Recaps

Li Chen refined his green energy blades while Di Li and her allies tracked him down, bringing a gigantic Looking River Realm Tree Demon into battle. Li Chen, Jianping, and the others fought it off, and the chapter ended with Di Li’s group abandoning their control of the Tree Demon as Li Chen’s attacks overwhelmed it.

• Li Chen assessed the limits of his green energy blades and decided that making more of them was safer than compressing them further.
• Di Li and Lin Hua located Li Chen’s group and set out to avenge their earlier defeat and take their rankings.
• Jianping sensed a powerful Tree Demon approaching as the nearby trees fled and the ground shook.
• The gigantic Tree Demon attacked, but Jianping cut through its vines while Li Chen blasted them with compressed green energy spheres.
• Di Li realized the Tree Demon’s injuries were burdening her, and Lin Hua and the others jumped down from it as Li Chen protected his group and replenished his energy.

Li Chen and his companions faced the group that had controlled the Tree Demon and attacked them the day before. Su Zhe chose to fight rather than apologize, and the two sides clashed, with Li Chen confronting the enormous Tree Demon and Jianping battling Lin Hua.

• Jianping recognized the approaching group, and Su Zhe explained that they had clashed with them the previous day while fleeing Tree Demons.
• The other group demanded an apology, but Su Zhe refused and challenged them to fight after Li Chen offered to handle the Tree Demon.
• Lin Hua formed plant armor and a spear, then led his teammates into battle as Su Zhe, Jianping, and the others charged to meet them.
• Li Chen sent countless glowing fragments toward the Looking River Realm Tree Demon while Jianping faced Lin Hua.
• Jianping blocked Lin Hua's spear and counterattacked with a red slash that cut through his shield and left a small wound on his forehead.

Yu Qingnian and Faluo watched students clash in the forest as Li Chen fought the Tree Demon’s controller and Su Zhe faced a werewolf. Li Chen rescued the unconscious Di Li while the Tree Demon went berserk, and Su Zhe chose to fight his opponent head-on.

• Yu Qingnian said the student fights would help teams build rapport, and Faluo welcomed the return of the academy’s fighting spirit.
• Li Chen cut through the Tree Demon’s vines and reached Di Li, who had controlled it until her mental power ran out and she fell unconscious.
• Li Chen carried Di Li down from the frenzied Tree Demon and prepared an energy bomb to destroy it.
• Su Zhe fought the boy in the green hat, who transformed into a werewolf and challenged him.
• Su Zhe threw away his stick, stepped forward with fighting spirit, and roared for the boy to fight.

Su Zhe fought a werewolf while Luo Lin and Meng Xi faced two classmates who targeted them with archery and Amplification. Luo Lin countered the attackers with Telekinesis as the fight continued and Meng Xi remained behind a damaged barrier.

• Su Zhe clashed with the werewolf, trading blows and taking a deep claw wound as he tried to buy time for the others.
• Meng Xi sat down to prepare her ability while Luo Lin faced Eagle Eye and her male teammate with floating boulders.
• Eagle Eye fired arrows at Meng Xi, and Luo Lin blocked them and shielded her with a stone barrier.
• The man used Multiplication to kick Luo Lin and then revealed that he and Eagle Eye were targeting Meng Xi together.
• The man used Amplification to leap at Luo Lin and smash through her stone walls, but she sent a barrage of small stones at him with Telekinesis.

Meng Xi put the opposing students to sleep with her Dream ability, and Faluo took the defeated students away after giving Luo Lin’s team advice. Meanwhile, Li Chen prepared a compressed energy bomb against the Tree Demon as Di Li woke up, leaving the attack’s result unknown.

• Luo Lin’s stones struck the man while Meng Xi’s arrows blasted through the boulder barriers.
• Meng Xi awakened from her Dream and sent a dreamlike current over the group, putting the bow-wielding woman and the man to sleep before she herself fell asleep.
• Faluo praised the fight, advised Luo Lin’s team to be more decisive, and carried away the defeated students as Luo Lin lifted Meng Xi.
• Li Chen continued fighting the Tree Demon while holding the unconscious Di Li and compressing an energy bomb.
• Di Li woke up, and Li Chen dropped her before sending the energy bomb floating toward the Tree Demon.

