Recaps

Leader Zhao learned that Wang Hao had destroyed the Black Tiger Gang and rescued a blacksmith’s wife, then reunited with him in the mountains. Wang Hao offered Zhao looted treasures and a divine sword while claiming they came from his family, and Zhao agreed to shield him from the powerful figure backing the gang.

• A Lan told Leader Zhao that Wang Hao had killed the Black Tiger Gang leaders, burned their headquarters, and rescued Wu Tai’s wife, while Zhao returned her indenture and left Chaoyang City.
• Leader Zhao found Wang Hao roasting a wild boar and accepted his offer of a medicinal wine gourd and a divine sword.
• Wang Hao presented treasures from the Black Tiger Gang’s cache as ancestral family specialties and claimed he had attacked the gang to reclaim the sword for Zhao.
• Leader Zhao spotted the sword’s inscription identifying it as belonging to Great Yuan’s Prince Cheng, but Wang Hao claimed he had found it by a river.
• Wang Hao implied Zhao was responsible for the chaos and asked him to take the blame, and Zhao agreed because the Black Tiger Gang had hidden fierce fire oil near the capital.

Leader Zhao tested Wang Hao’s swordsmanship and discovered his modified Ten Stances of Bloody Battle could challenge his techniques, while Wang Hao could memorize sword moves after seeing them once. Impressed by Wang Hao’s extraordinary sword talent, Leader Zhao recognized his value and considered recommending him to his father.

• Leader Zhao asked Wang Hao to demonstrate the swordsmanship that had let him kill Wang Heihu and the others.
• Wang Hao revealed his 108-jin greatsword and struck Leader Zhao with Two Armies Facing Off, but Leader Zhao held his ground despite the force.
• Wang Hao unleashed the Ten Stances of Bloody Battle and used his True Spirit Sword Intent to spot flaws in Leader Zhao’s sword techniques.
• Leader Zhao confirmed Wang Hao’s swordsmanship was unusually powerful and learned that Wang Hao claimed to have copied the modified stances after seeing them performed once.
• At Leader Zhao’s request, Wang Hao flawlessly reproduced the moves from five sword technique sets he had just watched, convincing Leader Zhao that his talent was exceptional.

Leader Zhao brought Wang Hao to the Drunken Immortal Tower, where Wang Hao washed up and then tried to scrounge a meal from a drunken young man. After the young man threatened him into drinking, Wang Hao persuaded him to order food for the entire restaurant and secretly asked Xiao Mengmeng about awakening his Bloodline Power.

• Leader Zhao left Wang Hao at the Drunken Immortal Tower and told Uncle Wang to serve him steamed flatbread because it was supposedly his favorite.
• Wang Hao bathed, changed into new clothes, and took Little Erha to the restaurant, where hunger drove him to reclaim the flatbread.
• Wang Hao joined a troubled young man at his table, drank his wine, and ate all the food while trying to stop him from drinking more.
• The young man held a sword to Wang Hao's neck and forced him to drink from a wine jar, then claimed his family owned the Sun Commercial Firm.
• Wang Hao got the young man to book the entire restaurant and secretly asked Xiao Mengmeng whether dog blood could awaken his Bloodline Power and condense a Bloodline Divine Ability.

Wang Hao used dog blood to awaken Bloodline Power and gained a passive spatial ability that expanded the capacity of his stomach and intestines. Realizing the ability could speed his cultivation by letting him eat more, he took advantage of a wealthy young man’s drunken hospitality, leaving the young man and Uncle Wang drunk as he demanded more food.

• Wang Hao swallowed dog blood and used a method adapted with Xiao Mengmeng’s Dao Comprehension Function to awaken Bloodline Power and the Object Storage ability.
• Wang Hao discovered that Object Storage expanded the space in his stomach and intestines to about three cubic meters, letting him consume far more food and accelerate his cultivation.
• Wang Hao ate through the dishes and wine ordered by the handsome young man, while Uncle Wang came upstairs and was made to drink a pot of Drunken Immortal Brew.
• Wang Hao provoked the young man into ordering the finest dishes, then encouraged him to drink another pot until he became drunk again.

Wang Hao ate and drank 110,000 taels’ worth at the Drunken Immortal Tower, where Zhao Dachui found him with Sun Ruonan, his fiancée. Sun De paid the bill and took Zhao Dachui home, while Zhao Dachui urged Zhao Fengrou to bring Wang Hao to Blood Wind Hall.

