Chapter Summaries

A misunderstanding between Xia Ping and Jiang Yaru sparked rumors that he had gotten her pregnant and was refusing to take responsibility. The gossip spread across the school, earning Xia Ping a flood of Hate Points and leaving Jiang Yaru furious.

• Students overheard Jiang Yaru confronting Xia Ping and invented rumors that he had seduced her, gotten her pregnant, and planned to abandon her.
• Xia Ping told Jiang Yaru they could discuss it at home, making the students believe they were a couple who lived together.
• Xia Ping said he would take responsibility, and the students treated his words as proof of the rumors while Jiang Yaru angrily stomped on his foot and left.
• The students' gossip gave Xia Ping a rapid increase in Hate Points.
• Within an hour, the rumor had spread across campus, growing to include claims that Xia Ping had more than a dozen girlfriends and several pregnant women.

After a rumor linked Xia Ping to Jiang Yaru, he gained 736 Hate Points and faced Zhou Tai'an, who ordered him to stop bothering her. Xia Ping rejected Zhou Tai'an’s warning, and Zhou Tai'an threatened to prove his superiority at the School Fighting Tournament before leaving.

• Students gossiped about Xia Ping and the rumor that he had gotten Jiang Yaru pregnant, while he realized the story had spread throughout the school.
• The system told Xia Ping he had earned 736 Hate Points, and he wondered whether dating popular girls could earn them without insulting people.
• Zhou Tai'an confronted Xia Ping and warned him to stop bothering Jiang Yaru, citing their differences in talent, family, and prospects.
• Xia Ping told Zhou Tai'an that his relationship with Jiang Yaru was none of Zhou Tai'an’s business and said Zhou Tai'an was not worth a damn.
• Zhou Tai'an threatened to show Xia Ping the difference between a genius and an ordinary person if they met in the School Fighting Tournament, then left with his lackeys.

Xia Ping disguised himself and traveled to Black Moon City to buy Golden Potion from Black Bear Company. After taking the wrong route to the company’s back entrance, he punched an object falling from the building and discovered he had struck a person.

• Xia Ping wore a Skin Mask and took a maglev train from Tianshui City to Black Moon City.
• Xia Ping followed a map through the city’s dangerous alleys toward Black Bear Company.
• Xia Ping realized he had reached Black Bear Company’s back entrance and turned to leave.
• Xia Ping struck a falling figure with Tiger Fist, breaking several of its ribs.
• Xia Ping saw the injured person glare at him with murderous intent.

Xia Ping fought and killed a badly wounded man who attacked him, then took the man's bundle and fled when Black Bear Company pursuers approached. The chapter left Xia Ping escaping into an alley with the company potentially after him.

• Xia Ping recognized the injured middle-aged man as a dangerous opponent, and the man attacked him with Heart-Destroying Palm.
• Xia Ping used his mastered Five Forms Fist to withstand the palm, but the man drew a Laser Firearm.
• Xia Ping moved in with Snake Fist and pierced the man's heart before he could use the weapon.
• Xia Ping took a heavy black bundle from the dead man and heard Black Bear Company fighters searching for him.
• Xia Ping realized the company might target him for taking the bundle and fled deeper into the alley.

After Xia Ping killed a man near Black Bear Company and took his package, the company ordered a citywide hunt for him. While hiding in an abandoned building, Xia Ping was discovered by three members of the company and killed them.

• Black Bear Company’s leader found the middle-aged man dead and ordered his subordinates to seal off the area and hunt for the stolen items.
• Xia Ping reached an abandoned high-rise after fleeing twenty kilometers and decided to open the package he had taken.
• Three Black Bear Company members entered the building while searching for suspicious strangers.
• Xia Ping attacked the three men when they followed his footprints, killing two with Leopard Fist: Leopard Chain and snapping the third man’s neck.

Xia Ping discovered that the package he had taken contained twenty Golden Potions and the Heaven and Earth Audio-Visual Method, a secret art that could create spiritual power before reaching the Martial Artist Realm. As Black Bear Company supervisor Zheng Cheng mobilized his forces to recover the stolen goods, Xia Ping fled and Zheng Cheng’s subordinate Song Hui arrived.

