Chapter Summaries

Chen Mo rejected Elena’s demand that he become her man and easily defeated her before exploring Babite City and deciding to ask the Babite Family for its high-grade cultivation arts. After Elena returned to the castle and the family failed to find him, Chen Mo arrived at the City Lord’s Mansion and called for the City Lord.

• Elena stopped Chen Mo in the street, demanded that he become her man, and attacked when he refused to agree.
• Chen Mo swiftly defeated Elena, then changed his clothes and appearance to avoid being recognized.
• Chen Mo explored Babite City, learned that its cities clustered along the coast, and decided to search the coastline for his master.
• Chen Mo flew toward the City Lord’s Mansion to ask the Babite Family for its cultivation arts.
• Elena returned to the castle injured, prompting the Babite Family to search the city for Chen Mo without success.
• Chen Mo’s voice rang throughout the castle as he demanded to know where the City Lord was.

Chen Mo forced the Babite Family to lend him its cultivation manuals, then studied and copied their methods. Menggete faced his angry family members and went to meet Chen Mo, where he became fascinated by what Chen Mo was writing.

• Chen Mo released his overwhelming aura and demanded to study the Babite Family's cultivation methods, offering his own methods in exchange.
• Menggete agreed to the exchange to protect the Babite Family's standing, and Chen Mo spent two hours studying the family's manuals.
• The Babite Family's core members angrily criticized Menggete, but fell silent when he challenged them to fight Chen Mo themselves.
• A family member reported that Chen Mo had returned the manuals and was waiting in the study, so Menggete went to meet him despite his family's objections.
• Chen Mo rapidly wrote characters and drawings while Menggete watched, unable to look away from the page.

Chen Mo improved the Babite Family’s Black Snake Breathing Method and began cultivating its revised version, while Menggete mobilized the city’s great families to supply more techniques. Chen Mo learned that no outsiders had reached Babite City in a decade and accepted Menggete’s invitation to travel to Walker City for next month’s trade.

• Chen Mo completed nearly half of the Black Snake Breathing Method 2.0, and Menggete recognized its value and asked him to keep improving it with more techniques.
• Menggete ordered Babite City’s great families to hand over their core cultivation techniques, breaking the city’s decade-long stability.
• Chen Mo reached Initiation in the revised method but gained no further strength because his body and spirit were already at their limits.
• Chen Mo learned from Menggete that no outsiders had come to Babite City in ten years and that the nearest cities traded only once a year.
• Menggete invited Chen Mo to accompany the Babite Family on its upcoming trade trip to Walker City, and Chen Mo accepted.
• Elena arrived at dinner still wrapped in bandages, saw Chen Mo, and exclaimed, "It's you!!!"

Chen Mo stayed in Babite City, studied the continent’s martial arts, and strengthened his cultivation method while planning to travel west in search of Yi Feng. After his cultivation briefly terrified the Babite Family, he created a method that could raise its practitioners to the Late Stage of Earth Martial Artist, then prepared to leave.

• Elena recognized Chen Mo despite his altered appearance, apologized after Menggete rebuked her, and Chen Mo accepted her apology.
• Chen Mo decided to travel west toward Walker City, where Babite City would soon hold its annual trade.
• Chen Mo drew in the Power of Heaven and Earth and briefly unleashed a pressure that frightened and incapacitated members of the Babite Family.
• Menggete explained the continent’s seven martial ranks, and Chen Mo learned that Earth Martial Artists were the strongest experts in Walker City and Louis City.
• Menggete delivered more than twenty cultivation methods, which Chen Mo used to upgrade the Black Snake Breathing Method to version 3.0, a method capable of reaching the Late Stage of Earth Martial Artist.
• Chen Mo recognized that the new method could give the Babite Family a foundation for rising in power and decided it was time to leave.

After leaving Walker City, Chen Mo learned that outsiders had arrived in Kaiste City, which might help him understand the Teleportation Array’s destination. He reached the super city and was stopped by two flying men at its no-fly zone.

• Elena despaired over her inability to keep up with Chen Mo, while Menggete accepted that Chen Mo had no interest in her.
• Chen Mo visited the trading grounds between Babite City and Walker City, then flew to Walker City and spent a week upgrading the Walker Family’s cultivation technique.
• Chen Mo learned that several outsiders had been taken in by Kaiste City more than ten years earlier, strengthening his suspicion that ancient Teleportation Arrays had no fixed destinations.
• Chen Mo traveled through another city and arrived in Kaiste City on the ninth day after leaving Walker City.
• Two bearded men blocked Chen Mo before he could enter the central castle area, telling him that it was a no-fly zone.

