Chapter Summaries

Meng Chuan reunited with Zong Ping during Northern United University’s freshman enrollment and later successfully mutated his fourth major acupoint, Yongquan. The next morning, he prepared to learn how the new acupoint affected his footwork from Zhao Chun.

• Meng Chuan reflected on preparing for a Demon Nest and improving his qi and blood before his scheduled spar with Chu Yanlong.
• Meng Chuan met newly enrolled Zong Ping, introduced him to Chu Yanlong, and invited him to a gathering at Huaqing Pool.
• Zong Ping resolved to train harder and stay close to Meng Chuan after seeing Chu Yanlong’s respect for him.
• After the gathering, Meng Chuan assessed his nearly complete Yongquan Acupoint and considered searching for blood-control cultivation methods.
• Meng Chuan used his Five Elements True Qi to stabilize and mutate Yongquan, successfully completing his fourth major acupoint transformation.
• The next morning, Meng Chuan went to movement technique class with Zhao Chun to learn the effects of Yongquan on his footwork.

Meng Chuan hired Zhao Chun to help him break through Eight-Step Cicada Chasing and teach him Shenxing Baibian, gaining new movement-related traits as he practiced. After two weeks of training, he abandoned the United University mission he had been considering.

• Meng Chuan practiced Eight-Step Cicada Chasing under Zhao Chun’s guidance and broke through its limit, acquiring the Cicada Shadow Traces trait.
• Zhao Chun taught Meng Chuan Shenxing Baibian and explained its three principles before leaving him to practice.
• Meng Chuan learned Shenxing Baibian’s basics and unlocked its Wandering Body Transforms into Qi trait.
• Meng Chuan decided to replace spear practice with Shenxing Baibian training, reasoning that his other skills would keep his spear work progressing.
• Two weeks later, Meng Chuan closed the United University mission notifications and abandoned the task.

Meng Chuan advanced his Zuan Fist and Heng Fist training while learning that his master had uncovered a split in the Parasite Society. Meanwhile, Li Xiao and Fang Jianxing pursued plans to expand the Demon Summoning Hall and obtain the chapters of Lingtai Demon Seeding, as Meng Chuan’s cultivation brought his techniques closer to breakthroughs.

• Meng Chuan practiced Zuan Fist and Heng Fist, raising Heng Fist’s mastery and gaining the low-grade Penetrating Force trait.
• Meng Chuan learned from his master that the Parasite Society was splitting, with some members venerating demons and the Demon Summoning Hall possibly involved.
• Li Xiao failed to secure Heaven Beyond Heaven’s help in bringing a High God to Pucheng, so he planned to establish a branch by opening martial arts schools and teaching divine arts.
• Fang Jianxing reviewed the scattered chapters of Lingtai Demon Seeding and considered targeting Luo Guanyun’s disciple, Meng Chuan, but doubted he possessed the Core chapter.
• Meng Chuan cultivated in the Starry Soup at Li Mountain, recognized the golden specks on his body as Jialuo Light Dust, and sensed that his Duo-Mo Iron Body was nearing its limit break.

Meng Chuan cultivated his martial arts and prepared for a trip to the Demon Nest while Shen Shuo offered him an incomplete blood-related hardening technique. By late September, several of Meng Chuan’s techniques had broken their limits, and he discovered a Trait that would strengthen his finger bones.

• Meng Chuan considered how Limit Breaking Duo-Mo Iron Body could strengthen his defenses and decided his progress came from his own cultivation, not the Tathagata statue.
• Meng Chuan practiced Zuan Fist, explored his water-aspect Qi, and reflected on the Martial Imagery Realm he would need to form as he approached the Second Limit.
• Shen Shuo asked Meng Chuan to help Hanhai Company film an advertisement for the Supernova Competition and offered him an incomplete blood-related hardening technique that Meng Chuan accepted.
• Meng Chuan spent the following days accumulating qi and blood and refining his existing martial arts while tracking the progress of his friends and former classmates.
• On September 28, Meng Chuan filled several newly Limit-Broken techniques into the Five Elements roulette and found that the Knuckle Bones Trait would gradually thicken and harden his finger bones.

Meng Chuan continued cultivating toward completing the First Limit, learned that Xu Qingfeng had become a Martial Artist, and met Shen Shuo to receive an incomplete martial art manual and discuss company work. After filming an advertisement, Meng Chuan considered the Star-Glory Pilot contract while remaining more focused on rising within United University.

