Recaps

Qin Shi endured Old Liang’s painful Golden Elixir treatment and fell asleep while his body continued training. He woke the next morning with strengthened sinews, nearly at the First Limit, and unlocked the Overgrowth achievement.

• Old Liang explained Golden Elixir’s benefits and side effects, and Qin Shi chose to undergo the treatment.
• Old Liang spread the heated Golden Elixir over Qin Shi’s back, and Qin Shi endured the agony until he activated Deep Sleep and Muscle Memory.
• Qin Shi fell asleep while his energy continued circulating, impressing Old Liang, who applied the rest of the Golden Elixir to his body.
• Qin Shi woke the next morning as Yan Shuang told him he had slept through the treatment and observed that Qin Shi had nearly entered the Sinew Gate.
• Qin Shi noticed his strengthened sinews and unlocked the Basic Achievement Overgrowth.

After enduring the Golden Elixir, Qin Shi woke with greatly improved strength and stamina, then rushed back to save his assistant-teacher job. At the Youth Palace, he met the new Martial Arts teacher, Lin Yunqing, who remarked that he smelled nice.

• Qin Shi admired the physical improvements from Burning Sinews, while Yan Shuang told him Teacher Liang had left instructions for him to rest and return to class.
• Qin Shi learned Yan Shuang came from Smoke City and worked at Jinse Impression to support his mother, then remembered he had missed his Youth Palace shift and hurried out.
• Qin Shi persuaded Old Xu to count his missed shift as leave, preserving his job and attendance bonus.
• At the Youth Palace, Brother Zhang said he had covered Qin Shi's shift and tried to take over his assistant-teacher job after seeing the new teacher.
• Lin Yunqing introduced herself as the new Martial Arts teacher and told Qin Shi that he smelled nice.

Qin Shi started work as an assistant teacher at the Youth Palace, where Lin Yunqing recognized signs of his Old Martial Arts training and became interested in testing him. After completing his Muscle Memory achievement during Qi Sensation practice, Qin Shi unlocked Internal Vision and saw a glowing image of his body marked in red and white.

• Qin Shi met Lin Yunqing at the Youth Palace and invited her to join him and Brother Zhang for a meal, but she declined and discussed preparing their classes.
• Lin Yunqing identified Qin Shi’s fragrance as the scent of a secret body-transforming medicine and resolved to challenge him with New Martial Arts training.
• Qin Shi ate five Nutritional Meals, chatted with Brother Zhang, and declined Lin Yunqing’s offer of a ride before agreeing to show her around Old Factory Street for a fee.
• Back at his shack, Qin Shi reviewed his growth status and practiced Grasping Qi Sensation, which left him hungry as his body consumed its energy and nutrients.
• Qin Shi reached 100% Muscle Memory, unlocked Internal Vision, and saw a glowing figure of his body covered in red and white patches.

Qin Shi refined his Qi Sensation and Internal Vision, then went to work at the Midnight Palace, where he learned that the night’s advertised fights were a buildup to a real death match. The chapter left him summoned to a private room by Brother Ze.

• Qin Shi completed a Lesser Heavenly Cycle, observed his Qi Sensation grow, and naturally opened the Eight Sections and Nine Joints.
• Qin Shi used Internal Vision to study Xie Yucheng’s breathing and muscles while they rode to the Midnight Palace.
• Qin Shi arrived at the club and learned from Li Yuan that Black Lonnie and Bitter Monk were fake fighters, while the real event would be a death match for wealthy guests.
• Qin Shi served customers at the Midnight Palace until Manager Yu told him that Brother Ze wanted him in a private room upstairs.

Qin Shi watched Cheng Ze expose how the Midnight Palace rigged a fight and learned that Cheng Ze wanted to recruit him, but he refused in favor of his studies. After witnessing the brutal Death Match Arena and Cheng Ze’s clash with Brother Luo over the Righteous Fist Society’s members, Qin Shi saw Cheng Ze’s restrained demeanor give way to frightening intensity.

