Recaps

After naming his mastery over the Inner Scenery World’s power of creation Divine Might, Fang Cheng left the deep-sea trench and practiced flying near Yong'an Island. He realized he had left the Silver Key behind, so he dived off a cliff to retrieve it before returning to the Eastern Capital.

• Fang Cheng reflected on his cross-world empowerment method and envisioned using believers’ wish power to grant them supernatural abilities.
• Fang Cheng named his authority over creation Divine Might and froze the rain before unleashing lightning and thunder in the Inner Scenery World.
• Fang Cheng’s aura caused the mermaids near the Changyuan Trench to prostrate themselves, and he withdrew it before launching himself toward the surface.
• Fang Cheng rose from the trench, reached the sea surface, and practiced flying over the ocean near Yong'an Island.
• Fang Cheng landed on a cliff, saw that his Visualization and Flight skills were close to leveling up, and realized he had left the Silver Key in his coat.
• Fang Cheng jumped from the cliff into the sea to retrieve the Silver Key.

Zhou Xiumei performed “Invisible Wings” in the National Newcomer Singing Competition’s Grand Finals Qualifier, while Fang Cheng secretly used the solar mental network and Divine Might to strengthen her emotional expression. Her performance moved the audience and viewers across the country, and the chapter ended with a standing ovation and Cheng Jiashu praising her.

• Fang Cheng brought Wen Xin and Douzi to the live qualifier to cheer for Zhou Xiumei.
• Zhou Xiumei took the stage and announced that she would sing “Invisible Wings,” a song written for her by a close friend.
• Fang Cheng linked his mental energy to Zhou Xiumei through the solar mental network to enhance the emotional power of her singing.
• Zhou Xiumei’s performance captivated the mentors, the studio audience, and viewers watching from home, while Douzi was moved to tears.
• The song ended, the audience rose in thunderous applause, and Cheng Jiashu stood to praise Zhou Xiumei’s performance.

Zhou Xiumei dominated the Singing Competition qualifying round and joined Cheng Jiashu’s team. Afterward, Cheng Jiashu told Fang Cheng that the military and Special Search Team were draining the yin energy needed to reopen the Space Passage in Ancient Locust Village, and proposed that Fang destroy their ruin entrances.

• Cheng Jiashu and the other mentors praised Zhou Xiumei’s performance, and she chose Cheng Jiashu as her mentor.
• Zhou Xiumei earned full marks from all four mentors, won overwhelming audience support, and qualified for the national top-twenty finals in first place.
• Fang Cheng congratulated Zhou Xiumei backstage, where Cheng Jiashu arrived and invited Fang to speak privately.
• Cheng Jiashu explained that the military and Special Search Team were siphoning yin energy from the Western Mountains to maintain their Space Passages.
• Cheng Jiashu proposed that Fang infiltrate the Western Mountains base and destroy the entrances controlled by the military and Special Search Team.

Fang Cheng learned that Utopia had sent Xiao Yuanwang to watch Cheng Jiashu and invited Cheng to join the Illumination Society. Cheng considered the offer, while the pair discussed the upcoming talent competition camp at Golden City Resort and its possible risks.

• Cheng Jiashu told Fang Cheng that he had identified Xiao Family Second Elder Xiao Yuanwang as the person who had infiltrated his villa, and suspected Utopia was behind the surveillance.
• Cheng Jiashu warned Fang Cheng that foreign experts were gathering in the Eastern Capital, and Fang admitted he had a blood feud with Utopia and offered to help if danger arose.
• Fang Cheng invited Cheng Jiashu to join the Illumination Society, and Cheng said he would think about it.
• Cheng Jiashu shared a new incantation for long-distance communication and told Fang Cheng that the competition's top twenty contestants would attend a two-week training camp at Golden City Resort.
• Fang Cheng returned backstage, took Zhou Xiumei, Wen Xin, and Douzi home in his Land Rover, and dropped them off one by one.

After returning home, Fang Cheng struggled with the hunger caused by his greatly enhanced physique and decided he needed more mutated beast meat from the Other Shore World. Ma Donghe told him that the Special Search Team was assembling a Joint Expedition Team to explore that world, and Fang Cheng realized his medical position could earn him a place without taking the combat selection.

