Chapter Summaries

Meng Chuan named his new fourth-rank divine weapon Demon-Subduing, inspected the construction of the Infinite Martial Arts Hall’s first branch in Linzhou, and spent time with Yang Yuelian before returning to his duties. Meanwhile, Luo Guanyun continued growing stronger in Purgatory, and a dangerous disturbance in the Wei River basin drew Meng Chuan toward a looming battle.

• Meng Chuan named his Great Halberd Demon-Subduing, and it became a fourth-rank Zhenwu divine weapon.
• Meng Chuan visited the Linzhou branch construction site, praised Li Cuizhen’s work, and told her to focus on building a good reputation.
• Meng Chuan and Yang Yuelian spent time together outside Linzhou before he left for Yong'an and she asked to visit him on Li Mountain.
• Luo Guanyun recovered and grew stronger in Purgatory, then resolved to blend in as a mixed-blood Thunderfolk and enlist in the Cosmic Expeditionary Army.
• Cheng Yukun searched the Wei River for Meng Chuan and decided to intensify the disturbance to draw him out.
• After demonic energy near Brow City approached the fourth-rank threshold, Qin Yue sent experts and Martial University students to Zone F and asked that Meng Chuan be notified.

Bo Gang, a powerful crocodile divine child, attacked the Wei River garrison while searching for Meng Chuan and overwhelmed the Martial Artists defending it. After receiving urgent messages, Meng Chuan rushed toward the battlefield.

• Bo Gang ignored Cheng Yukun's warning, left to hunt Meng Chuan, and later agreed to search for the Crimson Refinement Banner in exchange for emotional power.
• Bo Gang broke through the garrison's defenses, killed the officer, and attacked the reinforcements as Qin Yue watched from above.
• Long Jiu, Chen Jing, Cui Kai, and two other Martial Artists confronted Bo Gang, but he killed the old Daoist and battered the group with a massive water attack.
• Bo Gang demanded to know where Meng Chuan was, while the wounded defenders braced for his next attack.
• Meng Chuan woke to messages and missed calls, then hurried from Yong'an toward the battlefield.

Meng Chuan arrived at the Wei River battle and destroyed the three giant crocodiles before killing Cheng Yukun and facing Bo Gang. After a fierce fight, he drove Demon-Subduing through Bo Gang’s chest, leaving the divine scion on the verge of death.

• Meng Chuan descended from the thunderclouds and killed the three giant crocodiles with Demon-Subduing, then swept the remaining crocodile horde into the river.
• Meng Chuan detected Cheng Yukun underwater, killed him with Star-Destroying, and took his head as Bo Gang charged in fury.
• Meng Chuan and Bo Gang clashed over the Wei River, and Meng Chuan’s Star-Destroying strike tore away Bo Gang’s scales as Bo Gang used his water Divine Power to attack.
• Meng Chuan enlarged his body, battered Bo Gang with Demon-Subduing, and seized his shield before following him underwater.
• Meng Chuan struck Bo Gang with Star-Destroying, shattered his blade and mangled his body, then pierced his chest with Demon-Subduing.

Meng Chuan killed Bo Gang and learned that Heaven Beyond Heaven concealed powerful Heavenly Demons, while Mo Jue set out to investigate the Chosen One and the Crimson Refinement Banner. Far away, Zhao Linyuan resolved to earn the Boundless Celestial Venerable’s support for Blue Star, and Meng Chuan returned to cultivation after earning a major reward and refusing Yang Yuelian’s transfer.

• Meng Chuan killed Bo Gang, fed his blood and corpse to the Dragon Demon, and returned to shore with Bo Gang’s dried hide.
• Long Jiu told Meng Chuan that Heaven Beyond Heaven harbored fourth-rank Great Demons and was led by the suspected fifth-rank Lord [Mo Jue].
• Qin Yue fought and killed the Crocodile Dragon Clan elder who had tried to rescue Bo Gang, while Mo Jue learned of Bo Gang’s death and continued toward Shaoshi Mountain.
• At the Boundless Sea, Zhao Linyuan considered how to gain the Boundless Patriarch’s favor and make Blue Star useful enough to receive help from the Azure Sea Realm.
• Meng Chuan recovered, received a thousand special merit points for killing Bo Gang, and decided to keep his killing of Burning Steel secret.
• Yang Yuelian sent Meng Chuan a billion yuan, but he returned it and asked instead for special merit points; she decided to invest the money in Infinite Martial Arts Hall.

