Recaps

Li Xianyu tested her Blood Qi Value and credited her rapid progress to Chen Lie’s guidance in Cloud Smoke Steps, then told her parents about his exceptional skill and status with Zhao Jinglan. Chen Lie returned home and kept his Elite Student ID secret from his mother, who warned him to reach a Blood Qi Value of 3 within a month.

• Chen Xingyao confronted Chen Lie for skipping the Blood Essence Value Sprint Class, but he left the Martial Arts Hall without arguing.
• Li Xianyu tested at 0.98 ka, up from 0.91 ka, and told her classmates that mastering Cloud Smoke Steps had boosted her Blood Qi Value.
• Li Xianyu told her parents that Chen Lie had taught her Cloud Smoke Steps in five hours and described Zhao Jinglan treating him as an honored guest.
• Li Xianyu’s parents believed her account and decided to order Blood Essence Fluid to help her reach a Blood Qi Value of 3 and enter the Elite Class.
• Feng Yuelan urged Chen Lie to work out and reach a Blood Qi Value of 3 within a month, while Chen Lie hid his Elite Student ID from her.

Chen Lie considered how to earn money and improve his cultivation, then realized his mental power might let him make Psionic Crystal Cards. The chapter ended with him seeing the cards as a way to earn money quickly.

• Chen Xingyao complained that a classmate had learned a martial technique and overtaken her in class, then vowed to train harder.
• Chen Lie lit one of the Ghost Constellation Four Stars through visualization but worried about his slow mental-power progress without Spirit Nourishing Flowers.
• Wang Hui called Chen Lie about his Elite Class placement and rapid blood qi increase, and Chen Lie agreed to meet him later.
• Liu Lianqing visited to invite the family to a banquet celebrating Zhenming becoming a Martial Artist, while Chen Xingyao said she would not attend.
• Feng Yuelan gave Chen Xingyao six Combat Technique Crystal Cards, and Chen Lie realized he could use his mental power to inscribe Psionic Crystal Cards and make money.

Chen Lie visited a Martial Artist Market and discovered he could inscribe Martial Arts Crystal Cards with his Mental Power. After demonstrating the ability to a shopkeeper, he learned that his unfamiliar Cloud Shadow Steps card might be difficult to sell in Dongchuan Province.

• Chen Lie went to a Martial Artist Market and asked a shopkeeper about Psionic Crystal Card costs and production.
• Chen Lie told the skeptical shopkeeper he was a Divine Sense Master and asked to try inscribing Mental Power onto blank cards.
• Chen Lie accidentally shattered one blank card, then carefully imbued another until it turned bright yellow.
• The shopkeeper used the finished card and experienced a vivid vision of himself practicing Cloud Shadow Steps.
• Chen Lie asked what the C-Rank card could sell for, and the shopkeeper explained that unfamiliar martial arts were difficult to market in Dongchuan Province.

Chen Lie partnered with Yang Shen to turn twenty blank crystal cards into Void-Breaking Fist cards, earning 300,000 Star Dollars. He spent the money on a Blood Linglong and returned to Dongchuan Martial Arts Hall, where he encountered Lu Qingchan again.

• Chen Lie and Yang Shen agreed to sell ten sets of Void-Breaking Fist crystal cards and split the proceeds, but Chen Lie carefully inscribed the cards despite their low-grade materials.
• Yang Shen gave Chen Lie 300,000 Star Dollars and recorded Chen Lie's contact information for future business.
• Chen Lie bought a fifty-year-old Blood Linglong at the Martial Student Department Store after rejecting other Blood Qi-boosting products.
• Chen Lie left the market with the Blood Linglong, intending to eat it raw to maximize its medicinal power, and took a Flying Bus to Dongchuan Martial Arts Hall.
• Chen Lie encountered Lu Qingchan at the martial arts hall, and Lu Qingchan looked away instead of greeting him.

Li Xianyu showed Lu Qingchan that the footwork she had learned from Chen Lie was an advanced form of Cloud Smoke Steps, likely a B-Rank Martial Art. Meanwhile, Chen Lie began absorbing Blood Linglong in the Personal Training Room.

