Recaps

Li Xingkong pursued money and a place to create artificial Spiritual Qi, surviving scams and violence on Prisoner Continent while building a farm and gathering the materials he needed. After the system helped him make Spiritual Qi, he constructed his qi sea and meridians and began cultivating, leaving him newly empowered but still learning how his body worked.

• Li Xingkong completed his cultivation kindergarten assessment, refused a three-month vacation, and began studying Qi Refining methods with the system.
• Li Xingkong decided he needed money and a remote testing site, then started stock trading with information gathered through a group of contacts.
• Li Xingkong traveled to Prisoner Continent, where Guan Zhenzhen and two officers scammed him out of his luggage before he made his way to a remote farm.
• Li Xingkong bought Mike’s farm, built a blast chamber, and gathered the precise materials needed to create artificial Spiritual Qi through repeated experiments.
• Li Xingkong used dynamite to scare off the Motorcycle Gang, then registered his crops with Xierlin Laming and continued farming and studying for a year.
• The system used Li Xingkong’s energy to create Spiritual Qi, leaving him in pain and exhausted before he recovered and visited a shooting range with Mike.
• Li Xingkong sensed and activated the Spiritual Qi inside him, built his qi sea and meridians, and inscribed a light-attracting array to absorb sunlight.
• Li Xingkong connected his dantian to his stomach and used circulating qi to gain great strength and speed, then asked the system why his cultivation had taken so long.

Li Xingkong pursued Luke Morgan after discovering his role in Ellie’s honey trap, then fought his way through the Bloody Hand Gang and Morgan’s prison defenses. He killed Morgan, rescued Mike, and returned to Freedom City to recover while Mike woke up.

• Li Xingkong tracked Ellie to the slums, spared her after learning Luke Morgan was behind the honey trap, and confronted Morgan at a public speech before escaping the city lockdown.
• Li Xingkong fled through the wilderness toward Nature City, learned Morgan had put a bounty on him, and developed the Shotgun Spell and Explosive Reactive Armor to defend himself.
• Li Xingkong returned to Freedom City, attacked the Bloody Hand Gang headquarters, and took documents showing the gang had surveilled him and seized some of his assets.
• Luke Morgan called Li Xingkong and challenged him to come to Freedom City Prison, but a rocket-armed drone forced Li Xingkong to flee his hotel and reconsider his approach.
• Li Xingkong confirmed Morgan was at the prison, broke through its drone defenses, cleared the wall, and entered the building to find Mike trapped in a cement-filled enclosure.
• Li Xingkong detonated Explosive Reactive Armor against the enclosure wall, escaped with Mike, and shot Luke Morgan dead.
• Li Xingkong treated his severe injuries, carried Mike out through the minefield, and returned to Freedom City to rest and recover as Mike woke up.

Li Xingkong returned from the Prisoner Continent and devoted himself to cultivation, developing Bone-Tempering Grass and learning new spells. After choosing the Restoration Technique to treat his parents, he tested it by curing a sick dog of parasites and rabies.

• Li Xingkong completed the tempering of his first bone, then endured a surge of strength as his body began renewing itself with magic-adapted tissues.
• Li Xingkong tracked down Guan Zhenzhen, settled their old debt, and left the Prisoner Continent to return home and focus on cultivation.
• Li Xingkong chose to develop a spirit plant rather than monopolize industrially produced materials, and selected lettuce as the base for his first precious medicine.
• Li Xingkong modified lettuce seeds and cultivated a tough, iron-rich spirit plant, then learned the Ingestion Spell so he could safely process unusual materials.
• Li Xingkong developed Bone-Tempering Grass, cutting his estimated bone-tempering time from ten years to about two, and tempered nearly forty bones while advancing in Qi Refining.
• Li Xingkong chose the Wind Riding Spell, Thunder Vein Technique, and Restoration Technique as his next spells, beginning with the Restoration Technique so he could treat his parents.
• Li Xingkong tested the Restoration Technique on a sick dog, eliminating worms in its brain, repairing damaged tissue, and destroying rabies viruses throughout its body.

Li Xingkong recovered the stolen Body Tempering Grass while the Cherry Blossom Wind Group tried to secure his vegetables and land for a factory. He outmaneuvered the group in the land deal, then returned home considering where to grow the grass next.

• Li Xingkong treated his parents with the Restoration Technique, then learned to control the Wind Riding Spell through repeated practice on Falling Cloud Mountain.
• After discovering Granny Caidun had stolen his Body Tempering Grass and sent one plant to Ximen Feng, Li Xingkong traced the plant to Dong Yu and the Cherry Blossom Wind Group.
• Li Xingkong used the Heavenly Eye Express Edition to monitor the group’s communications, forged messages to lure Dong Yu into delivering the grass, and recovered it himself.
• Reiko and her group pressured Li Xingkong to sell his vegetables, but he refused, while the group arranged to acquire village land that included his family’s plot.
• Li Xingkong attended the village meeting and discovered through Old Master Liu’s messages that Liu planned to shortchange his family in exchange for a kickback.
• When the Cherry Blossom Wind Group presented electronic land contracts, Li Xingkong secretly changed the payment amount from one million to one billion.
• Li Xingkong confirmed the altered contract remained unnoticed and went home to consider a new place to grow Body Tempering Grass.