Recaps

Chen Nan completed the AI System’s fusion with his brain, gaining enhanced vision and analysis, while the Wang siblings and the Prefecture Office faced growing pressure. After the pharmacy owner traced Chen Nan’s glucose purchase to him, the Wang siblings’ thugs surrounded his apartment building, leaving Chen Nan preparing to flee.

• Chen Nan drank glucose injections until the AI System fused with his brain, ending its unusually high energy consumption.
• Chen Nan discovered that his eyes now provided night vision, infrared imaging, and explanatory information that he could switch off by thought.
• The Wang siblings learned that the Patrol Bureau was secretly investigating them, while the Prefecture Office planned to use the conflict between them and Chen Nan to escape his own predicament.
• A pharmacy owner connected to Wang Yuan'e remembered Chen Nan’s large glucose purchase and reported it to her, prompting the Wang siblings to gather their men.
• Chen Nan received danger signals from the dogs, spotted the Wang siblings’ thugs searching below, and packed glucose while waiting for them to split up so he could attempt an escape.

Chen Nan fled Ghost Head's gang and reached a district patrol station, but the criminals attacked the officers and forced him to escape with their guns. After the AI System helped him aim, he killed twelve pursuers, then dropped an empty pistol and continued fleeing as the gang chased him through the rain.

• Ghost Head sent his subordinates to search for Chen Nan, who slipped out of the residential complex and ran toward a district patrol station.
• Chen Nan's dogs delayed the pursuers, and he reached the patrol station, where Old Blackie and the other officers confronted Ghost Head.
• Ghost Head ordered his men to attack the officers, and Chen Nan took a pistol and fled after the patrol officers were beaten down.
• The AI System helped Chen Nan learn to use the pistol, and he killed twelve charging men with a series of shots.
• Chen Nan discarded the empty pistol and ran with another gun as Ghost Head and the remaining men pursued him in the rain.

Chen Nan turned the pursuit around, killed many of Ghost Head’s men, and was cornered in a dead-end alley. With the AI System guiding his movements, he wounded Ghost Head but was stabbed in the shoulder while trying to finish him.

• Chen Nan shot down a pursuer, then used Ghost Head’s ten-million-yuan bounty to lure the remaining men into charging at him.
• Chen Nan killed twelve more attackers before running out of bullets and fleeing into a dead-end alley, where Ghost Head confronted him with two butterfly knives.
• Chen Nan used the AI System to identify Ghost Head’s carotid artery as a target, then sent his dog and the Rats to restrain him.
• Chen Nan discovered that the AI System could guide his movements, letting him dodge Ghost Head’s attack and slash his thigh.
• Ghost Head stabbed the dog’s neck and threw his other knife at Chen Nan, striking his shoulder as Chen Nan rushed in to attack.

Chen Nan escaped after killing Ghost Head and his men, then hid with his former landlady while the evidence he had gathered brought down the Wang Clan and exposed major criminal networks. The story left Chen Nan celebrated as a young hero while the Wang siblings received their sentences.

• Chen Nan killed Ghost Head's men and left Ghost Head to die in the alley after explaining that oppression had taught him his knife skills.
• Chen Nan called his former landlady, reached her home, and hid there while she treated his wounds and heard his story.
• News reports publicized Chen Nan's actions, and the Prefecture Office promised to ensure the Wang Clan faced legal punishment.
• Police used Chen Nan's evidence to dismantle human and drug trafficking rings, while the Wang siblings and others were taken into custody.
• Chen Nan became famous as a young hero, and an unknown novelist gained fame by writing a book based on his deeds.
• After a six-month trial, Wang Yifu and Wang Yide were sentenced to immediate execution, while Wang Yuan'e received thirty years in prison and a lifelong deprivation of political rights.

Chen Nan’s fame earned him money and admission to Wu City Preparatory Academy, while Chen Jiadong, Wang Bodan, Li Yu, and Xun Xin resented his success. Li Yu and Xun Xin steered Wang Bodan toward reporting Chen Nan to the Transcendent authorities, threatening his reward and school admission.

• Chen Wan'er taunted Chen Jiadong by comparing him with the newly famous Chen Nan, and Chen Jiadong left in anger.
• The Prefecture Office offered Chen Nan fifty thousand Qingyang Coins and exam-free admission to Wu City Preparatory Academy, and Chen Nan handed over evidence of its crimes.
• Chen Nan accepted his reward and faced reporters as Wang Bodan watched, furious over his family’s downfall.
• Li Yu and Xun Xin encouraged Wang Bodan to report Chen Nan for killing someone and using Transcendent abilities to steal property, hoping to block his academy admission.

