Recaps

Jiang Ning strengthened his martial and spiritual abilities while confronting the Yellow Heaven Cult, the God-Worship Cult, and abuses within the Inspection Office. After killing Cao Rong, he returned to find Auntie Sun dead and secretly killed He Jinyun in revenge.

• Jiang Ning increased his strength through treasures and breakthroughs, then sheltered at Xie Xiaojiu’s home while Liu Linmen searched for him.
• Jiang Ning advanced Wind-Thunder Archery and helped defeat the Black Mountain Army, earning contribution points and convincing Liu Linmen not to challenge him directly.
• Jiang Ning refused to join the Inspection Office’s killings of civilians, but failed to persuade Hong Minghu to stop them.
• Jiang Ning killed the transformed woman who pursued him, returned home to reunite with his family, and exchanged her corpse for an Ascending Dragon Pill.
• Jiang Ning refined the Ascending Dragon Pill and reached Dragon Sinew, then left Luoshui County and killed Cao Rong with two arrows.
• Jiang Ning broke through Literacy, returned to Luoshui County, and learned that He Jinyun had executed Auntie Sun.
• Jiang Ning attacked He Jinyun with rainwater needles and killed him before Hong Minghu could reach the scene.

Jiang Ning strengthened his body and abilities while investigating the God-Worship Cult, then uncovered its stronghold and helped crush the Liu clan and its allied criminal groups. He left to collect and distribute the rewards as his physical transformation and Flesh Regeneration continued to advance.

• Jiang Ning killed He Jinyun and, after considering the danger of Qinghe Count’s suspicions, secured Hundred-Spirit Blood and bone-forging pills to advance his cultivation.
• Jiang Ning consumed the Hundred-Spirit Blood, broke Water Nature’s limit to gain control over water, and developed new Water-Fire abilities while beginning to forge his bones.
• Jiang Ning tempered all 206 bones into Iron Bone and joined Feng Ji and Xie Xiaojiu to investigate a suspected God-Worship Cult stronghold.
• Jiang Ning’s team raided the stronghold, where he killed the mutated cult fighters and Divine Envoy, found the God of Flesh statue, and absorbed its divinity and incomplete Flesh Regeneration authority.
• Jiang Ning struck Yuan Hua down, then worked with Xu Zhengnan, Hong Minghu, and Ye Qiu to arrest the Liu clan and expose its ties to the Black Tiger Gang and Fourfold Merchants Association.
• Jiang Ning absorbed more divinity from the statue, tested his rapidly healing wounds, and practiced Five Animals Fist as Xu Zhengnan reported the Liu Residence’s defeat.

Jiang Ning advanced his Five Animals Fist and bone-forging, then killed two God-Worship Cult fighters who came after him. He tested the Divine Scion authority on Lü Yi and began writing and painting a manual to teach her his improved fist art.

• Jiang Ning accepted rewards from the Inspection Office, trained to break through the Five Animals Fist, and watched the Cao Family’s execution with Jiang Li.
• Jiang Ning reached the Five Animals Fist’s second limit break, met the Eighth Prince Ji Minghao, and promised Ji Mingyue he would consider her marriage proposal when he reached the Royal Capital.
• Jiang Ning accepted Earthcore Warm Jade from Lin Qingyi, bought a Waterflame Spirit Fruit, and reached the Five Animals Fist’s third limit break, gaining the Fist Grandmaster trait.
• Jiang Ning completed forging Darksteel Bone in all 206 bones, then led the Wind Divine Envoy and Star Protector away from the city and fought them on a deserted island.
• Jiang Ning killed the Wind Divine Envoy underwater with Dragon Abyss and killed Star Protector after trapping him in a water prison.
• Jiang Ning absorbed divinity and authority fragments, hid the two bodies, and tested the Divine Scion’s Vassal authority by giving Lü Yi ten drops of his blood.
• Jiang Ning discovered he could sense and control Lü Yi’s mark, while Lü Yi gained great strength, and he then began writing a Five Animals Fist manual for her.
• Jiang Ning painted a Fire-Trapping Tiger that seemed to come alive to Lü Yi, gained the Painting Dao skill, and continued painting the five Five Viscera Gods.

Jiang Ning defended Luoshui County from the Black Lotus Cult, strengthened his abilities, and rose to the fifth rank while earning recognition from the Inspection Office. The arc left him preparing to join an operation against Li Hong, the God-Worship Cult’s vice leader.

• Jiang Ning bonded with two Snow-White Scarlet Flame Steeds, visited Wang Jin, and used the Heavenly Eye to begin forging Jade Bone.
• On New Year’s Eve, Jiang Ning fought off the Black Lotus Cult and Black Mountain forces, killed the candidate saintess, and ended the attack on Luoshui County.
• Jiang Ning accepted money from Xie Zhengtian after warning the Xie Family to expose its crimes and aid the city’s poor.
• Jiang Ning consumed the Five-Elements Spirit Fruit, learned about higher Martial Dao ranks, and obtained a Principal Eighth Rank identity through Granny Bai.
• The Inspection Office awarded Jiang Ning one million contribution points for killing two fifth-rank God-Worship Cult martial artists, and he broke through the Five Animals Fist to gain a Bear-Tiger Physique.
• Jiang Ning completed his Jade Bone, entered the fifth rank, and decided to seek the Heavenly Yang and Earthly Baleful Yin needed to forge Divine Bone.
• Xiao Emei set out for Luoshui County to invite Jiang Ning to the Water-Moon Sword Palace, suspecting he had killed He Jinyun.
• Hong Minghu revealed that Li Hong was the God-Worship Cult’s vice leader and gathered the commanders to arrest him, warning that Li Hong was likely a Sixth Rank martial artist.