Recaps

Mistblade settled into Chasing Sun’s home and studied etiquette with Yu Xunge while the two prepared to register at Moonlight Wetland. On the way there, Chasing Sun explained how God-Bestowed Talents were awakened and revealed that Moonlight Wetland was one of three Magic Academies that accepted only students with A-rank talents or higher.

• Mistblade asked Chasing Sun to teach her, but Chasing Sun refused because Mistblade was not her apprentice.
• Mistblade paid Yu Xunge 200 gold coins for daily etiquette lessons until registration at Moonlight Wetland.
• Chasing Sun found Yu Xunge and Mistblade ready early on registration day and took them across Delano in an expensive flying vehicle, putting the fare on their tabs.
• Yu Xunge and Mistblade joked about what registration might involve before Mistblade asked Chasing Sun about Maple Sugar’s supposed early awakening.
• Chasing Sun explained that only academies could awaken God-Bestowed Talents and listed their grades from E to SSS.
• Chasing Sun revealed that Puppy Ranch, Thief Bug Marsh, and Moonlight Wetland required students to have at least A-rank God-Bestowed Talents.

Yu Xunge and Mistblade arrived at Moonlight Wetland to take its talent-awakening trial, while Zhuiri left them at the entrance. Yu Xunge ate an Awakening Fruit alone, and the chapter ended as she discovered her talent.

• Yu Xunge and Mistblade admired Moonlight Wetland’s colossal tree as Zhuiri led them to the entrance.
• The academy barred Zhuiri from entering, and she asked Yu Xunge whether she feared having an evil God-Bestowed Talent or not having one before leaving.
• Yu Xunge and Mistblade followed the young ones through the enchanted forest to the Awakening Fruits, where those who awakened A-rank talents could stay.
• Mistblade ate her fruit and reacted with delight, while Yu Xunge asked whether she could save hers for later and learned it would lose its effect outside Moonlight Wetland.
• Yu Xunge moved away from the others, ate her fruit, and learned the answer to her worry about her God-Bestowed Talent.

Yu Xunge awakened the S-rank God-Bestowed Talent Summer Snowman and worried that its healing abilities put her in Zhuri’s opposing camp. She stayed at Moonlight Wetland, where only a little over a hundred young ones qualified, and finally paid her tuition.

• Yu Xunge ate a berry and awakened the S-rank Summer Snowman talent, along with three skills and Mysterious Power.
• Yu Xunge studied her talent’s skills and worried that Zhuri might reject her because it seemed angelic rather than evil.
• Mistblade comforted Yu Xunge and led her to the registration teacher after Yu Xunge decided to stay at Moonlight Wetland regardless of Zhuri’s reaction.
• Yu Xunge and the other young ones completed a five-hour awakening, and the school sent away those whose talents were below A-rank.
• Mistblade brought Maple Syrup to stand with them, and a kangaroo collected tuition from the young ones who remained.
• Yu Xunge handed over her tuition after waiting to pay since she entered Moonlight Wetland.

Yu Xunge qualified to enroll at Moonlight Wetland with an S-rank God-Bestowed Talent and reunited with Zhuri, who came to pick her up. She told Zhuri about her talent and revealed that she had awakened a skill born alongside sin, but kept its details secret.

• The cubs received spatial backpacks, uniforms, meal cards, and November dormitory keys before leaving Moonlight Wetland.
• Mistblade and Maple Syrup compared plans for where they were staying as the cubs headed toward their waiting parents.
• Yu Xunge spotted Zhuri waiting on a flying motorcycle, celebrated her S-rank enrollment, and brought Mistblade along for the ride home.
• The next afternoon, Yu Xunge told Zhuri that her God-Bestowed Talent was called Summer Snowman and described its five skills.
• On Garbage Street, Yu Xunge told Zhuri she had awakened a skill born alongside sin but refused to reveal what it did.

Yu Xunge learned which skills Moonlight Wetland could detect and began preparing seasonal items to trade at school. After discovering that her wine could grant an attribute point, she rushed to show Zhuri, who had just gone to bed.

