Recaps

At the Academy Tournament, the rules commentator revealed that the teams would compete in the deadly Golden Peak Secret Realm, where they had to fight for maps and survive Eerie Monsters before holding the summit for a day. Li Chen and the other contestants understood the danger but stayed, fired up to fight for their academies and futures.

• Spectators celebrated the Miracle Fruit, which could awaken latent potential and might turn an ordinary person into a Sequence User.
• The rules commentator announced that teams would enter Golden Peak, where they had to survive and hold the summit for one day to win the championship.
• Su Xian explained that teams would face Eerie Monsters, fight over six maps, and risk death, with only one rescue Forbidden Object per team.
• Li Chen realized that he could not withdraw because of his promise and his responsibility to Canglan Academy.
• The rules commentator challenged the contestants to stay, and the teams steeled themselves to fight for their academies and futures.

Li Chen’s team entered the Golden Peak stage of the Academy Tournament and quickly captured a group of students who had ambushed them. The captives revealed that teams had entered at staggered times and that earlier entrants had already suffered deaths and losses.

• The tournament official explained the distress tokens, watches, and stages before teleporting the teams into Golden Peak.
• Ji Shao lit the sealed, enormous chamber where Li Chen’s team arrived, and Su Xian noticed that no other teams were nearby.
• Several men in black uniforms attacked with a dagger, but Li Chen stopped it and seized them with an energy hand.
• Su Xian questioned the attackers and learned that they had entered three hours earlier, lost teammates and their distress token, and wanted to steal Li Chen’s token to withdraw.

Su Xian's team searched Golden Peak for the map and encountered a conscious skeleton Eerie Monster gathering bones around itself. A white-robed man stopped Li Chen from attacking, and his teammate suspected the monster carried the map.

• Su Xian learned that another team had the map, knocked their members unconscious, and led his group toward the direction they had indicated.
• At the tournament venue, Wei Laoda and Cang Lao watched the teams and remarked on the deadly conditions as Li Chen's team explored Golden Peak.
• Li Chen's team followed a ruined road, and Su Zhe accidentally detonated a bomb he had mistaken for a brick.
• Li Chen spotted a conscious skeleton among a field of bones and attacked before it could assemble bone armor around itself.
• A white-robed man threw a spear that blocked Li Chen's blades, while a scantily clad woman told her captain the Eerie Monster likely had the map.

Li Chen fought a powerful skeleton Eerie Monster while Mu Hen realized he might be able to tame it. Meanwhile, Jianping confronted the captain and woman whose teammates he had apparently defeated, leaving the two groups on the verge of a fight.

• Mu Hen told Li Chen that the skeleton's Soul Flame remained and that he could try to tame it, while warning that it had reached the Withered Sea Realm.
• The skeleton charged, and Li Chen blocked its strike with Vermilion, revealing overwhelming strength to a nearby team.
• The nearby captain ordered his team to withdraw, deciding their safety mattered more than pursuing the possible map drop.
• Jianping stopped the captain and woman from leaving and revealed that their five teammates were no longer responding through their headsets.
• The captain raised his spear against Jianping as the woman tried in vain to contact the missing teammates.

Li Chen weakened the skeletal Eerie Monster without killing it so Mu Hen could try to tame it. Elsewhere, Jianping mocked a spear-wielding Academy Tournament opponent, who launched one last attack as Jianping's teammates approached.

• Li Chen defended against the skeletal Eerie Monster, then struck it with a compressed black sphere until its soul flame was nearly extinguished.
• Mu Hen found the Eerie Monster alive and prepared to subdue it while Li Chen stepped aside.
• Jianping told the spear-wielding man that his technique was weak and inferior to someone Jianping had known.
• The humiliated man resolved to defeat Jianping before his teammates arrived and charged with Unstoppable force.

Jianping defeated a spear-wielding opponent but spared him, and Li Chen forced the man to reveal that the Academy Tournament had become a struggle to collect map fragments. Li Chen and Jianping left the man behind as the teams’ fight for the maps began.

• Jianping defeated the spear-wielding man, spared him, and advised him not to rely on an ability to improve his spear skills.
• Li Chen pressured the man into revealing that Eerie Monsters carried incomplete map fragments needed to reach the top of Golden Peak.
• Li Chen realized the tournament had turned into a battle to seize and combine maps, then left the man behind.
• The man fled, while Jianping told Li Chen he had spared the opponent because he respected his spear skills.

