Chapter Summaries

Jiang Yuan forced Zhou Hu to reveal that Chu He had supplied the keycard and planned to counter his damage reflection ability with high-frequency vibrations. After sending Zhou Hu away with a warning for Chu He, Jiang Yuan went to the central arena to test Thunderclap Vibration, where Shen Liuli was waiting.

• Jiang Yuan dislocated Zhou Hu’s shoulders and forced him to reveal that Chu He had promised him a place in New Star Martial University’s preparatory class and a blood vitality potion for sabotaging the gravity room.
• Zhou Hu told Jiang Yuan that Chu He had installed a high-frequency vibration module in Song Xi’s Armor-Breaker Type III Cybernetic Body to bypass damage reflection.
• Jiang Yuan rejected Zhou Hu’s offer to trade his family for mercy, took the black keycard, and told him to tell Chu He that he would thank him at the selection tournament.
• Jiang Yuan left the underground training grounds and headed to the central arena to test Thunderclap Vibration on an armor-breaking test post.
• Shen Liuli noticed the blood at Jiang Yuan’s mouth and the black keycard in his hand, then asked whether someone had tampered with the gravity room.

Jiang Yuan defeated Ling Feng in the semifinals and learned that Chu He had planted a magnetic interference device beneath the main arena and planned to use a honey trap. As Jiang Yuan faced Song Xi in the finals, he detected the device but chose to wait and expose Chu He's scheme publicly.

• Jiang Yuan spent three days training against a test post before the selection tournament semifinals began.
• Jiang Yuan stood still as Ling Feng struck him three times, and his Stone-Metal Body rebounded the force until Ling Feng conceded.
• Ling Feng warned Jiang Yuan that Chu He had buried a magnetic interference device beneath the main arena and planned to disrupt him with a honey trap.
• Jiang Yuan trained his will by circulating the Nine Yang Divine Skill amid adult videos and sounds until he could watch without reacting.
• Song Xi defeated Wei Shan with her Armor-Piercer Type III prosthetic, while Chu He prepared to activate his remote-controlled interference device.
• Jiang Yuan detected the buried device as he entered the main arena but chose not to destroy it before the final against Song Xi.

Jiang Yuan endured Song Xi’s illegal attack with his martial arts defenses, then tore apart the Armor-Piercer Type III and defeated her. Song Xi collapsed on the arena floor as Jiang Yuan stood over her.

• Song Xi opened the final by attacking Jiang Yuan with her high-frequency cybernetic arm, while he evaded and redirected her strikes.
• Chu He activated a hidden magnetic interference device beneath the arena, slowing Jiang Yuan and dragging down his alloy sword.
• Song Xi seized the opening and struck Jiang Yuan in the chest despite the referee’s warning against the illegal attack.
• Jiang Yuan’s Baxia · Stone-Metal Body and Nine Yang Inner Force absorbed and redirected the strike, leaving him standing firm.
• Jiang Yuan tore apart Song Xi’s cybernetic arm and shattered its elbow connection with the Profound Heaven · Shattering Bone Hand, causing her to collapse.

Jiang Yuan defeated Song Xi after she overloaded her cybernetic armor, leaving her unconscious in the arena. A New Star Investigation Group examiner revised Jiang Yuan’s file and recommended prioritizing his recruitment with A-Rank authorization.

• Song Xi tore away her damaged armor and activated its overload, sending the referee flying when he tried to stop her.
• Song Xi charged Jiang Yuan, who used the Profound Heaven · Shattering Bone Hand to crush the armor on her left arm and pin her to the arena floor.
• Song Xi lost consciousness from exhaustion and the backlash of overloading her cybernetic body.
• The spectators reacted in shock to Jiang Yuan’s victory and the power of his martial technique.
• The New Star Investigation Group examiner updated Jiang Yuan’s file, marked him as extremely dangerous, and recommended A-Rank authorization and priority recruitment.

Jiang Yuan exposed Celestial Pivot Industries’ interference device and Chu He’s schemes after defeating Song Xi, then won the tournament and received protection and an S-rank reserve authorization from New Star Martial University. He headed home to refine lingering energy from the battle and advance his cultivation.

