Recaps

Jiang Fan avoided class to train by running around campus and collected discarded bottles to sell, while Wang Yao and Little Turtle secretly followed him. Near a palace gateway, he heard a group beating someone up.

• Fatty promised not to reveal Jiang Fan's secret, then argued with Zhou Yanchen over who could bring Jiang Fan breakfast.
• Zhou Yanchen clung to Jiang Fan and presented him with a huge pile of breakfast, but Jiang Fan kicked him away.
• Jiang Fan skipped class to exercise around campus, deciding not to take a Mercenary Guild mission before the Five-School League selection tournament.
• Wang Yao and Little Turtle secretly followed Jiang Fan as he collected empty bottles and stored them in a woven plastic sack from his spatial ring.
• Jiang Fan passed a palace gateway and heard someone being beaten by a group.

Jiang Fan intervened when Jin Kai’s group beat Zhou Yanchen, earning Good Person System points and revealing his late-stage second rank strength as he defeated the attackers. Zhou Yanchen tried to cling to Jiang Fan’s thigh, but Jiang Fan’s reaction made clear that he was not as accommodating as Zhou Yanchen’s grandfather.

• Jiang Fan stopped Jin Kai’s group from beating Zhou Yanchen and earned 100 points for saving him.
• Jin Kai warned Jiang Fan to stay out of his personal grudge, but Jiang Fan put down his sack of bottles and charged at him.
• Jiang Fan caught an early-stage third rank attacker’s saber with his bare hands, revealing late-stage second rank strength.
• Jiang Fan beat Jin Kai’s three lackeys while Wang Yao and Little Turtle discussed his rapid advancement and talent.
• Zhou Yanchen rushed toward Jiang Fan’s thigh, crashed face-first into the ground, and understood from Jiang Fan’s glare that he was not like his grandfather’s Brother Thigh.

Jiang Fan beat Jin Kai for threatening a freshman girl, then forced him to pay compensation for his ruined shoe and other damages. After arranging for Zhou Yanchen to pass money to the girl, Jiang Fan demanded another transfer for an orphanage.

• Zhou Yanchen told Jiang Fan that Jin Kai had threatened a freshman girl and tried to force himself on her.
• Jin Kai demanded that Jiang Fan kneel and apologize, but Jiang Fan punched him and repeatedly kicked him until his shoe sole broke.
• Jiang Fan took Jin Kai's phone and transferred 100,000 to himself as compensation for his shoe.
• Jiang Fan demanded additional money for medical and emotional damages, and Jin Kai transferred another large sum.
• Jiang Fan asked Zhou Yanchen to find the girl and transfer money to her, then demanded that Jin Kai send him money to donate to an orphanage.

After Jin Kai was forced to transfer all his money to Jiang Fan, Zhou Yanchen gave Jiang Fan his own balance in gratitude, and the two went to the supermarket together. Jin Kai then sought revenge, but his grandfather warned him about Jiang Fan and revealed that the powerful disciple he hoped Jin Kai would impress was a young advanced psychic.

• Jin Kai transferred all his money to Jiang Fan before he was allowed to leave, and Zhou Yanchen then transferred his entire account balance to Jiang Fan as thanks for saving his life twice.
• Jiang Fan protested that Zhou Yanchen's gift was too much, but Zhou Yanchen suggested donating some of it to orphanages, and the two headed to the supermarket for a drink.
• Wang Yao watched Jiang Fan leave and remarked that her time at Yuanwu would not be boring.
• Jin Kai returned home in a rage, and Jin Changfeng scolded him for causing trouble instead of keeping a low profile and waiting for a chance to impress his prospective Brother Thigh.
• Jin Changfeng told Jin Kai that the prospective Brother Thigh was Master Li's disciple, a young advanced psychic who was probably under thirty.

Jin Kai arranged for masked fighters to cripple Jiang Fan, but Jiang Fan defeated them and left the alley unharmed. Jin Kai found the alley empty and could not reach any of his men.

• Jin Changfeng told Jin Kai that Jiang Fan should be crippled in secret and framed the Li Family for the attack.
• Jiang Fan was ambushed in an alley by more than twenty masked fighters who claimed he had killed their young master.
• Jin Kai waited in a nearby car, expecting his hired fighters—including two early-stage fourth-rank martial artists—to defeat Jiang Fan quickly.
• Jiang Fan emerged from the alley without injuries, recognized Jin Kai's involvement with his psychic power, and went home without confronting him.
• Jin Kai ran to the alley and found it deserted; his bodyguards could not reach any of the missing fighters.

