Recaps

A Beastfolk-controlled beast tide swept through the secret realm, killing examinees as the aristocratic families tried to flee. Ma Li'ao and Yang Liuliu sacrificed ordinary examinees to slow the pursuit, but a mysterious predator shot down their airship and approached the survivors.

• The Beastfolk unleashed a vast beast tide that hunted down examinees while the aristocratic family faction outside delayed the restoration of contact with the secret realm.
• Ma Li'ao piloted the Ma Family airship as Yang Liuliu used the Seeking Spirit compass to locate ordinary examinees.
• Ma Li'ao's group bound the ordinary examinees and flew on, leaving them in the beast tide's path.
• Song Haomiao recognized the crest on the fleeing airship and led the trapped examinees to stand and fight.
• A shadow shot down the airship, and a terrifying killing intent made the beast tide pause as an unknown danger approached.

Lou Shisui killed Ma Li'ao and Yang Liuliu before tearing through the Beastfolk tide, while assassins silenced an All-School Alliance official and Fan Rongchang failed to reach him in time. Fan Rongchang left to pressure Zi City's decision-makers to reconnect the secret realm space sooner.

• Lou Shisui destroyed Ma Li'ao and Yang Liuliu's airship, then killed them as they fled the wreckage.
• Lou Shisui charged into the Beastfolk tide, slaughtering enemies with his Owl Wings and other kagune while absorbing psychic energy and evolving midair.
• An assassin killed a mid-level All-School Alliance official in his office, and an accomplice erased the traces.
• Fan Rongchang arrived to find the official gone and confronted Fang Yulan, who calmed his anger before departing.
• Fan Rongchang left Alliance headquarters to pressure Zi City's decision-makers to reconnect the secret realm space.

Lou Shisui advanced to the Early Fourth Realm and hunted the scattered Beastfolk, arriving just as a team of examinees was overwhelmed. After saving them, he killed the survivors too and decided to clear the area before pursuing more prey.

• Lou Shisui emerged from his cocoon, advanced to the Early Fourth Realm, and flew through a spatial rift toward the fleeing Beastfolk.
• A team of ten examinees lured a rhinoceros Beastfolk into a trap and killed it, but a laser attack then killed three of them and wounded the rest.
• More than a hundred flying Beastfolk and three Mid Fourth Realm vultures surrounded the seven survivors as they prepared to make a last stand.
• Lou Shisui burst from a spatial rift and slaughtered the Beastfolk, then killed the seven examinees who had thanked him.
• Lou Shisui scattered spatial feathers and decided to clear the area before hunting further.

Fang Yulan arranged for Beastfolk to be hidden among the rescue team while ensuring the examinees' safety, and the Human Race sent reinforcements into the secret realm. After reaching the Half-Step Fifth Realm, Shisui hid from the rescuers and decided to attack two separated Fifth Realm experts.

• Fang Yulan learned the rescue team was being assembled and ordered an operative planted among its Fifth Realm experts, with additional Beastfolk hidden in the team.
• Ji Feijie led three hundred Fourth Realm soldiers and three Fifth Realm experts through the portal, warning Cai Bin to watch the Yang Family expert.
• Lou Shisui completed his final Metamorphosis below the Fifth Realm and reached the Half-Step Fifth Realm.
• Shisui sensed the rescue team entering the secret realm and used a Radiant Feather to assess its strength.
• Shisui saw that two Fifth Realm Mid-Stage experts had separated from the Fifth Realm Peak expert and flew toward them.

Lou Shisui ambushed Yang Fuwen and Cai Bin inside an isolated space and defeated them with his Kagune and bone-deep venom. After absorbing the two cultivators, he left to confront the Fifth Realm Peak expert.

• Yang Fuwen and Cai Bin flew through the forest together while Lou Shisui followed them from below.
• Lou Shisui used [Absolute Severance] to trap Yang Fuwen and Cai Bin in an isolated zone of space.
• Yang Fuwen identified Lou Shisui as their attacker, and Cai Bin used [Growth Acceleration] to turn the forest's plants against him.
• Lou Shisui overwhelmed their defenses, poisoned Yang Fuwen and Cai Bin, and killed them within a minute.
• Lou Shisui absorbed the two cultivators, suppressed his urge to kill, and stepped through a spatial rift to seek out the Fifth Realm Peak expert.

Ji Feijie repaired spatial linking devices until Shisui ambushed him, forcing the two into a fight in the forest. Shisui killed Ji Feijie and absorbed the Psychic Energy, breaking through to the Early Fifth Realm.

