Recaps

Jiang Fan used his enhanced Psychic Power to detect two bodyguards sent by Jiang Qifeng, then killed them with his strength and telekinetic control. He returned home unnoticed while the Jiang Family waited for the bodyguards to report back.

• Jiang Fan raised his Psychic Power and practiced sensing people and events in nearby homes.
• Jiang Fan detected two of Jiang Qifeng’s masked bodyguards approaching and led them into the woods.
• Jiang Fan identified the bodyguards and learned Jiang Qifeng had sent them to break his legs in retaliation for Jiang Youtian’s injuries.
• Jiang Fan revealed strength beyond that of an early-stage martial apprentice and used hovering alloy rings to kill both bodyguards.
• Jiang Fan buried the bodyguards and went home to sleep while Jiang Qifeng and Jiang Hongyuan waited for news.
• Jiang Qifeng asked Jiang Youtian about his healing legs, then angrily cut him off when he questioned whether attacking Jiang Fan was right.

Jiang Fan went to the Police Bureau as a witness, where Wei Cangyue challenged his account of the fight and hinted that forensic evidence might link him to it. The chapter left Jiang Fan alone in the interrogation room, waiting for Wei Cangyue to return with the DNA results.

• Jiang Qifeng sent Butler Zhou to search for the missing bodyguards.
• Old Wu thanked Jiang Fan for helping rescue his daughter, then asked him to hand over the F-grade alloy saber and give a statement at the Police Bureau.
• Wei Cangyue questioned Jiang Fan about the death of the Mid-Stage First Rank criminal and accused him of lying about an expert killing the criminal.
• Jiang Fan defended his account and argued that he should be treated as a student and a witness rather than a criminal.
• Xiao Qian brought Wei Cangyue the DNA comparison results, and Wei Cangyue revealed that blood found beside the broken lamppost might belong to Jiang Fan.

Wei Cangyue’s DNA test identified the blood as chicken blood, so he failed to expose Jiang Fan’s lie and let him go. After Old Wu described Jiang Fan’s abusive upbringing and rapid progress as a martial apprentice, Wei Cangyue began to suspect that Jiang Fan was the mysterious genius Crazy Old Man had protected.

• Wei Cangyue learned the DNA comparison matched chicken blood and realized Jiang Fan had outmaneuvered the investigation.
• Jiang Fan decided not to confess, fearing that revealing his spirit master identity would put him and his family in danger.
• Wei Cangyue tried to bluff Jiang Fan, but Jiang Fan recognized that the DNA results had failed and asked to go home.
• Wei Cangyue let Jiang Fan leave, unable to pry the truth from him.
• Old Wu told Wei Cangyue about Jiang Fan’s abuse by his biological family and how he became an early-stage martial apprentice within a month.
• Wei Cangyue began to suspect Jiang Fan was the mysterious genius Crazy Old Man had been hiding.

Jiang Fan learned that Crazy Old Man had known he was a Spirit Master and had hidden his identity by replacing his blood with chicken blood. Crazy Old Man explained the Church of Justice’s corruption and warned Jiang Fan to avoid its members, while Jiang Fan failed ten prize draws and headed out to train.

• Crazy Old Man revealed that he had recognized Jiang Fan as the one who killed the Mid-Stage First Rank Martial Artist and had swapped Jiang Fan’s blood for chicken blood to protect his secret.
• Crazy Old Man said Yan Tianyang had told him the person he sent was a Spirit Master, while Jiang Fan insisted he was not that person.
• Crazy Old Man identified the criminals as Apostles of Justice from the Church of Justice and explained that the organization turned evil after its Holy Lord disappeared eighteen years earlier.
• Crazy Old Man warned Jiang Fan to stay away from the Church of Justice because he was too weak to fight its members.
• Jiang Fan spent 1,000 points on ten prize draws and failed to win, then decided to go mountain climbing to continue his training.

After Jiang Fan received a modest reward for exposing a child-abduction gang, he worried about his dwindling funds and tried to keep up with Lan Shengxue during mountain training. Lan Shengxue ran beside him and thanked him for helping her little sister.

• Jiang Fan used the system to slightly increase his blood essence and Psychic Power.
• Wei Qi and the class discussed the high school student who had helped rescue thirty-three abducted children, while Old Wu told Jiang Fan the bureau had concealed his identity.
• Old Wu offered Jiang Fan a 30,000-yuan reward, but said it would take at least a month to process, leaving Jiang Fan anxious about his lack of money.
• During training on Plow Mountain, Lan Shengxue repeatedly pulled ahead of Jiang Fan, but he kept closing the gap until she ran alongside him.
• Lan Shengxue thanked Jiang Fan for helping her little sister, while their classmates watched in astonishment.

