Recaps

Si Ming discovered that Yu Shuying had secretly become the boss of the Green Snake Gang and followed her into a gang confrontation. The rival gangs surrounded her, and their leaders mocked her as a woman in charge of an underworld organization.

• A masked woman from the Nation of Beauty praised Si Ming's work and asked him to write her words of encouragement, which he did without revealing that he recognized her.
• Yao Bilian told Si Ming that Yu Shuying had been acting mysteriously and asked him to follow her.
• Si Ming secretly followed Yu Shuying through the bus district and saw gang members treat her like their superior.
• Yu Shuying confronted Fatty Ji of the Liuzi Gang over extortion on Green Snake Gang territory, but Fatty Ji brought in the East Star Society and North Point Gang as reinforcements.
• Fatty Ji and the North Point Gang's boss insulted Yu Shuying and challenged her authority as a woman leading a gang.

Yu Shuying summoned Si Ming to help her defeat the Liuzi Gang, North Point Gang, and East Star Society, clearing the way for the Green Snake Gang to take control of Tange City's underworld. She ordered her followers to punish the defeated bosses and handed them a prepared schedule for collecting protection fees.

• Fatty Ji offered the Green Snake Gang members rewards to betray Yu Shuying, but they stayed with her despite their fear.
• Yu Shuying called for Si Ming, explaining that she had guessed the administrator would send him to investigate.
• Si Ming dismissed the three gangs as weak and knocked down their hundreds of fighters with his fists.
• Yu Shuying ordered the Green Snake Gang to bind the gang leaders, cripple their martial arts, and publicize their misconduct.
• Si Ming destroyed Fatty Ji's Qi sea when the gang members could not cripple his cultivation, and Yu Shuying gave them a booklet of protection-fee amounts.

Yu Shuying explained her plan to build the Green Snake Gang into a legal, influential organization and outlined how she would expand it through low protection fees and a ban on drugs. Si Ming recognized her strategy as a price war and realized she planned to outlast rival gangs by seeking influence rather than profit.

• Yu Shuying said she had controlled more than a hundred underlings with poison pills and planned to seize the other three major gangs’ turf.
• Yu Shuying asked Si Ming to lend her his Monster Race follower as a fighter, and she explained how the follower could strengthen her position.
• Yu Shuying said she would expand into Linked Mountains City before university began, then manage gang affairs alongside her studies.
• Yu Shuying proposed lowering protection fees and banning drug trafficking to win merchant support and favor from the government.
• Si Ming recognized that Yu Shuying’s approach was a price war, and she said rival gangs could not outlast her because she wanted influence rather than profit.

Yu Shuying asked Si Ming to help the Green Snake Gang find a steady, legal source of income after its rapid expansion left it short of funds. Si Ming suggested gray-area debt collection and eviction work, but Yu Shuying dismissed those as temporary fixes, leaving him searching for a sustainable business idea.

• Yu Shuying explained that she needed money to support the Green Snake Gang’s growing membership, and Si Ming agreed to brainstorm with her.
• Yu Shuying said she consulted Si Ming because his unconventional thinking could produce ideas that business experts might overlook, and she counted the consultation as a favor owed.
• Si Ming suggested debt collection and forced evictions as possible sources of income, while Yu Shuying insisted the gang could only operate in legal gray areas.
• Si Ming proposed using pressure tactics for debt collection and partnering with the government on compensation claims and demolition projects.
• Yu Shuying said those jobs would be short-lived because the government planned to adopt a rule allowing demolition with ninety-five percent approval, and Si Ming continued searching for a lasting business.

Si Ming and his companions attended Yuezheng Yao’s concert at Linked Mountains University after Yu Shuying warned that someone might sabotage it. As the group searched the crowded venue, a band of killers prepared an attack from a nearby building, but their operation was suddenly interrupted by a burst of Sword Qi.

• Si Ming and his companions entered the packed concert arena after he passed Yu Shuying’s warning to the Mohist Knight Guard, though the threat remained unverified.
• Si Ming divided the six companions into two groups to search for suspicious activity.
• In a nearby building, a middle-aged man watched the stadium while his disguised killers waited in a dark office.
• The man lamented that he could not witness the coming bloodshed up close.
• The doors behind him exploded, and a storm of Sword Qi killed more than a dozen of his men.

