Recaps

After a mission that split Ashen City in two, Zhou Fan and his companions ate before preparing to return to Xinghai University. Bald Third and the Blood Hand Society confronted them, but Zhou Fan invoked the university’s backing to halt the attack.

• Zhou Fan, Zhao Qiu, Duan Fei, and Lin Qianqian ate a large meal in Ashen City after their exhausting mission.
• Lin Qianqian urged the others to leave the restaurant so they could return to the university that night.
• Bald Third and the Blood Hand Society surrounded the group, and Bald Third threatened Lin Qianqian.
• Ding Hao, leader of the Blood Hand Society, demanded that Lin Qianqian stay and the three boys leave their dicks behind.
• Zhou Fan said they were from Xinghai University and warned Ding Hao that attacking them would make the society an enemy of the university.
• Ding Hao ordered his men to hold back when he learned the group’s affiliation.

Ding Hao attacked Zhou Fan and his companions after learning they were from Xinghai University, revealing his grudge against the school and Xi Yan. Zhou Fan reflected Ding Hao’s punch with the Uchiha Gunbai, and Lin Qianqian’s paper attacks overwhelmed the Blood Hand Society fighters, leaving Ding Hao blasted away and Bald Third caught in an explosion.

• Zhao Qiu told Ding Hao that he and Zhou Fan were from Xinghai University, but Ding Hao cut Zhao Qiu’s cheek with a wind blade and revealed his hatred for the university and Xi Yan.
• Ding Hao attacked Zhou Fan with his fourth-tier, five-star Clear Wind Exploding Fist, but Zhou Fan blocked it with the Uchiha Gunbai and reflected the force back at him.
• Ding Hao sent his subordinates to attack Zhou Fan and the others, and Lin Qianqian’s Paper Blizzard: Splendid Bloom wounded the charging members of the Blood Hand Society.
• Lin Qianqian’s Explosive Tags shattered Ding Hao’s Whirlwind Shield and blasted him away.
• Bald Third climbed out of his wheelchair to escape the Explosive Tags, but several stuck to his backside and detonated.

Lin Qianqian swiftly defeated the Blood Hand Society fighters, but a bounty hunter named Jiaoxin arrived and killed the two wanted men to claim their bounties. Zhou Fan learned that Jiaoxin was the Southern District’s strongest bounty hunter, and later that night he and his companions flew back to the school.

• Lin Qianqian blasted Ding Hao and Bald Third, leaving them badly injured, while Zhou Fan and Zhao Qiu dealt with the remaining fighters.
• A scarred man interrupted Zhou Fan’s attack and said he had come to take Ding Hao and Bald Third for their bounties.
• After Zhao Qiu questioned whether he was a real bounty hunter, the man broke both criminals’ necks and identified himself as Jiaoxin.
• Bystanders recognized Jiaoxin as the Southern District’s strongest bounty hunter and discussed rumors that he had an immortal body.
• Zhou Fan regretted missing the chance to fight Jiaoxin, then set off with his companions on a flying mutant beast that night.

After Ashen City was split apart, Zhou Fan saw the incident trending and gained enough emotion points to approach his goal of redeeming Kamui. His prize wheel draws gave him the Chidori Series Ninjutsu and Eight Gates Release.

• Zhao Qiu woke Zhou Fan to show him that the Ashen City incident had become the top trending topic.
• Zhou Fan and Zhao Qiu went to the university cafeteria, where Zhou Fan browsed the many posts discussing the mysterious powerhouse.
• Zhou Fan checked his system and found that he had 77,000 emotion points, leaving him a little over 20,000 short of redeeming Kamui.
• Zhou Fan unlocked the Renowned Far and Wide achievement and received five draw attempts.
• Zhou Fan used all five draws, winning 5,000 emotion points twice, the Chidori Series Ninjutsu, and Eight Gates Release.