Meng Chuan broke through Lung Metal, strengthening his body and raising Flower of Flesh’s liberation limit, then considered how to cultivate the remaining Five Elements. At a charity auction and resource exchange in Yong'an, he learned Luo Guanyun had gone to Purgatory and acquired a chance to trade for a powerful Ghost Dragon heart.

• Meng Chuan advanced Shiva Elephant Washing to its second layer, tried to cultivate Wudang’s Yin-Yang Demon-Sweeping Heart Scripture, and found his yin-yang principles were not yet sufficient to begin.
• Meng Chuan trained with the Dragon Demon and used Metal Essence Qi to break Lung Metal’s shackles, transforming his lungs and raising his maximum liberation strength to 500%.
• Meng Chuan decided to keep nourishing Liver Wood and Kidney Water, but found his battle merit depleted and used United University credits to obtain Wood-element cores.
• At a charity auction, Meng Chuan told Bai Junfeng that Luo Guanyun had gone off-world to Purgatory, then prepared to return to Li Mountain and train for the Morning Dawn Martial Exercise.
• Meng Chuan offered a storage treasure at a resource exchange, and Jia Xiong presented him with a peak fourth-rank Ghost Dragon heart whose lingering remnant Meng Chuan easily suppressed.

Meng Chuan received King Xiang’s Five Qi Origin-Tracing Notes, discovered a divine water-element killing move in Zhao Linyuan’s Heaven Abyss trial, and began a dangerous blood-cultivation breakthrough with the Ghost Dragon Demon Heart. The chapter ended with Xu Qingfeng watching Meng Chuan’s body surge and transform during the breakthrough.

• Meng Chuan traded his tiger-head waist token to Jia Xiong for a Ghost Dragon Demon Heart, then told Qin Yue about his suspicions regarding Yin Tianshou and the inheritance he received from King Xiang.
• Qin Yue lent Meng Chuan King Xiang’s Five Qi Origin-Tracing Notes and warned him not to study the dangerous final pages before his martial principles advanced further.
• Meng Chuan returned to Northern United University, celebrated privately with his friends, and responded awkwardly when Meng Jiaolong toasted him and wished him happiness.
• After a month of seclusion, Meng Chuan deciphered Zhao Linyuan’s second spear move in the Heaven Abyss imagery and recognized it as a divine water-element killing technique.
• Meng Chuan swallowed a Tiger Saliva Jujube and the Ghost Dragon Demon Heart while attempting his final blood exchange, causing his body to swell and distort as Xu Qingfeng watched in alarm.

Meng Chuan broke through the limits of his blood-tempering method and began fusing three Horizontal Training arts into a new technique, creating a vast blood-lotus phenomenon that drew the attention of the mountain’s martial artists. The fusion left his body and inner landscape collapsing, and as he struggled to identify what was missing, the Dragon Demon emerged to intervene.

• Meng Chuan’s blood-tempering breakthrough unleashed a blood-red spectacle across the mountain, and Dong Yue explained the signs of a hard martial art breaking through.
• Meng Chuan obtained the intermediate Flower of Blood trait and began combining Blood-Exchange Body-Tempering, Qi-Nurturing Armor-Cladding, and Qingming Dragon-Locking with Dragon Meditation.
• A towering blood-colored lotus formed around Meng Chuan, leading Dong Yue to suspect that Meng Chuan was creating a Divine Art-level Horizontal Training method.
• Meng Chuan used the Foundation Establishment Great Method and Dragon Meditation to suppress the blood baleful intent and complete most of the techniques’ fusion.
• The fusion caused Meng Chuan to lose control of his body, and he realized that integrating the Three Flowers of flesh, blood, and bone was incomplete.
• Meng Chuan’s inner landscape began to crack under the backlash, but the Dragon Demon leapt from the sea of blood and roared.

