Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• At Tianhai First High School’s awakening ceremony, Zhou Fan waits for his delayed system to finish activating while his classmates expect him to awaken an S-rank ability, thanks to his exceptional S-rank mental power.
• The awakening stone reveals three options: S-rank lightning, A-rank strength, and C-rank spirit eyes. Though everyone assumes he will choose lightning, the system finishes activating and offers a different reward for each choice.
• Zhou Fan chooses the C-rank spirit eyes to obtain the Madara Uchiha template. He gains a fully proficient Three-Tomoe Sharingan and Madara’s combat knowledge, including ninjutsu, taijutsu, genjutsu, and Sharingan techniques.
• His choice shocks and angers the crowd, whose reactions generate emotion points. After collecting 1,100 points, Zhou Fan unlocks the bond system, which lets him acquire abilities from characters connected to Madara. Hashirama Senju and Obito Uchiha become available.

Character developments

• Zhou Fan goes from anticipating a conventional awakening to deliberately choosing long-term potential over the obvious high-ranked ability. He understands that the crowd’s disbelief can help him earn emotion points, a resource for unlocking further powers.
• His system develops from a malfunctioning, slow-starting interface into a central part of his progression, revealing both an emotion-point economy and a bond-based upgrade path.

Significant themes

• Potential versus appearances: Zhou Fan rejects the C-rank label’s apparent weakness in favor of the powerful template behind it.
• Public opinion as power: Other people’s reactions become a resource he can exploit.
• Unconventional choices: The chapter presents success as requiring independent judgment rather than following what others expect.
• Progression and ambition: The newly revealed bond system hints at a wider path to power beyond Zhou Fan’s initial awakening.

Character interactions

• Zhou Fan’s choice clashes with the expectations of his classmates, teachers, and principal, who regard it as a foolish waste of his talent. Their mockery, confusion, and shock fuel his emotion-point total.
• The system guides Zhou Fan’s decision by presenting the rewards and later informs him of his new abilities and the bond system.

Key plot points

• Zhou Fan checks his emotion-point system and discovers he can unlock bond characters Hashirama Senju and Obito Uchiha for 20,000 points each, then redeem their abilities. He has only a little over 1,000 points, so the prospect of gaining Wood Release and Kamui remains distant.
• He considers streaking to farm emotion points, but rejects the idea because the embarrassment would be too great.
• His best friend Zhao Qiu, nicknamed Little Ball, questions why Zhou Fan chose a C-rank ability over an S-rank one. Zhao has awakened the A-rank ability Gigantification and promises they will be formidable together, while still supporting Zhou Fan without knowing his reasons.
• Lin Qianqian, the school belle, awakens the S-rank Divine Paper Technique. As the ceremony ends, the principal celebrates her talent and reminds students that the national martial entrance exam is a month away.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhou Fan remains determined to make the most of his unusual system, but his limited points force him to seek less humiliating ways to earn more. He is grateful for Zhao Qiu’s loyalty and impressed by Lin Qianqian’s ability.
• Zhao Qiu shows himself to be an enthusiastic, dependable friend: he boasts about his own ability, but does not judge Zhou Fan’s choice or withdraw his support.
• Lin Qianqian discovers that awakening an S-rank ability also activated a system. Her Comparison System assigns Zhou Fan as her opponent for a comparison in 15 days. Believing his C-rank ability makes him an easy target, she expects to win and gain rewards.
• The principal shifts from despair over Zhou Fan’s C-rank awakening to optimism when Lin Qianqian reveals her S-rank talent, which he sees as a boost for the school and his own prospects.

Significant themes

• Appearances can mislead: Zhou Fan’s C-rank ability looks unimpressive, but his hidden system gives him potential others cannot see.
• Friendship and acceptance: Zhao Qiu supports Zhou Fan despite his apparent setback.
• Competition and ambition: Lin Qianqian’s system turns Zhou Fan’s perceived weakness into the basis of a future contest.
• Effort versus innate talent: The principal’s closing speech encourages students not to give up because of their ability rank and to prepare through hard work.

Plot points and events

• After the awakening ceremony, the principal announces that practical combat training will begin the next day. The students return to class, comparing their newly awakened abilities.
• Zhou Fan’s former rival, Liu Kun, boasts about his A-rank fire ability and taunts Zhou for awakening a C-rank ability despite having S-rank mental power.
• Zhou calmly insults Liu Kun back. When Liu Kun threatens him, Zhou’s friend Zhao Qiu steps in to defend him, but their homeroom teacher interrupts the confrontation.
• After school, Liu Kun and several companions block Zhou and Zhao at the gates. Liu challenges Zhou to a fight so he can test his ability. Zhao offers to fight in Zhou’s place, but Zhou accepts, partly because he wants to test his Sharingan and earn emotion points.
• Liu attacks with a small fireball. Zhou counters with Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique, producing a much larger blast that destroys Liu’s fireball and forces him to dodge. The onlookers are stunned that Zhou can use fire—and that his attack surpasses Liu’s A-rank ability.

