Recaps

Jiang Fan harvested a dying mutant beast to raise the Mysterious Seal's unlock progress to 98.9%, then returned home intending to leave once it unlocked. At dinner, his parents demanded the Genetic Serum he had earned for his younger brother, and Jiang Fan challenged their claim that his future was over.

• Jiang Fan killed a nearly dead mutant beast with a branch and gained 53 points of Life Energy, bringing the Mysterious Seal's unlock progress to 98.9%.
• Jiang Fan escaped into the city, returned to his room, and decided to leave his unwelcoming family after unlocking the Mysterious Seal.
• Su Xin asked Jiang Fan to give his Level 1 Genetic Serum to Jiang Li, who had recently awakened.
• Jiang Fan refused, saying he had earned the serum by placing first in the academic examination.
• Jiang Zhihe called Jiang Fan finished because of his low vitality and two failed awakenings, and urged him to give the serum to Jiang Li.
• Jiang Fan argued that he still had one of his three chances to awaken before turning eighteen and challenged Jiang Zhihe's understanding of martial arts.

Jiang Fan refused to give his Level One gene potion to his younger brother Jiang Li, confronting his parents over years of favoritism. After Jiang Zhihe and Su Xin tried to pressure him into handing it over, Jiang Fan overturned the dining table and left the meal in ruins.

• Jiang Fan rejected Jiang Zhihe's demand for his gene potion and told Jiang Li to earn his own opportunity through the academic examination.
• Jiang Fan recalled how his family had repeatedly favored Jiang Li and blamed him for his brother's mistakes.
• Jiang Zhihe threatened to bar Jiang Fan from the house, while Su Xin urged him to surrender the potion for the Lineage's future.
• Jiang Fan warned that he would smash the potion if his family tried to take it by force, making Su Xin switch to coaxing him with food.
• After Jiang Zhihe told him not to eat if he disliked the food, Jiang Fan overturned the dining table and declared that none of them would eat.

Jiang Fan rejected his family’s choice to give his genetic potion to Jiang Li, smashed the bottle, and was beaten nearly to death by Jiang Zhihe. He recovered at his aunt’s home, where he realized his uncle Ma Jiang had gone out to hunt exotic beasts.

• Jiang Fan offered his family a choice between keeping the potion and their ties or giving it to Jiang Li and severing their relationship, and Jiang Zhihe chose the potion for Jiang Li.
• Jiang Fan dropped and shattered the genetic potion, so Jiang Zhihe struck him and left him badly injured.
• Jiang Fan staggered through the storm to his aunt’s home, where his aunt and uncle blamed Jiang Zhihe for his injuries and treated him.
• Jiang Fan woke at his aunt’s home and learned that Xiao Ning was at school and Ma Jiang had gone out on patrol.
• Jiang Fan suspected Ma Jiang had gone hunting exotic beasts and grew worried.

Jiang Fan learned that his Uncle Ma Jiang had gone to hunt beasts on Phoenix Mountain to pay for his treatment, and he searched for a way to bring him back. After secretly killing a badly wounded Scorpion-tailed Wolf, Jiang Fan saw the Mysterious Seal offer him an unlock.

• Jiang Fan recalled that Ma Jiang had risked hunting beasts to pay for his treatment and left home to find him.
• Jiang Fan bribed a clerk at the beast trading market and learned that Ma Jiang's five-man team had left for Phoenix Mountain that morning.
• Jiang Fan realized he had no way to reach the distant hunting grounds or find Ma Jiang there.
• Jiang Fan found a barely living Scorpion-tailed Wolf for sale and secretly struck its vital point, killing it.
• The Mysterious Seal appeared before Jiang Fan and displayed an unlock progress of 100%.

After unlocking the Mysterious Seal, Jiang Fan entered the Martial Practice Space but was killed almost immediately by an unseen opponent. Shaken by the experience and powerless to help Ma Jiang, he chose to try again and face what was inside.

