Chapter Summaries

Ye Nan completed route nineteen after surviving Ding Yunqiang’s surprise attack, then joined the other failed candidates at the training camp plaza. Qing Lingxue revealed that the trial had not been a complete wipeout, but she did not identify who had passed, leaving the geniuses wondering who could be strong enough.

• Ding Yunqiang attacked Ye Nan, but Ye Nan activated the Azure Dragon Divine Body and endured the blow, frightening Ding Yunqiang into letting him proceed.
• Ye Nan entered the plaza, where the failed candidates, including Wang Lingxi, believed he had also failed the trial.
• Wang Lingxi told Ye Nan that she had not passed, and Ye Nan realized the other routes must have been difficult too.
• Qing Lingxue, Shi Wu, and Zhang Hao introduced themselves as the candidates’ instructors.
• Qing Lingxue admitted the instructors had been joking about failed candidates losing their places at camp, then revealed that someone had passed the entrance trial without naming Ye Nan.

Ye Nan and the other geniuses began training with Blood Gang Stakes, which sent a strange force through the body to increase combat power. Ye Nan learned the Blood Gang Gale Fist and drew everyone’s attention by using it.

• Qing Lingxue told the geniuses they would spend two days striking Blood Gang Stakes before entering a virtual secret realm to fight vicious beasts.
• The geniuses chose stakes and discovered that a suction force made it difficult to pull their fists away after each punch.
• Ye Nan struck his stake repeatedly and felt its strange force spread throughout his body, while the instructors watched him.
• Ye Nan’s system granted him the Blood Gang Gale Fist, a technique that made striking the stakes faster and more effective.
• Ye Nan unleashed the Blood Gang Gale Fist, sending gale-like power and yellow sand through the area and drawing the other geniuses’ attention.

Ye Nan stunned the training camp’s geniuses by striking the Blood Gang Stake at remarkable speed, then left to practice the Tuling Galaxy Art in a room with special spiritual energy. After two days, his combat power reached 130,000, and a staff member arrived to summon him.

• Ye Nan used the Blood Gang Gale Fist to strike the Blood Gang Stake at astonishing speed, gaining 1,000 combat power over several hours.
• Ye Nan asked Qing Lingxue for a place to practice his body-tempering technique, and she led him to a room with special spiritual energy.
• Qing Lingxue asked whether Ye Nan would attend the Virtual Secret Realm, and he confirmed that he would.
• Ye Nan practiced the Tuling Galaxy Art in the room for two days and raised his combat power to 130,000.
• A staff member called to Ye Nan from outside the room.

Ye Nan entered the virtual secret realm and fought virtual ferocious beasts in the desert, gaining an epiphany that gave him Sky-Shrouding Shadow Steps. He deliberately gathered a growing pack of beasts, and as they closed in around him, he unleashed his new technique at astonishing speed.

• Qing Lingxue and the other instructors led Ye Nan and the assembled geniuses into the virtual secret realm.
• Ye Nan arrived in the desert, where virtual ferocious beasts surrounded him, and he used Flowing Light Shadow Steps to attack them.
• Repeatedly using Flowing Light Shadow Steps triggered Ye Nan's epiphany, granting him the stronger Sky-Shrouding Shadow Steps.
• Ye Nan left the area where he had last seen Wang Lingxi and ran around the desert, drawing more and more ferocious beasts after him.
• As the beasts' encirclement closed, Ye Nan unleashed Sky-Shrouding Shadow Steps, astonishing Qing Lingxue, Shi Wu, and Zhang Hao with his speed.

Ye Nan used his newly comprehended Sky-Shrouding Shadow Steps and Star River Heavenly Shadow Fist to defeat virtual ferocious beasts and reached Junior Grand Martial Master. After learning Heavenly Fire Dragon Palm by watching Wang Lingxi fight, he left the desert area while Qing Lingxue, Shi Wu, and Zhang Hao considered how to train him.

• Ye Nan used Sky-Shrouding Shadow Steps to escape the beasts’ encirclement, then killed them with Star River Heavenly Shadow Fist and reached 150,755 combat power, becoming a Junior Grand Martial Master.
• Qing Lingxue, Shi Wu, and Zhang Hao watched Ye Nan’s display and were stunned by how quickly he wiped out the virtual beasts.
• Ye Nan watched Wang Lingxi fight in the desert area and triggered God-Level Comprehension, gaining insight into Heavenly Fire Dragon Palm.
• Ye Nan tried Heavenly Fire Dragon Palm on an approaching group of virtual beasts and killed them with a flaming dragon of palm force, stunning Wang Lingxi and Lu Lenglan.
• Wang Lingxi told Ye Nan that few beasts remained, and he left the desert area.
• Qing Lingxue, Shi Wu, and Zhang Hao discussed Ye Nan’s training and Qing Lingxue suggested bringing him out of the virtual secret realm before he killed all the beasts.

