Recaps

Jiang Fan defeated Zhuang Hui in the Newcomer League after overcoming his Black Mist and a barrage of Earth Element techniques. Han Shan stopped the fight and ordered Jiang Fan arrested pending a decision on punishment.

• Zhuang Hui trapped Jiang Fan in Black Mist, but Jiang Fan used the Innate Qi Absorption and Guidance Technique to locate him and win their exchange.
• Zhuang Hui unleashed Earth Element attacks, including Earth Splitting Mountain Collapse, Earth Spirit Shield, and Stone Thorn Storm, but Jiang Fan dodged and counterattacked.
• Jiang Fan vanished above the arena, then descended with overwhelming Punch Force, shattered Zhuang Hui's Earth Dragon Dance, and blasted him into a pit.
• Han Shan stopped the match and had medical staff carry Zhuang Hui away for treatment.
• Han Shan accused Jiang Fan of striking too severely and ordered him arrested pending a decision on punishment.

Jiang Fan defeated Zhuang Hui, but Han Shan tried to seize him until Hong Tiangan intervened and defended him. After the referee declared Jiang Fan the Newcomer League champion, Jiang Sichen told Jiang Yunxin that the Jiang Family had ordered him to approach Jiang Fan again.

• Han Shan restrained Jiang Fan, but Hong Tiangan broke his hold and accused him of seeking revenge for Zhuang Hui.
• Hong Tiangan challenged Han Shan to follow the competition rules, and the referee announced Jiang Fan as the Newcomer League's first-place winner.
• Hong Tiangan took Jiang Fan away and invited the others to Ninth Martial Arts University three days later to discuss the year's matters.
• The students of Ninth Martial Arts University cheered for Jiang Fan, while Jiang Yunxin felt relieved and happy that he had won.
• Jiang Sichen told Jiang Yunxin that the Jiang Family had ordered him to approach Jiang Fan again because his results had attracted attention.

Jiang Yunxin worried that Jiang Liye might interfere with Jiang Fan, but Jiang Sichen reassured her that his uncle seemed interested in recruiting him. After Jiang Fan won the Newcomer League, he met Song Xixi at White Dew Pavilion, where she said she had invited him because of his Psychic matter.

• Jiang Sichen told Jiang Yunxin that Jiang Liye wanted him to approach Jiang Fan again if Jiang Fan won the Newcomer League, and Jiang Yunxin asked him to mediate and keep Jiang Fan safe.
• Si Kongyingjie, watching the celebration, vowed to make Jiang Fan pay for killing members of his family and humiliating him.
• Hong Tiangan advised Jiang Fan to prepare for fame and pressure, then promised to teach him a higher-level cultivation technique the next day.
• Jiang Fan returned to First Martial Arts University to meet Song Xixi at White Dew Pavilion, where she told him the invitation was about his Psychic matter.

Song Xixi confirmed that Jiang Fan cultivated Spiritual Power and offered him the chance to be assessed as a prospective disciple of her powerful Psychic teacher. During the test, Jiang Fan’s uncontrolled Mental Needles overwhelmed Song Xixi, who judged that his strength might already approach the fourth level and vowed to report him to her teacher.

• Song Xixi told Jiang Fan that her teacher was considering taking a disciple and asked him to confirm whether he was a Psychic.
• Jiang Fan admitted that he cultivated Spiritual Power and explained that he had devised his defensive technique through experimentation, using methods President Wu had described.
• Song Xixi asked Jiang Fan to form Spiritual Needles and attack her so she could assess his power.
• Jiang Fan’s Mental Needles struck Song Xixi before he could stop them, leaving her injured and nearly fainting.
• Song Xixi estimated that Jiang Fan might have reached the threshold of a fourth-level Psychic and became excited to bring him to her teacher.

After Song Xixi invited Jiang Fan to meet her teacher in Luo City, Jiang Fan was ambushed by more than a dozen Level 4 Martial Artists and killed them with his Mental Needles and punches. The next day, Hong Tiangan asked him about the attack, leaving Jiang Fan surprised that his teacher knew.

• Song Xixi invited Jiang Fan to Luo City to meet her teacher, and Jiang Fan said he would consider it.
• Jiang Fan suspected the Si Kong Family and Si Kongyingjie were behind a deadly ambush as he walked back to the Ninth Martial Arts University.
• Jiang Fan used Mental Needles to disable the attackers and killed more than a dozen Level 4 Martial Artists with punches.
• Jiang Fan noticed someone watching from a distant high-rise, then left the scene.
• Hong Tiangan asked Jiang Fan whether he had been attacked the previous night, and Jiang Fan asked how he knew.

