Recaps

Lin Shunan revealed that the delegation member's Spirit Dream Recall could copy images from recent memories and offered to obtain it for the Eight-Tailed Owl. Shisui gave Lin Shunan a sample of his blood and Radiant Feathers to advance his Crimson Chain talent, leaving him to experiment with the dangerous transformation.

• Lin Shunan met Shisui at a tea house and explained that the girl’s Spirit Dream Recall could view recent memories and copy images from them.
• Lin Shunan offered to help Shisui obtain the talent, and Shisui agreed after learning Lin Shunan intended to develop her into a Transcendent.
• Shisui guessed that Lin Shunan needed his help to advance Crimson Chain, which currently let him control his own blood.
• Lin Shunan asked for a sample of Shisui’s blood, and Shisui gave him a drop along with a piece of Radiant Feathers to swallow.
• Shisui left the tea house, while Lin Shunan recovered from the encounter and kept the cup stained with Shisui’s blood.

Lin Shunan drank Shisui’s blood, gaining a major boost to his Crimson Chain talent while becoming vulnerable to Shisui’s control. As Demon Race regulars prepared to enter Qiongfang City, Shisui decided to act before their arrival.

• Lin Shunan returned to his room and drank the crimson liquid supplied by Eight-Tailed Owl, then collapsed as Rc Cells began invading his body.
• Shisui monitored Lin Shunan’s transformation and concluded that his flesh had become valuable nourishment; he decided Lin Shunan would have to be killed before returning to the Human Race.
• Lin Shunan awoke and found his talent strengthened, using a blood whip to slice a chair in half.
• Shisui read that Demon Race regulars would soon be sent to Qiongfang City under the pretext of quelling unrest.
• Shisui considered the approaching army and resolved to do something drastic before it arrived.

As the Human Race prepared to confront the Demon Race and Beastfolk on multiple fronts, Lou Shisui reignited the unrest in Qiongfang City by bombing a noble residence on the mountainside. The blast drew the factions toward the nobles’ district and caught the Beastfolk delegation in the upheaval.

• The Demon Race and Human Race mobilized across from each other at the Wunu River, while a Human general kept a corps watching the Beastfolk.
• The Human Race secretly deployed troops and teleportation anchors into the Spirit Resonance Rainforest to prepare an attack on the Beastfolk.
• Fighting in Qiongfang City dwindled as the factions suspected they had been manipulated and temporarily held back ahead of the Three Races Friendship and Exchange Conference.
• On December 1, Lou Shisui detonated a bomb halfway up the mountain, destroying noble residences and throwing the city back into chaos.
• The factions blamed one another and surged toward the mountainside as Lou Shisui watched from a rooftop and noticed the blast had struck near the Beastfolk delegation’s residence.

Shisui endured the pressure of a Heaven Realm expert in Qiongfang City, then escaped and delivered footage of the incident to the mayor of Chen City. The mayor confirmed the Heaven Realm threat and requested support, while a hidden observer watched.

• A Heaven Realm expert's Psychic Energy pressure silenced Qiongfang City and pinned the Beastfolk delegation and Shisui in place.
• Shisui concealed his Kakugan and restrained his Kagune as he recognized he could not fight the Heaven Realm expert.
• After escaping Qiongfang City by teleporting, Shisui carried a black cube to the mayor's residence in Chen City.
• Shisui placed the cube in the mayor's study, where it later played footage of the explosion and the Heaven Realm expert's arrival.
• The mayor contacted the upper echelon to request support after confirming a Heaven Realm expert was in Qiongfang City.
• A translucent feather watched from a bookshelf as a Heaven Realm expert appeared likely to be stationed in Chen City.

The Human Race delegation arrived at the Three Races Friendly Communication and Youth Sparring Exchange Conference, while Lin Shunan secretly considered helping Eight-Tailed Owl obtain a powerful spirit skill. As the armies of the races waited beyond the mountains, the conference opened with Song Haomiao and the other competitors taking their seats.

