Chapter Summaries

Meng Chuan declined Shi Nan’s offer to learn the Mad Demon Staff Art until Shi Nan demonstrated how it could deepen martial understanding, prompting Meng Chuan to accept. After beginning his study, Meng Chuan considered acquiring a heavier halberd and later told Master Bai Bao about his fight with Liaochen.

• Shi Nan summoned Meng Chuan after watching him defeat Liaochen and demonstrated the Mad Demon Staff Art, revealing its power by destroying a withered pine tree.
• Meng Chuan initially declined to learn the staff art, but Shi Nan explained how its principles could improve martial understanding and showed the pine needles bowing as an example of Heaven and Earth recognizing him.
• Meng Chuan accepted the instruction and asked whether the art could be used with a Great Halberd; Shi Nan said it could, and they collected the staff manual and began training.
• Meng Chuan noticed two Western Regions guests watching him, and Shi Nan identified them as the son of the Twin Saints.
• That night, Meng Chuan reviewed the staff art’s forms and decided to consider acquiring a third-rank Great Halberd, then returned to Moon Terrace Garden and told Master Bai Bao about fighting Liaochen.
• Master Bai Bao advised Meng Chuan to keep a just cause for fighting and stay alert so Papiyas would not come after him again.

Fanluo visited Meng Chuan to borrow Great Brahma’s core artifact, offering a Sandsea Phantasmal Crystal in exchange. Meng Chuan refused to lend it without knowing the purpose and insisted that Guardian Lu and the state be consulted.

• Bai Bao sensed Fanluo and Grandmaster Duo-Mo approaching Moon Platform Mountain and sent Meng Chuan to meet them.
• Duo-Mo told Fanluo that Meng Chuan likely possessed Great Brahma’s core artifact, which they needed to open the Saha Sect Dharma Realm.
• Fanluo explained that the Dharma Conch had helped him trace the other Great Brahma artifacts to Meng Chuan and offered a Sandsea Phantasmal Crystal to borrow the core item.
• Meng Chuan said the artifact belonged to the state and was being kept at his school, so he could not decide whether to lend it.
• Fanluo refused to explain why he wanted the artifact, and Meng Chuan insisted that he would need to provide a reason to Guardian Lu and the state.

Meng Chuan resisted Fanluo’s attempt to borrow the Great Brahma core item and suspected the prince wanted to use it to open a Dharma realm. After eating a Snake Scale Fruit, he tested its effects and continued exploring how to control the magnetic field around himself, ending with a close examination of his strengthened body.

• Fanluo tried to pressure Meng Chuan into lending him the Great Brahma core item, but Meng Chuan cited his obligations to the Divine Dragon Great Sage and refused to be intimidated.
• Fanluo and Grandmaster Duo-Mo left with the Sandsea Phantasmal Crystal, and Meng Chuan reasoned that Fanluo might want the core item to open a Dharma realm.
• Meng Chuan practiced through the night, then ate the fifty-year Snake Scale Fruit and hurried to detox when it upset his stomach.
• Meng Chuan tested his control over the surrounding vegetation and magnetic field, realizing he needed to remove himself from the magnetic field’s influence to preserve its effects while moving.
• Meng Chuan examined his organs, meridians, tendons, blood, and acupoints, noting how his cultivation had strengthened them.

Meng Chuan broke through the Brahma Prison-Suppressing Technique to mastery, strengthening and better coordinating his body enough to train six hard techniques in a day. He planned to keep advancing his cultivation and consider bringing his physique across worlds so he could train more efficiently.

• Meng Chuan assessed the Snake Scale Fruit's modest physical benefits and received another ten million from his martial arts video subscriptions.
• After a quiet week of training, Meng Chuan advanced the Baxia Heaven-Supporting Skill to mastery and reviewed his progress in his other hard techniques.
• Meng Chuan focused on the Brahma Prison-Suppressing Technique and broke through to mastery, gaining the Four-Faced Four-Aspect Illuminating Arhat Body Trait.
• Meng Chuan found that his increased weight came with better control, letting him move without damaging the ground, and confirmed he could train six hard techniques each day.
• Meng Chuan considered bringing his physique along when crossing worlds so he could devote more time to hard training while practicing boxing in the Reality World.

