Recaps

Xiao Fan learned how Healing Apostles absorbed unwanted elements from other Apostles and decided to try the path. On the village team’s first hunt, he passively absorbed elements from the group, quickly reached level five, and received a dropped dagger.

• Shui Tuntun explained that Healing Apostles absorbed unwanted elements from other Apostles, allowing them to level up quickly without hunting Monster Beasts.
• Xiao Fan decided to join the village team the next day, hoping to level up and find a way to contact Jian Qingfeng and the others.
• Shui Tuntun took Xiao Fan and the team out to hunt Monster Rabbits, telling him to stand aside until someone needed him to absorb an element.
• The Apostles freely transferred unwanted elements to Xiao Fan as they fought, and he reached level five while barely moving.
• The Monster Rabbits dropped one dagger, which Shui Tuntun gave to Xiao Fan.

Xiao Fan joined Shui Tuntun’s party as a Healing Apostle and was forced to absorb the party’s elemental energy, learning that the process caused dangerous elemental chaos. After absorbing water, fire, and wind while the party fought monsters, he collapsed when the last Wind Wolf fell.

• Shui Tuntun gave Xiao Fan a dagger and had him absorb water element from the party after they fought Monster Snakes, causing him to reach level nine and suffer alternating chills and heat.
• Xiao Fan realized Shui Tuntun had concealed the dangers of absorbing multiple elements and decided to become the strongest person in the village.
• Shui Tuntun reassured Xiao Fan that his worsening condition was normal and promised him good equipment if he kept helping the party.
• The party encountered wind-elemental Demon Wolves, and Xiao Fan absorbed wind element despite already carrying water and fire.
• As the party defeated the Wind Wolves, Xiao Fan’s rising level helped him endure the elemental chaos, but he lost consciousness after absorbing the final Apostle’s element.

After Shui Tuntun’s group abandoned Xiao Fan during elemental chaos, Yu Ling and Yu Mo’s team carried him back to their village for treatment. As Xiao Fan fought to survive, Yin prepared to draw the Fire Element out of him while healing him.

• Xiao Fan collapsed from elemental chaos after absorbing Water, Fire, and Wind Elements, and Shui Tuntun decided to abandon him and took back his dagger.
• Yu Ling recognized Xiao Fan’s condition, and she persuaded Yu Mo and their team to carry him back to the village for treatment.
• Xiao Fan struggled against the clashing elements and resolved that he could not die before uncovering the truth behind the game’s invasion and his transmigration.
• Yin explained that removing the wrong element could worsen Xiao Fan’s elemental chaos, then decided to draw out the Fire Element while treating him.

After surviving the elemental chaos, Xiao Fan gained control over fire and water and woke in the Yu siblings’ village, where he pretended to be an arrogant stranger named Jiu Chen. He left Yu Mo stunned by displaying his elemental powers.

• Yin found that Xiao Fan’s elemental chaos had subsided and his aura had strengthened, but he could no longer draw elements out of Xiao Fan.
• After Yin left, Xiao Fan recalled being rescued by Yu Ling and Yin and learned that two groups of Pseudo-Apostles, likely including Jian Qingfeng and his companions, were being hunted in the Trial Land.
• Xiao Fan discovered that he could control fire and water outside his body and resolved to get stronger before trying to save Jian Qingfeng and the others.
• When Yu Ling and Yu Mo returned, Xiao Fan woke and introduced himself as Jiu Chen, claiming they would look up to him and that their village was honored to take him in.
• Yu Mo warned Xiao Fan not to betray the village, but Xiao Fan revealed fire in his left hand and water in his right, leaving Yu Mo speechless.

Xiao Fan demonstrated his rare Dual Element Fusion, convincing Yu Mo, Yin, and Yu Ling that he was a once-in-a-generation genius. After a secret realm mission appeared, he took command of the village and ordered an attack on Shui Tuntun’s village, only to learn that attacks were forbidden until Combat Mode began.

• Xiao Fan used Elemental Melt and Dual Element Fusion, astonishing Yu Ling, Yu Mo, and Yin with his mastery of water and fire.
• Yu Ling praised Xiao Fan extravagantly, and Yu Mo decided the village should recruit him as their path to rising through the Trial Land.
• A secret realm mission appeared, telling Xiao Fan to defeat fifty Apostle villages.
• Xiao Fan ordered every Apostle in the village to obey him, and Yu Ling enthusiastically accepted his authority.
• Xiao Fan ordered the village to attack Shui Tuntun’s village, but Yu Ling explained that villages could not fight until Combat Mode began.

