Recaps

Zhou Fan learned that the spread of his Lanya Island feat was generating small amounts of Emotion Points, and he kept a system bug that let them accumulate. After gaining nearly 100,000 points overnight, he redeemed several Wood Release techniques.

• Zhou Fan learned that people discussing the Lanya Island incident generated 0.1 Emotion Points for every ten people, even though they did not know he had caused it.
• When the system offered to fix the bug behind the low-yield points, Zhou Fan refused and let his Emotion Points continue accumulating.
• Lin Qianqian left to train, while her system reminded her that she had seven days to complete her penalty task with Zhou Fan and listed extra challenges.
• Zhou Fan found that his Emotion Points had risen to 98,234 overnight as news of Lanya Island spread.
• Zhou Fan spent 70,000 Emotion Points to redeem the Cliff Face Technique, World of Flowering Trees, and Wood Golem Technique.

Zhou Fan unlocked Obito Uchiha as a bond partner but found Kamui’s abilities too expensive to obtain. After earning nine prize draws from achievements, he won the Rasengan-series Ninjutsu, the Uchiha Gunbai, and the Flying Thunder God Technique.

• Zhou Fan spent 20,000 emotion points to unlock Obito Uchiha and saw that Kamui’s distortion and intangibility abilities cost 50,000 and 100,000 points.
• Zhou Fan earned nine prize draws as his emotion-point totals unlocked several achievements.
• Zhou Fan drew the Rasengan-series Ninjutsu and received 10,000 emotion points from two draws.
• Zhou Fan drew the Uchiha Gunbai, which could absorb attacks, convert them into Wind Release, and reflect them.
• Zhou Fan won the special grand prize, the Flying Thunder God Technique, on his ninth draw.

Zhou Fan obtained the Flying Thunder God Technique and spent the day enjoying his gains while supervising Zhao Qiu and Duan Fei. That evening, he found Xia Qingran’s ice spirit body out of control and refused to leave her alone.

• Zhou Fan drew the Flying Thunder God Technique, adding its teleportation skills to his growing collection of abilities.
• Zhou Fan visited the Training Ground, where Zhao Qiu and Duan Fei trained, and watched online reactions to the Lanya Island incident.
• Zhou Fan had dinner with Zhao Qiu and Duan Fei, then noticed Xia Qingran’s house was dark and unnaturally cold.
• Zhou Fan found Xia Qingran surrounded by frost, and she warned him that her ice spirit body had gone out of control and could hurt him.
• Zhou Fan refused to leave Xia Qingran alone despite her warning.

Xia Qingran’s ice spirit body ran wild, and Zhou Fan used the Evil-Sealing Method to help suppress it. She lost consciousness after forcing the remaining cold back inside her, leaving Zhou Fan holding her as she shivered with extreme cold.

• Xia Qingran’s uncontrolled ice spirit body released intense cold, and Zhou Fan reached her behind his Susanoo’s protection.
• Zhou Fan redeemed the Evil-Sealing Method and used it to suppress half of Xia Qingran’s rampaging power.
• Zhou Fan transferred his energy to help Xia Qingran force the remaining cold back inside, despite warning her that it was harming her.
• Xia Qingran spat blood, suppressed her ice spirit body, and collapsed unconscious with her body dangerously cold.
• Zhou Fan held Xia Qingran and tried to warm her as she clung to him.

After Xia Qingran recovered from her Ice Spirit Body’s dangerous flare-up, she explained its worsening side effects to Zhou Fan and scolded him for staying beside her. Zhou Fan insisted he would never abandon her, but their conversation ended when Xia Chuan arrived to see his daughter.

• Xia Qingran woke up after Zhou Fan had stayed with her through her Ice Spirit Body’s flare-up, then moved him aside and went downstairs.
• Zhou Fan found Xia Qingran playing a game, and she explained that her flawed Ice Spirit Body caused increasingly severe side effects when overused.
• Xia Qingran noticed Zhou Fan’s frostbitten hand, but he healed it with Hashirama Senju’s cells.
• Xia Qingran angrily asked Zhou Fan why he had ignored her order to leave, and he said he would not abandon her when she was in danger.
• Xia Chuan arrived at Xia Qingran’s home and told Zhou Fan he was there to see his daughter.

Xia Chuan took Xia Qingran back to the Imperial Capital, where she hoped to see her mother, Qin Lin, and she disbanded Evening Bell before leaving. Afterward, Principal Xi Yan offered to guide Zhou Fan and Lin Qianqian and provide them with school training and resources.

