Recaps

Ming Shuiyun grew more confident through her work on Peerless Kill and learned that Qin Leyin had become acting principal of the evening academy. After Qian Yuya warned her that enemies planned to assassinate him to strike at her, Ming Shuiyun resolved to protect him.

• Ming Shuiyun helped design Peerless Kill cards, and the association's trial game became popular at the Imperial Academy.
• Ming Shuiyun learned that Qin Leyin had become acting principal and tried to hide her excitement and frustration that he had not told her.
• Qian Yuya told Ming Shuiyun that Qin Leyin was in danger because enemies planned to assassinate him and use his death to target her.
• Ming Shuiyun declared that it was her turn to protect Qin Leyin.

Le Yu tested Cha Huan’s enormous gear-driven typewriter while refining his counterattack plan, then received a visit from his students on the Platinum Tower’s sixth floor. The chapter ended with Kui Nianruo teasing him about how clearly she could see his happiness.

• Le Yu operated Cha Huan’s typewriter and admired its ability to print a line of text.
• Le Yu reflected on his limited authority as Acting Principal and hurried to complete his plan before an expected assassination.
• Li Ying, Lin Xue, Qian Yuya, Kui Nianruo, Ming Shuiyun, and Qin Yueshi arrived on the sixth floor to visit him.
• Kui Nianruo offered to help Le Yu, and he explained that the Acting Principal position brought no real duties.
• Kui Nianruo told Le Yu she could see his happiness, and he sarcastically praised her observation skills.

Le Yu reorganized the Peerless Kill research society and proposed ways to promote and sell the game. After the others left, Ming Shuiyun revealed that she wanted to sleep with him so she could protect him from an assassin, even if it meant dying with him.

• Qin Yueshi reported that the research society had received over one thousand Gold Coins in loans, while Lin Xue described its Design and Testing Departments.
• Le Yu proposed creating Operations and Planning Departments to publicize Peerless Kill, run design contests and tournaments, and encourage people to buy the game.
• Li Ying took charge of Operations, Lin Xue took charge of Planning, and Qian Yuya continued overseeing Design and Testing.
• After the others left, Ming Shuiyun told Le Yu she wanted to protect him and proposed sleeping with him that night.
• Ming Shuiyun said she could provoke the Sword Bearer by being attacked, then declared that if the Sword Bearer failed to appear, she would die with Le Yu.

Le Yu tried to dissuade Ming Shuiyun from proposing that they die together by describing what happens to a corpse and reminding her of everything she still wanted to live for. When she broke down and explained that she wanted to do something for him in return, Le Yu gently patted her head and told her not to squander the life she only got once.

• Le Yu explained the physical effects of death to Ming Shuiyun and asked whether she would be satisfied if she died now.
• Le Yu pointed out Ming Shuiyun's ambitions, her chance to become emperor, her friends, and the life she could still build.
• Ming Shuiyun confronted Le Yu, admitting she had come because she wanted to do something for him after he had helped her so much.
• Ming Shuiyun broke down in tears and clung to Le Yu's wrist as she said she knew her plan was childish but still wanted him to understand.
• Le Yu gently patted Ming Shuiyun's head and told her she could not squander the one life she had.

Le Yu tried to manage Ming Shuiyun’s growing affection while keeping her away from his dangerous plans, but she demanded his praise and made her feelings clear. Their conversation was interrupted when Yan Yi arrived to assist him, leaving Le Yu wary and Ming Shuiyun visibly displeased.

• Le Yu returned with a chair and realized Ming Shuiyun had become more open and affectionate toward him, though he resolved not to return her feelings.
• Le Yu told Ming Shuiyun to focus on her studies and stay out of his assassination plan, and she reluctantly accepted that she had already helped him.
• Ming Shuiyun asked Le Yu to praise her accomplishments, insisting that other people’s approval did not matter because they were not him.
• Yan Yi arrived at the sixth floor, saying Principal Cha had assigned her to assist Le Yu and that she welcomed the chance to work with him.
• Ming Shuiyun stepped between Yan Yi and Le Yu, while Le Yu wondered why Yan Yi had approached him so eagerly.

