Recaps

At a banquet, Qin Ze destroyed two resurrected sea beasts that attacked the guests. A voice then confronted Young Master Qian about a past killing, and Qin Ze told him to face the accuser by going to his death.

• Bloodied people fled into the banquet hall, and a resurrected sea snake killed a security guard.
• A resurrected Two-Headed Shark smashed through the hotel wall, and both sea beasts attacked the guests.
• Qin Ze rescued Xia Huai'an and Young Master Qian, then burned both sea beasts to ashes with his White Tiger Fire Movement Fist.
• A voice over the speakers accused Young Master Qian of forgetting a rainy-night incident in Pearl District.
• Qin Ze told Young Master Qian to stand firm, then said, “Young Master Qian, please go to your death.”

Qin Ze defeated the zombies attacking the banquet guests and learned that the mastermind had escaped. Sea Capital Law Enforcement arrived as Qin Ze reunited with Qin Yu and Xia Huai'an.

• The speaker threatened to kill the guests, and more than thirty zombies broke through the second-floor glass and attacked.
• Qin Ze burned the zombies attacking Qin Yu and Xia Huai'an, while Young Master Qian's ring released a blast of light that incinerated the zombies surrounding him.
• Qin Ze destroyed the remaining zombies and told Brother Devour to spread out and search for the fleeing attacker.
• Qin Ze found Qin Yu and Xia Huai'an chatting amid the wrecked banquet hall, where seven or eight people had died and part of the hotel had collapsed.
• Number Three arrived with a squad of Sea Capital Law Enforcement officers.

A man who had failed to kill Qin Ze was confronted in an alley by Brother Devour and Dharma King, who tried to capture him for their boss. He escaped after using a cloak and an explosive artifact, leaving Brother Devour badly burned as law enforcement arrived.

• The man cursed Qin Ze and led a young couple out of a dark alley before inviting Brother Devour to reveal himself.
• The man attacked Brother Devour, but Brother Devour trapped his arm and fought back with multiple arms.
• Dharma King joined the fight with lightning, while the man's defensive Martial Artifact blocked their attacks.
• The man shot Brother Devour, then escaped into the darkness using a black cloak and a small explosive ball.
• Brother Devour shielded Dharma King from the blast but was badly burned, and law enforcement officers appeared nearby.

After law enforcement broke up Xu Feng’s revenge plot, Qin Ze learned why the Hell Vanguard soldier had attacked the Earth Company’s banquet and argued that the injustice to Xu Feng’s family had driven him to violence. The chapter ended with Xu Feng confronting a ram-masked man in an abandoned factory after his failed plan.

• Thousand Faces helped Dharma King and Brother Devour escape the law enforcement officers, while Number Three stayed behind to handle the situation.
• Number Three told Qin Ze that Xu Feng, a peak level-four martial artist in the Hell Vanguard, had sought revenge after the Earth Company seized his family home and his sister and mother died.
• Qin Ze defended Xu Feng’s actions and argued that corrupt systems had failed to protect ordinary people, while Number Three warned him that Xu Feng might target him.
• Xia Huai'an drove Qin Ze back to Haidu Academy and gave him Qin Yu’s jade protective charm to wear.
• At an abandoned factory in Pearl District, Xu Feng demanded the promised item from a man wearing a ram mask, who refused because Xu Feng had failed.

Xu Feng’s membership assessment was interrupted when a silver-masked woman attacked him, and Aries intervened to keep her from killing him. The next morning, Qin Yu woke Qin Ze with news that she had gotten revenge for him.

• Aries told Xu Feng that he had failed his assessment and gave him one last chance to qualify for membership.
• Vines and a giant man-eating flower trapped Xu Feng and Aries, and a silver-masked woman in a red dress entered the hall.
• The woman tried to kill Xu Feng, but he burned through the vines and fired at her before a man-eating flower swallowed him.
• Aries reminded the woman that Xu Feng was taking a membership assessment, and she released him before leaving.
• Aries warned Xu Feng that failure would leave him as fertilizer for the woman’s plants.
• The next morning, Qin Yu called Qin Ze and said she had gotten revenge for him.

Qin Ze spent the day avoiding cultivation until Teacher Yao reminded him about a mysterious test and its deadline. He tried to decline so he could attend his dorm’s team-building event, but Teacher Yao insisted he take the test that night.

