Recaps

Jiang Fan returned to the Federal Arbitration Office after Ace took Blood Ancestor away and the Blood Butcher Organization’s leaders were wiped out. He told Xu Shoushan that someone else had captured Blood Ancestor, and Xu asked him to explain what happened.

• Jiang Fan reflected that Ace’s intervention had kept him from capturing Blood Ancestor, and learned about the secretive Federal Deep Scar Division and its power.
• Jiang Fan killed the two surviving Blood Butcher vice presidents, then set his aircraft for the Federal Arbitration Office headquarters and recovered during the journey.
• Two months later, Jiang Fan arrived at headquarters with his strength restored and his qi and blood increased to seventy-eight million.
• Xu Shoushan told Jiang Fan that the Federal Arbitration Office had sent forces to destroy the Blood Butcher Organization, but they turned back after hearing its leaders had already been wiped out at Lan Sha Reef.
• Jiang Fan clarified that he had not destroyed the organization and that someone else had captured the Level 14 Blood Ancestor, prompting Xu Shoushan to ask who it was.

Jiang Fan reported his discoveries about the Blood Butcher Organization, the Federal Deep Scar Division, and Ace to Xu Shoushan, who praised his accomplishments and invited him to meet the Federal Arbitration Office's President. Three days later, the Purifier Squad joined Xu Shoushan at the Ring of Judgment and was teleported to a secluded courtyard where the President was expected to receive them.

• Jiang Fan told Xu Shoushan how he defeated the Blood Butcher Organization's forces and learned about the Federal Deep Scar Division and Ace.
• Xu Shoushan said his investigation into a traitor within the Federal Arbitration Office had found no evidence, and he expected Ace to help resolve the matter.
• Xu Shoushan told Jiang Fan that the President would emerge from seclusion in three days and invited him to meet the President.
• Three days later, the Purifier Squad gathered at the Ring of Judgment to attend the President's commendation.
• Xu Shoushan led the Purifier Squad through a teleportation gate and into a secluded mountain courtyard.

Xu Shoushan held a commendation ceremony to close the Purifier mission and announced medals, promotions, and Spirit Liquid rewards for the squad. The three team captains received Second Class Medals and larger rewards, while the other members received Third Class Medals and smaller rewards.

• Xu Shoushan brought the thirty members of the Purifier Squad to the President’s secluded residence and announced the commendation ceremony.
• Xu Shoushan reviewed the Purifier mission and explained that the ceremony would recognize the squad’s collective efforts.
• Xu Shoushan awarded Yu Lancuan a Second Class Medal, a promotion, entry into the reserve talent pool, and fifty thousand bottles of Spirit Liquid.
• Xu Shoushan gave Hu Sheng the same medal, promotion, reserve talent pool entry, and Spirit Liquid reward.
• Xu Shoushan recognized Jia Sanming and the remaining squad members, who received Third Class Medals, one-level promotions, and twenty thousand bottles of Spirit Liquid each.

The President praised Jiang Fan’s achievements and offered him prestigious rewards and personal cultivation guidance, but Jiang Fan said he planned to leave the Federal Arbitration Office. The President mistook his refusal for disillusionment over the leaked mission information and vowed to purge the traitors, leaving Jiang Fan curious about how he would act.

• The President summoned Jiang Fan’s record of victories and offered him the Federal Arbitration Office’s First-Class Medal, a three-level promotion, and one hundred thousand bottles of Spirit Liquid.
• The President offered to personally guide Jiang Fan’s cultivation, but Jiang Fan declined and said he expected to resign and leave soon.
• Xu Shoushan urged Jiang Fan to reconsider, while the elders stared in disbelief at his refusal.
• The President said he understood Jiang Fan’s disappointment over the mission information leak and asked him to wait before deciding to leave.
• The President announced that he would personally purge the traitors within the Federal Arbitration Office, and Jiang Fan wondered what information he had uncovered.

