Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• On the third day of the seven-day Void Rift, Zhou Fan’s group hurries through the spaces in search of the Xiaoyang Fruit.
• A violent spatial storm erupts as they cross a passage. The turbulence scatters the group into different spaces, and even Zhou Fan’s Kamui cannot bring them together.
• Zhou Fan lands in a scarlet, decaying-looking space with Zhao Qiu. The Golden Arrow confirms there is no Xiaoyang Fruit there, so they begin searching.
• They discover that unusual energy coats the space, though it shows no immediate signs of danger. The local mutant beasts are mostly weak and easily handled.
• A Guardian Wristband alert leads them to a student surrounded by dozens of beasts. Zhou Fan recognizes that the person can manage alone: Lin Qianqian destroys the entire pack with a sustained barrage of explosions.
• Lin joins Zhou Fan and Zhao Qiu, who continue exploring together.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhou Fan stays focused on the fruit and responds pragmatically to the group’s separation, treating continued exploration as the priority.
• Zhao Qiu provides comic relief with his curses and jokes, but readily suggests helping the surrounded student and warmly welcomes Lin.
• Lin demonstrates formidable combat ability and resilience, having survived and explored alone. She agrees that traveling with others is safer.
• Zhou’s offhand comment that Lin has been “unlucky” to remain alone irritates her, though she has become accustomed to his tactless remarks.

Significant themes

• Uncertainty and adaptability: The spatial storm upends the group’s plans, forcing Zhou and Zhao Qiu to adjust quickly.
• Cooperation and independence: Separation makes each character rely on their own abilities, while Lin’s decision to join the pair shows the value of teamwork.
• Persistence under time pressure: Despite the disruption, the search for the Xiaoyang Fruit remains their main objective.

Key plot points and events

• Zhou Fan, Zhao Qiu, and Lin Qianqian quickly search a scarlet wasteland, prioritizing the Xiaoyang Fruit. Though Yuan An’s Golden Arrow guides them, Zhou Fan worries it could fail, so they check each space before moving on.
• Near the Spatial Passage, they find a valley packed with mutant beasts. Suspecting a valuable treasure lies within—and with no clear route around the valley—the group decides to fight through.
• Zhao Qiu asks to wear Zhou Fan’s Susanoo again. Zhou Fan agrees, and Zhao Qiu uses his gigantification ability while Zhou surrounds him in Susanoo Armor, making him a towering, heavily protected warrior.
• Zhao Qiu charges into the valley, effortlessly cutting down and kicking aside the densely packed third- and fourth-tier beasts. Their attacks barely affect his armor.
• A powerful black energy ball suddenly strikes Zhao Qiu, damaging part of the Susanoo and driving him back. Zhou repairs the armor as a strange white, five-tailed beast emerges from the valley. Zhou recognizes it as the Five-Tails.

Character developments

• Zhou Fan remains cautious and mission-focused, but is also willing to take risks when the possibility of a major discovery arises. He shows loyalty by indulging Zhao Qiu’s request.
• Zhao Qiu demonstrates improved control over his gigantification, now able to enlarge any part of his body. Wearing Susanoo makes him feel exceptionally powerful, and he enthusiastically takes the lead in battle.
• Lin Qianqian contributes practical judgment and agrees to support the plan, though she stays back while Zhou and Zhao clear the path.

Character interactions

• Zhao Qiu playfully reminds Zhou Fan of his promise to let him use Susanoo again. Zhou initially resists but gives in to his friend.
• Zhou supplies the armor but leaves Zhao Qiu in control of his own fighting, while Lin waits aside as requested.
• Their confident assault is interrupted by the Five-Tails, shifting the encounter from a routine clearing operation to a confrontation with a formidable new opponent.

Significant themes

• Friendship and trust: Zhou’s willingness to lend Zhao Qiu his power reflects their closeness.
• Caution versus opportunity: The group balances its search for the Xiaoyang Fruit with the lure of a possible treasure.
• Power and spectacle: Zhao Qiu’s Susanoo-enhanced strength overwhelms ordinary beasts, but the Five-Tails’ attack signals that stronger threats remain.

Plot points and events

• Zhou Fan and Zhao Qiu encounter Five-Tails, a tailed beast Zhou Fan has been searching for. Zhou asks Zhao to hold back because he intends to tame it.
• Zhao fights Five-Tails hand-to-hand. Five-Tails gains the upper hand with Boil Release, knocking Zhao down, but Zhou pins it with the Sage Art: Gate of the Great God.
• As Zhou approaches to tame Five-Tails, Seven-Tails attacks from above with explosive bursts of powder. Its ability to fly initially puts Zhao at a disadvantage.
• Zhou gives the Susanoo Armor wings, allowing Zhao to fly. Zhao combines Gigantification, the armor, and his Life Shackles to overpower Seven-Tails.
• Seven-Tails fires a Tailed Beast Bomb. Zhou uses Kamui to remove much of it, and Zhao’s Tiger Heaven Crash overwhelms the rest and sends Seven-Tails crashing from the sky. The chapter ends before either beast is captured.