• Li Muge brought Li Xianyu to Lu Qingchan for help with Cloud Smoke Steps, but Lu Qingchan found Li Xianyu’s footwork already highly advanced.
• Li Xianyu’s steps produced illusory images, leaving Lu Qingchan and Li Muge shocked and unsure whether the technique was Cloud Smoke Steps.
• Li Xianyu explained that a classmate’s older brother had taught her the footwork but refused to reveal Chen Lie’s name.
• Lu Qingchan told Li Xianyu she could not improve her technique, and Li Xianyu returned to class.
• Chen Lie divided the Blood Linglong into ten pieces and used the fourth form of the Basic Body Tempering Technique to absorb its medicinal power.

After using the last of his Blood Linglong, Chen Lie raised his Blood Qi Value to 22.91 Ka and learned how vulnerable low-ranked Elite Students were to bullying. When Zhang Xun ordered him to buy breakfast, Chen Lie refused and challenged him to kneel and call him Dad.

• Chen Lie finished absorbing the Blood Linglong, measured a Blood Qi Value of 22.91 Ka, and noticed the increase had strained his body.
• Chen Lie met Wang Chen in Elite Class 5, where Wang explained that late-arriving Elite Students were often ignored by instructors and bullied by stronger students.
• Zhang Xun joined his girlfriend Xie Wanwan and persuaded her to accept his offer of private Water Soft Palm instruction.
• When Xie Wanwan complained she was hungry, Zhang Xun ordered Chen Lie to buy them breakfast, but Chen Lie refused.
• Zhang Xun confronted Chen Lie, who told him to kneel, kowtow, and call him Dad.

Chen Lie defeated Zhang Xun on the Duel Platform, then attended an Elite Class lesson on Army-Breaking Fist. The instructor, Hong Chengshuo, was astonished when Chen Lie performed the technique with near-perfect mastery.

• Chen Lie rejected Wang Chen and Xie Wanwan’s warnings, challenged Zhang Xun, and easily beat him on the Duel Platform, breaking his arm before kicking him off the platform.
• Chen Lie returned to class, where Wang Chen asked about his strength, and Chen Lie said he had passed double digits in blood qi long ago.
• Hong Chengshuo arrived, sent Zhang Xun to the infirmary, and led Elite Class 5 to the Martial Arts Arena for instruction.
• Hong Chengshuo demonstrated Army-Breaking Fist and explained its moves, while Chen Lie quickly grasped the technique.
• Hong Chengshuo watched Chen Lie practice the full sequence flawlessly and was astonished by his mastery.

Chen Lie impressed Hong Chengshuo with his martial skill, revealed that his blood qi was far higher than his assessment suggested, and learned why his second uncle wanted to use Chen Gequn’s military merit for a blood mist flower. The chapter left Chen Lie anticipating his family’s decision while struggling to advance his mental power without resources.

• Chen Lie told Hong Chengshuo that he had never studied Army-Breaking Fist before, then explained that his blood qi had long surpassed six ka and agreed to enter the Final Martial Tournament.
• Hong Chengshuo doubled Chen Lie’s resource allowance and encouraged him to ask for help with martial arts.
• Chen Guangqun visited Feng Yuelan to discuss using Chen Gequn’s military merit to obtain a blood mist flower for Chen Ye, whose blood qi had become unstable.
• Feng Yuelan told Chen Lie about Chen Gequn’s military commendation and his second uncle’s request, while Chen Lie recalled how his family had previously been persuaded to give up the merit.
• Chen Lie cultivated the Lingguang Divine Refining Chapter overnight, brightening the Ghost Constellation’s first star but concluding that mental power cultivation required resources.

Chen Lie’s mother learned he had entered the Elite Class and brought him to He Zhenming’s martial artist banquet. The gathering ended with Feng Yuelan revealing that Chen Lie had already passed the assessment, contradicting He Zhenming’s claim that he had no chance.

