Recaps

Xu Zhongwen and Li Sheng’s men wrecked Gu Beichi’s logistics company and threatened his family until Gu Beichi came out and was injured. Gu Chen arrived with Wang Hu, saw his father’s condition, and faced Xu Zhongwen’s demand that he kneel.

• Xu Zhongwen ordered his men to beat the warehouse supervisor and smash up the company while searching for Gu Beichi.
• Xu Zhongwen threatened Gu Beichi’s son at Xinghua High School, forcing Gu Beichi to leave his office despite Zhu Jian’s warning.
• Xu Zhongwen struck Gu Beichi’s leg with a steel pipe, then had his men tape his mouth and drag him downstairs to wait for Gu Chen.
• Gu Chen and Wang Hu arrived in a Land Rover and found the company wrecked, Zhu Jian injured, and Gu Beichi bound and gagged.
• Xu Zhongwen demanded that Gu Chen kneel and apologize, while Gu Chen and Wang Hu responded with cold laughter.

Gu Chen defeated Xu Zhongwen and Li Sheng’s men, then faced down Li Sheng of the Black Wind Hall. The chapter ended with Zhao Haiqing arriving and bowing to Gu Chen in apology, shocking everyone present.

• Gu Chen charged Xu Zhongwen, knocked down his guards, and lifted him by the neck.
• Gu Chen dropped Xu Zhongwen, then kicked him hard after Xu threatened him and his father.
• Li Sheng ordered his men to attack, but Gu Chen quickly defeated more than a dozen thugs.
• Li Sheng claimed he commanded the Black Wind Hall and threatened Gu Chen, but Zhao Haiqing arrived with a convoy of men.
• Zhao Haiqing bowed to Gu Chen and apologized for arriving late, leaving Li Sheng stunned.

Gu Chen confronted Zhao Haiqing over Li Sheng’s claim that he controlled Black Wind Hall, and Zhao Haiqing brutally punished Li Sheng for provoking Gu Chen. After Zhao Haiqing’s men left, Gu Chen turned to Xu Zhongwen and began punishing him for threatening Gu Chen and his father.

• Gu Chen accused Li Sheng of boasting that he called the shots in Black Wind Hall, and Zhao Haiqing slapped Li Sheng down and stomped on him.
• Zhao Haiqing ordered his enforcers to break two of Li Sheng’s fingers, then apologized to Gu Beichi and offered to cover the losses.
• Gu Chen told Zhao Haiqing to leave Xu Zhongwen to him, and Zhao Haiqing departed with his men and Li Sheng.
• Gu Chen confronted Xu Zhongwen about threatening his family, and Xu Zhongwen begged for mercy.
• Gu Chen struck Xu Zhongwen in the leg with a steel rod, sending him screaming to the ground.

Gu Chen drove Xu Zhongwen away after breaking one of his legs, then helped Gu Beichi restore the company and get its trucks released. He returned home to cultivate, but overslept and arrived at Xinghua University after the third-year morning assembly had begun.

• Gu Chen threatened Xu Zhongwen, broke one of his legs, and sent him away to negotiate the company's losses and compensation with Gu Beichi.
• Gu Beichi warned Gu Chen to act honorably, while Gu Chen helped him and Zhu Jian clean up at the company; half an hour later, the detained trucks were released.
• Gu Chen left with Wang Hu, explained why he had spared Xu Zhongwen, and said he would finish the item for the old master by the next day.
• Gu Chen called Zhao Haiqing to thank him, revised the cultivation manual, and meditated; Gu Beichi returned home late but chose not to knock on Gu Chen's door.
• Gu Chen overslept after exhausting his spiritual power, hurried to Xinghua University, and found the third-year morning assembly already underway.

Gu Chen arrived late to the morning assembly as the school announced that a student had scored full marks in every subject. The chapter left the identity of the top student unrevealed, though Su Qingqing began to suspect Gu Chen.

• Su Qingqing pulled Gu Chen into Class 06's formation and worried that he might lose his bet with the teachers.
• The grade director announced that the midterm average had fallen and that students whose grades dropped would have to attend extra tutoring.
• The grade director revealed that a student had earned full marks in every subject, leaving Zhou Xue'er and Zhang Haoran surprised that neither had topped the grade.
• Song Qianhan's class was revealed to contain the perfect-score student, and Su Qingqing fixed her attention on Gu Chen.
• Song Qianhan stepped onto the platform to announce the student's name, but the chapter ended before he revealed it.

Gu Chen was announced as the grade’s top student with a perfect score, stunning the school and humiliating Zhou Xue’er. After Gu Chen’s pointed speech, Zhou Xue’er challenged his results, and he turned her accusation toward Song Qianhan.

