Recaps

The Myriad Treasures Pavilion elder told Demon Blade that Dongfang Yueming might be the Jinling murderer and urged the Night Watchers to eliminate him. After Baihu dismissed the clue and Demon Blade refused the Pavilion’s offer, the elder plotted to spread it through the black market and revealed his own formidable strength.

• The Tang-suited elder decided Dongfang Yueming threatened the Pavilion’s profitable dealings and reported his purchases and Gray Wolf’s suspected death to Demon Blade.
• Baihu inferred that Dongfang Yueming was trying to improve his cultivation method, but she told Demon Blade to hold his position rather than pursue him.
• Demon Blade rejected the elder’s offer to help search the eastern ruins, and the elder concluded Baihu had suppressed the matter.
• The elder ordered his manager to leak word of Dongfang Yueming’s eastern ruins sightings through the black market and hint that Baihu had blocked action.
• The elder revealed that he was a sixth-level Meridian Opening Realm cultivator with a near-Major Accomplishment Earth Grade Great Wilderness Earth-Splitting Palm.

Hong Gui searched for Dongfang Yueming while Xiahou Ying encountered a predatory campus loan scheme at Demon Capital Martial University. After Hong Gui secretly freed Xiahou Ying from mental enchantment, a message about Gray Wolf's death drew her toward the eastern ruins.

• Hong Gui searched Dongfang Yueming's empty dorm room and deduced he might be at the underground black market or a major auction house.
• Xiahou Ying explored the library's open cultivation resources and reflected on how inaccessible such resources had been in Jinling.
• Senior Li used mental enchantment to persuade Xiahou Ying to sign a campus loan contract, but an unseen mental attack broke his hold over her.
• Hong Gui watched Senior Li leave and received a message linking Gray Wolf's death at the eastern ruins to the person she was searching for.
• Hong Gui hurried to the eastern ruins, while Xiahou Ying realized the campus loan had been a dangerous trap.

Hong Gui tracked Dongfang Yueming to an abandoned air-raid shelter, where he concealed himself with Heaven and Earth Assimilation. After Hong Gui used a seductive ploy to draw him out, she introduced herself and said she wanted to make his acquaintance, leaving him to question whether she intended to capture him for killing a Night Watchers investigator.

• Hong Gui examined Gray Wolf’s corpse, traced the killer’s trail to an abandoned shelter, and suspected he had reached the Meridian Opening Realm.
• Dongfang Yueming sensed Hong Gui approaching and hid himself inside the stone wall using Heaven and Earth Assimilation.
• Hong Gui pretended she had not found anyone and began undressing, prompting Dongfang Yueming to emerge and tell her to stop.
• Dongfang Yueming tried to leave, but Hong Gui dropped her act, introduced herself, and said she wanted to make his acquaintance.
• Dongfang Yueming asked whether Hong Gui planned to capture him and claim the reward for killing a senior investigator of the Great Xia Night Watchers.

Hong Gui revealed that she was a senior cadre of the Great Xia Resisters and explained how the organization survived through idealism, excitement, and powerful families hedging their bets. Dongfang Yueming remained unwilling to join, insisting he would fight the monsters alone.

• Hong Gui introduced herself as a senior cadre of the Great Xia Resisters, surprising Dongfang Yueming with the existence of an organization opposing the authorities and Night Watchers.
• Dongfang Yueming questioned how the Resisters obtained the resources to survive, and Hong Gui said their motives and membership were diverse.
• Hong Gui explained that some wealthy members sought excitement, while others funded the Resisters to protect their families if the system collapsed.
• Dongfang Yueming said he would continue fighting the monsters without the Resisters, and Hong Gui was stunned by his confidence that he could stand alone.

Hong Gui challenged Dongfang Yueming to a fight, offering secret intelligence and whatever else he wanted if he won. After he defeated her, an awkward mishap left them both flustered, and Hong Gui teased him as he pressed her to deliver the promised reward.

