Recaps

Jiang Fu hunted in the rain and killed a hidden Spirit-Devouring Demon Frog before using himself as bait to lure out the Blood-Eyed Golden Tiger. He blocked the tiger’s ambush and launched a thousand three hundred sword strikes at it.

• Jiang Fu flew over the grassland on the Star Shuttle and searched for the Blood-Eyed Golden Tiger while concealing his presence.
• A Spirit-Devouring Demon Frog leaped from the ground and attacked Jiang Fu, but the System Screen revealed its location and spinal weakness.
• Jiang Fu dodged the frog’s tongue and broke its spine with Continuous Sword Rain, killing it.
• Jiang Fu scanned the area with Mental Touch, and the Blood-Eyed Golden Tiger sprang from hiding and bit his Star Shuttle shield, breaking its teeth.
• Jiang Fu enclosed himself in the Star Shuttle sphere as the tiger pounced, then sent his purple Flying Sword into a thousand three hundred attacks aimed at the tiger.

Jiang Fu hunted and multiplied Level-three Mutated Beasts, using their corpses to rack up exam points while keeping his methods concealed. As he continued hunting, Li Xiuchuan checked the rankings and discovered Jiang Fu had taken first place with 8,000 points.

• Jiang Fu killed the Blood-Eyed Golden Tiger, collected it and the Spirit-Devouring Demon Frog, and multiplied both corpses to ten each.
• Jiang Fu tested the corpses in the Mystic Light Mirror and earned 300 points for each confirmed above-level kill.
• Jiang Fu sent seven Blood-Eyed Golden Tigers and nine Spirit-Devouring Demon Frogs into the mirror, bringing his total to 4,910 points and first place.
• Jiang Fu spotted another Spirit-Devouring Demon Frog, prepared to lure it into attacking him, and recorded the hunt on his phone.
• Li Xiuchuan killed a Level-three Ancient Mystic Tortoise and expected to claim Tianhuang Martial Arts University's elite admission spot.
• Li Xiuchuan checked the rankings and saw Jiang Fu in first place with 8,000 points, leaving him stunned and despairing.

Jiang Fu raised his exam score by killing hundreds of Rain Monkeys in the Blank Zone and returned to the Ninth District with their corpses. His enormous lead drew suspicion from examinees, who began gathering at the Safety Passage to verify his results.

• The Mystic Light Mirror awarded Li Xiuchuan 300 points for killing an Ancient Mystic Tortoise, but he saw Jiang Fu leading the rankings with over 8,000 points and rushed toward the Ninth District to investigate.
• Examinees noticed Jiang Fu's score on the Three Greats' official websites and headed to the Ninth District's Safety Passage, where they planned to verify his results using Mutated Beast corpses.
• Yuwen Ye celebrated Jiang Fu's score and told Jin Manzhi that Jiang Fu likely no longer needed the Yellow-Rank Low Grade Psychic Power weapon she was bringing; Jin Manzhi checked the rankings and continued toward the Ninth District.
• Jiang Fu used his Flying Sword Hold On to kill 783 Rain Monkeys, then tied their tails into strings and dragged the corpses toward the Safety Passage.
• Zhen Youqian saw Jiang Fu's Rain Monkeys and rushed into the rain to hunt more, while Jiang Fu continued to the Martial Artist Guild with his haul.
• The waiting Martial Artists saw Jiang Fu and his Rain Monkeys, but some doubted he was Jiang Fu because his score had just increased while they believed Jiang Fu was still in the Wilderness Zone.

Jiang Fu brought hundreds of Rain Monkeys to the Martial Artist Guild and raised his exam score past 10,000, then kept submitting beasts to climb the national rankings. As his score neared 20,000, Earth Origin Martial Arts University requested verification of his results.

