Recaps

Hu Qi watched Sims demonstrate overwhelming strength on a tester, then rebuffed Song Jian’s attempt to provoke him into confronting Sims. After the others lost interest and left, Hu Qi approached the tester to try it himself.

• Chen Chang punched the strength tester and recorded 119 kg, prompting surprise from the trainees.
• Sims shoved Chen Chang aside and recorded 315 kg with a punch, silencing the crowd before leaving.
• Song Jian asked Hu Qi why he would not challenge Sims, and Hu Qi said he had no reason to risk getting hurt.
• Song Jian admitted his own punch measured 145 kg and left after Sims’s display discouraged the trainees.
• Hu Qi set down his backpack and rolled his shoulders as he approached the strength tester.

Hu Qi tested his striking power and trained in Combat Technique, relying on his improved coordination to develop several techniques without Modification Points. After his morning workout, he received a private message notification from a forum.

• Hu Qi struck the impact panel with ordinary force and then with Cannon Fist, raising his recorded strength from 211 kg to 234 kg.
• Hu Qi cleared the display and left, confident that his gains and combat skills could eventually let him surpass Sims.
• Hu Qi woke before dawn, went to a park, and jogged while practicing punches and kicks because he feared the strange creature lurking in the dark.
• Hu Qi reviewed his progress in Soft Palm, Crane Leg, and White Ape Fist, which he had learned from Chen Wu and improved through practice.
• Hu Qi finished training, declined young women's requests for his contact information, and received a private message notification while ordering breakfast.

Hu Qi traveled to meet Ding Yu after receiving a message about an unusual duck, hoping to confirm it was an Exotic Beast and test whether consuming one would grant Modification Points. He found the aggressive purple duck caged at Ding Yu’s grandmother’s home, where Ding Yu’s grandfather left them to handle it.

• Hu Qi received a message from Shrimp Meat Doesn't Blink offering to sell a strange-looking duck and arranged to meet in Qirong City.
• Hu Qi traveled to the west side of the city and met Ding Yu near Peizhi Vocational College.
• Ding Yu explained that the duck belonged to his grandmother and that he wanted to sell it for money.
• Hu Qi spotted the dark-purple duck in an iron cage; it raised its crimson eyes and quacked aggressively.
• Ding Yu said the duck had bitten several other ducks to death, and his grandfather told them to handle the matter themselves.

Hu Qi bought Ding Yu’s unusual egg-laying duck for 3,500 yuan and discovered its eggs increased his Modification Points. He decided to keep the duck as a steady source of points and named it Camphor Tea Duck.

• Ding Yu tried to sell Hu Qi the duck for 20,000 yuan, but Hu Qi negotiated the price down to 3,500 yuan with several duck eggs included.
• Hu Qi fried and ate the five eggs, raising his Modification Points to 4 (36%).
• Hu Qi decided not to kill the duck because it could continue laying eggs and provide him with Modification Points.
• Hu Qi stopped the duck from struggling, declared himself its master, and named it Camphor Tea Duck.

Hu Qi learned from Chen Wu that the Core Class possessed a Limit-Breaking Method that could lead to extraordinary strength, and he looked forward to its assessment. After returning home, he found that Camphor Tea Duck had laid two eggs.

• Chen Wu told Hu Qi that most people’s physical limits fell far below a thousand jin and that the Core Class had a Limit-Breaking Method.
• Chen Wu said Martial Dao Practitioners could be powerful enough to withstand gunfire, and Hu Qi became more eager for the Core Class assessment.
• Hu Qi passed a neighbor in the corridor, briefly suspected something was wrong with the man’s girlfriend, then saw her call after him about forgotten keys.
• Hu Qi returned home and found that Camphor Tea Duck had laid two purple-striped eggs.

Hu Qi used his Modification Points to advance his combat techniques and gain new traits, then received a suspicious call from Li Yi asking him to come to Qingyu Internet Cafe. Hu Qi realized Li Yi was signaling that he was surrounded and agreed to go, while the thugs at the scene attacked Li Yi.

