Recaps

Shen Heng developed Flow, taught the Spirit-Gathering Array, and attended a headquarters meeting where he encountered the Capital’s powerful ability users. He later joined Wang Hai to investigate unexplained deaths at the Haiguang Sub-Bureau, where a suspected Calamity Beast continued to strike and fear drove staff away.

• Shen Heng rescued Kong Haochen and the others from a Stone Fire Ant, then helped Wang Hai and Wu Cheng deal with a Calamity Beast in the basement.
• Shen Heng brought Shen Shuning to the Capital, met other city representatives, and watched a dispute at headquarters erupt into a fight that Li Daoyi stopped with his ability.
• Li Daoyi demonstrated the Realm-Suppressing Stake and Spirit-Gathering Array, and Shen Heng quickly learned to keep the array running.
• Shen Heng named his Origin Power circulation technique Flow, submitted it for assessment, and received Li Daoyi’s Mysterious Gate Visualization Method.
• Shen Heng and Wang Hai investigated two apparent suicides at the Haiguang Sub-Bureau, but Shen Heng found no Calamity Beast before another officer died in a restroom.
• Shen Heng’s team concluded that a Calamity Beast might be influencing people from a distance, moved its workplace to the sub-bureau, and divided into day and night shifts.
• As the sub-bureau’s staff dwindled, Shen Heng asked the municipal bureau for reinforcements and warned Xu Kai to report anything unusual and stay safe.

Shen Heng stopped a Calamity Beast from killing Wei Leyang, evolved his sound ability, and was selected for the Capital’s first training camp. At 07 Military Base, he met his roommate Zhou Xuan and joined the recruits’ first assembly, where Chang Lei reprimanded those who arrived late.

• Lin Xiaoyu attacked Shen Heng at the police station, and he identified the Calamity Beast’s presence before using the Realm-Suppressing Stake to stop its escape.
• Shen Heng tracked the Calamity Beast through the station and discovered it had infected Wei Leyang, while the team struggled to find a way to save him.
• Shen Heng evolved Hearing Enhancement into Sound Wave Manipulation and used a sonic attack to kill the Calamity Beast inside Wei Leyang.
• Shen Heng tested his new ability, sparred with Wei Leyang, and learned that Li Daoyi had added him to the first training camp.
• Shen Heng left Linhai City for 07 Military Base, where he met Cao Mingyu and Fang Ran and learned that Zhou Xuan had also been specifically selected.
• Shen Heng met his roommate Zhou Xuan, who explained his God Invocation ability and the risks of losing divine slots after failed invocations.
• Shen Heng and Zhou Xuan reached the training grounds two minutes after the emergency siren, and Chang Lei reprimanded the recruits who arrived late.

Shen Heng endured the camp’s punishing exercises and used his sound ability to secure a place in the advanced Origin Power rooms. As the camp’s theory program ended, Li Daoyi arrived to teach the trainees combat skills while Yan Yu investigated a surge of Origin Power near the Western Polar Ocean.

• Chang Lei put the late trainees through a gravity-heavy punishment run, where Shen Heng endured alongside Cao Mingyu and several others before running out of Origin Power.
• The trainees began ability and combat training, and Shen Heng struggled in Cao Zhenghao’s fight and Zhang Chenguang’s Calamity Beast simulation.
• Shen Heng used the acoustics of a subway tunnel to lure and stun Calamity Beasts, finishing third in the simulation and earning advanced Origin Power room access.
• Shen Heng developed a routine of cultivating in the advanced room and tempering his body outside it, while the trainees competed in combat simulations across varied environments.
• Yan Yu ended theory classes and left 07 Military Base, while Shen Heng met Li Daoyi outside the base and learned how Tiger-Leopard Thunder Sound could temper his body.
• Yan Yu announced that Tianshu’s computing capacity had increased and directed Hong Ming to contact Rice Country’s Defense Bureau about investigating an Origin Power surge west of the Western Polar Ocean.
• Li Daoyi introduced himself to the trainees and said he would teach each of them a combat skill suited to their fighting style.

Shen Heng developed Vibrating Blade and led his team through the final simulation as the Calamity Beasts grew more dangerous. He and Xiao Xiangtong killed a Dragon Armor Beast, then gathered allies while the lightning ring closed in.

• Shen Heng developed Vibrating Blade by layering sound waves over his saber, learned Falling Wild Goose Steps, and entered the final four-day simulation with Zhou Xuan, Fang Ran, and Lü Wenrui.
• Shen Heng’s team hunted Calamity Beasts, rescued Xiong Yingluo and Yu Ruofei from pursuit, and later killed a Rock Marrow Centipede with a triple-layer Vibrating Blade strike.
• Yang Xu stole a kill from Shen Heng’s team and later lured Calamity Beasts toward them, so Shen Heng led him into danger and watched a Dragon Armor Beast kill him.
• Shen Heng teamed up with Xiao Xiangtong to hunt the Dragon Armor Beast, and they lured it into a subway tunnel where Shen Heng weakened it with sound waves.
• Shen Heng collapsed the tunnel on the Dragon Armor Beast, then helped Xiao Xiangtong kill it by striking her sword to strengthen her attack.
• Shen Heng and Xiao Xiangtong replenished their Origin Power as the lightning ring advanced, then invited Xiong Yingluo, Yu Ruofei, and Lu Jun to join them against the approaching beasts.
• Xue Han led Zhou Yang, Wang Rui, and Lin Qi toward the center to fight a Dragon Armor Beast, which killed three of them before killing the wounded Xue Han.