Recaps

Zhao Er sold his centipedes, learned and fused two cultivation arts, and used poison to advance while protecting his family from the Longwind Gang and the Wang Family steward. After becoming an Entry-Level Martial Artist, he returned to mountain gathering and discovered that fighting with poison drained the toxins stored in his blood.

• Zhao Er sold his dried centipedes, visited Zhao Da, and received the Five Poisons Art manual along with warnings about its deadly risks.
• After the Longwind Gang whipped Zhao Dazhu for unpaid protection silver, Zhao Er killed Li San and an underling, then bought the Ginseng Spirit Art from Zhao Cai.
• Zhao Er refused the Wang Family steward’s demand to reveal how he entered the mountains, and later discovered that the Five Poisons Art and Ginseng Spirit Art had fused into the Blue-grade Five Poisons Returning to Origin Body.
• Zhao Er cultivated by absorbing toxins and encountered the Wang Family steward hunting a Venom-Eating Marten, where he attacked and survived the poisoned steward’s collapse.
• The White Marten returned to Zhao Er with a pit viper, and Zhao Er used the snakes, pills, and poison glands to fuel his cultivation and trigger a breakthrough.
• Zhao Er condensed his first wisp of Blood-Energy Force and found that his punches could deliver Heavenly Dragon Toxin, then told his family he had become an Entry-Level Martial Artist.
• Zhao Er shared a stag with the villagers, planned to sell its hide and antlers, and learned that using toxins in battle depleted the poison in his blood.

Zhao Er strengthened his martial arts, challenged the Longwind Gang, and fused the Yin Body Art with the Nine-Turn Golden Armor Art. With White Marten’s help, he killed a variant serpent and brought it to County Town, where Sun Yuanying came to inspect it.

• Zhao Er sold his hunting goods, sparred with Zhao Da, and revealed that Spirit Snake Flicking Tongue could poison its target.
• Zhao Er bought the Nine-Turn Golden Armor Art, trained with Iron Dregs, and learned about the upcoming Grand Examination.
• When Yang attacked Zhao Damin over protection money, Zhao Er broke Yang’s thigh and later ambushed Longwind Gang Leader Luo Yu, killing him with his armor art and poison.
• Gao Du replaced Luo Yu as gang leader, promised the gang would stop harassing Zhao Family Village, and offered Zhao Er a position that he declined.
• Zhao Er bought Twin Iron Halberds and, after six days, fused the Yin Body Art and Nine-Turn Golden Armor Art into the Nine-Turn Golden Body Art.
• White Marten led Zhao Er to a clearing, where they fought and killed a variant black snake guarding a Spirit Plant.
• Zhao Er brought the Blackwater Strange Serpent to County Town and asked Ning Mu to arrange its sale to the Sun Family.
• Ning Mu brought Sun Yuanying to inspect the serpent, and he pierced its hide with two fingers.

Zhao Er moved to County Town, strengthened his cultivation, and joined the Ning Family as an Attendant while pursuing his own hunts. In the mountains, he killed two Caiyuan Sect fighters who used the Essence Reaping Art, then met Wu Xing and hinted he could identify them.

• Ning Mu helped Zhao Er buy a yin-rich house near the Manor House, where Zhao Er cultivated and advanced his martial arts while learning of missing martial artists and blood-drained corpses.
• Zhao Er killed a Golden-Backed Heavenly Dragon, sold half its meat to Sun Yuanying, and used its poison to develop a frozen toxin attack.
• Zhao Er moved to County Town and agreed to become a Ning Family Attendant on the condition that the Ning Family support his parents.
• White Marten led Zhao Er to a gorge, where he burned out a spider cave and killed a variant beast spider before unseen attackers trapped and wounded him.
• Zhao Er poisoned the Sinew Transformation Realm man and woman until they died, then used the settlement energy to heal himself and complete the second turn of the Nine-Turn Golden Body Art.
• Zhao Er found the Essence Reaping Art and Human-Skin Masks among the attackers’ belongings, and learned that the art absorbed vital essence while generating Blood-Baleful Energy.
• Wu Xing arrived to investigate an Evil-Path Martial Artist base, accepted Zhao Er’s account of the fight, and offered to collect his mission merits.
• Zhao Er told Wu Xing that he might know the identities of the two Caiyuan Sect fighters.

Zhao Er hunted powerful variant beasts, used their toxins to reach the Sinew Transformation Realm, and killed Red Tiger after the gang targeted him. He strengthened his martial arts and weapons while the Grand Exam began, ending as he faced its two-thousand-jin strength test.

• Zhao Er killed the attackers who ambushed him near the Mountain Range, then learned that the Witch Toad and other variant beasts could provide useful toxins.
• After Sun Yuanying revealed that her family’s Witch Toad hunting party had vanished, Zhao Er hunted the toad himself and found a Sun Family saber and a dead Sinew Transformation martial artist at the swamp.
• Zhao Er sold the Witch Toad’s parts to Steward Zhang, whose public leak drew attackers to Zhao Er’s courtyard, where Zhao Er poisoned and killed the Red Tiger Gang deputy leader and his men.
• Zhao Er learned Starry Scatterhand and used toxins to develop poisoned Ice Needles, while Dian Zhang confronted Red Tiger and secured a two-month promise not to attack Zhao Er personally.
• Zhao Er cultivated to the Sinew Transformation Realm, hunted the Rockhide Tiger and Tranquilizing Giant Bees, and learned to use their toxins against opponents.
• Zhao Er infiltrated Red Tiger’s home and killed him with poison and a halberd, then accepted a peace offering from Red Tiger’s former deputy and returned to training.
• Zhao Er advanced the Nine-Turn Golden Body Art, discovered that its Fine-Gold Energy could sharpen his halberds, and received further manuals and the Golden Metal Sky-Rending Halberd from Dian Zhang.
• At the Grand Exam, Zhao Er arrived after Zhao Da reported the results so far, watched Sun Yuanying earn upper A, and gripped the two-thousand-jin stone lock when the examiner called his name.