Jin Yi challenged Jiang Fan to a fight after the Jin Family’s earlier attack failed, but Jiang Fan initially refused and ignored the insults spread about him. When Jin Yi confronted him at school, Jiang Fan agreed to fight only for enormous stakes, and Jin Kai accepted on Jin Yi’s behalf.

• Jin Kai told Jin Changfeng that Jiang Fan had killed the Jin Family members he sent, and Jin Changfeng decided to challenge Jiang Fan openly.
• Zhou Yanchen told Jiang Fan that Jin Yi, a high-stage third-rank martial artist, had challenged him, but Jiang Fan dismissed the challenge as a waste of time.
• Students spread insults about Jiang Fan for refusing Jin Yi’s challenge, while Fatty angrily defended him and Wang Yao noted that Yuanwu encouraged students to spar.
• Jin Yi confronted Jiang Fan in the classroom and called him a coward for refusing the challenge.
• Jiang Fan agreed to fight if Jin Yi put up five hundred Qi and Blood Raw Stones and five hundred Body Restoration Pills as stakes.
• Jin Kai accepted Jiang Fan’s terms, prompting Jin Yi to question whether he was crazy to agree to pay seventy-five million.

Jiang Fan accepted Jin Yi’s death-match challenge and faced the powerful Jin Family fighter in Yuanwu’s arena, where no one was allowed to intervene. He survived Jin Yi’s opening attacks and dodged his secret technique, leaving onlookers wondering whether he had used the Lan Family’s Phantom Gale Leg.

• Jin Kai demanded that Jiang Fan fight Jin Yi in a death match, and Jiang Fan agreed despite Fatty’s warning that no one could interfere.
• At the arena, Zhou Zhengjiao and Wang Yao confirmed that Yuanwu’s rules barred them from stepping in, while Zhou Yanchen and Fatty anxiously watched.
• Jin Yi attacked Jiang Fan with his heavy axe, but Jiang Fan blocked the blow and revealed that he had reached late-stage second rank.
• Jin Yi unleashed the Jin Family’s Storm Mountain-Breaking Form, but Jiang Fan dodged it cleanly.
• The onlookers questioned how Jiang Fan knew a movement technique that resembled the Lan Family’s Phantom Gale Leg.

Jiang Fan struggled against Jin Yi after Jin Yi activated the Jin Family's World-Shaking Meteoric Metal Body, which gave him overwhelming strength. By the end, Jiang Fan stood wounded at the arena's edge, while Wang Yao noticed the injury on his back.

• Wang Yao and others recognized that Jiang Fan's footwork resembled the Lan Family's Phantom Gale Leg, though it was not quite the same.
• Jiang Fan outmaneuvered Jin Yi and struck his lower body, prompting Jin Yi to activate the World-Shaking Meteoric Metal Body.
• Zhou Yanchen warned Jiang Fan about Jin Yi's body-refining art, while Zhou Zhengjiao explained that Jin Yi's strength depended on how long he could sustain it.
• Jin Yi overpowered Jiang Fan with two heavy axe blows, reopening Jiang Fan's shoulder wound and driving him to the edge of the arena.
• Wang Yao noticed the blood soaking through Jiang Fan's clothes and focused on the location of his wound.

Jiang Fan used his spatial ring, archery, and Three-Second Prediction to overcome Jin Yi in their life-and-death arena, killing him after dodging a poisoned arrow. Afterward, Jiang Fan demanded the stakes from Jin Kai while Fatty gave him Body Restoration Pills.

• Fatty suspected the Jin Family had secretly injured Jiang Fan, but Zhou Zhengjiao said there was no proof to stop the fight.
• Jin Yi broke Jiang Fan’s saber and forced him to dodge, so Jiang Fan drew a bow from his spatial ring and bombarded Jin Yi with arrows.
• Jiang Fan used Three-Second Prediction to foresee Jin Yi’s axe concealing a poisoned arrow and dodged the attack.
• Jiang Fan used Phantom Gale Leg to reach Jin Yi and cut his throat, killing him.
• Jin Kai protested Jin Yi’s death, while Zhou Yanchen and Fatty argued that the Jin Family had proposed the life-and-death arena and owed Jiang Fan the stakes.
• Fatty gave Jiang Fan Body Restoration Pills, and Jiang Fan demanded five hundred Body Restoration Pills and five hundred Qi and Blood Raw Stones from Jin Kai.