Li Chen left the fallen Tree Demon to help his teammates, while Lin Hua battled Jianping until the Demon Blade took control and nearly killed him. Faluo rescued Lin Hua and prepared to face the forbidden weapon himself.

• The Tree Demon collapsed after Li Chen's explosion, and Li Chen left Di Li behind to help his teammates.
• Lin Hua and Jianping exchanged attacks, with Lin Hua using plant armor and a massive plant hammer against Jianping's blood-red sword strikes.
• The Demon Blade took control of Jianping, and its wielder cut through Lin Hua's hammer and severed his hand.
• Faluo appeared, gave Lin Hua a pill, and teleported him away with a talisman.
• Faluo confronted Jianping and prepared to test the Demon Blade, ranked thirty-second among forbidden objects.

Faluo fought the sword-possessed Jianping until the taboo object retreated, then they headed toward the remaining battle. Li Chen arrived in time to save Su Zhe and confronted the werewolf, whom Luo Lin lifted with her telekinesis as Li Chen’s blades closed in.

• Faluo attacked Jianping, and the sword’s bloody aura withdrew after Jianping’s body reached its limit.
• Faluo and Jianping headed to watch the other fights, while Su Zhe continued enduring the werewolf’s attacks.
• Li Chen arrived and pierced the werewolf with an energy blade, saving Su Zhe and reuniting with him.
• The werewolf realized Li Chen had defeated the Tree Demon and attacked as Li Chen formed eight blades of light.
• Luo Lin used telekinesis to lift the werewolf as Li Chen’s blades approached.

Li Chen defeated the werewolf in the Secret Realm, then left with his companions as Yu Qingnian explained the academy’s ranking system. Meanwhile, black-robed figures in Shenzhou City guarded a Pandora’s Box and prepared to carry out their plan.

• Li Chen overwhelmed the werewolf with light blades, but the man escaped using a talisman, and Yu Qingnian confirmed that the fight had been recorded by the Secret Realm’s cameras.
• Faluo, Jianping, Su Zhe, and Luo Lin regrouped with Li Chen, and Yu Qingnian sent them out of the Secret Realm.
• Yu Qingnian told Faluo that the academy would rank students according to their strength and ordered him to find Cang Lao for a forbidden item to repair the damaged Secret Realm.
• Li Chen and his companions discussed the special class and the ranking struggle, which they knew was beginning ahead of the inter-academy competition.
• In Shenzhou City, black-robed figures discussed protecting their Pandora’s Box and pledged to open the Forbidden Door for their lord.

Masked figures discussed bringing Pandora into every city as a chaotic era approached, while Li Chen continued cultivating and rose to eleventh place in the academy rankings. Before his next battle, Ji Shao introduced herself and said she would wait for him afterward.

• A person wearing a spider-lily mask said Pandora had been brought into every city and that they only needed to wait for the chaotic era to begin.
• A month later, Li Chen wondered why he had not reached the Looking River Realm despite absorbing energy constantly, while Su Baozi and Jianping had already broken through.
• Li Chen continued facing daily challenges as the eleventh-ranked student, and he met Jianping and Su Zhe at the Battle Institute.
• Ji Shao introduced herself to Li Chen and said she would wait for him outside the Battle Institute after his battle.
• An announcement summoned Li Chen to the arena to face his challenger.

Li Chen easily defeated Wang Hao in a battlefield challenge, revealing another powerful use of his abilities while spectators speculated that he could contend for the top rank. Elsewhere, Jianping faced a masked scythe-wielder who announced his intent to claim a top-five spot, and their clash began.

• Li Chen faced Wang Hao on icy terrain, where Wang Hao charged with a halberd that shattered against Li Chen’s invisible defense.
• Li Chen urged Wang Hao to surrender, but Wang Hao formed an ice armor and attacked again, so Li Chen sent eight light blades after him.
• Spectators discussed Li Chen’s strength and the possibility that he could reach the top ranks, while one man abandoned his plan to challenge him.
• Jianping met a masked man carrying a black scythe, who declared that he would take a top-five spot, and their swords and auras clashed.
• Li Chen used brightened blades infused with Compressed Bomb to pierce Wang Hao’s armor and end the battle, then left the battlefield.

Ji Shao offered Li Chen up to 30,000 Study Points to join her team for the upcoming Canglan Tournament, but he refused. Afterward, Li Chen learned that Jianping had been badly hurt by a challenger, while Shi Nie discussed the tournament and the top-ten rankings with his associates.