Yan Yi discovered that Qin Leyin had been intimate with Ning Xinyuan in Yan Yi’s research room, but decided to conceal her jealousy and cooperate with him after receiving a letter from Cha Huan about defending the Platinum Tower. She approached Qin Leyin under the pretense of discussing the defense, then attacked him with lightning.

• Yan Yi used her Eavesdropping Telescope to hear Ming Shuangli reveal that Qin Leyin had been intimate with his fiancée, whose clothes and hairstyle identified her as Ning Xinyuan.
• Yan Yi tricked Ming Shuangli into confirming that Qin Leyin had met her on the third floor, realizing that Qin Leyin and Ning Xinyuan had used Yan Yi’s research room.
• Yan Yi grieved over Ning Xinyuan’s betrayal, then received Cha Huan’s letter urging her to help Qin Leyin defend the Platinum Tower and suggesting they discuss a fake marriage.
• Yan Yi decided to pretend to cooperate with Qin Leyin while seeking a chance to kill him.
• Yan Yi waited with Qin Leyin on the sixth floor of the Platinum Tower, then struck at the back of his neck with a lightning arc.

Le Yu and Yan Yi fought fiercely on the sixth floor of the Platinum Tower, each using powerful combat arts while Yan Yi insisted he had wronged her. Their battle paused after their clothes tore and exposed embarrassing belongings, leaving them to agree to discuss the tower’s protection plan instead.

• Le Yu blocked Yan Yi’s lightning-fast attack and fought back with close-combat techniques as she used Demon Hunting Combat Arts to counter him.
• Yan Yi’s electric attacks failed to stop Le Yu, who demanded to know why she was trying to kill him.
• Yan Yi and Le Yu exchanged attacks after the class bell rang, injuring each other and damaging their clothes.
• Le Yu’s pocket spilled milk candies, while a vibrating toy fell from Yan Yi’s clothing, abruptly easing the tension.
• Le Yu and Yan Yi picked up their belongings and agreed to discuss the Platinum Tower’s protection plan.

After Yan Yi and Le Yu settled their fight, she explained her Divine Sub-Armament and apologized after assuming Le Yu was unaware of her sister’s relationship with him. Le Yu realized the Mu Family might be targeted as part of an ambush against the principal, while Cha Huan arrived at the Senluo Merchant Guild with murder as his stated purpose.

• Le Yu and Yan Yi agreed on revisions to the Platinum Tower’s defense plan, and Yan Yi showed him her lightning-generating Divine Sub-Armament, Vortex.
• Yan Yi mistakenly decided her sister was using Le Yu as a shield to end their relationship, then apologized to him for attacking him.
• Yan Yi explained that the principal had gone to the Mu Family to settle a dispute over her tutoring, and Le Yu warned her that the Mu Family would be attacked while someone ambushed the principal.
• An old man in red entered the Senluo Merchant Guild and registered his name as Cha Huan, listing his purpose as murder.

Cha Huan confronted Mu Poluo about a plot to assassinate him and used the Holy Sword Emblem to claim authority to interrogate him. After Mu Poluo and four guards attacked, Cha Huan killed all five and left to visit six other powerful figures in Flame Capital.

• Mu Poluo welcomed Cha Huan with Azure Blackhorn Green Tea, and Cha Huan laid out a list of Flame Capital’s powerful figures with Mu Poluo’s name crossed out.
• Cha Huan accused Mu Poluo of helping arrange Yan Yi’s late-night departure and demanded information about the assassination plot, while Mu Poluo denied knowing anything.
• Cha Huan revealed the Holy Sword Emblem and threatened to interrogate Mu Poluo, but Mu Poluo and four armed guards attacked him.
• Cha Huan killed Mu Poluo and the four guards, then treated the blood on the list as Mu Poluo’s identification.
• Cha Huan asked the guild steward for public bus directions to visit the six people marked on his list.

