Recaps

Qin Ming agreed to join Golden Chicken Ridge and prepared to learn more Heavenly Light Force arts, successfully fusing Entangling Silk Force with his Adhesion Force. As Black Mist descended over the village, he hid his alarm and found a note in the Sword Manual expressing regret over being unable to cultivate Tathagata Force.

• Qin Ming agreed to register with Golden Chicken Ridge, whose men also forcibly recruited Yang Yongqing and his Black Mountain Goat.
• Qin Ming learned Entangling Silk Force from Old Man Liu and discovered that it fused with his Adhesion Force.
• Qin Ming saw Black Mist circling above the village and secretly descend, though no one else seemed to notice it.
• Qin Ming read the damaged Sword Manual and sensed that a later reader had lamented being unable to cultivate Tathagata Force.

Qin Ming used emotional resonance to master Nail Force and Intercepting Force, completed his Third New Life, and forged a sword from Mutton Fat Jade Iron. As he and Old Man Liu left Silver Vine Town, the Black Mist pursued them, and Qin Ming struck at it with his new blade.

• Qin Ming resonated with a predecessor’s bitter experience and quickly learned Nail Force, then tested it by piercing a stone millstone with one finger.
• After hearing that elders and young hunters had died nearby, Qin Ming suspected the Black Mist and decided he urgently needed a sword.
• Qin Ming studied the Sword Manual and learned the complex Intercepting Force, which he fused into his Heavenly Light Force.
• Qin Ming drank the remaining Spiritual Matter and completed his Third New Life before going with Old Man Liu to forge a sword from Mutton Fat Jade Iron.
• The Black Mist appeared in Silver Vine Town and followed Qin Ming and Old Man Liu out toward the village.
• When the Black Mist lunged at them among the trees, Qin Ming slashed backward with his new sword.

Qin Ming killed a mysterious attacker who claimed to be from Beyond the Mundane, using the light of his Mutton Fat Jade Iron Saber to overcome the creature’s strange abilities. He recognized the danger posed by the Beyond the Mundane People and set out for Silver Vine Town to seek secret texts and grow stronger.

• A Black Mist attacked Qin Ming and Old Man Liu, but only Qin Ming could see it; Qin Ming wounded the mist creature with his saber, while Old Man Liu’s greatsword passed through it.
• Qin Ming shed the saber’s mineral-paint coating, and the Mutton Fat Jade Iron Saber’s light burned and restrained the creature as it tried to escape.
• The creature claimed it was human and from Beyond the Mundane, then sacrificed its Mist Body and fled inside a scrap of cloth; Qin Ming pulled it back and destroyed its remaining essence.
• Qin Ming concluded the attacker was probably one of the Beyond the Mundane People and worried that the Feather Robe Youth who had attacked his village might possess even greater abilities.
• Qin Ming showed Old Man Liu the unusual scrap of cloth and decided they would go to Silver Vine Town, eat breakfast, and visit the family they had arranged to meet so he could pursue secret texts.

Qin Empire Ming studied the Wu Family’s secret manual, learned Mang Force, and prepared to consume a Three-Colored Flower. As fragmented memories surfaced, he wondered whether Cui Chonghe was his true name, though he deeply resented the Beyond the Mundane People.

• Qin Empire Ming buried the scrap of cloth and rabbit, then joined Old Man Liu in paying Old Wu fifteen Day Gold coins to read the Wu Family secret manual.
• Qin Empire Ming quickly grasped the manual’s Heavenly Light Force and left, while Old Man Liu was stunned by his talent.
• Qin Empire Ming studied Mang Force and the Three-Colored Flower’s properties, concluding that his body could endure the flower’s fierce medicinal effects.
• Two Golden Chicken Ridge bandits discussed the missing black-mist young man and worried about the danger surrounding the Great Rift Valley.
• Qin Empire Ming prepared to consume a Three-Colored Flower, then wrote “Abandon” and “Cui Chonghe” as memories made him question whether Cui Chonghe was his true name.

Qin Ming ate the Three-Colored Flower and fused his kinds of Heavenly Light Force, while memories of a life as Cui Chonghe grew clearer. After Golden Chicken Ridge demanded payment from the villages, Qin Ming decided to strike the bandits.

