Recaps

After Ning Chuan defeated Wu Hanhai, he demanded the wager and threatened to kill Wu Hanhai if the credits were not paid within ten minutes. With the credits received, Ning Chuan reviewed plans for a credits company and went to ask Qin Ya to back it, where he found her pushing an old man in a wheelchair.

• Ning Chuan defeated Wu Hanhai by cutting apart the Demonic Ape Dharma Aspect, and spectators praised the power of his Eight Wonders Saber.
• Ning Chuan demanded the wager, and Wu Guangzhi agreed to pay 100,000 credits after Ning Chuan gave him ten minutes and threatened his son.
• Ning Chuan confirmed that the credits had arrived and discussed the planned credits company with Song Shiyu and Shi Feng.
• Ning Chuan went to Storm Mountain Villa to ask Qin Ya to back the company, and Zi Yun'er led him to her.
• Ning Chuan found Qin Ya strolling across the lawn while pushing a motionless old man in a wheelchair.

Ning Chuan asked Qin Ya to back his plan to sell credits through a black-market company, and she agreed while warning him about the powerful students who might challenge him. Confident that no one on the Heroes Ranking could beat him, Ning Chuan chose a prime commercial-district location for the company’s first shop.

• Qin Ya recounted the Thunderfire Divine General’s victories while pushing her father, Qin Lang, in his wheelchair, and Ning Chuan realized Qin Lang was the previous World Walker.
• Ning Chuan asked Qin Ya to back a company that would sell credits, and she agreed.
• Qin Ya and Zi Yun'er warned Ning Chuan that Guan Yun and other high-ranking students could threaten his teaching assistant position and the bets tied to it.
• Ning Chuan declared that no one on the Heroes Ranking could match him, and Qin Ya urged him to stop holding back.
• Ning Chuan told Song Shiyu and Shi Feng to prepare to open the credit company, then chose its prime location in the commercial district.

Ning Chuan received fifty-seven Firmament martial arts from Tang Qianjun and learned that Zheng Gui, creator of the Nine Nether Thunder Saber, had vanished mysteriously decades earlier. After spending two days inheriting the techniques, Ning Chuan visited their founders and rapidly advanced them by observing their Laws.

• Tang Qianjun gave Ning Chuan fifty-seven Firmament martial arts and a booklet listing their founders, warning him that Zhang Kai, Liu Shayun, and Zheng Gui were unavailable.
• Tang Qianjun told Ning Chuan that Zheng Gui had disappeared from his room at the school more than thirty years earlier, and that investigations by Heavenly King Wei Chen and the Federation Investigation Bureau had found no clues.
• Ning Chuan told Tang Qianjun he was close to perfecting the Eight Heavenly Gates, and Tang promised he could claim the repair reward early once he reached perfection.
• Ning Chuan returned to his apartment and spent nearly two days inheriting all fifty-seven martial arts, with the techniques reaching at least the Proficiency Realm.
• Ning Chuan visited the available founders, who demonstrated their martial arts and Laws, allowing him to raise techniques to the Perfect Realm within seconds.

Ning Chuan finished visiting the Divine Generals and prepared to rely on credit sales to support his many Divine Weapons. The Round-Down Foundation opened and presented its credit exchange as donations to fund his cultivation, drawing a crowd of students eager to participate.

• Ning Chuan found that most of his newly inherited martial arts had reached the Perfect Realm and that three had formed Dharma Aspects, though he considered the new aspects inferior to his existing ones.
• Ning Chuan counted eighty-one Divine Weapons across his Force Apertures and anticipated needing the next day's credit sales to fund their Sharpness Qi.
• Students gathered outside the Round-Down Foundation, expecting it to sell credits, and questioned its name and legitimacy.
• Liu Qin introduced the Round-Down Foundation as a fundraising organization that gave credits to donors while denying that it sold credits.
• Liu Qin announced daily limits and donation rates: thirty million, thirty-five million, or forty million for each credit, depending on when students joined the queue.

Ning Chuan and Song Shiyu watched the Round-Down Foundation use scarcity and tiered pricing to sell credits to Galaxy University students. Liu Qin announced a special 40-billion-yuan offer for Eight Wonders Saber inheritances, and after Zi Yun'er bought two, more students hurried to secure their own.

