Chapter Summaries

Andrew discovered that he had been reborn in the Coiling Dragon World and decided to cultivate both magic and martial arts. He began training with his father, Howard, and showed remarkable talent with the Qi-Nurturing Stance.

• At five years old, Andrew played with his sister Ling'er while his mother, Janice, and father, Howard Lance, watched over them.
• After learning about the Yulan Continent, Andrew realized he had transmigrated into the Coiling Dragon World and planned to test his magical aptitude and train his body.
• Andrew decided to pursue both magic and martial arts, though he knew his commoner family lacked access to battle qi manuals.
• The next morning, Andrew joined Howard for training, and Howard taught him the Qi-Nurturing Stance by a stream.
• Andrew quickly entered a deep meditative state, astonishing Howard with mastery that had taken him more than twenty years to achieve.
• After training, Andrew felt unusually strong, and Howard explained that his unsettled state of mind had caused a temporary illusion.

Andrew began learning fire magic from Janice while continuing his warrior training, and over the next three years he grew strong enough to reach the fourth rank as a warrior and cast third-rank spells. He reassured Howard and Janice that staying in Maple Forest Town suited his cultivation, though the family’s limited means kept them from providing him with more advanced training.

• Andrew asked Janice to teach him magic, and she discovered that he could sense both fire and lightning elements but taught him fire magic because she could not teach lightning magic.
• Janice gave Andrew her teacher’s spellbook and taught him magical theory and the Meditation Technique, which he learned in half a day.
• Over the next three years, Andrew trained in magic and martial arts while growing close to Ling'er, and he carved a stone sculpture of her near a stream.
• At dinner, Andrew told Howard and Janice that he had reached the strength of a fourth-rank warrior and could cast third-rank spells.
• Andrew reassured Howard and Janice that he preferred cultivating in Maple Forest Town, where he could focus without outside distractions.

Andrew traveled with Howard’s trading group to the Keli Tribe on the Far East Prairie, where he learned to fight magical beasts and entered a weapons contest with the tribe’s young chieftain. Andrew gained the upper hand against Baru, while the Grand Elder and Captain Clayde’s wager on the match remained undecided.

• Andrew joined Howard’s group of more than eighty traders heading to the Keli Tribe, despite Janice’s worry that he was only eight.
• Andrew suspected Matthews had returned with malicious intentions after learning about Matthews’s history with Janice and his six armed companions.
• On the prairie, Andrew fought magical beasts beside Howard, killed a Fire-Spitting Venomous Scorpion and an Earth-Devouring Serpent, and examined the serpent’s magic core.
• At the Keli Tribe, Andrew accepted a weapons contest with Baru Keli, the young chieftain, while the Grand Elder and Captain Clayde wagered on the outcome.
• Baru attacked Andrew with an iron staff, but Andrew redirected the blow with tai chi principles, disarmed Baru, and kicked the staff away.

Andrew defeated the transformed Baru with Taiji Fist, impressing Clayde and the Grand Elder. Clayde offered to take Andrew as his disciple in exchange for lifelong service to the Frey Clan, but Howard objected.

• Baru underwent a berserk transformation, and Andrew discarded his saber to face him barehanded.
• Andrew redirected Baru's powerful punch with Taiji Fist and threw him across the arena, winning the match.
• Clayde summoned Andrew and explained that a commoner needed a battle-qi secret manual to advance, offering to make him his disciple.
• Clayde told Andrew that joining the Frey Clan meant defending it and serving for life, and Howard suddenly objected.

Andrew refused Clayde’s offer to join the Frey Clan, then accepted the Keli Tribe grand elder’s Rushing Thunder Secret Manual in exchange for promising to repay the tribe after becoming strong. He began cultivating battle qi and returned to Maple Forest Town, where Matthews’ threatening attention toward Janice left him worried.

• Andrew told Clayde that he valued freedom as much as strength and would not join the Frey Clan, even with his father’s approval.
• The Keli Tribe grand elder offered Andrew the lightning-attributed Rushing Thunder Secret Manual in exchange for his promise to repay the tribe after achieving success in cultivation.
• Andrew accepted the manual, returned to camp with Howard, and quickly condensed his first wisp of battle qi while studying it.
• During the return journey, Andrew gained combat experience fighting magical beasts and reached rank-two battle qi within three days.
• Andrew and Howard returned safely to Maple Forest Town, where Janice welcomed them with Ling’er and Andrew noticed Matthews watching Janice with a menacing expression.

