Recaps

Sword Thirteen took Mo Shang, Gu Qingzhou, Liu Ruyan, and Jiang Shuyu to a bathhouse, where he told them which competitors to watch for at the grand competition. After the group checked into an inn, Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu shared the last room, and he was left stunned by her appearance.

• Liu Ruyan led Mo Shang, Gu Qingzhou, and Jiang Shuyu to a bathhouse, where they found Sword Thirteen soaking his feet.
• Sword Thirteen warned them to watch the Holy Son of the Heavenly Mystery Sect and the Holy Maiden of the Ten Thousand Flowers Sect at the grand competition.
• Sword Thirteen described the Holy Son as a once-in-ten-thousand-years genius who had reached the Spirit Condensation Realm after two and a half years of cultivation.
• Sword Thirteen booked four rooms at an inn, and Gu Qingzhou and Liu Ruyan each took a room for themselves.
• Jiang Shuyu took the final room token and went upstairs with Mo Shang.
• Jiang Shuyu changed into a white robe, and Mo Shang awkwardly told her she looked good.

Jiang Shuyu followed Liu Ruyan’s romantic advice and tried to grow closer to Mo Shang, who confiscated the romance book that had inspired her. The next morning, Sword Thirteen led the group to the sect tournament, where Mo Shang recognized Guo Jingjing and wondered about Sword Thirteen’s connection to a Ten Thousand Flowers Sect elder.

• Jiang Shuyu told Mo Shang she liked him because he had saved her life ten years earlier, and she admitted she had learned her approach from Liu Ruyan and a romance book.
• Mo Shang confiscated Jiang Shuyu’s book, then gave in when she asked him to hold her through the night.
• The next morning, Gu Qingzhou teased Mo Shang about looking pale, and Sword Thirteen led everyone to the Martial Arena for the sect tournament.
• Mo Shang spotted Guo Jingjing beside a powerful Ten Thousand Flowers Sect elder, who greeted Sword Thirteen as “Brother Thirteen.”
• Gu Qingzhou and Mo Shang speculated that the elder might be Old Deng’s sweetheart, and she turned to look at them.

The Cang Domain sect tournament began, and Mo Shang drew the first match against Luo Wu of the Celestial Image Sect. Mo Shang dodged Luo Wu’s powerful attacks, but Luo Wu intensified his assault and boxed him in with a barrage of fists.

• Guo Jingjing flirted with Gu Qingzhou while Mo Shang and Liu Ruyan laughed at his embarrassment.
• An elder announced the tournament and instructed the sect disciples to draw lots for their matches.
• Mo Shang drew Arena No. 1, Match One against Luo Wu, and Sword Thirteen warned him that the Celestial Image Sect specialized in body cultivation.
• Mo Shang inspected Luo Wu’s traits and learned that his diligent training had given him immense strength and an innocent nature.
• Luo Wu charged Mo Shang with a series of powerful punches, but Mo Shang calmly dodged them.
• Luo Wu’s muscles swelled and his skin turned bronze as he unleashed a barrage of fist shadows to trap Mo Shang.

Mo Shang faced Luo Wu in a contest of physical strength and discovered that Ten Thousand Dao Star Art had tempered his body despite his never training it. After a thousand exchanges, Luo Wu conceded, leaving Mo Shang to wonder about the cultivation method’s rank and the power of his future self.

• Mo Shang met Luo Wu’s punch head-on and knocked him backward, shocking the watching disciples with his physical strength.
• Mo Shang suspected Ten Thousand Dao Star Art had strengthened his body, then agreed to continue fighting when Luo Wu charged again.
• Mo Shang and Luo Wu exchanged blows across the arena while the spectators and elders struggled to understand Mo Shang’s strength.
• After a thousand exchanges, Luo Wu grew exhausted and conceded that he could not beat Mo Shang.
• Mo Shang thanked Luo Wu and concluded that Ten Thousand Dao Star Art tempered the body, wondering what level his future self had reached to create it.

