Recaps

Xu Yuan sold over eighty students on discounted Weird Beast leather armor while the martial arts students gathered at the base. The teachers announced a weekly challenge system for cultivation rooms, and other students began eyeing Xu Yuan as an easy target.

• Xu Yuan collected deposits from more than seventy students, formed a group chat for the orders, and earned praise from the teachers for spotting a business opportunity.
• Liu Yun offered Xu Yuan advice, while Lin Xiao asked him to pass on a million-a-month offer to hire Master Bao as his martial skills instructor.
• Xu Yuan learned that Lin Xiao’s family was extremely wealthy and resolved to approach him as Master Bao after condensing his first Demon Descent Mark.
• Fatty ordered leather armor and repaid Xu Yuan for the body-tempering fluid after receiving money from his mother.
• A teacher announced that students could challenge someone once a week to claim their cultivation room, prompting several students to target Xu Yuan as an easy opponent.

Xu Yuan received his martial technique manual and entered the martial arts base’s inner zone, where his high assessment score earned him a grade-B cultivation room. His classmates immediately began competing for the chance to challenge him, and he decided to make them pay for it.

• Xu Yuan considered profiting by trading his cultivation room, then decided he could gain combat experience by accepting challenges instead.
• The teachers announced that challenges were allowed only on weekends and that each student could be challenged once per week, while Xu Yuan considered auctioning off the right to challenge him.
• Xu Yuan collected an electronic slip for the Savage Bull Mountain-Treading Strike and entered the inner zone with the other students.
• Xu Yuan saw the central divinity-gathering apparatus and learned that students would receive cultivation rooms according to their assessment scores.
• Xu Yuan was assigned a grade-B cultivation room for his score of 80.2, prompting several classmates to argue over who would challenge him first.

Xu Yuan used body-tempering liquid to accelerate his cultivation, but discovered that reaching even the first tier’s completion would cost an enormous amount. He planned to raise money by selling leather armor and auctioning off the right to challenge him.

• Xu Yuan bought five vials of first-tier body-tempering liquid and absorbed them in just over two hours, advancing to only about 15% of skin tempering first tier.
• Xu Yuan overheard students plotting to get him to accept their challenges and proposed creating a group chat for everyone who wanted to challenge him.
• Xu Yuan spent a total of forty thousand on twenty vials that day, bringing his cultivation progress to just over 30% and his punching force to more than 600 jin.
• Xu Yuan planned to finalize a leather armor deal, complete transactions with classmates, and auction the right to challenge him to fund further cultivation.

Xu Yuan received a red envelope from Luo Yaoxi and suspected she was being protected from a hidden threat. At home, he revealed he had arranged an order for eighty-three sets of leather armor and asked Sister Wang to share her commission with him.

• Xu Yuan rejected Fatty’s plan to rig a challenge match and invited challengers to contact him.
• Luo Yaoxi congratulated Xu Yuan, gave him a red envelope, and quietly said Teacher Niu was hiding.
• Xu Yuan noticed Zhou Ling and Zhou Tai watching him, then found the envelope contained 237.
• Sister Wang came to Xu Yuan’s home expecting a modest leather armor order, but Xu Yuan announced he had secured eighty-three sets.
• Xu Yuan showed Sister Wang the deposits and asked her to give him a cut of her commission.

Xu Yuan negotiated an 80,000-yuan cut from Sister Wang for arranging leather armor orders, then prepared to collect the remaining payments and auction challenges for his cultivation room. He ended by instructing Fatty to use an alternate account to drive up the bidding.

• Xu Yuan tricked Sister Wang into revealing that the company had offered a 30% discount, then negotiated an 80,000-yuan cut for arranging the orders.
• Xu Yuan told Sister Wang to deliver the leather armor to the martial arts base at ten the next morning, and he messaged his classmates to prepare their remaining payments.
• Xu Kexin asked Xu Yuan to buy Zhang Yaying new clothes, and Xu Yuan agreed.
• Xu Yuan charged the group members an entry fee, removed the bystanders, and invited classmates to bid for a challenge against him.
• After Wang Yuan bid 2,000 yuan, Xu Yuan promoted the advantage his cultivation room could offer stronger students and asked Fatty to bid 10,000 yuan from an alternate account.