• Cheng Ze explained that Black Lonnie and Bitter Monk had both been drugged, and Bitter Monk appeared to win before Black Lonnie made a surprise comeback and was declared the winner.
• Cheng Ze asked Qin Shi to work for him, but Qin Shi cited his promise to his Eldest Sister to study and attend university; Cheng Ze accepted his refusal.
• Cheng Ze showed Qin Shi the Death Match Arena, where two Righteous Fist Society fighters fought to the death for a promised payment to their families.
• Brother Luo praised the spectacle and proposed further cruel attractions, while Cheng Ze asked him to care for the society’s injured and sick members.
• After Brother Luo dismissed Cheng Ze’s plea and left, Cheng Ze warned Qin Shi to study hard and avoid becoming a punk.

Qin Shi swiftly defeated Li Yuan and Xie Yucheng, then reviewed his growing abilities and learned from Old Liang how martial artists awaken Life Force. Old Liang gave Qin Shi Golden Elixir and prepared to help him burn through his great sinews, leaving Qin Shi poised to pursue the first physical limit.

• Qin Shi knocked Li Yuan aside with a kick, blocked Xie Yucheng's hook, and slammed him into the floor.
• Qin Shi checked his Monument Panel, noted his improving Physique and Spirit, and considered how to advance his achievements.
• Old Liang explained that martial artists stoked their Life Force by pushing their bodies and spirit beyond ordinary limits.
• Old Liang gave Qin Shi two bottles of Golden Elixir and said they would burn through his great sinews to break the first limit.
• Old Liang told Qin Shi that forging twelve sinews would let him nurture a dragon in his mortal body.

After Qin Shi endured the Golden Elixir’s Body Burning, he awoke with powerful dragon sinews and overflowing Qi Strength. Old Liang discussed his past and his former student Cheng Ze before revealing Hong Sheng’s signature finishing method, Hundred Forms Cultivating Momentum.

• Qin Shi used Deep Sleep to endure the Golden Elixir’s Body Burning and awoke with twelve major sinews and stronger Qi Strength.
• Old Liang marveled at Qin Shi’s easy transformation and asked how he felt; Qin Shi said his hands were itching to fight.
• Old Liang told Qin Shi about his youth in underground boxing rings and praised him for resisting the urge to seek fights.
• Qin Shi asked about Cheng Ze, and Old Liang explained that he had once taught him but thought the Old Martial Arts path did not suit him.
• Old Liang revealed that Hong Sheng’s signature finishing technique was Hundred Forms Cultivating Momentum, which He Lanzhan had learned.

Qin Shi learned about Hong Sheng’s spirit-cultivation method and He Lanchán’s mastery of its four forms, while Old Liang explained the importance of building momentum gradually. After Qin Shi’s Sinew Gate breakthrough, his Growth Value reached 0.010%.

• Qin Shi wondered whether Old Liang had a prestigious connection to the First Generation Ten Prodigies, but Old Liang explained that He Lanchán had studied under many masters and had only briefly trained at Hong Sheng.
• Old Liang told Qin Shi that He Lanchán mastered Hong Sheng’s four forms of momentum and later developed Myriad Forms Annihilation and thousands of other forms.
• Old Liang explained that Hundred Forms Cultivating Momentum was a difficult Spirit Cultivation method and told Qin Shi to build his foundation before aiming too high.
• Old Liang promised to teach Qin Shi true Spirit Cultivation after his Life Force passed twenty points and explained how momentum appeared in both old and new martial arts.
• Qin Shi asked which momentum Old Liang favored, and Old Liang joked that age and a lost leg had left him out of practice.
• Qin Shi checked his Monument Panel and saw that his Growth Value had reached 0.010% after breaking through the Sinew Gate limit.

Qin Shi entered the rebirth stage after breaking his physical limits and spent five days training, eating Nutritional Paste, and sleeping. He raised his Life Force above fifteen points, nearing the Eighth Rank amateur threshold, and realized he was approaching the twenty points required for Hundred Forms Cultivating Momentum.

