Recaps

Chen Fan forcibly extracted the Black Marrow Vein and awakened its guardian spirit, then fought alongside Ling Feng while absorbing the spirit’s attacks. The guardian spirit focused its full power on Chen Fan, who endured the assault as Ling Feng prepared to strike its exposed back.

• Chen Fan tore the Black Marrow Vein from the cavern and began compressing it with the Great Furnace’s phantom image.
• A guardian spirit emerged from the vein, and Ling Feng sensed that its strength rivaled or exceeded his own.
• Ling Feng urged Chen Fan to escape while he held off the guardian spirit, but Chen Fan refused and said he intended to absorb it.
• Ling Feng fought the guardian spirit head-on while Chen Fan shattered its ley-line channels and gathered the resulting origin light.
• The guardian spirit abandoned its fight with Ling Feng and engulfed Chen Fan, but his White Jade Bones protected him as the Myriad Dao Furnace refined the black torrent.
• Chen Fan drew the guardian spirit’s attention and urged Ling Feng to attack its exposed back, so Ling Feng retrieved his spear and gathered his power for a strike.

Chen Fan devoured the Guardian Spirit, advanced to Sixth-Turn Bone Tempering, and shared a trove of black marrow ore that helped his companions break through. He returned with the squad to the Tianshu Guardian Zone as Supreme Leader Wei Yan angrily reacted to losing contact with Blackrock Guardian Zone.

• Ling Feng pierced the Guardian Spirit's core, and Chen Fan devoured its wounded body, advancing to Sixth-Turn Bone Tempering.
• The Myriad Dao Furnace deduced the next stage of Chen Fan's Bone Tempering Chapter: the seventh turn, when bone patterns manifested.
• Chen Fan emerged from the cavern and stunned Shen Xuan, Su Qingyue, and Tuo Bashan with his new cultivation, then produced a mountain of top-grade black marrow raw ore for them to share.
• Shen Xuan, Su Qingyue, and Tuo Bashan absorbed the ore and reached Third-Turn Bone Tempering; Chen Fan stopped Tuo Bashan from challenging Ling Feng.
• Chen Fan led the strengthened squad and Ling Feng through the teleportation array back to the Tianshu Guardian Zone.
• Supreme Leader Wei Yan fumed in the Council Hall after losing contact with Blackrock Guardian Zone, believing Chen Fan, Ling Feng, and the others were in grave danger.

Chen Fan returned to Tianshu with a mountain of Black Marrow Raw Ore and revealed his immense cultivation, winning Wei Yan’s admiration as the Tianshu Prodigies grew stronger. Mozi Sha then abandoned the Alien Races’ strongholds and led a massive army to attack Tianshu, leaving the Guardian Zone surrounded and under imminent assault.

• Chen Fan and his group returned to Tianshu, where Chen Fan produced a mountain of top-grade Black Marrow Raw Ore and displayed his peak sixth-turn bone tempering realm strength.
• Wei Yan withdrew his reprimand, admitted he had been wrong, and watched as Chen Fan invited the Tianshu Prodigies to divide the ore and cultivate.
• A messenger told Mozi Sha that Black Abyss had been destroyed and its five-star Black Marrow vein taken; Mozi Sha ordered the Alien Races to abandon their strongholds and assemble against Tianshu.
• After several hours of cultivation, the Annihilation Stele detected tens of thousands of enemies surrounding the Tianshu Guardian Zone.
• Mozi Sha and the main army of the Alien Races tore through space above Tianshu and appeared with dozens of powerful Prodigies.

The Nine-Star Land of Opportunity appeared just as Chen Fan and Mozi Sha were about to fight, and its bronze gate swept them and other powerful fighters into the realm. Chen Fan landed alone in a primeval jungle, where he identified a Vine Leopard as a wood-element Origin Spirit and prepared to face it again.

