Recaps

Zhou Fan and his companions prepared to infiltrate Ashen City and track down Vampire spies. They set off with Zhao Qiu and Duan Fei, warned to hide their identities and trust no one there.

• Luo Luodong explained Ashen City's history as a lawless refuge beyond the Esper Bureau's jurisdiction and warned Zhou Fan that legitimate Espers faced hostility there.
• Luo Luodong told Zhou Fan to find the school's intelligence agents in Ashen City and avoid revealing his identity, while Xi Yan offered his name as protection and Luo Luodong recalled it had failed before.
• Xi Yan approved Zhou Fan's request to bring Zhao Qiu and Duan Fei along and let them share the mission reward.
• Zhou Fan invited Zhao Qiu and Duan Fei, who eagerly agreed to go to Ashen City for a fight and to seek followers for Lord Jashin.
• Luo Luodong warned the group not to trust anyone in Ashen City, and Zhou Fan and his companions boarded a flying spirit beast and set off.

Zhou Fan and his companions arrived in Ashen City to investigate a Vampire spy, preparing Flying Thunder God Kunai as escape and rescue tools along the way. They entered the lawless city and saw locals kill a man in the street without drawing any concern from the crowd.

• Zhou Fan flew with Zhao Qiu, Duan Fei, and Lin Qianqian to Ashen City and handed each of them a Flying Thunder God Kunai.
• Zhou Fan hid another marked Kunai outside the city before the group entered through its open gates.
• Zhou Fan's companions saw Ashen City's grim streets and drew suspicious stares from locals who recognized them as newcomers.
• Zhao Qiu and Duan Fei argued over Duan Fei's admiration for the city's atmosphere, and Zhou Fan told them to stop.
• Several people attacked and killed a man in the street, while nearby residents watched and discussed the murder without alarm.

Zhou Fan and his companions arrived in Ashen City and were confronted by Baldy Three, who tried to extort them and seize Lin Qianqian. Lin Qianqian blasted Baldy Three’s crotch, and he called for his men to kill them.

• Zhou Fan’s group headed to meet their intelligence contacts after arriving in Ashen City.
• Baldy Three and his men demanded protection money, but Zhou Fan offered only one yuan.
• Baldy Three demanded that Lin Qianqian keep him company, and she insulted him before he tried to grab her.
• Lin Qianqian used an explosive paper talisman to blast Baldy Three’s lower body.
• Baldy Three declared that his junk was gone and ordered his men to kill Zhou Fan’s group.

Zhou Fan and his companions defeated Bald Third’s crew, then contacted an intelligence source in Ashen City and learned that the Vampire spies might be connected to the Thunderclap Society. The group split up to investigate, with Zhou Fan and Lin Qianqian each insisting on going alone, and set out to gather information without provoking a fight.

• Lin Qianqian used Paper Blizzard to defeat Bald Third’s men, who fled with him after releasing smoke bombs.
• Zhou Fan and his companions reached an equipment shop and used Luo Luodong’s contact code to exchange messages with the owner.
• The owner gave Zhou Fan an intelligence sheet saying the Vampire spies might be connected to the Thunderclap Society.
• Zhou Fan proposed splitting up to search for the Thunderclap Society, but Lin Qianqian insisted she could work alone.
• Zhou Fan assigned Zhao Qiu and Duan Fei to search together while he and Lin Qianqian went separately, and told everyone to avoid fighting unless necessary.

Zhou Fan and Lin Qianqian gathered intelligence on the Thunderclap Society in Ashen City, learning that it was led by Chen Ting and had recently targeted an Abandoned Factory in the North District. Lin Qianqian headed there to investigate, while a watcher revealed that the society planned to ambush the Xinghai University teams.

• After Zhou Fan's teams split up, a watcher reported their movements to Lord Raymond, who ordered the watcher back as a feast was about to begin.
• Zhou Fan used Sharingan Genjutsu to question people alone on the street, learning that the Thunderclap Society was a new, small organization in Ashen City.
• Zhou Fan paid five thousand yuan at the All-Knowing shop to become a member and learned that Chen Ting led the Thunderclap Society and had been active near the North District's Abandoned Factory.
• Lin Qianqian used paper butterflies to overhear that the Thunderclap Society was hiring people to clear Mutant Beasts from the Abandoned Factory.
• Lin Qianqian headed toward the North District after hearing the information.

