Recaps

Cheng Sheng used a Hell Plague Fly to kill Ruan Wen, a Body Sha Realm fighter who had been interrogating him, and then prepared to dispose of her remains. While searching her wallet, he noticed the bank cards and began considering what he could do with them.

• Ruan Wen questioned Cheng Sheng about the two people killed by the Black Killing Style, and Cheng Sheng secretly poisoned her with a Hell Plague Fly.
• Ruan Wen realized Cheng Sheng was a curse master, but Cheng Sheng denied her assumptions and poked her with a branch as she died.
• Ruan Wen's body burst apart, releasing black flies, and Cheng Sheng reflected that the Hell Plague Fly could kill even a Body Sha Realm fighter in about twenty seconds.
• Cheng Sheng gathered Ruan Wen's remains to bury them and found her wallet, taking the cash and checking her ID card.
• Cheng Sheng noticed the bank cards he had set aside and began to consider an idea.

Cheng Sheng used a makeshift sacrifice to learn the PINs for Ruan Wen’s bank cards and gained more than three million Nan Currency. Meanwhile, Zhou Wenye learned that his father was seeking a Curse master and decided he wanted Ruan Wen dead.

• Cheng Sheng offered corpse fluid and fat chickens to the Abyss and received the PINs for Ruan Wen’s bank cards.
• Cheng Sheng tested the PINs, found more than three million Nan Currency across the cards, and planned to use the money for further sacrifices.
• Zhou Wenye struck a woman who criticized him, then ordered his men to take her to the family compound.
• Zhou Wenye asked about Ruan Wen and learned she had gone to handle the task he had assigned her.
• Zhou Wenye’s butler told him his father was in Panma trying to befriend a Curse master from Dongyue.
• Zhou Wenye imagined the Curse master’s arrival would expand his family’s business and decided he wanted Ruan Wen dead.

Cheng Sheng infiltrated Zhou Wenye’s villa and attacked him while he was alone in the bathroom. After abandoning his half-finished Dark Sacrifice ritual when people approached, Cheng Sheng killed Zhou Wenye and escaped through the air-conditioning vent, leaving the villa in chaos.

• Zhou Wenye fantasized about using his father’s prospective curse master to take revenge on the Black Killing Boxing Gym and humiliate Sulai.
• Cheng Sheng surprised Zhou Wenye in the bathroom with a knee strike that worsened his injuries, then bound him and cut his chest to draw blood for a Dark Sacrifice array.
• When servants and others searched for Zhou Wenye, Cheng Sheng wiped away the unfinished array and appeared to spare him.
• Cheng Sheng stabbed Zhou Wenye through the heart, then escaped through an air-conditioning vent as Zhou Wenye died.
• Five minutes later, two black sedans rushed out of the villa as the household erupted into chaos.

After killing Zhou Wenye, Cheng Sheng considered the threat posed by Zhou Hongtu and learned that Curse masters possessed supernatural powers far beyond ordinary fighters. He then visited the Black River Elephant Farm, where Nalong asked if he had come to buy an elephant.

• Cheng Sheng reflected on using Dark Sacrifice to find Zhou Wenye and regretted missing the chance to sacrifice him before killing him.
• Cheng Sheng decided he needed to plan carefully against Zhou Hongtu and wondered what Zhou Wenye had meant by a Curse master.
• Three days later, Cheng Sheng read that Zhou Hongtu had offered a thirty-million-Nantu-Currency reward for Zhou Wenye's killer.
• Cheng Sheng learned from Songpa that Curse masters wielded extraordinary powers and could fight terrifying creatures in the Black Tide.
• Cheng Sheng met Nalong at the Black River Elephant Farm, where Nalong asked whether he wanted to buy an elephant.

Cheng Sheng chose the dangerous elephant Sangni from Nalong’s farm and had her transported to an abandoned logging site he had rented for the five-sacrifice ritual. The chapter left Sangni at the secluded site with Cheng Sheng.

• Cheng Sheng declined Nalong’s offer to lend him a gentle elephant and asked to see one with a bad temper.
• Nalong showed Cheng Sheng Sangni, a huge, antisocial elephant who attacked handlers and had killed her own offspring.
• Nalong told Cheng Sheng he could take Sangni without a deposit, and Cheng Sheng chose her.
• Cheng Sheng arranged for workers to transport Sangni by truck to the abandoned logging site he had rented for the five-sacrifice ritual.

