Recaps

Wang Chen joined the Blood-Clad Guard, trained, and pursued the Ling Family’s secrets while building strength and earning a posting to Linjiang County. After defeating Yellow Lotus Sect attackers and surviving a Hidden Dragon Society assassination attempt, he became a Banner Officer and spent three months under guard, preparing for the threats against him.

• Wei Zhengxiong secured Wang Chen’s place in the Blood-Clad Guard, tested his strength, and promised to protect him as Wang Chen vowed to avenge his father.
• Wang Chen trained under Wang Hui, mastered new techniques, and graduated from Iron Furnace Camp as a silver-badge Blood-Clad Guard.
• Wang Chen recovered the Ling Family’s hidden treasures, learned the next two layers of the Mysterious Heaven Seven Fiend Wheels were at Yuntai Mountain Daoist Palace, and advanced to Martial General.
• Wei Zhengxiong assigned Wang Chen to Linjiang County, where Wang Chen quickly established himself at the understaffed guard station.
• Wang Chen helped Old Qiu’s squad track Tailor Lin’s missing daughter, fought off a Yellow Lotus Sect ambush, and killed Black Whirlwind Li Kui.
• Wang Chen’s battle merits earned him promotion to Banner Officer, but assassins attacked him and the other guards at his celebration banquet.
• Pang Tai identified the attackers as members of the Hidden Dragon Society and ordered Wang Chen to stay at the Guard Post, while Wang Chen refused his offer to help reclaim the Ling Family headship.
• Wang Chen unlocked the Qi Gazing Technique, received rewards for killing the assassins, and remained on guard as three months passed without further attacks.

Wang Chen advanced his cultivation, exposed a demon and a Hidden Dragon Society trap, and reclaimed his father’s honor in Anyang City. After defeating the assassin Huang Jue and taking up a post in Donglu Prefecture, he began investigating a wave of disappearances.

• Wang Chen formed his fifth fiend wheel, reached Martial Master, and volunteered for Lone Wolf missions while secretly developing flintlock firearms.
• Wang Chen investigated the deaths in Kaoshan Village, found Zhang Shitou transformed into a Bloodthirsty Demon, and killed him and two Hidden Dragon Society assassins.
• Wang Chen claimed the Great Hao Demon Punishing Spear and its technique, then revealed his fifth-tier Martial Grandmaster strength when Captain Xu tried to steal credit for his achievement.
• Wang Chen received an apology from Xu Jinghui and orders to return to Anyang City, where he confronted Tong Wanshan and Ling Hongfeng during Ling Hongfeng’s wedding.
• Wang Chen killed Tong Wanshan and Ling Hongfeng, fulfilled his oath to his father, rejected the Ling Family headship, and declared that he would use the name Wang Chen.
• Wang Chen refused Qin Qingxuan’s offer to help end the Hidden Dragon Society’s bounty and killed its fifth-tier assassin Huang Jue in a spear duel.
• Wang Chen showed Huang Jue’s head and spear to Yao Peng, accepted a Demon Suppressing Captain post in Donglu Prefecture, and received a residence and Xi Jun as an aide.
• Wang Chen rode to Guangping County to investigate disappearances, entered Peony Tower in disguise, and began playing dice at Hundred Victories Pavilion.

Wang Chen uncovered a demon scheme in Guangping, then advanced his cultivation and fought his way through the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains. After reaching Great Ye and settling a dispute with Medicine King Manor, he met Emperor Shaowu, who granted him three days in the Imperial Library Pavilion.

• Wang Chen exposed demons and a hidden Demon Ascension Pool beneath Peony Tower, then was promoted to Blood-Clad Guard Commander and handed the investigation over to the Metropolitan Guard Bureau.
• Wang Chen returned to Donglu, cultivated for months, and received an imperial summons to Great Ye, while the Hidden Dragon Society ordered the Azure Peak Bandits to kill him on the way.
• Wang Chen traded a promise to help Qin Qingxuan deal with a demon for the sixth-level Mysterious Heaven Seven Fiend Wheels method, then became a sixth-tier Martial Venerable.
• Wang Chen fought through the Azure Peak Bandits’ ambushes, killed Tantai Xiong and his men, and took the bandits’ treasure before escorting Liang Shicheng and his family to safety.
• Wang Chen reached Great Ye and exposed Old Master Mu’s counterfeit ginseng scheme, then accepted a thousand-year ginseng as compensation after invoking the Great Ancestor’s Law.
• Emperor Shaowu received Wang Chen, gave him a Dragon-shaped jade pendant, and granted him three days to study Daoist scriptures and magical texts in the Imperial Library Pavilion.
• Wang Chen spent the next three days reading selected books in the Daoist Hall without eating, drinking, or resting.

Wang Chen became Princess Qingyun’s master, advanced to Martial Saint, and took up the post of Imperial Envoy of Marriage. While escorting her to Great Yan, he defeated the White Wolf Bandits, and Qingyun asked him to help her escape her arranged marriage.

• Wang Chen opened Princess Qingyun’s Upper Dantian, accepted her as his disciple with Emperor Shaowu’s approval, and taught her Daoist cultivation.
• Wang Chen earned the Demon Character Spear Shaft by presenting proof of his victories over the Azure Peak Bandits, then forged the Great Hao Demon Punishing Spear.
• Wang Chen and Qin Qingxuan used the spear to kill the demon Zhang Shuocheng, and Wang Chen later became Princess Qingyun’s Crown Prince’s Grand Protector and Imperial Envoy of Marriage.
• Wang Chen broke through the final Stinking Lung Wheel and reached the Seventh Tier, becoming a Martial Saint before reuniting with Xi Jun and preparing for the journey.
• Wang Chen protected the wedding procession from successive bandit attacks, killing more than a hundred attackers during the first assault.
• At Lianyun Mountain, Wang Chen rode alone against the White Wolf Bandits and killed their leader White Wolf, then broke their force of more than ten thousand as Sun Zhengheng’s guards pursued the survivors.
• After Sun Zhengheng led guards to destroy the bandits’ lair, Princess Qingyun asked Wang Chen to take her away from the marriage, and Wang Chen agreed to do so after they reached Great Yan.