Recaps

Si Ming and Si Huaruo set out on their first date after Si Jingyu teased them and promised not to interfere. They spent the morning shopping together and headed to a famous snack street for lunch.

• Si Huaruo found Si Jingyu in Si Ming's room and accused her of trying to ruin their date.
• Si Huaruo challenged Si Jingyu to a duel, but Si Jingyu used her Spirit Transformation cultivation to dismiss the challenge and sent Si Ming off with Si Huaruo.
• Si Jingyu warned Si Huaruo to exercise restraint on the date, embarrassing her until Si Ming took her hand and hurried them away.
• Si Huaruo kept checking whether Si Jingyu was following them, then linked arms with Si Ming and enjoyed their stroll through shops and a park.
• When Si Huaruo could not choose what to eat, Si Ming took her to a famous snack street to sample its specialties.

Si Ming and Si Huaruo explored a food street before visiting the Dream Illusion Hall, where customers used talisman arrays to experience guided dreams. Si Huaruo tried a gourmet dream, but her strong cultivation kept her awake until Si Ming suppressed her divine soul; Si Ming stayed beside her bed and refused to try the service himself.

• Si Ming and Si Huaruo sampled street food and admired the martial skill behind the vendors’ cooking.
• Si Ming noticed the Dream Illusion Hall’s concealed erotic-dream service as the owner explained the guided-dream options.
• Si Huaruo questioned the limits of dream illusions and criticized the owner’s method of simulating experiences.
• Si Huaruo chose a gourmet dream, but the talisman array could not overcome her cultivation and will.
• Si Ming suppressed Si Huaruo’s divine soul so the illusion could take effect, then waited beside her while she slept.
• Si Ming refused the owner’s invitation to try a dream and sent away the attendant who supplied True Qi.

Si Ming and Si Huaruo spent the day together after her dream was ruined by an imagined appearance from Si Jingyu, then enjoyed an expertly prepared fish and attended a stage play. Si Huaruo praised Su State’s bold, open theater and the actors’ quick improvisation as they left the performance.

• Si Huaruo awoke angry after dreaming that Si Jingyu warned her she would become fat and took Si Ming away from her.
• Si Ming took Si Huaruo to dinner, where they admired the skill behind the Qilin Star Restaurant’s roasted black carp.
• Si Ming and Si Huaruo went to the Linked Mountains City Grand Art Theater, where Si Huaruo watched the performance closely.
• Si Huaruo praised Su State’s theater as more open and compelling than the traditional theater of the Nation of Beauty.
• Si Huaruo recounted how the actors improvised when the backdrop fell, convincing the audience that the accident was part of the play.

After Si Ming and Si Huaruo created a spectacular display of sword fire and ice atop the Radio and Television Tower, both gained insights into their martial arts. Si Huaruo entered seclusion at the Dinghu Sect’s blessed grotto, while Si Ming began a public campaign about the dangers of cooperating with tigers to prepare people for the weakening Eternal Barrier.

• Si Ming carried Si Huaruo up the Radio and Television Tower and showed her the city at night.
• Si Ming used his sword art to summon a huge flame dragon, and Si Huaruo added ice that burst into sparkling fireworks.
• Si Ming realized that two sword moves could merge into a new move, while Si Huaruo realized Spirit Transformation had become easier and decided to enter seclusion.
• Si Ming took Si Huaruo to the Dinghu Sect’s blessed grotto so she could cultivate.
• Si Ming launched a public opinion campaign warning people against asking a tiger for its skin, hoping to counter the Remote Heaven Society’s influence.

The Second Martial Arts Club announced its twelve-person roster for the National Youth Martial Dao League, then faced objections over Si Shuiyun’s place and the selection process. Ke Chajing silenced the protesting student before he could continue.

• Ke Chajing brought Si Ming to the Second Martial Arts Club and explained the national competition’s roster and match rules.
• Ke Chajing introduced Tai Gu, Jiang Tingting, and Zeng Aniu, and the club announced its twelve-person roster, including Si Shuiyun and Si Ming.
• A student objected to Si Shuiyun competing as a foreigner, but Ke Chajing showed that she had become a Su State citizen and Hu Jixian defended her eligibility.
• The student then challenged the roster as an unfair internal selection and called for an open process, while Si Ming warned him that hitting people could hurt.
• Ke Chajing ordered the crowd to be quiet and glared the protesting student into silence.

Ke Chajing and the Second Martial Arts Club removed outspoken dissenters, then opened its roster to fair challenges. As members began competing for places, Ke Chajing asked Si Ming to represent the club at the Martial Dao League draw, where a test would rank the teams.

