Recaps

After returning from a hunt, Su Hao reviewed his health and training progress, focusing on how to strengthen his body and control its functions. Wu Yuntian then announced that he would begin teaching Su Hao how to advance to an Advanced Elite Warrior the next day.

• Su Hao returned to the village with the Blue-Striped Tiger's valuable parts and let the villagers believe Wu Yuntian had done most of the work.
• Little Fatty and Silly Tao envied Su Hao's progress, while He Qingqing left to train after Little Fatty praised her talent.
• Su Hao checked his status in Marble Space and found that his blood qi and muscle strength had reached their limits, while his bone, viscera, and five-senses training remained unfinished.
• Su Hao meditated to practice controlling his strengthening functions but made little progress with his bones, viscera, and five senses.
• Wu Yuntian told Su Hao that he would teach him to advance to an Advanced Elite Warrior starting the next day, and Su Hao asked why they could not begin immediately.

Su Hao learned that advancing to an Elite Warrior required strengthening his vitality, spirit, and vigor until he could control his Blood Qi. At nine years old, he used a centrifugal separation method to rapidly convert ordinary Blood Qi into elite Blood Qi and discovered its immense power.

• Wu Yuntian explained that Su Hao needed to strengthen his vitality, spirit, and vigor to take control of his Blood Qi, and taught him the three strictnesses, four diligences, and five abstinences.
• Su Hao spent six months cultivating until he could make a small portion of his Blood Qi move, then another six months until he could circulate it according to the "Nine Palaces Blood-Intercepting Manual."
• At age nine, Su Hao began vibrating his Blood Qi to transform it into elite Blood Qi but realized the process was too slow.
• Su Hao devised the Centrifugal Separation Method, spinning his Blood Qi into vortices that rapidly produced elite Blood Qi.
• Su Hao coated a short blade with elite Blood Qi and drove it through the stone floor, astonished by its strength.

Su Hao learned how elite Blood Qi worked, filled all Nine Palaces in just a month, and discovered that his methods made his progress far faster than normal. He sparred with Wu Yuntian to test his strength and realized elite Blood Qi could protect him from attacks, leaving him eager to rely on close combat.

• Su Hao coated his fist in elite Blood Qi and punched a crater into the ground, then discovered that converting all his ordinary Blood Qi left his muscles exhausted.
• Su Hao replenished and converted his Blood Qi for a month, filling all Nine Palaces and telling Wu Yuntian he had reached that limit.
• Wu Yuntian explained that Su Hao's Blood Qi Strengthening Function and Centrifugal Force Conversion Method let him accumulate elite Blood Qi far faster than ordinary warriors.
• Wu Yuntian took Su Hao outside to spar so they could assess his strength.
• Su Hao attacked with Charge and a sudden upward kick, but Wu Yuntian evaded and knocked him flying with an elbow.
• Su Hao learned that elite Blood Qi could offset elite Blood Qi attacks, and concluded that his strengthened body and abundant reserves made hand-to-hand combat a viable strategy.

Su Hao fought Wu Yuntian and learned he had reached the High-Rank Elite Warrior level, so Wu Yuntian arranged for him to attend Lingyun Warrior Academy. After two months of training, Su Hao left Tea Mountain Outpost for Lingyun Town with He Qingqing, Li Cunzhi, and their fathers.

• Su Hao battled Wu Yuntian, who recognized that his son’s strength and speed were nearly his equal, and Su Hao conceded after being thrown off balance.
• Wu Yuntian told Su Hao he would enroll at Lingyun Warrior Academy in September to study martial cultivation theory, alongside He Qingqing and Li Cunzhi.
• Two months later, Su Hao recorded his improved status as a High-Rank Elite Warrior with 31 Elite Blood Qi and mastered Sliding Shadow Step.
• Su Hao set out for Lingyun Town with He Qingqing, Li Cunzhi, He Jianyong, and Old Li, while Wu Yuntian stayed behind to guard the village.
• Wu Yuntian gave Su Hao money from trading his collected spoils, and Su Hao left Tea Mountain Outpost for the first time, excited about the journey.

Su Hao and the others traveled to Lingyun Town, discussing the Warrior Academy and their expectations for studying there. They reached the town and learned its towering walls were built to defend against Ferocious Beasts, then He Jianyong led them inside to register.

