Chapter Summaries

Ji Zhixing told his teachers and family that his gene had evolved into a powerful tier-two Pikeman Stone Monkey Gene, and his family celebrated the news. He then went to Rain City University to apply through self-recommendation, while Wang Yan arranged for an older student to confront him.

• Ji Zhixing told He Yanbing and Sun Dajun that his gene had evolved, and Sun Dajun agreed to lend him the Tidehearing Staff for his application visit.
• Ji Zhixing told Zhang Yulan that his Three-Inch Stone Monkey Gene had evolved into the tier-two Pikeman Stone Monkey Gene, and she called Ji Guodong home to celebrate.
• Zhang Yulan shared the news with neighbors, while Ji Guodong and Ji Zhiyu watched Ji Zhixing's video and celebrated his plan to apply to Rain City University.
• Wang Yan told his mother that his classmate's older brother would come over the next evening, and she looked forward to confronting Ji Zhixing with the student's backing.
• Ji Zhixing left home the next morning and arrived at Rain City University to begin his self-recommendation application.

Ji Zhixing applied for admission to Rain City University, and Yang Manni invited him to demonstrate his evolved Staff Soldier Stone Monkey Gene and abilities. His Gigantification demonstration began to astonish the watching freshmen, leaving them staring as he grew to 2.7 meters.

• Ji Zhixing arrived at Rain City University to apply for admission through self-recommendation, and the gatekeeper brought him to Yang Manni.
• Yang Manni checked Ji Zhixing's ID and learned he had dual gene apertures and had evolved the Three-Inch Stone Monkey Gene into the Staff Soldier Stone Monkey.
• Ji Zhixing manifested his stone monkey gene, and Yang Manni recorded its name before taking him to the sports field.
• Ji Zhixing told Yang Manni about his abilities, including Three-star Gigantification, Stone Skin, and three first-tier, two-star staff techniques.
• Yang Manni introduced Ji Zhixing as a self-recommendation applicant to nearby freshmen, who reacted with curiosity and skepticism about his original gene.
• Ji Zhixing activated Gigantification and grew to 2.7 meters, making the whispering freshmen fall silent in astonishment.

Ji Zhixing demonstrated the evolved power of his Pikeman Stone Monkey Gene at Rain City University and began his enrollment with Yang Manni. He left determined to fuse his second gene the next day and evolve it so he could qualify for the Elite Class.

• Ji Zhixing used Gigantification and Stone Skin, then performed all Eight Army-Breaking Staff Moves with his enlarged Tidehearing Staff, stunning the freshmen watching.
• The freshmen crowded around Ji Zhixing to praise his strength and ask how he evolved his gene and trained his staff technique.
• Yang Manni took Ji Zhixing to complete his enrollment paperwork and warned him not to rush into choosing a second gene.
• Ji Zhixing told Yang Manni he had chosen a highly compatible first-order gene, despite being eligible for the Elite Class if he fused a second-order gene.
• Yang Manni explained that Elite Class students received resources worth one million Gene Coins each semester, and Ji Zhixing resolved to fuse and evolve his second gene to qualify.

Ji Zhixing enrolled at Rain City University, learned about the Blood Beast Secret Realm, and joined his roommates’ prospective exploration team. As he left campus to go home, someone called his name from behind.

• Yang Manni assigned Ji Zhixing to Class 21 and explained that the university’s Blood Beast Secret Realm held blood crystals that could help evolve genes, though it was dangerous.
• Yang Manni showed Ji Zhixing the dormitory area, and he chose to live on campus rather than pay to rent a villa.
• Ji Zhixing met his roommates Bi Chao, Ren Pingzhi, Zhao Hai, and Feng Yan, then demonstrated his staff technique and agreed to team up with them in the secret realm.
• Ji Zhixing said goodbye to his roommates and headed for the university gate, but a familiar voice called his name from behind.

