Recaps

After two Jashin Cult assassins attacked Zhou Fan and died, Zhou Fan learned the cult might be active near Devil Forest. He and Zhao Qiu left to investigate, while Wang Yiyi and the others stayed behind.

• Zhou Fan discovered that a black-clad assassin had died after revealing the Jashin Cult, and told Wang Yiyi and the others that the cult had taken a bounty to capture him.
• Zheng Yao said the Jashin Cult was a recent group that worshipped Lord Jashin and might be active around Devil Forest, west of Falling Moon City.
• Zhao Qiu insisted on accompanying Zhou Fan, despite Wang Yiyi suggesting they ask the school's Execution Department for backup.
• Zhou Fan and Zhao Qiu set off for Devil Forest to look for the Jashin Cult.

Zhou Fan and Zhao Qiu traveled to the Devil Forest, where they encountered the Jashin Cult and its immortal leader. The leader invited them to join, but Zhou Fan rejected the cult as evil.

• Zhou Fan told Zhao Qiu that Xia Qingran had approved his membership in Evening Bell, and the two discussed the organization's name before heading to the Devil Forest.
• In the Devil Forest, Jashin Cult members fought mutant beasts without feeling pain, but several were killed and the rest retreated.
• The Jashin Cult leader survived severe wounds, defeated more than a dozen mutant beasts, and explained how Lord Jashin's blessing granted immortality and restored pain.
• Zhou Fan and Zhao Qiu approached the group, and the Jashin Cult leader invited them to join and gain immortal bodies.
• Zhou Fan refused, saying he was a good student and did not believe in evil cults.

Zhou Fan and Zhao Qiu confronted Duan Fei, the leader of the Jashin Cult, to find out who had placed a bounty on Zhou Fan. After discovering Duan Fei had an immortal body, Zhou Fan tested his abilities, and Duan Fei began a ritual to share his pain with Zhou Fan.

• Zhao Qiu took on the Jashin Cult members while Zhou Fan challenged Duan Fei for information about the bounty.
• Zhou Fan swiftly attacked Duan Fei with taijutsu and fire techniques, but Duan Fei emerged unharmed and fought back with his scythe.
• After Zhou Fan pinned Duan Fei with a wooden spike, Duan Fei pulled it out and revealed that pain only excited him.
• Zhou Fan recognized Duan Fei's immortal body and continued testing his combat abilities, allowing Duan Fei to cut his arm with the scythe.
• Duan Fei drew a ritual circle with his blood, darkened his skin, and stabbed himself in the heart while calling on Lord Jashin.

Zhou Fan defeated Duan Fei with genjutsu and offered him a place in his organization. After learning the bounty hunter knew little about who had hired him, Zhou Fan pressed Duan Fei about his past and his sacrifices to Lord Jashin.

• Duan Fei stabbed himself in a genjutsu, and Zhou Fan revealed that the apparent curse had never affected him.
• Zhou Fan bound Duan Fei with Wood Release while Zhao Qiu knocked out the Jashin Cult followers.
• Zhou Fan used genjutsu to learn that a mysterious person had offered two million to capture him alive, but Duan Fei knew nothing more.
• Zhou Fan threatened to dismember and abandon Duan Fei unless he joined the organization, and Duan Fei asked why he should join.
• Duan Fei explained that schools had rejected him after he tried to recruit the principal's daughter into the Jashin Cult.
• Zhou Fan asked whether Duan Fei had killed innocent people, and Duan Fei said he offered mutant beast flesh and blood to Lord Jashin.

Zhou Fan recruited Duan Fei into his organization after learning he had not killed people indiscriminately. On the journey back to Xinghai University, Duan Fei explained that Jashin had saved him and given him an immortal body, leaving Zhou Fan wondering whether the god truly existed.

• Zhou Fan accepted Duan Fei into his organization, and Duan Fei insisted he would continue making offerings to Jashin.
• Zhao Qiu questioned whether Duan Fei could be trusted because Jashin Cult members had tried to assassinate Zhou Fan, but Zhou Fan explained he had used Genjutsu to confirm someone else was behind the attack.
• Zhou Fan, Zhao Qiu, and Duan Fei returned to Xinghai University on a mutant beast controlled by Zhou Fan's Sharingan Genjutsu.
• Duan Fei said Jashin had given him an immortal body after he fell into a cave as a child, and described Jashin as having six eyes.
• Duan Fei explained that he sacrificed mutant beasts through a curse ritual to repay Jashin, whom he had met only once.
• Zhou Fan considered that Jashin might really exist, while Zhao Qiu dismissed Duan Fei as a likely lunatic.

