Chapter Summaries

Plot points and events

• After the gathering, Liu Qing’er arranges cars for the guests. They return home and report safely in the group chat.
• Each member shares the discovery of the Wu Ming Ruins with their martial-arts mentor. The group plans to explore the ruins in a month.
• Their masters respond with varying degrees of interest and caution: Yang Chan agrees to join; Cheng Yuheng doubts Ye Zhen’s luck but takes the news seriously; Fang Hansong considers the rumors possible; and Tang Ye estimates that the monster may require a Pillaring Grandmaster to defeat.
• Tang Ye concludes that the Human Immortal Martial Dao described in the scroll, if genuine, would be a path beyond Pill Embracement and into the supernatural.
• During the month before the expedition, Ye Zhen, Li Xingming, Wang Xiaoai, Fang Xiu, and Liu Qing’er intensify their training. Gu Chen, by contrast, remains relaxed, writing and casually following the group chat and news.

Character developments and interactions

• The five prospective explorers become more disciplined, motivated by the danger and the possibility of discovering a higher martial path.
• Wang Xiaoai’s eager report to Wang Tianba goes badly: his master dismisses him for celebrating before securing the scroll or reaching the ruins.
• Ye Zhen theatrically presents the discovery to Cheng Yuheng, who mocks his self-aggrandizing “Ye Liangchen” persona while still listening to the information.
• Fang Xiu seeks reassurance from Fang Hansong, who advises that the unknown cannot be dismissed and supports going carefully.
• Liu Qing’er consults Tang Ye, whose measured assessment reinforces the need for caution.

Significant themes

• The unknown and the supernatural: The ruins’ monster and possible Human Immortal Martial Dao challenge accepted limits of martial arts.
• Preparation versus recklessness: The group trains and consults experienced masters rather than rushing into the ruins.
• Unequal attitudes toward danger: Some characters treat the discovery seriously, while others—especially Gu Chen—remain notably untroubled.
• Mentorship and humility: The masters’ varied reactions temper the younger characters’ excitement, while Ye Zhen’s boastfulness invites comic rebuke.

Key plot points and events

• A month after their preparations began, Liu Qing’er’s group gathers to explore the Wu Ming Ruins near Jiangnan. The party includes a Pillaring Grandmaster, four Transforming Strength fighters, several Manifesting Strength boxers, and Gu Chen, who intends to observe and secretly influence events.
• Their unusual gathering alarms local officials, who classify the martial artists as dangerous, monitor them, and send a vehicle to follow the convoy.
• Liu Qing’er leads the group to Ming Gu Mountain, where a Fragmented Ancient Scroll reportedly points to a Human Immortal Martial Dao cultivation method.
• While Liu Qing’er hires local guides, Gu Chen secretly spends 5,000 Origin Points to activate a power he planted in the ruins.
• A huge pillar of blood-colored Wolf Smoke bursts from the forest, accompanied by an earthquake. Its overwhelming presence shocks the group, villagers, and government observers alike. The omen echoes the scroll’s description of a Human Immortal whose blood and vitality are “like a dragon.”
• Gu Chen reveals through his thoughts that he has deliberately reshaped the scenario: the group’s search will become an upheaval that attracts widespread attention and begins revealing the ruins’ legend.

Character developments and interactions

• Liu Qing’er acts as the expedition’s organizer, using her research and map to guide the group and arranging local guides.
• Gu Chen remains outwardly detached but secretly controls events, setting a trap and engineering the dramatic omen to draw the explorers deeper into the mystery.
• The martial artists move from confident preparation to wary astonishment as their instincts register the immense pressure from the Wolf Smoke.
• The villagers and officials become unintended witnesses: villagers record and share the phenomenon, while the surveillance team concludes that the group came to investigate it.

Significant themes

• The collision of modernity and martial mystery: phones, online platforms, surveillance, and government response meet an ancient martial legend.
• Power as an overwhelming presence: the Wolf Smoke’s pressure is felt physically and instinctively, suggesting a force beyond ordinary human limits.
• Manipulation and spectacle: Gu Chen turns the expedition into a staged revelation, using an omen to attract attention and drive the unfolding story.

Key plot points and events

• A towering Blood-colored Wolf Smoke Pillar rises near Da She Village, accompanied by ground tremors and an oppressive force that frightens nearby people and animals.
• Drivers film the phenomenon and post it online; curious onlookers begin heading toward the village.
• Second Master Sun sees the reports and connects the location to the Fragmented Ancient Scroll, which described the Wu Ming Ruins and the legendary Human Immortal Martial Dao.
• Still angry that masked intruders stole the scroll and overpowered his guards, Sun decides to retaliate indirectly. He pays an online media operator to publicize the ruins and martial-arts rumors.
• Sensational posts go viral, drawing more people toward Da She Village. Jiangnan authorities, alarmed by both the phenomenon and the spreading claims, mobilize their Special Operations Team.

