Recaps

Fang Cheng treated a group of injured thugs at Lin Fusheng’s clinic and unlocked the Bone Setting skill. After learning that the Red Tiger Gang was rapidly expanding across Eastern Capital, he stayed to help clean up and considered learning more medical techniques from Master Lin.

• Lin Fusheng let Fang Cheng try setting Brother Fei’s dislocated shoulder while the other thugs watched nervously.
• Fang Cheng eventually put Brother Fei’s shoulder back in place, then treated the other injured men as his technique improved.
• Fang Cheng unlocked Bone Setting Lv. 0 after practicing the skill on the patients.
• The thugs told Fang Cheng that the Red Tiger Gang had attacked their turf and absorbed the Poisonous Snake Gang, leaving Ma Donghe injured.
• Fang Cheng and Lin Fusheng treated all the injured men, then Lin Fusheng advised Fang Cheng to study hard and stay out of trouble.

Fang Cheng trained for his upcoming fight with Zheng Haokang, noticed worsening hair loss, and gained a new Cleaning skill reward. At the club, Manager Li told him that Majima Goro had gone missing.

• Fang Cheng completed a morning workout, reached Master Level in Squats, and chose to save his nine free attribute points for testing himself in combat.
• Fang Cheng noticed his hair loss was worsening and recalled Majima Goro's warning about the dangers of pushing beyond human limits.
• Fang Cheng prepared breakfast and cleaned the kitchen, advancing his Cleaning skill to Level 1 and discovering the Scavenger's Eye reward.
• Fang Cheng arrived at the Global Elite Fighting Club, where staff prepared for World-Class Boxing King Zheng Haokang's visit.
• Manager Li asked Fang Cheng about Majima Goro, and Fang Cheng learned that Majima Goro had gone missing.

After Majima Goro vanished from Tai River Hospital during a blackout, Fang Cheng investigated the empty hospital room and went to Majima’s home. He broke into the silent house, sensed someone nearby, and narrowly dodged an attack from a masked figure.

• Manager Li told Fang Cheng that Majima Goro had disappeared, and Fang Cheng hurried to the hospital.
• Fang Cheng learned from a nurse that a midnight blackout had left Majima’s bodyguards unconscious and Majima missing; his fiancée, Cui Xiuying, had left earlier.
• Fang Cheng went to Majima’s home, climbed over the wall, and entered after finding the front door ajar.
• Fang Cheng sensed another person upstairs and dodged as a masked attacker swung an expandable baton at him.
• The black-clad attacker charged at Fang Cheng in the hallway.

Fang Cheng fought the agile Man in Black in a corridor, adapting to his knife attacks and using Focus Skill to read his movements. He lured the Man in Black through a doorway and struck him in the face with a Whip Kick.

• Fang Cheng used close-quarters techniques to slam the Man in Black into a wall, but the Man in Black escaped and drew a butterfly knife.
• The Man in Black attacked with rapid knife strikes, cutting Fang Cheng's wrist before Fang Cheng forced him back with a Side Kick.
• Fang Cheng refused to spend his nine free attribute points and challenged the Man in Black to attack again.
• Fang Cheng activated Focus Skill and tracked the Man in Black's vicious knife attacks as he retreated to the end of the corridor.
• Fang Cheng broke through a door and entered a dark room, then struck the Man in Black in the face with a Whip Kick as he crossed the doorway.

Fang Cheng killed the Man in Black after surviving his attack, then searched the body and cleaned the fight’s traces. Using his newly unlocked Scavenger's Eye, he found overlooked evidence and began planning how to dispose of the body.

• Fang Cheng pinned the Man in Black with a Rear Naked Choke and kept choking him until he died.
• Fang Cheng unmasked the dead man, kept his Butterfly Knife, and found cash, keys, and a semiautomatic pistol on him.
• Fang Cheng discovered that his Variable Kick had strained his knees and received experience in Boxing, Sanda, and Jujutsu.
• Fang Cheng cleaned the blood and other traces from the room, then used Scavenger's Eye to find a strand of hair and a button.
• Fang Cheng looked at the Man in Black’s body and the vehicle in the garage across the way as he considered how to dispose of it.

Fang Cheng disposed of the Man in Black’s body in the Blackwater River and hid Majima Goro’s car near an abandoned Mao Bamboo Factory. Meanwhile, Zheng Haokang gave a public fighting lesson at the Global Elite Fighting Club as Fang Cheng hurried back toward the city, hoping to fight him.

