Recaps

Si Ming recovered from the battle with Lin Qingtong, trained in martial arts, and took on an assignment tied to the Si Clan. At Water Mirror Manor, Si Jingyu faced hostile claims and Guan Chong’s challenge until Si Ming entered the arena as her younger brother.

• Liu Qingqing disrupted Lin Qingtong’s fight with Si Ming, allowing Si Ming to escape, and Lin Qingtong later retreated with Wei Chunxi as Si Ming’s arm absorbed Metal Cells Liquid.
• Si Ming learned that his arm could not yet be treated, resolved to strengthen his technique, and later helped Lin Qingluo defeat Lin Xiu before training with Pan De.
• Si Ming resumed boxing and foundation training, planned a new Three Kingdoms novel, and agreed to Yan Jinghong’s assignment to protect the Si Clan’s holdings in the Nation of Beauty.
• At Jiang Zhengtai and Yao Bilian’s wedding, assassins attacked Yao Bilian as a diversion, and Si Ming captured one who revealed a plot involving Hongdou and the Crimson Eye Society.
• Si Jingxi’s funeral brought hostile guests to Water Mirror Manor, where Si Jingyu challenged Jiazhuan Pavilion’s contract and refused Lu Ling’s demand to surrender a clan member without Senior Tea King’s authority.
• Guan Chong challenged the Water Moon Precious Mirror, defeated Si Shuiyun in ten moves, and demanded another woman fight him.
• Si Jingyu identified Guan Chong as former Si Clan member Si Zhong, who had learned the Water Moon Precious Mirror and sought to take the clan’s baby boys, then Si Ming entered the arena claiming to be her younger brother.

Si Ming joined Si Huaruo at Emperor Peak Luofu Academy, helped her drama club recover from an Anomaly attack, and wrote a play for the Nine Arts Phoenix Fledgling selection. The arc ended as their performance of Puppet Show began winning over the judges and audience.

• Si Ming defeated Guan Chong at the Water Mirror Manor banquet, confirmed his place in the Si Clan, and helped Si Jingyu make the case for changing the clan’s martial arts rules.
• Si Ming agreed to serve as Si Huaruo’s bodyguard at Emperor Peak Luofu Academy, where he learned about her drama club and joined her investigation into the missing students at the old campus.
• Si Ming and Si Huaruo confronted the Ghostly Monster, rescued the surviving students, and escaped the Anomaly after Si Ming dispelled its illusion with Kui Drum Thunder Sound.
• Si Ming promised Si Huaruo that she could rely on him, then learned that her injured drama lead left the club only three days to find a replacement for the selection.
• Si Ming helped Si Huaruo adapt his story Puppet Show into a play, and the drama club cast the Si Clan’s deity as the puppet and rehearsed for the competition.
• Si Huamu urged Si Huaruo to win the crown and challenge Si Jingyu, while Si Ming broke through to level six Internal Cultivation.
• Si Ming helped temper expectations for Si Huaruo’s club before the finals, then watched the club perform Puppet Show as Si Huaruo portrayed the puppeteer and the judges praised the ancient drama.

Si Ming helped Si Jingyu survive Shi Muyan’s revenge, then guided the Emperor Peak Drama Club to victory with Wind of Freedom. After the celebration, Si Huaruo agreed to fight Si Jingyue’s daughter for her mother, while Si Ming sought an Ice Silkworm to cultivate a new martial art.

• Puppet Show won the drama competition, and Si Huaruo warned Si Jingyu that her dance title was at risk.
• Si Jingyu asked Si Ming to help against Shi Muyan, then became confused by her racing heart and blushing around him.
• Si Ming entered the arts competition, but Si Jingyu was abducted and confronted Shi Muyan, who blamed her for Si Jingxi’s betrayal.
• Si Jingyu and Shi Muyan fought until Si Ming intervened, and Si Jingyu revealed that Tang An had poisoned Shi Muyan’s household while Si Jingxi took the blame for scarring her.
• Si Ming helped Dengbulishao contain the Source of Sin, learned Dou Qi martial arts, and quickly advanced in both techniques.
• The Emperor Peak Drama Club performed Wind of Freedom, and the judges named it the champion of the Nine Arts Phoenix Fledgling finals.
• At the victory banquet, Si Huaruo entered martial insight with Si Ming and hinted she might accept his confession, but he declined to pursue her.
• Si Huaruo agreed to challenge Si Jingyue’s daughter for Si Huamu, while Si Ming obtained the clan’s strongest Ice Silkworm to cultivate the Ice Silkworm Heavenly Net Hand.

Si Ming helped Si Huaruo defeat Si Jingyu, expose Si Jingzhi’s crimes, and reshape the Si Clan, while uncovering doubts about his own origins. When Hongdou’s parents vanished, the group traced the danger to the Lu Lineage and the Crimson Eye Society, whose leaders prepared for an imminent invasion.

• Si Ming persuaded Si Huaruo to challenge Si Jingyu, then trained her and helped her prepare for the ancestral ceremony.
• Si Jingyu’s childhood friendship with Si Huaruo was revealed as Si Huaruo learned how Si Jingyu had been isolated and burdened by her clan duties.
• Si Jingyu was named the next clan leader, and Si Huaruo challenged her before the gathered clanspeople.
• As Si Jingyu and Si Huaruo fought, an assassin attacked Si Jingyue, and Si Shuiyun used a forged jade token to expose Si Jingzhi’s faction.
• Si Ming helped Si Shuiyun subdue Si Jingzhi, while Si Jingyu and Si Huaruo fought to exhaustion and Si Huaruo won their duel.
• Si Jingyu condemned Si Jingzhi and confined her, then Si Ming learned that Si Jingzhi had arranged his childhood separation and began to suspect his ties to the Si Clan.
• Hongdou discovered that someone had impersonated her to collect her parents’ consignment, and the group linked the disappearance to the Lu Lineage’s preparations at Tea-Tasting Manor.
• Si Ming, Si Jingyu, Si Huaruo, and Hongdou planned to investigate the manor as Crimson Eye Society leaders transformed Netherworld Blood Slave and prepared for the Flesh and Blood Wormhole to open.