• After the Scorpion-tailed Wolf’s death brought the Mysterious Seal’s progress to 100%, Jiang Fan left the exotic beast market and went to Thunder Martial Hall.
• Jiang Fan asked Bingbing for Lei Ming and explained that he had missed school because of something at home.
• Bingbing gave Jiang Fan access to Training Room 7, where he locked himself in and activated the Mysterious Seal.
• Jiang Fan entered the Martial Practice Space, where a black shadow struck him during the basic assessment and sent his consciousness back to the training room.
• Jiang Fan reflected on his helplessness and Ma Jiang’s uncertain fate, then resolved to enter the space again.

Jiang Fan repeatedly challenged the powerful Zhongshan-suited opponent in the Martial Dao space, discovered that time flowed there ten times faster, and finally defeated him. He received Fang Jue’s inheritance and began cultivating the Innate Breathing and Qi Guiding Technique, apparently breaking through something within his body.

• Jiang Fan repeatedly fought the Zhongshan-suited opponent and gradually improved his combat awareness, though he was defeated each time.
• After enduring five minutes in the arena, Jiang Fan noticed little time had passed outside and confirmed the space’s time flowed at a 10:1 ratio.
• Jiang Fan continued challenging the opponent for more than ten hours and finally defeated him by thrusting a finger into his neck.
• The space announced that Jiang Fan had completed the basic assessment and entered Martial Arts Demonstration mode, where Fang Jue revealed his martial history and memories.
• Jiang Fan followed Fang Jue’s instruction to cultivate the Innate Breathing and Qi Guiding Technique, circulating qi through his body until he heard a soft pop.

After receiving Fang Jue’s cultivation inheritance, Jiang Fan returned to reality with healed wounds and discovered that his qi and blood and combat power had risen dramatically. He returned to Aunt's Home, where Su Qingwan mistook his recovery for the effect of a genetic drug and broke down in tears after seeing how desperately he ate.

• Fang Jue passed Jiang Fan the Innate Breathing and Qi Guiding Technique and explained that he had integrated his Life Energy cultivation method into the space.
• Jiang Fan returned to the cultivation room, found his injuries healed and grime covering his skin, then cleaned himself and felt a powerful energy flowing through his body.
• Jiang Fan tested his qi and blood at 0.98 and his Combat Power Index at 122, realizing his new cultivation system had given him the strength of a First-level Martial Artist without awakening.
• Jiang Fan left Thunder Martial Hall and rushed back to Aunt's Home because he was overwhelmed by hunger.
• Su Qingwan saw that Jiang Fan’s injuries had healed, accepted his claim that a genetic drug had cured him, and watched him devour a pot of meat and six bowls of rice.
• Jiang Fan felt ashamed after eating all the food, then saw Su Qingwan crying and wondered how badly the people who had abused him had treated the child.

Jiang Fan learned that Ma Jiang had gone to Phoenix Mountain to hunt beasts, then headed to Jiangcheng Third Martial Arts High School after Su Qingwan urged him to attend class. He slipped into a lesson late, but the teacher spotted him and ordered him to stand.

• Jiang Fan told Su Qingwan that he had seen Ma Jiang's registration at the beast trading market, and she claimed Ma Jiang had gone hunting with a friend and would return in a few days.
• Jiang Fan ate until he was nearly full, then agreed to go to school; Su Qingwan worried about the family's finances and Ma Jiang's danger in the mountains.
• Jiang Fan reflected that the Jiang family had taken benefits to send him to Third High School despite his scores qualifying him for First High School.
• Jiang Fan entered class while Lei Ming recited the history of martial arts, but the teacher noticed him and shouted for him to stand.

Jiang Fan was summoned by his homeroom teacher, Ling Dongsheng, who tried to pressure him into selling the gene potion the school had awarded him. Jiang Fan refused and left the office, then met Lei Ming at the school gate and told him he had claimed the potion was already given away.

