Chapter Summaries

Meng Chuan completed the first layer of Shiva Elephant Washing and formed a living Elephant God that could nurture his physique and spiritual foundation. After testing his newly strengthened body, he learned how the technique’s Spirit-Cleansing Reflux and hidden art worked, then left the Martial Arts Room with Luo Guanyun.

• Meng Chuan used his spiritual power to bestow Divine Charm on the Elephant God until it took shape in his Upper dantian, where it became a golden, intelligent being.
• Meng Chuan directed the Elephant God to cultivate Shiva Elephant Washing automatically and found that completing ten percent of the first layer had increased his physique by about two points and healed his lingering injury.
• Luo Guanyun tested Meng Chuan’s strength and recognized that his unassisted punch would have challenged even Luo Guanyun before his breakthrough to the Fourth Limit.
• Luo Guanyun explained that Spirit-Cleansing Reflux would eventually feed accumulated spiritual power back into Meng Chuan’s foundation, while dispersing the Elephant God could temporarily strengthen his physique but risk leaving it permanently incomplete.
• Meng Chuan finished his cultivation, joined Luo Guanyun for Ren Ping’s meal, and left Ren Ping convinced that he was nearing the Third Great Limit.

Meng Chuan refined his Elephant God visualization, planned his next cultivation steps, and went to sleep after preparing powerful healing pills. Feng Ying'er began infiltrating Huayun Mansion while Fang Jianxing waited outside the city for a chance to capture him, and Meng Chuan awoke to a strange musky smell.

• Meng Chuan gave Luo Guanyun a fourth-grade snow lotus to help clear resentment from his lingtai, then returned home and studied his newly formed Elephant God.
• Meng Chuan advanced his Earth Stance to 61%, assigned one-tenth of his mental power to Elephant-Driving Soul-Nurturing, and took a Cloud Water Pill before sleeping.
• Meng Chuan confirmed his Qingyun Azure Sea Treasure Pills were being delivered and planned to train Armor-Piercing Heart-Drilling Fist, resolve his uncle's matter, and retrieve the Dragon-Subduing Jade Pendant.
• The Elephant God manifested outside Meng Chuan and stared down the Dragon Demon, which retreated into his body while vowing to prove its usefulness.
• Feng Ying'er monitored Huayun Mansion from a hotel, sent part of her soul toward it, and planned to use her demonic arts against Meng Chuan and his master.
• Fang Jianxing hid outside the city with his Cosmic Realm treasure banner, and Meng Chuan woke at three in the morning after smelling a strong musk.

Meng Chuan fought off Feng Ying'er’s spiritual seduction with the Elephant God, which swallowed her soul before she escaped in her physical body. The divine feedback transformed his spiritual foundation and empowered his senses, while a citywide search for Feng Ying'er continued and turned up a lead.

• Meng Chuan resisted Feng Ying'er's spiritual attack as the Elephant God and Dragon Demon No. 2 defended his Sea of Consciousness.
• After Feng Ying'er struck Meng Chuan, he attacked with spiritual flames, and the Elephant God swallowed her soul, though she escaped in her physical body.
• Meng Chuan tracked Feng Ying'er to a hotel, found she had fled, and asked Luo Guanyun and Yong'an officials to help search for her.
• The Elephant God's Spirit-Cleansing Recompense strengthened Meng Chuan's spiritual foundation, transformed his Sea of Consciousness, and let him form and control a Golden Light Dharma Sword.
• Meng Chuan joined the citywide search while training at home, and a week later the police operation had uncovered a lead from the previous night.

Meng Chuan returned to the Infinite Martial Arts Hall, broke through the limit of Metal Edge Dharma Body, and formed the Five Elements Dharma Wheel. He discovered that it let him command the five kinds of qi together and reshape the surrounding spiritual essence, leaving him with a newly heightened awareness of the world.

• Meng Chuan visited the expanded Infinite Martial Arts Hall, greeted old friends Wang Dong and Le Ping, and impressed Liu Sanduo with his strength.
• Meng Chuan entered the metal cultivation room after its user, Li Yangwei, finished training and left in awe of him.
• Meng Chuan practiced in the metal room and broke the limit of Metal Edge Dharma Body, completing the set of dharma body traits and activating the Five Elements Dharma Wheel.
• Meng Chuan tested the wheel and found he could summon all five kinds of qi in one breath and transform the room’s metal spiritual essence into water.
• Meng Chuan realized the wheel could reshape surrounding Imagery Realms through the five elements’ generating and overcoming cycles, then left the hall with his senses heightened.

