Recaps

Cheng Sheng defeated Zhou Wenye by using the Power of the Ram to land a knee strike after dodging his relentless attacks. Sha Lie then revealed that Cheng Sheng would not need to compete in the final round.

• Cheng Sheng struggled to keep up with Zhou Wenye's attacks and used his Sparrow Spirit reactions to dodge while staying inside the ring.
• Cheng Sheng pretended to concede, ducked into Zhou Wenye's guard, and struck his lower abdomen with a Power of the Ram knee.
• Cheng Sheng caught Zhou Wenye as he fell, then let him drop to his knees and taunted him.
• Sha Lie rebuked Zhou Wenye for causing trouble at the Black Killing Style dojo, and Zhou Wenye's bodyguards carried him away.
• Sha Lie announced a fifteen-minute break, then told Cheng Sheng that he did not need to compete in the final round.

Sha Lie learned that Su Tai had been summoned to Bangtun to pursue a dangerous fugitive, and heard that only a Fist Master could truly stand against Curse Arts. Cheng Sheng and the other new formal disciples reviewed the Black Killing Style’s rules, and one quit after Songpa explained that the school enforced its own punishments.

• Sha Lie reported Zhou Wenye’s connection to the Ruan Clan to Su Tai, who told him to handle the matter himself.
• Su Tai told Sha Lie he was going to Bangtun after Wengzan summoned fighters to hunt a fugitive who had killed two curse masters.
• Su Tai explained that a Fist Master could resist Curse Arts to some extent, though the Black Killing Style had never produced one, and urged Sha Lie to keep striving.
• Songpa gave Cheng Sheng and the three other selected disciples documents detailing their benefits, obligations, and the Black Killing Style’s punishments.
• One new disciple challenged the rules, learned that the Black Killing Style enforced them itself, and left; Songpa asked Cheng Sheng and the other two whether they would also quit.

After passing the Black Killing Boxing Gym’s assessment, Cheng Sheng prepared to use his new allowance to obtain a crocodile for his third sacrifice. The next morning, he joined two other formal disciples and Sulai for a half-month training course at an undisclosed location.

• Songpa told Cheng Sheng and the other two new disciples that they could be eliminated during their introductory training and that only core disciples could receive the gym’s tattoo.
• Cheng Sheng returned home, considered whether Zhou Wenye might retaliate, and decided to prepare for a third sacrifice by trying to buy a crocodile.
• Cheng Sheng called his mother, Wu Li, to tell her about the special training, then read the Black Book and found that its second page remained closed.
• Cheng Sheng arrived at the gym with his backpack and met the other two disciples and Sulai, who said she would accompany them throughout the half-month course.
• Sulai drove the three disciples away from the gym in a diesel-powered three-wheeler, after asking whether they had eaten breakfast.

Sulai took Cheng Sheng and two other recruits through a swamp to a training site containing enormous saltwater crocodiles and a giant fossilized skeleton, then led them to pay respects at a crocodile shrine. In Qingsha City, Zhou Wenye recovered from his injuries and plotted revenge against Sulai and the Black Killing Boxing Gym.

• Sulai drove Cheng Sheng and the two recruits through a rubber plantation and rainforest to a vast swamp, then led them across wooden stakes toward the training site.
• Cheng Sheng and the other recruits saw a pool filled with enormous saltwater crocodiles and a fossilized crocodile skeleton more than twenty meters long.
• Sulai told the recruits to leave their luggage and follow her to pay respects at the crocodile shrine.
• A woman treated Zhou Wenye's injuries with mud bee stingers and told him he would recover within a month if he avoided strenuous activity.
• Zhou Wenye blamed Sulai and the Black Killing Boxing Gym for his injuries and humiliation, then asked the woman how to destroy the gym and kill its fighters.

Zhou Wenye hired Ruan Wen to arrange the killing of the young man who had beaten him, while Sulai brought Cheng Sheng and the others to an island to begin training in the Black Killing Style’s secret technique. Sulai explained the Black Tide’s dangers and began demonstrating how martial inheritance could shape a fighter’s abilities.

• Zhou Wenye asked Ruan Wen to help him take revenge, and she agreed to send Acu to kill the young man who had beaten him.
• Sulai explained that the enormous Crocodile Bones and nearby crocodiles had been affected by a Black Tide creature whose corpse had formed the swamp.
• Sulai told Cheng Sheng that the Black Tide’s Strange Mist could awaken hidden evil spirits, then directed the three trainees to settle into the island cabin before training.
• Cheng Sheng checked that his phone had a signal and thought about obtaining the Crocodile Bones and mutated crocodiles as offerings.
• Sulai assessed Mo Jiang, Cheng Sheng, and Tong Huan, then began demonstrating how the Black Killing Style’s inheritance could give fighters different abilities.

