Recaps

During the convoy journey, the freight company’s supervisor grew wary of the Luojing Transcendent Academy escorts, especially Chen Nan, whom he misjudged as weak and untrustworthy. Chen Nan helped Lin Xi at a highway rest stop, and the convoy eventually reached the outskirts of the Yellow Cloud Mountain Range at dusk.

• The convoy supervisor inspected the academy’s escort list and concluded that Zhao Meina, Chen Nan, and others were liabilities, despite hearing rumors of Chen Nan’s past achievements.
• A tire blew out on an escort vehicle, delaying the convoy and increasing the supervisor’s fears that trouble awaited them.
• At a rest stop, Chen Nan helped Lin Xi use the women’s restroom when no female escort was available to assist her.
• Chen Nan bought instant noodles for himself and Lin Xi, and Lin Xi repaid him with a Magic Energy Crystal for the card he had purchased for her.
• The convoy resumed its journey and reached the outskirts of the Yellow Cloud Mountain Range at dusk.

Chen Nan and Lin Xi clashed with Zhao Meina at the inn, and Chen Nan accepted her challenge to a two-on-two duel after the mission. The convoy then entered the Yellow Cloud Mountain Range, with Qi Shan and Lu Zitong growing closer to Chen Nan and Lin Xi along the way.

• Chen Nan and Lin Xi ate dinner at the inn, where Zhao Meina insulted Lin Xi and Chen Nan answered with cutting mockery.
• Zhao Meina tried to summon her ability, but Hao Fan stopped her; she then demanded a two-on-two duel, which Chen Nan accepted for after the mission.
• Chen Nan and Lin Xi left the dining hall with their food and returned to their rooms for the night.
• The next morning, Qi Shan and Lu Zitong admired Chen Nan's courage and grew closer to him and Lin Xi during the journey.
• The convoy entered the winding roads of the Yellow Cloud Mountain Range.

The convoy encountered torrential rain and sudden fog in the Yellow Cloud Mountain Range, where two Mutated Beasts attacked and killed two guards. Chen Nan helped the others deal with the threat and suspected the beasts had deliberately created the conditions for an ambush, but he could not confirm it.

• Heavy rain and poor visibility forced the convoy to keep moving through the mountain range, and the first armored vehicle reported unknown creatures ahead.
• Chen Nan used the Eye of AI to identify a Lion-bodied Three-headed Serpent and a Blue-striped Tiger, then sent Qi Shan and Lu Zitong to fight them.
• Qi Shan and Lu Zitong returned after defeating the beasts, while Manager Liu gathered everyone in one vehicle for safety.
• The rain and fog cleared as the convoy resumed its journey, and Chen Nan wondered whether the beasts had deliberately created the storm and fog to ambush travelers.

Chen Nan detected the Lion-bodied Three-headed Serpent and the Azure Tiger returning with a growing horde of Mutated Beasts, then predicted the danger would strike at the Scythe of the Death God. The beasts marked every vehicle before leaping off the cliff, leaving the convoy surrounded by a vast crowd of hostile creatures.

• Chen Nan sensed the two Mutated Beasts approaching and asked Zhao Meina how Summoners revived beasts that had been killed.
• Zhao Meina explained that a Summoner could restore dead Mutated Beasts in a special space, and Chen Nan concluded that someone might be targeting the convoy.
• Chen Nan detected a human among the approaching beasts, noticed their numbers growing, and used a map to identify the Scythe of the Death God as the likely danger point.
• The convoy reached the Scythe of the Death God, and the Lion-bodied Three-headed Serpent and the Azure Tiger sprayed liquid onto every vehicle before howling to provoke the surrounding beasts.
• Zhao Meina warned that the beasts had marked the convoy as their property, and countless Mutated Beasts emerged from the mountains as the two beasts leaped off the cliff.

Chen Nan led the convoy survivors through a deadly Mutated Beast assault, refusing to abandon the ordinary people despite Zhao Meina's objections. At the tunnel beneath the mountain, he stayed behind to hold off the beasts while Qi Shan carried Lin Xi and the others to safety.