• Ning Chuan and Song Shiyu watched students flock to the Round-Down Foundation, whose limited customer slots and rising prices made ordinary credits seem scarce.
• Students inside the shop tested the process by donating money, received credits immediately, and soon bought the maximum amount allowed.
• Liu Qin explained that a 40-billion-yuan donation bought 1,600 special-purpose credits for an Eight Wonders Saber inheritance at the Ten Thousand Martial Arts Pavilion.
• Zi Yun'er bought two inheritances for 80 billion yuan and cited the Wind Blood Divine General's praise of the Eight Wonders Saber for agile fighters.
• Zhong Yangping and more than ten other students rushed to buy special-purpose credits before the limited inheritances ran out.

The Round-Down Foundation earned hundreds of billions on its first day, prompting Ning Chuan to plan ways to increase revenue and fund his growing Divine Weapon collection. He promised to cover Song Shiyu and Shi Feng’s cultivation expenses, then returned to classes and his nightly training.

• The Round-Down Foundation sold all 3,000 credits in under an hour, and Song Shiyu calculated that special-purpose credits brought total revenue to more than 600 billion so far.
• Ning Chuan realized that nourishing his expanding Divine Weapon collection could consume a trillion yuan in about a month and asked how the foundation could raise more money.
• Song Shiyu recommended gradually raising credit prices, while Shi Feng proposed paid membership tiers with different purchase limits.
• Ning Chuan promised to cover Song Shiyu and Shi Feng’s cultivation expenses, explaining privately that he wanted to reward his earliest followers and test their integrity.
• After Song Shiyu warned Shi Feng to spend only on their cultivation, Ning Chuan went to his Friday classes and returned that night to study while nourishing his Divine Weapons with Sharpness Qi.

Han Hongyi and Han Chen visited Ning Chuan to offer compensation for canceling their challenge match, but Ning Chuan refused. After Han Hongyi threatened him, Song Shiyu mutilated the butler, and Ning Chuan demanded Han Chen pay for the bloodied furniture before their fight.

• Song Shiyu gave Ning Chuan information about Han Chen's heavy-sword style and Sever All Dharma Aspect before Han Chen and Han Hongyi arrived.
• Han Hongyi offered Ning Chuan 10,000 credits and Han Feng's future help if he canceled the challenge match, but Ning Chuan rejected the deal.
• Han Hongyi warned Ning Chuan that other prodigies could rival him, and Song Shiyu attacked after taking the threat as an insult.
• Ning Chuan's Dark Night Abyss stunned Han Hongyi, allowing Song Shiyu to destroy his tongue and cut his cheek while Han Chen struggled to intervene.
• Han Chen demanded an explanation, and Ning Chuan asked him to pay 100 million credits for the bloodied furniture before warning him about their coming fight.

Ning Chuan defeated Han Chen with the Eight Wonders Saber, then went to the Ancient Martial Arts Research Institute, where his new secretary Jiang Xiaorou told him about his rewards. The chapter ended with the institute offering him the chance to repair one Stars martial art.

• Ning Chuan told Song Shiyu to provoke Han Chen into wagering as many credits as possible, while admitting he could not yet match a Titled Knight’s combat power.
• Ning Chuan defeated Han Chen in one minute by opening all eight Heavenly Gates and attacking with the Eight Wonders Saber.
• Ning Chuan collected 30,000 credits and headed to the Ancient Martial Arts Research Institute, where staff directed him to meet his secretary.
• Jiang Xiaorou introduced herself as Ning Chuan’s secretary and explained that she was a fox person and a Galaxy University graduate.
• Jiang Xiaorou told Ning Chuan that he had received 5,000 credits and three unrestricted Firmament martial arts, and could choose one Stars martial art to repair.

Ning Chuan visited the Ancient Martial Arts Research Institute to choose mental martial arts and learned that repairing mental power cultivation methods could earn him Spirit-Nourishing Liquid. Yang Wanli then realized he knew a way to shorten the time needed to inherit a martial art.