Ji Zhixing joined Rain City University, bought gene potions to prepare for advancing, and celebrated his admission with his family. Meanwhile, Wang Yan brought Song Hui to the Rain-Listening Garden to intervene in a dispute, and Song Hui wondered whether the Ji Zhixing he had seen at the university was the same person he had heard about.

• Ji Zhixing told Qin Xiaoran that his Three-Inch Stone Monkey Gene had evolved into the Pikeman Stone Monkey Gene and declined Qin Xiaoran's offer to team him with Xiao Mingyue because he had already promised Ren Pingzhi, Zhao Hai, and the others.
• Qi Xingzhou and Qi Yue mistook Ji Zhixing for an unsuccessful applicant as he left Rain City University, while Ji Zhixing resolved to prove himself.
• Ji Zhixing bought twenty bottles of First-Order Source Force Gene Potion to prepare to break through to second-order cultivation.
• Ji Zhixing returned home and celebrated his admission to Rain City University with Ji Zhiyu, Ji Guodong, and Zhang Yulan.
• Wang Yan brought Song Hui to the Rain-Listening Garden to address a conflict, and Song Hui wondered whether Ji Zhixing was the graduate of Rain City No. 3 High School he had seen at the university.

After Ji Zhixing drove off Wang Yan’s family, he cultivated through the night and went outside Rain City Base City to search for a second gene. He joined Ren Pingzhi, Zhao Hai, and Feng Yan on a training trip, then spotted his target beside a river.

• Song Hui realized Ji Zhixing was a fellow Rain City University student and apologized after learning Wang Yan’s family had misled Song Jun.
• Ji Zhixing slammed Wang Yan and his parents against the wall, warned them to stop causing trouble, and sent them fleeing upstairs.
• Ji Zhixing refined three bottles of Origin Force Gene Potion overnight and grew closer to reaching the second order.
• Ji Zhixing traveled to Rain City Base City’s east gate to look for a second gene and agreed to accompany Ren Pingzhi, Zhao Hai, and Feng Yan outside.
• The four followed a path into the wilderness, where Ji Zhixing spotted the target he had been seeking beside a small river.

Ji Zhixing searched the wilderness for a willow tree whose gene sample had enough compatibility for his second gene aperture, while helping Ren Pingzhi, Zhao Hai, and Feng Yan fight Stench Fly Wolves. He found a crooked sapling with 73% compatibility and prepared to use its gene.

• Ji Zhixing refined several willow trees, but their gene samples had compatibility rates below the 72% he wanted.
• Three Stench Fly Wolves attacked, and Ji Zhixing, Ren Pingzhi, Zhao Hai, and Feng Yan killed them together.
• Ji Zhixing collected the wolves and refined them, producing a Stench Potion that could spread a lasting foul smell.
• Ji Zhixing found a small willow sapling growing between rocks and refined it in his gene furnace.
• The sapling’s gene sample reached 73% compatibility, and Ji Zhixing told the others he had found what he needed.

Ji Zhixing achieved perfect compatibility with the willow tree gene, learned its abilities and evolution paths, and returned to the base city with his teammates. There, he confronted Gu Zheng over the stolen hematite ore and left determined to grow strong enough to challenge him.

• Ji Zhixing integrated the willow tree gene at 100% compatibility and learned it had the Rooting and Light Gathering abilities, with a path toward powerful future evolutions.
• Ji Zhixing told Ren Pingzhi, Zhao Hai, and Feng Yan about his new abilities, then hunted gene beasts with them for the day without finding gene equipment.
• At the base city gate, Ji Zhixing's group encountered Gu Zheng and his squad, who were shocked to find him alive.
• Gu Zheng accused Ji Zhixing of stealing hematite ore and warned Ren Pingzhi and the others to stay away from him.
• Ji Zhixing reminded Gu Zheng that he had used classmates as bait and failed to catch him, then entered the city and resolved to grow stronger.

Ji Zhixing bought Stone Bone, Stone Tendon, and Stone Muscle Gene Development Potions and cultivated them alongside Origin Force Gene Potions, aiming to develop all three abilities. After learning Zhao Gang had been killed and suspecting Gu Zheng might be involved, Ji Zhixing began a final cultivation session, hoping to break through that night.

