Chapter Summaries

Jiang Shu applied for a leave of absence to switch to the martial arts track and train at home, despite his teacher urging him to keep studying for the College Entrance Examination. He returned to the empty dormitory and considered using his two-world travel ability to pursue martial arts in the Great Jing Dynasty.

• Jiang Shu practiced the Horse Stance before school and overheard students debating the prospects of the martial arts track.
• Jiang Shu told Yan Dehou he planned to become a martial arts student and submitted his leave-of-absence application.
• Yan Dehou tried to persuade Jiang Shu to keep up with academics, but approved the application after seeing his parents’ signatures.
• Jiang Shu declined a farewell gathering, left the classroom books behind, and returned to the empty dormitory.
• Jiang Shu checked his Panel and resolved to seek an Academy, recalling the martial arts realms and training opportunities in the Great Jing Dynasty.

Jiang Shu returned home and reunited with his younger sister, Jiang Yan Yue, who gave him her saved lucky money to support his martial arts training. When he told her that martial arts could preserve youth, she immediately asked him to teach her the Horse Stance.

• Jiang Shu rode home from school, meditating and practicing his Horse Stance during the journey.
• Jiang Yan Yue welcomed Jiang Shu and gave him eight hundred in lucky money to support his martial arts training.
• Jiang Shu and Jiang Yan Yue teased each other about his height, her eating habits, and the changes that came with martial arts practice.
• Jiang Yan Yue asked whether martial arts could be useful, and Jiang Shu told her it could preserve youth.
• Jiang Yan Yue asked Jiang Shu to teach her the Horse Stance.

Jiang Shu received five thousand yuan from his parents to support his martial arts training, while Jiang Yan Yue gave up practicing and demanded her eight hundred yuan back. The chapter ended with Jiang Shu preparing to move through Crooked Snake Alley in Pingling County, armed and carrying silver fragments and lime powder.

• Jiang Shu taught Jiang Yan Yue the Horse Stance, but she quickly gave up and decided to rely on skincare instead.
• Jiang Yongyi and Xu Lizhi sent Jiang Shu five thousand yuan, and Jiang Yan Yue grew jealous when she learned how much they had given him.
• Jiang Yongyi noted rising meat and liquor prices and encouraged Jiang Shu to pursue martial arts without putting too much pressure on himself.
• Jiang Yan Yue asked Jiang Shu to return the eight hundred yuan he had taken from her, but he refused and teased her.
• Jiang Shu arrived in Crooked Snake Alley in Pingling County with silver fragments, lime powder, and an Electric Baton, after checking his room for signs of disturbance.

Jiang Shu endured Zhao Tai's threats at Crooked Snake Alley after Old Man Li intervened to protect him, then entered Pingling County's Inner City to seek a martial hall. He chose the Hungry Tiger Martial Hall and joined it for ten taels of silver.

• Jiang Shu paid the Green Snake Gang's fee and stood up to Zhao Tai when he insulted him and threatened to make him crawl through his legs.
• Old Man Li pleaded with Zhao Tai to let Jiang Shu go, then offered to sweep floors and empty chamber pots in Jiang Shu's place.
• Jiang Shu overheard Zhao Tai discussing a brothel and remembered the gang's plans, but he held back from fighting because Old Man Li could suffer the consequences.
• Jiang Shu left Old Man Li and crossed into Pingling County's Inner City to search for a martial hall that taught methods suited to combat.
• Jiang Shu paid ten taels of silver, signed the enrollment certificate, and entered the Hungry Tiger Martial Hall.

Jiang Shu joined the Hungry Tiger Martial Hall and learned about its stance training, breathing technique, and secret medicine. After demonstrating his ability to follow the Hungry Tiger Breathing Method, he received meat soup and was left ready to learn the hall’s fighting methods.

• Jiang Shu watched the martial hall apprentices train, then met Teacher Chou as he came out to instruct them.
• Teacher Chou demonstrated his strength by striking deep finger holes into a five-hundred-jin stone disc and explained the stages of Stance Training and the Skin Polishing Realm.
• Jiang Shu examined the stone disc and learned the Hungry Tiger Breathing Method and Hungry Tiger Sitting Cave Stance, while the other new apprentices were sent aside for struggling to keep the rhythm.
• A Panel recorded Jiang Shu’s Beginner progress in the breathing method and stance, and Teacher Chou explained how the hall’s secret medicine meat soup replenished blood qi.
• The apprentices drank the soup, and Teacher Chou told them to practice their stance afterward before introducing the Hungry Tiger Martial Hall’s three Killing Moves: Pounce, Overturn, and Scissor.

