Chapter Summaries

Situ Xuan and A Ruhuan fought a fierce hand-to-hand spar in the Martial Arts Arena, trading lethal techniques against A Ruhuan’s tough body and battle instincts. They paused briefly, both eager to continue.

• Mu Ye watched as Situ Xuan and A Ruhuan prepared to test each other in the Martial Arts Arena.
• Situ Xuan opened with rapid claw and palm attacks, but A Ruhuan blocked them and countered with a powerful shoulder charge.
• Situ Xuan used pressure-point and acupoint techniques, then battered A Ruhuan with a barrage of punches.
• A Ruhuan endured the assault, countered with a low kick, and exchanged another kick with Situ Xuan before they separated.
• Mu Ye praised both fighters, and Situ Xuan invited A Ruhuan to continue the fight.

Situ Xuan switched from the Fist of the North Star to the more corrosive Black Heart Evil Palm and fought A Ruhuan at full power in the Martial Arts Arena. Their battle grew increasingly intense, with neither brother yielding.

• Situ Xuan warned A Ruhuan before covering himself in the Black Heart Evil Palm's fourth-level Evil Aura Body Protection.
• Situ Xuan attacked with Fierce Tiger Descending the Mountain, and A Ruhuan met his palms head-on with his Bloodline Power.
• Situ Xuan pressed A Ruhuan with rapid palm strikes and used Darkness Overcasting Heaven and Earth to disrupt his blood and qi.
• Situ Xuan's Black Tiger Steals Heart wounded A Ruhuan's arm, but A Ruhuan counterpunched and sent Situ Xuan sliding backward.
• Situ Xuan gathered Heaven and Earth Essence and dispersed Bloodline Power with Ten Thousand Qi Returning to Origin, and both fighters continued their fierce clash.

Mu Ye stopped Situ Xuan and A Ruhuan from unleashing their full-strength attacks during a spar, then warned them about losing control of their power. Afterward, the two acknowledged each other’s strength and agreed to spar again as they began recovering from the fight.

• Situ Xuan and A Ruhuan launched a devastating palm strike and punch at each other, but Mu Ye intervened and seized their wrists before they could collide.
• Mu Ye warned A Ruhuan that his final punch had exceeded his control and could have killed Situ Xuan, then cautioned Situ Xuan to master his Malevolent Qi rather than be ruled by it.
• Mu Ye praised both disciples and sent them to regulate their breathing and reflect on the spar.
• A Ruhuan praised Situ Xuan’s palm technique, and Situ Xuan sincerely acknowledged A Ruhuan’s strength.
• A Ruhuan and Situ Xuan agreed to spar again, then began dispersing the Malevolent Qi and calming their power.

With three days left before Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy reopened, Peng Yunze arrived to take Situ Xuan to the academy early. After Situ Xuan informed Mu Ye, his master urged him to fight back against anyone who provoked him, and Situ Xuan set out with Peng Yunze as Mu Ye’s warning left them anticipating trouble.

• Situ Xuan strengthened and healed his body in a medicinal bath while Mu Ye was away.
• Peng Yunze burst into the courtyard and declared that Situ Xuan was Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy’s best hope of surpassing Shrek.
• Situ Xuan agreed to go to the academy early but stopped to contact Mu Ye first.
• Mu Ye approved Situ Xuan’s plan and told him to fight anyone who provoked him, promising to come help if needed.
• Situ Xuan and Peng Yunze left for Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy, with Peng Yunze suspecting the young man would stir up trouble.

After Vice Dean Peng Yunze enrolled Situ Xuan at Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy, Situ realized Peng intended to use him to disrupt the academy’s entrenched factions. On opening day, Situ observed the divide between privileged students and those without connections, just as a wealthy freshman proposed electing a class monitor.

• Peng Yunze arranged Situ Xuan’s enrollment and a private dormitory, then urged him to follow academy rules while staying ready to deal with trouble.
• Situ Xuan inferred that Peng wanted him to challenge the academy’s entrenched interests and resolved not to fear anyone who stood in his way.
• Three days later, Situ arrived first at Freshman Class One and waited for the teacher, who had not yet appeared as other freshmen entered.
• Situ watched noble students gather into familiar circles while plainer students remained isolated, and reflected on how privilege shaped the academy.
• A richly dressed freshman proposed that the class elect a monitor, drawing knowing agreement and laughter from the room.

