Chapter Summaries

After defeating Zheng Chengcheng and Chen Xuan, Meng Chuan improved his martial techniques and cultivation while Yang Huan explained how the Demonic Path recruited followers and exploited Lu Zu temples. The chapter left Meng Chuan confident that neither the Heavenly Demons nor their promises could sway his Martial Will.

• Meng Chuan and Zheng Chengcheng agreed to fight together again, and Zheng Chengcheng invited Meng Chuan to visit Yanhua Mountain and challenged him to compete in reaching Three.
• Meng Chuan reviewed his gains from the battle, including improved technique proficiency, a Rudimentary Intent Realm, and increased vitality and blood.
• A video of Meng Chuan defeating Zheng Chengcheng and Chen Xuan spread online, prompting widespread discussion and school rivalry.
• Yang Huan asked Meng Chuan about the Fu City mission and explained that Lu Zu had been Demonic Infected and that Lu Zu temples could serve as teleportation arrays for a counterattack.
• Meng Chuan asked why martial practitioners joined the Demonic Path, and Yang Huan explained how Heavenly Demons beguiled some while others embraced evil by nature.
• Yang Huan said those who sought Divine Kingdom ascension abandoned their Martial Will, and Meng Chuan dismissed the Heavenly Demons' promises as boastful nonsense.

Meng Chuan learned that Pei Shan’s crystal ball tested Western magical aptitude and gave it to Yang Huan for the school’s Three Flowers research. While reflecting on the Eight Immortals Hermitage’s Demonic Infection and cultivating his Qi-Gazing Technique, he sensed an ancient, unexplained fluctuation resonating from the void above him.

• Meng Chuan asked Yang Huan about Pei Shan’s crystal ball, and Yang Huan explained its use in testing magical power and offered to buy it for the school’s research.
• Yang Huan told Meng Chuan that Daoist Lord Wuyang wanted to thank him for what happened in Fu City, and Meng Chuan agreed to visit the Immortal-Settling Shrine the next day.
• Meng Chuan gave Yang Huan the crystal ball in exchange for more than a thousand expected credits.
• While cultivating, Meng Chuan suspected that the Eight Immortals Hermitage’s failure to adapt to Qi-Blood Martial Dao had weakened its Martial Dao Fortune and left it vulnerable to Demonic Infection.
• Meng Chuan advanced his Qi-Gazing Technique and sensed an ancient, abnormal fluctuation in the magnetic field above him, as if the technique had resonated with something in the void.

Meng Chuan prepared to travel to Wudang and Shaolin to study, hoping the journey would aid his martial arts and help him investigate a strange presence he had sensed. Before leaving Yong'an, he visited Li Weigang, who passed on the Wei Tuo Carrying Mountain Skill.

• Meng Chuan wondered whether the presence he sensed while practicing the Qi-Gazing Technique came from Lu Zu, then decided to ask Daoist Lord Wuyang about it.
• Meng Chuan submitted his mission report, exchanged his credits for Pulse-Moistening Spirit Pills, and packed Wen Dao Incense to help him research the incomplete Blood Hard Qigong.
• Meng Chuan said goodbye to Daoist Qi, Dong Yue, and Xu Qingfeng before setting out on foot to travel and study.
• Meng Chuan visited Li Weigang at Gang Zi Club and shared advice about breaking through to the Second Limit.
• Li Weigang taught Meng Chuan the Wei Tuo Carrying Mountain Skill, explaining its focus on strength and its use of the Veda Breathing Method.

Meng Chuan learned the Wei Tuo Carrying Mountain Skill from Li Weigang and then visited the newly converted Immortal-Settling Shrine, where he sensed the academy’s weakness and sought Daoist Lord Wuyang. The chapter left him at the gatehouse, where the guard recognized him as Yong'an City's number one martial arts prodigy.

• Meng Chuan quickly learned the Wei Tuo Carrying Mountain Skill as Li Weigang explained its stages and potential.
• Meng Chuan gave Li Weigang a handwritten copy of the Precious Appearance Golden Venerable Technique containing his cultivation insights.
• Meng Chuan arrived at Immortal-Settling Shrine and found its halls emptied of the Eight Immortals and other deities after the Martial Shrine reforms.
• Meng Chuan sensed that Daoist Lord Wuyang’s aura far surpassed the other martial auras at the Immortal-Settling Martial Arts Academy and concluded that Wuyang was carrying the academy alone.
• Meng Chuan asked the gatehouse guard to let him see Daoist Lord Wuyang, and the guard recognized him from television as Yong'an City's number one martial arts prodigy.

