Recaps

Lin Shuguang joined a security team assigned to protect physician Li Yihai, who may be able to treat Master Jin’s Heart-Eating Gu. As the team prepared to escort Li Yihai, a rival young master ordered Wuming to kill them all and vowed to bring about Master Jin’s death.

• Lin Shuguang left home after receiving Coach Huang’s instructions and reached the sealed tunnel entrance with his identification code.
• Coach Huang assigned Lin Shuguang to Wei Sheng’s team, which was tasked with protecting Li Yihai and told to destroy the physician’s information after reading it.
• Wei Sheng revealed that Martial Artists would be involved in the conflict, while the Special Management Bureau would prevent their fighting from spilling over onto the security team.
• A young master learned that the Jin Family had hired the Quicksand Hunting Group to protect Li Yihai, who could treat Master Jin’s Heart-Eating Gu.
• The young master ordered Wuming to kill the team and declared that Master Jin would cease to exist that night.

Lin Shuguang fought through an ambush at Qiushan Pass while Wei Sheng’s group escorted Li Yihai away. As Wuming overwhelmed the guards and cornered the Quicksand Hunting Group, Lin Shuguang rushed in with the Divine Saber.

• Lin Shuguang followed Wei Sheng and the Quicksand Hunting Group as they escorted Li Yihai, but Wei Sheng kept him at the edge of the group.
• At Qiushan Pass, black-clad killers ambushed the convoy, and Wei Sheng’s team retreated with Li Yihai while leaving Lin Shuguang behind.
• Lin Shuguang drew his saber and slaughtered the attackers, buying time for the escort group to regroup and move out.
• Wuming descended on Wei Sheng’s group, killed many bodyguards, and was identified as the man who had killed Little Gun God with one slash.
• As Wei Sheng’s group faced Wuming and considered abandoning the mission, Lin Shuguang rushed past with the Divine Saber and struck.

Lin Shuguang killed Wuming with his saber and became the group’s main source of support. After delivering Li Yihai to the Jin Family, Lin Shuguang asked the Quicksand Hunting Group if they could obtain a Martial Artist Cultivation Method.

• Lin Shuguang charged at Wuming and defeated him with two saber strikes, killing him within seconds.
• Wei Sheng led the group onward, and a middle-aged man later found Wuming’s headless corpse and wondered whether a Martial Artist had killed him.
• The group delivered Li Yihai to the Jin Family, which paid them two hundred thousand and dismissed them.
• Wei Sheng and the Quicksand Hunting Group apologized to Lin Shuguang and offered him their pay, but he refused it.
• Lin Shuguang asked whether any of them could get hold of a Martial Artist Cultivation Method.

Lin Shuguang searched for a Martial Artist Cultivation Method while earning money in the Blood Desolate Land and secretly improving his family’s health with a Blood Sea Heart Lotus seed. After returning to school, he learned Old Fu was back and was summoned outside the classroom.

• Lin Shuguang considered sneaking into the Jin Family estate to obtain a Martial Artist Cultivation Method, while Feng San said they would need another way to approach the family.
• Lin Shuguang spent two days in the Blood Desolate Land killing Desolate Ghost Apes and amassed over a million in wealth.
• Mother Lin told Lin Shuguang that Feng San had ordered boxed meals from the family restaurant, and Lin Shuguang agreed to bring him salted duck eggs.
• Lin Shuguang secretly added a quarter of a Blood Sea Heart Lotus seed to his family’s porridge, quietly improving their constitutions.
• Lin Shuguang returned to school, where Xu Jie told him Old Fu was back, and Old Fu ordered Lin Shuguang to come outside.

Lin Shuguang invented a senior brother to explain his absences and claim credit for saving Old Fu, then used Old Fu’s gratitude to ask about a Martial Artist Cultivation Method. He returned to class with permission to skip for training, while the rules and origins of cultivation methods remained unclear.