• Jiang Fu returned to the Martial Artist Guild with 783 Rain Monkeys, and Li Yue appraised them for 783 exam points, bringing his total to 9,116.
• Jiang Fu submitted more beasts and reached 10,000 points, then learned from Shi Jiu that a national top-three ranking could let him request that she accompany him to Tianhuang Martial Arts University.
• After seeing he ranked thirty-third nationwide, Jiang Fu continued submitting beasts from his Storage Badge, including numerous Spirit-Devouring Demon Frogs, while Shi Jiu realized how he was competing.
• Martial Artists watching the rankings recognized Jiang Fu as the masked candidate who had brought in the Rain Monkeys, while Xu Lulu pretended not to know his identity.
• A representative from Earth Origin Martial Arts University asked Principal Qi and Chairman Xia Fan to verify Jiang Fu's results, and Shen Yan mocked the representative as an insurance salesman.

After Jiang Fu’s score placed him twenty-sixth nationwide, officials and university representatives visited the Trading Area warehouse to verify his exam results. They confirmed through his prey, recorded footage, and a Sequence Item that he had independently killed the Mutated Beasts, while an official’s question about his Mental Strength drew Shen Yan’s rebuke.

• Jiang Fu’s score settled at 15,666, making him first in Bincheng and twenty-sixth nationwide, and Shen Yan told the visitors he was at the Acquisition Center warehouse.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu sorted the Mutated Beast carcasses, and Xia Fan arrived with Su Yixuan and the other officials to inspect them.
• Jiang Fu showed footage of himself hunting the beasts, and Su Yixuan used a Sequence Item to verify that he had killed them independently.
• The Sequence Item confirmed Jiang Fu had slain the Spirit-Devouring Demon Frog and Blood-Eyed Golden Tiger, prompting Su Yixuan to resolve to recruit him for Earth Origin Martial Arts University.
• A District One Martial Artist asked how Jiang Fu had pierced a Level Three Mutated Beast’s defenses with Mental Strength of only sixteen hundred, and Shen Yan accused him of prying into Jiang Fu’s secrets.

Jiang Fu defended the validity of his exam results while officials and university representatives tried to recruit him and offer him a weapon. He revealed that he had livestreamed the verification, exposing the recruitment offers to viewers on the Martial Artist Forum.

• Qi Xiuyuan challenged Situ Yang for questioning Jiang Fu’s exam results, and Su Yixuan declared the results valid.
• Su Yixuan offered Jiang Fu a graded weapon if he joined Earth Origin Martial Arts University, but Jin Manzhi arrived and gave Jiang Fu an Aurora Shield on Minister Yuwen’s behalf.
• Jin Manzhi raised the possibility of recruiting Jiang Fu for Human Mystery Martial Arts University, while Xia Fan said Jiang Fu could choose freely.
• Jiang Fu revealed that he had livestreamed the exam-results verification and Su Yixuan’s recruitment offer to Martial Artist Forum viewers.

After Jiang Fu learned that District One was targeting him to protect Li Xiuchuan, he planned to turn the tables by making Li Xiuchuan an Expanded-Enrollment Candidate. Meanwhile, Jin Manzhi identified the impostor who had tried to seduce Xu Yunfeng, and the Ninth District’s leaders began plotting to take District One’s Third-Tier Spirit Fruit Tree.

• Xia Fan explained that District One was targeting Jiang Fu to protect Li Xiuchuan and preserve its control over Bincheng’s resources.
• Jiang Fu vowed to make Li Xiuchuan an Expanded-Enrollment Candidate and asked Shen Yan to accompany him to the Wilderness Zone the next afternoon.
• Shen Yan told Xia Fan that Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu were dating as Jiang Fu carried the sleeping Shi Jiu away.
• Jin Manzhi identified the woman who had impersonated her as Sequence: Impostor, one of the District One Martial Artist Guild president’s people.
• Shen Yan proposed taking District One’s Third-Tier Spirit Fruit Tree and suggested that Jiang Fu’s relatives could accidentally make a will public after watching his livestream.

Shen Yan explained Jiang Fu’s parents’ will and planned to use public opinion while targeting District One’s plot when Jiang Fu left the city. Meanwhile, Jiang Fu refused to meet the officials waiting outside his home, and the next morning his classmates learned he would represent Yuntian Martial Arts Academy in a challenge against Wude Martial Arts Academy.

