Recaps

Wang Hao used spilled tung oil to force the three halls’ killers to abandon their prepared training ground and move their formation into the woods. After surviving a coordinated ambush, he pursued the wielder of a rare Thousand-Forged divine sword into the trees, leaving the hall masters uneasy about how much strength he had concealed.

• Zhao Fengxue and the three hall masters brought more than 2,300 yellow-rank killers together for the wager, while Ye Qingqian argued that joining forces did not break its rules.
• Wang Hao poured tung oil across the training ground and ignited it, forcing the killers to flee toward the woods and Ye Qingqian to move the battlefield.
• After Zhao Fengxue warned him to watch above, Wang Hao entered the woods and began cutting down trees to expose the hidden killers.
• The killers launched a coordinated attack from the treetops and shrubs, but Wang Hao discarded his Red Gold armguards and swept them back with his greatsword.
• A killer wielding a superior Thousand-Forged divine sword blocked Wang Hao’s strike and retreated into the woods, so Wang Hao pursued him using the Lightning Straight-Line Step.
• Ye Qingqian and the other hall masters realized they had underestimated Wang Hao’s speed, while Zhao Fengxue and his son watched with confidence.

Wang Hao fought off the Blood Robe Tower assassins in the forest, using a faster and more powerful version of the Ten Stances of Bloody Battle while his injuries proved mostly superficial. Outside the forest, Zhao Fengxue and Lu Weilou agreed to conceal that Wang Hao had swallowed the Great Rejuvenation Pill, and Zhao revealed his belief that Wang Hao had comprehended profound Sword Intent.

• Wang Hao accelerated the Ten Stances of Bloody Battle and killed dozens of assassins, while the remaining attackers adjusted their formation and continued fighting.
• Wang Hao sustained bloody-looking wounds but used his Bloodline Power to heal internal injuries and endured the assassins' attack as his swordsmanship improved.
• Lu Weilou questioned Zhao Fengxue about Wang Hao's version of the Ten Stances of Bloody Battle, and Zhao said Wang Hao had learned it from an old man at Qingfeng Martial Arts Hall.
• Lu Weilou asked whether Zhao planned to conceal that Wang Hao had swallowed the Great Rejuvenation Pill, and they agreed to protect the promising junior from their superiors.
• Zhao Fengxue told Lu Weilou that he had sensed a powerful strand of Sword Intent in Wang Hao, leaving Lu Weilou astonished.

Wang Hao won the bloody gauntlet, broke through to the First-Rate realm, and helped Zhao Fengxue seize a poisoned divine sword from Ye Qingqian. After Lu Weilou tried to recruit him, Wang Hao stayed with Zhao Fengxue and left to eat and recover.

• Wang Hao delivered a poisoned divine sword to Zhao Fengxue, who accused Ye Qingqian of plotting an assassination and kept the sword as evidence.
• Wang Hao said he had defeated every assassin in the gauntlet, and Zhao Fengxue discovered that he had advanced to the First-Rate realm and perfected the External Training Golden Bell Shield.
• Ye Qingqian and the other hall masters agreed to compensate Hall Master Guo before leaving, and Hall Master Guo went with Zhao Fengxue to settle the debt.
• Lu Weilou offered Wang Hao doubled treatment and a chance to inherit the Blood Sword Hall, but Wang Hao said he would switch halls only for more than five hundred thousand taels a day.
• Lu Weilou left in anger, and Wang Hao picked up Little Erha and headed to report to Zhao Fengxue before finding food and rest.

Zhao Fengxue named Wang Hao as the heir to Blood Wind Hall and explained the secret cultivation path Elder Chu hoped he would follow: the pre-Qin way of the sages. Wang Hao left with new responsibilities and a warning about the powerful Confucian School, while Zhao Fengxue feared the consequences if Wang Hao tried to challenge its dominance.