• Xia Ping searched the three men he had killed and found a laser firearm and two titanium alloy knives.
• Xia Ping opened the package and found twenty Golden Potions and the Heaven and Earth Audio-Visual Method, which could produce spiritual power in the Martial Apprentice Realm.
• Xia Ping suspected his fused souls gave him the spiritual power needed to cultivate the manual, then fled when he heard people approaching.
• Zheng Cheng recalled how a powerful company member had stolen the potions and secret art, and vowed to recover the manual so he could reach the Martial Artist Realm.
• Song Hui arrived beside Zheng Cheng.

Zheng Cheng ordered his son Zheng Hua to hunt Xia Ping, believing Xia Ping was no stronger than the fifth level of the Martial Apprentice Realm. Hiding in an abandoned warehouse after escaping the Black Bear Company’s pursuit, Xia Ping took a Golden Potion and used the Pure Yang Indestructible Art to reach the fifth level and recover from his injuries.

• Song Hui reported that five or six Black Bear Company fighters had been killed in ambushes, and Zheng Cheng concluded their attacker was at most at the fifth level of the Martial Apprentice Realm.
• Zheng Cheng ordered his son Zheng Hua, a sixth-level Martial Apprentice, to find and kill Xia Ping, despite Song Hui’s warning about the danger.
• After escaping the company’s pursuit, Xia Ping hid in an abandoned warehouse, exhausted, hungry, and wounded from the fights.
• Xia Ping swallowed a Golden Potion and used the Pure Yang Indestructible Art to refine its violent energy.
• Xia Ping opened his fifth meridian, advanced to the fifth level of the Martial Apprentice Realm, healed his injuries, and demonstrated a punch with at least three thousand pounds of force.

After reaching Martial Apprentice Fifth Heaven, Xia Ping mastered the Heaven and Earth Audio-Visual Method and gained mental power that let him sense everything within twenty meters. As armed men arrived at the warehouse looking for him, he attacked first by throwing a stone through the short informant’s head.

• Xia Ping advanced to Martial Apprentice Fifth Heaven and considered how to escape the black-market men without exposing himself to their Laser Firearms.
• Xia Ping followed the Heaven and Earth Audio-Visual Method and quickly awakened mental power by breaking through the Baihui acupoint.
• Xia Ping used his new mental power to sense his surroundings and catch a fly with his fingers.
• Xia Ping sensed people approaching the warehouse as dawn broke and decided he had little to fear.
• Young Master Zheng arrived with seven or eight men in black, and the short informant confirmed someone was inside the warehouse.
• Xia Ping threw a stone through the warehouse window, killing the short informant with a blow to the head.

Xia Ping ambushed Zheng Hua and his men outside the warehouse, killing them with thrown stones and a final punch. He left Zheng Hua dead despite his plea that his father’s position at the Black Bear Company would protect him.

• Xia Ping killed the short man and several men in black by hurling pebbles from inside the warehouse.
• Xia Ping used his spiritual power to track the survivors and killed the men who tried to hide behind a wall and an iron barrel.
• Zheng Hua cut through a pebble with his sword and challenged Xia Ping to fight him openly.
• Xia Ping threw nine stones at Zheng Hua, who deflected them with nine sword strikes.
• Xia Ping leaped from the warehouse and killed Zheng Hua with a punch to the chest, dismissing his claim that his father would avenge him.

After killing Zheng Hua and the other attackers, Xia Ping looted recovery potions and a saber manual, then fled as Black Bear Company patrolmen approached. Zheng Cheng learned his only son was dead and ordered the company to seal off Black Moon City and hunt Xia Ping down.

• Xia Ping searched Zheng Hua’s body, taking recovery potions and finding a copy of the Universe Three Talents Saber Technique.
• Hearing Black Bear Company men approach, Xia Ping gathered his spoils and fled the warehouse.
• The patrolmen found the dead guards and identified the young man in white as Zheng Hua, Manager Zheng’s son.
• Zheng Cheng received news of Zheng Hua’s death and vowed to kill Xia Ping and punish his family.
• Zheng Cheng ordered Black Bear Company members to seal off the area and inspect the stations, and Song Hui relayed the order.

After killing Zheng Cheng’s son, Xia Ping found Black Bear Company searching Black Moon City and considered using an Invisibility Pill to escape. He instead decided to strike back, and the chapter ended as Zheng Cheng’s men discovered a note in the company lobby.