• Meng Chuan reviewed his Traits and martial arts progress, cultivated his Neiguan Acupoint, and advanced his Stake Technique as his six apertures connected to his meridians.
• Meng Chuan sensed that Xu Qingfeng had broken through to become a Martial Artist and decided to offer him guidance after he recovered.
• Meng Chuan visited Hanhai's Yong'an branch to meet Shen Shuo, who gave him a severely incomplete martial art manual.
• Meng Chuan agreed to postpone answering the company's call-up until next year, while Shen Shuo planned to screen for worthwhile low-level Demon Nests.
• Meng Chuan filmed a Hanhai advertisement and considered the benefits of the Star-Glory Pilot contract, though he preferred advancing at United University.

Meng Chuan considered the demands of Hanhai’s Star-Glory Pilot agreement before returning to cultivation and preparing for the coming Demon Nest field training. With his qi-blood accumulating faster than his apertures could store it, he decided to study an old Blood Essence Refining method as a way to use the excess without risking his martial progress.

• Meng Chuan judged that joining Hanhai’s academy faction suited him better than pursuing a corporate role, and he weighed the strength, guarantor, and profit requirements for Star-Glory Pilot.
• After finishing an endorsement shoot, Meng Chuan returned home and joked about avoiding livestream sales while considering a small shopping link on his profile.
• Three days later, Meng Chuan resumed intense cultivation, explained Hanhai’s gift boxes to his uncle, and continued training through early October.
• At Yong'an Campus, Meng Chuan observed the younger First-Limit Martial Artists preparing anxiously for the December Demon Nest field training, while he felt confident about facing the dangers.
• After confirming that his qi-blood was nearly filling his remaining apertures, Meng Chuan rejected Dao Heart Blood-Draining as too risky and chose to study the Blood Essence Refining Method to handle the surplus.

Meng Chuan broke through the limits of Zuan Fist and Heng Fist, then used a sudden surge in his Five Elements understanding to combine five ancient fist arts into a new technique. By dawn, he had named his creation Five Elements Spirit Breath Fist, which the panel recorded as perfected and awaiting Limit Breaking.

• Meng Chuan learned Ji Jike’s final lesson for Zuan Fist and broke its limit, gaining the Cold Awl trait.
• Morning and Evening Enlightenment triggered as Meng Chuan practiced Heng Fist, and he broke its limit to gain Penetrating Force.
• Meng Chuan fed the two new traits into the Five Elements Wheel, advancing the Five Skandhas Universe Method and awakening to the world’s Five Elements Spirit Breaths.
• Meng Chuan formed a radiant five-colored lotus from the spirit breaths, deepening his understanding of the Five Elements Martial Dao.
• After drawing connections among Chop, Crash, Drill, Cannon, and Cross, Meng Chuan created a new fist art and named it Five Elements Spirit Breath Fist.

Meng Chuan created and practiced the Five Elements Spirit Breath Fist, then broke through the limit of his Duo-Mo Iron Body and gained a powerful black protective shell. The breakthrough strengthened his defenses ahead of the December trip to the Demon Nest, while Xu Qingfeng learned that he had been conscripted.

• Meng Chuan practiced the perfected Five Elements Spirit Breath Fist through the night and found that its colorful Spirit Breath surpassed his other fist techniques in power and fit him especially well.
• Xu Qingfeng complained about Meng Chuan’s bright, noisy training, then checked his mission panel after Meng Chuan hinted at a surprise and discovered he had been conscripted for the Demon Nest mission.
• Meng Chuan rested before attempting to break through the limit of his Duo-Mo Iron Body, then endured intense itching as his skin turned black and began to peel away.
• Meng Chuan shed his skin in the Starry Soup and completed the Iron Body breakthrough, gaining a dense black shell that made his muscles and bones ring like metal.
• Meng Chuan tested his new defenses against his second-grade Tiger Soul spear and concluded that his strengthened body would help him face enemies during the December trip to the Demon Nest.

Meng Chuan studied the new Rock Body and Rock Pivot traits, speculated about Great Brahma’s nature, and prepared for a Level One Demon Nest trial near Dengzhou City. After a week of training and watching competitions, he considered future tournaments as a way to gather resources for the Second Limit.

