Recaps

Huang Lei assessed Li Wei’s talent and offered her Martial Arts Alliance support after learning she had married into the Gu Family. He confirmed her Great Perfection foundation and promised monthly contribution points, while Li Wei declined this year’s Genius Training Camp because she planned to go to Western Xinjiang.

• Huang Lei tried to introduce his son to Li Wei, but she told him she had married into the Gu Family that morning.
• Huang Lei explained that he could not recruit Li Wei directly, though he could still support her as a genius.
• Li Wei told Huang Lei her pre-breakthrough vitality peak was 93, and he reconsidered how her techniques had shaped her performance in battle.
• Huang Lei confirmed that Li Wei’s blood test showed a Great Perfection foundation and said he would seek a place for her in the Genius Training Camp.
• Huang Lei promised Li Wei 1,000 Alliance Contribution Points per month and said he would pursue Double Armor treatment, while Li Wei declined this year’s camp.

After receiving her First Order martial artist certification, Li Wei returned to Gu Garden, ate dinner, and tried to shop online, only to be overwhelmed by calls from supposedly close friends. Her grandmother told her to check the trending searches, hinting that Li Wei had caused the Jiang Family to make a spectacular fool of itself.

• Li Wei received her First Order martial artist identity certification and rode back to Gu Garden with her new assistant, Gu Yan.
• Li Wei found the entrance to Gu Jinzhi's Small Building through the underground garage, learned the household would be away, and devoured the dinner laid out for her.
• Li Wei answered calls from Ning Hua and Zou Jingya, both of whom acted far more intimate than their past relationships warranted.
• Li Wei received a flood of similar calls from old acquaintances and unfamiliar numbers, then spent two hours brushing them off.
• Jiang Xinyue called Li Wei and told her to check the trending searches, saying Li Wei had made the Jiang Family a spectacle.

Li Wei checked the uproar surrounding Jiang Xue, tested the limits of her 99+1 state, and decided to prepare for entering a rift. Meanwhile, Gu Jinzhi pushed himself through a brutal training session, and a girl at the martial arts hall secretly reported that her attempt had failed.

• Li Wei saw Heavenly Machine Network trending posts exposing Jiang Xue and spreading rumors about her marriage to Gu Jinzhi, so she planned to shop for supplies and enter a rift the next day.
• Li Wei tested her 99+1 state and discovered she could sustain it for about five minutes, gaining 40 points in her Great Yin Jade Lotus Treasure Scroll before collapsing from mental exhaustion.
• At the Zeng family’s martial arts hall, Gu Jinzhi fought four coaches until he was exhausted and collapsed, despite Zeng Yi warning him about his injuries and upcoming wedding.
• A girl brought medicine for Gu Jinzhi and offered to apply it, but he refused, and Zeng Yi warned her not to pursue him.
• After leaving the lounge, the girl went to a restroom and sent a message saying, “Failed.”

Gu Jinzhi struggled with his unfamiliar feelings for Li Wei and refused Zeng Yi’s offer to accompany him to Xijiang. After leaving the martial arts hall injured, he returned home, where Li Wei came to check on him and heard him order everyone out.

• Zeng Yi treated Gu Jinzhi’s bruises and guessed that his turmoil came from his feelings for his newly married wife.
• Gu Jinzhi recalled Li Wei in her wedding dress and admitted to himself that he feared wavering, so he had tried to suppress his feelings through pain.
• Zeng Yi insisted on accompanying Gu Jinzhi to Xijiang, but Gu Jinzhi refused and told him to stay out of the matter.
• Angry, Zeng Yi smashed the sofa and left, while Gu Jinzhi tucked away the ointment and limped out of the Shark Martial Arts Hall.
• At 02:13, Li Wei woke to find servants tending to Gu Jinzhi and went into his room, where he angrily ordered everyone out.

Li Wei stayed in Gu Jinzhi’s bedroom to treat his injuries, despite his attempts to send her away. Their awkward closeness was interrupted when Liang Qiushi walked in and misread their position, leaving Li Wei and Gu Jinzhi mortified.

• After Gu Jinzhi told the servants and Li Wei to leave, Li Wei returned to his room and offered to help treat his injuries.
• Li Wei pinned Gu Jinzhi down and cleaned his wounds before applying the Zeng Family ointment to his back.
• While treating Gu Jinzhi, Li Wei teased him, and he struggled to hide his embarrassment and physical reaction.
• Li Wei crouched to help Gu Jinzhi remove his socks just as Liang Qiushi entered the bedroom.
• Liang Qiushi quickly shut the door, and Li Wei and Gu Jinzhi realized their pose had looked compromising.

