Chapter Summaries

Chen Jue practiced the Eight Immortals Stance on a small boat in the dark center of the reservoir, then joined the Zhou family’s campsite and discussed kung fu with them. He returned home with 0.20 free attribute points and planned to brew Ten-Ingredient Tonic Decoction the next day before raising the Twelve Forms of the Muscle-Tendon Change Classic.

• Chen Jue rowed to the reservoir’s center and trained the Eight Immortals Stance on the rocking boat, gradually overcoming his fear of falling into the water.
• Two girls told their family that Chen Jue was practicing on the reservoir, and the gold-watch-wearing leader watched him through binoculars and praised his kung fu.
• Chen Jue’s Eight Immortals Stance proficiency reached 101/200, and his free attribute points totaled 0.20, but he postponed using them because he was tired and lacked a medicinal tonic.
• Chen Jue returned to the campsite, accepted a beef skewer from the gold-watch-wearing man, and told him he was only a beginner at martial arts.
• Chen Jue learned that the campers were the Zhou family from central Wenzhou, then went home, checked his attribute panel, and planned to brew Ten-Ingredient Tonic Decoction the next day.

Chen Jue bought martial arts shoes and found a forum recipe for Shaolin Mighty Pills, then practiced at Chen Village Reservoir and rescued Zhou Jingjing from falling off a boat. After rowing Zhou Jingjing and her father around the reservoir, he headed to An County to look into the recipe.

• Chen Jue ordered a pair of Martial Arts Tai Chi Shoes and training shoes, then copied a forum recipe for Mighty Pills to take to a traditional Chinese medicine shop.
• Chen Jue practiced Boat Boxing at Chen Village Reservoir and saw his proficiency reach (160/200).
• Mr. Zhou asked Chen Jue to take him and Zhou Jingjing out on the reservoir, and Chen Jue caught Zhou Jingjing when she nearly fell into the boat.
• Chen Jue rowed Zhou Jingjing and her father across the reservoir while practicing the Eight Immortals Stance, and Mr. Zhou photographed him.
• Chen Jue declined the Zhou family's invitation to eat and traveled to An County after breakfast.

On a bus to An County, Chen Jue joined three soldiers in chasing a pickpocket and used his martial arts and stamina to help catch him. The soldiers were left astonished by Chen Jue’s speed and the visible vapor rising from his body after the chase.

• Chen Jue rode a crowded bus toward An County and drew passengers’ attention with his appearance and bearing.
• Three soldiers boarded at Peach Immortal Village and noticed Chen Jue as the bus continued toward town.
• After a middle-aged woman reported her wallet and phone stolen, a schoolgirl described the thief, and the soldiers got off to pursue him.
• Chen Jue slipped through the bus window and sprinted ahead of the soldiers, spotting the suspect near a stop with a red plastic bag.
• Chen Jue chased down the fleeing pickpocket, threw him to the roadside, and pinned him until the soldiers caught up and helped subdue him.
• Chen Jue calmly used the Eight Immortals Stance to recover, releasing visible white vapor that left the soldiers stunned.

Chen Jue caught a pickpocket after sprinting more than five hundred meters, then gave a statement at the South City Police Station. After he left, officers reviewed surveillance footage of his extraordinary run and showed it to Deputy Chief Zhou and a military officer, who were both astonished.

• Chen Jue explained that the steam rising from his body came from ordinary martial arts, while the soldiers praised his speed and called the police.
• Deputy Chief Zhou arrived with officers, took custody of the pickpocket, and brought Chen Jue and the soldiers to the station to give statements.
• Chen Jue described the incident to police, and the middle-aged woman thanked him and the soldiers after recovering her wallet and phone.
• Two evidence officers reviewed footage showing Chen Jue sprinting nearly six hundred meters in under a minute and reported their findings to Zhou Qin.
• Zhou Qin and a visiting military officer watched the footage and were both astonished by Chen Jue's performance.

After the police confirmed Chen Jue had caught the thief in just fifty-eight seconds, Commissar Yao praised the soldiers who had helped and questioned them about Chen Jue’s speed. Chen Jue then visited a traditional pharmacy to order the Shaolin Mighty Pill, unaware that the doctor mistook his reason for buying it.

