Recaps

Lin Sheng recovered from consuming a leaf of Netherworld Soul Grass and concealed the cave before leaving, while Liu Tianci’s search for him continued. Five days later, four Black-Clothed Envoys of the Heavenly Net Sect killed and consumed a powerful white tiger as they searched the Congyun Mountain Range for Sacred Elephant’s Tusk.

• Lin Sheng endured the Netherworld Soul Grass’s hallucinations, recognized its risks and benefits, and put the remaining plant away to recover.
• Lin Sheng divided the remaining snake gallbladder, left the snake fangs behind, and used Earth Vein Resonance to bury the cave entrance.
• Liu Tianci’s constables raided the Spirit Snake Courtyard’s hideout, killed its disciples, and failed to learn Lin Sheng’s whereabouts from Yu Zhao.
• Liu Tianci received a message about the Heavenly Net Sect and a demon beast’s tooth, while Ouyang Lengshui, the Yuanyang Beast Sect, and the Situ Family received the same news.
• Four Heavenly Net Sect envoys used their Ghost Fiend Sealing Heaven array to drain and kill a white tiger, then butchered and ate its organs.

Lin Sheng tracked four strange humans through the Blood Maple Forest after finding a White-browed Tiger and herb gatherers killed and disemboweled. He identified the men as likely his targets and closed in on them as they continued toward the edge of the mountains with the Sacred Elephant's Tusk.

• Shaha and his companions attacked a group of herb gatherers, killed most of them, and feasted on their organs beside the White-browed Tiger's corpse.
• Lin Sheng reached the Blood Maple Forest, killed a wolf beast, and discovered the White-browed Tiger's body, which he could not absorb.
• Lin Sheng found the murdered herb gatherers and sensed four non-beast auras nearby, then hurried after them.
• Two days later, Shahan warned his companions to disguise themselves after leaving the mountains and revealed that they carried the Sacred Elephant's Tusk to suppress their beast nature.
• Lin Sheng sensed the four men's bloody aura and realized they were just ahead.

Shahan and his Heavenly Net Sect brothers carried off captives and killed Bright Moon Sect members as they returned through the Congyun Mountain Range. After the ground split open and the brothers were ambushed, a crimson giant emerged and killed Shaha, leaving Shahan facing the unknown attacker.

• Shahan and his three brothers captured Liu Yang and other Bright Moon Sect members, intending to keep them as food and torment Liu Yang.
• Three Bright Moon Sect experts arrived to rescue Liu Yang, but Shawa, Shaha, and Shaluo killed them and took their bodies.
• The brothers discussed their strength and the factions of Tiannan Prefecture as they continued through the mountains, where falling rocks and a landslide separated Shaluo from the group.
• Shahan and Shaha turned back to look for Shaluo, but a hidden attacker seized Shawa and dragged him underground.
• Shaha used his sonic secret art to stun the attacker, but a golden vertical eye broke through the technique and the attacker emerged as a crimson giant, killing Shaha in front of Shahan.

Lin Sheng killed Shahan after the Heavenly Net Sect fighter transformed into a batlike beast, then recovered a valuable tusk from the buried remains. He left the surviving Bright Moon Sect members behind, and Liu Yang urged her companions to return to their sect.

• Shahan transformed by absorbing the dead men’s flesh-and-blood aura and attacked Lin Sheng, but Lin Sheng’s body rapidly healed and resisted the strikes.
• Lin Sheng tore off Shahan’s arm, crushed his head and body, then buried the remains.
• Lin Sheng found a tusk identified by his panel as belonging to a Spiritual Pivot Jade Soul Elephant, a Demon Beast whose traits could greatly increase Spirit.
• Lin Sheng ignored the injured Bright Moon Sect members and vanished into the forest.
• Liu Yang opened her eyes after Lin Sheng left and told her recovering fellow disciples to help her up.

