Recaps

Fang Cheng destroyed the Golden Benba Vase’s protective barrier with gunfire, stopping its golden orb from draining people, but the damaged vase still devoured anyone who touched it. As treasure hunters erupted into a violent fight over it, Fang Cheng watched from the sidelines, keeping an eye on the surveillance camera and the Mysterious Man’s group and Nail Head.

• Fang Cheng resisted the Golden Benba Vase’s bewitching Brahma Voice, took a submachine gun, and fired until he shattered its barrier and knocked the vase to the floor.
• The golden orb collapsed, freeing the entranced treasure hunters, while surveillance-room watchers Lu Shihua and Lu Tao reacted in disbelief to Fang Cheng’s actions.
• When treasure hunters challenged Fang Cheng, Nail Head suggested they test the vase, but nobody dared touch it until newly arrived intruders rushed toward it.
• A skinny treasure hunter named Brother Knife grabbed the vase and began withering as it drained his life; Ba Ming and other experts moved in to claim it.
• The Oath Spell’s effect faded, and treasure hunters fought and killed one another in a chaotic scramble while Fang Cheng watched from a corner alongside the Mysterious Man’s group and Nail Head.

Fang Cheng realized the Lu Family’s treasure raid concealed a larger scheme, while Lu Shihua ordered the Mist Formation activated to salvage his plan. As the Golden Benba Vase changed hands amid the vault’s fighting, the Professor helped Mike escape through a hidden passage, and Fang Cheng confronted the enraged pursuers to protect the Professor and Li Dingjian.

• Fang Cheng suspected the Lu Family had deliberately led the treasure seekers into the Underground Vault and recognized that removing the Golden Benba Vase had weakened its lethal power without ending the danger.
• Lu Shihua ordered Lu Tao to activate every formation around Mist Mountain at maximum power and planned to use the Aberrants’ deaths to feed the Golden Benba Vase.
• Xiong Ba escaped with the Golden Benba Vase while Xiong Wei covered him, but Nail Head strangled Xiong Ba with a barbed chain and tossed the vase back to the crowd.
• The Professor and Li Dingjian opened a secret passage, and the Professor used Mental Interference to help Mike seize the vase and flee through it.
• Fang Cheng recognized the Professor’s familiar voice and struck down an attacker before telling the Professor and Li Dingjian to go ahead while he handled the pursuers.

Fang Cheng joined forces with the professor and Li Dingjian to pursue the Golden Benba Vase, while the professor’s team carried out a plan to trick Mike’s accomplices into taking a decoy backpack. Lark, Lin Chuqiao, and Big Hammer pulled off the deception and prepared to continue their operation.

• Fang Cheng intimidated the treasure hunters with a single punch, and the professor persuaded them to chase Mike instead of fighting his group.
• Fang Cheng proposed that his team join forces with the professor and Li Dingjian, and they headed through the secret passage while contacting their teammates.
• The professor ordered Lin Chuqiao and Monkey to act against Mike’s accomplices outside the Estate.
• Lark transformed into Mike and convinced Tom and Jerry that the Golden Benba Vase was in a backpack, while Big Hammer and Lin Chuqiao pretended to chase her.
• Tom and Jerry fled with the backpack, and Lark returned to her own appearance as Lin Chuqiao assigned the team’s next tasks.

Lin Chuqiao, Lark, and Big Hammer escaped the treasure hunters with the Golden Benba Vase after Monkey’s explosions covered their retreat. As they celebrated the successful theft, Fang Cheng, the Professor, and Li Dingjian witnessed a sudden, ominous change around the Lu Family Manor.

• Bai Ling disguised herself as a foreigner while Mike fled the Estate with the Golden Benba Vase, and Lark tricked him into handing it over.
• Lin Chuqiao, Lark, and Big Hammer ran through the fog toward their escape route as Big Hammer fought off pursuers and delayed them.
• Monkey detonated explosives near the red-cloth marker, giving Lin Chuqiao, Lark, and Big Hammer cover to escape with the Golden Benba Vase.
• The Professor praised the team and ordered Lin Chuqiao and the others to withdraw by vehicle while Monkey monitored the Estate.
• At the Lu Family Manor gate, Fang Cheng noticed the Professor and Li Dingjian’s suppressed excitement and asked whether the plan was going smoothly.
• Dark clouds swallowed the moonlight around the Estate as the ground trembled and a deep rumble rose, alarming Fang Cheng, the Professor, and Li Dingjian.