• Hong Gui offered Dongfang Yueming secret intelligence and a personal favor if he could beat her, then launched a Meridian Opening Realm ambush.
• Dongfang Yueming dodged Hong Gui's barrage of attacks with his movement techniques until he chose to fight back.
• Dongfang Yueming revealed his top-tier Purple Qi Comes from the East and clashed with Hong Gui's Purple Gauze Heavenly Net: Thousandfold Flower Baleful Qi.
• Dongfang Yueming used Supreme Formless Concealment to appear behind Hong Gui and pin her against a wall, but her damaged clothes tore during the struggle.
• Hong Gui freed herself and covered up, while Dongfang Yueming reminded her of the promised reward.
• Hong Gui approached Dongfang Yueming with a teasing smile and asked if he was eager to claim his reward.

Dongfang Yueming forced Hong Gui to give him a Meridian Opening method after discovering his Top-Tier Qi Gathering Perfection and powerful Qi Technique. Hong Gui handed over a Profound-Grade method and offered to find an Earth-Grade one in a few days.

• Hong Gui recognized Dongfang Yueming's Top-Tier Qi Gathering Perfection and suspected he possessed a Heaven-Grade Qi Technique.
• Dongfang Yueming rejected Hong Gui's advances and demanded a Meridian Opening method.
• When Hong Gui continued teasing him, Dongfang Yueming restrained and struck her until she surrendered.
• Hong Gui gave Dongfang Yueming a jade slip containing the Profound-Grade Azure Wood Nether-Penetrating Art.
• Hong Gui offered to find an Earth-Grade Meridian Opening method for Dongfang Yueming in a few days.

Dongfang Yueming received the Profound Grade Azure Wood Nether-Penetrating Art from Hong Gui and learned about the Demon Capital’s powerful factions and the Myriad Treasures Pavilion’s defenses. He cultivated to Meridian Opening Realm Perfection and set out to take revenge on the auction house and search its treasury for more meridian-opening arts.

• Hong Gui gave Dongfang Yueming the Azure Wood Nether-Penetrating Art and a Cloud Hotel key card, then explained the Demon Capital’s major families, the Night Watchers, and the Myriad Treasures Pavilion’s strength.
• Dongfang Yueming returned to his secluded basement and used the system to learn the art, advancing from the first level of Meridian Opening to Perfection.
• Dongfang Yueming unlocked all his extraordinary meridians and reached Middle-Tier Perfection, greatly increasing his power.
• Dongfang Yueming headed toward the Myriad Treasures Pavilion auction house to settle the score for its attempt to kill him and search its treasury for meridian-opening arts.

Qinglong learned that the Pan Family was trying to manipulate the Night Watchers into targeting the killer of Gray Wolf, and he chose to stay out of the conflict while secretly preparing to take a powerful pill. After the Li Family announced a purge of the Pan Family, Qinglong agreed not to interfere, killed his subordinate, and watched a mysterious entity emerge in his office.

• Qinglong heard that Gray Wolf had been killed and that Baihu had suppressed the investigation, then concluded the Pan Family was trying to sow discord and use him against the killer.
• Qinglong ordered his subordinate to guard the office while he entered seclusion, then opened a hidden box containing a dark purple pill he believed could help him reach the Sea of Consciousness realm.
• A Li Family elder arrived and told Qinglong that the Li Family and the military would purge the Pan Family and the Myriad Treasures Pavilion, asking the Night Watchers to stand aside.
• Qinglong agreed not to interfere, then killed the subordinate who had been standing behind him after the Li Family elder left.
• A grotesque entity made of writhing dark red flesh and eyeballs emerged from a distortion in the office air.

Dongfang Yueming watched the three great families and the Night Watchers destroy the Pan Family during a crackdown on its dealings with Variants. With the Pan Family’s estate under attack and its assets up for grabs, he saw a chance to fish in troubled waters.

• A mysterious entity devoured a Blood Transformation Realm subordinate and told Qinglong that a new master was about to emerge.
• Dongfang Yueming infiltrated a Pan Family warehouse where the family traded civilian martial artists to Variants for blood soul grass.
• As Dongfang Yueming prepared to attack, the three great families and the Night Watchers stormed the warehouse and killed the Pan Family and Variant forces.
• The three great families’ elders attacked the Pan Family patriarch at his estate, and he burned his lifespan in a desperate fight against them.
• Dongfang Yueming watched the purge and decided to take advantage of the chaos to fish in troubled waters.