Liu Tianci and the other factions learned that Lin Sheng had killed the Heavenly Net Sect members and was carrying the Spiritual Pivot Ivory, prompting Ouyang Lengshui and Mu Zhong to seek him. In a hidden cave, Lin Sheng used the ivory to reduce the side effects of the Netherworld Soul Grass, then sensed imminent danger and fled underground.

• The injured Bright Moon Sect members fled a powerful wolf beast and saw sword-flying figures pass overhead.
• Wei Bo and Liu Tianci investigated the battlefield and found that the Heavenly Net Sect members had been killed and the Spiritual Pivot Ivory was gone.
• Shi Hui, Ouyang Lengshui, Mu Zhong, and Tian Sanye arrived, but Silver Badge Constables brought in Bright Moon Sect members who had encountered the killers.
• Liu Yang identified the killer as a crimson, three-eyed giant with bone spurs, and Liu Tianci confirmed that it was Lin Sheng and revealed he had the Spiritual Pivot Ivory.
• Lin Sheng used the Spiritual Pivot Ivory to ease the effects of the Netherworld Soul Grass, sensed danger with his Scent-Tracking Rat form, and vanished into the earth.

Lin Sheng evaded pursuers tracking the Spiritual Pivot Ivory, then discovered that the Prefectural Office, Tianxiang Sword Sect, and Yuanyang Beast Sect had circulated portraits of him and the Seven Forms Sect members with rewards for finding them. He realized the temporary encampment was in danger and left the chapter facing the consequences of the manhunt.

• Shi Hui used the Spiritual Pivot Eye to track Lin Sheng, while Ouyang Lengshui joined him in pursuit.
• Wei Bo and Liu Tianci found Lin Sheng and offered him a place in the Prefectural Office, but Lin Sheng refused and escaped underground.
• Lin Sheng confirmed that hiding several hundred zhang underground blocked tracking through the Spiritual Pivot Ivory and used the Netherworld Soul Grass to cultivate.
• Lin Sheng ambushed a Flying Dragon Stockade group searching for him, killed its leader and the remaining pursuers, and questioned the lone survivor.
• The survivor revealed that the authorities, Tianxiang Sword Sect, and Yuanyang Beast Sect had offered rewards for finding people whose portraits included Lin Sheng and the Seven Forms Sect members.
• Lin Sheng realized the temporary encampment was exposed and feared that Xie Qingyun, Yuan Zhongfei, Wei Yun, Bai Qing, and Gou Donglai could not protect themselves.

Liu Tianci and Wei Bo set a trap for Lin Sheng by offering rewards to draw out the Seven Forms Sect remnants, while Lin Sheng returned to their camp after killing Sun Kai and the witnesses who discovered them. He ordered the camp sealed and its defenses strengthened before announcing that he would enter seclusion.

• Liu Tianci deduced that the Seven Forms Sect remnants were likely hiding near the boundary between the outer and middle regions of the Congyun Mountain Range and explained how the rewards would lure Lin Sheng out.
• Mo Xing and Gou Donglai led a group to harvest Crimson Fang Fruit, while a hidden observer spotted them and reported their location to the Yellow Sparrow Sect.
• Bai Qing broke through to the late Blood Circulation realm, and Xie Qingyun confided that she feared something might happen to Lin Sheng.
• Sun Kai confirmed that the camp held Seven Forms Sect members, but Lin Sheng killed Wang Gang and Sun Kai before they could alert others.
• Lin Sheng returned to camp, killed the other nearby Yellow Sparrow Sect members, and ordered everyone to stay within three miles and patrol for intruders.
• Lin Sheng told Yuan Zhongfei and Xie Qingyun that he would enter seclusion for a while.

Yuan Zhongfei and Xie Qingyun’s disciples defeated another group searching for the Seven Forms Sect’s hidden encampment, while Lin Sheng realized the camp was increasingly likely to be found. Wanyan Bei mastered a sixth sword intent and ordered Pei Er to leak the encampment’s location to force Lin Sheng into seeking his help.

