Recaps

Chen Ming and the Morning Light Squad arrived in Abyss-Border City, where Inspector Lin explained the dangerous but resource-rich Abyss outside its walls. At the provincial assessment gathering, the squad’s unusual mix of ranks drew attention, and SS-Rank Lu Shan approached Qin Zhixue.

• Chen Ming saw the immense, battle-scarred walls of Abyss-Border City and learned from Inspector Lin that the nearby Abyss was both dangerous and rich in resources.
• Aerial defense personnel verified the group’s identities before Inspector Lin brought the Morning Light Squad into the city.
• The Morning Light Squad landed at a wasteland gathering place and drew attention because its SS-Rank member was teamed with B- and C-Rank members.
• Inspector Lin reunited with Inspector Jiang Cheng, who questioned the squad’s unusual rank composition, but Inspector Lin gave no further explanation.
• Lu Shan introduced himself to Qin Zhixue as an SS-Rank Golden Steel Martial Venerable, and Sun Yang introduced himself and Chen Ming before asking Lu Shan what he wanted.

Lu Shan tried to recruit Qin Zhixue into his team, but Chen Ming confronted him for poaching a Morning Light Squad member. Lu Shan used his SS-Rank presence to pressure Chen Ming, only to collapse to his knees after Chen Ming activated Nether Eye’s Spirit Exhaustion.

• Lu Shan invited Qin Zhixue to join his team of three S-Ranks and two SS-Ranks, and insulted her current teammates.
• Chen Ming stepped in and challenged Lu Shan for trying to poach his squad member.
• Lu Shan advanced on Chen Ming and released oppressive metal-element energy, while onlookers expected Chen Ming to be overwhelmed.
• Chen Ming remained unaffected, activated Nether Eye’s Spirit Exhaustion, and caused Lu Shan to drop to his knees.

Lu Shan repeatedly collapsed to his knees before Chen Ming after his mental power was drained, while the crowd watched in confusion. City Lord Xia arrived for the Provincial Selection and praised Qin Zhixue, then turned his attention to the still-kneeling Lu Shan.

• Chen Ming watched as Lu Shan's strength vanished and Lu Shan fell to his knees.
• Lu Shan recovered and tried to stand, but he was forced to his knees again.
• City Lord Xia appeared above the Wasteland, and the high-ranking Class Changers greeted him as Jiangnan Province's Saint Grade City Lord.
• City Lord Xia noted that sixty-one S-rank Class-Changers and two SS-rank Class-Changers had awakened this year.
• City Lord Xia praised Qin Zhixue's Holy Radiance Angel class and her humble attitude.
• City Lord Xia named Lu Shan's Golden Steel Martial Venerable class, and the crowd noticed Lu Shan was still kneeling.

City Lord Xia created a dungeon to help the Class-Changers level up, while Chen Ming revealed that he had forced Lu Shan to kneel. The chapter ended with the competitors learning the dungeon’s rules and discovering that it held a thousand helpless Level 20 exotic beasts.

• City Lord Xia asked Chen Ming to stop tormenting Lu Shan, and Chen Ming obeyed, shocking the gathered Class-Changers.
• Lu Shan recovered, but City Lord Xia warned him that what was too rigid could easily break, leaving Lu Shan to thank him despite his grievance.
• City Lord Xia created a dungeon with rules that divided experience among team members and stopped their gains at Level 10.
• City Lord Xia revealed that the dungeon contained a thousand grievously wounded Level 20 exotic beasts, and teams would compete by how quickly every member reached Level 10.

City Lord Xia announced that the Provincial Selection would take place in the Abyss, where teams could gather resources to awaken skills, and began the dungeon competition. Chen Ming led the Morning Light Squad into the dungeon and found a restrained Level 20 Azure Mammoth.

• City Lord Xia revealed that higher-ranking teams would receive better positions in the Abyss and said the contestants would enter at Level 10 to seek awakening resources.
• City Lord Xia produced Dungeon Rune Stones and started the competition, sending twenty-three teams into dungeons to face Level 20 beasts.
• Lu Shan vowed to take first place and prove himself after his earlier humiliation.
• Inspectors Jiang and Lin discussed Chen Ming's legendary equipment before City Lord Xia asked what made Chen Ming special.
• Chen Ming led Sun Yang and the other Morning Light Squad members into their dungeon, where they encountered a gigantic, immobilized Azure Mammoth.

