Chapter Summaries

Meng Chuan reached mastery in Xuanwu True Body Refinement, awakened a phenomenal Black Tortoise, and helped Great God Black Tortoise enter his Inner World to recover. The ritual left Meng Chuan with a wisp of Black Tortoise Fortune, whose effects immediately shook him.

• Meng Chuan entered seclusion while Dong Yue and Chen Qiushui agreed to turn away visitors, and Purgatory's followers discussed ways to watch or capture him.
• Luo Meng established her Five Animals research room, while crowds gathered outside Meng Chuan's newly founded research institute hoping to join, study with him, or become his disciples.
• Xu Qingfeng calmed the crowd, and Dong Yue and Chen Qiushui announced that Meng Chuan was still cultivating in seclusion.
• Meng Chuan advanced Xuanwu True Body Refinement to mastery and discovered that it had nurtured a small phenomenal Black Tortoise in his Inner World.
• Following Great God Black Tortoise's instructions, Meng Chuan used his blood and Martial Will to move the Black Tortoise statue into his Inner World, where Black Tortoise began borrowing his fortune to repair itself.
• Great God Black Tortoise gave Meng Chuan a wisp of Black Tortoise Fortune, and the resulting blast struck Meng Chuan as he tried to understand its use.

After absorbing Black Tortoise fortune, Meng Chuan surpassed the limits of the human body and gained dramatically stronger physical talent and perception. He established his research institute, completed its training facilities, and discovered that his new blessed land greatly accelerated his cultivation as summer arrived.

• Meng Chuan forcibly retained and refined a wisp of Black Tortoise fortune through Horizontal Training, transforming his body beyond the human limit and greatly enhancing his essence and spirit.
• Meng Chuan emerged from the institute with a fearsome heartbeat and imposing presence, then gave Dong Yue and the others authority to select candidates while he handled the institute's administrative work.
• Seven days later, Meng Chuan welcomed the installation of an Intelligent Brain and inspected the completed, spatially expanded blessed land and its elemental training areas.
• Meng Chuan cultivated in the blessed land and found that it improved his training efficiency by over twenty percent, especially for the Heavenly Abyss Water Method and Five Elements Fist.
• Meng Chuan resolved to seek better blessed-land core items and continued cultivating, while the story moved into mid-June and summer.

Meng Chuan continued preparing for his Fourth Limit breakthrough while Li Mountain was sealed to protect him. Meanwhile, Demon Mountain and Vera fled their pursuers in America, where Saraf’s green light reached the Purgatory Cult’s stronghold as Demon Mountain began a blood sacrifice.

• Meng Chuan tested his strength, recorded a 35,654-fang unarmed strike and a 62,754-fang strike with Demon-Subduing, and reviewed the Resistance Army’s formation, Li Wenshu’s Seventh Rank breakthrough, and the establishment of the Human Alliance.
• Meng Chuan learned that Peng Fei had failed to break into the Fourth Limit and lost years of his life, then decided to keep preparing before taking the Great Yin-Yang Convergence Pill or attempting his own breakthrough.
• Wang Bingyi ordered Li Mountain’s perimeter locked down and instructed Long Jiu to organize round-the-clock patrols and checkpoints after concluding Meng Chuan was about to attempt the Fourth Limit.
• Demon Mountain and Vera fled across the Saint Loki Mountains as Sui Chunqiu and Saraf pursued them, with Saraf gravely wounding the Mind Flayer King.
• Demon Mountain reached a Purgatory Cult stronghold, ordered a blood sacrifice to return to his true body, and began a ritual as Saraf’s immense green light arrived and shook the wilderness.

Saraf’s attack failed to stop Demon Mountain from retreating, and humanity’s gathered seventh-tier fighters awakened and attacked its true body in the Demon Nest. Meanwhile, Meng Chuan completed the second step of his breakthrough, forming a true sun in his Inner World, and also broke the limit of the Brahma Prison-Suppressing Technique.

• Demon Mountain escaped Saraf’s strike through the sacrificial cauldron, but the gathered fighters in its dimensional interstice forced it back into the cauldron and attacked its wounded true body.
• Xuan Mou awakened Demon Mountain with his Tathagata Palm, prompting it to unleash Soul Devouring against the gathered fighters.
• Zhang Sanfeng used the God-Slaying Flying Dagger to interrupt Demon Mountain’s suction, and Xuan Mou took over control as the fighters pressed their assault.
• Meng Chuan began condensing his qi and blood into a sun while Yang Huan, General Liu, and Wen Youdao guarded Li Mountain.
• After three days and two nights, Meng Chuan broke the limit of the Brahma Prison-Suppressing Technique and gained the Four-Faced Four-Aspect Illuminating Arhat Body trait.
• Meng Chuan completed the sun in his Inner World, establishing day and night as Demon-Subduing and his other companions gathered around it.

