Recaps

After regaining his memories, Ye Li realized he had reached adulthood without awakening a trait, despite having pretended to possess [Exceptional Agility] to join the Azure Dragon Gang. As Feng Yue handed out trait-matched manuals to the recruits, Ye Li was called forward, leaving his deception at risk of being exposed.

• Ye Li recovered memories of his former life as a provocative internet streamer and recalled that his past self had entered the Azure Dragon Gang recruitment under false pretenses.
• Ye Li recognized that everyone awakened a trait at eighteen, but he had none and had claimed to possess the Green Trait [Exceptional Agility].
• Feng Yue introduced the Azure Dragon Gang’s assessment and promised to teach the recruits the Azure Dragon Force after distributing their external techniques.
• Lu Xiuyuan received Turtle-Cracking Hard Armor for his Blue Trait [Master of Ninjutsu], which Ye Li privately identified as a trait gained through years of unrequited devotion.
• Wei Li received the leg technique Formless Movement Technique for his Green Trait [Fleet Foot].
• Feng Yue called Ye Li’s name.

Ye Li received a basic martial manual and learned that he had six months to become a formal student or serve the Azure Dragon Sect for life. When Instructor Feng tested how much the students had memorized of Azure Dragon Force, Ye Li’s awakened World-Shocking Wisdom trait let him master the entire technique, leaving him excited about his new advantage.

• Instructor Feng gave Ye Li the Nine Chapters Fist Manual and explained that students who failed to become formal students within half a year would serve the Azure Dragon Sect as slaves and servants.
• Feng Yue described the martial arts realms, the requirements for becoming a core student, and the two stages of Azure Dragon Force.
• Feng Yue demonstrated Azure Dragon Force, and several students boasted about how much of the technique they had remembered.
• Feng Yue pressed Ye Li to say how much he had memorized, and Ye Li hesitated, fearing the consequences of admitting he had forgotten everything.
• A virtual window revealed that Ye Li had awakened the World-Shocking Wisdom trait, and the technique’s details flooded into his memory.
• Ye Li told Feng Yue that he had remembered all of Azure Dragon Force.

Ye Li impressed Feng Yue by reproducing the Azure Dragon Force after seeing it once and gained insight while training. After Feng Yue gave him personal instruction and he headed home with his gang allowance, Ye Li saw a crowd of youths running toward him and felt sick at the sight.

• Ye Li flawlessly performed the eighty-one Azure Dragon Force postures and breaths after watching Feng Yue demonstrate them once.
• While practicing, Ye Li felt the technique train his muscles and received corrections through knowledge appearing in his mind, gaining one insight in the Azure Dragon Force.
• Feng Yue praised Ye Li, told Tang Jian to help teach the others, and offered Ye Li one-on-one instruction.
• After training, Ye Li received three taels of silver and used the Azure Dragon Force breathing method to ease his soreness on the way home.
• Ye Li turned at the sound of shouted slogans and saw a crowd of youths charging toward him, making him feel sick.

After awakening [Prismatic · World-Shocking Wisdom], Ye Li left his aunt Ning Qiu and cousin Ye Duo to return to his gang quarters. He recognized that his trait could accelerate his cultivation and began considering joining a martial arts academy instead.

• Ye Li recalled how years of achievement grinding had failed to earn him a worthwhile trait before his memories returned.
• Ye Li visited Ning Qiu and Ye Duo, gave Ning Qiu two taels of silver from his gang allowance, and said he would stay at the gang quarters until the end of the month.
• Ye Li examined his status panel and realized [World-Shocking Wisdom] was helping him master Azure Dragon Force rapidly.
• Ye Li decided that joining a martial arts academy would suit his path better than staying in the gang, and imagined the tournaments he would enter.

Ye Li returned to the Azure Dragon Sect and met his new roommates, including the arrogant Li Xi. He decided to treat Li Xi as a villain destined to be defeated, while his roommates mistook Ye Li's humble accommodations for evidence of talent.

• Ye Li returned to the Azure Dragon Gang's territory and went to the shared dormitory, relying on the gang's strength to keep him safe.
• Ye Li introduced himself to Zhao Yan and Wang Xian, while Li Xi mocked his shabby clothes and left the room.
• Ye Li decided that Li Xi had earned his death and imagined trapping him with Blue Silver Entanglement.
• Zhao Yan explained that Li Xi was a spoiled Li Family descendant, and Wang Xian said the family had used an Age-Deceiving Pill to awaken his trait early.
• Wang Xian mistook Ye Li's place in the smaller dormitory for a sign of talent, and Ye Li realized they had simply recognized him as poor.

