Recaps

Chen Fan faced Jian Wuchen atop a solitary peak in the Lost Divine Domain, where Jian Wuchen’s first sword strike dissolved against Chen Fan’s fist. Jian Wuchen unleashed his Sword World, and Chen Fan opened his Life-and-Death Domain as the Sword Qi storm poured into it.

• Chen Fan approached the peak, where the viewing stands identified his opponent as Jian Wuchen, a renowned sword prodigy.
• Jian Wuchen drew his sword and sent a strike capable of severing laws toward Chen Fan.
• Chen Fan stopped the sword light with his fist, astonishing the students and Chief Instructors.
• Jian Wuchen praised Chen Fan and unleashed his Sword World, summoning a storm of Sword Qi from the peak and its surroundings.
• Chen Fan opened his Life-and-Death Domain, and Jian Wuchen’s Sword Qi storm poured into it.

Chen Fan defeated Jian Wuchen by overwhelming his sword with his Dao of life and death, while the Divine Domain competition entered its second phase and began forcing survivors toward Myriad Beast Valley. As Chen Fan wandered through the shrinking domain, he found Life School disciples surrounded by Ancient Martial Arts School fighters.

• Chen Fan neutralized Jian Wuchen's Sword Qi and subdued his divine sword, prompting Jian Wuchen to admit defeat and acknowledge him.
• The Divine Domain announced that its second phase had begun and began gathering survivors at Myriad Beast Valley as the map shrank.
• Jian Wuchen praised Chen Fan's Dao, then departed for Myriad Beast Valley while the Nine Great Schools' instructors argued over Chen Fan's talent.
• Chen Fan strolled through the domain, contemplating life and death, until he sensed a fight near a decaying swamp.
• Chen Fan discovered Life School disciples trapped by more than ten Ancient Martial Arts School disciples led by a burly Mid-Stage Sixth Grade Undying Realm fighter.

Chen Fan rescued the surrounded Life School disciples by neutralizing the Ancient Martial Arts School attackers with his Dao Rhythm. Afterward, his fellow disciples warned him that three factions had formed an alliance to hunt him before the final battle at Myriad Beast Valley.

• The Life School Senior Fellow Apprentice urged Chen Fan to flee the trap, but Chen Fan entered the clearing and said he would stand with his school.
• The Ancient Martial Arts School leader sent several sixth-grade disciples to attack Chen Fan, but his Dao Rhythm drained their vitality and left them unable to fight.
• Chen Fan walked past the fallen attackers and told the rescued Life School disciples to go to Myriad Beast Valley.
• In the spectators' stands, Lin Xuanqing mocked Old Freak Wang after his disciples were defeated, while Old Freak Wang insisted Zhao Xingkong could still win the title.
• A Life School disciple told Chen Fan that the Elemental Faction, Formation Faction, and Machinery Faction had formed a Hunting Alliance to eliminate him before the final battle.
• The Life School Senior Fellow Apprentices offered to cover Chen Fan's retreat and urged him to hide.

Yan Zhan’s Hunting Alliance surrounded Chen Fan and demanded that he surrender, but Chen Fan asked if they had come to give him points. The alliance attacked, and Chen Fan effortlessly dissolved its formation and split its elemental assault before tapping the charging Mecha’s fist with one finger.

• Yan Zhan and more than ten Hunting Alliance members emerged from the forest and encircled Chen Fan and the Life School senior fellow apprentices.
• Yan Zhan offered Chen Fan the choice of crushing his token or being forced out, but Chen Fan asked whether they had come to give him points.
• Yan Zhan ordered the alliance to attack, and its Formation, Elemental, and Machinery Faction members launched a coordinated assault.
• Chen Fan told the Life School senior fellow apprentices to step back, then his Dao Rhythm dissolved the formation and diverted the Ice-Fire Tornado around him.
• As the Combat Mecha swung its enormous fist at Chen Fan, he raised one finger and tapped it.

