Recaps

Zhou Fan defeated the Death Dragon’s attack, then faced Ultimate Nightmare in an illusion battle. He overcame her strongest assault and used Kotoamatsukami to dominate her, leaving her unable to resist.

• Zhou Fan cut off both of the Death Dragon’s claws and prepared to finish it off.
• Ultimate Nightmare whisked Zhou Fan into an illusory peach grove and tried to seduce him, but his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan saw through her tricks.
• Ultimate Nightmare took on Lin Qianqian’s and Xia Qingran’s appearances, and Zhou Fan realized she had created the apparitions he encountered earlier.
• Zhou Fan changed Ultimate Nightmare’s illusory world into a blood-red landscape, prompting her to challenge him to an illusion battle.
• Ultimate Nightmare attacked with Nightmare: Devour and Ultimate Nightmare, but Zhou Fan blocked both with his Sharingan illusions until their attacks canceled out.
• Zhou Fan used Kotoamatsukami, and Ultimate Nightmare stared at the moon, losing all resistance.

Zhou Fan defeated Ultimate Nightmare in their genjutsu contest and began his final battle against Genesis Star Rain. Genesis Star Rain matched Zhou Fan’s Wood Release, leaving Zhou Fan to switch tactics and attack with Susanoo.

• Genesis Star Rain restored Death Dragon’s severed claws as Death Dragon and he watched Zhou Fan’s genjutsu contest with Ultimate Nightmare.
• Ultimate Nightmare admitted defeat after Zhou Fan overcame her genjutsu with Kotoamatsukami, and Death Dragon realized Zhou Fan had surpassed them both.
• Zhou Fan declined Genesis Star Rain’s offer to recover before their final showdown began.
• Zhou Fan’s Wood Release forests and Wood Dragons clashed with Genesis Star Rain’s vitality-based replicas, but neither gained an advantage.
• Zhou Fan summoned Susanoo and thrust the Star Shatter Halberd at Genesis Star Rain.

Zhou Fan battled Genesis Star Rain, whose power withstood his strongest Wood Release attack. After Zhou Fan revealed his Rinnegan, Genesis Star Rain conceded because Zhou Fan matched the prophecy of the one who possessed the eyes of life and death.

• Zhou Fan used Kamui against Genesis Star Rain, but Genesis Star Rain sensed the spatial power and stopped the attack.
• Zhou Fan entered Sage Mode and combined Complete Body Susanoo with Sage Art: Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands.
• Genesis Star Rain unleashed his innate skill, Genesis Star Rain, and his star rain shattered every fist of Zhou Fan’s statue after a five-minute clash.
• Zhou Fan revealed his Rinnegan and used Preta Path to absorb Genesis Star Rain’s Star Rain: Morning Dew.
• Genesis Star Rain recognized the Rinnegan as the eyes of life and death and conceded, saying Zhou Fan was the one in the prophecy.

Zhou Fan subdued Genesis Star Rain, Death Dragon, and Ultimate Nightmare, learning all three God-Level Superpowers and gaining enhancements to Wood Release, Amaterasu, and Tsukuyomi. After leaving the Superpower Book Repository, he learned a day had passed and that another Meteorite Disaster had struck, with the Superpower General Bureau under a level-one alert.

• Genesis Star Rain surrendered because Zhou Fan possessed the prophesied eyes that command life and death, then Death Dragon and Ultimate Nightmare also agreed to be subdued.
• Zhou Fan learned Genesis Star Rain, Death Dragon Breath, and Ultimate Nightmare, which enhanced Wood Release, Amaterasu, and Tsukuyomi.
• Zhou Fan left the Divine Spirit Space and discovered that twenty-five hours had passed, despite thinking he had been inside for only an hour.
• Zhou Fan read Zhao Qiu's messages about a new meteor shower and replied to Zhao Qiu and Lin Qianqian that he was safe.
• Zhou Fan returned to the surface and found the Superpower General Bureau under a level-one alert as a Meteorite Disaster darkened the sky.