After the tribunal revoked Chen Nan’s exempt admission and ordered him to pay Wang Bodan fifty thousand yuan, Chen Nan feared he could no longer afford the Preparatory Academy entrance exam. Jiang Lili gave him a card to cover the fee, and he left grateful for her support and uncertain whether he deserved her praise.

• Chen Nan presented evidence at Wang Bodan’s tribunal hearing, but the ruling revoked his free admission and ordered him to pay fifty thousand yuan in compensation.
• Wang Bodan threatened to make Chen Nan pay for the pain he had caused, and Chen Nan left without responding.
• Jiang Lili picked Chen Nan up and offered to cover the ten-thousand-yuan fee for his entrance exam.
• Jiang Lili gave Chen Nan her spending-money card, and he promised to repay her when he could.
• Jiang Lili explained that she cherished Chen Nan for helping others, while Chen Nan admitted he was not entirely kind.

After missing the annual Preparatory Academy entrance assessment, Chen Nan decided to use his year of forced idleness to earn money for his future studies. His AI System could not yet analyze stocks, so he sought underground casinos and asked Chen Xiao for information, but their conversation ended with her offering him money instead.

• Chen Nan accepted that he had missed the Preparatory Academy admissions date and decided to find a way to earn money during his year off.
• Chen Nan considered gambling as a route to wealth, but learned his AI System was only 9.5% developed and lacked the computing power to analyze stocks.
• Chen Nan ruled out stocks and lotteries and began asking animals to search for information about underground casinos where a child might gamble.
• Chen Nan called Chen Xiao to ask about underground casinos, but she warned him against going and offered him her savings.
• Chen Nan refused to take Chen Xiao's money and eventually calmed her after she thought he considered her earnings dirty.

Chen Nan arranged with Feng Wu to visit an illegal casino, hoping to find a way to make money. While preparing to go, he used the AI System to select traditional martial arts for self-defense, but the choice triggered a severe seizure.

• Chen Nan called Feng Wu and offered her a ten-percent commission if she helped him find an illegal casino.
• Feng Wu agreed to work with Chen Nan, and they met the next day to arrange a later visit to a casino run by Yang Wankun, whose brother Yang Wangan was Wu City's Patrol Bureau chief.
• Chen Nan returned home and considered how the AI System might help him win money and protect himself at the casino.
• Chen Nan selected traditional martial arts from the AI System's self-defense options and suffered a seizure from the backlash.
• Chen Nan regained consciousness, drank a glucose injection solution, and accepted that the AI System's effects were causing his symptoms.

Chen Nan followed Feng Wu to an underground black-market casino, where he used his newly enhanced abilities to study its games. After finding card games too complicated, he focused on dice and began learning to infer the results from their sounds.

• Chen Nan secretly left home at night, and Jiang Lili stayed awake, suspicious of his behavior.
• Chen Nan met Feng Wu and followed her to the underground casino, where two men dragged out a bloodied gambler accused of cheating.
• Feng Wu brought Chen Nan inside, and he toured the casino's different gambling areas.
• Chen Nan used his Eye of AI to study a Bull Bull table but concluded that card games were too unpredictable for him.
• Chen Nan watched a dice dealer and listened closely, gradually detecting sound differences that might reveal the dice results.

Chen Nan explained that he planned to train a unique ability at the casino while earning money for school, easing Jiang Lili’s fears after she caught him with Feng Wu. He demonstrated that he could identify dice rolls while blindfolded, leaving both women astonished.

• Chen Nan left the casino with Feng Wu, but Jiang Lili confronted them on the street and fought Feng Wu over their late-night outing.
• Chen Nan stopped the women from fighting and brought them to Jiang Lili’s home, where he explained why he had gone to the casino.
• Jiang Lili offered to sell apartments to pay for Chen Nan’s schooling, while Feng Wu challenged her right to control him.
• Chen Nan told Jiang Lili that he intended to earn school money and train his abilities at the casino, not become a gambling addict.
• Chen Nan demonstrated that he could correctly guess dice rolls while blindfolded, revealing the ability he planned to develop at the casino.

Chen Nan, Jiang Lili, and Feng Wu argued about Feng Wu’s work before Jiang Lili offered her a job managing rentals. The next evening, they took Chen Nan to a casino, where his ability to read dice sounds improved enough to identify their values as soon as the dealer set down the cup.