• Ning Chuan asked Jiang Xiaorou about offensive Stars martial arts, but chose to seek mental martial arts first at the Moon God Martial Seal Repository.
• Ning Chuan met Yang Wanli, Dong Gaoyuan, and Xie Lian in the institute; Xie Lian left without speaking to him.
• Dong Gaoyuan explained that contributing to the repair of mental power cultivation methods could earn Spirit-Nourishing Liquid, and Yang Wanli described the rewards he had received while repairing the Raging Fire Meditation Method.
• Ning Chuan agreed to visit the Moon God Martial Seal Repository with Yang Wanli, Dong Gaoyuan, and Jiang Xiaorou, and asked Yang Wanli how to shorten martial art inheritance time.
• Yang Wanli said he knew a way to shorten the inheritance time.

Ning Chuan visited the Moon God Martial Seal Warehouse, chose the Quick Imprint Method and the highest-tier Spirit Forging Meditation Method, and rejected Yang Wanli’s offer to join a research project. He planned a lineup of martial arts that could build insights and income while he restored the spiritual-power method on his own.

• Ning Chuan took the Quick Imprint Method martial seal and asked Jiang Xiaorou to show him the spiritual-power cultivation methods.
• Dong Gaoyuan warned Ning Chuan that restoring such methods was difficult, while Yang Wanli offered him a place on the Raging Fire Meditation Method project.
• Xie Lian claimed Ning Chuan could not join another researcher’s project without his permission, but Ning Chuan said he would restore a method himself and challenged Xie Lian to bet that he would complete one.
• Xie Lian refused the bet and left the warehouse without choosing a martial seal.
• Jiang Xiaorou identified the Spirit Forging Meditation Method as the warehouse’s only high firmament tier method, and Ning Chuan took its martial seal despite its 57 percent incompleteness.
• Ning Chuan planned to use his remaining slots for weapon martial arts, spiritual-power manipulation methods, and soul-focused mental martial arts that could help restore the Spirit Forging Meditation Method.

Ning Chuan selected several spiritual and soul-related martial arts, including the Soul Self-Healing Technique, and chose the Falling Star Sword Art and two other heavy sword arts. He used his free inheritance slots on spiritual martial arts and began inheriting the Quick Imprint Method, which started restoring itself from his existing insights.

• Ning Chuan chose the Sea-Fortifying Technique and the incomplete High Firmament Tier Soul Self-Healing Technique, wondering whether it could help Qin Ya's father.
• Ning Chuan selected the Falling Star Sword Art, the Heavy Mountain Sword Art, and the Thirteen Mountain-Moving Swords.
• Ning Chuan told Jiang Xiaorou she did not need to wait for him at the institute every day, then parted ways with her.
• Ning Chuan used his thirteen free inheritance slots at the Ten Thousand Martial Arts Pavilion on spiritual martial arts.
• Ning Chuan began inheriting the Quick Imprint Method, and it started restoring itself by absorbing insights from other martial arts.

Ning Chuan tested the Quick Imprint Method, rapidly inherited several martial arts, and repaired more of his prehistoric martial imprints. After he sent three completed imprints to the Ancient Martial Arts Research Institute, researchers were astonished by his ability to repair martial arts.

• Ning Chuan used the Quick Imprint Method to inherit a High Firmament Tier martial art in five minutes, ten times faster than before.
• Ning Chuan repaired the Heavy Mountain Sword Art and the Thirteen Mountain-Moving Swords to the Expert Realm, while the Falling Star Sword Art remained about ten percent incomplete.
• Ning Chuan inherited the Spirit Forging Meditation Method and other spiritual martial arts, raising its repair progress to ten percent and advancing several other techniques to high realms.
• Ning Chuan gave Jiang Xiaorou three completed prehistoric martial imprints and told her to emphasize the Quick Imprint Method's connection to the essence of the soul.
• After Jiang Xiaorou delivered the imprints, researchers at the Ancient Martial Arts Research Institute verified them and were shocked by Ning Chuan's rapid progress.

After completing three martial arts in one day, Ning Chuan learned that committee members were withholding his Spirit-Nourishing Liquid over the Quick Imprint Method and pressure from people connected to his planned matches. He brought the committee to the martial arts testing room and demonstrated the method on a Spirit Forging Meditation Method imprint.