• Yang Shen called Chen Lie to say he had sold all ten Void-Breaking Fist Crystal Card sets and had obtained more blank cards, so Chen Lie agreed to visit his shop.
• Chen Lie showed Feng Yuelan his Elite Student ID, and she learned he had joined Elite Student Class 5 without telling his parents.
• Feng Yuelan insisted that Chen Lie accompany her to He Zhenming’s martial artist banquet at the Martial Student Hotel.
• At the banquet, He Zhenming explained that his high blood qi value at breakthrough gave him greater potential and claimed the Elite Student assessment had become too difficult for Chen Lie to pass.
• He Zhenming told Aunt Gao that Chen Lie had no hope of entering the Elite Class, but Feng Yuelan revealed that Chen Lie had already passed the assessment.

Chen Lie impressed the neighbors with his Elite Student status, then went to the Martial Artist Market to sell crystal cards inscribed with Army-Breaking Fist and Void-Breaking Fist. Yang Shen paid him 800,000 Star Dollars, leaving Chen Lie confident he would have enough money for martial arts resources for a while.

• Feng Yuelan told the neighbors that Chen Lie had passed the Elite Student assessment, and Chen Lie confirmed he had passed its Blood Qi, strength, and comprehension tests and entered the Elite Class.
• Liu Lianqing doubted Chen Lie’s achievements until he showed her his Elite Student ID, while He Zhenming acknowledged that Chen Lie had succeeded where he had not.
• Chen Lie left the banquet and took a Flying Bus to the Martial Artist Market to meet Yang Shen.
• Chen Lie inscribed Army-Breaking Fist on five sets of D-Rank Martial Arts Crystal Cards and Void-Breaking Fist on ten sets of Combat Technique Crystal Cards.
• Yang Shen paid Chen Lie 800,000 Star Dollars for the fifteen sets and invited him to eat at a Martial Dao Restaurant.

Chen Lie met Yang Shen’s daughter, Yang Xixi, and explained how she could refine her blood qi instead of raising its value too quickly. He left her with advice about building a strong martial foundation and developing blood qi until it became liquid-like.

• Yang Xixi returned to Yang Shen’s shop, met Chen Lie, and learned that he was a Divine Sense Master and a student at her school.
• Yang Shen gave Yang Xixi Army-Breaking Fist crystal cards that Chen Lie had inscribed, then took her and Chen Lie to the Martial Dao Restaurant.
• Yang Xixi told Chen Lie that her Blood Qi Value was rising quickly while her Strength Value lagged, and Chen Lie advised her to focus on refining blood qi and practicing martial arts.
• Yang Xixi ate the Spirit Herb Beast Meat Meal after Chen Lie explained that refining blood qi was a long-term process throughout the Blood-Qi Stage.
• As Chen Lie walked Yang Xixi from the restaurant, he explained that blood qi could become liquid-like through continued refinement and growth.

Yang Xixi told Lu Qingchan and Xu Yunyan that a young Divine Sense Master attended their school, and Xu Yunyan explained why such a person could surpass ordinary martial arts prodigies. At Yang Xixi’s family’s shop, Lu Qingchan tried a Cloud Shadow Steps crystal card and discovered it could deepen her understanding of Cloud Smoke Steps.

• Yang Xixi told Lu Qingchan and Xu Yunyan about the young Divine Sense Master at their school and offered to introduce him if she got the chance.
• Xu Yunyan explained that Divine Sense Masters had exceptional learning and training advantages, and urged Lu Qingchan to seek the student's guidance.
• Xu Yunyan and Lu Qingchan visited Yang Shen’s shop and bought two sets of Army-Breaking Fist Crystal Cards.
• Yang Shen offered Xu Yunyan a used Cloud Shadow Steps C-Rank Crystal Card, and Xu Yunyan encouraged Lu Qingchan to try it.
• Lu Qingchan entered the card’s world, practiced Cloud Smoke Steps, and watched countless afterimages merge with her.

Lu Qingchan and Xu Yunyan bought martial arts resources and discussed the Lu Family’s wealth and influence, while the Chen family considered refusing a costly request from Chen Lie’s uncle. The next morning, Chen Lie searched Dongchuan’s Martial Artist Market for training resources but found nothing worthwhile and wondered whether his lack of connections was keeping him from better channels.