After Jin Kai paid the wager, Jiang Fan returned to his dorm with serious wounds and asked Crazy Old Man for a body-tempering technique. Wang Yao and Fatty speculated about the identity of the Advanced Psychic from the Zhou Family Secret Realm, while Crazy Old Man suspected Jiang Fan had been defeated by a body-tempering martial artist.

• The principal threatened to expel Jin Kai and publicly expose his family's broken wager, so Jin Kai paid Jiang Fan five hundred Qi and Blood Raw Stones and five hundred Body Restoration Pills.
• Wang Yao tried to inspect Jiang Fan's wounds, but Jiang Fan stopped her and left for his dorm.
• Fatty wondered whether Jiang Fan was the Advanced Psychic from the Zhou Family Secret Realm, but Wang Yao dismissed the idea and defended the Holy Lord's abilities.
• Jiang Fan called Crazy Old Man and insisted that he needed a body-tempering cultivation technique.
• Crazy Old Man warned Jiang Fan against pursuing too many paths, then asked whether he had suffered a setback against a body-tempering martial artist.

Crazy Old Man asked Jin Changfeng for the Jin Family’s World-Shaking Meteoric Metal Body manual on Jiang Fan’s behalf and promised to help Jin Kai get close to his disciple. After learning that Jiang Fan had killed Jin Yi in the life-and-death arena, Jin Changfeng swore to make Jiang Fan suffer rather than kill him outright.

• Jiang Fan admitted to Crazy Old Man that he had a problem, and Crazy Old Man called Jin Changfeng to request the World-Shaking Meteoric Metal Body manual.
• Crazy Old Man revealed that Jiang Fan was his disciple and said he would help Jin Kai approach him; Jin Changfeng agreed to send photos of the manual while asking that Jiang Fan never pass it on.
• Jin Kai rushed in and told Jin Changfeng that Jiang Fan had killed Jin Yi in the life-and-death arena.
• Jin Changfeng collapsed in grief and fury, then restrained himself from killing Jiang Fan outright because the duel had been sanctioned.
• Jin Changfeng vowed to make Jiang Fan suffer in torment until he died slowly.

Jiang Fan mastered the first level of the Jin Family’s World-Shaking Meteoric Metal Body overnight, then learned that his sister was at the Jin Family’s home and went with Jin Kai to confront them. Fatty followed after seeing them leave campus, while Jin Kai insisted his grandfather had invited Jiang Fan to dinner.

• Crazy Old Man sent Jiang Fan the World-Shaking Meteoric Metal Body manual and told him to delete it after reading.
• Jiang Fan studied through the night and mastered the first level, though his qi and blood could not sustain the second.
• Jiang Fan skipped breakfast to sleep after cultivating all night.
• Jin Kai invited Jiang Fan to the Jin Family’s home, but Jiang Fan refused until Jin Kai said his older sister was already there.
• Jiang Fan grabbed Jin Kai by the collar, threatened the Jin Family, and then threw him to the ground.
• Fatty saw Jiang Fan follow Jin Kai off campus and hurried after them.

Jiang Fan went to the Jin Family after learning his sister Tang Duo was being kept there, while Fatty sought Wang Yao’s help to protect him. Jin Changfeng explained that he had once wanted to kill Jiang Fan for Jin Yi’s death, but had changed his mind.

• Jiang Fan agreed to visit the Jin Family because Tang Duo was there, and told Fatty he could use his final trump card if necessary.
• Fatty asked Wang Yao to help Jiang Fan, but she initially refused to intervene herself and Little Turtle declined to act.
• After Fatty pleaded with her, Wang Yao agreed to send a clan elder to the Jin Family on the Pill Pavilion’s behalf.
• Jiang Fan arrived at the Jin Family and saw Tang Duo guarded beside Jin Changfeng.
• Jin Changfeng acknowledged that Jin Yi had deserved his death in the life-and-death arena, then told Jiang Fan he had changed his mind about killing him.

