Recaps

Fang Yi swept through Sky City, destroying skeleton anomalies and restoring normal Anomaly Values across the districts. He crushed a Divine Axe Eight Stars skeleton at Jinming District and left half the city liberated in ten minutes.

• Fang Yi cut through the skeletons around Divine Fire Plaza, clearing streets as Sky City residents watched and prayed to him.
• The Sky City Spirit Association tracked districts returning to normal as Fang Yi advanced, then warned that a Divine Axe Eight Stars skeleton awaited him in Jinming District.
• The skeleton seized Fang Yi’s Tang saber with its White Bones arms, but Fang Yi shattered them with azure thunder.
• Fang Yi struck the skeleton with Azure Thunder Surge, destroying it in a single blow.
• Within ten minutes, Fang Yi had liberated half of Sky City, leaving the remaining anomalies unable to keep pace with him.

Fang Yi rapidly cleared Sky City’s districts, but the unchanged pillars of light converged and gave birth to a King. The King appeared above the city and locked onto Fang Yi, who sensed that it wielded Rule Power.

• Fang Yi cleared district after district in under a minute, while Spirit Association agents followed behind and marveled at his strength.
• The agents noticed that the dim pillars of light had not faded and seemed to be increasing despite the districts being liberated.
• Fang Yi sensed that the pillars’ behavior was abnormal and wondered whether Sky City faced a threat like the King in Tai City.
• Black Mist surged as the pillars converged, and Sky City’s Spirit Association detected an Anomaly Value rising beyond their instruments’ limits.
• A King emerged above Sky City, spreading darkness and the stench of decay across the city.
• The King locked onto Fang Yi, who sensed its abilities and recognized Rule Power.

Fang Yi, the Undertaker, protected Sky City by destroying the King's tombstones, but they kept reappearing. The King then targeted Fang Yi with a death rule, and Fang Yi collapsed with his life force gone.

• Fang Yi unleashed a fiery blade strike that destroyed the tombstones descending over Sky City.
• The Sky City Spirit Association watched the tombstones reappear endlessly after each strike and feared Fang Yi could not stop the King's awakening.
• The ancient corpse sent a black light that locked onto Fang Yi between the brows.
• A drop of Corpse Water drifted toward Fang Yi, and he collapsed as his heart stopped under the King's death rule.

The Undertaker was killed by a drop of Corpse Water, leaving Sky City exposed to the awakening Dark Attribute King. Military forces could not reach the city and withdrew as darkness swallowed it.

• Corpse Water touched the Undertaker and killed him instantly, leaving Chen Ruo overwhelmed with guilt.
• News of the Undertaker’s death spread through the Pioneer Forum and the Xia Kingdom, prompting panic over Sky City’s fate.
• The Military Regions sent powerful personnel toward Sky City, but the Tomb Cluster sealed off the city and buried those who tried to enter.
• A Military Region commander ordered the remaining forces to withdraw after recalling that powerful people could strengthen an awakening King.
• The army retreated to a safe zone and watched the darkness grow over Sky City, unable to intervene.

As the King of Death ravaged Sky City, Little White searched for Fang Yi’s spirit and was struck down by the King’s Death Rule. It then casually got back up and resumed its search, leaving Chen Ruo and the survivors stunned.

• Chen Ruo watched the King of Death destroy Sky City and resolved to find a way to help the Spirit Association.
• Chen Ruo and the survivors noticed Little White running through the ruins and believed it was searching for its master.
• Little White activated its Emissary Ability and searched the spirits in the ruins for Fang Yi’s spirit.
• The King of Death sensed Little White, targeted it, and killed it with a drop of Corpse Water.
• Little White suddenly stood up, relieved itself beneath a collapsed pillar, and ran off to continue searching for Fang Yi.

Little White repeatedly died and revived under the King’s Corpse Water, unleashing Heavenly Fire that burned Tombstones and seemingly caused the King to collapse. After Little White died for the sixth time, a strange new power emerged around everyone.

• Corpse Water repeatedly killed Little White, but it revived each time and released terrifying Heavenly Fire that burned Tombstones across Sky City.
• The Heavenly Fire slowed the Tombstones, leading the people of Sky City to believe Little White was following the Undertaker Captain’s example and fighting the King.
• After Little White’s repeated revivals, Chen Ruo sensed its Aura of Death growing denser, while the King’s body began to shed green matter and collapse.
• The Spirit Association speculated that the King was trapped in an endless cycle of killing and Little White reviving, causing its collapse.
• The sixth drop of Corpse Water killed Little White again, and deathly chains and the howls of ghosts appeared around everyone.

