Chapter Summaries

Bai Yang heard the Limit Dojo’s extraordinary offer of an Elite Training Camp place and valuable resources, while Jia Yi tried to persuade him to join Mount Hua. Jia Yi began revealing the origins of Mount Hua and the relics that had helped Hong and Thor rise, then had a mysterious box brought forward.

• Inspector Liu offered Bai Yang a place in the Elite Training Camp, along with a three-billion Huaxia currency annual budget and valuable resources.
• Jia Yi learned that the Round Table Conference had approved the offer after watching a video of Bai Yang fighting monsters.
• Bai Yang considered the Limit Dojo’s terms but remained silent as Mount Hua’s representatives watched his reaction.
• Jia Yi asked Bai Yang whether he knew the story behind Mount Hua’s name and described the Great Nirvana and the relics of civilization discovered by Hong and Thor.
• Jia Yi asked Lao Liu and Girl Mei to bring over an exquisitely crafted two-meter-long box, leaving everyone waiting in silence.

Jia Yi showed Bai Yang a ceremonial sword recovered from Mount Hua’s ruins, revealing that it could display images of advanced sword techniques and had inspired the Mist Sword inheritance. Bai Yang recognized the sword’s greater potential and chose to stay with Mount Hua, while Lu Ting offered him a place in next year’s War God Preparatory Camp as well.

• Jia Yi gave Bai Yang an ornate wooden box inscribed with a poem by his old friend, Linghu Yi.
• Bai Yang opened the box and found a radiant silver-white sword that could produce vivid images when he performed sword techniques.
• Jia Yi explained that the sword stored images of powerful fighters, emitted radiation that could reveal visions, and had inspired Mount Hua’s Mist Sword.
• Bai Yang realized the sword might contain recordings of powerful fighters from across the universe and chose Mount Hua over the Limit Dojo.
• Inspector Liu accepted Bai Yang’s decision, and Lu Ting said Bai Yang could also take Huaxia’s War God Preparatory Camp spot next year.

After leaving Monster Town, Bai Yang returned to his dorm and studied the equipment and complete Mist Sword manual he had received. He began training in the sword art, focusing on how its hidden force could improve his force multiplier.

• Bai Yang left Monster Town with Luo Feng and Yang Wu as General Tie's soldiers kept the crowd at a distance.
• Bai Yang returned to his dorm with help from Principal Wei's arrangements, then opened the three cases and examined the Series 9 Combat Suit and complete Mist Sword manual.
• Bai Yang studied Linghu Yi's disorganized notes and concluded they contained valuable ideas worth revisiting.
• Bai Yang practiced the Mist Sword footwork and Guidance Technique, finding the footwork flawed and the Guidance Technique's benefits modest for him.
• Bai Yang memorized and practiced the Mist Sword's moves, then focused on using whole-body hidden force to increase his force multiplier.

Bai Yang discovered that following the Mist Sword’s prescribed footwork transformed its platinum sword marks into a projection of dark-force pathways through a human body. After completing the sequence, he triggered a recording from the Mount Hua Sword that showed its original owner failing to understand the technique.

• Bai Yang rapidly mastered the first six levels of the Mist Sword and used the lingering Platinum Sword Marks to form a vast image.
• After noticing the Big Dipper’s pattern, Bai Yang realized the Mist Sword’s footwork mattered and performed the movements according to the book.
• The sword marks rearranged into a three-dimensional human figure showing intricate routes of dark force, which Bai Yang memorized through eight hours of practice.
• When all the dark-force paths converged at the dantian, the Mount Hua Sword projected a recording of an alien demonstrating the technique to its original owner and others.
• The recording showed the original owner eventually reproducing the Platinum Light Shadow but losing consciousness after failing to understand its pathways.

Bai Yang mastered the Mist Shadow Splitting Technique and entered the Wilderness Zone to test his control of hidden force in combat. His departure from the base drew the attention of the Blood Brake Squad and other teams, who raced after him for the reward tied to Jia Yi’s gift.

• Bai Yang studied the Mount Hua Sword’s secrets, learned to control hidden force throughout his body, and used it to make his sword strikes faster and silent.
• Bai Yang arrived alone at the Jiangnan Base City supply base and received a key to Building B1, while an officer advised him to find teammates.
• Bai Yang left the base before noon, heading east toward Kunshan and then the area around 003 City of Magic City.
• An Zhengxin and the Blood Brake Squad discussed pursuing Bai Yang for the reward, but three other squads rushed out first, prompting An Zhengxin to order his team to move.

Bai Yang traveled through a monster-infested wilderness route, killing beasts and refining his monster-transformed body with Ghost Shadow Cat genes. He discovered a group of pursuers closing in, ambushed one of them, and successfully implanted a Monster Cell to gain access to the man’s memories.

