Recaps

Gu Qing reunited with his former teacher Liu Zhiyi, learned about her financial troubles, and asked her to teach him how to train cats so he could pursue her Beast Taming King attribute. While Liu Zhiyi taught him, Gu Yao filmed them together and accused Gu Qing of flirting with his former teacher in the family chat.

• Gu Qing recognized Liu Zhiyi as his former high school English teacher and introduced her to his younger sister, Gu Yao.
• Liu Zhiyi explained that she had left teaching, lost her first pet shop after her parents' company collapsed, and opened a small shop to help cover household expenses.
• Gu Qing asked Liu Zhiyi to teach him cat-training techniques, and she agreed to teach him for free.
• Liu Zhiyi demonstrated how to communicate with a kitten while Gu Qing watched and practiced.
• Gu Yao secretly recorded Gu Qing and Liu Zhiyi sitting together and sent the video to their family chat, joking that Gu Qing was making a move on his former teacher.

Gu Qing discovered that his Beast Language Ability let him understand animals, while training with Liu Zhiyi raised his skills and brought him closer to Blood Essence Enslavement. At dinner, his family teased him about Liu Zhiyi before Wen Wanyi brought up the knife-wielding drunk from their residential complex.

• After training with Liu Zhiyi for an hour, Gu Qing gained one point each in Beast Language Ability and Beast Taming Skill.
• Gu Qing understood the calls of several animals and confirmed he could communicate with them, astonishing Liu Zhiyi.
• A second hour of training increased Gu Qing's abilities again, and he and Gu Yao exchanged WeChat contacts with Liu Zhiyi before leaving her shop.
• At dinner, Wen Wanyi and Gu Mingbo disagreed over whether Gu Qing and Liu Zhiyi would make a good match, while Gu Qing denied being interested and threatened Gu Yao into silence.
• Wen Wanyi asked Gu Qing and Gu Yao whether they remembered the drunk who attacked someone with a knife at their residential complex's entrance.

Gu Qing learned that the drunk’s family had become violently insane after emotional pollution, while black-clad agents searched for the missing monster. Back at Haicheng University, he discovered a rat that had eaten human flesh and killed it, then formed an idea about the many rats around him.

• Wen Wanyi warned Gu Qing and Gu Yao to avoid fights after telling them the drunk’s wife and children had gone mad and been taken away.
• Two black-clad agents judged the family’s emotional pollution incurable and discussed the missing monster and a talented new female university student.
• Gu Qing found Liu Zhiyi’s pet shop closed for Sunday and returned home disappointed.
• Gu Qing traveled back to Haicheng University to meet Xia Shuran and saw an unusually large rat near the entrance.
• Gu Qing used his Beast Language Ability to learn the rat had eaten human flesh, then killed it with a stone and began forming an idea about the rats.

Gu Qing met Xia Shuran at the sports field, practiced spear martial arts with her, and heard about a powerful ancestor who had emerged from centuries of seclusion. Xia Shuran claimed the ancestor had defeated dozens of strong fighters at her family’s martial arts school, leaving Gu Qing stunned.

• Gu Qing met Xia Shuran at the sports field, and they practiced with the Red-Tassel Spear for three hours.
• Xia Shuran shared homemade cookies with Gu Qing, and they exchanged praise.
• Xia Shuran told Gu Qing that martial arts masters capable of fighting many opponents really existed.
• Xia Shuran explained that an ancestor who had supposedly lived for centuries in seclusion had emerged and found his descendants.
• Xia Shuran said the ancestor had defeated dozens of strong people at her family’s martial arts school, and Gu Qing wondered at the claim.

Gu Qing questioned Xia Shuran’s story about her martial arts school’s centuries-old ancestor, but her powerful Mountain-Crushing Palm convinced him that supernatural abilities might exist. He agreed to train with her, then returned to the dorm, where mosquitoes failed to pierce his unusually tough skin.

• Gu Qing suggested Xia Shuran’s family had staged the ancestor’s feats, so she offered to prove the martial arts were real.
• Xia Shuran struck Gu Qing with the Mountain-Crushing Palm, but he stood firm while her arm went numb.
• Xia Shuran tried again, and Gu Qing pretended to stagger; he recognized the force behind her strikes and began to suspect the world contained supernatural abilities.
• Gu Qing agreed to learn the ancestor’s skills, and he and Xia Shuran arranged to practice together the next afternoon.
• Gu Qing returned to his dorm, found no rats on the way, and went to bed without his mosquito net.
• Mosquitoes landed on Gu Qing and tried to bite him, but their mouthparts could not pierce his skin.