• Zhuri told Yu Xunge that ordinary skills could not be detected unless used, and explained that early-stage Moonlight Wetland prohibited murder, theft, and deprivation.
• Yu Xunge concealed most of her awakened skills from Zhuri and asked the Garbage Street weapon-shop owner how skill users could be traced for 800 gold coins.
• Zhuri offered to buy Yu Xunge candy, and Yu Xunge eagerly dragged her into Rock Locust and left with twelve gift boxes.
• Yu Xunge bought pumpkins and seasonal ingredients, tested Spring Pumpkin, and made three lopsided Summer Snowmen from Winter Snow.
• Yu Xunge brewed three cups of wine, including one that granted a random Distributable Attribute Point, and woke Zhuri to show it to her.

Yu Xunge shared her first homemade Wrong Season with Zhuri, who gave her a protective arrow before the cubs began school. As classes started at Moonlight Wetland, Yu Xunge gathered with Maple Sugar, Fat Goose, and Mistblade to head out for their Combat Courses.

• Yu Xunge gave Zhuri a glass of her first homemade Wrong Season, and Zhuri drank it before giving Yu Xunge a tiny arrow brooch as a back-to-school gift.
• Zhuri prepared supplies for Yu Xunge and Mistblade, then explained that Moonlight Wetland uniforms identified students’ God-Bestowed Talent types, including dangerous students in black and gray.
• Yu Xunge made three drinks with Wrong Season, packed them for later, and set out wearing Zhuri’s arrow as a necklace.
• Yu Xunge met Maple Sugar outside her treehouse, and the two flew down from the dormitory towers.
• Yu Xunge, Maple Sugar, and Fat Goose met Mistblade, and the cubs gathered to leave for their Combat Courses.

Yu Xunge attended classes at Moonlight Wetland, where assessments sorted students into tiers and she excelled in Close Combat while concealing the full power of her items. She decided to keep limiting Bubble Nebula at school and avoid using Time-Space Walk beyond its known same-day return, wary of what Zhuri might know.

• Yu Xunge and her companions ate breakfast before hurrying to their changing classrooms for the morning’s compulsory Defense Class.
• Moonlight Wetland assessed students at the start of each lesson, placing the best performers with the strongest teachers in SSS Class and sorting the rest into lower tiers.
• Yu Xunge consistently reached SSS Class in Close Combat, struggled in Ranged Combat, and usually ranked between S Class and SS Class in Defense.
• Yu Xunge suspected that Zhuri had noticed the unusual nature of her items but did not know they were Godly Relics.
• Yu Xunge chose to use Bubble Nebula no more than three times at school and to keep Time-Space Walk limited to returning to the same day.

Yu Xunge survived the four-part assessment long enough to reach SS Class, then joined Tian Huhaoqi's counter-tracking and concealment game. After removing the teacher's tracking mark and masking her scent, she asked a Rock Violinist Mantis if it wanted to trade for a new violin.

• Yu Xunge used a tennis racket to redirect wooden balls toward the teachers, inspiring nearby students to do the same.
• Yu Xunge lasted through the assessment's four areas and reached SS Class before being eliminated.
• Tian Huhaoqi announced a concealment game, marked each student with a sprout, and offered rewards for avoiding capture.
• Yu Xunge used Rewind to remove her sprout, then thanked nearby plants and animals with nutrient solution for keeping quiet.
• Yu Xunge masked her scent with incense and offered the Rock Violinist Mantis a new violin in exchange for a trade.

Tian Huhaoqi spent the lesson trying and failing to catch Yu Xunge, who used disguises and candy to evade her. Xunge revealed herself after class and earned the S-rank skill lesson, while Tian Huhaoqi asked whether Zhuri treated her well.

