Recaps

Chen Fan claimed first place on the Heavenly Dao Stele, and the Prodigies Trial began as examinees entered the tower to test their combat strength. The chapter ended with Chen Fan still outside, studying the tower while Tuo Bashan, Su Qingyue, and Shen Xuan waited nearby.

• Chen Fan casually touched the Heavenly Dao Stele, which trembled and ranked him first overall in the early Golden Body Realm.
• The system announced the end of the basic evaluation and introduced the Prodigies Trial Tower, where rankings depended on the highest floor cleared.
• Xiao Wuming, Luo Shenyue, Lei Pojun, and tens of thousands of examinees rushed into the tower to compete.
• Tuo Bashan, Su Qingyue, and Shen Xuan remained outside with Chen Fan, who watched the tower instead of entering.

Chen Fan entered the Prodigies Trial Tower and erased the first-floor guardian with a single golden mote. As Xiao Wuming reached the fifteenth floor, Chen Fan’s leaderboard count began leaping upward at an astonishing rate.

• Xiao Wuming, Luo Shenyue, and Lei Pojun raced up the leaderboard while Chen Fan left his floor count at zero.
• Chen Fan entered the tower after telling Shen Xuan and Tuo Bashan that he had let the others get ahead for fun.
• A rock guardian attacked Chen Fan on the first floor, and Chen Fan destroyed it with a flick of his finger.
• Chen Fan cleared the first floor, called the tower easy, and walked toward the second floor.
• As Xiao Wuming reached the fifteenth floor, Chen Fan’s leaderboard count jumped rapidly from one to twenty.

Chen Fan effortlessly raced through the Prodigies Trial Tower while the other Prodigies and Star Network viewers watched in disbelief. He reached the ninetieth floor as Xiao Wuming struggled to reach the eighty-first, where a powerful Golden Body Realm guard began to form.

• Xiao Wuming saw Chen Fan's name leap to the seventieth floor and was shaken after reaching the sixtieth through a grueling battle.
• Star Network viewers abandoned their doubts and erupted in admiration as Chen Fan continued climbing.
• Lei Pojun renewed his assault on the guards, while Luo Shenyue paused on the sixty-eighth floor to sense the monster at the top.
• Chen Fan disintegrated each guard with a thought, passed the eightieth floor without slowing, and reached the eighty-fifth.
• Xiao Wuming burned his Golden Body Origin to break through the eightieth floor, only to find Chen Fan already on the ninetieth.
• A golden battlefield appeared on the ninetieth floor as an Early Golden Body Realm battle general began to form.

Chen Fan effortlessly cleared the ninetieth floor and climbed to the ninety-ninth, leaving Xiao Wuming’s Dao heart shattered. There he faced the White Emperor’s same-realm projection, whose appearance and summoned sword finally drew a hint of interest from Chen Fan.

• Chen Fan destroyed the golden crystal war general on the ninetieth floor with a glance and continued ascending through the rankings.
• Xiao Wuming saw Chen Fan pass the ninetieth floor and collapse the guardian with a glance, then spat blood as his Dao heart broke.
• Chen Fan reached the ninety-ninth floor and entered its void-like space.
• The system revealed that the final guardian was a same-realm projection of the White Emperor, shocking viewers across the universe.
• The White Emperor’s projection formed a longsword from chaotic energy, and Chen Fan showed his first sign of interest.

Chen Fan defeated the White Emperor’s projection and became the first to clear the Prodigies Trial Tower, with the rankings placing him first overall. As the examination awaited its third round, the Heaven-Slaying Martial God appeared before the Heavenly Dao Stele.