After emerging from the Divine Spirit Space, Zhou Fan learned that a devastating meteorite shower had struck Xia Country and triggered widespread mutant beast mutations. He returned to Xinghai University after revealing he had subdued all three Divine-Level Superpowers, as the country prepared for the largest mutant beast tide in history.

• Zhou Fan met Lin Ya at the Superpower General Bureau and learned that a global meteorite shower had caused severe destruction and strengthened mutant beasts.
• Old Huang asked Zhou Fan about his time in the Divine Spirit Space, and Zhou Fan revealed he had subdued all three Divine-Level Superpowers simultaneously.
• Old Huang said the meteorite shower was no ordinary natural disaster and sent Zhou Fan back to Xinghai University to help his school.
• Zhou Fan told Principal Xi Yan that he had subdued all three Divine-Level Superpowers, astonishing and delighting him.
• Xi Yan warned Zhou Fan that mutant beast tides were spreading and would soon reach their peak, while the Super Meteorites continued to empower the beasts.

A powerful Mutant Beast Tide overran Tiansha City, killing its defenders and most of its inhabitants. At Xinghai University, Xi Yan and Jiang Canghai learned that Tiansha City had fallen as contact with other Southern District cities also began to fail.

• Guards spotted a horde of Mutant Beasts approaching Tiansha City and sounded the alarm.
• Burrowing Dogs burst through the ground, killed the wall guards, and opened the way for the beast tide to invade.
• Tiansha City's Espers fought to protect civilians, but the city was overrun after an hour and its defenders were killed.
• Xi Yan and Jiang Canghai coordinated Southern District emergency operations at Xinghai University as contact with Tiansha City, Red Leaf City, Green Flower City, and Huaihai City was lost.
• An Operative reported that Tiansha City had fallen, with only some elderly people and children who had evacuated early surviving.

After learning that Tiansha City and several other cities had fallen to beast tides, Xi Yan and Jiang Canghai organized Hunting Squads to strike back. Zhou Fan and the other squad captains received missions, with Zhou Fan assigned to defend Haicheng’s coastline from an enormous and growing force of sea beasts.

• Xi Yan ordered reconnaissance of nearby Mutant Beast Forests and called for small cities to evacuate, while Jiang Canghai urged the authorities to attack the beast tides before they grew stronger.
• Xi Yan and Jiang Canghai arranged Hunting Squads, and Xinghai University assembled its teachers and students to form them.
• Xi Yan appointed Zhou Fan, Zhao Qiu, Lin Qianqian, and Yuan An as captains of elite squads made up of Execution Department members.
• Xi Yan assigned Zhao Qiu to destroy the Super Meteorite and beast tide near the Tiansha River, Yuan An to fight a large tide at Tianwang Mountain, and Xixi to reinforce Yucheng.
• Xi Yan sent Zhou Fan to hold Haicheng’s coastline against at least a thousand sea beasts coming ashore.

Zhou Fan’s Elite Hunting Squad headed to Haicheng as sea beasts overwhelmed the coastal defenses. Jiang Yao joined the battle at the second defensive line, where the Deep Sea Demon Octopus King appeared.

• Zhou Fan learned that more than fifteen hundred sea beasts had landed along Haicheng’s coastline and told his squad to rest before fighting.
• Jiang Yao, serving as Haicheng’s acting commander-in-chief, sent reserves to reinforce the defenses and went to the second line herself.
• Jiang Yao used lightning attacks to save a wounded Esper and destroy nearby sea beasts, helping the defenders push back their assault.
• The sea beasts concentrated their forces against Jiang Yao’s sector, and reinforcements joined the defenders in an intense battle.
• A massive wave struck the coastline, and Jiang Yao spotted the fifth-tier, three-star Deep Sea Demon Octopus King rising from the sea.

