Chapter Summaries

After Xu Yuan’s martial skill reached the Transformation Realm and news of his talent spread, he made Sun Hao give away his ill-gotten savings to beggars, lowering Sun Hao’s Sin Points. The Beast Ranking rewarded Xu Yuan with a new cultivation art, and he headed home to study it.

• News that Xu Yuan had mastered a Transformation Realm martial skill spread through Yang City, and he read the insults and astonishment in No. 3 Middle School’s group chat.
• Xu Yuan took Sun Hao and Fatty to the pedestrian street and ordered Sun Hao to give money to the beggars beneath the overpass.
• After Sun Hao gave away 4,200 yuan, the Beast Ranking switched their places and awarded Xu Yuan the “No Immortals, No Gods, Only I, the Evil Demon, Shake the Heavens Art.”
• Xu Yuan led Sun Hao to another overpass, where Sun Hao gave away the rest of his savings and his Sin Points fell to 2,173.
• When Sun Hao’s gaze turned vicious, Xu Yuan summoned the phantom of a savage bull and warned him to behave, then sent him away.
• Fatty asked whether Sun Hao could become a good person, and Xu Yuan said the donations had been for his own benefit before heading home to share the news and study his reward.

Xu Yuan returned home after passing the Azure Cloud Martial Arts Base assessment, surprising his mother Zhang Yaying and silencing Sister Wang, who had just belittled him. He then explored a possible leather-armor business and told his mother to stop processing hides after one final batch.

• Zhang Yaying brought eight processed beast hides downstairs, where Old Man Lu worried about how much heavy work she did alone.
• Sister Wang bragged that her son had become a City Guard Battalion squad leader, then disparaged Xu Yuan's prospects and talent.
• Xu Yuan arrived and revealed that he had passed the assessment, proving it with his Azure Cloud Martial Arts Base pass and his ninth-place score of 80.2 on the school list.
• Xu Yuan asked Sister Wang about a discount on a large order of first-tier leather armor so he could potentially sell it to his classmates.
• After Master Zhao accepted Zhang Yaying's hides, Xu Yuan told her to finish one more batch that month and stop taking the work afterward.

Xu Yuan learned that the ghostly scroll contained a powerful demonic cultivation method with a divine ability, Demon Descent, and decided to cultivate it despite its risks. He began practicing and endured the method’s excruciating pain as it tore apart and reconstructed his flesh.

• Xu Yuan told Zhang Yaying that his high score came from mastering a Transformation Realm martial skill and that he was asking about discounted leather armor for classmates.
• Xu Yuan touched the ghostly scroll with his consciousness, causing it to disintegrate and imprint the cultivation method’s contents in his memory.
• The Martial God's Brain analyzed the method and revealed that it could expand a cultivator’s potential, absorb divine substance from corpses, and grant the Demon Descent ability.
• Xu Yuan decided to cultivate No Immortals, No Gods, Only I, the Evil Demon, Shake the Heavens Art because Demon Descent could save his life.
• Xu Yuan comprehended the Skin Tempering section and began cultivating, then gritted his teeth through the intense pain as the method tore apart and reconstructed his flesh.

Xu Yuan realized the Heaven-Shaking Art would require far more resources to cultivate, so he planned to earn money selling discounted Weird Beast leather armor. He frightened students at several schools with news reports about beast attacks to build demand, but ended the chapter worried they might beat him up when he pitched the armor.

• Xu Yuan concluded that cultivating the Heaven-Shaking Art would cost over ten million for the Skin Grinding Realm and decided to make money selling leather armor.
• Zhang Yaying told Xu Yuan that Auntie Wang offered discounts on bulk orders, and he calculated how much he could profit by reselling the armor to students.
• Xu Yuan accepted friend requests from martial arts students at other high schools and asked to join their class group chats.
• Xu Yuan posted news about deadly Weird Beast attacks in the school group chats, and students kicked him out, including Lin Yuan.
• Xu Yuan claimed he had shared the articles to warn students about their upcoming hunting mission and decided to bring Zhang when he tried selling armor.

Xu Yuan took Xu Kexin to school, learned that students could fight over cultivation rooms, and then pitched Weird Beast leather armor to the assembled students. He left them discussing his offer without revealing whether anyone would buy it.

• Xu Yuan walked Xu Kexin to school, bought her a grilled sausage, and gave her money for snacks while she erased some of the marks in her notebook.
• Xu Yuan gave the gatekeeper two cartons of cigarettes, and the man warned him that students could now fight to claim one another's cultivation rooms.
• At Hall Two, students from several schools confronted Xu Yuan over the messages he had posted in their class groups, and Zhang Juye promised that No. 3 Middle School would not abandon him if anyone attacked.
• Xu Yuan told the students that his relative sold discounted Weird Beast leather armor and offered buyers priority for his martial skill guidance, asking Zhang Juye to vouch for his ability.
• Xu Yuan ended his pitch, and the students began discussing whether to buy the armor.