• Song Qianhan announced that Gu Chen had earned first place with a perfect score, leaving the students stunned.
• Gu Chen walked onto the flag-raising platform as the crowd, including Zhou Xue’er, watched him in disbelief.
• At Wen Xinbai’s request, Gu Chen addressed the students and warned that those who humiliated others would be humiliated in turn, while looking at Zhou Xue’er.
• Zhou Xue’er angrily questioned how Gu Chen could have risen from near the bottom of the grade to first place with a perfect score.
• Gu Chen pointed out Zhou Xue’er’s own third-place score and asked whether she was accusing Song Qianhan of helping him cheat, prompting the school leaders to turn toward Song Qianhan.

After Gu Chen exposed Zhou Xue’er’s accusation as baseless, the school leaders approved his request to stop attending classes while requiring him to take the graduation exam. He said goodbye to Su Qingqing and then encountered Zhou Xue’er outside the classroom.

• Gu Chen countered Zhou Xue’er’s cheating suspicions, and she left the assembly in anger.
• The school leaders agreed to let Gu Chen attend school whenever he wished, provided he took the graduation exam.
• Gu Chen told Su Qingqing he was leaving school for a while and asked to meet her for coffee; she agreed if he gave her advance notice.
• Gu Chen left the classroom and found Zhou Xue’er waiting outside, where she accused him of hiding his abilities.

Gu Chen rejected Zhou Xue'er’s challenge at school and agreed to announce their broken engagement at her twentieth-birthday banquet. After Xu Mo questioned Gu Chen about his past and the Xu Family’s worsening ties with the Zhou Family, a gang led by Brother Bao surrounded them in the street.

• Zhou Xue'er threatened Gu Chen with consequences for his family, then challenged him to declare their engagement broken at her birthday banquet.
• Gu Chen remembered his father’s humiliation at the Zhou Family’s previous banquet and accepted Zhou Xue'er’s challenge.
• Xu Mo confronted Gu Chen about whether he had been pretending to be ordinary, then explained that the Xu Family’s relations with the Zhou Family were growing strained.
• Gu Chen dismissed Xu Mo’s suggestion that he needed the Xu Family as an ally.
• Brother Bao and more than thirty thugs arrived in vans and surrounded Gu Chen and Xu Mo.

Gu Chen faced Jiang Yu, Brother Bao, and more than thirty thugs who ambushed him, while Xu Mo tried to distance himself from the fight. Gu Chen defeated the attackers and approached Jiang Yu, leaving him next.

• Brother Bao and his men surrounded Gu Chen and Xu Mo, and Jiang Yu arrived on crutches to confront Gu Chen.
• Gu Chen claimed Xu Mo had warned him about the ambush, prompting Jiang Yu to accuse Xu Mo of betraying Zhou Xue'er’s plan.
• Brother Bao charged Gu Chen, but Gu Chen took his steel pipe, struck him, and challenged the rest of the thugs to attack together.
• Gu Chen fought off more than thirty men, leaving only Jiang Yu and his two bodyguards standing.
• Gu Chen walked toward Jiang Yu and told him he was next.

Gu Chen defeated Jiang Yu and his men, then made clear that he wanted Xu Mo to contact him before Zhou Xue'er's twentieth birthday. As Gu Chen left with Wang Hu and Hua Yumo, Xu Mo realized the jeep had a rare military plate and wondered whether Gu Chen had military connections.

• Gu Chen knocked down Jiang Yu's bodyguards, pinned Jiang Yu, and threatened to destroy the Jiang Family if Jiang Yu kept provoking him.
• Jiang Yu and his bodyguards fled in their business van, and Gu Chen told Xu Mo that Zhou Xue'er would learn they were allies and called Xu Mo a clever dog he needed.
• Wang Hu arrived in a jeep, and Gu Chen told Xu Mo to contact him before Zhou Xue'er's birthday or lose his chance to work with him.
• Xu Mo recognized the jeep's special military plate and wondered whether Gu Chen had connections in the Zhou City Military District.
• In the jeep, Hua Yumo admitted she had planned to help Gu Chen if he struggled, and Wang Hu explained that Huaxia's martial arts techniques were far weaker than those Gu Chen knew.

Gu Chen revised Elder Hua’s Mystic Heaven Divine Art, impressing him with how well it suited his meridians, and learned about the powerful Heavenly Secrets Pavilion. After lunch, Gu Chen teased Hua Yumo before leaving Mount Canghua, while she wondered whether he had called her chest small.

