Recaps

After Chen Lie’s confrontation with Blue Star Administrator Candidate Huo Jinghong, the Martial Artist Association stripped him of his Three-Province Martial Champion title but compensated him with ten Resource Gold Booklets. Chen Lie remained unconcerned and accepted a ride home from Song Yixuan.

• Luo Zhixun, Tang Jiu'er, Ji Lingxuan, and Shen Miaowei reassured Chen Lie after his clash with Huo Jinghong, while Shen Miaowei privately told Feng Shuangshuang that Chen Lie must have a reason for his confidence.
• The East River and Yunchuan Special Enrollment Students returned from military training, and Jiang Xiaodong learned that three students had died after a Tier 7 Exotic Beast attacked the training zone.
• Ji Lingxuan offered to help Chen Lie if he encountered trouble at Blue Star University, and Chen Lie said he had not been bothered by what happened.
• Xu Tianchuan told Chen Lie that headquarters had stripped him of his Three-Province Martial Champion title and ordered a formal reprimand; Chen Lie accepted the decision and the ten Resource Gold Booklets Xu offered as compensation.
• Feng Shuangshuang worried that she had caused Chen Lie’s trouble, and Lu Qingchan admitted that Chen Lie had liked her and that she believed she had contributed to his recklessness.
• Chen Lie reassured Feng Shuangshuang that he had been rewarded, then accepted a ride home from Song Yixuan and her uncle.

Chen Lie returned home after military training and learned that a fifteen-year-old Mental Power genius from East River Province had made the Canglan Star Domain Top 100, prompting Wood Source Planet to seek the genius's identity. The next day, Chen Lie visited his injured cousin Chen Ye with his family and relatives, where Chang Guirong blamed Chen Gequn for what had happened.

• Song Yixuan learned from her uncle that Wood Source Planet had cut off the organization's resources and wanted it to investigate or kill a protected fifteen-year-old Mental Power genius from East River Province.
• Chen Lie watched news announcing the Martial Arts Department entrance exam date, then learned from Chen Gequn that Chen Ye had suffered broken arms and legs and would miss the exams.
• Chen Lie cultivated the Star God Cultivation Method and assessed his progress, noting that his Blood Qi Value was around 1,600 cards and that he was ready to begin Visceral Diamond training.
• Chen Lie and his parents joined their relatives at East River Province First Martial Arts Hospital to visit Chen Ye, who barely responded to them while watching television.
• Chang Guirong told the visiting relatives that Chen Ye could not take the entrance exams and accused Chen Gequn of failing to help him earlier.

Chen Lie's family learned that the Martial Artist Association had revoked his Three-Province Martial Champion title and publicly reprimanded him, though Chen Lie privately continued cultivating and prepared to enter Blue Star University. Xu Tianchuan revealed that Chen Lie's Northwest General Star achievement would soon be publicized, but the reprimand would delay his registration by a few days.

• Chang Guirong and Chen Ye gloated over the news that Chen Lie had lost his Three-Province Martial Champion title, while Chen Ying challenged their attitude.
• Chen Lie reassured his parents and Chen Ying that the reprimand was not serious, then left the hospital with his family.
• Chen Lie practiced the Flood Dragon Rebirth Technique, reached the Organ Refining Stage, and learned that the Genius Group would leave for Blue Star University in three days.
• Xu Tianchuan confirmed that Chen Lie had captured a Northwest General Star and said the Blue Star Times would report his achievement, but the Association's order would delay his registration.
• Luo Zhixun told Chen Lie that her father would try to arrange his early registration and introduce him to helpful seniors at Blue Star University.

After winning a Northwest General Star, Chen Lie learned he would have to start in Blue Star University's Ordinary Class because the Martial Artist Association had stripped him of his champion status. He traveled to Xiangguang Province to join its Genius Training Camp and report to the university with its students.

