Chapter Summaries

Cheng Sheng killed a relentless corpse fiend during the Black Tide and met four survivors from the Black Curse Society. After leaving them, he returned to his reef and found that all twenty-one Hell Plague Flies had changed.

• Lulu and her three companions fled from beneath the pier and saw Cheng Sheng destroy the corpse fiend as it crumbled into black smoke.
• Cheng Sheng learned that the survivors were apprentices from the Black Curse Society and exchanged contact information with them.
• When the young man asked how Cheng Sheng had defeated the monster, Cheng Sheng jokingly credited Datuk Gong's blessing before leaving on his motorcycle.
• Lulu silently memorized Cheng Sheng's phone number while the others discussed whether Datuk Gong or Curse Art was more useful.
• Cheng Sheng returned to his reef after the Black Tide receded and discovered that all twenty-one Hell Plague Flies had undergone unexpected changes.

Cheng Sheng discovered that the Plague Fly larva that had absorbed Strange Mist had emerged as a pale, enlarged fly. Meanwhile, Ruan Xian attacked Su Tai at the Black Killing dojo, then demanded Su Tai’s daughter as compensation for Ruan Wen’s death.

• Cheng Sheng found that eight Plague Fly larvae had died, but the largest larva emerged from its cocoon as a pale gray fly.
• Ruan Xian surprised Su Tai in the dojo, killing a maid and fighting him until Su Tai was hurled into a wall.
• Ruan Xian introduced himself as Wunan’s Number One Killing King and revealed that the Hundred Feet Sect had paid him twenty million to bring back Su Tai’s head.
• Su Tai offered Ruan Xian fifty million to abandon the job, and Ruan Xian accepted the offer.
• Ruan Xian accused the Black Killing Style of killing his daughter, Ruan Wen, and demanded Su Tai’s daughter as compensation; Su Tai refused.

Ruan Xian used Sha Lie’s death and Su Tai’s curse poison to pressure him into accepting a condition, while Cheng Sheng learned his plague flies were evolving and continued preparing to study the Black Tide. Five days later, Cheng Sheng arrived at the Black Killing Dojo after Su Tai summoned all its core disciples, unaware of what the teacher planned to announce.

• Ruan Xian told Su Tai that Sha Lie had been beaten to death after seeking help from Peng La, then offered a cure for Su Tai’s curse poison if he accepted Ruan Xian’s condition.
• Cheng Sheng discovered that one of his Hell Plague Flies had become a Plague Envoy and suspected the Black Tide was driving the mutations.
• Cheng Sheng decided to investigate the Black Tide and had Jia Wa monitor outbreaks while several greater one-horned rhinos arrived for his seventh sacrifice.
• The rhinos fell ill after transport, delaying Cheng Sheng’s sacrifice as he focused on improving his Primordial Mark and training his Void Realm perception.
• Five days later, Cheng Sheng went to the Black Killing Dojo, where Nalong and the other core disciples said Su Tai had summoned them to announce something important.

Su Tai announced that Sha Lie had probably died, reclaimed several core disciples’ assets, and arranged Sulai’s marriage to Ruan Xian as part of an alliance with the Ruan Clan. When Sulai tried to flee, Cheng Sheng stopped her and confronted Su Tai, asking whether he had gone senile.

• Cheng Sheng learned from Sulai that Su Tai had sold off boxing gym assets and had recently ordered her to stay home.
• Su Tai took back the assets managed by several core disciples and confirmed that Sha Lie probably would not return from Nabang.
• Su Tai announced an alliance with the Wunan Ruan Clan and said Sulai would marry its head, Ruan Xian.
• Sulai refused the marriage and tried to run, but Cheng Sheng caught her wrist and led her before Su Tai.
• Cheng Sheng asked Su Tai whether he had gone senile or whether the curse poison had reached his brain, shocking everyone present.