Chapter Summaries

Vinina Polenas, a transmigrator who knew her future as a villain in Swallowed Star, began cultivating in 2030, years before Luo Feng’s birth. After reaching the threshold of a Quasi-Warrior, she sensed Cosmic Energy and entered the Apprentice Level.

• Vinina’s brother praised her test results of 987 kg punch power and 26 m/s speed, but she coldly left him.
• Vinina reflected on her future death, her family’s conflict with Luo Feng, and the opportunity to change her fate before the story began.
• Vinina returned to her residence and began the Five Hearts Towards Heaven cultivation method in the underground training room.
• Vinina sensed Cosmic Energy through her feet, palms, and Baihui acupoint, then used the Polenas Family’s Guidance Technique to absorb it.
• Cosmic Energy flooded Vinina’s body, was absorbed by her cells, and advanced her to the Apprentice Level.

After reaching Apprentice Level 1, Vinina accepted the Battle Formation Master Inheritance and learned that military arrays could temper the soul and increase affinity for laws. She decided to gather Soldiers to begin training, despite her family’s supervision and marriage arrangement with Li Yao.

• Vinina absorbed cosmic energy for four hours and advanced to Apprentice Level 1.
• Vinina accepted the Battle Formation Master Inheritance and experienced a vision of a vast army whose battle intent formed a Spirit of the Hundred Patterns Battle Array.
• Vinina learned that military arrays could temper the soul and improve affinity for laws.
• Vinina decided to gather Soldiers to train, relying on her Polenas Family status despite being watched because she was designated as Li Yao’s marriage alliance partner.

Vinina demonstrated extraordinary gains from her first Gene Primal Energy Cultivation session, prompting the Polenas Family to recognize her potential. After the family refused her request to cancel her engagement to Li Yao, she resolved to grow strong enough to decide her own fate.

• Vinina struck the Punch Power Testing Machine and revealed a reading of 3279 kg, astonishing the trainees at the Polenas Family grounds.
• Instructor Luo verified Vinina’s results: 3258 kg punch power, 59 m/s speed, and excellent Intermediate Warrior-level Nerve Reaction Speed.
• Instructor Luo reported Vinina’s extraordinary progress to the Polenas Family higher-ups, who quickly arrived to assess the sixteen-year-old’s potential.
• Vinina asked the Polenas Family higher-ups to cancel her engagement to Li Yao, but they refused because he was already a powerful War God level Martial Artist.
• Vinina accepted that she could not force the family’s decision yet and resolved to become strong enough to control her own future.

Vinina entered the Martial Artist combat assessment alone, choosing a spear and hunting H-class Monsters in Monster Town. She easily killed a Shadow Cat and searched for prey that could challenge her.

• An officer announced the combat assessment rules, including the scoring, elimination, rescue, and ban on Quasi-Warriors killing one another.
• Vinina equipped herself with armor and a heavy alloy spear, then entered Monster Town without joining a team.
• Vinina searched the town alone and chose a Shadow Cat as her first target.
• Vinina dodged the Shadow Cat’s pounce and killed it with a spear thrust, then cut off its left ear for proof.
• Vinina felt excitement rather than fear after killing the Shadow Cat and went back into the shadows to seek her next prey.

Vinina used the Martial Artist Practical Combat Assessment to hone her combat skills by fighting H-class Monsters while limiting her strength to their level. After a night of increasingly dangerous battles, she headed out as the assessment ended, ready for battle formation training.

• Vinina slowed her monster-killing pace and controlled her strength to train her movement techniques and combat experience.
• A military officer monitored Vinina's progress and admired her talent, but knew her Polenas family ties made recruiting her impossible.
• At six-thirty, the loudspeakers ordered all Quasi-Warriors to gather at the town exit.
• Vinina killed five of the six Monsters surrounding her, then reflected that the night's battles had greatly improved her practical combat ability.
• Vinina collected the Monsters' left ears and headed toward the gates for the next stage of training.

After passing the Martial Artist practical examination by killing forty-one monsters, Vinina returned to the Polenas Family and bought the first two layers of the Annihilation spear manual along with combat equipment. She spent 1.76 billion Huaxia Coin, using more than half her initial funds.

