Recaps

Jiang Liu joined the Fallen Blossom Gang, advanced rapidly through its training with the help of his Auxiliary System, and gained top-tier treatment. After surviving apprentice trials and making plans with Uncle Hai and Lin Hai on New Year’s Eve, he learned about the Jianghu’s major factions and valleys.

• Jiang Liu found the Fierce Tiger Fist manual, trained with it and its medicinal decoction, and joined An Sheng Pharmacy as an apprentice.
• Jiang Liu accepted Master Lin’s offer to join the Fallen Blossom Gang, passed its tests, and was registered as an apprentice with a rare drug-receptive constitution.
• Jiang Liu learned Five Elements Fist, resisted Pan Hou and Pan Duan’s harassment, and advanced to Flesh Hardening and Bone Tempering by merging his earlier techniques into it.
• Master Lin granted Jiang Liu top-tier treatment, and Jiang Liu used pills to accelerate his cultivation while learning Wandering Steps with Wang Zhuang.
• Master Ma tested the apprentices and announced that those who had not reached Flesh Hardening would be expelled or put to work, while Jiang Liu continued his strict training.
• Jiang Liu spent New Year’s Eve drinking with Uncle Hai, shared stories of their pasts, and said he would focus on becoming stronger.
• Lin Hai joined Jiang Liu and Uncle Hai, described major Jianghu factions and the Eight Great Exotic Valleys, and Uncle Hai offered to teach Jiang Liu medicine.

Jiang Liu completed Bone Tempering and Blood Exchange, reached Martial Practitioner Rank Two through an unusual combination of heart methods, and began learning new techniques. As the White Lotus Sect’s influence spread and unrest grew, Jiang Liu returned to Flowing Cloud Alley, killed several gang members occupying his old home, and fled after the sect arrived.

• Lin Hai explained Cloud Sun City’s factions to Jiang Liu, who began cultivating and shattered a training boulder with his punch.
• Master Ma transferred five apprentices to Miscellaneous Affairs Hall, while Master Lin ordered Lin Hai to expose Zheng Lang’s cheating and spread rumors that damaged his standing.
• The Pan Family lost businesses and faced pressure from the Hu and Ma Families after its Old Ancestor died, while the White Lotus Sect opened a branch altar outside West City.
• Jiang Liu completed Bone Tempering, began studying medicine with Uncle Hai, and joined Hunting Eagle Hall with increased benefits from Lin Hao.
• Jiang Liu completed Blood Exchange, received the Five Elements Heart Sutra from his system, and devised a combined circulation route that advanced him to Martial Practitioner Rank One and then Rank Two.
• Jiang Liu borrowed and recorded new manuals, whose techniques the system merged with his existing skills, and told Master Lin he was compatible with the wind attribute.
• After Lin Hai warned him of martial law and unrest, Jiang Liu disguised himself and returned to Flowing Cloud Alley, where he attacked the men occupying his old home.
• Jiang Liu killed the gang members who remained, hid when White Lotus Sect members arrived and killed three more, then fled to South City and checked into an inn using his Fallen Blossom Gang identity.

As the White Lotus Sect gained control of Cloud Sun City and the Fallen Blossom Gang collapsed, Jiang Liu left for Cloud Prefecture City and trained in the West Mountain Range. He reached Fifth Rank, reunited with Master Lin and Lin Hai, then stayed behind to pursue greater strength and claimed a spiritual-power-boosting sapling.

• Jiang Liu secretly attacked Vast Ocean Gang fighters during the street battle, then helped the Fallen Blossom Gang in the gang war and earned a concealed record of kills.
• After the gangs suffered heavy losses, Jiang Liu celebrated New Year’s Eve with Uncle Hai and Lin Hai, then captured White Lotus Sect followers and learned their branch altar was near the western city gate.
• As the White Lotus Sect moved against Qian Luoying and the Martial Prohibition Hall changed hands, Jiang Liu obtained Physician Pavilion credentials and left Cloud Sun City with Uncle Hai’s guidance.
• Jiang Liu entered the West Mountain Range, hunted magical beasts, cultivated with their beast cores, and broke through to Fourth Rank.
• Jiang Liu stole and consumed a Hao Yang Flower, then hunted more beasts and reached Fifth Rank as Lin Hao and Lin Hai fled toward the mountains.
• Jiang Liu killed a Bloodthirsty Mad Lion and a Great Strength Ape, then learned from Master Lin how the Fallen Blossom Gang had fallen and helped the survivors prepare to leave.
• Master Lin gave Jiang Liu a Treasure Blade, pills, and a token before departing with Lin Hai, while Jiang Liu chose to remain in the mountains and grow stronger.
• Six days later, Jiang Liu fought off Sky-Piercing Bees around a sapling that increased spiritual power and killed their leader, causing the swarm to scatter.

Jiang Liu killed the Deep Pool Giant Crocodile, reached Seventh Grade, and took control of Zengjue Temple before making the Hai Family submit and leaving the women in its care. In Wind City, he gathered information, acquired a Ninth Rank blade, survived ambushes, and entered the Ten Thousand Mountains wary of human hunters.

• Jiang Liu killed the Deep Pool Giant Crocodile and recovered a Frost Jade Pearl from the bottom of its pool.
• After discovering Zengjue Temple's underground chambers and the women imprisoned there, Jiang Liu killed the temple's perpetrators, freed the survivors, and turned the temple into Jiang Estate.
• Jiang Liu broke through to Seventh Grade, then killed Grand Elder Hai when the Hai Family came to search Jiang Estate.
• Jiang Liu forced the Hai Family to surrender its wealth and cultivation manuals, while Hai Renhui arranged for Hai Jie to become family head.
• Jiang Liu left the women in the Hai Family's care and traveled to Wind City, where he learned about the city's factions and bought a silver Ascension Token.
• Jiang Liu obtained an abandoned Ninth Rank blade from Master Duan and killed an attacker before fighting off two more ambushers.
• Jiang Liu entered the Ten Thousand Mountains and learned from a local that martial practitioners there often hunted one another for wealth and supplies.