• Chen Nan secured Manager Liu's agreement that the team had fulfilled its duty as best it could, then ordered everyone to abandon the scent-marked vehicles and flee on foot.
• Chen Nan arranged the trainees around the ordinary people and directed their defense as Mutated Beasts attacked the convoy and killed many survivors.
• Zhao Meina urged Chen Nan to leave the ordinary people behind, but he insisted they keep protecting them as Fire Sparrow Birds and Azure Tigers unleashed flames and lightning.
• Lin Xi used a Healing Ring to help the group fight through the beast horde and reach the tunnel at the end of the Scythe of the Death God.
• Chen Nan stayed behind to delay the Mutated Beasts while Qi Shan carried Lin Xi into the tunnel, and Lin Xi cast a Speed Ring on the escaping group.

Chen Nan held back a pack of Mutated Beasts in the tunnel, using his AI System, lightning, and agility to turn their attacks against each other before escaping nearly unharmed. As he ran toward the others, Lin Xi and Lu Zitong waited anxiously for him while Zhao Meina doubted he had survived.

• Chen Nan charged into the Mutated Beasts and used precise lightning attacks to draw them away from the fleeing people.
• Chen Nan used his AI System and enhanced reflexes to redirect the beasts' attacks, injuring several without being hurt himself.
• Chen Nan adapted to a more agile fighting strategy, exhausted the beasts, and retreated until he could safely run from the tunnel.
• Manager Liu and the other survivors waited at the foot of the mountain, while the ordinary people celebrated their escape.
• Zhao Meina urged the students to leave, but Lu Zitong insisted Chen Nan would return, and Lin Xi waited anxiously for him.

Chen Nan reunited with the survivors, led them to Hongning City, and collected the group’s escort reward. He then showed Manager Liu evidence suggesting that a summoner had deliberately caused the beast horde, leaving the freight station to investigate the attack.

• Chen Nan returned before the group left, and he carried the injured Lin Xi as they continued along the mountain road.
• The survivors reached a village near dawn, ate and hired a cargo truck, then traveled to Hongning City.
• A junior supervisor challenged the group for demanding their reward, but Zhao Meina defended them and Manager Liu arranged payment under the mission contract.
• Chen Nan told Manager Liu that the attack might have been deliberate and sent him a video showing suspicious blue lights near the ravine.
• Chen Nan suggested that a summoner had stirred up and directed the Mutated Beasts, and Manager Liu considered whether an investigation could recover the company’s losses.

After returning to the academy, Chen Nan used his mission rewards to cultivate and considered how to investigate the beast attack. Zhao Meina confronted him at the Nature Master Department, and he accepted her challenge to a duel at the Central Arena in three days.

• Chen Nan explained why he had asked Manager Liu to investigate the beast attack and returned to Luojing with Lin Xi, Qi Shan, and Lu Zitong.
• Chen Nan exchanged all one thousand Mana Crystals for ten bottles of Spirit Touch Potion and began cultivating with the Myriad Laws Universe Art.
• Zhao Meina arrived at the Nature Master Department and shouted for Chen Nan to come out and settle accounts.
• Chen Nan insulted Zhao Meina, then slapped her twice when she charged at him.
• Chen Nan told Zhao Meina to meet him at the academy's Central Arena in three days and ordered her to leave.

Chen Nan arranged a public duel against Zhao Meina and enlisted Lu Fangliang to turn the event into a spectacle and betting opportunity. As the duel drew attention across Luojing Transcendent Academy, Qiu Daqiang investigated Chen Nan but concluded that Lu Fangliang had secretly protected him during a dangerous mission.

