Recaps

After completing the mission to clear fifty villages, Xiao Fan learned that he could leave the secret realm but chose to pursue the new Combat Mode ranking mission. His village entered the top hundred, and with less than two days remaining, he decided to unite the teams and challenge higher-ranked zones.

• Yu Ling told Yu Mo and the others to lie low, and Xiao Fan overheard that the Tokens of the Land of Four Extremes drove the conflict between Pseudo-Apostles and Apostles.
• The system announced that Xiao Fan had completed the village-clearing mission and could leave the secret realm, while the players celebrated having a way out.
• A new mission called for a top-ten Combat Mode ranking, and Xiao Fan persuaded the team to stay and pursue it.
• On the sixth day of Combat Mode, Apostle Village 48 from Zone 10 entered the top hundred and appeared on the map with the other leading teams.
• With less than two days left and the team gaining points slowly, Xiao Fan ordered everyone to merge teams and target higher-ranked zones.

Xiao Fan chose the fiftieth-ranked Apostle Village 27 in District 3 as his team’s next opponent, while Ying Qi’s team also set out to attack them. As the top teams watched and predicted Ying Qi’s victory, his team suddenly disappeared from the map.

• Xiao Fan decided to challenge teams from the top hundred and selected Apostle Village 27 in District 3, ranked fiftieth.
• Ying Qi judged Xiao Fan’s District 10 team an easy target and led his team toward them.
• Xiao Fan saw Ying Qi’s team approaching and welcomed the chance to meet them sooner.
• The top ten teams watched the two sides converge, and Great Wood God dismissed Xiao Fan’s team as lucky and backed Ying Qi.
• As the top teams mocked Xiao Fan’s chances, someone announced that Ying Qi’s team had disappeared from the map.

After Xiao Fan's team eliminated Ying Qi's team, Great Wood God urged the top ten villages to unite against them, warning that they might target established teams before Combat Mode ended. The other leaders remained reluctant as Xiao Fan's team headed for the twentieth-ranked team.

• Everyone discovered that Ying Qi's team had vanished from the map and Leaderboard, while Zone 10 Apostle Village 48 climbed to seventy-eighth.
• Great Wood God concluded that someone on Xiao Fan's team had created a high-level Elemental Skill, explaining their rapid rise and victory over Ying Qi's team.
• The leader of Village 9 privately persuaded Great Wood God to support a united resistance against Xiao Fan's team.
• Great Wood God proposed that all ten villages join forces, but the other leaders refused to commit because they expected to advance without him.
• Great Wood God warned that Xiao Fan's team could attack them before Combat Mode ended, then revealed that it was heading toward the twentieth-ranked team.

Great Wood God persuaded the District 10 captains to form alliances against Xiao Fan’s team, while Xiao Fan’s team continued hunting highly ranked opponents. After the twentieth-ranked team fled and allied groups gathered, Xiao Fan chose a group of ten teams as their next target.

• Great Wood God warned the District 10 captains that Xiao Fan’s team attacked stronger opponents and urged them to ally, winning their agreement.
• Xiao Fan’s team recalled how quickly they had eliminated the fiftieth-ranked team, and Yu Mo realized every Pseudo-Apostle had an Elemental Skill.
• Jian Qingfeng told Xiao Fan that the twentieth-ranked team was fleeing, while Falling Leaf reported that Top Hundred Teams were forming alliances.
• Xiao Fan rejected hunting teams outside the Top Hundred because there was too little time to reach the top ten.
• Xiao Fan found an allied group of ten teams on the map and chose them as the next target.

Xiao Fan led his team past the Fourteen-Team Alliance and the fleeing Thirteen-Team Alliance, aiming for the Great Wood God's allied team in the Top Ten. The onlookers realized his target was the Top Ten Alliance as his team headed straight toward it.