Zhou Fan celebrated drawing the Chidori Series Ninjutsu and the Eight Gates Technique, then joined his teammates to collect their rewards for defeating the Vampire spies in Ashen City. Principal Xi Yan warned Zhou Fan to stop cleaving cities and islands in two, leaving Zhou Fan insisting the destruction was unavoidable.

• Zhou Fan drew the Chidori Series Ninjutsu and the Eight Gates Technique, which his body was strong enough to use up to the Eighth Gate.
• Xi Yan summoned Zhou Fan, Zhao Qiu, Lin Qianqian, and Duan Fei and gave each of them a High-Grade Spirit Stone for their Ashen City mission.
• Xi Yan asked Zhou Fan whether he had cleaved Ashen City in two, and Zhao Qiu praised him for defeating the powerful Vampire spies, including an Earl with royal blood.
• Xi Yan told Zhou Fan to keep a lower profile and stop cleaving islands and cities, warning that the school might have to pay damages.
• Zhou Fan and Zhao Qiu argued that the Vampires had been too dangerous for them to worry about limiting the damage, and Xi Yan dismissed the group.

Zhou Fan invited Zhao Qiu to spar using only Taijutsu and revealed his Eight Gates Release, which closely resembled Zhao Qiu’s Life Shackles. Zhou Fan won after they each opened four limits, leaving Zhao Qiu determined to upgrade his technique to eight shackles.

• Zhou Fan asked Zhao Qiu to spar in Taijutsu, and Zhao Qiu agreed after confirming that Zhou Fan would not use other abilities.
• Zhao Qiu released his first Life Shackle, and Zhou Fan revealed the first gate of his Eight Gates Release.
• Zhao Qiu and Zhou Fan each opened their second and third limits before charging into hand-to-hand combat.
• Zhao Qiu released his fourth shackle, and Zhou Fan opened his fourth gate as they increased their speed and power.
• Zhou Fan knocked Zhao Qiu down, then explained that his Eight Gates Release had eight gates while Zhao Qiu’s Life Shackles had only five.
• Zhao Qiu vowed to upgrade his Life Shackles to eight shackles.

Zhou Fan gathered Zhao Qiu, Duan Fei, and Lin Qianqian to explore a Treasure Map, and they entered a fog-covered wasteland. Lin Qianqian sent paper butterflies to scout ahead as the group headed toward the treasure.

• Zhou Fan showed Zhao Qiu and Duan Fei his Treasure Map and arranged to search for its treasure with them.
• Zhou Fan invited Lin Qianqian, who agreed after he suggested the treasure might help Zhao Qiu and Duan Fei challenge her position as Deputy Leader.
• The next morning, Zhou Fan activated the map at the Training Ground and led Lin Qianqian, Zhao Qiu, and Duan Fei through a Spatial Passage.
• The four arrived in a wasteland blanketed by thick fog, and Zhou Fan checked the map before leading them toward the treasure.
• Lin Qianqian sent paper butterflies through the fog to scout ahead, impressing Zhao Qiu and Duan Fei.

Zhou Fan and his companions fought off a huge flock of Soul-Eating Crows and continued through the fog toward the treasure marked on their map. They reached a Stone Forest and triggered its guardians, leaving them facing twenty fourth-tier Stone Statue Guardians.

• Lin Qianqian recognized a vast flock of Soul-Eating Crows as the group was surrounded in the fog.
• Zhou Fan, Lin Qianqian, Zhao Qiu, and Duan Fei fought off the crows and disrupted their mind-rending sonic attack.
• Zhou Fan and his companions continued through the fog, defeating more mutant beasts as they followed the Treasure Map.
• The group emerged at a Stone Forest scattered with human bones and spotted a carved stone gate ahead.
• The ground shook as the group entered the Stone Forest, and twenty Stone Statue Guardians rose from the cracks.

