The transition from a crippled underachiever to a functioning martial artist begins in the dusty, metallic corner of the Extreme Martial Arts Hall. With his meridians cleared of the eight-year-old worm poison by Sun Chan Hall's Ten-Complete Hand and the Heavenly Dao Rewards Diligence system activated, Qin Feng begins to train like a man possessed. He ignores the whispers of his classmates and the silent skepticism of his teacher, Li Weiguo, who assumes the boy is merely burning himself out in a desperate, late-stage panic before the exams. Qin Feng pushes his body to absolute physical failure three times a day, collapsing in puddles of his own sweat on the high-strength composite floor just to watch his proficiency tick from five to eight, and his Life Force Index crawl from 0.41 to 0.58. The daytime coach, Lin Weiping, watches this self-harming training method with a blank expression, misidentifying Qin Feng as just another desperate underachiever trying to make up for three years of wasted time in a single month. However, the high-grade nutrient potion gifted by Sun Chan Hall acts as a silent catalyst, allowing Qin Feng's body to repair itself overnight with terrifying efficiency. This brutal cycle of damage and recovery proves his theory that the system ensures talent and effort form a perfect positive feedback loop. He finishes this initial fifteen-day grind with a solid 0.89 index, but the real test of his family's sacrifice looms as his high-grade potion runs out, forcing him to rely on standard nutrition and his own raw determination.

The financial reality of the martial path hits home when Qin Feng realizes his father had to take a multi-month salary advance from the corpse processing factory manager, Wu Daqiang, to buy a single basic Spiritual Energy Potion worth ten thousand coins. Armed with this precious fuel, which burns like molten starlight in his veins, Qin Feng pushes his training to a fever pitch, refining his movements until his Life Force Index hits an unbelievable 1.23. On the day of the Secondary Education Placement Exam, he steps into the silver testing pod four at Twelfth Middle School. When the crimson digits 1.23 flash on the screen, the entire testing center falls into a dead, shocked silence, dwarfing Zhou Heyuan's previously impressive 0.96. The proctors demand a re-test, suspecting a machine malfunction, only for the pod to confirm the exact same score, shattering a ten-year district record. The realization of this miracle hits his homeroom teacher, Li Weiguo, like a physical blow; he had spent the month coddling Zhou Heyuan and ignoring Qin Feng, only to realize he had mistaken a peerless divine jade for a worthless stone. In a desperate bid to correct his blind mistake and invest in a future star, Li Weiguo uses his entire school bonus and personal savings to buy Qin Feng a Subspace Network Pass worth five hundred thousand coins, launching the young warrior into a much larger interstellar arena where the true masters of the starry sky reside.

Qin Feng enters Qiming First Martial Arts High School, a brutal, militarized fortress where teachers do not hand-hold and students must fight for every resource. Ranked at the bottom of his elite class due to his late start, Qin Feng signs a basic D-rank contract and forms a strict cultivation pact with his roommates, the proud genius Shi Potian and the wealthy Qian Duoduo. During their first live combat mission on the desolate, red-dirt plains of Planet Gamma-7, they face a horde of savage Greenskins. While other students panic, Qin Feng showcases flawless spear defense, weaving a wall of spear-shadows to protect his squad and earning fifteen crucial grade points from their homeroom teacher, Wu Shangfeng. Back at school, he dominates the monthly exams by securing perfect scores in academics and combat simulation, earning a massive windfall of performance points. This allows him to bypass the slow grind and immediately upgrade to a C-rank contract, unlocking high-grade mid-level potions and the exclusive school Subspace domain. Here, he begins to challenge second-year veterans, suffering brutal defeats against sophomores like Sun He but rapidly refining his spear techniques against far superior opponents, eventually mastering the defensive technique known as Thousand Soldiers Guarding.

The culmination of Qin Feng's relentless grinding takes place at the Crown of the North Pole arena during the Qimingxing Inter-School League. Now possessing a Life Force Index of 14.03 and a Great Success level in the Thousand Army Spear, Qin Feng enters the tournament as an unknown dark horse. In his opening match, he faces Shi Dang, a top-tier seed who activates a powerful bloodline ability. Qin Feng completely neutralizes the brute's broadsword attacks with Thousand Soldiers Guarding before ending the match instantly with a lethal Flowing Light Chasing Shadow thrust to the throat. He tears through the brackets, earning multiple byes due to his high placement and sheer intimidation, until he reaches the finals to face Lei Yi, a genius spearman from Dubhe Martial High who possesses a Great Success Wind Thunder Stick technique. The final battle is a masterpiece of martial tactics, testing Qin Feng's defense to its absolute limit. In a brutal, split-second trade, Qin Feng intentionally allows Lei Yi to mangle his left hand, using the sacrifice to lock the opponent's weapon and drive his spear cleanly through Lei Yi's shoulder blade to secure the championship, earning the respect of the entire planet.