• Zhao Fengxue praised Wang Hao for refusing Lu Weilou's offer and asked him to take over Blood Wind Hall once he reached Peak Super-First-Rate.
• Zhao Fengxue agreed to help exterminate the Dongfang Lineage and gave Wang Hao a booklet of imperial court secrets and three spirit medicines.
• Wang Hao asked why Elder Chu had told him to focus on the External Training Golden Bell Shield, and Zhao Fengxue warned him to keep the matter secret.
• Zhao Fengxue explained that Elder Chu wanted Wang Hao to follow the pre-Qin cultivation path and might expect him to found a school of thought to reach the Xiantian Grandmaster realm.
• Wang Hao left with the spirit medicines, while Zhao Fengxue worried that the Confucian School could destroy Blood Wind Hall if Wang Hao failed.

Wang Hao resolved to prepare Dongfang Bai for pre-Qin Qi refinement and sought a method to convert internal power into bodily strength. Elder Chu gave him the incomplete Body Tempering True Scripture, leaving Wang Hao determined to perfect it and use it to help Dongfang Bai awaken her bloodline powers.

• After reflecting on the Confucian School’s influence, Wang Hao accepted that he would eventually clash with it while pursuing his goal of becoming this world’s Dao Ancestor.
• Wang Hao planned to help Dongfang Bai awaken her Bloodline Power by giving her a suitable external cultivation method, but realized she first needed to reach Peak First-Rate.
• Wang Hao brought Elder Chu a jar of Drunken Immortal Brew and asked for a method that could return internal power to the flesh while tempering the body.
• Elder Chu warned Wang Hao that following this path could make the Confucian School and the whole world his enemies, but Wang Hao reaffirmed his resolve.
• Elder Chu gave Wang Hao the incomplete Body Tempering True Scripture, which converted internal power into strength for flesh, sinew, and bone.
• Wang Hao memorized the scripture, promised to perfect it, and left grateful to Elder Chu and Zhao Dachui for his opportunities.

Wang Hao arrived at the Listening to Rain Pavilion as Zhu Yanzu, stopped Wu Cheng from forcing his way into Dongfang Bai’s chamber, and gave her a rare Tianshan snow lotus. The chapter left Wang Hao reclining on Dongfang Bai’s bed as she played the zither, while she silently remembered his mention of the Body Tempering True Scripture.

• Wang Hao reached the ninth floor and broke Wu Cheng’s kneecaps, knocked out his teeth, and threatened him after Wu Cheng tried to enter Dongfang Bai’s chamber.
• Uncle Zhou recognized that a powerful Grandmaster was protecting Wang Hao, and Wu Cheng decided to hide the incident from his father.
• Wang Hao entered Dongfang Bai’s chamber as Zhu Yanzu, dismissed her thanks, and gave her a superb Tianshan snow lotus to ease her discomfort.
• Dongfang Bai ate a petal of the snow lotus and overheard Wang Hao mention the Body Tempering True Scripture, which she committed to memory.
• Wang Hao brushed off questions about his injuries, lay down on Dongfang Bai’s bed, and asked her to play the zither.

Dongfang Bai questioned Wang Hao under hypnosis about the Dongfang Lineage’s destruction and the Body Tempering True Scripture, then treated his wounds after he woke. Their conversation turned to vengeance and dreams, ending with Wang Hao revealing his lofty former ambitions and admitting he had replaced them with a more practical dream.

• Dongfang Bai hypnotized Wang Hao and learned that the Eastern Depot and Brocade Guard had exterminated the Dongfang Lineage on the Ninth Imperial Uncle’s orders, while an unknown Xiantian Grandmaster had killed Dongfang Ni.
• Wang Hao explained the Body Tempering True Scripture and its secret method for awakening Bloodline Power, then confirmed that the Tianshan snow lotus had caused his injuries.
• Dongfang Bai began applying medicine to Wang Hao, but he woke and flirted with her while concealing why he had been injured.
• Wang Hao asked Dongfang Bai whether a woman should forgive a man who had killed her family, and she insisted the woman should kill him after extracting a confession.
• After Dongfang Bai refused to discuss her past, Wang Hao asked about her dreams and described his earlier ambitions for Huaxia and for breaking through the limits of martial arts.
• Zhao Dachui and Zhao Fengxue overheard Wang Hao’s declaration from a nearby restaurant, while Dongfang Bai listened in astonishment as Wang Hao said he had abandoned those ambitions for a more practical dream.