Jin Changfeng confronted Jiang Fan and demanded to know the source of his talent, but Jiang Fan refused and resisted Jin Kai’s attempt to attack him. When Jin Changfeng recognized Jiang Fan’s World-Shaking Meteoric Metal Body and prepared to kill him, Zhou Lingxing arrived to protect him and accused Jin Kai of causing Zhou Yanchen’s earlier burial.

• Jin Changfeng offered to spare Jiang Fan and his sister if Jiang Fan revealed his opportunity, then demanded that Jiang Fan become Jin Kai’s lackey when he refused.
• Jin Kai attacked Jiang Fan, but Jiang Fan kicked him into a coffee table.
• Jin Changfeng struck at Jiang Fan, who activated the World-Shaking Meteoric Metal Body; Jin Changfeng recognized the Jin Family technique and accused Jiang Fan of stealing it.
• Before Jiang Fan could invoke his master’s name, Zhou Lingxing arrived with Zhou Yanchen and the Zhou Family, and Zhou Yanchen confirmed he had brought them to help.
• Zhou Lingxing stood between Jin Changfeng and Jiang Fan, then accused Jin Kai of being behind Zhou Yanchen’s earlier burial and challenged Jin Changfeng to let him search Jin Kai’s soul.

A Pill Pavilion elder arrived at the Jin Family home and stopped Jin Changfeng from threatening Jiang Fan and Tang Duo. He took them away, claiming Jiang Fan belonged to the Pill Pavilion, while Crazy Old Man secretly traveled toward Fortress No. 1.

• Jin Changfeng demanded that Jiang Fan become Jin Kai’s lackey or have his legs broken, while Zhou Lingxing tried to protect him.
• Jin Changfeng unleashed his aura, but a Pill Pavilion elder arrived and neutralized it.
• The elder recognized Jiang Fan and invited him and Tang Duo to leave with him, declaring that Jiang Fan was one of the Pill Pavilion’s people.
• Jiang Fan thanked Fatty for bringing the elder, and they parted ways after chatting.
• Crazy Old Man boarded a train bound for Fortress No. 1.

Crazy Old Man returned to the fortress, where Zhou Lingxing and Jin Changfeng welcomed him and tried to win his favor for their descendants. Zhou Yanchen brought Jiang Fan to meet the old man, but the chapter ended before they entered the private room.

• Zhou Lingxing rushed to Crazy Old Man and clung to his thigh, while Jin Changfeng offered him fine wine and introduced Jin Kai.
• Crazy Old Man said Jiang Fan did not yet know he had arrived and postponed introducing him to the others.
• Zhou Lingxing asked where Zhou Yanchen was, and Zhou Zhengjiao promised to compete with Jin Kai for Crazy Old Man's approval.
• Zhou Yanchen brought Jiang Fan to the hotel, explaining that he wanted to introduce him to a powerful figure who could protect him from the Jin Family.
• Jin Kai toasted Crazy Old Man and received his praise, while Zhou Zhengjiao joked that he was still young enough to find a thigh to cling to.

Jiang Fan accompanied Zhou Yanchen to meet Master Li, only to discover that the scruffy old man was his friend, Crazy Old Man. After Crazy Old Man protected him from Jin Changfeng, Jiang Fan learned that Zhou Yanchen had revealed the Jin Family’s abduction of his sister, and Jin Changfeng tried to justify his actions.

• Zhou Yanchen brought Jiang Fan into the meeting despite Zhou Zhengjiao’s objections, and Jin Changfeng and his grandson mocked them.
• Jin Changfeng lunged at Jiang Fan, but Crazy Old Man struck him with a powerful shock wave and sent him crashing into a wall.
• Jiang Fan showed concern for Crazy Old Man, and Zhou Yanchen realized that the old man was Master Li and told Jin Changfeng that the Jin Family would no longer dare harm Jiang Fan.
• Zhou Yanchen revealed that the Jin Family had abducted Jiang Fan’s older sister, prompting Crazy Old Man to ask why Jiang Fan had not told him.
• Jin Changfeng claimed he had only brought Jiang Fan back to make him Jin Yi’s lackey, while Zhou Lingxing and Crazy Old Man challenged his account of Jin Yi’s death-match challenge.

