Recaps

Zhou Fan taught Duan Fei the Eight Gates Technique while Zhao Qiu watched, and Duan Fei quickly opened four gates. The chapter ended with Duan Fei and Zhao Qiu sparring, where Zhao Qiu won using the Life Shackles.

• Zhou Fan explained the Eight Gates Technique to Duan Fei and had his Shadow Clone teach him while he drank iced black tea with Zhao Qiu.
• Zhao Qiu reminisced about Xia Qingran, and Zhou Fan decided he might visit her in the Imperial Capital to check on her Ice Spirit Body.
• Duan Fei quickly opened the first four gates, impressing Zhou Fan with his talent and physique.
• Zhao Qiu returned from a call with Gu Yu, and Duan Fei challenged him to spar.
• Zhao Qiu fought Duan Fei with three Life Shackles locks and knocked him flying, claiming victory over Duan Fei's Eight Gates Technique.

Zhao Qiu and Duan Fei learned the Eight Gates Technique and trained against each other and Zhou Fan, growing stronger. Then Qin Lin called to say Xia Qingran’s sealing was complete but something unexpected had happened, leaving Zhou Fan worried and preparing to visit.

• Zhou Fan told Duan Fei he would need to open the fifth gate to challenge powerful opponents, then encouraged Zhao Qiu to learn the Eight Gates Technique to refine his Life Shackles.
• Zhao Qiu learned the basics in under an hour and opened the second, third, and fourth gates, though he could not reach the fifth.
• Zhao Qiu and Duan Fei trained and sparred throughout the day, with Duan Fei making progress and gaining endurance from his Immortal Body.
• Duan Fei invited Zhou Fan to spar, and Zhou Fan opened the Seventh Gate and beat both him and Zhao Qiu in the ring.
• Qin Lin called Zhou Fan and told him Xia Qingran’s sealing was complete but that something unexpected had happened.

After Qin Lin told Zhou Fan that something had happened to Xia Qingran, he rushed from Xinghai City to the Imperial Capital to check on her. He found Qingran in her room transformed into a little girl and realized she was the child he had mistaken for her younger sister.

• Lin Qianqian offered to go with Zhou Fan, but he went ahead alone to the Imperial Capital.
• Zhou Fan used the Flying Thunder God Technique and Kamui to reach the Xia Family residence within minutes.
• Qin Lin told Zhou Fan that Xia Qingran was upstairs in her room, and he hurried to see her.
• Zhou Fan found a little girl who looked like Xia Qingran and waited with her, thinking she was Qingran's younger sister.
• When Zhou Fan recognized Xia Qingran's familiar scent, she confirmed that she was the little girl in the room.

Zhou Fan discovered that Xia Qingran had become a little girl after the Xiaoyang Fruit suppressed her Ice Spirit Body, though she said the change was temporary. After she invited him to stay the night and offered to take him to the Qin Family Secret Grounds the next day, she asked him to play a game with her.

• Zhou Fan recognized the little girl as Xia Qingran and teased her about calling him Big Brother Zhou Fan.
• Xia Qingran explained that the Xiaoyang Fruit had successfully suppressed her Ice Spirit Body, but its power had also changed her body.
• Xia Qingran told Zhou Fan that she expected to recover after integrating the powers of the Xiaoyang Fruit and her Ice Spirit Body.
• Zhou Fan explained that Xia Qingran's mother had called him about the accident, prompting him to rush over.
• Xia Qingran invited Zhou Fan to stay the night and said her mother could take him to the Qin Family Secret Grounds the next day.
• Xia Qingran asked Zhou Fan to help her play a game, and he agreed.

After winning a late-night game with Xia Qingran, Zhou Fan urged her to rest and learned from Qin Lin that the Xiaoyang Fruit’s power and Qingran’s Ice Spirit Body needed to be balanced in the Qin Family Secret Grounds. Qin Lin asked Zhou Fan to protect and support Qingran there and in the future, and he agreed before they went to sleep.

• Zhou Fan and Xia Qingran won their game, and Zhou Fan persuaded her to stop playing and get some rest.
• Qin Lin told Zhou Fan that he and Xia Qingran could enter the Qin Family Secret Grounds the next morning.
• Qin Lin explained that Qingran needed to strengthen her Ice Spirit Body until it balanced the Xiaoyang Fruit’s power, without becoming stronger than it.
• Qin Lin asked Zhou Fan to help protect Qingran in the Secret Grounds and support her in the future, and Zhou Fan promised he would.
• Qin Lin returned to her room, and Zhou Fan went to sleep in the room the Xia Family had prepared for him.