• Fang Cheng dumped a heavy woven sack containing the Man in Black into the Blackwater River and drove toward a nearby village.
• Fang Cheng decided to hide Majima Goro’s car at an abandoned Mao Bamboo Factory and planned to return to the city by hitching a ride.
• Fang Cheng wondered about the Man in Black, the organization, and the pursuers, then resolved to wait until he was stronger.
• Zheng Haokang demonstrated combinations and a backstep during a media coaching session at the Global Elite Fighting Club.
• Zheng Haokang told a student to run if he encountered a monster, then continued teaching the crowd about physical skills.

After Zheng Haokang planned to retire from fighting for show business, Fang Cheng challenged him in a parking garage and easily proved stronger. Zheng Haokang asked Fang Cheng if he had seen the monsters too, leaving Fang Cheng to decide how to respond.

• Zheng Haokang told his agent he planned to announce his retirement after defending his title and instructed him to distract reporters while he went to Jenny's place.
• Fang Cheng ambushed Zheng Haokang in the parking garage, denting an SUV with a kick before attacking him with a series of powerful techniques.
• Zheng Haokang tried to defend himself and counter with Chin Na, but Fang Cheng threw him and stopped a Whip Kick just short of his face.
• Fang Cheng compared Zheng Haokang's strength with Majima Goro and the Man in Black, realizing he had become something beyond human, and gained Boxing, Sanda, and Jujutsu experience.
• Zheng Haokang called after Fang Cheng and asked whether he had seen those monsters too.

Zheng Haokang told Fang Cheng how the West Mountain Explosion Incident exposed him to superhuman monsters and ended his belief that ordinary training could make him invincible. Fang Cheng pledged to pursue the summit in his place, and as he rode home through the rain, the news reported on the mysterious Black Rain.

• Zheng Haokang recounted the West Mountain Explosion Incident, describing monsters whose strength far exceeded ordinary human limits and whose fight killed his friend.
• Zheng Haokang explained that seeing the monsters had made him retire from martial arts because he believed ordinary people could never reach their level.
• Fang Cheng clasped Zheng Haokang's hand, said he respected his decision, and promised to challenge the monsters and reach the pinnacle of the world.
• Fang Cheng walked through the rainy city and, on a crowded bus, felt eager to resume training after realizing that others like him were all around.
• The evening news reported that experts thought Black Rain might have resulted from ash from the Western Mountains forest fire entering the atmosphere.

Fang Cheng reached Master Level in Push-Ups and chose a wrist-strengthening enhancement before using saved attribute points to raise his strength and agility to 20. His dramatic physical transformation left him with greater explosive power—and torn sweatpants—so he hurried home to continue training.

• Fang Cheng completed his one-handed push-up training and received the Master Level Push-Ups reward, choosing a 100% increase to his wrists’ flexibility and hardness.
• Fang Cheng reviewed his skill progress and decided to use his nine saved attribute points to raise his strength and agility past 20.
• Fang Cheng added two points to strength, causing his body to swell with enormous muscles, then added seven points to agility, compressing his physique into a leaner build.
• Fang Cheng tested his enhanced explosive power with rapid punches that snapped loudly as his muscles, tendons, and joints moved.
• Fang Cheng noticed that his sweatpants had split at the seams, put on his jacket, and hurried out of the park to finish training at home.

After pushing two attributes past 20 points, Fang Cheng struggled with intense hunger and reflected on how attribute growth consumed his vitality. He accepted Zhou Xiumei’s shao mai and prepared to study anatomy and physiology at the Library.

• Fang Cheng bought twenty beef buns and four bags of soy milk to satisfy the hunger caused by his recent attribute increases, then realized raising two attributes past a threshold at once had drained his body.
• Zhou Xiumei offered Fang Cheng homemade shao mai and explained that she was practicing cooking because her father had warned her not to sell food at the night market.
• Fang Cheng praised Zhou Xiumei’s shao mai, took the lunchbox, and reassured her that his work schedule rarely kept him out late.
• Fang Cheng ate the buns and soy milk, packed Zhou Xiumei’s shao mai and Nourishing Origin Tea, and set out for the Library to study human anatomy and physiology.

