Recaps

Fang Cheng fought Jiang Chen in the Ancestral Hall courtyard, overpowering him with devastating kicks before facing the Zombie King's regeneration, Flash Step, and bone spikes in a head-on battle. Fang Cheng learned to anticipate Jiang Chen's spatial jumps, while a white-suited figure arrived at Ancient Locust Village.

• Fang Cheng shattered Jiang Chen's Bronze Armor and kicked him through the Ancestral Hall, burying him beneath the collapsed hall.
• Jiang Chen regenerated from severe injuries and used Flash Step to ambush Fang Cheng, but Fang Cheng dodged and counterattacked.
• Fang Cheng and Jiang Chen clashed at high speed, and Fang Cheng struck Jiang Chen with a Turning Cannon Fist.
• Fang Cheng predicted where Jiang Chen would emerge from Flash Step and smashed him with a punch, explaining that Cheng Jiashu had revealed the ability's flaws.
• Jiang Chen cursed Cheng Jiashu and prepared to fight Fang Cheng again as a tall figure in a white suit entered Ancient Locust Village.

Cheng Jiashu arrived at the Ancient Locust Ancestral Hall and activated a Bagua Array around its well, while Fang Cheng battled Jiang Chen inside the Inner World. Fang Cheng’s 95-point physique let him withstand Jiang Chen’s bone spines and counterattack, ending with a strike aimed at Jiang Chen’s knee.

• Cheng Jiashu entered the abandoned village and found the Ancient Locust Ancestral Hall deserted.
• Cheng Jiashu placed a Bronze Buddha before the well and formed a Bagua Array that stirred the boundary to the Inner World.
• Jiang Chen attacked Fang Cheng with four bone spines, but Fang Cheng withdrew his protective true qi and blocked them with his body.
• Fang Cheng revealed his powerful muscle armor and advanced through Jiang Chen’s attacks without being injured.
• Fang Cheng shattered one bone spine with a rotational punch as Jiang Chen tried to escape using Flash Step.
• Fang Cheng released High-Frequency Vibrating Hidden Force and struck Jiang Chen’s left knee.

Fang Cheng overwhelmed Jiang Chen with a brutal assault, but the Zombie King sacrificed villagers to heal and unleashed his Sea of Corpses and Blood domain. Fang Cheng answered with a vast golden domain and a Resplendent Divine Palace, leaving Jiang Chen terrified as Fang Cheng ordered him to die.

• Fang Cheng pierced Jiang Chen’s chest with a charged Knife Hand and battered him with a relentless barrage of golden-flamed punches.
• Jiang Chen detonated his corpse qi to escape, then impaled two villagers with his bone spikes and drained their life force to heal.
• Jiang Chen expanded his Sea of Corpses and Blood domain, flooding the ruins with blood and raising a mountain of corpses and bones.
• Fang Cheng revealed that he could fly and expanded his own domain, summoning a vast Resplendent Divine Palace that began overriding Jiang Chen’s domain.
• Jiang Chen stared at Fang Cheng’s domain in terror, and Fang Cheng pointed at him and told him to die.

Fang Cheng overwhelmed Jiang Chen in their battle inside the Inner World, destroying the Sea of Corpses and Blood after Cheng Jiashu severed its connection to the earth veins. Fang Cheng trapped Jiang Chen beneath the Golden Palace’s light and began a finishing attack.

• Jiang Chen unleashed an army of evil spirits from his Sea of Corpses and Blood, but Fang Cheng’s Golden Palace purified the spirits and devastated the domain with solar true fire.
• Fang Cheng fought off Jiang Chen’s bone spikes and continued attacking without tiring, while Jiang Chen claimed the full moon and his Gathering Yin Formation would replenish his power.
• The Inner World shook as Cheng Jiashu tampered with the Formation Eye from outside, cutting off the yin energy supply and causing Jiang Chen’s domain to collapse.
• Fang Cheng told Jiang Chen that Cheng Jiashu had severed the formation’s connection to the earth veins, then watched the Sea of Corpses and Blood vanish beneath the Golden Palace’s light.
• Fang Cheng trapped Jiang Chen in a golden pillar that locked down space and began charging at him with his Flame Gatling Punch.