Zhou Fan arrived at the Qin Family estate to enter the Ice Spirit Secret Grounds with Xia Qingran, but Qin Tie objected to an outsider entering the family’s inheritance site. He offered to approve Zhou Fan’s entry if Zhou Fan proved his strength.

• Zhou Fan and Xia Qingran arrived at the Qin Family estate, where Qin Bai confirmed the Secret Grounds were ready.
• Qin Nuannuan embraced the shrunken Xia Qingran and teased her before the group headed to the Secret Grounds.
• Qin Bai explained the Secret Grounds’ rules and gave Zhou Fan a Cold Ice Pearl to let him absorb its icy energy.
• Qin Tie arrived and argued that only people with Qin blood could enter the Secret Grounds, despite Qin Bai’s approval.
• Qin Tie said he would allow Zhou Fan to enter if Zhou Fan proved he was strong enough.

Zhou Fan fought Qin Tie after Qin Tie challenged his qualifications to enter the Ice Spirit Secret Grounds. Zhou Fan matched Qin Tie’s ice attacks and stopped his strongest assault, leaving the contest unresolved.

• Qin Tie challenged Zhou Fan to prove his strength, and Xia Qingran tried to shield Zhou Fan before he insisted on handling the matter himself.
• Qin Tie attacked with ice techniques, but Zhou Fan countered with a Rasenshuriken and a Wood Dragon.
• Qin Tie froze Zhou Fan’s Wood Dragon, and Zhou Fan answered with a wave of fire that pushed back the cold.
• Qin Tie used Twin Dragon Kill, and Zhou Fan’s Water Mirror Technique created two matching ice dragons that destroyed the originals.

Zhou Fan defeated Qin Tie with his Sharingan genjutsu and proved he was strong enough to enter the Ice Spirit Secret Grounds. He entered the Secret Grounds with Xia Qingran after Qin Bai opened the protective restriction.

• Zhou Fan countered Qin Tie's ice attacks and trapped him in Tsukuyomi, forcing him to endure seventy-two hours of pain in the illusion.
• Qin Tie emerged exhausted but charged at Zhou Fan, who immobilized him with Demonic Illusion: Shackling Stakes Technique.
• Zhou Fan released Qin Tie, who stormed off after conceding the match, while the Qin Family watched in shock at Zhou Fan's victory.
• Xia Qingran checked on Zhou Fan, and Qin Bai opened the Secret Grounds' protective restriction after reminding them to be careful and stay together.
• Zhou Fan and Xia Qingran entered the Ice Spirit Secret Grounds together.

Zhou Fan and Xia Qingran entered the Ice Spirit Secret Grounds so he could absorb its icy energy and she could strengthen her ice spirit body. They journeyed toward Ice Spirit Mountain, learning that the vast realm’s origins remained unknown and that mutant beasts waited beyond the Qin Family’s safe area.

• Zhou Fan used the Cold Ice Pearl to withstand the soul-chilling cold while Xia Qingran explained that she needed to strengthen her ice spirit body to suppress the Xiaoyang Fruit.
• Xia Qingran took Zhou Fan’s hand and led him deeper into the icy realm as they passed energy runes visible beneath the ice.
• Zhou Fan learned that the Ice Spirit Secret Grounds predated the Qin Family’s ice spirit body legacy and that the family still did not know the realm’s true origin or boundaries.
• Xia Qingran told Zhou Fan that mutant beasts lived beyond the Qin Family’s barrier-protected safe area and led him toward Ice Spirit Mountain, where the icy energy was densest.

Xia Chuan warned Qin Bai that the Eastern Family and Bai Family had been meeting unusually often, while the Superpower General Bureau monitored the situation. Meanwhile, Zhou Fan and Xia Qingran left the Qin Family’s safe zone in the Ice Spirit Secret Grounds and struggled through worsening snow and wind.

• Qin Bai, Qin Lin, and Xia Chuan discussed their confidence in Zhou Fan and waited for Xia Qingran and Zhou Fan to emerge from the Secret Grounds.
• Xia Chuan told Qin Bai that the Eastern Family and Bai Family had been in frequent contact and might be planning something, a concern shared by the Superpower General Bureau.
• Qin Bai argued that the two families would not risk a serious conflict with the other powers in the Imperial Capital.
• Zhou Fan and Xia Qingran left the Qin Family’s safe zone and entered terrain split by glowing fissures, with fierce wind and heavy snow.
• Xia Qingran struggled to walk in her tiny form, and she playfully punched Zhou Fan after he joked that her size made the wind feel stronger.

