Recaps

Chen Xi and Lin Yue encountered Gu Yao, who mocked Chen Xi before Gu Yu revealed that Gu Yao was her younger sister and a rival for the family’s favor. Gu Yu and Gu Yao traded barbs until a stern blond man stepped in between them.

• Gu Yao mocked Chen Xi for taking so many clothes, and Chen Xi calmly asked who she was.
• Gu Yao belittled Chen Xi as an average trial participant who had no chance of winning the championship, but Chen Xi agreed that they did not plan to win.
• Gu Yu emerged from the fitting room with Zhu Li and identified Gu Yao as her younger sister, explaining through shadow communication that Gu Yao had confronted her after their family shifted its support back to Gu Yu.
• Gu Yu and Gu Yao exchanged pointed remarks about the family’s favor, while Chen Xi watched without intervening.
• A stern blond man entered the store and stepped between Gu Yu and Gu Yao, asking Gu Yao to control her emotions.

Gu Yu revealed her peak West Rank strength and trapped Charles and Gu Yao in her snow Domain after Gu Yao refused to believe her advancement. After Chen Xi encouraged her to act and Zhu Li moved to safety, Gu Yu attacked, and Charles deployed his own Domain to resist her.

• Charles arrived with Gu Yao, and Gu Yu's magical aura revealed that she had reached the peak of West Rank.
• Gu Yao accused Gu Yu of disguising her aura, so Gu Yu expanded her Domain, Heart Frozen Under Ten Thousand Miles of Snow.
• Charles warned Gu Yu that using a Domain in the royal capital was a serious crime and urged her to reconsider.
• Chen Xi encouraged Gu Yu to act, and Gu Yu sent Zhu Li to join Chen Xi and Lin Yue.
• Gu Yu attacked Charles and Gu Yao with a blizzard, and Charles countered by expanding his Domain, Oath Knight's Ring.

Gu Yao and Charles attacked Gu Yu, hoping to defeat her or hold out until the Curial Deacons arrived, but Gu Yu overwhelmed them with her snowstorm domain and summons. She trapped both in combat while freezing their souls, leaving them unable to stop her from disqualifying them from the Saintess Selection.

• Charles and Gu Yao decided to use self-defense as an excuse to eliminate Gu Yu before the Curial Deacons arrived.
• Gu Yu unleashed a Snowstorm and snowman soldiers, forcing Charles to defend himself while Gu Yao struggled against the summons.
• Gu Yao activated Ice Waltz and charged at Gu Yu as Charles poured his armor’s power into his sword and shattered the Snow Dragon.
• Gu Yu formed an ice sword and overpowered Charles, while snowman soldiers blocked Gu Yao and regenerated their heads after she cut them off.
• Charles and Gu Yao realized Gu Yu was freezing their souls to keep them from participating in the Saintess Selection, and Gu Yu taunted them for being unable to stop her.

Gu Yu defeated Gu Yao and Charles with her snowstorm domain, leaving them unconscious while Chen Xi and the others prevented the Curial Deacon from intervening. After the damage was settled, Gu Yu tied up the two, and Lin Yue suggested they head to Black Moon Western Kingdom to obtain the Legend abilities Chen Xi needed.

• Charles regretted joining Gu Yao's plan but fought on, hoping the Curial Deacon would arrive.
• Gu Yu unleashed a massive snowstorm that overwhelmed Charles and buried Gu Yao, then fled the center of the battlefield.
• Chen Xi told Gu Yu not to kill the unconscious Gu Yao and Charles, and Gu Yu dispelled her domain.
• The Curial Deacon arrived, but Lin Yue let Gu Yu handle the family dispute, and Gu Yu paid for relocation costs with Gu Yao's bank card.
• Gu Yu tied Gu Yao and Charles together, while Lin Yue suggested traveling to Black Moon Western Kingdom to replenish Chen Xi's needed Legend abilities.

Gu Yu and her companions kept Gu Yao and Charles captive, then pretended to be Blood Moon Empire remnants to test their reactions. Gu Yao began to grasp the danger, while Charles secretly planned to report them, and the group’s interrogation continued.

• Gu Yu tightened the ropes on Gu Yao and Charles and brought the group away from the curious crowd, while Zhu Li clung to her and called her “Mommy.”
• After a meal, Gu Yao and Charles began waking, still badly injured from having their souls frozen and unlikely to compete in the Saintess Selection.
• Gu Yu confronted Gu Yao, and Chen Xi and Lin Yue pretended they planned to seek refuge with the Blood Moon Empire remnants and hand over Gu Yao and Charles as gifts.
• Gu Yao realized the supposed Blood Moon connection might explain the unrest in the Black Moon Empire, while Charles begged Gu Yu to turn back and promised not to expose her.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue read Charles’s thoughts and discovered he intended to report them; Lin Yue sealed his mouth with shadow tape.

