Recaps

Jiang Fan reported that the Blood Butcher Organization had ambushed his Purifier Squad and revealed that he had recently reached Level 13. The Elder Council debated how the organization learned the squad’s supposedly secret location, then ordered a task force to plan a campaign against it, leaving Jiang Fan suspicious of several elders and seeking Elder Xu Shoushan.

• Jiang Fan recounted the Blood Butcher Organization’s ambush and said he had killed its attackers in self-defense.
• Jiang Fan confirmed he had broken through to Level 13, stunning Elder Xu Shoushan and the other elders.
• Elder Xu Shoushan questioned how the Blood Butcher Organization had learned the Purifier Squad’s location, and Elder Shi Bin and another elder proposed possible leaks.
• Elder Xu Shoushan rejected the leak theories, argued with another elder, and the Grand Elder redirected the discussion toward attacking the Blood Butcher Organization.
• The Grand Elder ordered the Elder Council to form a task force within one day and finalize an action plan within three days, then dismissed Jiang Fan to rest.
• Jiang Fan, increasingly suspicious of the elders, hurried after Elder Xu Shoushan and called for him to wait.

Jiang Fan secretly told Xu Shoushan how the Blood Butcher Organization ambushed the Purifier Squad, explaining that their precise interception suggested someone in the Federal Arbitration Office had leaked the team’s intelligence. Xu Shoushan agreed to investigate the suspected elders discreetly, then realized they had not yet uncovered the attackers’ motive.

• Jiang Fan pulled Xu Shoushan aside and recounted the ambush in the Shattered Corridor and his conversations with the Blood Butcher Organization members.
• Jiang Fan said the attack confirmed his suspicion that someone inside the Federal Arbitration Office had leaked the Purifier Squad’s location.
• Xu Shoushan became furious but praised Jiang Fan for withholding the information publicly so they could preserve evidence and investigate in secret.
• Jiang Fan and Xu Shoushan discussed possible suspects among the elders, while agreeing they needed evidence before making accusations.
• Xu Shoushan pointed out that they had focused on who leaked the coordinates but had overlooked why the Blood Butcher Organization targeted the Purifier Squad.

Xu Shoushan told Jiang Fan that Purifier missions had suffered suspicious losses for years, suggesting an organization inside the Federal Arbitration Office was eliminating its promising recruits. Jiang Fan asked to leave Qiyuan Star to investigate the Blood Butcher Organization, believing it could be evidence or a lead, while Xu Shoushan objected.

• Xu Shoushan explained that Purifier missions had suffered repeated disasters over the past five years and suspected someone inside the Federal Arbitration Office had arranged them to destroy its new force.
• Xu Shoushan warned Jiang Fan to keep quiet, stay on Qiyuan Star, and let him secretly investigate and report to the President.
• Jiang Fan asked Xu Shoushan for permission to leave Qiyuan Star and go to the Blood Butcher Organization's lair after its members had tried to kill him again.
• Xu Shoushan refused, warning Jiang Fan that entering the Blood Butcher Organization's stronghold alone was too dangerous.
• Jiang Fan argued that the Blood Butcher Organization might be evidence someone would try to destroy, and that investigating it could provide another lead.

Jiang Fan secretly left Qiyuan Star to investigate the Blood Butcher Organization, carrying Xu Shoushan’s introduction to a black-market tavern on Gray Rock Star. As his spacecraft began the long journey, Jiang Fan started cultivating and rapidly absorbing energy.

• Jiang Fan convinced Xu Shoushan to let him pursue the Blood Butcher Organization without official support.
• Xu Shoushan gave Jiang Fan a miniature bronze sword and directed him to Broken Blade Tavern on Gray Rock Star, where its owner, Old Smoker, could provide basic information.
• Jiang Fan publicly claimed he was entering seclusion and secretly left Qiyuan Star with Xu Shoushan’s cover.
• After leaving the Qiyuan Star Domain’s core region, Jiang Fan set course for Gray Rock Star on a voyage expected to last about fifty days.
• Jiang Fan began cultivating aboard the spacecraft, absorbing Crystal Cores and Spirit Liquid as his vital-blood value surged.