• Yu Mo asked Xiao Fan which team they were going to fight, but Xiao Fan kept the target secret and planned to attack in waves.
• The Fourteen-Team Alliance prepared to fight, then saw Xiao Fan's team pass them and felt relieved that they were not the target.
• The Thirteen-Team Alliance decided to flee rather than risk heavy losses, and other teams watched them run.
• The Thirteen-Team Alliance was not Xiao Fan's target either, and the onlookers realized his team was heading for the Top Ten Alliance.

The Village 9 Captain realized the Top Ten Alliance had left his team with little chance to advance, then saw Xiao Fan’s team heading toward the alliance. When Yu Mo feared the numbers against them, Xiao Fan inspired his team by declaring that a true warrior faced danger without retreating, and they continued toward the fight.

• The Village 9 Captain regretted joining the Top Ten Alliance and discovered that Xiao Fan’s team was approaching it.
• The Village 9 Captain kept the news from the Great Wood God, hoping the alliance could defeat Xiao Fan’s smaller team.
• Yu Mo protested when Xiao Fan confirmed that the Top Ten Alliance was their target, citing the enemy’s greater numbers and strength.
• Xiao Fan asked Yu Mo what it meant to be a warrior and declared that true warriors faced even certain death without retreating.
• Jian Qingfeng, Yu Mo, and Yu Ling were moved by Xiao Fan’s words and recognized his courage.

Xiao Fan led his team toward the Top Ten Alliance and planned a ranged attack, but found the enemy gathered and unaware of their arrival. He decided to infiltrate the crowd and use his immobilizing skill, leaving his teammates worried as he approached without his mask.

• Xiao Fan reassured his team and ordered them to use ranged attacks and retreat when needed against the Top Ten Alliance.
• Xiao Fan reached the Top Ten Alliance’s location and found that its members had stayed in place, while the Village 9 Captain secretly planned to keep his Apostles behind the others.
• Great Wood God told the gathered alliance about the Lower Stream as the Village 9 Captain noticed Xiao Fan’s team approaching on the map.
• After a scout reported that the Top Ten Alliance was listening to Great Wood God, Xiao Fan ordered his team to prepare a ranged assault.
• Xiao Fan chose to infiltrate the crowd and activate his skill despite Yu Ling and Jian Qingfeng warning him of the danger, then removed his mask and approached the alliance.

Xiao Fan infiltrated the Top Ten Alliance’s gathering by disguising himself as one of its Apostles and using flattery to reach the center of the crowd. When the alliance discovered District 10’s team was nearby and prepared for battle, Xiao Fan activated Black Tortoise Domain.

• Xiao Fan sneaked into the Top Ten Alliance’s crowd, where its members mistook him for an Apostle from another village.
• Xiao Fan praised an Apostle into making room beside him, then pointed toward the Great Wood God when asked which village he came from.
• Jian Qingfeng, Yu Mo, and the others waited nearby and reviewed their attack order, while Xiao Fan waited for the Great Wood God to approach.
• An Apostle checked the map, spotted District 10’s team next to the alliance, and alerted the Great Wood God.
• The Great Wood God moved toward the crowd and called everyone to prepare for battle, and Xiao Fan activated his God Rank skill, Black Tortoise Domain.

Xiao Fan and Jian Qingfeng’s team ambushed the Top Ten Alliance with binding and attack skills, killing Great Wood God and most of the alliance. With fewer than fifty enemies left, Yu Mo urged the team to pursue them.

• Xiao Fan activated a skill that bound the Top Ten Alliance with branches, while Jian Qingfeng killed Great Wood God with Wind Blades.
• Jian Qingfeng and the others attacked the trapped alliance members with Elemental Skills, and Xiao Fan killed a man who recognized him as part of the District 10 team.
• Xiao Fan ran ahead as the team followed their skills with arrows, then detonated his skill, killing two-thirds of the Top Ten Alliance.
• The Village 2 captain ordered the survivors to turn and fight, but Jian Qingfeng and the others launched another barrage of skills and killed most of them.
• Yu Mo called for the team to chase the remaining enemies, as fewer than fifty of the alliance’s five hundred members remained.