• Little Fatty boasted that he would protect He Qingqing at the Warrior Academy, while Su Hao privately worried he would have to handle trouble for them.
• Little Fatty asked Su Hao about his rank, and Su Hao vaguely agreed when Little Fatty guessed he was a High-Rank Ordinary Warrior.
• Su Hao, He Qingqing, Little Fatty, and the others arrived at Lingyun Town in the afternoon and marveled at its immense walls.
• He Jianyong explained that the walls protected the town from powerful Ferocious Beasts and reassured the children that warriors guarded them.
• He Jianyong led the group through the city gate to register.

Su Hao, He Qingqing, and Little Fatty enrolled at Lingyun Warrior Academy and began settling into their new lives there. When Little Fatty went back to the dormitory to fetch money for dinner, he discovered it was missing.

• He Jianyong treated the children to food in Lingyun Town, and Su Hao bought new clothes, a longer blade, and daily necessities.
• Su Hao paid one Gold Yuan to enroll at Lingyun Warrior Academy and received a student token before He Jianyong and Old Li returned to Tea Mountain Outpost.
• Su Hao and Little Fatty shared a dormitory, while He Qingqing was assigned to a girls' dormitory elsewhere in the Academy.
• Su Hao led Little Fatty and He Qingqing around the Academy, showing them the dining hall, training field, bathhouse, classrooms, and teachers' residences.
• Little Fatty decided to treat Su Hao and He Qingqing to dinner and returned to the dormitory to get his money.
• Little Fatty searched the dormitory and told Su Hao that he could not find his money.

Su Hao traced the thief who stole Little Fatty’s money to a restaurant and recovered the stolen pouch. He broke both of the thief’s hands, paid the restaurant bill with money taken from the thief’s companions, and left the thief subdued.

• Su Hao used Little Light to identify unfamiliar footprints and fingerprints, then led Little Fatty and He Qingqing to a restaurant outside Warrior Academy.
• Su Hao confirmed the short-haired man’s fingerprints and caught him boasting about stealing from a child.
• When the man’s two companions tried to attack, Su Hao kicked them aside and demanded the stolen money.
• Su Hao broke the short-haired man’s hand, searched him, and recovered three money pouches; Little Fatty identified and reclaimed his own.
• Su Hao broke the thief’s other hand and paid the waiter for the meal with Silver Yuan taken from the thief’s companions.

Su Hao explained Thunderous Means to He Qingqing and Little Fatty, then demonstrated the principle by beating their domineering roommate Kong Yang into submission. He left Hua Wanli eager to learn from him, but told the timid boy that the Academy could teach him.

• Su Hao told He Qingqing and Little Fatty that they had to make the cost of bullying them outweigh the rewards, and used a steamed-bun example to explain Thunderous Means.
• Jin Dayan and the girls with him discussed Su Hao's fight at the restaurant, and Jin Dayan admitted he might not have defeated the three opponents as cleanly.
• Su Hao escorted He Qingqing to her dormitory and introduced her to her roommates so she would not be isolated.
• Back at his dormitory, Su Hao challenged Kong Yang after Kong Yang bullied Li Cunzhi and claimed authority over the room.
• Su Hao repeatedly struck Kong Yang until he surrendered, then asked Little Fatty if he understood Thunderous Means.
• Hua Wanli asked Su Hao to teach him, and Su Hao told him he could learn at the Academy.

New students gathered at Lingyun Warrior Academy, where Dean Xiao Jixuan welcomed them before Jin Datong announced a sudden elimination test. Su Hao ran with Little Fatty and He Qingqing, trying to stay inconspicuous while he figured out how Jin Datong would judge the students.

• Xiao Jixuan welcomed the new students and spoke about the Academy’s role in training warriors and preserving the Human Race.
• Jin Datong announced that only four hundred of the five hundred and eighteen students could stay, and expelled a student who protested.
• Su Hao reassured Little Fatty and He Qingqing that he would help them if he could.
• Jin Datong ordered the students to run twenty laps and threatened to eliminate those he disliked.
• Su Hao ran with Little Fatty and He Qingqing at a moderate pace while observing the test.

Su Hao completed the twenty-lap run after Jin Datong offered ten Gold Yuan to whoever took first place. When Jin Datong tried to delay payment until the next day, Su Hao wrote him an IOU in front of the other teachers.

• Su Hao urged He Qingqing and Little Fatty to keep running after they began to falter, and he caught them when they collapsed.
• Jin Datong offered ten Gold Yuan to the first student to finish, expecting his younger brother Jin Dayan to win.
• Su Hao sprinted past the other students and Jin Dayan, then completed all twenty laps first.
• Su Hao demanded the promised reward, but Jin Datong said he would pay him the next day.
• Su Hao took out paper and a pen and began writing Jin Datong an IOU as the teachers laughed.