Meng Chuan continued his hard-training and agreed to meet Liaochen about a new Demon Nest mission. Meanwhile, Fanluo planned to persuade Meng Chuan to help him obtain Great Brahma’s sacred objects and sent Grandmaster Duo-Mo to speak with him.

• Meng Chuan decided to intensify his physical cultivation, then practiced with Jueming and received Liaochen’s invitation to discuss a national mission at Five Breasts Peak.
• Fanluo worried that Meng Chuan would not hand over Great Brahma’s kasaya and scriptures, and considered how to obtain them without resorting to force.
• Fanluo reasoned that Meng Chuan might be safeguarding the sacred objects for someone else, possibly the Divine Dragon Great Sage, and decided to explain the Saha Sect Dharma Realm to him.
• Grandmaster Duo-Mo volunteered to approach Meng Chuan in Fanluo’s place, and Fanluo instructed him to persuade Meng Chuan without provoking him.

Meng Chuan joined Liaochen and the Shaolin monks to prepare for a mission at a Demon Nest near Fengdeng City, where he was unexpectedly named captain. Liaoqing challenged him over the position, and the chapter ended as they prepared to test their strength with a palm strike.

• Fanluo reflected on his earlier exchange with Meng Chuan and resolved to stay vigilant if they entered the Dharma Realm together.
• Meng Chuan arrived at Liaochen's residence and met Liaohai, Liaoyuan, and the meditating Liaoqing.
• Liaoqing objected to an outsider leading the Shaolin mission, while Liaochen explained that the original captain, Liaohuo, was absent to pursue a breakthrough.
• Liaohai encouraged Meng Chuan and Liaoqing to settle the captaincy through a contest, and Meng Chuan accepted Liaoqing's challenge.
• Liaoqing proposed an exchange of palm strikes in which whoever moved first would lose, and the monks gathered to watch.

Meng Chuan defeated Liaoqing in a contest of strength, destroying Liaochen’s courtyard and agreeing to pay for the damage. Later, Grandmaster Duo-Mo revealed his deception involving Fanluo and Brahma’s Protection, then tried to persuade Meng Chuan to visit the Saha Sect Dharma Realm, leaving a Sandsea Phantasmal Crystal as hush money.

• Meng Chuan rooted himself in Liaochen’s courtyard and defeated Liaoqing with a powerful palm strike, proving he could serve as captain.
• The clash destroyed Liaochen’s courtyard and home, so Liaoqing offered to cover the repair costs and Meng Chuan took the monks to Joyful Ground for dinner.
• Duo-Mo climbed Moon Platform Mountain in the rain, resolved to reveal his predicament to Meng Chuan, and explained his deception of Fanluo regarding Brahma’s Protection.
• Meng Chuan warned Duo-Mo that his deception could be exposed and refused to join Fanluo’s search for the Saha Sect Dharma Realm.
• Duo-Mo described the Dharma Realm’s Mind-Painting Altar and Calamity-Crossing Glazed Lamp, then offered Meng Chuan a Sandsea Phantasmal Crystal to keep quiet about Brahma’s Protection.

Meng Chuan refused to travel to the Saha Sect Dharma Realm until he was stronger, but accepted two precious treasures from Duo-Mo in exchange for delaying and cooperating later. As he prepared for the Crimson Malice Demon Nest mission, he studied his growing strength, organized his team, and began refining the gifts.

• Meng Chuan told Duo-Mo he would not visit the Dharma Realm before becoming a Martial Arts Master, so Duo-Mo gave him a Seven-Leaf Yellow Vine and a sand crystal to secure his future help.
• Meng Chuan considered Fanluo and the Morning Dawn Martial Exercise, then focused on strengthening his martial arts and swallowed the two treasures for Daoxin to refine.
• Meng Chuan gained a major proficiency increase in the True Martial Demon-Subduing Nine Forms, then hurried to meet Liaochen and the other monks for mission preparations.
• Liaohai warned the team that Crimson Malice was a powerful second-level Demon Nest master, and the monks argued that Meng Chuan should lead the charge as captain.
• Meng Chuan assigned positions for two team formations, kept himself in the center, and left after the monks accepted his plan.
• Meng Chuan felt the Seven-Leaf Yellow Vine strengthen his tendons and stamina, while the Sandsea Phantasmal Crystal finished refining in his Sea of Consciousness.