• Ye Luo rode to the conference with Lin Shunan, agreed to photograph him during the competition, and exchanged contact information with him.
• Shisui watched the conference venue from a mountainside and noted that the armies and an unknown Heaven Realm powerhouse were waiting outside the mountains.
• Lin Shunan avoided telling Lan Xundong what he had been doing and left after Lan teased him about Ye Luo.
• Song Haomiao entered the entry-level hall, recalled his dead friend and resolved to rise high enough to challenge the great clans, while Jiang Hongyan encouraged him.
• Jiang Hongyan and Xiao Ziyi led their competitors to the Human Race delegation's seats, and the conference opened at 8:00 a.m.

The three races’ representatives traded barbed remarks before watching the youth sparring competition, where Jiang Hongyan’s Human Race team faced the Beastfolk in the opening beginner team match. After the first exchange ended in a draw, Shisui grew bored and wanted the fight to move faster.

• The Human Race, Beastfolk, and Demon Race representatives exchanged jabs about each other’s prospects and Qiongfang City’s recent unrest before agreeing to watch the competition.
• Jiang Hongyan reassured Song Haomiao that the matches served as leverage for the coming negotiations, then vowed to defeat the Beastfolk.
• Jiang Hongyan led Song Haomiao, Zhan Yuyun, Qu Yi, and Fang Muyu into the arena to face five Beastfolk competitors from the Myriad-Blade Rainforest.
• The Human Race team attacked with practiced coordination, but the Beastfolk blocked their opening moves, leaving the first exchange a draw and the match at a stalemate.
• Shisui yawned at the Fourth-Realm competitors’ slow fight and wanted to speed up the tournament.

Ye Luo struggled with a strange emotional numbness while Shisui watched the elite match and prepared to interfere. The Human Race team seemed to gain the upper hand, but Lin Shunan betrayed Xiao Ziyi, leaving the competition’s first death on the arena floor.

• Ye Luo mechanically photographed the aftermath of the Human Race’s first victory and briefly slipped into a cruel, contemptuous state before Lin Shunan’s visit restored her composure.
• Shisui observed Ye Luo and Lin Shunan, then focused on the elite match between the Human Race and the Demon Race, whose contestants included puppets under his control.
• Xiao Ziyi led the Human Race’s attack against E’erbo as Lin Shunan, Lan Xundong, and the other fighters engaged their opponents.
• Yin Xingyao sealed the Demon Race support player’s ability while Shen Cang restrained four opponents with vines, giving Xiao Ziyi a chance to strike E’erbo.
• Lin Shunan stabbed Xiao Ziyi from behind as he attacked E’erbo, and Xiao Ziyi’s head fell to the arena floor.

Lin Shunan betrayed the Human Race team, helping the Demon Race kill Xiao Ziyi, Lan Xundong, and Yin Xingyao before Shen Cang surrendered and fled. As Shisui pursued the remaining contestants, a spirit treasure erupted from the ground near Qiongfang City, unleashing a flood of Psychic Energy mist.

• Lin Shunan stabbed Xiao Ziyi, and E'erbo broke free and killed him as the Demon Race referee let the match continue.
• Lin Shunan and two demons overwhelmed Lan Xundong, while Shen Cang and Yin Xingyao struggled to hold back the attackers.
• Shisui's Rc Cells empowered the puppets, and his Crimson Chain pierced Lan Xundong; Shen Cang surrendered, but Shisui killed Yin Xingyao before the referee arrived.
• Shen Cang entered the contestants' passage alone, and Lin Shunan followed him toward the waiting area as the Human Race delegation's teachers searched elsewhere for a Psychic Energy source.
• The spirit treasure burst out of the ground near Qiongfang City, and Shisui flew toward the mountain through the dense Psychic Energy mist.