• Ke Chajing declared the Second Martial Arts Club a private club, and Si Ming and the others threw out students who protested or disrupted the meeting.
• Ke Chajing announced that students could challenge the twelve selected competitors, while Hu Jixian limited each competitor to two challenges a day for three days.
• Si Jingyu explained to Si Ming that she had advised Ke Chajing to use the selection process to expose and remove people seeking to undermine the club.
• The students spent the morning arguing over challenge rules, then organized internal contests; Liu Qingqing defeated a speed-focused challenger in under a minute.
• Ke Chajing asked Si Ming to represent the club at the Martial Dao League draw, explaining that the host tested representatives to rank teams and separate strong contenders.

On the train, Si Ming observed Si Jingyu practicing a rare method that condensed essence, Qi, and spirit without wasting energy. She explained that it required the Water Moon Precious Mirror’s highest state of mind, Clear Mirror and Still Water, which Si Ming could not grasp.

• Si Ming cultivated with vacuum zero-point energy while Si Jingyu watched him in her role as his maid.
• Si Jingyu showed Si Ming how she had gathered her essence, Qi, and spirit into a pill-like state between life and death.
• Si Ming tried to imitate her method, but repeatedly exhausted his True Qi because he relied on force to condense the three elements.
• Si Jingyu explained that Clear Mirror and Still Water allowed the three elements to condense naturally, and described how she had reached the state through her other cultivation arts.
• Si Ming failed to understand the state of mind and decided that cultivating his body suited him better.

Si Ming and Si Jingyu encountered a train robbery, but a young man named Fang Hong transformed into an ape monster and attacked them. Si Jingyu knocked him unconscious, and the injured young woman accompanying him accused her of going too far.

• Si Ming and Si Jingyu heard an explosion and learned that robbers had attacked the train.
• They found that several youthful experts had already subdued the robbers, but Fang Hong transformed into an ape monster after losing control.
• Fang Hong hurled an injured young woman into the next carriage and charged at Si Ming and Si Jingyu.
• Si Jingyu redirected Fang Hong's punch into the floor and struck him through the roof, knocking him unconscious.
• Fang Hong returned to human form, and the injured young woman examined him before telling Si Jingyu that she had gone too far.

Si Ming reunited with Tao Chengsi after helping stop a train robbery, then learned that Tao’s school was testing unstable methods to activate special bloodlines. The chapter ended with Si Ming questioning whether a contestant who could lose control like the ape monster should be allowed into the martial arts competition.

• Si Jingyu offered to punish a woman who had complained, but Tao Chengsi’s arrival eased the tension after the robbery.
• Si Ming and Tao Chengsi caught up and discussed their universities’ missions to attend the draw at Earth Emperor University.
• Tao Chengsi guessed that Si Ming had returned to a great family, and Si Ming vaguely agreed while Tao privately speculated about his status.
• Tao Chengsi explained that the Bloodline Research Institute was testing ways to activate special bloodlines, though its results remained unstable.
• Si Ming asked whether International Union Academy should enter a contestant who might lose control like the ape monster.

Tao Chengsi demonstrated how his wind-controlling bloodline behaved when it went out of control, while Si Ming considered the limits and potential of bloodline abilities. Si Ming and Si Jingyu arrived at Earth Emperor University for the National Martial Dao League draw, where Si Ming met familiar competitors and saw Spirit Transformation expert Wei Mengchen take the stage.

• Tao Chengsi explained that his air-current bloodline caused little danger when uncontrolled, then demonstrated its destructive wind and told Si Ming about his bloodline trait.
• Si Jingyu objected to Tao Chengsi revealing his team's secrets, while Si Ming promised to keep them confidential and reflected that martial arts could replicate many bloodline abilities.
• Si Ming and Si Jingyu reached Earth Emperor University and followed a student guide to Shennong Grand Auditorium for the league draw.
• Si Ming greeted Liang Fan and the Song sisters, then spoke awkwardly with Liang Fan while waiting for the briefing.
• Wei Mengchen took the stage and was introduced as Earth Emperor University's newly advanced Spirit Transformation expert; Si Ming snorted at his admirers and claimed the world could not accommodate two peerlessly handsome men.

Si Ming mocked Wei Mengchen during Earth Emperor University's gathering, then learned the Martial Dao League's seeded-team draw would be decided by a mountain search. While exploring campus, he met a gifted painter whose strength led Si Ming to suspect he practiced Super Martial Dao, leaving him eager for a more interesting competition.