• A mysterious observer recorded Jiang Yuan defeating Song Xi and reported that someone from the Ruins of Return had appeared in Jiang Hai City.
• Chu He declared the bet void and ordered his technicians to seize Jiang Yuan, but Jiang Yuan exposed a buried magnetic interference device, while Guo Hongtao revealed Chu He’s earlier plot involving Zhou Hu and the Advanced Gravity Chamber.
• The chief examiner protected Jiang Yuan as a registered S-017 special observation subject and warned Chu He to stop; Chu He expelled Song Xi from Celestial Pivot Industries before leaving.
• The referee declared Jiang Yuan the tournament champion, and the principal awarded him three high-grade vitality potions, a scholarship, and top access to the Martial Arts Building.
• The chief examiner gave Jiang Yuan an S-rank reserve authorization card for New Star Martial University, and Jiang Yuan accepted it.
• Jiang Yuan declined Guo Hongtao’s invitation and went home to refine the high-frequency energy remaining in his meridians and improve his Baxia · Stone-Metal Body.

Jiang Yuan refined the lingering damage from Song Xi’s strike, then learned from Ling Feng that Chu He had surrounded the old district to capture him and seize his inheritance and broken sword. After Jiang Yuan drove off Zhao Qingya, Chu He ordered a full-scale hunt, leaving Jiang Yuan prepared to fight back.

• Jiang Yuan used the Nine Yang Divine Skill to destroy the residual vibration force in his meridians and strengthen his body.
• Ling Feng warned Jiang Yuan that Chu He had deployed Celestial Pivot Industries’ operatives to capture him and take his ancient martial inheritance and broken sword.
• Jiang Yuan realized someone outside the window was spying on them, struck Zhao Qingya with Thunderclap Vibration, and identified her as a Celestial Pivot Industries agent.
• Zhao Qingya escaped to an abandoned warehouse and told Chu He that Jiang Yuan had discovered her and was stronger than before.
• Chu He ordered every group to surround the old district and bring back Jiang Yuan’s head and broken sword, dead or alive.

Jiang Yuan fought off an ambush by three women and defeated three of Chu He's men while trying to reach Third Machinery Factory. Before he could leave, Uncle Chen confronted him and asked whether he had fed the broken sword blood.

• Three disguised attackers ambushed Jiang Yuan at his home, but his Stone-Metal Body repelled their weapons and he broke one attacker's ankle.
• Jiang Yuan escaped across the rooftops and defeated three Body Tempering Peak men waiting in an alley behind Treasure Gathering Studio.
• Jiang Yuan forced the men to reveal that Chu He was waiting at the abandoned Third Machinery Factory and recorded a threat for him.
• Uncle Chen blocked Jiang Yuan at the alley entrance, stared at the wooden box, and asked whether he had already fed the sword blood.

Uncle Chen revealed the Thunderfire Sword’s connection to Jiang Yuan’s missing father and warned him about the powerful force tracking him. Jiang Yuan made a deal with the Shen Family to help repair their martial art in exchange for protection and admission to New Star Martial University, then accepted Shen Liuli’s suggestive invitation to discuss its energy circulation in the bath.

• Uncle Chen showed Jiang Yuan an old photograph of Jiang Xiaotian holding the complete Thunderfire Sword and explained that Jiang Yuan’s father had left to protect him from a powerful force, with New Star as his last known lead.
• Uncle Chen warned Jiang Yuan to conceal the sword’s true form and advised him to seek help from the Shen Family rather than confront Celestial Pivot Industries at the Third Machinery Factory.
• At the Extreme Martial Arts Hall, Uncle Zhou asked Jiang Yuan to use the principles behind his Spiral Hidden Force to help repair the Shen Family’s incomplete Azure Sea Force.
• Shen Liuli offered to suppress Celestial Pivot Industries, deal with Chu He, and arrange Jiang Yuan’s special admission to New Star Martial University in exchange for his help, and Jiang Yuan agreed.
• Shen Liuli postponed the work and invited Jiang Yuan to discuss energy circulation while she bathed, and he accepted.

