Recaps

Li Qiming used his Golden Finger and improved aptitude to rise from a restaurant servant to a Registered Disciple of Dragon Roar Martial Hall. During an escort mission, the Demon Sect ambushed the party, leaving Li Qiming to kill a pursuing assassin while Qin Yu faced a powerful enemy.

• Li Qiming unlocked his Golden Finger after Wang Ba’s death, gained Tiger Roar Fist experience and a Fine Essence-Nurturing Pill, then improved his Root Bone and entered the Blood Refining Realm.
• After Cao Xiaohu’s execution triggered a demonic outbreak, Li Qiming escaped the chaos and later took the Blood Dragon Pill from Li Fei’s corpse before swallowing it.
• Li Qiming helped Zhang Mingshun, then won the servant assessment at Dragon Roar Martial Hall by enduring Jiang Daoming’s Blood Qi pressure and demonstrating near-Perfection Tiger Roar Fist.
• Li Qiming became a Registered Disciple, chose the difficult One Blade Style, and began training in it despite making little progress.
• Li Qiming joined Qin Yu’s escort mission, where Chen Shuang and the Demon Sect revealed their attack and sought Xia Bingbing.
• Jiang Lianyue intervened against Chen Ajiu, while Li Qiming fled the ambush and evaded Shadow Blade through the forest.
• Li Qiming killed Shadow Blade and found entries for blade talent, assassin experience, and ten years of Blood Qi cultivation, but had not yet chosen one.
• Qin Yu fought a towering black-clad martial artist, who broke his blade with twin hammers and sent him flying.

Li Qiming grew stronger through battles, earned the rank of Chief Elite Disciple, and began uncovering demonic threats in Dragon Spring City. The arc ended with him exposing eight Rat Demons hidden among the survivors of a massacre.

• Li Qiming returned to the forest battle, gained immense strength from Entries, and killed several Demon Sect fighters, including Chen Ajiu.
• A-Lian hunted Li Qiming at the Ancient Temple, but Han Tianjun wounded her and helped Xia Bingbing and the others escape.
• A-Lian later forced Li Qiming to study the Demon Extermination Blade Technique, and he demonstrated enough talent to earn three years to master it.
• Long Wuhui promoted Li Qiming to Chief Elite Disciple, and Li Qiming killed Wu Tianlong after accepting his Life-Death Order.
• Li Qiming discovered a Soul-Devouring Rat had controlled Wu Tianlong, then broke through to Bone Refining and improved his martial skills.
• At the Yamen, Li Qiming gained the Demon Subduing Eye by combining three Divine Pupil Entries and joined the investigation of a massacre blamed on Rat Demons.
• Li Qiming identified eight surviving women at the massacre scene as Rat Demons, and their heads exploded to reveal white-furred rat heads.

Li Qiming exposed the demons behind the manor massacre, survived the Rat King's Painted World, and grew stronger as the Gods and Devils Secret Realm approached. After rescuing Qi Weiwei from the Three Swordsmen, he fled with her while powerful observers tried to identify him.

• Li Qiming identified the Soul-Devouring Rats as the killers and defeated Cao Ghost Hand, then led the investigators to Great Ruins Temple.
• Master Wu Hui revealed himself as the Rat King and trapped Li Qiming and the others in the Painted World, where Li Qiming killed Rat Demons and strengthened his bone essence.
• Li Qiming escaped the dark spaces as his companions fought the Rat Demons, while the Dog Demon attacked and A-Lian helped drive it off.
• Elder Huang and Li Qiming uncovered the Rat Queen's disguise, and Luo Wen killed the demon that had taken Clerk Wang's body.
• Elder Huang explained the looming Kunlun Mountain challenge and the Gods and Devils Secret Realm, while Li Qiming trained and learned that Chen Shuang had hired Cao Ghost Hand.
• Li Qiming fused his Root Bone Entries into the Succubus Buddha Dragon Bone and advanced to early Organ Refining.
• The Three Swordsmen attacked the Qi Family and murdered Qi Yuan, while Qi Weiwei killed Qi Hu before the attackers tried to force her into marriage.
• Li Qiming killed the Three Swordsmen and rescued Qi Weiwei, then cut down Sixteen and escaped with her as observers wondered who he was.

Li Qiming rescued Qi Weiwei, gained new blade abilities, and entered the Demon God Secret Realm, where he defeated demons and explored ancient inheritances. He led his companions safely across the Yin Soldier Wilderness and into the Heaven and Earth Pagoda, while A-Lian’s route and the realm’s inheritances drew the factions toward deeper dangers.

• Li Qiming rescued Qi Weiwei from Elder Duanmu’s attack, escaped with her, and discovered that the world below seemed unreal.
• Li Qiming comprehended Blade Intent, passed the True Martial Pagoda, and visited the Corpse Inspection Room, where he found Sixteen’s body.
• Li Qiming investigated Butcher Wu’s feast, killed the Dog King and its demons, and broke through to mid-stage Organ Refining.
• Li Qiming brought the deranged Murong Canghai home before Long Wuhui announced that the Demon God Secret Realm had opened.
• Li Qiming entered the Secret Realm, promised A-Lian he would find a way to help her, and received Saint Molong’s Mohist inheritance.
• Li Qiming defeated the fused Yin Soldier King, gained Fallen Leaf Blade Intent, and joined Han Tianjun and the others as they traveled deeper into the realm.
• Gan Duoduo and Chen Shuang led young experts through the Yin Soldier Wilderness, where most of the group died before the Heaven and Earth Pagoda emerged.
• Li Qiming followed A-Lian’s marked route across the wilderness with his companions and led them into the pagoda, but Shi Beibei and Jiang Lianyue could not reach its seventh floor.