Recaps

Luo Lie confronted the monsters pouring from the passage while Zhou Liang’s team became trapped in a looping stairwell. After A Yang explained they might be caught in an Inner World, a headless, flesh-bodied apparition appeared beside them.

• Luo Lie lost contact with Jia Sangyi, then used his psychic power to crush the first monster that charged from the mist.
• More monsters emerged, and Luo Lie’s Pursuer Team arrived to suppress them with gunfire as Luo Lie vowed not to let any escape.
• Zhou Liang, A Li, Xiao Jie, and A Yang descended the emergency stairs but returned to the Floor 84 vestibule, confirming they were trapped in a loop.
• Zhou Liang’s team sent a blood-written distress signal out a broken window, but the shirt and glass fell back into the stairwell.
• Two security guards woke and said they had blacked out after seeing gray fog, while A Yang described a similar trap as an Inner World.
• A Yang began explaining how to escape, but an eerie laugh interrupted him as a pale woman’s face and writhing body emerged from the fog.

Zhou Liang’s team fled a Woman-Faced Worm Monster into a mist-filled hall packed with creatures, where Fang Cheng slaughtered the monsters and appeared before them. After learning the team could guide him to the Conference Hall on the top floor, Fang Cheng listened as A Yang explained the Inner World, until a strange ripple and black line appeared beside them.

• Zhou Liang’s team escaped the Woman-Faced Worm Monster into the Zone A Passage, where they found themselves surrounded by monsters in the mist.
• Fang Cheng charged into the monster horde and tore through it, forcing the creatures to flee.
• Zhou Liang recognized Fang Cheng’s mask and cautiously told him that the team was with the Special Search Team; A Li also identified him as White Owl.
• Fang Cheng asked how to reach the Conference Hall, and Zhou Liang pointed to their frightened security guard while A Yang offered to explain the Inner World.
• A Yang began describing the Inner World, but a strange ripple appeared beside the group and a thin black line formed in the air.

Cheng Jiashu and Cui Xiuying emerged from a spatial vortex into the Inner World, where Fang Cheng and the Special Search Team were trapped. After handing over evidence of Noah Organization’s human experiments, they traced the strange dimension to a Red Eye in Noah Pharmaceuticals’ top-secret laboratory, where researchers had studied a biological sample found beneath Himalayan ice.

• Cheng Jiashu, Cui Xiuying, and the unconscious Majima Goro emerged from a vortex, and Cheng Jiashu explained that Fang Cheng was his cousin and anchor for his Space Jump.
• Cheng Jiashu gave Zhou Liang a Military Encrypted USB Drive containing records of Noah Organization’s human experiments and said they needed to find a way out of the building.
• Zhou Liang explained that the team was trapped in an Inner World where the stairs looped back to Floor 84, while Fang Cheng described being trapped between Floors 83 and 86.
• Fang Cheng worried that the gray mist had blocked his mental link with Xu Hao, whom he had promised to protect.
• Cheng Jiashu revealed that he had seen an enormous Red Eye in a container in the laboratory on Floor 87 and suspected it was the source of the Inner World.
• Cui Xiuying said the sealed project studying the Red Eye had begun about five months earlier and involved a biological sample unearthed beneath the ice in the Himalayan Mountains.

Fang Cheng and the others concluded that the Red Eye was likely the core of the expanding Inner World, while Cheng Jiashu proposed ways to escape. Fang Cheng planned to use Mind Resonance and Memory Palace to help Cheng Jiashu jump to the tower’s top floor, and the chapter ended with Fang Cheng preparing to fight again.

• Cheng Jiashu explained that the gray fog was dimensional erosion and that destroying the Inner World’s core could make the swallowed areas return to normal.
• Cheng Jiashu said he could not safely reach the Red Eye on Floor 87 and proposed either finding the hidden mental ability user or causing enough destruction to force the world to expel them.
• Fang Cheng asked Cheng Jiashu to take him to the top-floor conference hall, where Fang Cheng’s friend Xu Hao could serve as an anchor point.
• Fang Cheng offered to use his mental link with Xu Hao to guide Cheng Jiashu’s spatial jump, and Cheng Jiashu agreed to rest before trying.
• Fang Cheng kept watch as the others recovered and worked out how to use Mind Resonance and Memory Palace to strengthen the connection.
• Fang Cheng noticed his Palm Technique was four experience points from leveling up, and his killing intent drove the monsters back into the fog.