• Ling Dongsheng scolded Jiang Fan for missing class and ordered him to come to the office after class.
• Lei Ming defended Jiang Fan when classmates mocked him for failing to awaken.
• Ling Dongsheng asked Jiang Fan to sell his gene potion on someone else's behalf, and Jiang Fan said he had already given it away.
• Ling Dongsheng argued that Jiang Fan had no use for the potion and accused him of violating school rules, but Jiang Fan refused to sell it and left.
• Lei Ming met Jiang Fan at the school gate, approved of his refusal, and invited him to cultivate together.

Jiang Fan entered the Mysterious Seal space, bound his identity, and failed to defeat the second-stage opponent. After cultivating there, he raised his vitality and blood to 1.17 and reached the Level 1 Martial Artist standard without Genetic Serum.

• Jiang Fan asked for a separate training room, telling Lei Ming he needed quiet after gaining an insight.
• Jiang Fan bound his identity in the Mysterious Seal space and saw a panel listing his cultivation, techniques, and lifespan.
• Jiang Fan challenged the next stage but was swiftly knocked back by a female cultivator and returned to the training room.
• Jiang Fan declined another challenge and practiced the Innate Breathing and Meditation Technique and Five Elements Fist in the space.
• Jiang Fan tested his combat power and vitality and blood, discovering he had reached Level 1 Martial Artist standards without Genetic Serum.

After cultivating at Thunder Martial Hall, Jiang Fan returned to his aunt Su Qingwan’s home, where he agreed to stay after severing ties with his family. Settled into a small study for the night, he worried about the strain he was placing on his aunt’s household and regretted destroying a bottle of gene serum.

• Jiang Fan declined Lei Ming’s invitation to play a game and left Thunder Martial Hall before the city gates closed.
• Ma Ning welcomed Jiang Fan home and teased him, while Su Qingwan checked that his injuries had healed and urged him to stay with the family.
• Jiang Fan told Su Qingwan he had severed ties with his family, and she agreed he should remain at her home.
• Su Qingwan served exotic-beast meat to help Jiang Fan recover, and Jiang Fan shared much of it with Ma Ning.
• Su Qingwan prepared Ma Ning’s room for Jiang Fan, but he persuaded her to let him sleep in the cleared-out study instead.
• Jiang Fan worried about the expense and danger his arrival had brought to the family and resolved to make money, regretting that he had smashed a bottle of gene serum.

Jiang Fan learned that Ma Jiang had been gravely injured while hunting mutated beasts, leaving the family burdened with treatment costs and Ma Ning considering quitting school. He skipped school to help his family and headed into the Outer City after asking Lei Ming to arrange a two-day leave.

• Jiang Fan spent the night cultivating and repeatedly challenged the Woman in the Plain Skirt, managing to fight her for nearly ten minutes but still losing.
• Three patrol-team members brought Ma Jiang home after a Stone-Armored Boar attack at Phoenix Mountain killed one teammate and tore off Ma Jiang's right arm.
• Jiang Fan blamed himself for Ma Jiang's injury, while Su Qingwan worried about medical expenses and Ma Ning offered to leave school to care for her father.
• Su Qingwan sent Jiang Fan to school, but he went to Thunder Martial Hall and asked Lei Ming to arrange two days' leave with Li Dongsheng.
• Lei Ming agreed to cover for Jiang Fan, who then headed toward a destination in the Outer City.

Jiang Fan joined Old Third Yue’s team to travel to Phoenix Mountain and hunt exotic beasts, despite Xiao Xin warning that Old Third Yue used newcomers as cannon fodder. After reaching the mountain, the team dug and concealed a weapon-filled pit as a trap, leaving their plan for the bait to follow.

