Chapter Summaries

Lin Chen took Qin Xueqing, Mo Xue, and Guo Xiang to a tea restaurant, where two foreign members of the Digger Alliance attacked him after accusing him of staring at one of their girlfriends. Lin Chen fought back, and the chapter ended with him facing Iron Bull and Jaguar as police were on their way.

• Lin Chen chose Good Taste Tea Restaurant, and he and the three women enjoyed their meal by the window.
• Two foreign men and a pair of Japanese twin sisters entered the restaurant, and Lin Chen glanced at them.
• Iron Bull smashed Lin Chen's table and demanded that he pay for looking at his girlfriend, so Lin Chen kicked at him and started a fight.
• Iron Bull caught Lin Chen's kick and threw him, but Lin Chen recovered and struck back with the Kirin Arm.
• Jaguar's companion knocked the restaurant's security guard unconscious, while the chefs called the police.
• Jaguar urged Iron Bull to take Lin Chen outside, and the two Digger Alliance experts attacked him together without managing to suppress him.

Qin Xueqing and Guo Xiang fought Eiko while Miko attacked Mo Xue, but a mysterious man in the restaurant intervened with silver needles. He crippled Leopard and warned Eiko to stay back, revealing himself as a formidable hidden-weapon expert.

• Eiko stopped Qin Xueqing from helping Lin Chen and fought her, but Guo Xiang joined in and helped suppress Eiko.
• Miko rushed at Mo Xue with a blade, but a silver needle struck her thumb, allowing Lin Chen to throw her aside and protect Mo Xue.
• Eiko charged the man eating in the corner, but he struck her with a silver needle and warned her that the next would pierce her body.
• Leopard rushed the man, who fired three silver needles, piercing Leopard's eyes and dantian and causing his Internal Energy to vanish.

Lin Chen reunited with his long-lost friend Liu Bo after Liu Bo saved him from the Digger Alliance assassins. Liu Bo explained that he had returned to take revenge on the people who had ruined his family.

• Liu Bo defeated Iron Bull with a silver needle after injuring Leopard, forcing Eiko and Miko to retreat with the wounded men.
• Lin Chen stopped Eiko and learned that the attackers belonged to the Digger Alliance, then let them leave.
• Lin Chen recognized the mysterious man as Liu Bo, his middle-school friend, and the two reunited after eight years.
• Liu Bo teased Lin Chen and Guo Xiang about their old feelings, while Qin Xueqing said she would accept Guo Xiang as Lin Chen’s second girlfriend.
• Police arrived, and Lin Chen told them foreign assassins had tried to kill him and warned them to expect more foreigners in Nanzhou City.
• Liu Bo told Lin Chen how his family fled to Kunlun after his father’s business partner stole their money, how his parents were attacked, and that he had returned for revenge.

Lin Chen reunited with Liu Bo, learned that former Donghai mayor Chen Yin and Gao Qiu were tied to the attack on Liu Bo’s father, and offered Liu Bo a job and a villa. As Lin Chen drove Liu Bo toward the airport, they encountered a suspicious roadblock and appeared to have run into trouble.

• Liu Bo told Lin Chen that Chen Yin had been behind the men who beat his father, and that Chen Yin and his friend Gao Qiu might have fled to Country M.
• Liu Bo explained that he had trained with the Kunlun Tang Sect for seven years and had returned to seek revenge.
• Lin Chen promised to investigate Chen Yin and Gao Qiu in Country M and offered Liu Bo a position in one of his companies.
• Lin Chen offered to provide Liu Bo and his mother with a villa, and Liu Bo agreed to bring his mother from Kunlun.
• Lin Chen drove Liu Bo toward the airport, then noticed the empty road and two large trees blocking their path.

Lin Chen and Fatty were ambushed by Wang Jiu and the Golden Saber Sect, hired by Zhou Jingnan, but Lin Chen turned the attack around with his abilities and Lu Hao’s Laser Gun. After defeating the attackers, Lin Chen faced Wang Jiu directly.

• Wang Jiu led the Golden Saber Sect’s fighters in an ambush, forcing Lin Chen and Fatty to flee into the woods and split up.
• Lin Chen used his Laser Gun and Tracking Attack to kill the pursuing marksmen while teleporting around the enemy forces.
• Lin Chen eliminated the remaining gunmen and cut down the Golden Saber Sect’s saber fighters with the Grip Light Sword.
• Wang Jiu fired at Lin Chen, who blocked the bullets with a dagger and accepted his challenge to fight one-on-one.

