Recaps

After completing his mission, Fu Qian chose a suspicious reward instead of a demigod promotion and found that a Warehouse item was missing. Back home, he learned that two suspicious people were searching for him, and decided to go out for McDonald’s.

• Fu Qian received a choice between a completed demigod ritual and the Blasphemous Embrace, which could temporarily seal the sun.
• Suspecting the reward choice was bait, Fu Qian selected the Blasphemous Embrace and received a transparent longbow.
• Fu Qian searched the Warehouse for item 1-019 but could not find it, then learned he would be forced to take three days off.
• Fu Qian returned to his room and considered what to eat before Grandma Liu warned him that two suspicious people were asking about him with his photo.
• Fu Qian thanked Grandma Liu in his thoughts and decided to go out for McDonald’s.

Fu Qian confronted the men searching for him and learned they were connected to the aftermath of his fight with Xu Meng’s son. As Xu Meng threatened him, Tan Ying called to warn him that someone had been asking Pei Yanqing about him, and Fu Qian confirmed that the suspicious man was sitting across from him.

• Fu Qian spotted two burly men following him and used Tyrant's Fist to make them turn on each other.
• Xu Meng arrived at Fu Qian's table, showed him photos, and demanded to know what had happened to his son.
• Fu Qian refused to explain himself as Xu Meng threatened to make him pay.
• Tan Ying called to say someone had shown Pei Yanqing Fu Qian's photo and asked about him.
• Fu Qian told Tan Ying that Xu Meng was sitting across from him.

Tan Ying invited Fu Qian to her birthday party after Xu Meng confronted him over his son's death, offering her protection and a favor in return. At the party, Tan Ying's classmates teased Fu Qian about his work and hobbies, but he handled their questions with ease and spoiled her plans to embarrass him.

• Tan Ying arrived while Xu Meng questioned Fu Qian, then revealed she was the person he had asked her to find and sent him away.
• Tan Ying explained that Xu Meng was influential in Lin City and invited Fu Qian to her birthday party, partly to protect him from further trouble.
• Three days later, Fu Qian attended Tan Ying's crowded birthday party with Young Master Qin and encountered Tan Ying's classmates and Pei Yanqing.
• Tan Ying's classmates teased Fu Qian about his name, his work, and his hobbies, while he answered casually and Tan Ying watched from the side.
• Young Master Qin slipped away under the attention, but Fu Qian stayed relaxed and left Tan Ying frustrated that her teasing had failed.

Fu Qian entered the Academy’s Sword Pavilion to destroy the Legacy of the Sword Heart, the mission’s target, while trying to work out his role in the scene. The chapter left him under suspicion after a staff member identified his card as an instructor ID from the Academy of Revelation, despite his Sword Participation Institute uniform.

• Fu Qian entered Containment Scene 2-010, where he was tasked with destroying the Legacy of the Sword Heart at the Academy.
• A middle-aged man directed Fu Qian into the Sword Pavilion and warned him not to go above the third floor.
• Fu Qian surveyed the swords and recognized Yuan Xin from an earlier mission, though Yuan Xin did not recognize him.
• The middle-aged man asked Fu Qian for his student card, then identified it as an instructor ID from the Academy of Revelation.
• The middle-aged man questioned why Fu Qian was wearing the Sword Participation Institute’s uniform.

Fu Qian discovered that his identity made him a mentor at the Academy of Revelation and was drawn into an urgent investigation with Professor Lanaia. They reached the scene of a robbery at a secret Yuan Corporation warehouse, where Lanaia introduced him to a grim investigator.

• A middle-aged man checked Fu Qian's card, confirmed he was an Academy of Revelation mentor, and accused him of trespassing in the Sword Pavilion.
• Fu Qian argued that the man had invited him inside and claimed he had been researching students' sword meditation, until Professor Lanaia arrived and the man returned his card.
• Lanaia told Fu Qian that the Yuan Corporation had reported a robbed secret warehouse with stolen goods and murdered staff, and that the Department of Punishment had been assigned to investigate.
• Fu Qian learned that he was a new academy mentor with a part-time role in the Department of Punishment, and Lanaia took him to the warehouse scene.
• After Lanaia showed their credentials, she introduced Fu Qian as another academy mentor to a lean, grim investigator waiting at the sealed-off scene.

