Recaps

Zheng Xun cleared the Little Red Riding Hood instance, then repeatedly entered the Huaiyin dungeon to uncover its hidden tragedy and rescue Tao Xueqing. He refused to join Songbird outright and announced plans to establish the Xunhui Guild while lending his help to Singing Sparrow.

• Zheng Xun drew a 3S difficulty for his first instance, defeated the monsters and the wolf and grandmother, then fell on the path through darkness and respawned among nine other players.
• Zheng Xun led the survivors through Happiness Residential Complex, killed the spiders, and entered the grandmother’s home, where he exposed the fake grandmother, defeated the real one, and cleared the instance.
• Zheng Xun accepted Xiao Jun’s offer to help with the Huaiyin dungeon, simulated it repeatedly, and learned about the deaths of Teacher Xu, Security Guard Feng, and student Liang Queyin.
• Zheng Xun reentered Huaiyin with Songbird, deliberately failed the first run so he could return alone, and repeatedly tried to trigger its hidden side quest.
• Zheng Xun and his teammates pieced together that Xiaoyin was Li Yueying and that Liang Queyin had distorted the story of her death, while Li Yuechu had sought revenge.
• Zheng Xun persuaded Xiaoyin to open the hidden route, fought the corridor boss alongside Tao Xueji, and helped rescue Tao Xueqing before Xiaoyin became his subordinate.
• Zheng Xun declined Songbird’s membership offer and asked it to guarantee his application to start a guild, accepting its conditions after Songbird agreed.
• At Songbird’s press conference, Zheng Xun announced the Xunhui Guild and agreed to lend himself to Singing Sparrow for three A-plus dungeons over one year.

Zheng Xun tried to secure Huo Ziyan’s future while provoking Azure Mist and joining its team inside a dangerous instance. After exposing Meng Yijia’s role in the danger, Zheng Xun entered an arena, defeated Jiang Feiguang and Shen Guanyu, and returned to face a smear campaign on his own.

• Zheng Xun befriended Huo Ziyan in the mining instance and tried to rent him from Azure Mist, but Xu Guan refused.
• Zheng Xun raided Azure Mist’s marked White Tower on livestream, cleared the S-rank Alice instance, and threatened to break open Xu Guan’s dungeon if he would not rent Huo Ziyan.
• Zheng Xun entered Azure Mist’s District 547 instance as a General Association reporter, rescued Meng Yijia from a deadly underground mechanism, and revealed that he had recorded their conversation.
• After the instance, Zheng Xun showed Xu Guan footage of the mechanism and invited Huo Ziyan and Xu Guan to mine with him, while refusing Xu Guan’s offer to join Azure Mist.
• At the Blue Tower, Zheng Xun watched Shen Guanyu win an Infinite Round and memorized his inherited fist technique.
• Disguised in the arena, Zheng Xun defeated Jiang Feiguang, beat successive groups of challengers, and then used Shen Guanyu’s technique to defeat Shen.
• Jiang Feiguang exposed Zheng Xun’s face, and Zheng Xun escaped the pursuing fans with Cheng Jie before returning to Singing Sparrow.
• Xiao Jun showed Zheng Xun smear posts circulated by Jiang Feiguang’s team, but Zheng Xun declined the guild’s offer to intervene and said he would handle it himself.