Recaps

The team entered the Extremely Dark Zone and suffered the Dark Attribute’s corrosive effects. Fang Yi used his warmth to ease Lin Yiyi’s discomfort, then agreed to warm Zhao Meng too as the group continued onward.

• A middle-aged Pioneer criticized the young team members, but Lu Jiahe stopped Zhao Meng from starting an argument.
• The middle-aged man opened the gates, and the team entered the Extremely Dark Zone, where the oppressive darkness made several members nauseated and weak.
• The middle-aged man explained that the Dark Attribute contaminated cultivators and drained their strength, so the team conserved energy by walking in silence.
• Fang Yi patted Lin Yiyi’s back, using his warmth to relieve her discomfort and motion sickness.
• Zhao Meng noticed Fang Yi helping Lin Yiyi and asked him to warm her too, so Fang Yi placed his hand on her waist.

Fang Yi and his team entered the Extremely Dark Zone, where Pan Ning killed a Rotten Cat Demon before a Dark Tide suddenly erupted. The tide sealed the zone’s entrance and threatened to engulf Team 3, the weakest team and the one with the most outside Pioneers.

• Pan Ning warned Fang Yi, Lin Yiyi, and the others that powerful Anomalies lurked throughout the Extremely Dark Zone as they advanced with Lu Jiahe’s lantern.
• A Rotten Cat Demon attacked, and Pan Ning destroyed it with a punch, revealing his Divine Axe Fourth Star strength.
• Zhao Meng sensed Fang Yi’s overwhelming aura when he reached for his blade, but he withdrew his hand before acting.
• Dark Attribute energy surged into towering waves and swept toward the team, prompting Pan Ning to identify the phenomenon as the Dark Tide.
• A woman watching the teams’ surveillance feeds realized the Dark Tide had appeared unexpectedly and sealed the entrance, trapping Team 3 inside.

Team 3 was nearly swallowed by the Dark Tide in the Extremely Dark Zone until Fang Yi stopped it with a blazing sealing technique. He confined the tide within a ring of fire, leaving the Pioneers and a watcher in the monitoring room stunned.

• The Dark Tide surged through the Extremely Dark Zone, forcing abnormalities and Team 3 to flee as it devoured everything in its path.
• Pan Ning realized the team could not outrun the tide, while Lin Yiyi grew too exhausted to keep running.
• Fang Yi drew his blade and unleashed a blazing attack that stopped the tide and bound nearby abnormalities in a ring of fire.
• Fang Yi shrank the ring of fire until it confined the Dark Tide as a pool of black water.
• Pan Ning and the other Pioneers stared in disbelief, while a woman in the monitoring room watched Fang Yi seal the Dark Attribute.

Fang Yi sealed a devastating Dark Tide and gained the Dark Attribute ability Limitless Dark Realm, then led Team 3 deeper through the anomaly-filled route. As they neared their destination, he and Lin Yiyi cut down the creatures in their way while Jialan watched in astonishment.

• Fang Yi trapped the Dark Tide inside a ring of Heavenly Fire, saving Team 3 and earning the group's awe.
• Fang Yi gained Limitless Dark Realm from the Dark Tide, an ability that pulled opponents into black mist and weakened them through Dark Attribute corrosion.
• Lin Yiyi noticed Fang Yi's newly changed eyes, while Jialan identified him on the surveillance feed and marveled that Team 3 had survived.
• Lin Yiyi and Pan Ning fought off anomalies along the route, with Fang Yi stepping in when the group faced stronger enemies.
• Fang Yi killed a massive, dragon-like Lizard with one slash, and Team 3 continued forward at an astonishing pace.

Fang Yi and Team 3 reached the Lost Tempering Flower and picked it without encountering resistance, completing their mission. Jialan announced their success and ordered the other teams to withdraw, leaving them stunned as they fought swarms of Anomalies.