• Hu Qi modified Crane Leg, Soft Palm, and White Ape Fist, raising them to Great Mastery and gaining three traits.
• Hu Qi spent his remaining Modification Points to raise Crane Leg to Perfection and the other two techniques to Mastery, strengthening his body and leaving him extremely hungry.
• After eating, Hu Qi received a call from someone claiming to be Li Yi, who asked him to bring cash to Tianhu Road.
• Hu Qi recognized the caller's mistakes as a coded warning that Li Yi was in trouble and said he would come.
• At Qingyu Internet Cafe, a white-haired youth kicked Li Yi to the ground and threatened him.

Hu Qi arrived alone to rescue Li Yi from a group of thugs and quickly defeated them in a secluded alley. He demanded to know who had sent them, and the white-haired young man agreed to talk.

• Li Yi worried that Hu Qi would be in danger after his classmate Liu Wei ran away, but Hu Qi arrived on an electric bike.
• Hu Qi asked the white-haired young man to release Li Yi and go with him to a secluded alley, but the group surrounded them instead.
• The white-haired young man taunted Hu Qi and spat at him, so Hu Qi slapped him to the ground.
• Hu Qi swiftly defeated the four other young men, breaking bones and knocking them down within seconds.
• Hu Qi sent Li Yi to wait outside, silenced the injured men, and lifted the white-haired young man by the throat to ask who had sent them.
• The white-haired young man begged for his life and said he would talk, and Hu Qi dropped him to the ground.

Hu Qi drove off Lu Shi’s men, warned them to stay away from those around him, and offered Li Yi a chance to train at the Red Scale Club. That night, Hu Qi watched Lu Shi leave Nightfall Bar with Jiang Yu Yan, setting up a confrontation.

• The white-haired young man revealed that Lu Shi had sent his group to find Hu Qi and ask about Wu Shan and the others.
• Hu Qi punched a deep mark into a tree, threatened the men, and made them agree to claim they had fallen by accident.
• Hu Qi reassured Li Yi, explained that he had learned Combat Technique at the Red Scale Club, and invited him to join.
• Hu Qi took Li Yi home and warned him to stay indoors at night because wild beasts had been appearing.
• Lu Shi left Nightfall Bar with Jiang Yu Yan, while Hu Qi watched from beneath a tree nearby.

Hu Qi stayed away from the Red Scale Club while preparing for his Core Class assessment. At her new apartment, Jiang Yu Yan was ambushed by a man disguised as a courier, who forced her to summon Lu Shi.

• Hu Qi did not appear at the Red Scale Club for several days, and Chen Wu reminded him about the upcoming Core Class assessment.
• Jiang Yu Yan relaxed in the luxury apartment Lu Shi had given her and dismissed her former admirer as a lapdog.
• A man posing as a courier used a stun device to knock Jiang Yu Yan unconscious and broke into her apartment.
• The intruder threatened Jiang Yu Yan with a folding knife and slapped her when she tried to seduce him.
• The intruder ordered Jiang Yu Yan to message Lu Shi and tell him to come back.

A disguised young man subdued Jiang Yu Yan, used her phone to lure Lu Shi home, and killed them both by throwing them from a balcony. He left the complex after confirming their deaths and removed his clay-like disguise in an alley.

• The scarred man knocked Jiang Yu Yan down, stunned her with an electric baton, tied her up, and read her messages with Lu Shi before sending him a text.
• Lu Shi arrived at Number One Mansion with roses, found Jiang Yu Yan bound in a room, and mistook her captivity for a romantic surprise.
• The scarred man seized Lu Shi and Jiang Yu Yan and threw them from the twenty-fifth floor balcony.
• The man removed traces of his presence and left the building, then returned to the crowd after hearing that two people had fallen.
• After confirming Lu Shi and Jiang Yu Yan were dead, the man went into an alley and peeled off his clay-like facial disguise, revealing a young man.