• Old Fu confronted Lin Shuguang for skipping class, and Lin Shuguang claimed his senior brother had killed the Demonic Cultivator and saved Old Fu.
• Lin Shuguang named his supposed senior brother Feng San, and Old Fu promised to repay him for saving his life.
• Lin Shuguang asked Old Fu for a Martial Artist Cultivation Method, but Old Fu explained that Martial Arts School graduates were forbidden to share their methods because of a solemn oath.
• Old Fu said methods from other sources varied in quality and encouraged Lin Shuguang to keep training for a chance to attend the Martial Arts School.
• Lin Shuguang returned to class, where Xu Jie asked to join him the next time he skipped school.

Lin Shuguang clashed with Ye Tianhao at the Martial Arts Hall, and their exchange ended with Ye Tianhao praised as the winner after Lin Shuguang’s wooden saber shattered. The story left Lin Shuguang rushing to protect his parents after Feng San warned that someone planned to attack them that night.

• Ye Tianhao defeated Lu Yifan and challenged Lin Shuguang to spar, but Lin Shuguang initially refused.
• Ye Tianhao attacked Lin Shuguang, who blocked his slash and then unleashed a powerful counterattack that forced Ye Tianhao to use his family’s strongest sword technique.
• Lin Shuguang’s wooden saber shattered in the clash, and Peng Chao and the others praised Ye Tianhao as the winner while Ye Tianhao left in anger.
• Feng San called Lin Shuguang and warned him that someone planned to attack his parents that night because of the incident with Master Jin.
• Lin Shuguang hurried out of the Martial Arts Hall, while Peng Chao noticed the deep wind-blade marks Lin Shuguang had left in the wall.

Lin Shuguang stopped an attack on his family and returned to the restaurant, where he spent the evening with them. At the Jin residence, Master Jin learned that Lin Shuguang had killed Baisha's Wuming in two strikes.

• Lin Shuguang broke the legs of five men who had come to attack his family, but they could not identify who had sent them.
• Feng San arrived, promised to investigate the attackers' employer, and arranged for the men and their van to be taken away.
• Lin Shuguang went into Lin Kee Restaurant, shared a meal with Lin Xiaoxi, and took her out for fried chicken.
• Li Yihai treated Master Jin and explained that the Heart-Eating Gu had fused with him and would raise his strength once his wounds healed.
• Master Jin asked Jin Chaodong about the events of the day he had been injured and learned that Lin Shuguang had killed Baisha's Wuming in two strikes.

Steward Zhou visited Lin Shuguang on behalf of Master Jin to apologize for the danger the Jin Family’s leaked information had brought to his family. Lin Shuguang accepted compensation, requested a Martial Artist Cultivation Method, and asked for intelligence on Baisha and the Crimson Sand Gang.

• Steward Zhou arrived at Lin Shuguang’s restaurant with two bodyguards and joined him for a bowl of noodles.
• Steward Zhou offered Lin Shuguang two million as compensation and explained that the Jin Family had punished the traitor who leaked information.
• Steward Zhou told Lin Shuguang that Master Jin had broken Baisha’s leg and threatened to destroy the Crimson Sand Gang if Lin Shuguang’s family was harmed.
• Lin Shuguang accepted the bank card and asked Master Jin to provide a Martial Artist Cultivation Method, and Steward Zhou promised to deliver an answer within half a month.
• Lin Shuguang asked Steward Zhou for intelligence on Baisha and the Crimson Sand Gang, and Steward Zhou agreed to provide both.

Lin Shuguang ventured deeper into the Blood Desolate Land to build his strength and encountered Bun Head fighting over a Nine Soul Fire Grass. After Chen Yao defeated them and took the medicine, he spared their lives while planning to restore his strength and confront an enemy.