• Mozi Sha led the Alien Races in an assault on the Tianshu Guardian Zone, while Chen Fan welcomed them as food and challenged Mozi Sha.
• A nine-colored pillar erupted from beneath the zone, opening an ancient bronze gate that pulled Chen Fan, Mozi Sha, and dozens of high-turn Prodigies inside.
• The gate scattered the fighters across the Nine-Star Land of Opportunity, and Chen Fan found himself alone in a jungle dense with Origin Power and governed by ancient laws.
• A Vine Leopard attacked Chen Fan, but his punch failed to kill it, and its wound quickly healed by drawing energy from the vegetation.
• Chen Fan realized the creature was a wood-element Origin Spirit and stood ready for its next attack.

Chen Fan refined the Vine Leopard’s Origin Power, then ambushed and devoured a Shadow Demon Prodigy who tried to kill him. He used his Qi and Blood to lure a pack of Vine Leopards and began absorbing them with the Myriad Dao Furnace Scripture.

• Chen Fan used the Myriad Dao Furnace Scripture to absorb the Vine Leopard’s Origin Power, loosening the bottleneck in his Sixth-Turn Bone Tempering Realm.
• A Sixth-Turn Shadow Demon Prodigy watched Chen Fan and attacked from concealment, hoping to devour his origin.
• Chen Fan dodged the Shadow Demon’s strike, shattered his Shadow-Escape Space with Star Shattering, and absorbed him into the Great Furnace.
• Still hungry for more power, Chen Fan released a wisp of Qi and Blood to attract the jungle’s Origin Spirits.
• More than thirty Vine Leopards surrounded Chen Fan, who summoned the Great Furnace and began stripping the Origin Power from the pack.

After devouring Origin Spirits, Chen Fan broke through to the Seventh-Turn Bone Tempering Realm and rose to 29th on the Bone Tempering Rankings. His sudden prominence drew powerful enemies toward him while Shen Xuan, Su Qingyue, and Tuo Bashan set out to find him.

• Chen Fan devoured more than thirty Vine Leopard Origin Spirits and gathered enough energy to attack the Seventh-Turn barrier.
• Chen Fan broke through, manifested golden Bone Patterns, and appeared at 100th place on the Bone Tempering Rankings before rapidly rising to 29th.
• Mozi Sha ordered the Demon Race and its allies to find and kill Chen Fan, offering a chance for him to make a move in exchange for Chen Fan's essence.
• Tailong dismissed Chen Fan's achievement as luck and vowed to kill him, while three Alien Race Prodigies agreed to join forces to hunt him.
• Shen Xuan decided to find Chen Fan, Su Qingyue searched for his Golden Qi and Blood with her Mental Power, and Tuo Bashan rushed toward the jungle's depths after defeating a bear Origin Spirit.

After reaching the twenty-ninth place on the Bone Tempering Rankings, Chen Fan waited for the powerful Alien Races' Prodigies drawn by his breakthrough. He used his new Golden Bone Pattern to kill three Seventh-Turn Prodigies in an instant.

• Wei Yan and the other Prodigies set out to find Chen Fan, fearing the Alien Races would join forces against him.
• Chen Fan tested his Golden Bone Pattern, absorbed the Wood-Type Origin from an ancient tree, and waited for the approaching enemies.
• A Snake Human Race Prodigy, a Scorpion Human Race Prodigy, and a Winged Demon Race Prodigy agreed to attack Chen Fan and divide his Origin.
• The three Prodigies launched a coordinated assault, but Chen Fan's Golden Bone Pattern suppressed them and drained their Origin Power.
• Chen Fan crushed the Scorpion Human Race Prodigy, punched the Snake Human Race Prodigy into a blood mist, and suppressed the Winged Demon Race Prodigy to death.

Chen Fan absorbed the origins of three Seventh-Turn Alien Race Prodigies, then followed a pure aura to a valley where nine Myriad Laws Dao Fruits were nearing maturity. As he hid among the gathered factions, the Eighth-Turn Titan Race Prodigy Tailong detected him and demanded that he reveal himself.

• Chen Fan refined the three Seventh-Turn Prodigies’ origins, but found their energy insufficient to advance his cultivation.
• Chen Fan sensed a pure aura from deep within the jungle, concealed himself, and followed it to a ring-shaped valley.
• Chen Fan found a Myriad Laws Ancient Tree bearing nine Dao Fruits, with several groups and the Eighth-Turn Titan Race Prodigy Tailong gathered around it.
• Chen Fan learned that the fruits could transform Bone Tempering Methods and grant divine abilities, and coveted the tree and its fruits.
• Tailong spotted Chen Fan hiding in the shadows and called on him to show himself.