Jiang Fan accepted a Qi and Blood Raw Stone and a love letter from Lan Shengxue, then shut down Tong Shuyao when she questioned him about their breakup. After spotting a studio job posting on his way home, he decided to try archery work and arrived at Xiaoqiang Studio on Saturday.

• Lan Shengxue gave Jiang Fan Yi Hong’s love letter and offered him a Qi and Blood Raw Stone and a favor; Jiang Fan accepted them.
• Jiang Fan offered to sell Wei Qi the Qi and Blood Raw Stone for five hundred thousand, infuriating him.
• Tong Shuyao asked Jiang Fan whether he had broken up with her for Lan Shengxue, and Jiang Fan told her it was none of her business.
• Tong Shuyao asked Lan Shengxue whether she liked Jiang Fan, and Lan Shengxue gave her the same dismissive reply.
• Jiang Fan found a flyer advertising an archer position at Xiaoqiang Studio and decided his Psychic Power could make up for his lack of archery experience.
• Jiang Fan followed the flyer’s address to Xiaoqiang Studio on Saturday.

Jiang Fan applied to Xiaoqiang Studio but had to borrow the thirty-thousand-yuan application fee from Old Wu. After provoking a hostile applicant who nearly attacked him, Jiang Fan joined the other candidates as the first interview round began.

• The receptionist mocked Jiang Fan’s low martial-apprentice strength and required him to pay a thirty-thousand-yuan application fee.
• Jiang Fan called Old Wu, who offered to transfer the money, and Jiang Fan accepted it as a loan.
• Jiang Fan paid the fee and waited with the other applicants, where a bald man criticized him for borrowing the money and doubted he could win the single archer position.
• Jiang Fan challenged the bald man’s confidence, drawing hostile stares from the other applicants, and the bald man accused him of setting him up.
• The bald man tried to punch Jiang Fan, but the receptionist warned that fighting meant immediate disqualification, and he backed down.
• The receptionist led the applicants to the archery range to begin the first interview round.

Jiang Fan impressed Yang Xiaoqiang and the other interviewers by hitting the bull’s-eye with every arrow during Xiaoqiang Studio’s archer recruitment test. The next round began with moving targets and strong wind, putting the remaining applicants’ skills to the test.

• Yang Xiaoqiang introduced himself and explained Xiaoqiang Studio’s strict requirements for a new archer.
• Jiang Fan joined the final group and borrowed a bow after claiming his own had broken.
• Jiang Fan hit the bull’s-eye with every shot, repeatedly piercing his arrows through the previous ones and astonishing the interviewers and applicants.
• Yang Xiaoqiang praised Jiang Fan’s archery but decided the interview needed to test more than his shooting ability.
• Yang Xiaoqiang had the targets move and wind rise, then challenged the applicants to land at least three hits in ten shots.

Jiang Fan impressed Xiaoqiang Studio with his impossible accuracy and became the only candidate willing to face the final test outside Fortress No. 31. After he deduced that the team had no intention of taking him into the Inner Wilderness Zone, Yang Xiaoqiang explained why they needed a new archer.

• Jiang Fan shot every arrow through the previous one and into the bull's-eye, impressing Xiaoqiang Studio and frightening the bald man who had insulted him.
• Yang Xiaoqiang led the four remaining candidates to Fortress No. 31 and announced that the final assessment would take place at the edge of the Inner Wilderness Zone.
• Three candidates panicked and withdrew, leaving Jiang Fan as the only one willing to go.
• Jiang Fan reasoned that Yang Xiaoqiang's experienced team would not risk taking a rookie into the wilderness without an archer, so the announced test was not what it seemed.
• Yang Xiaoqiang praised Jiang Fan's judgment and revealed that the team's previous archer had died after retreating from a fight with two one-star demonic beasts.

Jiang Fan joined Yang Xiaoqiang’s studio and met its members, including Miao Xi, a survivor of Fortress No. 39’s beast tide. When the studio accepted a two-million commission to capture a one-star Eight-Legged Hedgehog Pig, Jiang Fan asked to accompany them, confident he could handle it.

• Wang Jiangang welcomed Jiang Fan, and Yang Xiaoqiang introduced the studio members, including Zhou Xiaoyan and Yao Lingling.
• Miao Xi warned Jiang Fan that the wilderness was terrifying, and Yang Xiaoqiang explained that her family had died in the beast tide that destroyed Fortress No. 39.
• Yao Lingling reported that the Demon Beast Research Institute wanted the studio to capture an escaped one-star Eight-Legged Hedgehog Pig for a two-million commission.
• Yang Xiaoqiang accepted the task, and Jiang Fan asked to join the team because he believed he could handle it.
• The team was surprised by Jiang Fan’s confidence, and Miao Xi gave him a closer look.

