Chapter Summaries

Xu Yuan returned to No. 3 Middle School for the academic exams and used Little Blackie to find a top student whose answers he could copy. After discovering he could answer only five questions himself, he copied Huang Yun’s paper and handed it in.

• Xu Yuan arrived at No. 3 Middle School and ignored the resentment of ordinary students who remembered his past bullying.
• Xu Yuan greeted Liu Yun and Lin Yuan, who was feeding Little Blackie, and told Lin Yuan he had studied hard enough to pass the exams.
• Xu Yuan shared Little Blackie’s senses and sent him to search the exam rooms for a top student seated by a window.
• Little Blackie found Huang Yun in the seventh exam room and stayed on the windowsill as the exam began.
• Xu Yuan realized he could answer only five questions, copied Huang Yun’s answers, and submitted his paper without copying her name.

After the exam, Xu Yuan focused on dealing with Zhou Ling, whose crimes and malice made him a target, and sent Little Blackie to learn his movements. He also faced Jiang Yong’s threat ahead of their Saturday fight, leaving Xu Yuan prepared to exploit the encounter for sin points.

• Xu Yuan overheard Huang Yun’s friends gossiping about him and wondered whether Luo Yaoxi’s ability explained why people had stopped discussing her.
• Zhou Ling glared at Xu Yuan, and Xu Yuan resolved to kill him once he was strong enough and could escape using Demon Descent.
• Xu Yuan asked Little Blackie to tail Zhou Ling and learn his address and routine without being noticed.
• Jiang Yong challenged Xu Yuan over their upcoming fight and demanded that Xu Yuan prepare third-tier divine medicinal liquid because he planned to break his arms and legs.
• Xu Yuan realized Jiang Yong’s planned attack could let him gain sin points through intentional injury.

Xu Yuan learned through Little Blackie that a truck-sized Weird Beast had attacked a bus in the city, then watched Chen Rui, Commander Shen, Liu Yun, and other teachers fight and kill it. When his bus reached the scene, Xu Yuan jumped out and ran toward the dead beast, eager to test the Heaven-Shaking Art.

• Fatty offered to challenge Jiang Yong first, but Xu Yuan said he could handle Jiang Yong himself.
• Little Blackie warned Xu Yuan that a gigantic boar-like Weird Beast had overturned a bus and was eating a passenger.
• Chen Rui and Commander Shen led the martial artists at the scene in attacking the beast while Lin Yuan and other teachers rescued survivors.
• Chen Rui and Commander Shen pinned down the wounded boar, and Commander Shen killed it with his axe.
• Xu Yuan jumped from his bus and ran toward the scene, hoping to test the Heaven-Shaking Art on the dead Weird Beast.

Xu Yuan discovered that the Heaven-Shaking Art could absorb Divine Substance from a Weird Beast corpse and used the dead boar to rapidly advance his cultivation. He broke through to Skin Tempering Fourth Stage while the others remained unaware of what he had done.

• Xu Yuan reached the site of the boar attack and asked the fighters if he could touch the corpse.
• Xu Yuan overcame the boar’s rank pressure and approached the corpse, impressing the teachers and Commander Shen.
• Xu Yuan touched the boar and felt the Heaven-Shaking Art stir, then moved around the corpse to absorb its Divine Substance out of sight.
• Xu Yuan pretended the corpse had moved to check whether the others noticed the absorption, and Commander Shen reassured him that it had not.
• Xu Yuan continued absorbing the Divine Substance, raising his cultivation progress from Skin Grinding Third Stage to 100% and breaking through to Skin Tempering Fourth Stage.

Xu Yuan advanced to skin tempering fourth stage after absorbing the Weird Beast corpse, then left the scene before his body suffered any ill effects. At home, he learned that Lin Yuan's rescue efforts had reduced his Sin Points until they were only eighteen above Xu Yuan's, bringing his next reward within reach.

• Xu Yuan reached skin tempering fourth stage, gained tougher skin, and accelerated the condensation of his Demon Descent Mark.
• Xu Yuan stopped absorbing the Weird Beast corpse, thanked Commander Shen and the others, and left as reporters arrived.
• Xu Yuan read reports about the attack, learned that thirteen people had died and 172 had been injured, and found no mention of Zhou Ling.
• Xu Yuan saw that Lin Yuan's rescue of more than fifty injured people had lowered Lin Yuan's Sin Points to 2329, only eighteen above Xu Yuan's 2311.
• Jiang Yong warned Xu Yuan to prepare third-stage divine essence medicinal solution before their fight the next day, and Xu Yuan sent the warning back to him.