Ming Shuiyun told her friends that Yan Yi might like Qin Leyin and tried to delay their relationship until after the battle for the throne. At the school gate, Lin Xue and Qian Yuya recognized the man who had arrived with Cha Huan as Xie Chenyuan, Director of the Statistics Department in Yanjing.

• Ming Shuiyun told her friends about Yan Yi’s apparent interest in Qin Leyin and urged them to keep it secret.
• Ming Shuiyun argued that Yan Yi could be a spy and proposed postponing any romance with Qin Leyin until the battle for the throne ended in half a year.
• Qin Yueshi agreed to speak with Qin Leyin the next day, while Ming Shuiyun went to meet him for dinner.
• Cha Huan returned to the Imperial Academy with a long-haired man in a purple-and-blue uniform, then left for the Platinum Tower.
• Lin Xue and Qian Yuya identified Cha Huan’s companion as Xie Chenyuan, Director of the Statistics Department in Yanjing.

Cha Huan explained that his attacks on Yanjing’s powerful figures were meant to provoke the conspirators into exposing themselves, while Le Yu questioned whether Yan Command could be trusted to help defend the Platinum Tower. Meanwhile, Xianchan Chenchen received a bribe and a one-use spirit-attacking ring before declaring his intent to kill without distinction.

• Cha Huan told Le Yu and Yan Yi that he had killed three powerful figures to frighten the conspirators or draw their own agents into the open.
• Cha Huan revealed that the Tread White Army and Storm Army were closing in on the capital, and said Xie Chenyuan had promised to publicize the victims’ crimes so Cha Huan could kill without consequence.
• Cha Huan warned Le Yu that allowing Yan Command into the Platinum Tower would place his life in their hands, then asked whether Le Yu truly trusted them.
• A messenger delivered pastries and Gold Coins to Xianchan Chenchen, who demanded that Qilin Alley receive a larger payment.
• The messenger gave Xianchan Chenchen the one-use Divine Sub-Armament Death’s Finger and relayed that others wanted him to do his utmost to witness Holy Sword Huiyao’s radiance.
• Xianchan Chenchen said he could guarantee only one thing: “Kill no Qin Dog, leave no heads!”

Le Yu prepared for the coming attack on the Platinum Tower while teaching Shi Wen and Lai Ya, then gathered a crowded class full of potential allies and enemies. He began a lesson on Qin Leyin, setting the stage for what might be his final class.

• Le Yu suspected Nieruo had come to warn him about the attack, and he decided not to recruit the sword sheaths because they were likely to betray him.
• Le Yu teased Lai Ya and Shi Wen about their cooking, then punished Shi Wen for provoking students by making him train with a Fishbone Bracer on each hand.
• Le Yu told Lai Ya that his role as her teacher had largely ended, though he would continue protecting and supervising her and Shi Wen.
• Le Yu took Shi Wen to a packed class attended by Ming Shuiyun, Nieruo, Xianchan Chenchen, and others who might be involved in the night's attack.
• Le Yu wrote Qin Leyin's name on the blackboard and announced that the lesson would cover the Silver Blood Three Wonders, Qin Leyin.

Le Yu learned that Cha Huan’s allies had been drawn away from the Imperial Academy before an expected assassination, then read Qing Lan’s letter explaining that she had deliberately fueled rumors about his romantic interests because she missed him. The chapter left Le Yu with Qing Lan urging him to return or let her visit him in Yanjing.

• Yin reported that Lou Yinhai and Zhu Yan had left the Imperial Academy for family emergencies, leaving Cha Huan increasingly isolated ahead of the night’s crisis.
• Le Yu told Yin that Cha Huan was likely to be ambushed, and Yin concluded the attackers would gather overwhelming forces to kill him.
• Le Yu refused Yin’s offer of help and joked that he would handle the night’s guests with his own plan.
• Le Yu read Qing Lan’s letter, in which she admitted she had deliberately published a statement that encouraged rumors about him liking men.
• Qing Lan challenged Le Yu to return or give her an address so she could visit him, explaining that she had acted this way because she missed him.

