Recaps

Xia Ping faced a furious crowd of students who demanded his food and an apology, then violently defeated their spokesman. The rest of the students confronted him in anger, leaving a fight poised to erupt.

• Han Shan warned Xia Ping that a furious crowd was approaching the villa, and Xia Ping admitted he had revealed their location and left a note at the supermarket.
• Xia Ping opened the door eating cream bread while the students demanded he hand over the food and apologize on his knees.
• A tall student ordered Xia Ping to kneel and crawl between his legs, so Xia Ping kicked him into the crowd and sent several students sprawling.
• Xia Ping slapped the tall student repeatedly, broke his leg, and continued hitting him after he passed out.
• The students shouted at Xia Ping to stop and prepared to retaliate.

Xia Ping let a crowd of elite students attack him, relying on his Northern Underworld Body Protection Art to absorb their blows, then defeated them all. He ordered Han Shan and the others to hang the beaten students from his villa as a warning.

• Xia Ping taunted the students who had gathered at his villa, provoking them into charging at him.
• Dozens of students punched and kicked Xia Ping, but his body absorbed their attacks without injury and grew stronger.
• The exhausted students continued attacking until Xia Ping dismissed them as useless and began fighting back.
• Xia Ping knocked down the crowd in moments, badly injuring some students and eliminating them from the competition.
• Xia Ping ordered Han Shan and the others to hang the defeated students from the villa, and they obeyed reverently.

Xia Ping humiliated over a hundred rival students by hanging them outside the villa, then cultivated overnight and broke through to Martial Apprentice Ninth Heaven. He went out to see the exhausted students the next morning.

• Han Shan and the others tied up the defeated students and hung them in front of the villa, while viewers across Tianshui City watched and argued over the spectacle.
• Yang Wei and the others sympathized with the humiliated students and hoped someone would stop Xia Ping, but no one intervened during the night.
• Xia Ping cultivated through the night and opened his ninth meridian, advancing to Martial Apprentice Ninth Heaven.
• Xia Ping practiced boxing in his room, alarming Han Shan and the others, who rushed in and found the room wrecked.
• Feng Hetang told Xia Ping that five or six students had withdrawn and been rescued by the organizers; Xia Ping then went outside with Han Shan and the others to see the remaining students.

Xia Ping forced the students he had left hanging overnight to admit defeat, then offered them food in exchange for working for him. The students began signing on, with the first recruit earning two cups of instant noodles a day.

• Xia Ping asked the students hanging from the gate whether they accepted his taking the food and beating them, while Feng Hetang and Han Shan threatened further punishment.
• The starving students admitted defeat and begged Xia Ping to let them go, and he ordered Feng Hetang and the others to lower them.
• The students asked Xia Ping for food, and he offered to hire them for a day in exchange for one cup of instant noodles, with bread as a possible reward for good work.
• A chubby student immediately agreed to work for Xia Ping, and Xia Ping promised him two cups of instant noodles a day as a bonus.

Xia Ping turned the students who had challenged him into temporary lackeys, then promised two tokens to the most helpful among them to secure their cooperation. He led the group toward three tokens near the Eighth District, leaving them eager to compete for the chance to advance.

• Xia Ping made the defeated students accept his conditions and gave each of them instant noodles as an advance on their wages.
• The students ate and complained about Xia Ping in private while Yang Wei, Gao Wan, and others condemned him during the live broadcast.
• After the students recovered some strength, Xia Ping announced that they would go snatch tokens.
• Feng Hetang reported that three tokens near the Eighth District had been taken, and Xia Ping decided to pursue them with the group.
• Xia Ping promised to keep one token and award the other two to the students who contributed the most, motivating the group to help him.

Xia Ping tracked down a buzz-cut student carrying a token and surrounded him with more than a hundred allies. After defeating the student and ordering his group to beat him, Xia Ping took the token and said they needed two more to collect all the nearby tokens.