• Fang Cheng encountered his wheelchair-using neighbor in the elevator, then returned to his apartment and reflected on how her features reminded him of someone.
• Fang Cheng’s intense hunger drove him to cook and eat a large meal, and he considered entering the Other Shore World through the stable passage near Yong'an Island to find better food.
• Ma Donghe told Fang Cheng that the Special Search Team planned a large-scale exploration and was recruiting a Joint Expedition Team after its advance teams suffered heavy losses.
• Ma Donghe said he had earned a slot by placing among the top hundred in the selection and urged Fang Cheng to join him in the Other Shore World for resources and mutated beast meat.
• Fang Cheng reasoned that his Medical Position could qualify him for the expedition’s roster without combat selection, and Ma Donghe asked him what the Other Shore World was like.

Fang Cheng learned that Ma Donghe was training to enter the Other Shore World, and he considered how official access could help him gather supplies as rival factions converged on the Western Mountains. A mysterious man recognized Fang Cheng on a news broadcast and formed a plan, while a group of wary diners reacted to a phone vibrating in their private room.

• Fang Cheng warned Ma Donghe about the dangers of the Other Shore World, and Ma Donghe described his combat training and hoped to team up with Hou Peng.
• Fang Cheng decided that official access to the Other Shore World could help him hunt mutated beasts, then meditated as he anticipated growing competition in the Western Mountains.
• A pale man in a hotel suite spotted Fang Cheng applauding Zhou Xiumei on television and called someone after learning that her training camp would be held at the Western Mountains Golden City Resort.
• Five hardened diners watched the evening news in a private room at an Urban Village eatery while a phone vibrated inside the middle-aged man's briefcase.
• The two burly men stopped eating, and Huang Mao reached toward his waist as the group reacted to the call.

Brother Tian's Red Devil Mercenaries accepted a bombing job from the Mysterious Organization while planning to protect themselves and prove their value. At dawn by the Eastern Capital coast, Fang Cheng completed his training and gained experience in visualization and Qi Gong.

• Brother Tian told Du Juan, A Kun, A Mang, and Sanchai that the Mysterious Organization had assigned them to plan a bombing in the Eastern Capital and promised a fifty-million deposit.
• Du Juan and A Kun voiced concerns about the job, but Brother Tian persuaded the group to proceed while keeping their options open and avoiding a direct confrontation with the Special Search Team.
• Brother Tian told the Red Devil Mercenaries to make themselves valuable so they could secure a future in Xia Country or choose whether to keep working with the Mysterious Organization.
• Fang Cheng meditated on a cliff before dawn, creating a still field around himself as he trained.
• Fang Cheng opened his eyes, released the field, exhaled a blast of air, and gained visualization and Qi Gong experience.

Fang Cheng planned to conserve the Silver Key, strengthen his skills, and deal with Utopia and the Illumination Society before traveling to the Other Shore World. At the Illumination Society headquarters, Black Wolf, Bao Ye, and their companions met with the group after returning to the Eastern Capital, and the name White Ghost drew them in.

• Fang Cheng decided to limit trips to the Undersea Ancient City to twice a week because the Silver Key was running low on energy.
• Fang Cheng planned to improve his skills and eliminate Utopia’s threat to protect his family and friends before seeking a way to recharge the key in the Other Shore World.
• Fang Cheng finished his cliffside reflection and hurried toward Haitian Garden to complete his morning workout before visiting the Illumination Society headquarters.
• Black Wolf, Bao Ye, and their companions waited at the Illumination Society headquarters and discussed the guards and the society’s intelligence network.
• Black Wolf explained that the group had grown much stronger after surviving the blood rain in the Inner World and had returned to the Eastern Capital to claim territory.
• Bao Ye revealed that an old man from the Illumination Society had approached them and offered the name White Ghost.

Fang Cheng, revealed as White Ghost and President of the Illumination Society, invited Old Wolf and his companions to join, explaining the organization’s mission and rank system. Lin Chuqiao outlined its departments, points, pay, and resource library, while the group considered what membership would offer them.

