Chapter Summaries

Zhang Junbao returned home after passing the Quasi-Warrior Assessment and told his family they could move into the Warrior Residential Area. His family settled into their new villa in Mingyue Residential Area, while Zhang Junbao prepared for the combat assessment and encouraged Luo Feng to work harder.

• Zhang Junbao told Zhang Lin and his parents that he had joined the Limits Dojo and could move the family into the Warrior Residential Area.
• Zhang Junbao vowed to protect his family and take revenge on Zhang Haobai, and he told Zhang Anzhong he had a way to help restore his leg.
• Yang Fei told their neighbors that the family was moving to Mingyue Residential Area because Zhang Junbao had joined the Limits Dojo.
• Zhang Junbao told Luo Feng and Wei Wen he was leaving school to prepare for the combat assessment, and he encouraged Luo Feng to become a warrior too.
• Zhang Junbao received the keys to villa Number 198 in Mingyue Residential Area, where his family admired their new home.

After passing his assessment, Zhang Junbao studied the Five Hearts Toward Heaven Cultivation Method and combined it with his past cultivation experience to absorb cosmic energy. His first night of cultivation greatly increased his strength and mental abilities, and he ended the chapter watching returning martial artists reunite with their families.

• Zhang Junbao studied the Five Hearts Toward Heaven Cultivation Method and planned to combine it with his Tai Chi Primordial Chaos Art.
• Zhang Junbao sensed cosmic energy immediately and absorbed it into every cell, drawing energy away from nearby martial artists, including Wu Tong.
• Zhang Junbao's cells and genes changed as his body grew stronger and his Spiritual Force increased.
• Zhang Junbao woke with sharper hearing and enough strength to launch himself upward, then tested his power and adjusted to it with Tai Chi Chuan.
• Zhang Junbao absorbed purple qi on the roof and realized his mental strength and reaction speed had improved.
• Zhang Junbao watched exhausted martial artists return from the wilderness and saw one embrace his waiting family.

Luo Feng asked Zhang Junbao to help him become a martial artist faster, and Zhang Junbao agreed to give him special training. Zhang Junbao then brought Luo Feng to meet Xu Yan and her cousin Xu Xin, reuniting Luo Feng with his old classmate while he and Xu Yan secretly watched them talk.

• Luo Feng visited Zhang Junbao and asked him to guide his training so he could become a martial artist sooner and give his family a better life.
• Zhang Junbao agreed to train Luo Feng in using his muscles and spar with him during his usual training hours.
• Xu Yan called Zhang Junbao to invite him to a meal, and he decided to bring Luo Feng along to meet someone.
• Zhang Junbao and Luo Feng met Xu Yan and Xu Xin at a private coffeehouse, where Luo Feng and Xu Xin recognized each other as old classmates.
• Zhang Junbao and Xu Yan slipped away to watch Luo Feng and Xu Xin talk, and the two of them sat closer together as they watched.

Zhang Junbao concealed his growing strength while preparing for the Martial Artist Combat Assessment. He traveled with other Quasi-Martial Artists to the Jiangnan City North Military District, where the assessment was about to begin.

• Zhang Junbao trained in Tai Chi Chuan and estimated that his punching force had reached around 4,000 kg, but he decided to keep his abilities hidden.
• Zhang Junbao rested before the assessment, then traveled with Yang Wu and other Quasi-Martial Artists under a Limit Hall martial artist’s guidance.
• Representatives from the HR Alliance, the government, Thunder Dojo, and Limits Dojo tried to recruit the future martial artists during the train ride.
• Yang Wu thanked Zhang Junbao for helping him pass the Quasi-Warrior Assessment and said he was considering joining Limits Dojo.
• The group arrived at the Jiangnan City North Military District, where an official announced that 1,768 candidates would take the combat assessment and hoped they would survive.

Zhang Junbao collected his combat gear and faced a challenge from Thunder Dojo's Bai Zhan, then entered the sealed town for the Martial Artist Combat Assessment. The twelve-hour test began with only the top 60 of 1,768 Quasi-Martial Artists set to earn qualifications.

• Zhang Junbao collected a combat uniform, boots, and a longsword, refusing the officer's offer of a shield.
• Wu Tong brought Zhang Junbao to meet Zhuge Tao and Thunder Dojo's leaders, where Bai Zhan challenged him to compete for first place in assessment points.
• Zhang Junbao deflected Bai Zhan's challenge by sarcastically urging him to clear the entire Wilderness Zone, and Zhuge Tao praised Zhang Junbao's temperament.
• Military officers explained the assessment rules: participants had twelve hours to kill demonic beasts, collect their left ears as proof, and avoid fighting one another; the top 60 would qualify.
• Zhang Junbao and the other Quasi-Martial Artists entered the sealed town, and the military closed the gates to begin the assessment.