• Qin Yu told Qin Ze she had cursed the man who fought him at the banquet and checked that he was wearing her amulet.
• Qin Ze visited the martial arts hall, then went to Teacher Yao’s office and fell asleep while pretending to meditate.
• Teacher Yao scolded Qin Ze for neglecting his cultivation and asked whether he had decided to take the test.
• Qin Ze returned the invitation card, saying he had a dorm team-building event, but Teacher Yao put it back in his pocket and ordered him to attend the test that night.

Qin Ze followed a raven summoned by his invitation card to a remote wilderness, where Teacher Yao and a mysterious blindfolded woman appeared. The woman welcomed him as a new trial participant.

• Qin Ze speculated that Teacher Yao might belong to the World Hunt Participants and asked the group whether other organizations sought the world's truth.
• Qin Ze placed the invitation card on his windowsill at ten o'clock, and it transformed into a raven that led him out of Sea Capital.
• Qin Ze followed the raven for nearly an hour and found no one in the wilderness after it vanished.
• Teacher Yao and a blindfolded woman in a green robe stepped out of a spatial ripple.
• The woman welcomed Qin Ze as a new trial participant.

Qin Ze received a forty-eight-hour trial to keep an unknown old man alive, but delegated the investigation to his clones and went to sleep. Zither Woman judged that he had already failed, while Teacher Yao continued to defend him.

• Zither Woman gave Qin Ze a photograph of an old man and set his trial: keep the man alive for forty-eight hours.
• Qin Ze returned to Sea Capital and ordered his clones and Dharma King to find the target while he rested.
• Teacher Yao and Zither Woman watched Qin Ze scroll through his phone and speculated about his plan.
• Qin Ze convinced the Happy Trio that he had been meditating, inspiring them to train harder.
• The Happy Trio trained as Qin Ze fell asleep, and Zither Woman concluded that his trial was already over.

Xu Feng tortured and killed Qian Duoduo for his sister’s murder, then marked an elderly man’s photograph as his next target. The next morning, Qin Ze’s clones reported that they had learned everything about the old man, whom Qin Ze was supposed to protect.

• Xu Feng sneaked into Qian Duoduo’s villa, drugged the people inside, and confronted him.
• Xu Feng tortured Qian Duoduo, who confessed to his sister’s assault and murder and revealed that someone had ordered it.
• Xu Feng killed Qian Duoduo and marked an old man’s photograph with an X as his next target.
• Qin Ze finally got out of bed after his clones repeatedly shouted about their discovery.
• Dharma King told Qin Ze that the clones had found out everything about the old man.

Qian Duoduo and nearly everyone involved in the Pearl District demolition project were murdered, and Qin Ze learned that Xu Feng was seeking revenge. Qin Ze connected the killings to Earth Company and told Dharma King to investigate who had overseen the project.

• A maid found Qian Duoduo's headless, mutilated corpse in the Qian family villa and raised the alarm.
• Dharma King reported on Chen Zhong, whose spotless charity reputation made Qin Ze suspect Earth Company was hiding something.
• Teacher Yao and Zither Woman watched Qin Ze sleep and worried that he was wasting his trial assessment.
• Xia Huai'an told Qin Ze that Xu Feng had killed Qian Duoduo and nearly everyone involved in the Pearl District demolition project, and warned him to stay at school.
• Qin Ze realized the demolition project might connect Xu Feng's killings to Earth Company and asked Dharma King to identify the person in charge.

Thousand Faces infiltrated Earth Company and uncovered details about the Pearl District relocation project and Chen Zhong, leading Qin Ze to investigate Chen’s weekend club meeting. Qin Ze disguised himself as a club worker and entered Clear Moon Lily Club, where Yangyang took him toward Sister Hong.

• Thousand Faces learned that Earth Company deputy manager Chen Zhong oversaw the Pearl District relocation project and held a role in the Alliance Chamber of Commerce.
• Thousand Faces found tender documents promising 7,200 yuan per square meter in compensation and proposed that the money may have been pocketed by underlings or that the tender was meant to shift blame.
• Thousand Faces learned from the old geezer’s secretary that Chen Zhong met partner-company heads at a club every weekend, and Qin Ze decided to investigate that night.
• Qin Ze disguised himself as a woman outside Clear Moon Lily Club and slipped inside, while Teacher Yao and Zither Woman followed unseen.
• Yangyang found Qin Ze separated from the other women and pulled him along, saying Sister Hong was looking for him.

