Recaps

Su Hao discovered that Dan Sui and his father had hired assassins to kill him, then revealed his Grandmaster strength and overwhelmed the attackers. Dan Liqin fled with Dan Sui and ordered the remaining assassins to seize hostages, while Su Hao rushed to stop one from reaching Wu Yuntian’s group.

• Su Hao warned Wu Yuntian that ten attackers were hiding ahead and asked him to protect He Qingqing and Little Fatty while Su Hao circled around.
• Dan Liqin waited with his son Dan Sui and the hired Elite Warrior assassins, while Dan Sui raged about killing Wu Xiangwu and He Qingqing.
• Su Hao was spotted as he approached and killed several assassins with his saber, revealing that he was a Grandmaster Warrior.
• Dan Liqin recognized Su Hao’s strength, slapped Dan Sui for provoking him, and fled with his son while ordering the assassins to seize hostages.
• One assassin charged toward Wu Yuntian’s group as the others scattered, and Su Hao raced after him; the assassin realized his companions had tricked him just before Su Hao struck.

Su Hao chased down and killed Dan Liqin and Dan Sui after they led assassins against him, then explained the incident to Wu Yuntian and the others. The group concealed the bodies and returned to the outpost with everyone stunned that Wu Xiangwu had become a Grandmaster.

• Su Hao tracked Dan Liqin and Dan Sui, killed Dan Sui after Dan Liqin threw him in his way, and then beheaded Dan Liqin.
• Wu Yuntian and the others arrived, and Su Hao explained that the conflict had begun when Dan Sui bullied He Qingqing and that he had since advanced to Grandmaster.
• He Jianyong told everyone to keep the incident secret, and the adults helped bury the bodies and clear away the traces.
• Old Li gave Su Hao the forty-three Silver Yuan found on the corpses, but Su Hao found no Beast Pattern on Dan Liqin.
• The group hurried back toward the outpost, while Little Fatty and He Qingqing asked Su Hao about his strength and doubted his modest answers.

Su Hao returned to Lingyun Warrior Academy after visiting Wu Yuntian, and began studying how to make martial advancement easier. As rumors spread about people disappearing in Lingyun Town, Su Hao dismissed the danger and returned to his books.

• Su Hao told Wu Yuntian about his year away and explained that Beast Patterns enabled advancement to Grandmaster, while Wu Yuntian revealed that his Blood Qi had not reached the required limit.
• Su Hao added tasks to simplify martial advancement and investigate Runes, hoping to share knowledge that could help Martial Artists and ordinary people.
• After three days at Tea Mountain Outpost, Su Hao returned to Lingyun Warrior Academy, where he studied in the quiet library and saw Xiao Mei again.
• Su Hao read books across Lingyun Town, recording material he could not afford and adding purchased books to Lingyun Library.
• Su Hao heard townspeople report that five more people had disappeared and that the incidents had been blamed on a Murder Ghost, but he decided to focus on reading.

Su Hao captured a corpse-like attacker controlled by a Rune and began experimenting with the Rune, but his attempt to reproduce it on a rat failed. He decided to seek Rune Masters and formed a plan to fund his research by selling complete Beast Patterns.

• Su Hao detected an attacker outside the Academy, dodged his ambush, and subdued him.
• Su Hao discovered a Rune on the attacker’s stomach, which vanished before the man died.
• Su Hao copied the Rune and tested it on a Big Yellow Rat, but the Blood Qi erupted and killed it.
• Su Hao concluded that he needed Rune Masters’ knowledge and added finding them as a subtask in his log.
• Su Hao recalled that complete Beast Patterns were valuable and began planning how to make money from them.

Su Hao tracked the attackers to a hidden cave and discovered a High-Rank Grandmaster Rune Master conducting experiments with kidnapped youths. He alerted the Guard Team and headed back toward the cave ahead of them, intending to use the time difference to pursue his own goals.

• Su Hao found two controlled attackers abducting students and followed them to a concealed cave on the edge of Lingyun Town.
• He detected three more controlled people, several kidnapped youths, and a powerful High-Rank Grandmaster whose Blood Qi matched the attackers'.
• Su Hao decided not to confront the Rune Master alone and planned to involve the Guard Team while seeking information and a chance to assess the enemy.
• Su Hao threw notes describing the Grandmaster and the cave toward the Guard Team headquarters, where Captain Luo ordered his Second Squadron to assemble.
• After sensing that the Guard Team had gathered twenty Elite Warriors and five Grandmaster Warriors, Su Hao set off toward the cave ahead of them.

Su Hao lured the Murder Ghost out of his cave, rescued books from a fire, and pursued him beyond the city. He caught up with the High-Rank Grandmaster in the wilderness and began a full-force saber attack.

