Recaps

Sikong Jing summoned the Thunderwing Dragon Serpent and slaughtered the Gu Family and Qian Family forces at Thousand Cup Tower after Young Master Qian refused his deal. When Young Master Qian recognized Ning Jingjing as the Ning Family’s eldest young lady and begged for mercy, Ning Jingjing struck him down.

• Sikong Jing summoned the Thunderwing Dragon Serpent, took Gu Wei’s storage ring, and demanded to know whether Young Master Qian believed he could earn three million points.
• Sikong Jing killed Gu Wei and cut down the Gu Family and Thousand Cup Tower guards with techniques that drew on the Thunderwing Dragon Serpent’s power.
• Young Master Qian ordered his men to take Ning Jingjing hostage, but Ning Jingjing fought them off using Ning Family martial arts.
• Sikong Jing refused Young Master Qian’s offer to trade and killed everyone in Thousand Cup Tower except Ning Jingjing and Young Master Qian.
• Young Master Qian recognized Ning Jingjing as the Ning Family’s eldest young lady and begged her to spare him, so Ning Jingjing struck his head with her palm.

Sikong Jing killed Young Master Qian and Gu Wei, then returned safely to Ninety-Nine Town with Ning Jingjing and the rescued group. Ning Jingjing erased the aura from Young Master Qian’s treasures, and Sikong Jing left her secrets unchallenged.

• Sikong Jing collected Gu Wei’s Star Luo Palace student token and Bright Crystals before escaping Thousand Cup Tower on the Thunderwing Dragon Serpent.
• Long Night Imperial Capital guards found the bodies but declined to interfere and notified the Qian Family.
• Sikong Jing reunited with Su Zhenglong, Mei Xiaofang, and the others in Ninety-Nine Town, then revealed that he and Ning Jingjing had killed Young Master Qian and Gu Wei.
• Sikong Jing warned the group to keep the deaths secret and gave them Bright Crystals, while Sui Yu dismissed their claims that Sikong Jing had merely picked up the scraps.
• Ning Jingjing erased Young Master Qian’s aura from his storage ring and White Moon Fan, then Sikong Jing told her that everyone had their own secrets.

Sikong Jing returned the Thunderwing Dragon Serpent and arrived at the Holy Dragon Palace to become an apprentice and post a mission for the medicines needed to heal Su Yuexi. After learning about the crowded apprentice district and the rumors surrounding his actions, he joined Xu He's Great Crane Society to secure support and a quieter place to cultivate.

• Ning Jingjing offered to bring Su Yuexi back from the castle, while Sikong Jing continued comprehending the Thunderwing Dragon Serpent's beast skill through the night.
• Sikong Jing returned the Thunderwing Dragon Serpent to Demon Dragon Valley and headed to Holy Dragon Town with Wen Hu, where he learned that the recruitment tests had ended and the town was full of new apprentices and their families.
• People in town discussed the damage to the Star Luo Palace and the destruction of the Thousand Cup Tower, and Sikong Jing admitted to Wen Hu that he had killed the people who captured his family.
• Wen Hu directed Sikong Jing to Yu Yan at the Mission Hall, then left to handle the influx of new apprentices.
• Xu He invited Sikong Jing to join the Great Crane Society, and Sikong Jing agreed so he could gain support while cultivating in the apprentice district.

Sikong Jing rejected Tao Huai’s lucrative offer to join the Ancient Locust Society and chose Xu He’s Great Crane Society instead. After Tao Huai threatened to sabotage him, Sikong Jing revealed he had already completed his first month’s routine tasks and headed to the Mission Hall with Xu He following.

• Tao Huai and his companions mocked Xu He’s Great Crane Society and offered Sikong Jing two hundred Bright Crystals each month to join the Ancient Locust Society.
• Sikong Jing refused the offer and chose to join the Great Crane Society, angering Tao Huai, who threatened to make him fail his routine tasks.
• Xu He defended Sikong Jing, but Tao Huai mocked the Great Crane Society for losing many of its capable members.
• Sikong Jing revealed his apprentice token showed 1,000 points, proving he had already completed his first month’s routine tasks.
• Sikong Jing went to the Mission Hall, and Xu He hurried after him in case Tao Huai sought revenge.