• Gu Chen gave Elder Hua a revised Mystic Heaven Divine Art, and Elder Hua meditated before discovering that his true qi flowed smoothly through his meridians.
• Elder Hua thanked Gu Chen and explained that the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion was a martial arts institution with a lineage dating back over six hundred years.
• Gu Chen learned that Elder Hua had obtained the technique during a visit to the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion twenty years earlier and resolved to act cautiously around Earth’s powerful martial artists.
• Elder Hua invited Gu Chen to lunch, then asked whether Gu Chen wanted to know his identity; Gu Chen said they could trust each other without asking about their pasts.
• Gu Chen teased Hua Yumo about her beauty and chest before leaving in Wang Hu’s car, and Hua Yumo checked her reflection and questioned his remark.

Gu Chen insisted on accompanying Gu Beichi to Zhou Xue'er’s birthday banquet despite his father’s warning that the Zhou Family planned to target them. They arrived at the lavish estate and found that the hosts were pointedly ignoring them.

• Gu Chen cultivated for two days, while Gu Beichi came to tell him about Zhou Xue'er’s birthday banquet and the Zhou Family’s pressure to end the engagement.
• Gu Chen refused to stay home, persuaded Gu Beichi to face the Zhou Family together, and the two set out with Zhu Jian.
• Gu Chen vowed to prevent anyone from insulting his father and to repay the humiliations they had suffered.
• Gu Chen, Gu Beichi, and Zhu Jian arrived at the Zhou Family estate, where the birthday celebration was already crowded with guests.
• Gu Beichi noticed the Zhou Family’s servants were deliberately ignoring them and sent Zhu Jian to look around.

At Zhou Xue'er’s birthday banquet, Gu Chen saw how the guests shunned him and Gu Beichi after the Zhou Family broke off the engagement. He went outside to plan his response, then discovered that the disheveled man behind an unsolvable Go puzzle was Xiang Linde, the head of the Xiang Family.

• Su Qingqing tried to greet Gu Chen, but Su Yi and Su Zhenbei stopped her and led her into the hall.
• Guests ignored Gu Beichi or avoided him, and Gu Chen left after telling his father he was going to see a classmate.
• Gu Chen blamed the Zhou Family for turning the guests against him and vowed to make a bigger game of their conflict.
• Gu Chen surveyed the Wen and Xiang Family representatives and decided to approach the Xiang Family.
• Gu Chen found guests puzzling over an apparently unsolvable Go endgame and learned that the old man who had set it up was Xiang Linde.

At the Zhou Family banquet, Gu Chen learned that Xiang Linde was offering to make whoever solved his Go puzzle his final disciple. Gu Chen claimed he could solve it, but said Xiang Linde’s medical skills were not worthy of his attention, leaving the crowd stunned.

• Gu Chen learned that Xiang Linde’s Zhenlong Go Puzzle had drawn crowds hoping to become his final disciple and gain the Xiang Family’s support.
• After Gu Chen said the puzzle was easy but that he had no interest in becoming Xiang Linde’s disciple, the young man beside him exposed his claim to the crowd.
• Xiang Linde challenged Gu Chen to solve the puzzle, and Gu Chen identified himself as Gu Beichi’s son, prompting the onlookers to mock his fallen status.
• Xiang Linde offered Gu Chen one free medical treatment if he solved the puzzle, but Gu Chen refused the offer and said he would not become Xiang Linde’s disciple.
• Gu Chen told Xiang Linde that his medical skills were not worthy of his attention, shocking the gathered crowd.

Gu Chen defeated Xiang Linde’s chess problem and created a deadly endgame in seven moves. Meanwhile, Jiang Kun confronted Gu Beichi at the banquet, demanding an explanation for Gu Chen injuring Jiang Yu and unleashing a powerful aura.

• Gu Chen challenged Xiang Linde to a game and played black while Xiang Linde played white.
• After seven moves, Gu Chen declared the problem solved and left, while Xiang Linde and the onlookers realized Gu Chen had trapped the white stones in a new endgame.
• Xiang Zexi came down from the pavilion and joined the stunned crowd as they remembered how they had mocked Gu Chen.
• Jiang Kun approached Gu Beichi and criticized the Zhou Family for seating him away from the guests of honor.
• Jiang Kun accused Gu Chen of hospitalizing Jiang Yu and crippling one of his legs, then released a bloodthirsty aura toward Gu Beichi.

Jiang Kun confronted Gu Beichi over Gu Chen crippling Jiang Yu, threatened the Gu family, and demanded Gu Chen’s hand and leg as compensation. Gu Beichi stood by his son, while Zhou Nanfeng told Zhou Xue’er he would help choose a good husband after misjudging Gu Chen.