• Zhao Dachui arrived at the Drunken Immortal Tower and found Zhao Fengrou overseeing a large bill for Wang Hao’s meal.
• Sun Ruonan, drunk and disguised as a man, held Wang Hao at swordpoint and forced him to keep drinking; Zhao Dachui sobered her up, and she accidentally crushed his back in a hug.
• Wang Hao explained that he had eaten the food to keep Sun Ruonan from drinking alone, then had been unable to leave when she stopped him.
• Zhao Fengrou presented a bill of 110,000 taels for eighty-seven banquet tables and Drunken Immortal Brew, and Wang Hao said his appetite had grown and he had made several trips to the latrine.
• Sun De paid the bill and had his guards carry Zhao Dachui away; Zhao Dachui called to Zhao Fengrou to take Wang Hao to Blood Wind Hall, where their father was waiting.

Wang Hao arrived at the Blood Wind Hall and mistakenly insulted its hall master, Zhao Fengxue, who tested him by demanding he survive ten breaths in a fight. Wang Hao broke through during the battle and passed, then joined the hall under Nine Five Two Seven’s command, asking for meat at every meal.

• Wang Hao asked Zhao Fengrou to let him eat the remaining dishes, claiming he had room because he digested food quickly.
• Zhao Fengrou brought Wang Hao to the Blood Wind Hall, where he mistook Zhao Fengxue for someone awaiting a visitor named Dachui and left without recognizing him.
• Zhao Fengxue revealed he was Zhao Fengrou’s father and the hall master, then ordered Wang Hao to last ten breaths in a fight or be fed to the dogs.
• Wang Hao fought Zhao Fengxue with his greatsword, broke through his physical cultivation and sword technique, and survived the ten breaths.
• Zhao Fengxue accepted Wang Hao into the hall and assigned him to Nine Five Two Seven; Wang Hao asked for meat at every meal, and Zhao Fengrou warned her father about his appetite.

Wang Hao joined Blood Wind Hall and arrived at the Martial Repository Pavilion to register as an assassin, where he received the code name 10086 and authorization to choose a First-Rate martial art. After killing a brutal criminal who challenged him, Wang Hao began reviewing the martial arts catalog and spotted a famous divine art that seemed out of place.

• Zhao Fengxue agreed to provide Wang Hao with banquets in place of mission payments and considered grooming him to lead Blood Wind Hall.
• Wang Hao followed 9527 to the Martial Repository Pavilion and learned that his Grade-A aptitude entitled him to choose a First-Rate martial art.
• When the old registrar assigned Wang Hao the code name 10087, Wang Hao insisted on getting 10086 instead, and a brute threatened him over his martial-art authorization.
• Wang Hao severed the brute’s limbs after questioning him about his assaults, and 9527 killed the unconscious man as the final procedure in their fight.
• The registrar gave Wang Hao his identity token and catalogs, and Wang Hao began searching the First-Rate martial arts for a famous divine art.

Wang Hao bribed Elder Chu to obtain the External Training Golden Bell Shield and the Lightning Straight-Line Step, then learned that Chu intended to protect him. At his new residence, Wang Hao checked his improved status panel and prepared to cultivate the manuals.

• Wang Hao chose the External Training Golden Bell Shield and asked Elder Chu to recommend a movement art suited to a hard-body cultivator.
• Wang Hao gave Elder Chu Drunken Immortal Brew, and Chu raised his martial arts access to first-rate before lending him the Golden Bell Shield and Lightning Straight-Line Step manuals.
• Elder Chu advised Wang Hao to pursue external cultivation to the Grandmaster Realm, then told the old man in blue to keep Wang Hao safe from the Tower’s schemes.
• Wang Hao reached his new courtyard and found that awakening his Bloodline Power had increased his strength and cultivation speed while leaving him with twenty Fortune Points.
• Wang Hao revised his status panel with Xiao Mengmeng and sat down to comprehend the Golden Bell Shield and Lightning Straight-Line Step.

Wang Hao used his Fortune Points to comprehend the Golden Bell Shield and Lightning Straight-Line Step, then trained at Blood Wind Hall and smashed every wooden dummy with his punches. When he asked the killers there to spar, their leader drew a sharp saber and refused to switch to a blunted weapon.