Character development and interactions

• Zhou Fan remains composed under Liu’s taunts and reveals unexpected power. His willingness to fight shows growing confidence, as well as a practical interest in testing his abilities and collecting emotion points.
• Liu Kun is proud of his A-rank fire ability and resentful of Zhou’s past academic success. His confidence falters when Zhou’s fireball overwhelms his own.
• Zhao Qiu proves fiercely loyal, repeatedly standing between Zhou and Liu despite Liu’s comparable A-rank ability.
• The classmates shift from pitying Zhou’s C-rank awakening to shock and confusion when he demonstrates his strength.

Significant themes

• Appearances can mislead: Zhou’s C-rank label does not reflect the power he demonstrates.
• Rivalry and pride: Liu’s jealousy drives his public taunts and challenge.
• Loyalty: Zhao is ready to face danger to protect his friend.
• Power and uncertainty: Zhou’s unexpected technique challenges what the students believe about ability rankings and awakened systems.

Plot and events

• Zhou Fan defeats Liu Kun’s group in a one-against-four fight. He uses Fire Release against Liu Kun, then activates his three-tomoe Sharingan to read and dodge the underlings’ attacks.
• With the Body Flicker Technique, precise strikes, and a spinning kick, Zhou Fan quickly takes down the three underlings. He then traps Liu Kun with Sharingan genjutsu and kicks him aside.
• When Liu Kun tries to get up and continue, Zhou Fan mocks him, and Liu Kun passes out from anger. The crowd reacts with shock and admiration, earning Zhou Fan a large number of emotion points—bringing him closer to unlocking a Basic Ninjutsu Gift Pack.
• Zhou Fan leaves with his friend Zhao Qiu. Nearby, Lin Qianqian and Li Mengyao discuss the fight.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhou Fan demonstrates that his apparent C-rank ability does not reflect his actual combat strength. He fights confidently, enjoys the crowd’s reactions, and openly taunts Liu Kun after winning.
• Liu Kun goes from stunned to immobilized and defeated, then faints when Zhou Fan humiliates him.
• Zhao Qiu, who had been prepared to defend Zhou Fan, is amazed by his friend’s victory.
• Lin Qianqian is impressed despite trying to remain confident that her S-rank ability makes her superior. Zhou Fan’s unexpected strength makes her reconsider him as a potential rival.
• Li Mengyao voices the group’s disbelief and reassures Lin Qianqian that she is still stronger.

Significant themes

• Appearance versus ability: Zhou Fan’s C-rank label leads others to underestimate him, but his performance contradicts their expectations.
• Power and perception: His Sharingan’s ability to read movements and induce genjutsu gives him a decisive edge.
• Pride and rivalry: Zhou Fan’s victory challenges the assumed hierarchy between ability ranks and unsettles Lin Qianqian’s confidence.
• Public recognition: Shock, admiration, and attention serve as rewards, reinforcing Zhou Fan’s showy approach to winning.

Plot points and events

• After a news story about Zhou Fan giving up an S-rank ability in favor of a C-rank one goes viral, online reactions generate large numbers of emotion points for him.
• Zhou spends 3,000 points on a Basic Fire Release Gift Pack and gains four fire techniques. Combined with his Sharingan’s perception and illusion abilities, he believes he can now challenge even a second-tier ability user.
• At the school’s combat-training event, students must fight mutant beasts one-on-one while teachers score their performance.
• Zhou taunts Liu Kun, who is still resentful after losing to him the previous day. Liu backs down and leaves.
• Zhao Qiu is called to fight a gray wolf. He enlarges his right hand and knocks the beast down with a single strike.

Character developments

• Zhou Fan is resourceful and increasingly confident: he turns public attention into emotion points, strengthens his abilities, and looks forward to demonstrating his power.
• Zhao Qiu is eager but initially nervous about the public combat test. Once called into the arena, however, he acts boldly and reveals the strength of his giantification ability.
• Liu Kun remains bitter and boastful, but his reluctance to fight Zhou suggests he fears another defeat.

Significant themes

• Public opinion as power: Praise, mockery, and curiosity all provide Zhou with resources.
• Strength and judgment: The chapter contrasts Zhou’s unusual choice of ability with the practical strength he develops through it.
• Performance under pressure: Combat training tests both students’ abilities and their composure before a large audience.

Character interactions

• Zhou and Zhao trade jokes and encouragement; Zhao laughs at Zhou’s insult toward Liu.
• Zhou challenges Liu to fight, but Liu retreats after trading angry remarks.
• The principal explains the combat test, while teachers assess each student’s performance.
• Zhao’s fight opens with a dramatic display of his power, leaving the outcome of his training bout poised at the chapter’s end.