Chen Mo met a group of outsiders in Kaiste City and learned that their leader, a dying old man, came from Great Zhou. The old man realized Chen Mo had traveled to the Wage Continent by choice and offered him everything he owned in exchange for a favor.

• Chen Mo sensed two wary men in Kaiste City and asked to meet the outsiders, then followed one of them to the castle complex.
• Chen Mo observed that the guide could fly using the Power of Heaven and Earth and judged that Kaiste City’s Sky Martial Artists posed little threat to him.
• Chen Mo met a frail old man who recognized he was not from the Wage Continent, and Chen Mo told him he came from Great Zhou.
• The old man learned Chen Mo had come voluntarily, became hopeful, then admitted he could not return and offered him everything he owned in exchange for a request.

Murong Cheng asked Chen Mo to take his ashes back to Great Gan, and died after telling him about Wage Continent and its foreign lands. Chen Mo killed Murong Cheng’s family when they threatened him, then went with a Kaiste Family member to meet the Family Head as he planned to search the coastline for Yi Feng and the others.

• Murong Cheng told Chen Mo he was from Great Gan and asked him to take his ashes home, and Chen Mo agreed.
• Murong Cheng recounted how he and his martial brothers had been transported to Wage Continent, then died after sharing what he knew about the region.
• Murong Cheng’s son warned Chen Mo not to take his father’s promise seriously, and Chen Mo killed everyone in the room except the Sky Martial Artist.
• Chen Mo asked the Sky Martial Artist to take him to the Kaiste Family Head, then planned to search Wage Continent’s coastline for Yi Feng and the others.
• Chen Mo entered the Kaiste Family’s grand hall and saw the Family Head watching him.

Chen Mo negotiated with Gallup for Kaiste City's high-level cultivation techniques in exchange for activating the Teleportation Array, but Gallup tried to force him into cooperating. Chen Mo unleashed his power and attacked, beginning a battle with the city lord.

• Gallup proposed cooperating with Chen Mo to activate the Teleportation Array and take his people beyond the Wage Continent.
• Chen Mo demanded all of Kaiste City's high-level cultivation techniques as payment.
• Gallup decided Chen Mo had no bargaining power in Kaiste City and threatened to kill him if he refused.
• Chen Mo sensed the Sky Martial Artists hidden in the hall and prepared to fight Gallup.
• Chen Mo released his blood-red Qi and Blood Power, poisoned the Sky Martial Artists, and rushed at Gallup.

Chen Mo and Gallup fought with equal strength, but Chen Mo’s superior defense and recovery began to give him the advantage. As their battle neared the Lori Family’s territory, Gallup struck Kaier out of the sky, then heard a sudden attack coming from behind him.

• Gallup charged Chen Mo, and their first collision sent a thunderous boom across Kaiste City.
• Chen Mo pressed Gallup with a relentless barrage of punches while the poisoned Sky Martial Artists watched, unable to intervene.
• Gallup tried to negotiate and shifted their fight away from the castle complex, but Chen Mo followed as they moved toward the Lori Family’s territory.
• Kaier emerged to defend the Lori Family as the battle approached, while Chen Mo’s resilience left Gallup increasingly injured and wary.
• Gallup intercepted Kaier and punched him from the sky to the ground, then reacted to a piercing sound approaching from behind.

Chen Mo defeated Gallup in a devastating battle that wrecked Kaiste City, then demanded every High-level Cultivation Technique in the city and Murong Cheng's ashes. After Chen Mo left to wait three days for the items, Gallup set out to pursue the fleeing Kaier.

• Chen Mo shattered Gallup's Force Field Domain with a punch and drove him into the Lori Family compound, where their battle caused widespread destruction.
• Kaier ordered the Lori Family to flee, while the Kaiste Family's second-in-command organized an evacuation in case Gallup lost.
• Chen Mo and Gallup continued fighting through the city and sky until nightfall, as residents fled to estates outside Kaiste City.
• Chen Mo forced Gallup back and demanded every High-level Cultivation Technique in Kaiste City; Gallup agreed and revealed he had reached the Legendary Middle Stage the previous year.
• Chen Mo gave Gallup three days to prepare the techniques and Murong Cheng's ashes, then left for an inn; Gallup headed after Kaier to vent his anger.

