Recaps

After surviving the fitness test and hiding the evidence of his battle at the Ruin Entrance, Fang Cheng returned to camp with Ma Donghe and Hou Peng. As the exam ended, Yan Rui thanked Fang Cheng for keeping their encounter secret, and Fang Cheng reviewed the combat-skill experience he had gained.

• Fang Cheng, Ma Donghe, and Hou Peng passed finish registration, while Ma Donghe exaggerated their encounter with a Mutated Wild Boar.
• Fang Cheng recalled disposing of the mercenaries’ bodies and equipment, killing Grey Hawk, and escaping the ruined battlefield with Ma Donghe and Hou Peng.
• Fang Cheng and his companions reached camp before the cutoff, where the Special Search Team officers did not question them about the previous night.
• Ma Donghe and Hou Peng discussed their hopes for future assignments, and the three ate breakfast after the fitness test officially ended.
• Yan Rui thanked Fang Cheng and said that he and his companions had not told the examiners about seeing Fang Cheng in the woods.
• Fang Cheng checked his increased combat-skill experience and resolved to keep training, especially in Jiu-Jitsu and Muay Thai.

After resuming his training following the Special Search Team test, Fang Cheng practiced Muay Thai and Jiu-Jitsu on a deserted beach before testing the Flying Skill he had unlocked in the Western Mountains. He learned to glide efficiently above the sea and ended the chapter turning his attention toward the sky.

• Fang Cheng returned to his apartment after visiting his family and resumed his daily training routine.
• He practiced Muay Thai and Jiu-Jitsu on the beach, earning experience in both skills and nearing their next level.
• Fang Cheng used the empty beach at dawn to test the Flying Skill he had unlocked while pursuing Lu Tianming.
• He launched across the sea, discovered how to maintain lift by stepping on the water and air, and improved his flight by adopting a streamlined Cruising Posture.
• Fang Cheng glided over a large wave and, exhilarated by the experience, looked up toward the open sky.

Fang Cheng overcame thinning air, violent winds, and freezing clouds to propel himself into the stratosphere. He emerged above the clouds at ten thousand meters, where a vast new world opened before him.

• Fang Cheng stamped on compressed air to climb rapidly above the sea, startling an old fisherman who saw him flying.
• At higher altitude, Fang Cheng lost his footing when the thinner air weakened his kicks, but used jets of true qi from his skin to stabilize himself.
• Fang Cheng sensed an updraft, rode it higher, and combined true-qi bursts with his kicks to keep ascending through fierce winds and cold.
• Fang Cheng entered the Sea of Clouds and ignited solar true fire to withstand the extreme cold as he flew through the clouds.
• Fang Cheng broke out above the clouds and reached the stratosphere at ten thousand meters, taking in the vast view around him.

Fang Cheng practiced flying above the clouds and tried to catch up with an Airbus A380, startling its crew and passengers before falling behind. He continued gliding through the sunrise, ending the chapter by declaring himself king of the world.

• Fang Cheng broke through the clouds and practiced gliding and steering in the stratospheric winds.
• Fang Cheng attempted to hitch a ride on an Airbus A380, but its wake knocked him away and he could not keep up.
• The pilots, a flight attendant, a passenger, and a boy named Luke saw Fang Cheng flying in red underwear beside the plane.
• Fang Cheng stopped pursuing the airliner and continued practicing his Flying Skill above the clouds.
• Fang Cheng watched the sun rise over the sea of clouds and shouted that he was the king of the world.

Fang Cheng tested his newly unlocked ability to fly, gliding from high above the clouds back to the beach and earning experience. After returning home, he showered and eagerly ate meat from a Crawling Beast he had hunted in the Other Shore World.

• Fang Cheng used high-altitude winds to descend through the clouds and glide across the Eastern Capital toward Guanlan District.
• Fang Cheng landed quietly on the beach, received 20 experience points for Flying, and decided to work on his speed and flying techniques.
• Fang Cheng dressed, left the beach, and returned to his apartment in Haitian Garden.
• Fang Cheng showered, then pressure-cooked and ate Crawling Beast meat from the Other Shore World.

Fang Cheng feasted on Crawling Beast meat and found that its energy increased his Constitution and replenished his true qi. He decided to keep his distance from Lu Tianming for now and focused on plans to join the Special Search Team, investigate his father's death, and grow stronger.

