Recaps

Yang Ling killed the Divine Guard Office leader and Zhang Daochu after they tried to turn the hidden martial artists against him. He then killed Elder Wang, while four other players watched in terror from the tunnels.

• Zhang Daochu identified Yang Ling as the killer of their people and urged the Divine Guard Office to force him out of hiding.
• Elder Wang revealed that the Crimson-Refined Fire Flood Dragon Sect had fallen and its fifth-rank members had joined the Divine Guard Office.
• The Divine Guard Office leader declared that martial artists below the fifth rank would be killed unless they brought him Yang Ling's head.
• Yang Ling launched Quenching Gold Armor Piercing Flying Daggers, killing the Divine Guard Office leader and more than a hundred subordinates, while also mortally wounding Zhang Daochu.
• Yang Ling learned that Zhang Daochu had been an undercover agent, then beheaded him with the Heaven Swallowing Golden Sword.
• Elder Wang tried to capture Yang Ling, but Yang Ling kicked him to death as the Fire Spirit Pearl suppressed his regenerative abilities; four hidden players watched in fear.

Yang Ling looted the defeated experts in the Mine Shaft and used their Spirit Nurturing Pills to advance two martial skills. When a Fourth-Rank Grandmaster from the Crimson-Refined Fire Flood Dragon Sect pursued him, one punch left Yang Ling at one health point, but his abilities restored him and he pretended to be dead.

• Yang Ling had Little White move the bodies into the Mine Shaft while the surviving Sixth Ranks fled, and he questioned Liu Yu about his region and plans.
• Yang Ling looted pills from the bodies and consumed Spirit Nurturing Pills to advance Candle Dragon Seven-Star Sword Technique and Dragon Catching Saber Technique to entering the hall and room.
• A Fourth-Rank Grandmaster from the Crimson-Refined Fire Flood Dragon Sect arrived, saying the Department Master of the Divine Guard Office wanted Yang Ling to come see him.
• The Grandmaster chased Yang Ling through the tunnels, ignored Little White, and struck Yang Ling with a punch that shattered his Fire Crocodile Set and left him at one health point.
• Yang Ling's health and injuries recovered, and he pretended to be dead as the Grandmaster examined him and spoke of preserving the Crimson-Refined Fire Flood Dragon Sect's legacy.

Yang Ling survived Ji Tianming’s attack and learned that the Divine Guard Office had betrayed the Crimson-Refined Fire Flood Dragon Sect while its Old Ancestor slept. Ji Tianming made Yang Ling his grandfather’s godgrandson and gave him a map leading to the Old Ancestor, leaving Yang Ling to survive until he could claim the sect’s legacy.

• Yang Ling pretended to be dead until Ji Tianming confronted him and revealed that he was the grandson of the sect’s First Rank Land Immortal, Ji Wusuan.
• Ji Tianming explained that the Old Ancestor produced the Fire Spirit Pearls and that its mysterious power weakened Grandmasters while it slept, giving the Divine Guard Office an opening to attack the sect.
• Ji Tianming revealed that the sect had been infiltrated by spies and that its Sect Master had pledged allegiance to the Great Dream Dynasty.
• Ji Tianming chose Yang Ling as his grandfather’s godgrandson and gave him a human-skin map to the Old Ancestor, instructing him to survive and report the sect’s betrayal.
• Yang Ling called Ji Tianming his sworn brother, then put on his Sixth-Rank Iron Clothes and inspected the map, which was identified as a main-quest item.

Yang Ling waited out the rising radiation in the mine while searching for red fire iron, then stumbled upon Zhuang Xu and a group of Sixth-Rank Experts fighting over the Fire Spirit Pearl. Little White swallowed the pearl, and red light surrounded it as Yang Ling wondered whether it was about to evolve.

• Yang Ling left the Mine Shaft’s radiation zone with Little White and continued mining red fire iron while killing Sixth-Rank men who came after him.
• Yang Ling found a radiation-scarred corpse with its heart missing, then kept mining as the radiation grew stronger and his level remained below 100.
• Yang Ling broke through a wall into a cavern where Sixth-Rank Experts had cornered Zhuang Xu and demanded the Fire Spirit Pearl.
• Zhuang Xu threw the Fire Spirit Pearl toward Yang Ling, but Little White swallowed it before Yang Ling could catch it.
• Little White collapsed as red veins spread beneath its shell, then glowed red, leading Yang Ling to wonder whether it was undergoing a bloodline mutation and evolving.