Jiang Shuyu faced Yan Zhantian in the second match on Arena No. 2, but the Blazing Sun Sect Elder intervened when her attack threatened him. As Sword Thirteen confronted the elder, Jiang Shuyu was shaken by memories of being abandoned by her former sect, and Mo Shang comforted her.

• After Mo Shang defeated Luo Wu, Jiang Shuyu entered Arena No. 2 to fight Yan Zhantian of the Blazing Sun Sect.
• Yan Zhantian tried to persuade Jiang Shuyu to surrender and join his sect, but she refused and launched an annihilating yin-and-yang attack.
• The Blazing Sun Sect Elder destroyed Jiang Shuyu's attack with Solar True Fire and sent the remaining flames toward her.
• Sword Thirteen cut down the elder's attack, while Mo Shang and the others joined Jiang Shuyu on the arena.
• The elder accused Jiang Shuyu of using a vicious move and threatened the Falling Cloud Sect, triggering painful memories that left her trembling as Mo Shang held and reassured her.
• Sword Thirteen rejected the elder's accusation, declared Yan Zhantian simply outmatched, and unleashed his sword aura across the Martial Arena.

Sword Thirteen defended the Falling Cloud Sect’s disciple and fought the Blazing Sun Sect Elder before challenging Li Batian’s attempt to end the dispute without an explanation. When Li Batian attacked him, Sword Thirteen unleashed a powerful sword technique that destroyed the giant palm.

• Sword Thirteen confronted the Blazing Sun Sect Elder over his attack on a Falling Cloud Sect disciple, and the two fought to a standstill.
• Li Batian arrived and stopped their battle, declaring that the matter was over, but Sword Thirteen demanded an explanation from the Blazing Sun Sect.
• Sword Thirteen threatened war when the Blazing Sun Sect Elder refused to apologize, then defied Li Batian’s order to yield.
• Li Batian attacked Sword Thirteen with a giant palm, and Sword Thirteen told Gu Qingzhou to watch his next sword because it would look cool.
• Sword Thirteen used the Sword Dao Killing Move, End of All Things, splitting Li Batian’s palm apart and causing it to vanish.

Sword Thirteen fought Li Batian to protect the disciples but was badly wounded before Liu Zhengyang intervened. As Liu Zhengyang faced Li Batian and another True Dharma expert, Sword Thirteen hinted that he knew why Liu Ruyan’s mother was absent but refused to explain.

• Sword Thirteen’s Finality Sword Qi failed to overcome Li Batian’s True Fire Dharma Image, and Li Batian struck him down on the arena.
• As Li Batian moved to kill Sword Thirteen, Gu Qingzhou prepared to intervene, but Liu Zhengyang appeared and blocked the attack with a punch.
• Li Batian accused Liu Zhengyang of shielding a disciple who had disrupted the tournament, while Liu Zhengyang dismissed the accusation and challenged him.
• A second True Dharma Realm expert arrived beside Li Batian, but Liu Zhengyang remained confident he could defeat them both while protecting his disciples.
• Mo Shang and Gu Qingzhou remarked on the old guard’s dramatic confidence, while Liu Ruyan worried about her father.
• Sword Thirteen reassured Liu Ruyan and hinted that he knew about her mother, but said her father would explain when the time was right.

Liu Zhengyang fought Li Batian and the Blazing Sun Sect Leader to a standstill without revealing his full strength, then secured compensation for the Blazing Sun Sect Elder’s attack on Jiang Shuyu. He shared the compensation with Jiang Shuyu and Sword Thirteen before taking the group back to the Falling Cloud Sect, ending the tournament.

