Recaps

Lu PingAn built a business and a foothold among the refugees while maneuvering the Blood Feast and Peace Officers into conflict. His accumulating debts awakened the Bookkeeper profession and a new path toward Tier 5, while suspicion of outsiders continued to grow.

• Lu PingAn learned the local cultivation methods, strengthened himself and his companions, and began collecting monsters and resources to develop the Courtyard’s system.
• Lu PingAn traveled to Naka City, rescued Liu Xing, Mu RanYi, and Lu FeiFei from their contracts, and used them as agents while setting up a potion shop with Rou Lailai.
• Lu PingAn studied a Peace Officer puppet, expanded his businesses, bought a Law Decree-level Demon Ape, and invested in the Refugee Camp by offering work to its desperate residents.
• Lu PingAn used the Exhibition Hall, dangerous trials, and scarce job offers to draw the refugees into competing for his favor as violence between their factions escalated.
• The Blood Feast and refugee coalition fought underground, and Lu Wang’s attacks left a Peace Officer dead, prompting a city lockdown and Water Wolf’s death as the Blood Feast’s crimes were blamed on him.
• Lu PingAn kept the Blood Feast useful with commissions, aided hunters through the Black Gloves, and accumulated debts to Dao Zhong, Da Mu, and others until his Ledger took shape.
• Lu PingAn awakened the Tier 4 Scholar profession Bookkeeper, which recorded debts and generated life coins, and recognized it as the beginning of his Tier 5 combat path.
• As outsiders faced increased suspicion and the Blood Feast gained An Nan’s favor, Da Mu accepted Lu PingAn’s card for teleportation to a reception room at the cost of Life Points.

Lu PingAn built influence across the city while using bounties, debt, and carefully staged provocations to isolate Zhao Yan and turn the Blood Feast against itself. As Zhao Yan sought a way to repair his unstable power and recruited Sun Yi, Lu PingAn brought the opposing factions toward a confrontation.

• Da Mu borrowed from Lu PingAn and went shopping, unaware that his debt had placed him in Lu PingAn’s ledger.
• Lu PingAn expanded his Courtyard and used Life Coins to summon Spirit Ghosts, then began building influence through generosity and city investments.
• Zhao Yan advanced to Rule-level and began preying on his former allies, so Lu PingAn studied his powers and lured him into the hunters’ first failed ambush.
• Lu PingAn sold the hunters information about Zhao Yan, welcomed Zhao Yan with a bounty, and later used the Mother Goddess’s offer of help to draw him deeper into his plans.
• Lu PingAn kept Zhao Yan dependent on blood meals while his killing of Blood Feast members widened the rift between Zhao Yan and Dao Zhong.
• Lu PingAn claimed Liu Ku’s Celestial Fox Trait, then arranged for Zhao Yan to take the injured Liu Ku out of the city, further angering the Blood Feast.
• Zhao Yan learned from the Mother Goddess that his divided selves had wasted their talents and decided to seek a stronger avatar in the remote region.
• Zhao Yan met Sun Yi and Su Xingying, while Lu PingAn heightened the Blood Feast’s emotions and created an accident that prompted accusations of poisoned tea.

Lu PingAn helped lead the campaign that killed Sun Yi and Zhao Yan, then used the victory to advance his Conqueror path and expand his company. After returning home, he began planning how to build a stronger foundation for his future advancement.

• Lu PingAn turned the citywide battle against Zhao Yan and Sun Yi into a war under his command, while Dao Zhong fled and Lu PingAn later killed him.
• Lu PingAn’s forces poisoned Sun Yi and Zhao Yan, and Da Mu fought Zhao Yan with the Demon Sword until Zhao Yan was defeated and captured.
• Lu PingAn revived Da Mu, presided over Zhao Yan’s trial with Xia Qin and Lei Shui Yun, and sentenced Zhao Yan to death after the Refugee Camp survivors had their revenge.
• Lu PingAn completed his Conqueror ceremony, took his companions and assets, and left the city before stronger Blood Feast figures could investigate.
• A Rule-level powerhouse verified the kills, while Lu PingAn returned home and began reorganizing his company into a mobile battlefield logistics and rescue operation.
• Lu PingAn discussed his ambition to advance beyond Big Cat’s foundations and studied the Maiden of the Forest Church’s professions to strengthen his Gardener path.
• Lu PingAn’s group watched the public response to Zhao Yan’s execution, passed the voyage playing games, and finally arrived home.

Lu PingAn established his company, developed his training and alliances, and traveled to the Martial Arts Festival under Su Xi’s identity. The arc ended as Eve fled after a killing spree and Lu PingAn trained for the tournament, only for sudden changes to interrupt his progress.

• Lu PingAn returned to Changping Province, received Sindar's Black Dragon Gloves, and secured permits for his businesses.
• Lu PingAn helped Xia Qin raid criminal hideouts and proposed that his company support local Special Task Forces.
• Lu PingAn opened his company in Zion District, recruited trainees, and discovered that the Workshop could recycle Taboo Items into customizable equipment.
• Lu PingAn impersonated Su Xi and boarded the Victory, where he began intense Fighter training and encountered Qian ZhuJin, the Daisy Princess, and the mysterious Xiao Zhi.
• Lu PingAn learned Big Cat's history with the Kerdaleses and promised to bear the Karma from her abandoned ritual.
• Lu PingAn reunited with Wang Hai, agreed to exchange intelligence and contacts, and then discovered that Eve had killed at least fifty people aboard Deck E3.
• The festival organizers issued an international Wanted Order for Eve, while Lu PingAn trained in Fighter techniques and prepared to survive the tournament.