Recaps

Fang Cheng pushed his Meditation practice deeper into the Seafloor Rift, discovered how consciousness and breath might work together, and absorbed a strange mist rising from the Abyss. As he meditated below one hundred meters, the mist spread across Yong'an Island, while Li Chengjun’s planned raid was interrupted by a school of scaled monsters swimming toward the cape.

• Fang Cheng meditated in the Seafloor Rift, experienced his body's inner landscape, and concluded that he needed to unite active consciousness with still breathing.
• Fang Cheng repeatedly descended deeper, eventually meditating below one hundred meters as grayish-white mist rose from the Abyss and restored some of his energy.
• The mist spread through the Seafloor Rift, warmed the surrounding water, and drifted across Yong'an Island.
• Li Chengjun prepared to attack the Truth Society Base with his team while Tang Dayuan stayed aboard the ship to watch the equipment.
• Li Chengjun's ship detected a huge school of dark-green-scaled monsters swimming toward the cape and the Abyss.

Chen Jiandong prepared the Truth Society’s sacrificial ceremony on a storm-lashed cape as the group sought to contact a sleeping higher-dimensional consciousness and obtain powers and treasures. At the Training Camp Base, stranded tourists encountered a strange, fish-like figure approaching through the dark lobby.

• Chen Jiandong ordered the Truth Society members to drink a medicinal broth before beginning their prayers on the cape.
• Chen Jiandong reflected that the Society’s ceremony aimed to contact a higher-dimensional consciousness and secure strange powers and treasures from the Seafloor Rift.
• Tourists who had returned to the Training Camp Base played cards while waiting out the storm after finding the building deserted.
• Lightning knocked out the duty room’s lights, and A Qiang said he had seen a water ghost in the lobby.
• The tourists saw a gray-green, web-footed human-fish figure approach the duty room, bringing a foul fishy stench.

Fang Cheng cultivated Embryonic Breathing in the Abyss, reaching Expert Level in the Breathing Technique and gaining new insights as his body and consciousness transformed. As he trained above a growing whirlpool, strange shadows rose from the depths and a group of fishlike humanoid monsters gathered around him.

• Fang Cheng entered Embryonic Breathing and cultivated in the Abyss for six hours, synchronizing his inner energy with the ocean's currents.
• Fang Cheng's Breathing Technique reached Expert Level, and he received an opportunity to synthesize an exclusive skill.
• Fang Cheng gained insights into Embryonic Breathing and the source of life, while his Meditation neared a breakthrough and his Spirit and Constitution increased.
• A powerful whirlpool formed around the submarine volcano, but Fang Cheng resisted its pull and used it to train his Pile Stance.
• Fang Cheng stabilized above the whirlpool as blue glimmers and strange shadows rose from the depths.
• A group of fishlike humanoid monsters converged around Fang Cheng and watched him as he meditated.

Luo Lie led an assault on the Truth Society’s base while Li Chengjun set a trap at sea to seize its salvage operation. Li Chengjun captured Feng Kehai, but Feng Kehai warned that the Society’s President was coming and the Truth Stone Tablet could track them on Yong'an Island.

• Luo Lie’s team killed the backpackers at the base, then crushed three mermaids blocking the route to the underground cave and ordered Black Panther and Black Wolf to stay with the wounded.
• Li Chengjun signaled the Fishing Plan and led ten Pursuers to board a fishing boat, where Feng Kehai revealed that he had captured A Jie and other Pursuers.
• Feng Kehai summoned dozens of mermaids to surround Li Chengjun’s team and claimed the Truth Society could monitor their movements at sea.
• Li Chengjun’s team released pale yellow gas that disoriented the mermaids, and Li Chengjun restrained Feng Kehai with his Super Gravity Field.
• Feng Kehai warned that the Truth Stone Tablet would track the Noah Organization on Yong'an Island and that the President was coming, but Li Chengjun challenged him to make contact.

Fang Cheng resisted a mysterious chorus in his subconscious while meditating in the Abyss Fissure, reaching Expert Level and gaining the spirituality fire skill effect. As he remained in samadhi, a mass of debris from the Submarine Volcano rose toward him, and its strange bones began to glow blue.

• Fang Cheng entered a deep meditative state beneath the sea and encountered an immense phantom and a hymnlike chorus in his subconscious.
• Fang Cheng recognized the opposing moo as the primeval vowel and resisted the chorus instead of using Heart of Steel to leave meditation.
• Fang Cheng endured the subconscious impacts, gained meditation experience, and watched his inner flame flare brightly.
• Fang Cheng reached Expert Level in Meditation and acquired the spirituality fire skill effect.
• A mass of debris spewed from the Submarine Volcano and rose toward Fang Cheng, while its strange bones began to glow azure.

