Chapter Summaries

Chen Yan’s family enjoyed a lucky shopping trip, where his unusual height surprised the staff and Yu Qingmeng sought his approval of her dress. At the Zhenwei Martial Arts Hall, Chen Yan examined Wang Jian’s Mystic Rock Bone, and the system issued him a mission to recognize true talent.

• Du Qionghua received a lifetime VIP card and free clothes after being named the store’s hundredth customer, while staff discovered that one-year-old Chen Yan was 112 centimeters tall.
• Yu Qingmeng showed Chen Yan her princess dress, and he awkwardly admitted that he liked her before ruffling her hair.
• Du Shenyuan introduced Du Qionghua to Wang Jian, his father’s new disciple, and asked Wang Jian to take them upstairs to see the hall master.
• Chen Yan used his spiritual sense to inspect Wang Jian’s Mystic Rock Bone and received the system mission “Recognizing True Talent.”

Chen Yan learned that investing in Wang Jian could earn him providential energy and perhaps let him improve his constitution, so he marked Wang Jian with his spiritual sense and planned to use him as bait for the Spirit Race. Du Chun announced Wang Jian’s accomplishments and ordered him to rest at home before an expert assessment, giving Chen Yan an opportunity to watch for an attack.

• Chen Yan learned that providential energy could unlock great opportunities and that a future breakthrough might let him draw a stronger constitution.
• Chen Yan attached a wisp of spiritual sense to Wang Jian, intending to use him as bait to catch the Spirit Race.
• Du Chun told Wang Jian that the Martial Arts Association would assess his improved National Health Exercises and might adopt his version across East Continent.
• Du Chun said Wang Jian could receive cultivation resources, a patent bonus, and admission to a top Martial University if the version was approved.
• Du Chun gave Wang Jian time off to rest before the assessment and reminded him of the upcoming Jiang City Youth Martial Arts Challenge.
• Chen Yan welcomed Wang Jian’s coming trip home as a chance to catch any Spirit Race member who targeted him.

Chen Yan’s mother left him in Du Chun’s care after his blood-qi reading reached 555, and Du Chun began teaching him the Du Family’s Yellow-Black Fist. While watching Du Chun demonstrate the art, Chen Yan instantly mastered Mountain-Suppressing Yellow Fist through his heaven-defying comprehension.

• Chen Yan concealed his true power and let the measuring instrument display a blood-qi reading of 555, astonishing Du Chun and Du Qionghua.
• Du Qionghua left Chen Yan with Du Chun and asked him to provide paints and ensure Chen Yan received his cultivation resources.
• Du Chun told Chen Yan that his father’s military combat techniques could not be passed on and promised to teach him Yellow-Black Fist instead.
• Du Chun demonstrated the Earth Stance and performed the Yellow-Black Fist routine for the students at the Martial Arts Hall.
• Chen Yan’s comprehension granted him Mountain-Suppressing Yellow Fist as he watched, and he realized the technique drew on his existing Arrow Barrage skill rank.

Du Chun grew hopeful that Wang Jian could restore the Du Family Martial Arts Hall’s reputation, while Du Shenyuan quietly reflected on his own lack of talent. At dinner, Chen Yan devoured Tier 3 Brute Beef without harm, and Du Chun ordered a spirit chef to be hired to prepare food suited to the baby’s appetite.

• Du Chun watched Wang Jian train and believed the new disciple might bring honor to the martial arts hall.
• After training, Wang Jun served dinner at the family home and mentioned that Qionghua and Chen Kefa were considering having another child.
• Chen Yan choked briefly at the news, then finished his nutritional mash and secretly grabbed a large piece of Tier 3 Brute Beef from Du Chun’s bowl.
• Du Shenyuan panicked when he saw Chen Yan eat the powerful meat, but Du Chun pointed out that the baby showed no signs of harm.
• Du Chun ordered Du Shenyuan to find a skilled spirit chef who could prepare high-tier ferocious-beast ingredients for Chen Yan.

