Recaps

The Four Academies Competition began as Chen Fan entered the arena and defeated Lin Jingyu and Feng Qi with his death Domain. After his effortless victories left the other contestants hesitant to challenge him, the factions’ leaders praised his Dao and accepted their disciples’ defeats.

• The Nine Provinces elder announced that the main competition would be an individual elimination contest, and Li Qingyun and Zhou Tao began the battles.
• Chen Fan challenged Lin Jingyu and caused her Boundless Canghai Domain to collapse, leading her to admit defeat.
• Feng Qi attacked Chen Fan with rapid afterimages, but Chen Fan’s death Domain withered the attack and forced Feng Qi to concede.
• The other contestants hesitated to challenge Chen Fan, while the faction leaders praised his Dao and sought to console themselves over their disciples’ losses.

After the other contestants withdrew, Chen Fan defeated Wei Yan by using the Law of Life to break through his Immovable Mountain. The Ancient Martial Arts School’s chief disciple remained, challenging Chen Fan to a contest of martial skill alone.

• Several contestants withdrew, leaving Chen Fan, Wei Yan, and the Ancient Martial Arts School’s chief disciple on the White Jade Plaza.
• Chen Fan challenged Wei Yan, who summoned his Immovable Mountain with the Law of Earth.
• Chen Fan infused the mountain with the Law of Life, causing plants to grow through it and dismantle its structure.
• Wei Yan acknowledged Chen Fan’s counter and conceded defeat.
• The Ancient Martial Arts School’s chief disciple opened his eyes and challenged Chen Fan to judge their martial skill without relying on the Dao.

Chen Fan accepted Zhan Kuang’s challenge to fight using martial arts alone and matched the Ancient Martial Arts School’s chief disciple in close combat. Under Zhan Kuang’s strongest attack, Chen Fan broke through to the middle stage of the Seventh Grade Immortal Realm and stopped his punch inches from Zhan Kuang’s brow, leaving the arena stunned.

• Chen Fan withdrew his Life-and-Death Dao Resonance and agreed with Zhan Kuang to fight using martial arts alone.
• Chen Fan and Zhan Kuang traded punches and kicks across the plaza, proving evenly matched through more than a hundred exchanges.
• Zhan Kuang activated a bronze sheen that enhanced his strength and speed, then drove Chen Fan back and cut his cheek.
• Zhan Kuang burned his life and qi and blood to unleash his Pojun Fist as Chen Fan’s Life-and-Death Dao Blood resonated with his World Dao Mark.
• Chen Fan broke through to the middle stage of the Seventh Grade Immortal Realm and shattered the force of Zhan Kuang’s punch, stopping his fist inches from Zhan Kuang’s brow.

After Chen Fan defeated Zhan Kuang and the Four Academies Competition ended, a Red Blood Battle Order announced that the Void Insect Race had attacked all nine defense lines and the Third Defense Line was near collapse. Chen Fan and the Star River Martial Academy prepared to deploy there, but an encrypted communication from Huo Yan stopped him at the starship hatch.

• Zhan Kuang conceded defeat to Chen Fan, ending the Four Academies Competition.
• A Red Blood Battle Order arrived, and a Nine Provinces instructor announced that the Void Insect Race had launched an unprecedented offensive against all nine defense lines, with the Third Defense Line near collapse.
• The chief Prodigies, including Zhan Kuang and Zhao Xiaotian, set aside their rivalries and prepared to answer the conscription order.
• Chen Fan gave Zhan Kuang an emerald-green pill and warned him to be careful on the battlefield.
• Old Freak Wang assigned the Star River Martial Academy to support the Third Defense Line, and Chen Fan led its disciples toward their starship.
• At the starship hatch, Chen Fan received a highest-level encrypted communication request from Huo Yan and stopped to look at it.

Chen Fan received Huo Yan’s desperate call for help from War Zone 450 and chose to divert there with Wen Yuan after Old Freak Wang gave him permission. They arrived as the defenders faced imminent defeat, with Lei Kun, Leng Yan, and Monkey still holding out near the C-4 Gate.

• Huo Yan called Star River Martial Academy from the besieged War Zone 450 and requested a Seventh Grade Immortal Realm expert.
• Chen Fan revealed himself to Huo Yan as Chen Feng, prompting Huo Yan to plead for his help.
• Chen Fan asked Old Freak Wang for permission to go to War Zone 450, and Old Freak Wang told him to choose his own battlefield.
• Wen Yuan joined Chen Fan, declaring that the Life School would advance and retreat together, and they teleported away.
• At the ruined C-4 Gate, wounded Lei Kun fought the insect swarm while Leng Yan fired her overheated Sniper Rifle and Monkey guarded the damaged Communication Amplifier.

