Chapter Summaries

Chen Yan recovered from the backlash by absorbing a month of costly medicinal baths and advanced the Hundred Bones Body Forging Technique to minor mastery. He discovered he could form Gang Qi despite his Professional Stage Three cultivation, while Wang Jian prepared to compete in the Alliance Grand Competition in the Imperial Capital.

• Wang Jian told Du Chun he would represent Jiang City No. 1 High School at the Alliance Elementary and Middle School Martial Arts Grand Competition in the Imperial Capital, and Du Chun encouraged him.
• Chen Yan looked forward to Wang Jian competing, hoping his success would bring Chen Yan more luck.
• Du Chun gave Chen Yan daily medicinal baths for a month, exhausting his supply of precious herbs as Chen Yan absorbed each batch.
• After absorbing the final medicine, Chen Yan recovered his qi, blood, and mental power, and his Hundred Bones Body Forging Technique reached minor mastery.
• Chen Yan compressed True Qi inside his tempered bones and formed energy resembling Gang Qi, then checked his status panel and saw his cultivation was Professional Stage Three.

Wang Jian won his school trial match and joined Ye Xunxue and newly transferred freshman Qiu Yashuang as Jiang City No. 1 High School’s team for the upcoming martial arts tournament. The chapter left the three top fighters beginning to form a partnership, with Wang Jian eager to gauge Qiu Yashuang’s strength.

• Wang Jian defeated grade-twelve senior Qu Yang by disarming him with his Yellow-Black Fist, qualifying for the school’s tournament team.
• Wang Jian met Ye Xunxue and the new transfer student Qiu Yashuang in the principal’s office.
• The principal revealed that Qiu Yashuang was a grade-ten freshman who had reported reaching amateur rank eight and had lived with a mercenary group in the Wilderness Zone.
• The principal named Wang Jian, Ye Xunxue, and Qiu Yashuang as the school’s strongest team candidates and urged them to work together for the tournament.
• Ye Xunxue welcomed Qiu Yashuang, and Wang Jian joined them, curious about her combat ability.

After making the school team, Qiu Yashuang tried to settle into ordinary life with her brothers, but mistook a stranger for Chen Yan and rushed across traffic after him. The stranger vanished, and she resolved to return to Thunder Roar Mountain herself once she became strong enough to learn Chen Yan's fate.

• Ye Xunxue congratulated Wang Jian on his victory and admitted that Qiu Yashuang's strength made her anxious about the competition.
• Qiu Yashuang met Qiu Jiu and Qiu Rao after school, and the brothers discussed their cultivation, studies, and Uncle Zhou's refusal to accept special academic treatment.
• Qiu Yashuang watched the city crowd and thought she recognized Chen Yan, then recklessly crossed the traffic to chase the young man.
• Qiu Yashuang found the alley empty and realized the stranger was not Chen Yan, who had been declared dead after the disaster at Thunder Roar Mountain.
• Qiu Yashuang decided to return to Thunder Roar Mountain when she reached professional level and search for proof of whether Chen Yan survived.

Chen Yan, presumed dead by Qiu Yashuang and the others, used a [Mirror Flower Water Moon] clone to exchange more than a hundred apparently genuine beast cores at the Jiang City Martial Artist Association. He registered under the name Luo Bin, and the blood-energy test confirmed his declared Amateur Rank Seven cultivation.

• Chen Yan watched Qiu Yashuang and the others mourn him but stayed hidden and headed to the Martial Artist Association with his depleted beast cores.
• Chen Yan asked to exchange more than a hundred beast cores for complete military-grade martial technique inheritances and registered under the name Luo Bin.
• Chen Yan poured out over a hundred Tier 5 and Tier 6 beast cores, leaving the receptionist stunned by their quantity and value.
• The receptionist entered Luo Bin's cultivation as Amateur Rank Seven and led him to a blood-energy test.
• Chen Yan's test read Blood Energy: 666, confirming that his Amateur Rank Seven cultivation was genuine.

Chen Yan exchanged beast cores for three military-grade martial skills, then studied them in the Scroll World while discovering the world had begun creating things of its own. He also realized his Dao Beacon meditation method was generating mental power for him, and he created a King Rank Thunder Cloud Eagle King to test his new skills.

• Chen Yan exchanged his beast cores for Thunder Light Phantom Steps, Thousand Mechanism Blade, and Army-Breaking Seven Kills, then left the Martial Artists' Association.
• Outside, Chen Yan recognized Falcon leading a deployment for the Special Investigation Team and overheard details about the Sky Net system for responding to conflicts across Jiang City.
• Chen Yan entered the Scroll World and found a vast field of blue flowers that he had not created, suggesting the world was evolving on its own.
• Chen Yan read the three martial-skill inheritances and realized that people practicing his Dao Beacon meditation method were unknowingly supplying him with mental power.
• Chen Yan used the Myriad Phenomena Painting Brush to create a King Rank Thunder Cloud Eagle King so he could test his new martial skills.

