Chapter Summaries

Zhou Fan and Lin Qianqian sparred using their abilities, and the match ended without a clear winner after they exhausted much of their spiritual energy. Lin Qianqian said she had learned a lot and asked Zhou Fan whether he had noticed any weaknesses in her.

• Lin Qianqian attacked Zhou Fan with paper techniques, but he burned through her attacks and struck her with a wooden spike before she could react.
• Lin Qianqian asked to spar again without Zhou Fan holding back, then activated [Paper Transformation] to make her body separate and reassemble like paper.
• Zhou Fan used his Sharingan and darts to intercept Lin Qianqian's explosive tags, then struck her from behind and saw paper flutter from the damaged part of her body.
• Lin Qianqian attacked with a paper wheel, and Zhou Fan engulfed it in flames with Fire Style: Majestic Destroyer Flame.
• Zhou Fan and Lin Qianqian sparred for half an hour before stopping from exhaustion without either winning, and Lin Qianqian asked Zhou Fan to point out her weaknesses.

Lin Qianqian asked Zhou Fan for Taijutsu advice to satisfy her system’s task, then gave him her homemade treats. Zhou Fan spat out the burnt, awful-tasting treat and apologized, while Lin Qianqian insisted she was not angry and asked if it really tasted that bad.

• Lin Qianqian asked Zhou Fan to point out her weaknesses, and he criticized her conditioning, reactions, and limited attacks.
• Lin Qianqian asked to keep coming to Zhou Fan for Taijutsu advice, and he suspected she had lost at truth or dare.
• Lin Qianqian thanked Zhou Fan for their sparring session and gave him a box of treats she had made herself.
• Zhou Fan opened the box, found the treats burnt black, and reluctantly tasted one.
• Zhou Fan spat out the treat and apologized, while Lin Qianqian said she was not angry and asked whether it tasted that bad.

After Lin Qianqian’s homemade pastries proved inedible, she decided to learn baking so she could prove Zhou Fan wrong. She asked Li Mengyao for help, and Li Mengyao suspected she was making pastries for a romantic partner.

• Lin Qianqian tasted her burnt pastries and admitted they were bad, while Zhou Fan concluded she was simply a terrible cook.
• Lin Qianqian left Zhou Fan and resolved to improve her baking so she could make him admit he was wrong; Zhou Fan considered sparring with her again to improve his combat skills.
• The next day, Lin Qianqian failed at making pastries repeatedly and called Li Mengyao to ask for lessons.
• Li Mengyao arrived and was shocked to find Lin Qianqian wearing an apron and covered in flour.
• Li Mengyao guessed that Lin Qianqian had suddenly taken up baking because she was dating someone.

Lin Qianqian asked Li Mengyao to teach her to bake cookies, hoping to make treats that would earn Zhou Fan’s approval. After repeated failures, she refused to give up, leaving Li Mengyao determined to keep teaching her and curious about what motivated her.

• Li Mengyao suspected Lin Qianqian was learning to bake for a man, and Lin Qianqian asked her to teach her how to make cookies.
• Lin Qianqian baked a batch of rock-hard cookies, then burned the next batch despite Li Mengyao’s close guidance.
• Lin Qianqian and Li Mengyao tried several more times, but each batch failed in a different way.
• Li Mengyao baked successfully with the same ingredients and concluded that Lin Qianqian lacked baking talent.
• Lin Qianqian refused to quit because she needed Zhou Fan to review her treats favorably and wanted to prove she could make delicious cookies.
• Li Mengyao promised to teach Lin Qianqian until she succeeded and wondered what had made her so determined.

Lin Qianqian learned to bake cookies with Li Mengyao and then visited Zhou Fan to practice Taijutsu. After half an hour of sparring, she offered him the cookies she had made, leaving Zhou Fan apprehensive about trying them.

• Li Mengyao helped Lin Qianqian improve her baking, then guessed she was making treats for a boy and offered to advise her about pursuing him.
• Lin Qianqian denied baking for anyone in particular and left to visit Zhou Fan that evening.
• Zhou Fan welcomed Lin Qianqian into his home, and they went to the yard to practice Taijutsu without using skills.
• Zhou Fan held back during their half-hour spar, while Lin Qianqian trained seriously and grew exhausted.
• Lin Qianqian gave Zhou Fan the cookies she had baked, and he worried they might be inedible.

