Chapter Summaries

Ji Zhixing and the others killed more Single-Horned Blood Crocodiles, then faced a surprise attack by the remaining pack at the Blood River. Xiao Mingyue used a Crimson Flame Spear scroll to kill one of the three Second Order crocodiles, while the battle continued.

• Iron Mountain, Zhou Han, Ji Zhixing, Xiao Mingyue, and Su Qing ambushed the retreating Single-Horned Blood Crocodiles and killed many in the Spider Passage.
• The group refined the crocodile corpses, and Ji Zhixing secretly gained blood crystals and an Origin Force Gene Potion while Xiao Mingyue found nothing.
• The five returned to the Blood River, where the crocodiles submerged and appeared to avoid coming ashore.
• Three Second Order Single-Horned Blood Crocodiles and dozens of First Order crocodiles burst from the river and attacked the group.
• Iron Mountain, Zhou Han, and Ji Zhixing held off the three Second Order crocodiles as Xiao Mingyue and Su Qing attacked the advancing pack.
• Xiao Mingyue activated a Crimson Flame Spear scroll and killed the Second Order crocodile fighting Zhou Han.

Ji Zhixing and his companions escaped a group of Single-Horned Blood Crocodiles, then hunted Blood Beasts to build his first-day ranking score. As the school opened the blood-crystal submission channels, Ji Zhixing handed in his crystals and awaited the results.

• Zhou Han helped Ji Zhixing kill a second-order Single-Horned Blood Crocodile, and the group retreated from a giant crocodile that appeared to be at the second-order peak.
• Ji Zhixing refined two second-order crocodile corpses, gaining blood crystals, Gene Source Stones, and a Blood-Attribute Gene Development Potion, which he kept secret.
• The group left the Spider Cave and hunted Blood Beasts, giving their kills to Ji Zhixing to refine until he had two second-order and twenty-two first-order blood crystals.
• Chen Wenjie and Han Shuang spotted Xiao Mingyue's group but turned away without confronting them.
• Blood-colored vortices appeared, and Ji Zhixing tossed his blood crystals into one of the school's submission channels.

Ji Zhixing and his companions submitted their Blood Crystals and waited for the first-day rankings, while Rain City University’s teachers took notice of his performance. Ji Zhixing placed fifth, earning a major reward and anticipating a substantial increase in his resources.

• Zhou Han submitted eight First Order Blood Crystals and Su Qing submitted five, while Iron Mountain kept his crystals to strengthen his Savage Bear Body gene ability.
• Ji Zhixing and his companions camped by a cliff and discussed the rankings, with Zhou Han predicting that Ji Zhixing could reach the top ten.
• Rain City University’s teachers announced Cao Zhenxing in first place and Ji Zhixing in fifth with 42,000 points; Yang Manni explained Ji Zhixing’s background, and Liang Jin decided to watch his performance.
• The skyvault godwood displayed the rankings, and Ji Zhixing’s companions celebrated his fifth-place finish while Zhou Han found himself in ninety-seventh place.
• Ji Zhixing calculated that his ranking reward and remaining loot amounted to more than 300,000 Gene Coins’ worth of gains, and looked forward to developing his gene abilities.

Ji Zhixing’s first-day leaderboard ranking shocked the Blood Beast Secret Realm and enraged Gu Zheng, while Ji Zhixing refined blood crystals to improve his gigantification ability. After Xiao Mingyue helped restore his mental power and made a future pact with him, Ji Zhixing continued cultivating through the night, and Su Qing awakened as a second-order Gene Cultivator the next morning.

• Ji Zhixing’s fifth-place leaderboard ranking put him above Gu Zheng and stunned students across the secret realm, while Gu Zheng resolved to eliminate him.
• Ji Zhixing refined over thirty first-order blood crystals, slightly improving his gigantification ability before mental exhaustion forced him to stop.
• Xiao Mingyue gave Ji Zhixing a Mental Power Recovery Potion and said he could help her if he someday evolved his gene to Seventh-Order Glory Rank; they agreed to the deal.
• Ji Zhixing used the potion’s effects to refine an Origin Force Gene Potion and more blood crystals through the night.
• Su Qing broke through to become a second-order Gene Cultivator, and Ji Zhixing joined Xiao Mingyue, Zhou Han, and Iron Mountain in congratulating her.