Li Chen and his team used a transformed bone map to understand the shifting maze, then realized they could ignore the tournament’s intended route and break through by reaching the top. Outside the Secret Realm, Cang Lao praised their insight while Wei Laoda reflected on the tournament’s purpose.

• Mu Hen emerged from the skeletal Eerie Monster and revealed that it had given him a bone map.
• Su Xian used a transformation spell to turn the bone into a shifting map, and Li Chen worked out how the pyramid’s rotating sections concealed the exit.
• Jianping questioned why the team had to follow the map, prompting Li Chen to decide they should use their own strengths and break the rules to reach the top.
• Su Xian kept the map, saying it could help them leave sooner and reveal a way to clear the next level through entrapment.
• Cang Lao praised Li Chen’s team for figuring out the tournament’s deception, while Wei Laoda considered how the Secret Realm gave weaker teams a chance to compete.

The Imperial Capital team used the Daoist Family's Holy Son’s power to break into the next stage, while Li Chen’s team reached the extreme-cold realm with their map and planned to wait for other teams. A nearby group led by Bing-jie recognized Canglan’s strength and decided to seek allies before approaching them.

• The Daoist Family's Holy Son used a black Go stone to break open the Secret Realm and carried the Imperial Capital team into the next stage.
• Li Chen’s team used their map to reach the extreme-cold realm, where Su Xian explained the three environments and how teams could earn points by killing Eerie Monsters.
• Su Xian proposed using their score counter’s map coordinates to lure other teams into a sting operation, and Li Chen agreed they could wait by the fire.
• Seven women watched Li Chen’s team from a snowy mountain, and Bing-jie identified them as Canglan’s team.
• Bing-jie decided her group should wait and seek allies to oppose Canglan rather than risk approaching them alone.

Su Xian explained that the maps were bait and that the teams could reach the next Secret Realm by breaking through its boundaries, while the summit remained specially reinforced. As Li Chen and his team fought a wolf pack, Li Chen unleashed the Demon Eye and transformed his Demon Blade against the Withered Sea Realm wolf king.

• Su Xian showed the group a model of the Ice and Snow Secret Realm and explained how its boundaries could be broken, but not the reinforced summit.
• Hundreds of Eerie Wolves approached, and Li Chen identified their gray leader as a Withered Sea Realm wolf king.
• Fan Bing’s team decided to watch the Canglan team fight the wolves, while the injured team that had lured the pack hoped to claim the map afterward.
• Li Chen fought the wolf king as his teammates battled the other wolves, slowing the leader and dodging its approach.
• Li Chen activated Mutation, opened the Demon Eye on his hand, and transformed Vermilion into an eye-covered flesh longsword that made the wolf king retreat in fear.

Su Xian and the others fought the demon wolves while Li Chen struggled with the memory loss and madness caused by the Demon Eye’s Mutation. After Fan Bing’s team attacked him, Li Chen emerged unharmed and killed Xiao Wen with a single sword strike.

• Su Xian sealed the battlefield with Spell Regulation as Ji Mumu melted the snow, allowing Su Zhe to slow the wolves and Ji Shao to attack them with flames.
• Li Chen realized that using the Demon Eye’s Mutation was altering his consciousness and erasing some of his memories.
• The injured Wolf King began retreating as Fan Bing and several women arrived and turned their attention to Li Chen.
• The ponytailed woman trapped Li Chen in a White Sand Gathering attack, but he emerged unharmed, and Fan Bing ordered her team to run.
• Li Chen cut Xiao Wen in two with a black sword beam and turned his blade toward another attacker.

Li Chen lost control under the Eldritch God’s influence and killed three of Fan Bing’s teammates, leaving Fan Bing to send her remaining teammates out of the Secret Realm and face the consequences alone. Outside, the spectators watched the killing, while a masked man remarked that the result seemed settled.

• Li Chen killed the ponytailed woman and another teammate as Fan Bing tried to retreat, then struggled against the force controlling him.
• Fan Bing blamed herself for the deaths, sent her three surviving teammates out of the Secret Realm, and remained behind to seek revenge.
• Li Chen confronted the Eldritch God in his mind, realized the masked man had become its slave, and worried that the god might take over his consciousness.
• Spectators watched the aftermath and discussed Li Chen’s strength and the dead students; a man in a black half-mask said the result seemed to be out.

