Recaps

Si Ming faced the transformed Anye Beast King as the Beast King destroyed Righteous Qi Palace’s defensive array and overpowered him. Si Ming summoned the Wheel-Turning King Sword and opened the Thousand Buddhas of the Bhadrakalpa Formation to strengthen his Cultivation Body, but his Buddhist Primal Qi failed to withstand the Beast King’s attack.

• Zheng Jingyuan used the Myriad Tribulations Mystic Light Array to attack the Anye Beast King, who broke the array with the Suanni Bone Saber and left Zheng Jingyuan badly wounded.
• Si Ming taunted the Beast King and challenged him to wait while he completed his own transformation.
• Si Ming and the Beast King unleashed “All Evils Fall Silent, All Wickedness Perishes,” and their Sword Intents clashed in a void that injured both their souls.
• Si Ming summoned the reforged Wheel-Turning King Sword and opened the Thousand Buddhas of the Bhadrakalpa Formation to strengthen his Bodhi Golden Body.
• The Anye Beast King attacked with the Suanni Bone Saber, and Si Ming’s Buddhist Primal Qi was overwhelmed.

Si Ming overwhelmed the Anye Beast King with Tathagata's Indestructible Body, Buddhist techniques, and superior strength. After Si Ming blasted the Beast King's hiding place, he discovered the Beast King had escaped by using the Suanni Bone Saber to mislead his spiritual sense.

• Si Ming used Tathagata's Indestructible Body to withstand the Anye Beast King's Power of Sacred and Evil and countered with devastating palm strikes.
• The Anye Beast King tried to overwhelm Si Ming with rapid saber attacks, but Si Ming evaded them and struck him with hidden force that sent him crashing into a palace.
• Si Ming waited for the Beast King to emerge, then unleashed Heavenly Thunder of Ten Thousand Tribulations into the collapsed palace.
• Si Ming shattered a boulder thrown from the ruins and found only the Suanni Bone Saber, realizing the Anye Beast King had concealed his presence and escaped.
• Si Ming sensed the Beast King was below him.

Si Ming and the Anye Beast King traded ultimate attacks, shattering the formation and splitting Righteous Qi Peak. After the Beast King tried to escape, Yuezheng Yao, Wu Xiu, and Chen Shimi helped cripple him, leaving Si Ming to decide his fate.

• Si Ming and the Anye Beast King clashed with their ultimate techniques, destroying the Thousand Buddhas of the Bhadrakalpa Formation and splitting Righteous Qi Peak.
• The badly injured Beast King revealed that the formation had been broken and claimed his recovery would let him outlast Si Ming.
• The Beast King bound Si Ming with a blood chain and fled, but Si Ming realized the Beast King had already entered his second form.
• Yuezheng Yao used music to immobilize the Beast King briefly, and Wu Xiu poisoned him while explaining her tactic to Murong Wu.
• Chen Shimi severed the Beast King's feet, and the Beast King stopped resisting as Si Ming approached him.
• The Beast King admitted defeat and suggested that Si Ming have Wan Ziqiu kill him instead.

Wan Ziling killed the Anye Beast King with Si Ming’s help, avenging her family, and the group transferred the Beast King’s essence into Liu Qingqing’s Myriad Filth Tainted Blood. Wan Ziling regained her clarity and comforted Wan Ziqiu before her final departure.

• Si Ming revealed that Wan Ziqiu had deliberately drawn the Anye Beast King’s attention as part of a trap, while Wan Ziling stepped forward to claim her revenge.
• Wan Ziling drove Liu Qingqing’s blood blade through the Anye Beast King’s heart as Si Ming restrained him, and she destroyed his life force with the Power of Filth and Extinction.
• The Anye Beast King broke free briefly with a forbidden technique, but Si Ming held him down as Wan Ziling’s strike killed him.
• Si Ming, Wu Xiu, Yuezheng Yao, Si Jingyu, Si Huaruo, Zheng Jingyuan, and Wan Ziqiu helped transfer the Beast King’s essence into Liu Qingqing’s Myriad Filth Tainted Blood.
• Wan Ziling’s obsession faded, and she stroked Wan Ziqiu’s head while telling him to grow up and shoulder his burdens.