Meng Chuan survived the dangerous fusion of his Horizontal Training techniques by incorporating the Brahma Prison-Suppressing Technique as a framework, creating a second-layer Divine Art of Control that gave him precise command over his body. After naming it the Forgetful Dragon Demon Prison-Suppressing Divine Art, he assessed his injuries and welcomed the prospect of testing his new power against Dong Yue.

• The Dragon Demon stretched into a crossbeam to hold Meng Chuan’s collapsing inner landscape steady, helping him realize his body needed a supporting framework before it could be controlled.
• Meng Chuan fused the Brahma Prison-Suppressing Technique into his new art, transforming his body and restoring his inner landscape as he gained control over his flesh.
• Meng Chuan recognized that he had stepped onto the Way of the Body and the Dao of Control, then saw that his incomplete divine art had reached its second layer with 25% completion.
• Meng Chuan named the art the Forgetful Dragon Demon Prison-Suppressing Divine Art and tested how his will could direct his body’s strength, allowing him to concentrate immense force into a single punch.
• Meng Chuan told the gathered martial artists he would compensate them for the damage, but they insisted the school should cover it as an auspicious sign of his success.
• Meng Chuan told Dong Yue that a few days of rest would heal him and said he would be ready to fight soon, while onlookers marveled that a twenty-year-old martial artist had created a Divine Art.

Meng Chuan recovered from creating the Flower of Blood trait, tested its abilities, and began cultivating with his improved bodily control. He ended by struggling to restrain Daoxin inside the Crimson Refinement Banner while practicing Dao Heart Demon Seeding.

• Meng Chuan saw that the Brahma Prison-Suppressing Technique had reached mastery and considered how to balance cultivating ordinary hardening arts with powerful True Technique Horizontal Training.
• Chen Qiushui told Meng Chuan that Principal Yang would return at the end of the month and that he should ask Yang to leave his Life Flame; Meng Chuan then slept to recover.
• Meng Chuan tested the Flower of Blood trait, discovering that it enhanced vitality and blood control and let him burn blood to increase his power temporarily.
• After recovering, Meng Chuan used his bodily control to wield an enlarged Demon-Subduing and decided to pursue the Prajna Dragon Elephant Divine Art at Shaolin Temple.
• Meng Chuan practiced Sit-and-Forget Dragon Demon Prison Suppression, gained proficiency in the Sitting in Forgetfulness Divine Art, and studied Patriarch Zhang Sanfeng's scripture to advance his yin-yang martial principle.
• Inside the Crimson Refinement Banner, Meng Chuan practiced Dao Heart Demon Seeding and used his bodily control to try to stop Daoxin from taking his qi-blood.

Meng Chuan negotiated with Daoxin to share more qi-blood while considering a future path independent of Dao Heart Demon Seeding. He trained with Dong Yue, committed to exploring the Dao of Martial Arts, and left the chapter fighting him above Li Mountain as Chen Qiushui and Meng Jiaolong recognized him.

• Meng Chuan persuaded Daoxin to resume Blood Siphoning for the sake of reaching the laws, though it took only half its usual share of his qi-blood.
• Meng Chuan practiced the Heaven Stance with Dong Yue and discussed whether martial artists could continue advancing through stances after entering the Dao.
• Meng Chuan told Dong Yue he would not give up martial arts, and Dong Yue agreed to follow him if he became the founding Grandmaster Teacher of the Dao of Martial Arts.
• Meng Chuan planned to improve his comprehension by mastering ordinary fist arts and set goals for creating a Martial Divine Skill, forging a martial embryo, and entering the Dao through martial arts.
• Meng Chuan and Dong Yue fought in the sky above Li Mountain, causing dust, tremors, and thunder that startled the martial artists below.
• Chen Qiushui saw through the clouds and Meng Jiaolong recognized Meng Chuan as one of the fighters.

Meng Chuan sparred with Dong Yue and revealed a powerful halberd strike that Huang Huihong and Dong Yue recognized as resembling Zhao Linyuan’s Vast Sea Throw. After refining the move and beginning to study a second Heavenly Abyss technique, Meng Chuan trained his divine art and Dragon Demon, leaving himself eager to master the Heavenly Abyss Method.