Ye Li trained in Azure Dragon Force to prepare for the Li Family’s threat and discovered that the technique improved his body even while he slept. After three days of practice, Azure Dragon Force was close to perfection.

• Ye Li feared the Li Family might retaliate, so he chose to train to protect his family and practiced Azure Dragon Force alone at night.
• Ye Li trained until exhaustion, raising his status to Mortal (8/1000) and Azure Dragon Force (33/100), then massaged his aching muscles before returning to bed.
• While Ye Li slept, his body continued using Azure Dragon Force’s breathing rhythm to recover and temper itself.
• Ye Li woke feeling unexpectedly refreshed and learned that passive breathing had raised his Mortal progress to 9/1000, revealing that he could gain strength while sleeping.
• Ye Li went to the Martial Arts Arena and practiced Azure Dragon Force with the other outer-gang members.
• Three days of training passed, bringing Ye Li’s Azure Dragon Force close to perfection.

Feng Yue assessed the Azure Dragon Gang’s recruits as Ye Li’s rapid improvement made him stand out as a likely genius. Tang Jian struggled with poor communal lodging while Li Xi relied on family-supplied pills and aimed to win recognition at the city’s youth tournament.

• Feng Yue judged the recruits’ talents and explained how the gang’s expendable members supported its martial artists and elders.
• Ye Li entered the arena and practiced Azure Dragon Force, nearing mastery after several days of relentless training.
• Tang Jian complained about his crowded, noisy sleeping quarters as other students gathered around Ye Li to learn from his movements.
• Li Xi swallowed a Body Tempering Pill supplied by his family and resolved to reach the middle stage of Body Tempering within six months and place highly in the city’s youth tournament.

Ye Li completed Azure Dragon Force, then discovered that World-Shocking Wisdom let him revise the technique beyond its mastery limit and lower his realm’s experience cap. He spent the next month training, and the end-of-month assessment arrived.

• Ye Li raised Azure Dragon Force to 100/100 and achieved complete mastery after three days of practice.
• Ye Li followed new insights from World-Shocking Wisdom to correct a flaw in the mastered technique, raising it to 101/100 and lowering his realm’s experience cap.
• Ye Li realized that continuing to revise Azure Dragon Force could speed his progress toward Skin Tempering.
• Ye Li considered the rarity of his Dazzling trait and trained for a month until the end-of-month assessment arrived.

The Azure Dragon Gang held its month-end strength test, where Li Xi posted an impressive result and expected to win the Newcomer Ranking. As the test ended without Ye Li appearing, his peers defended his continued training, while his performance remained unknown.

• Li Xi left a three-fraction-deep fist mark after 34 days in the gang, and Instructor Feng Yue said he could place in the top three on the Newcomer Ranking.
• Wang Xian and the other gang members took their turns, with their marks and monthly improvements recorded.
• Gang members wondered why Ye Li had been absent from the arena, and Zhao Yan and Wang Xian said he was training somewhere quieter.
• Li Xi wondered whether Ye Li had failed to appear because his constitution was too weak.
• Tang Jian left a two-fraction-deep mark after 31 days, and Feng Yue ended the test and told the members to return to the gang before midnight the next day.

Ye Li’s first-place result at the Azure Dragon Gang’s assessment stunned the disciples, while he headed home with a Body Tempering Pill and reflected on his rapid cultivation. He arrived in Guangming City concerned by the growing disorder in South City.

• Tang Jian tried to delay the end of the assessment so Ye Li could be tested, but Li Xi shoved him aside and demanded the first-place Body Tempering Pill.
• Feng Yue revealed that Ye Li had already left after making a fist mark five tenths of an inch into the wooden pillar, earning the reward before the other disciples were tested.
• Li Xi and the disciples were shocked by Ye Li’s result, while Tang Jian checked the ledger and found Ye Li listed on its first line.
• Ye Li walked home with the Body Tempering Pill Feng Yue had given him and reviewed how his revised Azure Dragon Force had improved his cultivation.
• Ye Li thought of his family and the pinwheel he had bought for his little sister, then noticed that South City had become increasingly chaotic.

Ye Li returned home after passing the Azure Dragon Gang’s assessment and showed his family how much stronger he had become. After a hearty meal, he prepared to take a Body Tempering Pill and wondered whether he could improve its absorption by taking it another way.

