Synopsis

The chapter opens with a mysterious time-altering event, followed by a spar where Xue Hu, a seemingly new recruit, overwhelms a veteran Blood Fiend soldier. Xue Hu's fighting style is described as unpredictable, disrupting the opponent's qi circulation despite not having superior speed. The defeat causes disbelief and fuels accusations that Xue Hu might be using drugs or cultivation pills, while an instructor states that the real issue is that the soldiers are too reliant on old habits instead of adapting to their opponents.