Jian Qingfeng and Falling Leaf’s teams regrouped inside a dangerous story-driven secret realm after Shen Long lured them in and their levels were reset. They remained trapped with no plan to clear the realm, and Jian Qingfeng revealed that Jiu Chen had been killed.

• Jian Qingfeng recalled how Shen Long’s scheme drew his team into the secret realm, where their levels, equipment, skills, and stats were reset.
• Jian Qingfeng’s group escaped the village after learning the Apostles planned to kill them, but Apostles and Monster Beasts chased them into the forest.
• Falling Leaf’s team rescued Jian Qingfeng’s group, and Jian Qingfeng accused Shen Long of abandoning his own fighters and using them as scouts.
• Falling Leaf asked Jian Qingfeng to help find a way to clear the secret realm, but neither team had a solution.
• Jian Qingfeng told Falling Leaf that Jiu Chen would not come because Shen Long had killed him, leaving the teams with no hope of rescue.

Xiao Fan learned how far behind Yu Mo and Yu Ling's village was and focused on strengthening its Apostles so it could advance. After reaching level 20 and absorbing wind and wood elements, he looked for ways to recruit more people and thought of Jian Qingfeng's trapped team.

• Xiao Fan learned that Yu Mo and Yu Ling's village ranked 1,178th in the Lower Lower Stream and resolved to help it advance.
• Xiao Fan told the villagers he planned to become a Healing Apostle, then revealed he had three Elemental Melts.
• Xiao Fan led the villagers into the forest, where they leveled up while he absorbed elements without suffering ill effects.
• Xiao Fan reached level 20, gained water, fire, metal, and earth as his Four Extremes Affiliation, and absorbed wind and wood elements.
• Yu Mo explained why Apostles rarely changed villages, and Xiao Fan thought of bringing Jian Qingfeng's team into their village.

Xiao Fan tried to learn how Apostles created skills, hoping to gain leverage to bring Jian Qingfeng and the others back to the village. Yu Mo explained that skill creation required materials from a matching Monster Beast, leaving Xiao Fan worried he could not obtain the powerful materials he needed.

• Xiao Fan urged Yu Mo to create a skill, but Yu Mo said no Apostle had ever become a true warrior of the Land of Four Extremes.
• Yu Mo agreed to try, then saw a vine coil around Xiao Fan's arm as Xiao Fan fused with the Wood Element.
• The villagers noticed Xiao Fan's unfamiliarity with their world but chose to treat him as a real Apostle because he had fused with four elements.
• Yu Mo secretly explained that creating a skill required fusing an element with materials taken from the corresponding Monster Beast.
• Xiao Fan realized the Monster Beasts needed for his planned skills were too powerful for him to hunt.

Xiao Fan struggled to create a skill while Yu Mo planned a turtle-form skill. In the secret realm, Falling Leaf deduced that rescuers might have entered after Combat Mode ended, but he and Jian Qingfeng were captured with the other players before they could find them.

• Yu Mo said he planned to create a skill using a turtle form, and the group postponed hunting turtle beasts until the next day.
• Xiao Fan successfully melted other elements but failed to release fire and realized he still needed to create a skill.
• Falling Leaf reasoned that the secret-realm entrance might reopen after Combat Mode and that Zhou He’s rescuers could already be inside.
• Falling Leaf and Jian Qingfeng decided to find Zhou He’s group, then warned their companions to escape when enemies discovered their cave.
• Falling Leaf and Jian Qingfeng charged out, but the cave was surrounded, and the Apostles captured all 49 players.

Xiao Fan led the villagers in hunting Demon Turtles at Heavenly Pond to gather materials for creating a skill. After the group struggled to damage the turtles, he reorganized their attacks, helping them kill all five and reach level 35 before Yu Mo prepared to create his first skill.

• Xiao Fan accompanied Yu Mo and the villagers to Heavenly Pond, where they used Gold Elemental energy to lure out five Demon Turtles.
• Yu Mo and the Apostles struggled to harm the turtles, so Xiao Fan ordered them to focus Gold and Fire attacks on one turtle while the Water and Wood Apostles drew off the others.
• Yu Ling backed Xiao Fan's commands, and the group followed his strategy to kill the Demon Turtles one at a time.
• Xiao Fan absorbed the Monster Beasts' elemental energy, gained five levels from the first kill, and reached level 35 after all five were defeated.
• Yu Mo cut the shells from the turtles and returned to the village, eager to create his first skill.

