Chapter Summaries

After transmigrating into the notorious Xu Yuan, Xu Yuan took responsibility for his own stabbing to protect Luo Yaoxi from arrest. As he faced losing his place in the martial arts class, a voice announced his high sin value and awarded him a Reincarnation Martial God's brain.

• Xu Yuan awoke in a classroom on Earth Star and realized he had transmigrated into the scumbag Xu Yuan, who had been stabbed by Luo Yaoxi.
• The police prepared to take Luo Yaoxi for questioning, but Xu Yuan claimed he had injured himself so she would not be arrested.
• The school doctor warned Xu Yuan that his injuries would keep him from next Monday's martial arts class assessment unless he obtained second-tier divine medicinal solution.
• Xu Yuan recalled that his predecessor's weak cultivation and poor academic record left him facing expulsion from the martial arts class and likely service in the City Guard Army.
• A voice declared Xu Yuan's accumulated sin value was 2,314, placed him among the top ten on the Evil Demon Ranking, and awarded him one Reincarnation Martial God's brain.

After reincarnating as Xu Yuan, he discovered the Evil Demon Ranking rewarded people for accumulating Sin Points through crimes, but its top-ten reward was a human brain that began taking root in his mind. Meanwhile, Niu Gang questioned Luo Yaoxi about stabbing Xu Yuan and led her out, leaving Xu Yuan alone as the brain’s blood vessels pierced the ground.

• Xu Yuan realized only he could hear the Evil Demon Ranking’s announcement and discovered its stele listed Yang City No. 3 High School students and their Sin Points.
• Xu Yuan found his top-ten reward: a fresh human brain, and watched its blood vessels extend toward empty ground in his mind.
• Niu Gang arrived and asked whether Xu Yuan had stood still and let Luo Yaoxi stab him; after Xu Yuan said no, Niu Gang invited Luo Yaoxi outside.
• After Niu Gang and Luo Yaoxi left, Xu Yuan returned to the misty space and felt his head itch as the brain’s first blood vessel pierced the ground.

Xu Yuan attended martial technique class as his class prepared for Monday’s assessment, while the Martial God’s brain stirred at the sight of a technique demonstration. The chapter left him receiving insights into Zhou Ling’s spear technique and sensing that he was close to mastering it.

• Xu Yuan found a hopeful note with the bread left on his desk, then went to the afternoon martial arts class.
• Luo Han and Sun Hao teased Xu Yuan about being stabbed by Luo Yaoxi, while he calmly asked them not to undermine class unity.
• Teacher Lin Yuan warned the students that Monday’s assessment would eliminate more than half the class and urged them to demonstrate their martial techniques for guidance.
• Zhou Ling demonstrated his Tiger Roar Sky-Piercing Spear, revealing major mastery and drawing admiration from the class.
• As Xu Yuan watched Zhou Ling, the Martial God’s brain sent him insights into the spear technique, and he sensed he was nearing initial mastery.

Xu Yuan discovered that watching other students perform martial techniques let the martial god’s brain raise his techniques to minor accomplishment, while studying a technique’s cultivation method and visualization diagram produced simple insights into higher realms. He began working through those insights for Savage Bull Heart-Shattering Butt, hoping to reach the transformation realm before the assessment.

• Zhou Ling demonstrated Tiger Roar Sky-Piercing Spear, and Xu Yuan secretly gained minor accomplishment in the technique by watching him.
• Lin Yuan praised Zhou Ling’s major accomplishment but criticized his brute-force execution, leaving Zhou Ling to withdraw in frustration.
• Zhang Juye demonstrated Savage Bull Heart-Shattering Butt, and Xu Yuan gained minor accomplishment in it as well.
• Xu Yuan realized that watching demonstrations gave him no insights beyond minor accomplishment, so he considered how cultivation methods and visualization diagrams might help.
• The martial god’s brain produced simple, question-like insights from Savage Bull Heart-Shattering Butt’s cultivation method and visualization diagram, and Xu Yuan began working through them to pursue the transformation realm.