A violent disturbance activated a hidden array beneath the Estate, disrupting communications and trapping people in an illusion that blocked their escape. Lin Chuqiao, Lark, and Big Hammer fled a tide of ghostly figures, then found themselves stranded beside a boundary the entities would not cross.

• Fang Cheng used Eagle Eye Vision and his other senses to discover a vast array beneath the Estate that seemed to seal off a space.
• The storm eased, but Fang Cheng's walkie-talkie failed, and the professor said his teammates had become trapped by a ghost wall.
• Lin Chuqiao, Lark, and Big Hammer followed the professor's guidance through the fog, but their route failed to lead them out of the forest.
• A group of treasure hunters warned them that the ghostly figures ate people, and the three fled as the entities and black fog swallowed several people.
• The black fog halted, leaving the survivors on one side of an apparent boundary while the ghostly figures remained on the other.

Lin Chuqiao and her companions were attacked by treasure hunters in the mist, and the Golden Benba Vase repeatedly changed hands as the groups fought over it. When the Scarred Strongman attacked the mysterious White Ghost, White Ghost killed him with a single punch and cleared the mist around them.

• Lin Chuqiao used Mental Charm to turn one treasure hunter against his companions as the hunters surrounded her group and demanded the Golden Benba Vase.
• Big Hammer fought the attackers while Lin Chuqiao controlled two men as shields, but the group was overwhelmed until Big Hammer transformed into a Giant Werewolf.
• Lin Chuqiao told Lark to throw the Golden Benba Vase, drawing the treasure hunters into a chaotic fight as they struggled to possess it.
• A lone hunter hurled the vase into the mist, where White Ghost caught it and emerged wearing an Evil Spirit Mask.
• The Scarred Strongman charged White Ghost for the vase, and White Ghost struck him with a punch that burst his head and swept away a swath of mist.

Fang Cheng confronted the treasure hunters over the Golden Benba Vase and fought their group after they tried to overwhelm him. After surviving a lightning strike that they believed had paralyzed him, he stood amid burning scraps of clothing, his body radiating a terrifying aura.

• Fang Cheng killed the Scarred Strongman with a single punch, silencing the treasure hunters, and revealed that he held the Golden Benba Vase.
• Fang Cheng challenged the treasure hunters to take the vase by defeating him, then charged them when they agreed to attack together.
• Fang Cheng killed several attackers, dodged the masked men’s coordinated dagger assault, and crushed the lead masked man’s skull with the vase.
• Wu Lao’er failed to hinder Fang Cheng with Mental Piercing, and a Lightning Manipulator struck Fang Cheng with a bolt that set his clothes ablaze.
• A treasure hunter’s Samurai Sword failed to cut Fang Cheng after the lightning strike, and Fang Cheng’s muscles swelled as his burning clothes burst apart.

Fang Cheng defeated the treasure hunters who attacked him, then treated Big Hammer’s broken arm and reunited with Lin Chuqiao, who recognized him as White Ghost. As the Golden Benba Vase began glowing more intensely, the group turned their attention to it.

• Fang Cheng used Overlord Body and overwhelming speed and strength to kill two attackers, then drove the remaining treasure hunters into the mist.
• Fang Cheng deflected a gunman’s bullets with his dagger, gained combat-skill experience, and regrouped with Lin Chuqiao, Lark, and Big Hammer.
• Fang Cheng reset Big Hammer’s broken arm and advised him to use a splint while it healed.
• Fang Cheng realized his clothes had been destroyed in battle and put on clothes taken from a corpse.
• Lin Chuqiao recognized Fang Cheng as White Ghost and began asking him privately how he had arrived and whether he knew the professor.
• Lark pointed out that the Golden Benba Vase was glowing more brightly, and everyone looked toward it.

The Golden Benba Vase rose into the sky as the black mist closed in, leaving Fang Cheng and his companions trapped in the shifting Mist Mountain. Using Monkey’s position as a guide, Fang Cheng led the group up a steep hillside toward a distant mountaintop, where the thinning mist suggested a possible escape route.

