Chapter Summaries

White Ghost confronted Night Owl over Black Shark’s recent losses and ordered him to investigate the Illumination Society and White Owl before taking action. White Ghost then left, intent on eventually challenging White Owl, while Night Owl remained fearful of the threats facing Black Shark in Eastern Capital.

• White Ghost arrived at Night Owl’s suite 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 killers vanished while secretly pursuing three defectors who had stolen a scroll listing Black Shark sleeper agents.
• Night Owl reported that the defectors may have acted for the Illumination Society, whose president had demonstrated formidable power, and warned it might conceal a Super S-Class fighter.
• White Ghost said Utopia’s plans in Eastern Capital took priority and ordered Night Owl to investigate the Illumination Society and White Owl before deciding how to respond.
• White Ghost declared that he wanted to fight the serial killer White Owl, then vanished using optical-invisibility nanomaterials.
• Night Owl drank alone and lamented that leading Black Shark had become unbearable.

Fang Cheng used his new Hand of Rejuvenation effect, enhanced by True Qi, to ease Gu Weiping’s back injury and discovered its potential for treatment and combat. After leaving the sanatorium, he told Lin Yue he planned to take his younger sister to Yong'an Island during his days off.

• Fang Cheng treated Gu Weiping’s chronic back strain, allowing him to sit up and move without pain, then stopped him from playing basketball before he had recovered.
• Gu Weiping learned Fang Cheng was from Qinghe City and offered to arrange top-level hospital care for Fang Cheng’s grandfather if his condition changed.
• Fang Cheng gained tui na experience and examined Hand of Rejuvenation, realizing that True Qi could greatly strengthen its ability to restore damaged muscles.
• Fang Cheng returned to the rehabilitation department and told Lin Yue that he planned to take his younger sister to Yong'an Island for a vacation.

Fang Cheng and his companions traveled by yacht to Yong'an Island, where Pan Wendi recalled how Fang Cheng had saved him and Lin Chuqiao from the Noah Organization. After settling into their hotel suite, Fang Cheng examined his depleted dantian and revealed that he had come to the island for an important purpose.

• Pan Wendi took Fang Cheng, Wen Xin, Lin Chuqiao, and Zhou Xiumei to Yong'an Island aboard his yacht.
• Lin Chuqiao joined Zhou Xiumei on deck and drew her into a conversation while Fang Cheng stayed out of their rivalry.
• The group arrived at Yong'an Island, and Pan Wendi thanked Fang Cheng for saving him and Lin Chuqiao from the Noah Organization.
• Fang Cheng and the others checked into a seaside resort hotel and brought their luggage to their rooms.
• Fang Cheng sensed that his Sea of Qi had fallen to less than a quarter of its peak and revealed that he had come to the island for an important matter.

After returning to Yong'an Island, Fang Cheng planned to recover the Ancient Remains hidden in an undersea cave so he could replenish his depleted true qi. He spent the evening enjoying a seafood meal and beach outing with his companions, then slipped away to order lead boxes for the salvage.

• Fang Cheng recalled his recent battles and realized that conventional methods would restore his depleted true qi too slowly, so he decided to retrieve the Ancient Remains beneath Yong'an Island.
• Fang Cheng took Zhou Xiumei, Wen Xin, Lin Chuqiao, and Pan Wendi to a seafood stall, where they shared a meal.
• Lin Chuqiao bought Wen Xin a Swallow Kite, and Fang Cheng helped the girl fly it on the beach.
• Pan Wendi played in the shallow water with Wen Xin while Zhou Xiumei and Lin Chuqiao watched from shore.
• Fang Cheng told the women he was buying drinks, then headed to a nearby blacksmith shop to order thickened Lead Boxes for the undersea salvage.

Fang Cheng learned that the Truth Society was helping build a deep-sea detector that could threaten the secret in the trench, and he devised a temporary plan to store the recovered remains without a lead box. Belowground, Zheng Hongxin and Chen Jiandong discussed the Society’s failing stone tablet, Zheng’s worsening mutation, and their hope that the detector would locate the missing President.

