Recaps

Huan Shan admitted that Fang Polu had acted under his orders and challenged the military to hold him accountable. Fei Ming arrived to stop Huan Shan from interfering in military affairs, but Huan Shan agreed only on the condition that he could deal with Jiang Fan.

• Qin Zhongshan tried to explain that Jiang Fan had interrogated Fang Polu while carrying out military orders, but Huan Shan revealed Fang Polu was his subordinate and claimed the interrogation had offended him.
• Jiang Fan accused Huan Shan of allowing Fang Polu to sell Huaxia's military intelligence to Fusang, and Fei Ruoyun supported him.
• Huan Shan used his mental power to lift Fei Ruoyun into the air, but Fei Ming intervened and freed her.
• Fei Ming demanded that Huan Shan stop interfering in military affairs and leave Fang Polu to the military, and Huan Shan agreed.
• Huan Shan said Fei Ming could discipline Fei Ruoyun but insisted that he would deal with Jiang Fan himself.

Jiang Fan rejected Fei Ming’s offer to become his disciple and was left facing Huan Shan’s punishment after Fei Ming departed with Fei Ruoyun. Xiao Longyuan then arrived and invoked Jiang Fan’s service to the military and the Level 9 Supremes’ pact to keep Huan Shan from harming him.

• Fei Ming agreed to Huan Shan’s conditions, then offered to mediate if Jiang Fan became his disciple.
• Jiang Fan refused Fei Ming’s offer because he distrusted the Supremes’ indifference to Huaxia’s military and civilians.
• Fei Ming left with Fei Ruoyun, leaving Qin Zhongshan and the others unable to protect Jiang Fan from Huan Shan.
• Xiao Longyuan arrived and defended Jiang Fan as a decorated military asset whom the military could not allow Huan Shan to harm.
• Xiao Longyuan cited the agreement among the four Level 9 Supremes not to interfere in worldly affairs and warned Huan Shan against damaging relations with the military.

After Huan Shan injured Jiang Fan and left, Xiao Longyuan explained that Level 9 Supremes had grown indifferent to ordinary people and Huaxia. He ended by asking Jiang Fan and Qin Zhongshan whether they knew what price Huaxia had paid to secure the Supremes’ protection.

• Huan Shan spared Jiang Fan’s life at Xiao Longyuan’s insistence but pierced his chest as punishment, warning that he would kill him if it happened again.
• Xiao Longyuan praised Jiang Fan and the Fei Family girl for rooting out opposition in the military, then told Jiang Fan to recover before they spoke further.
• The Military Commission canceled Fang Polu’s interrogation, returned him to custody, and prepared for his trial while the injured were treated.
• The next day, Jiang Fan and Qin Zhongshan met Xiao Longyuan, who asked what impression the two Level 9 Supremes had left on Jiang Fan.
• Jiang Fan said Huan Shan and Fei Ming seemed unconcerned about Huaxia’s people, and Xiao Longyuan explained that Supremes had come to see everyone below Level 9 as ants.
• Xiao Longyuan said the Supremes had once cared about Huaxia but now only honored their old agreement, then asked what Huaxia had paid for their help.

Xiao Longyuan explained that Huan Shan backed Fang Polu’s faction to obtain rare stones needed by the Supremes, and revealed why the Supremes feared Huaxia’s military. He told Jiang Fan that his extraordinary rise made him Huaxia’s clear choice for a future core figure.

• Jiang Fan learned that Huaxia collected rare, energy-filled stones for the Supremes and that Huan Shan had traded intelligence with Fusang to secure more.
• Xiao Longyuan explained that Huaxia’s military could still threaten the Supremes because Xiao Longyuan’s grandfather had been a hidden fifth Supreme and left something capable of endangering them.
• Xiao Longyuan revealed that he had not reached Level 9 and had been stuck behind a breakthrough barrier for more than ten years.
• Jiang Fan worried that he might face the same Level 9 bottleneck and be unable to challenge Huan Shan or stop the Supremes’ abuses.
• Xiao Longyuan told Jiang Fan that his rise to Level 8 Martial Saint in just over a year made him Huaxia’s unquestionable choice as a future core figure.

Xiao Longyuan offered Jiang Fan a chance to inherit his position and gave him a book of Supreme Realm insights, while Jiang Fan planned to search for his missing father, Jiang Qinian, beyond the Ten Thousand Beasts Border Defense Great Wall. After settling family matters, Jiang Fan prepared to leave despite his aunt's worries.

