Chapter Summaries

Drake told Lucas and the others about their families’ ancestors, and Benny accidentally revealed that Lucas had created Battle Qi. Lucas traded a Battle Qi cultivation method for artificing lessons, while Benny left feeling guilty about exposing the secret.

• Drake recounted how Stans founded the tribe and explained the histories of Lucas’s, Benny’s, and Eric’s families.
• Benny told Drake that Lucas had created Battle Qi, and Eric rebuked him for revealing the secret.
• Lucas reassured Eric and offered Drake a fourth-rank Magic Beast Core as Benny’s apprenticeship gift.
• Lucas demonstrated Battle Qi by piercing a stone slab and offered Drake a cultivation method in exchange for artificing lessons for himself and Eric.
• Drake accepted the arrangement and wondered whether Benny could keep up with Lucas as Lucas left with the others.
• Benny apologized to Lucas for accidentally revealing the secret.

After a year of smithing with Master Drake, Lucas left to gain experience, refusing to take Benny, Eric, or Windsor because he considered it too dangerous. Windsor insisted on going with him despite her father Wilson telling her not to make trouble.

• Lucas stopped Eric from attacking Benny after Benny accidentally revealed the Battle Qi cultivation method to Master Drake.
• Lucas, Benny, and Eric trained in smithing with Master Drake for a year, while Lucas advanced to Fifth Rank Warrior and learned to forge equipment.
• Lucas said goodbye to Master Drake and told Benny and Eric he planned to leave to gain experience, but refused to take them along.
• Lucas visited Windsor to say goodbye, and Windsor insisted on joining him despite Lucas and Wilson warning her against it.

Lucas left his tribe to train in the nearby mountains, but a pack of Wind Wolves attacked him during his first night. He escaped the pursuing pack by using his spear technique and jumping between trees, then continued onward after they gave up the chase.

• Lucas packed his supplies and weapons, said goodbye to his parents, and set out east to train near his tribe’s mountain.
• Lucas tied himself to a tall tree to sleep, but a Wind Wolf attack toppled the tree and sent him crashing to the ground.
• Lucas fought the Wind Wolves with his spear and dagger, then realized he could use a nearby fallen tree to climb back into the canopy.
• The Wind Wolf King launched Wind Blades as Lucas leaped, but Lucas struck back with Battle Qi and used the recoil to reach the tree.
• Lucas fled from tree to tree as the wolves pursued him, then kept running for another hour after the pack stopped chasing.

After surviving a Wind Wolves attack, Lucas recovered his belongings and continued east through the Magical Beast Forest, carefully avoiding dangerous beasts. By noon, he had found a tree to rest in after spotting a huge herd of Mighty Magical Bulls.

• Lucas calmed himself after the Wind Wolves attack and cultivated Battle Qi through the rest of the night.
• Lucas waited until daylight, returned to the battlefield, recovered his bundle and dagger, and left before scavengers could threaten him.
• Lucas ate the cooked food he had brought from the tribe and continued east, avoiding a fire that could reveal his location.
• Lucas spotted a huge herd of Mighty Magical Bulls and turned away, wary of the predators likely shadowing them.
• Lucas rested in the fork of a large tree at noon, ate, and sheltered from the sun.

After six months of surviving and training in the forest, Lucas defeated a wild boar king and mastered Wielding Something Light as Though It Were Heavy. He remained in Wind Wolf territory, planning to reach the sixth level before confronting the wolves and protecting his tribe.

• Lucas boiled stream water, replenished his supplies, and continued his daily training after six months of developing his mental power and fifth-level Battle Qi.
• Lucas challenged a pair of fifth-level boar kings, dodged their attacks, and killed the male with Wielding Something Light as Though It Were Heavy.
• Lucas spared the sow, took a foreleg from the dead boar, and left the piglets as a possible food source for the Wind Wolves.
• Lucas reflected on his spear and sledgehammer training and concluded that he had mastered Wielding Something Light as Though It Were Heavy.
• Lucas judged himself strong enough to face some seventh-level magical beasts but chose to train safely until he reached the sixth level before attacking the Wind Wolves.