Xu Yuan revealed that he had secretly mastered Savage Bull Heart-Shattering Butt to the Transformation Realm in just three hours, though his classmates laughed at his claims. After class, he followed Sun Hao and Luo Han to collect protection money, then stopped the bullied students from paying.

• Xu Yuan realized his martial skill had reached the Transformation Realm and resisted the Beast Ranking's temptation to do evil.
• When Lin Yuan prompted him to demonstrate his ability, Xu Yuan claimed he had hidden his exceptional talent, and his classmates mocked him.
• After class, Xu Yuan left the building with Luo Han while Sun Hao thanked him for drawing the class's ridicule away from him.
• Sun Hao reminded Xu Yuan that they extorted monthly protection money from timid students and led him and Luo Han to collect it.
• Xu Yuan saw poor students handing over their money, pulled Sun Hao aside, and told them they no longer had to pay.

After nearly being stabbed, Xu Yuan refused to keep extorting and bullying students, then went home determined to treat his family differently from his predecessor. His mother and little sister remained wary of him, but he promised not to hit his sister again.

• Xu Yuan told Sun Hao and Luo Han he would stop bullying students and sent the group away; Sun Hao planned to keep collecting money, while Fatty refused to join him.
• Xu Yuan returned to Prosperous Age Grand View and told Old Man Lu that nearly dying had made him resolve to mend his ways.
• Xu Yuan entered his shabby but spotless home and found Zhang Yaying processing Weird Beast hide for their family’s income.
• Xu Kexin mocked Xu Yuan’s bloody uniform, and Zhang Yaying stepped between them, begging him not to hit her daughter.
• Xu Yuan told Zhang Yaying he would not hit Xu Kexin anymore, surprising himself by how naturally he called her Mom.

Xu Yuan tried to find a way to earn thirty thousand for the medicine he needed before Monday’s martial arts assessment, then discovered that doing good deeds had lowered his Sin Points. He planned to test whether he could use that discovery to climb the Beast Ranking and also received a practical suggestion for earning money.

• Xu Yuan told Zhang Yaying and Xu Kexin that nearly being stabbed had changed him, but kept his need for thirty thousand to himself.
• Xu Yuan searched for quick ways to make money, then asked his wealthy contacts for advice after finding only jokes and advertisements.
• Xu Yuan noticed his Sin Points had fallen from 2314 to 2308 and suspected that stopping Sun Hao from collecting protection money had caused the decrease.
• Xu Yuan found Luo Han and Sun Hao on the Beast Ranking and invited them to meet him on the pedestrian street the next morning.
• Zhang Juye suggested Xu Yuan earn money by teaching martial techniques at the Azure Cloud Martial Arts Base, and Xu Yuan offered to treat him to a foot massage.

Xu Yuan tested whether the Beast Ranking could lower someone else’s Sin Points when he directed them to do good deeds, and confirmed that his own points stayed unchanged. He then set out to make money legally by demonstrating his ability to help Luo Han master a martial technique.

• Xu Yuan told Zhang Yaying to stop processing beast hides for work and promised to cover the household expenses.
• At White Lake Sky Street, Xu Yuan learned that Sun Hao had stopped associating with him, while Luo Han had stayed by his side.
• Xu Yuan had Luo Han donate money to beggars and confirmed that Luo Han’s Sin Points fell while Xu Yuan’s did not.
• Xu Yuan tested further donations, concluding that charitable giving reduced Sin Points at a rate of about one point per fifty yuan, had a limit, and could be reversed by taking the money back.
• Xu Yuan told Luo Han he would demonstrate how to raise his Mountain-Crushing Strike from beginner to minor mastery, using him as a living advertisement.

Xu Yuan disguised himself and opened a martial arts instruction stall in Azure Cloud Martial Arts Base, claiming decades of teaching experience. After Luo Han helped attract a student, Xu Yuan gave him precise advice on Mountain-Crushing Strike, leaving the crowd doubtful as Luo Han prepared to try again.

