Recaps

Ye Buyu defeated the visiting students from Orbis, Ayr, and Viksu Academies with one area attack after they challenged Hold Up the Heavens. The students blamed their defeat on letting their guard down, while Mu Bingge pointed out that Ye Buyu could have killed them twelve times over.

• Zhao Zhe introduced Duke Slyder, the other academy representatives, and the Hold Up the Heavens and Horizon teams.
• Hadd, Ximier, Donald, Anania, and Flora challenged Hold Up the Heavens, demanding to test their strength.
• After the teachers left, Ye Buyu used her Double-Edged Spear and Otherworldly Flowers to knock down every visiting student except the two teams.
• Su Wuwei photographed the fallen students, and Hadd accused him of humiliating them.
• Ximier claimed they had let their guard down, and Mu Bingge replied that they had given Hold Up the Heavens enough time to kill them twelve times.

Ye Buyu and her team subdued the visiting students from the Three Academies and scheduled a midnight simulation to teach them through combat. The students and delegation leaders remained unconscious as Slyder criticized them and demanded compensation for the damaged furniture.

• Donald, Anania, Flora, Jonathan, and the other visiting students argued about fighting Ye Buyu's team, and Ye Buyu arranged a midnight simulation after they had time to prepare.
• When Ximier challenged the arrangement, Su Wuwei dispersed her ice, and Ye Buyu used Soul Shock and the Soul-Suppressing Tune while hidden figures knocked the students unconscious.
• Su Wuwei took photos of the unconscious students, and Wei Changming agreed that his team would fight them that night while Ye Buyu and her teammates went to lunch.
• The teachers learned that the elite groups had been knocked out, and Lan Huaiyu confirmed that no one was in danger and they would wake soon.
• Slyder called the students useless and told Zhao Zhe to consider compensation for the damaged furniture, while Zhao Zhe insisted it counted as normal wear and tear.

After the visiting students were knocked unconscious by Hold Up the Heavens, Jonathan urged Orbis Academy to take the team’s strength seriously, while Donald questioned whether they needed to learn Soul’s New Path. Anania revealed that mastering it was necessary to face Calamity, and the students began arranging cooperation for the coming combat exercise.

• The visiting teachers and students were found piled outside the conference room, and the awakened visitors recognized that Hold Up the Heavens could have killed them if they had been enemies.
• Jonathan warned Orbis Academy that they had underestimated Hold Up the Heavens and might fail their assignment unless they changed their attitude.
• Donald argued that Awakened students had little reason to spend time learning Soul’s New Path, prompting Anania to explain that her uncle Morkov, North Russia’s supreme commander, said mastering it was necessary to face Calamity.
• Jonathan proposed that Orbis and Viksu Academies lead their own teams while watching out for each other, and Anania agreed.
• Ximier offered to represent Ayr Academy, but Donald refused to follow her until Yark woke up, and the two challenged each other.
• Jonathan led the students away to eat and rest before giving their all in the evening’s combat exercise.

Hold Up the Heavens confronted the visiting elite teams after the Horizon Team agreed to battle them. The teams entered the Simulation Arena, where Ye Buyu challenged the visitors to prove they could learn soul creation or leave.

• Nora kicked Yark out of his dorm window to wake him and bring him downstairs.
• Ye Buyu revealed Hold Up the Heavens had been hidden by a soul barrier, and Slyder admitted he had not learned soul techniques.
• Hold Up the Heavens collected a ring from Lan Huaiyu and teased Slyder with watermelon before heading to the Horizon Team.
• Guan Xiaomei and Wei Changming challenged the visiting teams, while Mu Bingge set terms for what would happen if either side lost.
• Kou Ying opened the Simulation Arena, and Ye Buyu warned the visiting elites that they would have to learn soul creation or leave.

Hold Up the Heavens used a blood-locking Simulation Arena to make the Horizon Team fight the students from the Three Academies in a brutal lesson on Soul Creation. The battle began with the visiting students overwhelmed by killing blows and Soul Power attacks, while some started trying to learn under pressure.