Su Hao collected his 10 Gold Yuan and joined Class 8, where his brutal response to his classmates’ challenge established his dominance. After Bald Old Liu stopped the brawl, the class began running, with Su Hao following them.

• Su Hao received his 10 Gold Yuan from Jin Datong and tore up the IOU.
• Su Hao learned he had been assigned to Class 8 under Bald Old Liu, who told the class to train by running.
• Su Hao punched Rong Guming unconscious after Rong asked whether Su Hao had to run too.
• Su Hao fought the students who rallied against him and knocked nearly all of them down before Bald Old Liu stopped him.
• Su Hao kicked Rong Guming again for disobeying Bald Old Liu, then the class hurried off to run.

Su Hao completed the Academy’s foundational training and became renowned as a genius, while Bald Old Liu predicted he could one day reach Ancestor Level. After defeating a group of upper-year students who confronted him, Su Hao demanded that they take him to the other Second-Level Students.

• Su Hao practiced unarmed combat with Bald Old Liu after his classmates were too afraid to spar with him.
• Su Hao decided to spend a year strengthening his foundations before pursuing advancement to Grandmaster Warrior.
• Teachers discussed Su Hao’s exceptional talent, and Bald Old Liu asked them to keep an eye on him.
• Half a year after enrolling, Su Hao completed foundational training and gained more time for independent study and practice.
• Several Second-Level Students blocked Su Hao, but he quickly beat them and asked them to lead him to the rest of their year.

Su Hao challenged Xiao Yushu, the undefeated strongest Level 2 Student, and defeated him in two blows. With Xiao Yushu unconscious and the crowd stunned, Su Hao demanded that the remaining Level 2 Students fight him together, then prepared to attack when no one stepped forward.

• Flathead led Su Hao to the Level 2 training venue after warning him that Xiao Yushu had never lost.
• Xiao Yushu defeated three top-ten Level 2 Students who challenged him together.
• Su Hao challenged Xiao Yushu and knocked him down with Sliding Shadow Step, surprising the spectators.
• Xiao Yushu charged again, but Su Hao parried his Mountain Breaking Fist and knocked him unconscious with Hard Force Fist.
• Su Hao challenged all the Level 2 Students at once, and when no one answered, he said he would take the initiative.

Su Hao defeated the Second-Level Students and used his newfound freedom to study at Lingyun Library, where he frightened a girl who thought he was damaging the books. He was left wondering whether he really was as scary as the rumors claimed.

• Su Hao defeated the Second-Level Students, learned the Level 3 Students were away at a wilderness outpost, and left the field.
• Old Liu and other teachers discussed Su Hao's victory and speculated that he had reached the Elite Warrior level.
• Su Hao's reputation kept trouble away from him, He Qingqing, and Little Fatty, and he began spending his afternoons studying at Lingyun Library.
• Su Hao rapidly flipped through books to record them in his system, alarming the three girls who were also in the library.
• Xiao Mei asked Su Hao not to ruin the books, but he deliberately intimidated her, causing her and her companions to flee.
• Su Hao watched the girls run away and wondered whether he was really that scary.

After months of training, Su Hao had become a powerful High-Rank Elite Warrior, but he rushed to He Qingqing’s dormitory when Little Fatty reported that a Level 3 Student was harassing her. He rescued her and then set out with her to confront the Level 3 Students, drawing a crowd of excited onlookers.

• Su Hao reviewed his improved body and skills in the library, where he saw Xiao Mei reading.
• Little Fatty told Su Hao that Level 3 Students had cornered He Qingqing in her dormitory after one of them demanded she become his girlfriend.
• Su Hao attacked the hedgehog-haired ringleader and his companions, then kicked the unconscious ringleader between the legs.
• He Qingqing ran out of the dormitory and joined Su Hao as he asked Little Fatty to lead them to the Level 3 Students.
• News spread that Wu Xiangwu was going to challenge all the Level 3 Students, and crowds of students hurried to watch.

Su Hao challenged the Level 3 Students at Lingyun Warrior Academy and defeated them all, including their strongest fighter, Ye Xiaomeng. After the crowd celebrated his victory, he asked where the Level 4 Students were, leaving his next challenge unresolved.

