Recaps

Wang Chen hunted void creatures across the star ring, collecting Human Virtue and valuable materials while searching for Outer Realm Heavenly Demons. After sensing a hidden watcher, he reached the core of the star ring and forced a colossal flood serpent from its cave, where it attacked him.

• Wang Chen killed a colony of black bats and their bat queen, then collected the Xuanming Sand from their cavern.
• Wang Chen hunted void creatures across hundreds of meteorites, gaining Human Virtue and collecting valuable void specialties, including a large piece of Void Tungsten Iron.
• Wang Chen sensed a presence watching him but continued into the core of the star ring, where the void vortex exerted a weak pull.
• Wang Chen spotted a figure hiding in a massive meteorite, shattered its concealed cave entrance, and sent Fire Crows into the tunnel.
• A colossal flood serpent burst from the tunnel in flames and attacked Wang Chen with a blast of black radiance breath.

Wang Chen fought a fourth-tier Winged Star Python while a Faceless Shadow ambushed him, using his formations and Heavenly Net to Punish Evil to kill both threats. After destroying the Python’s remains, he gained 1,500,000 Human Virtue.

• Wang Chen evaded the Winged Star Python’s breath and trapped it in the Seven Severing Sword Formation.
• A Faceless Shadow tried to ambush Wang Chen, but he dodged and captured it with the Heavenly Net to Punish Evil.
• The Heavenly Net to Punish Evil devoured the Faceless Shadow and left behind a demonic pearl.
• Wang Chen merged his seven Flying Swords, severed the Winged Star Python’s head, and destroyed its remains with lightning.
• Wang Chen received 1,500,000 Human Virtue.

Wang Chen returned to Dique Boundary Pass after hunting in the void and recovering valuable spoils. Bai Susu revealed that her cultivation had stalled after she depleted her origin to escape imprisonment, and she planned to use dual cultivation with Wang Chen to restore it.

• Wang Chen harvested the Winged Star Python's materials and collected the Outer Realm Heavenly Demon's Demon Bead for merit points.
• After ten days, Wang Chen returned to Dique Boundary Pass, having endured the void's harsh environment for nearly a month.
• Bai Susu warned Wang Chen that void power could damage his consciousness, then invited him to bathe in her hot spring pool.
• Bai Susu embraced Wang Chen and asked whether he had considered her three thousand years of Primal Yin.
• Wang Chen realized Bai Susu had encountered a problem, and she explained that her depleted origin and stalled cultivation had led her to choose dual cultivation with him.

Wang Chen cultivated Yin Yang Grinding with Bai Susu, helping her recover enough to return to the Xuan You Immortal Mansion while advancing his own cultivation. He then resumed exploring the Star Ring, returned with thirty-seven demon pearls, and earned enough merit points to nearly afford a Five Elements Spiritual Item.

• Bai Susu taught Wang Chen Yin Yang Grinding, and he mastered it with her guidance before raising it to Great Accomplishment using Human Virtue points.
• Wang Chen and Bai Susu cultivated together for a month, allowing Wang Chen to break through to Nascent Soul Seventh Layer and cleanse his Dao foundation.
• Bai Susu slumbered in her true form for two months while Wang Chen guarded her and supplied Spirit Stones, then awakened with the aura of a fifth-tier Demon Lord.
• After another half month together, Bai Susu returned to the Xuan You Immortal Mansion, and Wang Chen exchanged seven demon pearls for 10,540 merit points before teleporting back to Nine Provinces City.
• Wang Chen returned to Dique Boundary Pass and explored deeper into the Star Ring, hunting void creatures and Outer Realm Heavenly Demons among its large meteorites.
• After a month, Wang Chen handed over thirty-seven demon pearls and received more than forty thousand merit points, nearly enough to obtain a Five Elements Spiritual Item.

After his gains from exploring the Star Ring dwindled, Wang Chen agreed to attend a Rogue Cultivator Treasure Appraisal Meeting in hopes of trading his void creature materials for demon pearls. The meeting began at Cloud Crane Tower, where cultivators quickly competed to trade for rare treasures.

• Wang Chen learned from Xiong Liangpeng that Rogue Cultivators at Dique Boundary Pass were organizing a gathering where cultivators could trade resources and merit points, and he agreed to attend.
• Xiong Liangpeng gave Wang Chen a Jade Tablet for the meeting, and Wang Chen decided to stay at the Boundary Pass rather than seek another Star Ring.
• Wang Chen received notice that the meeting would be held at Cloud Crane Tower five days later and arrived there with his Jade Tablet.
• A Golden Core True Person offered Thousand-Year Void-Treading Grass in exchange for Primal Spirit Pills, and an unnamed senior secured it with an offer of thirty bottles.
• Another Golden Core cultivator took the stage with a fourth-tier top-grade Flying Sword as the meeting continued.