• The Simulation Arena transformed the ground into a Ruined Town and used blood locking to keep fighters alive even after fatal injuries.
• Lan Huaiyu explained that the Horizon Team intended to fight for real, and Nora and Slyder approved of the students being taught a harsh lesson.
• Wei Changming, Chu Lie, and Guan Xiaomei launched the Horizon Team's attack, scattering and injuring the students from the Three Academies.
• Xiao Shuo, Meng He, and Yu Qin used Soul Power attacks and Soul Creation techniques against Ximier and the other students, while Yu Qin urged them to learn through combat.
• Jonathan fought Chu Lie while trying to master Soul Creation, and Flora formed a frost scepter before Guan Xiaomei cut it apart as part of the lesson.
• The spectating Hold Up the Heavens Team praised Wan Lan's disciple, and Wan Lan avoided answering.

Wei Changming defeated Donald after explaining how Soul's New Path could cultivate and advance, but Donald awakened calamity power and attacked him. As Donald's transformation stirred the arena, Hadd prepared to challenge Hold Up the Heavens.

• Donald refused to learn Soul's New Path, and Wei Changming attacked him while explaining that Soul Power could be cultivated and purified calamity materials could enable advancement.
• Donald summoned rock armor and struck Wei Changming, but Wei Changming cleaved through his stone arm and wounded him.
• A voice urged Donald to unleash his power, and red crystals sealed his wound as calamity energy transformed him.
• Lou Guanshan moved toward his sword, but Su Wuwei held him back while they watched to see whether Donald could control the calamity power.
• Donald attacked Wei Changming again, prompting Ximier to warn that he might lose control and Hadd to announce that he wanted to challenge Hold Up the Heavens.
• Meng He gave Hadd permission to go ahead.

Anania and Yu Qin allowed Hadd and the Guidance Group to challenge Hold Up the Heavens after Horizon’s teaching match ended. Hold Up the Heavens revealed that the challengers’ calamity powers were no match for them, leaving Donald and the remaining fighters facing the team.

• Anania asked Yu Qin to let the Guidance Group fight Hold Up the Heavens, and Yu Qin agreed to see their hidden powers.
• Xiao Shuo left after seeing Ximier use soul creation, while Yark chose to go back to sleep.
• Hadd charged Hold Up the Heavens as Jonathan, Flora, and Ximier unleashed their calamity powers alongside Donald’s.
• Mu Bingge overwhelmed Flora with [Abyssal Erosion], and Su Wuwei burned Jonathan’s giant to ash.
• Kou Ying swallowed Ximier’s decaying silk cloth with a black shadow and pierced her chest with a Soul Blade, defeating her.

Ye Buyu ended the practical lesson after only six students learned Soul Creation, and the teachers agreed to send everyone else home. Duke Slyder revealed that the Emperor of New Rome had sent him after seeing things from the future, apparently because of the Hold Up the Heavens Team.

• Lou Guanshan knocked Hadd out of his iron-man state, while the Hold Up the Heavens Team quickly defeated Jonathan, Flora, and Ximier.
• Ye Buyu treated Donald with bullets that removed his Calamity Power and gradually restored his sanity.
• Ye Buyu ended the lesson and reported that only Anania, Hadd, Yark, Ximier, Jonathan, and Flora had learned Soul Creation.
• Ye Buyu recommended sending the remaining students home, and Borg agreed after she threatened to involve the Federation Secretariat.
• Duke Slyder revealed that the Emperor of New Rome had seen things from the future and sent him to investigate the Hold Up the Heavens Team.

Ye Buyu learned of the Bai Ze Division’s cryptic warning about betrayal, a revival, a battle in the Third Zone of the Borderlands, and a life sacrificed to save Dawn. She rallied her teammates to investigate the mastermind, while Lan Huaiyu and the foreign envoys revealed their confidence in Hold Up the Heavens and the reasons they had been sent to support the team.

• Slyder told Ye Buyu that his elder brother foresaw a disastrous event, and Lan Huaiyu shared the Bai Ze Division’s warning about betrayal, revival, battle, and a life lost to save Dawn.
• Lan Huaiyu explained that the prophecy offered fragments rather than clear connections, while Slyder added visions of a hidden hand, a watching eye, and a confrontation on scarlet ground.
• Ye Buyu took heart from the warning’s limited accuracy during the River of Forgetfulness Reform and left to discuss the clues with her teammates, determined to find the mastermind.
• Lan Huaiyu told Slyder she trusted Hold Up the Heavens to uncover what others could not and would explain to the Bai Ze Division why she had shared the warning.
• Nora and Borg revealed that the Bai Ze Division and the Emperor of New Rome had helped identify Hold Up the Heavens as the focus of the coming danger, so they had been sent to support the team.