Plot points and events

• Zhao Qiu earns the event’s highest scores so far after killing a first-tier, one-star spirit beast with a single move. He boasts to Zhou Fan, who teases him by claiming he could do even better.
• The training continues with mostly ordinary performances, though some students demonstrate unusual abilities.
• Lin Qianqian, the school’s sole S-rank ability user, asks to face three mutant beasts so she can properly test her strength. With the principal’s approval, she kills all three:
  • She slays the first with a barrage of paper shuriken.
  • She uses paper to block and restrain the other two, then pierces their hearts with paper spikes.
• The judges award Lin full marks, and the crowd applauds her historic performance.
• Zhou Fan is called next. After Lin watches him as her personal benchmark, he asks to face multiple beasts. Despite skepticism about his C-rank ability, he declares that he will challenge four.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhao Qiu is proud of his strong showing and playfully competes with Zhou Fan.
• Lin Qianqian shows composure, confidence, and a practical desire to test her limits rather than simply show off. Her success reinforces her status as a formidable rival.
• Zhou Fan remains unfazed by others’ doubts and makes an unexpectedly bold challenge. The chapter ends before his fight begins.
• Lin views Zhou as someone to measure herself against; Zhou, in turn, watches her impressive display before setting his own challenge.

Significant themes

• Ability rank versus performance: Lin’s S-rank power proves devastating, while Zhou’s C-rank rating leads others to underestimate him.
• Testing one’s limits: Both Lin and Zhou seek challenges beyond the standard test, though the crowd sees Zhou’s request as presumptuous.
• Appearance versus potential: Ordinary-looking paper becomes a lethal weapon in Lin’s hands, illustrating that an ability’s true strength may be surprising.

Key plot points and events

• Zhou Fan announces that he will challenge four mutant beasts—one more than Lin Qianqian faced—prompting widespread ridicule and disbelief.
• Despite warnings from the instructor and principal, Zhou insists he is confident and wants to test his limits. The principal reluctantly approves, knowing teachers can intervene if necessary.
• Zhou uses his Sharingan, Body Flicker Technique, two fire techniques, and genjutsu to defeat all four beasts.
• The stunned teachers award him a perfect score. Zhou is pleased not only by his performance but also by the emotion points he gains from the crowd’s reactions.

Character developments

• Zhou Fan reveals that his apparent C-rank ability conceals far greater combat strength. He shows confidence, tactical control, and a willingness to test himself, while also deliberately benefiting from others’ reactions.
• The principal shifts from concern and pity over Zhou’s C-rank awakening to astonishment and suspicion that Zhou has been hiding his true capabilities.
• Lin Qianqian is surprised by Zhou’s victory, though she remains composed and believes she could have challenged more beasts herself.

Character interactions

• The crowd and school staff initially mock or caution Zhou; after his victory, their reactions turn to shock and admiration.
• Li Mengyao speculates that Zhou may be trying to impress Lin Qianqian, but Lin dismisses the idea.
• The principal and instructor challenge Zhou’s judgment but ultimately allow him to proceed.
• Zhao Qiu loudly celebrates Zhou’s victory, breaking the stunned silence.

Significant themes

• Appearances versus reality: Zhou’s C-rank label conceals abilities far beyond what others expect.
• Judgment and reversal: Those who dismiss Zhou are forced to reconsider after he succeeds.
• Testing limits and proving oneself: Zhou frames the challenge as a genuine measure of his strength, not merely a bid for attention.
• Public recognition and reward: The chapter links others’ emotional reactions to Zhou’s growing store of emotion points.

Key plot points and events

• After combat training, Zhou Fan’s defeat of four Mutant Beasts becomes the day’s biggest surprise, drawing a crowd of admiring classmates.
• The principal announces that the nationwide Esper College Entrance Examination is one month away and urges students to prepare.
• Principal Wang Daochuan privately questions Zhou about how a supposedly C-rank Spirit Eye ability produced such powerful fire techniques.
• Zhou agrees with Wang’s theory that the fire powers developed from his eye ability, avoiding a more complicated explanation.
• Zhou reveals his eyes: scarlet irises with three black tomoe. He names them the Sharingan.
• Wang recognizes the eyes’ unusual power and suggests Zhou’s S-rank psychic power may help him exceed the limits of a C-rank ability. Zhou privately knows his strength actually comes from the system.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhou Fan goes from being mocked for his C-rank awakening to winning widespread admiration through his combat performance. He enjoys the praise while pretending to keep a low profile, and keeps the truth about his system hidden.
• Zhao Qiu celebrates his friend’s success without envy, praising Zhou and offering to defend him against anyone who mocks his rank.
• Principal Wang Daochuan shifts from suspicion to excitement when Zhou demonstrates the Sharingan. He treats Zhou as a groundbreaking talent and encourages him.
• Zhou and Wang trade jokes during the interrogation, but Zhou ultimately lets the principal believe a plausible explanation for his abilities.