• Ye Li hurried home, thinking about reaching the first realm quickly to become a core member of the Azure Dragon Gang.
• Neighbors discussed Ye Li’s transformation and worried that past quarrels might matter if he became powerful.
• Ning Qiu welcomed Ye Li home, and he told her he had done well in the gang and might become a core member within months.
• Ye Li carried a nearly empty water jar with one arm, astonishing Ning Qiu with his strength.
• Ye Li shared a lavish meal with his family, refused his uncle’s offer of money, and gave Ye Duo the pinwheel she had admired.
• Ye Li took a Body Tempering Pill to an abandoned hut and pondered whether taking it rectally would make it more effective.

Ye Li took a Body Tempering Pill and rapidly improved his strength while training. Elsewhere, Wang Ganshi learned about Ye Li’s talent and decided to send him ten pills, and Ye Li returned to find his courtyard suddenly crowded.

• Ye Li swallowed a Body Tempering Pill, trained through its surge of medicinal energy, and watched his progress rise rapidly.
• Wang Xian told Wang Ganshi about Ye Li’s background, talent, and first-place score at the end-of-month assessment.
• Wang Ganshi decided to buy ten Body Tempering Pills for Wang Xian to give Ye Li, hoping to earn his favor.
• Ye Li finished training, noted the pill’s gains, and returned to find a crowd gathered at his courtyard entrance.

Ye Li returned from training to find neighbors congratulating Ning Qiu on his trial victory, and he decided that his growing reputation could help protect his family. Back at the Azure Dragon Gang, Li Xi resolved to defeat Ye Li at the next trial, then confronted him as he returned to the dormitory.

• Ning Qiu learned from the neighbors that Ye Li had taken first place in the trial and accepted a carp from a woman apologizing for her son's past quarrel with him.
• Ye Li saw the neighbors gathering at his gate and welcomed their attention, believing their support could help his family amid worsening security in South District.
• Ye Li spent his day at home training, then returned to the Azure Dragon Gang despite his uncle and aunt's family's reluctance to see him go.
• Li Xi worried that his family would mock him for losing the trial after taking a Body-Tempering Pill and vowed to beat Ye Li at the next month's trial.
• Ye Li entered the dormitory and ignored Li Xi, who ordered him to come over and talk.

Ye Li fought Li Xi after Li Xi attacked him for ignoring his challenge, and defeated him despite Li Xi’s Quick Eyes and Nimble Hands trait. With Li Xi’s arms broken and the room wrecked, Ye Li considered taking Body-Tempering Pills and preparing for the Law Enforcement Hall.

• Ye Li ignored Li Xi and tried to leave, but Li Xi clawed at his shoulder with a Mara Hand technique.
• Ye Li blocked Li Xi’s attack and struck back, cracking the wall with a punch that Li Xi dodged using Quick Eyes and Nimble Hands.
• Li Xi attacked Ye Li with a series of lethal techniques, but Ye Li countered them and broke Li Xi’s finger bones.
• Ye Li twisted Li Xi’s arms out of place and drove him to his knees, then wrenched apart his arm joints.
• Ye Li considered taking Body-Tempering Pills from Li Xi’s bed and wondered how he would handle the Law Enforcement Hall.

Ye Li defeated Li Xi, took his Body-Tempering Pills, and secretly passed one to Instructor Feng to secure his support. When the Law Enforcement Hall arrived, Li Xi accused Ye Li of assault and theft.

• Ye Li searched Li Xi's bedding and found four Body-Tempering Pills, which he planned to use to advance before Li Xi could leave the gang.
• Ye Li secretly swallowed a pill and passed the bottle to Feng Yue, who accepted it and described the fight as horseplay.
• Feng Yue examined Li Xi's broken arms, ordered both young men to stop practicing for a month, and exempted them from that month's assessment requirements.
• The Law Enforcement Hall arrived, and Feng Yue told its leader that the two had gotten carried away while fooling around.
• Li Xi appealed to the Law Enforcement Hall and accused Ye Li of deliberately breaking his arms and stealing his clan's pills.

Ye Li avoided punishment for taking Li Xi’s Body Tempering Pills when the Law Enforcement Hall dismissed the complaint and favored the stronger fighter. Feng Yue warned Ye Li that the Li Family might retaliate, and Ye Li resolved to become a core disciple before Li Xi returned home.

