Recaps

Jiang Fan insisted on challenging every provincial team alongside Zhong Zhengbai, and Xu Shoushan approved a special ring-stage rule for them. Zhong Zhengbai feared they would be overwhelmed, but Jiang Fan told him to stay beside him while he handled the challengers.

• Jiang Fan brought Zhong Zhengbai with him to request a challenge against all provincial teams, drawing loud objections and support from the teams below.
• Xu Shoushan urged Jiang Fan to endure the doubts and avoid risking his future, but Jiang Fan refused to back down.
• Xu Shoushan added a rule allowing Jiang Fan and Zhong Zhengbai to face challenges from every provincial team, with the 50th Province losing its ranking if they were defeated.
• The other provincial teams accepted the rule, and Jiang Fan confirmed that he agreed to it.
• Zhong Zhengbai worried that the pair could not withstand the gauntlet, but Jiang Fan told him to stay beside him and leave the fighting to him.

Jiang Fan and Zhong Zhengbai entered the team challenge arena, where Lu Xiaojian’s team from the 49th Province became their first opponents. Jiang Fan refused to limit the opposing team’s numbers, and the two sides began fighting.

• Xu Shoushan explained the team challenge rules and officially opened the tournament.
• Lu Xiaojian volunteered his team from the 49th Province to challenge Jiang Fan and Zhong Zhengbai first.
• Xu Shoushan warned Lu Xiaojian to avoid extreme actions, but Lu Xiaojian said he would not kill them.
• Jiang Fan declined Xu Shoushan’s offer to limit the opposing team to two fighters.
• Lu Xiaojian and his two teammates surrounded Jiang Fan and Zhong Zhengbai, then attacked from different directions.

Jiang Fan effortlessly broke Lu Xiaojian’s team’s coordinated attack, leaving Lu Xiaojian and his companions injured and stunned. He seized Lu Xiaojian by the neck and asked him to name his biggest mistake.

• Lu Xiaojian and his two teammates launched a coordinated attack to defeat Jiang Fan and Zhong Zhengbai at once.
• Jiang Fan moved Zhong Zhengbai behind him and countered with a single strike that shattered their attack and injured all three opponents.
• Lu Xiaojian accused Jiang Fan of using underhanded methods when he could not explain how his team’s Sealing Cage had been broken.
• Jiang Fan pulled Lu Xiaojian toward him, grabbed him by the neck, and asked what his biggest mistake had been.

Jiang Fan provoked the other teams after defeating Lu Xiaojian, and Xiao Xingzhi led the 26th Province in challenging the 50th Province. The 26th Province unleashed a powerful combined attack, but Jiang Fan pierced through its giant fist phantom with a single finger, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Jiang Fan dared the other teams to challenge him, and Xu Shoushan prepared to declare him first when no one initially stepped forward.
• Xiao Xingzhi announced that the 26th Province would challenge the 50th Province, prompting other teams to voice support for taking Jiang Fan on in successive matches.
• Xu Shoushan began the challenge, and Xiao Xingzhi and his two teammates faced Jiang Fan and Zhong Zhengbai in the arena.
• Xiao Xingzhi and his teammates fused their Blood Qi Power into a giant phantom fist and launched it at Jiang Fan and Zhong Zhengbai.
• Jiang Fan touched the phantom fist with one finger, piercing it and causing it to collapse and scatter its energy across the arena.

Jiang Fan easily defeated Xiao Xingzhi and two others, then challenged the teams from the other provinces to attack him together. The teams accepted, setting up a mass fight against Jiang Fan.

• Jiang Fan defeated Xiao Xingzhi and two others with a single strike, shocking the spectators.
• The crowd recognized Jiang Fan's strength and wondered how the 50th Province had recruited him.
• Jiang Fan invited the assembled teams to challenge him all at once to avoid wasting time on successive fights.
• The crowd angrily accused Jiang Fan of arrogance, but he taunted them into reconsidering their strategy.
• The teams agreed to attack Jiang Fan together, warning him not to regret it if he lost.

Jiang Fan faced a mass attack from dozens of provincial contestants and revealed overwhelming Level 12 strength, scattering their front line. The contestants regrouped around him in a coordinated formation and launched their strongest attacks from every direction.

