Recaps

Zhao Qiu and Gu Yu fought the powerful Fusion Mutant Beast, but it badly injured them and left Gu Yu unable to move. As the beast closed in, Zhao Qiu refused to abandon her and opened the fifth Life Shackles technique, Origin Lock.

• Gu Yu and Zhao Qiu attacked the Fusion Mutant Beast, but their first strikes barely harmed it and they struggled against its barrage.
• Their combined ultimate attacks destroyed part of the beast and two of its seven heads, provoking it to target them with energy threads.
• The beast froze Gu Yu’s legs and charged to devour her, but Zhao Qiu rescued her and was struck down with her.
• Gu Yu urged Zhao Qiu to leave her behind, but he refused and said they would either escape together or die together.
• Zhao Qiu faced the approaching beast and opened Life Shackles, Fifth · Origin Lock.

Zhao Qiu opened the Origin Lock and killed the Fusion Mutant Beast, but the backlash left him and Gu Yu unable to fight. As a dozen more mutant beasts attacked, an unknown figure arrived and destroyed them all.

• Zhao Qiu opened the Origin Lock, severed the Fusion Mutant Beast's five tails, and killed it with a powerful kick.
• Zhao Qiu collapsed from the Origin Lock's backlash, and Gu Yu caught him before helping him sit down.
• Zhao Qiu and Gu Yu admitted they would not abandon each other, but more mutant beasts appeared and surrounded them.
• Gu Yu prepared to fight the mutant beasts while Zhao Qiu told her to escape without him.
• An unknown figure wielding a Long Halberd swept the nearest mutant beasts away, then killed the rest with a golden Arrow Rain.

Zhou Fan and Yuan An rescued the injured Zhao Qiu and Gu Yu, then brought them to a secluded place to rest. After Zhou Fan built a wooden house, he and Yuan An arranged a night watch, leaving Gu Yu to care for Zhao Qiu.

• Zhou Fan used Medical Ninjutsu to stabilize Zhao Qiu and treat Gu Yu's injuries.
• Yuan An reminded Zhou Fan that the Sunfire Flower could restore vitality, and Zhou Fan made Zhao Qiu eat it.
• Zhou Fan, Yuan An, Zhao Qiu, and Gu Yu moved to a secluded stretch of wasteland to avoid attracting Mutant Beasts.
• Zhou Fan used Wood Release: Four-Pillar House Technique to build a wooden house, and he and Yuan An arranged to take turns keeping watch.
• Gu Yu chose to stay with Zhao Qiu while Zhou Fan rested before his watch shift.

Zhou Fan, Yuan An, Zhao Qiu, and Gu Yu explored a resource-rich space before entering a gloomy area dominated by a mysterious giant. Their Wristbands detected other students nearby, so Zhou Fan led the group toward them.

• Zhao Qiu recovered overnight after eating a Sunfire Flower, and the four set out to gather more treasures.
• Zhou Fan, Yuan An, Zhao Qiu, and Gu Yu cleared the space of mutant beasts and finished exploring it.
• The four entered another space, where they saw an enormous, eerie figure standing in the distance.
• Gu Yu felt uneasy, but Yuan An explained that the passage only led back to their previous space.
• The group's Wristbands detected other students, and Zhou Fan led everyone forward to find them.

Pan Haining’s squad defeated a pack of Mutant Beasts, but an unknown trio ambushed them while he was retrieving a Xiaoyang Fruit. After Honglian overwhelmed him with her arrows, Pan Haining teleported away, leaving the mysterious attackers at the battlefield.

• Pan Haining led his squad to wipe out a pack of Mutant Beasts and collect their Crystal Cores and valuable remains.
• Pan Haining found a Xiaoyang Fruit and moved to pick it, but an enormous arrow struck nearby and knocked the squad down.
• A white-haired young man, a spear-wielding man, and the masked archer Honglian appeared, and the leader ordered Honglian to eliminate Pan Haining’s group.
• Honglian unleashed a rain of arrows, forcing Pan Haining’s teammates to activate their Guardian Wristbands and teleport away.
• Pan Haining blocked Honglian’s first attack with a water dragon, but her next arrow pierced his shields and wounded him.
• Pan Haining gave up fighting and activated his Guardian Wristband to escape.

Honglian and the spear-wielding man failed to stop Pan Haining’s group from escaping, while their white-haired young master collected a fourth Xiaoyang Fruit. In the Eighth Space, Xia Qingran and Qin Nuannuan found another fruit, but the young master ate it and ordered his companions to attack them.