• Jin Datong visited Guard Team headquarters, learned that Captain Luo had gone after the Murder Ghost, and left to drink alone.
• Su Hao reached the eastern cave ahead of the Guard Team and shouted that the Murder Ghost had been found, prompting him to flee through another exit.
• Su Hao entered the cave’s Secret Chamber, stopped a fire from consuming books, knocked out the captured trainees, and took the surviving books.
• Su Hao hid the books and chased the Murder Ghost beyond the city, while the Guard Team searched the cave without finding them.
• Su Hao caught up with the fleeing Murder Ghost and attacked with Mount Tai Stance and River-Severing Stance as the Murder Ghost raised his saber to block.

Su Hao fought Murder Ghost, overpowering him despite his defensive and blinding abilities. Jin Datong arrived just as Su Hao was about to finish Murder Ghost, forcing Su Hao to flee while Murder Ghost lay gravely wounded.

• Su Hao attacked Murder Ghost with heavy slashes and tricky footwork, but Murder Ghost survived a throat stab with his Barrier Rune and escaped using Strong Light.
• Su Hao caught up to Murder Ghost and repeatedly battered him until he fell, unable to rise or continue fighting.
• Su Hao sensed Jin Datong approaching and hurried to finish Murder Ghost, stabbing him through the chest and preparing to cut off his head.
• Jin Datong struck Su Hao's blade aside with a stone, leaving Murder Ghost with a deep chest wound.
• Su Hao judged Murder Ghost unlikely to survive and fled, while Jin Datong turned back and cursed at the wounded man.

After escaping with the stolen books and Beast Patterns, Su Hao studied the principles of Runes and began planning experiments to uncover how they worked. He decided his dormitory was unsuitable for the research and planned to sell the Beast Patterns and find a new location after school started.

• Su Hao returned to the Academy dormitory with the books and Beast Patterns, reflecting on his battle with Murder Ghost and his lack of experience handling surprises.
• Su Hao examined the loot, stored four Beast Pattern scrolls in Marble Space, and read the three books on Rune structure, application, and drawing fluid through the night and into the next afternoon.
• Su Hao learned that Runes came from Beast Patterns and used Blood Qi, then theorized that their effects arose from Blood Qi operating through Force Fields.
• Su Hao used Little Light to dismantle five Runes into categorized fragments and planned experiments to study how each fragment operated.
• Su Hao decided to move his research out of the dormitory, sell the four Beast Patterns once school started, and use the intervening days to study and plan purchases.

Su Hao studied forbidden books, learned to draw Runes, and found a way to use them without Drawing Fluid by drawing them in battle. After hearing that the Murder Ghost had returned and was abducting people again, he went looking for materials and information while vowing to kill the culprit if they met.

• Su Hao finished reading the salvaged books and used Little Light to guide him in drawing and activating a Strong Light Rune.
• Su Hao decided to keep the Extraction Beast Pattern secret because it could produce Blood Qi Crystals for breaking through bottlenecks.
• Su Hao reasoned that he could avoid the drawbacks of prepared Runes by drawing them during battle with Little Light's help.
• After two days of practice, Su Hao drew a Strong Light Rune without Drawing Fluid in ten seconds.
• Su Hao heard that the Murder Ghost had reappeared and was abducting more than a dozen people daily, then went through town seeking materials and information.

Su Hao tracked Murder Ghost to Jin Mansion and rescued Xiao Mei by killing him, but Jin Datong arrived and attacked. Su Hao wounded Jin Datong, only to discover that he could heal himself.

• Su Hao sensed Murder Ghost controlling someone who had captured Xiao Mei and followed them to Jin Mansion.
• Su Hao burst into the room and fought Murder Ghost, who called for his big brother Jin Datong.
• Su Hao blinded Murder Ghost with Strong Light and beheaded him before Jin Datong arrived.
• Jin Datong attacked Su Hao, who blinded him and drove a blade through his chest.
• Jin Datong pulled the blade from his chest and used Healing to close the wound, leaving Su Hao stunned.

Su Hao lured Jin Datong out of the city and fought him in the open, using his speed and a carefully arranged battlefield to sever Jin Datong’s arm. After pretending to be badly wounded, Su Hao fled to draw Jin Datong into another attack, and the chapter ended with them meeting each other’s gaze as Jin Datong caught up.