Wan Ziling said goodbye to Wan Ziqiu and walked with Si Ming as her Soul Essence began to disperse. She admitted her fear of death and shared a final embrace with Si Ming, then prepared to leave without frightening the ordinary girl sharing her body.

• Wan Ziling told Wan Ziqiu to protect their school, and he promised not to disgrace her or their father.
• Wan Ziling asked Si Ming to walk with her, and they discussed reincarnation and whether they might meet again.
• As her Soul Essence drifted away, Wan Ziling confessed that she was afraid to die and forget her loved ones and Si Ming.
• Si Ming embraced Wan Ziling and promised they would meet again; she said their time together had made her incomplete life feel whole.
• Wan Ziling wiped her tears and said she needed to set an example for the ordinary girl sharing her body, then asked Si Ming for one last favor.

After Si Ming killed the Anye Beast King, he helped the devastated Evil-Slaying Sword School recover and promised to protect it while its members gathered materials for a formation. Zheng Jingyuan discouraged Zhou Anping from pursuing the Beast King's dangerous arts, while Si Ming reflected that the battle had been closer than it appeared and that the Beast King's belief he could return later had cost him the fight.

• Wan Ziqiu mourned the sect leader, then organized battlefield cleanup, medical care, and plans to rebuild the Evil-Slaying Sword School.
• Zheng Jingyuan and Zhou Anping thanked Si Ming, who agreed to stay and guard the sect while it gathered materials for a formation.
• Zhou Anping proposed studying the Beast King's union of sacred and evil powers, but Zheng Jingyuan urged him to pursue Buddhist martial arts instead.
• Zhou Anping said Si Ming's strength gave martial artists a new goal, and Zheng Jingyuan acknowledged the path ahead would be difficult.
• Si Ming privately recognized that the fight had been close and that the Anye Beast King's lack of commitment to risking his life had led to his defeat.

Si Ming met the shy Xie Xiaomei, a girl residing in Liu Qingqing’s body, and tried to learn what she wanted. After she asked him to let her die, he attempted to cheer her up, but each suggestion was rejected because of her mother’s strict rules.

• Si Ming learned that Liu Qingqing could no longer change shape and that the Myriad Filth Tainted Blood was transforming after absorbing the Beast King's origin.
• Liu Qingqing let Xie Xiaomei take control, and Si Ming asked the timid girl about her wish.
• Xie Xiaomei recognized Si Ming as the big brother who had saved her and thanked him.
• Xie Xiaomei asked Si Ming to let her die, leaving him alarmed by her request.
• Si Ming offered candied hawthorn, martial arts, and playing with animals, but Xie Xiaomei rejected each idea by citing her mother's rules.

Si Ming spent several days trying to communicate with Xie Xiaomei while the Evil-Slaying Sword School gathered materials for a formation, then prepared to return home as summer vacation ended. As Wu Xiu began setting up the formation, Si Ming sparred with the Blood Spirit Clone and demonstrated how his swordsmanship had improved after fighting the Beast King.

• Si Ming decided that if he could not reach Xie Xiaomei through conversation, he would take her to the Sea Continent and ask Yu Shuying to use her Mind-Reading Technique.
• Si Ming drove off challengers who tried to exploit the Evil-Slaying Sword School's weakened state, while its disciples gathered the formation materials.
• After waiting two more days, Si Ming decided to return home before the new semester began.
• Wu Xiu began setting up the improved Flesh and Blood Wormhole formation, and Si Ming sparred with the Blood Spirit Clone while others paired off to practice.
• Si Ming used the Beast King's Evil-Slaying Sword Art to overwhelm the Blood Spirit Clone, but she dodged his sweeping attack by turning into a bead of blood and counterattacked.
• Si Ming punched the Blood Spirit Clone into a spray of blood, then admitted that her unusual abilities made her difficult to defeat without an ultimate move.

