Recaps

Xiao Han scored full marks on Class Seven’s theory test, surprising Lei Ming and Zhou Kai. When Lei Ming challenged him in the combat test, Xiao Han accepted, and their fight began.

• Xiao Han finished the theory test in under five minutes and earned full marks, drawing Lei Ming’s disbelief and Zhou Kai’s newfound interest.
• Zhou Kai led Class Seven to the training ground and explained that students would be matched for combat evaluations.
• Lei Ming defeated a seventh-level Warrior Realm student, destroying his Wind Sparrow Martial Soul and breaking his arm with a single attack.
• Lei Ming challenged Xiao Han to test the theory top scorer’s combat ability, and Xiao Han accepted.
• Xiao Han and Lei Ming faced each other in the arena, and Zhou Kai started their match.

Xiao Han evaded Lei Ming’s attacks on the arena until Lei Ming used Martial Soul possession and launched a sweeping claw assault. Xiao Han countered with Annihilation Divine Fist, defeating Lei Ming with one punch and leaving him unconscious.

• Lei Ming charged Xiao Han with Savage Bear Charge, but Xiao Han dodged easily using A Step to the Ends of the Earth.
• Lei Ming repeatedly attacked while Xiao Han evaded, prompting the students to question their assumptions about Xiao Han’s abilities.
• Enraged, Lei Ming merged with his Earth-Splitting Savage Bear Martial Soul and unleashed Earth-Splitting Savage Claws.
• Xiao Han struck Lei Ming’s unstable chest with Annihilation Divine Fist, sending him into the arena’s energy shield.
• Lei Ming fell unconscious with a caved-in chest and barely discernible breath.

Xiao Han defeated Lei Ming, a peak ninth-level Warrior Realm cultivator, with one punch, shocking Class Seven and changing Zhou Kai’s attitude toward him. As Zhou Kai tried to win him over, a Martial Master Realm student arrived with several powerful companions and challenged Xiao Han’s reputation.

• Xiao Han knocked Lei Ming unconscious with a single punch, despite Lei Ming’s Martial Soul possession.
• Zhou Kai declared Xiao Han the winner with an excellent combat rating and decided to report his strength to the academy.
• Xiao Han returned to his seat while the students reacted with shock and Lei Ming’s followers feared him.
• Zhou Kai apologized for neglecting Xiao Han and offered him help and cultivation resources.
• A group led by a newly advanced Martial Master Realm student entered, and the leader asked Xiao Han if he was the one who had defeated Lei Ming.

Chen Feng from Class 3 challenged Xiao Han to prove that the Class 7 student could not overcome the gap between the Warrior and Martial Master realms. Xiao Han accepted, and the chapter ended as their duel began at the Central Combat Arena.

• Chen Feng arrived at Class 7 and mocked Xiao Han before challenging him to a fight.
• Xiao Han’s God-Level Choice System offered him rewards for accepting and defeating Chen Feng, so he agreed to the challenge.
• Chen Feng proposed a half-hour preparation period, but Xiao Han insisted on fighting immediately.
• News of the duel spread, drawing students to Ring Number 3, where most spectators bet on Chen Feng.
• Xiao Han and Chen Feng took their positions, and the referee teacher announced the start of the duel.

Xiao Han faced Chen Feng’s Martial Master Realm pressure and attacks without being hindered, then used his shadow movement technique to strike Chen Feng from behind. Chen Feng’s defenses broke, and he was sent flying as Xiao Han’s devastating blows injured him severely.

• Chen Feng unleashed the aura of his Gale Demon Wolf Martial Soul and Domain Prototype, but Xiao Han remained unmoved.
• Chen Feng attacked with Swift Wind Wolf Claw, and Xiao Han vanished into a shadow to evade it.
• Xiao Han emerged behind Chen Feng as Chen Feng searched for him and tried to turn and defend himself.
• Xiao Han struck Chen Feng with Shadow Devour and Annihilation Divine Fist, shattering his protective barrier and injuring him severely.
• Chen Feng spat blood and fragments of his internal organs as Xiao Han’s blows sent him flying across the arena.

