Recaps

White Ghost confronted Night Owl over Black Shark’s recent losses and ordered him to investigate the Illumination Society and White Owl without acting rashly. White Ghost left determined to someday fight White Owl, while Night Owl remained anxious about the threats facing Black Shark in the Eastern Capital.

• White Ghost visited Night Owl in the Eastern Capital and criticized him for Black Shark’s losses, including Ghost Sickle’s death and Ghost Fox’s disappearance.
• Night Owl explained that Ghost Fox and twelve elite assassins vanished while secretly pursuing three defectors who had stolen a scroll listing Black Shark sleeper agents.
• Night Owl reported that the defectors had joined the mysterious Illumination Society and suspected the group was connected to Ghost Fox’s disappearance.
• White Ghost told Night Owl that Lord Claude had ordered Black Shark to investigate the Illumination Society and White Owl discreetly rather than take action.
• White Ghost said he wanted to fight White Owl, then vanished using optical-camouflage nanomaterial, leaving Night Owl worried about Black Shark’s precarious position.

Fang Cheng treated Gu Weiping’s back with Tui Na and true qi, then examined how the newly unlocked Hand of Rejuvenation effect could repair muscle tissue. He finished work and told Lin Yue that he planned to take his younger sister to Yong'an Island for their promised seaside vacation.

• Fang Cheng used Tui Na and true qi to relieve Gu Weiping’s back pain, but warned him not to play basketball while his muscles recovered.
• Gu Weiping offered Fang Cheng access to the Military Region General Hospital if his grandfather’s cancer worsened and tried to arrange a date for him.
• Fang Cheng left Gu Weiping’s suite, saw that the treatment had earned him Tui Na experience, and considered how Hand of Rejuvenation worked with true qi.
• Fang Cheng returned to the rehabilitation office and told Lin Yue that he would take an extended break to bring his younger sister to the seaside.
• Fang Cheng told Lin Yue that he and his sister would vacation on Yong'an Island.

Fang Cheng traveled to Yong'an Island with Wen Xin, Lin Chuqiao, Zhou Xiumei, and Pan Wendi, where old memories resurfaced and tensions between the women quietly emerged. After reaching the island and checking into the resort, Fang Cheng examined his Dantian and found his Sea of Qi had dwindled to less than a quarter of its former strength, revealing that he had come for a serious purpose.

• Pan Wendi took Fang Cheng and the others to Yong'an Island on his yacht, while Lin Chuqiao and Zhou Xiumei vied subtly for Fang Cheng's attention.
• Wen Xin spotted Yong'an Island, and Lin Chuqiao explained how the island had shifted from pearl harvesting to tourism.
• Pan Wendi recalled how Fang Cheng had rescued him and his cousin from the Noah Organization, stirring Lin Chuqiao's memories of the battle.
• Fang Cheng led the group to their resort hotel after they arrived at the island's pier.
• Fang Cheng inspected his Dantian and discovered that his Sea of Qi had fallen to less than a quarter of its peak, then looked toward the deep waters where his important purpose awaited.

After arriving on Yong'an Island, Fang Cheng planned to recover the energy-rich ancient remains hidden in an undersea cave abode so he could replenish his depleted true qi. He spent the afternoon enjoying seafood and the beach with his companions, then used buying drinks as an excuse to visit a blacksmith and order lead boxes for the dive.

• Fang Cheng recalled his recent battle with Jiang Chen and realized that conventional methods would restore his depleted true qi too slowly.
• Fang Cheng decided to check for Noah Organization and Truth Society lookouts on Yong'an Island and order enough thick lead boxes to contain the ancient remains.
• Fang Cheng took Wen Xin, Zhou Xiumei, Lin Chuqiao, and Pan Wendi to Gourmet Street for a seafood meal.
• Lin Chuqiao bought Wen Xin a Swallow Kite, and Fang Cheng helped her fly it on the beach.
• Fang Cheng left the beach under the pretext of buying cold drinks and headed to a nearby blacksmith shop to order lead boxes.

Fang Cheng learned that the Truth Society was building a deep-sea detector to investigate the Trench and planned to recover the ancient remains before it launched. In the underground cavern, Zheng Hongxin and Chen Jiandong discussed the Truth Society’s failing tablet, their leader trapped in the Trench, and the detector’s progress.