• The Golden Benba Vase formed a sphere of light that drained the corpses around it before shooting into the dark clouds.
• Fang Cheng led Lin Chuqiao, Lark, and Big Hammer toward the Estate, but their markers had vanished and the terrain had changed.
• The Professor asked Monkey to fire a signal flare, but Fang Cheng’s group saw no light before the black mist surged toward them.
• Fang Cheng carried Lin Chuqiao while Big Hammer carried Lark, and they fled with other treasure hunters from the advancing mist.
• Fang Cheng linked with Monkey through Lin Chuqiao and used Monkey’s direction to guide everyone up a steep hillside.
• As the group climbed, the mist thinned and a distant mountaintop came into view.

Fang Cheng and the others reached Monkey’s refuge on the summit, where Fang Cheng spotted the Golden Benba Vase and began considering a plan. Meanwhile, Lu Shihua revealed the Lu Family’s ruthless scheme to use the formation and its victims to summon the Inheritance Secret Realm, but Roger arrived to claim the vase and kill him, leaving them poised for battle.

• Monkey welcomed the fleeing treasure hunters and told Lin Chuqiao that the black mist was shrinking safe areas while he watched from the summit.
• Fang Cheng used Eagle Eye Vision to examine the Golden Benba Vase hovering above the mist and learned that lamas had visited the area before.
• Lu Shihua told Lu Tao that the formation would sacrifice the treasure hunters’ life energy to bring the Inheritance Secret Realm into place, and ordered the guards to hunt down survivors.
• Roger entered the surveillance room with Zha Xi and Duo Ji, accused Lu Shihua of stealing the formation from the Black Sect, and demanded the vase and Lu Shihua’s life.
• Lu Shihua summoned attacking vines as Roger manifested a three-headed, six-armed demon god, and both sides launched into battle.

Trapped in Mist Mountain’s Inner World, Fang Cheng and the others learned that the Golden Benba Vase might be the key to escaping. As Lu Shihua and Revered One Roger fought over the vase, Fang Cheng decided he would fly to reach it.

• The professor explained that the group had been trapped in an Inner World opened by the Lu Family, and Lin Chuqiao proposed using the Golden Benba Vase to find a way out.
• Li Dingjian reported that Lu Shihua and Revered One Roger were fighting inside the manor and had mentioned the Golden Benba Vase.
• Lu Shihua summoned vines to stop Roger from reaching the vase, while Roger attacked with a demon god phantom and fire.
• A towering tree appeared through the fog as Mist Mountain trembled, captivating the people on the mountaintop.
• Fang Cheng asked about destroying a formation’s eye, then declared that he would fly to the Golden Benba Vase.

Fang Cheng decided to reach the Golden Benba Vase, which he believed was the formation eye trapping everyone in Mist Mountain, and used simulations in his Memory Palace to plan a dangerous flight. He launched from the cliff and used Qi Gong to propel himself through the black mist toward the vase, but new dangers emerged before he reached it.

• Fang Cheng argued that taking the Golden Benba Vase might disrupt the formation and improve everyone's chances of escape, despite Lin Chuqiao, Li Dingjian, and the professor warning him about the risks.
• Fang Cheng mapped Mist Mountain in his Memory Palace, calculated the flight conditions, and repeatedly simulated routes until he found one he believed had the best chance of success.
• Fang Cheng sprinted to the cliff's edge and leaped into the air, gliding toward the Golden Benba Vase as Lin Chuqiao and the others watched anxiously.
• Fang Cheng realized his airtime ability alone could not carry him across the roughly 903-meter distance, so he used Qi Gong to release vapor from his body and propel himself forward.
• Fang Cheng adjusted his course through shifting crosswinds and drew closer to the Golden Benba Vase, while further dangers arose.

Fang Cheng shattered the Golden Benba Vase with his Qilin Arm, ending the black-mist formation and freeing the sky above Lu Family Manor. A second Golden Orb entered his body, and he survived his fall by landing in a Horse Stance Pile.

• Fang Cheng battled the black waves and ghostly shadows as he flew toward the Golden Benba Vase, then used a burst of power to strike it with his Qilin Arm.
• The Golden Benba Vase shattered, collapsing the formation and driving the black mist and shadows away as everyone at Lu Family Manor watched in shock.
• A mass of blood mist erupted from the vase, and a smaller Golden Orb flew into Fang Cheng's forehead, filling him with scorching heat.
• Fang Cheng was swept into turbulent air and fell toward the Estate, where his airtime ability helped him slow his descent.
• Fang Cheng landed in a Horse Stance Pile, striking the ground with a thunderous crash and emerging from the dust unharmed.

