Recaps

Xia Ping went to Wuwei Martial Hall to challenge it and swiftly defeated a powerful student at the entrance. He entered the training ground, where Yao Zhong and more than a hundred students confronted him.

• Xia Ping decided to train by challenging Wuwei Martial Hall and traveled there after school.
• A recruiter tried to sell Xia Ping a membership, but Xia Ping announced that he had come to challenge the hall.
• Senior Brother Xu tried to grab Xia Ping, who struck him once and smashed him into a concrete wall.
• The shocked students let Xia Ping enter the hall, while the recruiter rushed inside to alert the others.
• Yao Zhong gathered more than a hundred students on the training ground and demanded to know why Xia Ping had come.

Xia Ping went to Wuwei Martial Hall to challenge its disciples and beat them up, quickly knocking out Baldy with a single slap. Yao Zhong attacked with his Thousand Illusion Palm, but Xia Ping saw through the technique and seized his hand, leaving their fight poised to continue.

• Xia Ping told Yao Zhong he had come to challenge Wuwei Martial Hall and beat its members up.
• Baldy charged Xia Ping, who knocked him unconscious with one backhanded slap.
• Yao Zhong recognized that Xia Ping had advanced to Martial Apprentice Sixth Heaven, and Xia Ping taunted the martial hall disciples.
• Yao Zhong accused Xia Ping of injuring his junior and himself, then launched his Thousand Illusion Palm.
• Xia Ping used his spiritual power to find Yao Zhong's real hand and caught it with Crane Fist's Crane Seeks Shrimp.

Xia Ping defeated Yao Zhong with one punch, then challenged the Wuwei Martial Hall disciples to attack him without making him step back. As they struck him, his Northern Underworld Body Protection Art absorbed their attacks and grew stronger.

• Xia Ping broke Yao Zhong's Thousand Illusion Palm, seized his hand, and knocked him unconscious with a punch.
• Xia Ping mocked the Wuwei Martial Hall and said its reputation exceeded its ability.
• Xia Ping promised to leave the hall if its disciples could make him take one step back, then stood still and invited them to attack.
• The Wuwei Martial Hall disciples punched and kicked Xia Ping, but his Northern Underworld Body Protection Art absorbed their blows and strengthened his true qi.
• Xia Ping taunted the disciples, who renewed their attacks to defend the hall's reputation.

Xia Ping spent three days using Wuwei Martial Hall's disciples as sparring partners, exhausting them while he remained unharmed. He finally agreed to find another martial hall to train at, and the disciples celebrated his departure.

• Xia Ping taunted Wuwei Martial Hall's exhausted disciples after they failed to injure him during an hour of attacks.
• Xia Ping returned to Wuwei Martial Hall each evening for three days and made its disciples attack him to help his training.
• Xia Ping mocked the disciples as they collapsed from exhaustion, while they grew accustomed to his torment and gave up resisting.
• The Wuwei Martial Hall disciples begged Xia Ping to stop returning and suggested he find other martial halls to spar with.
• Xia Ping decided to visit another martial hall the next day, and the Wuwei Martial Hall disciples celebrated his departure.

Xia Ping challenged martial halls around Tianshui City and used their students’ attacks to train his body, while his victories and fabricated rumors made him infamous online. The rumors said he would challenge Chu Family Martial Hall the next day.

• Xia Ping challenged Ferocious Tiger Martial Hall, endured its students’ attacks, and left them exhausted.
• Xia Ping challenged seven or eight more martial halls over the next week, including Heaven Hegemon Martial Hall and Black Cat Martial Hall.
• Students spread news of Xia Ping’s challenges across school forums and message boards.
• Martial hall students circulated false rumors that Xia Ping was a shameless womanizer with many pregnant girlfriends.
• Online commenters said Xia Ping planned to challenge Chu Family Martial Hall the next day and planned to watch him get beaten.