• Lu Qingchan recognized that the Cloud Shadow Steps card resembled a more advanced version of Li Xianyu’s footwork, and Xu Yunyan bought it for 260,000 Star Dollars.
• Xu Yunyan told Lu Qingchan about the resources and Grandmaster guidance given to direct descendants of the Dongchuan Lu Family, and urged her to meet the young Divine Sense Master who had taught Li Xianyu.
• Feng Yuelan told Chen Lie and Chen Xingyao that Chen Ye’s unstable blood qi had prompted their second uncle to ask for Chen Lie’s Military Merit to obtain a Blood Mist Flower worth 69 million Star Dollars.
• Chen Xingyao argued that the family should refuse, and Chen Lie agreed that they should delay their answer until they had a reason.
• Chen Lie skipped school and searched Dongchuan’s Martial Artist Market for martial arts resources, but found nothing worthwhile and suspected that he lacked access to the channels used by the powerful.

Chen Lie learned that he needed official Divine Sense Master certification to qualify for a government resource subsidy, so he agreed to travel to Yunchuan Province for an assessment. He planned to leave the next morning with Wang Hui and Meng Jing, while Wang Hui wondered how powerful Chen Lie’s Outer Stars master was.

• Wang Hui met Chen Lie at the Martial Artist Market and returned 100,000 Star Dollars from his cousin Meng Jing, who had been promoted at Sunlight Group thanks to Chen Lie.
• Wang Hui took Chen Lie to his father Wang Kui, who explained that certified Divine Sense Masters could receive government resource subsidies and urged Chen Lie to get assessed before turning eighteen.
• Chen Lie told Wang Kui that an Outer Stars Divine Sense Master had awakened his Divine Sense and promised to accept him as a disciple if he ranked first on Blue Star and entered Starry Sky University before age twenty.
• Chen Lie agreed to go to the Divine Sense Master Association branch in Yunchuan Province the next morning with Wang Hui and Meng Jing.
• After leaving Wang Kui’s office, Chen Lie told Wang Hui that Blue Star might seem insignificant to powerful figures in the Outer Stars, and confirmed that there were more than ten thousand inhabited planets beyond Blue Star.

Chen Lie spent time with Wang Hui before preparing to travel with Wang Hui and Meng Jing to the Yunchuan Divine Sense Master Association. As their airship entered Yunchuan Province, Meng Jing explained that its martial arts scene far surpassed East River’s.

• Chen Lie and Wang Hui visited a Virtual Experience Pavilion, then agreed to travel with Meng Jing to Yunchuan the next morning.
• Chen Lie told Feng Yuelan about the trip, and Chen Xingyao asked him to bring back her Void-Breaking Fist Crystal Card.
• Overnight, Chen Lie advanced his Lingguang Divine Refining Chapter as the first star of the Ghost Constellation Four Stars lit up.
• Meng Jing and Wang Hui picked Chen Lie up, and the three boarded an airship bound for the Yunchuan Divine Sense Master Association.
• Meng Jing described Yunchuan’s stronger martial arts standards, and the airship announced their arrival in the province.

Chen Lie traveled with Wang Hui and Meng Jing to Yunchuan Province and went to the Divine Sense Master Association to take a certification test. As Chen Lie headed upstairs, Shen Miaowei arrived with her older sister, and staff treated her deferentially because she was the Yunchuan Shen Family’s chosen successor.

• Meng Jing piloted the airship through Yunchuan’s checkpoint, where a worker rebuked Wang Hui for joking about Ji Lingxuan, the province’s top young martial artist.
• Chen Lie, Wang Hui, and Meng Jing reached the Yunchuan Province branch of the Divine Sense Master Association, and Chen Lie paid a twenty-thousand-Star-Dollar deposit for his test.
• Chen Lie showed his queue number to the guards and went upstairs alone for the Divine Sense test while Wang Hui and Meng Jing waited downstairs.
• Shen Miaowei and her older sister arrived and obtained a test queue number without paying a deposit.
• Sister Hua told a coworker that Shen Miaowei was the Yunchuan Shen Family’s chosen successor and warned that the family’s status demanded respectful treatment.

Chen Lie passed the Divine Sense awakening test with extraordinary perception and joined Shen Feixue for the sensitivity test. Shen Feixue scored 274, while the chapter left Chen Lie awaiting his own test.