Zhang Junbao and Yang Wu split up in the enclosed town to face the demonic beasts alone during the combat assessment. Zhang Junbao studied the beasts’ tactics and killed a group of four Shadow Cats, using the fight to refine his movement technique.

• Wu Tong and Zhuge Tao discussed the risks of the assessment and Zhuge Tao remarked on Zhang Junbao’s unusual composure.
• Zhang Junbao asked Yang Wu to split up, and Yang Wu agreed before heading off alone.
• Zhang Junbao surveyed the town, identified its main demonic beasts, and chose to use Shadow Cats to train his movement technique.
• Zhang Junbao distracted two of four Shadow Cats and killed one with a surprise strike.
• Zhang Junbao fought the remaining cats, dodged their coordinated attacks, and killed a second with a slash across its belly.
• Zhang Junbao vanished from the last two Shadow Cats’ sight and pierced their brains with his longsword.

Zhang Junbao fought through a horde of monsters, displaying his Perfect Level movement technique while adapting to their coordinated attacks. After seeing his performance, Old Wang sought a Special Training spot for him, and Zhang Junbao continued battling eighteen monsters in a mansion.

• Zhang Junbao killed four Shadow Cats and headed toward the sounds of a distant battle.
• Old Wang and an officer watched Bai Zhan fight five monsters before the monitor showed Zhang Junbao drawing a much larger horde after himself.
• Old Wang recognized Zhang Junbao, learned he had a Perfect Level movement technique, and decided to request a Special Training spot for him.
• Zhang Junbao fought eighteen monsters in a mansion and used his footwork and surroundings to evade their coordinated attacks.
• Zhang Junbao trapped an Ironfur Boar's bones with his sword, shifted aside to avoid a Shadow Cat's strike, and slashed open the cat's belly.

An Intermediate Beast General-level Black-Crowned Golden Eagle attacked the Quasi-Martial Artists during their assessment, forcing officials to suspend the test and order everyone to evacuate. Zhang Junbao rescued Bai Zhan from the eagle, but the beast continued chasing them.

• Zhang Junbao sensed danger and dodged the Black-Crowned Golden Eagle’s first swoop, which carried off an Ironfur Boar instead.
• The monitoring officer suspended the assessment and ordered all Quasi-Martial Artists to leave as warriors rushed to stop the eagle.
• The Black-Crowned Golden Eagle abandoned Zhang Junbao and targeted Bai Zhan, piercing his shoulders and lifting him into the air.
• Zhang Junbao raced after the eagle and rescued Bai Zhan just before it could peck his abdomen.
• Zhang Junbao fled with Bai Zhan while the Black-Crowned Golden Eagle pursued them, and he warned Bai Zhan to stay quiet.

Zhang Junbao tried to escape the Black-Crowned Golden Eagle while carrying Bai Zhan, but the beast's sonic attack left them both vulnerable. Zhuge Tao's spear struck the eagle and a hidden Sword-Beaked Dragon Eagle, and Zhang Junbao killed the wounded Black-Crowned Golden Eagle as the Sword-Beaked Dragon Eagle escaped.

• Zhang Junbao dodged the Black-Crowned Golden Eagle's attacks with the Xuantian Ascending Dragon Steps while carrying Bai Zhan, but its piercing cry wounded him and knocked Bai Zhan unconscious.
• The Black-Crowned Golden Eagle seized Zhang Junbao, and Zhuge Tao hurled his spear to stop it as a Sword-Beaked Dragon Eagle launched a surprise attack.
• Zhuge Tao's spear pierced both demonic beasts, severely wounding the Black-Crowned Golden Eagle and injuring the Sword-Beaked Dragon Eagle, which then flew away.
• Zhang Junbao kicked Bai Zhan clear, then used the force to reach the Black-Crowned Golden Eagle and stab through its eye into its brain, killing it.

Zhang Junbao was badly wounded and carried off by the Sword-Beaked Dragon Eagle after the Thunder Dojo supervisor and Iron Monkey failed to bring it down. Zhuge Tao requested help from the Limits Dojo, while the others feared the beast had taken Zhang Junbao far into the Wilderness Zone.

