Recaps

Zhao Bo revealed his overwhelming strength by sending Lu Fan flying, then identified Gu Chen as his master. Gu Chen met with Lu Fan privately and used Zhao Bo’s true cultivation to establish their standing, leaving Lu Fan to decide whether he could be Gu Chen’s friend.

• Lu Fan struck Zhao Bo, but Zhao Bo’s strength sent Lu Fan crashing to the ground.
• Zhao Bo told Lu Fan that Gu Chen was his master, and Lu Fan bowed to Gu Chen and apologized.
• Gu Chen spoke with Lu Fan in the VIP office and asked about the Water Cloud Sect’s influence in Zhou City.
• Gu Chen asked Zhao Bo to demonstrate his strength, and Zhao Bo revealed that he had reached the Revolving Illumination Realm.
• Gu Chen asked Lu Fan whether he thought he could be his friend.

Gu Chen secured the Water Cloud Sect’s black market as a training ground by offering Lu Fan a third-grade Luo Heaven Pill, while learning that the Zhou Family had a sect-backed Bone-Forge Realm adviser. He then revealed to Zhao Bo that the Heavenly Pivot Sect was newly founded and consisted only of the two of them.

• Gu Chen told Lu Fan that the Heavenly Pivot Sect wanted to make friends with the Water Cloud Sect and borrow its black market premises to train Ma Gang, Zhu Jun, and Jiang Qi.
• Lu Fan accepted the offer after Gu Chen gave him a third-grade Luo Heaven Pill, and he warned Gu Chen about the Zhou Family’s Great Perfection Bone-Forge Realm adviser.
• Lu Fan left to prepare the black market, and Gu Chen gave Ma Gang and the other two fighters a pill each before ordering them to get ready for two days of supervised training.
• Zhao Bo asked about the Heavenly Pivot Sect, and Gu Chen explained that he had only just founded it and that it currently had only the two of them.

Gu Chen put Ma Gang and two others through deadly underground fights as he prepared to build the Heavenly Pivot Sect. Two days later, Gu Chen and Black Wind Hall attacked the Jiang Group, leaving its manager shocked that Black Wind Hall was behind the assault.

• Gu Chen used the black market’s fighters to push Ma Gang and the other two into relentless bouts, and all three won fifteen fights while Ma Gang reached eighteen.
• Gu Chen told Zhao Bo that the fighters had to risk their lives and prove their desire to pursue cultivation before joining the Heavenly Pivot Sect.
• Jiang Kun assured Zhou Nanfeng that Gu Chen was dead, then learned that Gu Chen and Black Wind Hall had appeared at the Jiang Group.
• Qi Ming led Black Wind Hall fighters into the Jiang Group, where they beat the guards and smashed the lobby.
• The lobby manager protested that the company knew Black Wind Hall, and Qi Ming revealed that he was from the organization before the manager asked whether his boss knew.

Gu Chen led Qi Ming and the others to the Jiang Group, where he attacked president Jiang Dongshan and demanded to know when Jiang Kun would return. He left Jiang Dongshan and the meeting attendees under threat, insisting that they cooperate.

• Qi Ming ordered the thugs to smash the Jiang Group lobby, then told Gu Chen that Jiang Kun was not in the chairman's office.
• Gu Chen led Qi Ming, Ma Gang, Zhu Jun and Jiang Qi to the conference room, where Jiang Dongshan was presenting plans to take over the Xu Family's businesses with the Zhou Family.
• Gu Chen stormed into the meeting, seized Jiang Dongshan and slammed his head against the presentation screen and then the table.
• Zhao Bo knocked down the bodyguards as Jiang Dongshan demanded that someone call the police.
• Gu Chen stopped a shareholder from using his phone and warned Jiang Dongshan to answer his questions or face further humiliation.

Gu Chen forced Jiang Dongshan to reveal that Jiang Kun had hired an assassin, then ordered Qi Ming to deal with him and the Jiang Group. Jiang Dongshan was left facing Qi Ming and several imposing fighters as the group began to wreck the company.

• Gu Chen tortured Jiang Dongshan with silver needles until he demanded that Jiang Kun come to the conference room.
• A Jiang Group shareholder protested, but Qi Ming struck him and declared that Gu Chen was the law of the land in Zhou City.
• Jiang Dongshan threatened Qi Ming with the Zhou Family and its martial arts backing, but Qi Ming slapped him and dismissed the threats.
• Jiang Dongshan admitted that Jiang Kun had hired an assassin and tried to call his brother, but the line was busy.
• Gu Chen ordered Qi Ming to handle Jiang Dongshan, and Qi Ming had the Jiang Group’s floors and valuables smashed.
• Qi Ming pointed out Zhao Bo, Ma Gang, Jiang Qi, and another imposing man, leaving Jiang Dongshan terrified.

