfection-level Basic Combat Technique lets him dominate an opponent one level higher.
• Potential and long-term growth: The teachers consider mastery of basic combat a sign of exceptional Genetic Potential and a stronger future foundation.
• Ambition and comic bravado: Su Ye treats his sudden breakthrough matter-of-factly, while Lan Jingfei’s “regret” about his progress becomes an amusing boast.

Character interactions

• Su Ye’s contrasting treatment of his first two opponents shows both his gentlemanly self-image and his willingness to be ruthless.
• Liu’s dismissive challenge turns into a serious bout as Su Ye’s strength becomes clear.
• The teachers discuss Su Ye’s talent and possible abilities, then turn to Lan Jingfei for confirmation. Her proud, understated bragging leaves them stunned.