Character development and interactions

• Zhou remains focused on collecting the tailed beasts, but also shows care for Zhao by protecting him and equipping him to counter Seven-Tails.
• Zhao is an enthusiastic, direct brawler. He reluctantly holds back against Five-Tails, then adapts eagerly when Zhou enables him to fly; he also demonstrates growing skill by stacking several power-ups.
• The two work as a coordinated team: Zhou restrains Five-Tails and provides tactical support, while Zhao handles the close combat.

Significant themes

• Strengths and adaptation: Five-Tails exploits its physical power; Seven-Tails relies on flight. The heroes respond by matching or neutralizing those advantages.
• Teamwork and complementary abilities: Zhou’s techniques and support make Zhao’s brute force more effective.
• Collection and ambition: Zhou’s growing roster of tailed beasts points toward his longer-term goal of gathering all nine.

Key plot points and events

• Zhou Fan restrains Five-Tails with the Gate of the Great God, then uses a Wood Dragon to bind and drain Seven-Tails. Seven-Tails’ final Tailed Beast Bomb is deflected, leaving both beasts unable to resist.
• He spends 30,000 Emotion Points to contract Five-Tails and Seven-Tails as loyal Summoning Beasts. He now controls five Tailed Beasts and hopes to gather the rest, revive Ten-Tails, and become its Jinchūriki.
• After clearing the valley, Zhou Fan, Zhao Qiu, and Lin Qianqian pass through a Spatial Passage into a new wilderness-like space. They see another enormous, motionless giant-shaped outline in the sky, though Zhou Fan confirms this is not the space they visited before.
• Their Wristbands alert them to nearby teammates. The group finds a young man riding a white clay dragon while Mutant Beasts attack him. He drops a large clay figure and declares, “Art is an Explosion!”

Character developments

• Zhou Fan shows overwhelming power and strategic thinking, while preferring the system’s contracts to forced control through his Sharingan: he believes true synchronization brings out a Tailed Beast’s full strength.
• Zhao Qiu questions why Zhou Fan is collecting Tailed Beasts when stronger Mutant Beasts exist. He guesses Zhou plans to combine them into a super-beast, comparing the idea to collecting magical wish-granting balls.
• Lin Qianqian remains a quiet observer, reflecting how little opportunity she gets to fight when Zhou Fan is present.
• The clay-wielding young man is introduced as bold and theatrical, using explosive clay against the attacking beasts.

Significant themes

• Power versus loyalty: Zhou Fan distinguishes between controlling a creature and earning its cooperation, though he uses the system to secure loyalty quickly.
• Long-term ambition and collection: The Tailed Beasts matter not only for their individual strength but as pieces of Zhou Fan’s plan to restore Ten-Tails.
• Humor and pop-culture references: Zhao’s wish-ball comparison lightens the discussion and playfully echoes Zhou Fan’s actual goal.

Character interactions

• Zhou teases Seven-Tails after its failed attempt to break the sealing gate.
• Zhao challenges Zhou’s choice to pursue Tailed Beasts; Zhou hints at their greater combined purpose, and Zhao confidently claims to have figured it out.
• The trio discuss the mysterious giant briefly, then prioritize exploring and locating their teammates.
• They arrive just as the clay-wielding young man prepares to counter the beasts surrounding him.

Key plot points and events

• Deidara, a young Esper who creates explosive clay, destroys a group of Mutant Beasts and revels in the spectacle.
• Zhou Fan, Zhao Qiu, and Lin Qianqian approach and invite him to join them. Deidara refuses, clarifying that he is an independent Esper from the West District branch bureau—not a university student.
• Before he can leave, a horde of more than a hundred ground and flying Mutant Beasts surrounds the group.
• Deidara attacks with Clay Birds and Clay Spiders, dispatching many beasts with powerful, precise explosions.
• Lin Qianqian joins the fight with her Explosive Tags, efficiently blasting the next wave of beasts.
• Fascinated by her similar ability, Deidara proposes a contest to decide whose explosions are more artistic.

Character developments

• Deidara is introduced as a fiercely independent, eccentric artist who sees explosions as the highest form of art. Though wary of strangers, he answers questions honestly and proves himself a formidable fighter.
• Zhou Fan shows interest in Deidara’s abilities and tries first to make his acquaintance, then to recruit him into his organization.
• Zhao Qiu is initially irritated by Deidara’s rejection, but quickly recognizes his power and admires Lin’s performance.
• Lin Qianqian demonstrates both combat skill and artistic flair, prompting Deidara’s immediate admiration.

Significant themes

• Art and destruction: Deidara treats violence as artistic expression, while the battle gives his beliefs a vivid showcase.
• Different styles of power: Deidara’s explosive clay is dramatic and forceful; Lin’s tags are elegant, controlled, and rhythmic.
• Independence and belonging: Deidara resists affiliation, even as the danger around him creates an opportunity for cooperation.

