Chapter Summaries

After receiving an S evaluation, Lu Ren spent his rewards on raising his attributes and Basic Swordsmanship, triggering a painful physical transformation that alarmed the medical staff. Two days later, martial artist Li Ziqing arrived to teach him.

• Lu Ren recalled that his S evaluation had earned him five attribute points and a Skill Point, then raised his Spirit to 10, increased his other attributes, and used the Skill Point on Basic Swordsmanship.
• Lu Ren's body convulsed as his heart rate, temperature, and oxygen levels surged, prompting doctors to rush in and treat him.
• After recovering, Lu Ren sensed the world and other people's emotions more sharply and realized his strength had increased far beyond what he had expected.
• Zhang Li and Xiao Chen discussed Lu Ren's transformation and decided to increase his surveillance.
• After eating and training for two days, Lu Ren met Li Ziqing, the martial artist assigned by the Security Administration to teach him.

Lu Ren learned Falcon Fist from Li Ziqing, whose demonstrations revealed the power and principles behind the art. After two and a half months of training, Lu Ren asked whether breathing techniques could break the body's limits, and Li Ziqing explained that the spirit of a perfected fist art was what transformed the body.

• Lu Ren demonstrated his basic fist techniques and swordsmanship, and Li Ziqing criticized his fists but praised his sword skills.
• Li Ziqing taught Lu Ren the origins and principles of Falcon Fist, then demonstrated its powerful strikes.
• Lu Ren eagerly began learning Falcon Fist and quickly grasped its teachings with the help of his high Spirit.
• After two and a half months, Li Ziqing told Lu Ren he had taught him everything and praised his talent.
• Lu Ren asked whether the Breathing Technique broke the body's limits, and Li Ziqing said the true transformative power lay in the spirit of a perfected fist art.

Lu Ren accepted Li Ziqing as his teacher, was discharged with a ten-million bonus and a villa, and learned that spatial incidents were increasing. He began training again, leaving the story with his attention on the Falcon Fist skill and the looming changes in the world.

• Lu Ren bowed to Li Ziqing and asked to become his disciple, and Li Ziqing accepted him as a student while urging him to cultivate until his Fist Law reached a respectable level.
• Li Ziqing explained that martial arts required substantial resources and had declined in the age of guns and artillery before departing.
• Zhang Li told Lu Ren he could leave the hospital and awarded him ten million and a suburban villa for returning the dagger and cooperating.
• Zhang Li and Xiao Chen discussed increasing spatial tremors, deadly dimensional spaces, and the need to activate a plan.
• Lu Ren inspected his furnished villa, worried that the world might change drastically, and went to train his Beginner Falcon Fist.

Lu Ren spent a month obsessively training Falcon Fist, raising it to Beginner's Insight and greatly improving his strength while the authorities kept news of the Otherworld Wasteland suppressed. After demonstrating his power in the villa courtyard, he was approached by a woman who questioned his martial arts practice.

• Lu Ren continued grinding Falcon Fist proficiency and focused on improving his strength while news remained suppressed and Meng Xian stayed silent.
• A month later, Lu Ren checked his Status Panel and saw that Falcon Fist had reached Beginner's Insight, boosting his agility and overall combat ability.
• Lu Ren tested a punch that produced a sharp falcon-like cry and rising white vapor, then reflected that he could now defeat Chen Guohua barehanded.
• A woman watched Lu Ren practicing in the courtyard and asked whether he was training martial arts.
• Lu Ren warned the woman that spying on martial arts practice would have serious consequences in ancient times, and she replied that nobody would endure his training in modern society.

Lu Ren spoke with Li Shu about how she had survived the Otherworld Wasteland and warned her that desperation could turn people against one another. Concerned about his dwindling savings, he then visited a cold weapons shop to order a custom medium sword.

• Li Shu introduced herself, and Lu Ren recognized her as the woman he had met in the Otherworld Wasteland.
• Li Shu thanked Lu Ren for killing two monsters and explained that she had survived in a sealed basement until she returned to the real world.
• Lu Ren warned Li Shu that people might resort to eating or sacrificing others when food and water ran low.
• After calculating how quickly his medicinal cuisine expenses could exhaust his savings, Lu Ren considered selling his villa.
• Lu Ren visited a cold weapons shop, discussed sword sizes and martial arts with the owner, and ordered a custom sword made from the best materials.