Zhou Fan returned to Xinghai University with Duan Fei, whom he recruited into Xia Qingran's organization, while Zhao Qiu offered to let Duan Fei stay in his dorm. Lin Qianqian came home after soloing a Beginner Forbidden Zone, but Zhou Fan barely reacted.

• Zhou Fan brought Duan Fei to Xinghai University and stopped him from trying to recruit a student into the Jashin Cult.
• Zhou Fan introduced Duan Fei to Xia Qingran as a new member of their organization, and she left Zhou Fan to handle him.
• Zhao Qiu insisted Duan Fei stay in his dorm so he would not interfere with Zhou Fan's time with Lin Qianqian.
• Zhou Fan returned to the dark, empty house and wondered why Lin Qianqian had not come home.
• Lin Qianqian returned exhausted and told Zhou Fan she had soloed a Beginner Forbidden Zone, but he simply told her to take a shower.

Zhou Fan was ordered by Xia Qingran to train Zhao Qiu and Duan Fei, so he put them through the Gravity Training Ground’s physical conditioning. The two adapted to twice normal gravity on their first day, though they still had a long way to go before reaching nine times gravity.

• Lin Qianqian got angry when Zhou Fan treated her soloing a Beginner Forbidden Zone as nothing special, then went upstairs.
• Xia Qingran told Zhou Fan to train Zhao Qiu and Duan Fei because they had not yet met Evening Bell’s requirements.
• Zhou Fan explained the Gravity Training Ground and its nine-times-gravity goal to Zhao Qiu and Duan Fei.
• Zhao Qiu tried using Gigantification to handle twice normal gravity, but Zhou Fan made him return to his normal form.
• Zhao Qiu and Duan Fei trained through the pressure and adapted to twice normal gravity on their first day.

Xia Qingran shared her ambitions and a tender moment with Zhou Fan beneath the stars, while Zhou Fan declared he would knock down anyone who bullied her. The next morning, he pushed Zhao Qiu and Duan Fei to continue their gravity training.

• Xia Qingran told Zhou Fan that her purpose was to become the strongest and defeat the elders of the Imperial Capital.
• Zhou Fan said his goal was to knock down anyone who bullied Xia Qingran, moving her deeply.
• Xia Qingran and Zhou Fan watched the stars together, and she covered him with a blanket after he fell asleep.
• Zhou Fan found Xia Qingran gone in the morning and returned her blanket to her room.
• Zhou Fan mocked Zhao Qiu and Duan Fei for being sore after training, then goaded them into entering the Gravity Training Room.

Lin Qianqian trained alone in Canglan Forest and unveiled a giant paper construct she intended to use against Zhou Fan’s Susanoo. Meanwhile, Zhou Fan’s gravity training left Zhao Qiu and Duan Fei exhausted, and Duan Fei offered Zhao Qiu his blood in hopes of giving him an immortal body.

• Lin Qianqian fought mutant beasts with ordinary paper sheets as she trained to improve her control and strength.
• Lin Qianqian summoned the over-ten-meter-tall Paper Style God and declared that she would defeat Zhou Fan’s Susanoo.
• Zhou Fan told Zhao Qiu and Duan Fei that their gravity training had made them at least twice as strong, though they still had many rounds to complete.
• Zhao Qiu complained about the exhausting training, while Zhou Fan compared him unfavorably to Duan Fei’s immortal body.
• Duan Fei offered Zhao Qiu his blood and flesh as a way to gain immortality, but Zhao Qiu refused.

Xi Yan assigned Luo Luodong and the Execution Department a covert mission involving Espers from other countries, requiring them to leave the next morning. Luo Luodong recruited Zhou Fan and Lin Qianqian, then agreed to let Zhao Qiu and Duan Fei join them after Zhou Fan and Xia Qingran vouched for their strength.

• Xi Yan gave Luo Luodong a secret mission and told him to leave the next morning with two Fourth Tier Espers, though Luo said most of his Fourth Tier personnel were unavailable.
• Xi Yan approved Luo's plan to recruit Zhou Fan and Lin Qianqian, but ruled out bringing Xia Qingran because the mission involved foreign Espers and her family might pull her back.
• Luo Luodong arrived at the Training Ground and summoned Zhou Fan and Lin Qianqian for the mission.
• Zhou Fan asked Luo to include Zhao Qiu and Duan Fei, and Xia Qingran supported the request as members of Evening Bell.
• Zhao Qiu reported that he and Duan Fei had reached Third Tier, 1 Star, and Luo agreed to bring them along.

