Recaps

President Wu learned that Jiang Fan had been expelled from Third High School and left in anger, prompting Principal Fang to order Li Dongsheng to bring him back. Li Dongsheng was stunned to realize Jiang Fan had become a Level 2 Martial Artist, and Jiang Fan agreed to go with him.

• President Wu questioned Su Muqing, who confirmed Jiang Fan had passed the Level 2 Martial Artist assessment and attended Third High School.
• President Wu and Team Leader Wang planned to visit Third High School the next morning to find Jiang Fan.
• Principal Fang summoned Li Dongsheng and asked about Jiang Fan, but Li Dongsheng revealed that he had expelled him.
• Dong Bin denied signing the expulsion papers, and President Wu condemned the school for losing a Level 2 Martial Artist genius before leaving.
• Principal Fang ordered Li Dongsheng to bring Jiang Fan back, and Jiang Fan called out that he would go with him.

Luo Xiuwu learned that Jiang Fan was a Level 2 Martial Artist and regretted that he had left Fifth High School without staying in contact. President Wu and Principal Fang set out to find Jiang Fan, while Jiang Li struggled with fear after their encounter and his family urged him to recover for the entrance exam; the chapter ended with a crowd arriving at Jiang Fan’s home.

• Luo Xiuwu learned from President Wu that Jiang Fan had passed the Martial Arts Association assessment as a Level 2 Martial Artist with over 4,000 combat strength.
• Luo Xiuwu explained that Jiang Fan had only registered at Fifth High School and had not returned, so Principal Fang provided Jiang Fan’s home address and the group went there.
• Jiang Li remained haunted by Jiang Fan’s attack, and Su Xin and Jiang Zhihe urged him to eat, rest, and prepare for the college entrance examination.
• Jiang Zhihe reminded Jiang Li that the family depended on him to gain standing with the Jiang Family in Jing City, and Jiang Li agreed to work hard.
• Jiang Zhihe answered a knock and found a large group of people asking for Jiang Fan.

Jiang Zhihe was shocked to learn that Jiang Fan had become a Level 2 Martial Artist and was being sought by President Wu and other Jiang City officials for the Genius Selection Challenge. After Jiang Li exposed the family’s conflict with Jiang Fan, Jiang Zhihe reluctantly revealed that Jiang Fan was in the Outer City, and the group set off to find him.

• President Wu told Jiang Zhihe that Jiang Fan had become a Level 2 Martial Artist and was invited to the Genius Selection Challenge.
• Jiang Zhihe welcomed President Wu, the Martial Arts Association representatives, and the school officials into his home.
• President Wu asked Jiang Zhihe to bring Jiang Fan out, but Jiang Zhihe said he had gone to class.
• Jiang Li complained that Jiang Fan had wanted to sever ties with the family, and Jiang Zhihe angrily ordered him back inside.
• Jiang Zhihe said Jiang Fan was in the Outer City, and President Wu immediately led the group there.

Jiang Fan returned home to find President Wu and local school principals waiting to recruit him for the Martial Arts Association Headquarters' Genius Selection Challenge. After hearing the competition details and Jiang City's weak roster, Jiang Fan asked about the rewards, and President Wu began listing them.

• Jiang Fan arrived at Aunt's Home and ignored Jiang Zhihe as he greeted Ma Jiang and Su Qingwan.
• President Wu explained that he had come to invite Jiang Fan to represent the Jiang City Martial Arts Association in the Genius Selection Challenge.
• President Wu described the challenge's eligibility requirements, rounds, and training for the ten finalists.
• Jiang Fan asked how many Jiang City competitors there would be and what the rewards were, and President Wu said Li Yutang would join him if he accepted.
• President Wu said first place usually received rare exotic-beast essence blood and several million Blue Star Coins, then began describing the other prizes.