Lin Qianqian brought Zhou Fan improved homemade cookies on the second day and returned the next evening for her final punishment task. As onlookers mistook her visit for a date, she told Zhou Fan she wanted to fight him with everything she had.

• Lin Qianqian gave Zhou Fan cookies she had learned to make, and he praised how much they had improved from the day before.
• Lin Qianqian prepared cookies for her final task and headed to Zhou Fan's home, relieved that she would not have to visit him again afterward.
• Students from Tianhai No. 1 High School followed Lin Qianqian and saw her enter Zhou Fan's home, then recorded the visit as supposed proof of a date.
• Zhou Fan asked Lin Qianqian if she wanted to practice Taijutsu, but she said she wanted to fight him at full strength.

Lin Qianqian challenged Zhou Fan to a serious spar after secretly training her psychic power to resist his Genjutsu. Zhou Fan defeated her again, and Lin Qianqian left after sharing her cookies and saying she probably would not visit the next day.

• Lin Qianqian asked Zhou Fan for a full-on fight, confident that her training had made her stronger.
• Lin Qianqian used the Paper Transformation Technique as Zhou Fan tested her with Fire Release attacks, and they traded increasingly powerful techniques.
• Lin Qianqian launched over a hundred Explosive Tags, but Zhou Fan blocked them with a Water Formation Wall and Wood Locking Wall.
• Zhou Fan used his Sharingan to find a gap in Lin Qianqian's paper tornado, then trapped her with Genjutsu.
• Zhou Fan dispelled the Genjutsu and released Lin Qianqian, who accepted her defeat and gave him her cookies.
• Lin Qianqian asked Zhou Fan for his opinion of the cookies and said she probably would not visit him the next day.

Lin Qianqian completed the system’s punishment task but received a lower-grade reward than she expected, then prepared to face Zhou Fan in a second comparison. After photos of her visiting Zhou Fan were mistaken for evidence of a date, Li Mengyao demanded an explanation.

• The system verified Lin Qianqian’s completed punishment task and awarded her two Mid-Grade Spirit Stones instead of the promised High-Grade Spirit Stone.
• The system announced a second comparison against Zhou Fan in fifteen days, with valuable rewards for the winner.
• Lin Qianqian decided to train against Zhou Fan’s Genjutsu and set goals to become the Southern District’s Top College Entrance Exam Scorer and defeat him.
• Li Mengyao messaged Lin Qianqian after seeing photos and a video that made Lin Qianqian’s visit to Zhou Fan look like a date.
• Lin Qianqian denied dating Zhou Fan and began trying to explain herself to Li Mengyao.

Lin Qianqian and Zhou Fan discovered that photos of them had sparked schoolwide rumors that they were dating, though both denied it. The chapter left Zhou Fan baffled by a flood of emotion points and dismissing Zhao Qiu’s claim that Lin Qianqian had a crush on him.

• Li Mengyao accused Lin Qianqian of dating Zhou Fan after seeing photos of her bringing him cookies, and Lin denied it.
• Li Mengyao showed Lin a school forum post featuring photos and a video of Lin and Zhou, which students interpreted as proof they were a couple.
• Lin refused to post an explanation, saying that she and Zhou were not involved and that rumors would eventually fade.
• Zhou Fan received over a thousand emotion points in an hour but had no idea why they were pouring in.
• Zhao Qiu sent Zhou photos of Lin visiting Zhou and insisted that Lin was using sparring as an excuse to get close to him.
• Zhou rejected Zhao's theory and went to bed, convinced Lin Qianqian could not like him.

Lin Qianqian advanced her cultivation and gained Paper-Style Clone as she prepared to face Zhou Fan again. Zhou Fan spent 50,000 emotion points to obtain Madara Uchiha’s Mangekyō Sharingan, gaining immense power while learning that its use risked permanent blindness.

• Lin Qianqian absorbed two Mid-Grade Spirit Stones, advanced to second tier, 3 stars, and acquired Paper-Style Clone.
• Lin Qianqian resolved to treat Zhou Fan as a serious opponent and overcome his Genjutsu before their next comparison.
• Zhou Fan checked his balance of 52,023 emotion points and redeemed the Mangekyō Sharingan (Madara Uchiha).
• The system revealed that Zhou Fan’s Mangekyō Sharingan boosted his physical and spiritual capabilities, unlocked Susanoo and Izanagi, and could cause permanent blindness through overuse.
• Zhou Fan awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan, rose to second tier, 3 stars, and considered obtaining the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan or Hashirama Senju’s cells to counter its side effects.