• Qin Ming consumed the Three-Colored Flower, fused the two kinds of Heavenly Light within him, and greatly increased his strength.
• Qin Ming recalled Cui Chongxuan fusing four kinds of Heavenly Light Force after his Third New Life and questioned whether his own memories of Cui Chonghe were real.
• Qin Ming tested his strength, considered how to face the Beyond the Mundane People, and asked Old Man Liu about Spiritual Matter for a Fourth New Life.
• Two bandit chiefs received Old Senior's reply that they should wait another day for the missing young man and then leave the matter alone.
• Two Golden Chicken Knights told the nearby villages to pay one Night Silver per household, angering the villagers.
• Qin Ming heard the villagers' anger and decided to make arrangements before attacking Golden Chicken Ridge.

As Golden Chicken Ridge demanded Night Silver from the surrounding villages, Qin Empire Ming prepared to confront the stronghold while Red Haze City was distracted by its leadership change. He rode a captured Violet Lightning Beast through the night toward Golden Chicken Ridge, armed and ready to act.

• Qin Empire Ming made Blood Snake broth for Lu Ze, helping him recover and potentially achieve New Life, then prepared to seek weapons in the mountains.
• Qin Empire Ming found weapons and armor in the underground cavern, destroyed a sinister altar, and met Old Man Liu, who advised him to wait before attacking Golden Chicken Ridge.
• Golden Chicken Ridge delayed its Night Silver collection by a month but failed to ease the villagers' anger, while Old Man Liu reported that only the stronghold's leaders and trusted followers were present.
• Qin Empire Ming learned that Ling Xu was being transferred from Red Haze City and decided the timing favored an attack on Golden Chicken Ridge.
• A Violet Lightning Beast attacked Qin Empire Ming on his way through the mountains, but he seized it, forced it to carry him, and continued toward the stronghold.

Qin Ming rode the Violet Lightning Beast into Golden Chicken Ridge and launched a devastating attack on its remaining bandits. He killed scores of defenders and several powerful fighters, then advanced toward the two bandit chiefs as the raid continued.

• Qin Ming forced the Violet Lightning Beast to carry him the rest of the way to Golden Chicken Ridge by threatening it with his saber.
• Qin Ming shot the Second Mutation Golden Chicken lookout and charged through Golden Chicken Ridge’s gate, killing five bandits with arrows.
• The Violet Lightning Beast killed several attacking Golden Chickens while Qin Ming shot down bandits and deflected a bandit chief’s arrow.
• Qin Ming rode through the stronghold, destroyed a wooden house with his spear, and killed two bandits inside.
• Qin Ming defeated an elderly bandit riding a Third Mutation Golden Chicken, killing both with his spear.
• Qin Ming approached the two bandit chiefs and killed another elderly attacker who had tried to ambush him from behind.

Qin Ming attacked Golden Chicken Ridge alone, killing its veteran fighters and defeating its two chiefs as he pursued them toward the back mountain. At the foot of the ridge, a woman waiting with her attendants recognized the rider as possibly Cui Chonghe.

• Qin Ming rode into Golden Chicken Ridge and killed a Third New Life veteran with one strike, then drove the bandits into battle.
• Qin Ming fought the two bandit chiefs while cutting down two more Third New Life fighters and several fleeing bandits.
• Qin Ming broke his saber in a clash with a chief, then defeated both chiefs barehanded with his fused Heavenly Light Force.
• Qin Ming pursued the chiefs toward the back mountain, killed one of them, and wondered why the ridge was called Golden Chicken Ridge.
• A woman waiting in a grove near the road said the rider on the Violet Lightning Beast looked familiar, and identified Cui Chonghe as a possibility.

Qin Ming destroyed Golden Chicken Ridge after defeating the Fifth Mutation Old Golden Chicken, then went to Green Pine Town to target the Three-Eyed Sect. He found the sect had fled and encountered a Feather-Clothed Woman who recognized him.