Jiang Fan rejected the Genius Selection Challenge because its rewards and the chance to meet stronger young Martial Artists did not interest him. When mutant beasts attacked Garden City and the challenge changed into a reinforcement mission, Jiang Fan eagerly asked if it would involve killing them.

• Jiang Fan told President Wu that the challenge rewards were useless to him and refused to participate.
• Jiang Fan rebuffed Jiang Zhihe when he tried to persuade him, reminding him that they had severed their relationship.
• President Wu explained that under-twenty Level 3 Martial Artists from across Huaxia would compete and urged Jiang Fan to broaden his horizons, but Jiang Fan still declined.
• An association member rushed in and told President Wu that mutant beasts were attacking Garden City and the challenge had become a mission to reinforce the city.
• Jiang Fan asked President Wu whether the challenge now involved killing mutant beasts, his face alight with excitement.

Jiang Fan insisted on joining the tournament after learning it would involve fighting alien beasts in Garden City, despite warnings about the danger. President Wu remained concerned and agreed to ask the association president for a decision.

• President Wu told Jiang Fan the tournament had changed into a dangerous actual-combat assessment in Garden City and said he could withdraw.
• Jiang Fan eagerly agreed to participate, but Su Qingwan and Ma Jiang warned him that the battlefield could cost him his life.
• Jiang Zhihe revealed his ties to the Kyoto Jiang Family and urged Jiang Fan to focus on cultivation, while President Wu recommended he wait until next year.
• Jiang Fan explained that he wanted to fight alien beasts to improve his strength and pleaded with President Wu to take him.
• President Wu hesitated after hearing everyone’s concerns and said he would consult the association president.

After Jiang Fan refused Principal Fang and chose to join the Yuan City defense competition, he left for the Jiang City Martial Arts Association. President Wu told him the siege could involve a Level 4 Beast Tide, with the military leading the defense and Martial Arts Association geniuses participating in a trial.

• Jiang Fan rejected Principal Fang’s attempt to bring him back to Third High School and reassured Luo Xiuwu that he would honor their agreement.
• Ma Ning, Ma Jiang, and Su Qingwan worried about Jiang Fan joining the dangerous Yuan City competition, while Jiang Fan clashed with Jiang Zhihe and refused to reconsider.
• Jiang Zhihe left after the family failed to persuade Jiang Fan to stay out of the competition.
• President Wu told Jiang Fan to assemble at the Jiang City Martial Arts Association, and Jiang Fan packed medicinal soup and departed immediately.
• President Wu explained that Yuan City faced a possible Level 4 Beast Tide, that the military would lead the defense, and that geniuses from ten nearby cities would participate.
• Jiang Fan learned that the group would leave in half an hour and was surprised by the urgency.

Jiang Fan and President Wu’s group joined a military train carrying reinforcements from Jiang City to Garden City. As the train departed into the wilderness, President Wu explained that the soldiers viewed the Martial Arts Association as dead weight.

• President Wu told Jiang Fan that they would travel to Garden City aboard a military train on the railway line.
• The group arrived at the Jiang City Military Subdistrict and met Jiao Yang, the commander responsible for the Garden City operation.
• Jiao Yang treated the association members coolly, and President Wu explained that the military saw them as unnecessary baggage and had no obligation to accommodate them.
• Jiao Yang’s soldiers finished loading equipment and boarded the train in disciplined order.
• The train left Jiang City through a gate in its wall, and Jiang Fan watched the wilderness pass outside.

Jiang Fan and the Jiang City Martial Arts Association delegation arrived in Garden City by military train amid a massive beast siege. As they went to find their team, a refined-looking man greeted President Wu with a pointed remark about Jiang City struggling to find qualified geniuses.

• President Wu reassured Jiang Fan and Li Yutang that the military train was safe and explained that the cause of the beast gathering near Garden City was unknown.
• Jiang Fan woke as the train reached Garden City and saw mutated beasts attacking the city; the train fought through the horde and stopped at the military subdistrict.
• Jiao Yang completed his escort duty, unloaded the equipment, and left with an officer for the command center.
• President Wu led Jiang Fan and the others to find the Martial Arts Association team assigned to the operation.
• A well-dressed middle-aged man greeted President Wu and suggested Jiang City had arrived late because it lacked enough qualified geniuses.