Fu Qian and Lanaia investigated the slaughter of six Yuan Corporation employees and the theft of supernatural materials, then learned that academy swordsman Li Weixuan was unaccounted for. Before they could determine whether he was involved, Jia Yi reported that another location had been attacked.

• Jia Yi showed Fu Qian and Lanaia the sword-mutilated bodies of six employees and reported that supernatural materials had been stolen.
• Lanaia reviewed the surveillance footage, contacted the academy, and promised that she and Fu Qian would stay to assist the investigation.
• Lanaia explained that the academy was checking travel records and that their presence could prevent further attacks and keep the Yuan Clan from acting rashly.
• The academy cleared the movements of its Intermediate Tier and higher sword practitioners, but Li Weixuan was missing because he had entered closed-door cultivation a month earlier.
• Jia Yi hurried in and announced that another location had been hit.

After another massacre at a Yuan Clan warehouse, Lanaia sent Fu Qian to the Academy to verify Li Weixuan’s whereabouts. Fu Qian found the Sword Pavilion’s information and prepared to investigate while avoiding a direct request to see Li Weixuan.

• Lanaia and Fu Qian confirmed that the warehouse killer was the same person, who had slaughtered the Yuan Clan guards and stolen supernatural materials.
• Lanaia ordered Fu Qian to report the incident to Li Weixuan and confirm whether he had been at the Academy, while she continued the investigation.
• Fu Qian returned to the Academy and recognized the stench of a mutated corpse previously held by the Night Watchers in Shangjing.
• Fu Qian searched the Academy’s files for the Sword Participation Institute and Sword Pavilion, then prepared a plan and headed out while the pavilion was still open.

Fu Qian infiltrated the Sword Participation Institute to find Li Weixuan, but Ji Liushuang caught him impersonating a student. He improvised a story suggesting he was her father, leaving her bewildered as he noticed something about her had changed.

• Fu Qian disguised himself as a Sword Participation Institute student and entered its core area to locate Li Weixuan.
• Fu Qian encountered Ji Liushuang, who recognized that he was not Tong Minghui and demanded to know why he had sneaked in.
• Fu Qian revealed his real face, then claimed to know Ji Liushuang’s mother and spoke about her name and favorite flower.
• Fu Qian implied that he was Ji Liushuang’s father, and she was left confused by his knowledge of her mother.
• Fu Qian reflected that something about Ji Liushuang seemed different from the last time they had met.

Fu Qian encountered Ji Liushuang after she left the Sword Pavilion, claimed to be her father, and learned that an unusual feeling had led her to recognize his disguise. Ji Liushuang described her experience with Sword Intent before the Sword Participation Institute students arrived, leaving Fu Qian to depart as Yuan Xin approached.

• Fu Qian followed Ji Liushuang out of the building and used his Academy of Revelation tutor card to support his claim that he was her father.
• Ji Liushuang said she had recognized Fu Qian by instinct, despite not seeing through his disguise, and explained that she had left the Sword Pavilion after becoming dazed and unwell.
• Ji Liushuang described Sword Intent as a personal sword path that could lead to demigodhood, while Fu Qian suspected her changed state might relate to his mission.
• Ji Liushuang told Fu Qian to leave and keep their conversation secret when the Sword Participation Institute students approached.
• Yuan Xin came forward and asked Ji Liushuang whether she was all right.

Fu Qian tested Yuan Xin’s newly awakened Sword Intent and found it carried a sinister, life-draining force. After leaving the Sword Participation Institute, he told Lanaia the investigation might need to expand because this year’s students were exceptionally talented.

• Ji Liushuang introduced Fu Qian to Yuan Xin and the other students, who learned that Yuan Xin had comprehended a seed of Sword Intent.
• Fu Qian asked Yuan Xin to strike him so he could examine the Sword Intent, then caught the sword between two fingers without being harmed.
• Fu Qian asked Ji Liushuang why she did not transfer to Tianqi, and she left without answering.
• Fu Qian contacted Lanaia and urged her to expand the investigation after describing Yuan Xin’s dangerous potential.
• Lanaia acknowledged the problem and sighed that the situation would be difficult.

Fu Qian and Jian Jingzheng investigated Sword Participation Institute student Ruan Shuo over the stolen Transcendent materials and murdered guards. After Ruan Shuo explained why he had left the Sword Pavilion early, Fu Qian suddenly attacked him, leaving Jian Jingzheng knocked aside.