Wang Hao coaxed Dongfang Bai into revealing her ambitions, triggering three side quests, including an impossible-sounding mission to reverse time. After she rejected his proposal, he publicly called her a withered flower to escape and ruin her usefulness as a source of information; Dongfang Bai decided to leave the capital the next day.

• Wang Hao pressed Dongfang Bai to reveal her dreams, and she admitted she wanted to master every divine art, become the strongest and martial arts alliance leader, and return to the past to kill someone she regretted.
• The system gave Wang Hao three side quests tied to Dongfang Bai’s ambitions, including reversing spacetime to kill his predecessor and prevent the Dongfang Lineage’s destruction.
• Wang Hao proposed marriage to Dongfang Bai, but she declined, saying she was already a withered flower.
• Wang Hao abruptly left Dongfang Bai’s chamber and publicly insulted her and the Listening to Rain Pavilion, then reclaimed the twenty thousand taels he had paid.
• Dongfang Bai angrily explained to her subordinate that she had used the excuse to refuse Wang Hao and would leave the capital the next day.

Wang Hao escaped the Listening to Rain Pavilion after driving Dongfang Bai away, then learned that her wish to reverse time had triggered a dangerous side quest. He concluded that his future self had left the Sword Intent between his eyebrows and began planning how to reverse time, despite the risks.

• Wang Hao changed clothes after leaving the Listening to Rain Pavilion, and Zhao Dachui and Zhao Fengxue confronted him, mistakenly believing he was heartbroken over Dongfang Bai.
• Wang Hao returned to his courtyard and asked Xiao Mengmeng how to deal with the side quest tied to Dongfang Bai’s wish to reverse space and time and prevent the Dongfang Lineage’s destruction.
• Xiao Mengmeng explained that the side quest could be removed only if Dongfang Bai completely rejected her wish.
• Wang Hao inferred that his future self had reversed time and left the Sword Intent between his eyebrows, but had not killed the original owner of his body.
• Xiao Mengmeng described how to reverse space and time during a World Advancement and warned that Wang Hao could be lost in the world’s temporal river.
• Wang Hao declared that he could reverse time because his future self had already done so.

Fu Lin, Ye Qingqian, and two other hall masters strengthened Han Long for his coming death match with Wang Hao, while Wang Hao used Fortune Points to advance his martial arts understanding. Dongfang Bai received Wang Hao’s gifts and letter and left the capital, grateful for his help as Wang Hao prepared to grow stronger before the battle in ten days.

• Fu Lin, Ye Qingqian, and two other hall masters offered Han Long a breakthrough, weapons, treasured garments, and pills, and Han Long agreed to use every means to kill Wang Hao.
• Xiao Mengmeng rewarded Wang Hao with two hundred Fortune Points after Dongfang Bai refined the Tianshan snow lotus he had given her.
• Wang Hao used the Dao Comprehension Function to advance his understanding of Golden Bell Shield, Lightning Straight-Line Step, and Thousand Faces Divine Technique, then resolved to strengthen himself before his death match with Han Long.
• Wang Hao sent Dongfang Bai a package containing a thousand-year blood ginseng, a purple lingzhi, and a letter that said “Take care.”
• Dongfang Bai recognized Wang Hao as the sender, accepted his gifts, tucked his letter close to her body, and left the capital.