Shisui controlled Lin Shunan’s body, slaughtered the contestants in the waiting area, and remade the flesh into Lin Shunan’s form. He then joined E'erbo and Tangtai Norton in cornering Ye Luo and transferring Rc Cells into her, leaving her immobilized and overwhelmed by agony.

• Lin Shunan entered the contestants’ waiting area and attacked the Beastfolk member who taunted him, then fought off the contestants who charged at him.
• Shisui revealed that he was controlling Lin Shunan remotely and transformed his body into a tentacled monster that killed the waiting-area contestants.
• Two Demon Race puppets slipped away, while Shisui absorbed the corpses and reshaped the mass of flesh into Lin Shunan’s form.
• Ye Luo fled through the streets with a recorder as E'erbo and Tangtai Norton pursued her, then accepted help from Lin Shunan.
• Lin Shunan led Ye Luo into an alley and transferred Rc Cells into her; E'erbo and Tangtai Norton joined in, leaving her engulfed in pain.

Shisui sacrificed his three puppets to transform Ye Luo into a powerful new puppet and modified Spirit Dream Recall into a memory-viewing recorder. He then turned toward the summit’s Heavenly Earthly Spirit Treasures, where Moluoke faced representatives of the Human Race and Beastfolk over who could claim them.

• Shisui used his three puppets to flood Ye Luo with Rc Cells, driving her unconscious body to the Fourth-Realm Peak while the puppets withered away.
• Shisui reshaped Ye Luo into a red sphere and installed Spirit Dream Recall in a recorder, hiding the unstable device nearby.
• Shisui decided to pursue the Heavenly Earthly Spirit Treasures so Ye Luo could gain the chance to comprehend the Transcendent realm.
• The chapter revealed that the snow spirits atop Embracing Moon Peak were the treasures that had caused the Psychic Energy Sea of Mist.
• A Human Race teacher and the Beastfolk representative urged Moluoke to share the snow spirits, but Moluoke asserted the Demon Race’s claim and challenged them to take any.

Jin Yuze and Moluoke clashed over Embracing Moon Peak until a human army appeared at Qiongfang City's gate, triggering the Qiongfang Battle. As fighting spread through the city, Shisui raided a noble's manor and slaughtered its guards, nearing advancement to the Profound Realm.

• Jin Yuze arrived to confront Moluoke and challenged the Demon Race's claim to keep Embracing Moon Peak for itself.
• Jin Yuze invited Moluoke to welcome the Human Race's Central Military District, but Qiongfang City's gate was suddenly destroyed and a human army appeared outside.
• Moluoke declared that the Human Race had attacked Qiongfang City and ordered the Demon Race to defend its territory, officially beginning the Qiongfang Battle.
• Shisui avoided the summit and the chaotic commoners' district, then entered a noble's manor where most defenders had left to fight.
• Shisui killed the remaining guards, consumed their transformed bodies, and realized that he was close to reaching the Profound Realm.

Shisui continued raiding nobles’ residences until a Profound Realm Fourth-Realm Peak soldier ambushed him. After killing the soldier and consuming a crystal, Shisui felt his bottleneck to the Profound Realm loosen and rushed toward another powerful opponent.

• Shisui plundered food and treasures from lightly guarded courtyards, then blocked a soldier’s surprise halberd attack.
• Shisui fought the soldier, using his healing Rc Cells to survive severe injuries and counter with his Rinkaku Scorpion Tail.
• The wounded soldier tried to kill Shisui with a dagger and a blade hidden in his boot, but Shisui killed him and collected the spilled blood.
• Shisui ate a bright red crystal, felt his bottleneck to the Profound Realm loosen, and changed course toward another residence with a powerful enemy.

Human spies in Qiongfang City discovered that the Demon Race was escalating the unrest to keep rival armies occupied while pursuing a move toward the pass through the Ten-Thousand-Blade Mountain Range. As Moluoke fought Jin Yuze, the Moluogelo Duke’s Residence began collapsing, and Jin Yuze blocked Moluoke from rushing to his father’s side.

