Chapter Summaries

Meng Chuan refined his control of Yin-Yang power, attended the provincial tournament opening, and gave Teacher's Wife Ren Ping a valuable Genius Fluid card for infant Luo Feng. After Li Mountain students discovered Meng Chuan's damage rating of 15,666 dan, they agreed to keep his hidden strength secret ahead of the Capital Circuit Tournament.

• Meng Chuan realized that his combined bodily strength, True Qi, and Wuji True Demon Form could reach a destructive energy level of 15,000, and he continued studying power control and future Gang Qi applications.
• Meng Chuan led Northern United University's students down Li Mountain, restrained Xu Qingfeng during his teasing match with Chu Yanhu, and learned that the Capital Circuit Tournament had a mysterious hidden ring overlord.
• Meng Chuan delivered the provincial tournament's opening address, then gave Ren Ping a Hanhai Genius Fluid collection card for her infant son Luo Feng; Ren Ping later told Luo Meng that she could not obtain Old Luo's martial arts hall permissions.
• Shen Qing discovered Meng Chuan's damage rating of 15,666 dan on the Li Mountain testing leaderboard, and other students confirmed the result.
• The Li Mountain students agreed to conceal Meng Chuan's strength before the Capital Circuit Tournament, then chose Shen Qing to ask Teacher Luo Meng to swear secrecy.

Meng Chuan tested his Wuji True Demon Form against the White Tiger Grandmaster, then returned home and broke through Wei Tuo Carrying Mountain Skill to gain the Mountain-Carrying Strength Trait. After a brief manifestation of a gigantic body and an unsettling sense of being drawn toward power, he resolved to seek more Buddhist hard-body techniques at Shaolin, leaving him eager to test his new strength.

• Meng Chuan endured the White Tiger Grandmaster's frost attacks, countered with his Wuji True Demon Form, and stopped his charge just before striking the Grandmaster.
• Dong Yue and the White Tiger Grandmaster warned Meng Chuan about the Arena Overlords and urged him to avoid Chen Zhiming, while Meng Chuan thanked them and left to break through.
• Meng Chuan used the Starry Soup to break the limits of Wei Tuo Carrying Mountain Skill and acquired the Mountain-Carrying Strength Trait.
• Meng Chuan briefly grew to more than a hundred meters tall, suppressed the mutation in his shoulders, neck, and spine, and wondered whether an urge toward power was a summons or an inner demon.
• Meng Chuan assessed his increased strength and Mountain Soul's benefits, then planned to find more hard-body techniques at Shaolin and combine their principles into a stronger technique.

Meng Chuan received an invitation to serve as the mystery Arena Overlord at the Jinhai semifinals, then was ambushed in the sky by a fourth-rank Heavenly Demon from Purgatory. He overpowered the Skeleton Bird, but its Soul Devouring attack reached for his Liver Wood, leaving him in danger.

• Meng Chuan cooled his inflated confidence by exposing himself to Cold Abyss Soul Lock, then resumed training and planned for Shaolin and the coming martial exercise.
• Yang Huan tested Meng Chuan, gave him an Image-Recording Stone, and warned him to survive the tournament and avoid trouble at Shaolin.
• Meng Chuan received a Global Martial Arts Association invitation naming him the mystery Arena Overlord for the Morning Dawn Martial Exercise Jinhai semifinals.
• A Skeleton Bird learned that Meng Chuan had left Li Mountain, devoured its informant, and flew out to ambush him.
• Meng Chuan unleashed Final Liberation and Wuji True Demon Form, then seized the Skeleton Bird, hurled it into a crater, and struck it with Demon-Subduing.
• The wounded Skeleton Bird activated Soul Devouring, sending demonic claws through blood-red threads toward Meng Chuan's Liver Wood.

Meng Chuan destroyed the Skeleton Bird and discovered that its Soul Devouring Divine Power had been planted by Demon Mountain, whose avatar ambushed him. He unleashed Blood Dip to fight the vastly stronger demon, but after blocking its attack, his depleted inner landscape left him in grave danger.