After fifty days of cultivation, Jiang Fan’s vitality reached sixty-four million, and he traveled to Gray Rock Star to find Broken Blade Tavern. As he arrived, locals discussed the impending Federal Army withdrawal and the struggle over the planet’s remaining resources, while a potbellied man called for Old Smoker.

• Jiang Fan finished cultivating, noted his increased vitality, and ordered the main pilot to travel at full speed to Gray Rock Star.
• Jiang Fan landed in the Windy Sand Zone, stored his aircraft in Bead Space, and located Broken Blade Tavern in White Stone City.
• Jiang Fan arrived at Broken Blade Tavern and observed its unusual customers and rundown surroundings.
• Customers discussed the Federal Army’s imminent withdrawal and the remaining resources that would be left on Gray Rock Star.
• A potbellied middle-aged man entered and called for Old Smoker to discuss a business deal.

Quake approached Old Smoker to recruit the Broken Blade Tavern into a Yellow Sand Cult alliance for claiming Gray Rock Star’s resources after the Federal army withdrew. Old Smoker rejected his offer, and Quake threatened her with force.

• Quake visited Old Smoker’s tavern and said he wanted to discuss a major deal.
• Old Smoker and Quake discussed the Federal Government’s planned withdrawal and the scramble for Gray Rock Star’s remaining resources.
• Quake proposed that the Broken Blade Tavern come under the Yellow Sand Cult and offered Old Smoker ten percent of the profits.
• Old Smoker refused, suspecting Quake intended to take control of the tavern’s intelligence network.
• Quake crushed his glass and warned Old Smoker not to reject his offer.

Quake tried to force Old Smoker to merge the Broken Blade Tavern into the Yellow Sand Cult, but Lord Crocodile’s attack revealed that several people in the tavern could fight back. Old Smoker was pulled toward Lord Crocodile after the guards and patrons were pinned down, then struck him with a palm that revealed Old Smoker was also Level 12.

• Quake arrived at the Broken Blade Tavern with guards and Lord Crocodile, whose Level 12 martial aura intimidated everyone inside.
• Quake demanded that Old Smoker merge the Broken Blade Tavern into the Yellow Sand Cult, but Old Smoker refused despite Quake’s threats and the patrons’ pleas.
• Lord Crocodile attacked Old Smoker, but a Broken Blade fighter intervened and was knocked into a wall.
• The fighter summoned the Broken Blade Guards, but Lord Crocodile’s pressure pinned them and the patrons to the floor.
• Lord Crocodile pulled Old Smoker toward him, and Old Smoker struck him with a palm that made him retreat and revealed Old Smoker was Level 12.

Quake had Lord Crocodile overpower Old Smoker and A Jie, then ordered the Broken Blade Tavern's people and patrons seized for the Yellow Sand Cult. A call on Quake's communicator interrupted the roundup.

• Old Smoker and A Jie teamed up against Lord Crocodile, but his power crushed them to their knees.
• Quake taunted Old Smoker and demanded the Broken Blade Tavern's hidden-agent authorization.
• Old Smoker refused, so Quake ordered his men to bind her, him, and the tavern's patrons and take them to the Yellow Sand Cult.
• Quake answered his communicator, reacted with delight to the news, and told the caller to stay put.

Old Smoker gave Quake a Miniature Light Computer that supposedly controlled the Broken Blade Tavern's intelligence network, but Quake was poisoned when he tried to claim access. Old Smoker revealed that the poison was Five-Colored Coral and warned that Quake would die without an antidote.