Significant themes

• Results over reputation: Zhou’s performance quickly outweighs the stigma attached to his C-rank ability.
• Ability versus user: Wang argues that an Esper’s skill matters more than an ability’s rank.
• Hidden power and misattribution: Zhou’s extraordinary achievements are credited to his psychic power by the principal, while Zhou knows the system is responsible.
• Ambition and opportunity: The upcoming entrance exam represents the students’ next major chance to advance.

Plot points and events

• After leaving the principal’s office, Zhou Fan passes Lin Qianqian without speaking. He admires her beauty but sees her as too cold to interest him.
• Principal Wang Daochuan praises Lin, the school’s only S-Rank Esper, and tries to motivate her by comparing her with Zhou Fan, who defeated four mutant beasts in combat training. Lin says she feels no pressure, confident in her S-Rank power and her system.
• Zhao Qiu tells Zhou that he is trending online. A video of his performance, posted by the school, has attracted many views and mixed reactions.
• Zhou earns Emotion Points from online viewers, but realizes they usually give only small amounts. Combined with his existing points, he has 7,320—enough to redeem an Advanced Fire Release Gift Pack.
• The system announces that Zhou has earned Emotion Points from 10,000 people and unlocks a lottery feature.

Character developments

• Zhou Fan remains self-assured and playful, while learning that online attention produces fewer Emotion Points than strong, firsthand reactions.
• Lin Qianqian is composed and highly confident in her S-Rank ability and system. She does not feel threatened by Zhou’s achievement.
• Wang Daochuan is proud of Lin and tries to spur her ambition, but his attempt to pressure her has no effect.
• Zhao Qiu enthusiastically supports Zhou and keeps him informed about his growing fame.

Character interactions

• Zhou and Lin exchange no words as they pass.
• Wang praises Lin and brings up Zhou’s success to encourage competition, but Lin responds calmly and dismisses the comparison.
• Zhao congratulates Zhou on his performance and tells him about the trending video.

Significant themes

• Talent and rivalry: Zhou’s surprising C-Rank performance challenges expectations, while Lin trusts her superior rank and abilities.
• Recognition and public perception: Online audiences debate whether Zhou’s feat is genuine, showing how digital attention differs from witnessing events in person.
• Effort versus confidence: Wang hopes pressure will drive Lin to improve, but her self-assurance—and faith in her system—keeps her unfazed.
• Progress through emotion: Zhou’s growing power depends on others’ emotional reactions, and the newly unlocked lottery expands the system’s possibilities.

Chapter summary

Key events

• Zhou Fan unlocks a lottery featuring powerful techniques, weapons, and abilities, but a draw costs 10,000 emotion points—more than he has.
• Instead, he spends 5,000 points on an Advanced Fire Release Gift Pack and gains six advanced techniques, including Majestic Destroyer Flame and Great Fire Annihilation. He plans to test them later.
• The next morning, online views of the school’s video bring him 2,450 more emotion points.
• At school, Zhou finds gifts and love letters from admirers, while classmates’ envy feeds his system. Liu Kun’s resentment earns Zhou an unusually large 100 points; Liu Kun still resents their earlier fight but is afraid to confront him.
• The students begin practical training. Principal Wang Daochuan explains that human “essence cores” and Mutant Beast “crystal cores” both form by absorbing spiritual energy. Students will practice drawing energy from crystal cores and converting it into their own spiritual energy.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhou is pleased with his new techniques but remains focused on becoming stronger, dismissing romantic attention as a distraction.
• Zhao Qiu jokes with Zhou about his gifts and letters and accompanies him to class.
• Liu Kun’s lingering hostility contrasts with his fear of Zhou.
• Principal Wang takes personal charge of the training, especially because Zhou and Lin Qianqian are standout students.

Significant themes

• Power and progression: Practical training and stronger techniques are presented as the path to growth.
• Emotion as a resource: Public attention, envy, and resentment directly generate Zhou’s system currency.
• Competition and reputation: Zhou’s rising fame attracts admiration and jealousy, while past rivalries continue to shape classroom dynamics.

