Chapter Summaries

Yu Jingming said goodbye to Shen Heng after finishing his teaching, while his sister Yu Chunhe thanked Shen Heng with homemade tea cakes. In the capital, Li Daoyi reviewed a list of training camp candidates and questioned whether it included everyone who had applied.

• Shen Heng walked Yu Jingming to the Supervision Bureau lobby, where they found Yu Chunhe waiting for her brother.
• Yu Chunhe gave Shen Heng tea cakes to thank him for looking after Yu Jingming and hinted that another saber practitioner had once badly beaten her brother.
• Yu Jingming and Yu Chunhe left together, discussing his possible awakening and where the Supervision Bureau might assign him.
• In the capital, Lü Mingzhe brought Li Daoyi a tablet listing thirty candidates for a training camp.
• After reviewing the list, Li Daoyi asked whether those thirty were everyone who had applied, and Lü Mingzhe explained that they had been selected from more than two hundred applicants.

Li Daoyi discovered that Shen Heng had reached Tier 2 and evolved his ability in under a year, then added him to the training camp’s first session. Meanwhile, a one-horned rat-type Calamity Beast came ashore near Linhai City and entered a pipe where other creatures chittered in response.

• Li Daoyi searched the applicants’ list for Shen Heng and learned that people who had not applied could still be considered for the training camp.
• Lü Mingzhe pulled up Shen Heng’s records, which showed his Tier 2 rank, evolved Sound Wave Manipulation ability, and nearly three thousand points.
• Li Daoyi and Lü Mingzhe realized Shen Heng had reached Tier 2 in half a year and that his ability was passive.
• Li Daoyi told Lü Mingzhe to add Shen Heng to the training camp’s first session.
• A one-horned rat-type Calamity Beast carried a large fish ashore near Linhai City and crawled into a hidden pipe as other creatures chittered inside.

Nearly a year after arriving in this world, Shen Heng noticed that Calamity Beast incidents in Linhai City were becoming more frequent, while Xu Yuqin’s health seemed to be worsening. On New Year’s Eve, he left his family to visit the Supervision Bureau, where the chapter ended as he stopped at the entrance.

• While putting up Spring Festival couplets, Shen Heng reflected on the year and the rise in Linhai City’s Calamity Beast incidents.
• At New Year’s Eve dinner, Xu Yuqin suffered a coughing fit, and Shen Heng suspected her medicine was no longer helping much.
• Shen Heng saw in the group chat that the captain was on duty at the Supervision Bureau and considered visiting.
• Shen Shuning expressed concern when Shen Heng said he was heading to the office late on New Year’s Eve.
• Shen Heng drove to the Supervision Bureau and stopped just before entering its main entrance.

Shen Heng visited Wang Hai at the Linhai City Supervision Bureau and spent time with Wang Hai’s daughter, Little Bell, while Han Ling brought them food. After Han Ling took Little Bell home, Wang Hai told Shen Heng that Headquarters had ordered him to attend the first training camp.

• Shen Heng found Wang Hai with his daughter, Little Bell, and suggested taking over the shift so Wang Hai could bring her home.
• Wang Hai declined to leave his post but asked Shen Heng to take Little Bell home later.
• Han Ling arrived with braised goose, shared it with Shen Heng, Wang Hai, and Little Bell, then agreed to take Little Bell home.
• Han Ling left with Little Bell, and Wang Hai told Shen Heng that Headquarters required him to attend the first training camp.

Shen Heng learned that Daoist Master Li had arranged for him to attend the three-month training camp in the Capital, and Wang Hai promised to help him obtain a needed Lung Crystal. As Shen Heng traveled to the remote military base hosting the camp, his colleagues in Linhai discussed his unexpected connection to Li Daoyi.

• Wang Hai told Shen Heng that the Capital had added him to the training camp, and Shen Heng realized Daoist Master Li had arranged it.
• Wang Hai encouraged Shen Heng to attend and promised to exchange for a Firmament Breath Beast's Lung Crystal if one appeared on Martial World Easy Exchange.
• At the Supervision Bureau cafeteria, Wang Hai explained to Han Ling and the others that Li Daoyi had specifically requested Shen Heng for the camp.
• Le Gu Nan privately resolved to try staying alone in the training room while Shen Heng was away.
• Shen Heng rode in an army-green jeep through the mountain forest toward the military base where the training camp would be held.

