Chapter Summaries

Chen Jue fused six body-tempering techniques into the Mortal World Golden Body Skill, then joined the Homeland Project and returned to the base to prepare for a mission to an unfamiliar planet. He began inspecting survival gear and requested a pair of five-hundred-jin alloy hammers, shocking Liu Chengdong.

• Chen Jue fused six techniques into the level-seven Mortal World Golden Body Skill, which boosted his physical attributes and let him shatter a cleaver against his arm without injury.
• Chen Jue spent seven days bidding farewell to relatives and friends, then contacted Liu Chengdong and agreed to join the Homeland Project.
• Chen Jue signed the Homeland Project booklet at the base, officially helping move the plan into its launch phase.
• Liu Chengdong told Chen Jue about preparations to send personnel to the unfamiliar planet and showed him a photograph of an alien bird provisionally named Feiyi.
• Liu Chengdong showed Chen Jue the base's survival suits and weapons, and Chen Jue asked for two alloy hammers weighing five hundred jin each.

Chen Jue confronted instructor Zhang Feipeng after Zhang mocked his martial arts and questioned his place in the lunar landing program. Chen Jue demonstrated overwhelming strength by snapping a special-alloy Tang Dao, then challenged Zhang to test whether a single bullet could stop him.

• Zhang Feipeng insulted Chen Jue and doubted that he deserved to be a Special Grade candidate.
• Chen Jue assessed Zhang's martial arts and said Zhang would lose to Li Xiang and several civilian practitioners.
• Chen Jue flicked the Tang Dao with two fingers, startling Zhang, then bent and snapped the special-alloy blade with his bare hands.
• Zhang apologized, but Chen Jue handed him a handgun and challenged him to shoot at the training ground.
• Chen Jue walked into the Experimental Weapons Training Ground to begin the marksmanship test.

Chen Jue asked Zhang Feipeng to test his marksmanship against him, claiming his martial arts surpassed the realm of seeing the divine and invulnerable. The chapter left Zhang stunned after Chen caught a fired bullet between two fingers.

• Zhang Feipeng saw the fingerprints Chen Jue had left in the special-alloy Tang Dao and followed him into the testing grounds.
• Chen Jue refused a combat suit and explained that he wanted to test his body-hardening arts against gunfire.
• Chen Jue told Zhang Feipeng that martial arts could advance beyond embracing the elixir and seeing the divine and invulnerable.
• With Elder Zhong's approval, Zhang Feipeng drew his pistol and fired at Chen Jue's thigh.
• Chen Jue activated Mortal World Golden Body Skill, moved faster than the observers could follow, and caught the bullet between two fingers.

Chen Jue caught Zhang Feipeng’s bullet barehanded, stunning the instructors and base officials before arranging flexible metal gloves for his lunar mission. At the training room, he reunited with Zhou Gang and was introduced as a Special Grade Candidate, then prepared to demonstrate his strength to the skeptical candidates.

• Chen Jue caught Zhang Feipeng’s bullet, flattened it between his fingers, and explained that he wanted flexible metal gloves instead of heavy hammers.
• Liu Chengdong agreed to arrange the gloves, and Elder Zhong examined Chen Jue’s hand before staff took measurements.
• Chen Jue arrived at the training room, reunited with Zhou Gang, and praised his progress in stake training.
• Liu Chengdong told Chen Jue that Li Xiang had declined the lunar mission and introduced Chen Jue to the candidates as a Special Grade Candidate.
• The candidates questioned Chen Jue’s ability, so he walked to a force-testing machine to demonstrate his punching strength.

Chen Jue tested his strength by smashing the third-generation force-testing machine with a single punch, exceeding its four-tonne limit and leaving the candidates stunned. Elder Zhong joked that Liu Chengdong would have to face the equipment team again.

• Chen Jue asked Liu Chengdong whether he would have to pay if he broke the improved force-testing machine, and Liu Chengdong assured him he would not.
• Chen Jue stomped hard enough to crack and crater the concrete, then launched a powerful Tai Chi Skyward Cannon Punch.
• Chen Jue's punch wrecked the machine, which flashed 9999KG before its display went black.
• The candidates erupted in shock as Chen Jue turned to them and apologized for his humble display.
• Liu Chengdong inspected the wrecked machine while Elder Zhong joked that the equipment team would give him trouble again.

After impressing the base’s leadership and fellow candidates, Chen Jue explored the training grounds and decided to create a simple, effective martial art for ordinary people. He left eager to develop and test his method using the candidates and the base’s collection of martial arts.