• Yuan Zhongfei and the other disciples ambushed and killed black-clad men who had discovered the encampment, then debated whether the sect should move deeper into the Congyun Mountain Range.
• Lin Sheng emerged from seclusion after consuming seven petals of the Netherworld Soul Grass and sensed the latest attackers’ bloody aura, concluding that the encampment’s danger was growing.
• Wanyan Bei demonstrated his newly mastered sixth sword intent and said he was confident he could defeat Liu Tianci in a battle to the death.
• Pei Er told Wanyan Bei that several major forces were searching for the Seven Forms Sect and that Elder Tong was investigating a possible Divine Seed in the Yunshui Mountain Range.
• Wanyan Bei ordered Pei Er to secretly reveal the encampment’s location so Lin Sheng would be driven to the edge and eventually ask to join him.

Xie Qingyun and the Seven Forms Sect disciples faced a coordinated assault by Bai Yunhe’s Golden Crane Sect and Tian Kui, who sought to capture them for a reward. Lin Sheng arrived in his giant form, killed Tian Kui, and seized Bai Yunhe as the battle turned decisively in his favor.

• Xie Qingyun killed a fleeing herb-gatherer leader, then rushed to help Wei Yun and the disciples defeat another group of attackers.
• Bai Yunhe persuaded Tian Kui to join forces and capture the Seven Forms Sect people, including Lin Sheng, for the reward.
• As Lin Sheng cultivated the Netherworld Soul Grass, its illusion poison pushed his mind close to its limit.
• Bai Yunhe and Tian Kui attacked the Seven Forms Sect forces, overwhelming Xie Qingyun, Wei Yun, and Yuan Zhongfei.
• Lin Sheng arrived, transformed into a crimson giant, and killed Tian Kui with a blow that crushed his head.
• Bai Yunhe tried to flee, but Lin Sheng intercepted him and crushed his bones in his hands.

Lin Sheng remained at the outpost despite the growing threat and began cultivating with the Netherworld Soul Grass, while several pursuers discovered signs of his location and set out after him. After enduring a vision of his former life and fighting off its illusions, Lin Sheng awakened with his vertical eye open and his mental fatigue eased.

• Lin Sheng returned to the outpost after killing the Golden Crane Sect attackers, then decided to stay and enter seclusion while Xie Qingyun and Yuan Zhongfei watched for trouble.
• Lin Sheng took a petal of the Netherworld Soul Grass alongside the Spiritual Pivot Ivory and fell into a vision of his former life in a wildlife park.
• Ouyang Lengshui and Shi Hui detected a signal from the Elephant Eye and hurried to pursue Lin Sheng, while Liu Tianci also noticed the Spiritual Pivot Ivory’s response.
• Tian Sanye told Mu Zhong that the Elephant Eye had become active, and Mu Zhong set off with him to find Lin Sheng.
• Lin Sheng rejected the rope in his vision, fought the lions, and tore through the illusion before waking in the cultivation chamber with his vertical eye open and his mental fatigue diminished.

Lin Sheng emerged from seclusion with his Spirit strengthened and confronted the Prefectural Office and its allies, who had surrounded the camp to seize him and the Spiritual Pivot Ivory. He revealed a terrifying transformation, killed Ouyang Lengshui, and struck Shi Hui down, leaving the other gathered experts facing his overwhelming power.

• Lin Sheng raised his Spirit to four, condensed his consciousness with newfound ease, and silently approached Yuan Zhongfei and Xie Qingyun.
• Lin Sheng spotted the Prefectural Office's Sky Sparrow Hawks and destroyed them, but dark-robed constables led by Wei Bo and Liu Tianci arrived to surround the camp.
• Tian Sanye and Mu Zhong arrived with two high-grade spirit beasts, and Ouyang Lengshui appeared demanding Lin Sheng for himself.
• Lin Sheng transformed and seized Ouyang Lengshui's Zhuo Guang Sword barehanded before crushing Ouyang Lengshui's head.
• Lin Sheng shattered Shi Hui's Formless Sword light with his hand and sent Shi Hui flying with a single slap.

