Recaps

Wu Shuangren used his one-on-one advantage to rise from constable to militia commander as the Mist Hidden Temple seized control of Bo County. After accepting the appointment, he faced the temple’s violent men and learned that Hou Huai had been gravely injured intervening in an attack.

• Wu Shuangren arrived in the Wu Dynasty after winning the UFC featherweight title, recovered his namesake’s memories, and discovered the [Match for One Person] Trait.
• Wu Shuangren trained with Hou Huai, killed Peng Tianlang during the bandit raid, and began learning the Mountain-Moving Method from Xu Nanzhi.
• Wu Shuangren became head constable, entered the Qi and Spirit Unite state, and found Li Youcai and his household murdered.
• The Mist Hidden Temple’s cavalry destroyed Mo Family Village, and the Mo Family submitted as the temple expanded its control over Bo County.
• Wu Shuangren perfected the Method of One Person, learned Cloud Tide Returning Wave Steps, and accepted the temple’s silver reward and appointment as militia commander.
• Wu Shuangren shared money with the constables and Mo Family while Bo County began recruiting militia members, but Hou Huai was badly injured after charging back into Butcher Zhang’s courtyard.
• Butcher Zhang’s wife told Wu Shuangren that a long-haired man and a larger saber-wielding man had followed her and Zhang home and attacked them.

Wu Shuangren avenged Hou Huai, arrested and killed Hong Fan, and built a militia that defeated Mist Hidden Temple cavalry. He helped the Mo Family establish a profitable boxing arena in West River Market, where rival factions began threatening its future.

• Wu Shuangren killed Wei Laohei and Luo You, then had Hong Fan arrested at Moxian Tower and exposed his alleged role in the Mo Family Village massacre.
• Wu Shuangren joined forces with the Mo Family, helped uncover Mist Hidden Temple’s plans, and used confiscated wealth to support the militia.
• Wu Shuangren established a training ground, drilled recruits into disciplined ranks, and tested how his [Match for One Person] Trait worked against multiple opponents.
• Mist Hidden Temple riders sent two swordsmen to kidnap Xu Nanzhi, but she defeated them, and Wu Shuangren’s allies captured them.
• Wu Shuangren and his allies ambushed the cavalry outside Bo County, defeating the riders with archers, horse pits, and a spear barricade.
• Wu Shuangren expanded the militia and worked with Mo Zhengxing and Mo Zhenglin to open a boxing hall in West River Market, where matches and betting drew growing crowds.
• Bai Jinhuan defeated Yu Cheng in an unarmed match, but suffered an injury, while Zhang Yan demanded most of the arena’s profits in exchange for protection.
• Wu Shuangren arrived at the boxing arena with fifty militiamen, funded its expansion, and prepared to face any one-on-one challenge from the West River Gang.

Wu Shuangren turned the Fist Academy into a profitable fighting business, defeated the West River Gang and destroyed the Xie Clan after they ambushed him. With new recruits swelling his militia, he marched toward the former West River Gang compound as Luo Heng sought allies.

• Wu Shuangren defeated the West River Gang’s five fighters in a challenge match, winning the Fist Academy five hundred strings of cash and barring the gang from the academy.
• Wu Shuangren expanded the Fist Academy, improved its matches, hired Xu Yu, and negotiated a share of the Xie Clan Boxing Arena’s profits.
• When the Xie Clan and West River Gang ambushed Wu Shuangren’s group, Wu Shuangren and Xu Yu fought through their forces while the militia defeated the attackers outside the Fist Academy.
• Wu Shuangren marched on the Xie residence, killed Xie Jingshan, seized the clan’s wealth, and rewarded the surviving militiamen while expelling deserters.
• Wu Shuangren discovered that the Xie Clan had shipped infantry armor to Yi Province and suspected the Mist Hidden Temple was receiving it.
• Wu Dongrong and Liao Yu recruited 878 men in Bo County, and Wu Shuangren welcomed them to West River Market and led more than a thousand men toward the former West River Gang compound.
• Luo Heng assembled the Flying Feather Gang and sought help from the Zhang Clan, but his hall master warned that their local force was far smaller than Wu Shuangren’s.

Wu Shuangren built West River Market into a fortified, prosperous base, defeated Mist Hidden Temple’s forces, and crushed the Zhang Clan after surviving an ambush. The arc ended with Wu Shuangren meeting Guo Jiwang, who advised him to use the Zhang Clan’s land to secure his soldiers’ loyalty.

• Wu Shuangren took the Flying Feather Gang’s stockade, reorganized the militia, and recruited the gang under Luo Heng as an allied force.
• Wu Shuangren ambushed Kongzheng’s army in a canal pass, killed Kongzheng, and routed Mist Hidden Temple’s warrior monks before returning to West River Market.
• Mo Zhengxing seized the Zhang Clan compound while Wu Shuangren incorporated the Flying Feather Gang into his forces and established the West River Market Chamber of Commerce.
• Wu Shuangren negotiated with Zhou Zhengqing and Guo Jiwang for recognition as militia commander, then began recruiting a thousand men.
• Mist Hidden Temple lured Wu Shuangren and Xu Yu into an ambush on the road to Bo County, but Xu Nanzhi arrived and killed Liaoming and the remaining armored monks.
• Wu Shuangren returned to West River Market, learned the Zhang Clan had aided the ambush, and led a thousand militiamen to attack Zhang Clan Village.
• Wu Shuangren defeated and killed Zhang He in single combat, after which the village surrendered and his forces seized its stores and weapons.
• Wu Shuangren met Guo Jiwang at the county yamen, discussed his plans for Mist Hidden Temple, and heard Guo’s advice to distribute Zhang Clan land to soldiers according to merit.