Xu Yuan sold the right to challenge him for twenty thousand yuan and prepared to keep his weekly challenge business going. He then began comprehending Savage Bull Mountain-Treading Strike with the Martial God's Brain.

• Fatty used the Zhao Zhipeng alternate account to raise the challenge auction, and Xu Yuan sold the right to challenge him to Jiang Yong for twenty thousand yuan.
• Xu Yuan advised Jiang Yong to arrange for someone else to challenge him first, then told the group that others might still get a chance if Jiang Yong failed to beat him.
• Xu Yuan messaged Zhang Juye about learning Savage Bull Heart-Shattering Butt and asked Lin Yuan when the top ten cultivation subsidies would be paid; Lin Yuan said the money would arrive within days.
• Xu Yuan considered buying body-tempering liquid in bulk at the Cloud-Soaring Pavilion to explain his rapid consumption, then set the idea aside.
• Xu Yuan loaded the Savage Bull Mountain-Treading Strike manual and used the Martial God's Brain to reach minor attainment before beginning to contemplate its higher realms.

Xu Yuan profited from selling discounted leather armor, continued training with his expensive Heaven-Shaking Art, and prepared to begin taking martial arts challenges. He planned to use his upcoming fight with Jiang Yong to advertise his coaching while working toward condensing the Demon Descent Mark.

• Xu Yuan collected and resold eighty-three suits of leather armor to his classmates, earning 330,000 yuan before Sister Wang's promised share and leaving her furious when he revealed his profit.
• Over the next few days, Xu Yuan trained, coached Zhang Juye, bought clothes for Zhang Yaying, and demonstrated his Savage Bull Mountain-Treading Strike to his classmates.
• Xu Yuan reached Skin Tempering Second Tier with the Heaven-Shaking Art after consuming more than eighty vials of body-tempering fluid, and his standard punching power surpassed a thousand jin.
• Xu Yuan noted that the Demon Descent Mark was about eight percent condensed and planned to reach Skin Grinding Third Stage before seeking out Lin Xiao as Master Bao.
• On Saturday, Xu Yuan headed to the martial arts base to challenge Jiang Yong, intending to auction next week's challenge slots and promote his martial technique coaching.

On challenge day at the martial arts base, students gathered to compete for better cultivation rooms while Xu Yuan prepared to fight and learned that Luo Yaoxi had found a strange symbol on her door. The first match disappointed Lin Yuan, who called on Chen Hu to demonstrate a more serious fight, and Chen Hu challenged Zhang Juye.

• Students from the five high schools gathered in the outer section, where they discussed the challenge matches and anticipated the fight between Xu Yuan and Jiang Yong.
• Lin Yuan warned the students against lethal blows and match-fixing, then began the challenges; Xu Yuan urged Fatty to step forward for combat experience.
• Luo Yaoxi told Xu Yuan that someone had drawn a strange symbol on her door, and Xu Yuan took her sketch to investigate.
• A Grade E student from No. 5 Middle School challenged a Grade D student from No. 2 Middle School, but Lin Yuan criticized their timid sparring.
• Lin Yuan called on Chen Hu, a Skin Tempering sixth-stage student, to demonstrate a proper fight, and Chen Hu challenged Zhang Juye.

Lin Yuan oversaw the students’ challenges, where Zhang Juye defeated Chen Hu with a perfected Savage Bull Heart-Shattering Butt and Xu Yuan used the victory to promote his lessons. By afternoon, Jiang Yong entered the ring to challenge Xu Yuan, who stepped up as the crowd anticipated his beating.