After learning that Xia Shuran’s family knew supernatural martial arts, Gu Qing wondered whether his abilities could let him master such skills with ease. He discovered he could already sense and move his qi and blood, but kept practicing with Xia Shuran to improve his attributes.

• Gu Qing thought about Xia Shuran’s ancestor and the possibility that supernatural beings and supernatural tags existed in the world.
• Gu Qing studied with Yang Yuntong through the morning and gained focus and learning ability.
• Gu Qing searched campus for rats but found only three and learned nothing useful about the hidden cannibal.
• Xia Shuran explained that the Mountain-Crushing Palm required sensing and concentrating qi and blood.
• Gu Qing instinctively gathered qi and blood in his fist, then pretended to learn the technique while practicing with Xia Shuran and gaining martial arts technique and physical constitution.

Gu Qing checked his progress toward Knotted Muscles and went to Tianqi Internet Café to play games with Zhou Yuan, hoping to get closer to his [Biochemical Maniac] tag. At the café, he spotted a man tagged [Killer] and kept him under watch before Zhou Yuan invited him to visit the lab the next afternoon.

• Gu Qing saw that he had earned 74 points toward Knotted Muscles and messaged Xia Shuran about practicing martial arts, but she did not reply.
• Zhou Yuan invited Gu Qing to play games, and they arranged to meet at Tianqi Internet Café.
• Gu Qing noticed a burly middle-aged man with the [Killer] tag and monitored him while playing with Zhou Yuan.
• Gu Qing and Zhou Yuan won all six of their matches, and Zhou Yuan invited Gu Qing to visit the lab the next afternoon.

Gu Qing followed a killer who pursued Zhou Yuan and helped subdue him in Zhou Yuan’s rental. As Gu Qing called the authorities, the bound man began transforming into a ferocious, hairy creature.

• Gu Qing confirmed that the [Killer] was following Zhou Yuan into an alley and secretly followed them.
• When the killer grabbed Zhou Yuan at his rental, Gu Qing intervened and helped Zhou Yuan lock the door.
• Gu Qing bound the killer with twisted clothes hangers, and Zhou Yuan gave him Biotoxin to make him limp.
• Gu Qing and Zhou Yuan tried to question the killer by tickling his feet, but he refused to reveal who he was or why he attacked Zhou Yuan.
• Gu Qing called the public security department, and the bound killer’s muscles swelled as dark hair spread across his body.

Gu Qing subdued a mutated attacker who had ambushed Zhou Yuan and learned that the attack might be connected to Zhou Yuan’s biochemical research. After giving his account to the police, Gu Qing saw members of the Night Court arrive to question Zhou Yuan, leaving him curious about their role.

• The attacker broke free of his restraints, struck Zhou Yuan, and lunged at Gu Qing, who dodged and overpowered him.
• Gu Qing spotted a strange rat tattoo on the attacker and suspected that he and the oversized campus rats had been biologically modified.
• Gu Qing questioned Zhou Yuan, who said his research sought to develop a universal antitoxin vaccine but had produced only limited results with significant side effects.
• Gu Qing told the police that poison had helped him subdue the attacker, concealing his own supernatural strength.
• Two men with [Night Court member] tags arrived and kept Zhou Yuan for questioning, while the police allowed Gu Qing to leave.

Gu Qing spent the day practicing martial arts with Xia Shuran, then checked his Physical Constitution gains and received a message from Zhou Yuan inviting him to the lab. He arrived to meet Zhou Yuan, who had come downstairs to greet him.

• Gu Qing met Xia Shuran at the field, ate the sandwiches and soy milk she brought, and practiced martial arts with her through the day.
• After Xia Shuran became exhausted during their evening session, Gu Qing massaged her sore muscles and walked her back to her dorm.
• Gu Qing checked his Physical Constitution and saw that he had gained seven points, bringing his total to 81.
• Zhou Yuan messaged Gu Qing to invite him to look around the lab, and Gu Qing agreed and headed over.
• Gu Qing arrived at Zhou Yuan's laboratory and asked why Zhou Yuan had come downstairs to meet him.

