Chapter Summaries

Qin Ze and BT fled their safe house after aberrants discovered it, and BT was badly injured while protecting him. At the shelter doors, BT activated a hidden energy source and charged into the horde to keep the aberrants from following Qin Ze inside.

• BT brought Qin Ze to a hidden safe house, where she explained how weapons rested and replenished their energy.
• Qin Ze mourned the fallen weapons with three cigarettes, and BT copied his ritual despite not understanding it.
• Aberrants surrounded the safe house, and BT concluded that a weapon had revealed its location after Qin Ze learned the aircraft could not land nearby.
• Qin Ze ordered BT to take him to the shelter instead of the aircraft, but an advanced aberrant struck them from the air and damaged BT.
• Qin Ze carried the injured BT to the shelter and opened its doors while fighting off the pursuing aberrants.
• BT activated a hidden energy source and charged into the horde to keep the aberrants from entering the shelter.

Qin Ze fought his way through the shelter after BT stayed outside to hold off a horde of aberrants, then encountered He Bi and killed him. He staged He Bi’s death as an aberrant attack, but found injured Teacher Yao nearby and worried she had witnessed what happened.

• BT fought off the aberrants while Qin Ze retreated into the shelter and shut the gate, leaving her outside with a high-level aberrant.
• Qin Ze searched the shelter for information, then used the map to travel toward the east dormitory area and came across He Bi.
• He Bi attacked Qin Ze with a Martial Artifact, but Qin Ze shot him with the Mighty Dragon and killed him.
• Qin Ze staged He Bi’s death to look like an aberrant attack and vowed to grow stronger against the He Family.
• Qin Ze heard coughing nearby, forced open a locked room, and found the badly injured Teacher Yao, who said she had not heard anything.

Qin Ze discovered Teacher Yao was an alien and agreed to keep her identity secret in exchange for her keeping his secret. After a D-rank exotic beast attacked their rescue team, Qin Ze killed it, and the survivors made it out of the alternate realm, where he recognized Lin Siyao.

• Qin Ze saw that Teacher Yao's blood was golden and learned she had sent a distress signal, so he put away his gun and proposed they keep each other's secrets.
• Teacher Yao put on Qin Ze's jacket, and he helped her join the arriving City Defense Bureau soldiers; she insisted they take He Bi's corpse with them.
• The soldiers' Alpha Reagent bullets killed weaker exotic beasts, but Qin Ze realized the reagent was connected to something he had read about in the administrator's diary.
• A D-rank exotic beast killed two soldiers, and Qin Ze gathered his clones' attributes and smashed its head with a powerful punch.
• Qin Ze and Teacher Yao learned that the exotic beast had no Soul Orb, then reached the exit of the alternate realm, where Qin Ze recognized Lin Siyao.

Qin Ze met Lin Siyao, who tested his blood and confirmed he had not absorbed the S-rank exotic beast’s Soul Orb, while warning him to keep Yao Xue’s identity secret. After returning home, Qin Ze reflected on the alternate realm and used a clone to absorb BT’s Soul Orb, giving the clone a thunder ability.

• Lin Siyao drew Qin Ze’s blood and found no mutation, concluding he had not absorbed the S-rank exotic beast’s Soul Orb.
• Lin Siyao told Qin Ze that Yao Xue was not an alien spy and warned him not to tell others about her identity.
• Qin Ze returned to school with the surviving students and learned that three classmates were still missing and He Bi had died.
• Fatty called Qin Ze to check on him, and Qin Ze reassured him that Teacher Yao could confirm he was not responsible for He Bi’s death.
• Qin Ze reviewed what he had learned about the alternate realm, then gave BT’s Soul Orb to a clone, whose eyes and body crackled with electricity.

Qin Ze gained the Dharma King's lightning ability and planned to build up his strength before returning to the alternate realm. Meanwhile, He Guang blamed Qin Ze for He Bi's death, but He Fang ordered him to drop the matter and stay out of trouble.

• The Dharma King reached Level One Martial Artist and gave Qin Ze enough qi and blood to bring his value to 999, though Qin Ze could not break through.
• Qin Ze discovered he could use the Dharma King's lightning ability and sent him to help Brother Devour, along with ten clones.
• Qin Ze reflected on the losses in the alternate realm, promised to avenge BT, and fell asleep while the clones debated erecting a monument to him.
• At He Bi's funeral, He Guang vowed to kill Qin Ze, whom he blamed for his brother's death.
• He Fang told He Guang that a teacher had reported He Bi was killed by a mutated beast and ordered him to let the matter go and stay home until the Abyss trip.

