Recaps

Fang Cheng returned to the Eastern Capital with Zhou Xiumei, Wen Xin, and Lin Chuqiao, resumed handling his plans and checked the renovation of his apartment. As he watched the city from his future home, an unidentified man balanced on a skyscraper rooftop across town.

• Fang Cheng brought the recovered ancient remains aboard the Sea God and told Pan Wendi to guard them while he arranged their transport.
• Lin Chuqiao told Fang Cheng that Jinshui Fish Market would reopen that weekend as the Illumination Society's arrival in the Eastern Capital.
• Fang Cheng drove Zhou Xiumei and Wen Xin to Old Factory Street, where Wen Xin gave him a seashell keychain and asked about her lucky-star card.
• Fang Cheng inspected his unfinished apartment and learned from Manager Wu that the basic interior work was expected to be completed by early next month.
• As Fang Cheng watched the city from his apartment, an unidentified man crouched on a narrow steel pipe atop a skyscraper rooftop.

White Ghost learned that Fang Cheng was likely White Owl, the Truth Society’s new president, and became eager to fight him. Night Owl persuaded him to avoid a direct confrontation and instead devise a covert test, leaving White Ghost waiting for a chance to challenge Fang Cheng.

• Night Owl told White Ghost that Hattori Kyuzo and a Momochi Elite Ninja had been killed by the Truth Society’s new president on Yong'an Island.
• Night Owl linked the new president to White Owl, citing the Noah Organization’s defeat, the God Child’s attacks, and Fang Cheng’s movements and appearance.
• White Ghost concluded that Fang Cheng was probably White Owl and wanted to test his sword against him, but Night Owl warned that Fang Cheng might be near Super S-Class strength.
• White Ghost rejected a direct attack on Fang Cheng’s family after Night Owl explained the risks, then ordered Night Owl to plan a covert test.
• After the call ended, White Ghost demonstrated his sword’s cutting power and said he hoped Fang Cheng would not disappoint him.

Fang Cheng reviewed his skills and practiced Flying over YuLong Lake, using compressed air to launch and propel himself across the water. A sanitation worker and a jogger heard the blasts and glimpsed him, but dismissed the sight as a hallucination or a possible lake monster.

• Fang Cheng checked his skill progress after his morning workout and noted that Focus was close to reaching Lv3.
• Fang Cheng decided to practice Flying over the secluded waters of YuLong Lake to avoid damaging the pavement.
• Fang Cheng leaped over the lake, stomped on compressed air, and launched himself high into the sky.
• Fang Cheng glided through the morning mist and used another air-powered step to gain momentum.
• A sanitation worker saw a figure flying over the lake, but dismissed it as an early-morning hallucination.
• An old jogger asked the sanitation worker about the blasts and speculated that a demon beast might live in the lake.

Fang Cheng completed a flight training session over YuLong Lake using only physical strength, then returned home and prepared to resume work at the Special Search Team. He arrived at Cuigu Sanatorium with gifts for Lin Yue and Master Sun and approached the Traditional Medical Rehabilitation Department.

• Fang Cheng crossed YuLong Lake by kicking against the air and water, then balanced on a bamboo stalk as his Flight skill reached 65/100.
• Fang Cheng returned home, advised Li Zhenhua on his Tai Chi Cloud Hands, and ate breakfast with his family.
• Fang Cheng and Li Dingjian discussed preparations for the Illumination Society's headquarters, which was expected to be ready the following week.
• Fang Cheng left for work with local specialties packed for Lin Yue and Master Sun.
• Fang Cheng arrived at Cuigu Sanatorium and heard Lin Yue and Master Sun talking inside the Traditional Medical Rehabilitation Department.

Fang Cheng treated Lin Xu Hao’s spreading numbness by clearing cold energy from his meridians with Tui Na and Acupoint Striking, restoring movement to his left side. Lin Xu Hao began to recognize Fang Cheng from an old surveillance mission but dismissed the idea that he could be White Owl, while Fang Cheng advanced Acupoint Striking to Expert Level and gained the Blood Lock effect.