Chen Fan and a youth arrived just as the Seventh Grade Insect King was about to kill the remaining warriors, and they swiftly destroyed it and turned the insect tide to flight. Lei Kun, Leng Yan, and Monkey recognized Chen Fan as the former recruit Chen Feng after he revealed that name had been an alias, and Chen Fan caught the wounded Lei Kun and began healing him.

• The Void Predator descended over the battlefield, extinguishing Lei Kun's hope and prompting him to prepare a final charge.
• Chen Fan and a youth appeared beneath the Insect King's raised bone scythe, and Chen Fan bound it with emerald vines.
• The youth touched the Insect King with a Scarlet-Gold Spark, disintegrating it and claiming its Life Core as the insect tide fled.
• The youth offered Lei Kun a life-rich pill and addressed him as Captain Lei, while Lei Kun and the others struggled to recognize him.
• Monkey tentatively called the youth Chen Feng, and Chen Fan confirmed that Chen Feng had been his alias.
• Lei Kun broke into relieved laughter, then began coughing blood, and Chen Fan caught him and sent healing life energy into him.

Chen Fan and Wen Yuan saved Lei Kun, Leng Yan, Monkey, and the surviving warriors from the insect tide. After Chen Fan annihilated the remaining insects, Lei Kun celebrated their victory and demanded that Chen Fan tell him what had happened over the years.

• Chen Fan healed Lei Kun, Leng Yan, and Monkey, then introduced his Senior Fellow Apprentice, Wen Yuan.
• Lei Kun recovered enough to take command and ordered the surviving warriors to clean up the battlefield while Wen Yuan protected them.
• Chen Fan ended the battle by sending billions of golden streaks through the insect tide, killing every remaining insect.
• The surviving warriors celebrated their victory, and Lei Kun grabbed Chen Fan and insisted that they drink together while Chen told him his stories.

Chen Fan and Wen Yuan left Lei Kun to answer urgent calls for aid, rescuing Human Race soldiers at collapsing battle lines. After saving the 398th Battle Line, they continued toward the next crisis as their relentless rescue circuit began to wear them down.

• Wen Yuan received distress calls from the 398th and 412th High-Risk Battle Lines, and Chen Fan left Lei Kun to respond.
• A Human Race Martial God and the Void Insect Race Emperor began battling over a newborn world.
• At the 398th Battle Line, Wen Yuan healed the surviving soldiers while Chen Fan instantly killed a Seventh Grade insect general.
• Chen Fan and Wen Yuan moved on to the next battle line and continued rescuing soldiers for hours without rest.

After Chen Fan and Wen Yuan defeated the Twin Corrosion Kings, the Human Race's Martial God and the Insect Emperor agreed to settle their war through a trial in a newborn world. The decree summoned all fighters below the eighth tier to the Azure Dragon Star Gate, where Chen Fan and Wen Yuan joined the gathering of elite Human Race powerhouses.

• Chen Fan and Wen Yuan fought the Twin Corrosion Kings at a damaged interstellar fortress and destroyed them after a grueling battle.
• Exhausted by the ongoing war, Chen Fan resolved to gain the strength to turn its course around.
• The Insect Emperor proposed that descendants below the eighth tier compete for a newborn world, and the Human Race's Martial God agreed.
• A divine decree summoned all Martial Artists below the eighth tier to assemble at the Azure Dragon Star Gate for the final trial.
• Chen Fan and Wen Yuan raced to the Star Gate and took their places among the assembled peak Seventh Grade powerhouses.

The Martial God opened the Azure Dragon Star Gate and sent Chen Fan, Wen Yuan, and other powerful Martial Artists into the Nascent World for the Final Trial. Chen Fan arrived above a vast primeval continent, where a curious mountain-sized beast gently tested him with a claw, and he prepared to fight.

• The Martial God inspected the army, briefly acknowledged Chen Fan, and declared that the Nascent World would be the Final Trial and the Path to Godhood.
• The Martial God opened the Azure Dragon Star Gate, and Chen Fan, Wen Yuan, and dozens of other powerful figures entered the vortex for the Human Race.
• Chen Fan endured the laws that broke down and reconstructed his body and Divine Soul, then found himself falling over a vast primeval continent.
• A mountain-sized beast awoke beneath Chen Fan and curiously swiped at him, stirring the Nascent World's Spatial Law.
• Chen Fan evaded the claw, apologized to the beast, and silently prepared to fight.