• Lanaia told Fu Qian that Ruan Shuo had left the Sword Pavilion early and asked him to check whether Ruan Shuo was at the academy and had suspicious materials.
• Jian Jingzheng arrived to join the investigation and accompanied Fu Qian to Ruan Shuo's dormitory.
• Ruan Shuo explained that he had left the Sword Pavilion because he felt restless and his blood and qi surged when he tried to concentrate.
• Jian Jingzheng dismissed Fu Qian's suspicions and asked to report back to Lanaia.
• Fu Qian asked Ruan Shuo if he was ready to die, then struck Jian Jingzheng and sent him flying.

Fu Qian attacked Ruan Shuo and exposed him as a slaughter-obsessed swordsman whose body had mutated under the influence of the Sword of Slaughter. Fu Qian killed Ruan Shuo, but received no containment-complete notification, leaving the true mission target undiscovered.

• Fu Qian struck Jian Jingzheng and Ruan Shuo, prompting Ruan Shuo to reveal his murderous intent and transform into a blade-like creature.
• Ruan Shuo charged Fu Qian with increasing speed and strength as slaughter fueled his power, while Fu Qian fought him at close range.
• Ruan Shuo used a hidden third hand to stab Fu Qian, but Fu Qian tore it off and struck through the wound.
• Fu Qian crushed Ruan Shuo's head and realized that something abnormal had taken control of him, but no mission-complete notification appeared.
• Jian Jingzheng criticized Fu Qian for attacking an instructor without evidence, and Fu Qian told him to seek justice from Li Weixuan.

Fu Qian discovered that Ruan Shuo had attacked the warehouses, but killed him during the investigation before learning he was not the target he sought. He explained the case to Lanaia and confronted Jia Yi, who doubted the investigation and threatened to contact the Night Watchers.

• Fu Qian left after killing Ruan Shuo, who had concealed his transformation and the gains he had made at Sword Pavilion.
• Fu Qian told Lanaia that Ruan Shuo was dead and agreed to go explain the investigation to Jia Yi.
• Lanaia confronted Fu Qian over killing Ruan Shuo and injuring Jian Jingzheng, while Fu Qian said the death had not been intentional.
• Jia Yi criticized the investigation as cursory and said he might contact the Night Watchers.
• Fu Qian suggested Jia Yi could question Ruan Shuo himself, leaving Jia Yi frightened and silent.

Fu Qian defended his actions during the investigation before academy officials, admitting to beating Jian Jingzheng and threatening Jia Yi while arguing that his choices had prevented greater trouble. He ended the meeting by asking to make Ji Liushuang his student, claiming the Sword Participation Institute was wasting her talent.

• On the drive back, Fu Qian explained to Lanaia that he had bluffed about Ruan Shuo to resolve the dispute quickly, and they discussed how unusually powerful and increasingly common Sword Intent seemed to be.
• Fu Qian was summoned to a meeting with academy officials, where he admitted to beating Jian Jingzheng and accused him of failing to check for traces of supernatural materials before trying to stop Ruan Shuo's arrest.
• Fu Qian told the officials that Ruan Shuo had prepared to use him and Jian Jingzheng as sacrifices, persuading them that his actions had protected the students despite his rash methods.
• Fu Qian admitted threatening Jia Yi to end the dispute with the Yuan Clan's representative, and denied harassing Ji Liushuang, saying she had asked him for cultivation advice.
• When the officials asked whether he had anything else to say, Fu Qian requested that Ji Liushuang become his student, saying the Sword Participation Institute was wasting her talent.

Fu Qian secured permission to enter the Sword Pavilion and observed that Ji Liushuang’s hollow state had worsened. He warned her to stay alert, then suddenly pressed a finger to her forehead and unleashed killing intent.

• Fu Qian provoked Jian Jingzheng by criticizing the Sword Participation Institute and asking Ji Liushuang to inherit his legacy.
• Jian Jingzheng offered Fu Qian free access to the Sword Pavilion and said Ji Liushuang could transfer if she wished.
• Lanaia warned Fu Qian that Jian Jingzheng would cause him trouble, but Fu Qian remained unconcerned.
• Fu Qian entered the Sword Pavilion and noticed Yuan Xin’s chill had intensified while Ji Liushuang seemed distracted and increasingly hollow.
• Fu Qian spoke with Ji Liushuang about Ruan Shuo and warned her to stay alert before pressing her forehead and releasing killing intent.

