Chapter Summaries

Zhou Fan and Xia Qingran fought Ling Quan after he sealed the area to hinder spatial abilities. Their combined attacks overcame his elemental dragon, but Ling Quan survived and emerged battered, while the spatial barrier remained intact.

• Ling Quan used Five Spirits: Lockdown to seal the space and restrict Zhou Fan’s spatial abilities.
• Ling Quan attacked with fire, water, wind, lightning, and earth powers, while Zhou Fan and Xia Qingran countered with coordinated attacks.
• Zhou Fan slowed Ling Quan’s rock giant with an earth technique, then destroyed it with lightning.
• Zhou Fan and Xia Qingran combined wood and ice powers into an ice-wood dragon that defeated Ling Quan’s Five Spirits Dragon.
• The ice-wood dragon struck the barrier but failed to break it, and Ling Quan emerged battered after splitting the dragon apart.

Ling Quan summoned more than a dozen fifth-tier Lingyu Family Guards after Zhou Fan and Xia Qingran gained the upper hand. Zhou Fan broke the Guards’ formation, but Ling Quan used Soul-Splitting Spirit Separation, leaving ten phantom figures around each of them.

• Zhou Fan mocked Ling Quan for fighting alone, and Ling Quan remembered he could call for help and crushed a White Jade Pendant to open a Spatial Passage.
• More than a dozen fifth-tier Lingyu Family Guards emerged, and Ling Quan ordered them to kill Zhou Fan and Xia Qingran.
• The Guards coordinated fire and wind attacks, but Zhou Fan countered them with water and then used Wood Release to scatter their formation and drain several Guards’ spiritual energy.
• Ling Quan created five rings of light and used Soul-Splitting Spirit Separation, which passed through Zhou Fan and Xia Qingran and produced ten phantom figures around each of them.

Ling Quan used his soul-splitting power to weaken Zhou Fan and Xia Qingran, dividing their strength and abilities among ten soul clones apiece. As the guards and Ling Quan overwhelmed them, Ye Chen arrived and cut through Ling Quan’s attacks, joining Zhou Fan in the fight.

• Ling Quan explained that he had divided Zhou Fan’s and Xia Qingran’s power among ten soul clones, with each lost soul costing them a portion of their strength.
• Ling Quan sent his guards to attack, and Zhou Fan discovered that his powers had been split among the clones and that most of his abilities would not work through his original body.
• Xia Qingran’s soul clones were outmatched by the fifth-tier guards, while Zhou Fan managed to repel an attacker with Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique.
• Ling Quan unleashed his Five Spirits Killing Move at Zhou Fan and Xia Qingran.
• Ye Chen arrived, cut apart Ling Quan’s attacks with his sword, and offered to fight alongside Zhou Fan.

Ye Chen fought Ling Quan and separated the Guards from Zhou Fan and Xia Qingran, leaving Zhou Fan to face Ling Quan. After Ling Quan summoned five more Guards, Zhou Fan revealed that his ten Soul Clones could still use some of his abilities and activated Tailed Beast Cloak around them.

• Ye Chen attacked Ling Quan with iron-based techniques, but Ling Quan defended against most of the assault and was only slightly wounded.
• Zhou Fan identified Ling Quan as a sixth-tier, one-star fighter, and Ye Chen agreed to hold off the eight fifth-tier Guards while Zhou Fan confronted Ling Quan.
• Ye Chen used special metal to form an Iron Barrier, trapping himself and the Guards apart from Zhou Fan, Xia Qingran, and Ling Quan.
• Xia Qingran offered to unleash her Ice Spirit Body, but Zhou Fan refused because it could further damage her body.
• Ling Quan summoned five additional Guards, and Zhou Fan activated Tailed Beast Cloak around each of his ten Soul Clones.

Ling Quan’s Soul-Splitting Spirit Separation divided Zhou Fan’s soul into ten clones, but his Tailed Beast power and Sage Mode let each clone remain formidable. The Guards struggled against their coordinated attacks and were left questioning whether Zhou Fan had been weakened at all.

• Zhou Fan’s ten Soul Clones used their shared combat experience to activate Sage Mode and combined it with their divided Tailed Beast power.
• Soul Clones No. 1 through No. 5 attacked the Guards with mist, earth, wind, lightning, and reflected fire techniques.
• The Guards wondered how each clone could still use a different ability after Zhou Fan’s soul had been split.
• The Guards combined their powers into an energy sphere aimed at Zhou Fan’s original body, but Soul Clone No. 6 swallowed it with a space-time barrier and teleported it behind them.
• Soul Clones No. 7 and No. 8 charged the Guards while the other clones joined in with coordinated attacks, leaving the Guards stunned by their strength.

