Recaps

After returning to 2012, Wang Chen called his mother and resolved to change the course of his high-school years. He planned to improve his grades and eventually leave the crowded dormitory, with the citywide annual exams a month away.

• Wang Chen concluded that he had returned to his original world to settle regrets and sever earthly ties.
• Wang Chen returned to No. 5 High School and called his mother, who transferred him one thousand yuan.
• Wang Chen encountered Jiang Zhiqiang and reflected on his strained relationships with his roommates.
• Wang Chen decided to move out of the dormitory and focus on the annual exams, which could earn him a fee waiver or a transfer of his school registration.

Wang Chen assessed how easily he could catch up in his first year of high school and began using his powerful memory to study while considering how to regain strength in a world without spiritual energy. During an afternoon math lesson, Zhang Yan called on him to solve a problem, setting up a test of Wang Chen’s changed abilities.

• Wang Chen reviewed his academic strengths and planned to focus on subjects that needed more work, relying on his exceptional memory for memorization-heavy classes.
• Wang Chen concluded that cultivation was impossible in this Spirit-Deprived Plane and resolved to find another path to strength before worrying about making money.
• Wang Chen returned to his isolated seat in Class 15 and used his photographic memory and multitasking ability to memorize his Chinese textbook while listening to politics class.
• Zhang Yan replaced the scheduled physical education class with mathematics, and Wang Chen reflected on how the teacher had treated him as a poor, outsider student.
• Zhang Yan wrote a problem on the blackboard and called on Wang Chen to answer it as the class watched expectantly.

Wang Chen calmly solved Zhang Yan’s difficult classroom problem, then joined Xiao Xudong for an overnight internet café visit. While revisiting his Legend Private Server account, he decided to sell it eventually and found a rare Blessing Oil as he trained his Divine Beast.

• Zhang Yan called on Wang Chen to solve a difficult problem, and Wang Chen wrote a complete, correct solution without receiving any praise.
• After class, Xiao Xudong congratulated Wang Chen and invited him to spend the night at an internet café; Wang Chen accepted.
• Xiao Xudong paid for their computers and drinks, while Wang Chen logged into his Legend Private Server account and estimated its value for a future sale.
• Wang Chen trained his level 40 Taoist’s Divine Beast in Venomous Snake Valley, where a tiger snake dropped a Blessing Oil.
• Wang Chen collected the Blessing Oil and headed toward Zuma Temple with his Divine Beast, which had reached level 5.

Wang Chen obtained a top-grade Blade of the Ruined King with three rare bonus attributes and announced that he was selling it. After a moment of reunion with the excitement of his younger self, he searched through the flood of offers and messages for a genuine buyer.

• Wang Chen defeated a top-grade Zuma Guard on the fourth floor and collected the Blade of the Ruined King before a nearby Mage could take it.
• The Mage pushed Wang Chen back and attacked, but Wang Chen’s magic evasion nullified the spell; Wang Chen poisoned the Mage and teleported to the Earth City safe zone.
• Wang Chen inspected the Blade of the Ruined King and saw that it had Accuracy +1, Strength +1, Attack Speed +1, and 38 durability.
• Wang Chen’s consciousness briefly split between his Nascent Soul True Immortal self and his younger high-school self before fusing again.
• Wang Chen announced the weapon’s attributes in a world shout, then read the flood of offers, private messages, insults, and taunts for a genuine buyer.

Wang Chen sold a valuable game item for 50,000 yuan, then sold his character and bought high school study materials as he committed to focusing on school. The next morning, he left No. 5 High School to begin putting his plans into action, including renting an apartment and moving out of the dormitory.

• Wang Chen sold his Blade of the Ruined King to Little Shrimp for 50,000 yuan and confirmed the transfer had gone through.
• Wang Chen used his telekinetic power to pull a can of cola into his hand, then told Xiao Xudong he would treat him to barbecue.
• Wang Chen listed his Taoist character on the trading platform, sold it, and bought supplementary study materials for all three years of high school.
• Wang Chen treated Xiao Xudong to barbecue and told him he would spend more time studying instead of staying up at internet cafés.
• Wang Chen returned to the school dormitory, then left No. 5 High School the next morning to pursue plans made possible by his new funds.

