Chapter Summaries

Cao Bing headed toward City No. 003 after learning Yan Ying was there, while Yan Ying and the Divine Arrow Squad fought Inoue and his ninja allies. The battle left Yan Ying under pressure as Inoue attacked him in a fury.

• Cao Bing could not reach Yan Ying by phone, so he used his authority to locate him in City No. 003 and directed the Smart Fighter Jet there.
• Inoue fought Yan Ying while Xie Hongxin and Song Shengnan lay gravely wounded, and Guan Yong exchanged blows with Kojiro.
• Yan Ying wounded Inoue with an arrow, but Inoue recovered quickly and threatened to kill Yan Ying and his teammates.
• Yan Ying shot at Kojiro while he was down, and Guan Yong killed Kojiro as he evaded the arrow.
• Inoue charged Yan Ying, who was forced onto the defensive beneath Inoue's relentless katana strikes.

Cao Bing arrived in time to rescue the Divine Arrow Squad from Inoue and Florent, then brought the injured team to a hospital. He reassured them and offered Dragon Blood, promising that he would provide even better resources later.

• Inoue and Florent defeated Yan Ying, Guan Yong, Fang Ye, Zheng Ke, Xie Hongxin, and Song Shengnan, then prepared to torture them.
• Cao Bing appeared and terrified Inoue and Florent with his mental pressure before revealing himself to Guan Yong.
• Cao Bing gave Bizhu Pills to Xie Hongxin and Song Shengnan and stabilized their injuries with True Qi.
• Cao Bing lifted Inoue and Florent with True Essence Power and used his Flying Sword to carry out the punishment they had threatened for Guan Yong.
• Cao Bing brought the injured squad to a Limitless Martial Arts hospital, where he told Yan Ying, Guan Yong, Fang Ye, and Zheng Ke that everyone would recover.
• Cao Bing offered the team two bottles of Dragon Blood and promised to bring them better resources after they had recovered.

Cao Bing returned to Hongning Base City, showed the Divine Arrow Squad a secret gravity-training room, and joined Limitless Martial Arts’ Seventh Action Squad. He met his new teammates and learned the squad was rebuilding after most of its former members had been killed.

• Cao Bing helped Yan Ying and the injured Divine Arrow Squad members recover, then showed them his adjustable thirty-times-gravity training room and told them to keep it secret.
• Cao Bing learned that Yan Ying was in debt and still needed to hunt Lord-level Monsters to raise his title, while the squad refused to explain its conflict with the Island Nation team.
• Cao Bing reported to the Special Operations Team and was welcomed into the Seventh Squad by captain Nan Xin, Zhang Wenbao, Zhuang Jian, and Lou Gong.
• Nan Xin treated the squad to a meal, where Cao Bing learned that a King-level Monster had killed the Seventh Squad’s former members except Zhang Wenbao before Hong hunted it down and slew it.

Qin Yu survived the Four-Nine Heavenly Tribulation with Cao Bing’s help and, after condensing his Stellar Cloud, left for home with Xiao Hei. Cao Bing stayed behind in the Wildlands, preparing to move Leishan Residence and continue cultivating alone.

• Qin Yu passed the Four-Nine Heavenly Tribulation using Cao Bing’s defensive formation and Spirit Artifact equipment.
• Qin Yu invited Cao Bing to return with him, but Cao Bing told him to go home first and asked him to look after Uncle Chen.
• Cao Bing explained that he planned to remain in the Wildlands, and Qin Yu reluctantly agreed not to persuade him further.
• Three days later, Qin Yu condensed his Stellar Cloud and left for home with Xiao Hei.
• After they departed, Cao Bing decided to teleport Leishan Residence and use it to refine artifacts and pills.

Cao Bing joined the Sixth and Seventh Squads in responding to a Level-One Beast Tide at Mohammed Base City. He entered the battle and swiftly killed a high-level lord crab monster, leaving the fight ongoing.

• Cao Bing upgraded his formations, Combat Suit, and weapons before receiving an emergency mission email from Limitless Martial Arts headquarters.
• Shangguan Xing briefed the Sixth and Seventh Squads on the beast tide, which included more than a hundred Lord-level Monsters and six known high-level lords.
• The squads flew to Mohammed Base City in a King-class aircraft and saw sea monsters overwhelming the city’s defenses.
• Shangguan Xing and Nan Xin jumped into the monster horde to engage high-level lord monsters while Cao Bing followed with his battle saber.
• Cao Bing pierced a crab monster’s shell and separated it from its body, saving the God of War it had been attacking.

