Recaps

Chen Jue broke through the First Carrier Battle Group’s torpedoes and depth charges with his sword qi and reached the Japanese warship Izumo. As the fleet’s commander struggled to respond, Chen Jue cut the Izumo in half from bow to stern.

• Captain Izu Taro learned that the target was a humanoid weapon that had destroyed two F-35s, then ordered the Izumo to advance as an antisubmarine escort.
• The First Carrier Battle Group launched torpedoes and depth charges, but Chen Jue detonated them with golden sword qi while swimming underwater.
• Rear Admiral Barton watched the target breach multiple interception lines and froze, unable to devise a response.
• Chen Jue recognized the Izumo by its golden Chrysanthemum insignia and swam beneath its bow as its crew fired machine guns.
• Chen Jue drove a scarlet-gold gang qi sword through the Izumo’s hull and dragged it from bow to stern, splitting the ship in half.

Chen Jue split the Izumo in half with a Gang Qi longsword, leaving the ship sinking and its crew in chaos. He then approached the Nimitz-class carrier, where the crew discovered that all four propellers had been cut off.

• Chen Jue sliced the Izumo from bow to stern, triggering explosions and sending the ship's two halves tilting into the sea.
• Izu Taro ordered the crew to abandon ship after learning the Izumo was split and its emergency team had died; he then shot himself, while Major Gis fled.
• Chen Jue surfaced, assessed the Gang Qi he had spent, and submerged again to approach the carrier at the center of the 1st Carrier Strike Group.
• General Barton ordered defensive precautions as Chen Jue neared the carrier, but the ship shuddered and stopped instead of suffering a laser strike.
• A soldier reported that the enemy had cut off all four of the carrier's propellers.

Chen Jue disabled the Nimitz-class carrier and its escorting warships by cutting off their propellers, while killing the frogmen sent to attack him. The 1st Carrier Strike Group was left stranded in the Pacific, and General Barton collapsed after learning the entire fleet had been paralyzed.

• Chen Jue cut off all four propellers of the Nimitz-class carrier, leaving it without propulsion.
• Thirteen Eagle Country frogmen fired underwater rounds at Chen Jue, who returned the rounds and killed them.
• Chen Jue swam toward the nearest cruiser as General Barton reported the carrier's propulsion failure to the Pentagon.
• Barton learned that all thirteen frogmen had died, while the carrier's hull remained undamaged.
• Alerts revealed that every escorting warship and the Clark-class supply ship had also lost their propellers, and Barton collapsed from a stroke.

After Chen Jue crippled Eagle Country’s carrier strike group and sank the Izumo, Eagle Country blamed the sinking on an onboard accident while China identified him as the culprit. Chen Jue swam across the Pacific and, finding radioactive seawater near an unfamiliar shore, realized he had reached Japan.

• Eagle Country’s operations commander ended the failed interception, ordered a report on Chen Jue, and prepared to brief the president.
• Eagle Country announced that the Izumo had sunk in an ammunition-magazine accident, reported 223 Japanese personnel rescued, and restricted the rescued crew from revealing what happened.
• Satellite analysts discovered that Eagle Country’s carrier group was stranded, while Chinese officials traced the Izumo’s destruction to Chen Jue and learned he was still somewhere in the western Pacific.
• Experts arrived at Area 15 and examined the Sun Wheel Chen Jue had left in his return capsule, learning that it was more than 7,600 years old.
• Chen Jue swam and flew west across the Pacific, entered radioactive seawater near an unfamiliar shore, and concluded that he had reached Japan.

After crossing the Pacific, Chen Jue landed on Japan’s coast, concealed his gear, borrowed clothes, and ate at an izakaya while learning Japanese. He followed a group of gangsters to a dockside warehouse, where he attacked them by firing a toothpick through their leader’s eye and brain.

• Chen Jue buried his Aerospace Combat Suit, Tang Dao, and javelins on a remote beach, then stole a business suit and slippers from a nearby house.
• Chen Jue ate at an izakaya, watched news of the Izumo’s sinking, and quickly learned enough Japanese to understand and order food.
• When eight drunken men in black left the izakaya, Chen Jue followed them and rode atop one of their minivans without paying his bill.
• At a warehouse, armed men mistook Chen Jue for an accomplice and confronted the gangsters who had brought him there.
• Chen Jue taunted the men in broken Japanese, then launched a toothpick through the leading gangster’s eye and out the back of his head.