• Unable to find Stone Tendon and Stone Muscle potions at ordinary stores, Ji Zhixing bought ten bottles each of Stone Bone, Stone Tendon, and Stone Muscle potions at Radiant Mall.
• Qin Xiaoran learned from the mall manager that Ji Zhixing had bought three kinds of gene ability development potions and wondered whether Ji Zhixing had sensed a new gene.
• Ji Zhixing began refining the potions at home, feeling his bones, tendons, and muscles transform as he endured fatigue and pain.
• Ji Zhixing cultivated with the three development potions and Origin Force potions every day until the day before Rain City University opened.
• Liu Qifan told Ji Zhixing that Zhao Gang had been found dead, apparently killed with a sword, and warned him to stay inside in case Gu Zheng was responsible.
• Ji Zhixing decided he needed to grow stronger and began refining another Stone Bone Gene Potion, hoping to develop all three abilities that night.

Ji Zhixing completed the transformations of his bones, tendons, and muscles, then left home to enroll at Rain City University. After arriving, he found that Gu Zheng’s threat had frightened his former roommates away from room 212.

• Ji Zhixing drank the Stone Bone Gene Potion and transformed his bones, tendons, and muscles, though he still needed a final step to form the four-star bedrock body ability.
• Ji Guodong told Ji Zhixing that the Sky Tyrant Dragon Beast had gone to Cloud City Base City, and Ji Zhixing said goodbye to his family before leaving for university.
• Ji Zhixing surprised Huang Yu, Yu Zhirou, and Qi Xingzhou by appearing at Rain City University to enroll after evolving his gene.
• Ji Zhixing noticed freshmen avoiding him because word had spread that he had offended Gu Zheng, and he considered entering the secret realm alone.
• Ji Zhixing found room 212 empty of Ren Pingzhi, Zhao Hai, and Feng Yan, and concluded they had likely changed rooms because of Gu Zheng’s threat.

Ji Zhixing hit a bottleneck while trying to become a second-tier gene cultivator, then met Xiao Mingyue in the cafeteria and asked her for help developing his bedrock body ability. She offered him access to her gravity cultivation chamber and invited him to join her team before taking him to her villa.

• Ji Zhixing refined another bottle of Origin Force Gene Potion but remained stuck at a breakthrough bottleneck.
• Xiao Mingyue sat with Ji Zhixing, and he explained that Gu Zheng had caused his dormmates to move out.
• Ji Zhixing told Xiao Mingyue he had fused with the Willow Tree Gene and asked how to develop his bedrock body ability.
• Xiao Mingyue offered him her gravity cultivation chamber and invited him to join her team despite his conflict with Gu Zheng.
• Ji Zhixing accepted Xiao Mingyue's offer, learned about her Circling Wind ability and gene equipment, and left with her for her villa.

Ji Zhixing trained in Xiao Mingyue’s Gravity Training Room to fuse his four stone-based gene abilities into bedrock body. After enduring shifting, crushing gravity while practicing his staff technique, he finally achieved the transformation.

• Xiao Mingyue brought Ji Zhixing to her villa’s Gravity Training Room and explained how gravity could help fuse stone bone, stone tendon, stone muscle, and stone skin.
• Ji Zhixing agreed to Xiao Mingyue monitoring his physical data and adjusting the gravity as he trained.
• Ji Zhixing activated his four abilities under gravity, then followed Xiao Mingyue’s instructions to stand and practice the Army-Breaking Staff Technique with the Tidehearing Staff.
• Xiao Mingyue increased the gravity while Ji Zhixing continued training, and his four abilities gradually began working together despite the strain on his body.
• Ji Zhixing’s stone bone, stone tendon, stone muscle, and stone skin completely fused, and he achieved bedrock body.