Zhou Fan and the Execution Department traveled to Lanya Island to find star tear stone, a powerful weapon ore, despite the island’s dangerous mutant beasts and rival Espers. As the flying beasts approached the island, Luo Luodong warned the group to prepare for what lay ahead.

• Luo Luodong split the team between two flying mutant beasts and explained that their mission could be deadly.
• Luo Luodong told Zhou Fan that Lanya Island held star tear stone and that mutant beasts and foreign Espers would threaten their search.
• Zhao Qiu worried about the small team, while Luo Luodong relied on Zhou Fan’s strength and Zhou Fan looked forward to fighting foreign Espers.
• The two flying beasts crossed the sea and approached Lanya Island after Luo Luodong told everyone to stay alert.

Luo Luodong led Zhou Fan, Lin Qianqian, and the Execution Department team onto Lanya Island to reach a star tear stone deposit. After Lin Qianqian silently killed a group of Demon Wolves, the team continued toward the island’s center.

• Luo Luodong landed the team on Lanya Island after scouts found no immediate danger and explained that the star tear stone deposit lay about ten kilometers away.
• Luo Luodong ordered the team to travel quietly and avoid fights that might draw the island’s mutant beasts.
• The Execution Department scouts found six or seven third tier 2-star Demon Wolves ahead and warned they might not be able to kill them all silently.
• Lin Qianqian used Paper Blizzard: Silent Kill to wrap the Demon Wolves in paper scraps and snap their necks without making noise.
• Luo Luodong praised Lin Qianqian and invited her to learn more about the Execution Department, but she declined.

Luo Luodong’s team was exposed while fighting through the mutant beasts on Lanya Island, where Duan Fei revealed his immortal body and rapid healing. Meanwhile, Osborn and a group of Espers from Meixing Country landed on the island and headed toward the fighting, seeking the star tear stone.

• Lin Qianqian’s paper attack alerted a pack of Demon Tigers, so Luo Luodong ordered the team to fight openly.
• Zhou Fan, Zhao Qiu, Lin Qianqian, and the others attacked the charging mutant beasts with their abilities.
• Duan Fei survived a Demon Tiger biting through his neck, killed it, and healed his wound, revealing his immortal body and self-healing to Luo Luodong.
• Luo Luodong’s team cleared the attacking beasts and hurried toward the island’s interior as more roars approached.
• Osborn and the other Espers from Meixing Country landed on Lanya Island and headed toward the fighting after suspecting Xia Country’s team had arrived first.

Zhou Fan found the star tear stone at the center of the island, but it was mounted on a Dark Fiend Black Tortoise, a powerful Fifth Tier mutant beast. As Luo Luodong fought the creature, the stone fired a white laser beam that engulfed him.

• Zhou Fan used his enhanced perception to locate a star tear stone buried in the ground.
• The ground shook as a Dark Fiend Black Tortoise emerged with the stone on its head, revealing itself as a Fifth Tier One Star mutant beast.
• Luo Luodong told the others to keep back and attacked the Dark Fiend Black Tortoise with lightning, but its defenses resisted his strikes.
• Luo Luodong pressed his assault with Lightning Extremity, but the star tear stone blazed and fired a white laser beam that engulfed him.

Zhou Fan and Lin Qianqian helped Luo Luodong defeat the Dark Fiend Black Tortoise and preserve its star tear stone. As they prepared to claim it, Osborn and six other Meixing Country fighters ambushed them, and Osborn threatened to drain their blood.

• The Dark Fiend Black Tortoise attacked Luo Luodong, but he survived and Zhou Fan stepped in to fight it.
• Zhou Fan used Wood Release techniques to bind the beast, while Luo Luodong struck it with lightning and Lin Qianqian weakened its next attack with Sealing Tags.
• Luo Luodong used Thunder Blade to behead the restrained Dark Fiend Black Tortoise, then praised Zhou Fan and Lin Qianqian for their help.
• As Luo Luodong approached the beast's head to retrieve the star tear stone, Osborn and six Meixing Country fighters appeared and attacked.
• Luo Luodong recognized Osborn, a powerful vampire he had fought five times, and Osborn vowed to drain the blood of Luo Luodong and his companions.

Luo Luodong and his group faced Osborn’s stronger team after exhausting themselves fighting the Dark Fiend Black Tortoise, and Luo Luodong revealed his Thunder Prison Demon Eye to hold Osborn off. As Zhou Fan’s group was surrounded, Zhou Fan attacked Mekalen and summoned two enormous creatures, sending her flying.