• Fang Cheng learned from the grocery store owner that the Truth Society had recruited local craftsmen, including Li A-Xing, to help build a deep-sea detector with Industrial University.
• Fang Cheng suspected the detector was meant to find the secret in the trench and planned to recover the remains before it entered the water, using Pan Wendi’s yacht for temporary containment.
• Zheng Hongxin told Chen Jiandong that the Truth Stone Tablet was losing its energy and that he had failed to find Ancient Remains strong enough to nourish it.
• Zheng Hongxin said the missing President was alive and had entered the underwater Secret Realm to seek a way to remove the bloodline curse.
• Chen Jiandong reported that the detector’s main structure was nearing completion, but testing meant its first deep-sea dive would take at least four more months.

Chen Jiandong and Zheng Hongxin discussed the Truth Society’s weakened position and their hopes for the Deep Sea Exploration Project as Fang Cheng encountered a mysterious oceanic presence inside his Inner Scenery World. He summoned the professor to investigate, leaving the source of the tides unresolved.

• Zheng Hongxin told Chen Jiandong that the Noah Organization had suffered major losses and would likely avoid confronting the Truth Society while it investigated their supposed access to the Secret Realm.
• Zheng Hongxin urged Chen Jiandong to guard Yong'an Island and advance the Deep Sea Exploration Project, while Chen worried that Zheng’s failing health and the draining Truth Stone Tablet left the Truth Society close to collapse.
• While meditating at the hotel, Fang Cheng resisted a gentle, oceanic call with his golden light and entered his Inner Scenery World.
• Fang Cheng found that the tides had reached the edge of his Inner Scenery World and wondered whether Blue Phantom was trying to contact him, but he avoided touching the seawater.
• Fang Cheng recalled that the same voice had nearly overcome him during an earlier meditation and summoned the professor through the Solar Mental Network.

Fang Cheng learned that the Truth Society might be searching the Changyuan Trench for an entrance to the Other Shore or an ancient ruin, and he ordered the professor to investigate them and arrange special lead-lined boxes. The next morning, Fang Cheng and his companions sailed from Yong'an Island toward a coral reef, with Pan Wendi announcing that they were nearly there.

• The professor briefed Fang Cheng on the Illumination Society’s quiet operations and explained Yong'an Island’s history and the Truth and Meditation Co-cultivation Society.
• Fang Cheng told the professor about hearing a woman’s call while meditating, then concluded it might be connected to the deep-sea sleeper he had encountered in the Truth Society’s meditation hall.
• The professor described the Changyuan Trench and the Sea Festival, then suggested the Truth Society’s deep-sea detector project was a cover for seeking an Other Shore passage or ancient ruins.
• Fang Cheng ordered the professor to gather intelligence on the Truth Society and commission twenty sealed, lead-lined metal boxes.
• The next morning, Fang Cheng and his companions boarded Pan Wendi’s yacht, Sea God, and sailed toward the island’s undeveloped coral reefs.
• Pan Wendi called out that they were almost at their destination.

Fang Cheng and the others dove at a coral reef, gathered seafood, and shared a meal aboard the Sea God before sailing to Changyuan Trench to fish. As the group prepared their rods, Fang Cheng announced he planned to go underwater again, and Lin Chuqiao asked if he was diving.

• Fang Cheng and Pan Wendi anchored the Sea God away from the coral reef, and the group took a rubber boat to the diving site.
• Fang Cheng helped Zhou Xiumei overcome her fear underwater while the others collected sea urchins, lobsters, and conches.
• A Blacktip Shark approached the divers and acted tame around Fang Cheng before swimming back toward the deep sea.
• The group returned to the yacht, prepared their catch, and ate a seafood feast before choosing Changyuan Trench as their afternoon destination.
• At Changyuan Trench, Pan Wendi brought out fishing gear while Fang Cheng said he planned to go underwater, prompting Lin Chuqiao to ask if he was diving again.