President Wan Xie exposed the Grand Elder and several Elders for betraying Purifier Squads and colluding with the Blood Butcher Organization. The Grand Elder confessed that he had pursued power and revenge after believing the presidency should have been his.

• President Wan Xie accused the Grand Elder, Shi Bin, Ji Xin, and other Elders of orchestrating Purifier Squad disasters and named their crimes.
• The unaccused Elders realized that an insider had caused the Purifier Squads' high casualties, while Xu Shoushan accused the Grand Elder of arranging the ambush in the Shattered Corridor.
• Wan Xie produced evidence from his investigation and demanded that the Grand Elder explain his actions.
• The Grand Elder confessed that he had joined forces with the Blood Butcher Organization because he believed the presidency was rightfully his, and he had sought to weaken the Federal Arbitration Office and build a Starry Sky Weapon.

The Grand Elder led eight elders in a rebellion against the President, but the President crushed them with overwhelming strength and had them arrested. After learning Jiang Fan had about 78 million vitality, the President again asked to guide him, until a familiar voice called him out for trying to take someone else’s person.

• The Grand Elder revealed that he had reached Level 14 and rallied eight elders to fight the President and seize control of the Federal Arbitration Office.
• The President overwhelmed the rebels, but the Grand Elder broke free and attacked Jiang Fan to use him as leverage.
• Jiang Fan met the Grand Elder’s claw with a punch and fought him to a standstill before the President struck him down.
• Xu Shoushan and the others restrained the Grand Elder and the other seven rebels, and the President ordered them imprisoned pending execution.
• The President praised Jiang Fan’s strength, learned that his vitality was around 78 million, and asked to guide him.
• A familiar voice called from the sky, accusing Wan Xie of trying to steal Jiang Fan after using the speaker’s evidence.

Ace confronted President Wan Xie over trying to keep Jiang Fan in the Federal Arbitration Office, and the two asked Jiang Fan to choose between their factions. Jiang Fan said he intended to leave the office and join no faction because duties and restrictions would hinder his cultivation, leaving Ace and Wan Xie to reconsider his reasons.

• Ace arrived at the Federal Arbitration Office and challenged President Wan Xie about what he had promised when Ace supplied evidence against the Grand Elder.
• President Wan Xie dismissed the elders but told Jiang Fan to stay, then moved the three of them to a lakeside setting with his World Change.
• Ace accused Wan Xie of trying to keep Jiang Fan in the office, and Wan Xie argued that Jiang Fan should decide for himself.
• Jiang Fan said he planned to resign from the Federal Arbitration Office and had no intention of joining another faction.
• Jiang Fan explained that strict duties, frequent missions, and his heavy resource needs would leave him less time and resources to cultivate, and Ace and Wan Xie understood.

Jiang Fan agreed to meet Ace’s mysterious master after learning the powerful figure might offer him guidance and cultivation resources without restricting his freedom. Ace took Jiang Fan to a vast mountain range, where they began the journey to the summit.

• The President and Ace argued over the benefits of Jiang Fan joining their respective organizations before Ace revealed that his master wanted to meet Jiang Fan.
• The President urged Jiang Fan to seize the rare opportunity to meet a powerful figure who could potentially take him as a disciple.
• Ace assured Jiang Fan that his master would respect his choices and provide resources, and Jiang Fan agreed to meet him.
• Ace arranged to take Jiang Fan to meet his master at noon the next day.
• Ace arrived the following morning and brought Jiang Fan to a towering mountain range, explaining that they would have to climb to the summit on foot.

Jiang Fan and Ace climbed Kunlun Divine Mountain on foot to visit Ace’s master at the Heavenly Palace. After reaching the summit, Jiang Fan took in the vast mountain ranges as Ace reassured him that even Martial Artists could be moved by the view.

