Chapter Summaries

Meng Chuan consulted Luo Guanyun about the Five Aggregates Imagery World and learned that his dominant fire element had disrupted its balance. He developed a way to harmonize the Five Elements through metal, broke Kongtong Long Fist past its limits, and faced the approaching Martial Extreme True Successor Contest.

• Meng Chuan measured his qi and blood at 598 points, surpassing the ordinary Martial Practitioner limit, but recognized that his meridians still had room to grow.
• Luo Guanyun delivered Meng Chuan's Body Forging Paste, demon core, and custom waist pouch, then explained that Meng Chuan's dominant fire element had destabilized the Five Aggregates Imagery World.
• Meng Chuan reasoned that strengthening Xin Metal could counterbalance the flames and let him enter the Imagery World safely.
• Meng Chuan saw that registration had opened for the Martial Extreme True Successor Contest and worried about facing Wu Hong, while resolving to compete for the rewards.
• Meng Chuan practiced through the night, balanced his fire and metal forms, and broke Kongtong Long Fist past its limits, gaining the Arrowhead Crushing trait.

Meng Chuan perfected the Five Skandhas Universe Fist, entered his own Five Skandhas World, and reached the qi-blood limit, qualifying him to begin cultivating a True Technique. As he prepared to seek his master's guidance and compete for the Martial Extreme True Successor title, Old Ancestor Qimu continued to delay his alliance with Li Xiao, while Chu Yanhu worried that Meng Chuan would overtake him.

• Meng Chuan trained through the night, perfected the Five Skandhas Universe Fist, and entered a boundless Five Skandhas World that became the spiritual foundation of his Infinite Fist.
• Meng Chuan's Five Qi converged into a seed, and he received the limit-breaking core trait Five Qi Towards Origin as his qi-blood surged beyond his body's capacity.
• Meng Chuan tested his qi-blood at United University and learned that his value of 712.2 had advanced him to Martial Daoist; he planned to ask his master to confirm the result before learning a True Technique.
• Old Ancestor Qimu refused to commit to a move in Chencang, frustrating Li Xiao, who decided to wait until after the New Year.
• Meng Chuan prepared to leave school, and Chu Yanhu felt pressure to find True Qi before Meng Chuan surpassed him in cultivation.

Meng Chuan inherited the Luo Clan’s Thunder Method, endured its trials, and formed a Thunder Seed in his Lingtai after nurturing it over the New Year. The method’s true name and incomplete state left him stunned, while the dangers and factions surrounding it remained unclear.

• Meng Chuan visited Luo Guanyun, learned about cultivating qi and blood after reaching the First Great Limit, and agreed to inherit the Luo Clan’s Thunder Method.
• Luo Guanyun performed the Divine Intent Inheritance, and Meng Chuan endured the Thunder Method’s physical and spiritual trials to form a Thunder Seed.
• The Dragon Demon swallowed the nascent Thunder Seed, but Meng Chuan beat it until it spat the seed back out, then continued nurturing it under Luo Guanyun’s guidance.
• Meng Chuan recalled Fang Jianxing calling the method the Lingtai Demon-Seeding Scripture and suspected that the Thunder Method stood between the righteous and demonic paths.
• On New Year’s Eve, Meng Chuan solidified the Thunder Seed and discovered that the method was actually the incomplete Dao Heart Demon-Seeding: Fundamental Chapter, First Layer.

Meng Chuan recognized the Thunder Method as the incomplete Dao Heart Demon-Seeding art and planned to complete it while finding a way to solve its cost to his vitality. The next morning, Luo Guanyun explained True Technique categories and promised to teach Meng Chuan a Thunder-related method for soaring through the clouds once he became a Martial Arts Grandmaster.

• Meng Chuan identified the Thunder Method as the Dao Heart Demon-Seeding Divine Art and theorized that collecting the Parasite Society’s nine emotional branches would complete it.
• Meng Chuan decided to pursue the Flower of Flesh trait and planned to ask Luo Guanyun about advancing through Horizontal Training.
• Meng Chuan woke to find his Dragon Demon dried out again and noticed a strange quiver throughout his body.
• Ren Ping greeted Meng Chuan for the New Year after seeing lightning glimmer in his eyes.
• Luo Guanyun recognized that Meng Chuan had entered the Thunder Method and explained the Core Method and Training Method categories of True Techniques.
• Luo Guanyun promised to teach Meng Chuan a family True Qi circulation technique related to the Thunder Method after Meng Chuan became a Martial Arts Grandmaster.