President Chen of the Hao City Martial Arts Association mocked President Wu and the Jiang City group, provoking Jiang Fan into insulting him. President Wu explained that Hao City and Jiang City had a long history of bitter rivalry and warned that Hao City might sabotage them on the battlefield.

• President Chen mocked Li Yutang’s strength and belittled the Jiang City Martial Arts Association, while his students joined in jeering.
• President Wu warned Li Yutang not to take the bait, and President Chen revealed that Minister Wan had gone to the military command center before asking about Jiang Fan.
• Jiang Fan told President Chen to get lost and called his students noisy, prompting them to threaten him.
• President Wu pretended to reprimand Jiang Fan, then led Wei Xin and Li Yutang away as President Chen stopped his students from chasing them.
• President Wu explained that Hao City and Jiang City had years of bitter enmity over resources and warned that Hao City might sabotage them during the mutant-beast mission.

Jiang Fan and the River City team arrived at Garden City, where President Wu learned that Hao City and Yun City had Level 3 Martial Artists and arranged for the teams to watch out for one another. Minister Wan then briefed the Martial Arts Association on its role in the monster-cleansing mission and asked the leaders to weigh two proposed assessment methods.

• President Wu introduced Jiang Fan, Li Yutang, and Wei Xin to President Li and the Ye City team at the Martial Arts Association headquarters.
• President Li told President Wu that Hao City and Yun City each had at least two Level 3 Martial Artists, and warned that Chen Sheng might target River City's members.
• President Li offered to have the other teams work together during missions so they could protect one another, and President Wu agreed.
• Minister Wan called a meeting and explained that the military would conduct the first round of cleansing while the Martial Arts Association cleared the remaining monsters afterward.
• Minister Wan proposed assessing teams by monsters hunted within a time limit or by battlefield survival time, then invited the leaders to give their opinions.

Minister Wan set the battlefield assessment rules and explained how the military’s positioning system would track each Martial Artist’s kills. As the second wave of exotic beasts approached, Jiang Fan joined his group and prepared to fight with a Miao Dao he had spent the day learning to use.

• Minister Wan announced that the assessment would rank Martial Artists by the number of exotic beasts they killed between the military’s attack and withdrawal orders, with positioning devices used to record kills.
• President Li and President Wu gathered Jiang Fan, Li Yutang, Qi Qi, He Tianlei, and the others, assigned them to look after one another, and warned them about Ding Xing.
• Jiang Fan claimed a Miao Dao and began familiarizing himself with the weapon, while Qi Qi explained how Martial Artists could gain exotic beast talents at Level 4.
• Jiang Fan spent the day practicing with the Miao Dao and occasionally cultivating with the Innate Breathing and Meditation Technique.
• As the second wave of exotic beasts stirred outside the city, Jiao Yang ordered the military to assemble and march, and Minister Wan ordered the Martial Arts Association to follow.

The military and Martial Arts Association fought off an Exotic Beast horde outside the city, while Association leaders tracked the contestants’ kill counts. Jiang Fan lagged behind the top scorers, and Chen Sheng accused him of relying on wounded beasts as the chapter ended.

• Huang Kun ordered artillery fire against the approaching Exotic Beasts, then sent Jiao Yang’s ground troops to attack the scattered horde.
• Minister Wan sent Martial Arts Association members, including Jiang Fan and Qi Qi, to clear the beasts behind the military lines.
• Qi Qi guided Jiang Fan and Li Yutang toward wounded Exotic Beasts, helping them add kills while Jiang Fan struggled with his weapons.
• The Association leaders compared kill counts, with Ding Xing leading at thirty-three, Jiang Fan at eighteen, and Li Yutang at seven.
• President Wu defended seventeen-year-old Jiang Fan’s potential, but Chen Sheng accused him of violating the spirit of a Martial Artist by harvesting wounded beasts.