Jiang Yuan rejected the military’s S-rank recruitment offer after learning it required him to marry and have children for a genetic optimization program. Bai Ye then questioned Jiang Yuan about his martial technique and ordered him investigated as a potential contact of the Ruins of Return.

• Shen Liuli tried to draw Jiang Yuan into the bathroom, but he checked her wrist from the doorway and left.
• The chief examiner offered Jiang Yuan an S-rank recruitment package in exchange for marrying women on a list and producing descendants for the Federation.
• Jiang Yuan asked what would happen if he refused, and the chief examiner left after an alarm summoned him to deal with trouble in the western district.
• Bai Ye compared Jiang Yuan’s technique against footage linked to the Ruins of Return and asked where Jiang Yuan had learned it.
• Jiang Yuan claimed he had found the technique in a booklet inside his family heirloom box, and Bai Ye ordered him added to a list of potential Ruins of Return contacts for surveillance during the entrance assessment.

At a school assembly, Jiang Yuan exposed the tampering of the gravity chamber’s permissions and Zhou Hu named Zhao Qingya as the one who ordered it. The school punished Zhao Qingya and expelled Zhou Hu, then Jiang Yuan received a hidden mission to kill a rapist hiding on campus.

• Zhao Qingya tried to defend Zhou Hu and sway the audience into doubting Jiang Yuan.
• Jiang Yuan presented a recovered black card, and technician Zhang confirmed it came from Celestial Pivot Industries’ permissions database.
• Jiang Yuan privately told Zhou Hu that he had arranged companions for Zhou Hu’s grandmother, and Zhou Hu broke down and accused Zhao Qingya of giving him the card and instructing him to sabotage the gravity chamber.
• The principal gave Zhao Qingya a major demerit and suspended her from her school duties pending investigation.
• The principal expelled Zhou Hu for deliberately trying to harm a fellow student.
• After the assembly, Jiang Yuan received a hidden mission to kill a rapist on campus who was a martial arts expert skilled in internal arts.

After the principal rewarded Jiang Yuan with access to an A-Class cultivation chamber, Jiang Yuan used Wind God Wolf blood essence to push his Baxia · Stone-Metal Body to major completion and raise his combat power. Unable to break through to Meridian Opening Realm on Old Star, he looked toward New Star as the next stage of his path.

• The principal thanked Jiang Yuan for exposing the students who threatened the school's reputation and gave him an A-Class cultivation chamber access card, introducing his assistant Lin Xi.
• Jiang Yuan drank canine-antelope milk and three vials of Wind God Wolf blood essence, letting its violent energy tear through his body as Nine Yang Inner Force and Baxia · Stone-Metal Body repaired and strengthened him.
• Jiang Yuan reached major completion in Baxia · Stone-Metal Body and surged toward Meridian Opening Realm, but stopped when the chamber's spiritual energy ran thin and he sensed Old Star could not support his breakthrough.
• Jiang Yuan fed a drop of blood essence to his broken sword, then used Thunderclap Vibration to collapse an alloy pillar into silver powder with a light flick.
• Jiang Yuan corrected Guo Hongtao's punching technique, promised to guide Guo Yuting on New Star, and resolved that his martial path would continue beyond Old Star.

Jiang Yuan rescued Song Xi from Celestial Pivot Industries’ enforcers and used his S-rank authority to settle her debt and stop their harassment. After Song Xi recovered through their union, she warned him that Chu He was preparing an ambush, leaving Jiang Yuan aware that a major fight lay ahead.

• Jiang Yuan found six Celestial Pivot Industries enforcers threatening Song Xi and broke Scarface’s wrist when he tried to inject her.
• Jiang Yuan’s Great Completion Realm Baxia · Stone-Metal Body repelled the other five attackers, crippling all six men.
• Jiang Yuan called the New Star Investigation Group, paid Song Xi’s principal debt, voided the extra clauses, and warned Celestial Pivot Industries to leave her alone.
• Song Xi kissed Jiang Yuan and asked him to use his Nine-Yang qi to treat the cold qi and old injury in her body; they spent the night together.
• Song Xi gave Jiang Yuan copied company data revealing three secret strongholds and Chu He’s plan to capture him at Maintenance Gate Three with three combat squads, including two cybernetically augmented Meridian Opening Realm experts.
• Song Xi said their grudges were settled and pledged herself to Jiang Yuan, while he recognized that the real battle was beginning.