Wang Chen attended two treasure exchanges, obtained a fragmentary Jade Slip of the Nameless Sword Technique, and declined Xiong Liangpeng’s offer to lend him Spirit Stones. Xiong Liangpeng then gave him a privately made star chart, hoping to forge a favorable bond before his death.

• Wang Chen watched a fourth-tier Demon Bead sell for five hundred High Spirit Stones, too much for him to afford.
• Wang Chen exchanged three bottles of Primal Spirit Pills for a fragmentary Jade Slip of the Nameless Sword Technique.
• Wang Chen attended a private trading meeting for Nascent Soul True Immortals but lacked the funds and trade materials to acquire anything.
• After the meeting, Xiong Liangpeng offered to lend Wang Chen up to ten thousand High Spirit Stones, but Wang Chen declined.
• Xiong Liangpeng explained that he wanted to leave his clan a favorable bond and gave Wang Chen a star chart of places he had explored in the void.

Wang Chen initially rejected Xiong Liangpeng’s offer to protect his family, but reconsidered when Xiong revealed the Myriad Transformation Sword Seed, which could raise Wang Chen’s Dragon Abyss Sword to a fifth-tier Yuanqi. Xiong explained the Xiong clan’s precarious future and asked Wang Chen to help his grandson Xiong Zhaoyuan form a Nascent Soul and protect the clan.

• Xiong Liangpeng offered Wang Chen a secret star chart in exchange for helping his family secure a Nascent Soul, but Wang Chen refused the demand.
• Xiong Liangpeng added ten fourth-tier Demon Beads and five thousand High Spirit Stones, but Wang Chen still declined.
• Xiong Liangpeng revealed the Myriad Transformation Sword Seed, which could advance a fourth-tier Flying Sword into a fifth-tier Yuanqi, and Wang Chen became interested.
• Wang Chen asked Xiong Liangpeng to explain his family’s circumstances before deciding whether to accept the request.
• Xiong Liangpeng described the powerful Haotian Xiong clan and said his grandson Xiong Zhaoyuan was its only Golden Core with a real chance of forming a Nascent Soul.
• Xiong Liangpeng asked Wang Chen to help Xiong Zhaoyuan break through and protect the clan, offering the star chart, Demon Beads, High Spirit Stones, and Myriad Transformation Sword Seed in return.

Wang Chen accepted Xiong Liangpeng’s star map while considering whether to help Xiong Zhaoyuan reach Nascent Soul, then used his Cultivation Panel to restore a fragmentary sword art. The restored Taiyi Sword Technique could reach Great Ascension, but advancing it required Heavenly Merit.

• Xiong Liangpeng gave Wang Chen a star map and asked him to consider helping Xiong Zhaoyuan break through to Nascent Soul.
• Wang Chen accepted the star map and returned to his Cave Mansion.
• Wang Chen activated the fragmentary Jade Slip and discovered that it contained the incomplete Taiyi Sword Technique.
• Wang Chen used his Cultivation Panel to deduce and restore the sword art, rapidly spending Human Virtue points.
• Wang Chen learned that the complete Taiyi Sword Technique could reach Tier 7, and saw it appear on his Cultivation Panel at Beginner level.
• Wang Chen realized that upgrading the sword art required Heavenly Merit rather than Human Virtue.

Wang Chen visited the Xiong family to assess Xiong Zhaoyuan, its Golden Core heir, and offered to find Origin of the World to help him form a Nascent Soul. The offer astonished Xiong Liangpeng, who asked Wang Chen whether he was serious.

• Wang Chen visited Xiong Liangpeng and agreed to meet the Xiong family's Kirin Son, Xiong Zhaoyuan.
• Wang Chen and Xiong Liangpeng traveled to Yan Mountain City, where the Xiong clan welcomed them at the ancestral estate.
• Xiong Liangpeng introduced Xiong Zhaoyuan and explained that the Golden Core peak cultivator lacked the courage to attempt forming a Nascent Soul.
• Wang Chen asked whether Xiong Zhaoyuan would dare to form a Nascent Soul if given Origin of the World, and Xiong Zhaoyuan vowed to try without regret.
• After Xiong Liangpeng dismissed Xiong Zhaoyuan, he asked Wang Chen whether his offer to find Origin of the World was serious.