After the trial’s casualties were found, Qin Ze learned from Teacher Yao how to advance toward Level One Martial Artist by tempering his bones. Teacher Yao also arranged protection for him and ordered the next stage of a mission to begin, while Qin Ze’s attempt to study the method ended with him realizing he had only just reached Gao Village in the eighty-one tribulations.

• The school and City Defense Bureau discussed compensation for the dead students’ families, while Qin Ze received two blood crystals for his S-rated trial performance.
• Fatty told Qin Ze that intermediate martial artists had entered the alternate realm to clear out high-threat exotic beasts, and Qin Ze showed him his administrator terminal.
• Qin Ze asked Teacher Yao how to break through, and she confirmed that his qi and blood had reached their limit and that he needed to temper his bones.
• Teacher Yao gave Qin Ze a university Bone Tempering Method textbook and warned him not to become complacent about his talent.
• Teacher Yao ordered an apology gift delivered to the He Family, reiterated that Qin Ze was not responsible for He Bi’s death, and instructed her contact to release the rats that day.
• Qin Ze read the textbook and realized that breaking through was not simple, since he had only just reached Gao Village in the eighty-one tribulations.

Qin Ze learned to temper his bones and discovered that his clones could contribute to his progress, letting him avoid most of the work. After reading that the Maka Race would jointly develop the Jiang City Otherworld and that Wang Biao would be executed in ten days, Qin Ze decided he needed to temper his bones faster, though he still wanted to slack off.

• Qin Ze tempered the tip of his right little finger and found that his qi sea had grown enough to absorb more qi and blood.
• Qin Ze had his clones temper their bones and confirmed that their progress fed back to him.
• Teacher Yao checked Qin Ze's progress and encouraged him to keep training, while Qin Ze mistook her delight for something unrelated.
• Qin Ze read that the Maka Race delegation would arrive in Jiang City next month to jointly develop the Otherworld, prompting him to worry about the race's plans.
• Qin Ze saw a trending report that Wang Biao would be executed in ten days.

Qin Ze learned more about Wang Biao, continued tempering his bones, and welcomed the Hater Circus's first client. The client, Zero, asked the Circus to raid an execution ground.

• Qin Ze read online reactions to Wang Biao's killings but found no explanation for his motives.
• Qin Ze tempered ten bones in his left hand while the City Defense Bureau investigated poison gas in the otherworld and failed to pass through it.
• The Hater Circus gained its first client after establishing a reputation in Jiang City's underworld, and Qin Ze prepared to meet him at the warehouse headquarters.
• Zero arrived and recognized Dharma King's powerful lightning ability before asking the Circus to raid an execution ground.

Qin Ze accepted a five-million commission to rescue Wang Biao from the Cloud Mountain Execution Ground and organized the Circus to plan the raid. The chapter ended with the black-robed group revealing that they expected the Circus to fail, and that Wang Biao’s rescue might suit their purposes.

• A black-robed man hired Qin Ze to rescue Wang Biao from the Cloud Mountain Execution Ground in three days, and Qin Ze agreed for five million.
• The black-robed man paid Qin Ze a three-million deposit and arranged to meet the Circus at Black Wind Mountain after the rescue.
• Qin Ze gathered his clones, set aside one million for operating expenses, and led them in planning the operation.
• The Circus decided to send two members to scout Cloud Mountain the next day, while Qin Ze and the others wondered what secrets Wang Biao might hold.
• The black-robed man told his associates that the Circus was weak and said that if they rescued Wang Biao, it would save the group trouble.

Qin Ze and the Hater Circus prepared to disrupt Wang Biao’s execution, while Teacher Yao’s enforcers watched for intruders. The execution was interrupted by a lightning strike, and the Dharma King revealed himself before unleashing lightning at the surrounding officers and enforcers.

• Wang Biao was brought to Cloud Mountain’s execution ground, where he called the martial artists he had killed maggots and claimed he had acted for fairness.
• Qin Ze, the Dharma King, and Brother Devour prepared to make their move, while Teacher Yao’s enforcers monitored suspicious groups near the summit.
• At his sentencing, Wang Biao accused the dead martial artists of trafficking women and girls, abusing their power, and standing above the law.
• As the execution device charged, Wang Biao shouted that he had acted for fairness, but lightning struck and destroyed the gantry’s crossbeam.
• The Dharma King appeared in a burst of lightning and was recognized by Enforcer Number Three as a member of the Hater Circus.
• When officers and enforcers moved to surround him, the Dharma King sent bolts of lightning in every direction.