• Fang Cheng returned from vacation, gave Lin Yue and Master Sun island specialties, and reviewed rehabilitation patients’ records.
• Lin Yue summoned Fang Cheng to examine his cousin Lin Xu Hao, whose left side had grown numb after a mission injury.
• Fang Cheng sensed abnormal cold energy blocking Lin Xu Hao’s qi and blood, then used Tui Na and Acupoint Striking to clear it.
• Lin Xu Hao regained full movement in his left arm, praised Fang Cheng’s skill, and received advice to keep warm and massage two acupoints.
• After Fang Cheng left, Lin Xu Hao remembered seeing him during a surveillance mission but concluded he could not be White Owl.
• Fang Cheng’s Acupoint Striking reached Expert Level, and he obtained the Blood Lock special effect.

Fang Cheng examined Blood Lock, a new Acupoint Striking effect that could halt circulation and induce suspended animation, and planned how to combine it with his other skills to treat severe injuries. A week later, the Illumination Society gathered to celebrate the opening of its new headquarters, while Fang Cheng prepared to greet them.

• Fang Cheng studied Blood Lock and reasoned that it could stop bleeding, contain toxins, and immobilize a patient by suppressing bodily functions.
• Fang Cheng devised an emergency trauma procedure combining Blood Lock, Bone Setting’s Temporary Solidification, and Tui Na’s Hand of Rejuvenation.
• A week later, the Illumination Society prepared its new Morningstar Import and Export Trading Co., Ltd. headquarters in Jinshui Fish Market for its opening celebration.
• Xiaosa, Jiang Yun, Xu Kuan, Lark, Xiao Ya, Douzi, and Wang Li helped ready the lobby as Li Jie, Li Ran, and Li Fei organized security.
• Old Chen, Big Hammer, Eagle Eye, Monkey, Fat Tiger, Flying Shadow, Xu Hao, Pan Wendi, and Li Dingjian arrived and joked together before Fang Cheng’s opening.
• Fang Cheng dressed in a bespoke black suit in the reception manager’s office, and Lin Chuqiao entered wearing a wine-red skirt suit.

Fang Cheng and Lin Chuqiao shared a kiss before joining the Illumination Society for the opening ceremony of Morningstar Trading Company. After Fang Cheng officially opened the business, the members celebrated their new base and the organization’s public start in the city.

• Lin Chuqiao helped Fang Cheng prepare for the ceremony, and the two kissed after she stumbled into his arms.
• Ye Zhi Ren interrupted to remind Fang Cheng and Lin Chuqiao that the opening ceremony was about to begin, then reported that security checks were complete.
• Fang Cheng joined the gathered Illumination Society members and delivered a speech about their new beginning and standing together.
• Fang Cheng cut the ribbon and officially opened Morningstar Trading Company as the crowd cheered.
• The Illumination Society members celebrated the opening, and Fang Cheng and Lin Chuqiao secretly clasped hands.

Fang Cheng and Lin Chuqiao inspected the Illumination Society’s new headquarters, reviewing its staff, departments, security, and equipment. They reached the fifth-floor living quarters, where lights showed that two core members were inside.

• Fang Cheng and Lin Chuqiao arrived at the headquarters, where employees speculated about Fang Cheng’s identity after he and Lin Chuqiao entered.
• Fang Cheng checked recruitment with Jiang Yun and praised Wang Li’s careful handling of the organization’s finances.
• Fang Cheng watched his uncle, Li Dingjian, study import and export contracts before inspecting the secured Intelligence and Operations floors with Lin Chuqiao.
• Ye Zhi Ren reported that he was investigating the Noah Organization and Utopia, while Li Jie, Li Ran, and Li Fei described their surveillance and cybersecurity network.
• Lin Chuqiao showed Fang Cheng the radiation-shielded storage room, and Xu Kuan reported improvements to a modified assault rifle.
• Fang Cheng and Lin Chuqiao reached the fifth-floor living quarters and noticed that two rooms were occupied.