• Feng Wu defended her work to Jiang Lili and said she had no hope for the future once her beauty faded.
• Jiang Lili offered Feng Wu a job managing her rental properties and splitting the rent, and Feng Wu accepted.
• The next day, Feng Wu settled into the apartment and learned to cook from Jiang Lili before Jiang Lili went to work.
• That evening, Jiang Lili drove Chen Nan and Feng Wu to a casino, where Chen Nan correctly predicted the first dice result by listening.
• As Chen Nan practiced at the table, he learned to track the dice while they rolled and to determine their values as soon as the dealer set down the cup.

Chen Nan returned to the Orphanage and reunited with Little Black Ox, whose life had improved under the new management. On the way home, Chen Nan continued piecing together how the AI System, his brain, and his unusual abilities might be connected.

• Chen Nan stopped gambling after winning more than three thousand Qingyang Coins that night and promised Feng Wu he would settle her commission later.
• After winning around thirty thousand Qingyang Coins over several days, Chen Nan took Jiang Lili and Feng Wu to visit the Orphanage.
• Chen Nan ignored the new director’s attempts to use his visit for publicity, then found Little Black Ox and gave him gifts and a card loaded with one thousand yuan.
• Chen Nan left the Orphanage after spending the day talking with Little Black Ox, who watched him depart with reluctance.
• On the drive home, Chen Nan reasoned that the AI System had become part of his brain and that electromagnetic and metaphysical forces might explain his abilities.

Chen Nan and the two women faced armed robbers twice after gambling, with Jiang Lili accidentally killing three attackers in a car and Chen Nan later defeating six more with his martial arts. After the second incident, the trio were cleared and released, and no one dared trouble them again.

• Chen Nan won money at the casino, and Jiang Lili ran over three men who tried to rob the trio as they escaped in her car.
• The patrol officers reviewed the evidence and released Chen Nan, Jiang Lili, and Feng Wu without charges.
• Chen Nan bought a pair of Twin Duckbill Sabers, and Jiang Lili returned to the casino after recovering from her shock.
• Six men ambushed the trio outside the casino, but Chen Nan used the Nine Palaces Bagua Steps and Body-Wandering Bagua Palm to cut them down without immediately killing them.
• Chen Nan called the police and emergency services, and the trio were released after the attackers died before doctors could save them.

As the Preparatory Academy assessment approached, Chen Nan arranged a Spicy Hot Pot business for Jiang Lili, Little Black Ox, Chen Xiao, and Feng Wu, while the Nature Master faction secretly planned to recruit him. At the assessment, Zhang Hua tried to make Chen Nan his follower, and Li Yu began testing Chen Nan, whose Bone Observing Mirror reading stopped at a fixed value.

• Chen Nan used the AI System to develop a Spicy Hot Pot soup-base recipe, registered it as a permanent patent through Jiang Lili, and set up the business with Jiang Lili, Little Black Ox, Chen Xiao, and Feng Wu as shareholders.
• Little Black Ox moved in with Jiang Lili and the others, and Chen Nan finished his preparations before the October 1 assessment.
• Children gathered at the Wu City Preparatory Academy assessment grounds, where Chen Nan drew attention from other examinees and their families.
• Zhang Hua introduced himself as Zhang Jiye's son and asked Chen Nan to follow him, but Chen Nan politely refused and offered friendship instead.
• Li Yu arrived to examine Chen Nan, performed Qi Gazing, then scanned him with the Bone Observing Mirror until its reading stopped at a fixed number.

Chen Nan failed Li Yu’s assessment, but Lu Fangliang recognized his unusual Transcendent aptitude and secured his admission to the Preparatory Academy. After the children began enrolling, the chapter explained how wealth and connections shaped access to the academy’s special resources.

• Li Yu rejected Chen Nan and humiliated him in front of the other children.
• Lu Fangliang examined Chen Nan, recognized his unusual qi signs, and persuaded Li Yu to pass him.
• Chen Nan entered the academy’s inner courtyard, where the other successful applicants gathered, including Zhang Hua.
• The children began enrollment, and their families paid the fifty-thousand-yuan tuition fee.
• The chapter described how students could pursue early graduation and entry to a Transcendent Academy, while access to special resources depended on money, talent, and personal influence.

Chen Nan settled into the Preparatory Academy, met his three dormmates, and attended his first class with instructor Li Guodong. After learning the academy’s basic rules and cultivation systems, Chen Nan looked ahead to the formal lessons beginning the next day.

• Chen Nan helped Jiang Lili settle his belongings, and she left reluctantly after discussing their planned Chen Nan Spicy Hot Pot shop.
• Chen Nan met his dormmates Shen Congyun, Lu Butong, and Shi Lei, who recognized his reputation, and the group explored the academy grounds.
• Chen Nan and the other students began classes at eight the next morning, where Li Guodong introduced himself as their instructor.
• Li Guodong explained the Transcendent factions and ranks, how students could earn top-grade cultivation resources, and the rules for duels.
• Chen Nan learned that formal lessons would begin the next day and hoped Li Guodong would not teach the core subjects.