• Chen Nan apologized after provoking Zhao Meina, who agreed to face him in a duel in three days and slapped Hao Fan before leaving.
• Chen Nan noticed that the Nature Master Department students viewed him more favorably after he stood up for them, and he went to meet Lu Fangliang.
• Chen Nan asked Lu Fangliang to promote the duel and arrange wagers, and Lu Fangliang agreed to handle it with the department’s master and students.
• News of the duel spread through Luojing Transcendent Academy and reached Academy President Qiu Daqiang and the four department heads.
• Qiu Daqiang reviewed Chen Nan’s records, saw his Level Thirty-Five rating and survival during a Mutated Beast attack, then decided Lu Fangliang must have secretly rescued him.
• Lu Fangliang stepped into the growing betting pool, while plans formed for a major wager between the department heads.

Lu Fangliang staged an angry wager on Chen Nan’s duel with Zhao Meina, drawing more than twenty teachers into betting against him at ten-to-one odds. Yang Yugan then tried to stop the duel, but the academy leaders refused and invited him to place a wager too.

• Lu Fangliang let Li Diany and the other teachers provoke him into betting his savings that Chen Nan would defeat Zhao Meina, and they agreed to ten-to-one odds.
• After leaving, Lu Fangliang told Yang Yugan about the bet, while Yang loudly pretended he planned to ask Chang Lai'an to cancel the duel.
• Li Diany rushed ahead to Chang Lai'an’s office, where he found Qiu Daqiang and several other academy leaders gathered.
• Yang Yugan asked Chang Lai'an to cancel Zhao Meina’s duel with Chen Nan, then revealed that Lu Fangliang’s wager could bankrupt the Nature Master Department.
• Qiu Daqiang refused to stop the duel and suggested the department repay any debt with its academy funds, while Dongfang Liang said the leaders had also placed a small bet.
• Yang Yugan declared that he would bet on Chen Nan’s victory, and Qiu Daqiang welcomed him into the wager.

Chang Lai'an and the others wagered valuable artifacts on the results of Chen Nan’s upcoming duel, while Chen Nan questioned Lin Xi about her abilities so he could prepare. Their conversation about her music-based support spell led to an awkward misunderstanding, and Lin Xi returned to her dormitory feeling hurt.

• Chang Lai'an, Dongfang Liang, Liu Meie, Chu Yubo, Qiu Daqiang, and the others displayed powerful artifacts for their wager, and Yang Yugan offered his treasured flying sword.
• Qiu Daqiang settled the wager on Chen Nan’s performance in the duel scheduled for the next day.
• Chen Nan sought out Lin Xi to learn about her healing, support, and music-based abilities before they fought together against Zhao Meina and Hao Fan.
• Lin Xi offered to play her xiao for Chen Nan, but his awkward warning not to mention it again made her misunderstand his intentions.
• Lin Xi left for her dormitory feeling rejected, while Chen Nan watched her go and decided he should not get close to her out of pity.

Chen Nan fought Zhao Meina and Hao Fan in a duel, quickly knocking them out before their Yellow Rock Pigs continued attacking. After he took a tusk through the thigh while protecting Lin Xi, she healed him, and he ended the chapter by killing one of the pigs.

• Chen Nan told Lin Xi to protect herself as they entered the arena to face Zhao Meina and Hao Fan.
• Chen Nan used the Yellow Rock Pig's charge against it, then evaded Hao Fan's talismans and knocked Zhao Meina unconscious; Hao Fan pretended to faint beside her.
• The Yellow Rock Pigs kept fighting, and one charged Lin Xi, so Chen Nan kicked her wheelchair out of its path and was pierced through the thigh by a tusk.
• Lin Xi healed Chen Nan while he dodged another charge and ordered her to leave the arena.
• Chen Nan jumped onto the other Yellow Rock Pig and killed it by stabbing its eye with his lightning-charged axes.

Chen Nan defeated Zhao Meina after killing her two summoned pigs, surprising the spectators and changing their view of the Nature Master Department. After Zhao Yunlong challenged him and left, several students asked to study under Chen Nan and join a group devoted to him.