• Bai Yang took a difficult route through the wilderness and used the Spirit Energy Meter to locate monsters.
• Bai Yang killed twenty-three Unicorn Wild Boars, devoured the adult boars, and continued hunting monsters for their flesh and blood.
• Bai Yang absorbed useful Ghost Shadow Cat genes and refined his skeleton, then considered the stages of his Monster King Orochi transformation.
• Bai Yang detected more than thirty nearby targets, including a likely War God, and realized that his pursuers had surrounded him.
• Bai Yang sneaked up on a six-person squad, knocked one man unconscious, and implanted a Monster Cell, gaining access to another set of memories.

Bai Yang used a controlled slave to draw the search party apart, then ambushed and enslaved the Blood Brake Squad, including its leader An Zhengxin. He ordered the squad to help capture the other teams while he examined An Zhengxin’s memories and learned about his Nine-Layer Thunder Blade technique.

• Bai Yang enslaved a man from the search party and sent him running to lure the other squads away from his position.
• Bai Yang ambushed the Blood Brake Squad, blinded several fighters with dust, and defeated An Zhengxin using the scabbard of his Mount Hua Sword.
• Bai Yang fed Monster Cells to An Zhengxin and his eight Advanced War General teammates, turning all nine into slaves.
• Bai Yang ordered eight members of the Blood Brake Squad to reinforce his first slave and capture the other squads.
• Bai Yang learned that An Zhengxin knew the first four layers of Nine-Layer Thunder Blade, and An Zhengxin offered to teach him everything he had learned.

Bai Yang mastered the first four levels of Nine-Layer Thunder Blade while helping An Zhengxin learn the technique, then organized his surviving subordinates into his first team. The group hunted monsters on the way to Kunshan, where Bai Yang established a base before heading to Jiangnan Base City with five Advanced War Generals and their spoils.

• Bai Yang sparred with An Zhengxin and adapted the hidden-force techniques of Nine-Layer Thunder Blade to his own swordsmanship.
• By daybreak, An Zhengxin learned the technique’s fourth level, and Bai Yang reorganized the surviving War Generals into his first team after executing five criminals.
• Bai Yang led his thirty subordinates through the Wilderness Zone, where they hunted monsters and gathered resources through their Mental Network.
• Bai Yang used Psychokinesis to kill hundreds of Advanced Warrior-level monsters at once, astonishing his subordinates.
• At Kunshan, Bai Yang left An Zhengxin in charge of a semipermanent base and traveled toward Jiangnan Base City with five Advanced War Generals and their spoils.

Bai Yang reunited with Luo Feng and Yang Wu, taught them combat techniques, and began training them at East District Building 3. Luo Feng practiced dodging stones while Yang Wu learned a far better Guidance Technique, and both improved rapidly.

• Bai Yang parted with his subordinates and returned to school, then invited Luo Feng and Yang Wu to meet him at East District Building 3.
• Bai Yang demonstrated the Mount Hua Sword and Mist Sword, then explained two key points of the Nine-Layer Thunder Blade to Luo Feng and Yang Wu.
• Bai Yang asked Luo Feng to buy Go stones and had Yang Wu show him his Guidance Technique, which Bai Yang replaced with a more advanced method.
• Luo Feng returned with three sacks of Go stones, and Bai Yang challenged him to make him turn around by dodging stones fired from behind his back.
• Luo Feng learned to dodge by instinct as Bai Yang continued his footwork training while teaching Yang Wu, and both men made rapid progress.

After five days of training Luo Feng and Yang Wu with Bai Yang, Yang Wu chose to leave the Limit Dojo and join Mount Hua. Bai Yang brought him to Kunshan, where Yang Wu saw the strength and scale of Bai Yang’s organization, while Bai Yang prepared to distribute the Mist Shadow Splitting Technique to his followers.

• Luo Feng and Yang Wu reached a plateau in their training, and Bai Yang ended their lessons before heading to Kyoto Base City.
• Yang Wu stayed behind, knelt before Bai Yang, and asked to leave the Limit Dojo and join Mount Hua.
• Bai Yang gave Yang Wu a Monster Cell, making him a loyal subordinate, and told him they would go to Kunshan before traveling to Kyoto Base City for his official identity.
• Bai Yang and Yang Wu reached the Kunshan outpost, where An Zhengxin and dozens of powerful warriors and slaves greeted them.
• Bai Yang devoured monster flesh to develop his Monster Body, then used Psychokinesis to write the forty-seven basic forms of the Mist Shadow Splitting Technique for his slaves to copy.

Bai Yang arrived at Mount Hua and demonstrated Mist Sword so the organization could record its movements and investigate its secrets. As cameras captured his practice, he entered a state of complete concentration.