Daoist Lord Wuyang sent Meng Chuan into Patriarch Zhengyang’s Dharma Realm to learn why the immortal had reached out to him. Patriarch Zhengyang began showing him the dream of yellow millet, leaving Meng Chuan asleep alongside the young Lu Dongbin.

• Meng Chuan visited Daoist Lord Wuyang, described the consciousness he had encountered while practicing the Qi-Gazing Technique, and demonstrated the technique.
• Wuyang recognized the presence of Patriarch Zhengyang and explained that the Five Brightness Fan was a manifestation sustained by incense offerings.
• Wuyang gave Meng Chuan the Purple-Gold Elixir and used the Five Brightness Fan to send him into Zhengyang Cave, asking him to report on the patriarch’s circumstances.
• Meng Chuan met Patriarch Zhengyang, who invited him to enter a dream through the Five Brightness Fan.
• Meng Chuan watched young Lu Dongbin worry over fame and success as Han Zhongli offered him food, then fell into the dream of yellow millet with him.

Meng Chuan passed Patriarch Zhengyang’s trial by resisting the temptation of an external shortcut to immortality, strengthening his Martial Will and receiving Han Zhongli’s Longevity and Peaceful Joy Method. He told Daoist Lord Wuyang that Han Zhongli had vanished after passing on the method, leaving Wuyang grieving but reassured that the patriarch had appeared.

• Lu Dongbin accepted Han Zhongli as his teacher after awakening from the Yellow Millet Dream, while Meng Chuan resisted the same temptation when his Dao Heart warned him against worshipping his way to immortality.
• Meng Chuan broke the illusion with a punch, sublimated his Martial Will, and realized that Patriarch Zhengyang had tested whether he would abandon his own path for an external shortcut.
• Han Zhongli taught Meng Chuan a longevity method, left a martial arts imprint in his Sea of Consciousness, and vanished after Meng Chuan bowed in gratitude.
• Meng Chuan returned to True Yang Cave and told Daoist Lord Wuyang about the trial and Han Zhongli’s final transmission.
• Daoist Lord Wuyang identified the method as the Longevity and Peaceful Joy Method and explained its history; he wept after hearing that Han Zhongli had departed.

After leaving Yong'an, Meng Chuan traveled toward Wudang and Shaolin, stopping at Mount Hua to reflect on its martial history and practice. There, he learned the Longevity and Peaceful Joy Method, deepened his martial understanding, and clarified his path of uniting many traditions through his own cultivation.

• Daoist Lord Wuyang offered Meng Chuan Patriarch Zhengyang’s Five Brightness Fan and Purple-Gold Elixir, but Meng Chuan asked him to keep them until he returned from his journey to Wudang and Shaolin.
• Meng Chuan traveled from Yong'an to Mount Hua and climbed to Mount Hua Martial Arts University, reflecting on the historic conflict between its Sword and Qi branches.
• Atop Mount Hua, Meng Chuan practiced the Longevity and Peaceful Joy Method and advanced its proficiency from 3% to 50% at the beginner stage.
• Meng Chuan felt the method strengthen his body and martial will, while he resolved to make it part of his daily practice and eventually lower its cultivation requirements for his uncle and aunt.
• Meng Chuan clarified his martial path: he would worship neither immortals nor Buddhas, cultivate himself, and seek truth through fists and feet.

Meng Chuan visited Huashan Martial University’s Cliff of Reflection and discovered the Martial Dao True Rhyme left by True Person He. After Yu Chenghong explained the inscription, Meng Chuan comprehended Huashan sword qi’s Rhyme Realm, “attached to no form, leaving no trace.”

• Wang Chong welcomed Meng Chuan to Huashan Martial University and led him toward Cliff of Reflection.
• Meng Chuan searched the cliff and entered He Ancestor Cave, where he found a carved bamboo grove and a cryptic line of text.
• Yu Chenghong arrived and explained that the carving and inscription embodied True Person He’s lifelong Dao.
• Meng Chuan closed his eyes and comprehended the Rhyme Realm of Huashan sword qi: “attached to no form, leaving no trace.”