• Tian Huhaoqi caught more than a hundred students but could not find Yu Xunge, the last cub remaining in the game.
• Tian Huhaoqi discovered that Yu Xunge had given candy to school creatures, then followed clues from a squirrel to a Rock Violinist Mantis and Chirping Ball Sparrows without finding her.
• At noon, Tian Huhaoqi dismissed the class and waited for Yu Xunge to appear.
• A young Chirping Ball Sparrow delivered a disguised Yu Xunge to Tian Huhaoqi, and Xunge paid the bird with candy.
• Yu Xunge explained that she had reasoned school creatures could not harm students, and Tian Huhaoqi asked whether Zhuri treated her well.

Yu Xunge explained how she had evaded Tian Huhaoqi, then went to the library to research Moonlight Wetland graduates. She found a chilling profile of Chasing the Sun, a powerful former student, and learned the school’s grim advice for anyone who offended her.

• Yu Xunge told her classmates how she had avoided Tian Huhaoqi and won an S-rank skill, while keeping the details of her Disguise Skill secret.
• Tian Huhaoqi reflected that Yu Xunge had shared information that earned her classmates’ gratitude without revealing the crucial rule that Moonlight Wetland’s inhabitants would not harm students.
• Yu Xunge planned to study Forest Studies to learn about plants and animals that could expand the drinks made by her Wrong Season skill.
• Yu Xunge visited the library’s Trading Area to search for information about Moonlight Wetland graduates, including Chasing the Sun.
• Yu Xunge read Chasing the Sun’s record of eleven Godly Game championships and the school’s warning that anyone who offended her should identify themselves as a Moonlight Wetland student so she would return their corpse to the school.

Yu Xunge visited Tian Huhaoqi to ask to learn the skill that made others overlook her, and Tian agreed to upgrade the reward if Yu delivered a letter to Zhuri. Yu planned to collect the letter through the school library exchange and tell Zhuri about the arrangement.

• Yu Xunge bought Zhuri’s information on Evil God-Bestowed Talent and wondered about the word “Destroy.”
• Yu Xunge found Tian Huhaoqi fishing beside Moonlight Wetland’s lake, surrounded by animal cubs.
• Yu Xunge asked to learn Tian Huhaoqi’s skill that made people unconsciously overlook her, and Tian said it was an SS-rank skill.
• Tian Huhaoqi offered to upgrade the reward if Yu delivered a letter to Zhuri, and Yu insisted it be checked through the school library exchange.
• Tian Huhaoqi arranged for Yu to collect the letter from the library at noon the next day and deliver it during the Flame Festival break.
• Yu wrote to Zhuri that she had agreed to carry the letter only after it was inspected, and hoped Zhuri would be home for the festival.

Yu Xunge received an A-rank Sprint skill from Zhuri and prepared to celebrate the Flame Festival with Wuren. At home, she discovered Zhuri’s teacher Aihao had arrived, and Aihao revealed she had given Yu Xunge her skill books.

• Zhuri sent Yu Xunge candy and a notebook containing the A-rank Sprint skill, which passively increased movement speed and dodge rate once mastered.
• Yu Xunge and Wuren discussed returning home for the Flame Festival, while Maple Sugar appeared troubled and declined their invitation to visit.
• On the Flame Festival, Yu Xunge and Wuren bought pumpkins and a Sacred Flame before returning home.
• Yu Xunge found Zhuri with her teacher Aihao and excitedly thanked Aihao for the skill books.
• Yu Xunge realized a cup of wine was missing from her backpack and suspected Aihao had taken it.

Yu Xunge and Aihao repeatedly stole belongings from each other, leaving Yu Xunge devastated when Aihao took nearly everything from her backpack. After dinner, Aihao gave Wuren a skill scroll, and Zhuri explained that Yu Xunge would only get possessive if Aihao gave Wuren things that belonged to her.

• Zhuri sent Yu Xunge and Wuren to decorate the house while Aihao stole items from Yu Xunge's backpack, prompting Yu Xunge to steal from Aihao in return.
• Zhuri read Tian Huhaoqi's letter asking whether Yu Xunge could learn from another experienced teacher, then burned it and questioned Yu Xunge about Tian Huhaoqi.
• Aihao used Yu Xunge's belongings to torment her until she had taken nearly everything, including 2.97 million gold coins, leaving Yu Xunge crying and showing Zhuri her empty backpack.
• Zhuri ordered everyone to stop using skills during dinner, and Aihao gave Wuren a B-rank Tail Whip scroll that Wuren learned.
• Zhuri told Aihao that Yu Xunge would take back her own belongings if Aihao gave them to Wuren, then hate Aihao rather than her friend.

