Recaps

Fang Cheng trained relentlessly at Clearwater Bay, improving his Running, Boxing, and Sanda skills while preparing for possible conflict with the Noah Organization. After returning to his unfinished apartment, he planned further upgrades and the day's visits, reaffirming his resolve to become strong enough to defeat every opponent.

• Fang Cheng completed his Prisoner's Six Arts routine, ran along Clearwater Bay, and brought Running close to leveling up.
• Fang Cheng practiced shadow boxing until local fishermen approached, then checked his Boxing and Sanda experience gains.
• Fang Cheng ate a large breakfast and inspected the renovation of his apartment, calculating the costs of equipment and soundproofing.
• Fang Cheng planned to spar at the combat sports Club and visit his uncle, Li Dingjian, to establish a mental link using a Qi Gong story.
• Fang Cheng recalled Ma Donghe's upcoming Special Search Team exam and his own graduate entrance exam, then resolved to train and grow stronger.

Fang Cheng pushed his running to its limits in a violent storm and advanced his Running skill to Expert Level, gaining the special effect Gale Force. He tested the new ability and then prepared to use the towering waves to test Infinite Combo.

• A girl in a wheelchair spotted a fast-moving figure running along the storm-lashed beach from her window.
• Fang Cheng ran through the storm, pushed his speed beyond 15.98 meters per second, and drove himself to his limits.
• Fang Cheng advanced Running to Expert Level and gained Gale Force, which improved his balance and coordination and reduced external damage while he ran.
• Fang Cheng tested Gale Force with high-speed turns and stops, reaching a peak speed of 356 kilometers per hour.
• After recovering with Water Breathing Technique, Fang Cheng fixed his gaze on an approaching wave and prepared to test Infinite Combo.

Fang Cheng trained in the stormy sea, unleashing Infinite Combo and developing a focused Nail Punch. A girl in a wheelchair watched him from a nearby building, then spotted someone approaching before the figure vanished; a news report announced the arrest of a serial killer in Dongdu City.

• A girl in a wheelchair watched Fang Cheng walk into the raging sea and wondered if he meant to duel it.
• Fang Cheng used Infinite Combo and its Death Tornado finishing move to split and reverse the waves, then studied the strain and limits of the technique.
• Fang Cheng devised Nail Punch, concentrated rapid blows on one point, and tested the technique by blasting apart waves dozens of meters away.
• Fang Cheng ended his workout, while the girl spotted a man approaching her building and then saw him disappear in the rain.
• Auntie Chen returned with groceries and spoke with the girl as the television reported that Dongdu City police had arrested a serial killer.

Fang Cheng meditated through the storm and discovered that people linked to him through Mind Resonance were unconsciously sending him mental energy, which strengthened his Spirit Attribute when he refined it. In his Memory Palace, he found dozens of linked minds represented by stars connected to the Golden Orb, each offering clearer glimpses of their perceptions, memories, and emotions.

• Fang Cheng canceled the renovation crew’s work for the day and reviewed the soundproofing progress on his Fighting Training Room.
• Fang Cheng meditated through the storm, filtering intrusive voices and visions from people linked to him and refining their mental energy.
• Fang Cheng gained Meditation experience and permanently increased his Spirit Attribute by 0.04 points.
• Fang Cheng entered his Memory Palace and found dozens of new stars connected to the Golden Orb by mental threads.
• Fang Cheng sensed that the stars let him perceive linked individuals’ current sights and sounds, memories, and emotional fluctuations.

Fang Cheng examined the risks and benefits of his growing mental network, then used Single-Directional Projection to enter Xu Hao’s mind and observe him arriving at a Noah Organization meeting. The chapter ended as Xu Hao and Liu Yu approached the conference room where the organization planned to discuss hunting Fang Cheng.

• Fang Cheng realized his mental links could help him sense connected people but risked overwhelming and distorting his mind.
• Fang Cheng noticed that strengthening linked points of light also stabilized his Memory Palace, and he considered the network a developing Vow Power Network.
• Fang Cheng sensed that unknown things beyond the Memory Palace might be using linked people as footholds, and he resolved to stay alert.
• Fang Cheng projected his consciousness through the point of light representing Xu Hao.
• Xu Hao sensed a brief, inexplicable intrusion while speaking with Liu Yu in the Noah Organization’s Dongdu City office building.
• Xu Hao and Liu Yu headed toward the conference room for the meeting about hunting Fang Cheng.