• Fang Cheng discovered that Li A-Xing’s welding shop had closed after the Truth Society hired him and other local craftsmen for a deep-sea exploration project.
• Fang Cheng concluded that the Truth Society was pursuing the Trench’s secrets and planned to use Pan Wendi’s yacht to store the recovered remains until lead boxes could be made.
• Zheng Hongxin told Chen Jiandong that the Truth Stone Tablet was losing energy and that the Society lacked enough ancient remains to replenish it.
• Zheng Hongxin insisted that the Truth Society’s President was alive but trapped at the bottom of the Trench, seeking the legendary birthplace of the mermaid race to lift their bloodline curse.
• Chen Jiandong reported that the deep-sea detector’s structure was nearly welded but would need at least four more months before its first test dive.

Fang Cheng resisted a mysterious call from the sea that had intruded into his consciousness and Inner Scenery World, then summoned the professor to investigate. Meanwhile, Zheng Hongxin and Chen Jiandong worried over the weakened Truth Society and its hope of finding the President in the Deep Sea Secret Realm.

• Zheng Hongxin told Chen Jiandong that the Noah Organization had suffered severe losses and was unlikely to attack the Truth Society soon.
• Zheng Hongxin urged Chen Jiandong to hold Yong'an Island, monitor the detector, and complete the Deep Sea Exploration Project before his failing health worsened.
• Fang Cheng meditated in his hotel room, resisted a gentle voice and an illusory sea, and entered his Inner Scenery World.
• Fang Cheng noticed ocean tides pressing against the boundary of his Inner Scenery World and suspected the Blue Phantom was trying to contact him.
• Fang Cheng summoned the professor through the solar mental network and asked him to appear before the Golden Throne.

Fang Cheng discussed the strange call he heard on Yong'an Island with the professor, who linked it to the Truth Society and a possible ancient ruin in the Changyuan Trench. The next morning, Fang Cheng and his companions sailed toward a natural coral reef.

• Fang Cheng heard the professor report that the Illumination Society and its Eastern Capital operations remained quiet, then asked about Yong'an Island and the Truth Society.
• The professor proposed that Fang Cheng’s strange auditory experience came from either bloodline influence or a meditation anchor, while Fang Cheng suspected a lingering bond with the Deep-Sea Sleeper.
• The professor explained the Changyuan Trench, the Sea Queen Goddess festival, and the legends surrounding the island’s waters.
• Fang Cheng and the professor surmised that the Truth Society’s crewed Deep Sea Detector was intended to locate an entrance to the Other Shore or retrieve something from ancient ruins in the trench.
• Fang Cheng ordered the professor to keep investigating the Truth Society and arrange twenty sealed, lead-lined metal boxes.
• The next morning, Fang Cheng and his companions boarded Pan Wendi’s yacht, the Sea God, and sailed east toward a natural coral reef.

Fang Cheng and his companions explored a coral reef, gathered seafood, and shared a meal aboard the Sea God before sailing to the Changyuan Trench to fish. As they prepared their rods, Fang Cheng said he was going down to get something, and Lin Chuqiao asked if he was diving again.

• Fang Cheng stopped the Sea God short of the coral reef, and everyone took a rubber boat to the diving spot and put on their gear.
• Fang Cheng helped Zhou Xiumei overcome her fear of diving, while Wen Xin explored with Pan Wendi and Lin Chuqiao gathered seafood.
• A blacktip shark approached the group but behaved gently around Fang Cheng before swimming away.
• The group collected sea urchins, lobsters, and snails, then returned to the yacht and ate a seafood feast prepared by Lin Chuqiao and Zhou Xiumei.
• Fang Cheng suggested fishing at the Changyuan Trench, and Pan Wendi steered the Sea God there.
• As Pan Wendi and the others prepared fishing gear, Fang Cheng said he was going down to get something, and Lin Chuqiao asked whether he was going diving again.

Fang Cheng retrieved the Ancient Remains he had hidden in a cave in the Changyuan Trench, then heard a familiar voice calling from deeper in the abyss. After returning to the yacht and telling the others he wanted to cultivate, he plunged back into the trench to discover what lay below.