• The buzz-cut student fled into an alley while Xia Ping pursued him using a tracker and the Ten Thousand Mile Tracking Technique.
• Xia Ping summoned more than a hundred allies, surrounding the student and demanding his token.
• The buzz-cut student attacked Xia Ping, but Xia Ping defeated him with a single palm strike.
• Xia Ping ordered his allies to beat the student for half an hour, and Han Shan took the token and handed it to Xia Ping.
• Xia Ping accepted the token and said they needed two more to collect all the nearby tokens.

Students in Simulation City spread vicious rumors about Xia Ping and his followers, while his group celebrated their haul at the villa. The celebration was interrupted when Nangong Wu and several students from Xiulan Middle School arrived to meet Xia Ping.

• Students blamed Xia Ping and his followers for beating contestants and stealing tokens, and they planned to recruit experts from Tianshui City No. 1 Middle School to oppose him.
• Xia Ping rewarded the Xia Army with food and promised to give them three of the four tokens they had seized.
• Han Shan told Xia Ping that students from Xiulan Middle School had come to see him.
• Nangong Wu, Xiulan Middle School's top expert, entered the villa with several other young women and asked whether Xia Ping was there.

Nangong Wu and the girls from Xiulan Middle School asked Xia Ping for food after hunger left them with few options, but he demanded that Nangong Wu dance in exchange. His provocative request was broadcast throughout Tianshui City, shocking viewers and putting him at risk of the Nangong Family’s anger.

• Nangong Wu explained that her group needed food because Xia Ping had cleared out supplies in the surrounding areas.
• Xia Ping refused to give them food for free and rebuked the girls for expecting others to serve them.
• Nangong Wu asked what Xia Ping wanted in exchange for food, while keeping her composure despite the other girls’ anger.
• Xia Ping asked Nangong Wu to dance for him, prompting the girls to protest.
• The broadcast revealed Xia Ping’s request to viewers across Tianshui City, who warned that he had provoked Nangong Wu, the Nangong Family, and her many admirers.

Xia Ping challenged Nangong Wu to dance for him, insisting he would not force her, and she accepted the challenge. They went into his villa together, leaving the onlookers stunned and anticipating the trouble his actions could bring.

• Feng Hetang, Han Shan, and the others were shocked when Xia Ping told Nangong Wu to dance for him.
• Nangong Wu asked whether Xia Ping could handle seeing her dance, and Xia Ping replied that he would not force her if she refused.
• Nangong Wu accepted, saying she would dance for Xia Ping alone.
• Xia Ping led Nangong Wu into his villa, and the two disappeared into a room.
• The girls from Xiulan Middle School and Xia Ping's companions reacted with disbelief, while Han Shan and Feng Hetang admired his audacity.

The city erupted after footage showed Xia Ping making Nangong Wu dance, angering her admirers, the great-family heirs, and her father, Nangong Hai. Alone with Nangong Wu in the villa, Xia Ping blocked her first attack, and she launched a more dangerous strike.

• Viewers and Nangong Wu’s admirers condemned Xia Ping online, with some threatening to attack or hire an assassin against him.
• Heirs of the great families discussed their anger at Xia Ping and threatened to beat him when he emerged.
• Nangong Hai watched the footage at the Tianshui City government center and silently restrained his fury.
• Alone with Nangong Wu in the villa, Xia Ping teased her about dancing, and she attacked him with the Nangong Family’s Fire Cloud Palm.
• Xia Ping deflected Nangong Wu’s first strike with the Northern Underworld Body Protection Art and reached to put an arm around her waist.
• Nangong Wu used the second form of Fire Cloud Palm, Fire Snake Flicking Tongue, aiming a penetrating blow at Xia Ping.

Xia Ping subdued Nangong Wu after she attacked him, then kept her pinned in a room while promising not to harm her. He planned to hold her there for half an hour to gain Hate Points from her popularity, leaving her confused and furious as he considered how to spend the points.

• Nangong Wu struck and kicked Xia Ping, but his Northern Underworld Body Protection Art blocked her attacks.
• Xia Ping used Snake Fist to restrain Nangong Wu, and she failed to break free.
• Nangong Wu threatened to shout and invoke the Nangong Family, but Xia Ping told her he would not harm her.
• Xia Ping refused to release Nangong Wu immediately and said she had to stay in the room for half an hour in exchange for food.
• Xia Ping monitored his growing Hate Points and considered using them to improve his martial arts or obtain pills.

