Chapter Summaries

Crazy Old Man caught Ye Qizhen and Wei Cangyue spying on Jiang Fan, let Ye Qizhen go, and kept Wei Cangyue suspended all night. The next day, Ye Qizhen challenged Jiang Fan to spar, insisting on increasingly restrictive terms despite Jiang Fan’s refusal.

• Crazy Old Man surprised Wei Cangyue and Ye Qizhen at the mountain and warned Ye Qizhen not to investigate his disciple again.
• Crazy Old Man left Wei Cangyue hanging overnight while Jiang Fan secretly took a photo of him.
• At training class the next day, Wei Cangyue told the students to pair up and spar as Ye Qizhen arrived at Gymnasium No. 2.
• Ye Qizhen challenged Jiang Fan, and Jiang Fan suspected he wanted to test whether he was Crazy Old Man’s disciple.
• Jiang Fan refused, but Ye Qizhen offered to forgo psychic power and martial skills, then to spar with one hand tied behind his back.

Ye Qizhen tried to probe Jiang Fan by challenging him, but Lan Shengxue intervened and defeated him. Wei Cangyue pressed Jiang Fan about his suspected connection to his teacher’s final disciple, and the chapter ended with Jiang Fan sensing danger while collecting bottles.

• Ye Qizhen summoned throwing knives with his spatial ring and sent one at Jiang Fan, but Lan Shengxue blocked it and challenged him instead.
• Lan Shengxue fought Ye Qizhen with her twin blades and won, exposing his weakness in close combat.
• Wei Cangyue questioned Jiang Fan about his teacher’s final disciple and the mysterious Spirit Master involved in the kidnapping, but Jiang Fan denied knowing anything.
• Lan Shengxue told Jiang Fan she had intervened because he had saved her little sister.
• After training, Jiang Fan encountered Ye Qizhen while collecting bottles and asked him to hand over his nearly empty water bottle.
• Jiang Fan suddenly turned toward a certain direction, wary of an unseen threat.

Jiang Fan discovered masked attackers targeting Ye Qizhen, escaped a pursuer, and called Wei Cangyue for help. As Ye Qizhen was about to be killed, a hidden rescuer struck down one of the attackers, and Ye Qizhen saw who had saved him.

• Jiang Fan noticed four armed men hiding nearby and warned Ye Qizhen that his guardian was absent.
• The attackers surrounded Ye Qizhen, while Jiang Fan fled and evaded a masked man sent after him.
• Jiang Fan called Wei Cangyue, gave him the attackers' location and strength, then returned to watch from hiding.
• The attackers overwhelmed Ye Qizhen, and one raised a broadsword to kill him.
• A long spine pierced the attacker through the chest, and the dying man fell, revealing Ye Qizhen's rescuer.

Jiang Fan rescued Ye Qizhen and fought off the masked Apostles of Justice, revealing unexpected strength with both his needles and saber. Ye Qizhen escaped to get help, while C-32 took over the fight and began to overwhelm Jiang Fan.

• Jiang Fan intervened as the masked men surrounded him and Ye Qizhen, and he recognized their code names as resembling those of the Apostles of Justice who had kidnapped Tang Guo.
• Jiang Fan used three spines from the Eight-Legged Hedgehog Pig to hold off the attackers, then drew Bing 78's saber and knocked Bing 81's weapon away before gravely wounding him.
• Jiang Fan fought another Middle-Stage First-Rank Martial Artist with surprising physical strength, while Ye Qizhen noticed that his leg technique resembled the Lan Family's Phantom Gale Leg.
• Jiang Fan redirected his three needles toward C-32 and urged Ye Qizhen to flee and get help; Ye Qizhen ran as one attacker chased him.
• C-32 engaged Jiang Fan, who began struggling after a dozen exchanges.

Jiang Fan fought C-32 while wearing F-grade alloy weighted rings, then hurled his saber and fled. Wei Cangyue rescued Ye Qizhen and learned that Jiang Fan was still a late-stage martial apprentice, leaving him stunned by the boy’s strength.

• Jiang Fan reflected on his combat experience as he traded blows with C-32, who grew wary of his skill.
• Jiang Fan removed his F-grade alloy weighted rings, then hurled his saber at C-32 and used the dust to escape.
• Ye Qizhen was pursued by a middle-stage first-rank martial artist until Wei Cangyue arrived and killed the attacker.
• Ye Qizhen told Wei Cangyue that Master Li’s disciple had saved him and described Jiang Fan’s astonishing fighting ability.
• Wei Cangyue and Ye Qizhen returned to the battle site, found the fallen attackers, and Wei Cangyue called Jiang Fan a monster.