• Chen Fan absorbed the White Emperor’s sword attacks with his Ancient Furnace phantom, reached the projection, and defeated it with a touch to its brow.
• The system announced that Chen Fan had cleared the tower and become the first to reach the top, prompting an eruption of celebration across the Star Network.
• Xiao Wuming was eliminated on the ninety-fourth floor, while Lei Pojun and Luo Shenyue both stopped on the ninety-second floor.
• The final rankings placed Chen Fan first, Xiao Wuming second, Luo Shenyue third, and Lei Pojun fourth; Shen Xuan and two other Blue Star competitors also made the top one thousand.
• The Heaven-Slaying Martial God appeared before the Heavenly Dao Stele, freezing the Star Domain as spectators recognized him.

The Heaven-Slaying Martial God sent the thousand remaining Prodigies to Starry Sky Frontline No. 73 for their final selection round: a real battle against the Star-Devouring Demon Locusts. After he capped the enemies’ strength at the late stage of the Golden Body Realm and set the test to last seven days, the alarm sounded and the enemy fleet surged forward.

• The Heaven-Slaying Martial God announced that the third round was a real war and gave the Prodigies ten seconds to withdraw, but none left.
• Lei Pojun roared “Fight,” rallying the thousand Prodigies to face the battlefield.
• The Heaven-Slaying Martial God transported them from the [Star Domain] to the war fortress at Starry Sky Frontline No. 73.
• Luo Shenyue identified the approaching enemy fleet as Star-Devouring Demon Locusts, and the Heaven-Slaying Martial God capped their strength at the late stage of the Golden Body Realm.
• The Heaven-Slaying Martial God set the test to hold the position for seven days or rout the enemy, then vanished after saying “Begin.”
• The fortress alarm sounded, its defenses activated, and the Star-Devouring Demon Locusts surged toward the frontline.

The Demon Locust army launched a devastating assault on the war fortress, but Chen Fan erased its first barrage with a snap of his fingers. Inspired by his intervention, Lei Pojun and the other Prodigies charged into battle and held back the vanguard.

• The Demon Locust fleet unleashed a mental assault and fired a barrage of corrosive missiles and chaotic energy beams at the platform.
• Lei Pojun, Luo Shenyue, Xiao Wuming, and others raised defenses, while many Prodigies panicked as the attacks overwhelmed them.
• Chen Fan snapped his fingers and made the incoming missiles and beams vanish, saving the Prodigies from the first strike.
• Chen Fan told the Prodigies to grab points, and Lei Pojun charged into the Demon Locust swarm with a lightning spear.
• Xiao Wuming, Luo Shenyue, Shen Xuan, Su Qingyue, Tuo Bashan, and the other Prodigies joined the attack, forming battle formations that held back the vanguard.

After the Demon Locusts’ corrosive larvae killed a Prodigy and fear shattered the battle line, Chen Fan shamed the fleeing fighters into standing their ground. He then led Shen Xuan, Su Qingyue, and Tuo Bashan in a precise strike against the enemy reserves, where they began tearing through the swarm.

• A blood-red larva corroded a Prodigy’s defenses and dissolved his body and Divine Soul, spreading terror through the fighters.
• As Prodigies fled and Xiao Wuming and Luo Shenyue’s elite group fell into danger, Chen Fan rebuked the retreating fighters and called them trash.
• A young man turned back and charged the Demon Locusts, inspiring the Prodigies to renew their attacks with resolve to fight to the death.
• Chen Fan, Shen Xuan, Su Qingyue, and Tuo Bashan left the platform and cut into the Demon Locust army’s reserves.
• Tuo Bashan smashed the locusts with brute force, Shen Xuan precisely severed their energy cores, and Su Qingyue used Mental Power to turn the swarm against itself.

Chen Fan erased the Demon Locust army after it targeted him, leaving the Starry Battlefield silent and the Federation Prodigies stunned. The survivors celebrated their escape as Chen Fan’s overwhelming feat set the Federation’s Star Network alight.

• Lei Pojun and the other Prodigies saw Chen Fan stroll through the battlefield as Demon Locusts vanished near him.
• The Demon Locusts abandoned their opponents and surged toward Chen Fan after their collective will noticed him.
• Chen Fan summoned a phantom Great Furnace that swallowed the entire swarm and silenced the mothership’s shriek.
• The stunned Prodigies realized they had survived, and Lei Pojun sat down in disbelief as cheers spread across the battlefield and Federation.
• Shen Xuan watched Chen Fan receive the attention and remarked that he had shown off again.

