Chapter Summaries

Lu Ren killed two female assassins who tried to shoot him, then confronted Zhang Shengjie, who confessed that he had lured Lu Ren there for money to pay for his wife’s leukemia treatment. Lu Ren suspected he knew who had ordered the attack and vowed to wipe them all out.

• Lu Ren dodged the short-haired assassin’s shot by bursting around her and seizing her as a shield.
• The assassin in the cheongsam shot her partner, but the bullets only superficially wounded Lu Ren.
• Lu Ren used the short-haired assassin’s body to impale and kill the cheongsam-wearing assassin.
• Lu Ren listened for danger outside, then squeezed the bullets from his wounds while Zhang Shengjie watched in terror.
• Zhang Shengjie confessed that he had brought Lu Ren there for five hundred thousand and said he had needed the money for his wife’s leukemia treatment.

Lu Ren left Zhang Shengjie with money for his wife’s treatment and faced Tie Feng, a Great Completion of Fist Law master hired to kill him. After shooting Tie Feng and learning the gunmen had not been sent by his employer, Lu Ren prepared for Tie Feng’s attack.

• Lu Ren stopped Zhang Shengjie from slapping himself, gave him six hundred thousand for his wife’s treatment, and left the farmhouse restaurant.
• Lu Ren met Tie Feng, who revealed that someone had paid him thirty million to beat Lu Ren to death.
• Lu Ren shot Tie Feng, who stopped the bullet in his chest with his muscles and accused Lu Ren of having no martial ethics.
• Tie Feng called his contact and discovered their gunmen had not yet attacked Lu Ren, then crushed the phone.
• Tie Feng assumed a mountain-like stance as Lu Ren considered what he had learned about the Dragon Elephant Bedrock Style.

Lu Ren confronted Tie Feng, who claimed his muscles could stop bullets and pursued him through the forest after Lu Ren fled. Lu Ren turned to fight and caught Tie Feng’s full-force punch with a massively enlarged arm, revealing that he had reached Great Completion of Fist Law.

• Tie Feng told Lu Ren that bullets could be trapped by his muscles at close range, and Lu Ren fired at his eyes and crotch, but Tie Feng dodged the vital shots and stopped the others with his body.
• Tie Feng identified Lu Ren as a member of Group One of the Southwest Security Administration and explained that his group had prepared to seize their chance against him.
• Lu Ren ran into the forest, and Tie Feng charged after him, smashing through trees in his path.
• Lu Ren used a tree trunk to launch himself back at Tie Feng, choosing to test the gap between them rather than keep fleeing.
• Tie Feng unleashed a powerful punch, but Lu Ren caught it with a swollen, bluish-purple arm, startling Tie Feng with his ability to change his body’s size.

Lu Ren fought Tie Feng, a Great Completion of Fist Law master whose Heaven and Earth Avatar gave him overwhelming strength. As Lu Ren’s proficiency rose during the battle, he adapted to Tie Feng’s punches and began to turn the fight in his favor.

• Tie Feng revealed his Heaven and Earth Avatar and attacked Lu Ren with the powerful Dragon Elephant Bedrock Style.
• Lu Ren held his ground against Tie Feng’s blows, using precise bodily control to deflect them despite being outmatched in strength and stamina.
• Lu Ren’s system notifications showed his Falcon Fist and physical proficiencies increasing as he fought.
• Tie Feng sensed Lu Ren growing stronger and faster, and decided he had to kill him before the fight turned against him.
• Lu Ren began recognizing the pattern in Tie Feng’s punches and adapting to his direct, strength-focused attacks.

Lu Ren gained the upper hand against Tie Feng, but Tie Feng revealed the Dragon Elephant Bedrock Style’s Giant Transformation and grew into a towering giant. As Tie Feng pressed his attack, Lu Ren narrowly evaded his punch, leaving their fight unresolved.

• Lu Ren pierced Tie Feng’s guard with a punch and kicked him into the air, but Tie Feng stopped his flight and endured the blows with his hardened muscles.
• Tie Feng used Giant Transformation to grow more than three meters tall, and Lu Ren recognized the ancient secret martial art.
• Tie Feng admitted that someone wanted Lu Ren dead and that he had agreed to kill him as a convenient favor amid the conflict between the New Wind and the old faction.
• Lu Ren charged Tie Feng instead of retreating, and Tie Feng stomped the ground to disrupt his footing.
• Tie Feng threw a powerful rear straight punch, and Lu Ren leaned aside to evade it by a hair’s breadth.