Andrew prepared his family for Matthews’s threat and grew stronger over three months, but when Matthews visited, he launched a surprise attack on the four warriors at their cabin. He killed Black Tiger, but the others surrounded him as the cabin caught fire.

• Andrew told Janice that Matthews’s group threatened their family, and she agreed to keep Howard home and give him a secret battle-qi manual.
• Over three months, Howard began cultivating battle-qi while Andrew reached the fifth warrior level, mastered fifth-level battle-qi, and learned fourth-level magic.
• Matthews visited Howard with two companions and asked him for a favor, which Howard readily accepted.
• Andrew left to attack the four warriors at their cabin while Janice stayed behind to keep Matthews and his companion occupied.
• Andrew wounded Black Tiger and Eagle with a saber and a Fire Arrow, then killed Black Tiger after a moment of shock.
• Leopard and Wild Wolf attacked Andrew as he set the cabin ablaze with Sea of Flames.

Andrew killed Eagle, Leopard, and Wild Wolf, then attacked Matthews when he realized Matthews threatened his family. After Howard let Matthews leave, Andrew persuaded his family to flee Maple Forest Town for the Keli Tribe.

• Andrew outmaneuvered Eagle, Leopard, and Wild Wolf, killed them, and burned down their wooden house.
• Andrew returned home and attacked Matthews, but Taige blocked his strike; Howard joined the fight, and Andrew wounded Matthews and Bell while Janice helped Howard.
• Andrew revealed that he knew Matthews planned revenge on the family, and Matthews admitted his grudge over Janice and left after Howard spared him.
• Andrew urged his family to seek safety with the Keli Tribe in the Far East Prairie, and Howard and Janice agreed to leave Maple Forest Town.
• Andrew, Howard, Janice, and Ling'er quietly left Maple Forest Town that night.

Andrew’s family settled into life with the Keli Tribe, where Janice helped transform the tribe’s crude homes into beautiful courtyards and Andrew continued sparring with Baru. The chapter left Andrew preparing to join the grand elder’s hunting party in Mogan Forest, despite Janice’s concern.

• Andrew’s family reached the Keli Tribe, and the grand elder welcomed them and arranged a stone house for them.
• Ling’er rejected the shabby house, so the family renovated it into a courtyard home that inspired the rest of the tribe to improve their homes.
• Andrew’s family integrated into the Keli Tribe, while Janice’s magical implements and Baru’s repeated sparring matches made them popular.
• Andrew defeated Baru again using lightning element battle-qi and encouraged him to grow stronger.
• Andrew told Janice he would join the grand elder’s hunting party in Mogan Forest, and she reluctantly accepted his decision.

Andrew planned to gain the Azure Dragon Bloodline and become a powerful expert, then set aside his distant concerns and continued cultivating. After joining the Keli Tribe’s hunting party in Mogan Forest, he decided to leave the group to seek greater danger and test himself.

• Andrew considered how the Coiling Dragon Ring and Beirut’s Azure Dragon Essence Blood could grant him the Azure Dragon Bloodline and its Dragon Roar ability.
• Andrew realized he needed the bloodline before becoming a deity, but he did not know how he could obtain or devour the essence blood in time.
• Andrew dismissed his worries about the distant future and resumed carving stone with his saber to train his strength control and spiritual energy.
• Two days later, Andrew joined the Keli Tribe’s hunting party in Mogan Forest, while Howard stayed behind.
• Baru reassured Andrew that the party was hunting only on the forest’s outskirts, so Andrew solemnly told Baru that he would not continue with them.

Andrew and Baru left the Keli Tribe group to train independently in Mogan Forest, while the grand elder secretly followed to protect them from genuine danger. After discovering the aftermath of a battle between Wind Wolves and an Iron-Armored Boar, Andrew tracked the beast and provoked it from its cave, where it charged out to face them.

• Andrew insisted on training alone, and Baru decided to accompany him despite Andrew's objections.
• The grand elder agreed to let them train independently and secretly followed them through the forest.
• Andrew killed a Black-Blood Centipede, and Baru explained how dangerous the creature remained even after being cut apart.
• Andrew and Baru found dozens of dead Wind Wolves and identified an Iron-Armored Boar as the beast that had fought them.
• Andrew noticed the boar had left a trail of blood and pursued it, with Baru following after him.
• Andrew kicked rocks into a cave, and an Iron-Armored Boar charged out as Baru cried out in alarm.