• Jin Manzhi confirmed that District One had tried to trap her and use her appearance to set Yuwen Ye against the Ninth District, then vowed to find someone to backstab those responsible.
• Shen Yan explained Jiang Fu’s parents’ will and said their group would shape public opinion about the Spirit Fruit Tree without confronting their opponents directly.
• Xia Fan warned Jin Manzhi that someone close to her might have supplied the personal item needed for an Impersonator Sequence user to copy her appearance.
• Jiang Fu refused a request to meet Su Yixuan, Situ Yang, Liu Changqing, and the others waiting outside Blue Shore Manor; Su Yixuan warned them not to kill Jiang Fu, while a woman proposed impersonating Han Ruobing to seduce him.
• The next morning, Lü Pin argued with Han Ruobing in class, and Xu Chi announced that Jiang Fu would represent Yuntian Martial Arts Academy as an Intermediate Psychic against Wude Martial Arts Academy.

Jiang Fu discovered that Shi Jiu’s Qi and Blood Flowing Method could restore his lifespan, while Shi Jiu searched for information about the pills he had fished up. A Tianhuang Martial Arts University teacher arrived, and Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu learned he was Shi Jiu’s fifth brother, Shi Wu, who was stunned to find her living with Jiang Fu.

• Shi Jiu helped Jiang Fu raise his Qi-Blood Value from 86 to 92, and his lifespan increased to ten years and one day.
• Jiang Fu asked Shi Jiu about the Heavenly Treasure Origin Star Pill and the Lesser Origin Pill, and she said she would ask someone for information.
• Shen Yan told Jiang Fu to wait before challenging Wude Martial Arts Academy so he could build publicity around Jiang Fu’s livestream.
• Shi Wu arrived with Xia Fan as a teacher from Tianhuang Martial Arts University, recognized Shi Jiu, and demanded to know why she was living with Jiang Fu.
• Shi Jiu told Shi Wu that Grandma’s Laboratory was in the basement, and Jiang Fu questioned why Shi Wu had not sought her out during the years she was away.
• Xia Fan reminded them that they still needed to get down to business.

Jiang Fu explained the Origin Pills to Shi Jiu, then learned that the Martial Artist Guild had transferred five billion Xia Currency from his Mutated Beast sales into her account. Shi Wu tried to win Shi Jiu over with three hundred million, but Jiang Fu’s wealth left him feeling decisively defeated.

• Shi Wu decided to take Shi Jiu away from Jiang Fu and offered her three hundred million Xia Currency to fund the reconstruction of her grandparents’ laboratory.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu read a confidential document explaining how the Heavenly Treasure Origin Star Pill and Lesser Origin Pill replenished life origin and how briefly the pills could be preserved.
• Shi Jiu received five billion Xia Currency from the Martial Artist Guild for Jiang Fu’s Mutated Beasts, including twenty Blood-Eyed Golden Tigers.
• Jiang Fu told Shi Jiu to keep the money, said he had earned it on the first day of the exam, and dismissed Shi Wu’s three-hundred-million offer.
• Shi Wu imagined Jiang Fu as a yellow-haired punk taking Shi Jiu away and felt he had lost their first face-off.

Jiang Fu prepared to challenge Wude Martial Arts Academy again as public attention and pressure mounted. At the academy, Qi Shenghui offered to face him, while Ma Xiaojie disguised herself as Han Ruobing and approached Jiang Fu, who kicked her and invoked his ability to multiply the distance between them by ten.

