Chapter Summaries

Meng Chuan was revealed as the sixth Arena Overlord, provoking outrage from competitors and spectators who doubted a Third Limit Master belonged among Grandmasters. He stayed unmoved, used his interview to promote his martial arts hall and sponsors, and watched as the Divine Dragon Great Sage Xun San arrived and met his gaze.

• Chen Zhiming and the other four announced Arena Overlords took their thrones, leaving the crowd eager to learn the hidden Overlord’s identity.
• Dong Xin’s clues led the crowd to suspect Meng Chuan, and she announced him as the sixth Overlord from Northern United Martial Arts University.
• Competitors and spectators questioned Meng Chuan’s strength and protested his appointment, while Liaochen and the other monks recognized the formidable power they had witnessed.
• Meng Chuan ignored the abuse, sat calmly on his throne, and used Dong Xin’s interview to advertise Infinite Martial Arts Hall, Hanhai Technology, and Northern United University.
• The Divine Dragon Great Sage Xun San arrived to watch the tournament, and Meng Chuan met his gaze from across the arena.

Meng Chuan faced the contestants’ choices in the Capital Circuit Tournament’s Overlord Challenge, then defeated Chen Biao with one devastating punch in their first match. The worldwide audience watched as Meng Chuan advanced, while the remaining challengers still awaited selection.

• Xun Sheng watched Meng Chuan with anxious expectation, and Meng Chuan realized that Xun Sheng had likely spoken to the extraterrestrial dragon about him.
• The contestants chose whether to challenge the Overlords or pass, and many selected red in hopes of earning fame and battle merit by defeating Meng Chuan.
• The tournament’s selection system chose Chen Biao, who challenged Meng Chuan and planned to use hidden weapons and the Miasma Forest to ambush him.
• Meng Chuan sensed Chen Biao’s hiding place, caught his darts, and destroyed him and his tree with a single punch.
• The livestream audience erupted over Meng Chuan’s victory, and viewers sent him tens of millions in gifts.

Meng Chuan defeated Chen Biao with a single punch, then faced Wu Zhongtao in the Blood Sunset Phenomenon and overwhelmed him with his bare hands. After crushing Wu Zhongtao’s attack and launching him into the ground, Meng Chuan remained undefeated on the Overlord Throne.

• Meng Chuan returned to the Overlord Throne after instantly defeating Chen Biao, whose contestant ID showed he had been eliminated and whose mental injuries required medical care.
• The system selected Wu Zhongtao as the next challenger, and the two entered a ruined city beneath the Blood Sunset Phenomenon.
• Meng Chuan resisted the blood rain and destroyed the infected Martial Artists drawn to him, while Wu Zhongtao approached in his giant bear form.
• Wu Zhongtao swung his ghost-head saber at Meng Chuan, who caught the blade between his bare hands and forced it downward.
• Meng Chuan struck Wu Zhongtao with a compressed blast of force, sending him crashing underground and ending the match.

Meng Chuan defeated another challenger and faced Yao Jun, whose tiger-form techniques gained strength in a forest arena. Yao Jun launched a full-force attack, but Meng Chuan met it head-on and sent him flying, leaving their challenge unresolved.

• Meng Chuan one-punched Wu Zhongtao, prompting more than a hundred contestants to abandon their bids while the rest discussed ways to wear him down.
• Yao Jun was selected to challenge Meng Chuan, rejected the contestants’ proposed tactics, and entered the arena eager for a direct fight.
• The arena became a vast forest, where Yao Jun used the terrain to gather crimson clouds and form an enormous tiger.
• Meng Chuan used Five Elements Cycle to disrupt Yao Jun’s control of the surroundings, then charged into the tiger’s domain.
• Yao Jun attacked with his tiger claws, but Meng Chuan struck them with a powerful kick and sent the giant tiger flying backward.

Meng Chuan defeated Yao Jun with overwhelming strength, then faced Lu Xiaoyao after the Wudang disciple challenged him and hid in the snowy mountains. The chapter left Meng Chuan triggering avalanches across the peaks to expose Lu Xiaoyao, who feared he would soon be trapped.