Fang Cheng destroyed Jiang Chen and escaped the collapsing Inner World, then learned his Palm Technique had reached Master Level and gained the special effect "Condensing Qi into Gang." As he regrouped with Xu Hao, a figure emerged from the well and revealed himself as Cheng Jiashu.

• Fang Cheng battered Jiang Chen to ash, causing the Inner World and its Sea of Corpses and Blood to collapse around him.
• Fang Cheng returned to the real-world courtyard, where Supervisor Wu and Qian Dongming had survived by hiding beneath the altar table.
• Fang Cheng received battle experience and a System notification that his Palm Technique had reached Master Level, granting him "Condensing Qi into Gang."
• Xu Hao arrived battered but alive, celebrated Jiang Chen's death, and boasted about resisting him while he had been tied up as a sacrifice.
• Fang Cheng sensed an unfamiliar sound, and a man climbed out of the courtyard well; after Xu Hao mistook him for a ghost, the man revealed himself as Cheng Jiashu.

After Jiang Chen's defeat, Cheng Jiashu revealed a hidden vault beneath Ancient Locust Village and questioned Supervisor Wu and Qian Dongming about its secrets. Supervisor Wu died when Jiang Chen's loyalty curse activated, and Fang Cheng and Cheng Jiashu prepared to enter the vault, which might lead to legendary ruins.

• Cheng Jiashu explained that he had sealed the Inner World's Formation Eye and discovered a hidden passage beneath the well.
• Xu Hao forced Supervisor Wu and Qian Dongming out of the ruined side hall, and Cheng Jiashu questioned them about Jiang Chen's secrets and treasure vault.
• Supervisor Wu brought out a bronze box containing the vault key and its opening incantation, but he died when Jiang Chen's curse activated.
• Cheng Jiashu revealed that he had bluffed Supervisor Wu and believed the vault might lead to legendary ruins.
• Fang Cheng ordered Xu Hao to guard Qian Dongming while Fang Cheng and Cheng Jiashu prepared to investigate the vault.

Fang Cheng and Cheng Jiashu entered a hidden underground passage beneath the dry well and opened the Treasure Vault after Fang Cheng recognized and recited its primeval-vowel incantation. They passed through the Light Gate and arrived in a devastated, blood-soaked ruin.

• Fang Cheng and Cheng Jiashu descended beneath the well and followed a passage through a Gathering Yin Formation, which Cheng Jiashu said Jiang Chen had used to hide his lair.
• Cheng Jiashu thanked Fang Cheng for helping him confront Jiang Chen and avenge the Cheng Clan, and Fang Cheng urged him to keep moving.
• Cheng Jiashu used a crescent-shaped Key Stone on the red stone door, but neither he nor Fang Cheng could open it by force.
• Fang Cheng recognized the symbols on the Bronze Box as a primeval vowel and recited the incantation, causing the door to transform and reveal a Light Gate.
• Fang Cheng and Cheng Jiashu crossed the Light Gate and found a ruined landscape filled with craters, smoke, ash, and pools of blood.

Fang Cheng and Cheng Jiashu explored the surviving ruins of Jiang Chen’s Inner World, uncovered a hidden space rift, and agreed to conceal the entrance and secure control of the land. They left with the antiques and gold, planning to wait for the earth veins to replenish before attempting to open the passage.

• Fang Cheng and Cheng Jiashu concluded that Jiang Chen’s Inner World had collapsed but left a surviving spatial structure anchored to the earth veins.
• Fang Cheng and Cheng Jiashu searched the ruined Ancestral Hall, found gold bars and antiques, and gathered them to take away.
• Cheng Jiashu discovered a tiny space rift and explained that it might lead to the Other Shore, but the depleted earth veins would need at least half a month to replenish.
• Fang Cheng and Cheng Jiashu agreed to keep the entrance secret and arrange control of the land by dealing with Qian Dongming.
• Fang Cheng and Cheng Jiashu packed the valuables, left the Inner World, and returned through the Light Gate.