Fang Cheng inspected the Illumination Society’s headquarters and shared an intimate moment with Lin Chuqiao before questioning Xu Hao about Ancient Locust Village. Xu Hao reported that the well’s spatial rift had grown but remained unusable, and the chapter ended as he hesitated to ask Fang Cheng for something.

• Fang Cheng reviewed the headquarters, considered recruiting more members, and admired the office and rooftop terrace prepared for him.
• Lin Chuqiao dropped her professional disguise in private, and she and Fang Cheng kissed in his office.
• Xu Hao reported that nobody had approached the dry well, while its yin energy and red-lit spatial rift had grown substantially.
• Xu Hao explained that Cheng Jiashu had begun disguising the village’s isolation as a Resort Villa renovation and that Qian Dongming had offered funds and sought membership.
• Fang Cheng agreed to consider Qian Dongming for peripheral membership, and Xu Hao began to make a hesitant request.

Fang Cheng learned that a mysterious red-haired man named Claude had visited the Noah Organization's Eastern Capital Branch and suspected he was an envoy from Utopia. He ordered Xu Hao to investigate Claude, then prepared to absorb energy from the ancient remains to strengthen himself against the coming threat.

• Xu Hao reported that Noah had gone quiet but that Claude had secretly met with Feng Jincai and senior branch executives.
• Fang Cheng told Xu Hao to remain in the Eastern Capital and investigate Claude and Noah's movements.
• Lin Chuqiao told Fang Cheng that Shanks had recovered from surgery and was awaiting further instructions at the underground clinic.
• Fang Cheng discussed office decorations with Lin Chuqiao, who agreed to arrange them and invited him to dinner.
• Fang Cheng went to the Special-Grade Storage Room to absorb life energy from the ancient remains and restore his strength.

Fang Cheng trained in the ruins beneath the Changyuan Trench, using the abyss’s extreme pressure to improve his meditation and physical abilities. He continued pushing his limits outside the protective dome as a peaceful morning began on Yong'an Island above.

• Fang Cheng gained visualization experience while meditating in the ancient seabed ruins and resisting the spatial fluctuations near the pillar of light.
• Fang Cheng decided to exercise beyond the blue dome and used Primordial True Domain to protect his organs while preserving the deep-sea pressure on his body.
• Fang Cheng completed one hundred push-ups at the bottom of the trench and gained push-up experience.
• Fang Cheng swam to a nearby rock face and began pull-ups, gaining experience and a small increase in Constitution as dawn broke over Yong'an Island.

Fang Cheng returned from intense deep-sea training, then treated a Special Search Team operative at the Sanatorium. His Bone Setting skill reached Master Level, granting him upgraded Temporary Solidification and three Spirit attribute points.

• Fang Cheng returned to the Sanatorium after training under extreme pressure in Changyuan Trench and saw major gains in his skill experience and attributes.
• Fang Cheng reviewed the Silver Key's five recorded coordinates and considered asking Zheng Hongxin to increase its capacity.
• Fang Cheng went to breakfast with Lin Yue, then began his Sanatorium duties.
• Fang Cheng reset Liang Xiaotang's locked spinal joints with Bone Setting and advised him on managing his field-related strain.
• Fang Cheng headed to the third-floor ward to check on Lin Xu Hao, and his Bone Setting skill reached Master Level, upgrading Temporary Solidification and granting him three Spirit attribute points.

Fang Cheng discovered that Bone Setting had advanced to Master Level, granting him a new true-qi stabilization technique, then treated Lin Xu Hao’s lingering shoulder injury. Cheng Le Yi recognized Fang Cheng from the Old Factory Street surveillance and questioned him about the January murders, but he denied seeing anything unusual and asked whether the killer had been found.