• Dozens of provincial contestants surrounded Jiang Fan and Zhong Zhengbai, while Zhong Zhengbai panicked about fighting them all.
• Jiang Fan told Zhong Zhengbai to step back and protect himself, then faced the attackers without dodging.
• Jiang Fan took one step and unleashed a vast force that sent the front-line contestants flying off the arena.
• The contestants realized Jiang Fan had at least Level 12 strength and formed a sphere around him to eliminate every blind spot.
• On their commander’s order, the contestants unleashed their strongest attacks at Jiang Fan from every direction.

Jiang Fan effortlessly defeated the contestants who attacked him together, using an unknown domain to suppress and throw them from the arena. The challengers admitted defeat and acknowledged him as the tournament’s first-place winner, though Lu Xiaojian remained unwilling to concede.

• Jiang Fan suppressed dozens of attacking contestants with his domain, crushed them to the ground, and swept them off the arena.
• The crowd and Xu Shoushan recognized that Jiang Fan’s strength surpassed expectations and might exceed Level 12 advanced.
• Jiang Fan asked the defeated contestants whether they were convinced.
• The leader of the 38th Province admitted defeat and accepted Jiang Fan of the 50th Province as the winner, prompting teams from other provinces to concede as well.
• Lu Xiaojian grew bitter and refused to say that he was convinced.

Jiang Fan won the second-round Free Challenge Match after defeating the challengers, while Lu Xiaojian refused to submit despite being crippled. As Jiang Fan and Zhong Zhengbai prepared for the final Personal Evaluation Match, Jiang Fan wondered how thoroughly it would assess their genetic profiles and potential.

• Jiang Fan asked Lu Xiaojian to submit, but Lu Xiaojian refused and left with the physicians, vowing that Jiang Fan would pay for his arrogance.
• Xu Shoushan announced Jiang Fan as the winner of the second-round Free Challenge Match and confirmed that Zhong Zhengbai's ranking would be retained under the rules.
• Xu Shoushan congratulated Jiang Fan, recognized that his strength had reached the threshold of advanced Level 12, and warned him that his conspicuous victory could attract envy.
• On the way back, Jiang Fan asked Zhong Zhengbai whether he could maintain his ranking in the Personal Evaluation Match, and Zhong Zhengbai said his lineage, youth, and solid Martial Dao Foundation gave him good potential scores.
• Jiang Fan and Zhong Zhengbai settled into the apartment while the other teams continued their ranking matches, and Jiang Fan pondered how the final assessment would measure genetic profiles and potential.

Jiang Fan learned how the third-round Personal Evaluation Match would score contestants and arrived at the testing venue with Zhong Zhengbai. The first gene map results appeared, revealing how closely the instruments analyzed a contestant’s origins and traits.

• Jiang Fan decided to stop worrying about his gene origin and returned to cultivation while the other teams finished the second-round challenge.
• The contestants received notice that all 50 would advance to the third round, where gene map testing and potential assessment would each count for half of their personal score.
• Jiang Fan and Zhong Zhengbai arrived at the Area F19 testing venue, where Xu Shoushan explained that the top 30 contestants would enter the Purifier Plan.
• The contestants began testing in assigned order, and the first contestant received a genetic score of 79 after the instrument analyzed his bloodline, gene sequence, and other traits.
• Jiang Fan watched the detailed results and realized the tester could identify a contestant’s lineage with great precision.

Jiang Fan watched the Purifier Plan contestants undergo gene map analysis and potential assessments while waiting for his own turn. Zhong Zhengbai’s results revealed a powerful Zhong Clan bloodline and high-grade potential, leaving Jiang Fan curious about what his tests would show.

• Contestant No. 1 received an overall score of 81 and a middle-tier gatekeeper potential rating, prompting contestants to worry that the assessment standards were strict.
• Jiang Fan considered how the Potential Assessment Pod tested bone age, Blood Energy, combat power, and Combat Awareness.
• Zhong Zhengbai’s gene map analysis identified his high-grade Zhong Clan bloodline, a dormant energy annihilation talent, and an overall score of 86.
• The Potential Assessment Pod rated Zhong Zhengbai’s potential high-grade, citing his youth, combat awareness, and strong combat power relative to his Blood Energy.

Jiang Fan’s genetic map analysis revealed an unprecedented score and extraordinary traits, prompting Xu Shoushan to treat him as a possible successor to the Federal Arbitration Office’s President. The testing was halted for Jiang Fan while Xu Shoushan rushed to bring the discovery to the Elder Council and the President.