• Zhou Qin and the police officers verified that Chen Jue had run over five hundred meters and caught the thief in fifty-eight seconds.
• Commissar Yao watched the footage, praised the police, and recorded Chen Jue’s unusual display for a combat instructor.
• Commissar Yao teased the three soldiers, promised them an extra day of leave and a verbal commendation, and asked them to describe Chen Jue.
• Chen Jue thanked the woman whose belongings he had recovered, then went to Ye Tong Ren Tang to order several batches of the Shaolin Mighty Pill.
• The young doctor recognized the formula as a treatment for impotence, embarrassing Chen Jue, and told him the pills would take at least three days to prepare.

Chen Jue visited Ye Tong Ren Tang to buy Mighty Pills, where an elderly doctor marveled at his extraordinary health and guessed that he practiced martial arts. After lunch, Chen Jue reviewed the gains from his morning sprint and ordered rice he believed was Wuchang Rice.

• Chen Jue let the elderly doctor examine his pulse and listen to his heart, and the doctor found him exceptionally healthy.
• The elderly doctor saw Chen Jue's prescription for Mighty Pills and concluded that he practiced martial arts; Chen Jue confirmed it before paying and leaving Ye Tong Ren Tang.
• Chen Jue ate five bowls of rice at the Golden Rice Bowl after his morning sprint had left him unusually drained.
• Chen Jue checked his attribute panel and found gains in strength, agility, constitution, unallocated points, and Eight Immortals Stance proficiency.
• Chen Jue ordered fifty kilograms of rice using a link from the restaurant, unaware that it was northeastern fragrant rice marketed as Wuchang Rice.

After returning to Chen Village, Chen Jue tested his speed at the closed Shannan Primary School and discovered that his enhanced attributes let him sprint at an extraordinary level. The result left him wondering whether to pursue athletics as he considered how much stronger he might become.

• Chen Jue jogged five kilometers along the steep mountain road to Chen Village without stopping and felt he had stamina to spare.
• Chen Jue packed his testing equipment and went to Shannan Primary School to measure his athletic ability.
• Chen Jue hand-timed his first hundred-meter sprint at 9.99 seconds, then measured the track and confirmed it was a standard distance.
• Chen Jue ran a second hundred meters in 10.02 seconds and estimated that his electronic time would meet the national master athlete standard.
• Chen Jue realized that an attribute value of 1 represented the upper limit of normal human ability and wondered whether he should become an athlete.

Chen Jue tested his extraordinary strength at Shannan Primary School, breaking national records in shot put and long jump and nearly matching the world records. After returning home, he asked online about his pores closing during his chase, and an expert suggested he was approaching mastery of manifest force.

• Chen Jue dismissed the idea of becoming an athlete and decided to keep training quietly while investigating his growing abilities.
• Chen Jue threw the 7.26-kilogram shot 22.81 meters, then improved to 22.98 and 23.40 meters, surpassing the national record and possibly breaking the world record.
• Chen Jue prepared the long-jump pit and jumped 8.62 meters, setting a national record and coming within 0.32 meters of the world record.
• Chen Jue returned to his family home, reflected on the promise of his new life, and made dinner after showering.
• Chen Jue posted online about his pores closing during the chase, and a Tieba expert told him he was nearing mastery of manifest force.

Chen Jue learned about bright force from a Tieba expert while Commissar Yao and Instructor Zou discussed the extraordinary training footage of him. After dinner, Chen Jue headed to the reservoir wearing twenty jin of sandbag weights and reached the dam in just over five minutes, determined to improve his Eight Immortals Stance.

• Chen Jue asked Half-Step Collapse Fist Rules the World about bright force and learned about pore control and the traditional stages of Internal Fist training.
• Chen Jue searched for explanations of hidden strength and transforming strength but could not understand how hidden strength could injure someone from within.
• Commissar Yao showed Chen Jue's training video to Instructor Zou, who judged Chen Jue's stamina and Internal Fist practice exceptional but said they would have to fight to compare their abilities.
• Commissar Yao proposed inviting martial arts experts to a combat exchange tournament, and Instructor Zou decided to prepare for it.
• Chen Jue simmered Ten-Ingredient Tonic Decoction, strapped on twenty jin of sandbags, and ran uphill to the reservoir dam in just over five minutes.

After Chen Jue upgraded his Boat Boxing and Eight Immortals Stance, he learned to close his pores at will and believed he had mastered bright force. He injured his fist punching a wall, then asked Tieba users for advice on martial arts that could toughen his body.