Lu Ren battled Tie Feng, drawing him into Bao Guang Temple as Tie Feng’s Heaven and Earth Avatar began to weaken. Just as they clashed in the temple hall, a Spatial Rift pulled them into the Bao Guang Secret Realm, where they found themselves in a ruined, lifeless temple.

• Lu Ren struck Tie Feng’s abdomen with Falcon Beak, forcing him to shrink and creating an opening to flee uphill.
• Tie Feng pursued Lu Ren through Bao Guang Temple, smashing through its courtyard wall and buildings.
• Lu Ren stopped in the temple’s main hall and prepared to kill Tie Feng as Tie Feng’s Heaven and Earth Avatar ended.
• Lu Ren and Tie Feng charged at each other, but a Spatial Rift activated and disrupted Lu Ren’s attack.
• The rift pulled both fighters into the Bao Guang Secret Realm, where Lu Ren found a desolate temple in ruins.

Lu Ren and Tie Feng were trapped in the collapsing Treasure Light Buddha Realm after entering a Spatial Rift. Lu Ren exploited Tie Feng’s weakened state to kill him with a precisely aimed Falcon Wing Strike, leaving Lu Ren alone in the ruined temple.

• Lu Ren discovered that the ruined temple was inside the Treasure Light Buddha Realm, a collapsing small world with ten days to find an exit.
• Tie Feng realized they had entered a Spatial Rift and feared the dangers of the unfamiliar world.
• Lu Ren attacked Tie Feng while his strength was reduced, and Tie Feng tried to warn him about the gap between their levels of Fist Law.
• Tie Feng began suffering pain and internal disruption as Lu Ren’s attacks struck his vital points.
• Lu Ren delivered a rapid series of precise punches and finished Tie Feng with Falcon Wing Strike, causing Tie Feng to collapse and die.

Lu Ren killed Tie Feng after a brutal battle, then explored the eerie Treasure Light Buddha Realm and searched the ruined temple for a way out. He discovered a Golden Skeleton inside, while black fluid began enveloping Tie Feng’s corpse behind him.

• Lu Ren killed Tie Feng with a final punch that crushed his heart, then gained a large amount of Falcon Fist proficiency and other insights.
• After recovering with a High-Concentrate Nutrient Pill, Lu Ren examined the gray, lifeless realm and wondered how to escape.
• Lu Ren recognized the temple’s couplet as identifying a hall dedicated to the Mahavairocana Golden Body Dharma Image and entered the ruined hall.
• Black gelatinous fluid rose from the ground and enveloped Tie Feng’s corpse, whose fingers and eyes began to twitch.
• Lu Ren found a massive Golden Skeleton seated in the Kasyapa Lotus Position behind the shattered Buddha statue.

Lu Ren discovered an ancient golden skeleton that awakened and spoke after sensing his powerful qi. The Golden Skeleton offered to guide him out of the collapsing secret realm if he carried it, leaving Lu Ren wondering how it had preserved its consciousness for at least fifteen hundred years.

• Lu Ren examined the golden bones, then attacked when the skeleton suddenly spoke beside him.
• The Golden Skeleton warned Lu Ren that destroying its body would leave them trapped in the collapsing secret realm.
• Lu Ren questioned the skeleton, which said it had lost most of its memories and was already dead rather than resurrected.
• The Golden Skeleton said Lu Ren's unusually powerful qi had awakened it and offered to show him the way out if he carried it.
• Lu Ren recognized the skeleton's old form of address and realized it might have preserved its consciousness for at least fifteen hundred years.

Lu Ren learned that the Golden Skeleton had slept for a thousand years and needed qi to escape the secret realm, but he could not yet control qi. When Tie Feng’s corpse vanished, the Golden Skeleton panicked and warned that a sealed Great Demon had likely used it to escape.

• The Golden Skeleton told Lu Ren it had survived for a thousand years by rarely waking and explained that people naturally possessed qi, though Lu Ren could not control it.
• The Golden Skeleton outlined three steps to escape the Treasure Light Buddha Realm, while Lu Ren questioned what qi was and explored the realm’s boundary and ruins.
• Lu Ren discovered that Tie Feng’s corpse had disappeared and hurried back to tell the Golden Skeleton.
• The Golden Skeleton sprang into motion, panicked that Tie Feng had vanished, and said they needed to find him before the secret realm collapsed.
• The Golden Skeleton warned Lu Ren that a Great Demon was sealed beneath the realm and had likely escaped by possessing Tie Feng’s corpse.