• Xiao Longyuan told Jiang Fan he considered him a potential successor and gave him an ancient book containing his grandfather's Supreme Realm inheritance and insights.
• Jiang Fan accepted the book but had not yet decided whether to accept Xiao Longyuan's conditions.
• Jiang Fan told Xiao Longyuan he planned to search for Jiang Qinian beyond the Ten Thousand Beasts Border Defense Great Wall, and Xiao Longyuan warned him about the danger there.
• Jiang Fan sent Hu Qiuling to Peng City, helped the Hu Family take over Duan Family assets, celebrated the Jiang Family's exoneration, and handled other family affairs over the following week.
• Jiang Fan prepared to depart for the Ten Thousand Beasts Border Defense Great Wall, while his aunt urged him not to go and he promised to be careful.

Jiang Fan received a General’s rank and military appointment before traveling to Taiping Pass, where he sought shelter from a severe sandstorm at Taiping Inn. The chapter ended as he entered and asked the landlady whether she had a vacant room.

• Su Qingwan warned Jiang Fan to retreat if he encountered danger, and he agreed to be careful.
• The Military Commission appointed Jiang Fan a General and Chief Strategic Security Adviser, granting him access to military resources.
• Jiang Fan flew to Taiping Town and decided to rest at Taiping Inn before continuing beyond the Border Defense Great Wall.
• At the inn, the landlady and her regular customers joked while a sandstorm battered the windows and door.
• Jiang Fan entered the inn and asked the landlady if she had any vacant rooms.

Jiang Fan checked into Taiping Inn despite its shabby rooms and the hostility of the adventurers staying there. After the landlady warned him about the dangers of the borderland, he ordered an entire Glazed Phoenix Chicken, astonishing everyone with his apparent wealth.

• Jiang Fan accepted the landlady’s offer of the inn’s last superior room after deciding not to search for another place in the sandstorm.
• The landlady led Jiang Fan upstairs, learned he had come to Taiping Town to take care of something, and privately judged him a naive outsider.
• Jiang Fan paid 2,000 Blue Star Coins for one night in the room, and the landlady warned him to avoid trusting the rough adventurers downstairs.
• Jiang Fan asked about the inn’s food and ordered one whole Glazed Phoenix Chicken after hearing it was a large, tasty mutated beast.
• Jiang Fan offered the landlady a purple banknote for the chicken, leaving her and everyone in the hall staring at him.

After Jiang Fan accidentally revealed that he carried several million Blue Star Coins, adventurers in the inn considered robbing him. The landlady tried to warn them off, but A Hai decided to kill Jiang Fan and take the money, leaving her threatened and unable to stop him.

• The landlady urged Jiang Fan to hide his violet banknotes after realizing they were worth several million Blue Star Coins, and Jiang Fan returned to his room after noticing the adventurers' attention.
• The landlady warned the adventurers not to target Jiang Fan, but they mocked her until she pointed out that his wealth suggested powerful backers.
• A Hai dismissed the landlady's warning and proposed that they carry out the robbery cleanly by leaving no witnesses.
• When the other adventurers refused to join him, A Hai led three men upstairs and promised the soldiers in the corner a share.
• The landlady tried to stop A Hai, but a blade flashed against her neck.

Jiang Fan studied Xiao Longyuan’s ancient book, which contained advanced insights into space and time, before A Hai and two accomplices attacked him at the inn. Jiang Fan killed all three with a single gesture, and the stunned diners discovered A Hai was dead.

• Jiang Fan read Xiao Longyuan’s ancient book and learned about spatial attacks and theories for stopping or accelerating time.
• A Hai knocked on Jiang Fan’s door and offered his gang’s help, but Jiang Fan refused and told them to leave.
• A Hai and two men kicked open the door and threatened Jiang Fan over his money.
• Jiang Fan pierced the three men’s foreheads and hurled their bodies through the doorway and down into the hall.
• The diners gathered around the fallen men, and the proprietress discovered a bloody hole in A Hai’s forehead and realized he was dead.

Jiang Fan killed A Hai, prompting Taiping Inn’s staff to prepare the bodies for burial until military officers intervened, claiming authority over the case. The captain sent two soldiers upstairs to seize Jiang Fan, but they came crashing back down through the railing.

• After A Hai’s death, Boss Lady ordered Xiao Wei and the other servants to carry the bodies to the mass burial ground.
• A group of soldiers stopped the servants and accused Boss Lady of failing to report the deaths under the Laws.
• The captain declared that the military would take charge and ordered two soldiers to bring Jiang Fan downstairs, allowing them to kill him if he resisted.
• The captain assured the inn’s patrons that Jiang Fan would be detained and tried, while they hid their resentment and praised the officers.
• Two figures crashed through the upstairs railing and landed beside the bodies, and the captain shattered his wine cup in anger.