• Lin Shuguang upgraded Star Prison Gale Slash to LV6, raised his Blood Energy Value to 1,380 cal, and headed into the Blood Desolate Land.
• Lin Shuguang encountered Bun Head collecting a Nine Soul Fire Grass, and she fled with it when he tried to take it.
• A wounded martial artist named Chen Yao pursued Bun Head, struck Lin Shuguang down, and demanded the Treasure Medicine.
• Bun Head handed Chen Yao the Nine Soul Fire Grass after he threatened to search her clothes, and Chen Yao said the medicine would restore his strength so he could deal with an old enemy.
• Chen Yao spared Lin Shuguang and Bun Head after taking the medicine.

Chen Yao used Lin Shuguang and Bun Head as bait to lure out the Desolate Ghost Ape King in District Nine of the Blood Desolate Land. When the beast appeared and Chen Yao's attention shifted, Lin Shuguang activated a trap while trying to escape.

• After swallowing the Nine Soul Fire Grass, Chen Yao ordered Lin Shuguang and Bun Head to follow him into a gorge and set traps around them.
• Bun Head warned Lin Shuguang that the traps were dangerous and explained that Chen Yao meant to use them as bait for the Desolate Ghost Ape King.
• Bun Head told Lin Shuguang that each of the Blood Desolate Land's twelve districts had a Desolate Ghost Ape King stronger than Martial Artists.
• The Desolate Ghost Ape King emerged from the gorge, and Chen Yao prepared to kill it for a chance to earn intermediate Bone Tempering Fluid and a place in his group.
• As Chen Yao focused on the beast, Lin Shuguang ran toward the traps, summoned the Demon God Armor, and took a steel spike's blow while forcing his way forward.

Lin Shuguang escaped the Desolate Ghost Ape King’s trap and later confronted Chen Yao, who pursued him to seize the Demon God Armor. After upgrading his Basic Body Refining Technique and restoring his strength, Lin Shuguang fought Chen Yao, who was weakened from battling the ape, and their fight remained unresolved.

• Lin Shuguang and Bun Head triggered Chen Yao’s trap while leading the Desolate Ghost Ape King toward it, and Bun Head used a whip to save Lin Shuguang from the ape’s path.
• Chen Yao abandoned his pursuit of Lin Shuguang to fight the wounded Desolate Ghost Ape King, while Lin Shuguang fled through the Blood Desolate Land.
• Two hours later, Lin Shuguang reached the outskirts, but Chen Yao survived the battle and caught up with him carrying a bundle of spoils.
• Lin Shuguang attacked Chen Yao with the Slaughter Blade, then upgraded his Basic Body Refining Technique to level twelve and recovered his strength.
• Chen Yao thrust at Lin Shuguang, and the two fought through several exchanges as Chen Yao grew shocked by Lin Shuguang’s ability to keep up.

Lin Shuguang upgraded his Basic Body Refining Technique and killed Chen Yao after a brutal fight, then gathered his spoils and left the Blood Desolate Land. After returning home, he called Feng San to ask whether he could buy a Desolate Ghost Ape King's corpse.

• Chen Yao attacked Lin Shuguang and demanded his Demon God Armor and secret technique, but Lin Shuguang upgraded his Basic Body Refining Technique and gained the Bronze Skin Iron Bones achievement title.
• Lin Shuguang fought Chen Yao across the forest, endured his attacks, and stabbed him through the chest.
• Lin Shuguang collapsed beside Chen Yao's corpse, then used it to distract the Desolate Ghost Apes and collected Chen Yao's bundle and his buried spoils.
• Lin Shuguang returned home after dark, changed his clothes, and called Feng San to ask whether he could buy a Desolate Ghost Ape King's corpse.

Lin Shuguang accompanied Lin Haiyang to visit his old friend Zhong Liming and discovered that their families had once arranged a childhood betrothal between him and Zhong Xueyi. After lunch, Zhong Xueyi took him out, but their awkward outing was interrupted when she spotted someone familiar and called out to her.