• Chen Jue practiced Boat Boxing and the Eight Immortals Stance at the reservoir, then spent attribute points to raise his agility and upgrade both skills to Lv2.
• Chen Jue gained control over his pores and blood circulation, practiced on a table, and increased his strength, agility, and constitution.
• Chen Jue punched a wall to test his power, damaged the wall, and injured his right hand, causing his health index to drop to 94%.
• Chen Jue treated his fist and posted on Tieba asking for advice about body-toughening martial arts.
• Tieba users suggested Iron Sand Palm, Shaolin Body Conditioning Skill, Golden Bell Shield, and Iron Shirt, and Chen Jue searched for the skills they named.

Chen Jue began learning the Shaolin Impact-Conditioning Skill to strengthen his body after his fist training had injured him. He unlocked the skill but found its natural progress too slow, so he switched to stance training to earn attribute points for it.

• Chen Jue searched for body-conditioning arts, rejected Iron Sand Palm, and chose Shaolin's Impact-Conditioning Skill.
• He planned to start with the body areas he could reach and use attribute points to raise the skill if he unlocked it.
• The next morning, Chen Jue found that his constitution had improved and his right-hand wound was healing quickly, though a small fracture still hurt.
• Because rain kept him from training at the reservoir, Chen Jue cut bamboo and made a board to practice the Shaolin Impact-Conditioning Skill at home.
• After an hour of striking his body while using overt force, Chen Jue unlocked Shaolin Impact-Conditioning Skill Lv0 and gained two proficiency points.
• Chen Jue stopped practicing the skill directly and began the Eight Immortals Stance to earn attribute points instead.

After improving his stance training and recovering from his hand injury, Chen Jue accepted an invitation to compete in a military-civilian martial arts exchange next week. Hoping to prepare, he asked Tieba for martial arts he could learn quickly, but the replies mostly joked about wuxia techniques.

• Chen Jue’s Lv2 Eight Immortals Stance training raised his attributes quickly, and his watch showed that his resting heart rate had fallen to thirty to forty beats per minute.
• Chen Jue rested his injured hand, practiced the Twelve Forms of the Muscle-Tendon Change Classic, and made bone broth at home.
• Commissar Yao invited Chen Jue to the nearby regiment’s martial arts exchange competition, offering an appearance fee and a possible instructor role if he placed first.
• Chen Jue accepted the invitation because he wanted the income and a chance to spar after mastering Bright Force.
• Chen Jue asked the Tieba experts what martial arts he could learn in a week, but they responded with jokes and fictional wuxia techniques.

Chen Jue learned the Shaolin Child Prodigy Skill and quickly improved his constitution by practicing it with tonic decoction. After reaching Lv2 on the first day, he spent the next day grinding its proficiency and completed the 500 points needed for another breakthrough.

• Chen Jue searched for the Shaolin Child Prodigy Skill and began practicing it, quickly gaining proficiency.
• Chen Jue reached Lv1, drank Ten-Ingredient Tonic Decoction, and saw his constitution increase.
• Chen Jue practiced through the evening, raised the skill to Lv2, and gained more constitution and unallocated attribute points.
• Chen Jue woke the next morning feeling energized, with his hand injury improved and his health index at 96%.
• Chen Jue used tonic decoction to accelerate his practice and reached 500 proficiency points in the Shaolin Child Prodigy Skill by six in the evening.

Chen Jue perfected the Shaolin Child Prodigy Skill and gained a vitality-boosting status, then found his current weights too light and ordered heavier training equipment. He ended the chapter preparing to upgrade his workouts as his strength continued to grow.

• Chen Jue raised the Shaolin Child Prodigy Skill to Perfection and gained the One Qi, Rising Sun Birth status.
• Chen Jue drank the remaining medicinal decoction, practiced more, and saw his constitution rise to 1.74.
• Chen Jue found that his improved digestion and strength made his 20 kg dumbbells ineffective.
• Chen Jue ordered custom 200 kg dumbbells, a weighted vest, and wrist and ankle weights.
• Chen Jue planned to use the new equipment for training and watched a martial arts documentary before bed.

Chen Jue collected Shaolin Mighty Pills and discovered that taking one before practicing the Twelve Forms of the Muscle-Tendon Change Classic rapidly increased his training proficiency, strength, and constitution. Despite the doctor’s warning to take no more than one every three days, Chen Jue swallowed a second pill to test his limits.

• After morning training, Chen Jue traveled to Ye Tong Ren Tang and collected thirty Mighty Pills and a jar of aged yellow rice wine.
• The young doctor warned Chen Jue to take no more than one Mighty Pill every three days and suggested he make medicinal wine.
• Back at his old house, Chen Jue swallowed a Mighty Pill with yellow rice wine and practiced the Twelve Forms of the Muscle-Tendon Change Classic.
• The pill accelerated Chen Jue’s proficiency gains and increased his strength and constitution by 0.03 each after more than an hour of practice.
• Chen Jue ignored the dosage warning and swallowed a second Mighty Pill to see whether his health index would reveal any side effects.