After the Myriad Treasures Pavilion fell, its Tang-suited elder fled with valuables, but Dongfang Yueming intercepted and killed him. Dongfang Yueming took the elder’s sword, black card, and earth-grade Meridian Opening method, bringing him closer to his goal of synthesizing a heaven-grade method.

• The Tang-suited elder learned that the Pan Family patriarch and the Myriad Treasures Pavilion’s trading point had fallen, then escaped through a hidden passage with valuables.
• Dongfang Yueming spotted the elder fleeing and used Taixu Roaming Dragon Heaven-Surpassing Steps to intercept him in a wilderness forest.
• The elder attacked Dongfang Yueming with Great Wilderness Earth-Splitting Palm, but Dongfang Yueming erased the technique with Sumeru Mustard Seed Formless Slaughter and killed him instantly.
• Dongfang Yueming searched the elder’s storage bag and took a top-tier Federation black card and an S-grade longsword.
• Dongfang Yueming opened a jade box and learned the earth-grade Vast Earth Bears All Things Meridian Opening Art.

Dongfang Yueming fused two Meridian Opening arts into an earth-grade scripture and returned to Demon Capital Martial University, where he uncovered a student union scheme to traffic students through predatory contracts. The chapter ended with two university directors ordering him to sign one of those contracts.

• Dongfang Yueming used the system to perfect the Vast Earth Bears All Things Meridian Opening Art and fuse it with the Azure Wood Nether-Penetrating Art, obtaining the Great Wilderness Creation Meridian Opening True Scripture.
• He reached Upper-Tier Meridian Opening Perfection and sensed a large battle involving several True Power Realm cultivators in downtown Demon Capital, but chose to return to the university.
• A Mutual Aid Association officer tried to make Dongfang Yueming sign a contract that would claim his body and belongings if he failed to meet its cultivation terms or died.
• Dongfang Yueming recognized the contract as part of an operation trafficking students and refused, then challenged the officer about the university's involvement.
• Director Zhao and Director Li arrived, endorsed the Mutual Aid Association, and ordered Dongfang Yueming to sign the contract.

Dongfang Yueming killed two disciplinary directors and a young man who tried to force him into signing a blood-backed contract, then vanished from Demon Capital Martial University. Meanwhile, the three great families had crushed the Pan Family, and the Wu Family arrived at the warehouse where its surviving members were held.

• Dongfang Yueming revealed Meridian Opening Perfection strength after the directors and the young man demanded he sign the contract.
• Dongfang Yueming killed Director Zhao and Director Li with a single attack, then crushed the young man's throat with true qi.
• Dongfang Yueming rejected his auditing-student status, stomped the contract into the blood, and disappeared using The Horizon Within Reach.
• The three great families imprisoned hundreds of Pan Family members after killing the Pan Family patriarch and wiping out its leading fighters.
• Several dozen members of the Wu Family entered the warehouse, their robes tearing as they reached its center.

The three great families fed the Pan Family’s captured experts to the Wu Family’s xenomorphs, unaware that the creatures planned to use the blood and energy to break the seal beyond the Demon Capital and summon their king. Li Canghai learned the purge had succeeded and asked what his daughter Hong Gui had been doing in the underground world.

• The Wu Family revealed their xenomorph forms, and the Li Family elder ordered them to feast on the chained Pan Family members.
• The three great families’ elders discussed using the Wu Family xenomorphs to produce True Power-grade essence blood while Sea of Consciousness Realm patriarchs watched over them.
• The Wu Family patriarch secretly told the xenomorphs they would sacrifice themselves to break the boundary seal and welcome their king.
• The Li Family elder reported to Li Canghai that the Pan Family patriarch was dead, its assets had been divided, and its captured experts were being fed to the Wu Family.
• Li Canghai asked what Hong Gui had been stirring up in the Demon Capital’s underground world.

Li Canghai defended the three great families’ destruction of the Pan Family, while Hong Gui warned that feeding its experts to the Wu Family’s mutants could unleash a catastrophe. She left after telling her father she planned to give the Li Family’s Earth-Grade Meridian Opening Method to an outsider, whom Li Canghai suspected was the mysterious killer from Jinling.