• Chen Nan killed Zhao Meina’s two pigs, and she recalled them to her Space Rune Bracelet before accepting the duel’s outcome in silence.
• The spectators were stunned by Chen Nan’s victory, while Qi Shan and Lu Zitong congratulated him and asked to take Nature Master courses.
• Zhao Yunlong and Chen Wan’er confronted Chen Nan, but he declined Zhao Yunlong’s challenge for now and promised to fight him in the future.
• Liu Mingtao asked to audit Nature Master courses, and Chen Nan agreed; Liu then persuaded Qi Shan and Lu Zitong to form a group that would follow Chen Nan’s orders.

Yang Yugan and Lu Fangliang collected the wagers and equipment Chen Nan had won, then made him an administrator of the Nature Master Department so he could act without restrictions. Chen Nan welcomed Qi Shan, Lu Zitong, Liu Mingtao, and other students as elective students, while Qiu Daqiang privately struggled with his jealousy of Chen Nan.

• Lu Fangliang collected Li Diany's wager first and used his payment to secure the other bettors' money, while Yang Yugan collected the items they had lost.
• Yang Yugan told Qiu Daqiang that Lu Fangliang had secretly protected Chen Nan from the Mutated Beasts, and Qiu Daqiang urged him to give Chen Nan some of the winnings for defense.
• Lu Fangliang gave Chen Nan a Mana Card with one hundred thousand Mana Crystals, and Yang Yugan gave him the Four Elements Tube, Dongfang Liang's Energy Gathering Ring, and a promise to forge him weapons.
• Yang Yugan appointed Chen Nan an administrator of the Nature Master Department, granting him authority to act without reporting ordinary decisions to his superiors.
• Chen Nan accepted Qi Shan, Lu Zitong, and Liu Mingtao as elective students and taught them the Clear Heart Incantation; the students later promoted the department and attracted more learners.

Susanna pursued Chen Nan while he focused on cultivation, and rumors spread that they were lovers. After reaching Level Thirty-Eight and entering the middle-to-late stage of Object Study, Chen Nan realized that Nature Master cultivation involved a deeper connection to the forces behind all things, and that his Myriad Laws Universe Art could guide others toward the path but could not make them comprehend the Dao.

• Susanna joined Chen Nan’s Nature Master elective after hearing Lin Xi praise him, then decided she might love him and wanted to pursue him.
• Susanna began seeking Chen Nan out and caring for his daily needs, while rumors that they were a couple spread throughout the academy.
• Chen Nan cultivated at the Hongci Training Center and broke through to Level Thirty-Eight by the end of the season.
• Chen Nan sensed that Object Study had transformed his perception and control, and reflected on how Nature Master cultivation differed from Transcendent cultivation.
• Chen Nan practiced Eight Trigrams Sect martial arts with his Meridian Mandarin Duck Axes and realized that his Myriad Laws Universe Art could lead others to the path of Nature but could not give them comprehension of the Dao.

Chen Nan reflected on the limits of his Myriad Laws Universe Art and suspected his feelings for Susanna were growing after she fell into his arms. His friends took them to a spicy hot pot restaurant bearing Chen Nan’s name, where Liu Mingtao began revealing the shop’s connection to him.

• Chen Nan concluded his cultivation art could strengthen Nature Master students, though personal comprehension was still needed to enter the Heavenly Dao.
• Susanna approached Chen Nan with clean clothes, stumbled into his arms when he turned around, and stayed close until Qi Shan and the others interrupted them.
• Chen Nan’s friends invited him and Susanna out, and he agreed to join Qi Shan, Lu Zitong, Liu Mingtao, and Du Zhong.
• Qi Shan brought the group to Chen Nan Spicy Hot Pot, surprising Susanna with the restaurant’s name.
• Chen Nan helped Susanna order, and Liu Mingtao told her the restaurant had a close connection to Chen Nan despite Chen Nan’s warning.

At Chen Nan Spicy Hot Pot, Liu Mingtao revealed intimate details about Chen Nan’s past, then defended the restaurant when a group of thugs harassed a server. The fight escalated into a four-against-six brawl, and Susanna prepared to join in as Chen Nan watched.