Fang Cheng secretly watched Xu Hao attend a Noah Organization meeting, where he learned about the Eastern Capital Branch’s hierarchy and its plan to hunt the expert who killed Ghost. The chapter ended with an arrogant young man dismissing the feared Killing Demon as a skulking rat.

• Fang Cheng followed Xu Hao and Liu Yu into the Noah Organization’s conference room, where elite cadres had gathered for an important operation.
• Xu Hao reunited with Ma Biao, and their conversation revealed that Chen Chen wanted to recruit Xu Hao as a Guardian Elder of the weakened Red Tiger Gang.
• Fang Cheng learned that He Jingang and Ghost had been killed by the mysterious expert, while Lin Xuan remained incapacitated, leaving the Red Tiger Gang short of powerful fighters.
• The attendees discussed Ghost’s death and expressed fear of the Killing Demon, despite a gag order about the former branch leader.
• An arrogant young man arrived unnoticed and called the Killing Demon a skulking rat, dismissing the others’ fears.

Fang Cheng observed a Noah Organization briefing through Xu Hao as Minister Luo arrived and Captain Zhuo Feng presented the target, idol singer Cheng Jiashu. Zhuo ended by identifying Cheng Jiashu as the likely serial killer Smiling Devil, leaving the organization poised to act against him.

• Zhuo Feng reprimanded the gathered cadres, while Fang Cheng learned about Zhuo and the assassin Scorpion through Xu Hao's memories.
• Station Chief Feng welcomed Minister Luo, whose powerful presence made the conference room fall silent and whose gaze briefly passed over Xu Hao and Ma Biao.
• Station Chief Feng opened the meeting and asked Zhuo Feng to brief the organization on its target.
• Zhuo identified the target as Cheng Jiashu, a former member of Smiling Boys and a solo idol singer connected to the Cheng and Shen families.
• Zhuo described Cheng Jiashu's tragic childhood and close relationship with his manager, Zhang Hui, then claimed he was probably the serial killer Smiling Devil.

Zhuo Feng presented evidence identifying Cheng Jiashu as the Smiling Devil and proposed ambushing him after his secret visits to an orphanage. Luo Lie demanded certainty, and Zhuo Feng linked Cheng Jiashu to several attacks on the organization, prompting Luo Lie to react with sudden fury.

• Zhuo Feng described Cheng Jiashu as the Smiling Devil, a violent killer who targeted gangs and had escaped thorough investigation.
• Ma Biao suggested using a woman to lure Cheng Jiashu, but Zhuo Feng dismissed the idea and explained that Cheng kept a private, isolated life.
• Zhuo Feng revealed that Cheng secretly left his villa every Saturday, visited Clearwater Bay and the Home of Morning Light, and later disappeared into an old Jiangbei neighborhood where surveillance agents went missing.
• Zhuo Feng proposed capturing Cheng after he left the orphanage, arguing that a nighttime operation there would avoid public attention and protect the organization.
• Luo Lie asked whether Zhuo Feng could be certain Cheng was their target, and Zhuo Feng cited evidence connecting him to attacks at the Lingang District Dock Warehouse, the Abandoned Factory, and Yong'an Island.
• Luo Lie snapped a piece off his chair's armrest and released a terrifying pressure after Zhuo Feng said Cheng had been away from the Eastern Capital during the Yong'an Island attack.

Fang Cheng learned that the Noah Organization planned to capture Cheng Jiashu in a raid led by Minister Luo, who was hunting the killer of Li Chengjun. He decided to save Cheng Jiashu indirectly and use the mistaken accusation to draw the organization’s attention away from himself.