• Elder Zhong praised Chen Jue’s performance, ordered improvements to the equipment, and encouraged the researchers to heed young people’s advice.
• Liu Chengdong arranged for the smashed strength-testing machine to be removed, while candidates gathered around Chen Jue to introduce themselves.
• Chen Jue greeted Sun Wu, a Sun-Style Taiji successor, and Luo Qiong, a Yongchun White Crane practitioner, and assessed their skills.
• Zhou Gang showed Chen Jue the training grounds’ advanced equipment, which Chen Jue tried before deciding his own abilities made most of it unnecessary.
• After seeing Zhang Feipeng arrive looking shaken, Chen Jue resolved to develop an accessible martial art that could quickly strengthen ordinary people, using the base’s methods and candidates to test it.

Chen Jue devised a cultivation-level system and began planning a simple method for the public, using science and martial arts manuals as references. After recording eighty-one stance-training skills, he asked his attribute panel to fuse them, and discovered that it could talk.

• Chen Jue mastered [Three Teachings Dharma Ear], awakened [Wind-Listening Ears], and found he could hear sounds within five li.
• Chen Jue studied physics and other sciences, then outlined cultivation stages from body-tempering level one through [Void Level].
• Chen Jue named his preliminary system "body-tempering level ten" and defined [Transcendent Level] and [Void Level] as stages beyond ordinary human limits.
• Chen Jue studied martial arts manuals and practiced eighty-one stance-training methods, recording them as skills on his panel.
• Chen Jue asked the attribute panel to fuse the stance-training methods into a simple cultivation skill, and the panel revealed that it could speak.

Chen Jue synthesized the Ten Body-Tempering Forms, a widely accessible cultivation art, and decided to teach it to humanity. After documenting its methods and safety precautions, he shared it with his martial arts friends, who tested the forms and praised their effects.

• Chen Jue fused his recorded stance arts into the Ten Body-Tempering Forms and discovered that practicing them strengthened his body and supported advanced cultivation.
• Chen Jue resolved to share the art with humanity and spent a day writing down its instructions and precautions, warning practitioners not to rush into later forms.
• Chen Jue sent the document to Li Xiangning, Yun Xiaomei, Li Xiang, Li Wei, Old Man Luo, and Huang Shizhen.
• Li Xiangning and Yun Xiaomei reported difficulty with later forms, and Chen Jue advised them to practice gradually and follow the precautions.
• Li Xiang praised the forms’ potential to advance his martial arts, while Old Man Luo admired their techniques and tricked Chen Jue with a fake payment transfer.

Chen Jue shared an abridged Body-Tempering Exercise with friends and martial arts enthusiasts, then taught the Ten Body-Tempering Forms to Zhou Gang at the base. Using his Fasting and Purification Method and Buddhist Chant Resonance, Chen Jue accelerated Zhou Gang’s cultivation, leaving him exhausted, hungry, and thirsty.

• Chen Jue removed the advanced forms from the Ten Body-Tempering Forms, renamed the abridged method Body-Tempering Exercise, and shared it with relatives, friends, and his martial arts group.
• Wang Biao, Cheng Wei, Jiang Fan, Huang Zhe, Zhou Anping, and members of the martial arts group reacted to the exercise, with several trying it and struggling at the fourth form.
• Chen Jue went to the base training ground and told Zhang Feipeng he would give Zhou Gang private instruction.
• Chen Jue gave Zhou Gang supplements and taught him the first four forms of the Ten Body-Tempering Forms, correcting his movements as he practiced.
• Chen Jue used his Fasting and Purification Method and Buddhist Chant Resonance to accelerate Zhou Gang’s training, after which Zhou Gang collapsed, drained and intensely hungry and thirsty.

Chen Jue gave Elder Zhong the Ten Body-Tempering Forms for promotion and discussed preparations for the Homeland Project’s lunar mission as foreign powers raced to explore Second Home. After Zhou Gang recovered and advanced to a level-two Candidate, Chen Jue received a message from Linglong revealing that Zhao Zhen really had left Earth.

• Chen Jue showed Elder Zhong the Ten Body-Tempering Forms, and Elder Zhong tried the first postures before pledging to verify and promote the method.
• Chen Jue asked for one cent per copy and author credit if the materials were published, and Elder Zhong recorded his request.
• Elder Zhong told Chen Jue that foreign governments and companies were racing to reach Second Home and described plans to send Chen Jue to the Space Station and then the moon.
• Chen Jue sketched ideas for his Combat Suit and equipment, and Elder Zhong promised to send them to the Equipment Department.
• Zhou Gang recovered, tested at the training grounds, and advanced to level-two Candidate, impressing Zhang Feipeng.
• Chen Jue received a message from Linglong saying she had uncovered Zhao Zhen’s identity and confirmed that he had once left Earth.