Zhou Fan and Xia Qingran reached Ice Spirit Mountain, where the cold tested Zhou Fan but suited Xia Qingran’s ice spirit body. When an Ice Spirit Snow Ape attacked, Zhou Fan destroyed it with a strange power, leaving Xia Qingran astonished.

• Zhou Fan worried about Xia Qingran in the freezing wasteland, but she teased him for finally learning to care about girls.
• Zhou Fan and Xia Qingran passed through a frozen forest and arrived at Ice Spirit Mountain, where she explained the Qin Family’s history with ice spirit bodies.
• Zhou Fan sensed an approaching threat, and an Ice Spirit Snow Ape burst from the ground.
• Zhou Fan burned the ape with his fire techniques, then erased it with Dust Release.
• Xia Qingran asked Zhou Fan what superpower he had used.

Zhou Fan and Xia Qingran reached Ice Spirit Mountain’s inner core so Xia Qingran could strengthen her Ice Spirit Body and suppress the Xiaoyang Fruit’s medicinal power. After adapting to the intense cold with the Cold Ice Pearl, Zhou Fan was ready to stay by her side as she began resonating with the mountain’s cold ice spiritual energy.

• Xia Qingran led Zhou Fan to the underground core of Ice Spirit Mountain, where its cold ice spiritual energy gathered.
• Xia Qingran urged Zhou Fan to activate the Cold Ice Pearl so he could endure the extreme cold and absorb spiritual energy safely.
• Zhou Fan adapted to the cold ice spiritual energy in less than half an hour, drawing on the Cold Ice Pearl and his constitution.
• Xia Qingran began activating her Ice Spirit Body and resonating with the cold ice spiritual energy while Zhou Fan offered to help.

Xia Qingran struggled to suppress the Xiaoyang Fruit’s power while cultivating, and Zhou Fan used a sealing technique to help her overcome its backlash. After her clothes burned away, she borrowed his jacket, then confronted him for seeing her and bit him when he teased her.

• Xia Qingran absorbed cold ice spiritual energy for several hours as Zhou Fan cultivated nearby and watched over her.
• The Xiaoyang Fruit’s power flared up inside Xia Qingran, scorching her meridians and burning most of her clothes.
• Zhou Fan used the Fire-Sealing Method to suppress the escaping flames, allowing Xia Qingran to subdue the Xiaoyang Fruit’s power.
• Xia Qingran covered herself with Zhou Fan’s jacket and made him promise not to tell anyone that he had seen her exposed.
• Zhou Fan called Xia Qingran cute, so she lunged at him and bit him.

Zhou Fan and Xia Qingran shared a barbecue in the cave while discussing how she needed to balance the Xiaoyang Fruit’s power with her Ice Spirit Body to complete its evolution. After eating, Xia Qingran leaned into Zhou Fan’s arms as she grew sleepy.

• Zhou Fan prepared barbecue from food he had stored in his Kamui Dimension, and Xia Qingran asked him to grill her a chicken wing.
• Xia Qingran explained that she had to balance the Xiaoyang Fruit’s power and her Ice Spirit Body perfectly to finish her evolution and prevent future backlash.
• Xia Qingran and Zhou Fan grilled food for each other and ate together by the campfire.
• Xia Qingran offered Zhou Fan a strawberry lollipop and joked that she simply liked sweets, despite quoting someone who said sweet food made life’s bitterness easier to bear.
• Xia Qingran asked to lean on Zhou Fan because she was sleepy, and she nestled into his arms.

Zhou Fan and Xia Qingran slept curled up together in a cave, and Xia Qingran nearly kissed him after waking. They planned to spend the next few days suppressing the Xiaoyang Fruit while absorbing the cave’s cold ice spiritual energy.

• Zhou Fan held Xia Qingran in his arms as they settled down to sleep in the cave.
• Xia Qingran hugged Zhou Fan’s arm in her sleep, and Zhou Fan felt his heartbeat quicken as he drifted off.
• Xia Qingran woke beside Zhou Fan, moved his hand away from her chest, and leaned close to his face before he opened his eyes.
• Xia Qingran told Zhou Fan they would continue suppressing the Xiaoyang Fruit and use the next few days to absorb the cold ice spiritual energy.
• Zhou Fan suggested making breakfast before they got to work.

After a week of cultivation, Xia Qingran fused the Xiaoyang Fruit's power with her ice spirit body, with Zhou Fan standing guard. She regained her original form and revealed that her cultivation had reached Fifth Tier, 2-Star.