Dharma King rescued Brother Biao from the execution grounds and fought his way past the enforcers and Blood Hand Gang with the Hater Circus, while Teacher Yao ordered a pursuit. After reaching a rendezvous, Dharma King learned the black-robed group had arranged the attack to seize Wang Biao and conceal a key, and he tried to negotiate as they prepared to kill him.

• Dharma King rescued Brother Biao, then fought off the Blood Hand Gang and enforcers with the Hater Circus's clones, who used self-destruction to drive their opponents back.
• Dharma King escaped down the mountain with Brother Biao as the remaining clones exploded, and Teacher Yao ordered his enforcers to pursue them.
• Dharma King met a group of black-robed figures, whose leader revealed they had hired Blood Hand to create a distraction and wanted Wang Biao for the key he knew about.
• As the black-robed figures surrounded him, Dharma King raised his hands and proposed a deal.

Dharma King tried to join the Fairness Society while carrying the captive Wang Biao, but Teacher Yao’s law enforcers ambushed the group. The Society escaped with Wang Biao through a decoy and a suicide attack, while Brother Devour reached Qin Ze by a lake near Cloud Mountain.

• Dharma King asked the Fairness Society’s tall, black-robed leader to let him join, then dodged taking a poison pill until law enforcers arrived.
• Teacher Yao confronted the Fairness Society and ordered her law enforcers to kill them while she and the leader fought over the sack containing Wang Biao.
• Dharma King threw the sack away and fled as Teacher Yao revealed her level-four strength and killed the tall, black-robed leader.
• Teacher Yao found a hyena-masked decoy in the sack, and he self-destructed before she could stop him.
• Teacher Yao realized the Hater Circus had switched Wang Biao, while Brother Devour emerged from a lake near Cloud Mountain carrying a sack as Qin Ze rested nearby.

Qin Ze and Brother Devour rescued Brother Biao after the Fairness Society tried to kill them, then questioned him about the group and the key. Brother Biao revealed that the key was a tree tattoo he had received after killing organ traffickers, and offered it to Qin Ze.

• Qin Ze and Brother Devour brought Brother Biao to the lake after rescuing him from the Fairness Society’s attempted betrayal.
• Brother Biao explained that the Fairness Society sought a classless society, while Qin Ze argued that eliminating martial artists would not solve the underlying conflict.
• Brother Biao said he had left the Fairness Society after disobeying its orders but still liked its slogan.
• Brother Biao recounted killing martial artists involved in human trafficking and organ sales in Cloud City, then finding a sapling that turned into a tree tattoo on his chest.
• Brother Biao said the sapling was supposedly a key to opening a new world and offered the key to Qin Ze for rescuing him.

Qin Ze received the mysterious key from Brother Biao and let him go, while Teacher Yao faced punishment after failing to retrieve him. The Fairness Society’s leaders discussed the key and their plans for the coming Maka Race, leaving Aries responsible for the Jiang City Otherworld.

• Brother Biao transferred the little tree to Qin Ze, then left to fight for the new order despite his incomplete recovery.
• Teacher Yao returned home, learned that her family considered her trial mission a failure, and was ordered to return within two days for a new assignment.
• Leo, Aries, and Pisces discussed the Fairness Society’s losses in Jiang City and argued over who was responsible.
• Leo revealed his breakthrough and ordered Pisces to investigate the key while Aries took charge of the Jiang City Otherworld.

Qin Ze learned that Teacher Yao had left, visited Ma Yan, and saw her briefly lose focus before she cut her finger. Meanwhile, He Guang agreed to supply Phoenix Tower with fresh goods, and Qin Ze's class arrived at the Black Mountain Research Institute for a field trip.

• The homeroom teacher announced that Teacher Yao was sick and that he would take over her body-forging classes, while Qin Ze realized she had finished her mission.
• Qin Ze declined the class monitor's birthday invitation and encouraged Fatty to keep training as his ability neared a breakthrough.
• Ma Yan told Qin Ze she had received a bonus, then cut her finger after suddenly staring blankly; Qin Ze later left money at her home.
• Three men from Phoenix Tower brought He Guang on as a new supplier, and he promised to find fresh goods in Jiang City.
• Qin Ze and his classmates traveled to the Black Mountain Research Institute, where a staff member welcomed them after they entered through its giant gate.