Wang Chen bought a bicycle and a new Meizu phone, then rented a house in Old Shangma Village. He left the house locked, planning to use it as his home in the provincial capital for the next two years.

• Wang Chen bought a used 28-inch Phoenix roadster for three hundred yuan.
• Wang Chen bought a Meizu MX Quad-core 32GB phone and traded his old phone for a phone mount.
• Wang Chen rode to Shangma Village and asked a real estate agent to find him a house in the old village.
• Wang Chen rented a rural house from an elderly landlord for one thousand yuan a month, with use of the vegetable plot and no deposit.
• Wang Chen inspected the house, enjoyed the view from its rooftop terrace, and put a new lock on the front gate.

Wang Chen settled into his new residence, bought study guides, and encouraged Jiang Zhiqiang to use them. When Xiao Xudong called for help, Wang Chen found him being extorted and beat the three bullies who had cornered him, then left with Xiao Xudong.

• Wang Chen brought his newly purchased study guides to the dormitory and told Jiang Zhiqiang he could borrow them.
• Wang Chen went to eat Yangzhou fried rice with Jiang Zhiqiang, then returned to the dorm and began studying.
• Xiao Xudong called Wang Chen and asked to borrow two hundred yuan, so Wang Chen hurried to the internet cafe alley where he was being surrounded by three boys.
• Wang Chen realized the boys were extorting Xiao Xudong over an alleged cheating incident and knocked all three down when they threatened him.
• Wang Chen took Xiao Xudong away and told him he had recorded the confrontation on his phone.

After Wang Chen defeated several punks, Xiao Xudong admired him and asked to learn martial arts, but Wang Chen told him to build his body first. The next morning, Wang Chen trained his newly awakened spiritual energy while running, discovering a path to extraordinary strength in a world without spiritual energy.

• Xiao Xudong praised Wang Chen for defeating the three punks and asked him to teach him martial arts.
• Wang Chen agreed to teach Xiao Xudong basic self-defense after he gained weight and began exercising, but Xiao Xudong balked at the required early-morning runs.
• Wang Chen recalled that Xiao Xudong would later attend a private university, work at a state-owned enterprise, and raise two children, so he did not plan to change his friend's life.
• Wang Chen got up before dawn and ran laps, using his Divine Soul to circulate power through his body and erase his fatigue.
• Wang Chen completed twenty laps, ate a large breakfast, returned to the dormitory, and began studying for the new week.

Wang Chen continued rapidly mastering his studies and developing his First-Ring psychic energy before answering a threat from the vocational school student he had previously beaten. He met the student and four sports school students in an alley, where they demanded he kneel and apologize.

• Wang Chen used his Super Memory and Divine Soul to make rapid academic progress while experimenting with psychic energy to strengthen his body and control objects.
• Wang Chen developed several psychic-energy techniques and classified psychic energy into ranks from First Ring to Ninth Ring, placing himself at First Ring.
• Xiao Xudong told Wang Chen that a group had summoned him to the alley behind Xinxin Internet Cafe, and Wang Chen went there alone.
• Wang Chen recognized the vocational school student from their previous fight and saw that he had brought four sports school students, three carrying baseball bats.
• A sports school student demanded that Wang Chen kneel, kowtow, and let the vocational school student slap him, while the others moved to surround him.

Wang Chen defeated the five students who ambushed him, then returned home and sensed the vast Cosmic Energy surrounding the world. He began cultivating the Shangxuan Shenyuan Scripture, leaving his power and curiosity about Cosmic Energy still growing.

• Wang Chen disarmed one sports school student and swiftly beat all five attackers, frightening them into submission.
• Wang Chen returned the baseball bat and left the alley after warning the students not to challenge him again.
• Wang Chen’s spiritual energy advanced to the second ring as he left the school with Xiao Xudong and went home to Shangma Village.
• Wang Chen sensed Cosmic Energy with his spiritual energy but avoided touching it because he lacked the ability to control it.
• Wang Chen withdrew his exhausted spiritual energy and began his daily cultivation of the Shangxuan Shenyuan Scripture.