Lin Sheng killed Shi Hui and overwhelmed the attackers who joined the fight, killing their spirit beasts and pursuing the Seven Forms Sect elders on the cliff. He returned Wanyan Bei’s token, declared their debt settled, and left after warning that he would kill him the next time they met.

• Lin Sheng killed Shi Hui with his flames after Shi Hui attacked him with his full strength.
• Wei Bo, Tian Sanye, Liu Tianci, and Mu Zhong joined forces against Lin Sheng, but his bone armor withstood their attacks and he drove Wei Bo away.
• Lin Sheng killed the Giant Spirit Bear and wolf ape, causing Tian Sanye and Mu Zhong to flee with Wei Bo and Liu Tianci.
• Lin Sheng killed more than a dozen Silver Badge Constables and forced the remaining Seven Forms Sect members to retreat.
• Lin Sheng defeated the two elders guarding Wanyan Bei, killed Elder Meng, and returned Wanyan Bei’s ivory token.
• Lin Sheng told Wanyan Bei that their debt was settled and warned that he would kill him the next time they met before disappearing.

After Lin Sheng led the Seven Forms Sect into the Congyun Mountain Range, a Divine Form expert from Reverse Ten Floors confronted him. Qi Ning intervened before the expert could capture Lin Sheng, then marveled at his transformed dragon bloodline potential.

• Lin Sheng ordered the Seven Forms Sect to leave the camp and head for the central region, using dragon's might to keep beasts away while he recovered from battle.
• Lin Sheng sensed a powerful pursuer, went to meet him alone, and identified the one-eyed swordsman as the Divine Form expert protecting Wanyan Bei from Reverse Ten Floors.
• The swordsman demanded that Lin Sheng return with him and prepared to attack, but a hidden assailant struck his barrier with a dagger.
• Lin Sheng used his dragon's might and flaming giant hand to break the swordsman's barrier, but the swordsman escaped after defending himself.
• Qi Ning appeared, explained that Divine Form experts were difficult to kill, and examined Lin Sheng's unusually powerful dragon bloodline potential.

Lin Sheng learned that he was an Ancestor Awakener, while Wanyan Bei abandoned plans to capture him after Elder Tong reported a powerful Divine Form expert was protecting him. Lin Sheng became the target of major bounties across Linjiang Prefecture, as Wan Jianghai and Duan Heng neared a discovery in the abyss at Bai Peak.

• Qi Ning explained Ancestor Awakeners and warned Lin Sheng that repeatedly awakening his bloodline could make him bestial, then offered to take him to Dark Star headquarters; Lin Sheng declined.
• Wanyan Bei learned that Elder Tong had been driven back by a powerful Divine Form expert protecting Lin Sheng, so he agreed to stop targeting Lin Sheng and focus on the Divine Seed at Yunshui Mountain Range.
• News of Lin Sheng’s strength and the losses suffered by the Tianxiang Sword Sect, Yuanyang Beast Sect, and Prefectural Office spread through Linjiang Prefecture, and the major powers issued bounties for him.
• Wan Jianghai punished Wei Bo and Liu Tianci for failing to capture Lin Sheng, then joined Duan Heng at Bai Peak as the excavation revealed a change in the abyss’s mineral structure.

Duan Heng and Wan Jianghai discovered a cavern beneath Bai Peak filled with apparently valuable Divine Seeds, but a terrifying demon beast emerged and devastated them. At the Congyun Mountain Range, Lin Sheng assessed the Spirit Beasts and weapons he had acquired and examined the stone eye taken from Shi Hui.