Chen Ming used armor-piercing attacks and Stacking Attack to overwhelm the Level 20 Azure Mammoth in the dungeon, while observers outside watched the teams face the beast’s pressure. The Morning Light Squad drew attention, though the chapter left their performance unseen by the spectators.

• Sun Yang was knocked down by the Azure Mammoth’s roar and retreated to the edge of the Wasteland.
• Chen Ming attacked the mammoth and dealt only 50 damage with his first strike, but Armor Piercing 100% broke through its defense.
• Chen Ming ignored the mammoth’s pressure and chained attacks with Stacking Attack, raising his damage until the Azure Mammoth was critically wounded.
• The Azure Mammoth tried to attack Chen Ming, but the dungeon’s rules nullified its blows.
• Outside the dungeon, high-level Class Changers watched the teams struggle against the beast’s pressure and praised Lu Shan’s Golden Steel Squad.
• The spectators searched for the Morning Light Squad’s footage, curious about Chen Ming after his earlier actions on the Wasteland’s outskirts.

Chen Ming fought the Level 20 Azure Mammoth alone while the other members of the Morning Light Squad watched, drawing the attention of high-ranking Class Changers. He killed the beast, gained a level, and earned experience for the whole team.

• High-ranking Class Changers watched the dungeon feed and questioned why Chen Ming was attacking the Azure Mammoth alone while his teammates stood back.
• Chen Ming's successive slashes grew stronger as his stacking attack damage rose, and observers realized he had a stacking-type ability.
• Sun Yang watched Chen Ming fight the wounded Level 20 beast and remarked that Chen Ming seemed capable of fighting across a major-tier domain.
• Chen Ming killed the Azure Mammoth with successive true-damage attacks and obtained experience, a beast core, and six Constitution Rune Stones.
• Chen Ming reached Level 9, while Sun Yang also leveled up after the dungeon distributed experience equally among the team.

Chen Ming killed a level 20 Azure Mammoth alone, stunning the observers and prompting City Lord Xia and Inspector Lin to reassess his potential. Eager to reach level 10 and awaken an SSS-rank skill, Chen Ming claimed another Dungeon Rune Stone and re-entered the dungeon with his team.

• Sun Yang celebrated that the Morning Light Squad could take the top four spots in the Grand Exam rankings, while Lin Wei reached level 8 and Qin Zhixue remained at level 8.
• Chen Ming killed the level 20 Azure Mammoth, leaving the other teams and onlookers astonished by his power.
• City Lord Xia said Chen Ming's potential might rival an SSS-Rank Class-Changer, while Inspector Lin thought even that underestimated Chen Ming's abilities, especially his defense.
• Chen Ming emerged from the dungeon, claimed another Dungeon Rune Stone, and entered again with Qin Zhixue and the other two members of his team.
• A guarding Class Changer tried to inspect Chen Ming with spiritual power but could not discern his attributes or spiritual strength.

Chen Ming fought the Level 20 Icebound Snow Spirit, overcoming its attacks that slowed and redirected his strikes before defeating it. After Sun Yang and Qin Zhixue gained levels, Chen Ming prepared to enter the dungeon again, close to reaching Level 10.

• Chen Ming entered the dungeon and found an Icebound Snow Spirit whose control abilities could slow and deflect his attacks.
• Chen Ming landed a strike that applied Armor Piercing, then closed in and dealt heavy damage to the snow spirit.
• The Icebound Snow Spirit unleashed a blizzard at close range, but Chen Ming took only one point of damage and finished it off.
• Sun Yang reached Level 8 and Qin Zhixue reached Level 9 after the second round of dungeon beasts.
• Chen Ming collected another Dungeon Rune Stone and prepared to enter the dungeon again, surprising the guarding Class Changer.

Chen Ming rapidly defeated the level 20 Golden Stinger Poison Bee and led the Morning Light Squad into one final dungeon run before reaching level 10. He killed the Seven-Colored Winged Insect with a serious burst of attacks and leveled up to 10.

• Chen Ming emerged after killing a level 20 Icebound Snow Spirit, astounding the watching Class Changers with the speed of his victory and his survival of its attack.
• Chen Ming entered the dungeon again and quickly killed the Golden Stinger Poison Bee, earning a beast core and Agility Rune Stones.
• Lin Wei reached level 9, leaving three members of the Morning Light Squad at level 9 and one at level 8.
• Chen Ming reentered the dungeon for the final round before level 10, then used Flame Burst and a series of slashes to kill the level 20 Seven-Colored Winged Insect.
• Chen Ming obtained the insect's beast core and Constitution Rune Stones, then reached level 10.

