Recaps

After defeating the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King, Si Ming helped settle the Heavenly Martial Alliance and returned to the Sea Continent with his companions. As he recovered and prepared for university, he helped Yu Shuying make friends and resumed his writing career, while an assassination plot threatened Yuezheng Yao’s concert.

• Si Jingyu destroyed the Purple-Pupiled Spirit King, while Xilai freed the ghosts he had trapped and passed the Nirvana Heart Seal inheritance to Henzhen before returning to the Nine Springs.
• Si Ming recovered at the Heavenly Martial Alliance headquarters and established an elders’ council before Hongdou opened the wormhole that returned six travelers to the Sea Continent.
• Si Ming declined the Si Clan’s invitations to stay, returned to Minggui Orphanage, and told his friends he wanted to attend Linked Mountains University with them.
• Si Ming helped Yu Shuying understand that her failed missions stemmed from lacking trust with her recruits and urged her to make friends, starting with Yao Bilian.
• Qingyan accepted a mission to assassinate Yuezheng Yao at her concert, while Captain sent Xia Guanxue to stop the employer’s plan to stage a terrorist attack and blame the Blood Pupil Society.
• Si Ming visited Master Hongdou’s Works Exhibition, helped Auntie Liu escape a persistent man, and revealed his level-nine cultivation to drive him away.
• Si Ming signed books for about a thousand readers at a meet-and-greet, then a masked woman showed him a Wind of Freedom record and said she liked that rather than his novels.

Si Ming helped Yu Shuying consolidate the Green Snake Gang’s territory while he and his friends started university and formed the Mutual Aid Society. The arc ended with Yuezheng Yao revealing her calculating side after Si Ming learned her vocal technique.

• Si Ming helped Yu Shuying defeat the Liuzi Gang, the East Star Society, and the North Point Gang, then advised her on expanding the Green Snake Gang through lower fees and legal gray-area businesses.
• Si Ming and his companions disrupted a terrorist plot against Yuezheng Yao at her concert, where Murong Qing and Qingyan stopped attackers and Mohist Knight Guards arrested the surviving conspirators.
• Murong Qing began university life, faced attention from classmates, and agreed to a private match with Nie Wanzhi after Nie challenged her to clear her name.
• Yu Shuying asked Si Ming to help the Green Snake Gang fight its rivals, and Murong Qing, Liu Qingqing, and Hongdou joined them in forming the Five-Color Team to fight for justice.
• Si Ming and the Five-Color Team routed four rival gangs, and Yu Shuying crippled their leaders before naming the newly absorbed gang the Azure Flood Dragon Gang.
• Murong Qing established the Mutual Aid Society with her friends, and Si Ming’s satirical romance submission brought the club publicity and a flood of requests that forced them to set conditions.
• Yuezheng Yao taught Si Ming the introductory Nine Shao Pitch-Setting Art, then revealed she knew about his involvement in the attempted kidnapping of her older sister and dropped her innocent act.

Si Ming helped capture Ji Xun, then supported Ke Chajing in founding a second martial arts club and guided Nie Wanzhi’s training. His fight with Lin Qingtong and a peacock-masked woman revealed the Remote Heaven Society’s possible interest in metalization, while he continued performing music with Yuezheng Qiong.

• Si Ming and Yu Shuying tracked Ji Xun to the music festival, where Ji Xun took the masked lead singer hostage before Yu Shuying’s words distracted him and Si Ming and Murong Qing captured him.
• Lin Qingtong seized Ji Xun from the Mohist Knight Guard, and Yuezheng Yao traded the Nine Shao Pitch-Setting Art Body Refining Chapter to Si Ming for help with her sister’s band.
• Si Ming and Yuezheng Qiong practiced masked street performances, then visited an underground fighting venue where Nie Wanzhi competed and defeated Steel-Fisted Iron Tower.
• Ke Chajing and Hu Jixian left Chu Gengyin’s martial arts club and founded the Second Martial Arts Club, while Si Ming helped Nie Wanzhi choose a cultivation method suited to her destiny.
• Nie Wanzhi combined Whirlwind Leg with Swift Thunder Palm to defeat Hao Shuai, and Si Ming demonstrated a strange palm print before advising her to convert to the Shi Moon Dharma Scripture.
• Lin Qingtong challenged Si Ming over metalization, but their fight collapsed a seven-story building and Si Ming severed her arm before a peacock-masked woman helped her escape.
• Si Ming told Yu Shuying about the Remote Heaven Society, and they suspected it might be researching metalization and searching for test subjects.
• Si Ming continued performing with Yuezheng Qiong and learned about her younger sister Yao’s exceptional progress at the guqin.

Si Ming’s team advanced through the qualifiers while a deadly attack on the Saintess Candidates exposed a threat on East Spirit Island. After the Yuezheng sisters’ birthday gathering, the Second Martial Arts Club entered the semifinals and kept its undefeated record against Glacier Martial Arts School.

• Yuezheng Qiong urged Si Ming to take the team competition seriously, and two months later the Second Martial Arts Club began the city qualifiers against Rivers and Mountains Martial Arts School.
• Nie Wanzhi defeated Guan Li, and Si Ming and Chen Shimi’s team won their bout after Si Ming overcame Ye Zhaozhong and Deng Ming with Bodhi Immortal.
• Murong Qing defeated Yue Xuan, and the Second Martial Arts Club swept the remaining qualifiers as Si Ming agreed to find the team a faculty adviser.
• Si Ming joined Liu Qingqing and the other Saintess Candidates’ partners on East Spirit Island, where the group was ordered to purify the island’s earth veins.
• A monster that had devoured the island’s people attacked the group, and Si Ming and Liu Qingqing subdued it before its implanted mechanism caused it to explode.
• Xing Daozhuang sealed off the island after five Saintess Candidates died, while Si Ming returned to his studies and the Second Martial Arts Club advanced to the final four.
• At Yuezheng Yao’s birthday gathering, Yuezheng Qiong and Yuezheng Yao revealed that they had swapped identities, and Si Ming later learned from Yan Jinghong’s letter that Yuezheng Yao was an ally.
• Liu Qingqing, Hongdou, and Yu Shuying helped the Second Martial Arts Club defeat Glacier Martial Arts School, while Linked Mountains University defeated Linked Mountains University of Medicine and Martial Arts 3–1 on the semifinals’ first day.