Chen Yan tested three martial skills against Heart-Painting Fierce Beasts, then discovered that time passed twice as fast inside the Scroll World. He named the time-altering blue flowers Momentary Bloom and began considering how to combine his skills.

• Chen Yan used Thunder Light Phantom Steps and Thousand Mechanism Blade to defeat the Thunder Cloud Eagle King phantom.
• Chen Yan transformed the Myriad Phenomena Painting Brush into a Zhanma Dao and used Army-Breaking Seven Kills to destroy the Earth-Shaking Giant Rhino phantom.
• Chen Yan left the Scroll World and found that only an hour had passed outside despite his practice feeling like two hours.
• Chen Yan counted one minute inside the Scroll World and confirmed that only thirty seconds passed outside.
• Chen Yan named the blue flower field Momentary Bloom and considered how to combine his three martial skills.

Chen Yan spent the years after his father left for the front line training relentlessly, becoming a celebrated martial arts prodigy while his father rose to command the Dawn Squad. On his fourth birthday, he enjoyed a brief, carefree celebration at kindergarten before a sudden disturbance interrupted the festivities.

• Chen Yan joined Zhenwei Martial Arts Hall's morning training and astonished observers with his talent, while rumors spread that Chen Kefa had become captain of the Dawn Squad.
• Over 510 days, Chen Yan's qi and blood and spiritual power both exceeded 61,000, and several of his skills advanced to higher sequences.
• Du Qionghua brought an enormous five-tier cake to Mechanism Kindergarten for Chen Yan's fourth birthday, startling Teacher Li and delighting the children.
• Yu Qingmeng gave Chen Yan a birthday present and fed him a strawberry as he briefly enjoyed the children's celebration.
• A sudden change struck just as the birthday festivities reached their peak.

Yu Qingmeng’s special physique awakened at her birthday party, and Chen Yan contained the dangerous surge before Wang Xiaoming helped stabilize her. A detection device revealed extraordinary mental-strength readings, leaving Wang Xiaoming wondering whether Jiang City would produce two exceptional talents.

• Yu Qingmeng’s eyes began glowing as her awakening warped the activity room, and Chen Yan used Spirit Control to guide her energy and shield the children.
• Teacher Li carried Yu Qingmeng to Wang Xiaoming, who lit Calming Incense to settle her unstable energy.
• Yu Qingmeng woke up unharmed and asked for sweet strawberry cake.
• Wang Xiaoming’s Detection Device measured Yu Qingmeng’s mental activity at a preliminary peak above 1,500 points, with the traits 'Insight' and 'Perception.'
• Wang Xiaoming concluded that Yu Qingmeng would need a grandmaster to guide her and wondered if she and Chen Yan were two future prodigies from Jiang City.

Wang Xiaoming revealed that Yu Qingmeng had awakened the Alliance’s only recorded top-tier spiritual-power special constitution, likely earning her training in the Imperial Capital and a transfer for her parents. When she learned Chen Yan might stay behind, she refused to leave him, and a quest appeared in Chen Yan’s mind to accompany her.

• Wang Xiaoming told Yu Lei and Liu Xin that Yu Qingmeng’s spiritual power had surpassed fifteen hundred points and that the Alliance would likely send her to the Imperial Capital for training.
• Wang Xiaoming said the Alliance would transfer Yu Lei and Liu Xin to the Imperial Capital, while Chen Yan’s Grandmaster Project did not guarantee him the same treatment as Yu Qingmeng.
• Yu Lei privately felt relieved that his family and the Chen family would now be more evenly matched, while Chen Yan silently noticed his thoughts.
• Yu Qingmeng cried at the prospect of leaving Chen Yan behind and asked him to get Chen Kefa to become a grandmaster.
• Chen Yan received a quest to accompany Yu Qingmeng to the Imperial Capital, with a random Attribute Law Stele as its reward.

Chen Yan revealed that he had reached the professional level and demonstrated his Rapid Speed trait to prove it. Wang Xiaoming recorded Chen Yan’s abilities, and Chen Yan declared that he and Yu Qingmeng now had a strong advantage.