Xia Guanxue killed Wu Qiansuan and learned that cultists had infiltrated the stadium to stage a massacre. At the venue, Si Ming’s group suspected a cleaner was secretly protecting the guests, while Qingyan remained confused about their conversation.

• Xia Guanxue killed the men in black and struck down Wu Qiansuan, who revealed that his people had infiltrated the stadium.
• Xia Guanxue found a letter linked to Wu Qiansuan’s cult and told Captain about the planned attack.
• Captain ordered Xia Guanxue to reach the stadium and stop Qingyan from assassinating Yuezheng Yao so the Blood Pupil Society would not be blamed.
• Si Ming’s group patrolled the stadium and Hongdou recognized a cleaner as the man who had once sold breakfast.
• Si Ming and the others concluded that the cleaner had secretly entered to protect the guests, while Qingyan wondered whether his assassination attempt had been exposed.
• Yu Shuying read Qingyan’s confusion and chose not to reveal her suspicions, then Si Ming introduced Qingyan to Murong Qing and Ying Zhou.

Si Ming and his companions identified Yuezheng Yao’s backstage crew as the most likely place for the criminals to hide and rushed behind the stage as the concert began. They entered a workroom and found no suspects there, but a staff member challenged them.

• Qingyan agreed to help Si Ming investigate and said he had seen several unfamiliar backstage workers hired without pay.
• Yu Shuying realized Yuezheng Yao’s band, dancers, support staff, guests, and assistants had not been checked as potential infiltrators.
• The group hurried toward the backstage area, and Si Ming disabled four guards while Murong Qing kept them from raising an alarm.
• Liu Qingqing used Goumang’s divine power to silence approaching Mohist Knight Guard patrols as the others advanced.
• Si Ming had Yu Shuying check the workers in a dressing room, and they found no criminals among the professional staff.
• A heavily made-up woman confronted the group and ordered them out of the backstage area.

At Yuezheng Yao’s concert, Si Ming and Yu Shuying discreetly identified and paralyzed six terrorists before their accomplices realized the plan had been disrupted. The chapter ended as an attacker dropped from a crossbeam and charged Yuezheng Yao, while Qingyan rushed in to intercept him.

• Yu Shuying identified a terrorist controlling the smoke, and Si Ming found him distracted by Yuezheng Yao’s singing.
• Si Ming and Yu Shuying agreed to neutralize the terrorists discreetly, using Si Ming’s Dragon-Elephant Stomp to create openings for Yu Shuying’s poisoned needles.
• The pair paralyzed six workers involved in the plot, but the stage effects failed when the person handling the props could not move.
• The terrorists’ accomplices noticed their plan had been sabotaged and attacked as Yuezheng Yao’s performance reached a climax.
• An attacker leapt from a crossbeam and charged Yuezheng Yao, but Qingyan swept in from the side.

During Yuezheng Yao’s concert, Murong Qing fought a terrorist hidden inside general’s armor while Qingyan attempted to assassinate Yuezheng Yao and discovered her strength was unfathomable. Qingyan abandoned the mission and left with Xia Guanxue, while Murong Qing killed the armored terrorist.

• Qingyan killed a terrorist who attacked him from the beams with a short sword and sleeve dart.
• A terrorist hidden inside general’s armor attacked Yuezheng Yao, and Murong Qing intercepted him as Yuezheng Yao continued performing.
• Qingyan launched a strand of Sword Qi at Yuezheng Yao, but it vanished; after their eyes met, he fled the gymnasium in fear.
• Xia Guanxue told Qingyan the mission had been canceled, and Qingyan agreed to abandon it because Yuezheng Yao was beyond his ability to defeat.
• Murong Qing pierced the armor with an ice-tipped spear and killed the terrorist hiding inside.

After a terrorist was killed onstage during Yuezheng Yao's concert, Si Ming and his companions disguised the crisis as part of the performance while the Mohist Knight Guards secured the attackers. The concert continued, and Si Ming reunited with former teammates Ke Chajing and Hu Jixian, who invited him to join the university martial arts team and bickered over their relationship.