• Old Liang warned Qin Shi that the rebirth stage would greatly increase his appetite and advised him to eat more Nutritional Paste.
• Qin Shi spent over a thousand yuan on Nutritional Paste, then trained at home and ate six boxes at a time to satisfy his hunger.
• After a day of training and rest, Qin Shi's Physique rose from 10.5 to 11.2 and his Spirit rose from 10.1 to 10.9.
• Qin Shi continued his training and recovery routine for five days while Qin Lan worried that he had fallen into despair over a romantic rejection.
• Qin Shi's Life Force surpassed fifteen points, his cultivation and fighting style improved, and he recognized that he was nearing the threshold for Hundred Forms Cultivating Momentum.

Qin Shi worked his shift at the Youth Palace as Lin Yunqing drew the attention of a gang of delinquents who claimed they wanted to enroll in her martial arts class. After they assaulted Brother Zhang and pressured Lin Yunqing to meet their boss, she began a lesson by brutally attacking their ringleader, A'kun.

• Qin Shi arrived for his weekly assistant-teacher shift, and Lin Yunqing guessed that his rapid improvement came from an Old Martial Arts Faction.
• A group of delinquents came to the Youth Palace demanding to enroll in Lin Yunqing's class, while their boss waited in a convertible outside.
• A'kun slapped Brother Zhang and sent him flying when he tried to drive the delinquents away.
• Lin Yunqing accepted their enrollment fees, demanded that they cover Brother Zhang's medical expenses, and told Qin Shi to lead them to the meeting room.
• Lin Yunqing changed into a tracksuit, started class, and slammed A'kun's head into the wall before dragging his face along it.

Lin Yunqing beat a gang of delinquents at the Youth Palace, then tried to make Qin Shi take the blame before attacking him herself. Qin Shi overpowered her, and a strange hunger prompted him to see her as edible.

• Lin Yunqing knocked Kun and the other delinquents unconscious in the meeting room, then told Qin Shi to call the police and claim he had saved the day.
• Qin Shi refused to lie to the police, and Lin Yunqing dropped her gentle facade and lunged at him.
• Qin Shi dodged Lin Yunqing's attacks until she cornered him against a wall.
• Qin Shi charged Lin Yunqing with his full strength and sent her crashing into the wall, then punched and broke her glasses.
• A sudden stream of information identified Lin Yunqing as edible and said eating her could increase Qin Shi's Life Force.

After Qin Shi’s hunger trait briefly made him terrifying to Lin Yunqing, he learned that her Three Emperors Cannon Fist combined Old Martial Arts with Military Boxing, Bionic Style. Lin Yunqing called her brother to deal with the thugs, and Qin Shi ended the chapter asking whether her family could install equipment to test his Life Force.

• Qin Shi realized Overgrowth made him sense Lin Yunqing as high-energy food, briefly seized her by the neck, then regained control and helped her up.
• Lin Yunqing apologized and explained that her family’s Three Emperors Cannon Fist blended Old Martial Arts with Military Boxing, Bionic Style, which imitated modern weapons.
• Lin Yunqing called her brother, Lin Xiaohan, and identified the thug who had brought men to the Youth Palace as Wang Long, a subordinate of Qin Lihao.
• Lin Xiaohan learned that Qin Lihao’s company was pursuing redevelopment projects and planned a university debate and media coverage about land seizures and forced demolitions.
• Lin Yunqing told Qin Shi she had handled the trouble, invited him to her family’s home, and offered to arrange Life Force testing equipment after he asked about it.

Qin Shi visited Lin Yunqing’s villa, learned about state sponsorship for Martial Artist students, and considered his future university options. Lin Yunqing urged him toward Qiguang Hengda University while plotting to stir up trouble there, then agreed to lend him her life-force tester.