Chen Fan killed the primordial giant beast by using the World Seal Dao Mark to drain its Life Origin and claimed its crystalline core. As Seventh Grade Immortal Realm elites of the Insect Race arrived to seize the core, Chen Fan waited calmly and faced their attack.

• Chen Fan exchanged blows with the giant beast, then used his Life-and-Death Domain to withstand its destructive light and recognized the limits of its power.
• Chen Fan pressed the World Seal Dao Mark against the beast and drained its Life Origin until its body turned to dust, leaving behind a gigantic crystalline core.
• Chen Fan sat on the core as dozens of powerful wills approached, then waited with his aura withdrawn.
• More than a dozen Insect Race elites surrounded Chen Fan and demanded that he hand over the core.
• Chen Fan refused, and the mantis-shaped leader ordered the group to kill him.
• The Insect Race launched a coordinated assault, and Chen Fan stayed seated and raised a finger to tap the space before him.

Chen Fan annihilated the Insect Race attackers with his Life-and-Death Dao Principles, then refined the giant beast’s core in seclusion. His power and Dao Mark grew substantially, but he stopped just short of breaking through to the Late Stage of the Seventh Grade Immortal Realm.

• Chen Fan’s gray ripples erased the Insect Race experts’ attacks and drained their Life Origins, turning them to dust.
• The mantis leader fled, but Chen Fan caught it with a gray thread and made it vanish; he collected the attackers’ Life Cores.
• Chen Fan set up a formation to conceal the disturbance and began refining the giant beast’s core with the Life-and-Death Furnace.
• As Chen Fan cultivated, signs of life and annihilation cycled within the formation while the outside remained undisturbed.
• After the core crumbled to ash, Chen Fan opened his eyes with greatly increased power but remained just short of a breakthrough.

After absorbing a native life-form’s origin core, Chen Fan mastered his increased power and tracked another strong presence to a canyon, where a Human Race team was fighting a Void Insect Emperor Offspring. He saved a team member from the creature’s attack, and as the team opened a chance for him to strike, the offspring unleashed a sea of black fire at him.

• Chen Fan harmonized his increased power with his Dao Marks, then sensed another powerful life-form and set out to hunt it.
• Chen Fan found seven Human Race experts in a canyon, struggling to contain a Void Insect Emperor Offspring.
• Captain Wei Tian called on Chen Fan for help, and Chen Fan stepped out of the shadows and calmly assessed the fight.
• When the offspring attacked a weakened team member, Chen Fan dispelled its strike with a casual motion and a ripple of Dao Rhythm.
• Wei Tian’s team shifted formation to bind the offspring and create an opening, but the creature focused on Chen Fan and unleashed a sweeping sea of black fire.

Chen Fan effortlessly destroyed the imperial heir and declined Wei Tian's invitation to travel with the Heavenly Blade Squad. After leaving them, he secluded himself in a cave and began absorbing the Imperial Heir Core to strengthen the World Seal.

• Chen Fan annihilated the imperial heir's black flames and body, leaving its Life Core behind.
• Wei Tian and the Heavenly Blade Squad saluted Chen Fan and thanked him for saving their lives.
• Wei Tian invited Chen Fan to travel with the squad, but Chen Fan declined because he preferred to travel alone.
• Wei Tian rebuked a squad member for accusing Chen Fan of looking down on them, and Chen Fan bid the squad farewell before vanishing.
• Chen Fan settled in a concealed cave and used the Life-and-Death Furnace to absorb the Imperial Heir Core, causing the World Seal's Dao Mark to grow clearer.

Chen Fan broke through to the late stage of the Seventh Grade Immortal Realm, then followed a mysterious golden pillar to a standoff between the Human Race and the Insect Race. He reunited with Wen Yuan, who explained that the pillar concealed World Ruins containing a possible opportunity related to the Eighth Grade Secret, and both armies were waiting for them to stabilize.

• Chen Fan reached the late stage of the Seventh Grade Immortal Realm and concealed his power.
• A golden pillar appeared on the horizon, and Chen Fan's World Dao Mark resonated with it, drawing him toward the source.
• Chen Fan found the Human Race and Insect Race armies facing each other across a plain beneath the pillar.
• Chen Fan silently joined the Human Race ranks and surprised Wen Yuan, who sensed that Chen Fan had reached the late stage.
• Wen Yuan told Chen Fan that the pillar contained World Ruins from an ancient shattered world, and both sides were waiting for the ruins to stabilize before entering.

