Recaps

Goudanzi, later called Zhou Bao and Little Leopard, develops his martial arts and unusual eyes before leaving his village to apprentice at the Wu Ironworks. After Old Xing’s murder, he builds a life as a blacksmith and faces a confrontation in Green Ram Market.

• Goudanzi learns martial arts from Wang Tianlei, cultivates the Flameheart Method, and gains extraordinary eyes after killing a black bear that attacked Zhou Hua.
• A young man kills the Black Dragon Society’s fighters, binds the wounded Old One-Eye through a Blood Pact, and obtains Li Haoran’s Twofold Heaven-Piercing Sword method.
• Goudanzi absorbs Li Haoran’s memories, trains for four years, and leaves the village as Zhou Bao to apprentice at the Wu Ironworks.
• Old Xing recognizes Little Leopard’s talent, teaches him smithing and martial arts, and prepares him for the Wu Household’s Selection Assembly.
• A killer murders Old Xing and Steward Lin, but the Wu Household’s new steward and master smith blame bandits and close the investigation.
• Little Leopard earns Qin Xuanlong’s trust, becomes a qualified blacksmith, supports his family, and plans to enter the Wu Household’s Selection.
• In Green Ram Market, Little Leopard watches Zhang Yong raise his foot to kick a young man who has set up a stall without paying.

Little Leopard discovers lost pill formulas and develops his martial and weapon-refining skills before Blood Wuy a abducts him and forces him into service. While secretly learning powerful techniques and surviving the mountains’ strange beasts, Little Leopard gains blackfire-infused energy and completes Blood Wuy a’s herb-gathering task, leaving him poised for the Demon Toad scheme.

• Little Leopard found and memorized hidden pill formulas, then refined Soul-Dazing Pills that put the Wu Ironworks’ wolfdogs to sleep.
• Little Leopard cultivated the Nine-Dragon Divine Fire Art, forged energy-imbued kunai, and set out for West Mountain Pass, but Blood Wuy a captured him and made him a disciple.
• Blood Wuy a ordered Little Leopard to gather animals for blood and gave him the complete Nine-Dragon Divine Fire Art, lightness and hidden-weapon skills, and sword instruction.
• Little Leopard encountered a White-Scaled Python, a six-legged toad, and a thieving creature protected by a Yellow Cloth, then stole the creature’s treasure and learned Three Realms Minor Shift.
• Little Leopard used Soul-Dazing Powder to capture the creature, but it later stole the Yellow Jade and left him sick and exhausted.
• Blood Wuy a assigned Little Leopard to find three herbs and secretly planned to use them to lure and tame a Demon Beast before killing him.
• Little Leopard found the herbs, killed a weakened Dragon-Eating Loach, and absorbed its blackfire, which strengthened his internal energy and changed his eyes.
• Little Leopard gathered the remaining herbs and returned to Blood Wuy a, who prepared him to help subdue the Demon Toad and began guiding his sword practice as the full-moon deadline arrived.