• Jiang Kun mocked Gu Beichi for losing the Gu family’s backing and demanded one of Gu Chen’s legs and one hand in compensation for Jiang Yu.
• Gu Chen arrived, shoved Jiang Kun away, and heard Jiang Kun warn him to behave himself before leaving with his bodyguards.
• Gu Beichi reassured Gu Chen that he would protect him, and Gu Chen resolved to prove himself through action.
• Zhou Nanfeng praised Zhou Xue’er and said he would help choose her a good husband, then admitted he had misjudged Gu Chen.
• Zhou Xue’er trembled at Gu Chen’s name and hesitated as she recalled the changes in him.

At Zhou Xue'er’s birthday banquet, Ji Yun performed a piano piece for her, hoping to impress her. Zhou Xue'er rejected his gift and praised Gu Chen’s musical ability instead, provoking the guests to focus on Gu Chen and his father.

• Zhou Nanfeng promised Zhou Xue'er he would use the banquet to settle matters with Gu Chen and his father.
• Zhou Xue'er descended into the hall with Zhou Nanfeng and became the center of attention.
• Ji Yun presented Zhou Xue'er with a jeweled Steinway piano and performed a love song he had spent two months learning.
• After the guests applauded, Ji Yun confessed his admiration for Zhou Xue'er and awaited her response.
• Zhou Xue'er said she preferred classical melodies and praised Gu Chen’s performance at the school arts festival.
• Zhou Xue'er told Ji Yun she disliked his gift and suggested she might consider him if he could be like Gu Chen.

At Zhou Xue’er’s birthday banquet, Ji Yun tried to win her over with a piano performance, but she rejected him and defended her love of traditional music. Gu Chen then stepped forward to perform on the guzheng, directly challenging Ji Yun as the chapter ended.

• Ji Yun presented Zhou Xue’er with a piano performance and offered to learn traditional instruments, but she firmly rejected his advances.
• Ji Yun challenged the guests to play traditional music, taunted Gu Chen when no one came forward, and Zhou Nanfeng ended the argument.
• As the guests presented their birthday gifts, Gu Chen announced that he would perform on the guzheng.
• Ji Yun objected, but Zhou Nanfeng reminded him that Zhou Xue’er was still engaged to Gu Chen.
• Gu Chen told Ji Yun he was slapping his face and asked for the guzheng to be placed on the piano.

Gu Chen humiliated Ji Yun with a dazzling piano performance, then moved the guests with an immersive guzheng piece before revealing a furious musical gift for Zhou Xue'er. He ended by smashing the instrument and dedicating his “Bitch Song” to her.

• Gu Chen challenged Ji Yun, dismissed his piano playing, and performed Liszt’s “Mazeppa,” leaving the guests stunned and Li Yi praising him as a master pianist.
• Gu Chen claimed he had practiced piano for only two days, then said his first piece had been a gift for Ji Yun rather than Zhou Xue'er.
• Gu Chen played a guzheng piece that carried the guests through battlefield horrors and a soldier’s return home, moving Li Yi to tears and prompting Ji Yun and his father to leave.
• Gu Chen announced that his true gift was for Zhou Xue'er and played a fierce piece depicting a woman who betrayed and murdered her returning soldier husband.
• Gu Chen smashed the guzheng and called the piece his “Bitch Song” for Miss Zhou.

At Zhou Xue’er’s birthday banquet, Gu Chen provoked Zhou Nanfeng by performing and naming an insulting song for Zhou Xue’er, then refused to back down as the Zhou Family and their allies attacked him and Gu Beichi. The crowd pressed the Gu Family to end the engagement while Gu Chen stood his ground.

• Gu Chen performed an original piece for Zhou Xue’er, smashed the guzheng, and called it “Bitch Song,” drawing Li Yi’s praise and the guests’ shock.
• When Zhou Nanfeng demanded an explanation, Gu Chen suggested even more insulting titles, and Zhou Nanfeng smashed a table in anger.
• Gu Beichi tried to defend Gu Chen, but Gu Chen stepped in and challenged Zhou Nanfeng for blaming his father.
• Gu Chen’s fierce glare made Zhou Xue’er retreat, and he traded insults with Jiang Kun as Zhou Nanfeng questioned whether the engagement should continue.
• Several wealthy guests joined in, insulting Gu Chen and Gu Beichi and urging them to accept the engagement’s cancellation.

At Zhou Xue’er’s birthday gathering, Jiang Kun and other guests publicly accused Gu Chen, provoking Gu Beichi until Gu Chen struck Jiang Kun. Gu Chen then confronted Zhou Nanfeng and demanded that the Zhou Family publicly accept his divorce letter, leaving the marriage dispute unresolved.