Chen Fan killed a taunting Spider Emperor with a casual finger strike just as the World Ruins opened. With the Insect Race rushing for the entrance, Wen Yuan ordered the Human Race army to enter and warned Chen Fan about the ruins’ unstable space.

• Chen Fan stepped out before the Human Race army and ignored the Spider Emperor’s taunts.
• Chen Fan killed the Seventh Grade Late Stage Spider Emperor with a wisp of gray air, destroying its body and soul.
• The World Ruins opened, and an ancient will commanded the Insect Race to enter and seize them.
• Wen Yuan ordered the Human Race army to enter the ruins in formation and avoid getting caught up in fighting.
• Wen Yuan warned Chen Fan that the ruins could teleport entrants at random, and Chen Fan reassured him.

Chen Fan used his World Dao Mark to find the ruins’ central opportunity and fought his way through Insect Race patrols to reach an ancient altar. He arrived to find Wen Yuan and the other Star River Level Students facing off against another faction, with a powerful force beginning to awaken at the altar.

• Chen Fan and eight other Star River Level Students charged through the gate, but spatial turbulence scattered them across the ruins.
• Chen Fan mapped his surroundings with divine sense and followed the World Dao Mark’s resonance toward the central singularity.
• Chen Fan killed three mid-Seventh Grade insect generals and absorbed their Life Cores and Life Origin.
• Chen Fan continued toward the altar, killing more Insect Race elites and using their Life Origin to strengthen his cultivation.
• Chen Fan reached a ruined ancient altar where an aura nearing the Eighth Grade was taking shape, and found Wen Yuan and the other eight Star River Level Students holding a battle formation against another faction.

Chen Fan returned to the Human Race camp as the Three Great Insect Emperor Heirs waited for a strange treasure to emerge. When the black demonic scythe heir attacked, Chen Fan stepped forward alone and raised his bare hand to meet its strike.

• The Three Great Insect Emperor Heirs faced the Human Race camp while waiting for the strange treasure to form.
• Chen Fan silently rejoined the Human Race formation, and Wen Yuan warned him that the battlefield was too dangerous.
• Chen Fan reassured Wen Yuan that he had only cleared away a few minor nuisances nearby.
• The black demonic scythe heir took offense at Chen Fan's scrutinizing gaze and launched a near-Eighth Grade attack at him and the Human Race formation.
• Wen Yuan and the other Star River Level Students prepared to defend against the strike, but Chen Fan stopped Wen Yuan and faced the attack alone with his bare hand.

Chen Fan effortlessly killed the Black Demon Scythe offspring and claimed its Life Core, then refused his companions’ help and chose to face two enraged Insect Emperor offspring alone. As the Human Race fought off the advancing insect army, Chen Fan turned to confront the pair.

• Chen Fan caught the Black Demon Scythe offspring’s attack barehanded, shattered it with Annihilation Dao Principles, and took its Insect Emperor Core.
• Chen Fan taunted the Dark Gold Spider Emperor offspring and the pitch-black sludge offspring, provoking them to unleash Spatial Law and Poison Law against him.
• The enraged Insect Race army surged toward the Human Race, and Wen Yuan began preparing to protect Chen Fan.
• Chen Fan calmed Wen Yuan, thanked his companions, and said he would fight the two offspring alone while they dealt with the insect army.
• The Human Race met the oncoming insect tide, while Chen Fan turned back toward the two offspring with a ruthless, indifferent gaze.

Chen Fan used his Life-and-Death Dao law domain to defeat the Dark Gold Spider Emperor's offspring and the sludge offspring, then turned his attention to the ancient altar. The armies of the Human Race and the Insect Race stood stunned as he faced the altar's supreme aura.

• The Dark Gold Spider Emperor's offspring and the sludge offspring attacked Chen Fan together with spatial blades and a corrosive poisonous swamp.
• Chen Fan unfolded his Life-and-Death Dao law domain, which destroyed the spatial blades and purified the poisonous swamp.
• Chen Fan sealed the Dark Gold Spider Emperor's offspring in solidified space and crushed it, leaving its Life Core in his palm.
• The sludge offspring split into hundreds of millions of black streams to escape, but Chen Fan drew them all back and swallowed them.
• Chen Fan turned from the silent Human Race and Insect Race armies and fixed his gaze on the ancient altar.

After defeating the Insect Race heirs, Chen Fan reached the trial altar and received the Human Race’s support to claim its ultimate treasure. As he absorbed its Origin Power and neared a breakthrough, the Insect Emperor secretly sent a death curse into the Trial Small World.

