Chapter Summaries

Meng Chuan traveled through mountains and rivers, refining his martial techniques and understanding Daoist Qi’s lesson about finding the Way in nature. As he continued toward Jingchu, he evaded Demonic Path watchers, while Li Xiao grew frustrated that his forces could not locate him.

• Meng Chuan completed his modified Molten Core Flame-Burst Fist as Scorching Wilds, Ashen Heavens, gained the Fire Radiance Dharma Body trait, and practiced until the technique reached Accomplished.
• Meng Chuan spent half a month exploring famous landscapes, bringing Five Elements Spirit Breath Fist close to its limit and raising River-Shaking Baji’s proficiency through practice beside the meeting rivers.
• Meng Chuan let go of his impatience for sudden breakthroughs, contemplated nature, and grasped true essence again, understanding Daoist Qi’s lesson to let progress follow its natural course.
• Meng Chuan entered Demon Nests along his route, earned battle merits, and avoided Demonic Path Martial Practitioners by concealing his energy and reporting them to the Police Station.
• Li Xiao learned that his forces had repeatedly failed to find Meng Chuan and wondered whether Yang Huan had given him an object that concealed his presence.

Li Xiao ordered Zhu Yun to help eliminate Meng Chuan, who descended the Qinling Mountains and continued toward Wudang. After learning that Gold of Immortal Tears was tightly controlled and seeing reports of more infected deities, Meng Chuan prepared to contact Wang Ye as the Heavenly Demon invasion accelerated.

• Li Xiao judged Meng Chuan a growing threat and ordered Zhu Yun to kill him, promising to send more men.
• On April 25, Meng Chuan glided down the Qinling Mountains to avoid Heavenly Demons and reached a nearby town.
• Meng Chuan planned to visit Wudang, confront the Taiji Fist Hall, and investigate whether he could obtain Gold of Immortal Tears.
• Meng Chuan called Shen Shuo, who warned him against trying to bypass state controls and suggested asking Lu Ang about exchanging for the scarce resource.
• Meng Chuan decided not to pursue Gold of Immortal Tears for now, planned to contact Wang Ye, and read mission reports confirming more Demonic Infections among deities and Buddhas.

Meng Chuan accepted a mission to arrest Wang Jian for betraying Great Chu and embezzling Gold of Immortal Tears, then organized Nine-Weir City's police forces for the operation. As the teams moved out, Wang Jian remained unaware that he had been exposed and continued cultivating a Demonic Skill at the mine company.

• Meng Chuan spotted the mission to capture Wang Jian and recover the stolen Gold of Immortal Tears, then accepted it and informed Shen Shuo.
• Shen Shuo gave Meng Chuan Wang Jian's address and warned him that the stolen resources belonged to the state.
• Meng Chuan met Police Chief Xu Jinqiu and the Nine-Weir Police Station's officers, who placed the forces under his command for the mission.
• Meng Chuan assigned teams to search Wang Jian's company, home, and other residences while safeguarding Great Chu's property.
• Wang Jian cultivated the Blood Refining Grand Method in his office, convinced that joining the Demonic Path was worth the power and extended life it promised.

Meng Chuan captured Wang Jian after foiling his escape, then found and secured the Gold of Immortal Tears hidden in Wang Jian’s office. Two days later, Meng Chuan finished cultivating at the hotel and prepared to visit Nine Weirs Police Station.

• Wang Jian discovered police at his office and tried to escape through a window using the Blood Refining Grand Method.
• Meng Chuan used Kidney Water Qi to blast Wang Jian back from the lake, then struck him unconscious and handed him over to the police alive.
• Meng Chuan searched Wang Jian’s office, broke open a desk, and recovered the Gold of Immortal Tears hidden inside a piece of turquoise.
• Meng Chuan called Shen Shuo and offered him the cigars from Wang Jian’s cigar room, and Shen Shuo arranged to collect them.
• Two days later, Meng Chuan finished cultivating his mental method at the hotel and prepared to go to Nine Weirs Police Station.

Meng Chuan visited the Police Station to finish reporting on Wang Jian and ask about keeping the seized Gold of Immortal Tears. Police Chief Xu Jinqiu explained the demonic threat and offered Meng Chuan the resource at a discount or for cash, and Meng Chuan chose cash.