Chen Ming swiftly defeated the level-20 beast in the dungeon, then reached level 10 and awakened the SSS-rank Shield of Reversal. He decided to postpone awakening his class skill until he learned more about the Abyss, and left with a powerful new ability that complemented Absolute Defense.

• Chen Ming charged into the Wasteland and quickly killed the level-20 beast, astonishing Sun Yang, Qin Zhixue, Lin Wei, and the high-level Class Changers watching outside.
• Chen Ming and the others emerged from the dungeon so soon that the guard was stunned and prepared to hand Chen Ming a Dungeon Rune Stone.
• Chen Ming saw that he had reached level 10 and chose to wait until entering the Abyss before awakening his class skill.
• Chen Ming confirmed the prompt to awaken his special talent skill and received the SSS-rank Shield of Reversal.
• Chen Ming examined Shield of Reversal's counterattack and shield effects, realizing they worked especially well with Absolute Defense.

After reaching level 10, Chen Ming awakened Shield of Reversal and realized its reflected damage might combine with his other skills to stack his attack power. He entered the Wasteland’s fifth round, eager to test the interaction on a Lightning Lion King.

• Chen Ming reached level 10, and City Lord Xia and the Inspectors concluded he had a second, likely SSS-grade, class.
• City Lord Xia explained that the Abyss disturbance was unusual and that he had come to handle a problem in its deepest reaches, but chose to keep watching Chen Ming.
• Chen Ming reviewed his attributes and considered whether Shield of Reversal’s reflected damage could trigger Armor Piercing and stack with Annihilation.
• Chen Ming took the Dungeon Rune Stone and returned to the Wasteland’s fifth round with three others accompanying Qin Zhixue.
• Chen Ming chose the level-21 Lightning Lion King as his test subject for Shield of Reversal, with his stacking damage already at 2700%.

Chen Ming tested his awakened Shield of Reversal against the Lightning Lion King, letting the beast attack him while its strikes reflected damage and increased his Stacking Attack. After the Lion King weakened and neared death, Chen Ming killed it with a simple burst of elemental energy.

• Chen Ming walked beneath the Lightning Lion King and provoked it into attacking him.
• The Lightning Lion King's bite dealt only 1 damage, while Chen Ming's counterattack pierced its armor and stacked his damage.
• The Lightning Lion King unleashed its skills and repeated attacks, but Chen Ming's shield and Absolute Defense kept him safe as its own health fell.
• Chen Ming watched his Stacking Attack damage rise while the Lightning Lion King weakened and grew afraid.
• Chen Ming fired a simple burst of condensed elemental energy and killed the Lightning Lion King.

Chen Ming finished testing his shield counter skill, then entered energy manifestation while fighting a Level 20 beast, astonishing the onlookers. After six dungeon rounds, all four members of the Morning Light Squad reached Level 10, and the crowd realized Chen Ming could control attribute energy at a level associated with the Second Realm.

• Chen Ming gained no experience for killing the Lightning Lion King, while Qin Zhixue reached Level 10 and Sun Yang reached Level 9.
• Inspector Jiang explained that Chen Ming had killed the Lightning Lion King by reflecting its attacks, though the onlookers remained baffled by how he had endured them unharmed.
• Chen Ming began the sixth round of the Level 20 Beast Dungeon and attacked the Thorn Tree Spirit with his blade.
• Chen Ming entered energy manifestation after his attack, then killed the Thorn Tree Spirit with a powerful strike.
• Sun Yang and Lin Wei reached Level 10, bringing all four members of the Morning Light Squad to Level 10.
• The crowd recognized Chen Ming's energy manifestation as unprecedented at Level 10 and reconsidered how far the new generation had surpassed them.

Chen Ming’s level-10 energy manifestation broke the Alliance record, and the Morning Light Squad finished the dungeon trial in first place. The team learned they would enter the Abyss first the next day, where dangerous spatial fissures could kill even level-40 Class Changers.

• City Lord Xia told Inspector Jiang and Inspector Lin that a new Class Changer had broken the old energy manifestation record at level 13 before Chen Ming broke it again at level 10.
• Chen Ming and the other three members of the Morning Light Squad emerged from the dungeon after leveling up rapidly.
• City Lord Xia announced that the Morning Light Squad had finished first and earned the right to enter the Abyss first the next day.
• A Class Changer from Abyss-Border City warned the squad that the Abyss was unstable and that energy fissures or void-like vortices could kill even Class Changers above level 40.
• The gathered Class Changers watched the other teams’ dungeon progress in silence, comparing their efforts with the Morning Light Squad’s rapid victory over six level-20 beasts.