Ji Zhixing developed the four-star bedrock body ability in Xiao Mingyue’s gravity chamber, then used her healing potion to recover and unexpectedly develop the willow tree gene’s basic self-healing ability. Xiao Mingyue warned that developing abilities before hearing the willow tree gene’s voice could affect his future evolution.

• Ji Zhixing completed the fusion of his four abilities and developed the bedrock body ability as the gravity in the chamber returned to normal.
• Xiao Mingyue gave Ji Zhixing a costly healing potion after warning him that his internal organs were badly strained.
• Ji Zhixing refined the potion with his gene furnace, and the willow tree gene absorbed its medicinal power and developed basic self-healing.
• Ji Zhixing told Xiao Mingyue about the new ability, and she reacted with surprise at how quickly he had developed it.
• Xiao Mingyue asked whether Ji Zhixing had heard the willow tree gene’s voice and warned that developing abilities recklessly could harm his future gene evolution.

Ji Zhixing recovered from his training, discovered that his breakthrough bottleneck had eased, and joined Rain City University's freshmen as they entered the Blood Beast Secret Realm. He arrived alone after his classmates avoided teaming up with him, leaving him to face the realm without a group.

• Ji Zhixing thanked Xiao Mingyue, returned to his dormitory, and slept after a tiring day.
• The next morning, Ji Zhixing refined an Origin Force Gene Potion and realized his bottleneck to the second order had eased, likely because he had developed bedrock body and basic self-healing ability.
• Ji Zhixing went to the field and saw Ren Pingzhi, Zhao Hai, Feng Yan, and former classmates avoid speaking with him because of Gu Zheng; Huang Yu privately asked what had happened, and Ji Zhixing told him not to pry.
• Rain City University president Luo Hongtao opened a spatial passage, and Class 21 entered the Blood Beast Secret Realm.
• Ji Zhixing found himself alone in the clearing as the other freshmen formed teams, while Yu Zhirou and others watched him without inviting him to join.

Ji Zhixing joined Xiao Mingyue, Zhou Han, Su Qing, and Iron Mountain to hunt blood beasts in the secret realm, while Xiao Mingyue used her connection to Qin Xiaoran to deter Gu Zheng's lackeys. Ji Zhixing killed a One-Horned Blood Boar in one strike and discovered his gene furnace had yielded two blood crystals, leaving him eager to gather more loot and grow stronger.

• Xiao Mingyue introduced Ji Zhixing to Zhou Han, Su Qing, and Iron Mountain, then recruited him into their team.
• Chen Wenjie and Han Shuang confronted the group, but Xiao Mingyue invoked her cousin Qin Xiaoran's authority and made them step aside.
• Ji Zhixing told his new teammates how Gu Zheng had used him and his classmates as bait before Ji Zhixing seized the hematite ore.
• The team entered a blood-red forest, where Xiao Mingyue asked Ji Zhixing to fight a One-Horned Blood Boar.
• Ji Zhixing killed the One-Horned Blood Boar with one staff strike and refined its corpse in his gene furnace.
• Ji Zhixing found two Gene Source Stones and two blood crystals from the boar and hoped to collect more loot and reach Second Order.

Ji Zhixing and his companions hunted blood beasts in the secret realm, where he gained blood crystals at an unusually high rate. They lured waves of blood-colored spiders from a valley until a powerful spider’s cry gathered the remaining spiders deeper inside, suggesting a second-order beast was present.

• Ji Zhixing refined blood beasts and secretly accumulated far more blood crystals than his companions, while Xiao Mingyue’s luck remained poor.
• Iron Mountain spotted a valley filled with blood-colored spiders, and the group debated whether to risk fighting them.
• Zhou Han revealed that he had recently become a second-order Gene Cultivator, and Xiao Mingyue proposed luring out the spiders in small groups.
• Xiao Mingyue, Su Qing, Zhou Han, Iron Mountain, and Ji Zhixing used their abilities to defeat the first attacking spiders and continued clearing successive waves.
• A shrill cry from deeper in the valley caused the remaining spiders to gather, and Su Qing suspected a second-order blood-colored spider was inside.

