Recaps

Loa grew from an abandoned infant into a disciplined young warrior, finding friendship with Linley and enduring Old Jack’s death. After a mercenary battle and a clash between powerful mages devastated Wushan Town, Loa reached the ruins of the smithy that held his grandfather’s memories.

• Old Jack found the abandoned infant outside his smithy, named him Loa, and raised him in Wushan Town as fragments of his former life returned.
• Loa trained under Hillman, refined his swordsmanship into Gale Thrust, and began reading about the wider world at Baruch Mansion.
• Loa killed a Rockskin Boar, gathered herbs and materials, and grew closer to Linley as they trained and promised to leave Wushan Town together.
• Old Jack died shortly after Loa’s tenth birthday, and Loa buried him, drew his portrait, and vowed to become strong enough to control his own fate.
• Harris pursued wounded mercenaries into Wushan Town and killed them for the Depelo Shadow Diamond, leaving Linley and Loa shaken by the display of magical power.
• Dillon and Rudi fought above Wushan Town, and Rudi’s Meteor Fall sent flaming rocks crashing into the town as Hillman ordered everyone to take cover.
• Hogg and Hiri rescued Linley and Wharton from the storehouse rubble, while Dillon destroyed the object Rudi pursued and forced him to withdraw.
• Loa reached the blacksmith shop after the battle and knelt before its ruins.

After the destruction of Wushan Town, Loa left to make his own way, rising through mercenary work and mastering new battle-qi techniques. He survived the Magical Beast Mountain Range, broke through to Rank 5, and headed deeper into the forest.

• Loa mourned Old Jack and the destruction of Wushan Town, then left for Fenlai City with the resolve to become strong enough to protect what mattered to him.
• Loa joined the Mercenary Guild, took on dangerous jobs, and worked for blacksmith Bob while saving enough gold to buy books on Battle-qi and physical conditioning.
• Loa broke through to Rank 4, reunited with Linley and Hillman, and revealed his supreme-grade wind and lightning affinities before returning to Fenlai City.
• Loa bought wind and lightning cultivation manuals, developed Thunder Collapse, and traveled to the Magical Beast Mountain Range to train.
• Loa survived a viper bite, fought Fang Wolves, and killed a Shadow Cat after refining his ability to sense and move with the wind.
• Loa realized Weapon Combat Battle-qi could guide his wind and lightning Battle-qi without forcibly merging them, then broke through to Rank 5 and ventured deeper into the forest.

Loa returned from the mountains, sold his spoils, and forged a new Wind-Thunder cultivation path before setting out again to find an Earth Vein Lizard. After reaching Blackstone Canyon and breaking through to middle sixth rank, he found a seventh-level lizard and began planning how to overcome it.

• Loa killed three suspicious travelers, returned to Cast Iron Alley, and sold his spoils for a Magic Crystal Card holding 11,825 gold.
• Loa bought the Storm and Ten Thousand Jun manuals, developed the Wind-Thunder Meridian-Expansion Method, and advanced to late rank five while forging a thousand-fold steel sword.
• Loa prepared for a long expedition, visited Linley and Bob, then entered the Magical Beast Mountain Range to search for an Earth Vein Lizard.
• Loa killed a Redflame Fire Lizard pair, broke through to Rank 6, and defeated the surviving male with Nine Heavens Wind-Thunder Fury.
• Loa recovered in the Coniferous Forest Swamp, then fought a pack of Wind Wolves and awakened an embryonic sword force while severely wounding their king.
• Loa escaped to a waterfall cave, recovered, devised the Unpredictable Thunder Shadow Step, and began developing the Wind-Thunder Heavenly Pillar Method.
• Loa reached Blackstone Canyon, trained through heavy snowfall, tempered his tailbone, and followed fresh tracks to a hidden cave.
• Loa observed the seventh-level Earth Vein Lizard feeding on Iron-Eating Ants, advanced to middle sixth rank, and began planning how to defeat it.

Loa killed the Earth Vein Lizard, survived an ambush by Eng’s group, and grew stronger while tracing the Thunder Prison Sword Saint’s legacy. After killing Balk and uncovering evidence of a scheme tied to the Radiant Church, Loa joined Bob in forging a new Stariron sword.

• Loa poisoned and killed the Earth Vein Lizard, then collected thirty-three drops of spinal fluid after refining its spine over seven days.
• Eng and his warriors attacked Loa for the spinal fluid, but Loa killed Eng’s group and learned from Peng Ernst that Balk sought the Thunder Prison Sword Saint’s legacy.
• Loa spent the winter cultivating, then traveled to Windhowl Cliff to study the turbulent winds before heading back toward Fenlai City.
• Loa saved Wot Lucas’s caravan from a band of assassins, returned to Fenlai City, and reunited with Bob and Linley.
• Loa strengthened his meridians and battle-qi, then asked Wot and Old Dao to investigate Black Fang and locate Stariron.
• Loa accepted Tibu’s request to hunt a Level Eight Flamewalking Dragon in exchange for Stariron ore, then discovered Balk’s lair beneath Lilian’s pleasure house and killed Balk.
• Loa found the Thunder Prison map and evidence that Earl Els gathered women for people connected to the Radiant Church, then concealed the chamber and destroyed the letters.
• Loa visited Old Jack’s grave and worked with Bob to fold, shape, and finish a Stariron sword infused with his Two Forms Battle-qi and Nine Heavens Wind-Thunder Sword Force.