• Ace explained that he and his five junior brothers climbed the mountain on foot to show respect for their master.
• Jiang Fan and Ace climbed the steep, dangerous mountainside while discussing their first meeting at Lan Sha Reef and their cultivation paths.
• After more than two hours, Jiang Fan and Ace reached the summit.
• Jiang Fan gazed over the immense mountain ranges, and Ace told him that feeling small before the scenery was perfectly normal.

Jiang Fan met Ace’s master, Huai Zhen, who praised his courage and strength and offered to take him as his final disciple. Jiang Fan accepted, becoming Huai Zhen’s seventh disciple and learning that his master was the Lord of the Scar Division.

• Ace told Jiang Fan about his master’s habits and offered to teach him a sound-transmission technique after he reached Entry Level.
• Huai Zhen returned from gathering herbs and met Jiang Fan, who was surprised by his youthful appearance despite his age of over two hundred years.
• Huai Zhen praised Jiang Fan’s actions at Lan Sha Reef and revealed five of his other disciples, alongside Ace.
• Huai Zhen offered to take Jiang Fan as his seventh and final disciple, asking him to help protect the Qiyuan Star Domain if it faced danger.
• Jiang Fan accepted Huai Zhen as his master, and Huai Zhen introduced himself as the Lord of the Scar Division.

Jiang Fan learned that his master, Huai Zhen, was the Lord of the Federal Deep Scar Division, then heard Huai Zhen offer him three cultivation techniques. When Jiang Fan demonstrated his Innate Breathing and Meditation Technique, Huai Zhen was stunned by its power.

• Jiang Fan was shocked to discover that Huai Zhen controlled the Federal Deep Scar Division, while Huai Zhen assured him he would not pressure him to join it.
• Huai Zhen explained that he had reviewed Jiang Fan’s records and selected three foundational techniques to address the shortcomings of his cultivation background.
• Jiang Fan hesitated over the techniques and explained that he had cultivated the Innate Breathing and Meditation Technique since becoming a Martial Artist.
• Huai Zhen asked Jiang Fan to demonstrate his technique, and Jiang Fan drew the Heaven and Earth Energy above Divine Mountain into the courtyard and absorbed it.
• Huai Zhen stared in stunned disbelief as Jiang Fan became enveloped in the gathered energy.

Huai Zhen examined Jiang Fan’s Innate Qi Absorption and Guidance Technique and realized how powerful it was, then began teaching him abilities, starting with Space Folding. Jiang Fan grasped how folding space could extend his teleportation range, potentially allowing travel between planets.

• Huai Zhen examined Jiang Fan’s cultivation and discovered that his technique rapidly absorbed, purified, and refined Heaven and Earth Energy, strengthening his body and meridians.
• Jiang Fan explained that he had obtained the technique in an ancient ruin on Blue Star, and Huai Zhen warned him and Ace not to reveal it to outsiders.
• Huai Zhen declined to adopt Jiang Fan’s technique because it differed from his own cultivation system and his lifespan was nearly exhausted.
• Jiang Fan described the abilities he had mastered, and Huai Zhen chose to teach him the Space Folding Technique.
• Huai Zhen demonstrated how Space Folding could bring distant locations closer together, and Jiang Fan realized it could greatly extend his teleportation range, perhaps even between planets.

Huai Zhen taught Jiang Fan several new abilities and told him to remain on the mountain until he reached Level 14. Ace led Jiang Fan to the Water Curtain Cave Heaven for cultivation resources and explained why Huai Zhen wanted him protected.

• Huai Zhen demonstrated Space Folding, then taught Jiang Fan how to use it and explained the principles of Time Reversal.
• Huai Zhen taught Jiang Fan additional abilities, including Energy Siphon and Mental Barrier, and told him to practice until he mastered them.
• Huai Zhen ordered Jiang Fan to cultivate on the mountain until he reached Level 14, then gave him the key to the Water Curtain Cave Heaven.
• Ace escorted Jiang Fan to the Water Curtain Cave Heaven and explained that the other disciples generally needed to reach Level 14 before leaving the mountain.
• Ace told Jiang Fan that his freedom outside the mountain made him more vulnerable, and Jiang Fan accepted Huai Zhen's decision as protection.