Character developments and interactions

• Second Master Sun turns his grievance into a calculated act of revenge: rather than confront the intruders directly, he exposes the secret to attract public and official attention.
• Online influencers and curious martial-arts enthusiasts amplify the rumors, motivated by hopes of discovering a path to extraordinary strength and longevity.
• The Jiangnan authorities respond to the reports by dispatching a specialized team, setting up a likely confrontation between officials, intruders, and the growing crowd.

Significant themes

• Rumor and information as weapons: Sun uses online publicity to disrupt his enemies’ plans.
• Ambition and the lure of power: The promise of a three-hundred-year lifespan and superhuman strength draws people toward danger.
• The supernatural entering public awareness: Viral footage and recent displays of martial-arts abilities make the legendary Human Immortal Dao seem increasingly plausible.
• Escalating consequences: A mysterious event quickly becomes a public and governmental crisis as it spreads beyond its original site.

Plot points and events

• News of the Wu Ming Ruins and the Human Immortal Martial Dao draws widespread attention. In Da She Village, local martial artists watch a towering pillar of Blood-colored Wolf Smoke rise from the mountains and realize it may mark the ruins.
• The group worries that the spectacle will attract crowds, but Pillaring Grandmaster Wang Tianba charges toward it, taking Wang Xiaoai with him. The other martial artists follow, and villagers are soon tempted to join them in search of treasure.
• Over the next two hours, cars bring a growing tide of outsiders to the village. Online rumors that the ruins contain a supernatural cultivation method fuel their excitement.
• Near the pillar, its pressure becomes so intense that Manifesting Strength Wang Xiaoai can barely breathe. Wang Tianba sends him back to practice under the pressure, explaining that it can hasten his cultivation. Other martial artists recognize the same training benefit and press closer.
• Liu Qing’er, Fang Xiu, Ye Zhen, Wang Xiaoai, and Li Xingming endure the oppressive force, hoping it will help them advance toward Hidden Strength. Meanwhile, a Jiangnan Special Operations Team arrives at the mountain’s foot on a separate mission.

Character developments and interactions

• Wang Tianba acts boldly and treats the ruins as a challenge worth pursuing. He also turns the pillar’s danger into a lesson, using its pressure to train Wang Xiaoai.
• The younger martial artists—especially Liu Qing’er, Fang Xiu, Ye Zhen, Wang Xiaoai, and Li Xingming—struggle physically but recognize a chance to improve. Li Xingming compares the ordeal to a trial from a novel.
• Ye Zhen maintains his grandiose, self-styled “protagonist” persona despite the danger; the others simply ignore his boastful remark.
• Fang Xiu and the senior martial artists assess the pillar’s significance and its potential value, while the villagers are drawn in by rumors of treasure.

Significant themes

• Opportunity born from pressure: The pillar’s oppressive force is both a threat and a means of strengthening martial artists.
• Ambition and competition: The promise of the Human Immortal Martial Dao brings outsiders and locals alike rushing toward the ruins.
• Risk versus reward: Characters knowingly endure physical and psychological strain in hopes of accelerating their cultivation.
• The power of rumor: Online speculation rapidly transforms a local mystery into a mass gathering—and foreshadows growing trouble.

Key plot points and events

• The Blood-colored Wolf Smoke around the Wu Ming Ruins creates an invisible pressure that stops ordinary people from approaching. Videos of the phenomenon spread online, convincing many that the ruins and the Human Immortal Martial Dao are genuinely supernatural.
• Manifesting Strength practitioners discover they can withstand the pressure and even improve by training within it. Their explanation—that the phenomenon tests martial strength—sparks a rush of National Martial Arts practitioners to Da She Village.
• More than two hundred newly emerged Manifesting Strength boxers gather by the afternoon, alongside the official fifty-member Special Operations Elite Unit. Authorities restrict access to keep ordinary people away.
• Gu Chen decides the situation is ready for the next stage. After the ruins’ phenomenon earns him 150,000 Origin Points, he sends his Core Condensation Gang Qi avatar, Li Hansha, to appear.
• Li Hansha arrives spectacularly, leaping between treetops toward the Wolf Smoke. The crowd recognizes the Pillaring Grandmaster and marvels at his apparent Lightness Skill.

Character developments

• The new Manifesting Strength boxers gain confidence as they discover the pressure both tests and strengthens them; they see the ruins as an opportunity meant for martial artists.
• Gu Chen shifts from allowing interest in the ruins to build to preparing for their imminent opening.
• Li Hansha makes a dramatic public entrance, reinforcing his status as an exceptional martial figure.

Character interactions

• Frustrated ordinary spectators question the practitioners about how to enter. The boxers dismiss them, explaining that without Manifesting Strength they cannot withstand the pressure.
• Online viewers respond to the circulating videos with excitement and resolve to travel to the ruins, while practitioners and officials converge on the site.
• Officials order ordinary people and vehicles away; Li Hansha’s arrival interrupts the crowd-control scene and immediately draws the gathered people’s attention.