• As the audience mistook the killing for staged action, Si Ming told Murong Qing to keep the performance going with a sword dance, then threw Ying Zhou onstage to spar with her.
• Yuezheng Yao switched to “Saber and Sword Smile,” while Si Ming alerted the venue organizers and they adjusted the program.
• Ke Chajing and Hu Jixian revealed they were Mohist Knight Guards, and Ke Chajing's team arrested the poisoned and paralyzed terrorists.
• Ke Chajing invited Si Ming to join the Linked Mountains University martial arts team and warned him that other students might pursue Murong Qing.
• When Si Ming teased Ke Chajing about her relationship with Hu Jixian, Hu told her she was a good person but they were not right for each other, prompting her to protest.

Murong Qing began university and faced a crowd of boys hoping to confess to her, but she rejected their romantic approach with practical questions and criticism. She left for the girls' dormitory, while the would-be suitors backed off.

• Murong Qing encountered several boys waiting to confess to her on her first day at Linked Mountains University.
• A thin boy read Murong Qing a love letter and waited for her answer.
• Murong Qing questioned the boy about his grades, Internal Cultivation, plans, and achievements, then condemned his lack of drive.
• The other boys abandoned their plans to confess after realizing Murong Qing was a rationalist.
• Murong Qing dragged her luggage into the girls' dormitory, and the senior students hesitated to follow.

Si Ming learned that the Primordial Venerable Sect was targeting him after he disrupted its human-sacrifice plot, so he arranged protection for people close to him. He accompanied Hu Jixian to the martial arts club but found a queue of more than five hundred people outside.

• Si Ming called Yao Bilian and contacted Jiang Zhengtai, Pan De, and the Mohist Knight Guard to watch over his friends and family.
• Si Ming told Hu Jixian he wanted to hear about future activity by the Primordial Venerable Sect so he could help eliminate it.
• Hu Jixian commented on Si Ming's surprising strength, and Si Ming considered resuming practice of the Supreme Plain Decay True Scripture.
• Si Ming and Hu Jixian reached the martial arts club, where a queue of over five hundred people kept them from entering.

Si Ming watched Nie Wanzhi provoke and defeat a succession of freshmen at the martial arts club while he quietly completed his enrollment. The chapter ended with the university’s opening ceremony, where the principal finished his speech to thousands of students.

• Si Ming and Hu Jixian saw Nie Wanzhi challenge students who resented her being admitted to the martial arts club through the back door.
• Nie Wanzhi defeated challengers and provoked the crowd again, drawing more students onto the platform while Si Ming watched.
• Si Ming completed his club enrollment without trouble as Nie Wanzhi continued fighting.
• Thousands of freshmen attended the opening ceremony, where the principal delivered his concluding wishes for the students, teachers, and school.

Si Ming watched Nie Wanzhi defend Murong Qing from vicious gossip, even though she had just criticized her herself. Later, he learned Yuezheng Yao would teach at Linked Mountains University, and he entered a classroom with Hao Shuai only to find Nie Wanzhi sitting there in silence.

• Murong Qing gave a formal speech as Linked Mountains University's freshman representative, drawing criticism from Nie Wanzhi and nearby students.
• When one girl spread cruel rumors about Murong Qing, Nie Wanzhi rebuked her and frightened her into wetting herself with a thunderous shout.
• Teachers scolded Nie Wanzhi, and Murong Qing and Nie Wanzhi became the university's biggest topics of conversation.
• Si Ming declined Hao Shuai's invitation to sign up for Yuezheng Yao's music class, though he agreed to go with him later.
• Si Ming and Hao Shuai entered a quiet classroom and saw Nie Wanzhi sitting among the students.

Si Ming attended his first Ancient Pattern Studies classes, where Nie Wanzhi’s fearsome reputation kept her classmates at a distance, and he became interested in the subject. He then met Murong Qing, Liu Qingqing, Hongdou, and Yu Shuying for lunch, where they described their first days at Linked Mountains University.

• Nie Wanzhi’s classmates avoided sitting beside her, and her glare frightened Hao Shuai after he whispered about her fighting ability.
• Si Ming listened closely to the professor’s lessons on ancient patterns and asked him questions after class, earning book recommendations.
• Hao Shuai invited Si Ming to lunch and offered him a secret manual for picking up girls, but Si Ming declined because he had plans to meet people from home.
• Si Ming met Murong Qing, Liu Qingqing, Hongdou, and Yu Shuying, who shared their impressions of their first classes and chosen majors.
• Murong Qing told Si Ming her classmates had chosen her as class monitor, while Liu Qingqing said her name had again been missed during roll call.