• Luo Zhixun explained Blue Star University's class system and offered to connect Chen Lie with a Ninth-Order Grandmaster if the Martial Artist Association obstructed him again.
• The Blue Star Times named Chen Lie among seven Special Enrollment Students awarded a Northwest General Star, prompting local media to reverse their criticism and praise him.
• Chen Lie reassured Feng Yuelan about the award and told Ruan Liusu he would report to Blue Star University in about a week.
• Xu Tianchuan took Chen Lie to Xiangguang Province and introduced him to Yao Lu, who arranged for Chen Lie to join the province's Genius Training Camp.
• Yao Lu brought Chen Lie to the training ground, where Chen Lie joined the Xiangguang Genius Training Camp formation.

Chen Lie joined the students from the Xiangguang Province Genius Training Camp who were heading to Blue Star University, where he met Huang Yuande and was asked to submit his enrollment details. After Chen Lie claimed a Blood Qi Value of 3,000 cards and a fivefold Strength Value, a Star Boat arrived to take the group to the university.

• Chen Lie joined the back of the line and told Huang Yuande that an elder had arranged his place among the students heading to Blue Star University.
• The instructor appointed Chi Naixue to lead the 319 students and asked her to collect Chen Lie's Special Enrollment Letter and form.
• Huang Yuande treated Chen Lie to a meal and explained the advantages available to students from top-ranked provinces.
• Chen Lie wrote that he had reached the Blood-Qi Extreme Realm with a Blood Qi Value of 3,000 cards and a fivefold Strength Value, and Chi Naixue warned him to ensure the information was accurate.
• Huang Yuande explained that Chi Naixue had failed to enter the Xiangguang Province Genius Group, and the two later returned to the Drill Ground.
• A miniature Star Boat descended onto the Drill Ground shortly after noon.

Blue Star University’s admissions staff arrived to take the Xiangguang Province Special Enrollment Students to Lanjing, while Chi Naixue learned that Chen Lie’s reported strength was under suspicion and Tang Guanlin had joined the group after being expelled from Sudong Province’s Genius Group. The students boarded the Star Boat and began their trip to Blue Star University, where Tang’s background drew questions.

• Zhao Lei arrived by Star Boat, reviewed the Xiangguang Province students’ arrangements, and named Chi Naixue their representative.
• Li Hong and Chi Naixue questioned whether Chen Lie had falsified his martial arts information after learning his reported Blood Qi and Strength Values.
• Tang Guanlin joined the group after a representative from Sudong Province explained that he had been expelled from its Genius Group for killing another competitor during a martial arts contest.
• Li Hong gave Chi Naixue an Instructor Badge and asked her to compare Chen Lie’s and Tang Guanlin’s cooperation before deciding who would receive it.
• The Special Enrollment Students boarded the Star Boat, and Chi Naixue told Huang Yuande that Tang Guanlin had missed Sudong Province’s first trip to Blue Star University.

The Xiangguang Province Special Enrollment Students arrived at Blue Star University, where Chi Naixue was appointed their representative and assigned temporary dorm rooms. When Chi chose to move Chen Lie to another building because they were short two rooms, Huang Yuande challenged her decision, leaving the dispute unresolved.

• Tang Guanlin impressed Chi Naixue with his Blood Qi refinement experience, while Huang Yuande and another student complained that he was showing off and flirting with her.
• Chen Lie tolerated Huang Yuande and the other student's remarks about his background as the Star Boat carried the students to Lanjing.
• Chi Naixue organized the Xiangguang students as they disembarked, and Zhao Lei led them to the Blue Star University Admissions Office.
• Instructor Wang Chuanfeng explained that there were only 319 temporary rooms for the 321 Xiangguang students, and Chi decided to move Chen Lie to another building.
• Huang Yuande objected that Chen Lie was being singled out despite Tang Guanlin arriving later, and Chi rebuked him for questioning her authority.
• Huang Yuande pressed Chi to give a reason for moving Chen Lie, and she had not yet responded.