Meng Chuan refined his mental foundation and broke through the limit of his Qi-Gazing Technique, gaining the Spirit Scent trait and learning to manipulate elemental qi at a distance. As an unnatural sun heated the world, he also broke the limit of Layered Wave Rock-Shattering Fist and gained the Water Ripple Dharma Body.

• Meng Chuan used the Sandsea Phantasmal Crystal to transform his Sea of Consciousness, strengthening its defenses and changing Dragon Demon No. 2 into a sand-armored guardian.
• Meng Chuan studied the principles behind the Qi-Gazing Technique, broke its limit, and gained the Spirit Scent trait, which sharpened his perception of qi and improved his control of it.
• Meng Chuan noticed a strange yellow halo around the sun as the weather grew unnaturally hot, while an unseen figure near the atmosphere continued to radiate heat and light.
• Meng Chuan practiced in the water-element cultivation room and used the Qi-Gazing Technique to shape water into powerful attacks and a prison.
• Meng Chuan broke the limit of Layered Wave Rock-Shattering Fist, gained the Water Ripple Dharma Body trait, and added it to his Five Qi Towards Origin core.

Meng Chuan learned that Principal Sui Chunqiu was forging the Holy Embryo in preparation for Seventh Breakthrough, then set out with four Shaolin monks for a mission at the Crimson Malice Demon Nest. After reaching Fengdeng City Garrison’s main camp, the group was stopped at its security perimeter.

• Jueming learned that Meng Chuan and the others had a confidential mission for National Talents, while Meng Chuan’s breakthrough caused a water-aspected Martial Momentum to surge through the hall.
• The old monk told Meng Chuan that someone was using Solar True Fire to forge the Holy Embryo, and Yang Huan confirmed that Principal Sui Chunqiu was attempting Seventh Breakthrough.
• Liaohai informed Meng Chuan that Fengdeng City Garrison had summoned the group early because the mission intelligence had changed.
• Meng Chuan gathered Liaochen, Liaohai, Liaoyuan, and Liaoqing, took command as captain, and led them down the mountain while watching for threats.
• Meng Chuan’s group reached Fengdeng City Garrison’s main camp before ten o’clock, where a guard signaled them to stop at the security perimeter.

Meng Chuan and his team joined Commander Shi Cheng at the Fengdeng Garrison, where they learned the Scarlet Wrath Demon Nest had grown restless but its demonic energy had not increased. After the garrison’s mobilization ceremony, Meng Chuan gave the soldiers a safety briefing and organized their deployment before they set out to attack the nest.

• Meng Chuan entered the military camp under his Silver Medal privileges and met Commander Shi Cheng, who explained the Scarlet Wrath Demon Nest’s recent unrest.
• Shi Cheng showed Meng Chuan and the others the new demonic-energy detector, whose reading indicated no increase in the nest’s strength, and confirmed that garrison soldiers would join the mission.
• Meng Chuan agreed to help the soldiers gain battle merits, then ate, rested, and assembled with the troops for the afternoon mobilization.
• Shi Cheng addressed the soldiers and led them in a rousing pledge before the garrison distributed supplies for the expedition.
• Meng Chuan warned the troops against reckless advances and assigned their companies and platoons into battle formations, astonishing his monk teammates with his command ability.

Meng Chuan led the garrison army and four monks into the Crimson Fury Demon Nest, where he discovered a Titled Great Demon blocking the passage and went ahead alone to confront it. His explosive clash with the Flame Giant opened the way, and the monks and soldiers joined the battle against Crimson Malice’s demon tide.

• Meng Chuan corrected the army’s formation, declined Shi Cheng’s offer to join the garrison, and took command of the expedition.
• Meng Chuan led the soldiers and four monks into the Crimson Fury Demon Nest, where he identified the passage’s heat as Fire Poison and used his Fire Resistance to withstand it.
• Meng Chuan detected a Titled Great Demon blocking the exit, ordered the others to wait, and advanced alone in his Grim Intent armor.
• Meng Chuan fought the Flame Giant, unleashing a blazing clash that shook the passage and cleared the way out.
• Liaoyuan, Liaoqing, and Liaohai joined the battle as Liaochen ordered the garrison to form ranks and charge into the demon tide.
• Liaochen led the soldiers against the oncoming demons while Meng Chuan and the monks fought the Flame Giant and its surrounding forces.