• Lin Shuguang reflected on how dangerous his fight with Chen Yao had been and how much his Blood Energy Value and wealth had increased.
• Lin Haiyang dressed formally and took Lin Shuguang to South City to visit his old friend Zhong Liming, telling him their families had promised the children to each other when they were young.
• Lin Shuguang met Zhong Xueyi and learned she had excellent grades, while his father and Zhong Liming encouraged her to tutor him.
• After lunch, Zhong Liming sent Lin Shuguang and Zhong Xueyi out together, and they sat awkwardly at a drink shop.
• Zhong Xueyi received a call from her friends and began to leave, but then spotted a familiar person and called out, drawing Lin Shuguang's attention.

Lin Shuguang met Pei Xi, Zhong Xueyi’s cousin, after she questioned him about his survival in the Blood Desolate Land, then rejected his father’s matchmaking efforts and learned his teachers were demanding his overdue homework. Frustrated by the assignments, he headed back to the Blood Desolate Land to fight, while Song Wan secretly followed him and recognized where he was going.

• Lin Shuguang met Pei Xi in a dessert shop, denied dating Zhong Xueyi, and thanked Pei Xi for helping him escape danger the previous day.
• Pei Xi tried to charge Lin Shuguang for information, but he left without paying for his milk tea, leaving her to cover the bill.
• Lin Shuguang told Lin Haiyang that Zhong Xueyi was not his type, then embarrassed his father at home by repeating his matchmaking remarks to Mother Lin.
• Xu Jie told Lin Shuguang that his teachers were demanding all his missing homework and might make him speak at the flag-raising ceremony.
• Lin Shuguang bought a notebook but gave up on homework and went to the Blood Desolate Land, where Song Wan followed him and recognized his destination.

Song Wan followed Lin Shuguang into the Blood Desolate Land, got lost, and was rescued by him. After watching him effortlessly kill a pack of Desolate Ghost Apes, she admired his strength and asked to study martial arts with him, while Lin Shuguang left her with a request to finish his homework.

• Song Wan followed Lin Shuguang into the Blood Desolate Land but became exhausted and lost while trying to find her way back.
• Lin Shuguang found Song Wan and offered to escort her out of the Blood Desolate Land.
• More than a dozen Desolate Ghost Apes attacked, and Lin Shuguang killed them all with a single saber strike while Song Wan watched in astonishment.
• Song Wan realized Lin Shuguang was far stronger than she had believed, promised to keep his strength secret, and praised his dedication to cultivation.
• After they left the Blood Desolate Land, Song Wan thanked Lin Shuguang and asked to seek his martial arts advice in the future.
• Lin Shuguang asked Song Wan to finish his homework for the next few days, freezing her smile.

Lin Shuguang received the Thunderous Roar Scripture and attempted its dangerous Bone Tempering breakthrough in a secluded park. Using his system to spend a million and raise his progress, he became a Martial Artist with one Bone Tempering Resonance.

• Steward Zhou gave Lin Shuguang the Thunderous Roar Scripture, annotated by Master Jin, and explained its risks and potential.
• Lin Shuguang memorized the cultivation route and went to a quiet patch of woods to attempt his first breakthrough.
• The process began to spiral out of control until the system offered a paid breakthrough, which Lin Shuguang accepted.
• Lin Shuguang spent a million through the system to complete his breakthrough and become a Martial Artist with one Bone Tempering Resonance.

Lin Shuguang hunted Desolate Ghost Apes for profit while preparing for the approaching assessment, and a mysterious watcher briefly followed him home. The chapter ended with him tricking Lin Xiaoxi out of learning how he made red porridge with a Blood Sea Heart Lotus seed.