Jiang Fan led C-32 on a prolonged chase to the cemetery, where Crazy Old Man subdued the pursuer with overwhelming pressure. Wei Cangyue and Ye Qizhen arrived and learned that Crazy Old Man had forced Jiang Fan to become his disciple, while Wei Cangyue reached to uncover Jiang Fan’s face.

• Jiang Fan outran C-32 for half an hour, then shouted to Crazy Old Man for help when he reached the cemetery.
• Crazy Old Man emerged from the management office and pinned C-32 to the ground with a terrifying pressure.
• Jiang Fan argued that Crazy Old Man had forced him into discipleship, astonishing Ye Qizhen and Wei Cangyue.
• Ye Qizhen thanked Jiang Fan and asked for his name and contact details, but Jiang Fan rejected the request.
• Wei Cangyue identified herself as a fellow student of their teacher and reached toward Jiang Fan’s face.

Jiang Fan learned that the Church of Justice had abducted children and heard Crazy Old Man recount his past friendship with its deceased Holy Lord. Crazy Old Man compared the Holy Lord’s questionable methods to Jiang Fan’s, while the captured C-32 remained under their control.

• Crazy Old Man restrained C-32 and condemned the Church of Justice for abducting children and brainwashing them in orphanages.
• C-32 defended the Church’s actions, claiming the children were being cleansed of sin and given new lives.
• Crazy Old Man revealed that he had known the Church’s Holy Lord when he was a child and described the striking man and their time together.
• Crazy Old Man recalled the Holy Lord confiscating his candy, killing people after letting them flee, and robbing wealthy merchants to help the poor.
• Jiang Fan wondered whether the Holy Lord had possessed a Good People and Good Deeds System, and the system told him it was unique in the universe.

Crazy Old Man’s use of psychic power aggravated an old injury, and Wei Cangyue told Jiang Fan how a scheme led to his family’s deaths while they defended Great Xia. Days later, Jiang Fan arranged to visit Yang Xiaoqiang’s studio after class, prompting Yang Xiaoqiang and Yao Lingling to wonder whether he was a student.

• Crazy Old Man spat blood after using his psychic power, while Wei Cangyue wounded the fleeing C-32 and then explained that Crazy Old Man had aggravated a lingering injury.
• Wei Cangyue told Jiang Fan that a scheme had sent Crazy Old Man into a beast tide twenty years earlier, where his son, daughter-in-law, and grandson died defending Great Xia.
• Jiang Fan said he would choose his own family over a city, and Wei Cangyue advised him to keep concealing his identity and growing stronger.
• Ye Qizhen said he had initially suspected Jiang Fan was Tang Fan, then wondered whether Jiang Fan had been a late-stage martial apprentice all along.
• Several days later, Yang Xiaoqiang asked Tang Fan to come to the studio after class, and Yao Lingling and Yang Xiaoqiang speculated that he might be a student.

Jiang Fan agreed to join Yang Xiaoqiang’s team on a dangerous mission into the Inner Wilderness Zone after revealing he had advanced to late-stage martial apprentice. That night, Ye Qizhen said farewell to Crazy Old Man and connected him to Yan Shuai by video call.

• Wei Qi visited the studio to ask Jiang Fan to teach him archery, but Jiang Fan refused to take him as a disciple.
• Yang Xiaoqiang told Jiang Fan that the team had accepted a commission to guide an employer into the Inner Wilderness Zone and gather a medicinal herb from the Death Swamp.
• Jiang Fan agreed to go and revealed that he had advanced to late-stage martial apprentice.
• Yang Xiaoqiang set the team’s departure for before six the next morning, and Jiang Fan accepted the schedule.
• Ye Qizhen bid farewell to Crazy Old Man and called Yan Shuai for a video conversation.

Yan Tianyang proposed that Crazy Old Man’s disciple become his successor, while their conversation revealed painful history from Crazy Old Man’s past. The next morning, Jiang Fan joined Xiaoqiang Studio and Lan Shengxue’s party on a mission into the Inner Wilderness Zone to find a medicinal herb.

• Yan Tianyang asked Crazy Old Man to groom his disciple as his successor, but Crazy Old Man argued that the boy had no ambitions beyond his own territory.
• Yan Tianyang compared the disciple to Crazy Old Man and recalled how Crazy Old Man had once led his family into battle, prompting Crazy Old Man to angrily stop him.
• Crazy Old Man dismissed Ye Qizhen, who left the administration office relieved after witnessing the tense exchange.
• The next morning, Yang Xiaoqiang introduced Xiaoqiang Studio to Lan Shengxue, who explained that the group had to find a medicinal herb for her maternal grandfather in the Inner Wilderness Zone.
• Jiang Fan assured Lan Shengxue he could protect himself, and the party set out from Fortress No. 31 in an armored vehicle.