Significant themes

• Strength and access: The supernatural phenomenon functions as a test, granting access only to those with sufficient martial ability.
• Public belief and viral information: Firsthand videos turn rumor into widespread conviction and rapidly mobilize the public.
• Martial progress and opportunity: The pressure serves not merely as a barrier but as a training force for those able to endure it.
• Human limits versus technology: The narration notes that even powerful martial artists remain vulnerable to modern weapons until they reach the supernatural level.

Key plot points and events

• Li Hansha arrives at Da She Village, drawing attention from martial artists and ordinary onlookers. His appearance fuels speculation that the Wu Ming Ruins contain the legendary Human Immortal Martial Dao.
• Authorities worry about the danger of a Pillaring Grandmaster entering the ruins and the possibility of conflict over whatever is found there.
• More than two hundred Manifesting Strength Boxers gather near the ruins, divided uneasily between civilian practitioners and officially armed Special Operations Forces.
• Gu Chen, acting through the system, makes the towering Qi and Blood Wolf Smoke recede. This removes much of the pressure surrounding the ruins and appears to make them accessible.
• The martial artists rush toward the ruins, followed by the larger crowd of ordinary people. Unable to contain them, the military commander orders his soldiers to advance as well.
• The receding smoke reveals a vast stone gate above the underground ruins. Li Hansha, Wang Tianba, and four Transforming Strength Great Boxers wait before it.

Character developments

• Li Hansha is established as a celebrated and formidable martial artist whose arrival changes everyone’s expectations about the ruins.
• Gu Chen reveals that he can manipulate the ruins’ power through the system and deliberately opens access to more people, hoping to gain Origin Points.
• The military commander shifts from controlling the crowd to joining the advance when he realizes his small force cannot stop the rush.

Significant themes

• Power and unequal influence: A single Pillaring Grandmaster can reshape the balance of a gathering, while ordinary forces struggle to control events.
• Competition over hidden knowledge: Both civilian martial artists and the authorities fear losing access to a potentially transformative cultivation method.
• Public fascination and mass momentum: Rumors and viral videos turn the ruins into a public spectacle, and once the smoke recedes, excitement overwhelms official control.

Character interactions

• Onlookers celebrate and film Li Hansha, while martial artists and officials react to him with caution.
• Civilian practitioners and government forces regard one another warily, anticipating possible conflict over discoveries inside the ruins.
• The commander’s soldiers attempt to manage the crowd but ultimately follow it toward the ruins, where the competing groups converge at the stone gate.

Plot points and events

• Six powerful martial artists—two Pillaring Grandmasters and four Transforming Strength Great Boxers—break through the blood qi sealing the Wu Ming Ruins and open the stone door. The Manifesting Strength Boxers outside are eager to explore, believing they may find a Human Immortal cultivation method.
• Gu Chen, who secretly created the ruins, knows they are not safe. The hostile creatures within are Blood Qi Puppets: corpses animated by blood qi and designed to attack living intruders.
• To alert the crowd, Gu Chen mentally directs his double, Li Hansha, to warn that something is wrong. Li enters the ruins and draws out a puppet wearing Beast Hide armor.
• Li’s powerful strike badly damages the creature, but it keeps moving. Wang Tianba tests it further, then smashes its skull. The puppet finally stops when the blow destroys the needles and threads controlling it in its forehead.

Character developments

• Gu Chen is revealed as the architect of the ruins and its deadly challenges. He sees the puppets as part of a deliberately difficult “game,” but also wants to protect the boxers, whom he hopes will provide Origin Points later.
• Li Hansha, acting under Gu Chen’s direction, takes the risk of entering first and demonstrates his martial power against the puppet.
• Wang Tianba is confident and curious, taking the lead in opening the door and then investigating the creature rather than recoiling from it.

Character interactions

• The six senior martial artists cooperate to open the entrance, while the larger crowd waits for their lead.
• Gu Chen communicates with Li Hansha through their mental link, using him to warn the group and reveal the danger.
• Wang Tianba examines the puppet and experiments with its resilience, while the crowd watches in shock; some record the encounter.

Significant themes

• Appearance versus reality: The ruins seem empty and safe, but conceal lethal guardians.
• Preparation and caution: The boxers’ eagerness to explore is checked by the discovery that the puppets are unusually hard to kill.
• Power and control: The puppets’ mobility comes from hidden mechanisms in their foreheads, making their apparent undead nature part of a designed system.
• Creator’s responsibility: Gu Chen wants the ruins to be challenging, yet intervenes to prevent his potential future beneficiaries from being killed too soon.

Plot points and events

• The Blood Qi Puppets seem manageable for powerful martial artists, but their ability to keep fighting after severe injuries—and uncertainty about stronger puppets deeper inside—makes the Manifesting Strength fighters hesitate.
• The two Pillaring Grandmasters and four Transforming Strength Great Boxers enter the Wu Ming Ruins separately, hoping to find clues about the Human Immortal Martial Dao.
• The Official Elite Special Operations Team sends its recordings to researchers, then receives orders to capture an intact puppet, investigate anything of research value, and search for the Human Immortal Martial Dao. Its fifty members split into five organized squads and enter.
• Civilian fighters begin following in groups. Liu Qing’er, Fang Xiu, Ye Zhen, Wang Xiaoai, Li Xingming, and Gu Chen agree to explore together.
• Liu Qing’er equips the group with headlamps and walkie-talkies. They arrange themselves according to their combat strengths and cautiously head inside. By this point, more than half of the Manifesting Strength outsiders have entered, while the rest wait to hear how dangerous the ruins are.