Yu Xunge received an S-rank skill from Aihao and learned about the Godly Game from Zhuri. The chapter ended with Zhuri revealing that Aihao had been the previous Tian Huhaoqi.

• Aihao gave Yu Xunge the S-rank Spirited Cooking skill, which let her store alcohol and unleash it as a fire dragon.
• Zhuri and Aihao fought during the Flame Festival while Yu Xunge cheered and Wuren protected the food.
• After Aihao left, Yu Xunge found her school uniform, meal card, gifts, a letter, and a notebook describing the Another Me skill.
• Zhuri explained the Godly Game and the requirements for earning the Tian Huhaoqi title.
• When Yu Xunge asked who had held the title before Huang Jin, Zhuri answered that it had been Aihao.

Zhuri threatened to destroy Yu Xunge’s Godly Relic and left her 900 days to win a championship, driving her to train relentlessly. Yu Xunge also investigated Tian Huhaoqi’s history and searched past Godly Game records to test her theory about Huang Jin.

• Zhuri suspended Annihilation’s destruction countdown for 900 days and demanded that Yu Xunge win a championship in her third year or lose the relic and her left hand.
• Yu Xunge refused Zhuri’s attempt to comfort her, then picked up the training materials Zhuri left behind.
• After the Flame Festival, Yu Xunge intensified her training in combat, healing, defense, Another Me, and Flame Shadow, spurring Mist Blade Fengtang, Fat Goose, and other cubs to train harder.
• Yu Xunge concealed her left hand while learning from Tian Huhaoqi and considered how Huang Jin had earned her championships before obtaining Tian Huhaoqi.
• Yu Xunge searched Moonlight Wetland’s records and photographs of past Godly Games to investigate her theory.

Yu Xunge learned more about Zhuri and Huang Jin’s shared history, then left Moonlight Wetland for the Winter Solstice Festival after seeing Wuren off. As she headed home, Zhuri arrived on a mechanical motorcycle and teased her for walking so slowly.

• Yu Xunge confirmed that Zhuri had won the individual and Fun Match championships for years before Huang Jin became Tian Huhaoqi, and that Zhuri had failed to claim the title three times.
• Tian Huhaoqi advised Yu Xunge to practice Hide and Seek, which had helped her become Tian Huhaoqi, and Yu Xunge continued training and improving her classes.
• On the sixth-to-last day of Astralana 167, Wuren left for Kaladom on a Moonlight Wetland Griffin, while Yu Xunge gave her a backup signal plan and money for the journey.
• Yu Xunge recalled how she had reconciled with Zhuri by letter and how Zhuri had sent her increasingly disgusting candy for three months.
• As Yu Xunge walked home alone for the Winter Solstice Festival, Zhuri arrived on a mechanical motorcycle and asked why she was walking so slowly.

After the Winter Solstice Festival, Zhuri made Yu Xunge practice her theft skill and agreed to help dispose of anything she stole. With most of Delano away for the Godly Game, Yu Xunge studied under an old dog teacher and trained with Zhuri, improving her combat skills before school resumed.

• Zhuri confronted Yu Xunge about her theft skill, and Yu Xunge stole one percent of Zhuri’s wealth after seven attempts.
• Yu Xunge told Zhuri that the 2.97 million gold coins she had stolen from Aihao were only one percent of Aihao’s wealth, and the pair argued over how to split such a haul.
• Zhuri allowed Yu Xunge to use her covert theft skill on Garbage Street and agreed to help dispose of stolen items.
• After the Winter Solstice Festival, Zhuri took Yu Xunge to find classes, but most of Delano’s residents had left to watch the Godly Game at Thief Bug Marsh in Gadgetzan.
• Yu Xunge studied many subjects with an elderly dog teacher and comprehended the S-rank skill Who Is Still Talking.
• Zhuri trained Yu Xunge until Flame Shadow and Another Me reached SS-rank, then taught her the A-rank skill Fire Rain.