• Meng Jiaolong wondered whether Meng Chuan had chosen someone else because she was too weak, and Chen Qiushui hurriedly took her away.
• Huang Huihong identified Meng Chuan as Dong Yue’s opponent and suspected his halberd strike had used the Heavenly Abyss Method’s Vast Sea Throw.
• Dong Yue treated the injury Meng Chuan had inflicted and realized the strike closely resembled Vast Sea Throw, while Meng Chuan assessed his combat strength and practiced the technique.
• Meng Chuan entered the Heavenly Abyss Imagery World, was frozen by Zhao Linyuan’s second move, Cold Abyss Soul Lock, and resolved to keep studying it.
• Meng Chuan trained his Horizontal Training methods, then encouraged the Dragon Demon to grow stronger through the Sitting in Forgetfulness Divine Art and considered cultivating Xuanwu True Body Refinement.

Meng Chuan received Yang Yuelian’s gift of Pulse-Moistening Spirit Pills, discovered that the Black Tortoise statue had vanished and reappeared at his villa, and then visited Principal Yang Huan. The chapter left him preparing to leave a life flame and seek Yang Huan’s guidance on the Great Halberd, while he privately considered a future plan to cultivate across the stars.

• Meng Chuan bought Pulse-Moistening Spirit Pills and received thirty more from Yang Yuelian, who said her grandfather had sent them to support his cultivation.
• Meng Chuan reflected on his progress forming Star Veins and his growing Martial Will, then received a worried call from Xue Na saying the Black Tortoise beneath the True Martial Great Emperor statue had disappeared.
• Meng Chuan used the Magic Mirror to inspect the statue, recalled Black Tortoise’s interest in his Martial Dao fortune, and sensed nothing when he searched the area.
• After mental cultivation, Meng Chuan found the Black Tortoise statue waiting outside his villa, placed it in the Magic Mirror, and decided to ask Sect Leader Chen Tuan about it.
• Meng Chuan visited Principal Yang Huan in his Flying Dragon Suit to leave a life flame and ask for guidance on wielding the Great Halberd; Yang Huan was astonished by Meng Chuan’s rapid growth and spiritual foundation.
• Meng Chuan confirmed he planned to remain at United University after his fourth breakthrough and privately considered using a future transcendence ability to roam the stars while keeping his body protected at the university.

Meng Chuan showed Yang Huan his self-created [Sit-and-Forget Dragon Demon Prison Suppression], and Yang Huan agreed to seek an expert’s judgment on it and discuss public access and compensation. After Yang Huan preserved Meng Chuan’s Life Flame and explained Star True Gang, he offered to teach him [Heavenly Dragon Breaches the City], leaving Meng Chuan wondering whether he could cultivate it despite failing to learn a Tiger Form secret art.

• Meng Chuan told Yang Huan that he had created [Sit-and-Forget Dragon Demon Prison Suppression] through the Dao of control and gave him a booklet explaining the method.
• Yang Huan watched Meng Chuan practice, praised the technique, and said he would ask Sage Sui to examine it and discuss listing it in the martial archive with appropriate compensation.
• Yang Huan used Meng Chuan’s blood to create a Life Flame, which would remain connected to Meng Chuan and let Yang Huan sense his location in an emergency.
• Yang Huan explained how True Gang could be tempered and developed, including how grandmasters formed Star True Gang by forging stars in their Inner Heaven and Earth.
• Yang Huan inspected Meng Chuan’s Demon-Subduing halberd and offered to teach him [Heavenly Dragon Breaches the City], a Dragon Form secret art suited to wielding a great halberd.
• Meng Chuan learned that the secret art originated from [Peerless Heavenly Dragon Fist] and wondered whether he could cultivate it despite having failed to learn Shang Ruyi’s Tiger Form secret art.

Yang Huan taught Meng Chuan the secret art Heavenly Dragon Breaches the City and trained him in his Forbidden City Summit domain, while Meng Chuan learned that a remnant soul of Great God Black Tortoise had attached itself to the statue. The chapter ended with Chen Tuan preparing to explain why Black Tortoise had chosen Meng Chuan.