Jiang Yao fought the fifth-tier Deep Sea Demon Octopus King alone while the Operatives held the defensive line against the beast tide. After the King adapted to her attacks and nearly defeated her, an unidentified figure descended and severed all eight of its tentacles.

• The Deep Sea Demon Octopus King broke through the defensive line, and Jiang Yao severed three of its tentacles with her lightning-fast saber strikes.
• The King adapted to Jiang Yao's attacks, ambushed her, and knocked her back before regenerating its severed tentacles.
• Jiang Yao refused help from the Operatives and blinded one of the King's eyes with a lightning attack.
• The enraged King charged ashore and battered Jiang Yao as she struggled to block its attacks.
• Jiang Yao countered the King's pitch-black energy blast with Thunderclap: Heavenfall, but exhausted her spiritual energy and fell to one knee.
• An unidentified figure descended from the sky and severed all eight of the Deep Sea Demon Octopus King's tentacles.

Zhou Fan and the Operatives from Xinghai University arrived to reinforce the besieged Espers, and Zhou Fan took on the Deep Sea Demon Octopus King. After cutting through its attacks, he killed it with Chidori, leaving the battle against the remaining sea beasts unresolved.

• Zhou Fan arrived at the battlefield, introduced himself to Jiang Yao, and severed all eight tentacles of the Deep Sea Demon Octopus King.
• Jiang Yao warned Zhou Fan that the Beast King was intelligent, while he sent Wolf Mask and the other Operatives to support the defenders.
• The Deep Sea Demon Octopus King attacked Zhou Fan with its tentacles, but his Sharingan and Chidori Blade let him dodge and cut them apart.
• The Beast King fired eight water cannons at Zhou Fan, but he escaped the blast and plunged down toward it with Chidori.
• Zhou Fan sliced through the Beast King's tentacles and pierced its heart, killing it.

Zhou Fan killed the Deep Sea Demon Octopus King, but a second wave of sea beasts arrived with three more beast kings. As the outnumbered defenders struggled to hold the coastline, Zhou Fan unleashed Amaterasu across the tide, creating a wall of black flames.

• Zhou Fan defeated the Deep Sea Demon Octopus King, and the defenders cheered as Jiang Yao recognized him as the National Competition champion.
• Jiang Yao explained that Super Meteorite power had driven the sea beasts into a frenzy, and the beasts kept attacking despite their king's death.
• Three more Fifth Tier, 3-Star beast kings and over a thousand sea beasts emerged, leaving the defenders badly outnumbered.
• The Guardian Team retreated under the sea beasts' assault, while Zhou Fan took to the air on the Seven-Colored Divine Sparrow.
• Zhou Fan used Amaterasu across the sea beast tide, and the black flames formed a wall along the shore.

Zhou Fan used his empowered Amaterasu to burn most of the Sea Beasts attacking the coastal battlefield, then trapped and drained three Fifth Tier Beast Kings with Wood Release. The remaining beasts hesitated, and the fighters cheered as Zhou Fan turned the battle around single-handedly.

• Zhou Fan spread his death-infused Amaterasu across the Sea Beasts, and the flames spread through the packed tide until they burned more than two-thirds of the beasts to ashes.
• The surviving Sea Beasts stopped charging, while the fighters recognized Zhou Fan and cheered his victory over more than a thousand enemies.
• The Deep Sea Demon Octopus King, Deep Sea Great Serpent, and Deep Sea Demon Shrimp attacked Zhou Fan together.
• Zhou Fan used Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence to bind all three Beast Kings with trees that absorbed their energy.
• The drained Beast Kings stopped struggling, and the fighters marveled at Zhou Fan's overwhelming strength.

Zhou Fan helped Haicheng defeat a massive Sea Beast tide and stayed behind with the Hunting Squad to guard the coast overnight. He checked in with Zhao Qiu and Lin Qianqian, who had both survived their missions, while the wider fighting remained unresolved.