Wang Jian walked home while pondering the Yellow-Black Fist, but a Spirit Race attack drew him toward the corpse-filled Willow Shade Lane. Chen Yan intervened and broke the creature’s hold, leaving Wang Jian free but still trapped in a dead zone as he called out to his unseen rescuer.

• Wang Jian walked home practicing the Yellow-Black Fist’s stance and sensed that something was wrong on the empty streets.
• A Spirit Race seized control of Wang Jian and forced him toward Willow Shade Lane, where he saw the alley’s residents hanging from its walls.
• Wang Jian’s rage awakened his martial will and Mystic Rock Bone, letting him resist the Spirit Race’s mental pressure but not escape it.
• Chen Yan attacked the Spirit Race with his divine sense, disrupting its control over Wang Jian.
• Wang Jian’s illusions faded, and he found himself on a silent, deserted street before asking the unseen expert for help.

Chen Yan secretly guided Wang Jian to destroy the Spirit Race’s hidden body and escape its mental trap, then gave him a meditation method while pretending to die. After absorbing the creature’s spiritual origin and earning a reward for his investment in Wang Jian, Chen Yan emerged far stronger.

• Chen Yan identified the Spirit Race’s body near a trash bin and told Wang Jian to destroy it while holding off its counterattack.
• Wang Jian awakened his understanding of Yellow-Black Fist, shattered the Spirit Race’s body, and called the Public Security Bureau for backup.
• Wang Jian thanked the unseen senior, and Chen Yan pretended his soul power was failing before transmitting the Mystic Meditation Method to him.
• Wang Jian believed the senior had died, knelt, and vowed to carry the method forward.
• Chen Yan absorbed the Spirit Race’s scattered spiritual origin, raising his spiritual power and advancing Meditation Method and Divine Sense Differentiation to Great Mastery.
• Chen Yan received Fortune +20 for guiding Wang Jian, helping him awaken his potential, and turning around his certain-death situation.

Chen Yan learned from Scout-734’s memories that the Spirit Race was preparing an invasion, while Wang Jian survived the attack on Willow Shade Lane and chose to give a spiritual cultivation method to the Martial Arts Association for free. Du Chun agreed to support Wang Jian’s decision.

• Chen Yan discovered that Spirit Race scouts were meant to locate energy nodes and stabilize an invasion passage, and resolved to hunt more of them for clues.
• Chen Yan’s spiritual power returned to his body at the Du Family Martial Arts Hall, where his Spirit attribute and cultivation skills had advanced.
• Du Chun arrived to help Wang Jian, and Falcon’s Special Investigation Team found that the Spirit Race had killed everyone in 172 households around Willow Shade Lane.
• Wang Jian told Du Chun that the dying senior had taught him a Meditation Method for cultivating spiritual power.
• Du Chun explained the method’s great value, but Wang Jian insisted on giving it to the Martial Arts Association for free to help prevent more deaths.
• Du Chun admired Wang Jian’s resolve and promised to honor his decision.

Chen Yan discovered the enhanced mental defenses and multitasking ability of his Great Accomplishment skills, then decided to keep hunting the Spirit Race to gain experience. Meanwhile, Jiang City's Special Investigation Team suspected a hidden martial artist was guiding them to Spirit Race cases, and learned that Martial Arts Association experts would arrive the next day under Chen Kefa's protection.

• Chen Yan found that Great Accomplishment Meditation Method could shield his consciousness from mental attacks, while Divine Sense Differentiation let him split his mind into eight strands.
• Chen Yan realized that raising skills from Great Accomplishment to Perfection through ordinary training was too slow, so he planned to improve his other skills and hunt the Spirit Race.
• Falcon told Chen Kefa and the Special Investigation Team that a hidden martial artist might be detecting Spirit Race traces and steering them toward cases.
• The Special Investigation Team mourned the deaths at Willow Shade Lane and Yu Lei's mental collapse, lamenting that they lacked mental martial arts.
• A team member announced that Martial Arts Association experts would arrive in Jiang City the next day, and Chen Kefa was ordered to oversee their security.