Andrew and Baru fought an Iron-Armored Boar, but Andrew’s mysterious strike saved Baru and helped kill the beast. Examining his broken saber, Andrew concluded that he had a soul mutation capable of fusing fire and lightning, while the First Elder worried about Baru’s reaction to his failure.

• Andrew and Baru spotted the Iron-Armored Boar’s hidden neck wound, and Andrew attacked it with fire spells before trying to strike the wound with his saber.
• Baru froze, then missed the boar’s head with his iron staff and was nearly gored as it charged him.
• Andrew rushed to save Baru and severed the boar’s hind leg with a powerful saber strike, breaking his weapon; the First Elder then killed the fallen beast with a punch.
• The First Elder praised Andrew, warned Baru to learn from his battle mistake, and collected the saber fragments.
• Andrew found fire and lightning traces in a blade fragment and concluded that his soul mutation let him fuse the two elements; the First Elder watched as Andrew became emotional and Baru sat in silence.

After returning to the Keli Tribe, Andrew struggled to understand his apparent soul mutation and what it meant for his cultivation. He set aside his doubts, began secluded training, and resolved to pursue the laws by mastering weapon techniques and developing fire-element battle-qi alongside lightning.

• Andrew returned to the Keli Tribe excited by his suspected soul mutation, while Ling'er worried that he kept grinning and zoning out.
• Andrew learned that Baru had gone alone to train in Mogan Forest and began his own secluded cultivation to fuse lightning and fire.
• Andrew reviewed what he knew about soul mutation but could not determine whether he had truly experienced one or whether his theories were correct.
• After shouting away his doubts, Andrew focused on becoming stronger and spent months practicing the Qi-Nurturing Stance and carving stone sculptures.
• Andrew decided to pursue the laws rather than continue studying fire magic, and planned to develop his understanding of Momentum through saber practice.
• Andrew resolved to cultivate fire-element battle-qi until it matched his lightning battle-qi.

After three years of secluded cultivation, Andrew had balanced and fused his lightning and fire battle-qi, reaching the peak of the sixth rank and deciding to seek combat experience in the Mogan Forest. He returned home and made peace with Ling'er, but still needed to persuade his family before leaving.

• Andrew reflected on the dangers facing the Yulan Continent and his resolve to become strong enough to protect himself.
• Andrew brought his lightning and fire element battle-qi to the peak of the sixth rank and successfully fused them, greatly increasing his strength.
• Andrew realized that reaching the seventh rank required combat experience, so he decided to travel to the Mogan Forest.
• Andrew returned to his family's courtyard and tried to make amends with Ling'er by giving her a stone carving.
• Ling'er told Andrew she missed spending time with him, and he promised to play with her from then on.

Andrew left home to temper himself in Mogan Forest and tested his physical strength and Fusion Battle-qi against a sixth-level magical beast. After defeating it with ease, he set out to challenge a seventh-level beast.

• Andrew received his family's support and left for a planned half-year of training in Mogan Forest.
• Andrew traveled into the forest's mountainous interior and paused by a stream to roast fish.
• Andrew sensed a Twin-Tailed Golden Thread Snake approaching and chose to test his physical strength against it.
• Andrew punched the snake, then used Fusion Battle-qi to cut through its fire chains and discovered how powerful the technique was.
• Andrew killed the Twin-Tailed Golden Thread Snake, took its magic core, and headed off to challenge a seventh-level magical beast.

Andrew reached complete mastery of his saber basics through sudden enlightenment, breaking through the bottleneck to becoming a high-level warrior. He challenged a Dark Demonic Ape to test himself and, after severing its arm, faced its berserk transformation and immense strength.

• After carving a lifelike statue, Andrew gained sudden enlightenment and reached complete mastery of the basics, clearing his bottleneck to becoming a high-level warrior.
• Andrew left the canyon, made a racket to attract a powerful beast, and drew a seventh-level Dark Demonic Ape into battle.
• Andrew attacked first and sliced off the Dark Demonic Ape's right arm with his saber.
• The Dark Demonic Ape ate its severed arm, went berserk, and grew larger and stronger.
• Andrew met the ape's bone-club strike head-on and was sent flying, then the ape leapt above him and attacked again.