After the final exams, Wang Chen prepared to return home with the outstanding report card he expected to earn. As teachers began marking the papers, Zhang Yan discovered that Wang Chen had scored a perfect mark in math and refused to believe it.

• Wang Chen finished the nine citywide exams and told Xiao Xudong he planned to go home after receiving his report card.
• Wang Chen stayed out of the class's autograph exchanges and gatherings as students anticipated being assigned to new classes next term.
• Teachers began cross-marking the exams, and Zhang Yan found a math paper with a perfect score.
• The teachers identified the student as Wang Chen, and Zhang Yan insisted the score was impossible because Wang Chen had previously performed poorly in math.

Wang Chen scored 1,018 on the final exam, placing first in his grade and twenty-seventh in the city, stunning his teachers and classmates. As his classmates questioned his sudden improvement and learned he had earned full marks in mathematics, Wang Chen remained focused on moving into an experimental class next semester.

• The teachers calculated Wang Chen's exam total as 1,018, and they realized he had outscored every Grade One student at No. 5 High School.
• Zhang Yan doubted Wang Chen's result and tried to change the subject when another teacher raised the possibility of transferring Wang Chen's student registration.
• Zhang Yan scolded Class 15 before handing out report cards, and Wang Chen saw that he ranked first in his class and grade and twenty-seventh in the city.
• Xiao Xudong announced Wang Chen's score to the class, prompting stunned classmates to gather around and inspect his report card.
• The school distributed exam papers and class selection forms, and Wang Chen lent his full-mark mathematics paper to a classmate who asked to see it.

After proving his academic ability with near-perfect scores on reserve exams, Wang Chen earned the grade director’s trust, scholarships, and a promise of support toward transferring his student registration. He left school early and traveled to Muzhou, where his father worked.

• Director Zhao summoned Wang Chen over doubts about his final exam results, and Wang Chen offered to retake reserve papers.
• Wang Chen scored 150 in math and 149 in English under the supervision of Director Zhao and two teachers.
• Director Zhao waived Wang Chen’s nonresident tuition for the next semester and promised to apply for a student registration transfer if Wang Chen placed in the top ten on the second-year placement exam.
• Director Zhao offered to return Wang Chen’s 30,000 yuan in nonresident tuition if he placed among the city’s top fifty in the next first-semester finals, and approved his request to leave before the school-year summary meeting.
• Wang Chen received his scholarship and certificates, packed his luggage, and took a high-speed train to Muzhou the next morning.

Wang Chen returned to Muzhou and reunited with his father, Wang Zhenghai, while reflecting on the family hardships he had once failed to understand. He showed Wang Zhenghai his outstanding exam results and scholarship, leaving his father and colleagues stunned and delighted.

• Wang Chen took a taxi to Guangyuan Building and called Wang Zhenghai to say he was waiting downstairs.
• Wang Zhenghai hurried out to greet Wang Chen, took his suitcase, and brought him to the company cafeteria for lunch.
• Wang Chen gave Wang Zhenghai his report card, which showed first place in his grade and twenty-seventh place in the city.
• Wang Zhenghai's colleagues gathered to admire Wang Chen's results and congratulate his father.
• Wang Chen showed everyone his merit certificates and fifteen thousand yuan in prize money, then explained that the school would refund his thirty-thousand-yuan transfer fee as a scholarship.

Wang Chen returned home after winning a major scholarship and celebrated with his parents and younger siblings. He planned to return to the provincial capital after a week to study, improve his strength, and build a better future for his family.

• Wang Zhenghai returned Wang Chen's scholarship money to him and took him home to Wen County.
• Wang Chen showed Wang's Mother his exam results and shared an affectionate reunion with her.
• Wang Chen picked up Wang Hao and Wang Yu from school and bought them a Transformers set and a Barbie doll.
• Wang Chen told Wang's Mother he planned to return to the provincial capital after a week and take the college entrance examination the following year.
• After a week at home, Wang Chen returned to the provincial capital with food from his mother and went to visit his uncle.