Sulai taught Cheng Sheng and the other new disciples about fighting realms and the Black Killing Style’s secret art, then put them through demanding training. Mo Jiang continued to question Cheng Sheng’s rapid rise, leaving their rivalry unresolved.

• Sulai demonstrated the Black Killing Style’s [Spiny Skin] secret art and explained the dangerous secret art used by Zhou Wenye’s Ruan Clan Fighting Art.
• Sulai described the Nurturing Sha and Body Sha realms, then began teaching the disciples how to practice the Black Killing Style’s Body Tempering secret art.
• Cheng Sheng struggled to control the warm current from the secret medicine as he and the others trained on the swamp island with new crocodile-inspired exercises.
• Mo Jiang confronted Cheng Sheng about supposedly defeating Zhou Wenye and passing his assessment just eighteen days after starting to practice fighting, then walked away without explaining his suspicion.
• Tong Huan told Cheng Sheng that Mo Jiang trained obsessively, while Cheng Sheng realized Mo Jiang resented the legend of his rapid progress.

Cheng Sheng left special training early to travel to Balai City and collect a crocodile for his third sacrifice. He arranged to have it delivered to a rented warehouse, despite a warning that a Black Tide might arrive that night.

• Cheng Sheng received a message that his reserved sacrificial crocodile was ready in Balai City and persuaded Sulai to grant him up to three days' leave.
• Mo Jiang accused Cheng Sheng of fleeing an upcoming assessment, while Tong Huan regretted that Cheng Sheng had left before he could find an excuse to go.
• Cheng Sheng traveled to Balai City, where the farm owner told him to return the next day because it was too late to collect the crocodile.
• Cheng Sheng bought a large, plump crocodile that had eaten a person and judged it suitable for his third sacrifice.
• The farm owner warned Cheng Sheng that a Black Tide might prevent delivery, but Cheng Sheng arranged for the crocodile to be taken to his rented warehouse and learned that the delivery would cost extra.

Cheng Sheng performed his third Dark Sacrifice in an abandoned warehouse, offering a crocodile in the hope of improving his Black Killing Style martial arts. The crocodile vanished into a black vortex, and Cheng Sheng waited to see whether the other side would grant his request.

• Cheng Sheng ignored a Black Tide warning and prepared a bound crocodile for his third sacrifice.
• Cheng Sheng nailed the crocodile's limbs and tail to the warehouse floor, studying its sudden struggles as an example of Black Killing Style's martial intent.
• Cheng Sheng drew a sacrificial array with crocodile blood and summoned the Black Book's power in the dark warehouse.
• Cheng Sheng completed the Dark Sacrifice, and the crocodile sank into a black vortex.
• Cheng Sheng asked the other side to improve his Black Killing Style and, if possible, grant him a trait like [Power of the Ram].

After sacrificing a crocodile, Cheng Sheng received demonic power that let him master and optimize the Black Killing Style Secret Art, greatly strengthening his body. When he left the warehouse, he discovered that the Black Tide had spread through the area and he had been caught outside.

• Cheng Sheng sacrificed a crocodile and endured a painful transformation as demonic power coursed through his body.
• Cheng Sheng mastered Body Tempering and an optimized form of the Black Killing Style Secret Art, gaining strength and dark, pronounced keratinous armor.
• Cheng Sheng combined the secret art with Power of the Ram and punched a deep, fractured indentation into a warehouse wall without injuring his hand.
• Cheng Sheng opened the warehouse doors and saw black mist drifting outside, realizing the Black Tide had spread through the area where he was stranded.

Cheng Sheng followed his Primordial Mark through the Strange Mist to an abandoned theater, where a hanging woman attacked him. The Primordial Mark absorbed the Evil Spirit, grew stronger, and left Cheng Sheng wondering what he had encountered.

• Cheng Sheng followed the Primordial Mark away from the warehouse and through the Strange Mist to the abandoned Pongwara Grand Theater.
• Cheng Sheng entered a screening room and found the Primordial Mark throbbing near the screen.
• A projector suddenly started, and a woman hanging from the ceiling lunged at Cheng Sheng.
• The woman tried to retreat, but the Primordial Mark pulled her into Cheng Sheng’s glabella.
• Cheng Sheng regained the ability to move as the Primordial Mark grew more solid and developed black traces.