Hu Qi covered his tracks after killing Lu Shi and Jiang Yu Yan, then reflected on why he had acted and how detached he felt. Investigators at Number One Mansion began examining the bodies but found evidence that the deaths defied ordinary expectations.

• Hu Qi destroyed his disguise and clothes with sulfuric acid, changed his appearance, and later returned home with no obvious signs of what he had done.
• Hu Qi reviewed his Mastery-level Forensic Technique and Makeup skills and considered how carefully he had erased evidence, while acknowledging the risks posed by the unusual world and Lu Shi's connections.
• Hu Qi justified killing Lu Shi and Jiang Yu Yan as a way to stop further attacks, regretted that Lu Shi's father was too heavily guarded, and wondered why he felt no distress afterward.
• Investigators examined the two bodies at Number One Mansion, and Old Sun told the square-faced Third-Rank Inspector that both victims had been strangled without signs of struggle or third-party fingerprints.
• Old Sun pointed out that the bodies had landed much farther from Building Three than a normal fall could explain.

Police identified Zhao Shi, a former special-forces soldier and wanted murderer, as the suspect in the bizarre killings. Hu Qi tested his punching power and considered how to find more Combat Techniques and Exotic Beasts, while Sims arrived at the force-testing room confident he would rank first among the newcomers.

• An officer showed the square-faced man surveillance footage identifying Zhao Shi, whose history of revenge killings and skill at concealing evidence made him a suspect.
• The square-faced man concluded that Zhao Shi's actions fit the evidence and said the authorities could hand him over to specialized people if he took a certain step.
• Hu Qi recorded a punching power of 396 kg and resolved to seek more Combat Techniques and Exotic Beasts to improve further.
• Hu Qi passed Sims on his way out of the force-testing room, where Sims struck the tester and recorded 323 kg, an 8 kg improvement.
• Sims declared that he would be first among the newcomers in the Core Class and opened the force tester's punching-power rankings.

Hu Qi checked that the deaths of Lu Shi and the other man had unfolded as expected, then visited Li Yi at Red Scale Fighting Club. Days later, Hu Qi took part in the club’s Core Class assessment, where the other trainees avoided fighting him.

• Hu Qi saw that Zhao Shi had taken the blame for the killings and that the bounty on him had risen.
• Hu Qi spoke with Li Yi, who had joined Red Scale Fighting Club, and invited him to get lunch.
• A close-cropped young man explained that the final five survivors of the club’s sparring assessment would qualify for the Core Class.
• Hu Qi’s opponents surrendered rather than fight him, and he knocked down the one trainee who challenged him.

Hu Qi advanced from the class matches and began the Core Class selection, where he overwhelmed Hong Shan with a head-on clash and a powerful kick. Hong Shan lay motionless after the blow as the arena fell silent.

• Hu Qi watched the class matches and learned that Ye Li had advanced alongside him, Song Jian, and Chen Chang.
• The trainees from five classes selected twenty people for the Core Class matches, with no revival round and five spots available.
• Hu Qi drew Hong Shan, who charged at him with the Comprehensive Combat Technique move Mountain Collision.
• Hu Qi met Hong Shan's attack with the same move, stopped his charge, then kicked him into the air and sent him crashing to the ground.

Hu Qi defeated Kaita and reached the final five of the Core Class assessment, where he exchanged provocations with Sims. Song Jian was eliminated by Liu Ping, leaving Hu Qi determined to secure a place in the Core Class.

• Hong Shan was crushed in his match, and Chen Chang conceded to Sims in the first round.
• Hu Qi caught Kaita’s punch and threw him to the ground, winning their match.
• Sims taunted Hu Qi, who responded with a middle finger and inferred that the examiner approved of his defiance.
• Song Jian told Hu Qi that Liu Ping had defeated him, and Hu Qi congratulated him on his efforts.
• The final five were Sims, Hu Qi, Ye Li, Wang Yue, and Liu Ping, and the examiner praised Chen Wu’s Class Two for advancing two trainees.