Jiang Fan spent a year cultivating in the Water Curtain Cave Heaven and reached Level 14, impressing Huai Zhen. As he prepared to leave the mountain, Huai Zhen described several organizations where his senior disciples worked, and Jiang Fan became interested in the Star Domain Frontier Guard.

• Ace showed Jiang Fan the Water Curtain Cave Heaven, taught him a secret technique for transmitting messages, and left him to cultivate on Kunlun Divine Mountain.
• Jiang Fan spent a year training with abundant resources, raising his blood and qi from 78 million to 138 million and honing Space Folding and Time Reversal.
• Jiang Fan told Huai Zhen that he had reached Level 14, and Huai Zhen praised his progress while warning him not to reveal his cultivation technique.
• Huai Zhen offered Jiang Fan four jade talismans representing organizations where his senior disciples served and mentioned Ace's Scar Division.
• Jiang Fan asked about the Star Domain Frontier Guard and became excited when Huai Zhen explained that it defended against Star Beasts and outside civilizations.

Jiang Fan learned about the Star Beasts and chose to join the Star Domain Frontier Guard, where his Senior Sister Chi Ling served. On his way back to Blue Star for a visit, he entered the Martial Arts Space and began the tenth trial.

• Huai Zhen explained that the Star Beasts had once overrun the Qiyuan Star Domain and that the Federal Army had driven them back behind a Beast-Repelling Barrier.
• Jiang Fan chose to go to the Star Domain Frontier, and Huai Zhen gave him a Red Talisman and warned him to stay cautious despite his Level 14 strength.
• Jiang Fan asked to visit Blue Star before reporting for duty, and Huai Zhen agreed to notify the Frontier Guard.
• Jiang Fan traveled toward Blue Star aboard a spacecraft and reflected on his past and the events that had brought him into the stars.
• Jiang Fan entered the Martial Arts Space and accepted its challenge to the tenth trial.

Jiang Fan swept through Martial Arts Space Levels 10 to 14, then challenged Level 15 and unexpectedly arrived on Blue Star at Kunlun Mountain. After flying to Kyoto, he found the city desolate and heard a beast roar.

• Jiang Fan defeated Gong Yanling's mechanical traps on Level 10 and gained the Mechanical Spirit Compendium, then cleared Levels 11 through 14 and received several abilities.
• Jiang Fan chose to challenge Level 15 despite feeling pressure on Level 14.
• Jiang Fan appeared atop Kunlun Mountain on Blue Star and decided to fly to Kyoto before investigating how he had arrived there.
• Jiang Fan reached Kyoto after three years away, found the city desolate, and turned toward a beast's roar.

Jiang Fan returned to Blue Star after three years away and discovered that strange beasts had overrun the planet. Xiao Longyuan explained that a Blood-haired Expert had defeated the Supremes and turned Blue Star into a hunting ground, while Jiang Fan’s family remained safe in another underground base.

• Jiang Fan found Kyoto City devastated by a giant strange beast and discovered that Aunt Su Qingwan’s villa and the Ninth Martial Arts University were abandoned.
• Jiang Fan sensed that strange beasts occupied nearly all of Blue Star and contacted Xiao Longyuan, who led him to a hidden underground base.
• Xiao Longyuan told Jiang Fan that a Blood-haired Expert had slaughtered the West’s strongest faction, destroyed Huaxia’s Ten Thousand Beasts Border Defense Great Wall, and released the strange beasts.
• Xiao Longyuan explained that more than a thousand Supremes and Martial Arts Alliance experts had failed to defeat the Blood-haired Expert, forcing the survivors to hide underground.
• Xiao Longyuan told Jiang Fan that Su Qingwan’s family, the Jiang Family, and Dean Hong Tiangan were safe in another base, while civilians left on the surface were hunted by strange beasts.
• Jiang Fan learned that the Blood-haired Expert treated Blue Star as his pasture and angrily declared that he would pay for it.

