Recaps

Zhou Fan absorbed a High-Grade Spirit Stone but remained at third tier, 1 star, while Xia Qingran learned that Ye Chen was preparing to return and might represent the Ye Family in the Void Rift. At the Training Ground, Xia Qingran began psychic power training by sending Zhou Fan and the others into a Nightmare Illusion Realm to face their inner demons.

• Zhou Fan absorbed a High-Grade Spirit Stone, slightly improving his cultivation without reaching third tier, 2 stars.
• Xia Qingran lost a game, then reassured her mother, Qin Lin, that she trusted Zhou Fan despite concerns about his background.
• Qin Lin told Xia Qingran that Ye Chen was preparing to return and that the Xia Family might send her to the Void Rift in three months.
• Xia Qingran told Zhou Fan and Lin Qianqian that they would train their psychic power instead of clearing a Forbidden Zone.
• Xia Qingran explained that the Nightmare Illusion Realm would expose each trainee's weaknesses and fears, and instructed them to defeat their inner demons.

Lin Qianqian and Zhou Fan entered the Nightmare Illusion Realm to confront their inner demons, but while Lin Qianqian faced an illusion of Zhou Fan, Zhou Fan met the Nightmare Lord’s lingering consciousness and learned he had no inner demon. Xia Qingran explained the Nightmare Lord’s history, and Zhou Fan was left wondering about the mysterious Void Rift.

• Lin Qianqian entered the Nightmare Illusion Realm and faced an illusion of Zhou Fan, whose taunts enraged her.
• Lin Qianqian attacked the Zhou Fan illusion with her Mutually Multiplying Paper Bomb Technique.
• Zhou Fan entered the realm, but it showed him no inner demon, and Hei Meng identified himself as the Nightmare Lord before sending Zhou Fan back out.
• Xia Qingran explained that Hei Meng had once been a powerful Genjutsu expert who disappeared after becoming trapped in his inner demons.
• Zhou Fan told Xia Qingran that Hei Meng had mentioned the Void Rift, but Xia Qingran said she did not know what it was.

Zhou Fan emerged from the Nightmare Illusion without encountering any inner demons, leaving Xia Qingran to devise new training for him. He became Evening Bell’s deputy leader and started a game with Xia Qingran while Lin Qianqian remained inside the illusion.

• Zhou Fan told Xia Qingran that he had encountered only the Nightmare Lord and no inner demons in the illusion.
• Xia Qingran said Lin Qianqian was still facing her inner demons and asked Zhou Fan whether he had ever experienced setbacks.
• Xia Qingran told Zhou Fan to train on his own while she thought up new activities, and Zhou Fan asked about recruiting members for Evening Bell.
• Xia Qingran made Zhou Fan deputy leader in charge of recruiting, subject to her approval of any recruits.
• Xia Qingran and Zhou Fan queued for a game together, with Xia Qingran choosing the jungle role while Lin Qianqian remained in the illusion.

Lin Qianqian spent the day losing to her inner demon in the Nightmare Illusion Realm while Zhou Fan played games with Xia Qingran, and she realized the gap between herself and Zhou Fan was widening. The system then assigned her a courage challenge: have Zhou Fan personally put stockings on her.

• Lin Qianqian emerged from the Nightmare Illusion Realm after losing to her inner demon ten times, then learned Zhou Fan had already completed the training.
• Lin Qianqian returned to the Nightmare Illusion Realm and spent the day fighting her inner demon while Zhou Fan and Xia Qingran played games.
• Lin Qianqian went home exhausted and used the Azure Bathtub, but kept thinking about Zhou Fan and the growing gap between them.
• The system triggered the courage challenge and assigned Lin Qianqian to have Zhou Fan personally put White Stockings/Black Stockings on her once.

Lin Qianqian received the side quest “The Great Courage Challenge,” whose four embarrassing tasks involved Zhou Fan. Tempted by the rewards, she decided to try tasks 2 and 4 first while insisting she might not actually follow through.

• The system gave Lin Qianqian four tasks: have Zhou Fan put on her stockings, make and feed him a loving breakfast, bathe with him, and give him a direct-contact massage while he wore no clothes.
• Lin Qianqian objected to the tasks and asked whether she could refuse the side quest; the system confirmed she could choose whether to complete it.
• The system explained that completing one, two, three, or four tasks would grant increasingly valuable treasure chests, each containing three different rewards.
• Lin Qianqian decided to leave the quest active and pursue tasks 2 and 4 first, hoping to earn rewards that could help close her strength gap with Zhou Fan.
• After the system teased her about changing her mind, Lin Qianqian blamed Zhou Fan and vowed to surpass and humiliate him.