Meng Chuan completed his Fourth Breakthrough, became a Martial Arts Grandmaster, and prepared to begin his astral transformation as Sanqin faced an imminent demon invasion. The chapter left him sensing that someone was behind him while Neltharion’s forces assembled to attack.

• Meng Chuan drew on the harmony of his Inner and Outer Worlds, raised his blood and qi to three hundred thousand, opened the Mystic Gate, and completed Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown.
• Yang Huan and the others watched Meng Chuan’s breakthrough as a storm swept across Sanqin, while students at United University gathered to witness his towering pillar of blood and qi.
• Neltharion read Heavenly Serpent Kemon’s memories, learned Sanqin’s defenses were thin, and ordered the demon clans to prepare a coordinated assault on the region.
• Neltharion assigned his son Falian to command the siege and directed forces under the Ancestral Dragon to commit troops to the attack.
• Meng Chuan became a Grandmaster, examined the powerful effects of his advanced Brahma Prison Ride trait, and turned to begin his astral transformation.
• As Meng Chuan prepared to draw his blood and qi back into his body, he kept feeling that someone was behind him.

Meng Chuan completed his Gang Transformation and began forming True Gang inside Li Mountain’s treasure ground. As he reached the final stage, Heavenly Demons launched a major assault on Yong'an, and garrison commander Hao Wenlong’s forces struggled to hold the city until a golden figure arrived and killed the alligator-dragon commander.

• Yang Huan, General Liu, and Wen Youdao confirmed that Meng Chuan had safely entered Gang Transformation and waited anxiously as the storm intensified.
• Meng Chuan endured a violent bodily transformation, awakened a Gang Transformation physique with immense strength, and began turning his Internal Breath into True Gang.
• Yong'an police patrols spotted blazing aircraft and black mist approaching, and the city’s alarm sounded as the Sky Canopy activated.
• Hao Wenlong organized the garrison against the attacking earth-dragon and crocodile-dragon armies, but the demons broke through the defenders’ rhythm and an ambush severed his left arm.
• A golden figure plunged into the Heavenly Demon army, killed the alligator-dragon commander, and declared that it was the second commander of that kind he had slain.

Yong'an mobilized its forces to repel the Ancestral Dragon faction's assault, while Yang Huan, General Liu, and Wen Youdao confronted the sixth-rank Blood-Winged Flood Dragon Blood Ring Falian. Falian revealed that hidden Heavenly Demons had infiltrated the city, killed General Liu, and turned its attention to Yang Huan and Wen Youdao.

• Qin Yue arrived at Yong'an's battlefield, where his attack slaughtered much of the Crocodile Dragon Clan and bolstered the defenders as reinforcements joined the fight.
• Wang Bingyi organized Yong'an's wartime response, sending armed fighters to the front, assigning patrols to guard the city, and ordering the Sky Canopy control room moved to Li Mountain.
• Yang Huan addressed Northern United University's students as they prepared to descend the mountain, ordering them to fight in organized groups and avoid reckless charges.
• Yang Huan, General Liu, and Wen Youdao confronted Blood Ring Falian, whose enormous dragon claw emerged from the fog and forced them to fight above the city.
• Falian revealed that a divine child of the Earth Dragon Clan had enabled Heavenly Demons to infiltrate Yong'an, and General Liu rushed back to stop them.
• Falian trapped General Liu in a formation and killed him with a pillar of lava, then struck the battlefield with another eruption and threatened Yang Huan and Wen Youdao.

Meng Chuan broke through the fourth limit to become a Grandmaster, then used Forge the False into True to bring a Dharma Realm into his Inner World. He began training under the immense pressure of an inverted mountain and awakened Great Brahma’s Dharma Body, which appeared ready to cultivate alongside him.

• Meng Chuan completed his breakthrough, forming Martial True Gang and gaining the ability to link his Inner World with the outside world.
• Black Tortoise renamed himself Dark Abyss and agreed to reshape the Dharma Realm if Meng Chuan brought its medium into his Inner World.
• Meng Chuan moved the All-Hearing Dharma Crown and Primordial Pearl Umbrella into his Inner World, where Dark Abyss transformed the northern region into an ocean surrounding an inverted Sumeru Mountain.
• Meng Chuan trained on the mountain, endured pressure that reached forty thousand tons, and learned that each step increased the burden.
• Dark Abyss warned Meng Chuan not to overexert himself, then went to sleep at the hundredth step of the mountain.
• Meng Chuan resumed Horizontal Training, and Great Brahma’s compassionate Dharma Body emerged behind him as he asked it to help him cultivate.