After forming the Five Elements Dharma Wheel, Meng Chuan’s martial principle, senses, and Imagery Realm advanced dramatically. He tracked down Feng Ying’er and defeated her, but a hidden Demonic Path fighter attacked him, and he recognized the attacker’s blood-sea illusion as an opportunity to use his new mastery of water.

• Meng Chuan realized that the Five Elements Dharma Wheel had expanded his Inner Scenery Land and strengthened his will, senses, and control over his Imagery Realm.
• After learning that Feng Ying’er’s hiding place had been found, Meng Chuan left dinner and led a Police Station team to the Black Horse Mansion.
• Meng Chuan broke into the salon, confronted Feng Ying’er, and fought her through illusions with his Tiger Soul spear and Five Elements Imagery Realm.
• Meng Chuan pierced Feng Ying’er’s spine and knocked her unconscious, then took her storage purse as a hidden attacker struck him with a blood-red blade.
• Meng Chuan recognized the attacker’s Turbulent Blood Sea intent and chose not to break the illusion, realizing that its sea of blood belonged to the water element.

Meng Chuan killed Yan Huan and survived Mountain Whisper’s attempt to tempt and threaten him, then captured Feng Ying’er and searched the spoils from the two battles. Back home, he sorted through the loot, claimed Yan Huan’s leather armor for himself, and began examining two martial arts manuals.

• Meng Chuan overcame Yan Huan’s blood domain and killed him, but Yan Huan invoked Mountain Whisper before disappearing and unleashed a living blood blade and black mist.
• Meng Chuan disabled the blood blade and resisted Mountain Whisper’s attempt to lure him away from the Martial Dao; Mountain Whisper vanished after warning him that those who opposed it would die.
• Meng Chuan collected Yan Huan’s belongings, notified the Police Station, captured the paralyzed Feng Ying’er, and sent her in for questioning after she gave a false name.
• At home, Meng Chuan sorted the spoils, discarded the demonic artifacts he could not use, and named Yan Huan’s grade-three leather armor Black Shark.
• Meng Chuan examined the woman’s whip, boots, and pills, decided to sell the equipment he could not use, and turned his attention to the two martial arts manuals.

Meng Chuan gained the Flying Descent Art, reported his victories and the Heaven Beyond Heaven evidence to Long Jiu, and arranged a safer clerical post for Meng Yongzhi. After receiving news from Luo Guanyun and planning his next visits, Meng Chuan prepared to continue training and help the Dragon Demon break another shackle.

• Meng Chuan discovered that the Flying Descent Art let him invade and control weaker minds, then began having the Elephant God automate its cultivation.
• Meng Chuan met Long Jiu, turned in Feng Ying'er's identity token and map, and learned that his victories and the coming operation against Heaven Beyond Heaven would remain confidential.
• Long Jiu explained that the map could lead to a Heaven Beyond Heaven base or a Heavenly Demon nest, and said Meng Chuan's Silver Medal might be upgraded to a Golden Medal.
• Meng Chuan asked Long Jiu to move Meng Yongzhi to an easier job, and Long Jiu created a clerical position and submitted a transfer order.
• Luo Guanyun told Meng Chuan that he had received the fourth-grade snow lotus and would enter seclusion, while asking him to visit Teacher's Wife.
• Meng Chuan planned to visit Teacher's Wife and his school, then checked on the Dragon Demon and anticipated breaking its water attribute shackle.

Meng Chuan completed a painful Kidney Water mutation that greatly improved his stamina and endurance. He used his new resilience to train for hours without rest and prepared to keep cultivating through the night, while the heavens continued to gather dark clouds and fire-attributed Spiritual Essence.

• Meng Chuan reviewed his Martial Firmament and inner landscape, then considered how the Third Limit’s Stake Technique might unite them.
• He refined water-aspected Essence Qi into his kidneys, endured a painful mutation, and gained stronger water control, soul-affecting damage, and greatly increased endurance.
• After the mutation, Meng Chuan practiced Five Thunders Striking the Peak for four hours without resting, doubling his previous training time.
• Meng Chuan planned to stay awake and train toward earning the advanced Thunder Pupil trait, while his Dao Heart Demon Seeding approached another breakthrough.

Meng Chuan broke the limit of Five Thunders Striking the Peak and gained the Thunder Pupil, awakening thunder within the five elements and his own heart. He tested his new power at Huayun Mansion’s artificial lake, where witnesses saw a startling display of thunder, water, and fire.