Chen Jue stood unharmed against a warehouse full of gunmen and turned their bullets against them, then questioned the few survivors about their deal. One survivor revealed that the information was in a vehicle, leaving Chen Jue with a lead to investigate.

• After Chen Jue killed the black-clad leader with a toothpick, the bald man ordered the gangsters to shoot him.
• Chen Jue caught a bullet, endured a barrage without injury, and flicked the bullet into the darkness, killing a hidden henchman.
• The bald man and the remaining gangsters fired again, but Chen Jue shook bullets off the floor and sent them flying through the warehouse with Dragon Roar Across the Four Seas.
• Chen Jue gathered the surviving gunmen and learned that one belonged to the Matsuba-kai but knew nothing about the deal.
• After Chen Jue killed that gunman with an uncontrolled burst of hidden strength, the last survivor said the deal’s details were in the vehicle.

Chen Jue killed the surviving gunman and discovered that the gangsters had been moving four unusual injections made by the Hong Mou Group. After a phone call exposed the Matsuba-kai’s interest in the goods, Chen Jue left the warehouse, while vice-chairman Kozuka Jirō arrived and ordered a hunt for him.

• Chen Jue learned that the gunmen belonged to the Black Dragon Group, then killed the last survivor with Hidden Strength.
• Chen Jue counted forty-three corpses, took money and a jacket, and found four radiation-emitting injections bearing the Hong Mou Group logo in a hidden lead box.
• Chen Jue answered a phone call from a man seeking Haruta and the goods, then left the warehouse carrying the cases.
• Kozuka Jirō arrived with over a hundred armed Matsuba-kai gangsters, saw the massacre, and ordered his subordinates to identify Chen Jue and contact the Black Dragon Group.

Chen Jue returned to the hotel with the special reagent he had taken from the gangsters and swallowed it after inspecting it. The drug triggered a mild genetic transformation, slightly increasing his constitution, and he wondered whether more doses could make him much stronger.

• Inuzuka Jirō learned that the shipment, a briefcase of cash, and Mitsuno-kun’s clothes were missing, then suspected someone planned to assassinate the Matsuba-kai president.
• Chen Jue returned to the izakaya, paid for his meal, and took a taxi to an upscale resort hotel.
• Chen Jue booked the hotel’s best suite, ordered new clothes, and soaked in its indoor hot spring while examining the reagent.
• Chen Jue drank the reagent and observed it damage and repair his cells, producing a genetic transformation.
• Chen Jue felt the drug’s effects subside and saw his constitution increase by 0.01.

Chen Jue drank three more radiation-based genetic drugs, gaining constitution at the cost of several days of lifespan, then relaxed in a Japanese hot spring. When Matsuba-kai attackers ambushed him at the hotel, he killed two with a bitten dagger blade and a forehead flick.

• Chen Jue realized the genetic drug reduced his lifespan, but drank three more vials and gained 0.03 constitution.
• Chen Jue soaked in the hot spring for more than two hours before a hotel employee knocked at his door.
• Chen Jue sensed four people waiting outside and opened the door to face an ambush.
• A black-suited attacker slashed at Chen Jue, who bit through the dagger and spat its blade into the man's head.
• Two gunmen fired at Chen Jue, but he dodged and used the first attacker's body as cover before flicking one gunman's forehead and bursting his head.

Chen Jue killed the Black Dragon Group assassins who attacked him at the hotel and learned their headquarters was in Shizuoka Prefecture. After leaving the wrecked room, he reflected on the Mantis Sword origins of the Japanese kendo used by one attacker.

• Chen Jue killed one armed man in black with a Great Spear Nods strike, then crushed another man's gun and right hand.
• The surviving attacker told Chen Jue that he belonged to the Black Dragon Group and that Matsuba-kai had supplied the intelligence for the assassination.
• Chen Jue learned the Black Dragon Group headquarters was in Shizuoka Prefecture, then killed the captive after memorizing its address.
• Chen Jue changed clothes, took his briefcase, and left the hotel room after deciding it was no longer safe to stay.
• Chen Jue identified the dead swordsman's kendo as a form derived from the Mantis Sword Technique and considered its history.