Meng Chuan discovered that the Great Brahma phantom copied his body-refinement practice, while two Earth Dragon demons breached Yong'an City and slaughtered civilians in Qu River New District. With the city’s defenses strained and casualties mounting, Wang Bingyi ordered Meng Chuan summoned from seclusion to help kill the demons.

• Meng Chuan found that the Great Brahma phantom imitated his Horizontal Training Method and boosted his cultivation, including its strange inverted-turtle posture.
• Two Earth Dragon brothers emerged beneath a Qu River evacuation line, killed civilians with poisonous sand, and rampaged through shelters and buildings.
• Grandmasters and armed forces fought the demons, but Earth Dragon Second devastated the reinforcements with Desert Burial while Earth Dragon First gravely wounded the Lin Family’s old Grandmaster.
• Wang Bingyi learned that Qu River New District had fallen and ordered evacuations, reinforcements, and a continued defense of the city’s outer front.
• Wang Bingyi and Bai Junfeng raced toward Qu River, and Wang ordered Chen Jing to bring Meng Chuan down from seclusion to fight the demons.

Wang Bingyi and Bai Junfeng fought two Earth Dragons in Qu River New City until Meng Chuan arrived and killed both demons. As Meng Chuan prepared to join the battle beyond the city, the fifth-rank Roc Demon Mo Jue attacked him, and their first clash sent him crashing into the river.

• Wang Bingyi and Bai Junfeng arrived in Qu River New District and attacked the two Earth Dragons, but the demons overwhelmed them and battered Bai Junfeng near death.
• The Dragon Demon struck the second Earth Dragon and freed Bai Junfeng, then Meng Chuan arrived and defeated both Earth Dragons with his halberd.
• Meng Chuan gave Bai Junfeng healing pills, handed him to the Police Station personnel, and prepared to head beyond the city.
• Roc Demon Mo Jue descended from the clouds and attacked Meng Chuan, who activated all three bodily overclocking states and met it head-on.
• Mo Jue overpowered Meng Chuan with a single blow and sent him into the underground river, while Wang Bingyi recognized the demon as a peerless fifth-rank great demon.

Meng Chuan fought Mo Jue across Qu River New District, surviving the Roc Demon’s devastating attacks through Rebirth Nirvana and absorbing its Phoenix Flame. Mo Jue still overpowered him and dragged him back with a light-streaming claw, but Meng Chuan cut away his own skin to escape its binding.

• Meng Chuan used Blood Dip and fought Mo Jue in the air, but the faster Roc Demon broke through his defenses and destroyed his Grim True Spirit.
• Meng Chuan evaded Mo Jue’s golden-feather barrage by diving into the underground river, but Mo Jue pursued him and blasted the river and surrounding district with Phoenix Flame.
• The witnesses feared Meng Chuan had died in the blast, but he reappeared with Rebirth Nirvana healing his grave wounds and Conversion Absorption letting him wield Mo Jue’s green flames.
• Meng Chuan fled underground, but Mo Jue’s giant claw pursued him through the earth and seized him, then pulled him back toward the Roc Demon.
• Meng Chuan used his gold power to cut the bound skin from his back, leaving the streaming light behind and startling Mo Jue.

Meng Chuan fought Mo Jue to the brink, awakened the Dao technique Ascend the Tower, and survived the Roc Demon’s attacks with Xiu’s protection. Mo Jue fled after devastating Yong'an City, and Yang Huan arrived to discover the defenders had all been killed and set off in pursuit.

• Mo Jue intensified its assault on Meng Chuan, who unleashed a breakthrough strike and created the Dao technique Ascend the Tower, but failed to land a decisive blow.
• Mo Jue struck Meng Chuan with a devastating wing attack and dragged him close, but Xiu’s Black Tortoise protection awakened when Meng Chuan was near death.
• Mo Jue fled as a powerful aura approached, scattering emerald fire that destroyed the battlefield and killed the people still in Yong'an City.
• Meng Chuan survived beneath the ruins, and Yang Huan arrived and learned that Liu Wei, Wang Bingyi, Bai Junfeng, Long Jiu, and the other defenders had died.
• Yang Huan pursued Mo Jue, while outside Yong'an City Falian entered the city through the Sky Canopy, drawn by the scent of blood.

