Recaps

Su Ming formed Azure Mercury with Chi Qian and her former companions, led them through a successful Rank A mission, and began training them for advancement. As the team grew stronger and drew attention, Su Ming sold valuable loot through Qin Qing and attended her auction, where Zhang Chen confronted him.

• Mu Yan, Feng Qing'er, and Tong Xinyao offered ten years of service to Su Ming in exchange for freeing Chi Qian, but Su Ming instead negotiated long-term contracts and promised the women salaries, bonuses, and advancement support.
• Mu Yan, Feng Qing'er, and Tong Xinyao accepted Su Ming’s offer, and he named their new team Azure Mercury and made Xu Xiayan’s villa its headquarters.
• Su Ming took Azure Mercury on a Rank A mission, used Myriad Karma Brahma Vista to destroy a legion of Phantasmal Demons, and helped the women kill the Five-Star Peak Level ghoul.
• Su Ming gave Chi Qian a top-quality Alchemy Potion, and she later returned to training healed and promised to commit herself to Azure Mercury.
• Su Ming trained the team with Crimson Vein Stones and Green Vine Breath, while the women prepared to advance and Chi Qian and Mu Yan were expected to progress within a week.
• Su Ming sold valuable mission spoils and Crimson Vein Stones through Qin Qing, then spent several days training and improving his strength before attending her auction in disguise as Wang Yue.
• Steward Yu welcomed Su Ming as Young Master Wang and escorted him to a private room, where Qin Qing discussed the auction items and offered him credit for bidding.
• Zhang Chen entered Su Ming’s private room with Liu Zai and guards, insisted on staying despite Qin Qing’s objection, and questioned Su Ming after Qin Qing moved beside him.

Su Ming profited from the auction, defeated Zhang Chen, and built Azure Mercury into a rising team while accepting Xu Xiayan’s commission. The arc ends as the Hidden Wonderland opens and Su Ming’s group prepares to explore its labyrinth.

• Zhang Chen tried to outbid Su Ming at the auction, but Xu Xiayan won the Crimson Vein Stones for 1,500,000 Contribution Points, and Qin Qing transferred Su Ming’s 2,030,000-point proceeds.
• Su Ming ambushed Zhang Chen and his companions, defeated them, and escaped after disabling the surveillance and detection devices.
• Su Ming returned home and concealed his identity while his companions finished training, with Chi Qian advancing to Six-Star and Mu Yan reaching Five-Star.
• Xu Xiayan visited Su Ming’s villa, learned about his powerful team, and offered Azure Mercury 500,000 Contribution Points and access to the Hidden Wonderland’s treasures for helping Summer Chasing Smoke.
• Su Ming accepted Xu Xiayan’s commission, and Chi Qian led Azure Mercury through twelve Rank B Missions to earn promotion to Rank C.
• At Xu Xiayan’s gathering, Qiao Zhi offered to support Su Ming if he surrendered Chi Qian’s Contract Scroll, but Su Ming and Chi Qian rejected him and affirmed her loyalty to Azure Mercury.
• Su Ming and his companions met Xu Xiayan at the Hidden Wonderland, where they learned that the mission involved exploring a ten-level labyrinth while S-class teams hunted Phantom Demons outside.
• Xu Xiayan sent the teams a map and instructed them to explore separately, then meet at the marked destination on the tenth level seven days later as Su Ming’s group prepared to enter.

Su Ming’s team descended through the Extreme Night Maze, where Xiao Hai’er became a complete Nightmare Breed after drinking Purple Snow Sap Essence. At the tenth-floor camp, the teams learned of a dangerous mission to investigate a wounded Mutated Nightmare Breed, and Xu Xiayan led the strongest Professionals toward the sleeping Hell Beast.

• Su Ming led his team through the maze, defeated a powerful Giant Phantasmal Demon, and found a pool of Purple Snow Sap Essence.
• Xiao Hai’er drank the essence, matured into a complete Nightmare Breed, and gained human and mermaid forms.
• Sin’s Shadow pursued Su Ming through the maze while Sin’s Vice-Leader prepared for the group’s operation.
• Su Ming’s team gathered with the other teams on the tenth floor, where Xu Xiayan revealed their mission to find Golden Silk Dream Demon Thread and investigate a Mutated Nightmare Breed.
• Xu Xiayan selected the strongest Professionals for the investigation, and Su Ming and Tong Xinyao proved their advanced Spiritual Arts to the assembled teams.
• Xu Xiayan led the scouting group into a canyon, where they found countless corpses and the wounded Hell Beast sleeping in a basin.
• The group carefully passed the inactive corpses and reached a point a hundred meters from the Hell Beast, where Bai Ruxiang and Bai Xiaoyan prepared their instruments.

Su Ming survived the clash with Sin, learned that Ling Xiao wanted him as a successor, and turned his attention to finding An Zijin. After discovering the Qin Family planned to use her in a dangerous inheritance experiment, he challenged Qin Yue and began a fight that left Ling Xiao watching to see how he would respond.

• Su Ming fought Crow and Qingqing as the Demon Emperor Sword broke free of the Blue Demon Peace Ring, and the clash of divine artifacts devastated the Extreme Night Maze.
• After waking in Elder Ling’s home, Su Ming learned that Ling Xiao was Tianfeng City’s Guardian God and refused his offer to become a disciple or openly take his place.
• Su Ming learned of the deaths and losses caused by Sin, confirmed that Chi Qian and his other companions survived, and vowed to remember his grudge against them.
• Su Ming met Qin Qing to ask about An Zijin and learned that the Qin Family had brought her to Tianfeng City because she was a high-level Spirit Bearer.
• Qin Qing revealed that the Qin Family wanted An Zijin to take a Phantasmal Demon Elixir and bear dual-class heirs, though her chance of surviving the process was below ten percent.
• Su Ming rejected the Qin Family’s plan, faced Qin Yue and his retainers, and declared that the royal clan could no longer decide whether others lived or died.
• Su Ming refused Qin Yue’s attempt to settle the dispute through persuasion, resolved to bring An Zijin back, and fought him as Qin Qing and Ling Xiao watched.