Xia Ping emerged from a room with Nangong Wu, and their ambiguous remarks made people believe he had taken advantage of her. The broadcast stirred public outrage, while Nangong Hai became furious over what he thought had happened to his daughter.

• Nangong Wu left the room with numb legs, and Xia Ping apologized for being too rough while she vowed there would be no next time.
• Han Shan and the others misunderstood Xia Ping’s comments about Nangong Wu’s service, while her classmates gathered around her.
• Viewers across Tianshui City speculated that Xia Ping had defiled Nangong Wu and flooded the internet with curses and demands for his arrest.
• Tianshui City officials watched the scene, and Nangong Hai clenched his fists in anger at Xia Ping.

After Xia Ping’s encounter with Nangong Wu became public, people across Tianshui City gossiped and reacted with outrage, while his parents joked about his success. In Simulation City, news reached Qin Muyang, who erupted in fury after learning that Nangong Wu had been with another man.

• Students from several schools accused Xia Ping of manipulating Nangong Wu and scheming to gain the Nangong Family’s fortune, while Yang Wei and the others fumed.
• Qiu Xue worried about Xia Ping’s behavior, and Xia Chuanliu bragged to Huang Lanxin about his own high-school interactions with girls.
• Nangong Wu led the Xiulan Middle School students away from the villa with food, and news of what had happened spread throughout Simulation City.
• At a villa, ten students from Tianshui City No. 1 Middle School gathered with a token each, and a hooked-nose student told Qin Muyang about Nangong Wu and Xia Ping.
• Qin Muyang’s rage shook the ground as the hooked-nose student asked what he planned to do, while the other students watched.

Qin Muyang gathered students to target Xia Ping after hearing that he had been alone with Nangong Wu, while Xia Ping slept through the growing hostility. The chapter ended with Qin Muyang leading two or three hundred students to surround Xia Ping's villa.

• Qin Muyang dismissed the report about Nangong Wu but remained furious that she and Xia Ping had spent half an hour alone together, and vowed to keep Xia Ping out of the top sixteen.
• Qin Muyang's allies warned that Xia Ping had gathered more than a hundred students, so Qin Muyang decided to recruit nearby students to overwhelm him.
• Students across Simulation City received invitations to join the attack on Xia Ping, and many considered accepting while privately planning to seize tokens for themselves.
• Xia Ping woke from a long sleep to discover that his Hate Points had risen to 75,363, and he focused on using them to obtain pills and reach the Martial Artist Realm.
• Han Shan and the others rushed in to tell Xia Ping that Qin Muyang and two or three hundred students had surrounded their villa.

Xia Ping and his companions confronted Qin Muyang’s large group, and Xia Ping traded insults with Qin Muyang’s hooked-nosed student. Qin Muyang’s palm attack injured several students, but Xia Ping remained unharmed, and his allies beat the hooked-nosed student down after he charged at Xia Ping.

• Xia Ping led Han Shan and the others outside to meet two or three hundred students gathered by Qin Muyang.
• The hooked-nosed student challenged Xia Ping and used his booming voice to force Han Shan and the others back, but Xia Ping and Feng Hetang mocked him.
• Qin Muyang attacked with Five Absolutes Killing God Hand, injuring five or six students while Xia Ping shattered one of the wind gusts with his palm.
• Qin Muyang warned Xia Ping not to act arrogantly at the tournament, but Xia Ping calmly challenged his claims of superiority.
• The hooked-nosed student charged Xia Ping, and five or six of Xia Ping’s companions surrounded and beat him until he could no longer fight.

Xia Ping and his group were overwhelmed by a much larger crowd from Tianshui City No. 1 Middle School, so Xia Ping used tokens and deception to turn the gathering into a chaotic fight over them. He ended by urging the crowd to eliminate the First High School students, putting them at risk of being attacked by their supposed allies.