Lucas challenged a sixth-level Earth Baboon King to test his strength, but the fight drew the attention of a Wind Wolf pack that had surrounded him before. Outnumbered, Lucas tried to break through the wolves’ coordinated standoff and launched a powerful spear sweep.

• Lucas attacked the Earth Baboon King, wounded it, and drove off two fifth-level baboons, but the baboons began striking him with magic from a distance.
• A Wind Wolf King arrived and killed the wounded Baboon King and the two injured baboons.
• The Wind Wolf pack surrounded Lucas, and he realized he needed to thin their numbers before more wolves arrived.
• Lucas took a defensive stance and waited, but the wolves refused to attack and tried to stall until nightfall.
• Lucas baited the wolves by charging toward the wolf king, then planted his feet and swept his spear at the pack.

Lucas killed the level six Wind Wolf King after using sweeping strikes to thin its pack, then escaped toward the baboons’ former route. Two hours later, the female Wind Wolf King arrived and left with some of the wolves, while Lucas continued east through the Hemonxi Mountains.

• Lucas used Wielding Something Light as Though It Were Heavy to kill two Wind Wolves and drive back the rest, then the wolf king bit through his armor and scratched his belly.
• Lucas charged at the injured wolves, turned to strike their reinforcements, and killed two more while injuring two others.
• Lucas fought the Wind Wolf King and killed it with a strike using Wielding Something Light as Though It Were Heavy; the remaining injured wolves fled.
• Lucas ran toward the route the baboons had taken, having no strength left to pursue the fleeing wolves.
• The female Wind Wolf King arrived with her subordinates, suppressed the wolves’ unrest, and left to seek another territory, while several males stayed to contest the dead king’s Magic Beast Core.
• Lucas headed east to avoid the deeper, more dangerous parts of the Hemonxi Mountains.

Lucas reflected on how life-and-death combat had sharpened his instincts and strength, then focused on mastering control of his power. When he encountered four warriors fighting a seventh-level Velocidragon, he joined the battle and helped drive the beast away.

• Lucas reviewed his combat experience and resolved to develop greater control over his strength through martial practice and studying nature.
• Lucas heard fighting after crossing a valley and found a Sixth-Rank Warrior and three Fifth Rank Warriors retreating from a seventh-level Velocidragon.
• A female warrior warned Lucas to stay away, but he charged in and struck the Velocidragon with his spear.
• The Velocidragon's tail was injured by Lucas's attack, and the Sixth-Rank Warrior's pressure eased after Lucas joined the fight.
• The Velocidragon judged the humans' strength, roared at them, and retreated.

Lucas saved a tribe’s warriors from a Velocidragon and learned that their trial involved stealing its egg. His search for a way to force a magical-beast contract failed, and he left after a woman from the tribe proposed having a child with him.

• Lucas let the Velocidragon retreat, and the Sixth-Rank Warrior thanked him for saving the group.
• The warriors revealed that their trial involved stealing a Velocidragon egg, and Lucas offered to trade his strength secret for information about magical-beast contracts.
• The Sixth-Rank Warrior could not tell Lucas how to impose a contract on a fully grown magical beast.
• A female Fifth Rank Warrior proposed having a child with Lucas, but he refused and said he loved someone else.
• Lucas excused himself and left the group.

Lucas escaped the tribe members, reflected on the danger of revealing his secret, and continued training in the wilderness. He left the Velocidragon territory, found shelter from an approaching storm, and ended the day washing in the rain.

• Lucas fled before the warriors could question him, while the deputy chief warned that their group could not defeat him without the tribe's Seventh-Level Earth Armored Dragon.
• The muscular girl admitted she had hoped to have a strong child with Lucas, and the silent boy considered following him but stayed with the tribe.
• Lucas realized that his desire to learn how to contract magical beasts had nearly led him into a trap, and he resolved to be more cautious.
• Lucas left the valley, continued challenging magical beasts, and sought shelter when he predicted rain.
• Lucas checked an empty cave, gathered dry wood, cooked magical beast meat, and stood outside to wash in the rain.