• Xia Chuan arrived to take Xia Qingran home and said her mother might not survive another ice spirit body episode.
• Xia Qingran decided to return to the Imperial Capital because she was worried about Qin Lin.
• Xia Qingran disbanded Evening Bell, said goodbye to Zhou Fan and the others, and left with Xia Chuan on a flying mutant beast.
• Zhou Fan told Zhao Qiu and Duan Fei to keep training in the Gravity Training Room despite Evening Bell's dissolution.
• Xi Yan visited Zhou Fan and Lin Qianqian and offered to guide them and provide school resources from then on.

Xi Yan agreed to mentor Zhou Fan, Lin Qianqian, Zhao Qiu, and Duan Fei, offering guidance and monthly resources. After learning that Duan Fei might leave now that Evening Bell had disbanded, Zhou Fan decided to start a new organization called Dawn.

• Xi Yan offered Zhou Fan and Lin Qianqian monthly Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones and access to his cultivation guidance, with Luo Luodong as another instructor when he was unavailable.
• Zhou Fan asked Xi Yan to include Zhao Qiu and Duan Fei, and Xi Yan agreed to make all four of them his students.
• Zhou Fan told Zhao Qiu and Duan Fei about Xi Yan's offer.
• Duan Fei asked whether he could leave now that Evening Bell had disbanded, but Zhou Fan refused.
• Zhou Fan decided to establish a new organization called Dawn, and Zhao Qiu welcomed the idea.

Zhou Fan founded [Dawn] with Zhao Qiu and Duan Fei, then pressured Lin Qianqian into joining by threatening to make her leave their villa. Lin Qianqian accepted on the condition that they remain equals and no one else move in, while her system reminded her that she had five days left to complete a punishment task involving sleeping with Zhou Fan.

• Zhou Fan named his new organization [Dawn] and established it with Zhao Qiu and Duan Fei as its first three members.
• Zhou Fan invited Lin Qianqian to join, but she asked what resources the organization could provide and rejected his offer when he had none.
• Zhou Fan proposed a fight to decide whether Lin Qianqian would join, but she refused, so he threatened to make her move out of the villa.
• Lin Qianqian agreed to join [Dawn] as Zhou Fan's equal and required that nobody else live in the villa.
• Lin Qianqian's system warned that five days remained to complete the punishment task of sleeping with Zhou Fan.

Vampires from Meixing Country discovered the auras of the Espers who defeated their squad on Lanya Island and planned to infiltrate Xia Country to kill them. At Xinghai University, Luo Luodong recruited Zhou Fan and Zhao Qiu for a reconnaissance mission targeting the wanted criminal She Wan.

• Chen Ya livestreamed from Lanya Island, where a vampire killed her and crushed her phone.
• Raymond examined the spiritual energy traces from the battle, identified nine opponents, and ordered his squad to infiltrate Xia Country and kill them.
• Luo Luodong summoned Zhou Fan and Zhao Qiu to the Execution Department for a mission as the Principal's students.
• Luo Luodong told them that She Wan was an S-Rank wanted criminal who had conducted human experiments and escaped.
• Luo Luodong explained that the mission was to investigate a hideout where She Wan might be hiding.

Zhou Fan joined a reconnaissance mission to investigate one of She Wan’s underground hideouts, despite being one of She Wan’s targets. The team split up inside the hideout, and Zhou Fan’s group opened a heavy door to find a laboratory.

• Luo Luodong explained that the Execution Department had found an important hideout where She Wan might be, and said Xinghai University had joined the investigation because She Wan had abducted students.
• Luo Luodong warned Zhou Fan that She Wan had targeted him and offered him the chance to sit out, but Zhou Fan chose to join the mission.
• Luo Luodong introduced Black Wolf as the team leader, and Zhou Fan set out with Zhao Qiu and three Execution Department members.
• The team flew to a forest ten kilometers from the hideout, landed a kilometer away, and followed Black Wolf to an underground entrance.
• Black Wolf split the team at a fork, sending White Horse and Black Horse down the left passage while Zhou Fan, Zhao Qiu, and another member took the right.
• Zhou Fan’s group reached a heavy door at the end of the passage, opened it, and discovered a laboratory.