Yang Ling’s group learned that Cui Xian of the Divine Guard Office had come to kill the sect’s Sixth-Rank experts, confirming Yang Ling’s warning that the Crimson-Refined Fire Flood Dragon Sect had fallen. After Yang Ling freed Cui Xian’s ghost monkey from his control, the group captured him and demanded answers.

• Little White ate the Fire Spirit Pearl, and Yang Ling warned the Sixth-Rank experts that the sect had been taken over.
• Cui Xian arrived with his ghost monkey, which killed a Sixth-Rank expert, and confirmed that the sect no longer existed.
• When the ghost monkey attacked another Sixth-Rank expert, Yang Ling used Object Control to pull out the silver needles near its ears and stop it.
• Yang Ling exposed Cui Xian’s loss of control over the monkey, and the Sixth-Rank experts attacked him.
• Yang Ling struck Cui Xian with a flying dagger, and Zhuang Xu and the others beat him and demanded an explanation.

Yang Ling killed Cui Xian after learning that the Great Dream Dynasty had absorbed the Crimson-Refined Fire Flood Dragon Sect and that its lower-ranked survivors were likely to be slaughtered. He advised the Sixth Ranks to hide in the mines, then stayed beside Little White as Divine Guard Office forces surrounded him and demanded he meet their Department Master.

• Cui Xian confirmed the Crimson-Refined Fire Flood Dragon Sect had been absorbed after its First Rank Land Immortal died, and Yang Ling learned Cui Xian came from a prominent beast-taming family.
• Yang Ling questioned Cui Xian about his family branches and killed him when he could not answer.
• Yang Ling told the Sixth Ranks that only Fifth-Rank Minor Grandmasters were likely to be spared and advised the others to hide in the mining tunnels.
• Zhuang Xu and the other Sixth Ranks left the cavern, while Yang Ling stayed to watch Little White and worried about its evolution ending with the instance.
• Divine Guard Office experts surrounded Yang Ling, and their leader ordered him to come meet the Department Master.

Yang Ling fought off the Divine Guard Office after an Upper Fifth Rank tried to force him to leave, then waited for Little White’s bloodline mutation to finish. Little White emerged as a Level 100 Netherfire Mantis King, and the chapter left Yang Ling facing the next stage of the conflict with a vastly stronger Spirit Pet.

• Yang Ling refused to accompany the Divine Guard Office and endured a volley from over a hundred Sixth Rank Powerful Crossbows using Vajra Mingwang Body and Bronze Wall Iron Barrier.
• An Upper Fifth Rank attacked Yang Ling with his Official Saber, but Vajra Mingwang Body reflected the blow and killed him.
• The remaining Divine Guard Office elites attacked Yang Ling with Hand Crossbows, then tried to retreat before Yang Ling killed them with Quenching Gold Armor Piercing Flying Daggers.
• Yang Ling collected the crossbow bolts and looted the dead, swallowing hundreds of Spirit Nurturing Pills and raising his Candle Dragon Seven-Star Sword Technique proficiency.
• After about three hours, Little White completed its bloodline mutation and became a Level 100 Netherfire Mantis King with 600 Strength, 600 Agility, and the Netherfire Explosion skill.

Yang Ling completed the Fire Flood Dragon Island instance with a poor evaluation, but Little White evolved into a level 100 king-class spirit pet and unlocked Spirit Pet Space. Back in Xiangfeng Prefecture, Yang Ling discovered that his class had changed to Spirit Pet Venerable, while the instance had erased nearly everything in his Green Dragon Ring.

• Little White’s evolved strength startled Yang Ling, and it sensed more Fire Spirit Pearls before the instance timer expired.
• Yang Ling received a C evaluation and five Spirit Nurturing Pills, then speculated that the instance judged him on how many powerful enemies he had challenged.
• Little White appeared in Xiangfeng Prefecture as an Upper Fifth-Rank beast, drawing the submission of nearby insect beasts.
• The Divine Domain announced that Yang Ling had raised the first king-class spirit pet, Netherfire Mantis King, and unlocked Spirit Pet Space; players flooded him with messages while he checked that Lin Caiyi and the others had survived.
• Yang Ling found that his Red Fire Iron Ore, Peiyuan Pills, silver pieces, and crossbow bolts had vanished from the Green Dragon Ring, then noticed his class had become Spirit Pet Venerable and his skill had changed to Spirit Pet Space.

Yang Ling weighed the dangers surrounding Fire Flood Dragon Island, exchanged suspicious intelligence with Li Fengxian, and considered how to reach fifth rank before landing. As the fleet neared the island, a foreign fleet bearing purple-and-gold wolf flags appeared.