Gu Yu and her companions frightened Gu Yao and Charles by pretending they might sell them to the Blood Moon Empire, then revealed it was a joke. Gu Yu told Gu Yao to stay at the inn until the Saintess Selection, which arrived after five days of sightseeing.

• Gu Yao panicked at the threat of being sold, and Gu Yu confronted her over how she had treated her as a child.
• Gu Yu assured Gu Yao she would not send her to the Blood Moon Empire, while Chen Xi teased both captives about silencing them.
• Charles realized the group had only been messing with them, and Lin Yue told Chen Xi to stop before Gu Yao lost control.
• Gu Yao learned that Gu Yu had reached the peak of the fourth rank and could suppress the consequences of their fight in the royal city.
• Gu Yu told Gu Yao to stay at the inn and promised to send her home after the Saintess Selection.
• After five days spent sightseeing with Zhu Li, the Saintess Selection arrived.

On the morning of the Saintess Selection, Chen Xi refused to use her domain to speed up Zhu Li’s recovery, and the group headed to Bright Holy Rite Square for the opening ceremony. They arrived just as the ceremony was about to begin, with Chen Xi concealing Zhu Li from everyone except Gu Yu and Lin Yue.

• Chen Xi told Gu Yu that using her domain on Zhu Li would reverse her toward infancy and waste the effects of the Ten Thousand Year Ice Spring.
• Chen Xi promised Gu Yu they would travel after Zhu Li recovered, but Gu Yu pointed out that the final battle with the Lamenter would come first.
• Gu Yu said Gu Yao was doing better, and Chen Xi and the others decided to attend the selection’s opening ceremony rather than stay at the hotel.
• Chen Xi teleported the group to the contestants’ passageway at Bright Holy Rite Square and used Phantom Shadow to conceal Zhu Li from everyone except Gu Yu and Lin Yue.
• Lin Yue asked whether Ademos had teleported back, and Chen Xi said he would likely return for the ceremony.
• The group reached the passageway’s end and saw the crowded square and holy platform as the ceremonial music began.

Gu Yu, Chen Xi, and their companions drew attention at Holy Rite Plaza as the Saintess Selection began, while Brez resented Gu Yu’s rise. Chen Xi accepted Ademos’s invitation to appear as Marsha, whose arrival drew the crowd’s cheers and left the selection underway.

• Brez complained about the attention on Gu Yu and her companions, and Sophia reminded him to mind his manners.
• Chen Xi and Gu Yu attracted attention because they were Marsha’s disciples and had helped defeat Agatha, the Pale Witch.
• Ademos invited Chen Xi to appear as Marsha at the judges’ table, and she accepted.
• Chen Xi appeared as Marsha in a black gown, and the crowd greeted her with loud cheers.
• Chen Xi had Andres respond with a nod, keeping Marsha at a distance from the crowd, and the Saintess Selection began.

As Ademos concluded the Saintess Selection opening ceremony, he teleported the contestants to the Andalusia Mountains for the first trial. Chen Xi and her companions arrived at the trial site, where they faced a choice between winding caves with weaker creatures and exposed mountain paths with stronger ones.

• Chen Xi and her companions secretly teased Zhu Li while waiting through Ademos's ceremonial address, and Gu Yu realized Chen Xi had not concealed her petting motions with Phantom Shadow.
• Ademos ended the ceremony, and Chen Xi, controlling Andres, briefly said farewell to the Black Moon higher-ups before appearing to leave the Royal City.
• Ademos activated the plaza's magic circle and teleported the contestants to the Andalusia Mountains.
• The chapter explained that the mountains had been hollowed out and adapted over centuries into a fixed site for the selection's first trial.
• The contestants could choose between confusing underground caves with weaker legendary creatures and clear surface routes with stronger ones, but Chen Xi and her companions were not choosing like ordinary contestants.

After Ademos left the candidates with Silent Jack to explain the first trial, Chen Xi, Gu Yu, and Lin Yue discussed acting as additional examiners. Chen Xi also learned that Shen Mo had turned down Gu Yao’s offer to join her team, while Gu Yu claimed Chen Xi and Lin Yue were already her Contract Knights.