• Su Hao decided to retreat with the unconscious Xiao Mei, but first struck Jin Datong to create an opening and carried her out through a window.
• Su Hao dropped Xiao Mei safely into thick grass, escaped over the city wall, and led Jin Datong toward the outskirts.
• Su Hao and Jin Datong fought in the open, where Su Hao used repeated attacks to arrange the battlefield for a decisive strike.
• Jin Datong deflected Su Hao’s saber and punched him, but Su Hao severed Jin Datong’s left arm in return.
• Su Hao feigned severe injury and fled, prompting Jin Datong to chase him and swing a powerful punch as their eyes met.

Su Hao killed Jin Datong and wrestled with the meaning of right and wrong before deciding to pursue the unknown without hesitation. Lingyun Town’s leaders investigated the murder, while Su Hao returned to the Academy and reunited with He Qingqing and Little Fatty.

• Su Hao used a hidden pit to disrupt Jin Datong, traded an arm for a punch, then cut off Jin Datong’s head after using Barrier again.
• After cleaning up the scene and retrieving his longsword, Su Hao questioned whether killing Jin Datong had been right, then resolved to pursue his goals and explore the universe’s unknowns.
• Lu Luyun, Hua Hongyi, and Xiao Jixuan examined the deaths of Jin Datong and Jin Damo, found no local suspect, and imposed a month of martial law while claiming the Murder Ghost had been executed.
• Su Hao avoided exchanging his Beast Pattern for money and returned to the Warrior Academy three days later.
• He Qingqing and Little Fatty noticed Su Hao seemed different, and Su Hao joked that he had taken a bath before learning that tuition cost one Gold Yuan and threatening to quit.

Su Hao graduated early from Lingyun Warrior Academy and ventured into the wilderness to collect beast patterns while avoiding trouble in Lingyun Town. After hunting and dissecting ferocious beasts for half a month, he claimed a cave as a base for gathering patterns in large quantities.

• Su Hao asked Old Liu for early graduation, and Old Liu approved while inviting him to return for the cohort's ceremony in three years.
• Su Hao told Little Fatty to protect He Qingqing while he was away, then packed supplies and left the city with his radar active.
• Su Hao killed a giant centipede beast and found an incomplete beast pattern inside its fifth carapace segment, along with a parasite.
• Over the next five days, Su Hao hunted elite ferocious beasts and recorded their beast patterns as he traveled deeper into the wilderness.
• Half a month later, Su Hao killed a ghost pattern giant spider, cleared its cave, and chose the cave as his base for collecting beast patterns.

After completing the Short-tailed Dragon Beast Pattern and discovering its Oscillation effect, Su Hao returned to Lingyun Town to restock and find a safe way to sell Beast Patterns. He chose Qilian Chamber of Commerce as his first prospective buyer.

• Su Hao completed the Short-tailed Dragon Beast pattern and activated a new Beast Pattern that produced high-frequency Oscillation.
• Su Hao extracted Blood Qi Crystals, left the dragon corpses behind, and traveled back to Lingyun Town while avoiding Exploration Groups.
• Su Hao returned to town, cleaned up, bought new clothes, and realized he needed to sell Beast Patterns for money.
• Su Hao studied Lingyun Town's groups and businesses, then narrowed his possible buyers to Hunt, Red Rock Chamber of Commerce, and Qilian Chamber of Commerce.
• Su Hao selected Qilian Chamber of Commerce as the place to try selling his Beast Patterns.

Su Hao sold three unique Beast Patterns to the Qilian Chamber of Commerce, used the proceeds to buy equipment, and returned to the Wilderness. After months of studying Beast Pattern structures with the help of Perception, he found a promising direction for researching Runes.

• Su Hao drew five Beast Patterns and sold the three that the Qilian Chamber of Commerce had not already recorded, earning fifty-three Gold Yuan after a deduction.
• Su Hao learned that the Chamber of Commerce tested Beast Patterns with a dangerous Heaven-Facing Stone and hurried away from it.
• Su Hao spent his earnings on armor, weapons, and supplies, then used Radar to return to his cave while avoiding Exploration Groups.
• Su Hao killed a Mantis Sickle Beast that had occupied the cave and later conducted Rune experiments on an Explosive Needle Lizard's corpse.
• Su Hao used Perception to observe Blood Qi changes while testing shared Beast Pattern structures, and after another month he found a direction for Rune research.

Su Hao discovered that Blood Qi-consuming rune fragments converted Blood Qi into a hidden force, then formulated the first two laws of runes. After returning to Lingyun Town to resupply and visit Wu Yuntian, he headed deeper into the wilderness and found a White-Headed Fox colony to hunt.