Xiao Han defeated Chen Feng in one move at the Central Combat Arena, stunning the academy and earning a Breakthrough Talisman. As news of the fight spread, Zhou Kai reported Xiao Han to the Martial Arts Institute, while Lin Qingxia began reviewing the battle information.

• Xiao Han struck Chen Feng with a swift surprise attack and left him too injured to concede.
• The referee declared Xiao Han the winner, and the crowd erupted in cheers.
• Xiao Han received a Breakthrough Talisman and gained proficiency in the Annihilation Divine Fist.
• News and video of Xiao Han's victory spread through Imperial Capital Academy, prompting speculation about his background.
• Zhou Kai sent the battle video and a cautious report about Xiao Han to the Martial Arts Institute's academic affairs office.
• Lin Qingxia reviewed the information about Xiao Han on her light screen.

After Xiao Han defeated Chen Feng, Lin Qingxia summoned him to question his strength and hear about the inheritance he claimed to have found. Impressed by his potential, she offered to transfer him to the core Zero Class, and the system presented him with a choice.

• Lin Qingxia reviewed Xiao Han's fight with Chen Feng and ordered Zhou Kai to bring him to her office.
• Xiao Han met Lin Qingxia, who questioned how he had defeated a Martial Master while at the Sixth Level of the Warrior Realm.
• Xiao Han attributed his skills and rapid improvement to a special inheritance from a senior expert, and Lin Qingxia accepted his explanation without probing further.
• Lin Qingxia said Xiao Han's potential made Class Seven unsuitable and offered to transfer him to Zero Class.
• The God-Level Choice System gave Xiao Han a choice between joining Zero Class for academy resources and credits or remaining in Class Seven for concealment and cultivation rewards.

Xiao Han chose to join Zero Class and arrived to face contempt from its elite students, especially Luo Bing. Instructor Qin Zhen assigned the class a seven-day team competition to gather Shadow Crystal Orchids, leaving Xiao Han’s place on a team and the challenge ahead unresolved.

• Xiao Han chose Zero Class after Lin Qingxia warned him about its fierce competition and promised to personally teach him.
• Xiao Han arrived at the isolated Zero Class platform, where students mocked his Sixth Level Warrior Realm cultivation.
• Qin Zhen introduced Xiao Han as Zero Class’s new member, prompting discontent from the students and a scornful remark from Luo Bing.
• Qin Zhen announced a seven-day team competition in the Dark Gloom Forest to collect Shadow Crystal Orchids, with rewards for the top three teams and penalties for the last-place team.

Xiao Han was assigned to Xia Yubing’s team for a wolf-hunting warm-up mission despite his teammates’ disdain. After scouting the hunting ground, he found a large pack of Ironback Gray Wolves, including two at the Third Level of the Martial Master Realm, then caught the scent of blood and signs of another disturbance as he withdrew.

• Qin Zhen assigned teamless Xiao Han to Xia Yubing’s team after she offered to take him in.
• Qin Zhen announced that teams had to hunt ten Ironback Gray Wolf heart crystal cores, with the fastest and best-coordinated team earning first choice of its starting area for the Dark Gloom Forest mission.
• At the West Mountain Hunting Ground, Gao Zhuang and Shouhou ordered Xiao Han to scout ahead, while Xia Yubing objected and Leng Yue stayed silent.
• Xiao Han used A Step to the Ends of the Earth and his shadow affinity to reach a rocky area, where he spotted twenty or thirty Ironback Gray Wolves, including two at the Third Level of the Martial Master Realm.
• Xiao Han quietly withdrew, but then smelled stronger blood and wolves and heard a disturbance nearby.