• Lin Yunqing brought Qin Shi to her family’s villa in Nanjiang District and explained her family’s background and the spread of prominent surnames across Hengzhou.
• Lin Yunqing described Education Department loans and grants for Martial Artist students, and Qin Shi became eager to learn what support he might qualify for.
• Qin Shi said he would wait for the Rank-Placement Exam before choosing a school, while Lin Yunqing encouraged him to apply to Qiguang Hengda University.
• Lin Yunqing privately imagined Qin Shi humiliating the New Martial Arts faction at Qiguang Hengda University and broke into laughter.
• Qin Shi asked to borrow Lin Yunqing’s life-force tester, and she offered to take him to the basement.

Lin Yunqing tested Qin Shi’s physical abilities and discovered that his Life Force had soared to fifteen, revealing extraordinary potential. She decided to invest heavily in him, while Qin Shi asked to have his Mental Strength tested.

• Lin Yunqing set up a Life Force test for Qin Shi and secretly sold his photos and report to Lightning Whirlwind Chop for 48,888.
• Qin Shi entered the testing chamber, and Lin Yunqing saw that his physique and Life Force fluctuations were unusually strong.
• Qin Shi’s Life Force rose from eight to fifteen during the test, astonishing Lin Yunqing with the scale of his potential.
• Lin Yunqing decided to spend nearly half her savings supporting Qin Shi, while joking with Lightning Whirlwind Chop about his supposed death.
• Qin Shi asked Lin Yunqing to test his Mental Strength, and she eagerly agreed.

Qin Shi completed the Mental Strength test, and his unusually high score led Lin Yunqing to realize he might be a rare talent with both strong vitality and spirituality. She sought advice on how to fund his future, then learned from her brother that the universities would recruit him specially if his scores rose further.

• Qin Shi tracked targets, dodged lasers, and completed a series of Mental Strength tests while Lin Yunqing watched his readings climb.
• Lin Yunqing realized Qin Shi's Mental Strength might indicate he was a natural-born practitioner of the mind, making him a potential mechanic or Psionicist as well as a Martial Artist.
• Lin Yunqing asked her group chat how to afford developing a rare talent, then tried to persuade Lightning Whirlwind Chop to invest in Qin Shi.
• Lin Yunqing sent Qin Shi's test results to Lightning Whirlwind Chop, then blocked and deleted her.
• Lin Yunqing asked Lin Xiaohan how much financial aid a student like Qin Shi could receive, and he said the Four Great National Universities would recruit him specially if he reached higher scores.
• Lin Yunqing watched Qin Shi emerge from the testing pod and realized he might possess the rare union of spirit and flesh.

Qin Shi tested his Life Force and learned it had reached fifteen points, then accepted Lin Yunqing’s offer of high-energy food. Meanwhile, Old Liang confronted Cheng Ze about his violent past and the price of trying to escape poverty; after Cheng Ze left, Qin Shi arrived to report that his Life Force had risen again.

• Qin Shi completed a Life Force test with Lin Yunqing and confirmed his level was fifteen points.
• Lin Yunqing invited Qin Shi to stay for high-energy food, and he accepted before she drove him home.
• Old Liang confronted Cheng Ze about how his criminal life had hurt his parents and challenged his reasons for becoming a thug.
• Cheng Ze warned Old Liang that Brother Hao planned to redevelop Old Factory Street and turn No. 9 Vocational Middle School into a Sports Academy.
• Old Liang advised Cheng Ze to retire before his employers discarded him, and Cheng Ze left without looking back.
• Qin Shi reached Old Liang’s dormitory and announced that his Life Force had risen again.

Qin Shi told Old Liang that his Life Force and Mental Strength had both reached fifteen points, shocking his master and prompting him to explain the potential of Spirit-Flesh Union. Old Liang introduced the Three Realms Theory and gave Qin Shi an early look at a Hong Sheng inheritance, but Qin Shi could not understand the booklet.

• Qin Shi told Old Liang that his Life Force had risen by about fifteen points, and Old Liang warned him not to boast about his rapid progress.
• Qin Shi revealed that his Mental Strength was also fifteen points, leaving Old Liang stunned by his balanced potential.
• Old Liang explained that Spirit-Flesh Union could enable a person to accommodate two career paths, undergo refinement, and possibly reach the highest ranks.
• Old Liang described the Three Realms Theory and explained that cultivating the mind and body depended on each other.
• Old Liang gave Qin Shi a booklet on Hundred Forms Cultivating Momentum, but Qin Shi said he could not make sense of it.