Gu Chen waited at the Jiang Group as Jiang Kun arrived with martial artists and defeated Qi Ming. Gu Chen revealed that Ma Gang and his two companions could match Jiang Kun’s men, leaving Jiang Kun to face Gu Chen and Zhao Bo.

• Gu Chen kept the Jiang Group shareholders in the conference room and asked them to witness what happened when Jiang Kun arrived.
• Jiang Kun fought through the Black Wind Hall thugs with help from three skilled men and defeated Qi Ming, revealing his late-stage Initiation Realm strength.
• Gu Chen arrived and challenged Jiang Kun, while Ma Gang and his two companions revealed that they were also late-stage Initiation Realm martial artists.
• Ma Gang and his companions fought Jiang Kun’s three men, leaving Gu Chen and Zhao Bo facing Jiang Kun.
• Jiang Kun dismissed Zhao Bo as a crazy old black-market guide, then suddenly stopped speaking in alarm.

Zhao Bo revealed his overwhelming strength and helped defeat Jiang Kun’s men, leaving Jiang Kun unable to resist. Gu Chen then withstood Jiang Kun’s punch, revealed he was a martial artist, and dragged him into the conference room to discuss serious business.

• Zhao Bo stopped Jiang Kun’s powerful punch with one finger and sent him crashing to the ground.
• Jiang Qi, Ma Gang, and the others defeated Jiang Kun’s remaining martial artists after Gu Chen ordered them to finish the fight within three minutes.
• Gu Chen confronted Jiang Kun about hiring assassins and said it was time to settle their score.
• Jiang Kun punched Gu Chen, but the attack rebounded and injured Jiang Kun’s arm.
• Gu Chen slapped Jiang Kun, revealed that he was a martial artist who had killed the assassins, and dragged him into the conference room.

Gu Chen forced Jiang Kun to transfer seventy percent of the Jiang Group's shares as payment for Jiang Kun's repeated attacks and attempted assassination. Jiang Kun still resisted, but Gu Chen prepared the documents and ordered him to sign.

• Gu Chen dragged Jiang Kun into the meeting and threatened to kill him if he refused to cooperate.
• Gu Chen demanded seventy percent of the Jiang Group's shares, calculating the amount from Jiang Kun's attacks on him and his father and the attempted assassination.
• Jiang Kun rejected the demand, but Gu Chen warned that he would destroy the Jiang Group and kill Jiang Kun and his son.
• Jiang Kun tried to delay by citing notarization and transfer procedures, but Gu Chen said the documents were ready and ordered him to sign.

Gu Chen forced Jiang Kun to sign over seventy percent of the Jiang Family’s shares, leaving Jiang Kun humiliated and nearly abandoned by his shareholders. Qi Ming warned Jiang Kun about Gu Chen’s connections and power, and Jiang Kun pleaded with him to teach him how to survive.

• Gu Chen made Jiang Kun sign the share-transfer agreement and told the shareholders they now worked for him.
• The shareholders left the conference room, while Qi Ming stayed behind to scold Jiang Kun for provoking Gu Chen.
• Jiang Kun asked why Black Wind Hall supported Gu Chen, and Qi Ming explained that their relationship was based on mutual benefit and respect.
• Qi Ming told Jiang Kun that Gu Chen had healed Zhao Haiqing and Elder Hua and was connected to the powerful Hua Family in Shangjing.
• Jiang Kun seized Qi Ming’s hand and begged him to teach him how to escape disaster.

Gu Chen returned from the Jiang Group and sent Ma Gang, Zhu Jun, and Jiang Qi to the black market while he went home with Zhao Bo. There, he told Gu Beichi he could restore his meridians and revealed that he had known about them all along, leaving his father devastated.

• Gu Chen told Zhao Bo he would not attack the Zhou Family yet, planning instead to let them grow confident before bringing them to despair.
• Gu Chen sent Ma Gang, Zhu Jun, and Jiang Qi to the black market and explained that their victories had also announced his presence to Zhou City's powers.
• Gu Chen returned home with Zhao Bo after telling him to follow his lead.
• Gu Beichi welcomed Gu Chen home anxiously, and Gu Chen said he could restore his father's meridians.
• Gu Beichi suspected Gu Changfeng and Uncle Liu had revealed his condition, but Gu Chen said he had known all along, causing Gu Beichi to stagger back and collapse onto the sofa.