Plot points and events

• Wang Daochuan arranges fifty Crystal Cores from five-star First Tier Mutant Beasts so the students can practice absorbing Spiritual Energy.
• Lin Qianqian and Zhou Fan are called forward for closer observation. Because of her S-rank Superpower, Lin absorbs energy effortlessly, creating a small vortex and drawing a remarkable share of the room’s supply.
• Zhou Fan’s C-rank Superpower gives him weak natural affinity, and his absorption is initially slow. Wang and the other students assume Lin’s growth will eventually outpace him.
• Lin takes Zhou’s poor showing as confirmation that she is stronger and reassures herself that she will win their competition.
• Zhou’s system offers speed boosts in exchange for Emotion Points. He asks for the maximum, and it spends his entire 5,000-point balance to raise his absorption speed by 500%.
• Zhou suddenly draws Spiritual Energy from across the room, forming a vortex as large as Lin’s. The competing vortices whip up fierce winds, leaving everyone astonished.

Character developments

• Zhou Fan feels frustrated by his natural limitations but relies on his system to overcome them. His dramatic improvement surprises even him, though it costs all his Emotion Points.
• Lin Qianqian remains fiercely competitive and privately attentive to Zhou. Her confidence falters when his absorption suddenly matches hers.
• Wang Daochuan shifts from anticipating Lin’s exceptional growth to being shocked by Zhou’s unexpected performance.

Character interactions

• Wang coaches the class and compares the two students’ results.
• Lin silently measures herself against Zhou, first concluding she has the advantage, then reacting with confusion and shock when he catches up.
• The students and teachers observe and discuss the disparity between Lin’s effortless absorption and Zhou’s initial weakness, then react to Zhou’s sudden surge.

Significant themes

• Innate talent versus effort or other means: Superpower rank appears to dictate natural potential, but Zhou’s system disrupts that expectation.
• Rivalry and comparison: Lin and Zhou’s contest shapes how each interprets their progress.
• Hidden power and surprise: The chapter’s reversal shows that appearances—and early performance—may not reveal someone’s full capabilities.

Plot points and events

• During spiritual-energy training, Zhou Fan suddenly accelerates his absorption until he is matching Lin Qianqian, despite her having an S-rank superpower.
• The two drain half the room’s Crystal Cores between them and both advance to first tier, 3-star. The remaining students stay at 1-star and resent how little energy is left for them.
• Wang Daochuan praises Zhou Fan and Lin Qianqian, then explains that real combat—not training alone—is what makes a true Esper. Students must complete a week of further training before they can hunt mutant beasts outside the city.
• Because they have reached 3-star, Zhou Fan and Lin Qianqian are excused from the school’s training sessions. Zhou tells his jealous friend Zhao Qiu that, with an A-rank power, Zhao should catch up soon, and agrees to buy him dinner.
• Lin Qianqian watches Zhou leave. Li Mengyao teases her about liking him and recommends dressing up and inviting him out, but Lin denies any interest.

Character developments

• Zhou Fan demonstrates that he can conceal or vary his abilities, then reveal impressive strength at a dramatic moment. He also notices that Lin’s emotional reactions generate unusually large amounts of emotion points.
• Lin Qianqian becomes increasingly competitive and unsettled by Zhou’s progress. She reassures herself that her S-rank power and system guarantee she will defeat him.
• Wang Daochuan remains proud of both students but stresses that practical fighting is essential.
• Zhao Qiu is openly envious of Zhou’s advancement, though their friendship remains warm.
• Li Mengyao playfully pushes Lin toward Zhou, while Lin insists their connection is only that he is her bound target.

Themes

• Competition and insecurity: Zhou’s rapid advancement challenges Lin’s confidence and provokes resentment among classmates.
• Training versus real experience: The chapter emphasizes that controlled practice cannot substitute for fighting real enemies.
• Unequal rewards: The strongest students’ success comes at the expense of their peers, highlighting the tension between individual achievement and fairness.
• Pride and self-deception: Lin’s conviction that she is the chosen one clashes with her growing concern about Zhou.

Character interactions

• Zhou and Lin compete directly during absorption training, with Lin’s frustration feeding Zhou’s emotion-point system.
• Wang praises them while setting expectations for the rest of the class.
• Zhou and Zhao share friendly banter and make dinner plans.
• Li Mengyao teases Lin about her supposed attraction to Zhou; Lin rejects the idea, though her thoughts reveal that his progress worries her.

Plot and events

• Zhou Fan leaves Tianhai City for the first time after reaching First Tier, three stars—enough to pass the city’s exit requirements. The guards verify his status and recognize him as the recently famous prodigy who awakened a C-Rank power despite having S-Rank psychic potential.
• Outside the city, Zhou Fan sees the grasslands and towering, mutated forest. He plans to hunt mutant beasts to gain combat experience and grow stronger.
• Wanting to earn Emotion Points from an audience, he starts a Douyang livestream. After an unappealing opening title draws no viewers, he changes it to “New streamer, hot action in the wild!” Five people quickly arrive, mostly annoyed by what they see as misleading advertising.
• Zhou Fan introduces himself and announces a wilderness-hunting challenge. Viewers begin recognizing him as the once-mocked student who awakened a lower-ranked power, though some suspect the streamer is an impersonator.