Meng Chuan killed the flaming Great Demon and devastated the Heavenly Demon horde, but several more Great Demons emerged and split the fighters across the battlefield. He faced the tiger demon Yaksha alone and, after their clash weakened them both, struck its throat with Sinking Boat Lean.

• Meng Chuan killed the flaming giant, tore out its crystal core, and declared the Great Demon dead, rallying the army.
• Meng Chuan bombarded the demon tide with Five Element Thunders and slaughtered demons with his fire domain until he sensed a hidden Great Demon.
• Meng Chuan found Yaksha, a powerful black tiger demon, while Liaochen was intercepted by an eight-armed snake demon and Liaoqing was blocked by a pangolin Great Demon.
• Meng Chuan ordered Liaoyuan to support Liaoqing and Liaohai to protect the military formation, then fought Yaksha head-on.
• Meng Chuan combined Frost Spear and Setting Sun Strike with thunder to clash with Yaksha, and followed with Sinking Boat Lean aimed at its throat.

Meng Chuan and the four monks defeated the Heavenly Demon ambush and secured the battlefield, though nearly two hundred soldiers died. After resting, the group planned to recover before searching deeper in the Demon Nest for the hidden Temple and the truth about Crimson Malice.

• Meng Chuan killed the Tiger Demon, took its True Spirit and tail, and helped Liaochen slay the eight-armed Snake Demon before assisting Liaoyuan and Liaoqing against a pangolin-like Great Demon.
• Meng Chuan and the monks led the army in clearing the remaining Heavenly Demons, winning the battle while the defending force suffered nearly two hundred deaths.
• Quartermaster Wang Mian assured Meng Chuan that he would distribute the spoils according to each soldier's contribution.
• The four monks returned, and Meng Chuan ordered them to rest for eight hours before continuing the mission to find the Temple.
• Meng Chuan shared roasted lamb with Liaochen and reviewed his spoils, merits, and hopes for the Dragon Demon to gain strength from the Flame Giant's True Spirit.

Meng Chuan and the four monks followed Liaoyuan’s tracking art to the Flame Giant’s volcanic nest, where Meng Chuan and Liaohai entered a hidden cave beneath the magma. Their exploration ended when both men sensed something ahead and stopped to investigate.

• Meng Chuan proposed searching the Great Demons’ nests for murals that could lead to the Temple, and Liaoyuan offered a secret art for tracking nests by their shared aura.
• Meng Chuan ordered the garrison troops to stay within thirty kilometers of the entrance while he and the monks set out to track the Flame Giant’s nest.
• Liaoyuan traced the Flame Giant’s aura to a volcanic nest, and Meng Chuan and Liaohai descended into its magma-filled crater while the other three monks waited below.
• Meng Chuan and Liaohai found a fissure in the crater wall and entered a hidden cave protected from the magma by powerful air currents.
• Meng Chuan and Liaohai explored the cave’s twisting passage, then sensed something ahead and stopped.

Meng Chuan and Liaohai killed a sleeping firebird Great Demon, found a strange mural that might point to a Demonic Temple, and searched the lava pool for treasure. Meng Chuan discovered a mature Red Marrow Coral and promised Liaohai two hundred million for his share as they prepared to leave.

• Meng Chuan sent the Dragon Demon to scout ahead, then learned from it that a firebird Great Demon was sleeping deeper in the cave.
• Meng Chuan and Liaohai ambushed the firebird, overcame its flames and regenerative powers, and killed it; the Dragon Demon extracted its True Spirit.
• Meng Chuan claimed the firebird's True Spirit and searched the chamber with Liaohai, finding and storing an abstract mural that they speculated might depict worshippers and a Buddhist figure.
• Meng Chuan and Liaohai searched the lava pool's bottom, where Meng Chuan found a mature Red Marrow Coral rooted beneath the volcanic rock.
• Meng Chuan carefully stored the coral and offered Liaohai two hundred million, while Liaohai urged him to hurry because his heavy-water supply was running low.