Ning Xinyuan wrestled with whether to help Qin Leyin and Cha Huan, then agreed to join Yan Yi at the Platinum Tower after Yan Yi said their work there was dangerous. Meanwhile, Le Yu prepared a disguise and sent Qin Yueyang to impersonate him at the tower.

• Ning Xinyuan examined Overlord Butterfly and considered whether to intervene in the coming conflict involving Qin Leyin and Cha Huan.
• Yan Yi visited Ning Xinyuan, praised Qin Leyin, and explained that they were working together to protect the Platinum Tower.
• Ning Xinyuan asked whether Yan Yi's work was dangerous and decided to accompany her to the Platinum Tower.
• Le Yu and Qin Yueyang dressed in disguises, and Le Yu told Qin Yueyang to hold the Platinum Tower's sixth floor while pretending to be him.

Le Yu arrived at a secret gathering of factions preparing to attack Qin Leyin and learned that the Ugly and Nagging Grand Steward had taken command. The operation was about to begin when Cha Huan’s footsteps shook the air, revealing that he was walking through the sky.

• Le Yu slipped into a noisy courtyard where Nuga defeated Bone-Stinger in a brawl, while hidden onlookers jeered.
• The Ugly and Nagging Grand Steward explained the factions’ code names and announced that the gathering had grown to nearly twice its expected size.
• The Ugly and Nagging Grand Steward claimed command of the operation because he had paid for the support of two-thirds of the gathered fighters.
• The group learned that Qin Leyin had gone to the Platinum Tower after nine that night.
• Cha Huan’s footsteps boomed through the air, and a watcher spotted him walking through the sky.

Cha Huan returned to the Royal Academy by striding through the sky in the Flying Boots, deliberately drawing the attention of Flame Capital’s residents to deter an ambush. He relished the prospect of confronting his pursuers as the crowd watched.

• A tremor shook Flame Capital, and residents fled their homes in alarm.
• Cha Huan walked through the sky toward the Royal Academy, his thunderous footsteps and glittering clothes drawing crowds.
• Cha Huan ignored Qin Leyin and Yan Yi’s advice to avoid the ambush site, choosing instead to make the confrontation public.
• Cha Huan used the Illusionary Divine Weapon Flying Boots to fly and the Qi Harmony Combat Arts to amplify his footsteps, hoping to discourage the attackers.
• Cha Huan recalled escaping three Martial Pillars thirty years earlier and urged his pursuers not to run.

The Grand Steward rallied the attackers by turning their fear of death into confidence, then led them to invade the Imperial Academy and pursue Qin Leyin and the Holy Sword Huiyao. At the first intersection, a mysterious sign offered them a choice between the Platinum Tower and a side quest at the male teacher dormitory.

• The Grand Steward described the National Salvation and Relief Society’s burial services, easing the attackers’ fear of dying.
• Le Yu recognized the Grand Steward as a top-priority capture target and asked the Huiyao Four Guards’ Commander for help, but received only a brief reply.
• The Grand Steward named the Platinum Tower, Qin Leyin, and the Holy Sword Huiyao as the attackers’ targets and ordered the operation to begin.
• The attackers crossed into the Imperial Academy and followed the map toward the Platinum Tower.
• At an intersection, the attackers found a strange road sign labeling the Platinum Tower route a difficult main quest and the male teacher dormitory route an easy side quest.

Le Yu covertly helped Qin Leyin’s attackers through a trap-filled approach to the Imperial Academy while feeding their chosen route to Junzuo. After the Grand Steward rallied the group, Xianchan Chenchen received the route and ordered the Nightmare Tide Plan.

