Recaps

Dongfang Yueming perfected the Hundred Beasts Bone Tempering Method, reached Bone Forging Realm with Radiant Golden Bones, and headed to the Military Merit Office to take a task. Zhang Meng also broke through to the Bone Forging Realm, while his team leader planned to prey on newcomers.

• Dongfang Yueming spent 150 points to perfect the Hundred Beasts Bone Tempering Method and gained Radiant Golden Bones, raising his daily points to 10.
• Dongfang Yueming decided his new strength would let him venture alone in the Black Stone Fortress and pursue better-paying tasks.
• Zhang Meng broke through to the Bone Forging Realm with the help of Bone Tempering Ointment, and his team leader praised him.
• Zhang Meng's team leader said they would target the newcomers after they accumulated military merit, and Zhang Meng eagerly agreed.
• Dongfang Yueming went to the Military Merit Office and asked to take a task, but the staff member said team tasks required a team leader's identity token.

Dongfang Yueming proved his strength at the Military Merit Office and qualified to take missions alone. While browsing the exchange list, he found a Bone Forging method that could potentially help him reach the legendary Glazed Jade Bones.

• Dongfang Yueming said he wanted to take a mission alone, prompting the staff member and nearby martial artists to warn and mock him.
• Dongfang Yueming revealed that he had reached the Bone Forging Realm and let the staff member test his strength, impressing him with his powerful qi and blood.
• The staff member confirmed that Dongfang Yueming qualified to take missions alone, and the onlookers fell silent.
• Dongfang Yueming reviewed the mission rewards and asked the staff member to send him the military merit exchange list.
• Dongfang Yueming found the Ten Thousand Beasts Bone Tempering Method, which could help him pursue the third level of Bone Forging, the Glazed Jade Bones.

Dongfang Yueming chose the Ten Thousand Beasts Bone Tempering Method as his path toward Glazed Jade Bones and accepted a mission to hunt Ironback Earth Dragons for military merits. Meanwhile, Qin Rushuang agreed to lead the academy’s team to the upcoming Battle of the Python Gate, unaware that a new student might meet its demanding standards.

• Dongfang Yueming dismissed commenters’ warnings about the Ten Thousand Beasts Bone Tempering Method and resolved to pursue Glazed Jade Bones using points.
• Dongfang Yueming accepted a mission to hunt three Intermediate-Level Mortal Beasts, Ironback Earth Dragons, for 30 military merits.
• A middle-aged teacher asked Qin Rushuang to handle reception duties for visiting martial arts academy teams, and she agreed.
• Qin Rushuang reflected on leading the academy’s Seed Class at the Battle of the Python Gate in a little over a month.
• Qin Rushuang reviewed the competition’s strict cultivation requirements and concluded that none of the year’s new students would qualify.

Dongfang Yueming hunted Ironback Earth Dragons outside the Black Stone Fortress and used his new quasi-A-grade saber, Light Snow, to kill three with ease. After seven days of earning military merit, he returned to the Military Merit Office, where rookie martial artists complained that the frontier made it difficult to earn enough merit for the Bone Tempering Method.

• Dongfang Yueming searched the wilderness for half a day before a tremor revealed three Ironback Earth Dragons.
• Dongfang Yueming drew Light Snow and killed the first Ironback Earth Dragon with a slash and a thrust through its heart.
• Dongfang Yueming dodged the other two Ironback Earth Dragons and killed them by striking their weak points.
• Dongfang Yueming spent the next seven days hunting mortal beasts and earning military merit outside the Black Stone Fortress.
• Rookie martial artists complained at the Military Merit Office that mortal beasts were difficult to kill and that earning 100 military merit points felt impossible.

Dongfang Yueming neared the military merit needed to exchange for the Ten Thousand Beasts Bone Tempering Method and took another mission to hunt Ironback Earth Dragons. A captain, suspecting Dongfang Yueming had a divine weapon, ordered Zhang Meng to test him.

• Dongfang Yueming counted his 454 points and 275 military merit, realizing he needed 25 more merit to exchange for the Ten Thousand Beasts Bone Tempering Method.
• Dongfang Yueming returned to the Military Merit Office, where the staff member treated him with new respect, and accepted another mission to hunt three Ironback Earth Dragons.
• The captain’s informant reported that Dongfang Yueming’s Ironback Earth Dragon proofs showed unusually smooth wounds, prompting suspicion that he possessed a divine weapon.
• The captain ordered the informant to have Zhang Meng test Dongfang Yueming’s strength and find out whether he relied on a weapon.

