Recaps

Zhou Fan subdued the Eight-Tails and contracted Gyuki as his Summoning Beast, then joined Lin Qianqian's battle against Auge and Su Mei. The pair were defeated, but a ship from Meixing Country arrived as Zhou Fan demanded the Sea God Spear.

• Zhou Fan extinguished the Amaterasu flames, but the Eight-Tails sprang a point-blank Miniature Tailed Beast Bomb ambush.
• Zhou Fan blocked the attack with Susanoo, restrained the Eight-Tails with Wood Release, and trapped it in Sharingan Genjutsu.
• Zhou Fan spent 15,000 emotion points to contract the Eight-Tails, Gyuki, as his sixth Tailed Beast Summoning Beast.
• Lin Qianqian repelled Auge's suicide-bomb fish and Su Mei's Mind Invasion, forcing them to retreat.
• Zhou Fan struck Auge and Su Mei with Big Ball Spiraling Serial Sphere and demanded the Sea God Spear.
• A ship from Meixing Country approached, bearing a bald eagle flag.

Auge and Su Mei joined a Meixing Country ship carrying the Sea God Spear, and Zhou Fan and Luo Luodong confronted its powerful Esper team. After Ilica warned that an attack could start a war, Zhou Fan blocked the ship’s retreat with Wood Clones, leaving both sides facing a standoff.

• Auge and Su Mei boarded a Meixing Country Esper Bureau ship and revealed their allegiance to Meixing Country.
• Zhou Fan recognized that Auge’s blood techniques and healing pointed to vampire ancestry, while Su Mei said she had recently joined Meixing Country.
• Luo Luodong identified the newcomers as the Pacific Third Esper Squad’s First Squad, led by Fifth Tier, Five Stars vampire Ilica.
• Ilica warned Zhou Fan’s group that attacking in international waters could make them responsible for starting a war.
• Zhou Fan summoned twenty Wood Clones to block the ship’s retreat and challenged Ilica to try to leave.

Zhou Fan and his companions faced off against Ilica’s Meixing Country fleet, trying to make the other side attack first and trigger a justified response. Just as reinforcements from the Haicheng Esper Bureau arrived, Lin Hai stabbed Zhou Fan and revealed that he was undercover.

• Zhou Fan surrounded Ilica’s ship with Shadow Clones while Luo Luodong and the others backed his plan to avoid attacking first.
• Ilica threatened to kill them and hide their bodies, while Luo Luodong stood firm against him.
• Lin Hai arrived with the Haicheng Esper Bureau after detecting a strong energy reaction and warned Luo Luodong not to fight Meixing Country.
• Zhou Fan explained that they could fight back if Ilica’s side attacked first, and Lin Hai’s arrival gave the group more confidence.
• Lin Hai stabbed Zhou Fan from behind and said he was undercover.

Lin Hai revealed that he had joined forces with the Blood Society to seize the Sea God Spear for Meixing Country, and he poisoned Zhou Fan while turning against Luo Luodong’s team. As Ilica’s warship began to retreat with the spear, a giant Explosive Clay doll dropped onto it and detonated.

• Lin Hai stabbed Zhou Fan with a poisoned dagger, leaving him weakened as Lin Qianqian rushed to support him.
• Lin Hai admitted he wanted to defect for a better future, and Luo Luodong realized the Haicheng Esper Bureau and Blood Society had conspired to obtain the Sea God Spear.
• Lin Hai threatened Luo Luodong’s team, while Ilica watched and explained he would not attack first.
• Yuan An and Gu Ning warned that they could not let Meixing Country take the Sea God Spear, but Zhou Fan’s injury and their lack of manpower put them at a disadvantage.
• Ilica ordered the warship to turn and retreat with the Sea God Spear, but a giant Explosive Clay doll landed on the ship and exploded.

Jiaoxin, Duan Fei, and Deidara attacked Ilica’s warship, destroyed its defensive barrier, and plunged the Vampires into battle. As Lin Hai moved to stop them, Luo Luodong and the others confronted him while fighting to reclaim the Sea God Spear.

• Deidara bombarded Ilica’s warship from above, and his C3 No. 18 clay puppet shattered its defensive barrier.
• Jiaoxin and Duan Fei landed on the warship, where Duan Fei used his Curse Ritual to inflict pain on Vampires whose blood he had licked.
• Jiaoxin’s masked powers and Deidara’s Clay Spiders supported Duan Fei, throwing the warship’s defenders into chaos.
• Ilica urged Lin Hai to handle the Xia Country attackers, and Lin Hai charged at Duan Fei.
• Luo Luodong appeared to face Lin Hai, while Gu Ning, Gu Yu, Zhao Qiu, and the others joined the battle to reclaim the Sea God Spear.