Grandmaster Wang Anguo visited the Jiang City Martial Arts Association and witnessed Wang Jian demonstrate his improved health exercises, which could advance children’s martial arts training by one or two years. Wang Jian then revealed the Mystic Meditation Method, a spiritual-power cultivation technique, and offered it freely to the Alliance and humanity.

• Chen Kefa welcomed Grandmaster Wang Anguo to Jiang City and accompanied him to the Association’s Comprehensive Testing Hall.
• Du Chun introduced Wang Jian to Grandmaster Wang, and Wang Jian demonstrated his improved health exercises.
• Grandmaster Wang and the accompanying experts praised Wang Jian’s revision for potentially advancing children’s martial arts foundation by one or two years.
• Grandmaster Wang decided to record Wang Jian’s revision at the highest level and report it to Alliance headquarters.
• Du Chun announced that Wang Jian had something more important to offer, and Wang Jian presented the Mystic Meditation Method, which he said a dying wandering cultivator had entrusted to him.

Wang Jian handed the Mystic Meditation Method to Grandmaster Wang Anguo, who explained the dangers of reaching the Grandmaster Realm and took the technique to have it verified. As Chen Kefa escorted Wang Anguo away, he overcame his hesitation and began asking for help for his comatose brother Yu Lei.

• Wang Jian told Wang Anguo that he had not practiced the Mystic Meditation Method because its authenticity and safety were uncertain, and Wang Anguo praised his caution.
• Wang Anguo warned that the wandering cultivator might still be alive and described the perilous process of breaking through to the Grandmaster Realm, giving Chen Kefa valuable guidance.
• Wang Anguo took the technique to headquarters for expert verification and promised the Alliance would distribute it if it proved safe and effective.
• Chen Kefa followed Wang Anguo to escort him, then decided to ask him for help for Yu Lei, who lay helpless in a special care ward.
• Chen Kefa nervously told Wang Anguo that he had a favor to ask.

Wang Anguo revealed that he had come to Jiang City to confront the Spirit Race crisis and agreed to examine Chen Kefa’s comrade Yu Lei. Meanwhile, Chen Yan continued cultivating at Zhenwei Martial Arts Hall and reached Amateur Rank Seven with all his core skills mastered.

• Chen Kefa begged Wang Anguo to restore Yu Lei’s sanity after a Spirit Race mental attack left him incapacitated.
• Wang Anguo revealed that the Spirit Race crisis, not the improved health exercises, was the true reason for his visit to Jiang City.
• Wang Anguo said Yu Lei’s condition and Wang Jian’s Mystic Meditation Method could help humanity understand and resist the Spirit Race’s mental attacks.
• Chen Kefa ordered the driver to take them to City First Special Rehabilitation Center so Wang Anguo could examine Yu Lei.
• Chen Yan spent another month cultivating at Zhenwei Martial Arts Hall while pretending to be an ordinary baby.
• Chen Yan reached Amateur Rank Seven and saw that all his core skills had become mastered.

Chen Yan used his improved [Image Projection Scroll] skill to create a private mental training space, where he refined [Arrow Barrage] by practicing the Mountain-Suppressing Yellow Fist. He learned that the Spirit Race invasion threat in Jiang City had been stopped and received the growth-type divine weapon Myriad Phenomena Painting Brush.

• Chen Yan secretly left the Training Ground and used [Drawing Ground as Prison] to turn his nursery into a private mental training area.
• Chen Yan practiced the Mountain-Suppressing Yellow Fist and infused its intent into [Arrow Barrage], rapidly improving the technique.
• The system announced that the Blue Star Defense War mission was complete because Chen Yan's actions had prompted an investigation that destroyed a Spirit Realm Rift near Jiang City.
• The system awarded Chen Yan the Myriad Phenomena Painting Brush, a growth-type divine weapon tied to the legacy of the Painting Saint.
• Chen Yan inspected the brush and declared that he would become the greatest painter in the universe.