• Liu Mingtao recounted Chen Nan’s history in detail, leaving Chen Nan puzzled about how he knew so much.
• Chen Nan rebuked Liu Mingtao for airing his past, and the group began eating spicy hot pot.
• A fat customer groped a server and tried to force her to go with him, prompting Liu Mingtao to attack.
• Liu Mingtao struck the fat man with a fiery punch, and the fat man ordered his six companions to attack.
• Qi Shan, Lu Zitong, and Du Zhong joined Liu Mingtao in fighting the six men, while Susanna raised her hand to intervene.

Susanna drove off six Transcendents who had harassed a waitress, and Chen Nan learned that a movement was pushing for Transcendents to rule over ordinary people. After a day out with Susanna, he met with Yang Yugan and Lu Fangliang to advise them on equipment for the Nature Master Department, leaving him poised to shape its future cultivation.

• Susanna gradually froze the six Transcendents until they retreated with the fat man, and Chen Nan's group received thanks from the restaurant owner.
• The owner told Chen Nan that a movement among Transcendents was advocating power over ordinary people and growing persecution in the Qingyang Kingdom.
• Chen Nan learned that Qi Shan and the others already knew about the movement, then left the restaurant with his companions.
• Chen Nan and Susanna spent the day visiting attractions around Luojing, and their relationship began to feel increasingly like a couple's.
• Yang Yugan and Lu Fangliang asked Chen Nan what cultivation equipment the Nature Master Department should acquire, and he prepared to offer his recommendations.

Chen Nan revealed his new cultivation path to Yang Yugan and Lu Fangliang, received the Mysterious Profound Token as the Nature Master Department’s chosen successor, and continued cultivating. After reaching Level Forty and running out of funds, he decided to seek higher-paying academy missions.

• Chen Nan told Yang Yugan and Lu Fangliang that he had combined Nature Master and Transcendent cultivation methods to create a new path, startling them with the possibility that he could revolutionize the Nature Master lineage.
• Yang Yugan prayed to the past patriarchs, then gave Chen Nan the Mysterious Profound Token, which held the lineage’s knowledge and cultivation arts and could warn Yang Yugan of danger; Lu Fangliang explained that Chen Nan had been chosen as the next Sect Master.
• Yang Yugan assigned Lu Fangliang to buy a Meditation Qi Yin Art player for five hundred thousand Mana Crystals and gave Chen Nan another fifty thousand to cultivate.
• After more than two months, Chen Nan spent the funds and reached Level Forty as a Transcendent and the late stage of the Investigation of Things realm.
• Chen Nan weighed taking missions against challenging the Diligence Ranking, decided to pursue higher-end academy missions, and thought of Lin Xi.

Chen Nan recruited Susanna to join an academy mission and met up with Qi Shan, Lu Zitong, and Liu Mingtao to choose an assignment. They settled on escorting a Jialuo Kingdom criminal from Zhiyun Region to Luojing, while Chen Nan remained concerned about the force behind the attack on his previous convoy.

• Chen Nan invited Susanna to join his mission, and she eagerly agreed while Lin Xi declined Susanna's offer to come along.
• Susanna met Chen Nan, linked arms with him, and joined him on the way to the mission posting area, where they encountered Qi Shan, Lu Zitong, and Liu Mingtao.
• Chen Nan reflected that Manager Liu's silence suggested Hongda Freight Station could not challenge the force behind the convoy attack, and he wondered who had ordered it.
• Liu Mingtao found a well-paid mission offering a C-version Spirit Touch Potion and five thousand Mana Crystals per person.
• Chen Nan and the others chose to help Qingyang Kingdom's judicial authorities escort a Jialuo Kingdom drug trafficker from Zhiyun Region to Luojing.

Chen Nan and the other trainees traveled to Zhiyun to escort a criminal, where the Patrol Bureau welcomed them with gifts and an extravagant meal. The bureau chief privately asked Chen Nan for help and offered to treat it as a paid mission, then began explaining his predicament.