• Jiang Fan asked Xiao Xin about missions to Phoenix Mountain, and she warned him that Old Third Yue exploited newcomers.
• Jiang Fan agreed to join Old Third Yue so he could learn the route, intending to leave the team once he knew the terrain.
• Old Third Yue drove Jiang Fan, A Wei, and Little Blade to Phoenix Mountain, where they drained and secured their jeep before entering the mountain.
• Old Third Yue gave Jiang Fan a rusty sword and led the group toward the area where exotic beasts appeared.
• Old Third Yue examined a sticky lump, climbed a tree to keep watch, and then directed A Wei and Little Blade to dig and conceal a weapon-filled pit.

Jiang Fan was forced to serve as bait for Old Third Yue’s team as they hunted a Scorpion-tailed Wolf. After using his sharpened senses and speed to evade the beast and the team’s arrows, he watched them kill it in the trap, while Old Third Yue approached him with a savage grin.

• Old Third Yue, A Wei, and Little Saber surrounded Jiang Fan and revealed that they planned to use him as bait for the Scorpion-tailed Wolf.
• Jiang Fan pretended to accept the plan while privately deciding to use the team’s traps to his advantage.
• Old Third Yue explained how Jiang Fan should lure the beast toward the trap, then hid with A Wei and Little Saber as night fell.
• Jiang Fan sensed the Scorpion-tailed Wolf before the others and signaled the team when it approached.
• Jiang Fan ran toward the trap and dodged the beast as Old Third Yue and the others shot at it, sending it into the pit.
• Old Third Yue and the others finished off the trapped Scorpion-tailed Wolf, and Old Third Yue approached Jiang Fan with a savage grin.

Jiang Fan killed Old Third Yue, A Wei, and Little Knife after they tried to attack him, then burned their bodies and used their map to set off toward the outskirts of Phoenix Mountain. As he hurried through the dark forest with the Scorpion-tailed Wolf, fog closed in around him and he sensed something watching.

• Jiang Fan killed Old Third Yue, A Wei, and Little Knife when they tried to surround and attack him.
• Jiang Fan searched the men’s bodies, took their map and gasoline, and burned their corpses in the trap with the Scorpion-tailed Wolf.
• Jiang Fan studied the map, determined the way out of Phoenix Mountain, and set off carrying the Scorpion-tailed Wolf.
• Jiang Fan ran through the dark forest, wary of the powerful Monstrous Beasts said to inhabit Phoenix Mountain.
• Jiang Fan stopped when thick fog surrounded him and sensed unseen eyes watching him.

Jiang Fan got lost in the foggy depths of Phoenix Mountain and killed an Azure-Scaled Giant Python, gaining Life Energy that healed and strengthened him. After realizing where he was, he checked the map again and wondered whether the book had been renamed.

• Jiang Fan used the Innate Breathing and Absorption Technique to sense an approaching Azure-Scaled Giant Python in the fog.
• Jiang Fan dodged the python's attacks and tried to stab its weak point, but missed and was badly injured.
• Jiang Fan kept fighting until he struck the python's weak point seven inches from its head and killed it.
• Jiang Fan gained 121 points of Life Energy, which healed his injuries and strengthened his vital energy.
• Jiang Fan realized he was deep in Phoenix Mountain, checked the map, and considered searching for the book's author instead.

Jiang Fan escaped Phoenix Mountain after realizing Old Third Yue had deliberately misled him, then sold the Scorpion-tailed Wolf at River City's mutated-beast trading market. As he left, he ran into Xiao Xin, who recognized him and was stunned.

• Jiang Fan used the map to discover Old Third Yue had marked the route toward Phoenix Mountain's depths, then carried the Scorpion-tailed Wolf and the woodcutter's knife toward the outskirts.
• Jiang Fan reached Old Third Yue's car, stayed awake through the night, and searched it at first light before setting off for River City.
• Jiang Fan entered River City when its gates opened and brought the Scorpion-tailed Wolf to the mutated-beast trading market.
• Jiang Fan negotiated with Xiao Zhiqiang and sold him the whole Scorpion-tailed Wolf for forty-eight thousand Blue Star Coins.
• Jiang Fan left the market stall area and ran into Xiao Xin, who pointed at him and struggled to speak.