Chen Fan emerged in the valley and was recognized as the Human Race prodigy ranked twenty-ninth on the Bone Tempering Rankings. He effortlessly crushed four attackers with his Domain and absorbed their Origin Power, then faced the attention of Tailong, who finally stood up.

• A Snake Human Race Prodigy recognized Chen Fan and revealed his Bone Tempering Rankings position, prompting the gathered Prodigies to covet him.
• A bone-spurred Demon Race Prodigy and three other Prodigies attacked Chen Fan to seize his power.
• Chen Fan released his Domain, erased their attacks, and forced all four attackers into the ground.
• Chen Fan crushed the four Prodigies into masses of Origin Power and absorbed them, dismissing their strength as unimpressive.
• Tailong rose from his seat atop the tallest boulder as the other Prodigies watched in terror.

Chen Fan confronted Tailong, an Eighth-Turn Titan Race Prodigy, and met his charge with a punch that forced him back. Tailong activated his Titan Domain, but Chen Fan’s domain broke down and assimilated its crushing gravity as he advanced.

• Tailong declared that the Titan Race would take Chen Fan’s life and claim the nine Dao fruits, and Chen Fan taunted him.
• Tailong charged Chen Fan with overwhelming force while the watching Prodigies expected Chen Fan to die.
• Chen Fan used his newly created Star Shattering technique to meet Tailong’s fist head-on and force him back half a step.
• Tailong activated his ancient Titan bloodline and spread his Titan Domain, increasing gravity a hundredfold.
• Chen Fan’s domain countered and assimilated the Titan Domain’s gravity, and he walked forward while mocking Tailong’s brute force.

Chen Fan killed Tailong with one punch and began absorbing his origin energy, but the ripening Myriad Laws Dao Fruits drew the surviving alien prodigies into a desperate scramble. Chen Fan suppressed them all with his golden-bone domain, leaving them crushed across the valley.

• Chen Fan fused his golden bone-pattern domain with the Star Shattering Fist and shattered Tailong, killing the Eighth-Turn Titan Prodigy with one punch.
• The Nine-Colored Crystal Ancient Tree's nine Myriad Laws Dao Fruits ripened, and the surviving alien prodigies rushed toward them.
• Chen Fan summoned the Myriad Dao Furnace and absorbed Tailong's golden origin energy, strengthening his Qi and Blood and stabilizing his Seventh-Turn cultivation.
• As the Winged Human Race Prodigy neared a dao fruit, Chen Fan declared that the others could not take their share and unleashed his suppressive domain.
• Chen Fan's domain froze the alien prodigies in midair and smashed them into the ground, breaking bones and shattering their defenses.

Chen Fan collected the nine Myriad Laws Dao Fruits, then used the Myriad Dao Furnace to absorb the Alien Race Prodigies and advance to the peak of Seventh-Turn. After eating six Dao Fruits and refining their laws, he broke through to the Eighth-Turn Bone Tempering Realm.

• Chen Fan took all nine Myriad Laws Dao Fruits from the ancient tree and set aside three for Shen Xuan and the others.
• Chen Fan used the Myriad Dao Furnace to devour the dozens of suppressed Alien Race Prodigies and refine their Origin energy, reaching the peak of Seventh-Turn.
• Chen Fan ate the six Dao Fruits he had kept, suppressing their clashing laws with the Myriad Dao Furnace.
• Chen Fan broke through his bottleneck as his White Jade Bones transformed their Bone Patterns into golden divine characters, reaching the Eighth-Turn Bone Tempering Realm.

Chen Fan’s rapid rise to ninth place on the Bone Tempering Rankings drew the attention of the Prodigies in the Nine-Star Land of Opportunity. Mozi Sha revealed that he had ambushed and captured Chen Fan’s companions, then demanded that Chen Fan come to the Burial Demon Abyss within three days or watch them be refined.