• Old Wolf and his companions discussed White Ghost’s role in the Illumination Society as Fang Cheng entered with Lin Chuqiao and Ye Zhi Ren.
• The visitors recognized Fang Cheng as White Ghost and learned he was the Society’s President.
• Fang Cheng introduced Lin Chuqiao and Ye Zhi Ren, then formally invited Old Wolf’s group to join the Society.
• Fang Cheng described the Society’s goal of sheltering aberrants, helping them with bloodline backlash, and pursuing coexistence with ordinary people.
• Bao Ye asked what the group could contribute, and Lin Chuqiao explained the Society’s departments, nine-level rank system, points, compensation, and planned resource library.

Fang Cheng assigned the new members of the Illumination Society to departments and welcomed them into the organization. After meditating at home, he visited Cheng Jiashu’s newly reshaped Mental Secret Realm and found its unusual setting surprising.

• Lin Chuqiao explained that the Illumination Society would support its members, and Fang Cheng assigned Old Wolf and Xiao Bei to Operations and Bao Ye and the others to Intelligence under Ye Zhi Ren.
• Old Wolf, Xiao Bei, Bao Ye, A Da, A Er, and A San pledged loyalty to Fang Cheng, who revealed his real name and told them to call him President.
• The new members celebrated their induction at a welcome banquet before Fang Cheng returned home and practiced Visualization, gaining only three experience points after more than four hours.
• Fang Cheng reflected on the growing Inner Scenery World and wondered whether he might one day restore the consciousness of its departed souls and interfere with reincarnation.
• Fang Cheng remembered Cheng Jiashu’s invitation, recited the incantation to enter his Mental Secret Realm, and reacted with surprise at the setting he found.

Fang Cheng visited Cheng Jiashu’s Mental Secret Realm and learned about the tragedy that shaped the amusement park. After Fang Cheng explained that the souls of monks from Lone Peak Temple had appeared in his own Secret Realm, Cheng Jiashu suggested he consult Zen Master Huiming, and Fang Cheng decided to visit the temple.

• Fang Cheng met Cheng Jiashu in his amusement-park Secret Realm and heard how his family had been murdered and how the park preserved his happiest childhood memories.
• Fang Cheng told Cheng Jiashu that the souls of monks killed by Jiang Chen remained in his Secret Realm as unresponsive figures repeating the same actions.
• Cheng Jiashu suggested that Zen Master Huiming of Lone Peak Temple might know why the monks’ souls had appeared there, and offered to introduce them.
• Fang Cheng returned to his Golden Hall, watched the monks sweeping in his Inner Scenery World, and resolved to visit Lone Peak Temple in a few days.

Fang Cheng and Cheng Jiashu visited Lone Peak Temple to ask Zen Master Huiming about departed souls appearing in the Inner Scenery World, but found him under attack by a group seeking a rumored underground palace. As the lamas prepared to fight the weakened abbot, Fang Cheng recognized them from the bamboo grove.

• Fang Cheng and Cheng Jiashu climbed through the Western Mountains to visit Lone Peak Temple and speak with Zen Master Huiming.
• Cheng Jiashu explained that the original temple had been destroyed after the Imperial Court accused it of rebellion, though Fang Cheng and Cheng Jiashu knew Jiang Chen had led the massacre.
• A gray-robed monk directed Fang Cheng and Cheng Jiashu to the Quiet Mind Residence, where they found three lamas and a pig-masked man locked in a mental contest with Zen Master Huiming.
• Zen Master Huiming defeated the visitors in the contest and refused to reveal the supposed entrance to Lone Peak Temple's underground palace.
• The pig-masked man and the lama leader threatened Zen Master Huiming, and the lama leader prepared to attack with the Dragon Elephant Prajna Art.
• Cheng Jiashu urged Fang Cheng to intervene, and Fang Cheng recognized the lamas.

Fang Cheng intervened when Roger and his companions attacked Zen Master Huiming, then effortlessly defeated Roger despite the Black Sect Revered One’s strength and dharma aspect. The fight ended with Fang Cheng turning his attention to the fat man in the pig mask, who pleaded that there had been a misunderstanding.

• Fang Cheng recognized Roger, Zha Xi, and Duo Ji as the Black Sect members he had encountered before.
• Roger charged Zen Master Huiming, but Fang Cheng caught his wrist and stopped the attack.
• Roger unleashed his three-headed, six-armed dharma aspect, but Fang Cheng endured its attacks and broke through its defenses.
• Fang Cheng seized Roger, battered him until his dharma aspect collapsed, and tossed him aside.
• Fang Cheng turned toward the fat man in the pig mask, who nervously claimed there had been a misunderstanding.