Wang Hao prepared for his duel with Han Long, then faced him before the Blood Robe Tower’s leaders and Hou Shangxing. The fight began with Han Long revealing his Mid-Stage Super-First-Rate cultivation and the borrowed Revolving Wheel Sword, leaving Wang Hao in immediate danger.

• Wang Hao trained the External Training Golden Bell Shield and Lightning Straight-Line Step while waiting to fight Han Long.
• Zhao Dachui told Wang Hao that the hall masters and tower master were waiting, and that Hou Shangxing had arrived to watch.
• Wang Hao mocked Hou Shangxing by mistaking him for Han Long’s father, provoking his anger before Han Long entered the training ground.
• Wang Hao sensed that Han Long had reached the Mid-Stage Super-First-Rate level, and Han Long credited Wang Hao with helping him gain a breakthrough opportunity.
• Han Long thrust at Wang Hao with the Revolving Wheel Sword, and the weapon’s tip sank into Wang Hao’s greatsword.
• Zhao Fengxue and Lu Weilou confronted Ye Qingqian and Hou Shangxing over the borrowed sword as Han Long’s attack put Wang Hao at risk.

Wang Hao fought Han Long, adapted to his Torrential Rain Swordsmanship, and exposed a flaw that let him knock Han Long back. Han Long then revealed the Primordial Four Aspects Art, prompting Zhao Fengxue to accuse Fu Lin, Ye Qingqian, and the others of secretly training him, while Wang Hao remained confident he would win.

• Wang Hao and Han Long traded rapid sword blows as Wang Hao used the fight to improve his Ten Stances of Bloody Battle and study Han Long's Torrential Rain Swordsmanship.
• Wang Hao spotted a flaw in Han Long's technique and struck through it, forcing Han Long to retreat and acknowledge that Wang Hao had seen through his swordsmanship.
• Wang Hao urged Han Long to use his full strength, and Han Long unleashed the Primordial Four Aspects Art.
• Zhao Fengxue recognized traces of Fu Lin, Ye Qingqian, and the other two men's power in Han Long and accused them of secretly training him, but they blocked Zhao Fengxue from intervening.
• Zhao Fengxue warned Wang Hao that Han Long's Grandmaster-level method made him dangerous, but Wang Hao refused to concede and declared that he would win.

Wang Hao used the Dao Comprehension Function to withstand Han Long’s full-strength assault and broke through the Ten Stances of Bloody Battle to Transcendent Mastery. He defeated Han Long, who was killed by Zhao Fengxue, while the onlookers began to recognize Wang Hao’s exceptional combat talent and Sword Intent.

• Wang Hao activated the Dao Comprehension Function and fought Han Long’s Four Seasons Sword Instruction on equal terms, astonishing the observers.
• Hou Shangxing and the others considered killing Wang Hao, but Elder Chu warned them to leave the younger generation to settle their own affairs.
• Wang Hao used the battle to cultivate the Ten Stances of Bloody Battle and reached Transcendent Mastery, sensing the Ziwei Soft Sword’s Acquired Spirituality.
• Han Long unleashed his killing move, but Wang Hao used Two Armies Facing Off to knock away his sword and smash his right arm.
• Han Long fled toward Hou Shangxing for help, but Zhao Fengxue killed him with a thrown longsword, and Hou Shangxing did not intervene.

After Wang Hao revealed Sword Intent and killed Han Long, Zhao Fengxue and Lu Weilou sent him away from the capital on a mission to avoid the danger surrounding him. Before leaving, Wang Hao visited Elder Chu, who explained how martial arts reached Transcendent Mastery and warned that Wang Hao still needed a brutal battle to make the Ten Stances of Bloody Battle truly his own.