• Meng Chuan tested the black membrane, learned that maintaining it consumed physical stamina, and discovered that Earth Qi had increased his defenses by about fifteen percent.
• Meng Chuan examined Rock Body’s traits and welcomed its improvements to horizontal training, sensing malicious intent, and resisting mental attacks.
• Meng Chuan wondered whether Great Brahma or a faith-powered statue had influenced his breakthroughs, then burned the phonetic Esoteric scriptures and resolved to focus on martial arts.
• Meng Chuan inspected Rock Pivot and confirmed that its Four-Aspect Earth Veins effect produced the black membrane by drawing on earth-vein energy.
• Meng Chuan anticipated entering a Level One Demon Nest outside Dengzhou City to gather resources for the Second Limit, and spent the following week training and watching the Supernova Competition.
• Meng Chuan considered entering future tournaments for resources and noted that the Tianshan Martial Assembly and River Gathering were Great Chu’s two long-running top-tier competitions.

Meng Chuan trained to strengthen his Five Elements Spirit Breath Fist and considered entering the upcoming Tianshan Martial Assembly Ranking Tournament. Over lunch, he and his friends discussed their coming mission in the Dengzhou Demon Nest, where Huangsha Heaven’s harsh conditions worried Xu Qingfeng.

• Meng Chuan planned to enter the Tianshan Martial Assembly Ranking Tournament after stabilizing his Second Limit strength and set a goal of becoming a Martial Arts Master within six years.
• Meng Chuan practiced the Five Elements Spirit Breath Fist while learning to control the black earth-vein energy, and his proficiency increased from two to three percent.
• Xu Qingfeng joked with Meng Chuan and the Dragon-Tiger Brothers over lunch, then asked Meng Chuan to lend him armor for their Demon Nest mission.
• Chu Yanlong told the group that the Dengzhou Demon Nest’s celestial phenomenon was Huangsha Heaven, whose sandstorms and extreme temperatures would challenge the team.
• Meng Chuan reassured Xu Qingfeng that he could still mutate his Yongquan Acupoint before the mission and offered to answer his questions, while Xu asked to borrow Meng Chuan’s armor.

With two months remaining before his first Demon Nest summons, Meng Chuan prepared by buying rare healing pills and continuing his cultivation. He neared completion of his First Limit and demonstrated blood qi powerful enough to form an almost ten-zhang cloud.

• Xu Qingfeng spotted Meng Chuan's Five Elements Fist lessons online, praised his skill, and wanted to sell products of his own.
• On November 4th, Meng Chuan reviewed his finances and resolved to earn battle merits during the Demon Nest expedition.
• Meng Chuan received six Cloud Water Pills through Shen Shuo's connections as protection against internal injuries and mental attacks.
• Meng Chuan assessed his mutated Neiguan and Zusanli acupoints and estimated that about ten days of cultivation would fill his final major aperture.
• Meng Chuan experimented with the Blood Essence Refining Art and found that refined blood qi clung to his tendons and bones.
• A week later, Meng Chuan unleashed an almost ten-zhang blood-qi cloud that formed nine blood-rainbows around him like a blazing red sun.

Meng Chuan advanced his Five Skandhas Universe Method and sparred with Chen Jingyi before testing his spear and strength against Lu Zhuxiao. The chapter ended with Meng Chuan bracing himself against Lu Zhuxiao’s overwhelming golden strike.

• Meng Chuan raised his Five Skandhas Universe Method progress to 75% while continuing to break through in Five Elements Fists.
• Chen Jingyi asked Meng Chuan to spar, and he easily countered her kicks before throwing her to the ground.
• Meng Chuan and Lu Zhuxiao fought with Tiger Soul and Radiant Gold, and Meng Chuan used fist techniques through his spear to meet Lu Zhuxiao’s attacks.
• Lu Zhuxiao infused his spear with Five Elements Metal Momentum, forcing Meng Chuan to retreat as the energy tore at his palms.
• Lu Zhuxiao unleashed a massive golden strike, and Meng Chuan cast aside Tiger Soul and concentrated earth-vein energy into his arm to hold it back.

Meng Chuan completed the transformation of his sixth major aperture and reached the mastery stage of the Precious Appearance Golden Venerable Technique, while She Yu tried to order him to compile strength profiles for the United University recruits. The chapter left Meng Chuan stronger and preparing to continue his cultivation, as She Yu vowed to settle the score with him.