Fang Cheng drove off the intruders at Quiet Mind Residence, then told Zen Master Huiming about the monks who had appeared in his Mental Secret Realm. Huiming revealed that Lone Peak Temple’s predecessors had sacrificed themselves to imprison Jiang Chen and prevent a demon god from entering the mortal world.

• Fang Cheng forced the masked fat man to surrender, and the fat man fled with Zha Xi and Duo Ji carrying the injured Roger.
• Cheng Jiashu introduced Fang Cheng to Zen Master Huiming, and Huiming dismissed the arriving warrior monks by claiming the disturbance had been a discussion of Buddhist teachings.
• Fang Cheng described the gray-robed monks in his Mental Secret Realm, whom he believed were the souls of Lone Peak Temple’s massacred monks.
• Cheng Jiashu told Huiming that Fang Cheng had killed Jiang Chen and broken his domain of law, freeing the souls trapped inside it.
• Huiming explained that the Imperial Court’s attempt to seize Lone Peak Temple’s Ruin Entrance led a demon god to choose Jiang Chen as its vessel.
• Huiming revealed that Patriarch Fazhi and the temple’s monks sacrificed themselves to bind Jiang Chen, keeping him asleep and preventing the demon god’s descent for two thousand years.

Zen Master Huiming explained how the ancient monks’ consciousness seeds had taken refuge in Fang Cheng’s Secret Realm and taught him Great Brightness Zen Meditation to awaken them. Fang Cheng left Lone Peak Temple with the scripture, intending to practice the method.

• Huiming explained that the monks’ consciousness seeds had survived in an intermediate state and entered Fang Cheng’s Pure Land after he destroyed Jiang Chen’s Domain of Law.
• Huiming described how the monks remained trapped in a perception of the past and offered either defeating a projection of the Demon God or gradually cleansing their seeds with Great Brightness Zen Meditation.
• Fang Cheng accepted Huiming’s scripture and learned that awakening the monks could let them become guardians of his Secret Realm.
• Cheng Jiashu said that observing his mind had helped him settle old scores and sleep better, while Huiming recognized his progress.
• Fang Cheng discussed his Martial Path training under Ma Jianguo, offered Huiming help against future intruders, and gave him a business card.
• Fang Cheng and Cheng Jiashu declined Huiming’s offer of a meal and left Lone Peak Temple; Cheng Jiashu headed toward Golden City Resort while Fang Cheng planned to practice the meditation.

Fang Cheng used Great Brightness Zen Meditation to turn his solar true fire into purifying Buddha’s light, helping awaken the spirits at Lone Peak Temple and advancing his Visualization Skill to King Grade. He chose not to spend his new Spirit points until he could prepare for the dangers of crossing the hundred-point threshold, then left the Undersea Ancient City through a Space Gate.

• Fang Cheng practiced Great Brightness Zen Meditation in the deep sea and used its Buddha’s light to cleanse the spirits at Lone Peak Temple, where the monks began to awaken.
• Fang Cheng visited the Undersea Ancient City and found that the mermaids had rebuilt parts of the ruins and grown into a tribe of more than three hundred.
• Fang Cheng checked his Panel and learned that Visualization had reached King Grade, earning him fifteen Spirit Attribute points.
• Fang Cheng heeded the Panel’s warning and decided to save the points until his Physique exceeded one hundred and he had gathered enough life energy and resources.
• Fang Cheng opened a Space Gate with the Silver Key and left the Undersea Ancient City for the Eastern Capital.

Fang Cheng met with Lin Chuqiao at the Morning Star Import-Export Trading Company, where she reported on the Illumination Society’s finances, equipment, and plans for its bases. The chapter ended after Shen Wei, President of the East City Association, called Fang Cheng about the Golden City Resort.