Jiang Fan left Qi Qi’s protection and showed that his combat strength was far greater than the presidents had assumed. He and Qi Qi killed mutated beasts together, but their rising kill counts brought them close to the army’s defensive line, where a Level 3 Martial Artist, Ding Xing, moved toward them.

• Minister Wan ended the dispute over Jiang Fan and Li Yutang harvesting weakened beasts, ruling that their tactics were acceptable for their protection.
• Jiang Fan grew stronger as he absorbed energy from the mutated beasts, then rushed beyond Qi Qi’s group to fight on his own.
• Qi Qi finished off a Rotten Skin Blood Spider and saw Jiang Fan kill a Spineback Beast with ease, realizing he needed no protection.
• Jiang Fan and Qi Qi teamed up and rapidly increased their kill counts as the command center noticed their rankings climbing.
• The presidents saw Jiang Fan and Qi Qi nearing the army’s defensive line, then noticed Level 3 Martial Artist Ding Xing moving toward them.

Jiang Fan and Qi Qi were targeted by Ding Xing, who led a Level 3 Raging Giant Ape toward them. After Qi Qi was knocked aside, Jiang Fan fought the beast, discovered how to channel heat into his Miao Dao, and killed it, absorbing its Life Energy.

• Jiang Fan and Qi Qi fought Exotic Beasts together until Ding Xing appeared with a Raging Giant Ape in pursuit.
• Ding Xing dodged the ape’s charge, sending it toward Jiang Fan and Qi Qi, and Qi Qi shoved Jiang Fan aside before the beast struck her.
• Jiang Fan attacked the Raging Giant Ape and found that channeling a stream of heat into his Miao Dao let him cut through its defenses and sever an arm.
• Jiang Fan dodged the ape’s corrosive slime, channeled all his strength into his blade, and drove it into the beast’s skull.
• The Raging Giant Ape died, its Life Energy flowed into Jiang Fan, and he felt as if his body were about to explode.

Jiang Fan killed a Level 3 Raging Giant Ape, astonishing the officials watching from the city wall and earning a special reward for River City. After the fight, he rushed to check on Qi Qi, who could barely speak from shock.

• The officials spotted the Raging Giant Ape attacking Jiang Fan and panicked because the young participants could not withstand a Level 3 Exotic Beast.
• Minister Wan stopped President Wu from intervening and pointed out that Jiang Fan appeared to be holding his own against the ape.
• Jiang Fan broke through the Raging Giant Ape's defenses and killed it by driving his Miao Dao into its skull.
• Minister Wan promised Jiang Fan a special reward and said he would report his feat, while President Wu basked in praise and dismissed Chen Sheng's accusation that Jiang Fan's level had been falsified.
• Jiang Fan steadied himself and hurried to Qi Qi, who stared at him in shock and struggled to speak.

After helping Jiang Fan kill the Raging Giant Ape, Qi Qi returned to the city with him as the purge ended. Near the gates, Jiang Fan spotted a child in the Refugee District and ran off to investigate as Jiao Yang criticized his sudden departure.

• Jiang Fan carried the injured Qi Qi away from the battlefield after killing the Raging Giant Ape, and she withheld her accusation that Ding Xing had caused their injuries when Jiang Fan stopped her.
• The military and Martial Arts Association ended their purge and withdrew toward the city after driving back many of the alien beasts, while the beast tide's leader remained missing.
• Jiang Fan noticed a child's figure in the supposedly evacuated Refugee District and told He Tianlei to look after Qi Qi before heading northeast.
• He Tianlei called after Jiang Fan as he ran away from the closing city gates, and Jiao Yang called his actions absurd.