Character development and interactions

• Zhou Fan is confident and resourceful: when he realizes the wilderness has too few people to generate Emotion Points, he turns to livestreaming to find an audience online.
• The gate guards are impressed and envious of his rapid progress. One compares the gulf between people to the gulf between a person and a dog; Zhou Fan does not hear them, but their envy and jealousy still earn him Emotion Points.
• Zhou Fan engages directly with the livestream viewers, while the viewers react with confusion, irritation, recognition, and skepticism.

Significant themes

• Humanity’s struggle against mutated beasts shapes life beyond the city walls, with Espers serving as the frontline defenders.
• Rapid advancement sets Zhou Fan apart from ordinary people and fuels both admiration and envy.
• Public perception and online attention are valuable to Zhou Fan because others’ emotions can be converted into Emotion Points.

Plot and key events

• Zhou Fan begins livestreaming himself in a mutant-beast forest, proving he is genuine by showing his student ID. Viewers recognize him from a viral clip of him fighting four opponents.
• He confirms that he has S-rank psychic power but awakened a C-rank superpower, and says he is using the stream to practice against mutant beasts. He promises to fight a beast for every fifty new followers.
• After viewers urge him to challenge a tiger, Zhou Fan takes on a two-star First Tier mutant beast. He defeats it almost instantly with a Great Fireball Technique and a follow-up kick.
• The chat is impressed but also doubts the fight is real, questions how he can use fire powers, and is shocked that he has already reached three-star First Tier only days after awakening.
• Zhou Fan kills a second two-star beast just as easily. When viewers tease him for picking weak opponents, he raises the stakes: at 300 followers, he will fight five beasts at once.

Character development

• Zhou Fan shows confidence, showmanship, and a willingness to take risks. He turns skepticism and heckling into a way to attract viewers and earn emotion points.
• He is comfortable publicizing his identity and abilities, believing his strength makes streaming in the wild manageable.

Character interactions

• Viewers ask about Zhou Fan’s identity, powers, rank, and plans; he answers openly and encourages them to follow.
• The audience alternates between cheering, doubting him, and egging him into greater danger. Zhou Fan plays along, transforming their taunts into increasingly ambitious challenges.

Significant themes

• Spectacle and risk: Zhou Fan makes dangerous combat into entertainment, while viewers eagerly demand bigger challenges.
• Public validation and skepticism: His feats attract attention, but many viewers remain suspicious or question his claims.
• Ambition and escalation: Each success raises the stakes, setting up an even riskier fight against five beasts.

Plot points and events

• Zhou Fan starts a livestream in the Mutant Beast Forest, joking that he’ll fight five beasts once he reaches 300 followers. A viewer’s gift boosts the stream’s audience, and Zhou’s reputation as the freshman who defeated four opponents draws in more viewers.
• The follower goal is reached quickly. Zhou sets up his phone, enters the forest, and deliberately lures five wolves into the camera’s view.
• The wolves turn out to be dangerous Fire Wolves: four are first-tier, two-star beasts, led by a first-tier, three-star Wolf King. Though viewers urge him to run, Zhou is already committed to the fight.
• Using his Sharingan to track the pack and a series of Fire Release techniques, Zhou counters the four wolves’ coordinated attacks and seriously burns them.
• When the faster Wolf King joins in, it breaks through Zhou’s fireballs. Zhou then catches it in a Sharingan genjutsu, making it collapse.

Character development

• Zhou shows confidence and showmanship by turning a spontaneous hunt into a livestream challenge, but he also takes the fight seriously: he stays composed and uses it to test his abilities and grow stronger.
• The viewers shift from treating the challenge as a joke to genuine shock and concern as Zhou actually faces the beasts.

Themes

• Power and strategy: Zhou’s victory depends not only on destructive techniques but also on reading enemy movements and exploiting the Sharingan’s genjutsu.
• Public spectacle and ambition: Livestreaming brings attention and potential rewards, while Zhou uses the audience’s reactions to gain emotion points.
• Growth through danger: Hunting beasts offers Zhou experience, strength, and Crystal Cores, making the risk part of his development.

Character interactions

• Zhou plays to the viewers, thanking the donor, promoting his challenge, and keeping his promise once he reaches the follower goal.
• The audience alternates between cheering him on for entertainment and warning him to flee once the danger becomes real.
• In battle, Zhou faces the wolves’ coordinated pack tactics and the Wolf King’s direct assault, ultimately using the Sharingan to neutralize their leader.