Zhou Fan and his companions found She Wan’s abandoned laboratory, where wanted criminals and mutant beasts had been turned into experimental subjects. She Wan’s snake clone unleashed the awakened monsters, but Zhou Fan trapped it with Tsukuyomi, leaving the real She Wan shaken and even more determined to claim Zhou Fan’s body and eyes.

• Zhou Fan, Black Wolf, and Zhao Qiu discovered wanted criminals and other subjects altered with mutant beast organs in She Wan’s laboratory.
• Zhao Qiu questioned why She Wan had left so many test subjects behind, and She Wan’s snake clone appeared.
• She Wan revealed that his real body was elsewhere and promised to take Zhou Fan’s body, then shattered the glass tubes to unleash twenty or thirty third-tier monsters.
• Zhou Fan used his Mangekyō Sharingan to trap She Wan’s clone in Tsukuyomi, exploiting its mental connection to She Wan’s real body.
• She Wan’s real body collapsed and retched from the Genjutsu’s effects, then declared that he must have Zhou Fan’s body and eyes.

In the laboratory, Zhao Qiu revealed his self-created superpower, Life Shackles, and joined Zhou Fan in fighting the mutants. After they defeated the beasts, the mutants began transforming beneath a fiery red energy cloak.

• She Wan admired the eyes of an unseen figure and ordered Number Four to prepare the test subjects as gifts for their guests and begin the next experiments.
• Zhao Qiu used Muscle Lock-release to knock back several mutants, then explained how his Life Shackles superpower could unlock five restraints on the body's strength.
• Zhao Qiu told Zhou Fan he could release only the first lock, and the two joined Black Wolf against the mutants.
• Zhao Qiu and Zhou Fan punched the mutant beasts until they fell, while Zhao Qiu boasted about their teamwork.
• The fallen mutants erupted with red energy that formed tails around their bodies, and Zhou Fan recognized it as a Tailed Beast Cloak.

Zhou Fan defeated She Wan’s Four-Tails-cloaked mutant beasts and returned to Xinghai University with the team. After reporting the mission, he met Principal Xi Yan, who gave him two bottles of Nine Flame Liquid, one for him and one for Lin Qianqian.

• Zhou Fan realized She Wan had distributed Four-Tails’ energy among his mutant experiments, giving them Tailed Beast Cloaks that increased their strength.
• After Zhao Qiu’s Muscle Lock wore off, Zhou Fan used Flying Thunder God-marked knives, Flash Bombs, and Body Flicker to defeat the mutants in seconds.
• Zhou Fan, Zhao Qiu, and Black Wolf searched She Wan’s laboratory, collected its materials and mutant corpses, then returned to Xinghai University.
• Luo Luodong received their mission report, promised to study the experimental subjects, and rewarded each of them with a Mid-Grade Spirit Stone.
• Xi Yan called Zhou Fan to his office and gave him two bottles of Nine Flame Liquid, telling him to keep one and give the other to Lin Qianqian.

Zhou Fan and Lin Qianqian drank the Principal’s Nine Flame Liquid, which caused intense heat and dizziness. With 25 hours left to complete her punishment task to sleep with Zhou Fan, Lin Qianqian used the drink to gather courage and headed to his room.

• Xi Yan gave Zhou Fan two bottles of Nine Flame Liquid and explained that it could improve cultivation but felt like strong alcohol.
• Zhou Fan gave Lin Qianqian a bottle, then mistakenly concluded that her inconsistent behavior meant she had a split personality.
• Zhou Fan drank his bottle and became overheated, restless, and dizzy.
• Lin Qianqian saw that only 25 hours remained to complete her task to sleep with Zhou Fan and struggled to decide how to do it.
• Lin Qianqian took a small sip of Nine Flame Liquid to bolster her courage, then went to Zhou Fan’s room determined to sleep with him.

Lin Qianqian entered Zhou Fan’s room while he slept after drinking the rest of the Nine Flame Liquid, intending to complete her system task by sleeping beside him. Zhou Fan rolled onto her thighs and began stroking them in his sleep, fulfilling the lap-pillow challenge as Lin Qianqian let him stay there.

• Lin Qianqian found Zhou Fan asleep beside the empty Nine Flame Liquid bottle and saw the system’s sleep task and additional challenges.
• Lin Qianqian drank the rest of her Nine Flame Liquid, climbed into bed beside Zhou Fan, and tried to settle down without waking him.
• Zhou Fan rolled over and rested his head on Lin Qianqian’s thighs, and the system confirmed that it counted as a lap pillow.
• Lin Qianqian allowed Zhou Fan to remain on her thighs, but he began stroking one of them in his sleep.