• Luo Luodong assessed Osborn’s team as far stronger and told the four Execution Department members to cover the group’s retreat.
• Osborn surrounded Luo Luodong’s group and taunted him, so Luo Luodong revealed his Thunder Prison Demon Eye and ordered the others to break through while he fought.
• Luo Luodong and Osborn clashed with violet lightning and a blood-red blade as Osborn’s subordinates surrounded Zhou Fan and the others.
• Mekalen approached the Execution Department members, but Zhou Fan used the Body Flicker Technique to kick her into a rock.
• Mekalen attacked Zhou Fan with her claws, but he dodged and used the Summoning Technique, bringing forth two enormous figures whose tails sent her flying.

Zhou Fan summoned Shukaku and Matatabi to turn the battle against Mekalen’s group, then faced Mekalen in a duel. After powering up with Susanoo armor and Sage Mode, he charged at her with Amaterasu-coated strikes, and their clash continued.

• Zhou Fan summoned Shukaku and Matatabi, revealing two fourth-tier, five-star beasts and overturning Mekalen’s advantage.
• Mekalen ordered Char and Mark to occupy the tailed beasts while the others fought Zhou Fan’s allies, then attacked Zhou Fan herself.
• Zhou Fan used Peerless and the Star Shatter Halberd to trade blows with Mekalen, but her attacks forced him back.
• Mekalen attacked Zhou Fan from behind with Blood Claw, but his Susanoo skeleton blocked her strike.
• Zhou Fan activated Susanoo armor and Sage Mode alongside Peerless, then charged Mekalen with an Amaterasu-coated halberd as she countered with Blood Slash.

Duan Fei and Zhao Qiu fought Robert, one of Osborn's strongest subordinates, but Robert overwhelmed them with his blood-based abilities. After Robert drank Duan Fei's blood, Duan Fei prepared a Jashin ritual and turned Robert's attack back on him, leaving the fight at a turning point.

• Robert attacked Zhao Qiu and Duan Fei with Blood Blades, but Duan Fei's wounds healed each time.
• Zhao Qiu and Duan Fei coordinated their attacks, but Robert dodged them and blasted both men to the ground.
• Robert bound Duan Fei and drank his blood, discovering that it made his own blood grow stronger.
• Zhao Qiu struck Robert and knocked him away from Duan Fei, but Robert seized Zhao Qiu and prepared to drink his blood.
• Duan Fei drew a ritual circle and triangle with his blood, then let Robert's Blood Blade wound him.
• Robert felt searing pain and saw an identical wound appear on his own body.

Duan Fei used his ability to make Robert suffer the same injuries he inflicted on himself, killing Robert by stabbing his own heart. On the third battlefield, Lin Qianqian fought Martha and trapped her with an explosive paper technique after evading her attack.

• Duan Fei stabbed his thigh, causing Robert to suffer the same wound and collapse in pain.
• Robert pierced Duan Fei with Bloodline: Chain Kill, but the matching injury appeared on Robert.
• Duan Fei stabbed his own heart and killed Robert through their shared injuries.
• Martha attacked Lin Qianqian, who used explosive tags hidden among her paper sheets to drive Martha back.
• Martha used Bloodline: Swift Wind to pierce Lin Qianqian, but Lin Qianqian transformed into paper and covered Martha with sheets before activating Mutually Multiplying Paper Bomb Technique.

Lin Qianqian killed Mary, while Zhou Fan fought Mekalen as their side gained the advantage across the battlefields. Mekalen fell into Zhou Fan’s Tsukuyomi, and Osborn struck Luo Luodong with a devastating blood attack.

• Lin Qianqian detonated hundreds of Explosive Tags and killed Mary.
• Zhou Fan and Mekalen exchanged blows, and Zhou Fan pointed out that their teammates were losing.
• Mary and Robert were killed, while Mark and Charles were caught in Tailed Beast Bomb explosions and their fates remained unknown.
• Zhou Fan trapped Mekalen in his Tsukuyomi genjutsu.
• Luo Luodong and Osborn fought as Osborn learned that many of his subordinates had fallen.
• Osborn shattered Luo Luodong’s violet lightning with overlapping blood palm strikes and slammed him with the attack.

Luo Luodong and Zhou Fan’s group fought Osborn, who survived their attacks with a fifth-tier vampire ability that let him regenerate. Zhou Fan and Lin Qianqian kept battling him, and the chapter left Osborn under another barrage from Shukaku and Matatabi.