• Li Xi accused Ye Li of robbing him of four Body Tempering Pills, but Ye Li had already used or handed off the pills and remained calm.
• The Law Enforcement Hall captain refused to recover Li Xi’s pills, arguing that gang members had to rely on their own strength and that Li Xi deserved to lose them.
• The captain encouraged Ye Li as a promising genius, while Feng Yue sentenced him to three days of facing the wall for striking Li Xi too heavily.
• After the crowd dispersed, Feng Yue explained that the gang favored talent and warned Ye Li that the Li Family might seek revenge after Li Xi went home.
• Ye Li vowed to become a core disciple within a month, and Feng Yue promised the gang would protect him if he managed the breakthrough.

After Ye Li defeated Li Xi and received three days of wall-facing punishment, Wang Xian brought him ten Body Tempering Pills and offered a way to protect his family from the Li Family. Ye Li resolved to cultivate hard and reach the Body Tempering Realm within ten days.

• Wang Xian returned to the dormitory, learned that Ye Li had beaten Li Xi, and went to find Ye Li in the grove.
• Ye Li reviewed his cultivation progress and committed himself to training with the same relentless effort he had devoted to his former online career.
• Wang Xian triggered one of Ye Li's warning bells and gave him ten Body Tempering Pills from his father as support.
• Wang Xian told Ye Li that the Wang Family could register his family under one of its businesses and keep them away from the Li Family until Ye Li reached the Post-Heaven Realm.
• Ye Li accepted the help and vowed to reach the Body Tempering Realm within ten days.

Ye Li trained in the woods for seven days, using Body Tempering Pills and [World-Shocking Wisdom] to perfect his breakthrough into the Body Tempering Realm. He emerged with greatly increased strength and defense, and his panel showed Early Body Tempering.

• Ye Li trained continuously in the woods, taking one Body Tempering Pill a day as his strength and qi sensations grew.
• Though he could have broken through earlier, Ye Li kept training until his realm experience reached its maximum and a golden question mark appeared.
• Ye Li pressed the question mark, and [World-Shocking Wisdom] wove his qi and blood into a seamless protective net that covered his body and spread through his nine apertures.
• The breakthrough consumed immense energy, and Ye Li ate Body Tempering Pills to endure the process.
• After thirty-seven days and thirteen pills, Ye Li entered the Body Tempering Realm and found that his strength had doubled and his defense had greatly improved.

Lu Yue accepted Li Xi’s offer to cripple Ye Li for one hundred taels, then prepared to ambush him in the Martial Arts Arena. After Wang Rui warned Ye Li about the plot, Ye Li revealed he had reached Body Tempering and entered the arena to confront Lu Yue.

• Li Xi offered Lu Yue one hundred taels to injure Ye Li badly enough to keep him from fighting for two months, and Lu Yue accepted.
• Lu Yue recruited Gao Xu and Chang Qing to help him attack Ye Li publicly, while another disciple refused to join and later warned Ye Li.
• Ye Li arrived at the Martial Arts Arena after breaking through to Body Tempering and learned from Wang Rui that Lu Yue and two others were waiting to cripple him.
• Ye Li thanked Wang Rui, declared that he had achieved Body Tempering, and continued into the arena despite Wang Rui’s attempts to stop him.
• Ye Li called for Lu Yue to step forward and fixed his gaze on the three men near Wang Xian.

Ye Li arrived as Lu Yue threatened Wang Xian and defeated Lu Yue with overwhelming ease, revealing that he had reached the Body Tempering Realm. Gao Xu and Chang Qing attacked him next and tried to target his vital points, but Ye Li moved faster than they could.

• Ye Li burst into the arena and stopped Lu Yue from attacking Wang Xian.
• Ye Li struck Lu Yue twice, sending him crashing into a pillar and leaving the onlookers stunned by his strength.
• Ye Li challenged Gao Xu and Chang Qing, who launched a coordinated attack rather than flee.
• Gao Xu and Chang Qing's kicks barely affected Ye Li because his Qi-Blood Network dispersed most of their force.
• Gao Xu recalled Feng Yue's advice about attacking a Body Tempering martial artist's vital points, and the two redirected their attacks as Ye Li moved first.

Ye Li defeated Gao Xu and Chang Qing in the Martial Arts Arena, then went to the Medicine Hall and severely injured Li Xi. Meanwhile, Lu Yue, Gao Xu, and Chang Qing were tortured in the Law Enforcement Hall after their plot against Ye Li came to light.