Wang Chen agreed to help Xiong Zhaoyuan obtain the Origin of the World so he could form a powerful Nascent Soul, while avoiding using the Origin of his private Cangqing Realm. After Xiong Liangpeng secured a slot to the dangerous Blood Moon Realm, Wang Chen descended there to search for the Origin.

• Wang Chen offered to obtain the Origin of the World for Xiong Zhaoyuan if Xiong Liangpeng could secure him access to a lower realm.
• Xiong Liangpeng decided to seek a lower realm slot through the Immortal Alliance despite the risks and expense.
• Five days later, Xiong Liangpeng obtained a slot to the Blood Moon Realm, where fewer than one in ten explorers returned alive.
• Wang Chen chose the Blood Moon Realm because it was still being explored and might hold an undiscovered Origin of the World.
• Wang Chen and Xiong Liangpeng submitted an application to the Nine Provinces Immortal Alliance, and Wang Chen descended into the Blood Moon Realm three days later.

Wang Chen awakened in the body of Ronan Raymond after Ronan was killed during a patrol in Rand City, and fought off three attackers before escaping to Precinct 3. After recovering at home, Wang Chen accepted Ronan’s identity and resolved to avenge his death.

• Wang Chen awoke in a bloodied alley and beat back three men who attacked him.
• Wang Chen escaped to Precinct 3, where Deputy Chief Shaun Alcott and the other officers treated his injuries.
• Wang Chen told Shaun Alcott that he had been ambushed after becoming separated from Old Hart during a pursuit.
• Wang Chen returned to his apartment and recalled Ronan Raymond’s background and recent death on patrol.
• Wang Chen decided to live as Ronan Raymond and avenge the murder.

Ronan learned about the Blood Moon Realm and decided to use his Psionic Power to explore its extraordinary paths and seek the Origin of the World. After reaching first-ring Psionic Power overnight, he prepared to avenge his previous self.

• Ronan reviewed the Blood Moon Realm’s nations, technology, and supernatural beings, including Demonic Beasts, witches, and bloodkin.
• Ronan recalled how Malcolm Raymond had treated his illegitimate children and how Ronan had been killed while serving as a Reserve Officer.
• Ronan found that he could not sense spiritual energy or use the Cultivation Panel, but he resolved to cultivate Psionic Power instead.
• Ronan examined the world from his Sea of Consciousness as the Primordial Dao Stele quietly emerged and glowed.
• Ronan awoke the next morning, inspected his healing head wound, and found that his Psionic Power had reached the first-ring level.
• Ronan decided to avenge his previous self.

After waking in Ronan’s body, Wang Chen focused on adapting to the spiritless technological world and rebuilding his strength. Ronan collected his salary at the Third Precinct and surprised his instructor Hart Sines by offering to buy him a drink.

• Ronan ate a costly breakfast to give his body the nutrition needed to regain strength.
• At the Third Precinct, Selina reminded Ronan to work toward becoming a full officer, while other officers eyed him jealously.
• Ronan collected his monthly salary of 1 Pound Sterling, 3 silver dollars, and 25 copper coins.
• Hart Sines warned Ronan not to risk his life impulsively after the previous day’s ambush, and Ronan promised to be more careful.
• Ronan offered to buy Hart a drink at the Black Elf Bar after work, surprising the usually miserly old officer.

Ronan learned from Old Hart that the thief who ambushed him belonged to the Gallo Brotherhood, and Old Hart warned him against seeking revenge. While patrolling, Ronan spotted the same thief again, memorized his face, and watched him disappear into the crowd.

• Ronan bought Old Hart drinks and asked which gang the thief who lured him into an alley belonged to.
• Old Hart identified the Gallo Brotherhood and warned Ronan that the gang was dangerous and protected by powerful backers.
• Ronan returned to his cramped room and cultivated his Psionic Power as the moon showed a faint blood-red glow.
• Ronan continued patrolling with Old Hart, who promised to apply to have him made a full officer sooner than usual.
• Ronan recognized the thief in the crowd, ignored his provoking smile, and memorized his face before he vanished.

Ronan killed Caster, a Gallo Brotherhood thug, and went to work the next morning for his first solo patrol. After spotting a hostile passerby watching him, Ronan stopped the man and demanded his identification.