Chen Jue left the hotel after smashing its locked glass entrance and found the Matsuba-kai and Black Dragon Group waiting to capture him. He overwhelmed the gang members and reached Inuzuka Jirō’s car, where he tore off its door and mocked its flimsy construction.

• Chen Jue pushed through the hotel’s locked glass entrance and left yen on the ground for the damage.
• Kawashima Minako waited with Inuzuka Jirō as their subordinates failed to capture Chen Jue, who emerged carrying Haruta’s leather case.
• Inuzuka Jirō sent Matsuba-kai members to seize Chen Jue, and gunfire and screams soon erupted on the hillside.
• Inuzuka Jirō assumed his gang had won when the gunfire stopped, but none of his men returned to report.
• Chen Jue approached Inuzuka Jirō’s Toyota Century and tore off its door, complaining that Japanese cars were poorly made.

Chen Jue overwhelmed Inuzuka Jirō’s armed men, captured him, and pursued Kawashima Minako into the mountain woods. After recognizing her stolen martial arts, he crushed her lower body and left Inuzuka Jirō injured in the car.

• Chen Jue ripped the door off Inuzuka Jirō’s car and demanded to know what the drug was for after declaring that he had defeated Jirō’s men.
• Kawashima Minako attacked Chen Jue with a dagger, but he snapped its blade with a finger flick, accidentally cutting off Inuzuka Jirō’s ear.
• Chen Jue crushed Inuzuka Jirō’s shoulder and shattered both his knees before chasing Kawashima Minako into the woods.
• Kawashima Minako used Snake-Crane Double Form and Manchu Bökh against Chen Jue, but he recognized her techniques and remained unmoved.
• Chen Jue pressed down on Kawashima Minako’s shoulders and crushed the lower half of her body into the mountain soil.

Chen Jue captured Kawashima Minako and Inuzuka Jirō after crippling them, then forced Inuzuka to guide him to the Matsuba-kai chairman so he could learn what the mysterious reagent was for. As they drove, Minako woke and Chen began questioning her about her family and martial arts.

• Chen Jue cauterized Kawashima Minako’s wounds after crushing her lower body, then carried her back to the car.
• Inuzuka Jirō tried to crawl away, but Chen Jue stopped him and demanded information about the reagent.
• Inuzuka told Chen Jue that the Matsuba-kai chairman and senior members were the only ones who knew the reagent’s purpose, so Chen forced him to enter the headquarters’ address into the navigation system.
• Kawashima Minako woke during the drive and realized her legs were gone, while Chen Jue told her to stop wailing.
• Chen Jue asked Minako whether Kawashima Yoshiko was her ancestor because she knew Manchurian Bökh.

Chen Jue forced Inuzuka Jirō to take him to the Matsuba-kai headquarters in Kyoto, where he confronted chairman Inada Kishikuma. When the chairman’s attendants attacked, Chen Jue killed one with a hairpin.

• Kawashima Minako told Chen Jue that the Black Dragon Group’s Elite Training Camp taught its members martial arts and assassination skills.
• Chen Jue drove for more than three hours to Kyoto with Inuzuka Jirō and knocked Kawashima Minako unconscious before entering the Matsuba-kai headquarters.
• Inuzuka Jirō led Chen Jue past the guards and up to the top-floor office, where chairman Inada Kishikuma met with seven elders.
• Chen Jue threw Inuzuka Jirō aside, grabbed Inada Kishikuma, and demanded to know his last words.
• Inada Kishikuma recognized Chen Jue and called for protection, prompting his two attendants to attack.
• Chen Jue twisted one attendant’s arm and hurled a hairpin through the other attendant’s forehead.

Chen Jue slaughtered the Matsuba-kai bodyguards and elders in Inada Kishikuma’s office, leaving the chairman alive to question him about a drug from the Hong Mou Group. When Inada refused to cooperate, Chen Jue suspended him outside a window on the twenty-ninth floor.

• Chen Jue pinned Inada Kishikuma’s hands to the tatami with chopsticks as the bodyguards attacked.
• Chen Jue killed the charging bodyguards with powerful strikes, then drew a katana to cut down four armed men.
• Chen Jue killed the six Matsuba-kai elders after they opened fire, leaving Inuzuka Jirō and Inada Kishikuma alive.
• Chen Jue asked Inada what the drug from the Hong Mou Group was used for, but Inada refused to submit.
• Chen Jue carried Inada to a broken window and held him outside the twenty-ninth floor while asking if he had ever ridden a drop tower.