• Fang Cheng felt the Crawling Beast meat restore his true qi and increase his Constitution.
• Fang Cheng cut up the remaining Crawling Beast meat, cooked two dishes, and gained cooking experience as he ate.
• Fang Cheng considered the danger surrounding Lu Tianming and decided to wait for the investigation's turmoil to subside before seeking his help with the Ruin Entrance.
• Fang Cheng planned to join the Special Search Team to investigate his father's death and gain access to more resources.
• Fang Cheng returned to training after finishing his meal.

Feng Jincai and Zhuo Feng met with Night Owl to report on the Noah Organization’s losses and their investigation into Fang Cheng. Night Owl ordered the Eastern Capital Branch to lie low and secretly place informants near Fang Cheng through the Special Search Team selection.

• Feng Jincai and Zhuo Feng reviewed the cover story blaming Jia Sangyi and Luo Lie for the Noah Tower disaster while waiting for Night Owl.
• Night Owl questioned Zhuo Feng about suspected White Owl accomplices, and Zhuo Feng identified Lin Chuqiao and Pan Wendi as suspicious associates of Fang Cheng.
• Zhuo Feng reported that Fang Cheng had registered for the Special Search Team’s Spring Recruitment Selection Exam, and Night Owl concluded that White Owl was Fang Shijie.
• Night Owl warned Feng Jincai not to launch an operation and ordered Noah’s Eastern Capital Branch to suspend all activity except intelligence gathering.
• Night Owl tasked Zhuo Feng with secretly placing clean-background informants in the Special Search Team to observe and approach Fang Cheng.

Fang Cheng practiced his newly mastered flying skill over YuLong Lake and reviewed his training progress as he prepared for the threat posed by Utopia. After completing his morning routine, he headed home to handle a matter involving Lin Chuqiao.

• Fang Cheng leaped across a bamboo forest, glided over YuLong Lake, and flew alongside a flock of egrets before landing atop the lake's ancient stone tower.
• Fang Cheng reflected on improving his flying technique, and his panel showed that Flying had reached Lv0 with 43 experience.
• Fang Cheng reviewed his skills and planned to use future free attribute points from leveling Jiu-Jitsu and Muay Thai to raise his Agility and Strength past 80.
• Fang Cheng finished his training and flew toward the mountain woods, intending to go home and deal with Lin Chuqiao's matter.

Fang Cheng learned that Wang Li’s daughter, Wang Yao, had been abducted by the Poisonous Snake Gang and went to rescue her from the Blue Ice Bar. He planned to use the rescue and Mind Resonance to secure Wang Li’s loyalty to the Illumination Society.

• Lin Chuqiao told Fang Cheng that Wang Li’s wife needed an expensive kidney transplant and his daughter Wang Yao had been held by the Poisonous Snake Gang at the Blue Ice Bar.
• Lin Chuqiao explained that Wang Li had refused the Illumination Society’s suspiciously generous job offer because he feared illegal work.
• Wang Li knelt before Fang Cheng and begged him to save Wang Yao, then described how the gang had framed her with a liquor debt and threatened to force her to entertain customers.
• Fang Cheng told Wang Li to lead him to the Blue Ice Bar and left the rooftop with him, while Lin Chuqiao stayed behind.
• Fang Cheng intended to rescue Wang Yao himself and use Mind Resonance to bind Wang Li to the Illumination Society.

Fang Cheng and Wang Li reached the Poisonous Snake Gang’s Blue Ice Bar to find Wang Yao, and Fang Cheng brutally defeated the gangsters who tried to stop them. He forced an injured thug to lead them deeper into the headquarters toward the gang’s boss.

• Fang Cheng and Wang Li entered Blue Ice Bar and demanded to see Wang Yao, while Sang Gou mocked Wang Li and tried to take their bag of money.
• Fang Cheng crushed Sang Gou’s wrist and hand, then overpowered the thugs in the bar as they attacked him.
• More than a dozen enforcers rushed out, but Fang Cheng twisted a machete with his bare hands and crushed the gang’s resistance.
• Fang Cheng told Wang Li they would find the gang’s boss, then seized an injured thug and made him lead the way through the headquarters.
• Fang Cheng and Wang Li continued down the corridors, where Fang Cheng struck down gang members who tried to ambush them and frightened the rest into fleeing.

Fang Cheng and Wang Li confronted Wei Qiang to rescue Wang Li’s daughter, Wang Yao, but Wei Qiang drew guns and threatened them. Fang Cheng caught a bullet and slaughtered Wei Qiang and his four fighters; Boss Chen and his bodyguards were left kneeling before him.