• Ye Li used his strength and technique to crush Gao Xu and Chang Qing, then thanked Wang Xian for the Body Tempering Pill that helped him reach the Body Tempering Realm.
• Ye Li went to the Medicine Hall and kicked Li Xi into the floor, flattening his nose and breaking the sickbed without killing him.
• In the Law Enforcement Hall, Lu Yue, Gao Xu, and Chang Qing said they would confess after enduring the squad's whippings.
• Fu Yingjie learned that the three had plotted against Ye Li and ordered them to confess while he prepared a red-hot branding iron.
• The Law Enforcement squad branded and tortured the three as screams rang through the hall.

Ye Li humiliated Li Xi, then confirmed his breakthrough and prepared to take up his new core disciple benefits. As Feng Yue led him through the prosperous East District to see his residence, Ye Li heard that the All-Nations Prodigy Ranking had changed.

• Li Xi woke naked and hanging upside down above the Martial Arts Arena, with [Shameless Villain] written on his back, and fainted again after vowing revenge on Ye Li.
• Ye Li showed Feng Yue that he had reached the Body Tempering Realm and said he had used thirteen Body Tempering Pills, ten sponsored by Wang Xian.
• Feng Yue told Ye Li his slave registration would be erased and outlined his core disciple benefits, including higher allowances, pills, shop income, and a residence.
• Ye Li collected his allowance and three Body Tempering Pills after ranking first among the newcomers, then followed Feng Yue toward the East District.
• A street seller announced that Ji Xun had defeated Du You and taken first place in the All-Nations Prodigy Ranking, prompting Ye Li's curiosity.

Ye Li learned about the All-Nations Prodigy Ranking and Ji Xun’s golden trait, [Only I of the Myriad Worlds], which doubled his abilities each year. After resolving to surpass Ji Xun by advancing to higher realms, Ye Li accompanied Feng Yue through East City and saw the city’s competing religious temples.

• Feng Yue explained that Daqing’s Bureau of Astronomy used [Cause-Tracing and Effect-Tracking] to monitor traits and compile the All-Nations Prodigy Ranking.
• Feng Yue told Ye Li that Ji Xun ranked first among the younger generation and possessed the golden trait [Only I of the Myriad Worlds], which let him devour a matching Outer Realms expert each year and double his abilities.
• Ye Li decided he would overcome Ji Xun by reaching a higher realm before fighting him, and he checked his new Early Body Tempering status.
• Feng Yue led Ye Li through East City, where Ye Li learned that an Orthodox Sect sanctuary stood opposite a Daoist temple and a Buddhist temple.

Ye Li received a large courtyard as a core disciple and returned to tell his uncle and aunt about his new status and income. He warned them that his growing strength would put them at risk, then left to continue training.

• Feng Yue showed Ye Li the gang-assigned courtyard and told him to meet in Spring Return Alley the next morning before taking over ten shops.
• Ye Li rushed back to South City and told Ye Cunmang, Ning Qiu, and Ye Duo that he had become a core disciple and would earn dozens of taels each month.
• Ye Li explained that his enemies might target his family and advised them to be cautious or leave the city with a merchant caravan if necessary.
• Ning Qiu and Ye Cunmang urged Ye Li to take a concubine and secure the family line, but he refused to postpone his martial training.
• Ye Li ate hastily and left to train again.

Ye Li reviewed his plans after reaching the body tempering realm, unaware that the Great Qing Dynasty had begun investigating him after his conversation about its intelligence-gathering trait. The next morning, he went to Spring Return Alley, where Feng Yue showed him Lu Xiuyuan’s training and handed him a Dragon Tiger Pill.

• Ye Li planned to seek a powerful backer and reach the middle stage of body tempering within three months.
• The Bureau of Astronomy detected a possible golden trait bearer in the Southern Barbarian Region and ordered Dragon Tiger Mountain to locate him.
• Ye Li arrived at Spring Return Alley and followed directions to the Jade-Rinsing Pavilion, where Feng Yue was waiting.
• Ye Li saw Lu Xiuyuan enduring iron-rod blows and learned that gang resources and thirty-five Body Tempering Pills had helped him break through a day earlier.
• Feng Yue explained Lu Xiuyuan’s blue trait and gave Ye Li a Dragon Tiger Pill, saying core disciples had to take one daily for six months.