Chapter Summaries

Jiang Shu reached the bank where his mother was being held hostage and entered under a National Security Bureau identity. He killed robber leader Yang Biao with one punch, leaving the remaining robbers and hostages inside.

• Jiang Shu left his father and Jiang Yan Yue outside the police cordon and went to the bank.
• Jiang Shu showed Director Zhao his National Security Bureau identification and altered his appearance before entering.
• Yang Biao discussed escaping overseas with his two accomplices and buying American Gene Serum with the stolen money.
• Jiang Shu saw his mother safe among the hostages and entered the bank as the supposed negotiator.
• Jiang Shu struck Yang Biao with one punch, crushing his internal organs and killing him.

Jiang Shu killed the armed bank robbers and reassured his family before leaving for HeiNing Province to enter the Talent Secret Realm and pursue an evaluation at the Danxia Merchant Guild. He left his sister Jiang Yan Yue with martial arts guidance and resources, and she had already advanced to Whole Body Qi and Blood Great Circulation.

• Jiang Shu dodged a gunshot, killed the remaining robbers with a leaf, and handed the aftermath to Director Zhao.
• Jiang Shu gave his parents pills and instructions for protecting themselves, while his father practiced Horse Stance and Jiang Yan Yue reached Whole Body Qi and Blood Great Circulation.
• Jiang Shu urged Jiang Yan Yue to study the Innate Guidance Technique and explained that martial arts progress depended on talent and comprehension.
• Jiang Shu told Jiang Yan Yue that ordinary handguns could no longer hurt him, then said goodbye to his family and drove north.
• Jiang Shu arrived in HeiNing Province two days later.

Jiang Shu entered HeiNing Province’s Grade C Heaven and Earth Secret Realm equipped with military weapons, while martial artists debated how well he would fare. Inside, he hid in tall grass near a stream and listened to a third-order Mountain-Rending Tyrant Bear roaring from a valley.

• An officer briefed Jiang Shu on the secret realm’s thin oxygen and lent him a Grade C Handgun and Grade C Hand Grenades before he entered.
• The battalion commander praised Jiang Shu’s achievement as a young Transforming Force Grandmaster and reported his entry to the military.
• A Hidden Force martial artist posted a wager about how many third-order variant ferocious beasts Jiang Shu would kill, prompting debate on the Martial Artist Alliance.
• Jiang Shu crouched in dense grass near a stream and heard a Mountain-Rending Tyrant Bear roaring in the valley beyond.

Jiang Shu ambushed the Mountain-Rending Tyrant Bear with a Grade C Handgun, injuring its abdomen and internal organs. He then lured the enraged beast into exhausting itself before turning to attack with his Alloy Battle Blade.

• Jiang Shu watched the Mountain-Rending Tyrant Bear in its territory and identified its unscaled abdomen as a vulnerable target.
• Jiang Shu fired three alloy bullets, wounding the bear's abdomen and damaging its internal organs, though the shots failed to hit its head or eye.
• The Mountain-Rending Tyrant Bear charged Jiang Shu, who kept his distance and dodged rocks while using his speed to make the wounded beast pursue him.
• Jiang Shu waited until the bear's breathing grew heavier, then discarded his backpack and leaped toward it with his Alloy Battle Blade raised.

Jiang Shu fought and killed a Third Order Mountain-Rending Tyrant Bear, despite his injuries and the secret realm’s thin air. He discovered an Earth Vein Fruit growing in the bear’s cave, a Third Order Heaven and Earth Treasure Medicine that strengthened the internal organs.

• Jiang Shu battled the Mountain-Rending Tyrant Bear, using pills, evasion, and blade techniques to exploit its injuries while sustaining damage himself.
• As the bear weakened, Jiang Shu struck its neck, injured its leg, and used his strength to slam it repeatedly into the ground and trees until it died.
• Jiang Shu dragged the bear back to the valley, where the nearby second order Variant Ferocious Beasts fled from him.
• Jiang Shu blocked the cave entrance with the bear’s body and entered the cave, finding an Earth Vein Fruit on a small tree at its deepest point.