Chen Mo collected cultivation manuals and searched the continent for his master, Yi Feng, while continuing to refine his Martial Will and control over the Power of Heaven and Earth. He found Yi Feng living with his family in Eric City, secured the city lord’s promise to protect them, and reunited with his master.

• Chen Mo collected the requested manuals and urn from Gallup, then left Kaiste City and traveled across the continent for several months.
• Chen Mo found Yi Feng living peacefully with his wife Alisa and their two children in Eric City.
• Chen Mo visited Eric City’s City Lord’s Mansion, where the city lord promised to protect Yi Feng’s family.
• Chen Mo reunited with Yi Feng, who was relieved to learn his disciple had come on his own initiative.
• Yi Feng chose to remain with his family rather than return to Great Zhou, and he was astonished by Chen Mo’s progress in martial arts and alchemy.

On an island north of Eric City, nineteen-year-old Chen Mo attained enlightenment and learned to mobilize the Power of Heaven and Earth, then recognized that his Martial Will was an all-round path embracing every discipline. He began an Epiphany to merge his perfected techniques and break through to the Great Grandmaster Realm.

• Chen Mo reflected on his cultivation and the one hundred and one High-level Cultivation Techniques he had mastered while living on the island with Yi Feng.
• Chen Mo halted the falling snow and swept open a vast crack in the sky, terrifying the residents of Eric City.
• Yi Feng recognized that Chen Mo was approaching the Great Grandmaster Realm and decided not to dissuade him from returning to Great Zhou.
• Chen Mo realized that his Martial Will was the all-round path he had pursued since the start of his cultivation.
• Chen Mo invoked an Epiphany, and all the cultivation techniques he had perfected began to merge.

Chen Mo fused more than a hundred cultivation techniques and broke through into the Great Grandmaster Realm on the Wage Continent. He planned to return to Great Zhou, where the Centennial Great Change might let him advance beyond that realm.

• Chen Mo fused his cultivation techniques into an Ultimate Body-Hardening Breathing Method and continued refining it through epiphanies.
• Chen Mo reached the limit of his strength, condensed his Martial Will, and broke through into the Great Grandmaster Realm.
• Chen Mo discovered that his dominance and kingship wills had merged, and that he could wield five parts of his full strength on the Wage Continent.
• Chen Mo decided to leave the island and return to Great Zhou in anticipation of the Centennial Great Change.
• Chen Mo prepared to inspect his Attribute Panel before leaving and saying farewell to his master.

Chen Mo reached the Great Grandmaster Realm, developed the Tenfold Martial Way, and used an Epiphany to raise it to the Proficient level. After testing his extraordinary speed, he returned to Eric City and prepared to leave for Great Zhou, where Yi Feng warned him to come back if he could not stop the crisis.

• Chen Mo examined the Tenfold Martial Way, his new Wuji Body, and his other changes, then began an Epiphany to improve the cultivation method.
• Chen Mo raised the Tenfold Martial Way to the Proficient level and considered his strength as a Celestial Phenomenon Great Grandmaster.
• Chen Mo flew from the island, which broke apart and sank, and crossed more than two hundred kilometers to Eric City in a few breaths.
• Yi Feng congratulated Chen Mo on reaching the Great Grandmaster Realm and recognized that he was preparing to return to Great Zhou.
• Yi Feng told Chen Mo to return if he could not stop the crisis, and Chen Mo accepted the warning.

Chen Mo activated Yi Feng's Teleportation Array and returned to Great Zhou, though it sent him to a desert far from his destination. After traveling through Great Gan and crossing the border, he reached Lin Chang Commandery and was surprised by what he saw.

• Chen Mo used the hidden Teleportation Array and appeared alone in a desert, where he confirmed that his spiritual power worked as it had in Great Zhou.
• He flew north through the desert and a forest, reached the coast, and discovered he had landed in Great Gan.
• Chen Mo questioned people at a County Town, got a map, and spent a week traveling toward the Great Zhou border.
• At the border, Chen Mo found a desolate area overrun by Demons, then obtained a Great Zhou map from a nearby County Town.
• Chen Mo returned to Lin Chang Commandery intending to tell his two senior brothers about their master, but paused in surprise at the sight before him.

Chen Mo returned to Lin Chang Commandery and found it collapsing under invasions by Barbarians, Weird, Demons, and Exotic Beasts. After rescuing the True Martial Sect from its attackers, he reunited with Xun Yi and Yao Guangzhi and set out to visit the sect Patriarch.