• Xu Yuan urged Zhang Juye to surprise Chen Hu with Savage Bull Heart-Shattering Butt, and Zhang Juye knocked Chen Hu out of the ring in one strike.
• Chen Hu learned that Zhang Juye had perfected the technique, while Xu Yuan loudly advertised his training lessons to the students.
• Lin Yuan told the students to fight with greater ferocity, and the E-grade students challenged every D-grade student; Fatty won his match with a single punch.
• The injured D-grade students postponed their challenges until Sunday, except for a student paid by Jiang Yong, who fought Jiang Yong without holding back.
• Lin Yuan opened challenges to the C-grade students, and Jiang Yong entered the ring to challenge Xu Yuan as the crowd jeered; Xu Yuan stepped into the ring.

Xu Yuan easily defeated Jiang Yong despite pretending to struggle, then used the victory to promote his martial technique lessons. The chapter left him advertising in the group chat while his classmates recoiled at his sales pitch.

• Xu Yuan dodged Jiang Yong’s saber attacks with ease, but Jiang Yong failed to notice the openings Xu Yuan deliberately left.
• Xu Yuan struck Jiang Yong with the Savage Bull Mountain-Treading Strike and sent him flying out of the ring.
• Xu Yuan taunted the students into challenging him next week, while Jiang Yong swore he would claim the next match.
• Lin Yuan defended Xu Yuan’s victory and said other students at Jiang Yong’s level would have lost the same way.
• Xu Yuan advertised martial technique lessons in the group chat, offering discounted guidance to people who had bought his leather armor.

Xu Yuan searched online for the design Luo Yaoxi had given him and found it was linked to the God Worship Cult, but learned little more. His searches triggered a level-one alert at the Yang City Martial Suppression Department, which mistook his curiosity for a possible cult threat before ordering a hunt for the cult.

• Xu Yuan scheduled coaching sessions for the students who had bought his techniques, then left the martial arts base with Fatty and Luo Yaoxi.
• Xu Yuan learned that Luo Yaoxi's divine ability kept people from noticing her, but Teacher Niu Gang stopped her from revealing its name.
• Xu Yuan and his companions ate roast lamb before Xu Yuan went home and shared the leftovers with Zhang Yaying and Xu Kexin.
• Xu Yuan used a secondhand SIM card to search for the design and found a post linking it to the God Worship Cult.
• The Yang City Martial Suppression Department traced the searches to a SIM card registered to a dead man, realized the searcher was likely just curious, and declared a level-one alert to hunt the cult.

Xu Yuan auctioned his next challenge slot to Jiang Yong for fifty thousand, then went to sleep. Meanwhile, Niu Gang foiled an attempt on Luo Yaoxi and discovered the attacker was Zheng Xiande, while Xu Yuan received a sinister ranking reward in his sleep.

• Xu Yuan auctioned the challenge slot, and Jiang Yong won it with a bid of fifty thousand after a bidding war with Zhao Zhipeng.
• A black-clad attacker entered Luo Yaoxi's home at night, but found Niu Gang waiting in her bed instead.
• Niu Gang caught and crippled the attacker, then unmasked him as Zheng Xiande, No. 3 Middle School's deputy director of academic affairs.
• Zheng Xiande died after Niu Gang demanded answers, and Luo Yaoxi fainted when she saw his corpse.
• The Beast Ranking announced that Xu Yuan ranked eighth on the Evil Demon Ranking with 2,311 Sin Points and awarded him a Spirit-Binding Soul-Control Talisman.

Xu Yuan investigated why his Beast Ranking position had risen and discovered that Lin Yuan and several other familiar people were ranked as beasts. He then learned that a Spirit-Binding Soul-Control Talisman could act in the real world, where it headed for Zhang Yaying’s room before Xu Yuan knocked it outside and a black cat’s phantom returned to his mind.