• After Zhong Zhengbai received the first upper-tier potential rating, Jiang Fan asked him how the Potential Assessment Pod tested contestants.
• Jiang Fan entered the genetic analysis machine and read a report identifying his origin as an unknown ancient clan from the Qiyuan Star Domain, with a perfect gene sequence and several exceptional traits.
• Jiang Fan’s report showed a comprehensive score of 96, shocking a staff member who concealed it from the other contestants and informed Xu Shoushan.
• Xu Shoushan reviewed Jiang Fan’s report and declared that it needed to be brought to the President and Elder Council, calling Jiang Fan a potential successor to the President.
• Xu Shoushan ordered the staff to let Jiang Fan rest and continue testing the other contestants without giving Jiang Fan the personal potential assessment.

During the Purifier Plan selection matches, Jiang Fan’s genetic profile test prompted Xu Shoushan to seek instructions from higher-ups, delaying the results and stirring suspicion among the contestants. Lu Xiaojian arrived at the venue and declared that Jiang Fan’s problem was too serious for the officials to decide.

• After seeing Jiang Fan’s genetic test report, Xu Shoushan left the testing area, and a staff member told Jiang Fan to wait for further arrangements.
• Jiang Fan told Zhong Zhengbai that everything was normal, though Zhong Zhengbai remained unconvinced.
• The staff member kept delaying the results after the final contestant finished testing, prompting the crowd to question the delay and suspect Jiang Fan’s test was involved.
• As the contestants grew increasingly impatient, Lu Xiaojian entered the venue in bandages and said Jiang Fan’s problem was too huge for the officials to make a decision.

Lu Xiaojian accused Jiang Fan of being a native of Blue Star who had falsified his identity, presenting testimony and a signed agreement as evidence. As security dragged him away, Xu Shoushan and five elders arrived, and Lu Xiaojian spat blood after someone outside rebuked him.

• Lu Xiaojian revealed that he believed Jiang Fan came from Blue Star and had entered the Purifier Plan under a false identity.
• Lu Xiaojian displayed a former God Kingdom employee’s testimony and an agreement bearing Jiang Fan’s seal as evidence of Jiang Fan’s connection to the organization.
• The staff member called security and ordered them to remove Lu Xiaojian and hand him over to the 49th Province’s Federal Arbitration Office.
• As security dragged Lu Xiaojian out, he shouted that Jiang Fan’s alleged origins disgraced the Federation.
• Someone outside shouted at Lu Xiaojian, who spat blood as Xu Shoushan and five elders entered the venue.

Xu Shoushan crippled Lu Xiaojian and ordered him detained for accusing Jiang Fan and disrupting the competition. After reviewing Jiang Fan’s genetic report, the elders agreed to rank him first and dismissed concerns about his origins and registration.

• Lu Xiaojian accused Jiang Fan of being a Blue Star native who had fraudulently entered the selection, and challenged Xu Shoushan’s decision to defend him.
• Xu Shoushan destroyed Lu Xiaojian’s Dantian, declared that he had crippled his cultivation, and ordered security to detain him for trial.
• Xu Shoushan and the elders examined Jiang Fan’s genetic report, which showed an Unknown Ancient Clan origin and several rare traits.
• The elders agreed that Jiang Fan should take first place among the contestants.
• When Xu Shoushan raised Lu Xiaojian’s claims about Jiang Fan’s identity and registration, the Grand Elder rejected them and defended Jiang Fan’s eligibility.

Xu Shoushan announced the final Purifier Plan rankings after the Elders decided to accept Jiang Fan’s incomplete genetic profile test, naming Jiang Fan first and Zhong Zhengbai twenty-fourth. As the other contestants celebrated or fell silent about Jiang Fan, Xu Shoushan and several Elders approached him, leaving Jiang Fan worried that his deal with Yu Han would not let him walk away safely.

• Xu Shoushan announced that Jiang Fan had taken first place in the Purifier Plan selection match.
• The contestants celebrated Jiang Fan’s victory, while others avoided questioning his test results after Lu Xiaojian’s punishment.
• Xu Shoushan read the remaining rankings, including Zhong Zhengbai in twenty-fourth place.
• Zhong Zhengbai celebrated advancing and imagined the commendations and promotion he might receive.
• Jiang Fan watched Xu Shoushan and several Elders approach and worried that their attention would make it difficult to leave safely after his agreement with Yu Han ended.

Jiang Fan underwent an advanced potential scan that revealed extraordinary abilities, prompting the elders to report his results to the President of the Federal Arbitration Office. He learned he was likely to lead the Purifier Squad and wondered whether the President’s attention would bring trouble.