Character developments and interactions

• Liu Qing’er takes a practical leadership role, supplying equipment and helping organize the group.
• The six friends cooperate closely, assigning positions suited to each member’s martial art: Wang Xiaoai leads as the durable fighter, while the others cover close combat and the rear.
• Gu Chen appears to be a supportive teammate, but privately views the expedition as a way to keep events on his planned course and gain Origin Points. He also considers deliberately frightening his friends to provoke their growth.
• The masters’ advance and the official team’s entry push the more hesitant civilian fighters toward action, though many remain cautious.

Significant themes

• Risk and uncertainty: The possibility of stronger puppets makes even skilled fighters weigh danger against opportunity.
• Preparation and teamwork: Equipment, formation, and coordination offer the civilian group a measure of security.
• Organization versus improvisation: The official team follows clear orders and divides into squads, contrasting with the more loosely organized civilian explorers.
• Hidden motives: Gu Chen’s private agenda complicates the apparent camaraderie of the group.

Key plot points and events

• Outside the Wu Ming Ruins, more civilians and official forces gather after the Blood-colored Wolf Smoke recedes. Experienced Manifesting Strength fighters warn newcomers that the ruins are dangerous, while Special Operations Forces maintain order.
• The authorities send in Dragon Fang, an elite force of roughly fifty Manifesting Strength operatives, along with medical support. Injured explorers soon emerge, reporting stronger Blood Qi Puppets and passages that shift, making the ruins perilous and difficult to navigate.
• Inside, Gu Chen, Liu Qing’er, Fang Xiu, Ye Zhen, Wang Xiaoai, and Li Xingming have survived four attacks by ordinary Manifesting Strength puppets. Their progress is slow, and they have found no sign of the rumored Human Immortal Martial Dao.
• After Ye Zhen complains about the shifting passages and insults the ruins’ ancient builder, Gu Chen secretly triggers an encounter with a Centurion-level Blood Qi Puppet.
• Mistaking berries growing on a mound for a spiritual herb, Ye Zhen charges the emerging puppet while boasting. His attack does nothing; the puppet’s counterblow sends him flying and leaves him coughing blood.

Character developments and interactions

• Ye Zhen remains comically boastful, repeatedly calling himself “Ye Liangchen” and dismissing threats. His confidence collapses when the Centurion-level puppet proves far beyond him, though he still tries to save face after being struck.
• Gu Chen, the ruins’ creator, quietly engineers the encounter to punish Ye Zhen’s arrogance. He knows the puppet is comparable in strength to a Transforming Strength Great Boxer.
• Fang Xiu recognizes that the newly emerged puppet is unusual and warns Ye Zhen, but he ignores her.
• The rest of the group reacts to Ye Zhen’s theatrics with exasperation; after his beating, they privately agree that he brought it on himself.
• Outside, the authorities’ forces and medical team respond to the danger, while the wounded explorers’ accounts convince many onlookers to stay out.

Significant themes

• Arrogance and consequences: Ye Zhen’s swagger leads him to underestimate a formidable opponent and get badly hurt.
• The danger of the unknown: Stronger puppets, shifting passages, and enticing berries show that the ruins conceal more than ordinary explorers can handle.
• Comedy amid danger: Ye Zhen’s grand speeches contrast with the serious risks inside the ruins, giving the encounter a comic edge.
• Order and preparedness: The authorities’ security measures and medical support highlight the scale of the crisis and the need to protect those outside.

Plot points and events

• Ye Zhen is knocked aside by a powerful Centurion-level Blood Qi Puppet, distinguished by its superior armor and silver badge.
• The puppet attacks the group. Wang Xiaoai briefly holds it off with Dragon’s Roar Iron Shirt while Liu Qing’er, Fang Xiu, and Li Xingming strike its head with their strongest techniques.
• Their attacks fail to penetrate its steel-hard body. Before they can regroup, the puppet throws Wang Xiaoai aside and sends the others flying.
• Ye Zhen charges back into the fight despite his injuries, but Gu Chen stops him and takes on the puppet himself.
• Gu Chen uses precise footwork, grappling, and redirection to keep the stronger enemy occupied. He tells the others to collect the purple-red fruits on the mound.
• The injured group tastes the fruits and finds that they ease their pain, then gathers the remaining ones as medicinal herbs.