Sikong Jing joined the Great Crane Society and learned that his 1,000 mission points came from completing three difficult tasks after Academy Master Tan Yue recruited him. At the Mission Hall, he found Ge Rong being unfairly denied points, and stepped in by claiming she had left something with him.

• Tao Huai ordered the Ancient Locust Society to bring in Tao Xie and force Sikong Jing into the Combat Hall so he could be driven out.
• Xu He welcomed Sikong Jing to the Great Crane Society and learned that he had been recruited by Academy Master Tan Yue and completed all three regular missions.
• Xu He recognized Ge Rong arguing with the Mission Hall attendant, who had cut the points for her Fragrant Reliance Grass and cost her a chance to recruit apprentices alone.
• Sikong Jing stepped forward and asked Ge Rong why she had submitted the task before collecting something she had left with him.

Sikong Jing presented a genuine Star Luo Palace student token to help Xu He and Ge Rong win their mission-hall dispute, but Lu Fenglan called it fake and attacked him. After Sikong Jing slapped her and recovered the token, Lu Fenglan threatened him by invoking her father’s position and demanded that he kneel and surrender it.

• Sikong Jing revealed Gu Wei’s second-year official student token, and Xu He claimed it was worth forty thousand points for the Great Crane Society.
• Lu Fenglan declared the token fake and attacked Sikong Jing, but he struck her down, slapped her again, and took the token back.
• Sikong Jing said he would return the next day to verify the token, since the mission-hall trainees would not confirm its authenticity.
• Lu Fenglan threatened to kill Sikong Jing if he left with the token, then cited her father’s instructor position and demanded that Sikong Jing kneel and hand it over.

Yu Yan revealed that she had become a three-winged Inner Palace student and Chief Student Steward of Sacred Dragon Palace's Mission Hall, then overturned Lu Fenglan's abuse of authority and helped Sikong Jing's group. She took Sikong Jing into the inner hall to discuss his mission, while the Great Crane Society celebrated gaining a powerful new member.

• Yu Yan slapped Lu Fenglan and revealed her Inner Palace student token, then showed that she was the Mission Hall's Chief Student Steward.
• Yu Yan ordered Lu Fenglan to leave and summoned her father to explain himself to Instructor Wen Hu, while warning the students on duty that they would face follow-up discipline.
• Yu Yan reappraised the Xiangyi Grass, doubled its points, and awarded Sikong Jing forty thousand points for Gu Wei's token.
• Sikong Jing asked to post a mission, and Yu Yan led him into the Mission Hall's inner hall.
• Xu He told Ge Rong that Sikong Jing had joined the Great Crane Society, and Ge Rong wept with relief that the society had been saved.

Sikong Jing asked Yu Yan to post missions for two rare medicines needed by Su Yuexi, then earned 800,000 points by creating another beast skill. After Tao Xie challenged him to a fight, the Mission Hall fell silent.

• Yu Yan told Sikong Jing she had become an Inner Palace student and Task Hall steward to manage his affairs and keep his identity secret.
• Yu Yan explained that Many-Boned Beast blood and a Thousand Cold Red Lotus Core were extremely rare, so Sikong Jing offered 800,000 points for each medicine, with further compensation negotiable.
• Sikong Jing gave Yu Yan a Green Jade Tube containing the High-Grade Flood Tier beast skill Thunderwing Thousand Strides Blade, which he had created after borrowing the Thunderwing Dragon Serpent for a day.
• Sikong Jing met Xu He and Ge Rong outside the inner hall, where Tao Huai arrived with his cousin Tao Xie.
• Tao Xie challenged Sikong Jing to fight at the Combat Hall, leaving the people in the Mission Hall strangely silent.

Sikong Jing beat Tao Huai, Tao Xie, and their lackeys after they tried to force him into a duel, then posted a mission seeking rare medicines for Su Yuexi. He headed for Gold Dragon Mountain to train at Martial Dragon Hall, but the mountain road’s pressure stopped him, and Xu He asked whether he had an entry token.