After twenty days in the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm, Jiang Shu had hunted twelve Third Order Variant Ferocious Beasts and exhausted his supplies, while his martial arts and strength had grown substantially. He emerged carrying the spoils and Green Water Grass, surprising Wang Jing, who had believed his own six kills would lead the Grandmaster Rankings.

• Jiang Shu defeated a Golden Giant Crocodile, recovered its teeth, and claimed an immature Green Water Grass.
• Jiang Shu reflected on hunting twelve Third Order Variant Ferocious Beasts, advancing his Three-Style Blade Technique, perfecting his low-grade martial arts, and tempering his spleen.
• Jiang Shu roasted and ate the crocodile meat after deciding to learn a Middle-Grade Cultivation Method when he returned to the prefectural city.
• Wang Jing emerged from the Secret Realm with materials from six Third Order Variant Ferocious Beasts and learned that he ranked first among the recent Grandmaster returns.
• Jiang Shu emerged barefoot, wearing a Ruyi Treasure Sable pelt, and asked the battalion commander to count materials from twelve Third Order Variant Ferocious Beasts and his Green Water Grass.

Jiang Shu emerged from the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm with materials from twelve Third Order Variant Ferocious Beasts, shocking Wang Jing and the military officers. The Martial Artist Alliance updated the Grandmaster Rankings, placing the eighteen-year-old Jiang Shu at sixty-eighth and naming him a Youth Grandmaster.

• Jiang Shu told the battalion commander that he had slain twelve Third Order Variant Ferocious Beasts and handed over their valuable materials for assessment.
• The battalion commander recorded Jiang Shu's materials, including Green Water Grass, and received his used handgun before Jiang Shu left in a Hongqi.
• Wang Jing asked who Jiang Shu was, and the battalion commander explained that Jiang Shu had entered Transforming Force at eighteen and was known as a Youth Grandmaster.
• Hidden Force martial artists discussed Wang Jing's new ninety-eighth-place ranking and waited for Jiang Shu to emerge and appear in the rankings.
• The Martial Artist Alliance ranked Jiang Shu sixty-eighth, noting his rapid martial arts progress and his twelve kills during twenty days in the secret realm.

Jiang Shu returned to Yongning Prefecture City and sought the Danxia Merchant Guild’s investment for Shang Junming, claiming a first-rate genius evaluation. After proving he was eighteen, he fought the guild’s retainer Zhou Heng and seized a chance to counterattack with the Great Stele Breaking Hand.

• Jiang Shu bought an Alloy Battle Blade, Soft Armor, and the Great Stele Breaking Hand before traveling to Yongning Prefecture City.
• Jiang Shu asked Manager Zhang about the Danxia Merchant Guild’s genius investment and declared that Shang Junming wished to be evaluated as a first-rate genius.
• Jiang Shu proved he was eighteen with the Blood-Drinking Insect test, then entered the arena to face Zhou Heng.
• Zhou Heng pressured Jiang Shu with his Twin Maces, while Jiang Shu endured the blows and waited for an opening.
• Jiang Shu hurled his battle blade to distract Zhou Heng, rushed in, seized his arm, and unleashed the small-achievement-level Great Stele Breaking Hand.

Jiang Shu defeated Zhou Heng in the genius assessment by throwing him off the stage, earning recognition as a First-Class Genius and access to the Danxia Merchant Guild’s treasury. There, he searched for a powerful cultivation method and ended the chapter considering the Four Symbols Viscera Transformation Force, whose demanding requirements and limited upper potential gave him pause.

• Jiang Shu threw Zhou Heng off the stage, winning the assessment despite losing his Alloy Battle Blade and much of his Blood Qi.
• Su Mingchun praised Jiang Shu, confirmed his First-Class Genius status, and offered Zhou Heng Internal Strengthening Pills as compensation.
• Su Mingchun led Jiang Shu through the Hidden Scripture Pavilion to the merchant guild’s treasury and explained its three sections.
• Jiang Shu chose to inspect cultivation methods first, seeking a stronger foundation than his Limit-Break Hungry Tiger Howling Mountain Force.
• Jiang Shu considered the Five Flood Dragons Viscera Melting Force but worried that its cultivation required rare Heaven and Earth Treasure Medicines.
• Jiang Shu discovered the Four Symbols Viscera Transformation Force, whose four-Viscera power surpassed ordinary Five Viscera methods in mystery but required specific conditions and had a limited upper bound.