• Sister Hua warned a staffer that the Divine Sense Master Association forbade charging deposits to promising candidates.
• Xue Jintao failed to identify a Rubik’s Cube, and Chen Lie then immediately identified a scissors and a transparent glass marble behind the barrier.
• Chairman Wei confirmed Chen Lie had awakened Divine Sense and brought him and Shen Feixue to the sensitivity testing area.
• Shen Feixue met Chen Lie and took the sensitivity test, scoring 274.
• Chairman Wei told Shen Feixue that Miao Wei was the only person in Yunchuan Province in twenty years to reach a sensitivity of 300.

Chen Lie’s Divine Sense exceeded the testing device’s limit, and Wei Changshan explained that Chen Lie’s true acuity was likely above 300 despite the misleading result. Chen Lie confirmed he had opened his Sea of Consciousness and condensed Mental Power, then began the Divine Sense Master assessment with Shen Miaowei and Shen Feixue watching.

• Chen Lie’s Divine Sense test exceeded the device’s limit twice, displaying a score of 1000.
• Wei Changshan tested Shen Miaowei and explained that repeated use inflated results because the device accurately measured each person only once.
• Shen Feixue suggested Chen Lie had tested himself repeatedly, and Chen Lie agreed, leading Wei Changshan to estimate his true acuity was above 300.
• Chen Lie told Wei Changshan he had opened his Sea of Consciousness, condensed Mental Power, and wanted to take the Divine Sense Master assessment.
• Wei Changshan led Chen Lie to the assessment area while Shen Miaowei and Shen Feixue followed to watch.

Chen Lie passed the Mental Power purity test with startling results, leading Wei Changshan to assume he had used an Outer Stars treasure. He then reached eighty-nine meters in the strength test, where Shen Miaowei’s earlier score of ninety-one eased her worry that he surpassed her in every way.

• Chen Lie quickly infused a crystal card with Mental Power, and the staff diluted it across one hundred cards.
• All one hundred cards turned bright yellow, stunning Wei Changshan, Shen Miaowei, and Shen Feixue with Chen Lie’s Mental Power purity.
• Wei Changshan guessed Chen Lie had used an Outer Stars treasure and reassured Shen Miaowei that her own talent was not inferior.
• Chen Lie entered the Mental Power testing corridor and guided his Mental Power through eighty-nine meters of fog.
• Shen Feixue pointed out that Shen Miaowei had reached ninety-one meters, and Shen Miaowei felt relieved.

After passing the Divine Sense Master examination, Chen Lie took the Sea of Consciousness test to compete for the Three Rivers record reward. He constructed a Fixed Star that scored 2,765,000, breaking the regional record and placing ninth in Blue Star’s Apprentice Divine Sense Master ranking.

• Wei Changshan congratulated Chen Lie on becoming an Apprentice Divine Sense Master and offered to apply for his certificate and cultivation resources.
• Chen Lie chose to take the third examination, and Wei Changshan explained how the network scored a constructed Consciousness Sea World and rewarded exceptional results.
• Shen Feixue dismissed Chen Lie’s chances of breaking the Three Rivers record, while Chen Lie decided to pursue its rare Outer Stars treasure.
• Chen Lie channeled Mental Power into the special display and constructed the first star of the Ghost Constellation Four Stars.
• The network awarded Chen Lie a score of 2,765,000, recorded a new Three Provinces of Chuanzhong record, ranked him ninth on Blue Star, and assessed his potential to become a Divine Sense Grandmaster.

Chen Lie proved his Consciousness Sea Score was over 2.7 million, then established that he was from East River Province and claimed the record-breaking reward. After receiving the Star Soul Tempering Vine, he was asked to guide Shen Miaowei in her Mental Power cultivation.

• Chen Lie stunned the Cloud River group with a Consciousness Sea Score of over 2.7 million, and Wei Changshan worried that the result would discourage Shen Miaowei.
• Shen Feixue argued that Chen Lie, as an outsider, should not receive the reward, and Wei Changshan withheld it while suggesting an appeal to headquarters.
• Chen Lie showed Wei Changshan his citizen ID, and Shen Feixue confirmed that he was from East River Province; Wei Changshan then agreed he qualified for the reward.
• Wei Changshan gave Chen Lie the Star Soul Tempering Vine and said his Apprentice Divine Sense Master Certificate would be ready soon.
• Wei Changshan asked Chen Lie to exchange contact information with Shen Miaowei and help guide her cultivation.

