Chapter Summaries

Chen Xia spent a century avoiding cultivation in the Azure Heaven Sword Sea until the Old Fisherman ordered him to attend the entrance selection. After learning he could use time differences between realms to make cultivation last longer, Chen Xia chose to descend into a tiny realm despite its dangers.

• Chen Xia fished with an octopus colleague, who charged a thousand-zhang shark with his recorder-sword and was eaten.
• Chen Xia stayed in the shallows for a hundred years until the Old Fisherman arrived and urged him to join the entrance selection.
• Chen Xia resisted cultivating or competing, claiming he could become invincible by outliving everyone.
• The Old Fisherman set a deadline of five hundred years for Chen Xia to attend the selection, and Chen Xia agreed.
• The Old Fisherman explained that time passed faster in smaller realms and warned of their risks, but Chen Xia insisted on descending into a tiny realm.

Chen Xia spent his saved points on luck, gained the Son of Heaven title, and entered a tiny world as a junior Night Hawk. He defeated Fire Man and left the world’s civilians safe for the moment.

• Chen Xia put all his saved points into luck and acquired the Son of Heaven title.
• Old Fisherman taught Chen Xia how to send a portion of his Divine Sense into a tiny world where time flowed faster.
• Chen Xia entered a world where superhumans had brought society to collapse and found himself a sixteen-year-old junior Night Hawk facing a fleeing crowd.
• Chen Xia confronted Fire Man, who was attacking civilians, and battered him with a steel pipe and his fists until the flames went out.
• Chen Xia inspected Fire Man’s corpse and joked that it was part of a KFC deluxe lunch.

Chen Xia began adjusting to his new life as an E-rank Night Hawk after killing the C-rank Fire Man, while learning that his fortune and the Spiritual Qi from his previous world remained. At Night Hawk’s assembly, the world rejected his lazy wish, so he reluctantly declared that he wanted to become an ally of justice.

• Chen Xia explained that extreme anger had let him kill Fire Man, and the intelligence officer told him to get examined at headquarters and offered him two bottles of enhancement medicine.
• Chen Xia returned to his makeshift home beneath an overpass, discovered his fortune was unchanged, and felt Spiritual Qi slowly strengthening his body.
• Chen Xia considered the world’s ability users and decided he would refuse enhancement medicine because he distrusted its effects.
• Chen Xia went to Night Hawk’s headquarters, joked with a security guard, and received a black uniform from an inspector.
• Chen Xia introduced himself at the assembly, but after his wish to avoid work drew the world’s rejection, he changed it to becoming an ally of justice.

Chen Xia attended a Night Hawk meeting, where his kill of Fire Man earned him third-class merit, then was assigned a security mission with Captain Gorilla. As they prepared for the symposium, Captain Gorilla revealed his ability was turning into a human and said he planned to retire and marry after the mission.

• An official listed Chen Xia’s killing of Fire Man as third-class merit, surprising the Night Hawk members with his victory over a C-rank ability user.
• The inspector assigned Chen Xia to a security mission and introduced Captain Gorilla as his veteran partner.
• Chen Xia and Captain Gorilla read the assignment to provide security at Mr. Guangzhi’s academic symposium and agreed to prepare together.
• Captain Gorilla explained that ability users could develop their mental capacity gradually, then revealed his ability was turning into a human.
• Captain Gorilla told Chen Xia he planned to retire and return home to get married after the mission.

Chen Xia guarded a building with Captain Gorilla and learned that the superpowered gorilla longed to escape the suspicion and isolation he faced for not being human. Captain Gorilla finally revealed his wish, leaving Chen Xia regretting that he had promised not to laugh.

• Chen Xia patrolled the symposium building with Captain Gorilla, who asked whether becoming human differed from becoming a gorilla.
• Captain Gorilla confessed that people feared he might go berserk and believed he should be locked in a cage, while Chen Xia tried to reassure him.
• Chen Xia suspected the nighttime symposium might not be legitimate, but the first day passed peacefully.
• Chen Xia arrived late on the second and third days, and Captain Gorilla patiently accepted his lateness.
• Captain Gorilla explained that he was the sole successful test subject for an enhancement drug and admitted he could not leave his job despite repeatedly saying he would return home to marry.
• Captain Gorilla revealed that his wish was to lose his virginity, and Chen Xia asked if he could take back his promise not to laugh.

Chen Xia killed a chainsaw-wielding attacker outside the building, then faced the Coffin operative responsible for the explosions. He used Time Stop to strike the operative, leaving Captain Gorilla alive and the fight unresolved.