Little White’s power destroyed the tombstones and weakened the emerging Dark King, while Fang Yi resurrected after being confirmed dead. Fang Yi then attacked the remaining tombstones across Sky City.

• Little White unleashed its Death Rule, causing the tombstones in the sky and the Dark King’s corpse to collapse and decay.
• Little White barked excitedly as the falling tombstones turned to stardust, and Fang Yi’s voice sounded from the ruins.
• Fang Yi rose from the dead, summoned his Tang Saber, and surrounded himself with blazing Yang Attribute energy and faint Black Qi.
• Little White celebrated its successful use of resurrection and tried to lick Fang Yi’s hand, but he frowned at its muddy fur.
• Fang Yi swung his saber and shattered the tombstones filling the sky with a powerful blade strike.

Undertaker revived and used Xiaobai to keep the King’s death rule occupied while he attacked the corpse in the sky. After Xiaobai’s ninth death, it did not immediately revive, but Fang Yi announced that a new King would rise as a terrifying Underworld aura erupted over Sky City.

• Su Qingying and Li Zhongyue learned that Undertaker had revived, and the Tai City Spirit Association regained hope.
• The King’s Corpse Water repeatedly killed Xiaobai, whose revivals kept the death rule focused on it.
• Fang Yi struck the corpse with a blade attack, weakening its aura and accelerating its collapse.
• After Xiaobai’s eighth death, a powerful Aura of Death erupted from it and formed a storm that opposed the Black Mist.
• The King’s ninth drop of Corpse Water killed Xiaobai, which did not revive right away.
• Fang Yi declared that the old King would fall and a new King would ascend as Underworld Power erupted across Sky City.

Little White revived for the ninth time and opened a gate to hell, swallowing the King and its corpse. The Undertaker then purged Sky City’s remaining dark aura with a blazing slash, though the descending Tombstones remained.

• Little White’s ninth revival opened a crack to hell and filled the sky above Sky City with ghostly wails and black smoke.
• Little White barked at the King’s corpse, drawing it and its black mist into the crack as dark green liquid rained over the city.
• The crack swallowed the King completely, and Little White returned to the Undertaker’s side, wagging its tail.
• The Undertaker’s blade released a purifying flame that swept away the dark aura remaining in Sky City.
• The Sky City Pioneers were able to enter again and saw the ruins left behind.

After the Undertaker stopped a King from descending in Sky City, the Spirit Association publicized the threat of Kings and the crisis he had resolved. The Spirit Association and Military Region began an emergency meeting to study the newly revealed danger.

• Chen Ruo and the Sky City Pioneers praised the Undertaker for stopping the King's descent and protecting their city.
• The Spirit Association posted a warning about Kings and documented the Sky City crisis on the Pioneer Forum, drawing a flood of questions and reactions.
• The Forum report concealed the Undertaker's resurrection and the little dog's role, keeping that information private and secret from other countries.
• The Spirit Association and Military Region leaders met to discuss the King's descent, and the Military Region sent Sky City's recordings and materials to the First Research Institute for study.

After Xiaobai killed the King of Death and Decay, Xia Kingdom’s officials classified Fang Yi and his Messenger’s abilities as top secret and prepared to reward him with the King’s Death Rule crystal. Back in Tai City, Xiaobai absorbed the King’s power, evolved into a black dog, and gained a second daily use of its resurrection ability.

• Old Wu and the officials praised the Undertaker for resolving Sky City’s crisis and ordered that his abilities and Xiaobai be kept top secret.
• The Spirit Association decided to send Fang Yi the Dark Attribute Crystal containing the King’s Death Rule as thanks.
• Military Region representatives warned that King descents and other powerful anomalous beings, including the Half-Dragon stopped by Fang Yi, could make the future more dangerous.
• Fang Yi returned to Tai City, where Lin Yiyi greeted him, bathed Xiaobai, and put him in a drying box.
• Fang Yi noticed Xiaobai absorbing the King’s dark power, and Xiaobai’s fur turned completely black after devouring the Death Rule.
• The system announced that the Messenger had evolved, allowing its resurrection ability to be used twice per day.