Chen Jue learned from Linglong that Zhao Zhen was former astronaut Eugene Annan, who had reached a lunar wormhole and pursued immortality to return to the moon. He declined Linglong’s offer to join her private rocket venture and instead directed his martial-arts friends toward Liu Chengdong, hoping they could pursue the unknown planet together.

• Linglong sent Chen Jue a dossier revealing Zhao Zhen’s identity as Eugene Annan, a former Eagle Country astronaut who had faked his death.
• Chen Jue learned that Zhao Zhen had found a lunar Wormhole Tunnel during Apollo 17 and was involved in a secret project to return to the moon.
• Linglong began mobilizing the Xingyi Sect’s resources to enter the civilian rocket industry and invited Chen Jue to join her.
• Chen Jue declined Linglong’s invitation because he had already joined Elder Zhong’s base and did not want to work with a private organization.
• Chen Jue sent Liu Chengdong’s phone number to Li Xiang, Li Wei, Yun Xiaomei, Old Man Luo, Huang Shizhen, and his other friends, encouraging them to seek further cultivation.

Chen Jue met Engineer Zou Ying to test a custom retractable alloy javelin intended for his mission to Second Home. After he threw it at several times the speed of sound and snapped it in two, Zou Ying took him to the Equipment Building to plan even stronger gear.

• Chen Jue met Zou Ying, who questioned him about his extraordinary abilities and the equipment designs he had proposed.
• Zou Ying gave Chen Jue a prototype retractable alloy javelin made to his specifications.
• Chen Jue threw the javelin through a thick alloy target and into a reinforced concrete wall at an estimated three to four times the speed of sound.
• Zou Ying inspected the javelin and asked Chen Jue to test its rigidity, so he bent it until it snapped in two.
• Zou Ying took Chen Jue to the Equipment Building to have the team design equipment that could meet his needs.

Chen Jue visited the Equipment Research Building to inspect the Aerospace Combat Suit and test a new alloy dagger. He left the researchers stunned by shaving alloy steel into thin sheets and grinding his nails with the blade.

• Chen Jue and Zou Ying left the equipment testing grounds and traveled to the Equipment Research Building.
• Zou Ying introduced Chen Jue to the Aerospace Combat Suit research team and told them to speed up development and remake the broken telescopic javelin.
• Chen Jue examined the suit and learned that it would carry weapons including telescopic javelins, an alloy Tang Dao, and alloy daggers.
• Chen Jue tested a new alloy dagger by shaving paper-thin sheets from an alloy steel bar.
• Chen Jue called the dagger a decent nail clipper and used its abrasive side to grind his nails, leaving the researchers dumbfounded.

Chen Jue tested custom combat gloves at the R&D facility, demonstrating their durability, striking power, and glass-climbing grip. He then prepared to test an aerospace Combat Suit in a vacuum chamber, leaving Zou Ying and the staff to help him gear up.

• Chen Jue astonished Zou Ying and the R&D staff by filing his unusually hard nails with a dagger until they sparked.
• Zou Ying led Chen Jue to a secure equipment room, where he put on the custom gloves and examined their flexible metallic weave.
• Chen Jue punched deep dents into an alloy dummy and bent a spike-covered target while testing the gloves’ protection and striking feel.
• Chen Jue climbed and hung from a glass wall using the gloves’ adhesive palms.
• Zou Ying brought Chen Jue to the vacuum chamber and asked him to wear the aerospace Combat Suit for testing.
• Chen Jue removed his shirt to change, leaving Zou Ying blushing at his physique.

Chen Jue passed the Aerospace Combat Suit’s vacuum test and prepared to travel to Second Home, where Elder Zhong warned him to prioritize his safety and conceal humanity’s existence from any alien civilization. He launched toward the stars with his mother’s cassette playing, carrying humanity’s hopes and his own ambitions.

• Chen Jue tested the Aerospace Combat Suit in a simulated vacuum and Zou Ying declared it had passed its preliminary acceptance test.
• After a week of preparations, Elder Zhong told Chen Jue to return safely from Second Home and avoid contact with any intelligent aliens that might discover humanity.
• Chen Jue asked Deputy Director Liu Chengdong to play music from his mother’s cassette during the launch and to keep the cassette until his return.
• Chen Jue boarded the crewed rocket, corrected Liu Chengdong to play side B of the cassette, and heard the song as the rocket launched.
• As the rocket carried Chen Jue away from Earth, he reflected on his childhood dream and set his sights on the journey ahead.