• Researchers and committee members argued over Ning Chuan’s achievements and whether the Quick Imprint Method qualified him for Spirit-Nourishing Liquid.
• Jiang Xiaorou told Ning Chuan that Xie Lian and other committee members opposed the reward, possibly to pressure him into canceling his matches.
• Ning Chuan went to the committee meeting, where Yang Wanli accused the opposition of acting on behalf of the forces behind them.
• Ning Chuan asked the committee members to follow him to the martial arts testing room.
• Ning Chuan placed a Spirit Forging Meditation Method martial imprint on the detector, and it vanished as the committee watched.

Ning Chuan’s martial imprint test revealed that he had repaired 10% of the High Firmament Tier Spirit Forging Meditation Method in a single day, stunning the committee. He then threatened the committee members who had opposed awarding him Spirit-Nourishing Liquid, leaving them intimidated but unable to challenge him under Galaxy University’s rules.

• The committee members discussed whether Ning Chuan had repaired the Spirit Forging Meditation Method and planned to argue that the Quick Imprint Method could not repair spiritual power cultivation methods.
• The test showed that Ning Chuan had raised the Spirit Forging Meditation Method’s completeness from 43% to 53%, shocking everyone, including Yang Wanli.
• Ning Chuan explained that he had recognized similarities between the method’s martial imprints and the Quick Imprint Method, then challenged Xie Lian and the others to dispute his results.
• Ning Chuan told Jiang Xiaorou to gather information on Xie Lian and the other opposing committee members so he would remember them.
• Ning Chuan warned the committee members that he would kill them once he was strong enough, while they rebuked him but stayed put rather than appeal to the president.
• Ning Chuan said that even evidence of their deaths would not bring him to justice, claiming that the law could not restrain him as a future Heavenly King.

Ning Chuan forced the Ancient Martial Arts Research Institute committee members to agree to pay him 100 drops of Spirit-Nourishing Liquid, then learned that his Round-Down Foundation had threatened instructors’ control over student credits. Yang Wanli warned him that continuing to sell credits would bring further trouble.

• Yang Wanli intervened as the committee members pleaded with Ning Chuan, and Ning Chuan agreed to settle the dispute for 100 drops of Spirit-Nourishing Liquid.
• Jiang Xiaorou followed Ning Chuan out of the institute, wondered whether he could help investigate her father’s disappearance, and accidentally walked into his back.
• Yang Wanli caught up with Ning Chuan and explained that the committee members had targeted him because students connected to them had asked for help.
• Yang Wanli told Ning Chuan that Xie Lian, Chen Xingwu, and others opposed him because the Round-Down Foundation undermined instructors’ influence over credits.
• Ning Chuan acknowledged Yang Wanli’s warning that selling credits could lead to more conflicts.

Ning Chuan ignored the controversy over Divine General Yunjia giving Jia Tianzong the Cloud Armor and prepared for their scheduled fight. On October 4, the match began with Jia Tianzong protected by the armor as Ning Chuan opened all eight gates and charged at him.

• Ning Chuan returned to studying after parting with Yang Wanli and continued restoring martial arts while nurturing his Divine Weapons.
• News of Ning Chuan's rewards and rapid progress spread across Galaxy University as Jiang Xiaorou submitted three completed martial seals each day.
• Divine General Yunjia gave Jia Tianzong the Cloud Armor, prompting angry discussion among Ning Chuan's fans and students on the Fenghua Forum.
• Ning Chuan dismissed the Cloud Armor's importance, saying more Spirit-Nourishing Liquid would make it useless, and noted that his spiritual power was nearing liquefaction into mist.
• Galaxy University canceled classes on October 4 as crowds gathered for Ning Chuan's match against Jia Tianzong.
• Jia Tianzong donned the Cloud Armor, and Ning Chuan opened all eight gates and charged at him when the referee started the fight.

Ning Chuan tested Jia Tianzong’s Cloud Armor and defeated him with two heavy-sword strikes after discovering that overwhelming force could penetrate its defense. After the match, students rushed to buy Ning Chuan’s sword techniques, only to find that the Round-Down Foundation’s shop had raised their prices.