Jiang Fan eliminated every alien beast on Blue Star, then confronted Zhou Shanwang, an extraterrestrial hunter far stronger than himself. As Zhou Shanwang threatened Blue Star, Jiang Fan chose to self-detonate, but he suddenly returned to the arena in the Martial Arts Space.

• Jiang Fan ignored Xiao Longyuan, Fei Ming, Zhan Tian, and the others’ warnings and went to confront the alien beast.
• Jiang Fan killed the enormous beast with a gigantic palm, then used Heaven and Earth Energy to kill every alien beast on Blue Star.
• Jiang Fan found the Blood-Haired Man outside Kyoto City and learned that he was Zhou Shanwang, an extraterrestrial who had come to herd and hunt.
• Zhou Shanwang overpowered Jiang Fan, and Jiang Fan realized he could not defeat the Level 15 Great Expert.
• Jiang Fan trapped Zhou Shanwang with force fields and self-detonated to protect Blue Star.
• Jiang Fan returned to the arena in the Martial Arts Space and wondered what had happened.

After completing the Level 15 challenge, Jiang Fan learned the origin of the Martial Arts Space and received the Myriad Beginning Meditation Technique from its conscious creator. The old man reclaimed the space and urged Jiang Fan to cultivate the technique’s second realm so he could escape the Spirit Capturing Realm.

• Jiang Fan realized the final challenge had been a test, and the old man on the Green Ox revealed he was a conscious remnant in the Martial Arts Legacy Space.
• The old man explained that Advanced Civilizations oppressed Low-level Civilizations by draining spiritual energy and unleashing calamities, and that he had created the Martial Arts Space to preserve hope for the Human Race.
• The old man told Jiang Fan that arriving in a world rich in Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi had enabled his progress, and praised him for being willing to self-destruct to protect others.
• The old man passed the Myriad Beginning Meditation Technique to Jiang Fan and described its first three realms, explaining that the second realm was necessary to escape the Spirit Capturing Realm.
• The old man said he would reclaim and redeploy the Martial Arts Space, then Jiang Fan's consciousness returned to the flying craft.

Jiang Fan left the Martial Arts Space behind and spent three months cultivating, mastering the first realm of the Myriad Beginning Meditation Technique and greatly expanding his perception. He returned to Blue Star, confirmed that his family was safe, and reunited with Su Qingwan, who told him Xiao Ning had been out of contact for days.

• Jiang Fan learned that the old man would preserve his Space Folding Technique for future inheritors, then lost his chance to ask the old man more questions.
• During the journey, Jiang Fan raised his qi and blood to 156 million and comprehended the first realm of the Myriad Beginning Meditation Technique, extending his perception to ten light-ranges.
• Jiang Fan stored his spacecraft in the Bead Space and teleported directly to Blue Star.
• Jiang Fan surveyed Blue Star, found it peaceful, and concluded that the Martial Arts Space trial’s frightening events had been shaped by his own fears.
• Jiang Fan appeared at Su Qingwan’s villa, where Su Qingwan embraced him in tears and said Xiao Ning had been out of contact for many days.

Jiang Fan returned home after three years away and reunited with Su Qingwan and Hong Tiangan. He learned that Ma Ning had stopped contacting her family, and after failing to find her at the Ten Thousand Beasts Border Defense Great Wall, he asked Hong Tiangan for news, only to discover that Hong Tiangan knew nothing either.

