Recaps

Xu Zhi led her teammates through the Lost Land, rescued Qiu Hou, and earned a rank increase before the team entered the league. After blunt commentary drew attention and the finals began, Xi Min told Xu Zhi to hide her abilities in the opening matches.

• Xu Zhi and her classmates entered the Lost Land, resisted its Temptation, and battled creatures as Chu Xiao Yue led the group deeper.
• When Qiu Hou disappeared into the roots of a sleeping creature, Xu Zhi helped coordinate his rescue and used [Lamp] to remove the energy preventing Su Ran from healing him.
• After days of fighting, Xu Zhi turned the exhausted team back, and she collapsed outside the gate, then recovered to find her [Lamp] had reached Longevity Rank One.
• Xu Zhi joined the Lotus City Light Institute league team as a first-year substitute, trained with her teammates, and traveled with them to Freedom City for the competition.
• Xu Zhi commentated on Dingchan’s group-stage match with Shu Yushan, criticizing both teams bluntly as Dingchan defeated Flowing Plain City College.
• After Dingchan’s first-year student reached Level Seven Insight and Deer Isle finished the group stage undefeated, Lotus City Light Institute prepared for the finals draw.
• At the finals meeting, Xi Min assigned Tong Zhou and Shu Yushan to the 1v1 matches and chose Xu Zhi, Ji Muge, Tong Zhou, Shu Yushan, and Qiu Hou for the team battle.
• Xi Min told Xu Zhi not to command or use her Transcendent abilities so the team could make her look like a carried deadweight while the others attacked quickly.

Xu Zhi and Lotus City Light Institute exposed Cup’s influence in Minjiang and helped bring political pressure onto the league, while the Dingchan scandal forced an Executor to attend the finals. Xu Zhi defeated Jiang Qing in a brutal match that made her famous, and Lotus City College then challenged her team.

• Shu Yushan and Tong Zhou led Lotus City Light Institute to a decisive victory over Saigon City College, while Xu Zhi concealed her abilities and fought Saigon’s support.
• Chu Xiao Yue defeated Minjiang City College’s Forge contestant, then Xu Zhi joined the team battle and helped expose Minjiang’s contestants as Cup believers before Lotus City defeated them.
• The tournament referee executed two surviving Cup believers on camera, and Xu Zhi learned that Lotus City and Lingzhou had seized political power in Minjiang amid growing suspicion about Cup’s return.
• Xu Zhi noticed Dingchan Academy’s abnormal progress and recognized that Deer Isle had deliberately gathered its students’ blood, then watched Council Academy use its Moth main carry to accuse Dingchan of cheating and target the league’s leaders.
• The league disqualified Dingchan and suspended matches before announcing that an Executor would attend the finals, leaving Xu Zhi worried that he might recognize her disguise.
• Lotus City Light Institute challenged Lingzhou Light Institute, and Xu Zhi fought through Jiang Qing’s illusions and attacks, killing Xiao Ling before defeating Jiang Qing in a close-range battle.
• Xu Zhi became a public sensation after Lotus City Light Institute beat Lingzhou, and Lotus City College challenged them in a rare city-internal finals match.

Xu Zhi passed the Great Dream trial, became a Named One, and pursued the [Cup] while dividing her efforts between the Lost Land and a Spirit Vessel in Lotus City. She left Jiang Qing to fate, reunited with her Familiars, and uncovered signs of a hidden research institute beneath a factory.

• Xu Zhi led Lotus City Light Institute to the league championship, returned home, and advanced her attributes before entering the Great Dream.
• Xu Zhi rejected the trial’s comfortable illusions, endured the path and lightning, and became a Named One with the true names [Everlasting Lamp] and [Moth Fluttering Inside the Skull].
• Xu Zhi created a Spirit Vessel in Lotus City, fed the [Cup] to Little Aberration in the Lost Land, and concealed the Observer’s lightning hidden inside it.
• Xu Zhi’s Spirit Vessel infiltrated a [Cup] cult, survived its ritual, and became a [Messenger] and the cult’s Saintess while Xu Zhi traveled to reunite with Xiao Zhen.
• Xu Zhi followed Jiang Qing, witnessed her absorb a talent circuit to become Named, then trapped and questioned her before leaving her to face the Lost Land and Midnight.
• Xu Zhi investigated a path near a settlement while her Spirit Vessel helped expand the cult, and she volunteered for its major ritual after its membership grew.
• Doggie, Little Aberration, and Kitty returned to Xu Zhi, and Black Cat helped her capture two guards who revealed an underground research institute and a recent visitor.

Xu Zhi uncovered Gods Heavy Industries’ circuit experiments, became a [Cup]-aligned Archbishop, and grew stronger by hunting in the Lost Land. As Lotus City consolidated under the [Cup], a visiting [Heart]-aligned agent discovered that the city trapped outsiders and returned in a corrupted second body.

• Xu Zhi infiltrated Gods Heavy Industries, discovered its research into merging human and extraordinary-creature talent circuits, and recognized its pattern as a fragment of the [Lamp] circuit within her.
• Xu Zhi destroyed the laboratory’s records and escaped, then climbed the Blood-Red Stairway and became a [Cup]-aligned Archbishop called [Sloth].
• As the Mist Season transformed Lotus City’s residents into [Cup] believers, Xu Zhi found Qi Yanxin still living rationally in the Light Institute dormitory and began upgrading her Familiars.
• Xu Zhi raised Little Aberration to Archbishop, entered the Lost Land’s forest, and hunted supernatural beings to absorb energy through her wooden plaques.
• Xu Zhi survived Midnight with a crude Everlasting Lamp and a Spirit Vessel decoy, then recognized that her innate circuit contained a fragment of rules.
• Xu Zhi completed a [Heart] circuit and sent her Spirit Vessel to investigate Lotus City as its believers consolidated and outside factions planned to intervene.
• A [Heart]-aligned agent visited Xu Zhi, questioned her about the [Cup], and learned that Xu Zhi called herself [Sloth].
• The agent discovered that the [Cup] trapped outsiders inside Lotus City and harvested her regenerating body, so she destroyed herself and awoke in her second true body with her [Heart] circuit stained by blood.