Xiao Han returned to save his teammates from a pack of Ironback Gray Wolves and slaughtered the wolves, including their two powerful alpha wolves. He collected the alpha wolves’ heart crystal cores and left the others to gather the rest.

• A pack of at least fifty Ironback Gray Wolves surrounded Gao Zhuang, Shouhou, Leng Yue, and Xia Yubing while Xiao Han was away.
• Gao Zhuang and Shouhou blamed Xiao Han for leading the wolves to them as their defense began to fail.
• Xiao Han returned, called his teammates trash, and used his speed and Annihilation Divine Fist to kill the wolves attacking them.
• Xiao Han killed both alpha wolves, binding one with the shadows stirred by the Eternal Night Monarch before striking it down.
• Xiao Han extracted the two alpha wolves’ heart crystal cores and told his teammates to collect the remaining cores themselves.

After Xiao Han’s team completed its mission, Instructor Qin Zhen awarded them an excellent grade and publicly praised Xiao Han, shocking the Class Zero students. Qin Zhen then announced that the Trial Secret Realm would open in three days, outlining its rewards and deadly risks.

• Gao Zhuang, Shouhou, Leng Yue, and Xia Yubing thanked Xiao Han after his team gathered the required crystal cores.
• Xiao Han’s team returned to the gathering point, where Qin Zhen gave them an excellent grade and praised Xiao Han.
• Luo Bing and the other students reacted with surprise and disbelief at Xiao Han’s achievement.
• Qin Zhen announced that the Trial Secret Realm would open in three days and explained how students could earn trial points and rewards.
• Qin Zhen warned that the secret realm’s beasts, dangerous terrain, and competition could cost students their lives, and said they would have to sign a life-and-death waiver.

After choosing to pursue the Peak Hunter achievement in the trial secret realm, Xiao Han spent three days preparing and training, hoping to find a clue to the Shadow Demon Lotus. As the secret realm approached, he had gathered supplies and refined his techniques and Martial Souls, but had not yet entered it.

• Qin Zhen announced that Zero Class students would enter the trial secret realm first and choose their initial landing zones, then dismissed them to prepare for three days.
• Xiao Han chose to enter the secret realm and pursue the Peak Hunter achievement, which required him to kill a peak ninth-level Martial Master Realm exotic beast, in return for a Shadow Demon Lotus clue and movement-technique insights.
• Xiao Han bought healing and spiritual-power pills and learned of areas with abnormal shadow or spatial energy, including the Dark Gloom Forest, Black Marsh, Shadow Canyon, and Space-Time Turbulence Zone.
• Xiao Han trained in the Zero Class gravity room, strengthening his mastery of A Step to the Ends of the Earth and Annihilation Divine Fist while consolidating his sixth-level Warrior Realm cultivation.
• Xiao Han sensed the growing powers of his Chaos Green Lotus and Eternal Night Monarch Martial Souls, whose embryonic domains could already influence their surroundings.

Xiao Han entered the Trial Secret Realm with Zero Class and discovered that its dark, decaying energy greatly strengthened his Eternal Night King Martial Soul. As Zero Class began exploring the Black Mist Forest, he secretly killed a Shadow Leopard, drawing Luo Bing’s attention.

• Xiao Han refused Gao Zhuang, Shouhou, and Leng Yue when they asked to join him, then waited for the Trial Secret Realm to open.
• Luo Bing led Zero Class through the spatial gate, and Xiao Han followed into the Black Mist Forest.
• Xiao Han’s Eternal Night King Martial Soul absorbed the forest’s dark energy through Shadow Devour at more than three times its usual efficiency.
• Luo Bing organized Zero Class into groups and led them deeper into the forest as three Shadow Leopards attacked the students.
• Xiao Han killed a Shadow Leopard with a concealed punch, and Luo Bing noticed his strength and apparent suppressive effect on shadow-type beasts.