• Shen Yan’s efforts made Jiang Fu’s challenge and Wude Martial Arts Academy’s earlier maneuver a major public controversy across Bincheng.
• Wude’s senior members worried that they could neither refuse nor afford to lose to Jiang Fu, until Qi Shenghui arrived and offered to face him.
• Ma Xiaojie used Han Ruobing’s camisole to disguise herself as Han Ruobing, then headed with Liu Changqing and Situ Yang to meet Jiang Fu.
• Shi Jiu took photos with Jiang Fu in Xia Fan’s SUV, prompting Shi Wu to demand that Jiang Fu move to the front seat.
• Jiang Fu arrived at Wude Martial Arts Academy, recognized the disguised Ma Xiaojie, kicked her, and activated his ability to multiply the distance between himself and Han Ruobing by ten.

Jiang Fu kicked away an Advanced Martial Artist disguised as Han Ruobing before challenging Wude Martial Arts Academy. The real Han Ruobing was flung across the city, while Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu prepared to fight Wu Tianxing outside the academy.

• Jiang Fu recognized the fake Han Ruobing as an Advanced Martial Artist and kicked her away, allowing Ma Xiaojie to escape into the crowd.
• Qi Xiuyuan gathered the students of Bincheng No. 9 Middle School to watch Jiang Fu's challenge, while the real Han Ruobing watched from school and was suddenly launched into a septic tank outside the city.
• Ge Yanxia, Guo Fangdong, and Guo Xiaofeng watched the livestream from the psychiatric ward, and Zhang Chong arranged for Ji Lin to use Ge Yanxia's will to expose her in public.
• Shi Jiu identified the attacker as a Sequence Disguiser who had tried to use Jiang Fu's supposed white moonlight against him, and Jiang Fu suspected his ability had sent Han Ruobing flying.
• Wu Tianxing announced that Wude Martial Arts Academy would accept Jiang Fu's challenge outside its main gate.

Jiang Fu faced Qi Shenghui in a public challenge outside Wude Martial Arts Academy, where they negotiated stakes tied to their futures. Shi Wu witnessed the agreement and offered to take the winner as his disciple, leaving Jiang Fu and Qi Shenghui poised to fight.

• Jiang Fu arrived at Wude Martial Arts Academy's crowded arena, where Wu Tianxing announced that Tianhuang Martial Arts University student Qi Shenghui would fight him.
• Shi Wu explained that Qi Shenghui had grown powerful and hunted a Level Three Mutated Beast, while Shi Jiu worried that Jiang Fu's lower Qi and Blood would put him at a disadvantage.
• Qi Shenghui proposed that Jiang Fu surrender his Elite Candidate status if he lost, and Jiang Fu countered that Qi Shenghui would sign a contract and become a Wude junior trainee if he lost.
• Qi Shenghui accepted Jiang Fu's terms, and Shi Jiu asked Shi Wu to witness their agreement.
• Shi Wu offered to take Qi Shenghui as his nominal disciple if he won and Jiang Fu as his personal disciple if Jiang Fu won.

Shi Wu witnessed the wager between Qi Shenghui and Jiang Fu, then started their fight at Wude Martial Arts Academy. Jiang Fu used deceptive named attacks to catch Qi Shenghui off guard, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Shi Wu agreed to witness the wager: Qi Shenghui would become his Honorary Disciple if he won, while a loss meant he would join Wude Martial Arts Academy as an official student.
• Su Yixuan saw Shi Wu with Jiang Fu and decided he had to find a way to recruit Jiang Fu for Earth Origin Martial Arts University.
• Jiang Fu secretly multiplied his abilities by ten before Shi Wu began the fight.
• Jiang Fu shouted “Hold on!” and struck at Qi Shenghui, who dodged the attack and countered with Heavenly Desolation Dragon Transformation Fist.
• Jiang Fu called out “Wait a moment!” and unleashed thirteen sword strikes, which Qi Shenghui narrowly avoided but did not entirely escape.
• Jiang Fu shouted “Look, a flying saucer!” to make Qi Shenghui turn, then swung his War Blade; Qi Shenghui dodged, and Jiang Fu argued that his attacks were simply named for use against Mutated Beasts.

Jiang Fu defeated Qi Shenghui and forced him to sign a contract joining Wude Martial Arts Academy, then went with Shi Jiu to the Martial Artist Guild. News of the fight spread across Bincheng, and Li Xiuchuan’s master told him to return to District One and continue his exam.