Gu Chen told Gu Beichi about his father’s past and promised that he could repair the meridians Gu Beichi had damaged while trying to cultivate. Gu Beichi remained doubtful until Gu Chen called in Zhao Bo, the senior he said would treat him.

• Gu Chen recalled how Gu Beichi’s failed breakthrough, subsequent injury, and expulsion from the Gu Family had left him a cripple and brought hardship to them both.
• Gu Beichi admitted his regret over neglecting Gu Chen and said he had accepted that his meridians could not be healed.
• Gu Chen insisted that he could repair his father’s meridians and said a senior he had met would help treat him.
• Gu Beichi briefly regained hope, then doubted that anyone in Zhou City could succeed after renowned physicians and martial arts seniors had failed.
• Gu Chen called for the senior, and Zhao Bo appeared in the doorway.

Gu Chen introduced Zhao Bo, a Grandmaster Realm martial artist, to his father and asked him to examine Gu Beichi’s damaged meridians. Zhao Bo then had Gu Chen take his father’s pulse, leaving Gu Beichi puzzled and unsure whether his son could help.

• Uncle Liu prepared to defend the household when Zhao Bo appeared, but Gu Chen stopped him and explained that Zhao Bo was his invited senior.
• Zhao Bo revealed his Grandmaster Realm cultivation, astonishing Gu Beichi and making him apologize for his son’s supposed offense.
• Zhao Bo refused Gu Beichi’s bow and said he regarded Gu Chen as a friend, making Gu Chen’s father his elder as well.
• Zhao Bo examined Gu Beichi’s wrist and learned that his meridians had burst after he suffered qi deviation while attempting to reach the Revolving Illumination Realm.
• Zhao Bo asked Gu Chen to examine his father, and Gu Chen took Gu Beichi’s pulse while his father doubted that he could help.

Gu Chen discovered that an outside force had secretly damaged Gu Beichi’s meridians and resolved to find whoever was responsible. Zhao Bo began a three-day medicinal treatment to prepare Gu Beichi’s meridians for repair, and Gu Beichi felt his senses returning as he soaked.

• Gu Chen examined Gu Beichi and found that an outside force had slowly stretched and ruptured his meridians.
• Gu Chen concealed his discovery from his father and vowed to make whoever had harmed him pay.
• Zhao Bo told Gu Beichi that his meridians could be repaired and took Gu Chen to buy medicinal herbs.
• Gu Chen instructed Zhao Bo to prepare a medicinal bath, and Zhao Bo told Gu Beichi to soak for at least ten hours a day for three days.
• Gu Beichi soaked in the medicinal liquid and began to sense spiritual qi and regain the heightened senses he had lost.

Gu Chen continued treating Gu Beichi’s damaged meridians with a medicinal bath modeled on the Dragon Blood Pool. When Zhao Haiqing called for help, Gu Chen rushed to Mount Yunyang and found him and Black Wind Hall surrounded by members of the Liu Family.

• Gu Chen explained that his Dragon Blood Pool-inspired medicine could help restore Gu Beichi’s meridians, and Gu Beichi urged him to respect Senior Zhao.
• Gu Chen stayed home for two days to care for Gu Beichi and prepared another medicinal decoction.
• Zhao Haiqing called Gu Chen in panic, saying the Liu Family had driven him and his men up Mount Yunyang and left them badly wounded.
• Gu Chen hurried to Mount Yunyang and found Zhao Haiqing surrounded by green-robed attackers while Black Wind Hall members, including Qi Ming, lay on the ground.
• When the attackers shone a powerful flashlight at his car, Gu Chen accelerated straight into their crowd.

Gu Chen arrived to rescue the wounded Zhao Haiqing from the Liu Family martial artists seeking the Jade Guanyin, and swiftly demonstrated his overwhelming strength. Liu Kuan revealed his Late Bone-Forge Realm cultivation and attacked Gu Chen with the Liu Family’s Storm Palm.

• Gu Chen drove into the fight, checked on Zhao Haiqing, and promised to settle matters after learning the Liu Family had attacked him for the Jade Guanyin.
• Gu Chen severed the flashlight-holder’s arm with a burst of force and declared that he would deal with the Liu Family himself.
• Liu Kuan threatened Gu Chen and demanded the Jade Guanyin, but Gu Chen mocked him and refused to identify himself until challenged.
• Three Liu Family martial artists charged Gu Chen, and his aura knocked them down before they could get within five meters.
• Liu Kuan revealed he had recently reached the Late Bone-Forge Realm and struck at Gu Chen with the Storm Palm.