Xiao Han absorbed the energy of the Black Mist Forest’s exotic beasts, strengthening his Eternal Night King Martial Soul and drawing suspicion from Luo Bing and the other students. After sensing a space-and-shadow resonance deep in the forest, he slipped away from Class Zero and encountered three Black-Scaled Demon Leopards.

• Xiao Han used [Shadow Devour] on the three slain shadow cheetahs and continued absorbing energy from the forest’s exotic beasts.
• Xiao Han’s Martial Soul grew stronger as he fought the beasts, while Luo Bing became wary of his abilities and the other students began to respect him.
• The Eternal Night King Martial Soul sensed a familiar space-and-shadow fluctuation deep in the Black Mist Forest, reminding Xiao Han of the Shadow Demon Lotus.
• Xiao Han vanished from the Class Zero group using A Step to the Ends of the Earth and traveled deeper into the forest alone.
• Xiao Han absorbed the oppressive dark energy as he advanced, strengthening his Martial Soul and improving his shadow techniques.
• Three Martial Master Realm Fourth Level Black-Scaled Demon Leopards attacked Xiao Han, but he dissolved into wisps of black smoke and evaded their pounce.

Xiao Han killed several waves of beasts in the black fog, absorbing their shadow energy and remnants to strengthen the Eternal Night Monarch Martial Soul. He found an ancient ruin behind a dangerous shadow barrier, which welcomed his Martial Soul and opened a passage as he stepped inside.

• Xiao Han killed three Black-Scaled Demon Leopards with his Annihilation Divine Fist, Shadow Binding, and Green Lotus Finger, then absorbed their shadow energy and soul fragments.
• Xiao Han collected the demon leopards’ crystal cores and sensed that the Eternal Night Monarch Martial Soul was close to its first transformation.
• Xiao Han defeated more blind-eyed beasts and a Soul-Devouring Dread Crow as he traveled deeper into the black fog, strengthening his Martial Soul.
• Xiao Han discovered an ancient black-stone structure that shared its aura of space and shadow with the Shadow Demon Lotus.
• Xiao Han approached the distorted shadow barrier, which resonated with his Eternal Night Monarch Martial Soul and opened a passage for him.
• Xiao Han stepped through the barrier and found himself in another dimension.

Xiao Han entered a hidden ruin tied to his twin Martial Souls and discovered frescoes depicting their ancient origins and a disastrous war. A powerful guardian attacked him, leaving him badly wounded as the chapter ended.

• Xiao Han found himself trapped in a twisted corridor after the Black Fog Forest vanished, and the Eternal Night King Martial Soul guided him through the unstable space.
• Xiao Han reached a ruined grand hall and saw frescoes showing the Chaos Green Lotus and Eternal Night Monarch battling strange enemies before their defeat and dispersal across worlds.
• Xiao Han wondered whether his transmigration and twin Martial Souls were connected to the ancient war depicted in the frescoes.
• A Martial Grandmaster Realm ruin guardian emerged from the shadows and struck Xiao Han with a spatial shadow ray.
• Xiao Han dodged most of the attack with A Step to the Ends of the Earth, but the ray cut his shoulder and drove destructive energy into his body before the Chaos Green Lotus began healing him.

Xiao Han was nearly killed by the ruin guardian’s swift, spatially distorting attacks, but the God-Level Choice System offered him escape or a near-impossible fight. He chose to challenge the Martial Grandmaster Realm guardian, awakened both Martial Souls at full power, and charged into its next strike with the Annihilation Divine Fist.

• The guardian struck Xiao Han from behind, tore through his shadow shield, and left him gravely wounded despite the Chaos Green Lotus healing him.
• As the guardian gathered energy for another attack, the God-Level Choice System offered Xiao Han a costly escape or a chance to defeat the guardian and claim the ruin’s core inheritance.
• Xiao Han rejected escape and chose to fight for the Shadow Void Scripture, an Eternal Night King Martial Soul evolution opportunity, and a clue to the next Annihilation Divine Fist fragment.
• The Chaos Green Lotus and Eternal Night Monarch manifested at full power, expanding their opposing Domain Prototypes and restoring Xiao Han’s strength.
• Xiao Han charged the guardian and unleashed the Annihilation Divine Fist, combining its fist intent with dark energy.