Lin Qianqian completed the system’s lap-rest challenge while Zhou Fan slept, then struggled to give him a goodnight kiss. His restless sleep pulled her into an accidental kiss, completing the task, and she was left embarrassed and furious while he remained asleep.

• Zhou Fan nuzzled Lin Qianqian’s thigh in his sleep, and she endured the remaining five minutes until the system awarded her a Bronze Chest.
• The system suggested Lin Qianqian kiss Zhou Fan, and she hesitated before deciding she could forgo the reward.
• As Lin Qianqian leaned toward Zhou Fan, he grabbed her arm, pulled her into his embrace, and their lips met.
• Zhou Fan dreamed of kissing a girl whose scent felt familiar, while Lin Qianqian froze and then pushed him away as he tried to deepen the kiss.
• The system awarded Lin Qianqian a Gold Chest for completing the kiss challenge, and she glared at Zhou Fan, who was still asleep.

Lin Qianqian stayed in Zhou Fan’s arms to complete her system missions, then fell asleep beside him. At dawn, Zhou Fan woke to find her in his room and realized his dreamlike memories of touching her had been real, but he could not remember how she had ended up there.

• Lin Qianqian decided to remain in Zhou Fan’s arms for two hours, which would fulfill both her punishment mission and the second bonus challenge.
• As the Nine Flame Liquid made her drowsy, Lin Qianqian wrapped her arms around Zhou Fan’s waist and fell asleep.
• Zhou Fan dreamed that he embraced and touched a girl, then woke to find Lin Qianqian asleep face-to-face with him.
• Zhou Fan realized his right hand had been resting on Lin Qianqian’s breast and quickly pulled away when she stirred.
• Zhou Fan recognized his room but could not remember how Lin Qianqian had gotten there.

Zhou Fan found Lin Qianqian asleep in his bed and, believing she had wandered in after drinking Nine Flame Liquid, carried her back to her room. Lin Qianqian revealed she had been awake and pretending to sleep, completed her missions, and learned her next comparison with Zhou Fan would take place in six months.

• Zhou Fan noticed Lin Qianqian asleep in his bed and reasoned that she had drunk Nine Flame Liquid and mistaken his room for hers.
• Zhou Fan carried Lin Qianqian back to her room without realizing she was awake and pretending to sleep.
• After Zhou Fan left, Lin Qianqian recalled the previous night and the moment Zhou Fan had touched her chest, and she resolved to get back at him.
• The system announced that Lin Qianqian had completed the punishment mission and Extra Challenge · Mission 2, granting her an S-Rank Superpower Book, a random permanent high-grade item, and a Silver Chest.
• The system delayed the next comparison with Zhou Fan for six months and warned Lin Qianqian of a more thrilling punishment if she lost again.

Lin Qianqian examined the S-Rank Paper Element superpower and the Angel Shield she had received, then resolved to grow strong enough to challenge Zhou Fan. Zhou Fan visited Xinghai University's Tower of Trials to test his current strength.

• Lin Qianqian inspected Paper Element and learned she could imbue paper with the five basic elements and combine their damage.
• Lin Qianqian examined the Angel Shield, whose defense scaled with her strength, and realized it could not yet withstand Zhou Fan's attacks.
• Lin Qianqian opened the three treasure chests she had earned from completing extra challenges.
• Zhou Fan carried Lin Qianqian back to her room and decided not to tell her that they had slept together.
• Zhou Fan visited Xinghai University's training facilities and chose the Tower of Trials to test his strength.

Zhou Fan entered the Tower of Trials to challenge its leaderboard and discovered that Lin Qianqian had already reached floor 24. He rapidly climbed the tower, surpassed her record, and reached floor 24 as the chapter ended.

• Zhou Fan arrived at the Tower of Trials and saw Lin Qianqian ranked second after reaching floor 24 as a third-tier Esper.
• Zhou Fan entered the tower and swiftly cleared its first floors with his Star Shatter Halberd and Peerless state.
• Onlookers watched Zhou Fan climb from floor 1 to floor 15 in ten minutes, clearing the first major threshold with ease.
• Zhou Fan passed the second major threshold on floor 20 and continued through the increasingly difficult floors.
• Zhou Fan reached floor 24, the highest floor Lin Qianqian had cleared.

Zhou Fan cleared floor 24 of the Tower of Trials and reached floor 25, where he encountered a clone of the Nightmare Lord guarding the floor. The Nightmare Lord challenged Zhou Fan to defeat him to proceed.

