Recaps

After the trial’s casualties were found, Qin Ze learned from Teacher Yao how to advance toward Level One Martial Artist by tempering his bones. Teacher Yao also arranged protection for him and ordered the next stage of a mission to begin, while Qin Ze’s attempt to study the method ended with him realizing he had only just reached Gao Village in the eighty-one tribulations.

• The school and City Defense Bureau discussed compensation for the dead students’ families, while Qin Ze received two blood crystals for his S-rated trial performance.
• Fatty told Qin Ze that intermediate martial artists had entered the alternate realm to clear out high-threat exotic beasts, and Qin Ze showed him his administrator terminal.
• Qin Ze asked Teacher Yao how to break through, and she confirmed that his qi and blood had reached their limit and that he needed to temper his bones.
• Teacher Yao gave Qin Ze a university Bone Tempering Method textbook and warned him not to become complacent about his talent.
• Teacher Yao ordered an apology gift delivered to the He Family, reiterated that Qin Ze was not responsible for He Bi’s death, and instructed her contact to release the rats that day.
• Qin Ze read the textbook and realized that breaking through was not simple, since he had only just reached Gao Village in the eighty-one tribulations.

Qin Ze learned to temper his bones and discovered that his clones could contribute to his progress, letting him avoid most of the work. After reading that the Maka Race would jointly develop the Jiang City Otherworld and that Wang Biao would be executed in ten days, Qin Ze decided he needed to temper his bones faster, though he still wanted to slack off.

• Qin Ze tempered the tip of his right little finger and found that his qi sea had grown enough to absorb more qi and blood.
• Qin Ze had his clones temper their bones and confirmed that their progress fed back to him.
• Teacher Yao checked Qin Ze's progress and encouraged him to keep training, while Qin Ze mistook her delight for something unrelated.
• Qin Ze read that the Maka Race delegation would arrive in Jiang City next month to jointly develop the Otherworld, prompting him to worry about the race's plans.
• Qin Ze saw a trending report that Wang Biao would be executed in ten days.

Qin Ze learned more about Wang Biao, continued tempering his bones, and welcomed the Hater Circus's first client. The client, Zero, asked the Circus to raid an execution ground.

• Qin Ze read online reactions to Wang Biao's killings but found no explanation for his motives.
• Qin Ze tempered ten bones in his left hand while the City Defense Bureau investigated poison gas in the otherworld and failed to pass through it.
• The Hater Circus gained its first client after establishing a reputation in Jiang City's underworld, and Qin Ze prepared to meet him at the warehouse headquarters.
• Zero arrived and recognized Dharma King's powerful lightning ability before asking the Circus to raid an execution ground.

Qin Ze accepted a five-million commission to rescue Wang Biao from the Cloud Mountain Execution Ground and organized the Circus to plan the raid. The chapter ended with the black-robed group revealing that they expected the Circus to fail, and that Wang Biao’s rescue might suit their purposes.

• A black-robed man hired Qin Ze to rescue Wang Biao from the Cloud Mountain Execution Ground in three days, and Qin Ze agreed for five million.
• The black-robed man paid Qin Ze a three-million deposit and arranged to meet the Circus at Black Wind Mountain after the rescue.
• Qin Ze gathered his clones, set aside one million for operating expenses, and led them in planning the operation.
• The Circus decided to send two members to scout Cloud Mountain the next day, while Qin Ze and the others wondered what secrets Wang Biao might hold.
• The black-robed man told his associates that the Circus was weak and said that if they rescued Wang Biao, it would save the group trouble.

Qin Ze and the Hater Circus prepared to disrupt Wang Biao’s execution, while Teacher Yao’s enforcers watched for intruders. The execution was interrupted by a lightning strike, and the Dharma King revealed himself before unleashing lightning at the surrounding officers and enforcers.

• Wang Biao was brought to Cloud Mountain’s execution ground, where he called the martial artists he had killed maggots and claimed he had acted for fairness.
• Qin Ze, the Dharma King, and Brother Devour prepared to make their move, while Teacher Yao’s enforcers monitored suspicious groups near the summit.
• At his sentencing, Wang Biao accused the dead martial artists of trafficking women and girls, abusing their power, and standing above the law.
• As the execution device charged, Wang Biao shouted that he had acted for fairness, but lightning struck and destroyed the gantry’s crossbeam.
• The Dharma King appeared in a burst of lightning and was recognized by Enforcer Number Three as a member of the Hater Circus.
• When officers and enforcers moved to surround him, the Dharma King sent bolts of lightning in every direction.