Chen Lie arrived at Blue Star University, where Huang Yuande defended him during a dispute over dorm assignments, and the two became roommates. Chen Lie revealed that he had reached the Organ Refining Stage, leaving Huang Yuande doubtful about how someone from East River Province could be so strong.

• Huang Yuande offered to share a room with Chen Lie after Gao Yaqing challenged him to settle the dorm dispute on the Duel Platform.
• Chi Naixue assigned Chen Lie and Huang Yuande to share a room, and admissions staff placed the Xiangguang Province students in Building 12.
• Huang Yuande introduced Chen Huafeng to Chen Lie, and Chen Lie said he was stronger than Chen Huafeng, prompting disbelief about his background in East River Province.
• Luo Zhixun messaged Chen Lie to say the East River Province Genius Group wanted to visit him, but Chen Lie asked them to wait until he had settled in.
• Huang Yuande explained that he hoped to find a talented girlfriend from a remote province within three months, before she could catch up to his strength.
• Chen Lie began cultivating in the dorm, then told Huang Yuande that he was at the Organ Refining Stage, which Huang Yuande found difficult to believe.

Chen Lie and the other Xiangguang Province special enrollees underwent Blue Star University’s martial arts bone quality test to help determine their class assignments. Chen Lie received a Medium Bone Quality result, which he attributed to the changes from reaching the Blood-Qi Extreme Realm and cultivating Dragon Tendon Flood Dragon Bone.

• Chen Lie spent the night cultivating while Huang Yuande slept, then joined him and the other special enrollees outside Dormitory Building No. 12.
• Chi Naixue led the Xiangguang Province group to the Student Comprehensive Testing Center, where Wang Chuanfeng and Liu Zhongwei explained that bone quality results would help determine class placement.
• The tester recorded Top-Grade Bone Quality for Chi Naixue and Gao Yaqing, Superior Bone Quality for Huang Yuande, and Perfect Bone Quality for Tang Guanlin.
• Chen Lie entered the Bone Quality Tester and received a Medium Bone Quality result.
• Chen Lie recognized that his result reflected his transformation after reaching the Blood-Qi Extreme Realm and cultivating Dragon Tendon Flood Dragon Bone.

Chen Lie tested as having medium bone quality at Blue Star University, drawing skepticism from other students and concern from Chi Naixue about his claims of strength. When instructors investigated his record, they discovered his major martial arts achievements and learned he had become one of the Seven Northwest General Stars.

• Chen Lie tested at medium bone quality, and students from Xiangguang Province mocked his origins and questioned why Blue Star University had enrolled him.
• Chi Naixue warned Chen Lie that instructors might investigate his claimed Blood-Qi Extreme Realm strength and offered to retrieve his enrollment documents, but he refused to change his information.
• Wang Chuanfeng delivered the Xiangguang Province students' records to the Academic Affairs Office for class assignments.
• Director Zhou and the instructors flagged Chen Lie's reported strength as inconsistent with his medium bone quality and searched Blue Star University's records.
• The instructors discovered Chen Lie had been East River Province Martial Leader, Three-Province Martial Champion, and one of the Seven Northwest General Stars, and Director Zhou speculated he had been disciplined during military training.

Blue Star University’s Academic Affairs Office assigned Chen Lie to a Key Class after Director Zhou secretly changed his Bone Quality record to Perfect. Chen Lie joined the Xiangguang Province students heading to Key Class 15, where Instructor Pang Xiuming began selecting students.

• Director Zhou concluded that Chen Lie had experienced Enlightenment and ordered him assigned to a Key Class, then changed his Bone Quality file from Medium to Perfect so the instructor would take him seriously.
• Chen Lie, Huang Yuande, and Chen Huafeng ate together, and Huang Yuande worried about whether he would enter a Key Class.
• The Academic Affairs Office announced that 242 of Xiangguang Province’s 320 Special Enrollment Students had entered Key Classes, and Huang Yuande found his name on the Key Class list.
• Huang Yuande and other students were surprised to see Chen Lie at the top of the Key Class list, and some assumed he had powerful connections.
• An Academic Affairs Office instructor led the Key Class students to meet Instructor Pang Xiuming, who asked how many students from Xiangguang Province had Perfect Bone Quality.