• Fang Cheng received the Long-Lasting Bone Stabilization special effect and three spirit points, bringing his spirit attribute to seventy-four.
• Fang Cheng arrived at Lin Xu Hao’s ward and met Cheng Le Yi, his former acquaintance from the Old Factory Street investigation.
• Fang Cheng treated Lin Xu Hao’s lingering shoulder tightness and found adhesions around the joint, which he worked to release with Tui Na, acupoint strikes, and true qi.
• Cheng Le Yi asked Fang Cheng how he had learned his medical skills and whether he had practiced martial arts, and he explained that he had studied on his own and exercised for work.
• Cheng Le Yi questioned Fang Cheng about the January murders on Old Factory Street, and he said he had noticed nothing unusual before asking whether the killer had been caught.

Fang Cheng treated Lin Xu Hao, then learned that the Special Search Team was preparing an operation in the Western Mountains and selecting members for a mission to the Other Shore World. Back at his apartment, Fang Cheng restocked his food, including Mutated Crawling Beast meat, and began cleaning.

• Fang Cheng helped Lin Xu Hao recover, and Lin Xu Hao said he planned to return to duty soon.
• Lin Xu Hao told Fang Cheng about the Western Mountains operation and the selection for a trip to the Other Shore World before Cheng Le Yi stopped him from revealing more classified details.
• Cheng Le Yi warned Lin Xu Hao about breaching confidentiality, then agreed to submit his name for selection and told him to begin rehabilitation training.
• After Fang Cheng left, Cheng Le Yi told Lin Xu Hao that Fang Cheng seemed strangely familiar and unsettling, but she set aside her suspicions.
• Fang Cheng returned to his dusty apartment, replenished his freezer, took out Mutated Crawling Beast meat to thaw, and cleaned the living room and bedroom.

Fang Cheng inferred that the Special Search Team was preparing to enter the Other Shore World through the Western Mountains passage, while he planned to stay at Haitian Garden and improve his cooking skill. Meanwhile, Lu Tianming met with Utopia’s Hai Zhu, agreed to infiltrate the operation, and remained determined to judge whether Utopia’s leader was truly the Savior.

• Fang Cheng recalled how he had discovered the Western Mountains ruins and concluded that the Special Search Team had located the passage into the Other Shore World.
• Fang Cheng decided to spend the next few days at Haitian Garden using up the food in his freezer and training his cooking skill toward Master Level.
• Lu Tianming met Hai Zhu on a rooftop and warned him that the Special Search Team had raised Dongdu City's readiness level while preparing a major operation.
• Hai Zhu explained that Utopia had wanted the Western Mountains passage destroyed and ordered Lu Tianming to secure a place on the team entering the Other Shore World.
• Lu Tianming agreed to infiltrate the operation but demanded a chance to meet Utopia's leader and determine whether he was the Savior Black Tide sought.
• Hai Zhu flew away, and Lu Tianming watched him go, resolved to judge the supposed Savior for himself.

Fang Cheng pushed his cultivation beyond the protective dome and attempted to meditate ten thousand meters beneath the sea, where lethal pressure and strange mental interference threatened him. By activating Focus to divide his attention, he entered deep Samadhi and began cultivating in the abyss, surrounded by a growing golden halo.

• Fang Cheng trained in the Ancient City's ruins and decided to test whether he could meditate outside the dome in the deep sea.
• Fang Cheng passed through the barrier and used his true qi domain to withstand the crushing pressure and pressure differential.
• Fang Cheng split his consciousness to regulate his defenses and enter meditation, but an otherworldly blue phantom and worshipful chants invaded his mind.
• Fang Cheng activated Focus and divided his attention, shutting out the interference while maintaining his defensive barrier and entering deep Samadhi.
• Fang Cheng gained Visualization, Focus, Qi Gong, spirit, and constitution progress as golden true qi expanded into a radiant halo around him.

Fang Cheng surpassed the human Spirit limit and advanced Focus to Grandmaster while meditating in the Changyuan Trench. The Truth Society discovered him through the Truth Stone Tablet and recognized him as President Fang, just as he opened his eyes in the abyss.