Dharma King rescued Brother Biao from the execution grounds and fought his way past the enforcers and Blood Hand Gang with the Hater Circus, while Teacher Yao ordered a pursuit. After reaching a rendezvous, Dharma King learned the black-robed group had arranged the attack to seize Wang Biao and conceal a key, and he tried to negotiate as they prepared to kill him.

• Dharma King rescued Brother Biao, then fought off the Blood Hand Gang and enforcers with the Hater Circus's clones, who used self-destruction to drive their opponents back.
• Dharma King escaped down the mountain with Brother Biao as the remaining clones exploded, and Teacher Yao ordered his enforcers to pursue them.
• Dharma King met a group of black-robed figures, whose leader revealed they had hired Blood Hand to create a distraction and wanted Wang Biao for the key he knew about.
• As the black-robed figures surrounded him, Dharma King raised his hands and proposed a deal.

Dharma King tried to join the Fairness Society while carrying the captive Wang Biao, but Teacher Yao’s law enforcers ambushed the group. The Society escaped with Wang Biao through a decoy and a suicide attack, while Brother Devour reached Qin Ze by a lake near Cloud Mountain.

• Dharma King asked the Fairness Society’s tall, black-robed leader to let him join, then dodged taking a poison pill until law enforcers arrived.
• Teacher Yao confronted the Fairness Society and ordered her law enforcers to kill them while she and the leader fought over the sack containing Wang Biao.
• Dharma King threw the sack away and fled as Teacher Yao revealed her level-four strength and killed the tall, black-robed leader.
• Teacher Yao found a hyena-masked decoy in the sack, and he self-destructed before she could stop him.
• Teacher Yao realized the Hater Circus had switched Wang Biao, while Brother Devour emerged from a lake near Cloud Mountain carrying a sack as Qin Ze rested nearby.

Qin Ze and Brother Devour rescued Brother Biao after the Fairness Society tried to kill them, then questioned him about the group and the key. Brother Biao revealed that the key was a tree tattoo he had received after killing organ traffickers, and offered it to Qin Ze.

• Qin Ze and Brother Devour brought Brother Biao to the lake after rescuing him from the Fairness Society’s attempted betrayal.
• Brother Biao explained that the Fairness Society sought a classless society, while Qin Ze argued that eliminating martial artists would not solve the underlying conflict.
• Brother Biao said he had left the Fairness Society after disobeying its orders but still liked its slogan.
• Brother Biao recounted killing martial artists involved in human trafficking and organ sales in Cloud City, then finding a sapling that turned into a tree tattoo on his chest.
• Brother Biao said the sapling was supposedly a key to opening a new world and offered the key to Qin Ze for rescuing him.

Qin Ze received the mysterious key from Brother Biao and let him go, while Teacher Yao faced punishment after failing to retrieve him. The Fairness Society’s leaders discussed the key and their plans for the coming Maka Race, leaving Aries responsible for the Jiang City Otherworld.

• Brother Biao transferred the little tree to Qin Ze, then left to fight for the new order despite his incomplete recovery.
• Teacher Yao returned home, learned that her family considered her trial mission a failure, and was ordered to return within two days for a new assignment.
• Leo, Aries, and Pisces discussed the Fairness Society’s losses in Jiang City and argued over who was responsible.
• Leo revealed his breakthrough and ordered Pisces to investigate the key while Aries took charge of the Jiang City Otherworld.

Qin Ze learned that Teacher Yao had left, visited Ma Yan, and saw her briefly lose focus before she cut her finger. Meanwhile, He Guang agreed to supply Phoenix Tower with fresh goods, and Qin Ze's class arrived at the Black Mountain Research Institute for a field trip.

• The homeroom teacher announced that Teacher Yao was sick and that he would take over her body-forging classes, while Qin Ze realized she had finished her mission.
• Qin Ze declined the class monitor's birthday invitation and encouraged Fatty to keep training as his ability neared a breakthrough.
• Ma Yan told Qin Ze she had received a bonus, then cut her finger after suddenly staring blankly; Qin Ze later left money at her home.
• Three men from Phoenix Tower brought He Guang on as a new supplier, and he promised to find fresh goods in Jiang City.
• Qin Ze and his classmates traveled to the Black Mountain Research Institute, where a staff member welcomed them after they entered through its giant gate.

