Recaps

Lin Sheng escaped the warship, descended onto Sunstar, and used his Parasitism talent to take over the dying Li Wei’s body. After learning about his new surroundings from Li Wei’s memories, he returned to Greenwood City and reunited with Li Wei’s younger sister.

• Anna and Andrew inspected the hole in Warehouse Two, agreed to keep the unknown creature’s arrival secret, and prepared for their return home.
• Lin Sheng surveyed Sunstar from the clouds, landed in the Corrupted Blood Forest, and found a wounded youth being attacked by Black Panther.
• Lin Sheng drove Black Panther away with Fear Devour, entered the dead youth’s body using Parasitism, and learned that the youth was Li Wei.
• Lin Sheng returned to Greenwood City carrying Crimson Grass and entered Li Wei’s dilapidated home at 58 Stinking Water Street.
• Li Wei’s younger sister scolded him for entering the forest, and Lin Sheng interrupted her by showing her the Crimson Grass.

Lin Sheng studied Basic Coordinated Body Tempering, used Strange Beasts to strengthen Li Wei’s frail body, and rapidly advanced to rank-one Fighter. Li Suihan cared for him and left for martial-hall training, while Lin Sheng resolved to protect her and restore the Lionheart Lineage; he then drank an entire vial of Low-Tier Nutritional Potion.

• After Li Suihan recognized the Crimson Grass, she scolded Li Wei for entering the Rotting Forest and left in tears.
• Lin Sheng examined his system panel, found that only Soul Stabilization remained, and studied the Basic Coordinated Body Tempering manual.
• Lin Sheng incorporated one pseudo Spirit Beast and one Spirit Beast, continued training, and advanced to rank-one Fighter.
• Li Suihan brought Lin Sheng a Blood-Activating Potion, took the Crimson Grass, and told him she had passed the Swift Shadow Martial Hall assessment and would soon leave for three months of training.
• Li Suihan returned with a phone, daily necessities, and a Low-Tier Nutritional Potion, warning Lin Sheng to use it carefully and avoid his troublesome acquaintances.
• After sensing the potion’s potent energy, Lin Sheng drank the entire vial.

Lin Sheng reached the third stage of fighter and decided he needed money before joining a martial hall, so he planned to return to the Rotting Forest. Back at his lodgings, he found Chen Chong and Su Xue demanding the nutrient solution, and he brutally defeated them and their companions.

• Lin Sheng absorbed a vial of nutrient solution, advanced to the third-stage fighter, and considered how to earn money and find a martial hall.
• Li Suihan collected her wages and told Tang Xue'er she planned to focus on special training and place in the top three.
• Lin Sheng visited martial halls in the western district but could not afford their enrollment fees, so he decided to seek crimson grass in the Rotting Forest.
• Lin Sheng returned to find Chen Chong, Su Xue, and their clique inside his broken-into lodgings, demanding the nutrient solution his sister had obtained for the crimson grass.
• Lin Sheng crushed Chen Chong's hand, knocked him down, and swiftly defeated the other young men who attacked him.
• Su Xue tried to flatter Lin Sheng, but he slapped her and called her worthless.

After defeating Chen Chong, Su Xue, and their companions, Lin Sheng collected compensation and used a nutrient solution to cultivate, then considered joining a martial hall. He chose the Iron Bone Boxing Gym and arrived as its students practiced.

• Lin Sheng beat Su Xue and Chen Chong's group, demanded Star Coins, and forced Chen Chong to return with more money and a bottle of low-grade nutrient solution.
• Lin Sheng drank the nutrient solution and cultivated, but found that reaching fourth-stage fighter would still be difficult.
• Tang Xue'er delivered fifteen hundred Star Coins from Li Suihan and a booklet describing Greenwood City's martial halls, while warning Lin Sheng not to disrupt Li Suihan's assessment.
• Lin Sheng chose between Heavy Peak and Iron Bone, settled on Iron Bone, and visited the gym in Greenwood City's eastern district.
• A young man showed Lin Sheng the Iron Bone Boxing Gym, where a bald instructor directed students through their punching practice.

Lin Sheng joined the Iron Bone Boxing Gym’s selection process and rapidly advanced to fighter fourth stage after cultivating with a nutritional potion. He returned to prove his breakthrough to Meng Cheng, who tested him and confirmed it.