• Meng Chuan resisted the Skeleton Bird’s Soul Devouring Divine Power, tore it out of his body, and burned it away.
• The Skeleton Bird tried to flee, but Meng Chuan pinned it with Demon-Subduing and pulverized its body, taking what he believed was its True Spirit.
• Meng Chuan realized the Divine Power belonged to Demon Mountain and fled, while the God of Demon Mountain emerged and used the supposed True Spirit as a locator.
• Meng Chuan doubled back above Demon Mountain and launched a full-force Flame · Star-Destroying strike, but Demon Mountain blocked it and tried to persuade him to serve as its divine son.
• Meng Chuan rejected Demon Mountain’s offer, activated Blood Dip, and fought it with Chaotic Strikes at the Heavenly Palace.
• Demon Mountain unleashed six blazing attacks, and Meng Chuan blocked a follow-up blow with Demon-Subduing, exhausting the rushing rivers within his inner landscape.

Meng Chuan defeated Demon Mountain and gained a new insight into True Martial, but the demon’s remains left him with a mysterious Soul Devouring law. He then visited Shaolin Temple to study three horizontal-training techniques as groundwork for developing a strength-based method.

• Meng Chuan’s combat with Demon Mountain pushed him to combine his fist techniques and define his own martial path as True Martial.
• Meng Chuan used True Martial: One Punch to destroy Demon Mountain’s avatar and recovered the parasitized skeletal bird’s True Spirit from its remains.
• A crimson beam from Demon Mountain’s remains entered Meng Chuan, and his panel revealed the Lower Law: Soul Devouring.
• Meng Chuan traveled to Shaolin Temple, met Jueming at Moon Terrace, and borrowed the Vase Vajra Body, Samantabhadra Elephant Body, and Immovable Wisdom King Body manuals.
• Meng Chuan studied the three techniques and prepared to begin training them as steps toward creating a unified strength-path method.

After sensing visions tied to the path of strength and learning that his Dao Heart had absorbed the lower law Soul Devouring, Meng Chuan discovered that the All-Hearing Dharma Crown could not be stored and received a warning from Great God Black Tortoise. The chapter left Meng Chuan and Bai Bao examining the crown, which likely concealed a fragment of the Great Demon’s spirit.

• Meng Chuan learned three strength-related techniques and saw visions of powerful beings on the path of strength, then questioned his Dao Heart about Soul Devouring.
• Fury rejected a snake devil’s request to hunt Meng Chuan and ordered Purgatory’s warriors to help establish the Purgatory Cult, while Yang Huan concealed Meng Chuan’s victory over Demon Mountain’s avatar.
• Meng Chuan found that the All-Hearing Dharma Crown could not be stored in his Magic Mirror, and Great God Black Tortoise warned him that it carried a demon’s scent.
• Meng Chuan practiced at Shaolin through the night, achieved Limit Breaking in an ordinary fist art, and returned to find Master Bai Bao.
• Bai Bao examined the All-Hearing Dharma Crown and suspected that a fragment of the Great Demon’s spirit had entered it through damage to the Dharma Realm.

Meng Chuan and Master Bai Bao destroyed the Great Buddha Head, and Bai Bao demonstrated his mastery of the Dao of the Turning Wheel. Afterward, Meng Chuan gained an initial insight into Zhenwu and created a secret art, then asked Bai Bao to teach him the Prajna Dragon-Elephant Art.

• Master Bai Bao manifested a Baby Buddha, gave Meng Chuan a Buddha plaque, and went to confront the escaped Great Buddha Head.
• The Great Buddha Head attacked Meng Chuan, but Baby Buddha froze it and Bai Bao erased it, then restored Moon Terrace Garden with the Dao of the Turning Wheel.
• Bai Bao explained the Turning Wheel and gave Meng Chuan the Great Buddha Head's gathered spiritual power, which Meng Chuan stored and suppressed with the Black Tortoise statue.
• Meng Chuan contemplated his martial path, formed the Fist of Zhenwu, and created a first-layer secret art named Zhenwu.
• The next morning, Bai Bao asked whether Meng Chuan was certain he wanted to learn the Prajna Dragon-Elephant Art.