Jiang Fan joined Yang Xiaoqiang’s team to hunt an Eight-Legged Hedgehog Pig and showed unusual stamina and tracking ability. When the beast fled again, the team chased after it, leaving Jiang Fan’s chance to prove his archery unresolved.

• Yang Xiaoqiang led Jiang Fan and the team into the woods to hunt the Eight-Legged Hedgehog Pig, but the beast sped away before they could catch it.
• Jiang Fan kept up with the exhausted team and impressed them by showing no signs of fatigue, explaining that he climbed mountains for hours every day.
• Jiang Fan used his Psychic Power to locate the Eight-Legged Hedgehog Pig, and Yang Xiaoqiang led the team to hide near it.
• Jiang Fan offered to shoot the beast, but Yang Xiaoqiang stopped him and sent Zhou Xiaoyan and Wang Jiangang to circle around it.
• The Eight-Legged Hedgehog Pig heard Zhou Xiaoyan and fled, forcing the team to resume the chase.

Jiang Fan captured an Eight-Legged Hedgehog Pig with a flawless double-arrow shot and earned his teammates’ respect by offering to share the mission reward. The group prepared to return with the beast, while Jiang Fan kept his face concealed from Zhou Xiaoyan.

• Jiang Fan shot two arrows into the Eight-Legged Hedgehog Pig’s eyes, stopping it, and Yang Xiaoqiang trapped the beast in a demon-trapping net.
• Jiang Fan received 50 points from the system for hunting the demon beast and dodged Wang Jiangang’s attempted pat on the back.
• Yang Xiaoqiang offered Jiang Fan the full two-million commission, but Jiang Fan insisted the team split it evenly.
• Wang Jiangang and Miao Xi praised Jiang Fan, while Zhou Xiaoyan tried to remove his mask and Jiang Fan repeatedly dodged him.
• Yang Xiaoqiang proposed that Jiang Fan take one million and the others split the rest, and Jiang Fan accepted.

After earning his mission commission, Jiang Fan repaid Old Wu and went to cook for Crazy Old Man before spending his remaining system points on draws. He won a Psychic Fruit that could double his existing Psychic Power, leaving Crazy Old Man watching his strange reactions.

• Jiang Fan agreed to join Xiaoqiang Studio only for missions, and the studio paid him one million from the completed mission commission.
• Jiang Fan repaid Old Wu fifty thousand, but Old Wu returned twenty thousand and advised him to focus on his martial arts exam.
• Jiang Fan called Tang Fugui to say he would miss dinner, then went to the cemetery management office and cooked for Crazy Old Man.
• Jiang Fan spent points raising his qi and blood and Psychic Power to their limits, then used the rest on draws.
• Jiang Fan won a Psychic Fruit that could double his existing Psychic Power, while Crazy Old Man quietly watched him react.

After eating a Psychic Fruit, Jiang Fan doubled his Psychic Power, and Crazy Old Man urged him to keep his Spirit Master ability secret. At special training, Wei Qi challenged Jiang Fan to a sparring match and bet that the loser would kneel, call the winner Daddy, and run naked around the gymnasium.

• Jiang Fan ate the Psychic Fruit and increased his Psychic Power from 3130P to 6260P.
• Crazy Old Man noticed Jiang Fan's sudden increase in Psychic Power, advised him to hide that he was a Spirit Master, and offered to help if he faced danger.
• Wei Cangyue told the special training class to pair up for sparring, then chose Lan Shengxue as her own partner.
• Jiang Fan taunted Jiang Youtian and challenged him to fight, but Jiang Youtian refused to move closer.
• Wei Qi challenged Jiang Fan and proposed that the loser kneel, call the winner Daddy, and run a naked lap around the gymnasium; Jiang Fan accepted.

Jiang Fan defeated Wei Qi despite their gap in cultivation, then watched Wei Qi honor his promise in an outrageous fashion. Wei Cangyue praised Jiang Fan’s combat ability and temperament but told him his low talent limited how far he could go.

• Wei Qi attacked Jiang Fan with all his strength, but Jiang Fan stopped his punch with one hand and kicked him across the gymnasium.
• The students and Wei Cangyue were shocked when Jiang Fan defeated Wei Qi, while Lan Shengxue was unsurprised because she had seen Jiang Fan kill a late-stage martial apprentice criminal.
• Jiang Fan told Wei Qi he had lost, and Wei Qi knelt, called him Dad, stripped, and ran a lap around Gymnasium No. 2 to keep his promise.
• Wei Cangyue ordered Wei Qi to get dressed, then praised Jiang Fan’s ability and temperament before warning him that his limited talent constrained his potential.

