Recaps

Qin Siyang helped Yan Ran and Yan Xiaojie seize control of the Yan Character Legion while the Zhao and Wei forces defeated the mining-company leaders. After the battles, the group prepared for the Championship Tournament as Li Tianming pursued yellow-silver star ore and Lu Daoxing learned how it was made.

• Qin Siyang used Huang Changgong’s death to turn the 9th Sequence Brigade against Yan Xiaoying, and the brigade killed her before surrendering to him.
• Wei Rulai and Zhao Longfei confronted the four mining-company leaders, then Zhao Longteng, Qin Yingguang, and Chu Xiaoang joined the battle as Yan Ran and Yan Xiaojie defeated Yan Xiaoyi’s and Yan Xiaoru’s forces.
• An unseen attacker killed Huan Kai, whose Life-Substitution Lamp revealed his ties to the World-Destroying Church, and Yu Bianwei also died before Wang Jixin and Xie Nanyun withdrew with his body.
• The commanders negotiated how to divide the Sequence forces, while Yan Ran and Yan Xiaojie later defeated Yan Xiaozhong and Yan Xiaoli and consolidated the Yan Character Legion apart from Yan Bunan’s elite brigade.
• Li Pengfei told Qin Siyang that he had awakened the [Deceiver] Sequence, and Li Tianming resolved to obtain yellow-silver star ore to kill Guo Jiuxiao.
• Lu Daoxing rejected the World-Destroying Church Envoy’s offer unless his conditions were met, then learned from a paper how yellow-silver star ore was produced and connected the method to Zhong Dingming.
• Qin Siyang prepared to leave for the Championship Tournament in Western Glory, but first helped Quan Taibin move his underground laboratory so he could harvest a sacrificial giant vine.

Qin Siyang harvested the Vine Heart, entered the Sacrificial Giant Vine’s inner domain, and received a powerful artifact through its Succession Trial. In Zone 5, political tensions and revelations about the production of yellow-silver star ore led Li Tianming to negotiate with Zhong Dingming for the material.

• Hu Chan asked Qin Siyang to lend him the Drill Pod so he could assassinate someone in Zone 5 and establish an alibi during the Championship Tournament.
• Qin Siyang took the Vine Heart from the Sacrificial Giant Vine, then risked its attacks to enter the inner bud and pass its Succession Trial.
• The Sacrificial Giant Vine arranged a divine gift for Qin Siyang, who offered a titan reed inner leaf and received a tier-six growth implement that became a spear when the vine wielded it.
• After returning to Hu Chan, Qin Siyang shared that another advancement path existed and said Hu Chan could learn it if he returned to sequence level five.
• Olof faced questions from Liu Yingfeng and members of a virtual meeting about disappearing divine images and whether he had switched paths.
• In Zone 5, Zhao Longfei’s attempt to meet with Wang Jixin and Xie Nanyun failed, and he burned the Huan flag as he left the Four Surnames Merchants' Association.
• Li Tianming learned that Lu Daoxing’s yellow-silver star ore method required turning a child into a Starshine Vessel and killing them, then agreed to confront Zhong Dingming with Qin Siyang and Zhang Kuang.
• Li Tianming demanded one hundred kilograms of Zhong Dingming’s yellow-silver star ore, but Zhong offered fifty kilograms in exchange for two kilograms of Vine Heart material and suggested Li trade with a man who had killed many of his children.

Qin Siyang secured star ore while Nanrong University entered the Championship Tournament and faced schemes targeting its team. Nanrong defeated Dawn United and Southern Revival, advancing through the knockout stage with Qin Siyang still waiting for his chance to fight.

• Qin Siyang traded two kilograms of Vine Heart for fifty kilograms of yellow-silver star ore with Zhong Dingming, who named Han Huizhi as another possible source.
• Qin Siyang and his companions entered the Championship Tournament, where Nanrong University won its group behind Wang Zheng and Park Hee-eun while Feng Linlin was exposed as a Flower Puppet and killed by Chu Baxing.
• Nanrong finished first in Group 18, but Zhao Longfei and Qin Siyang suspected Dawn United University had manipulated its way into their knockout match.
• Duan Chongfang threatened Xiao Zhigang to ensure Nanrong advanced, but Xiao instead pushed new tournament rules requiring all first-years to compete, apparently to damage Qin Siyang’s standing.
• Nanrong beat Dawn United 3-0 despite its use of substitute first-years and Deathbound Detonation, as Hu Chan defeated the Path of the Believer Zheng Puzhao.
• Nanrong defeated Tianming University of Science and Technology, with Zhao Sifang winning five consecutive freshman bouts, then advanced to face Southern Revival University.
• Zhao Longfei sent Nanrong’s students into successive bouts against Southern Revival, and Duan Chongfang, Park Hee-eun, Zong Maohui, Chen Chengdong, Zhao Sifang, Gu Yunpeng, Hu Chan, Chu Baxing, and Qin Siyang secured a clean sweep.

Nanrong University defeated Eastern Glory amid a deadly arena dispute, while Qin Siyang protected Hu Chan and maneuvered against Osses. Nanrong then entered the semifinals against Zhongrong, where Fu Wanli fought on despite exhaustion and faced Zhang Gao.

• Nanrong University beat Eastern Glory University, but Hua Weiguang ambushed Zhao Sifang after their bout, and Qin Siyang killed Hua with a single punch.
• Liu Yingrong tried to punish Qin Siyang, but Zhao Longfei, Zhang Kuang, and Southern Glory’s team intervened, and Gu Yunpeng took responsibility for Hua’s death, and Eastern Glory forfeited its remaining matches.
• Gu Weiyang ordered Gu Yunpeng investigated and removed him from Nanrong’s remaining matches, while Liu Yingrong resigned as principal and Nanrong advanced to the final four.
• When Ulit Richar accused Hu Chan of killing Victor Richar, Qin Siyang negotiated with Ulit and Osses, securing a public statement clearing Hu Chan in exchange for keeping Osses’s identity as [Muse] secret for now.
• Qin Siyang and Hu Chan planned to expose a Church insider who framed Hu Chan and to use evidence of Osses’s identity to bring him down at the Championship Tournament.
• Nanrong faced Zhongrong in the semifinals, where Wang Zheng defeated Huang Jiaoyang but was badly injured by Xing Gong, and Zhao Longfei forfeited Wang’s next bout.
• Guo Xiaofeng surrendered to Duan Chongfang, and Shi Tao’s victories gave Nanrong the junior and second-year divisions as the students continued through punishing matches.
• Fu Wanli defeated Gong Dayou by dismantling his helmet’s connection to his armor, then returned to fight Zhang Gao and began breaking down his armor’s joints.