• Hou Shangxing left after learning Wang Hao had cultivated Sword Intent, while Zhao Fengxue and Lu Weilou worried that Wang Hao’s talent had drawn dangerous attention.
• Zhao Fengxue sent the Revolving Wheel Sword to Elder Chu for safekeeping, angering Ye Qingqian, and Lu Weilou took Wang Hao to the Blood Wind Hall headquarters.
• Zhao Fengxue gave Wang Hao a mission to hunt Tian Boguang and ordered him to leave that day until he reached Super-First-Rate and gained Grandmaster Realm combat strength.
• Wang Hao brought Elder Chu jars of wine at the Martial Repository Pavilion, where Elder Chu praised his rapid breakthrough to Transcendent Mastery and explained how a martial art’s creator influenced its later practitioners.
• Elder Chu revealed that Dugu Qiubai had created the Ten Stances of Bloody Battle especially for Wang Hao, then warned him that he needed a brutal battle to imprint his own identity on the swordsmanship.

Wang Hao escaped the capital’s pursuers and traveled to Baoding Prefecture to hunt Tian Boguang, whom he intended to kill for repeatedly violating women. He found Tian in a restaurant and began questioning him, while Tian grew wary and prepared to strike.

• Wang Hao disguised himself, left the capital with Little Wangcai, and evaded dozens of Super-First-Rate experts who pursued him.
• Wang Hao sheltered in a cave, where he roasted a black bear and watched four wolves flee after failing to bite through his Golden Bell Shield.
• Wang Hao explained that Little Wangcai had awakened a bloodline ability that greatly strengthened his sense of smell, though the husky remained timid around wolves.
• Wang Hao traveled to Baoding Prefecture to pursue Tian Boguang, whose repeated violations of women had prompted the Blood Robe Tower’s assignment.
• Wang Hao recognized Tian Boguang in a restaurant and invited him to share a meal, then admitted he had come to find him.
• Tian Boguang became wary and reached for his saber as Wang Hao asked why he had changed his order from a jar of Fen liquor to a pot.

Wang Hao confronted Tian Boguang over his plan to abduct the wife of Golden Sword Manor’s master and his record of abusing women, then fought him in the street. Tian Boguang escaped, but Wang Hao sent Little Wangcai to track his scent.

• Tian Boguang told Wang Hao that he planned to take the wife of Golden Sword Manor’s master to Ox Pen Mountain and give her seven chances to escape.
• Wang Hao mocked Tian Boguang’s plan to savor the woman’s fragrance after a day of running without access to water, then questioned him about a northern flower thief who abused and killed his victims.
• Tian Boguang realized Wang Hao had come for him, drew his saber, and attacked; Wang Hao met him with a longsword and fought using the Ten Stances of Bloody Battle.
• After Wang Hao held off his Wild Wind Fast Saber, Tian Boguang broke away and disappeared into the night.
• Wang Hao ordered Little Wangcai to memorize Tian Boguang’s scent and track him.

Wang Hao finally caught and killed Tian Boguang outside Hangzhou, then sold the bandit's saber and settled in for a meal with Wangcai. News of Japanese pirates on Peach Blossom Island killing a ship's crew caught his attention and left him poised for a new lead.

• After pursuing Tian Boguang for over a month, Wang Hao rejected his offer of payment and condemned him for violating women.
• Tian Boguang attacked, but Wang Hao used the Lightning Straight-Line Step and Sword Intent to kill him with one strike.
• Wang Hao checked his improved cultivation status, took Tian Boguang's saber, and entered Hangzhou with Wangcai.
• At a pawnshop, Wang Hao received only fifty thousand taels for the saber, then bathed, changed clothes, and feasted with Wangcai at a restaurant.
• Wang Hao considered raising Wangcai as a mount when he overheard someone complain that Japanese pirates on Peach Blossom Island had robbed a cargo ship and killed everyone aboard.

Wang Hao met Lin Zhennan’s family and learned that more than ten thousand wokou had gathered on Peach Blossom Island, possibly planning to raid Hangzhou. He recruited Lin Zhennan to help seize the wokou’s ships and agreed to strike that night.