Zhou Fan’s Soul Clones killed Ling Quan’s five Guards, while Ye Chen emerged badly wounded after defeating three of his eight opponents. With the blood moon signaling that the Void Rift was closing, Zhou Fan faced Ling Quan alone and prepared to finish their fight.

• Zhou Fan summoned his No. 9 and No. 10 Soul Clones, whose Complete Body Susanoo and Wood Golem overwhelmed Ling Quan’s five Guards and burned them to ash with Amaterasu.
• Zhou Fan’s ten Soul Clones dissolved and reunited with him as Ling Quan’s Soul-Splitting Spirit Separation ended.
• Ling Quan admitted he had underestimated Zhou Fan, but insisted the fight was not over.
• Xia Qingran warned Zhou Fan that the blood moon meant the Void Rift was closing and they needed to reach the Evacuation Point.
• Ye Chen emerged from the Iron Barrier after killing three of eight fifth-tier Guards, then collapsed after telling Zhou Fan he hoped he had not let him down.
• Zhou Fan laid Ye Chen aside and turned to Ling Quan, declaring that they would settle things once and for all.

Zhou Fan overwhelmed Ling Quan and his Guards as the Five Spirits Space began to collapse, then stopped Ling Quan from escaping and defeated him with Kirin. Exhausted after the battle, Zhou Fan collapsed into Xia Qingran’s arms while the Red Moon hung over the closing rift.

• Zhou Fan used Sage Mode, a thousand-armed Buddha, Susanoo, and a barrage of attacks to destroy the Guards’ shield and collapse the Five Spirits Space.
• Ling Quan’s five remaining Guards died protecting him, and Zhou Fan used Kamui to disrupt the Spatial Passage Ling Quan opened with a jade pendant.
• Ling Quan attacked Zhou Fan with Five Spirits: End, but Zhou Fan used Kamui’s Intangibility to avoid the blow.
• Zhou Fan summoned the lightning beast Kirin and struck Ling Quan down, leaving him motionless.
• Xia Qingran caught the exhausted Zhou Fan, who rested in her arms.

After recovering from the battle, Zhou Fan and his companions tried to leave the Void Rift with the Xiaoyang Fruit, but Ling Quan ambushed them and shattered their spatial passage. Zhou Fan caught Xia Qingran and Ye Chen with his Complete Body Susanoo as a spatial storm dragged them toward the breach, then used Kamui to fight back.

• Zhou Fan woke after less than two hours of recovery, and he, Xia Qingran, and Ye Chen prepared to return after obtaining the Xiaoyang Fruit.
• Zhou Fan gave the Xiaoyang Fruit to Xia Qingran so she could treat her Ice Spirit Body, and the three entered the spatial passage toward the Evacuation Point.
• Ling Quan revealed that he had survived by hiding in the passage, then damaged it and escaped through another space rift.
• Zhou Fan used Kamui to tear off Ling Quan's right arm, but the passage collapsed into a spatial storm.
• Xia Qingran and Ye Chen tried to break through the storm, while Zhou Fan caught them with his Complete Body Susanoo as it crumbled.
• Zhou Fan focused on the breach and used Kamui to challenge the spatial forces.

Zhou Fan was swallowed by the collapsing Void Rift after using Kamui to hold back its Spatial Power. He escaped the endless dark space into another part of the Void Rift, where he encountered Hei Meng, the Nightmare Lord.

• Zhou Fan ordered Xia Qingran and Ye Chen to escape while he used Dual Kamui to restrain the rampaging Spatial Power.
• The Spatial Power overwhelmed Kamui and swallowed Zhou Fan, while the Spatial Passage collapsed and blasted Xia Qingran away.
• At the Superpower General Bureau, Lin Ya learned the Void Rift was closing early as students evacuated through the Teleportation Array.
• Ye Chen and Xia Qingran emerged, and Xia Qingran told everyone Zhou Fan had fallen into the endless Abyssal Space.
• Zhou Fan repeatedly used Kamui to escape layers of dark space, eventually reaching a floating island beneath a red moon inside the Void Rift.
• Hei Meng appeared before Zhou Fan, and Zhou Fan recognized him as the Nightmare Lord.

Zhou Fan accidentally entered the Nightmare Lord’s dwelling in the Void Rift and learned that he had to beat him in an illusion contest to get home safely. Their first clash ended with the space shattering and neither gaining the advantage.