Jiang Fan killed two soldiers and their captain after they tried to intimidate him at an inn in Taiping Town. When a major confronted him, Jiang Fan swiftly sent him crashing into the lobby, leaving the clash unresolved.

• Jiang Fan found the two soldiers dead and condemned the captain for killing them, while the inn’s patrons feared the consequences.
• Jiang Fan used an invisible force to pin the captain down and demanded to know his unit and why he had abandoned the defensive line during a sandstorm.
• The captain threatened Jiang Fan, who killed him with a downward press of his palm.
• The major realized Jiang Fan might be stronger than Level Four and flew upstairs to attack him.
• The major began to accuse Jiang Fan, but a loud bang sent him crashing into the lobby floor.

After defeating Shen Hui, Jiang Fan ordered him to summon Taiping Pass’s highest commander before the sandstorm subsided. Shen Hui reported back to his commander, who decided to take soldiers to capture Jiang Fan during the storm.

• Jiang Fan spared the badly injured Shen Hui and ordered him to bring Taiping Pass’s highest commander to meet him before the sandstorm subsided.
• Shen Hui escaped through the sandstorm and identified himself to the soldiers guarding Taiping Pass.
• Shen Hui reached the Third Corps’ command office and reported Jiang Fan’s demand to the balding commander.
• Shen Hui told the commander that Jiang Fan carried a million purple banknotes and urged him to seize the young man.
• The commander decided to take soldiers out immediately and capture Jiang Fan while the sandstorm concealed their actions.

Yang Shuwen and Major Shen Hui postponed their plan to pursue Jiang Fan after Taiping Pass headquarters summoned its officers. Lin Hetong revealed that General Jiang was passing through the pass, leaving the officers ordered to maintain discipline and prepare for his arrival.

• Yang Shuwen agreed to Shen Hui's proposal to pursue Jiang Fan, but a headquarters order called him to an emergency meeting.
• Yang Shuwen told Shen Hui to postpone the matter, arguing that Jiang Fan's trail could be followed later.
• All eighty-one battalion-level officers gathered at the Supreme Command Post despite the nighttime sandstorm.
• Lin Hetong announced that General Jiang, a senior Military Commission official, was traveling through Taiping Pass and ordered every camp to remain at its post.
• Shen Hui asked Yang Shuwen what to do, and Yang Shuwen told him to wait until the situation settled.

After the sandstorm ended, Jiang Fan found that the Taiping Pass commander and the surviving major had not come after him for killing soldiers. He questioned the inn's landlady about the frontier and learned that the major wielded great influence, leaving her warning Jiang Fan to leave Taiping Town before the troops tracked him down.

• Jiang Fan woke to find the sandstorm over and saw the busy street covered in sand.
• Jiang Fan noticed that the inn staff had cleaned up the previous night's corpses and damage, while the other guests kept their distance from him.
• Jiang Fan asked the landlady about nearby towns, routes beyond the Ten Thousand Beasts Border Defense Great Wall, and the troops at Taiping Pass.
• The landlady refused to discuss the stationed soldiers but guessed that Jiang Fan planned to hunt exotic beasts beyond the Great Wall.
• The landlady warned Jiang Fan that the escaped major could wield great influence and urged him to leave Taiping Town before the troops tracked him down.
• Jiang Fan asked whether the troops had committed many wrongs in town, but the landlady hesitated, so he dropped the question.

Jiang Fan left Taiping Town to investigate Jiang Qinian’s whereabouts after giving the landlady money and a message stone. Lin Hetong arrived at Taiping Inn with soldiers and asked whether it had hosted a young man.

• Jiang Fan paid the landlady for the damage and gave her a message stone to alert him if anyone came looking for him.
• Jiang Fan left Taiping Town, and Old Huang led several adventurers after him despite warnings about his strength.
• A soldier told Lin Hetong that the 6th Corps, 1st Battalion had found Jiang Fan’s whereabouts at Taiping Inn.
• Lin Hetong went to Taiping Inn with soldiers and asked the landlady whether a young man had stayed there.

Lin Hetong, the highest commander of Taiping Pass, learned that Jiang Fan had left the pass and discovered the young man was Vice Chief Jiang of the Military Supervision Department. Jiang Fan ordered Lin Hetong to purge the garrison within three days, and Lin Hetong began investigating the abuses that had provoked him.

