Recaps

After returning to River City, Jiang Fan tested his Blood Energy and stunned President Wu with a value of 409, nearly ten times his previous result. President Wu wondered if Jiang Fan had an Extraordinary Physique, but Jiang Fan denied it.

• Li Yutang chose to return home and prepare for the college entrance examination after admitting he had recognized the gap between himself and the other competitors.
• Li Yutang apologized for failing to win a place for the River City Martial Arts Association, and he and Jiang Fan agreed to meet again in the capital.
• President Wu tested Jiang Fan's Blood Energy, saw the result of 409, and checked the machine by testing his own value of 3872.
• Jiang Fan attributed his rapid growth to insights gained on the battlefield, while President Wu chose not to press him about his secrets.
• President Wu explained that Extraordinary Physiques were rare people who cultivated without ordinary bottlenecks, then asked if Jiang Fan had one; Jiang Fan denied it.

Jiang Fan impressed President Wu with his combat strength and perfected Five Elements Fist, earning his Level 3 Martial Artist insignia and competition rewards. He hurried to Aunt's Home to share the news, but found it empty, then learned Ma Ning had been absent from school for nearly a week.

• Jiang Fan tested at a combat power value of 66,152, and President Wu asked him to spar so he could assess his cultivation.
• During their fight, President Wu saw Jiang Fan's perfected Five Elements Fist and four-star Combat Awareness, and praised his ability.
• President Wu issued Jiang Fan a Level 3 Martial Artist insignia and gave him the Genius Selection Competition rewards, including Ice Phoenix rare beast blood essence and three million Blue Star Coins.
• Jiang Fan left the Martial Arts Association and hurried to Aunt's Home, hoping to share the news and give Ma Ning the blood essence.
• Jiang Fan found Aunt's Home locked and empty, then learned Ma Ning had not attended First High School in River City for nearly a week.

Jiang Fan investigated the disappearance of Ma Ning and her family, enlisted the Jiang City Martial Arts Association and Thunder Martial Arts Hall to help, and suspected someone seeking the fourth-generation medicine formula. As Anshi Hall’s Yu Baiwei complained that Jiang Fan had been absent, a servant announced that Mr. Jiang had arrived.

• Jiang Fan found that Ma Ning had missed school without asking for leave and discovered a broken vase at her home, so he suspected something had happened to the family.
• Jiang Fan asked President Wu to investigate, and President Wu sent Martial Arts Association members to search and contacted the police.
• Jiang Fan told Lei Zhendong about the disappearance, and they considered whether someone had targeted Jiang Fan because of his medicine-formula deal with Anshi Hall.
• Lei Zhendong arranged for Thunder Martial Arts Hall’s people and contacts to investigate the three major Pharmaceutical Groups and other possible suspects.
• At Anshi Hall, Yu Baiwei questioned whether Jiang Fan had run off with five million, while Yu Jun defended their business partner and noted their test samples were successful.
• A servant told Yu Jun and Yu Baiwei that Mr. Jiang had arrived.

Jiang Fan and River City's factions searched for his missing aunt's family, fearing the Spirit Turtle Blood Replenishing Soup formula had drawn danger. A witness finally led them to Guangyuan Road, and Jiang Fan set out to go there himself despite warnings.

• Jiang Fan told Yu Jun that Aunt's Home had been ransacked and that the intruders might be after the Spirit Turtle Blood Replenishing Soup formula.
• Yu Jun, Lei Zhendong, and the Martial Arts Association joined Jiang Fan's search, but several days passed without useful leads.
• President Wu concluded that Ma Jiang's family probably had not been taken from their home because no one nearby had heard a commotion.
• Li Hui brought in a punk who said he had followed Ma Ning to a house on Guangyuan Road and waited there for hours.
• Jiang Fan decided to go to Guangyuan Road himself, while Lei Zhendong, Yu Jun, and President Wu warned him against rushing in.

Jiang Fan went to the abandoned factory where Ma Jiang's family was being tortured over a prescription and killed the captors. The middle-aged man revealed that Xiao Hui of the underground auction house had ordered the abduction, but Jiang Fan killed him before he could plead for mercy.

• Jiang Fan took two short blades and left to confront the people holding Ma Jiang's family.
• At the abandoned factory, a tattooed thug tortured Ma Jiang and beat Su Qingwan while demanding the prescription.
• The middle-aged man ordered the thugs to threaten Ma Ning after Ma Jiang insisted they did not have the prescription.
• Jiang Fan burst into the factory, killed three men, and wounded the middle-aged man.
• The middle-aged man named Xiao Hui of the underground auction house as the person behind the kidnapping, and Jiang Fan killed him.