Chen Yan discovered that the Myriad Phenomena Painting Brush let him preserve and reuse his Training Ground, but he decided to keep the ability secret to protect his family. He sent his divine sense to the Spirit Race invasion ruins to gather leftover energy from Grandmaster Wang’s absorption and uncovered a fragment of information about a starship.

• Chen Yan realized the Training Ground remained preserved in his mind and suspected the Myriad Phenomena Painting Brush had made the scroll reusable.
• Chen Yan considered selling the scrolls as portable spaces, then rejected the idea because exposure could endanger him and his family.
• Chen Yan calculated that his skills were advancing too slowly and reasoned that mental energy must remain near the destroyed Spirit Race invasion passage.
• Chen Yan sent a divine sense clone toward the sealed No. 3 Underground Ecological Experimental Base and found Grandmaster Wang absorbing the core source energy at the ruins.
• Chen Yan circled the edge of Grandmaster Wang’s aura and absorbed scattered energy, gaining mental strength and proficiency in Meditation Method and Divine Sense Differentiation.
• As Chen Yan gathered energy, he received a broken image of a gigantic starship spanning the sea of stars.

Chen Yan absorbed scattered Spirit Race energy while cultivating near Wang Anguo and glimpsed a vast fleet threatening Blue Star. After Wang Anguo finished cultivating and explained how he treated Yu Lei, he and Chen Kefa hurried back to Jiang City at astonishing speed.

• Chen Yan gained mental strength and skill proficiency by absorbing Spirit Race energy, and recovered fragmented memories showing a massive fleet traveling through space.
• Chen Yan feared the Spirit Race threat to Blue Star had only just begun, but continued gathering energy from the ruins.
• Wang Anguo finished cultivating and told Chen Kefa he had arrived in time to keep others from claiming the ruins' energy.
• Wang Anguo explained that developing the Ancestral Aperture allowed him to treat Yu Lei's spiritual affliction, and that the process could also temper Chen Kefa's consciousness.
• Wang Anguo and Chen Kefa set off for Jiang City on foot, astonishing passersby with their speed.

Chen Yan examined his progress and made reaching the Third Sequence, especially Mirror Flower Water Moon, his goal for the next two years. Meanwhile, Wang Anguo urged Chen Kefa to leave Jiang City for the front lines, and Chen Kefa agreed to discuss the decision with his wife.

• Chen Yan saw that his Meditation Method and Divine Sense Differentiation had each passed two thousand proficiency and resolved to work toward Mirror Flower Water Moon.
• Chen Yan answered Du Qionghua's call to come downstairs for dinner and found Liu Xin and Yu Qingmeng speaking with Chen Kefa over the phone.
• Wang Anguo asked Chen Kefa whether he regretted returning to the Jiang City Special Investigation Team instead of pursuing opportunities on the front lines.
• Chen Kefa said protecting his family and sharing a peaceful life with Liu Xin and Xiao Yan mattered more to him than advancement.
• Wang Anguo offered Chen Kefa a recommendation for the front lines, and Chen Kefa said he needed to discuss the choice with his wife.
• Wang Anguo offered to meet Chen Kefa's wife and explain the decision in person.

Chu Feng successfully tested the Mystic Meditation Method, demonstrating exceptional mental power and precise control after less than half a day of cultivation. As researchers discussed expanding the trials, Chen Yan unexpectedly gained mental power when Chu Feng’s visualization met the system’s “Beacon” standard.

