Chapter Summaries

Wang Yu faced Yu Xiaoming, whose bloodline talent let him summon a hurricane and transform his body into formidable stone armor. After Wang Yu's weapons failed to break through the armor, he prepared another technique while the spectators watched through a projected image.

• Shi Hai and the head of the Yu Household debated whether Wang Yu could overcome Yu Xiaoming, and Yin Linglong revealed that Wang Yu had killed an enemy at late Qi Refining.
• Yu Xiaoming used his Hurricane Bowl to raise a violent wind filled with stone fragments, while Wang Yu weakened it with his Silver Folding Fan and charged through.
• Yu Xiaoming revealed his Stone Armor Art, and Wang Yu struck the armor with his Silver Rapier but failed to penetrate it.
• The head of the Yu Household used a Lesser Universe Mirror to project the fight for the spectators as Wang Yu attacked Yu Xiaoming's exposed face, only for the armor to stop the blow.
• Wang Yu discarded his chipped rapier, drew in a large volume of air, and caused a tiger's head to emerge from his back.

Wang Yu defeated Yu Xiaoming in the contest, securing his place as Yin Linglong’s husband and earning Shi Hai’s interest in testing him for sect admission. He married Yin Linglong and entered the bridal chamber, where she swore herself to him while warning him never to abandon her.

• Wang Yu used the Breathing Technique and Overclocking to smash Yu Xiaoming’s Stone Armor and win the contest.
• The Yu Household head conceded that Yu Xiaoming’s defeat was fair and left with his unconscious son, while Yin Linglong asked Shi Hai to stay for the wedding and Wang Yu’s entrance test.
• Shi Hai agreed to test Wang Yu personally, and Yin Linglong ordered the household to open the Ancestral Pavilion and formally welcome Wang Yu as a live-in son-in-law.
• Yin Linglong and Wang Yu paid respects to the ancestors, then exchanged wedding bows seven days later before the household and Shi Hai.
• In the bridal chamber, Yin Linglong bit Wang Yu’s arm, swore she would remain with him for life, and warned she would not forgive him if he abandoned her.

Shi Hai brought Wang Yu and Yu Xiaoming to the Four Symbols Sect and explained how its branches selected disciples with awakened physical bloodlines. At the sect, Elder Liu agreed to arrange their selection, and Wang Yu recognized the little girl accompanying him as a younger version of Qin'er, the Blood Enchantress.

• Shi Hai explained the Four Symbols Sect's branches, disciple ranks, and the resources available to each, then warned Wang Yu and Yu Xiaoming not to expect direct admission as inner disciples.
• Shi Hai flew the two men through the sect's concealed entrance, where they sensed the rich spiritual energy around its peaks and spirit veins.
• Shi Hai landed the Giant Gray Bird on a mountain platform, where Elder Liu arrived with a little girl and agreed to summon the four branches to assess Wang Yu and Yu Xiaoming's bloodlines.
• Wang Yu recognized the little girl as a younger version of Qin'er, the Blood Enchantress of the Four Fiends of Misty Mountain, and felt a chill run down his back.

Wang Yu’s high-grade fire spirit root drew the attention of the Four Symbols Sect’s Blazing Fire Ancestor, who sent Senior Brother Gu to test him. The test revealed a Half-Extreme Spirit Flame, leaving Elder Liu astonished.

• Elder Liu questioned Wang Yu and Yu Xiaoming about their spirit roots and bloodlines, then lamented that Wang Yu’s four spirit roots barred him from immediate inner-sect admission.
• Shi Hai praised Wang Yu’s mastery of the Qi Refining Practitioners' Breathing Technique, prompting the elders to discuss the formidable Iron Madman.
• Senior Brother Gu arrived and explained that the Blazing Fire Ancestor had sent him to verify the incoming disciple with wind and high-grade fire spirit roots.
• Senior Brother Gu used a second-tier Spirit-Testing Talisman on Wang Yu, revealing four spirit roots and a red flame that turned half red and half purple.
• Elder Liu identified Wang Yu’s flame as a Half-Extreme Spirit Flame and cried out in disbelief.