• Su Qingwan asked Jiang Fan where he had been, and he explained that he had spent the past three years traveling in the Qiyuan Star Domain.
• Su Qingwan told Jiang Fan that Ma Ning had joined the army and had not contacted the family for three months.
• Jiang Fan searched the military camps along the Ten Thousand Beasts Border Defense Great Wall but could not find Ma Ning.
• Jiang Fan visited Hong Tiangan, who was overjoyed to see him alive and heard his account of the Qiyuan Star Domain.
• Jiang Fan asked Hong Tiangan about Ma Ning's disappearance, but Hong Tiangan was surprised and knew nothing about it.

Hong Tiangan told Jiang Fan that rumors of his death had stirred political opposition and that Ma Ning’s family had been targeted, prompting Jiang Fan to leave and investigate. At the Iron Wall Fortress, Major General Wang Zhenqing and his officers plotted to send Ma Ning’s unit into a deadly valley, until Jiang Fan’s voice interrupted them.

• Hong Tiangan explained that a Level 10 overseas Supreme and domestic factions had challenged Xiao Longyuan’s authority after rumors spread that Jiang Fan had fallen.
• Hong Tiangan said Ma Ning’s family had also faced hostility and suspected she had been ostracized in the military.
• Jiang Fan unleashed a terrifying aura in anger, apologized to Hong Tiangan, and vowed to resolve the problem before vanishing from the courtyard.
• Wang Zhenqing and his officers gloated over sending Ma Ning’s unit to Black Wind Valley, expecting most of them to die.
• Jiang Fan’s voice interrupted Wang Zhenqing, whose smug expression turned to panic.

Jiang Fan learned that Ma Ning had been sent to the dangerous Black Wind Valley and killed the Iron Wall commander and officers who had plotted against her. He cleared the surrounding area of mutant beasts and vanished toward Black Wind Valley to find her.

• Jiang Fan entered the command center and demanded to know where Ma Ning was.
• Wang Zhenqing revealed that Ma Ning was fifty kilometers southeast, in Black Wind Valley near an Abyss Rift.
• Jiang Fan recognized Wang Zhenqing as the person who had deliberately sent Ma Ning there and killed him.
• The officers blamed Wang Zhenqing, but Jiang Fan detected their lies and executed them all.
• Jiang Fan killed every mutant beast within a hundred-kilometer radius, then vanished toward Black Wind Valley.

Jiang Fan found the hidden Black Wind Valley and descended toward its Abyss Rift after realizing Ma Ning and her troops were trapped below. Ma Ning rallied her surviving soldiers despite their dwindling food and strength, while Jiang Fan began searching for them.

• Jiang Fan broke through Black Wind Valley’s protective shield and descended through the gravity field, identifying the rift beneath Five Finger Mountain.
• Jiang Fan realized Ma Ning and her troops could not withstand the mutated beasts and extended his consciousness toward the bottom of the valley.
• Ma Ning and the surviving soldiers retreated into a narrow cave after mutated beasts overwhelmed them, leaving several soldiers wounded.
• Yu Linmu told Ma Ning that their rations were running out, their strength was depleted, and attempts to contact the outside had failed.
• Ma Ning blamed herself for leading the troops into danger, then drew strength from her hope of seeing Xiao Fan Ge again and promised to find a way out for everyone.

Ma Ning’s unit discovered that Black Wind Valley’s gravity had suddenly returned to normal, giving them a chance to escape after three months trapped. Yu Linmu set out alone to seek reinforcements, and Ma Ning went to protect him when several Exotic Beasts surrounded him.

• A series of unexpected Gravity Field fluctuations swept through the cave, injuring one soldier and alarming Ma Ning.
• The fluctuations stopped, and the gravity around the unit returned to Blue Star’s normal level.
• Ma Ning ordered Yu Linmu to record the gravity changes for seven days, but Yu Linmu argued they should escape before the chance vanished.
• Yu Linmu volunteered to break out alone and seek military reinforcements, and Ma Ning ordered him to go.
• Several Exotic Beasts confronted Yu Linmu outside the cave, so Ma Ning went out to clear them away while ordering the others to stay behind.