Fang Cheng retrieved the Ancient Remains he had hidden in the trench, but a familiar voice and strange currents called to him from deeper below. After returning the remains to the yacht, he told his companions he would cultivate underwater and plunged back into the abyss to discover what lay beneath it.

• Fang Cheng dived alone to a cave in the Changyuan Trench and found the nineteen Ancient Remains he had stored there.
• Pan Wendi lowered a cable from the yacht, and he and Lin Chuqiao hauled up the glowing remains as Zhou Xiumei and Wen Xin kept their distance from the Energy Radiation.
• Lin Chuqiao recognized the Ancient Remains as the treasures Fang Cheng had secretly recovered during the previous Sea Festival.
• After Fang Cheng emptied the cave, a familiar voice called his name and strange currents tugged him toward the trench's depths, so he used golden light to escape to the surface.
• Fang Cheng told his companions he would cultivate underwater, and they agreed to wait on the yacht as he dived deeper into the abyss.

Fang Cheng descended into Changyuan Trench to seek the source of the Ancient Remains and investigate the mysterious call he had heard. His body began to strain under the abyssal pressure, so he released his Primordial True Domain and continued toward the Hadal Zone.

• Fang Cheng recalled the mysterious call and concluded that the trench might contain a ruin or a source of Ancient Remains that could supply the Life Energy he needed.
• Fang Cheng used his extraordinary physique, Water Breathing, and other abilities to dive rapidly through the sunlit waters and into the deep sea.
• Fang Cheng passed through the thermocline and descended into darkness, using mental perception to navigate past cliffs and deep-sea predators.
• Fang Cheng reached depths of one thousand meters and then followed a powerful descending vortex while avoiding the trench walls.
• Fang Cheng's body began to fail under the pressure at four thousand meters, so he unleashed his Primordial True Domain to form a golden qi barrier.
• Fang Cheng continued descending and entered the Hadal Zone after passing six thousand meters.

Fang Cheng reached the bottom of the Changyuan Trench and discovered an ancient city filled with glowing remains and a spatial passage resembling the legendary Guixu. He chose to collect remains before investigating the passage, but the ruins began to shake as he prepared to leave.

• Fang Cheng forced his way through the Hadal Zone’s crushing pressure and landed more than ten thousand meters down at the bottom of the Changyuan Trench.
• Fang Cheng found the ruins of an ancient city and spotted blue-glowing Ancient Remains scattered among enormous skeletons.
• Fang Cheng investigated a crater at the city’s center and watched a rock vanish into a spatial anomaly he identified as Guixu.
• Fang Cheng heard the mysterious call grow stronger but decided to gather the Ancient Remains before entering the passage to the Other Shore World.
• Fang Cheng picked up two glowing bones and prepared to swim upward, but the ground beneath him began to shake.

Fang Cheng witnessed the Ancient City's formation lift the surrounding seawater and reveal the ruins, while draining the energy from the behemoth remains. He discovered the Silver Key, used it to teleport a short distance, and decided to wait until his True Qi recovered before attempting to enter the Other Shore World.

• Fang Cheng withstood the whirlpool as the Ancient City's formation activated, lifted the seawater, and formed a barrier that stabilized the space passage.
• Fang Cheng explored the exposed city and found that the formation had drained the energy from the behemoth remains.
• Fang Cheng discovered a silver key in a ruined side hall and used his Omniscient Language talent to learn that it could open space gates.
• Fang Cheng tested the Silver Key by teleporting to a volcanic rock about a kilometer away.
• Fang Cheng considered entering the Other Shore World through the stabilized passage but postponed the attempt until his True Qi recovered.

Fang Cheng used the Silver Key’s lingering coordinate link to teleport from the underwater ruins to a cavern where the Truth Society was holding an Inheritance Ceremony. As the twelve new members began connecting with the Truth Stone Tablet, its blue light flared and flickered, interrupting the ceremony.