Meng Chuan chose the Prajna Dragon Elephant and learned from Bai Bao about the Dao of Formations, weapon-combat Daos, and intelligence from beyond Blue Star. After reading the records, he continued training his defenses while preparing to study the divine art and face the coming martial exhibition.

• Meng Chuan confirmed he would cultivate the Prajna Dragon Elephant, and Bai Bao warned him against taking on too many Dao Paths before Entry into the Dao.
• Bai Bao explained that formations and weapon skills could develop into Dao Paths, described the Star Shattering Sword Demon's crimes, and advised Meng Chuan to keep his nature and heart steady.
• Bai Bao sent Meng Chuan records from the Dragon Kingdom, and Meng Chuan read about new Dao knowledge, treasures, cultivation methods, and an extraterrestrial true dragon visiting Great Chu.
• Meng Chuan discussed Great Chu's policies with Bai Bao, who told him to study the divine essence of Prajna Dragon Elephant at Bodhidharma Cave and show respect to the powerful Senior Brother Dingguang.
• Jueming and his little brother arrived at night and waited while Meng Chuan trained in the pool, practicing Xuanwu True Body Refinement to strengthen his defenses for the martial exhibition.

Meng Chuan broke through to Proficiency in Xuanwu True Body Refinement after enduring and overturning a massive whirlpool, then advanced his Baxia Heaven-Supporting Skill while preparing for the Capital Circuit Tournament. He went to Bodhidharma Cave to learn the Prajna Dragon-Elephant Art, where he waited with Shaolin monks to meet the intimidating Senior Brother Dingguang.

• Meng Chuan endured a thousand-ton whirlpool, reached Proficiency in Xuanwu True Body Refinement, and revealed his Black Tortoise phantom to Jueming and Yuanxin.
• Meng Chuan roasted and shared a wild boar with Jueming and Yuanxin, then explained the Longevity and Peaceful Joy Method and casually said he had cultivated it to Perfection.
• Four days later, Meng Chuan improved his Baxia Heaven-Supporting Skill to 95% and decided to study the Prajna Dragon-Elephant Art before the Capital Circuit Tournament.
• Meng Chuan met Master Shi Nan at Bodhidharma Cave, and Shi Nan warned him to behave himself around Senior Brother Dingguang.
• Meng Chuan waited among Shaolin monks for Senior Brother Dingguang to impart the art, then sensed the arriving monk and was stunned by what he saw.

Meng Chuan received the Eternal Withering and Flourishing True Scripture from Senior Brother Dingguang, the Past Buddha, after Dingguang recognized his unusual talent. Monk Wulou revealed that the Tathagata was Abbot Xuan Mou’s dharma body and Holy Embryo, and that Meng Chuan now counted as Dingguang’s nominal disciple and the abbot’s junior brother.

• Meng Chuan watched Senior Brother Dingguang impart techniques to the monks and recognized the Thousand-Spoked Wheel Mark on his finger.
• Meng Chuan requested the Prajna Dragon Elephant Divine Art, but Dingguang sensed his talent and chose to impart the Eternal Withering and Flourishing True Scripture instead.
• Dingguang’s unusual delight and pressure puzzled the monks, while several senior Venerables recognized the long-lost scripture as Dingguang’s foundational art and identified him as the Past Buddha.
• Monk Wulou explained Dingguang’s origins and revealed that Meng Chuan had received both the Eternal Withering and Flourishing True Scripture and the Prajna Dragon Elephant imprint.
• Meng Chuan questioned whether the Tathagata was a living being, and Wulou told him that the Tathagata was Abbot Xuan Mou’s dharma body and Holy Embryo.
• Wulou explained that Abbot Xuan Mou was Dingguang’s direct disciple, making Meng Chuan Dingguang’s nominal disciple and the abbot’s junior brother.