Wang Chen visited his uncle Wang Zhengyang’s home with cured pork and dried vegetables, where he reunited with Wang Xiaomeng and revealed his outstanding exam results. His relatives celebrated his citywide twenty-seventh rank and scholarship, while Tian Wenxiu struggled to hide her surprise.

• Wang Chen brought homemade cured pork and dried vegetables to Wang Zhengyang and Tian Wenxiu’s home.
• Wang Xiaomeng told Wang Chen she had scored 725 on her high school entrance exam and entered First High School.
• Tian Wenxiu asked Wang Chen about his final exam results, and he showed her his Report Card ranking twenty-seventh in the city.
• Wang Chen told Tian Wenxiu he had received a fifteen-thousand-yuan scholarship and would not need to pay borrowed-enrollment fees next semester.
• Wang Zhengyang congratulated Wang Chen, and Wang Xiaomeng excitedly asked him to treat them.

Wang Chen took Wang Xiaomeng shopping at Yintai City, then let her join her classmates at Planet KTV while he entertained himself at the arcade. The chapter left him rushing to Room 188 after Wang Xiaomeng called in a panic.

• Wang Chen bought Wang Xiaomeng an expensive Casio digital watch at Yintai City.
• Sun Baiyun mistook Wang Chen for Wang Xiaomeng's boyfriend, then invited her to a class gathering at Planet KTV.
• Wang Chen told Wang Xiaomeng to go with her classmates and said he would pick her up at nine thirty.
• Wang Chen played arcade games and won a pile of plushies from claw machines, giving them to the children watching him.
• Wang Xiaomeng called Wang Chen in a panic from Room 188 at Planet KTV, and he hurried to her.

Wang Chen found Wang Xiaomeng and Tian Tian confronting White Hair and his companions at Planet KTV, then used a palm strike to cut a beer bottle and intimidated the group into letting them leave. Outside, Wang Xiaomeng explained that White Hair had harassed Tian Tian at Zhang Yumeng’s graduation gathering.

• Wang Chen reached Planet KTV’s private room 188 and found Wang Xiaomeng protecting Tian Tian from White Hair and several other young men.
• Wang Chen dismissed White Hair’s threat and sliced the top off a beer bottle with his palm, terrifying him and silencing the room.
• Wang Chen paid for the disturbance and led Wang Xiaomeng and Tian Tian out of Yintai City.
• White Hair fled into the attached restroom while the teenagers argued over how Wang Chen had cut the bottle.
• Wang Xiaomeng told Wang Chen that White Hair had harassed Tian Tian after joining Zhang Yumeng’s graduation gathering at the KTV.

After rescuing Wang Xiaomeng and Tian Tian, Wang Chen returned to his spiritual-energy training and studies. A month later, he reached Three Rings and shocked the two girls with how much his appearance and physique had changed.

• Wang Xiaomeng teased Wang Chen about dating Tian Tian, who blushed and asked to add him on WeChat before going home.
• Wang Xiaomeng warned Wang Chen that two of the men from the KTV were students from No. 5 High School’s overseas study class, but he said he was not worried.
• Wang Chen declined Uncle’s offer to stay and returned home, where he spent the next month studying and cultivating spiritual energy.
• Wang Chen advanced to Three Rings, extending his spiritual energy’s effective range to three hundred meters, while his physique and appearance changed significantly.
• Wang Xiaomeng brought Tian Tian to visit Wang Chen in Shangma Village, and both girls were stunned by his transformation.

Wang Chen took Wang Xiaomeng and Tian Tian on a birthday outing to Feima Lake, where he prepared a lakeside picnic and tried fishing. After catching only two tiny fish, he used his Three Rings spiritual energy to search the lake for a better catch.

• Wang Xiaomeng and Tian Tian gave Wang Chen a mechanical wristwatch for his seventeenth birthday, and he thanked them.
• Wang Chen rode a twenty-eight-inch Phoenix bicycle with Wang Xiaomeng and Tian Tian to Feima Lake.
• Wang Chen showed the girls the picnic setup, then hung a swing from a tree while they played and took photos.
• Wang Chen fished for more than half an hour and caught only two tiny white-strip fish.
• Wang Chen spread his Three Rings spiritual energy through the fishing line and searched the lake until he locked onto a target.