Lucas gained insight into a faster, more defensive spear technique while training in the rain, then continued his journey through the mountains. After spotting a dangerous black bear and suspecting it had found a treasure, he followed it but decided to retreat when it disappeared behind a tree.

• Lucas practiced his spear in the rain, striking falling drops until he developed a mist-like weave of spear shadows and improved his attack speed.
• Lucas reflected on his sixth-rank Battle Qi, prepared for a new journey, and sensed that he had not yet gained a true understanding of the earth's laws.
• Lucas spotted a black bear-like magical beast and guessed it was an eighth- or ninth-rank beast, then followed it from a distance because he suspected it had found a treasure.
• Lucas watched the black bear approach a rocky cliff hidden behind a tree and prepared to retreat when he could no longer see it.

Lucas fled a black bear and a swarm of venomous bee-like magical beasts after the bear tricked him into taking the swarm’s honey. After escaping with the help of a mud pool, Lucas left with the bear cub that kept following him.

• Lucas saw the black bear run toward him, but it swerved away after he knocked down a chunk of honey and drew the bee-like magical beasts’ attention.
• Lucas ran from the swarm with the black bear cub following him, fighting off some of the pursuing beasts with his spear.
• Lucas and the cub hid in a rainwater pool and covered themselves in mud until the bees lost the scent of honey and flew away.
• Lucas left the cub behind, but it continued following him despite his attempts to change direction.
• After waiting for the mother bear to appear and hearing nothing, Lucas covered the cub in more mud, picked it up, and ran in a new direction.

Lucas escaped with the black bear cub by masking their scents, then began taming it with food while cultivating in a valley. After ten days, the cub had grown attached enough to insist on sitting beside him at mealtimes.

• The mother bear followed Lucas and the cub until mud and other magical beasts’ scents obscured their trail, then rampaged after losing them.
• Lucas subdued the resisting cub and fled with it for five days before settling in a valley and killing several sixth-level magical beasts.
• Lucas fed the hungry cub raw meat and kept the better roasted meat for himself, while the cub edged closer to him for safety that night.
• Lucas began cultivating battle qi and continued rationing food to make the cub gradually depend on him.
• Over the next ten days, Lucas hunted several times, and the cub began insisting on sitting beside him at mealtimes.

Lucas formed an Equal Contract with a black bear cub and named it Anton, then took it along as he trained. When Anton rushed a seventh-level Velocidragon and was injured, Lucas defeated the beast with his spear techniques.

• Lucas earned the black bear cub’s trust by feeding it and scratching its belly, then pretended to leave the cave.
• The cub chased after Lucas, bit his thigh, and formed an Equal Contract with him while asking for meat.
• Lucas learned the cub had no name and later named it Anton after discovering its mother was a darkness-attribute Level Nine Magical Beast.
• A year later, Anton charged a seventh-level Velocidragon and was knocked aside, so Lucas fought it using his Thousand Layers, Myriad Shadows Spear Technique.
• Lucas killed the Velocidragon with Wielding Something Light as Though It Were Heavy, and Anton dug out its Magic Beast Core before they left.

Lucas used Anton to steal honey from a bee nest, then shared honey-roasted Bloodthirsty War Boar with him while cultivating toward the seventh rank. The next day, Lucas discovered a vast cavern behind a waterfall and continued exploring its depths.

• Lucas smoked out a third-level bee nest and sent Anton to draw away the swarm while he cut off honeycomb.
• Lucas and Anton ate honey and shared a roast Bloodthirsty War Boar, which Anton had hunted.
• Lucas cultivated overnight and nearly accumulated enough battle qi for a breakthrough to the seventh rank.
• Lucas found a towering waterfall and discovered a cave behind it.
• Lucas followed a draft deeper into the cave with Anton and entered a vast, lofty chamber.