Yangyang escorted Qin Ze into an underground club, where he witnessed an exotic beast tear apart a man in a staged fight. She then brought him into Chen Zhong’s private room, leaving Qin Ze face-to-face with their target.

• Yangyang protected Qin Ze from a bodyguard and warned him to stay close and keep quiet inside the club.
• Qin Ze watched an F-rank exotic beast called Scarhead kill its human challenger while the aristocratic audience cheered.
• Sister Hong scolded Yangyang for arriving late, and Yangyang took responsibility for the delay.
• Sister Hong led the girls into Chen Zhong’s private room, where Qin Ze clenched his fists as the men watched the fight through one-way glass.
• Yangyang took Qin Ze’s hand and approached Chen Zhong.

Qin Ze listened in on Chen Zhong’s gathering and uncovered the connection between Military Technology, Black Mountain, and the stolen battery. When his disguise nearly slipped, Yangyang volunteered him to accompany Chen Zhong for the night, leaving Qin Ze in danger.

• Chen Zhong ordered his subordinates to raise Pearl District’s taxes and sell its residents to Military Technology while pretending the arrangement was charitable.
• Chen Zhong’s bald aide revealed that Military Technology and Black Mountain were working on a secret project and had seized Pearl Machinery Manufacturing and Energy Co., Ltd. for its battery.
• Qin Ze asked Thousand Faces to investigate the Sea Capital Biotechnology Research Institute and learned it belonged to Black Mountain Biotechnology.
• Qin Ze connected the battery theft to Black Mountain and Military Technology’s likely humanoid combat weapon project, then accidentally used his normal voice and claimed his name was Lin Zhiyuan.
• After Chen Zhong chose Yangyang for the night, Yangyang offered her younger sister instead, and Chen Zhong accepted.

Qin Ze learned that everyone who entered a private room was marked for death, and that Yangyang had taken his place to save him. He abandoned his plan to wait for Xu Feng and left the dressing room to rescue her.

• Yangyang left Qin Ze with a bodyguard, then told Sister Hong she was tired of working there and doubted her contract would ever make her free.
• A bodyguard led Qin Ze to a dressing room, where Tony styled and made up his appearance for President Chen.
• Qin Ze learned from Tony that everyone who entered a private room had to die that night unless they pleased the powerful men, and that Yangyang had been chosen in his place.
• Tony explained that workers were trapped by contracts and constant surveillance, while he mourned Yangyang as a friend who would die that night.
• Qin Ze decided to abandon his plan to wait for Xu Feng, removed his hair sticks, and kicked open the dressing-room door, declaring that his rules were the only rules.

Qin Ze fought his way through the club to find the women who had not been selected, while Scarhead escaped his cage and slaughtered the nobles. After killing Scarhead, Qin Ze broke into the second basement level and asked the guards where the operating rooms were.

• Qin Ze forced the bodyguard to reveal that the unselected women had been sent to the operating rooms on the second basement level, then knocked him unconscious and told Tony to gather everyone to escape.
• Qin Ze left the clones behind and charged through the men in black outside the passage gate, defeating the guards who arrived in response to the alarm.
• Scarhead broke out of the octagonal cage and ate the nobles as they tried to flee, while Qin Ze watched from the Shelter Space.
• The security team sealed the gate, trapping the nobles inside with Scarhead, who ate everyone in the venue.
• Qin Ze landed on Scarhead's head and killed it with a stomp, then smashed open the elevator and rode it down to the second basement level.
• Qin Ze greeted the startled guards and asked them which way led to the operating rooms.

Qin Ze found Yangyang after the company had removed her heart, killed the doctors, and freed the prisoners. He fought the bald man with lightning and Blue Flame Release until an explosion shook the building, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Qin Ze entered the operating room and found that the doctors had removed the organs from the patients, including Yangyang's heart.
• Qin Ze killed the doctors, then opened the prisoners' cells and led the survivors toward the emergency stairwell.
• Qin Ze confronted the bald man on the first basement level and told the prisoners to escape while they continued upstairs.
• The bald man revealed his crimson Iron Fist ability and charged Qin Ze, who fought back with lightning and Blue Flame Release.
• Qin Ze and the bald man battled through the basement as blue flames spread, until an explosion overhead shook the building.