• Lin Sheng asked to become an official student at the Iron Bone Boxing Gym, and Meng Cheng set a three-month deadline for him to reach fighter fourth stage.
• Meng Cheng asked Ahu to investigate Lin Sheng’s background and check whether he had ties to Zhong Feng.
• Lin Sheng bought a low-tier nutritional potion, cultivated overnight, and broke through to fighter fourth stage.
• Lin Sheng returned to the boxing gym and told Meng Cheng he had advanced; Meng Cheng tested him with a punch and realized the breakthrough was real.

After proving he had become a Fourth Segment Fighter, Lin Sheng left Greenwood City for the Rotting Forest to find materials he could sell for Star Coins and investigate Eerie Beasts. He captured and killed a Black-Needle Blood Rabbit, learned its abilities through the system panel, and continued toward the Crimson Grass site.

• Meng Cheng tested Lin Sheng’s strength, accepted him as a full member of the Iron Bone Boxing Gym, and ordered Ahu to investigate Li Wei immediately.
• Lin Sheng headed out of Greenwood City because he needed money for cultivation and wanted to study Eerie Beasts.
• Lin Sheng followed Li Wei’s memories toward the Crimson Grass gathering place in the Rotting Forest.
• A Black-Needle Blood Rabbit sprang from the grass, but Lin Sheng caught it and resisted its needle-like fur.
• Lin Sheng checked the rabbit’s system information, then crushed it after discovering its unusual vitality and corrupting aura.

Lin Sheng hunted Eerie Beasts in the Rotting Forest, collected Crimson Grass, and narrowly missed absorbing an Eyeless Black Salamander that escaped underground. He returned to Greenwood City, where Li Suihan worried about his new martial hall and a city guard recognized him as he entered.

• Lin Sheng absorbed the Black-Needle Blood Rabbit and killed several weak Eerie Beasts while searching the Rotting Forest.
• Lin Sheng found and collected seven stalks of Crimson Grass, then fought an Eyeless Black Salamander that escaped underground after shedding its skin.
• Lin Sheng kept two black scales from the salamander and left the forest rather than risk encountering stronger Eerie Beasts.
• Li Suihan called Lin Sheng and learned that he had joined a martial hall, while Tang Xue'er reassured her and remarked that Lin Sheng seemed more composed.
• Lin Sheng returned to Greenwood City, where Asi recognized him and wondered whether the foul smell on him came from an Eerie Beast.

Lin Sheng sold crimson grass, discovered that cultivating the Supreme Heavenly Demon Scripture on Sunstar rapidly advanced his strength but exposed him to a terrifying hidden energy, and then joined the Iron Bone Boxing Gym as an official student. Meng Cheng introduced the gym’s Iron Body Skill and began teaching Lin Sheng and Bilu how to sense cosmic energy.

• Lin Sheng traded seven stalks of crimson grass for Star Coins and bought five vials of low-grade nutritional solution.
• Lin Sheng cultivated the Supreme Heavenly Demon Scripture, reached the Bone Tempering realm, and found that it drew Origin Energy directly on Sunstar without its former drawbacks.
• Lin Sheng advanced to the Blood Circulation realm, sensed dark tadpole-shaped energy, and barely severed his mind’s connection to a powerful will before it could overwhelm him.
• Lin Sheng decided to stop cultivating the Supreme Heavenly Demon Scripture and left home, where Captain Lu welcomed him back and offered help.
• Meng Cheng welcomed Lin Sheng and Bilu as official students of the Iron Bone Boxing Gym and introduced them to the other students.
• Meng Cheng explained the Iron Body Skill and started an instructional video to teach Lin Sheng and Bilu how to sense cosmic energy.

Nora investigated a disturbance in the divine aura while Lin Sheng learned Iron Body Skill and completed its initial stage in under an hour. Meng Cheng reported Lin Sheng’s exceptional progress to the Senior Disciple Sister, who was reviewing a photograph of an arrogant young man.

• Nora ordered her followers to investigate whether anyone had died after accidentally contacting the divine aura, then welcomed Captain Zhou Ze and deepened his infatuation with her.
• Lin Sheng followed an instructional video and sensed cosmic energy, while Meng Cheng watched him and Bilu practice.
• Meng Cheng realized Lin Sheng was completing Iron Body Skill’s initial stage and called the Senior Disciple Sister to report it.
• Lin Sheng absorbed the cosmic energy, completed the initial stage, and told Bilu how he had approached cultivation.
• Meng Cheng traveled to a hidden courtyard and met the Senior Disciple Sister, who asked him to explain what had happened.

