Recaps

Dongfang Yueming used his Point Allocation system to master skin tempering, saber, and movement techniques while building strength through patrol work. After surviving ambushes and accepting a stronger Flesh Refining Method from Qian Jingming, he prepared to attend the academy gathering.

• Qin Rushuang gave the students the Skin Tempering Art and ordered them to reach beginner skin tempering within a month, while Dongfang Yueming challenged Gao Hu to a fight in the arena.
• Dongfang Yueming used his points to perfect the Basic Skin Tempering Method and Basic Thirteen Fast Saber Forms, then borrowed a saber from Qian Jingming to begin patrol work.
• Wang Zhen assigned Dongfang Yueming to patrol with Li Yue, and Dongfang killed three berserk Carrion Rats during a dangerous test arranged by Zhang Meng.
• Qian Jingming gave Dongfang Yueming a jade slip containing the Layered Wave Skin Tempering Method, which Dongfang perfected to reach Jade Skin.
• Dongfang Yueming mastered the Gale Movement Technique, while Zhang Meng hired Scorpion to injure him and Gao Hu broke through to the Flesh Refining Realm.
• Dongfang Yueming killed two Azure-Scaled Leopards that attacked him and Li Yue, and Li Yue secretly transferred him her reward before kissing his cheek.
• Dongfang Yueming killed Scorpion when he attempted to ambush him, then found a poisoned dagger and the Venomous Snake Dagger Technique.
• Gao Long gave Gao Hu Dragon Tiger Tendon Tempering Pills and ordered him to enter the Seed Class, while Qian Jingming brought Dongfang Yueming the Crimson Sun Flesh Refining Method and secured his agreement to attend the gathering.

Dongfang Yueming perfected his Flesh Refining and set out for the Beast Defense Frontier to obtain a Bone Tempering technique. After surviving a beast tide and earning military merit, he reached Black Stone Fortress and entered the Bone Forging Realm.

• Dongfang Yueming perfected the Nine-Turn Coiled Dragon Force, achieved the Heaven-Splitting Body, and decided to leave for the Beast Defense Frontier.
• Dongfang Yueming resigned from Captain Wang Zhen’s patrol team and stunned the frontier registrars by lifting the Greater Flesh Refining stone lock.
• On the train, Dongfang Yueming used the name Dongfang Ri and joined Hongxiu, Zhou Tong, Tie Shan, and Tie Zhu in fighting a beast tide.
• Dongfang Yueming killed a berserk Blue-Scaled Leopard, saved Hongxiu, and registered the group’s beast ears for military merit.
• Dongfang Yueming refused Zhou Tong’s attempt to control the group’s merit and distributed the points among the team.
• At the camp, Dongfang Yueming broke the bald man’s arm and took 32 military merit points from him and his companions.
• Hongxiu arranged the Hundred Beasts Flesh Refining Method and Hundred Beasts Bone Tempering Method for Dongfang Yueming, then kissed him before leaving for the fortress.
• At Black Stone Fortress, Dongfang Yueming parted ways with Tie Shan and Tie Zhu, rented a stone house, and advanced the Hundred Beasts Bone Tempering Method to enter the Bone Forging Realm.

Dongfang Yueming advanced to Glazed Jade Bones and the Tendon Transformation Realm, then killed Xi Lang and fled Black Stone Fortress under a false death. As he returned to academy life, Hongxiu was taken to the Central Continent, and a martial arts exchange between Great Yan and Great Xia began.

• Dongfang Yueming proved he could take missions alone, hunted Ironback Earth Dragons, and exchanged military merit for the Ten Thousand Beasts Bone Tempering Method.
• Zhang Meng admitted arranging an earlier ambush and threatened Dongfang Yueming, who revealed his identity as Dongfang Ri and killed him.
• Dongfang Yueming perfected the Ten Thousand Beasts Bone Tempering Method, gained Glazed Jade Bones, and later perfected three martial arts after forcing Zhou Tong to provide their manuals.
• Dongfang Yueming lured Xi Lang and his men into the wilderness, killed Xi Lang after defeating his Blood Burning Secret Technique, and obtained a complete Tendon Transformation method.
• Dongfang Yueming entered the Tendon Transformation Realm, faked his death with an Ironback Earth Dragon, and fled Black Stone Fortress before Xi Zhenyue could retaliate.
• Hongxiu feared Dongfang Ri was dead, and her grief activated the Ill-Fated Love Stone, and Li Qingyue took her to the Love Palace on the Central Continent.
• Dongfang Yueming returned to the academy as exchange students from Great Yan arrived, and Wang Bufan challenged a Great Xia student at the central training ground.

Dongfang Yueming joined the Seed Class and traveled to Great Qi for the Battle of the Python Gate, but the Earth Spirit Sect postponed the competition to force students into hunting the Ash Demon. After Li Xuan killed Wang Bufan and more students died, Dongfang Yueming gathered a stronger group to lure out the killer.

• Qin Rushuang admitted Dongfang Yueming to the Seed Class and promised him cultivation methods for competing in and winning the Battle of the Python Gate.
• Dongfang Yueming defeated Gao Hu, who later claimed a blood-drinking iron fragment and began killing to increase his strength.
• Shi Qing broke through to the Tendon Transformation Realm and joined Dongfang Yueming and the other contestants traveling to Great Qi.
• Dongfang Yueming discovered the Crimson Flame Fist Technique at the Crimson Flame Stele and learned the Nine Oxen Tendon Transformation Method from Shi Qing.
• Li Xuan persuaded Deacon Wang to postpone the competition and send students after the Ash Demon in cross-dynasty pairs.
• Dongfang Yueming and Xue Ning investigated the killings, while Li Xuan killed Wang Bufan and drained his body with a dark red iron fragment.
• Li Potian forced the hunt to continue despite mounting student deaths, and Dongfang Yueming perfected his Furious Tiger Tendon Transformation Method.
• Dongfang Yueming gathered Shi Qing, Xue Ning, Zhao Jin, Wang Xijing, and Xue Li to lure out the Ash Demon, while Qin Rushuang withheld the Origin Page.