Chen Fan effortlessly dismantled the Hunting Alliance and sent its members collapsing, surging to first place on the leaderboard. As he headed to Myriad Beast Valley with his stunned schoolmates, the Chief Instructors praised Lin Xuanqing and offered Chen Fan access to their schools’ resources.

• Chen Fan destroyed the alliance’s mech with a touch, then used a grasping motion to drain or destabilize the members’ power and render the entire Hunting Alliance unable to fight.
• Chen Fan’s Student Badge points rose to 28,800, vaulting him far ahead of Zhao Xingkong and everyone else.
• Chen Fan told his Senior Fellow Apprentices they could continue to Myriad Beast Valley, and they followed him in awed silence.
• The Chief Instructors abandoned their mockery of the Life School and offered Chen Fan their schools’ resources, while Lin Xuanqing looked toward the trembling Old Freak Wang.

Zhao Xingkong noticed Chen Fan’s overwhelming lead in the Lost Divine Domain competition and raced to Myriad Beast Valley to challenge him. The two met as equals and exchanged a single powerful punch that sent them both flying.

• Old Freak Wang insisted Zhao Xingkong could still defeat Chen Fan and prove the strength of Ancient Martial Arts.
• Zhao Xingkong saw Chen Fan far ahead on the points leaderboard and hurried toward Myriad Beast Valley.
• Zhao Xingkong arrived before Chen Fan, and the other contestants cleared the area for their fight.
• Zhao Xingkong and Chen Fan recognized each other’s strength and agreed to fight with their full Martial Dao power.
• Zhao Xingkong and Chen Fan’s fists collided, sending both fighters flying hundreds of meters backward.

Chen Fan and Zhao Xingkong fought an even-handed physical battle until Zhao Xingkong revealed the Primordial Dragon Elephant Body and unleashed his Primordial Dragon Fist. Chen Fan answered with his Life-and-Death Wheel, and their techniques remained locked in a clash as the chapter ended.

• Chen Fan and Zhao Xingkong traded more than a hundred fierce blows without either gaining the advantage.
• Zhao Xingkong awakened the legendary Primordial Dragon Elephant Body and formed its phantom behind him.
• Zhao Xingkong struck with the Primordial Dragon Fist, shattering space as it charged toward Chen Fan.
• Chen Fan saluted Zhao Xingkong and sent his Life-and-Death Wheel to meet the punch.
• The Life-and-Death Wheel absorbed and ground down the fist's force as the Primordial Dragon Elephant phantom pressed on.

Chen Fan defeated Zhao Xingkong by reversing the Life-and-Death Wheel and turning Zhao Xingkong’s power against him, then was named champion of the Undying Realm Competition. The Vice Dean confirmed the outcome of the Betting Agreement, and Old Freak Wang apologized to Chen Fan and invited him to join the Ancient Martial Arts School.

• Chen Fan reversed the Life-and-Death Wheel, annihilated Zhao Xingkong’s primordial dragon elephant, and defeated him.
• Chen Fan steadied Zhao Xingkong and offered him a life-restoring pill; Zhao Xingkong accepted defeat and praised Chen Fan’s more complete Dao.
• The Vice Dean declared the Undying Realm Competition over, honored Zhao Xingkong, and named Chen Fan of the Life School champion.
• The Vice Dean affirmed that the academy would witness the Betting Agreement’s outcome, and Lin Xuanqing celebrated while Old Freak Wang conceded.
• Old Freak Wang apologized to Chen Fan and said the Ancient Martial Arts School remained open to him because of his Martial Dao.

After Chen Fan won first place in the Undying Realm and Wen Yuan placed third in the Immortal Realm, the Life School received widespread respect. The Academy Committee named Chen Fan a Star River Level Student and awarded him a chance to enter the Origin Ancient Realm, while instructors from other schools gathered to congratulate and recruit him.