Character developments and interactions

• Gu Chen reveals strikingly superior martial skill, controlling the puppet through technique rather than matching its brute strength. His intervention also shows concern for Ye Zhen and the others.
• Ye Zhen remains theatrical and self-important, but his willingness to return to battle suggests genuine courage and loyalty. Gu Chen’s view of him improves.
• Wang Xiaoai takes the initial risk of confronting the puppet, though its strength overwhelms him.
• Liu Qing’er, Fang Xiu, and Li Xingming coordinate their strongest attacks, then recognize the limits of their abilities against the puppet’s hardened body. Fang Xiu and Li Xingming especially admire Gu Chen’s skill.
• The group trusts Gu Chen’s judgment and works together to gather the healing fruits.

Significant themes

• Technique versus brute force: Gu Chen’s skill and ability to redirect an opponent’s power overcome a threat that raw strength cannot.
• Courage and teamwork: The group fights together, and Ye Zhen’s return shows bravery beneath his comic bravado.
• Hidden strength and perception: Gu Chen’s understated display reveals that appearances can conceal exceptional ability.
• Practical rewards amid danger: The medicinal fruits turn a near-disaster into a valuable discovery.

Key plot points and events

• Official special forces exit the Wu Ming Ruins battered, carrying three captured Blood Qi Puppets and the remains of a fourth they killed with a grenade.
• The squad leader reports that the ruin’s passages shift in a repeating cycle and that its strongest puppet was nearly impervious to bullets.
• Officials and scholars examine the creatures. A biologist notes that they have no breath or heartbeat but awaken in response to human energy, defying modern scientific understanding.
• A historian identifies them as elite Yuan Dynasty Wolf Guards, based on their hairstyles, armor, and identification tablets. A silver tablet marks the destroyed puppet as a Centurion.
• The characters on the puppets’ foreheads indicate they were criminals. Professor Sun concludes that they were likely captured after a Yuan defeat by the Ming and transformed into guardians of the ruins.

Character developments and interactions

• The squad leader gives Major Chen a firsthand account of the ruins’ hazards and the unit’s losses.
• Major Chen, concerned by the unexpected danger, asks Professors Zhang and Sun to assess the puppets.
• Professor Zhang approaches the mystery from biology; Professor Sun uses historical clues to propose their identity and origin.
• The gathered crowd reacts with shock, then curiosity and apparent acceptance of Professor Sun’s explanation. He ends by reflecting on how much history remains undocumented.

Significant themes

• Ancient knowledge versus modern science: The puppets’ continued existence and behavior challenge biological laws.
• History hidden in ruins: Physical artifacts can reveal stories absent from official records.
• The cost of exploration: Even an armed, trained unit suffers heavily inside the ruins.
• Mystery and interpretation: The puppets’ identity and purpose are inferred from clues rather than confirmed records.

Key events and plot points

• Another squad of official special-operations personnel escapes the ruins with two captured Blood Qi Puppets, injuries, and rare medicinal plants. The earlier Dragon Fang team remains inside.
• Gu Chen, secretly far stronger than he has let on, easily defeats a Centurion-level puppet. He activates the ruins’ core mechanism, rearranging the passages to reveal a route deeper into the complex.
• Explorers flock toward the newly opened passage, hoping it leads to Human Immortal Martial Dao. Ye Zhen, Liu Qing’er, Fang Xiu, Li Xingming, and Wang Xiaoai decide to follow it, as does the Dragon Fang team.
• The explorers reach a vast chamber containing a Stone Stele bearing the name Pei Canghai. Its lingering martial presence briefly overwhelms those who see it, then clarifies their understanding of martial arts.
• The inscription recounts Pei Canghai’s creation of Human Immortal Martial Dao to oppose the Yuan dynasty and its demonic forces. It describes cultivating the organs, cleansing the marrow, changing the blood, and training the body’s 36,000 acupoints. Pei also claims to have killed the demon master Basiba and sealed away part of his remains—including an arm and torso fragment—in the ruins.

Character developments and interactions

• Gu Chen continues to control events behind the scenes. He conceals his true strength around the others, then independently opens the route to the ruins’ deepest area.
• Ye Zhen regains his confidence after healing with Purple-Red Grass Fruit and boasts that Human Immortal Martial Dao will be easy to obtain. Fang Xiu punctures his bravado by reminding him of his recent defeat; he dismisses it as carelessness.
• Liu Qing’er, Fang Xiu, Li Xingming, and Wang Xiaoai weigh the risks together before choosing to proceed. Their recovered injuries and gains from the ruins give them more reason to press on.
• The gathered explorers—including senior martial artists—respond with awe to Pei Canghai’s inscription and speculate that his lost techniques may be nearby.

Significant themes

• Legacy and the power of martial arts: Pei Canghai’s inscription still affects and instructs martial artists centuries after his death.
• Human potential against supernatural power: Pei creates a martial path based on the human body to challenge forces said to exceed human limits.
• Ambition and risk: The possibility of obtaining Human Immortal Martial Dao draws competing groups deeper into a dangerous ruin.
• Hidden strength and overconfidence: Gu Chen’s concealed ability contrasts with Ye Zhen’s loud, unearned certainty.