• Chen Yan announced that he had reached the professional level, shocking Yu Lei, Liu Xin, and Wang Xiaoming while Yu Qingmeng celebrated.
• Wang Xiaoming asked about Chen Yan’s constitutional trait and explained that professional status alone would not secure Yu Qingmeng’s level of support.
• Chen Yan claimed he could move extraordinarily fast and snatched Wang Xiaoming’s Detection Device before anyone saw him move.
• The Detection Device showed Chen Yan’s qi-and-blood value at 1001 points, and Wang Xiaoming identified his trait as Rapid Speed.
• Wang Xiaoming recorded Chen Yan’s age, martial arts level, and suspected ability to ignore inertia, while Chen Yan said they were now way out in front.

After learning Chen Yan had decided to go to the Imperial Capital, Du Qionghua took him to share the news with his grandparents. On the way, Chen Yan sensed a hostile watcher and was abducted, but the chapter ended with the bald kidnapper apparently killing the figure inside the sack.

• Du Qionghua learned from Liu Xin about Chen Yan's professional-level martial arts and his plans to go to the Imperial Capital, then decided to tell his grandparents in person.
• Du Qionghua left Chen Yan near a supermarket while she went to buy durian, and Chen Yan used the moment to draw the bald man away from her.
• The bald man abducted Chen Yan in a special sack and carried him to an abandoned Broken Bridge, where he waited for Miao Ye.
• When Miao Ye failed to arrive, the bald man decided to kill his hostage and punched the sack after hearing a terrified child's plea.
• The bald man wiped the blood from his hand and removed a paper-thin human-skin mask.

Chen Yan used a dream to trap and terrify the assassin who tried to kidnap him, leaving him unconscious beneath the Broken Bridge. At the Public Security Bureau, the assassin confessed to the kidnapping plot and several old crimes, implicating Miao Ye.

• The bald assassin repeatedly ran from the Broken Bridge but kept returning to it, until fear made him collapse.
• Du Qionghua found Chen Yan sitting on the unconscious assassin, and Chen Yan told her the man had tried to kidnap him.
• Chen Yan recognized the name Miao Ye, and Du Qionghua recalled that Grandpa Miao from Jiang City's Five Animals Boxing Hall had visited him at Zhenwei Martial Arts Hall.
• Yu Lei brought Chen Yan, Du Qionghua, and the assassin to the Public Security Bureau for questioning.
• Seeing Chen Yan, the assassin panicked and confessed that Miao Ye had hired him to kidnap Chen Yan, then revealed details of several old robberies and assaults.

Yu Lei learned that Song Xu had taken Miao Ye’s kidnapping job for fifty thousand credits and uncovered a criminal network through Song Xu’s underground forum. After Du Chun arrived and confirmed Chen Yan was unharmed, Yu Lei took Chen Yan outside while Du Chun began beating Song Xu.

• Yu Lei questioned Song Xu and learned Miao Ye had paid him fifty thousand credits to kidnap Chen Yan.
• Yu Lei used Song Xu’s credentials to access a Wilderness Martial Artist forum and found posts linked to wanted criminals.
• Song Xu offered to guide the authorities to other forum members, but Yu Lei told him that people who would lay hands on him were already coming.
• Du Chun rushed into the interrogation room, checked that Chen Yan was unharmed, and confronted Song Xu.
• Yu Lei carried Chen Yan and Du Qionghua outside while Du Chun beat Song Xu in the interrogation room.

After Chen Yan revealed that he had reached the professional level, Miao Ye used a strange scroll to restore his depleted dantian and planned to devour Song Xu. An unseen attacker killed Miao Ye, and the host gained a fragment of the Devouring Authority.

• Du Chun interrogated Song Xu and learned that Miao Ye had hired him to target Chen Yan.
• Du Chun thanked Yu Lei, and Chen Yan told his grandfather that he had awakened the Rapid Speed trait and reached the professional level.
• At Broken Bridge, Miao Ye accepted a scroll from a black crow and swallowed it, gaining a power that began transforming his dantian.
• Song Xu arrived with a burlap sack and demanded fifty thousand credits, but Miao Ye lunged at him instead of paying.
• An invisible blade split Miao Ye in half, and the host intercepted a fragment of the Devouring Authority, increasing Refining All Things proficiency by 1000.

Chen Yan killed Miao Ye and absorbed a wisp of the Devouring Law, then returned to the city as authorities searched for the missing martial artist. The Special Investigation Team’s crackdown on the Wilderness Martial Artist Forum exposed serious flaws in the Sky Net System, and Falcon demanded that the Association fix them.

• Chen Yan absorbed a wisp of the Devouring Law from Miao Ye’s corpse, gaining proficiency in Refining All Things, and dispelled the Song Xu illusion he had used as bait.
• Chen Yan found Miao Ye’s body unnaturally shriveled; it crumbled into dust before he confirmed that no remnant soul remained and slipped back toward the city.
• Falcon’s team found no trace of Miao Ye at the Five Animals Boxing Hall and learned that his Sky Net signal had disappeared near the old highway.
• Falcon ordered a search for Miao Ye and a raid on the Wilderness Martial Artist Forum, prompting the Special Investigation Team and Public Security Bureau to arrest numerous criminals and reopen old cases.
• Falcon called Director Li at the higher-level Association and demanded an urgent fix for the Sky Net System’s tracking vulnerabilities.