Wang Yu’s superior fire spirit root drew the attention of the Foundation Establishment cultivators, and Gu Fei brought him to meet the Blazing Fire Ancestor. The Ancestor began examining Wang Yu, but the intrusion triggered the auxiliary system’s emergency defense as the chapter ended.

• Senior Brother Gu explained that Wang Yu’s fire spirit root showed exceptional potential but had not reached half-step supreme grade, and the cultivators debated whether to make him an inner disciple.
• Senior Brother Gu took Wang Yu by Fire Escape Technique to a pavilion inside a volcanic crater and gave him a Fire-Avoidance Token.
• Gu Fei presented Wang Yu to the Blazing Fire Ancestor, who transformed from a statue into a living man and dismissed Gu Fei.
• The Blazing Fire Ancestor sent energy into Wang Yu to examine him, causing Wang Yu to lose control of his body.
• The auxiliary system detected a dangerous psychic intrusion and began activating its defenses and forcing the energy out.

Wang Yu woke from the sleep pod on Blue Star after spending over half a year in another world, though only twenty-some days had passed there. After surviving an assassination attempt, he discovered he had brought his Metal-Dowsing Art back with him, and Dr. Chen identified it as a possible super magnetic field.

• Wang Yu woke in the No. 0 Sleep Pod and learned he had been in it for just over twenty days despite experiencing more than half a year in the other world.
• Dr. Chen examined Wang Yu, and two men in black suits arrived to take him to General Xu.
• Wang Yu sensed that the two men smelled of blood and warned Dr. Chen, prompting them to attack.
• Wang Yu used the medical leads to restrain one attacker while a sphere of electrical arcs killed the other; the captured attacker died after taking poison.
• General Xu ordered Wang Yu transferred to Zone A and provisionally assigned S-Rank clearance.
• Wang Yu demonstrated his Metal-Dowsing Art, and Dr. Chen compared it to the super magnetic field being researched in the West.

Wang Yu learned more about superhuman research and the danger keeping him at the base, then began drawing the Four Beast Diagram for Dr. Chen. That night, Taiyuan told him that it was resetting and integrating with a parent system, leaving Wang Yu afraid of what would happen if the base learned about it.

• Dr. Chen told Wang Yu that Western researchers had identified thirteen superpower categories and five ranks, while Huaguo had trained two B-rank superhumans, and warned him to keep the information secret.
• Dr. Chen explained that the glowing shield was an experimental ion force-field device and said Wang Yu could not leave the base until the other-world information had been analyzed.
• Wang Yu learned that he was the only successful returnee and that Taiyuan was Huaguo's sole superintelligent computer, then asked Dr. Chen for drawing supplies and a gaming pod for Star River.
• Dr. Chen advised Wang Yu to treat Star River as real and hinted that what he learned in the game might be useful someday.
• Wang Yu drew the sixteen forms of the Four Beast Diagram, then tried to activate overclocked synchronization mode that night and heard Taiyuan report a reset and integration with a parent system.
• Wang Yu realized his superhuman physique and Dharma Power were gone, while his mental energy remained, and feared the base would imprison and study him if he revealed the system in his mind.

After returning to Blue Star, Wang Yu underwent days of questioning and testing as researchers studied his cultivation-world experiences and entered his texts into the base’s Taiyuan system. His Metal-Dowsing Art proved powerful enough to qualify him as a D-Rank Ability User, and Dr. Chen assigned him new training and teaching duties.

• Wang Yu told Dr. Chen how the Taiyuan subsystem had taken over to save him from an assassin and later returned his consciousness to Blue Star after the Four Symbols Sect patriarch attacked him.
• Experts questioned Wang Yu about the other world and used a projection helmet to record images of weapons and creatures he described.
• Wang Yu displayed the cultivation texts he had collected, while researchers entered the Yin Water Art into a computer system preparing a Taiyuan deduction function.
• Wang Yu tried to activate overclocked synchronization mode, but the system reported a reset prompt before falling silent.
• Wang Yu lifted a fifty-kilogram metal sphere, and Dr. Chen declared him a D-Rank Ability User and assigned Zhao Jun to train him.
• Dr. Chen told Wang Yu that his Star River gaming pod would arrive that night and that he would begin teaching two groups the following day.