Key plot points and events

• The explorers discover a second stone tablet titled “Human Immortal Martial Dao: Five Organs Chapter.” It explains that practitioners must first build an exceptionally strong body; attempting the method too early could damage the organs or kill them.
• Li Hansha and Wang Tianba, two Pillaring Grandmasters, and four Transforming Strength Great Boxers meet the requirements. After consuming Rare Medicine and Precious Grass, they begin cultivating the method and quickly feel their vitality surge.
• Their practice triggers a violent tremor and an overwhelming wave of malice. A nearby tablet identifies what lies sealed there: the arm and part of the torso of Great Yuan Demon Master Pasba, imprisoned by Pei Canghai.
• The sealing tablet cracks, and black blood seeps from it. Gu Chen appears and urges Liu Qing’er, Fang Xiu, Li Xingming, Wang Xiaoai, Ye Zhen, and the other explorers to flee before the sealed creature can attack.

Character developments and interactions

• The two grandmasters and four boxers act decisively on the cultivation method, demonstrating their confidence and physical strength.
• The explorers’ excitement at finding the martial arts method turns to panic when the seal begins to fail.
• Gu Chen cuts through the group’s fear with a blunt warning, prompting the stunned explorers to run.

Significant themes

• Power demands preparation: The Five Organs Chapter’s strict physical prerequisites show that pursuing strength without a proper foundation can be fatal.
• Ancient power carries danger: A legendary method is uncovered alongside the remains of a terrifying being that even Pei Canghai could only seal.
• Discovery can awaken disaster: The practitioners’ experiment coincides with the sealed monster’s apparent disturbance, turning the expedition’s find into an immediate threat.

Key plot points and events

• Gu Chen catches up with Ye Zhen and the others after luring away a Centurion-level Blood Qi Puppet. He reveals that the broken sealing stele contains the remains of the Great Yuan Demon Master Pasba and urges everyone to flee.
• Ye Zhen, Liu Qing’er, Fang Xiu, Li Xingming, and Wang Xiaoai escape toward the ruins’ exit, while two Pillaring Grandmasters and four Transforming Strength Great Boxers stay behind to face the threat.
• Pasba’s sealed arm and part of his body emerge, drawn to the fighters’ newly acquired Human Immortal Martial Dao Five Organs Chapter. The remains attack, but the six martial artists counter with powerful Qi-and-blood techniques and drive them off.
• The group pursues the fleeing remains. Pasba’s remains reach a Legionary Commander-level Blood Qi Puppet, sever its upper body, and fuse with its lower half, beginning to reconstruct a more complete body. Li Hansha attacks to stop the transformation.

Character developments and interactions

• Gu Chen remains practical and brusque, focused on getting his friends out safely. He also recognizes that the staged events have nearly served their purpose: demonstrating the martial art’s power and creating a mystery that can yield Origin Points.
• Ye Zhen and his friends are relieved to see Gu Chen but heed his warning and retreat.
• Wang Tianba and Li Hansha, along with the other fighters, show confidence and courage against Pasba’s remains. Their newly learned martial art lets the Grandmasters project Qi and blood beyond their bodies with exceptional force.
• The fighters’ confidence turns to caution when Pasba escapes and displays an unexpected ability to fuse with the puppet. Li Hansha takes the lead in trying to prevent him from rebuilding himself.

Significant themes

• New power tested against an ancient threat: The Human Immortal Martial Dao’s effectiveness is demonstrated in direct combat.
• Instinct versus intelligence: Pasba’s remains initially seem to act on instinct, but their flight and use of the puppet raise the possibility of greater awareness.
• Escalating danger: A defeated-looking opponent becomes more threatening by incorporating another body, prompting the fighters to act before he can recover his full strength.

Key events

• Explorers flee the Wu Ming Ruins, warning that the revived arms and torso of the Yuan-era demon master Pasba are breaking free.
• Dragon Fang operatives explain that two Pillaring Grandmasters and four Transforming Strength Great Boxers remain inside, trying to contain the remains. Major Chen orders an evacuation and prepares the Special Operations Forces to defend the site.
• The martial artists escape just before a headless, pieced-together figure pursues them. Protected by Dark Light, it shrugs off gunfire, then tears through the troops with its claws and cutting aura.

Character developments and interactions

• Major Chen shifts from disbelief to decisive action, ordering civilians back and the armed forces into position.
• The Dragon Fang team clarifies that only parts of Pasba have revived, tempering the initial reports but admitting they do not know whether the fighters inside can stop him.
• Professor Zhang voices a scientist’s skepticism; Professor Sun counters with historical accounts of Pasba’s extraordinary life and influence.
• The escaping explorers warn the crowd, while officials, experts, soldiers, and onlookers react with confusion, fear, or disbelief.

Significant themes

• The clash between modern technology and ancient supernatural power: bullets and body armor prove useless against Pasba’s remains.
• History and legend made real, as the seemingly mythic figure emerges into the modern world.
• The limits of human control: warnings and military preparedness cannot prevent a devastating first encounter.