• Tao Huai offered Sikong Jing Bright Crystals to fight Tao Xie, but Sikong Jing declined because the points were too few.
• Tao Huai surrounded Sikong Jing’s group and demanded that he crawl beneath his leg, so Sikong Jing knocked down Tao Huai, Tao Xie, and their companions.
• Onlookers revealed that Sikong Jing had beaten formal students, then noticed his mission offering 800,000 points and negotiable compensation for Many-Boned Beast blood and a Thousand-Cold Red Lotus flower core.
• Sikong Jing declined Xu He’s offer to introduce him to the Great Crane Society and asked for directions to Gold Dragon Mountain.
• Xu He escorted Sikong Jing to Gold Dragon Mountain Road, where a powerful pressure stopped him as he stepped onto the path, prompting Xu He to ask whether he had an entry token.

Sikong Jing began challenging the Gold Dragon Mountain path after learning Qin Heng's token could not protect him from its pressure. When a Gold Dragon Mountain student accidentally joined the challenge by pushing him, Sikong Jing offered to lead him upward, leaving the student struggling to keep pace behind a Level One apprentice.

• Xu He explained that Sikong Jing needed a Gold Dragon Token to avoid the mountain path's pressure and that completing the challenge could make him an Inner Palace student.
• Sikong Jing stepped onto the Gold Dragon Mountain path and continued upward through pressure that grew stronger as he climbed.
• A Gold Dragon Mountain student named Lang Yisuo pushed Sikong Jing, triggering the path to judge that he had helped the challenger and forcing him into the challenge too.
• Lang Yisuo learned that Sikong Jing was only a Level One new apprentice, then followed closely behind him as Sikong Jing offered to help him through the path.

Sikong Jing and Lang Yisuo faced the second and third stages of the Seven Dragon Mountain Path challenge as Sikong Jing protected his senior brother and absorbed dragon power. The challenge awakened a dragon meridian within Sikong Jing, whose punch sent the rushing airflow retreating.

• The mountain path transformed into a twisting golden dragon's body, and Sikong Jing led Lang Yisuo through the second stage while shielding him from the dragon might.
• Lang Yisuo drove away two concerned second-year disciples so they would not be drawn into the challenge.
• Sikong Jing broke through to the third level of the Martial Scripture Realm as he and Lang Yisuo continued onward.
• The dragon vein's golden-gray current rushed at them, but Sikong Jing blocked it and heard the Golden Divine Dragon explain that the path came from a half-Divine Dragon's meridians.
• Sikong Jing sensed and absorbed the faint dragon power, forming a dragon meridian in his body that matched Gold Dragon Mountain Road.
• Sikong Jing channeled his true qi through the new meridian and struck the airflow with a dragon-crying punch, forcing it backward.

Sikong Jing passed Gold Dragon Mountain Path and entered Martial Dragon Hall to study its demon dragon pillars. Shen Qingye learned that a student had passed the trial, but a battle with Yu Wenxiong soon distracted the experts from discovering that Sikong Jing was the one who had succeeded.

• Sikong Jing used his Gold Dragon Fist to shield Lang Yisuo and led him out of Gold Dragon Mountain Path.
• Lang Yisuo collapsed from exhaustion after the trial, and Sikong Jing left him near the mountain gate to seek Martial Dragon Hall.
• The Seven Evolution Divine Dragon alerted Shen Qingye that a student had passed the trial, while Qin Heng realized he had forgotten to give Sikong Jing the Gold Dragon Token.
• Shen Qingye warned Qin Heng and the others that Yu Wenxiong had arrived, and the two academies' experts began fighting in the northern mountains.
• Sikong Jing presented Qin Heng's token to enter Martial Dragon Hall, where he studied the demon dragon pillars and their rider techniques beside a woman in black.

Sikong Jing studied the pillar depicting the Blackforged Darkhook Dragon and recognized it as a Thunderwing Dragon Serpent transformed by demonic corruption. He began memorizing how its meridians changed, while the woman in black remained unable to comprehend the technique she had pursued for two years.