Fang Cheng spent the day at East Capital Library studying rehabilitation medicine, anatomy, exercise, and health cultivation so he could strengthen his body without risking harmful consequences. After using his Speed Reading and Focus skills to devour books and overtaxing his mind, he resumed studying three language textbooks needed to synthesize his first new talent.

• Fang Cheng gathered books on medicine, exercise, and traditional health practices to learn how to maintain his health while continuing to train.
• Fang Cheng studied anatomy, human movement, rehabilitation, exercise, rest, and diet to build a theoretical understanding of health cultivation.
• Fang Cheng activated Speed Reading and Focus, rapidly read most of a rehabilitation medicine textbook, and received a warning that he had overtaxed his mind.
• Fang Cheng rested, noticed a woman staring at his unusually fast reading, and later returned to his seat.
• Fang Cheng resumed studying the Desert Language, Southeast Asian Language, and Latin textbooks, which he needed to synthesize his first new talent.

Fang Cheng reached Master Level in boxing and invested his new attribute points in constitution before continuing his work as a sparring partner. During an afternoon Muay Thai conditioning session, he accidentally kicked his partner harder than intended, but the fighter insisted he was fine.

• Fang Cheng sparred with Brother Jie and gained enough boxing experience to reach Master Level.
• Fang Cheng received eight free attribute points and put all of them into constitution, raising it to 28.
• Fang Cheng reflected on his flexible sparring-partner job and listened as Coach Hu discussed health and nourishment.
• Fang Cheng conditioned a Muay Thai fighter by kicking his abdomen, then accidentally hit harder and hurried to steady him.
• The Muay Thai fighter claimed he was fine and told Fang Cheng to continue, though he rubbed his abdomen miserably when Fang Cheng turned away.

Fang Cheng practiced Muay Thai and sought out stronger opponents as his training gains slowed. Wu Datong invited him to a gathering next Thursday and lent him language-learning discs, including some decidedly unconventional textbooks.

• Fang Cheng trained Muay Thai's Sweeping Kick, elbow strikes, and knee techniques, sensing that he might master the style's fighting momentum.
• After closing the Club, Fang Cheng returned two overdue discs to Wu Datong and asked about the fighters Wu had previously mentioned.
• Wu Datong invited Fang Cheng to a gathering next Thursday and offered to introduce him to the fighters; Fang Cheng agreed.
• Fang Cheng asked to borrow Muay Thai documentaries and foreign-language learning videos, and Wu Datong lent him discs from his personal collection.
• Fang Cheng accepted the revealing language textbooks as a test of willpower, then asked Wu Datong for more serious materials.

Fang Cheng unlocked the Iron Plate Bridge effect after reaching Expert Level in Back Bridge, then trained Handstand Push-Ups and unlocked the final skill in the Prisoner's Six Arts. He left the chapter with all six skills unlocked and a more cautious approach to using Potential Activation.

• Fang Cheng reached Expert Level in Back Bridge and chose the Iron Plate Bridge special effect over six free attribute points.
• Fang Cheng reviewed his training gains and recognized that his progress had slowed as his attributes rose beyond ordinary human limits.
• Fang Cheng practiced Handstand Push-Ups gradually, deciding to conserve Potential Activation because he suspected it consumed life energy and could harm his body over time.
• Fang Cheng balanced upside down after twenty handstand push-ups, and nearby old men praised his Standing Meditation skills.
• Fang Cheng unlocked Handstand Push-Ups, completing the Prisoner's Six Arts.

Fang Cheng unlocked Latin after studying foreign languages and considered combining his language skills into a talent. During a stormy night, he woke to distant screams and hurried footsteps approaching his building.

• Fang Cheng unlocked the Latin skill and saw that his skill bar could hold only twenty-five skills.
• Fang Cheng decided to raise three foreign language skills before combining them into a talent.
• Fang Cheng reflected that four days had passed since Majima Goro disappeared without the police questioning him.
• Fang Cheng went to sleep as heavy rain began, then woke at 3:45 to hear agonized screams outside.
• Fang Cheng opened his window, heard the screams stop, and then heard hurried footsteps drawing closer through the rain.

Fang Cheng saw a bloodied figure with glowing green eyes sprint through the rain, then discovered that his own eyes also shone in the dark. He trained until he unlocked Muay Thai and watched Uncle Zhou’s police car head toward the hotel, where officers were investigating a grisly murder.