After defeating Jiang Chen, Fang Cheng emerged from the well with Cheng Jiashu and valuable loot, then secured Qian Dongming’s cooperation and treated his broken leg. Fang Cheng flew off before dawn, leaving Cheng Jiashu and Xu Hao to manage the village and its handover.

• Fang Cheng leaped out of the well carrying Cheng Jiashu and a backpack, then told Xu Hao that everything below had been dealt with.
• Cheng Jiashu persuaded Qian Dongming to transfer the land and fund a Resort Villa for their organization in exchange for his life.
• Fang Cheng reset Qian Dongming’s fractured tibia and offered the possibility of treating his cancer if he served the organization well.
• Fang Cheng instructed Xu Hao to assist Cheng Jiashu for two weeks and left Qian Dongming in their care.
• Fang Cheng launched into the sky with the backpack, leaving Xu Hao, Qian Dongming, and Cheng Jiashu stunned by his power.

After settling into a stable routine, Fang Cheng trained intensely and used his breakthrough in Palm Technique to test its new Condensing Qi into Gang effect. He discovered that his compressed true qi could form a crystalline cutting edge powerful enough to slice through a thick tree, and the chapter ended with him beginning to explore its capabilities.

• Fang Cheng kept working at Cuigu Sanatorium while overseeing the Illumination Society's growing operations and training in the forest before dawn.
• Fang Cheng completed two thousand charged pull-ups, gaining Pull-Ups experience and nearing the skill's next level.
• Fang Cheng prepared to practice shadow boxing, then checked Palm Technique and reviewed its new Condensing Qi into Gang effect.
• Fang Cheng condensed his true qi into crystalline gang qi along his hand and examined its sharpened, denser form.
• Fang Cheng swept his gang-qi-coated hand through a thick pine tree, cleanly severing its trunk and bringing it down.

Fang Cheng tested how Condensing Qi into Gang enhanced his attacks, discovering that he could launch devastating ranged strikes. After combining gang qi with Qilin Arm, he demolished a swath of forest and a section of a hill from half a kilometer away, then left to avoid drawing attention from the nearby Special Search Team base.

• Fang Cheng practiced palm and claw attacks with gang qi, slicing grass and piercing deep holes into a rock.
• Fang Cheng launched a crescent-shaped Sonic Hand Blade that cut through grass and carved a trench more than ten meters long.
• Fang Cheng formed a three-meter Golden Light Sword from gang qi and severed several large trees before carving a deep fissure into a rock face nearly a hundred meters away.
• Fang Cheng combined Condensing Qi into Gang with Qilin Arm and Ghost Back, firing a golden fist shadow that tore a five-meter-wide trench through the forest and struck a hill half a kilometer away.
• Fang Cheng noticed the destruction might attract attention from the nearby Special Search Team base, retrieved his clothes, and raced down the mountain toward the Dormitory.

Fang Cheng treated Gu Weiping’s back and helped Lin Yue handle several injured patients at the sanatorium, gaining skill experience and refining his microscopic control of true qi. He left early to meet Lin Chuqiao because something had gone wrong with the Illumination Society.

• Fang Cheng used Tui Na and true qi to ease Gu Weiping’s back pain, promising to continue his rehabilitation the next day.
• Lin Yue called Fang Cheng to help treat a badly injured Special Search Team operative and other patients in the severe trauma ward.
• Fang Cheng gained experience in Bone Setting, Tui Na, Acupoint Striking, and Qi Gong, and considered using his developing technique to treat Qian Dongming’s cancer.
• Fang Cheng packed clothes and the Evil Spirit Mask, left the sanatorium, and drove toward a meeting after Lin Chuqiao told him they were waiting.
• Fang Cheng accelerated along the mountain road, revealing that he had left early because something had gone wrong with the Illumination Society.

Fang Cheng arrived at the Cloud Hidden Small Dwelling to find Li Fei gravely wounded after an ambush by the assassin organization that captured Li Jie. He used his true qi to destroy the Three-Corpse Brain Spirit Pill’s parasites in Li Fei, then made him vomit out the poisoned blood.