• A student from Tianshui City No. 1 Middle School condemned Xia Ping for using several people against one, and the angry crowd charged at Xia Ping's group.
• Xia Ping led his group into the brawl, but the three hundred attackers gradually forced Han Shan and the others backward.
• Xia Ping tossed tokens into the crowd and pretended to surrender, prompting students to flee with the tokens and provoking the crowd to chase them.
• Xia Ping secretly stirred up suspicion against First High School and struck one of its students in the knee with a stone.
• The crowd beat the wounded First High School student senseless and took his token, while Xia Ping urged them to attack the rest of the First High School students.

Xia Ping secretly ambushed students from First High School, turning the gathered students against them and disrupting their fighting. Qin Muyang and his classmates were overwhelmed and beaten, while Qin Muyang recognized Xia Ping as the attacker and remained trapped in the crowd.

• Xia Ping urged the gathered students to attack First High School, and two of its students struck first, beating several people.
• Xia Ping threw stones that disrupted the two fighters' true qi, allowing the crowd to beat them down.
• Qin Muyang and the six remaining First High School students charged into the crowd and knocked many students aside.
• Xia Ping threw more stones at First High School, striking their knees and briefly preventing them from moving.
• The students surrounded and beat Qin Muyang, who spotted Xia Ping and blamed him for the ambush.

Xia Ping slipped away from the chaotic battle and slept through the night, confident that his token had secured his place in the top sixteen. The next morning, he received notice that the competition had ended and headed to the District Eight city gate.

• Xia Ping escaped the melee while Qin Muyang and the First High School students remained surrounded and under attack.
• Nangong Wu stopped the Xiulan Middle School girls from pursuing Xia Ping, judging him too dangerous to provoke.
• Chu Rong and Jiang Yaru joined forces with other neutral contestants, planning to take tokens from the exhausted fighters.
• Xia Ping found a hotel room and slept through the night without anyone disturbing him.
• Xia Ping received a message that the competition had ended, then left for the District Eight city gate.

Xia Ping emerged from the tournament uninjured while the other students, including Qin Muyang, were battered and blamed him for provoking the previous night’s fighting. The referee sent the most seriously injured students for treatment, and Qin Muyang and the others backed down rather than risk disqualification.

• Xia Ping reached District Eight’s city gate and found the other students leaving badly injured.
• The students resented Xia Ping for having avoided the fighting, and he jokingly called their gathering a gathering of the disabled.
• Qin Muyang confronted Xia Ping, who failed to recognize him beneath his bandages and swollen face.
• First High School students accused Xia Ping of ambushing them, saying six had been eliminated and four seriously injured.
• A referee ordered the injured students to receive medical treatment, and Qin Muyang and the others refrained from attacking Xia Ping to avoid disqualification.

Xia Ping recovered in the sports city and met Jiang Yaru and Chu Rong before the top-sixteen matches. When Qin Muyang threatened him and attacked Jiang Yaru, Xia Ping blocked the blow and confronted him.

• Xia Ping emerged from a high-grade nutrition pod and felt his strength approaching the peak of Martial Apprentice Ninth Heaven.
• Xia Ping went to breakfast and encountered Jiang Yaru and Chu Rong, who challenged his claim that he had been badly injured.
• Qin Muyang and the students from Tianshui City No. 1 Middle School entered the restaurant and confronted Xia Ping.
• Qin Muyang threatened to defeat Xia Ping in the ring and break his legs, while Xia Ping questioned whether he could do it.
• Qin Muyang attacked Jiang Yaru, and Xia Ping stepped in front of her and blocked his palm with a punch.

Qin Muyang confronted Xia Ping and threatened to crush him in the competition, while Xia Ping recognized that Qin had reached the Martial Artist Realm. Afterward, Qin and his classmates mistook Xia Ping’s recent breakthrough for a deliberate attempt to hide his strength, and Qin vowed to take revenge in the ring.

