Chapter Summaries

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.

Song Shiyu announced that students could buy memberships for a chance to inherit Ning Chuan’s completed Stars martial arts, and the Round-Down Foundation’s first membership drive quickly brought in huge sums. After a challenge match, Ning Chuan accompanied Jiang Xiaorou to Purple Thunder Manor, where she revealed her suspicion about Zheng Gui’s disappearance.

• Song Shiyu assured students that the auction for Stars martial art inheritance slots was genuine, prompting a rush to buy Round-Down Foundation memberships.
• The Round-Down Foundation ended its first membership drive on Saturday because Ning Chuan had limited Divine Weapons and credits, while the foundation aimed to make memberships seem scarce.
• Jiang Xiaorou asked Ning Chuan to take her to Purple Thunder Manor, her father’s sealed residence, and he agreed to go after his fourth challenge match.
• Ning Chuan defeated a student ranked outside the top eight hundred on the Heroes Ranking in under five minutes and received thirty thousand credits.
• Ning Chuan and Jiang Xiaorou traveled to Purple Thunder Manor, where she told him she suspected someone at Galaxy University was involved in Zheng Gui’s disappearance.
• Jiang Xiaorou identified Xie Lian, a committee member of the Ancient Martial Arts Research Institute, as the person she suspected.

Ning Chuan and Jiang Xiaorou searched Purple Thunder Manor for clues about Zheng Gui’s disappearance, but Ning Chuan found a Saber Enlightenment Room that triggered breakthroughs in his saber techniques. The chapter left him with the newly formed Nether Saber Dharma Aspect at Mystic Truth Prototype.

• Jiang Xiaorou told Ning Chuan she suspected Xie Lian was connected to her father Zheng Gui’s disappearance, though she had no solid evidence.
• Ning Chuan and Jiang Xiaorou entered Purple Thunder Manor to search for clues, with Jiang Xiaorou examining objects for a reaction from her bloodline.
• Ning Chuan searched the manor and discovered the Saber Enlightenment Room where Zheng Gui had practiced.
• The hidden Law of Hidden Thunder triggered epiphanies, advancing Ning Chuan’s Nine Nether Thunder Saber to Perfect and creating the Nether Saber Dharma Aspect.
• Ning Chuan checked his system panel and saw Flash Thunder Slash at Perfect, Nine Nether Thunder Saber at Perfect, and Nether Saber Dharma Aspect at Mystic Truth Prototype.

Ning Chuan and Jiang Xiaorou visited Galaxy University's president, Wei Chen, hoping to learn about Zheng Gui's disappearance and the university's investigation. Wei Chen revealed a silver-white ancient star, triggering the Falling Star Sword Art to repair itself and rapidly advance as the chapter ended.

• Ning Chuan reflected on his newly comprehended Nether Saber Dharma Aspect and left Purple Thunder Manor to continue helping Jiang Xiaorou search for clues about Zheng Gui.
• Jiang Xiaorou told Ning Chuan she had found nothing, and Ning Chuan promised to ask Wei Chen about her father's disappearance and the investigation.
• The buzz-cut Knight was astonished to learn Ning Chuan had reached the Perfect Realm in the Nine Nether Thunder Saber and comprehended the Nether Saber Dharma Aspect.
• Ning Chuan and Jiang Xiaorou visited Wei Chen's residence, where Ning Chuan sensed the president's body was a Force clone and recognized that the courtyard's plants reflected altered natural laws.
• Wei Chen summoned an ancient silver-white star, and the Falling Star Sword Art repaired itself before entering an epiphany and gaining 90% progress.

Ning Chuan’s insights rapidly advanced his sword arts and gave him Knight Class combat power, while Wei Chen explained how Heavenly King avatars worked and what limited their number. Ning Chuan then asked whether someone at the university had caused Zheng Gui’s disappearance, and Wei Chen revealed that both his original body and avatar had been on campus that day.

• Ning Chuan’s Falling Star Sword Art reached the Perfect Realm and produced the Falling Star Dharma Aspect, while related sword arts advanced and the Heavy Mountain Sword Art produced the Mountain Heavy Sword Dharma Aspect.
• Ning Chuan realized his Falling Star Dharma Aspect could give him Knight Class combat power when he opened all Eight Gates.
• Wei Chen explained that Heavenly Kings created avatars by merging part of their souls with Hearts of Law and suitable natural treasures, but soul strength and the scarcity of Hearts of Law usually limited them to one avatar.
• Wei Chen told Ning Chuan that mental power cultivation methods were essential for strengthening the soul and that natural treasures with similar or higher-grade Laws could make avatars more powerful.
• Ning Chuan asked whether someone inside the university had caused Zheng Gui’s disappearance, and Wei Chen said his original body and avatar had both been on campus that day.

Ning Chuan and Jiang Xiaorou questioned Wei Chen about Zheng Gui’s disappearance, and Wei Chen explained the likely causes while keeping his investigation secret. When Wei Chen offered to show Ning Chuan his Law, Ning Chuan revealed that he had already experienced an epiphany and manifested the Falling Star Dharma Aspect.

• Jiang Xiaorou asked Wei Chen whether he had found clues to her father Zheng Gui’s whereabouts, and Wei Chen said there were none.
• Wei Chen outlined three possibilities: Zheng Gui had vanished on his own, an ancient or extraterrestrial existence had subdued him, or a mental attack had killed him instantly.
• Wei Chen said he had secretly investigated and continued monitoring Divine Generals at the school with mistified spiritual power, but found nothing suspicious.
• Ning Chuan and Jiang Xiaorou agreed to keep Wei Chen’s secret investigation confidential and prepared to leave.
• Wei Chen offered to let Ning Chuan observe his Law, but Ning Chuan said he had already had an epiphany and revealed his Falling Star Dharma Aspect.