Jiang Fan rescued Ma Jiang’s family from the underground auction house’s thugs, then stormed its hidden third floor to kill Xiao Hui and everyone involved. Before dying, Xiao Hui revealed that someone else had ordered the kidnapping, and Jiang Fan recognized who stood behind it.

• Jiang Fan freed Ma Jiang’s family, comforted them, and sent them to Thunder Martial Arts Hall with help from the Martial Arts Association.
• After learning the kidnappers worked for the underground auction house, Jiang Fan went to Wanquan Tavern seeking Xiao Hui and killed an attendant who tried to mislead him.
• Jiang Fan broke through a concealed wall and entered the auction house’s hidden third floor, where he killed the men who confronted him.
• Jiang Fan killed Xiao Hui and the others on the third floor, then learned that Xiao Hui had acted on someone else’s orders.
• Jiang Fan recognized the person behind the kidnapping.

Jiang Fan traced the kidnapping of his family to Si Kongyao and confronted her at Miaofang Pavilion. After Si Kongyao admitted her involvement and tried to negotiate for the prescription, Jiang Fan attacked her.

• Jiang Fan realized Lu Bo had kept the auction house staff from following him upstairs, and Lu Bo silently acknowledged him.
• Jiang Fan went to Miaofang Pavilion headquarters and forced his way into Si Kongyao's office, knocking her bearded subordinate into the desk.
• Si Kongyao recognized Jiang Fan as a Level 2 Martial Artist and offered compensation and other benefits in exchange for the prescription.
• Jiang Fan accused Si Kongyao of ordering his family's kidnapping, and she admitted it while insisting that business focused on results, not methods.
• Jiang Fan drew his short blade and lunged at Si Kongyao.

Jiang Fan fought Si Kongyao at Miaofang Pavilion and overwhelmed her with his martial skills and psychic ability. Meanwhile, President Wu and the others discovered the bloody aftermath at the underground auction house and rushed to stop Jiang Fan from harming the dangerous woman.

• Jiang Fan attacked Si Kongyao, who revealed herself to be a Level 4 Martial Artist and fought back with her sword.
• Jiang Fan used his blade and psychic interference to defeat Si Kongyao, then held his blade to her neck as she tried to recruit him into the Si Kong Family.
• President Wu and the others learned that Jiang Fan had gone to the underground auction house and hurried there after escorting Ma Jiang's family to safety.
• At the auction house, Yu Jun recognized Xiao Hui among the corpses, while Lei Zhendong was shocked by Jiang Fan's rapid growth and the killings.
• Lu Bo told the group that Jiang Fan had gone to Miaofang Pavilion, and President Wu rushed off, warning that the woman there must not be touched.

Jiang Fan killed Si Kongyao despite President Wu's warning that her death would provoke the powerful Si Kong Family. President Wu then appealed to Martial Arts Association president Kong Ze to help Jiang Fan, but Kong Ze remained reluctant even after learning how quickly Jiang Fan had grown.

• President Wu rushed to Miaofang Pavilion and warned Jiang Fan that killing Si Kongyao would bring the Si Kong Family's fury.
• Jiang Fan killed Si Kongyao, saying their grudge was already beyond repair and that he would uproot everyone involved if he survived.
• President Wu urged Jiang Fan to escape to Thunder Martial Arts Hall, then cleaned Si Kongyao's office to conceal evidence.
• President Wu told Kong Ze about Jiang Fan's situation and asked the Martial Arts Association to help him.
• Kong Ze hesitated to intervene, but reacted with surprise when President Wu revealed that Jiang Fan had advanced from an ordinary person to a Level 3 Martial Artist in one month.
• Kong Ze acknowledged Jiang Fan's exceptional growth but concluded that it was still not enough to justify helping him.

Kong Ze confirmed that Jiang Fan could use Psychic power and agreed that the Jiang City Martial Arts Association would help cover up the incident involving Si Kongyao. He warned Jiang Fan that members of the Si Kong Family might target him, then offered to point him toward a path.