• Meng Chuan realized that breaking his limit required making thunder part of his own heart rather than borrowing power from outside, and he completed his breakthrough before dawn.
• Meng Chuan returned home, learned from Xue Na that his uncle had been promoted to director, and saw that his left eye had become the Thunder Pupil.
• Meng Chuan found that his blood and qi had surged and that his stellar armor was nearing completion, with fewer than fifty acupoint stars left to light.
• Meng Chuan stood on the artificial lake and unleashed Gui Water Yin Thunder through the water, discovering that he could perceive thunder within the five elements around him.
• Meng Chuan saw that the Natural Divine Mountain had gained a sixth branch, the Thunder Method branch, and then turned the lake into a blazing sea where thunder ran through the flames.
• Liu Sanduo and Chen Xuewu witnessed the transformations at the lake, and Liu Sanduo wondered whether a Grandmaster was practicing there.

Meng Chuan broke through his limits and strengthened his lightning abilities before witnessing Sui Chunqiu become a Martial Arts Great Sage. After Sui Chunqiu’s breakthrough, a strange sun-like phenomenon appeared in Meng Chuan’s inner landscape, and Yang Huan called to ask whether he had experienced any unusual changes.

• Meng Chuan tested his enhanced Five Aggregates Thunder, Golden-White Thunder Armor, and White Lightning healing after breaking his limits.
• Meng Chuan saw Sui Chunqiu’s Holy Embryo manifest as a red sun and watched him break the Seventh Great Limit and become a saint.
• Sui Chunqiu told Yi Wuji that he had given Meng Chuan a thread of solar true fire because Meng Chuan’s unusual eye had seen his Golden Crow aura.
• Meng Chuan discovered three golden birds circling in his inner landscape after witnessing Sui Chunqiu’s breakthrough and decided to ask Yang Huan about the change.
• Yang Huan teased Meng Chuan about rumors that he planned to take over as principal, then asked whether Sui Chunqiu’s gaze had caused any unusual bodily changes.

Meng Chuan learned how the Golden Crows in his Inner Scenery Land could aid his future advancement, then trained to build blood and vitality while preparing to visit Qin Xiang’s tomb. Outside Yong'an City, Fang Jianxing waited for a chance to capture him, relying on the Crimson Refinement Banner.

• Meng Chuan told Yang Huan about the Golden Crows in his Inner Scenery Land, and Yang Huan explained the stages from the Third Limit through Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown and the Crows’ potential to grant a Golden Crow Flame mutation.
• Yang Huan explained that Principal Sui’s Seventh Breakthrough had increased Yuan Qi and that Zhao Linyuan’s anticipated Eighth Breakthrough could transform the human world; Meng Chuan concluded that Great Chu was relying heavily on Zhao Linyuan against Mountain Whisper.
• Meng Chuan checked his progress toward the Third Limit, practiced True Martial Demon-Subduing Nine Forms through the night, and planned to visit Qin Xiang’s tomb at Caixia Mountain.
• Fang Jianxing remained outside Yong'an City, watched Luo Guanyun’s movements, and resolved to seize Meng Chuan for the Yuanshen Thunder Seed Method using the Crimson Refinement Banner.
• Meng Chuan practiced Veda Mountain-Carrying at Huayun Mansion, consumed Medicinal Paste to replenish his energy, and rested as Rainbow Light Body Refinement took effect.

Meng Chuan advanced his body-tempering cultivation, gained greater strength, and suppressed the demonic thoughts stirred by his breakthrough. After declining to reclaim Tiger Soul from Wu Hong, he met Yang Yuelian, who followed him despite his refusal to spar and insisted on challenging him later.

• Meng Chuan reviewed his hard-body techniques, fed Metal-aligned Heavenly Demon True Spirits to the Dragon Demon, and broke through the Wei Tuo Carrying Mountain Skill to major accomplishment.
• Meng Chuan tested his increased strength over the artificial lake, then used the Heart Sutra and Medicine Master Pure Six Faculties Perception Method to clear away gathering demonic thoughts.
• Meng Chuan offered to sell Tiger Soul to Wu Hong, who refused because Shang Ruyi had given him a new spear named Tiger Gall; Wu Hong learned Meng Chuan had nearly three hundred Star Acupoints and immediately resumed training.
• Yang Yuelian of the Kylin Prefecture Yang Family and Emei Martial University visited Meng Chuan and introduced herself as Phoenix Pierces Pear Blossoms, seeking a spear contest.
• Meng Chuan left to buy offerings and visit Xiang King Tomb, but Yang Yuelian followed him and insisted on sparring after he finished; Meng Chuan told her she could not challenge him yet.

Meng Chuan defeated Yang Yuelian with ease, then agreed to help her train in exchange for her asking the Yang Family about a Fourth-Rank Divine Great Halberd and a custom weapon. After paying respects at King Xiang’s tomb, he sensed an unseen force responding to his martial arts and suspected that the mausoleum held a hidden Martial Dao True Rhyme.