• Fang Cheng dove alone into the trench and recovered the Ancient Remains from his hidden cave while Pan Wendi hauled them aboard the yacht.
• Lin Chuqiao recognized the remains and realized Fang Cheng had secretly retrieved the treasures during the previous Sea Festival.
• As Fang Cheng prepared to ascend, a familiar voice called his name and strange currents began pulling him toward the abyss.
• Fang Cheng used his golden light and heat to drive off the voice, then returned to the yacht with the last two remains.
• Fang Cheng told Lin Chuqiao and the others he planned to cultivate underwater, and they agreed to wait aboard the yacht.
• Fang Cheng plunged back into the trench, determined to explore the deeper abyss.

Fang Cheng descended into the Changyuan Trench, relying on his extraordinary physique and Water Breathing talent to pursue the ancient remains he believed lay below. When pressure began to overwhelm his body, he unleashed Primordial True Domain and continued toward the hadal zone.

• Fang Cheng decided to explore the trench because its depths might contain a vast source of ancient remains and energy.
• Fang Cheng used his strength, agility, and Water Breathing talent to descend past the sunlit waters and into the darkness.
• Fang Cheng passed one thousand meters and endured crushing pressure while navigating a powerful downward vortex.
• At four thousand meters, Fang Cheng's body began failing under the pressure, so he unleashed Primordial True Domain to shield himself.
• Fang Cheng continued his descent and entered the Hadal Zone after passing six thousand meters.

Fang Cheng reached the bottom of the Changyuan Trench and discovered an ancient city, luminous remains, and a strange passage that seemed to lead to another world. He chose to collect the remains and return to the surface, but the ruins began to shake as he prepared to leave.

• Fang Cheng pushed through the extreme pressure of the hadal zone and landed more than ten thousand meters down at the bottom of the Changyuan Trench.
• Fang Cheng explored the ancient city ruins and found numerous blue-glowing remains that could replenish his qi and strengthen him.
• Fang Cheng investigated a crater at the city's center and saw a spatial passage that swallowed a volcanic rock, which he identified as a possible route to Guixu and another world.
• Fang Cheng heard a powerful, seemingly non-hostile call from the passage but decided to postpone entering it until he had grown stronger.
• Fang Cheng picked up two luminous bones and planned to return to Lin Chuqiao and the others, but the ground and ruins began rumbling as he set off.

Fang Cheng witnessed the Ancient City’s formation activate, clearing the ruins and stabilizing a barrier against the abyss. He found the Silver Key, tested its spatial travel ability, and decided to postpone entering the Otherworld until his true qi had recovered.

• Fang Cheng endured the whirlpool as the City-Protecting Array activated, drawing seawater and sediment away and forming a blue barrier over the Ancient City.
• The formation drained the energy from the giant beasts’ remains, leaving Fang Cheng disappointed at the loss of their potential value.
• Fang Cheng found an engraved Silver Key beneath a fallen pillar and used his Omniscient Language talent to learn that it could open spatial gates.
• Fang Cheng imprinted a volcanic rock’s coordinates onto the Silver Key, opened a Light Gate, and teleported about a kilometer to the crater.
• Fang Cheng considered entering the Otherworld through the stable Space Passage but decided to wait until his true qi had recovered.

Fang Cheng used a dormant coordinate in the Silver Key to travel from the underwater ruins to a cave where the Truth Society was holding an Inheritance Ceremony. As the Truth Stone Tablet began flashing with blue light, the ceremony was disrupted by his unexpected arrival.

• Fang Cheng discovered an old mental link in the Silver Key and kept his newly recorded underwater coordinates as an escape route.
• Fang Cheng opened a space gate and traveled through turbulent space to a cave, where he appeared on an altar before kneeling members of the Truth Society.
• Chen Jiandong led twelve newly inducted elite members to the altar and explained the Truth Stone Tablet's origins and importance.
• Chen Jiandong and Zheng Hongxin instructed the trainees to connect mentally with the tablet to stabilize their minds and slow their mutations.
• The Truth Stone Tablet glowed blue, then flashed brighter and faster as Zheng Hongxin and Chen Jiandong watched.