Xu Yuan sold over eighty students on discounted Weird Beast leather armor while the martial arts students gathered at the base. The teachers announced a weekly challenge system for cultivation rooms, and other students began eyeing Xu Yuan as an easy target.

• Xu Yuan collected deposits from more than seventy students, formed a group chat for the orders, and earned praise from the teachers for spotting a business opportunity.
• Liu Yun offered Xu Yuan advice, while Lin Xiao asked him to pass on a million-a-month offer to hire Master Bao as his martial skills instructor.
• Xu Yuan learned that Lin Xiao’s family was extremely wealthy and resolved to approach him as Master Bao after condensing his first Demon Descent Mark.
• Fatty ordered leather armor and repaid Xu Yuan for the body-tempering fluid after receiving money from his mother.
• A teacher announced that students could challenge someone once a week to claim their cultivation room, prompting several students to target Xu Yuan as an easy opponent.

Xu Yuan received his martial technique manual and entered the martial arts base’s inner zone, where his high assessment score earned him a grade-B cultivation room. His classmates immediately began competing for the chance to challenge him, and he decided to make them pay for it.

• Xu Yuan considered profiting by trading his cultivation room, then decided he could gain combat experience by accepting challenges instead.
• The teachers announced that challenges were allowed only on weekends and that each student could be challenged once per week, while Xu Yuan considered auctioning off the right to challenge him.
• Xu Yuan collected an electronic slip for the Savage Bull Mountain-Treading Strike and entered the inner zone with the other students.
• Xu Yuan saw the central divinity-gathering apparatus and learned that students would receive cultivation rooms according to their assessment scores.
• Xu Yuan was assigned a grade-B cultivation room for his score of 80.2, prompting several classmates to argue over who would challenge him first.

Xu Yuan used body-tempering liquid to accelerate his cultivation, but discovered that reaching even the first tier’s completion would cost an enormous amount. He planned to raise money by selling leather armor and auctioning off the right to challenge him.

• Xu Yuan bought five vials of first-tier body-tempering liquid and absorbed them in just over two hours, advancing to only about 15% of skin tempering first tier.
• Xu Yuan overheard students plotting to get him to accept their challenges and proposed creating a group chat for everyone who wanted to challenge him.
• Xu Yuan spent a total of forty thousand on twenty vials that day, bringing his cultivation progress to just over 30% and his punching force to more than 600 jin.
• Xu Yuan planned to finalize a leather armor deal, complete transactions with classmates, and auction the right to challenge him to fund further cultivation.

Xu Yuan received a red envelope from Luo Yaoxi and suspected she was being protected from a hidden threat. At home, he revealed he had arranged an order for eighty-three sets of leather armor and asked Sister Wang to share her commission with him.

• Xu Yuan rejected Fatty’s plan to rig a challenge match and invited challengers to contact him.
• Luo Yaoxi congratulated Xu Yuan, gave him a red envelope, and quietly said Teacher Niu was hiding.
• Xu Yuan noticed Zhou Ling and Zhou Tai watching him, then found the envelope contained 237.
• Sister Wang came to Xu Yuan’s home expecting a modest leather armor order, but Xu Yuan announced he had secured eighty-three sets.
• Xu Yuan showed Sister Wang the deposits and asked her to give him a cut of her commission.

Xu Yuan negotiated an 80,000-yuan cut from Sister Wang for arranging leather armor orders, then prepared to collect the remaining payments and auction challenges for his cultivation room. He ended by instructing Fatty to use an alternate account to drive up the bidding.

• Xu Yuan tricked Sister Wang into revealing that the company had offered a 30% discount, then negotiated an 80,000-yuan cut for arranging the orders.
• Xu Yuan told Sister Wang to deliver the leather armor to the martial arts base at ten the next morning, and he messaged his classmates to prepare their remaining payments.
• Xu Kexin asked Xu Yuan to buy Zhang Yaying new clothes, and Xu Yuan agreed.
• Xu Yuan charged the group members an entry fee, removed the bystanders, and invited classmates to bid for a challenge against him.
• After Wang Yuan bid 2,000 yuan, Xu Yuan promoted the advantage his cultivation room could offer stronger students and asked Fatty to bid 10,000 yuan from an alternate account.

Xu Yuan sold the right to challenge him for twenty thousand yuan and prepared to keep his weekly challenge business going. He then began comprehending Savage Bull Mountain-Treading Strike with the Martial God's Brain.