• A man in black smashed a road sign, triggering an explosion that plunged the attackers into darkness.
• Le Yu used bees and timed streetlamp blackouts to drive the attackers through gunfire, injuring half the group and killing two.
• The Grand Steward organized the attackers, identified the ambush’s tricks, and won their trust.
• Le Yu secretly licked Bee-Attracting Scented Honey from his hand and sent the attackers’ planned route to Junzuo through the Heart of Nayser.
• The Grand Steward led the group toward the Nightmare and Disaster campus districts, and Xianchan Chenchen ordered the Nightmare Tide Plan.

The attackers tried to cross the Nightmare Teaching Building, where Grass Cutter Emissaries fought off marksmen before a hidden Prairie Fire formation struck them from the classroom wall. The enemy escaped after killing the Grass Cutter Emissaries, leaving the Grand Steward’s group to face another ambush and a deadly loss.

• The Grand Steward assigned the factions positions and kept the unaffiliated fighters, including Le Yu, in the center while his trusted groups watched the four directions.
• The group chose to cross the Nightmare Teaching Building’s second floor rather than risk an ambush in the dark woods or on the exposed road below.
• Three marksmen opened fire as Grass Cutter Emissary reached the second floor, and two Grass Cutter Emissaries advanced with Void Slash to trap them.
• Prairie Fire Martial Artists burst through a classroom wall with a coordinated spear formation, killing the Grass Cutter Emissaries and knocking them from the second floor.
• Curse Hunter and the unaffiliated fighters searched a nearby classroom, but the marksmen and Prairie Fire Martial Artists escaped through the windows.
• The Grand Steward stopped the others from moving and confirmed that the Grass Cutter Emissaries had died.

The Grand Steward led the attackers through the Nightmare Teaching Building after the Yantong defenders killed two Grass Cutter Emissaries in an ambush. When Le Yu used the darkness and suspended corpses to make the attackers believe they were facing ghosts, panic erupted.

• The attackers found the two Grass Cutter Emissaries dead, and the Grand Steward explained how Yantong had used the corridor to set an effective trap.
• The Grand Steward restored the attackers' morale and led them up to the third floor, where his group cautiously advanced through classrooms toward the gunners.
• The building's lights went out as the Iron-Masked Man pursued a fleeing gunner, and gunfire sounded from across the way.
• The Grand Steward ordered the attackers to throw flares, revealing suspended corpses outside the third floor and leaving the group frozen in fear.
• Le Yu blew a cold breath behind a nearby attacker’s ear, prompting a scream of “Ghosts!”

Le Yu’s group fought through the Platinum Tower ambush as the Grand Steward’s plans and the attackers’ fear of ghosts gave way to a chaotic battle. Elsewhere, Cha Huan faced eight assassins until Faceless, also known as White Night Walker Nilü, arrived, while a gray-haired fighter at the tower identified himself as Imperial Academy teacher Wei Weiwei.

• The Grand Steward used the Soul-Calming Stone Bell to expose the paper ghosts and led the group out of the Nightmare Teaching Building.
• The Grand Steward ordered the streetlights destroyed and the group to charge toward the Platinum Tower, where Flame Command ambushers attacked from the front and rear.
• Xianchan Chenchen crippled a Curse Hunter and fought the Iron-Masked Men, but the battle remained unsettled as gunfire and explosions filled the darkness.
• Cha Huan revealed that Sheng Shengsheng had once ambushed him, then faced eight attackers who raised a City-Guarding Barrier around the residence.
• Faceless arrived carrying the heads of the Grass Cutter Emissaries and identified himself as White Night Walker Nilü.
• At the Platinum Tower, the gray-haired fighter helped Xianchan Chenchen escape and said his name was Wei Weiwei, an ordinary teacher at the Imperial Academy.