• Ademos gave the candidates instructions and blessings, then vanished and returned to the Eastern Continent Joint Headquarters Base.
• Silent Jack greeted the candidates and began explaining the trial rules after they recognized him as a ruthless bounty hunter.
• Chen Xi, Gu Yu, and Lin Yue considered whether to serve as additional examiners and eliminate candidates with bad intentions.
• Chen Xi asked why Shen Mo was absent, and Gu Yu explained that their three-person team was already full and that Shen Mo had rejected Gu Yao’s invitation.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue denied remembering that Gu Yu had already made them her Contract Knights.

Gu Yu explained the Contract Knight titles, and she, Chen Xi, and Lin Yue agreed to serve as temporary examiners for the first half of the selection. Chen Xi then learned of an Abyss-Devouring Whale whose ability to store attacks might help in the battle against the Lamenter, and she watched footage of its power.

• Gu Yu explained that Chen Xi, Lin Yue, and Zhu Li had become her Contract Knights, and Lin Yue suggested the titles Dawn and Chill Moon.
• Chen Xi, Gu Yu, and Lin Yue agreed to act as temporary examiners for the first three days of the seven-day selection.
• Chen Xi read Ademos's message about an upper Fourth Rank Abyss-Devouring Whale near the royal city and considered stealing its attack-storing ability.
• Chen Xi showed Gu Yu and Lin Yue footage of the whale unleashing its stored attacks, shaking the seabed and sending columns of water skyward.

Chen Xi's team became temporary examiners for the Saintess Selection and spent two days monitoring the candidates. Their boredom ended when Lin Yue spotted a bloodied girl glaring at her teammates on a surveillance screen.

• Chen Xi praised the Abyss-Devouring Whale's ability, and the group chose it for her final battle lineup.
• Sophia declined to observe Chen Xi's team and teleported away with her companions to continue their special training.
• Jack confirmed that Chen Xi, Lin Yue, and Gu Yu would assist as temporary examiners, then informed the other examiners by smartphone.
• Chen Xi's team went to the monitoring room and watched the selection, where most candidates fought weak creatures and no suspicious spies appeared.
• Lin Yue spotted a bloodied girl with bulging veins and centipede-like scars staring at her two teammates on a monitor.

Chen Xi contained a candidate who mutated under the influence of Scarlet Blood Aura and warned the examiners that Mortis might still pose a threat. With Phyllis too far away to help in time, Chen Xi decided to mobilize Transcendents with teleportation abilities to transport the dangerous finger.

• A blood-soaked candidate suddenly mutated and attacked her teammates, prompting Chen Xi and Lin Yue to recognize the Scarlet Blood Aura.
• Chen Xi expanded Andres's Illusion of Self across the Andalusia Mountains, reassured the candidates, and used the power of death's origin to reduce the mutated girl's body to a single index finger.
• Chen Xi confirmed that no other candidates carried Scarlet Blood Aura, informed the examiners and Ademos, and said the incident had been handled.
• Chen Xi contacted Phyllis to deal with the aura, but Phyllis replied that it would take her about a month and a half to reach Black Moon Royal City.
• Chen Xi decided to mobilize Transcendents with teleportation abilities, and Lin Yue agreed to help carry out the plan.

Chen Xi and Lin Yue began a relay teleportation journey toward Mortis, using a plan organized by Connors and teleportation Transcendents stationed along the route. They left the Andalusia Mountains behind and continued through successive transfers.

• Chen Xi sent an urgent message under Marsha's identity, asking dukes to arrange teleportation Transcendents along the route.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue found Zhu Li playing with flames and burning holes in the floor, so Lin Yue restrained her and Gu Yu put out the fire.
• Connors organized a relay plan that used Lin Yue's teleportation ability and stationed Transcendents to move Chen Xi and Lin Yue toward Mortis.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue set off without Gu Yu or Zhu Li and teleported to a forest ten thousand kilometers away.
• A Transcendent used his Camera Space ability to transfer Chen Xi and Lin Yue to another location, where a relay Transcendent immediately teleported them onward.

Chen Xi, Lin Yue, and Phyllis investigated whether the scarlet blood aura had spread beyond Fide City. A ritual using the infected person's severed finger showed that no host remained to attract the aura, leaving Chen Xi to conclude the danger was contained.