Fang Cheng absorbed the Abyss’s strange blue energy while cultivating, healing his body and nearing a breakthrough. Meanwhile, the Truth Society’s ritual was interrupted, and Luo Lie led Noah Organization troops into the ritual hall.

• Fang Cheng’s Breathing Technique drew irradiated blue light into his body, where it formed bright points and strengthened his vitality.
• Fang Cheng’s skin healed as his physique improved, and azure energy gathered in his lower abdomen like an inner sea.
• Zheng Hongxin and the Truth Society’s ritual officiants discovered that the Lord had turned its attention elsewhere and interrupted their ritual.
• Zheng Hongxin saw Feng Kehai’s transmitted footage of a fishing boat under attack and prepared to respond.
• Luo Lie and armed Noah Organization troops blasted open the ritual hall’s Stone Gate and entered.

Luo Lie and Zheng Hongxin’s forces clashed inside the Truth Society’s cavern while Li Chengjun’s team searched the Seafloor Rift for Ancient Remains. The divers uncovered glowing monster bones and a naked young man in the Abyss, who opened his eyes and looked toward them.

• Luo Lie led Elite Hunters into the Truth Society’s cavern and fought Zheng Hongxin as their followers battled around them.
• The Truth Stone Tablet displayed an image of dark seawater and distant blue lights during the cavern melee.
• Li Chengjun forced Feng Kehai to cooperate in the salvage operation and sent A Jie and divers to the Seafloor Rift.
• A Jie’s team encountered mermaids underwater, then used Directed Infrasound to drive them away and reveal glowing skeletal fragments in the Abyss.
• A rumbling surge swept the Ancient Remains away and revealed a naked young man surrounded by mermaids.
• The young man opened his eyes and stared toward the divers.

Fang Cheng used his newly developed true qi to defeat the armed pursuers who attacked him at the Seafloor Rift. After killing nine enemies and driving the survivors back to their boats, he turned his attention to the interrupted choice of an exclusive skill synthesis.

• Fang Cheng discovered that his underwater training had greatly improved his attributes and strengthened the connection between his mind and body.
• Li Chengjun ordered A Jie and the other pursuers to kill Fang Cheng and recover the treasure.
• Fang Cheng repelled their gunfire with waves of vibration, then charged the group and killed two pursuers in close combat.
• Fang Cheng fired Waterdrop Bullets at the fleeing pursuers, killing A Jie and several others as they tried to reach the surface.
• Li Chengjun ordered the remaining teams to regroup after hearing what happened, while Fang Cheng practiced to settle his true qi.
• Fang Cheng looked toward the enemy boats and decided to focus on exclusive skill synthesis instead of pursuing the survivors.

Fang Cheng synthesized Breathing Technique, Pile Stance, and Gourmet into the exclusive skill Qi Gong, gaining enhanced poison resistance and defensive resilience. After speaking with nearby mermaids and learning that Noah Organization divers had been involved, he discovered that Water Breathing had evolved into a purple Epic talent with new powers over mermaids and enhanced combat ability at sea.

• Fang Cheng reviewed the synthesis conditions and chose Pile Stance and Gourmet, preserving Meditation for its potential.
• Fang Cheng confirmed the choice and merged Breathing Technique, Pile Stance, and Gourmet into Qi Gong.
• Fang Cheng examined Qi Gong’s inherited Poison Resistance and its new Evergreen Resilience effect.
• Fang Cheng approached the mermaids, communicated with them, and learned more about the night’s events and the surface situation.
• Fang Cheng confirmed that the divers belonged to Noah Organization, then saw Water Breathing evolve into a purple Epic talent that granted him authority over mermaids and increased his combat effectiveness in marine environments.

Fang Cheng gained an extraordinary enhancement to his Water Breathing talent and decided to repay the mermaids by resolving the trouble caused by his taking their opportunities. After finding and wearing a mysterious Stone Mask, he launched himself toward Li Chengjun’s armed pursuers and appeared on the sea as a seemingly bulletproof figure surrounded by mermaids.

• Fang Cheng realized that taking opportunities carried a responsibility to repay those who had lost them, and resolved to settle the trouble for the mermaids.
• Fang Cheng discovered a horned Stone Mask with red gemstones in a sunken chest and put it on, whereupon it contracted around his face.
• Fang Cheng spotted Li Chengjun searching from the surface and shot upward from the seabed.
• Li Chengjun ordered his men to fire at Fang Cheng, but a wave shielded him from the first barrage.
• Fang Cheng assumed a Horse Stance Pile while falling through the air, endured the gunfire, and landed on the sea atop a mermaid.
• The gathered pursuers stopped firing as Li Chengjun demanded to know who Fang Cheng was.