• Ning Chuan’s Blood Soul Needle struck Jia Tianzong but shattered against Cloud Armor, and Ning Chuan’s Eight Wonders Saber also failed to pierce it.
• Ning Chuan used the Thirteen Mountain-Moving Swords to strike Jia Tianzong through Cloud Armor, injuring him and sending him flying across the arena.
• Jia Tianzong used his Cloud Wind Dharma Aspect to stop himself from flying out of the arena, but Ning Chuan followed with the Heavy Mountain Sword Art and smashed him into the floor.
• Jia Tianzong admitted defeat, and the referee declared Ning Chuan the winner.
• Students hurried to the Round-Down Foundation’s shop to buy Ning Chuan’s sword techniques, where they found that the prices had increased by five billion yuan each.

After Ning Chuan’s fight boosted demand for the Round-Down Foundation’s martial arts and credits, Wu Guangzhi and other university officials planned ways to undermine the shop. Their scheme began with staged fights in the queue, and law enforcement ordered the Round-Down Foundation to close.

• Ning Chuan considered arranging tougher future challenges to make his fights more impressive after students rushed to buy his martial arts and credits.
• Wu Guangzhi met with senior university figures, who learned the board of trustees would protect Ning Chuan’s martial-arts restoration work but not his credit business.
• Wu Guangzhi proposed equipping Guan Yun to defeat Ning Chuan and secretly provoking trouble at the Round-Down Foundation to disrupt its operations.
• The next morning, disputes erupted at more than ten points in the shop’s queue and escalated into fights that left dozens of students injured.
• Law enforcement restored order and ordered the Round-Down Foundation to close its shop immediately.

Ning Chuan refused Qin Ya’s offer to intervene after university officials targeted the Round-Down Foundation, and Song Shiyu proposed countermeasures. The group planned to expose the students behind the trouble, but Ning Chuan realized his interrogation method could also hurt innocent students.

• Song Shiyu and Shi Feng told Ning Chuan that students had caused a fight that led to the Round-Down Foundation’s shop being shut down, and Zi Yun’er warned that university higher-ups were involved.
• Zi Yun’er offered Qin Ya’s help, but Ning Chuan declined to keep her from getting caught up in the dispute and rejected the idea of asking the university president to intervene.
• Song Shiyu said Ning Chuan should display greater strength to make the officials reconsider targeting him, and Ning Chuan agreed.
• Song Shiyu proposed identifying the troublemakers among the injured students who planned to demand compensation, while Shi Feng noted that missing footage and interference from the Law Enforcement Department would complicate the investigation.
• Ning Chuan considered using Dark Night Abyss to interrogate the injured students, then stopped when he realized innocent students could suffer too.

Jiang Xiaorou revealed her mind-reading ability to Ning Chuan and offered to help him identify the students who caused trouble at the Round-Down Foundation in exchange for help finding her missing father. Ning Chuan learned she had been recruited by Heavenly King Wei Chen and was the daughter of Zheng Gui, the Purple Demon Divine General, and heard that her ability worked best when people were emotionally overwhelmed.

• Jiang Xiaorou arrived to collect repaired martial seals and privately asked Ning Chuan to speak with her.
• Jiang Xiaorou correctly identified that Ning Chuan and his followers were trying to find the students responsible for the trouble at the Round-Down Foundation.
• Ning Chuan suspected Jiang Xiaorou of being an enemy spy and used the pressure of his Divine Weapons to force her to explain herself.
• Jiang Xiaorou said Heavenly King Wei Chen had recruited her to Galaxy University to investigate her father’s disappearance.
• Jiang Xiaorou identified her father as Zheng Gui, the Purple Demon Divine General, and proposed helping Ning Chuan find the troublemaking students if he helped investigate her father.
• Jiang Xiaorou explained that her mind-reading ability usually revealed only general impressions, but could uncover precise information when someone’s emotions were intense.

Ning Chuan agreed to help Jiang Xiaorou investigate her missing father in exchange for her future mind-reading assistance. After they rejoined the others, Ning Chuan said he could find the students causing trouble, and Song Shiyu and Zi Yun'er urged him to punish them harshly.