Situ Xuan refused to acknowledge Wang Dongchen’s rigged election as class monitor, provoking Wang’s followers into attacking him. When one follower struck, Situ Xuan crushed his wrist and knocked him unconscious, then charged between the other two lackeys.

• The students chose Wang Dongchen as class monitor through an informal agreement, and Situ Xuan did not join the applause.
• Wang Dongchen challenged Situ Xuan for refusing to clap, but Situ Xuan replied that he was not interested.
• Three of Wang Dongchen’s followers surrounded Situ Xuan, who warned them that fighting could violate school rules.
• A follower explained that the student council permitted limited sparring during class monitor elections and swung at Situ Xuan.
• Situ Xuan broke the attacker’s wrist, punched him unconscious, and charged between the remaining two lackeys.

Situ Xuan crushed Wang Dongchen’s three lackeys, forced Wang Dongchen to withdraw his claim to the class monitor position, and took command of the class. The freshmen unanimously supported him, and he warned them against playing tricks under his watch.

• Situ Xuan defeated Wang Dongchen’s three lackeys in seconds, leaving them unconscious and badly injured.
• Situ Xuan intimidated Wang Dongchen into accepting his objection to the class monitor election, and Wang Dongchen agreed.
• Situ Xuan asked the freshmen whether they would follow him, and the noble-family students and civilian freshmen all voiced support.
• Situ Xuan took the class monitor position and announced that he would not tolerate underhanded tricks, inviting anyone who disagreed to challenge him.

Situ Xuan accepted the class monitor badge delivered for Wang Dongchen and claimed the position as the class’s legitimate monitor. He then restrained Wang Dongchen and demanded that he explain the academy’s rules and traditions.

• A freshman from another class delivered the Freshman Class One monitor badge to Wang Dongchen, unaware of the tense classroom and the unconscious students.
• Wang Dongchen offered the badge to Situ Xuan, who pinned it to his uniform and announced that the procedures were complete.
• Situ Xuan told the class to cooperate with him as their monitor, while his gaze warned Wang Dongchen and the unconscious lackeys.
• When Wang Dongchen tried to leave, Situ Xuan grabbed his shoulder and demanded that he explain the academy’s rules and traditions.
• Wang Dongchen endured the pain and humiliation and began answering Situ Xuan in a trembling voice.

Situ Xuan learned how the unofficial Student Council and Grade Leader system worked, then declared he would take control of the class and investigate the council. He left the class fearing that he planned to seize every first-year Class Monitor Badge to become Grade Leader.

• Wang Dongchen explained that the Student Council was a student-run group, with class monitors as members and a Grade Leader representing each year.
• Situ Xuan mocked the noble-family students and their elders, while the class stayed silent despite its anger.
• Situ Xuan released Wang Dongchen, asserted that he had final say in class one, and said he would look into the Student Council.
• Situ Xuan asked whether he could use force to run for Grade Leader, and Wang Dongchen corrected him that the rules called it a spar.
• Situ Xuan asked whether taking every first-year Class Monitor Badge would automatically make him Grade Leader, leaving the class alarmed.

After learning that Class Monitor Badges controlled Student Assembly seats and votes, Situ Xuan began taking them from the freshman classes. He left Class Three with three badges as students from the other classes gathered in the central training ground.

• Wang Dongchen explained that Class Monitor Badges determined class representation and voting power at the Student Assembly, and Situ Xuan decided to pursue them.
• Freshman Class Two elected Lin Feng class monitor while its students formed social circles and discussed alliances.
• Situ Xuan kicked down Class Two’s door, struck Lin Feng unconscious, took his badge, and demanded to know whether anyone opposed his takeover.
• Situ Xuan took over Class Three and emerged holding three badges as the commotion drew a crowd of freshmen to the central training ground.