Chen Nan and the other new students learned about the academy’s tradition of allowing upperclassmen to bully them during their first month, then began their practical classes. In Meditation Class, Chen Nan used the AI in his nervous system to adapt to the harsh sounds and continued meditating long after most of the class had quit.

• At lunch, Shen Congyun told Chen Nan, Shi Lei, and Lu Butong that old students could bully new students during their first month, and Lu Butong rejected Shi Lei’s advice to avoid them.
• Chen Nan received his class schedule and learned that he and Shi Lei were assigned to Meditation Class, while Shen Congyun and Lu Butong were assigned to Body Cultivation Class.
• The next morning, Xu Xiaojing introduced the meditation basics and played harsh sounds for the students to follow during their first meditation session.
• As students vomited or gave up and put in earplugs, the AI in Chen Nan’s nervous system analyzed the sounds and adjusted his brainwaves to match their pattern.
• After about forty-five minutes, Chen Nan was still meditating, while Shi Lei and the last student besides him had stopped; Xu Xiaojing wondered whether Chen Nan could break the academy record.

Chen Nan stopped meditating after one hour, twenty-six minutes, and thirty-seven seconds, breaking Wu City Preparatory Academy's record and astonishing Xu Xiaojing. The academy concealed his talent and began planning his education, while Chen Nan resolved to grow strong enough that no one could use him.

• Chen Nan meditated for over an hour, surpassing the academy record before stopping because he feared the strain on his brain and the attention he was drawing.
• Xu Xiaojing saw Chen Nan's time, praised him, and left to report his achievement to the dean.
• Chen Nan worried that his talent would make him a prize for powerful people and decided he needed to become strong enough to resist being controlled.
• Dean Li Nanchao ordered Xu Xiaojing and the eight students to keep Chen Nan's talent secret so the academy could nurture him and use his success to build its reputation.
• Chen Nan accepted the academy's secrecy, and Wu City Preparatory Academy began preparing a discreet education plan for him.

Chen Nan attended classes on Transcendents and Nature Masters, reflecting on their different approaches after Lu Fangliang’s lesson. After Wang Bodan and Li Huaming publicly insulted him, Chen Nan faced Li Huaming in a fight, with teachers watching as the confrontation began.

• Chen Nan learned foundational principles of Transcendents before Lu Fangliang argued that Nature Masters sought harmony with nature and the Great Dao.
• Chen Nan decided he might study Nature Master knowledge while favoring harmony between it and technology, then left for the cafeteria with Shi Lei.
• Wang Bodan gathered students and mocked Chen Nan’s family, while Li Huaming challenged him and demanded he drink his piss and crawl under his crotch.
• Chen Nan tricked Li Huaming into calling him Grandpa, prompting Li Huaming to attack; Shi Lei stepped in and was knocked unconscious.
• Chen Nan sent Shen Congyun to care for Shi Lei and entered the fighting circle against Li Huaming as Lu Fangliang, Xu Xiaojing, Li Yu, and Xun Xin watched.

Chen Nan studied Li Huaming’s radiation-powered abilities while their classmates placed bets on the duel. After Li Yu tried to force Chen Nan to attack, Chen Nan made Li Huaming crash to the ground and countered with a painful grab.

• Li Yu and Xun Xin organized bets favoring Li Huaming, while Lu Fangliang bet ten thousand yuan on Chen Nan to win.
• Li Huaming launched powerful attacks, but Chen Nan used the AI System to evade them and observed that Li Huaming absorbed nuclear radiation to fuel his strength.
• Li Yu declared that Chen Nan would lose if he kept dodging without attacking for thirty seconds.
• Li Huaming suddenly crashed to the ground, startling the spectators, and Chen Nan adopted a flowing stance as Lu Fangliang and Xu Xiaojing watched closely.
• Chen Nan slid beneath Li Huaming’s charge and grabbed him between the legs.

Chen Nan defeated Li Huaming in a wagered duel, then fought off three senior students who ambushed him and earned a large payout. He returned to the dormitory with his roommates, while Lu Fangliang considered Chen Nan’s extraordinary potential.

