Recaps

Southern Glory faced Western Glory in a final shaped by Western Glory’s superior artifacts, while Qin Siyang’s victories and a deal with Yu Yongyou brought him closer to the deciding first-year match. The arc ended with Guan Jingyue’s liquid shield stopping Qin Siyang’s attacks and sending him flying.

• Fu Wanli defeated Zhang Gao, then Xiang Yuanyou knocked him unconscious, as Southern Glory swept Central Glory and advanced to face Western Glory in the final.
• Ulit killed Osses and exposed him as [Muse], while Gu Weiyang presented the evidence and directed the audience to applaud Ulit.
• Western Glory’s artifact advantage helped its students dominate early matches, but Duan Chongfang reached sequence level seven, defeated Xie Daoqing, and gave Southern Glory the third-year point.
• Huan Ruoyu’s [High-Temperature Ring] led Ban Dingyuan to concede, leaving the overall score tied at 1-1.
• Western Glory’s first-years used artifacts to defeat or draw with Southern Glory’s students, leaving Qin Siyang as Southern Glory’s only remaining fighter.
• Qin Siyang smashed Yu Yongyou’s layered shields and won, then accepted a share of the Yu Family’s blackwater mine in exchange for identifying Guo Jiuxiao as the cause of the unrest.
• Qin Siyang rested before facing Guan Jingyue, whose liquid shield stopped his attacks and then fired Water Arrows that he dodged before a powerful impact sent him flying.

Qin Siyang led Southern Glory to victory, then fell into a trap involving Duan Chongfang, Choi Chan-hoon, and Han Lingye. He reached Origin Sequence Level Two, killed Han Lingye, and joined Duan in fighting Choi, ending the stretch by destroying Choi’s Ice Crystal White Dove.

• Qin Siyang defeated Guan Jingyue in the final, and Nanrong University won the championship.
• Qin Siyang confronted Xiao Zhigang over the tournament’s unfair arrangements, then met Gu Weiyang and arranged for Lü Boming to take a supervisory post in State No. 12.
• Qin Siyang entrusted Zhao Sifang with his Storage Boxes and information about the path to godhood before Duan Chongfang lured him to a hotel and attacked him.
• Choi Chan-hoon tried to recruit Duan Chongfang into the Reincarnation Church, but Duan revealed Qin Siyang was alive and joined him in a trap against Choi and Han Lingye.
• Qin Siyang fought Han Lingye while Duan Chongfang battled Choi, and Han’s mental attacks repeatedly disrupted Qin’s control of his body.
• As Qin Siyang neared death, he swallowed a point of light, followed his Path to Godhood, and advanced to Origin Sequence Level Two.
• Qin Siyang killed Han Lingye after using a decoy to foil his shadow-targeting mental attack, then recognized that [Profane Feast] had reset Duan Chongfang’s item-stealing skill.
• Choi Chan-hoon summoned the Ice Crystal White Dove, but Qin Siyang used a silver needle transformed into a rod to shatter its wing and cut its body in half.

Qin Siyang survived Choi Chan-hoon’s ambush, secured Han Huizhi’s military authorization and ore, and established the Qin Character Special Brigade while taking control of the Yu Family’s Sigma District mining assets. As the Safe Zone’s factions prepared for upheaval, Zhao Longfei asked Qin to help protect the Huan Family from the United Government.

• Qin Siyang and Duan Chongfang escaped the Spatial Artifact, concealed the extent of their strength, and presented Choi Chan-hoon’s death as self-defense, leading the United Government to close the case and honor them with Five Good Student awards.
• Qin Siyang reached an agreement with Gu Weiyang to leave Xiao Zhigang without protection if he attacked again, then asked for the authorization needed to form an independent military force.
• Qin Siyang traded Han Huizhi the evidence and body of Han Lingye for a Sequence Regiment authorization, Vine Heart, and yellow-silver star ore.
• Yu Yongyou asked Qin Siyang to safeguard the Yu Family’s Sigma District mining assets and disclosed that his father’s letter mentioned an [Apocalypse Fragment], so Qin agreed to cooperate for a share of the holdings.
• Qin Siyang and Yu Yongyou completed the mining transfer, and the United Government announced the establishment of the Qin Character Special Brigade in Area No. 4444.
• Qin Siyang consolidated alliances, arranged food purchases from State No. 12, and celebrated the new brigade at a banquet after Gu Yunpeng’s release.
• Zhao Longfei urged Qin Siyang to stop the United Government from taking all of the Huan Family’s assets, and Qin asked Sun Linshou to defend the family through legal means.

Qin Siyang helped the Huan Family survive a United Government investigation and a World-Destroying Church attack, while Joint Mining took shape. The Church gained new Guardians, and Qin Siyang turned to the Wang Family’s internal struggle and the investigation in State No. 12.

• Sun Linshou told Qin Siyang he had changed loyalties and promised evidence against the investigation team, as violence at Huan Family Mining forced the team to withdraw and brought United Government forces into Zone 5.
• Liang Youtao used Sun Linshou’s signed order to investigate Zhang Yuanyi and other members of the investigation team, while Gu Weiyang prepared moves in Zone 5 and the Yu Family case.
• The Four Major Mining Companies and other factions negotiated contributions to Joint Mining, but Huan Liang rejected the proposed concessions and was burned to ash.
• The factions accepted Huan Qi as the Huan Family’s spokesman, and Qin Siyang killed a Huan Family member who threatened to join the World-Destroying Church before proposing Joint Mining.
• As the World-Destroying Church attacked the Huan Family, Qin Siyang helped defend them, killed several high-level attackers, and endured Crawford’s illusion until he trapped Crawford with the Nightmare Lantern Tree.
• The attackers’ Giant Mouth carried Qin Siyang and others into the ruined villa before retreating, and Zhong Dingming and Guan Fuhai revealed that a Tier Five Artifact had nullified the defenders’ artifacts.
• The Reincarnation Council reported the killings of Yu Bianwei, Choi Chan-hoon, and Han Lingye, introduced [Greedy Soul], and learned that Lu Daoxing and Yan Mohui had joined the World-Destroying Church as Guardians.
• Qin Siyang supported Lü Boming’s continued investigation after assassins killed Liu Yu Xin and Carlos, promised help to their families, and later told Wang Xugong he would help only if he could become head of the Wang Family.