Shen Heng arrived at 07 Military Base, learned its rules, and explored the grounds before meeting Yang Xu and reuniting with Cao Mingyu and Fang Ran at the cafeteria. He settled in ahead of the training camp, which was due to begin the following day.

• Shen Heng checked in at 07 Military Base, received room 503 and a map, and memorized the base’s rules.
• Shen Heng explored the base the next day, then went to the cafeteria at dusk.
• Yang Xu confronted Shen Heng, but walked away when Cao Mingyu and Fang Ran approached.
• Cao Mingyu told Shen Heng that he had challenged Yang Xu to a rematch and beaten him.
• Shen Heng ate with Cao Mingyu and Fang Ran, learning Cao Mingyu had arrived three days before the training camp.

Shen Heng told Cao Mingyu and Fang Ran that his Sound Wave Manipulation ability was D-rank and that headquarters had specifically selected him for the training camp. Meanwhile, Zhang Chenguang revealed that the final participant, Zhou Xuan, had also been specifically added by headquarters, leaving Cao Zhenghao curious about how he compared with Wu Hongxuan and Xiao Xiangtong.

• Cao Mingyu and Fang Ran said their abilities were A-rank, and Shen Heng disclosed that his Sound Wave Manipulation was D-rank.
• Cao Mingyu questioned how Shen Heng had entered the camp, and Shen Heng said headquarters had specifically called him.
• Shen Heng asked about the training, then sensed a sound from above while he and the others continued talking.
• Zhang Chenguang told Cao Zhenghao and Chang Lei that Zhou Xuan had just arrived and had been specifically added by headquarters.
• Chang Lei said Zhou Xuan had outstanding aptitude, and Cao Zhenghao asked how he compared with Wu Hongxuan and Xiao Xiangtong.

Shen Heng learned that the training camp planned a surprise midnight assembly and warned Cao Mingyu and Fang Ran to review the base rules without giving them the answer outright. After Cao Mingyu began memorizing the rules, Shen Heng reached his dorm and found his roommate making an unusual offering to the Lord of the Land.

• Chang Lei explained that he would start the training by correcting the recruits’ attitudes and making clear they were at the camp for intensive training, not leisure.
• Shen Heng reminded Cao Mingyu and Fang Ran to review 07 Military Base’s rules, then reflected on the planned midnight assembly and decided not to tell them exactly what to expect.
• Cao Mingyu recalled Shen Heng’s warning, studied the map, and began memorizing the base rules.
• Shen Heng entered room 503 and saw his roommate offer Kunlun Ice Spring and walnut cookies to the Lord of the Land.
• After his roommate placed the incense, Shen Heng asked whether making offerings like that was all right.

Shen Heng met Zhou Xuan, his new roommate, and learned that Zhou Xuan's A-rank God Invocation ability drew power from humanity's collective beliefs. The conversation ended with Shen Heng asking whether Zhou Xuan believed in the light.

• Shen Heng found Zhou Xuan making offerings to the Earth God and the City God, then introduced himself as Zhou Xuan's roommate for three months.
• Zhou Xuan explained that his God Invocation ability connected him to images formed by humanity's collective beliefs and let him borrow their powers.
• Zhou Xuan told Shen Heng that failed invocations could erase divine slots, and that he had lost his Tier 0 slot trying to invoke powerful gods.
• Zhou Xuan explained that the Earth God granted earth-related abilities and the City God could release oppressive might and summon ghost soldiers.
• Shen Heng asked whether Zhou Xuan could invoke gods from other cultures, and Zhou Xuan said he had not tried but thought it was possible.
• Shen Heng asked Zhou Xuan whether he believed in the light.

Shen Heng and Zhou Xuan discussed Zhou Xuan’s plan to invoke Ultraman, then rushed to the training grounds after a surprise assembly siren. Chang Lei confronted the camp participants after only nine of thirty arrived within the five-minute deadline.

• Zhou Xuan eagerly agreed with Shen Heng’s suggestion that he might invoke Ultraman once he reached the third tier.
• Shen Heng reminded Zhou Xuan that the map required participants to reach the training grounds within five minutes of an emergency assembly signal, and they ran there together.
• Shen Heng and Zhou Xuan arrived two minutes after the siren, and Chang Lei waited as other participants trickled in.
• Only nine of the thirty participants arrived within five minutes, so Chang Lei ordered an announcement calling the rest to assemble.
• After the remaining participants arrived late, Chang Lei criticized them for treating the training camp like an outing or vacation.