Character interactions

• Deidara rebuffs Zhao Qiu’s offer to team up, while Zhou Fan handles the introduction more diplomatically.
• Zhou Fan later attempts to recruit Deidara, but Deidara refuses again.
• Lin’s explosive technique changes Deidara’s attitude: he recognizes a kindred artistic spirit and challenges her to compare their explosions.

Plot points and events

• Deidara challenges Lin Qianqian to a contest of explosive power, hoping to prove his explosive clay is superior to her Explosive Tags.
• Lin Qianqian initially refuses, since she sees explosions as practical weapons rather than art. Zhou Fan explains that she is part of the Dawn and proposes a match as a test of Deidara’s strength.
• At Zhou Fan’s request, Lin agrees. Deidara attacks with Clay Birds, a C2 Dragon, and finally C3 No. 18. Lin counters effortlessly with precise Explosive Tags and a paper phoenix, then unleashes the Mutually Multiplying Paper Bomb Technique.
• The massive blasts devastate the surrounding area, but Lin remains unharmed on an intact patch of ground. She reveals that a Paper Clone made of Explosive Tags has appeared behind Deidara and can detonate at will. Deidara concedes defeat.
• Zhou Fan declares Deidara a member of the Dawn, but Deidara argues he only agreed to consider joining after losing to Lin. He offers to join if Zhou himself can defeat him, ending the chapter on a new challenge.

Character development

• Lin Qianqian shows overwhelming control and calm under pressure. She is willing to fight because Zhou Fan asks, and his calling her “Xixi” catches her attention—though she insists her interest in him is only about eventually defeating him.
• Deidara is passionate and confident in his explosive art, but Lin’s superior firepower and tactics force him to acknowledge defeat. He remains stubborn and tries to negotiate his way out of joining.
• Zhou Fan uses Deidara’s interest in Lin to recruit him and relies on her to assess his abilities.
• Zhao Qiu reacts with alarm at the combatants’ extraordinary destructive power.

Themes and interactions

• The chapter contrasts artistic expression with practical combat: Deidara treats explosions as art, while Lin views them simply as effective tools.
• It emphasizes power, skill, and composure: despite Deidara’s escalating attacks, Lin stays in control and reveals she had not needed to fight seriously.
• Lin and Deidara’s contest is both a battle and an evaluation for recruitment. Their exchange with Zhou Fan shifts from a conditional agreement to a direct challenge, leaving the outcome unresolved.

Key plot points and events

• Zhou Fan agrees to spar with Deidara, but first makes him promise not to renege on their bet. Deidara swears by his art, which Zhou Fan accepts after teasing him about how much it matters to him.
• Deidara attacks with explosive clay, using a Clay Pig as a distraction while secretly sending a Clay Centipede underground.
• Zhou Fan’s Sharingan traps Deidara in a Genjutsu. Deidara believes the centipede has caught Zhou Fan, only to discover it is wrapped around himself and ready to explode.
• The illusion overwhelms Deidara: he declares the Sharingan’s beauty to be “true art.” Zhou Fan wins, and Deidara honors their agreement by joining the Dawn.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhou Fan uses calm confidence and a carefully timed Genjutsu to defeat Deidara, then welcomes him and assures him the Dawn will respect his pursuit of art.
• Deidara begins boastful and certain of victory, but accepts his defeat and keeps his promise. He makes clear that art remains his life’s purpose and joins the organization provisionally, intending to see what it is like.
• Lin Qianqian recognizes the Genjutsu that defeats Deidara, recalling her own repeated losses to Zhou Fan’s Sharingan. Her memories leave her inexplicably irritated.
• Zhao Qiu explains the Genjutsu and introduces the new member to the group. Deidara mistakes him for someone who needs art lessons, prompting Zhao Qiu’s indignant reaction.

Significant themes

• Art and conviction: Deidara’s identity is bound to his art, while Zhou Fan’s Sharingan briefly makes him reconsider what “true art” can be.
• Promises and accountability: Deidara’s agreement matters because he has previously broken his word; after losing, he accepts the result.
• Respect for individuality: The Dawn welcomes members with differing beliefs and priorities, promising not to interfere with Deidara’s artistic pursuit.

Key plot points and events

• On the third day of the Void Rift, Zhou Fan and his companions finish exploring their current area but find no Xiaoyang Fruit. With only about three days left to search before they must head for the evacuation point, they make camp for the night.
• Zhou Fan uses his Wood Release technique to build a large Western-style wooden house. Lin Qianqian conceals it with a barrier, while Zhao Qiu and Deidara go to sleep.
• During the night watch, Zhou Fan and Lin Qianqian share an awkward conversation by the fire. He compliments her appearance, then spoils the moment by claiming her crescent-moon earrings—his gift—are what make her prettier. She stomps on his foot and warns him against such remarks.
• A group in moon-white robes enters the space through a rift. Their leader, a young man with unusual white eyes and crescent-shaped pupils, can see through the surroundings and spots Lin Qianqian at the camp.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhou Fan remains focused on finding Xiaoyang Fruit and caring for the group, but his bluntness undermines his attempt to compliment Lin Qianqian.
• Lin Qianqian takes responsibility for the night watch and shows both affection and exasperation toward Zhou Fan. Her reaction suggests his attention matters to her, even as his clumsy wording irritates her.
• Zhao Qiu jokes with Zhou Fan and happily requests an elaborate house; Deidara admires Zhou Fan’s house-building as art.
• The moon-eyed newcomer’s discovery of Lin Qianqian sets up a likely confrontation or encounter.