Zhou Fan let Zhao Qiu and Duan Fei train by fighting twenty Stone Statue Guardians, then quickly defeated the Golden Eagle Group when they tried to claim the treasure. The stone door opened to reveal a dark underground passage, and the group entered.

• Zhao Qiu and Duan Fei fought the twenty Fourth Tier, One Star Stone Statue Guardians, with Duan Fei unable to use his blood-dependent Curse.
• Zhao Qiu and Duan Fei smashed all twenty guardians after half an hour, and Zhou Fan praised their improvement.
• The Golden Eagle Group appeared at the stone door and demanded that Zhou Fan's group leave the treasure to them.
• Zhou Fan knocked out the Golden Eagle Group, using his Sharingan to trap their scar-faced leader with the Demonic Illusion: Shackling Stakes Technique.
• Zhou Fan opened the stone door with spiritual energy, and he, Zhao Qiu, and Duan Fei entered the underground passage.

Zhou Fan and his companions cleared a trap-filled passage, claimed four treasure rewards, and emerged to find Jiaoxin demanding their valuables. The chapter ended with Jiaoxin confronting the group outside the passage.

• Lin Qianqian's Paper Butterflies lost their connection inside the passage, so Duan Fei led the way and absorbed the traps' damage with his immortal body.
• Zhou Fan, Zhao Qiu, and Lin Qianqian followed Duan Fei through more than a dozen traps without being hurt.
• The group opened four treasure chests and found a Mysterious Fragment, Frenzy Gauntlets, a Charm Ring, and a Star Spring Necklace.
• Zhou Fan gave the Charm Ring to Duan Fei, the Frenzy Gauntlets to Zhao Qiu, and the Star Spring Necklace to Lin Qianqian, keeping the Mysterious Fragment.
• Outside the passage, the group found Jiaoxin tying up the Golden Eagle Group members.
• Jiaoxin told Zhou Fan's group to leave behind anything valuable, and Zhao Qiu realized he was trying to rob them.

Jiaoxin attacked Zhou Fan’s group for their treasure, but after overpowering Zhao Qiu and surviving Duan Fei’s Curse, he caught Zhou Fan’s interest. Zhou Fan challenged him to join Dawn if he could defeat him.

• Jiaoxin tied up the Golden Eagle Group and revealed he wanted the treasure Zhou Fan’s group had brought from the Cave.
• Jiaoxin sent Zhao Qiu and Duan Fei flying, and then pierced Duan Fei’s heart with his detached, vein-connected fist.
• Duan Fei invoked his ritual and Curse, but Jiaoxin survived as a masked monster emerged from his back and dissipated.
• Zhou Fan stopped Duan Fei and asked Jiaoxin to join Dawn, explaining he wanted someone with Jiaoxin’s strength and money-making skills.
• Jiaoxin refused, but accepted Zhou Fan’s challenge to join Dawn if Zhou Fan defeated him.

Zhou Fan defeated Jiaoxin with Tsukuyomi and then overwhelmed him with his other abilities. After revealing that Jiaoxin had only two hearts left, Zhou Fan forced him to choose between joining [Dawn] and dying, and Jiaoxin agreed to join.

• Jiaoxin attacked Zhou Fan, but Zhou Fan trapped him in Tsukuyomi and made him experience twenty-four hours of torture in a single second.
• Jiaoxin refused to accept defeat and attacked again, but Zhou Fan destroyed his Earth Dragon Bomb and struck him with Flying Thunder God Slash.
• A mask detached from Jiaoxin and shattered, but he survived because the masks on his body served as extra hearts.
• Jiaoxin revealed two more masks, and Zhou Fan summoned Perfect Susanoo and carved a vast ravine through the earth with a single sword strike.
• Zhou Fan warned Jiaoxin that he could destroy his remaining hearts, and Jiaoxin agreed to join [Dawn].

Zhou Fan forced Jiaoxin to join [Dawn] and explained his plans for the small organization. The group decided to establish an off-campus base, pursue legitimate ways to earn money, and put Jiaoxin in charge of its finances.