• Yang Huan explained that Meng Chuan could cultivate Heavenly Dragon Breaches the City without Dragon Form meridians, taught him its details, and arranged for him to consult Professor Huang Huihong if needed.
• Yang Huan told Meng Chuan about a dangerous Void-Type Great Demon in Qinling, and Meng Chuan decided to resume practicing the Medicine Master Pure Six Faculties Perception Method to guard against mind attacks.
• Yang Huan brought Meng Chuan into his Forbidden City Summit domain and trained him in halberd combat, defeating him eighty-one times over two days while Meng Chuan learned the halberd’s core principle and advanced Heavenly Dragon Breaches the City to its first layer.
• Meng Chuan received Manager Shen’s update that Alchemist Song would refine the Three-Origin Brain God Pill by the beginning of next year, then called Chen Tuan to ask about the Black Tortoise statue.
• Chen Tuan identified the statue as the vessel of a remnant soul of Great God Black Tortoise, who had survived the Taihang battle and grown weak after traveling to Meng Chuan.
• Chen Tuan suspected that Meng Chuan’s abnormal Dragon Demon and potential to develop an abnormal Turtle-Serpent phenomenon had convinced Black Tortoise to choose him, and prepared to explain his reasoning.

Meng Chuan agreed to cultivate Xuanwu True Body Refinement after Chen Tuan explained that Great God Black Tortoise might inhabit its tortoise-serpent aura and that Wudang would grant him access to the Great Emperor’s Dharma lineage. A month later, while planning his next cultivation goals, Meng Chuan called Yang Yuelian and invited her to try his Horizontal Training Divine Art.

• Chen Tuan told Meng Chuan that Great God Black Tortoise might live within the aura created by Xuanwu True Body Refinement and promised him access to the Great Emperor’s Dharma lineage if he helped the remnant soul.
• Meng Chuan agreed to cultivate Xuanwu True Body Refinement, began training the next morning, and reached beginner proficiency in a single session.
• Over the following month, Meng Chuan’s Star Veins grew to thirty-eight as he neared fifty thousand points of blood and qi, and he continued collecting Xingyi Fist techniques.
• Meng Chuan planned to use his Inner Landscape after breaking through the fourth limit to refine a second set of Xiangxing meridians, while also preparing to Limit Break more fist techniques.
• Feeling overwhelmed by his growing workload, Meng Chuan called Yang Yuelian and invited her to try learning the Horizontal Training Divine Art he had created.

Meng Chuan prepared for the Morning Dawn Martial Exercise while Shaolin's Abbot Xuan Mou planned his breakthrough and Purgatory plotted to capture Meng Chuan's soul. Three months later, Meng Chuan remained secluded as the Yong'an qualifiers narrowed to their final fifty contestants.

• Meng Chuan taught Yang Yuelian the Sitting in Forgetfulness Art, and she said she would enter seclusion to pursue the Third Breakthrough before the martial exercise.
• Abbot Xuan Mou announced his intention to attempt the Eighth Breakthrough, while Shaolin monks prepared Incense Divine Power as a safeguard and discussed keeping Meng Chuan from causing trouble.
• A tier-eight Purgatory being took control of the lava giant, beat Mo Jue into revealing what he knew, and ordered Skeleton Bird to use Soul Devouring to capture Meng Chuan's soul.
• Skeleton Bird waited three months for Meng Chuan to leave his school, while the Yong'an qualifiers selected fifty contestants from the final hundred at Li Mountain.
• Chen Jing and Xu Qingfeng discussed Meng Chuan's direct qualification and feared how difficult he would be to defeat as he continued cultivating in seclusion.

Meng Chuan reversed his body to the innate, forged the Wuji True Demon Form by controlling the destructive clash of yin and yang, and advanced his martial principles to Recognition of Heaven and Earth. He ended the chapter having unified yin-yang and the Five Elements into a Chaos Divine Mountain, declaring that the Heaven and Earth he recognized lay within his own martial path.

