Chapter Summaries

Ning Chuan read the Spirit Hall’s booklet of Yu Xiaogang’s “Ten Core Competencies” and realized it offered little practical knowledge, suspecting it was part of a campaign to promote Yu Xiaogang. After leaving the branch hall, he decided to seek useful knowledge in ordinary books about farming, crafts, and writing.

• Ning Chuan read the booklet and found its theories obvious, unproven, and lacking practical cultivation advice.
• Ning Chuan suspected Mars was using him to meet a promotion quota for Yu Xiaogang’s theories and lost much of his goodwill toward Spirit Hall.
• Mars praised the booklet and told Ning Chuan that more advanced knowledge was reserved for Soul Masters.
• Ning Chuan left the Spirit Hall branch with the booklet and reflected that his other attempts to obtain knowledge in Nuoding City had yielded little.
• Ning Chuan headed to a general store to look for practical books on farming, craftsmanship, or the continent’s writing system.

Ning Chuan returned to Holy Soul Village with practical books and used a chance encounter to convince Tang San that he had given up searching for herbs. He began studying the local script at home while planning to build strength in secret.

• Ning Chuan met Tang San on the road and noticed the Poria and other herbs in his basket.
• Ning Chuan pretended to admire Tang San’s find and said he had abandoned herb gathering to study farming, easing Tang San’s suspicions.
• Ning Chuan observed signs that Tang San had been training and using medicinal herbs to aid his cultivation.
• Tang San warned Ning Chuan to avoid the deep forest, and Ning Chuan agreed while privately deciding his plan had worked.
• Ning Chuan returned home, opened a book on pronunciation and interpretation, and began learning the local script.

Ning Chuan used the Heavens Trash Station to refine a supreme-grade Earth Dragon Foundation Establishment Pill by adding essence extracted from an ancient fossil. He left the Station with the pill and resolved to give it to Xiao He the next day.

• Ning Chuan spent 50 points to begin refining a Foundation Establishment Pill from three prepared herbs.
• Ning Chuan had the Station extract Earth Dragon Qi essence from the Ancient Earth Dragon Lizard Vertebra Fossil and add it to the pill.
• The pill liquid became unstable when the Earth Dragon essence was added, but the Station stabilized the mixture and formed a dark-golden pill with dragon patterns.
• Ning Chuan spent 8 more points to solidify the pill pattern and contain its fragrance, and the Station completed a supreme-quality Earth Dragon Foundation Establishment Pill.
• Ning Chuan stored the pill, left the Station, and decided to give it to Xiao He the next day.

Ning Chuan used a story about a mysterious old man to persuade his family to let Ning Xiaohe take a Foundation Establishment Pill. Xiao He’s health improved dramatically, leaving Ning Chuan relieved that the pill had begun transforming his family.

• Ning Chuan rehearsed a story about a strange old man who had given him a pill and another for a blood relative.
• At breakfast, Ning Chuan told Liu Lan, Ning Dazhuang, and Ning Xiaohe that the old man had forced him to take a pill and left the second one for family.
• After seeing Ning Chuan unharmed and hearing his explanation, Ning Dazhuang agreed to let Ning Xiaohe take the pill.
• Ning Xiaohe swallowed the Foundation Establishment Pill, which warmed her body and expelled foul-smelling impurities.
• Ning Xiaohe felt stronger and healthier, and Ning Dazhuang warned Ning Chuan not to walk alone at night.

Ning Chuan found a damaged basic fist manual in the Junk Ocean and used the Station and an optical computer’s biomechanics and energy theories to transform it into Spirit Rhino Bull Fist. The chapter left him eager to practice the new technique and planning for Ning Xiaohe to learn it too.

• Ning Chuan taught Ning Xiaohe characters before returning to his room and entering the Station.
• Ning Chuan searched the Junk Ocean for knowledge and found a damaged manual containing the Bull Strength fist technique and breathing method.
• Ning Chuan spent 5 points to repair and translate the manual, then asked the Station to analyze its flaws.
• Ning Chuan used information from the Damaged Optical Computer and spent 25 points to optimize the technique’s movements and qi-and-blood circulation.
• Ning Chuan named the upgraded technique Spirit Rhino Bull Fist, which included Spirit Turtle Breathing Technique and improved training and combat effectiveness.