• Fang Cheng advanced Focus to Grandmaster, gained 12 Spirit points, and surpassed the human limit as his spiritual power spread through the trench.
• The deep-sea mermaids gathered around Fang Cheng and behaved reverently beneath his golden light.
• The Truth Stone Tablet revealed the vanished Guixu Dragon Palace, and Zheng Hongxin identified it from the Society's records.
• Chen Jiandong enlarged the tablet's image, revealing Fang Cheng surrounded by mermaids at the bottom of the trench.
• Zheng Hongxin recognized Fang Cheng as President Fang, shocking the Truth Society members who watched the image.
• Fang Cheng slowly opened his eyes, sending two beams of golden light through the dark seawater.

After breaking past the human limit in Spirit, Fang Cheng survived a glimpse of higher-dimensional beings and gained powerful psychic abilities. He made the mermaids swear loyalty and guard the volcanic gate, then accepted Zheng Hongxin’s invitation to meet at the Truth Society headquarters.

• Fang Cheng’s Spirit reached 88, and his Focus Skill advanced to Grandmaster-level after his dangerous training in the Changyuan Trench.
• During his breakthrough, Fang Cheng resisted higher-dimensional corruption with his Martial Path willpower and received mental energy from the Blue Phantom.
• Fang Cheng tested his new consciousness force field, swept the mermaids away with a shock wave, and descended into the Undersea Ancient City.
• The mermaid leader offered the tribe’s loyalty, and Fang Cheng ordered them to live in the city and guard the volcanic gate.
• Zheng Hongxin contacted Fang Cheng through the Truth Stone Tablet and invited him to the Truth Society headquarters for an important meeting; Fang Cheng agreed.

Fang Cheng received a rare piece of Mermaid Silk and learned that crossing the heavenly-human limit required an immense, ongoing supply of life energy. Zheng Hongxin warned that those who could not replenish it were driven by unbearable hunger to prey on humans.

• Fang Cheng inspected the Mermaid Silk Zheng Hongxin brought and asked him to make a training T-shirt and shorts from it.
• Zheng Hongxin explained that the Truth Society had obtained the fabric from mermaids who had rescued its Third President in the deep sea, and that it might have come from the Other Shore World.
• Zheng Hongxin asked whether Fang Cheng had crossed the heavenly-human limit, and Fang Cheng confirmed that his mind had undergone a breakthrough.
• Zheng Hongxin warned Fang Cheng that maintaining a breakthrough required a huge, continuous supply of life energy or his body could collapse.
• Zheng Hongxin explained that desperate aberrants unable to satisfy their supernatural hunger eventually turned to hunting humans.

Zheng Hongxin explained how aberrants advanced through increasingly dangerous stages and how the Other Shore World could provide the energy-rich treasures they needed. Fang Cheng decided to prepare for an expedition through the seabed vortex and invited Zheng Hongxin to accompany him.

• Zheng Hongxin told Fang Cheng that eating people replenished aberrants' energy but contaminated their minds, while treasures from the Other Shore World offered a safer source.
• Zheng Hongxin explained that the Truth Society lacked a stable passage and had few otherworldly treasures, then hinted that Fang Cheng could enter the Other Shore World through the seabed vortex.
• Zheng Hongxin described the mortal-breaking threshold, spirit-and-flesh transformation, and boundary between mortal and celestial, then revealed the perilous Abyss-Class path beyond them.
• Fang Cheng said he intended to investigate the seabed ruins and visit the Other Shore World after making preparations.
• Fang Cheng invited Zheng Hongxin to accompany him through the spatial vortex, and Zheng Hongxin eagerly accepted.

Zhou Xiumei visited Morningstar Trading Company to care for the flowers and brought Fang Cheng a jasmine plant, where she met Lin Chuqiao and the two women exchanged subtle barbs. Fang Cheng cooked lunch with them, and his cooking skill reached Master Level, leaving the three to enjoy the meal together.