Luo Luodong’s group and the three attackers battled Lin Hai’s forces and the Vampires aboard the warship. Ilica entered the fight, pinned Duan Fei, and then clashed with Zhou Fan and Lin Qianqian as they tried to stop him from guarding the Sea God Spear.

• Luo Luodong confronted Lin Hai while the others took on Su Mei and Auge, and Deidara, Jiaoxin, and Duan Fei fought the Vampires.
• Duan Fei used the Vampires’ blood to curse them, while Jiaoxin and Deidara attacked them with Superpowers and Clay Bombs.
• Ilica suddenly struck Duan Fei and pinned him to the deck with blood spears.
• Zhou Fan and Lin Qianqian intervened before Ilica could crush Duan Fei’s head, and Ilica recognized Zhou Fan as the one who had killed Osborn and Iris.
• Zhou Fan traded blows with Ilica, while Lin Qianqian’s paper attacks damaged him before his regeneration restored his body.

Zhou Fan and Lin Qianqian fought Ilica in the air, using Kamui, spatial power, and coordinated attacks to overcome his strength. Ilica regenerated after being badly wounded and decided he had to kill them to prevent them from becoming powerful threats to Meixing Country, then began transforming.

• Zhou Fan used Kamui to evade Ilica's punch and struck him with a Sage Art: Wind Release: Rasenshuriken, sending him into the sea.
• Ilica ambushed Lin Qianqian, but her Paper-Style Guard, strengthened with spatial power, stopped his punch.
• Zhou Fan opened the Seventh Gate of Wonder and used Kamui to evade Ilica's attack before hitting him with Daytime Tiger.
• Lin Qianqian wounded Ilica with Spatial Paper Shards, and Zhou Fan grazed him with Dust Release, disintegrating half his body.
• Ilica regenerated, resolved to kill Zhou Fan and Lin Qianqian for Meixing Country's sake, and activated Vampire True Form.

Zhou Fan used the power of six tailed beasts to create an Ultimate Susanoo and fought Ilica’s vampire true form. After Ilica’s attacks damaged Susanoo, Zhou Fan restored it and challenged him to continue.

• Ilica manifested a vampire true form over a hundred meters tall, and Zhou Fan formed his two-hundred-meter Complete Body Susanoo.
• Zhou Fan drew power from Shukaku, Matatabi, Isobu, Kokuō, Chōmei, and Gyuki to strengthen his Susanoo into an Ultimate Susanoo.
• Ilica attacked with Blood-Extinguishing Claw, but Zhou Fan’s slash destroyed the vampire true form’s claws and cut away half its body.
• Ilica regenerated and unleashed several attacks, damaging Susanoo’s armor and blasting away part of its flesh.
• Zhou Fan restored Susanoo with his ocular power and asked Ilica whether he still had the strength to continue fighting.

Zhou Fan defeated Ilica’s Vampire True Form with Susanoo, Dust Release, and Kirin, but Ilica revived through Blood Source Rebirth. Weakened but determined, Ilica seized the Sea God Spear and activated it to continue the fight.

• Zhou Fan’s Susanoo recovered, and he countered Ilica’s attacks with its sword and Dust Release.
• Susanoo drove Ilica’s Vampire True Form into the seabed, where Ilica resisted and ultimately dispelled the sword energy, but lost his transformed body.
• Zhou Fan summoned Kirin and struck Ilica with lightning, apparently killing him as onlookers watched in shock.
• Ilica revived on the warship using Blood Source Rebirth, though the ability left him with only sixty percent of his original power.
• Ilica took the Sea God Spear from the first mate and activated it, insisting that the fight was not over.

Ilica forced the sealed Sea God Spear to acknowledge him, gaining its oceanic power and breaking through to sixth tier, one star. He overwhelmed Zhou Fan in their renewed clash, but Zhou Fan relished the pain and welcomed the fight.