After the demonic locust vanguard was defeated, Chen Fan proposed attacking the mothership instead of waiting for another assault. He set off with Shen Xuan, Su Qingyue, and Tuo Bashan, while Lei Pojun’s anger at the cowards who stayed behind erupted.

• Lei Pojun reminded the Prodigies that the Martial God had ordered them to hold out for seven days and the battle was not over.
• Chen Fan proposed destroying the demonic locust mothership, but most of the Prodigies argued that attacking it would be suicide.
• Tuo Bashan, Shen Xuan, and Su Qingyue sided with Chen Fan, while Lei Pojun, Xiao Wuming, and others hesitated between the two groups.
• Chen Fan left for the mothership with Shen Xuan, Su Qingyue, and Tuo Bashan, leaving the fearful Prodigies on the fortress platform.
• The Prodigies who stayed mocked Chen Fan and his companions, and Lei Pojun finally turned on them in a burst of rage.

Lei Pojun, Xiao Wuming, and more than twenty Prodigies joined Chen Fan’s charge against the Demon Locust mothership, only to find their attacks barely scratched its hull. When three late Golden Body Realm auras emerged and threatened to overwhelm them, Chen Fan stepped forward and stopped their pressure with his Domain.

• Lei Pojun and a dozen or so Prodigies followed Chen Fan, with Luo Shenyue and Xiao Wuming joining them soon after.
• When Xiao Wuming asked for a battle plan, Chen Fan said they should just fight, and Lei Pojun enthusiastically accepted.
• The group charged the Demon Locust mothership and unleashed more than twenty powerful attacks, but only left a small scorch mark on its hull.
• Three late Golden Body Realm auras awakened inside the mothership, frightening the Prodigies and making Lei Pojun’s grip tremble.
• Chen Fan stepped in front of the group and spread his Domain, which erased the three auras’ pressure.

Chen Fan confronted three late-stage Golden Body Realm Demon Locusts and destroyed them with ease, absorbing their origins to break through to the mid-stage Golden Body Realm. He then urged Lei Pojun and the other Federation Prodigies to resume attacking the mothership.

• Three late-stage Golden Body Realm Demon Locusts emerged from the mothership, and Chen Fan told the stunned Federation Prodigies to keep attacking while he dealt with them.
• Chen Fan appeared before the three Demon Locusts as viewers across the universe watched and doubted he could survive.
• Lei Pojun rallied the others, and the Federation Prodigies resumed their assault on the mothership.
• The Demon Locusts unleashed a vast dark golden domain, but Chen Fan erased it with an invisible force.
• Chen Fan crushed the three Demon Locusts and absorbed their origins, breaking through to the mid-stage Golden Body Realm.
• Chen Fan saw that Lei Pojun and the others had stopped attacking and told them to keep working on the mothership.

Chen Fan destroyed the Demon Locust mothership with one punch, ending the battlefield trial. The Heaven-Slaying Martial God awarded full marks to Chen Fan and those who attacked, gave the rest zero, and explained that survival on the Starry Sky Frontline required fighting rather than waiting behind defenses.

• Chen Fan ignored the stunned prodigies and pierced the Demon Locust mothership with a single punch.
• Chen Fan returned to War Fortress No. 73 with Shen Xuan, Tuo Bashan, and Su Qingyue as the candidates watched in shame and awe.
• The Heaven-Slaying Martial God declared the trial over, awarded full marks to Chen Fan and everyone who attacked, and gave zero points to the others.
• Zhao Lin challenged the ruling, arguing that the candidates had rationally preserved their strength by holding the fortress.
• The Heaven-Slaying Martial God explained that the Demon Locusts would have overwhelmed the fortress and praised Chen Fan for ending the war.
• The Heaven-Slaying Martial God told the candidates that defense on the Starry Sky Frontline served the next attack and urged them to fight until their enemies feared humanity.