• Mei Xiaqing piloted Bai Yang and Yang Wu to Mount Hua, hidden deep beneath a remote airfield near Kyoto.
• Bai Yang learned that he was the major general leading Mount Hua's Ninth Group, with Yang Wu as its first member.
• Jia Yi and Lu Ting asked Bai Yang to demonstrate Mist Sword, while Mei Xiaqing explained how Mount Hua would record it using holographic and Earth-made cameras.
• Bai Yang began practicing Mist Sword in the studio, producing platinum light and shadow as the cameras recorded him.
• Bai Yang refined his swordsmanship and gradually lost awareness of himself and his surroundings.

Bai Yang studied Huashan’s classified intelligence and considered how to find rare Dragon Beasts and the Golden Horned Behemoth. After exploring Kyoto Base City, he decided to visit the Bai Family, leaving Yang Wu worried about what might happen.

• After finishing his training exercise, Bai Yang downloaded Huashan’s classified information about civilization ruins and unusual monsters.
• Bai Yang focused on Dragon Beasts and considered using loyal monster slaves to hunt them around Magic City.
• On August 25, 2056, Mei Xiaqing drove Bai Yang and Yang Wu to Kyoto’s main urban district.
• Bai Yang remembered that he had unfinished business with the Bai Family, found their old residence’s location, and took a taxi there with Yang Wu.
• Yang Wu urged Bai Yang to request backup, but Bai Yang said he intended to peacefully repay the family for money his cousin had spent.

Bai Yang visited the Bai family estate in Kyoto, returned the money Bai Sheng had spent with them, and proposed buying a War Base to defend Changxing Island. The chapter ended with Bai Pianqing reeling as Bai Yang asked the Bai family to help him secure a loan.

• Bai Pianqing worried that Bai Yang’s rise had cost the Bai family a chance to strengthen its standing and that the proposed marriage between Bai Sheng and Bai Zhangting had failed.
• After learning Bai Yang had arrived, Bai Pianqing hurried to summon War God Lin Ranyi and told Bai Zhangting and the other two not to appear.
• Bai Yang met Bai Pianqing in the main hall and returned thirty million Huaxia Currency to settle the Bai family’s past expenses for Bai Sheng.
• Bai Yang told Bai Pianqing he wanted to buy a War Base for Changxing Island in Magic City and asked the Bai family to help him obtain a secured loan.
• Bai Pianqing was shocked by Bai Yang’s request and nearly fainted.

Bai Yang pushed the Bai Family to help build a War Base on Changxing Island, then learned that marine monsters fiercely attacked any attempt to build one on a sea island. Rather than deter him, the obstacle made the plan even more appealing, and he left the discussion determined to proceed.

• Bai Yang asked Bai Pianqing to fund a War Base on Changxing Island, arguing it could protect Jiangnan Base City from ocean monsters.
• Bai Pianqing rejected the request as impossible, and Bai Yang argued with her while Yang Wu tried to keep from laughing.
• Lin Ranyi arrived, greeted Bai Yang as Mount Hua's Ninth Group Leader, and revealed that the War Gods knew of his standing.
• Lin Ranyi took Bai Yang, Bai Pianqing, and Yang Wu to the study, where Bai Yang confirmed that he seriously intended to build the War Base.
• Lin Ranyi explained that the Earth Alliance had to approve War Bases and that marine monsters would attack any construction on a sea island; Bai Yang welcomed the obstacle.

Bai Yang pressed the Bai Family to sell him its War Base and began arranging support for building a new one. He left the project moving forward while turning his attention to obtaining the Monster Body and growing stronger.

• Bai Yang asked Bai Pianqing and Lin Ranyi for a firm price for the Bai Family’s War Base, and Lin Ranyi agreed to take the request to the Alliance after feeling the force of Bai Yang’s casual touch.
• Bai Yang promised Bai Pianqing and Lin Ranyi that the Bai Family could reap enormous benefits if his plan succeeded, exchanged contact information with them, and left.
• Bai Yang met with Lu Ting and Mei Xiaqing in Jingshan City to assess the personnel and support needed to build a War Base and face a Level 1 Beast Tide.
• Mei Xiaqing estimated that the base would need tens of thousands of soldiers and at least thirty War Gods for the initial threat, while Lu Ting offered five Advanced War Gods from Mount Hua.
• Jia Yi approved fifty positions for Bai Yang’s Ninth Group, while the HR Alliance had yet to respond to his proposal concerning the Bai Family.
• Bai Yang concluded that obtaining the Monster Body and becoming stronger were his immediate priorities.

