Recaps

Shi Yan led Magic Martial University through the Survival Match and tournament battles while gaining strength and learning the Blazing Flame Divine Needle. The arc left Magic Martial University facing Jingwu in the championship final.

• Shi Yan killed demons alone during the Survival Match, helping Magic Martial University overtake the other schools, then joined his teammates to defeat the Scorpion-tailed Saber-toothed Tiger.
• Shi Yan donated the tiger’s Demon Core to the Monster Suppression Bureau, and Liu Xiuyuan arranged for him to study Lingnan Martial School’s flame-compressing technique.
• Shi Yan chose the difficult Blazing Flame Divine Needle and began learning it while Magic Martial University continued competing without him.
• Shi Yan returned for the team battles, trained his teammates, and helped Magic Martial University advance through the rounds.
• Shi Yan defeated Zhai Leida in a solo fight, then endured the Satu Brothers’ Gravity Domain and used his newly mastered Blazing Flame Divine Needle to win the semifinal against Tianfu Martial School.
• Ye Xinghe and Bai Yuyao led Jingwu past Lingnan Martial School, while Lingnan narrowly claimed third place against Tianfu Martial School.
• Shi Yan and Magic Martial University entered the championship final against Jingwu, and the referee started the match.

Shi Yan led Magic Martial University to victory, earned a Three-Star Talent rating, and won the national championship against Ye Xinghe. As the team headed home, the blade that had drawn enemy Martial Kings into a confrontation left the students caught between Huaxia’s defenders and Shadow Organization forces.

• Shi Yan’s uncontrolled Flame Explosion injured fighters from both schools, and Yuan Tai suspended him for two matches while he mastered the technique.
• Shi Yan helped Magic Martial University advance through the tournament, earned an S-Class character rating, and stopped Liang Xiang from taking Qi Ziyue by surrendering his blade before Liang Xiang died.
• Shi Yan survived three powerful demonic beasts, received the first Three-Star Talent rating awarded to a freshman, and chose Yun Ye’s Nine Revolutions Vajra Art to strengthen his body.
• Shi Yan defeated Ye Xinghe in the championship final, giving Magic Martial University the title and choosing a cash reward that brought his personal allocation to 720 million Huaxia currency.
• Wang Changfu warned the team that Shi Yan’s blade was bait for a confrontation with Dongying martial artists and at least ten Martial Kings, while several teammates trained with Special Grade Body Tempering Medicine.
• Shi Yan used the Nine Revolutions Vajra Art with the medicine, then joined the team on a damaged highway where Yuan Tai and Wang Changfu fought a colossal black shadow.
• A Seventh Tier black shadow ambushed Shi Yan, but Feng Xiaotian, Shi Yan’s Sixth Senior Brother, destroyed it and warned the students about the power of Martial Emperors.
• Qi Zhan explained that Huaxia traitors had complicated the mission to intercept Dongying’s Martial Kings, then he and Feng Xiaotian flew to confront two powerful auras as one figure demanded Feng Xiaotian surrender a blade.

Shi Yan and Nie Lingshan entered the Tianshan Mountains to retrieve the stolen saber and awaken Nie Lingshan’s ability, where they met Sequence Seventeen and gained new powers. After leaving the Restricted Zone, Shi Yan confronted a Beast Tide, drawing the attention of the Snow Leopard Demon Emperor.

• Shi Yan reached Early Fifth Order, destroyed an energy palm, and killed the attackers who demanded his saber before letting Yamaguchi Takuro escape with it during a staged livestream.
• Shi Yan and Nie Lingshan traveled into the Tianshan Mountains, where Nie Lingshan helped kill Bao Dabo and Shi Yan advanced his Nine Revolutions Vajra Art and Spiritual Power.
• Shi Yan and Nie Lingshan found the Sacred Healing Fire at a pool guarded by powerful beasts, and Nie Lingshan used it to transform her ability into SS-Class Water of Life.
• Sequence Seventeen revealed his role in defending the Tianshan line, helped Shi Yan absorb the Sacred Healing Fire through Eightfold Collapse, and gave Nie Lingshan a draft of Ninth Layer Collapse and an underground map.
• After Sequence Seventeen sent them out of the Restricted Zone, Shi Yan killed ten Sixth Order adventurers who threatened them and then joined Huang Qizheng and Feng Xiaotian against a Beast Tide.
• Shi Yan devastated the Beast Tide with his perfected techniques, but the Snow Leopard Demon Emperor appeared, and Huang Qizheng stopped its advance with a Flying Dagger.

Shi Yan grew stronger while helping Zhang Yunya uncover and destroy the smuggling network protected by the Gu and Lu Families. After facing intervention from the Gods Martial Arts Hall and accepting Huang Qizheng’s punishment, Shi Yan prepared to report to Lingnan Martial School, while an unexpected moment with Nie Lingshan complicated his departure.

• Shi Yan returned to Magic Martial University, advanced to the Early Sixth Order, and challenged Zhan Kuang and Qi Tianying before recruiting students for the Sky Demon Club.
• Shi Yan rescued Zhang Yunya from Black Eight, then disguised himself to attack the smugglers and learned that the Gu and Lu Families protected their operation.
• Zhang Yunya was poisoned and cornered at Outpost Number One, but Shi Yan reached her, healed her, and destroyed the stronghold’s defenders with his flames.
• Shi Yan evolved his Sacred Healing Fire into the Fire of Life, healed Zhang Yunya, and hunted foreign mercenaries and other enemies while carrying her toward the Gu Family Fortress.
• Shi Yan confronted the Gu and Lu Families at their fortress, but Wen Ruichuan intervened and demanded that he join the Gods Martial Arts Hall.
• Zhu Lingxiang drove Wen Ruichuan away, and Lu Xingzhou and the Sky Demon Club arrived with evidence against the families, and Zhu Lingxiang and Shi Yan killed the wanted leaders and Shi Yan burned the fortress.
• Shi Yan admitted his failures to Huang Qizheng and accepted twenty lashes, while Huang also whipped himself for failing to supervise the mission.
• Huang Qizheng ordered Shi Yan to prepare to report to Lingnan Martial School, and Shi Yan visited Nie Lingshan, where their Water of Life and Fire of Life merged as she pressed herself against him.