Significant themes

• Urgency and survival: The shrinking search window raises pressure to find the Xiaoyang Fruit.
• Companionship and care: The group balances exploration with rest, shelter, and watch duties.
• Awkward affection and humor: Zhou Fan’s sincere but tactless compliment creates a playful moment between him and Lin Qianqian.
• Surveillance and danger: The newcomer’s extraordinary vision defeats the concealment that had protected the camp.

Key events

• While sitting beside the campfire, Lin Qianqian reflects on Zhou Fan. She sees him as kind, capable, and handsome despite his cluelessness, and remembers the earrings he gave her. She plans to buy him a gift in return.
• A strange man appears inside the barrier around the wooden house without triggering it. He introduces himself as Tenshiki, an heir of the Shikigami Family from the Star Realm, whose members inherit powerful “Moon Eyes.”
• Tenshiki explains that his family seeks to strengthen its bloodline by having children with powerful women. He says Lin is his tenth candidate among eighteen women he intends to recruit.
• Lin rejects his proposal and mocks his outrageous approach. Tenshiki responds by threatening to take her by force.
• When Lin’s Paper-Style Guard blocks his attack, Tenshiki shatters it effortlessly and grabs her by the throat.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin’s reflections reveal her growing affection and trust toward Zhou Fan, though she frames her wish to repay his gift partly as avoiding any sense of obligation.
• Tenshiki is introduced as entitled and coercive: he treats Lin as a candidate for his family’s plans rather than as someone whose consent matters.
• Lin remains skeptical and defiant throughout their exchange, but the sudden attack puts her at a severe disadvantage.

Themes

• Affection and reciprocity: Lin’s memories of Zhou Fan’s gift show her care and desire to return his kindness.
• Consent versus entitlement: Tenshiki’s demand and threat expose his belief that family status entitles him to control others.
• Power and vulnerability: Lin’s defenses and instincts cannot protect her from an opponent whose strength and ability to approach undetected greatly exceed her own.

Plot points and events

• Tenshiki attacks Lin Qianqian, but her Paper-Style Substitute lets her escape his grasp and detonate Explosive Tags around him. He disperses the blasts effortlessly.
• Lin escalates to the Mutually Multiplying Paper Bomb Technique, yet Tenshiki emerges unharmed, apparently using spatial power to evade or block her attacks. He overwhelms her with the Moon Eye: Charm, briefly taking control of her.
• Lin counters with Sealing Tags, interrupting his dōjutsu and freeing herself. Tenshiki tears apart her wider sealing attempt, then claims he has adapted and won’t be caught by the same method again.
• Zhou Fan suddenly arrives with Chidori. Tenshiki blocks the attack with a spatial barrier and sends a blade of energy through Zhou, but Zhou combines Kamui with Chidori to pierce the barrier and nearly strike Tenshiki.
• Tenshiki reveals that Lin is his target and says he intends to take her. Zhou answers that he will not let anyone take her while he is there.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Qianqian proves resourceful and powerful, rapidly adapting her tactics from explosive attacks to a prepared sealing technique. Though Tenshiki’s abilities put her at a disadvantage, she manages to interrupt his control and hold out longer than anyone else has.
• Tenshiki remains confident and domineering, treating Lin as someone to possess. Her resistance surprises him and increases his interest, but he stays convinced he can overcome her.
• Zhou Fan enters as Lin’s protector. His Kamui-enhanced attack shows he can identify and counter Tenshiki’s spatial defense, prompting Tenshiki’s respect and surprise.
• The confrontation shifts from a one-sided attempt to capture Lin into a direct contest between Tenshiki and Zhou, with Lin still at risk.

Significant themes

• Resistance and adaptation: Lin survives by changing tactics, while Tenshiki counters once he understands her methods.
• Power and its limits: Raw attacks fail against Tenshiki’s spatial abilities, but specialized techniques can create openings.
• Protection versus possession: Tenshiki treats Lin as something to claim; Zhou’s final declaration asserts her safety and agency against that threat.

