Recaps

Jiang Lan negotiated for Qin Ling and the others to train and gain resources, then led them against a high-level Beast Tide. After they defeated rival fighters and returned with their haul, tensions with another base escalated, leaving Qin Longtian’s leaders divided over how to respond.

• Jiang Lan refused to accept the base leaders’ arrangements without further consideration, but worked to secure opportunities for Qin Ling and the others as Qin Longtian apologized and tried to repair their relationship.
• Jiang Lan agreed to lead a team and brought Qin Ling and the others back into the base’s plans despite doubts from its officials and martial artists.
• When Qin Longtian asked Jiang Lan to confront a high-level Beast Tide, Jiang Lan agreed, and his team defeated high-level Demon Beasts and gathered their remains and Beast Cores.
• A rival team from another base demanded part of Jiang Lan’s group’s haul, but Qin Ling and Jiang Lan beat the attackers, and Jiang Lan also withstood the rival base’s aircraft assault.
• Qin Longtian’s base received a declaration of war, while elders blamed Jiang Lan’s group for provoking the conflict and Qin Longtian defended their actions.
• Jiang Lan insisted that his group had the right to keep the resources they had gathered, and he told the base’s martial artists to take them if they wanted them.
• Jiang Lan dismissed the threat from the other base, but inspectors reported that its members had threatened them, and Qin Longtian warned that Jiang Lan would not help the senior members.
• Jiang Lan challenged the elders to address the base’s current predicament, then told Qin Ling to rest while he considered how to handle the problems ahead.

Jiang Lan and his allies confronted escalating conflicts between the bases while Qin Ling’s team investigated a worsening Beast Tide. Jiang Lan found and defeated the creature causing the tides, then rejected a neighboring chief’s attempt to recruit him as tensions over resources and outside involvement continued.

• Jiang Lan confronted the neighboring base’s people over their demands and warned them not to provoke his base, while Qin Ling’s team trained and prepared for the growing crisis.
• When Qin Ling’s team argued with veteran martial artists over resources, Jiang Lan defended them and insisted their accusers acknowledge their mistakes.
• Qin Ling and her team set out to confront the Beast Tide, and Jiang Lan later joined them after powerful beasts overwhelmed their group.
• Jiang Lan investigated the vortex, helped Qin Ling’s team defeat the beasts on the surface, and then descended alone to find the source of the tides.
• Jiang Lan discovered a giant underground creature and, after Shen Qingqiu and Qin Ling’s team fought off beasts above, killed it and took its Golden Core, revealing that its energy had caused the Beast Tides.
• Jiang Lan rejected the neighboring base’s claims to his group’s resources and refused its chief’s private offer to recruit him.
• Jiang Lan told the elders to guard against outsiders, reassured Shen Qingqiu of his care for her, and trusted Qin Ling to decide whether to join future efforts.
• The neighboring chief returned to criticize his people and Qin Longtian over the base’s lack of resources, while Qin Ling and her companions offered to help if trouble arose.