Recaps

Zhao Fu planned to use Ying Lian’s beloved mystic cat to control her and broke into her residence while she was away. After fighting and overpowering the cat, he suppressed its strength and took it with him, leaving Ying Lian a letter.

• Ying Mu suggested that Zhao Fu target Ying Lian and gathered information about her for him.
• Zhao Fu learned that Ying Lian kept a mystic cat and left Ying Xue’s residence to take it while Ying Lian was away on a mission.
• Zhao Fu entered Ying Lian’s home by bypassing its restrictions and was attacked by her tiger-sized black cat.
• Zhao Fu fought the black cat with roots, chains, and sword qi, wounding it when it tried to escape.
• Zhao Fu bound the black cat, subdued it with his power, took it away, and left Ying Lian a letter.

Zhao Fu forced Ying Lian to submit by holding her cat’s safety over her, then used his bloodline power to keep the cat under his control. Ying Lian agreed to support Ying Xue’s bid to become clan leader after Ying Xue and Ying Mu revealed their scheme and threatened her.

• Ying Lian found Zhao Fu’s letter threatening to treat her cat to cat meat and went to meet him on the eastern mountain.
• Zhao Fu demanded that Ying Lian help capture the eighth-ranked Ten Great Assassin, then offered to release her cat if she dual cultivated with him.
• After several hours, Zhao Fu returned Ying Lian’s unharmed cat, but his bloodline power caused it pain and resisted Ying Lian’s attempts to remove it.
• Zhao Fu warned Ying Lian that he was only a clone and threatened to expose her, leaving her unable to retaliate without endangering her cat.
• Ying Mu and Ying Xue revealed they had plotted against Ying Lian, and Ying Xue threatened her standing and her cat unless she supported Ying Xue’s future claim to clan leadership.
• Ying Lian agreed to support Ying Xue.

Zhao Fu promised to help Ying Xue recruit the remaining women in exchange for information about an Eightfold Water World, and Ying Lian asked him for an Eightfold Water Seal. Near the Shadowfish Clan, Ying Yin rescued a wounded, nameless man and fell in love with him, but he said they could not be together; after she kissed him, he agreed to stay with her for two more days.

• Zhao Fu stopped hurting Ying Lian’s black cat and reminded Ying Xue that seven women remained to recruit before she gave him the promised information.
• Ying Mu displayed her Eightfold Water Seal, and Ying Lian asked Zhao Fu to give her one too.
• Ying Yin found a gravely wounded man near the Shadowfish Clan, took him to a secluded courtyard, and cared for him.
• As the man recovered, he played the guqin with Ying Yin, and they performed “Lofty Mountains and Flowing Waters” together.
• When the man prepared to leave on the third day, Ying Yin confessed her feelings and kissed him; he agreed to stay for at most two more days, though he refused to tell her his name.

Ying Yin learned that Zhao Fu had faked his injury to win her affection, but accepted his apology and agreed to support Ying Xue. Zhao Fu then captured and subdued Ying Mu, the next assassin he planned to bring under his control.

• Ying Yin asked to leave with Zhao Fu, but Ying Lian revealed that he had pretended to be injured to develop feelings with her; Zhao Fu said his feelings were sincere, and Ying Yin forgave him and agreed to support Ying Xue.
• Zhao Fu returned to Ying Xue's residence, where Ying Xue told him to move on to the next assassin, Ying Mu.
• Ying Mu killed a middle-aged man and carried off his corpse, but three hooded figures defeated her, sealed her power, and brought her to Zhao Fu.
• Zhao Fu subjected Ying Mu to special training and threatened to expose her or cripple her if she resisted; she called him Master and let him undo her seal.
• Zhao Fu told Ying Mu that he wanted to control the Shadowfish Clan by controlling its ten great assassins, and that she was the fifth.

Zhao Fu gave Ying Mu the power of the Eightfold Water World, then helped Ying Leng obtain the Shadow Water Sacred Body. After Ying Leng agreed to compete for clan chief, Zhao Fu returned to Ying Xue, who told him about the Six Water Heaven Seal.