Chen Jue used attribute points to raise the Twelve Forms of the Muscle-Tendon Change Classic to Level 2, then consumed several Shaolin Mighty Pills as the breakthrough rapidly improved his strength and constitution. After resting and preparing for more training, he encountered a wild boar and its four piglets while jogging up the mountain.

• Chen Jue spent 0.18 attribute points to advance the Twelve Forms of the Muscle-Tendon Change Classic to Level 2.
• The breakthrough triggered intense bodily depletion, so Chen Jue consumed several Shaolin Mighty Pills until the siphoning effect ended and his strength reached 1.23 and constitution reached 1.91.
• Chen Jue noticed his eyesight and body shape had improved, then ordered a digital scale and a copper bar for training.
• Chen Jue decided to rest before using more attribute points and planned to raise his Impact-Conditioning Skill before the martial arts exchange.
• Chen Jue jogged up the mountain at night and came face-to-face with a large wild boar followed by four piglets.

Chen Jue encountered a family of wild boars near Chen Village Reservoir and fought off a charging male with a powerful kick, then treated a scrape at home and trained. By the next morning, his injuries had healed, and he planned to upgrade the Shaolin Body Conditioning Skill.

• Chen Jue met a sow and her piglets on the road, but a large male boar charged at him after hearing the sow's cries.
• Chen Jue dodged the first charge and kicked the boar hard enough to send it tumbling; the injured boar fled into the grass.
• Chen Jue confirmed the boars had left, went home, treated his scraped leg, and practiced the Eight Immortals Stance for two hours.
• Chen Jue woke to find his hand fracture and leg scrape healed, with his health index at 99% and his constitution at 1.91.
• Chen Jue trained at the reservoir, raised his free attribute points to 0.27, and prepared to upgrade the Shaolin Body Conditioning Skill.

Chen Jue broke through to Level 1 in the Shaolin Body Conditioning Skill by striking himself with a blue brick, gaining greater strength and resilience. After testing his newfound toughness, he learned that his 400-kilogram dumbbells had arrived and went to help unload them.

• Chen Jue maxed out the Shaolin Body Conditioning Skill with attribute points but discovered that an upgrade prerequisite was still missing.
• Chen Jue used a blue brick to strike his body until the prerequisite unlocked, then broke through to Level 1 after taking a Mighty Pill and drinking Ten-Ingredient Tonic Decoction.
• Chen Jue’s constitution and strength increased, and he punched through another brick in the wall without injuring his hand.
• Chen Jue ate lunch, rested, and received a call from the SF Express delivery guy asking him to help unload his oversized dumbbells at the village entrance.

Chen Jue received a pair of 200-kilogram dumbbells and used a burst of bright force to unload their crate from the delivery van. After carrying the dumbbells home and training with them, he increased his strength and gained more free attribute points.

• Chen Jue met the delivery guy and lifted the heavy crate enough to tip it out of the van, astonishing him.
• Chen Jue added the delivery guy as a WeChat friend, dismantled the dumbbells, and carried their parts home in eight trips.
• Chen Jue tested the dumbbells and found he could lift 100 kilograms with one hand using bright force, or 75 kilograms with raw strength.
• Chen Jue trained for three hours with 50-kilogram dumbbells in each hand and raised his strength by 0.05 and his free attribute points by 0.02.

Chen Jue attended a military martial arts exchange at the XX Regiment’s base, where he met other invited experts, including Master Li of Boat Boxing. He ended his demonstration by revealing the power of his Impact-Conditioning Skill and smashing a heavy punching bag across the venue.

• Chen Jue raised his Impact-Conditioning Skill to Level 2 after training with copper rods, making his body tougher and dark bronze in appearance when he exerted himself.
• Chen Jue traveled to the XX Regiment’s base in Peach Immortal Village for the exchange event and met Instructor Zou, who told him that another invited expert practiced Boat Boxing.
• Chen Jue arrived at the crowded venue, recognized Master Li from a Boat Boxing instructional video, and watched the invited experts demonstrate their skills.
• Chen Jue took the stage last and asked for a freestanding punching bag instead of performing Boat Boxing.
• Chen Jue entered the Eight Immortals Stance, turned dark bluish, and punched the bag so hard that it burst and flew six or seven meters, stunning the audience.