• Fang Cheng returned from secluded cultivation, arrived at the company, and reviewed and signed procurement and cash-flow documents.
• Lin Chuqiao reported that the Society had secured more than five hundred million yuan and finished preparing custom heavy training equipment in the Jiangbei air-raid shelter.
• Fang Cheng and Lin Chuqiao agreed to use the shelter as a training base and later develop Ancient Locust Village into a secret base for new members.
• Fang Cheng and Lin Chuqiao shared an intimate moment before discussing how Old Wolf, Xiao Bei, Bao Ye, and the other new recruits were serving the organization.
• Shen Wei called Fang Cheng about the Golden City Resort, and Fang Cheng identified the caller to Lin Chuqiao as the President of the East City Association.

Fang Cheng and Lin Chuqiao discussed a prospective legitimate trade deal with Shen Wei’s East City Group and how its supply channels could support the Morningstar Trading Company and the Illumination Society. At the Golden City Resort, a covert team planted devices and surveyed security ahead of Fang Cheng’s meeting.

• Lin Chuqiao welcomed the East City Group deal, outlining how imported precision equipment and biopharmaceutical materials could grow the Morningstar Trading Company and fund the Illumination Society.
• Fang Cheng said the trade channel could also bring restricted equipment and supplies into Xia Country, and he expected the Other Shore World rift to provide resources for the Society’s planned Internal Resource Library.
• Lin Chuqiao planned lunch with Fang Cheng and the two girls, Wen Xin and Douzi, before he left for the Golden City Resort to meet Shen Wei.
• Fang Cheng reflected on his growing strength and the Illumination Society’s expansion as he prepared to leave for the meeting.
• At the resort, A Mang buried a wrapped block by a load-bearing pillar, Sanchai installed a signal bridge in the electrical room, and A Kun placed a camera above the rehearsal hall.
• A short-haired woman entered the security monitoring room invisibly, memorized the camera layout and patrol patterns, and stole a floor plan while a suited man watched the dancers on his laptop.

Pei Tianci and Du Juan assessed the resort’s security while preparing for a bombing job, and Pei Tianci began planning an escape route because he suspected their mysterious employer had a hidden target. Elsewhere, Fang Cheng and Shen Wei finalized a major business partnership, and Fang Cheng greeted the scarred bodyguard A Le.

• Pei Tianci negotiated a thirty percent increase in the deposit, while the caller threatened his crew and their families and demanded results within three days.
• Du Juan reported the resort’s defenses and showed Pei Tianci a blueprint with surveillance blind spots; they discussed targeting the rehearsal-hall annex while keeping the hotel as a possible fallback.
• Pei Tianci suspected the employer had a more dangerous plan than destroying buildings and told Du Juan to gather A Kun and the others to prepare their own escape plan.
• Fang Cheng and Shen Wei signed an agreement giving Morningstar Trading Company access to the East City Association’s secret shipping routes for importing and selling restricted goods.
• Shen Wei reflected on Fang Cheng’s extraordinary power and explained that he had offered the partnership to secure Fang Cheng as an ally.
• Fang Cheng asked the scarred bodyguard A Le whether his injuries had healed.

Fang Cheng visited Shen Wei at the Golden City Resort, accepted a Supreme Black Card and a luxury suite, then headed to the renovated shooting range to practice and improve his gun technique skill. He loaded a SIG P226 and prepared for the highest-difficulty moving-target lane.

• Shen Wei introduced A Le as the future general manager of the shipping company and asked Fang Cheng to guide him in working with Lin Chuqiao.
• Fang Cheng agreed to visit the resort’s renovated shooting range after Shen Wei offered him a permanent VIP card and complimentary access to the resort.
• Fang Cheng settled into the Presidential Suite, spotted the television production crew, and decided to wait until filming ended before visiting Zhou Xiumei.
• Fang Cheng presented his Supreme Black Card at the Underground Shooting Range, where Tiger Bro recognized him and escorted him to the VIP armory.
• Fang Cheng chose a SIG P226, requested the hardest moving-target lane, and began loading its magazine as his muscle memory returned.

Fang Cheng trained at the Resort’s shooting range, where he encountered a mysterious marksman whose seemingly perfect shots suggested psychic power. He later visited Zhou Xiumei on set and invited her to dinner, and she accepted shyly.