Jiang Fan told Hong Tiangan about the attack he suspected Si Kongyingjie had arranged and revealed that Song Xixi had identified him as a Psychic. Hong Tiangan encouraged him to meet Song Xixi’s teacher in Luo City and promised to intervene if the Si Kong Family continued their feud.

• Jiang Fan told Hong Tiangan that Si Kongyingjie likely sent more than a dozen Level 4 Martial Artists to attack him because of their accumulated grudges.
• Jiang Fan explained that Song Xixi had summoned him to the First Martial Arts University and said her teacher wanted to meet him because he was a Psychic.
• Hong Tiangan realized Jiang Fan’s Psychic abilities explained his resistance to Song Xixi’s attacks and his swift defeat of the attackers.
• Jiang Fan described meeting Song Xixi and using the Psychic techniques she taught him, which made her vomit blood.
• Hong Tiangan advised Jiang Fan to visit Song Xixi’s teacher in Luo City and said he would step in if the Si Kong Family escalated their conflict.
• Hong Tiangan prepared to teach Jiang Fan an advanced cultivation method.

Hong Tiangan taught Jiang Fan how to use Heaven and Earth Energy, and Jiang Fan quickly applied the principles to Fire and Earth Element Energy. After the Newcomer League brought Jiang Fan rewards and fame, Minister Wan summoned him to discuss a coming challenge to Nanshan Martial Arts School.

• Hong Tiangan explained how techniques could attack, control, enhance, defend, and support, and urged Jiang Fan to keep cultivating both energy and blood qi.
• Jiang Fan experimented with Fire Element Energy, creating a flaming spear, an attacking cage, and armor, then began using Earth Element techniques.
• Jiang Fan spent three days mastering Earth Element Energy while the Nine Top Martial Arts Universities discussed the Newcomer League results and awarded him special privileges.
• Jiang Fan became a spiritual leader of the Ninth Martial Arts University, and Minister Wan sent word that the other party would challenge Nanshan Martial Arts School in three days and requested a meeting.

Jiang Fan met Minister Wan to confirm that Bang Kingdom martial artists would challenge Nanshan Martial Arts School in three days, and agreed to handle the individual challenge alone. At Nanshan, the school’s disciples waited anxiously for help from the Martial Arts Association, while their leader urged them to be patient.

• Jiang Fan visited Minister Wan at the Martial Arts Association Headquarters and confirmed the challenge against Nanshan Martial Arts School was scheduled for three days later.
• Minister Wan explained that the Bang Kingdom challengers were genuinely Level 3 High Stage and had grown arrogant after a string of victories.
• Minister Wan gave Jiang Fan a plan for attending the challenge alone, with the Martial Arts Association staying behind the scenes.
• Jiang Fan agreed to go to Nanshan Martial Arts School and settle the matter.
• At Nanshan Martial Arts School, the disciples complained that the Martial Arts Association had not responded to their request for help.
• The middle-aged man at Nanshan told the disciples to stop blaming the Association and wait patiently for a reply.

Lin Nanshan’s family waited for the Martial Arts Association’s promised fighter to face the Koreans, while Lin Wuwu also sought a backup. On the day of the challenge, a voice called to Lin Wuwu from outside the school gates.

• Lin Wuwu argued that the Martial Arts Association was likely making plans to find a fighter, and proposed tracking its progress while seeking a candidate through her own connections.
• A messenger reported that the Association had chosen someone who would arrive in three days to help Nanshan Martial Arts School deal with the Koreans.
• Lin Wuwu decided to keep looking for a backup despite the Association’s promise.
• Three days later, Lin Nanshan welcomed martial arts school representatives to Nanshan Martial Arts School as they prepared for the Korean challenge.
• Lin Nanshan asked He Huan to watch for the Association’s fighter, while Lin Wuwu awaited the genius expert she had invited.
• A voice outside the gate called Lin Wuwu and asked whether the school belonged to her family.

Lin Wuwu welcomed her university friends to Nanshan Martial Arts School, hoping Zhang Bo would help defend it against a Bang Kingdom challenger. Li Zhengzai arrived with his two disciples and proposed a same-generation gauntlet match, angering the gathered Huaxia Martial Artists.