Lin Qianqian cooked Zhou Fan a disastrous breakfast to complete a system mission, disguising it as homework from an online cooking course. She finished the mission, but three more remained: giving Zhou Fan a massage, bathing with him, and having him put on her stockings.

• Zhou Fan found Lin Qianqian cooking breakfast and tried to leave, but she insisted he stay.
• Lin Qianqian followed an online recipe, overcooking the noodles and burning a misshapen heart-shaped egg.
• Lin Qianqian claimed her cooking course had assigned her to make someone breakfast with love and ask for feedback.
• Zhou Fan tasted the egg and noodles, criticized them, and hurried away.
• Lin Qianqian completed the breakfast mission and thought about the three remaining system tasks.

Lin Qianqian received powerful mission rewards and resolved to use them to defeat Zhou Fan, while Zhou Fan joined Luo Luodong and Xia Qingran on a dangerous Enforcement Division mission. The group headed for the Withered Bone Mountains to eliminate a mutant beast rampage threatening nearby cities.

• Lin Qianqian received Thousand-Paper Transformation and a Spirit Spring Gem, then planned to use the gem to produce a huge number of Explosive Tags against Zhou Fan.
• Luo Luodong arrived at the Training Ground and asked Zhou Fan, Lin Qianqian, and Xia Qingran to join an Enforcement Division mission.
• Zhou Fan volunteered to go, and Xia Qingran told Lin Qianqian to stay behind and train.
• Luo Luodong took Zhou Fan and Xia Qingran to the Enforcement Division, where three masked members joined them aboard a Seven-Colored Divine Sparrow.
• Luo Luodong explained that they were headed to the Withered Bone Mountains to eliminate rampaging mutant beasts, including a fourth-tier, five-star Beast King.

Zhou Fan and the Xinghai University Operations Department arrived to support the Esper Bureau after a Chaos Secret Realm produced a powerful Beast King and several Fourth Tier Mutant Beasts. Luo Luodong divided the teams, and Zhou Fan and Xia Qingran encountered a sudden attack while searching for their assigned beast.

• Zhou Fan learned that Luo Luodong, Xia Qingran, and the masked Operations Department members were stronger than he was and heard why the members wore masks.
• The team reached the temporary camp, where Chen Xing reported a Fourth Tier, Five Stars Beast King and several Fourth Tier Mutant Beasts in the mountains.
• Luo Luodong assigned himself the Beast King and split the remaining targets among his team, including one for Zhou Fan and Xia Qingran.
• Zhou Fan and Xia Qingran followed Esper Bureau guides through battle-scarred woods toward their target.
• More than a dozen small fireballs shot toward Zhou Fan and the others from ahead.

Zhou Fan fought a horde of Mutant Beasts alone and wiped them out, but the Star Shatter Halberd’s frenzy nearly drove him to attack the Esper Bureau agents. He stopped himself just before Xia Qingran froze most of his body.

• Xia Qingran ordered Zhou Fan to fight the Mutant Beasts alone while she watched, and he charged into the horde with the Star Shatter Halberd.
• Zhou Fan easily killed a third-tier, 3-star Fire Wolf and battled the surrounding Mutant Beasts with the halberd.
• As the weapon’s frenzy took hold, Zhou Fan activated his Sharingan and unleashed Peerless Under Heaven, slaughtering every Mutant Beast.
• Xia Qingran noticed Zhou Fan’s battle frenzy had not subsided, and he turned on the Esper Bureau agents and charged them.
• Zhou Fan stopped himself and told Xia Qingran he was all right, but she encased most of his body in ice.

Zhou Fan struggled to control the Star Shatter Halberd’s battle frenzy, while Xia Qingran led the group toward a fourth-tier Mutant Beast. Elsewhere, Luo Luodong investigated signs of a recent battle and grew concerned there might be more than one Beast King; Zhou Fan’s group then found a towering, blue-flamed Cat Demon with two tails.

• Xia Qingran froze Zhou Fan to calm the frenzy caused by the Star Shatter Halberd and warned him to limit how long he used it until he could master the state.
• When the squad found no fourth-tier Mutant Beasts, Xia Qingran sensed one nearby and led the group southeast.
• Luo Luodong split the Esper Bureau personnel into search teams and examined signs of a recent battle between two fire-attribute Mutant Beasts.
• Luo Luodong questioned whether there was only one Beast King and ordered his team to keep searching.
• Xia Qingran’s group found a ten-meter-tall Cat Demon covered in blue flames and black runes, with two enormous tails.