• Grand Duke Moluogelo ordered his forces to begin moving at the mountain pass while the Demon Race’s regular army entered the conflict in Qiongfang City.
• Wei Hongyuan learned that Demon Race regulars were deliberately intensifying the fighting and ordered his spies to watch them and the Beastfolk.
• Wei Hongyuan realized the Demon Race was targeting the pass through the Ten-Thousand-Blade Mountain Range and ordered the news sent to military headquarters.
• Jin Yuze accused Moluoke of sacrificing a city to tie down the other races, but Moluoke insisted he was only focused on killing invaders as they fought.
• Moluoke saw smoke rising from the collapsing Moluogelo Duke’s Residence and tried to break away from Jin Yuze.
• Jin Yuze surrounded Moluoke with golden threads and taunted him to get past if he could.

Shisui used the destruction of the Duke's Residence to reach Embracing Moon Peak and take the Snow Spirits into his Alternate Space. Three Earth Realm powerhouses rushed to stop him, and he confronted them in his fully deployed Kakuja armor.

• Moluoke ordered the Whistling Wind Camp to guard the mountain and sent the remaining troops to the Duke's Residence as he fought Jin Yuze and retreated.
• After confirming [Spirit Dream Recall] remained under control, Shisui flew toward Embracing Moon Peak while the Heaven Realm fighters drew away from the summit.
• Shisui found the Snow Spirits' eggs covering the peak and used his Koukaku to enclose them and move them into his Alternate Space.
• When the Psychic Energy mist thinned, three Earth Realm powerhouses noticed the change and raced toward Embracing Moon Peak.
• Shisui halted their charge with Kakugan Radiant Feathers and revealed himself in fully deployed Kakuja armor.

Shisui ambushed three Earth Realm Demon Race members and baited Tumen Feiying into fighting him alone. He trapped them in a spatial battlefield, but Tumen Feiying crushed Shisui with his talent, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Shisui confronted the three Earth Realm Demon Race members and taunted Tumen Feiying after his first attack was dodged.
• Tumen Feiying attacked Shisui, but Radiant Feathers nearly struck him and provoked him into pursuing Shisui alone.
• Shisui unleashed the spatial energy in the Radiant Feathers, isolating the mountaintop and cutting off his own escape and access to the Snow Spirit.
• Shisui attacked Tumen Feiying with his kagune and scorpion-tail stinger, managing to pierce his skin before Tumen Feiying knocked him back and pulled out the stinger.
• Tumen Feiying used his talent to slam Shisui into the ground and crush his body to pieces.

Shisui survived Tumen Feiying’s crushing attack and killed him with a concealed poison and a beheading strike. After recovering, Shisui escaped Qiongfang City by plunging into the Wunu River, while two Demon Race members returned from Embracing Moon Peak and found the ruined mountaintop.

• Tumen Feiying stopped crushing Shisui after concluding that he was dead and turned toward Embracing Moon Peak.
• Shisui used [Bone-Deep Rot] to immobilize Tumen Feiying, then severed his head and absorbed his Psychic Energy.
• Shisui recovered his body, left the spatial turbulence, and plunged into the Wunu River to escape Qiongfang City.
• The two Demon Race members returned from Embracing Moon Peak, found Tumen Feiying missing, and discovered the devastation on the mountaintop.

After the Spirit Treasure vanished, the Wunu River’s spiritual energy began to fade, and the Human Race intelligence team suspected the thief would escape by river. A landslide buried Ten-Thousand-Blade Pass during the battle between Moluoke and Jin Yuze, while Shisui surfaced far from Qiongfang City.

• The South City No. 2 outpost reported that the Wunu River’s spiritual mist had mostly dissipated and its Psychic Energy had stopped rising, leading the intelligence team leader to suspect the Spirit Treasure had been taken.
• The intelligence team leader sent scouts to Chen City with orders to seal off Wunu Embankment and told other outposts to watch for anyone leaving by another route.
• The North District outpost reported a landslide that buried Ten-Thousand-Blade Pass, cutting off the passage between Moonfall Continent and Huaihuang Continent.
• Moluoke and Jin Yuze continued fighting despite the collapse, then agreed to stop for the day as neither side wanted a wider conflict.
• Shisui emerged from the Wunu River and reached the riverbank before Wunu Embankment.