• Meng Chuan overwhelmed Yang Yuelian in their first clash, and she followed him up the mountain, eager to learn from his power of intent.
• Yang Yuelian described the Yang Family’s treasured weapons, including her Rosy Cloud Wind Plume, and agreed to ask her grandfather about a Great Halberd and forging a weapon for Meng Chuan.
• Meng Chuan summoned a stone giant and let Dragon Demon control it to spar with Yang Yuelian while he went to pay respects at King Xiang’s mausoleum.
• Meng Chuan offered incense, fruit, and Wudang Kung Fu Wine at the tomb, then reinforced the stones around the mausoleum with earth energy.
• After Meng Chuan turned to leave, dead leaves froze in midair and an unseen force stirred around the tomb, leading him to suspect that King Xiang’s Martial Dao True Rhyme had reacted to him.

Meng Chuan discovered that King Xiang’s True Rhyme had brought him into the War Soul Space, where the Heavenly King’s Divine Charm passed on the foundations of One Qi Encompasses the Cosmos and explained its vast potential. After the Divine Charm vanished, Meng Chuan resolved to pursue the art, while Yang Yuelian returned from her training determined to grow strong enough to defeat him.

• Meng Chuan practiced the Five Aggregates Fist at King Xiang’s tomb and absorbed the King’s True Rhyme, which he found waiting for him in the War Soul Space.
• Meng Chuan met King Xiang’s Divine Charm, gave his name as Infinite Fist · Meng Chuan, and agreed to pass One Qi Encompasses the Cosmos to the Qin Clan.
• King Xiang’s Divine Charm empowered Meng Chuan with the art and explained that it used qi to refine the world’s myriad things, but required a body transformed by qi to cultivate properly.
• King Xiang’s Divine Charm helped Meng Chuan understand the Five Elements Martial Principle before dispersing; Meng Chuan then bowed at the tomb and resolved to reach the Grandmaster realm.
• Yang Yuelian finished enduring the stone man’s beating, returned to her hotel, and planned to use the Beast King Chart and Phoenix Form Great Demons to cultivate a Dharma Form and eventually defeat Meng Chuan.

Meng Chuan tested his Martial Dao talent and ranked sixth nationwide, while Candle Dragon and Qin Yue set out for Taihang. After seeing Meng Chuan’s combat-arts recordings, Bai Junfeng decided to seek him further recognition, and Lu Ang learned that his ranking had fallen.

• Yang Yuelian trained late into the night, then called Yang Zhaoxing to tell him that her seeking of the Dao in Yong'an had gone well.
• Candle Dragon and Qin Yue left for Taihang, reflecting on the danger ahead and the possibility they might not return.
• Meng Chuan completed martial-arts recordings at the Yong'an Martial Artist Association and met Bai Junfeng, who took him to test his talent.
• The test showed Meng Chuan had exceptional foundations in Jing and Qi, and he uploaded his results, earning the nationwide sixth-place ranking.
• Meng Chuan told Bai Junfeng he would pursue Fang Jianxing, while Bai Junfeng watched his recordings and called an old friend about a research-talent incentive program.
• Lu Ang received a notice that his Martial Dao talent ranking had declined.

Meng Chuan completed the Eighth Layer of Dao Heart Demon Seeding and prepared to break the Third Limit, then rejected Yang Zhaoxing’s offer to make him a Yang Family son-in-law in exchange for a divine halberd. After the New Year, Meng Chuan entered the War Soul Space to study the Goat Palace Azure Flame Fist, where he faced its creator, Yuan Xueyin.

• Lu Ang saw that Meng Chuan had risen to sixth place in the rankings and worried that the young talent’s visibility could attract dangerous attention.
• Meng Chuan completed his Second Limit Stake Technique and the Eighth Layer of Dao Heart Demon Seeding, leaving him close to becoming a Martial Arts Master and considering how to control the Daoxin’s Blood Siphoning.
• Yang Zhaoxing offered to reforge a grade-three Great Halberd for Meng Chuan if he married Yang Yuelian, but Meng Chuan refused and asked him to forge the weapon without the marriage condition.
• Yang Zhaoxing agreed to discuss the halberd’s forging with Meng Chuan in person and promised to leave instructions if he did not return from Taihang.
• Meng Chuan used his new movement insights to glide over the crowded enrollment queues at Infinite Plaza and reach a training room.
• Meng Chuan entered the War Soul Space to practice the Goat Palace Azure Flame Fist and encountered its creator, Yuan Xueyin.