Fang Cheng crashed into the Lu Family Estate after destroying the formation and Golden Benba Vase, interrupting Lu Shihua and Roger’s battle. He revealed himself as Roger’s junior brother and claimed he had completed his mission, while the Lu Family’s ancestral spirit began to fade.

• Roger unleashed his Esoteric Sect technique against Lu Shihua, but Lu Shihua’s Substitution Jutsu and Tree Sea Technique let him counterattack as the Lu Family’s ancestral spirit began to return.
• Lu Shihua overwhelmed Roger with his strengthened tree and vines, while taunting him that only destroying the Golden Benba Vase could stop the Lu Family’s resurgence.
• Thunder and a blazing fireball shattered the formation over the Estate, and Lu Shihua and Roger raced to find the Golden Benba Vase.
• Fang Cheng emerged from the fireball’s impact crater, recovered his bearings, and realized he had fallen after destroying the vase and formation.
• As the ancestral tree and new growth began to wither, Lu Shihua demanded to know who Fang Cheng was and whether he had smashed the vase.
• Fang Cheng recognized Roger and announced that he had fulfilled his mission by destroying the formation and Golden Benba Vase.

Fang Cheng escaped the Lu Family Manor and recovered in a lake while the professor’s team celebrated his destruction of the formation. Blood rain then fell over Mist Mountain, and the professor explained that the interrupted Secret Realm transfer had left the Inner World and outer world superimposed before urging everyone to expose themselves to the rain.

• Fang Cheng fled the Lu Family Manor, leaving Lu Shihua and Roger fighting while Lu Tao attacked Zha Xi and Duo Ji.
• Fang Cheng hid beneath a lake and used Qi Gong to recover from his injuries.
• The professor’s team and the treasure hunters celebrated Fang Cheng’s destruction of the formation on the summit.
• Dark clouds gathered and blood-red rain began falling, scalding the people it touched and filling the air with a bloody miasma.
• The professor told Lin Chuqiao and the others that the interrupted Secret Realm transfer had left Mist Mountain in a shifting state between the Inner World and outer world, then urged everyone to go out into the blood rain.

After the Golden Benba Vase shattered, the professor explained that the blood rain could strengthen Aberrants, and people across Mist Mountain began absorbing it. Fang Cheng absorbed the rain while meditating underwater, healed his injuries, and raised Qi Gong to Master Level.

• The professor explained that the blood rain was released from the shattered Golden Benba Vase and urged the Aberrants to absorb it before its effects faded.
• Big Hammer and Monkey welcomed the blood rain, and Lin Chuqiao and Lark endured its pain and began meditating beneath it.
• The other treasure seekers realized the rain was beneficial and joined them in absorbing it.
• Fang Cheng absorbed the blood rain while practicing Qi Gong at the bottom of the lake, where its energy healed his injuries and increased his Constitution.
• Fang Cheng reviewed the Panel and saw that Qi Gong had reached Master Level and advanced to lv2.

Fang Cheng gained the Flame Breathing special effect, tested its fiery true qi, and absorbed mysterious blood-red energy that boosted his constitution. After emerging from the lake and finding Mist Mountain quiet, he headed toward Lu Family Manor to learn what had happened, then received a radio signal from his allies asking where he was and whether he was safe.

• Fang Cheng's Qi Gong leveled up after his recent trials, granting him the Flame Breathing special effect.
• Fang Cheng activated Flame Breathing and set his right hand ablaze, discovering that he could attach fiery true qi to his body or weapons.
• Fang Cheng examined his full reserves of Water Breathing and Flame Breathing true qi and noted that the blood-red energy had restored him after the battle.
• Fang Cheng gained five constitution points from absorbing the blood-red energy, bringing his physique attribute to forty-six, while his combat skills gained experience.
• Fang Cheng left the lake and found Mist Mountain quiet, then decided to return to Lu Family Manor to check on the professor and the others.
• Fang Cheng accepted a radio signal, and a steady voice and an urgent female voice asked where he was and whether he was all right.