• Fang Cheng knocked out the thug who led him and Wang Li to Wei Qiang’s lounge, then broke down its door.
• Wang Li demanded that Wei Qiang return his daughter, Wang Yao, while Boss Chen tried to leave the lounge.
• Wei Qiang drew a pistol and ordered Fang Cheng to kneel, but Fang Cheng caught the bullet fired at him between two fingers.
• Fang Cheng killed Wei Qiang’s four armed fighters and then smashed Wei Qiang’s skull against the desk.
• Boss Chen and his bodyguards fell to their knees and begged Fang Cheng to spare them.

Fang Cheng rescued Wang Li’s daughter, Wang Yao, and another captive from Wei Qiang’s lair, then ordered Chen Fuquan to cover up the slaughter and get the girls home safely. He rewarded Wang Li with money from Wei Qiang’s safe and left the bar with his rescued companions, while Wang Li’s gratitude and reverence for him deepened.

• Fang Cheng forced Chen Fuquan to reveal his ties to the Green Wolf Gang and ordered him to make the deaths look like a fight with the Poisonous Snake Gang.
• Fang Cheng led Wang Li to the hidden room, where Wang Li found and reunited with his daughter, Wang Yao, while they also freed a curly-haired girl.
• Fang Cheng ordered Chen Fuquan to drive the two girls home and told Wang Li to visit Miss Lin at the Jinshui Fish Market the next day for work.
• Fang Cheng broke open Wei Qiang’s safe, took its valuables, and gave cash to Wang Li, the curly-haired girl, and Chen Fuquan.
• Fang Cheng tore apart the bar’s front-door lock and led everyone outside, leaving Wang Li filled with reverence for him.

Fang Cheng’s family held a banquet to celebrate his acceptance into the Special Search Team, where the elders praised his and Ma Donghe’s results and toasted their futures. After the meal, the elders went to play mahjong, leaving Fang Cheng, Wei Zheng, and Ma Donghe alone in the living room as Wei Zheng seemed ready to speak privately.

• Li Zhenhua prepared an elaborate family feast after Fang Cheng was accepted into the Special Search Team’s Logistics and Medical Department.
• Ma Jianguo, Dong Yunchuan, Ma Donghe, Shi Chengyi, and Wei Zheng arrived with gifts and congratulated Fang Cheng and Ma Donghe.
• The guests toasted Fang Cheng and Ma Donghe, and Shi Chengyi praised Fang Cheng’s top exam ranking and assured Dong Yunchuan that Fang Cheng would avoid factional struggles.
• Li Zhenhua invited Shi Chengyi, Ma Jianguo, and Dong Yunchuan to play mahjong after the banquet, while Fang Cheng, Wei Zheng, and Ma Donghe stayed in the living room.
• Wei Zheng appeared to want a private conversation with Fang Cheng.

Fang Cheng and Ma Donghe told Wei Zheng a cover story about their night in the Western Mountains, while Wei explained the investigation and warned them about the Black Tide and the Internal Investigation Department. After the visitors left, Fang Cheng reflected that he had joined the Special Search Team to protect his family’s peaceful life and resolved to crush anyone who threatened it.

• Ma Donghe and Fang Cheng told Wei Zheng they had fought a mutated wild boar after getting lost in the Western Mountains.
• Wei Zheng described the destruction at the examination grounds, the suspected infiltration by mercenaries, and Section Chief Lu’s screening of witnesses and staff.
• Fang Cheng and Ma Donghe mentioned seeing a masked figure and hearing the name Black Tide, prompting Wei to explain the secretive group and warn them to keep to their account.
• Wei advised the two men to avoid speculation during questioning and offered his support as they prepared to join the Special Search Team.
• Shi Chengyi, Ma Jianguo, and Dong Yunchuan left after spending the afternoon with the family.
• Fang Cheng watched his family at home and resolved to destroy anyone who threatened their peaceful days.

Fang Cheng spent the predawn hours training on the beach, refining his martial arts and building skill experience as he prepared for his upcoming work with the Special Search Team. He remained wary of Utopia and other hidden threats, and the chapter ended with him examining his skill panel after an intense workout.

• Fang Cheng woke at 4:00 and reflected on Lin Chuqiao’s sense of being watched, Ma Donghe’s questioning by Internal Affairs agents, and his suspicion that Lu Tianming had removed him from the screening list.
• Fang Cheng went to the beach and ran thirty kilometers, gaining experience in Running.
• Fang Cheng practiced Shadow Boxing and struck the sea with a punch powerful enough to blast up a column of water.
• Fang Cheng practiced Jiu-Jitsu techniques, chaining acrobatic rolls, flips, and grappling transitions for two hours.
• Fang Cheng finished his training as dawn broke and brought up his pale blue skill panel.

