Recaps

Le Yu used the Coastal Army’s victory and presence in Profound Candle to force the Silver Blood Society and powerful families to fund the military, while preparing to replace the Society’s factory managers with worker representatives. Meanwhile, a mysterious faction pursued Qian Yuya over her connection to the Jing Family, and the factory takeovers began to unsettle the old order.

• Lan Yan backed Le Yu’s political ambitions, and Le Yu led the rescued Silver Blood heirs toward Profound Candle as potential weapons against their Society.
• Le Yu seized the Silver Blood Society’s council seat, used the Coastal Army’s show of force to demand reparations, and persuaded the merchants to place their businesses under temporary military administration.
• Qin Leyin secretly agreed to help merchant leaders destroy the Jing and Ting Families after the Coastal Army withdrew, while the Society approved Jing Zhengwei’s plan to hand over its businesses.
• Le Yu confronted Duke Wanghai, forced the Huyan Family to fund the Coastal Army, and received Huyan Siluo as a marriage relation, while other families followed and raised the military fund to about seventy percent.
• Le Yu rejected Huyan Siluo as a partner and urged Qing Lan to build her own independence, while a cloaked figure questioned Qian Yuya about her connection to the Xuanzhu Jing Family.
• Nai Qingni identified the cloaked figure as belonging to a formidable faction within the Radiant Court, and Qian Yuya recognized the Youth Newspaper as a possible link to Profound Candle.
• Le Yu approved reports targeting Silver Blood managers and told Yin Minghong to decide their fates with the workers, while Ting Guigu tried to prepare his son Laicai for a factory role.
• Yin Minghong appointed Qi Bajiu to supervise the factory with worker support, prompting Ting Guigu to challenge him and hear that the workers were free.

As workers’ unrest erupted into a bloody uprising, Le Yu abandoned the Silver Blood Society and fought to escape the burning Inner City. He parted from Qing Lan, lost allies amid the chaos, and ended up challenging ten opponents in the Blood Battle Casino.

• Qin Leyin persuaded the chamber of commerce leaders to surrender their businesses to Jing Zhengwei’s administration, while Le Yu asked Yin Minghong to investigate infant supplies and dairy products.
• Uncle Hai rallied workers to demand fair treatment, but a nobleman’s car killed Jiumi, and a gunman killed Uncle Hai as the crowd clashed with the Patrol Guards and blew up Cape Gate.
• Le Yu refused to suppress the rioters, left Jing Garden with his allies, and rejected the Silver Blood Society as armed enemies closed in around them.
• Jing Zhengwei killed Mr. Tie’s chance to capture him and fought beside Mu Qingmei, but Mr. Tie pursued Le Yu through the burning city and collapsed Cape Gate with an explosion.
• Yin Minghong led the others away while Qing Lan tearfully promised to find and support Le Yu, who stayed behind to face Mr. Tie and then became trapped by rioters.
• Fish killed Mr. Tie in an alley, while Lan Jianbo tried to flee the city and was intercepted by Ting Chaozao, who ordered him drowned.
• Rongyao helped Le Yu escape through a tunnel, and Ting Wanjian welcomed the departing Ting family ships while declaring his ambition to rule Scardy.
• Le Yu entered the Blood Battle Casino, where Wu Renxing offered him a chance to escape by fighting, and Le Yu challenged ten opponents at once.

After Qin Leyin kills Jing Zhengwei, Le Yu survives and takes his place, then leaves Profound Candle Prefecture with the stolen military funds and the Qin siblings. The fleet reaches Yanjing as Le Yu faces Lan Yan and new officials of the Statistics Department.

• Wu Renxing placed a bounty on Jing Zhengwei, but Youth misdirected the hunters after Le Yu escaped the children’s courtyard.
• Luo Zhen and Quan Xin died together in the burning Fragrant Snow Sea, while Le Yu confronted Qin Leyin over the uprising and their opposing plans.
• Qin Leyin overwhelmed Le Yu with the Heart of Nether, but Le Yu used the Veil of Discord and Demonic Hand to kill him before blood from Jing Zhengwei’s body revived him.
• White Night restored order in Profound Candle Prefecture, Qing Lan chose to remain and wait for Jing Zhengwei, and Jing Zhengfeng killed Wu Renxing after refusing his offer.
• Le Yu claimed his official standing as the Red Le Walker aboard the Shi family riverboat, stopped the Shi youths from extorting the Qin family, and found Jing Zhengwei’s corpse with Qin Yueshi.
• Le Yu decided to go to Radiant Capital, where he could gain power and wait for Qing Lan, then recognized Lan Yan’s Swift Blade Unit approaching with the military funds in pursuit.
• Lan Yan seized the ship and half the funds, while Le Yu ordered Jing Zhengwei’s body burned and its ashes scattered in the river as the fleet approached Yanjing.
• At Tingyun Hall, Xianchan Chenchen prepared to receive two East Sun visitors and introduced himself as a Righteousness Guard Walker and Statistics Department Security Inspector.

Le Yu accepted the role of scabbard in the Sword Quest for Succession and prepared to enter the Royal Academy while trying to reconnect with Qing Lan. An attack by the Bandaged Assassin ended with Bai Yu dead and left Le Yu facing the secret behind Holy Sword Huiyao’s succession.

• Bai Yu recruited Le Yu to teach at the Royal Academy and make Qian Yuya his student as part of the Sword Quest for Succession.
• Le Yu disguised himself to escape Xianchan Chenchen’s pursuit, and Twin Carp Palace’s women sheltered him.
• Le Yu sent Qing Lan a coded letter, and she decoded it and planned to come to Flame Capital in six months.
• Bai Yu told Le Yu how Qin Xiao had risked his life to protect the people of the Skyline District, then asked whether Le Yu would still risk his life for justice.
• The Bandaged Assassin attacked Le Yu and Bai Yu, revealing his Seven Emotions Combat Arts and his belief that serving the emperor could end the Skyline District’s suffering.
• Le Yu used Empathy to daze the Bandaged Assassin, who then killed himself in a final outburst and mortally wounded Bai Yu.
• Bai Yu told Le Yu that Qin Xiao had revealed how Holy Sword Huiyao could accept a new master without twenty years of nurturing, then died.
• Qin Yueshi found Qin Yueyang beside dead servants and gray-black fragments, and he sent her to summon people from the Shi Residence.