Zhou Fan confronted Two-Tails, a fourth-tier, five-star Beast King, and used his Susanoo, Amaterasu, Wood Release, and Sharingan genjutsu to bring her down. As the Esper Bureau personnel watched, Xia Qingran sensed something was wrong, though she could not identify the source.

• Zhou Fan and Xia Qingran's squad discovered that the enormous blue cat demon was Two-Tails, a Beast King far stronger than their intel had suggested.
• Xia Qingran sent Zhou Fan to hold Two-Tails off while the squad leader called for backup, and Two-Tails attacked him with fireballs and her claws.
• Zhou Fan activated his third-stage Susanoo and fought Two-Tails, but her intense firepower began melting its armor.
• Zhou Fan used Amaterasu to burn away Two-Tails' fireballs, then summoned a Wood Dragon to restrain and drain her power.
• Zhou Fan repaired his Susanoo, struck Two-Tails, and used Sharingan genjutsu to make her stop struggling and collapse.
• Xia Qingran watched Zhou Fan's victory over Two-Tails but felt an unease she could not explain.

After Zhou Fan subdued Two-Tails, a squad led by the powerful esper Number Four ambushed him and Xia Qingran to seize the Beast King. Xia Qingran fought Number Four while Zhou Fan entered Sage Mode to face the other attackers, and Number Four activated Lava Mode as their duel escalated.

• Zhou Fan refused to hand Two-Tails over to the Esper Bureau because he wanted to tame her as a summoning beast.
• Number Four and seven or eight companions ambushed Zhou Fan, Xia Qingran, and the Esper Bureau personnel, then claimed Two-Tails as their target.
• Xia Qingran kicked Number Four and froze his fourth-tier, one-star companions with Absolute Zero.
• Zhou Fan activated Sage Mode to recover his strength and confront the attackers surrounding him.
• Xia Qingran froze Number Four with her ice techniques, but he melted the ice and activated Lava Mode.

Zhou Fan and Xia Qingran defeated their Esper opponents, but Number Four broke free from Xia Qingran’s ice and transformed into a four-tailed monster. The chapter ended with Zhou Fan recognizing him as the Four-Tails.

• Xia Qingran froze Number Four with Absolute Zero while Zhou Fan fought seven or eight Fourth Tier, One Star Espers.
• Zhou Fan combined Amaterasu with Wood Release to trap the Espers in a burning forest and kill them all.
• After the battle, Zhou Fan suffered temporary pain and blurred vision from overusing his Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Xia Qingran prepared to finish off the frozen Number Four, but he shattered the ice and transformed as four tails grew behind him.
• Zhou Fan identified Number Four’s monstrous transformation as the Four-Tails.

Xia Qingran fought Number Four, who fully transformed into Four-Tails, while Zhou Fan pursued the escaping Two-Tails with help from his summoned beast, Shukaku. After Shukaku replenished Zhou Fan’s spiritual energy, he joined the fight against Two-Tails.

• Zhou Fan recognized Number Four as a Jinchūriki carrying Four-Tails, and Xia Qingran battled him with ice techniques.
• Number Four destroyed Xia Qingran’s ice mirrors, broke free of her freezing attack, and transformed into a giant Four-Tails.
• Xia Qingran used Absolute Zero to freeze most of Four-Tails, while Two-Tails escaped the Wood Dragon that had restrained it.
• Zhou Fan chased Two-Tails and summoned Shukaku, who shared his energy with Zhou Fan.
• Shukaku charged Two-Tails, and the two Tailed Beasts began fighting.

Zhou Fan subdued Two-Tails, Matatabi, as his second summoning beast after fighting her alongside Shukaku. Elsewhere, Xia Qingran and Zhou Fan survived Four-Tails' Tailed Beast Bomb, but Four-Tails prepared another attack before Luo Luodong and others arrived.

• Zhou Fan and Shukaku teamed up against Two-Tails, trading attacks with her and canceling out her Tailed Beast Bomb with their own.
• Zhou Fan restrained Two-Tails with Wood Release and Tsukuyomi, then spent 15,000 Emotion Points to establish a summoning contract with Matatabi.
• Xia Qingran fought Four-Tails alone and froze it repeatedly, but Four-Tails began forming a Tailed Beast Bomb.
• Zhou Fan and Shukaku arrived; Shukaku's Tailed Beast Bomb weakened Four-Tails' attack while Xia Qingran reinforced Zhou Fan's Susanoo with ice armor.
• Four-Tails' Tailed Beast Bomb damaged Susanoo and blew Shukaku away, then Four-Tails prepared another bomb before Luo Luodong and others arrived and struck it with Thunder Blade.