Qin Ze and the students toured the Black Mountain Research Institute, where staff introduced its specimen hall and research departments. A power failure stranded Qin Ze and the fatty near the bathrooms, where an altered one attacked the class monitor, leaving Qin Ze worried the Otherworld disaster might reach reality.

• Qin Ze and the students rode through a tunnel to the Black Mountain Research Institute and visited its specimen hall and pill research and development department.
• Qin Ze went to the bathroom with the fatty, where the class monitor asked him to attend her birthday party and he declined because of the upcoming martial arts exam.
• The lights went out, the institute doors shut, and a broadcast announced that a transformer had malfunctioned.
• Qin Ze and the fatty rushed into the women's bathroom after hearing a crash and the class monitor's scream, and found her beside a creature in hospital clothes.
• Qin Ze fought the creature, pulled the class monitor behind him, and recognized it as an altered one that had not fully transformed.

Qin Ze and his clones fought a swarm of aberrants that had escaped from a research institute. After Qin Ze hurled their leader into the men's restroom, the leader immobilized him with an innate ability and raised a bony spike over his forehead, but Qin Ze hinted that he still had a way to fight back.

• The class monitor and Fatty encountered an aberrant in the restroom, and more aberrants poured through the ceiling until they surrounded Qin Ze.
• Qin Ze sent Fatty and the class monitor to get help, then used lightning to stop two pursuers and summoned more than thirty clones to fight the aberrants.
• The clones gained a slight advantage in the cramped restroom, while Qin Ze taunted the aberrant leader into charging him.
• Qin Ze grabbed the leader's tail and hurled him through the wall into the men's restroom.
• The leader immobilized Qin Ze with a flash of scarlet light, pinned him against a wall, and aimed a bony spike at his forehead as lightning flickered in Qin Ze's eyes.

Qin Ze and his clones killed the aberrants in the research institute, then encountered the security team sent to investigate. Lin Siyao arrived and took an unsettling interest in Qin Ze, approaching him with a syringe.

• Qin Ze used lightning to kill the big aberrant after dodging its poisoned bone spikes by pulling a clone in front of him.
• Qin Ze found no Soul Orb in the aberrant and guessed something about the test subjects after noticing their hospital gowns.
• A security team arrived, and its trench-coated leader questioned Qin Ze and told him he could not leave until he cooperated with the investigation.
• Qin Ze complained that he was underage, depwessed, and claustrophobic while the trench-coated man promised compensation.
• Lin Siyao arrived, admired Qin Ze's abilities, and approached him with a syringe.

After surviving the research institute incident, Qin Ze negotiated three bottles of advanced bone-tempering solution and learned that Yao Xue had dealt with the He Family. He and his clones used the solution to accelerate their cultivation, and Qin Ze prepared to complete his first round of bone tempering that night.

• Lin Siyao examined the dead subjects, identified the cause of death, and told Qin Ze the breakout was an accident at the research institute.
• Qin Ze signed a confidentiality agreement and bargained Lin Siyao into giving him three bottles of advanced bone-tempering solution.
• Lin Siyao told Qin Ze that Yao Xue had taken care of the He Family, leaving him free to focus on the martial arts exam.
• Qin Ze returned home, used the bone-tempering solution on himself, and then prepared basins for his clones to use as well.
• After a week of intensive cultivation, Qin Ze said he would finish tempering the last hand bone of his first round that night and break through.

Qin Ze broke through to become a Level One Martial Artist and decided to keep building up his clones before entering the Otherworld. At breakfast the next morning, he learned that Ma Yan was wanted for setting a fire that killed her mother.

• Ma Yan called Qin Ze to share news of another work bonus and invited him to dinner, but he declined because he was cultivating.
• Qin Ze tempered the final bone in his right hand, completed his first bone-tempering, and became a Level One Martial Artist.
• Qin Ze’s clones held a mock memorial service and then celebrated with a wild dance party.
• Qin Ze chose to build up more clones before venturing into the Otherworld, then fell asleep.
• At breakfast, Qin Ze watched a report about a woman accused of killing her bedridden mother in an arson attack and recognized the suspect as Ma Yan.

After learning that Ma Yan was accused of murdering her mother in a fire, Qin Ze joined Enforcer Number Three to investigate and clear her name. A neighbor’s account suggested the fire began after Ma Yan confronted people outside, and Qin Ze and Number Three set out for the police department as a filthy boy beckoned them over.

