Recaps

Xiao Xuan escaped after Si Ming’s ultimate move broke his chains, then reunited with Ling Huanxi and explained that he had overcome his heart demon and planned to repay kindness and vengeance. Three hours later, Xiao Xuan returned with the captured fox woman, and Si Ming began questioning her about the demon attack.

• Si Ming realized Xiao Xuan had guided him into using his ultimate move to destroy the black iron chains and rushed to warn Ling Huanxi and Murong Qing that Xiao Xuan was breaking free.
• Xiao Xuan emerged from the mountain, told Ling Huanxi she was free, and explained that he had never been ill and had overcome his heart demon with help from Third Brother.
• Xiao Xuan said he planned to repay kindness and vengeance, while Ling Huanxi said she would consult Third Brother before deciding what to do.
• Murong Qing asked whether the Demon Race had come to rescue Xiao Xuan, and he denied knowing the demons or coordinating with them before taking the unconscious fox woman to interrogate her.
• Three hours later, Xiao Xuan returned with the frightened fox woman, and Si Ming learned that the East Sea Demon King had ordered the attack.

Si Ming and Murong Qing learned that the Demon Race had a human collaborator, while Xiao Xuan kept the fox woman for further questioning and gave them powerful cultivation gifts. After Xiao Xuan left, Ling Huanxi prepared to return, and Si Ming and Murong Qing headed home, where Si Ming suddenly remembered the Mohist School Profound Armor he had forgotten.

• Si Ming questioned the fox woman and learned that the demons had traveled inland at night, while Murong Qing suspected a human had guided them around populated areas.
• Xiao Xuan decided to take the fox woman away for further interrogation because the Demon Race had collaborators within the country.
• Xiao Xuan gave Si Ming nuclear essence sealed in ice crystal and fused thousand-year profound ice into Murong Qing's Moon God's Tear.
• Xiao Xuan left with the fox woman, and Ling Huanxi said she would return to her post while Si Ming and Murong Qing set off for home.
• On the train, Si Ming remembered the Mohist School Profound Armor and clutched his bald head in dismay.

Si Ming and Murong Qing reunited with the masked Liu School disciple who had been searching for the treasure map and returned Murong Qing’s Time Wheel Meter. After exchanging the items, Si Ming deduced the woman’s connection to Yaozu Jewelry and discovered how his earlier fight had injured her.

• The masked woman boarded Si Ming and Murong Qing’s train and demanded the treasure map back.
• Murong Qing agreed to return the map in exchange for the Dragon Diagram Time Wheel Meter, and the woman handed it over with a Yaozu VIP card.
• Si Ming reasoned that the woman was likely a member of the Zu family, and she invited him to visit Yaozu if he wanted to sell the meter.
• The masked woman reclaimed the map and blamed Si Ming for injuring her hand, which had caused her to fall from the train and use a hang glider.
• The woman jabbed Si Ming’s wrist to punish him, but her fingers bounced off his hardened body.

Murong Qing confronted two thieves who had attacked her with poisoned needles and acid, defeating them with her improved Glacier Divine Art. She affirmed that standing stubbornly for justice was worthwhile and left the thieves subdued.

• Murong Qing sensed and dodged two plum blossom darts, then recognized the old man and dowdy woman who had previously fought her and Si Ming.
• The thieves attacked Murong Qing with poisoned needles and acid, but she deflected the needles and froze the acid with her Glacier True Qi.
• Murong Qing evaded the old man's heavy cane and struck Guihua beneath the arm with her icy sword fingers, leaving her unable to move.
• The old man slipped on ice Murong Qing had formed on the floor, and she struck his Yintang acupoint and pinned him down.
• Murong Qing picked up the acid bottle and declared that more people should stand for justice so that thieves like them would behave.

Murong Qing punished two suspected thieves with a technique that would hinder their martial arts, then thanked Si Ming for helping her grow during their journey. Si Ming returned to the orphanage, where Liu Qingqing greeted him with an archery trick and noticed he had grown taller.

• Murong Qing rejected the old man's demand to be handed over to the police and argued that she would enforce justice herself when the law failed.
• Murong Qing placed Bone-Clinging Cold Needles in the old man's and the woman's knees, warning them that circulating True Qi would trigger pain and hinder them from harming others.
• Murong Qing returned to Si Ming and thanked him for guiding her during their two-month journey.
• Si Ming arrived at the orphanage and caught a chalk-tipped arrow Liu Qingqing had fired at him.
• Liu Qingqing struck Si Ming's bald head with a Soundless Arrow, then rubbed his head and concluded that he had grown six centimeters.
• Liu Qingqing told Si Ming that her archery instructor had praised her talent for Soundless Arrow, though she was otherwise only slightly better than an ordinary archer.