• After ten days studying pillars in the Martial Dragon Hall, Sikong Jing joined the woman in black at the pillar she had been examining.
• Sikong Jing identified the Blackforged Darkhook Dragon as a corrupted Thunderwing Dragon Serpent, angering the woman in black, who insisted it was a demonic dragon.
• The woman in black revealed that she had studied the pillar for two years while cultivating Blackforge Divine Art, but had been stuck at the third realm of Xuantian for a year.
• Sikong Jing realized his past experience with demonic corruption might help him gain insight from the pillar.
• The pillar's vision showed a Thunderwing Dragon Serpent changing into the Blackforged Darkhook Dragon, and Sikong Jing began memorizing its altered meridians and method of circulating demonic power.

Sikong Jing studied the Blackforged Darkhook Dragon’s memories to understand its meridians and identify flaws in a woman’s cultivation method, then began comprehending another beast pillar. His introduction as a student of Drunken Dragon Mountain prompted Qian Jingfu to order him away from the pillar.

• Sikong Jing learned that the knight and the Blackforged Darkhook Dragon had carved their techniques and the dragon’s life story into the pillar, and he studied the dragon’s demonized meridians and fighting methods.
• After three days, Sikong Jing left the pillar and warned the black-skirted woman that her Blackforged Darkhook Dragon cultivation method had serious flaws and could cause qi deviation.
• Sikong Jing found two of the nine beast pillars matched inner cores from Wang Xiang and Wang Wei, swallowed an inner core, and began comprehending one of them.
• Qian Jingfu and three Wind Dragon Mountain students interrupted Sikong Jing, and he told them he was from Drunken Dragon Mountain.
• Qian Jingfu ordered Sikong Jing to leave the pillar, and Sikong Jing turned toward him with killing intent.

Sikong Jing refused to give up his place to Qian Jingfu and defeated Feng Yun and one of Qian Jingfu’s men, despite being a Martial Scripture Realm student from Drunken Dragon Mountain. As Qian Jingfu attacked, Sikong Jing began to use the Blackforged Darkhook Claw.

• Feng Yun and Qian Jingfu’s men demanded that Sikong Jing give up his place because he was from Drunken Dragon Mountain, but he told them to get lost.
• One of Qian Jingfu’s Martial Soul Realm men attacked Sikong Jing, who knocked him into a pillar with a single Gold Dragon Fist.
• Qian Jingfu threatened Sikong Jing, who revealed that he had reached the sixth level of the Martial Scripture Realm; Feng Yun then attacked him and was struck repeatedly until she crashed into a pillar.
• Qian Jingfu charged Sikong Jing with wind-based power, but Sikong Jing’s Gold Dragon Fist halted him without injuring him.
• As Qian Jingfu attacked again, Sikong Jing released a dense black aura and invoked the Blackforged Darkhook Claw.

Sikong Jing defeated Qian Jingfu in Martial Dragon Hall and revealed that he had mastered the Blackforged Darkhook Dragon’s power. Baili Que drove off Qian Jingfu’s group, then struggled to apologize and ask Sikong Jing for help, but he demanded twenty million points.

• Sikong Jing transformed into the Blackforged Darkhook Dragon and knocked Qian Jingfu back, winning their fight.
• Qian Jingfu tried to use his White Moon Fan, but Sikong Jing revealed an identical fan and Qian Jingfu called on the others to attack together.
• Baili Que appeared, slapped Feng Yun for insulting her, and identified herself as a senior student of Dark Dragon Mountain, sending Qian Jingfu and the others fleeing.
• Baili Que acknowledged that she had judged Sikong Jing unfairly and tried to apologize and ask him for guidance.
• Sikong Jing cut Baili Que off by demanding twenty million points.

Sikong Jing sold Baili Que a small piece of information about the Blackforged Darkhook Dragon before leaving the Martial Dragon Hall. At Gold Dragon Mountain, he found Lang Yisuo surrounded by students asking how he had broken through two major realms.

• Baili Que offered Sikong Jing six hundred thousand points for information, and he told her the Blackforged Darkhook Dragon was a Thunderwing Dragon Serpent corrupted by demonic energy.
• Sikong Jing refused to provide more information without payment, while Baili Que studied the Thunderwing Dragon Serpent pillar and eventually broke through a minor level.
• After several days, Sikong Jing finished comprehending two inner cores and beast pillars, created two beast skills, reached the eighth level of the Martial Scripture Realm, and decided to return to Ninety-Nine Town.
• Baili Que asked Sikong Jing if she could buy the remaining information on credit, but he refused before leaving the Martial Dragon Hall.
• At Gold Dragon Mountain, Sikong Jing found students crowding around Lang Yisuo, who explained that a level-one apprentice had led him through the Gold Dragon Mountain Road challenge and helped him break through two major realms.

