Recaps

Jiang Donghua agreed to join Liu Mingyu and Liu Yuting on an academy assessment mission after they offered to split the rewards. Finding the Shadow Wolf Habitat crowded and picked clean, the three followed the migrating wolf pack beyond the academy’s safety zone.

• Jiang Donghua, Liu Mingyu, and Liu Yuting suspected that Chen Xiao and his companions had targeted the siblings because of their ties to Black Iron City.
• Liu Mingyu and Liu Yuting recruited Jiang Donghua for their assessment mission, agreeing to split the rewards four-three-three and let Liu Mingyu choose rare materials first.
• Chen Xiao, Chu Feibai, and Liu Shiqing found Liu Mingyu’s dormitory empty and vowed to search for him the next day.
• The trio reached the Shadow Wolf Habitat and found it packed with hunters who had already searched the area for magical beasts.
• After hearing wolves howl toward a deeper gorge beyond the academy’s safety zone, Jiang Donghua persuaded Liu Mingyu and Liu Yuting to follow the pack, and they left the crowded hunting ground.

Jiang Donghua, Liu Mingyu, and Liu Yuting camped overnight in the forest before following a trail deeper into the woods. They detected and killed a camouflaged Withered Leaf Snake, then found its valuable parts intact but no magic core.

• Liu Mingyu set up camp with Jiang Donghua and Liu Yuting, and they agreed to take turns keeping watch.
• Liu Yuting said she felt watched, but the group passed the night without incident.
• At dawn, the three packed up and followed tracks left by other student teams into the forest.
• Jiang Donghua recognized a pile of leaves as a Withered Leaf Snake's camouflage, and Liu Mingyu sensed the snake beneath it.
• The three worked together to kill the One-star Dou Zhe Withered Leaf Snake and recovered its intact venom sac and gallbladder, but found no magic core.

Jiang Donghua, Liu Mingyu, and Liu Yuting encountered a wounded Yellow Earth Python and fled across a ravine, only to discover it was being hunted by an Azure Wing Demonic Eagle. The eagle swallowed the python and nearly found the three hiding in a cave before a distant explosion drew it away, leaving them shaken but alive.

• Jiang Donghua carried Liu Mingyu and Liu Yuting away from a crashing beast, using Cloud-Chasing Steps to leap across a ravine.
• The three recognized the creature on the opposite bank as a wounded Yellow Earth Python at Battle Master Peak.
• A roar from the forest frightened the python into burrowing underground, and the three hid in a cave while concealing their auras.
• An Azure Wing Demonic Eagle dragged the python from beneath the earth and swallowed it whole.
• The eagle turned toward the cave, but a distant explosion lured it away before it could reach the three.

Jiang Donghua, Liu Mingyu, and Liu Yuting discovered a nest of sub-adult Wood Swallowing Rats and killed them to complete the academy’s assessment. Their hunt drew two enraged adult Wood Swallowing Rats into the cave, and the three students began fighting for their lives.

• Jiang Donghua investigated noises in the cave and found a nest of sub-adult Wood Swallowing Rats.
• Jiang Donghua killed the rats while Liu Yuting collected their bodies for the academy assessment, and Liu Mingyu explained what they had been eating.
• Jiang Donghua found no magic cores in the rats and prepared to leave with the others.
• Two adult Wood Swallowing Rats entered the cave, smelled the blood on the students, and attacked them.
• Jiang Donghua struck one rat with his sword and Blazing Palm, while Liu Mingyu knocked the other away from Liu Yuting with an Earth-attribute stone fist.

Jiang Donghua helped Liu Mingyu and Liu Yuting defeat two giant rats, and the siblings found Wood Element magic cores worth a fortune. After the battle, both broke through their cultivation bottlenecks, leaving them deeply grateful to Jiang Donghua as the three prepared to leave the cave.