• President Wu told Kong Ze that Si Kongyao had called Jiang Fan a Psychic, and Kong Ze decided to meet him.
• Jiang Fan left Thunder Martial Arts Hall with President Wu before he could explain the Miaofang Pavilion incident to Lei Zhendong.
• Kong Ze tested Jiang Fan's Spiritual Power and confirmed that his focused attack was Psychic power, though Jiang Fan lacked training.
• Kong Ze said the association would destroy evidence linking Jiang Fan to the incident, but warned that close members of Si Kongyao's main branch might pursue him.
• Kong Ze told Jiang Fan that he knew a path he could point him toward.

Jiang Fan learned how the Jiang City Martial Arts Association planned to protect him while he prepared for university, and the deaths tied to the underground auction house were quietly settled. He reunited with Ma Jiang and Su Qingwan at their Inner City home, where Ma Jiang praised Jiang Fan’s success and compared their new life with Jiang Zhihe’s.

• Kong Ze advised Jiang Fan to enter one of Huaxia's Nine Top Martial Arts Universities and suggested he seek the Kyoto First Martial Arts University's Psychic as a master.
• President Wu told Kong Ze that Jiang Zhihe had once mentioned ties to the Kyoto Jiang Family, and Kong Ze judged that Jiang Fan could not rely on that family for protection.
• Rumors spread about the deaths at the underground auction house, but the Martial Arts Association kept Jiang Fan's involvement hidden, and the Si Kong Family left River City without finding evidence.
• Jiang Fan reflected that his anger over Ma Jiang's family had made him act impulsively and resolved to think more carefully before acting again.
• Ma Jiang told Jiang Fan that he enjoyed his new job at the Personnel Administration Bureau, and Su Qingwan and Ma Jiang credited Jiang Fan with their comfortable life in the Inner City.

Jiang Fan prepared for the Gaokao after moving into a villa with his family and intensifying his cultivation. On the second day of the exam, he spotted a familiar beautiful figure in a nearby line at First High School’s testing ground.

• Jiang Fan rejected Jiang Zhihe’s repeated attempts to bring him back to the Jiang Family, and Su Qingwan urged him to focus on their own lives.
• Jiang Fan showed Ma Ning how to use her training-room equipment and learned that her Blood Energy value had reached 1.9.
• Ma Ning asked which university Jiang Fan planned to attend, and he said he would probably go to Kyoto.
• Jiang Fan cultivated intensely in the villa, and his Blood Energy rose before the Gaokao began.
• Jiang Fan completed the first day’s liberal arts exam and joined the Blood Energy and combat power screening line at First High School.
• Jiang Fan sensed someone looking at him and saw a beautiful figure turn toward him from the adjacent line.

Jiang Fan took the combat power test as impressive results from Jiang City's young geniuses drew attention. The testing machine displayed XXXXX after his punch, leaving the chief examiner stunned.

• Jiang Fan politely wished Su Muqing good luck, and she felt ashamed when she realized how much her attitude toward him had changed.
• Examinees took the blood-energy and combat power tests simultaneously, with most failing to meet the requirements.
• Ji Fenghua recorded a combat power of 10,827, and Jiang Fan realized the city's young fighters might be hiding their strength.
• News spread that Wang Ying had recorded a blood-energy value above 140, confirming she had crossed the Level 3 threshold.
• When Jiang Fan took his turn, the combat power machine displayed XXXXX, and the chief examiner was stunned.

Jiang Fan’s combat power exceeded the testing machine’s 50,000 limit, and he destroyed it when the supervising examiner demanded he strike at full strength. As the incident spread through River City, A Zhen and her classmates met her brother, who told them the damaged machine had delayed his test.

• Jiang Fan’s repeated results displayed XXXXX on two machines, so the examiners called over the supervising examiner to investigate.
• The supervising examiner accused Jiang Fan of cheating and ordered him to hit the machine with all his strength.
• Jiang Fan’s punch wrecked the machine, revealing that his combat power exceeded its 50,000 limit; the supervisor recorded the limit and left to report the result.
• Examinees gathered to discuss Jiang Fan’s strength, while Su Muqing wondered how he had advanced so quickly and thought Wenwen had misjudged him.
• A Zhen invited Ma Ning to lunch with her classmates and her brother, who explained that Jiang Fan’s punch had delayed his assessment.

Ma Ning's classmates realized Jiang Fan was the student who had destroyed the Combat Power Testing Machine, and he joined them for dinner after meeting Ma Ning at the school gate. The chapter ended with Song Zhixue asking to team up with Jiang Fan for the points competition starting the day after tomorrow.