Chen Lie was selected for Blue Star University's 15th Key Class after the Academic Affairs Office claimed his Medium Bone Quality was Perfect, leaving the other students convinced he had powerful connections. Pang Xiuming welcomed the class, chose Huang Yuande at Chen Lie's suggestion, and arranged a contest to select the class monitor.

• An Academic Affairs Office instructor told Pang Xiuming that Chen Lie had Perfect Bone Quality and exceptional potential, prompting the students to suspect his test results had been altered through connections.
• Pang Xiuming selected Chen Lie and Tang Guanlin for the 15th Key Class, then chose Huang Yuande after Chen Lie recommended him.
• Pang Xiuming led the fifty selected students to their Teaching Building dormitory and announced that classes would begin the next morning, with rewards available to Special Enrollment Students.
• Chi Naixue agreed to compete for class monitor, and Pang Xiuming arranged a friendly spar between her, Mu Ningshu, and Liu Hengyu.
• Chen Huafeng questioned Chen Lie about his supposed connections, while Chi Naixue and Tang Guanlin also speculated about his influence.

The new Special Enrollment Students learned about Blue Star University’s facilities and collected random enrollment rewards, including Chen Lie’s Five Elements Organ Refining Method. Tang Guanlin tried to trade for it, and Chi Naixue urged Chen Lie to name a reasonable price, leaving him to decide whether to accept.

• A reception officer explained that the fifty students belonged to the 15th Key Class, described their accommodations and monthly Credits, and introduced the campus facilities and Sumeru Illusion Realm.
• Chi Naixue organized the students into two lines to collect their random enrollment rewards, and Tang Guanlin drew a rare first-tier Organ Refining treasure while Chi Naixue drew the Prajna Palm technique.
• Chi Naixue gave Tang Guanlin an Instructor Badge that allowed him to attend Blue Star University martial arts classes during his first six months.
• Chen Lie drew the Five Elements Organ Refining Method, which Huang Yuande, Chen Huafeng, and the reception officer identified as a valuable Outer Star technique worth 1,500 Credits.
• Tang Guanlin offered martial arts techniques for Chen Lie’s method, but Chen Lie refused them and asked for something useful.
• Chi Naixue urged Chen Lie to trade the method to Tang Guanlin for a reasonable price, while Huang Yuande objected to pressuring Chen Lie to give up its value.

Chen Lie traded his Five Elements Organ Refining Method for resources, settled into his dormitory, and began classes at Blue Star University. The first lesson in the 15th Key Class opened with instructor Pang Xiuming asking students to identify the grave situation facing Blue Star.

• Chen Lie traded the Five Elements Organ Refining Method to Tang Guanlin for an Organ Refining treasure and two Resource Gold Booklets, bringing his total to seventeen booklets.
• Chen Lie chose a room on the fifteenth floor, exchanged messages with Ruan Liusu and Luo Zhixun, and cultivated the Star God Cultivation Method.
• Chen Lie, Huang Yuande, and Chen Huafeng attended the first class of the 15th Key Class, where Pang Xiuming named Chi Naixue, Liu Hengyu, and Mu Ningshu as candidates for class monitor.
• Pang Xiuming began a lesson about the grave situation facing Blue Star, and a student answered that it was the Exotic Beasts in the Northwest.

Pang Xiuming explained Blue Star’s worsening beast plague and its rivalry with Wood Source Planet for a seat in the Fourteen-Star Alliance, then began teaching the class about the Blood-Qi Extreme Realm. He ended by asking how many students had reached it.