• Lin Chuqiao told Fang Cheng that Li Jie had been captured while covering Li Fei’s escape, and that Li Fei had returned with severe wounds and a parasite infection.
• Fang Cheng examined Li Fei and learned from the professor that the Three-Corpse Brain Spirit Pill’s worms could reach the brain and kill their victim within a day.
• Li Ran begged Fang Cheng to save Li Fei and Li Jie, and Fang Cheng promised he could cure Li Fei’s gu poison.
• Fang Cheng sent hair-thin strands of true qi into Li Fei’s brain and body, destroying the parasites without harming his organs.
• Fang Cheng had Xiaosa give Li Fei an emetic, then used true qi to force him to vomit foul blood into a basin.

Fang Cheng saved Li Fei from Black Shark’s gu poison and learned that the organization had abducted Li Jie after the three defected. Li Fei explained that Li Jie had gone to a meeting with Ghost Fox to rescue their imprisoned former instructor, and pleaded with Fang Cheng to help save him.

• Fang Cheng used qi gong therapy to expel the gu insects from Li Fei and told the others that he needed rest.
• Fang Cheng said the Illumination Society would retaliate against those who harmed its members, then heard the Professor explain Black Shark’s ranks and the circumstances of Li Jie and Li Ran’s disappearance.
• Li Fei and Li Ran came to the courtyard and begged Fang Cheng to rescue Li Jie.
• Li Fei revealed that the three had defected from Black Shark and that Li Jie had taken a secret scroll detailing its deployments in Xia Country.
• Li Fei explained that Ghost Fox had lured Li Jie and Li Ran to a meeting by promising to free their former instructor in exchange for the scroll and an assassination.
• Li Fei said Li Jie had taken a fake scroll to the meeting, only to discover that the entire offer was a trap.

Li Fei told Fang Cheng how Black Shark had captured Li Jie and demanded the real Secret Scroll in exchange for his life. Fang Cheng accepted the threat and prepared a midnight operation at South City Farm, leaving Douzi reassured as she joined the team.

• Li Fei explained that Ghost Fox had captured Li Jie and ordered Fang Cheng to bring the real Secret Scroll to Peace Farm at midnight or Black Shark would kill Li Jie and attack the Illumination Society.
• Fang Cheng pledged to protect his people and demanded details about Ghost Fox’s abilities and the Black Shark assassins’ forces.
• Li Fei described Ghost Fox’s psychic power, venomous insects, and hallucination ability, and volunteered to guide Fang Cheng because he remembered the attackers.
• Fang Cheng selected Fat Tiger to protect Li Fei and named Douzi as the other helper, intending to use her ability to communicate with animals for reconnaissance.
• Fang Cheng took Douzi’s hand and promised that no one would hurt her, and she quietly agreed to go.

At Peace Farm, Ghost Fox and Black Shark's killers held Li Jie and a family hostage while preparing an ambush for the Illumination Society. Ghost Fox waited for the Society to arrive, hoping to recover the stolen personnel roster and eliminate the threat.

• Old Badger and Blood Jackal guarded the bound family and tortured Li Jie for information about the Illumination Society.
• Li Jie refused to betray the Society and vowed that its President would kill them.
• Ghost Fox arrived and ordered his subordinates to keep Li Jie alive as bait for the night's trap.
• Ghost Fox warned that the Illumination Society's unseen President might have powerful backing or formidable strength.
• Ghost Fox revealed that he had provoked the Society to lure it to Peace Farm, but the road remained empty.

Fang Cheng’s group approached Peace Farm to rescue Li Jie, and Douzi used her ability to send a swarm of mice inside to scout the enemy’s defenses. The mice began gathering intelligence, but one suddenly signaled that something had happened, leaving the rescue plan unresolved.