• Su Hao handed He Qingqing to Little Fatty, then announced that he would challenge every Level 3 Student and began attacking them.
• Su Hao overwhelmed the Level 3 Students as onlookers, including Jin Dayan, Jin Xiaohan, Mo Xin, and Xiao Yushu, watched.
• A freckled girl summoned Ye Xiaomeng from the Trial Ground while Ye Xiaomeng was fighting a Crocodile-Toothed Beast.
• Ye Xiaomeng confronted Su Hao, but he knocked her down with Sliding Shadow Step and Ascending Fist; the other Level 3 Students charged and were defeated.
• The First-Level and Second-Level Students celebrated Su Hao's victory, and Su Hao asked a student where the Level 4 Students were.

Su Hao, using the name Wu Xiangwu, confronted Ye Xiaomeng after breaking up a group of Level 3 Students who had threatened a First-Level Student. He blamed Ye Xiaomeng and the other students for allowing wrongdoing, then left them shaken while Dean Xiao Jixuan watched from afar.

• Su Hao learned that Level 4 Students had mostly left for internships and decided to prepare for retaliation from the spiky-haired student before advancing to Grandmaster Warrior.
• Ye Xiaomeng stopped Su Hao as he tried to leave and demanded an explanation for beating the Level 3 Students.
• Su Hao told Ye Xiaomeng that the Level 3 Students had threatened a First-Level Student, and argued that she had failed in her duty as their strongest student.
• Su Hao accused Ye Xiaomeng and the other students of enabling wrongdoing, then punched her and sent her flying.
• Ye Xiaomeng, Xiao Yushu, and Jin Dayan were left questioning their own responsibility as Su Hao departed.
• Dean Xiao Jixuan watched the scene from a distant rooftop and found Su Hao interesting.

After learning that Dan Sui’s father had hired people to kill him, Su Hao sought advice from Teacher Liu about Martial Artists and advancing to Grandmaster Warrior. He demonstrated his High-Rank Elite Warrior strength, leaving Teacher Liu stunned.

• Little Fatty warned Su Hao that Dan Sui planned to take revenge and had hired assassins, and Su Hao asked him to gather information about Dan Sui.
• Su Hao decided to face the threat directly and went to find his homeroom teacher, Bald Old Liu.
• Old Liu confirmed that Dan Sui’s father had hired people to ambush Su Hao, but assured him that no outsider could kill an Academy student on campus.
• Su Hao told Old Liu that his Elite Blood Qi had reached his body’s limit and asked for guidance on advancing to Grandmaster Warrior within a few months.
• When Old Liu doubted his claim, Su Hao punched the ground and blasted a crater into it, demonstrating his strength.

Old Liu explained how the Human Race discovered the path beyond High-Rank Elite Warrior and began teaching Su Hao the power of the Grandmaster Realm. Su Hao’s strongest punch sent Old Liu stumbling, leaving him astonished that Su Hao was only a High-Rank Elite Warrior.

• Old Liu told Su Hao that knowledge of the Grandmaster Realm was usually guarded by powerful Lineages, but the Warrior Academy could teach its students.
• Old Liu explained that the Human Race’s bodies could not surpass High-Rank Elite Warrior naturally, and that Human Emperor Wu Zongzu had discovered and shared the method to reach the Grandmaster Realm.
• Old Liu demonstrated a Grandmaster Warrior’s powerful aura and compared its strength to a rushing river beside an Elite Warrior’s bucket of water.
• Old Liu asked Su Hao to strike him so he could experience the difference between their realms.
• Su Hao unleashed his strongest punch, sending Old Liu stumbling back five or six steps and making him question whether Su Hao was truly a High-Rank Elite Warrior.

Su Hao learned that advancing to Grandmaster required acquiring and imprinting a Ferocious Beast’s Beast Pattern, then chose one from the Academy’s collection. He left with the Perception pattern, despite Old Liu warning that it was difficult to imprint and had limited range.

• Su Hao demonstrated overwhelming Blood Qi for an Elite Warrior, and Old Liu explained that Grandmasters gained their power by imprinting Beast Patterns.
• Old Liu described how to obtain a Beast Pattern and explained that Su Hao would need to adapt its structure to his body, a process that could take years or fail entirely.
• Old Liu took Su Hao to Lingyun Library’s third floor, where he showed him the Academy’s thirty-three Beast Patterns and advised him to keep his pattern secret.
• Su Hao examined the scrolls and chose Perception, and Old Liu warned that it was complicated to imprint and only sensed an area of about twenty meters.
• Su Hao paid 5 Gold Yuan for the scroll and received permission to borrow it for a year before paying an annual rental fee.

