Recaps

Qin Ming avenged his family, protected Embroiderer, and entered the Eight Trigrams Martial Arts Academy, where he broke through to the Skin-Refining Realm. After defeating the men sent by Yan Yue-Ren and standing up to Huo Lan, he remained determined to grow stronger and keep Embroiderer safe.

• Qin Ming won the New Year pig-slaughtering business from Wang Butcher, then killed Wang Butcher and his accomplices after they ambushed him, before rescuing Embroiderer from Scarface's men.
• Qin Ming learned Scar had helped Yan Yue-Ren ruin his family, killed Scar, and joined the Eight Trigrams Martial Arts Academy after the Tiger Martial Arts Academy rejected him.
• Qin Ming trained in the Eight Trigrams Stake Skill and Fire Sand Palm while earning money slaughtering pigs, and he discovered a lingzhi in the mountains after killing a giant centipede.
• While Qin Ming was away, Wang Shi had Embroiderer arrested and tortured, but Qin Ming broke into the dungeon to rescue her and fought off the constables until Pei Heng intervened.
• Qin Ming broke through to the Early Skin Refining Realm, joined the academy's inner courtyard, and killed Wang Shi after she prepared to flee.
• Qin Ming spared the shack-district residents who apologized, but killed Zhang Si and three martial artists sent to seize Embroiderer, then found Yan Yue-Ren's name on their roster.
• Pei Heng selected Ye Wei for the upcoming tournament while Qin Ming declined to compete, and Qin Ming forced Huo Lan to apologize after she insulted Embroiderer over a coat.

Qin Ming survived Clearwind Stronghold’s ambush, returned to find Qingshan Town devastated, and fought through attacks by bandits, ghosts, and the town’s survivors. He reached Qingyang County seeking strength and a place on the Demon-Hunting Team, but Yan Yue-Ren’s gang continued targeting Embroiderer and Li Shengnan.

• Qin Ming prepared for the escort as Yan Yangtian strengthened himself with a Human Pill and killed a witness to his secret meeting.
• Clearwind Stronghold ambushed the escort in the fog, and Qin Ming fought his way through the attackers before escaping with Li Shengnan and receiving Li Kui’s Savage Bull Strength method.
• Qin Ming trained with the Blood Ginseng, reached the late Skin-Refining Realm, and returned to Qingshan Town as Yan Yangtian and Clearwind Stronghold’s forces attacked the martial arts academies.
• Qin Ming killed Yuan Lie and the bandits who had seized Qingshan Town, then led the survivors away as the Ninth Boss pursued them and Ghost Fog overtook the road.
• Ghosts attacked the convoy, and after Qin Ming was badly wounded, the survivors tried to take his possessions until the Centipede Spirit Pearl restored him and he killed the attackers.
• Qin Ming left for Qingyang County with his companions, joined the Demon-Hunting Team as a reserve member, and learned that Embroiderer was being targeted by Yan Yue-Ren.
• Wild Wolf Gang members abducted Embroiderer and attacked Li Shengnan, while Qin Ming bought an incomplete Iron Body Shirt manual and killed several ambushers in Qingyang County.
• Qin Ming returned to find Embroiderer unconscious and Li Shengnan gravely injured, then Xiong San tested his combat skills against a ghost and revealed a hidden passage.

Qin Ming joined the Demon-Hunting Team, gained new fire-based and martial arts powers, and fought the Ghost Entities and gangs consuming Qingyang County. After killing Yu Qing and rescuing his companions, he faced the silver-haired evil ghost and tested his pure Yang Qi against it.

• Xiong San recruited Qin Ming to investigate the Ghost Fog at Qingshan Town, where Qin Ming killed the Red-Clad Female Ghost and the Corpse King before escaping the Ninth Boss of Clearwind Stronghold.
• Qin Ming defeated Yan Yue-Ren in a fight to the death, secured a permanent post on the Demon-Hunting Team, and chose the dangerous Fire Poison Art as his Internal Cultivation Manual.
• Qin Ming killed a female ghost at the Li Residence, then survived an assassination attempt and the Red-Clad Female Ghost’s attack as Ghost Fog surrounded Qingyang City.
• Qin Ming led the Demon-Hunting Team into the Ghost Fog, killed several Ghost Entities, and fought his way back to the city wall after a huge Demon killed Yang Zhi and petrified Wang Wei.
• Qin Ming climbed the wall, fought the city’s leaders, killed Yu Qing, and rescued Xiong San from a Ghost Entity before learning that Pei Heng had been carried into the fog.
• Qin Ming plundered gangs for martial arts and supplies, rescued Li Shengnan and Embroiderer from gang members, and learned that Clearwind Stronghold bandits were using the Ghost Fog to raid the city.
• Qin Ming fought through Qingyang City, killed more than two hundred bandits and Ghost Entities, and advanced to the Perfected Flesh-Refining Realm.
• Qin Ming secretly cultivated the Black Sha Skill, then combined its Sha Qi with Fire Poison to stab the silver-haired evil ghost, which survived and hurled him through three houses.

Qin Ming escaped Qingyang City, reunited with his companions in Desolate City, and fought to stop the River God Sacrifice. After Li Qingfeng wounded him and threw him into the Li River, Qin Ming fused his cultivation methods and emerged transformed.

• Qin Ming survived the Ghost Artifact’s furnace, escaped the black-robed man, and reached Desolate City with Xiangxiang after protecting her from the Golden Coin Gang.
• Lu Ming imprisoned Xiong San and ordered Wang Xiaoxi seized for the sacrifice, but Qin Ming returned, rescued Xiaoxi and her companions, and freed Xiong San from the water prison.
• Qin Ming pursued the River God’s followers, fought a Ghost-Faced Monkey, and stole the River God’s demon art before killing the monkey and learning the Dog Demon had taken Wang Xiaoxi and Xiangxiang.
• Qin Ming killed the ghost pet sent by the black-robed man, hunted Ghost Entities, and advanced his Pure Yang Art by fusing it with the demon art.
• At the River God Sacrifice, Qin Ming killed the eight Ghost-Faced Monkeys and the Dog Demon, freed the captive children, and destroyed the altar.
• Li Qingfeng stabbed Qin Ming and blasted him into the Li River with Thunder Bamboo, while the others believed he had died.
• Underwater, Qin Ming dispelled the lightning in his body, healed with the River God Demon Art, renamed his transformed technique Yin-Yang Guidance, and rose from the river at six meters tall.