• Chen Xi and Lin Yue arrived at Phyllis's cabin and Chen Xi revealed that she was Marsha, the identity she had created as a disguise.
• Chen Xi and Lin Yue explained the scarlet blood aura incident to Phyllis as they teleported back to the Andalusia Mountains.
• Chen Xi had Andres bring out the infected person's severed index finger, and Phyllis performed the Homecoming Ritual with it.
• The finger crumbled to ash, and Chen Xi watched the scarlet blood aura contract and remain still, confirming that no host capable of attracting it remained.

Chen Xi, Lin Yue, and Phyllis watched the Scarlet Blood Aura and confirmed it had not moved or transformed again. Chen Xi alerted Black Moon’s leadership and the Cardinal Directorate to watch for further infections, then the group was interrupted by Gu Yu arriving with Zhu Li.

• Chen Xi confirmed that the Scarlet Blood Aura had stayed still, and Lin Yue suggested they keep watching it.
• Chen Xi told Ademos the inspection was complete and learned that a Tier 6 upper-level Legend had appeared near Joint Headquarters.
• Chen Xi, Lin Yue, and Phyllis stayed on guard while discussing the infection’s remaining threat and its lack of a host body.
• Chen Xi instructed Black Moon’s upper echelon and the Cardinal Directorate to watch for Scarlet Blood Aura and similar infection symptoms.
• Chen Xi joked to Phyllis that she and Lin Yue were over fifteen hundred years old, and Lin Yue silently went along with it.
• Gu Yu arrived with Zhu Li still hooked through her arm and asked whether everything was done.

Chen Xi explained her Marsha identity to Phyllis, then set out with Lin Yue, Gu Yu, and Zhu Li to catch whales in the Slumber Sea. She teleported them near their target, but the group still had to locate the whales.

• Chen Xi told Phyllis that she had assumed Marsha's identity to gain purer faith and had stayed out of public view while investigating the Crow Brigade.
• Phyllis said she needed to research the undead in the Withered Bone Wasteland, summoned a bone dragon, and flew away.
• Chen Xi confirmed the Scarlet Blood Aura had stopped moving, then invited Gu Yu to go whale-catching; Gu Yu agreed.
• Chen Xi teleported the group to the Slumber Sea using footage to estimate the location, but admitted they might be several kilometers from the destination.

Chen Xi, Lin Yue, and Gu Yu set out to dive in the sea so Gu Yu could fulfill a childhood dream, while Zhu Li refused to enter the water. The group left off underwater with Chen Xi staying behind to watch Zhu Li and Lin Yue arriving to find them still hesitating.

• Chen Xi called the group the undersea squad and persuaded Gu Yu to try diving after learning she had once nearly drowned in a lake.
• Lin Yue and Chen Xi plunged into the water, while Gu Yu stayed above the sea with Zhu Li, who refused to go down.
• Chen Xi agreed to watch Zhu Li so Gu Yu could join the dive, and Gu Yu promised to bring Chen Xi's eyes with her.
• Lin Yue turned shadows into a slide and sped over to them, then gave Chen Xi and Gu Yu a look of disbelief as they explained Zhu Li's refusal.

Chen Xi, Lin Yue, and Gu Yu disguised themselves as sea creatures and searched the Sea of Slumber for the Abyss-Devouring Whale. After reviewing Chen Xi’s teleportation footage, they realized they had reached its location, and a colossal vermilion eye opened in front of them.

• Lin Yue left a shadow teddy bear with Zhu Li to keep her company while the others dove into the sea.
• Chen Xi concealed their auras with Phantom Shadow and transformed the group into fish and a jellyfish.
• After Lin Yue and Gu Yu complained about their appearances, Chen Xi changed them into Moonlight Fish and a fluorescent jellyfish.
• The three searched for nearly half a day without finding the Abyss-Devouring Whale, so Chen Xi replayed the video of their teleportation site.
• Lin Yue recognized the seafloor in the footage, and Chen Xi realized they had already arrived at the whale’s location.
• A huge vermilion eye opened before the three of them.

Chen Xi and her companions confronted the Abyss-Devouring Whale after it unexpectedly reached Mid-Rank 5, and Chen Xi tested its strength before killing it. The whale’s death left behind an azure pearl on the seabed.

• The Abyss-Devouring Whale revealed its enormous body, and Gu Yu warned that it had become Mid-Rank 5.
• Lin Yue concluded the whale could not form a Contract, so Chen Xi decided to kill it and learn what she could from its remains.
• Chen Xi let the whale unleash its gravity-warping attacks and sonic shockwave before cutting through them with Sovereign's Wrath.
• Chen Xi crippled the whale with Water and Sky as One, then used Andres and the Death Origin to kill it.
• An azure pearl appeared where the whale had died, delighting Chen Xi.