• Lin Wuwu introduced Zhang Bo, Yuan Hao, and their companions to her father, Lin Nanshan, who hoped they could defeat the Bang Kingdom genius.
• Yuan Hao pressed Lin Wuwu about how she would reward them, while Zhang Bo stopped him and said they should help without asking for anything.
• Lin Nanshan checked whether the Martial Arts Association had arrived, and He Huan reported that no unfamiliar martial artists had appeared.
• Li Zhengzai entered Nanshan Martial Arts School with Li Yunzhao and Park Jihoon, criticized its reputation, and challenged its younger generation to a gauntlet match.
• Li Zhengzai claimed the gauntlet format suited the sides' relative strength, provoking anger among the gathered Huaxia Martial Artists.

Lin Wuwu's friends challenged the Korean visitors after Li Zhengzai insulted Huaxia, and Lin Nanshan arranged a series of one-on-one matches. Li Yunzhao defeated Yuan Hao in the opening bout, leaving the Huaxia team to send out its next fighter.

• Zhang Bo and Lin Wuwu's friends confronted Li Zhengzai and accepted the Koreans' challenge.
• Lin Nanshan led everyone to the martial arts arena and agreed to the one-on-one match format.
• Wang Bo, Guo Caihe, and Yuan Hao decided their order, with Yuan Hao going first and Wang Bo last.
• Li Yunzhao attacked Yuan Hao with powerful leg techniques and kept him on the defensive.
• Yuan Hao charged in after Li Yunzhao taunted him, and Li Yunzhao struck him from an unexpected angle, knocking him down.
• Wang Bo and the others rushed to check on Yuan Hao as Li Yunzhao called for the next fighter.

Li Yunzhao defeated Guo Caihe after revealing strength close to that of a Level 4 Martial Artist, then faced Wang Bo in the third match. The chapter ends as Li Yunzhao launched a fierce opening kick at Wang Bo.

• Guo Caihe insisted on fighting Li Yunzhao first so Wang Bo could watch and study his moves.
• Li Yunzhao blocked Guo Caihe's attacks, then revealed his concealed strength and knocked her down.
• Wang Bo stepped onto the platform to fight Li Yunzhao despite doubting that he could win.
• Lin Nanshan announced the third match, and Li Yunzhao leaped into the air and kicked toward Wang Bo's head.

Li Yunzhao defeated Wang Bo and taunted Huaxia’s martial artists while Wang Bo tried to summon university geniuses. A young stranger arrived, knocked Li Yunzhao off the stage with one blow, and dismissed him as unimpressive.

• Li Yunzhao overwhelmed Wang Bo with a barrage of kicks and sent him crashing to the edge of the arena.
• Li Yunzhao mocked Huaxia’s martial arts and challenged anyone else to face him while the crowd worried that no one could stop him.
• Wang Bo proposed calling university experts and asked Li Yunzhao to wait while he invited a stronger opponent.
• Li Yunzhao accepted Wang Bo’s challenge and boasted that the Bang Kingdom had the strongest martial artists.
• A young stranger entered the courtyard, insulted the Bang Kingdom, and knocked Li Yunzhao off the stage with a single blow.

Jiang Fan arrived at Nanshan Martial Arts School and defeated Li Yunzhao, then provoked Li Zhengzai by challenging him and Park Jihoon to fight him together. Park Jihoon charged Jiang Fan, beginning the next match.

• Jiang Fan introduced himself as a student of Ninth Martial Arts University and knocked Li Yunzhao down before the crowd could react.
• Jiang Fan mocked Li Zhengzai and offered to let Li Yunzhao attack first in a rematch, angering Li Zhengzai.
• Lin Nanshan told the guests that Jiang Fan was not from his school, and they guessed the Martial Arts Association had sent him.
• Wang Bo recognized Jiang Fan as the Newcomer League champion and assured Lin Wuwu that Nanshan Martial Arts School had nothing to worry about.
• Jiang Fan challenged Li Zhengzai and Park Jihoon to attack him together, and Li Zhengzai ordered Park Jihoon to fight.
• Park Jihoon launched himself at Jiang Fan, starting the second match.

Jiang Fan defeated Park Jihoon in one move, then fought Li Zhengzai and gained the upper hand with his elemental attacks. Li Zhengzai launched a hidden weapon, but a sudden buzz left him frozen as the attack flew toward Jiang Fan.

