Chapter Summaries

After the robbers tried to assault him, Bai Ye killed the gunmen in the bank and freed a customer service representative. He handed her his suitcase of cash and asked her to open an anonymous account for laundering.

• Bai Ye returned to the bank lobby and rejected the robber leader's questions about his suitcase.
• When a robber tried to touch his face, Bai Ye seized the man's hand and ripped out his heart.
• Bai Ye killed three more robbers with punches, then dodged gunfire and tore another robber in half.
• Bai Ye evaded the leader's shots, slapped him to death, and retrieved his suitcase.
• Bai Ye untied the customer service representative and asked her to open an anonymous account to launder the money.

Bai Ye killed the bank robbers during the hostage crisis, emerged covered in blood, and claimed he was an ordinary fitness enthusiast. After police and reporters questioned him, news of the incident reached Matthew at the hospital.

• Chief George hesitated over how to handle the bank robbery until gunshots rang out inside.
• Bai Ye waited for his cash deposit to be credited, then left the bank and told the police he had killed the robbers, with one wounded survivor remaining.
• George and the officers entered the bank, found the robbers dead and the hostages alive, and questioned Bai Ye about whether he was a mutant.
• Bai Ye argued that he had acted in self-defense, then told reporters he had survived the robbers' attack through fitness and training.
• George blocked the reporters while officers took Bai Ye for questioning and a physical examination.
• Amy told Matthew at the hospital that the passerby from his drawing had appeared on television after wiping out a robbery gang.

After killing robbers during a bank robbery, Bai Ye was questioned by the police but was released with his movements restricted to New York City. Matthew, the injured Daredevil, acted as his lawyer and tried to recruit him as a hero, while Bai Ye returned to training at the gym.

• Bai Ye answered police questions and refused to explain where he got his money.
• Chief George introduced Matthew as Bai Ye’s lawyer, and Matthew argued that Bai Ye had acted in self-defense.
• After three hours, Bai Ye left the police station with Matthew, subject to a restriction on leaving New York City.
• Matthew offered to teach Bai Ye to become a Super Hero, but Bai Ye declined and headed for the gym.
• Bai Ye called Teacher James and requested a month off to recover at home, and Teacher James agreed to speak with the principal.

Bai Ye trained at the gym after its owner offered him free access and a possible endorsement deal, then pushed his limits with heavy squats and blows from Smith. He discovered that deliberately disrupting his internal energy could sever his Meridians and raise his attributes, leaving him to pursue the dangerous training method.

• Smith told Bai Ye that the gym's owner wanted to meet him about an endorsement and offered him free, round-the-clock access and upgraded equipment.
• Bai Ye postponed meeting the owner until next month and promised to discuss a deal worth over a hundred billion.
• Bai Ye struggled to find heavy enough equipment, then performed a thousand squats with 780 kilograms without tiring.
• Bai Ye asked Smith to strike him with a barbell to train his durability, but a blow to the back of his head hurt enough that he told Smith to hit his back instead.
• Bai Ye experimented with reversing his internal energy and severing his Meridians, discovering that repeated recoveries increased his Physique and Spirit.

After the bank robbery made Bai Ye a public sensation, New York City’s mayor ordered the police department to recruit him as a special advisor to repair its image. George invited Bai Ye to dinner to discuss the department’s offer, but another unknown caller reached Bai Ye before he arrived.

• New York City’s mayor demanded that the police department find an immediate way to reverse public opinion after its failure during the bank robbery.
• The deputy chief proposed recruiting Bai Ye as a Police Special Advisor, and the mayor ordered George to secure his agreement.
• Bai Ye completed 21,543 weighted squats, raising his Spirit attribute cap to 1.6, and decided to stay at the gym to avoid reporters.
• George called Bai Ye and invited him to dinner at his home to discuss department business.
• Bai Ye accepted George’s invitation, but another call from an unfamiliar number came in before he reached George’s house.

After Li Shu threatened to expose Bai Ye’s past unless he paid thirty million US Dollars, Bai Ye went to Chief George’s house for dinner. There, Gwen’s affectionate attention left George and Helen stunned as Bai Ye sat down to discuss business.