• Luo Luodong exhausted his spiritual energy against Osborn, but Zhou Fan, Lin Qianqian, Shukaku, and Matatabi intervened and blasted Osborn with two Tailed Beast Bombs.
• Osborn regenerated from the damage using Blood Source Rebirth, which Luo Luodong explained could revive him only twice in a short time.
• Zhou Fan charged Osborn with his Susanoo armor and Star Shatter Halberd, but Osborn’s attacks forced him back.
• Lin Qianqian distracted Osborn with paper attacks and detonated over a thousand Explosive Tags through her Mutually Multiplying Paper Bomb Technique, costing Osborn an arm.
• Shukaku and Matatabi attacked Osborn with Wind Release: Drilling Air Bullet and another Tailed Beast Bomb.

Zhou Fan and Lin Qianqian pushed Osborn to use up his Blood Source Rebirth, but he absorbed his companions’ blood and trapped Lin Qianqian in a barrier. Zhou Fan saved her and unleashed his Complete Body Susanoo, leaving the battle poised for a clash between his empowered Susanoo and Osborn’s Vampire True Form.

• Zhou Fan praised Lin Qianqian for her teamwork, and he realized Osborn had exhausted his chances to revive through Blood Source Rebirth.
• Osborn absorbed the blood of his dead subordinates, restored his strength, and blocked Zhou Fan and Lin Qianqian’s attacks with a blood-red barrier.
• Osborn trapped Lin Qianqian in a Blood Cage and forced her out of Paper Transformation, but Zhou Fan arrived and shielded her with Susanoo.
• Osborn broke through Zhou Fan’s Crow Tengu Armor and summoned his Vampire True Form as Zhou Fan expanded his Susanoo into its Complete Body form.
• Shukaku and Matatabi gave Zhou Fan their remaining energy, and he drew his Susanoo’s sword while declaring that it could shatter all creation.

Zhou Fan used Susanoo, powered by Shukaku and Matatabi, to kill Osborn with one slash that split Lanya Island in two. The group recovered the Star Tear Stone and withdrew, while footage of the battle spread around the world.

• Zhou Fan's Susanoo shattered Osborn's blood shields, cleaved his vampire true form in two, and split the sky and Lanya Island with one slash.
• Osborn died after declaring the attack impossible, and Zhou Fan's companions reacted with shock at his power.
• Zhou Fan learned that Shukaku and Matatabi had supplied the strength behind his attack and asked where the Star Tear Stone was.
• An Execution Department member retrieved the Star Tear Stone from the Dark Fiend Black Tortoise's head, and Zhou Fan's group withdrew from the island.
• News stations reported an apparent battle and the destruction of Lanya Island, broadcasting distant footage of Zhou Fan's slash.
• People around the world discussed the footage online and speculated about the battle and its mysterious attacker.

News reports described the disaster caused by the battle on Lanya Island, while Meixing Country blamed Xia Country for wiping out its squad. Xi Yan confirmed that freshman Zhou Fan had split the island and concealed his identity, then revealed to the regional Esper Bureau directors that a Xinghai University freshman was responsible.

• News broadcasts reported that the battle on Lanya Island split the island, caused earthquakes and tsunamis, and left hundreds dead and thousands missing.
• Meixing Country's Esper Bureau concluded that Xia Country's Espers had killed Osborn's vampire squad while fighting over the star tear stone.
• Luo Luodong reported to Xi Yan that the team had obtained the star tear stone and that Zhou Fan had split Lanya Island with help from two fourth-tier, five-star summoned beasts.
• Xi Yan ordered Luo Luodong to warn everyone who knew about Zhou Fan's feat to keep it secret for his safety.
• At a meeting with regional Esper Bureau directors, Xi Yan said a Xinghai University freshman, not Luo Luodong, had split Lanya Island.

After Zhou Fan split Lanya Island apart, Xinghai University ordered him and his companions to keep the feat secret under Xia Country’s Dragon Vein Plan. Zhou Fan returned to his villa, where the system began registering shock from others.

• Xi Yan told four bureau chiefs that a freshman had split Lanya Island apart, and they decided to report the matter to Old Huang.
• Xia Qingran greeted Zhou Fan and his companions at Xinghai University and learned that Zhou Fan had split the island.
• Luo Luodong delivered the principal’s order forbidding them from revealing the mission or Zhou Fan’s feat to outsiders.
• Xia Qingran explained that the Dragon Vein Plan concealed geniuses from hostile countries that might try to eliminate them.
• Xia Qingran rewarded Zhou Fan with a strawberry lollipop, and he returned to his villa.
• The system displayed a series of shock notifications to Zhou Fan.