Cheng Sheng sacrificed Sangni, an aggressive elephant, and advanced directly from Nurturing Sha to the second level of the Black Killing Style secret art, Body Sha. He discovered that his Sha Light was unusually thick and wondered whether the sacrifice had also granted him a trait.

• Cheng Sheng brought the sedated Sangni to a sheet-metal shed, paid off the handlers, and prepared a ritual formation around the elephant.
• As Sangni’s sedative wore off, Cheng Sheng completed the formation, skipped torturing the elephant, and tranquilized him again.
• Cheng Sheng recited the incantations, and blackness enveloped Sangni before he sank into the ground as the fifth sacrifice.
• Cheng Sheng endured a violent transformation that developed his Spiny Skin and advanced him to Body Sha.
• Cheng Sheng found his Sha Light was about three inches thick and twisted a large log apart with his bare hands.
• Cheng Sheng realized he still did not know whether the sacrifice had granted him a trait.

After his fifth sacrifice, Cheng Sheng gained the powerful [Elephant Soul] trait but discovered that his transformation strained his heart and changed his appearance. He frightened two hikers in the rainforest and then worried about how to explain his sudden growth and muscular build.

• Cheng Sheng activated his new power, smashed several trees, and named the trait [Elephant Soul].
• Cheng Sheng realized the trait placed heavy strain on his body and heart, so he could not use it often or for long.
• Cheng Sheng heard hikers in the rainforest and approached them to investigate.
• A man told his companion a story about a murderer, then fled in terror after mistaking Cheng Sheng for the killer.
• Cheng Sheng noticed how much taller and more muscular he had become and hurried back to find a way to explain the changes.

Cheng Sheng bought luxury gifts as an offering for his intermediary demon, hoping she would restore his physique. After running into Sulai and her friend Jiamin at the mall, he returned to the lumberyard and completed the sacrifice, where the demon embraced him from the darkness.

• Cheng Sheng bought women's clothes and jewelry worth over 200,000 to offer to his intermediary demon.
• Sulai recognized Cheng Sheng by his scent at the mall, and he claimed the purchases were gifts for his mother and younger sister.
• Cheng Sheng gave gifts to Sulai and Jiamin, then hurried away after Jiamin teased Sulai about his interest in her.
• Jiamin praised Cheng Sheng to Sulai, who examined the bracelet he had given her and found it pretty.
• Cheng Sheng placed the shopping bags in a ritual array at the lumberyard and asked his intermediary demon to restore his physique.
• Purple flames consumed the offerings, and pale arms reached from the darkness to wrap tightly around Cheng Sheng.

Cheng Sheng completed a sacrifice that refined his body and strengthened his [Elephant Soul], while suspecting he had incurred a debt to the demon. At the Black Killing Style dojo, he learned that Su Tai had been gravely injured fighting a curse master, and Sha Lie revealed that assassins had attacked them on the way back.

• Cheng Sheng emerged from the sacrifice with a lighter, denser body and found that [Elephant Soul] seemed stronger than before.
• Cheng Sheng found only ash in the magic array and suspected the demon had taken his favor as a loan, which he had no intention of repaying.
• Cheng Sheng joined Sulai, Songpa, Nalong, and the other Black Killing Style disciples as they waited in the rain for Su Tai to arrive.
• Cheng Sheng saw Sulai's gravely ill father enter the dojo and learned that the wanted curse master behind the Sucha Street tragedy had seriously injured him.
• Cheng Sheng considered using a swarm of Hell Plague Flies against a curse master, then heard Sha Lie say that two assassins using Hundred-Legged Style techniques had attacked Su Tai on the way back.

Cheng Sheng completed his initiation into the Black Killing Style, while Su Tai revealed the curse-poison injury he had suffered in Bangtun City and sent Sha Lie to trade a relic for soul root. Su Tai urged Sha Lie to seek becoming a Wengzan curse master, since fighters could not oppose curse masters.

• Nalong reacted angrily when he learned the Hundred Feet Sect had returned, and Sulai told Cheng Sheng about its old feud with the Black Killing Style.
• Su Tai examined Cheng Sheng, and Sha Lie tattooed the Black Killing Style’s crocodile totem on Cheng Sheng’s chest, completing his initiation.
• Su Tai drank a medicinal soup and expelled maggots from his festering shoulder wound as Sha Lie, Songpa, and Sulai watched.
• Su Tai explained that a curse master had slaughtered the fighters who went to Bangtun City and that he needed more soul root to heal fully.
• Su Tai gave Sha Lie the last relic from the Crocodile Shrine to trade for soul root and advised him to ask the Wengzan curse master to accept him as a disciple.