• Qin Ze saw a news report accusing Ma Yan of killing her mother and hurried to the burned ruins of her home.
• Qin Ze met Enforcer Number Three, revealed he was a Level One Martial Artist, and persuaded him to let him assist with the investigation.
• Qin Ze told Number Three what he knew about Ma Yan, and they questioned a neighbor who described hearing a woman cry for help before Ma Yan confronted someone outside and the fire began.
• The neighbor denied that Ma Yan could have murdered her mother, and Qin Ze concluded that the police had fabricated the accusation without investigating.
• Qin Ze and Number Three decided to search for the police case file, but a filthy little boy appeared and beckoned them over.

Qin Ze and Number Three learned that the Black Tiger Gang had abducted Ma Yan after she tried to stop them from beating a young woman. Qin Ze stormed the gang’s casino, discovered dozens of captive women, and demanded to know where Ma Yan was.

• A homeless boy told Qin Ze and Number Three that the Black Tiger Gang had taken Ma Yan and revealed the gang’s casino headquarters.
• Number Three contacted the police department, but it refused to authorize an arrest for lack of evidence; a deputy chief then ordered a squad to raid the gang and told He Guang to clean up his work.
• Qin Ze went to the casino ahead of Number Three, kicked his way inside, and disabled thirteen enforcers before forcing one to reveal where the captives were held.
• Qin Ze and Number Three found women locked in cages in the warehouse, but Ma Yan was not among them.
• A scar-faced man arrived with more than fifty enforcers, and Qin Ze unleashed lightning that killed over a dozen and brought the rest down.
• Qin Ze seized the scar-faced man and demanded to know where the Black Tiger Gang had taken Ma Yan.

Qin Ze rescued the trafficked women but failed to learn who was behind the ring, then followed a lead to a new exchange at the Rubik's Cube Building. He arranged an alibi by agreeing to attend the class monitor's birthday party, and the chapter ended as a masked man revealed himself among the supposed victims.

• Qin Ze interrogated Scarface about the girl he had framed, but a bespectacled man killed Scarface before he could identify their contact.
• The bespectacled man oversaw the raid and rescued the women, while Number Three questioned Qin Ze about his lightning ability before being called away.
• Qin Ze found a black card on Scarface, called the number on it, and learned that another exchange would take place at the Rubik's Cube Building at seven.
• Qin Ze invited Fatty to the class monitor's birthday party to give himself an alibi, then went to the exchange alone.
• At the Rubik's Cube Building, a hooded man delivered fourteen women, and one of them revealed himself as a masked man after striking an inspector.

Qin Ze rescued Ma Yan from the training room at Phoenix Tower and found her transformed after killing three people. As He Guang and his men attacked, Qin Ze fought back and prepared to kill He Guang.

• Qin Ze and the clones subdued the guards, searched Phoenix Tower, and learned from a waiter that the missing women were in a hidden training room.
• Qin Ze opened the secret door behind a Venus de Milo statue and found Ma Yan eating flesh beside three corpses.
• Ma Yan recognized Qin Ze, wept over her mother's death and her actions, and agreed to go home with him.
• He Guang arrived with security guards and a Level Two Martial Artist, and Qin Ze sent Dharma King and Brother Devour to fight them.
• Qin Ze used lightning and the clones' gathered attributes to overpower He Guang, who pleaded for his life and warned that others would retaliate.
• Qin Ze gathered lightning in his raised hand as he prepared to deliver judgment on He Guang.

Qin Ze and his clones killed He Guang and the Level Two Martial Artist, rescued the captives at Phoenix Tower, and found a ledger naming the people who profited from the trafficking ring. Enforcer Number Three later told Qin Ze that Ma Yan had been cleared and was safe in the hospital, while an executive officer led arrests across Jiang City.

• The Dharma King and Brother Devour distracted the Level Two Martial Artist while Qin Ze killed He Guang, who begged for mercy.
• The Dharma King and Brother Devour mutated after absorbing unpurified Soul Orbs and defeated the Level Two Martial Artist.
• Qin Ze comforted Ma Yan, sent her and the other girls to safety, and led his clones in rescuing captives and tying up the traffickers.
• Qin Ze found a ledger in Phoenix Tower's office that recorded its expenses and the recipients of its dividends.
• The Law Enforcement Department investigated the rescued girls, identified them as missing persons, and worked through the night.
• Enforcer Number Three told Qin Ze that Ma Yan was safe in the hospital, her verdict had been overturned, and an executive officer was arresting people connected to the trafficking ring.