After Li Chen’s group escaped the wolf attack, they shared a meal and discussed the danger of the Imperial Capital team’s rapid progress. Li Chen offered to hold off their opponents while his teammates pursued their goals, and Su Zhe joined them by the fire.

• Su Xian and the others emerged unharmed from the fading barrier, and Mu Hen prepared the Demon Wolves they had killed for food.
• Su Xian realized the wolves had been directed at them and asked Li Chen whether he had encountered another team; Li Chen confirmed he had killed several people.
• Li Chen reflected that Demon Eye and Mutation had triggered a berserk state that frightened him, while Su Xian mistakenly thought he was troubled by killing people.
• Su Xian proposed splitting up to move faster and obtain another map before the Imperial Capital team secured five maps and advanced.
• Li Chen offered to hold off the others so his teammates could pursue their goals, saying he was still their captain for now.
• Su Zhe hurried over to ask Mu Hen for some meat and sat beside Li Chen to hear what they were discussing.

Su Xian’s team split up to collect maps and eliminate rival teams before facing Imperial Capital Academy. Li Chen found and defeated a team hiding among ice pillars, but a sniper’s charged bullet stopped just short of him when he used Infinite Precept-Breaking.

• Su Xian divided the seven team members into groups and sent them in four directions to search for maps and eliminate the other teams.
• Li Chen flew alone and found a team hiding among ice pillars, whose members attacked him with firearms and a rocket launcher.
• Li Chen stopped the attackers’ weapons and smashed the team into an ice wall, then learned that Fan Bing had taken their map.
• The burly man called on Kun Sa to attack Li Chen, and a sniper with gold-rimmed glasses fired a charged bullet at him.
• Li Chen used Infinite Precept-Breaking, halting the bullet a few meters from him as its force struggled against his ability.

Li Chen forced a team to surrender its scorekeeper and continued searching for maps, while Su Xian and Jianping attacked three other teams to seize their points. The chapter left Jianping cutting through the teams as Su Xian supported him, hoping to find the maps before Imperial Capital Academy arrived.

• Li Chen returned the bespectacled man's bullet through his rifle and body, then demanded to know where Fan Bing had gone.
• The burly man explained that Fan Bing had taken the map and fled, and handed Li Chen the scorekeeper in exchange for leaving with his teammates.
• Li Chen ordered the burly man to leave the Secret Realm with his team, then saw that their points were too few to locate the map.
• Li Chen flew onward, reflecting that he represented Canglan and needed to secure two maps before Imperial Capital Academy could claim victory.
• Jianping leaped into a battle between three teams while Su Xian cast a magic array and boosted his speed and strength.
• Jianping knocked down the teams with the blunt side of his Demon Blade as Su Xian hoped they could find the maps before Imperial Capital arrived.

Su Zhe and Mu Hen encountered a sleeping Calamity Realm giant white python whose cold wave had frozen nearby teams, forcing them to retreat. Nearby, the Daoist Family’s holy son recognized Canglan Academy and predicted that the Imperial Capital would lose.

• Su Zhe offered Mu Hen two million per kilometer to use his puppet as a mount, and Mu Hen accepted.
• Ji Mumu urged Ji Shao to pursue Su Xian, and Ji Shao admitted she might try someday before charging at nearby Eerie Monsters.
• Su Zhe and Mu Hen found people frozen solid and were caught in a cold wave from a giant white python sleeping in the snow.
• Mu Hen decided they should retreat and warn the other teams that a Calamity Realm Eerie Monster was nearby.
• The Daoist Family’s holy son watched Su Zhe and Mu Hen, recognized Canglan Academy, and predicted the Imperial Capital would lose.

As the Academy Tournament continued, Kuang Dui launched Operation Dawn and ordered his forces to guard Canghai Pass while withholding fire on cultists unless necessary. Outside Canghai City, the God-Binding Cult struck a three-hour bargain with the Godless Cult, while Elder Gu prepared Yu Qingnian to inherit his responsibility before his final battle for the Human Race.

• Kuang Dui ordered the Special Affairs Bureau troops to begin Operation Dawn and stand watch at Canghai Pass and Canghai City, then worried that the pass was destined to fall.
• The God-Binding Cult’s Ninth Seat confronted the Godless Cult, and the Sixth Seat challenged them to send someone to speak.
• The God-Deceiving Angel appeared and agreed to help the God-Binding Cult hold off the Special Affairs Bureau for three hours in exchange for the child of destiny.
• The First Seat ordered the Ninth Seat to watch the Godless Cult and sent the Sixth Seat to check whether Canghai City could be entered.
• A figure in a red cloak silently vowed to live for himself and disappeared into the retreating Godless Cult.
• Elder Gu told Yu Qingnian that an age of chaos had begun, entrusted him with responsibility for the Human Race, and declared that he would fight one last battle.

