Chapter Summaries

Yu Yang watched footage of Qin Chen defeating Zhao Liang and gave up on challenging him for the General Star Selection spot. On his way home, Qin Chen learned that a Three-Star martial artist from Yang City had been challenging Rongcheng’s schools and injuring their students, including someone from Shanhai Martial Arts School.

• Yu Yang told Yang Xue he wanted another match with Qin Chen, and Yang Xue showed him footage of Qin Chen defeating Zhao Liang.
• Yu Yang accepted that he had lost to Qin Chen and left the command room with renewed resolve.
• A soldier rushed into the command room, and Yang Xue shouted Qin Chen’s name.
• Qin Chen took a taxi to Qinghe Garden and heard from the driver that a martial arts school owner from Yang City had been challenging local schools.
• Qin Chen learned that someone from Shanhai Martial Arts School had been injured and reacted with alarm.

Qin Chen arrived at the Shanhai Martial Arts School as Tian Hu pressured Wang Hai to summon him and hand over the school. Qin Chen defeated Tian Hu and announced he would visit the Dragon Tiger Martial Arts School in Yang City, where he expected to meet an even stronger expert.

• Tian Hu demanded that Wang Hai summon Qin Chen and transfer the Shanhai Martial Arts School to Dragon Tiger, threatening to keep challenging schools across the street.
• Wang Hai decided to call Qin Chen to tell him the school would stop using his name, but Wang Shanhai warned him not to involve Qin Chen.
• Qin Chen emerged from the crowd and confronted Tian Hu, who explained that he wanted to defeat Qin Chen to make his name known.
• Qin Chen seized Tian Hu's punch, broke his wrist, and forced him to his knees.
• Qin Chen said he would visit the Dragon Tiger Martial Arts School in Yang City, then kicked Tian Hu out of the hall and sent his disciples fleeing.

After Qin Chen drove the Dragon Tiger Martial Arts School away from Shanhai Martial Arts School, he returned home and later boarded a train to Yang City. On the train, Dragon Tiger disciples confronted passengers who had discussed their school, while Qin Chen sat nearby.

• Qin Chen defeated Tian Hu and stopped the Dragon Tiger Martial Arts School from forcing Shanhai Martial Arts School to close.
• Qin Chen declined Wang Hai’s invitation to eat, urged him to repair the school, and went home to see Qin Dahe and Li Xiufen.
• Qin Chen gave his family another two million for supplements and medicine, then stayed home for three days before taking a train from Rongcheng to Yang City.
• On the train, Zhou Hui and a freckled woman discussed Tian Hu’s defeat while a young man doubted Qin Chen had beaten him.
• Tian Hu heard the conversation and sent Dragon Tiger disciples to demand that the four passengers apologize to him.

On the train to Yang City, Qin Chen’s presence frightened the Dragon Tiger Martial Arts School disciples, and Zhou Hui learned who he was. At the station, Tian Long confronted Qin Chen over Tian Hu’s injury and moved to attack just as an SUV skidded toward them.

• Zhou Hui refused to apologize to the Dragon Tiger Martial Arts School disciples, and they fled after recognizing Qin Chen.
• Zhou Hui introduced herself to Qin Chen and learned his name, while the young man questioned him about injuring Tian Hu.
• After the train reached Yang City, Tian Hu’s disciples followed Qin Chen and arranged for Tian Long to meet them at the station exit.
• Tian Hu identified Qin Chen to Tian Long, who ordered his men to seize Qin Chen’s companions and advanced to fight him.
• An SUV skidded toward Qin Chen and Tian Long as they were about to clash.

Qin Chen escaped the Dragon Tiger Martial Arts School with Yang Xue, then learned that a level-four exotic beast uprising had moved up the General Star Selection. At the Yang City Sports Center, he discovered the assessment would be a free-for-all and suspected the other candidates planned to target him.

• Yang Xue arrived in a military SUV and took Qin Chen, Zhou Hui, and the freckled girl away, leaving the young man to be seized by Tian Long's men.
• After Zhou Hui asked for Qin Chen's contact information, he declined and left with Yang Xue.
• Yang Xue told Qin Chen that a possible level-four exotic beast uprising had moved up the selection and that the General Star contest would follow it.
• Qin Chen arrived last at the Yang City Sports Center, where Yang Xue warned him that the assessment would be unusual.
• Yang Xue announced that the selection would consist of a free-for-all, and Qin Chen suspected the other candidates intended to gang up on him.