• Wen Yuan took third place in the Immortal Realm competition, and a New Martial Arts School genius won first place in the Golden Body Realm.
• Chen Fan's victory spread across the Academy, and the other schools' Chief Instructors congratulated Lin Xuanqing and invited Chen Fan to visit their schools.
• The Academy Committee granted Chen Fan Star River Level Student status and a chance to enter the Origin Ancient Realm.
• Lin Xuanqing explained that the Origin Ancient Realm was the Academy's supreme secret realm and that it had been opened early for Chen Fan.
• As the contestants were teleported away, Old Freak Wang and other Chief Instructors approached Lin Xuanqing and Chen Fan with congratulations and offers.

After his victory over Zhao Xingkong, Chen Fan’s Life-and-Death Dao Blood naturally grew to nine thousand drops. Lin Xuanqing brought him and Wen Yuan to the gate of the Origin Ancient Realm, where Chen Fan met the other nine Star River Level students.

• Chen Fan returned to the Life School and received his disciples’ adulation after winning the grand competition.
• Lin Xuanqing told Chen Fan that he would take him to the Origin Ancient Realm in three days and warned him to prepare carefully.
• Chen Fan reflected on his contest with Zhao Xingkong, and his Life-and-Death Dao Blood reached nine thousand drops during three days of quiet recovery.
• Lin Xuanqing brought Chen Fan and Wen Yuan to the Origin Ancient Realm’s gate and asked Wen Yuan to look after Chen Fan.
• The other nine Star River Level students arrived with their Chief Instructors and studied Chen Fan, while the sword-bearing youth acknowledged him with a nod.

Chen Fan and the other nine Prodigies entered the Origin Ancient Realm to cultivate for one month. As Chen Fan activated the Life-and-Death Furnace, his energy vortex steadily expanded and began drawing Origin energy away from the other eight Star River Level Students.

• The Vice Dean opened the gate to the Origin Ancient Realm and sent the ten Prodigies inside for a month of cultivation.
• Wen Yuan explained that the realm was a fragment left from the universe’s beginning and encouraged Chen Fan to absorb as much Origin energy as he could.
• Wen Yuan and the other eight Star River Level Students dispersed to cultivate, and Chen Fan sat nearby to activate the Life-and-Death Furnace.
• Chen Fan’s initially modest energy vortex expanded silently as the Life-and-Death Furnace reached full force.
• Wen Yuan and the other Prodigies noticed their absorption slowing and turned toward Chen Fan as his vortex redirected the surrounding energy.

Chen Fan absorbed the Origin Ancient Realm’s energy and began breaking through from the Sixth Grade Undying Realm toward the Seventh Grade Immortal Realm. Wen Yuan realized Chen Fan intended to forge the entire realm into his first Immortal Dao Mark.

• Chen Fan’s enormous energy vortex drew in Origin Power and law fragments, stunning the nine Star River Level Prodigies.
• Chen Fan’s Life-and-Death Dao Blood transformed as an aura of the Immortal Realm’s threshold emerged from him.
• Remembering Lin Xuanqing’s and Wen Yuan’s teachings, Chen Fan decided to forge a Dao Mark using the Origin Ancient Realm and released the Life-and-Death Furnace in his Dantian.
• Chen Fan’s vortex erupted into a raging storm, forcing the nine Prodigies to retreat a hundred li.
• Wen Yuan told the others that Chen Fan was using the entire Origin Ancient Realm as a blank to forge his first Immortal Dao Mark.

Chen Fan refined the Origin Ancient Realm into a World Seal and broke through to the Seventh Grade Immortal Realm, leaving the realm drained of its origin power. The nine Prodigies ended their trial early, while the Vice Dean and faction instructors waited outside, expecting the other students to benefit from the realm.

• Chen Fan formed a World Seal from the Origin Ancient Realm and refined it into a Dao Mark in his Dantian, reaching the Seventh Grade Immortal Realm.
• The Origin Ancient Realm lost most of its origin power and law fragments after Chen Fan absorbed them into his Dao Mark.
• Chen Fan wondered why his nine Senior Fellow Apprentices had stopped cultivating and commented that the origin qi seemed thinner.
• The nine Prodigies silently agreed to end their trial and left the Origin Ancient Realm using their Student Badges.
• Outside the ancient gate, the Vice Dean remarked that opening the realm early for Chen Fan would give the other youngsters a chance to improve.