• Yang Ling speculated that the Martial Alliance and overseas sects might still be in contact with Zhao State’s upper ranks.
• Li Fengxian proposed an intelligence exchange, claiming the Rong Tribe planned to attack Li Zhong during the landing and had cooperated with a Martial Alliance force; Yang Ling doubted him.
• Yang Ling decided to delay using his chance to enter Tun Tian Dao Palace, keeping it as a possible emergency escape while he pursued a fifth-rank breakthrough.
• Several days later, scorching winds and unnaturally still seas accompanied the fleet’s approach to Fire Flood Dragon Island.
• An unfamiliar fleet carrying purple-and-gold wolf flags appeared near the twelve ships.

Yang Ling watched Zhao State and the Rong Tribe’s fleets arrive at Fire Flood Dragon Island and learned that powerful officials were overseeing the Sixth Rank Top Hundred Battle. The two sides reaffirmed the battle’s deadly rules and prepared to send their fighters ashore in small boats, while Xie Jinjia explained the Star Sea Fishing Alliance to Yang Ling.

• Yang Ling spotted Zhang Shuzhou, Ji Nian, and other Rong Tribe Players across the water, then sensed an expert watching him.
• Xie Jinjia arrived with Zhao State’s officials and experts, and Chen Quan congratulated him on becoming Left Vice Minister of War.
• Xie Jinjia and Chen Quan agreed that Sixth Ranks could fight to the death on Fire Flood Dragon Island but could not attack each other after leaving it.
• Both fleets began lowering small boats to carry their Sixth Ranks to the island, where Fire Spirit Pearls had appeared and the Star Sea Fishing Alliance might be present.
• Yang Ling asked about the Star Sea Fishing Alliance, and Xie Jinjia explained that it was an alliance of island-dwelling sea hunters familiar with Fire Flood Dragon Island.

Xie Jinjia singled out Yang Ling, offered him books after the battle, and left the others wondering whether he was trying to recruit him. As the boats approached Fire Flood Dragon Island, a gigantic mantis shrimp erupted from the sea and smashed Qin Kunlun’s boat.

• Xie Jinjia questioned Yang Ling about Zhao State’s classics, learned he had read none, and invited him to choose books from his residence after the Sixth Rank Top Hundred Battle.
• Yang Ling and Zhao Zheng boarded a fast boat with Xu Qingnian while other factions and the Rong Tribe headed toward different landing spots on Fire Flood Dragon Island.
• Zhao Zheng explained that the group would wait for his people to arrive after landing and warned that some fighters might attack at once.
• A gigantic mantis shrimp burst from the sea and destroyed Qin Kunlun’s boat, forcing Qin Kunlun, Zhao Yingying, Tong He, Dongfang Haojie, and another expert into the scalding water.

Yang Ling and his companions survived the Super Giant Pipi Shrimp’s attack and reached Fire Flood Dragon Island, where they were ambushed by hostile martial artists. After killing most of his attackers, Yang Ling confronted the lone survivor and asked why they had attacked.

• The Super Giant Pipi Shrimp capsized the speedboats, forcing Yang Ling, Zhao Zheng, Xu Qingnian, and the other martial artists to swim toward Fire Flood Dragon Island.
• Yang Ling used Lingxu Step to race across the sea while the Super Giant Pipi Shrimp surged past, and the survivors eventually reached shore.
• Xie Jinjia speculated that the Super Giant Pipi Shrimp had grown stronger by eating Fire Spirit Pearls and warned that the Old Flood Dragon beneath the island remained a formidable unknown.
• Yang Ling found Zhao Zheng and Xu Qingnian as unfamiliar martial artists prepared to ambush them, and he shouted a warning.
• Yang Ling killed more than a dozen attackers, retrieved his Quenching Gold Armor Piercing Flying Daggers, and questioned the sole survivor about the ambush.

Yang Ling and Zhao Zheng gathered a force of Sixth-Rank experts and led them inland across Fire Flood Dragon Island, where they encountered Zhao Yingying’s group at an abandoned mine. The chapter ended with Yang Ling asking whether the jade box she carried contained a Fire Spirit Pearl.