Wang Yu entered a virtual mech-pilot training scenario and boarded black mech No. 18 as the squad prepared to reinforce Mars Base. The mech began synchronizing with him through a neural connection.

• Wang Yu climbed into a gaming pod and appeared in a crowded wasteland filled with players, soldiers, and black mechs.
• He disabled the players’ chatter, noticed that several game settings were missing, and identified mech No. 18 as his assigned machine.
• Wang Yu met Reserve Mech Pilot Ding Yu, who reported that the mech inspection was complete and refueling was underway.
• Wang Yu summoned his silver-white armor and ordered mech No. 18 to open its boarding hatch.
• Mech No. 18 verified Wang Yu’s identity, admitted him, and activated artificial gravity and neural synchronization.

Wang Yu led mech No. 18 into battle against a pack of Yellow Glaze Beasts, discovering that despite the mech’s sluggish controls, he could defeat the monsters with ease. As the squad was nearly wiped out and his mech ran low on energy, he hurled his blade at a beast surrounding him.

• Wang Yu and more than two hundred mech pilots set out across the sand toward the Mars base, but several mechs crashed before they reached the enemy.
• The squad encountered a pack of Yellow Glaze Beasts, whose white energy ribbons destroyed many mechs while the beasts dodged most rifle fire.
• Wang Yu killed multiple Yellow Glaze Beasts with his serrated blade and mech strikes as the rest of the squad was overwhelmed.
• With only a handful of damaged mechs remaining and more than a dozen beasts still alive, Wang Yu received a warning that his mech was nearly out of energy.
• As the surrounding beasts lashed their ribbons at him, Wang Yu threw his golden serrated blade toward the nearest one.

Wang Yu passed the Star River Recruit System’s mental power assessment, learned the Star Thought Technique, and was secretly conscripted into the Blue Star Alliance’s Interstellar Tactical Mecha Squad for service ten years later. After waking from the game, he trained with Zhao Jun, who demonstrated a technique for using mental abilities more effectively.

• Wang Yu’s mecha was destroyed in the game, and he received an Excellent result that sent him into a hidden training scenario.
• A projection taught Wang Yu about star thought power, assessed his mental strength, and implanted the first three levels of the technique along with secrecy shackles.
• A soldier secretly conscripted Wang Yu into the Special Reserve’s Interstellar Tactical Mecha Squad and gave him a countdown to service beginning ten years later.
• Wang Yu woke after an entire night in the gaming pod and found the Star Thought Technique implanted in his memory.
• Wang Yu lost a contest of mental ability to Zhao Jun, who demonstrated how to make a suspended wooden stick spin until its front end shed wood shavings.

Wang Yu learned about star thought power and the hidden recruitment linked to Star River from Zhao Jun, then used his cultivation knowledge to train base recruits and teenagers. He agreed to attend Zhao Jun’s gathering and received the address for contacting Taiyuan, though access required authorization.

• Zhao Jun demonstrated how to modify a small object into a weapon and use a Mind Shield, then offered to teach Wang Yu a Psychic Shockwave.
• Zhao Jun revealed that he and Wang Yu had both entered Star River’s hidden training scenario and received special recruitment offers to cultivate star thought power.
• Zhao Jun explained the difference between thought power and star thought power and invited Wang Yu to a gathering of recruited Mech Pilots; Wang Yu agreed to attend.
• Wang Yu asked how to contact Taiyuan, and Zhao Jun gave him the base-network address while warning that the AI required high-level authorization.
• Wang Yu corrected a squad of young men practicing the first form of the Wolf-Running Diagram.
• Wang Yu taught teenagers to cultivate spiritual perception and sense Heaven and Earth spiritual energy.