Jia Sangyi used the chaos inside the building to approach the Crimson Eye and steal the power of its newborn Inner World, hoping to form a domain and reach S-Class. As his domain began to take shape, Cheng Jiashu recovered on Floor 84 and announced he was ready to move.

• Jia Sangyi ordered Feng to make his move while he focused on the Crimson Eye within the Inner World.
• Jia Sangyi revealed that he had manipulated Luo Lie’s investigation and arranged for his insider to sabotage the laboratory’s containment, creating a chance to claim the Crimson Eye’s power.
• A wall broke open, but Jia Sangyi’s backup plan drew the monsters away and gave him time to channel the Crimson Eye’s power into his Mental Secret Realm.
• Jia Sangyi formed a growing web-like domain that merged with the White Noise Barrier as he absorbed power from the Crimson Eye.
• On Floor 84, Cheng Jiashu recovered from his exhaustion, stood up, and said he had rested enough.

Fang Cheng and Cheng Jiashu formed a Human Energy Matrix to carry the group’s consciousness through the Dark Void toward Xu Hao. They broke through the Red Nebula’s interference, while chaos and gunfire raged on Noah Tower’s top floor.

• Cheng Jiashu explained that his Space Jump could not carry everyone, and Zhou Liang and the other Special Search Team members volunteered to stay behind.
• Fang Cheng proposed drawing the group’s consciousnesses into his Mental Secret Realm so Cheng Jiashu could transport them together, and Cheng Jiashu agreed to try.
• Fang Cheng taught Zhou Liang, A Li, A Yang, Xiao Jie, and Cui Xiuying to synchronize their minds with him, while Cheng Jiashu took the security guard and unconscious Majima Goro.
• The group entered Fang Cheng’s Memory Palace, where he and Cheng Jiashu discovered that the Red Nebula’s interference severed their attempt to link with Xu Hao.
• Cheng Jiashu compressed their route into a Dimension Cone as Fang Cheng focused his mental power, allowing them to stabilize the link and push through the Dark Void toward Xu Hao.
• Fang Cheng and Cheng Jiashu fought off the void’s interference and escaped the Red Nebula’s pull as gunfire and fighting continued on Noah Tower’s top floor.

Trapped on Noah Tower’s top floor, the survivors followed Feng Jincai’s plan to destroy the Main Control Room, only to discover the tower was part of a living creature and provoke a horde of monsters. As the creatures charged, a rippling distortion and a blade-like gale appeared at the end of the corridor.

• Wang Jiu returned badly wounded and revealed that the elevators, stairwell, and windows led nowhere beyond the top floor.
• Feng Jincai persuaded the survivors to blow up the Main Control Room, claiming its destruction could collapse the Inner World.
• The group fought through monsters as Feng Jincai used his resonance ability to protect the guards and reach the control room.
• Feng Jincai secretly revealed he was the real mole, helping Jia Sangyi gain time to reach S-Class.
• The C-4 blast exposed flesh and membranes inside the tower, and a vast horde of monsters charged through the mist.
• A strange ripple appeared in the corridor, followed by a fierce gale that swept toward the survivors.

Minister Luo rescued Feng Jincai and the others from the monsters in the mist, then confronted Fang Cheng, whom he recognized as White Owl from Yong'an Island. Jia Sangyi secretly urged Feng Jincai to provoke a fight between the two experts, and Fang Cheng prepared to face Luo Lie.

• Luo Lie swept the monsters away with his domain and questioned Feng Jincai about the trapped group and the missing Jia Sangyi.
• Fang Cheng, Cheng Jiashu, and the others arrived through a Human Teleportation Array, where the two armed groups faced off.
• Luo Lie recognized Fang Cheng as White Owl and invoked their shared history involving Li Chengjun on Yong'an Island.
• Jia Sangyi contacted Feng Jincai and revealed he wanted Luo Lie and Fang Cheng to fight so he could reduce the pressure from the Crimson Eye.
• Feng Jincai falsely claimed Luo Lie had planned the trap and challenged Fang Cheng to defeat the Noah Organization and Luo Lie.
• Fang Cheng stayed calm as Luo Lie faced him, then cracked his neck.