• Wang Hao spent his remaining twenty Fortune Points comprehending the Golden Bell Shield and Lightning Straight-Line Step, reaching mastery in both arts while his actual cultivation remained limited.
• Wang Hao tested the Lightning Straight-Line Step, then decided to avoid using it until his Bloodline Power could better heal the strain on his legs.
• Wang Hao went to Blood Wind Hall's training ground with Little Erha and began cultivating the Golden Bell Shield by striking wooden dummies.
• Wang Hao destroyed all the training ground's wooden dummies over two hours, astonishing the killers who had gathered there.
• Wang Hao asked the killers to spar with him, but their leader drew a sharp saber and refused Wang Hao's request to use a blunted weapon.

Wang Hao defeated a group of martial artists in the training ground by relying on his strength and defenses. Zhao Fengxue arranged a decisive battle between Wang Hao and a lean subordinate one month later, while secretly ordering support for Wang Hao to help him grow.

• Wang Hao refused to use his greatsword in the spar and let the man in black attack him with an unsharpened saber, taking no serious harm.
• The man in black called on more than a dozen others to attack, but Wang Hao beat them all down and left for the dining hall with Little Erha.
• Zhao Fengxue offered the lean man a chance to settle an old offense by defeating Wang Hao in a decisive battle one month later.
• The lean man accepted, confident that his First-Rate strength would let him kill Wang Hao.
• Zhao Fengxue ordered 9527 to provide Wang Hao with grade-B medicinal cuisine each day and meet his other requests, preparing him for the coming test.

Wang Hao devoured the food prepared for Blood Wind Hall before Han Long challenged him to a fight to the death one month later. Leader 9527 made the duel Wang Hao’s first mission and ordered Chef Li to provide him with daily medicinal meals.

• Wang Hao ate the cafeteria’s lunch and dinner supplies, leaving Chef Li overwhelmed and the assassins stunned.
• Wang Hao used Han Long’s challenge letter to wipe grease from his hands before learning that Han Long wanted to fight him to the death in a month.
• Wang Hao learned from the black-clad assassin that Han Long led his squad and was an earth-grade assassin.
• Leader 9527 gave Wang Hao information about Han Long and ordered him to bring back Han Long’s head as his first mission.
• Leader 9527 told Chef Li to prepare Wang Hao a grade-B medicinal meal every day and meet his other requests.

Wang Hao used Zhao Fengxue’s order to secure lavish medicinal meals and train intensely, improving his Lightning Straight-Line Step and practicing swordsmanship late into the night. Zhao Fengxue saw his dedication and ordered lingzhi added to his meal, unknowingly setting himself up for enormous expenses.

• Wang Hao read Han Long’s intelligence report and suspected Zhao Fengxue had arranged the assassin’s appearance to pressure him.
• Wang Hao exploited Zhao Fengxue’s orders to train in the Lightning Straight-Line Step for two shichen, increasing its distance by five cun.
• Wang Hao asked Chef Li to prepare his next medicinal meal in the enormous water-heating pot, and Chef Li agreed.
• Wang Hao ate five cattle’s worth of braised beef, trained in the Golden Bell Shield, meditated, and then practiced the Ten Stances of Bloody Battle.
• Zhao Fengxue watched Wang Hao train after midnight and ordered 9527 to have Li Dazui add lingzhi to his medicinal meal.

After completing his Golden Bell Shield training, Wang Hao arrived at a Blood Robe Tower contest and learned that a visiting fighter had badly wounded his fellow assassin 9341. Wang Hao challenged the man responsible, and their fight began.

• Wang Hao trained relentlessly for half a month, reaching complete mastery in the Golden Bell Shield and Late Second-rate cultivation, but decided he needed to improve the Ten Stances of Bloody Battle.
• Wang Hao regularly sparred with Blood Wind Hall’s Yellow-rank assassins, and Zhao Fengxue agreed to have them fight him.
• Wang Hao entered the training ground and found Blood Wind Hall’s assassins injured after seven representatives from other great halls challenged them in a contest over annual dividends.
• 9341 told Wang Hao that the burly young man with a saber had killed four fighters and severely wounded him.
• Wang Hao asked Zhao Fengxue whether the contest had restrictions, and Zhao Fengxue said the fighters could act as they pleased within the central fighting area.
• Wang Hao drew his greatsword and attacked the burly young man, who drew his saber and met the strike.