Meng Chuan and Liaohai collected treasures from the volcano, and the Flame Giant’s True Spirit transformed Meng Chuan’s body and fire-element Fist Intent into Lava Fist Intent. After the group explored more Great Demon nests and gathered four murals, Meng Chuan concluded that the strange markings were demonfolk writing meant to pass down survival knowledge, then led the group onward.

• Meng Chuan shared the Crimson Crystal Coral with Liaohai, and the two climbed out of the volcano with the bird’s nest and other treasures.
• The group examined a mural, debated its markings, and continued searching Great Demon nests while Liaoyuan guided them.
• After refining the Flame Giant’s True Spirit, Meng Chuan broke through, gained Lava Fist Intent, and realized the Dragon Demon had changed as well.
• Meng Chuan and the four monks explored more nests, divided their loot, and collected a fourth mural.
• Liaohai and Meng Chuan deduced that the murals contained demonfolk writing for passing down knowledge and survival experience, and Meng Chuan led the group onward.

Meng Chuan discovered that a strange presence hidden in the cave wall could draw souls out of their bodies, and the monks’ attempt to uncover it pulled them into the same danger. The chapter left Meng Chuan and the monks inside a chaotic Void, facing an umbrella suspended at its center.

• Meng Chuan abandoned the mural search and followed Liaoyuan’s sense of the denser demonic qi toward a possible Demon Nest Node.
• At a cave dead end, Meng Chuan sensed an unseen presence inside the rock and found that it was pulling at his soul.
• Liaohai, Liaochen, and Liaoqing tried to break open the wall, but Meng Chuan’s soul vanished while his body remained beneath the rubble.
• The monks uncovered golden Buddhist radiance connected to a shattered Dharma realm, and it began drawing their souls out as well.
• The golden light struck back through the monks’ spiritual connection, leaving Liaochen’s body rigid and pulling the others into a chaotic Void.
• Meng Chuan and the monks found an umbrella hanging at the center of the Void.

Meng Chuan and four Shaolin monks were trapped in a demon-corrupted Dharma Realm linked to the Primordial Pearl Umbrella, where their minds and bodies were being eroded. After assessing the danger, Meng Chuan ordered the group to find and destroy the realm’s foundation rather than waste their strength searching for flaws.

• The Primordial Pearl Umbrella swallowed Meng Chuan and the four monks, and Meng Chuan recognized it as the artifact of Northern Heavenly King Vaisravana.
• Meng Chuan explored the snowy landscape, discovered that the Dharma Realm was damaging both his Sea of Consciousness and his liver, and suspected that the umbrella or Crimson Malice was the realm’s root.
• Liaoyuan, Liaochen, Liaoqing, and Liaohai emerged from the white light and joined Meng Chuan, who warned them to conserve mental energy while the erosion continued.
• The group discussed escaping by finding the realm’s root or searching for flaws, and Meng Chuan rejected the flaw-searching plan based on his experience in the Inner Demon Illusion Realm.
• Meng Chuan insisted that they find and destroy the foundation supporting the Dharma Realm, and the others agreed to follow his lead.

Meng Chuan and the Shaolin monks agreed to search for Sumeru Mountain, which Liaohai believed sustained the corrupted Dharma Realm. While Liaohai and Liaoyuan scouted, Meng Chuan had an epiphany that solidified his Martial Firmament and let him manifest a partial Starlight Mantle; the chapter ended with the scouts confirming that they should head south to Sumeru Mountain in the Northern Kuru Continent Dharma Realm.

• Meng Chuan resolved the monks’ disagreement and listened as Liaohai explained that Sumeru Mountain might sustain the Dharma Realm.
• Liaoyuan offered to scout with Liaohai, and Meng Chuan stayed behind to conserve his strength.
• Meng Chuan realized that martial arts shared underlying principles, then experienced an epiphany that further transformed his Martial Will and solidified his Martial Firmament.
• Meng Chuan formed a partial Starlight Mantle and sensed Liaohai and Liaoyuan returning from far away.
• Liaohai and Liaoyuan returned safely and confirmed that the group should head south to Sumeru Mountain in the Northern Kuru Continent Dharma Realm.