• Vinina handed over forty-one monster ears, temporarily earning the highest kill count without being injured and qualifying as a Martial Artist.
• After the advancement list was released, Vinina returned to the Polenas Family without receiving recruitment offers from other forces.
• Vinina logged into the HR Alliance Forum and bought the first two layers of Annihilation for 1.5 billion Huaxia Coin.
• Vinina purchased an A6 Dragon Roar spear, a D6 combat suit, and a Series 7 Combat Vest.
• Vinina finished shopping after spending 1.76 billion Huaxia Coin, more than half her initial funds.

Vinina studied Hong’s Annihilation technique overnight, then took command of a military Martial Artist squad and entered the Wilderness Zone to train and test the Battle Formation Master Inheritance. The chapter left her heading into a county town with a well-equipped escort and a plan to earn the soldiers’ loyalty by rewarding them.

• Vinina studied the Annihilation manual through the night and used its Guidance Technique with Gene Primal Energy Cultivation, improving her control over her muscular strength.
• Vinina requested command of a military squad for a trip to the Wilderness Zone, and the Polenas Family assigned her the War Eagle Squad and three Battle General level Martial Artists as protectors.
• Vinina set out with Li Xun and Justin Noble after preparing her combat gear and supplies.
• Vinina planned to test the Battle Formation Master Inheritance by having the soldiers acknowledge her, and she gave each squad member ten million Huaxia Coin.
• Vinina led the squad into the Wilderness Zone toward a county town, where her bodyguards would select suitable monsters for her training.

Vinina fought her first Wilderness Zone battle against a Purple Cloud Cat while using the Battle Formation Master Inheritance to temper her will with the War Eagle Squad’s battle intent. After the squad resumed its journey, she promised to help transfer them to the Polenas Family’s private forces, causing their surging battle intent to overwhelm her capacity.

• Li Xun identified seventeen Purple Cloud Cats, and Vinina stepped forward to fight the one between H-class and g-class.
• Vinina endured the pain of battle intent flooding her mind and killed her Purple Cloud Cat with a spear strike.
• The War Eagle Squad collected materials from the monsters, and the group continued along the highway.
• Vinina offered to submit a transfer application for the War Eagle Squad if they performed well during the trip.
• The Soldiers’ excitement intensified their battle intent, and Vinina staggered as the surge exceeded what she could bear.

After three days of travel, Vinina and the War Eagle Squad entered City No. 489, where they cautiously made their way through monster territory. They reached the rooftop of a residential building and began scouting for nearby Beast General level monsters.

• Vinina’s attempt to merge her will with the War Eagle Squad’s battle intent failed, shattering her will and leaving her unconscious for nearly ten hours.
• Li Xun warned Vinina to stay quiet and alert as the squad approached City No. 489, while the captain ordered the Soldiers to avoid a Two-Fanged Giant Lizard group.
• The War Eagle Squad avoided monsters and killed eleven Beast Soldier level monsters before finding a fourteen-story residential building to use as a shelter.
• The War Hawk Captain led the group up the building, where he split an attacking F-Class Bloodfang Rabbit in two with one slash.
• The War Hawk Captain ordered the squad to scout for Beast General level monsters while the Soldiers assembled firearms on the rooftop.

Vinina and the War Eagle Squad used an A+-grade armor-piercing round to kill an Intermediate Beast General-level Crimson Mantis, then descended to claim the corpse and fight nearby monsters. Vinina engaged an F-Class Crimson Mantis equivalent to an Advanced Warrior.

• A soldier spotted an Intermediate Beast General-level Crimson Mantis, and Vinina authorized the squad to use one of its expensive armor-piercing rounds.
• A sniper shot the Crimson Mantis through the neck and killed it with a single shot.
• Vinina insisted on joining the squad downstairs to gain Wilderness Zone combat experience, and Li Xun and Justin agreed to protect her.
• The War Eagle Squad confirmed the Crimson Mantis was dead, then attacked the surrounding beasts to secure the corpse.
• Vinina found an F-Class Crimson Mantis equivalent to the Advanced Warrior level and moved to fight it.