Chen Fan emerged from the Origin Ancient Realm after draining it of its origin energy and fragments of law, leaving the instructors and his fellow students stunned. The Vice Dean responded with delight, praising Chen Fan as the future of the Human Federation.

• The nine Star River Level Students other than Chen Fan returned early, pale and silent, leaving the instructors alarmed.
• Lin Xuanqing asked Wen Yuan what had happened and where Chen Fan was, but Wen Yuan could only offer a bitter smile.
• Chen Fan emerged from the realm, and the Vice Dean and instructors used their divine senses to discover that its origin energy and fragments of law had vanished.
• Chen Fan asked whether he had accidentally absorbed a little too much, prompting the stunned elders to struggle to contain their anger.
• The Vice Dean laughed and praised Chen Fan as the Qilin Prodigy whom the White Emperor had declared the future of the Human Federation.

After Chen Fan emerged from the Origin Ancient Realm, the Vice Dean appointed him to represent Star River Martial Academy in both contests at the Four Academies Competition. Chen Fan accepted and planned to prepare his junior students, while Lin Xuanqing urged him to spend three months integrating his new Dao mark before showing the other academies the Way of Life.

• The Vice Dean declared that Chen Fan was worth more than ten Origin Ancient Realms, earning Lin Xuanqing respect from the other Chief Instructors.
• The Vice Dean explained the Four Academies Competition and named Chen Fan Star River Martial Academy's representative in both the Freshmen Competition and the Academy Grand Competition.
• The instructors noted that Chen Fan's Seventh Grade Immortal Realm strength far exceeded the usual level of freshmen competitors.
• Chen Fan accepted the assignment and asked to train his junior brothers and sisters so they could compete as a team.
• The Vice Dean told Chen Fan not to rush into another breakthrough and to spend the next three months integrating his Dao mark.
• Old Freak Wang and the New Martial Arts School's Chief Instructor offered Chen Fan encouragement and Sword Dao insights before Lin Xuanqing urged him to show the Way of Life at the competition.

After three months of letting the Dao Mark fuse with his body, Chen Fan departed with Star River Martial Academy’s delegation for the Four Academies Competition at Nine Provinces Martial Academy. The starship left the Tianshu Star System as Chen Fan looked forward to seeing Shen Xuan, Su Qingyue, and Tuo Bashan again.

• Chen Fan spent three months walking, sitting, breathing, and tending a weed as the Dao Mark’s pulses synchronized with his body.
• Lin Xuanqing sent Chen Fan to lead the freshmen to the competition and warned him not to cripple anyone.
• Chen Fan met the twenty-three freshmen and noted a taciturn boy and a tall girl whose aura carried the Life School’s Dao Rhythm.
• Old Freak Wang gathered the delegation and ordered them aboard the starship, which carried Chen Fan and the others toward Nine Provinces Martial Academy.
• Old Freak Wang explained that the Freshmen Competition would come before the Academy Grand Competition and told Chen Fan to compete in both without going all out immediately.
• Chen Fan watched the Tianshu Star System recede and remembered his parting with Shen Xuan, Su Qingyue, and Tuo Bashan.

At Nine Provinces Martial Academy, Tuo Bashan reunited with Shen Xuan and greeted Su Qingyue before Star River Martial Academy arrived. When Chen Fan stepped off its starship, Tuo Bashan charged him with a devastating punch, and Chen Fan calmly reached out to catch it.

• Tuo Bashan promised a fellow apprentice he would not start a fight when the visiting academies arrived.
• Tuo Bashan charged Shen Xuan, then recognized him and greeted him warmly instead of continuing the fight.
• Su Qingyue arrived and greeted Shen Xuan and Tuo Bashan with a nod.
• Chen Fan arrived with Star River Martial Academy, and Tuo Bashan rushed at him with a powerful punch.
• Chen Fan calmly raised his hand and closed his fingers around Tuo Bashan's incoming fist.