Jiang Shu chose the Four Symbols Viscera Transformation Force despite Su Mingchun’s warning, then studied its matching martial arts and learned how the Great Jing Dynasty’s cultivation systems worked. After preparing in the prefectural city and studying the Little Dragon-Tiger Rankings, he entered a volcanic secret realm on Xuanxing to cultivate Vermilion Bird True Strength.

• Jiang Shu selected the Four Symbols Viscera Transformation Force, Four Seasons Swordplay, and Hurricane Three Transformations, while Su Mingchun explained the distinctions between body, Qi, and spirit cultivation.
• Jiang Shu spent half a month memorizing the methods, took Internal Strengthening Pills, and studied the Little Dragon-Tiger Rankings, which revealed the prefectural city’s strongest clans and the level of genius he would need to challenge Zhao Yuanchang.
• Jiang Shu bought a small courtyard, returned to Xuanxing for diamonds and perfume to exchange for pills, and brought Four Seasons Swordplay to the entry level while learning Hurricane Three Transformations.
• Jiang Shu entered a newly appeared Grade C secret realm in Chuanyu Province, used Hurricane Three Transformations to kill a second order Variant Ferocious Beast, and settled down to cultivate.

Jiang Shu cultivated Vermilion Bird True Strength in the secret realm, then accepted a dangerous solo task in Black Mountain Prefecture to rescue an alchemist’s family. He met Wan Jingxing and offered to help in exchange for alchemy instruction.

• Jiang Shu mastered Vermilion Bird True Strength and spent nearly half a month cultivating in the volcanic secret realm.
• Jiang Shu accepted Wan Jingxing’s task to rescue his wife and child from the Qin Family, seeking alchemy lessons rather than the offered rewards.
• Jiang Shu left the secret realm with only three Variant Ferocious Beasts and traveled from Yongning Prefecture City to Black Mountain Prefecture City.
• Wan Jingxing struggled with his confinement under the Qin Family and hoped the Danxia Merchant Guild’s chosen rescuer would be powerful enough to free his family.
• Jiang Shu met Wan Jingxing and said he would attempt the rescue if Wan Jingxing taught him alchemy.

Jiang Shu spent a month learning alchemy from Wan Jingxing while preparing to rescue Wan’s wife and child from the Qin Family’s surveillance. He killed Zuo Dechun and the Silver Plaque Offering guarding them, then told Wan Jingxing they could leave.

• Jiang Shu persuaded Wan Jingxing to teach him alchemy for a month by promising to save his wife and child afterward.
• Jiang Shu studied Wan Jingxing’s alchemy notes, refined Low-Grade Pills, and discovered that Xuanxing ingredients could replace scarce Great Jing Dynasty materials.
• Wan Jingxing returned to his family in the Outer City while Zuo Dechun and a Silver Plaque Offering continued watching them and plotted to exploit his wife.
• Jiang Shu killed the Silver Plaque Offering and Zuo Dechun with his blade and a pebble.
• Jiang Shu knocked on Wan Jingxing’s courtyard door and told him the matter was settled and his family could leave.

Jiang Shu returned to Pingling County after escorting Wan Jingxing and his family to safety, then went to the weakened Yao Family estate to confront Yao Zhengxing. He killed Yao Wenhian and attacked Yao Zhengxing, leaving their fight unresolved.