Lu Ren paid Yan Zhenghua to teach him swordsmanship and proved he was officially authorized and skilled in Falcon Fist. Yan Zhenghua began explaining the decline of martial arts and led Lu Ren into the training room, where Lu Ren tried to persuade him not to hold anything back.

• Lu Ren left the weapon shop after learning that its best sword cost too much and arranged to buy a more ordinary one.
• Lu Ren visited Yan Zhenghua and asked to learn swordsmanship, offering him a stack of cash.
• Yan Zhenghua took the money, but said it would only cover swordsmanship lessons, not his fist techniques.
• Lu Ren demonstrated Falcon Fist and told Yan Zhenghua that an expert from the Public Security Bureau had officially taught him martial arts.
• Yan Zhenghua agreed to teach Lu Ren swordsmanship and brought him into the training room.
• Yan Zhenghua explained that martial arts were declining and said he had uploaded his manuals online, while Lu Ren urged him not to keep any techniques secret.

Yan Zhenghua taught Lu Ren the Intent Sword method, explaining that it trained mental will through visualizing a wooden sword rather than practicing set forms. Lu Ren returned home to begin the exercise, but his thoughts kept wandering.

• Yan Zhenghua demonstrated the sword intent he had grasped through his perfected swordsmanship, leaving Lu Ren shaken.
• Yan Zhenghua taught Lu Ren the Sword Manual Primer and explained how Intent Sword used visualization to make mind and body seamless.
• Yan Zhenghua gave Lu Ren his annotated manual, took payment for a massage, and claimed the wooden sword was specially made despite its toy-factory label.
• Lu Ren returned home, studied the wooden sword, and tried to empty his mind using his Spirit, but distracting thoughts kept surfacing.

Lu Ren discovered that visualizing the wooden sword while practicing Falcon Fist increased his Spirit Proficiency, then warned Li Shu that Spatial Rift incidents could become common and agreed to introduce her to Yan Zhenghua for martial arts training. Li Shu paid him one million yuan, but grew uneasy when she met Yan Zhenghua and saw his behavior.

• Lu Ren practiced Falcon Fist while visualizing the wooden sword and gained Spirit Proficiency for the first time.
• Lu Ren picked up his custom Longquan Sword, which was reinforced with nano-carbon material.
• Lu Ren warned Li Shu that Spatial Rift incidents and monsters might become part of everyday life, and she asked to train with him.
• Lu Ren quoted Li Shu one million yuan and, after she paid, offered to introduce her to his master instead of teaching her himself.
• Lu Ren brought Li Shu to Yan Zhenghua, whose leering behavior alarmed her, and reassured her that Yan Zhenghua was a devoted man.

Lu Ren accepted Zhang Li’s offer to join the Security Administration Bureau and explore a stable alternate-space passage in Luozi Mountain. He left the conversation eager to get the promised support for his martial arts training, starting with a nutrient pill.

• Lu Ren left Yan Zhenghua’s home after dismissing Li Shu and recognizing Yan Zhenghua as a powerful martial artist.
• Zhang Li visited Lu Ren, watched his Falcon Fist practice, and gave him a document about the Alternate-Space Exploration Plan.
• Zhang Li explained that the Bureau wanted Lu Ren to help explore a stable passage in Luozi Mountain and that the higher-ups considered him a promising talent.
• Lu Ren learned the Bureau offered an official post, nutrient pills, and systematic martial arts instruction, then agreed to join.
• Lu Ren asked Zhang Li to give him a High-Concentrate Nutrient Pill.

Lu Ren received combat equipment from the Security Administration Bureau and trained with his heavy sword and Falcon Fist while Li Shu struggled through martial arts lessons. After half a month, he comprehended Emotionless Intent Sword and advanced Falcon Fist, triggering a painful transformation as his physique and strength increased.

• Zhang Li told Lu Ren to wait for notification and said the Security Administration Bureau would deliver his equipment in advance.
• He Li delivered Lu Ren combat suits, nutrient pills, pistols, and a heavy Alloy Sword.
• Lu Ren trained daily with the heavy sword and Falcon Fist, raising his Basic Swordsmanship proficiency while Li Shu persevered with Phoenix Zenith Fist.
• Half a month later, Lu Ren comprehended Emotionless Intent Sword and advanced Falcon Fist, increasing his physique and strength attributes.
• Lu Ren's body was wracked with pain as his muscles, bones, and internal organs rapidly transformed.