Cheng Sheng entered the eerie mist to investigate the Black Tide and discovered that the Hell Plague Fly absorbed the mist and formed a cocoon. Following the Primordial Mark to an evil spirit at Qingsha No. 3 Middle School’s old campus, he continued upstairs after the spirit tried to frighten him with falling figures.

• Cheng Sheng ignored warnings to stay home during the Black Tide and headed north toward the eerie mist.
• The Hell Plague Fly drew in eerie mist, absorbed it rapidly, and became wrapped in a sturdy gray cocoon.
• Cheng Sheng followed the Primordial Mark to an evil spirit inside an abandoned classroom building at Qingsha No. 3 Middle School’s old campus.
• A shadow appeared to fall from above, but Cheng Sheng found no trace of it on the ground.
• More than a dozen figures in school uniforms fell behind Cheng Sheng and left dark puddles, but he stayed calm and continued upstairs.

Cheng Sheng discovered that the hair doll contained an evil spirit made from the resentful souls of students who died by suicide, and decided to sacrifice it while preparing to confront the Curse master behind it. Elsewhere, a man named Old Wang discovered that another hair doll had awakened and planned to bring it home for Daji.

• Cheng Sheng found the hair doll and realized a Curse master had used the students’ deaths and an evil array to create an evil spirit.
• Cheng Sheng decided to keep the doll, photograph the array, and sacrifice the spirit, promising the resentful souls he would help them get revenge later.
• Old Wang returned to his dark apartment, where urns and dolls filled the rooms and a child’s laughter answered him.
• Old Wang found a hair doll with blood-red eyes in the largest urn and said Daji’s sister was ready to be brought home.
• The apartment’s children laughed as the urns, dolls, and tiny footprints began to multiply and move.

Cheng Sheng sacrificed an evil spirit, strengthening his Primordial Mark and gaining the spell [Summon Imp]. After summoning two Abyss Imps and testing their abilities, he considered how quickly they might grow and wondered what his Hell Plague Fly would become after evolving.

• Cheng Sheng sacrificed the evil spirit and found that his Primordial Mark had grown stronger, bringing him closer to advancing as a warlock.
• Cheng Sheng discovered that he had gained the [Summon Imp] spell and gathered its materials after the Black Tide receded.
• Cheng Sheng summoned two Abyss Imps in a sugarcane field, and they devoured more than a hundred jin of raw meat.
• Cheng Sheng tested the imps, found that one burst apart from a kick, and concluded that they could grow by consuming fresh flesh and blood.
• Cheng Sheng released his last Hell Plague Fly and noted its growth after absorbing eerie fog, wondering if it would evolve.

Cheng Sheng mastered the Black Killing Style’s second-layer secret technique, [Crocodile Sinews], and tested his growing strength at the abandoned logging camp. He then examined the Abyss Imp he had secretly raised and pierced its chest, watching it heal rapidly.

• Cheng Sheng destroyed the ironwood punching posts while practicing the Black Killing Style’s six major forms.
• Cheng Sheng examined the sinews developed through mastering [Crocodile Sinews] and considered how his strength compared with Nalong, Songpa, and Sha Lie.
• Cheng Sheng reflected that Su Tai was injured, Sha Lie was away, and Songpa was handling the gym’s affairs, leaving him free to practice on his own.
• Cheng Sheng entered the locked shack and found the Abyss Imp had grown into a tall, thin creature with gray skin and glowing red eyes.
• Cheng Sheng struck the Abyss Imp through the chest with his Crocodile Kiss, and its wound began healing rapidly.

Cheng Sheng rescued Song Cai from Red Ba Gang enforcers, paid off Song Cai’s loan through his Black Killing Style connections, and bought surveillance cameras to monitor the old campus. His mother, Wu Li, then warned him not to come home, prompting him to rush there.

• Cheng Sheng tested the Abyss Imp’s rapid healing and obedience, then rode into Qingsha City to buy surveillance cameras.
• Cheng Sheng recognized Song Cai being beaten by Red Ba Gang thugs and struck down two of them before warning the last one away.
• Song Cai told Cheng Sheng he had borrowed money at high interest to save his family’s coconut sugar factory and pay for his father’s operation, then limped away.
• Cheng Sheng asked Senior Brother Nalong to stop the gang’s harassment and used his own money to repay Song Cai’s loan.
• Cheng Sheng bought cameras to watch Qingsha No. 3 Middle School’s old campus, but worried about installing and monitoring them.
• Wu Li called Cheng Sheng, said he was all right, and warned him not to come home; Cheng Sheng immediately rode toward home.