Situ Xuan fought nearly two hundred freshmen after announcing he would take the Grade Leader position, overwhelming them with his fists despite their coordinated counterattack. Wounded and surrounded, he healed before their eyes and declared that their assault was still nowhere near enough.

• The seven classes gathered around Situ Xuan after he attacked students, and he announced that he was taking the Grade Leader position.
• When the freshmen mocked him and attacked, Situ Xuan charged into their ranks and knocked down numerous students with his fists.
• Situ Xuan used the crowd to make the freshmen's attacks hit their own side, then sharpened his fighting ability as his Dragon-Turning Breathing Method circulated.
• The Class Monitors coordinated a counterattack that bound Situ Xuan and struck him with a barrage of soul skills.
• Situ Xuan remained standing despite his wounds, healed rapidly, and insisted that the attack was still not enough.

Situ Xuan unleashed his full strength against the freshmen and defeated everyone on the training field. He collected the Class Monitor Badges and declared that the first year of Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy would answer to him alone.

• Situ Xuan shed his torn uniform and used his Evil Aura Body Protection as he resumed the fight at full strength.
• Situ Xuan overwhelmed the freshmen with his techniques, breaking bones and inflicting severe injuries as their resistance collapsed.
• Situ Xuan struck down a Class Monitor who tried to organize a defense, leaving the monitor's life uncertain.
• After ten minutes, Situ Xuan stood alone while nearly two hundred freshmen lay injured across the training field.
• Situ Xuan collected the Class Monitor Badges and asked whether anyone still objected to him becoming Grade Leader.
• Situ Xuan laughed in triumph and declared himself the only voice in the first year of Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy.

Peng Yunze backed Situ Xuan’s takeover of the freshman classes and drove three influential directors from his office. Situ Xuan then announced a punishing training schedule, leaving the freshmen facing his rule from the next morning.

• Peng Yunze suppressed the three directors’ complaints and defended Situ Xuan’s actions as a lesson for the freshmen.
• Peng Yunze expelled the directors and declared that Situ Xuan would become Grade Leader, daring them to challenge him before the council.
• Situ Xuan collected the ten Class Monitor Badges and ordered students to carry the injured away.
• Situ Xuan entered the Class One classroom and ordered everyone to gather at five-thirty the next morning for combat and response training.

Situ Xuan forced Freshman Class One into early-morning training, ignoring their hopes that upper-year students would challenge his appointment as Grade Leader. He set more than thirty freshmen against himself in combat practice, and they launched their first wave of attacks.

• Situ Xuan silenced the freshmen’s objections and ordered them to assemble at five o’clock the next morning.
• The freshmen arrived early, while Situ Xuan waited in the classroom and led them to the training ground.
• Situ Xuan announced that the entire class would fight him alone, claiming he would restrain himself by avoiding some of his usual methods.
• More than thirty freshmen released their martial souls and charged Situ Xuan with a barrage of soul skills.

Situ Xuan effortlessly beat more than thirty Class One freshmen, then ordered them back to class after their punishing dawn training. At noon, a Student Council officer invited him to the freshman Grade Leader confirmation and Student Assembly, and Situ Xuan chose nine students, including Wang Dongchen, to accompany him.

• Situ Xuan used precise, restrained strikes to defeat the Class One freshmen in under ten minutes, then told them to rest before basic physical training.
• Situ Xuan ordered the battered freshmen to return to class, where they endured their morning lesson exhausted and in pain.
• A Student Council officer arrived at noon and invited Situ Xuan to the confirmation of freshman Grade Leaders and the Student Assembly.
• Situ Xuan selected nine students, including Wang Dongchen, to go with him, and the group followed the officer toward the conference room, expecting trouble.

Situ Xuan led the freshmen to confront the Student Council president, Xu Zifeng, but showed no concern after hearing of his reputation. He knocked out an upper-year student who mocked him and entered the conference room with the group, where waiting observers turned their attention to them.