Si Ming returned home after training and reunited with Yao Bilian, Hongdou, and Lu Mao, then learned that Ying Zhou had gotten a girlfriend. On his way to school with Liu Qingqing, Si Ming worried that the relationship might threaten Ying Zhou’s progress, but Liu Qingqing reassured him that the romance had only just begun.

• Si Ming came home and endured Yao Bilian’s teasing welcome, including her joke about her underwear.
• Hongdou commented on colors, and Si Ming found Lu Mao cooking after he had returned from the Su Kingdom with an advanced chef qualification.
• Yao Bilian told Si Ming that Ying Zhou was with his girlfriend, shocking him because Ying Zhou had kept the relationship secret.
• Si Ming went to school with Liu Qingqing after missing the first two days of classes while training, and learned he was in the same class as her and Murong Qing.
• Liu Qingqing explained that Ying Zhou’s girlfriend had confessed on the first day of school and that he had agreed after her persistence, easing Si Ming’s immediate concerns.

Si Ming settled into the idea of starting school and admired Tange No. 1 Middle School’s uniforms with Liu Qingqing. After classmates saw him arrive with Liu Qingqing and Murong Qing, they spread rumors that the three had skipped class together because of a romance, and Si Ming discussed Murong Qing’s chances of becoming class president before someone familiar approached his desk.

• Liu Qingqing pointed out two elementary school students breaking up, and Si Ming realized his discomfort about his younger brother’s romance came from feeling left behind.
• Si Ming admired Tange No. 1 Middle School’s uniforms and complimented Liu Qingqing, who returned the compliment without showing much reaction.
• Si Ming and Liu Qingqing arrived in class, where classmates noticed them and connected their earlier absence to Murong Qing’s greeting.
• Si Ming told Murong Qing that the rumors might help her popularity and chances of becoming class president, then teased her about her appearance in the uniform.
• Murong Qing blushed and returned to her seat, and a black-gloved hand pressed down on Si Ming’s desk as a familiar voice addressed him.

Si Ming watched his classmates compete for class committee positions and learned that serving earned Chivalry Points, which governed access to offensive martial arts. After reviewing Tange No. 1 Middle School’s martial arts textbook, he realized he would need classes and sufficient authorization to learn many techniques.

• Si Ming welcomed Chen Shimi back and offered to help him study and share lunch, then learned from the class list that Chen Shimi’s original name was Chen Simi.
• The students eagerly contested the class committee positions, and Murong Qing narrowly won class monitor while the entrance-exam top scorer became study representative.
• Chen Shimi won nine votes and placed third in the class monitor election, while Si Ming chose not to run because committee duties were demanding and he already had enough Chivalry Points.
• Si Ming reviewed the school’s rules on Chivalry Points and learned they determined which offensive martial arts and weapons people were authorized to access.
• Si Ming read Tange No. 1 Middle School’s martial arts textbook, noted its featured techniques and teachers, and concluded he would need classes to learn the techniques fully before the school day ended.

Si Ming returned to Weiyang Hall and learned that a challenger had come to fight the school martial arts team. As the match began in the hall’s free-combat arena, he realized the challenge involved a private school.

• Xia Guanxue told Si Ming that special-admission students had to train with the school martial arts team, and offered to lead him to Weiyang Hall.
• Xia Guanxue said he had won the Youth Martial Arts Tournament and would take the school martial arts team's entrance test.
• Si Ming entered Weiyang Hall and found the team gathered in a tense circle, but Captain Ke Chajing merely acknowledged him.
• Tao Chengsi explained that a private school had challenged the team at its own hall.
• The team members set up the free-combat arena, where two people took their places in a bamboo grove.

Si Ming watched Qian Yu fight He Qichang, who revealed a powerful Demon Blade technique and defeated him despite being driven into a dangerous position. Ke Chajing then sent Si Ming to face He Qichang, leaving him ready to make his entrance and defend the school team's honor.