• Jiang Donghua killed one giant rat while Liu Mingyu and Liu Yuting practiced coordinating their attacks against the other under his guidance.
• Liu Mingyu and Liu Yuting killed the second giant rat together, and they found a Wood Element magic core in each rat's skull.
• Liu Mingyu and Liu Yuting began breaking through, so Jiang Donghua guarded the cave entrance while they meditated.
• Liu Mingyu advanced to the ninth stage of Dou Qi, and Liu Yuting reached the eighth stage.
• Liu Mingyu thanked Jiang Donghua, and the three collected the corpses while he resolved to value their bond.

After surviving a deadly beast tide, Jiang Donghua, Liu Mingyu, and Liu Yuting returned to Jia Nan Academy with valuable spoils and turned in their mission. They celebrated their good fortune with a feast at the dining hall.

• Instructor Mo Cang killed the Azure Wing Demonic Eagle with one strike, calmed the freshmen, and warned them to retreat if they encountered anything unusual.
• Jiang Donghua, Liu Mingyu, and Liu Yuting witnessed Mo Cang's Battle Qi Wings and made their way through the devastated camps back to safety.
• Jiang Donghua registered more than a dozen Wood Swallowing Rats and two Wood Element magic cores with the Enforcement Team.
• At the Merit Pavilion, the three turned in seventeen Wood Swallowing Rats and two Wood Element magic cores, surprising the registrar with their haul.
• Jiang Donghua, Liu Mingyu, and Liu Yuting celebrated their survival and mission rewards with a meal and drinks at the dining hall.

After a Tier 3 Demonic Eagle appeared in the Trial Area, Jia Nan Academy’s mentors suspected the Blood Demon Sect was involved. Jiang Donghua persuaded Liu Mingyu and Liu Yuting to return to the Trial Area for another hunt, and the three entered the quiet forest at daybreak.

• New students and older students at Jia Nan Academy discussed the Tier 3 Azure Wing Demonic Eagle that Mentor Mo Cang had brought back from the Trial Area.
• Mo Cang told the mentors that dark-element energy remained in the eagle’s body, prompting them to suspect the Blood Demon Sect.
• Jiang Donghua convinced Liu Mingyu and Liu Yuting that the academy would clear out high-level Demonic Beasts and promised to stay near the Trial Area’s outskirts.
• Jiang Donghua woke before dawn, used his AFK System’s automatic cultivation, and headed back to the Trial Area with the Liu siblings.
• The three entered the unusually quiet forest, where Jiang Donghua warned that Tier 2 Demonic Beasts might still remain deeper inside.

Jiang Donghua led Liu Mingyu and Liu Yuting deeper into the Trial Area, where they found few beasts and encountered a powerful student team. They discovered that team fighting a rampaging Crimson Flame Demonic Tiger, and Jiang Donghua fled with the Liu siblings while claiming he would fetch reinforcements.

• Jiang Donghua defended his team from other students' taunts and warned Liu Mingyu and Liu Yuting to stay close.
• A bespectacled youth and his team killed a Shadow Wolf with a single arrow and left after sizing up Jiang Donghua's group.
• After finding few beasts along their route, Jiang Donghua persuaded the Liu siblings to follow the experts deeper into the forest in search of prey or treasure.
• The trio found the bespectacled team badly injured while fighting a Crimson Flame Demonic Tiger whose eyes had turned black.
• When the tiger unleashed a sea of fire, Jiang Donghua used Cloud-Chasing Steps to escape with the Liu siblings, shouting that he would get reinforcements.

Jiang Donghua drew students to help defeat a Two-star Dou Master Crimson Flame Demonic Tiger, then learned the beast’s presence might point to trouble in the Trial Area. The Liu siblings and Jiang returned toward the academy as instructors sealed off the entrance.

