Chapter Summaries

Huang Yong and his teammates debated whether to keep searching for Jiang Fan or advance, then chose to wait for him. Jiang Fan appeared as a Level 6 Martial Artist, defeated them with blue energy, and declared them eliminated.

• Huang Yong's team searched for Jiang Fan while worrying that delaying their advancement would make it harder to collect Star General Tokens.
• Huang Yong decided to stay behind and wait for Jiang Fan, and his teammates chose to remain and help him.
• Jiang Fan appeared in midair, surprising the team with his Level 6 strength.
• Huang Yong and his teammates attacked Jiang Fan together, but their combined elemental assault left him unharmed.
• Jiang Fan crushed the group beneath a block of blue-infused energy, then told them they had been eliminated.

Jiang Fan exposed his battlefield record and military rank to Huang Yong and the others, then took their Star General Tokens and advanced while they were eliminated. Meanwhile, Major General Roger learned that gravity had returned to a distorted zone in the Nine Abyss Rift Valley and was told that Jiang Fan had advanced, prompting him to end the special monitoring of Jiang Fan.

• Jiang Fan recited his military achievements and condemned Huang Yong and the others for slandering him and trying to punish him privately.
• Huang Yong admitted that they had been wrong, and Jiang Fan took their Star General Tokens, eliminating them from the first round and advancing with twelve tokens.
• As Huang Yong and the others blamed Wang Ye for leading them into opposing Jiang Fan, Jiang Fan noted Wang Ye's name while being teleported.
• A soldier reported that gravity had returned to normal in the Nine Abyss Rift Valley's gravity-distortion zone, and Roger ordered continued monitoring and prepared to report the change.
• A subordinate informed Roger that Jiang Fan had advanced, and Roger ordered that Jiang Fan no longer be specially monitored.

Jiang Fan studied the unfamiliar blue energy and concluded it was a manifestation of gravity before the second stage of the Star General Competition began. As the candidates formed teams for the five-level challenge, he stood alone and considered which stone door to enter.

• Jiang Fan returned to his quarters and spent the five-day break studying the blue energy, discovering that it exerted pressure and suspecting it was a form of gravity.
• Jiang Fan read the challenge guide and recognized that the blue energy was connected to gravity, though he could not determine where it came from.
• Major General Roger explained the five levels of the Stage Challenge and announced that candidates could form teams before beginning.
• The candidates entered a chamber with twelve numbered stone doors and were told that those entering the same door would form a team.
• While other candidates gathered into teams and mocked Jiang Fan for standing alone, he weighed whether to choose Door Eleven or Door Twelve.

Wang Ye invited Jiang Fan to join his team for the Star General Competition, but Jiang Fan refused and chose to compete alone. As the stages opened, Jiang Fan rushed through a stone gate ahead of the other contestants.

• Wang Ye approached Jiang Fan and explained that teamwork would help with the Stone Array Maze, the Puppet Battle, and the later stages, but Jiang Fan declined.
• Other contestants mocked Jiang Fan and questioned why Wang Ye had invited him, then laughed when they learned Jiang Fan had rejected the offer.
• Wu Sheng and Lu Yuanqing discussed Jiang Fan and argued over who would win the round, with Wu Sheng suggesting Jiang Fan might help Lu Yuanqing challenge him.
• Ten minutes later, the stone gates opened, and Jiang Fan charged into a stage alone before the other contestants followed.

Jiang Fan broke through the Stone Array Maze by blasting apart its boulders and using blue energy to evade its arrow traps. As he entered the apparent exit, Wang Ye’s team was still carefully mapping the maze when a rumble came from next door.

• Jiang Fan discovered that gravity and shifting mechanisms changed the Stone Array Maze’s passages, making it difficult to navigate alone.
• Jiang Fan decided to destroy the formation and used earth and gravity energy to punch a passage through the boulders.
• Arrows attacked Jiang Fan from every direction, but he used blue energy to lift himself above them.
• Jiang Fan blasted apart the stone array, found a passage without a stone gate, and entered what he believed was the exit.
• At Gate 11, Wang Ye’s team mapped their movements and tried to locate the formation core, but a rumbling sounded from next door.

Jiang Fan escaped the Stone Array Maze and entered the Puppet Battle, while his destruction of the maze disrupted the formation in Wang Ye’s section and sparked speculation among the other contestants. He began the second stage by crushing a level-five Steel Puppet with one punch.