Gu Chen defeated Liu Kuan and killed him despite the Liu Family elder’s threats, then ordered the surviving Liu Family martial artists to leave. Zhao Haiqing warned that the family would retaliate, but Gu Chen told him to tend to his bleeding wounds.

• Gu Chen struck Liu Kuan down with one blow, overwhelming the Bone-Forge Realm elder and leaving him badly injured.
• When a Liu Family martial artist threatened Gu Chen, Gu Chen’s aura sent him crashing into a rock, and the flood dragon scale killed another attacker who rushed him.
• Gu Chen told the Liu Family martial artists he would kill anyone who spoke again, then declared that Liu Kuan would have no future ahead of him.
• Gu Chen used the flood dragon scale to slash Liu Kuan’s throat, killing the third elder despite his warnings about the Liu Family.
• Gu Chen gave the surviving Liu Family martial artists five minutes to take Liu Kuan’s corpse and leave, and they fled with it.
• Zhao Haiqing warned Gu Chen that the Liu Family would retaliate, but Gu Chen told him to tend to his bleeding.

Gu Chen rescued Zhao Haiqing and Qi Ming from the Liu Family, then took the badly injured men to the hospital. When doctors warned that Qi Ming might die or be left paralyzed, Gu Chen thought of his own father and went toward the intensive care unit.

• Gu Chen explained that he had let the Liu Family’s men go so they would blame him for the Jade Guanyin instead of targeting Black Wind Hall.
• Zhao Haiqing told Gu Chen that the Liu Family had attacked his men and that the Wen Family was taking advantage of the chaos to seize Black Wind Hall’s territory.
• Gu Chen drove Zhao Haiqing and Qi Ming to the hospital, gave Zhao Haiqing half a Luo Heaven Pill, and told him he would not interfere in gang affairs.
• Qi Ming briefly woke in the intensive care unit, thanked Gu Chen, and worried about Zhao Haiqing and the share transfer agreement.
• Qi Ming’s wife and daughter arrived, and a doctor warned that Qi Ming’s injuries could prove fatal or leave him in a wheelchair.
• Gu Chen comforted Qi Ming’s wife, remembered his own father’s grave injuries, and walked toward the intensive care unit.

Gu Chen entered Qi Ming’s intensive care ward and insisted on treating him despite Vice Director Liu’s objections. After the doctors left, Gu Chen revealed that the Emperor’s Vein from his previous life had appeared on his chest, leaving his treatment of Qi Ming still to come.

• Gu Chen entered Qi Ming’s ward and warned that delaying treatment could leave him paralyzed.
• Vice Director Liu tried to remove Gu Chen, but Wang Yan asked whether he was truly a doctor and Gu Chen said Zhao Haiqing could vouch for him.
• Gu Chen offered to take responsibility and persuaded Wang Yan to let him treat Qi Ming.
• Gu Chen made the doctors leave the ward before beginning treatment.
• Gu Chen revealed the Emperor’s Vein on his chest and recognized it as the mark from his previous life.

Gu Chen used the Nine-Three Transformation Ointment from the Emperor's Vein to heal Qi Ming, astonishing the hospital staff and earning their respect. After visiting Zhao Haiqing, he asked about the Wen Family's encroachment on Black Wind Hall and declared that he planned to kill the person responsible.

• Gu Chen revealed that he had opened the Emperor's Vein and used its Nine-Three Transformation Ointment to treat Qi Ming.
• The doctors confirmed Qi Ming's condition had stabilized, and he began to stir as Wang Yan and her daughter thanked Gu Chen.
• Vice Director Liu apologized to Gu Chen and asked about his medical technique, but Gu Chen refused to explain or offer pointers.
• Gu Chen left Qi Ming's room and went to see the recovering Zhao Haiqing.
• Gu Chen asked Zhao Haiqing where the person in charge of the Wen Family's encroachment was and said it was a perfect night for killing.

Gu Chen intercepted Wen Ziqi’s convoy and warned him to stop attacking Zhao Haiqing’s people. After Wen Ziqi ordered his men to fire, Gu Chen knocked them down and kicked him to the ground.

• Liu An learned that Liu Kuan had been killed by a young man who claimed to have the Jade Guanyin.
• Wen Tao suspected the killer was Gu Chen, but Wen Ziqi dismissed the idea until Gu Chen tore open the Hummer’s roof.
• Gu Chen told Wen Ziqi to stop attacking Zhao Haiqing and his people for the next few days or face the consequences.
• Wen Ziqi ordered his men to open fire, but Gu Chen swept them all to the ground with a fierce wind before any shots were fired.
• Gu Chen leaped down from the roof and kicked Wen Ziqi in the face, pinning him beneath his foot.