Lin Chen killed Wang Jiu and the other Golden Saber Sect assassins, then revealed his teleportation and storage abilities to Liu Bo and arranged to meet Liu Bo’s master. After Lin Chen killed Zhou Jingnan and checked on his villa renovation, the story left him preparing to learn the Tang Sect’s qigong.

• Lin Chen dodged Wang Jiu’s gunfire, slit his throat, and stored the assassins’ bodies in his Mobile Garage after Liu Bo confirmed he had defeated the rest.
• Lin Chen told Liu Bo about his superpowers, teleported him near the Kunlun Tang Sect, and agreed to visit Liu Bo’s master the next day to learn the Tang Sect’s qigong.
• Lin Chen returned to Nanzhou City and arranged Zhou Jingnan’s death in a staged traffic accident, then claimed his mission reward and shut down the system.
• The next morning, Lin Chen urged Cheng Feng to finish renovating his villa with high-quality, low-formaldehyde materials so he could move in as soon as it was ready.

Lin Chen received a mission to destroy the virus factory just as a stronger Poison Butterfly outbreak infected thousands. At the hospital, he suspected Zhang Kang had leaked the radiation treatment method and proposed a trap to identify the culprit, who he believed wanted to sell an antidote.

• Xiao Yi assigned Lin Chen the mission to destroy the virus factory, and Wang Bei told him that a more dangerous Poison Butterfly outbreak had infected thousands.
• Lin Chen teleported to People's Hospital and learned from Yang Shifei that the new strain resisted radiation treatment and had killed more than a dozen people.
• Lin Chen questioned Yang Shifei, Zhang Kang, and Cai Jian about how the culprit had learned of the treatment, then grew suspicious of Zhang Kang's reaction.
• Lin Chen suggested announcing that all the patients had recovered and lying in wait for the culprit's representative to check on them.

Lin Chen exposed Zhang Kang’s betrayal and persuaded him to reveal the Lu Family’s underground laboratories. With the police preparing to arrest the family, Lin Chen set out to raid the laboratory beneath Lianda Supermarket before its occupants could destroy evidence.

• Lin Chen and the seniors announced that the infected patients had been successfully treated, prompting Lu Hang to discuss the news with Zhang Kang.
• Zhang Kang told Lu Hang that the treatment had only worked for half the patients, and they planned to exploit the hospital’s announcement to remove its director.
• Lin Chen played a recording of Zhang Kang’s call, and Wang Bei confronted him on the hospital rooftop.
• Zhang Kang agreed to cooperate and revealed two laboratories tied to the Lu Family, including one beneath Lianda Supermarket and one in an empty villa.
• Wang Bei arranged to move against the Lu Family while Lin Chen headed for the supermarket laboratory, bringing Cheng Feng with him.

Lin Chen and Cheng Feng secretly gathered evidence in the Lu Family’s drug-manufacturing laboratory beneath Lianda Supermarket, hoping to bring down the Lu Family and Zhou Family. Zhui Feng investigated a noise but found only a fallen oxygen connector, leaving the pair undiscovered as they continued their work.

• Lin Chen told Cheng Feng that the laboratory contained evidence against the Lu Family and Zhou Family, and asked him to photograph and preserve it while he drew the guards away.
• Cheng Feng agreed, and the two split up as Lin Chen explained the laboratory’s sections and Zhui Feng flirted with the two receptionists on duty.
• Yan Wang received Lu Fei’s warning to stay alert and told the guards to prepare to move the laboratory’s contents into a secret chamber if needed.
• Lin Chen teleported Cheng Feng into the secret chamber, where they photographed and recorded the virus-infected insects and marked culture media without touching anything.
• Zhui Feng heard a noise and searched the laboratory, but Lin Chen teleported away with Cheng Feng before he arrived.
• Zhui Feng found a fallen oxygen connector, put it on a table, and left to wash his hands, while Lin Chen and Cheng Feng remained undiscovered.

Lin Chen and Cheng Feng finished photographing the virus culture medium lab as the Medicine Alliance fighters learned police were closing in. Lin Chen confronted them, defeated Zhui Feng, and faced Leng Mian while waiting for the police to arrive.

• Zhui Feng dismissed the receptionist’s suggestion that someone had entered the lab, while Lin Chen and Cheng Feng returned to take more photos.
• Yan Wang learned the police had surrounded Lianda Plaza and ordered the group to prepare to retreat into the hidden room.
• Lin Chen walked out of the lab, and Yan Wang recognized him as the group attacked.
• Lin Chen quickly knocked down one attacker, then broke Zhui Feng’s hand and sent him crashing into a wall.
• Lin Chen provoked the Medicine Alliance fighters to buy time for the police, and Leng Mian charged at him as Yan Wang watched.