Li Wei left Gu Garden for Huanmao Center to prepare for entering an Abyss Rift, while the Zhang and Yun families revised their plans after learning that Jiang Xue was only First Order but unexpectedly powerful. The chapter left the Zhang Family still intent on attending the Gu Family wedding and Yun Xi instructing Yun Lan to undermine Jiang Xue at Qingyun.

• Li Wei hurried out of breakfast and went with Gu Yan to Huanmao Center, planning to train in the Abyss Rift until she reached Second Order.
• Liang Qiushi asked Gu Jinzhi about the previous night, and he insisted Jiang Xue had only helped him apply medicine.
• Zhang Yansheng learned Jiang Xue was First Order and changed the Zhang Family's plan, though he still intended to attend the Gu Family wedding with hired experts.
• A Zhang Family operative told Yun Xi that sixteen girls had been sent to gather intelligence on and potentially seduce Gu Jinzhi, and that their orders had shifted to seduction two days earlier.
• Yun Xi warned Yun Lan not to provoke Jiang Xue, then told her to have Lei Xiaoyu challenge Jiang Xue at team tryouts and prevent her from establishing herself at Qingyun.

Li Wei learned the dangers and rules of entering an Abyss Rift, then completed preparations to enter the C3-01-045 rift. After discovering that her expensive hiking gear was useless and receiving a standard combat uniform and Order Bracelet, she stepped through the rift entrance.

• Li Wei learned that she could return from the rift by finding an upward passage, and that her hiking supplies had been an unnecessary purchase.
• The Investigation Bureau instructor gave Li Wei an Order Bracelet and explained its hourly counting test and the need to retreat if she counted incorrectly.
• The instructor advised Li Wei, a First Order martial artist, to remain in the rift’s shallows.
• Li Wei collected a standard combat uniform, registered her identity, and left her personal belongings behind before joining the line to enter.
• At the final checkpoint, a young Bureau worker verified Li Wei’s identity and told her to stay safe.
• Li Wei took a breath and entered the Abyss Rift through the distorted air.

Li Wei searched a silent underground parking garage in a C-rank rift, then lured out and killed a weak Abyss monster. She continued deeper into the garage with her Abyss Essence increased to 212.

• Li Wei emerged in an empty underground parking garage and cautiously searched its rows of cars and marked zones.
• After finding no monsters, Li Wei decided to stay in the shallow layer and try to draw one out rather than risk going deeper.
• Li Wei raced through the garage, singing and smashing cars and pillars until she reached Zone G.
• A mannequin-like creature in a security guard uniform appeared, and Li Wei killed it with a swift strike.
• Black qi entered Li Wei, raising her Abyss Essence from 203 to 212.

Li Wei explored deeper into the Abyss Rift, killing monsters throughout a warped shopping mall while collecting Abyss Essence. After descending into a more decayed parking lot, she heard a battle and human voices nearby.

• Li Wei found a stairwell in the parking lot and descended into a mall that appeared on the second floor despite being below ground.
• Li Wei killed monsters that emerged as she sang through the mall, gaining Abyss Essence and counting to nine whenever her Order Bracelet vibrated.
• After killing nine monsters and reaching 307 Abyss Essence, Li Wei decided the mall was too slow to explore and descended farther.
• Li Wei entered a more dilapidated parking lot and heard what sounded like people fighting, so she concealed her aura and crept toward them.

Li Wei carved through the Abyss monsters in the parking garage, rescuing several groups of martial artists and rapidly increasing her essence. She ignored the valuable Existence Material and raced deeper into the rift, leaving the grateful martial artists behind.

• Li Wei silently killed five second-order Abyss monsters just as they were about to overwhelm the Bearded Man captain and his group.
• The rescued martial artists thanked Li Wei, while Old Qin shielded the exposed Existence Material; Li Wei ignored it and hurried deeper into the garage.
• Li Wei encountered increasing numbers of first- and second-order Abyss monsters and killed them to gain essence.
• Li Wei saved two more groups of martial artists by clearing their monsters, and they welcomed her intervention despite her taking their kills.
• The martial artists began spreading word of Li Wei's monster-clearing exploits as she sped farther into the rift.

Li Wei heard that an Investigation Bureau team was trapped by an Abyss monster riot and joined a volunteer rescue mission. The chapter ended with volunteers preparing to enter the rift, while Li Wei wondered how much Abyss Essence she could collect.