Jiang Fan returned to the burning Refugee District to rescue a little girl and fought off several Exotic Beasts, including one that attacked his mind. After reaching Jiao Yang and entering the city, Jiang Fan unexpectedly headed toward the eastern part of the city.

• Jiao Yang ordered the others to withdraw and went after Jiang Fan himself.
• Jiang Fan found a little girl beside a corpse in the destroyed Refugee District and carried her away as Exotic Beasts surrounded them.
• Jiang Fan cut down the beasts while holding the girl, then resisted a mental attack and killed the strange, blue-eyed Exotic Beast.
• Jiao Yang caught up with Jiang Fan, saw him defeat the beasts, and ran with him and the girl toward the city.
• President Li learned that Qi Qi had been injured by the Raging Giant Ape and asked where Jiang Fan was; He Tianlei said Jiang Fan had turned toward the eastern part of the city.

Jiang Fan returned from the battlefield after saving a little girl, prompting a dispute with Jiao Yang over battlefield orders. After Commander Huang let him off with a warning, Jiang Fan entered the Martial Arts Space to challenge its third trial.

• President Wu and President Li set out to find Jiang Fan, then met him returning with Jiao Yang and a rescued little girl.
• Jiao Yang reprimanded Jiang Fan for turning back without authorization, while Jiang Fan defended his choice to save the child.
• Commander Huang praised Jiang Fan’s courage but warned him to obey battlefield orders.
• Jiang Fan handed the girl over for resettlement, and President Wu asked whether he had become a Level 3 Martial Artist.
• After resting, Jiang Fan entered the Martial Arts Space and accepted the challenge to the third trial.

Jiang Fan defeated the Imperial Guard in the third trial and inherited Yue Xuanzu’s Starry Visualization Technique, which strengthened his perception and let him attack strange beasts with spiritual needles. As the seemingly endless beast tide continued, Jiang Fan rose to first place in kills and hinted that Qi Qi could take second place after the military expanded its operation.

• Jiang Fan overcame the Imperial Guard’s disorienting attack, disarmed him, and won the third trial.
• Jiang Fan received Yue Xuanzu’s inheritance and learned the Starry Visualization Technique, then practiced it beneath the stars.
• Jiang Fan wondered whether martial artists were trapped by the incomplete world and what connected their space to the High-Martial World.
• Over five days, Jiang Fan killed more than 180 strange beasts to take first place, while Qi Qi reached third with more than 160 kills.
• After the beast tide showed no sign of ending, Commander Huang Huang Kun ordered more troops and equipment and an expanded defensive line.
• Jiang Fan told Qi Qi that she might rank second after the next day’s hunt.

The military launched a full-scale clearing operation, and Jiang Fan and Qi Qi advanced with the Martial Arts Association team. As Qi Qi watched Ding Xing fighting in the wilderness, he suddenly froze and fell, and a Level 2 Exotic Beast bit off his head.

• Qi Qi feared Jiang Fan planned to kill Ding Xing, but Jiang Fan refused to explain himself.
• The military gathered more than a thousand soldiers and prepared a wider, more powerful offensive, while Martial Arts Association leaders warned their members to stay near the troops.
• The Exotic Beast tide attacked, and artillery fire devastated the horde as the Clearing Team advanced behind the military.
• Jiang Fan and Qi Qi fought together while Jiang Fan also protected Li Yutang, He Tianlei, and the others.
• Three kilometers outside the city gates, Qi Qi spotted Ding Xing fighting a Level 2 Exotic Beast.
• Ding Xing suddenly froze and fell backward, and the beast bit through his head as Qi Qi watched.

Jiang Fan and Qi Qi continued fighting after Ding Xing died, while the Martial Arts Association team advanced toward Garden City and discovered a new Great Rift full of Exotic Beasts. A Level 4 Exotic Beast emerged from the rift and attacked the soldiers as Jiao Yang ordered the retreat and charged at it.