• Qian Yu opened with calligraphy-based brush techniques, but He Qichang repeatedly interrupted his attacks with precise saber strikes.
• Si Ming recognized He Qichang's apparent Eight Trigrams Form-Intent Saber, and Qian Yu used the formation's eye to force He Qichang back.
• He Qichang unleashed Demon Blade: Rushing Thunder and turned the fight around, holding his saber at Qian Yu's neck and winning the match.
• Ke Chajing rejected a teammate's offer to fight and, after Hu Jixian warned that He Qichang was still holding back, called Si Ming to the field.
• Si Ming accepted the challenge and stepped forward to face He Qichang.

Xia Guanxue took the arena challenge against He Qichang and fought him to a tense stalemate, showing skill with the Linked Mountains Sword Art. After they exchanged painful blows and paused to recover, Tao Chengsi identified Xia Guanxue’s sword art.

• Xia Guanxue asked Ke Chajing whether defeating the current opponent would count as passing the school team’s entrance test, and she let him take the arena.
• Si Ming was disappointed when Xia Guanxue stepped in before he could show off.
• Xia Guanxue and He Qichang began a fierce exchange, with Xia defending against He’s dual blades and gradually gaining the advantage.
• He Qichang unleashed Demon Blade: Torrent, but Xia Guanxue raised successive stone walls with Primordial Gen Raises a Lofty Mountain to stop its force.
• Xia Guanxue and He Qichang narrowly avoided each other’s attacks, then struck one another and backed away to assess their injuries.
• Tao Chengsi recognized Xia Guanxue’s sword art as the Linked Mountains Sword Art.

Si Ming recognized Xia Guanxue’s sword art as the Mohist School’s Linked Mountains Sword Art as Xia Guanxue and He Qichang resumed their fierce duel. Their escalating fire-based ultimate moves collided, and Ke Chajing intervened just as their ironwood weapons shattered.

• Si Ming explained the significance of the Linked Mountains Sword Art, and the students admired Xia Guanxue’s skill.
• He Qichang used the bamboo stalks to build up speed and cut Xia Guanxue’s shoulder, but his wound then split open and sent him crashing to the ground.
• Xia Guanxue unleashed Startling Frost Thunder, and He Qichang answered with Rushing Thunder; their attacks collided, injuring both fighters and dislocating He Qichang’s arm.
• He Qichang and Xia Guanxue launched Red Lotus and Melting Calamity Fire, refusing to yield despite their injuries.
• Ke Chajing rushed into the arena to stop them, but the ironwood blade and sword shattered under the force of the three streams of True Qi.

Xia Guanxue and He Qichang’s fight sent their combined attack into the spectators, but Si Ming survived the blast with only minor injuries while his uniform and hair burned. After He Qichang conceded defeat and the rivals argued over who should pay for the uniform, Ke Chajing doubled training, which Si Ming avoided by citing public decency.

• Xia Guanxue redirected his sword to avoid a deadly clash with He Qichang, but Ke Chajing’s intervention sent their combined force flying into the spectators.
• Si Ming endured the attack thanks to his Jade-Clad Dharma Body, though his upper clothes and hair caught fire.
• Si Ming asked Xia Guanxue and He Qichang to pay for a new uniform, and the two argued over who bore responsibility.
• He Qichang conceded the challenge to Ke Chajing and promised to give Tange No. 1 Middle School students a wide berth.
• Ke Chajing praised the new recruits and doubled training, while Si Ming avoided it by claiming his shirtless appearance offended public decency.

Si Ming returned home to find Murong Qing trying to teach Hongdou to dress more appropriately, but Hongdou misunderstood his advice and removed her bra. Auntie Liu then warned that the assassination organization Crimson Eye had been hired to kill Hongdou and asked Si Ming to protect her.

• Si Ming found Murong Qing lecturing Hongdou about her revealing clothes and learned Hongdou had received special admission to Tange No. 1 Middle School for her painting.
• Hongdou took Si Ming's warning about her underwear being visible literally and pulled off her bra, leaving Murong Qing and Si Ming exasperated.
• Auntie Liu visited Si Ming, assured him his novel was doing well, and revealed that Crimson Eye had been hired to assassinate Hongdou.
• Auntie Liu asked Si Ming to protect Hongdou as a Mohist Knight Guard and explained she knew of his identity and his fight against He Qichang's group at school.

Murong Qing proposed hiding Hongdou at the Mohist Knight Guard base and using occasional outings to lure her would-be assassin, Qingyan, into a trap. After struggling to find an opening, Qingyan met Captain in Tange City, where Captain explained why artists who knew they were targets made especially difficult assassination assignments.