Vinina proved her strength by killing a Crimson Mantis and earned the War Eagle Squad’s recognition, then used the soldiers’ battle intent to keep training despite being overwhelmed. She decided that mastering Annihilation’s force-generation technique would require pushing herself into a life-or-death situation.

• Vinina killed the Crimson Mantis with her spear in under a minute, impressing Li Xun, Justin, and the War Eagle Squad.
• The War Hawk Captain took the Crimson Mantis’s valuable forelimbs, and the thirteen-person group returned safely to the rooftop.
• Vinina’s display of strength changed the soldiers’ attitude toward her, and their battle intent became easier for her to guide.
• Vinina added Li Xun and Justin to the soldiers supplying her with battle intent, but the combined force overwhelmed her again.
• Vinina tried repeatedly to layer force into her spear thrusts and concluded that she needed life-or-death pressure to master Annihilation’s first-level technique.

Vinina insisted on hunting an Initial Beast General despite Li Xun and Justin warning her of the danger. After the Polenas Family approved, her squad left the city and found a pack of Blood-Stained Black Wolves led by an Initial Beast General Wolf King.

• Vinina ordered the War Eagle Squad to find an Initial Beast General for her to fight, and Li Xun, Justin, and the soldiers tried to dissuade her.
• Vinina remained determined to build her own strength, and the Polenas Family's higher-ups approved her request.
• Li Xun, Justin, and the War Eagle Squad rested before leading Vinina out of the densely built city and back to its outskirts.
• Vinina's group established a temporary base in a nearby villa and searched the wilderness for a suitable target.
• Vinina's group selected a pack of more than a hundred Blood-Stained Black Wolves, whose Wolf King was an Initial Beast General.

Vinina fought an Initial Beast General-level Blood-Stained Black Wolf despite being weaker than it, refusing Justin’s offer to intervene. At the moment the wolf nearly struck her, Battle Intent surged through her and she pierced its abdomen with a newly awakened Annihilation—First Level power.

• Li Xun questioned whether Vinina had chosen the right Blood-Stained Black Wolf, and Vinina confirmed it before ordering the War Eagle Squad to thin the pack with gunfire.
• Vinina charged the Wolf King while the War Eagle Squad split it from the other wolves and cleared space for their fight.
• The Blood-Stained Black Wolf’s speed and strength overwhelmed Vinina, and Justin judged that she could not defeat an Initial Beast General-level monster.
• Justin prepared to intervene, but Vinina forced the wolf back and angrily refused his help.
• The wolf nearly clawed Vinina, but Battle Intent surged through her and her spear pierced its abdomen with Annihilation—First Level power.

Vinina and the War Eagle Squad returned to the supply base after she killed a Blood-Stained Black Wolf and recovered from her injuries on the journey. At the base, Vinina prepared to pursue her interest in acquiring military power.

• Vinina retrieved her spear from the dead Blood-Stained Black Wolf and reflected on how the fight had helped her master the first layer of Annihilation and condense Battle Intent Power.
• After treating Vinina's injuries and resting overnight, the thirteen-person group left the Wilderness Zone and began their three-day return journey.
• Vinina trained with her Battle Intent Power as they traveled, using it to enhance herself and speed the healing of her wounds.
• At the supply base gate, Major Lev Hines identified the War Eagle Squad to Rauf Camus, who asked about their hunt and offered to buy their gains for the HR Alliance.
• Vinina and the others entered the supply base as she considered seizing military power.

Vinina returned to the base city and certified her Low-level Battle General status after defeating a Blood-Stained Black Wolf. The Polenas Family decided to pursue an Elite Training Camp slot for her, and she was to prepare for the Limit Martial Hall’s upcoming A-rank assessment.

• Vinina and her group returned to the base city, where she sold the Blood-Stained Black Wolf’s materials to certify her Low-level Battle General status.
• The Polenas Family’s upper management held a video conference to discuss Vinina’s future after reviewing her rapid growth and victory over the wolf.
• The executives rejected Vinina’s wish to lead a Martial Artist squad in the family’s foreign legion.
• The Polenas Family head proposed securing Vinina a place in the Limit Martial Hall’s Elite Training Camp, prompting debate over the cost and timing.
• Executives from Vinina’s Direct Descendant branch argued that the Basic Training Camp was beneath her abilities, and the family agreed to seek an Elite Training Camp slot while Vinina prepared for the A-rank assessment.