• The Nightmare Lord told Zhou Fan that he had come in person, unlike the clones Zhou Fan had met before.
• Zhou Fan said he had stumbled into the Nightmare Lord’s space by accident and declined his offer to teach him illusion techniques.
• After Zhou Fan dismissed the Nightmare Lord’s abilities, the Nightmare Lord challenged him to a contest and warned that losing would leave him trapped in darkness.
• The Nightmare Lord began an illusion with his nightmare eye, and Zhou Fan countered with his eternal Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Their darkness and fire split the space apart before it shattered, leaving their first exchange evenly matched.

Zhou Fan defeated the Nightmare Lord in a genjutsu contest and learned that the elder had withdrawn into a Void Rift over his inner demons. The Nightmare Lord explained his desire to use genjutsu to create a beautiful world, and Zhou Fan questioned what would remain when that illusion ended.

• Zhou Fan and the Nightmare Lord clashed with genjutsu until Zhou Fan's Complete Body Susanoo split the Nightmare Lord's Dream Demon Devours Heaven and shattered their illusion.
• The Nightmare Lord praised Zhou Fan as the first person to counter his ultimate genjutsu and asked his name.
• The Nightmare Lord opened a Spatial Passage toward Blue Star and told Zhou Fan he would need to tear through the Abyssal Space himself to leave.
• Zhou Fan invited the Nightmare Lord to return with him and asked why he had become lost in the Void Rift.
• The Nightmare Lord admitted that he had trapped himself there because of his inner demons, then described genjutsu as an art that could create a world.
• Zhou Fan questioned the value of a beautiful genjutsu world if it would vanish when its creators awoke.

The Nightmare Lord explained that he wanted to perfect Genjutsu so he could create a real world and remain immersed in it, but chose to stay in his hidden space and continue his research. A week after the Void Rift closed, Zhou Fan emerged from a spatial vortex as Xi Yan, Jiang Lei, and Lin Ya prepared to suppress it.

• The Nightmare Lord told Zhou Fan he had created Genjutsu that could keep others dreaming forever, but he wanted to create a real world and could not trap himself in his own illusion.
• The Nightmare Lord refused Zhou Fan’s offer to take him out, choosing to remain until he developed Ultimate Genjutsu.
• Zhou Fan entered the spatial passage with Kamui and left the Nightmare Lord behind.
• A week after the Void Rift closed, Xi Yan accepted that Zhou Fan was likely lost and prepared to return with Jiang Lei.
• A spatial storm formed where the Void Rift entrance had been, and Lin Ya ordered everyone away before asking Xi Yan and Jiang Lei to help suppress it.
• Zhou Fan tore open the vortex and stepped out, exclaiming that he was finally free.

Zhou Fan returned from the dark space and told Xi Yan, Lin Ya, and Jiang Lei about the Nightmare Lord and the Star Realm. He went to see Xia Qingran, who had been mourning him, and reunited with her at the Xia Family residence.

• Zhou Fan emerged from the spatial vortex and surprised Xi Yan, Lin Ya, and Jiang Lei by returning alive.
• Zhou Fan explained that the Nightmare Lord was still alive but had chosen to remain in the Void Rift, and he reported meeting people from the Star Realm.
• Zhou Fan declined to return home with Xi Yan and went to check on Xia Qingran and her ice spirit body.
• Xia Qingran, still grieving Zhou Fan and blaming herself for his disappearance, learned that he had come to see her.
• Zhou Fan greeted Xia Qingran, and she rushed into his arms.

Zhou Fan returned safely from the Void Rift and reunited with Xia Qingran, who had feared he was dead. He explained that he had encountered the Nightmare Lord inside the rift, and Xia Qingran agreed to begin treatment for her Ice Spirit Body the day after tomorrow.

• Xia Qingran hugged Zhou Fan tightly when he returned, then stepped back after he said he could barely breathe.
• Qin Lin welcomed Zhou Fan into the Xia Family home, and Xia Qingran asked how he had escaped the Void Rift.
• Zhou Fan said his strength had let him escape and told Xia Qingran and Qin Lin that he had met the Nightmare Lord inside the rift.
• Qin Lin recalled meeting Hei Meng about twenty years earlier and said he had disappeared while trapped by his inner demons.
• Xia Qingran said preparations for treating her Ice Spirit Body had not begun, and Qin Lin promised treatment could start the day after tomorrow.
• Qin Lin invited Zhou Fan to stay the night, and he agreed.

Zhou Fan stayed overnight at the Xia Family estate, then went out with Xia Qingran to see a rare sea of Pale Moon Flowers bloom. He promised to accompany her to see them again, leaving Xia Qingran delighted.

