Recaps

Li Chen learned why the cults sought him and discovered that the doors within him concealed power tied to the gods. After returning to Canglan Academy, he helped assemble an Academy Tournament team and defeated Qi Hong in a ranking challenge.

• Li Chen fought the Eerie Monsters as the cult attacked Ruined City, where Yu Qingnian battled Wuchen and Gu Cheng and Wei Laoda defended Li Chen from the cultists.
• A masked Fifth Seat identified Li Chen as the Child of Destiny, explained the cults’ search for him, and warned him about the Evil Gods.
• Li Chen met a white-faced figure beyond the Forbidden Door, who explained that seven scattered keys could open the doors within him and reveal Authority Power.
• Li Chen accepted the Dark Demon Blade from Gu Cheng, absorbed forbidden substance into his arm, and named the blade Vermilion before leaving Ruined City.
• At Ruined Square, Li Chen agreed to let Su Xian, Ji Shao, and Jianping join his Academy Tournament team, while Jianping defeated Lin Hua in the farewell arena.
• Yu Qingnian brought the students back to Canglan Academy, where Li Chen gave Su Zhe his teleportation talisman and later offered him a team spot if he reached the Withered Sea Realm.
• Li Chen invited Ji Mumu to join the team if she could withstand ten exchanges with Jianping, and he revealed his S-rank Vector Manipulation ability to Ji Shao and Su Xian.
• Li Chen defeated Qi Hong with Vermilion and Shared Body after Qi Hong’s High-Frequency Vibration attacks failed to overcome him.

Li Chen assembled and trained a team for the Academy Tournament while confronting new dangers and expectations surrounding his power. After meeting Elder Gu and reaching the Withered Sea Realm, he arrived with Canglan’s contestants for the tournament’s opening.

• Li Chen tested Ji Mumu’s flames and recruited Mu Hen for the Academy Tournament team.
• Li Chen’s team defeated Shi Nie’s challengers and won thirty million, while Li Chen copied Shi Nie’s blood-control ability.
• Li Chen traveled with the team to Canghai City and learned that he would be Canglan’s only individual contestant.
• Mu Hen identified a jade pendant as a key to King Kui’s tomb, and Li Chen refused the Fox Family’s Holy Maiden’s demand that he withdraw from the tournament.
• Sword Elder took Li Chen and Jianping to Canghai Pass, where he killed countless Eerie Monsters with a single slash.
• Elder Gu told Li Chen that the Human Race needed him, and Li Chen resolved to choose his own path and become a god.
• A masked man identical to Li Chen warned him not to enter the final Forbidden Door, and Li Chen later reached the Withered Sea Realm.
• Li Chen joined Canglan’s contestants at the tournament, where Cang Lao revealed Miracle Fruits as prizes.

Li Chen and Canglan Academy fought through Golden Peak’s deadly stages while rival teams and powerful figures converged on them. The tournament’s larger conflict emerged as the Eerie Tide approached, and the Su Family Saint Son led Li Chen toward the next level.

• The teams entered Golden Peak, where Li Chen’s group fought Eerie Monsters, discovered that map fragments were needed to advance, and chose to rely on their own strengths rather than follow the intended route.
• Li Chen used the Demon Eye’s Mutation against the wolf king and Fan Bing’s team, killing several opponents before struggling to regain control of himself.
• Su Xian split the team to search for maps, while Li Chen pursued Fan Bing and then battled the Shi Family Saint Son and Demon Buddha as their allies converged on the fight.
• Gu Changkong trapped Su Xian in a chess formation and told him that Su Yu was part of a plan to save the world, while Ji Shao and Ji Yushao fought over the Ji Family’s fate.
• Li Chen defeated the Shi Family Saint Son without surrendering to the Eldritch God’s temptation to use Mutation, as Gu Cheng warned that the Eerie Tide was approaching Ruined Pass.
• Gu Changkong drew Jianping and the Fox Family Holy Maiden into a mirrored space and revealed that their side had given up on winning the tournament because everyone was a chess piece.
• Ji Shao and Ji Yushao fought to a draw, and Ji Shao carried the unconscious Ji Yushao and Ji Mumu away to decide Ji Yushao’s fate back at the Ji Family.
• The Su Family Saint Son recognized Li Chen as the Child of Destiny and entered the passage to the next level with him, while the others gathered below and avoided starting an all-out war.

As the Four Great Passes came under attack, Li Chen learned the truth about his forbidden power and fought to protect those around him in Canghai City. The Shiva Box opened, the city was engulfed by a deadly red mist, and Li Chen surrendered to the Eighth Seat to save his companions before being taken through a breach in the pass.

• The Su Family Saint Son told Li Chen that the passes were under attack, revealed his divided personalities, and identified himself with the Strange Pavilion before the Daoist Family Saint Son sealed the Secret Realm.
• The Godless Cult attacked the Bird’s Nest, and the Darkest Angel destroyed the Secret Realm as Li Chen met his former self and chose to become the Lord of Taboo.
• Li Chen escaped the Secret Realm and joined the defense of Canghai Pass, while Sword Elder sent the Sequence Supreme Beings to help hold the Four Great Passes.
• The Shiva Box opened above Canghai City, black rain and a girl’s song drove people into chaos, and Li Chen used his forbidden power to protect his companions and fight Eerie Monsters.
• Clown confronted Li Chen and then disappeared, while the red mist spread across Canghai City and Li Chen’s group found the civilians they had gone to rescue dead.
• The Eighth Seat attacked Li Chen’s group and demanded that Li Chen join him, but Li Chen refused and fought back as the Eighth Seat injured his companions.
• Li Chen surrendered to the Eighth Seat to spare his companions, and the Sixth Seat later joined them as the pass’s defenses failed.
• The First Seat and the Eighth Seat opened a breach in the pass and carried Li Chen away, while Su Zhe, Mu Hen, and Jianping resolved to rescue him.