Chapter Summary

• Zhou Fan defeats five Fire Wolves—all First Tier, 2-star—using Fire Release and Sharingan Genjutsu. The fight drains much of his spiritual energy, but he wins and collects the beasts’ crystal cores.
• His livestream audience erupts in praise and disbelief, generating 2,400 emotion points. The stream peaks at 2,026 viewers, and Zhou ends with 999 followers. Viewers push him to attempt even harder challenges, including fighting stronger beasts; he promises to try a level-identification feature and says he may face six beasts if he reaches 3,000 followers.
• After the stream, Zhou continues hunting, killing nine First Tier, 2-star beasts and one First Tier, 3-star beast in total. He hopes another stream will bring his emotion-point balance above 10,000, enough to hold a prize draw.
• Elsewhere, Lin Qianqian uses her increasingly proficient Divine Paper Technique to defeat six First Tier, 2-star beasts. Confident in her own progress, she assumes Zhou Fan has probably killed fewer than she has.
• Back home, Lin receives a video of Zhou’s fight from Li Mengyao. Watching him defeat five beasts, Lin is surprised and wonders how he managed to become stronger again.

Character Developments and Interactions

Zhou Fan shows growing confidence as a fighter and streamer, balancing genuine exhaustion with a willingness to promise new challenges to keep viewers engaged. Lin is steadily mastering her technique, but her thoughts increasingly measure her progress against Zhou’s. Li Mengyao brings Zhou’s unexpected feat to Lin’s attention, setting up a renewed sense of rivalry or comparison between them.

Significant Themes

The chapter highlights rapid growth and competition, as Zhou and Lin both hunt beasts and compare their achievements. It also explores spectacle and audience pressure: Zhou’s viewers reward his dangerous feats with attention and emotion points, while urging him toward ever-greater risks.

Key plot points and events

• Zhou Fan’s previous livestream is reposted online, generating more views and emotion points. Unexpected reactions from Lin Qianqian push him over the 10,000-point threshold, allowing him to draw Fire Style: Heavenly Prison, a quick, low-risk sealing technique that burns anyone who gathers spiritual energy after being marked.
• He absorbs the mutant-beast crystal cores he collected, strengthening his spiritual energy but not quite reaching first tier, four stars. He hopes to keep streaming and hunting, while saving toward the much more expensive Mangekyō Sharingan.
• The next morning, Zhou Fan buys shuriken-like throwing knives, kunai-like darts, a saber, and a weapons pouch, then heads back to the Mutant Beast Forest.
• He begins another livestream. Viewers quickly gather and ask to see him take on six opponents. Zhou Fan agrees to start the challenge once the audience grows, and enables the app’s Mutant Beast Level Recognition feature. It correctly identifies him as first tier, three stars. He sets a target of 2,000 viewers before beginning the challenge.

Character developments

• Zhou Fan gains a new tactical ability and continues building strength, balancing immediate upgrades against his long-term goal of obtaining the Mangekyō Sharingan.
• He becomes more deliberate about preparing for combat, purchasing a range of weapons before returning to the forest.
• Lin Qianqian remains an off-screen but surprising source of emotion points, reacting to Zhou Fan’s online popularity with surprise and defiance.

Character interactions

• Zhou Fan interacts with his livestream audience, who tease him and request a one-against-six challenge. He plays along, using their interest to build anticipation.
• A viewer prompts him to activate the level-recognition feature, which displays his cultivation rank and surprises viewers who expected him to be stronger.

Significant themes

• Strength and resource management: Zhou Fan weighs cultivation methods and spends emotion points on useful abilities while saving for a major upgrade.
• Entertainment as opportunity: He turns viewers’ appetite for spectacle into a source of emotion points and publicity.
• Preparation and risk: His new sealing technique and weapons broaden his options, while the app’s level-identification feature highlights the danger of misjudging opponents.

Plot points and events

• Xinghai University sophomore Xia Qingran discovers videos of Zhou Fan, a newly awakened student with a C-rank Spirit Eye System power, fighting groups of mutant beasts.
• Online commenters claim Zhou’s C-rank ability has overcome an S-rank power, a claim Xia doubts because she herself has an S-rank ability and has never been beaten by someone of comparable strength.
• Xia finds Zhou’s livestream, where he promises to fight six mutant beasts alone once he reaches 2,000 viewers.
• Intrigued, she sends a 3,000-yuan Carnival gift. The resulting attention pushes the audience past 4,300 viewers, prompting Zhou to honor his promise.
• Zhou finds six First Tier, two-star beasts. Though he is First Tier, three stars, he prepares to fight them, shocking Xia and many new viewers. The chapter ends just before the battle.

Character developments

• Xia Qingran shifts from casual curiosity to serious interest in Zhou, drawn first by his appearance and then by his audacious challenge. Her own experience with an S-rank power makes her especially skeptical of his reputation.
• Zhou Fan shows confidence and a willingness to take risks for his audience—and for the emotion points he earns from their reactions. Xia’s lavish tip also briefly makes him imagine being financially supported by a wealthy woman.