• Pang Xiuming described the Exotic Beasts pouring from the Kunlun Ruins and explained that only a Tenth-Order Heaven-Human Grandmaster might reach the Earth Cave’s depths and end the threat at its source.
• Pang Xiuming recounted how the Canglan Star Domain formed the Fourteen-Star Alliance and how Blue Star and Wood Source Planet competed for the eastern region’s Permanent Councilor Star seat.
• Pang Xiuming explained that joining the alliance could bring Blue Star more resources, aid against the beast plague, and twice as many places at Starry Sky University.
• Huang Yuande and Chen Lie discussed the scale of the Canglan Star Domain and the Central Galactic Empire before Pang Xiuming urged the students to train and help Blue Star win the seat.
• Pang Xiuming taught that reaching the Blood-Qi Extreme Realm greatly increased a martial artist’s strength, then asked the 150 students to raise their hands if they had reached it.

Chen Lie attended Pang Xiuming’s lesson on the blood-qi extreme realm and learned about the great extreme realm, while his classmates headed to watch a contest for class monitor. At lunch, Luo Zhixun and Tang Jiu’er joined Chen Lie and Huang Yuande, leaving Huang Yuande surprised that Chen Lie knew them.

• Pang Xiuming explained that Blue Star’s blood-qi extreme realm had become more common and that the Outer Stars divided it into the small and great extreme realms, with blood-qi transforming into a rainbow at the latter’s peak.
• Pang Xiuming chose Mu Ningshu, Liu Hengyu, and Chi Naixue to spar for the 15th Key Class monitor position, and most of the students went to watch.
• Chen Lie declined to watch the match and went to the dining hall with Huang Yuande, while Chen Huafeng went to the sparring ground.
• Huang Yuande learned that key class students could not buy Star Dollar Liquid, and Chen Lie suggested waiting until they reached the Genius Class.
• Luo Zhixun and Tang Jiu’er sat down with Chen Lie and Huang Yuande, and Huang Yuande asked how Chen Lie knew them.

Chen Lie reunited with Luo Zhixun and Tang Jiu'er, learned about the upcoming Genius Class assessment, and revealed why he had joined the Xiangguang Province training camp. At the Sumeru Illusion Realm Palace, Mu Ningshu questioned Chen Lie’s extraordinary potential rating before Pang Xiuming introduced the class to the realm and its risks.

• Luo Zhixun and Tang Jiu'er gave Chen Lie and Huang Yuande Star Dollar Liquid, and Tang Jiu'er revealed that Chen Lie was the East River Province Martial Leader.
• Chen Lie told Huang Yuande that the Blue Star Martial Artist Association Headquarters had removed him from the first group of Genius Group enrollees, prompting him to join the Xiangguang Province group instead.
• Chen Huafeng told Huang Yuande that Mu Ningshu had defeated Liu Hengyu and Chi Naixue, and Mu Ningshu later approached Chen Lie after seeing his unusually high potential score in the class files.
• Gao Yaqing claimed Chen Lie’s Medium Bone Quality had been falsely recorded as Perfect Bone Quality through connections, and Chen Lie confirmed that he really had Medium Bone Quality.
• Pang Xiuming named Mu Ningshu monitor and Liu Hengyu and Chi Naixue vice monitors, then explained that dying in the Sumeru Illusion Realm could damage a student’s Mental Power.

Chen Lie entered the Sumeru Illusion Realm, concealed his identity as “Nameless One,” and challenged an Outer Star genius in a virtual duel. After he defeated Zhou Yunqi with his overwhelming Blood-Qi power, Zhou Yunqi’s companions suspected the Realm had made a mistake and began investigating who Nameless One might be.

• Pang Xiuming explained the Sumeru Illusion Realm’s entry fees and limits, then led the 15th Key Class into the palace while Mu Ningshu asked students about Chen Lie’s reported Perfect Bone Quality.
• Chen Lie entered a Space Chamber, concealed his extraordinary physical and mental abilities, and chose the name “Nameless One.”
• Chen Lie arrived in the eastern Canglan Star Domain, where Yao Tianlin explained the hunt for Illusion Beasts and Crystal Cores.
• Chen Lie entered the Virtual Duel Arena and was matched against Zhou Yunqi of Wood Source Planet, who dismissed him as a weak opponent from Blue Star.
• Chen Lie’s Great Extreme Realm pressure stunned Zhou Yunqi, and Chen Lie defeated him with a Blood-Qi-powered strike.
• Zhou Yunqi’s companions suspected a matching error, but the girl accused Nameless One of deceiving the Realm and ordered Dark Moon to investigate whether he was Huo Jinghong.

