Recaps

Chen Xiuyuan recovered from his injuries, trained in the Savage Elephant Great Strength Art and Bloodstone Saber Technique, and helped uncover Du Huai’s role in the attack at Broken Stream. The patrol searched for the escaped Du Huai as Chen Xiuyuan reached perfection in his saber technique and prepared to train with a heavier saber.

• Chen Xiuyuan escaped a gray wolf with Elder Shi’s help, reached Bloodstone Tribe, and began working at the meat shed while learning the Savage Elephant Great Strength Art.
• Chen Xiuyuan joined Shi Lei’s herb-gathering party, and the group found the Broken Stream bridge sabotaged before archers and a masked attacker ambushed them.
• Chen Xiuyuan helped the survivors escape through the gully and brought evidence of the broken arrow and cut rope back to Bloodstone Gate.
• Chen Xiuyuan trained in the Bloodstone Saber Technique while healing, opened his first Heavenly Meridian, and investigated clues linking a medicine shipment to the bridge attack.
• Chen Xiuyuan and Auntie Sang traced adulterated Scarlet Whisker Root to the Du Family, while Du Huai tried to make them stop investigating.
• Chen Xiuyuan and Shi Lei intercepted a medicine cart carrying beast-luring packets, and a wounded accomplice admitted Du Huai had arranged the bridge sabotage and beast attack.
• Chen Xiuyuan advanced through Minor and Great Accomplishment in the Bloodstone Saber Technique, then trained to move and counter effectively in tight spaces.
• On the sixty-second day, Chen Xiuyuan completed Shi Lei’s hanging-rope drill, reached six percent perfection in the Bloodstone Saber Technique, and asked to train with a heavier saber.