Su Qing broke through to the Second Order, and the group returned to Spider Valley to challenge the Single-Horned Blood Crocodiles. After Ji Zhixing and his companions killed the peak Second-Order leader, Ji Zhixing’s aura began to rise, suggesting he was breaking through.

• Su Qing tested her new strength, and the group set out for Spider Valley to hunt Blood Beasts and help Ji Zhixing improve his ranking.
• The group found dozens of Single-Horned Blood Crocodiles at the underground blood river, including a peak Second-Order leader and another Second-Order crocodile.
• Iron Mountain, Su Qing, Zhou Han, and Ji Zhixing worked together to kill the smaller Second-Order crocodile while Xiao Mingyue and Su Qing held back the First-Order crocodiles.
• The group combined their attacks to wound and kill the peak Second-Order Single-Horned Blood Crocodile, sending the remaining crocodiles fleeing into the river.
• As Zhou Han asked Ji Zhixing to refine the leader’s corpse, Ji Zhixing closed his eyes and his aura began to rise, appearing to signal a breakthrough.

Ji Zhixing broke through to become a second-order gene cultivator, then refined blood crocodiles and obtained a Blood Crocodile Axe. He discovered that his Stone Heart ability had improved to three-star quality and that he had gained a new ability.

• Zhou Han, Iron Mountain, Su Qing, and Xiao Mingyue watched as Ji Zhixing broke through to second order.
• At Xiao Mingyue's direction, Ji Zhixing and the others refined the single-horned blood crocodile corpses.
• Ji Zhixing refined two second-order crocodiles at once and obtained a second-order two-star Blood Crocodile Axe that increased explosive strength and slowed wound healing.
• Ji Zhixing refined the remaining first-order crocodiles, receiving only gene source stones and blood crystals.
• Ji Zhixing examined his Pikeman Stone Monkey Gene and found that Stone Heart had risen from two-star to three-star quality and that he had gained a new ability.

Ji Zhixing discovered that Staffsmanship to the Divine made his staff strikes feel like an extension of his will, then explored the underground Blood River with his companions. After finding Gu Zheng and the Genius Class gathered near a lit cavern, Ji Zhixing and Xiao Mingyue swam underwater toward them, where he spotted something and pulled her down to the riverbed.

• Ji Zhixing identified his new ability as Staffsmanship to the Divine and tested its power by smashing an attacking Blood Fish with his staff.
• Ji Zhixing and his companions explored downstream, fought off low-level Blood Beasts, and found Gu Zheng and more than a dozen Genius Class students gathered in a cavern.
• Ji Zhixing chose to investigate the cavern underwater, and Xiao Mingyue joined him with her own underwater equipment and a Clear Sight Potion.
• Ji Zhixing and Xiao Mingyue swam toward Gu Zheng and the others, and Ji Zhixing spotted something before grabbing Xiao Mingyue and sinking to the riverbed.

Ji Zhixing and Xiao Mingyue discovered a contest for five Weapon Tokens and decided to compete alongside the Genius Class students. As the students battled the third-order Red-Scaled Blood Beast guarding the tokens, Ji Zhixing slipped underwater toward the cave while Xiao Mingyue moved away to find an escape route.

• Gu Zheng heard other Genius Class students mock him over Ji Zhixing’s rise on the points leaderboard and hid his anger.
• Ji Zhixing and Xiao Mingyue encountered a third-order Blood Beast and saw a white-robed teacher announce five Weapon Tokens as prizes.
• The teacher tossed the tokens into a cave, and the Red-Scaled Blood Beast blocked its entrance while the Genius Class students attacked it.
• Gu Zheng and the other students unleashed their abilities, gradually wounding the beast as Ji Zhixing watched and assessed their strength.
• Ji Zhixing swam toward the cave while the students were distracted, and Xiao Mingyue moved off to look for an escape route.

Ji Zhixing sneaked into the Red-Scaled Blood Beast’s cave and took five Weapon Tokens, then used three as bait to distract the Genius Class students. He charged out under Gu Zheng’s attack and escaped by diving into the Blood River.