Jiang Fan returned to Thunder Martial Hall after secretly hunting monstrous beasts, bringing money and meat home to ease his family’s troubles. He measured his qi and blood and combat power, discovering that his combat power was far higher than expected.

• Jiang Fan told receptionist Xiao Xin that Old Third Yue had died after Yue’s team tried to use him as bait, and Xiao Xin hinted that Yue’s victims would not seek revenge.
• Jiang Fan bought clothes and monstrous beast meat, then returned to Aunt’s Home, where Su Qingwan and Ma Ning had spent the night worrying about him.
• Jiang Fan claimed he had stayed at a classmate’s house and borrowed money, then arranged for Ma Ning’s tuition and Ma Jiang’s medical bills to be paid.
• Jiang Fan skipped school and went to Thunder Martial Hall to test the effects of absorbing the Azure-Scaled Giant Python’s life energy.
• The Qi and Blood Testing Device recorded a value of 4.7, and the Combat Power Testing Device recorded 682, an unusually high ratio.

Jiang Fan completed the second-round challenge in the Mysterious Seal space and inherited Qing Yue’s Spirit Turtle Blood Replenishing Soup. After training and realizing he needed stronger martial arts, he encountered Lei Ming outside Thunder Martial Hall, where Lei Ming told him he had been expelled.

• Jiang Fan challenged the female cultivator again, defeated her, and completed the second round.
• Jiang Fan received Qing Yue’s life story and inherited the method for refining Spirit Turtle Blood Replenishing Soup.
• Jiang Fan pondered the inheritance’s clues about scarce spiritual energy, Heaven and Earth’s incompleteness, and lifespan.
• Jiang Fan practiced the Innate Breathing Technique and Five-Element Fist until his blood and qi reached 5.3 and his combat power reached 721.
• Jiang Fan ran into Lei Ming outside Thunder Martial Hall, and Lei Ming told him he had been expelled.

Jiang Fan learned that Jiangcheng Third High School had expelled him over two days of unexcused absences, and he planned to ask about it. At Aunt's Home, he resolved to become a Martial Artist, repay his debts, and help Ma Ning obtain a Level One Gene Potion.

• Lei Ming told Jiang Fan that the school had expelled him after Li Dongsheng marked his two-day absence unexcused.
• Jiang Fan returned to Aunt's Home, where Su Qingwan served a plentiful meal and Ma Jiang urged him to stay away from the Jiang Family.
• Ma Ning noticed Jiang Fan's appetite had increased, and Jiang Fan said his vitality and blood had grown.
• Ma Jiang and Su Qingwan discussed repaying Jiang Fan's classmates and affording tonic medicine for the children, while worrying they could not buy Ma Ning a Level One Gene Potion.
• Jiang Fan committed himself to cultivating faster, becoming a Martial Artist, earning money, and finding a way to get Ma Ning the potion.

Jiang Fan confronted Li Dongsheng over his expulsion and suspected it was retaliation for refusing to sell his gene serum. After defeating Li Meng and intimidating Li Dongsheng, he left school and was stopped by a stranger who wanted to talk.

• Jiang Fan demanded that Li Dongsheng explain his expulsion and pointed out that skipping school did not warrant it under the school rules.
• Li Dongsheng threatened Jiang Fan and ordered Li Meng to drag him off campus.
• Li Meng attacked Jiang Fan, but Jiang Fan sent him crashing into a wall and left him badly injured.
• Li Dongsheng tried to seize Jiang Fan, but Jiang Fan caught his hand, flung him away, and warned him not to regret the expulsion.
• Jiang Fan left the school grounds, and an unknown figure stopped him to discuss something.