Lin Chen defeated Leng Mian and disrupted Yan Wang’s plan to hide evidence, while Cheng Feng subdued Shadow in the Secret Chamber. With Yan Wang’s team badly weakened and the police on their way, Lin Chen warned him to surrender or face charges.

• Lin Chen shattered Leng Mian’s arm with a powerful punch, then broke his lower leg when he tried to prepare a sneak attack.
• Yan Wang ordered his remaining men to attack Lin Chen while Shadow slipped away to move the evidence.
• Lin Chen recognized Yan Wang as an internal force expert and fought him as Shadow entered the adjoining room.
• Cheng Feng caught Shadow’s dagger hand, knocked him down, and rendered him unconscious in two moves.
• Lin Chen praised Cheng Feng and warned Yan Wang that the police were coming and he should give up.

Lin Chen defeated the Medicine Alliance fighters at the underground laboratory, secured witness statements for the police, and returned to Jingwu Hall. He then went to the Tang Sect to recruit Liu Bo and learned his friend was the sect master's godson and young master.

• Lin Chen used projected inner force to defeat Yan Wang, knocked another fighter unconscious, and forced the last man to surrender.
• Cheng Feng questioned the receptionists, and Lin Chen recorded their claim that the Zhou Family patriarch knew about the underground laboratory.
• Wang Bei arrived with the police, collected the evidence, and let Lin Chen and Cheng Feng leave.
• Back at Jingwu Hall, Lin Chen checked his 200 points and planned to help Lu Hai improve his strength before heading to the Tang Sect.
• A gatekeeper told Lin Chen that Liu Bo had been recognized as the Tang Sect master's godson five years earlier, and Liu Bo arrived and teased the gatekeeper for calling him Young Master.

Lin Chen asked to join the Tang Sect so he could learn qigong and hidden weapons, and Liu Bo vouched for him to Tang Cheng. Tang Cheng agreed to consider him as a final disciple after two demanding tests, which Lin Chen accepted.

• Liu Bo told Lin Chen that he was the Tang Sect’s third strongest fighter and explained how his godfather had helped him cultivate Inner Energy.
• Liu Bo introduced Lin Chen to Tang Cheng and explained that Lin Chen wanted to learn qigong and hidden weapons.
• Tang Cheng refused to teach an outsider, so Lin Chen offered to join the Tang Sect.
• Liu Bo urged Tang Cheng to take Lin Chen as a final disciple and promised to bear the consequences if Lin Chen proved untrustworthy.
• Tang Cheng set two tests for Lin Chen: bring back a Leopard’s head from the back mountain within an hour, then carry a 25-kilogram backpack across Dark Mountain and run back around it.
• Lin Chen accepted both tests.

Lin Chen accepted Tang Cheng’s trial to obtain a Leopard’s head within an hour, hoping to earn the chance to learn the Tang Sect’s techniques. Tang Cheng and Liu Bo returned to wait, believing Lin Chen could prove he was the person Tang Cheng trusted with the sect’s future.

• Tang Cheng praised Lin Chen for agreeing to join the Tang Sect and took him and Liu Bo through the sect grounds toward the back mountain.
• Lin Chen watched Tang Sect disciples use the Qi Control Artifacts technique to curve throwing knives around an obstacle, and the fat man said Lin Chen could learn it if he became Tang Cheng’s last disciple.
• Tang Cheng reflected on the Tang Sect’s conflict with the Power Tomb and decided Lin Chen had to prove his abilities before he could shoulder the sect’s future.
• Tang Cheng gave Lin Chen one hour to enter the forest and bring back a Leopard’s head, regardless of how many other beasts he killed.
• Lin Chen entered the forest, while Liu Bo questioned Tang Cheng and learned that Tang Cheng believed Lin Chen might be the person he had been waiting for.

Lin Chen fought three coordinated Leopards on the back mountain and used his abilities to identify and attack one Leopard’s vulnerable point. The Leopard was pierced, while the other two remained alive.

• Lin Chen found three Leopards together and provoked them by striking them with stones.
• The Leopards attacked Lin Chen, but endured his punches and Dragon Tiger Dance without apparent injury.
• Lin Chen drew the Grip Light Sword, climbed a tree, and used Weakness Perception to identify each Leopard’s vulnerable point.
• One Leopard knocked Lin Chen from the tree, and the three Leopards tightened their defensive formation.
• Lin Chen used Lingbo Weibu and the Teleportation Gate to appear above the Leopard whose vulnerable point was at its waist, then stabbed that spot with the Grip Light Sword.

Lin Chen passed Tang Cheng’s first test by defeating the Leopard trio but leaving the fallen Leopard’s body intact, showing compassion and independent judgment. Tang Cheng then set a harder endurance challenge: Lin Chen had to carry 70 jin across Dark Mountain and run back within an hour, and Lin Chen began at a sprint.