Chen Lie exchanged contact information with Shen Miaowei and offered to trade her the Star Soul Tempering Vine for three Martial Dao Rare Treasures. After receiving his Apprentice Divine Sense Master Certificate, Chen Lie questioned the twenty-thousand-Star-Dollar deposit he had paid, and Wei Changshan demanded to know who had collected it.

• Wei Changshan explained why he wanted Chen Lie to guide Shen Miaowei, and Chen Lie agreed to help her with Mental Power cultivation.
• Shen Feixue complained that Chen Lie was taking the Star Soul Tempering Vine, and Chen Lie offered Shen Miaowei a trade: three Martial Dao Rare Treasures from his list in exchange for the vine within ten days.
• Wei Changshan advised Shen Miaowei to ask her family to search for the treasures, and Shen Feixue offered to help.
• Wei Changshan collected Chen Lie's Apprentice Divine Sense Master Certificate from the service counter and handed it to him.
• Chen Lie asked whether his twenty-thousand-Star-Dollar deposit would be returned, and Wei Changshan sternly asked who had collected it.

Chen Lie passed the Divine Sense Master assessment, received his certificate, and learned he ranked ninth among Blue Star apprentice Divine Sense Masters. After reuniting with Wang Hui and Meng Jing, he asked where to find resources for raising Blood Qi, surprising Wang Hui by revealing that his Blood Qi had exceeded one hundred.

• Wei Changshan reprimanded two Association staff members for extorting Chen Lie, and Chen Lie made them return his twenty-thousand-Star-Dollar deposit.
• Wei Changshan advised Shen Miaowei to seek Chen Lie's guidance and urged the Shen Family to find the Martial Dao Rare Treasures Chen Lie had requested.
• Chen Lie left the Association and called Wang Hui, who returned to the airship with Meng Jing.
• Wang Hui and Meng Jing saw Chen Lie's certificate and discovered he ranked ninth on the Blue Star Apprentice Divine Sense Master Ranking List.
• Chen Lie asked Meng Jing where to buy resources to raise Blood Qi, and Wang Hui was shocked when Chen Lie said his Blood Qi had passed one hundred.

Chen Lie visited Yunchuan's Martial Arts Rare Treasure Pavilion and bought a Spirit Blood Green Lotus Seed with his savings. He then went to the Lingfeng Group headquarters to see his father, Chen Gequn, but could not reach him and waited outside.

• Chen Lie told Wang Hui and Meng Jing that his Blood Qi Value was nearing a hundred and asked Meng Jing to take him to a shop for martial arts resources.
• Chen Lie entered the Martial Arts Rare Treasure Pavilion while Wang Hui and Meng Jing went to the Virtual Experience Pavilion.
• Chen Lie bought a Spirit Blood Green Lotus Seed for 500,000 Star Dollars and learned that Exotic Beast Meat above Tier 1 was reserved for the military.
• Chen Lie took a Flying Bus to the Lingfeng Group headquarters to fulfill a favor for his younger sister, Chen Xingyao.
• Chen Lie tried several times to contact Chen Gequn, got no answer, and waited outside the headquarters.

Chen Lie collected the Void-Breaking Fist Crystal Card for Yaoyao from his father, Chen Gequn, at Lingfeng Group. He then clashed with Shen Feixue over the terms of a trade, and the chapter ended with Shen Feixue telling Shen Miaowei that Chen Lie’s father worked for their family.

• Chen Gequn gave Chen Lie the Void-Breaking Fist Crystal Card for Yaoyao and said he planned to return home to discuss redeeming a Blood Mist Flower for Chen Ye.
• Chen Lie met Shen Feixue at Lingfeng Group, where she asked him to accept two Martial Dao Rare Treasures instead of the three he had requested.
• Chen Lie refused to bargain and walked away, leaving Shen Feixue angry and the trade in doubt.
• Shen Feixue called Shen Miaowei and revealed that she had seen Chen Lie’s father at Lingfeng Group.
• Shen Miaowei arrived by airship, and Shen Feixue complained that Chen Lie had ignored her and called him a servant’s son.