• Li Wei saw that her combat training had increased her Combat Method proficiency and went to the cafeteria to eat and buy supplies.
• Martial artists at the cafeteria nicknamed Li Wei the “Little Bodhisattva in Black” after hearing she had killed monsters without taking their existence matter.
• An emergency announcement said Rift C3-01-045 would be sealed and called for volunteers to rescue an Investigation Bureau team trapped deep inside.
• Li Wei joined the volunteers, and roughly two hundred martial artists remained after the briefing warned them they would have to advance alone without support.
• The gray-haired officer saluted the volunteers, then ordered staff to distribute equipment and let them leave brief messages for their families.
• Li Wei waited to receive her gear and wondered how much Essence she could collect during the rescue.

Li Wei joined the volunteer rescue operation at the Huanmao Center, while officials and the Gu Family rushed to respond to the crisis surrounding Min Zimo. The operation began with the volunteers entering the rift, and Yang Yunshan learned that Gu Jinzhi’s wife, Li Wei, was a Great Perfection martial artist.

• Li Wei gathered her equipment and joined the volunteers despite being only First Order, while Yu Jing'an ordered a lockdown and investigation at the Huanmao Center.
• Li Wei watched volunteers record final messages, then joked that she would hold her wedding after the operation.
• After learning the Huanmao Center was under martial law, Gu Jinzhi left his training and hurried there, while Huang Lei mobilized Third Order martial artists to provide support.
• Yang Yunshan sent the Third Order, Second Order, and remaining volunteers into the rift, with Li Wei charging in first.
• After the operation began, Xiao Mo told Yang Yunshan that Li Wei was among the volunteers and had reached Great Perfection.

Min Zimo and his nine investigators were trapped in the Abyss Rift’s Eighth Layer by a Great Dream Cult ambush and a horde of abyss monsters. After killing a Third-order Octopus Monster, Min Zimo decided they would hold out for forty minutes before attempting to reach the Ninth Layer’s Inverted Domain, where they hoped to meet reinforcements.

• Min Zimo led his exhausted team into a defensible shop and ordered them to rotate their defenses against the attacking monsters.
• Min Zimo rejected his teammates’ offer to sacrifice themselves to help him escape and insisted they would face the danger together.
• An injured team member asked whether anyone had received their distress signal, and Min Zimo urged the team to keep fighting until reinforcements arrived.
• Min Zimo charged into the monster horde and killed the Third-order Octopus Monster with a blazing spear strike.
• Min Zimo proposed that the team reach the Ninth Layer’s Inverted Domain, and the investigators agreed to hold their position for forty minutes before breaking out.

Li Wei descended through the shifting Global Trade Center in search of the rescue team, but a powerful tentacled monster ambushed her at the next stairwell. Outside the rift, Gu Jinzhi joined the rescue effort, while Yun Xi first ordered Jiang Xue rescued alive and then abruptly withdrew the order.

• Li Wei crossed an automobile dealership and searched the mall for a route to the next floor.
• At the rift exit plaza, Yang Yunshan fielded demands from powerful groups asking him to find people inside, but said his personnel had already entered.
• Li Wei reached the B3 parking lot, searched its scrambled layout, and found a stairwell after several minutes.
• A tentacled monster attacked Li Wei at the stairwell entrance, wounded her hand, and knocked her onto a car.
• Gu Jinzhi received confirmation that his application to join the rescue team had been approved and resolved to go in for Jiang Xue.
• Yun Xi ordered her elite forces to retrieve Jiang Xue alive, then changed her mind and dismissed her subordinate.

Li Wei fought and killed a Third-Order octopus monster on the second floor after upgrading Cold Pool Sinking Jade to Grand Completion and awakening Saber Intent. She feared the monster’s presence in the shallow zone meant the ongoing rescue operation could become a massacre.

• Li Wei dodged the octopus monster’s tentacles and discovered that its speed, reactions, and defenses made it a Third-Order threat.
• Li Wei chose to stay and fight rather than leave the monster for the weaker people arriving behind her.
• Li Wei spent Abyss Essence to advance Cold Pool Sinking Jade to Grand Completion, gaining Saber Intent that concealed her attacks and strengthened her strikes.
• Li Wei used her new Saber Intent to sever the monster’s tentacles, then repeatedly stabbed its core tumor until it died.
• Li Wei gained 93 Abyss Essence and, despite her injuries and depleted qi and blood, worried that other Third-Order monsters could turn the rescue operation into a massacre.