Jin Changfeng tried to settle the Jin Family’s dispute with Jiang Fan and asked Crazy Old Man to arrange a meeting between Jin Kai and his disciple. Jiang Fan accused Jin Kai of abusing female students and baited him into swearing a cuckold’s oath, but Jin Changfeng still pressed for the introduction.

• Crazy Old Man rebuked Jin Changfeng for expecting Jiang Fan to serve Jin Kai, and Jin Changfeng agreed to settle the dispute with Jiang Fan.
• Jiang Fan accepted Jin Changfeng’s proposal to put the grudge aside, though Crazy Old Man privately wondered what Jin Family secret Jiang Fan had supposedly stolen.
• Jin Changfeng asked Crazy Old Man to arrange an early meeting between Jin Kai and his disciple, and Crazy Old Man asked Jiang Fan whether his disciple would agree.
• Jiang Fan accused Jin Kai of bullying female students and challenged him to swear that his partners and children would betray him.
• Jin Kai completed the oath after Zhou Yanchen provoked him, and Jin Changfeng then asked Crazy Old Man to introduce Jin Kai to his disciple.

Jiang Fan refused to let Jin Kai’s oath settle the dispute, and Crazy Old Man promised to investigate the young man before leaving with the Zhou family. At Yunlu Bay, Zhou Zhengjiao realized Jiang Fan was Crazy Old Man’s disciple and recognized him as his own Brother Thigh, while Zhou Yanchen learned Jiang Fan was a seventeen-year-old Advanced Psychic.

• Jiang Fan mocked the idea that Jin Kai’s oath could replace law, and Crazy Old Man told Jin Changfeng that Jiang Fan could decide the matter.
• Crazy Old Man said he would investigate Jin Kai, then ended the meal and left with Zhou Lingxing and the others.
• Zhou Lingxing took Crazy Old Man to Yunlu Bay, where they ate and drank before returning home.
• Crazy Old Man implied that Jiang Fan was as capable as his disciple, prompting Zhou Zhengjiao to realize Jiang Fan was the Brother Thigh he had been seeking.
• Zhou Zhengjiao rushed over and embraced Jiang Fan, while Zhou Yanchen realized Jiang Fan was both his Brother Thigh and a seventeen-year-old Advanced Psychic.
• Jiang Fan tried to escape Zhou Zhengjiao’s embrace and glared at Crazy Old Man, who pretended to be too drunk to see.

Jiang Fan showed Crazy Old Man the Spirit Weapon and revealed his World-Shaking Meteoric Metal Body, earning points by tending to his master. The next morning, Fatty and his cousin Wang Yao arrived as the new neighbors, and Crazy Old Man recognized Wang Yao before Jiang Fan learned she was the Pill Pavilion’s grand-…

• Crazy Old Man examined Jiang Fan’s Spirit Weapon and recognized its sword technique as one created by someone he knew.
• Jiang Fan demonstrated the World-Shaking Meteoric Metal Body, shocking Crazy Old Man into going to sleep.
• Crazy Old Man prepared to return to Fortress No. 31, while Jiang Fan regretted losing the easy daily points.
• Fatty arrived with his older cousin Wang Yao, who called Crazy Old Man “Ergouzi” and tugged his beard.
• Crazy Old Man and Wang Yao reacted as old acquaintances, and he was stunned to learn she was Fatty’s older cousin.
• When Jiang Fan asked who Wang Yao was, Crazy Old Man began identifying her as the Pill Pavilion’s grand-…

Wang Yao told Crazy Old Man she had found the man she believed to be the Holy Lord of the Church of Justice, whom she had encountered in the Zhou Family Secret Realm. She identified him by his ability to refine a Spirit Weapon, leaving Crazy Old Man to suspect that the man was Jiang Fan.

• Little Turtle knocked Crazy Old Man down, then taunted him until they began tussling.
• Jiang Fan tried to listen in on Wang Yao and Crazy Old Man but Crazy Old Man scattered his Psychic Power.
• Wang Yao explained that her youthful appearance came from a secret technique taught to her by her master.
• Wang Yao told Crazy Old Man she had found the man in the Zhou Family Secret Realm, and dismissed the Church of Justice's Holy Son as a false lead.
• Wang Yao said the masked man could refine the Spirit Weapon, prompting Crazy Old Man to wonder if she meant Jiang Fan, the Advanced Psychic.

