Recaps

Luo Jun cleared the Ninety-Ninth Floor by killing its three linked Lords, then entered the Heavenly Arena, where Dias forced powerful contestants to face dangerous challenges for a chance at Godhood. Luo Jun passed the first test with Emily, and the opening round continued as Yuan Shouzhen defeated Behemoth.

• Luo Jun dismantled the life-draining array on Cuihua Island by giving the Old Man his Life Energy, then returned to the Imperial Capital and learned that fighters were battling three linked Lords on the Ninety-Ninth Floor.
• Luo Jun killed the Armor Lord and Fluid Lord with Live and Die Together, then drained the Mage Lord’s Mana with Void Siphon and led the group through the gate to the hundredth floor.
• The contestants from many worlds gathered in the Heavenly Arena, where Dias revealed that twelve Supreme Godhoods were at stake and set challenges for them to qualify.
• Luo Jun protected Emily from Yamata no Orochi by linking their lives, passed the challenge, and watched Magnus evade the beast’s attacks to advance.
• A Jiali survived three of Leviathan’s Whale Swallows by preserving seawater with Time Manipulation, then joined Luo Jun and Magnus in the Advancement Zone.
• Luo Jun learned from A Jiali that her mother Heather had died and that worldline merger was classified, while hundreds of Peak contestants and fewer than ten Feather Transformation contestants advanced.
• Yuan Shouzhen chose Behemoth as his challenge and used Purple Mansion Return of the Edge to absorb its attacks before releasing them through the barrier and crushing the monster.

Luo Jun watched the trials’ qualifiers advance, then entered a sequence of challenges that required him to kill Hercules and find Xia Ziyue. After bringing Xia Ziyue into the Real-Person Game Machine, he helped her clear four checkpoints as another contestant began the first.

• Dias declared Luo Jun’s challenge passed, and Yuan Shouzhen joined the advancing experts, leaving Luo Jun to suspect his Master had betrayed the Main World to restore his cultivation.
• Ling Yang killed Phoenix during its brief Nirvana window, and Ling Xin pierced Mosayus’s shell to pass her challenge.
• Ling Yao fought Hercules in a duel that ended unfinished, and Dias advanced both of them as the fifty-two qualification spots were filled.
• Dias announced thirteen trials to select inheritors, and Ling Yao helped Ling Xin enter the [Hell] trial while Luo Jun chose the Teleportation Gate.
• Luo Jun completed the opening race and board-game stages, killed Hercules in their duel, and received a mission to find a nineteen-year-old woman surnamed Xia.
• Luo Jun found Xia Ziyue after she defeated Liu Siwen and Brother Dao, caught a sniper’s bullet, and helped Xia Ziyue kill Crane Crown before she agreed to go with him.
• Luo Jun verified Xia Ziyue and completed the mission, then enhanced her abilities as she cleared the first four checkpoints of the Real-Person Game Machine.
• An announcement said Contestant Number Two had entered the game and was about to begin the First Checkpoint as Xia Ziyue prepared to open the way to the Fifth.