• Meng Chuan caught Yao Jun's hidden tail strike, swung him into the mountain, and won the match as viewers tipped him more than 113 million.
• Zheng Zhiyu forfeited after drawing Meng Chuan, while Lu Xiaoyao accepted a paid challenge and claimed Meng Chuan was his beloved Wudang brother.
• Meng Chuan entered the snowy mountain arena and searched for Lu Xiaoyao, whose secret concealment art hid his aura.
• Meng Chuan began striking mountain peaks to trigger avalanches and flush Lu Xiaoyao out.
• Lu Xiaoyao heard the avalanches approaching and worried that Meng Chuan would uncover his hiding place and leave him with nowhere to escape.

Meng Chuan defeated Lu Xiaoyao, gained a new Nine Palaces Taiji Force trait, and watched contestant after contestant forfeit rather than face him. After Li Wenshu urged the remaining fighters to show their Martial Will, Meng Chuan advanced his Zhenwu secret art through an insight into his love of the Martial Dao; the challengers then gathered their courage and prepared to resume the tournament.

• Lu Xiaoyao fled Meng Chuan, then fought him for ten minutes before vomiting and striking himself out of the spiritual-world match.
• Meng Chuan returned to the Overlord seat and broke through Nine Palaces Taiji Force, gaining the Palace-Guarding Heart trait.
• Liaochen forfeited, and Meng Chuan defeated Zhang Qing with a single punch; Ma Ruotong and other contestants also chose to pass rather than challenge him.
• As the contestants dwindled, Li Wenshu urged them to face Meng Chuan despite the odds, and Sui Chunqiu applauded his words.
• Meng Chuan reflected on his love for the Martial Dao and advanced his Zhenwu secret art to Level Two, while the remaining contestants rallied their fighting spirit.
• Dong Xin asked Meng Chuan whether he was ready to continue, and he agreed.

After Li Wenshu’s advice helped Meng Chuan stabilize his Martial Will, he faced Wang Yi in the fifth Overlord Challenge match. Wang Yi trapped him inside her Water Curtain Lotus Blossom formation, and the chapter ended with the formation’s crushing pressure bearing down on him.

• Meng Chuan realized that love anchored his Martial Will, causing his Chaos Divine Mountain to sink and strengthen its foundation; he planned to develop his True Martial Fist Intent further.
• Wang Yi accepted the challenge, entered the Azure Sea Sky battlefield, and attacked Meng Chuan, who struck her away with a powerful blow.
• Wang Yi used the Flower-Grafting Wood-Substitution Technique to evade Meng Chuan, then lured him toward the formation she had prepared underwater.
• Meng Chuan pursued Wang Yi into the Water Curtain Lotus Blossom formation, while she escaped by switching places with a wooden puppet.
• Wang Yi activated the formation and used the surrounding sea to engulf Meng Chuan in darkness, where immense waves and pressure halted his movement.

Meng Chuan broke Wang Yi’s Water Curtain Lotus Formation by discovering and destroying its formation eyes, then defeated his former rival Wu Hong in a swift follow-up match. After gaining City-Breaking True Intent and drawing Li Wenshu’s interest in teaching him the Rainbow Transformation Path, Meng Chuan ended the chapter facing the next stage of the competition.

• Meng Chuan studied Wang Yi’s formation, located its first formation eye, and used precise halberd thrusts to break through the water curtain.
• Meng Chuan comprehended City-Breaking True Intent, destroyed the other seven formation eyes, and defeated Wang Yi as the Water Curtain Lotus Formation collapsed.
• Li Wenshu recognized Meng Chuan’s breakthrough and resolved to teach him the Rainbow Transformation Path after the finals; Wang Yi conceded and offered to introduce him to her formations teacher, He Zhongchong.
• Meng Chuan chose to stop holding back as the competition’s drawing continued, and Wu Hong was selected to challenge him.
• Wu Hong revealed his Lu Wu Demon-Subduing Art and challenged Meng Chuan, but Meng Chuan struck before he could finish speaking, then defeated him with a final punch.

Meng Chuan continued crushing challengers in the Overlord Challenge Tournament, defeating Ma Huangjun and Zhou Shu with overwhelming power. With only Lu Wuya left to face him, the overlords began to take Meng Chuan’s thunder-based attack seriously.