Key plot points and events

• Tenshiki’s arrival puts Lin Qianqian on edge. Zhou Fan promises to protect her, and his presence steadies her. They warn one another to be careful, showing they trust each other.
• Tenshiki reveals his sixth-tier, one-star strength and attacks Zhou Fan with spatially empowered, moon-white energy beads. Zhou counters with Amaterasu, the Star Shatter Halberd, and Sage Mode, but Tenshiki’s attacks ultimately overwhelm him and send him flying.
• Tenshiki forms the beads into a sword and appears to cut Zhou in half. Zhou survives by using the Substitution Technique, then attacks from behind.
• Zhou’s Wood Dragon briefly catches Tenshiki, but an invisible barrier protects him; Tenshiki then slices the dragon apart with a spatial slash.
• Tenshiki teleports directly to Zhou and appears to pierce his heart. Zhou has actually used Intangibility to evade the blow, then strikes Tenshiki with a Sage Art: Rasengan. Tenshiki is knocked back but remains unharmed.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhou Fan demonstrates tactical restraint as well as strength: he conceals Intangibility, lets Tenshiki believe he has landed a fatal hit, and uses that opening to counterattack. Even so, his surprise strike does little against Tenshiki’s durability.
• Lin Qianqian acknowledges that Tenshiki’s spatial ability is beyond her own and warns Zhou. Though usually self-reliant, she feels reassured by Zhou’s presence.
• Tenshiki is confident and contemptuous, treating Zhou as an insignificant opponent. His surprise at Zhou’s survival hints that Zhou’s hidden ability complicates that assumption.
• Zhou and Lin’s brief exchange conveys mutual trust and concern; Tenshiki is angered by their closeness.

Significant themes

• Trust and reassurance: Zhou and Lin’s confidence in each other helps them face a dangerous enemy.
• Strategy against superior power: Zhou relies on timing, misdirection, and concealed abilities against Tenshiki’s greater strength.
• Overconfidence and underestimation: Tenshiki dismisses Zhou, giving him an opportunity to exploit his opponent’s assumptions.
• Limits of power: Zhou’s techniques can challenge Tenshiki, but the enemy’s spatial defenses and near-impenetrable body remain formidable.

Key plot points and events

• Zhou Fan survives Tenshiki’s attack through Intangibility and reveals that his earlier Rasengan left a Flying Thunder God mark on Tenshiki. He uses it to appear beside him and land a Kamui-infused Chidori, piercing Tenshiki and finally injuring him.
• Tenshiki retaliates, but Lin Qianqian joins the fight with the Mutually Multiplying Paper Bomb Technique. Zhou uses Kamui to tear open Tenshiki’s spatial barrier, allowing Lin’s explosives to strike him directly.
• The attack fails to finish Tenshiki: his four guardians—East, South, West, and North—appear and shield him. The four experienced Fifth Tier, Five Stars fighters then overwhelm Zhou with coordinated attacks.
• Tenshiki traps Lin in a spatial seal and begins carrying her away. Deidara and Zhao Qiu intervene, giving Zhou an opening to break free of the guardians’ barrier.
• Zhao Qiu stays behind to face the four guardians, unlocking the Fifth Life Shackles stage, Origin Lock. He urges Zhou to save Lin as he charges into battle.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhou Fan proves that clever tactics and Kamui can hurt Tenshiki, but he is pushed to his limits against the guardians. Seeing Lin captured, he prioritizes rescuing her.
• Lin Qianqian acts decisively, timing her explosive attack to support Zhou, but is captured by Tenshiki.
• Tenshiki shifts from contempt to fury after Zhou wounds him. Though injured, he heals and uses his spatial powers to seize Lin.
• Zhao Qiu makes a self-sacrificing choice, risking his life to hold off the guardians so Zhou can pursue Lin.
• Deidara and Zhao Qiu briefly disrupt Tenshiki’s attempt to leave and help Zhou escape the spatial barrier.

Significant themes

• Teamwork: Zhou and Lin combine their spatial and explosive techniques, while the guardians’ coordination makes them formidable.
• Sacrifice and loyalty: Zhao Qiu willingly stays behind to give Zhou a chance to rescue Lin.
• Courage against overwhelming power: Zhou and his allies continue resisting despite Tenshiki’s superior strength and the guardians’ numbers.
• Strategy versus brute force: Zhou’s mark, Kamui, and timing create openings that raw attacks alone cannot.

Plot points

• After activating his Fifth Lock, Zhao Qiu blasts East Style away with a powerful kick, then urges Zhou Fan to pursue Tenshiki while he holds the enemies off.
• Tenshiki carries Lin Qianqian toward the Spatial Passage, confident that his spatial cage makes escape impossible. Lin quietly works at the barrier and eventually cuts through it with her paper sheets.
• Lin attacks with a storm of paper, then uses a sealing technique to suppress Tenshiki’s spiritual energy. When he breaks the technique, she activates a Sealing Gem to disable his powers and an Origin Gem to boost her cultivation.
• She unleashes a hundred thousand explosive tags, leaving Tenshiki badly charred—but he regenerates using a lifesaving ability. With Lin exhausted and unable to evade his sword, a figure appears and uses Flying Thunder God Slash.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhao Qiu accepts the danger of staying behind and acts decisively to give Zhou Fan a chance to rescue Lin.
• Lin Qianqian shows ingenuity and resolve, combining her paper abilities with rare items and a major attack despite being badly outmatched.
• Tenshiki’s arrogance and possessiveness are evident: he treats Lin as property and values her chiefly for the powerful offspring he expects her to bear. Her resistance surprises and enrages him.
• Zhou Fan prioritizes reaching Lin over remaining with Zhao Qiu; the chapter ends just as an unidentified ally intervenes to save her.