Meng Chuan limit-broke the Goat Palace Azure Flame Fist, gained the Azure Flame trait, and learned that Luo Guanyun could use his Thunder Seed against the Parasite Society. Preparing to leave for the Jin Region and confront Fang Jianxing, Meng Chuan collected the Five Brightness Fan and Purple-Gold Elixir, which could open True Yang Cave.

• Meng Chuan exchanged three hundred moves with Yuan Xueyin in the frozen martial world, then limit-broke the Goat Palace Azure Flame Fist and acquired the Azure Flame trait.
• Meng Chuan tested Azure Flame on Cloud Water Pills, found their effects largely unchanged, and added the trait to his cultivation panel, advancing Five Qi Towards Origin to 90%.
• Luo Guanyun revealed that his Dao heart could break through lingtai resentment and summon his Thunder Seed, and he and Meng Chuan agreed the plan against the Parasite Society could begin.
• Meng Chuan trained, told his family he would leave, and promised Xue Na he would return for his sister’s wedding.
• At the Immortal-Settling Shrine, Meng Chuan collected the Five Brightness Fan and Purple-Gold Elixir from Liang Cai and realized they could be combined to open True Yang Cave.

Meng Chuan returned to Li Mountain, exchanged a vast haul of Heavenly Demon materials for 49,621 credits, and decided to challenge Dong Yue for his third-place Tiangang Ranking position. After buying credits brought his balance to 60,188, he went to the pill chamber to purchase seventy-five Pulse-Moistening pills, but the steward brought out only nine bottles to begin checking the stock.

• Meng Chuan visited Ren Ping and Luo Meng, then left while Luo Meng wrestled with her doubts about thunder arts and demonic cultivation.
• Meng Chuan returned to Li Mountain, confronted Xu Qingfeng and Chu Yanlong over rumors that he would become principal, and traded blows with them.
• Meng Chuan exchanged his Heavenly Demon materials for 49,621 credits, and Chen Bin and Director Wang approved the transfer after confirming the amount was genuine.
• Meng Chuan checked the Tiangang Ranking, saw Dong Yue in third place, and decided to challenge him before Dong Yue entered seclusion.
• Meng Chuan's total rose to 60,188 credits, and he went to the pill chamber intending to buy seventy-five Pulse-Moistening pills.
• The pill-chamber steward checked the stock and returned with nine bottles while preparing to count the remaining supply.

Meng Chuan met Master Dong for their long-awaited decisive battle, and their clash of formidable martial arts shook the mountain gorge. After Dong Yue opened with a devastating spear attack, Meng Chuan countered with precise perception and fierce blows, leaving the fight unresolved as he unleashed a hidden full-power kick.

• Meng Chuan collected forty Pulse-Moistening Spirit Pills, then hurried to the gorge where he was due to fight Master Dong.
• Meng Chuan met Dong Yue and Lu Zhuxiao, learned that Dong Yue had mastered the Borrowed Precious Body, and witnessed the pair's auras summon a violent storm.
• Dong Yue revealed his Black Dragon Great Spear and opened the fight with a powerful thrust that Meng Chuan deflected before counterattacking.
• Meng Chuan and Dong Yue exchanged rapid, destructive blows, with Meng Chuan using his perception and Imagery Realm to read the spear's movements.
• Meng Chuan unleashed Liberation at full power and launched a concealed heavy kick that Dong Yue struggled to see or block.

Meng Chuan and Dong Yue fought a brief, devastating duel that pushed both toward breakthroughs: Dong Yue prepared to enter the Fourth Limit, while Meng Chuan reached complete mastery of the Martial Arts Imagery Realm and headed to a secluded chamber to pursue the Third Limit. The chapter left Meng Chuan training as his qi and blood surged and his aura continued to grow.

• Dong Yue and Meng Chuan exchanged dangerous spear and kick attacks, with Dong Yue’s spear offense nearly overwhelming Meng Chuan.
• Meng Chuan used Dragon-Serpent Embracing Moon to stop Dong Yue’s Effortless Dragon Slash and counterattacked, prompting Dong Yue to concede the exchange and announce his coming breakthrough.
• Dong Yue and Meng Chuan left for United University’s seclusion chambers, while Lu Zhuxiao stayed behind to handle the ranking result and wondered when he would advance.
• Chu Yanlong woke Xu Qingfeng with news that Meng Chuan was about to break through to the Third Limit, and Xu Qingfeng rushed out to witness it.
• Meng Chuan trained inside the chamber, advanced True Martial Demon-Subduing Nine Forms to 95%, and continued building his qi and blood as his aura grew.