Fu Qian tested Ji Liushuang’s unusual intuition and tried to recruit her from the Sword Participation Institute to the Academy of Revelation. The chapter leaves the students celebrating Li Weixuan’s new demigod status as he recognizes Ji Liushuang’s Sword Heart Clarity.

• Fu Qian discovered that Ji Liushuang’s Sword Intent let her sense that his threat was only a test.
• Fu Qian asked Ji Liushuang to join the Academy of Revelation, but she wanted to know whether that path could make her a demigod.
• Ji Liushuang revealed that she already knew Li Weixuan had become a demigod, and the Sword Pavilion’s swords flew to him as he demonstrated his power.
• Fu Qian told Li Weixuan he wanted Ji Liushuang as his student, and Li Weixuan praised her Sword Intent.
• Li Weixuan recognized Ji Liushuang’s state as Sword Heart Clarity.

Li Weixuan publicly shared his cultivation insights after ascending to demigod, while Fu Qian watched the Sword Participation Institute for clues about the Legacy of the Sword Heart. As the students’ Sword Intent resonated together, Fu Qian realized the Legacy might be a collective phenomenon rather than a single person, and Ji Liushuang turned toward him with vacant eyes.

• Li Weixuan praised the students’ progress and announced he would share insights from his ascension.
• Students from across the Academy gathered outside the Sword Pavilion to hear Li Weixuan’s lecture, and Lanaia warned Fu Qian that Li Weixuan might disapprove of his past actions.
• Jian Jingzheng taunted Fu Qian, who replied that he had come to learn from the demigod’s insights.
• Li Weixuan demonstrated how he could draw traces of Sword Intent from the students’ swords, inspiring the students and strengthening their shared resonance.
• Fu Qian realized the Legacy of the Sword Heart might be the collective connection formed by everyone’s Sword Intent, and Ji Liushuang turned toward him with vacant eyes.

Fu Qian suspected the Legacy of the Sword Heart had noticed him and was influencing the Sword Participation Institute members, so he tried to hide from their attention. Ji Liushuang then announced she would follow him to the Academy of Revelation, but Fu Qian refused to take her on and left her in the care of others.

• Fu Qian noticed Sword Participation Institute members repeatedly glancing at him and suspected the Legacy of the Sword Heart was observing him.
• Fu Qian hid behind the crowd to make himself harder to observe, and Ji Liushuang left the sword formation to find him.
• Ji Liushuang told Fu Qian she had decided to go with him to the Academy of Revelation.
• Jian Jingzheng accused Fu Qian of using a trick to threaten Ji Liushuang, but Fu Qian refused to teach her and asked Jian Jingzheng to take her back.
• Lanaia led Ji Liushuang away, and Li Weixuan examined her and thought she was overwhelmed by emotion.

Fu Qian suspected the sword formation’s Legacy of the Sword Heart was growing and influencing people, so he refused Li Weixuan’s invitation and challenged Yuan Xin’s claims. As Fu Qian watched the formation, Li Weixuan suddenly killed Lanaia with Sword Intent.

• Fu Qian suspected the sword formation was growing by spreading Sword Intent and worried that destroying the Legacy of the Sword Heart would be difficult.
• Li Weixuan invited Fu Qian to join the lesson, but Fu Qian refused to leave his place in the shadows.
• Yuan Xin denounced Fu Qian and the Academy of Revelation, and Fu Qian retorted that Yuan Xin could not defeat him.
• Yuan Xin insulted Ji Liushuang, who remained vacant and unresponsive.
• Li Weixuan distracted Lanaia, then attacked her with Sword Intent and killed her despite her attempts to escape.

Fu Qian fought Li Weixuan after the demigod killed Lanaia, while an unseen influence manipulated Li Weixuan into believing Fu Qian and Lanaia had plotted against him. Fu Qian killed Yuan Xin and confronted Ji Liushuang, then turned back to face Li Weixuan.

• Li Weixuan accused Fu Qian and Lanaia of framing him, revealed that he had killed Lanaia, and attacked Fu Qian with sword energy.
• Fu Qian stopped Li Weixuan's strike with Tendril Barrage Devastator, slipped into the sword formation, and seized Yuan Xin.
• Fu Qian tore Yuan Xin apart after the student threatened him, then faced Li Weixuan as the crowd withdrew from the battlefield.
• Fu Qian approached Ji Liushuang, who held Lanaia's corpse, and told her that he would prove his own bloodline exceptional.
• Ji Liushuang rejected Fu Qian's attempt to change sides, and he turned to attack Li Weixuan.