• Fang Cheng discovered an old Mental Link in the Silver Key and chose to keep his underwater coordinates as an escape route.
• Fang Cheng opened a Space Gate to the old coordinate and arrived on the altar in an underground cavern, among kneeling members of the Truth Society.
• Chen Jiandong led twelve newly advanced members into the cavern and explained the Truth Society’s history and the stone tablet’s origins.
• Zheng Hongxin took charge of the Inheritance Ceremony, while Chen Jiandong explained that connecting to the tablet could anchor the trainees’ minds and slow mutation.
• The twelve trainees began forming Mental Connections with the Truth Stone Tablet, whose blue light suddenly brightened and flickered.

During the Truth Society’s ceremony, the Truth Stone Tablet surged with energy and opened a Space Gate through which Fang Cheng arrived holding a silver key. Zheng Hongxin and Chen Jiandong recognized the key’s emblem and knelt to pay their respects to Fang Cheng as their President.

• Zheng Hongxin stopped the newcomers’ ceremony and joined Chen Jiandong in trying to inspect the Truth Stone Tablet, but its unknown function blocked their commands.
• Zheng Hongxin led the newcomers in prayer as the tablet erupted with spatial pressure, then stabilized with much of its energy restored.
• The Truth Stone Tablet opened a Space Gate, and Fang Cheng stepped through onto the altar with a silver key in hand.
• Zheng Hongxin asked Fang Cheng where the key came from, and Fang Cheng claimed an unnamed friend had given it to him.
• Chen Jiandong recognized the key’s emblem, and Zheng Hongxin and Chen Jiandong knelt and declared their respects to the President.

Fang Cheng was mistaken for the successor to the Truth Society’s missing president and decided to play along to learn about the Silver Key and the Other Shore World. After inventing a story about President Su, he redirected the elders’ questions and heard that the Other Shore World lay beneath Earth’s deepest seas, beyond spatial faults.

• Zheng Hongxin and Chen Jiandong bowed to Fang Cheng, convinced the Silver Key and his arrival proved he was the Truth Society’s new president.
• Chen Jiandong recognized Fang Cheng as a former student from the Meditation Class on Yong'an Island, but Fang Cheng pretended not to know him.
• Zheng Hongxin described the Truth Society’s threats from the Noah organization and the bloodline’s physical and mental erosion, then asked Fang Cheng to take charge.
• Fang Cheng asked about the Other Shore World and President Su, then falsely claimed Su had entered that world to end the bloodline curse.
• When Zheng Hongxin questioned the timeline of Fang Cheng’s story, Fang Cheng rebuked him and asked for an explanation of the Other Shore World.
• Zheng Hongxin explained that the Other Shore World was a mysterious realm beneath Earth’s deepest seas, separated by spatial faults.

Zheng Hongxin explained the Truth Society’s origins, its Bloodline Curse, and the Silver Key’s powers to Fang Cheng, who learned that the society believed he was its new president. Though Fang Cheng insisted he was only a guest, he agreed to stay for a meal, and Zheng Hongxin and Chen Jiandong immediately began calling him President Fang.

• Zheng Hongxin told Fang Cheng that the Truth Society’s powers came from a glowing door beneath the Changyuan Trench and that awakened members eventually suffered a soul-based Curse.
• Zheng Hongxin explained that the Silver Key could locate the door, teleport its bearer, and work with the Truth Stone Tablet to monitor Yong'an Island and strike enemies.
• Zheng Hongxin revealed that the Ultimate Gate was a secret passed down among presidents, said to lead to the source of life and the ultimate secret of the universe.
• After Zheng Hongxin and Chen Jiandong described the Truth Society’s situation, Fang Cheng tried to leave, but they and the twelve new members pleaded with him to stay.
• Zheng Hongxin persuaded Fang Cheng to remain as a guest for a meal, and Fang Cheng gave his real name.
• Zheng Hongxin and Chen Jiandong praised Fang Cheng’s name and ushered him toward the banquet while addressing him as President Fang despite his objections.