• Li Batian and the Blazing Sun Sect Leader attacked Liu Zhengyang together, but he blocked both strikes with simple punches and remained unharmed.
• Mo Shang checked Liu Zhengyang’s traits but found nothing that explained his strange habit of making each fight seem like a dead even match.
• Liu Zhengyang demanded compensation from the two leaders for the Blazing Sun Sect Elder’s attack on Jiang Shuyu, and both men handed him rings of cultivation resources.
• Liu Zhengyang gave one ring each to Jiang Shuyu and Sword Thirteen, insisting that Jiang Shuyu accept hers as compensation for her grievance.
• Liu Zhengyang told Gu Qingzhou that it was wise to leave opponents a way out, then tore open space and took everyone away from the tournament.

Mo Shang uncovered a heaven-and-earth spiritual treasure inside the Meteorite Iron, and the Falling Star Flame accepted him as its master, greatly increasing his cultivation. Gu Qingzhou arrived and was stunned by Mo Shang’s sudden breakthrough and effortless acquisition of the Spirit Flame.

• Mo Shang returned to the Falling Cloud Sect with Liu Zhengyang and the others after the tournament was called off.
• Mo Shang asked Jiang Shuyu about the unusual aura inside the Meteorite Iron he had bought at auction.
• The Meteorite Iron melted and revealed a starry flame that passed through Mo Shang’s barrier and entered his body.
• The Falling Star Flame granted Mo Shang a Dao Pattern and enough Star Power to advance from the Spirit Gathering Realm Fifth Layer to the Ninth Layer.
• Mo Shang discovered he could control the Falling Star Flame, and Jiang Shuyu explained that it had recognized him as its master.
• Gu Qingzhou sensed Mo Shang’s new cultivation, rushed over, and expressed disbelief that he had obtained and mastered a wild Spirit Flame so easily.

Mo Shang forged the meteorite and Gu Qingzhou’s added materials into a spirit spear that Mo Shang named Starfall. A month later, Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu relaxed together in his courtyard and decided to go for a walk, though they had not chosen a destination.

• Gu Qingzhou added numerous rare materials, a spirit herb, a strange stone, and a wisp of purple qi to the molten meteorite before Mo Shang stopped him.
• Mo Shang refined the materials with the Falling Star Flame and forged a spear that immediately showed signs of possessing a spirit.
• Mo Shang named the spear Starfall, and Gu Qingzhou praised its potential while comparing it with his own Gengjin Soul-Slaying Sword.
• A month later, Mo Shang lounged in his courtyard while Jiang Shuyu read a romance novel from Senior Sister Su.
• Mo Shang burned the book and suggested that he and Jiang Shuyu take a walk, and she agreed as long as she could be with him.

Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu traveled to a random world, where they discovered a ruined city in the Weird Tales World. After learning the Butcher guarded an eerie-tale instance for work, Mo Shang asked to accompany him.

• Mo Shang asked the system to take him and Jiang Shuyu to a random world, and the system carried them away.
• The system revealed that simply arriving completed a mission, earning Mo Shang ten additional trait draws through a bug it had exploited.
• Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu explored the ruined city and sensed that the world's rules were unusual.
• A Butcher approached, identified the place as the Weird Tales World, and said its rules had told him the pair came from another world.
• The Butcher explained that he guarded an eerie-tale instance and agreed to let Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu follow him.

Zhou Yi entered the Hell-difficulty Bloody Slaughterhouse, drew an S-Rank High Damage talent, and found the employee rules. As he gathered for work, Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu arrived as apparent guests, and Mo Shang noticed Zhou Yi’s rare traits.

• Zhou Yi awakened inside Bloody Slaughterhouse and learned that he had to survive for seven days to escape.
• Zhou Yi drew the S-Rank High Damage talent and searched the room for the employee handbook.
• Zhou Yi read the seven slaughterhouse rules and left for the workroom before his shift began.
• Zhou Yi joined seven other Chosen Ones outside the workroom as the Butcher appeared with Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu.
• Zhou Yi suspected Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu were the important guests, while Mo Shang saw Zhou Yi’s Destiny’s Chosen and Quick Thinking traits.