• Lin Shuguang killed Desolate Ghost Apes and raised his cultivation to Bone Tempering (88%), while Feng San cautioned him not to overwork himself.
• In the northwest, a woman in red decided to go to Huai City after hearing there was still no word from A-Yao.
• Lin Shuguang discussed the upcoming assessment with Feng San, who said he would delay taking the Martial Artist exam because that world was complicated.
• Lin Shuguang sensed someone following him on a dark street, but found no one and later wondered whether the watcher might return.
• Lin Xiaoxi demanded the red porridge she remembered, and Lin Shuguang secretly added a Blood Sea Heart Lotus seed to the pot before distracting her with fake magic words.

Lin Shuguang rebuffed Xu Jie’s assumptions about his relationship with Song Wan, then advised her on cultivating and accepted a Qi and Blood Pill for his sister. That night, he completed his first bone resonance and advanced to the second, while Song Wan tried his training advice at home.

• Song Wan brought Lin Shuguang eight notebooks of homework, prompting Xu Jie to speculate that the two were romantically involved and declare that he objected to their marriage.
• Song Wan tried to speak with Lin Shuguang after class, but Xu Jie eavesdropped, fell, and hurried away while imagining that she was about to confess.
• Lin Shuguang discussed Song Wan’s cultivation with her as they walked, and she gave him a Qi and Blood Pill in gratitude for his help.
• Lin Shuguang spent a hundred and twenty thousand cultivating at Longhu Park, completed his first bone resonance, and triggered a second one.
• Song Wan practiced the Basic Body Refining Technique while controlling her blood energy as Lin Shuguang had advised, then stopped when someone asked what she was doing.

Song Wan tested Lin Shuguang’s blood-energy method and grew to trust him, while her father secretly ordered an investigation into him. On the way to the Storm Martial Arts School, Lin Shuguang was confronted by the Red-Clothed Woman, but Song Shi drove her away before a fight began.

• Song Wan secretly practiced Lin Shuguang’s method and successfully controlled her blood energy, then kept the discovery to herself.
• Lin Shuguang refused Song Wan’s gift of Blood Rice, but she pressed her last Qi and Blood Pill into his hand before leaving.
• Song Wan praised Lin Shuguang to her father, who later ordered someone to investigate him and watched her train with concern.
• Lin Shuguang encountered the Red-Clothed Woman on the street, and the two closed in on each other as he prepared to fight.
• Song Shi arrived, suppressed the Red-Clothed Woman, and forced her to retreat before asking Lin Shuguang to walk back with him.

After Chen Xian was injured by Song Shi, she resolved to investigate Lin Shuguang’s connection to her brother Xiao Yao’s death and recruited a blond young man to watch him. Song Shi brought Lin Shuguang into his usually forbidden room, where a small booklet dropped onto the table beside him.

• Chen Xian cut away the poisoned flesh from her shoulder after Song Shi’s strike left it blackened.
• Chen Xian told the blond young man that Xiao Yao was dead and suspected Lin Shuguang had a connection to his death and the Desolate Ghost Ape King’s Desolate Bead.
• Chen Xian persuaded the blond young man to keep watch on Lin Shuguang in exchange for a share of her future mission profits.
• Song Shi brought Lin Shuguang into his room, drawing speculation from the students at the Storm Martial Arts School.
• As Song Shi watered the plants, a small booklet fell onto the table beside Lin Shuguang.

Song Shi gave Lin Shuguang the Thunderous Star River Slash and promised to protect his family while investigating the woman who attacked him. Lin Shuguang used his Attribute Panel to learn the killing technique, while Chen Xian recovered from Song Shi’s poison and continued pursuing answers about her brother’s death.

• Song Shi gave Lin Shuguang Thunderous Star River Slash, said he trusted Lin Shuguang to control its killing power, and promised to look after his family during the upcoming assessment.
• Lin Shuguang wondered whether the woman who attacked him was connected to the Martial Artist he had killed in the Blood Desolate Land, and Song Shi agreed to investigate her.
• Chen Xian endured a painful resurgence of the poison, resolved to find out what happened to Chen Yao, and ordered Lu Jin to keep following Lin Shuguang.
• Lu Jin asked Chen Xian for cultivation resources and received a bottle of high-rank pills before leaving.
• At Longhu Park, Lin Shuguang spent 10,000 Wealth Value to learn Thunderous Star River Slash and manifested the Demon God Armor amid surging killing intent.