Si Ming and his companions returned safely from the Barbarian Continent to the Sea Continent, reunited with familiar surroundings, and parted ways for the new semester. At the orphanage, Si Ming found Hongdou lying unconscious on the floor of her studio.

• Si Ming watched his companions spar and reflected that their journey had strengthened them before Wu Xiu gathered everyone to enter the space-time tunnel.
• The group returned safely to the Sea Continent, where Hao Shuai and Yuezheng Yao reflected on the dangers of their journey and Hu Jixian and Ke Chajing discussed her scar.
• Si Ming helped Hu Jixian understand what Ke Chajing wanted, but she decided to keep a faint scar as a reminder of her hardship.
• Si Ming confirmed through Liu Qingqing that Xie Xiaomei was safe, then returned to the orphanage with Murong Wu and Ying Zhou.
• Si Ming found the orphanage unusually quiet and discovered Hongdou lying on the floor of her underground studio.

Si Ming found Hongdou asleep in the doorway, carried her to the kitchen, and cooked her noodles while hearing how she had decided she could sleep anywhere. After Hongdou told him that Auntie Liu wanted to speak with him, he learned that his Three Kingdoms books had sold exceptionally well and was pressed to write the next volume within a month.

• Si Ming found Hongdou asleep in the doorway and discovered that she had simply fallen asleep rather than gone hungry.
• Hongdou explained that she had tried sleeping in the doorway because she reasoned that a bed in her heart meant she could sleep anywhere.
• Si Ming cooked Hongdou noodles, and she told him that Auntie Liu had asked him to call.
• Auntie Liu told Si Ming that the Wei State Arc had sold eight million copies and demanded that he write the Official History Arc within a month.
• Si Ming resisted Auntie Liu's request by quoting Tuo Gewala about never producing extra chapters.

Si Ming refused to resume writing and then learned that the government had enacted a strict Marriage Compatibility Act. Yao Bilian explained the rules and teased him with the possibility of adoption, leaving him holding a form that could spare him government matchmaking if he named a partner.

• Si Ming refused Auntie Liu’s request to write more novels and planned to delay the Official History Arc by splitting it into parts and adding two new arcs.
• Yao Bilian returned home and told Si Ming that the Marriage Compatibility Act would match unmarried people aged twenty or older and impose strict dating rules.
• Yao Bilian explained that the government would match people according to their circumstances and that married women now had to have a child by thirty.
• Yao Bilian teased Si Ming by suggesting he become her adopted son, and Si Ming fled from her advances.
• Yao Bilian gave Si Ming a marriage compatibility form, which let him name an existing partner or describe his ideal match.

Si Ming brought Xie Xiaomei to Yu Shuying, who discovered that Xie Xiaomei’s hidden wish was cruel and might be better left unfulfilled. Si Ming argued that concealing a painful truth could deprive someone of the chance to choose how to live, but he had not yet decided what to do for her.

• Si Ming brought Xie Xiaomei to Yu Shuying and explained that she was controlling Liu Qingqing’s body.
• Yu Shuying read Xie Xiaomei’s thoughts and found that Xie Xiaomei had not fully understood her own wish.
• Yu Shuying told Si Ming that Xie Xiaomei subconsciously believed ending her life might be better than having her wish fulfilled.
• Yu Shuying warned Si Ming that fulfilling Xie Xiaomei’s wish could push her into an abyss, while forcibly purifying her soul would spare him trouble.
• Si Ming compared concealing Xie Xiaomei’s wish to hiding a patient’s serious illness and argued that people deserved the chance to face the truth and fulfill their final wishes.

Si Ming encouraged Xie Xiaomei to embrace the power of Liu Qingqing's body and join the Mutual Aid Society as a hero. The chapter then shifted to Liang Xin bullying a skinny classmate over refusing to help him cheat.