• Jiang Fu exposed Qi Shenghui’s distraction and used his Flying Sword to show that Qi Shenghui had already lost.
• Wu Tianxing brought Qi Shenghui a contract, and Shi Wu made him honor his promise by signing it with his Martial Artist Badge.
• Jiang Fu left for the Martial Artist Guild with Shi Jiu, while Shi Wu complained that she had to ride in a taxi despite Jiang Fu giving her five billion.
• News of Jiang Fu’s victory spread across Bincheng, and Li Xiuchuan collapsed after learning that Qi Shenghui had lost and joined Wude Martial Arts Academy.
• The president of the District One Martial Artist Guild called Li Xiuchuan and ordered him to return to District One to continue taking the exam.

Jiang Fu’s victory over Qi Shenghui brought celebration to Ninth High School and humiliation to Wude Martial Arts Academy, while the First District’s leaders plotted to interfere with Jiang Fu’s exam. On the way back, Jiang Fu used his ability to make Han Ruobing’s wait for a taxi even worse, then introduced Li Dazhi to Supervisor Shen at the Martial Artist Guild.

• Li Xiuchuan returned to District One as ordinary onlookers learned Jiang Fu had defeated Qi Shenghui, and Wu Tianxing announced a three-day banquet to celebrate the victory.
• Qi Xiuyuan praised Xu Chi and promised to support his daughter attending Ninth High School as Jiang Fu’s success brought hope of shifting resources toward the Ninth District.
• Ma Xiaojie, Liu Changqing, and Situ Yang discussed Qi Shenghui’s defeat, agreed Li Xiuchuan needed the Elite Admission Quota, and decided to target Jiang Fu’s exam by disguising themselves as elders from another district.
• Jiang Fu told Li Dazhi not to give Han Ruobing a ride, and two vehicles splashed her with muddy water as she waited for a taxi.
• Jiang Fu introduced Li Dazhi to Supervisor Shen at the Martial Artist Guild and told him to contact Shen if he needed anything.

Li Dazhi met Martial Artist Guild leaders Shen Yan and Xia Fan, who learned he was close to Jiang Fu and tried to win his favor. Meanwhile, Shi Wu examined the Black Giant Python, then joined Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu for a meal that left him impressed by Jiang Fu’s cooking.

• Jiang Fu introduced Li Dazhi to Shen Yan and Xia Fan, who added the taxi driver as a friend and learned he had given Jiang Fu free rides.
• Li Dazhi angrily defended Jiang Fu when Shen Yan called him a little devil, prompting Shen Yan to decide he should curry favor with Li Dazhi.
• Shi Jiu told Shi Wu the Black Giant Python’s venom could suppress true qi and Psychic Power and cause sleepiness, and Shi Wu agreed to study it at the Guild laboratory.
• Shi Wu inferred that Shi Jiu had been poisoned before Jiang Fu saved her in the Wilderness Zone, then followed Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu to eat.
• Jiang Fu served a homemade meal, and Shi Wu rejected it at first but soon tried the food and praised its taste.

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu planned to travel through the Wilderness Zone and make Shen Yan take the blame for their move against District One, but Xia Fan replaced him as their driver. The group set out in the rain, leaving Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu unsure whether Shen Yan had figured out their plan.

• Shi Wu ate most of Jiang Fu's meal, began warming to him, then left to process the python's corpse.
• Jiang Fu told Shi Jiu they would retaliate against District One by turning its favored candidate into an Expanded-Enrollment Candidate, and they planned to use Shen Yan as the fall guy.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu sprayed each other with Concealing Breath Spray and entered the Wilderness Zone through the Ninth District's Safety Passage as onlookers watched.
• Xia Fan stopped Shen Yan from joining Jiang Fu, stripped off Shen Yan's Combat Uniform, and went in his place, while Shen Yan stayed behind to steer public opinion.
• In the Wilderness Zone, Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu questioned why Xia Fan was driving; Xia Fan said Shen Yan had sent him, and Jiang Fu guessed Shen Yan had backed out after realizing their scheme.