• Fang Cheng hit every ten-ring while firing fifteen rounds at moving targets from one hundred meters, impressing Tiger Bro.
• A gold-rimmed-glasses man fired a Desert Eagle one-handed, and Fang Cheng realized the man’s last two bullets had passed through the same bull’s-eye while the scoring system recorded a miss.
• Fang Cheng and the stranger continued shooting in an unspoken contest until the stranger left; Fang Cheng gained gunmanship experience and wondered if psychic power explained the man’s precision.
• Fang Cheng left the range and found Zhou Xiumei stretching in the rehearsal hall after filming; she told him Cheng Jiashu had already left for other business.
• Fang Cheng invited Zhou Xiumei to dinner at the hotel, and she agreed while blushing under the other contestants’ curious stares.

Fang Cheng spent a peaceful evening with Zhou Xiumei at the Golden City Resort, reaffirming his intention to keep both her and Lin Chuqiao close. Meanwhile, Pei Tianci reported that his group was preparing to carry out an operation at the resort the following night.

• Zhou Xiumei told Fang Cheng that she was adjusting to the Training Camp and thanked him for the songs he had written for her.
• Fang Cheng reflected on his close bonds with Zhou Xiumei and Lin Chuqiao and decided he would not choose between them.
• Fang Cheng and Zhou Xiumei shared dinner and walked beneath the stars; after she nearly fell, he caught her and held her hand as they continued walking.
• Pei Tianci told a caller that his group had infiltrated the resort, completed most preparations, and planned to move at eight the next night.

Pei Tianci revealed that the Red Devil Mercenary Group would secretly abandon the client’s helicopter escape plan and flee through the resort’s underground sewage pipes after taking hostages. As they finalized their operation, two East City Association men drove into the Western Mountains carrying weapons and began discussing local ghost stories.

• Pei Tianci told Mr. Ye that the mercenaries would seize the television crew, use explosives and hostages to delay the police, and escape by helicopter, while privately deciding not to trust the client.
• Pei Tianci gathered Du Juan, A Kun, A Mang, and Sanchai and announced that the Western Mountains operation had begun.
• Du Juan confirmed that the underground pipes led to a concealed river, and A Mang confirmed that he had secretly moved explosives into the resort’s sewage channel.
• Pei Tianci told his team that they would fake a retreat toward the roof, escape through the sewage pipes, and flee downstream after collecting the ransom.
• At two in the morning, Brother Liang and a young passenger drove through the Western Mountains with weapons and complained about being sent out at night.
• The young passenger asked Brother Liang whether he had heard the ghost stories about the Western Mountains.

A trench-coated vampire killed two men after they crashed their car into him on a mountain road, then hid their bodies and the wreck before returning to a cabin in the woods. There, he revealed that he had devised the plan being carried out for Lord Claude.

• Brother Liang and A Qiang crashed their sedan into a figure in a gray trench coat, but found no one at the scene.
• The trench-coated man appeared above them, attacked them, and drained both men of their blood.
• He put their dried corpses in the sedan and threw the car into a ravine before racing through the forest to a cabin.
• At the cabin, the fat man questioned him about hunting and warned that he could jeopardize Lord Claude's plan.
• The trench-coated man said he had devised the plan himself, leaving the fat man surprised.

Night Owl, Hai Zhu, and Revered One Roger prepared to trap White Owl at the Golden City Resort using the Hell Gate, a relic that could seal off space. At dawn, Fang Cheng and Zhou Xiumei jogged together at the resort, where his attentive gestures flustered her before he promptly gulped down a bottle of water.

• Night Owl told Hai Zhu and Revered One Roger that Utopia's capture operation against White Owl would begin the next night, with Lord Claude overseeing it.
• Roger voiced concern about White Owl's strength, but Hai Zhu said Utopia had assembled four S-Class Experts, a Super S-Class powerhouse, and mercenaries.
• Hai Zhu revealed that Utopia would use the Hell Gate to seal the Golden City Resort and trap White Owl.
• Night Owl planned to wake at four in the morning to set the final formation gates, while Hai Zhu and Roger remained awake in the cabin.
• At dawn, Fang Cheng and Zhou Xiumei finished six laps around the resort lake, and Fang Cheng helped her recover and wiped sweat from her face.
• Fang Cheng then drained a bottle of water in seconds, nearly making Zhou Xiumei choke after he had warned her not to gulp hers.