• Ji Zhixing swam unseen toward the cave while the Genius Class students and the white-robed teacher fought the wounded Red-Scaled Blood Beast.
• Ji Zhixing slipped into the cave during the beast’s charge, found five Weapon Tokens, and took them all.
• Ji Zhixing threw three tokens mixed with gravel outside, causing some students to fight over them while Gu Zheng and others waited for him.
• Ji Zhixing activated Bedrock Body and Gigantification, then charged out of the cave with the Tidehearing Staff.
• Gu Zheng struck Ji Zhixing with a barrage of sword light, cutting him but failing to stop his advance.
• Ji Zhixing leaped into the Blood River and disappeared beneath the water.

Ji Zhixing escaped the Genius Class students with Xiao Mingyue’s help after she drove off an underwater pursuer, then used a hidden passage to evade the others. After Xiao Mingyue treated his wounds, the teacher in white rebuked the Genius Class students for letting Ji Zhixing take the Weapon Tokens and escape.

• Gu Zheng recognized that Ji Zhixing had reached Second Order and agreed to help a Blackwater Sea King Snake gene student catch him in exchange for the Weapon Tokens.
• Xiao Mingyue fired three Flame Spears at the student entering the Blood River, triggering the school’s spatial transportation to remove him.
• Xiao Mingyue found Ji Zhixing underwater and led him through a narrow passage that let them escape the Genius Class students blocking both ends of the river.
• Xiao Mingyue gave Ji Zhixing a Healing Potion, and he used his gene furnace to heal most of his wounds and strengthen his basic self-healing ability.
• The teacher in white told the Genius Class students that Ji Zhixing and Xiao Mingyue had already escaped, then mocked them for failing to stop a regular-class student.

After escaping the pursuing Blood Fish, Ji Zhixing and Xiao Mingyue found a blood zhi guarded by a powerful Blood Snake deep underground. Ji Zhixing realized the treasure might help evolve his willow tree gene, but the pair retreated because they could not defeat its guardian.

• Liang Jin praised Ji Zhixing for stealing two Weapon Tokens and asked Yang Manni to offer him a chance to follow the six-armed moon-swallowing demon ape inheritance.
• Ji Zhixing and Xiao Mingyue chose the left passage at an underground river fork, then fled through branching tunnels from a giant Blood Fish.
• They reached a spacious chamber, rested, and followed a sloping passage deeper underground.
• Ji Zhixing and Xiao Mingyue discovered a massive Blood Snake guarding a large blood zhi, and Ji Zhixing sensed the plant could help his willow tree gene evolve.
• The pair quietly withdrew from the chamber because the Blood Snake was too strong for them to fight.

Ji Zhixing and Xiao Mingyue escaped the underground caverns and began hunting Blood Beasts, where Xiao revealed she had reached the second order. After Ji explained the resources he needed to evolve his genes, Xiao offered to lend him her Heart-Refining Stone pillow so he could develop his immovable stone heart.

• Ji Zhixing and Xiao Mingyue escaped the Blood Snake’s cavern through a fissure after killing the Single-Horned Blood Crocodiles pursuing them.
• Ji Zhixing and Xiao Mingyue emerged at a mountain foot and decided to hunt nearby Blood Beasts while waiting for the nightly rankings to tell their companions they were safe.
• Xiao Mingyue killed a blood eagle with her Flame Spirit Bird and revealed that she had reached the second order.
• Ji Zhixing told Xiao Mingyue that he needed a Heart-Refining Stone to develop his stone heart ability into an immovable stone heart.
• Xiao Mingyue explained that Heart-Refining Stones could be reused and offered to lend Ji Zhixing the pillow made from hers after they left the secret realm.

Ji Zhixing and Xiao Mingyue finished hunting and saw that Ji had placed fifth in the second day's Points Ranking, ahead of Gu Zheng. After two Weapon Tokens let him choose equipment from the school's vault, Ji selected the Second Order, five-star Ninefold Tidal Staff and its technique.