• Xia Ping learned that someone had developed an undying hatred for him and found Black Bear Company members sealing off the station to catch the killer.
• Xia Ping heard that Manager Zheng had ordered the company to capture him and threaten his family, so he used his Skin Mask to conceal his identity.
• Xia Ping found an Invisibility Pill in the system shop but balked at spending most of his Hate Points and decided to deal Black Bear Company a serious blow.
• Zheng Cheng berated Song Hui and his men for failing to find Xia Ping, while Song Hui suspected the killer had powerful accomplices.
• Song Hui spotted a piece of paper at the lobby entrance and pointed it out to Zheng Cheng.

Desolate destroyed Black Bear Company with a timed micro nuclear bomb and attacked the survivors. Zheng Cheng escaped the blast but was killed by Desolate after a barrage of attacks.

• Song Hui found a message at Black Bear Company's gate thanking the organization and promising a grand gift, signed by Desolate.
• Zheng Cheng sensed danger and tried to flee as a timed micro nuclear bomb exploded, destroying Black Bear Company's building and killing Song Hui and the others.
• Zheng Cheng survived the blast but emerged from the rubble badly injured and swore to hunt down Desolate.
• Desolate attacked Zheng Cheng with pebbles, laser beams, and a punch that broke his ribs.
• Desolate identified himself above Zheng Cheng and shot him in the head with a laser, killing him.

Xia Ping destroyed the Black Bear Company’s building, killed Zheng Cheng, and left the alias Desolate as a taunt before escaping toward Tianshui City. Dai An vowed to hunt him down, while Xia Ping received Hate Points aboard the train.

• Xia Ping used an Invisibility Pill to rob the Black Bear Company warehouse, then set timed nuclear bombs that destroyed the building and killed Zheng Cheng.
• Xia Ping carved the name Desolate beside Zheng Cheng’s corpse and hurried to the station to return to Tianshui City.
• Black Bear Company patrol members discovered the ruins and notified headquarters.
• Dai An arrived, learned about Desolate, and ordered the company to put him on the global wanted list and kill him.
• Xia Ping boarded the train after his invisibility wore off, and the system awarded him Hate Points for provoking many enemies.

After returning from Black Moon City, Xia Ping used Golden Potion to accelerate his cultivation and learned about a body-protection art that could help him absorb energy faster. He planned to earn the Hate Points needed to redeem its first level at the School Fighting Tournament the next day, where he also intended to confront Zhou Tai'an.

• Xia Ping cultivated with a bottle of Golden Potion and realized that three or four more bottles could help him reach Martial Apprentice Sixth Heaven within a month.
• Xia Ping worried that his body could not absorb energy quickly enough to advance before the College Entrance Exam.
• The system introduced the Northern Underworld Body Protection Art, which strengthened the body by converting attacks and the energy used to repair resulting damage.
• Xia Ping learned that the art's first level cost 3,000 Hate Points, leaving him 400 short of his current total.
• Xia Ping decided to use Monday's School Fighting Tournament to earn the missing Hate Points and planned to repay Zhou Tai'an for what had happened previously.

At the school Fighting Tournament, Xia Ping taunted Gao Wan and Yang Wei about their detention, causing students to spread humiliating rumors about them. He then spotted Xiong Batian and asked whether he had recovered from his hospital stay.

• Xia Ping found Gao Wan and Yang Wei at the Grade 12 lineup and greeted them by asking if they had just gotten out of detention.
• Nearby students recognized Gao Wan and Yang Wei and gossiped about their naked run around school and their seven-day detention.
• Xia Ping asked whether anything had happened to Gao Wan and Yang Wei in the holding cells, prompting the students to imagine lurid rumors despite their protests.
• Gao Wan and Yang Wei vowed to get revenge on Xia Ping for ruining their reputations.
• Xia Ping spotted Xiong Batian hurrying past and asked if he had recovered from the hospital.

Xia Ping provoked Xiong Batian at the School Fighting Tournament venue, then gained Hate Points as students spread rumors about his relationship with Jiang Yaru. The tournament began, and Xia Ping learned he would face Zhou Tai'an in the first match.