• Xu Yuan entered Azure Cloud Martial Arts Base in disguise and paid to set up stall seven in the discussion hall.
• Xu Yuan advertised instruction in several martial techniques while concealing the full extent of his abilities.
• When onlookers doubted his experience, Xu Yuan claimed he had taught martial techniques for decades and called Luo Han in as backup.
• Luo Han pretended to be a prospective student and paid Xu Yuan to teach him beginner Mountain-Crushing Strike.
• After watching Luo Han strike the practice dummy, Xu Yuan identified flaws in his technique and gave him detailed adjustments, prompting skepticism from the crowd.
• Xu Yuan told Luo Han to repeat the strike using his instructions.

Xu Yuan demonstrated his ability to rapidly improve students’ martial techniques at the Azure Cloud Martial Arts Base and earned 47,000 yuan in three hours. He left after telling the students he would not return the next day, while news of his instruction spread through Yang City’s martial arts circles.

• Fatty followed Xu Yuan’s corrections to Mountain-Crushing Strike, improved his technique, and reached minor mastery.
• A girl paid Xu Yuan to correct her Wind-Swayed Sword, which she then performed at minor mastery.
• Students rushed to Xu Yuan’s stall for instruction, and other stallholders joined the line after seeing him take a student’s Savage Bull Heart-Shattering Butt from minor to major mastery.
• Xu Yuan taught students for three hours, bringing his Tianxin Pay balance to 47,000 yuan.
• Xu Yuan packed up and left, saying he would not come back the next day, while students spread news of him online.

Xu Yuan bought medicinal liquid at the Cloud-Soaring Pavilion and helped Luo Han prepare for a breakthrough. At home, he paid for the phone Xu Kexin had broken, then confronted the boy’s father over his son pulling her hair and the man’s insults.

• Xu Yuan arrived at the Cloud-Soaring Pavilion with Luo Han and bought a vial of tier-two divine medicinal liquid.
• After Luo Han asked to borrow money for tier-three body-tempering liquid, Xu Yuan bought him a vial to help him prepare for the assessment.
• Xu Yuan returned home and found Zhang Yaying and Xu Kexin being pressured by Zhang Yu’s father over a broken phone.
• Xu Kexin explained that Zhang Yu had pulled her hair while trying to photograph her, so she had smashed his phone.
• Xu Yuan transferred three thousand for the phone, then told Zhang Yu’s father they still needed to discuss his son’s behavior and the man’s insults.

Xu Yuan made Zhang Dahai and Zhang Yu apologize after they bullied his family, then learned that Luo Yaoxi may have awakened a Nascent Divine Ability. He transferred his remaining money to Zhang Yaying and entered dormancy to heal, while Zhang Baosheng threatened him over the upcoming assessment.

• Xu Yuan paid for the damaged property, then slapped Zhang Dahai and demanded that he apologize to Zhang Yaying and make Zhang Yu apologize to Xu Kexin.
• Zhang Dahai and Zhang Yu apologized and left, while Zhang Yaying retreated to her bedroom in tears and Xu Kexin erased two marks from her ledger of future beatings for Xu Yuan.
• Zhang Baosheng messaged Xu Yuan with a threat to break his legs at the assessment, and Xu Yuan replied that Zhang Baosheng should teach his father manners.
• Xu Yuan read the martial arts class chat and learned that Luo Yaoxi had visited the martial arts base with Director Niu and might have awakened a Nascent Divine Ability.
• Xu Yuan told Zhang Yaying to spend his transferred money on the family, then went to his room to enter dormancy and heal, while Xu Kexin erased another mark from her ledger.

After recovering from his injury, Xu Yuan learned that his martial arts guidance had drawn crowds and spoke with Luo Yaoxi, who hinted that she had awakened. As the assessment approached, Zhang Yaying urged him to avoid the dangerous Divine Guard Army, unaware that he expected to pass.