Yu Xunge trained in a hidden arena over winter break and returned to Delano as people discussed Zhuri’s past Tian Huhaoqi streak. Hearing the name “Zhuri Moment” awakened her resolve to stay in this world and activate Tian Huhaoqi again in Zhuri’s honor.

• Wuren returned to Moonlight Wetland for term, then began working hard while Zhuri allowed her to visit her family during short holidays.
• Yu Xunge spent winter break fighting increasingly strong opponents in a hidden arena, stealing attributes and eventually defeating a famous orc after a two-hour battle.
• After winning, Yu Xunge taunted the arena audience, embarrassing Zhuri and Aihao with her insults and boasts.
• In February of year 169, Yu Xunge heard people recall the years when Zhuri repeatedly activated Tian Huhaoqi and call that era the Zhuri Moment.
• Zhuri explained that activating Tian Huhaoqi three times in a row could make a period named after someone, and Yu Xunge decided to make the Zhuri Moment happen again.

Yu Xunge expanded her resource-trading business while training hard and preparing to enter the Godly Game in January. Tian Huhaoqi recognized that Yu Xunge wanted to become Tian Huhaoqi before graduation, but Yu Xunge kept the reason tied to Zhuri to herself.

• Yu Xunge focused on finding future teammates who also wanted to unlock Tian Huhaoqi and traded Summer Snowmen and Rare Potions for resources.
• Yu Xunge explained to her friends that Zhuri had taught her to prioritize attributes and combat techniques over collecting many skills.
• After the third-year term began, Yu Xunge began charging three attribute points to bring students into SSS Class, prompting protests from those stuck in SS Class.
• Mistblade told Yu Xunge that Tian Huhaoqi wanted to see her after dinner, and Yu Xunge went to the lakeside cabin.
• Tian Huhaoqi asked Yu Xunge what she was hurrying toward, and Yu Xunge said she planned to register for the January Godly Game after the Flame Festival.
• Tian Huhaoqi said Yu Xunge wanted to become Tian Huhaoqi before graduation, while Yu Xunge kept her dream concerning Zhuri Moment private.

Yu Xunge gave up using attribute points to bring classmates into SSS Class in exchange for Tian Huhaoqi's tutoring, and Zhuri offered her more lessons if she won a Godly Game championship. When Yu Xunge returned home for the Flame Festival with her friends, Zhuri let them stay and the group discussed the Godly Game's resurrection rules.

• Tian Huhaoqi agreed to tutor Yu Xunge twice a month after Yu Xunge stopped bringing classmates into SSS Class, and promised nightly lessons if she won a Godly Game championship.
• Zhuri remembered that Yu Xunge was returning for break, left Gadgetzan, and bought candy on her way home.
• Yu Xunge asked Zhuri to let Maple Sugar and Fat Goose stay for the Flame Festival, and Zhuri agreed while correctly guessing their family troubles.
• At dinner, Yu Xunge said she planned to register for the Godly Game, and Maple Sugar warned her about its dangers and limited resurrection chances.
• Fat Goose and Mist Blade explained how some schools prioritized resurrecting students, and Zhuri asked what Moonlight Wetland's resurrection rules were.

Yu Xunge learned that Moonlight Wetland’s resurrection rule permanently barred anyone revived in the Godly Game from competing again, but she registered anyway and continued training. Her lessons with Tian Huhaoqi grew more intense, while she stubbornly refused to ask her for help and traded letters and prank candy with Zhuri.