Nie Wanzhi confronted Murong Qing over her forfeited match, and Murong Qing persuaded her to postpone their fight until they could both compete at their best. After Nie Wanzhi left on friendly terms, Yu Shuying asked Si Ming to help with a gang fight that night, while explaining why she had moved onto campus for protection.

• Nie Wanzhi challenged Murong Qing to a fair fight to clear her name after Murong Qing forfeited their national Martial Dao League match.
• Murong Qing and Yu Shuying discussed the risks of public gossip, and Murong Qing asked Nie Wanzhi to wait until they had both adjusted to university life.
• Murong Qing praised Nie Wanzhi's determination, and Nie Wanzhi agreed to arrange a private match later, leaving satisfied.
• Yu Shuying told Si Ming that the Green Snake Gang had arranged a fight with local gangs that night and asked him to help after he had sent Hualiu home.
• Si Ming agreed to assist Yu Shuying, who explained that she was living on campus for safety while the Green Snake Gang consolidated its territory.

Si Ming proposed that the five friends disguise themselves as a Five-Color Team while helping Yu Shuying deal with gangsters. Murong Qing embraced the idea as a chance to become a hero, and the others agreed to help her and Yu Shuying.

• Murong Qing volunteered to help Yu Shuying, and Liu Qingqing and Hongdou joined them.
• Yu Shuying suggested disguises to protect everyone from retaliation, but Si Ming proposed using simple masks instead.
• Si Ming suggested forming a Five-Color Team, and Hongdou, Liu Qingqing, and Yu Shuying agreed to the idea.
• Murong Qing revealed her dream of secretly fighting for justice and asked her friends to help her fulfill it.
• Liu Qingqing, Hongdou, and Yu Shuying agreed to support Murong Qing, with Yu Shuying asking for help against the Green Snake Gang's enemies in return.
• Si Ming reluctantly agreed to join the team, but refused to wear a skintight suit.

Yu Shuying faced a coalition of Linked Mountains City's gangs, which had gathered to stop the Green Snake Gang from expanding. After several subordinates left, she stood her ground as the rival bosses sent three level-eight fighters forward.

• Yu Shuying let frightened subordinates leave, and several departed before she led the rest into the park.
• A balding gang leader mocked Yu Shuying for bringing fewer people, while several rival gangs revealed they had joined forces against her.
• Yu Shuying challenged the rival bosses and rejected their demand that the Green Snake Gang leave Linked Mountains City.
• The Spirit Toad Gang's leader gestured for three level-eight fighters to step forward.

Yu Shuying outmaneuvered the rival gangs with poison, but the fight turned decisively in the Green Snake Gang’s favor when Si Ming and Hongdou arrived. The opposing gangs fled after Hongdou revealed her Peak Spirit Transformation strength.

• The Three Rivers Society, Golden Lion Hall, Axe Gang, and Spirit Toad Gang sent powerful enforcers to challenge Yu Shuying.
• Yu Shuying dodged a swordsman’s attack, poisoned him, and frightened the rival gangs by claiming her followers’ weapons were coated with lethal poison.
• Si Ming arrived and blasted the charging Axe Gang members away with a display of overwhelming force.
• The Spirit Toad Gang’s leader ordered nine experts to seize Yu Shuying, but Hongdou descended and defeated them with a single palm strike.
• The rival gangs recognized Hongdou as a Spirit Transformation expert and fled.

Murong Qing, Si Ming, and Yu Shuying crushed the gangs opposing them and took control of the Axe Gang. Yu Shuying renamed her gang the Azure Flood Dragon Gang, while Liu Qingqing missed her chance to join the fight.

• Murong Qing froze the Axe Gang’s thrown axes and persuaded its members to surrender, including their leader, Diao Bao.
• Si Ming struck down the remaining gangsters, and Yu Shuying crippled the cultivation of the gang leaders and senior members.
• Diao Bao begged Yu Shuying to take him on as a subordinate and offered his knowledge of Linked Mountains City and its underworld.
• Yu Shuying asked Diao Bao for a new gang name and chose the Azure Flood Dragon Gang.
• Liu Qingqing lowered her bow after the fighting ended and decided not to recite her prepared verse.