• Zhao Fu gave Ying Mu the power of the Eightfold Water World and left with her.
• Ying Xue introduced Zhao Fu to Ying Leng, who agreed to receive the Eightfold Water World's power in exchange for intimacy.
• Zhao Fu helped Ying Leng cultivate for several days until she successfully formed the Shadow Water Sacred Body.
• Ying Leng asked Zhao Fu to keep their relationship secret and revealed she wanted to compete for clan chief; Zhao Fu promised to return later.
• Ying Xue questioned Zhao Fu for helping Ying Leng, then asked him to give her the Six Water Heaven Seal after he obtained six Water Worlds.

Zhao Fu searched Ying Fei’s home for leverage and discovered a hidden courtyard where her mother was living. He blackmailed Ying Fei into sealing her power and serving him, leaving both women in his grasp.

• Ying Xue warned Zhao Fu that the remaining assassins were difficult to handle, and Zhao Fu decided to seek a gentler approach with Ying Fei.
• Zhao Fu infiltrated Ying Fei’s home and found a painting that led to a hidden courtyard.
• Zhao Fu discovered Ying Fei’s mother there and used her secret and a strand of his power to threaten them both.
• Ying Fei returned, found Zhao Fu with her mother, and tried to attack him, but he held her mother as a shield.
• After Zhao Fu threatened her mother, Ying Fei sealed her power and submitted to him.

Zhao Fu gained Ying Fei’s allegiance by revealing that he had controlled seven of the Ten Great Assassins, and learned about the punishment her mother, Shadow Woman, had endured. He then infiltrated Ying Ya’s residence, where she caught him and forced him to swallow a poisonous worm, leaving him under her control.

• Ying Fei stopped trying to kill Zhao Fu after Shadow Woman intervened, and Zhao Fu revealed that he had controlled seven of the Ten Great Assassins and given Ying Fei the Eightfold Water Seal.
• Ying Fei explained that Shadow Woman had been punished with Fish Spines after Ying Fei’s father abandoned her, and that Shadow Woman had lived inside a strange painting while Ying Fei pretended to die.
• Zhao Fu returned to Ying Xue and asked for information about Ying Ya, the third-ranked assassin, then visited Ying Ya’s residence to search for anything that could threaten him.
• Ying Ya caught Zhao Fu in her study, and he claimed that Ying Mu had sent him to steal something that could threaten her.
• Ying Ya took Zhao Fu in and made him swallow a pill that became a poisonous worm in his heart, then ordered him to obey her and return without arousing suspicion.

Zhao Fu uncovered Ying Di’s Water Sensitivity Disease and used his knowledge of it to subdue and treat her, while securing a secret Ying Ya could use to control her. He returned to Ying Ya with the medical book and asked her to honor the reward she had promised.

• Zhao Fu told Ying Ya that Ying Xue had awakened quickly because she had obtained an Eightfold Water World, and Ying Ya ordered him to investigate Ying Di.
• Zhao Fu searched Ying Di’s residence and found a medical book hidden in a restricted wooden box.
• When Ying Di attacked him, Zhao Fu triggered her Water Sensitivity Disease and revealed that he had found her secret.
• Zhao Fu treated half of Ying Di’s illness while preserving some of her ability to absorb water origin, and she agreed to let him return for further treatment.
• Zhao Fu gave the medical book to Ying Ya, who said it would let her control Ying Di, then asked Ying Ya for his promised reward.

Zhao Fu learned that Ying Ya and Ying Di were under his control or close to it, then investigated Ying Li, the Shadowfish Clan chief, and discovered her secret preference. After Ying Ya warned him to focus on Ying Fei, Zhao Fu resolved to investigate Ying Li anyway, but a mass of black matter suddenly engulfed him.