Ning Chuan mastered the Spirit Rhino Bull Fist and devised a way to teach it to Ning Xiaohe without raising suspicion. By the end of the day, he had begun training her in the technique under the cover of an old, damaged Bull Strength manual.

• Ning Chuan absorbed the Spirit Rhino Bull Fist and Spirit Turtle Breathing Technique through Station’s transmission and made their practice instinctive.
• Ning Chuan had Station create an old-looking, damaged Bull Strength manual containing the crude original technique as a believable cover.
• Ning Chuan practiced the Spirit Rhino Bull Fist in the courtyard, drawing the attention of Ning Dazhuang, Liu Lan, and Ning Xiaohe.
• Ning Chuan claimed a mysterious old man had given him the manual and taught him its basics, then offered to teach Ning Xiaohe.
• Ning Dazhuang and Liu Lan agreed to let Ning Chuan teach his sister, and he secretly guided her through the optimized fist technique and breathing method.

After training Ning Xiaohe in the Spirit Rhino Bull Fist, Ning Chuan persuaded his parents to spend some of the money from selling the mysterious stone on better food for the family. The family agreed to buy more meat, while Ning Chuan resolved to find a safer, steady income through the Heavens Trash Recycling Station.

• Ning Chuan and Ning Xiaohe practiced the Spirit Rhino Bull Fist, and Ning Chuan noticed his sister’s growing strength and appetite.
• At dinner, Ning Chuan told Ning Dazhuang and Liu Lan that martial arts training required more nutritious food, especially meat and eggs.
• Ning Dazhuang hesitated over spending the money from the stone, but Ning Xiaohe’s words and her parents’ concern for her health changed his mind.
• Ning Dazhuang promised to buy two jin of meat the next day and told Ning Chuan to teach Ning Xiaohe carefully without overtraining.
• Ning Chuan recognized that the family’s windfall would not last and decided to seek a sustainable source of income through the Heavens Trash Recycling Station.

As the Ning family enjoyed a peaceful evening, Tang Hao secretly monitored Holy Soul Village, dismissing Ning Chuan and Ning Xiaohe’s physical improvements as insignificant. He remained alert for threats to Tang San and the mysterious aura from the back mountain while Tang San prepared herbs and cultivated.

• Ning Dazhuang watched his family eat and study, and set aside his worries about their spending.
• Tang Hao sensed Ning Chuan and Ning Xiaohe’s improved vitality but judged their boxing and physical gains harmless.
• Tang San processed medicinal herbs to support his cultivation and planned to sell the better herbs in Nuoding City.
• Tang Hao felt pride in Tang San’s talent and resolved to remove anything that could obstruct his son’s growth.
• Tang San began cultivating the Mysterious Heaven Skill as Tang Hao continued guarding the village with his spiritual power.

Ning Chuan scavenged the Junk Ocean and found an intact Storage Ring on a severed hand. After the Station opened it, he discovered a fortune in Spirit Stones, cultivation texts, magical artifacts, and twelve Five Thunder Talismans powerful enough to threaten a Title Douluo.

• Ning Chuan entered the Station and began raking junk to replenish his points.
• Ning Chuan uncovered a severed hand bearing an intact Storage Ring, and the Station confirmed the hand was harmless and the ring ownerless.
• Ning Chuan had the Station open the ring, revealing more than a thousand Spirit Stones, jade slips on four cultivation professions, and several magical artifacts.
• Ning Chuan learned the ring contained twelve fifth-rank high-grade Five Thunder Talismans, each capable of threatening a Title Douluo.

Ning Chuan found an ownerless Inheritance Bracelet near the Storage Ring and used the Station to unlock its vast cultivation library. With the Five Thunder Talisman as a deterrent and new knowledge to study, he left the Station with a clearer plan for protecting his family and growing stronger.