Zhang Meng reluctantly set out to investigate newcomer Dongfang Ri, while Hongxiu broke through to the second stage of Flesh Refining Perfection. Her father Li Yu left after she coldly rejected him, wrestling with whether to reveal that her mother was still alive, and then passed Xi Zhenyue, who resented his superiority.

• Zhang Meng received Xi Lang's order to probe Dongfang Ri and decided to approach him under the pretense of a friendly introduction.
• Hongxiu broke through to the second stage of Flesh Refining Perfection using resources from her father and the Hundred Beasts Flesh Refining Method.
• Hongxiu remembered Dongfang and her late mother, then touched the mysterious gemstone necklace her mother had left her.
• Li Yu visited Hongxiu, but she turned away from him, and he left wondering whether to tell her that her mother was still alive.
• Xi Zhenyue greeted Li Yu, who walked past him indifferently, deepening Xi Zhenyue's resentment.

Dongfang Yueming encountered Zhang Meng while searching for an Ironback Earth Dragon at the Beast Defense Frontier. Zhang Meng admitted he had arranged the earlier ambush and threatened to torture him, unaware of Dongfang Yueming’s strength.

• Dongfang Yueming searched the rocky area where the Ironback Earth Dragon appeared.
• Zhang Meng came across Dongfang Yueming and recognized him, delighted to find an opportunity for revenge.
• Zhang Meng mocked Dongfang Yueming and boasted that his bone forging realm initiation made him far stronger.
• Dongfang Yueming asked whether Zhang Meng had sent Scorpion to ambush him near the school.
• Zhang Meng admitted arranging the ambush and approached Dongfang Yueming, threatening to torture him.

Dongfang Yueming revealed that he was also known as Dongfang Ri after killing an Ironback Earth Dragon with one strike. Zhang Meng recognized his strength and begged for mercy, but Dongfang Yueming killed him.

• Zhang Meng grew uneasy at Dongfang Yueming's calmness and suspected he might be the powerful newcomer Dongfang Ri.
• An Ironback Earth Dragon burst from the ground and targeted Zhang Meng, who tried to flee.
• Dongfang Yueming charged the beast and killed it with a single strike.
• Dongfang Yueming confirmed to Zhang Meng that he was Dongfang Ri.
• Zhang Meng fell to his knees and tried to beg for mercy, but Dongfang Yueming beheaded him.

After killing Zhang Meng, Dongfang Yueming looted his body and discovered Xi Lang had sent him to investigate. Dongfang Yueming concealed Zhang Meng’s death and headed to Black Stone Fortress to exchange his military merits for a stronger cultivation method.

• Dongfang Yueming took Zhang Meng’s D-rank saber and transferred all 50 of Zhang Meng’s military merits to himself, bringing his total to 325.
• Dongfang Yueming read Xi Lang’s message to Zhang Meng, realized someone had sent Zhang Meng to probe him, and replied while pretending to be Zhang Meng.
• Dongfang Yueming searched for Tendon Transformation Realm methods and found that even the cheapest cost 500 military merits, so he decided to pursue the Ten Thousand Beasts Bone Tempering Method instead.
• Dongfang Yueming hid Zhang Meng’s terminal inside an unconscious Earth Beetle to foil Xi Lang’s attempt to track it.
• Dongfang Yueming left for Black Stone Fortress to obtain the Ten Thousand Beasts Bone Tempering Method as soon as possible.

Dongfang Yueming redeemed the Ten Thousand Beasts Bone Tempering Method and planned to use his points to begin cultivating it. Meanwhile, Xi Lang worried about his stalled breakthrough and prepared to use a damaged Dharma Comprehension Stone to reach perfection in the Tendon Transformation Realm.

• Dongfang Yueming returned to the Military Merit Office and exchanged 300 military merit points for the Ten Thousand Beasts Bone Tempering Method despite the staff member's warning.
• Dongfang Yueming checked the manual on his terminal and planned to use his points and Point Allocation to overcome its demanding beast-bone requirements.
• Xi Lang reread his messages with Zhang Meng and worried that his pawn had gone missing, but decided his own breakthrough mattered more.
• Xi Lang took out a Damaged Dharma Comprehension Stone and hoped it would help him reach ordinary perfection in the Tendon Transformation Realm.