Chen Lie began Starry Sky University’s 100-Match Genius Streak challenge to earn an Ancient Star Exploration Team Entry Ticket, hoping to gain access to valuable opportunities. After defeating Qiu Zhaoxing and Zou Mingjun with his Mental Power techniques, he advanced his streak to 12 wins.

• Chen Lie learned that winning 100 consecutive same-realm matches could earn him an Ancient Star Exploration Team Entry Ticket, and he entered the challenge.
• Chen Lie defeated Qiu Zhaoxing, a completed Organ Refining Stage fighter, with Jing Wood Tapir’s Mental Power Impact, bringing his streak to 2 wins.
• Chen Lie accepted an abnormal match against Blood Refining Stage fighter Zou Mingjun, which would add 10 wins to his streak if he prevailed.
• Chen Lie’s repeated Mental Power attacks failed to overcome Zou Mingjun’s strength, so he used Ghost Constellation to trap Zou in an illusion and kill him.
• Zou Mingjun returned to the Sumeru Illusion Realm and told his companions that Nameless One was a powerful Divine Sense Master, while they speculated about Chen Lie’s identity.

Chen Lie advanced his virtual duel streak, learned how Blue Star University students could earn Credits, and completed his Vajra Lung cultivation. After reaching the Organ Refining Stage, he used two Thousand-Year Spirit Medicines to strengthen and purify his Blood-Qi.

• Zou Mingjun reflected on his defeat by the Nameless One and discussed Divine Sense Masters with his companions, while Chen Lie raised his virtual duel streak to 37/100 before staff ended his first session after three hours.
• Chen Lie learned from Huang Yuande that students could earn Credits by hunting Exotic Beasts, then met class monitor Mu Ningshu, who organized the 15th Key Class into a group chat and proposed a group hunting trip.
• Chen Lie practiced the Lingguang Divine Refining Chapter overnight, then rented a training room and used a Martial Dao Rare Treasure to complete his Vajra Lung cultivation and reach the Organ Refining Stage.
• Chen Lie exchanged two Resource Gold Booklets for a Thousand-Year Spirit Blood Red Lotus and a Thousand-Year Blood Grape, then consumed them and absorbed their energy to increase and purify his Blood-Qi.

Chen Lie’s extraordinary strength shocked Gao Yaqing when he defeated her effortlessly on the Duel Platform. After learning that he was the Three-Province Martial Champion whose title had been stripped, Gao Yaqing became an admirer, while Chen Lie and Huang Yuande left for the cafeteria and discussed Tang Guanlin.

• Chen Lie tested his strength and Blood Qi, discovering readings of 23,195.06 jun and 1,834.66.
• Huang Yuande praised Chen Lie’s achievements, but Gao Yaqing challenged their claims and invited Chen Lie to fight her.
• Chen Lie overwhelmed Gao Yaqing with a single strike and Extreme Realm Pressure, then left without telling her his stage.
• Gao Yaqing searched for Chen Lie, learned about his former title as Three-Province Martial Champion, and became impressed by him.
• Chen Lie told Huang Yuande he was in the Organ Refining Stage, and Huang Yuande asked him to help deal with Tang Guanlin.

Chen Lie focused on preparing to refine his liver while his classmates questioned his absences and arranged a group trip into the Sumeru Illusion Realm. At the palace, Pang Xiuming explained the time limits and asked for divine sense masters to step forward, revealing Chi Naixue’s Tier 1 cultivation.