Qin Ze and the students toured the Black Mountain Research Institute, where staff introduced its specimen hall and research departments. A power failure stranded Qin Ze and the fatty near the bathrooms, where an altered one attacked the class monitor, leaving Qin Ze worried the Otherworld disaster might reach reality.

• Qin Ze and the students rode through a tunnel to the Black Mountain Research Institute and visited its specimen hall and pill research and development department.
• Qin Ze went to the bathroom with the fatty, where the class monitor asked him to attend her birthday party and he declined because of the upcoming martial arts exam.
• The lights went out, the institute doors shut, and a broadcast announced that a transformer had malfunctioned.
• Qin Ze and the fatty rushed into the women's bathroom after hearing a crash and the class monitor's scream, and found her beside a creature in hospital clothes.
• Qin Ze fought the creature, pulled the class monitor behind him, and recognized it as an altered one that had not fully transformed.

Qin Ze and his clones fought a swarm of aberrants that had escaped from a research institute. After Qin Ze hurled their leader into the men's restroom, the leader immobilized him with an innate ability and raised a bony spike over his forehead, but Qin Ze hinted that he still had a way to fight back.

• The class monitor and Fatty encountered an aberrant in the restroom, and more aberrants poured through the ceiling until they surrounded Qin Ze.
• Qin Ze sent Fatty and the class monitor to get help, then used lightning to stop two pursuers and summoned more than thirty clones to fight the aberrants.
• The clones gained a slight advantage in the cramped restroom, while Qin Ze taunted the aberrant leader into charging him.
• Qin Ze grabbed the leader's tail and hurled him through the wall into the men's restroom.
• The leader immobilized Qin Ze with a flash of scarlet light, pinned him against a wall, and aimed a bony spike at his forehead as lightning flickered in Qin Ze's eyes.

Qin Ze and his clones killed the aberrants in the research institute, then encountered the security team sent to investigate. Lin Siyao arrived and took an unsettling interest in Qin Ze, approaching him with a syringe.

• Qin Ze used lightning to kill the big aberrant after dodging its poisoned bone spikes by pulling a clone in front of him.
• Qin Ze found no Soul Orb in the aberrant and guessed something about the test subjects after noticing their hospital gowns.
• A security team arrived, and its trench-coated leader questioned Qin Ze and told him he could not leave until he cooperated with the investigation.
• Qin Ze complained that he was underage, depwessed, and claustrophobic while the trench-coated man promised compensation.
• Lin Siyao arrived, admired Qin Ze's abilities, and approached him with a syringe.

After surviving the research institute incident, Qin Ze negotiated three bottles of advanced bone-tempering solution and learned that Yao Xue had dealt with the He Family. He and his clones used the solution to accelerate their cultivation, and Qin Ze prepared to complete his first round of bone tempering that night.

• Lin Siyao examined the dead subjects, identified the cause of death, and told Qin Ze the breakout was an accident at the research institute.
• Qin Ze signed a confidentiality agreement and bargained Lin Siyao into giving him three bottles of advanced bone-tempering solution.
• Lin Siyao told Qin Ze that Yao Xue had taken care of the He Family, leaving him free to focus on the martial arts exam.
• Qin Ze returned home, used the bone-tempering solution on himself, and then prepared basins for his clones to use as well.
• After a week of intensive cultivation, Qin Ze said he would finish tempering the last hand bone of his first round that night and break through.

Qin Ze broke through to become a Level One Martial Artist and decided to keep building up his clones before entering the Otherworld. At breakfast the next morning, he learned that Ma Yan was wanted for setting a fire that killed her mother.

• Ma Yan called Qin Ze to share news of another work bonus and invited him to dinner, but he declined because he was cultivating.
• Qin Ze tempered the final bone in his right hand, completed his first bone-tempering, and became a Level One Martial Artist.
• Qin Ze’s clones held a mock memorial service and then celebrated with a wild dance party.
• Qin Ze chose to build up more clones before venturing into the Otherworld, then fell asleep.
• At breakfast, Qin Ze watched a report about a woman accused of killing her bedridden mother in an arson attack and recognized the suspect as Ma Yan.