Fu Qian confirmed that a mysterious entity controlled the comprehension of Sword Intent, then transformed to fight the demigod Li Weixuan. As Li Weixuan kept him at range and wounded him, Fu Qian finally got an unusual arm against the demigod’s waist.

• Fu Qian transformed into a giant and attacked Li Weixuan with his Biochemical Demon Arm.
• Fu Qian activated Mythical Form to strengthen his attack, wounded Li Weixuan, and forced him to retreat.
• Li Weixuan recognized Fu Qian’s desire to get close and decided to keep him at a distance with sword energy.
• Fu Qian continued pursuing Li Weixuan despite sustaining multiple wounds.
• Li Weixuan destroyed Fu Qian’s tentacles, then noticed a slender, oddly shaped arm pressed against his waist.

Fu Qian killed Li Weixuan with a disguised attack, then used Transcendence to restart his attempt after the academy’s demigods trapped him. He returned to the Sword Pavilion and began trying to attract the swarm by pursuing Sword Intent.

• Fu Qian disguised his transformed arm as a tentacle and used Internal Organ Critical Hit to grievously wound Li Weixuan.
• Fu Qian finished Li Weixuan with a demigod-level Air Bullet, but the mission-completed prompt did not appear as the academy’s demigods closed in.
• Fu Qian activated Transcendence to escape and restart the sequence, then entered the Sword Pavilion again.
• Fu Qian climbed to the fourth floor, where he saw Ji Liushuang and focused on the black greatsword to draw the swarm’s attention and seek Sword Intent.

Fu Qian entered the Sword Pavilion and endured a torrent of Sword Intent while pretending he had suddenly awakened to the sword. After Lanaia told him about a recent massacre, he left with her to investigate another Yuan Clan warehouse, where he expected to encounter Ruan Shuo.

• The middle-aged guard caught Fu Qian on the Sword Pavilion’s fourth floor, but Fu Qian claimed he had joined the Sword Participation Institute after awakening to Sword Intent.
• Fu Qian displayed a second, blood-red Sword Intent to the guard, Ji Liushuang, and Lanaia while secretly resisting the flood of Sword Intent that “it” poured into his mind.
• Lanaia arrived looking for Fu Qian and took him away after explaining that a massacre had recently occurred.
• Lanaia drove Fu Qian from the academy as he asked whether the Yuan Clan had another warehouse nearby, expecting to catch Ruan Shuo there.

Fu Qian and Lanaia rushed to another warehouse after he suspected the killer would strike again, where Ruan Shuo ambushed Fu Qian and was killed. When Jia Yi questioned Fu Qian’s suspicious arrival, Fu Qian revealed that the warehouse had two dead rather than one.

• Fu Qian told Lanaia his Sword Intent made him understand the killer’s urge to slaughter, and she called Jia Yi for the address of another warehouse.
• Lanaia and Fu Qian arrived at the warehouse, where screams drew Lanaia inside while Ruan Shuo ambushed Fu Qian.
• Fu Qian defeated Ruan Shuo with a single punch and killed him before Lanaia returned.
• Jia Yi arrived and questioned how Fu Qian had found the killer, while Lanaia identified the masked corpse as the warehouse attacker.
• After Jia Yi reported one dead and two injured, Fu Qian corrected him, saying there were two dead.

Fu Qian and Lanaia returned to the academy to investigate Ruan Shuo’s attack, where Fu Qian’s claim to have Sword Intent was confirmed. Li Weixuan emerged from seclusion to test Fu Qian, and Fu Qian’s Sword Intent took on the same murderous quality as Ruan Shuo’s, deepening suspicions of a conspiracy.

• Fu Qian left Ruan Shuo’s body with Jia Yi and hurried back to the academy with Lanaia, convinced the killer came from the Sword Participation Institute.
• Lanaia brought Fu Qian to meet Jian Jingzheng and asked him to confirm Ruan Shuo’s identity and student status.
• Fu Qian admitted he had entered the Sword Pavilion, while Jian Jingzheng threatened to report him for breaking its rules.
• Li Weixuan emerged from seclusion because his Sword Heart had become unsettled, then confirmed he sensed Sword Intent in Fu Qian.
• Li Weixuan tested Fu Qian, causing Fu Qian’s Sword Intent to surge with bloodlust like the Sword Intent Ruan Shuo had displayed.