Sikong Jing returned home and discovered that Lan Zhuanghe’s faction was threatening his family while Ning Jingjing was away. He learned that Su Yuexi was being targeted and set out to protect her.

• Lang Yisuo begged Sikong Jing to confirm that he had helped him pass the Gold Dragon Mountain Road, but Sikong Jing denied it and left.
• Sikong Jing raised the reward for his medicinal-ingredient mission to three million points after inscribing two new beast skills into Green Jade Tubes.
• Sikong Jing returned to Ninety-Nine Town and overheard Pan Zha’s wife threatening Mei Xiaofang over Su Yuexi.
• Sikong Jing confronted Pan Zha’s wife after she claimed Su Yuexi would soon be sent to Lan Zhuanghe and threatened his family.
• Mei Xiaofang told Sikong Jing that Ning Jingjing had been taken home and that Su Yuexi was hiding at Sui Yu’s house.

Sikong Jing confronted Madam Pan and the young thugs who slandered Su Yuexi, using violence to force them to reveal who had put them up to it. The young thug named Madam Pan, who denied the accusation and called his confession torture.

• Sikong Jing slapped Madam Pan after she threatened him, and townspeople gathered to condemn him without hearing his side.
• Young thugs accused the Sui Clan couple of beating them, and one repeated a rumor that Su Yuexi was having an affair with Lan Zhuanghe.
• Sikong Jing struck the thug and an old man who defended the slander, then threatened the remaining young men until one confessed.
• The young thug said Madam Pan had paid them Bright Crystal to harass Su Yuexi and spread rumors in exchange for help entering the Black Burn Reserve Camp.
• Madam Pan denied the confession and called it forced testimony under torture.

Sikong Jing took Su Yuexi and Madam Pan to Ninety-Nine Castle to confront General Pan over the accusations against Yuexi's family. Meanwhile, Lan Zhuanghe prepared to attack the castle after learning Ning Jingjing could not return, and Sikong Jing arrived just as the invasion began.

• Sikong Jing struck two elders who claimed the young thug had been tortured into confessing, then took Madam Pan and brought Su Yuexi and her family toward Ninety-Nine Castle.
• Elder Wei told the deputy generals that Ning Jingjing had been confined by her family and could not return to the Ninety-Nine Legion.
• Pan Zha sent Lan Zhuanghe a message about Ning Jingjing's absence, and Lan Zhuanghe decided to attack Ninety-Nine Castle with Pan Zha's help.
• Yan Ruyu revealed that she intended to use Lan Zhuanghe as a stepping stone toward power and blamed Sikong Jing for the schemes she had set in motion.
• Sikong Jing arrived at Ninety-Nine Castle with Su Yuexi and the others and demanded that Pan Zha come out.

Sikong Jing exposed Pan Zha’s deception by killing Madam Pan and overpowering Pan Zha, then warned the castle that Lan Zhuanghe would attack while General Ning was away. The two deputy generals doubted the warning because news of General Ning’s absence had supposedly been sealed.

• Pan Zha and Madam Pan falsely portrayed Sikong Jing as a bully over a dispute about donkey meat, while Sikong Jing stayed silent and watched them.
• Sikong Jing beheaded Madam Pan, then knocked Pan Zha back with a single Gold Dragon Fist.
• Sikong Jing revealed that Pan Zha had counted on General Ning being away and challenged him with the power of his eighth-level Martial Scripture Realm.
• Two deputy generals intervened, and Elder Wei confirmed that General Ning would not return to the castle for the time being.
• Sikong Jing ordered the deputy generals to prepare the city defenses, warning that Lan Zhuanghe would attack after learning General Ning was absent.
• One deputy general objected that the news had been sealed and no one was allowed to spread it.