Chen Yan sparred with his grandfather Du Chun and revealed that his physique had more than one trait. He used the Life Law to heal Du Chun’s old injuries, leaving him moving freely again.

• Du Chun attacked Chen Yan with the Yellow-Black Fist, but Chen Yan easily evaded his punches and countered with a nimble variation of the style.
• Du Chun felt the unfamiliar force in Chen Yan’s punch and asked how he had made the Yellow-Black Fist so agile.
• Chen Yan said Rapid Speed was only one of his traits and took Du Chun to the Martial Arts Arena.
• Chen Yan used True Pupil of Myriad Phenomena to locate dark energy around Du Chun’s lower back and left knee.
• Chen Yan infused Du Chun with the Life Law, dissolving the dark energy and clearing his old injuries.
• Du Chun tested his back and left leg and found that the stiffness and lingering pain were gone.

Chen Yan healed Du Chun’s old injuries with Life Law energy, then used a vivid dream to pass on martial arts insights before leaving Jiang City. Du Chun supported his grandson’s move to the Imperial Capital, and the chapter ended with the knowledge planted in his martial soul.

• Life Law energy coursed through Du Chun, clearing his old injuries and opening his meridians.
• Du Chun discovered that the energy could help him break through to Professional Rank 9 and told Chen Yan he supported his move to the Imperial Capital.
• Du Chun promised to defend Chen Yan if anyone bullied him in the Imperial Capital.
• That night, Chen Yan entered Du Chun’s dream and showed him the core principles of Thunder Light Phantom Steps, Thousand Mechanism Blade, Army-Breaking Seven Kills, and Wandering Snake Spear Technique.
• Chen Yan’s dream transmission planted the principles of No Moves in Du Chun’s martial soul as a parting gift.

Chen Yan, Yu Qingmeng, their families, and their escorts traveled from Jiang City to the Imperial Capital for the children’s talent verification. Along the way they heard about martial arts prodigy Chu Feng, and the chapter ended as they arrived at the immense capital.

• The Yu family, Chen Yan, Du Qionghua, and her son boarded an official hovercar escorted by four Professional-rank fighters and Wang Xiaoming.
• Wang Xiaoming told the passengers about Chu Feng, an Imperial Capital genius who rapidly mastered martial arts and earned resources by helping improve them.
• Yu Qingmeng asked why people no longer rode ferocious beast mounts, and Wang Xiaoming explained that pureblood beasts were too dangerous to tame.
• The group traveled north for three days without incident, with the guards taking turns driving.
• Wang Xiaoming pointed out the Imperial Capital as the city came into view, and the group arrived.

Chen Yan and his family arrived at Imperial Martial University, where teacher Mei Qiaoer welcomed them and showed them their new home. As Du Qionghua and Chen Yan unpacked, she received a call from Chen Yan’s father.

• Chen Yan traveled through the Imperial Capital and learned that its top martial arts universities were built near Rifts to serve as seals.
• The group reached Imperial Martial University, where Mei Qiaoer introduced herself as the Grandmaster Class homeroom teacher and Yu Qingmeng eagerly hugged her.
• Mei Qiaoer described the university’s expert instructors and the Grandmaster Class’s one-on-one Grandmaster tutoring.
• Mei Qiaoer showed the family their detached dormitory and said she would take the children to register the next day.
• Du Qionghua received a call from Chen Yan’s father and summoned Chen Yan.

Chen Yan reunited with his parents over a communicator call and learned that ferocious beast attacks around Spirit Realm Rifts had increased, raising fears of another major crisis. Later, he found that his body resisted the Fire Law Stele, so he planned to test its effect on the world inside the Myriad Image Painting Heart.

• Du Qionghua and Chen Yan spoke with Chen Kefa, who praised Chen Yan’s progress and told him to look after his mother while he was away.
• Chen Kefa revealed that attacks near Spirit Realm Rifts had grown more frequent and that the military was preparing for a possible major threat.
• After the call, Du Qionghua worried that Chen Kefa might not be able to return even after becoming a Martial Saint, and Chen Yan comforted her.
• In the Scroll World, Chen Yan tried to draw the Fire Law Stele’s power into his body, but his bones resisted it while his heart, spleen, and stomach responded eagerly.
• Chen Yan decided not to risk damaging his untempered organs and set the stele aside before leaving the Scroll World to test its effect on the Myriad Image Painting Heart.