Qin Shi ate pages from Old Liang’s secret martial-arts manuscript and used the Monument to grasp the Hong Sheng movement “Swift as the Wind.” Meanwhile, Qin Lihao killed Wang Long for provoking Lin Yunqing and set his sights on the Old Factory Street redevelopment, unaware that the student who fought Wang Long was also surnamed Qin.

• Qin Shi struggled to read the secret script while Old Liang waited for him to ask for guidance.
• Qin Shi discovered the manuscript’s pages could be consumed, tore out several, and swallowed them despite Old Liang’s alarm.
• Qin Shi gained the temporary Enlightenment trait and mastered “Swift as the Wind,” sensing wind gather around his body and feet.
• Qin Lihao beat Wang Long to death for targeting Lin Yunqing and ordered an underling to prepare a gift and arrange an apology to her family.
• Qin Lihao learned that a student had helped defeat Wang Long, but his men knew only that the student’s surname was Qin.
• Qin Lihao ordered Aze to buy more land before approval for the Old Factory Street redevelopment and boasted that the Yancheng Qin Family could contend with the Lin Family.

Qin Shi comprehended the Spirit Cultivation Technique and learned how Hundred Forms Cultivating Momentum could strengthen and extend his martial abilities, while Old Liang cautioned him against overtraining. The next day, Lin Yunqing visited Lin Xiaohan at Qiguang Hengda University, told him she had sold the sports car Qin Lihao sent her, and asked whether special admissions had begun.

• Qin Shi deciphered the Spirit Cultivation Technique after swallowing the handwritten pages and understood that Hundred Forms Cultivating Momentum was a visualization method.
• Old Liang explained how momentum enhanced martial techniques, demonstrated a wind-powered cutting force, and warned Qin Shi not to overpractice before his Life Force reached twenty points.
• The next day, Lin Yunqing arrived at Lin Xiaohan's office with lunch and said she had sold the sports car Qin Lihao sent as an apology.
• Lin Xiaohan warned Lin Yunqing not to provoke the Yancheng Qin Family, and she said she wanted Qin Zhijie to stop bothering her.
• Lin Yunqing asked Lin Xiaohan whether Qiguang Hengda University's special admissions had started.

Lin Yunqing persuaded her brother Lin Xiaohan to consider mentoring Qin Shi, though he could not offer him university funding before enrollment. After Qin Shi woke with improved stats, he caught a falling spoon and activated Super Sensory Perception.

• Lin Yunqing told Lin Xiaohan that Qin Shi from Old Factory Street had exceptional Life Force and Mental Strength, and asked him to secure support for Qin Shi.
• Lin Xiaohan refused to arrange funding before Qin Shi enrolled but offered to meet him and find him a teacher if his talent proved genuine.
• Lin Xiaohan agreed to provide Qin Shi with Level 6 Energy Liquid and warned Lin Yunqing not to start a romance with him.
• Lin Yunqing messaged Lightning Whirlwind Chop about Lin Xiaohan’s plan to find a teacher for an Old Martial Arts prodigy.
• Qin Shi woke with improved stats, caught a spoon as it fell from Qin Lan’s hand, and activated Super Sensory Perception.

Qin Shi unlocked the Super Sensory Perception achievement and planned to raise his Life Force enough to enter a top university. He then discovered that Zhou Ning was rapidly gaining muscle and Life Force through Coach Luo’s suspicious drug-injection program.

• Qin Shi examined his new Super Sensory Perception achievement and considered how to advance it despite having few chances to face danger.
• Qin Lan worried that Qin Shi was overworking himself, but he reassured her that he was training toward his goals.
• Qin Shi calculated that he might reach twenty Life Force points in about six days and focused on qualifying for Hengzhou University or the University of Science and Technology.
• Qin Shi met Zhou Ning, who showed off his new bulk and said Coach Luo had enrolled him in the Nine Dragons Integration program.
• Zhou Ning revealed that his talent was drug resistance and that he could receive twelve injections a day, alarming Qin Shi.