• Pan Ning reflected on Fang Yi and Lin Yiyi’s extraordinary strength while Zhao Meng and Lu Jiahe competed to give Fang Yi snacks.
• Pan Ning led Team 3 to a graveyard where they found the Lost Tempering Flower among scattered bones.
• Jialan watched Team 3 reach the flower and recalled how the Spirit Association had failed to retrieve it after its captain died protecting the Sword Bearers team.
• Fang Yi picked the Lost Tempering Flower without obstruction, and Pan Ning confirmed that the team had completed its objective.
• Jialan announced that the mission was complete, promised the rewards, and ordered all teams to withdraw.
• The other two teams, trapped in battles with swarms of Anomalies, reacted in disbelief to Team 3’s success.

Fang Yi completed the mission to retrieve the Lost Tempering Flower and met Jialan after she requested to speak with him alone. Jialan thanked him for saving Old Wu and paid him an extra reward, leaving Fang Yi curious about her connection to the important figure.

• Fang Yi handed the Lost Tempering Flower to Jialan's scarred subordinate, and the group returned from the Extremely Dark Zone.
• Jialan messaged Lin Yiyi asking to speak with Fang Yi alone, then sent Lin Yiyi a friend request.
• Fang Yi agreed to meet Jialan and followed her subordinate to an off-road vehicle.
• Jialan thanked Fang Yi for bringing out the flower, paid him the mission reward plus an extra five hundred thousand, and said he had saved Old Wu's life.

Fang Yi learned from Jialan how Dark Attribute Anomalies threatened the country and cleared the lingering Dark Attribute from her wound. After returning home, he examined his new Limitless Dark Realm ability and implanted the Dark Attribute into his back, bringing himself close to a six-star breakthrough.

• Jialan explained that Dark Attribute Anomalies were spreading and that the state had created restricted zones while the Spirit Association guarded the cities.
• Fang Yi promised Jialan he would not ignore Anomalies, and she offered him her friendship and future missions.
• Fang Yi used his Lightning Affinity to destroy the Dark Attribute in Jialan's arm, then received a Star God War Zone token from her.
• Fang Yi returned to his apartment, where Lin Yiyi went out to buy groceries, and he considered how much his life had changed.
• Fang Yi studied Limitless Dark Realm and implanted the Dark Attribute into his back, noticing that he was close to reaching six stars.

Fang Yi cultivated after extracting the Dark Attribute, then took his Barren Flower into the forest to let it draw on its natural habitat. He stopped its rapid destruction of the surrounding plants and carried it deeper into the woods.

• Fang Yi sensed that his strength was nearing the threshold of six stars after extracting the Dark Attribute.
• Lin Yiyi told Fang Yi she had gone to train with her teammates and would return that evening, and he accepted her wish to grow independently.
• Fang Yi spent the morning at home, then took his Barren Flower out to the forest.
• Fang Yi planted the flower beside an ancient tree, and its Barren aura quickly withered the surrounding vegetation.
• Fang Yi removed the flower before it could cause more damage and continued deeper into the forest with it.

Fang Yi investigated a wolf pack evolving deep in the forest and saw its Wolf King reach Divine Axe Three-Star strength. As the nearby pioneers tried to alert the Spirit Association, a terrifying aura of decay swept across the forest, withering trees and cracking the earth.

• Fang Yi carried the Barren Spirit Flower through the forest and headed east after hearing a strange wolf howl.
• Fang Yi found a wolf pack undergoing evolution, with its members writhing in pain and howling.
• The pack's Wolf King evolved successfully, gaining a savage aura and strength comparable to a Divine Axe Three-Star pioneer.
• A group of Divine Axe First Star pioneers watched the pack and tried to contact the Spirit Qi Cultivation Association, fearing the wolves would threaten Tai City.
• A vast aura of decay swept over the forest, withering the trees, cracking the ground, and filling the sky with gray mist.

Fang Yi’s Barren Attribute flowers annihilated a pack of Wolf Demons, including their Divine Axe Three-Star alpha, while the Pioneers fled and awaited the Spirit Association’s Destroyer Squad. Afterward, Fang Yi discovered the flowers had evolved into powerful plant rulers that could grow stronger by devouring vitality.

• Fang Yi planted the spiritual flowers, unleashing a wave of Barren Power that swept through the forest toward the Wolf Pack.
• The flowers surrounded the Wolf Demons and drained their flesh and vitality, leaving piles of White Bones as the Pioneers retreated.
• The Spirit Association notified the Pioneers that the Destroyer Squad was on its way, and they hoped it would arrive before the flowers finished the wolves.
• Fang Yi transplanted the flowers back into their pot and praised them for devouring the Wolf Demons.
• Fang Yi noticed the flowers had grown more powerful and that nearby plants voluntarily submitted to them, revealing their evolution through the Barren Attribute.