• Su Hao isolated a flower-shaped rune structure that consumed Blood Qi and, after further experiments, concluded that it converted the energy into a special force he named Fundamental Force One.
• Su Hao identified a second force structure, named it Fundamental Force Two, and spent half a month simplifying both structures and recording the First and Second Laws of Runes.
• Su Hao abandoned his depleted hunting base, returned to Lingyun Town, sold three beast patterns, and bought supplies, armor, weapons, and food for Wu Yuntian and the villagers at Tea Mountain Outpost.
• Su Hao gave Wu Yuntian ten Gold Yuan and joked that he should find himself another wife, then left Lingyun Town three days later.
• After trekking for more than ten days, Su Hao found a White-Headed Fox colony and decided to wipe it out.

Over two years in the Wilderness, Su Hao expanded his rune knowledge and grew confident in his strength while continuing to hunt Ferocious Beasts. After struggling to recombine foundational runes, he designed standardized Pins and a circular Array Disk, then uncovered a secret hidden within Beast Patterns.

• At twelve, Su Hao cataloged foundational runes and studied how the Barrier rune worked, learning that it strengthened against stronger impacts.
• Su Hao traveled between Wilderness bases and nearby cities, hunted Ferocious Beasts, and avoided opponents too dangerous to fight.
• After another year, thirteen-year-old Su Hao tried combining foundational runes, but his constructions failed or collapsed.
• Su Hao analyzed complete Beast Patterns and realized their local parts had to fit an overall circuit.
• Su Hao designed standardized Pins for foundational runes and a circular Array Disk with ring-shaped sections and interfaces.
• Through experiments, Su Hao discovered a secret hidden within Beast Patterns that led him to finalize the Array Disk's structure.

Su Hao completed his fifth-generation Array Disks, reproducing every Beast Pattern he had, then set out to return to Tea Mountain Outpost. On the way, he encountered and killed a Great Master Realm Black-headed White-tailed Eagle.

• Su Hao discovered how Beast Patterns coordinated three functional dimensions and successfully reproduced the Strong Light pattern with an Array Disk.
• Over the next year, Su Hao advanced his Array Disks to the fifth generation and reproduced every complete Beast Pattern he possessed.
• Su Hao left the Wilderness, cleaned up in Shuangshi Town, and began traveling toward Lingyun Town.
• Ten days into his journey, Su Hao was pursued across a plain by a Great Master Realm Black-headed White-tailed Eagle.
• Su Hao used Barrier, Deflection, Strong Light, and other Runes to evade the eagle's claws, sever its wing, and kill it.

Su Hao dissected a Great Master Realm White-Tailed Eagle and theorized that advancement to that realm depended on energy, then returned to Tea Mountain Outpost and reunited with Wu Yuntian. After simplifying the Hardness Beast Pattern into a Rune Array Disk for his father, Su Hao was warned that revealing his invention could put him in danger, leaving him unsure how to share his knowledge safely.

• Su Hao dissected the White-Tailed Eagle, found a complete Penetration Beast Pattern and a Blood Qi-filled bead, and speculated that Great Master Realm advancement involved energy.
• Su Hao traveled cautiously for twenty days before returning to Tea Mountain Outpost and waiting for Wu Yuntian.
• Wu Yuntian told Su Hao that he had found the Blood Qi Strengthening Wave and reached peak Blood Qi intensity, but could not memorize Beast Patterns.
• Su Hao simplified the Hardness Beast Pattern into a Rune Array Disk and taught Wu Yuntian how to inscribe and adjust it.
• Wu Yuntian warned Su Hao that high-level Martial Artists might seize his Array Disk knowledge and kill him, and Su Hao wondered how he could share it safely.

Su Hao visited Lingyun Warrior Academy to ask about advancing to Great Master Realm, then joined Bald Old Liu when a Great Master Realm Mengxu Beast breached Lingyun Town’s wall and began devouring residents. Lingyun Town’s Guard Team and local Grandmaster Warriors assembled to confront it, while Su Hao wondered whether he should offer to follow Commander Hua Hongyi’s orders.

• Su Hao reunited with Old Liu, gave him a treasured saber, and learned that advancing to Great Master Realm required eight years of service with the main city’s Guard Team.
• A powerful beast attacked Lingyun Town, and Su Hao sensed that it was a Great Master Realm Ferocious Beast.
• Su Hao and Old Liu found the Mengxu Beast rampaging through the town and learned that its vulnerable eyes and underside were difficult to attack because of its tentacles.
• Hua Hongyi arrived with Lingyun Town’s Guard Team, and local Grandmaster Warriors declared that they awaited his orders.
• Su Hao watched the warriors gather and wondered whether he should join them in awaiting Hua Hongyi’s orders.