Meng Chuan studied the martial principles at Huashan Martial University, left behind a maxim, and set out toward Luoshang City to challenge a ranked student. A Black Water Company team ambushed him at Ear-Brushing Cliff, but he caught their armor-piercing bullet in his earth-vein-energy-coated hand.

• Meng Chuan used He Patriarch’s true rhyme to deepen his understanding of the Five Elements Fist and its connection to heaven and earth.
• Meng Chuan toured Huashan Martial University with Wang Chong, then inscribed his martial maxim on Sword Conference Peak with Yu Chenghong’s permission.
• Meng Chuan planned to travel to Luoshang City to challenge Li Yuansheng, the student ranked sixty-ninth on United University’s Tiangang Ranking.
• Three Black Water Company assassins prepared an ambush at Ear-Brushing Cliff while Li Xiao revealed that he intended to use them to exhaust Meng Chuan’s fallback protection.
• Meng Chuan sensed the hidden demonic qi but continued toward the ambush, then caught the sniper’s armor-piercing bullet in his blackened right palm and crushed it.

Meng Chuan killed two Black Water Company assassins at Ear-Brushing Cliff, then chased down and killed their demonized captain. He recovered the captain’s identification and Heavenly Demon Cores, fed the cores to the Dragon Demon, and found nothing useful at the cliff.

• The assassin captain fled after Meng Chuan blocked his special bullets, while two assassins attacked him from both sides.
• Meng Chuan unleashed Bing Fire Yang Thunder, killing the two assassins and blasting through Ear-Brushing Cliff.
• Meng Chuan pursued the captain, who swallowed a pill and transformed into a werewolf, but kept running instead of fighting.
• Meng Chuan transformed, caught the captain, and killed him after asking which faction he belonged to.
• Meng Chuan found the captain’s Black Water Company Gold Medal Assassin badge and several mid-rank Heavenly Demon Cores, then fed the cores to the Dragon Demon.
• Meng Chuan searched the cliff for the two assassins’ belongings but found only fragments of their blades.

After Meng Chuan killed three Black Water Company assassins on Mount Hua, Huayin police identified their leader and investigated who had placed the bounty on him. While waiting in Huayin, Meng Chuan reflected on how his Martial Will and Martial Momentum had advanced, leaving him stronger but still limited by his blood qi.

• Meng Chuan met Yu Chenghong at the assassination scene, and Yu Chenghong recognized the destruction as evidence that Meng Chuan had likely reached the Rudimentary Intent Realm.
• Huayin police confirmed the dead men were Black Water Company assassins, and their captain identified the sniper as the wanted assassin Yao Junkai, who had been close to breaking into the Third Limit.
• The police suspected Demon Summoning Hall had offered a large bounty on Meng Chuan, and Meng Chuan asked them to trace its source before he left Huayin.
• Meng Chuan collected a fifty-million bounty from the Huayin Martial Association, raising his account balance to 140 million, then stayed in the city while police investigated.
• During five days of waiting, Meng Chuan cultivated and studied how his transformed Martial Will had strengthened his Martial Momentum and made his inner sea of stars more solid.
• On Qingming Festival, Meng Chuan judged that greater blood qi and further growth in Martial Will would let him manifest his stars and contend with stronger Martial Artists.

After the failed assassination on Mount Hua, Meng Chuan learned that the Demon Summoning Hall had placed a huge bounty on him and decided to hide his movements rather than lure Fang Jianxing out. Back at the hotel, he Limit Broke Shaolin Iron Crotch Skill, gained the Essence Preservation Trait, and began considering stronger techniques to further improve his endurance.

• Daoist Qi reassured Xu Qingfeng that Meng Chuan had a top-grade Image-Recording Stone with three uses, while Qin Yue decided not to send a Grandmaster to protect him.
• Li Xiao learned that Meng Chuan had killed the Black Water Company assassins without revealing a trump card, then contacted Magic Mirror of Heaven Beyond Heaven to seek allies for another ambush.
• After leaving the Police Station, Meng Chuan realized the Demon Summoning Hall had offered a massive bounty and abandoned his plan to lure Fang Jianxing out, choosing instead to use the Thousand Faces Thousand Eyes strange item to conceal his identity.
• Meng Chuan trained Shaolin Iron Crotch Skill at the hotel until it Limit Broke and granted him the Essence Preservation Trait, which let him control his essence and preserve Yuan Qi.
• Meng Chuan tested his improved endurance and decided he would seek powerful crotch skills, including possible techniques from Wudang Mountain.