Chu Rong learned that Xia Ping planned to challenge the Chu Family Martial Hall and vowed to defeat him, believing she could expose him to Jiang Yaru. The disciples prepared for his arrival, trusting Chu Rong's Heaven-Earth Mountain-Splitting Leg to overcome his defenses.

• Chu Rong arrived at the Chu Family Martial Hall's training ground, where disciples warned her that Xia Ping had defeated students at several martial halls using his unusually tough body.
• The disciples told Chu Rong that Xia Ping attended Tianshui City No. 95 Middle School, a rival of the No. 88 Middle School that most of them attended.
• A disciple claimed Xia Ping was Jiang Yaru's boyfriend and repeated lurid rumors about his relationships, leaving Chu Rong shocked and furious.
• Chu Rong decided to defeat Xia Ping herself and prove to Jiang Yaru that he was unworthy of her.
• When a disciple warned that Xia Ping had withstood attacks from Wuwei Martial Hall's Yao Zhong, Chu Rong insisted her Heaven-Earth Mountain-Splitting Leg could break his body-hardening technique, and the disciples rallied behind her.

Xia Ping arrived at the Chu Family Martial Hall to challenge it and defeated the disciples who tried to block him. Chu Rong confronted him at the entrance, where he continued to insult the crowd.

• Chu Family Martial Hall spectators gathered to watch Xia Ping, many drawn by the popularity of senior disciple Chu Rong.
• Several burly disciples tried to stop Xia Ping from entering, but he knocked three Sixth Heaven Martial Apprentices unconscious with rapid punches.
• Xia Ping defeated a Seventh Heaven Martial Apprentice with his Thunderous Leopard Hammer and silenced the crowd by demanding to know who else dared stop him.
• Chu Rong led the martial hall disciples outside and challenged Xia Ping over his behavior.
• Xia Ping dismissed the men he had defeated as flies and ants, enraging the Chu Family Martial Hall disciples.

Xia Ping provoked the Chu Family Martial Hall and accepted Chu Rong’s challenge, turning their fight into a bet about Jiang Yaru and whether Chu Rong would become his eighth lover. Chu Rong agreed to the humiliating terms and prepared to fight him.

• Xia Ping insulted the Chu Family Martial Hall’s disciples and challenged its hall master to come out and defeat him.
• Chu Rong proposed that if she beat Xia Ping, he would break up with Jiang Yaru and stay away from her.
• Xia Ping accepted and demanded a consequence for Chu Rong if she lost, so she offered to become his girlfriend.
• Xia Ping rejected Chu Rong as a girlfriend and said she could only be his eighth lover, enraging the onlookers and Chu Rong.
• Chu Rong agreed to Xia Ping’s terms and resolved to beat him and cripple him.

Xia Ping faced Chu Rong in a wagered fight at the Chu Family Martial Hall and endured her first two Heaven-Earth Mountain-Splitting Leg attacks without moving. Chu Rong unleashed the technique’s powerful third form, Splitting the Nine Provinces, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Xia Ping signed the wager contract with Chu Rong and followed her into the Chu Family Martial Hall’s arena.
• Chu Rong opened the fight with Reversing Heaven and Earth, but Xia Ping took the kick to his chest without moving.
• Chu Rong struck again with Wrathful Shattering of the Five Mountains, while Xia Ping used the Northern Underworld Body Protection Art to disperse the force.
• Chu Rong unleashed Splitting the Nine Provinces, combining nine leg shadows into a single devastating attack.

Xia Ping advanced to Martial Apprentice Seventh Heaven during his fight with Chu Rong and defeated her. He carried her away from the Martial Arts Arena while the swirling sand kept the spectators from seeing her exposed.

• Chu Rong's powerful kick triggered Xia Ping's breakthrough to Martial Apprentice Seventh Heaven.
• Chu Rong attacked again, but Xia Ping overpowered her and blasted her training clothes apart with his counterforce.
• Xia Ping caught Chu Rong's foot and claimed she qualified to be his eighth lover.
• Chu Rong tried to kick him again, but Xia Ping blocked her and carried her in a princess carry.
• Xia Ping warned Chu Rong that the spectators might see her, then leaped away with her in his arms as onlookers realized he was escaping.