• Caster left the tavern drunk, and Ronan struck him down in the street before shadowy figures dragged away his corpse.
• Ronan arrived at the Third Precinct and learned he had to patrol alone because Old Hart had injured his back.
• Selina warned Ronan to call for help if he encountered danger, and he set out carrying a standard-issue cross sword.
• During his patrol, Ronan noticed a demon hunter enter a tavern and then detected a passerby watching him with intense hostility.
• Ronan blocked the passerby's way, drew his baton, and demanded to see his identification.

Ronan captured Jay Sam, a wanted Grey Wolf Gang leader, after foiling his disguised attempt to stab him. The next day, Ronan received the bounty and an early promotion to full officer, gaining the right to carry a firearm and sword.

• Ronan dodged a disguised traveler's dagger attack, knocked him unconscious, and discovered his disguise and suspected wanted-criminal identity.
• At the Third Precinct, officers identified the captive as Jay Sam, a Grey Wolf Gang leader with a one-hundred-Pound Sterling bounty, and found weapons and gold on him.
• Sean Alcott confirmed Jay Sam's identity, praised Ronan, and promised to recommend him for early promotion.
• The Rand General Police Bureau took Jay Sam away to question him about other escaped gang leaders.
• The next day, Ronan received the bounty and became a full officer, then treated his colleagues to drinks at Manson Bar.

After receiving his full police equipment, Ronan killed three Gallo Brotherhood members who tried to abduct him and disposed of their bodies in the sewers. The next morning, his rental agent Lewis showed him additional housing options outside the city after Ronan rejected the available properties in Rand.

• Ronan received two police uniforms, boots, a duty belt, a cap, and a revolver named Doug.
• Three Gallo Brotherhood members cornered Ronan in an alley and tried to force him to meet their boss.
• Ronan killed all three gang members with throwing knives and dumped their bodies into a sewer.
• Ronan met Lewis, who presented three possible rental homes, but Ronan was dissatisfied with them.
• Lewis showed Ronan another set of property listings for houses outside the city, and Ronan examined them with interest.

Ronan chose a supposedly haunted seaside villa near Rand City and negotiated to buy it, intending to use it as his home while he built his strength. After signing the contract, he arrived and sensed something strange inside the villa, but remained unafraid.

• Ronan selected the seaside villa despite Lewis warning him that it was haunted and someone had died there.
• Ronan proposed renting the villa for a year and buying it for 300 pounds during that time, and the seller agreed to the contract.
• Ronan paid Lewis his commission and an extra pound, then rode his new bicycle from Rand City to the villa.
• Ronan unlocked the empty villa and felt an icy chill in the main hall, so he activated Psionic Power to protect himself.

Ronan inspected his new seaside villa and sensed a sinister aura in its basement, but decided to wait until his Psionic Power was stronger before investigating. As the Blood Moon period began, he stayed in Rand City and told his astonished coworkers about the villa, which they knew as a haunted and cursed house.

• Ronan toured the villa, found a corrupting aura in the basement, and chose to postpone investigating it until he reached Four Rings Psionic Power.
• Ronan returned to his Lower City apartment because the Blood Moon period was near and he was too weak to live alone outside the city.
• Ronan learned that the Blood Moon could cause living beings to mutate at night, prompting people to shelter indoors and Night Watchmen to patrol.
• Ronan met Old Hart at the police station and revealed that he had bought a seaside villa.
• Old Hart and the other officers warned Ronan that the villa was haunted and reportedly cursed by a witch, and Old Hart advised him to carry a Protection Talisman.
• The Blood Moon period began on the second day after Old Hart returned to work.

During the Blood Moon period, Ronan discovered that the Primordial Dao Stele could destroy the moon’s invasive energy and convert it into increased spiritual power, so he used the moonlight to cultivate. On his fifth night working guard duty at the Third Precinct, a pitch-black monster broke through the doors and Ronan opened fire.

• Ronan tested the blood moon’s effects and used the Primordial Dao Stele to protect his body and Sea of Consciousness from its strange energy.
• Ronan found that the Stele’s destruction of the invading energy slightly increased his spiritual power and Psionic Power.
• Ronan spent the following nights cultivating by his window, making rapid progress.
• Ronan stayed on night duty at the Third Precinct and played Black Forest Card with three officers.
• Ronan heard something approaching, and a pitch-black monster smashed through the precinct doors.
• Ronan fired first as the officers drew their pistols.

Ronan fought off a Demonized Puppet and a squad of black-robed attackers who stormed the Third Precinct. After killing their leader, he blew his police whistle as footsteps approached outside.

