Recaps

Qin Yan advanced through the Mystic Tower, earned the Five Elements Imprint, and rose to fourth place after breaking through to Second Grade. With the Key Class facing dissolution, he took a dangerous fugitive mission and returned with his first bounty, then invested his credits in more training resources.

• Qin Yan cleared the Mystic Tower’s tenth floor, gained the Five Elements Imprint and a surge of Spear Technique insights, then learned from Fang Yan that the imprint offered access to the Five Elements Sect’s cultivation methods.
• Qin Yan advanced to Early Second Grade and defeated Leng Feng in the Monthly Exam tournament, taking fourth place.
• Fang Yan announced that the Key Class would dissolve at the end of November and set a month of missions to choose ten students for the National Martial University Exchange Tournament.
• Qin Yan accepted a mission to capture Zhang Tu, searched the Sanwan Scrap Vehicle Processing Plant, and found Zhang Tu fighting Jiaotong University students.
• Qin Yan shattered Zhang Tu’s axe and killed him with a spear thrust, while Wen Ning, Zhao Hao, and another student fought and captured Wang Jun.
• Qin Yan submitted Zhang Tu’s head and mission credentials for 300 Credit Points, bringing his balance to 1,688, and ordered twenty servings of Mind-Clearing Tea.

Qin Yan joined Wen Ning to destroy Wang Guang’s Evil Cult stronghold, then trained for the National Collegiate Exchange Tournament and proved his strength in warm-up matches. The tournament opened at Magic Capital Martial University, where Li Mu lost the first match to Wen Ning.

• Qin Yan advanced to the Second-Rank Mid Stage, then joined Wen Ning on a mission to destroy Wang Guang’s ‘Abyss of Vast Sea’ cell and killed Wang Guang with his spear.
• Qin Yan placed fourth in the Key Class, earned mission rewards, and was named one of Magic Capital Martial University’s ten tournament representatives.
• Qin Yan served as the team’s vanguard against Pearl Martial University and defeated Wang Gu with one spear strike after Li Pao beat Li Mu.
• Qin Yan’s team won six of seven matches against Demon City Jiaotong University, where Wen Ning secured Jiaotong’s only victory by defeating Li Mu.
• Qin Yan skipped further warm-up matches to train, raised his Spear Technique to Fourth Rank, formed a golden Spear Light, and reached the Eighth Turn of the Nine Revolutions Golden Body Spear.
• Qin Yan tempered all fifty-one torso bones to Perfection, revealed his Second Grade strength to Zhou Yuan, Lin Yang, Zhao Bin, and Zhou Nan, and gave them golden tournament tickets.
• Lin Jian introduced Anya as the team’s healer, and Fang Yan revealed that she was a Grandmaster before Qin Yan trained through the night ahead of the tournament.
• Lu Qingfeng drew a first-round match against Demon City Jiaotong University, and Li Mu lost to Wen Ning, who disarmed him and knocked him off the arena in three minutes.

Qin Yan led Magic Capital Martial University through the opening rounds, defeating powerful opponents including Cang Yue and Lin Qingyue. His exhausting victory over Chen Tian left him badly wounded and nearly out of strength as Anya healed him.

• Su Wan and Wen Ning fought to a draw, then Qin Yan swept four Demon City Jiaotong University contestants and helped Magic Capital Martial University advance.
• Qin Yan trained, then defeated Tang Dao and Longhua Martial University's remaining fighters, surviving Liu Ruyan's final sword form to complete a five-opponent streak.
• After the Losers' Bracket playoffs, Magic Capital Martial University entered the Grand Round-Robin, where Qin Yan defeated Shi Meng and swept Kunlun Martial University's five contestants, including Cang Yue.
• Lu Youyou defeated Capital Martial University's first two fighters, but Lin Qingyue's Tide Domain overcame her and then defeated Lu Qingfeng.
• Qin Yan used his second stage of Stacked Qi and hidden Golden Spear Glow to sever Lin Qingyue's right arm and knock her unconscious.
• Qin Yan fought Chen Tian in a brutal exchange, and both fighters collapsed after piercing each other's abdomens.
• Anya healed Qin Yan's wounds and reattached his left hand, and Qin Yan told Lu Youyou that he had little strength left.

After Magic Capital Martial University won the tournament, Qin Yan chose to enter the dangerous Hidden Dragon Assembly and focused on strengthening himself for it. He reached the Third-Rank Clear Blood Realm, then returned to Linhai City for winter break with the assembly still ahead.

• Xiao Wangshu defeated Fang Xiang to secure Magic Capital Martial University's victory over Capital Martial University, and Qin Yan sat out the remaining matches on Instructor Anya's warning.
• At the champions' gathering, Qin Yan met fellow competitors and learned more about Liu Ruyan's shifting personality, while Princess Anya asked the academies to consider joining the Hidden Dragon Assembly.
• Anya invited Qin Yan and the other students to retrieve the Life Grail from Canglin Ancient Mountain, and Fang Yan warned them that the previous assembly had an eighty percent casualty rate.
• Qin Yan consulted Xiao Huo and his senior disciples about the assembly and cultivation techniques, then decided to participate and received a guidebook and two drops of Grandmaster True Blood from Anya.
• After learning that Wen Ning was suspected of killing Zhao Hao, Qin Yan intensified his training, completed the refinement of all 206 bones, and reached the Jade Bone realm.
• Qin Yan cleared the Mystic Tower's twentieth floor, gained deeper Spear Glow insights and the Five Elements Imprint, then defeated the puppets on the twenty-first through twenty-fourth floors before the twenty-fifth-floor puppet injured him and forced him out.
• Qin Yan spent his Skill Points on the Blood Refining Chapter, reached the Third-Rank Clear Blood Realm, and trained for sixteen hours a day until he advanced to the Fourth Revolution at 17%.
• When winter break arrived, Qin Yan packed his belongings and gifts and returned to Linhai City, reflecting on his transformation and keeping the Hidden Dragon Assembly in mind.