Shisui used his newly reached Profound Realm abilities to travel through Chen City and seek passage south on a merchant ship. He met Bo Xiwan, owner of the Wealth-Bringing Caravan, and their first impressions left both wary of the other.

• Shisui dried himself with Psychic Energy and walked through the crimson fir forest, demonstrating his control over energy outside his body.
• Shisui reached Chen City's south gate and searched the recruitment square for a caravan traveling downstream on the Wunu River.
• Shisui interviewed with the first caravan, whose receptionist recognized him as a Profound Realm expert and reported his arrival to another caravan.
• Shisui examined the Wealth-Bringing Caravan's Psychic Energy-infused plaque and entered its tent.
• Bo Xiwan introduced himself as the caravan's owner and shook hands with Shisui, sensing that Shisui was sizing him up like prey.

Shisui recalled that Tsukimi had been his surname in his past life while negotiating a job with Bo Xiwan under the name Yue Jian. Later, he encountered the injured Song Haomiao and Jiang Hongyan near Chen City and drew their attack.

• Shisui greeted Bo Xiwan and introduced himself as Yue Jian, privately remembering his past-life surname, Tsukimi.
• Shisui negotiated with Bo Xiwan and accepted a daily wage of one hundred top-grade spiritual pills plus five kilograms of psychic-energy-containing rare metals each month.
• Shisui noticed a red-haired Profound Realm cultivator whom Bo Xiwan identified as his colleague, and they agreed that the caravan would depart the next day.
• Song Haomiao and Jiang Hongyan, the two survivors of Lin Shunan's massacre at the competitors' waiting area, escaped through the Wunu River while injured.
• Shisui encountered Song Haomiao and Jiang Hongyan near Chen City and startled them into unleashing a fire-based attack.

Shisui defeated Jiang Hongyan and Song Haomiao in the Cedar Forest, then used [Spirit Dream Recall] to inspect Song Haomiao’s memories and discovered that [Fire Thief] could become a powerful plundering skill. He took both talents and disappeared before dawn, leaving a rumor of beasts hunting humans outside Chen City.

• Shisui deflected Jiang Hongyan and Song Haomiao’s flames, then pinned them to trees with Steel Feathers.
• Shisui recognized Song Haomiao by his blood and crushed Jiang Hongyan with spatial force.
• Shisui used [Spirit Dream Recall] to view Song Haomiao’s memories and learned he had joined the Reformist Faction.
• Shisui injected [Bone-Deep Rot] into Song Haomiao and noticed [Fire Thief] could develop into a concept-level plundering skill.
• Shisui took the vessels for [Fire Thief] and [Spirit Dream Recall], stored them with divided Snow Spirit, and vanished into the night.

Shisui boarded the Wealth-Bringing Caravan’s merchant ship with Bo Xiwan and Xue Jiuyao as the vessel departed south along the Wunu River. He overheard Chen City officials arguing over a possible blockade, but judged they would not act quickly and turned his attention to exploring the ship.

• Shisui waited by the Wunu River for the Wealth-Bringing Caravan’s ship after spending the night hunting weak creatures.
• Bo Xiwan arrived with his partner, Xue Jiuyao, and introduced him to Shisui; both partners claimed to be at the First Realm of the Profound Realm.
• Bo Xiwan led Shisui and Xue Jiuyao aboard the well-maintained merchant ship and ordered the crew to weigh anchor.
• As the ship headed south, Shisui used the Radiant Feathers to hear Chen City officials arguing over whether to blockade the Wunu Embankment.
• Shisui concluded the officials would take too long to agree on a plan, cut off his connection to the Radiant Feathers, and went to inspect the ship.