• Ji Zhixing accepted Xiao Mingyue's offer to use her Heart-Refining Stone pillow and continued hunting Blood Beasts with her until dusk.
• Xiao Mingyue tallied their Blood Crystals at 85,000 points, and the new ranking placed Ji fifth, Gu Zheng seventh, and Zhou Han ninety-ninth.
• Ji Zhixing's two Weapon Tokens flew into a blood-colored vortex, and Yang Manni explained that each token allowed him to choose a piece of Gene Equipment from the school's Equipment Vault.
• Xiao Mingyue declined to choose equipment and asked Ji for the Blood Crocodile Axe, which he handed to her.
• Ji Zhixing browsed the Second Order staff weapons and chose the five-star Ninefold Tidal Staff with its accompanying technique.

Ji Zhixing redeemed a Ninefold Tidal Staff, Fallen-Feather Moon-Treading Boots, and fifty Five-Element Gene Development Potions with Xiao Mingyue’s help. He began refining the potions that night and saw the first faint signs of Five-Colored Spirit Light forming in his gene aperture.

• Ji Zhixing accepted Yang Manni’s warning but redeemed the Second Order five-star Ninefold Tidal Staff because its built-in technique would help him.
• After Xiao Mingyue recommended speed-boosting gear, Ji Zhixing chose the Fallen-Feather Moon-Treading Boots for their usefulness in combat and escape.
• Xiao Mingyue persuaded Yang Manni to redeem fifty Five-Element Gene Development Potions and lend Ji Zhixing points, then gave him Mental Power Recovery Potions for his training.
• Ji Zhixing and Xiao Mingyue pitched their tents and agreed to search for Su Qing and the others the next day so they could hunt Blood Beasts together.
• Zhou Han and his companions saw Ji Zhixing still ranked fifth and concluded that he and Xiao Mingyue had escaped danger.
• Ji Zhixing refined the staff and boots, then began refining the Five-Element Gene Development Potions; after five bottles, faint colors appeared on the phantom willow tree’s branches and leaves.

Ji Zhixing practiced the Ninefold Tidal Staff for the first time and continued refining blood crystals before setting out with Xiao Mingyue to search for their teammates. Huang Yu told them where Zhou Han and the others had been seen, and Ji Zhixing warned Huang Yu to be cautious around him before leaving with Xiao Mingyue.

• Ji Zhixing showed Xiao Mingyue the Fallen-Feather Moon-Treading Boots and practiced the Ninefold Tidal Staff, performing its forms smoothly on his first attempt.
• After Xiao Mingyue returned to her tent, Ji Zhixing refined blood crystals to slowly improve his Gigantification ability and then fell asleep.
• The next morning, Ji Zhixing and Xiao Mingyue packed up, hunted Blood Beasts, and asked other students whether they had seen his teammates.
• Ji Zhixing met Huang Yu's group, including Qi Xingzhou and Yu Zhirou, and learned that Zhou Han and the others had been spotted about seven or eight li away.
• Ji Zhixing warned Huang Yu not to openly associate with him because he had offended Gu Zheng, then revealed that Yu Zhirou had once directed Gu Zheng's group toward him and left with Xiao Mingyue.

Ji Zhixing and Xiao Mingyue searched for their missing teammates while Chen Wenjie and Han Shuang lured a pack of Blood Wolves into Zhou Han, Iron Mountain, and Su Qing’s fight. Ji Zhixing and Xiao Mingyue reached the area just as Chen Wenjie and Han Shuang exposed themselves, leaving them only a dozen meters away.

• Ji Zhixing revealed that Yu Zhirou had once told Gu Zheng where to find him, and he explained the betrayal to Xiao Mingyue as they hurried toward his teammates.
• Ji Zhixing and Xiao Mingyue found the cliff where they had camped but did not find Zhou Han, Iron Mountain, or Su Qing, so they followed the sounds of battle.
• Chen Wenjie and Han Shuang decided to drive Zhou Han’s group from the Secret Realm by luring Blood Wolves toward them, then hid beneath a Disguise Cloth.
• Thirty or forty Blood Wolves joined the battle, but Zhou Han, Iron Mountain, and Su Qing chose to keep fighting together rather than flee.
• Ji Zhixing and Xiao Mingyue raced toward the battle, while Chen Wenjie and Han Shuang emerged from behind their rock and saw Ji Zhixing approaching.