Themes

• Courage and sacrifice: Zhao Qiu risks himself to create an opening for his friend.
• Resourcefulness against superior power: Lin uses strategy and stored items to challenge a much stronger opponent.
• Possession versus autonomy: Tenshiki’s dehumanizing attitude contrasts with Lin’s determined refusal to submit.
• Suspense and resilience: Lin’s apparent victory proves temporary when Tenshiki survives, leaving her rescue unresolved.

Key plot points and events

• Zhou Fan interrupts Tenshiki just as he is about to kill Lin Qianqian, teleporting behind him with Flying Thunder God and piercing his kidney with Kamui Chidori. Tenshiki heals quickly and reveals that the passage to the Star Realm is already open.
• Tenshiki expands the rift, then counters Zhou Fan’s attacks with a protective bead shield and Moon Eye techniques. Zhou Fan’s Rasengan and Rasenshuriken fail to land decisive damage, illustrating the gap between their power.
• Zhou Fan turns invisible and conceals his presence, then uses a self-destructing Steam Imp clone to burn Tenshiki. Tenshiki locates him with a wide-ranging ring of energy beads, but Zhou Fan redirects the beads through a Flying Thunder God barrier so they strike Tenshiki from behind.
• As Zhou Fan’s Wood Dragon attacks, Shikigami Family guards emerge from the rift and destroy it. Tenshiki reveals that the rift connects to his family’s realm and that he has a personal guard of more than a dozen fifth-tier experts.
• Surrounded and facing the guards, Zhou Fan summons the enormous Sage Art: Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands. The chapter ends as the colossal statue rises.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhou Fan proves resourceful, combining techniques for surprise attacks and adapting when Tenshiki counters him. Although he cannot overpower Tenshiki directly, he uses stealth and spatial tactics to create openings, then escalates dramatically when reinforcements arrive.
• Tenshiki is wounded and briefly caught off guard, but remains confident because of his rapid healing, powerful Moon Eye abilities, and superior cultivation. His confidence shifts into triumph when his guards arrive.
• Zhou Fan and Tenshiki engage in a tactical exchange: Tenshiki anticipates repeated teleportation and neutralizes several attacks, while Zhou Fan exploits Tenshiki’s blind spots and redirects his own weapons against him.
• The Shikigami guards’ arrival changes the fight from a duel into a confrontation against a much larger force.

Significant themes

• Ingenuity versus raw power: Zhou Fan’s clever combinations let him challenge a stronger opponent, but Tenshiki’s cultivation and resources remain formidable.
• Escalation and hidden resources: The open rift transforms Tenshiki’s apparent personal advantage into the threat of an entire powerful family.
• Adaptation in combat: Both fighters observe and counter each other’s techniques, making the battle a contest of tactics as well as strength.

Key plot points and events

• Zhou Fan summons a colossal Thousand-Armed Buddha and reinforces it with Complete Body Susanoo, creating a form like Susanoo-clad Kurama.
• His True Several Thousand Hands unleashes a relentless barrage against the Moon Barrier raised by Tenshiki’s guards. The 1,500 fists eventually shatter it, then overwhelm the guards, killing or critically injuring nearly all of them and flattening the surrounding hill.
• The attack exhausts much of Zhou Fan’s spiritual energy and ends his Sage Mode.
• Tenshiki, who stayed out of the fight, takes Lin Qianqian hostage near the Spatial Passage and prepares to escape to the Star Realm.
• Zhou Fan teleports in front of Tenshiki with the Flying Thunder God Technique. He traps Tenshiki briefly with Sharingan genjutsu and pierces his heart with a Chidori Sharp Spear.
• Dying, Tenshiki refuses to let Zhou Fan have Lin Qianqian. He flings her into the air with spatial power and attacks her with Silver Wheel Explosion. The chapter ends before the result is revealed.

Character developments

• Zhou Fan demonstrates overwhelming power, combining Wood Release, Sage Mode, and Susanoo to defeat the guards. His victory comes at a steep energy cost, and he must act quickly to protect Lin Qianqian.
• Tenshiki proves cunning and self-preserving: he avoids the main battle, then exploits his survival to seize Lin Qianqian. Even mortally wounded, he remains spiteful and dangerous.
• Lin Qianqian remains Tenshiki’s hostage and becomes the target of his final attack.

Significant themes

• Overwhelming power and its cost: Zhou Fan’s enormous technique wins the battle but drains his resources.
• Strategy and survival: Tenshiki survives by avoiding the guards’ fate and using Lin Qianqian as leverage.
• Defiance and vengeance: Though defeated, Tenshiki tries to deny Zhou Fan a victory by attacking Lin Qianqian.

