Chapter Summaries

Jiang Fan and Luo Feiyun planned how to face Song Xixi, whom Luo Feiyun feared might have a trump card capable of defeating an opponent in one move. After learning about the unusual terms Song Xixi was offered during recruitment, Jiang Fan wondered whether she might be a Psychic.

• Luo Feiyun warned Jiang Fan that Song Xixi was far more dangerous than she appeared and might possess a powerful one-move trump card.
• Luo Feiyun devised a plan for Jiang Fan to hold Song Xixi off while he and the others dealt with her teammates, then surround and attack her together.
• Jiang Fan left First Martial Arts University with Shen Du and Xue Min, who praised his rapid cultivation progress.
• Shen Du told Jiang Fan that admissions officers had competed fiercely to recruit Song Xixi and that Wang Jingming had offered her A-class resources and unusual additional rewards.
• Shen Du recalled that Wang Jingming had promised to arrange for an important figure at First Martial Arts University to take Song Xixi as a disciple, prompting Jiang Fan to wonder if she was a Psychic.

Jiang Fan and Shen Du deduced that Song Xixi was likely both a Martial Artist and a Psychic, making their upcoming match dangerous. After hearing of Jiang Fan’s rapid advancement to High-level Level 4, Hong Tiangan was surprised and decided to wait until the final round before attending the competition.

• Jiang Fan and Shen Du reasoned that Song Xixi might be a Psychic with a powerful hidden weapon, and Shen Du warned Jiang Fan to prepare for their match.
• Shen Du told Hong Tiangan that Jiang Fan had won his second-round matches and reached High-level Level 4.
• Hong Tiangan questioned how quickly Jiang Fan had advanced and realized he might have misunderstood his disciple’s improvement.
• Shen Du explained that Song Xixi was likely a Psychic, and Hong Tiangan accepted that Jiang Fan’s next match would be difficult.
• Hong Tiangan chose not to attend the match and said he would wait for the final round’s top-tier showdown.

Jiang Fan prepared for the final match by cultivating his Spiritual Power, then faced Song Xixi as the match against her team began. The two teams took their positions, and Jiang Fan blocked Song Xixi from supporting her teammates.

• Jiang Fan spent the night using the Starry Visualization Technique to strengthen his Spiritual Power before the match.
• Shen Du told Jiang Fan that the Dean would attend if their team reached the final round.
• Song Xixi approached Jiang Fan and Luo Feiyun before the match, but Luo Feiyun refused to discuss anything privately with her.
• The final match between Group 5 and Group 3 began, and Qiao Panpan and the others retreated behind Jiang Fan and Luo Feiyun.
• Luo Feiyun attacked Song Xixi's teammates, and Jiang Fan stepped in front of Song Xixi and declared that he was her opponent.

Jiang Fan fought Song Xixi after she tried to defeat him quickly before Luo Feiyun and the others could surround her. He overcame her water and spiritual attacks, knocked her out of the arena, and found that Luo Feiyun's group had already eliminated Song Xixi's teammates.

• Jiang Fan kept pace with Song Xixi and blocked her escape, so she chose to attack him directly.
• Song Xixi struck Jiang Fan with water blades and a Water Dragon, forcing him to reveal that he could remain suspended in midair.
• Jiang Fan fought Song Xixi with Fire Element Energy, and their battle remained deadlocked through dozens of exchanges.
• Song Xixi attacked Jiang Fan with Spiritual Power and a flying kick, but his Spiritual Energy defense stopped the needles and his counterattack sent her flying.
• Song Xixi asked how Jiang Fan resisted her mental attack, and Jiang Fan knocked her from the arena despite her plea not to hit her face.
• Jiang Fan saw that Luo Feiyun had cleared Song Xixi's teammates from the arena, and Luo Feiyun said her group could not have helped him.

Jiang Fan’s victory over Song Xixi secured Group 5 a place in the third-round top-tier showdown, where he would face Zhuang Hui and Du Rong for the top four. The chapter ended with a chubby spectator proudly telling the crowd that Jiang Fan was his big brother, though no one believed him.

• Luo Feiyun congratulated Jiang Fan on defeating Song Xixi and said he would surrender if he faced Jiang Fan or Zhuang Hui in the next round.
• The referee announced Group 5’s victory, and the audience reacted with astonishment at Jiang Fan’s strength.
• Xue Min and Shen Du celebrated as Jiang Fan’s victory brought Ninth Martial Arts University into the third-round top-tier showdown.
• Han Shan worried that Jiang Fan could challenge Zhuang Hui, while Wang Jingming tried to reassure him.
• A chubby spectator beneath the stage repeatedly claimed that Jiang Fan was his big brother, but the people around him avoided him.