The Destroyer Squad found the Wolf Demons reduced to White Bones and discovered that a Barren Attribute with a peak concentration above 50 had consumed them. Meanwhile, Fang Yi returned home carrying the evolved Little Wild Flower and let a stray dog follow him inside.

• The Destroyer Squad reached the forest and found White Bones covering the ground, with an intact Divine Axe Realm Wolf Bone at the center.
• The captain and the female agent detected residual Barren Attribute at 15 and estimated its peak concentration had exceeded 50.
• The captain read the Pioneers' message that several flowers had appeared, devoured the Wolf Pack, and vanished.
• Fang Yi walked home carrying the Little Wild Flower and reflected that it could grow by consuming powerful Demonic Beasts.
• A stray dog rubbed against Fang Yi, and he allowed it to come inside.

Fang Yi returned home with a stray puppy and told Lin Yiyi he might soon break through again. After comparing him to the Pioneers she had seen on a mission, Lin Yiyi privately boasted to Zhao Meng that her brother might reach six stars.

• Fang Yi came home with a stray puppy, and Lin Yiyi eagerly picked it up and admired it.
• Fang Yi and Lin Yiyi bathed and dried the puppy, revealing its white fur beneath the grime.
• Fang Yi told Lin Yiyi he might be about to break through, so she agreed to go out.
• Lin Yiyi exchanged messages with Zhao Meng and agreed that the Pioneers she had seen could not compare to Fang Yi.
• Lin Yiyi messaged Zhao Meng that her brother might soon reach six stars.

After reaching Divine Axe Sixth Star, Fang Yi confronted Jiang Lu, a battle-hungry Fire Attribute Pioneer who challenged him. Fang Yi effortlessly crushed Jiang Lu’s flames and pinned him to the ground, leaving Jiang Lu shaken by the vast difference in their strength.

• Fang Yi broke through to Divine Axe Sixth Star and gained finer control over his abilities.
• Jiang Lu sensed Fang Yi in Tai City and went to Baiyuan Street to challenge him.
• Jiang Lu introduced himself and attacked Fang Yi with a blazing Fireball.
• Fang Yi destroyed Jiang Lu’s attack with lightning and pinned him in a crater.
• Fang Yi left, while Jiang Lu sat defeated and wondered whether he was too weak.

Jiang Lu returned home devastated after being defeated in a single move by a Pioneer whose lightning shattered his Fire Attribute. He told Wang Ping and Li Ming that the opponent was already at Divine Axe Sixth Star, two realms above him.

• Jiang Lu came back to his apartment in silence, startling his roommates Wang Ping and Li Ming, who were used to his combative attitude.
• Jiang Lu admitted that he had been one-shotted, and Wang Ping and Li Ming found him crying.
• Jiang Lu explained that his opponent's lightning shattered his flames and overwhelmed him with its power.
• Jiang Lu revealed that the lightning wielder was already Divine Axe Sixth Star, two realms above Jiang Lu's Divine Axe Fourth Star.

Fang Yi killed a mutated bat that attacked him and Lin Yiyi in Tai City, while Su Qingying returned to the city and detected a rapidly rising Anomaly concentration. She reported for duty as the Spirit Association warned that a Class A Aberrant might descend at any time.

• Fang Yi sensed an anomalous aura and killed a flying mutated bat with lightning as it attacked him and Lin Yiyi.
• Fang Yi judged the bat to be a Divine Axe Two Stars Anomaly and hurried home with Lin Yiyi, troubled by the dark clouds and the daytime attack.
• Su Qingying returned to Tai City, reflected on Fang Yi's strength, and watched the high-rise apartment where he lived.
• Su Qingying's Silver Bracelet detected an Anomaly concentration of 9 that was still rising, and she reported that she was ready to stand by.
• The Spirit Association told Su Qingying to stay in contact and await orders as a Class A Aberrant threatened to descend upon Tai City.