Lu Ren learned that a powerful ancient qi master was transforming inside a corpse and might escape the Treasure Light Buddha Realm in four days. As Lu Ren struggled to sense qi, he explained modern science and society to the skeleton monk, who was astonished by the progress and scale of China.

• The skeleton warned Lu Ren that an ancient qi master had assimilated into a corpse and could cause disaster if he escaped the Treasure Light Buddha Realm, estimating that he had four days before completing his transformation.
• The skeleton urged Lu Ren to learn qi quickly, but after a day of instruction Lu Ren still could not sense it and questioned what qi was.
• The skeleton monk explained how to sense and guide qi, while Lu Ren said he was a materialist and argued that unexplained phenomena could eventually be understood through science.
• Lu Ren described modern technology, improved living conditions, and his pride in China, prompting the monk to marvel at the age he had hoped to see.
• Lu Ren told the monk that China had 1.4 billion people, and the monk reacted with shock at the challenge of feeding and clothing them.

Lu Ren demonstrated Falcon Fist, and the skeleton offered to teach him the Lamp Lighting visualization method to help him sense Qi and develop his Spirit. The skeleton explained that this path sought to transcend the body through Spirit, but admitted it did not know whether stories of monks transforming into rainbows or ascetics ascending as immortals were true.

• Lu Ren demonstrated Falcon Fist for the skeleton, which praised his control and said he could eventually reach the Grandmaster realm.
• The skeleton explained that Lu Ren's Falcon Fist lacked its proper spiritual visualization and offered to teach him a method suited to it.
• The skeleton named the method Lamp Lighting and revealed that the flame in its eye sockets was a manifestation of Spirit.
• The skeleton described a cultivation path that treated the body as a foul sack of flesh and sought transcendence through Spirit.
• Lu Ren asked whether monks had truly transformed into rainbows or ascended as immortals, and the skeleton said it did not know because such practitioners secluded themselves in secret locations.

The Golden Skeleton taught Lu Ren the Lamp Lighting method, which used a shifting visualization of one’s own qi to awaken the spirit while valuing the body. Lu Ren struggled to understand the practice, and the skeleton realized he did not truly believe in it.

• Lu Ren asked the Golden Skeleton to teach him Lamp Lighting, and the skeleton agreed to pass on the method.
• The Golden Skeleton explained that Lamp Lighting illuminated the spirit and could help Lu Ren sense qi without abandoning his body.
• Lu Ren observed the flames in the skeleton’s eyes, and the skeleton explained that qi and spirit changed with the body and outside influences.
• The Golden Skeleton told Lu Ren to visualize himself and described how qi reflected a person’s vitality.
• The Golden Skeleton concluded that Lu Ren could not grasp the method because he subconsciously did not believe in it.

Lu Ren used the skeleton’s Burning Lamp Divine Art to perceive the qi of all things as Magnetic Fields, then meditated on a candle until he comprehended Burning Lamp Freedom. The System assimilated the technique in place of Emotionless Intent Sword, leaving Lu Ren with new insights into the cultivation of his spirit.

• The skeleton transferred its spirit flame to Lu Ren, letting him perceive the light-wave manifestations of Magnetic Fields throughout the world.
• Lu Ren asked the skeleton for a day to think, then meditated at the Dilapidated Temple while the skeleton waited quietly.
• Lu Ren lit a candle and reasoned that reaching the Clairvoyant Realm required the spirit and body to strengthen one another, with Magnetic Field use marking the realm’s beginning.
• After hours of watching the candlelight, Lu Ren comprehended Burning Lamp Freedom and chose to assimilate it instead of Emotionless Intent Sword.
• The System replaced Emotionless Intent Sword with Burning Lamp Freedom at Minor Accomplishment, and insights into the technique entered Lu Ren’s mind.

Lu Ren comprehended Burning Lamp Freedom and learned to ignite the lamp of wisdom within himself, gaining greater control over his body. He followed the skeleton into a hidden passage beneath the incense table to confront the sealed Great Demon.

• Lu Ren realized that Burning Lamp Freedom meant lighting the heart’s lamp of wisdom, and the skeleton marveled at his insight.
• Lu Ren understood that each person’s inner lamp reflected their own beliefs and that it could help him control and unleash his body’s power.
• The skeleton explained that it had taken him eight years to comprehend the method, and Lu Ren bowed to thank him.
• The skeleton revealed a hidden stairway beneath an incense table and urged Lu Ren to descend and kill the Great Demon.
• Lu Ren followed the skeleton underground and learned that the Great Demon had been human in life and was a demon in death, a description the skeleton clarified referred to human nature.