Zhao Qiu and Duan Fei found the Thunderclap Society’s abandoned factory, where Zhou Fan and Lin Qianqian tried to enter by joining its Purge Squad. After the squad filled up and Lin Qianqian rejected a secretary offer, Zhou Fan transformed into a beautiful woman and prepared to try a different way in.

• Duan Fei distracted himself by trying to recruit people to worship Jashin until Zhou Fan and Lin Qianqian reported that the Thunderclap Society operated from an abandoned factory.
• Zhao Qiu and Duan Fei searched the North District, found the factory, and sent its location to Zhou Fan and Lin Qianqian.
• The group learned that the Thunderclap Society was recruiting Third Tier, 1 Star fighters for a Purge Squad, but all the positions were filled before they could apply.
• Ma Lin offered Lin Qianqian a female secretary job for the Thunderclap Society’s president, but she refused and walked away.
• After Zhou Fan proposed a honey trap, he used the Transformation Technique to turn himself into a beautiful young woman, stunning Zhao Qiu and Duan Fei.

Zhou Fan used his Transformation Technique to disguise himself as a beautiful woman and infiltrated the Thunderclap Society’s base in the Abandoned Factory. As its president, Chen Ting lunged at him, while Lin Qianqian also found a way inside to support the mission.

• Zhou Fan transformed himself into a woman and went alone to infiltrate the Thunderclap Society, while Zhao Qiu and Duan Fei waited outside.
• Ma Lin, captivated by Zhou Fan’s appearance, led him into the Thunderclap Society’s base after Zhou Fan pretended to apply for a secretary position.
• Lin Qianqian turned herself into sheets of paper and slipped into the Abandoned Factory to back up Zhou Fan.
• Zhou Fan memorized the base’s layout and the members’ positions as Ma Lin escorted him to Chen Ting’s office.
• Chen Ting revealed that the secretary job was a pretext for pursuing women and lunged at Zhou Fan.

Zhou Fan infiltrated the Thunderclap Society by posing as a woman and tricked its president, Chen Ting, into revealing that the group had powerful allies. After his Transformation Technique expired, Zhou Fan fought Chen Ting and used the Uchiha Gunbai to absorb his lightning attack and reflect it back at him.

• Zhou Fan pretended to be a vulnerable woman to coax Chen Ting into boasting about the Thunderclap Society and its allies.
• Chen Ting carried Zhou Fan to his office bed, but Zhou Fan's Transformation Technique expired and revealed that he was a man.
• Chen Ting became enraged, revealed his fourth-tier, five-star strength, and demanded to know who had sent Zhou Fan.
• Zhou Fan asked who the Thunderclap Society's allies were, suspecting they were Vampires, but Chen Ting attacked instead.
• Zhou Fan blocked Chen Ting's Thunderstorm Fist with the Uchiha Gunbai, which absorbed the lightning, and used Uchiha Reflection.

Zhou Fan used the Uchiha Gunbai to reflect Chen Ting’s attacks and reveal his strength to the Thunderclap Society president. When Ma Lin and the other members attacked, Zhou Fan reflected their techniques back at them.

• Zhou Fan reflected Chen Ting’s probing punch with the Gunbai and sent him through a door.
• Chen Ting activated Lightning Armor and attacked with Lightning Flash, but Zhou Fan dodged and deflected his punch into the floor.
• Chen Ting launched a Lightning Ball Technique, and Zhou Fan absorbed it with the Gunbai before returning it as Wind Release, smashing Chen Ting into a wall.
• Ma Lin arrived with Thunderclap Society members, learned Zhou Fan was the man he had brought in disguised as a woman, and led the group in attacking him.
• Zhou Fan used Uchiha Reflection repeatedly to send the members’ techniques back at them.

Zhou Fan defeated the Thunderclap Society and used Genjutsu to question its president, Chen Ting, about the Vampire spies. Before Chen Ting could reveal how to contact them, the Vampires appeared and attacked.

• Zhou Fan reflected the Thunderclap Society members’ attacks, but Chen Ting overwhelmed him with a lightning-powered assault and Thunderclap Bomb.
• Zhou Fan used Susanoo to withstand Chen Ting’s attacks, trapped him, and subdued him with Genjutsu.
• Zhou Fan learned that the Vampires were the Thunderclap Society’s allies, but Chen Ting said he did not know where they were.
• As Chen Ting began explaining how to contact the Vampires, a blood arrow killed him and his body transformed into arrows that struck Susanoo.
• Zhou Fan blocked the blood arrows as a group of Vampires appeared before him.