• Chen Fan broke through to the Eighth-Turn peak, and his name surged to ninth place on the Bone Tempering Rankings.
• Tuo Bashan, Su Qingyue, and Shen Xuan saw Chen Fan’s rise, and Shen Xuan feared that someone would use underhanded methods against him.
• Mozi Sha showed Wei Yan, Ling Feng, Shen Xuan, Su Qingyue, Tuo Bashan, and other captives locked inside a demonic-energy cage.
• Mozi Sha broadcast a challenge demanding that Chen Fan reach the Burial Demon Abyss within three days or he would refine the captives.
• Chen Fan saw the image of his imprisoned companions, and his smile faded as his eyes turned cold.

After seeing his captured companions at the Burial Demon Abyss, Chen Fan arrived and instantly killed a mocking Alien Races Prodigy with one punch. Mozi Sha ordered the remaining seven Eighth-Turn and three Ninth-Turn experts to attack, and they unleashed a combined torrent of power at Chen Fan.

• Chen Fan saw the Demonic Qi image and rushed toward the Burial Demon Abyss.
• At the abyss, Chen Fan found Shen Xuan, Wei Yan, Ling Feng, and the others chained inside a Demonic Qi cage while Mozi Sha and ten powerful Alien Races Prodigies watched.
• Shen Xuan and Tuo Bashan urged Chen Fan to flee, but Chen Fan promised to take them home.
• Chen Fan appeared before a Dark Winged Demon Race Prodigy and annihilated him with a single punch.
• Mozi Sha praised Chen Fan's strength, then ordered the seven remaining Eighth-Turn and three Ninth-Turn Prodigies to attack.
• The ten Prodigies combined their powers into a devastating torrent and sent it surging toward Chen Fan.

Chen Fan used the power of his refined bones to destroy ten Prodigies and absorb their energy, then broke through to the Ninth-Turn while fighting Mozi Sha. He shattered Mozi Sha’s Demon Lord attack and began overpowering him in a high-speed battle above the Burial Demon Abyss.

• Chen Fan unleashed a suppressive force that halted the ten Prodigies’ attack and crushed all ten, absorbing their energy.
• Mozi Sha summoned an Ancient Demon Lord phantom and raised his aura to the peak of the Ninth-Turn.
• Chen Fan used the absorbed energy and Mozi Sha’s pressure to break through to the Ninth-Turn, transforming the divine script on his bones into Nine-Colored Divine Runes.
• Mozi Sha struck Chen Fan with the Demon Lord phantom’s claw, but Chen Fan’s Star Shattering punch annihilated it.
• Chen Fan appeared before Mozi Sha, and the two exchanged attacks above the abyss as Chen Fan kept Mozi Sha in check.

Chen Fan defeated Mozi Sha, but Mozi Sha awakened a Demon Race Ancient Ancestor’s projection, whose Half-Step Golden Body pressure threatened everyone in the Burial Demon Abyss. Chen Fan confronted the projection and used his Great Furnace to devour its attack, leaving the Ancient Ancestor shocked and being dragged toward the furnace.

• Chen Fan stripped away Mozi Sha’s Origin Demonic Qi, struck him into a crater, and pinned him beneath his foot with the Nine-Colored Divine Runes.
• Mozi Sha awakened an ancient black mark, summoning the projection of a Demon Race Ancient Ancestor whose pressure immobilized the Burial Demon Abyss.
• Wei Yan recognized the projection’s Half-Step Golden Body pressure, while Ling Feng and the other Human Race Prodigies urged Chen Fan to flee.
• The Ancient Ancestor praised Chen Fan’s cultivation, then attacked him with a giant palm formed from Demonic Qi and fragments of laws.
• Chen Fan charged at the palm and commanded his Great Furnace to refine it, turning the attack into Origin Demonic Qi and swallowing it.
• The Great Furnace locked onto the Demon Ancestor’s projection and began pulling him toward its nine-colored vortex.

Chen Fan devoured the Demon Ancestor Projection and reached the peak of the Nine-Turn Bone Tempering Realm, then claimed first place on the Bone Tempering Rankings. Golden Body powerhouses attacked him in response, but Gu Ci appeared to shield him.