Summary

Key plot points and events

• Basiba’s demonized remains overpower the special-operations forces. Ordinary gunfire proves ineffective; grenades and grenade launchers can only slow the creature, which uses dark light, underground movement, and a massive stone shield to counterattack.
• Gu Chen recognizes that Basiba’s body has a specific weakness. He takes control of his Core Condensation Clone, Li Hansha, and sends him into battle.
• Li Hansha, strengthened by the Human Immortal Martial Dao’s Five Organs Chapter, meets Basiba head-on with Qi and Blood Power and stops one of its attacks.
• He identifies the weakness: Basiba’s unstable, artificially assembled lower body, formed from a Blood Qi Puppet. He urges everyone to target it.
• Four other martial artists—Wang Tianba, Tang Ye, Fang Hansong, and another Transforming Strength Great Boxer—join Li Hansha. Together they strike Basiba with techniques from several martial-arts styles.

Character developments

• Li Hansha demonstrates that his training has multiplied his combat strength, allowing him to confront a supernatural monster directly. He also shows tactical insight by identifying its weakness and coordinating the counterattack.
• Gu Chen shifts from observing the battle to intervening through his clone, using his knowledge of the scenario to guide the fight.
• The four martial artists show immediate courage and resolve, rushing to support Li Hansha.
• The younger observers—including Liu Qing’er, Fang Xiu, Li Xingming, Wang Xiaoai, and Ye Zhen—move from fear and relief to admiration and a stronger desire to train.

Character interactions

• Major Chen directs the special-operations forces as they attempt to contain Basiba.
• Gu Chen mentally links with Li Hansha, who becomes his direct means of intervention.
• Li Hansha explains Basiba’s weakness and calls on the other martial artists to attack it.
• Civilians and explorers cheer Li Hansha after witnessing his strength, while his younger companions watch the martial artists fight together.

Significant themes

• The limits of conventional weapons: Modern firearms struggle against supernatural power, while heavy explosives offer only temporary resistance.
• Discipline and martial cultivation: The Human Immortal Martial Dao enables trained fighters to confront a threat ordinary soldiers cannot stop.
• Courage and cooperation: Li Hansha’s insight and the others’ willingness to act together turn a desperate battle into a coordinated assault.
• Resolve through training: The younger observers are inspired by the fighters’ power and determination to pursue the same path.

Key plot points and events

• Two Pillaring Grandmasters and four Transforming Strength Great Boxers keep Basiba’s demonic remains pinned down with relentless Qi and Blood Power.
• Their attacks destroy the fragile Blood Qi Puppet lower half grafted onto the remains, stripping away much of its speed and strength. Li Hansha’s double helps break the puppet’s blue bones with a powerful palm strike.
• As the weakened remains are battered and trapped, they unleash a massive self-destructing burst of Dark Light. The fighters retreat just in time; the blast leaves a huge crater and the remains, dried out and motionless.
• The assembled fighters cautiously confirm the danger has passed. Major Chen organizes aid for the wounded, while spectators begin posting footage and accounts online, spreading news of the battle.

Character developments and interactions

• The six martial artists cooperate effectively, combining their strength to overcome the remains. Wang Tianba celebrates the fight and immediately looks forward to studying the Five Organs Chapter; Fang Hansong reflects on Basiba’s fearsome legacy.
• Li Hansha’s double contributes directly to the decisive assault, after which Gu Chen withdraws his consciousness from it. Li Hansha then takes his leave.
• Liu Qing’er, Fang Xiu, Li Xingming, Wang Xiaoai, and Ye Zhen—present as disciples—are relieved to see the battle end. The other fighters remain to look after their students.
• Major Chen shifts from watching the fight to coordinating recovery efforts, and some spectators help the injured.

Significant themes

• Teamwork against overwhelming danger: Coordinated martial skill and persistence wear down an enemy that none could easily face alone.
• The lingering power of history: Basiba’s remains remain devastating centuries after his death, prompting disbelief about what history has omitted.
• Power carries risk: Even cornered and nearly defeated, the remains’ final burst is catastrophic, underscoring the danger of supernatural forces.
• A new world becoming public: The battle’s videos and eyewitness reports spread online, bringing previously hidden martial and supernatural realities into public view.

Plot points and events

• The opening of the Wu Ming Ruins and the strange phenomena around it become a sensation online. Videos reveal Blood Qi Puppets, valuable medicinal plants, Pei Canghai’s Human Immortal Martial Dao techniques, and Basiba’s remains sealed beneath a stele.
• Basiba’s remains revive as Demonized Remains, attach themselves to a Blood Qi Puppet, and charge out of the ruins. They devastate hundreds of elite Special Operations Forces; ordinary firearms barely slow them, while grenades and launchers provide some resistance.
• Two Pillaring Grandmasters and four Transforming Strength Great Boxers exploit the remains’ weakness. Li Hansha strikes Basiba’s lower body, and Basiba ultimately self-destructs.
• With the battle widely recorded and shared, authorities abandon efforts to suppress the story. They instead focus on studying the ruins’ discoveries—especially Basiba’s apparent survival over six or seven centuries.