Fang Cheng struck Luo Lie with a charged punch, then survived Luo Lie’s spatial domain, Thousand Blade Storm, using his qi gong defense. The two resumed their fight, with Luo Lie trying to stall until he could restore his mental power and unleash his domain again.

• Cheng Jiashu warned Fang Cheng that Luo Lie had a powerful psychic defense, but Fang Cheng told him to handle the others and chose to fight Luo Lie himself.
• Fang Cheng charged Qilin Arm and sent Luo Lie smashing through several walls with a single punch.
• Luo Lie trapped Fang Cheng in a spatial cage and unleashed Thousand Blade Storm, but Fang Cheng’s Evergreen Resilience barrier blocked most of the blades and his true qi healed the cuts that got through.
• Luo Lie emerged badly injured and exhausted, while Fang Cheng recognized the danger of the storm’s spatial blade flashes and moved in to attack.
• Fang Cheng attacked with boxing and martial arts strikes as Luo Lie fought back with his Telekinetic Cloak and hurled rubble and rebar to buy time to recover his mental power.

Fang Cheng battled Luo Lie across Noah Tower’s ruined top floor, breaking through Luo Lie’s domain and overwhelming his defenses with the power of his Overlord Body. As Fang Cheng pressed the attack, the flesh inside the blasted-open Main Control Room began spreading through the wreckage and forming a vast nest.

• Fang Cheng and Luo Lie fought through the top floor, while the people nearby struggled to find cover from the destruction.
• Luo Lie broke Fang Cheng’s Black Tactical Mask and tried to draw him into a close-range fight, but Fang Cheng continued attacking without confirming whether he was White Owl.
• Luo Lie trapped Fang Cheng inside a compressed sphere of debris, but Fang Cheng activated his Overlord Body and blasted his way out.
• Fang Cheng charged through Luo Lie’s debris storm and battered his whirlwind barrier and Telekinetic Cloak, driving Luo Lie back and making him bleed.
• Zhuo Feng recognized the masked fighter as White Owl, while Feng Jincai sensed Jia Sangyi’s mental fluctuations strengthening.
• Feng Jincai noticed ominous red light as flesh spread from the Main Control Room, covering the wreckage and forming an enormous nest.

Fang Cheng and Luo Lie’s battle escalated until their attacks threatened to destroy the unstable Inner World. Feng Jincai failed to stop them, and the chapter ended with the building on the verge of collapse as the two continued fighting.

• Feng Jincai used his resonance ability to drive back the flesh tentacles as they repaired the ruins and drained corpses for energy.
• Jia Sangyi contacted Feng Jincai and ordered him to stop Fang Cheng and Luo Lie before their battle collapsed the Inner World.
• Fang Cheng’s Palm Technique advanced to Expert Level, and he used the five attribute points to raise his Strength to 60 and boost his Constitution.
• Fang Cheng and Luo Lie fought through the building, and Luo Lie tried to escape by withdrawing his domain and plunging outside, but spatial distortions returned them to the Conference Hall.
• Feng Jincai shouted for Fang Cheng and Luo Lie to stop, but they kept fighting as their clashes tore apart the Inner World.

Cheng Jiashu and the two White Owls shattered the Crimson Eye’s Inner World, returning the survivors to reality while their fight continued outside Noah Tower. Gao Jin learned that Zhou Liang’s team had escaped with the hostages and data, as three unusual figures joined the crowd below.

• White Owl and Minister Luo’s battle caused the Inner World to crack and collapse, returning the survivors to Noah Tower’s intact top floor.
• White Owl and Minister Luo continued fighting in reality and crashed through the Chairman’s Office window, falling outside the tower.
• Gao Jin received Zhou Liang’s report that the team had rescued the hostages and secured the data, and learned that a second White Owl had fought Minister Luo.
• Gao Jin ordered Zhou Liang to secure the team and their findings, then chose not to interfere in the battle outside the tower.
• Xiaosa watched the fighting from behind the police cordon as three unusual figures quietly entered the crowd.