Chen Jue learned that the Matsuba-kai abducted people for radiation-emitting drug trials tied to the Black Dragon Group, then fought his way into the group’s base. There, he confronted Chairman Tagawa and recognized the foreigner overseeing the drug recovery operation as Mr. John.

• Chen Jue questioned Inada Kishikuma about the drugs, learned that abducted people were being used in clinical trials, and dropped him from the building.
• Chen Jue kicked Inuzuka Jirō out of the window, escaped the Matsuba-kai headquarters, and drove toward the Black Dragon Group’s base with Kawashima Minako.
• Kawashima Minako woke during the drive, and Chen Jue carried her through the Black Dragon Group’s guarded entrance, killing the guards who tried to stop him.
• Chen Jue reached an old castle keep and overheard Chairman Tagawa discussing the drugs with a foreign consul general identified as Mr. John.
• Chen Jue entered the room with a bloodied katana and greeted Mr. John as an old acquaintance.

Chen Jue broke into the Black Dragon Group’s headquarters, killed chairman Tagawa Masayoshi, and forced John to lead him to the Hong Mou Group’s laboratory beneath Mount Fuji. There, John explained the site’s connection to meteorites and the legend of Xu Fu’s Penglai, as Chen Jue sought research that might help with his radiation mutation.

• John recognized Chen Jue, who overpowered him and demanded to know where Eugene was; John said Eugene had gone somewhere far away.
• Chen Jue confronted Tagawa Masayoshi over the Black Dragon Group’s human experiments and offered him one chance to attack.
• Tagawa Masayoshi tried to flee, but Chen Jue intercepted and killed him with a palm strike to the neck.
• Chen Jue ordered John to take him to the Hong Mou Group’s nearby laboratory, and John led him through a hidden entrance beneath the castle.
• As they rode through the underground passage, John said the laboratory stood near a meteorite impact zone beneath Mount Fuji and connected the area to Xu Fu’s Penglai.

Chen Jue discovered that Hong Mou Group used Mount Fuji’s magma, Meteorite fragments, and spent nuclear fuel to synthesize a drug intended to create “New Humans.” By testing his Martial Dao Gang Qi in the magma, he found a way to remove radioactive contamination and began immersing his hand to purify more of his energy.

• John led Chen Jue through an underground laboratory inside Mount Fuji and explained that the drug was made with Meteorite fragments, spent fuel, and geothermal heat.
• Chen Jue learned that the laboratory’s Meteorite fragments came from material buried near Mount Fuji and watched researchers synthesize the reagent beside a magma pool.
• John explained that the drug was being developed for Eagle Country’s “New Humans” project, which aimed to counter Chen Jue’s Ten Body-Tempering Forms.
• Chen Jue entered the high-temperature, radioactive area with John and observed the synthesis process at close range.
• Chen Jue exposed a thin strand of Martial Dao Gang Qi to the magma and discovered that it separated out the radioactive material, offering a way to treat Radiation Mutation.
• Chen Jue tested the magma’s temperature with his palm and plunged his hand into it to purify more of his Gang Qi.

Chen Jue purged the radioactive contamination from his body by bathing in magma, restoring his attributes and gaining radiation resistance and high-temperature adaptation. After taking the New Human Project files from John, he left the office just as Mount Fuji began to stir.

• Chen Jue immersed his hand in magma, then submerged himself to use the heat to purge radioactive material from his body.
• After twenty minutes, Chen Jue finished the purification, restored his attributes and lifespan, and gained [Radiation Resistance] and [High-Temperature Adaptation].
• Chen Jue dressed, ordered John to take him to the laboratory, and demanded the New Human Project and clinical trial data.
• Chen Jue found records of human experiments, including records dating to World War II, and had John copy the files to a USB drive.
• Chen Jue left John alone in the office, where John noticed an alarm sounding as Mount Fuji began stirring.

After discovering records of human experimentation, Chen Jue deliberately triggered Mount Fuji’s long-dormant volcano and rode its eruption into the sky. He landed on a piece of magma melt headed toward a guarded shrine near the mountain.