The Truth Stone Tablet recovered its energy and opened a space gate that brought Fang Cheng to the Truth Society's altar. After seeing the key he carried, Zheng Hongxin and Chen Jiandong recognized him as their President and paid their respects.

• Zheng Hongxin and Chen Jiandong tried to contact the island's guard nodes, but the Truth Stone Tablet ignored them and displayed an expanding blue light in darkness.
• Zheng Hongxin led the twelve newcomers in prayers as the cavern shook and a powerful spatial fluctuation swept through it.
• The Truth Stone Tablet stabilized with its blue light restored, then opened a space gate and brought Fang Cheng onto the altar.
• Zheng Hongxin asked Fang Cheng where he had gotten his silver key, and Fang Cheng claimed a friend had given it to him.
• Chen Jiandong recognized the emblem on Fang Cheng's key, and Zheng Hongxin and Chen Jiandong knelt and paid their respects to him as President.

Fang Cheng was mistaken for the Truth Society’s new president after arriving with the Silver Key, and he played along to learn about the Society’s crises and President Su’s search for the Other Shore World. The chapter ended as Zheng Hongxin began explaining that the Other Shore World was a hidden realm beneath Earth’s oceans.

• Zheng Hongxin and Chen Jiandong recognized Fang Cheng as the Truth Society’s successor because he possessed the Silver Key and had activated the Truth Stone Tablet.
• Fang Cheng recognized Chen Jiandong from his meditation class on Yong'an Island and decided to pretend to be the new president while he investigated the Silver Key and the Ancient City.
• Zheng Hongxin described the Truth Society’s threats from Noah and the dangerous blood vessels backlash afflicting its members.
• Fang Cheng asked about the Other Shore World and the origin of their blood vessels, then falsely claimed President Su had entered that world six months earlier to pursue a plan to end the curse.
• When Zheng Hongxin questioned the timeline, Fang Cheng rebuked him and redirected the conversation toward the Other Shore World.
• Zheng Hongxin explained that the Other Shore World was not the Underworld but a mysterious realm isolated by a spatial rift beneath the deepest reaches of Earth's oceans.

Zheng Hongxin explained the Truth Society’s origins, the Bloodline Curse, and the Silver Key’s powers to Fang Cheng, who learned that the society mistook the key’s destination for a legendary gate holding the universe’s ultimate secrets. When Fang Cheng tried to leave, the desperate members persuaded him to stay for a banquet, though they continued treating him as their president despite his objections.

• Zheng Hongxin recounted how the society’s founder gained abilities after encountering the Sea Queen Goddess’s light near a gate in the Changyuan Trench, and revealed that Bloodline Ability users gradually lost their sanity to a curse.
• Zheng Hongxin explained that the Silver Key could guide them to the gate and, when paired with the Truth Stone Tablet, monitor Yong'an Island and help defend it.
• Zheng Hongxin described the Ultimate Gate as a secret rumored to grant access to the source of life, godlike power, and infinite wisdom, while Fang Cheng distinguished it from the Space Passage he had found.
• Zheng Hongxin, Chen Jiandong, and twelve new elite members begged Fang Cheng to stay and lead the Truth Society after he said he was leaving.
• Fang Cheng agreed to remain as a guest for a meal and gave his name, but Zheng Hongxin and Chen Jiandong promptly called him President Fang again.

Fang Cheng attended a lavish welcome dinner at the Truth Society headquarters, where senior members tried to treat him as their new president and questioned his background. The meal ended with the elders recounting how Su Jing'an once saved Yong'an Island from a monstrous sea beast.

• Zheng Hongxin introduced Fang Cheng to Feng Kehai, Wu Yingshan, and Zhao Lei, while the members repeatedly called him president despite his objections.
• Feng Kehai asked about Fang Cheng's origins, and Fang Cheng said he was an ordinary office worker from the Eastern Capital who liked working out.
• Zhao Lei challenged Fang Cheng to drink a toast, and Fang Cheng calmly drank without standing, prompting Zhao Lei to suppress his anger.
• Chen Jiandong and Zheng Hongxin changed the subject by praising Su Jing'an and describing how he killed a giant mutated octopus during a Blood Tide thirty years earlier.