• Zhou Fan defeated the three Beast Kings, and Amaterasu burned the Sea Beast tide, securing a human victory in Haicheng.
• Jiang Yao thanked Zhou Fan, and he urged the exhausted fighters to clean up and rest while his Hunting Squad remained in Haicheng.
• Zhou Fan stood watch by the sea and called Zhao Qiu, who reported that his squad had defeated two hundred Mutant Beasts near the Tiansha River.
• Zhou Fan messaged Lin Qianqian, who said her team had handled its mission and was resting in Yucheng.
• Zhou Fan and Lin Qianqian exchanged good-night messages after reassuring each other that they were safe.

Zhou Fan redeemed the Byakugan and opened a Third Eye of God, allowing him to use it alongside another Dōjutsu. After testing his new abilities, he spoke with Jiang Yao about the worldwide beast tide and prepared to keep fighting.

• Zhou Fan spent 30,000 Emotion Points to redeem the Byakugan and gained Taijutsu Fist and Taijutsu Strikes.
• Zhou Fan chose to open the Third Eye of God, which let him activate the Byakugan or Rinnegan alongside his Sharingan.
• Zhou Fan tested the Byakugan with his Sharingan and Rinnegan, confirming that the eyes could operate simultaneously.
• Jiang Yao visited Zhou Fan while he stood watch and told him that beast tide attacks were hitting cities across Xia Country and the world.
• Zhou Fan told Jiang Yao he would kill however many Mutant Beasts came.

Jiang Yao asked Zhou Fan about his love life, and he falsely claimed to have a girlfriend, leading her to guess that Lin Qianqian was the one. Jiang Yao accepted that she had no chance with Zhou Fan and wished the couple well, leaving Zhou Fan awkwardly relieved after she departed.

• Jiang Yao asked Zhou Fan whether he had a girlfriend, and he answered yes despite being single.
• Jiang Yao showed Zhou Fan a photo of Lin Qianqian and guessed that she was his girlfriend.
• Zhou Fan went along with Jiang Yao's assumption and privately worried about Lin Qianqian finding out he had used her as a shield.
• Jiang Yao revealed that she had fallen for Zhou Fan after he saved her from the Deep Sea Demon Octopus King, then wished him and Lin Qianqian happiness.
• Zhou Fan hurried Jiang Yao along, and she left while he felt relieved and awkward.

After helping clear the battlefield at Haicheng, Zhao Qiu led the Hunting Squad downstream along the Tiansha River to stop another beast tide. They defeated an ambush by mutant beasts, but then Yue Country espers attacked them.

• Jiang Yao took over the watch at Haicheng and directed people to clear the battlefield and collect crystal cores from the sea beasts.
• Zhao Qiu woke the operatives at the Tiansha River and received orders from Xi Yan to investigate a beast tide forming downstream.
• Zhao Qiu led the team to the lower reaches of the river, where mutant beasts ambushed them from the slopes and water.
• Zhao Qiu opened his second shackle and led the team to defeat the beast tide, with two Hunting Squad members killed and about a dozen lightly injured.
• A sensory-type esper detected danger, and Yue Country espers launched a fireball attack before declaring they had come to kill Zhao Qiu's group.

Yue Country Espers crossed into Xia Country and attacked Zhao Qiu’s group, claiming they had come to avenge Wu Tinglang. After Zhao Qiu defeated their bald captain, Yue Country’s second-ranked fighter Wu Hai arrived and prepared to fight him.

• Tiger Mask warned the Yue Country Espers to leave Xia Country, but their bald captain ordered his forces to attack and kill everyone.
• Zhao Qiu’s group fought back but was outnumbered and pushed onto the defensive.
• Zhao Qiu opened his third Life Shackle and defeated the bald captain with Twin Cannons.
• Wu Hai struck Zhao Qiu hard enough to send him crashing through trees, and Tiger Mask identified him as Yue Country’s second-ranked elite fighter.
• Wu Hai said Yue Country had come to avenge Wu Tinglang, and Zhao Qiu opened his fifth Life Shackle to face him.