Character interactions

• Tenshiki mocks Zhou Fan’s giant construct, only to see it overwhelm the guards’ combined barrier.
• Zhou Fan warns Tenshiki to release Lin Qianqian, but Tenshiki dismisses the threat and attempts to flee.
• Zhou Fan intercepts and attacks Tenshiki; Tenshiki responds by turning his last act into an attack on Lin Qianqian.

Plot points and events

• Tenshiki tries to escape through the Spatial Passage while using a tornado to kill Lin Qianqian. Zhou Fan abandons his pursuit and rescues her, allowing Tenshiki to get away.
• Lin Qianqian thanks Zhou Fan. He says she matters more than catching Tenshiki and promises that no one will hurt her while he is there.
• Zhou Fan and Lin return to find Zhao Qiu badly injured but alive. He has killed two of Tenshiki’s four guards; the other two fled when they sensed their young master was in danger.
• Tenshiki reaches the Shikigami Family’s main city in the Star Realm, followed by his two surviving guards. Zhou Fan’s Shadow Clone has secretly followed him.
• Zhou Fan reveals that the clone has gathered the power of five tailed beasts and forms a dark energy sphere, calling it a “parting gift”: the Great Spiraling Ring.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhou Fan chooses Lin’s safety over capturing Tenshiki, showing his loyalty and protectiveness. He frames this as a leader’s duty, though Lin responds with newfound tenderness.
• Lin Qianqian realizes how important she is to Zhou Fan and begins to see him differently; she accepts his reassurance without her usual protest.
• Zhao Qiu risks his life fighting four guards alone to buy Zhou Fan time. Despite severe injuries, he jokes and boasts about killing two of them, then expresses relief that Lin was rescued.
• Tenshiki escapes but is furious and humiliated by his near-defeat. His confidence returns once he reaches home territory, where he underestimates Zhou Fan’s Shadow Clone.

Significant themes

• Loyalty and sacrifice: Zhou Fan gives up a chance to capture Tenshiki to save Lin, while Zhao Qiu endures a dangerous fight to help his companions.
• Care beneath duty: Zhou Fan describes his protection of Lin as a leader’s responsibility, but his words carry personal significance for her.
• Pride and revenge: Tenshiki’s humiliation fuels his hatred of Blue Star, setting up Zhou Fan’s surprise counterattack.

Plot points and events

• Zhou Fan’s Shadow Clone detonates a Great Spiraling Ring above the Star Realm’s main city. The blast devastates the city, but Demon Style intervenes, freezes and compresses the explosion, and rescues Tenshiki and his guards.
• Demon Style, head of the Shikigami Family, reprimands Tenshiki for failing to defeat Zhou Fan, bringing an outsider into the city, and nearly exposing the family’s plans. He slaps Tenshiki and orders him confined for a month.
• After Demon Style leaves, Tenshiki vows revenge on Zhou Fan, unable to accept his first major defeat.
• The Shadow Clone’s memories return to Zhou Fan. He learns that other human worlds exist beyond Blue Star, though access to the distant Star Realm depends on the now-closed Spatial Passage.
• Zhou Fan’s side has won: Tenshiki was driven away, and Lin Qianqian was not taken. Zhao Qiu, Deidara, and Lin Qianqian leave the Void Rift to receive treatment for their injuries.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhou Fan uses his Shadow Clone to strike back and gather information, and recognizes the significance of confirming the existence of other worlds.
• Tenshiki shifts from arrogant confidence to humiliation and fury after being defeated. His father’s harsh rebuke deepens his resentment, which he directs at Zhou Fan.
• Demon Style acts as a powerful, politically minded ruler rather than a caring father: he rescues Tenshiki but focuses on the danger to the family’s plans and punishes him.
• Zhao Qiu accepts that his body needs treatment after removing his Life Shackles’ restrictions, while jokingly asking Zhou Fan for a share of future spoils.
• Deidara is injured after helping Zhao Qiu and leaves with him. Lin Qianqian, also injured, softly urges Zhou Fan to stay safe before departing.

Significant themes

• Discovery beyond the familiar: Zhou Fan’s firsthand confirmation of other worlds turns abstract knowledge into a real discovery.
• Power and consequences: Tenshiki’s recklessness threatens the city and his family’s secret plans, bringing punishment from Demon Style.
• Humiliation and revenge: Tenshiki’s wounded pride transforms defeat into an obsessive desire for vengeance.
• Loyalty and concern: Zhou Fan’s allies risk themselves for one another, and their farewells emphasize care amid the dangers of the Void Rift.

Key plot points and events

• After defeating Tenshiki, Zhou Fan briefly speaks with Lin Qianqian. She expresses concern for his safety, but he confidently insists that few people can threaten him. She leaves, and he rests after an exhausting day and fight.
• The next morning, Zhou resumes searching the Void Rift for Xiaoyang Fruit, which Xia Qingran needs to treat her Ice Spirit Body. With the Rift closing soon, the sixth day is his last full day to find it.
• He uses a hundred shadow clones to search more efficiently, covering many independent spaces, but finds no fruit. Frustrated and increasingly discouraged, he reminds himself that he is doing this for Xia Qingran and keeps going.
• In a glacier-filled space marked by the silhouette of a mysterious giant, Zhou encounters Xia Qingran. They confirm that both were separated from their companions by spatial turbulence. Xia Qingran has been alone for days; Zhou reassures her that she is no longer alone now that he has found her.