• Zhou Xiumei pruned the terrace plants and placed a double-petaled jasmine on Fang Cheng's desk as a gift.
• Fang Cheng returned from exercising with Lin Chuqiao, and Lin Chuqiao and Zhou Xiumei traded polite but pointed remarks over the jasmine.
• Fang Cheng suggested cooking at the company, and he, Lin Chuqiao, and Zhou Xiumei prepared lunch together in the fifth-floor kitchen.
• Big Hammer came into the kitchen, mistook the scene for a tense romantic rivalry, and fled with two steamed buns.
• Fang Cheng served five dishes, impressed Lin Chuqiao and Zhou Xiumei with his cooking, and received a system notification that his Cooking skill had reached Master Level.

Fang Cheng reached Master Level in Cooking and gained Gourmet Insight, an appraisal ability that also awkwardly classified Zhou Xiumei as an ingredient. Over lunch, he welcomed Wen Xin and Douzi, heard about Zhou Xiumei’s singing competition, and promised to write songs for her qualifier.

• Fang Cheng unlocked Gourmet Insight after reaching Master Level, then tested it on food and accidentally appraised Zhou Xiumei as a human ingredient.
• Lin Chuqiao brought Wen Xin and Douzi upstairs for lunch, while Fang Cheng learned Wang Yao had gone to visit her mother at the hospital.
• Fang Cheng encouraged Douzi to feel at home and invited both girls to eat lunch with them whenever he was there.
• Wen Xin and Douzi said they had promised to study together and hoped to attend the same school.
• Zhou Xiumei told Fang Cheng that her competition training was going well, and he promised to write new songs for her national-final qualifier.

After Fang Cheng’s spirit attribute surpassed eighty, his Inner Scenery World expanded into an island surrounded by a growing ocean, and he realized that merit and wish power could drive its evolution. He noticed Yila and the others in the Wasteland were in danger and prepared to test whether he could send power to believers through the Solar Mental Network.

• Fang Cheng meditated beneath the sea as a gentle golden radiance spread from him and awakened signs of life in the undersea ruins.
• Fang Cheng watched mountains rise and rivers form an expanding ocean in the Inner Scenery World, then found primitive microorganisms in its waters.
• Fang Cheng observed the monks of Lone Peak Temple repeating their actions without awareness and concluded that merit and wish power could help bring life to the world.
• Fang Cheng examined the stars representing his believers and saw Yila and the others’ lights flashing as if they were in danger.
• Fang Cheng decided to test whether he could send mental energy through the Solar Mental Network to strengthen believers or grant them abilities.

Kyle's hunter squad killed a Blade-Tailed Leopard and found a First-Order Blood Core, but Norton joined forces with Bloodfang Garr's raiders to demand the secret of Yila's Third-Order Blood Core. As the raiders attacked and Kyle and Loken fought to protect her, the Golden Sun's power surged into Yila, who stepped forward and commanded them to stop.

• Kyle, Loken, and Yila killed a Blade-Tailed Leopard, and Loken found a First-Order Blood Core in its skull.
• Norton arrived and then helped Bloodfang Garr's raiders seize the Blood Core and demand that Yila reveal the source of her Third-Order Blood Core.
• Kyle refused to surrender Yila's secret, and Gar ordered the raiders to capture the squad.
• Kyle and Loken fought the raiders while Pike turned invisible and urged Yila to run for help.
• The Golden Sun poured power into Yila, who stepped forward and shouted for the attackers to stop.

Yila’s psychic power surged after Fang Cheng empowered her, allowing her to defeat the raiders and save her squad. The group left the ruined block with the Blade-Tailed Leopard carcass, while Fang Cheng considered how to improve his cross-world energy transfer through the Esoteric Sect’s Empowerment Technique.

• Yila’s mask shattered as golden flames lit her eyes, and her psychic force crushed or drove off Gar’s raiders.
• Yila pinned Norton, then ordered Loken to kill him and the other wounded thugs after they threatened the squad.
• The squad discovered Gar had escaped, then carried the Blade-Tailed Leopard carcass away before nightfall.
• Fang Cheng reviewed how his energy infusion had strengthened Yila and realized her consciousness could not safely withstand much more.
• Fang Cheng recalled that the Esoteric Sect had long used a remote power-bestowing method called the Empowerment Technique.