General Xu and Dr. Chen discussed Blue Star’s efforts to study Saitan’s cultivation system and decided to recall Xu Ting and Qian Xuan despite risks from the vanished passage phenomenon. After an unauthorized login attempt and another night in Star River, Wang Yu was ambushed by Zhao Jun, who used a memory-reading ability on him.

• Dr. Chen told General Xu that Taiyuan was searching for Blue Star’s spiritual energy and that artificial spirit veins might be another avenue of research.
• General Xu ordered Xu Ting and Qian Xuan recalled, and Dr. Chen warned that the vanished Saitan passage could make the recall dangerous.
• Wang Yu tried to access a restricted silver hall but was forcibly ejected, then entered Star River and fought Nebula Beasts in an Earth Dragon Type II Mecha.
• Wang Yu woke feeling an increasingly strong, unexplained call, and Zhao Jun summoned him to the Zero-Type sleep pod hall because the recall had gone wrong.
• Zhao Jun stunned Wang Yu, destroyed the room’s surveillance devices, disguised himself as a woman, and began reading Wang Yu’s memories through two golden helmets.

Wang Yu’s system expelled the dangerous energy linking his mind with the blonde ability user, and he awoke back in his cultivation-world body. He discovered that his body had practiced the Fire Spirit Art and acquired graded pills while he was away, then saw Saitan’s celestial apparition beside the sun.

• Wang Yu reset his system, which took control of his body and fired a Psychic Shockwave into the blonde woman, knocking them both unconscious.
• Representatives from Huaguo and a Western power blamed each other over the blonde woman and an attack on an important researcher before other countries mediated the dispute.
• Wang Yu awoke in a stone room in his cultivation world and confirmed he could use spells again.
• Wang Yu found that his body had reached the third level of Qi Refining with the Fire Spirit Art and that his Storage Bag contained Fire Cloud Pills.
• Wang Yu suspected the Blazing Fire Ancestor was involved and went outside, where he saw Saitan beside the crimson sun.

Wang Yu discovered that he had become an inner disciple of Vermilion Bird Mountain and learned he could claim a free spirit beast. He followed Senior Brother Zhou Chu to the Spirit Beast Hall, where Uncle-Master Li began guiding him to make his selection.

• Wang Yu found an inner disciple token marked with his number, 118, and entered a cavern of numbered inner disciple passages.
• Wang Yu met Zhou Chu, who told him that new inner disciples could claim a spirit beast for free during their first three months.
• Wang Yu accompanied Zhou Chu to the Spirit Beast Hall, where Zhou Chu bought Fire-Attribute Beast Feed for his Long-Armed Rabbit.
• Uncle-Master Li recognized Wang Yu as the disciple personally admitted by the ancestor and agreed to take him to select a beast despite his low cultivation.
• Uncle-Master Li praised the Four Symbols Sect's Beast Taming Art as he led Wang Yu and Zhou Chu through the hall, while Zhou Chu challenged his account of its advantages.

Wang Yu toured the sect’s young spirit beasts with Uncle-Master Li, who advised him on choosing a beast to match his bloodline and cultivation method. They discovered an Iron-Head Crocodile egg had hatched early, and Uncle-Master Li explained that the young beast might have mutated with unpredictable results.

• Zhou Chu told Wang Yu that Uncle-Master Li’s human-beast unification art had injured previous test subjects, while Uncle-Master Li lamented that the ancestor had stopped his experiments.
• Wang Yu told Uncle-Master Li about his Iron-Eater Crocodile bloodline, four spirit roots, and recent switch to the Fire Spirit Art, and the old man advised him on suitable spirit beasts.
• Uncle-Master Li showed Wang Yu Fire-Tailed Wolves and Fire-Feather Eagles, describing their abilities, growth, and costs.
• Uncle-Master Li opened a cage holding Iron-Head Crocodile eggs and found one had hatched far earlier than expected.
• Uncle-Master Li explained that the early hatching suggested a mutation that could improve or diminish the young crocodile’s growth, strength, and innate abilities.