Meng Cheng reported Lin Sheng’s rapid mastery of the Iron Body Skill, and Yue Hongya decided to keep him in the Iron Bone Martial Hall and consider accepting him as a disciple. After Yue Hongya saw Lin Sheng withstand a full bottle of Low-Tier Nutrient Solution, she suspected he possessed the founding master’s blood core talent.

• Meng Cheng told Yue Hongya that Lin Sheng had reached Fourth Segment Fighter and mastered the basics of the Iron Body Skill in under two hours, and she rejected the idea of expelling him.
• Yue Hongya decided to meet Lin Sheng and accept him as a disciple on the master’s behalf if he had no ties to the Heavy Peak Boxing Gym.
• Lin Sheng tested the energy coating his skin, then cultivated through the night and came close to entering the iron skin realm.
• Yue Hongya introduced herself to Lin Sheng at the gym, judged that he was near the iron skin bottleneck, and offered him Low-Tier Nutrient Solution.
• Lin Sheng drank a full bottle of the solution and began cultivating, while Yue Hongya realized he could withstand its corrosive force and suspected he had the founding master’s blood core talent.

Yue Hongya discovered that Li Wei lacked blood core talent but recognized his exceptional aptitude after he independently broke through to the Iron Skin Realm. Li Wei accepted her offer to become a core disciple of the Iron Bone Boxing Gym, and she prepared to take him onward.

• Yue Hongya tested Li Wei with the Red Crystal, learned he had no blood core talent, and decided to accept him as a core disciple on the master's behalf.
• Meng Cheng told Yue Hongya that the Heavy Peak Martial Hall had ambushed the gym's cargo for the third time, and she vowed to protect the Iron Bone legacy.
• Lin Sheng cultivated the Iron Body Skill, realized he needed to merge energy into his skin, and began breaking through to the Iron Skin Realm.
• Yue Hongya noticed Lin Sheng's breakthrough, rushed to prepare a medicinal bath, and helped stabilize his body as he absorbed it.
• Lin Sheng woke to find Yue Hongya watching him, thanked her for her help, and agreed to become a core disciple.
• Yue Hongya praised Lin Sheng's decisiveness and invited him to come with her.

Lin Sheng joined the Iron Bone Boxing Gym as a thirty-fifth-generation core disciple and learned about its resources and hierarchy. The chapter left him beginning his life at the main hall, curious about the higher corrosive martial realm and the fate of his gravely injured master.

• Yue Hongya brought Lin Sheng to the main hall and explained its history, including its roots in the Iron Fist Gate and its control of many factories.
• Yue Hongya introduced Lin Sheng to the wounded hall master, Yue Feng, and accepted him as a core disciple on her master's behalf.
• Lin Sheng bowed to Yue Feng, learned that he would be the martial hall's Fourth Senior Brother, and left with Ding Le to tour the main hall.
• Ding Le showed Lin Sheng the main hall's cultivation equipment and dispensary, where Lin Sheng received five Low-Tier Nutritional Potions and a Black Rust Potion.
• Ding Le explained how Lin Sheng could obtain more potions and contribution points, then showed him his private residence.
• Lin Sheng asked about the senior disciples' ranks, and Ding Le told him Yue Hongya had reached the corrosive martial realm through a higher form of energy.

After reaching the Iron Skin Realm, Lin Sheng cultivated rapidly but found that he was running short of Nutritional Potions. Yue Hongya gave him sixty vials, and he returned to his residence to continue cultivating.

• Lin Sheng tested his Iron Skin Realm cultivation by absorbing Origin Energy overnight, advancing to Bone Transformation Second Layer while using two Low-Tier Nutritional Potions.
• Lin Sheng went to the main gym, where Ding Le explained that Official Students could take missions and showed him the dining hall and Mission Hall.
• Lin Sheng considered taking a mission for resources, but Yue Hongya brought him to her study and learned he had used two potions in one night.
• Yue Hongya warned Lin Sheng about excessive potion use, then gave him an iron box containing sixty Low-Tier Nutritional Potions.
• Lin Sheng returned home, took two more potions, and resumed cultivating.

Lin Sheng broke through to Fighter rank five and was taught to conceal his cultivation as the Iron Bone Boxing Gym faced mounting pressure from the Heavy Peak Martial Hall. Li Suihan continued training for the upcoming competition, relieved when Li Wei replied, while Yue Hongya prepared to confront Wan Shan after Jelas reported an attack on the gym’s goods.