Chen Ming and the Morning Light Squad reached Level 10, astonishing people in Cloud Sea City when the Grand Exam rankings appeared. Meanwhile, Lu Shan’s Golden Steel Squad emerged from a Level 20 monster fight boasting about being the fastest, only to spot Chen Ming and his teammates.

• Chen Ming dismissed Sun Yang’s excitement about the Grand Exam results while the squad rested outside Abyss-Border City.
• The Grand Exam rankings showed Chen Ming, Qin Zhixue, Lin Wei, and Sun Yang all at Level 10, stunning people returning to Cloud Sea City.
• Sun Yang enjoyed the reactions from Cloud Sea City, pleased that he had finally astonished everyone.
• Lu Shan’s Golden Steel Squad emerged after defeating a Level 20 monster, and Lu Shan urged his team to recover and challenge another one.
• The people outside the wilderness fell silent at Lu Shan’s boast, and Inspector Jiang grew embarrassed as the others teased him.
• A guard pointed out Chen Ming and his teammates, and all five members of the Golden Steel Squad froze when they saw them.

The Morning Light Squad cleared all six dungeon rounds and took first place in the Provincial Selection, leaving Lu Shan’s Golden Steel Squad and the other teams far behind. As the Morning Light Squad departed for the Abyss, Lu Shan struggled to understand the gap between them.

• The Golden Steel Squad discovered that the Morning Light Squad had already cleared the first round, and Lu Shan tried to rally his teammates despite the setback.
• A teammate pointed out that the Morning Light Squad held first place on the leaderboard, silencing Lu Shan and the others.
• Other teams reached the Wasteland and saw the Morning Light Squad ranked first, while some speculated that its captain was leading the team.
• The next morning, the Morning Light Squad remained far ahead, with Lu Shan’s team still one challenge short of getting everyone to level 10.
• City Lord Xia and the Morning Light Squad departed on a mechanical flying creature toward the Abyss while the other teams continued leveling.
• Lu Shan learned from Inspector Jiang that the Morning Light Squad had completed all six rounds and clenched his fists in frustration.

Chen Ming and his companions entered the Abyss, a vast black world where his mental power was severely suppressed. After Inspector Lin learned that a powerful energy tide had appeared there, Chen Ming killed a Shadow Black Cat and found a rare Cyan Crystal, suggesting Abyss beasts might yield resources.

• Chen Ming and his three companions entered the Abyss through a gap beneath a canyon while Inspector Lin and City Lord Xia discussed the territory's danger.
• City Lord Xia revealed that the Abyss's strongest-ever spatial disturbance had not caused large-scale beast rampages and that an energy tide had appeared there.
• Inspector Lin and City Lord Xia entered the Abyss to investigate the tide.
• Chen Ming and his companions emerged into a vast world where the sky, earth, and plants were black with a multicolored sheen.
• A Shadow Black Cat ambushed Chen Ming, who killed it after discovering that his mental power was severely suppressed in the Abyss.
• Chen Ming found a rare Cyan Crystal on the cat's corpse and wondered whether Abyss beasts dropped resources when killed.

Chen Ming tested the Abyss’s resource drops and joined Qin Zhixue and Sun Yang in a plan to lure beasts to him for slaughter. After Sun Yang provoked a huge black bull, it charged and sent him flying, leaving him calling for Chen Ming to save him.

• Chen Ming killed a level 7 Dark-Patterned Leopard and obtained a Streamer Amber, confirming that Abyssal beasts dropped rare resources.
• Chen Ming killed a level 8 Cold Sound Python and obtained Ice Condensation Dew before agreeing to Qin Zhixue’s plan to lure beasts to him.
• Qin Zhixue lured a Gray Shadow Demon Wolf to Chen Ming, who killed it in one strike and obtained a Wind Cloud Bead.
• Sun Yang led two Green-Horned Lizards to Chen Ming, who killed both and obtained Shadow Ink.
• Sun Yang provoked a huge black bull with a colorful horn, but it charged him and sent him flying as he yelled for Chen Ming’s help.

Chen Ming discovered that the Nightbearer Horn Bull had fused with spatial resources and fought to keep it from escaping. After disabling its spatial shift and killing it, he secured the chance to use its spatial resources to guide his Level 10 skill awakening.