Hua Hongyi led the warriors in a desperate effort to drive the Mengxu Beast out of Lingyun Town, while Su Hao secretly armed himself and joined the fight. As Old Liu saved Feng Man'er at the cost of his own life, a Silver Light arrived and unleashed a barrage of abilities against the beast.

• Su Hao offered to help, but Hua Hongyi sent him away, so he watched the battle from a distance.
• Hua Hongyi organized the warriors into a three-sided assault to force the Mengxu Beast back along its original path, but its tentacles killed and swallowed many fighters.
• Seeing the warriors refuse to retreat, Su Hao slipped into a weapon shop, donned armor and a faceguard, and charged back toward the Mengxu Beast in disguise.
• As the assault faltered, Feng Man'er was caught by a tentacle, and Old Liu charged in, severing the tentacle that held her before another tentacle pierced him.
• A Silver Light arrived just as Old Liu was dragged away and unleashed a series of abilities against the Mengxu Beast.

Su Hao saved Old Liu and severely wounded the Mengxu Beast by attacking its organs from inside. After helping Hua Hongyi’s group turn the battle in their favor, he slipped away in disguise and prepared to leave.

• A silver-armored Su Hao rescued Old Liu from the Mengxu Beast’s tentacle and Feng Man’er carried Old Liu from the battlefield.
• Su Hao cut through the Mengxu Beast’s defenses, severed its tentacles, and opened a deep wound in its body.
• Su Hao blinded the charging beast, entered its mouth, and used the Collapse Rune to crush its organs.
• Su Hao carved his way out of the Mengxu Beast and joined Hua Hongyi’s view of the dying creature before leaving without being recognized.
• Su Hao returned to the weapon shop, changed into clean armor, packed his belongings, and prepared to depart.

After Su Hao killed the Mengxu Beast, Lingyun Town’s leaders realized the Silver-Masked Warrior was a powerful Rune Master and chose to stop investigating Jin Datong’s death. In the Wilderness, Su Hao studied Great Master Ferocious Beasts’ Energy Cores and resolved to spread Rune knowledge so ordinary people could resist the beasts.

• Hua Hongyi organized the battlefield cleanup, and Lu Luyun and Xiao Jixuan returned to find the Mengxu Beast dead.
• After hearing how the beast had been killed, Hua Hongyi, Lu Luyun, and Xiao Jixuan concluded its killer was a high-stage Great Master and likely a Rune Master.
• Xiao Jixuan linked the mysterious warrior to Jin Datong’s death, but Lu Luyun ordered them to stop investigating and sent Hua Hongyi to deliver the beast’s Original Core to He'an Main City.
• Su Hao hunted five Great Master Ferocious Beasts and discovered that each contained an Energy Core holding most of its Blood Qi.
• Su Hao set aside his Great Master research and decided to master Rune principles, publish his findings, and give the Human Race access to Rune knowledge.

Su Hao discovered that Gold Thread Worms could carry Blood Qi through engraved rune patterns, making reusable rune weapons and armor possible. A year and a half later, he had organized more than eight hundred basic runes, developed many applications, and written two books to spread his discoveries across Yonghe Continent.

• Su Hao reasoned that rune patterns needed a substance more compatible with Blood Qi than metal, then tested Gold Thread Worms in grooves cut into a metal plate.
• The Gold Thread Worms successfully activated an Array Disk rune and remained alive, so Su Hao began using them to build rune devices.
• A year and a half later, Su Hao had numbered and organized more than eight hundred basic runes into nine sequences and developed both combat and household rune applications.
• Su Hao created rune weapons and armor that Elite Warriors could activate with Blood Qi, using Gold Thread Worms that could survive for at least a year and a half with occasional feeding.
• Su Hao wrote Path of the Warrior and Complete Explanation of Runes, signed both books Passerby, and declared that he had arrived.

Su Hao bid farewell to Wu Yuntian and left Tea Mountain Outpost as Passerby, determined to spread his Rune research and reshape the world before his uncertain death. A month later, he opened a weapon shop in Guyang Town and proved his Rune-enhanced swords could pierce steel, drawing a rush of customers.

• Su Hao gave Wu Yuntian copies of "Path of the Warrior" and "Complete Explanation of Runes," and Wu Yuntian promised to preserve them and pass them on if Su Hao failed.
• Su Hao left Tea Mountain Outpost, put on a face mask, and took the name Passerby as he set out to raise a storm and change the world.
• A month later, Su Hao opened a weapon shop in Guyang Town selling longswords and armor engraved with Runes.
• Su Hao compelled a bald Elite Warrior and his companions to test his longswords, which easily pierced a thick steel plate while their own weapons could not.
• The bald warrior and his companions bought swords, and the crowds outside rushed into the shop to buy weapons and ask about the armor.