• The Sword-Beaked Dragon Eagle pierced Zhang Junbao's shoulder with its beak, then seized him in its talons as he weakened.
• Lei Ming and Iron Monkey attacked the Sword-Beaked Dragon Eagle, but it survived their blows and flew away with Zhang Junbao.
• Zhuge Tao ordered the gunners to fire, but the injured beast outran the bullets and vanished into the sky.
• Iron Monkey and Lei Ming lamented that they could not pursue the flying beast, while Zhuge Tao requested rescue support from the Limits Dojo.
• The officer said he would ask the Military to search, but noted the beast could reach Mach 5 and might carry Zhang Junbao hundreds of kilometers away.

After Zhang Junbao was captured by the Sword-Beaked Dragon Eagle, the Military and the dojos organized a rescue while honoring him as a hero and a full-fledged martial artist. He escaped the wounded eagle’s grasp in its lair, but its two young attacked him, leaving him fighting to survive.

• Iron Monkey declared that the surviving Quasi-Martial Artists had passed and honored Zhang Junbao for holding off the monstrous beasts and saving them.
• Zhuge Tao, Lei Ming, and the Military arranged search-and-rescue efforts for Zhang Junbao and promised support for his family.
• The Sword-Beaked Dragon Eagle carried Zhang Junbao to an abandoned high-rise, where its wounds caused it to crash through a wall and release him.
• Zhang Junbao attacked the badly injured Sword-Beaked Dragon Eagle’s exposed head until it stopped moving.
• Two young Sword-Beaked Dragon Eagles rushed at Zhang Junbao, and he prepared to fight them to survive.

Zhang Junbao fought off two juvenile Sword-Beaked Dragon Eagles despite his injuries and used their mother’s sword beak to kill them. After the adult eagle’s neck was severed, Zhang Junbao collapsed, having survived the fight.

• The juvenile Sword-Beaked Dragon Eagles attacked Zhang Junbao, but he dodged their crude strikes despite his wounded shoulder and hands.
• Zhang Junbao used Tai Chi to deflect the juveniles into a wall, then lured them toward their injured mother.
• Zhang Junbao narrowly dodged the juveniles as they charged and caused them to impale themselves on their mother’s sword beak.
• Zhang Junbao kicked the pierced juveniles in the backs of their heads, killing them.
• Zhang Junbao found that the collision had severed the adult Sword-Beaked Dragon Eagle’s neck, then slumped to the ground.

After the battle, Zhang Junbao searched the Sword-Beaked Dragon Eagle’s nest for food and discovered valuable equipment belonging to a dead human powerhouse. He equipped himself with the armor, took the monster’s unhatched egg, and prepared to continue surviving in the Wilderness Zone.

• Zhang Junbao recovered enough strength to search for food and began gathering meat and furniture to make a fire.
• He found a combat suit, backpack, and broken spearhead near the nest, and reasoned that the Sword-Beaked Dragon Eagle had killed a powerful human warrior.
• Zhang Junbao put on the recovered combat suit, stowed the spearhead, and hoped to carry on the unknown warrior’s will.
• He discovered an unhatched Sword-Beaked Dragon Eagle egg in the nest and placed it in his backpack to benefit humanity.

Zhang Junbao salvaged the Sword-Beaked Dragon Eagle’s beak and forged it into the Dragon Roar Sword, then studied Hong’s World Destruction manual. After spending the night practicing, he fused its first layer with his Taiji Sword Technique and left the Wilderness Zone with a powerful new attack.

• Zhang Junbao roasted the young Sword-Beaked Dragon Eagles’ wings and removed the dead Advanced Beast General’s sword beak.
• Zhang Junbao fashioned the beak into a sword, named it Dragon Roar, and discovered Hong’s World Destruction manual hidden in the combat suit.
• Zhang Junbao studied the manual through the night, reasoning that he could adapt its spear intent to his own sword technique.
• Zhang Junbao mastered the first layer by fusing World Destruction’s intent with his Taiji Sword Technique, then tested the resulting power on the eagle’s corpse.

After the Purple Qi Comes from the East Art broke through its first level, Zhang Junbao became a Spirit Reader and tested his newfound power with Spiritual Force. While cultivating, he entered a mysterious inner world and discovered how purple mist converted cosmic energy into Spiritual Force.

• Zhang Junbao realized his recent battles had helped him master the first level of World Destruction and break through the first level of the Purple Qi Comes from the East Art, making him a Spirit Reader.
• Zhang Junbao used his Spiritual Force to lift and coordinate objects, then controlled the Dragon Roar Sword to pierce the Sword-Beaked Dragon Eagle's bone.
• Zhang Junbao continued cultivating, absorbing cosmic energy faster and drawing it into his mind.
• Zhang Junbao entered a mysterious realm of mist and found purple mist at its center converting cosmic energy into Spiritual Force.
• Zhang Junbao reasoned that the purple mist came from the Purple Qi Comes from the East Art and that morning sunlight supplied the purple qi needed to refine it.