• Ji Feijie reset a spatial linking device and raced toward the next repair site.
• Shisui ambushed Ji Feijie with his Kagune while Ji Feijie was low on Psychic Energy.
• Ji Feijie retreated into the forest and tried to use its terrain to turn the fight in his favor.
• Shisui shattered Ji Feijie's weapon, pierced his foot with a hidden Rinkaku, and activated [Bone-Deep Rot].
• Shisui killed Ji Feijie, bathed in the Psychic Energy, and advanced to the Early Fifth Realm.

Lou Shisui advanced into the extraordinary realm, escaped the secret realm through a space link device, and reached Chen City. Yang Fuwu investigated the aftermath and warned the maintenance team that a powerful spatial intruder had fled there.

• Lou Shisui emerged from his biological egg after consolidating his early Fifth Realm cultivation and sensing that humans would detect his evolution.
• Lou Shisui found the last functioning space link device, destroyed it, and forced open a wormhole to escape the secret realm.
• Yang Fuwu arrived at the ruined device, concluded that an intruder far stronger than the Fifth Realm had passed through, and reported the escape route to the maintenance team.
• Yang Fuwu fled the examination site while Lou Shisui reached Chen City, his new Feeding Ground.

Ye Luo survived the night after a young man rescued her from pursuing Beastfolk, while Song Haomiao helped at a temporary aid station before giving his account of the unified exam to Wei Yi. The incident report recorded tens of thousands of deaths and injuries, with one examinee missing.

• Ye Luo fell while fleeing with other examinees, but a young man killed the Beastfolk pursuing her and rescued her as dawn broke.
• Song Haomiao, recovering from severe injuries, volunteered to transport supplies at the temporary aid station.
• The All-School Alliance established the aid station because spatial instability made the teleportation array unsuitable for moving injured examinees.
• After hearing his name announced, Song Haomiao went to the information collection office to give a statement.
• Wei Yi used a strange rhythm in his voice as Song Haomiao recounted what he had experienced during the exam.
• The incident report attributed the disaster preliminarily to a Beastfolk invasion and noted a suspected Seventh Realm awakened one, recording 85,575 deaths and one missing examinee.

Human Race leaders gathered to address the deaths of more than eighty thousand examinees and debate who was responsible for the bloody joint examination. New testimony implicated the Li Family and other aristocratic families, leaving the council to decide how to punish them without splitting the Human Race.

• Human Race leaders convened an emergency council meeting to limit the fallout from the bloody joint examination and assign responsibility.
• Fang Yuanmao called for unity against the Beastfolk and denied the accusations against his family, but the Reformist Faction's silent reaction made him suspect something had gone wrong.
• Fan Rongchang presented an examinee's testimony claiming that Li Jie and other aristocratic scions attacked 108 people, while Mu Li and Gong Lingling were killed and Xie Wutong sacrificed himself to help the witness escape.
• Fan Rongchang accused the Li Family and other aristocratic families of plotting the attack, and several families backed a motion to punish the Li Family.
• The Grand Speaker ordered soldiers to remove the Li Family representative before he could respond, and the meeting continued.

After the unified exam disaster, the Human Race’s leaders debated punishment, compensation, and public trust, then issued a highest-level wanted notice for Eight-Tailed Owl. Lou Shisui read the notice in Chen City and returned to his guesthouse, confident he could still move unnoticed among humans.

• Fan Rongchang pushed for an expedition against the Beastfolk of the Spirit Resonance Rainforest, and Fan Yuxin volunteered to lead it.
• The council approved the expedition and debated victims’ compensation, repairs, and measures to restore public trust.
• The Human Race published its investigation report, announced punishments for the Li Family of Zi City, and issued a highest-level wanted notice for Eight-Tailed Owl.
• Lou Shisui bought the Chen City Morning News, read his wanted notice, and concluded the Human Race had not begun actively hunting him.
• Lou Shisui returned to his guesthouse in Chen City after retrieving the Lou Family’s Spatial Ring and considered what to eat.

In Chen City, Lou Shisui selected Xu Xiao, a fox woman who had just lost her job, as his next victim. After abducting and killing her in her apartment, he left the kitchen burning and departed through a spatial rift.

