Recaps

Ronan learned alchemy from Old Jack, developed Psionic weapons and protection talismans, and built a trading partnership through Gustav Rhine and Rose Sinclair. After settling his conflict with the Herbert Family and moving Dolores and Janice into a villa, he began an internship at the Fourth Precinct, where the officers kept him at a distance.

• Ronan found Old Jack at the Copper Anchor Casino, rescued him from the casino thugs, and paid to learn his alchemical knowledge.
• Ronan studied with Old Jack, inherited his home and laboratory, and used Psionic Power to refine a dagger into an extraordinary item.
• Ronan moved Dolores and Janice into his home, acquired Master Will Bridges’s revolvers, and forged the alchemical weapons Knight and Ranger.
• Ronan rejected Shaquille Bell and Rudolf Herbert’s threats, resisted an arrest attempt, and reached the sixth ring of Psionic Power during his clash with Gustav Rhine.
• Gustav Rhine backed Ronan’s account, arranged compensation, and partnered with him to trade his alchemical creations through Rose Sinclair.
• At the Holy Fire Society salon, Ronan demonstrated his Protection Talismans, sold five of them through Rose, and promised Audrey Norton a custom alchemical item.
• Ronan chose an Old Port District internship, bought a villa for Dolores and Janice, and took up the post of Deputy Chief at the Fourth Precinct.
• Ronan reviewed neglected case files and patrolled with Milo Austin while Ford Hamilton and the precinct officers ignored him.

Ronan solved the Bauer family massacre, pursued Balder Eady, and uncovered a conspiracy involving nobles, vampires, and Life Potions. After destroying the Internal Affairs Department and negotiating with the kingdom, he entered the Secret Vault, where a hidden red dragon revealed the royal family’s trap.

• Ford Hamilton assigned Ronan the Levi Bauer family massacre, and Ronan traced the killer’s scent to Walkerley’s tailor shop, where Detective Kash helped capture him.
• The General Police Bureau ended Ronan’s probation and assigned him to capture Balder Eady, so Ronan investigated the Razor Gang and attacked Morpheus Mendt at Edelman Shipyard.
• Ronan found Balder Eady in an underground settlement and learned that he had killed Baron Franklin Norton to expose nobles and vampires making Life Potions from human lives.
• Ronan let Balder Eady remain with his people, resigned from the police, and then fought Internal Affairs officers who tried to silence him over the conspiracy.
• Ronan killed Magnus Conn and Irene, took the Curio Vault’s treasures, and forced the kingdom to negotiate after stopping the army from attacking him.
• Gustav Rhine secured the kingdom’s agreement to open the Secret Vault and build Ronan an Alchemy Tower, while Ronan returned to Ceres and told Dolores and Janice the crisis was over.
• Ronan entered the Secret Vault with the King’s authorization and drew Origin of the World from its treasures, waking Gregory, a red dragon hidden beneath the gold.
• Ronan realized the King of Invya had concealed Gregory and that the royal family had prepared a trap for him.

Ronan forced Gregory into a ten-year truce before Wang Chen returned to the Mountain Sea Realm to undergo Mortal Realm Heart Refining. After settling in Qing'an County, marrying Ye Dai, and helping the county endure drought and siege, Wang Chen helped secure the town’s survival and returned home.

• Ronan defeated Gregory’s Dragon Domain, threatened him with a Dragon Slaying Spear, and secured a ten-year truce in exchange for Dragon Blood, scales, and teeth.
• Ronan moved into the Alchemy Tower, developed Red Dragon Potions that awakened Dolores and Janice’s Extraordinary Strength, and transferred his soul into a perfect clone.
• Wang Chen reached the peak of Nascent Soul, reunited with his companions, raised the Dragon Abyss Sword to Tier 5, and obtained Zhang Sihai’s World-Crossing Pearl to reach the Mountain Sea Realm.
• Wang Chen settled in Qing'an County, opened the Wang Clan School for poor children, and became engaged to and then married Ye Dai.
• When drought drove rice prices upward and refugees flooded Qing'an County, Wang Chen helped Ye Xiangming build a Self-Flowing Waterwheel and then defended refugees from violent attacks.
• Wang Chen and Ye Xiangming helped Qing'an County resist the Ping Tian Army’s repeated assaults, while Wang Chen killed bandits who threatened the defenders.
• Yu Heqian conspired with local elites and the Ping Tian Army to kill Wang Chen, but Wang Chen killed the conspirators and Yu Heqian, and he and Ye Xiangming blamed the deaths on bandit experts.
• Ye Xiangming took control of Qing'an County Town, Li Zili withdrew the bandit army, and Wang Chen returned home to spend three days and nights with Ye Dai and Xiao Yu.

Wang Chen helped Qing'an survive famine and the collapse of the dynasty, then led the Ye and Wang families and thousands of residents south to Yunze under an agreement with Li Zili. Later, he took Wang Zhenzhen north to Changyi, where she trained, faced danger, and began to see the world for herself.

• Ye Xiangming appointed Wang Chen county deputy magistrate, and Wang Chen secured grain for Qing'an, suppressed bandits, and helped force wealthy households to feed refugees.
• Wang Chen killed the Drought Fiend, bringing rain to the drought-stricken region, and later welcomed his daughter Wang Zhenzhen, whose body bonded with the demon’s crimson bone.
• Zhang Xiaoshan accused Wang Zhenzhen of being a reincarnated drought demon, but Wang Chen drove him away and created the Nine Yang Divine Skill to train her.
• As Li Zili’s Ping Tian Army advanced, Wang Chen negotiated a one-year reprieve for Qing'an and a hundred-year guarantee of safe passage and trade before Ye Xiangming led fifty thousand residents to Yunze.
• Wang Chen took Wang Zhenzhen to the Black Flood Dragon Pool, where she killed the flood dragon and claimed its pill.
• Wang Chen and Wang Zhenzhen traveled north toward Changyi, revisited Qing'an, drove off Zhao Haiming’s group at an inn, and gave Huo Wuji a cultivation manual without accepting him as a disciple.
• Wang Chen severed an unseen influence that made Wang Zhenzhen feel bound to Huo Wuji, and she later defeated a bandit ambush before they reached Changyi.