Su Qingying monitored preparations for a looming Class A Anomaly while Tai City’s skies grew ominously dark. Fang Yi and Lin Yiyi’s martial arts group grew alarmed by the strange storm and decided to gather at Fang Yi’s house.

• Su Qingying recalled the devastating Corrupted Behemoth invasion overseas as she watched the Anomaly reading rise above Tai City.
• Su Qingying checked in with the four Pioneer patrol teams, which reported no anomalies, and warned them to report again later.
• Fang Yi and Lin Yiyi saw lightning strike near their home as a meteorological alert warned residents to stay indoors.
• Lin Yiyi showed Fang Yi the Martial Arts Pioneer Squad chat, where members expressed unease about the storm and proposed meeting at his house.
• Fang Yi agreed to let Lin Yiyi’s friends come over.

Fang Yi gathered the Martial Arts Pioneer Squad and other Pioneers to compare reports of Dark Attribute bats and strange Black Mist spreading through Tai City. After learning the Spirit Association and military had sent reinforcements, the group realized the danger was far greater than they had expected, while Su Qingying warned everyone to survive the day.

• Zhao Meng, Li Wenzhu, and Lu Jiahe arrived at Fang Yi's home and described bats or Black Mist they had encountered around the city.
• Fang Yi created a group chat called Pioneers, where members compared reports and Li Wenzhu suggested the bats might be a vanguard for a more powerful Anomaly.
• Ant Tooth Black warned the group that the Spirit Association had sent Pioneers to Tai City and the military had deployed powerful people to guard the surrounding area.
• The gathered Pioneers grew alarmed as they realized the situation was unusually serious and urged one another to stick together.
• Su Qingying surveyed Tai City from the Clock Tower, saw dense Black Mist covering the city, and warned everyone through her earpiece to be careful and survive today.

As darkness and a torrential rain threatened Tai City, Su Qingying and C Team fought a swarm of Mutant Bats and rescued a girl who had gone outside. The Pioneers discovered the bats were multiplying and evolving by feeding on humans, and Tai City was already overrun.

• Su Qingying shot down a Mutant Bat and protected a girl who had wandered outside despite the warnings.
• After the Liaison Officer warned her of approaching C-Class Mutant Bats, Su Qingying requested support from C Team.
• Bai Qiu and the Pioneers joined Su Qingying in fighting the swarm, then escorted the girl home.
• As drizzle began, Bai Qiu complained that the mutated creatures kept appearing, while Su Qingying learned the bats were breeding rapidly and gaining strength by devouring humans.
• Su Qingying learned from drone images that Bat Swarms had spread across Tai City and concluded the city had become a blood feast for their evolution.

As a torrential rain accompanied a growing Anomaly crisis, Fang Yi told Lin Yiyi that Tai City might be wiped out because the Spirit Association could not contain the evolving bats. Tai City’s defenses collapsed as the Bat Swarm broke into homes, while the Spirit Association struggled to respond.

• Fang Yi reassured Lin Yiyi about her mother, then privately warned her that the Dark Attribute-contaminated bats could overwhelm Tai City.
• The Bat Swarm overran Tai City in thirty minutes, and Su Qingying’s C Team fought to hold the last line of defense.
• The bats evolved by devouring flesh and blood, growing stronger after three Pioneer teams were destroyed.
• Bats smashed through building windows and began attacking ordinary people inside their homes.
• Wei Zheng and the Spirit Association’s Coordination Room faced the crisis without enough experts available to stop it.

Su Qingying and C Team were nearly wiped out defending an apartment district from an evolving swarm of bats, including a newly emerged Divine Axe Fifth Star King. Lin Yiyi rescued them into her apartment, but the King smashed through the window just as someone complained about the broken glass.

• Su Qingying led the wounded C Team toward an apartment district threatened by bats, where they fought to protect the residents as their Spirit Qi and ammunition ran out.
• A mutated bat evolved into a Divine Axe Fifth Star King, leaving Su Qingying and Bai Qiushi facing certain death as Bai Qiushi sacrificed his remaining strength to distract it.
• A girl named Lin Yiyi pulled Su Qingying and Bai Qiushi through a window into an apartment, and the other unconscious members of C Team were brought inside.
• The Bat Swarm battered the Spirit Qi-covered window until the Divine Axe Fifth Star anomaly shattered it, prompting an irritated voice to complain about the glass.