Cao Bing pursued and killed high-level Lords as the monster horde retreated, then chased a wounded squid into the sea. After splitting the squid in two, he sensed a powerful electric current attacking from behind.

• Cao Bing killed several high-level Lords, including a giant seahorse, and charged through the monster horde.
• The soldiers on the city walls drew courage from Cao Bing’s attack, while the monsters eventually began retreating.
• Cao Bing pursued two high-level Lords, killed one, and wounded the squid Lord, which escaped into the sea.
• Cao Bing dived after the squid, severed its remaining tentacles, and split it in two with a slash.
• Cao Bing detected a powerful electric current attacking him from behind.

Cao Bing fought a Thunder Dragon King underwater, using his speed and weapons to wound it while resisting its lightning with his High-grade Spirit Artifact Combat Suit. After its lightning attacks failed and it tried to retreat, Cao Bing activated his war blades and launched Ten Shadow String Kill.

• Cao Bing encountered a Thunder Dragon King and charged at it, eager to fight a worthy opponent.
• Cao Bing clashed with the Thunder Dragon King's tail, then used his speed to cut through its scales and flesh.
• The Thunder Dragon King released a paralyzing current and struck Cao Bing, but he countered its lightning with his High-grade Spirit Artifact Combat Suit.
• Cao Bing charged through the Thunder Dragon King's lightning spheres unharmed and closed in as the wounded beast began to panic and consider retreating.
• The Thunder Dragon King lashed its lightning-wreathed tail at Cao Bing, who activated his High-grade Spirit Artifact war blades and used Ten Shadow String Kill.

Cao Bing fought the Thunder Dragon King underwater and killed it after Nan Xin was injured trying to help. The battle confirmed Cao Bing’s strength, and he considered sharing his cultivation techniques with Hong and the others in the future.

• Cao Bing severed the Thunder Dragon King's tail, but it fled and attacked Nan Xin with a lightning sphere.
• Cao Bing used a Flying Sword to weaken the sphere and the Black God Suit to protect Nan Xin, who was badly injured but survived.
• Cao Bing caught up with the fleeing Thunder Dragon King, pierced it with his war blade, and slashed its body nearly in two.
• Cao Bing beheaded the Thunder Dragon King, and Nan Xin arrived in time to witness its death.
• Cao Bing reflected that the battle had tested his limits and that he might eventually share his cultivation techniques with Hong and the others.

After Cao Bing and Nan Xin returned with the Thunder Dragon King’s corpse, Hong prepared for the possibility of retaliation, and Cao Bing used his hunting spoils to replenish the Divine Arrow Squad’s Dragon Blood. In the Stellar Transformation World, Cao Bing’s long-awaited Thunder Tribulation began gathering as his experimental formations lit up beneath him.

• Shangguan Xing worried when Nan Xin and Cao Bing had not returned, but they soon came back carrying the Thunder Dragon King’s corpse.
• Nan Xin told Cao Bing she would report the Thunder Dragon King’s death to Hong in case the Thunder Dragon Emperor retaliated, and Shangguan Xing let them leave.
• Hong told Nan Xin that he would deal with the Thunder Dragon Emperor if it retaliated and said the beast tide was nothing unusual.
• Cao Bing sold the hunting spoils to Limitless Martial Arts and used the money and mission merit points to buy Dragon Blood for the Divine Arrow Squad.
• In the Stellar Transformation World, Cao Bing watched tribulation clouds gather while the experimental formations around him lit up.

Cao Bing endured an unusually powerful Four-Nine Heavenly Tribulation, using a composite formation to withstand its first three bolts and his weapons to cut apart the fourth. After advancing to the Early Nebula Stage, he set out to test his strength against a Fire Bull.

• Cao Bing watched a massive first tribulation bolt strike his defensive formation, which diverted and converted its power.
• The second bolt nearly overwhelmed the formation, destroying three force-dispersing formations and filling the Spirit Gathering Formations.
• Cao Bing activated the attack formation and used its stored energy to form a sword that canceled the third bolt.
• Cao Bing equipped his artifacts and severed the fourth bolt, suffering only a minor injury before advancing to the Early Nebula Stage.
• Cao Bing decided to hunt an Early Nascent Soul Stage Fire Bull eight thousand li away to test his new strength.