• Xia Qingran showed Zhou Fan to a luxurious guest room at the Xia Family estate and asked him to get up early the next morning.
• Xia Qingran arrived dressed up and invited Zhou Fan to go out with her, though he initially did not feel like it.
• Xia Qingran took Zhou Fan to a hill outside the Imperial Capital, where the Pale Moon Flowers bloomed together at nine.
• Zhou Fan and Xia Qingran sat in the flower field, and Zhou Fan offered to come see the flowers with her again.
• Xia Qingran accepted Zhou Fan's offer, and his promise earned special emotion from her.

After spending the day with Zhou Fan, Xia Qingran went to the Qin Family estate to begin treatment for her ice spirit body. Zhou Fan accompanied her to the entrance of the Qin Family Secret Grounds, where Xia Qingran and Qin Bai entered without him.

• Xia Qingran thanked Zhou Fan for spending the day with her and told him that only people with an ice spirit body could enter the Secret Realm where she would undergo treatment.
• The next morning, Zhou Fan met Xia Chuan, Xia Qingran, and Qin Lin before they traveled to the Qin Family estate.
• Qin Nuannuan greeted Xia Qingran and Zhou Fan at the estate, then brought them to Qin Shan and Qin Bai.
• Qin Bai led Xia Qingran toward the ice-mountain Secret Grounds, and Zhou Fan stayed behind because he could not enter.
• Xia Qingran and Qin Bai entered the Qin Family Secret Grounds to begin her treatment.

Zhou Fan waited as Xia Qingran entered treatment, then returned to Xinghai University and found Zhao Qiu, Jiaoxin, and Duan Fei mourning him and discussing Dawn's future. He revealed he was alive and went to reassure Lin.

• Qin Lin told Zhou Fan Xia Qingran's treatment would take ten days to half a month and urged him to return to the people worried about him.
• Qin Lin promised Zhou Fan access to the Qin Family's inheritance Secret Realm after Xia Qingran finished treatment.
• Zhou Fan used his Flying Thunder God Mark to return to Xinghai University and visited Dawn's base.
• Zhao Qiu told Jiaoxin and Duan Fei that Zhou Fan had died, and they said they would leave Dawn.
• Zhao Qiu declared he would replace Zhou Fan as Dawn's leader, but Zhou Fan appeared alive and startled them.
• Zhou Fan learned Lin had been worried about him and went to find her.

Lin Qianqian mourned Zhou Fan and vowed to avenge him against the Lingyu Family, only for Zhou Fan to return alive. She welcomed him home by making him a surprisingly delicious bowl of noodles.

• Lin Qianqian put away the keepsakes Zhou Fan had given her and vowed to travel to the Star Realm and make the Lingyu Family pay for his death.
• Zhou Fan returned home, and Lin Qianqian dropped her cup in shock before he caught it with the Body Flicker Technique.
• Zhou Fan told Lin Qianqian he had returned from the Imperial Capital that morning, and she offered to make him noodles.
• Lin Qianqian served Zhou Fan a bowl of noodles, and he was astonished that her cooking tasted delicious.

After returning from the Void Rift, Zhou Fan told Lin Qianqian about his ordeal and tried to locate Deidara, who had gone missing after the Rift closed. That night, Lin Qianqian gave Zhou Fan a small jade pendant as a return gift.

• Zhou Fan recounted to Lin Qianqian how he escaped the Void Rift with help from the Nightmare Lord.
• Zhou Fan noticed Lin Qianqian had removed the crescent-moon earrings he had given her, and she said she could wear them whenever she wanted.
• Zhou Fan called Zhao Qiu and learned that Deidara had been seen after the Void Rift closed but had not joined [Dawn].
• Zhou Fan asked Xi Yan to find Deidara, and Xi Yan agreed to check the Superpower General Bureau's records.
• That night, Lin Qianqian visited Zhou Fan wearing her earrings and gave him a small jade pendant as a return gift.

Lin Qianqian gave Zhou Fan a Peace Charm Pendant, then prepared for the fourth comparison by mastering Spatial Power. The next morning, Zhou Fan learned how much effort Lin Qianqian had put into the gift as he set out with Zhao Qiu to meet Deidara.

• Lin Qianqian gave Zhou Fan a jade pendant, and Zhou Fan complained that a game console or a meal would have been more practical.
• Lin Qianqian returned to her room, saw the system's notice that the next comparison was one day away, and refused to postpone it.
• Lin Qianqian demonstrated her newly mastered Spatial Power and resolved to defeat Zhou Fan in the fourth comparison.
• After Xi Yan found Deidara's address, Zhou Fan set out with Zhao Qiu on a Flying Mutant Beast to meet him.
• Zhao Qiu recognized Zhou Fan's pendant as an Anfo Temple Peace Charm Pendant and explained that Lin Qianqian had spent seven days obtaining it for someone she cared about.
• Zhou Fan looked at the pendant and began to understand Lin Qianqian's intentions.