Yu Mo attempted to create a skill using a Demon Turtle shell but failed, leaving him devastated. Xiao Fan asked to use one of the remaining shells to create a skill himself.

• Yu Mo infused a Demon Turtle shell with his wood element, completing the first step of skill creation.
• Yu Mo submitted his skill for review, but the shell turned ashen and shattered when his attempt failed.
• Yu Ling and the other Apostles were disappointed, while Yu Mo knelt and mourned the failure of his twenty-five years of work.
• Xiao Fan comforted Yu Mo and offered him another turtle shell, but Yu Mo declined.
• Xiao Fan asked Yu Mo for a shell so he could create a skill, surprising Yu Mo.

Xiao Fan attempted to create an Elemental Skill from a Demon Turtle shell despite Yu Mo's warnings, but he lacked enough wood element to infuse it. As his attempt seemed doomed, Xiao Fan thought of a possible solution.

• Yu Mo warned Xiao Fan that creating a skill was extremely difficult, but Xiao Fan mocked Yu Mo's failure and insisted on trying.
• Yu Mo ordered another shell brought out and explained that Xiao Fan needed to infuse it with wood element and demonstrate how his skill would work.
• Xiao Fan placed his hand on the shell, and his wood element flowed into it automatically, but he quickly ran out of energy after filling only a quarter of the shell.
• Yin questioned whether Xiao Fan should be allowed to waste the precious materials, while Yu Mo said he expected Xiao Fan to fail and vowed to call him Dad if he succeeded.
• Xiao Fan realized he had rushed into the attempt without meeting the Trial Land's requirements, then suddenly thought of a possible solution.

Xiao Fan used Water Element to nourish the Wood Element around a turtle shell until he lit it and gained a chance to create a skill. He imagined combining Wood and Water to create a Black Tortoise skill, and the system began reviewing it.

• Xiao Fan tried to merge Water Element directly into the turtle shell, then realized the Wood Element around it could absorb the water.
• He used his Water Element to strengthen the Wood Element until the shell blazed with bright green and blue light.
• Yu Mo and the onlookers were shocked when Xiao Fan successfully lit the shell, while Yu Ling celebrated and teased Yu Mo about becoming Jiu Chen's son.
• Xiao Fan received the prompt to envision a skill and considered combining Wood and Water to create a Black Tortoise ability.
• Xiao Fan mentally rehearsed his imagined skill, and the system began reviewing it.

Xiao Fan successfully created the God Rank group skill Black Tortoise Domain, summoning a spectacular divine apparition that stunned the Apostles. After the skill was approved, Yu Mo immediately called Xiao Fan “Dad.”

• Yu Mo admitted that he would consider becoming Xiao Fan’s son a privilege if Xiao Fan successfully created a skill, while Xiao Fan worried the review might fail.
• Water and Wood energies surged as the Black Tortoise Divine Form appeared above the village, impressing the Apostles who witnessed it.
• A notification confirmed Xiao Fan’s skill creation had succeeded, and he viewed the God Rank Black Tortoise Domain’s effects.
• After the apparition vanished, the Apostles struggled to understand how Xiao Fan had created such a powerful skill from a Demon Turtle shell.
• Xiao Fan asked Yu Mo, his sister, and Yin what they should call him now that he had succeeded, and Yu Mo answered, “Dad.”

Xiao Fan persuaded the village Apostles to help him level up so they could enter the Trial Land’s Lower Stream when Combat Mode began. The village agreed to search for the two groups of fleeing Pseudo-Apostles and bring them into the village.

• Yu Mo considered how Xiao Fan could level up quickly without exposing his sensitive identity, then went with the other Apostles to Jiu Chen’s meeting.
• The Apostles asked Xiao Fan how he had created an Elemental Skill, and he joked that anyone with hands could do it.
• Xiao Fan announced his plan to lead the village into the Lower Stream when Combat Mode began in twenty-five days and asked everyone to help him level up.
• Xiao Fan rejected working with neighboring villages, claiming they might become jealous of his talent.
• The Apostles proposed recruiting the two groups of fleeing Pseudo-Apostles, and Xiao Fan agreed to have the village search for them.