• After five days of secluded cultivation, Lin Sheng reached Fighter rank five, replied to Li Suihan’s messages, and went to see Yue Hongya.
• At the Swift Shadow Martial Hall, Li Suihan defeated Sun Kai, while Tang Xue'er argued with Qian Xinxin over Li Suihan’s chances in the competition.
• Li Suihan worried that Li Wei had not contacted her, then received his brief message and accepted a Recovery Potion from Tang Xue'er.
• Yue Hongya introduced Lin Sheng to Jelas, and Meng Cheng was surprised to learn that Lin Sheng had reached Fighter rank five; Yue Hongya told Meng Cheng to teach him the Rust Body Technique and advised Lin Sheng to hide his cultivation level.
• Jelas told Yue Hongya that two top-tier masters had attacked and that most of the goods were lost; Yue Hongya suspected Wan Shan and vowed to weaken him while handling the conflict herself.

Lin Sheng learned the Rust Body Technique and spent a month cultivating, reaching the Iron Body realm and the seventh segment of fighting. After using up his Nutritional Potions, he left seclusion to check on the Iron Bone Boxing Gym.

• Meng Cheng explained that the Heavy Peak Martial Hall rivaled the Iron Bone Boxing Gym and warned Lin Sheng to conceal his strength with the Rust Body Technique.
• Lin Sheng achieved minor mastery of the Rust Body Technique in three days, while Meng Cheng hinted that the martial hall was facing trouble.
• Xiao Ying told Lin Sheng that Official Students had been injured in a dispute with the Guard Army, which Yue Hongya had settled.
• Lin Sheng cultivated for a month, advancing his Iron Body Skill to the Iron Body realm and his fighting level to the seventh segment.
• Lin Sheng used up his Nutritional Potions, replied to Li Suihan's messages, and headed to the main hall to see how the martial hall was faring.

After learning that the Iron Bone Boxing Gym was being squeezed by business attacks and reduced potion supplies, Lin Sheng set out for the Rotting Forest to earn money and gather valuable materials. He reached the dangerous Green Ghost Forest area, where he encountered a powerful hunting team whose leader, Wild Wolf, concealed deep hostility toward him.

• Lin Sheng learned from Ding Le that the martial hall’s properties and trade were under attack, the Guard Army had halved its Nutritional Potion allotment, and Yue Hongya and the senior brothers had gone to oversee the properties.
• Ding Le gave Lin Sheng five Mid-Tier Nutritional Potions set aside by Yue Hongya, and Lin Sheng decided to seek more resources in the Rotting Forest.
• Lin Sheng left Greenwood City and traveled into the Rotting Forest, where he killed a giant lizard Eerie Beast with a single punch and collected two unusual plants from its den.
• Lin Sheng headed toward the Green Ghost Forest to search for valuable green ghost mushrooms and encountered seven masked hunters led by Wild Wolf.
• Wild Wolf introduced his group as hunters from the Black Valley Gathering Place and withdrew, but Lin Sheng sensed deep malice from them and vanished from the spot.

Lin Sheng killed Wild Wolf and his hunters, learned about Crimson Lightning weapons, and discovered that Wild Wolf suspected he was an outer-domain creature. After gathering more loot and heading back to Greenwood City, Lin Sheng approached the exit, where Guard Army members waited to ambush him for his supposed Crimson Grass discovery.

• Wild Wolf marked Lin Sheng and planned to follow him into the Green Ghost Forest, but Lin Sheng appeared and killed four of Wild Wolf's companions.
• Lin Sheng disarmed Wild Wolf, examined his Crimson Lightning firearm, and forced him to explain the company's weapon ratings and its place in the Alliance.
• Wild Wolf recognized Lin Sheng as an outer-domain creature and tried to contact the Bureau of Affairs, so Lin Sheng killed him and destroyed his phone.
• Lin Sheng took the hunters' supplies, killed other hostile hunters for their backpacks, and turned back toward Greenwood City instead of entering the Green Ghost Forest.
• Asi and two Guard Army members waited near the forest exit, plotting to ambush Lin Sheng because they believed he had found a patch of Crimson Grass.

Lin Sheng returned from the Rotting Forest, killed the three men who tried to rob him, and sold his haul for nutritional potions while learning that potion prices were rising across Jade Forest City. Meanwhile, Sister Hui and a giant from the Fighting Association investigated Wild Wolf’s death and classified the unknown attacker as a possible D-Rank Threat before leaving the matter to the Bureau of Affairs.