Fang Cheng broke through Li Chengjun’s force-field-assisted encirclement, killing Ke Ziping and the Pursuer Captain while leaving Jushi wounded. At the Training Camp Base, the Truth Society and Noah Organization’s surviving fighters watched Fang Cheng’s battle on the Truth Stone Tablet, while Luo Lie and Zheng Hongxin remained locked in a stalemate.

• Fang Cheng charged onto the fishing boat and killed four pursuers before Li Chengjun, Jushi, Ke Ziping, and the Pursuer Captain surrounded him.
• Li Chengjun intensified his force field as Jushi and the Pursuer Captain attacked Fang Cheng at close range and Ke Ziping threatened him with razor-sharp threads.
• Fang Cheng concentrated true qi into a Spinning Heel Kick and struck Jushi hard enough to send him crashing into the railing and spitting blood.
• Fang Cheng spat seawater infused with true qi through Ke Ziping’s thread net, piercing his heart and killing him.
• Fang Cheng roared to stun the Pursuer Captain, then smashed the captain’s head with a punch and turned to face Li Chengjun.
• At the Training Camp Base, wounded members of the Truth Society and Noah Organization watched Fang Cheng’s battle on the Truth Stone Tablet as Luo Lie and Zheng Hongxin paused their fight.

Fang Cheng broke through Li Chengjun’s psychic defenses and slaughtered nearly all the remaining pursuers. Feng Kehai and the Truth Society members hid in the cabin, fearing Fang Cheng would attack them, when a sudden explosion rocked the boat.

• Chen Jiandong ran toward the Training Camp Base after spotting fire and gunfire around a fishing boat.
• Li Chengjun used crushing and repelling force fields and launched objects at Fang Cheng, but Fang Cheng kept advancing through them.
• Fang Cheng smashed through Li Chengjun’s Psychic Wall with a punch, badly injuring him and sending him flying onto another vessel.
• Li Chengjun ordered the pursuers to concentrate their fire, but Fang Cheng used Blade Shadow to evade the gunfire and kill almost all eleven remaining pursuers.
• Feng Kehai reassured the Truth Society members hiding in the cabin that the President would arrive, just before a powerful explosion shook the fishing boat.

After surviving Fang Cheng’s attack, Li Chengjun ordered the fishing boat toward safety, but mermaids battered holes in its hull until it sank. The stranded pursuers were surrounded in the water as Fang Cheng watched from nearby.

• Li Chengjun treated his injuries with blue medicine and planned to contact Luo Lie once the ship reached safety.
• Repeated impacts struck the hull, and Li Chengjun ordered the ship to speed toward the harbor.
• The engine-room crew reported flooding, and Li Chengjun ordered the men to prepare the lifeboat.
• A huge wave capsized the ship before the pursuers could escape, scattering them into the sea.
• Mermaids surrounded the struggling pursuers underwater while Fang Cheng watched from the surface.

Fang Cheng escaped the sinking ship after punching through its hull, but his injuries and depleted true qi drove him to seek the Abyss. Lin Chuqiao and Pan Wendi prepared to dive for the Truth Society’s treasure, only for glowing bones to leap onto their yacht as Fang Cheng swam away beneath them.

• Fang Cheng assessed his injured arm and depleted true qi after punching through the ship’s steel hull.
• Fang Cheng spotted Water Police boats approaching the damaged fishing boat and swam away to cultivate elsewhere.
• Lin Chuqiao prepared to dive for the treasure while Pan Wendi warned her about the storm and sea monsters.
• Two blue-glowing bones leaped onto Lin Chuqiao and Pan Wendi’s yacht, and Lin Chuqiao suspected Fang Cheng was nearby.
• Fang Cheng dived toward the unreachable Abyss as Pan Wendi wondered whether he could swim.

Fang Cheng cultivated with the glowing ancient bones and restored his Dantian, while the Truth Society declared the masked rescuer their God Child. After the danger passed, Fang Cheng noticed a strange change in the spiritual fire in his mind.

• Fang Cheng had the mermaids gather glowing bones in a secluded underwater cave and used them to cultivate.
• Feng Kehai told the Truth Society survivors that President Zheng had identified the masked man as the God Child, calming the members and those at the cape.
• Luo Lie decided to retreat rather than face Zheng Hongxin and the masked man, leaving the cave with the surviving Elite Hunters.
• Chen Jiandong returned to the cave, and Zheng Hongxin told him to spread the God Child story and be careful around his grandfather.
• As the tide ebbed, Fang Cheng found his Dantian full of true qi and sensed that the spiritual fire in his mind had changed.