Lu Ren and the skeleton reached the sealed chamber and found Tie Feng being merged with a demon’s cellular fluid. The skeleton refused to intervene, warning that its death could trap Lu Ren in the secret realm.

• The skeleton explained that transcendence meant mastering emotions and desires, not abandoning humanity, and argued with Lu Ren about Buddhist and Daoist teachings.
• Lu Ren opened the stone doors and gained five points of Spirit Proficiency when the Demon Sealing Imprint struck back.
• Lu Ren found Tie Feng transformed into a monster as black strands flowed from a chained, desiccated corpse into his body.
• Lu Ren urged the skeleton to stop the apparent possession, but the skeleton refused and warned that it might dissipate and leave Lu Ren trapped in the secret realm.

Lu Ren confronted Subhuti as Ksitigarbha revealed their identities and urged him to strike before Subhuti finished synchronizing with his new body. Lu Ren met Subhuti’s opening blow head-on, and the clash shattered the ground beneath him.

• Lu Ren prepared to fight Subhuti while considering how to escape the secret realm and resolve to strengthen himself.
• Tie Feng absorbed the remaining cellular fluid from the chained corpse and transformed into a towering, grotesque body.
• Subhuti recognized the Golden Skeleton as Ksitigarbha, who told Lu Ren to stop him before he grew stronger.
• Subhuti mocked Ksitigarbha, and Lu Ren charged and attacked without hesitation.
• Subhuti swung a massive fist at Lu Ren, who blocked it with both arms as the ground cracked and sank beneath him.

Lu Ren withstood Subhuti’s devastating punch and awakened a deeper insight into Falcon Fist while revealing his progress in the Burning Lamp Freedom Art. The fight continued as Subhuti transformed and charged at him with another crushing blow.

• Lu Ren used Shijia's Elephant Toss to repel Subhuti’s punch, then contained the heat and moisture in his body.
• The System increased Lu Ren’s Physique and Falcon Fist Proficiency after he took Subhuti’s punch.
• Lu Ren ignited the lamp of his mind, and Subhuti recognized his achievement in the Burning Lamp Freedom Realm.
• Subhuti entered Freeform Mastery, and Lu Ren saw a four-armed asura figure overlapping his body.
• Subhuti charged Lu Ren and brought down another hammer-like fist.

Lu Ren and Ksitigarbha escaped the collapsing Bao Guang Secret Realm, and Lu Ren’s martial cultivation briefly unlocked a dangerous new level of physical power. After returning to Bao Guang Temple, Lu Ren decided to hand Ksitigarbha over to the state, leaving Ksitigarbha alarmed and distrustful.

• Lu Ren’s Burning Lamp Freedom Meditation triggered an explosive surge of strength and briefly released his body’s limits.
• Ksitigarbha spotted an opening as the Secret Realm collapsed, and Lu Ren and Ksitigarbha escaped through it.
• The System rewarded Lu Ren with attribute points, Skill Points, and a Spirit increase after he returned to Bao Guang Temple.
• Ksitigarbha thanked Lu Ren and prepared to leave to enter nirvana, but Lu Ren stopped him.
• Lu Ren told Ksitigarbha he would turn him over to the state, and Ksitigarbha accused him of trying to deceive him.

Lu Ren reported the anomalous rift at Bao Guang Temple and let the Security Administration pursue Ksitigarbha, believing custody was safer for him. After reuniting with Zhang Li and the others, Lu Ren considered who had arranged the attack and concluded that Chen Daoli and the other people from the Security Administration were unlikely culprits.

• Lu Ren called Sister Li to report the rift and Ksitigarbha, then left the area as the rift entrance had closed.
• Lu Ren considered who had sent Tie Feng to kill him and ruled out Chen Daoli and the Security Administration teams he had previously offended.
• Lu Ren met Zhang Li, Xiao Chen, Chen Daoli, and their groups at the foot of the mountain, then drank four bottles of water.
• Lu Ren told Zhang Li that Ksitigarbha had emerged from the rift and was likely still in the nearby forest, while helicopters searched overhead.
• Zhang Li assured Lu Ren that the Security Administration would investigate the attack and make the perpetrators pay.