Meng Chuan traveled from Huayin to the Luoshang campus to challenge Li Yuansheng, while Li Xiao wrongly assumed he would take the highways and prepared an ambush. After arriving, Meng Chuan met Ji Lin'er and learned more about his upcoming match and the campus principal, Leopard King Chong Mingyue.

• Meng Chuan left Huayin before dawn and traveled toward Luoshang by mountain roads, evading the Demon Summoning Hall operative watching his hotel.
• The operative reported losing Meng Chuan to Li Xiao, who planned to ambush him on the highways he expected Meng Chuan to take.
• Meng Chuan reached the Dan River near Luoshang, noted the nearby Zheng-Faced Tapir Demon Nest, and entered Northern United University's Luoshang campus.
• Ji Lin'er welcomed Meng Chuan and arranged his lodging before warning him that Li Yuansheng was formidable.
• Meng Chuan practiced his mental method and spoke with Dong Yue, who told him the challenge would be livestreamed and urged him to fight hard.
• Dong Yue told Meng Chuan that Luoshang's principal, Leopard King Chong Mingyue, was an expert in movement techniques who might offer him guidance.

Meng Chuan challenged Li Yuansheng, a peak Second Limit martial artist ranked sixty-ninth on the Tiangang Ranking, to test his strength without entering Final Liberation. As the livestreamed match began at Luoshang Campus, the two fighters met with an intense clash of auras, leaving their contest poised to start.

• Meng Chuan decided to use his challenge against Li Yuansheng to gauge his strength while preserving his monthly United University credits.
• Li Yuansheng trained with his classmates and revealed a powerful spear technique that formed a Dragon-Serpent Dharma Form Phantom, reassuring Senior Brother Cui that he could win.
• Students crowded Luoshang Campus's arena to watch the Tiangang Ranking challenge, while Li Yuansheng received cheers as he prepared to defend his ranking and campus honor.
• Li Yuansheng entered the arena and unleashed an imposing Dragon-Serpent aura as he called Meng Chuan to fight.
• Meng Chuan arrived just before the match, crossed the arena with a single stride, and faced Li Yuansheng in a silent clash of momentum.

Meng Chuan and Li Yuansheng fought an intense duel, with Li Yuansheng unleashing his Dharma Aspect after testing their strength. The chapter ended as Li Yuansheng’s dragon claws clamped down on Meng Chuan’s heavily reinforced neck.

• The referee and spectators sensed Meng Chuan’s formidable momentum as he faced Li Yuansheng in the arena.
• Li Yuansheng probed Meng Chuan with a swift spear attack, then the two exchanged nearly a hundred blows.
• Meng Chuan entered a 200% liberation state while Li Yuansheng prepared to demonstrate the power of his Dharma Aspect.
• Li Yuansheng roared for nearly thirty seconds, building his will and blood-and-qi strength into a dragon-like form.
• Li Yuansheng crossed the arena and clawed at Meng Chuan’s throat, while Meng Chuan used his techniques to reinforce his neck and test the Dharma Aspect’s power.

Meng Chuan withstood Li Yuansheng’s dragon-claw strike with his neck, then overpowered him in a fierce exchange of combat techniques. After they separated, Li Yuansheng unleashed his full spear technique, and Meng Chuan transformed his momentum into a roc-like charge that left Li Yuansheng unable to keep up.

• Meng Chuan stopped Li Yuansheng’s dragon claw with his neck, pulled it free, and challenged him to face his momentum.
• Meng Chuan used [Stomping Foot] and his Baji Imagery Realm to press Li Yuansheng with overwhelming force, then fought him through hundreds of close exchanges.
• Meng Chuan and Li Yuansheng separated, and Li Yuansheng praised Meng Chuan’s talent and combat technique before agreeing to continue with Martial Dao moves.
• Meng Chuan warned Li Yuansheng to give his all as his body grew to seven or eight meters tall.
• Li Yuansheng unleashed his full dragon-serpent spear attack, but Meng Chuan embodied a great roc and charged faster than Li Yuansheng could track.
• Meng Chuan’s roc-like strike descended on Li Yuansheng with Bridge Moon talons and Geng Metal Tribulation Thunder, locking onto him so he could not escape.