The Butcher punished a Chosen One who questioned his orders, then invited Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu to his office while the others began working in the Workshop. Zhou Yi discovered that the Workshop was assimilating the workers and used his S-rank talent to remove the changes from his own body.

• A Dark-skinned Chosen One challenged the Butcher and was transformed into a black pig by black mist.
• The Butcher ordered the Chosen Ones to work for seven days and invited Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu to tea in his office.
• Mo Shang asked the Butcher about the Weird World's rules and how to leave, while Zhou Yi and the other Chosen Ones entered the Workshop.
• Zhou Yi found two contradictory factory rules and noticed that workers were becoming dazed and developing animal-like features.
• Zhou Yi realized he was being assimilated even without working, then used his S-rank talent to dispel the changes.

Zhou Yi searched the Bloody Slaughterhouse for a way out, then followed Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu through its gate after Mo Shang opened it with a Blood Key. After clearing the instance, Zhou Yi destroyed the gate with his S-Rank Talent and fled from the Butcher’s furious roar.

• Zhou Yi met the Chosen Ones from the Pretty Kingdom, the Kimchi Kingdom, and the Sakura Kingdom in the break room and said he would fight his way out.
• Zhou Yi reached the slaughterhouse’s iron gate, where Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu arrived; Mo Shang used a Blood Key to open it and reveal a passage to a ruined city.
• Zhou Yi followed them outside and received a notification that he had cleared the Hell-difficulty Bloody Slaughterhouse, earning a two-star rating and a 10% physique increase for everyone in the Dragon Kingdom.
• Zhou Yi stayed behind to test his talent and punched the gate into dust, prompting the Butcher to roar that he would kill him.
• Zhou Yi teleported back to the real world as Mo Shang watched in astonishment and then left with Jiang Shuyu.

After arriving on Blue Star, Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu met a yellow weasel seeking a title, and Mo Shang’s answer transformed it into an immortal. The Yellow Immortal guided them to a nearby city, where Mo Shang realized it was not his former world and asked whether the weasel had any money.

• Mo Shang teased the yellow weasel by reciting grand immortal titles, then asked whether he looked like a person or an immortal.
• Mo Shang answered the weasel’s question with the word “god,” breaking its cultivation bottleneck and turning it into an immortal.
• The Yellow Immortal bowed to Mo Shang and offered to guide him and Jiang Shuyu to the nearest city.
• Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu reached a bustling city, but Mo Shang recognized that it was not the world he had lived in before crossing over.
• Mo Shang asked the Yellow Immortal whether it had money, and the weasel said it had none.

Mo Shang, Jiang Shuyu, and Yellow Immortal reunited with Zhou Yi after struggling to figure out how to get money. When Chen Guodong arrived at Zhou Yi’s apartment to ask about the pair from the dungeon, Zhou Yi revealed they were already inside.

• Mo Shang rejected Yellow Immortal’s suggestions to rob a bank or work in a factory, then recognized Zhou Yi on the street and approached him with Jiang Shuyu and Yellow Immortal.
• Yellow Immortal spoke to Zhou Yi, drawing a crowd that recognized the group from the supernatural livestream, so Mo Shang teleported them away.
• Mo Shang and the others went to Zhou Yi’s apartment, where Zhou Yi admitted his family had money but he personally did not, then introduced himself and learned Mo Shang’s name.
• Chen Guodong, Director of the National Supernatural Administration Bureau, visited Zhou Yi with two guards and explained that the dungeon guests might help the Dragon Kingdom’s Chosen Ones.
• Zhou Yi told Chen Guodong that Mo Shang and the others were already inside the apartment.

Mo Shang and Zhou Yi discussed cultivation manuals and a shortcut to gaining power, while Chen Guodong discovered that Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu could travel between Blue Star and the Weird World. Chen Guodong invited them to the Supernatural Management Bureau to discuss helping the Dragon Kingdom’s Chosen Ones.

