Recaps

Chen Tie rose from a poor newcomer to a Flesh Refining martial artist while Duchang City descended into scarcity and conflict among powerful families. He joined Xu Da’s escort to Tianshan City, where a Water Monkey attack revealed the dangers beyond the city.

• Chen Tie joined the Fierce Tiger Martial Hall, trained through hardship, and reached Skin Refining before moving Chen Xi into a new home.
• Chen Tie secretly took valuables from Xue Gui and killed Xue Hua, while Liu Tianba investigated Liu Jingzhao’s death and the families began distributing addictive pills.
• As pill prices plunged and supply restrictions drove unrest, Chen Tie took a patrol job and watched Duchang City’s trade and docks grow increasingly chaotic.
• Chen Xi began training at the White Crane Martial Arts Hall, and Chen Tie broke through to Flesh Refining before agreeing to join Xu Da’s escort to Tianshan City.
• The escort’s camp faced Water Monkeys, which dragged away Shen Feng and attacked the relay station before dispersing near dawn.

Chen Tie advanced through Skin Refining and Bone Forging, mastered Fierce Tiger Fist’s true intent, and led the Fierce Tiger Martial Hall to victory in the grand competition. As the halls prepared to suppress the bandits, Chen Tie learned that Yue Zhengshan was a dangerous enemy and secretly considered whether he could defeat him.

• Xu Shi led the surviving escorts onward after water monkeys killed two escorts and stole their horses, while Chen Tie returned to Duchang City and impressed Mo Hong with his Fierce Tiger Fist.
• Chen Tie joined the Shen Lineage’s dock-rights contest and defeated Qi Feng, securing victory before training toward the Martial Hall Grand Competition.
• Chen Tie studied the caged tiger and the cranes, reached Skin Refining, then advanced to Bone Forging as Zhang Long’s martial foundation was destroyed by an attacker.
• Chen Tie perfected Fierce Tiger Fist and awakened Martial Dao True Intent, then learned that the martial hall’s secret medicine came from a transformed giant tiger called a flesh field.
• At the grand competition, Chen Tie recognized that New Qi and Blood Pills drove fighters into violent outbursts, while the Blazing Mountain Martial Hall’s fighters used the pills to gain strength.
• Chen Tie revealed his Bone Forging strength, defeated Zhou Han and Yue Feng, and crippled Yue Feng before the Fierce Tiger Martial Hall won the competition.
• Zhang Changfeng proposed that the martial halls suppress the bandits, while Yue Zhengshan plotted to use the campaign to kill Chen Tie and Chu Lin prepared the aristocratic families to seize the city.
• After training under Mo Hong, Chen Tie revealed his powerful true intent, learned Yue Zhengshan had mastered it years earlier, and privately considered that he might be able to defeat or kill him.