• Honglian apologized after Pan Haining’s group escaped, and the white-haired young man told her and the spear-wielding man to find the last remaining Xiaoyang Fruit.
• Xia Qingran and Qin Nuannuan searched the Eighth Space while discussing the dangerous erosion caused by Xia Qingran’s ice spirit body.
• The cousins followed a battle’s aftermath and found the white-haired young man reaching for a Xiaoyang Fruit.
• Xia Qingran asked to trade for the fruit, but the young man ate it, vanished in black mist, and ordered Honglian and the spear-wielding man to deal with the cousins.
• Honglian attacked Xia Qingran and Qin Nuannuan, and Xia Qingran defended them with ice mirrors and pillars as the two sides clashed.

Xia Qingran and Qin Nuannuan fought Honglian and Wang Shi over the Xiaoyang Fruit, but the stronger opponents gained the advantage. After Xia Qingran suffered backlash from Absolute Zero and Honglian’s arrow threatened to hit her, Zhou Fan arrived and vowed to kill anyone who hurt his senior.

• Honglian attacked Xia Qingran and Qin Nuannuan, and Xia Qingran froze Honglian’s arrows before Qin Nuannuan engaged Wang Shi.
• Wang Shi overpowered Qin Nuannuan, while Honglian and Wang Shi joined forces against the two women.
• Xia Qingran used Absolute Zero to drive back both opponents, but the strain triggered a backlash that made her cough blood.
• Wang Shi and Honglian launched combined attacks, and Xia Qingran’s ice shields blocked them until her backlash left her exposed to Honglian’s arrow.
• Zhou Fan appeared in front of Xia Qingran, sliced apart Honglian’s arrow with Kamui Chidori, and vowed to kill anyone who hurt his senior.

Zhou Fan and Yuan An fought Wang Shi and Honglian after arriving to aid Xia Qingran. Though the two opponents tried to escape with a Moonstone, Zhou Fan stopped their teleportation and ran them through with his halberd.

• Wang Shi initially overpowered Zhou Fan, but Zhou Fan activated Sage Mode, the Seventh Gate, and Susanoo Armor to turn the fight in his favor.
• Yuan An arrived with Zhao Qiu, Gu Yu, and the others, and he intercepted Honglian’s arrows before engaging her in an archery duel.
• Zhou Fan overwhelmed Wang Shi with his enhanced attacks and severed his right hand, forcing Wang Shi to cut off his own arm to stop the black flames from spreading.
• Yuan An disarmed Honglian with a golden arrow and pierced her shoulder with another.
• Wang Shi and Honglian crushed a Moonstone to escape, but Zhou Fan used Kamui to interrupt their teleportation and impaled them both with the Star Shatter Halberd.

Zhou Fan rescued Xia Qingran from Wang Shi and Honglian, who self-destructed before he could learn why they attacked. After learning that the Xiaoyang Fruit they had found was already eaten, the group set out to search other spaces, but had found no fruit by the time they stopped to rest on the second night.

• Zhou Fan pinned Wang Shi and Honglian with his Star Shatter Halberd, but they self-destructed before he could question them.
• Xia Qingran told Zhou Fan that she and Qin Nuannuan had tried to trade for a Xiaoyang Fruit, but the two attackers had struck without explanation.
• Xia Qingran explained that a third person had already eaten the fruit and left, while Yuan An warned that Xiaoyang Fruit was extremely rare.
• Yuan An revealed that his golden arrow could detect Xiaoyang Fruit, and the group moved on to search other spaces.
• The group cleared two spaces in one day and gathered many resources, but found no Xiaoyang Fruit before stopping to rest on the second night.

Zhou Fan built a house for the group to rest in, and they took turns bathing in a nearby hot spring. Later, Xia Qingran joined Zhou Fan on night watch and fell asleep leaning against his shoulder.

• Zhou Fan used Wood Release to build a large house, and the group decided to rest there before moving on the next morning.
• Yuan An found a nearby hot spring, where the men and women took turns bathing.
• Gu Yu left the hot spring early, while Qin Nuannuan teased Xia Qingran about her appearance and her feelings for Zhou Fan.
• Zhou Fan volunteered for night watch because the hollow moon strengthened mutant beasts and could let them revive.
• Xia Qingran sat with Zhou Fan by the campfire, then leaned on his shoulder and fell asleep.

On the third day in the Void Rift, a spatial storm separated Zhou Fan and his companions, leaving him and Zhao Qiu stranded in a scarlet space. They found Lin Qianqian there and agreed to travel together as they continued searching for the Xiaoyang Fruit.