Xiao Fan and his team defeated the Top Ten Alliance, shocking the other Top Hundred teams. A captain suspected the District 10 team were disguised Pseudo-Apostles, and grew suspicious of their choice to target the Top Ten Alliance.

• Xiao Fan, Yu Mo, and the others chased down the fleeing Top Ten Alliance and eliminated its members.
• The other Top Hundred teams watched the Top Ten Alliance disappear from the map and struggled to understand how it had been defeated so quickly.
• A team captain concluded that the District 10 team were likely Pseudo-Apostles who had concealed their identities and grown powerful.
• The captain checked the Leaderboard and saw Apostle Village 48, Zone 10 in first place with 43,591 Points.
• The captain recalled that the District 10 team had bypassed two alliances to attack the Top Ten Alliance and suspected their choice was strange.

After Xiao Fan’s team reached first place, the other Top Hundred Teams gathered and prepared to attack what they believed was a Pseudo-Apostle team. Xiao Fan and his teammates realized they were surrounded, leaving Yu Ling worried about how they could conceal his identity and protect Jian Qingfeng and the others.

• A captain reasoned that the Top Ten Alliance’s small size made it vulnerable to a powerful Pseudo-Apostle team, then urged the other teams to unite and attack before Combat Mode ended.
• After the Top Ten Alliance was wiped out, ten newly promoted teams appeared, and all the Top Hundred Teams began moving toward the center.
• Xiao Fan received confirmation that his second mission was complete after his team claimed first place, though no third-round mission appeared.
• Yu Mo praised Xiao Fan and again asked to be his son, but Xiao Fan rejected him.
• Yu Ling pointed out that the other teams’ red dots had gathered together, and suggested they planned to attack because they suspected Xiao Fan’s team was made up of Pseudo-Apostles.
• Xiao Fan’s teammates insisted he had always lived in their village, while Yu Ling worried about concealing his identity and protecting Jian Qingfeng and the others.

Yu Ling and her team realized that the Top Hundred Alliance had identified Xiao Fan and the other Pseudo-Apostles, leaving them at risk of being hunted across the Trial Land. Xiao Fan warned that fleeing would not be enough and urged the native Apostles to leave so they would not be dragged into the conflict.

• Yu Ling recalled how she had decided to stay with Xiao Fan after suspecting he was the Destined One, but worried when the Top Hundred Teams joined forces against them.
• Yu Mo suggested running away from the Top Hundred Alliance, and Yin agreed that they could survive until Combat Mode ended.
• Xiao Fan warned that other teams throughout the Trial Land might hunt them too, though they could still leave the secret realm if necessary.
• Xiao Fan told Yu Mo, Yu Ling, and the other native Apostles to leave the team so they would not be endangered or suspected of sheltering Pseudo-Apostles.
• Yu Mo and the others were moved by Xiao Fan's apparent concern, while Xiao Fan privately feared they might betray the team.

Yu Mo and the others stayed with Xiao Fan as his team prepared to face the Top Hundred Alliance and the other teams gathered against them. The alliance marched toward Xiao Fan’s team, unaware that the scouts’ report had given Xiao Fan a new plan.

• Yu Mo and the others chose to stay, and Xiao Fan led his team into battle rather than retreating.
• The Village 9 Captain escaped Xiao Fan’s area attack and rallied the Top Hundred Teams and nearby teams into an Anti-Apostle force of more than six thousand.
• The Village 9 Captain reassured the alliance that Xiao Fan’s skills had limited range and cooldowns, and the force marched toward the Pseudo-Apostles.
• The Village 9 Captain saw on the map that Xiao Fan’s team was heading straight toward the alliance, while its members assumed the team was walking into a trap.
• One of Xiao Fan’s scouts returned with news that teams outside the Top Hundred had joined the alliance, and Xiao Fan devised a new plan.