• Lou Shisui spotted Xu Xiao on Fuhua Commercial Street and attached a Radiant Feather to her clothes to track her.
• Xu Xiao returned to her apartment, lamented losing her job, and fell asleep after deciding she would eventually return home.
• The Radiant Feather fell off, and Lou Shisui emerged from a spatial rift and rendered Xu Xiao unconscious with toxin.
• Lou Shisui found Xu Xiao’s dismissal notice and job postings, then killed and butchered her in the kitchen.
• Lou Shisui opened another spatial rift and left as flames spread through Xu Xiao’s apartment kitchen.

After a deadly apartment fire prompted plans for stricter fire-safety inspections, Lou Shisui went to Youhe Trading Company and, disguised as Yue Jian, secured a cargo-escort job. He accepted a low-paid trial position because he wanted to join the company’s caravan and use its permits to travel and trade across the territories of the three races.

• A fire consumed several floors of an apartment building in Chen City, but firefighters extinguished it without finding any casualties.
• The Southern District Fire Brigade announced that it would inspect fire safety across its jurisdiction, prompting merchants to complain about fines and required equipment.
• Lou Shisui surveyed the commercial street and applied to Youhe Trading Company for a caravan cargo-escort job under the alias Yue Jian.
• Lou Shisui claimed to be a middle-stage Sixth Realm cultivator from a settlement outside Huaihuang Continent and accepted a three-month trial at a monthly salary of three thousand yuan.
• Lou Shisui went to move cargo, intending to use the job to get onto Youhe Trading Company's caravan, which had permits to travel and trade across the territories of all three races.

Lou Shisui traveled with a Youhe Trading Company caravan past Chen City and the historic Wunu Embankment, where he noticed the Wunu River’s Psychic Energy had become unusually abundant. He suspected something had changed in the Ten-Thousand-Blade Mountain Range and grew eager to continue toward Demon Race territory.

• Lou Shisui rode with driver Yan Xu in a caravan bound for Demon Race territory.
• Yan Xu told Shisui about the Wunu Embankment and the treaty that ended the three races’ fighting more than 150 years earlier.
• The caravan reached the Wunu River, where crowds had gathered to see the colorful plateau fir forest and travel to the Three Races Friendship and Exchange Conference.
• Lou Shisui sensed that the river’s Psychic Energy was overflowing, far beyond what historical records described.
• Shisui suspected a change in the Ten-Thousand-Blade Mountain Range had caused the river’s energy surge and looked forward to reaching Demon Race territory.

Shisui arrived in Qiongfang City with the Youhe Trading Company caravan and suspected the Demon Race was preparing to attack the two races downstream despite the Wunu River Treaty. He used his delivery job to enter noble residences and secretly spread Radiant Feathers, beginning to gather information while avoiding suspicion.

• The caravan reached Qiongfang City, where Shisui sensed the city's powerful defenses and estimated that the Demon Race had amassed forces beyond what was needed to defend it.
• Zhou Runfeng assembled a delivery team, and Shisui accepted a route serving ordinary nobles in the city's middle and lower districts.
• Shisui chose the route to gain legitimate access to noble residences while avoiding the scrutiny that would come with posing as a higher-realm courier.
• At Viscount Tangtai's residence, Shisui scattered Radiant Feathers among servants and the household before delivering the package and leaving for his next stop.

Lou Shisui used a late-night delivery as cover to infiltrate the Outing Family villa and slaughter its defenders. He left the villa after turning Baron Outing and two servants into puppets, intending to puppet the rest of the family and spread his weapons through the city.

• Lou Shisui arrived at the Outing Family villa posing as a deliveryman and followed a rude servant inside.
• Lou Shisui killed Baron Outing and two people in the study, then used Radiant Feathers to trap the family's Ninth Realm awakened one.
• Lou Shisui pierced the Ninth Realm awakened one with his scorpion tail and killed him with venom, revealing that he had reached the Eighth Realm Peak after recently being in the Sixth Realm.
• Lou Shisui turned Baron Outing into a puppet, then made two servants puppets and ordered them to gather the Outing Family in the main hall.
• Lou Shisui left the villa after consuming the Ninth Realm awakened one's Psychic Energy, planning to puppet the family and spread Blade Scales and Radiant Feathers.

Lou Shisui planted Blade Scales among Qiongfang City’s homeless demons while scouting the city. After three noble patrolmen murdered orphaned children, he killed them and took their place, gaining a chance to investigate the city gate’s defenses.