• A Demonized Puppet exploded in the precinct hall, killing two officers and grievously injuring another while Ronan survived behind the service counter.
• Ronan ambushed the black-robed men with his revolver, killing several and wounding others as they rushed through the hall.
• Ronan drew his sword to block a scimitar strike and faced the last attacker, a scarred, bald man with dark blue-green totemic markings.
• Ronan evaded the man's master-level slash and pierced his heart with his cross sword, killing him.
• Ronan knocked the two wounded attackers unconscious, looked toward the shattered doors, and blew his police whistle as footsteps approached.

After Ronan defended the Third Precinct, Abel Austin and the Night Watchmen took the captured attackers away and left a guard detail behind. Ronan learned more about the Night Watchmen and extraordinary power while sharing a drink with them until dawn.

• Abel Austin arrived with the Seventh Night Watchman Squad, heard Ronan's account, and ordered the attackers and bodies collected while leaving Night Watchmen to guard the precinct.
• A Night Watchman found a severely wounded officer alive, and Abel Austin revived him with a kingdom-issued magic potion.
• The Night Watchmen loaded the captured men and wounded officer into a steam car, and Abel Austin told Ronan that other precincts had also been attacked.
• Ronan cleaned the precinct hall, then joined the three Night Watchmen around a bonfire for canned food and a drink.
• A Night Watchman praised Ronan's marksmanship and explained how people awakened extraordinary power and used secret martial arts and extraordinary equipment.
• As dawn broke and the Blood Moon receded, the Night Watchman patted Ronan on the shoulder and said he hoped they would meet again soon.

After surviving the Blood Moon attacks, Ronan was promoted to Senior Officer and advanced to Three Rings, while the General Police Bureau prepared to publicize him as a hero. His peaceful routine ended when Night Watch Captain Abel Austin invited him to join an operation against underground forces in the sewers.

• Ronan told the superintendent how the Third Precinct had repelled the attackers, and the superintendent decided to present him as a model young officer.
• Shaun warned Ronan that becoming a public hero could make him a target for the attackers and their allies.
• During the seven-day Blood Moon period, security increased across Rand City, and Ronan was promoted to Senior Officer and reached Three Rings.
• Ronan received 145 gold pounds in reward money for killing two wanted criminals, but he could not yet access the secret arts that could help him advance further.
• Abel Austin visited Ronan and invited him to join an encirclement operation against underground forces in the sewers.
• Investigators identified the Blackbeard Pirates and Rand City's underground thugs as the main attackers on Blood Moon night.

After the Blackbeard Pirates’ attack on Rand City’s police stations, Abel Austin invited Ronan to join the Night Watchmen’s operation against the Underground Forces and offered to teach him a powerful technique if he earned merit. Ronan declined to commit to joining, but took part in the raid, which began with fierce fighting in the sewers.

• The investigation blamed the Blackbeard Pirates for the Blood Moon attacks, and Rand’s governor ordered the General Police Bureau to purge the Underground Forces that had aided them.
• Abel Austin invited Ronan on the operation, praised his talent, and offered to recommend him for the Steel Armor Breathing Technique if he earned merit.
• Ronan said he preferred his freedom and did not agree to join the Night Watchmen, but Abel Austin let him choose and prepared equipment for him.
• At dawn, Ronan met the Night Watchmen in the Lower City, received weapons and protective gear, and entered the sewers with them.
• The Night Watchmen encountered attacks from enemies throughout the sewer labyrinth, and Ronan witnessed the transcendent fighters slaughter their opponents.

Ronan accompanied Captain Abel Austin and a Night Watchmen squad through Rand City's sewers, where they fought the Underground Forces and discovered that Blackbeard Pirates had infiltrated the city. As the squad prepared to face a wave of flames rushing through the passage, Abel Austin ordered maximum alert.

• The Night Watchmen crushed the Underground Forces in the sewers, while Ronan followed Abel Austin's squad armed with a shotgun.
• Black-clad fighters attacked the squad, and Abel Austin led the defense as Night Watchmen gunfire felled many of them.
• A wounded black-clad fighter exploded a bomb beneath his robes, injuring several Night Watchmen, who treated their wounds and continued fighting.
• The surviving black-clad fighters retreated, and Abel Austin found a Blackbeard Pirates tattoo on one of the fallen men.
• Abel Austin ordered maximum alert when a red light ahead erupted into flames and swept toward the squad.