• Jiaoxin agreed to join [Dawn] after Zhou Fan defeated him and left him no way to refuse.
• Zhou Fan introduced Jiaoxin to Lin Qianqian, Zhao Qiu, and Duan Fei, and explained that [Dawn] had five members and aimed to recruit only powerful elites.
• Jiaoxin asked what [Dawn] did, and Zhou Fan said the organization would focus on earning money through beast hunting, Secret Realm missions, and bounty jobs.
• Zhou Fan planned to keep himself and the other students at Xinghai University while Jiaoxin stayed at a new base outside campus.
• Zhou Fan appointed Jiaoxin to manage [Dawn]'s finances and forbade the group from earning money through evil deeds.

Zhou Fan assigned Jiaoxin to earn money for [Dawn] and paired him with Duan Fei to hunt bounty targets. After renting a house in Xinghai City as the organization's base, Zhou Fan left Jiaoxin and Duan Fei to begin working together.

• Jiaoxin explained that he became a Bounty Hunter to make money and eliminate evildoers, while screening targets to avoid unjustly accused people.
• Zhou Fan told Jiaoxin that [Dawn] had no funds and assigned him to earn money for the organization, pairing him with Duan Fei.
• Zhou Fan ordered Jiaoxin and Duan Fei to work together and never undertake missions alone, and they agreed.
• The next day, Zhou Fan rented a house with a courtyard in Xinghai City for [Dawn]'s base and told Jiaoxin and Duan Fei to look for bounty jobs.
• Zhou Fan left a Flying Thunder God Mark at the base and teleported away, while Jiaoxin trusted that Zhou Fan's strength would help [Dawn] become renowned.

Xia Qingran struggled to suppress the worsening backlash of her ice spirit body while worrying about Zhou Fan and the strain it was placing on her mother, Qin Lin. She rejected relying on the Eastern Family’s pure yang flame and placed her hopes on finding a lasting solution in the Void Rift, which would open in two months.

• Xia Qingran suppressed another outbreak of her ice spirit body and thought about Zhou Fan, whose messages she had stopped answering because she missed him.
• Qin Lin visited Xia Qingran and worried that passing on the ice spirit body had been a mistake.
• Xia Qingran reassured Qin Lin that she did not regret inheriting the constitution and promised to find a way to counter its backlash.
• Qin Lin explained that she had transferred some of Xia Qingran’s backlash onto herself two years earlier, and that the burden was damaging her health.
• Xia Qingran rejected the idea of relying on the Eastern Family’s pure yang flame and decided to seek a lasting solution in the Void Rift opening in two months.

Zhou Fan decided to take building [Dawn] seriously and arranged custom uniforms for the organization. He left the group looking more imposing in their matching Red Cloud Black Robes.

• Lin Qianqian asked Zhou Fan whether he planned to build up [Dawn], and he said he would recruit more members and lead it toward becoming the strongest organization.
• Zhou Fan planned to reserve a place in [Dawn] for Xia Qingran and recruit four more members to fill the remaining spots.
• Zhou Fan visited the base, where Jiaoxin and Duan Fei were settling in and Zhao Qiu had come to claim a space.
• Zhou Fan revealed custom Red Cloud Black Robes that offered some protection against water, fire, punctures, and scratches.
• Zhou Fan, Zhao Qiu, and Duan Fei put on the matching uniforms and found that they looked and felt more imposing together.

Zhou Fan gave the members of [Dawn] code-name rings that let him teleport to them, then split the group into two bounty-hunting teams. In Flying Leaf City, a local thug’s protection racket faced a challenge when two members of [Dawn] confronted him.