A fire and explosion at the Clear Moon Lily Club exposed the company’s alleged organ black market, while Qin Ze fought the bald man in the basement. Qin Ze killed him, then paused to recover as the authorities entered the club and began controlling the scene.

• A reporter named Xiaohui reported an explosion at the Clear Moon Lily Club as the enforcement team arrived and an adjudicator broke open the sealed gate.
• Survivors escaped the smoke and told Xiaohui about an exotic beast and an organ black market, prompting the adjudicator to detain the girls and reporter and seal off nearby blocks.
• Qin Ze learned the top floor had exploded, where Chen Zhong was, and prepared to act while blue flames burned through the first basement level.
• The bald man attacked Qin Ze with Mountain-Splitting Fist, but Qin Ze transformed into a blue-flamed giant and used Vermilion Bird Step to strike from behind.
• Qin Ze briefly reached Level Four with Sage Time and split the bald man in two with his bone sword, then knelt to recover as his Source Crystal began healing him.

Qin Ze recovered with the Source Crystal and headed to the top floor, where he found Xu Feng confronting Chen Zhong and a level five adjudicator. The adjudicator declared Xu Feng under arrest as Qin Ze watched from hiding.

• Qin Ze realized that combining his clones’ attributes consumed his Source of Life and used the Source Crystal to speed his recovery.
• The Zither Woman and Teacher Yao emerged after Qin Ze killed the level-four bald man, and the Zither Woman gave him a ten for combat strength.
• Qin Ze learned from his clones that Sea Capital Law Enforcement had sealed off the building while Xu Feng pursued Chen Zhong.
• Qin Ze saw zombie-like security guards on the stairs and suspected Xu Feng had turned them into puppets.
• Qin Ze reached the top floor and found Xu Feng facing Chen Zhong and a level five adjudicator, who ordered Xu Feng under arrest.

Xu Feng fought the Judicator after refusing to surrender and insisting that Chen Zhong must die. Just as the Judicator sentenced him to death, Xu Feng underwent Beast Transformation.

• The Judicator’s law tablet failed to restrain Xu Feng, who challenged the Judicator and attacked Chen Zhong over the injustice done to his family.
• The Judicator blocked Xu Feng’s attack, and the two battled while Qin Ze watched Chen Zhong from the shadows.
• Xu Feng swallowed a pill that raised him to level five, then gained the upper hand against the Judicator with his combat skill and weapons.
• The Judicator transformed his golden hoop into armor, pierced Xu Feng’s defenses, and sentenced him to immediate death after Xu Feng refused to surrender.
• Xu Feng erupted with a violent aura, grew black scales and claws, and underwent Beast Transformation.

Xu Feng used the power of an unpurified Soul Orb to defeat the Judge and confront Chen Zhong over the company’s role in destroying his family. Chen Zhong claimed the company was simply following the world’s rules, and the chapter ended with Xu Feng attacking him as Chen Zhong revealed his peak level-five cultivation.

• Xu Feng’s wolf-like transformation let him overpower the Judge, break his golden armor, and leave him unconscious.
• Qin Ze and his clones speculated that Xu Feng had obtained his Martial Artifacts by robbing the military’s armory before leaving the Abyss.
• Xu Feng turned on Chen Zhong, but Chen Zhong offered to pay for Xu Feng’s father in exchange for Xu Feng becoming a research subject.
• Chen Zhong called ordinary people nourishment for the company and blamed Xu Feng for trying to break the world’s rules.
• Xu Feng rejected Chen Zhong’s argument and attacked him, prompting Chen Zhong to unleash his peak level-five aura.

Xu Feng attempted to kill Chen Zhong, but Qin Ze intervened, killed Chen Zhong, and looted his gear. Xu Feng fled wounded, then confronted Number Three and died after launching a final attack.