Li Chen confronted Fan Bing for the map, but the Shi Family Saint Son and the Demon Buddha arrived and challenged him. The three fought in the Extreme Cold Secret Realm while a white-haired woman watched Li Chen with an unsettling familiarity.

• Li Chen found Fan Bing, stopped her escape, and demanded that she hand over the map.
• The Shi Family Saint Son and the Demon Buddha appeared and demanded the map, while the Shi Family Saint Son revealed his grudge over Li Chen nearly crippling Shi Nie.
• The Shi Family Saint Son attacked Li Chen with a blood-red trident, and Li Chen summoned the Demon Blade to meet him.
• The Demon Buddha joined the fight, and Li Chen battled both opponents as the white-haired woman watched and wondered whether he was Li Chen or another Li Chen.
• Li Chen used his Vector Manipulation against their energy-based attacks as the three continued their fierce battle in the snowy sky.

Jianping and Su Xian gathered enough score counters to head toward Li Chen, where a fierce battle with the Shi Family Saint Son was already underway. The Saint Son unleashed his family's forbidden spell and struck Li Chen with overwhelming force, while Li Chen began gathering power for his next attack.

• Jianping defeated several tournament teams without killing them, and he and Su Xian collected enough score counters to activate the map's location function.
• Su Xian realized that Imperial Capital Academy had entered the map and that multiple teams were converging on Li Chen, so he and Jianping accelerated toward the battle.
• Ji Shao and Ji Mumu headed toward Li Chen, while Su Zhe hired Mu Hen to carry them after Jianping and Su Xian flew past.
• The Shi Family Saint Son wounded himself to invoke his family's forbidden spell, forming blood armor and gaining a dramatic increase in strength.
• The Shi Family Saint Son struck Li Chen into a massive crater, but Li Chen rose and gathered his power around the Demon Blade.

As both teams converged on Li Chen, the Imperial Capital’s holy sons and holy maiden blocked their way in separate battles. The fights escalated as Su Zhe and Mu Hen faced Demon Buddha, while Jianping and Su Xian were trapped by the Daoist Family’s holy son and the Fox Family’s holy maiden.

• Su Zhe and Mu Hen arrived near Li Chen and found Demon Buddha waiting behind a barrier, determined to keep them from leaving.
• Su Zhe struck the ground with his sledgehammer to shrink the battlefield, while Mu Hen summoned three Tomb People to fight Demon Buddha.
• Jianping broke the illusion around himself and Su Xian, and Su Xian confronted the Daoist Family’s holy son, who refused to let him pass.
• The Fox Family’s holy maiden caught Jianping’s Demon Blade and claimed him as her opponent, then kicked him through a forest of trees.
• Jianping returned wounded and charged the Fox Family’s holy maiden again, while she spoke of fate’s converging threads.

Su Xian confronted Gu Changkong, the Daoist Family’s holy son, to reach Su Yu, but Gu Changkong trapped him in a black-and-white chess world to keep him away. Su Xian remained imprisoned as the two waited in silence.

• Gu Changkong told Su Xian that the secret realm was about to be sealed and revealed that Su Hong, the Su Family’s ancestor, had informed him about Su Yu.
• Gu Changkong refused to let Su Xian see Su Yu, explaining that Su Yu was a crucial piece in a game meant to save the world.
• Su Xian broke through to the Withered Sea Realm and used three forbidden spells to attack Gu Changkong.
• Gu Changkong completed his chess formation and trapped Su Xian in a black-and-white world, asking him to wait half a day.
• Gu Changkong asked whether Su Xian knew Li Chen, but Su Xian did not respond.

Ji Shao and Ji Yushao fought over the Ji Family’s fate during the Academy Tournament, while a powerful man interrupted them before leaving to confront events elsewhere. Meanwhile, Li Chen fought the Shi Family Saint Son, who burned his remaining blood in a final attack.