Meng Chuan learned that Senior Brother Dingguang had foretold his future Buddhahood, giving him the unique status of Buddha-to-be, while Monk Wulou warned him not to cultivate the Eternal Withering and Flourishing True Scripture yet. He then refined the Prajna Dragon Elephant Divine Art and entered its Imagery World, where he discovered Dharma King Lingkong’s place of enlightenment on Mount Wutai.

• Monk Wulou told Meng Chuan to strengthen his Five Elements, Yin and Yang, and control before attempting the Eternal Withering and Flourishing True Scripture, and said Senior Brother Dingguang would approach him about becoming a disciple.
• Master Bai Bao explained that Senior Brother Dingguang had anchored Meng Chuan’s future Buddhahood through a prophecy, making him the sole Bodhisattva of Succession, though he would gain tangible benefits only by attaining Buddha fruition.
• Xuan Mou opened the sealed bamboo forest behind Shaolin Temple and sent Meng Chuan a handwritten booklet of Prajna Dragon-Elephant Essentials.
• Meng Chuan read Xuan Mou’s cultivation notes, refined the Prajna Dragon Elephant Divine Art, and entered its Imagery World.
• Meng Chuan arrived at Mount Wutai in the Imagery World and recognized the enormous Bodhi tree as the place where Dharma King Lingkong had attained enlightenment.

Meng Chuan accepted Dingguang as his sixth master and received instruction in Prajna Dragon Elephant, along with a promise to turn his Three-Treasure Elixir into a Seven-Treasure Elixir. After refining the pill with Azure Flame, Meng Chuan discovered it had become a potent Dragon-Tiger Pattern Three-Treasure Pill, then began considering how to improve the art’s foundation with yin and yang qi.

• Meng Chuan encountered Dingguang in the Imagery World, experienced the power of Prajna Dragon Elephant, and recognized him as Senior Brother Dingguang.
• Dingguang asked Meng Chuan to become his sixth disciple, and Meng Chuan accepted while retaining his bond with Luo Guanyun.
• Dingguang taught Meng Chuan the principles of Prajna Dragon Elephant and promised to combine his Three-Treasure Elixir with four other treasures to make a Seven-Treasure Elixir.
• Meng Chuan used his Elephant God and Azure Flame to refine the pill, triggering a quality upgrade that added a tiger pattern and greatly increased its pure-yang potency.
• After reaching 90% Earth Stance, Meng Chuan considered Prajna Dragon Elephant’s foundation and decided he wanted to add yin and yang qi to its nourishment.

Meng Chuan swallowed the Dragon-Tiger Pure Yang Heavenly Pill and began cultivating the Prajna Dragon-Elephant Art, using pure yang and prajna qi to forge its foundation. As he pushed the foundation toward a new transformation with his Limitless True Demon power, it became a grotesque, unstable shape.

• Meng Chuan asked Master Dingguang whether he could use yin and yang to transform the Dragon-Elephant foundation, and Dingguang said the idea was viable but warned him to wait until the foundation had formed.
• Dingguang refined a Dragon-Tiger Pure Yang Heavenly Pill in the Dragon-Phoenix Heaven-Stealing cauldron and explained that it could strengthen Meng Chuan's foundation and draw heaven and earth's Yuan Qi.
• Meng Chuan swallowed the pill and guided its vast pure yang qi into the Sea Base Wheel, where he began condensing prajna qi into his Dragon-Elephant foundation.
• Meng Chuan fused the pure yang and prajna qi into a brilliant golden sun, while Dingguang watched closely and marveled at his control and potential.
• Meng Chuan unleashed his Limitless True Demon form and drove the golden foundation to transform, twisting it into a grotesque, chaotic heart-shaped mass as his body radiated terrifying power.

Meng Chuan forged an immense Dragon Elephant Foundation, began cultivating the Prajna Dragon-Elephant Art, and discovered that his body could withstand Zhao Linyuan’s Cold Abyss Soul Lock even as his soul remained vulnerable. After consulting Master Bai Bao about the mysterious silhouettes in his Sea of Consciousness, he learned they might be memories from the spiritual world calling to him.