• Asi and his two companions confronted Lin Sheng at the forest entrance, and Lin Sheng killed them and burned their bodies and weapons.
• Lin Sheng entered Greenwood City with the Fierce Tiger Caravan, disguised himself, and sold his haul to the Mystic Light Trading House for five Mid-Tier Nutritional Potions and four Low-Tier Nutritional Potions.
• The manager told Lin Sheng that nutritional potion prices had risen amid rumors of reduced factory production, and Lin Sheng suspected someone was targeting the Iron Bone Boxing Gym.
• Lin Sheng asked about Planetary-Grade Firearms, learned that even the cheapest cost over five hundred thousand Star Coins, and headed to the Iron Bone Boxing Gym with his potions.
• Sister Hui and the giant investigated Wild Wolf’s death, found a fragment of his destroyed handgun, and concluded the attacker was likely a powerful, intelligent D-Rank Threat.
• Sister Hui dismissed further investigation as the Bureau of Affairs’ responsibility and left with the giant to focus on an upcoming elite quota and the boxing gyms.

Lin Sheng learned that the Bureau of Affairs handled extraterrestrial threats and prepared to advance his Iron Body Skill. Meanwhile, Yue Hongya arranged for the Jinmei Chamber of Commerce to undercut Heavy Peak’s potion scheme, prompting Wan Shan to order an investigation of the Iron Bone Boxing Gym and consider killing her.

• Lin Sheng asked Ding Le about the Bureau of Affairs and learned it was the Extraterrestrial Threat Response Office, an agency with authority to respond to extraterrestrial threats.
• Lin Sheng decided to keep a low profile, then drank a yellow potion to pursue Great Completion of Iron Body Skill.
• Yue Hongya revealed that the Jinmei Chamber of Commerce would enter Greenwood City with a large supply of potions, countering Heavy Peak’s price manipulation.
• Yue Hongya warned Meng Cheng and Jelas to keep the plan secret and showed them photographs of two men, intending to retaliate for Heavy Peak’s attacks.
• After the Jinmei Chamber of Commerce’s arrival caused potion prices to collapse, Greenfang and Men Jie Fu confronted Wan Shan, who revealed he had grown stronger.
• Wan Shan ordered Chong'er to investigate Yue Hongya’s movements and said Sea Dog and Luby should kill her if an opportunity arose.

Yue Hongya killed Luby and Sea Dog after revealing that she had reached Eclipse Warrior Level, while Lin Sheng fully mastered the Iron Body Skill and gained a permanent Iron Body talent. When Lin Sheng emerged, he learned that the Iron Bone Boxing Gym had recovered and met a Bureau of Affairs commissioner investigating a possible extradimensional threat near Greenwood City.

• Yue Hongya defeated Luby and killed Sea Dog, who realized she had become an Eclipse Warrior.
• Lin Sheng fully mastered the Iron Body Skill, returned to the Divine Form peak, and gained the Iron Body talent on his status panel.
• Xiao Ying told Lin Sheng that the Jinmei Trading Company had helped the Iron Bone Boxing Gym recover, Yue Hongya had killed two wanted bandits, and the gym's reputation and enrollment had risen.
• Lin Sheng went to the main hall and found Yue Hongya speaking with Zhang Hui and Lu Ku, a special commissioner investigating a possible extradimensional threat.
• Lu Ku gave Yue Hongya an Aura Detector and asked her to report any unusual signs and assist if the Bureau of Affairs issued a requisition.
• Lu Ku sensed Lin Sheng outside the lobby, and Lin Sheng entered while suppressing his mental perception.

Lin Sheng passed Lu Ku’s investigation and impressed Yue Hongya with his Iron Body Skill, then entered the gym’s hidden chamber to learn about Flesh Observation and the Blackgold Body-Forging Art. After studying the strange remains, he found that the system identified them as He Jia of the Bloodbone Titan Race.

• Lu Ku questioned Lin Sheng about extraterrestrial beings and used a Detection Device, but found nothing unusual before leaving with Zhang Hui.
• Yue Hongya praised Lin Sheng’s progress, urged him to conceal his cultivation, and led him to the Iron Bone Boxing Gym’s secret chamber.
• Yue Hongya explained that Flesh Observation was the gym’s Visualization Source and taught Lin Sheng how its rule patterns guided the Blackgold Body-Forging Art.
• Lin Sheng touched the giant remains and memorized some of their patterns before Yue Hongya’s mental force pulled him back; he told her he had remembered about five percent.
• Yue Hongya gave Lin Sheng a drawing of the patterns, seven high-grade potions, and a USB drive recording the Blackgold Body-Forging Art.
• Back in his bedroom, Lin Sheng checked the system panel and saw that the remains were identified as He Jia of the Bloodbone Titan Race.