Fang Cheng attended a welcoming banquet at Truth Society headquarters, where its senior members tried to treat him as their new president and probe his background. As they recounted Su Jing'an’s legendary victory against a giant octopus, they left Fang Cheng facing the Society’s expectations and reverence for its former leader.

• Zheng Hongxin introduced Fang Cheng to senior members Feng Kehai, Wu Yingshan, and Zhao Lei, while they continued calling him president despite his objection.
• Fang Cheng ate and drank with the Society’s leaders, then told them he was an ordinary office worker from the Eastern Capital with ordinary parents.
• Wu Yingshan questioned Fang Cheng about his abilities, and Zhao Lei challenged him to drink while insisting that the Silver Key made him the new president.
• Chen Jiandong and Zheng Hongxin turned the conversation to Su Jing'an and described how he had saved Yong'an Island from a giant octopus during a Blood Tide thirty years earlier.

Fang Cheng agreed to confront the attackers who had stormed the Truth Society’s headquarters, giving its leaders a chance to see his abilities. Downstairs, two Japanese fighters defeated the society’s guards and demanded to see its president just as Fang Cheng arrived.

• Zheng Hongxin and Chen Jiandong urged Fang Cheng to lead the Truth Society and continue President Su’s search for the underwater Secret Realm, but Fang Cheng planned only to help repay his debt to them.
• A guard reported that two Japanese men had invaded the headquarters, injured several patrol members, and demanded that Zheng Hongxin come downstairs.
• Fang Cheng agreed to go to the lobby and see who had interrupted their meal.
• The muscular Xiong Wulang crushed the guards’ resistance, while the swordsman cut off the guard captain’s arm and insulted the Truth Society.
• The swordsman grew tired of waiting for the society’s president, and the VIP elevator chimed as he said they would find him themselves.

Hattori Kyuzo and Momochi Yugoro attacked the Truth Society headquarters to avenge a defeat from thirty years earlier, but Fang Cheng stepped in after Momochi overwhelmed Zhao Lei. Fang Cheng’s punch met Momochi’s head-on, and the sound of Momochi’s bones breaking left the fight unresolved.

• Zheng Hongxin confronted Hattori Kyuzo and Momochi Yugoro, who identified themselves as Iga Clan members seeking revenge for President Su’s defeat of Hattori Kenji.
• Hattori Kyuzo and Momochi Yugoro threatened to destroy the Truth Society and make it their vassal, prompting Zhao Lei to attack Momochi.
• Momochi overpowered Zhao Lei with a punch, but Fang Cheng caught him and redirected the force into the floor.
• Fang Cheng faced the two attackers and challenged them to pay for ruining his meal with their lives.
• Momochi activated Asura Blood Qi and prepared his destructive straight punch, but Fang Cheng crossed the hall with a single step and struck first.
• Fang Cheng and Momochi collided fists, and Momochi’s bones audibly began to break.

Fang Cheng effortlessly crippled Momochi Yugoro and endured Hattori Kyuzo’s ninjutsu attacks, revealing overwhelming strength and a golden defensive aura. As Hattori’s sword strike failed, Fang Cheng caught and began twisting the blade, leaving the fight poised to continue.

• Fang Cheng smashed Momochi Yugoro’s right arm with one punch and sent him flying, forcing Hattori Kyuzo to catch and steady him.
• Hattori Kyuzo confronted Fang Cheng as the Truth Society’s members celebrated their new president’s strength.
• Hattori Kyuzo launched the Four Purple Shadow Killing Formation, but all four sword strikes bounced off Fang Cheng’s golden, seemingly indestructible body.
• Hattori Kyuzo used poisonous smoke to conceal a Poison Dragon Drill aimed at Fang Cheng’s eye.
• Fang Cheng caught Hattori Kyuzo’s sword between two fingers and began twisting the blade.