Recaps

Zhang Qingyuan rebuilt the Tianyang Sect through new departments, a newspaper, alliances, and a martial arts academy that enrolled two thousand students. As classes began, tensions among the students surfaced, and Zhang Qingyuan made a bet on Xiao Yan’s progress.

• Zhang Qingyuan became sect master, organized his senior brothers into leadership roles, and used system rewards to strengthen the Tianyang Sect.
• He launched a newspaper with Bian Zhenxuan, recruited teachers, and expanded the sect’s reputation through reporting and Zheng Jianxin’s growing fame.
• Zhang Qingyuan exposed the East Sea Sect’s role in an assassination plot, and Zheng Jianxin defeated its elders and announced his breakthrough to Third Rank.
• Zhang Qingyuan established an affordable academy with free first-year tuition and job placements, then enrolled two thousand students in a single day.
• Di Yunjie visited the sect, gave Zhang Qingyuan a Seven Stars Pill, and learned about the newspaper and academy.
• Zhang Qingyuan explained that academy students did not have to become sect disciples, outlined their training and career paths, and delivered the academy motto.
• The students began martial arts and literacy lessons, but Xiao Yan, Murong Xue, and Liu Sidao clashed with Yin Tianqi and his lackeys before Lu Guying broke up the fight.
• Zhang Qingyuan told Zheng Jianxin that Xiao Yan had strong potential and bet he would reach the sixth rank within a year, with Zheng agreeing to take him as a direct disciple if he succeeded.

Zhang Qingyuan built up the Tianyang Martial Dao Academy, recruited teachers, and guided its students through training, competition, and a study tour. The tour ended with Zhang killing Lin Li after Lin Li attacked the group, leaving the students to confront the dangers of the martial world.

• Zhang Qingyuan announced a class martial competition, and Liu Che’s conflict with Liu Sidao and Ma Shou escalated into a huge brawl.
• Zhang Qingyuan recruited Zhou Lei and Gu Qianshan as teachers, while Bai Shuyan arranged partnerships between the academy and several lineages and sects.
• The students competed for the top hundred and then fought for the tournament rankings, with Liu Sidao taking first place and Ma Shou second.
• Zhang Qingyuan appointed academy leaders, formed a martial arts development group, and opened the Tianyang Sect library to encourage teachers to share and improve techniques.
• The students began internal cultivation, and Zhang Qingyuan invited Ma Shou and Liu Sidao to join the Tianyang Sect as his disciples.
• Zhang Qingyuan chose ten students for a study tour and led them across the Eastern Realm, where they encountered an injured swordsman and Han Yumo.
• Lin Li entered the cave with eight martial artists and ordered them to kill Zhang Qingyuan and the students, so Zhang killed or disabled the attackers and killed Lin Li.
• Zhang Qingyuan told the shaken students to defend themselves decisively and eliminate threats at their roots.