• Xu Yuan woke after sleeping for twenty-four hours, confirmed his injury had healed, and ate with Zhang Yaying and Xu Kexin, who had waited for him.
• Xu Yuan read messages about Fatty reaching Skin Tempering Fourth Stage and discovered that students, teachers, and business owners had crowded the exchange hall hoping to hire or partner with the mysterious martial arts instructor.
• Luo Yaoxi contacted Xu Yuan, checked that his injury had healed, and hinted that she had awakened while claiming Teacher Niu had told her to keep it secret.
• Zhang Yaying asked where Xu Yuan's money came from, and he said he had earned it by guiding people in martial skill training and had hidden his martial arts ability because he had offended people.
• Zhang Yaying urged Xu Yuan to seek teaching work rather than join the Divine Guard Army if he failed the assessment, while Xu Yuan kept quiet and planned to let the results speak for themselves.

Xu Yuan arrived at Third High for the martial arts assessment and used the threat of Fatty attacking Zhang Baosheng to make Zhang slap himself. As the proctoring team arrived, Xu Yuan’s classmates still did not know how he planned to pass.

• Xu Yuan reassured his mother, then told Fatty he would pass the assessment without revealing how.
• At the testing hall, Zhang Chao and Yang Xiaoyu bragged that their Savage Bull Heart-Shattering Butt had reached major mastery after guidance from Master Bao.
• Sun Hao mocked Xu Yuan, who decided to take him to help beggars after the assessment and hinted that Sun Hao faced a bloody calamity.
• Zhang Baosheng provoked Xu Yuan, who ordered Fatty to attack him despite the risk of disqualification; Zhang Juye intervened and got Zhang Baosheng to slap himself.
• Xu Yuan called Fatty back and warned Zhang Baosheng not to run his mouth again, while Zhang Baosheng privately vowed revenge after the assessment.
• Niu Gang, Lin Yuan, the school leaders, and the other proctors arrived, silencing the students as the assessment was about to begin.

Xu Yuan and his classmates began their martial arts assessment, which tested realm and martial skills. After Xu Yuan’s first two punches seemed weak and drew laughter, his third punch reached 1,003 jin, shocking the examination hall.

• Niu Gang explained the assessment rules, and all seventy-two students passed the blood tests before the punching-power event began.
• Zhou Ling, Zhang Juye, Liu Yin, and other students posted strong punching-power scores, while Fatty surprised the examiners with 1,124 jin at skin-toughening stage four.
• Sun Hao scored 431 jin and predicted that Xu Yuan’s performance would be even funnier because Xu Yuan was also at skin-toughening stage two and injured.
• Xu Yuan’s first two punches scored 312 and 324 jin, prompting laughter from the students and dark expressions from Niu Gang and Lin Yuan.
• Xu Yuan’s third punch struck with 1,003 jin, stunning Sun Hao and everyone watching.

Xu Yuan astonished the examiners with a thousand-jin punch despite being only at skin tempering second tier, then placed fifty-seventh in the realm assessment. He bet his classmates that he would pass the upcoming martial skill assessment and collected more than six thousand yuan before it began.

• Xu Yuan used the embryonic form of a martial skill to score 1,003 jin in the punching assessment, and Niu Gang accepted the result.
• Xu Yuan ran 12.92 meters per second and lasted 33.6 seconds in the reaction test; his realm assessment score ranked him fifty-seventh with 30.2 points.
• Xu Yuan warned Fatty that he might lose his top-thirty position, then told the mocking students he would claim a spot in the rankings.
• Xu Yuan offered two-to-one odds on passing the assessment, and classmates including Zhang Baosheng transferred him more than six thousand yuan in bets.
• Niu Gang called the students to gather as the martial skill assessment began.

During the martial skill assessment, Fatty scored enough to pass, while Xu Yuan entered the chamber amid bets against him and revealed that he had mastered a Transformation Realm martial technique. His Savage Bull Heart-Shattering Butt earned the maximum 50 points, leaving the examiners and students stunned.