Xiao Han survived the guardian’s overwhelming attack by exploiting its momentary surprise and striking its black crystal core with a fusion of his Martial Souls’ powers. He cracked the crystal but was gravely injured, and the enraged guardian turned its full killing intent on him.

• The guardian’s destructive energy overwhelmed Xiao Han, whose injuries worsened despite the Chaos Green Lotus’s efforts to heal him.
• The guardian briefly reacted with surprise when the phantoms of Xiao Han’s two Martial Souls fully manifested, giving him an opening.
• Xiao Han used A Step to the Ends of the Earth to evade the guardian’s attack and struck its chest crystal with Annihilation Divine Fist.
• Xiao Han’s fused powers cracked the guardian’s crystal, causing it to roar in pain and release a violent energy storm.
• The storm hurled Xiao Han into a ruined pillar, but the Chaos Green Lotus kept him alive as he realized the guardian could be wounded.
• The guardian saw the crack in its core and became enraged, directing icy killing intent at Xiao Han.

Xiao Han struggled to evade the guardian’s pitch-black war spear while using his Martial Souls to endure his injuries and study its attacks. He provoked the guardian into a faster, more targeted assault, leaving himself trapped in a shrinking cage of spatial blades.

• The guardian forged a pitch-black war spear from darkness and shattered space, and Xiao Han realized he was too exhausted to block it.
• Xiao Han used “A Step to the Ends of the Earth” with his Eternal Night King Martial Soul to dodge the spear, but spatial rifts and shockwaves badly wounded him.
• The Chaos Green Lotus Martial Soul tried to heal Xiao Han, while its light and his Eternal Night Monarch’s heightened perception helped him detect fluctuations in the guardian’s attacks.
• Xiao Han noticed the guardian’s chest crystal and several body points flashed with energy during its spatial attacks, and he suspected those points were nodes controlling its precision.
• Xiao Han changed his evasions to move closer to the guardian and taunted it into changing its attack pattern.
• The guardian unleashed rapid, narrow spatial blades that predicted Xiao Han’s dodges and steadily closed off his room to escape.

Xiao Han discovered that the guardian's rapidly changing attack relied on vulnerable energy nodes, then gambled his remaining strength on a concentrated Annihilation Divine Fist. He fused the power of his two Martial Souls and charged straight for the black crystal at the guardian's core as it prepared a killing blow.

• The guardian's spatial cuts tore into Xiao Han's leg and waist, suppressing the Chaos Green Lotus's healing.
• Xiao Han realized the guardian's violent energy fluctuations revealed the nodes supporting its attack pattern.
• As the guardian gathered energy for a stronger strike, Xiao Han concentrated his remaining power into the Annihilation Divine Fist.
• Xiao Han burned his life essence and fused annihilation, darkness, and purification through the power of the Chaos Green Lotus and Eternal Night Monarch.
• Xiao Han used A Step to the Ends of the Earth to charge at the guardian and target the black crystal at the center of its energy.

Xiao Han risked being gravely wounded to strike the guardian’s core crystal, cracking it and sending the guardian into a destructive rage. Though badly injured, he survived and began evading its erratic attacks, sensing a possible opening.

• Xiao Han used A Step to the Ends of the Earth to slip past the guardian’s spear at the cost of losing his left shoulder and part of his chest.
• Xiao Han struck the guardian’s core crystal with his right fist and spread cracks across it.
• The guardian’s damaged core caused its spear energy to explode, hurling Xiao Han into a wall and leaving him near death.
• The guardian unleashed chaotic blades of fractured space throughout the sacrificial hall while Xiao Han’s Chaos Green Lotus kept him alive and repaired his body.
• Xiao Han pulled himself from the wall and dodged the spatial blades, taking another wound as he recognized that the guardian’s rage had weakened its precision.
• Xiao Han began circulating the Creation-Heaven-Penetrating Art to draw power from the surrounding chaotic energy.