Qing Lingxue, Shi Wu, and Zhang Hao arranged for Ye Nan to join the Black Cloud Martial Arts Hall’s upcoming ferocious beast extermination plan in a real catacomb. Ye Nan agreed eagerly and looked forward to testing his combat techniques there.

• Qing Lingxue suggested finding a better challenge for Ye Nan because the virtual secret realm’s beasts were no match for him.
• Zhang Hao proposed sending Ye Nan to a real catacomb during the Black Cloud Martial Arts Hall’s upcoming extermination plan in Southeast City.
• Shi Wu entered the virtual secret realm, found Ye Nan, and asked whether he would join the expedition.
• Ye Nan agreed and left the virtual secret realm with Shi Wu.
• Qing Lingxue contacted the Black Cloud Martial Arts Hall, which agreed reluctantly, and then told Ye Nan about the arrangement.

Ye Nan left the Genius Training Camp with Zhou Cheng to join the Black Cloud Martial Arts Hall ahead of its beast-extermination mission in the Red Ox Mountain Catacombs. He settled in at the hall and slept, while the other Martial Artists debated how strong he was.

• Zhou Cheng asked Ye Nan whether he truly intended to enter the catacombs, and Ye Nan confirmed that he did.
• Zhou Cheng told Ye Nan the mission would begin the next day in the ordinary Red Ox Mountain Catacombs, where a Grandmaster would lead the team.
• Zhou Cheng brought Ye Nan to the Black Cloud Martial Arts Hall and introduced him to the Martial Artists who would join the mission.
• Ye Nan went to his room, thought about the catacombs, and fell asleep.
• The Martial Artists discussed Ye Nan, disagreeing over whether his reputation and appearance reflected real strength.

Ye Nan joined Xu Heng and the Black Cloud Martial Arts Hall on their expedition into the Red Ox Mountain Catacombs, where he offered to handle the vicious beasts himself. He revealed a powerful aura and killed several first-tier beasts with one punch before a second-tier beast attacked him.

• Xu Heng arrived at the Black Cloud Martial Arts Hall and led Ye Nan and the others toward Red Ox Mountain.
• The group entered the Red Ox Mountain Catacombs and encountered first-tier and second-tier vicious beasts near the outskirts.
• Ye Nan told Xu Heng that he would eliminate the beasts, surprising Xu Heng and the Martial Artists.
• Ye Nan released a powerful aura, approached the beasts, and killed several first-tier vicious beasts with one punch.
• A low-level second-tier vicious beast leaped at Ye Nan.

Ye Nan stunned the Black Cloud Martial Arts Hall by killing ferocious beasts with ease, then led the attack when a beast tide appeared in the depths of the Red Ox Mountain Catacombs. He unleashed his powerful combat techniques and Azure Dragon Divine Body as Xu Heng’s group rushed to join the battle.

• Ye Nan killed a low-level second-tier ferocious beast with one punch and swiftly wiped out the other beasts nearby.
• Xu Heng admitted that the group had underestimated Ye Nan, and they continued clearing ferocious beasts as they traveled deeper into the catacombs.
• A beast tide gathered in the depths of the Red Ox Mountain Catacombs, and Xu Heng warned everyone to stay cautious.
• Ye Nan told Xu Heng he would make the first move, then used Sky-Shrouding Shadow Steps to charge into the beast tide.
• Ye Nan unleashed Star River Heavenly Shadow Fist and Heavenly Fire Dragon Palm, killing countless ferocious beasts and gaining combat power.
• Ye Nan activated Azure Dragon Divine Body, leaving Xu Heng and the Black Cloud Martial Arts Hall stunned; Xu Heng then urged his group to join the fight.

Ye Nan helped Xu Heng and the Black Cloud Martial Arts Hall clear the ferocious beasts from the Red Ox Mountain Catacombs, bringing his combat power to 320,000. He returned to the Genius Training Camp, where Qing Lingxue was astonished to hear the catacombs had already been cleared.

• Ye Nan and Xu Heng's group wiped out the beast tide in the deepest part of the Red Ox Mountain Catacombs, and Ye Nan's combat power reached 320,000.
• Xu Heng praised Ye Nan's strength, and the group swept the rest of the catacombs before leaving for Southeast City.
• Ye Nan declined to join the Black Cloud Martial Arts Hall and returned to the Genius Training Camp on East Mountain.
• Qing Lingxue asked Ye Nan why he had returned so quickly, and he told her that they had cleared the Red Ox Mountain Catacombs.
• Ye Nan went to strike the Blood Gang Stakes while Qing Lingxue wondered whether the catacombs had really been cleared.