• Ilica struggled against the Sea God Spear's seal but managed to lift it and unleash its power.
• Ilica replenished his strength, advanced from fifth tier, five stars to sixth tier, one star, and enlarged his Vampire True Form to 120 meters.
• Ilica's Vampire True Form clashed with Zhou Fan's Complete Body Susanoo and gained the upper hand with the Sea God Spear.
• Ilica broke the Susanoo's blades with Sea God Strike and wounded Zhou Fan with Sea God Annihilation.
• Zhou Fan's wounds healed as he laughed and declared that the pain made this a real fight.

Zhou Fan fought Ilica at sea after Ilica activated the Sea God Spear, then escalated to his strongest Wood Release and Susanoo combination when Ilica burned his blood for power. The chapter ended as Zhou Fan imbued the Buddha’s many fists with Kamui to counter Ilica’s strongest strike.

• Zhou Fan restored his Complete Body Susanoo, armed it with the Star Shatter Halberd, and used Unrivaled Under Heaven to clash evenly with Ilica and the Sea God Spear.
• Zhou Fan judged Ilica weaker than expected, while Ilica grew furious that he could not suppress him despite using the spear’s power.
• Ilica burned his blood to concentrate his remaining life force into the Sea God Spear and unleash a final attack.
• Zhou Fan summoned True Several Thousand Hands, clad it in Susanoo armor, and infused it with the power of all six Tailed Beasts.
• Ilica launched Blood Sea Spear as Zhou Fan combined Kamui with Susanoo-Clad Kurama to create Sage Art: Wood Release: Kamui: True Several Thousand Hands.

Zhou Fan defeated Ilica in a devastating battle at sea, then killed him when he tried to rise again. After dispelling his exhausted Susanoo-Clad Kurama, Zhou Fan declared the mission nearly complete.

• Zhou Fan unleashed Kamui-infused Sage Art: Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands, and Ilica countered with a barrage of Sea God Spear thrusts.
• Zhao Qiu and the others struggled to keep the ship steady against the battle’s shock waves, while Lin Qianqian shielded the Azure Dragon with Paper Shards.
• After more than ten minutes of fighting, Zhou Fan remained unhurt, while Ilica’s Sea God Spear lost its power and Ilica fell, battered, onto a reef.
• Ilica struggled to his feet and vowed to keep fighting for his loved ones, but Zhou Fan killed him with the Star Shatter Halberd.
• Zhou Fan dispelled Susanoo-Clad Kurama, said the mission was nearly over, and heard his companions celebrate his victory.

After Zhou Fan killed Ilica, Luo Luodong ordered the Azure Dragon to pursue the fleeing Meixing Country crew. When five Meixing Country warships opened fire, Lin Qianqian destroyed the entire fleet with her evolved paper-bomb technique.

• Zhou Fan asked Luo Luodong whether Ilica's death would cause repercussions, and Luo Luodong said Meixing Country had started the conflict.
• Luo Luodong ordered the Azure Dragon to chase the fleeing vampires, but the crew encountered five Meixing Country warships coming to support Warship No. 1.
• The five warships aimed their energy cannons at the Azure Dragon and fired.
• Lin Qianqian sealed the incoming energy shells in Paper Shards, then launched hundreds of thousands of Explosive Tags at the fleet.
• Lin Qianqian's Explosive Tags and Space Shikigami Paper overwhelmed the warships' defensive barriers, sinking the entire formation.

After Lin Qianqian destroyed Meixing Country’s fleet, Zhou Fan’s group finished off the survivors and captured Lin Hai, Auge, and Su Mei. When Zhou Fan picked up the shattered Sea God Spear, the Sea God’s lingering will appeared and attacked him, leaving him to defend the group with Susanoo.

• Lin Qianqian sank Meixing Country’s warships, and Yuan An and the others killed the surviving vampires.
• Luo Luodong kept Lin Hai, Auge, and Su Mei alive and bound them for capture.
• Zhou Fan found the cracked Sea God Spear beside Ilica’s corpse, and it shattered when he picked it up.
• The Sea God’s lingering will emerged from the spear, sealed the area, and targeted Zhou Fan with a divine punishment attack.
• Zhou Fan protected his companions by forming several defenses, and his Complete Body Susanoo clashed with the Sea God’s spear.

After blocking the Sea God's attack, Zhou Fan ran out of spiritual energy and began to drown, but Lin Qianqian rescued him and brought him to a nearby island. As he rested, Lin Qianqian awkwardly tried to explain away her underwater kiss, then left to find food while her Paper Clone stayed to protect him.