Luo Luodong drove off Number Four after Four-Tails' eruption, while Zhou Fan revealed that he had tamed Two-Tails as his summoned beast. Number Four returned to Lord She Wan's laboratory, where he received a new mission to capture primate Mutant Beasts for human-animal experiments.

• Luo Luodong fought Four-Tails, but Number Four escaped when Four-Tails erupted lava with Flower-Fruit Mountain.
• Luo Luodong checked on Zhou Fan and Xia Qingran, then learned that Zhou Fan had tamed the other Beast King, Two-Tails.
• Zhou Fan concluded that Number Four had come to capture Two-Tails, and the group left the remaining investigation to the Esper Bureau.
• Number Four returned to Lord She Wan's underground laboratory and reported that the mission had failed and his companions had died.
• Lord She Wan ordered Number Four to capture primate Mutant Beasts for his human-animal experiments.

After returning to campus from a successful mission, Zhou Fan and Xia Qingran joined Lin Qianqian for an extravagant dinner. Xia Qingran praised Zhou Fan for defeating a Fourth Tier, Five Stars Beast King, leaving Lin Qianqian shocked.

• On the flight back, Xia Qingran coughed up freezing blood after fighting above her level, but assured Zhou Fan that she was fine.
• Back at the Training Ground, Zhou Fan teased Lin Qianqian about still failing to clear the Nightmare Illusion Realm, making her furious.
• Xia Qingran invited Zhou Fan and Lin Qianqian to dinner and ordered an elaborate takeout feast from Heavenly Home.
• The three members of Evening Bell shared dinner, and Xia Qingran praised Zhou Fan for defeating a Fourth Tier, Five Stars Beast King.
• Lin Qianqian stopped eating in surprise when she heard what Zhou Fan had defeated.

Lin Qianqian struggled to keep up with Zhou Fan and studied the Sexy Jutsu while planning to overcome the Nightmare Illusion Realm. Zhou Fan chose to train with the Star Shatter Halberd in the Forbidden Zone, and Xia Qingran agreed to take him to the Beginner Forbidden Zone.

• Lin Qianqian resolved to clear the Nightmare Illusion Realm and considered the three unfinished tasks in her Great Courage Challenge.
• Lin Qianqian picked up Xia Qingran's Superpower Book on the Sexy Jutsu and studied it late into the night.
• Zhou Fan noticed Lin Qianqian looked tired the next morning, and she refused to make him breakfast.
• At the Training Ground, Zhou Fan told Xia Qingran he wanted to master the Star Shatter Halberd's special state without losing control.
• Zhou Fan asked Xia Qingran to take him to the Forbidden Zone so he could fight mutant beasts, and she agreed to bring him to the Beginner Forbidden Zone.

Zhou Fan entered the Ruined Forest to train with the Star Shatter Halberd, which stirred a dangerous frenzied urge in its wielder. As the frenzy peaked, he fought to prove he could control his body rather than be controlled by the weapon.

• Sand Scorpion learned that Zhou Fan had entered the Ruined Forest alone and ordered the staff to monitor him.
• Zhou Fan encountered camouflaged butterflies and used his Sharingan to see through their disguises.
• Zhou Fan fought the Mutant Beasts using only the Star Shatter Halberd and Taijutsu to provoke its frenzied urge.
• As the weapon's frenzy peaked and his attacks grew stronger and faster, Zhou Fan drove the halberd into the ground and declared that he was the master of his body.

Zhou Fan spent two days in the Ruined Forest mastering his frenzied power and named the controlled state Peerless. After using his Susanoo to defeat the Forbidden Zone’s Beast King, he cleared Forbidden Zone 33 alone.

• Zhou Fan repeatedly fought Mutant Beasts in the Ruined Forest, learning to regain control whenever his frenzy overwhelmed him.
• Sand Scorpion learned that Zhou Fan had stayed in the Forbidden Zone overnight and told the night shift to monitor him.
• Zhou Fan fought deeper into the Ruined Forest and mastered the Peerless State, allowing him to control his frenzy while attacking.
• Zhou Fan named the state Peerless and used his Crow Tengu Susanoo to kill the Furious Black Bear, the Ruined Forest’s Beast King.
• A staff member told Sand Scorpion that Zhou Fan had cleared Forbidden Zone 33 alone, stunning the captain.