• Fatty used the Zhao Zhipeng alternate account to raise the challenge auction, and Xu Yuan sold the right to challenge him to Jiang Yong for twenty thousand yuan.
• Xu Yuan advised Jiang Yong to arrange for someone else to challenge him first, then told the group that others might still get a chance if Jiang Yong failed to beat him.
• Xu Yuan messaged Zhang Juye about learning Savage Bull Heart-Shattering Butt and asked Lin Yuan when the top ten cultivation subsidies would be paid; Lin Yuan said the money would arrive within days.
• Xu Yuan considered buying body-tempering liquid in bulk at the Cloud-Soaring Pavilion to explain his rapid consumption, then set the idea aside.
• Xu Yuan loaded the Savage Bull Mountain-Treading Strike manual and used the Martial God's Brain to reach minor attainment before beginning to contemplate its higher realms.

Xu Yuan profited from selling discounted leather armor, continued training with his expensive Heaven-Shaking Art, and prepared to begin taking martial arts challenges. He planned to use his upcoming fight with Jiang Yong to advertise his coaching while working toward condensing the Demon Descent Mark.

• Xu Yuan collected and resold eighty-three suits of leather armor to his classmates, earning 330,000 yuan before Sister Wang's promised share and leaving her furious when he revealed his profit.
• Over the next few days, Xu Yuan trained, coached Zhang Juye, bought clothes for Zhang Yaying, and demonstrated his Savage Bull Mountain-Treading Strike to his classmates.
• Xu Yuan reached Skin Tempering Second Tier with the Heaven-Shaking Art after consuming more than eighty vials of body-tempering fluid, and his standard punching power surpassed a thousand jin.
• Xu Yuan noted that the Demon Descent Mark was about eight percent condensed and planned to reach Skin Grinding Third Stage before seeking out Lin Xiao as Master Bao.
• On Saturday, Xu Yuan headed to the martial arts base to challenge Jiang Yong, intending to auction next week's challenge slots and promote his martial technique coaching.

On challenge day at the martial arts base, students gathered to compete for better cultivation rooms while Xu Yuan prepared to fight and learned that Luo Yaoxi had found a strange symbol on her door. The first match disappointed Lin Yuan, who called on Chen Hu to demonstrate a more serious fight, and Chen Hu challenged Zhang Juye.

• Students from the five high schools gathered in the outer section, where they discussed the challenge matches and anticipated the fight between Xu Yuan and Jiang Yong.
• Lin Yuan warned the students against lethal blows and match-fixing, then began the challenges; Xu Yuan urged Fatty to step forward for combat experience.
• Luo Yaoxi told Xu Yuan that someone had drawn a strange symbol on her door, and Xu Yuan took her sketch to investigate.
• A Grade E student from No. 5 Middle School challenged a Grade D student from No. 2 Middle School, but Lin Yuan criticized their timid sparring.
• Lin Yuan called on Chen Hu, a Skin Tempering sixth-stage student, to demonstrate a proper fight, and Chen Hu challenged Zhang Juye.

Lin Yuan oversaw the students’ challenges, where Zhang Juye defeated Chen Hu with a perfected Savage Bull Heart-Shattering Butt and Xu Yuan used the victory to promote his lessons. By afternoon, Jiang Yong entered the ring to challenge Xu Yuan, who stepped up as the crowd anticipated his beating.

• Xu Yuan urged Zhang Juye to surprise Chen Hu with Savage Bull Heart-Shattering Butt, and Zhang Juye knocked Chen Hu out of the ring in one strike.
• Chen Hu learned that Zhang Juye had perfected the technique, while Xu Yuan loudly advertised his training lessons to the students.
• Lin Yuan told the students to fight with greater ferocity, and the E-grade students challenged every D-grade student; Fatty won his match with a single punch.
• The injured D-grade students postponed their challenges until Sunday, except for a student paid by Jiang Yong, who fought Jiang Yong without holding back.
• Lin Yuan opened challenges to the C-grade students, and Jiang Yong entered the ring to challenge Xu Yuan as the crowd jeered; Xu Yuan stepped into the ring.

Xu Yuan easily defeated Jiang Yong despite pretending to struggle, then used the victory to promote his martial technique lessons. The chapter left him advertising in the group chat while his classmates recoiled at his sales pitch.

• Xu Yuan dodged Jiang Yong’s saber attacks with ease, but Jiang Yong failed to notice the openings Xu Yuan deliberately left.
• Xu Yuan struck Jiang Yong with the Savage Bull Mountain-Treading Strike and sent him flying out of the ring.
• Xu Yuan taunted the students into challenging him next week, while Jiang Yong swore he would claim the next match.
• Lin Yuan defended Xu Yuan’s victory and said other students at Jiang Yong’s level would have lost the same way.
• Xu Yuan advertised martial technique lessons in the group chat, offering discounted guidance to people who had bought his leather armor.