• Meng Chuan completed his foundation forging with 115 solidified Star Veins, and Master Dingguang marveled at the unprecedented size and power of his Dragon Elephant Foundation.
• Meng Chuan cultivated the Prajna Dragon-Elephant Art through a Great Heavenly Circuit, raising his proficiency and projecting a strange three-hundred-zhang golden-white sun above Shaolin.
• Meng Chuan learned that Master Dingguang could move freely within Shaolin but was bound there by the balance of his existence, then asked him about the powerful silhouettes in his Sea of Consciousness.
• Meng Chuan tested himself against Zhao Linyuan’s Cold Abyss Soul Lock, broke free with his body, but died when the technique froze his soul; he decided to postpone further attempts until after the martial demonstration.
• Meng Chuan asked Master Bai Bao about the silhouettes, and Bai Bao explained that they might be inherited memories and a summons from the spiritual world, though he could not explain why Meng Chuan sensed them so early.

Meng Chuan entered a spiritual world filled with mighty cultivators of the Dao of the Flesh, endured their scrutiny, and received a mysterious fist imprint embedded in his Sea of Consciousness. After discussing it with Master Bai Bao and Sui Chunqiu, he learned to be cautious about innate Dao principles and revised his plans for developing Five Elements Divine Arts.

• Meng Chuan explored the spiritual world, witnessed enormous beings cultivating the Dao of the Flesh, and endured their crushing gazes until they acknowledged him.
• A point of light formed from the beings' gazes entered Meng Chuan's Sea of Consciousness and left a fist imprint that he could not remove.
• Meng Chuan told Master Bai Bao about the imprint, and Bai Bao suspected it was an inheritance from a mighty cultivator of the Dao of the Flesh.
• Meng Chuan called Sui Chunqiu, who agreed to ask Xun Sheng and the Dragon Domain guests about the spiritual summons and advised Meng Chuan to prepare for the Capital Circuit Tournament.
• Sui Chunqiu warned Meng Chuan that pursuing innate Dao principles through Divine Arts was dangerous, leading Meng Chuan to abandon his plan to create a Five Elements Divine Art all at once.

Meng Chuan created the Meng-style Five Elements Fist and broke the limit of Baxia Heaven-Supporting Skill, gaining the core trait Transcendence and its first effect, Mortal Flesh Bind. He began the transformation that would let his body and soul leave the confines of his physical shell, while the world prepared for Great Chu’s Martial Arts Summit and the World Youth Martial Arts Tournament.

• Meng Chuan integrated the Five Elements into a new fist art with Master Dingguang’s guidance, advancing his Five Elements Martial Principle.
• In New York, Colby won the American qualifiers, and Wisdom Angel Vera urged the contestants to travel East and claim the world tournament championship.
• Great Chu invited the world’s leaders to a Martial Arts Summit and announced that Anti-Cosmic Alliance representatives from the cosmic Dao Domain would attend.
• Meng Chuan broke the limit of Baxia Heaven-Supporting Skill and gained Transcendence, whose first effect released the Mortal Flesh Bind.
• Meng Chuan summoned Dragon Demon and Elephant God to guard his body, then began releasing his physique from its shell; his body started to transform as his breathing stopped.

After entering Northern Kuru Continent with a newly formed body, Meng Chuan trained on Little Sumeru Mountain and considered asking the Great God Black Tortoise to oversee the Dharma Realm. Meanwhile, Xun San learned that a mysterious mark in a human junior’s Sea of Consciousness was a Pangu Token, a rare invitation to the Pangu Divine Temple.

• Meng Chuan formed a new body in Northern Kuru Continent, confirmed that his soul and physique could return to his old shell, and considered whether he could use this freedom to travel beyond Blue Star.
• Meng Chuan trained under Little Sumeru Mountain’s crushing pressure and found that it accelerated his hard-technique progress, though his stronger body made the mountain’s pressure less effective than before.
• Meng Chuan realized the Dharma Realm remained under Great Hearing’s authority and proposed that the Great God Black Tortoise preside over it; Black Tortoise agreed to consider the plan.
• Meng Chuan continued training for the Capital Circuit Tournament, hoping to strengthen his Prajna Dragon Elephant and reclaim the advantage against those who had beaten him.
• Xun San asked Dragon envoy Ao Shuang about a mysterious fist-shaped mark in a human junior’s Sea of Consciousness, and Ao Shuang identified it as a Pangu Token granting entry to the Pangu Divine Temple.
• Ao Shuang explained that the Pangu Divine Temple was created by the vanished innate deity Pangu and that only a tiny fraction of even the Dragon Domain’s vast population had obtained a token.

