Recaps

Jiang Fan led the Eastern War Zone team through a spy mission and into the first round of the Strongest General Star Challenge. After clashing with Fei Ruoyun and defending his team’s headquarters, he learned the Eastern War Zone had advanced to the second round.

• Jiang Fan defeated Wang Ye in the Eastern War Zone final and was chosen to captain its team in the Strongest General Star competition.
• Jiang Fan led a mission to capture Zhuang Botao, who had stolen coastal defense maps, and used Spiritual Energy to make him reveal clues about a powerful contact.
• Jiang Fan trained before the challenge, then guided the Eastern War Zone team to its base in Luan City for the first-round match.
• Jiang Fan uncovered Chang Yonghuai’s alliance with the Northern War Zone, defeated their fighters, and attacked the Northern headquarters, but Fei Ruoyun destroyed its energy pillar first.
• Fei Ruoyun destroyed the Western War Zone headquarters, then fought Jiang Fan until Wu Sheng reported that Southern War Zone fighters were attacking the Eastern base.
• Jiang Fan rushed back, defeated and captured two Southern War Zone fighters, and the competition announcement advanced the Central and Eastern War Zones to the second round.

Jiang Fan and Fei Ruoyun shared the Rising Star title after their duel and both cleared all one hundred levels of the Eternal Sacred Monument. Appointed Lieutenant Generals, they traveled to Kyoto, where Fei Ruoyun clashed with Hong Tiangan’s new disciple Fu Xingchen at Jiang Fan’s courtyard.

• Zheng Guoqiang told the war-zone leaders that Jiang Fan might have cleared the Eternal Sacred Monument’s fifty-first floor, but Xu Tongzhi dismissed the claim and mocked the Eastern War Zone.
• Jiang Fan and Fei Ruoyun fought in the final battle, revealing their elemental powers, Gravity and Time Fields, and other abilities before the Commander stopped their exhausted duel and named them co-champions.
• Jiang Fan and Fei Ruoyun each cleared all one hundred Star Generals in the Eternal Sacred Monument and took the top ranking.
• Chief Number Two granted Jiang Fan and Fei Ruoyun the rank of Lieutenant General and appointed them Deputy Chief Inspectors of the Military Supervision Department.
• Jiang Fan and Fei Ruoyun traveled to Kyoto, where Fei Ruoyun followed him to Stone Path Cottage and asked to stay for two days.
• Fu Xingchen attacked Fei Ruoyun after accusing her of trespassing, and she sent him crashing into a tree, and Jiang Fan later defended her and refused to blame her.
• Fu Xingchen insulted Jiang Fan and Xue Min, then lunged at Jiang Fan, who sent him flying into a century-old tree.
• Hong Tiangan brought the injured Fu Xingchen to Jiang Fan, where Fu Xingchen accused Fei Ruoyun of disrespecting Hong Tiangan and ordered her to stand and greet him.

Jiang Fan took up his Military Commission post and joined Fei Ruoyun in investigating the stolen East China Sea defense map. Their inquiry led from Zhuang Botao’s testimony to a suspected Si Kong Family network and a shipment concealing specifications for the Northern War Zone’s newest fighter jet.

• Hong Tiangan expelled Fu Xingchen as his disciple, and Jiang Fan later reunited with Ma Ning, saving her and her friends from a Fire Cloud Rhinoceros and a pack of wolves in the Secret Realm.
• A Black-Clad Man ambushed Jiang Fan and Ma Ning, but Jiang Fan killed him, prompting suspicion that the Si Kong Family or another enemy force had sent the assassin.
• Jiang Fan sparred with Hong Tiangan, who concluded that Jiang Fan could fight an ordinary Level 8 Initial Stage expert, before Jiang Fan and Fei Ruoyun reported to the Military Supervision Department.
• Xing Zhiyi assigned Jiang Fan and Fei Ruoyun to investigate the stolen East China Sea defense map, and Jiang Fan used Old Xue’s Spiritual Illusion technique to review Zhuang Botao’s memories.
• Jiang Fan and Fei Ruoyun investigated the Si Kong Family’s military ties and found that its contracts repeatedly benefited from projects handled by Nie Qian.
• Jiang Fan and Fei Ruoyun posed as Si Kong Family members to accompany a shipment of laser electronic components into the Northern War Zone, where Major Sun received them without inspection.
• Jiang Fan questioned Old Li and learned that the shipment included valuable gifts, then he and Fei Ruoyun found concealed markings inside a crate of goods.
• Jiang Fan and Fei Ruoyun identified the markings as specifications for the Yulong fighter jet and suspected an enemy-agent operation involving That Person, Lord Lingxiao, and Nie Qian.

Jiang Fan uncovered the military intelligence network tied to the Si Kong Family and pursued evidence linking it to an old case against Jiang Qinian. At Dongshan Mine, he found Hu Qiuling, rescued her during a Great Rift outbreak, and left with the mine’s survivors for questioning.

• Jiang Fan arrested Major Sun and Nie Qian, exposed their roles in leaking military intelligence, and confronted Nie after he ordered Jiang Yunxin slapped at Liao City Base.
• Jiang Fan and Fei Ruoyun arrested Si Kong Lingxiao despite Si Kongnan Tian’s resistance, then persuaded Lingxiao to reveal a hidden ledger implicating core Si Kong Family members.
• Jiang Fan stole the ledger from the Si Kong Family ancestral hall and found Fang Pojun’s name, leading him and Fei Ruoyun to investigate the case against Jiang Qinian.
• Jiang Fan and Fei Ruoyun traced Jiang Qinian’s wife, Hu Qiuling, to Dongshan Mine, where Manager Bao and Director Wu persecuted her and her fellow workers.
• Jiang Fan arrived at the mine with Fei Ruoyun, killed Wu Liuzhi after he abused Hu Qiuling, and discovered a Great Rift opening nearby.
• Jiang Fan fought the mutated beasts emerging from the rift, killed a giant bird and a huge Level 6 Exotic Beast, and buried the latter in the chasm.
• Hu Qiuling recognized Jiang Fan as her son, while Jiang Fan ordered Wu Kun to establish a defensive line and said he would question the miners before taking them to Hei City Base.