Recaps

Si Ming led the contestants through a demon invasion, killed its commander, and helped the survivors escape while Ying Zhou faced his father and chose his companions over blood ties. The group returned to a continent-wide war and gathered in Rui State as nations prepared for a joint conference against the Demon Race.

• Si Ming defeated contestants across the competition, then joined Ying Zhou and Murong Wu as they pursued the mystery of a map and the Profound Armor.
• Si Ming and Yu Shuying discovered that formations had removed the tournament spectators and that a demon tide threatened the island, so they gathered survivors and set out to fight back.
• Si Ming organized the contestants under his command, attacked the demon army’s commander, and returned to lead the breakout using Yu Shuying’s Military School Profound Armor, which he named Lightning Zaku.
• Si Ming killed the demon commander, but the survivors were attacked by both demon beasts and Jie Gou, who was defeated by Ying Zhou and Xia Guanxue.
• Qin Wujun abducted Murong Wu and fought Ying Zhou, while Si Huaruo and Xia Guanxue intervened, and Xia Guanxue ultimately struck Qin down as Ying Zhou rejected his father’s blood-kin claim and accepted the Conquest Demon Saber.
• Si Ming rejoined the survivors and learned that those who had split into smaller groups suffered heavy casualties, while demon attacks had spread across the Northern Continent and Earth Rank demon kings had appeared.
• After the Nation of Valor began expelling powerful foreigners, Si Ming and his companions went to neutral Rui State as the Northern Continent’s nations prepared a joint conference against the Demon Race.

Si Ming helped turn the war against the Demon Race, then uncovered a powerful Monster Race force guarding the Divine Pillar in the Nation of Valor. He realized the Heaven-Defying Society could use the thoughts of the dead to summon a Divine Pillar, leaving his group in need of reinforcements.

• Nether Lord and Shentu Chuang planned to let the Moth Emperor attack the Divine Pillars and use the Monster Race to draw suspicion away from the Heaven-Defying Society, while Qingyan framed the Remote Heaven Society for bombing the International Building.
• Si Ming proved his strength to Xing Daozhuang, protected commanders and battled the Demon Race, killing numerous Demon Generals before helping allies survive attacks by the demon marshals.
• Si Ming, Yu Shuying, Si Huaruo, Ying Zhou, Murong Qing, and Ling Huanxi defeated several North Sea Demon Marshals in an ambush, while Ji Shichen maintained the freezing formation that helped them win.
• Xing Daozhuang’s allies launched an all-out assault after Wu Xiu’s poison weakened the demon army, and Xing Daozhuang fought Mengying as the enemy forces retreated.
• Si Ming and his companions investigated the Divine Pillar in the Nation of Valor and discovered that at least ten Monster Race experts at Spirit Transformation level guarded the site.
• Si Ming realized the Heaven-Defying Society could use the united thoughts of the dead to summon a Divine Pillar, and suspected the recent killings in France had helped them gather those thoughts.

Si Ming and his allies stopped the Moth Emperor and the Remote Heaven Society from destroying the Nation of Valor’s Divine Pillar, but discovered that Li State’s pillar had been severed instead. After the battle, Si Ming turned to countering the Society, shaping public opinion, and finding a successor for Ji Shichen.

• Ling Huanxi taught Si Huaruo that spear techniques focused on killing, while Yu Shuying wrestled with her jealousy of Murong Qing and Qingyan accepted an assassination commission targeting Yu Shuying.
• Assassins attacked Si Ming’s group, and Yu Shuying and Diao Bao were captured before Qingyan and Si Ming intervened, and Yu Shuying then sent Si Ming and Ji Shichen to defend the Divine Pillar while the others fought demonic beasts.
• The Nether Lord and Moth Emperor summoned the Divine Pillar, and Si Ming and Ji Shichen fought to stop them as the Moth Emperor cracked the pillar but failed to destroy it.
• Ba Shenhuang and reinforcements from the Barbarian Continent turned the battle, while Si Ming used the World-Saving Formation to severely wound the Moth Emperor and pursued her south.
• Xing Daozhuang joined forces with Si Ming against the Moth Emperor, then the Five Elements Primordial Magnetism Grand Array trapped her as Si Ming revealed that the Society’s real target was Li State’s Divine Pillar.
• Si Ming’s allies secured the Nation of Valor’s Divine Pillar, and Yu Shuying accepted the Wheel-Turning King Sword before leaving with Hualiu, and Si Ming later realized that Li State’s pillar had been severed.
• Si Ming and Murong Qing planned a task force against the Heaven-Defying Society, while Ji Shichen agreed to investigate repairing the Divine Pillars and recorded Si Ming’s views for his biography.
• Si Ming challenged rumors about Xing Daozhuang, considered how the public would remember him, and urged Ji Shichen to assess Liu Qingqing as a potential successor after discovering her exceptional soul strength.

Si Ming and Murong Qing became husband and wife, while Si Ming gained a new martial art and was considered for membership in Heaven’s Will Palace. The palace examined Xing Daozhuang and offered Si Ming the Dragon position, leaving him at Sword-Forging Manor to meet Teng Baixin.

• Si Ming arranged Liu Qingqing’s apprenticeship with Ji Shichen, finished Auntie Liu’s manuscript, and helped spread rumors to blunt the campaign against Xing Daozhuang.
• Si Ming accompanied Murong Qing to her class reunion, where she revealed that she had become a Spirit Transformation Grandmaster and Chen Shimi drove off Huo Wenlong’s challenge.
• Murong Qing and Si Ming shared a wedding toast and became intimate, then called each other husband and wife the next morning.
• Hongdou confronted Si Ming about choosing Murong Qing, and Murong Qing later found Hongdou painting on Si Ming before Si Ming reassured her that nothing had happened.
• Si Ming learned the Great Yin-Yang Heaven-Severing Hand from Pan De’s book and used it to defeat Yan Jinghong, who nominated him for Heaven’s Will Palace.
• Heaven’s Will Palace members approved Si Ming and offered him the Dragon and Monkey positions, and Si Ming chose Dragon and the Dragon Scale Sword.
• Tu Wangyue used the God of Justice’s Sacred Judgment Art to confirm that Xing Daozhuang was human, while her reflections considered Si Ming as a possible replacement vessel for Xiao Xuan.
• Yan Jinghong warned Si Ming about officials who had framed Xiao Xuan, then took him to Sword-Forging Manor, where Yun Yinmo recognized him as an old classmate.