Jiang Shu trained in the Hungry Tiger Martial Hall, studied the limits of his Tiger Form Three Styles, and prepared for a dangerous task after dark. As night fell, he disguised himself and walked toward Green Grass Lane, intent on carrying out a murder.

• Old Man Chou demonstrated the pounce, heave, and shear techniques of the Tiger Form Three Styles, and Jiang Shu practiced them while assessing his weaknesses.
• Zhou Yang introduced himself to Jiang Shu and offered meat at cost from his family's restaurants, but Jiang Shu declined to accept the favor.
• Jiang Shu trained for another hour and checked his panel, which showed his progress in the Hungry Tiger techniques and forty minutes remaining on his two-world travel countdown.
• At dusk, Zhou Yang persuaded Han to visit his family's restaurant and buy meat on credit to advance his martial arts training.
• After night fell, Jiang Shu put on his padded coat, took his lime powder and Electric Baton, removed his wig, and headed toward Green Grass Lane.

Jiang Shu prepared to kill Zhao Tai in Green Grass Lane, where he found the gang member alone with a courtesan. After blinding Zhao Tai with lime powder and incapacitating the courtesan, Jiang Shu launched a powerful punch, leaving Zhao Tai’s fate unresolved.

• Jiang Shu reflected on the importance of meat, strength, and self-reliance in pursuing martial arts and immortality.
• Jiang Shu entered Green Grass Lane and made his way carefully to Zhao Tai’s house.
• Jiang Shu overheard Zhao Tai discussing how to make a virgin obey him while he was with a courtesan.
• Jiang Shu kicked open the door, threw lime powder at Zhao Tai, and struck the courtesan with his Electric Baton.
• Zhao Tai begged for his life and offered silver, but Jiang Shu attacked him with a forceful punch.

Jiang Shu killed Zhao Tai after suspecting the Green Snake Gang was targeting him, then returned to the modern world and rested. He practiced martial arts and went out with his sister, Jiang Yan Yue, for barbecue, leaving them waiting for a bus in the cold.

• Jiang Shu killed Zhao Tai, took his electric baton and some silver, and set fire to the room before escaping back to his own world.
• Jiang Shu practiced the Tiger Form Three Styles, noting that only the pounce came naturally to him, then slept until his alarm rang.
• Jiang Shu ignored messages from classmates and invited Jiang Yan Yue to an all-you-can-eat barbecue.
• Jiang Shu practiced the Horse Stance while Jiang Yan Yue got ready, then the siblings left for the bus stop.
• Jiang Shu gave Jiang Yan Yue his pajama top to keep her warm, and she joked that she would hire him as her driver when she became a CEO.

Jiang Shu took Jiang Yan Yue to eat barbecue and then to Jicheng Zoo, where they learned it was closing for relocation. He went to the Tiger Zone and began observing the tigers, studying their movements and breathing.

• Jiang Shu ate a large amount of meat at the barbecue restaurant while Jiang Yan Yue asked whether he had sensed Blood Qi.
• Jiang Shu invited Jiang Yan Yue to the zoo and joked that she could deduct his expenses from his future salary.
• Jiang Yan Yue accompanied Jiang Shu to the zoo, where they found out admission was free because it would relocate in three days.
• Jiang Shu found online reports of sudden zoo relocations and other unexplained government orders.
• Jiang Shu went to the Tiger Zone and studied the tigers’ pacing, crouching, sitting, and breathing.

Jiang Shu advanced his martial training in both worlds while weighing the value of knowledge and resources in Pingling County. He left the Poison Fang Hall with wine for Old Man Li, whose delighted memories of a stolen mouthful revealed how precious fine wine had once been to him.

• Jiang Shu spent two days studying tigers at the zoo and practicing at home, raising his Hungry Tiger stance and breathing proficiency while planning to improve his Horse Stance and Great Jing writing.
• Jiang Shu returned to the Hungry Tiger Martial Hall, where Zhou Yang offered him meat and described how Brother Han was consuming extra resources to circulate his Blood Qi.
• Jiang Shu suspected the Zhou Family expected Brother Han to repay his costly meals with service and warned Zhou Yang inwardly not to interfere with his path.
• Jiang Shu trained at the martial hall, observed the more experienced apprentices, then bought fine wine and snacks in the Inner City.
• Jiang Shu met Old Man Li outside the Poison Fang Hall and offered him wine after Old Man Li proudly recalled stealing a single mouthful at a wedding feast as a boy.

After Zhao Tai’s death left Poison Fang Hall searching for a short-haired killer, Jiang Shu resolved to become strong enough to protect himself and Old Man Li. He trained across both worlds until he achieved Qi and Blood Circulation on Xuanxing.