• Zhou Fan used his shadow clone to absorb cold ice spiritual energy while he watched over Xia Qingran.
• Over the following days, Zhou Fan and Xia Qingran cultivated, shared meals, and rested together at Ice Spirit Mountain.
• At the heart of Ice Spirit Mountain, Xia Qingran's ice spirit body and the Xiaoyang Fruit struggled for dominance, and Zhou Fan prepared to intervene if she was in danger.
• Xia Qingran's primal spiritual power suppressed both forces and brought them into harmony, allowing her to refine the Xiaoyang Fruit successfully.
• Xia Qingran returned to her original form and demonstrated her Fifth Tier, 2-Star cultivation.

On Ice Spirit Mountain, Xia Qingran reached fifth tier, 2-star after refining the Xiaoyang Fruit, while Zhou Fan cultivated with the Cold Ice Pearl. After spending the remaining days together, Zhou Fan broke through to fifth tier one star before the pearl’s effect ended.

• Xia Qingran told Zhou Fan that refining the Xiaoyang Fruit had raised her cultivation to fifth tier, 2-star, and learned that he had reached fourth tier, five stars.
• Xia Qingran explained that the Cold Ice Pearl’s effect lasted fourteen days and stayed beside Zhou Fan while he continued cultivating.
• While preparing dinner, Zhou Fan said Xia Qingran was less cute than when she had been a little girl, and she asked whether he preferred her current self or her younger self.
• Xia Qingran offered Zhou Fan a lollipop if he liked her as she was and threatened to zap him if he liked her as a little girl; Zhou Fan chose the lollipop.
• Zhou Fan cultivated for the remaining days, and on the final day he advanced from fourth tier, five stars to fifth tier one star.

Zhou Fan broke through to fifth tier while cultivating on Ice Spirit Mountain, and he and Xia Qingran fought their way past a swarm of mutant beasts as they left. Their escape was interrupted by a mysterious figure riding an Ice Pillar who claimed to have found the perfect ice spirit body.

• Zhou Fan reached fifth tier, one star, and Xia Qingran praised his rapid breakthrough.
• Zhou Fan and Xia Qingran left Ice Spirit Mountain after the Cold Ice Pearl lost its power.
• At the mountain's foot, dozens of mutant beasts charged at them, and Xia Qingran froze many of them with her Ice Type abilities.
• As Zhou Fan and Xia Qingran tried to leave, Ice Pillars rained down from the sky, and Zhou Fan shielded them with his Complete Body Susanoo.
• A person appeared atop the final Ice Pillar and said they had found the perfect ice spirit body.

Bingyuan, a descendant of the Ice God Race, revealed that he intended to sacrifice Xia Qingran’s perfect Ice Spirit Body to resurrect the Ice God. Zhou Fan and Xia Qingran fought him in the Ice Spirit Secret Grounds, and the chapter ended as Bingyuan’s powerful Ice God Finger descended on Zhou Fan’s Susanoo.

• Bingyuan introduced himself as a descendant of the Ice God Race and claimed to be the true master of the Ice Spirit Secret Grounds.
• Bingyuan attacked Zhou Fan and Xia Qingran with ice techniques, but Zhou Fan’s Susanoo and Xia Qingran’s ice powers resisted him.
• Xia Qingran and Bingyuan clashed in a fierce battle, with her perfect Ice Spirit Body allowing her to fight him evenly despite her lower cultivation.
• Zhou Fan struck Bingyuan with Dust Release, disintegrating his left arm and frightening him with the attack’s power.
• Bingyuan unleashed the Ice God Finger at Zhou Fan, who faced it with his Susanoo and raised the Yata Mirror.

Zhou Fan defeated Bingyuan by blocking his Ice God Finger attacks with the Yata Mirror and sealing his escaping soul with the Totsuka Blade. After Bingyuan warned that Xia Qingran was marked as a sacrifice for the Ice God's resurrection, Zhou Fan and Xia Qingran decided to keep away from the Ice Spirit Secret Grounds.

• Bingyuan's two Ice God Finger attacks struck the Yata Mirror, which absorbed and nullified them.
• Zhou Fan's Susanoo pierced Bingyuan with the Totsuka Blade before he could attack again.
• Bingyuan tried to escape by separating his soul, but the Totsuka Blade sealed him inside its sake gourd.
• Bingyuan warned Zhou Fan that the Ice God Race intended to use Xia Qingran's perfect Ice Spirit Body as a sacrifice for the Ice God's resurrection.
• Xia Qingran agreed to have her uncle seal the space and tell the Qin Family to stay out, and Zhou Fan led her away.