Chen Fan was crowned the Federation College Entrance Examination’s top scorer, then learned from Gu Ci about the four supreme martial academies and chose Star River Martial Academy. As four immense auras descended over the Training Camp, everyone was overwhelmed by their pressure.

• The Heavenly Dao Stele announced Chen Fan as the exam’s top scorer, and the Federation celebrated his achievement.
• Chen Fan, Shen Xuan, Tuo Bashan, and Su Qingyue returned to the Blue Star Training Camp, where Gu Ci sent the other three away to reflect on what they had witnessed.
• Gu Ci told Chen Fan that he had surpassed his teacher and needed to seek a wider world beyond the Training Camp.
• Gu Ci described the four supreme martial academies and mentioned that Xiao Beixuan had entered Star River Martial Academy.
• Chen Fan chose Star River Martial Academy, and four vast auras descended over the Training Camp, paralyzing the students and instructors with their pressure.

Four supreme Martial Dao academies competed to recruit Chen Fan, who chose Star River Martial Academy because it promised he would never be bored. Zhao Xuankong then told him the academy had granted him Golden Star Student privileges and began explaining what they included.

• Gu Ci stood against the pressure and addressed the four academy admissions officers as they appeared above the square.
• Ye Gucheng, Luo Li, and Zhang Wuchen each offered Chen Fan exceptional opportunities to join their academies.
• Zhao Xuankong promised Chen Fan that Star River Martial Academy would never bore him, and Chen Fan accepted his offer.
• The other three admissions officers withdrew, and Zhao Xuankong asked Gu Ci to arrange a quiet room to discuss enrollment.
• Zhao Xuankong told Chen Fan that Star River had granted him Golden Star Student privileges, including preferential access to most core resources and scripture repositories.

Zhao Xuankong told Chen Fan that Star River Martial Academy had only ten student slots and would send an escort in half a month. Chen Fan chose to stay away from his family until he could protect them, then secluded himself and reached peak perfection in the Golden Body Realm after his annual talent settlement.

• Zhao Xuankong explained that Chen Fan would have to fight for one of the academy’s ten Star River slots and said an escort would arrive in half a month.
• Chen Fan told Gu Ci he would not visit his family until he was strong enough to keep them safe, and vowed to bring them home from the Starry Sky Frontline.
• Chen Fan returned to his dormitory and spent more than ten days consolidating his Golden Body Realm breakthrough.
• On the twelfth anniversary of his arrival in this world, Chen Fan received 20,480 Martial Dao Talent from his annual settlement.
• The new origin energy drove Chen Fan’s cultivation to peak perfection in the Golden Body Realm, and his Martial Dao Talent rose to 40,950.

Chen Fan reached the peak of the Golden Body Realm and pressed Gu Ci for knowledge of the realms beyond it. Gu Ci explained the path to the Martial God Realm and the dangerous process of condensing Undying Golden Blood, while Chen Fan listened with immediate interest in taking the next step.

• Chen Fan completed his Golden Body cultivation and sensed an unseen ceiling above him, so he went to ask Gu Ci about the realms beyond the fifth grade.
• Gu Ci began warning Chen Fan not to reach too far, but Chen Fan's aura shattered Gu Ci's protective Sword Intent and revealed that he had reached Golden Body perfection.
• Gu Ci explained the sixth-grade Undying Realm, the seventh-grade Immortal Realm, the eighth-grade Divine Ability Realm, the ninth-grade Law Realm, and the legendary Martial God Realm.
• Chen Fan asked how to condense the first drop of Undying Golden Blood, and Gu Ci explained that the process required a powerful method and risked destroying the cultivator's body and origin.