• Jiang Fan sent Park Jihoon flying with a single exchange, astonishing the crowd and angering Li Zhengzai.
• Lin Wuwu heard that Jiang Fan had also instantly defeated Si Kongyingjie and wondered who he was.
• Jiang Fan restrained Li Zhengzai with Fire Element Energy, then countered his attack with a gigantic fire dragon.
• Jiang Fan and Li Zhengzai traded powerful Fire and Earth Element attacks, with Jiang Fan appearing to hold the advantage.
• Li Zhengzai secretly launched a slender cone at Jiang Fan, then froze when a buzz rang through his head.

Jiang Fan defeated Li Zhengzai and his two disciples at Nanshan Martial Arts School, then told Lin Nanshan to publicize the victory without revealing his identity. He left for the Martial Arts Association, but froze when he noticed Lin Wuwu.

• Jiang Fan overcame Li Zhengzai’s mental attack, knocked him down, and left him unconscious.
• Lin Nanshan and the others celebrated Jiang Fan’s victory, learning he was the Newcomer League champion and a student of Ninth Martial Arts University.
• Jiang Fan asked Lin Nanshan to publicize the defeat of Li Zhengzai’s group but keep Jiang Fan’s name out of it.
• Jiang Fan declined Lin Nanshan’s invitation to lunch and set off to report to Minister Wan himself.
• As Jiang Fan left amid the school’s praise, he noticed Lin Wuwu and froze.

After dealing with Li Zhengzai at Nanshan Martial Arts School, Jiang Fan learned the schoolmasters recognized him as the Newcomer League champion. Jiang Sichen approached him with a renewed invitation to the Jiang Family, and Jiang Fan agreed to go after finishing his current affairs.

• Lin Nanshan introduced his daughter Lin Wuwu to Jiang Fan and saw him off from Nanshan Martial Arts School.
• Wang Bo told Lin Nanshan that Jiang Fan had won the Huaxia Hundred-Schools Newcomer League, easing the schoolmasters’ complaints about the Martial Arts Association.
• Jiang Fan left the school and encountered Jiang Sichen, who said an elder had ordered him to contact Jiang Fan again.
• Jiang Sichen urged Jiang Fan to visit the Jiang Family, warning that Jiang Yunxin might be targeted if he refused.
• Jiang Fan said he could not go immediately but agreed to visit the Jiang Family with Jiang Sichen once he had handled his current affairs.

After a period of cultivation, Jiang Fan challenged the fifth trial of the Martial Arts Space and was overwhelmed by a Python-robed middle-aged man’s strange techniques and speed. He discovered that the opponent’s weakness was the eyes on his robe and began considering how to strike them.

• Jiang Fan returned to Stone Path Cottage and cultivated for over a week, raising his qi and blood to 1,938 and increasing his Spiritual Energy vortex.
• Jiang Fan decided to challenge the fifth trial before visiting Luo City to assess his Psychic level.
• The Python-robed middle-aged man used extreme speed and Bronze Bell Illusions to injure Jiang Fan and defeat him.
• Jiang Fan suspected the man’s techniques came from the Star Map on his robe, then returned to the trial to test the theory.
• Jiang Fan confirmed that threatening the eyes on the robe made the Python-robed middle-aged man falter, and he began planning how to destroy them.

Jiang Fan used Fire Element Energy and Earth Thorns to defeat Zhao Chang, then learned the story behind Zhao Chang’s martial arts inheritance. Studying the Soaring Dragon Astonishing Swan Art, Jiang Fan adapted its flash technique to the abundant energy of the High-Martial World and successfully teleported to an anchor point.

• Jiang Fan found that he could use Heaven and Earth Energy in the arena and defeated Zhao Chang with Fire Dragon Dance and Earth Thorns.
• Jiang Fan entered the Martial Performance Moment, where Zhao Chang recounted his life and revealed that he had lost hope after discovering the human body was a prison.
• Zhao Chang passed on the Soaring Dragon Astonishing Swan Art and explained how its flash technique used anchor points.
• Jiang Fan realized he could form stable anchor points with the abundant energy in the High-Martial World and appeared at one he had created.

Jiang Fan mastered a short-range flash technique by combining Zhao Chang's Soaring Dragon Astonishing Swan Art with spatial anchors, then tested its limits across campus. He told Hong Tiangan he planned to travel to Luo City, and Hong Tiangan advised him to fly and reminded him not to accept unreasonable demands for a Psychic cultivation technique.

• Jiang Fan placed multiple anchors around the arena and discovered he could flash between them.
• Jiang Fan tested the skill across campus, finding he could flash only within his perception range of about one kilometer and fewer than twenty times in succession.
• Jiang Fan surprised Hong Tiangan by appearing beside his courtyard, then told him he planned to leave for Luo City in a couple of days.
• Hong Tiangan advised Jiang Fan to take a plane and discussed his recent cultivation progress with him.
• Hong Tiangan told Jiang Fan to seek the Psychic cultivation technique in Luo City but to refuse excessive demands, promising to find another Psychic teacher if needed.