• Mo Shang offered Zhou Yi cultivation manuals to compensate for his broken phone, and Zhou Yi chose Nether Slash Heaven Art.
• Mo Shang explained that rapidly gaining power by inheriting a dying senior’s cultivation would erase Zhou Yi’s memories, then admitted that he himself grew stronger through a game cheat.
• Chen Guodong entered the apartment, introduced himself as director of the Supernatural Management Bureau, and asked Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu who they were.
• Mo Shang said he was a passing cultivator and explained that his method of entering the Weird World could not be used by others.
• Chen Guodong invited Mo Shang and the others to the Supernatural Management Bureau to discuss his request, and Mo Shang agreed to go.

Mo Shang, Jiang Shuyu, and Zhou Yi were escorted to the Supernatural Management Bureau’s underground base, where Mo Shang provoked its ability users by criticizing their combat skills. He accepted Blazing Flame’s challenge and stood unharmed after the man’s first attack, while Blazing Flame hurled an even stronger fireball at him.

• Chen Guodong took Mo Shang, Jiang Shuyu, and Zhou Yi to the Bureau’s hidden base, and Mo Shang asked the driver to play DJ music along the way.
• At the base’s training ground, Mo Shang dismissed the ability users as unable to fight, prompting Blazing Flame to challenge him.
• Yellow Immortal revealed that he could speak, but Mo Shang sent him away so he could face Blazing Flame himself.
• Blazing Flame struck Mo Shang with a Flaming Fist, but Mo Shang stood unharmed and mocked him.
• Blazing Flame grew angry and hurled a much larger fireball at Mo Shang, who still did not dodge.

Mo Shang demonstrated his overwhelming control of flame and dismissed Blazing Flame’s challenge before meeting with Director Chen about helping the Dragon Kingdom’s Chosen Ones. After Zhou Yi revealed his S-Rank Strength talent and asked for money, Director Chen offered him one billion yuan, leaving Zhou Yi so grateful that he offered to become Chen’s adoptive son.

• Mo Shang slapped away Blazing Flame’s fireball and showed how he could concentrate Falling Star Flame into a point that overwhelmed the monitoring equipment.
• Blazing Flame’s teammates apologized and dragged him away after Yellow Immortal told them to leave if he was drunk.
• Chen Guodong brought Mo Shang and the others to a conference room and asked him to help the Dragon Kingdom’s Chosen Ones in the next Weird Instance.
• Mo Shang said Zhou Yi’s talent was strong enough to overcome any instance, and Zhou Yi revealed his S-Rank Strength talent and ability to break rules and crush the weird.
• Zhou Yi asked for ten thousand yuan, but Chen Guodong offered to transfer one billion yuan and promised further support.
• Zhou Yi knelt and offered to take Chen Guodong as his adoptive father, but Chen hurriedly helped him up.

Mo Shang traded two Spirit Ginseng roots to Chen Guodong for one hundred billion and a legal identity. With the money in hand, he took the group to the Most Luxurious Roadside Stall and began ordering an extravagant feast for everyone there.

• Mo Shang offered Chen Guodong a Spirit Ginseng root, then doubled the offer to two in exchange for one hundred billion and a legal identity.
• Chen Guodong accepted the deal, while Mo Shang privately noted that the roots were ordinary Spirit Ginseng from the Mystic Heaven Realm.
• Chen Guodong sent Zhang San and Li Si to accompany Mo Shang, Jiang Shuyu, Yellow Immortal, and Zhou Yi from the base.
• Mo Shang redirected the group to the Most Luxurious Roadside Stall instead of going home.
• Mo Shang ordered King Crab for everyone, unlimited Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, and a hundred servings of Snowflake Wagyu.

Zhou Yi was pulled into the solo Weird Instance Internet Addiction Treatment Center before he could eat, where he killed the Instructor with one punch. He learned that defeating Dean Yang was the way out and set off to confront him.