Xu Yuan prepared for another challenge tournament after learning that a Weird Beast had entered Yang City, while buying Luo Yaoxi a phone to celebrate her awakening. The chapter ended with him handing her the gift as the tournament began.

• Xu Yuan found more money on the windowsill and wondered whether Little Blackie could be made stronger.
• Xu Yuan bought spirit meat jerky for Little Blackie and a new phone for Luo Yaoxi before going to the martial arts training base.
• Xu Yuan reassured Zhang Juye that he knew his limits and would not beat Jiang Yong to death.
• Teacher Kong announced the students' cultivation breakthroughs and awarded each named student two thousand yuan.
• The students began choosing opponents under a new challenge rule, and Luo Yaoxi asked Xu Yuan about fighting again.
• Xu Yuan gave Luo Yaoxi the phone and congratulated her on her awakening.

Xu Yuan forced Wang Fengtang to give him a share of the betting profits, then fought Jiang Yong and broke his shoulder and ribs. The Beast Ranking awarded Xu Yuan a face of the Thousand-Faced Divine Monkey for reaching 2,335 Sin Points and seventh place on the Evil Demon Ranking.

• Luo Yaoxi happily accepted the phone Xu Yuan had bought her, while Fatty asked whether he should challenge Jiang Yong first.
• Xu Yuan pressured Wang Fengtang into giving him forty percent of the betting profits and later checked the accounts, finding that Luo Yaoxi had bet twenty on him.
• Fatty lost his challenge against a skin-polishing fifth-stage student after his Savage Bull Mountain-Treading Strike missed.
• Jiang Yong opened his fight with a Cloud-Shattering Slash, but Xu Yuan dodged and used his Savage Bull Mountain-Treading Strike to break Jiang Yong's left shoulder.
• Xu Yuan struck Jiang Yong's chest with his elbow, breaking several ribs and sending him flying as the Beast Ranking awarded Xu Yuan a face of the Thousand-Faced Divine Monkey.

Xu Yuan defeated Jiang Yong decisively, collected his winnings, and agreed to train Luo Yaoxi in exchange for access to her advanced martial techniques. At home, he examined the Beast Ranking’s new reward and discovered it was a lifelike monkey-face mask that transformed his face when he approached it.

• Xu Yuan knocked Jiang Yong unconscious with a double blow, won the match, and received the ninety-thousand payment from Wang Fengtang.
• Niu Gang told Xu Yuan to teach Luo Yaoxi how to fight and train her martial techniques, offering Xu Yuan the chance to practice her third-tier techniques in return.
• Xu Yuan accepted the arrangement and learned that Luo Yaoxi would send him the training methods and visualization diagrams the next day.
• Xu Yuan returned home and found a lifelike monkey-face mask floating before the Beast Ranking in his mind.
• Xu Yuan approached the mask, which vanished and covered his face in fur, and he recognized his transformed appearance as resembling the Great Sage.

Xu Yuan discovered that the Great Sage mask could be summoned from his palm and could change faces at a steep cost in strength. At home, his mother bought him spirit meat jerky and his little sister gave him a protective bracelet, leaving him determined to grow stronger and protect them.

• Xu Yuan tested the mask, learning that it could appear from a tattoo on his palm and change into Zhang Juye's face by consuming most of his strength.
• Xu Yuan recovered his strength through meditation before Zhang Yaying and Xu Kexin returned home.
• Zhang Yaying gave Xu Yuan the spirit meat jerky he had requested, and he transferred her fifty thousand to cover its cost.
• Xu Kexin admitted she had earned money by doing classmates' homework and gave Xu Yuan a red-cord bracelet she said would keep him safe from Weird Beasts.
• Xu Yuan accepted the bracelet and resolved to become strong enough to protect his mother and sister.

Xu Yuan learned that the Divine Guard Army had found mutated piglets on White Beggar Mountain, likely setting up the martial arts class’s first Weird Beast hunt. At the base, Luo Yaoxi transmitted two third-tier martial skills to him and began secretly passing on another cultivation method.

• Old Master Lu told Xu Yuan that the Divine Guard Army had found a litter of mutated piglets on White Beggar Mountain.
• Xu Yuan suspected the class would hunt the piglets on its first outing and decided to wait for the group before exploring outside on his own.
• Luo Yaoxi met Xu Yuan at the martial arts base and said she had reached Skin Tempering Sixth Stage, nearly seventh, with unusually strong mental power.
• Luo Yaoxi pressed her forehead to Xu Yuan’s and transmitted the methods for Shadowless Step and Instant-Space God-Exterminating Kill into his mind.
• Luo Yaoxi began secretly transmitting another cultivation method to Xu Yuan.