• Zhao Zheng defeated the Star Sea Fishing Alliance ambushers, and Xu Qingnian killed their surviving disciple after the interrogation revealed that the Alliance’s elites had already gone deep into the island.
• Zhao Zheng summoned more than thirty Sixth-Rank experts, including He Tongchen of the Extreme Flame Sword Mansion and Jieshu of Arhat Temple, and led them inland after they took Fire-Avoidance Pills.
• Yang Ling recognized the route toward the red fire iron mine as the group traveled for seven days, while Zhao Zheng warned that the abandoned mine contained dangerous beasts and worms.
• At the mine, Zhao Zheng’s group encountered Qin Kunlun and Zhao Yingying, who was carrying a jade box that Yang Ling suspected held a Fire Spirit Pearl.

Yang Ling's group joined Qin Kunlun's party on the way to the Crimson-Refined Fire Flood Dragon Sect after Qin Kunlun revealed Fire Flood Dragon Blood and negotiated an equal split of any spoils. They reached the ruined sect and found at least a thousand Star Sea Fishing Alliance martial artists there, raising fears that the Alliance had found a substitute for Fire-Avoidance Pills.

• Zhao Yingying denied Yang Ling's guess that her jade box held a Fire Spirit Pearl, and Qin Kunlun's group agreed to travel with Zhao Zheng's party.
• Qin Kunlun proposed that his group receive seventy percent of any spoils from the Crimson-Refined Fire Flood Dragon Sect, but Zhao Zheng negotiated a fifty-fifty split.
• Qin Kunlun revealed Fire Flood Dragon Blood, which repelled ordinary exotic beasts, and explained that it would help the group travel safely through the island's ruins.
• Yang Ling studied the Human-Skin Map and planned to search the sect for the building marked as the entrance.
• Zhao Zheng, Qin Kunlun, and their companions reached the ruined sect and found at least a thousand Star Sea Fishing Alliance martial artists gathered there.
• Yang Ling and Zhao Zheng suspected the Star Sea Fishing Alliance had found a way to replace Fire-Avoidance Pills, allowing it to bring many more people onto the island.

Yang Ling and Zhao Zheng’s party were surrounded and captured by the Star Sea Fishing Alliance, whose Fourth-Rank Grandmasters had unexpectedly come ashore on Fire Flood Dragon Island. Hua Jinsong promised to keep them alive, but another chief then brought in the captured Sixth Ranks from Zhao State and the Rong Tribe, leaving their planned battle in the Alliance’s hands.

• Pei Ran suggested charging the Star Sea Fishing Alliance’s encampment, but Qin Kunlun and Zhao Zheng cautioned against an uncertain attack.
• Hua Jinsong, chief of Raging Tide Fishing Village, identified Zhao Zheng and his companions, revealed himself as a Fourth-Rank Grandmaster, and escorted them to the Alliance’s encampment.
• Yang Ling privately told Zhang Wei to warn Eunuch Xu that several Star Sea Fishing Alliance Fourth-Rank Grandmasters were on the island.
• An Alliance Grandmaster suggested killing the captives, but Hua Jinsong chose to keep them confined and said they could leave unharmed after the Alliance’s business was done.
• Hua Jinsong revealed the Star Sea Fishing Alliance shared origins with the Crimson-Refined Fire Flood Dragon Sect and said the island was Alliance territory.
• Another chief announced that he had captured both sides of the Sixth Rank Top Hundred Battle, and Hua Zhuo’s group and more than a hundred Rong Tribe Sixth Ranks were brought in.

Yang Ling learned that the Star Sea Fishing Alliance had captured nearly all the Sixth-Rank fighters from Zhao State and the Rong Tribe, and that Fourth-Rank Grandmasters could now enter Fire Flood Dragon Island safely. He then received word that Xie Jinjia had captured Zhang Wei and his godfather, while River Elder began forcing the captives to fight.

• River Elder and Old Tu persuaded Hua Jinsong to let the captured Zhao State and Rong Tribe fighters compete while the Star Sea Fishing Alliance watched.
• Old Tu revealed that Fourth-Rank Grandmasters could land on Fire Flood Dragon Island without triggering its danger, alarming the captives and prompting Yang Ling to suspect Old Flood Dragon had died.
• Yang Ling received Zhang Wei's private message that Xie Jinjia had captured Zhang Wei and his godfather after the godfather went to speak with him.
• Yang Ling feared Xie Jinjia had betrayed Zhao State and resolved to break through to Fifth Rank and help drive off the Star Sea Fishing Alliance.
• River Elder ordered the two teams to line up and made the Sixth-Rank Heavenly Wolf Guard choose the first opponent; the guard first pointed at Yang Ling, then changed his choice to Xu Qingnian.