After Jiang Fan led the Ninth Martial Arts University to three victories and advanced to the Newcomer League’s top-tier showdown, Hong Tiangan questioned him about his rapid cultivation. Jiang Fan was left tense when Hong Tiangan asked how he had advanced so quickly.

• Song Zhixue pushed through the crowd to greet Jiang Fan, who recognized him and chatted with him before returning to the Ninth Martial Arts University.
• Shen Du brought Jiang Fan and Xue Min to Hong Tiangan and reported that the school had won all three second-round matches and advanced to the third round.
• Hong Tiangan asked how Jiang Fan had defeated Song Xixi, and Shen Du recounted the battle and praised Jiang Fan’s performance.
• Hong Tiangan ordered Shen Du to announce Jiang Fan’s victory and the next match details to the school.
• After Shen Du and Xue Min left, Hong Tiangan admitted he had misjudged Jiang Fan’s progress and asked how he had advanced from Level 3 High Stage to High-level Level 4 so quickly.

Hong Tiangan concluded that Jiang Fan had an Extraordinary Physique after learning he had advanced without using Genetic Serums, giving Jiang Fan a way to conceal the true source of his rapid growth. Jiang Fan left Hong Tiangan's courtyard as word of his tournament success spread across Ninth Martial Arts University.

• Hong Tiangan questioned Jiang Fan about his rapid cultivation and whether he had used a Level 2 Genetic Serum.
• Jiang Fan said he had not used a Level 2 Genetic Serum and explained that his first two awakenings had failed and he had used no Genetic Serums afterward.
• Hong Tiangan declared that Jiang Fan had an Extraordinary Physique and attributed his fast cultivation and resilience to it.
• Hong Tiangan told Jiang Fan to focus on his upcoming match against Zhuang Hui and promised to teach him a higher-level cultivation technique after the competition.
• Jiang Fan left Hong Tiangan's courtyard and heard students discussing his top-four finish and High-level Level 4 strength in the National Collegiate Newcomer League.

Jiang Fan tried to cultivate in the Secret Realm but found that his earlier hunts had left it nearly empty, so he trained at Stone Path Cottage before the final round of the Newcomer League. After the opening matchups were set, he spotted an angry Song Xixi approaching.

• Jiang Fan entered the Secret Realm, where students complained that someone had killed nearly all the mutated beasts, and realized they meant him.
• Jiang Fan spent the next three days training his body, techniques, and Spiritual Power at Stone Path Cottage.
• The final round began with Jiang Fan, Zhuang Hui, Luo Feiyun, and Du Rong competing for the top four rankings.
• Luo Feiyun and Du Rong admitted defeat, setting up Jiang Fan versus Zhuang Hui and Du Rong versus Luo Feiyun.
• Xue Min encouraged Jiang Fan as supporters cheered, and Jiang Fan declared that he would take first place.
• Jiang Fan noticed Song Xixi striding toward him furiously.

Jiang Fan and Song Xixi clashed over his punch during their match before she asked him to meet her at White Dew Pavilion. Zhuang Hui provoked them both, and Jiang Fan vowed to defeat him and take first place as the two prepared for their match.

• Song Xixi confronted Jiang Fan about his punch but said she had come to discuss serious business and asked him to meet her at White Dew Pavilion at six.
• Zhuang Hui mocked Song Xixi for losing and threatened to injure Jiang Fan on her behalf, prompting Jiang Fan to stop her from attacking him.
• Jiang Fan challenged Zhuang Hui, declaring he would take first place and return every threat Zhuang Hui had made.
• Jiang Fan and Zhuang Hui traded insults, with Zhuang Hui promising to toy with him and Jiang Fan calling him a prodigy propped up by First Martial Arts University.
• Hong Tiangan defended Jiang Fan's boldness when the other deans discussed his confrontation with Zhuang Hui, then scolded them for fawning over Han Shan.

Jiang Fan and Zhuang Hui began their Newcomer League championship match, and Jiang Fan gained the upper hand in their exchanges. Zhuang Hui, injured and enraged, announced that he would go all out as the battle continued.

• Hong Tiangan argued with Han Shan and the other Deans, insisting Jiang Fan would defeat Zhuang Hui.
• The referee started the championship match, and Zhuang Hui immediately attacked Jiang Fan with a strike aimed at his throat.
• Jiang Fan dodged Zhuang Hui’s first attack and countered, then met his next charge head-on and forced him back into an arena pillar.
• Jiang Fan and Zhuang Hui exchanged dozens of rapid attacks, leaving Zhuang Hui with a bloody mouth and swollen jaw while Jiang Fan remained largely unhurt.
• After Zhuang Hui declared he would go all out, Jiang Fan called him a dumbass.

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.