After Xia Ping carried Chu Rong away from their fight, spectators assumed he had abducted and violated her, then vowed to spread damaging stories about him. In reality, Xia Ping had left Chu Rong alone in a bedroom, where she wondered why he had shown no interest in her and promised to take revenge.

• Spectators saw Chu Rong's torn clothes and damaged marble floor, then concluded Xia Ping had forcibly carried her off.
• Chu Rong's furious fans considered calling the police, but someone reminded them that she had agreed to become Xia Ping's eighth lover.
• The crowd decided to post online about Xia Ping and spread stories to ruin his reputation.
• Chu Rong found herself alone in a bedroom after Xia Ping had left.
• Chu Rong wondered if Xia Ping was impotent, blamed him rather than her own attractiveness, and vowed to get revenge.

Xia Ping gained thousands of Hate Points after rumors spread that he had taken Chu Rong away, then stayed home to cultivate. At school, Jiang Yaru learned the rumors and was bewildered by her classmates’ claims that Xia Ping had cheated on her with Chu Rong, though she felt a little annoyed.

• Xia Ping learned that online curses about his supposed forced abduction of Chu Rong had raised his total to 7,436 Hate Points.
• Xia Ping decided to stay home and cultivate in seclusion so he could stabilize his martial arts foundation.
• Jiang Yaru arrived at school and found her classmates whispering and gathering around her.
• The girls told Jiang Yaru that Xia Ping had defeated Chu Rong and carried her away after making her sign a contract to become his eighth lover.
• Jiang Yaru questioned the story, then felt a little annoyed as her classmates insisted Xia Ping had cheated on her with Chu Rong.

At Mary Hospital, Zhou Tai'an fumed over Xia Ping’s success and defeat of him, so Zhou Ding ordered his men to cripple Xia Ping and ruin his family. The chapter ended with Chen Dong accepting the assignment to attack them without leaving a trace.

• Zhou Tai'an saw news of Xia Ping’s cultivation progress and victories, and raged over being defeated and humiliated.
• Zhou Ding arrived and told Zhou Tai'an that power mattered more than martial cultivation, promising to have Xia Ping crippled.
• Zhou Ding threatened to break the legs of Xia Ping’s parents as well and bankrupt the family by forcing them to pay for repeated treatment.
• Zhou Ding ordered Chen Dong to carry out the attack without leaving evidence, and Chen Dong agreed.

After stabilizing his cultivation, Xia Ping went to collect an unexpected package and foiled an attempt to knock him out. He chased the deliveryman into an alley, where Chen Dong and a group of men surrounded him, claiming he had offended someone he should not have.

• Xia Ping finished stabilizing his true energy and hoped to use his writing royalties to help his parents.
• A Xunfei Express employee called Xia Ping to collect a package, and Xia Ping went to the residential community entrance.
• When Xia Ping opened the box, Dizzying Red Mist burst out, but his Pure Yang Indestructible Art neutralized its effects.
• The young man in blue fled, and Xia Ping pursued him into a secluded dead-end alley.
• The young man in blue revealed that he had lured Xia Ping into an ambush, and Chen Dong surrounded Xia Ping with several men in black.

Xia Ping killed Chen Dong and his black-clad men after they threatened to cripple him, then stopped the blue-clad man from escaping. The blue-clad man fell with his left leg broken, while Xia Ping remained amid the defeated attackers.

• Chen Dong threatened to break Xia Ping’s legs, but Xia Ping hurled stones that killed the first three black-clad men.
• Xia Ping killed the remaining three black-clad men with another volley of stones.
• Chen Dong attacked Xia Ping with Black Bear Earth Sha Fist, but Xia Ping stood firm and killed him with Snake Fist: Spirit Snake Drills a Hole.
• The blue-clad man tried to flee, but Xia Ping struck him with a stone and broke his left leg.