Qin Shi learned that Zhou Ning was taking dangerous performance-enhancing drugs from Coach Luo and asked Lin Yunqing about reporting fake-drug sellers. Lin Yunqing drove them to Silver Horse Gym, where Qin Shi overheard Coach Luo steering another student toward injections and payday loans.

• Qin Shi used Internal Vision on Zhou Ning and saw the severe damage and disorder in his body, though Zhou Ning's extreme Drug Resistance kept him energetic.
• Zhou Ning invited Qin Shi to try Coach Luo's Nine Dragons Fusion Package for free, while Aunt Zhou praised Zhou Ning's rising Life Force and prospects.
• Lin Yunqing misread Qin Shi's question about rewards for reporting fake drugs as an excuse to meet her, offered to help, and drove to pick him up.
• Qin Shi and Zhou Ning arrived at Silver Horse Gym, where Coach Luo urged a student who could not afford drugs to take out payday loans.

Qin Shi accompanied Zhou Ning to Silver Horse Gym, where he and Lin Yunqing suspected Coach Luo of selling dangerous drugs. Coach Luo tested Qin Shi’s supposed talent by preparing an injection, but the Monument Panel identified the liquid as defective medication with minor effects and a chance to grant the title “Steroid Warrior.”

• Qin Shi sensed that the gym’s bodybuilders had powerful but broken auras, while Zhou Ning appeared exceptionally healthy.
• Lin Yunqing proposed gathering evidence by pretending to sign up for a trial package, then contacting a friend in the Inspection Department.
• Zhou Ning told Qin Shi that Coach Luo had saved him the last spot in the class and led him to meet the coach.
• Luo Hui dismissed Qin Shi’s physique and demanded that he prove his talent by taking an injection of Xisilon.
• A Qiang brought two vials of dark green liquid, and the Monument Panel identified their contents as low-quality defective medication.

Qin Shi drank the Nine Dragons Potion at Silver Horse Gym, helping the Inspection Department expose the illegal drug operation while upgrading his Overgrowth achievement. As Lin Yunqing took him away, his newly unlocked Predator skill remained unused, but Super Sensory Perception detected someone nearby with killing intent.

• Qin Shi drank two vials of Nine Dragons Potion, then persuaded Luo Hui to give him eighteen more so he could test his limits.
• After consuming the doses, Qin Shi gained only a small increase in physical strength and contacted Lin Yunqing for backup.
• Lin Yunqing and the Inspection Department raided Silver Horse Gym, arrested the staff, and began investigating the unlicensed drugs.
• Qin Shi’s Overgrowth achievement advanced to Intermediate, and he unlocked the Predator skill.
• As Lin Yunqing helped Qin Shi toward the rest area, he sensed killing intent and used Internal Vision and Mental Strength to seek its source.

After Silver Horse Gym was shut down, its Man in Suit hired Old Yan to silence three coaches but became more interested in learning from Qin Shi, the trainee who had demonstrated extraordinary drug tolerance. Old Yan placed a covert hit order and ended the chapter hoping to escape Hengzhou.

• The Man in Suit learned the inspection team had closed Silver Horse Gym and ordered his secretary to contain the fallout.
• The Man in Suit injected himself with Nine Dragon Fusion Supreme Edition and asked Old Yan to kill Luo Hui, Li Junqi, and Chang Qing.
• After hearing that Qin Shi had taken nineteen shots of Nine Dragons Integration, the Man in Suit decided to seek him out and join the Qin Family Gate as his disciple.
• Old Yan used the Kill or Not app to place an order on Luo Hui, Li Junqi, and Chang Qing, with the Metropolitan Area Inspection Team listed as their location.
• Old Yan performed a ritual with a Forging Emblem and worried about the dangers of Hengzhou's electronic devices and the city's frightening past.