Significant themes

• Appearance versus ability: Zhou’s handsome looks attract attention, but his real appeal comes from the challenge he undertakes.
• Reputation and skepticism: Online claims about Zhou’s strength conflict with Xia’s assumptions about the limits of a C-rank power.
• Spectacle and incentives: Livestream gifts, viewer counts, and audience reactions turn a dangerous fight into entertainment and reward Zhou for taking risks.

Character interactions

• Xia’s gift directly increases Zhou’s audience and pressures him to begin the challenge sooner.
• Zhou thanks her as “Your Majesty,” while privately wondering whether she is a wealthy woman interested in him.
• The viewers’ excitement and disbelief heighten the stakes as Zhou sets out to face the six beasts.

Plot and events

• Zhou Fan faces six First Tier, two-star mutant beasts and defeats them with a combination of heat-based dust, a thrown-knife feint, Ghost Lanterns, and fire dragons. The fight is easier than his previous challenge.
• Viewers are astonished, and their shock generates Emotion Points. Xia Qingran is especially surprised because she believes only an Esper with an S-Rank power could handle six beasts.
• Xia Qingran sends Zhou Fan a Carnival gift, bringing more viewers and followers to his livestream. Zhou Fan invites the audience to follow and suggest future challenges.
• When viewers question whether his wilderness backdrop is real, Zhou Fan walks toward a nearby First Tier, three-star Demon Tiger to prove it.
• A viewer asks him to check whether the tiger has single or double eyelids, offering gifts. Other viewers—and Xia Qingran—join in. Zhou Fan jokingly insists he is acting for educational purposes, then grabs the tiger as it lunges and immobilizes it with Sharingan genjutsu.
• He prepares to show the audience the tiger’s eyelids, leaving the answer—and the scene—to the next moment.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhou Fan demonstrates remarkable combat ability and confidence, effortlessly defeating six beasts and subduing a stronger tiger. He also plays along with viewers’ requests while comically denying that gifts influence him.
• Xia Qingran shifts from disbelief to growing curiosity about Zhou Fan, supporting him with another large gift.
• The viewers become increasingly engaged: they praise Zhou Fan, challenge the authenticity of his stream, and turn the tiger’s eyelids into a running joke. Their gifts and reactions drive the stream’s growing popularity.

Significant themes

• Zhou Fan’s exceptional strength defies expectations about what a C-Rank Esper should be able to do.
• Livestream spectacle blurs combat, entertainment, and audience participation.
• Comedy comes from the contrast between dangerous mutant beasts and the chat’s bizarre, lighthearted requests.

Plot points and events

• While livestreaming, Zhou Fan easily handles a Demon Tiger, but four hungry First Tier, 3-star Unicorn Lions emerge from the bushes.
• Realizing the danger, he ends the stream and fights them alone. He uses heat and flames to scatter and injure the lions, then combines the Sharingan, swordsmanship, and genjutsu to kill them.
• Zhou Fan collects their Crystal Cores and withdraws before more beasts arrive. His livestream earns him over 4,000 Emotion Points, with more arriving after viewers see the feed cut off.
• He later posts proof that he survived, showing the beasts’ corpses. Fans express shock and relief.
• After absorbing more than a dozen Crystal Cores—including four from the lions—Zhou Fan breaks through to First Tier, 4 stars.

Character development

• Zhou Fan shows sound judgment by prioritizing survival over entertaining viewers. Once the threat is clear, however, he chooses to fight rather than flee and proves his growing combat skill.
• The near-death battle and the energy from the Crystal Cores accelerate his advancement. His new level also leaves him feeling stronger and refreshed.
• Xia Qingran becomes increasingly interested in Zhou Fan after seeing his survival and begins anticipating his performance in the upcoming college entrance exam.

Character interactions

• The livestream audience reacts first with excitement, then fear and concern as the four lions surround Zhou Fan. His sudden sign-off leaves them uncertain about his fate until he posts an update.
• Xia Qingran watches the stream, worries when it ends, and feels relieved when she sees Zhou Fan’s victory post. She connects his location to the Southern District exam and looks forward to seeing how he performs.

Significant themes

• Survival over spectacle: Zhou Fan cuts off the stream when continuing would endanger him.
• Growth through adversity: A dangerous, nearly fatal fight—combined with the beasts’ Crystal Cores—pushes him to a breakthrough.
• Risk and responsibility: Hunting in one place too long attracts more beasts, reminding Zhou Fan to be more mindful of his surroundings next time.
• Public attention: The audience’s emotions generate tangible Emotion Points, while Zhou Fan’s online persona makes his survival a source of both suspense and growing interest.