Meng Chuan learned how to feel the Qi of the Real World and began practicing through daily training, while secretly investigating the Demonic Skill engraved on his master's tortoiseshell. As summer began, Yang Huan remained suspicious of Meng Chuan, who continued training and found that his Thunder Seed was beating up the Dragon Demon each night.

• Luo Guanyun explained that Meng Chuan had to enter the Real World through a True Technique, let its breath mutate his Martial Will, and return to the Reality World to feel the Qi; he warned him not to lose himself.
• Meng Chuan tried meditation without success, then chose to practice his forms in nature and return to school for Pai Da and training.
• When Meng Chuan examined Luo Guanyun's tortoiseshell, his Thunder Seed resonated with the twisted character for Fear, and he memorized the Demonic Skill without telling his master.
• Yang Huan learned from Chen Qiushui that Meng Chuan had mastered the True Technique and decided to examine him again after he became a martial artist.
• By the first day of the fourth month, Meng Chuan was training daily at True Dragon Pavilion, where he knocked out six opponents and challenged Shi Ying, who refused.
• Meng Chuan noticed that the Thunder Seed handled his Dragon-Locking Body Pai Da at night and left the Dragon Demon battered while his own bones and sinews grew stronger.

Meng Chuan completed the limit break of his Qi-Nurturing Armor-Clad Art and gained the Flower of Flesh trait, undergoing a painful transformation into a vastly more powerful but monstrous form. He ended the chapter hovering beneath the moon, his new appearance alarming Xu Qingfeng.

• Meng Chuan failed to sense qi, while Dong Yue encouraged him and predicted he would soon advance to Martial Practitioner.
• Yang Huan worried that Meng Chuan would not be ready to defeat Wu Hong and prepared to return to the battlefield.
• Meng Chuan endured a brutal bodily transformation at Huaqing Pool as his Qi-Nurturing Armor-Clad Art broke its limit.
• Meng Chuan discovered that his flesh had become extraordinarily responsive and powerful, then unleashed a burst of energy that enlarged him to nearly four meters tall.
• Xu Qingfeng saw Meng Chuan's monstrous transformed body and fainted, while Meng Chuan leaped into the air and spread his arms beneath the moon.

Meng Chuan discovered the Flower of Flesh’s Release and Compression abilities, tested their effects, and found that he could fight comfortably at 130% Release. He bought an elastic battle armor to accommodate his changing body, while Xu Qingfeng struggled to forget the transformation he had witnessed.

• Meng Chuan released his strength to 200%, transformed into a monstrous form, and frightened Xu Qingfeng before explaining that his hard technique had caused the change.
• Meng Chuan tested Compression, finding that it shrank his body and concealed his presence while suppressing some of his strength and techniques.
• Meng Chuan tested his defenses with Moon Over the Bridge of Helplessness, discovered that three-grade Zhenwu could wound him, and healed the cut within three breaths.
• Meng Chuan trained through the night, reached 200% Release, then practiced at 130% and found he could maintain that state without much stamina.
• Meng Chuan searched for clothes that could stretch with his changing body and bought a first-grade Demon Rabbit Battle Armor for five hundred credits.

Meng Chuan mastered control over his body, which kept the growing Dragon Demon trapped inside him, then continued trying to sense qi and understand the Real World. After consulting Luo Guanyun, he reasoned that Martial Will—not simply following the flow—might be the key to sensing qi.