Sikong Jing exposed Pan Zha’s betrayal and learned that Su Zhenglong and Su Yuexian were in danger at the Fire Refining Ground. He proposed luring Lan Zhuanghe into Ninety-Nine Legion Castle, where the two deputy generals shut the gates behind several hundred riders and trapped his forces inside.

• Sikong Jing accused Pan Zha of betraying Ning Jingjing and using threats against his family, then asked Elder Wei to check on Su Zhenglong and the others at the reserve camp.
• Sui Yu arrived and reported that Su Zhenglong and Su Yuexian were trapped in the dangerous Fire Refining Ground while the instructor refused to rescue them.
• The Black Armor Warriors learned that Lan Zhuanghe’s army was approaching, and Sikong Jing suggested opening the gates to lure his riders inside.
• Sui Yu explained the plan to trap Lan Zhuanghe like a turtle in a jar, and the two deputy generals agreed to carry it out.
• Lan Zhuanghe charged through the open gates, and once several hundred riders had entered, the two deputy generals slammed the gates shut and barred them.

Sikong Jing and the Ninety-Nine Legion thwarted Lan Zhuanghe’s attempt to seize the fortress and exposed Pan Zha’s betrayal. The deputy generals handed Sikong Jing command, and he declared he would confront Lan Zhuanghe and attack the Ninety-Sixth Legion’s fortress again.

• Lan Zhuanghe found himself trapped inside the fortress, surrounded by the Ninety-Nine Legion’s archers, and blamed Pan Zha for the failed scheme.
• The deputy generals freed Sikong Jing and his family, while the Black Armor Warriors surrounded Pan Zha and demanded to know why he had betrayed them.
• Pan Zha admitted he had betrayed the Ninety-Nine Legion for Lan Zhuanghe’s promise of advancement, but the deputy generals rejected his offer and had him bound.
• The deputy generals asked Sikong Jing to handle the confrontation with Lan Zhuanghe, and Sikong Jing warned that he intended to attack the Ninety-Sixth Legion’s fortress again.
• The Black Armor Warriors and deputy generals agreed to follow Sikong Jing’s orders.

Sikong Jing outmaneuvered Lan Zhuanghe inside Ninety-Nine Castle, letting him escape while capturing his men and closing the gate behind him. Lan Zhuanghe then ordered the Ninety-Sixth Legion’s fifty thousand troops to storm the castle.

• Sikong Jing confronted Lan Zhuanghe with the bound Pan Zha and demanded his command token and a public admission of defeat, but Lan Zhuanghe refused.
• Lan Zhuanghe tried to retreat from the city, and Sikong Jing ordered the Ninety-Nine Legion to shoot the horses and surround his men.
• Sikong Jing told the two deputy generals to let Lan Zhuanghe escape but capture the other several hundred men.
• Lan Zhuanghe escaped through the city gate as Sikong Jing’s troops subdued his men, then the Ninety-Nine Legion shut the gate again.
• Lan Zhuanghe ordered the fifty thousand soldiers of the Ninety-Sixth Legion to charge Ninety-Nine Castle.

Sikong Jing set a plan in motion to seize Ninety-Six Castle and capture Lan Zhuanghe’s troops, rather than simply defeat them outside the city. As the Ninety-Nine Legion raced toward the castle, Sui Yu tried to recruit the prisoners and hinted that Sikong Jing intended to do more than take the city.

• Sikong Jing’s archers shot down the Ninety-Sixth Legion’s warhorses, forcing Lan Zhuanghe to retreat toward Ninety-Six Castle.
• Sikong Jing sent three thousand cavalry to make Lan Zhuanghe believe thirty thousand riders were pursuing him, while explaining that he planned to take the castle and its troops.
• Sikong Jing ordered the reserve camp to frighten Lan Zhuanghe off his route, giving the remaining Ninety-Nine Legion time to reach and storm Ninety-Six Castle first.
• Sikong Jing led the Ninety-Nine Legion toward Ninety-Six Castle, leaving a thousand soldiers behind to guard the prisoners and Pan Zha.
• Sui Yu asked the prisoners to join the Ninety-Nine Legion, struck Pan Zha for warning them that Yan Shun would punish Sikong Jing, and hinted that Sikong Jing planned more than capturing the castle.