Fang Yi learned that a Sakura Country prophet had predicted Xia Kingdom would not survive its first year of Spirit Qi Recovery, provoking fear and patriotic anger among Xia Kingdom’s Pioneers. As the Spirit Association struggled to counter the morale attack, the Undertaker asked for an officially verified Forum account.

• Lin Yiyi told Fang Yi about the Great Prophet’s prediction that Xia Kingdom would not survive its first year of Spirit Qi Recovery.
• Fang Yi read the prophecy and the hostile exchange between Xia Kingdom and Sakura Country users on the Great Prophet’s social media page.
• Lin Yiyi said the prophet’s card array had made accurate predictions before, while Fang Yi wondered whether a terrifying existence would arrive after Spirit Qi Recovery.
• The prophecy spread across the Pioneer Forum, leaving many Pioneers worried despite claims that Sakura Country was using it to cause panic.
• The Spirit Association and Military Region discussed the prophecy as psychological warfare and sought ideas from city team captains.
• The Undertaker replied to Tai City’s inquiry by asking for an officially verified account on the Forum.

Undertaker’s post announcing his breakthrough to Divine Axe Nine Stars calmed the Pioneer Forum after Sakura Country’s prophecy stirred panic. Meanwhile, Chu Qingli learned that Spirit Qi Recovery would soon make her family background and Qingbei student ID worthless.

• Undertaker posted that he had broken through to Divine Axe Nine Stars, and Pioneers rallied around him.
• Forum users connected Sakura Country’s prophecy to the underworld that had appeared over Sky City and been seen swallowing a King.
• The Spirit Association thanked Fang Yi for settling public fears, and he warned Lin Yiyi and Little Black Dog to cultivate for the disasters ahead.
• Lin Yiyi and Little Black Dog trained intensely while Fang Yi learned that the Captain Plan was helping cities handle anomalies.
• At an izakaya near Qingbei, a senior student told Chu Qingli that Spirit Qi Recovery would soon make her family background and student ID worthless.

A senior student explained Spirit Qi Recovery and the rise of Pioneers to Chu Qingli, demonstrating his new powers and describing the Undertaker as a legendary protector. Chu Qingli decided to seek a way to become a Pioneer and learned the Undertaker might be a Qingbei schoolmate.

• The senior student challenged Chu Qingli’s belief that academic achievement made her superior and warned that Spirit Qi Recovery would change society’s standards.
• The senior student revealed that he had become a Pioneer and shattered a distant cup with spirit qi.
• Chu Qingli decided to find a way to encounter Pioneers and become one herself.
• The senior student described the Undertaker’s feats, including sealing an Anomaly with One Blade Seal Burial and saving two cities.
• The senior student suggested that the Undertaker might have attended Qingbei, leaving Chu Qingli astonished that he could be on campus.

Su Qingying delivered Fang Yi a Spirit Crystal left behind by the King of Death, and Fang Yi absorbed a Yang Attribute Spirit Crystal to gain the Great Yang God ability. He briefly summoned its colossal avatar over Tai City, where Lin Yiyi and Xiaobai witnessed it and the spectacle sparked discussion among ordinary people and Pioneers.

• Su Qingying visited Fang Yi and delivered a Black Wooden Box containing the King of Death’s Spirit Crystal.
• Fang Yi identified the crystal as a Yang Attribute Spirit Crystal and absorbed it, gaining the Great Yang God ability.
• Fang Yi went to the Back Mountain and summoned a towering golden Yang God Avatar to test his new power.
• Lin Yiyi and Xiaobai felt the avatar’s overwhelming pressure before it vanished moments later.
• People across Tai City and Pioneers on the forum discussed the giant, with many attributing it to Undertaker.

Fang Yi gained a purifying Yang Attribute ability, while Little Black Dog absorbed a Dark Attribute Spirit Crystal and learned to teleport through darkness. After hearing about the newly sealed Dim Glow Forbidden Zone, where Yang and Dark Attributes had merged, Fang Yi was invited to review its confidential materials and consider joining a Mutation Activity.