Zhou Fan and Xia Qingran emerged from the Ice Spirit Secret Grounds, and Xia Qingran told the Qin Family that the Ice God Race had attacked them and was targeting her perfect Ice Spirit Body. The Qin Family decided to seal the entrance, while Zhou Fan left to return home.

• Xia Qingran reunited with Qin Nuannuan, Qin Lin, and Qin Bai after successfully refining the Xiaoyang Fruit.
• Xia Qingran explained that she and Zhou Fan had encountered an Ice God Race member inside the Secret Grounds and defeated him.
• Zhou Fan revealed that the Ice God Race came from the Star Realm and had targeted Xia Qingran because her Ice Spirit Body had become perfect.
• Qin Lin and Qin Bai reacted with alarm when they learned the Ice God Race intended to capture Xia Qingran.
• Zhou Fan advised sealing the entrance to the Ice Spirit Secret Grounds, and Qin Bai agreed to have it sealed.
• Zhou Fan said goodbye to Xia Qingran and left to return home.

After returning to Xinghai University, Zhou Fan caught up with his companions and revealed that he had advanced to fifth tier, one star. A meteor shower then struck Blue Star, leaving Xinghai University under attack and the fate of the wider world uncertain.

• Zhou Fan used his space-time techniques to return to Xinghai University and visited the [Dawn] hideout.
• Zhou Fan learned that Duan Fei had mastered the first seven gates of the Eight Gates Technique and encouraged Zhao Qiu in his training.
• Zhou Fan returned to the villa, where Lin Qianqian heard that he had advanced two stars to fifth tier, one star.
• Zhou Fan and Lin Qianqian went outside after an explosion and saw meteorites raining down across the sky.
• The Execution Department raised a barrier over Xinghai University, which shuddered when a huge meteorite struck it, while meteorites devastated areas across Blue Star.

A meteor shower struck Xinghai City, and Xinghai University’s forces joined Zhou Fan and Lin Qianqian in protecting the city and its civilians. After the last meteorite fell, Lin Qianqian and Zhou Fan recognized energy like that of the Void Rift, leaving them to wonder how the disaster was connected to it.

• Luo Luodong and the Execution Department defended Xinghai University as meteorites battered its barrier, while Xi Yan sent teams and qualified teachers and students to protect Xinghai City.
• Zhou Fan and Lin Qianqian joined the operation and destroyed two meteorites that threatened civilians in the city center.
• Zhou Fan and Lin Qianqian flew into the sky, destroying meteorites with their techniques and helping the defenders protect the city.
• After Lin Qianqian destroyed the final meteorite, she and Zhou Fan sensed energy like that of the Void Rift and questioned how the meteor shower could be connected to it.

Zhou Fan, Lin Qianqian, and Xi Yan helped defend Xinghai City as the meteor shower escalated into a nationwide and global disaster. After the Superpower General Bureau reported heavy casualties and widespread damage, Zhou Fan feared the meteor shower would trigger an unprecedented upheaval.

• Zhou Fan and Lin Qianqian destroyed dozens of meteors while Luo Luodong led the Execution Department in protecting Xinghai City's residents.
• Xi Yan shattered a Super Meteorite headed for Xinghai City, then more Super Meteorites flew toward distant locations and caused devastation.
• Xinghai University kept its defensive barrier active and sheltered residents while the Execution Department maintained guard through the night.
• The Superpower General Bureau reported that more than three hundred meteors had struck Xia Country, killing 4,312 people and damaging 193 cities.
• The news reported meteor showers and heavy losses in countries around the world, and Zhou Fan felt that an unprecedented upheaval might follow.

After the meteor shower devastated parts of the Southern District, Zhou Fan, Lin Qianqian, and Zhao Qiu collected meteorite fragments near Xinghai City and discovered they carried energy resembling that from a space rift. They stored the meteorite and set off to collect more.

• Xinghai University joined rescue efforts while the Superpower General Bureau took responsibility for investigating the meteor shower's cause.
• Zhou Fan, Lin Qianqian, and Zhao Qiu arrived at a crater outside Xinghai City to collect a meteorite.
• Lin Qianqian said the meteorite carried an aura similar to the spiritual energy they had sensed in a space rift.
• Zhao Qiu asked whether the meteorite's spiritual energy could be used for cultivation, and Zhou Fan explained that it was too violent for Espers below the sixth tier to absorb.
• The three stored the meteorite in a Space Bracelet and headed to another collection site.