• Song Zhixue told A Zhen and the other girls about a student who had destroyed a Combat Power Testing Machine, and Ma Ning suspected the student was Jiang Fan.
• Song Zhixue recognized Jiang Fan at the school gate, and Ma Ning called him her brother, surprising the group.
• Jiang Fan joined Ma Ning and her classmates for dinner at a medicinal cuisine restaurant and introduced himself as Ma Ning's brother.
• Jiang Fan confirmed he had destroyed the machine and patiently answered the girls' questions about his strength.
• Song Zhixue asked Jiang Fan if he could form a team with him for the points competition.

Jiang Fan advised Song Zhixue on preparing for the points tournament and met Yu Baiwei at the restaurant, where she paid for their meal and sought to make amends. On the way home, Ma Ning said she was happy, and Jiang Fan, sensing her loneliness at school, gave her a thick wad of money.

• Jiang Fan told Song Zhixue that the tournament rules prevented teaming up and advised him to study strategy to improve his ranking.
• Song Zhixue learned that Yu Baiwei had paid for the meal, and she explained that the restaurant belonged to Anshi Hall and invited Jiang Fan to return.
• Song Zhixue told the group that Yu Baiwei was famous at First High School as Anshi Hall's sole heir.
• Yu Baiwei reflected on her past attitude toward Jiang Fan and felt relieved when she realized he had accepted her goodwill.
• Ma Ning told Jiang Fan she was happy on their way home, and he gave her a thick wad of money after sensing she was lonely at school.

Jiang Fan entered the college entrance examination’s points competition, hunted Exotic Beasts with ease, and headed deeper into a canyon to find stronger prey. A group of examinees cornered him and demanded his points.

• Jiang Fan gave Ma Ning a thick stack of Blue Star Coins, and she burst into tears.
• The college entrance examination committee recorded Jiang Fan’s Vitality as 421 and his Combat Power at the 50,000 limit without retesting him.
• Jiang Fan entered the Secret Realm for the points competition, refused to team up, and chose a canyon crowded with Exotic Beasts.
• Jiang Fan killed Exotic Beasts with single slashes and earned more than 260 points, then decided to seek higher-level prey.
• A team of four or five examinees surrounded Jiang Fan, and their leader demanded to borrow his points.

Jiang Fan learned that the exam’s top ten were displayed on the map, making them targets for other examinees, and fought off repeated attacks as his score climbed to 4,733. Seeking a quieter route on the outskirts of River City, he headed toward a passage where another examinee was setting traps for him.

• Jiang Fan killed a five-person team that tried to ambush him, then spared another team that had only watched him.
• Jiang Fan cleared the canyon of its Exotic Beasts and raised his score to nearly 1,725.
• Jiang Fan discovered that the map marked the top ten examinees with moving blue dots and showed him ranked first.
• Jiang Fan fought off successive teams targeting him, pushing his score to 4,733 while remaining first.
• Jiang Fan headed toward the outskirts of River City as an examinee hid above a passage and set traps along his expected route.

Jiang Fan tracked down the ambusher, only to discover it was Song Zhixue, who had built an elaborate trap and revealed a way to exploit the map’s limits. The two spotted red-clad contestants beyond River City’s area, and Song Zhixue hinted that he knew where they came from.

• Jiang Fan dodged falling rocks, arrows, smoke, and an attack before catching the ambusher by the neck.
• Song Zhixue begged for his life and claimed he could help recruit Jiang Fan, then recognized Jiang Fan and explained that he had been trying to earn points.
• Song Zhixue described how he had hidden and prepared a trap using rocks, arrows, smoke, and poison, and Jiang Fan questioned the danger of ambushing contestants whose positions were visible.
• Song Zhixue showed Jiang Fan that River City’s map displayed only its own area and led him up to a cliffside rock.
• Jiang Fan saw red-clad contestants confronting blue-clad River City contestants, and Song Zhixue said he knew where the red-clad group came from.

Jiang Fan rescued He Lei’s group from candidates in red and learned that they had killed Lei Ming. After confirming that a light passage made his map marker disappear, Jiang Fan invited Song Zhixue to join him in exploiting it for a big score.