• Ji Shao invited Li Chen to join her team to challenge Su Xian and offered him 20,000 Study Points, raising the offer to 30,000.
• Ji Shao explained that the Canglan Tournament would let top-ranked students form sequence teams for the Academy Tournament.
• Li Chen declined Ji Shao’s offer, and she told him he could approach her later if he changed his mind.
• Li Chen found Su Zhe supporting an injured Jianping, who said challengers had been growing stronger in recent days.
• Shi Nie switched off a projection of a failed challenger and asked whether the Canglan Tournament date had been set.

Canglan Academy moved up the Canglan Tournament as its elders prepared to challenge Imperial Capital Academy. In Magic City, the God-Binding Cult mobilized to place Pandora’s Box, while Li Chen sensed the sealed black fog stirring and learned that travel to Magic City had been suspended.

• Yu Qingnian told Cang Lao and the other elders that Gu Xingyun had ordered the Canglan Tournament to start early, and an elder proposed changing its rules to defeat Imperial Capital Academy in the academy competition.
• The God-Binding Cult’s Ninth Seat ordered its servants in Magic City to mobilize and place Pandora’s Box at a designated location.
• The Special Affairs Bureau received reports of attacks across Magic City and sounded a level-two precautionary alarm as cultists appeared in the streets.
• Poison Ghost urged Blood Charm to stop killing and hurry to the meeting place for the Ninth Seat’s task.
• Li Chen saw black fog pressing against the sealed door in his inner space, then returned to reality when Su Zhe arrived with news that transportation to Magic City had been suspended.

As the God-Binding Cult attacked Magic City, Poison Ghost opened Pandora's Box and released a Calamity Realm monster. The Shen Monkey captain ordered everyone to retreat and learned that the Seventh Sequence was on the way.

• Su Zhe worried about Magic City's invasion, but Li Chen reminded him that the Special Affairs Bureau would handle it and that he was too weak to help.
• Poison Ghost and Blood Charm attempted to open Pandora's Box as the Special Affairs Bureau closed in.
• The Shen Monkey captain and his squad broke Poison Ghost's venom shield, but found him drained of blood beside the opened box.
• A gigantic black box appeared, and a monster's claw emerged as its whispers overwhelmed some Bureau members.
• The Shen Monkey captain ordered a retreat and called for a level-one alert after sensing the Calamity Realm monster awakening.
• The Shen Monkey captain learned that the Seventh Sequence was on the way.

A Calamity Realm creature emerged in Magic City and attacked Shen Monkey Captain’s team, prompting him to activate a Rules Formation and fight until reinforcements arrived. At Canglan Academy, Li Chen learned of the threat and sensed a powerful presence behind the black door within him.

• The creature burst from the magic box and killed Xiao Xu while Shen Monkey Captain’s team tried to stop it.
• Shen Monkey Captain blocked the creature’s attack, realized its strength exceeded his own, and ordered the Rules Formation activated.
• The creature struck Shen Monkey Captain through several buildings, but he commanded his team to hold it back until reinforcements came.
• Four pillars of light formed a barrier around the battlefield as Special Affairs Bureau personnel waited for Lord Seventh Sequence.
• At Canglan Academy, Li Chen recalled sensing a powerful presence behind the black door within him as it briefly opened.
• A television announcement warned students from Magic City to stay in Canglan because a Calamity Realm creature had appeared there.

Shen Monkey Captain and his teammates used the Ghost-God Needles to fight the creature emerging from Pandora’s Box while Blood Charm tried to steal the box. As Shen Monkey Captain held the creature off, a gray-haired man entered the formation and was identified as the Seventh Sequence.

• After Xiaorou died, Shen Monkey Captain and his wounded teammates injected themselves with Ghost-God Needles, restoring their strength at the cost of their life and potential.
• Shen Monkey Captain blocked the creature’s attack and continued fighting as the power of the needle surged through him.
• Blood Charm attempted to reach Pandora’s Box with his skeletal hand, but Xiaoche shot him and forced him to withdraw.
• Shen Monkey Captain kept fighting while Special Affairs Bureau personnel outside the formation urged him to hold on for reinforcements.
• A gray-haired man in a black trench coat walked into the formation, and the Special Affairs Bureau ordered its members to withdraw because the Seventh Sequence had arrived.