Wang Hao fought the seven halls’ challengers and killed a burly young man after revealing he had been holding back. He then challenged two more opponents at once, leaving Zhao Fengxue and Zhao Dachui worried as the fight was about to begin.

• Wang Hao clashed with the burly young man, while Zhao Fengxue and the other hall masters watched and discussed Wang Hao’s new name and courtesy name.
• Wang Hao announced that the fight had only been a warm-up, then used Two Armies Facing Off to disarm the burly young man and sever his arm.
• Wang Hao threw his greatsword into the fleeing burly young man, killing him just before he reached the boundary and angering his hall master.
• Wang Hao declared that those who hurt his brothers would die, then challenged the remaining ring-wielding and unarmed young men to fight him together.
• The two young men accepted the challenge, while Zhao Fengxue and Zhao Dachui worried that Wang Hao would face too great a risk.

Wang Hao killed a flying-dagger assassin and defeated a ring-wielding opponent, while the Blood Robe Tower’s hall master executed the crippled survivor. When Yang Lianting taunted Wang Hao into a group fight, Wang Hao recognized his name and turned on him with murderous intent.

• Wang Hao identified the young woman’s poisoned flying daggers and killed her with his greatsword.
• Wang Hao used Lightning Straight-Line Step to catch the ring-wielding young man, severed his leg, and drove him beyond the boundary.
• The young man’s hall master killed him, and Wang Hao declined the four remaining brocade-clad men’s challenge to fight together.
• Yang Lianting taunted Wang Hao and urged him to fight all four, but Wang Hao recognized his name and fixed him with a murderous stare.

Wang Hao accepted Yang Lianting’s challenge to a fight to the death and spent the hour learning Zhao Dachui’s Blood Wind Fast Sword. When the battle began, Wang Hao revealed he could wield two swords and countered the four opponents’ coordinated attack.

• Wang Hao accepted Yang Lianting’s challenge but asked for an hour to recover before their fight.
• Wang Hao told Zhao Dachui he wanted to learn Blood Wind Fast Sword, and Zhao Dachui demonstrated and explained the technique.
• Wang Hao learned the physical-force portion of Blood Wind Fast Sword in half an hour and reached the competent level within the hour.
• The Mystic Water Hall master and three other hall masters supplied Yang Lianting and the other youths with treasured swords, angering Zhao Fengxue.
• Yang Lianting and the three youths attacked Wang Hao together, but Wang Hao blocked their strikes with his left-hand sword and swung his greatsword at Yang Lianting.

Wang Hao rejected Yang Lianting’s attempt to end their fight in a draw and used the Ten Stances of Bloody Battle to kill his opponents. Yang Lianting crossed the boundary and tried to escape with a killing move, but Wang Hao pursued him as Zhao Dachui withdrew, leaving Yang Lianting to face the final attack.

• Wang Hao knocked aside the four attackers, but refused Yang Lianting’s proposal to call their fight a draw and asked Zhao Dachui to witness the life-and-death battle.
• Zhao Fengxue took the divine sword Wang Hao tossed aside, while Zhao Dachui and Blood Wind Hall assassins blocked the opponents’ escape.
• Wang Hao killed a tall and a thin brocade-clad youth with his greatsword, then faced Yang Lianting and the last youth as they unleashed their killing moves.
• Yang Lianting attacked Zhao Dachui and crossed the boundary, calling on Hall Master Fu to save him, but Zhao Fengxue stopped Hall Master Fu from intervening.
• Wang Hao defeated and killed the last brocade-clad youth, then pursued Yang Lianting as Zhao Dachui retreated; Yang Lianting turned and thrust his sword at an approaching attacker.

After killing Yang Lianting, Wang Hao accepted Fu Lin’s challenge to face Mystic Water Hall’s killing formation in three days, then used the wager to draw three other hall masters into offering their own formations and valuable medicines. He kept his preparations secret, leaving Zhao Fengxue and Zhao Dachui wondering how he intended to survive.