After Jiu-Jitsu reached Grandmaster level, Fang Cheng spent his rewards pushing his strength and agility beyond 80, triggering a perilous physical transformation. He survived the ordeal by balancing the surge with agility, then devoured supernatural meat to recover and saw his newly refined physique.

• Fang Cheng completed his weighted morning workout and received 12 free attribute points for advancing Jiu-Jitsu to Grandmaster level.
• Fang Cheng added 10 points to strength, pushing it from 70 to 80 and unleashing a violent transformation that engulfed him in solar flames.
• Fang Cheng spent his remaining 17 points on agility, surpassing 80 and compressing his enlarged, burning body back into balance.
• Fang Cheng consumed the food in his freezer, including mutated wild boar and Crawling Beast meat, to replenish the energy his transformation had consumed.
• Fang Cheng cleaned up, showered, and examined his lean, powerful physique after both strength and agility had passed 80.

Fang Cheng tested the strength and agility he had gained after breaking past the 80-point human limit, crushing solid iron and lifting a barbell with an immense leverage-amplified load. He reached a five-ton strain on his wrist, then caught all ten falling plates before they damaged the floor.

• Fang Cheng admired his transformed physique and checked his updated attributes: Strength 80, Agility 81, Constitution 83, and Spirit 70.
• Fang Cheng crushed a dumbbell handle with one hand and pressed two 25-kilogram iron plates into a single lump.
• Fang Cheng used a long Olympic bar to test his wrist strength, steadily increasing the far-end load to 250 kilograms.
• Fang Cheng held the loaded bar level against five tons of amplified force for five seconds before releasing it.
• Fang Cheng caught all ten falling plates in less than half a second and stacked them safely on the rack.

Fang Cheng tested the immense strength and speed granted by his attributes, using air blasts to batter a heavy sandbag without touching it. After demonstrating near-instant movement and precise control, he reflected that he still needed to avoid hurting others and had no worthy opponent to test his power against.

• Fang Cheng used a five-hundred-jin-loaded steel bar to assess his arm strength and estimated that a charged Qilin Arm strike could unleash nearly ninety tons of force.
• Fang Cheng threw a punch from five meters away, creating a compressed-air blast that dented and violently swung the eight-hundred-kilogram sandbag.
• Fang Cheng tested his speed by rushing toward the sandbag and striking it repeatedly with air cannons that produced sonic booms and whipped the living room into a gale.
• Fang Cheng circled the sandbag so quickly that eight afterimages appeared to attack it from different directions before he returned to his starting position.
• Fang Cheng recognized that his agility let him control his enormous strength precisely and warned himself that losing control could endanger his friends and family.
• Fang Cheng settled his vitality and lamented that he would struggle to find an enemy willing to take a direct punch from him.

Fang Cheng planned renovations for the Sleeve Building after buying the entire property, then reviewed Zhou Xiumei’s generous Star Sea Entertainment contract and advised her that it was safe to sign. The chapter left Zhou Xiumei still nervous about beginning her entertainment career.

• Fang Cheng instructed Designer Liu to replace the Sleeve Building’s plumbing and electrical systems, install comprehensive security cameras, and design a spacious combined apartment for himself and his mother.
• Fang Cheng reflected on how his case rewards, business income, and other earnings had made him wealthy enough to buy the building, while Li Biyun proudly shared the news with neighbors.
• He Huiqin invited Fang Cheng over for soup, and Zhou Yongnian congratulated him on joining the Special Search Team before mentioning Fang Cheng’s late father.
• Zhou Xiumei showed Fang Cheng Star Sea Entertainment’s Class B artist contract, which offered generous terms and an EP if she reached the competition’s national top ten.
• Fang Cheng reviewed the contract, found no problematic clauses, and encouraged Zhou Xiumei to accept the opportunity, though she remained nervous.

Fang Cheng reassured Zhou Xiumei about her generous entertainment contract and promised to protect her, then reflected on his father’s death and the gangs’ links to Noah. He drove to the car dealership where his old classmate Ning Yue worked, intending to buy a car for his mother and help Ning Yue earn a commission.