Fang Yi rescued C Team by killing a Divine Axe Fifth Star bat and clearing Dark Attribute from Bai Qiushi’s wound. The team learned that a massive Cocoon was forming in central Tai City, while the military faced hordes of powerful bats at the city’s edge and struggled to reach the center.

• Fang Yi killed the giant bat with a combined thunder and Crimson Fire Blade strike, setting the surrounding swarm ablaze.
• Fang Yi cleared the Dark Attribute from Bai Qiushi’s severed-arm wound, and Bai Qiushi recognized him as the Pioneer who had killed Candle Night.
• Su Qingying reported that C Team had survived and that Fang Yi had eliminated the Divine Axe Fifth Star Aberrant.
• Bai Qiushi assessed that the bats were growing and using Tai City as blood food, while the Liaison Officer revealed a massive Cocoon in the city center.
• The military reached Tai City’s border but found countless powerful bats blocking entry as a black vortex formed over the city.

Su Qingying warned that a Perfect Bat King was incubating in the giant cocoon while the military was blocked outside Tai City. As the Spirit Association tried to gather the city's Pioneers, Groups A, B, and D all lost contact after being surrounded by bat aberrants.

• Su Qingying explained that the organized bat aberrants served a Perfect Evolutionary King incubating inside the giant cocoon.
• Su Qingying reported that powerful bat aberrants had blocked the military outside Tai City, leaving the city without help.
• The Liaison Officer said the Pioneers should gather at Tai City Square and reported that the other groups were approaching.
• Spirit Association agents discovered that Groups A, B, and D had stopped responding after their stations were attacked by large bat swarms.
• The Liaison Officer told Su Qingying that Groups A, B, and D had all lost contact.

After all teams lost contact in Tai City, Su Qingying and the injured Spirit Association members decided to go out and fight the Bat Swarm. Fang Yi took Su Qingying’s tracking bracelet and set off alone to face the danger.

• Su Qingying learned that all teams had lost contact and feared the Pioneers were trapped in the Bat Sea.
• Su Qingying urged the injured C Team members to leave their shelter and fight, and Bai Qiushi and the others agreed.
• Lin Yiyi and the other Pioneers joined the injured members, determined to defend Tai City from the Bat Swarm and the King inside the Cocoon.
• Fang Yi questioned the use of sending the wounded out, then decided to go himself.
• Fang Yi took Su Qingying’s Silver Bracelet for its tracking and communication functions, fastened his Tang Saber, and released a brilliant golden aura as he set out.

As Tai City faced the imminent birth of the King and the military could not reach Central Plaza in time, a mysterious man used Su Qingying’s wristband to contact the command room. He demanded that everyone link up with him and declared he would take down the King.

• The command room learned that the Spirit Association’s teams had been wiped out or lost contact, while the military needed at least thirty minutes to reach Central Plaza.
• The officers debated whether to abandon Tai City to keep the Dark Attribute from spreading beyond the city.
• The command room spotted a fast-moving agent heading toward Central Plaza and identified the agent as Su Qingying, a Divine Axe Fourth Star.
• A man answered the liaison officer through Su Qingying’s communications wristband, revealing that he was not Su Qingying.
• The man ordered everyone to link up with him and announced that he would take down the King at the center.

Fang Yi raced toward Central Plaza as the Spirit Association coordinated its intelligence network to guide him through Tai City. He instantly killed a powerful Aberrant, reviving the team’s hope that the city could be saved.

• Fang Yi struggled to use his communicator while fighting through the bat Aberrants on his way to Central Plaza.
• Fang Yi demanded that the Liaison Officers connect with him and use their equipment and information to assist him.
• The commander ordered the intelligence team to guide Fang Yi, and they identified a route through the Aberrant encirclement.
• The Liaison Officers warned Fang Yi that two powerful Aberrants were approaching, but he met them before he could retreat.
• Fang Yi killed an Aberrant in a single strike, shocking the intelligence team and restoring their confidence.
• The Spirit Association rallied around Fang Yi as their comrade and the hope of Tai City.