• Chen Fan pocketed the second Insect Emperor Core and walked toward the altar while the surviving Insect Race forces cowered before him.
• The Insect Emperor tried to attack the Trial Small World, but the Martial God erased his Destruction Law and warned him that the Betting Agreement was still in effect.
• Chen Fan climbed the altar’s steps and found a mass of liquid light containing the trial’s ultimate opportunity.
• Chen Fan asked Wen Yuan and the other Human Race Prodigies for permission to take the treasure, and they agreed that he deserved it.
• Chen Fan absorbed the treasure’s Origin Power, strengthening his Life-and-Death Dao Blood as he approached the Eighth Grade Realm.
• The Insect Emperor concealed a wisp of origin as a death curse and sent it silently toward the Trial Small World.

Chen Fan abandoned his chance to complete his breakthrough and used his Dao Fruit to shield the Human Race Prodigies from the Insect Emperor’s death curse, leaving himself gravely injured. He then drove the Insect Race forces into a panicked retreat with a single command.

• The Human Race Martial God erased almost all of the Insect Emperor’s strike, but a wisp of gray aura slipped through into the ruins.
• As the aura suppressed the people below, Chen Fan severed his connection to the Origin light and gave up his chance to perfect his Dao Fruit.
• Chen Fan manifested an illusory world with his World Dao Mark and used it to intercept the emperor’s aura, which destroyed the world and injured him.
• Wen Yuan rushed to Chen Fan with divine pills, but Chen Fan refused the medicine and told him he had done what he should.
• Chen Fan spotted Insect Race generals testing his weakness and ordered them to scram, sending their forces fleeing in a deadly stampede.

Chen Fan absorbed the Origin light and broke through to the eighth-grade realm while tens of thousands of Human Race Prodigies guarded him. After the trial ended, he led them out of the ruins, where instructors waited anxiously at the Azure Dragon Star Gate as a Human Race Martial God faced an Insect Race Emperor.

• Wen Yuan and the Human Race Prodigies formed a defensive formation around Chen Fan so he could continue his breakthrough.
• Chen Fan absorbed the Origin light, completed his World Dao Mark, and reached the eighth-grade realm.
• Wen Yuan and the Prodigies congratulated Chen Fan, and Zhao Xiaotian and Wei Tian thanked him for saving them.
• Chen Fan announced that the trial was over, assembled the Prodigies, and led them toward the guiding light to return home.
• At the Azure Dragon Star Gate, Lin Xuanqing and Old Freak Wang waited for the group to emerge while a Human Race Martial God faced an Insect Race Emperor.

Chen Fan returned safely from the ruins after reaching the eighth tier, but Wen Yuan revealed that the Insect Emperor had nearly killed him with an emperor’s death curse. Lin Xuanqing struck back and wounded the Insect Emperor with the Martial God’s support, leaving Chen Fan more determined to grow stronger.

• Chen Fan and Wen Yuan emerged from the Star Gate with the Human Race Prodigies, and Chen Fan told Lin Xuanqing he had safely reached the eighth tier.
• Wen Yuan reported that the Insect Emperor had broken the Betting Agreement and that Chen Fan had used his Dao Fruit to withstand an emperor’s death curse.
• Lin Xuanqing learned Chen Fan had nearly died and unleashed a peak Annihilation Divine Light attack at the Insect Emperor.
• The Martial God empowered and concealed Lin Xuanqing’s attack, which struck a crack into the Insect Emperor’s carapace and drew imperial blood.
• The Martial God shielded Lin Xuanqing from the Insect Emperor’s killing intent and declared that the strike was payment for breaking the rules.
• Chen Fan watched his master and the Martial God protect him, and his desire for power grew stronger.

As the Void Insect Race launched an all-out assault on the Human Race, Chen Fan killed a mid-eighth-tier insect that threatened the Prodigies' flank. His feat rallied the Human forces, while Lin Xuanqing continued battling a Ninth Grade offspring of the Insect Emperor.

• The Insect Emperor issued the Blood Tide decree, triggering a massive Void Insect invasion at the Azure Dragon Star Gate.
• Old Freak Wang organized the Human Race's Prodigies into a defensive formation as instructors engaged the invading high-tier insects.
• A Void Shadow Scythe bypassed the main battlefield and attacked Wen Yuan's group, but Chen Fan stepped in to protect them.
• Chen Fan controlled the surrounding space, crushed the eighth-tier insect, and took its Life Core.
• Old Freak Wang announced Chen Fan's victory, inspiring the Human forces to fight back more fiercely.
• Lin Xuanqing learned of Chen Fan's feat while battling a Ninth Grade insect on the main battlefield.