Wuyang and Cui Yunyu defeated the Heavenly Demon Falian and helped Yong'an's forces end the invasion, but Meng Chuan was left grieving the dead. After visiting the memorial and returning to training, he broke through to the Heaven Stance and discovered its passive absorption of cosmic energy.

• Wuyang attacked Falian, but the demon shed its shell and fled toward the Qinling Mountains before Cui Yunyu intercepted and killed it.
• Wuyang led the Yong'an troops in a counterattack, and the Heavenly Demon army collapsed as the surviving demons fled.
• Meng Chuan recovered from his wounds but withdrew from others, mourned the dead at the heroes' memorial, and visited the families and portraits of those he had lost.
• Meng Chuan resumed training, fed the Earth Dragon brothers' True Spirits to the Dragon Demon, and tended to Demon-Subduing before dawn.
• At the research institute, Meng Chuan exchanged merits for a Jade-Pattern Spirit-Nurturing Stele and practiced the Heaven Stance until he began absorbing cosmic energy and unlocked its Limit-Breaking Trait, Heavenly Gang Spirit Body.

Meng Chuan resumed his cultivation as a Grandmaster, visited family and reunited with Yang Yuelian after Yong'an’s calamity. After escorting her to Linzhou, he returned to Li Mountain with Yang Huan and steadied himself amid the attention his new rank brought.

• Meng Chuan planned to cultivate Xiangxing Fist alongside Xingyi by using his control and altered body to develop meridians in his Inner World.
• Meng Chuan and Xu Qingfeng discussed Hu’s grief, the heavy casualties in Sanqin, and Meng Chuan’s resolve to protect people and avenge Secretary Wang and Long Jiu.
• Meng Chuan reunited with Yang Yuelian at his family’s villa, shared a meal with his relatives, and declined his aunt’s suggestion that they marry soon.
• Meng Chuan escorted Yang Yuelian to Linzhou and explained how becoming a Grandmaster had changed his body and flight.
• Yang Huan revealed that he had followed them for protection, then returned to Li Mountain with Meng Chuan, who composed himself as teachers and students greeted him as a Grandmaster.

After reaching Grandmasterhood, Meng Chuan learned the cultivation requirements for breaking the Fifth Great Limit and revealed his plan to forge a Zhenwu method that combined Xingyi and Xiangxing. He then advanced his water-based art in seclusion, while Chu Yanhu and Xu Qingfeng witnessed the force of his breakthrough from below.

• Yang Huan examined Meng Chuan’s body, taught him the 365 acupoints and the stages of Grandmaster cultivation, and warned him about the dangers of pursuing Heaven-Human Communion.
• Yang Huan realized Meng Chuan intended to create a Zhenwu Martial Divine Skill, and Meng Chuan explained that he would open Xiangxing meridians and unite them with Xingyi through his own secret method.
• Meng Chuan manifested extraordinary traits from the body, source energy, and mental power at once, convincing Yang Huan to support his attempt despite the risks.
• After months of recovery in Sanqin, Chu Yanhu returned to the institute with Xu Qingfeng, who credited Meng Chuan with helping him through his grief over Chu Yanlong.
• Chu Yanhu and Xu Qingfeng felt the immense energy spilling from Meng Chuan’s practice and left the shared treasure ground when the Dragon Demon warned them away.
• Meng Chuan absorbed water-aspect energy into his body and Inner World, advanced the Heaven Abyss Calamity-Cleaving Sky-Subduing Dao-Union Art to its second layer, and wondered whether his kidneys would now nurture Water Primordial Qi faster.

Meng Chuan explored a possible Dao of the Flesh breakthrough but reaffirmed that martial arts would remain his primary path as he developed his Xiangxing techniques and planned a future True Martial Divine Skill. By late October, he had fused the mid-ranked Judgment law into his Daoxin, greatly strengthening his body and improving his Destruction cultivation, and he considered asking Principal Sui about Demon Mountain’s Soul Devouring law later.

• Meng Chuan practiced Prajna Dragon Elephant, entered an illusion where he sensed the wonders of the world, and nearly achieved Dao Hearing through the Dao of the Flesh before pulling back.
• Meng Chuan resolved to keep martial arts as his foundation, continued studying the Xiangxing Tiger Crouching Stance, and planned to unite the five forms into a future martial arts path.
• Meng Chuan spent the following month cultivating at the research institute and investigated the strange cosmic energy and red ore within the Crimson Refinement Banner.
• Meng Chuan tested Judgment’s fusion with his Daoxin, endured its destructive backlash, and completed the process with his body significantly strengthened.
• Meng Chuan found that Judgment had boosted his Destruction Evolution Method’s cultivation efficiency and technique proficiency, then decided to wait until he had created a Martial Divine Skill before asking Principal Sui about Demon Mountain’s Soul Devouring law.