Chen Fan effortlessly defeated Tuo Bashan during the academies’ reunion, then joined Shen Xuan, Su Qingyue, and Tuo Bashan for tea at the Nine Provinces Martial Academy. His three friends challenged him to compete the next day, and Chen Fan agreed.

• Chen Fan caught Tuo Bashan’s punch and slammed him into the White Jade Plaza, stunning the watching academies.
• Tuo Bashan leaped from the crater unharmed and praised Chen Fan for becoming much stronger.
• The Nine Provinces Martial Academy’s leading instructor welcomed the visitors and led them to their accommodations.
• That evening, Shen Xuan, Su Qingyue, and Tuo Bashan met Chen Fan and declared they would challenge him in the next day’s competition.
• Chen Fan welcomed his friends’ chosen paths in Martial Dao, and their competitive tension eased into the warmth of their reunion.

The Four Academies Competition began, and the freshmen were sent into the Shattered Ancient Battlefield for a three-day team-points contest where eliminating captains could steal half their teams’ points. After the academies entered the battlefield in separate regions, Shen Xuan, Su Qingyue, and Tuo Bashan each moved to target Chen Fan and the Star River Martial Academy.

• Shen Xuan, Tuo Bashan, and Su Qingyue said farewell to Chen Fan before the competition, and Shen Xuan warned him that the Heavenly Sword Martial Academy aimed to win the freshmen title.
• The Vice Dean announced the competition’s rules: teams earned points by hunting Baleful Spirits, collecting Dao Mark Fragments, and eliminating rival students, with captains worth half their team’s points.
• The four academy teams entered the Shattered Ancient Battlefield through a Spatial Rift, and Chen Fan led the Star River Martial Academy into the unknown.
• In the Eastern Domain, Shen Xuan sensed the battlefield and ordered his team to advance toward the southeast to hunt Chen Fan and the Star River Martial Academy.
• In the Northern Domain, Su Qingyue used her Mental Power to locate the southeastern direction and pointed it out to her team.
• In the Western Domain, Tuo Bashan sensed Chen Fan’s location and charged with his teammates to take him down.

Chen Fan and the Star River Martial Academy were surrounded in the Shattered Ancient Battlefield by the Heavenly Sword, Canghai, and Nine Provinces academies, who joined forces to target him. As Tuo Bashan, Shen Xuan, and Su Qingyue launched their strongest attacks, Chen Fan welcomed the chance to test how much his old friends had improved.

• More than twenty Star River Martial Academy Prodigies arrived in the Southeastern Dead Zone, where they formed a defensive circle around Chen Fan.
• The spectators watched the Heavenly Sword, Canghai, and Nine Provinces academies converge on the Star River group, while their mentors openly tried to recruit Chen Fan.
• Tuo Bashan, Shen Xuan, and Su Qingyue surrounded the Star River disciples and explained that they had joined forces to eliminate Chen Fan first.
• Chen Fan stepped out to meet his three friends and said he was ready to see how much they had improved in the past year.
• Tuo Bashan charged, Shen Xuan attacked with his sword, and Su Qingyue unleashed a Mental Power spear as Chen Fan raised his right hand.

Chen Fan effortlessly absorbed Tuo Bashan, Shen Xuan, and Su Qingyue’s strongest attacks with a World Prototype, then helped them recognize the lack of harmony in their Daos. After the three accepted their defeat and gained new insight, Chen Fan turned his attention to the remaining fights and prepared to win honor for Star River Martial Academy.

• Chen Fan summoned a miniature World Prototype in his palm and absorbed Tuo Bashan’s fist force, Shen Xuan’s sword light, and Su Qingyue’s Spear of Judgment.
• The three attacks vanished without a clash, leaving the battlefield and the spectators stunned by Chen Fan’s control over their different Daos.
• Chen Fan praised his friends’ progress and pointed out that their Daos lacked harmony, prompting Tuo Bashan, Shen Xuan, and Su Qingyue to understand their shortcomings.
• Tuo Bashan admitted defeat, while Shen Xuan and Su Qingyue accepted the outcome and gained new insight into their Daos.
• Chen Fan looked toward the remaining fights and declared it was time to win back honor for Star River Martial Academy.