After recovering from the system’s modification, Lu Ren discovered Falcon Fist had boosted his Agility and unlocked Rush Attack, then mastered its rapid-fire Falcon Beak technique. Two and a half months later, Zhang Li summoned him and Lu Ren prepared his weapons and equipment for an urgent mission.

• Lu Ren recovered by taking a High-Concentrate Nutrient Pill and checked his updated Character Panel, learning that Falcon Fist had raised his Agility and absorbed Basic Combat.
• Lu Ren tested Falcon Fist’s Rush Attack and unleashed the rapid punches of Falcon Beak, a technique that made the air around his fists form streams of vapor.
• Lu Ren reflected on modern martial arts and noted that Meng Xian had disappeared, apparently after the Security Administration Bureau intervened.
• Two and a half months later, Zhang Li called Lu Ren and told him to wear his issued gear because someone would soon pick him up.
• Lu Ren put on his combat suit and packed his swords, nutrient pills, field equipment, and pistols before heading out.

Lu Ren was unexpectedly transported to the Netherworld and survived a dangerous fall into a lake. After a Water Ghost tried to drag him underwater, he cut off its arm and fled from the lake’s many grasping hands, leaving to seek safety.

• He Li arrived to collect Lu Ren, but Lu Ren vanished before his eyes, prompting him to report a suspected spatial disturbance.
• Lu Ren found himself falling from the sky, steered toward a lake, and used his sword to reduce the impact as he plunged into the water.
• The system identified the Netherworld and began a mission requiring Lu Ren to survive there for one month.
• A Water Ghost grabbed Lu Ren’s ankle and tried to pull him underwater, but Lu Ren severed its arm and escaped onto the shore.
• Hundreds of ghostly hands emerged from the lake, so Lu Ren sheathed his sword and set off to find somewhere safe.

Lu Ren traveled through a dangerous forest toward a nearby town, killing a Weeping Ghost Woman who tried to lure him with a sob story. After surviving strange phenomena along the road, he reached the town’s sunny outskirts, where an old man with a spear called out to him.

• Lu Ren heard a woman weeping in the forest, then turned and found the Weeping Ghost Woman crouched behind him.
• Lu Ren shot the Weeping Ghost Woman in the head and cut her body apart with his sword when she rose again.
• Lu Ren followed a human-traveled road through strange sights and sounds, ignoring everything that did not block his way.
• Lu Ren reached the edge of the town, where the gloomy surroundings became bright and normal.
• An old man in gray martial attire sprang from the roadside bushes and called for Lu Ren to stop.

Lu Ren entered an eerie town where monsters lived among the peaceful townsfolk, then tried to leave after discovering a vendor selling human remains as food. When the spear-wielding Old Xu blocked his way, Lu Ren drew his sword and broke the old man’s weapon, and Old Xu challenged him to fight unarmed.

• Lu Ren told Old Xu he had killed the Weeping Ghost Woman, and Old Xu let him enter the town while warning him to stay indoors after dark.
• Lu Ren saw that the town’s beef noodles were made from human remains and decided to leave immediately.
• Old Xu appeared at the town exit and refused to let Lu Ren go, while the system reported that Old Xu had developed favorable feelings toward him.
• Old Xu threatened Lu Ren and bragged about his past, but Lu Ren mocked his long history of swinging a spear.
• Lu Ren used Sword Manual General Outline Mantra to draw his Wild Goose Sword and cut Old Xu’s spear in two.
• Old Xu discarded the broken spear and challenged Lu Ren to fight with fists and feet.

Lu Ren escaped the haunted town and took shelter in a mound, but a ghost-domain battlefield erupted around him and forced him to fight through two armies. He carved a path across the battlefield as two hidden observers watched in disbelief.

• Lu Ren killed Old Xu, left the town, and saw a silent crowd of figures watching him from its edge.
• Lu Ren dug a shelter in a mound, settled in for the night, and practiced the Emotionless Intent Sword while considering how to find water.
• Battle cries and pounding footsteps shook the mound until it collapsed, and Lu Ren killed a rotting soldier who attacked him from behind.
• Lu Ren drew both swords and fought soldiers from two armies, cutting down attackers as he tried to break through the ghost-domain battlefield.
• Two figures concealed on a nearby hillside spotted Lu Ren fighting and reacted with shock as he continued carving through the soldiers.