Xue Jiuyao dismissed Bo Xiwan’s warning about Yue Jian while agreeing to keep an eye on him, then encountered Shisui aboard the ship. Shisui’s attempt to attach Radiant Feathers to Xue Jiuyao failed, leaving both men intrigued by the other as they returned to their separate rooms.

• Bo Xiwan warned Xue Jiuyao not to underestimate Yue Jian, and Xue Jiuyao assured him he remembered their agreement.
• Xue Jiuyao met Shisui in the ship’s corridor and warned him away from the storerooms.
• As they passed, Xue Jiuyao shook the Radiant Feathers loose from his clothes without noticing them, and Shisui wondered whether his instincts had detected them.
• Xue Jiuyao returned to his room and trusted his intuition despite finding nothing suspicious about Yue Jian.
• Shisui returned to his room after learning that Bo Xiwan and Xue Jiuyao stayed in separate areas, and his interest in the two men grew.

Shisui used Feather Powder to conceal his cultivation while evolving in his room aboard the Wealth-Bringing merchant ship. When Beastfolk troops stopped the ship in the Myriad-Blade Rainforest, he hid his power and watched as Bo Xiwan went to speak with their commander.

• Shisui filled his room with Feather Powder, concealed his Psychic Energy, and began evolving with his stock of Flesh Crystals.
• The Wealth-Bringing merchant ship sailed into the rainforest, where a huge net stopped it and Beastfolk troops boarded.
• Shisui ended his evolution, restored his disguise, and adjusted his Psychic Energy to appear newly advanced in the First Realm of the Profound Realm.
• A Beastfolk bird-of-prey announced that the Wunu River was under lockdown and demanded trading credentials or travel permits.
• Shisui questioned a worker about the interception, then watched Bo Xiwan approach the Beastfolk leader and introduce himself as the caravan's owner.

Bo Xiwan used a permanent merchant license to stop Beastfolk troops from searching the Wealth-Bringing Caravan, while Shisui and Xue Jiuyao held them back. After the troops left, Xue Jiuyao told Bo Xiwan that Yue Jian was stronger than he appeared.

• Bo Xiwan ordered the cabin doors closed and had Xue Jiuyao and Shisui hold off the Beastfolk troops as they tried to board the ship.
• Bo Xiwan showed the Beastfolk leader his permanent traveling merchant license, prompting the leader to call off the search and remove the barrier net.
• Shisui returned to his room after scattering Radiant Feathers over the troops, pleased that he could save his Flesh Crystals and resume grinding levels.
• Xue Jiuyao suspected Yue Jian was hiding his strength, then followed Bo Xiwan into the cabin after the ship continued south.
• Xue Jiuyao told Bo Xiwan that Yue Jian was not at the Profound Realm First Realm, and Bo Xiwan's expression turned serious.

Bo Xiwan and Xue Jiuyao discussed Yue Jian’s suspected strength as the merchant ship reached Moonwhite Shoal. Shisui recognized their suspicious behavior and secretly contained the metallic dust Xue Jiuyao had spread over his clothes.

• Xue Jiuyao told Bo Xiwan that Yue Jian’s Psychic Energy suggested he had reached the middle or late stage of the Profound Realm’s second realm, and Bo Xiwan said the machine could handle that level.
• Bo Xiwan revealed that he had broken through to the second realm, angering Xue Jiuyao, then left before their exchange turned violent.
• The Fortune-Bringing Merchant Ship docked at Moonwhite Shoal, where Shisui noticed the settlement’s widespread use of Psychic Energy-rich moonwhite rock and suspected a nearby ore vein.
• Bo Xiwan welcomed Yue Jian to Moonwhite Shoal while Shisui watched Xue Jiuyao quietly fade into the surroundings.
• Xue Jiuyao scattered metallic particles onto Shisui, but Shisui’s Rc Cells detected and confined them as he continued to watch the pair.