After awakening the Mangekyō Sharingan, Zhou Fan felt confident about entering Xinghai University and went to fight mutant beasts while awaiting the exam. The college entrance exam began, and he joined Tianhai No. 1 High School’s candidates as they traveled to the examination site.

• Zhou Fan listed his new abilities and hoped to place in the Southern District’s top hundred to qualify for Xinghai University.
• Zhou Fan left the city to fight mutant beasts in the Mutant Beast Forest.
• Xia Qingran messaged Zhou Fan on the eve of the exam and encouraged him to apply to Xinghai University.
• Zhou Fan returned to Tianhai No. 1 High School on exam day and spoke with Zhao Qiu, who teased him about Lin Qianqian.
• The principal led the assembled exam candidates onto buses and headed for the examination site.

The Southern District's Esper College Entrance Examination began in Nanyang City, where Zhou Fan, Lin Qianqian, and examinees from across the district gathered. The superpower test opened the competition, and Changyue Middle School's S-rank prodigies posted the first standout scores.

• Wang Daochuan brought Tianhai No. 1 High School's examinees to the examination site, where Qu Yang boasted that Changyue Middle School had produced S-rank students every year for a decade.
• The leading schools gathered at the site, and Lin Qianqian resolved to claim the Southern District's top score.
• Chief examiner Liu Ye announced that the examination had a superpower test, an individual points competition, and an individual arena competition.
• Changyue Middle School's Liu Feng scored 91 on the superpower test.
• Changyue Middle School's Yang Wei scored 90, prompting amazement from the crowd.

Lin Qianqian and Zhou Fan both scored full marks in the superpower test, stunning the examiners and rival principals. Zhou Fan’s test overloaded the system and caused the computer to explode.

• Lin Qianqian scored 100 on the individual test, drawing cheers and making Wang Daochuan boast to the other principals.
• Qu Yang argued that Lin Qianqian’s perfect score could not make up for Tianhai No. 1 High School having only one S-rank student.
• Zhou Fan took the test in a batch despite his file listing his power as C-rank, and his testing light outshone everyone else’s.
• Zhou Fan’s score climbed to 100, shocking the crowd and leaving Qu Yang speechless.
• The system warned that Zhou Fan’s score was too high, then the testing computer exploded.

Zhou Fan’s superpower test score exceeded the testing computers’ limits, and after two computers exploded, a third recorded his score at 155. He became the exam’s undisputed top scorer, leaving the candidates and viewers stunned as testing continued.

• Zhou Fan’s first testing computer exploded, and the central system called for another assessment.
• Liu Ye gave Zhou Fan a computer set to measure up to 150 points, but it also overloaded and exploded.
• Liu Ye unlocked the third computer’s 200-point limit, and Zhou Fan scored 155.
• The candidates and livestream viewers reacted in shock, while Zhou Fan gained a huge number of emotion points.
• Lin Qianqian stared at Zhou Fan’s score as her own perfect score lost its shine.
• Liu Ye confirmed Zhou Fan’s result, and testing continued with the remaining candidates.

After Zhou Fan earned a record 155 points in the first round, the candidates entered a two-hour mutant-beast hunt in a vast trial Secret Realm. Zhou Fan and Lin Qianqian began hunting for points, and Lin Qianqian set her sights on beating him in this round.

• Liu Ye explained that candidates would earn points by killing mutant beasts and could leave the Secret Realm with their Space Bracelets, but could not return.
• Zhou Fan entered the Secret Realm, found himself alone in the vast forest, and started hunting.
• Zhou Fan used the Body Flicker Technique and his blade to kill two First Tier, 4 Stars mutant beasts, earning eight points.
• Lin Qianqian used her Paper Explosion Technique to destroy the mutant beasts that attacked her.
• Lin Qianqian resolved to take first place in the second round and defeat Zhou Fan.

During the second exam round, Zhou Fan hunted Mutant Beasts and clashed with Liu Feng's group over a pack of gray wolves. He defeated Liu Feng's attacks while killing every wolf, leaving the group furious and humiliated.