Xiao Fan sent his team to infiltrate the Anti-Apostle Alliance while he stayed behind to pursue a personal challenge quest. The Village 9 Captain discovered the infiltrators and began sorting the alliance by village, leaving Jian Qingfeng, Yu Mo, and the others facing imminent exposure as they waited for their turn.

• Xiao Fan split his team into small groups that quietly joined the Anti-Apostle Alliance, then told Jian Qingfeng to lead the remaining members in while he stayed behind to tackle his personal challenge quest.
• The Village 9 Captain noticed Xiao Fan's team's map marker had vanished and deduced that the team had infiltrated the alliance.
• The Village 9 Captain warned the alliance that Pseudo-Apostles were among them and ordered everyone to regroup by village, threatening to kill anyone who tried to leave.
• Yu Ling told Yu Mo and the others to gather with their village near the edge of a Top Hundred Team, while Jian Qingfeng's group regrouped nearby and realized Xiao Fan was absent.
• Jian Qingfeng proposed using their skills to hold off the people checking them and then flee, and he quietly warned the group to get ready as their turn approached.

Jian Qingfeng’s group escaped the Anti-Apostle Grand Group amid panic caused by Xiao Fan’s invisible underground attacks, which earned him challenge Points. The allied Apostles eventually split up to evade the killer, giving Xiao Fan an easier chance to hunt them, while Qingfeng Jian sneaked back toward the group.

• Yu Mo gave the search party a false village number, and a sudden report of Pseudo-Apostles threw the crowd into chaos before the searchers could expose him.
• Jian Qingfeng led his team away while the Village 9 Captain investigated reports of Apostles vanishing and noticed Village 48, Zone 10 moving away on the map.
• Xiao Fan used Earth Escape Technique and Gold Spike to eliminate Apostles from underground and gain challenge Points.
• Village 9 Captain realized the killer was underground, but the Apostles could not stop Xiao Fan from striking again.
• Village 9 Captain ordered the allied team to split up, and Xiao Fan welcomed the scattered red dots as easier targets.
• Qingfeng Jian saw the allied team split up and sneaked back toward them.

After the Anti-Apostle Alliance disbanded, Xiao Fan and the Masked Squad hunted the Top Hundred Teams to farm Points, wiping out team after team. With less than two hours left in Combat Mode, the remaining teams began splitting up, and Xiao Fan found only one person at the next set of coordinates.

• The Village 9 Captain watched the alliance scatter and decided he was better off surviving alone.
• Xiao Fan emerged from underground in front of Jian Qingfeng, Yu Mo, and the others, then promised to teach Yu Mo the burrowing skill after Combat Mode.
• Xiao Fan sent the Masked Squad after Top Hundred Teams, having his companions damage opponents while he finished them off with elemental attacks.
• The Masked Squad wiped out numerous ranked villages, leaving the Top Hundred Teams terrified and desperate to avoid being eliminated.
• With less than two hours remaining, the Top Hundred Teams decided to split up, and Xiao Fan found a lone person at the coordinates he had followed.

Xiao Fan reached 10,000 Challenge Points while hunting apostles, but Falling Leaf was killed by a Gold Element Fusion Apostle just before Combat Mode ended. Xiao Fan chased the killer and, with the countdown nearly over, eliminated him using his underground skill.

• Yu Mo urged Xiao Fan to stop eliminating people, but Xiao Fan persuaded the group to continue and burrowed underground to farm more points.
• Xiao Fan found a forty-member team, pursued them, and encountered Jian Qingfeng and Falling Leaf.
• A hidden Gold Element Fusion Apostle killed Falling Leaf with a surprise attack, and Jian Qingfeng mourned his fellow disciple.
• Xiao Fan reached 10,000 Challenge Points, promised Jian Qingfeng he would avenge Falling Leaf, and raced after the killer.
• The Gold Element Fusion Apostle attacked Xiao Fan, but Xiao Fan burrowed underground and caused the killer to dissolve just before Combat Mode ended.