• Fang Cheng spotted a black-clad figure with glowing eyes and blood at its mouth running past the Sleeve Building.
• Fang Cheng noticed his own eyes glowed in the darkness and wondered if the figure had mistaken him for one of its kind.
• Fang Cheng began training early and unlocked Muay Thai lv0 after practicing his fighting techniques.
• Fang Cheng saw Uncle Zhou arrive in a police car and suspected he was responding to the strange incident.
• Patrol officers cordoned off the Ikea Hotel, where a young officer vomited after entering, and three detectives pushed through the crowd to investigate.

Zhou Yongnian investigated the brutal deaths of four people at a small hotel and ordered the survivors and the Boss Lady taken to the station. When Fang Cheng said he might have seen the murderer, Zhou Yongnian brought him along to give a statement, while the surviving little girl looked back at Fang Cheng as if he seemed familiar.

• Zhou Yongnian arrived at the hotel, learned that four people had been killed, and reacted to the gruesome scene.
• A Bang questioned the Boss Lady, who accused a mother and daughter of stealing and tried to avoid key questions.
• Zhou Yongnian ordered the woman, the little girl, the frightened survivor, and the Boss Lady taken to the station, naming the Boss Lady the prime suspect.
• Zhou Yongnian met Zhou Xiumei and Fang Cheng outside the hotel and warned them to be careful.
• Fang Cheng told Zhou Yongnian that he might have seen the murderer, so Zhou Yongnian took him to the station to give a statement.
• The little girl looked back at Fang Cheng as she got into the patrol car, and he thought her face seemed familiar.

At Jiangbei District Police Station, Fang Cheng helped the detectives investigate a suspected serial killer and stopped a crazed detainee from attacking people. As he left for the Club, the Little Girl thanked him.

• A police sketch artist drew a portrait of the raincoat-wearing man Fang Cheng had seen, and Zhou Yongnian sent it for comparison with traffic footage.
• Fang Cheng asked Zhou Yongnian to let him identify the culprit after the police caught him, then learned that the mother and daughter from the case were at the station.
• A detainee suddenly convulsed, bit Officer Huang, and broke free before Fang Cheng struck his leg with a sweeping kick and helped the officers subdue him.
• Fang Cheng left the station for his sparring sessions at the Club, and the Little Girl caught his sleeve to thank him.

Fang Cheng checked his home for intruders, practiced with the weapons taken from the Man in Black, and fought an imagined opponent to master Knife Technique. He ended the night by turning to foreign-language study, concerned that only three skill slots remained.

• Fang Cheng found no signs that anyone had entered his home and reflected on the dangers posed by the Man in Black’s organization and the monster from the rainy night.
• Fang Cheng inspected the Black Demon Pistol but decided not to practice shooting, then used his butterfly knife to train against an imagined Man in Black.
• After being wounded in the simulated fight, Fang Cheng realized close-quarters knife combat depended on finding an opening and changed his approach to include feints and varied movements.
• Fang Cheng defeated the imagined opponent and unlocked Knife Technique lv0, leaving only three skill slots available.
• Fang Cheng closed the knife and began his evening foreign-language study.

Ma Jianguo prepared to assess a promising newcomer to his Martial Arts Research Association, while his injured son Ma Donghe stayed home. After Wu Datong brought Fang Cheng to the courtyard, Fang Cheng recognized Ma Donghe and agreed to an aptitude test, but first asked to test the seniors’ skills.

• Ma Jianguo stopped Ma Donghe from leaving and told him to stay for a gathering with a promising newcomer.
• Ma Donghe complained that martial arts could not defeat a monster, and Ma Jianguo defended his family’s qi gong tradition.
• Wu Datong drove Fang Cheng to Ma Jianguo’s courtyard and praised Ma as a master and founder of the Martial Arts Research Association.
• Fang Cheng found a group of elderly martial artists waiting and recognized Ma Donghe as the debt collector he had met at the hospital.
• Ma Jianguo and the other elders introduced themselves and proposed testing Fang Cheng’s aptitude.
• Fang Cheng accepted the aptitude test but asked to test the seniors’ skills first.

Fang Cheng impressed the Martial Arts Research Association veterans by pulverizing a stone formation with one punch, earning an invitation to join and asking to learn Qi Gong. As the elders prepared a welcome feast, Ma Donghe warned him that Qi Gong was less powerful than it looked and that the association wanted to recruit him.