Cheng Sheng discovered that the Primordial Mark could devour evil spirits in the Strange Mist and saw a terrifying Black Tide creature pass the abandoned cinema. When two urban explorers arrived, he tried to stop them from screaming, then fled as their cries risked drawing the creature back.

• Cheng Sheng learned that the Primordial Mark had absorbed the female evil spirit’s soul fragments and realized Black Tide entities could provide nourishment for its growth.
• Cheng Sheng inspected the abandoned cinema, then hid when he heard a strange clacking sound outside.
• Cheng Sheng watched a tall, grinning Black Tide creature pass the cinema without noticing him.
• A girl in a pink hoodie and a boy with a DV camera approached the cinema to investigate rumors about Sister-in-law Asang’s ghost.
• Cheng Sheng opened the door, and the two explorers mistook him for a ghost and screamed.
• Cheng Sheng kicked the girl to the ground and hurried away, afraid their screams would attract the Black Tide creature.

Cheng Sheng returned to Qingsha and arrived at the Mamba Fighting Arena, where Sulai arranged for him to fight despite warnings that his opponent, Blue Dragon Weiji, was a Nurturing Sha expert. The chapter ended with Lunba assigning Cheng Sheng the ring nickname “School Uniform Fierce Tiger.”

• Cheng Sheng left Balai by train, reflecting on the Black Tide and considering whether he would become a Black Tide Chaser.
• Sulai called Cheng Sheng and gave him the address of the Mamba Fighting Arena, where special training had moved into live matches.
• Mo Jiang won another fight, rejected Lunba’s offer to sign him, and heard that Cheng Sheng was on his way.
• Cheng Sheng arrived at the arena as Blue Dragon Weiji’s next opponent, despite Lunba and the others warning that Weiji could overpower him.
• Sulai ordered Lunba to let Cheng Sheng fight, and Lunba announced his nickname as “School Uniform Fierce Tiger.”

Mo Jiang questioned Cheng Sheng’s talent while Sulai and Lunba discussed the dangers of his upcoming match with Blue Dragon Weiji. Cheng Sheng silenced a hostile crowd by kicking a bottle back into its thrower, then faced Weiji as the audience demanded violence.

• Mo Jiang told Sulai that Cheng Sheng showed no signs of genius and had only beaten Zhou Wenye through tricks and luck.
• Sulai defended her uncertainty about Cheng Sheng, while Mo Jiang said the match would prove his point.
• Cheng Sheng entered the ring in a school uniform and kicked a bottle back into the stands, knocking out the man who threw it.
• The crowd began chanting for violence as Blue Dragon Weiji approached Cheng Sheng and said they wanted him beaten to death.

Cheng Sheng faced Blue Dragon Weiji in the arena and took his first punch without appearing hurt. He revealed his mastery of the Black Killing Style Secret Art, leaving the spectators stunned and Mo Jiang devastated.

• Cheng Sheng provoked Blue Dragon Weiji by asking for his Blue Mongkhon, and the gong signaled the start of their match.
• Blue Dragon Weiji charged and landed a heavy punch on Cheng Sheng while Sulai and the others watched anxiously.
• Cheng Sheng raised his head, said the punch did not hurt, and gripped Weiji's wrist.
• Cheng Sheng tore off his jacket and revealed black keratinous armor covering his upper body, which Sulai recognized as Spiny Skin.
• Mo Jiang retreated in despair over Cheng Sheng's apparent mastery of the Black Killing Style Secret Art, while Tong Huan exclaimed that Cheng Sheng's talent came in waves.

After defeating Weiji, Cheng Sheng learned that mastering the Black Killing Style’s first secret art in nine days had made him eligible to become a core disciple. Sulai explained the position’s benefits, and Cheng Sheng focused on the boxing gym’s elephant farm and asked who managed it.

• Cheng Sheng defeated Weiji, who left the ring injured, and the announcer declared Cheng Sheng the winner.
• The crowd booed and demanded refunds as Cheng Sheng left the ring.
• In the lounge, Sulai said Cheng Sheng had mastered the secret art in less than nine days, while Mo Jiang stormed out and Tong Huan admitted he could not laugh.
• Sulai told Cheng Sheng that mastering the secret art qualified him to become a core disciple, though the gym master would need to confirm his status after returning.
• Sulai explained that core disciples received a higher allowance and could manage businesses, including an elephant farm managed by Nalong.
• Cheng Sheng asked which senior brother managed the elephant farm, and Sulai named Nalong.