• A Li Family elder reported that Hong Gui had been recruiting for the Resisters and seeking contact with the mysterious killer, but Li Canghai let her act freely.
• Hong Gui learned that the three great families had wiped out the Pan Family and realized its experts had been used as premium feed for the mutants.
• Hong Gui rushed to the Li Family estate and accused Li Canghai of risking the Demon Capital by feeding the Wu Family’s Purple-Winged Demon Bats.
• Li Canghai said the Pan Family had to die for secretly allying with a powerful family in the Capital and trying to become a fourth power in the Demon Capital.
• Hong Gui warned her father that he might be devoured by the mutants he had raised, then announced she would give the Li Family’s Earth-Grade Meridian Opening Method to an outsider.
• Li Canghai suspected Hong Gui planned to give the method to the mysterious killer from Jinling and resolved to cover for her if necessary.

Baihu challenged the Night Watchers’ decision to let the three great families destroy the Pan Family, while a hidden agent announced that the Capital would enter the Demon Capital’s power struggle. At Demon Capital Martial University, Dongfang Yueming planned to visit the black market before an announcement revealed that Capital Martial University and the Long Family had arrived.

• Baihu learned that Qinglong had approved the three great families’ purge of the Pan Family, then warned the Night Watchers’ supreme commander that the resulting feeding of Variants could make them much stronger.
• The commander told Baihu that the three Sea of Consciousness Realm ancestors had pressured the Night Watchers with Variant essence blood, and ordered her to accept the decision.
• A concealed agent reported the Pan Family’s destruction to his Family Head, who ordered the Capital to enter the Demon Capital’s game and reshuffle the board.
• Instructor Wang warned the exchange students to keep a low profile, while Lin Feng bragged to Dongfang Yueming about a Stage-Breaking Pill he had obtained through a campus loan.
• Dongfang Yueming considered using his fortune to acquire materials for his techniques and planned to meet Hong Gui at the Cloud Hotel.
• The university announced that the Capital Martial University delegation and the Long Family’s core inspection team had arrived, setting off an uproar across campus.

Demon Capital’s families and Night Watchers reacted to the Long Family’s arrival for an inspection, while Dongfang Yueming went to visit Hong Gui at the Cloud Hotel. He accidentally caught her changing, leaving Hong Gui furious and embarrassed.

• Students gathered at Demon Capital Martial University to watch the Capital delegation and Long Family inspection team arrive.
• The Chu, Tang, and Li family heads discussed the Long Family’s intervention and decided to attend the university’s welcome ceremony.
• The Sun Grade investigator ordered Demon Capital’s Night Watchers to cooperate with the delegation and sent Baihu and Qinglong to the ceremony.
• Dongfang Yueming headed to the Cloud Hotel, intending to use a new Meridian Opening method to reach the realm’s pinnacle.
• Hong Gui prepared seductive lingerie while waiting for Dongfang Yueming, who silently entered her suite using the room key.
• Dongfang Yueming entered the walk-in closet as Hong Gui was changing, and she angrily accused him of barging in without knocking.

Hong Gui tried to seduce Dongfang Yueming, then gave him the earth-grade Purple Gold Meridian-Opening True Scripture. After revealing that she was a direct-line member of the Demon Capital Li Family, she joined him on his way to the black market.

• Hong Gui dropped her towel and tried to provoke and seduce Dongfang Yueming, but he questioned whether she was testing him for the Resisters.
• Hong Gui retrieved a jade slip from a hidden safe and gave Dongfang Yueming the Purple Gold Meridian-Opening True Scripture.
• Hong Gui revealed that the cultivation method was a core secret art of her family, the Li Family, one of the Demon Capital's three great families.
• Hong Gui said she had given him the scripture because she believed he could make a hole through the Demon Capital's sky, while Dongfang Yueming made no promises.
• Dongfang Yueming left the dressing room and told Hong Gui they were going to the black market to buy a few things.

In the Demon Capital’s Dark Night District, Dongfang Yueming went with Hong Gui to seek ocular and seal-type Qi Techniques. After Hong Gui gave him the earth-grade Eight Desolations Sea-Overturning Seal, he used his system to reach minor mastery on the spot, leaving her stunned and wondering if he would reach major mastery next.