• Wang Dongchen told Situ Xuan that Student Council president Xu Zifeng was the academy’s strongest student and ranked third on the Spirit Pagoda’s Youth Genius Ranking.
• Outside Conference Room One, an upper-year student mocked Situ Xuan, who struck him unconscious with a single slap.
• Situ Xuan complained that the fallen student was blocking the way and delaying his meal, leaving the freshmen and Student Council officer stunned.
• Wang Dongchen answered Situ Xuan’s order to follow with eager obedience, then blushed when he realized how he had addressed him.
• Situ Xuan opened the conference room doors, and the waiting attendees turned their attention toward the arriving group.

Situ Xuan led the freshmen into the Student Assembly and faced down the upperclassmen’s collective pressure, drawing the Student Council president Xu Zifeng’s attention. The assembly began with routine introductions and uncontroversial motions, while the first-years settled behind Situ Xuan.

• Situ Xuan kicked open the meeting-room doors and overwhelmed the gathered upperclassmen’s pressure with his own killing intent and battle aura.
• Wang Dongchen and the other nine freshmen followed Situ Xuan to their seats, beginning to feel a shared identity as first-years.
• Xu Zifeng addressed Situ Xuan as the freshman grade leader, and Situ Xuan answered insolently that the upperclassmen had arrived too early.
• Xu Zifeng opened the Student Assembly and oversaw the introductions of the new Student Council members.
• The second-year grade leader’s motion on staffing for the academy celebration passed, and later grades raised similarly routine motions as the meeting grew calmer.

At a Student Council meeting, Situ Xuan supported restarting the Sun Moon Competitive Point System, unaware that upperclassmen had set a trap for him. The Sixth Grade Leader then proposed allowing upperclassmen to designate lower-grade students for matches, putting Situ Xuan and the freshmen at risk of repeated challenges.

• The Fifth Grade Leader proposed restarting the Sun Moon Competitive Point System, which required weekly arena fights and awarded Competition Points.
• Wang Dongchen explained the system to Situ Xuan and warned that it had been abolished because it consumed teaching resources and encouraged vicious competition.
• Situ Xuan cast all eleven first-year votes in favor, and the restart proposal passed with more than two-thirds of the vote.
• The Sixth Grade Leader proposed letting upperclassmen designate lower-grade students, with designated students allowed to refuse only at the cost of twice the points lost for a match.
• The Sixth Grade Leader's amendment offered double points to lower-grade students who won and barred challenges against students more than two grades below the challenger.
• The freshmen turned pale as the meeting focused on Situ Xuan, who remained unconcerned by the threat.

After the Student Council passed a rule allowing upperclassmen to call out students below them, Situ Xuan welcomed the chance to fight. That night, he used a medicinal bath to begin the Third Turn of the Immortal Wind Cloud Body Technique: Bone Tempering.

• The fifth- and sixth-grade leaders' call-out rule amendment passed, leaving the first-years worried about being targeted.
• Situ Xuan strode out of the meeting and looked forward to facing the upperclassmen in the arena.
• After returning from training Freshman Class One, Situ Xuan began his nightly cultivation in a medicinal bath.
• Situ Xuan circulated the Cloud Heart Art as the medicinal power strengthened his body, reaching the crucial stage of Bone Tempering.

Situ Xuan advanced his Bone Tempering realm through a medicinal bath, then used the Cloud Heart Art to calm the agitation and fiendish influences building with his strength. He went to sleep with his mind settled, ready to face the Student Council and the approaching Designated Match.

• Situ Xuan guided the medicinal power through his bones with the Cloud Heart Art, absorbing most of the bath and crossing the threshold of the Bone Tempering realm.
• Situ Xuan sensed that his strengthening body had also increased his Body Martial Soul reserves and brought him closer to Silver Awakening.
• Situ Xuan recognized that his growing battle intent, the Hokuto body-tempering method, and the Black Heart Evil Palm were stirring dangerous agitation and Fiendish Qi within him.
• Situ Xuan circulated the Cloud Heart Art and dissolved the negative influences, restoring calm and clarity to his mind.
• Situ Xuan dismissed the Student Council and the approaching Designated Match as challenges to temper himself, then went to sleep.