• Chen Ming blocked the Nightbearer Horn Bull from attacking Sun Yang and learned that it possessed spatial shift.
• Chen Ming decided to claim the bull’s spatial resources for his Level 10 skill awakening.
• Chen Ming and his companions positioned themselves to stop the bull from escaping while he attacked it.
• The Nightbearer Horn Bull tried to flee, but Chen Ming used Nether Eye’s Spirit Exhaustion to prevent it from shifting through space.
• Chen Ming killed the Nightbearer Horn Bull and gained 800 EXP.

Chen Ming killed the Nightbearer Horn Bull and obtained a rare spatial resource, the Phantom Void Horn Fragment. Hoping to find more spatial resources, he abandoned the plan to lure monsters and opened his Nether Gate as the group prepared to move deeper into the Abyss.

• Chen Ming killed the Nightbearer Horn Bull with Spirit Exhaustion and defense-piercing true damage, ending the battle.
• The bull yielded a Phantom Void Horn Fragment, which Chen Ming stored without absorbing so he could begin his skill awakening after leaving the Abyss.
• Sun Yang, Qin Zhixue, and Lin Wei recognized the horn fragment as a precious spatial resource, while Chen Ming considered searching for more.
• Chen Ming decided to head toward the Abyss’s inner region instead of continuing to lure monsters.
• Chen Ming’s left eye glowed blue, and he summoned the two-meter-tall Nether Gate.

Chen Ming opened ten Nether Gates and unleashed a vast Bone Demon army into the Abyss. He ordered the army to kill every Abyssal beast, leaving Qin Zhixue, Lin Wei, and Sun Yang stunned as the battle began.

• Chen Ming summoned ten Nether Gates and brought forth ten Bone Demons ranging from level 1 to level 10.
• Chen Ming removed the restrictions on the Bone Demons, and countless more poured from the gates until they covered the plain.
• Chen Ming ordered the Bone Demon army to leave no Abyssal beasts alive.
• The Bone Demons charged into the Abyss and began fighting the beasts as more streamed from the gates.
• Qin Zhixue and Lin Wei stared in shock, while Sun Yang trembled and begged Chen Ming to stop summoning.

Chen Ming unleashed an army of Bone Demons to sweep through the Abyss, gathering a mountain of rare resources while he searched for spatial materials. When he sensed Bone Demons dying without reviving, he investigated and found a spatial rift, but Qin Zhixue warned him not to approach.

• Chen Ming stopped the Nether Gates after summoning roughly twenty to thirty thousand Bone Demons to attack the Abyssal beasts.
• The Bone Demon army overwhelmed Abyssal beasts, collected their drops, and carried rare resources back to Chen Ming.
• Chen Ming absorbed and searched the gathered resources but found no spatial-type materials.
• Chen Ming sensed Bone Demons dying in a certain area without reviving and went to investigate.
• Chen Ming found a spatial rift in a clearing, and Qin Zhixue warned him not to get close.

Chen Ming entered a dangerous spatial rift despite Qin Zhixue's warnings and survived its turbulent passage. He emerged in a forest that seemed to be an Exotic Beast Forest, though he was unsure where he had ended up.

• Qin Zhixue explained that spatial rifts connected different spaces and that their turbulence could kill anyone who entered.
• Chen Ming sensed through the Bone Tower that one Bone Demon had survived the rift and reached a distant space, but died when he summoned it back.
• Chen Ming ignored Qin Zhixue's warnings, approached the rift, and stepped inside as Sun Yang watched.
• Chen Ming endured the spatial turbulence for half a minute before emerging on the other side.
• Chen Ming recognized the forest's aura as resembling an Exotic Beast Forest and checked his Constitution after taking damage.

Chen Ming discovered that the spatial rift had carried him from Blue Star’s Abyss into an Abyss in another world, where he found a resource that could increase spiritual potential. After killing a Ziluo and resolving to test the world’s resources further, he sensed an uninvited presence nearby.

• Chen Ming gauged his distance from Abyss-Border City and realized he had likely crossed beyond Blue Star into another world.
• Chen Ming encountered a level 9 Ziluo, attacked it, and killed it after discovering its vulnerability to mental damage.
• Chen Ming obtained a pure Aperture-Opening Jade and found that refining it slightly increased his spiritual potential.
• Chen Ming suspected that rare resources throughout the otherworldly Abyss might improve spiritual potential and considered sending in his Bone Demons to sweep the area.
• Chen Ming sensed another presence nearby and realized it did not seem to be a mutant beast.