• Chu Feng lifted a 500-pound boulder with mental power and held it suspended for three seconds.
• Chu Feng used the boulder to strike a fast-moving target, and researchers concluded his mental power surpassed an amateur rank-one martial artist’s combat strength.
• Chu Feng reported that the Mystic Meditation Method worked at least ten times more efficiently than other techniques he had tried and praised its visualization benefits.
• Grandmaster Wang thanked Chu Feng and directed him to Uncle Zou for resources before Chu Feng left to rest.
• Researchers debated testing the method on more young members and ordinary people with no martial arts aptitude.
• Chen Yan sneezed in Zhenwei Martial Arts Hall, and his system notified him that Chu Feng’s visualization had earned him one point of mental power.

One-and-a-half-year-old Chen Yan learned to recognize characters, surprised his parents by speaking in sentences, and attempted an unprecedented cultivation breakthrough. As he observed martial arts practice, he unlocked Focused Observation and began studying techniques more intently.

• Chen Yan's parents taught him to recognize characters, and he unlocked the Learning to Read and Write skill.
• Chen Yan spoke clearly for the first time, calling Chen Kefa an idiot and noting that a spoon had fallen, delighting his parents.
• Chen Yan reached 10,000 points in qi and blood and mental power, but his attempted breakthrough failed because he had not yet reached Amateur Rank 9.
• Chen Yan watched a student practice the Du Family Yellow Fist and spotted subtle flaws in the student's movements.
• Chen Yan unlocked Focused Observation and began studying the students' and Du Chun's techniques to improve the skill.

Yu Qingmeng rejected Zichen and Jiahao’s invitation to play, then met the new kindergarten student, Chen Yan, and immediately called him “Big Brother Xiao Yan” as her classmates admired him. The chapter ended with Chen Yan noticing the possessive look in Yu Qingmeng’s eyes.

• Yu Qingmeng turned down Zichen and Jiahao’s invitation to play house and told them they were too noisy.
• Teacher Li announced that a new student, younger than Yu Qingmeng, would be joining the class.
• Zichen suggested that he and Yu Qingmeng comfort the new student, but Yu Qingmeng waited to see who arrived.
• Teacher Li brought Chen Yan into the classroom, and he formally introduced himself to the children.
• Yu Qingmeng rushed over to Chen Yan and called him “Big Brother Xiao Yan,” drawing the class’s attention.

At kindergarten, Chen Yan was pulled into playing house with Yu Qingmeng while his parents prepared for Chen Kefa’s departure to the front lines. After seeing his father moved by a family drawing, Chen Yan decided that his clone would join the army with him.

• Yu Qingmeng claimed Chen Yan as her exclusive playmate, leaving Zichen heartbroken when she refused to play with him.
• Du Qionghua packed a large military backpack for Chen Kefa, then gave him Chen Yan’s drawing of their family to take along.
• Chen Kefa was moved to tears by the drawing and exchanged affectionate words with Du Qionghua.
• Chen Yan sensed his parents’ reaction through his clone and shut off the clone’s senses when their farewell became too intimate.
• Chen Yan checked his system panel and decided to have his clone join Chen Kefa in the army.

Chen Kefa left Du Qionghua and flew with Druck toward the front, where he learned about the dangerous rifts and their destination at Black Wind Valley. After Chen Kefa used his aura to frighten away beasts, Druck warned that they were entering the Thunder Cloud Eagle’s territory and might have provoked the King Rank beast.

• Chen Kefa refused to say goodbye to Xiao Yan, kissed Du Qionghua goodbye, and left for the front.
• Chen Kefa met Druck, a North Territory martial artist and helicopter pilot, at the Jiang City Martial Artist Association.
• Druck told Chen Kefa about the Zero Rift, the dangers of other rifts, and their destination at Black Wind Valley.
• Chen Kefa used his blood-and-qi pressure to scare beasts beneath the helicopter as they flew over the Wilderness Zone.
• Druck warned Chen Kefa that they were near the Thunder Cloud Eagle’s territory and that his aura could provoke the King Rank beast, so Chen Kefa reined it in.