Jiang Fan’s group entered the Mist Woods on their way to the Death Swamp, where Lan Shengxue hoped to find a rare black lotus. As Jiang Fan scouted ahead with his Psychic Power, he spotted a swarm of Nine-Mouthed Man-Eating Mosquitoes feeding on a demon beast.

• Yang Xiaoqiang stopped the armored vehicle and gave the group medicinal powder to repel venomous insects and mosquitoes.
• Lan Shengxue showed the group a photograph of a transparent lotus that appeared black at a particular time near sunset, and Jiang Fan correctly explained the effect.
• Yang Xiaoqiang warned that the route to the Death Swamp passed through the Mist Woods, where Mist Shadow Flying Crows and Nine-Mouthed Man-Eating Mosquitoes lived.
• The group entered the Mist Woods on foot while Jiang Fan used his Psychic Power to survey the canopy and surrounding area.
• Jiang Fan discovered a dense swarm of Nine-Mouthed Man-Eating Mosquitoes pursuing a demon beast, and saw one bite its rump and suck its blood.

Jiang Fan led the group out of the Mist Woods as a swarm of Nine-Mouthed Man-Eating Mosquitoes chased them, then stayed behind to fight and earn system points. His apparent self-sacrifice made Li Zhe and Xu Dai ashamed of how they had treated him.

• A sickle-shaped plant cut Li Zhe, and Jiang Fan sensed that the blood would draw the Nine-Mouthed Man-Eating Mosquitoes, so he urged everyone to leave.
• The mosquito swarm pursued the group, and Li Zhe discovered one on his backside before everyone saw the swarm blotting out the sky.
• Jiang Fan killed a mosquito and earned 50 points, then told the others to escape while he covered their retreat.
• Li Zhe turned back to fight beside Jiang Fan, but Jiang Fan kicked him out of the woods and began killing mosquitoes himself.
• Xu Dai regretted antagonizing Jiang Fan as he watched him stay behind to protect the group.

Jiang Fan secretly used his psychic power to kill hundreds of Nine-Mouthed Man-Eating Mosquitoes while his companions rested, pushing his points past 100,000 and unlocking the shop. He spent 100,000 points on a Psychic Fruit, leaving the group preparing to continue toward the Death Swamp.

• Jiang Fan left the Mist Woods after killing another Nine-Mouthed Man-Eating Mosquito, and Li Zhe worried over him and tried to examine him.
• While pretending to regulate his breathing, Jiang Fan used his psychic power and three Eight-Legged Hedgehog Pig needles to kill mosquitoes from a distance and accumulate points.
• Li Zhe and Xu Dai stopped Zhou Xiaoyan from interrupting Jiang Fan, giving him more time to raise his points to 114,102.
• Jiang Fan opened the newly unlocked shop and saw that a Qi and Blood Fruit cost 1,000 points while a Psychic Fruit cost 100,000.
• Jiang Fan decided against spending all his points on Qi and Blood Fruits and exchanged 100,000 points for a Psychic Fruit.

After eating the Psychic Fruit, Jiang Fan became an intermediate psychic and joined Lan Shengxue’s team as they encountered a Beautiful-Faced Spider chasing another group. When the spider’s psychic attack entranced Zhou Xiaoyan, Jiang Fan interrupted it with an arrow and then fired two arrows at the charging beast’s eyes.

• Jiang Fan secretly ate the Psychic Fruit, doubling his psychic power to 12,624P and making him an intermediate psychic.
• Lan Shengxue agreed to help a fleeing group being chased by a giant Beautiful-Faced Spider, and Yang Xiaoqiang’s team charged to confront it.
• The Beautiful-Faced Spider used a psychic attack that entranced Zhou Xiaoyan and made him walk toward it.
• Jiang Fan shot an arrow into the spider’s mouth, interrupting its attack and allowing Zhou Xiaoyan to regain his senses.
• As the spider charged after Zhou Xiaoyan, Jiang Fan nocked two arrows and fired them at its eyes, stunning the team with his archery.

Jiang Fan used Lan Shengxue’s E-grade alloy bow and arrows to pierce the Beautiful-Faced Spider’s eyes, but the wounded beast advanced and trapped Zhou Xiaoyan. Yang Xiaoqiang led the others in to rescue him while Jiang Fan stayed behind to cover them.

• Jiang Fan continuously fired paired arrows at the Beautiful-Faced Spider while Li Zhe, Xu Dai, Lan Shengxue, Zhou Xiaoyan, and Yang Xiaoqiang watched in amazement.
• Lan Shengxue gave Jiang Fan an E-grade alloy bow and arrows, and he drew the bow to its full span despite being only a late-stage martial apprentice.
• Jiang Fan’s alloy arrows pierced the spider’s legs and eyes, making it scream as Li Zhe celebrated.
• Zhou Xiaoyan charged the wounded spider, but Yang Xiaoqiang warned that it had advanced, and Zhou Xiaoyan tried to flee.
• The spider grew to three times its size, formed a second face with intact eyes, and bound Zhou Xiaoyan with silk.
• Yang Xiaoqiang told Jiang Fan to cover the group as they went to rescue Zhou Xiaoyan, and Jiang Fan agreed.