• Fang Cheng led Fat Tiger, Li Fei, and Douzi through a concealed canal toward Peace Farm while Li Dingjian and Flying Shadow waited nearby as backup.
• Li Fei identified the farm’s buildings, hidden assassins, three Gold Medal Killers, and the sniper Poison Bee on a nearby hill.
• Fang Cheng asked Douzi to use her ability to locate Li Jie and assess the main building.
• Douzi summoned and directed dozens of field mice to infiltrate the farm and scout its buildings.
• Douzi reported that the mice had entered the farm, then the white mouse squeaked sharply and she told Fang Cheng there was news.

Ghost Fox’s Black Shark team waited at Peace Farm for the Illumination Society leader and the return of the Secret Scroll list. Fat Tiger and Li Fei arrived to negotiate for Li Jie, but a sudden blackout and explosion shattered the building’s wall as an unknown figure entered.

• Ghost Fox ordered his men to kill the captives if the Illumination Society leader failed to appear, while preparing an ambush around Peace Farm.
• Old Badger reported that two people had arrived, and Ghost Fox recognized the approaching footsteps through his Gu Insects.
• Fat Tiger and Li Fei confronted Ghost Fox, with Fat Tiger claiming to lead the Illumination Society and demanding to see Li Jie before handing over the list.
• Ghost Fox sent Old Badger to inspect the Document Bag, and Fat Tiger used the distraction to trigger a blackout across the farm.
• An explosion destroyed the west wall of the living room, and an unknown figure appeared inside as Ghost Fox shielded himself from the debris.

Fang Cheng rescued Li Jie from Ghost Fox’s compound, then returned to confront the Black Shark Organization’s forces. After Blood Jackal provoked him and was killed by a Golden Crescent Qi Blade, Fang Cheng began slaughtering the surrounding assassins.

• Fang Cheng smashed through the wall, broke Li Jie’s chains, and carried him out at speed to safety with Douzi.
• Ghost Fox ordered his forces to seize Li Fei and Old Badger, while Fat Tiger fled with Li Fei before assassins surrounded them.
• Ghost Fox and Blood Jackal cornered Li Fei and Fat Tiger with armed assassins and a swarm of venomous creatures.
• Fang Cheng returned, hovered above the courtyard, and froze the swarm with his pressure.
• Fang Cheng killed Blood Jackal with a Golden Crescent Qi Blade and withstood the assassins’ gunfire behind a golden aura.
• Fang Cheng charged into the assassins and killed three of them with a punch and a sweeping kick.

Fang Cheng broke free of the Black Shark Organization's psychic attack and slaughtered its assassins at Peace Farm. With Ghost Fox cornered, Li Fei and Fat Tiger rejected his attempt to negotiate.

• Fang Cheng killed several assassins, then shattered Ghost Fox's psychic barrier and hurled him through a brick wall.
• Three Gold Medal Killers and Ghost Fox combined their psychic power to trap Fang Cheng while Ghost Fox sent poisonous insects after him, but Fang Cheng burned the swarm away with golden flames.
• Poison Bee fired an armor-piercing bullet from the Back Mountain Water Tower, but Fang Cheng caught it and hurled it back, killing the sniper.
• Fang Cheng broke the Gravity Field and killed the three Gold Medal Killers, while Fat Tiger and Li Fei defeated the remaining assassins.
• Ghost Fox offered to make a deal, but Li Fei and Fat Tiger confronted him over his past crimes and refused to let him go.

Fang Cheng and the Illumination Society defeated Black Shark’s attackers at the farm, killing Ghost Fox and Old Badger. They left to rejoin Douzi and Li Jie, while the rescued family watched them disappear into the storm.

• Ghost Fox threatened Fang Cheng and the others with Utopia, but Fang Cheng exposed his likely lies and Fat Tiger attacked him.
• Ghost Fox used Eye of Hallucination to freeze Fat Tiger and flee, but Fang Cheng killed him with a Golden Crescent Qi Blade.
• Fang Cheng spotted Old Badger hiding in a drainage ditch, and Li Fei pursued and killed him to avenge Instructor Li.
• Fang Cheng said a cleanup crew would handle the bodies, then left with Fat Tiger and Li Fei to find Douzi and Li Jie.
• The farm owners and their children watched the men leave, and the father reassured his family that they were safe.