Fang Cheng used his palm techniques to tear through Luo Lie’s Telekinetic Cloak during their midair battle above Noah Tower, forcing them to crash into opposite buildings. Fang Cheng glided back into Noah Tower while the wounded Luo Lie fled toward the Experiment Zone and spotted the Crimson Eye.

• Fang Cheng charged through Luo Lie’s Glass Storm and shield, then used steam recoil to close the last distance despite Luo Lie’s Telekinetic Cloak.
• Fang Cheng pierced the cloak with Spiral Force, seized the opening with Entangling Silk Force, and tore the defense apart with Flicking Force.
• Luo Lie struck back with High-Pressure Air Blades, forcing Fang Cheng to release him as their momentum sent them crashing into opposing skyscrapers.
• Fang Cheng glided across the street and landed inside Noah Tower while Xiaosa and Gao Jin watched from below.
• Luo Lie fled through the dark tower toward the Experiment Zone and saw the Crimson Eye ahead.

Three members of the Xiao Family entered the ruined Biochemical Laboratory to claim the damaged Crimson Eye and opened a Space Rift to retrieve it. Minister Luo arrived before they could take the treasure, and the chapter ended with him questioning the masked intruders.

• The Xiao Family trio found the Crimson Eye in the flesh-covered laboratory, where tentacles and the orb’s influence threatened them.
• Xiao Ming was drawn toward the Crimson Eye and began to mutate, but the middle-aged man used his bloodline ability to save him.
• The middle-aged man warned that the Crimson Eye could corrupt people through their minds, while the young man celebrated its potential to help him reach S-Class.
• The three men formed a triangular array and opened a Space Rift above the Crimson Eye so they could take it before the Special Search Team arrived.
• Minister Luo stumbled into the nest, and the middle-aged man recognized him as the three intruders turned to face him.

Fang Cheng arrived at the flesh nest after defeating Luo Lie and found the Xiao Family stealing the Crimson Eye. When the Xiao Family tried to force him into their service, Fang Cheng revealed a second stage and restored his strength, leaving the confrontation poised to begin.

• Luo Lie demanded the Crimson Eye, but the middle-aged man drained his essence and killed him.
• The Xiao Family prepared to take the Crimson Eye, and Fang Cheng emerged from the shadows and identified Luo Lie's corpse.
• The middle-aged man recognized Fang Cheng as the fighter who had defeated Luo Lie and threatened to take him to the Xiao Family.
• Fang Cheng started to leave, but the young man and the middle-aged man demanded that he stay and swear a Blood Oath.
• Fang Cheng's aura suddenly surged, dispelling his exhaustion as he announced that he had a second stage.

Fang Cheng unleashed Potential Activation and Ghost Back, then defeated the S-Class middle-aged man with a single punch when the man's Taotie domain failed to contain him. The man escaped through a Space Gate with his accomplices, leaving Fang Cheng alone in the Flesh Lair, ravenously hungry and staring at the Crimson Eye.

• Fang Cheng activated Potential Activation, healing his injuries and restoring his strength as the three Xiao Family men watched in disbelief.
• Fang Cheng unleashed Ghost Back, and the middle-aged man formed a Killing Formation with the young man and Xiao Ming before attacking.
• Fang Cheng charged the middle-aged man, whose Taotie domain tried to devour his Flame Fist but shattered under its force.
• Fang Cheng's punch blasted the middle-aged man into the wall, and the wounded man used a Giant Mouth and the Space Gate to escape with his two accomplices.
• Fang Cheng realized his true qi was nearly depleted and that his body urgently needed food, then stopped to look at the Crimson Eye.

Fang Cheng resisted the Crimson Eye’s attempt to control him, destroyed it, and devoured its flesh, gaining energy as the Flesh Lair withered. Cheng Jiashu secretly collected the remains and escaped, while a squad entered the laboratory and reported to Commander Qin.

• The Crimson Eye amplified Fang Cheng’s hunger and tried to lure him into eating it, but his Epic Grade Talent, Omniscient Language, helped him resist its control.
• Fang Cheng seized the Crimson Eye, crushed it, and devoured its flesh, easing his hunger and flooding his body with energy as the Flesh Lair’s growths withered.
• Hearing someone approach, Fang Cheng put on his Evil Spirit Mask and fled the Flesh Lair, leaving the remains behind.
• Cheng Jiashu revealed himself, stopped his Voice Recorder, collected scraps of the Crimson Eye, and escaped through a spatial vortex when footsteps approached.
• A squad entered Laboratory No. 3 on Floor 87 of Noah Tower, and its captain reported their position to Commander Qin.