After Combat Mode ended, Jiu Chen used the Resurrection Art to bring Falling Leaf back to life. Before the secret realm closed, Xiao Fan gave Yu Mo a paper containing skills and departed with his companions.

• Combat Mode ended, and the system announced the ten villages advancing to the Lower Stream and the players' impending ejection from the secret realm.
• Falling Leaf, buried after his death, received Jiu Chen's resurrection invitation and accepted it before his remaining time ran out.
• Jian Qingfeng saw Falling Leaf move in the grave, then watched him cough, sit up, and reveal that Jiu Chen had resurrected him.
• Xiao Fan explained that the Resurrection Art let him revive Falling Leaf after avenging him, then handed Yu Mo a paper with skills.
• Xiao Fan and his companions vanished as the secret realm closed, and Yu Ling wondered whether the voice announcing Combat Mode's end had sounded like Boss Jiu Chen.

Xiao Fan cleared the Land of Four Extremes, earned major rewards including a God Rank Wood Seed Jade Bone, and emerged from the secret realm. Zhou He’s rescue team was relieved to see Jian Qingfeng and Jiu Chen return, and Jian Qingfeng said Jiu Chen had saved them from being trapped.

• Xiao Fan received clearing rewards, including an Evolution Bead and an extra Evolution Bead from the Lone Brave title.
• Xiao Fan unlocked the Level Four challenge reward by earning ten thousand Points and received a God Rank Wood Seed Jade Bone.
• Zhou He waited with a hundred-man team at the reappeared secret realm entrance, planning to enter if the trapped players did not emerge by sunset.
• Falling Leaf and the Shen Sect team emerged, followed by Jian Qingfeng, while Zhou He asked where Jiu Chen was.
• Xiao Fan emerged, and Jian Qingfeng told Zhou He that Jiu Chen had saved them from being trapped in the secret realm.

After returning from the secret realm, Xiao Fan learned that the nation had developed a competing Healing Potion and that high school students, including his younger cousins, would soon enter the game. Meanwhile, Falling Leaf returned to the City of Kings, leaving Shen Long alarmed and convinced that Jiu Chen had saved him.

• Falling Leaf added Xiao Fan as a friend and returned to Shen Long, while Jian Qingfeng said his return would cause Shen Long trouble.
• On the way back to Dragon City, Xiao Fan recounted the secret realm’s dangers, prompting the other players to reconsider entering it.
• Zhou He told Xiao Fan that the nation’s researchers had produced a Healing Potion to challenge the Bai Family’s monopoly, but its effects would fade as Three-Leaf Clover deteriorated.
• Zhou He said high school students would soon enter the Novice Zones and had assigned Xiao Fan’s younger cousins to Zone 18; Xiao Fan planned to give them Heavenly Spirit Treasures and teach them about creating professions.
• Xiao Fan and the others returned to a bustling, level-five Dragon City, while Shen Long learned that Falling Leaf had returned and suspected Jiu Chen had rescued him.

Xiao Fan exchanged for a Treasure Map in Dragon City's Contribution Point Exchange Mall and prepared to return to Yanhuang City. Before leaving, he unexpectedly encountered Crush Your Bird.

• Qian Juduo brought Xiao Fan Talent Stones and Heavenly Spirit Treasures, then asked him for help obtaining a Profession change slot.
• Xiao Fan told Qian Juduo to go to Chief Zhou for the Profession change slot and asked him to watch for unknown items on the market.
• Xiao Fan visited the Contribution Point Exchange Mall, found Star Stones on the fourth floor, and bought a Treasure Map on the fifth floor.
• Xiao Fan discovered that the Treasure Map pointed to the Monster Region and kept 200,000 contribution points to test whether they remained usable after leaving the city.
• Xiao Fan planned to return to Yanhuang City and was surprised to find Crush Your Bird still there.

Xiao Fan offered to escort Crush Your Bird back to Yanhuang City, then left Dragon City after speaking with Zhou He and Jian Qingfeng. On the journey, Zijin advanced to the Growth Stage, and Xiao Fan decided he wanted to bring her into the Real World.