• Candidates in red attacked He Lei’s River City group, but Jiang Fan quickly defeated them and forced the last survivor to reveal a passage into River City’s territory.
• Jiang Fan recognized He Lei, who explained how her inexperienced group had formed a team and revealed that candidates in red had killed Lei Ming near the Misty Forest.
• Jiang Fan left He Lei’s group and followed Song Zhixue to a light passage at the edge of the area.
• Jiang Fan entered the passage, saw his blue map marker disappear, and confirmed that it reappeared when he returned.
• Jiang Fan realized the passage let out-of-region candidates hide their map markers and told Song Zhixue he would take him along for a big score.

Jiang Fan and Song Zhixue reached the outer region, where Jiang Fan decided to guard the portal and intercept examinees heading for River City. After learning that Peng City examinees had been told about the portal in advance, he challenged them to come claim his 5,500 points.

• Wang Ying, Ji Fenghua, and Li Jiaoyang teamed up to defeat the examinees targeting them, and Li Jiaoyang rose to second place with 5,328 points.
• Li Jiaoyang briefly became first when Jiang Fan disappeared from the rankings, but he and the others could not determine what had happened.
• Jiang Fan and Song Zhixue reached the outer region, and Jiang Fan proposed waiting by the portal to stop anyone entering River City.
• Jiang Fan swiftly defeated a group of Peng City examinees approaching the portal and questioned the last survivor about how they knew it led to River City.
• After the survivor said someone had spread the portal’s location before the exam, Jiang Fan told him to report that Jiang Fan had 5,500 points and was waiting for Peng City to take them.

Jiang Fan baited the Peng City examinees into attacking him and quickly amassed points with Song Zhixue. When Jiang Qianfan finally challenged him, Jiang Fan defeated him in one move, leaving the crowd stunned.

• Song Zhixue worried that Jiang Fan had provoked the Peng City examinees, but Jiang Fan insisted that targeting them was the quickest way to earn points.
• Peng City examinees flooded into the area, and Jiang Fan killed them while letting Song Zhixue finish off some wounded opponents, driving their points higher.
• Jiang Fan mocked Peng City's Top Ten until the crowd called for Jiang Qianfan to confront him.
• Jiang Qianfan attacked Jiang Fan with a sword, but Jiang Fan struck him with his fist and finished him in a single move.

Jiang Fan defeated Peng City's challengers one after another, then returned to River City's region with a commanding lead in the examination rankings. He ended the chapter in first place with 78,124 points, leaving Li Jiaoyang and the others stunned.

• Luo Feng challenged Jiang Fan with twin hammers, but Jiang Fan outmaneuvered him, broke a hammer, and killed him in under a minute.
• Jiang Fan defeated more than six of Peng City's Top Ten geniuses and other challengers, earning over seventy thousand points and frightening the remaining spectators into silence.
• After no one else from Peng City dared to challenge him, Jiang Fan entered the light tunnel with Song Zhixue and returned to River City's region.
• Jiang Fan's ranking rose to first place with 78,124 points, while Li Jiaoyang and the other River City examinees stared in disbelief.

Jiang Fan held the passage to keep Peng City examinees trapped in River City and secured first place in the points competition with 95,701 points. The cross-region killings prompted a vehement protest from Peng City's college entrance examination committee.

• Jiang Fan told Song Zhixue to stop hunting because his lead was secure and Song's score was high enough to avoid entering the Top Ten.
• Jiang Fan and Song Zhixue waited at the passage and killed the Peng City examinees who arrived, preventing them from returning to their own region.
• Jiang Fan named Peng City's geniuses, including Jiang Qianfan, Luo Feng, and Min Chunzhu, and rejected Ma Ming's attempt to negotiate.
• The Peng City examinees charged Jiang Fan, but he killed them all with ease.
• The points competition ended with Jiang Fan in first place, while Peng City's college entrance examination committee lodged a protest over the cross-region battle.

Jiang Fan’s retained first-place score in the points competition became public as River City’s practical combat showdown began. The crowd learned he was from Fifth High School, and the first challenge match was about to start.

• Peng City and River City argued over cross-regional hunting, but the higher-ups mediated the dispute and kept Jiang Fan’s assessment results.
• Ma Ning, Shuyi, and A Zhen discussed Jiang Fan’s reported score and his victory over Peng City’s examinees before the showdown.
• Jiang Zhihe, Principal Fang, and others came to verify reports of Jiang Fan’s performance, while Luo Xiuwu remained confident in him.
• The practical combat showdown began at First High School’s sports stadium, and the screen listed Jiang Fan first with more than ninety thousand points.
• The chief examiner called on tenth-ranked Liao Junsheng, who stood and chose to issue a challenge.