• Ying Ya asked Zhao Fu to investigate Ying Fei, and Zhao Fu told Shadow Woman and Ying Fei that he was close to controlling the Shadowfish Clan.
• Zhao Fu revealed to Ying Di that Ying Ya had sent him to investigate her and shared her secret, then promised to treat her illness.
• Zhao Fu obtained sparse information about Ying Li from Ying Xue and infiltrated the clan chief's residence, where he saw her with several women.
• Ying Ya caught Zhao Fu near Ying Li's residence, told him she already knew about Ying Li's behavior, and ordered him to focus on Ying Fei.
• After Ying Ya left, Zhao Fu decided to investigate Ying Li further, but black matter suddenly surrounded him and plunged him into darkness.

Ying Li revealed that she had captured Zhao Fu and used his actions to bring the Shadowfish Clan’s assassins under her control, but after learning he was the Son of Apocalypse, she let him go and gave him the Eightfold Water World. The artifact recognized Zhao Fu as its master, and Ying Li proposed making their arrangement public.

• Ying Li told Zhao Fu that she had watched him across the city and used him to control the Shadowfish Clan’s nine other great assassins.
• Zhao Fu revealed that he was the Son of Apocalypse, and Ying Li recognized him as the possessor of eight Supreme Imperial Stars.
• After four days together, Ying Li admitted defeat and released Zhao Fu.
• Ying Li gave Zhao Fu the Eightfold Water World and offered to help him awaken his final Imperial Star.
• The Eightfold Water World acknowledged Zhao Fu as its master and merged into his body.
• Ying Li told Zhao Fu that it was time to make things public.

Ying Li revealed Zhao Fu’s identity as the Son of Apocalypse and united the Shadowfish Clan women behind his quest to awaken his final Water Race Imperial Star. The group prepared to seek the Eightfold Water World in the Poison Mother Abyss, then Ying Li drew the women into an intimate gathering with Zhao Fu.

• Ying Li gathered the nine women, revealed that Zhao Fu was the Son of Apocalypse with eight Supreme Imperial Stars, and explained why he had kept his identity secret.
• Ying Lian and Ying Mu complained about how Zhao Fu had treated them, while Ying Fei accepted him as her man and Ying Di said he had cured her illness.
• Ying Li told the women that Zhao Fu needed to collect the Eightfold Water Worlds, revealed that she had given him hers, and gained the group’s support.
• Ying Xue identified the Poison Mother Abyss as the location of another Eightfold Water World and warned that its poisonous jellyfish and invisible toxin made it dangerous.
• Ying Li pushed Zhao Fu down and invited the women to join him, and Ying Yin and the others went forward.

The Fire Flame Kingdom faced a powerful Card World invasion and asked Great Qin for help, prompting Bai Qi and Li Si to prepare reinforcements. Before the kingdom’s sea of fire could stop the assault for long, ten powerful figures emerged from the Yellow Springs, and Bai Qi changed his plans.

• Huo Baiwu struggled to defend the Fire Flame Kingdom as the Card World army battered its barrier, and Huo Qingmei and Huo Dongmei asked Great Qin for reinforcements.
• Bai Qi and Li Si decided to send twenty billion troops and one hundred thousand Alchemical Holy Beasts under Meng Tian’s command.
• Bai Qi and Li Si went to the Yellow Springs Kingdom and witnessed ten figures rise from enormous whirlpools in pillars of yellow light.
• Bai Qi recognized the ten figures and told Li Si that he had changed his mind about the planned reinforcements.
• The Card World army broke the Fire Flame Kingdom’s barrier, but Huo Baiwu’s troops ignited a vast sea of fire that forced the attackers to retreat temporarily.

Huo Dongmei received word that Great Qin would send only ten people to support the besieged Fire Flame Kingdom, leaving her and Huo Qingmei worried about the kingdom's defense. As the Card World army advanced, Huo Baiwu unleashed a devastating meteor attack, but the enemy rallied and pressed on toward the walls.

• Huo Bai Niao asked Huo Qingmei whether Great Qin had replied, and Huo Dongmei later received its letter.
• Huo Qingmei read that Great Qin had agreed to send ten people and told Huo Bai Niao, who questioned how they could help.
• Huo Baiwu activated Fire Flame Kingdom's magic formation and summoned a giant meteor that shattered the Card World army's defenses and killed many soldiers.
• The Card World generals sent their cavalry forward, but fire lizards emerging from underground disrupted the charge before the cavalry regrouped and killed many of them.
• Huo Baiwu ordered Fire Flame Kingdom's forces to defend and counterattack as the Card World army reached the walls and prepared to storm the city.