• Chen Nan defeated Li Huaming by using a foul tactic, and the crowd protested even though the teachers recognized the result.
• Wang Bodan stirred up the losing bettors, prompting three senior students to attack Chen Nan.
• Chen Nan used his Meridian Mandarin Duck Axes to cut a spellcasting attacker’s throat, but Lu Fangliang saved the student before he died.
• Chen Nan warned off the other attackers and challenged Li Yu’s criticism, arguing that his harsh methods had kept him alive.
• Lu Fangliang collected the wager payments for Chen Nan, who took his roommates out to celebrate after earning nearly seventy to eighty thousand.
• Chen Nan reflected on Lu Fangliang’s abilities, while Lu Fangliang concluded that Chen Nan’s future potential was boundless.

After a month of rapid cultivation made him the strongest new student, Chen Nan accepted Headmaster Li Nanchao’s offer of exceptional resources in exchange for promising to enter Luojing Transcendent Academy with a national top-three result and promote Wu City Preparatory Academy. With new training equipment and a T-level spell technique, Chen Nan continued investigating the scientific principles behind cultivation and magic.

• Chen Nan studied and cultivated relentlessly, and a month later the strength assessment showed he had reached Zero Rank Level Three, far ahead of the other new students.
• Headmaster Li Nanchao summoned Chen Nan and offered him top-tier teachers, learning materials, and cultivation resources if he entered Luojing Transcendent Academy next year with a national top-three result and spoke well of Wu City Preparatory Academy.
• Chen Nan agreed to the conditions, and the academy provided him with special meals, a heat-dispersing cultivation helmet, an advanced Meditation Qi Yin Art, and the T-level Thunderclap Art.
• Chen Nan studied the Thunderclap Art and continued researching how meditation, incantations, and mental fluctuations produced supernatural effects, linking the world’s magic to science and technology.

Chen Nan considered which school to join at the Transcendent Academy and studied Nature Master cultivation under Lu Fangliang. After learning the Clear Heart Incantation and analyzing Thunderclap Art, he prepared to test whether the AI System could let him cast spells without incantations.

• Chen Nan weighed the benefits and drawbacks of the Transcendent schools and remained undecided about joining the struggling Nature Masters.
• Lu Fangliang explained the slow, uncertain path of Nature Master cultivation and said he had joined to pursue the Great Dao.
• Lu Fangliang gave Chen Nan the Clear Heart Incantation, which Chen Nan memorized with the help of his AI System.
• Chen Nan practiced the Clear Heart Incantation and found that it calmed his mind and strengthened his influence on electromagnetic fields.
• Chen Nan analyzed the brainwave patterns and formulas behind Thunderclap Art and planned to test casting it through the AI System without an incantation.

Chen Nan practiced his Lightning Spell and visited the booming Spicy Hot Pot shop he had helped create, bringing his dormmates along. After they sampled the food, Shen Congyun and the others considered opening franchise stores under the shop’s brand.

• Chen Nan tested his Lightning Spell in the first-class training room, where the target rated its completion and accuracy as perfect and its attack power at 97, far above his ordinary strike’s 12.
• Chen Nan spoke with Jiang Lili, who told him the Spicy Hot Pot shop was earning nearly a thousand yuan a day, and arranged to visit the next weekend.
• Chen Nan invited Shen Congyun, Shi Lei, and Lu Butong to join him on the visit, and Jiang Lili drove them to the shop after closing it for the day.
• Jiang Lili and the workers welcomed the group, and Chen Nan’s dormmates praised the Spicy Hot Pot after trying it.
• Shen Congyun asked about joining the business, and Chen Nan offered him the option of becoming a franchisee; Lu Butong and Shi Lei also took Jiang Lili’s business cards.

Chen Nan helped Jiang Lili and her partners plan how to expand Chen Nan Spicy Hot Pot, while Wang Bodan and Zhang Hua plotted to destroy the business and arrange Chen Nan’s assassination. A month later, Chen Nan reached Level Six Zero Stage but worried about the time left to reach Level Fifteen before the Transcendent Academy entrance examinations.

• Chen Nan advised Jiang Lili, Feng Wu, and Chen Xiao to improve the shop, open three main stores, and expand through a chain of franchises; Shen Congyun and two others secured franchise slots.
• The shop’s popularity spread through Wu City, and Wang Bodan decided to target Chen Nan Spicy Hot Pot as a way to draw Chen Nan away from the academy.
• Wang Bodan recruited Zhang Hua to help obtain information about Transcendent assassins, planning to spend his remaining hidden assets to hire one and kill Chen Nan.
• Chen Nan remained unaware of the plot and focused on cultivation, reaching Level Six Zero Stage after another month of training.
• Chen Nan estimated that reaching Level Fifteen by the September entrance examinations would be difficult, even though he expected competition for the top three places to be manageable.