Lucas and Anton fought a level nine snake-type magical beast near a spatial rift, and Lucas knocked it into the Planar Prison before escaping. After recovering from their injuries, Lucas reached the seventh rank and left the story wary of returning to the rift.

• Lucas realized the snake-type magical beast guarded a spatial rift and had Anton ask it to let them leave, but it declared that anyone who learned its secret had to die.
• Anton took the snake's first attack, and Lucas struck it twice with his spear, knocking it into the spatial rift before the snake's counterattack knocked him unconscious.
• Lucas woke beside Anton, learned the level nine beast had been sucked into the Planar Prison, and left the waterfall with Anton after recovering enough to travel.
• Lucas and Anton hid in a valley and spent three months healing, during which Lucas's Battle Qi advanced to the seventh rank.

Lucas returned to the Stans Tribe with Anton and reunited with his family and Windsor after years away. He shared stories of his dangerous journey with his mother, who saw through his attempt to hide how much danger he had faced.

• Lucas returned to the Stans Tribe with Anton and reunited with Benny, who told him the tribe had prospered using the battle qi Lucas left behind.
• Lucas met his younger sister and brother, then embraced Windsor when she arrived and cried after seeing him again.
• Lucas caught up with Windsor and declined to train with Eric and Benny so he could spend time with his family.
• Selina asked Lucas whether he had been hurt, and he admitted some of the dangers he had faced, including meeting Anton's mother.
• Anton complained that Lucas had tricked him into leaving with honey and roast meat, and Lucas flicked his head while Selina asked why he had hit him.

Lucas returned to the tribal training grounds and inspired the children by pulverizing a huge rock with one punch. He then sparred with his father, Abuda, and explained that his speed and insight into the ways of heaven and earth let him overcome stronger attacks.

• Lucas visited the morning training grounds, where his former teacher asked him to encourage the children.
• Lucas shattered a van-sized rock into powder with one punch, then encouraged the cheering children to train.
• Abuda challenged Lucas to a spar on the mountain behind their home, and Lucas easily countered his attacks with rapid spear thrusts.
• Abuda used Battle Qi, but Lucas still handled his attacks without using his own Battle Qi.
• Lucas explained that his speed let him exploit the broadsword's broad movements and that his insight had come from watching rain strike the ground.

Lucas explained the higher realms and the importance of comprehending the force of heaven and earth, then encouraged Abuda to develop his own form of force control. He turned to Anton and ended the bear’s hopes of a meal by ordering him to practice magic and train.

• Lucas told Abuda that higher realms existed beyond the sixth rank and that comprehending the force of heaven and earth mattered more than simply accumulating battle qi.
• Lucas demonstrated his spear techniques and advised Abuda to pursue Heavy as Light, then asked him to teach Mother as well.
• Abuda left with his broadsword, and Lucas decided Anton needed more discipline after realizing he had spoiled the bear.
• Lucas tricked Anton into thinking they would make honey-steamed bear paw, frightening him before revealing that the bear needed to train.
• Lucas ordered Anton to practice magic and train instead of giving up on him.

Lucas trained Anton relentlessly while Windsor and four others departed to gain experience, then prepared a large sculpture to seek a breakthrough in spiritual power. The chapter left Lucas beginning his carving while Anton guarded the stone house.

• Lucas made Anton absorb magical energy and spar with him daily, while Anton stood watch at night and enjoyed the roast meat Lucas cooked.
• Windsor, Eric, Benny, and two young tribesmen set out to gain experience, and Lucas warned them about dangers and urged the tribesmen to reach the sixth level.
• Anton offered to follow Windsor and protect her, but Lucas refused, explaining that she needed to follow her own path, then made Anton train harder.
• Half a year later, Lucas had reached the sixth level in body tempering and the peak of the seventh level in battle qi, while his spiritual power neared a breakthrough.
• Lucas planned to carve the moment he had faced a ninth-level snake-type magical beast near a spatial rift, hoping to gain insight into the Death Edict and reach the seventh level in spiritual power.
• Lucas told Anton to guard the stone house while he carved, and Anton was pleased to have several days without sparring.