Fang Cheng agreed to confront two Eastern Island attackers who had invaded the Truth Society headquarters, while the intruders brutalized the society’s guards and demanded Vice President Zheng Hongxin. The VIP elevator chimed just as they decided to seek out the society’s president themselves.

• Zheng Hongxin and Chen Jiandong urged Fang Cheng to lead the Truth Society and pursue the Undersea Secret Realm, but Fang Cheng considered repaying his debt without becoming its president.
• A battered guard reported that two Eastern Islanders had attacked the headquarters and were holding four patrol members hostage unless Zheng Hongxin came downstairs.
• Fang Cheng got up and went with Zheng Hongxin and the senior officers to confront the intruders.
• In the lobby, muscular Xiong Wulang killed a wounded guard and injured many others, while the swordsman cut off the patrol captain’s arm.
• The swordsman told Xiong Wulang to stop wasting time and find the Truth Society’s president, but the VIP elevator chimed.

Hattori Kyuzo and Momochi Yugoro of the Iga Clan attacked the Truth Society to avenge an old grudge, but Fang Cheng stepped in after saving Zhao Lei. Fang Cheng’s punch met Momochi’s, and the clash ended with bones breaking.

• Zheng Hongxin confronted Hattori Kyuzo and Momochi Yugoro, who revealed that they had come to settle the Iga Clan’s thirty-year grudge against the Truth Society.
• Hattori and Momochi mocked the Society’s weakness and demanded that its members submit or die.
• Zhao Lei attacked Momochi, but Momochi overpowered him until Fang Cheng redirected his momentum and saved him.
• Fang Cheng faced the two intruders and declared that they would pay with their lives for ruining his meal.
• Momochi activated Asura Blood Qi and prepared a destructive punch, but Fang Cheng crossed the lobby and struck him head-on.
• Fang Cheng and Momochi’s fists collided, and the sound of breaking bones rang out.

Fang Cheng effortlessly crippled Momochi Yugoro, then withstood Hattori Kyuzo’s ninjutsu and sword strikes. As Hattori’s poisoned assassination attack failed, Fang Cheng seized and began twisting his blade, leaving the fight poised to continue.

• Fang Cheng shattered Momochi Yugoro’s right arm with one punch and sent him flying, forcing Hattori Kyuzo to catch and shield him.
• Fang Cheng advanced on Hattori Kyuzo as the Truth Society members watched in awe.
• Hattori Kyuzo used the Four Purple Shadow Killing Formation to attack Fang Cheng from four directions, but the blades could not pierce his golden-lit skin.
• Hattori Kyuzo concealed a nerve-paralyzing toxin in black smoke and thrust at Fang Cheng’s eye with the Poison Dragon Drill.
• Fang Cheng caught Hattori Kyuzo’s sword between two fingers and began twisting the blade.

Fang Cheng defeated Hattori Kyuzo’s ninjutsu and killed him while protecting the Truth Society headquarters from an attack. The chapter ended with Zheng Hongxin approaching Fang Cheng, overwhelmed with gratitude and relief.

• Fang Cheng caught Hattori Kyuzo’s escape attempt, but Hattori used Substitution Jutsu to evade his grasp.
• Hattori unleashed Thousand-Blade Red Lotus Hell, directing hundreds of weapons at Fang Cheng, who walked through the attack unharmed and shattered the blades.
• Hattori split into four Shadow Clones and fled, abandoning Momochi Yugoro, while Truth Society members pursued the clones.
• Fang Cheng hurled four iron fragments after Hattori, striking him with three and killing him; the remaining clones vanished.
• Zheng Hongxin surveyed the ruined hall and approached Fang Cheng with Wu Yingshan and Feng Kehai, relieved that Fang Cheng had saved the Truth Society.

After Fang Cheng defeated the Eastern Ninja, the Truth Society’s officers pledged their loyalty and he agreed to help the group in dire situations while leaving its daily affairs to Zheng Hongxin. Three days later, Fang Cheng continued his vacation on Yong'an Island, tested the Silver Key’s teleportation routes, and showed off his newly enhanced driving skill while riding a jet ski with Wen Xin.