Meng Chuan defeated Li Yuansheng and secured the 69th place on the Tiangang Ranking, earning a monthly credit reward. After Principal Chongming Yue considered approaching him, Meng Chuan planned how to use his future credits and reflected on Principal Yang's great halberd.

• Meng Chuan defeated Li Yuansheng with a lightning-charged strike, then left the arena while spectators marveled at his age and strength.
• The referee confirmed Li Yuansheng had suffered only superficial injuries, while Ji Lin'er calmed down after learning he was safe.
• Principal Chongming Yue admired Meng Chuan's talent and told his secretary to hint that his movement technique was impressive.
• Meng Chuan received notice that he ranked 69th on the Tiangang Ranking and would earn 300 credits each month.
• Meng Chuan considered saving credits for equipment and studied the great halberd Principal Yang wielded in combat recordings.

Meng Chuan visited Principal Chong Mingyue to learn about movement techniques, gaining major progress in Shenxing Baibian and learning the Vast Sky Formula. He left with new insights into using wind and terrain to move, as well as Chong Mingyue's suggestion to seek insight at Mount Haitang.

• Meng Chuan considered trading his Tiger Soul spear for a Great Halberd and decided to find a chance to borrow Principal Yang's weapon first.
• Li Yuansheng woke in the school infirmary, realized Meng Chuan had defeated him, and reassured himself that he could catch up after reaching Grandmaster.
• Meng Chuan checked on Li Yuansheng, then visited Chong Mingyue, who transformed into a black panther and challenged him to keep up through the rainforest office.
• Chong Mingyue guided Meng Chuan through a chase and explained movement techniques, helping him advance Shenxing Baibian from Mastery to Major Accomplishment and understand how to use terrain and wind.
• Chong Mingyue taught Meng Chuan the family movement technique Vast Sky Formula, and Meng Chuan grasped its entry level and true Rhyme before leaving.
• Chong Mingyue suggested Meng Chuan visit Mount Haitang's active volcano for insight into fire, and Meng Chuan left determined to make use of the opportunity.

Meng Chuan advanced his Vast Sky Formula, then hunted down and killed Chen Mo, who had been tracking him. He reached Mount Haitang to cultivate amid its volcanic fire-aspect qi and plunged naked into the magma to pursue the next stage of Boiling Flame.

• Meng Chuan practiced the Vast Sky Formula with the Earth Stance, easing his meridian pain and advancing both techniques before preparing to travel to Mount Haitang.
• Li Xiao learned that Meng Chuan had left United University, while Chen Mo failed to track him and Fang Jianxing decided against attacking until he could confirm it was safe.
• Meng Chuan ambushed Chen Mo, interrogated him about following Meng Chuan, and killed him with Demon Seeding True Qi after Chen Mo resisted.
• Meng Chuan climbed Mount Haitang and found its crater rich in fire-aspect qi, a favorable place to cultivate fire-aspect boxing and Boiling Flame.
• Meng Chuan stripped down, protected himself with his hard-body technique and True Qi, and dove into the magma to pursue the Blood Like Boiling Soup stage.

Meng Chuan used a volcanic lava pool to advance Boiling Flame to its second layer and strengthen his fire-aspect abilities. Inspired by the sunset, he practiced Molten Core Flame-Burst Fist, completed the technique, and unleashed a strike that triggered a volcanic eruption.

• Meng Chuan adapted to the lava and used its heat to temper his Spring Eye and cultivate Boiling Flame.
• Meng Chuan advanced Boiling Flame from the first layer to the second and found that his Internal Breath made his blood and even other elemental qi scorching hot.
• As the sun set, Meng Chuan felt Morning and Evening Enlightenment stir and chose to practice Molten Core Flame-Burst Fist.
• Meng Chuan repeatedly practiced the fist art, gained new insights, and completed the incomplete technique.
• Meng Chuan detonated fire-aspected Spiritual Essence with a punch, causing Mount Haitang's volcano to erupt in a display he judged comparable to Setting Sun Strike.