Xi Zhenyue took Xi Lang’s [Damaged Dharma Comprehension Stone] and gave him two jade slips as compensation. After Xi Zhenyue left, Xi Lang discovered the secret technique could severely damage his body and deepened his hatred for his uncle.

• Xi Zhenyue appeared before Xi Lang and recognized the [Damaged Dharma Comprehension Stone].
• Xi Lang reluctantly handed the stone to Xi Zhenyue, who accepted it and gave him a Tendon Transformation method and a minor secret technique.
• Xi Lang pretended to thank Xi Zhenyue, who then departed.
• Xi Lang examined the [Blood Burning Secret Technique] and learned that practicing it below the Blood Replacement Realm could damage his foundation or shorten his lifespan.

Xi Lang blamed Dongfang Ri for his troubles and ordered his men to attack him when he appeared. Meanwhile, Dongfang Yueming perfected the Ten Thousand Beasts Bone Tempering Method and reached the legendary Glazed Jade Bones, then decided to investigate Xi Lang.

• Xi Lang suspected Xi Zhenyue had played a role in his father's death and learned that Dongfang Ri had returned, while Zhang Meng remained missing.
• Xi Lang concluded Zhang Meng was dead and ordered his men to watch Dongfang Ri and attack him when he came out.
• Dongfang Yueming spent his remaining points to raise the Ten Thousand Beasts Bone Tempering Method to perfection.
• Dongfang Yueming transformed his bones into Glazed Jade Bones and felt his strength surge.
• Dongfang Yueming decided to learn more about Xi Lang.

Dongfang Yueming learned that Xi Lang’s uncle, Xi Zhenyue, was a Blood Replacement Realm general, and searched for ways to strengthen himself before they could intervene. Meanwhile, Zhou Tong advanced to lesser bone tempering and went to confront Dongfang Yueming, who saw an opportunity to gain new martial arts.

• Dongfang Yueming investigated Xi Lang and learned that Xi Zhenyue was a Blood Replacement Realm general at Black Stone Fortress.
• Dongfang Yueming found only the Basic Marrow Cleansing Method available for exchange and no Blood Replacement Method, then decided to seek a way to improve his fighting strength.
• Zhou Tong reached lesser bone tempering and left his cultivation room, eager to make Dongfang Ri lose face.
• Zhou Tong spotted Dongfang Yueming and approached him to pick a fight.
• Dongfang Yueming recognized Zhou Tong’s smugness and considered using the confrontation to obtain new martial arts.

Dongfang Yueming used his strength to stop Zhou Tong and demand martial arts manuals, then received three techniques and checked his status panel. Zhou Tong remained trapped with Dongfang Yueming, who told him not to leave yet.

• Zhou Tong approached Dongfang Yueming after reaching Lesser Bone Tempering, but Dongfang Yueming surprised him with his speed and strength.
• Dongfang Yueming held Zhou Tong in place and demanded military merits or collateral, frightening Zhou Tong into offering to agree to anything.
• Dongfang Yueming clarified that he wanted martial arts manuals, and Zhou Tong sent him the Fierce Tiger Fist Technique, Gale Saber Technique, and Whirlwind Leg Technique.
• Dongfang Yueming checked his status panel and saw the three new martial arts listed as not initiated, with 169 points available.
• When Zhou Tong tried to leave, Dongfang Yueming interrupted him again, leaving Zhou Tong worried about what else he wanted.

Dongfang Yueming learned that the Great Xia Dynasty's Martial Dao Academy Seed Class could provide access to a Blood Replacement method and possibly a Qi Refining technique. After hearing about the Xi Family's formidable strength, he resolved to deal with his trouble and leave Black Stone Fortress as soon as possible.

• Dongfang Yueming asked Zhou Tong how he could obtain a Blood Replacement method, and Zhou Tong suggested joining a great family or entering the Martial Dao Academy's Seed Class.
• Zhou Tong praised Dongfang Yueming's talent while privately doubting he could enter the Seed Class.
• Dongfang Yueming asked Zhou Tong about the Xi Family, and Zhou Tong revealed that it had multiple Blood Replacement experts, including General Xi Zhenyue, and might have a Qi Refining expert in its main branch.
• Dongfang Yueming dismissed Zhou Tong and decided to resolve his trouble and leave Black Stone Fortress before Xi Lang's Blood Replacement Realm general noticed him.