• Luo Lie connected the White Mask to the ancient title of Owl and came to the Eastern Capital after suspecting the masked killer was linked to Li Chengjun’s death.
• Zhuo Feng presented evidence that Cheng Jiashu had disappeared during the week of the Yong'an Island incident, and Luo Lie approved a plan to capture him alive.
• Feng Jincai and Luo Lie organized the Demon Hunt Operation, assigning Zhuo Feng and Scorpion to lead the assault while Ma Biao’s team handled the perimeter.
• Xu Hao worried about the operation’s danger, while Ma Biao reassured him and encouraged him to seek credit from Luo Lie.
• Fang Cheng ended his projection through Xu Hao and assessed the organization’s strength, including Luo Lie’s greater power and interest in Li Chengjun’s killer.
• Fang Cheng decided to save Cheng Jiashu without intervening directly, planning to reinforce the mistaken belief that Cheng Jiashu was the culprit and divert the Noah Organization’s focus.

Cheng Jiashu left the TV station after experiencing disturbing symptoms and reflecting on the organization surveilling him. A staged traffic confrontation let Chen Yingjun pass him a note, while Fang Cheng watched from a rooftop and learned that surveillance would continue ahead of Saturday Operation.

• After Cheng Jiashu complained of exhaustion, a buzzing in his head and an eerie call returned, so Zhang Hui gave him Risperidone and he left to rest.
• Cheng Jiashu recalled capturing a stalker who killed himself with a concealed poison pill, and suspected a powerful Eastern Capital organization was still targeting him.
• Cheng Jiashu nearly hit a group of street punks in the rain, then discreetly received a folded note from Yingjun during their confrontation.
• A surveillance agent reported the traffic incident to command, which ordered him to keep watching Cheng Jiashu and avoid alerting him before Saturday Operation.
• Fang Cheng watched from a nearby rooftop and revealed that Chen Yingjun had staged the encounter with Ma Donghe's help, using a mental link to receive instructions.

Fang Cheng watched Cheng Jiashu react to a warning that the Noah Organization would target the Home of Morning Light Orphanage, while Cheng Jiashu sought help investigating Noah. Fang Cheng then contacted Xu Hao through a mental link and confirmed details of the planned operation, leaving Xu Hao’s loyalty under continued scrutiny.

• Fang Cheng watched Cheng Jiashu drive away after arranging for him to receive a warning about Noah’s planned attack on the Orphanage.
• Cheng Jiashu read the note, checked his villa for surveillance, and decided to seek information about Noah to protect the children.
• Cheng Jiashu called Shen Mingrui, who reluctantly agreed to investigate Noah’s background, bases, and key members by noon the next day.
• Fang Cheng established a mental link with Xu Hao at the Midnight Forest bar and explained that it could transmit voices without reading thoughts.
• Xu Hao reported Noah’s plan to target Cheng Jiashu at the Home of Morning Light Orphanage the following evening, with Minister Luo and several Senior Cadres leading the operation.
• Fang Cheng judged Xu Hao’s account mostly reliable but kept his ability to monitor Xu Hao secret so he could continue testing his loyalty.

Fang Cheng instructed Xu Hao to leak altered information about Noah Organization’s operation to the Special Search Team and prepared for the coming confrontation. During an intense morning training session, Fang Cheng’s Sanda advanced to Grandmaster Level, granting him 12 free attributes.

• Fang Cheng ordered Xu Hao to leak a false report that Noah Organization planned to abduct the children at the Home of Morning Light, but only after Cheng Jiashu arrived, and to investigate the operation’s Senior Cadres while staying safe.
• Fang Cheng considered how he could exploit either choice Cheng Jiashu made about going to the Orphanage, then went to sleep.
• At four in the morning, Fang Cheng trained on the rooftop with heavy weights and practiced his physical conditioning exercises.
• Fang Cheng focused on Sanda techniques as dawn broke, earning experience through hours of Shadow Boxing.
• Fang Cheng’s Sanda reached Grandmaster Level, and he received 12 free attributes.

After reaching 50 Constitution, Fang Cheng reasoned that his body’s increased capacity had lowered the apparent level of his stored true qi, then raised Strength to 48. Over breakfast, he heard that Xiao Bao was recovering well and told his mother he was meeting a colleague, while secretly planning to visit the Home of Morning Light and investigate Noah Organization’s Demon Hunt Operation.