Chen Fan spent half a month at the Training Camp stabilizing his immense power before Li Feng arrived to escort him to the Star River Martial Academy. He departed Blue Star after saying goodbye to Shen Xuan, Su Qingyue, and Tuo Bashan, who each chose a different academy and resolved to follow their own paths.

• Gu Ci warned Chen Fan that the methods he knew could damage Chen Fan's extraordinary Dao Foundation, so Chen Fan decided to wait for the Star River Martial Academy's guidance.
• Chen Fan spent the next half month resting at the Training Camp while his power settled into an unassuming state.
• Li Feng arrived at the Training Camp and introduced himself as the Star River Martial Academy's Reception Envoy, sent to escort Chen Fan to enroll.
• Shen Xuan chose the Heavenly Sword Martial Academy, Su Qingyue chose the Canghai Martial Academy, and Tuo Bashan chose the Nine Provinces Martial Academy, each explaining their decision to Chen Fan.
• Chen Fan said goodbye to the three friends and boarded Li Feng's starship, which carried him away from Blue Star.
• Shen Xuan told Gu Ci that the three wanted to discover how far they could go by following their own paths instead of chasing Chen Fan.

On the journey to the Star River Martial Academy, Li Feng explained its ten schools and their power structures to Chen Fan. Chen Fan learned that the Life School’s brilliant head instructor struggled to teach, and became interested in choosing that school.

• Chen Fan asked Li Feng where the Star River Martial Academy was, and Li Feng explained that its ten schools occupied the Tianshu Star System Belt.
• Li Feng described the academy’s instructors and Star River-class students, then said new students would choose a school after the opening ceremony on the Holy Land Planet.
• Chen Fan asked which schools were strongest, and Li Feng named the Life School for its head instructor and the Ancient Martial Arts and New Martial Arts Schools for their overall strength.
• Li Feng recommended the Ancient Martial Arts School, but Chen Fan asked why the Life School’s exceptionally powerful instructor had a comparatively weak student.
• Li Feng admitted that the Life School head instructor was poor at teaching because most students could not understand his lessons, which made Chen Fan eager to learn more about the school.
• The starship shuddered as it emerged from the transition tunnel into a magnificent starry sky.

Chen Fan arrived at the Star River Martial Academy and joined the other new students, but a sudden invasion by the God-Eating Insect Race interrupted their gathering. He effortlessly killed a Peak Golden Body Realm leader with one finger, revealed his Perfected Golden Body cultivation, and demanded that the academy's instructors deal with the remaining aliens.

• Li Feng brought Chen Fan to the Star River Martial Academy's central planet, where thousands of new students gathered and Chen Fan exchanged a nod with Xiao Wuming.
• A piercing alarm sounded as dozens of spatial rifts opened and the God-Eating Insect Race poured into the academy's holy land.
• A Peak Golden Body Realm insect leader charged at Chen Fan while the students were overwhelmed by its pressure.
• Chen Fan killed the insect leader with a faint golden light from his finger, and Xiao Wuming and the new students watched in shock.
• Chen Fan's aura revealed that he had reached the Perfected Golden Body Realm, and he complained that the academy's instructors had not come to handle the invaders.

A vice dean destroyed the God-Eating Insect Race and began faction selection, where the academy’s instructors competed to recruit Chen Fan with extravagant offers. Chen Fan focused on the Life School, whose old instructor invited him without making promises, drawing ridicule from the other factions.

• A ninth-grade Law Realm vice dean erased the God-Eating Insect Race and rebuked the frightened freshmen for disgracing the Human Race.
• The vice dean began faction selection, and ten pillars representing the academy’s factions descended into the square.
• Chen Fan ignored the Ancient and New Martial Arts School pillars and looked toward the Life School’s green pillar.
• The faction instructors offered Chen Fan powerful arts, treasures, and exclusive resources, while he remained bored and Xiao Wuming showed restrained surprise.
• Old Freak Lin invited Chen Fan to join the Life School without offering enticements, and other instructors mocked the school and warned that it would waste Chen Fan’s combat potential.