• Ning Chuan decided not to risk using the Five Thunder Talisman against Tang Hao, since a failed attack could endanger his family and Holy Soul Village.
• Ning Chuan searched the debris around the Storage Ring and uncovered an intact, ownerless Inheritance Bracelet.
• The Station opened the bracelet and revealed a broad cultivation inheritance covering techniques, auxiliary professions, combat, and survival skills.
• Ning Chuan had the Station archive the bracelet's catalog and learned that mastering its knowledge would take years or decades.
• Ning Chuan returned to his body at dawn and planned to guide his little sister's training, study the inheritance, maintain contact with Ning Yuan, and cautiously use Yu Xiaogang's theories.

Ning Chuan helped his parents with the early morning chores before waking Ning Xiaohe for fist practice. Ning Xiaohe got up eagerly after he promised that practicing well would earn her more meat buns.

• Ning Chuan heard Liu Lan and Ning Dazhuang discussing food, then learned his father was leaving early to buy meat in Nuoding City.
• Ning Chuan gave Ning Dazhuang water, and Liu Lan packed him warm flatbreads for the journey.
• After his father left, Ning Chuan swept the courtyard and told Liu Lan he would wake Ning Xiaohe for morning exercise.
• Ning Chuan checked Ning Xiaohe's condition and found her breathing strong after the Foundation Establishment Pill.
• Ning Chuan promised Ning Xiaohe meat buns if she practiced well, and she got dressed and followed him into the courtyard.

Ning Chuan trained Ning Xiaohe in the Spirit Rhino Bull Fist and taught her to read while their family awaited Ning Dazhuang’s return. After Ning Dazhuang brought home meat and flour for a rare feast, Ning Chuan resolved to improve his family’s life and seek a steady source of income.

• Ning Chuan led Ning Xiaohe through warm-up exercises, then taught her the opening stance of the Spirit Rhino Bull Fist and stopped when she became tired.
• Ning Chuan taught Ning Xiaohe new characters, connecting her learning to the cultivation of her Wisdom Root.
• Ning Dazhuang returned with pork, a meaty bone, flour, and vegetables, delighting Ning Xiaohe and the rest of the family.
• Liu Lan made meat buns, and Ning Chuan gave one from his bowl to his mother when he saw her saving the meat for everyone else.
• Ning Dazhuang rested in the courtyard with his family, while Ning Chuan planned to develop himself and find a reliable source of income.

Ning Chuan recognized hunting as a way to provide his family with a steady source of meat and income, then used the Heavens Trash Station to develop stealth-focused archery techniques. After crafting a stronger bow and practicing in the courtyard, he became confident in his improving aim.

• Ning Chuan spotted an abandoned wooden bow and realized he could hunt game in the mountains to help support his family.
• Ning Chuan retrieved archery knowledge from the Inheritance Bracelet through the Heavens Trash Station and developed Calm Heart Archery.
• Ning Chuan made a new bow from mulberry wood and ox sinew rope, then crafted more than a dozen arrows.
• Ning Chuan practiced shooting in the courtyard while Ning Xiaohe watched, and Liu Lan and Ning Dazhuang observed from nearby.
• By nightfall, Ning Chuan was placing seven or eight out of every ten arrows near the bullseye and had improved his control of spiritual power.

Ning Chuan persuaded Ning Dazhuang and Liu Lan to let him hunt small game in the woods near the village to help support the family. His father gave him a sharpened woodcutter’s knife and strict safety rules, and Ning Chuan prepared for his first outing.

• Ning Chuan explained that he wanted to hunt small game near the village to keep meat on the table and earn money from pelts.
• Liu Lan worried about the danger, but Ning Chuan promised to stay near the village and avoid going deep into the mountains.
• Ning Dazhuang agreed to let Ning Chuan try, warning him not to cross the dried-up ravine or ignore signs of dangerous beasts.
• Ning Dazhuang gave Ning Chuan a sharpened woodcutter’s knife and told him to buy iron arrowheads from Old Man Zhang.
• Ning Chuan reviewed Calm Heart Archery while Ning Dazhuang reassured Liu Lan that their son was ready to try his hand at hunting.

Ning Chuan prepared to hunt small game by buying iron arrowheads from Hunter Zhang and making a set of concealed arrows. After learning that fresh wild boar tracks had been spotted near his intended hunting area, he finished his arrows and tested his bow with spiritual power.