After being expelled from Third High School, Jiang Fan negotiated a deal to enroll at Fifth High School, where his college entrance exam result could save the struggling school. He left with 100,000 Blue Star Coins and planned to use the money to buy ingredients for the Spirit Turtle Blood Replenishing Soup.

• Principal Luo Xiuwu approached Jiang Fan and invited him to Fifth High School, hoping an outstanding student would raise its college advancement rate and preserve its qualifications.
• Over a meal, Luo Xiuwu explained that Fifth High School was at risk of closure after years of failing to send students to college.
• Jiang Fan asked about rewards and negotiated 100,000 Blue Star Coins, freedom from classes until the college entrance exam, and help resolving his student registration.
• Luo Xiuwu accepted Jiang Fan's conditions, and Jiang Fan received the money after touring Fifth High School.
• Jiang Fan left without telling Luo Xiuwu that his old friends had misled him, intending to use the money to purchase ingredients for the Spirit Turtle Blood Replenishing Soup.

Jiang Fan went to Anshi Hall to buy the herbs needed for Spirit Turtle Blood Replenishing Soup and rented its brewing equipment. After Old Xu left, Jiang Fan locked the room and began preparing the medicine according to Qing Yue’s inheritance.

• A messenger told a group of middle-aged men that Luo Xiuwu had met Jiang Fan and might have recruited him into Fifth High School, and the men said Luo Xiuwu had taken the bait.
• Jiang Fan entered Anshi Hall and asked the receptionist where to buy Chinese medicinal herbs.
• Old Xu calculated that each batch of herbs cost 5,266 Blue Star Coins, and Jiang Fan ordered ten batches and asked about brewing equipment.
• Old Xu arranged for Jiang Fan to use the pharmacy’s medicine-brewing room, pleased that Jiang Fan’s purchase helped meet his sales target.
• Jiang Fan locked the room, laid out the herbs, and began brewing the medicine using Qing Yue’s inherited instructions.

Jiang Fan brewed and consumed Spirit Turtle Blood Replenishing Soup until his combat power and qi and blood reached Level Two Martial Artist. After using up his supplies, he went to Anshi Hall to ask about selling medicine and encountered Xiao Wei with her classmates.

• Jiang Fan brewed a batch of Spirit Turtle Blood Replenishing Soup, drank one portion, and refined its potency with the Innate Breathing Technique.
• Jiang Fan spent the next several days training and consuming the soup, gradually increasing how quickly he could refine each bottle.
• Jiang Fan tested his strength at Thunder Martial Hall and recorded combat power of 1651 and qi and blood of 11.2, confirming he had become a Level Two Martial Artist.
• Jiang Fan asked Old Xu whether Anshi Hall bought medicine, and Old Xu suggested he speak to the young lady at the front desk.
• Jiang Fan asked the front desk attendant whether Anshi Hall bought restorative medicine, drawing the attention of Xiao Wei and her classmates.

Jiang Fan sought to sell a tonic made from Chinese medicinal herbs at Anshi Hall, but Xiao Wei accused him of being a swindler and drove him away. After hearing what happened, the refined old man who ran the hall sent Xiao Wei’s classmates away and called her inside.

• Jiang Fan asked the Anshi Hall receptionist about selling herbal tonics, and Xiao Wei arrived with her classmates and called him a swindler.
• Jiang Fan confronted Xiao Wei, but Old Xu hurried over, explained that Jiang Fan was a customer who had spent 100,000 Blue Star Coins, and made Xiao Wei apologize.
• Jiang Fan left Anshi Hall, and Old Xu returned to the hall after failing to catch up with him.
• Old Yu came downstairs with several guests, then spoke with Old Xu about getting him help at the Chinese medicine counter.
• Xiao Wei told Old Yu her version of the dispute, and Old Xu explained that Jiang Fan had bought medicinal herbs.
• Old Yu dismissed Xiao Wei’s classmates and sternly ordered Xiao Wei to come inside with him.