Recaps

Jiang Ning joined Blue-Wave Martial Academy and rapidly advanced his martial skills while seeking strength and protection for Jiang Li’s family. After Wang Jin announced a path to the Inspection Office through a three-month assessment, Jiang Ning pushed his training and sought guidance on the Five Animals Fist’s deeper meanings.

• Jiang Ning broke through the limit of Literacy, gained Photographic Memory, and persuaded Jiang Li to help him learn martial arts at Blue-Wave Martial Academy.
• Wang Jin accepted Jiang Ning as a registered disciple and set a six-month test, while Jiang Ning memorized and practiced the Five Animals Fist with extraordinary speed.
• Jiang Ning faced threats from Xu Yunfeng and the Cao Family, then arranged to stay at the academy by chopping firewood without pay.
• Jiang Ning advanced the Wood-Chopping Saber Technique and Five Animals Fist while building strength with medicinal food and wild ginseng.
• Wang Jin announced that a recommendation to the Inspection Office required mastering two fist intents, completing blood and qi, and reaching martial entry within three months, and he chose Xiao Peng as his personal disciple.
• Jiang Ning reached Mastery in the Five Animals Fist, lifted a 150-pound stone lock, and increased the reach of his qi and blood through intensive practice.
• After running out of wild ginseng, Jiang Ning asked Wang Jin about the five forms’ deeper meanings, and Wang Jin told him to return once his fist art and breathing became instinctive.

Jiang Ning advanced his Five Animals Fist and Inner Elixir Life-Nourishing Technique while building strength and preparing to enter the Inspection Office. As Myriad Splendor Tower and local merchants considered investing in the academy’s promising disciples, the students gathered to observe Wang Jin’s tiger.

• Wang Jin praised Jiang Ning’s progress in Five Animals Fist, gave him medicinal soup, and invited him to study the technique and observe the courtyard tiger.
• Jiang Ning found the fragment of the Inner Elixir Life-Nourishing Technique in Wang Jin’s study, read about unrest and local power struggles, and resolved to reach Martial Dao rank and join the Inspection Office.
• Jiang Ning cultivated the Inner Elixir Life-Nourishing Technique, perfected his Wood-Chopping Saber Technique, and advanced Five Animals Fist while preparing for the coming selection.
• Xiao Peng defeated Cheng Ran in a courtyard fight, and Jiang Ning caught Cheng Ran before he hit a wall, and Cheng Ran then paid Jiang Ning and agreed to spar with him.
• Jiang Ning reached the technique’s initiation stage and strengthened his body, while Cheng Ran warned him that the Green Snake Gang was watching his family and linked Xu Yunfeng to the Cao Family.
• Shen Congyun visited Wang Jin, explained the incomplete Inner Elixir Life-Nourishing Technique, and decided to invest in him after learning that he had begun cultivating it.
• Li Qing entered a Martial Dao rank and Zhao Hu perfected Tiger Form Fist, and Zhao Hu challenged Cheng Ran, but Li Qing rebuked him and Zhou Xing offered Cheng Ran and Li Qing terms tied to the Inspection Office.
• Jiang Ning bought thirteen wild ginseng roots from Zhou Xing, then joined the assembled disciples as Wang Jin prepared to release his captured tiger while Liu Zhixiang considered investing in promising students.

Jiang Ning became Wang Jin’s true disciple, mastered the Canglang Saber Art, and faced arrest by Cao Bin’s forces. Shen Congyun intervened to protect Jiang Ning’s family and offered him advanced instruction in the Inner Elixir Life-Nourishing Technique, leaving Jiang Ning summoned to Myriad Splendor Tower.

• Shen Congyun discovered Jiang Ning’s unusual talent, while Jiang Ning mastered Tiger Form Fist, became Wang Jin’s true disciple, and began learning the Canglang Saber Art.
• Jiang Ning advanced the Canglang Saber Art and gained Ninefold Force, but Xu Yunfeng tried to seize him as part of Cao Bin’s scheme against Jiang Li’s family.
• Wang Jin stopped Xu Yunfeng, and Jiang Ning trained in secret to strengthen his body enough to use the saber art’s force safely.
• Cao Bin brought constables to arrest Jiang Ning at Blue-Wave Martial Academy, but Wang Jin stood in their way and confronted the Cao Family.
• Cao Rong attacked Jiang Ning with arrows, and Shen Congyun intervened to halt the attack and protect him.
• Shen Congyun persuaded Cao Rong and Cao Bin to release Jiang Li and his family, then explained Jiang Ning’s exceptional progress and gave him golden sheets containing advanced methods for the Inner Elixir Life-Nourishing Technique.
• Shen Congyun assured Jiang Ning that the Cao Family would no longer threaten him and told him to visit Myriad Splendor Tower the next day.

Jiang Ning advanced his martial arts while Shen Congyun’s departure left him facing the Cao Family without that protection. After Cao Bin sent Xu Yunfeng and Green Snake Gang fighters to kill him, Jiang Ning killed the pursuers, reached the ninth rank, and returned to Luoshui County to reunite with his family and report to Wang Jin.

• Jiang Ning confessed to Wang Jin that he had secretly mastered Ninefold Force, then reunited with Jiang Li’s family and began using Organ-Protecting Pills to cultivate the Inner Elixir Life-Nourishing Technique.
• Shen Congyun departed Luoshui County after warning Jiang Ning about the Cao Family and urging him to seek a place in the Inspection Office, while Lin Qingyi agreed to help him within reason.
• Jiang Ning strengthened his Five Animals Fist, saber techniques, and qi and blood, reached perfection, and advanced the Inner Elixir Life-Nourishing Technique to Proficient.
• Cao Rong ordered Tian Buyi to kill Jiang Ning, and Cao Bin later sent Xu Yunfeng and Hong Chengtao to kill Jiang Ning and Jiang Li.
• Jiang Ning opened Shen Congyun’s gift, learned about the Indestructible Vajra Body, and lured Xu Yunfeng and his companions outside the county, where he killed them and took their valuables.
• Jiang Ning trained in the Indestructible Vajra Body, broke through the Wood-Chopping Saber Technique again, and reached Martial Dao Ninth Rank.
• Jiang Ning returned to Luoshui County, found Jiang Li and Little Doubao safe, gave Jiang Li money toward a home, and learned that Wang Jin had been searching for him.
• Jiang Ning told Wang Jin that he had killed Hong Chengtao, and Wang Jin offered to protect him from the Cao Family before asking whether he had perfected Five Animals Fist.