Zhou Fan confronted five vampire spies led by Iris, who sought revenge for Osborn’s death, and vanished to bring in reinforcements. He found Zhao Qiu and Duan Fei playing cards outside the factory and prepared to take them inside, while Lin Qianqian had already entered to investigate.

• Iris and four other vampires surrounded Zhou Fan and accused him of helping kill Osborn on Lanya Island.
• Iris identified herself as captain of Meixing Country’s Sixth Squad and threatened to drain Zhou Fan’s blood.
• Zhou Fan disappeared using his technique, leaving the vampires searching for him.
• Zhou Fan teleported to Zhao Qiu and Duan Fei, who had been playing cards outside the factory while waiting for support.
• Zhao Qiu told Zhou Fan that Lin Qianqian had gone inside to investigate using her paper-slip ability.
• Zhou Fan put a hand on each of Zhao Qiu and Duan Fei and prepared to teleport them into the factory.

Zhou Fan returned to confront Iris with Zhao Qiu and Duan Fei, whom Iris recognized as the people who had killed Osborn. The fight left Iris badly injured after Zhao Qiu unleashed three Life Shackles and struck her, while Duan Fei regenerated after being beheaded.

• Iris realized Zhou Fan had fled, but he reappeared using a Flying Thunder God Mark and brought Zhao Qiu and Duan Fei with him.
• Iris mocked Zhao Qiu and Duan Fei, recognized their scents from Lanya Island, and accused them of killing Osborn.
• Zhao Qiu joked that vampires would make excellent police dogs, provoking Iris to attack him.
• Duan Fei shielded Zhao Qiu from Iris's strike and gripped her hand as she pierced his heart.
• Zhao Qiu released three Life Shackles, raised his cultivation to fourth tier, one star, and struck Iris with a giantified fist.
• Iris was badly injured, but Duan Fei regenerated after Iris severed his head, then asked what she had just said.

Duan Fei and Zhao Qiu accepted Zhou Fan’s challenge to fight Iris, while Zhou Fan faced Iris’s four remaining vampire companions. The battles began, leaving all three fights unresolved.

• Duan Fei recovered after Iris severed his head, drawing her interest in his apparent ability to survive fatal injuries.
• Zhou Fan sent Duan Fei and Zhao Qiu to test their training against Iris, and both agreed to fight her.
• Iris ordered her four companions to attack Zhou Fan while she fought Duan Fei and Zhao Qiu.
• The four vampires coordinated attacks on Zhou Fan, who dodged them and used his Gunbai to reflect the archer’s blood arrows into a Wind Release blast that knocked back the dual-blade vampire.

Zhao Qiu and Duan Fei fought Iris, but her strength overwhelmed them and she drained Duan Fei’s blood. Just as Iris prepared to kill Zhao Qiu, she suddenly spat out black blood, giving him an opening to attack.

• Zhou Fan praised the four Vampires’ coordination and invited them to keep attacking, while effortlessly countering their assault.
• Zhao Qiu and Duan Fei launched a two-sided attack on Iris, but she repelled Zhao Qiu and cut Duan Fei with her Scarlet Web; Duan Fei’s wounds rapidly healed.
• Iris trapped Zhao Qiu with a Blood Dragon and bit Duan Fei, while Duan Fei bit her back; Zhao Qiu unlocked his fourth shackle and broke free, but Iris threw Duan Fei at him.
• Iris savored Duan Fei’s blood and advanced on Zhao Qiu; after dodging his attacks, she prepared to fire blood bullets.
• Iris suddenly spat out pitch-black blood, and Zhao Qiu seized the opening to unleash Tiger Heaven Crash.

Zhao Qiu and Duan Fei fought Iris, whose attempt to drain Duan Fei’s blood left her vulnerable to a cursed attack. After Iris discovered that Duan Fei transferred his injuries to her, he prepared to hurt himself again, leaving her facing the consequences.