• A researcher told John that Chen Jue had broken through the laboratory glass and entered the magma pool as Mount Fuji began to stir.
• John was engulfed when magma surged through the underground laboratory, destroying it and its occupants.
• Chen Jue dived deep into the magma chamber and smashed its surface with a punch, releasing the magma stored beneath it.
• Mount Fuji erupted, sending magma and rocks into the sky as residents fled and television crews watched.
• Chen Jue surfed the erupting magma toward a guarded shrine two kilometers from Mount Fuji.

Chen Jue steered Mount Fuji’s lava onto a shrine, destroying it and igniting fires across the surrounding area as the eruption devastated Japan. After changing into clothes he stole from a burning house, he recovered the hidden USB drive and prepared to go home.

• Chen Jue guided a chunk of molten lava into the shrine, blasting apart its buildings and spirit tablets.
• Chen Jue intensified the flames among the shrine’s ruins while the lava rain killed guards and destroyed fire engines.
• Mount Fuji erupted again, sending torrents of lava down its slopes and spreading ash and fire as news of the disaster reached the world.
• Chen Jue stole clothes from a half-burned home, spat out the hidden USB drive, and said he was going home.

After escaping the area around Mount Fuji’s eruption, Chen Jue reached Narita International Airport and found a way to return to China without money. He clung to an Air China jet bound for Magic City and settled onto its tail, where he began wishing he could share the passengers’ breakfast.

• Chen Jue left the erupting Mount Fuji area and headed west, deciding he had no money for a normal trip home.
• Chen Jue reached Narita International Airport, spotted an Air China plane, and meditated in Airport Park until morning.
• Chen Jue used martial dao gang qi to leap onto the departing Air China jet and cling to its tail.
• Chen Jue confirmed the plane was flying toward Magic City, then sat against its tail fin at cruising altitude.
• Chen Jue heard the cabin crew serving breakfast and wished they would bring him noodles or sticky rice with soy milk.

After returning from Japan, Chen Jue left a passenger jet above Magic City and swam more than five hundred kilometers to An County. He reached home as a nearby submarine detected his extraordinary speed and began investigating the unknown target.

• Chen Jue rode the passenger jet to Magic City, then jumped from its tail and slowed his fall with Gang Qi before landing in the Pu River.
• Rather than enter Magic City, Chen Jue swam south along the coast toward his hometown of An County.
• Chen Jue completed a circuitous swim of more than five hundred kilometers from the Pu River to the mouth of the Yun River.
• A submarine detected the fast-moving target, and Captain Liu Zhihai and an intelligence officer debated whether it was a fish or a man-made submersible.
• Chen Jue swam upstream past Little Bund and Yun River Bridge, came ashore in Panlong Town, and declared that he was finally back.

Chen Jue returned to Chen Village, cleaned his old home, and used his qi and blood to regrow his hair after the lava had burned it off. The feat unlocked a new [Metabolism Control] status, leaving him pleased with his appearance and newly expanded abilities.

• Chen Jue ran from the riverbank to his home in Chen Village in only a few dozen seconds.
• Chen Jue entered his locked house by jumping onto the second-floor balcony, then rapidly aired it out and cleaned it.
• Chen Jue threw away the clothes he had picked up in Japan, showered, and changed into his own clothes.
• Chen Jue used [Inner Vision] and circulated his qi and blood to regrow his hair, eyebrows, and eyelashes within five minutes.
• Chen Jue gained the level 9 [Metabolism Control] status and realized that regrowing his hair had let him intervene in his body's metabolism.

Chen Jue returned to Panlong Town and discovered how widely the Body-Tempering Exercise had changed everyday life and sports during his six months away. After seeing its effects firsthand, he left the restaurant owner astonished by devouring three extra-large bowls and ordering more.

• Chen Jue took cash from home and ran to Panlong Town to eat before contacting the base.
• Chen Jue noticed a Body-Tempering Exercise training center and tonic advertisements, and realized the exercise had spread through daily life.
• Chen Jue watched a report about Su Tian setting a new 100-meter world record of 8.02 seconds and saw that records across many sports had fallen.
• The restaurant owner told Chen Jue that locals practiced the exercise and that it had improved their strength and work capacity.
• Chen Jue rapidly finished three extra-large bowls of noodles and wontons, then ordered egg fried rice, leaving the owner stunned.