• Wan Jingxing disguised his family and asked Jiang Shu to escort them to Yongning Prefecture City, offering his alchemy knowledge and future services in return.
• Jiang Shu carried Wan Jingxing's son through the mountains while Wan Jingxing carried his wife, and they reached Sanling Town in less than half a month.
• Jiang Shu left Wan Jingxing's family in Sanling Town and returned to Pingling County, where he saw how the Yao Family had declined.
• Jiang Shu entered the Yao Family estate and overheard Yao Zhengxing urge Yao Wenhian to reach Bone Forging and seek revenge on Jiang Shu.
• Jiang Shu killed Yao Wenhian at the doorway, then met Yao Zhengxing's charge with a palm attack powered by Vermillion Bird True Strength and White Tiger True Strength.

Jiang Shu slaughtered the Yao Family in Pingling County and then confronted County Magistrate Nie, seeking to test his strength against the county’s strongest expert. The chapter ended as Jiang Shu’s Autumn Wind slash clashed with Nie Gaozhan’s counterattack.

• Jiang Shu defeated Yao Zhengxing with True Force, revealing that he had reached the Viscera Training Realm.
• Jiang Shu killed Yao Zhengxing and the Yao Family’s martial descendants and guards, sparing only non-martial servants and maids.
• Jiang Shu gathered the Yao Family’s banknotes and medicinal pills, then went to the County Government to confront County Magistrate Nie.
• Jiang Shu drew his blade and attacked with Autumn Wind from the Four Seasons Swordplay.
• Nie Gaozhan met Jiang Shu’s strike with his saber and unleashed Three Eagles Gathering Viscera Strength.

Jiang Shu fought County Magistrate Nie Gaozhan over Yao Yuwen, overwhelming him despite Old Man Chou's sudden arrival and attack. He spared Nie and revealed himself to Old Man Chou as Jiang Shu, leaving the shocked teacher to face his former disciple.

• Jiang Shu clashed with Nie Gaozhan, using his varied True Force and martial arts to counter the magistrate's attacks.
• Old Man Chou arrived disguised and joined the fight, but Jiang Shu evaded his Three-Style Blade Technique with ease.
• Nie Gaozhan attacked while Jiang Shu appeared fatigued, but Jiang Shu unleashed Vermillion Bird True Strength and knocked the magistrate's Treasure Blade away.
• Jiang Shu held his blade at Nie Gaozhan's throat and said he had come to kill Yao Yuwen, so Nie left rather than risk his life.
• Jiang Shu turned to Old Man Chou and revealed his identity, asking his teacher to forgive his disrespect.

After defeating County Magistrate Nie, Jiang Shu learned of Old Man Chou’s old injuries and promised to obtain medicine for him. He then trained at the Cold Pool, found the remains of Liang Tingbo and his hidden treasures, and was poisoned by Cold Sha Poison; he resolved to travel to Cloud State to open the Storage Bag himself.

• Jiang Shu left County Magistrate Nie alive after Nie brought his dead concubine, and learned that the Yao Family had been exterminated.
• Old Man Chou told Jiang Shu how Zhao Yuanchang had betrayed his trust and how a mission ambush had left him with severe injuries.
• Jiang Shu offered Old Man Chou pills for Senior Brother Qi and promised to seek Great Restoration Pills, revealing that he was a first-class genius of the Danxia Merchant Guild.
• Jiang Shu cultivated Black Tortoise True Strength at the bottom of the Cold Pool, then discovered a black Pill Furnace, Liang Tingbo’s undecayed corpse, a Storage Bag, and a jade box.
• Jiang Shu opened the jade box and was struck by Cold Sha Poison; after reading Liang Tingbo’s instructions, he destroyed the corpse and took the treasures with him.
• Jiang Shu emerged from the pool and decided to travel to Cloud State to have Liang Tingbo’s bloodline open the Storage Bag, rather than simply hand it over to the Liang Family.

Jiang Shu learned that Liang Tingbo’s Storage Bag could only be opened with a bloodline-bound essence imprint, then secured it in a hidden room while planning to grow stronger and investigate its contents. Back in Xuanxing, he prepared to launch a pharmaceutical company, asked Ye Zhenzhen to help arrange its site and staff, and discussed jobs for his family, promising Jiang Yan Yue a CEO position when she turned eighteen.