• Murong Qing suggested moving Hongdou’s studio into the Mohist Knight Guard base and having experts protect her during occasional outings, and Auntie Liu and Si Ming accepted the plan.
• Qingyan found Hongdou staying inside the base and saw that her rare outings were guarded, so he decided the mission was not worth pursuing.
• Qingyan followed a rendezvous signal to a snack shop and met Captain while they ate lunch in disguise.
• Qingyan complained that Hongdou’s reclusive habits left him no opportunity to strike, and Captain explained that artists could outlast assassins in contests of patience.
• Captain urged Qingyan to ease his nerves and act normally, then joked about an assassin who had waited years for a sculptor who died of old age.

Zheng Zitian taught Si Ming’s class and called on Chen Shimi to analyze a passage before ending the lesson at the bell. The chapter left the students to review their test papers at home.

• Zheng Zitian asked student number thirty-one to stand and answer a question.
• Chen Shimi explained how a passage introduced a tavern’s customers and established its social backdrop.
• Si Ming reflected that Chen Shimi behaved like an ordinary student in class despite his delusions.
• Zheng Zitian praised Chen Shimi’s answer and ended the lesson when the bell rang.

Si Ming turned down Xia Guanxue’s request to spar, explaining that Xia’s sword skills could not overcome his Jade-Clad Dharma Body. He left Xia to train until he found a way through Si Ming’s defense.

• Yan Rou was absent, so Murong Zhe replaced her medicine lesson with a fast-paced math class that ran fifteen minutes over.
• Xia Guanxue challenged Si Ming to spar and said he had mastered the fifth move of the Linked Mountains Sword Art.
• Si Ming refused, noting that their many previous matches had shown Xia could not break through his Jade-Clad Dharma Body.
• Xia admitted he had no way to overcome Si Ming’s defense, and Si Ming told him to return when he was confident he could do so.

Si Ming redirected Xia Guanxue toward Murong Qing, then encountered Chen Shimi and Hu Jixian, who invited him to spar. Their match was interrupted by an alarm warning that demonic beasts had appeared offshore, and the school rushed to its underground refuges.

• Si Ming told Xia Guanxue that Murong Qing was a stronger opponent and sent him to challenge her.
• Si Ming ran into Chen Shimi, who invited him to join a chuunibyou club, but Hu Jixian caught him and offered to spar instead.
• Hu Jixian explained that Ke Chajing planned to promote Si Ming to a regular martial arts team member for the winter state tournament.
• A campus alarm warned that large numbers of demonic beasts had been sighted offshore, forcing students and staff to head for the nearest refuge.
• Hu Jixian noted that the beast tide had arrived earlier than usual as the school evacuated in an orderly fashion.

Si Ming joined the military front during a beast tide and learned that demonic beasts came through a wormhole rather than from the sea. The commander assigned him to snipe two flying beasts guarding the wormhole so an elite squad could seal it, and Si Ming agreed to move closer with protection.

• Pan De sent Si Ming to the front by helicopter with both guns to support the army as a long-range shooter.
• Si Ming reached the battle and saw Su State's soldiers using crossbows, artillery-like weapons, and beach defenses to hold back the demonic beasts.
• The commander explained that an elite squad planned to reach the wormhole and seal it with a Boundary Sealing Stone, but two flying beasts threatened the operation.
• Si Ming located the wormhole and identified the two powerful insect-like demonic beasts guarding it.
• Si Ming said he could snipe the beasts from within two thousand meters, and the aide arranged for someone to protect him as he advanced.
• Ye Ziqian arrived with another person to accompany Si Ming.

Si Ming joined an assault team with Jiang Zhengtai and Ye Ziqian to break through the demonic beasts and reach their rear. As the team fought through reinforcements, Jiang and Ye protected Si Ming with their unusual weapons.

• Jiang Zhengtai demonstrated that his invisible threads could cut enemies and protect the team, convincing the aide of his combat ability.
• The army began its operation with a barrage of ballistae, crossbows, and crescent blades that devastated the demonic beasts on the beach.
• The ten-man assault team charged through the opening toward the demonic beasts' rear, with Si Ming, Jiang Zhengtai, and Ye Ziqian following.
• Demonic beasts rushed in from the rear and slowed the assault team, but its experts used Mohist Profound Armor to keep advancing.
• Jiang Zhengtai cut demonic beasts apart with invisible threads, while Ye Ziqian used poisoned judge's brushes to incapacitate them as Si Ming followed through the gaps.