Fang Cheng reconnected with the professor’s team, confirmed they could leave Mist Mountain, and evaded the approaching Lu Family reinforcements. After disguising himself with stolen clothes, he was ambushed by Nail Head, who challenged him to fight as a group of armed treasure seekers surrounded them.

• Fang Cheng spoke with the professor’s team, learned they had escaped the Inner World, and declined Lin Chuqiao’s invitation to leave with them because he still had something to do.
• The professor learned that a convoy and helicopter were approaching, so he ordered the team to withdraw; Fang Cheng also learned that his teammates were waiting near the Estate.
• Fang Cheng spotted a young man in the helicopter, ran into the woods, and knocked out a lone treasure seeker to take his clothes and shoes.
• Nail Head attacked Fang Cheng with chains, but Fang Cheng dodged the strikes and revealed a White Mask beneath his shattered Red Mask.
• Nail Head praised Fang Cheng’s speed and said fighting him would be an exquisite pleasure, then called for hidden enemies to reveal themselves.
• A group of armed treasure seekers emerged and surrounded Fang Cheng and Nail Head, led by a burly man carrying grenades and a battle-axe.

Fang Cheng escaped the clash between Xiong Wei and Nail Head while the Lu Family’s forces approached Mist Mountain. At YuLong Lake, a transformed Ling Zifeng returned to human form and told Liang Xiaotang that Lu Shihua was still alive.

• Xiong Wei confronted Nail Head and demanded that Fang Cheng join him in avenging his brother, but Fang Cheng refused and left the encirclement.
• Xiong Wei and Nail Head’s groups began fighting as Fang Cheng fled through the forest, expecting the Lu Family’s forces to arrive soon.
• An explosion erupted on Mist Mountain while Fang Cheng continued toward YuLong Lake and the village, pretending to be out for a run.
• A demonlike Ling Zifeng emerged from YuLong Lake and met Liang Xiaotang, who asked about the Lu Family’s plans.
• Ling Zifeng withdrew his Gray Armor into the crystal-like core in his chest, removed the core, and told Liang Xiaotang that Lu Shihua was still alive.

Ling Zifeng told Liang Xiaotang that Lu Shihua and the Lu Family had tried to relocate their secret realm using the Golden Benba Vase, but a mysterious man shattered the relic and broke the formation. After Ling Zifeng left, Lu Yongquan entered the newly relocated realm and found a lush landscape overshadowed by a gigantic tree marked with dark red patterns.

• Ling Zifeng told Liang Xiaotang that Lu Shihua had appeared and that the Lu Family had used aberrants and the Golden Benba Vase in an attempt to relocate their secret realm.
• Ling Zifeng explained that the formation had dragged everyone into the Inner World, where Lu Shihua fought Revered One Roger before a mysterious flying man shattered the Golden Benba Vase.
• Liang Xiaotang questioned Ling Zifeng about the mysterious man, then left to report the incident while reminding him to monitor the Lu Family.
• Ling Zifeng privately suspected that the masked man might be White Owl or White Ghost, removed the needles from his head to alter his appearance, and vanished into the darkness.
• Lu Yongquan ordered the guards to stay back and entered the Light Gate, finding the relocated secret realm lush and nearly half the size of Mist Mountain.
• Lu Yongquan admired the realm's greenery until he saw the central tree's dark red, blood-vessel-like patterns and grew alarmed.

Lu Shihua revealed that he was sacrificing himself to sustain the Ancestral Spirit Tree and named Lu Yongquan as his successor, leaving Lu Yongquan to take charge of the family and plan against the Black Sect. The next morning, Fang Cheng woke at the hotel after the events on Mist Mountain, confirmed his companions were safe, and received a call from an unfamiliar number.

• Lu Shihua told Lu Yongquan that the Ancestral Spirit Tree needed his blood essence and that he intended to sacrifice himself to keep it alive.
• Lu Shihua charged Lu Yongquan with repairing the tree's damaged origin within fifty years and told him he would become the Lu Family's patriarch.
• Lu Yongquan concealed Lu Shihua's condition, took over the family's affairs, and ordered Lu Tao to investigate Spirit Spring Temple and secure the Secret Realm Entrance.
• Fang Cheng woke at the Yuehu Hotel, packed away his weapons and the clothes from Mist Mountain, and found that his uncle and Lin Chuqiao were not answering their phones.
• Fang Cheng recalled that Old Wolf, Bao Ye, Xiao Bei, and the others had escaped safely, then received a call from an unfamiliar number.