Jiang Yuan entered Ling Feng’s ancient martial arts trial chamber and passed all three trials, using brute strength, his Shattering Bone Hand, and the newly perfected Wave-Treading Step. Ling Feng gave him a lineage token pointing to the Ancient Martial Arts Association on New Star, and Jiang Yuan left prepared to confront Chu He’s ambush together.

• Jiang Yuan met Ling Feng, who offered him another way to defeat Chu He’s ambush in exchange for a favor involving the Ancient Martial Arts Association.
• Ling Feng led Jiang Yuan to an underground trial chamber, where Jiang Yuan crossed the Heavy Water Formation by walking straight through the pool and destroying the plum-blossom stakes.
• Jiang Yuan destroyed the core nodes in all three Darksteel Puppets with the Spiral Hidden Force of his Shattering Bone Hand.
• Jiang Yuan used the system to complete the Wave-Treading Step and crossed the laser-filled passage without being hit.
• Ling Feng gave Jiang Yuan an antique bronze broken-sword token and directed him to the Ancient Martial Arts Association on New Star to learn about the Martial Emperor and the complete inheritance.
• Jiang Yuan left with Song Xi’s storage device containing Chu He’s ambush plan and resolved to take out all his enemies together.

Jiang Yuan and Guo Hongtao were ambushed on their way to the spaceport, but Jiang Yuan defeated Chu He's forces and killed a psychic attacker. They boarded the Voyager for New Star as Chu He escaped.

• Guo Hongtao and Jiang Yuan rode the maglev train toward the spaceport, where Chu He trapped them between sealed gates and ordered his squads and two cyborgs to attack.
• Li Qingshan, Uncle Zhou, and Ling Feng arrived and engaged the cyborgs while Jiang Yuan dodged gunfire and crippled all three armed squads.
• A woman in a red cheongsam attacked Jiang Yuan with mental force and blade-like nails, but he killed her with Thunderclap Vibration from his broken sword.
• Chu He fled in a small spacecraft, and Jiang Yuan declined to pursue him.
• Jiang Yuan and Guo Hongtao boarded the Voyager and departed Old Star for New Star.

After the Voyager was caught in violent spatial turbulence, Jiang Yuan protected Guo Hongtao as the captain detached their damaged section of the ship. As they were swept into a spatial rift, the Thunderfire Broken Sword formed a barrier around them and carried them into the unknown.

• The Voyager encountered spatial turbulence that tore open its hull and killed passengers near the breach.
• Jiang Yuan shielded Guo Hongtao from the spatial blades with his Great Completion Metal-Stone Body.
• The captain ordered the damaged section of the ship detached, sending Jiang Yuan, Guo Hongtao, and the survivors into the spatial rift.
• As the turbulence overwhelmed Jiang Yuan's defenses, the Thunderfire Broken Sword activated its stored energy and formed a protective sword-aura barrier.
• The sword carried Jiang Yuan, the unconscious Guo Hongtao, and the shipwreckage deeper into the rift.

Jiang Yuan and Guo Hongtao survived the crash into a strange realm where opposing spiritual energies filled the air, and Jiang Yuan used them to break through into the Meridian Opening Realm. After exposing a staged attack by Harmonious Union Sect disciples, he accepted their guarded offer to accompany them to an outpost.

• Jiang Yuan and Guo Hongtao crashed into a primeval forest beneath two suns and discovered that the realm’s red and blue-green spiritual energies were dangerous to cultivate.
• Guo Hongtao nearly damaged his meridians by absorbing the opposing energies, but Jiang Yuan used his Nine Yang Inner Force to save him.
• A group of Harmonious Union Sect disciples surrounded Jiang Yuan and Guo Hongtao, and a two-colored lizard appeared to attack one of the women.
• Jiang Yuan recognized that the white-robed woman and the lizard were staging the fight, then absorbed her yin true qi and the red sun’s yang energy to open his first primary meridian.
• The white-robed woman bowed to Jiang Yuan and invited him and Guo Hongtao to the sect’s outer outpost, and Jiang Yuan agreed to go.