• Si Ming teased Wei Mengchen by claiming he was more beautiful than Duke Wei, derailing the host's prepared speech and amusing the crowd.
• Wei Mengchen explained that representatives would search the mountain for numbered tags to determine their competition brackets, then announced lodging and a party.
• Si Jingyu handled the arrangements while Si Ming wandered Earth Emperor University and found a student painting a maid in a bamboo grove.
• Si Ming and the painter initially connected over art and maids, but fell out over whether a maid should be flat or voluptuous.
• Si Ming told Si Jingyu that the painter seemed stronger than Wei Mengchen and might cultivate Super Martial Dao, and said the tournament now seemed more interesting.

During the number-tag test at Earth Emperor University's rear mountain, Si Ming and Si Jingyu were challenged by contestants from other universities. Si Jingyu effortlessly dispelled Meng Meng’s staff attack, while he prepared to use his ultimate move against her.

• Si Ming and Si Jingyu discussed whether bloodline abilities might come from Super Martial Dao research, then decided to investigate and focus on the evening test.
• The representatives entered the rear mountain to search for seven glowing number tags, and Si Ming found the tag marked nine in a nearby tree.
• Jin Fengjing of Heavenly Black University attacked Si Ming to take his tag, while Meng Meng blocked Si Jingyu from intervening.
• Si Jingyu brushed aside Meng Meng’s staff shadows with a turn of her fan and revealed an overwhelming presence.
• Meng Meng steadied himself and unleashed his ultimate move, “Heaven Spins, Earth Shatters!”

Si Jingyu defeated Meng Meng while Si Ming outmaneuvered Jin Fengjing, ending the fight between the teams from Linked Mountains University and Heavenly Black University. After learning about Heavenly Black University’s stronger members, Si Ming and Si Jingyu considered what to do next with their numbered tag secured.

• Si Jingyu deflected Meng Meng’s attacks and sent him flying with a palm strike.
• Si Ming evaded Jin Fengjing’s rapid attacks, then used her predictable ultimate move to throw her into the air.
• Meng Meng stopped Jin Fengjing from continuing the fight, and the two asked Si Ming and Si Jingyu for their names.
• Si Ming introduced himself as “Mad Ink,” while Si Jingyu declined to give her name and explained she was not competing in the Martial Dao League.
• Meng Meng led Jin Fengjing away to find another numbered tag, and Si Jingyu told Si Ming that Heavenly Black University’s strongest members were Dong Hanwen and Xiang Donglai.
• Si Ming examined the numbered tag they had obtained and asked Si Jingyu what they should do next.

Si Jingyu confronted a coalition of contestants who had gathered to plan an ambush against Linked Mountains University. She overwhelmed them with her Spirit Transformation-level skill and left them reeling.

• Si Ming and Si Jingyu agreed to conceal themselves on the mountain and take numbered plaques from contestants they encountered.
• Tong Zhantang handed his plaque to Bai Xiangyu and stayed behind to hold off pursuers, but Si Jingyu soon intercepted Bai Xiangyu and took the plaque.
• Bai Xiangyu and contestants from three other teams gathered to plan how to reclaim plaques from Linked Mountains University.
• The contestants began plotting an ambush when Si Jingyu appeared and announced that she had come to eliminate them.
• Si Jingyu dodged their attacks and struck the group with Fuxi Phoenix Comes, then redirected Bai Xiangyu's Surging Waves Palm into another contestant.

Si Jingyu defeated the contestants who attacked her, including Tong Zhantang, Chu Yunlong, Li Yunfei, and Bai Xiangyu’s group, while protecting Wei Mengchen. After Li Yunfei mistook her for Murong Qing, she hinted that she would stop holding back; the chapter then shifted to the lot-drawing test, where Si Ming unexpectedly collected five number tags and the organizers called a meeting.

• Si Jingyu reflected Tong Zhantang’s finger blasts back at him, then defeated Chu Yunlong by evading his area attack and tapping an acupoint on his chest.
• Si Jingyu dodged Li Yunfei’s saber and used hidden finger Qi through her fan to make him collapse after eight clashes.
• Bai Xiangyu and three contestants attacked Si Jingyu together, but Countercurrent Divine Gang sent strikes back at them and left them badly injured.
• Li Yunfei identified Si Jingyu as Murong Qing, and she warned the group that she had been too gentle.
• At the lot-drawing test, the Earth Emperor University referee saw that Si Ming held five number tags and hurried off to consult the organizers.

Si Ming resisted Earth Emperor University's effort to reclaim four of his number plates and bargained for a spar with the mysterious Shan Gu. Their fight began before a crowd of astonished spectators.