• Fang Yi examined the Yang Attribute Spirit Crystal’s power and gained a new life-saving ability that could repel Fiends.
• Little Black Dog absorbed the Dark Attribute Spirit Crystal, transformed, and gained Dark Walk, which let it travel through darkness and teleport.
• Fang Yi checked on his growing Spirit Flower, then Lin Yiyi told him that Xia Kingdom had discovered a Forbidden Zone containing both Dark and Yang Attributes.
• Li Zhongyue called Fang Yi about the Dim Glow Forbidden Zone and invited him to review its confidential materials before a possible Mutation Activity.

Fang Yi visited the Tai City Spirit Association, where he was warmly welcomed and shown its departments before examining the Netherglow Forbidden Zone archives. He learned that the Forbidden Zone contained both Yang and Dark attributes divided by a mysterious crack, and decided to investigate it.

• Fang Yi arrived at the Tai City Spirit Association and was greeted by agents who thanked him for saving Tai City.
• Li Zhongyue showed Fang Yi the renovated headquarters and explained that the Spirit Association was developing spirit crystals and weapons to fight stronger anomalies.
• An eccentric equipment researcher rushed from an explosion to greet Fang Yi and ask about the forging principles of his God Blade.
• Fang Yi entered the underground archives and was embarrassed when researchers praised his battle against King Offering Hell.
• The researchers showed Fang Yi the Netherglow Forbidden Zone, where Yang and Dark attributes met at a mysterious crack, and Fang Yi decided to go there.

Fang Yi joined the Spirit Association and military teams traveling to a border Mutation Activity, where he met the captains from Hai City and Lan City. The group headed toward a Forbidden Land where they might encounter foreign Pioneer teams.

• Fang Yi met Wang Ping from Hai City and Song Yiming from Lan City, whose stronger aura and aloof behavior stood out.
• Jialan reunited with Fang Yi and explained that her strength came from Spirit Crystals, while Fang Yi possessed two powerful extreme attributes.
• The gathered captains and military personnel boarded a plane, with Song Yiming keeping apart from the others.
• Jialan told Fang Yi that Song Yiming had the Fire Attribute and had killed a B-rank anomaly, while Wang Ping had the Wind Attribute and was close to Divine Axe Seven Stars.
• Jialan warned Fang Yi that the border Forbidden Land might bring them into contact with Pioneer teams from other countries.

Jialan and the Spirit Association captains arrived at Black Sun Pool and went to inspect the Netherglow Forbidden Zone, whose Yin and Yang aura had left the Military Region unable to approach. Song Yiming shattered its outer dark curtain with a fiery sword strike, while he privately wondered how much stronger Fang Yi’s Yang Attribute was than his Fire Attribute.

• A Black Sun Pool officer learned that Spirit Association captains and Military Region personnel were arriving to investigate the Netherglow Forbidden Zone.
• Jialan led the captains, with Fang Yi at the rear, to coordinate with the Black Sun Pool Military Region soldiers.
• Fang Yi asked to go directly to the Forbidden Zone, and the soldiers led the group to its remote location.
• The captains saw the half-Yang, half-Dark eye and learned that the Military Region had been unable to breach the dark curtain.
• Song Yiming slashed through the dark curtain with his Fire Attribute, impressing the soldiers as he compared his strength with Fang Yi’s Yang Attribute.

Fang Yi and the Xia Kingdom Pioneers entered a Forbidden Land where the Yang and Dark Attributes had fused, then encountered a Sakura Country squad claiming the opportunity there. The two groups faced off as the Pioneers recognized that their opponents were powerful enough to have defeated a Divine Axe Eight Stars anomaly.

• Song Yiming cleaved through the darkness, revealing a path where golden Yang light and the Dark Attribute coexisted.
• Fang Yi walked through the extreme heat and cold with ease while the other Pioneers struggled to keep moving.
• A Divine Axe Eight Stars anomaly emerged from the darkness, but its aura abruptly vanished before the group could attack.
• A Sakura Country squad came out of the cave, and Jialan understood that they intended to claim the opportunity in the Forbidden Land.
• Jialan warned that the Sakura Country squad had easily defeated the anomaly and likely possessed strength around Divine Axe Eight or Nine Stars, while the Xia Kingdom Pioneers clenched their fists in anger.