Hold Up the Heavens tried to identify which of them Calamity had targeted and suspected the elite students of harboring a betrayer. Mu Bingge emerged as the likeliest target because she carried [Abyssal Erosion], and she questioned Flora about the power inside her.

• Ye Buyu told her teammates about the warnings, and they considered which of them might be targeted by Calamity.
• The team judged Mu Bingge the most likely candidate but could not rule out the others, then suspected the betrayer was among the elite students.
• Ye Buyu invited the teachers to help investigate the elites, while the teachers treated the injured students.
• Mu Bingge questioned Flora about the power inside her, and Flora said it came from the remains of [Abyssal Erosion].

Yark’s brief dream of the future suggested Ye Buyu should have been in Lou Guanshan’s place, but Donald suddenly attacked Lou Guanshan and awakened the World Core inside him. When a white light began pulling Lou Guanshan away, Ye Buyu and the others entered it with him, disappearing from the base.

• Kou Ying examined Hadd’s power and said it was connected to a Crowned One of [Iron Prison], while Mu Bingge and Wan Lan found nothing unusual about Flora.
• Yark told Lou Guanshan that he had dreamed of a future in which Lou stood before Donald and Ye Buyu stood before him, but said the positions had changed.
• Donald erupted and attacked Lou Guanshan, who defended himself with Earth Armor and his Mo Dao.
• Donald’s power resonated with the World Core, causing Lou Guanshan’s heart to beat irregularly and his Mark to flare as a stone wrapped in pulsing flesh fell from Donald.
• A white light began to swallow Lou Guanshan, and Ye Buyu, Wan Lan, Kou Ying, Su Wuwei, and Lou Guanshan entered it; Lan Huaiyu and Nora followed as everyone vanished from the base.

After [Earthshaker] sent the group to a desolate level-seven War-Torn Zone, Lou Guanshan realized the Calamity had targeted him because he carried a revived World Core. [Earthshaker] revealed that he planned to use Lou Guanshan as a vessel to complete his ascension, while the land’s lingering obsession barred him from entering.

• Ye Buyu found Donald transformed by Calamity Power and shot him, but he crumbled into dust.
• Lou Guanshan declared [Earthshaker] the mastermind, and Little Whale explained that the World Core inside him belonged to a dead world that a Calamity had revived.
• [Earthshaker] confronted [Wind and Thunder King], who guessed that [Those Without a Home] had forced [Earthshaker] to hurry his ascension plan.
• [Earthshaker] told [Wind and Thunder King] to wait and watch, explaining that he would use a compatible vessel to revive the core and replace that vessel himself.

Lou Guanshan’s World Core revived a phantom of Panshi Star’s past, revealing the childhood dreams of Xiaofeng and Xiaoling and the war that divided them. The chapter ended as Xiaofeng confronted Xiaoling over a secret transaction with the enemy.

• Ye Buyu and the others discovered that Lou Guanshan’s steps spread phantom grass across the barren land.
• The group watched young Xiaofeng and Xiaoling race through their town and dream of the futures they would pursue together.
• Xiaofeng and Xiaoling shared their hopes beneath the stars, with Xiaofeng planning to join the Panshi Army and Xiaoling promising to support him.
• The phantom showed Xiaofeng accepting the Panshi Army’s Ceremonial Sword and swearing to defend Panshi Star from calamity.
• Xiaoling argued that Panshi Star was collapsing and that they needed outside help, while Xiaofeng accused him of making a transaction with the enemy.

Lou Guanshan and the others learned that [Earthshaker] was born when Xiaoling unleashed a Calamity on Panshi Star after Xiaofeng died fighting those who had brought the disaster there. The World Core continued showing them the giant’s destruction across the starry sky.

• Xiaoling and Xiaofeng argued over whether the invaders from beyond the stars had come to help Panshi Star or destroy it.
• Xiaofeng accused the invaders of using Panshi Star to cultivate a Calamity, then fought them and fell in battle.
• Xiaoling received Xiaofeng’s bloodstained letter telling him to take the World Core and escape with the evacuated people.
• Xiaoling unleashed a Calamity, and [Earthshaker] swallowed him as Panshi Star perished.
• Ye Buyu healed Lou Guanshan as the group reacted to the truth behind [Earthshaker]’s birth.
• The World Core showed a stone giant chasing starships through a nebula-filled sky and smashing fleets apart.

Panshi Star’s soldiers and awakened souls carried out a plan with Xiaoling and Xiaofeng to wrest the planet’s core from [Earthshaker] and stop it from becoming a Calamity. After the giant was forced from the core, it began eroding the souls resisting it, insisting it would return.