• Lu Zhuxiao demonstrated his Martial Momentum to Meng Chuan, then admitted privately that Meng Chuan’s force had nearly injured him.
• Meng Chuan’s blood-qi reached 4,312.2, and he planned to learn Five Thunders Striking the Peak before heading to the main campus.
• She Yu ordered Meng Chuan to gather detailed strength information on recruits from all fifteen campuses, but he passed the task to Wu Hong and ended the call.
• Meng Chuan transformed his sixth major aperture at Dong Yue’s home, but delayed breaking through to the Second Limit until his Core Method caught up.
• Dong Yue helped Meng Chuan advance the Precious Appearance Golden Venerable Technique to mastery and completed his Jialuo Light Dust Body Protection.

Meng Chuan learned how his Precious Appearance Golden Venerable Technique’s golden specks worked and continued preparing for his upcoming trip to Wudang. Elsewhere, Li Xiao ordered Pei Shan to expand the Mountain Main Deity’s following in Fu City, while Zhao Wuyin approved Huangsha 011 as a training ground; the chapter ended with Luo Guanyun beginning to teach Meng Chuan Five Thunders Striking the Peak.

• Dong Yue explained that Meng Chuan’s golden specks absorbed and released energy to protect his body, and that they would eventually form a golden membrane as he advanced toward proficiency.
• Meng Chuan learned that his hair would return once he achieved the Glazed Pure Body, but he failed to regrow it at home and considered buying a wig before his trip to Wudang.
• Li Xiao threatened Pei Shan and gave him one year to establish the Mountain Main Deity in at least ten thousand Fu City homes, promising to eliminate competing God-Striking Martial Halls.
• Zhao Wuyin inspected Huangsha 011 with Yang Zhuo, approved it as a training ground despite a nearby confidential Temple, and expressed concern about worsening conditions in the Heavenly Demon Realm.
• Meng Chuan reunited with Luo Guanyun by video call, and his master began explaining Five Thunders Striking the Peak.

Meng Chuan learned to cultivate Bing Fire Yang Thunder from Luo Guanyun and reached the beginner level of Five Thunders Striking the Peak. Luo Guanyun planned to teach him the remaining thunder forms while continuing to search Island Country for Fang Jianxing.

• Luo Guanyun explained that Five Thunders Striking the Peak used the principles of the five elements and taught Meng Chuan to begin with Bing Fire Yang Thunder.
• Meng Chuan visualized the sun merging with his Heart Fire, then gathered the resulting colorless fire in his palms.
• Meng Chuan visualized thunder striking the fire and formed scarlet Bing Fire Yang Thunder, reaching beginner level in the technique.
• Meng Chuan saw that the technique granted the advanced limit-breaking trait Thunder Pupil and considered how it might let him observe the essence of thunder.
• Luo Guanyun promised to teach Meng Chuan the other four thunder forms over the next few days and warned him to stay cautious while he searched Island Country for Fang Jianxing.

As Meng Chuan prepared to travel to Wudang, he reflected on the shared origins of qi refinement and martial arts and continued practicing Bing Fire Yang Thunder. He left for the trip poised to pursue the Second Great Limit and deepen his understanding of nature through martial arts.

• Meng Chuan kept practicing Bing Fire Yang Thunder because he knew Fang Jianxing remained obsessed with the Thunder Method and Thunder Seed, and he had vowed to avenge Liu Ru.
• By early December, Meng Chuan had condensed the remaining Five Elements Thunder but still needed more practice; he also assessed his progress in the Five Elements Spirit Breath Fist and Qingming Dragon-Locking Body.
• Shang Ruyi warned Wu Hong against challenging Meng Chuan again, while Wu Hong admitted he wanted to challenge for vice-captain after She Yu encouraged him.
• Before dawn on December 4, Meng Chuan dressed for the trip, compressed his body to fit his Crimson Fire Flying Dragon Suit, and considered how his Zusanli Acupoint absorbed qi.
• Meng Chuan contemplated the history connecting ancient Qi Refiners and martial artists, then practiced Bing Fire Yang Thunder beside the Starry Soup pool before returning the Five Thunders Striking the Peak manual to Professor Li.