• Lou Shisui mapped Qiongfang City’s streets and planted toxin-bearing Blade Scales on wanderers beneath a bridge.
• Three noble descendants on the night patrol found eighteen homeless demon children and killed them to eat their flesh.
• The patrolmen planned to disable the city gate’s detection system so they could carry the bodies away undetected.
• Lou Shisui confronted the three patrolmen, killed them with his Blade Scales, and turned them into puppets.
• Lou Shisui cleaned the scene and led the puppets toward the city gate to investigate its defenses.

Lou Shisui infiltrated Qiongfang's city wall, turned Demon Race soldiers into puppets, and explored its defenses before escaping. He left a destructive spatial slash in the wall, triggering its alarm as he watched from the trading company dormitory.

• Lou Shisui used his puppets and a disabled section of the barrier to enter the city wall unseen.
• He poisoned eight young Demon Race nobles after they butchered and wasted the corpses, then transformed them into puppets and took a Qiongfang pass.
• Lou Shisui wandered the wall through the night, marking his route and turning low-realm patrol soldiers into puppets while avoiding Profound Realm demons.
• At five in the morning, Lou Shisui unleashed a spatial slash that tore through the wall and shattered his pass, setting off the defenses and alarm.
• Lou Shisui returned to the trading company dormitory several kilometers away and watched the wall light up.

Shisui prepared to leave his month-long cover at the Youhe Trading Company as Qiongfang City tightened security ahead of the Three Races Friendship and Exchange Conference. After refusing Yan Xu’s request to challenge a proposed pay cut, he marked Yan Xu with feather dust and continued toward the boss’s office.

• Demons at a city assembly discussed how enemies had infiltrated Qiongfang City and ordered a security review before the conference.
• Shisui read new regulations requiring identity registration and security checks at the gates, along with a census and possible expulsion for residents who refused to participate.
• Shisui decided that his month at the Youhe Trading Company was over and kept the goods he had supposedly delivered.
• Yan Xu asked Shisui to persuade the boss not to delay or reduce the workers’ pay, but Shisui refused and headed for the boss’s office.
• Yan Xu left the trading company, and Shisui noticed feather dust on his trouser leg and regarded him with icy malice.

Shisui collected his wages by killing Boss Zhou, then massacred Yan Xu and looted the Youhe Trading Company’s warehouse before leaving a Red Crane Orchid badge behind. The badge helped ignite a citywide crackdown and forced hidden Human Race spies and the Red Crane Orchid rebels to respond.

• Shisui killed Boss Zhou, compressed his remains into a cube, and ate part of it before leaving to collect his wages by force.
• At Youhe Trading Company’s warehouse, Shisui found Yan Xu restrained in midair among more than a thousand crimson cubes, killed him, and pulled the warehouse’s materials into a spatial rift.
• Shisui tossed a badge engraved with a red crane orchid into the warehouse district and left; the next day, news reported that Youhe’s Qiongfang branch had vanished.
• A citywide census and Youhe’s disappearance plunged Qiongfang City into chaos, and Demon Race nobles ordered intensified investigations after the badge was found.
• Human Race spies in the sewers decided to alert Chen City about the Red Crane Orchid emblem, while the rebel organization discussed denying ties to the Human Race and protecting its members from the crackdown.

As Qiongfang’s census and security sweeps plunged the lower city into fear, Shisui observed how the nobles’ oppression was fueling resentment. At the E’er family estate, he learned that the Demon Race planned a curfew and that rival races had noticed the spirit treasure on Embracing Moon Peak, leaving him to suspect the Demon Race was provoking wider chaos for a greater prize.

• Shisui passed soldiers arresting families on fabricated charges and recognized that the raids were increasing resentment toward the upper class.
• He entered the E’er family estate, where E’er Kai reported that Qiongfang would impose a midnight-to-five a.m. curfew in a week.
• E’er Kai reported that the spirit treasure on Embracing Moon Peak would mature during the assembly and that Chen City and the Ten-Thousand-Blade Beastfolk had likely detected signs of it.
• Shisui learned that human spies had been uncovered during the census and reasoned that the Beastfolk would notice the treasure later because the Human Race was intercepting Psychic Energy upstream.
• Shisui suspected the Demon Race was deliberately drawing rival races toward the treasure and stirring unrest to conceal a greater objective, possibly abandoning Qiongfang City.

Shisui infiltrated the Human Race Delegation’s guest mansion in Qiongfang City and discovered that Ye Luo could probe memories with her talent. He lured her toward the lower district, where his hunger stirred and he decided to target Tan Anqing, who was following her.