• Old Smoker went upstairs and returned with a sandalwood box while Lord Crocodile allowed him to proceed.
• Old Smoker explained that the Miniature Light Computer held the Broken Blade Tavern's intelligence and agent deployments, and that its administrative access controlled the network.
• Old Smoker opened the computer and prompted Quake to enter his fingerprint to obtain administrative access.
• When Quake pressed his thumb to the computer, a needle pierced him and drew a bead of blackish blood.
• Quake accused Old Smoker of ambushing him and ordered Lord Crocodile to kill him, but Old Smoker revealed that Quake had been poisoned with Five-Colored Coral and would need an antidote.

Jiang Fan arrived at the Broken Blade Tavern seeking Old Smoker and used Xu Quezi’s miniature bronze sword to confirm her identity. After killing Lord Crocodile and crushing the Yellow Sand Cult members, he left Old Smoker safe, though the chapter ended before they could talk privately.

• Jiang Fan entered the Broken Blade Tavern and asked for Old Smoker, learning that the woman present was her.
• Lord Crocodile warned Jiang Fan to stay out of the Yellow Sand Cult’s punishment of Old Smoker and the tavern.
• Jiang Fan showed Old Smoker the Miniature Bronze Longsword, and she recognized its connection to Xu Quezi.
• Old Smoker urged Jiang Fan to flee and carry word of her fate to Xu Quezi, but Jiang Fan promised to protect her.
• Lord Crocodile attacked Jiang Fan, who caught his claw, sent him crashing into a wall, and killed him with a finger strike.
• Jiang Fan crushed Quake and the remaining Yellow Sand Cult members as they tried to escape.

Jiang Fan killed Lord Crocodile and the Yellow Sand Cult fighters who had threatened Old Smoker, then asked her to talk. Old Smoker agreed the tavern patrons could leave but said she still had an unresolved matter, which she began explaining to Jiang Fan.

• The tavern patrons feared Jiang Fan after he killed Lord Crocodile and dozens of Yellow Sand Cult fighters in an instant.
• Old Smoker thanked Jiang Fan for saving her, and he said he had acted because he needed her help.
• Jiang Fan asked whether the remaining patrons needed to stay, and Old Smoker dismissed them after they begged for mercy.
• Jiang Fan asked Old Smoker to talk, but she said she still had an unresolved matter and began recounting what had happened in the tavern.

Jiang Fan received information from Old Smoker about the Blood Butcher Organization and its role in the Yellow Sand Cult’s activity on Gray Rock Star. He learned that Blood Owl was overseeing the operation in Ziling City, then left after telling Old Smoker that Xu Quezi still seemed to value their past.

• Jiang Fan reminded Old Smoker that the Broken Blade Tavern respected customer privacy, and she apologized before giving him documents about the Blood Butcher Organization.
• Old Smoker explained that she helped because Jiang Fan carried Xu Quezi’s keepsake, and she warned him that the organization was powerful.
• Old Smoker revealed that the Yellow Sand Cult was an affiliated force acting to seize Gray Rock Star’s remaining resources as the Federation withdrew.
• Old Smoker said the Blood Butcher Organization had sent its Vice President Blood Owl, a Level 13 Great Expert, to oversee the operation from the Yellow Sand Cult headquarters in Ziling City.
• Jiang Fan thanked Old Smoker and prepared to leave, then told her Xu Quezi was an Elder of the Federal Arbitration Office Elder Council and suggested he still cherished their past.

Jiang Fan investigated Blood Owl by sensing the Yellow Sand Cult headquarters in Ziling City, while Blood Owl oversaw the cult’s expansion across Gray Rock Star. The Yellow Sand Cult President learned that Jiang Fan had wiped out the White Stone City branch, including Lord Crocodile.

• Jiang Fan left Broken Blade Tavern, wiped out the Yellow Sand Cult in White Stone City, and used Spatial Flash to reach Ziling City.
• Jiang Fan spread his perception across Ziling City to observe Blood Owl and investigate the Blood Butcher Organization’s plans.
• Blood Owl praised the Yellow Sand Cult’s leaders for bringing twenty-one of Gray Rock Star’s twenty-eight cities under their control and rewarded them with skill manuals.
• Blood Owl promised that the Blood Butcher would leave the Yellow Sand Cult to govern Gray Rock Star’s daily affairs once its forces had been unified.
• A subordinate reported that the Yellow Sand Cult’s White Stone City branch had been wiped out, including Lord Crocodile, shocking the Yellow Sand Cult President.