Character developments

• Li Hansha is further established as a formidable Pillaring Grandmaster, helping bring down Basiba.
• Basiba is revealed to be vastly more dangerous than modern viewers expect: even as reanimated remains, he can overwhelm armed forces.
• Online observers shift from skepticism about ancient martial arts to awe and curiosity, with some inspired to pursue National Martial Arts and Human Immortal Martial Dao.

Significant themes

• Ancient power versus modern technology: Firearms prove far less effective than expected against a formidable martial artist.
• The collapse of conventional understanding: The ruins challenge accepted ideas about history, death, and human capability.
• Information’s uncontrollability: So many witnesses record the events that the authorities cannot effectively contain the story.
• Power and ambition: Officials are interested not only in the discoveries’ strategic value but also in the possibility of extending their own lives.

Character interactions

• Basiba fights the Special Operations Forces, overwhelming them with his speed and strength.
• Li Hansha and the other martial artists coordinate against Basiba and discover how to damage him.
• Netizens debate the footage, question historical accounts, and speculate about the authorities’ next moves.
• Central Province officials discuss the ruins’ potential, with Basiba’s longevity drawing particular interest.

Plot points and events

• Authorities took control of the Wu Ming Ruins site, evacuated visitors, and recovered Basiba’s Demonized Remains and the shattered Blood Qi Puppet as valuable research material.
• The ruins’ discoveries—including Rare Medicine, Precious Grass, and part of the Human Immortal Martial Dao’s Five Organs Chapter—were deemed strategically important.
• Officials approached Gu Chen’s group, hoping to build ties with the powerful practitioners who had fought Basiba. They were especially concerned because other pieces of Basiba’s body remained sealed elsewhere, and might be guarded by similarly dangerous forces.
• The group returned to Da She Village and then Jiangnan. Their expedition was a success: they had gathered rare resources and gained a cultivation method to pursue in the future.
• Gu Chen’s discoveries attracted widespread attention online, earning him roughly 500,000 additional Origin Points. With his initial 150,000, he now had about 700,000, and the total continued to grow.

Character developments and interactions

• The four Transforming Strength Great Boxers gained the authorities’ respect after their battle with Basiba’s remains. They declined immediate recruitment but left open the possibility of future cooperation.
• Their different temperaments shaped their responses: one was a beggar, one a reclusive Taoist, and one a woman focused solely on martial cultivation. Fang Hansong already worked as an instructor for the authorities.
• The officials also took an interest in the boxers’ disciples—Liu Qing’er, Fang Xiu, Li Xingming, Wang Xiaoai, and Ye Zhen—as potential connections to their masters.
• Gu Chen quietly benefited most from the public attention, which replenished his Origin Points and reduced the pressure surrounding his plans.

Significant themes

• Power and institutional control: The authorities move quickly to secure dangerous discoveries and recruit capable allies.
• The escalating threat: Basiba’s remaining body parts and the possible existence of higher Human Immortal Martial Dao chapters foreshadow future conflicts.
• Publicity as a resource: Online attention turns the group’s exploits into a major source of Origin Points for Gu Chen.
• Progress and ambition: The incomplete cultivation method gives the group a long-term goal, while Gu Chen’s new reserves make future developments more feasible.

Key plot points and events

• After creating the Wu Ming Ruins and the Human Immortal Martial Dao, Gu Chen turns to planning the remaining ruins.
• He mines online conspiracy theories for ideas. A popular post suggests Great Ming emperors concealed the powerful martial practitioners of Wu Ming because they feared their ability to threaten the throne.
• Inspired, Gu Chen uses 600,000 Origin Points to create two more Wu Ming Ruins. He decides to reveal them later, spacing out the discoveries to keep public interest—and Origin Point earnings—high.
• Officials transport the recovered relics to leading laboratories, where researchers begin examining them.
• Videos of the earlier events spread internationally. Foreign viewers initially assume they are watching a movie, but the unusually realistic weapons and seemingly invulnerable monster raise suspicions. Intelligence analysts investigate and realize something is amiss.

Character developments and interactions

• Gu Chen becomes more strategic and resourceful: rather than inventing every detail himself, he adapts ideas from internet commenters and plans revelations to maximize audience attention.
• Online creators and commenters unintentionally provide material for Gu Chen’s scripts. One commenter’s theory gives him the key to shaping the final part of Basiba’s story.
• Government officials and researchers respond methodically to the discoveries by securing and distributing the relics for study.
• Foreign viewers react with excitement and disbelief, while intelligence analysts move from curiosity to suspicion.

Significant themes

• Truth shaped into reality: Gu Chen turns fictional or speculative ideas into real-world ruins and history.
• The internet as creative fuel: Online speculation becomes a source of inspiration for the person secretly making it real.
• Pacing and spectacle: Gu Chen treats public attention as a resource, spacing out dramatic discoveries to prevent audiences from becoming numb.
• The widening consequences of secrecy: What begins as a local mystery is now attracting international attention and scrutiny.