• Jiang Donghua carried Liu Mingyu and Liu Yuting through the forest while warning nearby students about the Crimson Flame Demonic Tiger, drawing them toward the fight.
• Chen Mo, Ye Han, Chen Yuqing, and Li Tieshan fought the tiger until students gathered and overwhelmed it with a coordinated siege.
• Jiang Donghua and the Liu siblings received thanks and praise from the students, and Jiang introduced himself to Chen Mo’s group.
• Jiang Donghua and the Liu siblings suspected the four older students were on an instructor’s task and wondered how the tiger had entered the Trial Area.
• Jiang Donghua led the Liu siblings back toward the academy as instructors hurried over and sealed the Trial Area entrance.

Lei Tian and the Outer Court leaders discovered a Blood Demon Sect corpse behind the demonized beasts and placed Jia Nan Academy on alert, suspecting a wider scheme. Meanwhile, Jiang Donghua defeated Liu Shiqing, Chu Feibai, and Chen Xiao, then left with the Liu siblings while Instructor Lin began investigating the fight.

• Lei Tian and the instructors cleared demonized beasts from the Trial Area and discovered the corpse of a Blood Demon Sect expert in a concealed cave.
• Lei Tian ordered a martial lockdown, an investigation of suspicious people, and the activation of Jia Nan Academy's Guardian Array as the leaders considered the Blood Demon Sect's likely scheme.
• Jiang Donghua confronted Chen Xiao, Chu Feibai, and Liu Shiqing, overpowering all three after they tried to attack him.
• Instructor Lin arrived with the Enforcement Team and reprimanded Jiang Donghua, while Liu Mingyu and Liu Yuting explained that the three men had harassed and ambushed them.
• Instructor Lin said she would investigate and that Jiang Donghua must accept punishment; Jiang Donghua left with the Liu siblings as Chen Xiao vowed revenge.

Mo Xuan intervened to spare Jiang Donghua from confinement and revealed that Jiang had exceptional alchemy talent. He ordered Jiang to report to the Alchemy Department daily for personal instruction, while Chen Xiao and his companions fled in fear of Mo Xuan’s influence.

• Instructor Lin punished Chen Xiao and the other two for provoking Jiang Donghua, while ordering Jiang confined for two months and stripping him of that month’s cultivation resources.
• Mo Xuan stopped the Enforcement Team and persuaded Instructor Lin to replace Jiang Donghua’s confinement with miscellaneous work for him.
• Chen Xiao and the other two panicked when they learned Mo Xuan was a Fifth-grade Alchemist and fled, warning that they could not afford to provoke Jiang Donghua.
• Mo Xuan scolded Jiang Donghua for hunting demonic beasts instead of developing his alchemy talent, citing his rare Fire and Wood attributes and strong soul perception.
• Mo Xuan told Jiang Donghua to report to the Alchemy Department every day so he could personally teach him alchemy, and Jiang agreed.

Jiang Donghua escaped Mo Xuan’s attempt to recruit him, prompting the Alchemy Master to plot against him through the Bone-Mending Pill assessment. After learning Mo Xuan protected Jiang Donghua, Chen Ming forced his lackeys to apologize to the Liu siblings and tried to use them to reach Jiang Donghua, but Jiang arrived and called out his scheme.

• Jiang Donghua fled from Mo Xuan, who vowed to make him seek instruction and planned to use the Bone-Mending Pill assessment against him.
• Chen Xiao and two lackeys told Chen Ming that Mo Xuan had intervened on Jiang Donghua’s behalf.
• Chen Ming beat his injured lackeys and ordered them to apologize to the Liu siblings, then offered the siblings three Qi-Nourishing Pills.
• Chen Ming asked the Liu siblings to introduce him to Jiang Donghua, and Jiang appeared and accused him of scheming.

Jiang Donghua used his new status as Master Mo Xuan’s disciple to make Chen Ming apologize and keep his group from troubling the Liu siblings again. After escaping the attention of eager female students, he reassured the siblings, while Liu Yuting quietly accepted that the gap between them would grow.