• Hong Gui asked why Dongfang Yueming was shopping in the black market instead of cultivating, and he said he needed ocular and seal-type Qi Techniques.
• Hong Gui explained that mystic-grade was the best ocular technique available in the Demon Capital’s black markets and gave Dongfang Yueming her earth-grade Eight Desolations Sea-Overturning Seal.
• Dongfang Yueming used his system to initiate the seal technique after a single look, astonishing Hong Gui.
• Dongfang Yueming spent more points to reach minor mastery, and Hong Gui struggled to believe he had learned the technique on the spot.
• Hong Gui jokingly asked whether Dongfang Yueming would reach major mastery next.

Dongfang Yueming perfected the Eight Desolations Sea-Overturning Seal and fused it into a Heaven-Grade technique, then forced an underground shopkeeper to hand over seven Yellow-Grade eye techniques. On a secluded bridge, Hong Gui kissed him after he said he already had several wives, and he responded passionately.

• Dongfang Yueming perfected the Eight Desolations Sea-Overturning Seal and fused it with the Purple Extreme Heavenly Might Dragon King Seal to create the perfected Heaven-Grade Nine Tribulations Heaven-Upending Thunder God Seal.
• Dongfang Yueming threatened an underground intelligence shopkeeper until the man surrendered seven Yellow-Grade eye techniques, bringing Dongfang Yueming's collection to eight.
• Hong Gui confronted Dongfang Yueming on a bridge and asked for a substantial reward after helping him and giving him the Li Family's Earth-Grade Meridian Opening Method.
• Dongfang Yueming told Hong Gui that he already had several wives in a distant place, but she mistook his words as grief over their deaths and kissed him.
• Dongfang Yueming embraced Hong Gui, touched her breasts, and returned her kiss passionately.

Dongfang Yueming and Hong Gui’s encounter beneath the Demon Capital’s bridge turned intimate, and Hong Gui learned that he had reached Meridian Opening Perfection. He left her exhausted after warning that he intended to obtain a True Power Realm cultivation technique, while she remained worried about the danger he faced.

• Dongfang Yueming overwhelmed Hong Gui during their passionate encounter, and she finally surrendered after trying to take control.
• Afterward, Hong Gui asked about Dongfang Yueming’s cultivation, and he revealed that he had reached Meridian Opening Perfection.
• Hong Gui warned Dongfang Yueming that True Power Realm techniques were tightly guarded by the three great families and the Night Watchers.
• Dongfang Yueming said he would take a technique from someone’s home, confident in his plans to strengthen his abilities and face powerful opponents.
• Hong Gui provoked Dongfang Yueming again, but he left her exhausted and told her to contact him if she needed anything.
• Dongfang Yueming vanished using Horizon Within Reach, and Hong Gui called him a perverted beast as he departed.

Dongfang Yueming perfected his Meridian Opening and ocular techniques, gaining Innate Leakless circulation and the Nine Nether Illusion-Breaking Heavenly Eye. At Demon Capital Martial University’s grand gathering, Long Batian arrived with Capital prodigies and publicly raised the Long Family’s unsettled account over the Pan Family’s destruction.

• Dongfang Yueming used the system to perfect the Purple Gold Meridian-Opening True Scripture and fuse it with the Great Wilderness Creation Meridian Opening True Scripture into the Heaven Grade Limitless Meridian Opening Scripture, achieving Innate Leakless.
• Dongfang Yueming perfected seven Yellow Grade ocular techniques, fused them with the Illusion-Breaking Void Pupils, and gained the Nine Nether Illusion-Breaking Heavenly Eye and its Heavenly Dao Dharma Eye ability.
• Dongfang Yueming attended Demon Capital Martial University’s grand ceremony alongside the gathered students and watched the city’s leading figures arrive.
• Li Canghai, the Chu Family head, the Tang Family head, Baihu, and Qinglong arrived on the platform as the crowd felt their formidable presence.
• Long Batian arrived aboard a military strategic-class warship, damaged the platform with his landing, and brought Capital prodigies with him.
• Long Batian told the gathering that the Long Family had not forgotten what happened to the Pan Family, provoking an uproar and challenging Demon Capital’s three great families.

Long Batian and the three great family heads nearly came to blows at Demon Capital Martial University's welcoming ceremony before the old president intervened. Dongfang Yueming saw through the flaws in their True Power and later caught Hong Gui's attention, while Baihu mistook him for a pretty boy living off her.