• Zhou Fan fell into the sea after the Sea God's blow shattered his Susanoo, and Lin Qianqian rescued him with a kiss that gave him air.
• Lin Qianqian brought Zhou Fan ashore, where he rested and learned that the Director and the others had been scattered by the waves.
• Lin Qianqian insisted she had kissed Zhou Fan only to save him, while Zhou Fan said he had merely wanted to thank her.
• When Zhou Fan said he was hungry, Lin Qianqian left to look for food after creating a Paper Clone to guard him.
• Zhou Fan asked the Paper Clone to protect him while he slept, and it stomped on his foot for treating it like a lackey.

After recovering from the battle with the Sea God, Zhou Fan and Lin Qianqian returned to Haicheng with their companions and went back to school. As Zhou Fan and Lin Qianqian shared the wild fruit she had gathered, they sensed that something was wrong.

• Lin Qianqian brought Zhou Fan wild fruit, and he ate some to regain his strength.
• Zhao Qiu and the others arrived by warship, and the group returned safely to Haicheng.
• Gu Ning and Gu Yu stayed to care for the injured Li Qing, while Luo Luodong and Yuan An escorted Lin Hai to the Southern District Esper Bureau.
• Zhou Fan praised Jiaoxin, Deidara, and the others for their help, then sent them back to their base and returned to school.
• Zhou Fan and Lin Qianqian ate the remaining wild fruit in their dorm before noticing that something felt off.

After eating a Shadow Vine Fruit by mistake, Zhou Fan struggled to control the desire it stirred in him and tried to keep Lin Qianqian at a distance. Lin Qianqian used Sealing Tags and Healing Talismans to help him, but seeing her reignited the flames, and he pulled her into his arms.

• Zhou Fan realized his flushed, restless state came from a Shadow Vine Fruit disguised as a cherry fruit.
• Zhou Fan warned Lin Qianqian to stay away and spent half an hour under cold water trying to suppress the fruit's effects.
• Zhou Fan went to his room and used natural energy to hold the effects steady, but it could not cool them down.
• Lin Qianqian brought Sealing Tags and Healing Talismans into Zhou Fan's room and used them to reduce the effects.
• Zhou Fan saw Lin Qianqian, lost control, and pulled her into his arms.

After the Shadow Vine Fruit’s effects overwhelmed Zhou Fan, Lin Qianqian tried to soothe him, but their embrace turned into a kiss that deepened their feelings and tested her boundaries. She stopped his hand, then decided to let him go further just this once.

• Zhou Fan pulled Lin Qianqian close while struggling to keep control under the Shadow Vine Fruit’s effects.
• Lin Qianqian stayed and embraced Zhou Fan, explaining that closeness could gradually ease the fruit’s effects.
• Zhou Fan kissed Lin Qianqian, and she chose not to resist as they held each other.
• Zhou Fan moved his hand upward, but Lin Qianqian caught his wrist and saw how fiercely the fruit still affected him.
• Lin Qianqian’s hesitation ended, and she told Zhou Fan, “Just this once...”

Lin Qianqian tried to help Zhou Fan purge the Shadow Vine Fruit’s effects, but their intimacy grew until he nearly went too far. She stopped him and left, insisting the encounter meant nothing, though both knew they would remember it.

• Lin Qianqian told Zhou Fan she was only helping him purify the Shadow Vine Fruit’s effects as they became intimate.
• Zhou Fan’s desire intensified, and Lin Qianqian’s resistance weakened as he touched and kissed her.
• When Zhou Fan tried to go further, Lin Qianqian bit his neck, regained control, and pushed him away.
• Lin Qianqian told Zhou Fan the fruit’s effects were mostly gone and demanded he forget the encounter and tell no one.
• Lin Qianqian returned to her room, locked the door, and replayed the night in her thoughts.

After completing the punishment quest with Zhou Fan, Lin Qianqian received three rewards and a King-Level Chest, while learning that their next comparison would be in a year. Zhou Fan gained a large number of special emotion points from Lin Qianqian and came within 20,000 points of being able to exchange for the Rinnegan.

• Lin Qianqian completed the punishment quest and received Paper Shikigami Spatial Return, a permanent Protection Gem, and a Mind Pearl.
• Lin Qianqian learned she had failed the leg and rear armor bonus challenges but earned a King-Level Chest for allowing Zhou Fan to stroke her front armor.
• Lin Qianqian learned that the next comparison would take place in one year, then struggled to stop thinking about Zhou Fan and beat up a doll to vent.
• Zhou Fan waited for his reaction to settle and received 13,140 special emotion points from Lin Qianqian, bringing his balance to 980,000.