As tier-3 Octopus Monsters appeared in the rift’s shallow areas, the rescue effort faced mounting danger while Li Wei pressed deeper into the stairwell. At the B1 supermarket, a mysterious sword strike saved Xiao Fu from the monster’s tentacles, but the attacker’s identity remained unknown.

• Li Wei treated her hand and rib wounds with medical supplies, then charged back into the stairwell.
• A badly injured martial artist escaped the rift and told Yang Yunshan that tier-3 Octopus Monsters were in the shallow area.
• Ding Pojun ordered Yang Yunshan to send the next backup squad directly to the Ninth Layer and clear obstacles at all costs.
• Gu Jinzhi arrived at the Huanmao Center as the second rescue squad assembled.
• At the B1 supermarket, a tier-3 Octopus Monster overwhelmed an armored investigator and impaled A-Yang as he pushed Xiao Fu out of danger.
• Xiao Fu charged the monster, but a moonlike sword flash severed the tentacles about to strike her.

Li Wei killed the Octopus Monster and left three survivors in the investigator’s care, while Min Zimo’s team struggled against monsters and Liu Zhao’s Abyssal erosion. Outside the rift, the temporary hospital filled with wounded martial artists as Yang Yunshan prepared a second wave of reinforcements.

• Li Wei killed the Octopus Monster, asked the investigator to lead Xiao Fu and A-Yang out, and vanished after saying she hated tragedies.
• Min Zimo and his teammates rotated counting to keep their Order Bracelets from constricting while they fought off the Abyssal monsters.
• Liu Zhao repeatedly lost count as his wound showed signs of Abyssal erosion, but Min Zimo urged him to keep counting and promised the team would break through together.
• At the rift exit, medical staff treated a steady stream of wounded martial artists in an overcrowded temporary hospital.
• Yang Yunshan suppressed his guilt over the casualties and continued preparing a second wave of emergency reinforcements.

Jiang Xinyue and Huang Lei watched anxiously as rescuers battled through the rift, while Li Wei patrolled its third layer and saved an injured martial artist. Gu Jinzhi joined the second wave of rescuers and entered the rift with Zhou Shi’s squad to search for Jiang Xue and Min Zimo.

• Jiang Xinyue and Huang Lei waited above Huanmao Center, worried about Jiang Xue and Min Zimo as powerful figures monitored the rift.
• Li Wei killed four second-tier abyss monsters, urged an injured martial artist to evacuate, and continued patrolling the third layer to protect people in its shallow areas.
• Gu Jinzhi joined Zhou Shi’s squad in the preparation area and received a deep purple wristband designed to keep the group together inside the rift.
• Xue Ling disparaged Jiang Xue’s rescue effort, but Gu Jinzhi’s martial intent silenced him, and Zhou Shi rebuked him for his disrespect.
• Yang Yunshan ordered the second-wave squads to enter, and Gu Jinzhi followed Zhou Shi toward the rift.

Zeng Yi led a group of young heirs to Huanmao Center to rescue Da Zhi’s sister-in-law, but they were barred from entering and their stolen weapons exposed. Zeng Yi was flung into the sky, and the others were hauled away by furious relatives, leaving the plaza empty.

• Zeng Yi rallied his friends outside Huanmao Center and declared they would charge in to rescue Sister-in-law.
• An investigator stopped the group from entering, and Zeng Yi’s father revealed that bringing high-ranked divine weapons into a C-rank rift was impossible.
• Zeng Yi discovered that his friends had stolen the weapons from their families, then an irresistible force shot him into the sky.
• Zeng Yi vanished after shouting that he would be back, while the remaining heirs watched in shock.
• Angry relatives arrived, seized the young men and carried or dragged them away.

Gu Jinzhi saved Xue Ling from a hidden Octopus Monster, then joined Zhou Shi’s team as more monsters surrounded them. Meanwhile, exhausted Li Wei pushed deeper into the Rift in search of the rescue target, leaving the story with her racing toward the lower layers.

• Gu Jinzhi killed a hidden Octopus Monster before it could attack Xue Ling, and Xue Ling thanked him as the team continued onward.
• Zhou Shi’s team found a corridor strewn with human remains, then faced seven Octopus Monsters closing in from both directions.
• Zhou Shi ordered the team into a circular battle formation and assigned Gu Jinzhi to provide support as he prepared to fight.
• Li Wei checked that she had rescued about thirty Martial Artists and accumulated 2127 Abyss Essence, though her body was badly overdrawn.
• Li Wei resolved to continue searching for the rescue target and sped through the lower layers while avoiding unnecessary battles.