• Meng Chuan finished mastering his newly reborn flesh and found that his bodily control could restrain the Dragon Demon and let him release it at will.
• Meng Chuan compressed his body to ordinary size, ate breakfast, and went to Jiulong Peak to seek insight into qi.
• Meng Chuan spent his days trying to sense qi alongside Chu Yanhu and Xu Nuo, while continuing to practice his Five Skandhas Universe Fist.
• After entering the Five Aggregates Imagery World, Meng Chuan noticed the Real World and wondered how the different worlds were connected.
• Meng Chuan called Luo Guanyun, who explained that the Real World manifested the essence of all things as Primordial Qi and warned him not to lose himself in it.
• Meng Chuan considered whether True Qi was a manifestation of mutated Martial Will and concluded that sensing qi might depend on each person's unique Martial Will.

Meng Chuan sensed Qi after his Martial Will connected with the Real World, where he saw terrifying golden eyes beyond a Boundary and was thrown back into Reality. Despite the unsettling encounter, he examined his new black True Qi and entered seclusion to attempt the breakthrough into a martial artist.

• Li Xiao used the Mountain Whisper statue to report Qimu's behavior to their superior.
• Meng Chuan practiced through the night until his Martial Will solidified and he sensed Qi in the Real World.
• Meng Chuan saw golden eyes beyond the sky's Boundary, then lost his grip and returned to his body.
• Meng Chuan tested his black True Qi and wondered why it differed from Luo Guanyun's golden True Qi.
• Meng Chuan told Luo Guanyun he was attempting a breakthrough, and she hurried to Li Mountain.
• Meng Chuan entered a United University seclusion room to begin his attempt to become a martial artist.

Meng Chuan entered seclusion to break through the First Great Limit, but rejected Luo Guanyun’s plan to use the Extreme Yang Thunder Seed and instead relied on Five Qi Towards Origin. After surviving the Thunder Seed’s rebellion and completing his bodily mutation, he shattered the limit and became a Martial Artist.

• Meng Chuan prepared in the seclusion chamber and began his breakthrough by circulating qi and blood, awakening all Six Great Acupoints.
• Meng Chuan chose to use Five Qi Towards Origin rather than the Extreme Yang Thunder Seed to guide his bodily mutation, provoking the Thunder Seed into a violent backlash.
• Meng Chuan fought the Thunder Seed within the Imagery World, then used the Flower of Flesh and Five Qi Towards Origin to force it back into his Primordial Spirit.
• Meng Chuan’s Five Skandhas Universe Fist broke its limit and transformed into the Five Skandhas Universe Method, a new Core Method that let him resume his bodily mutation.
• Meng Chuan completed the mutation, gained more than three times his former strength, and shattered the First Great Limit as the teachers waited outside.

Meng Chuan broke through the First Great Limit, revealed his extraordinary physique to his teachers, and celebrated the achievement with his family. He began resting for the body’s secondary development, while Principal Yang prepared to support his prospects at United University.

• Meng Chuan examined his six awakened acupoints and learned that he needed to cultivate the Earth Stance to connect them to his meridians.
• Luo Guanyun examined Meng Chuan after his breakthrough and found him remarkably free of injuries, then told him to rest and allow his body to develop.
• Meng Chuan thanked Lu Zhuxiao and the other teachers, accepted Zhao Chun’s offer to teach him Shenxing Baibian, and revealed his immense physique by unleashing Liberation at 130%.
• Lu Zhuxiao told Yang Huan about Meng Chuan’s imposing presence, and Yang Huan promised him a thousand academic credits while considering a special suit of armor for him.
• Meng Chuan returned home and told Meng Yongzhi and Xue Na that he had become a Martial Practitioner, delighting his family with a display of True Qi.
• Meng Chuan tested his transformed strength in the attic and decided to suppress it further so he would not damage the building.

Meng Chuan examined the new Five Qi Towards Origin core trait and discovered how it could advance the Five Skandhas Universe Method by absorbing Five Elements traits. He planned to develop the method and pursue a comprehensive hard-training technique at Wudang, then decided to visit the Martial Artist Association the next morning.

• Meng Chuan suppressed his aura and studied the effects of his new Five Qi Towards Origin core trait.
• Meng Chuan placed six low-level Five Elements traits into the trait’s disc, raising the Five Skandhas Universe Method’s proficiency to 60%.
• Meng Chuan learned that the Five Skandhas Universe Method was an exclusive True Technique and saw its Five Elements True Qi overpower his Dao Heart Demon Seeding True Qi.
• Meng Chuan inferred that hard-training methods had a core trait of their own and planned to seek a comprehensive technique at Wudang.
• Meng Chuan decided to visit the Martial Artist Association the next morning to update his Martial Practitioner status and register his title.