• Zhao Qiu struck Iris with Tiger Heaven Crash while Duan Fei’s blood disrupted her spiritual energy, badly injuring her.
• Iris used Blood Source Rebirth to restore her body, but her cultivation fell to fourth tier, five stars.
• Duan Fei revealed that Iris had also drunk his blood, while Zhao Qiu moved away from the blood ritual.
• Iris attacked Duan Fei with Blood Claw and Blood Kill, and each injury he suffered appeared on her as well.
• Iris realized Duan Fei’s injuries were being transferred to her, but Duan Fei declared his power and aimed a dagger at his own heart.

Duan Fei and Zhao Qiu killed Iris while Zhou Fan defeated the vampires attacking him, with Lin Qianqian destroying their fused leader before they could question him. A mysterious voice then told them they still had a chance to get information.

• Duan Fei repeatedly stabbed himself to inflict the curse ritual on Iris, and she died after he wounded all his vital organs.
• Zhao Qiu watched Duan Fei fight and questioned why he had to hurt himself so badly.
• Zhou Fan used his Crow Tengu Susanoo to repel four vampires, who fused into a giant and charged at him.
• Lin Qianqian arrived and destroyed the fused vampire with the Mutually Multiplying Paper Bomb Technique.
• Zhou Fan complained that Lin Qianqian had blown up their chance to capture a vampire for information, and an effeminate voice said they still had a chance.

Earl Raymond Russell confronted Zhou Fan and his companions after they killed the vampires who had attacked them, and he ordered his personal guards to capture Lin Qianqian alive. The four guards advanced on the students, leaving the fight against Raymond and his forces about to begin.

• Raymond Russell introduced himself as a vampire earl, and Lin Qianqian explained the vampires’ noble ranks and the power of their royal bloodlines.
• Raymond recognized Lin Qianqian’s rare blood and declared that he would capture her and drain it.
• Raymond identified Zhou Fan and his companions as the people who killed Osborn and threatened to kill them and return their bodies to Xinghai University.
• Zhou Fan challenged Raymond, who ordered his four fourth-tier, five-star personal guards to attack and capture Lin Qianqian alive.

Lin Qianqian battled four Vampire guards alone and killed one with an explosive paper technique while Zhou Fan prepared to face Raymond. The chapter ended with Zhou Fan activating his strongest abilities against the Vampire Earl.

• Lin Qianqian blocked the four Vampire guards and told Zhou Fan and the others to go after Raymond, while Zhao Qiu and Duan Fei stayed to help her.
• Lin Qianqian used five elemental forms of paper to fight the guards, but the Vampires adapted and attacked her together.
• The scythe-wielding Vampire cut Lin Qianqian in half, but she turned into explosive-tag paper and detonated it, killing him.
• Zhao Qiu and Duan Fei watched as Lin Qianqian held off the remaining three guards without their help.
• Zhou Fan faced Raymond, recognized the Earl’s overwhelming strength, and activated his Sharingan, Susanoo armor, Sage Mode, and Star Shatter Halberd.

Zhou Fan fought Raymond, using his Susanoo armor, Sage Mode, Peerless, and Mangekyō abilities to keep up with the faster fifth-tier vampire. After Raymond escaped the Amaterasu flames and charged to kill him, Zhou Fan vanished at the last instant, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Zhou Fan attacked Raymond with his Star Shatter Halberd, but Raymond dodged his blows and wounded him with Blood Claw.
• Zhou Fan taunted Raymond, who grew angry and intensified his attacks.
• Zhou Fan used Blaze Release: Kagutsuchi to cover Raymond in Amaterasu flames, but Raymond shed his outer layer to escape them.
• Zhou Fan scattered kunai around the area and faced Raymond's doubled-speed charge.
• As Raymond's claws neared his heart, Zhou Fan vanished.

Zhou Fan used Flying Thunder God and Rasengan to overwhelm Raymond in their speed contest. Meanwhile, Lin Qianqian evaded the Vampires’ attacks but faced a powerful Blood Bat strike.

• Zhou Fan teleported behind Raymond with Flying Thunder God and struck him with a Rasengan, leaving him badly wounded.
• Zhou Fan marked Raymond during the first attack, then used a Super-Ultra-Big Ball Rasengan to blast him through more than a dozen walls.
• Lin Qianqian blocked attacks from four Vampires and blasted a hole through their blood net with Explosive Tags.
• The whip-wielding and scythe-wielding Vampires broke through Lin Qianqian’s Paper-Style Guard with their Blood Source: Double Kill Technique.
• Lin Qianqian released Angel Shield as the Blood Bat attacked.