• Xu Yuan reasoned that his ranking had risen because a beast ahead of him had died, then began deciphering the names near the top of the Beast Ranking.
• Xu Yuan discovered that Lin Yuan ranked seventh with 2,784 Sin Points and the crime of intentional homicide.
• Xu Yuan identified Zhou Ling in sixth place, followed by Yang Huifang in fifth and Liu Yueling in fourth, while the top three names remained unreadable.
• Xu Yuan examined the Spirit-Binding Soul-Control Talisman and watched it appear in the real world, where it tried to escape through his door.
• Xu Yuan saw the talisman heading toward Zhang Yaying’s room, smashed it through a window with a broom, and a black cat’s phantom flew back into his mind.

After accidentally binding Little Blackie with the Spirit-Binding Soul-Control Talisman, Xu Yuan discovered he could command the cat and share its senses. He sent Little Blackie to recruit feline spies to watch Lin Yuan while continuing his martial arts work and costly cultivation.

• Xu Yuan calmed Zhang Yaying and Xu Kexin after the talisman incident, then summoned Little Blackie and learned the cat was now his subordinate.
• Xu Yuan tested sharing Little Blackie's senses and learned the cat commanded a network of feline underlings.
• Xu Yuan ordered Little Blackie to choose cats to watch Lin Yuan, then cut off their shared senses after seeing an orange cat behave suggestively toward Little Blackie.
• Xu Yuan searched school group chats for news of a death, left Zhang Yaying money to replace the damaged door and windows, and went to the martial arts base.
• Xu Yuan learned Lin Yuan's address from Zhang Juye, coached students, and continued consuming body-tempering fluid as he neared Skin Grinding Third Stage.

Xu Yuan learned from Luo Yaoxi that the God Worship Cult abducted geniuses and that Niu Gang had killed a follower who became a Divine Martial Artist. He warned Luo Yaoxi to stay safe, then prepared for the next day's literature exam.

• Xu Yuan wondered whether his suspicion about a beast dying was wrong while he and Fatty left the cultivation base.
• Luo Yaoxi told Xu Yuan that Teacher Niu had identified the symbol as the God Worship Cult's Divine Mark.
• Luo Yaoxi explained that the cult abducted geniuses and described how Niu Gang had killed a follower who became a Divine Martial Artist.
• Xu Yuan realized his suspicion had been right and worried that the cult could let people without Divine Talent cultivate.
• Luo Yaoxi said she would skip the literature exam but attend the challenge matches, and Xu Yuan told her to be careful.
• Fatty asked Xu Yuan about the exam, and Xu Yuan claimed he could score ninety points in literature.

Xu Yuan returned to No. 3 Middle School for the academic exams and used Little Blackie to find a top student whose answers he could copy. After discovering he could answer only five questions himself, he copied Huang Yun’s paper and handed it in.

• Xu Yuan arrived at No. 3 Middle School and ignored the resentment of ordinary students who remembered his past bullying.
• Xu Yuan greeted Liu Yun and Lin Yuan, who was feeding Little Blackie, and told Lin Yuan he had studied hard enough to pass the exams.
• Xu Yuan shared Little Blackie’s senses and sent him to search the exam rooms for a top student seated by a window.
• Little Blackie found Huang Yun in the seventh exam room and stayed on the windowsill as the exam began.
• Xu Yuan realized he could answer only five questions, copied Huang Yun’s answers, and submitted his paper without copying her name.

After the exam, Xu Yuan focused on dealing with Zhou Ling, whose crimes and malice made him a target, and sent Little Blackie to learn his movements. He also faced Jiang Yong’s threat ahead of their Saturday fight, leaving Xu Yuan prepared to exploit the encounter for sin points.

• Xu Yuan overheard Huang Yun’s friends gossiping about him and wondered whether Luo Yaoxi’s ability explained why people had stopped discussing her.
• Zhou Ling glared at Xu Yuan, and Xu Yuan resolved to kill him once he was strong enough and could escape using Demon Descent.
• Xu Yuan asked Little Blackie to tail Zhou Ling and learn his address and routine without being noticed.
• Jiang Yong challenged Xu Yuan over their upcoming fight and demanded that Xu Yuan prepare third-tier divine medicinal liquid because he planned to break his arms and legs.
• Xu Yuan realized Jiang Yong’s planned attack could let him gain sin points through intentional injury.