• Ji Shao accused Ji Yushao of endangering the Ji Family and attacked her with flames, while Ji Yushao defended herself with water weapons.
• Ji Mumu helped Ji Shao weaken Ji Yushao’s water ability by evaporating the surrounding water, but a man in a white windbreaker knocked Ji Mumu from the sky and dismissed the Ji Family as too insignificant to interfere.
• The man sensed that Gu Changkong and the Daoist Family had made their move, then vanished, leaving Ji Shao and Ji Yushao to resume their fight.
• The Shi Family Saint Son fought Li Chen, who resisted the Eldritch God’s temptation to use Mutation again.
• The Shi Family Saint Son fused his remaining blood into his trident and launched a final attack at Li Chen, burning his blood to the utmost.

Li Chen overwhelmed the Shi Family Saint Son in the Academy Tournament, while Wei Laoda learned that the Eerie Tide was approaching Canghai City and chose to stay to protect the spectators. Elsewhere, Gu Xingyun decided to go despite having only half a day of life left.

• Li Chen enveloped himself in Forbidden Substance, crushed the Shi Family Saint Son's trident, and beat him into the snow, declaring him the first.
• Cang Lao defended Li Chen's treatment of the Saint Son as Wei Laoda watched the tournament.
• Gu Cheng warned Wei Laoda that Canghai City was about to be sealed and urged him to evacuate the people from Ruined City.
• Wei Laoda refused to abandon the spectators and demanded to know what was coming.
• At Ruined Pass, Gu Cheng revealed that the Eerie Tide was approaching as Calamity Realm eerie creatures gathered in the black mist.
• Sword Elder asked whether Gu Xingyun was really going, and Gu Xingyun said he would go despite having only half a day left to live.

Li Chen encountered Cang Yue after defeating the Shi Family's Holy Son, while Jianping questioned the Fox Family's Holy Maiden about the Imperial Capital's plans. Gu Changkong emerged from the collapsing Black-and-White Chess Formation and told Jianping that they were all chess pieces, but that everything was about to change.

• Cang Yue told Li Chen she had only come to look at him, then left after wondering whether his father had fully fallen into the strange path.
• The Fox Family's Holy Maiden proposed a truce with Jianping and hinted that the Academy Tournament was about to end.
• Jianping asked the Fox Family's Holy Maiden what the Imperial Capital intended, having noticed its participants seemed to be waiting for something rather than fighting.
• As the Black-and-White Chess Formation weakened, Su Xian broke through its barrier and flew out to reach Xiao Yuzi.
• Gu Changkong emerged from the collapsing formation, brought Jianping and the Fox Family's Holy Maiden into a mirrored space, and revealed that they had given up on winning the tournament.
• Gu Changkong told Jianping that they were all chess pieces, but that everything was going to change.

Ji Yushao and Ji Shao fought over the Ji Family and the Academy Tournament while Ji Mumu recovered and joined the battle. Their clash ended in a draw, leaving Ji Mumu to tend to the exhausted Ji Shao.

• Ji Yushao confronted Ji Shao and declared that she intended to destroy the corrupt Ji Family.
• Ji Yushao summoned dark clouds and threatened to defeat Ji Shao with rain, so Ji Shao attacked with her Wheel of Flourishing Flame.
• Ji Mumu woke after being knocked unconscious, then used Great Sun to disperse the clouds and help Ji Shao.
• Ji Yushao and Ji Shao traded final sword strikes, exhausted each other, and fell in a draw.
• Ji Mumu floated down and tossed a flame onto Ji Shao, complaining that she had gotten hurt despite their fight not being a life-or-death grudge.

The Su Family Saint Son revealed that he knew Li Chen was the Child of Destiny, then took the map through the passage to the level above with Li Chen following him. The remaining contestants waited below as the finals came down to their confrontation, while Ji Shao kept the unconscious Ji Yuzhao alive until she could decide what to do after the tournament.

• The Su Family Saint Son recognized Li Chen as the Child of Destiny and entered the passage to the level above with him following.
• Demon Buddha, Su Zhe, Mo Hen, Jianping, the Daoist Family Saint Son, the Fox Family Saintess, and Ji Shao gathered below; Jianping returned to his friends after the opposing group released him.
• Su Zhe tried to buy Demon Buddha's vajra, but Demon Buddha refused and left with his weapon.
• Jianping explained that the Su Family Saint Son had taken the map and that the others would not join the fight because it would trigger an all-out war.
• Ji Shao asked the others for help while carrying the unconscious Ji Yuzhao and Ji Mumu, then explained she would decide Ji Yuzhao's fate after returning to the Ji Family.