The team entered the Blood Spider valley and fought through its swarm, where two second-order Blood Spiders emerged. Ji Zhixing combined Gigantification with Bedrock Body to unleash overwhelming power and hold off one of the second-order spiders, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Xiao Mingyue ordered Su Qing to burn the webs as the five advanced into the valley and fought the Blood Spiders.
• Zhou Han and Iron Mountain led the assault while Ji Zhixing guarded Xiao Mingyue and Su Qing, and the group killed spiders with weapons and flames.
• Two second-order Blood Spiders emerged from the valley, prompting the team to intensify their attacks.
• Ji Zhixing activated Gigantification and Bedrock Body, enlarged the Tidehearing Staff, and slaughtered the swarm with powerful strikes.
• One second-order Blood Spider charged Ji Zhixing, who used the Stonewall Staff Technique to deflect its attacks and hold it off.

Zhou Han and Ji Zhixing defeated two Second Order spiders, and Ji Zhixing discovered that refining one had yielded a rare exogenous gene. After the group rested from the battle, Ji Zhixing began refining an Origin Force Gene Potion in hopes of breaking through to the Second Order.

• Zhou Han killed one Second Order spider with Extreme Cold Frost Slash while Ji Zhixing held it in place, then the two defeated the second spider the same way.
• Xiao Mingyue and the others finished off the remaining spiders, and the group divided the corpses for refining.
• Ji Zhixing refined a Second Order spider and obtained two Second Order blood crystals, a Blood Spiderweb Scroll, and a Blood Spiderweb exogenous gene that he planned to sell later.
• The group refined the spider corpses until the dead beasts stopped yielding useful materials, leaving many corpses unprocessed.
• Ji Zhixing drank an Origin Force Gene Potion and began refining it, hoping to replenish his Gene Source Force and break through to the Second Order.

Iron Mountain broke through to Second Order, and the team discovered a blood-red underground river filled with Single-Horned Blood Crocodiles. They fled when dozens of crocodiles and three Second Order leaders pursued them, then turned to fight in a narrow passage.

• Iron Mountain broke through to Second Order, bringing the team’s number of Second Order members to two.
• Xiao Mingyue led the team into a spider cave, where they found a broad underground river of blood-red water.
• Zhou Han spotted Single-Horned Blood Crocodiles in the river, and Iron Mountain and Zhou Han killed the six that charged ashore.
• A roar drew at least fifty more crocodiles from the river, including three Second Order beasts, so Xiao Mingyue ordered the team to retreat.
• Xiao Mingyue slowed the pursuing crocodiles with Flame Spirit Birds, and the team formed a defensive line in a narrow passage.
• Iron Mountain, Zhou Han, and Ji Zhixing began fighting the crocodiles as they charged through the passage.

Ji Zhixing and his companions fought off a pack of Single-Horned Blood Crocodiles, then refined their corpses and discussed the Points Ranking. After Ji Zhixing revealed that he had obtained fifteen blood crystals, including one Second Order crystal, Xiao Mingyue offered him her share of beasts to refine, and the group charged after the retreating crocodiles.

• Ji Zhixing, Iron Mountain, Zhou Han, Xiao Mingyue, and Su Qing killed over twenty Single-Horned Blood Crocodiles before the surviving beasts withdrew and reinforcements approached.
• The group refined the crocodile corpses while discussing the Points Ranking, and Ji Zhixing decided he might try to place without revealing the full extent of his unusual luck.
• Ji Zhixing told the group he had refined fifteen blood crystals, including a Second Order crystal, astonishing his companions.
• Xiao Mingyue offered Ji Zhixing her share of blood beasts to refine in exchange for gene coins, and he accepted.
• When the crocodiles began retreating toward the Blood River, Zhou Han urged the group to pursue, and Iron Mountain, Zhou Han, and Ji Zhixing charged out as Xiao Mingyue used Circling Wind on them.