Xiao Fan searched for Jian Qingfeng while hiding his newly created Elemental Skill from nearby villages, then learned that Jian Qingfeng’s group had been captured and resolved to rescue them. The group discovered the captives were imprisoned in the Lost Land, where Pseudo-Apostles faced starvation and could truly die in Combat Mode.

• Xiao Fan and Yu Mo led search parties and disguised the phenomenon from the previous night as a sighting of a Monster Beast to mislead nearby Apostles.
• Xiao Fan warned his group to avoid attracting attention from nearby villages as they searched for Jian Qingfeng and collected Monster Beast materials.
• After a fruitless day of searching, Xiao Fan returned to the village and learned that over a dozen villages had captured the two groups of Pseudo-Apostles.
• Yu Mo explained that the captives were being held in the Lost Land, where Pseudo-Apostles could starve to death, and Xiao Fan urged the group to rescue them.

Jian Qingfeng and Falling Leaf’s group searched the Lost Land for a way out, then failed to overpower the guards at its only exit. Meanwhile, Xiao Fan and Yu Mo prepared a nighttime rescue and waited for a chance to ambush the ten guards.

• Jian Qingfeng and Falling Leaf realized the Lost Land had no resources or other exits, and argued over whether anyone would come to save them.
• Jian Qingfeng led the group in a charge at the exit, but the guards’ superior strength and elemental power drove them back.
• Jian Qingfeng recognized that the secret realm relied on elemental attacks, but saw no way to gain elemental power in the barren Lost Land.
• Xiao Fan and Yu Mo watched the entrance at night and confirmed that ten guards were stationed there.
• Xiao Fan assigned the rescuers their roles and waited for the guards to be off guard before launching the ambush.

Xiao Fan led a rescue team into the Lost Land and found Jian Qingfeng just as he and the others prepared to escape. Jian Qingfeng recognized Xiao Fan as Jiu Chen and agreed to follow him, while Falling Leaf remained unsure who the masked leader was.

• Xiao Fan’s group fought the guards at the exit while he led a few Apostles into the Lost Land to find Jian Qingfeng.
• Jian Qingfeng and Falling Leaf heard the commotion and prepared to investigate, but Jian Qingfeng’s group mistook the arriving masked rescuers for enemies and charged them.
• Xiao Fan called out that he had come to rescue them, and Jian Qingfeng recognized his familiar voice and stopped his group.
• Xiao Fan introduced himself as Jiu Chen and urged Jian Qingfeng’s group to cooperate before nearby villages arrived.
• Jian Qingfeng pretended to hesitate, then agreed to go with Xiao Fan, and both groups ran toward the cave entrance.

Xiao Fan rescued Jian Qingfeng and the other Pseudo-Apostles from the guards, then helped them survive and level up while the Trial Land searched for them. With Combat Mode approaching, Xiao Fan and Jian Qingfeng discussed their shared quest and the possibility of advancing to the Lower Stream.

• Xiao Fan and Yu Mo fought the guards while Yu Ling led Jian Qingfeng and the others toward the woods, and Xiao Fan trapped the pursuers with a skill so the group could escape.
• Back in the village, Jian Qingfeng agreed that his group would cooperate with Xiao Fan in exchange for protection.
• Xiao Fan took the group hunting in the following days, while Yu Ling helped them evade search parties looking for the rescued Pseudo-Apostles.
• Three days before Combat Mode, Jian Qingfeng and the others had reached level 70, while Xiao Fan explained that the Lower Lower Stream's level cap was 100.
• Jian Qingfeng told Xiao Fan that his group also had a quest to eliminate 50 villages, and Xiao Fan said they might need to advance to the Lower Stream to leave the instance.

On the eve of Combat Mode, Xiao Fan planned to attack Shui Tuntun’s village, but discovered that Roar’s forces were preparing to ambush Xiao Fan’s own village. The chapter ended with both groups waiting in the grass near Xiao Fan’s village, poised to attack each other when Combat Mode began.

• Xiao Fan and the others planned to attack nearby villages first, choosing Shui Tuntun’s village as their initial target.
• Xiao Fan learned that Shui Tuntun’s village had allied with Roar, whose combined forces numbered seventy Apostles.
• Xiao Fan led his masked team to surround Roar’s village before Combat Mode began.
• When Roar’s seventy Apostles left their village, Xiao Fan ordered his team to follow them through the darkness.
• Xiao Fan’s team discovered that Roar’s group had stopped near Xiao Fan’s village and was preparing to ambush it.