Jiang Fan accepted Mu Feng’s challenge and revealed that he had reached the middle stage of martial apprenticeship. After matching Mu Feng’s opening punch, Jiang Fan easily dodged his next attack and pressed forward, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Wei Cangyue praised Jiang Fan’s combat talent and said he might have recruited him into the Divine Wind Squad if his vitality were higher.
• Mu Feng challenged Jiang Fan, and Jiang Fan agreed to fight him so he could gain practical combat experience.
• Jiang Fan and Mu Feng exchanged a powerful punch, and their clash revealed that Jiang Fan was a middle-stage martial apprentice.
• Mu Feng attacked at close range, but Jiang Fan dodged, counterpunched, and forced him to retreat.
• Mu Feng recovered and assumed an opening stance as Jiang Fan attacked again.

Jiang Fan defeated Mu Feng by adapting and turning his opponent’s techniques against him, then accepted Lan Shengxue’s challenge. Their spar began with Lan Shengxue revealing her Lan Family secret skill, Phantom Gale Leg.

• Jiang Fan analyzed Mu Feng’s techniques, countered him with increasing ease, and kicked him off the arena platform to win.
• Lan Shengxue challenged Jiang Fan, who agreed to spar despite knowing she was a powerful martial artist from the Lan Family.
• Jiang Fan blocked Lan Shengxue’s first kick, impressing the spectators and Wei Cangyue.
• Jiang Fan asked Lan Shengxue to use her full strength, and she attacked with Phantom Gale Leg, a secret Lan Family technique she had mastered to its first level.

Jiang Fan lost his sparring match with Lan Shengxue but focused on memorizing her moves. Wei Cangyue then took the special training class to the Demon Beast Research Institute, where the students confronted terrifying caged beasts and Jiang Fan remained calm.

• Lan Shengxue defeated Jiang Fan in a spar, and Jiang Fan sat aside to study the moves he had learned.
• Wei Cangyue questioned Jiang Fan's sudden advancement, and the students suspected he had hidden his strength from Jiang Youtian and Wei Qi.
• Wei Cangyue led the special training class to the Demon Beast Research Institute and insisted that anyone who refused to enter would lose his training.
• The students saw caged demon beasts, including a Golden One-Horned Lion, a Mist-Hidden Flying Crow, and a Twin-Tailed Blood-Eyed Wolf, and many were frightened.
• Wei Qi tried to reassure Tong Shuyao, while Jiang Youtian offered to protect Lan Shengxue and she told him to stay away.
• Wei Cangyue observed that Lan Shengxue, Mu Feng, and Jiang Fan remained relatively composed around the beasts.

Jiang Fan remained calm around demonic beasts, and news of his rise and victories reached the Jiang Family, who accepted that reconciliation was unlikely. Later, Crazy Old Man discovered that Jiang Fan could reproduce Lan Shengxue’s Phantom Gale Leg after watching her fight and realized how extraordinary his talent was.

• Wei Qi saw Jiang Fan remain expressionless around the demonic beasts and was shocked by his composure.
• News spread that Jiang Fan had become a Middle-Stage Martial Apprentice and defeated Wei Qi and Mu Feng.
• Jiang Qifeng urged Jiang Youtian to surpass Jiang Fan, while suspecting Jiang Fan had dealt with the two bodyguards the family had sent after him.
• Jiang Fan practiced Lan Shengxue’s Phantom Gale Leg in the courtyard and felled a tree with a flying kick.
• Crazy Old Man recognized the Lan Family technique and assumed Lan Shengxue had taught it to Jiang Fan.
• Jiang Fan explained that he had memorized the moves by watching Lan Shengxue fight, leaving Crazy Old Man stunned and excited by his talent.

After reworking Phantom Gale Leg into a new speed-enhancing footwork technique, Jiang Fan followed Crazy Old Man’s suggestion to learn from other martial arts schools. At the Sky Eagle Martial Arts School, he challenged Mu Dong to test the techniques he had just memorized and adapted.

• Jiang Fan broke Phantom Gale Leg apart and reassembled it into footwork that let him dash to Plow Mountain and back in seconds.
• Crazy Old Man urged Jiang Fan to visit martial arts schools, learn their techniques, and combine them into something of his own.
• Jiang Fan went to the Sky Eagle Martial Arts School, where the receptionist directed him to a trial lesson taught by Mu Dong.
• Jiang Fan recognized some of Mu Dong’s demonstrated techniques from his earlier fight with Mu Feng and memorized the rest.
• Mu Dong challenged Jiang Fan to demonstrate his insights, and they began a fight using martial techniques.