• Meng Chuan completed the follow-up report on Wang Jian and learned that Heaven Beyond Heaven had recruited him through bewitchment and worked with Heavenly Demons.
• Hou Zhibin thanked Meng Chuan for the mission, but Meng Chuan refused to take half of Hou Zhibin's Merit Points.
• Xu Jinqiu revealed his Grandmaster Magnetic Field Mutation and told Meng Chuan that the Eighteen Arhats might be demonic-infected, with future missions likely focused on Shouzi Temple.
• Xu Jinqiu told Meng Chuan that Guardian Lu Ang had approved a choice between buying the Gold of Immortal Tears for half price in special merit points or exchanging five hundred million in cash for it.
• Meng Chuan chose to exchange five hundred million in cash for the Gold of Immortal Tears.

Meng Chuan secured the Gold of Immortal Tears and arranged to pay for it with money from his martial arts gym. Meanwhile, Luo Guanyun learned about Meng Chuan’s urgent purchase while leaving Shaolin, where Dharma Master Bai Bao had treated him and invited Meng Chuan to visit.

• Xu Jinqiu let Meng Chuan take the Gold of Immortal Tears before paying, and Meng Chuan left the police station planning to borrow money from Luo Guanyun.
• At Shaolin, Dharma Master Bai Bao suppressed the resentment in Luo Guanyun’s lingtai, warned him about his unstable Three Flowers, and gave him a dharani scripture.
• Luo Guanyun told Bai Bao that Meng Chuan had created the hard technique strengthening his body, and Bai Bao agreed to meet Meng Chuan when he visited Shaolin.
• After copying the [Shiva Elephant Washing] secret art, Luo Guanyun called Meng Chuan and heard his urgent request for money to pay for the Gold of Immortal Tears.
• Luo Guanyun authorized Meng Chuan to withdraw four hundred million from the martial arts gym’s account and offered him a new storage waist token as a birthday gift.

Meng Chuan learned that Luo Guanyun had completed Shiva Elephant Washing and examined his progress toward seven thousand Qi-Blood, True Qi, and becoming a Grandmaster. At the Infinite Martial Arts Hall, Luo Meng discovered that Meng Chuan had withdrawn four hundred million, while Meng Chuan planned to study Heart Sutra Incantation Arts to strengthen his mind.

• Meng Chuan offered Luo Guanyun a century-old snow lotus, and Luo Guanyun told him to save his special military merits and gave him an address in the Island Country.
• Luo Meng tried to borrow two hundred million from the Infinite Martial Arts Hall, but Liu Sanduo said neither of them had authorization to withdraw funds.
• Liu Sanduo and Luo Meng saw that four hundred million had been withdrawn from the hall's account, and Luo Meng realized Meng Chuan was the other person with authorization.
• Meng Chuan examined his star tracks and estimated his Qi-Blood was close to seven thousand points, with his meridians linked to the sixtieth star.
• Meng Chuan tested controlling True Qi outside his body, but it threatened to damage the door, so he concluded that only True Gang could give it substance and fine control.
• Meng Chuan considered learning Heart Sutra Incantation Arts to improve his mental strength and hoped to visit the Zen Sect's ancestral home.

Meng Chuan refined Gold of Immortal Tears, strengthening his spiritual power while practicing martial arts in Nine Weirs. He prepared to leave for Danjiangkou as the Demon Summoning Hall waited in ambush near Wudang Mountain, while Zhou Yun was set to lecture at Little Five Terraces.

• Meng Chuan swallowed Gold of Immortal Tears and had Daoxin temper it, gradually strengthening his Foundation of Blue Stone.
• Zhu Yun and the Demon Summoning Hall stayed hidden beneath Wudang Mountain, waiting for Meng Chuan to pass their ambush.
• By May 1, Daoxin had tempered most of the treasure, and Meng Chuan found his spiritual power had improved enough to form a cloudlike mass.
• Meng Chuan entered the War Soul Space to practice Five Thunders Striking the Peak and raised its proficiency from 1% to 3%.
• Meng Chuan left his hotel to break the limit of the Five Elements Spirit Breath Fist before traveling to Danjiangkou City.
• Dragon-Riding Guanyin escorted more than a dozen young people to Little Five Terraces to hear Zhou Yun give a lecture.

While Zhou Yun watched the vast Mountain Whisper Demon Nest, the demon Mountain Whisper said the world’s laws were weakening and an act defying heaven would hasten their collapse. Meanwhile, Zhao Linyuan approached the Eighth Limit, and Meng Chuan arrived at Dragon-Subduing Mountain.