• Fang Cheng raised Constitution to 50 and sensed his body become sturdier, while the amount of true qi in his dantian appeared to decrease.
• Fang Cheng concluded that his strengthened body had expanded its capacity to hold life energy, then spent his remaining points to raise Strength to 48.
• Fang Cheng ate breakfast with Li Biyun, who told him Xiao Bao’s leukemia surgery had succeeded and his recovery was going well.
• Li Biyun asked about Fang Cheng’s plans for the afternoon, and he claimed he was visiting a male colleague who needed help.
• Fang Cheng privately planned to visit the Home of Morning Light to investigate Noah Organization’s operation targeting Cheng Jiashu and the danger it might pose to children.

Xu Hao infiltrated the Noah Organization’s surveillance teams and learned details about their pursuit of Cheng Jiashu, then secretly contacted the Special Search Team. Ma Biao interrupted him, while Fang Cheng remained nearby, training in the trees.

• A Jie and He Yong watched Cheng Jiashu at the Home of Morning Light and discussed the Noah Organization’s operation.
• Xu Hao brought boxed lunches to He Yong’s team and questioned them about their captain Chen Rui and his hounds’ abilities.
• Xu Hao learned that six Pursuer Teams were surrounding the orphanage and sent a coded message to the Special Search Team.
• Ma Biao caught Xu Hao at a convenience store and led him away to talk.
• Fang Cheng trained with one-arm handstand push-ups in a tree near the orphanage.

Fang Cheng watched Cheng Jiashu and the Home of Morning Light orphanage from a mountaintop while he trained and waited for the Noah Organization’s attack. As the storm intensified, no attack came, and Cheng Jiashu began to suspect the warning’s real purpose.

• Fang Cheng completed his exercises, checked his skill progress, and waited for intelligence from Xu Hao as dark clouds gathered.
• A violent storm drove most visitors away from the orphanage, while Cheng Jiashu remained inside under the alias Su Jiachen.
• Director Li invited Cheng Jiashu to stay overnight, but he said a friend would come to collect him; Yong'er was also settled into a room at the orphanage.
• Cheng Jiashu listened for signs of danger and waited for the Noah Organization’s expected attack, but the orphanage remained quiet.
• A flash of lightning illuminated the night, and Cheng Jiashu suddenly noticed a detail that gave him a new idea.

Luo Lie ordered the Noah Organization to attack the Home of Morning Light Orphanage after Cheng Jiashu stayed inside, while the Special Search Team prepared to arrest the attackers. Cheng Jiashu found dead intruders and pursued a fleeing figure, only to learn the man was Zhou Liang of the Special Search Team.

• Luo Lie ordered his operatives to attack the orphanage at eleven and kill Cheng Jiashu without leaving survivors.
• Xu Hao secretly sent a signal, prompting Gao Jin and the Special Search Team to prepare to arrest the Noah Organization's forces.
• Cheng Jiashu sensed intruders inside the orphanage and searched the building to protect the children.
• Cheng Jiashu found two dead operatives in a storage room and chased a black-clad figure through the corridor.
• The figure dodged Cheng Jiashu's attack, identified himself as Zhou Liang of the Special Search Team, and accused Cheng Jiashu of assaulting an officer.

Cheng Jiashu mistook Zhou Liang for a Special Search Team agent and learned that the Noah Organization was hunting its defected senior member, White Owl. After the Special Search Team fought off the Noah attackers, Cheng Jiashu vanished using his ability to investigate the mysterious rendezvous, while the disguised Fang Cheng watched him disappear.

• Zhou Liang deduced that Cheng Jiashu was White Owl and offered cooperation with the Special Search Team, while Cheng Jiashu denied the identity and agreed only to consider it.
• Noah Organization forces surrounded the Home of Morning Light, but the Special Search Team ambushed them and drove them into retreat.
• Cheng Jiashu reassured the awakened children and staff, then reasoned that the Noah Organization might have mistaken him for White Owl's accomplice.
• Cheng Jiashu decided to investigate the abandoned lighthouse mentioned in the mysterious note and used his ability to vanish from the orphanage.
• Fang Cheng, disguised as Zhou Liang, revealed himself in the corridor and remarked on Cheng Jiashu's ability.