Meng Chuan reached sudden enlightenment and mastered Bing Fire Yang Thunder by practicing Five Thunders Striking the Peak, awakening the attention of people around Huaqing Pool. After flying to Fengtian City, he considered how his Dao Heart could strengthen the thunder technique and went to return a technique to Professor Li.

• Meng Chuan entered sudden enlightenment at dawn and made Five Thunders Striking the Peak flow smoothly as scarlet lightning coiled around his arm.
• Xu Qingfeng and others at Huaqing Pool woke to the thunder, while Dong Yue recognized Meng Chuan's dangerous control of the power and Luo Meng watched from a distance.
• Meng Chuan mastered Bing Fire Yang Thunder, sent a lightning serpent into the sky, and accidentally set treetops alight before a Grandmaster extinguished the fire.
• Meng Chuan apologized to the onlookers and decided to practice destructive techniques somewhere more suitable.
• On the flight to Fengtian City, Meng Chuan reflected that his Dao Heart could absorb thunder and potentially make Bing Fire Yang Thunder far more powerful.
• After landing, Meng Chuan said goodbye to the Yong'an Campus group and headed to the Five Elements Fist Research Lab to return the technique to Professor Li.

Meng Chuan refused Li Zhenyue’s invitation to remain at headquarters and went to the Martial Arts Summit Plaza for the Yellow Sand Demon Nest expedition. When She Yu challenged him in front of the gathered Martial Artists, he confronted her and broke free of her Nether River Black Scale Beast King manifestation, then punched toward her face.

• Meng Chuan returned Five Thunders Striking the Peak to Li Zhenyue, who let him keep practicing the Molten Core Flame-Burst Fist and privately wondered where he could find Primordial Qi outside the Real World.
• At the Martial Arts Summit Plaza, Meng Chuan joined the Yong'an Campus group and anticipated trouble from She Yu, the expedition’s captain.
• She Yu publicly ordered Meng Chuan to stand at the front, and Wu Hong mocked him when he did not immediately obey.
• Meng Chuan walked up to She Yu and told her not to disturb him, prompting her to attack with her Nether River Black Scale Beast King manifestation.
• Meng Chuan endured the shadow serpent’s crushing coils, tore himself free, and drove a punch toward She Yu’s face.

Meng Chuan clashed with She Yu before Shang Ruyi stopped their fight and left a warning imprint in their minds. The four universities’ trial participants gathered outside Dengzhou City, where Meng Chuan noticed the famed Daoxuan Sword, Chen Xuan, and awaited the arrival of the military commander.

• Meng Chuan broke free of She Yu’s restraint and struck at her, but Shang Ruyi intervened, subdued them, and forbade infighting during the trial.
• Meng Chuan sensed that Shang Ruyi’s imprint could trigger Reverse Tracing Pattern Observation, while Wu Hong and She Yu reacted to Meng Chuan’s strength and the confrontation.
• Seven or eight hundred young Martial Artists gathered at the Heng Mountain Military Restricted Zone outside Dengzhou City for the four-school trial.
• Meng Chuan spotted Chen Xuan of Eastern United University and recognized the sword on his back as a likely Grandmaster-grade Zhenwu.
• Shang Ruyi explained that the schools would be ranked by their Heavenly Demon kills and that the Merit Jade Talisman would record each participant’s contribution.
• Yang Zhuo, a Five-Limit Venerable known as Divine Eagle Falcon, arrived to coordinate the trial.

Yang Zhuo briefed the four universities on the rules and dangers of the week-long Demon Nest trial before the students prepared to enter Huangsha 011. As the teams approached Heng Mountain’s black-mist force field, Meng Chuan announced he planned to search for upper-ranked Heavenly Demons after leading his group for the first few days.

• Yang Zhuo explained the trial’s rules, warned against cowardice and infighting, and told the students to return alive after a week.
• Shang Ruyi instructed Meng Chuan and She Yu to put aside their conflict inside the Demon Nest and protect their teammates.
• Meng Chuan checked his supplies and gear, while Wu Hong regretted losing Tiger Soul and wished he could win it back.
• The students from the four universities stored their phones and climbed toward Heng Mountain’s fog-shrouded summit.
• Meng Chuan told the Yong'an Campus group he would lead them for a few days before venturing deeper to seek upper-ranked Heavenly Demons.
• Shang Ruyi explained how to pass through the force field, and the students watched the other teams disappear into the black mist.