• Si Ming learned that Xie Xiaomei liked martial heroine comics and used her interest to draw her into conversation.
• Si Ming told Xie Xiaomei that he and his friends were student heroes in the Mutual Aid Society, fighting evil in secret.
• Si Ming explained that Xie Xiaomei could use Liu Qingqing's martial arts and invited her to join the team.
• Xie Xiaomei agreed to become a hero and save others.
• Liang Xin and two companions cornered a skinny boy in a storeroom and demanded that he help them cheat on exams.
• Liang Xin hit the boy and ordered him to apologize naked in front of their classmates, then accused him of threatening to expose them to the teacher.

Liang Xin and Liu Fan extorted a scrawny student in a warehouse until Xie Xiaomei burst in with a dramatic masked entrance. Xie Xiaomei ordered them to let the student go, but her nervous voice made Liu Fan doubt her authority.

• Liang Xin slapped and threatened the scrawny boy while Liu Fan pretended to comfort him.
• Liu Fan pressured the boy to pay for the evening and suggested he lie to his parents to get money.
• Liang Xin threatened to make the boy strip and apologize at school if he would not pay.
• Si Ming illuminated Xie Xiaomei and sent a current of air through the warehouse to make her entrance seem imposing.
• Xie Xiaomei told Liang Xin and Liu Fan to let the boy go, but Liu Fan noticed her weak, nervous tone.

Xie Xiaomei celebrated after defeating three bullies, while Si Ming warned their victim that the bullying would likely continue and urged him to protect himself. On the way home, Xie Xiaomei proudly retold the fight and practiced the Air-Splitting Palm, then discussed giving the move a name.

• Liang Xin tried to grab Xie Xiaomei, but she kicked him down after Si Ming told her to strike.
• Xie Xiaomei used the Air-Splitting Palm to knock down Chen Fan and the other student, and Liang Xin pretended to be unconscious.
• After Xie Xiaomei left, Si Ming warned the bullied boy that the students might retaliate and gave him two options for dealing with them.
• Xie Xiaomei excitedly exaggerated the fight as she walked home with Si Ming and practiced the Air-Splitting Palm.
• Xie Xiaomei asked about naming her move, and Si Ming suggested calling it the Pegasus Meteor Fist.

Si Ming discovered that Xie Xiaomei’s fear of Auntie Liu came from being abused by her own mother, who had resented her for being a girl. He and Liu Qingqing were left unsure how to help her face the trauma, and Si Ming wondered whether they could only keep her away from Auntie Liu.

• Si Ming ran into Auntie Liu, who asked him to finish the Official History Arc manuscripts faster, while Liu Qingqing hurried upstairs.
• Si Ming found Xie Xiaomei hiding in a wardrobe and tried to reassure her that Auntie Liu was not dangerous.
• Xie Xiaomei revealed that she wished she had no mother, and Liu Qingqing explained that Xiaomei’s mother had scolded and beaten her because she had not given birth to a son.
• Liu Qingqing regained control of her body after Xie Xiaomei withdrew deep into her consciousness, and Si Ming concluded that her trauma could not be quickly fixed through avoidance alone.

Si Ming and Liu Qingqing enlisted Auntie Liu to help Xie Xiaomei overcome her fear of mothers. After learning that fulfilling Xie Xiaomei’s wish could boost Qingqing’s cultivation, Auntie Liu agreed, and Xie Xiaomei took control of Qingqing’s body, trembling under Auntie Liu’s scrutiny.

• Liu Qingqing asked Si Ming to help Xie Xiaomei learn that a mother did not have to be frightening, and Si Ming reluctantly agreed to confront her trauma.
• Auntie Liu mistook Liu Qingqing and Si Ming’s serious talk for a pregnancy announcement and began discussing their engagement.
• Si Ming explained that Xie Xiaomei’s soul inhabited Qingqing’s body and that they wanted Auntie Liu to help heal her fear of her abusive mother.
• Auntie Liu initially suggested exorcising Xie Xiaomei, but changed her mind after Si Ming explained that helping her would advance Qingqing’s cultivation.
• Liu Qingqing switched places with Xie Xiaomei, who emerged frightened and trembled as Auntie Liu watched her.