• Meng Chuan practiced the Zhongli Eight Brocades, perfected the Longevity and Peaceful Joy Method, and drew out impurities as he reversed his body to the innate.
• Meng Chuan discovered and controlled his innate Qi, then used his insight into Zhang Sanfeng's yin-yang principles to develop his own path of reverse cultivation.
• Meng Chuan combined Final Liberation with clashing yin and yang to create the Wuji True Demon Form, unleashing immense power and demonstrating that it could break through space.
• Meng Chuan began merging the Yin-Yang Divine Mountain and Natural Divine Mountain in his Inner Landscape, enduring three days of strain as he fused yin-yang with the Five Elements.
• Meng Chuan achieved Recognition of Heaven and Earth, united the two divine mountains into a Chaos Divine Mountain, and recognized his own martial path as the Heaven and Earth within his universe in the palm.

Meng Chuan solidified seventy Star Veins, raised his qi and blood to over ninety thousand, and tested his destructive energy level at Li Mountain. He left with a clearer sense of his strength and its limits, while Liaohuo advanced his Prajna Dragon Elephant cultivation and bought a new technique.

• Meng Chuan drew source qi through his Inner Landscape and solidified seventy Star Veins, bringing his qi and blood to 90022.7.
• Liaohuo consumed a Transformed Dragon Egg, advanced Prajna Dragon Elephant to its third layer, and spent his remaining battle merits on Sit-and-Forget Dragon Demon Prison Suppression.
• Meng Chuan visited the Li Mountain testing hall, where disciples gave him their place in line and Xu Qingfeng was turned away by the crowd.
• Meng Chuan tested a punch at 5087 Fang, reached 6000 Fang after Liberation, and recorded 12668 Fang in his Limitless True Demon form.
• Meng Chuan compared his results with Chen Qiushui and Huang Huihong, then cautioned himself against underestimating experienced Grandmasters.

Meng Chuan prepared to begin the Yin-Yang Demon-Sweeping Heart Scripture while Great Chu’s leaders approved making him an Arena Overlord for the Morning Dawn Martial Exercise. As the world’s contestants prepared for the tournament, Meng Chuan practiced under Daoist Qi’s guidance, and Xu Qingfeng asked to learn his breathing method.

• Meng Chuan reviewed Yang Huan’s immense destructive energy and resolved to improve his hard techniques before the martial exercise.
• Zhao Yingchun attended a meeting of Great Chu’s leaders, where they approved an Arena Overlord format for the Upper Capital segment.
• Sui Chunqiu proposed Meng Chuan for an overlord seat, and Zhao Yingchun supported the proposal; the leaders agreed to let Meng Chuan defend the arena.
• Zhao Yingchun watched the stars and thought of Zhao Linyuan, while Colby, Arthur, and Lilith prepared for the international tournament and discussed its contenders.
• On October 1st, Meng Chuan practiced the yin-yang method at Daoist Qi’s villa, and Xu Qingfeng asked Daoist Qi whether he could learn it too.

Meng Chuan cultivated the Yin-Yang Demon-Sweeping Heart Scripture, discovered its Body Source Flow trait, and transformed his Spring Eye to produce Yin-Yang Internal Breath. He tested the new power and found it could protect him and gather into a massive Taiji aura.

• Meng Chuan cultivated the Yin-Yang Demon-Sweeping Heart Scripture before Daoist Qi and Xu Qingfeng, reaching its first layer and discovering the Body Source Flow trait.
• Daoist Qi told Meng Chuan that Primordial Qi could not be regenerated, and Meng Chuan explained that he had recently reversed his body to the innate through the Longevity and Peaceful Joy Method.
• Meng Chuan tested the scripture at home, gained vitality and blood, and decided to pause the Nine Demon-Subduing Forms while he refined his cultivation schedule.
• Meng Chuan used the Yin-Yang Demon-Sweeping Heart Scripture to nurture his Spring Eye, enduring a dangerous disturbance and memorizing the Rhyme needed to trigger its mutation.
• More than a week later, Meng Chuan's Spring Eye transformed and produced Zhenwu Yin-Yang Internal Breath, which he combined with his Demon-Subduing Thunder True Qi.
• Meng Chuan unleashed his new internal breath, forming protective layers of true qi and a huge Taiji outline that spread ripples through the air.