After passing the assessment, Hu Qi and the other new recruits received their Core Class Black Cards and learned that the class taught the Limit-Breaking Method. Lin Tong revealed that the supposed beasts were Black Blood Species and warned them to keep the truth secret as they prepared to report in ten days.

• Lin Tong gave Hu Qi and the other successful students Black Cards identifying them as Core Class candidates and told them to report in ten days.
• Ye Li asked whether the Core Class taught the Limit-Breaking Method, and Lin Tong confirmed it could enhance physical abilities.
• Hu Qi asked about the beast, and Lin Tong explained that the Federation called the monsters Black Blood Species, which appeared human and fed on fresh flesh and blood.
• Sims asked how people could fight the Black Blood Species, and Lin Tong said the Limit-Breaking Method could help before bending a coin between his fingers to demonstrate his strength.
• Lin Tong warned the candidates not to reveal the existence of the Black Blood Species to ordinary people, threatening severe punishment if they did.

After Lin Tong advised the newly qualified trainees to keep training, Sims tried to organize them under his leadership, but Hu Qi rejected him and defeated him in a fight. The chapter ended with Hu Qi kicking Sims into a wall while a camera recorded the clash.

• Lin Tong added the five trainees as contacts and warned them not to slack off before joining the Core Class.
• Sims proposed that the group stick together and choose a leader, but Hu Qi tried to leave without joining in.
• Sims attacked Hu Qi, who caught his punch and struck him hard enough to drop him to his knees.
• Sims charged at Hu Qi again, and Hu Qi dislocated his shoulder with a kick that sent him flying.
• Hu Qi noticed a camera, then kicked Sims in the face and sent him crashing into a wall, knocking out several teeth.

Hu Qi defeated Sims and took 20,000 yuan from him as compensation for lost time. At Red Scale Club, Lin Tong defended Hu Qi’s place in the Core Class and noted his extraordinary strength, while Lu Mingzhong grew furious that his men had failed to find a murderer.

• Hu Qi stopped beating Sims after Sims begged for mercy, then demanded compensation for the time Sims had wasted.
• Sims transferred Hu Qi 20,000 yuan, and Hu Qi invited him to seek another sparring match anytime.
• He Chi called for Hu Qi’s Core Class qualification to be revoked, but Chen Wu pointed out that Sims had provoked Hu Qi first.
• Lin Tong rebuked He Chi and defended Red Scale Club’s need for fighters who dared to fight, then observed that Hu Qi’s strength approached human limits and his perception was unusually keen.
• Lu Mingzhong smashed teacups and berated two kneeling men for failing to find the murderer after a week.

After his son was murdered, Lu Mingshi called on the mysterious woman who had saved him decades earlier and offered her an orphanage’s children in exchange for help finding the killer. She arrived that night, and he gave her the killer’s photograph and a white shirt.

• Lu Mingshi dismissed two people who had failed to find his son’s murderer and vowed to track down the killer himself.
• Lu Mingshi retrieved a hidden phone and called a mysterious woman, offering her the children from an orphanage he owned in exchange for her help.
• The woman agreed to help and asked Lu Mingshi to prepare one of his son’s personal belongings.
• Lu Mingshi remembered how the woman had healed his fatal injuries during a gang fight more than twenty years earlier, and how he later learned she was a demon.
• The masked woman appeared in Lu Mingshi’s office, and he gave her a photograph of the suspected killer and a white shirt.

Lu Mingzhong sought the black-dressed woman’s help tracking his son’s killer, but stopped pursuing revenge after learning the suspect was Hu Qi, a prospective Core Class member of Red Scale Fighting Club. Meanwhile, Hu Qi trained with a heavy axe in his rented apartment.

• Lu Mingzhong showed the black-dressed woman a photograph and surveillance footage of the apparent killer, and she said the man was dead and had likely been impersonated.
• The black-dressed woman transformed the victim’s shirt into a crow and sent it to track the killer.
• The crow led them to an alley where the killer had discarded the clothes, but rain and time had erased the trail.
• Lu Mingzhong learned that his son had targeted Hu Qi over a woman, then chose not to seek revenge because Hu Qi was connected to Red Scale Fighting Club.
• Hu Qi practiced axe techniques for more than half an hour in his rented apartment.

