Recaps

Zhou Fan won the first round, bonded with Xia Qingran, and defeated Ye Chen before leading his team through the second round despite an attack by She Wan. After qualifying for the final round, he reunited with Lin Qianqian as the Four Great Families arrived for the competition.

• Zhou Fan killed the Three-Headed Demon Wolf and the Beast King, rescued Lin Qianqian, and finished first in the opening round.
• Zhou Fan redeemed Kamui and advanced Sage Mode, then defeated Ye Chen in a duel after Ye Chen challenged him.
• Zhou Fan and Xia Qingran spent time together, and she agreed to wait for him so they could enter the Void Rift together.
• Zhou Fan formed a team with Mo Li and Zhao Hao, obtained an Earth Scroll, and led them through the Secret Realm toward the Evacuation Point.
• She Wan attacked Zhou Fan, then targeted Lin Qianqian, who drove him off with her paper techniques.
• Zhou Fan reached the Evacuation Point, submitted his team’s scrolls, and defeated Gu Ning in a fight.
• The second round qualified one hundred teams, and Lin Ya announced that eliminations in the final round would earn points, with bonus points for defeating top-ten contestants.
• Two days later, the Four Great Families arrived for the final round as Zhou Fan’s fans predicted he would win.

Zhou Fan won the National Competition and prepared to enter the Void Rift with Lin Qianqian and Xia Qingran. Once inside, he landed alone, while Zhao Qiu teamed up with Gu Yu and faced a growing threat from revived beasts.

• Zhou Fan overwhelmed the competition’s leading candidates, then became champion after Lin Qianqian conceded rather than fight him.
• Lin Ya announced Zhou Fan and Lin Qianqian as the top two, and Xi Yan gave them rewards and cautioned them about the Void Rift.
• Zhou Fan and Lin Qianqian spent time together in the Imperial Capital, and Zhou Fan gave her the porcelain dolls and earrings she had admired.
• Zhou Fan met Xia Qingran, learned that she needed a Xiaoyang Fruit to stabilize her ice spirit body, and invited her to join his organization, [Dawn].
• Lin Ya opened the Void Rift, and Zhou Fan entered with the other participants before landing alone in a rocky landscape.
• Zhou Fan killed three giant dogs, then teamed up with Yuan An to defeat a Demon Wolf pack and find a void stone.
• Zhao Qiu encountered Gu Yu while fleeing Demon Tigers, and the two joined forces to fight and gather resources.
• A pale moon revived the beasts Zhao Qiu and Gu Yu had killed, and after discovering they could die permanently when defeated a second time, the pair faced the surviving beasts as they fused into a many-headed monster.

Zhou Fan gathered new allies and Tailed Beasts while exploring the spaces, then fought Tenshiki after he tried to abduct Lin Qianqian. The arc ended with Tenshiki breaking free and attacking Lin Qianqian in midair.

• Zhao Qiu opened the Origin Lock to kill the Fusion Mutant Beast, and Zhou Fan rescued him and Gu Yu from the beasts that surrounded them afterward.
• Zhou Fan and his companions reunited with Xia Qingran and Qin Nuannuan, then defeated Wang Shi and Honglian after they attacked the two women over a Xiaoyang Fruit.
• Zhou Fan and Zhao Qiu found Lin Qianqian, then fought through a valley of mutant beasts and captured Five-Tails and Seven-Tails.
• Zhou Fan's group met Deidara, and Lin Qianqian beat him in an explosion contest before Zhou Fan used Genjutsu to win their fight and recruit him into the Dawn.
• Tenshiki, an heir of the Shikigami Family, attacked Lin Qianqian and tried to take her to the Star Realm, prompting Zhou Fan to confront him.
• Tenshiki's guardians trapped Zhou Fan and helped Tenshiki carry Lin Qianqian away, but Deidara and Zhao Qiu intervened, and Zhao Qiu held off the guardians while Zhou Fan pursued them.
• Lin Qianqian escaped Tenshiki's cage and badly burned him with Explosive Tags, but he recovered before Zhou Fan arrived and renewed the fight.
• Zhou Fan summoned a thousand-armed Buddha and covered it with Complete Body Susanoo to defeat the guards, but Tenshiki seized Lin Qianqian at the Spatial Passage and attacked her after she was thrown into the air.

Zhou Fan defeated Ling Quan while securing the Xiaoyang Fruit, but a collapsing passage stranded him in Abyssal Space, where he met the Nightmare Lord before escaping. He reunited with Xia Qingran and Lin Qianqian, while Lin prepared to challenge him in the next comparison and Zhou Fan set out to find Deidara.

• Zhou Fan and Xia Qingran fought Ling Quan and his Lingyu Family Guards for the Xiaoyang Fruit, with Ye Chen joining them and Zhou Fan ultimately defeating Ling Quan.
• When the Void Rift’s collapsing passage became a spatial storm, Zhou Fan held it back so Xia Qingran and Ye Chen could escape, but he was swallowed into Abyssal Space.
• Zhou Fan encountered the Nightmare Lord, matched his genjutsu, and left him behind when the Nightmare Lord chose to remain in the Void Rift.
• Zhou Fan tore his way out of the spatial vortex and returned to Blue Star, then visited Xia Qingran as she prepared to undergo treatment for her Ice Spirit Body.
• After returning to Xinghai University, Zhou Fan surprised Jiaoxin, Duan Fei, and Zhao Qiu, who had believed he was dead, and then reunited with Lin Qianqian.
• Zhou Fan learned that Deidara had not joined [Dawn] and asked Xi Yan to find him, while Lin Qianqian gave Zhou Fan a jade pendant and resolved to defeat him in the next comparison.
• After Xi Yan found Deidara’s address, Zhou Fan set out with Zhao Qiu, who explained that Lin Qianqian had spent seven days obtaining the pendant for someone she cared about.