• Zhou Fan and his companions entered a spatial passage, where turbulence scattered them into different spaces and disrupted Zhou Fan’s Kamui.
• Zhou Fan landed in a scarlet space with Zhao Qiu, and his Golden Arrow showed that no Xiaoyang Fruit was there.
• Zhou Fan and Zhao Qiu explored the space and followed their Guardian Wristband toward another student surrounded by mutant beasts.
• Lin Qianqian defeated the entire pack with a barrage of explosions, and Zhou Fan and Zhao Qiu recognized her.
• Lin Qianqian told Zhou Fan and Zhao Qiu she had been alone, then agreed to travel with them.

Zhou Fan, Zhao Qiu, and Lin Qianqian encountered a valley crowded with mutant beasts and fought their way through to reach the Spatial Passage. After Zhao Qiu charged in wearing Zhou Fan’s Susanoo Armor, a powerful white beast with five tails emerged from the valley.

• Zhou Fan and his companions quickly explored the scarlet wasteland, then followed the Wristband toward the Spatial Passage.
• The companions found a valley packed with mutant beasts and decided to force their way through rather than detour.
• Zhao Qiu used Gigantification, and Zhou Fan covered him in Susanoo Armor so he could charge into the valley.
• Zhao Qiu battled the mutant beasts with a greatsword while their attacks failed to damage the armor.
• A pitch-black energy ball struck Zhao Qiu and damaged his Susanoo Armor, prompting Zhou Fan to repair it.
• A snow-white, five-tailed mutant beast emerged, and Zhou Fan recognized it as the Five-Tails.

Zhou Fan encountered Five-Tails and set out to tame it, but Seven-Tails arrived and attacked before he could finish. With Zhou Fan's support, Zhao Qiu gained the ability to fly and battled Seven-Tails, ultimately knocking it out of the sky.

• Zhou Fan recognized Five-Tails and told Zhao Qiu to fight gently so he could tame it.
• Five-Tails used Boil Release to knock Zhao Qiu down, and Zhou Fan restrained it with the Gate of the Great God.
• Seven-Tails attacked Zhou Fan with explosive energy spheres, interrupting his attempt to tame Five-Tails.
• Zhou Fan gave Zhao Qiu wings through Susanoo Armor, allowing him to fly after Seven-Tails.
• Zhao Qiu opened all four Life Shackles and fought Seven-Tails in the air while Zhou Fan used Kamui to weaken its Tailed Beast Bomb.
• Zhao Qiu's Tiger Heaven Crash overwhelmed the remaining bomb and blasted Seven-Tails out of the sky.

Zhou Fan subdued Five-Tails and Seven-Tails, then entered a new space with Zhao Qiu and Lin Qianqian. Their Wristbands alerted them to nearby teammates, and they found a young man riding a clay dragon as Mutant Beasts attacked him.

• Zhou Fan trapped Seven-Tails with a Wood Dragon, drained its Spiritual Energy, and contracted both Five-Tails and Seven-Tails using Emotion Points.
• Zhao Qiu asked why Zhou Fan was collecting Tailed Beasts, and Zhou Fan said their purpose would become clear once he gathered them all.
• Zhou Fan, Zhao Qiu, and Lin Qianqian crossed the Spatial Passage into a new space with a giant outline in the sky.
• The group's Wristbands alerted them to nearby teammates, and they found Mutant Beasts attacking a young man riding a flying clay dragon.
• The young man dropped a huge white clay doll and declared, "Art is an Explosion!"

Deidara, an independent Esper who specialized in explosive clay, met Zhou Fan, Zhao Qiu, and Lin Qianqian in the Void Rift and fought off a Mutant Beast horde with them. After seeing Lin Qianqian’s Explosive Tags, Deidara challenged her to compare whose explosions were more artistic.

• Deidara introduced himself as an independent Esper from the West District Superpower branch bureau and refused Zhou Fan’s invitation to team up.
• More than a hundred Mutant Beasts surrounded Deidara, Zhou Fan, Zhao Qiu, and Lin Qianqian.
• Deidara used Clay Birds and Clay Spiders to destroy many of the flying and ground-based Mutant Beasts.
• Zhou Fan invited Deidara to join his organization, but Deidara rejected the offer.
• Lin Qianqian used her Explosive Tags to blast the next wave of Mutant Beasts, impressing Deidara.
• Deidara challenged Lin Qianqian to compete over whose explosions were more artistic.

Lin Qianqian defeated Deidara in an explosive contest, and Deidara agreed to consider joining the Dawn. He then challenged Zhou Fan to a fight, making his membership depend on beating him.

