Recaps

Su Xinghe studied the Thousand Blades art and used the All Beings Forest 72 Arts to multiply his cultivation speed seventy-twofold. He exchanged all his points for Qi-Gathering Pills, then learned Director Xu Lie had left for the Southern Twenty-Ninth Region.

• Su Xinghe recorded Thousand Blades on his Fate Panel after deciding its elemental attribute suited him less than the Demon-Slaying Blade.
• Su Xinghe practiced the All Beings Forest 72 Arts with his psychic-power methods and increased his cultivation speed seventy-twofold.
• Su Xinghe traveled to the Demon Suppression Bureau branch at Southguard Pass to redeem cultivation pills.
• Su Xinghe exchanged all fifty thousand points for five hundred Qi-Gathering Pills.
• A black-robed attendant told Su Xinghe that Director Xu Lie had gone to the Southern Twenty-Ninth Region two months earlier after a Demon Beast tide broke out.

Su Xinghe met Zi Lin, the Qingzhou Demon Suppression Bureau commander, then went to Southguard Pass Military Department Headquarters to register for military service. He received an assignment to Ruin No. 9 in the Southern Seventeenth Domain and learned he had been designated a Grade-B captain with a monthly allowance of Merit Points.

• Su Xinghe met Zi Lin at the Qingzhou Demon Suppression Bureau and resisted her psychic probing with his Water Conception.
• Zi Lin told Su Xinghe that she had only recently returned and did not know when Director Xu Lie would be back.
• Su Xinghe went to Southguard Pass Military Department Headquarters and registered after waiting in line.
• A registration clerk assigned Su Xinghe to Camp Fifty-Two, Squad Eighty-Eight, and ordered him to report to Ruin No. 9 in the Southern Seventeenth Domain before January 1, Star Calendar 7622.
• Su Xinghe learned that he was designated a Grade-B captain and received ten Merit Points each month as base pay.

Su Xinghe spent his Military Merit on basic supplies and reported to the Fifty-Second Battalion. After General Li Zhen attacked him during a test, the supervising officer declared that Su Xinghe had passed and ordered the guards to register him.

• Su Xinghe exchanged his Military Merit for a Tech Wristband, outdoor combat gear, and Qi-Nourishing Blood-Enriching Pills.
• Su Xinghe reached the Fifty-Second Battalion's Fortress and reported to the guards as a recruit for the Eighty-Eighth Squad.
• The supervising officer identified Su Xinghe and ordered General Li Zhen to test him.
• Li Zhen struck Su Xinghe with Blood Baleful Qi, but Su Xinghe endured the attack and dispelled the invading Qi with Water Conception.
• Li Zhen prepared to attack again, but the supervising officer stopped him, counted Su Xinghe as having passed, and ordered the guards to register him.

After receiving an anonymous warning that his life was in danger, Su Xinghe decided to board the transport ship to the Southern Seventeenth Domain and see who was behind the threat. He arrived at Southguard Pass as several transport airships appeared overhead.

• Su Xinghe registered as captain of the Eighty-Eighth Squad and left the communal bunkhouse to cultivate elsewhere.
• Su Xinghe found a hidden Treasure Note in his combat uniform warning him to depart on the fifth to avoid being sent to his death.
• Su Xinghe cultivated for two days, refining two hundred Qi-Gathering Pills, then chose to board the warship despite the warning.
• Su Xinghe reached the gathering point outside Southguard Pass while Liu Ming watched Little White Bat leave.
• At noon, at least six transport airships appeared in the clouds.

Su Xinghe boarded the Southguard Army’s Killer Whale Transport Airship and traveled toward the Southern Seventeenth Domain battlefield, studying its antigravity field before returning to cultivation. The airship began stopping at successive ruins, while Su Xinghe remained aboard.

• Su Xinghe watched the enormous Transport Airship land and saw Martial Warriors unload powerful Demon Beast materials.
• Su Xinghe joined the crowd heading to the Southern Seventeenth Domain battlefield and was assigned to Landing Deck 332.
• Fu Xiao assumed temporary command of Team 332 and ordered the passengers into the airship’s cabin.
• The Killer Whale Transport Airship departed, and Su Xinghe examined its spatial field before cultivating with Qi-Gathering Pills.
• The airship announced its arrival at the Southern Seventh Domain No. 1 Ruins, and Su Xinghe stayed aboard as passengers disembarked at successive ruins.

Su Xinghe met Zi Lin, who revealed that the Crown Prince and Lu Xuanji were heading to Ruin No. 9, where they could target him. Her unexpected knowledge left him wondering what had happened in Lin County.

• Su Xinghe cultivated aboard the Transport Airship and advanced his progress in the Fifth-Rank Realm.
• Zi Lin approached Su Xinghe and told him to disembark with her; he recognized her as a Grade-A Commander of the Qingzhou Demon Suppression Bureau.
• Su Xinghe and Zi Lin left the airship at Southern Ruin No. 1708 and moved to a hill where they could speak privately.
• When Su Xinghe pretended to leave, Zi Lin revealed that the Crown Prince and Lu Xuanji would travel to Ruin No. 9 on the fifteenth.
• Su Xinghe realized the trip to the Outer Battlefield was a plan to trap and kill him, then questioned how Zi Lin knew about the Crown Prince’s movements and suspected something had gone wrong in Lin County.

Princess Red Lotus brought Su Xinghe to a hidden domain beyond the Great Zhou Small World's conventional reach and asked him to help her prepare for the Hundred Races Tournament. She confronted him over their separation and revealed that she knew he had perfected a fire-type Mental Secret Art.

• Princess Red Lotus arrived with Zi Lin, revealed her new status as the imperial family's thirteenth princess, and asked Su Xinghe to help her again.
• Red Lotus took Su Xinghe to Ruin No. 8, where he saw members of the Hundred Clans and followed her beneath a lake into a hidden domain.
• Su Xinghe discovered that the hidden domain had far denser energy of heaven and earth than the Great Zhou Small World.
• Red Lotus dismissed the Merfolk Clan guards and asked Su Xinghe whether he still blamed her after half a year.
• Red Lotus said that her secret art had helped Su Xinghe touch Fire Intent, and Su Xinghe realized she had discovered his perfected fire-type Mental Secret Art.