The Shen Monkey Squad sacrificed itself to stop a Calamity Realm monster in Magic City until the Seventh Sequence arrived and killed it. After the battle, Li Chen suspected the disaster was connected to the black door inside him, while Canglan Academy’s Sequence Masters discussed the cult and the need to train new talent.

• Xiaoche and the Shen Monkey captain used a final attack against the monster, but the captain died and the wounded monster survived.
• The Rules Formation shattered, and the Seventh Sequence arrived, healed Xiaoche, declared the mission complete, and killed the monster with one sword strike.
• News reports announced that the cult organization had been wiped out and Magic City was safe, prompting Jianping to leave and train.
• Li Chen wondered whether the Magic City disaster was connected to the black door inside him and decided to focus on training toward the Looking River Realm.
• At Canglan Academy, Faluo, Yu Qingnian, and other Sequence Masters discussed the cult’s resurgence and the need to prepare a new generation of talent.

Cang Lao announced preparations for the Academy Tournament team battle as Canglan Tournament preparations began. Instructor Yu signed Li Chen and his companions up without asking, and they went to draw lots, where rival teams gathered and sized them up.

• Cang Lao told the Sequence Masters that a cult had massacred students' relatives and that they would select participants for the Academy Tournament team battle.
• Li Chen, Jianping, and Su Zhe discussed the upcoming Canglan Tournament and wondered why the senior students were not competing.
• Li Chen and his companions received confirmation that they had been registered, and Instructor Yu told Li Chen to go draw lots for their match.
• Yu Qingnian discussed the roster with Faluo and revealed he had registered the Special Class students, including Li Chen's team.
• Li Chen and his companions entered the Battle Institute and encountered rival teams, including Di Li's and Ji Shao's, as the students prepared to draw lots.

Li Chen’s team entered the Canglan Tournament without preparing and struggled to come up with tactics. Meanwhile, the Ninth Seat punished Blood Charm for losing Pandora’s Box and announced that the God-Binding Cult would release a second Pandora in Shenzhou City.

• Li Chen learned that his team had drawn number eight and told his teammates to prepare for the Canglan Tournament.
• The Ninth Seat questioned Blood Charm about Pandora’s Box, then seized Blood Charm’s Soul Flame as punishment for losing it.
• The Ninth Seat announced that the God-Binding Cult planned to release a second Pandora in Shenzhou City before making its move.
• Li Chen told Meng Xi that Instructor Yu had signed the team up for the tournament, and the team admitted they had no workable tactics.
• Luo Lin suggested they go home and wait for the tournament to begin, and the others agreed.

The Canglan Tournament began as Li Chen’s team prepared to face Team 12, a group of Special Class 2 students. Su Xian watched the early matches and warned A Jin that several teams were hiding their strength.

• Faluo and Yu Qingnian watched students arrive for the tournament and wondered whether Cang Lao would attend.
• Li Chen’s team entered the Battle Institute arena, where five smaller battle areas had been set up for simultaneous matches.
• Su Zhe and Luo Lin told Li Chen that Su Xian was ranked first, had a possible summoning-type ability, and was surrounded by top-twenty teammates.
• The tournament began, and Li Chen learned his team would face Team 12; Jianping revealed that Yu Qingnian had asked them to go easy because the team was trained by Instructor Fa.
• Su Xian told A Jin that five teams had already shown signs of hiding their strength and challenged him to identify them.

Li Chen's team faced team 12 in the Canglan Tournament elimination rounds and overwhelmed them so quickly that they surrendered. Yu Qingnian told Faluo that the real tournament would begin after the weaker teams were weeded out.

• Li Chen, Jianping, Luo Lin, Meng Xi, and Su Zhe went to battlefield 5 to face team 12, a team trained by Instructor Fa.
• Luo Lin's Telekinesis struck the battlefield barrier, and Li Chen formed dozens of energy blades as both teams prepared to fight.
• Li Chen intercepted team 12's icicle attack and sent his blades after them while Jianping charged forward with an iron sword.
• Team 12's captain surrendered after the light blades surrounded them, and the match ended almost immediately.
• At the Battle Institute, Yu Qingnian told Faluo that the elimination rounds were meant to weed out weaker teams before the real tournament began.