• Jiang Shu reasoned that pills could help suppress the Cold Sha Poison and resolved to gather materials and use AI in the Xia Kingdom to develop a specialized formula.
• Jiang Shu returned to Yongning Prefecture with Wan Jingxing’s family, completed nearby missions, and exchanged his earnings and Contribution Points for secret information about Storage Bags.
• Jiang Shu traveled back to Xuanxing, placed Liang Tingbo’s Storage Bag in a fortified safe, and decided to wait until he was stronger before trying to open it.
• Jiang Shu practiced the Innate Guidance Technique and Four Seasons Swordplay while arranging for Ye Zhenzhen to find a site and people for his pharmaceutical company.
• At dinner, Jiang Shu reassured Jiang Yan Yue about her progress toward Ming Jin and offered his parents jobs at the new company; he promised Jiang Yan Yue she could become its legal representative and CEO at eighteen.

Jiang Shu launched Shuyan Pharmaceutical and demonstrated the Beauty Pill, a disguise medicine that let Ye Zhenzhen and Chi Qingqian conceal facial damage. After learning that specialized AI could help develop medicines capable of healing Chi Qingqian, Zhang Rui asked to join Jiang Shu’s company.

• Jiang Shu named his new company Shuyan Pharmaceutical and asked Ye Zhenzhen to advertise its Beauty Pill.
• Ye Zhenzhen tried the pill and realized its makeup effects could transform the cosmetics market.
• Shuyan Pharmaceutical’s researchers developed several weaker cosmetic formulas, while Jiang Shu refined batches of the original Beauty Pill.
• Fu Cong asked Jiang Shu for a pill for his friend Zhang Rui’s burned girlfriend, Chi Qingqian, and Jiang Shu agreed.
• Zhang Rui used the Beauty Pill to conceal Chi Qingqian’s facial burns, and Jiang Shu told him that specialized AI could help develop medicine to heal her injuries.
• Zhang Rui asked Jiang Shu where Shuyan Pharmaceutical was and whether he could start work that day.

Jiang Shu used the Alchemy AI to develop and refine an Extreme Fire Yang Gang Pill, whose combined heat and the Cold Sha Poison detoxified him and strengthened his spleen. After his standing rose on the Grandmaster Rankings, he headed to Donghai City’s underwater secret realm to gather more resources.

• Jiang Shu’s Alchemy AI generated multiple Disguise Pill formulas, and Shu Yan Pharmaceutical planned to enter the mid-to-low-end market with a mass-producible version.
• Jiang Shu gathered Heaven and Earth Treasure Medicines and Variant Ferocious Beast materials, rising from sixty-eighth to twenty-third on the Grandmaster Rankings.
• With the AI’s help, Jiang Shu selected a formula for the Extreme Fire Yang Gang Pill and succeeded in refining it on his seventh attempt.
• Jiang Shu swallowed the pill and guided its medicinal power together with the Cold Sha Poison to temper his spleen, leaving it stronger than his other organs.
• Jiang Shu sent Zhang Rui the formula for a Beauty Restoration Pill, then traveled to Donghai City and walked across the sea toward its underwater Heaven and Earth Secret Realm.

After three months of cultivation in the Grade C Heaven and Earth Secret Realm, Jiang Shu reached the peak of the Viscera Training Realm and fought a python transforming into a Fourth Order Flood Dragon. He slew it with one stroke and rose to first place on the Grandmaster Rankings.

• Jiang Shu spent three months cultivating in the sea, tempering all five viscera and reaching the peak of the Viscera Training Realm.
• Jiang Shu encountered Wang Jing and two other grandmasters fleeing from a giant python about to become a Flood Dragon.
• Jiang Shu battled the giant python while Wang Jing and the other grandmasters watched, and the python fled toward its lair.
• The python swallowed a Heaven and Earth Treasure Medicine and transformed into a Flood Dragon, then knocked Wang Jing and the other grandmasters aside.
• Jiang Shu used a Blood Burst Pill, hurled a Grade C Hand Grenade into the Flood Dragon's mouth, and killed it with one stroke.
• Jiang Shu emerged from the Secret Realm on New Year's Eve and claimed first place on the Grandmaster Rankings.