Xu Yuan learned through Little Blackie that a truck-sized Weird Beast had attacked a bus in the city, then watched Chen Rui, Commander Shen, Liu Yun, and other teachers fight and kill it. When his bus reached the scene, Xu Yuan jumped out and ran toward the dead beast, eager to test the Heaven-Shaking Art.

• Fatty offered to challenge Jiang Yong first, but Xu Yuan said he could handle Jiang Yong himself.
• Little Blackie warned Xu Yuan that a gigantic boar-like Weird Beast had overturned a bus and was eating a passenger.
• Chen Rui and Commander Shen led the martial artists at the scene in attacking the beast while Lin Yuan and other teachers rescued survivors.
• Chen Rui and Commander Shen pinned down the wounded boar, and Commander Shen killed it with his axe.
• Xu Yuan jumped from his bus and ran toward the scene, hoping to test the Heaven-Shaking Art on the dead Weird Beast.

Xu Yuan discovered that the Heaven-Shaking Art could absorb Divine Substance from a Weird Beast corpse and used the dead boar to rapidly advance his cultivation. He broke through to Skin Tempering Fourth Stage while the others remained unaware of what he had done.

• Xu Yuan reached the site of the boar attack and asked the fighters if he could touch the corpse.
• Xu Yuan overcame the boar’s rank pressure and approached the corpse, impressing the teachers and Commander Shen.
• Xu Yuan touched the boar and felt the Heaven-Shaking Art stir, then moved around the corpse to absorb its Divine Substance out of sight.
• Xu Yuan pretended the corpse had moved to check whether the others noticed the absorption, and Commander Shen reassured him that it had not.
• Xu Yuan continued absorbing the Divine Substance, raising his cultivation progress from Skin Grinding Third Stage to 100% and breaking through to Skin Tempering Fourth Stage.

Xu Yuan advanced to skin tempering fourth stage after absorbing the Weird Beast corpse, then left the scene before his body suffered any ill effects. At home, he learned that Lin Yuan's rescue efforts had reduced his Sin Points until they were only eighteen above Xu Yuan's, bringing his next reward within reach.

• Xu Yuan reached skin tempering fourth stage, gained tougher skin, and accelerated the condensation of his Demon Descent Mark.
• Xu Yuan stopped absorbing the Weird Beast corpse, thanked Commander Shen and the others, and left as reporters arrived.
• Xu Yuan read reports about the attack, learned that thirteen people had died and 172 had been injured, and found no mention of Zhou Ling.
• Xu Yuan saw that Lin Yuan's rescue of more than fifty injured people had lowered Lin Yuan's Sin Points to 2329, only eighteen above Xu Yuan's 2311.
• Jiang Yong warned Xu Yuan to prepare third-stage divine essence medicinal solution before their fight the next day, and Xu Yuan sent the warning back to him.

Xu Yuan prepared for another challenge tournament after learning that a Weird Beast had entered Yang City, while buying Luo Yaoxi a phone to celebrate her awakening. The chapter ended with him handing her the gift as the tournament began.

• Xu Yuan found more money on the windowsill and wondered whether Little Blackie could be made stronger.
• Xu Yuan bought spirit meat jerky for Little Blackie and a new phone for Luo Yaoxi before going to the martial arts training base.
• Xu Yuan reassured Zhang Juye that he knew his limits and would not beat Jiang Yong to death.
• Teacher Kong announced the students' cultivation breakthroughs and awarded each named student two thousand yuan.
• The students began choosing opponents under a new challenge rule, and Luo Yaoxi asked Xu Yuan about fighting again.
• Xu Yuan gave Luo Yaoxi the phone and congratulated her on her awakening.