• Mo Shang paid for the meal, and Zhou Yi vanished just as he was about to eat.
• Zhou Yi found himself in the Internet Addiction Treatment Center and learned he had seven days to escape.
• The Instructor confronted Zhou Yi, who killed him with a single punch.
• Zhou Yi questioned one of the burly students and learned he had to defeat Dean Yang to leave.
• The burly student warned that Dean Yang could shoot electricity, but Zhou Yi ordered him to lead the way.

Zhou Yi defeated Dean Yang and cleared the Weird Instance in under ten minutes, earning a perfect rating and a permanent physique boost. He returned to his old rental apartment instead of the late-night food stall, where Mo Shang, Zhang San, and Li Si were joined by a young man the owner called Young Master Ye.

• Zhou Yi ignored the instructors’ orders, knocked one down, and confronted Dean Yang.
• Dean Yang transformed and attacked, but Zhou Yi sent him flying with one punch and killed him.
• Zhou Yi earned a perfect clearance, increased Dragon Kingdom’s mineral reserves by twenty percent, and received a threefold permanent physique boost for the Speedrun achievement.
• Zhou Yi left the instance, but it sent him back to his shabby rental apartment rather than the late-night food stall.
• At the stall, Zhang San and Li Si wondered why Zhou Yi had not returned while Mo Shang’s expensive dishes were served.
• The owner welcomed Young Master Ye and offered him King Crab and Buddha Jumps Over the Wall; Young Master Ye glanced at Mo Shang in surprise.

Mo Shang met Chen Tian, a powerful traveler who had returned to his homeland, and the two became drinking companions. Their night ended when a swordswoman from another world confronted Chen Tian, then collapsed from exhaustion, leaving Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu curious about their relationship.

• Mo Shang saw Chen Tian’s Homecomer, Truth, and Sigma Male traits, and Chen Tian introduced himself to Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu.
• Mo Shang and Chen Tian drank together, became close friends, and discussed refining the Sakura Kingdom into a Human Emperor Refining Banner.
• A woman in white arrived and accused Chen Tian of being a demon, then chased him with her sword.
• The woman collapsed from exhaustion after crossing worlds, and Chen Tian caught her and explained that she was not seriously hurt.
• Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu asked Chen Tian about his relationship with the woman.

Chen Tian carried his enemy, a righteous fairy who had lost her cultivation, back to his villa, while Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu followed to watch. Chen Tian's parents mistook the woman for his girlfriend and welcomed his guests as she rested upstairs.

• Mo Shang saw the woman's Golden Seeker trait, and the system pointed out the apparent connection between her and Chen Tian's Homecomer trait.
• Chen Tian recalled that he had once been a Demon Venerable and the woman a Righteous Fairy, then decided to take her home rather than leave her alone on Blue Star.
• Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu followed Chen Tian despite his protests, while Zhang San and Li Si went to find Zhou Yi, who later returned to the stall and found everyone gone.
• Chen Tian brought Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu to his villa, where Uncle Zhang and Chen Tian's parents welcomed them.
• Chen Tian's parents assumed the woman was his girlfriend, and Chen Tian took her upstairs while his mother asked Mo Shang what he thought of the pair.

Mo Shang fabricated a story to get Chen Tian’s parents to punish him, then convinced Chen Tian to pretend he had learned his lesson. The next morning, Shen Qingyao appeared in Chen Tian’s room and confronted him on Blue Star, leaving Chen Tian arguing with her about why she pursued him.

• Mo Shang told Chen Tian’s parents that Chen Tian had toyed with and abandoned a vulnerable village girl, prompting Chen Tian’s father to beat him with a belt.
• Chen Tian thanked Mo Shang for inventing the story, and his father relented after Chen Tian promised to become a good person.
• Chen Tian’s parents invited Mo Shang and Jiang Shuyu to stay overnight, and they accepted the guest room.
• The next morning, Chen Tian crashed through the guest room wall after Shen Qingyao punched him in the adjoining room.
• Chen Tian introduced Shen Qingyao to Blue Star, and she complained about its thin spiritual energy and accused him of secretly watching her.