• Zhou Fan complained that Mutant Beasts were too scarce after earning 90 points in an hour.
• Zhou Fan found a pack of more than a dozen gray wolves, but Liu Feng and his companions blocked him and claimed the prey.
• Zhou Fan used Body Flicker Technique to kick Liu Feng into a tree, then drove back the others with Fire Release: Dust Concealment Technique.
• Liu Feng attacked Zhou Fan with lightning while the others used elemental techniques, but Zhou Fan dodged and countered while continuing to target the wolves.
• Zhou Fan killed the entire wolf pack before Liu Feng's group could surround it, leaving them feeling humiliated.

Zhou Fan defeated Liu Feng’s group with his Mangekyō Sharingan genjutsu, then continued hunting Mutant Beasts until the second exam round ended. The candidates returned to the athletic field, where Liu Ye began announcing the round’s rankings.

• Zhou Fan used his speed to knock Liu Feng’s companions aside, then dodged Liu Feng’s lightning attacks.
• Zhou Fan trapped Liu Feng in a Mangekyō Sharingan genjutsu, making him believe he had defeated Zhou Fan before discovering he was bound and helpless.
• Liu Feng awoke from the genjutsu, collapsed in fear and exhaustion, and passed out after Zhou Fan taunted him and left.
• Zhou Fan resumed hunting Mutant Beasts until the countdown ended, when the candidates were teleported back to the athletic field.
• Liu Ye congratulated the candidates and began displaying the second-round rankings on the big screen.

The second-round results showed Zhou Fan far ahead of every other candidate, while Lin Qianqian struggled with being compared to him. After Liu Feng blamed Zhou Fan for his poor score, Qu Yang urged Liu Feng and Yang Wei to prepare to face Zhou Fan in the afternoon knockout round.

• The results were announced, with Lin Qianqian placing second at 135 points and Zhou Fan taking first with 270.
• Lin Qianqian wondered how Zhou Fan had outscored her by so much again, while Zhou Fan thought the other candidates' scores were surprisingly low.
• Spectators noticed that Liu Feng had failed to make the top fifty and heard that he had clashed with Zhou Fan in the secret realm.
• Liu Feng told Qu Yang that Zhou Fan had prevented his group from earning points, and Yang Wei pointed out that Liu Feng had simply lost.
• Qu Yang stopped their argument and told Liu Feng and Yang Wei to prepare to face Zhou Fan in the third-round knockout tournament.

After the first two exam rounds, Zhou Fan received lavish special treatment from Principal Wang Daochuan during lunch, while Lin Qianqian felt resentful about benefiting from Zhou Fan’s favor. The third round began as a series of free-for-all battles, and the chapter left off as Lin Qianqian entered her arena.

• Wang Daochuan personally served Zhou Fan an extravagant lunch and rebuffed other examinees who asked for the same treatment.
• Wang Daochuan brought Lin Qianqian an identical meal, and she felt disgruntled that it had been ordered by Zhou Fan.
• Chief examiner Liu Ye explained the third round’s Quick Battle, Advancement Round, and Finals, with points awarded for eliminations and survivors.
• The examinees were randomly assigned to arenas, and successive batches of Quick Battle free-for-alls began.
• Lin Qianqian entered the arena for match 91, drawing spectators’ attention to her S-rank Divine Paper Technique.

Lin Qianqian dominated her arena, eliminating all nine opponents in four minutes and drawing cheers from the crowd. Zhou Fan then entered the final arena, where five second-tier A-rank candidates from Changyue Middle School had prepared to challenge him.

• Lin Qianqian attacked the other nine candidates with paper scraps and eliminated six by wrapping them and throwing them out of the arena.
• Lin Qianqian blasted an earth-type candidate out of the arena, then countered two teammates’ combined fire-and-wind attack and eliminated them with paper scraps.
• Lin Qianqian became the sole candidate left in her arena before the five-minute limit, while spectators cheered her performance.
• Zhou Fan entered the last arena alongside two other Tianhai No. 1 High School candidates, facing five A-rank candidates from Changyue Middle School and two lower-level C-rank candidates.
• The five Changyue Middle School candidates prepared to defeat Zhou Fan, whom they regarded as a dark horse.