After finishing his special training, Cheng Sheng planned to grow stronger by acquiring a large beast for his fourth sacrifice, while an unknown man watched him leave the arena. At the gym, Sulai visited Sha Lie and learned that he had not yet reached the realm of a true fighter.

• Cheng Sheng found a cockfighting newspaper left by a suspicious man, then headed home after considering how he might afford an elephant for his fourth sacrifice.
• Cheng Sheng found a fish tank and a note at home, fed the goldfish, meditated with the Black Book, and planned to rent a suburban warehouse for the ritual.
• Cheng Sheng replied to Song Cai after seeing her messages and photos from his training period.
• The nose-ringed man reappeared after Cheng Sheng left and watched the minibus disappear.
• Sulai found Sha Lie training with a massive steel coil and asked whether he had become a true fighter.
• Sha Lie said he had gained insight from the vat of black water but remained short of the true fighter realm, then asked Sulai what she had come to report.

Sha Lie suspected Cheng Sheng’s rapid progress might hide a secret and planned to investigate him before arranging his core promotion. Songpa began teaching Cheng Sheng to cultivate Sha Intent through medicinal treatments, blood baths, and Crocodile Breath.

• Sha Lie told Sulai that Cheng Sheng had trained for only nine days and wondered if he was a spy from another style.
• Sha Lie decided to bring Su Tai back from Bangtun and have An Sai investigate Cheng Sheng’s background before his core promotion ceremony.
• Songpa tested Cheng Sheng’s talent, then took him to a natural spring and explained how Sha Intent was formed from Qi and blood, killing intent, and damp poison.
• Songpa revealed a blood-filled bathtub and said Cheng Sheng would use blood baths to cultivate his killing nature.
• Cheng Sheng climbed into the tub, and Songpa began teaching him Crocodile Breath.

Cheng Sheng trained in the Black Killing Style’s Six Great Forms and built a reputation fighting at Mamba, where Songpa showed him the power of Body Sha. Walking home after a match, he was ambushed by two Ruan Clan fighters and suspected Zhou Wenye had sent them.

• Cheng Sheng practiced the Six Great Forms under Songpa while training to advance through Nurturing Sha.
• Cheng Sheng fought regularly at Mamba, won five of six matches, and learned how Body Sha’s Sha Light could pierce his Spiny Skin.
• Cheng Sheng earned over two hundred thousand from fighting and planned to visit Senior Brother Nalong at the Black Killing Style’s elephant grounds.
• Two men approached Cheng Sheng on a dark road, and he recognized the scrawny man with the nose ring from the fighting arena.
• The men attacked with steel knuckle-dusters and a bladed weapon, and Cheng Sheng identified them as Ruan Clan fighters and asked if Zhou Wenye had sent them.

Cheng Sheng was ambushed by two Nurturing Sha fighters hired by Zhou Wenye and struggled to survive their coordinated attacks. He tricked the attackers into separating, then seized the brass-knuckled man and began crushing his chest while the nose-ringed fighter stabbed him in the back.

• Cheng Sheng narrowly dodged the two fighters’ first attacks and realized Zhou Wenye had sent them to kill him.
• Cheng Sheng exchanged blows with the attackers, using Calamity (Crocodile) Kiss before evading the bee stinger and striking the brass-knuckled man beneath the ribs.
• Cheng Sheng distracted the fighters with a feigned warning, then kicked up a puddle’s water to blind the nose-ringed man and rush the brass-knuckled fighter.
• Cheng Sheng dodged Twin Peaks Strike the Ears, locked the brass-knuckled man in Death Choke, and struck his chest with repeated Power of the Ram knee strikes.
• The nose-ringed man stabbed Cheng Sheng through Spiny Skin, but Cheng Sheng kept choking and attacking the brass-knuckled man as blood streamed through the rain.

After defeating two Ruan Clan disciples in a rain-soaked fight, Cheng Sheng chose to sacrifice them rather than kill them outright. He began his fourth Dark Sacrifice, using living people as offerings for the first time.

• Cheng Sheng used the Power of the Ram to defeat the muscular knuckle-duster man and the nose-ring man, despite suffering several stab wounds.
• Cheng Sheng prepared to kill the two incapacitated men, but decided they would be more useful as sacrifices.
• Cheng Sheng carried the wounded men to the abandoned classroom at Qingsha No. 3 Middle School and drew the Dark Sacrifice array.
• Cheng Sheng told the terrified men to save their last words for the other side, then began the ritual as his fourth sacrifice and first using living offerings.