Meng Chuan tested the power of the Law of Judgment, taught the Zhenwu secret art, and discussed joining the Human Alliance Enforcement Bureau as a chief officer. After gaining the Tiger Form Mark through an online lesson, he entered its imagery world and confronted the tiger that had killed him before.

• Meng Chuan discovered the panel's Mid-Level Judgment entry and tested its power, unleashing a barrage of halberd strikes that damaged the ground and weakened his Martial Momentum.
• Meng Chuan sent Chen Zhiming, Liaohuo, and Wang Chongyi off after teaching them Zhenwu, then told Dong Yue that he planned to join the Enforcement Bureau and compete for a chief officer position.
• Meng Chuan reasoned that his mental-world marks came from a connection between body, soul, and Zhenwu Will, then gained Tiger and Crane Form Marks after lessons with Shang Ruyi and Luo Qin.
• Meng Chuan entered the Tiger Form imagery world and hurled a huge slab of earth at the tiger, then fought it hand to hand after it lunged at him.
• Meng Chuan tried to speak with the tiger, but it roared and attacked; he mounted it and bore it down before its tail whipped toward him.

Meng Chuan broke through the limit of Ferocious Tiger Fist while sparring with Zou Wu, then studied the tiger’s techniques and learned about an inheritance site in the Mountain and Sea Realm. After revealing the great deity Xuanming in his Inner World, Meng Chuan persuaded Zou Wu to entrust him with its providence in exchange for a chance to leave the spiritual world.

• Meng Chuan fought the fierce tiger until he broke the limit of Ferocious Tiger Fist and gained the Tiger Might trait.
• Zou Wu introduced itself as a remnant soul of a divine beast and taught Meng Chuan martial arts and the mnemonic verses for Nine Thousand Mountains Mighty Tiger Path.
• Zou Wu revealed that a White Tiger inheritance site lay in the Mountain and Sea Realm, but Meng Chuan pointed out that Shanghao had sealed off Blue Star.
• Meng Chuan subdued Zou Wu with his Beyond-Limit Level strength, then offered to help it leave the spiritual world by becoming his tiger aspect.
• Meng Chuan showed Zou Wu the great deity Xuanming in his Inner World and swore by his Daoxin that he could take it out.
• Zou Wu agreed to give Meng Chuan its providence while keeping enough for itself to carry out Li’s peach-tree substitution method.

Meng Chuan absorbed Zou Wu’s fortune to strengthen his body and advance his martial techniques, then refined baleful energy to build his Star True Gang and tested how it enhanced his fist intent. After arranging for more baleful intent and receiving a personal Dao Domain Network server, he returned to the blessed ground and prepared to log in.

• Meng Chuan refined Zou Wu’s fortune through horizontal training, raising several techniques and increasing his ability to withstand pressure, while Zou Wu told him about Ape God’s powerful art.
• Meng Chuan practiced the Crane Soaring Above Technique and reflected on the Daoist arts he still had to learn.
• Meng Chuan used the remaining earthly baleful energy to raise his Star True Gang to 108 gleams, then shaped it with his fist intent into vivid Five Elements phenomena.
• Meng Chuan asked Shen Shuo to gather innate baleful intents without limit, offering to trade his company shares if funds ran short.
• Two Martial Association scientists told Meng Chuan that his personal Dao Domain Network server was ready, and he returned to the blessed ground to use it.

Meng Chuan logged into the Dao Domain Network for the first time, explored its virtual worlds, and searched for information on the Pangu Divine Temple. Ao Shuang then told him that an eighth-rank divine dragon who followed the Path of the Flesh was willing to guide him.

• Meng Chuan entered the login chamber, created his virtual image, and reviewed his Dao Domain Network identity and available functions.
• The guide introduced virtual planets for cultivation, learning, combat, entertainment, and joining organizations, while advising Meng Chuan to earn Star Coins.
• Meng Chuan searched for the Pangu Divine Temple and found that a virtual Pangu experience required ten thousand Star Coins and offered only limited gains.
• Ao Shuang visited Meng Chuan, explained that he could gather intelligence through chat rooms, and said his battle against Sevis had encouraged the Dragon Kingdom to invest more in Blue Star.
• Ao Shuang told Meng Chuan that an eighth-rank divine dragon renowned for the Path of the Flesh would offer him guidance and had once been a Beyond-Limit Grade prodigy.