• Old Man Li told Jiang Shu that Poison Fang Hall was searching for the short-haired man who killed Zhao Tai, then urged him to learn martial arts before falling asleep.
• Jiang Shu carried Old Man Li to bed, then practiced the Tiger Form Three Styles and realized that the Hungry Tiger techniques required a breath of killing intent to unleash their full combat power.
• Jiang Shu crossed over to Xuanxing, considered ways to profit from the worlds’ different prices, and decided that revealing wealth in Pingling County was too dangerous without strength or backing.
• Jiang Shu practiced martial arts for fifteen hours a day across Xuanxing and Pingling County for more than half a month.
• On the last day of February, Jiang Shu made his Blood Qi circulate through his body and exhaled a stream of white vapor like a Feather Arrow, achieving Qi and Blood Circulation.

After reaching mastery in the Horse Stance, Jiang Shu focused on training toward the Whole Body Qi and Blood Great Circulation while his sister Jiang Yan Yue took Sang Zhi Rou to inspect a martial arts class. When a taekwondo coach blocked their exit and demanded an apology, Jiang Shu arrived and challenged him.

• Jiang Shu reached Horse Stance mastery, sensed his Blood Qi circulate through his body, and decided to focus on the Hungry Tiger Sitting Cave Stance and Breathing Technique.
• Jiang Yan Yue urged Jiang Shu to inspect a martial arts class with her, but he refused and continued training outside.
• Jiang Yan Yue took Sang Zhi Rou to the Yangming Martial Arts Training Class, where they questioned the quality of its Horse Stance instruction.
• After learning the coach was a South Korean taekwondo practitioner, Jiang Yan Yue tried to leave with Sang Zhi Rou.
• The coach blocked their way and demanded that they apologize for looking down on South Korean martial arts.
• Jiang Shu arrived and asked what would happen if he looked down on taekwondo.

Jiang Shu confronted Coach Park after he insulted Jiang Yan Yue and tried to attack her. Jiang Shu swiftly defeated and choked Coach Park, leaving the trainees silent and afraid.

• Jiang Shu arrived at the taekwondo training class and challenged Coach Park for refusing to let Jiang Yan Yue leave.
• Jiang Yan Yue insulted Coach Park and the trainees while trusting Jiang Shu to handle the confrontation.
• Coach Park lunged at Jiang Yan Yue, but Jiang Shu kicked him in the abdomen and lifted him by the neck.
• Jiang Shu held Coach Park aloft until he was nearly unconscious, then dropped him as the trainees fell silent.
• Jiang Shu condemned Coach Park's arrogance and asked whether he was worthy to punish anyone.

Jiang Shu rescued Jiang Yan Yue and Sang Zhi Rou from a taekwondo training class, easily defeating Coach Park and warning the girls away from such classes. After witnessing Jiang Shu’s strength, Sang Zhi Rou asked for his WeiXun contact, making Jiang Yan Yue suspect her friend had fallen for her brother.

• Coach Park threatened Jiang Shu with his junior brother, but Jiang Shu dismissed him and left with Jiang Yan Yue.
• Jiang Shu told Jiang Yan Yue and Sang Zhi Rou that the training classes in Jicheng lacked real skill and advised them to wait for official policies.
• Jiang Shu headed to a nearby park while Jiang Yan Yue and Sang Zhi Rou watched him go.
• Sang Zhi Rou praised Jiang Shu and asked Jiang Yan Yue for his WeiXun number so she could ask him about Martial Dao.
• Jiang Yan Yue suspected Sang Zhi Rou wanted to become her sister-in-law.

Jiang Shu trained relentlessly, accepted a message from his younger sister’s friend Sang Zhi Rou, and prepared to attend a special Martial Dao lecture. As Sang Zhi Rou grew interested in him, Jiang Yan Yue bluntly told her that Jiang Shu did not deserve her.

• Jiang Shu finished training in the park and agreed to attend Teacher Yan’s Martial Dao lecture the next morning.
• Jiang Shu accepted Sang Zhi Rou’s WeiXun request, introduced himself, and returned to stance training instead of chatting.
• At a milk tea shop, Sang Zhi Rou praised Jiang Shu’s discipline while Jiang Yan Yue complained about his relentless training and claimed he had lied about sensing Blood Qi.
• Sang Zhi Rou wondered what kind of girl Jiang Shu liked, and Jiang Yan Yue realized her friend was interested in him.
• Jiang Yan Yue assessed Sang Zhi Rou’s looks and family background, then told her that Jiang Shu did not deserve her.