• Chen Ming flattered Jiang Donghua and gave gifts to him and the Liu siblings, then apologized for offending them.
• The students learned Jiang Donghua had become Master Mo Xuan’s disciple, and female students crowded around him for attention.
• Chen Ming warned his three lackeys not to provoke Jiang Donghua or the Liu siblings and urged them to seek his favor instead.
• Jiang Donghua used Cloud-Chasing Steps to escape the crowd and led the Liu siblings to a secluded grove.
• Jiang Donghua told the Liu siblings they could rely on his name or Master Mo Xuan’s, while Liu Yuting hid her growing affection for him.

Jiang Donghua fled the Outer Academy’s sudden attention by preparing for secluded cultivation in the mountains, while Mo Xuan mistook his plans for a secret effort to improve his alchemy. Deep in the forest, Jiang Donghua survived and killed a powerful Bloodfang Demonic Wolf, then continued toward the mountain depths.

• Jiang Donghua escaped the female students crowding his classroom and decided to leave the academy for secluded cultivation.
• Jiang Donghua accepted herb-gathering missions, gathered supplies, and slipped out of the academy at night.
• Mo Xuan received news of Jiang Donghua’s missions and assumed he was secretly training to become a First-grade Alchemist.
• Jiang Donghua traveled into the dangerous forest, where a Seven-Star Battle Master Bloodfang Demonic Wolf chased him into a narrow mountain crevice.
• Jiang Donghua injured the wolf with Blazing Palm, then used his sword and Cloud-Chasing Steps to kill it.
• Jiang Donghua searched the wolf’s head for a magic core, collected valuable parts, and continued deeper into the forest.

Jiang Donghua settled into a mountain cave to cultivate and advanced to Three-star Dou Master after four days. While exploring, he found Qi Nurturing Fruit guarded by a Blackwater Mysterious Snake and fled, deciding to return after growing stronger.

• Jiang Donghua carved out a Cave Mansion in a secluded valley and began cultivating with the AFK System and its two clones.
• Jiang Donghua studied the Bone-Mending Pill formula and gathered Azure Spirit Grass and lingzhi nearby.
• Jiang Donghua broke through from Two-star Dou Master to Three-star Dou Master on the morning of the fourth day.
• Jiang Donghua discovered Qi Nurturing Fruit growing in a black pool and tried to retrieve it with a rope.
• A Blackwater Mysterious Snake attacked from the pool, and Jiang Donghua escaped before returning toward his cave to cultivate further.

Jiang Donghua spent his days provoking the Blackwater Mysterious Snake guarding the Qi Nurturing Fruit until it attacked him with poisonous mist and chased him through the forest. He returned the next day with a safer baiting plan and resumed their uneasy routine, leaving while imagining he might tame the snake after reaching the Battle Master realm.

• Jiang Donghua harassed the Blackwater Mysterious Snake for ten days, frightening away its prey and learning that it usually stopped chasing him after a hundred yards.
• The Blackwater Mysterious Snake suddenly spewed poison mist that corroded Jiang Donghua's battle qi and pursued him at high speed, but he escaped to his cave.
• Jiang Donghua returned to Blackwater Pool the next day with spiced beast meat tied to a branch and used it to lure the snake into another chase.
• Jiang Donghua kept a safer distance as the man and snake settled into a routine of thousand-yard chases, and he considered taming it after reaching the Battle Master realm.
• The Blackwater Mysterious Snake watched Jiang Donghua leave, a complicated, almost human emotion passing through its scarlet eyes.

After the Blackwater Mysterious Snake fled with the Qi Nurturing Fruits, Jiang Donghua waited for another magical beast to hunt and finally spotted a lone Ironclad Boar. The chapter leaves him sneaking toward the five-star beast, ready to attack.

• The Blackwater Mysterious Snake uprooted the three Qi Nurturing Fruits, muddied Blackwater Pool, and escaped through an underground river.
• Jiang Donghua found the empty pool, discovered the snake had taken the fruits, and reached Four-star Dou Master.
• Jiang Donghua searched for magical beasts but found none, then idled until he broke through to Five-star Dou Master.
• Jiang Donghua watched an Ironback Grey Wolf pack drink at the pool but avoided attacking because the wolves would retaliate together.
• Jiang Donghua spotted a lone five-star Ironclad Boar drinking at Blackwater Pool and crept closer to attack.