Ten Yellow Springs Knights unleashed the Yellow Springs Gate, turning the dead into mummies that attacked the Card World army and shifted the battle in the Fire Flame Kingdom’s favor. The Card World’s strongest cavalry charged the gate, became Yellow Springs cavalry, and wheeled around to attack their former allies.

• Ten Yellow Springs Knights arrived and opened the Yellow Springs Gate, releasing a flood of yellow aura across the battlefield.
• The fallen soldiers turned into mummies and attacked the Card World army, spreading the transformation to those they killed.
• Huo Baiwu ordered the Fire Flame Kingdom army to attack the weakened Card World soldiers.
• Card World generals sent their cavalry corps to destroy the Yellow Springs Gate, but the gate transformed the cavalry and their horses into mummies.
• The newly formed Yellow Springs Cavalry Corps charged the Card World army, knocking soldiers flying and tearing their ranks apart.

The Yellow Springs Knights helped the Fire Flame Kingdom defeat the Card World army, then returned to Great Qin with hundreds of thousands of Yellow Springs cavalry and mummified corpses. Huo Baiwu wondered why Great Qin had aided them, while Huo Qing'er and the others discussed their connection to the absent Zhao Fu.

• The Card World army retreated as Huo Baiwu ordered the Fire Flame Kingdom troops to counterattack alongside the Yellow Springs forces, crushing the enemy and winning the war.
• Huo Baiwu asked the Yellow Springs Knights who they served, and they explained that General Bai had sent them and that they belonged to Great Qin.
• Huo Baiwu and his generals struggled to understand why their enemy Great Qin had helped them, while the Yellow Springs Knights departed with the mummified corpses.
• Huo Qing'er, Huo Bai Niao, Huo Qingmei, and Huo Dongmei celebrated the victory and discussed missing Zhao Fu and keeping their relationship with him secret.
• The Yellow Springs Knights returned to Great Qin with hundreds of thousands of cavalry and mummified corpses, and Bai Qi decided to keep them for Great Qin's future campaigns.

Zhao Fu and the Shadowfish Clan entered the Poison Mother Abyss to find the Water Poison Mother holding the Eightfold Water World, but their noisy assault provoked overwhelming attacks and forced them to retreat. Zhao Fu then went back alone and captured a weaker jellyfish, hoping it would lead him deeper into the abyss.

• Ying Xue warned Zhao Fu and the Shadowfish Clan about the abyss’s toxic gas and explained that a powerful Water Poison Mother held the Eightfold Water World.
• The group encountered tentacles, poison-gas spheres, and arrows, but their attacks stirred up an even heavier barrage of poison.
• Zhao Fu and the others retreated, and he decided to continue alone while the Shadowfish Clan returned.
• After waiting for the abyss to calm, Zhao Fu descended without a defensive barrier and spotted a jellyfish whose strength was close to his own.
• Zhao Fu bound the jellyfish with chains, intending to use it to find his way deeper into the abyss.

Zhao Fu was captured by Jellyfish Moon and her grandmother, Jellyfish Wen, after he tried to make Jellyfish Moon help him find a jellyfish. They took him to the temple, where he learned that the Purple Moon Jellyfish were wary of nine mighty experts who had recently attacked Water Abyss, then Jellyfish Moon freed him in exchange for his collection of toys and trinkets.

• Zhao Fu tried to force Jellyfish Moon to help him find a jellyfish, but Jellyfish Wen arrived, bound him, and sealed his power.
• Jellyfish Wen brought Zhao Fu and Jellyfish Moon to the temple, where Jellyfish Yan discussed the recent attack by nine mighty experts on Water Abyss.
• Jellyfish Moon took Zhao Fu away while Jellyfish Wen and Jellyfish Yan discussed the danger of another attack and their need to grow stronger.
• Zhao Fu offered Jellyfish Moon his collection of toys, strange objects, gemstones, and accessories, and she loosened her tentacles to inspect them.
• Jellyfish Moon happily claimed Zhao Fu's collection after he assured her he had not lied.