• Wang Ye stopped his team from celebrating Jiang Fan’s apparent death and urged them to continue clearing their stage.
• Jiang Fan’s repeated blasts shook Space 11, scrambled its formation, and forced Wang Ye’s team to start recording it again.
• Contestants near Gate 10 and other distant sections speculated that someone had recklessly attacked the formation.
• Wu Sheng and Lu Yuanqing assumed Wang Ye had caused the tremors in an attempt to surpass them and mocked his chances.
• Jiang Fan left the Stone Array Maze, entered the second-stage room behind Gate 12, and deformed a level-five Steel Puppet with a punch.

Jiang Fan destroyed the Steel Puppets in the second trial and entered the Gravity Canyon, where he used his control over gravity to counter the bridge’s force. As he crossed, a sudden upward burst hurled him into the air.

• Jiang Fan defeated the Steel Puppets, including the Level 6 Puppet, and cleared the second trial.
• Jiang Fan entered the third trial, the Gravity Canyon, and identified twelve suspension bridges leading to the opposite cliff.
• Jiang Fan stepped onto a bridge and felt a powerful force pulling him downward.
• Jiang Fan used blue energy to reduce the downward pressure and began walking across the bridge.
• A burst of force from below suddenly hurled Jiang Fan high into the air.

Jiang Fan survived the suspension bridge’s shifting gravity, discovered and refined the stones causing it, and entered the fourth trial. Meanwhile, Wu Sheng and Lu Yuanqing reached the second trial, while Wang Ye arrived at Gate No. 11 and noticed that Passage No. 12’s second trial had already opened.

• Jiang Fan was swept off the suspension bridge by unpredictable forces but regained control and landed safely.
• Jiang Fan used the Innate Qi Absorption and Guidance Technique to sense more than a dozen blue stones that distorted gravity, then refined their energy.
• Jiang Fan found that the stones in his trial had gone dull, crossed the bridge after its gravity returned to normal, and entered the fourth trial without disturbing the other tracks.
• Wu Sheng led his teammates through the Stone Array Maze ahead of Lu Yuanqing, who vowed to catch up in later trials.
• Wang Ye arrived at Gate No. 11, estimated that his team was in third place, and saw that Passage No. 12’s second trial had opened.

Jiang Fan cleared the Consciousness Trap after allowing its illusions to play out, then emerged from the fourth stage believing he had finished the second phase. Outside, he found that the trial had not ended, leaving him unsure whether he was still trapped in an illusion.

• Wang Ye and his team noticed that Door 12 had opened and hurried into the second stage, the Puppet Battle.
• Jiang Fan recognized the fourth stage as a Psychic illusion and placed a barrier around his brow before entering it.
• The Consciousness Trap showed Jiang Fan illusions of Ma Ning, Jiang Li, Su Qingwan, Ma Jiang, and others, but he kept moving forward and reached the exit.
• Jiang Fan reflected on how Spiritual Power had shaped the illusions and left the stage after clearing all four stages of the second phase in a little over ten minutes.
• Jiang Fan stepped outside and froze when he realized the trial was not over, wondering if he was still inside an illusion.

Jiang Fan activated a hidden arena challenge and defeated the first Star General before continuing. At Dome Base, Major General Roger learned that Jiang Fan alone had reached the fourth stage, then received an urgent report that someone had reached the forty-sixth floor of the Eternal Sacred Monument.

• Jiang Fan pressed the raised button, activated the arena, and accepted the Eternal Star Sacred Monument challenge.
• Jiang Fan defeated the first Star General and cautiously chose to continue the challenge.
• Major General Roger learned that no group had cleared the stages after one hour and twenty-two minutes.
• Roger discovered that Jiang Fan was the only candidate on Track Twelve to have reached the fourth stage.
• The theater headquarters called Roger to report that someone had reached the Eternal Sacred Monument's forty-sixth floor and asked whether a Star General Candidate had entered it.

Roger learned that someone had reached the forty-sixth level of the Eternal Star Sacred Monument and suspected the challenger was Jiang Fan, who might have entered it through the fourth-stage Consciousness Trap Space. Roger went to Track Twelve to investigate and found that Jiang Fan had violently destroyed the first two stages.