Gu Qing joined Zhou Yuan’s dangerous research into the Universal Antitoxin Vaccine and gained a point of Biochemical Resistance. On his way back to the dorm, he followed a group of unusually large rats after sensing that they were searching for meat, suspecting a cannibal was nearby.

• Zhou Yuan told Gu Qing that two men had taken his vaccine research and warned him to stop, but he planned to continue in secret.
• Gu Qing persuaded Zhou Yuan to let him join the research as a bodyguard, and Zhou Yuan brought him into the laboratory.
• Gu Qing and Zhou Yuan experimented on mice until Gu Qing gained one point of Biochemical Resistance and learned that 100 points would grant immunity to all poisons.
• Gu Qing left the laboratory after midnight and headed back to his dorm, thinking about the vaccine, the criminal organization, and the rat tattoo.
• Gu Qing saw unusually large rats racing across campus and followed them, suspecting they might lead him to a cannibal.

Gu Qing followed the rats to the administration building, where he found two security guards feeding them chemically treated meat and alerted the public security department. After knocking both guards unconscious, he waited for officers to arrive and was taken to the station to assist with the investigation.

• Gu Qing followed the rats to a grove behind the administration building and saw them eating unnaturally vivid raw meat.
• A security guard brought more meat to feed the rats, so Gu Qing called the public security department and secretly watched him.
• Gu Qing heard someone sneaking up behind him and knocked out the ambushing security guard, then knocked out the guard feeding the rats.
• Gu Qing found the surveillance room empty, drove the rats away from the meat, and waited beside the unconscious guards.
• Gu Qing tested his resistance to electric shocks while he waited, and the shocks caused him no discomfort.
• Public security officers arrived, took the two guards into custody, and brought Gu Qing to the station to assist with the investigation.

Gu Qing questioned the public security captain about the rat incidents and learned that the attacks involved supernatural beings, though the captain warned him to stay out of it. Back at the dorm, Gu Qing wondered whether Bai Ningyu had also encountered the supernatural and worried about how she was doing.

• The public security captain questioned Gu Qing about the two rat-related incidents, and Gu Qing explained how he had subdued an attacker and followed rats to a security guard feeding them.
• Gu Qing demonstrated his one-finger planche, stunning the captain and two officers who witnessed it.
• The captain warned Gu Qing that the attacker and the school disappearances involved abnormal people or supernatural powers, and told him to stop investigating the rats.
• Gu Qing returned to his dorm after two in the morning and joked with Chen Zijie and Qian Duole about being taken to the station.
• While showering, Gu Qing thought Bai Ningyu might have encountered the supernatural and wondered how she was doing.

Gu Qing put off his martial-arts training with Xia Shuran and continued investigating the campus rat cases, but Zhou Yuan called him to help move lab equipment. Gu Qing then joined Zhou Yuan in research, showing remarkable skill and reflecting that grinding attributes could make him capable of anything.

• Xia Shuran told Gu Qing she was too sore from the previous day's training to practice, so he agreed they would resume the next day.
• Gu Qing searched campus for rats despite the public security team captain's warning, believing he needed to understand the supernatural threats to protect himself.
• Zhou Yuan asked Gu Qing to help move his lab equipment, and Gu Qing found Zhou Yuan's new rental after switching map apps.
• Gu Qing helped Zhou Yuan finish moving, then declined a nap and joined him in the laboratory to do research.
• Zhou Yuan was astonished by Gu Qing's polished technique, and Gu Qing thought that with enough time to grind attributes, he could become capable of anything.

Gu Qing drank a series of experimental solutions with no ill effects while Zhou Yuan suffered a severe reaction, and Gu Qing gained biochemical resistance through their research. Back at the dorm, Gao Fei announced a mixer arranged for Gu Qing after junior girls became interested in his photo, and his roommates pleaded with him to attend.

• Zhou Yuan drank a pale green solution, vomited, and rushed to the bathroom.
• Gu Qing drank several solutions, including a highly toxic black one, without feeling unwell; Zhou Yuan collapsed after tasting residue from the black solution and later recovered.
• Gu Qing and Zhou Yuan spent the afternoon mixing and testing solutions, raising Gu Qing’s research skill and biochemical resistance.
• Gu Qing returned to the dorm and found Chen Zijie and Qian Duole there, while Gao Fei was still out with his girlfriend.
• Gao Fei returned with hickeys and announced that his girlfriend had organized a mixer after junior girls in her department saw Gu Qing’s photo.
• Gu Qing said he did not plan to date and did not want to attend, but Gao Fei, Chen Zijie, and Qian Duole urged him to go.