• Ning Chuan woke Ning Xiaohe early and guided her through warm-ups and the Spirit Rhino Bull Fist.
• Ning Dazhuang gave Ning Chuan Copper Soul Coins and reminded him to pay fairly for arrowheads, while Liu Lan urged him to be careful.
• Ning Chuan visited Zhang Dashan and bought ten iron arrowheads and ten feathered shafts for five Copper Soul Coins.
• Zhang Dashan warned Ning Chuan that fresh wild boar tracks had been seen near East Dry River Ditch and told him to flee if he noticed danger.
• Ning Chuan fitted and mud-coated the arrows to conceal their shine, then drew his bow as spiritual power attached itself to an arrowhead.

Ning Chuan set out on his first hunt with his family’s worried send-off and met Tang San at the mountain entrance. After they discussed their plans, they took separate paths into the woods.

• Ning Chuan checked his bow, machete, and arrows before reassuring Liu Lan, Ning Dazhuang, and Ning Xiaohe and leaving for the mountains.
• Villagers noticed Ning Chuan’s hunting gear and cautioned him to be careful as he headed toward the forest.
• Ning Chuan met Tang San at the forest entrance and said he planned to hunt near East Dry River Ditch.
• Tang San said he would gather herbs near his usual spot and warned that the East Dry River Ditch was relatively safe because people often gathered firewood there.
• Tang San and Ning Chuan wished each other well, then Tang San took the steeper trail while Ning Chuan prepared to follow his own route.

Ning Chuan went hunting in the forest and used his Soul Skill and spiritual power to track and kill a wild rabbit with one arrow. He left the forest with his first successful kill.

• Ning Chuan watched Tang San leave, then headed toward his chosen hunting ground.
• Ning Chuan concealed his Soul Power and used Endless Life to sense the life energy of the forest.
• Ning Chuan detected a wild rabbit foraging among the ferns and silently approached it.
• Ning Chuan attached a thread of spiritual power to his arrow and killed the rabbit with a single shot.

Ning Chuan hunted a rabbit and two pheasants without missing an arrow, then discovered a large wild boar near a mud pit. He chose to approach cautiously and wait for a chance to strike, leaving the hunt poised to begin.

• Ning Chuan killed a wild rabbit with his first arrow and tied it behind his waist.
• Ning Chuan waited for two pheasants to draw close, then shot them both with consecutive arrows.
• Ning Chuan continued scouting toward the dried-up riverbed despite feeling some fatigue from using his mental power.
• Ning Chuan sensed a powerful life fluctuation and recognized the musky scent of a wild boar.
• Ning Chuan spotted an adult boar at a mud pit and decided to ambush it along its route into the woods.

Ning Chuan ambushed a wild boar as it left its mud pit and shot an arrow into its left eye, piercing into its brain. The badly wounded boar survived and went berserk, leaving Ning Chuan facing a raging beast.

• Ning Chuan concealed himself near the mud pit and waited for the boar to cross an open stretch on its way to the shade.
• Ning Chuan used the Spirit Turtle Breathing Technique and spiritual power to aim, then fired a mud-coated arrow at the boar’s left eye.
• The arrow struck the boar’s eye and pierced into its brain, grievously injuring it without killing it.
• The boar roared in pain, shook its head, and stamped the ground as its instincts drove it into a frenzy.

Ning Chuan faced the charging boar and killed it by punching the arrow lodged in its eye deeper into its brain. Afterward, he recovered from his injuries and cautiously checked whether Tang Hao had noticed the fight.

• The crazed boar sensed Ning Chuan hiding in the bushes and charged straight toward him.
• Ning Chuan sprang out and struck the arrow shaft in the boar's left eye with his full-strength Spirit Rhino Bull Fist.
• The arrow pierced through the boar's brain, and the beast collapsed and died.
• Ning Chuan used his First Soul Skill, Endless Life, to treat his injured arm and internal organs while hiding his presence.
• Ning Chuan sensed no powerful presence approaching and concluded that Tang Hao had not come to investigate.