Xia Ping forced a captured attacker to reveal that Chen Dong’s group had targeted his mother, then learned that she had been badly injured in a hit-and-run. After killing the attacker and dissolving the bodies, he headed to Tianshui City No. 1 People's Hospital to check on her.

• Xia Ping revealed that he had let the blue-clad man lead him to the people behind the ambush and forced him to swallow a Primary Honesty Pill.
• The blue-clad man admitted that Chen Dong knew who was behind the attack and revealed that the group had also targeted Xia Ping’s mother.
• Xia Chuanliu called Xia Ping and told him that a driver had struck his mother and left her badly injured at Tianshui City No. 1 People's Hospital.
• Xia Ping killed the blue-clad man and used Corpse-Dissolving Water to erase the bodies.
• Xia Ping left the alley and headed to the hospital to find out how his mother was doing.

Xia Ping learned that his mother had survived a hit-and-run but suffered shattered legs, and he paid her medical costs with money he had earned writing novels. He then bought the Ten Thousand Mile Tracking Technique and followed the scent of the unlicensed car to hunt down its owner.

• Xia Chuanliu told Xia Ping that his mother was out of danger but needed expensive treatment for her shattered legs.
• Xia Ping showed Xia Chuanliu his million Federal Coins from writing a novel and transferred the money to cover the medical expenses.
• Xia Ping asked the system how to track an unfamiliar enemy, and it offered the Ten Thousand Mile Tracking Technique for one thousand Hate Points.
• Xia Ping bought the technique and used it to identify and follow the scent of the hit-and-run car's owner.
• Xia Ping went to the crash site, noticed the blue car had no license plate, and set off after its owner.

Xia Ping tracked down Kong Shui and Meng Qiang, the men responsible for running over his mother, and confronted them at their warehouse. He killed Meng Qiang and turned toward Kong Shui to learn who had ordered the attack.

• Kong Shui told Meng Qiang that he had run over Xia Ping’s mother and expected to receive three million Federal Coins for crippling her.
• Meng Qiang urged Kong Shui to leave Tianshui City, and Kong Shui said he would depart the next morning and stay away for half a year.
• Xia Ping entered the warehouse and revealed that the injured woman was his mother, saying he had come to find the employer and kill both men.
• Meng Qiang attacked Xia Ping with a knife, but Xia Ping struck his head and killed him.

Xia Ping killed the two men who had attacked his mother and used a Truth Pill to learn that Zhou Ding had ordered the attack for Zhou Tai'an. After destroying the bodies, Xia Ping left the warehouse determined to take revenge on Zhou Ding and his son.

• Xia Ping killed the fat man and wounded Kong Shui as he tried to flee.
• Xia Ping forced Kong Shui to swallow a Truth Pill and learned that Zhou Ding had paid him to attack Xia Ping's mother and planned further harm against the family.
• Xia Ping learned that Zhou Tai'an had prompted the attack to get revenge on him and gathered information about Zhou Ding's family.
• Xia Ping killed Kong Shui and dissolved both men's bodies with Corpse-Dissolving Water.
• Xia Ping left the warehouse, vowing not to spare Zhou Ding or Zhou Tai'an.

Zhou Ding and Zhou Tai'an celebrated their plan to cripple Xia Ping and plotted to kill Xia Chuanliu, unaware that Xia Ping had reached their villa. Xia Ping attacked and fatally wounded Zhou Ding, identifying himself as his killer.

• Zhou Ding told Zhou Tai'an that their hired attackers had crippled a woman and confirmed she was in the hospital.
• Zhou Tai'an asked about Xia Ping, while Zhou Ding said Chen Dong had not reported back and dismissed the chance that the plan had failed.
• Zhou Ding revealed that he planned to have Xia Chuanliu killed outside the hospital the next day.
• Xia Ping hurled three stones at Zhou Ding, then pierced his chest and destroyed his heart with a follow-up attack.
• Xia Ping identified himself to the dying Zhou Ding as the man who had killed him.