Blade Squad found a decaying mass of biological tissue in Noah Tower, but Commander Qin ordered them to evacuate when the laboratory began self-destructing. As the tower exploded, Xiaosa prepared clothes for the injured Fang Cheng, while Gao Jin’s team escaped with Cui Xiuying and Majima Goro and headed for a safe house.

• Blade Squad searched the Experiment Zone, found a vast chamber covered in decaying red biological tissue, and reported that the Crimson Eye was missing.
• Commander Qin warned Blade Squad that Noah had activated the self-destruct sequence, and the squad fled the Experiment Zone.
• An explosion tore through an upper floor of Noah Tower, and witnesses described the battle between White Mask and the suited man during a live news broadcast.
• Fang Cheng contacted Xiaosa and asked him to bring clean clothes to an underground parking garage, so Xiaosa drove to meet him.
• Gao Jin’s team escaped Noah Tower with Cui Xiuying and the unconscious Majima Goro, then Gao Jin offered Cui Xiuying a position in the Special Search Team’s Experimental Department.
• Gao Jin directed Zhou Liang to take them to a safe house before Gao Jin went to see Councilman Zhao and make a backup plan.

Fang Cheng endured the Crimson Eye’s corrupting influence while purifying it through Meditation in the stormy sea. After defeating its consciousness within his mind, he gained six Constitution points and seven Spirit points.

• Fang Cheng realized the Crimson Eye he had swallowed was causing fever, bleeding, violent urges, and uncontrolled flames, so he went to the sea to safely endure its effects.
• Inside his consciousness, the Crimson Eye tried to assimilate Fang Cheng while the Vast Blue Phantom confronted it but could not break through its defenses.
• Fang Cheng attacked the Giant Eyeball with a relentless barrage of punches, shattering it and refining its fragments with his Spirituality Fire.
• Fang Cheng emerged from the ordeal as his flames returned to red-gold and withdrew into his body, then checked his gains of six Constitution points and seven Spirit points.

After a night of battles, Fang Cheng struggled to contain the energy from the partially digested Crimson Eye and reviewed his improved attributes and skills. He planned to keep training, stay out of sight while the authorities blamed the Noah Organization for the attack, and seek out Ma Jianguo to learn the Visualization Method.

• Fang Cheng completed 3,000 weighted, two-finger Push-Ups because the energy from the Crimson Eye kept him from resting.
• Fang Cheng realized the Crimson Eye was still being digested and raising his constitution, while his spirit remained just short of 60.
• Fang Cheng reviewed his skill gains and decided to prioritize Bone Setting, Acupoint Striking, and Tui Na so he could fuse them with Qi Gong.
• Fang Cheng watched the news report the Noah Tower explosion as a terrorist attack and concluded that the Special Search Team was concealing the supernatural events.
• Fang Cheng decided to lie low while absorbing the Crimson Eye's power and visit Ma Jianguo to learn the Visualization Method.

Xiao Linye learned that White Owl had thwarted the Xiao Family twice and planned to take revenge, then used a blood-seeking spell to track him. The spell reached toward Fang Cheng, who was meditating in Haitian Garden.

• Xiao Yuanwang reported that White Owl had injured him and stolen the Crimson Eye during the chaos at Noah Pharmaceuticals.
• Xiao Linye ordered his clan to help stabilize Noah's Eastern Capital Branch while waiting for the Crimson Eye to become easier to track.
• Xiao Ming recognized White Owl as the masked man who had destroyed the Golden Benba Vase and ruined the Xiao Family's plan at Lu Family Manor.
• Xiao Linye vowed to kill White Owl if he came to the Western Mountains Ancestral Temple.
• Xiao Linye sensed the person who had refined the Golden Benba Vase's restriction and cast a blood-seeking spell toward him.
• Fang Cheng meditated in his room in Haitian Garden as Xiao Linye's spell pursued him.