• Chen Fan refined and devoured the Demon Ancestor Projection, shattering Mozi Sha's Dao heart.
• The Demon Ancestor's energy pushed Chen Fan to peak perfection in the Nine-Turn Bone Tempering Realm.
• The Bone Tempering Rankings placed Chen Fan above Mozi Sha and then at the very top, breaking the ancient first-place name.
• Dozens of Golden Body powerhouses unleashed attacks on Chen Fan, and Gu Ci appeared in front of him.

Gu Ci and the Human Race’s Golden Body experts fought the Alien Races to protect Chen Fan, while the Ancient Ancestors threatened all-out war. As Gu Ci pulled Chen Fan and the captives toward a spatial passage, Chen Fan witnessed the seniors’ sacrifices and felt rage and guilt overwhelm him.

• Gu Ci raised an Ice and Snow Domain to slow the Alien Races’ attacks, but dozens of Golden Body experts nearly shattered it.
• Human Race Golden Body experts emerged through Spatial Rifts and joined the battle, while the Human Race’s nine Ancient Ancestors answered the Alien Races’ threat with a declaration of war.
• Gu Ci formed a barrier around Chen Fan and the imprisoned Shen Xuan, Tuo Bashan, Wei Yan, and others, then opened a spatial passage to take them away.
• The Human Race experts risked their lives to hold off their attackers as Gu Ci pulled Chen Fan and the others toward the passage.
• Chen Fan saw a senior detonate his Golden Body and Ling Feng fight while besieged, then felt rage and guilt as he questioned why the seniors had to die for him.

Chen Fan broke free of Gu Ci’s barrier and entered the battlefield, where he absorbed the surrounding energy to break through to the Golden Body realm. As Gu Ci and the Human Race experts defended him, Chen Fan completed his transformation and began destroying the Alien Races’ Golden Body fighters.

• Chen Fan shattered Gu Ci’s light barrier, declared that no one needed to sacrifice themselves for him, and sat defenseless at the center of the battlefield.
• Chen Fan’s Great Furnace devoured energy across the core of the Nine-Star Land of Opportunity, prompting the Alien Races’ Golden Body experts to attack him together.
• Gu Ci shielded Chen Fan with his ice and snow Domain, while the Human Race experts burned their Golden Body origins and formed a defensive battle formation.
• Chen Fan broke through to the Divine Realm and formed an immortal divine body as the world celebrated the birth of his Golden Body.
• Chen Fan annihilated two alien experts’ divine abilities, then disintegrated a bone-spear-wielding Golden Body expert with one finger and absorbed his origin light, saving Gu Ci.

After Chen Fan defeated the Alien Race Golden Body experts, he forced them to flee and returned to the Human Race Prodigies Training Camp on Blue Star with his companions. Gu Ci ordered Chen Fan and the others into seclusion to stabilize their cultivation, while the White Emperor noted that Chen Fan’s breakthrough marked the start of a new path.

• Chen Fan ordered the surviving Alien Race Golden Body experts to leave or die, and they fled through Spatial Rifts.
• Chen Fan freed Shen Xuan, Wei Yan, and the others from Mozi Sha’s Demonic Qi cage and invited them to go home and eat.
• The White Emperor watched Chen Fan’s victory and said that Chen Fan’s breakthrough meant it was time to take a different path.
• Gu Ci opened a spatial passage, and Chen Fan and the others returned to the Human Race Prodigies Training Camp on Blue Star.
• Gu Ci sent Shen Xuan, Su Qingyue, and Tuo Bashan into a month of seclusion and ordered Chen Fan to cultivate until his new power became instinct.
• Chen Fan agreed to Gu Ci’s instructions, closed the villa door, and sat down to cultivate.

After half a month of refining the power he had absorbed, Chen Fan emerged with his strength fully under his control. As the Federation prepared for the college entrance examination, his participation prompted a sweeping reform of the exam, which ended with the announcement of a third stage: the battle of the Prodigies.