• Duan Heng and Wan Jianghai used burrow rats to excavate beneath Bai Peak and found a cavern containing six enormous Divine Seeds among many other mineral seeds.
• Duan Heng discovered that the Divine Seeds were mostly empty, while the last one held crystalline blood that a tentacle absorbed before the demon beast erupted from the ground.
• The demon beast’s tentacles drained Duan Heng and several officers, and Wan Jianghai escaped badly wounded after crushing a jade ring; the tentacles then engulfed the soldiers outside Bai Peak.
• At the Congyun Mountain Range, Lin Sheng reviewed the Body Entry attributes of a Giant Spirit Bear and a Howling Moon Wolf Ghoul, and considered how they strengthened him.
• Lin Sheng reflected on his new strength and the swords he had obtained, then brought out the stone eye taken from Shi Hui.

Lin Sheng tested Giant Spirit Bear’s strength and talents, then chose to lead the Seven Forms Sect survivors through the Congyun Mountain Range to Tiannan Prefecture. Two months later, he had settled the group in Luoshui County through Dark Star’s channels and confirmed that a cloth shop had been arranged for Xie Qingyun.

• Lin Sheng tested Giant Spirit Bear’s Great Strength talent, found it could multiply his strength fivefold, and used the Blazing-Eyed Flame Dragon’s Constitution to withstand its strain.
• Lin Sheng tested the Howling Moon Wolf Ghoul’s Divine Speed and Enhanced Smell before returning to the group.
• Xie Qingyun and Yuan Zhongfei asked Lin Sheng how the group should proceed, and he decided they would travel to Tiannan Prefecture through the Congyun Mountain Range.
• Lin Sheng and the survivors entered Tiannan Prefecture and used Dark Star’s channels to hide in Luoshui County.
• Lin Sheng returned to the group’s courtyard, where Gou Donglai reported that Xie Qingyun’s cloth shop had been arranged.

Lin Sheng advanced to the late Blood Circulation stage and sought an avian Spirit Beast to prepare for his future breakthrough into Bone Transformation. After the Black-eyed Ghost Crow nearly attacked Lu Tie, Lin Sheng subdued and integrated it, then decided to keep it.

• Lin Sheng learned that a powerful Demon Beast had escaped underground after a coalition of Linjiang Prefecture forces defeated it, giving his group room to settle in Luoshui County.
• Lin Sheng broke through to the late Blood Circulation stage and planned to gather enough Qi force to condense Bone Force with Qingniao Chasing Star Finger.
• Lu Tie reported that an avian Spirit Beast had been found in Tiannan Prefecture, and Lin Sheng ordered him to buy it despite the high price.
• Three days later, the Black-eyed Ghost Crow attacked Lu Tie with poisonous black mist and talons, but Lin Sheng seized it and sent the others away to check for poison.
• Lin Sheng examined the Black-eyed Ghost Crow's attributes, subdued it with his Dragon Might talent, integrated it, and decided to keep it.

Lin Sheng tested the Black-eyed Ghost Crow’s hallucinatory force, then sent reinforcements after learning that rivals were pursuing the Shadow Mane Sparrow. Meanwhile, Zhao Hongzhang unveiled Northern Yan’s beastified troops in battle against Southern Qi, leaving two generals to suspect Sky Rainbow Pavilion had created a powerful new weapon.

• Lin Sheng discovered that the Black-eyed Ghost Crow made his Qi force denser and gave it an illusion-poison effect, then tested its hallucinatory power on Lu Tie.
• Over three days, Lin Sheng repeatedly trained Lu Tie with illusions, strengthening Lu Tie’s mental will and improving his prospects of reaching Bone Transformation.
• Lu Tie reported that Senior Brother Feng had located the Shadow Mane Sparrow, and Lin Sheng ordered Kong Hai to send elites as reinforcements before departing himself.
• At Yuanqi Mountain, Zhao Hongzhang ordered Gao Qi to unleash a thousand unarmed troops, who beastified and turned the battle against Southern Qi despite causing casualties among Northern Yan’s own soldiers.
• Two Northern Yan generals suspected that Sky Rainbow Pavilion’s bloodline experiments had produced the beastified troops.