Zhou Fan bought the limited-time bundle, gaining three powerful abilities and a bonus Water Release technique. After spending the night thinking about Lin Qianqian, he shared a quietly awkward breakfast with her the next morning.

• Zhou Fan bought the Totsuka Blade, Yata Mirror, and Kotoamatsukami with emotion points.
• The system rewarded Zhou Fan with the Water Release · Water Mirror Technique for purchasing the entire bundle.
• Zhou Fan tried to sleep but kept thinking about Lin Qianqian and their kiss.
• Zhou Fan and Lin Qianqian got up at the same time, greeted each other, and ate breakfast together.
• Zhou Fan and Lin Qianqian reached for the same steamed bun, and she quickly pulled her hand back when their hands brushed.

Lin Qianqian acted unusually shy around Zhou Fan after their encounter the previous night, and Zhao Qiu spotted the bite mark she had left on Zhou Fan. Gu Yu returned to Xinghai University and asked Zhao Qiu to show her around, but he failed to understand her hint.

• Lin Qianqian instinctively pulled away when she touched Zhou Fan, then asked whether he had plans for the day.
• Zhao Qiu came over for breakfast, washed the dishes, and noticed a bite mark on Zhou Fan's neck.
• Lin Qianqian felt guilty when Zhao Qiu teased that she had bitten Zhou Fan, and Zhou Fan blamed the mark on his fight with the Blood Society.
• Gu Yu arrived after returning from Haicheng with Gu Ning and the stabilized director, Li Qing, and said she had come to see Zhao Qiu.
• Gu Yu asked Zhao Qiu to show her around Xinghai City, but he suggested she use a campus map until she insisted that she wanted him to come with her.

Zhou Fan pushed Zhao Qiu to spend the day showing Gu Yu around Xinghai City, hoping the two would grow closer. Zhao Qiu returned exhausted but happy after they exchanged bracelets, leaving Zhou Fan optimistic about their relationship.

• Zhou Fan and Lin Qianqian watched Gu Yu visit Zhao Qiu, and Zhou Fan guessed that Gu Yu liked him.
• Zhao Qiu said he did not want to go out alone with Gu Yu and invited Zhou Fan and Lin Qianqian to join them.
• After both friends declined, Zhou Fan insisted Zhao Qiu take Gu Yu around Xinghai City and sent them off together.
• Zhao Qiu returned that evening and told Zhou Fan they had visited several attractions and shared lunch and dinner.
• Zhao Qiu showed Zhou Fan the bracelet Gu Yu gave him and said they had exchanged gifts.

After the Blood Society mission, Gu Yu and the others returned to Heavenfire University while Zhou Fan stayed at Xinghai University. Zhou Fan met with [Dawn] to review the mission and told its members they still needed to become stronger.

• Li Qing declined treatment for a replacement arm at Xinghai University, and he, Gu Ning, and Gu Yu departed on the Gale Eagle.
• Gu Yu invited Zhao Qiu to visit Heavenfire City, and Zhao Qiu watched her leave before Zhou Fan teased him about missing her.
• The Southern District Esper Bureau summoned the city's bureau directors to discuss Haicheng's traitorous director and report the case to the Superpower General Bureau.
• Zhou Fan visited [Dawn]'s base, where Jiaoxin, Duan Fei, Deidara, and Zhao Qiu gathered for a meeting.
• Zhou Fan reviewed the Sea Battle mission and told [Dawn]'s members that they were not strong enough.

Zhou Fan assessed Dawn’s members and decided that Duan Fei should learn the Eight Gates Technique to strengthen himself beyond his curse ritual. The chapter ended with Zhou Fan taking Duan Fei to train and assigning Deidara to build his physique in the Gravity Training Room.

• Zhou Fan explained that Duan Fei’s curse ritual could be countered by fifth-tier Espers and left him vulnerable if his abilities were exposed.
• Zhou Fan offered to teach Duan Fei the Eight Gates Technique, which Duan Fei accepted eagerly because his immortal body could withstand its strain.
• Zhou Fan told Deidara and Jiaoxin they were not suited to the Eight Gates Technique and should keep developing their own abilities.
• Zhou Fan ordered Deidara to begin basic conditioning in the Gravity Training Room.
• Zhou Fan took Duan Fei to teach him the Eight Gates Technique.