• Chen Zhong revealed his peak level-five strength and badly wounded Xu Feng with his Martial Artifact gauntlets.
• Xu Feng poisoned Chen Zhong with blood needles and tried to escape after an executor restrained him, but Qin Ze stopped Chen Zhong's explosive attack and killed him.
• Qin Ze looted Chen Zhong's gauntlets, belt, and ring, then returned to the Shelter Space as Teacher Yao and Zither Woman discussed the assessment.
• Number Three recognized the wounded Xu Feng and ordered him to surrender, but Xu Feng lamented his failure to avenge Xiaoyue and charged.
• Number Three closed his eyes and shot Xu Feng.

After Number Three killed Xu Feng, the Executor closed the case and prepared to present Number Three as a hero, while the Hell Vanguard commander took Xu Feng’s body away. Qin Ze later spoke with Tony, who explained the tragic story of the woman Qin Ze had failed to save.

• Number Three examined Xu Feng’s body, but the Executor dismissed his concerns and told him to prepare to speak at a press conference and take the Judge assessment.
• The Hell Vanguard commander arrived, took Xu Feng’s body, and left after insulting the Executor; Number Three walked away bewildered by their apparent hostility.
• Aries watched the scene, judged the assessment a failure, and teleported away after Fishes called him back for Virgo’s next operation.
• Qin Ze recognized the commander as Wen Jing’s brother and realized Xu Feng’s case involved several powerful groups.
• Qin Ze met Tony by the river, learned that the woman and her younger sister had been sold to a club and that the woman had tried to redeem herself, then heard that Tony planned to open a hair salon in Shi'an.

Qin Ze shared a late-night meal by the Cangze River with Number Three, who revealed that he had killed Xu Feng and doubted his own sense of justice. They made oaths to uphold justice and use their strength responsibly, while a mysterious ice tree acknowledged Qin Ze; the next morning, Qin Ze received a meeting message from Teacher Yao and spotted Xiao Lingyu on the news.

• Number Three told Qin Ze that he had killed Xu Feng, questioned what had turned a former Abyss hero into a criminal, and said the case had shaken his faith in justice.
• Qin Ze explained that Xu Feng's revenge had endangered innocent people and suggested that the world itself was at fault, while affirming that Number Three had not been wrong to stop him.
• Number Three revealed his name was Xiao Lingyu and swore to defend justice, law, order, and human rights; Qin Ze swore not to bully the weak or feel superior because he was a martial artist.
• The ice tree in the Northern Territory flickered as the old man beneath it said that the world still had hope.
• Qin Ze returned to the dorm at daybreak, received Teacher Yao's invitation to meet at eight that night, and saw Xiao Lingyu on the Sea Capital morning news.

After Xu Feng’s attack, Earth Company used Chen Zhong’s death to call for its own armed force, while Qin Ze wondered what role the Law Enforcement Department and war zone had played. As the Hundred Schools Competition approached, Fatty told Qin Ze that their team was among the seeded teams invited to a training camp.

• News footage reported that Xu Feng had killed Chen Zhong and many others before law enforcement officers shot him dead, and Wen Jing hurried away after seeing Xu Feng’s photograph.
• At Chen Zhong’s funeral, an Earth Company representative argued that the company needed its own armed force and said the chamber of commerce had submitted an emergency proposal to the Alliance Council.
• Qin Ze suspected that Xu Feng’s rampage had given Earth Company an excuse to push for armed forces and wondered what role the Law Enforcement Department had played.
• Qin Ze, Fatty, and Huai Xu headed to class as the school promoted the approaching Hundred Schools Competition.
• Fatty told Qin Ze that a training camp was being organized for the National Competition’s seeded teams and said their team was one of them.

At Xu Feng’s grave, Wen Jing declared that he wanted to join the military, while Qin Ze learned more about the company’s growing influence and agreed to attend the seed team training camp. That night, Teacher Yao brought Qin Ze to a hidden space called Stars.

• The flat-topped man visited Xu Feng’s grave, promised to bring down the company, and told Wen Jing that he was not worthy of joining the military.
• Wen Jing said he would prove himself and join the military, then returned to school in a bad mood.
• Qin Ze agreed with Lu Tongtong to attend the seed team training camp and read the group’s discussion of how the company had used Xu Feng’s case to gain influence.
• Qin Ze left a clone in the dormitory and went out of the city to meet Teacher Yao, who brought him to Stars.