Using an Invisibility Pill, Xia Ping infiltrated Zhengde Residential District and killed Zhou Ding and Zhou Tai'an after they had targeted his parents. The Zhou father and son lay dead, and Xia Ping noticed a fingerprint lock that might conceal something.

• Zhou Ding and Zhou Tai'an were shocked when Xia Ping revealed that Chen Dong and the other men in black were dead.
• Xia Ping struck Zhou Ding again and killed him.
• Zhou Tai'an begged Xia Ping to spare him, but Xia Ping condemned him for targeting his parents and killed him with a palm strike.
• Xia Ping looked over the two corpses and spotted a fingerprint lock on the living-room wall.

Xia Ping discovered a hidden arsenal in Zhou Ding’s villa and took a gourd of valuable Body-Tempering Pills. He destroyed the evidence and escaped before the villa exploded, leaving police and residents to deal with the aftermath.

• Xia Ping used Zhou Ding’s fingerprint to open a hidden room filled with prohibited weapons, explosives, gold, and Federal Coins.
• Xia Ping found and took a gourd containing twenty or thirty Body-Tempering Pills.
• Xia Ping dissolved Zhou Ding and Zhou Tai’an’s bodies, then set bombs to destroy the villa and any remaining clues.
• Xia Ping left Zhengde Residential District under the effect of the Invisibility Pill before the bombs exploded.
• The explosion destroyed the villa, and security guards, police, firefighters, and ambulances rushed to the scene while Xia Ping returned home.

Xia Ping strengthened his body with Body-Tempering Pills, then learned that Zhou Tai'an and his father had died in an explosion that exposed illegal weapons in their home. Jiang Yaru took Xia Ping to meet their teacher about the school's trial.

• Xia Ping used Body-Tempering Pills overnight and felt his physique and strength improve.
• A classmate told the class that Zhou Tai'an and Zhou Ding had died when their villa exploded.
• Students learned that police had found wreckage of illegal military weapons at the Zhou home and speculated about the cause of the explosion.
• Xia Ping showed no reaction as the class discussed Zhou Tai'an's death.
• Jiang Yaru told Xia Ping that their teacher wanted to see them about the school's trial and led him to the teachers' office.

Xia Ping told Jiang Yaru that his aunt was recovering from her car accident, and he teased Jiang Yaru about supporting a future family. At the teacher's office, Qiu Xue mistook their interaction for a romance before explaining the school trial they would leave for the day after tomorrow.

• Jiang Yaru asked Xia Ping about his aunt's condition, and he said she was stable and would likely recover in a week with nutrient fluid treatment.
• Xia Ping claimed his popular novel could cover the medical costs, then teased Jiang Yaru about being his future wife.
• Jiang Yaru threatened to tell Xia Ping's aunt if he kept spreading rumors, but Xia Ping changed the subject as they reached the teacher's office.
• Jiang Yaru stepped between Xia Ping and Qiu Xue, prompting Qiu Xue to mistake their behavior for a display of affection.
• Qiu Xue told Xia Ping and Jiang Yaru to mind how they looked at school, then began explaining their school trial scheduled for the day after tomorrow.

Qiu Xue explained the joint training session on Beast Island and secured the students’ consent before they departed. Xia Ping arrived at the athletic field after advancing to the peak of the Martial Apprentice Seventh Heaven, provoked several fellow students, and joined the group as they prepared to board the airship.

• Qiu Xue told Xia Ping and Jiang Yaru that ten schools were organizing training on Beast Island and required signed liability waivers and guardian consent.
• Xia Ping and Jiang Yaru agreed to participate, and Qiu Xue set their departure for two days later.
• Xia Ping spent two days practicing with Body-Tempering Pills and reached the peak of the Martial Apprentice Seventh Heaven.
• Xia Ping met the other students at the athletic field and taunted Xiong Batian, Tao Yun, and Gao Sheng about their past encounters.
• Qiu Xue stopped Xia Ping from provoking more students and directed everyone to board the airship.