• Lin Hetong questioned the Taiping Inn landlady about the young man who had left for beyond the Ten Thousand Beasts Border Defense Great Wall.
• After the landlady crushed Jiang Fan's stone, Jiang Fan spoke from the void and Lin Hetong recognized him as Vice Chief Jiang, saluting and reporting for duty.
• Jiang Fan told Lin Hetong to investigate what had happened the previous night and purge Taiping Pass's garrison within three days, then report to the Military Supervision Department.
• Once Jiang Fan had left, Lin Hetong questioned the landlady and learned Jiang Fan had been robbed by adventurers and bullied by the garrison.
• Lin Hetong ordered his lieutenant colonel to control those at the inn, identify the officers involved, and arrest them as soon as they were found.

Lin Hetong confronted Yang Shuwen and Shen Hui over the violence at Taiping Inn and revealed that Jiang Fan could destroy Taiping Pass’s army with ease. After realizing Jiang Fan’s connection to General Jiang, Lin Hetong suspended the two officers and ordered a sweeping crackdown on misconduct.

• Lin Hetong identified Shen Hui as a battalion commander and summoned him and Yang Shuwen to Taiping Inn.
• Yang Shuwen recounted that a young man had killed three adventurers and three border-defense soldiers, while Shen Hui claimed he had fought the young man to a stalemate.
• Lin Hetong rejected Shen Hui’s account and warned that Jiang Fan could annihilate the soldiers at Taiping Pass with a flick of his finger.
• Yang Shuwen and Shen Hui realized Jiang Fan was connected to General Jiang and collapsed in fear.
• Lin Hetong suspended Yang Shuwen and Shen Hui, ordered inspections and anonymous reports, and demanded that military misconduct be rooted out within three days.

After leaving Taiping Pass, Jiang Fan explored the barren land beyond the Ten Thousand Beasts Border Defense Great Wall and began hunting Exotic Beasts to strengthen himself. He flew toward the distant mountains, planning to search for Jiang Qinian while testing techniques left by the Xiao Family Ancestor.

• After Lin Hetong and the military forces left Taiping Inn, the adventurers discussed Jiang Fan’s authority and were relieved they had not attacked him.
• Jiang Fan walked beyond Taiping Pass and observed the harsh, barren landscape where the frontier kingdoms had once stood.
• Unable to determine which direction Jiang Qinian had taken, Jiang Fan chose to fly straight ahead and search as he traveled.
• Jiang Fan killed waves of Exotic Beasts, absorbed their Life Energy, and concluded that hunting them increased his qi and blood faster than ordinary cultivation.
• Jiang Fan decided to practice the spatial and temporal attack techniques left by the Xiao Family Ancestor and formed a stretch of space before him.

Jiang Fan mastered Spatial Cut and tested its silent, long-range attacks on exotic beasts beyond the border pass. After he moved on, Old Huang and his men scavenged the remains, planning to return with a truck and claim the rest.

• Jiang Fan used Spatial Cut to sever an exotic beast's tail and kill several others without making a sound.
• Jiang Fan compared Spatial Cut with his earlier Spatial Flash attacks and began testing the limits of the space he controlled.
• Old Huang told his men they had followed Jiang Fan to scavenge exotic beast remains rather than attack him, and ordered them to wait until he moved farther away.
• After Jiang Fan disappeared from sight, Old Huang and his men reached the battlefield and found many dead beasts and scattered remains.
• Old Huang ordered the group to carry what they could back to the exotic beast market and planned to return with a truck for the rest.

Rumors that Old Huang’s group had returned with mutilated exotic beasts led adventurers to realize the remains had been left outside Taiping Pass. The scavenging crowd fought over the corpses and trucks, and news that even ordinary people could collect valuable remains sent Taiping Town into a frenzy.

• Adventurers at Taiping Inn inferred that Old Huang’s group had collected the remains of beasts hunted by the young man, and they rushed toward Taiping Pass.
• The conical-hat adventurer stayed behind, judging that the crowded scavenging would be dangerous.
• Adventurers found the mountain hollow covered with exotic-beast remains and charged in to collect them.
• Old Huang told his group to keep loading their truck, but scavengers fought over vehicles and remains, turning the hollow into a battlefield.
• After news spread that ordinary people could collect the remains too, people across Taiping Town rushed toward the pass.