• Chen Fan spent half a month refining the Demon Ancestor's remnant power and the origins of the Alien Race Prodigies until they became his own.
• The Prodigy Training Camp announced through Gu Ci's channel that Chen Fan would take the college entrance examination, setting off a frenzy across the Human Federation.
• Gu Ci told Chen Fan the exam was a necessary way to reveal the Human Race's Qilin Prodigy to the Myriad Races, and Chen Fan agreed to participate.
• The Federation announced that the exam would take place in the Star Domain virtual reality and outlined its basic assessment and practical combat stages.
• The Federation's education minister announced the third stage of the reformed examination: the battle of the Prodigies.

The Federation announced that only candidates ranked in the top one thousand across all four star systems after the first two assessment stages could enter the final stage, provoking widespread debate. Chen Fan finally found the exam interesting, while Xiao Wuming dismissed him and claimed the top score for himself.

• The Federation announced that candidates had to rank among the top one thousand across all four star systems to qualify for the final stage, and the Star Network crashed under the resulting traffic.
• Public opinion split over whether the new rule targeted Chen Fan or was meant to spur the generation of prodigies.
• Chen Fan heard the qualification rule, grew interested, and told Gu Ci that he intended to enjoy the exam.
• Gu Ci warned Chen Fan that his opponents would be on an entirely different level from those he had faced before.
• Xiao Wuming reviewed Chen Fan’s public record, called him a brute, and declared that the college entrance exam’s top score belonged to him.

As the new college entrance exam rules stirred the Federation’s elite, Chen Fan and his companions entered Star Domain for the first stage, a comprehensive theory assessment. The test began as Chen Fan remained at zero points, drawing speculation from viewers who doubted his preparation.

• Luo Shenyue sensed the upheaval caused by the exam changes and regarded Chen Fan as a fellow daoist whose law she wanted to test against her own.
• Lei Pojun welcomed the prospect of fighting Chen Fan, while top Golden Body Realm prodigies across the four star systems saw him as a trial and a prize.
• The Federation Ministry of Education announced that the Basic Assessment would begin in twenty-four hours and ordered qualified examinees to log in to Star Domain.
• At midnight, Chen Fan, Shen Xuan, Su Qingyue, and Tuo Bashan logged into Star Domain after Gu Ci warned them that the universe would watch their every move.
• The comprehensive theory assessment began, and Chen Fan’s livestream surged to the top in viewership as he looked around without answering questions and remained at zero points.

Chen Fan stunned the Federation by answering every question in the first assessment with perfect accuracy and finishing in first place in just two minutes and forty seconds. His performance left rival prodigies and commentators speechless, and the Star Network erupted in celebration.

• A commentator and viewers doubted Chen Fan's theoretical knowledge as Xiao Wuming, Luo Shenyue, and Lei Pojun made progress on the questions.
• Chen Fan began tapping out answers at a steady pace, earning ten points per second without pausing to consider the questions.
• Xiao Wuming tried to outpace Chen Fan, gave an incorrect answer, and received a warning for a logical paradox.
• The commentator rejected cheating and system malfunction as explanations, then slumped in disbelief at Chen Fan's steady score.
• Chen Fan reached a perfect score of 100 and completed the first stage in two minutes and forty seconds, ranked first.
• After three seconds of silence, viewers across the Federation celebrated Chen Fan's achievement.

After Chen Fan earned a perfect score and topped the theoretical assessment, the second round began, testing each examinee’s cultivation foundation with the Heavenly Dao Stele. Lei Pojun, Luo Shenyue, and Xiao Wuming all revealed Early Golden Body Realm cultivation, with Xiao Wuming taking the provisional lead.

• Shen Xuan saw Chen Fan at the top of the rankings and ruefully acknowledged his overwhelming result.
• Su Qingyue wondered where Chen Fan’s limits lay, while Lei Pojun reacted to being outscored by vowing to defeat him in combat.
• The system ended the first round and began the comprehensive cultivation evaluation, introducing the Heavenly Dao Stele and its foundation test.
• Lei Pojun touched the stele and was ranked temporarily first after it revealed his Early Golden Body Realm.
• Luo Shenyue revealed her Early Golden Body Realm and displaced Lei Pojun from first place.
• Xiao Wuming touched the stele, revealed his Early Golden Body Realm, and took the provisional top ranking.