Murong Qing and her companions founded a student club to help people, debating whether to charge for their services and how to attract requests. They named it the Mutual Aid Society and decided to let word of mouth bring people to them.

• Hongdou described how wearing a mask helped her immerse herself in a character, while Yu Shuying warned the others to avoid publicly associating with her to protect their identities.
• Murong Qing proposed forming a club that would help people for free, and Yu Shuying questioned whether the plan was realistic.
• Si Ming supported the club but suggested charging symbolic fees, and Murong Qing agreed before asking what they should name it.
• Murong Qing completed the club application, and the group received a classroom for their preparatory club.
• Si Ming, Murong Qing, and Liu Qingqing discussed the approved name, Mutual Aid Society, and decided against handing out flyers.

Murong Qing brought the Mutual Aid Society a commission to submit writing to the school journal, and Si Ming decided to spoof romance stories with a tale about a rural wealthy family. The literature club received his manuscript and its members erupted in laughter, leaving them impressed by its bizarre premise.

• Murong Qing told Si Ming that the literature club wanted a romance submission and offered the Mutual Aid Society half a page of advertising in exchange.
• Si Ming came up with a rural wealthy-family romance and began writing it.
• Meng Hao discussed the literature club's lackluster submissions and the importance of making the school journal successful.
• Junior Brother Tao found Si Ming's manuscript and passed it to Meng Hao and the other club members.
• The literature club members read about four wealthy young masters competing for Su Zhangcuihua and laughed at the story.

Si Ming’s anonymous “Rural Wealthy Family” satire became a nationwide sensation, bringing unwanted attention to the Mutual Aid Society. After the society filtered out frivolous requests and resumed its routine, Si Ming attended Yuezheng Yao’s eagerly awaited class with Hao Shuai.

• Meng Hao decided the literature club would publish Murong Qing’s submission and print extra copies.
• Si Ming’s anonymous satire sparked widespread laughter and controversy, earning him the reputation of a romance killer while boosting the Mutual Aid Society’s recognition.
• Students flooded the Mutual Aid Society with requests it would not accept, so Si Ming and the others suspended visits and posted clear aid conditions.
• After a quiet week, Si Ming went to Yuezheng Yao’s class, where Hao Shuai had saved him a seat after skipping other classes.
• Si Ming learned Professor Cheng had taken attendance in advanced mathematics, and Hao Shuai worried about the punishment he might face.

Yuezheng Yao taught her first music class at Linked Mountains University, winning the students’ attention while Si Ming watched her bodyguard, Fifth Uncle. She revealed the introductory portion of the Yuezheng Lineage’s Nine Shao Pitch-Setting Art, and Fifth Uncle held back from stopping her as the lesson continued.

• Yuezheng Yao entered the classroom and asked the students to behave like students rather than fans.
• Hao Shuai promised to defend Yuezheng Yao, but she told him she disliked violence and urged the class to show discipline.
• Si Ming recognized Yuezheng Yao’s bodyguard as Fifth Uncle, the Spirit Transformation expert once defeated by Yan Jinghong.
• Yuezheng Yao taught her prepared lesson and, irritated that Si Ming seemed distracted, offered to reveal her voice-training method.
• Yuezheng Yao wrote the Nine Shao Pitch-Setting Art on the blackboard and recited its introductory instructions while Fifth Uncle hesitated to intervene.

Si Ming mastered the introductory Nine Shao Pitch-Setting Art during class with Yuezheng Yao, then was selected to have lunch with her. On the way, Fifth Uncle revealed that Si Ming knew about Yuezheng Yao’s schemes, prompting her to drop her act and trade barbs with him.

• Si Ming quickly mastered the introductory Nine Shao Pitch-Setting Art and altered his vocal cords.
• Yuezheng Yao ended class by holding a lottery for lunch, and her draw selected Si Ming.
• Yuezheng Yao explained that she wanted to thank Si Ming for helping save her at the concert, while Si Ming stayed wary of her.
• Fifth Uncle revealed that Si Ming knew Yuezheng Yao’s schemes because he had been involved in the attempt to kidnap her older sister.
• Yuezheng Yao dropped her innocent act, called herself naturally beautiful, and accused Si Ming of liking little girls, which he denied.