Chang Lei reprimanded the late trainees and assigned them laps around the training ground, while Shen Heng watched and wondered what the punishment was meant to accomplish. As the runners moved off, Chang Lei released an invisible wave from his body.

• Chang Lei singled out the ordinary people who had awakened, praising Shen Heng for recognizing the bell and arriving first.
• Chang Lei scolded the sixteen other late trainees, and Liu Jingchuan explained that they had needed to confirm who the bell was summoning and where to assemble.
• Chang Lei ordered everyone who had arrived late to run ten laps within an hour or miss lunch.
• Chang Lei reduced Lü Wenrui and the other ordinary newcomers’ punishment to five laps, and they joined the runners.
• After the runners had gone partway around the training ground, Chang Lei stepped forward and emitted an invisible wave.

Shen Heng figured out that Chang Lei was using his A-rank Heavy Pressure ability to make the punished students run under increased gravity. He and Cao Mingyu joined the punishment as extra training and ran up behind Lü Wenrui.

• Shen Heng observed the runners buckle under an invisible force and deduced that gravity was pressing down on them.
• Chang Lei confirmed that his ability was A-rank Heavy Pressure and told Shen Heng the punished students would still have to complete their scheduled training afterward.
• Shen Heng asked to join the punishment, reasoning that Chang Lei would ensure it did not exhaust the runners too much, and Chang Lei agreed.
• Cao Mingyu also asked to join, and he and Shen Heng ran into the Heavy Pressure, struggling against its force on their bodies and internal organs.
• Lü Wenrui saw Shen Heng and Cao Mingyu catch up behind him and wondered why they had joined the punishment.

After several trainees joined the latecomers’ punishment run, Chang Lei turned it into the camp’s first intensive training session by increasing the gravity. Shen Heng struggled under the new force as the trainees began testing how long they could endure.

• Xiao Xiangtong, Fang Ran, Zhou Xuan, and several others chose to join the punishment run, while Yang Xu initially refused.
• Chang Lei told Yang Xu that the run was an opportunity to grow, and Yang Xu angrily joined the runners.
• Cao Mingyu told Shen Heng about his squad once being punished for singing GG Bond during military-song practice.
• Chang Lei announced that the run would count as the first training session, with the latecomers required to endure for an hour and the others encouraged to last as long as possible.
• Chang Lei increased the gravity across the training ground, and Shen Heng staggered before realizing he would need Origin Power or an ability to keep going.

Shen Heng and the other trainees struggled through Chang Lei’s gravity-resistance exercise, using their abilities or Origin Power to keep moving. After most gave up, Shen Heng remained among the final four still running.

• Cao Mingyu used his Physical Fitness Enhancement ability to move relatively easily under the increased gravity.
• Wu Hongxuan used Shadow Manipulation to enhance his body, while Zhou Xuan tried to ride an earth mound until Chang Lei ordered him down.
• Shen Heng circulated Origin Power with Flow to strengthen his body and began running laps, estimating he could maintain the effort for about two hours.
• Chang Lei scolded trainees who slowed down, and their Origin Power gradually ran out as the exercise continued.
• Lü Wenrui gave up after one hour and ten minutes, and several others soon returned to Chang Lei.
• Cao Mingyu, Wu Hongxuan, Xiao Xiangtong, and Shen Heng were the only four still running.

Chang Lei discovered that Shen Heng had endured the gravity training despite his D-rank Sound Wave Perception, and suspected his Origin Power was the reason. Xiao Xiangtong stopped after thirteen minutes, while Shen Heng, Cao Mingyu, and Wu Hongxuan kept running; the chapter ended with Yang Xu identifying Shen Heng as the holder of Sound Wave Perception and dismissing his ability as trash.

• Chang Lei checked the trainees’ files and learned that Shen Heng had a D-rank Sound Wave Perception ability that could not explain his resistance to gravity.
• Shen Heng kept running despite the growing strain, while he judged Cao Mingyu and Wu Hongxuan to be in better shape and Xiao Xiangtong to be struggling.
• Xiao Xiangtong stopped running after thirteen minutes, and the trainees at the sidelines debated how long the remaining runners could last.
• Fang Ran told the group that Sound Wave Perception could not help someone resist gravity, prompting Yang Xu to identify its user and sneer at the ability.

Shen Heng endured Chang Lei’s gravity training despite having a support ability, then followed the group to the research building, where Chang Lei revealed the base’s new Origin Power rooms. The trainees learned that access to the six more powerful rooms would depend on their performance.