Fang Cheng battled the Crimson Eye in a blood-colored consciousness space, where an unknown attack struck the monster and helped make it vanish. Afterward, Fang Cheng discovered his senses had sharpened and his Spirit had reached 60; Xiao Linye, whose Blood Curse Spear had hit the Crimson Eye instead of White Owl, decided to search for the artifact in the Eastern Capital.

• Fang Cheng battered the Giant Eyeball with a storm of punches until an unknown Dark Red Streamer struck it, causing the blood-colored space to disappear before Fang Cheng could land his final blow.
• Back in his living room, Fang Cheng concluded that remnants of the Crimson Eye and other foreign influences still lurked in his subconscious and could disrupt his meditation.
• Fang Cheng noticed his senses had grown extraordinarily sharp, checked his panel, and saw that his Spirit had risen to 60, leaving Constitution as his only attribute below that milestone.
• Fang Cheng found that the consciousness battle had granted him 30 Boxing experience and decided he could beat up the hidden negative effects again if necessary.
• In the Xiao Family Ancestral Temple, Xiao Linye's Blood Curse Spear backfired after he reached the Crimson Eye instead of White Owl, and he concluded White Owl had been devoured.
• Xiao Linye decided to send people to search secretly for the Crimson Eye in the Eastern Capital.

Fang Cheng stayed secluded while the Crimson Eye's flesh continued transforming his body, and he worried that he might become a source of pollution. After learning that the Noah Organization had been badly weakened and Cheng Jiashu had returned to public life, Fang Cheng agreed to visit Ma Jianguo and learn the Visualization Method.

• Fang Cheng cleaned and exercised at home, gaining Cleaning experience and increases to his strength and agility as the Crimson Eye's flesh continued to digest.
• Fang Cheng considered whether his body might be harming nearby people, but noted that the plants and fish around him showed no signs of corruption.
• Fang Cheng watched a report on Cheng Jiashu's comeback and recalled that the Noah Organization had suffered a major defeat after Luo Lie was dealt with.
• Ma Jianguo called Fang Cheng and insisted he come before two to learn the school's Visualization Method on an auspicious day.
• Fang Cheng decided the method might help him address the dangers of the Crimson Eye and set out to visit Ma Jianguo.

Ma Jianguo formally accepted Fang Cheng as a disciple of Ma Family Tai Chi and explained the principles and stages of its Visualization Method. Fang Cheng learned that its martial intent was the Thunder Fire Cauldron, devised by the family’s founding ancestor after a revelation during a storm.

• Ma Jianguo brought Fang Cheng before the ancestral tablets, and Fang Cheng bowed to become his disciple and an Orthodox Inheritor of Ma Family Tai Chi.
• Ma Jianguo mistook Fang Cheng’s heat and flushed face for surging true qi and advised him to expend it or endure it tempering his body.
• Ma Donghe arrived after secluded cultivation, and he and Fang Cheng discussed his training and his ability to release true qi.
• Ma Jianguo taught Fang Cheng that the Visualization Method involved establishing intent, shaping an Inner Landscape, and eventually creating a governing true self.
• Ma Jianguo explained that the family’s Thunder Fire Cauldron intent came from an ancestor who discovered it during a thunderstorm and later founded Ma Family Tai Chi.

Fang Cheng learned the Ma Family’s Visualization Method, its stages, and the dangers of cultivating it before Ma Jianguo brought him to the Water Prison to practice in seclusion. The stone gate closed behind Fang Cheng as he settled on the central platform, ready to test the method.

• Ma Donghe questioned whether the Ma Family ancestor had been stronger than Li Guizhen, and Ma Jianguo explained the ancestor’s history and Li Guizhen’s breakthrough at the family’s auspicious site.
• Ma Jianguo taught Fang Cheng the three stages of visualization and explained how inward-focused visualization differed from meditation that relied on external targets.
• Ma Jianguo warned Fang Cheng about distorted visualization, inner demons, and the dangers of reaching heaven-man resonance, then explained that the ancestral tablets could provide spiritual protection.
• Ma Jianguo led Fang Cheng to the Back Mountain and revealed the Water Prison, where generations of Ma Family and Tai Chi Sect cultivators had carved their insights.
• Ma Jianguo left Fang Cheng alone in the Water Prison for seven days, and Fang Cheng sat cross-legged on the stone platform as the entrance sealed shut.