Jiang Donghua hunted demonic beasts around Blackwater Pool, using life-or-death combat to strengthen himself and improve his techniques. After reaching Seven-Star Battle Master and Great Accomplishment in Cloud-Chasing Steps and Blazing Palm, he decided to seek a new hunting ground as the beasts grew scarce and wary.

• Jiang Donghua killed an Ironclad Boar by wearing it down with Blazing Palm and Cloud-Chasing Steps, then collected its rare earth-elemental demonic core.
• Jiang Donghua hunted demonic beasts around Blackwater Pool, killing three Ironback Grey Wolves and driving other beasts to flee or avoid him.
• Jiang Donghua advanced from Five-star Dou Master to Seven-Star Battle Master after more than a month of fighting and reached the threshold of an Eight-Star Battle Master.
• Jiang Donghua brought Cloud-Chasing Steps and Blazing Palm to Great Accomplishment through months of combat.
• Jiang Donghua noticed that few low-tier demonic beasts remained near Blackwater Pool and decided it was time to find another place.

Jiang Donghua found and consumed an Azure Spirit Body Tempering Grass, then defeated the Earth Quake Bear that had attacked him before. After extracting its magic core, he sensed multiple presences approaching from the forest and prepared to fight.

• Jiang Donghua killed a Black Scale Iron Thread Snake guarding an Azure Spirit Body Tempering Grass and collected the herb.
• Jiang Donghua ate the grass, endured its medicinal effects, and felt his physical strength increase.
• The Earth Quake Bear charged Jiang Donghua, and he evaded its Earthquake Tremor and attacks while wounding it with his short blade and Blazing Palm.
• Jiang Donghua killed the Earth Quake Bear by stabbing its throat and extracted its magic core.
• Jiang Donghua heard multiple presences approaching through the forest and tightened his grip on his longsword.

Jiang Donghua defeated several peak Fighter Demonic Beasts, then followed a familiar roar to a pool where the Blackwater Mysterious Snake and an Eight-Star Dou Shi crocodile were fighting over a faintly glowing treasure. He hid nearby, intending to strike after the beasts weakened each other.

• Jiang Donghua used Cloud-Chasing Steps and Blazing Palm to injure the Red-Eyed Giant Ape, cripple the Ironback Grey Wolf, and kill the Shadow Demon Leopard.
• A powerful roar from deep in the forest startled the surviving beasts, and Jiang Donghua pursued its source.
• Jiang Donghua recognized the roar’s source as the Blackwater Mysterious Snake that had escaped him earlier.
• Jiang Donghua found the Blackwater Mysterious Snake facing an Eight-Star Dou Shi crocodile beside a pool with a dim-blue glow beneath its surface.
• Jiang Donghua concealed himself in the tree shadows and waited for the beasts to fight over the treasure.

Jiang Donghua waited for the Swallowing Snake Crocodile to kill the Blackwater Mysterious Snake, then ambushed the wounded crocodile to claim the Mysterious Water Profound Crystal Fruit. After the beast escaped into the pool, he drained the water and killed it, leaving him ready to collect the treasure.

• Jiang Donghua recognized the Swallowing Snake Crocodile and concealed himself while it fought the Blackwater Mysterious Snake over the Mysterious Water Profound Crystal Fruit.
• The Swallowing Snake Crocodile killed the Blackwater Mysterious Snake, and Jiang Donghua ambushed it by stabbing its right eye.
• The wounded Swallowing Snake Crocodile fled into the pool, so Jiang Donghua heated the water and cut off the stream feeding it.
• Jiang Donghua drained the pool and attacked the trapped crocodile, striking its wounds with his sword and Blazing Palm.
• Jiang Donghua killed the Swallowing Snake Crocodile and turned to collect the Mysterious Water Profound Crystal Fruit.