Blood Owl killed the Yellow Sand Cult president and appointed a replacement, demanding that he identify the person responsible for the White Stone City branch’s destruction within a day. Jiang Fan then entered Blood Owl’s hall and revealed that he had killed Roger, the Blood Butcher forces in the Shattered Corridor, and the Yellow Sand Cult branch.

• Blood Owl killed the Yellow Sand Cult president for failing to identify the attacker and appointed a black-haired elder as the new president.
• The new president promised to find the culprit within one day as Blood Owl described how he would torture the intruder.
• Jiang Fan walked into Blood Owl’s hall unnoticed and suggested how to torture the person Blood Owl was imagining.
• Jiang Fan identified himself and confessed to killing Roger, the Blood Butcher fighters in the Shattered Corridor, and the White Stone City branch.
• Blood Owl recognized Jiang Fan as the hall fell silent.

Jiang Fan battled Blood Owl inside the Yellow Sand Cult's main hall, overcoming the Blood Owl's deadly blood-shadow technique with his Gravity Domain and Time Stasis. He destroyed Blood Owl's vital meridians, leaving the Vice President defeated as the blood shadows disappeared.

• Blood Owl unleashed crushing pressure and threatened to torture Jiang Fan, who mocked him and stood unaffected.
• Blood Owl attacked with a huge Ghost Claw, but Jiang Fan used Spatial Ability to dodge and counterpunch him.
• Blood Owl transformed into thousands of blood shadows that pursued Jiang Fan, while Jiang Fan's Spatial Rift only split them temporarily.
• Jiang Fan stopped retreating and used his Gravity Domain to pin down Blood Owl and his blood shadows.
• Jiang Fan activated Time Stasis and shattered Blood Owl's vital meridians, causing the blood shadows to vanish.

Jiang Fan used Spiritual Illusion to probe Blood Owl’s memories and learned that the Blood Butcher Organization was secretly stockpiling strategic minerals to manufacture powerful weapons and prepare for rebellion. Blood Owl did not know who inside the Federal Arbitration Office was collaborating with the organization, and he awoke as Jiang Fan finished probing.

• Jiang Fan questioned Blood Owl about the organization’s expansion and its intelligence on the Purifier Squad, but Blood Owl refused to answer and threatened him.
• Jiang Fan used Spiritual Illusion to search Blood Owl’s memories and discovered the organization was seizing Ash Star Iron and other regulated minerals to build weapons and war machines.
• Jiang Fan learned the organization had expanded its operations across the Qiyuan Star Domain’s border regions and suspected it was preparing to rebel against the Federal Government.
• Jiang Fan probed Blood Owl’s memories further and learned the organization’s president had abruptly urged its members to oppose the Federal Government on the night before its planned dissolution.
• Jiang Fan suspected the Federal Arbitration Office’s traitors had influenced the president’s change of heart, but Blood Owl’s memories did not reveal the collaborator’s identity.
• Blood Owl awoke from the illusion after Jiang Fan withdrew his Spiritual Energy.

Jiang Fan killed Blood Owl and the Yellow Sand Cult’s leaders after extracting Blood Butcher Organization intelligence from Blood Owl’s memories. He left Gray Rock Star to reassess his plan, deciding to investigate the organization’s president before launching an attack.