• Captain Gorilla and Chen Xia discussed Captain Gorilla's wish to lose his virginity and his hope of reincarnating into an anime world.
• An explosion erupted inside the building, and Captain Gorilla rushed in while Chen Xia waited outside.
• A masked chainsaw man attacked Chen Xia, who defeated him with an iron rod and killed him with a finger flick.
• Explosions tore through the building, and Captain Gorilla fell outside, warning Chen Xia to run.
• A Coffin operative confronted Chen Xia and said Coffin's rule was to leave no Night Hawks alive at the scene.
• Chen Xia activated Time Stop, struck the Coffin operative with the iron rod, and sent him crashing through the entrance wall.

Chen Xia spent years cultivating in a small world and expanding Time Stop, aiming to freeze the entire world and leave a divine-thought incarnation as a fallback while he explored the Azure Heaven Sword Sea. By the hundredth year, he had reached the Nascent Soul Lightning Tribulation, but the frozen world kept it from descending.

• Chen Xia hid beneath an overpass, practiced Time Stop, and confirmed that the system awarded him one point after a year.
• Chen Xia suspected Old Fisherman might be keeping him ignorant of the Azure Heaven Sword Sea, so he planned to stop the entire small world and leave a divine-thought incarnation behind.
• Chen Xia steadily expanded Time Stop, eventually freezing the whole city for nearly a day while cultivating toward Golden Core.
• By the seventieth year, Chen Xia could stop time for an entire day and began contemplating whether time could be crossed or used to strike the future through causality.
• By the hundredth year, Chen Xia had reached the Nascent Soul Lightning Tribulation, but the frozen world prevented it from descending.

After Chen Xia returned from the small world, he suspected the Old Fisherman had lied about his origins and concealed his own motives. He decided to keep playing the role of a shaken prospective disciple while investigating the Azure Heaven Sword Sea, unaware that the Old Fisherman planned to use him as medicine once he became a Quasi-Saint.

• Chen Xia told the Old Fisherman that he had died, accepted a ten-thousand-year-old Purified Altar Soul Lotus, and pretended to be discouraged about descending into the heavens.
• Chen Xia reasoned that the Old Fisherman might have lied about rescuing him from the river of time, and decided not to eat the soul lotus while he investigated the Azure Heaven Sword Sea.
• The Old Fisherman privately admitted that he intended to use Chen Xia as an ingredient for medicine once Chen Xia became a Quasi-Saint, believing the sacrifice would help prolong the Azure Heaven Sword Sea's life.
• Chen Xia walked to the sword forest entrance, then returned to his cave abode and acted as though his Dao heart had been damaged by his failure in the small world.
• When the Old Fisherman offered to report Chen Xia's recovery time to the sect master, Chen Xia requested ten thousand years, leaving the Old Fisherman stunned.

Chen Xia visited the Heavenly Pavilion to find a method that could burn lifespan for greater combat strength. He discovered the Blood-Burning Soul-Extinguishing Method, which traded his own lifespan to shorten an opponent’s.

• The Old Fisherman allowed Chen Xia a few hundred years to recuperate and told him he could choose a Sea-Overturning Realm Divine Ability or Secret Method at the Heavenly Pavilion.
• Chen Xia considered his limited time and current strength, then decided to seek a cultivation method at the Heavenly Pavilion.
• Other provisional disciples watched Chen Xia, the third Great Emperor seedling, while the two rival seedlings prepared to compete for the Sword Scion position.
• Chen Xia asked the black-robed guardian for a lifespan-burning method and entered the Heavenly Pavilion.
• A book spirit showed Chen Xia the Blood-Burning Soul-Extinguishing Method, which let him sacrifice a hundred years of his lifespan to take eighty years from another.

Chen Xia chose the unfinished Blood-Burning Soul-Extinguishing Method because its lifespan costs were no burden to him, then began using it on Old Fisherman. The method took twenty years from Old Fisherman, and the chapter ended as Chen Xia faced the vast ocean of his own lifespan.

• Chen Xia rejected other lifespan-burning techniques and chose the Blood-Burning Soul-Extinguishing Method despite its restrictions and five-year cooldown.
• Old Fisherman learned of Chen Xia's choice and ordered the news kept quiet, worrying that his disciple's Dao heart had been damaged.
• Old Fisherman decided to bring rare treasures to comfort Chen Xia.
• Chen Xia studied the method and used its mind blade to cut twenty years from Old Fisherman's lifespan.
• Chen Xia's mind blade turned toward his own lifespan and revealed an immense ocean of time.