Qin Chen overwhelmed the other students in the free-for-all assessment, revealing combat power far beyond what the instructors expected. He knocked out the last competitors before any could escape or secure elimination, leaving himself as the winner.

• Yang Xue announced the free-for-all rules, and the students turned toward Qin Chen when the assessment began.
• Qin Chen knocked out the students who attacked him, using powerful punches that sent the instructors into disbelief.
• Yang Xue concluded that Qin Chen had grown stronger again, with ordinary combat power approaching Three-Star.
• The three remaining students tried to flee, but Qin Chen chased them down and knocked them unconscious, including one who had admitted defeat.
• Qin Chen caught the final female student just before she stepped off the lawn and knocked her unconscious.

After winning first place in the assessment, Qin Chen told the instructors he was a dual-element One-Star Martial Artist, while keeping his third element secret. He persuaded Yang Xue to convert his reward into fire-element beast crystals by claiming his mysterious master needed them for research.

• Qin Chen took first place, and the instructors questioned him about his strength.
• Qin Chen revealed he was a dual-element One-Star Martial Artist, and Xie Jun explained that Xia Nantian was a dual-element nine-star Martial Artist.
• Yang Xue and the instructors agreed to report Qin Chen as a One-Star Martial Artist to conceal his abilities from other provinces.
• Yang Xue offered Qin Chen a four-million reward or an equivalent exchange, and he asked for level-one beast crystals.
• Qin Chen claimed his master's research used beast crystals to develop ways to strengthen martial artists, then said his master focused on three elements.
• Yang Xue agreed to exchange the reward for level-one beast crystals, and Qin Chen requested fire-element crystals.

Qin Chen raised his elemental talents, learned Frost Finger, and used beast crystals to complete his second fire Divine Mark and begin a third. After his strength increased, he headed to the martial arts school street before his military selection and found a newly named school at its far end.

• Qin Chen used pills to raise his earth, wind, and ice talents to SSS and learned the Grandmaster-level martial technique Frost Finger.
• A soldier delivered nine fire-element beast crystals from Yang Xue, including a level-two crystal she had bought as a gift for Qin Chen's master.
• Qin Chen devoured eight level-one beast crystals, completed his second fire-element Divine Mark, and raised his combat power to 3,800.
• Qin Chen devoured the level-two beast crystal, advancing his third fire Divine Mark to ten percent.
• Qin Chen took a taxi to Yang City's martial arts school street and saw a newly installed Tiger-Slaying Martial Arts School sign at the far end.

Qin Chen joined Shen Gang’s struggling martial arts school and renamed it the Dragon- and Tiger-Slaying Martial Arts School so he could formally challenge the Dragon Tiger Martial Arts School. After defeating two students, he faced three martial masters who directed him to the training grounds.

• Shen Gang explained that he kept his school open because his adoptive father had entrusted it to him, and Qin Chen registered as his student.
• Qin Chen suggested renaming the school the Dragon- and Tiger-Slaying Martial Arts School, then went to the Dragon Tiger Martial Arts School in a new uniform.
• Qin Chen smashed the Dragon Tiger Martial Arts School’s sign and announced his challenge as a new student of the Dragon- and Tiger-Slaying Martial Arts School.
• Qin Chen knocked out one student with a punch and struck down another when the other students hesitated to attack.
• Martial Masters Luo, Zhang, and Zhao recognized that Qin Chen was Shen Gang’s student and led him to the training grounds.

Qin Chen challenged the Dragon Tiger Martial Arts School and fought its masters after Tian Hu agreed to settle their dispute in a fight to the death. Qin Chen killed Tian Hu and crippled Tian Long, leaving the school master beaten and Qin Chen standing victorious.

• Qin Chen defeated Martial Master Luo with a single slap, then confronted Martial Master Zhao as Tian Long and Tian Hu arrived.
• Tian Hu agreed to a fight to the death and ordered the school’s students to attack Qin Chen, but Qin Chen killed the first attacker and scared the others into retreating.
• Tian Long attacked Qin Chen with his Blood Iron Palm while Tian Hu struck from the side.
• Qin Chen shattered Tian Long’s palm with a punch, evaded Tian Hu’s attack, and snapped Tian Hu’s neck.
• Qin Chen turned toward the ashen-faced Tian Long.