• The War Zone Headquarters told Roger that an unknown challenger had reached level forty-six of the Eternal Star Sacred Monument, even though this year's General Star Challenge was still underway.
• A soldier explained that the fourth-stage Consciousness Trap Space connected to the Sacred Monument Space, and Roger realized Jiang Fan on Track Twelve might have crossed the barrier.
• Roger led two soldiers through Track Twelve to confirm whether Jiang Fan was the challenger.
• Roger found the Stone Array Maze shattered, with its formations and hidden mechanisms ripped apart, and ordered a soldier to retrieve the recorder's storage device.
• Roger entered the Steel Puppet stage ahead of the soldiers and found the valuable puppets reduced to ruined metal scattered through thick smoke.

Roger discovered that Jiang Fan had passed the challenge’s stages and entered the Eternal Sacred Monument Space, where he was fighting through the General Stars. After confirming Jiang Fan’s identity, Roger approached him, and Jiang Fan began to suspect he had caused trouble.

• Roger struggled between anger over the destroyed Steel Puppets and excitement at Jiang Fan’s strength, then ordered the next stage to continue.
• Roger found that the Domains in the third and fourth stages had vanished and headed to the Eternal Sacred Monument Space to verify Jiang Fan’s identity.
• Roger and two soldiers entered the arena and confirmed that the fighter challenging the General Stars was Jiang Fan.
• Jiang Fan defeated the 51st General Star and wondered whether the hidden challenge would continue indefinitely.
• Roger asked Jiang Fan what he was challenging, and Jiang Fan explained that he had entered the arena after finding a stone door beyond the Consciousness Trap.

Jiang Fan accidentally entered a challenge space beyond the fourth stage, and Roger escorted him back while promising to verify his results from the recordings. As the other candidates’ times were announced, Roger had the stage data restored, but the soldier found something troubling and asked him to inspect it.

• Roger explained that Jiang Fan had entered a restricted space after breaking through the fourth stage’s Spiritual Power barrier, then escorted him back to the Dome Hall.
• The judges announced Wu Sheng first, Lu Yuanqing second, and Wang Ye third, while Wu Sheng taunted Lu Yuanqing about falling behind.
• Wang Ye wondered why Jiang Fan had not returned, then saw Roger bring him into the Dome Hall with two soldiers.
• Roger left Jiang Fan in the hall, reported to the war-zone commander, and ordered soldiers to restore the stage recordings.
• A soldier told Roger that the data had been restored but urged him to come see it himself.

Roger reviewed footage of Jiang Fan clearing the four stages of the General Star Challenge’s second phase in 16 minutes and 52 seconds, then had the referee team announce his first-place result. Wu Sheng protested the adjusted rankings, but Roger defended their fairness and left to report Jiang Fan’s situation to war-zone headquarters; Wu Sheng then confronted Jiang Fan.

• Roger watched footage of Jiang Fan crushing the Stone Array Maze and passing the next three stages with ease.
• Soldiers confirmed Jiang Fan cleared the four stages in 16 minutes and 52 seconds, and Roger ordered the referee team to announce the revised rankings.
• The referee team announced Jiang Fan in first place, Wu Sheng in second, and Lu Yuanqing in third, sparking an uproar among the candidates.
• Wu Sheng challenged the result and accused the officials of hiding the truth, but Roger ordered him to stand down and said the military’s decision was fair.
• Roger left the Dome Base to report Jiang Fan’s situation, and Wu Sheng approached Jiang Fan and called him the “Task Maniac”; Jiang Fan told him to get lost.

Wu Sheng challenged Jiang Fan in the Dome Hall but backed down when the judges threatened to revoke his General Star Challenge qualification. Meanwhile, Roger reported Jiang Fan’s discovery and progress in the Eternal Sacred Monument to Zheng Guoqiang and the other commanders, who reacted with intense interest.

• Wu Sheng tried to confront Jiang Fan, but Lu Yuanqing urged him to calm down and remember Roger’s warning.
• Wu Sheng challenged Jiang Fan to prove his strength, and Jiang Fan dismissed him and threatened to beat him.
• Wu Sheng lunged at Jiang Fan, but a judge warned that the panel could revoke his qualification, so he stopped.
• Roger reported to Zheng Guoqiang and the other commanders that someone had reached the forty-sixth floor of the Eternal Star Sacred Monument Space and explained how he had ended Jiang Fan’s challenge and revised his results.
• Zheng Guoqiang and the other commanders listened to Roger’s report and became visibly excited.