• Zhou Fan handed Zhao Qiu, Duan Fei, and Jiaoxin rings with their code names and explained that the rings let him reach them in an emergency.
• Jiaoxin revealed he had accepted a five-hundred-thousand bounty, and Zhou Fan assigned him and Duan Fei to handle it.
• Jiaoxin found a three-hundred-thousand bounty targeting a criminal organization near Bright City, and Zhou Fan took the mission with Little Ball.
• In Flying Leaf City, a fourth-tier, four-star bald man and his lackeys collected protection money from local shopkeepers.
• The bald man’s group encountered two people wearing Red Cloud Black Robes, who introduced themselves as [Dawn].

Jiaoxin and Duan Fei captured Li Hu, the wanted boss of Flying Leaf City, after defeating him and his underlings. Jiaoxin killed Li Hu and took his heart, completing the bounty mission and bringing his total to three hearts.

• Li Hu mocked Jiaoxin, but Jiaoxin used the Body Flicker Technique to strike him and revealed his superior cultivation.
• Duan Fei charged into Li Hu's underlings, endured their attacks, and defeated them single-handedly.
• Jiaoxin used water and lightning attacks to overwhelm Li Hu before knocking him down and pinning him to the ground.
• Jiaoxin showed Li Hu his wanted notice and rejected his offer of money to avoid capture.
• Li Hu tried to attack Jiaoxin with compressed flames, but Jiaoxin punched through the flames, killed him, and took his heart.
• Jiaoxin declared the mission complete as Li Hu's underlings fled and Duan Fei complained that he had not had enough fighting.

Jiaoxin and Duan Fei killed Li Hu and learned how much the people of Flying Leaf City had suffered under him. In Dawn City, Zhou Fan and Zhao Qiu waited for the Dusk Butcher, who revealed himself to a seemingly helpless girl—just as she transformed into a man.

• Jiaoxin and Duan Fei accepted the gratitude of Flying Leaf City's residents after killing Li Hu, then said they were from Dawn.
• Zhou Fan and Zhao Qiu arrived in Dawn City to hunt the Dusk Butcher, a Lawbreaker who murdered people alone at dusk and removed their organs.
• Zhou Fan and Zhao Qiu decided to watch for the Dusk Butcher at dusk, when he was most likely to target someone.
• The Dusk Butcher cornered a frightened girl in an alley and bragged that he planned to take her organs.
• The girl calmly answered him in a man's voice and transformed into a man.

Zhou Fan and Zhao Qiu lured the Dusk Butcher into a fight, but he escaped through Flying Leaf City’s streets. The two pursued him to an abandoned building he used as a hideout.

• Zhou Fan transformed into a girl to lure out the Dusk Butcher, then survived a knife slash thanks to his rapid healing.
• The Dusk Butcher attacked Zhou Fan with knives, and Zhao Qiu emerged from hiding to send him flying.
• Zhou Fan revealed that he and Zhao Qiu belonged to the bounty-hunting organization Dawn and had come for the Dusk Butcher’s bounty.
• The Dusk Butcher unleashed metal objects at Zhou Fan and Zhao Qiu, then fled while Zhou Fan blocked the attack with the Great Fireball Technique.
• The Dusk Butcher reached an abandoned building he used as a hideout, but Zhou Fan and Zhao Qiu caught up with him.

Zhou Fan and Zhao Qiu cornered the Dusk Butcher in his metal-filled hideout and defeated him without using Zhou Fan’s most destructive Susanoo form. They captured him in Flying Leaf City and used the arrest to publicize their bounty hunting organization, Dawn.

• The Dusk Butcher attacked Zhou Fan and Zhao Qiu with metal, but Zhou Fan’s Susanoo blocked his assaults and broke his fused spear.
• After the Dusk Butcher shattered Zhou Fan’s second-form Susanoo, Zhou Fan and Zhao Qiu activated their respective techniques and struck him together.
• Zhou Fan and Zhao Qiu overwhelmed the Dusk Butcher with a flurry of attacks and knocked him from the fifth floor.
• Zhou Fan and Zhao Qiu identified the captured man to the gathered crowd as the Dusk Butcher.
• Zhao Qiu announced that they belonged to Dawn and invited the people of Flying Leaf City to bring them bounty jobs.