• Zhou Ling scored 23.6 with Tiger Roar Sky-Piercing Spear, and Zhang Juye scored 24.3 with Savage Bull Heart-Shattering Butt, worsening Zhou Ling’s frustration.
• Fatty performed Mountain-Crushing Strike for 14.9 points, bringing his total to 61 and pushing Ma Liang out of the top thirty.
• Zhang Baosheng tried to separate Fatty from Xu Yuan, but Fatty shoved him aside and ran to celebrate with Xu Yuan.
• After Sun Hao said Xu Yuan had not reached entry level, Xu Yuan entered the chamber and invited more students to bet against him through Fatty.
• Xu Yuan performed Transformation Realm Savage Bull Heart-Shattering Butt, tore through the practice dummy, and received a score of 50.

Xu Yuan shocked the assessment hall by using a Transformation Realm martial skill, earning enough points to enter the top ten and knocking Zhang Baosheng out of the top thirty. After explaining that he had hidden his ability to protect himself, Xu Yuan left the invigilators with the impression that he had only revealed it because the assessment forced him to.

• Xu Yuan's Transformation Realm martial skill stunned the invigilators and students, and Niu Gang realized it earned Xu Yuan twenty merit points.
• Xu Yuan's score rose above eighty and into the top ten, pushing Zhang Baosheng out of the top thirty and leaving him unable to pass the assessment.
• Xu Yuan worried that his low cultivation made the powerful strike hurt his arm, then told the students he was too weak.
• Niu Gang called Xu Yuan to the invigilators' table, where Xu Yuan claimed he had hidden his talent because he had offended too many people.
• Lin Yuan guessed that Xu Yuan had planned to rely on an embryonic martial skill before revealing his Transformation Realm skill, and Xu Yuan agreed with the explanation.
• Niu Gang warned Xu Yuan to stop wasting his talent, and Xu Yuan promised to behave while noticing the principal seemed dissatisfied with his low divine talent.

After the assessment, Xu Yuan collected his betting winnings and joined the students who had passed as they learned about their options and rewards. Niu Gang warned them about the competition ahead, then laid out their training benefits and the monthly aberrant-beast hunts awaiting them.

• Xu Yuan had Fatty transfer him eight thousand yuan from the betting pool, leaving Fatty a hundred yuan for helping collect it.
• Principal Zhou Tai announced the passing students, while Cao Wanwei urged those who had failed to join the Divine Guard Army and demonstrated his Bone Forging stage-nine pressure.
• Cao Wanwei took some failed students to register for enlistment, while others chose the college entrance exam; Zhou Tai then left with the school administrators.
• Niu Gang warned the successful students that competitors in Cloud Sea City were far stronger and reminded them of the example set by Jiang Qingyun.
• Niu Gang announced that each student would receive a tier-two martial skill, free access to the Azure Cloud Martial Arts Base, and stipends for the assessment's top ten.
• Niu Gang told the students they would have to hunt aberrant beasts on a mission once a month for the next four months.

After passing the assessment, Xu Yuan agreed to secretly coach Zhang Juye in martial arts for money. He then stopped Sun Hao from leaving and forced him to come along to atone for his misdeeds.

• The newly accepted students worried about being sent to hunt aberrant beasts, while Zhang Juye and others reassured them that the missions would be supervised.
• Zhang Juye privately confronted Xu Yuan, correctly guessing that he was Master Bao, and offered to pay him to teach the Savage Bull Heart-Shattering Ram.
• Xu Yuan accepted Zhang Juye's offer but declined to learn the Eightfold Surging Wave Slash, saying he planned to choose the Savage Bull Mountain-Treading Strike instead.
• Zhang Juye left for a charity banquet and arranged to meet Xu Yuan at the martial arts base the next day.
• Xu Yuan found Sun Hao trying to escape, suspected he was planning to extort students, and ordered Fatty to beat him until he agreed to come along.