• The Feather-Clothed Woman suspected the rider passing Golden Chicken Ridge was Cui Chonghe, an old acquaintance, but decided to wait and confirm his identity.
• Qin Ming discovered that the bandits had sought help from the Old Golden Chicken, a Fifth Mutation ferocious bird attempting to undergo a final mutation.
• The Old Golden Chicken attacked Qin Ming, but he wounded it; it returned to its nest, failed to reach the Sixth Mutation, and died.
• Qin Ming killed the surviving bandits and searched Golden Chicken Ridge, collecting Day Gold, Night Silver, and three books.
• Two returning bandits alerted the Three-Eyed Sect, whose leaders withdrew from Green Pine Town instead of reinforcing Golden Chicken Ridge.
• Qin Ming arrived in Green Pine Town and found it deserted, then encountered the Feather-Clothed Woman, who recognized him.

After destroying Golden Chicken Ridge, Qin Ming encountered Li Qingyue but did not recognize her, then returned home and prepared for a journey. As memories resurfaced, he realized Li Qingyue was an old acquaintance who had recognized him.

• Qin Ming passed Li Qingyue and her companions on the road without recognizing her, while Li Qingyue watched him leave and said they had once been friends.
• Qin Ming released the Violet Lightning Beast, hid his armor and weapons in the forest, and returned to the village carrying only a saber.
• The Violet Lightning Beast told a white owl that the Black White Mountain Mountain Master had been replaced and asked it to investigate Qin Ming, whom it wanted revenge on.
• Qin Ming told Old Man Liu that he had wiped out Golden Chicken Ridge, then studied an ancient manual describing the Yellow Mud Palm.
• Qin Ming recalled fragmented memories and realized that Li Qingyue had recognized him when they met.

Qin Empire Ming examined fragmented memories of his past, learned Yellow Mud Palm, and caught a Talking Finch for Xiao Wenrui before discovering Golden Chicken Ridge’s bandits had all died. As he prepared to leave, Cui Hong was sent to Black White Mountain to seek Yin Yang Great Medicine and investigate the child left there two years earlier.

• Qin Empire Ming recalled his past as Cui Chonghe, identified Li Qingyue among his former companions, and resolved to focus on growing stronger despite the hollow fragments in his memories.
• Qin Empire Ming studied Yellow Mud Palm, grasped its Heavenly Light Supple Force, and practiced its techniques, including its Earth Essence-powered highest realm.
• Qin Empire Ming caught a pale-blue Talking Finch for Xiao Wenrui, then encountered its foul-mouthed husband, who recognized him and asked him to release his wife.
• Qin Empire Ming left the Talking Finch with Lu Ze’s family, where it promised to help warn Lu Ze in the mountains, while Yang Yongqing returned with news that all the Golden Chicken Ridge bandits had died.
• A stern middle-aged man ordered Cui Hong to search Black White Mountain for Yin Yang Great Medicine and check whether the child he had left there two years earlier had survived.

As rumors about the destruction of Golden Chicken Ridge spread, Qin Ming prepared to leave his village and travel farther afield. He departed after giving Lu Ze cultivation methods and advice, while Cui Hong and a richly dressed young man arrived near Silver Vine Town.

• An imposing middle-aged man ordered Cui Hong to provide more Day Gold to someone living in a remote region and let him remain there in comfort.
• The destruction of Golden Chicken Ridge prompted local forces and major organizations to speculate about who had carried it out, while Li Qingyue and Meng Xinghai faced blame and scrutiny.
• The Three-Eyed Sect began aiding villages out of fear, and a rumor credited a lone warrior riding a Violet Lightning Beast with destroying the ridge; the Violet Lightning Beast demanded that the search for the outsider continue.
• Qin Ming tested his mastered Yellow Mud Palm on a wild ox and rejected an overpriced ancient manual because its Nail Force was already familiar to him.
• Qin Ming told Lu Ze to eat the frozen Fire Snake and gave him cultivation methods before saying goodbye to Lu Ze, Wen Rui, and Wen Hui.
• Qin Ming left the village with his Mutton Fat Jade Iron Saber, while Old Man Liu watched him go; Cui Hong and a richly dressed young man arrived near Silver Vine Town on a giant bird.

Cui Hong and Cui Chongyi searched for Cui Chonghe, while Qin Ming left Double Tree Village for Red Haze City with Wu Zheng and a traveling merchant. On the road beside the deadly desert, Qin Ming recognized Cui Hong as one of the people who had once saved him, and Cui Hong recognized Qin Ming in turn.