Jiang Yuan and Guo Hongtao were brought to the Harmonious Union Sect’s outer stronghold, where Steward He declared Jiang Yuan a perfect Yang Furnace and demanded he serve the sect’s female disciples. Jiang Yuan refused and asked to meet the sect’s leaders, but Steward He ordered him seized and Guo Hongtao imprisoned.

• Jiang Yuan and Guo Hongtao crossed the forest with two women in white and arrived at the Harmonious Union Sect’s outer stronghold.
• Steward He examined Jiang Yuan and praised his deep foundation, utmost-yang technique, and mastered body-tempering technique as ideal for a Yang Furnace.
• Steward He declared Jiang Yuan an outer sect disciple and ordered him to become a dual-cultivation partner for all three hundred and sixty female disciples.
• Guo Hongtao cursed Steward He and stood up for Jiang Yuan, while Jiang Yuan asked to meet someone with authority over the sect.
• Steward He demanded Jiang Yuan imprint the Furnace Vessel Token and serve the female disciples, but Jiang Yuan refused.
• Steward He ordered the mountain gate sealed, Guo Hongtao taken to the Reflection Room, and Jiang Yuan stripped and sent to the Dual-Cultivation Hall.

Jiang Yuan uncovered the Harmonious Union Sect’s plan to drug him and use him as a Pure Yang cauldron, but the inner sect elder still took his Yang Essence. After secretly recovering, he told Guo Hongtao they would pretend to comply while preparing their escape.

• Jiang Yuan burned the four female guards with his Nine Yang Inner Force, and Steward He arranged a courtyard and invited him to a welcoming feast.
• Jiang Yuan overheard Steward He and an elder plotting to use a formation and Hundred Flower Tendon-Softening Powder to exploit him.
• Jiang Yuan dumped the dinner but realized the pastries he had eaten earlier were drugged, while the formation’s pink mist overwhelmed Guo Hongtao and intensified the medicine’s effects.
• The gray-veiled elder entered and took Jiang Yuan’s Yang Essence; the next morning, she told Steward He his essence could help her break through.
• Jiang Yuan woke clear-headed, helped Guo Hongtao dispel the remaining medicine, and told him they would play along for now before making their move.

Jiang Yuan pretended to be weakened until Su Yan arrived and offered to help him escape and find his crashed spaceship in exchange for killing Elder Gu. As the gray-veiled elder and dozens of Evil Union Sect disciples surrounded them, Jiang Yuan stepped forward with a playful challenge.

• Jiang Yuan and Guo Hongtao acted weak and bewitched, convincing Steward He to order another attack with the Bewitching Yin-Yang Formation.
• Su Yan cut apart the pink mist with her sword and confronted Steward He with the Pure Cultivation Academy's Patrol Token.
• Su Yan offered to help Jiang Yuan escape and find his spaceship wreckage if he helped kill Elder Gu, and Jiang Yuan accepted.
• Elder Gu arrived and threatened to take Su Yan and Jiang Yuan as cultivation vessels or turn them into living corpses, while Evil Union Sect disciples surrounded the courtyard.
• Jiang Yuan stepped in front of Su Yan and taunted Elder Gu and the assembled cultivators.

Jiang Yuan fought off the Evil Union Sect by breaking their formation and humiliating their disciples, then escaped with Su Yan and Guo Hongtao. The three fled into the forest as the sect pursued them.

• Jiang Yuan revealed his Baxia · Stone-Metal Body and used Whirlwind Slash to repel the Evil Union Sect disciples attacking him.
• Jiang Yuan used Thunderclap Vibration to shatter the Bewitching Yin-Yang Formation and evade Elder Gray Veil's strike.
• Jiang Yuan cut apart the disciples' clothing while mocking them, and Su Yan blocked Elder Gray Veil from pursuing him.
• Jiang Yuan, Su Yan, and Guo Hongtao fled into the forest as Steward He led the remaining disciples after them.
• Su Yan asked Jiang Yuan what swordsmanship he had used, and he called it Gentleman Swordsmanship.