• Deidara challenged Lin Qianqian to compare their explosions, and Zhou Fan offered him a place in the Dawn if he joined and sparred with her.
• Deidara agreed to fight Lin Qianqian first, and Zhou Fan asked her to test his strength.
• Lin Qianqian destroyed Deidara's Clay Birds and C2 Dragon with her Explosive Tags, then matched his C3 No. 18 with the Mutually Multiplying Paper Bomb Technique.
• Lin Qianqian revealed a Paper Clone made of Explosive Tags behind Deidara, and he admitted defeat.
• Zhou Fan welcomed Deidara to the Dawn, but Deidara said he would join only if Zhou Fan could defeat him in a fight.

Zhou Fan defeated Deidara with his Sharingan Genjutsu and secured his promise to join the Dawn. Deidara accepted defeat but insisted that joining would not stop him from pursuing art.

• Deidara challenged Zhou Fan and swore he would honor the outcome of their fight.
• Deidara attacked Zhou Fan with a Clay Pig and a hidden Clay Centipede, but Zhou Fan's Genjutsu turned the trap against him.
• Zhao Qiu explained that Deidara had fallen under Zhou Fan's Genjutsu when he saw the Sharingan, and Deidara became convinced it was true art.
• Zhou Fan told Deidara to join the Dawn, and Deidara honored his promise despite being unhappy about losing.
• Zhou Fan welcomed Deidara as the Dawn's seventh member, and Deidara offered to teach Zhao Qiu about art.

Zhou Fan and his group rested in a wooden house after failing to find Xiaoyang Fruit, while Zhou Fan and Lin Qianqian shared an awkward campfire conversation. A moon-white-robed group entered the space, and their young leader used his Moon Eye to find Lin Qianqian.

• Zhou Fan and his group finished exploring the space without finding Xiaoyang Fruit and built a house to spend the night.
• Lin Qianqian set up a barrier around the house, then volunteered to keep watch while Zhao Qiu and Deidara went to sleep.
• Zhou Fan sat with Lin Qianqian by the campfire, complimented her earrings, and angered her with his remark that they made her prettier.
• Zhou Fan went inside to sleep, leaving Lin Qianqian on watch.
• A group in moon-white robes emerged from a space rift, and their young leader used his Moon Eye to spot Lin Qianqian inside the barrier.

Lin Qianqian considered how to repay Zhou Fan for the earrings he had given her when Tenshiki appeared at the camp and demanded she join his family as a mother to his descendants. After she refused, Tenshiki attacked and seized her by the throat.

• Lin Qianqian thought about Zhou Fan’s good qualities and decided to find him a gift so she would not owe him for the earrings.
• Tenshiki appeared without triggering Lin Qianqian’s barrier and introduced himself as an heir of the Shikigami Family from the Star Realm.
• Tenshiki explained that he wanted Lin Qianqian to bear children with him and said she was the tenth of eighteen women he planned to choose.
• Lin Qianqian mocked Tenshiki’s proposal and refused to go with him to the Star Realm.
• Tenshiki turned hostile, shattered Lin Qianqian’s Paper-Style Guard, and seized her by the throat.

Lin Qianqian fought Tenshiki with explosive and sealing techniques, but he remained overwhelmingly powerful until Zhou Fan arrived and attacked. Zhou Fan stood between Tenshiki and Lin Qianqian, refusing to let him take her.

• Tenshiki repeatedly evaded Lin Qianqian’s explosive attacks and tried to control her with his Moon Eye: Charm.
• Lin Qianqian used Sealing Tags to interrupt Tenshiki’s dōjutsu, but he adapted and tore apart her sealing circle.
• Zhou Fan entered the sealed space and pierced Tenshiki’s spatial barrier with Kamui Chidori.
• Tenshiki declared that he intended to take Lin Qianqian away, and Zhou Fan vowed not to let him.

Zhou Fan fought Tenshiki, whose spatial abilities and sixth-tier strength overwhelmed him in their first exchanges. Zhou Fan survived Tenshiki’s heart-piercing attack with Intangibility and countered with a Sage Art: Rasengan, but Tenshiki remained unharmed.