Meng Chuan registered as a Martial Arts Grandmaster under the title [Infinite Fist] and celebrated with Luo Guanyun, Bai Junfeng, and Dong Yue. After his second growth spurt, he discovered the Thunder Seed was draining his qi and blood while strengthening his spirit, then tested his new power by shattering a boulder.

• Meng Chuan registered his Martial Arts Grandmaster status and applied to use [Infinite Fist] as his title.
• Luo Guanyun invited Meng Chuan, Bai Junfeng, and Dong Yue to celebrate with a night of drinking, while Ren Ping urged Luo Meng to reconcile with her father over the Thunder Method.
• Three days later, Meng Chuan examined his transformed body and realized the Thunder Seed had siphoned more than one unit of his qi and blood while sharpening his spirit.
• Meng Chuan reasoned that the Thunder Seed's spiritual benefits came at the cost of greater demands on his qi and blood, and resolved to control what he gave it.
• Meng Chuan went to an abandoned gravel pit and shattered a boulder with a thunderous punch.

After reaching the martial artist realm, Meng Chuan tested his new strength, received his Hanhai funding and delivery, and was appointed a Fist Instructor at the Infinite Martial Arts Hall. He began discussing his cultivation with Luo Guanyun, who was astonished by Meng Chuan’s Five Elements True Qi and then baffled by the black True Qi he revealed.

• Meng Chuan tested his strength and stamina, then checked the delivery funded by his Hanhai contract, including four Anti-Aging Injections.
• Meng Chuan practiced Running Thunder Scattered Hands and Qi Jiguang's Thirty-Two Style Long Fist while waiting to learn Taiyi Earth Stance from Luo Guanyun.
• The Infinite Martial Arts Hall appointed Meng Chuan its eleventh Fist Instructor, and he accepted the role and its monthly pay.
• Luo Guanyun explained that Meng Chuan's cultivation should center on the Yuanshen Thunder Seed Method, and asked why Five Elements energy had gathered when he advanced.
• Meng Chuan showed Luo Guanyun his Five Elements True Qi and explained his unusual method, keeping the matter of Traits secret.
• Meng Chuan revealed black True Qi, leaving Luo Guanyun wondering what kind of Core Method it came from.

Meng Chuan learned about the risks of his black Thunder True Qi and began training in the Earth Stance, gaining the Earth Fiend Precious Body trait. He continued widening his meridians and considered how his unusual foundation might affect his future progress.

• Luo Guanyun warned Meng Chuan to conceal his black Thunder True Qi and use other techniques as cover.
• Luo Guanyun explained that Meng Chuan should wait until he had a stronger foundation before attempting Divine Arts or Peerless Techniques, though he might qualify early for a hard-body art.
• Luo Guanyun taught Meng Chuan the Earth Stance, and Meng Chuan unlocked the Earth Fiend Precious Body trait.
• Meng Chuan learned that the Earth Stance would expand his meridians toward six acupoints and began practicing it under Luo Guanyun's guidance.
• Meng Chuan felt his meridians extend toward Baihui Acupoint and realized that his limit-broken meridians might let him store more qi and blood.

Meng Chuan endured his first Earth Stance session and discovered that One Proof Eternal Proof kept his meridian gains from retracting, allowing him to progress without repeating the painful work. Meanwhile, Qimu prepared an army in the Chencang Demon Nest under Mountain Whisper’s order, and Meng Chuan learned his nomination for the National Talent Database had been submitted.

• Meng Chuan practiced the Earth Stance for six hours as Luo Guanyun warned that his meridian gains would partially retract by morning, then asked when Luo would teach him to soar through the clouds.
• Qimu created Withered Wood Puppets, Thorn Spawns, and Green Wood Succubi, resenting Li Xiao and Mountain Whisper while preparing to ruin the nearby city within a month.
• Meng Chuan checked his meridians the next morning and found that One Proof Eternal Proof had preserved his gains, sparing him from repeating the Earth Stance’s progress.
• Meng Chuan trained, ate Xue Na’s cooking, and received a call from Secretary Wang confirming his name had been submitted for the National Talent Database.