• Elder Xu Shoushan and the other elders brought Jiang Fan to a guarded underground chamber for a deeper assessment.
• The Deep Dive Eye rated Jiang Fan a 95-point top seed, with Level 12 blood energy, conceptual Level 13 combat strength, and exceptional combat awareness.
• Xu Shoushan said the elders would report Jiang Fan’s results to the President and told him he was likely to lead the Purifier Squad.
• Jiang Fan admitted he came from Blue Star, but Xu Shoushan said his origins were no problem and praised his Qiyuan Star Domain bloodline profile.
• Xu Shoushan told Jiang Fan to rest and attend the three-month training program beginning in three days.
• On his way back, Jiang Fan wondered who the President was and worried that being reported might cause him trouble.

Jiang Fan returned to his residence after the Elder Council tested him, and Zhong Zhengbai learned that both of them had advanced into the Purifier Squad. News of Jiang Fan’s astonishing test results reached Yu Han, who realized that the Elder Council had given him extraordinary protection and wondered what secret his results concealed.

• Zhong Zhengbai waited anxiously for Jiang Fan and asked whether the elders had punished him for his registration information.
• Jiang Fan told Zhong Zhengbai that the elders had cleared up the identity issue and had taken him for additional tests, whose results were only a little higher than Zhong Zhengbai’s.
• Zhong Zhengbai said Yu Han would be delighted that both provincial contestants had advanced and Jiang Fan had placed first.
• Yu Han learned that Jiang Fan and Zhong Zhengbai had both advanced, and he imagined the achievement would help him win the next Chief Arbitrator assessment.
• Yu Han received reports that the Elder Council had crippled Lu Xiaojian to protect Jiang Fan and classified Jiang Fan’s test results as top secret.
• Yu Han wondered what secret Jiang Fan’s test results concealed and why the Elder Council had treated him with such importance.

Jiang Fan secured permission to cultivate alone in the Time Corridor during the special training, and after six months inside, he reached Level 13. He emerged with at least fifty-five million blood and qi and perception spanning far beyond the planet.

• Jiang Fan asked to cultivate independently, and Xu Shoushan persuaded the elders that no standard training group could meet his unusual needs.
• The elders approved Jiang Fan's request and gave him three months of access to the Time Corridor, where time flowed twice as fast, along with the resources he needed.
• Jiang Fan spent six months cultivating inside the Time Corridor and consumed fourteen million Crystal Cores.
• After the Crystal Cores ran out, Jiang Fan estimated that his blood and qi had risen from forty-one million to at least fifty-five million.
• Jiang Fan sensed that his perception had expanded across the planet and into space, confirming that he had reached Level 13.

After reaching Level 13, Jiang Fan realized his vitality now let him traverse the starry sky, though he knew space travel remained dangerous. He joined the Purifier Squad qualifiers as Xu Shoushan announced their missions and prepared to reveal the squad’s command structure.

• Jiang Fan reflected on how becoming a Level 13 Great Expert had transformed his ability to travel through space and left the Time Corridor.
• Xu Shoushan summoned the qualifiers to the Federal Arbitration Office, where Zhong Zhengbai asked Jiang Fan where he had been during training.
• Xu Shoushan explained the Purifier Plan’s origins and purpose, then told the thirty qualifiers that their mission was to eliminate criminal threats.
• Xu Shoushan identified the Shadow Organization, the Backstab Army, and the Nether Cult as their targets and announced he would reveal the Purifier Squad’s command structure.

Elder Xu appointed Jiang Fan as overall commander of the Purifier mission, assigning three squads to attack the Backstab Army, the Shadow Organization, and the Nether Cult. When the squad captains proposed simultaneous assaults, Jiang Fan warned that the plan risked casualties and left the group waiting for his alternative.

• Elder Xu appointed Yu Lancuan, Hu Sheng, and Jia Sanming as captains of three squads, each assigned to eliminate a different criminal organization.
• Elder Xu named Jiang Fan the General Commander and gave him authority to coordinate the operation and make decisions in the field.
• Jiang Fan gathered the captains and asked how they should begin the multi-front mission.
• Yu Lancuan proposed that all three squads attack their assigned targets simultaneously, and Hu Sheng and Jia Sanming supported his plan.
• Jiang Fan objected that the enemy forces were entrenched, outnumbered the squads, and might have hidden methods, putting his members at risk.