Feng Yu and Lin Sheng headed to White Pine Forest to find the injured Shadow Mane Sparrow, only to discover that the Seven Fiends of Red Mountain had used it as bait. The Seven Fiends trapped the gathered groups and launched an attack, while Lin Sheng had just arrived in the forest.

• The Seven Fiends of Red Mountain emerged from the miasma and planned to use the Shadow Mane Sparrow to lure in hunters and rob them.
• Feng Yu led Seven Forms Sect disciples into White Pine Forest and used a Dark Green Moth to track the bird.
• Lin Sheng flew to White Pine Forest on the Black-eyed Ghost Crow and entered the forest in search of the Shadow Mane Sparrow.
• Feng Yu found the Medicine Gang and Wind Cloud Gang confronting each other beneath a giant pine, where the injured Shadow Mane Sparrow was hiding.
• The Seven Fiends of Red Mountain arrived, revealed their trap, blocked the groups’ escape, and ordered their men to attack.

Lin Sheng arrived at the battle beneath the giant pine and used a new mind-altering secret technique to subdue the Six Fiends of Red Mountain and the rival gangs. He then had the fiends capture the fleeing Shadow Mane Sparrow.

• The Six Fiends of Red Mountain overwhelmed the Wind Cloud Gang and Medicine Gang, while their eldest defeated Sun Hai and their fourth pressured Feng Yu’s group.
• Lin Sheng arrived on the Black-eyed Ghost Crow and killed the fourth fiend with a single devastating attack.
• Lin Sheng stunned the remaining fiends and altered their memories, making them regard him as their master.
• Lin Sheng named his experimental memory-altering art the Seed Demon Secret Technique and considered using it to build his forces.
• The Shadow Mane Sparrow fled from the giant pine, but the six fiends caught it and brought it to Lin Sheng.

Lin Sheng assimilated the dying Ghost Mane Sparrow, greatly improving his Qingniao Chasing Star Finger cultivation, then organized local gangs into an intelligence network. After defeating Xie Qingyun in a spar, he considered whether combining many Spirit Beast traits could create a new path of cultivation.

• Lin Sheng killed and assimilated the badly wounded Ghost Mane Sparrow, learned that a Golden Winged Eagle had attacked it, and returned to Luoshui County without finding the eagle.
• Five days later, Lin Sheng found that the Ghost Mane Sparrow had increased his cultivation efficiency and strengthened his Qi force, bringing Bone Transformation within reach.
• Feng Yu brought Lin Sheng records on the Seven Fiends of Red Mountain, the Wind Cloud Gang, and the Medicine Gang, and Lin Sheng ordered the two gangs merged to build an intelligence network.
• Two days later, Lin Sheng defeated Xie Qingyun in a spar, and she praised the strength and unusual qualities of his Qi force.
• Lin Sheng considered whether accumulating Spirit Beast force traits could let Qi force rival Gang Force, but decided to revisit the idea after advancing his realm.

Lin Sheng learned that Northern Yan was recruiting for its newly established Shock Beast Army, then focused on cultivating, gathering Spirit Beasts, and improving the Seed Demon Secret Technique. He developed Seed Demon Pills to stabilize his control over the Six Fiends of Red Mountain and planned to use them on Sun Hai and Yao Quan before deciding it was time to bring his parents over.

• Lin Sheng read the Shock Beast Army recruitment notice, heard that Sky Rainbow Pavilion controlled the new force, and dismissed the war as unrelated to him.
• Lin Sheng returned home to cultivate and ordered his people to search for more Spirit Beasts while he studied poison and medicine texts to improve the Seed Demon Secret Technique.
• Lin Sheng tested his new Seed Demon Pills on the Six Fiends of Red Mountain, provoking their memories to check that his control remained stable.
• Lin Sheng gave the Six Fiends another bottle of pills to deliver to Sun Hai and Yao Quan, then resolved to reinforce the controlled men with Seed Demon Pills regularly.
• Lin Sheng watched the Black-eyed Ghost Crow grow fat on Spirit Beast meat and thought it was time to bring his parents over.