Cao Bing fought and escaped from two Fire Bulls, then returned to an underwater cave to battle the King-level Old Turtle. He wounded the trapped monster until it withdrew into its shell.

• Cao Bing escaped the two Fire Bulls after they chased him across thousands of li, then refined two Golden Cores and saved the third to protect his foundation.
• Cao Bing returned to the lakebed in Forest No. 017 and discovered that the creature beneath the water was a King-level Monster resembling a giant turtle.
• Cao Bing struck the Old Turtle and dodged its attacks, exploiting the cramped underwater space to cut and wound it.
• The Old Turtle went berserk, then pulled its limbs, head, and tail into its shell.

Cao Bing killed Old Turtle by controlling battle sabers inside its body, then explored the immense metal structure he and Guan Yong had found and realized it was the stern of a crashed spaceship. He set out to dig down to its severed end and enter it.

• Cao Bing tried to attack Old Turtle at close range, but it trapped him against a wall and crushed him with its shell.
• Cao Bing controlled two battle sabers toward Old Turtle’s head, and it swallowed them; the sabers destroyed its brain from within and killed it.
• Cao Bing stored Old Turtle in Wu Xing’s reforged Storage Bracelet, which had enough space for the enormous body.
• Cao Bing explored the metal wall with his Spiritual Consciousness and determined that it was the stern of a spaceship, cut cleanly in half.
• Cao Bing decided to dig down to the buried cut section and took out Wu Xing’s Low-grade Flying Sword to use as a tool.

Cao Bing explored an ancient spacecraft and found preserved liquids, a locked control room, and a way to restore power with Xiao Xing's help. After he activated an energy conversion device, the ship's lights came on and an alarm sounded as Xiao Xing connected to its systems.

• Cao Bing entered the spacecraft through an open cabin door and searched its crew quarters and restaurant.
• Cao Bing found dozens of preserved bottles beneath the bar counter and stored them in his Storage Bracelet.
• Cao Bing discovered skeletons behind the locked control-room door and summoned Xiao Xing to help open it.
• Cao Bing followed Xiao Xing's guidance to find the energy distribution room and retrieve a diamond-shaped key beside a skeleton.
• Cao Bing replaced one conversion device's energy core and pressed its blue button, powering up the lights and triggering an alarm.
• Xiao Xing vanished from Cao Bing's wristwatch as it began connecting to the spacecraft's signal.

Cao Bing learned that the wrecked spacecraft was a transport ship carrying valuable Chao Ling Lu Wine, but most of its cargo had been destroyed or lost. He found evidence that Red Snake had recently broken a storage tank and consumed the wine, leaving Cao Bing furious.

• Xiao Xing took control of the ship, translated its records, and identified it as a damaged transport ship from the Black Dragon Mountain Empire.
• Cao Bing learned that the ship had been sliced in two by an unknown fast object while passing Earth, killing the other lifeforms aboard.
• Xiao Xing revealed that Chao Ling Lu Wine was alcohol supplied to Cosmic-level Martial Artists and had cost 10,000 Black Dragon Coins per kilogram.
• Cao Bing learned that only one of the ship's ten cargo holds remained intact and hurried there to inspect it.
• Cao Bing found that one of the four storage tanks had been destroyed, and the wine inside was gone.
• Cao Bing discovered Red Snake's scales and blood near the damaged tank and realized Red Snake had consumed the wine.

Cao Bing scavenged the crashed transport ship, salvaging its remaining Chao Ling Lu Wine, Combat Suits, weapons, and energy rod. After stripping the wreck of anything useful, he considered repurposing its alloy for weapons and artifacts.

• Cao Bing stored the three undamaged tanks of Chao Ling Lu Wine and burned Red Snake's scale to ashes.
• Cao Bing searched the crew quarters but found that almost everything, including Captain Boda's belongings, had rotted away.
• Cao Bing entered the cockpit and found corpses from different human races, including the captain identified by Xiao Xing.
• Cao Bing salvaged the captain's intact Combat Suit, another intact jacket, and five usable weapons, along with the corroded weapons.
• Xiao Xing advised Cao Bing to remove the remaining energy rod and explained that Leishan Residence had previously drawn power from a Spirit Gathering Array.
• Cao Bing decided he might ask Luo Feng and Babata about the wreck and otherwise use its alloy to make artifacts or Force Weapons.