Lan Shengxue and the others fought the two-star Beautiful-Faced Spider while Jiang Fan supported them with arrows. After Jiang Fan wounded it repeatedly and saved Lan Shengxue, the enraged spider charged at him, and Yang Xiaoqiang warned that it was about to use a psychic attack.

• Lan Shengxue joined the fight, and she cut through the spider silk trapping Zhou Xiaoyan with her E-grade alloy blades.
• Xu Dai and the others attacked the Beautiful-Faced Spider, but its tough body and silk kept them on the defensive.
• Jiang Fan shot through the silk trapping Zhou Xiaoyan's foot and continued supporting the group with arrows.
• Lan Shengxue tried to strike the spider from behind, but its psychic attack left her helpless; Jiang Fan shot through the leg it aimed at her.
• The enraged spider charged toward Jiang Fan, and Yang Xiaoqiang shouted for him to run before it used another psychic attack.

Jiang Fan kited the Beautiful-Faced Spider and killed it with an arrow, while his speed and immunity to its mental attack drew questions from his companions. After a rescued team departed, its leader Chen Qiang decided to steal the spider’s core and target the group’s valuable weapons.

• The Beautiful-Faced Spider’s mental attack barely affected Jiang Fan, who outran it with a leg technique Lan Shengxue thought resembled the Lan Family’s Phantom Gale Leg.
• Jiang Fan led the spider back toward Yang Xiaoqiang’s group and pierced it through the body with an arrow, killing it.
• Jiang Fan declined to explain his leg technique and joked that he resisted beauty’s temptation when asked why the spider’s mental attack had failed.
• The rescued team thanked Yang Xiaoqiang and left, but Chen Qiang decided to take the spider’s demonic core and steal the group’s E-grade alloy weapons.

Jiang Fan overheard Chen Qiang’s group plotting to lure demonic beasts toward his party, then used dung to remove the beast-luring powder from Zhou Xiaoyan without exposing his Spirit Master abilities. He left the group under the pretense of finding a place to relieve himself and walked straight toward the hidden ambushers.

• Chen Qiang revealed that he had secretly sprinkled beast-luring powder on Zhou Xiaoyan, and Jiang Fan overheard the group’s plan to reap the rewards after a beast attack.
• Jiang Fan hurled a huge pile of demonic beast dung at Zhou Xiaoyan, who ran to wash himself in a nearby lake.
• Jiang Fan claimed he needed to relieve himself and headed into the woods after Yang Xiaoqiang dismissed Wang Jiangang’s offer to accompany him.
• Chen Qiang’s hidden group spotted Jiang Fan approaching but decided not to attack him for fear of alerting his companions.
• Jiang Fan reached the trees where the ambushers were hiding.

Jiang Fan killed the men who had plotted against his group and revealed that he was a Spirit Master. He returned to Yang Xiaoqiang and the others, who continued toward the Death Swamp.

• Jiang Fan used Beautiful-Faced Spider silk to strangle one of the men, then confronted the group about their plan to betray him and his companions.
• The men surrounded Jiang Fan, but he controlled spider silk with psychic power and strangled all four of them.
• Jiang Fan made sure the men were dead, then left as Nine-Mouthed Man-Eating Mosquitoes flew toward the blood.
• Jiang Fan returned to Yang Xiaoqiang and the others, who were preparing to reach the Death Swamp before sunset.
• Lan Shengxue let Jiang Fan keep her E-grade alloy bow and arrows because more danger lay ahead.

Jiang Fan secretly killed Sharp-Toothed Golden-Armored Crocodiles in the Death Swamp while the group searched for a safe place to wait for sunset and find the black lotus. The group continued onward, and Li Zhe sank into the swamp before Xu Dai rescued him.

• Yang Xiaoqiang explained that Sharp-Toothed Golden-Armored Crocodiles had nearly impenetrable armor, and Jiang Fan secretly tested ways to attack them.
• Jiang Fan wounded a crocodile with a quill, then used Psychic Power-wrapped Beautiful-Faced Spider silk to slice apart the crocodiles in several pools for points.
• Lan Shengxue told the group to find a relatively open, safe place and wait for sunset to search for the black lotus.
• Yang Xiaoqiang warned the group to watch their footing, but Li Zhe sank into a camouflaged pool, and Xu Dai pulled him out.