• Zhou Xiumei worried that Zhang Hui and Cheng Jiashu had ulterior motives, but Fang Cheng reassured her that her talent deserved the contract and told her to seek his help if anyone mistreated her.
• Zhou Xiumei resolved to prove herself in the Top 100 Promotion Tournament, and Zhou Peng said he hoped to become a search officer like Fang Cheng.
• Fang Cheng promised his deceased father that he would care for Li Biyun and uncover the truth behind the past, then decided to buy his mother a car and arrange a driver and bodyguard.
• Fang Cheng considered Chen Fuquan’s role in destroying the Poisonous Snake Gang and recognized that Noah had supported Wei Qiang to check the Red Tiger Gang.
• Fang Cheng decided to buy a car from Ning Yue’s dealership to help his struggling old classmate earn a commission, then drove to the store.

Fang Cheng learned that Ning Yue had left work to care for her violently ill sister-in-law, Li Jiajia, and went to find her. At the family home, a priest attempted to exorcise Jiajia, but after she fell silent, she began to laugh ominously.

• Fang Cheng heard from a saleswoman that Ning Yue's sister-in-law had suffered frightening episodes and that Ning Yue had rushed home to help her.
• Fang Cheng obtained Ning Yue's home address and left the showroom to check on her.
• At Ning Yue's home, Li Jiajia thrashed against restraints while Ning Yue and her in-laws watched in distress.
• A priest prayed over Li Jiajia and splashed holy water on her, provoking violent reactions that led Old Li to urge him to continue.
• Li Jiajia suddenly stopped moving and went limp, but then her shoulder twitched and she began to laugh.

Li Jiajia’s possession overwhelmed the priest, who fled from apartment 304. Fang Cheng arrived, stopped Li Jiajia when she broke free and attacked, and persuaded Ning Yue and her in-laws to leave him alone with her so he could treat her.

• Li Jiajia mocked the priest’s exorcism, revealed private information about his wife, and sprayed him with foul black liquid.
• The terrified priest abandoned his attempt to help and fled, warning Fang Cheng on the stairs that an evil ghost was in apartment 304.
• Fang Cheng went to Ning Yue’s apartment, where Ning Yue recognized her former high school classmate and heard cries for help from inside.
• Fang Cheng entered the bedroom and held Li Jiajia by the neck after she broke her restraints and threatened her family.
• Fang Cheng claimed he could cure Li Jiajia if nobody interrupted him, so Ning Yue led her parents-in-law out and closed the bedroom door.

Fang Cheng confronted Li Jiajia after realizing the entity possessing her came from the Otherworld he had experienced during the Special Search Team examination. He drove the parasite from her body and destroyed it, leaving Li Jiajia unconscious and the connection between worlds confirmed.

• Fang Cheng questioned Li Jiajia about the Holy Lord and learned that the entities planned to invade his world and use its people as nourishment.
• Li Jiajia transformed and attacked Fang Cheng, but he effortlessly countered her strikes and stopped her escape toward the window.
• Fang Cheng seized Li Jiajia and used golden flames to burn the possessing entity out of her body.
• The parasite emerged as a black shadow and tried to escape beneath the door, but Fang Cheng struck it with a punch infused with true qi and burned it away.

Fang Cheng expelled the shadow possessing Li Jiajia and learned that her first symptoms began after the black rain fell in the Western Mountains. Realizing the same parasitic monsters might threaten his world and his family, he began meditating and sensed a change in the Inner Scenery World.

• Fang Cheng defeated the shadow inside Li Jiajia, restored her dislocated arm, and told Ning Yue and Old Li that she would recover with rest and proper care.
• Ning Yue recounted that Li Jiajia became ill after returning soaked from an outing to the Western Mountains during a rainstorm the previous December.
• Fang Cheng connected Li Jiajia's possession to the Western Mountains explosion, the black rain, and similar parasitic monsters in the Otherworld, then reassured Ning Yue that the threat had been removed.
• Fang Cheng left Ning Yue's home and returned to the Sleeve Building, where he considered the danger reaching his world and decided he needed to grow stronger.
• Fang Cheng meditated in his bedroom and sensed that something had changed within the Inner Scenery World.

Fang Cheng discovered that four dark red stars belonged to believers in the Other Shore World and forced open the world barrier to connect with Yila in Iron City. He removed the corruption from her spirit, leaving her cleansed and convinced that her god had answered her prayer.

• Fang Cheng noticed four dim, dark red stars beyond the main star field and forced a passage through the world barrier with a golden solar arrow.
• Fang Cheng possessed Yila in Iron City and realized the four stars represented believers from the Other Shore World.
• Fang Cheng found black spots gnawing at Yila’s spirit and used the Solar Mental Network to pull the corruption out of her.
• Yila felt her mind clear, thanked her god, and saw a blazing golden sun within her consciousness.