• Huang Yuande treated Chen Lie to an Advanced Rare Treasure Meal, and Chen Lie later spoke with Ruan Liuyun, who invited him to visit Sunan Province and discuss Liusu.
• Chen Lie spent several days nourishing his liver in preparation for developing the Yimu Liver, while Pang Xiuming asked Mu Ningshu why he had missed class.
• Mu Ningshu tagged Chen Lie in the class group chat and told him to explain his absences; Chen Lie replied that he had no time and then dismissed her follow-up.
• Huang Yuande and Chen Huafeng visited Chen Lie and explained the class’s plan to hunt illusion beasts for Crystal Cores in the Sumeru Illusion Realm.
• Chen Lie, Huang Yuande, and Chen Huafeng joined the 15th Key Class at the Sumeru Illusion Realm Palace, where Pang Xiuming explained the stay limits and Chi Naixue identified herself as a Tier 1 initial-stage divine sense master.

The 15th Key Class entered the Sumeru Illusion Realm to learn to hunt Illusion Beasts, and Li Ming explained the dangers and basic rules. As the students formed teams, Gao Yaqing joined Huang Yuande, Chen Huafeng, and Chen Lie, despite Huang Yuande suspecting she had an ulterior motive.

• Instructor Pang praised Chi Naixue's lightning-type Consciousness Spirit and offered to take her for a test that could earn her Spirit Nourishing Flower.
• Chen Lie entered the Sumeru Illusion Realm, registered under his real name, and joined the 15th Key Class at the Blue Star University First Campus meeting point.
• Li Ming warned the class that Illusion Beasts were dangerous and advised them to hunt only small white ones near the rest camp.
• Mu Ningshu split the students into teams of five to search for Illusion Beasts.
• Huang Yuande and Chen Huafeng planned to team up with Chen Lie, but several students refused Huang Yuande's invitations.
• Gao Yaqing offered to join Huang Yuande's team, and he accepted after deciding Chen Lie could handle any scheme she might have.

Chen Lie led his team into the wilderness, where he fought a white Illusion Beast and nearly captured it before it escaped. Two Blue Star University students finished off the wounded beast, but Ruan Liuyun recognized Chen Lie and persuaded Zhao Mengmeng to hand over its crystal core.

• Mu Ningshu sent the thirty teams out to search for Illusion Beasts, and Gao Yaqing joined Chen Lie, Huang Yuande, and Chen Huafeng despite their team being one person short.
• Chen Lie’s team found a large white Illusion Beast, then Huang Yuande spotted a smaller one that Chen Lie chose to fight without calling for help.
• Chen Lie battled the smaller beast and broke one of its claws, but it escaped when Huang Yuande failed to stop it.
• Zhao Mengmeng killed the wounded Illusion Beast and claimed its crystal core, while Ruan Liuyun urged her to return it to Chen Lie’s team.
• Ruan Liuyun recognized Chen Lie and introduced him to Zhao Mengmeng, who gave him the crystal core after Ruan Liuyun promised her the next one they found.

Chen Lie joined the 15th Key Class in fighting a powerful Illusion Beast, which split into two creatures after Chi Naixue’s mental attack. One escaped the students’ encirclement, but a young woman caught it and refused to return it, leaving the class confronting her.

• Ruan Liuyun told Zhao Mengmeng that Chen Lie was her younger female cousin’s boyfriend and praised his rise from an ordinary family to regional-level genius.
• Gao Yaqing, Huang Yuande, and Chen Huafeng led Chen Lie to coordinates sent by Zhou Mengyuan, where the 15th Key Class was battling an Illusion Beast.
• Mu Ningshu rejected Chen Lie’s offer to help, and Tang Guanlin took the place of exhausted fighters while Chi Naixue prepared a mental attack.
• Chi Naixue’s mental attack stunned the Illusion Beast, and Tang Guanlin struck it until it split into two fish-headed, eel-bodied creatures.
• Liu Hengyu and another student caught one creature, while a young woman caught the other and refused Mu Ningshu and Tang Guanlin’s demands to hand it over.