After finding his family’s home wrecked by the Red Ba Gang, Cheng Sheng left to confront them at their headquarters. He broke into the gang’s warehouse and greeted its stunned occupants as his sacrifices.

• Cheng Sheng returned home and found his belongings destroyed, his goldfish nailed to the sideboard, and Wu Li and Cheng Shuisheng shaken.
• Wu Li told Cheng Sheng that neighbors had seen people from the Red Ba Gang enter the house, and the police had left without taking action.
• Cheng Sheng pulled down two goldfish, told Wu Li he would not be home that night, and left.
• At the Red Ba Gang’s warehouse in Pawan, Cheng Sheng drew a blood sacrifice ritual array outside and told a thug what it was.
• Cheng Sheng battered open the warehouse doors, tossed aside a half-dead figure, and greeted the gang members as his sacrifices.

Cheng Sheng stormed the Red Ba Gang warehouse and overwhelmed its fighters, while a blood-fed magic circle outside began drawing eerie energy toward the building. After the lights went out and the gang’s gunmen opened fire, Cheng Sheng spotted a horned figure emerging from the darkness.

• Jia Wa ordered his men to kill Saigong and told them to warn the Dongyue buyers that they could take the goods next week if they accepted the risks.
• Cheng Sheng tore through the Red Ba Gang’s casino and boxing gym, leaving many gang members injured or dead.
• As blood flowed, the magic circle Cheng Sheng had drawn outside the warehouse glowed red and sent mist drifting toward the building.
• Red Ba Gang gunmen surrounded Cheng Sheng, but he surrendered before they could shoot.
• Cheng Sheng warned the gunmen that more newcomers had arrived, and the warehouse lights went out as they opened fire.
• Cheng Sheng appeared on the third floor and watched a tall, horned figure emerge from the darkness.

Cheng Sheng attacked the Red Ba Gang warehouse, using a summoned Abyss Imp to slaughter the gang members downstairs before confronting Hei Cha on the passage to the fourth floor. After Hei Cha overwhelmed him in their fight, Cheng Sheng transformed and seized Hei Cha, preparing to inflict the pain he had endured.

• Jia Wa watched the fighting below and sent Hei Cha to catch the attacker.
• Cheng Sheng unleashed the Abyss Imp on the second floor, then made his way through the emptied nightclub toward the fourth floor.
• Hei Cha ambushed Cheng Sheng at the passage entrance, and the two began fighting.
• Hei Cha gained the advantage with his swift, powerful attacks, forcing Cheng Sheng to endure a punishing defense.
• Cheng Sheng transformed, grabbed Hei Cha by the head and hand, and drove him toward the wall.

Jia Wa discovered that the boy who had killed Hei Cha was retaliating because Red Ba Gang thugs had killed his father’s goldfish. The boy’s monstrous companion emerged through the shattered floor as blood mist gathered around him, leaving Jia Wa horrified by the scale of the threat.

• Jia Wa found that his calls could not get through and armed himself when someone knocked at the door.
• The boy arrived carrying Hei Cha’s corpse, then washed his hands while Jia Wa tried to learn who had sent him.
• Jia Wa offered the boy goods and friendship in exchange for his life, but the boy showed him a bag of dead goldfish and explained why he had come.
• A horned monster burst through the glass floor and stood obediently behind the boy as blood mist gathered around him.
• The boy said the dead goldfish had been his father’s favorite tank of gold lionheads, leaving Jia Wa stunned.

Cheng Sheng chose Blood Contract as his Blood Sacrifice reward and bound Jia Wa as his slave. The next morning, Jia Wa began following Cheng Sheng’s orders, including making amends to Cheng Sheng’s parents.

• Cheng Sheng examined three Blood Sacrifice rewards and chose Blood Contract to gain a loyal subordinate.
• The Abyss Imp self-destructed, and Cheng Sheng used the Blood Contract on Jia Wa, making him obey Cheng Sheng unconditionally.
• Cheng Sheng explained that Blood Sacrifice could continue indefinitely and that larger sacrifices could yield better rewards.
• The next morning, Jia Wa reported that he had arranged new furniture and a fish tank for Cheng Sheng’s parents and ordered his men to apologize and return the money they had taken.
• Cheng Sheng told Jia Wa to avoid frightening his parents and to make the arrangements normally.