Hu Qi perfected the Mad Axe Combat Technique, gaining a trait that rapidly restored his stamina, and prepared to keep improving before entering the Core Class. A neighbor asked him to fix her burst bathroom pipe, but he refused and sent her to call a repair service.

• Hu Qi used Crimson to raise the Mad Axe Combat Technique from Beginner to Perfection, spending two Modification Points.
• Hu Qi gained the Dragon Spirit Tiger Fierce trait, which quickly restored his stamina and increased his energy.
• Hu Qi decided to focus on improving his physique before entering the Core Class and practicing the Limit-Breaking Method.
• A neighbor asked Hu Qi to turn off the valve after her bathroom heater pipe burst, but he refused to help without payment.
• Hu Qi told the woman to call the repair number posted on the wall, and she left angrily.

Hu Qi suspected a nearby woman had tried to lure him into a trap, while the couple prepared to flee Qirong City after killing their neighbors. At two in the morning, they began picking the lock to Hu Qi’s door, and he silently reached for his giant axe.

• The wet-haired woman told her boyfriend that Hu Qi had refused to come, and they agreed to avoid attracting attention while the city remained locked down.
• Hu Qi fed the Camphor Tea Duck, noticed it was laying fewer eggs, and concluded that it needed more light and time outside.
• The couple emerged from a neighbor’s silent home with blood on their clothes and said they had to leave before Zhu Xi came to purge them.
• The couple stopped at Room 1503, and the woman used strange threads from her fingers to unlock the door.
• Hu Qi woke at the sound of the lock and reached for the giant axe beside his bed.

Hu Qi killed two Black Blood Species intruders with a giant axe and pursued the surviving woman through the building. She hid behind a security door, but Hu Qi found her and confronted her through the crack.

• Hu Qi ambushed the intruders, splitting the man's head with an axe and badly wounding the woman after she transformed into a monster.
• The woman fled into the hallway, and Hu Qi chased her using the Crane Leg technique.
• Hu Qi searched the bloodstained stairwell and found evidence that the building's residents, including an infant, had been slaughtered.
• The wounded woman hid behind a half-closed security door and planned to report Hu Qi to her master.
• Hu Qi appeared at the door and told the woman, "Little baby, I found you!"

Hu Qi killed the Black Blood Species woman after she attacked him and tried to escape, then recovered from the exhausting fight. He stood in a blood-soaked room, realizing that anyone who saw the scene might mistake him for a murderer.

• The wounded woman lunged at Hu Qi, but he kicked her into the living room wall and crushed her chest.
• The woman recovered enough to flee toward the balcony, but Hu Qi struck her with his axe and split her body in two.
• The dying woman asked who Hu Qi was and began warning him about the consequences of killing her kind, but Hu Qi killed her before she could finish.
• Hu Qi caught his breath and judged that the Black Blood Species was less formidable than he had expected, while the blood and wreckage made him look like a murderer.

After killing two Black Blood Species, Hu Qi feared he would be blamed for the deaths in his building and contacted Lin Tong for help. Lin Tong assured him specialists would handle the scene, while his Second Senior Sister decided to meet Hu Qi.

• Hu Qi weighed fleeing against staying, then cleaned himself and Camphor Tea Duck before leaving the building with the duck in a bag.
• Hu Qi rode two streets away and video-called Lin Tong, explaining that he had killed the Black Blood Species and asking whether the incident would implicate him.
• Lin Tong told Hu Qi that killing Black Blood Species was meritorious and said specialists would handle the scene.
• Lin Tong informed his Second Senior Sister that two Black Blood Species had massacred most of a building and that Hu Qi had killed them.
• Second Senior Sister was surprised that Hu Qi had defeated two Blood Slaves before breaking his limits and decided to go with Lin Tong to meet him.