• Zheng Yulan escorted national talents, including Chen Xuan and Yang Yuelian, up Little Wutai Peak for Zhou Yun’s lecture, while several youths wondered about Meng Chuan’s strength.
• Chen Xuan admitted Meng Chuan was formidable, and Yang Yuelian hoped to spar with him to advance her Battle Heart Clarity.
• After Zhou Yun dismissed the visitors, he tested the Mountain Whisper Demon Nest’s mist with his perception, then cut the connection when it began invading his Sea of Consciousness.
• Inside the Demon Nest, the Dharma Crown reported Zhou Yun’s probing to Mountain Whisper, which said the world’s barrier had loosened and that someone’s defiance of heaven would hasten the laws’ dissipation.
• Zhao Linyuan rose from the southeastern sea, said he was close to completing the Heavenly Abyss Method and opening humanity’s path to the Eighth Limit, then set out to fight Xiangliu.
• At noon, Meng Chuan arrived at Dragon-Subduing Mountain near Wudang Mountain.

Meng Chuan broke the limit of his Five Elements Spirit Breath Fist on Dragon-Subduing Mountain and awakened the intermediate Five Elements Dharma Body. Meanwhile, Wudang’s leaders discussed joining a Daoist Grand Luotian Rite in the Taihang Mountains to suppress evil demons.

• Meng Chuan practiced Five Elements Spirit Breath Fist on Dragon-Subduing Mountain, combining the five elements’ generation and restraint as he refined his martial principles and combat arts.
• Meng Chuan broke the fist art’s limit, then underwent a bodily transformation and gained the intermediate Five Elements Dharma Body trait.
• Meng Chuan examined the trait’s effects, considered seeking the remaining four elemental dharma bodies, and left for Danjiangkou City on his way to Wudang.
• At Wudang’s Altar of Ten Thousand Dao, Chen Tuan and the branch leaders welcomed the returning Overseer, Xu Daoxian.
• Xu Daoxian told the Wudang leaders that the Dragon-Tiger Orthodox Unity Sect planned a Grand Luotian Rite in the Taihang Mountains, and asked whether Wudang would join the other Daoist branches.

Chen Tuan organized Wudang’s preparations for the Grand Luotian Rite, while Meng Chuan arrived in Dan River Mouth and set out with Wang Ye to confront a Taiji school that had harmed his online course sales. Zhu Yun and Demon Summoning Hall prepared an ambush, and Li Xiao traveled toward Taihang as Meng Chuan and Wang Ye approached Wudang Mountain.

• Chen Tuan assigned Zhang Jingshi and Zhang Ziyu to coordinate with the Celestial Master Mansion, entrusted Wudang’s affairs to Cheng Miaochang, and entered the Jade Void Palace to prepare for the Grand Luotian Rite.
• Meng Chuan called Wang Ye in Dan River Mouth, and Wang Ye agreed to guide him to the True Yang Taiji Fist Hall the next morning.
• Meng Chuan and Wang Ye discussed Wang Ye’s Dragon Demon before heading to the Taiji hall, where Meng Chuan planned to confront its owner for slandering him and hurting his course sales.
• Zhu Yun and another six-time Ascended prepared to ambush Meng Chuan outside the city, while Zhu Yun told Li Xiao that Meng Chuan had arrived.
• Li Xiao ordered Zhu Yun to kill Meng Chuan, and Meng Chuan and Wang Ye continued toward Wudang Mountain as Wang Ye recalled how Meng Chuan’s aura had startled the hall master.

Meng Chuan detected a Demonic Path ambush on Wudang Mountain and unleashed Principal Yang’s strike against the attackers, but Zhu Yun survived by transforming into a giant toad. Meng Chuan resisted Zhu Yun’s demonic will and the two clashed, leaving him dodging Zhu Yun’s deadly tongue.

• Meng Chuan sensed Demonic Path Martial Practitioners hiding near Wudang Mountain and sent Wang Ye away to summon his master.
• Zhu Yun ordered the ambush to begin and gathered demonic energy for his attack as Meng Chuan prepared his Image-Recording Stone.
• Meng Chuan stomped three attackers out of the ground and killed them, then unleashed Principal Yang’s halberd strike, which obliterated the charging attackers.
• Zhu Yun emerged as a giant toad and attacked Meng Chuan after the strike; Meng Chuan’s first use of the Image-Recording Stone had not killed him.
• Zhu Yun’s demonic will forced Meng Chuan downward, but Meng Chuan resisted it and counterattacked from above with a flaming fist.
• Zhu Yun’s tongue met Meng Chuan’s fist and sprayed demonic blood into him; Meng Chuan expelled the poison and evaded the tongue’s continuing attacks.

Meng Chuan fought Zhu Yun, a six-time Ascendant and Demon Summoning Hall High Priest, until Zhao Shousui arrived and killed him. After learning about souls and Soul Palaces, Meng Chuan accepted Zhu Yun’s unusual hidden weapon from Zhao Shousui, and Wang Ye returned with Police Station officers.