Jiang Donghua collected the Mysterious Water Profound Crystal Fruit and Demonic Cores, then hunted his way from Eight-Star to Nine-Star Battle Master. After exhausting the nearby beasts, he headed toward more dangerous territory and encountered Jia Nan Academy students who were searching for the mysterious hunter.

• Jiang Donghua stored the Mysterious Water Profound Crystal Fruit and recovered Demonic Cores from the Blackwater Mysterious Snake and Swallowing Snake Crocodile.
• Jiang Donghua hunted Demonic Beasts for three days, reached Eight-Star Battle Master, and began clearing the forest to advance further.
• Jiang Donghua killed a Tier 2 Green-scaled Giant Lizard and, eighteen days later, reached Nine-Star Battle Master.
• Jia Nan Academy students discussed how Demonic Beasts had nearly vanished from the southern mountain range and speculated about the Fire-attribute expert responsible.
• Jiang Donghua met three Jia Nan Academy students, asked about powerful Demonic Beasts, warned them to be careful, and vanished before they could identify him.

Jiang Donghua emerged from half a year in seclusion as a powerful Dou Master and discovered that his AFK System could rapidly train him in alchemy. After saving three Jia Nan Academy students from a Golden Shadow Demonic Ape, he hurried back to the academy, concerned that the beast had appeared so close to it.

• Jiang Donghua broke through to One-star Dou Master, tested his strengthened Blazing Palm and Cloud-Chasing Steps, and activated idle cultivation for the Bone-Mending Pill.
• Jiang Donghua found that Bone-Mending Pill cultivation speed rose to 3.0 points per hour, then left the cave with his gathered supplies and realized he needed to return to Jia Nan Academy.
• Jiang Donghua heard a fight nearby and found three Jia Nan Academy students facing an adult Golden Shadow Demonic Ape.
• Jiang Donghua rescued the students by killing the Golden Shadow Demonic Ape with Blazing Palm and let them take its magic core.
• Jiang Donghua headed for Jia Nan Academy, wondering why a powerful magical beast had appeared so close to it.

After half a year of secluded cultivation, Jiang Donghua returned to Jia Nan Academy looking like a wild man and turned in two difficult missions, prompting students to suspect he had reached Dou Shi. He then headed to the Alchemy Department, where the guards mocked him until other students recognized him as Instructor Mo Xuan’s disciple and they let him enter.

• Jiang Donghua returned to Jia Nan Academy in ragged clothes, and female students who had once pursued him failed to recognize him.
• Jiang Donghua handed Lin Yan the Red Scale Python and Ghost Grass mission slips, then submitted ten stalks of Ghost Grass and collected his reward.
• Students in the Mission Hall discussed whether Jiang Donghua had broken through to Dou Shi after he completed the difficult missions.
• Two guards at the Alchemy Department entrance blocked and mocked Jiang Donghua, not recognizing him.
• Alchemy Department students identified Jiang Donghua as Instructor Mo Xuan’s disciple, and the guards apologized and let him inside.

Jiang Donghua returned to the Alchemy Department after half a year in seclusion and humiliated Liu Qingya, defeating him with a single move. As Jiang continued deeper into the department, the students were left stunned by his apparent rise to Dou Shi, while Liu Qingya swore revenge.

• Jiang Donghua entered the Alchemy Department, ignoring the students' whispers about his shabby appearance and return from seclusion.
• Liu Qingya confronted Jiang Donghua and mocked him, revealing his jealousy over Elder Mo Xuan choosing Jiang as a personal disciple.
• Jiang insulted Liu Qingya, who attacked him with the Wind Breaking Fist, but Jiang stopped the blow with a snap and suppressed his Dou Qi.
• Jiang flicked Liu Qingya into a wall, defeating him in one move and prompting the students to suspect Jiang had reached Dou Shi.
• Liu Qingya rejected help from his lackeys, endured the crowd's ridicule, and vowed to repay Jiang's humiliation a hundredfold.