Wang Chen took Wang Xiaomeng and Tian Tian fishing and grilled them a meal before starting Grade 11 at No. 5 High School. After he topped the placement exam, the school recognized his ability and arranged to transfer his student registration there.

• Wang Chen caught several fish with Wang Xiaomeng and Tian Tian, then grilled fish, meat, and vegetables for them.
• Wang Chen took the girls home, and Tian Tian asked if she could visit him again; he welcomed her anytime.
• Wang Chen enrolled in Class 1, Grade 11 at No. 5 High School and met his quiet deskmate, Chen Sizhe.
• Wang Chen placed first in his grade on the placement exam, earning full marks in mathematics and improving his Chinese and English scores.
• A vice principal refunded Wang Chen's Grade 10 visiting-student fees and offered to transfer his student registration to No. 5 High School; the school also contacted his parents.

After gaining top-student privileges at school, Wang Chen used his spiritual energy to search Shangma Old Village for a buried treasure he remembered from his previous life. He recovered an intact late-Ming blue-and-white jar filled with silver dollars and gold bars, leaving him with a valuable haul.

• Wang Chen received special privileges at No. 5 High School after placing first in the grade, including permission to commute and skip evening self-study as long as he stayed in the top three.
• As Shangma Old Village emptied amid demolition rumors, Wang Chen decided to search for the treasure that would otherwise be unearthed years later.
• Wang Chen went into the village at night and used his spiritual energy to scan underground for the buried treasure.
• Wang Chen dug up a blue-and-white fish-and-algae jar, filled the hole back in, and carried the jar home unnoticed.
• Wang Chen opened the jar and found silver dollars and twenty-seven small gold bars inside.

Wang Chen sold seventy genuine silver dollars at Qi Bao Zhai for 680,000 yuan in cash after other antique-shop owners made low offers. He left the shop with the money to fund his next move.

• Wang Chen dressed in new clothes and sunglasses and went to Antique Street to sell silver dollars he had excavated.
• Wang Chen tested one coin at several antique shops, but their owners offered far less than it was worth.
• The owner of Qi Bao Zhai identified Wang Chen's coin as a 1926 Beiyang Dragon and offered 8,500 yuan for it.
• Wang Chen showed the old shop owner seventy silver dollars, which he appraised at a total of 680,000 yuan.
• Wang Chen accepted the offer, took the cash without counting it, and left while one of the other customers looked down on him.

Wang Chen used the proceeds from selling silver dollars to buy and secure ten thousand B currency coins, then donated an intact late Ming Dynasty blue-and-white jar to the provincial museum. He asked the museum to keep his identity secret and claimed he had fished the jar out of Feima Lake, a story Director Chen pretended to accept.

• Wang Chen deposited most of the money from his silver-dollar sale and bought ten thousand B currency coins, memorizing their private keys.
• Wang Chen rode to the provincial capital's museum and asked to donate a large Ming Dynasty blue-and-white porcelain jar.
• A museum staff member examined the jar, recognized it as genuine, and called Director Chen to see it.
• Director Chen praised the rare, well-preserved jar and thanked Wang Chen for donating it.
• Wang Chen declined a certificate or reward, requested anonymity, and told Director Chen he had fished the jar out of Feima Lake.

After a rumor falsely claimed that Wang Chen had found a priceless Yuan blue-and-white jar in Feima Lake, Tian Tian invited him to the movies. Their date brought them closer, and the chapter ended with them happily browsing a mall arcade.

• Tian Tian asked Wang Chen whether he had found an antique in Feima Lake after rumors spread about a donated Yuan blue-and-white jar worth over a hundred million.
• Tian Tian invited Wang Chen to use her spare movie ticket, and he agreed to pick her up by bicycle.
• Wang Chen saw crowds of anglers rushing toward Feima Lake, realizing they had been drawn by the exaggerated antique rumor.
• Wang Chen picked up Tian Tian, and they rode together through the city to the cinema.
• Tian Tian took Wang Chen's hand during the movie, then asked him to stay out with her afterward.
• Wang Chen took Tian Tian to a mall arcade and won her more than a dozen plush dolls.