• Meng Chuan dodged Zhu Yun’s black sphere and counterattacked, but could not break through the giant toad’s defenses.
• Zhu Yun urged Meng Chuan to join the Divine Temple and claimed that the Gods would soon descend from Ultimate Darkness.
• Zhao Shousui arrived and split Zhu Yun in two, after which Zhu Yun’s head exploded and his soul vanished to be reclaimed by the Heavenly Demon.
• Zhao Shousui explained that Zhu Yun’s soul had left his body because he lacked a Soul Palace, and described how a Soul Palace was formed and sustained a Martial Dao powerhouse.
• Meng Chuan recovered Zhu Yun’s black hidden weapon, and Zhao Shousui let him keep it as compensation for the ambush.
• Wang Ye returned with Police Station officers and was relieved to see Meng Chuan unharmed.

Meng Chuan settled into life at Wudang Mountain, tested his new artifact, and prepared to attend Zhao Shousui’s class to ask about the core Trait he needed. Meanwhile, Li Xiao abandoned a raid on the Bestowing Longevity Temple and coordinated with Fang Jianxing, who continued searching for Luo Guanyun.

• Meng Chuan left the police at the foot of Wudang Mountain and followed Zhao Shousui and Wang Ye up the mountain, where he was told to wear a Daoist robe and stay at Wang Ye’s courtyard.
• Meng Chuan discovered that his guest room was a stone trough-like bed, then settled in after Wang Ye cleaned it and replaced the straw mat.
• Li Xiao sensed an expert waiting at the Bestowing Longevity Temple and abandoned his plan to steal its inheritance artifacts; he learned that Zhu Yun, Priest Qian, and their companions had failed to kill Meng Chuan.
• Li Xiao told Fang Jianxing that Meng Chuan’s hidden trump card had been exposed, but Fang Jianxing continued to wait because he suspected Luo Guanyun was still with Meng Chuan.
• Meng Chuan tested his black spherical artifact, practiced before dawn alongside Wang Ye and Wudang’s students, and received a custom Daoist robe and a hood to cover his bald head.
• Meng Chuan followed Wang Ye to Zhao Shoushui’s class, intending to ask about a core Trait, as the students practiced with staffs weighted by iron essence.

Meng Chuan trained with Wudang’s Thousand-Catty Scroll, impressed the students with his strength, and learned that Daoist Lord Chen Tuan might help him practice a hard martial art without worshipping the Great Emperor. After settling into Wudang Mountain, he received his bounty payment and joined the mountain’s fiercely competitive training culture.

• Zhao Shousui demonstrated the Thousand-Catty Scroll, and Meng Chuan lifted and wound Zhao Shousui’s Demonic Iron Essence version in front of the students.
• Meng Chuan learned that Zhao Huanzhen had taken Wang Ye’s Dao Child title and discussed the Great Emperor’s worship requirement with Zhao Shousui.
• Zhao Shousui arranged for Meng Chuan to stay on the mountain and visit the Scripture Repository and Imperial Scripture Pavilion while avoiding the main ritual sites.
• Danjiangkou Police Station warned Meng Chuan that Demon Summoning Hall had sent at least two High Priests after him and transferred him fifty million in bounty money.
• Meng Chuan returned the money to his martial arts school, continued training with Wudang’s Daoists, and observed the mountain’s factions sparring over disagreements.

While staying at Wudang, Meng Chuan learned and rapidly mastered Taiji Thirteen Forms, then impressed Zhao Shousui with his exceptional hard-body cultivation. The chapter ended with Zhao Shousui realizing Meng Chuan was cultivating three Buddhist True Technique-grade hard-body arts at once.

• Meng Chuan continued training and fighting at Wudang, advancing his cultivation and breaking through Wei Tuo Carrying Mountain Skill to Weight Lifting as Lightness.
• After watching Wang Ye practice Taiji Thirteen Forms, Meng Chuan copied the movements, recorded the art, and quickly raised it to Mastery.
• Wang Ye told Zhao Shousui about Meng Chuan's rapid progress, and Zhao invited Meng Chuan to drink Wudang Kung Fu Wine.
• Meng Chuan accepted the wine to share with his friends and reflected that he would help his master overcome the inherited Thunder Method's limits.
• After drinking, Meng Chuan demonstrated his hard-body arts to Zhao Shousui, whose astonishment grew when he learned Meng Chuan was cultivating three Buddhist True Technique-grade arts at once.

Meng Chuan searched for a suitable treasure to help him begin Blood Hard Qigong, then limit-broke the Taiji Thirteen Forms and received a storage waist token. The chapter ended with Zhao Shousui recognizing the costly token and remarking that Old Luo had treated Meng Chuan well.