• Si Ming drew attention and envy for his strength and for Si Jingyu, while Meng Meng confirmed she would not enter the Martial Dao League.
• Earth Emperor University asked Si Ming to give up four of his five number plates, but he refused and demanded a spar with a student of his choosing.
• Si Ming identified the student as the distinctive young man who had painted Si Jingyu, and Earth Emperor University agreed to the condition.
• Shan Gu introduced himself and accepted Si Ming's challenge, while the two joked about their reasons for fighting.
• Si Ming opened the match with a dazzling sword technique that stirred a tornado of cutting Qi blades and shocked the spectators.

Si Ming tested Shan Gu’s strength in a devastating duel, then confirmed that Shan Gu could control Super Martial Dao’s effects. Back at the hotel, Si Jingyu explained her view of intimacy to Si Ming, leaving their relationship at the point of her proposal for spiritual union.

• Si Ming unleashed Wind Sweeps the Ten Directions, Riding the Dragon, but Shan Gu blocked it with Extremely High Potential Barrier and struck him back.
• Si Ming conceded the fight, agreed to pay for the ruined arena, and selected a number nine while returning the other four tags.
• Earth Emperor University’s martial arts club president tried to recruit Shan Gu, while Si Ming concluded that Shan Gu’s Super Martial Dao had made him reclusive rather than violent.
• Si Ming returned to his hotel room and found Si Jingyu waiting in the large bed, ready to warm it as his maid.
• Si Jingyu told Si Ming that blood ties belonged to the flesh and described spiritual union as the highest form of intimacy.

Si Ming and Si Jingyu practiced the ancient spiritual union method, the Phoenix Comes to Fill the Music Scripture, and overcame a surge of instinctive desire before their souls and True Qi joined. As the union continued, their feelings and memories began to fade, leaving Si Jingyu in sorrow that soon ebbed away.

• Si Jingyu explained that their bodies were suited to soul cultivation and proposed that she and Si Ming practice spiritual union.
• Si Jingyu gave Si Ming the Phoenix Comes to Fill the Music Scripture and its annotations, and he mastered the method after reading them.
• Si Ming and Si Jingyu sent out their soul bodies and intertwined their soul power and True Qi through the scripture.
• Their bloodline instincts stirred up lust, but Si Ming suppressed his Qi and blood until Si Jingyu regained control.
• They resumed spiritual union, and their memories and intense feelings gradually faded as Si Jingyu's sorrow also passed.

Si Ming and Si Jingyu’s spiritual union elevated their cultivation and blended the traits of their soul bodies, helping Si Ming discover and remove the lingering influence of the Super Martial Dao. After they ended their union, they compared what they had gained and prepared to return home.

• Si Ming and Si Jingyu’s intertwined souls reached a shared state of understanding the cycle of heaven and earth, and their soul bodies exchanged the traits of the Glazed Pure Body and Divine Firmament Soul Body.
• A lodging attendant interrupted them, and Si Ming and Si Jingyu ended their spiritual union, reluctant to leave the profound state they had experienced.
• Si Ming examined his purified soul and realized the Super Martial Dao’s side effects still fueled his desires, so he used Evil-Slaying Sword Intent to clear the corruption.
• Si Ming and Si Jingyu compared their cultivation gains, including breakthroughs in internal cultivation and newly accessible techniques.
• Si Ming and Si Jingyu agreed to put on their clothes and return home after completing their task.

Si Ming used two fingers to defeat four challengers, and the Second Martial Arts Club replaced Hao Shuai on its competition roster. While the team competed without him, Si Ming cultivated at school and later advised Hao Shuai about his breakup, leaving him to consider what had attracted his girlfriend to him.

• Si Ming defeated three challengers with the Finger-Snap Divine Art and threw the fourth from the martial arts hall using only two fingers.
• The Second Martial Arts Club replaced Hao Shuai with Wang Jinchao, who had beaten him fairly with the Horse-Toppling Flying Stake.
• Si Ming stayed at school while the team went to Earth Emperor University, spending time with Murong Qing, Hongdou, and Si Jingyu while continuing to cultivate.
• Hao Shuai came to Si Ming drunk and asked why his girlfriend wanted to break up despite his doing everything for her.
• Si Ming told Hao Shuai that catering to his girlfriend was not enough and asked him to identify the qualities that had attracted her.

After advising Hao Shuai to focus on cultivation, Si Ming continued improving his own strength and learned that the International Union Academy’s Bloodline Research Institute was studying a Super Martial Dao technique called the Dual-Polarity Box-Breaking True Scripture. The scripture could grant formidable abilities but reduced its practitioners’ intelligence, and Si Ming traveled toward Earth Emperor University with Murong Qing after the Second Martial Arts Club reached the top eight.