• Shang Ruyi watched Meng Chuan defeat Wu Hong and acknowledged that the gap between them was enormous.
• Ma Huangjun unleashed his Phoenix Form against Meng Chuan, but Meng Chuan shattered the fiery Phoenix and defeated him despite his desperate final charge.
• The remaining contestants yielded to Meng Chuan, leaving Zhou Shu and Lu Wuya as the final two challengers; the draw selected Zhou Shu to fight first.
• Zhou Shu attacked Meng Chuan with his Thunder Method, but Meng Chuan absorbed and controlled the thunder before defeating him with a single strike.
• Luo Qin recognized that Meng Chuan’s strength matched his expectations, while the overlords grew wary after witnessing his destructive thunder attack.

Meng Chuan overwhelmed Wudang disciple Lu Wuya by absorbing the ruined world’s Yin energy and transforming into the colossal Limitless True Demon. He then seized the mental world’s dimensional barrier and accidentally tore the entire world apart, leaving the contestants and livestream audience stunned.

• Lu Wuya challenged Meng Chuan as the final opponent, and Meng Chuan entered the mental world eager to study the principles of Zhenwu.
• Meng Chuan froze and redirected Lu Wuya’s Yin-Yang currents, then agreed to reveal his true strength when Lu Wuya asked him to fight seriously.
• Meng Chuan reverse-refined Yin and Yang, absorbed the world’s immense Yin energy, and grew into a giant nearly a thousand zhang tall, naming the form Limitless True Demon.
• Meng Chuan used City-Breaking True Intent to seize the mental world’s dimensional barrier and tore the entire world apart.
• The livestream commentators and viewers reacted in shock as the shattered mental world vanished from their screens.

Meng Chuan’s arena-breaking transformation made him a global sensation, and he spent the following week cultivating “Transforming Others into Martial Arts” while ninety-four contestants qualified for Great Chu’s Hundred Elite Team. As the finalists prepared for Upper Capital, the tournament committee strengthened the arena barriers to prevent another breach during the finals.

• Cui Yunyu explained that the spiritual-world barriers would be reinforced, while the other overlords and commentators praised Meng Chuan’s power and predicted he could place among the top three.
• Meng Chuan reunited with Yang Yuelian and his friends, gained a surge of international followers, repaid Shen Shuo’s advance, and left to cultivate for the finals.
• Meng Chuan borrowed a research room at Northern United University’s Jinhai campus and practiced the Meng-style Five Elements Fist as a bridge toward mastering “Transforming Others into Martial Arts.”
• After seven days of ranking battles, ninety-four contestants qualified to join the six overlords in Great Chu’s Hundred Elite Team for the Upper Capital finals.
• At a December 17 committee meeting, Cui Yunyu ordered the arena’s dimensional barrier strengthened to withstand fifty thousand points of damage before the finals began.

Cui Yunyu organized publicity for the Global Youth Martial Arts Tournament finals and chose Meng Chuan as the centerpiece of Great Chu’s campaign. While Demon Mountain plotted to use Colby to expand the Purgatory Cult overseas, Meng Chuan’s secluded practice clarified his neural-network technique and advanced his path toward merging the five elements into Zhenwu.

• Cui Yunyu set a global audience target for the finals, directed the publicity team to promote Great Chu’s contestants, and approved placing Meng Chuan at the center of the Hundred Elite Team poster.
• Colby told a reporter he intended to win the championship and said he had no reason to lose to Meng Chuan, a Third Limit contestant.
• Demon Mountain decided to expand the Purgatory Cult overseas and chose Colby as a potential figurehead after Li Xiao suggested him.
• Meng Chuan realized that Sit-and-Forget Dragon Demon Prison Suppression strengthened his neural network, raising the technique’s completeness from 39% to 61%.
• Meng Chuan used Martial True Intent to begin merging the five-element qi into Zhenwu power and discovered that absorbed water qi was changing the dark pool in his inner landscape.
• Meng Chuan tested transforming water qi through the Five Elements Cycle, then opened his eyes in surprise as he sensed the result.

Meng Chuan developed his early ideas for the Zhenwu Path and demonstrated how he could empower martial intent with qi. He left Jinhai with Yang Yuelian, who learned that he hoped to extend the Qi-Blood Martial Dao and carry on Patriarch Zhang Sanfeng’s work.