Ji Zhixing and Xiao Mingyue rescued Zhou Han, Iron Mountain, and Su Qing from the Blood Beasts, revealing how much stronger they had become. After the battle, Ji Zhixing began refining two different second-order Blood Beasts together to see what the gene furnace would produce.

• Ji Zhixing recognized Chen Wenjie and Han Shuang’s role in the ambush and struck them, causing the secret realm to expel them.
• Ji Zhixing and Xiao Mingyue rushed to help Zhou Han, Iron Mountain, and Su Qing, who were surrounded by Blood Wolves and iron-armored Blood Beasts.
• Ji Zhixing used his Ninefold Tidal Staff to kill the pack’s two second-order Blood Wolves and drive off most of the others while Xiao Mingyue attacked with Flame Spirit Birds.
• Ji Zhixing and the group killed the two remaining second-order iron-armored Blood Beasts.
• The group gathered the corpses, and Ji Zhixing placed a second-order iron-armored Blood Beast and a second-order Blood Wolf into the gene furnace together.

Ji Zhixing refined a Wolfblade Bracer and learned of a plan to use the Chameleon Cloth to obtain the underground blood zhi guarded by a third-order Blood Beast. After the group defeated a large pack of Single-Horned Blood Crocodiles, Ji Zhixing counted his points and wondered whether he could reach fourth place.

• Ji Zhixing refined a Wolfblade Bracer from a second-order Blood Beast and showed it to the group as they rested after their battle.
• Xiao Mingyue revealed the Chameleon Cloth and proposed that, on the last day, Ji Zhixing use it to steal the underground blood zhi while the others lured away its third-order guardian.
• The group reached the underground cavern and began drawing out the Single-Horned Blood Crocodiles, but two second-order crocodiles and a pack of first-order ones charged them.
• Ji Zhixing and the others fought the crocodiles head-on, killed both second-order beasts, and drove most of the survivors back into the Blood River.
• The group refined the crocodile corpses and found no gene equipment, then left the cavern as dusk approached.
• Ji Zhixing calculated that his total score had reached 145,000 points and wondered whether that would put him in fourth place.

Ji Zhixing rose to second place in the Blood Beast Secret Realm rankings as the group prepared to leave on the tenth day. He and Xiao Mingyue reached the giant snake’s chamber while the others distracted it, finding the Earth-Spirit Blood Zhi growing there.

• Ji Zhixing ranked fourth on the third day, ahead of Ye Chutong, who vowed to hunt more beasts and reclaim her position.
• Over the following days, Ji Zhixing’s points climbed as his companions gave him the Blood Beasts they hunted; by the ninth day, he had reached 625,000 points, just 20,000 behind Cao Zhenxing.
• On the tenth morning, Ji Zhixing and his companions entered the underground chamber and split up along the passage to draw the giant snake away from its lair.
• Iron Mountain called out to lure the snake upward, and Ji Zhixing and Xiao Mingyue hid beneath the Chameleon Cloth until it passed.
• Ji Zhixing and Xiao Mingyue hurried into the empty lair and found a table-sized blood-red lingzhi growing in a corner.

Ji Zhixing and Xiao Mingyue failed to move or damage the underground Blood Zhi, so they hid beside it and Ji Zhixing began refining its aura to strengthen his willow tree gene. The giant snake returned to its den without noticing them, and Ji Zhixing continued cultivating with the story left in the middle of his effort to develop the root of the earth ability.

• Ji Zhixing and Xiao Mingyue tried pulling, striking, and hitting the Blood Zhi with the Ninefold Tidal Staff, but it remained untouched.
• Xiao Mingyue suggested that Ji Zhixing use his gene furnace to absorb the Blood Zhi's aura, and he successfully channeled its power into his willow tree gene aperture.
• Ji Zhixing and Xiao Mingyue hid behind the Blood Zhi under the Chameleon Cloth while Zhou Han and Su Qing were teleported out of the Secret Realm.
• The giant snake returned to its den and coiled up on the other side of the Blood Zhi without finding Ji Zhixing and Xiao Mingyue.
• Ji Zhixing continued refining the Blood Zhi's aura, drank a Mental Power Recovery Potion when he grew exhausted, and resumed cultivating.