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu returned to the little valley to hunt the hidden creature, while Xia Fan waited nearby and a group led by Liu Changqing tracked Jiang Fu through the rain. Jiang Fu discovered that the creature was the Boundary Beast E, and he and Shi Jiu prepared to fight it.

• Shi Jiu told Jiang Fu she wanted to visit the valley and deal with the hidden danger, and Xia Fan drove them there.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu vanished from Xia Fan's sight, then told him to hide the SUV because a Spirit-Devouring Demon Frog was nearby.
• Liu Changqing, Situ Yang, Ma Xiaojie, and a Psychic entered the Wilderness Zone to find Jiang Fu as the Ninth District's president headed toward the area.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu entered the valley under Invisibility Talismans, and Jiang Fu used Mental Touch to search underground.
• A System Screen identified the hidden creature as the Boundary Beast E, and Shi Jiu summoned her Cloud-Patterned Gloves and Eight-Treasure Purple-Gold Spear as they prepared to fight.

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu attacked Boundary Beast E, using Jiang Fu’s System Screen and Mental Strength to guide their strikes. After the wounded beast burst from the ground and targeted Jiang Fu, Shi Jiu launched a spear at the vital point he identified.

• Jiang Fu used the fourth System Screen to locate Boundary Beast E and found the wound Shi Jiu had left on its throat.
• Shi Jiu held Jiang Fu around the waist as he empowered the Star Shuttle, which struck Boundary Beast E through its throat wound underground.
• Boundary Beast E erupted from the ground and locked its blood-gold eyes on Jiang Fu, whose fear eased when Shi Jiu reassured him.
• Shi Jiu leaped into the air with Jiang Fu as Boundary Beast E attacked with black flame, and Jiang Fu directed her toward its vital point.
• Jiang Fu multiplied Shi Jiu’s speed, attack range, and accuracy, and she hurled the Eight-Treasure Purple-Gold Spear through Boundary Beast E.

Shi Jiu and Jiang Fu killed Boundary Beast E and planned to use it to pass the exam assessment, then headed toward District One. On the way, Jiang Fu discovered that No. 1 Middle School's Vice Principal and the District One Martial Artist Guild Director were approaching with a Psychic, and proposed targeting District One's Elite Candidates.

• Shi Jiu broke Boundary Beast E's spine, and Jiang Fu finished it off with a Star Shuttle.
• Shi Jiu explained how the Invisibility Talisman could fool the Mystic Light Mirror and proposed having the exam proctors verify the beast; Jiang Fu stored its corpse away.
• Shi Jiu told Jiang Fu that Boundary Beast Crystal Cores were used to make Sequence Items, and they agreed to try making one together.
• Shi Jiu carried Jiang Fu out of the valley, and Xia Fan drove them toward District One through the Wilderness Zone.
• Jiang Fu sensed four masked figures approaching, identified the No. 1 Middle School Vice Principal and the District One Martial Artist Guild Director among them, and proposed turning District One's Elite Candidates into Expanded-Enrollment Candidates.

Jiang Fu traveled with Xia Fan and Shi Jiu, killed a Level Three Azure Luo Crocodile from a distance, and learned that Xia Fan feared a Boundary Beast calamity. After eating an Abyss Fruit Shi Jiu had found, Jiang Fu opened his Second Sequence.

• Xia Fan worried that District One would blame him for Jiang Fu's retaliation, but agreed to take responsibility as Jiang Fu discussed torturing their people.
• Jiang Fu killed a Level Three Azure Luo Crocodile from twelve hundred meters away with his Star Shuttle and stored its corpse.
• Shi Jiu told Xia Fan that Jiang Fu had killed a Boundary Beast E, and Xia Fan concluded that the rain came from Boundary Beast Calamity.
• Shi Jiu gave Jiang Fu an Abyss Fruit she had found in the valley, and Jiang Fu ate it after using Good Luck Multiply by Ten.
• Jiang Fu felt a strange sensation as his Second Sequence opened.