• Li Shu called Bai Ye and demanded thirty million US Dollars, giving him three days to comply or face exposure.
• Bai Ye decided he could deal with the threat within two days and ran to Chief George’s house.
• Gwen welcomed Bai Ye and led him inside, where Helen and George noticed her holding his hand.
• At dinner, George told his children that Bai Ye was a guest, while Gwen stayed close and introduced him to the food.
• George watched Gwen pursue Bai Ye and thought his precious cabbage had gone after a pig.

Bai Ye refused George’s offer to join the New York Police Department as a consultant and left the Stacy home after George awkwardly invited him to visit again because Gwen liked him. Thinking about Li Shu and how to evade police suspicion, Bai Ye chose Brown Roderick as his first target and gathered supplies before heading home for something he needed.

• Bai Ye struggled with Gwen’s persistent advances during dinner at the Stacy home.
• George asked Bai Ye to join the New York Police Department as a consultant, but Bai Ye refused because the offer came with no benefits or authority.
• George invited Bai Ye to come over for dinner again because Gwen liked him, and Bai Ye left despite the family trying to keep him there.
• Bai Ye considered the risk of being suspected if he killed Li Shu and decided he needed a way to avoid getting caught.
• Bai Ye selected Brown Roderick, leader of the Countermeasure Gang, as his first target and took clothes and shoes from a convenience store after leaving cash.
• Bai Ye headed home to retrieve something he needed before carrying out his plan.

Bai Ye attacked Brown Roderick’s villa, killed the Countermeasure Gang leader and his men, and left a bloodstained S as a warning. He disfigured himself to conceal his identity and began building a persona for his planned revenge against Li Shu.

• Brown Roderick discussed escalating conflicts with the AK Party while his bodyguards guarded him.
• Bai Ye entered the villa carrying a steel blast door and used it to kill Brown Roderick and two bodyguards, while fruit knives killed the deputy and two others.
• Bai Ye spared the blonde woman, told her to leave, and painted a large S on the floor with the victims’ blood.
• Bai Ye checked his Stat Panel and recalled that his Constitution let him recover from severe injuries.
• Bai Ye used Sulfuric Acid to disfigure himself so he could conceal his identity and pose as a vengeful enemy of the underworld while targeting Li Shu.

Peter Parker woke with a dramatically stronger physique as police investigated a massacre tied to a disfigured killer. Bai Ye returned to training after recovering from his injuries and received custom iron weights suited to his increased strength.

• Peter Parker awoke on Thursday morning with a muscular body and tested his new strength by punching the air.
• Director George reviewed footage of a massacre in Brooklyn and discussed possible motives and leads with Deputy Director Maud.
• George refused Maud's suggestion to pressure Bai Ye into joining the police, explaining that his daughter liked him and he did not want to endanger her future husband.
• An officer reported another massacre, this time targeting JK Party leader Linge Morui, and George and Maud headed to the scene.
• Bai Ye reflected on how his disfigured identity would conceal his motive for attacking gang families, then saw Smith deliver custom iron blocks weighing over a ton each.
• Bai Ye lifted one block in each hand and carried them into the gym to train.

Peter woke to find his strength greatly increased and learned from the news that Bai Ye had killed six bank robbers, while Bai Ye continued training and prepared to teach Smith the Purple Mist Divine Skill. Bai Ye revealed he planned to use the martial art for a deal in a month, then took a vat of concentrated sulfuric acid from the shadows.

• Peter saw Bai Ye's photograph on the news and learned he had subdued the bank robbers, then failed to reach him by phone.
• Mary Jane asked Peter where Bai Ye was, but Peter could not tell her.
• Bai Ye cultivated the Purple Mist Divine Skill while Smith struck his back with a steel rod, and Bai Ye gained another wisp of internal energy.
• Bai Ye rejected hiring more people to help train and promised to teach Smith the Purple Mist Divine Skill.
• Bai Ye planned to use the skill in a deal with a club owner in a month and took out a vat of 98.3% sulfuric acid after Smith left.