Chen Fan gently used his Dao Rhythm to eliminate nearly a thousand prodigies from the other three academies, leaving the Star River Martial Academy’s team alone in the shattered Ancient Battlefield. The rival instructors recognized his overwhelming power, while Old Freak Wang celebrated the academy’s good fortune.

• Tuo Bashan, Shen Xuan, and Su Qingyue accepted the outcome of their earlier contest and returned to their teams, readying themselves for Chen Fan’s final assault.
• Chen Fan reassured the Star River Martial Academy disciples, then used a gentle Dao Rhythm to seal the Nine Provinces Martial Academy disciples’ strength and shatter their tokens.
• Chen Fan’s Dao Rhythm dulled the Heavenly Sword Martial Academy disciples’ Sword Intent, and Shen Xuan saluted him before being teleported out.
• Chen Fan calmed the Canghai Martial Academy disciples’ mental power, and Su Qingyue watched him before she and her teammates disappeared.
• Chen Fan asked his fellow disciples to sweep the battlefield and maximize their points, inspiring their awed admiration.
• The other academies’ instructors acknowledged Chen Fan’s Dao lesson, while Old Freak Wang privately wondered whether any amount of hard work could reach Chen Fan’s level.

Chen Fan guided Star River Martial Academy to a perfect score in the freshman competition, and the other academies recognized his extraordinary strength and restraint. As the main event began, the strongest fighters from all four academies assembled to compete for the overall rankings.

• Chen Fan used his Divine Sense to direct Star River Martial Academy's team toward points and away from wasted fights, leading them to a perfect score.
• The team returned to the arena and formed a circle around Chen Fan as the crowd watched in stunned silence.
• The Nine Provinces instructor declared Star River Martial Academy the winner and praised Chen Fan for defeating opponents without humiliating them.
• The Nine Provinces instructor announced the main event of the Academy Grand Competition, which would decide the four academies' rankings.
• The strongest fighters from the four academies emerged, including a towering Nine Provinces warrior, a sword-wielding Heavenly Sword disciple, and a Canghai woman with powerful Mental Power.

Chen Fan joined the Star River Martial Academy's main competition team, shocking the other academies, and accepted a challenge from Zhao Xiaotian of the Nine Provinces Martial Academy. Their fists collided, reducing the White Jade Plaza to dust.

• Chen Fan took the empty place on the Star River Martial Academy's main competition team, and Old Freak Wang announced that he was a team member.
• The other academies' instructors and students were stunned that a freshman had been judged strong enough to compete with their top fighters.
• Zhao Xiaotian challenged Chen Fan to fight him first, and Chen Fan answered respectfully before accepting.
• Zhao Xiaotian struck with his Overlord Body World-Subduing Fist, and Chen Fan met the punch with his own fist.
• Chen Fan and Zhao Xiaotian's fists collided, sending visible ripples through the White Jade Plaza until it crumbled into dust.

Chen Fan fought Zhao Xiaotian to a standstill using physical strength, then defeated him by dissolving his final strike with the Life-and-Death Wheel Disc. Zhao Xiaotian accepted the loss with gratitude, and the crowd’s view of Chen Fan changed completely.

• Chen Fan and Zhao Xiaotian fought more than a hundred rounds of close combat, matching each other’s physical strength.
• Zhao Xiaotian summoned his war god phantom and unleashed his final attack, World-Subduing.
• Chen Fan used the Life-and-Death Wheel Disc to dissolve Zhao Xiaotian’s strike and fighting intent.
• Zhao Xiaotian admitted defeat and thanked Chen Fan for giving him new insight into his Dao.
• The Nine Provinces Martial Academy disciples revered Chen Fan, while Old Freak Wang and the other academy chiefs recognized his extraordinary strength.