Chen Jue reached low Earth orbit, joined the Lunar Space Station, and went on his first spacewalk. After spotting a Hong Mou Group-sponsored lunar probe satellite, he launched a javelin at it, leaving the attack’s outcome unknown.

• Chen Jue used outer-space radiation and weightlessness to train his Mortal World Golden Body Skill and circulate his qi and blood during the journey to orbit.
• Chen Jue docked with the Lunar Space Station and met commander Wang Zhihai, Liu Yaming, and Ye Guangming.
• Chen Jue admired Earth from the station’s viewing window, then received permission to conduct an extravehicular activity.
• Chen Jue went outside the station, spotted a lunar probe satellite bearing the Hong Mou Group logo, and hurled a javelin toward it.

Chen Jue knocked the Lunar Space Station off its preset angle when he hurled a javelin at the Hong Mou Group’s Lunar Probe Satellite, destroying it before returning to the airlock. Eagle Country officials traced the attack to China’s Space Station and reported that China had developed an orbital weapon.

• Chen Jue hurled the javelin so powerfully that he briefly pulled the Lunar Space Station off course, prompting Wang Zihai and the other astronauts to correct its flight path.
• Chen Jue watched the Black Javelin pierce and destroy the Lunar Probe Satellite, then returned to the airlock.
• Elder Zhong told Liu Chengdong to check whether any spacecraft were nearby while the Ground Base staff investigated the satellite’s destruction.
• John demanded that Director Smith explain the loss of the satellite and recover the Hong Mou Group’s investment.
• Eagle Country analysts identified the projectile as a javelin and traced its trajectory to China’s Space Station.
• Smith called an official over an encrypted channel and reported that China appeared to have developed a weapon capable of attacking satellites in space.

Chen Jue arrived at the space station after shooting down a lunar exploration satellite with a javelin, sparking alarm and speculation on Earth and among the station crew. He denied that he planned to do it again as the crew prepared for his stay.

• Smith reported that a satellite weapon had destroyed the Hong Mou Group's lunar exploration satellite, and his superior ordered him to gather intelligence and seek more funding.
• Elder Zhong denied that the base had satellite weapons, urged Zhou to follow the usual denial procedure, and suggested blaming an asteroid or meteorite.
• Elder Zhong told Liu Chengdong that the destroyed satellite was worth hundreds of millions of greenbacks, while Liu praised Chen Jue's shot and nearly speculated about shooting down more satellites.
• Chen Jue entered the space station, where Wang Zhihai, Ye Guangming, and Liu Yaming questioned him about his powerful javelin throw and the station's orbital correction.
• Chen Jue admitted that he had shot down a lunar exploration satellite with a javelin, then told the crew it was a one-time act to settle a score and not what they imagined.

Chen Jue learned about the challenges and theories surrounding a lunar far-side landing while staying aboard the Space Station with three astronauts. After two days of preparation, he boarded the lunar spacecraft and departed for the Moon.

• Wang Zhihai, Liu Yaming, and Ye Guangming discussed space and lunar exploration with Chen Jue, while Ye Guangming explained the giant impact hypothesis for the Moon’s formation.
• Chen Jue wondered whether the Moon’s history and its connection to Earth were truly coincidental, then reassured the envious astronauts that his secret landing would not prevent them from making a public lunar landing.
• Chen Jue ate space food, cultivated aboard the Space Station, and gained knowledge and attribute points while adapting to space.
• After two days, the lunar spacecraft docked with the Space Station, and Chen Jue and the three astronauts loaded its supplies before he put on a spacesuit and boarded.
• Chen Jue said goodbye to Wang Zhihai, Liu Yaming, and Ye Guangming, closed the hatch, and departed aboard the lunar spacecraft for the Moon.

Chen Jue completed his journey to the Moon and became the first Chinese person to land there, while his cultivation continued to advance during the flight. After leaving the first Chinese footprint and planting the flag on the lunar surface, he confronted the overwhelming presence of the Sun.

• During the journey, Chen Jue's Mortal World Golden Body Skill reached level 8, strengthening his body and raising his attributes.
• Chen Jue sensed the spacecraft pass from Earth's gravitational field into the Moon's and reflected on the Moon's lonely, cold influence.
• Following instructions from the ground team, Chen Jue separated the lunar module and landed near N9527 Crater on the Moon's far side.
• Elder Zhong congratulated Chen Jue and reminded him to protect the module, visit Second Home, leave a footprint, plant the flag, and take photographs.
• Chen Jue exited the module, jumped across the lunar surface, recorded his footprint, and planted the red flag.
• Chen Jue looked at the blazing Sun and exclaimed that he understood the true meaning of the Great Sun Tathagata.