The Grand Steward’s attackers entered the Platinum Tower, where they discovered a Blood Essence Stone could revive Number Two and learned the tower’s defenses made their first plan impossible. The Sword Bearer revealed that he had infiltrated them using the Grass Barbarian art Kindred, then began a deadly game: the attackers could leave if they completed their mission, but otherwise none would survive.

• The Grand Steward burned a rare dragon book and learned that only two attackers had died, while Number Two was restored with a Blood Essence Stone.
• The Grand Steward explained that the Platinum Tower was reinforced as one connected structure and directed the group toward its spiral staircase.
• The attackers found that their group contained one more person than their memories accounted for, and the Grand Steward suspected a Grass Barbarian infiltration art was responsible.
• The Sword Bearer identified himself as a user of Three Crows’s Kindred art, which had let him pass among the attackers as a companion.
• The Sword Bearer said he knew who stood behind the Grand Steward and asked the group to withdraw, but the Grand Steward insisted on reaching the tower’s highest floor, capturing Qin Leyin, and finding Holy Sword Huiyao.
• The Sword Bearer proposed a game in which the attackers would be sent away safely if they completed their mission, but none would leave alive if they failed.

Yan Yi explained how Qin Leyin had turned the Platinum Tower into a layered trap to exhaust and disorient the criminals before Yan Command attacked them. The criminals had reached the tower’s trap-filled lower floors, where explosions signaled that the plan was underway.

• Yan Yi described how the second floor’s fake traps would waste the criminals’ time and wear down their morale before a gunpowder trap on the stairs to the third floor.
• Explosions shook the Platinum Tower, and Yan Yi said the collapsed staircase and traps below could kill or incapacitate many criminals.
• Yan Yi explained that the third floor’s mirrored dressing room would blind the criminals while Yan Command agents waited beyond the glare.
• Yan Yi revealed that Yan Command had brought a miniature Radiant Stone Focusing Cannon to attack the blinded criminals.
• Yan Yi said the remaining criminals would face armed Yan Command agents on the fourth floor and summarized Qin Leyin’s plan to exhaust them.

Yan Yi and Ning Xinyuan discussed guarding the Stone Forest Disaster Zone as Cha Huan fought his former classmate, who wore Blade Armor. After the classmate fired a cannon at Cha Huan, Cha Huan killed him and declared that Xie Liting was the only one left.

• Yan Yi explained that she had no special arrangements for the fifth floor, while Ning Xinyuan remained perched upside down and armed.
• Cha Huan struck a black-clad Martial Pillar warrior one hundred times in midair, depleting the damage-reflecting Blade Armor without hurting him.
• The black-clad man urged Cha Huan to join his side and recalled their past friendship, but Cha Huan rejected his appeal.
• The black-clad man fled to a hidden Radiant Stone Focusing Main Cannon and fired it at Cha Huan, while Nilü held off the other black-clad men.
• Cha Huan approached the black-clad man, crushed his cervical vertebrae, laid him down, and said Xie Liting was the only one left.

Yan Yi and Ning Xinyuan confessed their fears and feelings for each other on the fifth floor of the Platinum Tower before five surviving criminals arrived. Yan Yi attacked to stop them from advancing, while Lei Huan confronted her and Number One charged toward the hidden shooter.

• Yan Yi told Ning Xinyuan that she feared being abandoned, and Ning admitted she doubted Yan Yi's vows and believed she was holding her back.
• Yan Yi recalled how she had fallen for Ning and insisted she wanted a future with her; they agreed to invite the principal to dinner if they survived.
• The Grand Steward and four injured companions reached the fifth floor, and he persuaded Yan Yi to let them pass toward the sixth floor.
• Yan Yi fired at the ceiling to trigger falling stone pillars, then attacked the hooded man and declared she would defend the Imperial Academy.
• A hidden shooter wounded the Grand Steward's ear, and he sent Number One toward the ceiling while the others continued onward.
• Lei Huan fought Yan Yi, criticized her lightning, and challenged her to kneel beneath his Majestic Heavenly Might.