Xiao Han formed an unstable Domain by merging the Chaos Green Lotus and Eternal Night Monarch’s powers, giving him a brief reprieve against the guardian. As the guardian’s core began to heal, Xiao Han searched the sacrificial hall’s murals for a way to defeat it and spotted a depiction of the same hall at the end of an ancient battle.

• Xiao Han forced the Chaos Green Lotus and Eternal Night Monarch’s Domain powers to overlap, weakening the guardian’s suppression and making his evasive movements easier.
• Xiao Han harassed the guardian with Annihilation Fist Intent, but noticed its cracked core slowly healing from the surrounding shadow energy.
• Xiao Han searched the sacrificial hall’s murals and pillars for information about the guardian, but the guardian struck him and tore flesh from his waist.
• The system told Xiao Han it had given him a hint and warned that the guardian would soon recover fully.
• Xiao Han studied the murals, saw the guardian among the enemies’ servants or weapons, and recognized the sacrificial hall in a scene depicting the end of the ancient battle.

Xiao Han discovered that the guardian was controlled by a runic network throughout the sacrificial hall, with its chest crystal serving as the network’s hub. He raced toward a rune-covered pillar despite the guardian’s desperate assault, and prepared to strike with the last of his power.

• Xiao Han sensed a connection between his Eternal Night King Martial Soul and the ruins, revealing runes hidden in the hall’s pillars and murals.
• Xiao Han understood that the guardian drew power from the ruins through a network of runic nodes, and that the nodes were its true weakness.
• Xiao Han changed course and moved toward a rune-covered stone pillar.
• The guardian abandoned repairing its chest crystal and unleashed a fierce attack to stop Xiao Han from reaching the pillar.
• Xiao Han poured his remaining spiritual and origin power into his legs and right fist.

Xiao Han destroyed the core rune in the stone pillar, weakening the Guardian but triggering a lethal energy backlash that trapped him. Facing attacks from both sides, he gambled everything on striking the cracked crystal in the Guardian’s chest, and his fist began dissolving the incoming forces as the Guardian showed terror.

• Xiao Han charged through the Guardian’s spatial blades and smashed the stone pillar’s core rune with his fist.
• The shattered rune destabilized the pillar’s energy and weakened the Guardian, but its backlash pinned Xiao Han against the pillar as the Guardian’s beam pursued him.
• Xiao Han recognized the Guardian’s cracked chest crystal as its vulnerable point and gathered his remaining strength for a final attack.
• The Chaos Green Lotus poured life force into Xiao Han as he merged his powers into a fist that dissolved the backlash and the edge of the Guardian’s beam.
• The Guardian showed terror as Xiao Han’s chaotic fist advanced toward its chest crystal.

Xiao Han defeated the ruins guardian despite his far lower cultivation, earning major system rewards before collapsing from his injuries. As the Chaos Green Lotus began healing him, he struggled to sit up and discovered a deep, rotating energy vortex where the guardian had vanished.

• Xiao Han shattered the guardian's black crystal core with his final punch, causing the guardian to disintegrate.
• The system awarded Xiao Han an SSS+ evaluation, the title Fate-Defying Grandmaster Slayer, access to parts of the ruins' core area, an evolution opportunity for his Eternal Night King Martial Soul, and a clue to the Annihilation Divine Fist fragments.
• Xiao Han collapsed from his severe injuries, and the Chaos Green Lotus began slowly restoring his body and soul.
• After regaining a little strength, Xiao Han forced himself to sit against the wall and saw a dark energy vortex rotating where the guardian had disappeared.