Chen Fan chose Lin Xuanqing and the Life School over the other factions, prompting the mentors to block his departure. Lin Xuanqing proposed a one-year trial for Chen Fan to reach the Undying Realm, and the deputy academy head approved it.

• Lin Xuanqing praised Chen Fan as different from his previous students, and Chen Fan walked toward the Life School’s green pillar.
• Chen Fan rejected the other factions’ offers, calling their Dao too dull, and Lin Xuanqing declared him his only personal disciple in three hundred years.
• Gu Tianxiong, Zhou Yan, and the other mentors joined their powers to trap the green pillar and stop Lin Xuanqing from taking Chen Fan.
• Lin Xuanqing offered a one-year agreement: Chen Fan could join another faction if he failed to reach the Undying Realm, and Lin Xuanqing would never take another disciple.
• The deputy academy head agreed to the trial, and the other mentors withdrew their powers.

Chen Fan arrived in the Life School’s desolate domain, where Lin Xuanqing demonstrated how the Life Law could restore a dead world. As they approached the city of veteran students, Chen Fan asked how he would receive cultivation resources and learn to refine Undying Golden Blood.

• Lin Xuanqing teleported Chen Fan away as onlookers criticized his choice to pursue the Life School’s difficult path.
• Chen Fan found himself in a lifeless wasteland and asked Lin Xuanqing whether they had arrived at the wrong place.
• Lin Xuanqing explained that true life could be understood only by seeing through death, then used the Life Law to turn the barren land into a lush world.
• Lin Xuanqing told Chen Fan that the Life School had only a few tens of thousands of members and that most students struggled for decades or longer to reach the Undying Realm.
• Lin Xuanqing showed Chen Fan a vast city filled with the school’s veteran students and said they were his senior brothers and sisters.
• Chen Fan asked Lin Xuanqing how his cultivation resources would be allocated and how he could obtain the method to refine Undying Golden Blood.

Lin Xuanqing gave Chen Fan the Life School’s Myriad Things Life and Death Scripture and promised him a year of free personal instruction, while introducing Wen Yuan as his senior brother. Chen Fan began to feel that studying the Life School’s path offered something beyond fighting and growing stronger.

• Lin Xuanqing told Chen Fan that his academy allowance was one hundred thousand credits a month, but his classes normally cost one million credits a day.
• Lin Xuanqing declared Chen Fan his first personal disciple in three hundred years and offered him the Life School’s core method and a year of personal instruction for free.
• Lin Xuanqing gave Chen Fan the seed containing the Myriad Things Life and Death Scripture and told him to study it for a week before formal instruction began.
• Wen Yuan arrived with tea, and Lin Xuanqing introduced him as Chen Fan’s only senior brother and the Life School’s sole Star River Level student, at the peak of the seventh-grade Immortal Realm.
• Lin Xuanqing sent Chen Fan to Wen Yuan for routine school matters, then returned to his research as Chen Fan followed Wen Yuan along a path through the newly vibrant grounds.

Chen Fan immersed himself in the emerald seed and grasped the connection between life and death, awakening an Undying Divine Fire within him. After exactly seven days, he went to meet Lin Xuanqing and Wen Yuan, who had been waiting for him.

• Wen Yuan told Chen Fan that Lin Xuanqing had devoted a week to preparing for him and that the Life School's hopes and one-year agreement rested on his shoulders; Chen Fan asked whether Wen Yuan feared he would lose.
• Wen Yuan showed Chen Fan his secluded courtyard and gave him a jade talisman to open its restriction.
• Chen Fan studied the emerald seed and endured the deathly realm within it, where he observed the first truth of the Myriad Things Life and Death Scripture: seeing through death.
• Chen Fan realized that life and death were two sides of one whole, and a golden Undying Divine Fire ignited within him, refining his Golden Body.
• After seven days, Chen Fan left his courtyard and headed to the stone house, where Lin Xuanqing and Wen Yuan awaited him.