• Xia Ping taunted Xiong Batian about his hospital stay and warned him he might send him back, but Xiong Batian held back and left.
• Qiu Xue ordered the students to line up, and the School Fighting Tournament began with speeches from school officials.
• Jiang Yaru gave a speech while students gossiped about her and Xia Ping, spreading rumors that he dated many girls.
• Xia Ping realized the rumors were causing nearby students to hate him and earn him Hate Points.
• Xia Ping received the tournament schedule and discovered his first match was against Zhou Tai'an.

Xia Ping learned that his first tournament match would be against Zhou Tai'an, who was rumored to have arranged the matchup to punish him. As the tournament venue opened and spectators gathered at Ring 88, Zhou Tai'an made a dramatic entrance, leaving Xia Ping's match about to begin.

• Xia Ping saw that he had been paired with Zhou Tai'an in the first round, and students speculated that Zhou Tai'an had rigged the draw to get revenge.
• Gao Wan and Yang Wei celebrated the matchup and planned to mock Xia Ping after Zhou Tai'an beat him.
• The school deployed 126 transforming metal rings across the sports field and announced that matches would begin in fifteen minutes.
• Xia Ping went to Ring 88 and found a large crowd drawn by Zhou Tai'an's popularity and rumors about Xia Ping's love life.
• Zhou Tai'an arrived with his lackeys, cleared a path through the spectators, and leaped into the ring hard enough to crack the concrete.

Xia Ping faced Zhou Tai'an in the ring after Zhou displayed his strength and threatened to cripple him. Zhou began the match with a powerful strike, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Zhou Tai'an leaped into the arena, impressing the watching students with his strength as a Martial Apprentice Sixth Heaven expert.
• Xia Ping arrived, and the students judged him an ordinary opponent who had no chance against Zhou Tai'an.
• Zhou Tai'an threatened Xia Ping and boasted about his training at Wuwei Martial Arts Hall and his mastery of Five Peaks Fist.
• Xia Ping recalled knocking out Xiong Batian with one punch, but Zhou Tai'an dismissed the comparison and told the referee to start the match.
• The referee began the match, and Zhou Tai'an attacked with Five Peaks Fist's Mount Tai Crushing Top.

Xia Ping overwhelmed Zhou Tai'an in the ring, revealing power and martial skill far beyond what the students expected. After Zhou Tai'an charged at him again, Xia Ping struck him down and left him badly injured.

• Zhou Tai'an attacked Xia Ping with his Five Peaks Fist while the students dismissed Xia Ping's chances.
• Xia Ping used his Five Forms Fist: Dragon Fist to strike Zhou Tai'an in the chest, then followed with a White Crane kick that smashed him into the ring.
• The students, Yang Wei, Gao Wan, Xia Ping's classmates, and the referee teacher watched in shock as Xia Ping's attack shattered the ring and severely injured Zhou Tai'an.
• Zhou Tai'an accused Xia Ping of having reached the fifth level of the Martial Apprentice Realm, and Xia Ping mocked his confidence and lack of understanding.
• Zhou Tai'an charged at Xia Ping in a rage, but Xia Ping struck him with a palm, knocking out three teeth and swelling his face.

Xia Ping defeated Zhou Tai'an and provoked the spectators with his taunts, leaving the crowd furious and afraid of him. After the referee declared Xia Ping the winner, he knocked Zhou Tai'an unconscious and gained over three hundred Hate Points, still a hundred short of exchanging for the Northern Underworld Body Protection Art.

• Xia Ping asked the defeated Zhou Tai'an if he was convinced, but Zhou Tai'an refused to accept his loss.
• When students condemned Xia Ping for humiliating Zhou Tai'an, Xia Ping challenged them to fight and used his spiritual power to terrify three outspoken students.
• Xia Ping insulted the crowd, drawing more curses from the students as Gao Wan, Yang Wei, and Class 16 of Grade 12 watched.
• The referee declared Xia Ping the winner because Zhou Tai'an could no longer continue, but Xia Ping slapped Zhou Tai'an unconscious when he kept protesting.
• Students carried Zhou Tai'an away, and Xia Ping received over three hundred Hate Points, leaving him a hundred short of exchanging for the Northern Underworld Body Protection Art.