Lu Ren fought through the Ghost Domain battlefield and escaped into the forest after killing a mounted general. Exhausted, he caught two observers off guard and held swords to their throats.

• Lu Ren fought his way through the battlefield, relying on his agility and armored suit to survive repeated attacks.
• A mounted general charged Lu Ren, but Lu Ren blocked his guandao and killed him with a midair sword strike.
• Lu Ren switched weapons as the soldiers thinned out, then sheathed his sword and fled into the forest.
• Two observers watched Lu Ren escape and praised his combat awareness and swordsmanship.
• Lu Ren appeared behind the observers and aimed a sword at each of their throats.

After breaking out of the Ghost Domain Battlefield, Lu Ren questioned Zhang Yan and Chen Ling about the Netherworld and the Yang World. He learned that martial artists used Yang energy to fight evil beings and discovered that he had accidentally damaged the Frost Condensation Grass the two had come to collect.

• Lu Ren confirmed Zhang Yan and Chen Ling were living people from the Yang World, checked their water for contamination, and drank after nearly a day without water.
• Zhang Yan and Chen Ling explained that the Netherworld covered nearly the entire world, while Yang Worlds were protected by membranes that filtered out its Yin energy.
• Lu Ren learned that martial artists cultivated Yang energy and Blood Qi Inner Force to combat evil beings, then told Zhang Yan and Chen Ling to take him back to the Yang World.
• Zhang Yan explained that Frost Condensation Grass was a valuable cultivation medicine, and Chen Ling said they had risked leaving the Yang World to gather it.
• Lu Ren showed them the damaged Frost Condensation Grass he had picked up, leaving Zhang Yan eager to handle what remained.

Lu Ren followed Zhang Yan and Chen Ling through the Yin World and crossed the Yang Membrane safely into the Yang World. They reached Chentai City, where Lu Ren planned to find a safe place to stay for a month.

• Zhang Yan guided Lu Ren and Chen Ling around the Yin World's dangers and explained the origins of the Dead Lake, learning that Lu Ren had fallen into it and survived.
• Zhang Yan led the group through the foggy Yang Membrane, and Lu Ren emerged unharmed into the warm, clear Yang World.
• Zhang Yan offered to buy Lu Ren a place to stay after selling the Frost Condensing Grass, and Lu Ren accepted.
• Lu Ren, Zhang Yan, and Chen Ling entered Chentai City, where Zhang Yan explained that newcomers could register for tokens and settle there.
• Zhang Yan told Lu Ren that evil beings could invade when the Yang Membrane weakened and that the Exorcism Office handled strange incidents in the city.

Lu Ren bought a residence in Chentai City after Zhang Yan helped him sell the Frostcoagulating Grass and find a property. At the Prefect's Manor, Li Bing learned that envoys from the Exorcism Office would arrive within two days to investigate the situation.

• Zhang Yan introduced Chentai City to Lu Ren, then left to sell the Frostcoagulating Grass while Chen Ling ate with Lu Ren.
• Zhang Yan returned with nearly four hundred taels from the sale, and Lu Ren gave him a gold ingot as payment for his help.
• Zhang Yan led Lu Ren to a four-room residence near a river, which Lu Ren bought and signed a contract for.
• Zhang Yan and Chen Ling left with the property broker to see their new home, while Lu Ren stayed alone at the residence.
• A military officer told Li Bing that one Black-Clad Envoy, three Green-Clad Envoys, and sixteen Blue-Clad Envoys from the Exorcism Office would arrive within two days, and Li Bing ordered the Yang Membrane watched.

Lu Ren settled into a quiet routine in Chentai City after the authorities learned he came from another Yang World. When two thieves tried to drug and rob him, he killed them and discovered that their martial arts manual was incompatible with his body.

• Li Bing learned that Lu Ren came from another Yang World and ordered the authorities to keep a slight watch on him while guarding the Yang Membrane.
• Lu Ren trained, ate, and practiced swordsmanship for a week, while Zhang Yan and Chen Ling used his silver to take over a breakfast stall.
• A pair of thieves used Soul-Bewitching Incense through Lu Ren's roof, but he stayed awake and confronted them with his sword.
• Lu Ren killed the thieves, searched their bodies, and threw them into the Cheng River.
• Lu Ren found a Golden Feather Leg manual and several dozen gold leaves, but concluded that the manual's meridians and blood-and-qi methods did not match his body.