Chen Xi seized the Abyss-Devouring Whale’s optimized Devour the Abyss ability and prepared to test it underwater. Before she could finish, Gu Yu encountered a crying miniature whale and trapped it in ice.

• Chen Xi offered the Abyss-Devouring Whale Legend Husk to Gu Yu and Lin Yue, but neither could harness it, so Chen Xi seized Devour the Abyss.
• Chen Xi learned the ability could absorb attacks and store them for later, then tested it by storing Sovereign's Wrath’s water-current slashes.
• The group remained underwater while Chen Xi filled the ability’s storage limit, but a lower Third Rank magical presence appeared nearby.
• Gu Yu rushed to confront the newcomer, only to find a tiny pale-blue whale that cried and tried to flee.
• Gu Yu froze the water around the little whale, trapped it, and considered whether she could harness it.

Chen Xi and Lin Yue recognized the trapped Abyss-Devouring Whale as their old friend, Lost Whale, and stopped Gu Yu from killing it. Lost Whale explained that it had survived the destruction of the Spark Federation by teleporting between bodies of water.

• Gu Yu prepared to kill the small whale in the ice prison until Chen Xi and Lin Yue arrived and recognized it as Lost Whale from Tianhai City's Aquarium.
• Lost Whale pretended to pass out when it noticed Gu Yu, but Chen Xi assured it that they would not kill it.
• Chen Xi persuaded Gu Yu to stop hunting Lost Whale and asked how it had survived the destruction of the Spark Federation.
• Lost Whale explained that it had left the Western Kingdom Federation to explore and could teleport to the nearest qualifying body of water.
• Lin Yue asked whether Lost Whale had escaped before Lamenter targeted it, and Lost Whale said that was more or less what had happened.

Chen Xi reconnected with the Lost Whale, then tested the limit of her stored power by unleashing a slash that split the Slumber Sea and tore through the sky. The attack drew a nearby Curial Deacon, who arrived as Lin Yue and Gu Yu watched.

• The Lost Whale refused Chen Xi's offer of an equal Contract, explained that it required her to cross one thousand and eight seas, and offered to help locate fish before leaving.
• Gu Yu mourned losing the chance to tame an Abyss-Devouring Whale, while Lin Yue revealed that she had reached the peak of Fifth Rank by hunting wild legends with her shadow.
• Chen Xi measured Abyss Swallow's stored power at five times her maximum magic storage and prepared to test it in the Eastern Sea of Slumber.
• Chen Xi unleashed her Rain Slash, splitting the sea surface for ten thousand miles and scattering the clouds above the Slumber Sea.
• Lin Yue sensed a Fourth Rank figure approaching, and a Curial Deacon emerged from the seawater before Chen Xi, Lin Yue, and Gu Yu.

After Chen Xi’s powerful attack drew Ilyas to the Slumber Sea, the group returned to Black Moon Royal City and discussed the Saintess Selection’s next rounds. Lin Yue told Chen Xi about a networking banquet planned for the following day.

• Ilyas arrived to investigate the disturbance, and Lin Yue explained that Marsha had been testing a new move.
• Chen Xi said her fully charged attack could barely match a lower sixth-tier strike as Lin Yue took the group back to the surface.
• Chen Xi snatched Zhu Li’s shadow bear, making Zhu Li cry, and Lin Yue later made her a replacement.
• Lin Yue shared the successful candidates list, and Chen Xi decided to let Gu Yu compete while she and Lin Yue stayed out of the arena.
• Lin Yue told Chen Xi about the banquet celebrating the first stage of the Saintess Selection and explained that it was a chance for candidates to meet future officials.

Chen Xi prepared a new look for the second banquet and arrived at the Black Moon Palace, where her strength and beauty drew attention. Sophia, pressured by her family to settle for becoming Gu Yu’s assistant, declared that she would win before fleeing in embarrassment.

• Chen Xi agreed to face Lin Yue again, and the two avoided contacting each other so they could not steal each other’s techniques.
• Chen Xi dressed Gu Yu up to admire her black evening gown and makeup, then warned Gu Yu not to reveal anything about her look.
• Chen Xi teleported to the Black Moon Palace and drew admiring looks from guests and anxious reactions from the Saintess Selection candidates.
• Sophia confronted Chen Xi and insisted that she would win, then regretted speaking so boldly and hurried away.
• Chen Xi watched Sophia leave from a dark corner while eating watermelon and wondered what had happened.