• Cui Hong and Cui Chongyi learned that Cui Chonghe had recovered and visited the Wu Family, then went looking for him.
• Old Man Liu warned Qin Ming about traveling merchants and Mountain Patrol members before Qin Ming left Double Tree Village.
• Qin Ming joined Xu Sheng's party in Emei Town and met Wu Zheng, who hoped to become the next Spear and Arrow Dual Mastery.
• Xu Sheng warned the travelers not to stray or speak carelessly near the dark desert as they journeyed along its mountain border.
• Cui Hong fought a white Old Elephant in the mountains, and Qin Ming recognized him as one of the men who had saved him years earlier.
• Cui Hong spotted Qin Ming among the travelers and realized he had found the person he was seeking.

Qin Ming and Xu Sheng's party were trapped in unnatural fog after fleeing the clash between Cui Hong and Old Elephant. As the party followed a ghostly torch through the darkness, a member was seized by an unseen, long-haired figure.

• Qin Ming watched Cui Hong negotiate with Old Elephant, who refused to release Cui Chongyi, before the two masters departed.
• Xu Sheng hurried his party over the fallen cliff and led them into thick fog, where their torches would not stay lit.
• The travelers spotted a silent party carrying a torch, but Xu Sheng warned them not to stare or follow it and explained the danger of joining a ritual.
• Xu Sheng realized the party had wandered off the path, and Qin Ming noticed that sand lay beneath his left foot where the mountain should have been.
• A man in the party claimed a young lady was clinging to him, then felt her icy nails cut his neck; another traveler said he was holding long hair.

Qin Ming survived the desert’s strange night with Xu Sheng’s caravan before reuniting with Cui Hong. Cui Hong revealed that Qin Ming’s father and mother had ordered him to keep Qin Ming in the region and make him live as an ordinary person, leaving Qin Ming reeling and demanding to know why.

• Cui Hong escaped a gigantic white-furred creature guided by a blood-red lantern as the desert fog closed in.
• Xu Sheng led the caravan to shelter at a cliff, where Qin Ming encountered a tiny, intelligent-looking wild boar in his tent.
• The fog thinned, and Xu Sheng’s group continued onward until Cui Hong arrived and told the caravan to leave.
• Cui Hong asked Qin Ming whether he had undergone New Life, then said he could not let him leave the region because of orders from Qin Ming’s parents.
• Qin Ming learned that both his father and mother wanted him to live as an ordinary person, and he demanded to know why as pain and fragmented memories overwhelmed him.

Qin Empire Ming recovered painful fragments of his past and learned that his parents had sent him away, while Cui Hong had come to stop his New Life Path. He rejected the Cui Household and declared that he would live as Qin Empire Ming for himself.

• Qin Empire Ming relived memories of his former self abandoning hope during a village fire and parting from the Cui Household.
• Qin Empire Ming accused Cui Hong of trying to ruin his future, and Cui Hong explained that he had been ordered to stop Qin Empire Ming from pursuing his New Life Path.
• Qin Empire Ming suspected the Cui Household had sent him away to ward off disaster and asked Cui Hong to reveal what had happened.
• Cui Hong apologized for Qin Empire Ming's memory loss and said he meant to dissolve his New Life Path rather than kill him.
• Li Qingyue and Meng Xinghai arrived as Cui Hong prepared to act, and Qin Empire Ming renounced the Cui Household.
• Qin Empire Ming declared that he was no longer Cui Chonghe and would live only for himself as Qin Empire Ming.

Qin Empire Ming refused Cui Hong’s attempt to take him back to the Cui Household, and the Old Mountain Boar protected him from being seized. After Qin Empire Ming claimed that a legendary saber master was his teacher, the group prepared to leave as the boar’s urine stirred the wilderness into violent motion.

• Qin Empire Ming retreated from Cui Hong and drew his saber, cutting off a corner of Cui Hong’s sleeve with an impressive strike.
• Cui Hong tried to seize Qin Empire Ming, but the Old Mountain Boar kicked him and revealed itself as the former mountain lord of Black White Mountain.
• The Old Mountain Boar told Cui Hong it had promised to protect Qin Empire Ming along the road, while Meng Xinghai and Li Qingyue challenged the Cui Household’s treatment of him.
• Qin Empire Ming renounced the Cui Household and said that the one-armed saber grandmaster who created the Severing Heaven Sword Intent was his master.
• The Old Mountain Boar urged Qin Empire Ming to leave, then urinated on the yellow sand, setting off a violent eruption of black mist.