Jiang Fan hunted exotic beasts beyond Taiping Pass, grew stronger through cultivation and Martial Arts Space challenges, and discovered a space bead that could store a huge beast. After traveling hundreds of kilometers across the barren land, he spotted a fire ahead and wondered who else could be there.

• Lin Hetong assumed Jiang Fan had killed the exotic beasts outside Taiping Pass and ordered the military to ban adventurers from taking or selling their remains.
• A soldier told angry adventurers that the beasts had been slain by the Military Commission Commander, a Level 8 powerhouse, shocking the crowd and the proprietress.
• Jiang Fan continued hunting and practicing Spatial Cut and Time Stagnation, lowering the flow of time to 40% of normal speed.
• After three days, Jiang Fan mastered a space technique that let him store a three-zhang-tall exotic beast inside a bead.
• Jiang Fan traveled hundreds of kilometers beyond Taiping Pass, then spotted firelight two kilometers ahead and wondered who was there.

Jiang Fan reached a distant continent and encountered three siblings from a tribe who were hunting a Phantom Night Charm Deer to obtain medicine for their sick mother. After joining their camp, he learned that the Alliance used Huaxia and faced questions about his origins and journey through the mountains.

• Jiang Fan spotted three blond-haired, blue-eyed hunters camped in the mountains and listened as the siblings discussed hunting a Phantom Night Charm Deer for medicine to cure their mother.
• Jiang Fan approached the camp, and the eldest brother mistook him for a mutated beast before recognizing him as human and identifying his speech as the Alliance's language.
• Jiang Fan claimed to come from another faction and asked to rest by the fire, and the eldest brother welcomed him and shared beast meat.
• Jiang Fan struggled to chew the tough, salty meat, then heard the eldest brother ask where he came from and how he had survived the Tianshan Mountains.

Jiang Fan met Tak, Will, and Elisa of the Wuganmole Tribe and learned that their isolated society traded exotic beasts for basic medicine. Tak described the powerful Guardian Alliance, whose language was Huaxia, leaving Jiang Fan wondering whether it was connected to Jiang Qinian.

• Jiang Fan told the three siblings he had traveled from Huaxia, but they doubted his claim that he had crossed hundreds of kilometers through the mountains.
• Elisa introduced herself and her brothers, Tak and Will, and explained they were hunting a Phantom Night Charm Deer to obtain medicine for their mother.
• Tak said their mother developed a fever and headache after being caught in a downpour, and he described trading for bitter, sugar-coated pills.
• Tak explained that the siblings belonged to the Wuganmole Tribe on the Yadan Plains, where tribespeople aspired to join the Guardian Alliance and learned its language.
• Jiang Fan realized the Alliance language was Huaxia and wondered whether the Guardian Alliance was connected to Jiang Qinian.

Jiang Fan stayed with Tak, Will, and Elisa while they waited for the Phantom Night Charm Deer, secretly protecting their camp from other savage beasts with his Spiritual Domain. Just before dawn, the deer arrived and used its strange power to make Will and Tak fall asleep, leaving them helpless.

• Tak invited Jiang Fan to stay with the group overnight and offered to guide him toward the Yadan Plains the next morning.
• Jiang Fan rested beside Elisa and spread his perception across the area, silently killing savage beasts that approached the camp.
• Tak and Will wondered why no savage beasts had attacked during the night, unaware that Jiang Fan had protected them.
• The Phantom Night Charm Deer entered Jiang Fan's Spiritual Domain just before dawn, and Jiang Fan opened a gap so it could reach the campfire.
• The deer made Will fall asleep, then overwhelmed Tak with drowsiness until he collapsed beside his brother.

Jiang Fan killed the Phantom Night Charm Deer after discovering its antlers produced a weak, Spiritual Power-like substance that could induce sleep. Tak, Will, and Elisa mistakenly credited their hunt and safe return to Jiang Fan as their lucky star, and the group reached the Wuganmole Tribe without being attacked.

• Jiang Fan traced the deer’s sleep-inducing power to its antlers and realized it was a weak variation of human Spiritual Power.
• Jiang Fan killed the Phantom Night Charm Deer and lay down to sleep, leaving its body for the siblings to find.
• Tak, Will, and Elisa discovered the deer dead without wounds and could not explain what had happened.
• Jiang Fan urged the siblings to focus on bringing the deer back to get medicine for their mother, and Elisa called him their lucky star.
• The group hurried back to the Wuganmole Tribe, while Jiang Fan used his force field to kill nearby attacking beasts along the way.
• After reaching the Yadan Plains in just over five hours, Tak again called Jiang Fan their lucky star because no alien beasts had attacked them.