• Lin Zhennan told Madam Lin that the Fuwei Escort Agency’s ship had been seized and its crew slaughtered by wokou on Peach Blossom Island.
• Wang Hao approached the Lin family in disguise, and Wangcai frightened Lin Pingzhi before Wang Hao explained that he knew the family through Lin Zhennan’s father-in-law.
• Lin Zhennan described the wokou’s growing numbers and recent massacres, and said the wokou Grandmasters were barred from Great Ming’s coastal regions by an old agreement.
• Wang Hao proposed attacking the wokou and asked Lin Zhennan to seize their ships while he dealt with the fighters.
• Lin Zhennan agreed to meet Wang Hao at the docks at dusk, and Wang Hao left with Wangcai after the dog frightened Lin Pingzhi again.

Wang Hao joined Lin Zhennan’s plan to attack the Japanese raiders on Peach Blossom Island, then swam ashore and began slaughtering them. As the raid unfolded, he used the battle to deepen his mastery of the Ten Stances of Bloody Battle.

• Lin Zhennan reassured Madam Lin that he had decided to support Wang Hao’s plan and would lead the Fuwei Escort Agency’s men to cut off the raiders’ escape by sea.
• Wang Hao spent fifty thousand taels on medicinal ingredients, then Lin Zhennan sailed with him and Wangcai toward Peach Blossom Island under cover of night.
• Wang Hao told Lin Zhennan that his people were already on the island, then swam ashore with Wangcai while Lin’s party waited by the harbor.
• Wang Hao spotted the raiders abusing captured women and charged into their camp, killing them with the Shameless Greatsword and setting fire to their shacks.
• Wang Hao continued fighting as stronger raiders arrived, killing nearly a thousand in under fifteen minutes and advancing his mastery of the Ten Stances of Bloody Battle.

Wang Hao fought off waves of Japanese pirates on Peach Blossom Island while using the pressure to strengthen his Ten Stances of Bloody Battle. Lin Zhennan’s men captured or scuttled the pirates’ ships, and after a sudden Sword Intent rang out from the island, Lin Zhennan sent scouts to learn how Wang Hao’s battle was going.

• A red-clad Japanese pirate chief sent more than a hundred First-Rate pirates to surround Wang Hao, who took wounds but continued growing stronger under the pressure.
• A panicked messenger reported that Central Plains forces had taken or destroyed the Japanese pirates’ ships, so the chief led his men to the landing and found the remaining ships anchored ten li offshore.
• Lin Zhennan and his escorts held the ships at sea, leaving the Japanese pirates stranded on Peach Blossom Island, while Lin Zhennan had Uncle Cheng treat his saber wound.
• After a two-hour standoff, a piercing sword cry and powerful Sword Intent sounded from the island, prompting the Japanese pirate chief and his experts to rush back toward the battle.
• Lin Zhennan sent Old Cheng and several escorts in a small boat to check the battle and assess Wang Hao’s forces.

Wang Hao broke through in the Ten Stances of Bloody Battle while fighting the Japanese pirates, then used the pirate leader’s mistaken belief that his allies had abandoned him to shape the battlefield. He and the leader clashed in a stalemate, but the leader realized Wang Hao’s endurance could outlast him.

• Wang Hao unleashed ten consecutive Sweeps Away a Thousand Troops, killing dozens of First-Rate pirates and revealing his breakthrough in the Ten Stances of Bloody Battle.
• The pirate leader told Wang Hao that his comrades had withdrawn their ships and left him to die, and Wang Hao pretended to be angered and seek escape.
• Wang Hao maneuvered the pirate leader into ordering his Super-First-Rate subordinates to hold a perimeter, reducing the pressure on him as he faced the leader.
• Wang Hao and the pirate leader praised each other’s martial skill, then charged into a fierce clash between the Ten Stances of Bloody Battle and the leader’s strange swordsmanship.
• After a quarter of an hour, the pirate leader realized Wang Hao could keep fighting far longer and feared that running out of internal force would leave him doomed.