Qin Ming hid in the desert with Old Mountain Boar while the Cui Household’s pursuit eased, then set out for Red Haze City. As he neared the brightly lit city, fragments of his life as Cui Chonghe returned, leaving him to wonder whether his former friends would still acknowledge him.

• Meng Xinghai told Qin Ming that the Cui Household had softened its stance and warned him to avoid Clear River City, Thousand Stars City, and the name Cui Chonghe for several years.
• Old Mountain Boar explained that Qin Ming had unknowingly helped him recover after the White Wolf crippled him, and the two hid from their pursuers in the desert.
• Qin Ming and Old Mountain Boar discovered a Golden Bandits hideout at Fire Spring, where the bandits panicked after counting an apparent tenth person among their nine members.
• A Talking Finch brought Meng Xinghai’s message that Qin Ming could safely consider Red Haze City, while Li Qingyue said that people who knew him might distance themselves after his departure from the Cui Household.
• After eleven days at the desert oasis, Qin Ming bid Old Mountain Boar farewell and traveled toward Red Haze City.
• Near the city, Qin Ming recalled his former connections as Cui Chonghe and wondered how many old friends would still recognize or welcome him.

Qin Ming explored Red Haze City, searching for Spiritual Matter and learning about the city’s dangers and opportunities. After hearing about Thunderfire Alchemy Hall’s perilous Spring Thunder ritual, he decided to go there and use the Heavenly Light to gain New Life.

• Qin Ming entered Red Haze City and found that even low-tier Spiritual Matter was too expensive, while higher-tier supplies were scarce.
• Qin Ming ran into Wu Zheng on a street of music pavilions, and Wu Zheng explained that he visited Drunken Haze Tavern to gather information about hunting aberrants.
• Qin Ming and Wu Zheng met Xu Sheng at the tavern, where Xu Sheng announced that he had quit being a traveling merchant to become a freelance Spiritual Hunter.
• Qin Ming overheard New Life Evolvers discussing Thunderfire Alchemy Hall and asked Xu Sheng about its Spring Thunder ritual.
• Xu Sheng warned Qin Ming that the Heavenly Light at Thunderfire Alchemy Hall killed nearly everyone who tried to draw it into their bodies.
• Qin Ming decided that he could withstand the Heavenly Light and eagerly anticipated going to Red Haze Mountain when the first spring thunder arrived.

Qin Ming joined New Life Evolvers in Red Haze City, where a hunt for an Azure Ox ended in betrayal and a snow lotus expedition ended with a mysterious thief taking the prize. As Spring Thunder approached, Qin Ming visited Thunderfire Alchemy Hall and felt an intense resonance when he touched its wall.

• Qin Ming learned from Xu Sheng that surviving the Thunderfire Heavenly Light was perilous, then heard about a wounded five-time-mutated Spiritual Creature near Fire Cloud Ridge.
• Qin Ming wounded the Azure Ox in the eye with an arrow, helping the hunters kill it, but Liang Yu Kang secretly took its valuable bezoar and fled.
• Xu Sheng led Qin Ming and others to find a snow lotus guarded by white apes, but a gray-clad stranger snatched it and escaped.
• Qin Ming and Wu Zheng joined the crowds visiting Red Haze Mountain and were swept into Thunderfire Alchemy Hall.
• Qin Ming touched the hall's wall and felt an overwhelming surge of emotion, startling him.

Qin Ming explored Thunderfire Alchemy Hall’s death-bound emotions and sought secret manuals to prepare for the dangerous Heavenly Light on Red Haze Mountain. After learning a hammer art from the fallen Sun Family, he waited on the mountain as the First Thunder of Spring began to rumble.

• Qin Ming was overwhelmed by the anguished emotions resonating through Thunderfire Alchemy Hall and withdrew before they could shatter his mind.
• Qin Ming told Xu Sheng he intended to face the Heavenly Light on Red Haze Mountain, and Xu Sheng agreed to arrange for someone to retrieve him if he appeared to die.
• Qin Ming asked Xu Sheng to find a fallen household with secret manuals, then visited the Sun Family and used the family’s incomplete book to recover its hammer art and two force techniques.
• Qin Ming gave the Old Woman money and promised to write a complete manual if he mastered the art.
• Qin Ming went up Red Haze Mountain and searched Thunderfire Alchemy Hall for several days as the crowds dwindled.
• The First Thunder of Spring rumbled in the distance, and Qin Ming looked up, realizing it was beginning.