• Wang Hao killed Yang Lianting after spotting flaws in his swordsmanship, and Yang Lianting realized the reason only as he died.
• Fu Lin wagered a million taels against the Mysterious Water Sword and challenged Wang Hao to face Mystic Water Hall’s yellow-rank killers; Wang Hao agreed to fight their formation in three days.
• Zhao Dachui warned Wang Hao that hundreds of armed killers could threaten even a Super-First-Rate expert, but Wang Hao insisted he was prepared.
• Three other hall masters proposed matching wagers, and Wang Hao asked Zhao Fengxue to choose the benefits; Zhao Fengxue demanded a purple lingzhi, thousand-year blood ginseng, and supreme-grade Tianshan snow lotus.
• Zhao Fengxue offered Blood Wind Hall’s resources for Wang Hao’s preparations, while Wang Hao kept his trump card secret from Zhao Dachui and teased him about Sun Ruonan and his aching back.

Wang Hao arrived late to face Mystic Water Hall’s killing formation and revealed heavy Red Gold armguards that helped him overwhelm the killers. Fu Lin’s hidden mechanical trap launched a deadly bolt that buried Wang Hao beneath a collapsed wall, leaving Zhao Fengxue furious and Fu Lin demanding the Mysterious Water Sword.

• Fu Lin waited for Wang Hao and threatened to reclaim the Mysterious Water Sword if he failed to appear, while Zhao Fengxue insisted Wang Hao would come.
• Wang Hao arrived after breaking through to Peak Second-rate and revealed a pair of thousand-jin Red Gold armguards.
• Wang Hao charged into the formation and cut down the Mystic Water Hall killers, while Fu Lin secretly signaled a subordinate to prepare another attack.
• A concealed mechanical track fired a giant bolt at Wang Hao, who blocked it with his armguards but was hurled through a wall and buried beneath the rubble.
• Zhao Fengxue accused Fu Lin of using a forbidden siege crossbow, but Fu Lin pointed out that the device was technically a mechanical trap and demanded the Mysterious Water Sword.

Wang Hao survived Fu Lin’s deadly arrow with his red gold armguards, defeated the remaining assassins, and helped Zhao Fengxue claim the Mysterious Water Sword. After pretending to be badly injured to keep his opponents confident about their wagers, Wang Hao named his oversized weapon the Shameless Greatsword; Zhao Fengxue then asked how he had spent more than a hundred thousand taels of gold.

• Wang Hao emerged from the rubble alive after the enormous arrow struck his red gold armguard, shocking Fu Lin and the others.
• Wang Hao cut down the two hundred remaining assassins, then left the training ground and handed the armguards to Zhao Fengxue.
• Zhao Fengxue claimed the Mysterious Water Sword, while Fu Lin left and the other hall masters considered how to defeat Wang Hao in the next battle.
• Zhao Dachui and Zhao Fengxue found Wang Hao relaxing in his courtyard, where he admitted he had pretended to be badly injured to keep three hall masters from backing out of their wagers.
• Zhao Dachui called Wang Hao’s five-chi greatsword the Shameless Greatsword, and Wang Hao adopted the name.
• Zhao Fengxue asked Wang Hao what he had done with the more than one hundred thousand taels of gold he had spent.

Wang Hao explained the Red Gold armguards’ self-repair and True Qi reinforcement to Zhao Fengxue and Zhao Dachui, while Zhao Fengxue worried about their cost and the danger of revealing their secret. After Zhao Fengxue left with Zhao Dachui, Wang Hao hurried to clean up before going to eat.

• Wang Hao pulled the arrowhead from a dented Red Gold armguard and showed Zhao Fengxue and Zhao Dachui how it quickly repaired itself.
• Zhao Fengxue struck the armguard with Sword Qi and cut it, but Wang Hao restored it by pressing the broken piece back into place.
• Wang Hao had Zhao Fengxue feed Acquired True Qi into the armguard before striking again, and the reinforced Red Gold resisted the Sword Qi and instantly repaired its dent.
• Zhao Fengxue questioned the armguards’ limited usefulness and rejected Wang Hao’s offer to forge more armor, warning that the Eastern Depot or imperial court might covet it.
• Wang Hao claimed he alone knew the Red Gold forging method, and Zhao Fengxue warned him to guard the secret before taking Zhao Dachui away.
• After they left, Wang Hao hurried to the communal latrine and planned to bathe before eating, hoping to keep them from discovering his medicinal food portion.