After training in the Seafloor Rift, Fang Cheng experienced strange voices during meditation and reflected on how his growing power affected his senses and reserves. He returned to Yong'an Island to collect specially made lead boxes for carrying irradiated bones, where he unexpectedly ran into Lin Chuqiao and Pan Wendi.

• During meditation nearly two hundred meters underwater, Fang Cheng heard a cacophony of voices and saw fleeting figures, then left the Abyss to recover at the surface.
• Fang Cheng watched the lighthouse beam cut through the darkness and considered how his spirituality fire might guide him through the fog of his subconscious.
• As dawn broke, Fang Cheng reviewed his gains on Yong'an Island, including stronger attributes, upgraded skills, and the creation of Qi Gong, while resolving to conserve his true qi.
• Fang Cheng returned to shore as the Sea Festival procession continued and police searched the island, then went to Xinglong Welding Shop to collect lead boxes for irradiated bones.
• Lin Chuqiao and Pan Wendi entered the welding shop to ask about their order, and they exchanged surprised greetings with Fang Cheng.

After the Truth Society dealt with the aftermath of the Sea Festival, Fang Cheng and the others left Yong'an Island and returned to the Eastern Capital. Fang Cheng reached home on January 24, just in time for his maternal grandfather’s surgery the next day.

• Zheng Hongxin told Chen Jiandong that Chen Hui would receive a painless death and asked him to help keep the Truth Society going.
• Feng Kehai delivered the Salvage Team’s inventory, and Zheng Hongxin ordered the ancient remains secured and the prisoners reserved for a blood sacrifice.
• Zheng Hongxin hinted that the girl who had helped them resembled an old acquaintance and told Feng Kehai to keep the matter secret.
• Fang Cheng, Lin Chuqiao, and Pan Wendi sailed away from Yong'an Island while Luo Lie brooded over his losses and the Masked Man.
• Fang Cheng returned to his apartment in the Sleeve Building, learned that Zhou Xiumei was away, and remembered that his maternal grandfather’s surgery was scheduled for January 25.

Fang Cheng waited with his mother and relatives while his grandfather underwent surgery at Ren'an Hospital, then practiced meditation during his overnight vigil and unexpectedly entered samadhi. After witnessing a terrifying vision of a Bronze Gate in meditation, he noticed a heavily guarded Rehabilitation Center and heard a stranger speak behind him.

• Fang Cheng brought breakfast to his relatives waiting outside the operating room, and the doctor reported that his grandfather’s surgery had succeeded but required intensive care observation.
• Fang Cheng learned that Li Dingjian had transferred two hundred thousand to Li Biyun for the surgery, though she suspected his business might be illegal and kept the money untouched.
• Fang Cheng stayed at the hospital with his grandfather while Li Biyun went home to rest, then meditated in the family waiting area despite its overpowering smells.
• Fang Cheng entered samadhi, gained three meditation experience points, and saw a mysterious Bronze Gate open amid eerie wails and black mist.
• Fang Cheng checked his grandfather’s monitors and noticed armed soldiers guarding a brightly lit Rehabilitation Center before an unseen speaker asked, “Strange, isn’t it?”

Fang Cheng learned that the strange patients in Ren'an Hospital’s sealed Rehabilitation Center had been rescued from the Western Mountains explosion and witnessed a terrifying incident. After returning home, he checked that the locked metal case beneath his bed had not been opened.

• A security guard told Fang Cheng that patients rescued after the Western Mountains explosion had been transferred to the Rehabilitation Center, where one patient had caused a bloody incident.
• The guard described black-clad officials removing an iron cage from the building before the military sealed it off.
• Fang Cheng heard a faint howl from the guarded Rehabilitation Center and suspected it was connected to the strange sounds he had sensed while Entering Samadhi.
• Fang Cheng exercised, visited his grandfather in the Intensive Care Unit, paid the medical bill, and left the hospital after Li Biyun returned.
• Fang Cheng went home, found that Li Biyun had cleaned the Sleeve Building, and checked that the locked metal case under his bed remained unopened.

Fang Cheng learned that Wen Xin had been unconscious for more than two days despite normal medical examinations, and he went to Jiangbei Hospital to see her. After his attempt to help her with true qi caused her to tremble, he suggested that her condition might be psychological and offered to ask a friend to examine her.