• Zhuri told Yu Xunge and the apprentices that anyone resurrected in the Godly Game could never participate again, and warned Yu Xunge that using her theft Skill would earn her suspension if discovered.
• Yu Xunge registered for the Godly Game at Moonlight Wetland’s library, spending all 500 of her credits despite the academy’s poor championship record.
• Yu Xunge continued her classes and training, reaching level 16 as her attributes approached those of advanced students.
• Shivana gave Yu Xunge the A-rank hair accessory Stop Waiting, which reduced the cooldown of all her Skills by 20%.
• Tian Huhaoqi extended Yu Xunge’s training sessions and offered to teach her powerful Skills, but Yu Xunge refused and wrote Zhuri praise-filled letters instead.
• Zhuri sent Yu Xunge candy in identical wrappers, while the owner of Rock Locust’s prank enchantment made unfinished candy wrappers haunt their recipients with awful songs.

Yu Xunge endured Tian Huhaoqi’s brutal training and discovered two powerful skills, including Legendary Prologue. Tian Huhaoqi gave her Rule 711, a skill she and Zhuri had comprehended together, leaving Yu Xunge with a new gift from her teacher.

• Yu Xunge fought Tian Huhaoqi through a punishing training session, adapting to her attacks while trading taunts.
• After Tian Huhaoqi silenced her and knocked her through the air, Yu Xunge found a counter and defeated her with Brief Hibernation and a dagger at her throat.
• Yu Xunge comprehended the SS-rank passive Refuse Cold Violence and the SSS-rank passive Legendary Prologue.
• Tian Huhaoqi recalled her youth with Zhuri, then inscribed Rule 711 onto a blank magic scroll and gave it to Yu Xunge.
• Yu Xunge accepted Rule 711 and thanked Tian Huhaoqi for teaching her.

As winter approached, Yu Xunge and her friends prepared to travel to Gray Valley for the Godly Game, while Maple Syrup and Fat Goose struggled with their private troubles. Zhuri stayed behind without explaining her reluctance to attend, and the chapter ended with her watching the sunrise as Aihao joined her.

• Yu Xunge’s snowmen became popular as she collected winter snow and improved her painting under Shivana’s guidance.
• Yu Xunge, Mistblade, and Maple Syrup discussed their growing debts to Zhuri, and Fat Goose regained his appetite after comparing them with his own family problems.
• Yu Xunge and her friends planned to travel to Gray Valley for the Godly Game, while Aihao said she would attend and Zhuri stayed silent.
• On the way to school, Yu Xunge told Mistblade that the current Godly Game was not worthy of Zhuri’s attention unless Tian Huhaoqi began.
• Zhuri lay on her roof watching the sunrise, and Aihao asked her what she was looking at.

Yu Xunge prepared her limited magical items for the Godly Game and waited with her classmates for the competition to begin. Motorcycle proposed an equal-exchange arrangement for a possible Fun Match, and Yu Xunge agreed.

• Yu Xunge chose her backpack as her third magical item, since her two Godly Relics already occupied the other slots, and set aside her daggers and Stop Waiting for safekeeping.
• On January 6th, Yu Xunge and the other contestants gathered on a houseboat while spectators filled the cliffs overlooking the river.
• Motorcycle asked Yu Xunge whether they could cooperate if the first match was a Fun Match, then clarified that they should avoid forming a team and trade equally for anything they needed.
• Yu Xunge agreed to Motorcycle's proposal to take what they needed and make equal exchanges.

Yu Xunge entered the AS170 Fun Match, where contestants had six hours to earn the most currency in a futuristic city populated by Pokemon. She weighed whether to use her Theft Skill without drawing unwanted attention and began scouting the city before the game started.

• The Godly Game revealed its AS170 rules and rewards, including a withdrawal condition requiring players to destroy one of their initial magic items.
• A gate opened for the Fun Match, and Moonlight Wetland's four-armed swordsman let students decide for themselves whether to enter.
• Yu Xunge flew through the gate and found herself in a frozen futuristic city filled with Pokemon.
• The Fun Match rules identified the game as Monopoly, with the player holding the most currency after six hours winning.
• Yu Xunge considered using her Theft Skill but worried that public attention would create problems at Moonlight Wetland, so she surveyed the city while waiting for the game to begin.