• After a failed protest left Qiongfang City under martial law, the Human Race Delegation arrived, and Shisui secretly watched its members enter the guest mansion.
• Ye Luo tried to take a group photo, but Song Haomiao warned her to keep a lower profile, and Tan Anqing confronted him on her behalf.
• Ye Luo diverted Tan Anqing by promising him a place in the newspaper, then spotted a hooded figure through her camera and chased after it.
• Shisui realized Ye Luo had sensed him and deliberately led her toward the lower district, prompting her to use Psychic Energy to sharpen her memory and vision.
• Shisui identified Ye Luo’s memory-probing talent and, as his hunger intensified, decided to take Tan Anqing as a late-night snack.

Shisui lured Tan Anqing away from Ye Luo, killed him, and cooked him into fries. After Ye Luo gave an uncertain account of the encounter, a Blade Scale and Radiant Feather slipped beneath her skin while she slept, and she woke the next morning unaware of them.

• Tan Anqing recognized Shisui as the wanted Eight-Tailed Owl and followed him, while Shisui led him away from Ye Luo.
• Shisui admitted his identity to Tan Anqing and killed him before Ye Luo and the team leader arrived.
• Shisui used a controlled noble’s kitchen to make fries from Tan Anqing and ate them with a dark-red sauce.
• Ye Luo told the team leader she had seen a white-haired man but could not clearly remember the encounter.
• While Ye Luo slept, a Blade Scale and a Radiant Feather entered her foot and vanished; she woke the next morning feeling well and hurried to a tournament meeting.

After Tan Anqing was killed by the wanted criminal Eight-Tailed Owl, the human delegation tightened its safety rules and prepared for the youth tournament. Lin Shunan and several faction members exchanged warnings and plans, while Yin Xingyao urged his companions to prioritize survival on the perilous trip.

• The team leader announced that Tan Anqing had been killed by Eight-Tailed Owl, who was suspected of having ties to the Demon Race, and ordered the delegation not to travel alone.
• Lan Xundong and Lin Shunan discussed the sea’s potential turmoil, and Lin Shunan sent a coded message reporting Tan Anqing’s death and a change at sea.
• Fang Muyu mocked Tan Anqing, but Guo Lun told her to keep a low profile because the Reformist Faction was watching the Aristocratic Faction.
• Jiang Hongyan advised Song Haomiao to stabilize his recent cultivation breakthrough before the competition, while he focused on defeating the aristocratic families.
• Yin Xingyao warned Qu Yi and Zhan Yuyun that his master had divined danger on the journey and urged them to prepare to survive.

Shisui bombed targets across Qiongfang City, worsening the unrest and drawing the city defense forces into a frantic search. As a human intelligence team scrambled to cover up a damaged base, its leader learned that the Demon Race rebel organization Red Crane Orchid had discovered it and suspected someone was deliberately fanning the flames.

• Shisui used his Kagune and Radiant Feathers to begin bombing targets around Qiongfang City, plunging the city into chaos.
• Shisui escaped each blast by changing his appearance and moving on to another target, while the fire brigade and city defense forces responded to the explosions.
• A commander ordered a search for the bombers and learned that five more explosion sites had been found, including a suspected spy hideout.
• An Jiarong told his team leader that Zhai Simiao was heading for a bombed base and was sent to erase evidence, even if it meant sacrificing himself.
• A talking pigeon warned the team leader that Red Crane Orchid had discovered the base, leading him to suspect that someone was deliberately stirring up trouble.

Shisui engineered chaos in Qiongfang City by raiding Human Race and Beastfolk strongholds and framing the Red Crane Orchid, leaving the city engulfed in violence. After deciding to leave the nobles’ mansions for later, he encountered Lin Shunan, who recognized him and invited him to a teahouse to make a deal.

• The Human Race agents and the Beastfolk hurried to evacuate their exposed intelligence stations, but Shisui attacked the Beastfolk stronghold and stole the Radiant Feathers.
• Shisui left a Red Crane Orchid badge at the ruins, prompting the Human Race and Beastfolk to blame the Demon Race faction and intensifying the conflict among the three parties.
• Fighting and arson spread through Qiongfang City as ordinary residents joined the chaos, while Shisui watched the city burn and considered attacking the nobles’ mansions.
• Shisui killed a Demon Race robber in a remote lane and confronted Lin Shunan, a Human Race Delegation member who recognized him as the Eight-Tailed Owl.
• Lin Shunan proposed a deal over tea, and Shisui agreed to follow him to a teahouse.