After learning that Zhang Junbao had been carried off by a monster and might be dead, Luo Feng became overwhelmed by grief and helplessness. His pulse surged, he struck Yang Wu with martial-artist-level force, and he collapsed unconscious as his watch showed 280.

• Luo Feng waited at the dojo for news of Zhang Junbao’s combat assessment while reflecting on his own progress.
• Jiang Nian told Luo Feng that Zhang Junbao had killed one monster but had been carried away by a severely wounded Sword-Beaked Dragon Eagle, and that rescue teams had little hope of finding him.
• Luo Feng grew furious and desperate, wishing he had the strength to rescue Zhang Junbao as his pulse climbed rapidly.
• Luo Feng struck Yang Wu with enough force to send him flying into a wall and make him spit blood.
• Luo Feng collapsed into Jiang Nian’s arms after feeling intense pain in his heart and head, and Jiang Nian called for a doctor.

After spending three days mastering his new strength and integrating Hong's World Destruction Spear Intent, Zhang Junbao decided to leave the building before its demonic beasts discovered the Sword-Beaked Dragon Eagle's weakness. He found an entrance to the underground parking garage, which offered a possible escape route beneath the avian beasts.

• Zhang Junbao combined Hong's World Destruction Spear Intent with his Tai Chi techniques and mastered the first level of World Destruction.
• Seeing demonic beasts move closer as the Sword-Beaked Dragon Eagle remained absent, Zhang Junbao gathered supplies and prepared to leave.
• Zhang Junbao descended quietly but found the first and second floors crowded with demonic beasts blocking the stairwell.
• Zhang Junbao considered using a Spiritual Force impact to incapacitate the beasts, then stopped probing when the two Beast Generals sensed his presence.
• Zhang Junbao searched for an underground route and found the entrance to a spacious parking garage connected to garages beneath nearby buildings.

Zhang Junbao escaped the nest by killing the demonic beasts guarding it, then fled underground as the surrounding avian beasts swarmed the building. He found a subway route and continued searching for a way back, wondering what had happened to his family and martial arts assessment.

• Zhang Junbao used Spiritual Shock to stun the beasts on the first and second floors, then killed more than a hundred Beast Soldiers and two Intermediate Beast Generals with iron nails and his weapons.
• Zhang Junbao fled into the underground garage as the scent of blood drew avian beasts to the building and dozens of Beast Generals discovered their leader was dead.
• Zhang Junbao hid in a fire exit, realized Spiritual Shock had consumed most of his Spiritual Force, and continued through the garage in search of an exit.
• Zhang Junbao followed signs to a subway station, killed a Junior Beast General Gnawing Rat, and wondered whether his family was safe and whether he had passed the martial arts assessment.

Zhang Junbao tried to escape City 003 through a subway tunnel toward Yangzhou City but was surrounded by a vast swarm of Long-Fanged Bats. He fought his way through with his sword formations, while the monsters’ coordinated attacks suggested a powerful leader awaited him beyond the swarm.

• Zhang Junbao studied a Shanghai subway map and chose a tunnel route toward Yangzhou City to avoid crossing the Wilderness Zone aboveground.
• After traveling through the tunnel, Zhang Junbao sensed monsters approaching from both directions and realized he was surrounded by thousands of Long-Fanged Bats.
• Zhang Junbao charged into the swarm and used the Two Forms Sword Formation to kill the bats blocking his path.
• Zhang Junbao added two Long-Fanged Bat fangs to his formation, transforming it into the Four Symbols Sword Formation and increasing his killing speed.
• Zhang Junbao searched for weak points in the swarm and pressed forward, conserving Spiritual Force because the bats appeared to be following orders from a stronger monster.

Zhang Junbao used Tai Chi Circular Soft Force to turn the demonic beasts’ attacks against one another and escape their underground encirclement. He emerged at a subway entrance in City 003 and hid in a nearby supermarket to recover.

• Zhang Junbao used the corpses of two Long-Fanged Bats as shields while he deflected the surrounding beasts’ attacks with Tai Chi Circular Soft Force.
• Zhang Junbao redirected the beasts’ strength, causing them to collide, injure one another, and eventually turn on each other.
• The demonic beasts descended into a chaotic battle, allowing Zhang Junbao to advance to the subway exit unnoticed.
• A horde of demonic beasts poured from the subway entrance, drawing more beasts to the scent of blood.
• Zhang Junbao escaped among the fighting beasts, hid in a small supermarket, and rested after the battle nearly exhausted him.