Old Liu taught Su Hao how to imprint Beast Patterns and told him he could learn a combat skill after advancing to Grandmaster. Su Hao used Little Light to study and repeatedly adjust the Perception Rune, ending the chapter as he began a second imprinting attempt.

• Old Liu explained Beast Pattern imprinting and told Su Hao about the upcoming Academic Year Competition and its first-place prize.
• Old Liu offered to teach Su Hao a combat skill once he advanced to Grandmaster, and Su Hao gratefully accepted.
• Su Hao recorded the Perception Beast Pattern in the Light of the Universe as a Rune and prepared to analyze how to adapt it to his body.
• Su Hao used Little Light to project his body and guide his first attempt, successfully imprinting the Rune in ten minutes.
• Su Hao observed that most of the Rune's nodes were unstable but three remained stable, recorded his findings, and began a second attempt with the Rune adjusted and rotated.

Su Hao perfected and solidified his Perception Rune, becoming an Initial Grandmaster Warrior and gaining a vast Blood Qi network. After half a month of replenishing its capacity, he noticed the Academic Year Competition was about to begin, followed by vacation.

• Su Hao used Little Light and repeated inscriptions to refine his Beast Pattern until the Rune's nodes flowed smoothly.
• Su Hao branded and Solidified the Rune, then slept after ten days of intense work.
• Two days later, the Rune connected his Nine Palaces and Blood Qi into a huge network, leaving him with a much greater capacity to fill.
• Su Hao spent half a month transforming Blood Qi but replenished only half the network, and he checked his status as an Initial Grandmaster Warrior.
• Su Hao noticed the Academic Year Competition was scheduled for the next two days and classes would end three days later.

Su Hao discovered that his Perception rune worked like radar and built a map program to track nearby living beings by their Blood Qi. As he tested it around the Academy, his strange behavior sparked a rumor that he was hunting for targets to attack.

• Su Hao sensed Little Fatty approaching and discussed the next day's Academic Year Competition with him and He Qingqing, who were both assigned to compete and wanted to rely on their own training.
• Su Hao tested Perception and determined that its range varied with a person's Blood Qi, while different people had distinct Blood Qi signatures.
• Su Hao created the Radar program in Marble Space, linking his perceptions to databases that identified people and displayed their locations and threat levels on a map.
• Su Hao walked around the Academy, recording students in Radar and confirming that the program worked.
• The students saw Su Hao wandering strangely around the Academy, and a rumor spread warning everyone to keep away from him.

Su Hao watched Little Fatty and He Qingqing compete in the Academic Year Competition, then discussed their plans for the two-month vacation. He decided to stay in Lingyun Town to study Runes and find a way to earn money for Beast Patterns.

• Su Hao used Radar to record students' and instructors' Blood Qi, and concluded that his own Blood Qi intensity exceeded that of the class instructors.
• Little Fatty defeated his first opponent with a series of feints, but was eliminated in the second round after his opponent hooked his foot.
• He Qingqing won her first three matches, then lost to a Level 3 Student when fatigue left her unable to withstand two powerful blows.
• Su Hao praised Little Fatty and He Qingqing after their losses, and they recovered their spirits beneath a tree.
• Little Fatty and He Qingqing said they would return to Tea Mountain Outpost to train with their fathers during vacation, while Su Hao chose to stay in Lingyun Town and visit its library.
• Su Hao planned to study Runes and collect Beast Patterns, but he needed to earn money because he could not afford their price.

Su Hao improved his Perception Radar and prepared supplies for his father before leaving Lingyun Town with Wu Yuntian, He Qingqing, Little Fatty, He Jianyong, and Old Li. On the road to Tea Mountain Outpost, he detected ten warriors lying in wait, including Dan Sui, and realized the group was targeting him.

• Su Hao expanded his Perception Radar’s basic range to two hundred meters and could extend it to a thousand meters by controlling his Blood Qi.
• Su Hao spent 75 Silver Yuan on clothes, bedding, weapon-maintenance supplies, spices, salt, and fruit wine for Wu Yuntian.
• Su Hao met He Qingqing and Little Fatty outside her dormitory, and the three departed with their fathers and Old Li.
• The group left Lingyun Town and headed toward Tea Mountain Outpost while the three warriors watched for Ferocious Beasts.
• Su Hao detected ten unfamiliar Blood Qi sources ahead, recognized Dan Sui and a High-Rank Elite Warrior among them, and realized the group planned to ambush him.
• Wu Yuntian noticed Su Hao slowing down and asked what was wrong.