Min Zimo led his injured team through the abyssal monster horde and down a ruined stairwell into the Ninth Layer, the Inverted Domain. The team arrived in its shifting, chaotic landscape, where awakened Octopus Monsters surrounded them.

• Min Zimo broke a path through the monsters with his spear and led the team toward the stairwell in an Arrowhead Formation.
• Min Zimo saved Liu Zhao from an Octopus Monster, took a serious shoulder wound, and continued defending the team as they advanced.
• The team reached the stairwell, and Min Zimo collapsed part of its entrance behind them before urging everyone to keep moving.
• Min Zimo and the team descended through the distorted stairwell and entered the Ninth Layer, the Inverted Domain.
• Octopus Monsters across the floating islands woke and began crawling toward the team.

Yang Yunshan learned that the first rescue wave had failed and that Jiang Xue had stayed inside the rift to search for Min Zimo. Reports of Jiang Xue’s extraordinary strength gave him a moment’s hope, but devastating losses among the second wave left him ordering a third rescue wave anyway.

• A communications investigator reported that the first rescue wave had lost many people and was declared a failure, while survivors said Jiang Xue had rescued them by killing Third-order octopuses.
• Yang Yunshan learned Jiang Xue had not evacuated and had gone deeper into the rift, then heard survivor accounts describing her overwhelming strength.
• Yang Yunshan worried that Jiang Xue might be lost, though he briefly hoped she could help Min Zimo’s group hold out.
• An investigator reported that a second-wave squad had encountered more than a dozen octopuses and only five of its ten members had escaped.
• Yang Yunshan ordered the Martial Arts Alliance to organize a third rescue wave as soon as possible.

Min Zimo led his exhausted team to a defensible floating island in the Inverted Domain, where they fought off waves of Octopus Monsters. After Liu Zhao sacrificed himself with the Qi Burning Method to drive the monsters back, Min Zimo ordered the eight survivors to hold together and wait for reinforcements.

• Min Zimo guided the team across floating islands and a LEGO town to a car-filled island, where they formed a defensive line at the pencil-shaped bridge.
• Min Zimo and his injured teammates held off successive assaults by the Octopus Monster horde, but their exhaustion left the formation close to collapse.
• Liu Zhao used the military's Qi Burning Method, surged into the monsters, and killed several before the backlash left his body withered and the horde tore him apart.
• Liu Zhao's sacrifice bought the survivors time, and Min Zimo refused to let the others abandon their position.
• Min Zimo gave the eight remaining team members the choice to stay with him and wait for reinforcements, forbidding anyone from using the Qi Burning Method without his order.

Min Zimo’s squad was overwhelmed by Octopus Monsters, and Mou Bin sacrificed himself to buy Ma Tao time to carry the unconscious captain away. Li Wei arrived at the pencil tip and cut down the monsters, absorbing Abyss Essence from the battlefield.

• Min Zimo told his wounded squad to retreat and tried to burn his acupoints to hold off the Octopus Monsters, but Mou Bin knocked him unconscious.
• Mou Bin burned his acupoints, killed two Octopus Monsters, and fought until the monsters tore him apart thirteen seconds later.
• Ma Tao carried Min Zimo away while the six remaining squad members stayed behind to hold the Octopus Monsters back.
• Li Wei appeared on a nearby mountain of vehicles, crossed to the pencil tip, and severed more than a dozen tentacles with Cold Moon Frost Flower.
• Li Wei absorbed the Abyss Essence from the surviving investigators and nearby monster corpses, increasing her total from 2254 to 6077.

Li Wei rescued Min Zimo’s squad and ordered them to retreat while she held back the Octopus Monsters. After they escaped, she advanced to the second tier and prepared to hunt the horde.

• Li Wei used a sword strike to stop the Octopus Monsters and told Min Zimo’s squad to flee, but the team initially refused to leave her alone.
• As the monsters attacked, Li Wei explained that the squad would hinder her fighting, and Hu Yucheng ordered everyone to give her their remaining supplies.
• Li Wei caught the supplies, and the squad saluted before retreating toward the emergency staircase.
• Li Wei opened the way for the monsters to flood onto the Pencil Tip, while Hu Yucheng’s squad continued their escape despite his attempt to turn back.
• Li Wei spent Abyss Essence to advance her Great Yin Jade Lotus Treasure Scroll to two lotus petals, restored her Vitality, and activated 99+1 as the monster hunt began.