Bai Yang told the Luo Family that Life Water could restore Luo Hua’s legs, then prepared to move into his family’s new villa while remaining enrolled at Jiangnan First Military Academy. He left Principal Wei the Mist Shadow Splitting Technique and discussed his plan to build a War Base, which Principal Wei promised to support.

• At lunch, Bai Yang told the Luo Family that Life Water could heal Luo Hua’s legs, and Luo Feng resolved to earn enough money to obtain it.
• The Luo Family hurried home to search for information about Life Water while Bai Yang returned to school to prepare for his move.
• Principal Wei met Bai Yang at the dorm, and Bai Yang reassured him that he had changed his enrollment back to Jiangnan First Military Academy.
• Bai Yang sent Principal Wei the forty-seven chapters of the Mist Shadow Splitting Technique, allowing him to pass down the final forty chapters within his family.
• Principal Wei asked about Bai Yang’s plan to build a War Base and offered to find people to help when construction began.

Bai Yang arrived at the Limit General Hall and settled into the mansion prepared for him, where he reunited with Bai Sheng and Bai Pianyong. After learning how social pressures had burdened Bai Sheng, Bai Yang resolved to find him a suitable cultivation method, and the family shared a warm dinner.

• Bai Yang showed his credentials at the Limit General Hall entrance, and soldiers escorted him to the mansion where Bai Sheng was waiting.
• Bai Yang toured the spacious mansion and learned that Bai Pianyong had been staying at the dojo but would return for dinner.
• Bai Sheng told Bai Yang that invitations and matchmaking pressures had disrupted his training, and explained that he was cautious about anyone who might use their connection against Bai Yang.
• Bai Yang realized Bai Sheng had been enduring the unwanted attention partly to protect him and resolved to find Bai Sheng a suitable cultivation method.
• Bai Yang asked Bai Sheng about his training and shared guidance on the Guidance Technique and Genetic Origin Energy.
• Bai Pianyong came home with food, and the three cooked and ate a warm dinner together.

Bai Yang led the Blood Brake Squad toward Magic City, where he learned that powerful flying monsters dominated the skies. After reaching the city’s outskirts, the group searched for a defensible place to stay and chose a residential community near a river in JD District.

• Bai Yang met Yang Wu at the train station, reached the Kunshan outpost, and left Yang Wu in charge while taking the nine members of the Blood Brake Squad toward Magic City.
• Bai Yang followed An Zhengxin’s advice to take a direct route, and he continued honing the Mist Shadow Splitting Technique as the group fought monsters along the way.
• After the group crossed into Magic City’s territory, Bai Yang spotted flying monsters circling overhead and warned everyone to stay alert.
• An Zhengxin explained that the flying monsters were powerful, numerous predators that ruled the area, and Bai Yang resolved to build a War Base rather than rely on monsters honoring agreements.
• Bai Yang and the squad searched for a safe place to settle and chose Emerald Lake, a residential community beside a small river in JD District.

Bai Yang and the Blood Brake Squad settled in Emerald Lake Residential Complex and planned an expedition into Magic City's Third Circle Layer. After testing his transformation and practicing swordsmanship through the night, Bai Yang led the squad into the city, where they reached the monster-filled Third Circle Layer.

• Bai Yang led the Blood Brake Squad to a residential building in Emerald Lake Residential Complex, where they cleared the floors and chose the seventh floor as their base.
• An Zhengxin explained the dangers and monster territories in Magic City, identifying the squad’s destination as the Third Circle Layer.
• Bai Yang planned to stay in the city until February to advance his Monster Body, and estimated that devouring three to five more Lord-level Monsters would trigger his next breakthrough.
• Bai Yang attempted to transform but failed to complete the breakthrough, then practiced swordsmanship through the night with the Mount Hua Sword.
• Bai Yang and the Blood Brake Squad set out at daybreak and reached the Third Circle Layer after just over an hour, hearing distant monster herds rumbling across the ground.

Bai Yang watched a thousand Lion Mastiff Dogs kill and devour their defeated leader, then led his squad to hunt a smaller monster herd. He killed three Advanced War General Fire Scale Trident Pigs with blunt strikes and left An Zhengxin with valuable, undamaged scales.

• Bai Yang and his squad found a huge gathering of Lion Mastiff Dogs surrounding two leaders fighting over the herd.
• One Lion Mastiff Dog killed its rival, and the herd devoured the fallen leader before Bai Yang could exploit the fight.
• Bai Yang and An Zhengxin attacked a herd of forty or fifty monsters, with Bai Yang using the Mount Hua Sword to cut through their ranks.
• Bai Yang changed to heavy blunt strikes and killed three Advanced War General Fire Scale Trident Pigs by smashing their heads and internal organs.
• Bai Yang devoured the three pigs while An Zhengxin collected their intact fire scales, which could sell for one to two billion.