• Fang Ran and Lü Wenrui learned that Shen Heng’s ability was D-rank Sound Wave Perception and wondered how he had lasted so long under gravity.
• Shen Heng’s Origin Power ran dry, and he stopped running; Chang Lei then increased the gravity on Wu Hongxuan and Cao Mingyu, who eventually stopped as well.
• Cao Mingyu praised Shen Heng’s endurance, and Shen Heng said he had a technique listed on Martial World Easy Exchange.
• Chang Lei led the trainees to the research building and explained that it contained thirty Origin Power rooms, each usable for one hour a day after gravity training.
• Chang Lei revealed that six top-floor rooms built with tier 3 Origin Crystals could be used for six hours a day, and said access would depend on the trainees’ performance.

Chang Lei explained that trainees had to place in the top two under an instructor to earn access to an advanced Origin Power room, and Shen Heng tried one of the rooms before reuniting with his friends at the cafeteria. The group discussed how they might compete for slots and what the other instructors’ training programs could involve.

• Chang Lei told the trainees that each instructor controlled two advanced Origin Power room slots, awarded to the top two performers in their program, and clarified that slots could not be stacked.
• Shen Heng asked whether placing in the top two under all three instructors would grant round-the-clock access, then followed the instructions to swipe his ID and enter an Origin Power room.
• Shen Heng sensed the room’s dense Origin Power and began circulating the Heavenly Cycle Breathing Technique to recover from training.
• At the cafeteria, Cao Mingyu, Zhou Xuan, Fang Ran, and Shen Heng discussed competing for room access and speculated that the instructors would teach different programs tied to their abilities.
• Fang Ran suggested a combat program, and Shen Heng said the trainees might fight instructors or one another, possibly in alternating bouts.

Shen Heng attended Yan Yu’s lesson on how combat environments affected different abilities and learned how his own ability fared. That night, Cao Zhenghao learned Shen Heng had placed third under Chang Lei’s training and decided to observe him the next day.

• Shen Heng doubted he could place in the top two in combat training because his ability would be hard to use once others understood it.
• Yan Yu taught the students how environments could strengthen or weaken abilities, and Xiao Xiangtong asked about wind-type abilities.
• Shen Heng learned his ability was ineffective in a vacuum, weakened underwater and in sandstorms, and strengthened on plateaus and in enclosed spaces.
• Cao Zhenghao asked Chang Lei about his training, and Chang Lei said Shen Heng had reached third place despite having a D-rank support ability.
• Cao Zhenghao decided to check Shen Heng during the next day’s training, while Zhang Chenguang told Chang Lei that his training design was ready.

Cao Zhenghao began the recruits’ combat training by taking on all thirty trainees at once, and Shen Heng was the first he attacked. Afterward, Cao Zhenghao assessed the trainees for Chang Lei, noting that Shen Heng’s ability could catch even an A-rank opponent off guard.

• Cao Zhenghao introduced himself as a fourth-tier A-rank Godspeed ability user and told the trainees to attack him together.
• When no one moved, Cao Zhenghao chose Shen Heng and used his speed to appear in front of him.
• That evening, Zhou Xuan, Fang Ran, Cao Mingyu, and Shen Heng compared their bruises and wondered why Cao Zhenghao had targeted Shen Heng first.
• Cao Zhenghao told Chang Lei that Xiao Xiangtong and Wu Hongxuan had performed best, with Liu Jingchuan placing third.
• Cao Zhenghao judged Shen Heng’s head-on combat power to be among the weakest but warned that an opponent who underestimated his ability could be caught off guard.

Zhang Chenguang sent Shen Heng and the other trainees into a mental simulation to practice fighting Calamity Beasts. Shen Heng woke in a ruined city beneath a blood moon and discovered six beasts blocked the only staircase, leaving him searching for a way out.

• Zhang Chenguang introduced himself as the instructor for practical combat against Calamity Beasts and told the trainees to kill the beasts once they arrived.
• A strange force made the trainees collapse, and Zhang Chenguang noted that Shen Heng had held out for two seconds before falling.
• Shen Heng woke in a dilapidated room and realized he was inside a mental simulation because he could not make out his palm lines but could still feel pain.
• Shen Heng looked out over a ruined city beneath a blood moon and saw a screen displaying the trainees' kill counts.
• Shen Heng listened through the door and detected six Calamity Beasts near the only staircase, then decided that rushing them or jumping from the building was too dangerous.