Gu Qing went with his roommates to set up a mixer on the athletic field, where he spotted a starving oversized rat but left it alive as one of his informants. When the girls arrived, he noticed the petite girl at the back had the tag “[Feces]” floating above her head.

• Chen Zijie, Qian Duole, and Gao Fei tried to make Gu Qing look worse before the four roommates headed out to prepare for the mixer.
• Gu Qing, Chen Zijie, and Qian Duole bought snacks and drinks, and Chen Zijie spent fifty yuan on a small chocolate cake.
• Gu Qing spotted a large black rat whose thoughts revealed it was hungry, but he left it alive because the school's rats served as his informants.
• The four roommates decorated the athletic field with picnic blankets, snacks, drinks, and string lights.
• Gao Fei's girlfriend arrived with five freshmen, and Gu Qing saw the tag “[Feces]” above the petite girl at the back.

Gu Qing noticed the strange [Feces] label above Huang Xiaoyue, a cute twin-tailed freshman, and agreed to add her on WeChat so he could investigate it. During a picnic truth-or-dare game, the bottle finally pointed to Huang Xiaoyue, and Gu Qing chose truth.

• Gu Qing saw that Huang Xiaoyue alone among Gao Fei's girlfriend's friends had a [Feces] label above her head.
• Chen Zijie and Qian Duole picked which girls they liked, while Gu Qing said he was only there to make up the numbers.
• Huang Xiaoyue hurried ahead, sat beside Gu Qing, introduced herself, and asked to add him on WeChat.
• Gu Qing added Huang Xiaoyue and saw that her profile picture was Lazy Sheep with a poop-shaped hairstyle, then accepted friend requests from the other girls.
• Gao Fei's girlfriend suggested truth or dare, and the girls repeatedly chose Gu Qing for questions before the bottle pointed to Huang Xiaoyue.
• Huang Xiaoyue asked Gu Qing whether he chose truth or dare, and he picked truth.

At a university mixer, Gu Qing gave Huang Xiaoyue a fabricated home address while recalling his ex-girlfriend, Bai Ningyu. Lin Xiao’s ex-boyfriend Zhao Yu disrupted the gathering with insults, then grew angry again and enlisted teammates to bother her group.

• Huang Xiaoyue asked Gu Qing for his address and family details, and he gave her a made-up address in Jiangbei County.
• Chen Zijie and Lin Xiao fed each other cake during truth or dare, prompting Gu Qing to remember his relationship with Bai Ningyu.
• Zhao Yu arrived, accused Lin Xiao of moving on too quickly, and insulted her after she said their breakup made her choices none of his business.
• Chen Zijie stood up to defend Lin Xiao, but Gu Qing stopped him from fighting, and the group resumed the game.
• Zhao Yu saw Lin Xiao chatting happily again and recruited several soccer teammates to practice near the picnic mat.

Gu Qing kicked a soccer ball with enough force to knock down the university team's star goalkeeper, exposing his extraordinary strength. Chen Zijie felt embarrassed when Lin Xiao rushed to comfort the goalkeeper, but Gu Qing concluded he had helped his roommate avoid a bad relationship.

• The soccer team repeatedly kicked the ball toward Chen Zijie's picnic, and Chen Zijie finally confronted them about it.
• Gu Qing took the ball from Chen Zijie and kicked it toward the ponytailed goalkeeper, warning him to catch it.
• The ball struck the goalkeeper with tremendous force and knocked him onto his back, stunning the players and onlookers.
• Lin Xiao ran to the injured goalkeeper, Yu, and tearfully hugged him after he managed to sit up.
• Gao Fei comforted Chen Zijie and offered to have Xu Xinyi introduce him to someone else.
• Gu Qing realized his powerful kick had embarrassed Chen Zijie, but decided he had helped his roommate avoid Lin Xiao.

After the mixer, Gu Qing walked Huang Xiaoyue back to her dorm while remaining wary of her suggestive advances. Xia Shuran saw them together and, encouraged by her roommate, decided to message Gu Qing about her feelings.