After destroying the Black Shark Organization’s forces at Peace Farm, Fang Cheng arranged to conceal the massacre and returned to Haitian Garden, where he considered Utopia’s plans and the power gained from the Evil Spirit Mask. He resisted the mask’s temptation to pursue strength through slaughter and left it sealed in his bag.

• Fang Cheng brought the wounded Li Jie to Cloud Hidden Small Dwelling, warned the group to watch for retaliation, and arranged through Chen Chen and Zhou Yongnian to cover up the events at Peace Farm.
• Fang Cheng suspected Utopia’s grand plan might be connected to strange incidents in the Western Mountains and resolved to confront Utopia’s leader in the Eastern Capital.
• Fang Cheng checked his combat-skill gains and saw that the Evil Spirit Mask’s Feast of Slaughter had absorbed life energy from the Black Shark assassins and Ghost Fox, increasing his attribute progress.
• Fang Cheng felt the mask’s power tempting him to slaughter without restraint, but recalled White Owl’s fate and rejected the shortcut.
• Fang Cheng challenged the mask to try to control him, put it back in his bag, and went to wash before training the next morning.

Fang Cheng bought his mother a Bentley Flying Spur with Ning Yue’s help, then headed toward Old Factory Street with his new driver, Su Xiaoyong. On the way, he stopped to pick up Wen Xin after her end-of-term ceremony, and she ran toward him happily.

• Fang Cheng signed the contract for a top-spec Bentley Flying Spur after Ning Yue negotiated a lower price and extra options.
• Ning Yue refused Fang Cheng’s thank-you envelope, told him Jiajia was recovering, and invited him to a meal with her family.
• Su Xiaoyong drove Fang Cheng away from the dealership, and Fang Cheng reflected on the quiet aftermath of the Black Shark Organization massacre and Li Jie’s severe injuries.
• Fang Cheng checked his Tui Na skill progress and considered using true qi and medical skills to help Li Jie recover.
• Su Xiaoyong reminded Fang Cheng that Wen Xin’s end-of-term ceremony was ending, so Fang Cheng diverted to Yuying Private Elementary School.
• Wen Xin spotted Fang Cheng outside the school and ran toward the Bentley, calling him big brother.

Fang Cheng picked up Wen Xin after her excellent exam results and promised to take her and Xiumei to the seaside over summer break. He returned with Wen Xin to the Sleeve Building, where neighbors admired his success and his mother oversaw the renovations, before a crash and Zhou Peng’s cries sent He Huiqin rushing next door.

• Fang Cheng praised Wen Xin for placing second in her class and fifth in the school, and she said she would give her three-thousand-yuan scholarship to her mother.
• Fang Cheng confirmed his promise to take Wen Xin to the seaside and agreed to invite Xiumei along.
• Fang Cheng and Wen Xin arrived at the Sleeve Building in a Bentley, where neighbors commented on Fang Cheng’s wealth and the renovations.
• Wen Xin went home with fruit while Fang Cheng greeted Li Biyun and the neighbors, who praised him and speculated about his future marriage.
• A crash and Zhou Peng’s wails came from the Zhou Family’s apartment, and He Huiqin hurried inside as Fang Cheng followed Li Biyun into the apartment under renovation.

Fang Cheng inspected the renovation of his new home and arranged a Bentley and a bodyguard for his mother, Li Biyun. Elsewhere, White Ghost confronted Night Owl in a luxury suite, then demanded to know how he had been found.

• Fang Cheng visited the apartment renovation site, thanked Manager Wu for the progress report, and approved the final design adjustments.
• Fang Cheng showed Li Biyun the Bentley he had bought for her and introduced Su Xiaoyong as her driver and bodyguard.
• Li Biyun reluctantly accepted the car and Su Xiaoyong after Fang Cheng explained that he wanted her safe and needed her to oversee the renovation.
• White Ghost appeared in Night Owl's suite and stopped his sword at Night Owl's neck.
• White Ghost spared the blonde woman after Night Owl pleaded for her, then ordered her to leave.
• Night Owl asked White Ghost how he had found him.