Yang Ling was forced to fight an Upper Sixth-Rank Heavenly Wolf Guard, whom he defeated with a rapid barrage of kicks and left unconscious. Hua Jinsong discovered Yang Ling had perfected his qi and blood, then offered him a Golden Dragon Treasure Fish if he kept winning.

• The Rong Tribe’s Sixth-Rank Heavenly Wolf Guard challenged Yang Ling, but Yang Ling argued that a Lower Sixth Rank should fight an opponent of equal rank.
• Old Tu ordered Yang Ling and the Heavenly Wolf Guard into the clearing and threatened them with injury if they failed to fight seriously.
• Yang Ling overwhelmed the Heavenly Wolf Guard with swift kicks, leaving him unconscious but alive.
• Hua Jinsong recognized Yang Ling’s perfected qi and blood and praised his prospects as a Minor Grandmaster.
• Hua Jinsong invited Yang Ling to keep fighting and promised him a Golden Dragon Treasure Fish if he continued winning.

Hua Jinsong offered a hundred-year-old Golden Dragon Treasure Fish as a prize for the Sixth Rank Top Hundred Battle, drawing interest from Yang Ling, Chu Ling, and the fishing village chiefs. Chu Ling’s arrival raised concerns that the Rong Tribe’s Heavenly Might King had become a second-rank immortal, and Hua Jinsong widened the offer to all village contestants who won the championship.

• Hua Jinsong revealed that he had obtained a fully matured, hundred-year-old Golden Dragon Treasure Fish, which could strengthen flesh regeneration for a fifth-rank martial artist.
• Old Tu, River Elder, and other village chiefs tried to buy or trade for the fish, but Hua Jinsong offered it to Yang Ling if he won the championship.
• Yang Ling doubted Hua Jinsong’s intentions and said he did not think he could win.
• Chu Ling asked whether she could receive the fish if she won, and Hua Jinsong recognized her as the daughter of the Rong Tribe’s Heavenly Might King.
• Zhao Zheng warned that the Heavenly Might King might have broken through to the second rank, alarming the Zhao State martial artists.
• Hua Jinsong agreed that contestants from the fishing villages could also win the fish, saying it was meant for outstanding talents.

At Fire Flood Dragon Island, Hua Jinsong and the other Fourth-Rank Grandmasters arranged a contest for the Golden Dragon Treasure Fish, while Yang Ling watched for a chance to reach the entrance to Tun Tian Dao Palace. The chapter ended with Qin Kunlun challenging Yang Ling and revealing formidable strength as their duel began.

• Yang Ling received Zhang Wei’s messages about Godfather being taken away and assured him that the Pacify the Rong King was safe for now.
• River Elder proposed that the groups choose their strongest Sixth-Rank fighters before competing for the Golden Dragon Treasure Fish, and Hua Jinsong accepted the plan.
• Hua Jinsong dismissed a Fifth Rank’s chances of advancing and argued that the Golden Dragon Treasure Fish should go to younger Sixth Ranks.
• Chu Ling began fighting for the Rong Tribe, while Zhao Zheng agreed that the Zhao State’s fighters would spar among themselves.
• Qin Kunlun challenged Yang Ling, then activated the Divine Path Heart Sutra and the Giant Spirit Mountain-Shaking Art, boosting his strength to 340 and agility to 209.

Yang Ling defeated Qin Kunlun in a spar by evading his Divine Sense Palm and striking him from behind, leaving Qin injured and conceding. After a confused Heavenly Wolf Guard asked to resume a fight that had already ended, no one else from Zhao State would challenge Yang Ling.

• Zhao Zheng warned Constable Yang that Qin Kunlun cultivated two second-rate internal skills, and Qin charged with his Divine Sense Palm.
• Yang Ling analyzed Qin's attack, dodged it with a deft turn, and struck Qin from behind as Qin tried to recover.
• Qin fell to his knees with a bleeding injury, then stood and admitted that he had lost the exchange.
• A recovering Heavenly Wolf Guard mistook the scene and asked to fight again, prompting Qin to angrily explain that their match had ended long ago.
• Zhao Zheng invited others to spar with Yang Ling, but Hua Zhuo, He Tongchen, and Jieshu all refused.

Yang Ling assessed Chu Ling as the final opponent for the Golden Dragon Treasure Fish while Zhao Zheng warned that her father, the Heavenly Might King, might have become a Human Immortal. The fishing village chiefs changed the final contest into a free-for-all, leaving Yang Ling to face the other nine Sixth-Rank prodigies and the Grandmasters who would follow.