Wang Hao defeated the Japanese pirate leader despite a coordinated ambush, then slaughtered the pirates after they were trapped by a fire set by their captives. He stopped the blaze from consuming Peach Blossom Island and promised the rescued women a way to live and fight back against the Japanese pirates.

• Wang Hao agreed to decide the fight in one strike, but the Japanese pirate leader and a dozen Super-First-Rate pirates attacked him together; Wang Hao killed the leader and drove off the surviving experts.
• Wang Hao survived the wounds by using the Thousand Faces Divine Technique to protect his organs, then killed thousands of pirates as they attacked him.
• The women set fire to the peach grove and shantytown, trapping the pirates; after four hours, Wang Hao had defeated them all and cleared a firebreak to protect Peach Blossom Island.
• The rescued women finished off the fallen pirates, thanked Wang Hao, and wept when he apologized for arriving too late.
• When the women said they had no homes to return to and wanted to die, Wang Hao urged them to live, offered to form a navy against the Japanese pirates, and promised to create martial arts for them.

Lin Zhennan found that Wang Hao had single-handedly slaughtered the wokou on Peach Blossom Island and agreed to help him obtain supplies while claiming credit for the victory. Wang Hao then searched for the Eastern Heretic's inheritance, but a trap dropped him and Wangcai into a sealed pit.

• Lin Zhennan found Old Cheng and the other escorts terrified, and they told him Wang Hao had killed all the wokou alone.
• Lin Zhennan inspected the battlefield, confirmed the wokou had been killed by one weapon, and met Wang Hao there.
• Wang Hao asked Lin Zhennan to trade the island's plunder for medicinal ingredients and iron, and to claim credit for the deaths.
• Wang Hao followed Xiao Mengmeng's directions to a hidden staircase beneath the Eastern Heretic's wife's grave.
• Wang Hao and Wangcai fell through a trap onto sword blades, and a huge stone sealed the passage above them.

Wang Hao survived the traps beneath Peach Blossom Island and found Huang Yaoshi’s hidden chamber, where he discovered martial arts manuals and a crystal coffin prepared for the Eastern Heretic and his wife. He honored Huang Yaoshi’s burial wish, but Wangcai destroyed most of the Nine Yin True Scripture, leaving Wang Hao furious.

• Wang Hao and Wangcai emerged from the deadly trapped passage into a ventilated chamber beneath Peach Blossom Island.
• Wang Hao found Huang Yaoshi’s collection of martial arts manuals, including the Blue Sea Tide-Rising Song and the Nine Yin True Scripture.
• Wangcai triggered a mechanism that raised a crystal coffin containing Huang Yaoshi’s wife, and Wang Hao inferred that the empty space beside her had been reserved for Huang Yaoshi.
• Wang Hao placed Huang Yaoshi’s wedding robes in the coffin, drove Wangcai out, and sealed the coffin and its mechanism.
• Wang Hao discovered Wangcai chewing the Nine Yin True Scripture, grabbed the dog, and tried to recover the swallowed fragments.

After leaving Huang Yaoshi’s tomb with his recovered manuals, Wang Hao strengthened his resolve to defeat Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao and reunite with his family. He settled at Huang Yaoshi’s former residence, organized the women there for future training, and spent two days committing the tomb’s knowledge to memory.

• Wang Hao sealed Huang Yaoshi’s tomb, vowed not to share the Eastern Heretic’s fate, and learned that Xiao Mengmeng had protected his family on Earth and given his brother a winning lottery ticket.
• Wang Hao returned to Huang Yaoshi’s former residence and appointed Yushu to lead the women and record their skills.
• Yushu presented the register, and Wang Hao promised to create a martial arts inheritance suited to women after learning that none of them had practiced martial arts.
• Wang Hao found three women with medical knowledge in the register and told Yushu to arrange their training with medical teachings from the tomb.
• Wang Hao studied the secret manuals and bamboo slips for two days until he had memorized them all.