• Gu Qing agreed to walk around campus with Huang Xiaoyue and looked at his family photo with her.
• Huang Xiaoyue told Gu Qing that two people had gone missing on campus and asked him to walk her back to the girls' dorm.
• Huang Xiaoyue invited Gu Qing to a private cinema, but he gave a noncommittal reply and left.
• Xia Shuran saw Gu Qing with Huang Xiaoyue and felt upset, though she told her roommate they were only friends.
• Xia Shuran followed her roommate's advice and opened her WeChat chat with Gu Qing to send him a message.

Xia Shuran made cookies for Gu Qing and kept her feelings to herself, while Gu Qing focused on training and set a goal to gain knotted muscles by Tuesday. The next afternoon, Xia Shuran pushed herself through martial arts practice, driven by jealousy and a fear of losing Gu Qing’s attention.

• Xia Shuran invited Gu Qing to practice martial arts and nearly confessed to him, but instead offered to make him cookies.
• Gu Qing suspected Xia Shuran had wanted to confess, but felt relieved when she did not because he was focused on improving his attributes.
• Gu Qing studied with Yang Yuntong and played basketball with Gao Fei, gaining learning ability and physical constitution.
• Xia Shuran gave Gu Qing five flavors of homemade cookies before they practiced martial arts, and he chose chocolate as his favorite.
• Gu Qing noted that he needed seventeen more points of physical constitution to gain knotted muscles and aimed to reach the goal by Tuesday.
• The next afternoon, Xia Shuran insisted on continuing to train despite exhaustion because Gu Qing had walked another girl to her dorm.

Gu Qing spent the previous evening practicing martial arts with Xia Shuran and the next morning playing basketball with Gao Fei, pushing his progress toward the knotted muscles attribute to 92 points. He invited Xia Shuran to practice earlier that afternoon, but she replied that she had class at two.

• Gu Qing ended four hours of martial arts practice with Xia Shuran, then massaged her legs before escorting her back to the women's dorm.
• Gu Qing persuaded Gao Fei to skip class and play basketball with him for five hours the next morning.
• Gu Qing gained five points from playing basketball with Gao Fei, bringing his progress toward knotted muscles to 92 out of 100.
• Gao Fei collapsed from exhaustion and vowed he never wanted to play basketball again.
• Gu Qing messaged Xia Shuran to ask whether she could practice martial arts at two, and she replied that she had class then.

Gu Qing trained martial arts with Xia Shuran until his accumulated physical constitution reached 100 and he obtained Knotted Muscles. His body then underwent a dramatic transformation, leaving him alone in his dorm bathroom with bulging, sharply defined muscles and torn clothes.

• Gu Qing met Xia Shuran at the sports field, accepted the food and drinks she brought, and began training with her.
• After four hours of practice, Gu Qing and Xia Shuran rested, ate, and resumed training at seven thirty.
• Xia Shuran collapsed from exhaustion, but Gu Qing helped her up so they could practice for ten more minutes.
• Gu Qing received Knotted Muscles when his accumulated physical constitution reached 100, and his muscles began rapidly expanding.
• Gu Qing hurried back to his dorm and locked himself in the bathroom as his muscles burst through his clothes.

After gaining the ability to activate Knotted Muscles, Gu Qing tested his new strength and durability. He uprooted a towering tree and emerged uninjured after tumbling down a rocky slope.

• Gu Qing discovered that Knotted Muscles was an active skill and switched it off to return his body to normal.
• Gu Qing’s roommates questioned his torn clothes and changed appearance, but he brushed off their questions.
• Gu Qing exchanged goodnight messages with Xia Shuran, then studied with Yang Yuntong the next morning.
• Gu Qing went to the wooded park, activated Knotted Muscles, and uprooted a twenty-meter-tall tree.
• Gu Qing rolled down a rocky cliff to test his durability and stood up without a scratch.

Gu Qing tested his strengthened body, then began spending nights with Zhou Yuan to pursue the Immune to All Poisons attribute. As they reached Zhou Yuan’s rental, a strange rat followed them, while several figures at a secluded villa announced that they had found someone.

• Gu Qing jumped from a twenty-meter cliff and confirmed that he was unharmed.
• Gu Qing stopped martial arts practice with Xia Shuran after he could no longer gain attributes from her tag, then told her he would be busy for a while.
• Gu Qing arranged to join Zhou Yuan at his rental and planned to conduct experiments with him nightly to gain Immune to All Poisons.
• Gu Qing left the dorm, met Zhou Yuan, and traveled with him to the rental while a strange rat secretly followed them.
• At a secluded villa, several muscular figures said they had found him.