Recaps

Gu Sheng used his proficiency panel to turn woodcutting into a path to survival, then learned archery and began hunting with Gu Erniu. After building his strength and reputation, he set out alone to earn enough for martial arts training.

• Gu Sheng recovered memories of his past life, resolved to survive his father’s death, and began chopping wood for Steward Gu He, discovering that the work advanced his proficiency.
• Gu Sheng improved his chopping skill and earnings, then used it to kill wolves during an attack on Gu Family Village and save Li Lian and Gu Wan.
• Gu Jingang invited Gu Sheng to train after he turned fifteen, while Gu Erniu offered to teach him archery in gratitude for saving his family.
• Gu Sheng mastered woodcutting and advanced his archery through daily practice, then joined Gu Erniu, Zhang Ze, and Gu Youfu to hunt a wild boar in Cang Mountain.
• Gu Sheng helped the hunters fend off Li Yan’s rival group, returned safely with his share of the boar, and traded meat for millet after hearing grain prices might rise.
• Gu Sheng continued hunting and training, reached Mastery in archery, and declined marriage proposals while saving for martial arts instruction.
• Gu Sheng told Gu Erniu he planned to hunt alone, accepted his stronger bow, asked Gu He for leave, and entered the mountains.

Gu Sheng hunted the Silver Fox, killed Li Yan and his companions to save Gu Erniu, and concealed what happened while sharpening his archery. On the journey to Canghe County, he bought a two-stone bow and helped defend the village convoy from Wang Chong’s bandits, who were routed at the cost of several lives while Wang Chong escaped.

• Gu Sheng hunted alone, advanced Chopping Wood to Tier 1 Rend, and became one of Gu Family Village’s most admired hunters.
• When Li Yan and three hunters from Li Family Fort tried to take Gu Sheng’s deer, Gu Sheng escaped their first attack and then wounded Li Yan before pursuing the Silver Fox.
• Gu Sheng killed the Silver Fox, then returned to rescue Gu Erniu from Li Yan and his men, killing all four and helping Gu Erniu cover up their deaths.
• Gu Sheng perfected Archery while the hunters blamed Li Yan’s disappearance on the Black Sand Gang, then joined the village convoy to Canghe County.
• Gu Sheng sold his pelts and herbs, including the Silver Fox pelt, and bought a used two-stone bow and Black Blood Powder before returning with the convoy.
• Wang Chong’s bandits ambushed the convoy, and Gu Sheng and Gu Erniu fought from the forest while Gu Dajiang led the villagers’ defense and Gu Renxu was killed.
• Gu Sheng poisoned Zhang Da with a Black Blood Powder arrow, allowing Gu Dajiang to kill him, before Gu Jingang arrived and helped drive off Wang Chong’s bandits.
• Gu Jingang and Gu Dajiang defeated the bandits’ attack, but Wang Chong escaped, and Gu Jingang learned of Gu Sheng’s role and said they would discuss his prospects back in the village.

Gu Sheng entered martial training, secretly advanced to Stone Skin, and bought weapons and manuals through the black market while navigating the Black Sand Gang’s growing pressure. He returned to Gu Family Village with a new disguise art to learn, as Li Yu continued investigating Li Yan’s death through Han Lu.

• Gu Changming offered Gu Sheng a chance to train, and Gu Sheng accepted before learning the Iron Stone Fist from Gu Jingang and Gu Xiaojiang.
• Gu Sheng practiced through winter and mastered the Iron Stone Fist by uniting its training and combat methods, then broke through to Stone Skin and became a martial artist.
• Gu Sheng hid his breakthrough, continued hunting for income, and traveled with Gu Family Village’s convoy to Canghe County, where he learned that Old Mr. Zhang had died.
• Gu Sheng entered the black market, bought Body Tempering Paste, a four-stone bow, and the Body Shifting and Bone Changing Art, then killed a martial artist who tried to rob him.
• Gu Sheng returned safely to the convoy and traveled home while Han Lu agreed to investigate Li Yan’s death for Li Yu, who continued serving him while seeking revenge.
• Gu Sheng practiced the Body Shifting and Bone Changing Art for four days, and his panel recorded it at Beginner 0%.

Gu Sheng rose from Iron Skin to the Blood Refining Realm while eliminating Li Yu and escaping the consequences by framing Du Jiangbo. As danger spread from Cang Mountain and the Black Sand Gang, Gu Sheng attended a Black Market Auction, escaped its raid, and pursued the injured woman in white after she drew ambushers onto him.

• Gu Sheng reached Iron Skin, then surveyed Li Family Fort, killed Li Yu, and forced Du Jiangbo to take responsibility before Du Jiangbo fled and was presumed dead.
• Gu Sheng advanced Body Shifting and Bone Changing Art and Iron Stone Fist, hunted a tiger, rejected a marriage proposal, and broke through to Jade Skin.
• Gu Sheng bought Blood Nourishing Powder, obtained the Body Shifting and Bone Changing Art’s matching ointment and Snake Breathing Technique, and trained toward Blood Refining.
• After more than forty medicinal baths, Gu Sheng reached the limit of his flesh and blood and advanced to the Blood Refining Realm, then killed a brown bear and warned the villagers to avoid Cang Mountain.
• A demon fox killed hunters including Gu Jinmu and Zhang Ze, and Liu Yuanhu later rewarded Gu Family Village for helping hunt it before announcing plans to move against the Black Sand Gang.
• Gu Sheng attended the Black Market Auction in disguise, bought the Flying Thunder Leg manual, and watched the County Magistrate order his soldiers to kill everyone after violence erupted over the Heart of the Demon Fox.
• Gu Sheng escaped the raid, refused the injured woman in white’s request to cooperate, then killed the ambushers she lured onto him and pursued her for her Blood Strengthening Pill.