Jiang Fan traveled from Kyoto to Luo City and met Wen Yu and her young daughter, Ye Xinyan, at the airport. After Yan Yan returned his dropped points card, Jiang Fan helped her reunite with Wen Yu, and they boarded the same flight.

• Jiang Fan prepared for his trip to Luo City, booked a flight, and set off from Kyoto three days later.
• At the airport, Yan Yan chased after Jiang Fan to return the Ninth Martial Arts University points card he had dropped.
• Jiang Fan learned that Yan Yan was waiting for her mother, Wen Yu, and escorted her back to her.
• Jiang Fan and Wen Yu introduced themselves and chatted while waiting for their shared flight.
• When boarding was announced, Jiang Fan told Wen Yu it was time to board and rubbed Yan Yan's head.

Jiang Fan traveled from Kyoto to Luo City with Wen Yu and Yan Yan, discovering that Heaven and Earth Energy was denser at high altitude while sensing a mysterious energy keeping pace with the plane. During the plane’s descent, violent jolts injured a flight attendant, and an elderly passenger saw enormous wings outside the window.

• Wen Yu took Yan Yan aboard the plane, and Yan Yan eagerly waved to Jiang Fan from her seat several rows behind him.
• Jiang Fan declined the in-flight meal and cultivated the Innate Qi Absorption and Guidance Technique, finding that high-altitude Heaven and Earth Energy was unusually dense.
• Jiang Fan sensed an unfamiliar energy body moving beneath the plane, but it repeatedly vanished whenever he tried to investigate it.
• As the plane began descending, a sudden violent jolt threw passengers and luggage around and injured a flight attendant.
• An elderly passenger noticed a pair of enormous wings flapping alongside the plane and casting a shadow over the sky.

General Liu ordered preparations for the sky phantom’s possible descent after Jiao Yang warned that it might be unusual. When a high-level alien beast attacked a passenger plane over Luan City, the military scrambled bombers to help, but the plane was struck and its emergency exit was destroyed.

• Jiao Yang told General Liu and the gathered officers that the persistent sky phantom might descend, and General Liu ordered the military to prepare and seek support from Luo City’s clans and academies.
• A warrant officer reported a Level Four or possibly Level Five flying alien beast near Luan City and said a passenger plane carrying more than two hundred people was in its attack range.
• General Liu ordered an aerial combat squad to launch a rescue, and two bombers took off from the military base.
• The alien beast attacked the passenger plane, forcing the pilot to fight its descent and destroying the cabin’s emergency exit.
• The passengers saw that the emergency exit had been smashed and realized that a little girl had fallen out.

Jiang Fan rescued Ye Xinyan after she fell from the plane, then closed the emergency door and went outside to face the alien beast threatening everyone aboard. As the beast charged back toward the plane, Jiang Fan began gathering fiery-red energy to fight it.

• Jiang Fan saw that Ye Xinyan had fallen from the plane and leaped outside to rescue her.
• Jiang Fan carried Ye Xinyan back into the cabin and helped Wen Yu secure her in her seat.
• Jiang Fan warned Wen Yu that the alien beast still threatened the plane, then went outside and shut the emergency door.
• The passengers and Wen Yu worried that Jiang Fan had sacrificed himself, while Ye Xinyan said he could defeat the monster.
• The alien beast charged back to the plane, and Jiang Fan gathered fiery-red energy to meet it.

Jiang Fan fought a powerful Flying Beast near the passenger plane and killed it with his Flame Dragon Break after keeping its attacks away from the passengers. The passengers survived, and Jiang Fan received 2,852 points of Life Energy.

• Jiang Fan's Fire Dragon Dance collided with the Flying Beast's ice attack, and the blast shook the passenger plane.
• Jiang Fan judged that the beast was near the threshold of Level Five and attacked it with a fiery net and flame arrows.
• The beast froze and shattered Jiang Fan's net, then wounded him with an ice-covered claw before he climbed onto its back and burned its wings.
• The beast unleashed a burst of ice spikes and turned to attack the plane, so Jiang Fan intercepted the attack and drove it away from the passengers.
• Jiang Fan pierced the beast with Flame Dragon Break, killing it and earning 2,852 points of Life Energy.