• Fang Cheng called Ma Donghe and learned that Wen Xin was in Jiangbei Hospital after collapsing at work.
• At the hospital, Zhou Xiumei explained that doctors had found nothing wrong in Wen Xin’s examinations, while Master Lin said her vital signs were normal.
• Fang Cheng examined Wen Xin and tried to channel true qi into her, but stopped when she began trembling in pain.
• Fang Cheng told the worried group that Wen Xin’s problem might be psychological and said he could ask a friend to examine her.

Lin Chuqiao examined Wen Xin and offered to treat her at home, explaining that Wen Xin’s coma might have resulted from overusing abilities awakened after the black rain. Fang Cheng took Wen Xin to Lin Chuqiao’s apartment, where she brought him to a strange, dark room covered in talismans and crosses.

• Lin Chuqiao examined Wen Xin at Jiangbei Hospital and said she could try to awaken her consciousness in a quieter environment.
• Fang Cheng agreed to take Wen Xin to Lin Chuqiao’s home, and he carried her out of the hospital while her family waited for news.
• Lin Chuqiao told Fang Cheng that Wen Xin was likely an ability user who had exhausted her mind, and warned him that the black rain had left people comatose, transformed, or behaving violently.
• Fang Cheng carried Wen Xin to Lin Chuqiao’s apartment in Cuihu First Estate and followed her into a dark room hung with blessing bells and covered in talismans and crosses.

Fang Cheng and Lin Chuqiao tried to reach Wen Xin's self-awareness through meditation, but Lin Chuqiao struggled to make contact. Fang Cheng entered Wen Xin's subconscious and found a frozen, storm-ravaged world where Wen Xin's faint consciousness appeared as a small figure walking away from him.

• Lin Chuqiao prepared her Meditation Room and explained that she would try to awaken Wen Xin's self-awareness while Fang Cheng acted as her guardian.
• Lin Chuqiao meditated while holding Wen Xin's hands, but she could only faintly sense Wen Xin's consciousness and needed an hour to rest.
• Fang Cheng offered to take Lin Chuqiao's place, and she instructed him on entering samadhi and searching for Wen Xin's consciousness.
• Fang Cheng entered a dark, freezing subconscious world beneath a cracked blood-red sky and found a faint white light.
• Fang Cheng saw a small figure he recognized as Wen Xin, called out to her, and watched her walk farther away without answering.

Fang Cheng entered Wen Xin’s subconscious and guided her away from the mysterious voice calling her across a blood-red ice field. After waking her, he realized his spirituality fire could act as a waymark and discovered he could reach Wen Xin through their new connection.

• Wen Xin wandered barefoot across a frozen landscape, torn between a voice calling her to her mother and a familiar voice calling her back.
• Fang Cheng appeared as a radiant figure and urged Wen Xin to follow his light through the darkness trying to hold her back.
• Wen Xin woke in the Meditation Room and joyfully embraced Fang Cheng, who told her he had entered her dream to bring her back.
• Wen Xin admitted she had secretly used her ability to pray for her mother’s recovery, and Fang Cheng told her not to use it recklessly.
• Fang Cheng and Wen Xin left Lin Chuqiao’s home for the hospital, and Fang Cheng discovered he could call to Wen Xin through their new connection.

After returning from Yong'an Island, Fang Cheng resumed intense training and used Qi Gong to manage lingering effects from underwater training. He reviewed his skill progress and planned to level up Squats, Handstand Push-Ups, and Tai Chi while considering future Qi Gong fusion targets.

• Fang Cheng completed a demanding rooftop workout, using his Breathing Technique and true qi to recover between exercises.
• Fang Cheng practiced Qi Gong and observed that it consumed and replenished true qi while treating hidden injuries and ailments.
• Fang Cheng checked his Panel and saw that his combat and fitness skills had gained experience, with Sanda and Qi Gong improving especially quickly.
• Fang Cheng considered Bone Setting, Acupoint Striking, and Tui Na as skills he could raise and later fuse with Qi Gong.
• Fang Cheng decided to prioritize Squats, Handstand Push-Ups, and the long-neglected Tai Chi.

After returning to the Global Elite Fighting Club, Fang Cheng was offered a lucrative role as its brand ambassador, though he planned to review the contract before deciding. He continued sparring and went shopping for training equipment, then received repeated calls from an unfamiliar number.

• Fang Cheng returned from leave and Manager Li told him that Chairman Shen wanted him to become the club's face, offering 60,000 yuan a month and a flexible contract.
• Fang Cheng decided to consider the position after reviewing the formal contract and headed to the training hall to continue working as a sparring partner.
• Fang Cheng trained with a client, gained Muay Thai experience, and planned to shop for more suitable fitness equipment.
• Fang Cheng left a sporting goods store without buying anything and rejected an unfamiliar call, but the same number called again moments later.