Lin Qianqian trapped Raymond’s four vampire guards and killed them with twenty thousand Explosive Tags. Their victory shifted the fight in Zhou Fan’s favor, and he struck Raymond with another pair of Rasengans.

• Lin Qianqian blocked the vampires’ combined attack with her Angel Shield and enclosed all four guards in Sealing Tags.
• The four vampires attacked the paper cage, but Lin Qianqian absorbed their attacks and converted the Sealing Tags into Explosive Tags.
• Lin Qianqian multiplied two thousand Explosive Tags into twenty thousand and blasted the four vampires into shredded flesh.
• Duan Fei and Zhao Qiu praised Lin Qianqian’s strength and said Zhou Fan was the only one stronger than her.
• Zhou Fan noticed that Lin Qianqian had defeated the guards, then teleported to Raymond and blasted away more than half his blood-red armor with Massive Twin Rasengans.

Raymond activated his vampire true form after identifying Zhou Fan’s Flying Thunder God Mark, then fought him at high speed. When Raymond unleashed Blood Source: Heavenly Net against Zhou Fan and his allies, Zhou Fan teleported himself, Lin Qianqian, Zhao Qiu, and Duan Fei away.

• Raymond realized Zhou Fan had marked him with the Flying Thunder God Technique and used his vampire true form to anticipate an attack.
• Zhou Fan revealed that Raymond had already used Blood Source Rebirth, and Raymond attacked him again at increased speed.
• Zhou Fan and Raymond traded attacks and evasions without either landing a blow.
• Raymond cast Blood Source: Heavenly Net across the battlefield, trapping Zhou Fan, Lin Qianqian, Zhao Qiu, and Duan Fei within its range.
• Lin Qianqian’s Explosive Tags failed to break the net, so Zhou Fan teleported all three allies away with him.

Zhou Fan escaped Raymond’s attack with Flying Thunder God, then returned to the Abandoned Factory in a Susanoo-clad Wood Golem. He crushed Raymond with the Star Shatter Halberd, and a vast fissure tore across Ashen City.

• Zhou Fan teleported himself, Lin Qianqian, Zhao Qiu, and Duan Fei outside Ashen City to escape Raymond’s Heavenly Net.
• Zhou Fan summoned a Wood Golem, covered it with Susanoo armor, added a Wood Dragon, and drew power from Shukaku and Matatabi.
• Raymond waited at the Abandoned Factory, believing Zhou Fan and the others had fled.
• Zhou Fan teleported back to the factory inside the giant golem and struck Raymond with the Star Shatter Halberd.
• Raymond’s Vampire True Form shattered, and the strike split the ground beneath Ashen City as a crack spread across the city.

Zhou Fan defeated Raymond by splitting Ashen City in two, then left with Zhao Qiu, Lin Qianqian, and Duan Fei. Raymond survived and planned to report Zhou Fan, but She Wan appeared and attacked him to use his body as an experiment subject.

• A fissure tore across Ashen City, and Zhou Fan struck it five more times to make sure Raymond was dead.
• Zhou Fan teleported outside the city and told Zhao Qiu, Lin Qianqian, and Duan Fei that Raymond's presence had disappeared.
• Zhou Fan and the others left, while Zhou Fan reflected on the emotion points he had gained from the city's residents.
• Raymond resurrected in the chasm, resolved to report Zhou Fan and arrange a Decapitation Plan.
• She Wan confronted Raymond, said he needed powerful test subjects for an experiment, and bit his neck.

She Wan captured and swallowed the weakened vampire Raymond to study his body and gain power before pursuing Zhou Fan’s Sharingan. Meanwhile, Zhou Fan’s group met Captain Qian of the Esper Bureau after defeating the vampire spies, then decided to eat and explore Ashen City before returning.

• She Wan paralyzed Raymond with his newly developed Cursed Seal and swallowed him with a giant snake, intending to study vampire abilities before targeting Zhou Fan.
• Zhou Fan told Captain Qian that he had accidentally split Ashen City during the fight with the vampire spies.
• Zhao Qiu explained that Zhou Fan’s group had found and killed all the vampire spies before the Esper Bureau arrived.
• Zhou Fan directed Captain Qian to the vampire spies’ bodies in the North District Abandoned Factory.
• Zhou Fan’s group chose to have a meal and look around Ashen City before heading back.