Dongfang Yueming perfected the Gale Saber Technique, Whirlwind Leg, and Fierce Tiger Fist Technique, then headed out of Black Stone Fortress to confront Xi Lang. Xi Lang learned of his departure and gathered his men to pursue him, setting up their coming clash.

• Dongfang Yueming used his remaining points to perfect the Gale Saber Technique, Whirlwind Leg, and Fierce Tiger Fist Technique.
• Dongfang Yueming decided to settle his grudge with Xi Lang and left his quarters for the wilderness outside Black Stone Fortress.
• Hidden watchers noticed Dongfang Yueming leaving, and one of them went to report to Xi Lang.
• Xi Lang's subordinate told him that Dongfang Yueming was heading outside the fortress.
• Xi Lang gathered his men and set out to make Dongfang Yueming despair.

Dongfang Yueming deliberately slowed down to lure Xi Lang and his men into range, then killed Old Three and Old Five with a single saber strike each. Xi Lang was shocked by Dongfang Yueming's strength but became fixated on Light Snow, mistaking it for a legendary B-grade divine weapon.

• Dongfang Yueming wondered why Xi Lang's men had not caught up, while Xi Lang pushed his subordinates to chase him.
• Xi Lang left most of his exhausted men behind and continued after Dongfang Yueming with Old Three and Old Five.
• Dongfang Yueming feigned exhaustion to draw the pursuers closer, and Xi Lang sent Old Three and Old Five to attack him.
• Dongfang Yueming drew Light Snow and killed Old Three and Old Five in an instant with his perfected movement and saber techniques.
• Xi Lang was stunned by the two kills, then greedily concluded that Light Snow might be a B-grade divine weapon.

Dongfang Yueming fought Xi Lang with Light Snow, overpowering him despite Xi Lang’s greater realm. Xi Lang burned his qi and blood and trapped the saber in his bare hands, but Dongfang Yueming let it go and launched a perfected Fierce Tiger Fist.

• Xi Lang coveted Dongfang Yueming’s B-grade blood-refined saber and pretended to seek reconciliation before preparing to attack.
• Dongfang Yueming struck first, and Light Snow shattered Xi Lang’s fine-steel saber when he tried to block.
• Dongfang Yueming used his movement and saber techniques to wound Xi Lang and drive him into a desperate retreat.
• Xi Lang activated the Blood Burning Secret Technique and caught Light Snow’s blade between his hands.
• Dongfang Yueming released the trapped saber and advanced with his fist, unleashing the perfected Fierce Tiger Fist Technique.

Dongfang Yueming killed Xi Lang and searched his body, finding a secret technique and a complete Tendon Transformation Realm cultivation method. He used his points to initiate the Furious Tiger Tendon Transformation Method, prioritizing a stable breakthrough over the secret technique’s risky burst of power.

• Dongfang Yueming struck Xi Lang with a powerful fist, then pursued him and caught the Light Snow Saber.
• Dongfang Yueming killed Xi Lang with a saber strike as Xi Lang lay wounded and helpless.
• Dongfang Yueming searched Xi Lang’s corpse and found jade slips containing the Blood Burning Secret Technique and a complete Tendon Transformation Realm cultivation method.
• Dongfang Yueming entered both techniques into the system and decided to prioritize cultivation over the secret method’s risky power boost.
• Dongfang Yueming spent points to initiate the Furious Tiger Tendon Transformation Method.

Dongfang Yueming broke through to the Tendon Transformation Realm, escaped Black Stone Fortress, and covered his tracks by feeding his military terminal to an Ironback Earth Dragon. Back at the fortress, Hongxiu grew alarmed when she could not reach Dongfang Ri and asked her father, Li Yu, to find him.

• Dongfang Yueming entered the Tendon Transformation Realm, then decided to leave before Xi Zhenyue could retaliate for Xi Lang’s death.
• Dongfang Yueming baited three Ironback Earth Dragons and fed one his military terminal to make Dongfang Ri appear dead, then fled the fortress.
• Hongxiu worried after Dongfang Ri failed to answer her message and learned from Tie Shan and Tie Zhu that he had not joined a squad.
• Hongxiu went to Li Yu and urgently asked him to find Dongfang Ri as the gemstone in her necklace began to tremble and glow.

Wang Xijing’s group traveled toward the Great Xia Dynasty Martial Arts Academy, where their mentor Zhao Qingfeng killed a powerful demon wolf and revealed his deference to the mysterious Miss Li. Miss Li was revealed to be Li Hongxiu’s younger half-sister, who had come to return the Ill-Fated Love Stone and hoped it had not been activated.