• Ding Xing was killed by a Level 2 Exotic Beast, and Qi Qi realized Jiang Fan had concealed the truth about Ding Xing's scheme and had anticipated his death.
• Jiao Yang rallied the shaken Martial Arts Association members as the team fought its way to within five kilometers of Garden City.
• The soldiers discovered a new Great Rift where countless Exotic Beasts were retreating, and Jiao Yang ordered them to fire their remaining ammunition into it.
• A Level 4 Exotic Beast shaped like a giant lion emerged from the rift and engulfed soldiers in flames.
• Jiao Yang ordered the artillerymen to target the beast's wings, assigned Adjutant Liu to lead the retreat, and charged at the Level 4 Exotic Beast.

Jiang Fan returned to the rear and killed the weakened Level 4 Exotic Beast after Jiao Yang’s troops were overwhelmed. A Level 5 Beast emerged from the rift, but a young woman in a Military Uniform split it in two with one sword strike before Jiang Fan fainted.

• Jiang Fan told Qi Qi to lead the others to safety, then charged back to help Jiao Yang and the remaining soldiers.
• Jiang Fan fought the giant lion despite his injuries and used Spiritual Energy to stun it before cutting open its lower jaw and killing it.
• Jiang Fan collapsed from exhaustion as Jiao Yang reached his side, and a much larger Level 5 Exotic Beast emerged from the rift.
• A young woman in a Military Uniform cleaved the Level 5 Exotic Beast in two with a single sword strike.
• Jiang Fan saw the woman and an old general in the air, recognized her as a young Grandmaster, and fainted.

At Garden City's military headquarters, Jiao Yang confronted Lu Zhenguo and Bai Qiu over the deaths of his soldiers, then recommended Jiang Fan for the Star General Cultivation Plan. Lu Zhenguo dismissed the idea, judging Jiang Fan's age and cultivation too ordinary, and he and Bai Qiu left without meeting Jiao Yang.

• Commander Huang thanked Lu Zhenguo and Bai Qiu for helping defeat the Level 5 Exotic Beast, and Lu Zhenguo explained that the Great Rift would need to be fortified.
• Jiao Yang burst into the room and demanded to know why Bai Qiu had waited until nearly all his soldiers were dead before acting.
• Lu Zhenguo explained that the beast had hidden inside the Great Rift and that they had waited for an opportunity; Jiao Yang accepted the explanation but mourned his fallen soldiers.
• Before leaving, Jiao Yang recommended Jiang Fan for the Central War Zone's Star General Cultivation Plan, and Lu Zhenguo said he would consider it.
• Outside the military subdistrict, Bai Qiu asked Lu Zhenguo about Jiang Fan, but Lu Zhenguo rejected the recommendation because Jiang Fan was only a seventeen-year-old Level 3 Martial Artist and did not meet the plan's special criteria.

After waking from his coma, Jiang Fan learned that the military had ended the Garden City extermination operation and that Bai Qiu had killed the Level 5 Exotic Beast. Once he recovered, President Wu prepared to take him back to River City to receive his rewards and test his vital energy and blood.

• Jiang Fan woke in a military hospital, ate, and asked President Wu how the extermination operation had gone.
• President Wu told Jiang Fan that General Lu Zhenguo and Bai Qiu had arrived, and that Bai Qiu had killed the Level 5 Exotic Beast.
• Jiang Fan questioned how Bai Qiu could fight so powerfully and remain suspended in midair, and President Wu explained her talent and access to rare abilities and war-zone resources.
• The Ye City Martial Arts Association members said goodbye, and Qi Qi encouraged Jiang Fan to consider attending a Martial Arts University in the capital.
• After cultivating until his Spiritual Energy fully recovered, Jiang Fan found that it had grown stronger.
• President Wu summoned Li Yutang and Jiang Fan to return to River City for the Martial Arts Association Headquarters rewards and another test of Jiang Fan's vital energy and blood.