• Xiao Fan invited Crush Your Bird to travel with him to Yanhuang City, and she eagerly accepted.
• At Zhou He's residence, Zhou He promised to send Xiao Fan the collected Star Stones, while Jian Qingfeng asked whether his Evolution Bead could create a God Rank profession.
• Xiao Fan told Jian Qingfeng that the Token of Four Extremes might turn an Evolution Bead into an attribute Evolution Bead, giving Jian Qingfeng hope of obtaining a God Rank profession.
• Xiao Fan withdrew from Dragon City, froze his unused contribution points, and rode toward Yanhuang City with Crush Your Bird.
• During the journey, Xiao Fan discovered that Zijin had advanced to Level 300 and gained the Heavenly Lightning Purple Eyes element, which also raised his Life Lightning Element to Heaven Rank.
• Xiao Fan decided that he would use his chance to bring Zijin into the Real World if it was possible, while Crush Your Bird wondered whether he had gone crazy.

Xiao Fan returned to Yanhuang City with Crush Your Bird and reunited with his battered team. Concerned that Bai Qian’s Bai Family ties made her a risk to his relatives, he told her to leave, and she departed despite having grown attached to the team.

• Crush Your Bird thanked Xiao Fan for escorting her back to Yanhuang City and went home, promising to introduce him to her younger sister, I Kick Your Lung.
• Xiao Fan met Fatty, Xiao Yi, and the others, who explained that they had failed to clear a dungeon rather than been robbed.
• Xiao Fan noticed Bai Qian was still with the team and told her she did not need to return the next day because they no longer needed a healer.
• Liu Xiujuan, Fatty, and Qin Muyu questioned Xiao Fan’s decision, but he worried the Bai Family might target his relatives after the Healing Potion business threatened them.
• Xiao Fan confronted Bai Qian about why she had joined the team, and she accepted that she had to leave despite valuing the team’s camaraderie.

Bai Qian returned home after Jiu Chen fired her and learned that government Healing Potions had ended the Bai Family’s monopoly in Dragon City. As Third Master Bai considered retaliating and sought information about the Island of Light, Xiao Fan’s team left for home and began explaining the unusually difficult secret realm.

• Bai Qian complained to Third Master Bai that Jiu Chen had discovered her reason for joining the team and dismissed her.
• Third Master Bai told Bai Qian that government Healing Potions had undercut the Bai Family’s sales, and he suspected Jiu Chen had withheld Water of Life before giving some to the family.
• Third Master Bai said the family would stop selling Healing Potions in Dragon City and Yanhuang City, focus on City of Kings, and have Bai Qian seek information about Island of Light from Jiu Chen.
• Bai Qian told Third Master Bai that Jiu Chen had fired her, and Third Master Bai ordered an investigation while threatening to retaliate against him.
• Xiao Fan’s team stopped discussing Bai Qian and told him that the secret realm they had entered was far more difficult than ordinary secret realms.

Xiao Fan learned that the Twelve Heavens Execution secret realm had stalled his friends and promised to help clear it after logging out the next day. He also discovered that Zijin faced a dangerous Lightning Tribulation and asked her about absorbing Element Seeds, revealing that he already possessed two.

• Xiao Fan heard that the Twelve Heavens Execution had twelve Bosses, and his friends had not defeated even one because a Boss kept summoning minions.
• Xiao Fan agreed to help his friends clear the secret realm after logging out the next day and invited his uncle and aunt to log out with him.
• Xiao Fan called Zijin and learned that her growth-stage advancement had summoned a powerful Lightning Tribulation that could threaten them both because of their Life Bond.
• Zijin told Xiao Fan that a Lightning-Avoiding Fruit or another Heavenly Spirit Treasure could reduce the lightning damage, and Xiao Fan committed the advice to memory.
• Xiao Fan asked Zijin about absorbing an Element Seed, then showed her an Earth Rank Ghost Fire and a God Rank Jade Bone Wood.