Si Ming helped Auntie Liu approach the frightened Xie Xiaomei more gently, and the two gradually grew comfortable with each other over a meal. Auntie Liu invited Xie Xiaomei to a movie, and Si Ming went along to keep her company.

• Auntie Liu’s smile frightened Xie Xiaomei, so Si Ming advised her to act more naturally.
• Si Ming found Xie Xiaomei hiding under the covers and, with Liu Qingqing’s help, coaxed her downstairs.
• Auntie Liu introduced herself and served Xie Xiaomei chicken cutlets and sour plum soup, helping the girl feel less afraid.
• Auntie Liu invited Xie Xiaomei to see a movie, and Xie Xiaomei agreed after Si Ming explained what a movie was.
• Si Ming accompanied Auntie Liu and Xie Xiaomei to the movie, intending to make sure Xie Xiaomei felt safe.

Si Ming accompanied Xie Xiaomei and Auntie Liu to a film and dinner, and Xie Xiaomei discovered how kind an ordinary mother could be. After Si Ming returned to the orphanage, Hongdou insisted that he complete a marriage compatibility form for her.

• Si Ming watched "Spirit Transformation Grandmasters Battle a Million Zombies" with Xie Xiaomei and Auntie Liu, enjoying its spectacular fights despite the audience's complaints.
• Xie Xiaomei eagerly praised the film, and Auntie Liu took her and Si Ming to dinner at Jade Forest House.
• After dinner, Auntie Liu offered Si Ming a place to stay, but he declined and promised to return the next morning.
• Xie Xiaomei told Si Ming that Auntie Liu's ordinary kindness had made their meal feel peaceful and had frightened her because she had never experienced it before.
• Si Ming returned to the orphanage, where Hongdou demanded that he write her name on his marriage compatibility form and complained that Xiao Ying had beaten her to it.

Si Ming watched Auntie Liu grow close to Xie Xiaomei as she braided her hair and explained that she wanted to make up for neglecting Liu Qingqing when she was young. The next day, Si Ming and Xie Xiaomei arrived at an abandoned factory to play at catching criminals, with Liu Qingqing complaining that Si Ming had dragged her along.

• Si Ming told Hongdou he could put her name after Yu Shuying's, and Hongdou agreed so Yu Shuying would not be upset.
• Si Ming visited Liu Qingqing's home and saw Auntie Liu patiently care for a sleepy Xie Xiaomei.
• Auntie Liu told Xie Xiaomei she reminded her of Liu Qingqing as a child and admitted she wanted to make up for neglecting her daughter.
• Auntie Liu braided Xie Xiaomei's hair, and Xie Xiaomei fell asleep against her chest.
• Si Ming and Xie Xiaomei went to an abandoned factory to play at catching criminals, while Liu Qingqing objected to being brought along.

Si Ming, Ying Zhou, and Xie Xiaomei raided a factory to arrest illegal merchants, expecting a dangerous criminal deal. They captured seven sellers of uncensored porn discs, and Si Ming hurried to keep Xie Xiaomei from seeing the covers.

• Ying Zhou agreed to join the raid after Si Ming persuaded him to take a break from cultivation, and Si Ming reminded him to wear a mask and avoid seriously injuring anyone.
• Si Ming, Ying Zhou, and Xie Xiaomei burst into the factory with dramatic entrances, where the merchants attacked them with a thunderbolt bomb.
• Ying Zhou fought through the criminals while Xie Xiaomei stopped one from escaping, and Si Ming helped her subdue him.
• Si Ming tied up all seven criminals and opened their transaction boxes, revealing that they contained uncensored porn discs rather than drugs.
• Xie Xiaomei asked Si Ming about a disc cover, and he told her that children should not look at the discs and called for Qingqing to take over the body.