After Zhou Fan and his companions earned money for Dawn's base, he gave Lin Qianqian a set of clothes, which she mistook for a personal gift until she saw the Red Cloud Black Robe. The chapter ended with Lin Qianqian staring in surprise at the organization's uniform.

• Zhou Fan explained that the eight hundred thousand earned from the bounty missions would fund the organization and promised members a base salary and mission expense reimbursement.
• Zhou Fan assigned Jiaoxin to manage the organization's accounts.
• Zhou Fan teleported himself and Zhao Qiu from Dawn's base to Xinghai University using the Flying Thunder God Technique.
• Zhao Qiu fled after Lin Qianqian opened the villa door and silently stopped their noisy banter.
• Zhou Fan gave Lin Qianqian a bag of clothes and asked her to check the size, while she wondered whether he had feelings for her.
• Lin Qianqian opened the bag, saw the Red Cloud Black Robe, and asked what it was.

Zhou Fan gave Lin Qianqian a custom-sized Red Cloud Black Robe and a coded ring as standard [Dawn] gear, leaving her embarrassed after she twice mistook them for romantic gifts. Over the next month, [Dawn] completed difficult bounty missions and became well known across the Southern District.

• Zhou Fan gave Lin Qianqian a custom-sized Red Cloud Black Robe and explained that it was [Dawn]'s uniform.
• Lin Qianqian mistook Zhou Fan's coded ring for a romantic gesture, then learned it was standard issue and stormed into her room.
• Lin Qianqian vented her embarrassment and anger by furiously beating a stuffed toy.
• Over the following month, Zhou Fan, Zhao Qiu, Jiaoxin, and Duan Fei completed more than a dozen bounty missions for [Dawn].
• [Dawn] gained a reputation in the Southern District as its difficult missions and takedowns of notorious Lawbreakers drew attention and new commissions.

Zhou Fan and [Dawn] celebrated their growing reputation and earnings before agreeing to investigate a Fourth Tier Chaos Secret Realm in the Yunmeng Mountains. While Jiaoxin and the others traveled ahead, Zhou Fan checked his emotion points and prepared to exchange them for Kamui.

• Zhao Qiu and Jiaoxin told Zhou Fan that [Dawn] had gained fame and attracted commissions, while Jiaoxin reported that the organization had earned two and a half million last month.
• Zhou Fan gave everyone a hundred-thousand bonus and declined a low-paying bounty mission.
• Jiaoxin told Zhou Fan about a Fourth Tier Chaos Secret Realm in the Yunmeng Mountains, where a Beast King might be close to reaching the Fifth Tier.
• Zhou Fan agreed to investigate the secret realm and sent Jiaoxin and the others ahead with Flying Thunder God Marks.
• Zhou Fan checked his system and found he had 108730 emotion points, then looked at the shop's Kamui dōjutsu.

Zhou Fan redeemed Kamui and prepared to travel to the Chaos Secret Realm as the masked Leader of [Dawn]. Meanwhile, Lin Qianqian began Xi Yan’s third-stage special training, determined to surpass Zhou Fan.

• Zhou Fan spent 100,000 emotion points to redeem Kamui and realized that his eternal Mangekyō Sharingan and Hashirama Senju’s cells let him use it without fear of blindness.
• Lin Qianqian met Xi Yan at the school training ground and began the third stage of his special training, hoping to grow strong enough to defeat Zhou Fan.
• Zhao Qiu messaged Zhou Fan that he, Jiaoxin, and the others had found the Chaos Secret Realm’s entrance in the Yunmeng Mountains.
• Zhou Fan donned his Red Cloud Black Robe and White Three-Tomoe Mask, then used Kamui to vanish into Alternate Space.