Jiang Fan persuaded the Purifier Squad leaders to attack the three criminal organizations together, then laid out a detailed plan and prepared to depart for the Nether Cult. The squad boarded a medium-sized spacecraft and set off on the first leg of the mission.

• Jiang Fan argued that concentrating the squad would let them defeat the organizations quickly while protecting their personnel, and the squad leaders agreed to follow his plan.
• Jiang Fan set the targets in order: the Nether Cult, the Backstab Army’s underground fortress on Jiao Yang Star, and the Shadow Organization in the Shattered Corridor.
• Jiang Fan marked the routes and attack plans on a holographic map and ordered the squad to prioritize intelligence, coordination, and destroying the organizations’ leaders and core facilities.
• Jiang Fan obtained a medium-sized spacecraft because the whole thirty-person squad would travel together.
• The Purifier Squad boarded the spacecraft, and Jiang Fan ordered the main pilot to follow the predetermined route.

Jiang Fan and the Federal Arbitration Office squads arrived in orbit above the Nether Cult’s planet and began searching for a way into its vast, hidden network. After conventional infiltration failed, they tried using the devices of a controlled bank employee to find an entry point, leaving the technical team to uncover the Cult’s strongholds.

• Jiang Fan’s spacecraft reached the planet occupied by the Nether Cult, and he ordered Yu Lancuan to synchronize with headquarters’ intelligence.
• The team learned that the Cult’s network spread across more than three hundred thousand nodes embedded throughout the planet’s data systems.
• Jiang Fan ordered the technical specialists to find a node through which they could infiltrate the Cult’s main network, but repeated conventional attempts failed.
• Jiang Fan suggested infiltrating through a controlled parasite host, and Jia Sanming brought in Ye Huilan, a bank employee, along with her devices.
• Jiang Fan warned the specialists not to search Ye Huilan’s memories and urged them to use her devices to locate the Cult’s strongholds; they promised to do their best.

Jiang Fan abandoned the stalled technical investigation into the Nether Cult and set out alone to find its leader on Cuiyu Star. He spread his perception across the entire planet to search for clues.

• Technical experts reported that Ye Huilan had transferred about 30 million Star Coins and was likely abandoned by the Nether Cult, leaving them unable to extract useful organizational information from her equipment.
• Jiang Fan ordered Yu Lancuan, Hu Sheng, and Jia Sanming to lead their teams and remain in contact with the Federal Arbitration Office while he investigated Cuiyu Star himself.
• Jiang Fan argued that capturing the Nether Cult's leader would solve their problems and leaped out of the hatch before his team could stop him.
• Yu Lancuan and the other captains decided to continue the technical investigation while preparing their teams to support Jiang Fan.
• Jiang Fan landed beside a lake on Cuiyu Star and spread his perception across the entire planet to search for the Level 12 leader.

Jiang Fan traced people with signs of mental control across Cuiyu Star and identified Zen Heart Villa as a likely Nether Cult stronghold. He infiltrated the villa and observed a sermon, but the chapter ended before he learned how the cult controlled its followers.

• Jiang Fan searched Cuiyu Star for people showing signs like Ye Huilan’s and marked several suspicious locations, especially a manor in the north.
• Jiang Fan arrived at Zen Heart Villa and followed a controlled woman in white robes to a hall where dozens of people meditated.
• Jiang Fan scanned the villa and concluded that many attendees were targets being exploited by the Nether Cult, while the robed believers appeared to hold ranks within it.
• The Head Seat finished her sermon and looked toward Jiang Fan, asking whether it was his first visit.

Jiang Fan pretended to seek help from the Nether Cult, then discovered that its meditation retreat used sedatives and Spiritual Power-infused music to control believers. He traced the Head Seat’s movements to a hidden entrance in the hills, where the true leader appeared to be concealed.

• Jiang Fan told the Head Seat that a friend’s recovery through Mind Healing had brought him to the cult, then invented a story about losing his martial arts foundation.
• The Head Seat assigned Ji Yi to house Jiang Fan in a wooden hut and teach him meditation for three days before answering his questions.
• After Ji Yi locked him inside, Jiang Fan identified the incense as a sedative and the concealed music as a means of infiltrating believers with Spiritual Power.
• Jiang Fan concluded that the Head Seat was not the Nether Cult’s true leader and used his consciousness to track her movements.
• The Head Seat entered a hidden passage and activated a virtual doorway beneath a pavilion in the hills.