Si Ming teased Ying Zhou about the discs they had found, then brought Xie Xiaomei home to Liu Qingqing’s apartment and talked with her about Liu Qingqing’s mother. The chapter ended with Si Ming waking Liu Qingqing from her rabbit form so she could answer Xie Xiaomei herself.

• Si Ming joked with Ying Zhou and Liu Qingqing about whether they should watch the discs, and Ying Zhou fled in embarrassment.
• On the way home, Xie Xiaomei asked Si Ming questions about the discs, and he was glad to see her acting more lively.
• At Liu Qingqing’s apartment, Xie Xiaomei searched for Auntie Liu and was disappointed that she was still away at work.
• Before bed, Xie Xiaomei asked Si Ming why Auntie Liu treated her so gently, and Si Ming explained how stern she had once been with Liu Qingqing.
• Si Ming wondered whether Auntie Liu was using Xie Xiaomei as a bridge to become gentler with her daughter, then transformed Liu Qingqing from a rabbit into human form.

Si Ming and Liu Qingqing comforted Xie Xiaomei before watching a love-action film about a female divine constable. Si Ming became absorbed in its crime plot, and the chapter ended with him discovering that Beneath the Eastern Fence had directed, written, and produced it.

• Xie Xiaomei asked whether a mother was supposed to make her child afraid, and Si Ming reassured her before she fell asleep.
• Si Ming and Liu Qingqing left Xie Xiaomei's room and joked about his protective feelings toward her.
• Liu Qingqing brought out a disc called The Female Divine Constable's Tale of Woe, and Si Ming agreed to watch it with her.
• Si Ming followed the heroine's investigation into stolen disaster-relief silver and her efforts to recover it from Flying Sword Manor.
• Si Ming watched the heroine get framed and imprisoned, then became engrossed in how she would turn the situation around.
• After the film ended, Si Ming praised its plot and learned that Beneath the Eastern Fence had directed, written, and produced it.

After watching a wuxia film with Liu Qingqing, Si Ming promised Auntie Liu he would put Liu Qingqing's name on his marriage compatibility form. Liu Qingqing admitted she preferred relying on someone she trusted, and Si Ming reassured her before joking that he wanted both her and Murong Qing.

• Si Ming and Liu Qingqing watched The Female Divine Constable's Tale of Woe, while Auntie Liu arrived and asked Si Ming about his intentions toward her daughter.
• Si Ming promised Auntie Liu he would put Liu Qingqing's name on his marriage compatibility form, and Liu Qingqing said she agreed with him taking the initiative.
• Liu Qingqing explained that she followed her mother's wishes and preferred being a vine who relied on a strong tree, rather than an independent kapok tree.
• Si Ming told Liu Qingqing that neither way of living was inherently right or wrong, and joked that he would grow strong enough to support her.
• Liu Qingqing wrapped Si Ming in tentacles and asked whether he preferred her or Murong Qing; Si Ming declared that he wanted both.
• Auntie Liu came back downstairs and found Si Ming still at her house.

Si Ming and Liu Qingqing spent the day with Xie Xiaomei, whose bond with Auntie Liu had grown closer, until a late-night episode left Xie Xiaomei crying after brief signs of Vengeful Transformation. Si Ming rushed to help but realized his planned technique could not be used on the Sea Continent, leaving him with no clear solution.

• Auntie Liu left for an overnight shift, and Liu Qingqing told Si Ming she felt moved by seeing her mother care for Xie Xiaomei.
• Si Ming took Xie Xiaomei to patrol and visit the zoo, then returned to the orphanage after dinner.
• A late-night call told Si Ming that something had happened to Xie Xiaomei, and he raced to Liu Qingqing's home.
• Liu Qingqing explained that Xie Xiaomei's eyes had briefly glowed red and wounds had appeared and healed, but Xie Xiaomei now sat crying and would not respond.
• Si Ming tried to use a technique to treat Xie Xiaomei, then remembered it could not work on the Sea Continent and asked whether Liu Qingqing had tried pulling her hands away.