• Wang Bufan fought a Wind Blade Wolf and gained the upper hand before a Moon-Howling Demon Wolf appeared.
• Zhao Qingfeng killed the Moon-Howling Demon Wolf with a single strike, and his students praised him.
• Zhao Qingfeng warned his students not to underestimate the Great Xia Dynasty, but Wang Xijing and the others dismissed the warning.
• Zhao Qingfeng roasted the demon wolf and respectfully offered the meat to Miss Li, startling his students.
• Miss Li thought of Li Hongxiu and hoped to return the Ill-Fated Love Stone before it was activated.

Dongfang Yueming returned to the Great Xia Dynasty Martial Arts Academy and headed to find Instructor Qin Rushuang to ask about entering the Seed Class. After effortlessly defeating two arrogant seniors who attacked him, he learned that exchange students from other dynasties had arrived to spar with the Seed Class.

• Dongfang Yueming checked his attributes and decided to save his points for a crucial opportunity to prove his talent and enter the Seed Class.
• Dongfang Yueming saw a muscular senior bully freshmen and humiliate Liu Yu, who had recently reached Skin Tempering Lesser Accomplishment.
• When the senior attacked him from behind, Dongfang Yueming knocked him flying with one casual strike.
• Dongfang Yueming defeated the second senior with a single punch after the man charged him, leaving Liu Yu terrified by his strength.
• The freshmen heard that exchange students had arrived to spar with the Seed Class and hurried toward the training grounds.

Li Yu found Dongfang Ri’s damaged terminal, and Hongxiu’s grief triggered the power of the Ill-Fated Love Stone. Li Qingyue took her unconscious sister to the Love Palace on the Central Continent, while Li Yu resolved to believe Dongfang Ri was still alive.

• Li Yu killed an Ironback Earth Dragon and recovered Dongfang Ri’s damaged terminal from its belly.
• Hongxiu learned that Xi Lang and his subordinates had died and feared Dongfang Ri had been killed as well.
• Hongxiu’s grief caused her mother’s gemstone necklace to shatter and unleash a terrifying power before she collapsed unconscious.
• Li Qingyue arrived, recognized the activated Ill-Fated Love Stone, and told Li Yu she had come to take Hongxiu away.
• Li Qingyue carried Hongxiu to the Love Palace on the Central Continent after telling Li Yu where to find them.
• Li Yu watched his daughters disappear and resolved that Dongfang Ri might still be alive.

Xi Zhenyue read a message from the Xi Family and resolved to escape Black Stone Fortress for the wider world. At the academy, Dongfang Yueming encountered Gao Hu and heard instructors discuss the Great Yan exchange students and Qin Rushuang’s past.

• Xi Zhenyue learned that the Xi Family was using Xi Lang’s death to delay his return and suspected they wanted to secure the family ancestor’s cultivation inheritance for one of their descendants.
• Xi Zhenyue resolved to find a way out of Black Stone Fortress and reach the Central Continent.
• Dongfang Yueming passed Gao Hu, who had reached Lesser Flesh Refining and looked down on him while his lackeys praised him.
• Dongfang Yueming entered the academy office and found Teacher Qin Rushuang absent.
• Instructors said exchange students from the Great Yan Dynasty had arrived and recalled Gao Long’s rise to the Martial Arts Holy Land and Qin Rushuang’s return as a Qi Refining Realm expert.

Dongfang Yueming learned that Qin Rushuang had refused an invitation from the Martial Arts Holy Land and reached the Qi Refining Realm on her own. At the academy’s exchange battle with the Great Yan Dynasty, Wang Bufan challenged Great Xia’s students, while Zhao Qingfeng reacted with shock on seeing Qin Rushuang.

• An instructor praised Qin Rushuang’s past, while Instructor Zhou criticized her for turning down the Martial Arts Holy Land; another instructor rebuked him.
• Dongfang Yueming overheard the instructors, noted that Zhou was only at the Tendon Transformation Realm, and left after learning about the exchange battle.
• Great Yan and Great Xia’s representatives assembled at the central training ground, where Zhao Qingfeng stared at Qin Rushuang in disbelief.
• Wang Bufan stepped onto the arena, announced his Bone Tempering Perfection cultivation, and challenged a Great Xia student.
• Wang Xijing defended Wang Bufan’s pride, while Zhao Jin objected to his arrogance and the Great Xia students called for someone to face him.