Xu Yuan searched online for the design Luo Yaoxi had given him and found it was linked to the God Worship Cult, but learned little more. His searches triggered a level-one alert at the Yang City Martial Suppression Department, which mistook his curiosity for a possible cult threat before ordering a hunt for the cult.

• Xu Yuan scheduled coaching sessions for the students who had bought his techniques, then left the martial arts base with Fatty and Luo Yaoxi.
• Xu Yuan learned that Luo Yaoxi's divine ability kept people from noticing her, but Teacher Niu Gang stopped her from revealing its name.
• Xu Yuan and his companions ate roast lamb before Xu Yuan went home and shared the leftovers with Zhang Yaying and Xu Kexin.
• Xu Yuan used a secondhand SIM card to search for the design and found a post linking it to the God Worship Cult.
• The Yang City Martial Suppression Department traced the searches to a SIM card registered to a dead man, realized the searcher was likely just curious, and declared a level-one alert to hunt the cult.

Xu Yuan auctioned his next challenge slot to Jiang Yong for fifty thousand, then went to sleep. Meanwhile, Niu Gang foiled an attempt on Luo Yaoxi and discovered the attacker was Zheng Xiande, while Xu Yuan received a sinister ranking reward in his sleep.

• Xu Yuan auctioned the challenge slot, and Jiang Yong won it with a bid of fifty thousand after a bidding war with Zhao Zhipeng.
• A black-clad attacker entered Luo Yaoxi's home at night, but found Niu Gang waiting in her bed instead.
• Niu Gang caught and crippled the attacker, then unmasked him as Zheng Xiande, No. 3 Middle School's deputy director of academic affairs.
• Zheng Xiande died after Niu Gang demanded answers, and Luo Yaoxi fainted when she saw his corpse.
• The Beast Ranking announced that Xu Yuan ranked eighth on the Evil Demon Ranking with 2,311 Sin Points and awarded him a Spirit-Binding Soul-Control Talisman.

Xu Yuan investigated why his Beast Ranking position had risen and discovered that Lin Yuan and several other familiar people were ranked as beasts. He then learned that a Spirit-Binding Soul-Control Talisman could act in the real world, where it headed for Zhang Yaying’s room before Xu Yuan knocked it outside and a black cat’s phantom returned to his mind.

• Xu Yuan reasoned that his ranking had risen because a beast ahead of him had died, then began deciphering the names near the top of the Beast Ranking.
• Xu Yuan discovered that Lin Yuan ranked seventh with 2,784 Sin Points and the crime of intentional homicide.
• Xu Yuan identified Zhou Ling in sixth place, followed by Yang Huifang in fifth and Liu Yueling in fourth, while the top three names remained unreadable.
• Xu Yuan examined the Spirit-Binding Soul-Control Talisman and watched it appear in the real world, where it tried to escape through his door.
• Xu Yuan saw the talisman heading toward Zhang Yaying’s room, smashed it through a window with a broom, and a black cat’s phantom flew back into his mind.

After accidentally binding Little Blackie with the Spirit-Binding Soul-Control Talisman, Xu Yuan discovered he could command the cat and share its senses. He sent Little Blackie to recruit feline spies to watch Lin Yuan while continuing his martial arts work and costly cultivation.

• Xu Yuan calmed Zhang Yaying and Xu Kexin after the talisman incident, then summoned Little Blackie and learned the cat was now his subordinate.
• Xu Yuan tested sharing Little Blackie's senses and learned the cat commanded a network of feline underlings.
• Xu Yuan ordered Little Blackie to choose cats to watch Lin Yuan, then cut off their shared senses after seeing an orange cat behave suggestively toward Little Blackie.
• Xu Yuan searched school group chats for news of a death, left Zhang Yaying money to replace the damaged door and windows, and went to the martial arts base.
• Xu Yuan learned Lin Yuan's address from Zhang Juye, coached students, and continued consuming body-tempering fluid as he neared Skin Grinding Third Stage.

Xu Yuan learned from Luo Yaoxi that the God Worship Cult abducted geniuses and that Niu Gang had killed a follower who became a Divine Martial Artist. He warned Luo Yaoxi to stay safe, then prepared for the next day's literature exam.

• Xu Yuan wondered whether his suspicion about a beast dying was wrong while he and Fatty left the cultivation base.
• Luo Yaoxi told Xu Yuan that Teacher Niu had identified the symbol as the God Worship Cult's Divine Mark.
• Luo Yaoxi explained that the cult abducted geniuses and described how Niu Gang had killed a follower who became a Divine Martial Artist.
• Xu Yuan realized his suspicion had been right and worried that the cult could let people without Divine Talent cultivate.
• Luo Yaoxi said she would skip the literature exam but attend the challenge matches, and Xu Yuan told her to be careful.
• Fatty asked Xu Yuan about the exam, and Xu Yuan claimed he could score ninety points in literature.