Meng Chuan perfected Running Thunder Scattered Hands and discovered how his Martial Will could resonate with nature. After Luo Meng briefly appeared at Luo Guanyun’s home, his master began teaching him the Primordial Spirit Thunder-Seeding method, and Meng Chuan started circulating its Internal Breath through his six acupoints.

• Meng Chuan perfected Running Thunder Scattered Hands, manifested lightning patterns through Martial Will, and sensed them responding faintly to heaven and earth.
• Meng Chuan visited Luo Guanyun’s home, where Luo Meng praised his progress as a Martial Artist and urged him to return to United University to cultivate.
• Luo Guanyun told Meng Chuan to interact normally with Luo Meng and gave him a booklet of Thunder Method insights before beginning his instruction.
• Luo Guanyun explained how Core Methods cultivate qi and blood and True Qi, then guided Meng Chuan through Dao Heart Demon Seeding.
• Meng Chuan awakened the Thunder Seed and circulated its Internal Breath through his six acupoints, strengthening the breath with each cycle.

Meng Chuan pushed his new Core Method to its limit and raised its proficiency, while Wu Hong and Luo Qin prepared to challenge him. A northern journey and an unexplained failed divination suggested that something unusual was happening as Meng Chuan returned to school.

• Meng Chuan completed twelve cycles of Dao Heart Demon-Seeding before his six apertures could no longer endure it, raising the method's proficiency to 2%.
• Luo Guanyun judged that Meng Chuan's endurance would carry him far, then went with him to the martial arts school while thinking about Luo Meng's return.
• Wu Hong told Shang Ruyi he planned to defeat Meng Chuan before June, and Shang Ruyi taught him the True Technique fist art Evil Tiger Drives Ghosts.
• Luo Qin told his master he intended to settle his grievance with Meng Chuan, demonstrated a soul-freezing Crane Form technique, and learned that the old Daoist would accompany him north.
• The old Daoist's divination coin crumbled without producing a hexagram, leaving him to wonder whether something was amiss in the north or with Infinite Fist.
• Meng Chuan returned to Yong'an Campus to bid farewell to his classmates, while Xu Qingfeng secretly placed more credits on him to win against Wu Hong.

Meng Chuan entered United University's Martial Artist Grandmaster Class and learned its duties, benefits, and credit rules after reaching the First Great Limit. He discovered that students had three years to reach the Second Limit or be eliminated.

• Meng Chuan congratulated Chu Yanhu on sensing Qi, asked about his experience in the Real World, and advised him on preparing for a breakthrough.
• Meng Chuan met Chen Qiushui, joined the Grandmaster Class group, and declined both a transition instructor and a new fist technique teacher.
• Chen Qiushui explained that Martial Artists had to accept Demon Nest summons, while Grandmaster Class students received free resources and could train independently.
• Meng Chuan learned that the First Great Limit brought 100 monthly credits and removed him from the Earthly Fiend Ranking, while the Tiangang Ranking required stronger cultivation and battle records.
• Meng Chuan saw that only fifteen students remained in his class group and learned that they had to reach the Second Limit within three years.

Meng Chuan cultivated his Thunder True Qi, practiced new fire-element fist techniques, and learned that Luo Qin was coming to challenge him again. As the duel drew a crowd at United University, Luo Qin arrived with Ziyang True Monarch, and the chapter left the spectators debating how the two newly advanced martial artists would compare.

• Meng Chuan tested a Thunder True Qi technique, then selected five fire-element fist manuals and began training in Beacon Smoke Fist and Candle Shadow Step Fist.
• Meng Chuan received word that Luo Qin planned to challenge him, and Chen Qiushui later told him that Luo Qin and her master had arrived.
• Meng Chuan greeted Chen Qiushui at the school gate and watched Ziyang True Monarch arrive with Luo Qin.
• United University prepared a vacant lot for Meng Chuan and Luo Qin's duel, drawing students and teachers who debated the fighters' strength.