Qin Empire Ming entered the Thunderfire Alchemy Hall to endure Spring Thunder and gather Heavenly Light, while Xu Sheng arranged for a corpse collector to pull him out after four waves. The collector delayed until the seventh wave, but Qin Empire Ming survived and played dead as he was dragged from the hall, expecting to reach his Fourth New Life and recover lost memories.

• Qin Empire Ming waited in the Thunderfire Alchemy Hall among the Death Friends, including Old Zhao and Qian Cheng, as Spring Thunder approached.
• Qin Empire Ming resonated with a dying young man's memories and learned the Explosive Force technique, then told Xu Sheng he was ready to endure the Heavenly Light.
• Spring Thunder struck the hall, and successive waves of Heavenly Light killed or incapacitated many people, including Old Zhao.
• Qin Empire Ming lay still through the fourth and fifth waves, but grew furious when the corpse collector failed to drag him out on time.
• The corpse collector finally pulled Qin Empire Ming from the hall during the seventh wave, and Qin Empire Ming used Harmonizing with Light, Blending with Dust to pretend he was dead.

Qin Empire Ming survived the Thunderfire Alchemy Hall and underwent his Fourth New Life as Heavenly Light transformed his body. After mastering and fusing several Heavenly Light Force techniques, he sat awake, expecting the world to change when he next slept.

• Xu Hai carried Qin Empire Ming’s corpse down the mountain and tried to sell it for meat, so Qin Empire Ming secretly struck him with Yellow Mud Palm.
• Xu Sheng rescued Qin Empire Ming from Xu Hai, and Qin Empire Ming revealed himself to Xu Sheng and Wu Zheng after they left the mountain.
• Qin Empire Ming returned to the inn and endured a violent New Life as he fused Heavenly Light from beyond the world with the light within his body.
• Qin Empire Ming practiced Supple Force, Hammer Force, and Whip Force until he mastered them and fused them into his original Heavenly Light Force technique.
• Qin Empire Ming sat quietly instead of sleeping, anticipating that his world would be different when he awoke.

Qin Empire Ming completed the revelations of his Fourth New Life as his shattered memories continued to return. After astonishing Xu Sheng and Wu Zheng with his strength, he searched the Night Reports for news of the Cui Household and watched his past come into focus.

• While Qin Empire Ming slept, the Jade Suit Sewn with Gold Threads repaired the three shattered places on his skull, and the Silk Scripture revealed the Fourth New Life and the method for the Fifth.
• Qin Empire Ming woke with returning memories and practiced his blended weapon techniques before Wu Zheng brought him breakfast.
• Xu Sheng took Qin Empire Ming to Zhou Lin's training hall, where Qin Empire Ming lifted a cauldron weighing four thousand five hundred jin and shocked Xu Sheng and Wu Zheng with his strength.
• Qin Empire Ming declined to choose an academy or lineage yet, then bought Night Reports to learn about recent events and the Cui Household.
• After reading about the Cui Household's upheaval two years earlier, Qin Empire Ming watched memories of his family, the Feather Robe Youth, Li Qingyue, and other acquaintances return.

Qin Ming recovered memories of his childhood as Cui Chonghe, his life in the Cui Household, and the family’s plans for his future. He remembered being sent with a group of elders along a dangerous route to draw away Li Household forces, leaving his parents behind as the two households neared war.

• Qin Ming recognized Li Qingxu in his memories and learned that a powerful Old Senior had chosen him as a disciple.
• Qin Ming remembered being brought to the Cui Residence as a young child, where Cui Hao, his parents, and his brothers became central to his life.
• Qin Ming devoted himself to the Silk Scripture despite its difficulty, while Cui Chongxuan resented being forbidden to practice it.
• The Cui Household treated Qin Ming as a gifted heir, but his identity drew assassination attempts and the Li Household’s hostility.
• As conflict with the Li Household loomed, Father Cui sent Qin Ming with clan elders along a dangerous route to divert enemy forces, and Qin Ming tearfully left his parents and younger brother.