• Qin Muyang attacked Jiang Yaru, but Xia Ping blocked him before a security guard warned them not to fight in the restaurant.
• Qin Muyang threatened to defeat Xia Ping in front of Tianshui City, then left with students from Tianshui City No. 1 Middle School.
• Jiang Yaru and Chu Rong worried that Qin Muyang had advanced to the Martial Artist Realm, while Xia Ping judged that he could still face Qin without fear.
• Qin Muyang told his classmates that Xia Ping had reached the Martial Apprentice Ninth Heaven, and they wrongly accused Xia Ping of falsifying his cultivation records.
• Qin Muyang dismissed Xia Ping’s strength as a mere trick and vowed to make him suffer for the defeat in the preliminaries.

Xia Ping rejected Liu Liang’s offer to make him an attendant and bluffed that the Xia Family could destroy the Liu Family. After Liu Liang left, Chu Rong and Jiang Yaru warned Xia Ping about his strength and reputation, while Xia Ping remained confident.

• Xia Ping met Liu Liang in the restroom, where Liu Liang introduced himself as the deputy mayor’s son and offered Xia Ping protection and wealth if he became his attendant.
• Xia Ping mocked Liu Liang’s demand and refused to serve him, prompting Liu Liang to threaten him with the Liu Family’s and Gao Family’s wrath.
• Xia Ping claimed that his own reclusive Xia Family could wipe out the Liu Family, making Liu Liang uncertain before he left.
• Chu Rong and Jiang Yaru approached Xia Ping, and Jiang Yaru warned him that Liu Liang was a powerful, vindictive Martial Apprentice Ninth Heaven contestant known as Viper.
• Xia Ping dismissed their concern and declared that he would one day become a clan powerful enough to flatten the Liu Family.

The Round of 16 contestants gathered as spectators debated whether Qin Muyang or Xia Ping would win. Xia Ping learned he would face Liu Liang first, and the chapter ended with Liu Liang vowing to seriously injure him in the match.

• Spectators praised Qin Muyang as the favorite and mocked Xia Ping as a schemer who lacked fighting strength.
• The Round of 16 contestants assembled in the lounge, where a staff member posted the matchups.
• Xia Ping saw that Liu Liang was his first opponent, and Liu Liang threatened to make him pay on the platform.
• Liu Liang recalled investigating Xia Ping's supposedly powerful family and discovering it was ordinary, which made him furious at being tricked.
• Qin Muyang, Chu Rong, Jiang Yaru, Nangong Wu, and Feng Hetang reacted to the hostility between Xia Ping and Liu Liang.
• A bell rang, signaling that the competition was about to begin.

Xia Ping faced Liu Liang, a powerful Second High School fighter, in the tournament ring and overwhelmed him despite Liu Liang's belief that Xia Ping was hiding his true strength. The fight ended with Liu Liang slammed into the ring floor, while Xia Ping stood over him.

• Spectators watched Xia Ping and Liu Liang enter the ring and discussed Liu Liang's reputation and Spirit Snake Four Absolute Hands.
• Liu Liang threatened Xia Ping before the referee rang the bell to start their match.
• Liu Liang attacked with the first form of Spirit Snake Four Absolute Hands, but Xia Ping blocked him with a palm and sent him staggering backward.
• Liu Liang accused Xia Ping of pretending to be weak, then launched the second form of Spirit Snake Four Absolute Hands.
• Xia Ping used his mental power to anticipate Liu Liang's attack and struck him on the head, smashing him into a crater in the ring.

Xia Ping defeated Liu Liang with a single palm strike, then knocked him unconscious when he tried to attack again. His victory put him in the tournament’s top eight, while spectators and students argued over his hidden strength and chances against Qin Muyang.

• Xia Ping taunted Liu Liang after defeating him and warned him to stop looking for trouble.
• Liu Liang forced himself up and lunged at Xia Ping, who struck him across the face and knocked him unconscious.
• The referee declared Xia Ping the winner, and doctors carried Liu Liang away for treatment.
• Spectators and First High School students accused Xia Ping of hiding his strength, while predicting Qin Muyang would defeat him.
• Students from Tianshui City No. 95 Middle School celebrated Xia Ping’s historic run, and Qiu Xue recalled his ambition to enter Yanhuang University.