• Students gathered to watch Zhou Fan reach floor 24 in 25 minutes, and Lin Qianqian, Zhao Qiu, and Duan Fei arrived to see his progress.
• Zhou Fan defeated seven fourth-tier, five-star Demon Tigers on floor 24 by trapping them with Wood Release and weakening them with poisonous pollen.
• Zhou Fan cleared floor 24 and entered floor 25, becoming the second person in Xinghai University's history to reach it.
• Zhou Fan recognized the floor 25 guardian as the Nightmare Lord from the Nightmare Illusion Realm.
• The Nightmare Lord explained that he was a clone guarding floor 25 and told Zhou Fan to defeat him to pass.

Zhou Fan defeated the Nightmare Lord in a genjutsu duel, clearing the Tower of Trials’ twenty-fifth floor and setting a new record. He then entered the twenty-sixth floor and summoned Shukaku and Matatabi to fight two mutant beasts.

• The Nightmare Lord trapped Zhou Fan in his Nightmare Eye genjutsu, but Zhou Fan used his Sharingan to reflect it back at him.
• The Nightmare Lord countered with another genjutsu, and Zhou Fan awakened his eternal Mangekyō Sharingan and overwhelmed him.
• The Nightmare Lord admitted defeat, revealed he was a clone who could not locate his missing original body, and sent Zhou Fan to the next floor.
• Spectators and teachers at Xinghai University celebrated as Zhou Fan cleared the twenty-fifth floor and advanced to the twenty-sixth.
• Zhou Fan summoned Shukaku and Matatabi to help him battle the two fifth-tier mutant beasts on the twenty-sixth floor.

Zhou Fan defeated the massive horde on Floor 30 and became the first person in Xinghai University's history to clear all 30 floors of the Tower of Trials. He emerged exhausted to a cheering crowd, while Xi Yan and Luo Luodong discussed the Tower and Lord Hei Meng's legacy.

• Zhou Fan reached Floor 30 and faced more than a hundred mutant beasts gathered from the previous floors.
• Zhou Fan used Sage Mode, 30 wood clones, and Susanoo to battle the horde alongside his two tailed beasts.
• Spectators watched Zhou Fan enter Floor 30, while Xi Yan and Luo Luodong discussed his chances and the teachers' failures on Floor 25.
• Xi Yan explained that Lord Hei Meng had left a genjutsu clone to train students, and Luo Luodong recalled how Hei Meng had once helped him overcome his inner demons.
• Zhou Fan defeated every beast on Floor 30 and left the Tower of Trials exhausted.
• The Tower announced Zhou Fan had cleared all 30 floors, and Zhao Qiu and the crowd cheered him.

Zhou Fan cleared the Tower of Trials and received a Secret Realm treasure map, then drew attention from several girls. Lin Qianqian grew jealous of his popularity but denied it, while Zhou Fan failed to understand why she was upset.

• Zhou Fan cleared all thirty floors of the Tower of Trials, setting a university record and earning over seven thousand emotion points.
• Fang Ping congratulated Zhou Fan and gave him a Secret Realm treasure map that required fourth tier, one star to activate.
• Several girls approached Zhou Fan, and he added them on WeChat while Zhao Qiu and Duan Fei watched.
• Lin Qianqian felt uncomfortable seeing Zhou Fan surrounded by girls and recalled their intimate encounters, then left after he told her about clearing the tower.
• Zhao Qiu told Zhou Fan that Lin Qianqian was jealous, but Zhou Fan refused to believe it.

After vampire Espers from Meixing Country infiltrated the country, Luo Luodong warned Zhou Fan and Lin Qianqian that they might be targets. He assigned them a mission in Ashen City to investigate signs of vampire spies.

• Zhou Fan returned to the villa and found Xi Yan, Luo Luodong, and Lin Qianqian waiting there.
• Luo Luodong reported that eleven coastal guards had been killed and drained of blood, likely by vampires from Meixing Country.
• Luo Luodong explained that the vampires might be seeking revenge for Zhou Fan and Lin Qianqian killing Osborn, though their target was not confirmed.
• Xi Yan described how foreign Espers infiltrated the country for espionage, assassination, and efforts to stir internal conflict.
• Luo Luodong assigned Zhou Fan and Lin Qianqian a mission in Ashen City, where the Esper Bureau had found signs of vampire spies.