• Lin Chen defeated a Leopard and let its two companions escape, then carried its body down the mountain without taking its head.
• Tang Cheng explained that the first test judged Lin Chen’s character as well as his agility, and declared that Lin Chen had passed.
• Tang Cheng increased the second test to a 70-jin load and required Lin Chen to cross Dark Mountain and return within one hour.
• Lin Chen declined to use Liu Bo’s Teleportation Gate and set off with the load, relying on his stamina and Lingbo Weibu to sprint up the stairs.
• Liu Bo defended his trust in Lin Chen as Tang Cheng watched him race up the mountain.

Lin Chen completed Tang Cheng’s mountain endurance test in record time and was accepted as Tang Cheng’s final disciple in the Tang Sect. Tang Cheng began explaining the Artifact Control Technique and the Mind’s Eye training Lin Chen would need to use hidden weapons accurately.

• Liu Bo ran up Dark Mountain and saw Lin Chen climbing steep natural paths at remarkable speed with seventy jin on his back.
• Lin Chen reached the summit, descended, and completed the circuit in about twenty minutes, then slowed down before returning to Liu Bo.
• Liu Bo brought Lin Chen to Tang Cheng, who believed Lin Chen had completed the test and accepted him as his final disciple.
• Lin Chen agreed to Tang Cheng’s three rules for the Tang Sect and learned that Tang Cheng would teach him the Artifact Control Technique.
• Liu Bo explained that Lin Chen would need to train his Mind’s Eye by targeting moving objects in a dark room.

Lin Chen began learning the Tang Sect’s Artifact Control Technique from Tang Cheng and mastered its qigong at extraordinary speed. After Lin Chen’s Internal Energy proved stronger than Tang Cheng’s, Tang Cheng hailed him as a rare genius and declared that the Tang Sect had hope.

• Lin Chen told Tang Cheng he wanted to learn the Artifact Control Technique quickly because he had enemies, and Tang Cheng said the Tang Sect would face anyone who came after them.
• Tang Cheng explained how the technique used qi to control hidden weapons for up to three seconds after they left the hand.
• Lin Chen learned the qigong breathing and circulation method, reducing a full cycle to under two seconds in half an hour.
• Tang Cheng sensed Lin Chen’s powerful Internal Energy and asked him to exchange punches.
• Lin Chen’s punch sent Tang Cheng staggering, and Tang Cheng realized Lin Chen’s Tang Sect Internal Energy had surpassed his own.
• Tang Cheng called Lin Chen a once-in-a-millennium Tang Sect genius and exclaimed that the Tang Sect had hope.

Lin Chen began Mind's Eye training under Tang Cheng after mastering Tang Sect qigong, learning to locate sounds while blindfolded. He returned to Nanzhou City with new insights and discovered that the system had leveled up.

• Lin Chen thanked Tang Cheng and accepted his offer to begin Mind's Eye training early.
• Lin Chen easily hit moving targets in the dark, so Tang Cheng blindfolded him and began training him to identify sounds by direction.
• Lin Chen pointed out sounds from different locations for over two hours, and Tang Cheng scheduled the distance-sensing lessons for the day after tomorrow.
• Lin Chen left with Tang Cheng's advice to reflect on his training and develop his Mind's Eye to control hidden weapons along curved paths.
• Lin Chen teleported to Jingwu Hall, where Xiao Yi told him the system had leveled up and its storage and garage capacities had increased.
• Lin Chen practiced alone that evening while Qin Xueqing and Guo Xiang went shopping, thinking about the need to grow stronger and explore the wider world.

Zhou Bin learned from Hu Chongsheng that he needed internal force to match Lin Chen and decided to seek a qigong master in Chinatown. They arrived at a bar to gather information and noticed that the unusually handsome man sharing their table drew attention from everyone around him.

• Zhou Bin asked Hu Chongsheng whether his growing strength was enough to rival Lin Chen, and Hu Chongsheng warned that Lin Chen's internal force could bypass ordinary defenses and attack his organs.
• Hu Chongsheng explained that Zhou Bin would need an enlightenment ability and a qigong technique to develop internal force, and advised him to seek a master in Chinatown.
• Zhou Bin agreed to learn humbly, and he and Hu Chongsheng went to Chinatown in the western district of Lost City after dinner.
• Zhou Bin and Hu Chongsheng entered a crowded bar to gather information and sat at a table with a handsome man who was sitting alone.
• Hu Chongsheng realized that the man sharing their table seemed to be a ruthless man, while nearby patrons watched and whispered about the group.