Jiang Shu attended a school lecture where Zheng Yanbo revealed Xia Kingdom’s new Martial Dao ranks, privileges, and growing importance. The lecture ended with the announcement that Manifested Force Martial Artists would receive a monthly national support fund of ten thousand yuan without working.

• Jiang Shu arrived at Jicheng Fifth High School and joined the students gathering for a Martial Dao lecture.
• School leader introduced Zheng Yanbo, who explained how Martial Dao achievements could qualify students for university admission.
• Zheng Yanbo announced the strength levels of Qi and Blood cultivation and the newly declared Manifested Force, Hidden Force, and Transforming Force realms.
• Zheng Yanbo described Manifested Force Martial Artists’ elevated status, travel benefits, and eligibility to become Martial Arts teachers.
• Zheng Yanbo announced that Manifested Force Martial Artists would receive ten thousand yuan a month from the national Martial Arts Support Fund without needing to work.

After the Martial Dao lecture, Jiang Shu returned to class and found Wang Han had taken over his desk. Wang Han mocked Jiang Shu and teased Xu Shuhui until Jiang Shu stood up and confronted him.

• The freshmen enthusiastically discussed the Martial Arts Support Fund and their plans to become martial artists after the lecture.
• Yan Dehou dismissed Senior Year, Class Eight from class and invited students interested in switching to Martial Arts Students to visit his office.
• Xu Shuhui asked Jiang Shu whether he planned to stay at school, and Jiang Shu said he would go back later.
• Wang Han admitted he had moved his books into Jiang Shu's desk and thrown Jiang Shu's books aside, then mocked his decision to practice martial arts.
• Wang Han loudly suggested Xu Shuhui had a crush on Jiang Shu, drawing the class's attention and leaving her embarrassed.
• Jiang Shu stood up and told Wang Han, "Has no one ever told you that you talk too much?"

Jiang Shu confronted Wang Han and the classmates who backed him over Wang Han taking his desk, then demonstrated his strength by lifting the desk and dumping its contents beside the trash can. The class fell silent, and Wang Han feared Jiang Shu as he returned carrying the desk.

• Jiang Shu accused Wang Han of spreading rumors about Xu Shuhui and ordered him to return the books he had moved from Jiang Shu's desk.
• Wang Han argued that Jiang Shu had left the desk unused, while several classmates defended Wang Han and mocked Jiang Shu.
• Jiang Shu told the class that the right to use the desk belonged to him and that he would settle the matter by force.
• Jiang Shu lifted the book-filled desk with one hand and tipped its contents beside the trash can.
• The classmates were stunned by Jiang Shu's strength, and Wang Han trembled and slumped into his chair as Jiang Shu returned carrying the desk.

Jiang Shu confronted Wang Han over his provocation and was summoned to Yan Dehou’s office, where he revealed he had already achieved Qi and Blood Circulation. The teachers realized he could qualify for admission to a Key University without examination, while Wang Han’s attempt to secure punishment against him remained unresolved.

• Jiang Shu threw Wang Han’s books and test papers beside the trash can after Wang Han provoked him, then told him to retrieve them himself.
• Yan Dehou summoned Jiang Shu and Wang Han to his office, and Wang Han portrayed Jiang Shu as having attacked him and demanded severe punishment.
• Yan Dehou sent Wang Han back to class and urged Jiang Shu to apologize, believing it would prevent a disciplinary record.
• Jiang Shu suggested Yan Dehou review the classroom surveillance footage and revealed that he had achieved Qi and Blood Circulation.
• The teachers recognized that Jiang Shu’s martial arts progress could qualify him for admission to a Key University without examination.

Jiang Shu revealed to Yan Dehou that he had achieved Qi and Blood Circulation and defended his actions against Wang Han, prompting Yan to review the classroom footage and report the matter to the principal. Yan and Principal Zhang Taining arrived in Class Eight, where Wang Han mistakenly believed Jiang Shu was about to be punished.

• Jiang Shu explained how to verify Qi and Blood Circulation and said the school could test his strength by preparing a six-hundred-jin object.
• Jiang Shu told Yan Dehou that Wang Han had occupied his desk, insulted his martial arts training, and disrupted Xu Shuhui's studies, and he refused to apologize.
• Yan Dehou watched the classroom surveillance footage, sent it to the principal, and hurried to report what he had seen.
• Jiang Shu returned to Class Eight, confirmed to Xu Shuhui that he had achieved Qi and Blood Sensing, and ignored Wang Han's taunts.
• Yan Dehou entered the classroom with Principal Zhang Taining, and Wang Han wrongly assumed they had come to punish Jiang Shu.