• Si Ming told Hao Shuai that he had lost his girlfriend because he had failed to develop his martial arts strength, and Hao Shuai vowed to cultivate until he became a Grandmaster.
• Hao Shuai spent the following days training while Si Ming’s cultivation efficiency increased by about thirty percent after his communion of spirits.
• Si Ming reflected on Internal Cultivation bottlenecks and how he had overcome earlier ones through fortuitous encounters and dual cultivation.
• After the Second Martial Arts Club made the top eight, Si Ming set out for Earth Emperor University with Murong Qing and received intelligence about the Bloodline Research Institute.
• Si Ming learned that the Dual-Polarity Box-Breaking True Scripture aimed to master the strong and weak nuclear forces and described a powerful temporary form.
• Si Ming learned that practitioners of the scripture suffered reduced intelligence, so scholars were studying the affected test subjects to devise a safer alternative.

Si Ming reunited with the injured Second Martial Arts Club before their opening match in the National Martial Dao League and arranged the lineup to give his teammates time to recover. At the arena, he encountered Lian Buqi, an old opponent who still resented him, just before the team’s match against the Kunlun Martial Alliance.

• Si Ming and Murong Qing arrived at Earth Emperor University and learned that the Second Martial Arts Club’s members had been injured in earlier bouts.
• Si Ming examined Nie Wanzhi’s lingering internal injury and recommended that she sit out while Si Shuiyun contacted Si Jingyu for treatment.
• Si Ming assigned himself and Murong Qing to the first and third bouts, with Liu Qingqing and Si Shuiyun taking the doubles match.
• At the crowded arena, Si Ming noticed a hostile young man who threatened to repay an old humiliation.
• Murong Qing identified the young man as Lian Buqi, whom Si Ming had beaten at the Youth Martial Arts Tournament; Ke Chajing explained that the team’s next opponent was the Kunlun Martial Alliance, followed by International Union Academy.

Si Ming faced Sima Liang, a fellow disciple of the Dinghu Sect, in the National Youth Martial Dao League quarterfinals. Their conversation revealed Sima Liang’s mixed feelings about Si Ming’s reputation and his own hopes of becoming sect leader, before the two prepared to fight in a library venue.

• Si Ming agreed that Murong Qing could seek a match against Lian Buqi if they advanced to face International Union Academy.
• Si Ming met Sima Liang, a Dinghu Sect disciple who recognized him as Yan Jinghong’s personal disciple and addressed him as Martial Uncle.
• Si Ming explained why he had never visited the Dinghu Sect, while privately wondering whether Yan Jinghong had a conflict with it.
• Sima Liang recalled fearing that Si Ming would compete for the sect leadership, but came to believe Si Ming considered that ambition beneath him.
• The referee urged Si Ming and Sima Liang to begin, and they drew a library as their match venue.

Si Ming decisively defeated Sima Liang in the competition, exposing the gap between their abilities. After conceding, Sima Liang abandoned his doubts and decided to support his Martial Uncle, then began defending Si Ming to his teammates.

• Si Ming outmaneuvered Sima Liang, countered his Drought God Palm, and forced him to concede.
• Sima Liang's teammates accused him of going easy on Si Ming and hurting the Kunlun Martial Alliance's reputation.
• Sima Liang insisted that Si Ming had overwhelmingly outclassed him and said he would cling to his Martial Uncle's support.
• Sima Liang told his teammates they did not know Si Ming's past record and asked Xie Xiangxiang to explain what had happened the night of the draw.

Sima Liang revealed Si Ming’s reputation to the Kunlun Martial Alliance, but Linked Mountains University defeated them 3:0. Si Ming warned the Glacier Martial Arts School about the International Union Academy before the Glacier team prepared to fight for a place in the semifinals.

• Sima Liang told his teammates that Si Ming was the famed Mad Ink, and the Kunlun Martial Alliance’s elder rallied the team by urging them to fight aggressively against Linked Mountains University.
• Si Shuiyun and Liu Qingqing won the second match, and Murong Qing overwhelmed her opponent in the third, giving Linked Mountains University a 3:0 victory.
• Ke Chajing and Si Ming discussed Murong Qing’s likely rise to fame, and Si Ming reminded her that her accomplishments could inspire the nation.
• Si Ming warned Liang Fan that the International Union Academy’s martial art could drive practitioners mad, especially Lian Buqi, and advised him to consider conceding if necessary.
• The Glacier Martial Arts School weighed its chances in the quarterfinals and resolved to fight for a place in the semifinals despite being an underdog.