Character developments

• Zhou is physically tired and frustrated by the fruit search, but his determination to help Xia Qingran overcomes his discouragement. He also remains proud of his combat abilities and pleased by his victory over Tenshiki.
• Xia Qingran shows concern for Zhou’s safety and relief that he is unharmed. Her reunion with him ends her isolation, at least for the moment.
• Lin Qianqian’s concern for Zhou is unusual, though Zhou interprets it lightly and responds with characteristic confidence.

Significant themes

• Persistence and duty: Zhou continues searching despite repeated failure because Xia Qingran’s need matters more to him than his fatigue.
• Isolation and companionship: Spatial turbulence scatters the group, leaving characters alone in a dangerous realm; reunion offers reassurance and support.
• Uncertainty and danger: The mysterious giant silhouettes remain unexplained, while the spaces around them contain unusually powerful beasts and superior treasures.

Character interactions

• Zhou and Lin share a brief, understated exchange: she worries about him, and he brushes off the concern with confidence before she leaves.
• Zhou and Xia Qingran reunite warmly. She checks that he was not injured, and he asks after their missing companions, Yuan An and Gu Yu. When he learns she has been alone, he promises that she has company now.

Key plot points and events

• With only their final day in the area, Xia Qingran and Zhou Fan are still searching for a Xiaoyang Fruit. Qingran doubts they will find one, but Zhou Fan insists they keep trying because the fruit could help protect her from the Ice Spirit Body’s dangerous erosion.
• Zhou Fan’s Golden Arrow, which can detect Xiaoyang Fruit, suddenly points decisively toward a narrow, warm rift. They follow it and discover a single Xiaoyang Fruit growing on a small tree.
• Before Qingran can pick it, several Fifth Tier One Star Demon Pangolins emerge as guardians. Zhou Fan uses Amaterasu; despite their tough scales, the unending black flames eventually kill them.
• As the pair approach the fruit, an unknown figure drops in front of it and identifies it as the fifth Xiaoyang Fruit, setting up a confrontation.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhou Fan’s determination is driven by concern for Qingran’s health, and he refuses to give up even when their chances seem slim. He takes the lead in the dangerous rift to protect her.
• Qingran is initially resigned to the possibility of failure, but she chooses to continue searching because Zhou Fan remains hopeful and because his companionship comforts her.
• Their mutual care is evident: Zhou Fan prioritizes Qingran’s safety, while Qingran supports his resolve and trusts him.

Significant themes

• Perseverance and hope: Their last-minute discovery rewards their refusal to quit.
• Devotion and companionship: Their shared search matters to them as much as its practical goal.
• Nature’s dangers and rivalry: Rare treasures attract powerful mutant-beast guardians, and human claimants must contend with them.

• Ling Quan’s arrival: After Zhou Fan and Xia Qingran finish fighting mutant beasts, they encounter Ling Quan, the white-haired young man who previously ate a Xiaoyang Fruit and sent two subordinates to kill Xia Qingran. She recognizes him and confronts him over the unprovoked attack. Ling Quan confirms that he is from the Star Realm and identifies himself as the young master of the Lingyu Family, one of its Four Great Families. He insists his family is stronger than the Shikigami Family.
• A tense exchange: Zhou Fan probes Ling Quan about the Star Realm and mentions having fought Tenshiki, the Shikigami Family’s young master. Ling Quan says he and Tenshiki are evenly matched, but dismisses Zhou Fan’s claim that he defeated Tenshiki, insisting that even such a victory would prove nothing about Zhou Fan’s strength.
• The fight over the fruit: Ling Quan reaches for the Xiaoyang Fruit, but Zhou Fan and Xia Qingran attack together. Zhou Fan uses Kamui to warp the space around Ling Quan’s arm, while Xia Qingran freezes his feet and blocks his retreat. Their coordinated follow-up—Zhou Fan’s Rasenshuriken and Xia Qingran’s Cold Moon—sends Ling Quan flying, but leaves him unharmed. The pair nevertheless secure the fruit.
• Cliffhanger: Ling Quan calmly declares that he will kill them and take the fruit anyway. He presses his hands together and begins a technique called “Five Spirits: Open,” but the chapter ends before its effect is revealed.
  Character developments and interactions: Xia Qingran’s anger toward Ling Quan stems from his earlier attempt to have her killed. Zhou Fan remains composed and uses conversation to learn about his opponent, then works in close coordination with Xia Qingran. Ling Quan is openly arrogant, treating Blue Star’s people as inferior and dismissing both their strength and their attacks.
  Themes: The chapter emphasizes pride and rivalry between the Star Realm’s great families, the contempt of outsiders who believe themselves superior, and the value of teamwork against a powerful opponent.