• Chen Nan and the other four accepted the mission, received work cards, and traveled from Luojing to Zhiyun.
• The group arrived at Tanming Hotel, where Susanna and Chen Nan shared a room while Liu Mingtao had one to himself.
• The Zhiyun Patrol Bureau chiefs welcomed the trainees, briefed them on the criminal and escort, and took them to an expensive restaurant.
• The bureau chief presented the group with costly gifts, which they reluctantly accepted, then hosted them at a banquet of regional delicacies.
• The bureau chief privately asked Chen Nan for help and offered to make it a separate paid mission, then began describing his misfortune.

Chen Nan agreed to rescue the Patrol Bureau chief’s kidnapped daughter while still escorting the captured beastman to Luojing City, then secretly investigated the chief’s office. He found the ransom note suspicious but uncovered no decisive evidence before the chapter ended.

• The Patrol Bureau chief told Chen Nan that his eight-year-old daughter had been kidnapped and asked him to let the beastman escape during an attack in exchange for a large reward.
• Chen Nan agreed to save the girl, but told his team they would also deliver the beastman safely and investigate the kidnapping themselves.
• Chen Nan suspected the beastman’s accomplices had help from insiders in Qingyang Kingdom and decided to start by examining the ransom note.
• That night, Chen Nan used the Mist Concealment Technique to enter the Patrol Bureau, temporarily disabled its surveillance system, and searched the records room.
• Chen Nan examined the note, which had been assembled from newspaper clippings, and found it had no fingerprints, but he could not yet draw any firm conclusions.

Chen Nan used the Patrol Bureau’s surveillance footage and his AI System to trace a threatening note to officer Zhang Hua. He located a possible source of evidence and told his companions they would search for it the next day.

• Chen Nan reviewed five days of surveillance footage and spotted a hole in a crumpled newspaper thrown away by Zhang Hua, an officer trusted by the Patrol Bureau director.
• Chen Nan used the AI System to reconstruct the newspaper and found that the cut-out words, “girl” and “death,” matched words on the threatening note.
• Chen Nan traced the newspaper from an outdoor trash bin to sanitation worker Zhang Cuihua and found her personal details in the workers’ system.
• Chen Nan stopped using the AI System after it consumed most of his power, then returned to the hotel.
• Chen Nan told Liu Mingtao and the others he had nearly solved the case and asked them to help find crucial evidence the next day.

Chen Nan obtained the newspaper evidence linking Zhang Hua to the kidnapping but delayed arresting him to avoid endangering the hostage. After Qi Shan’s two days of surveillance revealed no suspicious behavior, Chen Nan remained troubled by how the kidnappers could be keeping the girl hidden.

• Chen Nan and his companions found sanitation worker Zhang Cuihua and paid her to search for the newspaper, which Chen Nan preserved as evidence.
• Chen Nan decided not to arrest Zhang Hua until they knew where the kidnapped girl was being held and how to rescue her.
• Chen Nan sent Qi Shan to secretly follow Zhang Hua and investigate his movements and associates.
• Qi Shan surveilled Zhang Hua for two days and reported that he followed an ordinary routine and met no one suspicious.
• Chen Nan reasoned that the kidnappers had to contact the hostage, but Zhang Hua’s movements showed no sign of such contact.

Chen Nan suspected Zhang Hua had hidden the Patrol Bureau chief’s daughter inside the Patrol Bureau prison, and he used rats to search it. After finding the girl in an isolated cell, Chen Nan told his companions they would rescue her at midnight.

• Chen Nan reasoned that Zhang Hua likely had accomplices and might be keeping the girl somewhere he could access without arousing suspicion.
• Chen Nan left the hotel alone to enlist his unusual friends, while Liu Mingtao told the others about Chen Nan’s past use of rats to gather evidence.
• Chen Nan returned that evening and revealed that he had used rats to search the Patrol Bureau prison and found the chief’s daughter in an isolated cell.
• Chen Nan explained that the girl had suffered severe torment and was in a mentally sluggish state, so they needed to rescue her quickly.
• Chen Nan and his companions agreed to rest after dinner and enter the prison at midnight.