Wang Yao insisted that Jiang Fan was the Holy Lord of the Church of Justice, while Crazy Old Man tried to dissuade her and concealed that his disciple was the advanced psychic she had encountered. At the train station, Crazy Old Man warned Jiang Fan that Wang Yao was searching for him, and Jiang Fan reflected on his painful past as he rejected the idea that he could be the Holy Lord’s reincarnation.

• Wang Yao told Crazy Old Man she was certain Jiang Fan was the person she sought, despite his doubts and attempts to explain the advanced psychic might have been someone else.
• Wang Yao asked about Crazy Old Man’s disciple and Jiang Fan, but Crazy Old Man hid the disciple’s identity and said Jiang Fan was merely a good cook who had served him at Fortress No. 31.
• At the train station, Crazy Old Man told Jiang Fan that Wang Yao had mistaken him for Little Turtle’s master, and identified that person as the Holy Lord of the Church of Justice.
• Jiang Fan and Crazy Old Man discussed Wang Yao’s search and her disfiguring the Holy Son; Crazy Old Man warned Jiang Fan to be careful before boarding his train.
• Jiang Fan rejected the idea that he was the Holy Lord’s reincarnation and remembered his former life as a mocked, low-blood-qi good-for-nothing who had suffered a brutal death.

Jiang Fan went alone into the Inner Wilderness Zone to contract demonic beasts, while Little Turtle repeatedly killed the low-level beasts he tried to contract. He captured a Three Star flying beast and cornered a herd of Earth-Splitting Rhinoceroses, then began contracting the flying beast.

• Crazy Old Man left after urging Jiang Fan to contact him if he needed help, and Jiang Fan disguised himself as Tang Fan and entered the Inner Wilderness Zone alone.
• Jiang Fan repeatedly tried to contract low-level demonic beasts, but Little Turtle killed each one from afar while Wang Yao tried to learn where he was.
• After an hour of failed attempts, Jiang Fan seized a Three Star flying beast and dragged it to the ground, startling a herd of Earth-Splitting Rhinoceroses into fleeing.
• Jiang Fan trapped the Earth-Splitting Rhinoceroses with his Ice Flame Hedgehog Spines and announced that he wanted to contract them.
• Jiang Fan chose a handsome Earth-Splitting Rhinoceros, then decided to contract the Three Star flying beast first and placed his palm against its forehead.

Jiang Fan intimidated a herd of Earth-Splitting Rhinoceroses until he successfully contracted a four-star one, then discovered his soul threshold had no upper limit. He increased his soul power with system points and turned his attention to contracting more beasts.

• Jiang Fan killed several fleeing Earth-Splitting Rhinoceroses with Ice Flame Hedgehog Spines, forcing the rest to huddle in fear.
• Little Turtle kept sabotaging Jiang Fan’s attempts to contract the beasts, while Wang Yao warned it that Jiang Fan might retaliate or terminate their contract.
• Wang Yao’s warning made Little Turtle hesitate, allowing Jiang Fan to contract a four-star Earth-Splitting Rhinoceros.
• Jiang Fan checked his system panel and found that his soul power was 99 and his soul threshold had no upper limit.
• Jiang Fan exchanged 3,000 points for 30 soul power, raising his total to 129, then approached the remaining rhinoceroses with renewed excitement.

Jiang Fan contracted twenty-three Earth-Splitting Rhinoceroses, while his enemies secretly arranged an assassination. The chapter ended as Jiang Fan sensed masked people closing in and steered Fatty toward a hot pot restaurant.

• Jiang Fan hunted through the night to gather enough points and contracted twenty-three Earth-Splitting Rhinoceroses in total.
• Wang Yao learned from Little Turtle that Jiang Fan had contracted twenty-one Three Star and two Four Star Earth-Splitting Rhinoceroses.
• Two concealed men arranged an assassination, assigning more than a dozen martial artists and hiring additional experts to avoid attracting attention.
• On the way home, Jiang Fan sensed masked people approaching and suggested that he and Fatty go to a hot pot restaurant.
• Fatty recognized that Jiang Fan was acting unusually, though Jiang Fan had not explained the danger.