After sacrificing two attackers, Cheng Sheng’s wounds healed and he gained the Hell Plague Fly summoning method. Songpa gave him a few days off, and Cheng Sheng planned to test his new ability while finding a way to eliminate Zhou Wenye.

• Cheng Sheng’s array swallowed the nose-ring man and his companion, then healed his wounds and restored his strength.
• The sacrifice gave Cheng Sheng the Hell Plague Fly summoning method, which he found recorded in the Black Book.
• At the Black Killing Boxing Gym, Songpa noticed a change in Cheng Sheng and told him to take a few days off while continuing to cultivate his secret art.
• Cheng Sheng decided to use his break to try summoning the Hell Plague Fly and investigate Zhou Wenye so he could remove the threat.

Ruan Wen investigated the rain-soaked scene where Acu and Aban were defeated and recognized the traces of Black Kill. Cheng Sheng began cultivating Hell Plague Flies in an abandoned field, then returned home and found his family gathered together.

• Ruan Wen reconstructed the battle from traces in the street and concluded that Acu and Aban had failed and would never return.
• Ruan Wen identified a red-streaked lump of sludge as evidence of Black Kill and hurled it into a lamppost with great force.
• Cheng Sheng filled a pit with fresh livestock entrails, scattered decomposition powder, and chanted to begin cultivating Hell Plague Flies.
• Cheng Sheng left signs around the fly cultivation site and planned to return to chant three times a day while the entrails rotted.
• Cheng Sheng returned home and found Wu Li, Cheng Shuisheng, and Cheng Yue there; Wu Li greeted him warmly while Cheng Shuisheng focused on his goldfish.

Cheng Sheng brought money home, easing tensions with his parents and prompting him to offer Cheng Yue a phone and his computer. He then planned how to deal with Zhou Wenye and cultivated flies until he found the result he wanted in the pit.

• Cheng Sheng gave Cheng Shuisheng and Wu Li ten thousand yuan, and Cheng Shuisheng accepted it and invited him to drink at lunch.
• Cheng Sheng offered to buy Cheng Yue a new phone and give her his computer, and Cheng Yue retreated to her room after rejecting the offer.
• At lunch, Wu Li mentioned that Cheng Shuisheng had used the Red Ba Gang to help finalize the travel agency merger, while Cheng Shuisheng urged Cheng Sheng to consider a more stable job.
• Cheng Sheng searched for information about Zhou Wenye, found no home address, and decided to cultivate the Hell Plague Fly before acting against him.
• Cheng Sheng cast the spell around the fly pit repeatedly and added fresh innards as the flies gathered and transformed.
• On the fourth day, Cheng Sheng searched through the pit and pulled out a soft object, exclaiming that he had succeeded.

Cheng Sheng completed the cultivation of three Hell Plague Flies and tested one on a Menhuo Ox, which rapidly swelled and exploded. He was left wondering whether the flies could kill even a professional fighter and whether the escaped swarm could spread.

• Cheng Sheng peeled three eggs to reveal Plague Fly larvae, then fed them his blood and used an incantation to make them obey him.
• Cheng Sheng bought a Menhuo Ox and summoned one newly hatched Hell Plague Fly from beneath the skin of his wrist.
• Cheng Sheng ordered the fly to bite the ox, which remained unaware as enormous pustules spread across its body.
• The Menhuo Ox exploded within seconds, and a swarm of flies rose into the air and vanished along with the Plague Fly.
• Cheng Sheng worried that the flies might spread, then considered whether they could kill a professional fighter just as quickly.

Cheng Sheng escaped a minibus after realizing the shabby woman beside him was a dangerous fighter, but she caught up with him and revealed herself as Ruan Wen of the Ruan clan. She questioned him about two subordinates who had disappeared after visiting him.

• Lunba offered Cheng Sheng extra money to wear a girl's sailor uniform in the ring, but Cheng Sheng angrily refused and left Mamba.
• Cheng Sheng thought about buying an elephant and completing the Five Sacrifices as he headed to the minibus stop.
• A shabby middle-aged woman sat beside Cheng Sheng on the nearly empty minibus, and he noticed her unusual breathing resembled a practiced school's method.
• Cheng Sheng stopped the minibus and got off, suspecting the woman was a Body Sha expert sent by Zhou Wenye.
• Ruan Wen appeared behind Cheng Sheng and confirmed his suspicions, then asked where her two missing subordinates were.