• The Chu Family head challenged Long Batian over his accusation that the three great families had wronged the Pan Family, and the two unleashed True Power that threatened the platform and students.
• Dongfang Yueming used the Heavenly Dao Dharma Eye to identify weaknesses in the Chu Family head's flame True Power and Long Batian's golden sword.
• The old president dissolved the clashing True Power and persuaded Long Batian and the three family heads to withdraw, though their dispute remained unresolved.
• Dongfang Yueming decided to seek a True Power Realm cultivation technique and considered targeting a first-rate family with weaker defenses.
• Hong Gui approached Dongfang Yueming, linked arms with him, and invited him to her place as Baihu watched from a teaching building.
• Baihu judged Hong Gui to be foolishly infatuated and dismissed Dongfang Yueming as a pretty boy living off a woman.

At Demon Capital Martial University, Baihu watched Hong Gui flirt with Dongfang Yueming and uncovered clues linking him to Judge’s murder. After finding his student file, she became excited by the possibility that the apparently weak student was the killer, but he and Hong Gui had already disappeared.

• Dongfang Yueming noticed Baihu watching from a teaching building and asked Hong Gui who she was.
• Hong Gui identified Baihu as a Moon Grade investigator and revealed that she had once been romantically involved with Judge, whom Dongfang Yueming had killed.
• Baihu suspected Hong Gui’s public display of affection was unusual and investigated the Li Family heiress’s file.
• Baihu recognized that the Li Family heiress was Hong Gui, a senior member of the Resisters, and connected her to the person who had killed Judge.
• Baihu found Dongfang Yueming’s exchange-student file, which listed him as a second-year student with Blood Nourishing Realm Sixth Layer cultivation.
• Baihu returned to the square, found Dongfang Yueming and Hong Gui gone, and excitedly declared that Dongfang Yueming had surprised her.

Dongfang Yueming stole true power cultivation arts from several first-rate families and used points and fusion to rapidly raise his cultivation. After reaching Upper-Tier True Power Perfection with an Earth-grade art, he set his sights on stealing four more Yellow-grade arts to create a Heaven-grade one.

• Hong Gui warned Dongfang Yueming that Baihu was dangerously strong, then left to prepare for their meeting that night and secretly resolved to find him a True Power Realm cultivation art.
• Dongfang Yueming infiltrated the Guan Family’s scripture building, stole the Blazing Sun True Power Art, and escaped the grand elder’s attack.
• He spent points to cultivate the Blazing Sun True Power Art to lower-tier perfection, reaching the first stage of true power.
• Dongfang Yueming stole the Overturning Water True Power Art from the Lin Family and fused it with his first art, creating a Black-grade art and reaching middle-tier perfection.
• He stole Yellow-grade arts from the Chen and Zhao Families, fused the resulting Black-grade arts into the Earth-grade Great Wilderness True Power Treasure Scripture, and reached upper-tier perfection.
• Dongfang Yueming formed his true power into a dark-gold longsword and concluded that he needed four more Yellow-grade arts to deduce a Heaven-grade cultivation art.

Dongfang Yueming stole the last techniques he needed, fused them into a Heaven-grade scripture, and reached the pinnacle of the True Power Realm. Meanwhile, Hong Gui was confined by her father, the Wu Family prepared a sacrifice, and a vast beast tide gathered beyond the Boundary.

• Dongfang Yueming stole the Zheng Family’s Boulder True Power Art after defeating its Sixth Stage patriarch with one punch.
• Dongfang Yueming fused four Yellow-grade techniques and the Great Wilderness True Power Treasure Scripture into the Heaven-grade Chaos Indestructible True Power Treasure Scripture, reaching Top-Tier True Power Perfection.
• Li Canghai refused Hong Gui’s request for a True Power technique and had her confined to her room.
• The Wu Family mutants, having devoured the Pan Family, gathered to perform a sacrifice.
• Qinglong questioned the mysterious flesh-and-eyeball creature, which claimed its kind had been touched by divine blood and sought to return from their land of exile.
• A massive beast tide and powerful beings assembled beyond the Boundary before an ancient sealed stone gate.