Wang Hao learned that Dongfang Bai had arrived nearby and sought a disguise technique so he could approach her without being recognized. After trading Drunken Immortal Brew for Elder Chu’s Thousand Faces Divine Technique, he mastered its first half and changed his appearance.

• 9527 told Chef Li that Zhao Fengxue had upgraded Wang Hao’s medicinal meals to grade A and warned Wang Hao that Fu Lin was helping Han Long reach the Super-First-Rate realm.
• Wang Hao threatened Chef Li after learning he had reported the excessive ingredient use, then forgave him with a warning.
• Xiao Mengmeng alerted Wang Hao that Dongfang Bai was within ten li and explained that approaching her could trigger a side quest and earn Fortune Points.
• Wang Hao took Drunken Immortal Brew from the dining hall and brought it to Elder Chu in exchange for a disguise technique.
• Elder Chu gave Wang Hao the Thousand Faces Divine Technique, and Wang Hao mastered its muscle-and-bone method in half an hour, shrinking and reshaping his frame.

Wang Hao disguised himself and went to the Listening to Rain Pavilion to find Dongfang Bai, only to discover she was performing there as Liu Rushi. After spending ten thousand taels to meet her privately and bluffing that he belonged to the Great Ming imperial family, he entered her boudoir while fearing she would recognize him.

• Wang Hao borrowed ten thousand taels from Blood Wind Hall’s fat steward and used the Thousand Faces Divine Technique to disguise himself as a handsome young noble.
• Wang Hao followed Xiao Mengmeng’s directions to the Listening to Rain Pavilion and waited for Dongfang Bai, unaware that she was performing under the name Liu Rushi.
• After Liu Rushi danced, Wang Hao learned from Xiao Mengmeng that she was Dongfang Bai and grew jealous of the crowd watching her.
• Wang Hao offered ten thousand taels to secure a private meeting with Liu Rushi and threatened to use the Eastern Depot and Brocade Guard when another guest challenged him.
• The Pavilion’s beautiful woman led Wang Hao to Dongfang Bai’s boudoir, where Dongfang Bai studied his disguised face and felt she recognized him.

Wang Hao concealed his resistance to Dongfang Bai’s hypnotic qin and learned that she had come to investigate the Blood Robe Tower’s massacre of the Dongfang Lineage. After escaping her suspicion and leaving the Listening to Rain Pavilion, he used his True Spirit Sword Intent to frighten off those following him.

• Wang Hao pretended to be hypnotized by Dongfang Bai’s qin, resisting its influence with his True Spirit Sword Intent while answering her questions.
• Wang Hao revealed that the imperial court planned to infiltrate the martial world and investigate the Blood Robe Tower, then agreed to look into the Dongfang Lineage massacre.
• Dongfang Bai planted a suggestion that Wang Hao investigate the massacre, then made him appear to fall asleep while she recovered from the effort.
• Wang Hao woke two hours later, maintained his cover, and left after declaring that he would be Mistress Liu’s only guest.
• The beautiful woman followed Wang Hao across the rooftops, but she and the other watchers fled when Wang Hao’s True Spirit Sword Intent made them believe a Grandmaster had targeted them.

Wang Hao learned that the Dongfang Lineage had been annihilated to conceal secrets implicating the emperor, making it unlikely Dongfang Bai would forgive him. He asked Zhao Dachui to keep the matter suppressed, then prepared to face the three allied halls in the next day’s battle, confident in his improved strength.

• Wang Hao asked Zhao Dachui to help him investigate the Dongfang Lineage’s massacre and learned that Zhao Dachui had obtained a secret file.
• Wang Hao read the file and concluded that the Dongfang Lineage had been wiped out to silence them; Zhao Dachui confirmed that the massacre had been ordered by the emperor to hide their secrets.
• Zhao Dachui explained that Dongfang Ni had been killed by a Great Grandmaster before the Blood Robe Tower, Eastern Depot, and Brocade Guard carried out the massacre, and warned Wang Hao to keep the truth secret.
• Wang Hao asked Zhao Dachui to persuade his father to suppress the matter rather than report Dongfang Bubai’s situation, and Zhao Dachui agreed to speak with him after the next day’s battle.
• Zhao Dachui warned Wang Hao that three halls had secretly joined forces against him, but Wang Hao remained confident after his strength and Ten Stances of Bloody Battle improved.