• Meng Chuan concluded that his martial true intent was slowly mutating his five organs, then decided he needed practice and guidance from those who came before to understand the Zhenwu Path.
• Meng Chuan trained in seclusion for over half a month, reached a qi-blood value above 120,000, and reflected on his resolve to become strong enough to protect Blue Star.
• Meng Chuan showed Yang Yuelian how his True Martial Fist Intent could overwhelm her defenses, then explained that he was learning to use qi to empower martial arts.
• Meng Chuan told Yang Yuelian he planned to practice Xiangxing after reaching the fourth tier and considered using Forge the False into True to create Xiangxing meridians.
• Meng Chuan and Yang Yuelian left the Jinhai branch campus, and he revealed that his research aimed to establish the Zhenwu Path and extend the Qi-Blood Martial Dao.
• Yang Yuelian asked whether Meng Chuan hoped to take up Patriarch Zhang Sanfeng’s work, and he said he hoped he could manage it.

Meng Chuan passed the dual senior instructor examination with 980 points, then traveled to Shangjing for the World Youth Martial Arts Tournament’s pre-match meeting. There, he reunited with fellow finalists and advised them that willpower was essential to breaking through the limits of martial cultivation.

• Meng Chuan completed the Five Elements Fist and Horizontal Training assessments, earning 980 points and the highest score in recent years.
• Meng Chuan learned that he would receive senior teacher certifications in both subjects, then met Yang Yuelian outside the examination hall.
• Meng Chuan and Yang Yuelian arrived in Shangjing under heightened security, where Venerable Wang wished Meng Chuan success in the tournament.
• Meng Chuan reached the Martial Arts General Association early and joined fellow finalists, including Chu Yanhu, Xie Canglan, Wu Zhongtao, and Yao Jun.
• The finalists discussed foreign competitors and Meng Chuan’s strength, and Meng Chuan told them that cultivating will was necessary to overcome human limits.

Meng Chuan and Great Chu’s other top young martial artists learned that the World Youth Championship finals would decide a national wager for valuable resources from the Mountain Whisper Demon Nest. They accepted the grueling team-based format and prepared to fight, while Meng Chuan looked forward to testing himself against the world’s strongest young fighters.

• Meng Chuan’s reflections on Martial Will impressed the assembled martial artists, including True Person Taihua Wang Chongyi, who looked forward to facing him in the finals.
• At the Global Martial Artists Association headquarters, Huaihai Dragon King Cui Yunyu explained that Great Chu had wagered with America over the championship and that the competitors’ results would determine the nation’s share of valuable resources.
• Zhou Yun and Cui Yunyu announced special battle merit rewards, including a mysterious resource worth at least as much as a sixth-grade Heavenly King divine weapon for the greatest contributor.
• Cui Yunyu explained that the finals would use a recurring-match system in mental worlds: wins earned victory points, losses halved them, and the Intelligent Brain would eventually eliminate competitors until First of the Generation was decided.
• The competitors questioned the rules, learned they could surrender using a safe word, and heard that they would be forced into matchmaking after twelve hours without entering the queue.
• No one withdrew after Cui Yunyu challenged them to show their fighting spirit, and Meng Chuan looked forward to the repeated battles as a chance to absorb his opponents’ skills.

Meng Chuan reviewed the World Youth Championship rewards and planned how to prepare for the tournament, while Zhao Linyuan’s letter revealed his sacrifices for Blue Star and his vision for humanity among the stars. As Meng Chuan considered how to learn from opponents with different combat paths, he came up with an idea.

• Meng Chuan studied the tournament exchange list, noted the Fifth Rank Millennium Snow Lotus and the Intelligent Brain, and hoped to claim rewards useful to his cultivation.
• Zhou Yun and Cui Yunyu discussed Zhao Linyuan’s efforts, and his letter revealed that he had completed the Eighth Breakthrough and sent rare resources to Great Chu.
• Meng Chuan told Yang Yuelian about the tournament rewards and the coming world leaders’ summit, while they discussed the growing threat from the Cosmos.
• Meng Chuan planned his supplies and strategy for the long tournament, then realized Yang Yuelian’s Battle Heart Clarity could be an exceptionally powerful special physique.
• Meng Chuan considered what he could learn from opponents who followed life evolution rather than the Martial Dao, and an idea came to him.