Fang Yi confronted the arrogant Sakura Country Pioneers over a resource on Xia Kingdom territory. Their Nether Poison Attribute wielder used the surrounding Dark Attribute to strengthen and heal himself, but Fang Yi drew his Tang Saber and prepared to fight.

• Jialan told the Sakura Country Pioneers that the resource belonged to Xia Kingdom, but they argued that the strong should claim it.
• Fang Yi stopped Wang Ping from attacking and said he would handle the confrontation himself.
• A Sakura Country man unleashed his Nether Poison Attribute, absorbing the Dark Attribute to grow stronger and heal.
• Jialan explained that the attribute could make wounds impossible to heal while allowing its wielder to recover continuously.
• Fang Yi drew his Tang Saber and asked whether the area was the Sakura Country man's home turf.

Fang Yi revealed his overwhelming Yang Attribute power and killed Sakura Country’s strongest fighter with one slash. He then gathered the Forbidden Land’s Yang Attribute power into a devastating attack that buried all the remaining Sakura Country Pioneers.

• Fang Yi released his aura and cut the Sakura Country middle-aged man nearly in two with a single Tang Saber slash.
• Fang Yi suppressed the man’s Nether Poison Attribute, preventing him from healing, and the man exploded into pus and blood.
• The Sakura Country Pioneers recognized Fang Yi’s Yang Attribute and realized the Forbidden Land’s Yang Attribute power was under his control.
• Fang Yi gathered the Forbidden Land’s Yang Attribute power into a blazing fire dragon and slashed at the Sakura Country Pioneers.
• The Sakura Country Pioneers were buried beneath the sea of fire, and silence fell.

Fang Yi killed the Sakura Country Pioneers and entered the Netherglow Forbidden Zone’s core, where he discovered the Turbid Yang Attribute and began cultivating its technique. As Sakura Country officials demanded an explanation from Xia Kingdom, a Xia Kingdom figure welcomed the slaughter.

• Fang Yi destroyed the Sakura Country Pioneers with a single slash, leaving Song Yiming inspired by his strength.
• Fang Yi reached the Black Sun Pool, discovered the fused Turbid Yang Attribute, and generated the Spirit Turbid Eye Technique.
• The other Captains were unable to enter the core and sat outside to cultivate.
• Sakura Country’s leaders learned their elite Pioneers had been annihilated and decided to demand an explanation from Xia Kingdom.
• A Sakura Country official complained in a Xia Kingdom conference room, but someone in the corridor laughed and declared the Pioneers deserved to die.

Liu QianYue confronted Sakura Country’s delegation over its Pioneers’ deaths, refusing their demands and asserting Xia Kingdom’s strength. Meanwhile, Fang Yi mastered the Turbid Spirit Eye Technique, an illusion ability that could trap victims in the Despair Realm.

• Liu QianYue welcomed the Sakura Country delegation with chrysanthemum tea after Xia Kingdom’s Pioneers wiped out the infiltrating Sakura Country squad.
• A Sakura Country official demanded an explanation for the deaths, but Liu QianYue accused their Pioneers of invading and attacking first.
• Liu QianYue mocked the delegation and declared that their dead Pioneers deserved their fate.
• Sakura Country powerhouses surrounded Liu QianYue with their auras, but Xia Kingdom powerhouses appeared and drove them back.
• Liu QianYue left, saying he wanted to meet the Tai City Captain known as the Undertaker.
• Fang Yi mastered the Turbid Spirit Eye Technique, gaining the ability to drag people into the Despair Realm through an illusion.

Fang Yi returned to Tai City after absorbing the Netherglow Forbidden Zone’s spiritual energy, while Jiang Lu reached Divine Axe Sixth Star and sought a rematch. Fang Yi used his new eye technique to pull Jiang Lu into an illusion, leaving Jiang Lu as the first test subject.

• Fang Yi emerged from the Netherglow Forbidden Zone after absorbing most of its spiritual energy, impressing Jialan and the others with his growth.
• Jiang Lu reached Divine Axe Sixth Star and set out to defeat the mysterious Thunder Attribute Precursor who had beaten him before.
• Fang Yi returned to Tai City and discovered that his new eye technique could incapacitate a rat with a terrifying illusion.
• Jiang Lu confronted Fang Yi and challenged him to a fight, but Fang Yi did not recognize him at first.
• Fang Yi activated his eye technique and dragged Jiang Lu into the void to test its power.