Bai Ye used sulfuric acid to repeatedly damage his skin and increase his attributes, then went to Li Shu’s estate in Chinatown to settle the score. He killed Li Shu’s guards and Xiao Wang before closing the door on Li Shu, whose fate was left unclear.

• Bai Ye repeatedly corroded the skin on his hands and face with sulfuric acid, gaining Constitution and Spirit while his healing time continued to shrink.
• Bai Ye left for Chinatown, where Li Shu discussed the gangs’ defeat and planned to exploit Bai Ye’s secret for money.
• Bai Ye knocked out a police officer, kicked down Li Shu’s gate, and killed the guards at the estate.
• Bai Ye killed Xiao Wang with a punch and confronted Li Shu inside the room.
• Bai Ye closed the door while Li Shu screamed inside.

After killing Li Shu, Bai Ye returned to the gym and continued training while planning his next moves against New York’s underworld. He called Peter Parker with an offer of a lucrative part-time job, and Peter rushed toward the club, unaware that Bai Ye intended to use him for resistance training.

• New York police found Li Shu and his gang dead, and Morgan concluded that the killer was hunting the city’s underworld bosses.
• Bai Ye healed at the club, decided to kill four more gang leaders, and resumed training while worrying that mutants might interfere.
• Bai Ye’s training raised his Strength and Constitution, and he told Smith to return the next morning to learn martial arts.
• Bai Ye planned to use Smith as a demonstration for the Purple Mist Divine Skill and Peter Parker as a short-term partner for training resistance to blows.
• Bai Ye called Peter and offered him a part-time job paying at least twenty thousand dollars a month, so Peter ran to Meinz Fitness Club.

Bai Ye tested Peter's reaction speed and discovered his newly awakened stats, then offered him a $20,000 monthly job helping train Bai Ye's damage resistance. Peter began striking Bai Ye with a Steel Rod, but stopped when Bai Ye's back was badly injured and bloodied.

• Bai Ye surprised Peter with a sweeping kick, then let Peter punch him so the Stat Panel could analyze Peter's abilities.
• Bai Ye offered Peter $20,000 a month to help train his resistance to damage, and Peter accepted without pressing him about how he knew of Peter's changes.
• Bai Ye lifted two-ton iron blocks and held a horse stance while Peter struck his back with a Steel Rod, gradually increasing his force and speed.
• After several minutes, Peter stopped when Bai Ye's back was bloody and his tank top had torn apart, but Bai Ye urged him to continue by hitting his arms and thighs instead.

Bai Ye trained with Peter Parker, using his repeated blows to improve his Constitution while healing from the damage, then copied the Purple Mist Divine Skill and continued training through the night. Elsewhere, Victor investigated a rising number of vampire victims and contacted the injured Matt, who suggested Bai Ye as a potential trainee.

• Peter Parker repeatedly struck Bai Ye with a steel rod, but after half an hour he had to rest while Bai Ye's wounds began healing.
• Peter resumed the training in cycles and noticed his strength and stamina improving; he stayed at the gym until eleven, helping Bai Ye raise his Constitution experience.
• Bai Ye copied the Purple Mist Divine Skill and Yue Buqun's annotations, then formed three strands of Purple Mist True Qi as his wounds healed.
• Bai Ye realized he seemed to need less sleep and continued working out through the night.
• Victor found a woman drained of blood in Brooklyn and called Matt about a surge in vampire killings and Blade's disappearance.
• Matt recommended Bai Ye to Victor as a potential trainee, while Victor said he was more interested in the mutant called Murder Demon.

Bai Ye taught Smith the Purple Mist Divine Skill, and Smith successfully cultivated internal energy despite Bai Ye’s doubts about whether people from different worlds could share cultivation systems. When Peter arrived, Bai Ye offered to teach him too and noticed someone hiding outside the gym door.