Jiang Fan defeated Mu Dong using martial techniques that resembled Mu Dong’s family style, then accepted a dangerous protection assignment with Xiaoqiang Studio. The chapter ended with Jiang Fan and the studio members arriving at Imperial View Villa District for the job.

• Jiang Fan beat Mu Dong in a martial techniques match, leaving Mu Dong wondering how he had learned and improved the family’s moves.
• Mu Feng saw a photo of Jiang Fan and recognized him as the young man who had fought his brother.
• Yao Lingling told Jiang Fan that a client was offering fifty million for protection overnight, and Jiang Fan agreed to join the assignment.
• Jiang Fan slept through class, and Lu Yi told a student not to disturb him.
• Jiang Fan arrived with Xiaoqiang Studio at Imperial View Villa District, where the Apostles of Justice had once taken Tang Guo.

Jiang Fan proved his archery skill to Wei Xianghong, then saved Wei Qi from an ambush and killed the enemy archer. The attackers stormed the villa with more fighters than the employers had reported, and a masked man lunged at Jiang Fan as the battle began.

• Wei Xianghong doubted Jiang Fan’s ability, but Jiang Fan demonstrated his archery by shooting arrows into a wall to spell out his name.
• Jiang Fan noticed an arrow aimed at Wei Qi, deflected it with another arrow, and shot the hidden archer outside.
• Yang Xiaoqiang warned the group to prepare for a melee, and five attackers broke into the villa.
• Wei Xianghong learned from his former business partner that the enemy had sent six people with stronger martial artists than reported.
• Zhou Xiaoyan considered withdrawing, but the attackers called for Jiang Fan to be taken out, and a man in a Peking opera mask lunged at him.

Jiang Fan surprised the Wei Family team by defeating an early-stage first-rank martial artist in close combat, then helped eliminate the remaining attackers. After Yang Xiaoqiang praised his strength and future prospects, Wei Qi openly admired him.

• Jiang Fan charged an early-stage first-rank martial artist and held his own with swift, powerful kicks.
• Jiang Fan killed his opponent with a knife stroke and joined Miao Xi, helping her defeat another martial artist.
• Jiang Fan assisted Zhou Xiaoyan, then shot a fleeing middle-stage first-rank martial artist through the heart with his bow.
• Yang Xiaoqiang and the others killed the remaining attackers, and Yang Xiaoqiang praised Jiang Fan's potential for missions in the Inner Wilderness Zone.
• Wei Qi admired Jiang Fan, while Jiang Fan looked forward to hunting demonic beasts and earning points before the martial entrance exam.

After defeating an attack on Wei Qi’s household, Jiang Fan went to the cemetery to farm points, then arrived at school exhausted. Wei Qi praised his mysterious hero, Tang Fan, without realizing Tang Fan was Jiang Fan, while the school prepared to welcome Spirit Master Ye Qizhen.

• Wei Qi begged Jiang Fan to take him on as a younger brother, but Jiang Fan left for the cemetery to farm points.
• Wei Qi had the servants preserve the character Fan that Jiang Fan had shot into the wall, declaring that his family would keep it for life.
• The next morning, Wei Qi recounted Tang Fan’s archery and his victory over an early-stage first-rank martial artist to their classmates.
• Jiang Fan entered class and went to sleep, then silenced Wei Qi with a cold glance that reminded him of Tang Fan.
• The principal announced that Spirit Master Ye Qizhen would visit Ancheng the next day and that the school must give Ye Qizhen an enthusiastic welcome.

Jiang Fan attended Ancheng No. 9 Middle School’s welcome for Spirit Master Ye Qizhen, while the Jiang Family sought to make a favorable impression on him. The chapter ended with Tong Shuyao presenting Ye Qizhen with flowers as students argued over her.

• Jiang Fan slept through his classmates’ excited discussion of Ye Qizhen’s arrival and why their school had been chosen to welcome him.
• Jiang Fan and the school contingent arrived at Ancheng Railway Station, where Jiang Qifeng told his daughters to ignore Jiang Fan and focus on impressing Ye Qizhen.
• Ye Qizhen stepped off the train, drawing the attention of the assembled students and wealthy families.
• Wei Qi mocked Jiang Fan, but Jiang Fan taunted him over losing to someone weaker, and Wei Qi backed down.
• Tong Shuyao approached Ye Qizhen with a bouquet, prompting girls to criticize her while Wei Qi defended her.