Lin Shuguang suspected Feng San had gone missing and sold a Blood Sea Heart Lotus seed while trying to learn what had happened to him. Chen Xian confronted Song Shi about her brother’s death, then left without an antidote; Lin returned home richer and stronger, still ready to fight anyone who threatened him.

• Lin Shuguang suspected that the red-clad woman was connected to the Blood Desolate Land and worried that Feng San had disappeared after the Desolate Ghost Ape King’s remains exposed him.
• Chen Xian asked Song Shi for an antidote and accused his disciple of being involved in her younger brother Chen Yao’s death, but Song Shi said his disciple was not yet a Martial Artist and ordered her to leave Huai City.
• Chen Xian asked Song Shi whether he had killed the Desolate Ghost Ape King, learned he had not, and left the Storm Martial Arts School without the antidote.
• Ye Tianhao visited the school, called Lin Shuguang a coward for staying away, and chose Peng Chao as his sparring partner.
• Lin Shuguang sold Old Jin a Blood Sea Heart Lotus seed for six hundred thousand and asked whether Feng San had contacted him; Old Jin said he had not heard from Feng San in three days.
• Lin Shuguang returned home with fried chicken, bringing his wealth to 1.4 million as his cultivation reached Three Resonances of Bone Tempering (2%).

Feng San killed Xu Wei for betraying him, then told Lin Shuguang he had returned to Huai City and learned who was hunting him. Before they could meet, Chen Xian attacked Feng San and demanded to know whether Lin Shuguang was involved in her brother’s death.

• Feng San confronted Xu Wei about revealing information about the Desolate Ghost Ape King, then killed him and left his engagement ring behind.
• Lin Shuguang spoke with Feng San, who said he had returned to Huai City and wanted to meet at the Martial Arts Hall the next day.
• Feng San’s call ended abruptly, and Lin Shuguang rushed out of his home to find him.
• Chen Xian attacked Feng San’s car and demanded to know where he had obtained the Desolate Ghost Ape King.
• Feng San tried to feign ignorance and reach for his phone, while Chen Xian asked whether Lin Shuguang had anything to do with her brother’s death.

Lin Shuguang rescued Feng San and fought Chen Xian, whose strength was weakened by an untreated poison and an earlier injury. He killed her after admitting that he had killed her brother, while Feng San watched in shock.

• Feng San tried to escape Chen Xian, but Lin Shuguang arrived and stopped her from attacking him.
• Lin Shuguang fought Chen Xian and realized that her left shoulder injury and the poison were weakening her.
• Lin Shuguang unleashed Thunderous Star River Slash, overwhelmed Chen Xian, and ran her through with his saber.
• Chen Xian demanded to know whether Lin Shuguang had killed her brother, and Lin Shuguang admitted that he had.
• Lin Shuguang pulled out his saber and killed Chen Xian while Feng San watched.

After Lin Shuguang rescued Feng San, the two reaffirmed their friendship, while Feng San resolved to train and become a Martial Artist. The chapter ended with Song Wan’s father meeting Lin Shuguang, who sensed hostility beneath the man’s cheerful manner.

• Lin Shuguang reassured Feng San that their friendship had not changed, and Feng San vowed to train until he became a Martial Artist.
• Feng San warned Lin Shuguang that Chen Xian belonged to the powerful Purple Thistle Hunting Group.
• At school, Song Wan gave Lin Shuguang his completed homework, and Xu Jie grew jealous when they planned to leave together.
• A masked man delivered the marshal’s request for Song Shi to return, but Song Shi ordered him out and then watched over his students.
• After school, Song Wan introduced Lin Shuguang to her father, whose friendly manner left Lin Shuguang sensing hidden hostility.