Gu Chen defeated Liu An after Liu An attacked him and threatened him over the Jade Guanyin. He killed Liu An and left the Liu Family’s conflict escalated.

• Gu Chen pinned Wen Ziqi down and warned Wen Tao not to approach.
• Liu An demonstrated his Bone-Forge Realm strength, but Gu Chen kicked him, shattered his dantian, and crippled his legs.
• Gu Chen told Liu An that he had already killed Liu Kuan, while Liu An threatened him with the Liu Family’s power.
• A Wen Family driver charged Gu Chen in a Hummer, but Gu Chen kicked the vehicle into the air, leaving the driver badly injured.
• Liu An realized Gu Chen was a Revolving Illumination Realm martial artist and offered him the Jade Guanyin, but Gu Chen said Zhao Haiqing was his friend.
• Gu Chen used the Flood Dragon Scale to cut Liu An’s neck, killing him.

Gu Chen forced Wen Ziqi to end the attack on the Black Wind Hall, then returned home and helped Zhao Bo perform acupuncture to repair Gu Beichi’s meridians. The chapter ended with Gu Beichi feeling his true qi flow again.

• Gu Chen knocked Wen Tao unconscious, captured Wen Ziqi, and threatened to kill him unless he called off the attack on the Black Wind Hall.
• Wen Ziqi tried to persuade Gu Chen to join forces against the Zhou Family, but Gu Chen refused and gave him a deadline.
• Wen Ziqi ordered his subordinates to stop the attack, and Gu Chen later left him unconscious by the roadside.
• Gu Chen returned to the hospital, then went home and decided he would no longer interfere in underworld affairs after repaying his debt to Zhao Haiqing and the Black Wind Hall.
• Three days later, Gu Chen used silver needles infused with true qi to perform acupuncture on Gu Beichi after Zhao Bo prepared him.
• Gu Beichi circulated his qi and discovered that he could feel his true qi flowing.

Gu Chen helped his father, Gu Beichi, restore the flow of true qi and began arranging further treatment and a better cultivation method for him. He then accepted Su Qingqing’s invitation to Xinghua University’s graduation gathering, where Shen Peng welcomed Young Master Jiang at the Ruijing Grand Hotel.

• Gu Beichi briefly gathered true qi after Zhao Bo treated his meridians, and Zhao Bo said he would continue treating him over the next few days.
• Gu Chen instructed Zhao Bo to find rare medicinal ingredients through the black markets and resolved to improve Gu Beichi’s constitution and teach him an immortal cultivation method.
• Su Qingqing called Gu Chen to invite him to the graduation gathering at the Ruijing Grand Hotel, and Gu Chen agreed to attend at six thirty.
• Gu Beichi told Gu Chen to stay safe when he said he might return late.
• Shen Peng welcomed arriving students outside the Ruijing Grand Hotel, then hurried to greet Young Master Jiang when a Ferrari arrived.

Jiang Yu waited outside the Ruijing Grand Hotel for Gu Chen, while Zhou Xue'er tried to push him into confronting Gu Chen. On the way to the gathering, Gu Chen picked up Xu Mo and assured him he would help the Xu Family.

• Jiang Yu arrived at the hotel and waited for Gu Chen, while Chen Jiaheng and Shen Peng offered to help him deal with Gu Chen.
• Zhou Xue'er arrived and offered Jiang Yu her bodyguards, but Jiang Yu held back his anger and agreed to wait with her.
• Gu Chen picked up Xu Mo, who begged him to save the Xu Family from its crisis.
• Gu Chen reassured Xu Mo that he would honor his promise, and they reached the Ruijing Grand Hotel.

Gu Chen confronted Zhou Xue'er and her allies at the Ruijing Grand Hotel after Zhou Xue'er slapped Su Qingqing. He struck Zhou Xue'er, defeated Jiang Chu when he attacked, and left the crowd stunned before Chen Jiaheng arrived to challenge him.

• Zhou Xue'er grabbed Su Qingqing, insulted her, and slapped her in front of the hotel.
• Gu Chen stepped in, slapped Zhou Xue'er in retaliation, and demanded she let Su Qingqing strike her back.
• Jiang Chu intervened on Zhou Xue'er's behalf and attacked Gu Chen, but Gu Chen knocked him down and broke one of his ribs with a stomp.
• Jiang Chu finally submitted, while Dong Wenhao and the gathered students fell silent at Gu Chen's display of strength.
• Chen Jiaheng emerged from the hotel and angrily demanded to know what Gu Chen was doing.