• Chen Mo learned that the Weird Tide had erupted, the Barbarians had moved west into Lin Chang Commandery, and the commandery had fallen.
• Chen Mo reached the True Martial Sect and killed the Demons and Exotic Beasts surrounding it with his Qi and Blood Power.
• Chen Mo reunited with Xun Yi and Yao Guangzhi at the Apothecary Hall and told them that he had found Yi Feng, who was safe and had started a family on the Wage Continent.
• Xun Yi and Yao Guangzhi explained that the Commandery Governor and reinforcements had died, the Barbarian invasion involved over two million troops and ten million civilians, and the sect was preparing to withdraw.
• Chen Mo agreed to escort the sect away and headed to the Forbidden Land to visit the Patriarch.

Chen Mo agreed to protect True Martial Sect during its relocation, then discovered that barbarians had occupied the county town where Chen Family Village’s people had been resettled. He rescued the town’s enslaved civilians and flew them back to the sect, while deciding to investigate the Great Grandmasters gathered in the capital after the relocation.

• Chen Mo learned from Ouyang Tian that True Martial Sect’s ancestor had gone to the capital and agreed to accompany the sect on its move to Sanshui Commandery.
• Chen Mo shared hotpot with Xun Yi and Yao Guangzhi, then wondered why nearly a hundred Great Grandmasters had gathered in the capital under a Great Grandmaster Summons Order.
• Chen Mo decided to visit Chen Family Village’s people and found the county town occupied by barbarians, with no sign of the village residents.
• Chen Mo killed the barbarians, learned that the original residents had left, and carried more than two hundred enslaved civilians back to True Martial Sect on a wooden raft.

Chen Mo returned the True Martial Sect to safety, then went to Wild Mountain and fought the White Ape after revealing his Great Grandmaster strength. He left the battle without defeating the White Ape, and a winged black figure arrived to berate it.

• Chen Mo transported the True Martial Sect and its belongings by flying hundreds of wooden rafts, reaching their destination in half a day.
• Chen Mo went to Wild Mountain and killed the Demons and Exotic Beasts there with his Qi and Blood Power.
• The White Ape confronted Chen Mo over breaking the rules, and they exchanged more than a hundred blows as they fought around Wild Mountain.
• Chen Mo unleashed Myriad Thunder Tribulation on Wild Mountain, enraging the White Ape and prompting it to transform into a Giant Ape.
• Chen Mo overpowered the Giant Ape in their exchanges but could not substantially damage it, then left the battlefield.
• A winged black figure arrived and angrily rebuked the White Ape for failing to defeat Chen Mo.

After wiping out Demons and Exotic Beasts at Wild Mountain, Chen Mo traveled through the Barbarian lands and Henei Commandery, suppressing threats along the way. He reached the capital and slipped into the Imperial Palace, appearing before Ji Tianming.

• The White Ape and the two-winged Demon fought for nearly an hour, then discussed Chen Mo’s sudden rise to Great Grandmaster strength and the coming great change.
• Chen Mo attacked the Barbarian Tribe but found that its elderly Great Grandmasters could match his physical strength, so he left Lin Chang Commandery.
• In Henei Commandery, Chen Mo destroyed the Weird things he encountered and stabilized the region before continuing toward the capital.
• After a week of travel, Chen Mo arrived in the capital, sensed its murderous atmosphere, and found that the Dragon Qi reluctantly obeyed him.
• Chen Mo flew into the Imperial Palace unseen and appeared before Ji Tianming.

Chen Mo returned to the capital as a nineteen-year-old Great Grandmaster and learned that the dynasty’s Great Grandmasters had entered an ancient tomb in search of a martial inheritance. He refused to join them and left wondering why no one in the present era could reach the realm above Great Grandmaster.

• Chen Mo appeared before Ji Tianming and confirmed that he had broken through to the Great Grandmaster Realm.
• Ji Tianming explained that the Great Grandmasters had entered a tomb suspected to hold an ancient martial artist’s inheritance.
• Chen Mo declined Ji Tianming’s invitation to explore the tomb, choosing to avoid its risks while he could still improve his strength.
• Chen Mo left the palace, and Ji Tianming resolved to value and befriend him rather than covet his inheritance.
• Chen Mo went to a restaurant and wondered why the realm above Great Grandmaster had become unreachable in the present era.