• Lin Qianqian warned Zhou Fan that Tenshiki’s power involved space, and Zhou Fan reassured her before facing him.
• Tenshiki unleashed his sixth-tier aura and attacked Zhou Fan with Moon Eye: Number Beads, but Zhou Fan deflected the beads with his Star Shatter Halberd in Sage Mode.
• Tenshiki’s Moon Eye: Heavenly Explosion overcame Zhou Fan’s spear attack, and Zhou Fan escaped the follow-up sword strike with the Substitution Technique.
• Zhou Fan attacked Tenshiki from behind and sent a Wood Dragon at him, but Tenshiki blocked the dragon and cut it apart with a spatial slash.
• Tenshiki teleported in front of Zhou Fan and pierced his heart, but Zhou Fan used Intangibility to evade the attack and struck Tenshiki with a Sage Art: Rasengan.
• Tenshiki survived the Rasengan without injury and questioned how Zhou Fan was still alive.

Zhou Fan and Lin Qianqian wounded Tenshiki, but his four guardians protected him and helped him capture Lin. As Tenshiki carried her away, Zhao Qiu opened his Origin Lock to hold the guardians back so Zhou Fan could pursue them.

• Zhou Fan used Kamui Chidori to pierce Tenshiki, and Lin Qianqian followed with a Mutually Multiplying Paper Bomb Technique that failed to kill him.
• Tenshiki's guardians—East, South, West, and North—appeared and attacked Zhou Fan together, while Tenshiki trapped Lin Qianqian with Shikigami Cage.
• Tenshiki carried Lin Qianqian away as the guardians trapped Zhou Fan in a spatial barrier.
• Deidara and Zhao Qiu intervened, giving Zhou Fan an opening to break through the barrier with Kamui.
• Zhao Qiu opened Life Shackles: Fifth · Origin Lock and charged the guardians, telling Zhou Fan to bring Lin back.

Zhao Qiu used his Origin Lock to hold off the enemy while Zhou Fan pursued Tenshiki, leaving Lin Qianqian to fight for herself. Lin Qianqian escaped Tenshiki’s spatial cage and nearly defeated him with her sealing and explosive techniques, but he recovered and attacked her; a figure appeared just in time to intervene.

• Zhao Qiu opened the Fifth Lock and kicked East Style away, then urged Zhou Fan to rescue Lin Qianqian while he held off the enemies.
• Tenshiki carried Lin Qianqian toward the Spatial Passage, but she cut through his spatial cage with her paper sheets and broke free.
• Lin Qianqian trapped Tenshiki inside a paper barrier, used a Sealing Gem to suppress his powers, and boosted herself with an Origin Gem.
• Lin Qianqian unleashed one hundred thousand Explosive Tags, leaving Tenshiki charred, but he recovered using his lifesaving skill.
• Tenshiki thrust a longsword at the exhausted Lin Qianqian, and a figure appeared with Flying Thunder God Slash.

Zhou Fan battled Tenshiki as he tried to stop the Shikigami heir from opening a passage to the Star Realm. With Tenshiki’s guards emerging through the rift, Zhou Fan summoned a colossal thousand-armed Buddha to face them.

• Zhou Fan used Flying Thunder God Slash and Kamui Chidori to stab Tenshiki, but Tenshiki opened a rift connecting to the Star Realm.
• Tenshiki blocked Zhou Fan’s attacks with his Moon Eye powers, while Zhou Fan used invisibility and a Steam Imp clone to burn him.
• Tenshiki detected Zhou Fan with Moon Shadow: Number Beads, but Zhou Fan redirected the beads with Flying Thunder God: Guiding Thunder and struck Tenshiki.
• Shikigami Family guards poured through the rift and destroyed Zhou Fan’s Wood Dragon.
• Zhou Fan activated Sage Art: Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands and raised a colossal thousand-armed Buddha statue.

Zhou Fan used Susanoo-Clad Kurama and True Several Thousand Hands to destroy Tenshiki’s guards, but Tenshiki seized Lin Qianqian and tried to escape through the Spatial Passage. Zhou Fan stopped him and pierced his heart, but Tenshiki launched an attack at Lin Qianqian before the chapter ended.

• Zhou Fan covered the thousand-armed Buddha in Complete Body Susanoo and unleashed True Several Thousand Hands against the guards’ Moon Barrier.
• Zhou Fan’s 1,500 fists broke through the barrier and killed or critically wounded the guards, while Tenshiki survived by staying away from the fight.
• Tenshiki seized Lin Qianqian at the Spatial Passage and threatened to take her back to the Star Realm.
• Zhou Fan used the Flying Thunder God Technique and Sharingan genjutsu to stop Tenshiki, then pierced his heart with Chidori Sharp Spear.
• Tenshiki broke free, hurled Lin Qianqian into the air, and attacked her with Moon Eye: Silver Wheel Explosion.