After returning from the Forbidden Zone, Zhou Fan had broken through to Third Tier 2-Star and reunited with Xia Qingran and Lin Qianqian. He had 85,000 Emotion Points and planned to visit the underground arena to earn more toward redeeming the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan.

• Zhou Fan received several Emotion Points notifications after leaving the Forbidden Zone, where he had completed his training and reached Third Tier 2-Star.
• Xia Qingran greeted Zhou Fan outside the Forbidden Zone, praised his progress, and told him to go home and shower because he stank.
• Zhou Fan found Lin Qianqian watching a show in pajamas and learned she had cleared the Nightmare Illusion Realm and improved her resistance to Genjutsu.
• Zhou Fan checked his total of 85,000 Emotion Points and asked the system for a loan, but it refused to give him any.
• Zhou Fan decided to visit the underground arena the next day to earn more Emotion Points.

Zhou Fan returned to the arena as Wang Wenwang, whose record had made him an insurmountable figure in the third-tier division. When no one would face him alone, the manager arranged group challenges, and Zhou Fan invited any third-tier Esper to fight him for a chance to earn emotion points.

• Zhou Fan went to the arena alone and entered backstage wearing his white mask with three tomoe.
• The contestants recognized Wang Wenwang and refused to face him one-on-one, so the manager proposed allowing group challenges.
• The commentator introduced Wang Wenwang to the crowd, who welcomed him with loud cheers and generated emotion points for Zhou Fan.
• Zhou Fan challenged any third-tier Esper, including spectators, to fight him alone or in groups of up to five.
• The commentator announced consolation prizes for challengers and a five-hundred-thousand-yuan reward for anyone who defeated Zhou Fan.

Zhou Fan defeated a five-man team of third-tier Espers in the arena, winning a flawless one-against-five match and earning a flood of emotion points. Watching from the owner’s room, She Wan decided Zhou Fan’s body could contain his power and chose him as his next vessel.

• Five third-tier Espers teamed up to challenge Zhou Fan, and he dodged their coordinated elemental attacks with ease.
• Zhou Fan activated Peerless Under Heaven and used his halberd and Ghost Lanterns to knock all five challengers out of the ring.
• The crowd cheered for Zhou Fan, who earned ten thousand emotion points from the match.
• She Wan watched Zhou Fan from the arena owner’s room and decided to make him his new vessel.

Zhou Fan defeated every third-tier challenger at the arena and earned widespread awe, then exposed arena owner She Wan’s attempt to take over his body. The chapter ended with She Wan trapped in Zhou Fan’s Genjutsu.

• After no one challenged him following the five-man team’s defeat, Zhou Fan invited every third-tier contestant to fight him at once.
• More than a dozen contestants attacked Zhou Fan together, but his azure Susanoo withstood their strongest attacks and knocked them all out of the ring.
• The arena crowd cheered Zhou Fan’s victory, and he checked his emotion points, finding he was still just over a thousand short of a hundred thousand.
• Arena owner She Wan presented Zhou Fan with his reward in the lounge, then sent a giant snake to restrain him and declared that he would use Zhou Fan as his new vessel.
• Zhou Fan revealed that his Sharingan had seen through She Wan’s ambitions and that She Wan was already trapped in Genjutsu.

Zhou Fan used his Sharingan abilities to defeat She Wan, but Number Four intervened before he could finish him. She Wan escaped after detonating explosives in the arena, and Luo Luodong led the Execution Department in pursuit.

• She Wan freed himself from Zhou Fan's Genjutsu by severing his left hand, then attacked with venomous snakes, but Zhou Fan burned them with Amaterasu and escaped She Wan's giant snake using Susanoo.
• Zhou Fan trapped She Wan in Tsukuyomi and tortured him for seventy-two hours of illusion time, leaving him barely able to stand.
• Number Four arrived and blocked Zhou Fan's Susanoo strike with a Lava Release attack to protect She Wan.
• Luo Luodong and the Execution Department confronted She Wan over his human experiments, but She Wan detonated explosives beneath the arena and escaped with Number Four.
• Luo Luodong ordered the Execution Department to pursue She Wan, while Zhou Fan warned him that a man with a Beast King inside him was also present and working as She Wan's subordinate.