Ao Shuang explained the Pangu Token’s rarity and offered to help Blue Star’s promising talents, while Meng Chuan considered how he might reach the Pangu Divine Temple despite Shanghao’s seal. As he trained toward the fourth tier and prepared for the tournament, he watched a viral ranking video that placed his hidden identity among the Filler competitors.

• Ao Shuang told Xun San that the Pangu Token was extraordinarily rare, said Shanghao’s seal blocked its guidance, and offered to report promising Blue Star talents to the Dragon Domain.
• Meng Chuan learned about the Pangu Divine Temple and considered using his Transcendence trait after reaching the fourth tier to escape Blue Star’s seal and seek its training.
• Meng Chuan continued cultivating, advanced the Prajna Dragon-Elephant Art to the third level, and planned to ask Ao Shuang about the temple after the tournament.
• Meng Chuan learned that Yang Yuelian had reached the Third Limit and would travel to Jinhai to cheer him on.
• Meng Chuan watched a viral ranking video about tournament contenders, which rated the mysterious figure identified as Meng Chuan as Filler.

Meng Chuan revealed to Yang Yuelian that he was the hidden Arena Overlord, then left Shaolin for Jinhai as the tournament approached. Meanwhile, a cult spread a soul-based path through Great Chu, and Demon Mountain ordered Li Xiao to recruit believers and capture Meng Chuan alive; the chapter ended with Meng Chuan and Yang Yuelian together at the hotel on the eve of the semifinals.

• Meng Chuan told Yang Yuelian that he was the hidden Arena Overlord and invited her to reach Jinhai early, though they decided against it.
• Meng Chuan said farewell to his Shaolin friends and Master Bai Bao, then left for Jinhai and planned to claim the Future Buddha Fruit after reaching the Fourth Limit.
• A cult elder introduced villagers to the Soul Role-Playing Method, while Li Xiao received a soul seed from Demon Mountain and was tasked with recruiting a million believers and capturing Meng Chuan alive.
• Cui Yunyu chaired the tournament committee meeting, reviewed preparations for the semifinals, and ordered stronger defenses after a sixth-rank Heavenly Demon attacked an American tournament plane.
• Meng Chuan and Yang Yuelian spent the night at the Sailboat Hotel, where Yang Yuelian sensed that his Buddhist wisdom root had grown stronger.

Meng Chuan arrived at the Capital Circuit Tournament as its youngest Arena Overlord, reunited with the Shaolin monks, and drew the attention of Zheng Zhenzhen and the other overlords. As the opening ceremony began before a billion viewers, spear Heavenly King Li Wenshu announced he was seeking a competitor qualified to explore entering the Dao through the spear.

• Meng Chuan and Yang Yuelian traveled to the Water Drop Martial Competition Center, where Meng Chuan reviewed the contestants and crossed the lake by flying.
• Meng Chuan reunited with Liaochen, Liaohai, and Liaoqing, who sensed that his blood energy exceeded theirs and speculated that he might challenge an Arena Overlord.
• Zheng Zhenzhen saw Meng Chuan from across the venue, and Yang Yuelian questioned him about their past relationship before he left for the overlords' waiting room.
• Meng Chuan joined the five other Arena Overlords, including Liaohuo and Mu Nianxin, who recognized and assessed him.
• Dong Xin introduced Heavenly King Li Wenshu, who said he hoped to find a competitor qualified to explore entering the Dao through the spear.
• Dong Xin announced that the tournament's online audience had surpassed one billion and prepared to welcome the six Arena Overlords.