Zhao Fu explored the Purple Moon Jellyfish Clan’s territory and learned that the Eightfold Water World was tied to a deadly taboo called Jellyfish Water Abyss. After helping Jellyfish Yan cultivate and gaining permission to roam freely, he learned from Jellyfish Moon that the taboo was a powerful, toxin-maddened being, then faced Jellyfish Wen’s anger when she found him with her granddaughter.

• Zhao Fu searched the clan’s study and learned how the Purple Moon Jellyfish adapted to the water abyss’s toxin and reproduced asexually.
• Jellyfish Yan confronted Zhao Fu, but accepted his cultivation method after he provoked her; afterward, she confirmed the Eightfold Water World existed and gave him jade that let him move freely.
• Zhao Fu explored the clan’s middle-region settlement and discovered that the Purple Moon Jellyfish were large in size but few in number.
• Zhao Fu returned to Jellyfish Yan that night to cultivate with her, then visited Jellyfish Moon the next day and learned that Jellyfish Water Abyss was a powerful, toxin-maddened taboo that sometimes killed clan members.
• Jellyfish Wen entered and threatened Zhao Fu, but Jellyfish Moon insisted she had chosen to be with him and could handle her own affairs.

Zhao Fu persuaded Jellyfish Wen and Jellyfish Yan to help him after revealing that dual cultivation improved their physiques and bloodlines. He sought their help to reach the Water Abyss and obtain the Eightfold Water World, and the chapter ended with Jellyfish Yan agreeing to take him to meet the clan chief.

• Jellyfish Wen agreed to try dual cultivation with Zhao Fu after Jellyfish Moon urged her, and she confirmed that her physique and bloodline had improved.
• Zhao Fu asked Jellyfish Wen about the Half-Immortal in the Water Abyss and learned that its attempt to master the Eightfold Water World had corroded its brain with toxins.
• Jellyfish Wen explained that the Half-Immortal lived deep in the Water Abyss, where countless tentacles made approaching it dangerous, and said the clan chief might help Zhao Fu get close.
• Jellyfish Wen and Jellyfish Yan joined Zhao Fu and Jellyfish Moon, and Zhao Fu again asked for help meeting the clan chief.
• Jellyfish Yan warned Zhao Fu that outsiders were forbidden from entering the Water Abyss, but agreed to take him to the clan chief after he insisted.

Zhao Fu convinced Jellyfish Mu to take him into the depths of Water Abyss by revealing his Eightfold Water World, but the abyss’s madness forced them to wait several days. While staying in Jellyfish Mu’s temple, Zhao Fu became intimate with her daughter, Jellyfish Zi, and Jellyfish Mu discovered them.

• Zhao Fu showed Jellyfish Mu his Eightfold Water World and persuaded her to take him into the depths of Water Abyss.
• Jellyfish Mu and Zhao Fu began descending, but enormous whirlpools formed below and forced them to return.
• Jellyfish Mu decided Zhao Fu would stay in her temple while they waited for the madness to subside.
• Jellyfish Zi visited the temple and became intimate with Zhao Fu.
• Jellyfish Mu returned, found Zhao Fu and Jellyfish Zi together, and left after Jellyfish Zi invited her to join them.

Zhao Fu gave Jellyfish Mu and Jellyfish Yan’s group the Eightfold Water Seal, then encountered Jellyfish Bai and discovered that his bloodline had sealed her ability to reproduce asexually. He promised to take responsibility for her and began to earn her trust.