Fang Cheng used his Zhou Liang disguise and intelligence from Xu Hao to prepare for a hunt after the Noah Organization withdrew from the orphanage. He followed the fleeing members in a refrigerated truck and requisitioned a police sedan to pursue them.

• Fang Cheng contacted Xu Hao through a Mental Link, learned the identities and abilities of two Level 7 Cadres, and told him to stay at the bar.
• Fang Cheng reassured the Home of Morning Light staff and children that the police had the situation under control, then left to pursue the Noah Organization.
• A Noah Organization driver used a mesmerizing ability to pass a police checkpoint in a refrigerated truck carrying wolfhounds, He Yong, A Jie, and other escaped members.
• The truck's occupants discussed their losses and feared the consequences of the failed operation, while He Yong warned them to keep quiet around the dogs.
• Fang Cheng arrived at the checkpoint with a Special Affairs Investigation Team ID, requisitioned a black sedan, and sped into the night after the truck.

Chen Rui returned to a remote slaughterhouse after a failed Noah Organization operation, bringing a corpse and losing three wolfhounds. When an unseen intruder killed his men and guard dogs, Chen Rui used Beast Pack Perception to prepare an ambush, but a series of powerful impacts erupted as his pack attacked.

• Chen Rui brought a body and surviving wolfhounds to the slaughterhouse, where A Jie and Shitou began cleaning the truck.
• A Jie and Shitou heard distant police sirens while a black-raincoat figure watched them from the trees.
• Chen Rui fed his vicious dogs and sent several Dogo Argentinos to patrol, but sensed danger when A Jie and Shitou vanished.
• Using Beast Pack Perception, Chen Rui discovered that two patrol dogs were dead before a shadow killed the third through the dog’s senses.
• Chen Rui freed the slaughterhouse dogs, turned off the lights, and built a surveillance net through their vision.
• When a Rottweiler sensed something, Chen Rui ordered an attack, and several thunderous impacts sounded as the dogs charged.

Fang Cheng attacked Chen Rui at his slaughterhouse and overcame his dogs and Phantom Dog Array, but Chen Rui survived a devastating punch by activating Wolf Soul Vengeance. The chapter ended as the transformed Chen Rui faced Fang Cheng, who prepared to continue the fight.

• Fang Cheng revealed himself in Chen Rui's slaughterhouse after killing eight dogs with a lightning-fast strike.
• Chen Rui enraged his remaining dogs and sent them charging at Fang Cheng, who killed them with powerful punches while dodging Chen Rui's gunfire.
• Chen Rui injected himself with a blue drug and used Phantom Dog Array to create over a hundred dog illusions, but Fang Cheng ignored them and struck him down.
• Chen Rui activated Wolf Soul Vengeance, using the dead dogs' soul energy to heal his injuries and transform into a powerful, unstable beastlike form.
• Fang Cheng welcomed the stronger fight and vowed to keep punching Chen Rui until he was destroyed.

Fang Cheng countered Chen Rui’s transformation and hidden attack with a Deflected Rising Dragon Fist and an Infinite Combo, leaving the Noah Organization cadre near death. He approached the defeated Chen Rui to question him about the organization as Chen Rui accused him of being the real monster.

• Chen Rui absorbed energy from the vicious dogs’ corpses, transformed into a werewolf-like beast, and charged Fang Cheng with a feint that concealed an attack on his left side.
• Fang Cheng redirected his punch into a Deflected Rising Dragon Fist that struck Chen Rui’s jaw and launched a barrage of Infinite Combo punches.
• Fang Cheng’s punches battered Chen Rui into a steel boiler, leaving him gravely wounded while the dogs’ corpses shriveled and Chen Rui lost access to their life energy.
• Fang Cheng checked the experience he gained in Boxing, Sanda, and Jiu-Jitsu, then approached Chen Rui to seek information about the Noah Organization.
• Chen Rui called Fang Cheng the real murderous monster, and Fang Cheng watched him without answering.

Fang Cheng killed Chen Rui, learned that Noah’s Level 10 Cadres were S-Class Aberrants, and continued hunting the organization through the rainy night. He evaded a police checkpoint and headed toward another Noah outpost, while Special Search Team officers Zhou Liang and A Li remained on patrol and someone waited at an abandoned lighthouse.