• Qin Kunlun urged Zhao Zheng to fight for the Zhao State, but Zhao Zheng said Yang Ling was qualified to represent it.
• Zhao Zheng warned Yang Ling that Chu Ling's father had defeated the Iron Clothes Department's leader and might have emerged from seclusion as a Human Immortal.
• Chu Ling defeated another opponent, and Yang Ling examined her abilities before she turned her attention toward him.
• After the fishing villages selected their strongest Sixth-Rank experts, River Elder proposed a ten-person free-for-all for the Golden Dragon Treasure Fish.
• Old Tu and Hua Jinsong agreed to the free-for-all, and Yang Ling worried that the Grandmasters could beat him after he defeated the other contestants.

Hua Jinsong revealed a genuine Golden Dragon Treasure Fish as the prize for a melee, and Yang Ling refused Chu Ling’s offer to team up against the Star Sea Fishing Alliance. Chu Ling overwhelmed several opponents with a dangerous technique that consumed her mental power, and Yang Ling realized she had only 80 seconds before it ran out.

• Hua Jinsong produced a Golden Dragon Treasure Fish and explained that eating it increased flesh regeneration by twenty percent.
• Chu Ling offered Yang Ling the fish’s tail if they joined forces, but Yang Ling refused and chose to wait for the melee to unfold.
• The eight fishing village disciples left Yang Ling alone and attacked Chu Ling together.
• Chu Ling used the Reverse Yang Meridian Opening Art and Martial Skills to send three Sixth-Rank opponents flying.
• Yang Ling noticed Chu Ling’s mental power rapidly draining and concluded that her enhanced state could last only 80 seconds.

Chu Ling used the lifespan-consuming Reverse Yang Meridian-Penetrating Art to defeat the Star Sea Fishing Alliance’s Sixth Ranks and face Yang Ling in the final match. Though she attacked with overwhelming speed, Yang Ling suddenly turned the fight around and left her unconscious on the ground.

• Chu Ling defeated three Sixth Ranks, and Hua Jinsong explained that her secret art traded lifespan and cultivation potential for a surge of power.
• Chu Ling said reaching the Second Rank could offset the art’s drawbacks, then defeated two more opponents and forced the remaining three to concede.
• The arena narrowed to a showdown between Chu Ling and Yang Ling, and Chu Ling criticized him for refusing to join forces earlier.
• Chu Ling activated all three internal skills and attacked Yang Ling at immense speed, convinced she had him cornered.
• Yang Ling picked his nose, then Chu Ling lost consciousness and awoke sprawled on the ground with a black footprint on her chest.

Yang Ling defeated Chu Ling and claimed the Golden Dragon Treasure Fish, while the witnesses struggled to understand the gap between their abilities. After Yang Ling revealed that he cultivated three Second-rate Internal Skills, he took the fish in a chilled jade box and the gathering ended.

• Qin Kunlun and the others admitted they could not follow Yang Ling and Chu Ling’s movements, while Zhao Zheng realized Yang Ling might become a Fourth-Rank Grandmaster.
• The River Elder identified Yang Ling and Chu Ling as cultivators of multiple Internal Skills, and Yang Ling confirmed that he cultivated three Second-rate Internal Skills.
• Hua Jinsong awarded Yang Ling the Golden Dragon Treasure Fish, then placed it in a freezing jade box so Yang Ling could save it until he advanced to Fifth Rank.
• Chu Ling questioned how Yang Ling had balanced his qi and blood, but Hua Jinsong declared that her loss was final.
• Hua Jinsong ended the sparring and told everyone to rest without wandering off.

Yang Ling was summoned away from the courtyard by Shi Jinglong under the pretense that Hua Jinsong and River Elder wanted to see him. Shi Jinglong and two other upper fifth-rank experts trapped him in a ruined hall and demanded the Golden Dragon Treasure Fish.

• Zhao Zheng suspected the Star Sea Fishing Alliance was searching Fire Flood Dragon Island for an entrance to a hidden chamber containing the Crimson-Refined Fire Flood Dragon Sect's inheritance.
• Shi Jinglong ordered Yang Ling to leave the courtyard and follow him, while Zhao Zheng and the others worried that Yang Ling might be in danger.
• Chu Ling doubted that the Star Sea Fishing Alliance was holding back only out of fear of the Rong Tribe.
• Shi Jinglong led Yang Ling to a dilapidated hall, where he shut the doors and joined two other upper fifth-rank experts.
• Shi Jinglong demanded that Yang Ling hand over the Golden Dragon Treasure Fish.