Andrew defeated the Dark Demonic Ape after surviving its surprise Soul Scorch attack, then reflected on his training and made plans to leave the grasslands after reaching the high-ranking warrior level. He resolved to move his family to a major city and find a way to help them cultivate toward the Saint-level.

• Andrew provoked the Dark Demonic Ape into a frenzied attack and tested his strength by blocking its blows without his saber or battle-qi.
• Andrew drew his saber, cut the ape in half, and narrowly dodged its Soul Scorch before killing it and taking its magic core.
• Andrew decided to leave the grasslands after breaking through and seek challenges and systematic instruction in the Yulan Empire.
• Andrew resolved to move his family to a major city and help Howard, Janice, and Ling'er grow stronger, considering whether Beirut could help Janice.
• Andrew planned to find an academy for Ling'er and set goals of reaching the Saint-level within ten years and becoming a deity before fifty.

Andrew climbed Mount Mogan to subdue the Windwing Tiger King and tested his newly comprehended Lightningfire Storm against the level eight beast. The Tiger King agreed to submit if Andrew could defeat it, and their battle continued after his ultimate move destroyed its wind blades.

• Andrew used Explosive Steps to travel through Mogan Forest and climb Mount Mogan, reflecting on how the technique accelerated his battle-qi cultivation.
• Andrew found the Windwing Tiger King on the summit and offered to help it evolve if it followed him.
• The Windwing Tiger King agreed to submit only after Andrew defeated it, then charged him in a contest of strength.
• Andrew redirected the Tiger King's force, dodged its tail, and drew his saber as powerful wind blades filled the summit.
• Andrew unleashed Lightningfire Storm, which absorbed and ground away the Tiger King's wind blades.
• The Windwing Tiger King spread its wings and prepared to continue the fight.

Andrew defeated the Windwing Tiger King, named him Golden Tiger, and flew toward the Keli Tribe, where he found Baru training in Mogan Forest. After Baru killed an Iron-Armored Boar, a masked man attacked him, and Baru recognized the man’s use of strength as the insight he needed before charging at him.

• Andrew shattered the Windwing Tiger King’s Wind Tiger Roar with Lightning-Fire Eruption, and the beast submitted.
• Andrew named the Windwing Tiger King Golden Tiger and rode him toward the Keli Tribe.
• Andrew found Baru fighting an Iron-Armored Boar and watched him kill it after a prolonged battle, though Baru did not break through.
• A masked man attacked Baru and stopped his iron staff with one hand before sending him flying with a vibrating tap.
• Baru understood that vibration was the key to applying strength and charged at the masked man, who countered with a downward kick.

Andrew helped Baru break through to become a high-level warrior, then reunited with him and returned home with Golden Tiger. He discussed moving his family to a larger city so Ling'er could study, and they planned to leave in a couple of days.

• Andrew fought Baru in disguise until Baru grasped how to use strength and became a high-level warrior, then revealed himself and explained that he had been helping him break through.
• Baru thanked Andrew, and the two brothers set out for the Keli Tribe, racing back to their families.
• Andrew flew ahead on Golden Tiger, an eighth-level Windwing Tiger King he had subdued, and waited outside the Keli Tribe for Baru.
• Andrew encouraged Baru not to be discouraged by their difference in strength, and Baru resolved to keep working toward surpassing him.
• Andrew returned home, delighted his family, and promised Ling'er he would not leave again soon.
• Andrew discussed moving with Howard and Janice, and they agreed to leave in a couple of days for a large city with academies where Ling'er could begin cultivating.

Andrew and the Lance family left the Keli Tribe for the Yulan Empire’s imperial capital, stopping at Maple Forest Town on the way. There, Andrew killed Matthews after Matthews threatened his family, and the chapter ended with the family’s revenge settled.

• Andrew decided to take Ling'er to the best magic academy in the Yulan Empire’s imperial capital, and the family chose to leave the Keli Tribe.
• Andrew thanked the First Elder for helping his family and promised to aid the Keli Tribe if it ever needed him.
• Two days later, the Lance family quietly left the tribe as the First Elder and Baru watched them go.
• The family traveled to Maple Forest Town, where Janice grieved over the ruined home and Andrew prepared to settle the score with Matthews.
• Matthews arrived with his subordinates and threatened Howard, Janice, Andrew, and Ling'er, so Andrew kicked his three Sixth-level Warrior men to death.
• Andrew cut out Matthews’s tongue, tortured him for two hours, and killed him for threatening his family.