With Jia Wa now handling the surveillance, sacrifices, and other arrangements, Cheng Sheng turned his attention back to training and the Black Killing Style. He met Jia Wa at the new Hell Plague Fly breeding factory, where workers were already struggling with the foul conditions.

• Jia Wa arranged round-the-clock surveillance at the old Qingsha No. 3 Middle School campus, lined up buyers for Cheng Sheng’s sacrifices, and took over the fly breeding and loan matters.
• Jia Wa visited Cheng Sheng’s parents, returned their extorted money, gave them compensation and furniture, and made the men who had damaged their fish tank cut off their own ears.
• Cheng Sheng stopped sparring with Sulai at the Black Killing Dojo because he felt her attacks lacked killing intent and he could not fight freely against her.
• After Sulai left to see her injured father, Su Tai, Cheng Sheng reflected that Su Tai favored Sha Lie as the Black Killing Style’s successor and neglected his other disciples.
• Jia Wa summoned Cheng Sheng to a warehouse in Pawan District, where Cheng Sheng saw the eight-tank Hell Plague Fly breeding factory and its sickened workers.

Cheng Sheng collected a new batch of Hell Plague Fly eggs and learned that a suspicious man had arrived at Qingsha No. 3 Middle School. Wang Shan entered the sealed school to claim a mature evil spirit, unaware that Cheng Sheng was watching and preparing to release his “dog.”

• Cheng Sheng collected twenty Hell Plague Fly eggs and kept the evolved maggot separate to study further.
• After Jia Wa showed him surveillance footage, Cheng Sheng identified a bucket-hatted man as the person he had been waiting for and ordered Jia Wa to bring out his “dog.”
• Wang Shan concealed the creature Daji in his shoulder bag and recalled serving the powerful Spirit Jiang master Chuma Wugan.
• Wang Shan entered the abandoned school, planning to feed Daji to a mature evil spirit and use it to strengthen himself.
• Cheng Sheng watched Wang Shan enter the grounds and told his companions it was time to release the dog.

Wang Shan entered the abandoned school to claim the evil spirit Chuma Wugan had prepared, but found that another jinx master had taken it and trapped him. Cheng Sheng shot Wang Shan, but Daji attacked Cheng Sheng and seized his heart.

• Wang Shan found Chuma Wugan's spirit-summoning formation in the classroom, but the refined evil spirit was gone.
• A monster ambushed Wang Shan, and Daji fought it while Wang Shan fled the classroom.
• A second monster attacked Wang Shan on the stairs, but he used a bone whistle and bone bells to drive it over the railing.
• Cheng Sheng confronted Wang Shan with an AK and shot him, but Wang Shan's wounds healed rapidly.
• Daji struck Cheng Sheng from behind and gripped his heart with an icy hand.

Wang Shan thought he had killed Cheng Sheng and tried to search him for a Gu master's inheritance, but Cheng Sheng survived Daji's attack, ate the evil spirit, and killed Wang Shan. Wang Shan then regenerated and fled, leaving Cheng Sheng to strike him down again.

• Wang Shan approached Cheng Sheng, believing the youth was dying, and decided to take his Corpse Ghost Gu inheritance.
• Cheng Sheng tore Daji out of his chest and swallowed the evil spirit, shocking Wang Shan.
• Wang Shan sent his little ghosts at Cheng Sheng, but Cheng Sheng used Elephant Soul and Reef Piercer to smash Wang Shan's head.
• Wang Shan regenerated after Cheng Sheng's first blow and tried to flee.
• Cheng Sheng caught Wang Shan and struck the back of his head, leaving him fallen in a spreading pool of blood.

After killing the curse master Wang Shan, Cheng Sheng sacrificed his corpse and bone bells, gained the Control Shadow spell, and took the man’s belongings. Three days later, he completed an assessment at the Black Killing Dojo and saw how strongly Su Tai favored Sha Lie over the other disciples.

• Cheng Sheng searched Wang Shan’s belongings, found a curse master’s notebook, and dragged the corpse to his sacrificial array.
• Cheng Sheng sacrificed Wang Shan and the bone bells, strengthening his Primordial Mark and gaining the Control Shadow spell.
• Cheng Sheng tested Control Shadow’s concealment and shadow tentacle, then left the campus and gave Wang Shan’s wallet to Jia Wa to investigate.
• Three days later, Nalong praised Cheng Sheng’s progress after sparring with him at the Black Killing Dojo.
• Su Tai ended Cheng Sheng’s assessment and left with Songpa, while Cheng Sheng concluded that Su Tai favored Sha Lie above the other core disciples.