Lin Sheng consolidated his control over Luoshui County and welcomed his family after Yellow Dog brought them from Linjiang Prefecture. Yellow Dog revealed that the Shock Beast Army had helped Northern Yan seize territory from Southern Qi, and that Dark Star agents had come to Tiannan Prefecture to find someone from Sky Rainbow Pavilion who knew its secrets.

• Lin Sheng received reports and accounts from Tie He and Mei Sanniang, who led the Haihe Gang and Red Flower Tower under his control.
• Lin Sheng welcomed Lin Hong, Xie Guilan, Xiao Shi, Old Zhou, Wang Dehai, Cao Luan, and Cao Ying after Yellow Dog escorted them to Luoshui County.
• Lin Sheng thanked Yellow Dog for bringing his family and spoke with him about the danger posed by the war in Linjiang Prefecture.
• Yellow Dog told Lin Sheng that the Yan army had driven back Southern Qi and occupied half a commandery with the Shock Beast Army, a force created by Sky Rainbow Pavilion.
• Yellow Dog explained that he and Qi Ning had come to Tiannan Prefecture to seek someone who held the Shock Beast Army's secrets, while Lin Sheng decided to focus on cultivating and strengthening his control over Luoshui County.

After weeks of cultivation, Lin Sheng broke through into the Bone Transformation realm and prepared to activate his fourth mark. Meanwhile, Gongsun Yuanzhou ordered Tiannan Prefecture's leaders to conscript far more high-level martial artists for the Shock Beast Army, invoking King Yan's authority.

• Lin Sheng completed the fourth level of the White Elephant Town Mountain Art and continued preparing beast techniques and Spirit Beast Blood for his next mark.
• Gongsun Yuanzhou demanded that Zhou Xingwen and He Lanjian gather five hundred Blood Circulation Practitioners and one hundred Bone Transformation martial artists, including recruits from local factions.
• Zhou Xingwen and He Lanjian objected that the numbers were difficult to meet and might provoke the Myriad Sect Alliance, but they obeyed after Gongsun Yuanzhou invoked King Yan's will.
• Lin Sheng compressed his Qi force until it transformed into Bone Force, successfully entering the Bone Transformation realm.
• Lin Sheng tested his improved abilities beneath the waterfall, then examined the new mark on his chest and set out to activate it with beast blood.

Lin Sheng struggled to advance the Fourth Mark despite absorbing blood from many Spirit Beasts, while Qi Ning warned him to avoid trouble and stay clear of the Shock Beast Army. After learning that an Ink Scale Black Bear had been spotted in the Congyun Mountain Range, Lin Sheng set out to hunt it.

• Wu Fei, the wanted Cloud Rider Eagle, was captured by soldiers using powerful firearms after fleeing Luoshui County, and Meng Ke ordered his men to capture another group alive.
• Lin Sheng found that seventeen low-level Spirit Beasts had raised his Fourth Mark's activation progress to only 7%, then told the eldest of the Six Fiends of Red Mountain to guard the estate and double the beasts' food.
• Lin Sheng returned to his family, cultivated the White Elephant Town Mountain Art, and met Qi Ning, who congratulated him on reaching the Bone Transformation realm and warned him against awakening his ancestry too early.
• Qi Ning told Lin Sheng that a powerful demon beast beneath the Yunshui Mountain Range was keeping the Prefectural Office and Tianxiang Sword Sect occupied, and warned him to keep a low profile and avoid the Shock Beast Army.
• Mei Sanniang told Lin Sheng that Sun Hai's group had found an Ink Scale Black Bear but suffered heavy casualties trying to subdue it, so Lin Sheng set out for the Congyun Mountain Range to hunt it.