• Jiang Fan used Spiritual Illusion to read Blood Owl’s memories, then killed him after Blood Owl refused to cooperate.
• The Yellow Sand Cult’s leaders begged Jiang Fan for mercy and offered information, but he said he already knew everything from Blood Owl and killed them.
• Jiang Fan left Gray Rock Star after wiping out the Yellow Sand Cult’s key figures.
• Jiang Fan compared Blood Owl’s memories with Old Smoker’s intelligence and learned that the Blood Butcher Organization had powerful leaders and forces, while its president’s strength remained unknown.
• Jiang Fan abandoned his plan to attack the Blood Butcher camp immediately and decided to probe the president’s true strength first.

Jiang Fan traveled to Lan Sha Reef to infiltrate the Blood Butcher Organization’s upcoming Scarlet Meeting and gather information about its leadership. He located the meeting site three days before the event and began planning how to get inside.

• Jiang Fan recalled that Blood Ancestor had ordered the Scarlet Blade Generals to attend the Scarlet Meeting and decided to disguise himself as venue staff.
• Jiang Fan traveled to Qiyuan Star Domain, cultivating on the way until his qi and blood reached 68 million.
• Jiang Fan entered the Dust Belt near Lan Sha Reef, concealed his aircraft, and continued alone to avoid surveillance.
• Jiang Fan arrived at Lan Sha Reef and used his consciousness to survey the island and locate the Blood Butcher Organization’s meeting site.
• Jiang Fan noted that the meeting was three days away and prepared to investigate how to sneak inside.

Jiang Fan infiltrated the Scarlet Meeting as a server and watched the Blood Butcher Organization discover that Vice President Blood Owl had gone missing. The meeting continued, and Blood Ancestor introduced Councilor Ace, the representative of the Endless Armament, whom Jiang Fan recognized.

• After sensing that someone had watched him, Jiang Fan grew cautious and had the organizers add his name to the Scarlet Meeting's service staff list.
• Jiang Fan entered the meeting hall in a server's uniform and identified the Blood Butcher Organization's leaders, councilors, and combat force.
• Blood Ancestor demanded to know why Blood Owl had not arrived, and Blood Nightmare failed to reach him or the affiliated forces on Gray Rock Star.
• The attendees realized Blood Owl had not been heard from in about a month, and Blood Ancestor ordered Blood Nightmare to investigate after the meeting.
• Blood Ancestor resumed the meeting and introduced Councilor Ace as the representative of the Endless Armament, prompting Jiang Fan to recognize him.

Jiang Fan learned that the Blood Butcher Organization was working with Endless Armament to manufacture Starry Sky Weapons and suspected the group was colluding with insiders at the Federal Arbitration Office. After Blood Ancestor ordered all unrelated personnel killed, Jiang Fan was trapped in the hall as panicked staff tried to flee.

• Blood Nightmare presented the Blood Butcher Organization’s Starry Sky Armament goals and progress, estimating that production could be completed in about half a year if resources arrived on schedule.
• Ace assured Blood Ancestor that Endless Armament could meet the production schedule, but warned that a shortage of Ash Star Iron from Gray Rock Star threatened the plan.
• Blood Ancestor promised that Blood Nightmare would investigate Gray Rock Star and said he would intervene if necessary, while Ace offered to advance production stages that did not require Ash Star Iron.
• Jiang Fan listened to the meeting and concluded that the Blood Butcher Organization’s operations were linked to corrupt officials inside the Federal Arbitration Office, but decided he still needed to probe Blood Ancestor.
• Blood Ancestor ended the meeting and ordered the unrelated personnel killed, prompting Jiang Fan and the other staff to realize they were being silenced as people screamed and rushed for the exit.

Jiang Fan was discovered spying on the Scarlet Meeting and tried to escape, but Blood Ancestor blocked his Spatial Ability. Blood Ancestor revealed that the Blood Butcher Organization planned to kill everyone at the gathering, leaving Jiang Fan surrounded by powerful enemies.