• Zheng Hongxin, Wu Yingshan, Feng Kehai, and Zhao Lei praised Fang Cheng, and Zhao Lei led the Truth Society members in cheering for their president.
• Fang Cheng declined Zheng Hongxin’s offers of guides and an exclusive hotel, but promised to intervene if the Truth Society faced an impossible threat.
• Fang Cheng tested the Silver Key’s passage between the Undersea Ancient City and the volcanic crater, anchored key coordinates, and stored radioactive remains for later delivery to the Jinshui Fish Market headquarters.
• Pan Wendi invited Fang Cheng’s group to Baishawan Water Park, where he raced a jet ski and Wen Xin asked to ride one too.
• Fang Cheng used Driving Intuition to steer a two-seater jet ski smoothly over the waves with Wen Xin, who delighted in the ride, before he returned with her to the boardwalk.
• Lin Chuqiao approached Fang Cheng at the water park.

Fang Cheng spent the day at the seaside with Lin Chuqiao, Zhou Xiumei, Pan Wendi, and Wen Xin before they visited the Sea Queen Goddess Temple. The chapter ended when a strange temple keeper recognized Fang Cheng and asked whether he was Fang Cheng.

• Fang Cheng raced Lin Chuqiao on jet skis, then took a nervous Zhou Xiumei out to see the mangroves while Lin Chuqiao watched jealously from shore.
• After lunch, Fang Cheng and the others rented an open-top off-road vehicle and traveled to the Sea Queen Goddess Temple.
• Lin Chuqiao prayed for a happy match with Fang Cheng, while Zhou Xiumei prayed for her family’s safety and Fang Cheng’s safe return; Wen Xin also prayed.
• Pan Wendi teased Fang Cheng about the women praying for him, and Fang Cheng told him to stop gossiping in the temple.
• A middle-aged female temple keeper approached Fang Cheng, stared at him, and asked, “Are you... Fang Cheng?”

Chen Su told Fang Cheng that the Sea Queen Goddess had sent him a message through her dreams about the loosening seal beneath the sea and the Silver Key. Fang Cheng decided to investigate the Other Shore World after the vacation, then concealed the warning from his companions and went with them to hang their wish plaques.

• Chen Su explained that she had dreamed of Fang Cheng and an ancient city beneath the sea, where the Sea Queen Goddess had shown her a door and a giant shadow.
• Chen Su relayed the Goddess's warning that the door's seal was loosening and that Fang Cheng's Silver Key was the only token that could open the passage between worlds.
• The Goddess instructed Fang Cheng to enter the Other Shore World, where he would find what he needed and learn the source he sought; Fang Cheng resolved to investigate the Undersea Ancient City.
• Fang Cheng offered Chen Su money for medical care, but she refused it and returned to her temple work.
• Fang Cheng dismissed Chen Su's story as a fantasy when Pan Wendi questioned him, then told Lin Chuqiao it was only a warning about tourists and valuables.
• Fang Cheng led Lin Chuqiao, Zhou Xiumei, and Wen Xin to hang their wish plaques beneath the old banyan tree.

Fang Cheng spent a holiday with Wen Xin, Pan Wendi, Zhou Xiumei, and Lin Chuqiao on Yong'an Island, while Zheng Hongxin learned more about Fang Cheng's background and his Special Search Team job. The chapter ended with Zheng ordering the Truth Society to keep Fang's employment secret, secure his loyalty, and use his victories to intimidate its enemies.

• Fang Cheng helped Zhou Xiumei and Lin Chuqiao during the climb to Sea-Viewing Peak, where the group admired the view and watched the sunset.
• Zheng Hongxin asked Chen Jiandong about Fang Cheng's outing and learned that Fang had grown up poor in the Eastern Capital after his father was implicated in a serial murder case.
• Chen Jiandong revealed that Fang worked for the Special Search Team as a medical employee, and Zheng speculated that Fang had a hidden plan and ordered the information kept top secret.
• Zheng said the Truth Society should offer Fang useful resources and support to keep him connected to the organization.
• Chen Jiandong reported that Momochi Yugoro had been executed and that the Iga Ninja might retaliate, so Zheng ordered the Truth Society to publicize and embellish Fang's victories to frighten its enemies.