Si Ming killed the Beedrill guarding the wormhole, then tried to help the assault squad overcome a geomagnetic field that was pinning them down. After he deduced the source was underground and led his companions into a retreat, the squad broke free, and its captain reached the wormhole and threw in the Boundary Sealing Stone.

• Si Ming killed both Beedrill with his spirit gun and completed his sniping mission.
• Si Ming, Jiang Zhengtai, and Ye Ziqian saw the assault squad trapped by a geomagnetic field that hindered their Profound Armor.
• Si Ming reasoned that a demon beast was generating the field, searched the horde, and eventually realized the caster was underground.
• Si Ming warned the assault squad and led Jiang Zhengtai and Ye Ziqian into a breakout, leaving the squad to act on his warning.
• An assault squad member struck the earth with his hammer, killing underground creatures and ending the magnetic field.
• The captain charged through the demon horde, reached the wormhole, and threw the Boundary Sealing Stone inside.

After Captain sacrificed himself to destroy the giant hand reaching through the wormhole, Si Ming and his companions helped break through the demonic beasts and the army won the battle. The commander accepted responsibility for Zhihu’s death and thanked Si Ming, but news arrived that demonic beasts had appeared in the city campus district.

• Captain detonated his Profound Armor, forcing the giant hand to retreat and sacrificing himself to save his squad.
• Si Ming fought through the demonic beasts with Ye Ziqian and Jiang Zhengtai, killing a massive beast that blocked their path.
• With the wormhole closed and reinforcements cut off, the army exterminated the remaining demonic beasts and cleared the battlefield.
• The commander admitted responsibility for Zhihu’s sacrifice, and the assault squad members defended him and thanked Si Ming for his help.
• A messenger reported that a large number of demonic beasts had appeared in the city campus district.

Qingyan infiltrated Tange No. 1 Middle School during a demonic beast attack to assassinate Hongdou, but an eagle-shaped beast disrupted his attack and made him appear to have saved her. He left before Murong Zhe could suspect him, while Murong Zhe praised him as a hidden hero.

• Qingyan sneaked into the school and found Hongdou painting alone in the art room.
• Qingyan unlocked the door and lunged at Hongdou, but an eagle-shaped demonic beast burst through a window and landed in his path.
• Qingyan's sword strike killed the beast, and Hongdou mistook him for her rescuer.
• Murong Zhe arrived, thanked Qingyan for saving Hongdou, and asked his name.
• Qingyan called himself Nameless and hurried away after Hongdou recognized him as the man who sold pan-fried dumplings at the school gate.
• Murong Zhe admired Qingyan as a righteous hero hidden among ordinary people.

Xia Guanxue and Murong Qing joined forces to fight their way toward the back gate so Xia Guanxue could check on his younger sister. Meanwhile, Tao Chengsi directed a student defensive line against the Yao beasts, which received mysterious support from an unseen archer.

• Xia Guanxue wounded several Yao beasts but was knocked down by a heavily armored rhinoceros beetle Yao beast.
• Murong Qing froze the beetle Yao beast and killed it with her spear, then agreed to accompany Xia Guanxue to check on his sister.
• Tao Chengsi organized students defending the southern line while Xiong Aixin fought on the front line and Chen Shimi used his Sword Control Technique to kill Yao beasts.
• An ape-like Yao beast leaped into the students' defensive circle, but an unknown archer shot it through the mouth and senior students finished it off.
• Tao Chengsi wondered who was secretly firing arrows, while Chen Shimi credited the protection to Mother Earth.

At Heaven’s Will Palace, Xiao Xuan urged Yan Jinghong to join his plan for a violent revolution, while Yan defended gradual reform and the people’s right to decide when change was needed. The brothers accepted that they had taken different paths, and Xiao began explaining how the Exalting Unity Society had betrayed him.

• Yan Jinghong met Xiao Xuan at the altar of Heaven’s Will Palace, and they discussed how imprisonment and their experiences had changed them.
• Xiao Xuan argued that only an outside revolution could remove entrenched powers, while Yan Jinghong defended the Grandmaster’s peaceful reforms and warned that revolution would bring needless suffering.
• Xiao Xuan asked Yan Jinghong to join him, but Yan refused, saying the people should decide when revolution was necessary.
• The brothers realized they could not persuade each other and might one day face each other with drawn swords.
• Yan Jinghong asked what Xiao Xuan intended to do, and Xiao blamed the Exalting Unity Society for causing his Qi deviation, removing him as Grandmaster, and imprisoning him.