• Fang Cheng calmly challenged the Martial Arts Research Association veterans to spar, but Wu Datong and Ma Donghe persuaded the elders to demonstrate their skills instead.
• Wu Dewang displayed White Crane Style balance, while two other veterans showed off Eagle Claw Skill and Xing Yi Quan.
• Dong Yunchuan heated a kettle with his palms and body, impressing Fang Cheng with a display of internal power.
• Fang Cheng shattered half of a limestone formation with a punch, prompting the veterans to debate whether he used Qi Gong or extraordinary natural strength.
• Ma Jianguo invited Fang Cheng to join the association, and Fang Cheng accepted while asking to learn Qi Gong.
• Ma Donghe warned Fang Cheng that Qi Gong was limited and costly to practice, then suggested the elders wanted to recruit him for their own benefit.

At the welcome party, Ma Jianguo and Wu Dewang told Fang Cheng that monsters had killed his father and explained how the Martial Arts Research Association pursued qi gong to fight them. Fang Cheng agreed to learn the slow cultivation method, hoping to grow strong enough to battle monsters.

• After the party, Ma Jianguo asked Fang Cheng why he had trained in so many combat disciplines, then suggested he was seeking a way to fight monsters because of his father's death.
• Ma Jianguo said he suspected the real Serial Killer from seventeen years earlier was among the monsters, while Wu Dewang and Wu Datong described surviving their attacks.
• Fang Cheng asked about the monsters' strength, and Ma Jianguo explained that their abilities came from innate talents or unusual experiences rather than ordinary training.
• Wu Dewang explained that the Martial Arts Research Association studied qi gong to break human limits and said its members had made some progress.
• Ma Jianguo warned Fang Cheng that qi gong required exceptional aptitude and years of practice, but Fang Cheng immediately agreed to learn.

Fang Cheng practiced Ma Jianguo’s horse stance and breathing technique, unlocking the Pile Stance skill and choosing the Dance of Lightning enhancement after raising Sanda to Master Level. On his way home from breakfast, he noticed a frail girl searching through a trash bin.

• Fang Cheng held a horse stance for over an hour, practiced the Tiger Leopard Thunder Sound Skill, and unlocked Pile Stance lv0.
• Fang Cheng reviewed his training gains and raised Sanda to Master Level.
• Fang Cheng selected the Dance of Lightning enhancement, which increased his movement speed with consecutive leg-technique hits.
• Fang Cheng left Jiangbin Park, showered at A Yang Bathhouse, and bought steamed buns and soy milk.
• Fang Cheng saw a small, frail girl struggling to search a trash bin for cans and cardboard.

Fang Cheng met his young neighbor Wen Xin while she scavenged and bought her breakfast, then walked her back to the basement home she shared with her mother. When gangsters threatened Wen Xin’s mother and daughter over a debt, Fang Cheng swiftly defeated their leader and held the remaining men at knifepoint.

• Fang Cheng helped Wen Xin retrieve a beer can from a trash can and invited her to share breakfast.
• Wen Xin ate beef buns with Fang Cheng and explained the meaning of her name.
• Fang Cheng walked Wen Xin back to her basement home, where gangsters threatened her mother and said they would take Wen Xin over a debt.
• Fang Cheng stopped the gangsters, knocked Big Fool unconscious, disarmed Flower Arm Man, and made the remaining men beg him not to hurt them.

Fang Cheng drove off Flower Arm Man and Xiaosa Ge, accepted Wen Xin’s Lucky Card, and discovered an anonymous postcard bearing an enigmatic message and symbols. He set the mystery aside to train and study, planning to investigate the symbols at the library the next day.

• Fang Cheng broke a dagger to scare Flower Arm Man and Xiaosa Ge into leaving Old Factory Street with their unconscious accomplice.
• Wen Xin gave Fang Cheng her treasured Lucky Card, which depicted a Six-Pointed Star Patterned Egg.
• Fang Cheng found an anonymous postcard inside his apartment that read, “I hope to have the honor of hearing your voice...” and included a string of strange symbols.
• Fang Cheng questioned Zhou Xiumei and other neighbors, but none had noticed a stranger entering the building.
• Fang Cheng planned to look up the symbols at the library the next day, then practiced his knife technique and reviewed his language-study progress.