After the Polenas Family secured Vinina a chance to enter the Elite Training Camp, she traveled to Hongning Base City to take the B-level Trial. She arrived at the camp and faced the intimidating Black Dragon Engraving without backing down.

• The Polenas Family negotiated with Limit Martial Hall, which offered Vinina a B-level Trial for a place in the Elite Training Camp and a fallback route through the Basic Training Camp.
• Vinina accepted the opportunity, deciding the camp’s Gravity Room and Trial Tower could help her improve, and learned she would take the trial in Hongning Base City.
• Vinina flew from Washington Base City to Hongning Base City with Li Xun and Justin, while a Limit Martial Hall inspector explained the city’s history and safety.
• Vinina entered the Elite Training Camp and instinctively tensed at the Black Dragon Engraving’s aura, but she did not step back.
• The inspector praised Vinina’s strong will and called her a Battle Maniac.

Vinina prepared for the Elite Training Camp’s B-level Trial, then followed Xue Ming into a virtual space where the assessment would take place. After learning that all entrants received identical physical attributes and Mental Power could not be used, Vinina wondered why her Battle Intent Power remained.

• Vinina checked into the Elite Training Camp and was told she had to pass a B-level Trial to stay there.
• Vinina trained and cultivated until Xue Ming arrived to escort her to the Nine-Story Building.
• Xue Ming explained that the Consciousness Induction Helmet would send Vinina into a realistic virtual space for her trial.
• Vinina entered the Trial Tower’s virtual space and learned that everyone received a body with identical physical attributes.
• Xue Ming said Mental Power could not enter the virtual space, and Vinina wondered why her Battle Intent Power was still available.

Vinina entered the B-level Trial and killed 100 Primary Beast General level Barbarian Bulls in 16 minutes and 27 seconds, passing the challenge. She left the trial wishing she had had more time to refine her movement technique before the virtual space sent her back.

• Vinina chose a combat uniform and Dragon Roar Battle Spear, then entered the Trial Tower and began the challenge without using her preparation time.
• Vinina charged into the herd of 100 Barbarian Bulls and used her spear, battle intent, and the terrain between the monsters to fight them.
• Vinina endured an encirclement that broke her left arm, escaped, and continued killing the bulls while her movement grew more instinctive.
• Vinina killed the final Barbarian Bull and passed the B-level Trial in 16 minutes and 27 seconds.
• Vinina reflected that more time might have helped her movement technique reach the Subtle level before the system prepared to remove her from the virtual space.

Vinina joined Limit Martial Hall's Elite Training Camp and learned how its rankings determined access to cultivation resources and rewards. After recognizing Sago Neheru as a future enemy, she avoided him and settled into her residence, where she studied the camp's rules.

• Xue Ming explained the camp rankings and registered Vinina as student 300201, adding her as NO.147 on the Black Dragon Engraving.
• Xue Ming took Vinina to her Washington residence and told her that Sago Neheru, a powerful Mental Master, lived nearby.
• Vinina recognized Sago Neheru as the Indian prodigy who would later threaten Luo Feng's family and stopped Xue Ming from introducing them.
• Sago Neheru watched Vinina leave and remarked that he liked her cold demeanor.
• Vinina read the Student Guidelines and learned how rankings controlled access to training devices, points, and major rewards.

Vinina’s strength and combat techniques improved rapidly during her first seven days at the Elite Training Camp, but her gifts to the Polenas Family recruits nearly emptied her account. When David Baghdadi tried to lure her into a gambling match, she accepted and raised the stakes to ten billion Huaxia Coins.

• Vinina gained the Polenas Family recruits’ recognition and used their Battle Intent to improve her combat techniques and reach a 40,000-kilogram punch force.
• Vinina realized she had nearly spent her fortune winning over the four recruits and decided to demonstrate her strength to secure more investment from the Polenas Family.
• David Baghdadi challenged Vinina to a one-billion-Huaxia-Coin match, while Tiemu Field warned her that he preyed on newcomers.
• Vinina accepted David’s challenge and demanded they raise the wager tenfold.