• Zhao Fu gave Jellyfish Mu the Eightfold Water Seal, and she praised its power.
• Zhao Fu returned to Jellyfish Yan and gave the Eightfold Water Seal to her, Jellyfish Moon, and Jellyfish Wen.
• Zhao Fu encountered Jellyfish Bai nursing her infant and overpowered her attempt to resist him with poison.
• Zhao Fu told Jellyfish Bai that he had come to resolve the trouble in the depths of Water Abyss, and she said she might forgive him if he succeeded.
• Zhao Fu discovered that his bloodline had sealed Jellyfish Bai’s asexual reproduction, leaving her able to have children only with him.
• Zhao Fu promised to take responsibility for Jellyfish Bai, and she agreed to let him take her home.

Zhao Fu used the Eightfold Water World to subdue the giant jellyfish and discovered another Eightfold Water World bound inside her brain by blood threads. As he tried to calm it and find a way to remove the threads, the jellyfish told him to bite her.

• Three days later, Zhao Fu and Jellyfish Mu descended beneath the cliff and found the giant jellyfish.
• The giant jellyfish attacked Jellyfish Mu and demanded that they leave, but Zhao Fu revealed the Eightfold Water World, drawing its attention.
• The jellyfish absorbed the Eightfold Water World and tried to refine it, so Zhao Fu persuaded her to take human form and dual cultivate with him.
• Zhao Fu used the Eightfold Water World to begin controlling the jellyfish and sensed another Eightfold Water World wrapped in blood threads inside her brain.
• Zhao Fu soothed the excited Water World with his origin power, and the jellyfish told him to bite her as blood flowed into her mouth.

Zhao Fu cured Jellyfish’s madness by withdrawing the blood threads, healing her brain, and removing the Eightfold Water Worlds from her body. Jellyfish woke with some memories missing, learned what had happened, and accepted Zhao Fu’s treatment as the group prepared to return.

• Zhao Fu used his bloodline power and Eightfold Water World to make the blood threads retreat safely from Jellyfish.
• After the threads receded, Zhao Fu repaired Jellyfish’s brain and removed two Eightfold Water Worlds from her head.
• Jellyfish woke up with lost memories, and Zhao Fu and Jellyfish Mu explained her madness and treatment.
• Jellyfish learned Zhao Fu had given her the power of the Eightfold Water Seal and accepted his help.
• Jellyfish Mu warned Jellyfish about Zhao Fu’s behavior, then urged the group to head back.

After Zhao Fu cured the jellyfish beneath the abyss, he mastered his sixth Eightfold Water World and triggered the return of the Heavenly Water Pillar. The transformation ended with Zhao Fu gaining the Eightfold Water World Body and sensing the Water Race Imperial Star.

• The jellyfish apologized to her clan for the harm she had caused, and the Purple Moon Jellyfish Clan welcomed her return and celebrated.
• Zhao Fu took control of his sixth Eightfold Water World, causing all six worlds to emerge and emit a powerful force of origin.
• The jellyfish and the rest of the clan saw the Heavenly Water Pillar rise, while people throughout the Water Domain wondered who had awakened it.
• The six Eightfold Water Worlds formed a spell formation around Zhao Fu, freezing the surrounding waters and making him seem like the master of the Water Domain.
• Zhao Fu transformed into a water element as origin water power poured into him, then gained the Eightfold Water World Body and sensed the Water Race Imperial Star.

Zhao Fu revealed that he was the Son of Apocalypse and stayed with the Purple Moon Jellyfish Clan after helping them. He healed Jellyfish Li and found a way to address the clan’s dwindling numbers before preparing to continue his journey.

• Zhao Fu told Jellyfish Mu and the others that he was the Son of Apocalypse, and Jellyfish Yan explained his significance to Jellyfish.
• Jellyfish Mu asked Zhao Fu to stay for a few days, and he agreed before spending time with the clan.
• Jellyfish An brought Zhao Fu to Jellyfish Li, whose injuries he healed; he refused their request to travel with him because the journey was too dangerous.
• Jellyfish Mu told Zhao Fu that his bloodline had sealed the clan’s ability to reproduce, and he proposed using a race-transformation formation to expand their numbers.
• Zhao Fu used Jellyfish Mu’s blood to transform a large Purple Moon Jellyfish into one with the clan’s bloodline and the ability to reproduce asexually.