Fang Cheng collected the deed to the apartment his uncle had bought and made the unfinished seaside home his private training base. He began meditating there, seeking to resolve the problems troubling him since the previous night.

• Fang Cheng collected the completed property paperwork and keys from Xiao Liu, who said Li Dingjian had instructed the agency to let Fang Cheng make the final decisions.
• Fang Cheng wondered why his uncle might have joined the professor’s dangerous Extraordinary Team as the mysterious Crow, but could not reach him for answers.
• Fang Cheng visited the apartment in Jinmao Mansion · Seaview Garden and decided to keep it unfinished, furnishing it only with basic necessities and training equipment.
• Fang Cheng settled by the window to meditate, and as he focused on his breathing, he found a wisp of flame burning deep within his mind.

Fang Cheng discovered that the Golden Benba Vase’s spirituality had fused with him, absorbing foreign consciousness and expanding his Memory Palace while increasing his mental fatigue. After gaining nearly two Spirit points from Meditation, he planned his training and renovation of the unfinished apartment, while someone elsewhere reacted to news that the vase had been shattered.

• Fang Cheng examined his spirituality fire and realized its powerful golden points were consuming mental energy while drawing in and purifying external thoughts.
• Fang Cheng entered the Memory Palace and found a dim Golden Orb that absorbed purified mental energy and expanded the palace.
• Fang Cheng recognized the orb as the spiritual origin of the Golden Benba Vase, which had entered his body when he shattered the vase and had begun fusing with him.
• Fang Cheng ended his Meditation after about two and a half hours and saw that his Spirit had risen from 45 to 47 and his Meditation skill had gained experience.
• Fang Cheng decided to focus on Running, Boxing, and Meditation, then set out to eat and arrange renovations for the unfinished apartment.
• Elsewhere, a subordinate told someone that a person had shattered the Golden Benba Vase with one punch, shocking him.

The Golden-Haired Man warned Xiao Linye not to let personal matters interfere with his work and ordered him to monitor the Western Mountains and newly prominent Ability Users. After the man departed, Xiao Linye revealed that the shattered Golden Benba Vase had been part of a scheme to destroy the Lu Family’s Secret Realm, while Fang Cheng unknowingly sneezed elsewhere.

• The Golden-Haired Man told Xiao Linye that he had come to the Eastern Capital because he sensed an opportunity he had awaited for over a hundred years, and ordered him to track developments in the Western Mountains and rising Ability Users.
• The Golden-Haired Man opened a space rift and vanished, leaving Xiao Linye to reassure Xiao Chengliang that the guest had left.
• Xiao Linye reprimanded the scarred clansman for the Golden Benba Vase incident and complained that Roger had failed to secure it.
• Xiao Linye told Xiao Chengliang that he had planned to use a restriction in the Golden Benba Vase to corrupt the Lu Family’s Ancestral Spirit Tree, destroy their Secret Realm, and seize their power and assets.
• Xiao Chengliang offered to use his police connections to find the person who smashed the vase, but Xiao Linye refused and hinted that he had another way to deal with him.
• Fang Cheng rubbed his nose after sneezing and wondered who was thinking about him.

After increasing his workout efficiency, Fang Cheng experimented with combining Tiger Leopard Thunder Sound, Flame Breathing, and Water Breathing, strengthening his Qi Gong and confirming the techniques’ distinct uses. He left the rooftop after the heat from Flame Breathing burned his underwear to ashes.

• Fang Cheng finished his weighted Pull-Ups early and decided his improved agility let him raise his training intensity.
• Fang Cheng practiced Qi Gong, circulated Flame Breathing until his body radiated intense heat, then used Water Breathing to cool and soothe himself.
• Fang Cheng circulated all three breathing techniques in succession, earning 30 Qi Gong experience for doing so simultaneously for the first time.
• Fang Cheng assessed how Tiger Leopard Thunder Sound, Water Breathing, and Flame Breathing complemented one another and boosted his combat abilities.
• Fang Cheng discovered his underwear had burned away, hurriedly put on athletic shorts and clothes, and fled the rooftop.