Wang Yu traded the mutant Iron-Head Crocodile hatchling to Zhou Chu for his spirit-beast raising notes and chose an egg for his free allotment. Martial Uncle Li established a blood contract between Wang Yu and the egg, then sent the two disciples away to await its hatching.

• Wang Yu used the Qi-Observing Technique to examine the hatchling and the three eggs, noticing their differing levels of bloody light.
• Zhou Chu asked Wang Yu for the mutant hatchling and offered him his personal spirit-beast raising notes in exchange.
• Wang Yu accepted the notes and chose an Iron-Head Crocodile egg, while Zhou Chu paid five hundred spirit stones for the hatchling.
• Martial Uncle Li warned Zhou Chu against forming a spirit contract too soon, then verified Wang Yu's Inner Disciple Token.
• Wang Yu gave the egg drops of blood essence, and Martial Uncle Li used a scroll to establish a blood contract between them.
• Martial Uncle Li sealed the egg in the cage, gave Wang Yu a book on raising spirit beasts, and sent Wang Yu and Zhou Chu away.

Wang Yu used overclocking to investigate the system and entered its login screen, where he found the blonde woman who had ambushed him, Wang Tiezhu, and a young man resembling his former self. He brought them into the silver hall and recognized the young man as Ding Yu, leaving him puzzled by the existence of another version of himself.

• Wang Yu collected his inner disciple benefits and cultivation supplies, then activated overclocking to analyze his recent experiences.
• Wang Yu asked Taiyuan to enter the system login screen and found himself inside the Game Sleep Pod with three unseen people.
• The blonde woman revealed that she had copied some of Wang Yu's memories and offered to explain the young man's origins.
• Wang Yu used the white screen to bring himself and the three strangers into a silver hall.
• Wang Yu recognized the boy as Wang Tiezhu and the young man as Ding Yu, whose appearance and manner matched Wang Yu's former self.

Wang Yu learned from Helena that the other Ding Yu was a temporary mental entity formed from Wang Yu’s psychic shockwave and Helena’s electromagnetic ability. After Ding Yu vanished, Helena introduced herself and turned her attention to Wang Tiezhu, whom she suspected came from another world.

• Helena asked Wang Yu what the silver hall was, and he identified it as Superbrain Taiyuan’s login interface hall, where they were likely present as mental entities.
• Helena asked whether the hall and her transformation were connected to the Otherworld, and Wang Yu confirmed that they were connected.
• Helena told Wang Yu that she had created the extra Ding Yu when her electromagnetic ability fused with his psychic shockwave and memory data.
• Ding Yu erupted in electrical arcs, then vanished when his mental power and electromagnetic energy ran out.
• Helena introduced herself as a Double-A Ability User and a British Commonwealth military officer and academic, then offered to be useful to Wang Yu.
• Helena guessed that Wang Tiezhu was a real person from another world, darkening Wang Yu’s expression.

Wang Yu learned that Wang Tiezhu’s consciousness had returned to his body after the Blazing Fire Ancestor’s spell displaced him, and discovered Tiezhu was rapidly fading inside the Silver Hall. Helena offered to copy Tiezhu’s memories in exchange for Wang Yu’s promise to take her out someday, and he agreed as the boy’s time ran short.

• Wang Tiezhu told Wang Yu that he had awakened in a stone room, where Uncle Gu had taught him the Fire Spirit Art and given him green pills.
• Wang Yu realized that Tiezhu was the original owner of his body and had occupied it while Wang Yu’s consciousness was displaced.
• Wang Yu exited the login screen, found the green pills beneath the bed, and returned to the Silver Hall after confirming that little time had passed.
• Helena revealed that Tiezhu’s body was rapidly losing energy to Wang Yu and would disappear within minutes, even if Wang Yu left the Silver Hall.
• Helena offered to use Memory Replication to preserve Tiezhu’s memories if Wang Yu promised to take her out of the Silver Hall someday.
• Wang Yu accepted Helena’s condition, and she approached Tiezhu to begin copying his memories.