• Chen Rui explained that Noah had dozens of Level 10 Cadres whose strength rivaled S-Class Aberrants, then killed himself with a hidden poison capsule before Fang Cheng could question him about pollution sources.
• Fang Cheng staged Chen Rui’s corpse at the slaughterhouse, left a Demon Face Pattern in blood, and drove away through the rain to continue hunting Noah members.
• Fang Cheng recalled killing a Level 7 Noah Cadre at his home and decided to investigate another Noah outpost near the Midnight Forest Bar.
• Fang Cheng attached a portable police strobe to his sedan and used its siren to pass through a checkpoint without being stopped.
• Zhou Liang and A Li ate instant noodles while patrolling for escaped Noah members, and A Li briefly thought the driver of Fang Cheng’s sedan resembled Zhou Liang.
• Someone waited patiently inside an abandoned lighthouse on the coast of Clearwater Bay.

Cheng Jiashu waited through the night for a meeting that never happened, while Fang Cheng trained at the Midnight Forest Bar and discussed the fallout from Noah’s failed operation with Xu Hao. Fang Cheng instructed Xu Hao to portray Cheng Jiashu as the former Noah agent White Owl, giving the Special Search Team a story that would make the mysterious fighter seem like their ally.

• Cheng Jiashu waited at the abandoned lighthouse until dawn, but his expected visitor never arrived.
• Xu Hao woke at the Midnight Forest Bar and found Fang Cheng performing one-finger pull-ups in the VIP Lounge.
• Xu Hao told Fang Cheng that Noah had not contacted them and that the Special Search Team had arrested ordinary members but likely few senior cadres.
• Fang Cheng told Xu Hao to explain that Noah had been hunting Cheng Jiashu, also known as White Owl, a former member who defected after a conflict with senior leaders.
• Fang Cheng said Xu Hao should emphasize that White Owl only killed Noah members and was effectively on the Special Search Team’s side.

Fang Cheng reviewed how his attacks on the Noah Organization and his deception of the Special Search Team would redirect suspicion toward Cheng Jiashu, then completed an extreme morning workout at Xu Hao’s bar. After seeing Fang Cheng’s two-thumb handstand push-ups, Xu Hao was left awestruck, while Fang Cheng anticipated the next levels of his skills and the strength they might bring.

• Fang Cheng told Xu Hao to deny knowing Cheng Jiashu and sent him to get breakfast.
• While exercising, Fang Cheng reviewed his previous night’s attacks and his plan to use false clues to make the Noah Organization and the Special Search Team focus on Cheng Jiashu.
• Fang Cheng completed six hundred one-finger pull-ups and began two-thumb handstand push-ups.
• Xu Hao brought breakfast, saw Fang Cheng exercising upside down on his thumbs, and hurried out in shock.
• Fang Cheng finished three hundred two-thumb handstand push-ups, checked his rising skill experience, and considered unlocking new skills after his current ones advanced.

Gao Jin investigated the slaughterhouse massacre and concluded that its destruction came from a battle between powerful Ability Users, while clues linked the case to the Noah Organization’s hunt for the Smiling Devil. Fang Cheng left the Midnight Forest bar as a police car raced through Wenchuan District.

• Gao Jin examined Chen Rui’s mangled body and the slaughterhouse wreckage, including a deep fist mark, a smashed wall, and a bloody smiley face.
• Zhou Liang identified a sharply bounded clean patch as the result of a sustained force of air, and Gao Jin said it was an aftereffect of the battle.
• Liu Yuan reported that a police car taken by an officer claiming to be Zhou from the Special Search Team had been found on Yinhu Road, and Gao Jin requested its route history.
• Gao Jin connected the smiley face and the slaughterhouse killer to the Noah Organization’s operation against the Smiling Devil at the Orphanage, then ordered Liu Yuan to send him the case file and vehicle records.
• Two middle-aged men watched Gao Jin leave the slaughterhouse, while Fang Cheng left the Midnight Forest bar carrying his bloodstained clothes as a police car sped past.