After Jiang Fan cleared the first four stages in record time, war-zone leaders inferred that he had mastered gravity energy and Spiritual Energy and advanced him directly to the Peak Duel Match. After half a month of cultivation, Jiang Fan joined the sixteen-candidate elimination tournament and clashed verbally with Wu Sheng before the draws.

• Zheng Guoqiang and the other leaders discussed Jiang Fan’s record-breaking performance and concluded he might be a Psychic who could refine gravity energy.
• Chief Number Three exempted Jiang Fan from the Team Offense and Defense Battle and ordered him to compete directly in the Peak Duel Match.
• Jiang Fan spent nearly half a month cultivating gravity distortion and illusions in his Spiritual Domain while other candidates complained about his exemption.
• At the Dome Base, the sixteen remaining candidates gathered for the Peak Duel Match, and Chief Number Two and Chief Number Three attended the opening.
• Wu Sheng taunted Jiang Fan because they had not been drawn into the same group, and Jiang Fan warned him that his luck would not last.

Jiang Fan and Wu Sheng competed in the first round of the Peak Showdown, each defeating an opponent in one blow and advancing to the top eight. After seeing Jiang Fan’s strength, Wu Sheng realized he had underestimated him and decided to be wary.

• Dong Yifei defeated Zhu Qiming in the opening match and advanced to the top eight.
• Wang Ye concealed his strength against Zhong Yuyao before barely winning and advancing.
• Wu Sheng knocked Mu Nansong out of the arena with one move and advanced.
• Jiang Fan struck Wei Zhijie before he could finish greeting him, defeating him in one blow.
• Wu Sheng recognized that Jiang Fan’s strength might match his own and resolved to be careful around him.

Jiang Fan discovered Wang Ye’s scheme to make him and Wu Sheng draw the same group, then knowingly followed through with it. After both men drew number 04, Wu Sheng taunted Jiang Fan, who calmly prepared to defeat him in the next round.

• Wang Ye told Jiang Fan how to identify number 04 and admitted he wanted Jiang Fan and Wu Sheng grouped together so one would be eliminated.
• Jiang Fan guessed that Wang Ye had given Wu Sheng the same advice, and Wang Ye reacted awkwardly.
• Jiang Fan realized Wang Ye had fabricated the drawing method and was manipulating both rivals into choosing number 04.
• At the next day’s drawing, Wu Sheng drew number 04, and Jiang Fan deliberately drew the same number.
• Wu Sheng celebrated their matchup and taunted Jiang Fan, who calmly accepted the coming fight and expected to eliminate him.

Jiang Fan faced Wu Sheng in the Eastern War Zone’s Round of 8 and defeated him decisively, securing a place in the top four. Wu Sheng was left outside the arena, while Jiang Fan advanced to the next round.

• Jiang Fan watched Wang Ye, Lu Yuanqing, and Feng Ruoxi secure top-four places and planned to knock Wu Sheng out of the top four.
• The referee began the match between Jiang Fan and Wu Sheng, and Wu Sheng threatened to defeat him.
• Jiang Fan struck Wu Sheng before he could attack, sending him crashing into the arena floor.
• Wu Sheng trapped Jiang Fan in a Flame Cage, but Jiang Fan shattered it with a shockwave and sent Wu Sheng flying.
• Jiang Fan hit Wu Sheng again, knocking him out of the arena, and the referee declared Jiang Fan the winner.

Jiang Fan defeated Wu Sheng and Feng Ruoxi, while Wang Ye revealed his strength by decisively beating Lu Yuanqing. The tournament final began with Jiang Fan and Wang Ye set to compete for the championship.

• Jiang Fan effortlessly defeated Wu Sheng, prompting Wang Ye and Lu Yuanqing to reassess his strength.
• Eastern War Zone commanders concluded that Jiang Fan had reached at least Level 6 High Stage and was likely to represent their war zone in the contest among the five war zones.
• Wang Ye avoided Jiang Fan in the semifinal draw and overwhelmed Lu Yuanqing.
• Jiang Fan sent Feng Ruoxi flying to win his semifinal.
• The final between Jiang Fan and Wang Ye officially began.