Recaps

Wu Youren secured a place at Red Pine Martial Academy, where he sought money and experience by hunting the Weird Race. After surviving two dangerous encounters and revealing his ability to sense Weirds, he traveled with Luo Xi and a military convoy to Suotu Town, where they found survivors trapped by floodwaters.

• Wu Youren recovered memories after nearly drowning, discovered that his strong liquor contained mineral drugs, and negotiated to blend liquor for the hostage princes rather than surrender his recipe.
• After an old Liang gardener died from liquor poisoning, Wu Youren secured a place at the Martial Academy and refused attempts to buy or take his slot.
• Wu Youren left Jin Garden with fellow hostages, survived a storm and a Weird attack on the road, and arrived at Red Pine Martial Academy.
• At Red Pine, Wu Youren resisted the Life and Death Knot’s demands, sought missions to hunt Weirds, and secured permission from Instructor Hong Yan to travel toward the Rust Zone.
• Wu Youren and Luo Xi left for Suotu, fought a Chang Ghost and a Monkey Tiger, and Wu Youren gained experience for detecting the Monkey Tiger’s true form.
• After a female Knight’s convoy joined their journey, Wu Youren reached Suotu with Luo Xi and found six people stranded on a rocky outcrop amid floodwaters.
• When a boy in white accused Wu Youren of being a fraud, Luo Xi defended him and Red Pine Martial Academy.

Wu Youren returned to Red Pine and navigated pressure from academy factions, the Life and Death Knot, and Shali’s group before joining Ke Li on a mission into Suotu. After surviving attacks by hidden Weirds, Wu Youren learned that He Wenhao was gone.

• Wu Youren escaped the mountains with Luo Xi, then returned to Red Pine and rejected Feng Qianjun and He Wenhao’s criticism of his choices.
• Wu Youren refused an offer to become a citizen of Great Liang and turned down several attempts to sponsor or recruit him, while Instructor Kaili offered him tuition in exchange for serving as her guide in Suotu Town.
• Wu Youren reported Kaili to the Life and Death Knot as part of his duty as a hostage prince, and the report granted him experience points.
• Shali’s group tried to intimidate Wu Youren over a dropped wager and demanded protection money, but Ke Li intervened and assigned Oliwen a compulsory mission with Wu Youren.
• Ke Li took Wu Youren, Oliwen, and Qigeli toward Suotu, where they rescued Wu Yan’er’s team from the Weird Race and fled through the mountains.
• Wu Youren shot a wounded instructor who revealed himself as a Weird, and the survivors later uncovered another Weird among them before the academy detained them for questioning and quarantine.
• Ke Li decided to trade an iron fragment left by a Weird, but Wu Youren warned that its owner might still be alive and refused Ke Li’s offer to exchange it for his Weird-Repelling Jue.
• Two Knights brought the injured Feng Qianjun to Wu Youren, and Feng Qianjun confronted him before telling him that He Wenhao was gone.

Wu Youren and his companions held a mountain pass amid the Weird Race outbreak, and Wu Youren gained new power while surviving battles and betrayals. After helping a military rescue effort, he secured permission to return to the Martial Academy, where Cynthia had arrived and Naimuer was presumed dead.

• Ke Li took Wu Youren, Qigeli, and Cynthia into the mountains, where they fought a swarm of Azure Qiu and Wu Youren later found a strange icy treasure that strengthened his Weird-Repelling Jue.
• As the Weird Race outbreak spread, Cynthia, Wu Youren, and Naimuer guarded the pass, killed hostile Knights who demanded their supplies, and waited for Ke Li while Red Pine ordered them to hold their position.
• Wu Youren developed a qi barrier and fought a Knight-level Weird Race member, then secretly left Cynthia and Naimuer as black mist approached and made his way toward Suotu alone.
• Wu Youren searched abandoned vehicles and caves, killed Weird Race members, and cultivated until an Intelligence Agency Knight confronted him, and Wu Youren recognized the man as an impostor and attacked him.
• Hong Yan and a Great Knight found Wu Youren and recruited him to guide them through the Weird Qi, where he supported their battle with a heavy machine gun and helped rescue retreating soldiers.
• At the garrison post, Hong Yan refused to surrender a bone-like Weird artifact, and Wu Youren fought the Weird shadows drawn to it before reinforcements arrived and he was assigned construction and patrol duties.
• Wu Youren negotiated with Hong Yan for permission to return to the Martial Academy, passed through Red Pine’s quarantine station, and learned Cynthia had returned while Naimuer was presumed dead.

Wu Youren survived attacks at Red Pine, entered the mountains to hunt fiends and gather Resentment Qi Crystals, and drew the attention of the military and Intelligence Agency. He joined Hong Yan’s expedition into the Weird Domain, where his group collected strange materials and clashed with a Tianjing Martial Academy team.

• Wu Youren faced hostility at Red Pine after his identity as a hostage prince from Jin spread, but he used traps and Hong Yan’s protection to deter his attackers.
• Wu Youren escaped into the mountains, killed a Weird ability user, and bargained with Sister Hua and the military Knight over Resentment Qi Crystals while refusing to enlist.
• Wu Youren killed two Teli Tribe members after they offered him resources and then threatened him, surviving a Blood Curse and hiding the evidence.
• Hong Yan took Wu Youren back to Red Pine, suggested he might be an Ability User, and offered to support his attempt to awaken.
• Wu Youren retrieved his hidden treasure, studied Ability User materials, and joined Hong Yan’s expedition to Bellflower Mountain with Manna, Namuzha, and Luo Xi.
• Wu Youren’s team observed a massive pillar of Weird Qi, collected Bone Glue from a sand owl, and escaped a Great Knight’s group by invoking the New Army.
• The Tianjing Martial Academy team confronted Wu Youren’s group near camp, and Wu Youren used grenades to drive them off before helping his companions treat Luo Xi’s invasion by weird qi.