• Jiang Kun and several students accused Gu Chen of bullying, injuring Jiang Yu, threatening a teacher, and cheating, while Su Qingqing was prevented from defending him.
• Jiang Kun insulted Gu Chen and taunted Gu Beichi, who grabbed Jiang Kun by the collar in anger.
• Gu Chen punched Jiang Kun, knocking him to the ground, after recalling his father’s humiliation in his previous life.
• Zhou Nanfeng stopped Jiang Kun from attacking Gu Chen and demanded an explanation for the punch.
• Gu Chen accused the Zhou Family of trying to cancel the marriage while shifting the blame onto him and Gu Beichi, then demanded that Zhou Xue’er read his divorce letter aloud.

Gu Chen publicly repudiated Zhou Xue'er at her birthday banquet, provoking Zhou Nanfeng to block him and Gu Beichi from leaving. Xiang Zexi intervened on Xiang Linde’s behalf, and Zhou Nanfeng let Gu Chen and his father go.

• Gu Chen declared that he had repudiated Zhou Xue'er, and she ran upstairs in tears.
• Zhou Nanfeng threatened Gu Chen and Gu Beichi, but Gu Chen refused to apologize.
• Zhou Nanfeng’s martial artists surrounded Gu Chen and Gu Beichi and barred them from leaving.
• Xiang Zexi challenged Zhou Nanfeng and said Xiang Linde wanted him to let them go.
• Zhou Nanfeng ordered his men aside, and Gu Chen left the villa with Gu Beichi.

After Gu Chen humiliated the Zhou Family at Zhou Xue'er’s birthday banquet, Zhou Nanfeng and Jiang Kun plotted revenge while Gu Chen explained his actions to Gu Beichi. The chapter ended with Gu Chen staying confident in his plans and reassuring Su Qingqing after she apologized for not supporting him.

• Xiang Zexi led the Xiang Family out of the Zhou Family residence, and Zhou Nanfeng left the banquet after telling the guests he felt unwell.
• Zhou Nanfeng comforted Zhou Xue'er and told Jiang Kun to keep Gu Chen and Gu Beichi alive while making them pay; Jiang Kun said he had a backup plan.
• On the drive home, Zhu Jian admitted he feared the Zhou Family would make it difficult for them to establish themselves in Zhou City, while Gu Chen told him to focus on driving.
• Gu Beichi asked Gu Chen whether the banquet had gone according to plan, and Gu Chen explained that he had helped Xiang Linde solve a chess problem and expected the break with the Zhou Family.
• Gu Chen told Gu Beichi to keep running his company without confronting the Zhou Family directly, and Gu Beichi agreed to trust him.
• Su Qingqing called to apologize for not defending Gu Chen at the banquet, and Gu Chen reassured her.

Gu Chen went in disguise to find Zhao Bo, a mysterious old man who secretly cultivated the Undying Divine Skill. After revealing his knowledge of Zhao Bo’s technique, Gu Chen defeated him with the Emperor Fist and declared himself Zhao Bo’s opportunity.

• Gu Chen ignored the rumors about the Zhou and Gu Families and drove to Yulin Road in disguise.
• Zhao Bo let three thugs beat him so he could improve his Undying Divine Skill, then revealed that their blows had left him unharmed.
• Gu Chen confronted Zhao Bo and explained how the Undying Divine Skill advanced by taking passive beatings.
• Zhao Bo threatened Gu Chen and attacked him with the Five Void Claw.
• Gu Chen countered with the Emperor Fist’s second form, sent Zhao Bo flying, and told him to pay his respects.

Gu Chen confronted Zhao Bo and demonstrated that he could reproduce the Five Void Claw after seeing it once, then offered to perfect Zhao Bo’s flawed Undying Divine Skill. He revealed that Zhao Bo would die within a month without his intervention, and Zhao Bo accepted him as his master.

• Gu Chen demanded an apprenticeship bow from Zhao Bo, who rejected him and attacked with a palm strike.
• Gu Chen seized Zhao Bo’s palm with the Five Void Claw and claimed he had learned the technique by watching Zhao Bo use it.
• Gu Chen offered to perfect Zhao Bo’s incomplete Undying Divine Skill and said he wanted Zhao Bo to work for him and avoid a future crisis.
• Gu Chen claimed to be a god and revealed that Zhao Bo would die in a month if he did not intervene.
• Zhao Bo knelt and declared himself Gu Chen’s disciple, and Gu Chen lifted him to his feet with an unseen force.