Xiao Fan used the lights and Straw Men in his village to lure Roar’s group into an ambush when Combat Mode began. Roar killed Shui Tuntun after realizing his village had helped set the trap, but the ensuing fight threatened to wipe out Xiao Fan’s intended targets.

• Xiao Fan and his group watched Roar’s party while Straw Men patrolled the village as decoys.
• Roar sent an Apostle to scout, and the scout reported seeing figures patrolling inside the village.
• Combat Mode began under a blood-red moon, and Roar’s group charged into the village.
• Shui Tuntun discovered the patrol figures were dummies, and Xiao Fan’s masked group arrived and attacked Roar’s party.
• Roar suspected Shui Tuntun had betrayed him and stabbed him, eliminating him from the Trial Land.
• Roar ordered his group to kill Shui Tuntun’s villagers, and Xiao Fan realized they were killing his targets.

Xiao Fan’s team used a God-Tier Skill to defeat Roaring’s village and then raided nearby villages during the night. They returned to Yu Mo Village with mission progress at 9/50, while Yu Ling mapped which villages were cleared and which still had Apostles.

• Roaring ordered his Apostles to charge Xiao Fan’s team, then tried to flee, but a skill trapped his team with branches and Xiao Fan’s allies eliminated them.
• A masked woman killed Roaring as the phantom of a Mystic Turtle appeared, revealing the skill behind the strange phenomenon from the previous night.
• Xiao Fan checked the mission panel and saw that his progress was 1/50 after the first victory.
• Xiao Fan’s team wiped out ten nearby villages during the night, but two villages still had surviving Apostles, leaving his progress at 9/50.
• Xiao Fan led his exhausted team back to Yu Mo Village, where Yu Ling marked cleared villages and charted the villages that still had Apostles.

Xiao Fan split the team so they could earn points quickly and try to reach the top ten in Combat Mode. While Yu Mo’s group worried that Xiao Fan and the Pseudo-Apostles had gone missing, their points rose, showing that a village had been wiped out.

• Xiao Fan checked the leaderboard, saw his village ranked near the bottom, and decided they needed to earn points by attacking stronger villages.
• Xiao Fan split the team, taking Jian Qingfeng’s group to target defensive villages while Yu Mo’s group searched for villages already under attack.
• Xiao Fan led the Pseudo-Apostles to a hidden cave and helped forty-five of them create Elemental Skills using Monster Beast materials.
• Yu Mo and Yin grew suspicious when Xiao Fan’s group earned no points for two hours, but their score then increased by one hundred.
• Yu Mo decided his group should get moving and earn points while they waited for Xiao Fan.

Xiao Fan and his allies rapidly gained points by eliminating villages, while Yu Mo’s group realized Jiu Chen had likely helped Pseudo-Apostles create skills. Yu Ling chose to keep quiet and enjoy the benefits, and Xiao Fan prepared to lead everyone into another region.

• Xiao Fan and his allies cleared attack-focused villages, pushing their points higher and bringing his mission progress to 29/50.
• Yu Mo’s group questioned how their points could rise so quickly when Jiu Chen’s skill had a one-hour cooldown.
• Yu Ling concluded that Jiu Chen had probably helped the Pseudo-Apostles create Elemental Skills.
• Yu Ling offered the group the choice of pretending not to know or exposing the Pseudo-Apostles, then advised them to play dumb and lie back.
• Xiao Fan returned in the middle of the night and decided to take everyone to another region the next morning.

On the fourth day of Combat Mode, Xiao Fan’s team neared completion of its quest while Yu Mo’s Apostles confronted the history behind the Pseudo-Apostles and the Tokens of Four Extremes. Yu Ling argued that the tokens had always been meant for the Destined Ones.

• Xiao Fan saw that his team had reached rank 218 and needed to defeat one more village to complete the Secret Realm Quest.
• Yu Mo’s Apostles complained about being separated from Jian Qingfeng’s player team and feared the players might take the remaining Tokens of Four Extremes.
• An Apostle recounted how Destined Ones had taken six tokens, leading the continent to purge them and label them Pseudo-Apostles.
• Yu Mo agonized over choosing between family vengeance and protecting the continent from the growing Pseudo-Apostles.
• Yu Ling pointed out that no one from the continent had claimed a token in five thousand years and said the Tokens of Four Extremes were meant for the Destined Ones.