• Ning Chuan learned that Jiang Xiaorou's mind-reading ability depended on the relative spiritual power of herself and her target.
• Jiang Xiaorou asked to borrow Ning Chuan's access privileges to investigate her father's disappearance, and Ning Chuan agreed on the condition that she help him with mind-reading when needed.
• Ning Chuan and Jiang Xiaorou left the conference room, prompting Zi Yun'er, Shi Feng, and Song Shiyu to misread her tearful, sweaty appearance.
• Ning Chuan told the others he knew how to find the students who caused trouble, while concealing Jiang Xiaorou's ability.
• Song Shiyu and Zi Yun'er urged Ning Chuan to make an example of the troublemaking students, and Ning Chuan calmly agreed.

Ning Chuan visited the hospital where students injured in the credit-buying queue were being guarded and used Jiang Xiaorou’s mind-reading ability to identify the seventeen students who had deliberately caused trouble. He took them away despite the Law Enforcement Department’s objections, while Song Shiyu threatened the Knights who tried to stop them.

• Ning Chuan entered Campus Hospital No. 101, where the Law Enforcement Department had gathered and guarded the injured students.
• Ning Chuan offered the students a chance to identify who had deliberately stirred up trouble, but none confessed.
• Jiang Xiaorou read the students’ thoughts and identified seventeen who had deliberately caused trouble.
• Ning Chuan bound the seventeen students with golden Force and announced that he was taking them with him.
• Guan Guangtao tried to block Ning Chuan, but Song Shiyu threatened him and the other Knights, then shoved Guan Guangtao aside.

Ning Chuan publicly interrogated the seventeen students who had disrupted the Round-Down Foundation’s credit business, using Dark Night Abyss to break their resistance. They confessed that senior university officials and instructors had ordered them to cause trouble, and Ning Chuan prepared to continue making an example of them.

• Guan Guangtao left the Anti-Ning Chuan Alliance, and several other Knights followed him.
• Ning Chuan brought the seventeen students to the Round-Down Foundation as crowds gathered, while Song Shiyu arranged a livestream with the Wind and Rain Pavilion.
• Di Shanjie began the livestream, and Ning Chuan demanded that the students reveal who had sent them.
• When the students denied involvement, Ning Chuan used Dark Night Abyss twice to overwhelm their resistance.
• The students confessed that instructors and senior officials had paid or directed them to disrupt the credit business and damage Ning Chuan’s shop.
• Ning Chuan subdued the students again, deciding their confessions were not enough to prevent future trouble.

Ning Chuan exposed the officials behind the attack on the Round-Down Foundation and left seventeen students mentally broken, then confronted Divine Generals who challenged his actions. The Foundation reopened with a membership system that removed its daily quota.

• Ning Chuan told the livestream audience that senior university officials had used benefits to recruit students against him and warned them they would pay for accepting those offers.
• Ning Chuan awakened the seventeen students, whose minds had collapsed after their prolonged darkness, as Wu Guangzhi and other Divine Generals arrived.
• Wu Guangzhi accused Ning Chuan of unlawful punishment, but Ning Chuan invoked his status as a World Walker and major general and pointed out that a student had implicated Wu Guangzhi.
• Qi Yun, the head of the Law Enforcement Department, demanded an explanation, and Ning Chuan ordered him to imprison the students for life before leaving.
• Song Shiyu reopened the Round-Down Foundation, announced that it would remove the daily quota, and introduced a membership system.

Song Shiyu announced the Round-Down Foundation’s ten membership tiers and the benefits available at higher levels. The chapter ended with her revealing that ten-star members received priority at auctions for Stars martial arts.

• A planted student asked Song Shiyu how to join the Round-Down Foundation, and she said enrolled students could become members by paying an annual fee starting at one billion yuan.
• Song Shiyu explained that the foundation had ten membership tiers, with higher fees granting larger credit allowances and additional perks.
• Song Shiyu said five-star members and above could obtain points for the Thirteen Mountain-Moving Swords and the Heavy Mountain Sword Art, and she set the five-star fee at eight billion yuan a year.
• Song Shiyu announced that ten-star membership cost forty billion yuan a year and allowed members to ask Ning Chuan to restore prehistoric martial arts, with privately owned manuals requiring an additional fee.
• Song Shiyu added that ten-star members received priority at auctions for Stars martial arts.