Recaps

Zhou Shan rose through the Black Armored Army, developed the Golden Bell Shield, and led a campaign against bandits and the Iron Palm Gang. After defeating the gang and clashing with Captain Liu over its seized wealth, Zhou Shan left Ye County with his soldiers and the auction proceeds.

• Zhou Shan used Nine Breaths Assimilation to advance rapidly, defeated rivals at the mine, and became a Black Armored Army Centurion after testing at thirty years of cultivation.
• Zhou Shan escorted military supplies through an ambush, killed several bandit leaders, and delivered Chen Tianhu’s letter to Commander Fang Yuan, who gave him the Golden Bell Shield manual.
• Zhou Shan defeated Yi Shaofeng at the arena and then won a captaincy selection, earning command of two hundred Black Armored Army soldiers.
• Zhou Shan led his troops to Ye County, defeated and captured the Horse Bandit leader, and learned that the Iron Palm Gang had controlled the bandits and supplied their targets.
• Zhou Shan stormed the Iron Palm Gang’s headquarters, killed Wang Shi, and ordered his soldiers to subdue the gang and its hall masters.
• Captain Liu demanded the Iron Palm Gang’s seized wealth, but Zhou Shan refused and knocked him unconscious when they fought.
• Zhou Shan ordered raids on the gang leaders’ residences, oversaw the prisoners’ executions, auctioned the gang’s assets for 116,520 taels, and left Ye County for Qingyang City.

Zhou Shan crushed the Xu Family and its allies, then killed Guiyuan Sect officials who tried to take him in for an investigation. He fled into seclusion, reached the Innate Realm, and went to the Ghost Market to seek heavenly treasures while discovering Xu Haoran had placed a bounty on him.

• Zhou Shan reached Aperture-Opening and returned to the Black Armored Army, then killed the assassins sent by Liu Xuan and killed Liu Xuan and Liu Jierong when he confronted them.
• Zhou Shan was appointed commandant of Luyang County and used a public crackdown to restore order while secretly pursuing the Xu Family’s ties to the Vajra Sect remnants.
• Zhou Shan arrested Xu Haoyu, defeated the prison-breakers and their allies, killed Xu Hongtao and Shangguan Yun, and led the Black Armored Army in destroying the Xu Family and allied forces.
• Zhou Shan received the Indestructible Vajra Skill, but refused Meng Yan and Liu Jianshan’s demand to return to Guiyuan Sect and killed them when they attacked him.
• Zhou Shan fled to Black Mountain, broke through into the Innate Realm, and refined his Internal Force into Innate True Qi as his Golden Bell Shield continued to grow.
• Zhou Shan concluded that he needed heavenly treasures to surpass the Innate Realm’s ordinary cultivation limit and decided to seek them through the Black Dragon Society.
• Zhou Shan entered the Ghost Market using his Level 6 Killer Token, discovered Xu Haoran’s bounty for information about him, and commissioned a search for the treasures he needed.

Zhou Shan seized Golden Fruits, advanced through Marrow Cleansing Blood Changing, and forged the Dragon Slaying Saber while destroying several rival powers. After strengthening himself again and taking a Black Dragon Society mission, he reached Savage Elephant City to attack Roger Jun.

• Zhou Shan killed Xu Haoran and two Shangguan Family martial artists, then cultivated the Profound Fire Three Transformations in seclusion.
• Zhou Shan claimed two Golden Fruits at the Linglong Gold Mine by killing Du Yuan and Shangguan Fei, then mastered the Overlord Saber Art.
• Zhou Shan completed his first Marrow Cleansing Blood Changing, protected Fang Yuan’s group from the Blood Flame Army, and reached Heavenly Sword Manor.
• Zhou Shan perfected the third transformation of Profound Fire Three Transformations, learned Heavenly Sword Manor’s Weapon Forging Secret Art, and mastered Gathering Saber Momentum.
• Zhou Shan killed Shentu Xing and the Five Poisons Sect’s Grandmasters, secured an antidote for Heavenly Sword Manor, and received the Dragon Slaying Saber.
• Zhou Shan survived a Blood Fiend Sect ambush, destroyed the sect, mastered the Blood Origin Skill, and later bought two Flowing Gold Fruits for his second Marrow Cleansing Blood Changing.
• Zhou Shan accepted a Black Dragon Society mission to kill Roger Jun for two Blood Flame Fruits and attacked him at a banquet in Savage Elephant City.

Zhou Shan destroyed the Nine Cauldrons Sect, gathered powerful treasures, and advanced from Blood Transmutation to the Heaven Origin Realm. After joining the Eight Extremes Heavenly Sect and defeating threats across several dynasties, he faced a hidden Demon Warrior in the Great Wind Dynasty.

• Zhou Shan escaped the Nine Cauldrons Sect elder, completed his third blood change, and later returned to the sect to kill its five Blood Transmutation Grandmasters and plunder its assets.
• Zhou Shan gathered Thunder Fruits and Divine Intent treasures, killed Grandmasters who tried to seize them, and advanced through his sixth and seventh blood changes.
• Zhou Shan entered the Ancient Tomb Mansion, claimed the Black Heaven True Scripture, and killed Tu Ning and the leaders of the Black Snake Gang.
• Zhou Shan completed his ninth blood change, joined the Eight Extremes Heavenly Sect, and broke through to the Earth Origin Realm using the Black Heaven True Scripture.
• Zhou Shan completed missions against Demon Warriors and an Ancient Dragon Ape, then helped the Ling Family defeat water bandits and claim the Nine Rivers King's treasure.
• Zhou Shan cultivated to Heaven Origin Realm perfection and traveled to the Great Wind Dynasty, where he killed Feng Beimo and five Demon Warriors before a hidden attacker struck at him.