Jiang Fu upgraded his evasion Sequence and gave Shi Jiu multiplied Abyss Fruits and concealment pendants, while agreeing to help her recover the original Mystic Light Mirror. In the Ninth District, Ge Yanxia publicly claimed Jiang Fu’s parents had left him a Third-Tier Spirit Fruit Tree, and Liu Jingchuan feared the rumor would force him to surrender a tree that did not exist.

• Jiang Fu multiplied his Dodger Sequence into the God Sequence Absolute Evasion, and Shi Jiu warned him not to reveal his abilities in the Wilderness Zone.
• Jiang Fu multiplied Shi Jiu’s Abyss Fruit limits and luck recovery, prompting her God Sequence mark to reappear; she gave him a Concealment Pendant, which he multiplied and shared with her.
• Shi Jiu told Jiang Fu she wanted to retrieve the original Mystic Light Mirror to learn how her grandparents died, and he agreed that they would work together.
• Liu Jingchuan arrived at the Ninth District to investigate the Blue-Ringed Octopus invasion and the Blue Abyss Emperor Crab’s mutation, while privately considering recruiting Jiang Fu.
• Ge Yanxia confronted Liu Jingchuan in front of the news media and claimed Jiang Fu’s parents had entrusted a Third-Tier Spirit Fruit Tree to the District One Martial Artist Guild.
• Liu Jingchuan realized the media might make the false claim seem true and feared the Ninth District would demand the Spirit Fruit Tree.

Ge Yanxia’s will and a coordinated publicity campaign exposed the District One Martial Artist Guild’s possession of Jiang Fu’s inherited Third-Tier Spirit Fruit Tree, forcing officials to confirm it belonged to his parents. Liu Jingchuan learned of the reversal that evening and accused his allies of betraying him, while Jin Manzhi revealed she had arranged payback for his earlier betrayal of her.

• The Ninth District Patrol Team seized Ge Yanxia and accidentally let her authenticated will appear on a reporter’s livestream as Zhang Chong ushered Liu Jingchuan into the headquarters.
• A prepared campaign spread the story of Jiang Fu’s parents, Yuntian Martial Arts Academy, and the Spirit Fruit Tree, prompting widespread demands that the District One Martial Artist Guild return it to him.
• District One Guild officials panicked as they learned that Minister Yuwen and Vice President Chen Xiao had publicly confirmed the tree belonged to Jiang Fu’s parents.
• After a four-hour meeting, Liu Jingchuan discovered the news and cursed Yuwen Ye, Chen Xiao, and the Ninth District for conspiring against him.
• Jin Manzhi told Liu Jingchuan she had arranged for him to experience the betrayal he had inflicted on her.

Liu Jingchuan was trapped in the Ninth District while its officials stalled him, leaving Liu Changqing to lead District One’s effort to target Jiang Fu. On the way toward District One, Jiang Fu stopped for a hot meal and said he planned to reveal his exam results in the middle of the night.

• Jin Manzhi told Liu Jingchuan that the Ninth District was targeting his Third-Tier Spirit Fruit Tree, and Wang Cheng took him to another meeting about the Blue-Ringed Octopus Incident.
• Wang Cheng told Liu Jingchuan that Jiang Fu had killed the Blue-Ringed Octopus, then held him at the Patrol Team headquarters while the Ninth District investigated the octopus and its cave.
• Liu Changqing and Ma Xiaojie waited at the Ninth District Safety Passage, confident that Liu Jingchuan would protect the Spirit Fruit Tree while they focused on Jiang Fu.
• Situ Yang and the Psychic realized Jiang Fu had not returned and waited with the others to find him again.
• Xia Fan drove Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu toward District One, where Jiang Fu stopped to eat a meal he had brought along.
• Xia Fan noted that Jiang Fu’s exam ranking had fallen out of the top thirty, but Jiang Fu said he preferred to keep people anxious until the middle of the night.