Xu Yuan forced Wang Fengtang to give him a share of the betting profits, then fought Jiang Yong and broke his shoulder and ribs. The Beast Ranking awarded Xu Yuan a face of the Thousand-Faced Divine Monkey for reaching 2,335 Sin Points and seventh place on the Evil Demon Ranking.

• Luo Yaoxi happily accepted the phone Xu Yuan had bought her, while Fatty asked whether he should challenge Jiang Yong first.
• Xu Yuan pressured Wang Fengtang into giving him forty percent of the betting profits and later checked the accounts, finding that Luo Yaoxi had bet twenty on him.
• Fatty lost his challenge against a skin-polishing fifth-stage student after his Savage Bull Mountain-Treading Strike missed.
• Jiang Yong opened his fight with a Cloud-Shattering Slash, but Xu Yuan dodged and used his Savage Bull Mountain-Treading Strike to break Jiang Yong's left shoulder.
• Xu Yuan struck Jiang Yong's chest with his elbow, breaking several ribs and sending him flying as the Beast Ranking awarded Xu Yuan a face of the Thousand-Faced Divine Monkey.

Xu Yuan defeated Jiang Yong decisively, collected his winnings, and agreed to train Luo Yaoxi in exchange for access to her advanced martial techniques. At home, he examined the Beast Ranking’s new reward and discovered it was a lifelike monkey-face mask that transformed his face when he approached it.

• Xu Yuan knocked Jiang Yong unconscious with a double blow, won the match, and received the ninety-thousand payment from Wang Fengtang.
• Niu Gang told Xu Yuan to teach Luo Yaoxi how to fight and train her martial techniques, offering Xu Yuan the chance to practice her third-tier techniques in return.
• Xu Yuan accepted the arrangement and learned that Luo Yaoxi would send him the training methods and visualization diagrams the next day.
• Xu Yuan returned home and found a lifelike monkey-face mask floating before the Beast Ranking in his mind.
• Xu Yuan approached the mask, which vanished and covered his face in fur, and he recognized his transformed appearance as resembling the Great Sage.

Xu Yuan discovered that the Great Sage mask could be summoned from his palm and could change faces at a steep cost in strength. At home, his mother bought him spirit meat jerky and his little sister gave him a protective bracelet, leaving him determined to grow stronger and protect them.

• Xu Yuan tested the mask, learning that it could appear from a tattoo on his palm and change into Zhang Juye's face by consuming most of his strength.
• Xu Yuan recovered his strength through meditation before Zhang Yaying and Xu Kexin returned home.
• Zhang Yaying gave Xu Yuan the spirit meat jerky he had requested, and he transferred her fifty thousand to cover its cost.
• Xu Kexin admitted she had earned money by doing classmates' homework and gave Xu Yuan a red-cord bracelet she said would keep him safe from Weird Beasts.
• Xu Yuan accepted the bracelet and resolved to become strong enough to protect his mother and sister.

Xu Yuan learned that the Divine Guard Army had found mutated piglets on White Beggar Mountain, likely setting up the martial arts class’s first Weird Beast hunt. At the base, Luo Yaoxi transmitted two third-tier martial skills to him and began secretly passing on another cultivation method.

• Old Master Lu told Xu Yuan that the Divine Guard Army had found a litter of mutated piglets on White Beggar Mountain.
• Xu Yuan suspected the class would hunt the piglets on its first outing and decided to wait for the group before exploring outside on his own.
• Luo Yaoxi met Xu Yuan at the martial arts base and said she had reached Skin Tempering Sixth Stage, nearly seventh, with unusually strong mental power.
• Luo Yaoxi pressed her forehead to Xu Yuan’s and transmitted the methods for Shadowless Step and Instant-Space God-Exterminating Kill into his mind.
• Luo Yaoxi began secretly transmitting another cultivation method to Xu Yuan.