• Meng Chuan's blood-and-qi value surpassed eight thousand, and he asked Zhao Shousui for a blood-related treasure to help with his hard technique.
• Meng Chuan settled on Tiger Saliva Jujubes as the best option for his current cultivation and planned to buy one with special battle merits.
• After sparring with Daoist Priest Jack, Meng Chuan limit-broke the Taiji Thirteen Forms and gained the Harmony trait, which helped reconcile hard and soft techniques.
• Quandutong delivered Meng Chuan a tiger-head waist token with ten cubic meters of storage space, and Meng Chuan moved his gear inside it.
• Zhao Shousui examined the waist token and said that Old Luo had given Meng Chuan an expensive gift worth eight hundred special battle merits.

Meng Chuan struggled to learn Wudang’s Nine Palaces Taiji Force and gained a palace-guarding heart trait, but paused his Taiji training to focus on his main goals. He then asked Zhao Shousui about Wudang’s core methods and learned that their transmission required sincere faith, prompting him to ask whether Sect Leader Chen Tuan could help him enter the True Martial Great Emperor’s Dharma Realm anyway.

• Zhao Shousui taught Meng Chuan the movements and principles of Nine Palaces Taiji Force, but Meng Chuan struggled to coordinate his steps and techniques.
• Meng Chuan returned with Wang Ye, then practiced until he reached beginner level in Nine Palaces Taiji Force and received the palace-guarding heart trait.
• After Master Dong urged him to return, Meng Chuan assured him that he remained loyal to United University and planned to resume his main training goals.
• At Zhao Shousui’s home, Meng Chuan asked about Wudang’s peerless techniques and learned that its Zhenwu Core methods consisted of eight divine arts and peerless techniques.
• Zhao Shousui explained that learning the methods required sincere faith and entry into the True Martial Great Emperor’s Dharma Realm, so Meng Chuan asked whether Sect Leader Chen Tuan could help him enter without believing.

Meng Chuan asked Zhao Shousui for a Daoist hard-training method that could build the core Trait he needed, and Zhao recommended the Xuanwu Dharma Body series. After learning the Giant Turtle Carapace Skill and gaining the Turtle Back Trait, Meng Chuan planned to master it before pursuing the Baxia Heaven-Supporting Skill.

• Meng Chuan explained that he wanted a Horizontal Training Method to develop the Trait required for a core hard technique, and Zhao Shousui pointed him toward Xuanwu’s methods.
• Zhao Shousui described the Xuanwu Dharma Body series, including the incomplete divine-grade Rengui Xuanwu Undying Great Dao Scripture and the True Technique-grade Xuanwu True Body Refinement.
• Zhao Shousui agreed to teach Meng Chuan the Giant Turtle Carapace Skill and said he would need to enter the Dharma Realm to learn the prerequisite Baxia Heaven-Supporting Skill.
• Zhao Shousui used a third-rank Zhenwu staff to locate the Giant Turtle Carapace Skill’s treasure apertures on Meng Chuan’s back, helping him begin the method.
• Meng Chuan reached Beginner proficiency in the Giant Turtle Carapace Skill and gained the low-grade Turtle Back Trait, then planned to master it while continuing his other training methods.

Fang Jianxing weighed whether to attack Meng Chuan and decided to ask the demon Venom for help. Meanwhile, Xu Daoxian and Zhou Yun prepared for the Grand Luotian Rite to suppress Mountain Whisper and support Zhao Linyuan’s Eighth Breakthrough, while the chapter revealed the greater threat posed by the Demon God Shanghao; Meng Chuan later learned the Tianshan Martial Assembly had been postponed indefinitely.

• Meng Chuan decided to postpone cultivating the Wei Tuo Carrying Mountain Skill until after his Brahma Prison-Suppressing Technique advanced.
• Fang Jianxing considered attacking Meng Chuan but, wary of Luo Guanyun and Meng Chuan’s strength, contacted Venom through a mirror to ask for help.
• Xu Daoxian told Zhou Yun that the Grand Luotian Rite was a joint effort by four major forces and had to succeed in suppressing Mountain Whisper before Zhao Linyuan attempted his Eighth Breakthrough.
• Zhou Yun agreed to attend the rite on behalf of Yanhua, while Xu Daoxian continued planning it and considered how its success could strengthen Great Chu against Ultimate Darkness.
• Xu Daoxian and Zhou Yun looked toward the Demon God Shanghao and learned that the Heavenly Demon Realm was a conglomerate of worlds that devoured other worlds and had stolen Blue Star’s Primordial Qi.
• A week later, Meng Chuan read that the Tianshan Martial Assembly had been postponed, with its new start date still undetermined.