Recaps

Chen Ye used his growing skills as a thief to expose the Lin Family, distribute stolen grain and money to the poor, and challenge Li Chunfeng. The arc ended with Chen Ye attacking Duke Anguo’s Residence, where Cheng Ming intervened as Chen Ye moved to strike Li Chunfeng.

• Chen Ye found a spirit pearl, used it to enter the Boat of the Other Shore, and awoke in the body of a thief in the capital.
• Chen Ye joined the Rong Character Gate, advanced through the Petty Thief and Cat Burglar classes, and embarrassed Yang Ze with his deft hands and knife skills.
• Chen Ye exposed Lin Yan’s secret meeting with Zhou Xian through an anonymous letter, leading Lu Ying to cancel the marriage and the scandal to ruin Lin Yan’s reputation.
• Chen Ye became a Nightwalker and raided the Lin Family’s rice shop, forcing its workers to distribute grain to starving people.
• Chen Ye robbed the Everlasting Prosperity Bank and gave the money to poor households, then chose to pursue justice against Li Chunfeng as Treading the Moon.
• Chen Ye robbed Duke Anguo’s businesses and distributed the proceeds, while Cheng Ming and Cheng Zhiwei investigated the thief and identified his portrait.
• Chen Ye set fires around Duke Anguo’s Residence to draw away its defenders, then entered disguised as a soot-covered servant.
• Chen Ye attacked Li Chunfeng near the stream, but Cheng Ming intercepted him and was slashed as Cheng Zhiwei aimed her repeating crossbow at Chen Ye.

Chen Ye avenged the captured women, seized the emperor’s identity, and used the Imperial Guard to defeat the clans and the steppe army. After returning to Blackwater Lake, he found a rare spirit pearl and entered a martial-arts world, where he escaped the fall of Green Bamboo Mountain and sought a way to cultivate internal force.

• Cheng Zhiwei pursued the Moon-Treading Great Thief after Cheng Ming and Li Chunfeng died, but the thief ambushed and killed her.
• Yang Zhao sealed the capital and ordered a hunt for Treading the Moon, while Chen Ye evaded questioning and learned that the steppe army was advancing.
• Chen Ye exposed the Lin Family’s secret contact with the steppe forces, and Yang Zhao ordered the clan executed.
• Chen Ye changed class to Thousand-Faced Thief Saint, then infiltrated the palace to save Wu Xiaorui and killed Yang Zhao and Xuanjizi before impersonating the emperor.
• Chen Ye won the Imperial Guard’s loyalty, defeated the Wang and Cui families, and used their wealth to prepare the capital’s defenses.
• Chen Ye burned the steppe army’s provisions, killed Yelü Boyang, and helped the defenders drive the invaders away before choosing to remain and stabilize Great Zhao.
• Chen Ye returned to Blackwater Lake, killed Zhao Qiu, Zhang Kui, and Liu Ba, then found an eighth-grade spirit pearl and transmigrated to a martial-arts world.
• Chen Ye escaped when Mu Jianqing destroyed Green Bamboo Mountain and traveled to Pingyang Town, where he learned that army laborers could study a body-tempering method that produced internal force.