• Deacon had Blade imprisoned and revealed his plan to use Blade’s blood to summon the Blood God and turn mutants into vampire soldiers.
• Bai Ye finished training and gave Smith a manual for the Purple Mist Divine Skill.
• Smith studied the manual and eventually formed a thread of internal energy, surprising Bai Ye.
• Peter arrived at the gym, saw Smith practicing martial arts, and was offered a chance to learn.
• Bai Ye noticed someone secretly waiting behind the door.

Bai Ye easily overpowered the Punisher, who had come to recruit him to investigate a surge in vampire activity in New York. After learning the Punisher’s reason for visiting, Bai Ye refused the request and told him to leave.

• Bai Ye and Peter discovered the Punisher hiding outside the door, and Bai Ye introduced him to Peter.
• The Punisher challenged Bai Ye’s desire for a peaceful life and said he needed to assess Bai Ye’s strength.
• Bai Ye swiftly knocked the Punisher down and pinned him to the floor with one finger.
• Peter asked Bai Ye to let the Punisher go, and Bai Ye released him.
• The Punisher explained that seven blood-drained bodies had been found that month and invited Bai Ye to investigate the vampires.
• Bai Ye refused the invitation and pointed the Punisher toward the door.

Bai Ye rejected Punisher’s request to help with the vampires after learning Blade had gone missing, then focused on training Peter Parker. When Peter considered becoming a Super Hero, Bai Ye persuaded him to finish his paid month of work first, secretly planning to replace him with machinery afterward.

• Bai Ye refused to team up with Punisher, who revealed that Blade had disappeared and was presumed dead.
• Bai Ye told Peter that vampires were real but that most of them were weaker than Peter in his mutated state.
• Bai Ye had Peter increase the force of his Steel Rod strikes by twenty percent, and Peter trained him for twenty-five minutes.
• Peter asked whether they should use their abilities to become Super Heroes, and Bai Ye reminded him to consider his aunt and uncle and his paid work.
• Peter agreed to complete the month of part-time work, while Bai Ye privately planned to replace him with factory machinery and leave him free to fight crime.

Bai Ye passed Purple Mist True Qi to Smith and offered Peter the chance to learn the cultivation method. While searching gang hideouts at night, Bai Ye found fresh blood and encountered a wary woman who also mistook him for a monster.

• Bai Ye gave Smith a strand of True Qi, and Smith converted it into eight strands while Bai Ye lost the original strand.
• Peter asked to learn internal cultivation, and Bai Ye agreed on the condition that Peter not pass it on for a year.
• After Peter left, Bai Ye washed away the traces on his body and searched gang hideouts, but found traps and no targets.
• Walking back toward the gym, Bai Ye smelled fresh blood and heard movement in nearby bushes.
• A tall woman emerged from the bushes, and Bai Ye and the woman each mistook the other for a ghost or monster.

Bai Ye encountered the vampire Kelly Camilla on a remote path and discovered her extraordinary regenerative ability. He overpowered her and began forcing her to become his subordinate, leaving her trapped and facing torture.

• Bai Ye recognized Kelly Camilla as a vampire after finding her beside a woman whose blood had been drained.
• Kelly Camilla charged at Bai Ye, who shot her throat five times with a Glock Full-Automatic Pistol.
• Bai Ye assessed Kelly Camilla's attributes and watched her regenerate, then realized her healing made her a useful recruit.
• Bai Ye slammed Kelly Camilla's head into a tree, pierced her abdomen, and crushed her wrist as she fought back.
• Bai Ye demanded that Kelly Camilla become his dog and threatened to torture her until she submitted.

Bai Ye brought the captured female vampire back to the club and made her help train his body by beating him with a Steel Rod. Once his appearance recovered, she became more willing to speak and revealed that she needed blood, then drank Bai Ye’s blood and found it intoxicating.

• Bai Ye returned to the club with the female vampire and ordered her to wash up and report to him.
• Bai Ye had the vampire strike his back, arms, and thighs with a Steel Rod while he endured the blows and healed.
• As Bai Ye’s scars faded and his charm returned, the vampire questioned him about his rapid healing and began to view him differently.
• The vampire ran out of strength and told Bai Ye she needed blood.
• Bai Ye filled a bowl with his blood and gave it to the vampire, who drank it eagerly and craved more.