A new executor led a sweeping crackdown in Jiang City after the rescued girls delivered a ledger linking people to Phoenix Tower. As dawn came, Qin Ze visited Ma Yan in the hospital.

• Number Three told Qin Ze that the executor had taken over the human trafficking and arson investigation and began arresting people named in the ledger.
• Qin Ze’s classmates left the KTV, and he wished the class monitor a happy birthday before walking home.
• The executor’s forces arrested people connected to Phoenix Tower and uprooted more than a dozen gangs across Jiang City.
• The executor ordered the execution of forty-eight martial artists and one hundred and twenty-six ordinary people, and directed an investigation into the Hater Circus.
• Qin Ze brought a fruit basket to the hospital and found Ma Yan lying vacant and unresponsive.

Qin Ze visited the recovering Ma Yan, whose blindness and grief persisted despite the news clearing her name and punishing the Black Tiger Gang. After Ma Yan’s coworkers conducted a strange medical check, Qin Ze left for school, while a black-robed figure attacked the Blood Hand Gang and demanded to know where Wang Biao was.

• Qin Ze watched the news with Ma Yan as it reported the executions of the human traffickers and Black Tiger Gang, cleared Ma Yan of the arson accusation, and awarded her for bravery.
• Qin Ze learned from a nurse that Ma Yan was temporarily blind from grief, and he tried to comfort her before unsuccessfully calling Qin Yu.
• Sister Wang and four coworkers arrived with a testing machine, gave Ma Yan a blood test and a large-needle procedure, and told her the company would keep paying her wages and had sent her a bonus.
• Qin Ze left Ma Yan at the hospital and headed to school.
• A black-robed figure slaughtered the Blood Hand Gang, lifted its bloodied leader, and demanded to know where Wang Biao was.

A masked man searched the Blood Hand Gang for Wang Biao and learned that the Hater Circus had taken him. At school, Qin Ze watched an Advanced Martial Artist discover and destroy a hidden camera, then learned the man would inspect his school before one of his clones was killed.

• The black-robed man tortured the Blood Hand Gang leader for information about Wang Biao, learned the Hater Circus had taken him, and killed the leader.
• Qin Ze watched an Advanced Martial Artist examine the poisonous gas blocking two passages into the Otherworld and destroy a hidden camera after sensing someone watching.
• The executive officer sealed the Otherworld and ordered that no one enter without Law Enforcement Department documentation.
• Qin Ze urged his clones to cultivate, then heard that the executive officer would inspect his school the next afternoon.
• Qin Ze absorbed his saved blood crystals, raised his cultivation by 0.01, and resumed the Lotus Visualization Method before learning that a little hater had been killed.

Pisces searched North City for the Hater Circus and uncovered a small outpost run by Qin Ze’s beggar clones. After killing the clones and learning they knew neither the headquarters nor Wang Biao’s location, Pisces disguised himself as one of them and resumed begging.

• Pisces questioned a beggar about the Hater Circus, then tricked him into revealing that he could walk and followed him to an abandoned warehouse.
• The beggar told three other clones that a budget Pisces Saint had asked about the Circus, and the four realized the stranger had followed him.
• Pisces entered the warehouse and killed the three clones when they charged him.
• The remaining beggar said he did not know the headquarters or Wang Biao’s whereabouts, so Pisces killed him with a shattered mirror.
• Pisces took the beggar’s appearance and returned to a North City street to beg beside a trash can.

Qin Ze learned that an impostor had killed one of his clones and was searching for the key, so he kept a low profile while preparing to flee. At a school visit, the executive officer examined Qin Ze’s Fate Reversal Technique and then asked about the item on his wrist.

• Qin Ze’s clones discussed the impostor’s disguise and search for the key, while Qin Ze recalled them and decided to stay cautious.
• Qin Ze told his clones to keep cultivating while he went to sleep.
• The executive officer visited Jiang City’s school and watched students demonstrate their abilities, including Lin Zhiyuan’s short-range teleportation.
• The executive officer asked Qin Ze to demonstrate the first layer of the Fate Reversal Technique, and Qin Ze opened eighty acupoints while concealing his true qi and blood value.
• The executive officer praised Qin Ze and called him back to ask what he was wearing on his wrist.