Lin Qianqian and Yuhua prepared Yucheng’s defenses when Lin’s shikigami paper detected a massive Sea Beast tide. The cannons and Espers fought back, but the growing horde overwhelmed their firepower and continued reaching shore.

• Lin Qianqian’s elite hunting squad arrived in Yucheng, where she earned Yuhua’s respect by killing over a hundred Sea Beasts during an attack.
• Lin Qianqian sensed an approaching Sea Beast tide before the sentries detected it, and Yuhua ordered the Espers to prepare for battle.
• Yuhua ordered fifteen Superpower Cannons loaded with fourth-tier Crystal Cores to fire on the approaching Sea Beasts.
• The cannon barrage killed dozens of Sea Beasts, but the tide surged forward and began climbing the cliffs.
• Yuhua’s cannons and the Espers fought to hold the shore, but the cannons neared burnout as more Sea Beasts made landfall.

As the Sea Beast tide overwhelmed Yucheng’s defenses, Lin Qianqian devastated the horde with her Mutually Multiplying Paper Bomb Technique. When three Fifth Tier, 3-Star Beast Kings appeared, she flew out alone to confront them while Yuhua stayed to defend the main line.

• Yuhua ordered the defenders to hold the line as Sea Beasts swarmed ashore and the Superpower Cannons ran out of ammunition.
• Lin Qianqian’s Paper Shards protected her as she walked through attacking Sea Beasts to reach the shore.
• Lin Qianqian multiplied Explosive Tags across the sea and detonated them, killing half the tide and disrupting its advance.
• A Deep Sea Demon Turtle, an Abyssal Two-Headed Snake, and a Troll Crab appeared, each a Fifth Tier, 3-Star Beast King, followed by more Sea Beasts.
• Lin Qianqian told Yuhua to defend the main battlefield, formed Paper Wings, and flew out to face the three Beast Kings alone.

Lin Qianqian fought three Beast Kings alone and killed the Troll Crab, Deep Sea Demon Turtle, and Abyssal Two-Headed Snake. Afterward, she judged herself by whether she could match Zhou Fan and vowed to keep improving until she caught up with him.

• Lin Qianqian dodged the Abyssal Two-Headed Snake’s bite with Paper Transformation and wounded it with Paper Blizzard: Thousand Flowers.
• Lin Qianqian passed through the Troll Crab’s pincers, planted paper on its body, and killed it with Paper Explosion Technique and Space Shikigami Paper: Moon Wheel.
• Lin Qianqian blocked the Deep Sea Demon Turtle and Abyssal Two-Headed Snake’s attacks with Angel Judgment, then shattered the turtle’s shell with a barrage of Explosive Tags and killed it.
• Lin Qianqian finished off the wounded Abyssal Two-Headed Snake, leaving the observers amazed that she had defeated all three Beast Kings alone.
• Lin Qianqian compared her strength with Zhou Fan’s and resolved to keep training until she caught up to him.

Lin Qianqian and Yuhua faced an attack by a Philippine fleet led by Mary Lu while sea beasts still threatened Yucheng’s coast. At the Southern District command center, Xi Yan and Jiang Canghai learned that Yue Country espers had also attacked Zhao Qiu’s squad, revealing simultaneous foreign incursions into Xia Country.

• A Philippine fleet destroyed Yucheng’s coastal sentry posts and Superpower Cannons, then advanced toward shore despite Yuhua’s warning to leave Xia Country’s waters.
• Yuhua identified the fleet’s leader as Mary Lu, the Philippines’ second-ranked expert, and realized she needed to report the invasion to higher authorities.
• Mary Lu ordered the Philippine warships to fire on Lin Qianqian and Yuhua.
• A communications officer told Xi Yan and Jiang Canghai that Zhao Qiu’s squad was fighting Yue Country espers led by Wu Hai near the Tiansha River.
• The communications officer reported that Lin Qianqian’s squad was under attack from Mary Lu’s Philippine fleet at Yucheng.