Recaps

Chu Qing exterminated the Qin Family, mastered the Blackwater Bone Refining Method, and strengthened his allies while the Rebel Army regrouped. The arc ended with Chu Qing confronting Zheng Zhixiang at Immortal Fate Tower and openly defying his threat.

• Chu Qing and the students killed Qin Ming, and Chief Constable Shi refused the great clans’ demands to punish Chu Qing for exterminating the Qin Family.
• Chu Qing completed all 365 Golden Sinews, received the Blackwater Bone Refining Method from the headmaster, and learned that his Profession Slot required black gold, Nourishing Paste, and ink.
• Chu Qing burned the Rebel Army’s camp with an east wind, then pursued stolen black gold and destroyed Sky-Piercing Vajra’s bandits and the Miracle Blade Hands’ base.
• Chu Qing returned with enough black gold to meet the Blackwater method’s first requirement, while Madam Shi warned him about the Wang family and he entered seclusion to cultivate.
• Chu Qing used a hand-cranked drill to accelerate Bead Rolling and trained with Nangong and Cui Moyang, who reached Golden Sinew Perfection as the Rebel Army prepared to return.
• Chu Qing and his companions began refining their bones together, and Lan Yichen warned Chu Qing that Zheng Zhixiang had summoned the fortified village patriarchs to a meeting.
• Chu Qing agreed to meet the Rebel Army at Immortal Fate Tower and demanded bone-training resources from the patriarchs, while Zheng Zhixiang ordered his Heavy Armor Guards to march out.
• Chu Qing refused Zheng Zhixiang’s demand to come downstairs, smashed a Heavy Armor Guard through the floors, and mocked the general as Zhao Hongxiu killed another guard and Zheng threatened those who would not submit.

Chu Qing annihilated the Rebel Army forces that threatened Stone Rock County, then pursued the Mysterious Great Tendon and claimed the Dragon Sinew. After returning, he led attacks on Rebel Army experts and prepared to confront the great clans as Madam Shi demanded resources from them.

• Chu Qing challenged Zheng Zhixiang, then slaughtered more than five thousand Rebel Army soldiers who marched on Stone Rock County and forced the fortified village lords to abandon their plans to join the rebels.
• Chu Qing refined Black Gold Bones and left Stone Rock County to find the Mysterious Great Tendon, eventually tracking it to the Eight Hundred Li Water Plain with Tang Wuming’s help.
• Chu Qing killed the old man who had taken the Dragon Sinew, consumed the tendon, and brought the old man’s corpse back to the Martial Academy, where the headmaster uncovered a half-finished Dragon Tendon Method.
• Chu Qing returned to Stone Rock County, agreed to help Pretty Widow, and learned Madam Shi’s dragon-tendon teaching before accepting her invitation to challenge Prefecture City Martial Academy students.
• Chu Qing and his students set out to attack Rebel Army experts in three counties as powerful families and rebel fighters prepared ambushes for them.
• Chu Qing defeated and killed Niu Jieshi and several Rebel Army experts in Liufeng County, then returned to find Cui Moyang, Nangong, and Mingyue alive after they defeated their attackers in Small Bamboo County.
• Madam Shi gave Chu Qing her secret art, planned to demand resources from the great clans, and ordered Feng Nü to collect two portions of Bone Refining Realm resources from each clan every day.

Chu Qing strengthened his cultivation, defeated rivals in the Prefecture City, and prepared Stone Rock County for Zheng Zhixiang’s attack by moving its people and supplies into the mountains. He returned to the arena to confront Zheng Xilong and left the forest carrying a human head.

• Chu Qing advanced his bone-refining skills, defeated Ximen Peak and Zheng Xilong in the Prefecture City, and took resources from defeated opponents.
• Chu Qing trained in seclusion, obtained Black Gold, and continued gathering resources while Zheng Zhixiang’s forces threatened Stone Rock County.
• After Rebel Army raids struck the quarry, Chu Qing’s companions attacked Black Stone County, and Zheng Zhixiang ordered an assault on Stone Rock County.
• Chu Qing organized the county’s people, supplies, and craftsmen to shelter in Stone Ridge Mountain as Zheng Zhixiang’s army marched toward the empty county.
• Chu Qing went to the Prefecture City with Madam Shi and Ximen while Zheng Zhisheng found Stone Rock County abandoned and learned that Chu Qing meant to fight Zheng Xilong.
• Chu Qing challenged the Prefecture City students, then entered the arena after Zheng Xilong wounded Young Lady Ren.
• Chu Qing pursued Zheng Xilong into a forest, where Madam Shi stopped the Nangong Family servants from interfering and Chu Qing killed Zheng Xilong in a brutal fight.
• Chu Qing emerged from the forest covered in blood and carrying a human head.

Chu Qing fought through the Rebel Army’s schemes and reached State City, where he forced his way into the Martial Academy alongside Nangong. After settling in, he began striking back at the city’s real estate brokers and agreed to lead constables to the killer, not revealing that he was Chu Qing himself.

• Chu Qing claimed Zheng Xilong’s head and both sets of victory resources, killed the Rebel Army elder who warned him of revenge, and returned to Stone Ridge Mountain as Zheng Zhixiang’s troops attacked.
• Chu Qing raided the Rebel Army camp in heavy armor, then infiltrated it again and killed Song Zhe and the Armored Soldier Sect disciples before withdrawing.
• After the Rebel Army withdrew, Chu Qing perfected the Blackwater Bone Refining Method, forged more than seventy Black Gold Bones, and traveled to the Prefectural City with Madam Shi.
• Chu Qing won the Prefectural City Exchange Competition, then journeyed toward the State City and rescued Zhao Hongxiu and his servants from the Prosperous District by burning buildings and forcing their captors to release them.
• In State City, Chu Qing bought slum land after brokers refused to sell him a residence, then fought assassins on his way to the Martial Academy and killed them, including the Eight Diamond Guardians.
• Chu Qing and Nangong won admission as Outer Court students after Principal Liu tried to reject them, and Master Li offered to invest in them.
• Chu Qing and Nangong collected their academy resources, trained, and planned to investigate those who had obstructed Chu Qing, while Chu Qing resolved to confront the brokers who had mistreated him and Madam Jin.
• Chu Qing disguised himself and killed brokers at thirteen real estate agencies, then agreed to lead Gold-robed Constable Chen Fei and the constables to Chu Qing, concealing that he was the man they sought.