Cao Bing and Luo Feng arrived at Ruins No. 9, where Cao Bing entered first and was assessed by the ruins. He qualified for the Elite Passage and learned that it had not been activated in five thousand years.

• Cao Bing recalled the monster tides that followed his killing of the Thunder Dragon King and prepared to depart for Ruins No. 9.
• Luo Feng asked Cao Bing to look after his family if he died, but Cao Bing urged him to focus on surviving.
• The old man in red led Cao Bing and the other Gods of War to the ruins entrance, where Cao Bing entered ahead of Luo Feng.
• Inside a black hall, Cao Bing was wrapped in crystal ropes while the ruins assessed his aptitude.
• The ruins announced that Cao Bing had a brain domain width of 23 and enough genetic energy to qualify for the Elite Passage, which had not been activated in five thousand years.

Cao Bing fought through the repeated puppet trials in Yun Mo Star’s passage and was trapped in an assessment chamber with a 365-form Martial Artist Basic Fist Technique Secret Manual. He began studying the manual, which had already increased his physical force output to sixfold by the fiftieth form.

• Cao Bing entered the familiar nine-passage maze and recognized the black-robed figures as mechanical puppets.
• Cao Bing defeated two waves of nine puppets, destroying all eighteen with his battle blade.
• Cao Bing was enclosed in a crystal assessment chamber and instructed to learn the 365 forms of the Martial Artist Basic Fist Technique Secret Manual and escape within three years.
• Cao Bing deduced that the ruins offered different inheritances depending on how a trainee fought, and he began studying the manual.
• Cao Bing mastered the first fifty forms and raised his physical force output to sixfold.

Cao Bing traveled east through the Wildlands, growing stronger by fighting and killing demon beasts as he aimed to reach the Nine Sha Hall and claim its immortal sword. After six months, five insect-headed demon cultivators blocked his way, and Cao Bing prepared to face them.

• Cao Bing discovered that the Fire Bull couple had moved away, while the couple hid in a valley and lamented his daily interruptions and growing strength.
• Cao Bing killed an early Nascent Soul Stage leopard and took its Nascent Soul to help raise his cultivation.
• Cao Bing decided to fight east toward the Nine Sha Hall and its sword, avoiding a contest with Qin Yu over the Crimson Blood Cave Mansion sword.
• Cao Bing spent six months battling demon beasts, mastered the first hundred forms of Basic Boxing, and became strong enough to contend with an early Dongxu Stage demon cultivator in a life-or-death fight.
• Five green-clad, insect-headed demon cultivators confronted Cao Bing over his attacks on Wildlands demon beasts, and he challenged them to test his strength.

Cao Bing fought the five Green Light Mantis brothers, who targeted him after discovering his High-grade Spirit Artifacts. He held his own until the mantises transformed and Mantis Boss’s attacks overwhelmed his defenses, leaving the brothers determined to kill him and take his equipment.

• Cao Bing recognized the five attackers as Green Light Mantises and charged at Mantis Boss, matching his speed and knocking him back with a High-grade Spirit Artifact saber.
• Mantis Boss ordered his brothers to attack Cao Bing after spotting the saber, and the five mantises surrounded him with short blades.
• Cao Bing used his Asura Saber Technique and movement technique to suppress the brothers, injuring two of the mid Nascent Soul-stage mantises.
• The five brothers transformed into their true mantis forms, and Mantis Boss struck Cao Bing hundreds of times in quick succession.
• Cao Bing’s Combat Suit protected him from the blows, while the five brothers noticed his other High-grade Spirit Artifacts and resolved to kill him and seize them.

Cao Bing fought five Green Light Mantises and, pushed to the brink, abandoned his defenses to focus entirely on attacking. His consciousness finally broke through, granting him thirtyfold Slow Motion and leaving Mantis Boss’s blade unable to reach him.

• Mantis Boss and Mantis Third transformed and joined the other three Green Light Mantises in overwhelming Cao Bing with their speed.
• Cao Bing unleashed his full power and sent Mantis Boss flying, but the mantises overwhelmed him and wounded him.
• Cao Bing activated Slow-motion Intent, but even at threefold speed he could not keep up with the mantises’ attacks.
• Cao Bing gave up controlling his defensive Spirit Artifacts and devoted himself to attacking, enduring grievous injuries as he focused his will.
• Cao Bing broke through the gate of his consciousness and gained thirtyfold Slow Motion.