Meng Chuan arrived at Phoenix Nest to prepare for the World Youth Martial Arts Tournament, while Great Chu’s leaders confronted a worsening supernatural crisis and prepared to pursue global unification. The chapter ended as Father God Seraph met with Great Chu’s leaders, hoping to negotiate for an artifact hidden in Mountain Whisper’s Demon Nest.

• Meng Chuan arrived at Phoenix Nest, inspected his preparation room, and tested its Intelligent Brain before the tournament began.
• The tournament’s opening ceremony drew billions of viewers, and the organizing committee discussed the contestants’ preparations.
• Cui Yunyu told the committee that Demon Nests, awakened Ultimate Darknesses, and collapsing nations had made global unification urgent.
• Cui Yunyu said she would leave the tournament partway through, and Zhou Yun remarked that 2127 would be recorded in history.
• Cui Yunyu joined Divine Dragon Great Sage Xun San and Father God Seraph at a secret meeting, where Seraph weighed whether Great Chu would negotiate over the artifact in Mountain Whisper’s Demon Nest.

Meng Chuan entered the World Youth Martial Arts Tournament finals and was matched against Aodema, while Great Chu’s other top competitors began their fights. Mu Nianxin lost to Arthur, and the chapter ended with Meng Chuan immobilizing Aodema as he approached.

• Yang Yuelian brought Meng Chuan energy bars and medicine before he returned to his preparation room to get ready for the tournament.
• Meng Chuan entered matchmaking and was paired with Aodema, who learned from the Intelligent Brain that Meng Chuan was far stronger than him.
• Great Chu’s leading competitors won their opening matches, but Arthur defeated Mu Nianxin after revealing that he had merged with a cosmic law.
• Viewers learned that Meng Chuan had taken control of his match and was apparently training Aodema rather than finishing him.
• Aodema tried to surrender, but Meng Chuan’s power sealed off his nerves and left him unable to control his body.

Meng Chuan tortured Aodema to investigate America’s life-evolution methods, while Cui Yunyu assessed Arthur’s Law of Judgment and learned that Meng Chuan’s higher-ranked fused Law could counter it. The chapter leaves Sui Chunqiu amused by Meng Chuan’s secretive cultivation and wondering whether the boy is taking on too many paths.

• Meng Chuan paralyzed Aodema with blood control, stopped him from saying the safeword, and probed his body for answers about his cultivation.
• American viewers condemned Meng Chuan’s treatment of Aodema, and Cui Yunyu told the organizers to issue an official response while warning Meng Chuan to consider public opinion.
• Cui Yunyu reviewed Arthur’s defeat of Mu Nianxin and identified his Divine Power as the instant-kill effect of the Law of Judgment.
• Cui Yunyu asked Sui Chunqiu whether Meng Chuan’s fused Law could counter Arthur, and Sui Chunqiu said its higher rank should prevent Arthur’s power from affecting him.
• Sui Chunqiu recalled that Meng Chuan had secretly cultivated what he thought were demonic techniques to save his master, then wondered whether Meng Chuan was trying to learn too many cultivation paths.

Meng Chuan studied Western cellular evolution through his tournament opponents, then recognized that Arthur’s power came from a law related to Destruction. As the second day’s matches began, viewers accused Meng Chuan of using contestants for human experiments.

• Sui Chunqiu wondered whether Meng Chuan could carry the Qi-Blood Martial Dao forward as Sanfeng had predicted.
• Arthur defeated Mu Nianxin and climbed to the top of the Generation Ranking, while Cui Yunyu advised Chen Zhiming to fight him from a distance and beware of Colby.
• Before his next match, Meng Chuan analyzed Aodema’s cellular evolution method and considered using it to develop his understanding of laws and Soul Devouring.
• Meng Chuan fought sixteen matches, then checked the rankings and found himself in 1,688th place while Colby led with 98 victory points.
• After watching Arthur defeat Mu Nianxin, Meng Chuan recognized that Arthur’s fused law shared a source with Demon Mountain’s Soul Devouring law and identified it as Destruction.
• When the second day’s broadcasts began, the Great Chu hostess read foreign viewers’ accusations that Meng Chuan was using contestants for human experiments.