The cult launched an operation in Shenzhou City while the Canglan Tournament was underway, prompting the Special Affairs Bureau to mobilize against it. At Canglan Academy, Li Chen sensed a nearby threat and found the seal on the mysterious black door weakening.

• Spider carried Blood Charm's soul fire as cult members gathered in southern Shenzhou City and prepared to attack near Canglan.
• Boss Ren learned of the cult's arrival, ordered a level-two alert to be prepared, and summoned Horse Squad while choosing not to notify Canglan Academy yet.
• Li Chen felt the burning sensation in his chest during the tournament and asked Luo Lin when the day's events would end.
• Li Chen's consciousness entered the strange space, where he saw the seal on the pitch-black door fading and suspected a cult might be about to appear in Shenzhou.

Li Chen entered the darkness beyond the pitch-black Door, protected by a barrier of white light, while cults and the Special Affairs Bureau clashed across Shenzhou City. Outside, Jianping and the others realized Li Chen might be communicating with an evil god and waited to see if he would wake.

• The Puppeteer appeared in Shenzhou City, where a red-haired Special Affairs Bureau woman identified him and led her team onward without fighting.
• Cult members in the shadows discussed Pandora's Box, the God-Binding Cult, and the arrival of Black Mist.
• In his consciousness space, Li Chen watched the Black Mist overwhelm the Door's red runes, then entered through its narrow opening behind a protective white barrier.
• Jianping's companion warned him that Li Chen's runes suggested he was communicating with an evil god and could suffer severe mental harm.
• Su Zhe prepared to contact Yu Qingnian, but Luo Lin and Jianping stopped him and decided to wait for Li Chen to wake.
• Li Chen walked through the Black Mist as a mysterious force urged him to move faster.

Li Chen encountered a chained masked man and a shattered monster statue inside the black mist before returning to find his companions had restrained him, fearing he was possessed by the Evil God. Meanwhile, the Special Affairs Bureau battled cultists in Shenzhou City as Blood Charm faced pressure to open Pandora's Box, with Horse Squad arriving to confront the group.

• Li Chen followed a force down a black staircase, met a chained masked man among monster statues, and was expelled from the strange space after being warned to leave.
• Li Chen woke up bound by Jianping and Su Zhe, who questioned whether he was the Evil God, and he explained that he had not been possessed.
• The Special Affairs Bureau fought a cult organization in Shenzhou City while the Puppeteer controlled corpses to attack its agents.
• Spider pressured Blood Charm to open Pandora's Box, while he considered that opening it or refusing would both likely lead to his death.
• Horse Squad arrived by helicopter, and Spider urged Blood Charm to open Pandora's Box.

The Wuma Team attacked cultists in Shenzhou City as Blood Charm hesitated to open Pandora’s Box, while Canglan Academy suspended its tournament after learning of the invasion. Li Chen felt the force inside him grow more agitated and decided to investigate what was drawing him.

• Captain Wuma led the Wuma Team into battle, and a saber-wielding member severed Spider’s head and pursued Blood Charm and the burly man as they fled with Pandora’s Box still unopened.
• Cang Lao told Yu Qingnian to end the Canglan Tournament and let the students witness the cult invasion rather than keep them inside the academy.
• Jianping told Li Chen and Su Zhe what he knew about Evil Gods and their followers’ worship.
• Canglan Academy announced that Shenzhou City was under attack by a cult organization and temporarily suspended the tournament.
• Li Chen sensed the scorching agitation inside him growing stronger and decided not to sit back as he wondered what was drawing him.

Kui Xing brought Ji Mumu and Qi Hong from Ruined City to Shenzhou City so they could study, but they found its streets deserted after a cult invasion. At Canglan Academy, Li Chen and two fellow students joined the Special Affairs Bureau’s response and headed for the Neon District to address unrest.

• Kui Xing explained that he had brought Ji Mumu and Qi Hong inland to get an education, though Qi Hong objected to studying there.
• Kui Xing, Ji Mumu, and Qi Hong found Shenzhou City’s streets empty, then saw a red flare appear in the sky.
• Canglan Academy authorized students who passed a strength test to support the Shenzhou City Special Affairs Bureau, and Li Chen, Su Zhe, and Jianping left with temporary officer badges.
• Li Chen chose to head to the Neon District, expecting disorder and illicit dealings while the Bureau’s personnel were occupied elsewhere.