Lin Sheng discovered that the Iron Bone Boxing Gym’s Flesh Visualization came from a Bloodbone Titan and began studying the gym’s core cultivation method. After Li Suihan and Tang Xue’er invited him to meet them at the Feast Pavilion, he headed there, where the two girls confronted Qian Xinxin.

• Lin Sheng learned that the Flesh Visualization was a Bloodbone Titan whose blood essence could be extracted, but found he needed physical contact to begin extraction.
• Lin Sheng studied the Blackgold Body-Forging Art and realized he needed to memorize more rule trajectories before he could cultivate it.
• Li Suihan finished third in special training, and Tang Xue’er persuaded her to celebrate at the Feast Pavilion and invite Li Wei.
• Lin Sheng read Li Suihan’s message, decided to meet her, and set off for the Feast Pavilion.
• At the Feast Pavilion, Tang Xue’er mocked Qian Xinxin over her training-camp defeat, and Qian Xinxin angrily insulted the two girls.

Lin Sheng reunited with Li Suihan at the Feast Pavilion, frightened off Qian Xinxin and her bodyguard, and left his sister training resources while refusing to join her martial hall. As his taxi departed, a mysterious woman appeared in front of it.

• Lin Sheng arrived at the Feast Pavilion and found Qian Xinxin insulting Li Suihan and Tang Xue'er.
• Lin Sheng told Qian Xinxin to get lost, and she and her ninth-rank bodyguard fled in fear.
• Nora watched Lin Sheng from the third floor while asking Luca about the divine-aura disturbance.
• Lin Sheng told Li Suihan he had become a Fighter at the Iron Bone Martial Hall, refused to transfer, and left her a case of nutritional potions.
• Li Suihan and Tang Xue'er opened the case and were astonished by its contents before realizing Lin Sheng had also eaten their food.
• Lin Sheng reflected that Li Suihan was safe at the Swift Shadow Martial Hall, then his taxi braked when a shapely woman appeared in front of it.

Lin Sheng confronted Nora, a powerful woman who invited him to join her organization and revealed that she suspected he had drawn out a desolation aura three months earlier. He kept the invitation card, then studied the Flesh Observation at Iron Fist Headquarters and arranged to return daily to comprehend its law trajectory.

• Lin Sheng resisted a leather-clad woman's bewitching ability, dragged her into an alley, and demanded to know why she had blocked his taxi.
• Nora emerged from hiding, recognized Lin Sheng as the person who had stirred up a desolation aura, and invited him to join her organization; he refused but kept her black card.
• Nora ordered her subordinate to investigate Lin Sheng and his lineage after he left the alley.
• Lin Sheng returned to his residence, considered the risks of attracting attention in Greenwood City, and studied the law trajectory from an illustration.
• At Iron Fist Headquarters, Lin Sheng touched the Flesh Observation and began slowly extracting Bloodbone Titan blood essence while comprehending its law trajectory.
• Lin Sheng studied the Flesh Observation for ten minutes, drank Yue Hongya's Spirit-Restoring Potion, and asked to study it every day; Yue Hongya agreed and offered him a key.

At the Greenwood Club, Nora investigated Lin Sheng and ordered a background check on Lu Ku, while Lin Sheng learned about the Eye of the Dead and extracted Bloodbone Titan essence blood. After beginning to refine it, he endured severe pain and used several powerful void-beast possessions to withstand the transformation.

• Nora received Nine Eyes's message, dismissed his request that she return, and asked Xiao Luo about Lu Ku's arrival in Greenwood City.
• Xiao Luo showed Nora information about Lin Sheng and reported that Lu Ku had come from the Bureau of Affairs; Nora ordered an investigation into him.
• Lin Sheng questioned Ding Le about local and provincial factions, then searched online and identified the Eye of the Dead as the likely organization behind the woman he had encountered.
• Lin Sheng extracted Bloodbone Titan essence blood from the corpse in the secret chamber and learned that refining it could grant affinity with the flesh rule but risk physical mutation.
• After returning to his residence and resting, Lin Sheng swallowed a drop of essence blood and began refining it, using successive void-beast possessions to endure the pain.