• A General in the Scarlet Blade and the other Generals killed several fleeing service staff.
• Jiang Fan deflected a General’s attack, killing him, then opened a Space Channel to escape.
• Blood Ancestor stopped Jiang Fan from traveling through space, forcing him to withdraw from the Space Channel.
• Blood Ancestor explained that he had detected Jiang Fan’s unusual mental perception and had seen through his disguise.
• Jiang Fan realized the service staff had died because of him, but Blood Ancestor said the Blood Butcher Organization would have killed everyone at the Scarlet Meeting anyway.

Jiang Fan pretended to struggle against the Blood Butcher Organization while using his Spatial Ability to evade its attacks. As the attackers tightened their formation and wounded him, they believed they were wearing him down, while Jiang Fan continued to conceal his true intentions.

• Jiang Fan decided to feign weakness so he could strike the attackers without giving the Blood Ancestor time to intervene.
• The Blood Butcher Organization's councilors and Generals attacked Jiang Fan, but he escaped their barrage unharmed using Spatial Ability.
• The Blood Ancestor revealed that he had sealed the area within a one-kilometer radius, and the attackers spread out to anticipate Jiang Fan's appearances.
• Jiang Fan used Spatial Shuttle to strike a General, then dodged the group's attacks as they closed off escape routes.
• The attackers coordinated their attacks and inflicted several wounds on Jiang Fan, believing his repeated Spatial Shuttles were exhausting him.
• Jiang Fan continued to appear increasingly injured and sluggish as the Blood Butcher Organization intensified its assault.

Jiang Fan lured the Blood Butcher Organization’s core forces into a trap and annihilated them, but Blood Ancestor badly injured him and moved to finish him off. Councilor Ace intervened, revealed his strength, and declared that he was protecting Jiang Fan as a member of the Federal Deep Scar Division.

• The Blood Butcher Organization’s experts converged on Jiang Fan, but he revealed his trap and destroyed dozens of them with a burst of five-element energy.
• Blood Ancestor struck Jiang Fan and sealed the Space Channels, leaving him severely injured and unable to escape.
• Blood Ancestor unleashed another powerful palm attack, and Jiang Fan’s giant sword shattered against it.
• Councilor Ace stopped Blood Ancestor’s attack and drove off Blood Nightmare and Blood Scholar when they tried to interfere.
• Councilor Ace told Blood Ancestor he was protecting Jiang Fan and identified himself as a member of the Federal Deep Scar Division.

Ace revealed that he was a member of the Federal Deep Scar Division and explained that the Blood Butcher Organization had been a target because of its ties to the Endless Armament. Blood Ancestor attacked Ace and Jiang Fan, but Ace protected Jiang Fan and countered his techniques; Blood Ancestor then began a desperate escalation.

• Ace told Blood Ancestor that the Federation had monitored the Endless Armament and viewed the Blood Butcher Organization as a way to take it down.
• Blood Ancestor, enraged by Ace’s contempt, attacked Ace and Jiang Fan with a palm strike.
• Ace teleported Jiang Fan to safety and matched Blood Ancestor’s attack with a punch.
• Blood Ancestor unleashed his Blood Sea Filling the Sky, but Ace summoned a mechanical eye that erased the blood waves.
• Ace urged Blood Ancestor to surrender and reveal his accomplices, but Blood Ancestor refused and sprayed his natal blood essence onto his chest.

Ace defeated Blood Ancestor by finding and striking the core of his Crimson Purgatory, then took him alive to investigate Endless Armament. He told Jiang Fan to return and promised an answer about the Federal Arbitration Office after dealing with Endless Armament.

• Blood Ancestor unleashed his Level 14 innate domain, Crimson Purgatory, and tried to trap and refine Ace.
• Ace let Blood Ancestor believe the domain had caught him, then revealed its attacks passed through him because he had found a flaw.
• Ace struck Crimson Purgatory’s core, destroying the domain and knocking Blood Ancestor into a pit.
• Ace stabilized Blood Ancestor’s injuries and kept him alive because he knew about Endless Armament.
• Ace told Jiang Fan to return and promised to answer his questions about the Federal Arbitration Office after dealing with Endless Armament, then left with Blood Ancestor.