• Xiaoling’s sacrifice had fueled [Earthshaker]’s birth, but his bargain had also made Panshi Star’s swallowed core the recipient of his sacrifice.
• Panshi Star’s soldiers refused to retreat, declaring that their planet’s core held the souls of its people and charging [Earthshaker] to protect the evacuation and retrieve it.
• The core’s awakened wills shook [Earthshaker] as fleets attacked, and a spear from beyond the Sea of Stars pierced the giant, forcing it to separate from the core.
• Xiaofeng, Xiaoling, and Panshi Star’s soldiers revealed how they had coordinated their sacrifices, the core’s resistance, and outside support to weaken [Earthshaker] and reclaim the core.
• [Earthshaker] vowed to wait until Panshi Star’s souls faded, then unleashed its power to erode the core and the souls opposing it.

The visions revealed how Panshi Star’s souls sacrificed themselves to weaken [Earthshaker] and guard their home, then ended as [Earthshaker] sent the [Wind and Thunder King] to attack the Hold Up the Heavens Team. The King’s assault was immediately met by the team and powerful allies from the Present World.

• Panshi Star’s souls weakened [Earthshaker], with Xiaoling merging into its consciousness and others becoming chains and a sweeping wind to seal its power and protect the land.
• The vision ended, and Lou Guanshan said the planetary core remained intact and had become easier for him to control.
• Mu Bingge warned the group to stay cautious, while [Earthshaker] ordered the [Wind and Thunder King] to stimulate the core inside Lou Guanshan and accelerate their fusion.
• The [Wind and Thunder King] confronted the Hold Up the Heavens Team and attacked them with fierce winds.
• Lan Huaiyu, Borg, Nora, and Slyder counterattacked, prompting the [Wind and Thunder King] to complain about fighting the team.

[Wind and Thunder King] fought Lan Huaiyu, Slyder, Borg, and Nora while using his attacks to accelerate Lou Guanshan’s fusion with the Planetary Core. Ye Buyu learned the fusion was causing Lou Guanshan’s consciousness to grow hazy, leaving her uneasy about [Wind and Thunder King]’s motives.

• [Wind and Thunder King] faced Lan Huaiyu, Slyder, Borg, and Nora, who attacked him despite his newly gained Crowned One power.
• [Wind and Thunder King] lunged toward Lou Guanshan, but Slyder used chains to fling the group out of reach.
• Lou Guanshan’s heart surged with power, and a voice urged him to fight and drive out the Calamities.
• [Wind and Thunder King] unleashed storms and lightning to awaken the Planetary Core and speed its fusion with Lou Guanshan.
• Ye Buyu healed Lou Guanshan and asked Little Whale what was happening; Little Whale explained that the fusion was overloading his consciousness with the Planetary Core’s many wills.

The Hold Up the Heavens team guarded Lou Guanshan while he fused with Panshi Star’s core, and Yark used his immediate-future dreams to help them watch for danger. The core accepted Lou Guanshan as its successor, letting [Earthshaker] enter the scarlet land as the ancient wills declared their struggle was ending.

• Ye Buyu and the others prepared defenses and assured Lou Guanshan they would guard him while he fused with the core.
• Yark revealed that he could dream of events a few minutes ahead, and the team told him to sleep repeatedly and report what he saw.
• Lou Guanshan entered his Mindscape, touched the core, and vowed to take down [Earthshaker].
• The planetary core chose Lou Guanshan as its successor and poured its power into him, reshaping his body and pushing him toward the Fifth Order.
• The [Wind and Thunder King] withdrew after the long wind stopped, and [Earthshaker] entered the scarlet land.
• A lingering voice said that the conflict had reached its end.

Yark warned the Hold Up the Heavens Team that [Earthshaker] was approaching, and the group escaped as [Earthshaker] overwhelmed their attacks and advanced toward Lou Guanshan. Slyder, Lan Huaiyu, Borg, and Nora faced the calamities while the students kept moving, but Yark’s latest vision warned that danger was closing in again.

• Yark foresaw the magnetized plasma cannon being destroyed and the group being knocked away, so Ye Buyu ordered Mu Bingge to transfer them with Water Mirror while Kou Ying distracted [Earthshaker] with cannon fire.
• [Earthshaker] redirected the cannon fire, crushed the weapon from afar, and walked toward Lou Guanshan while recalling Panshi Star and an old acquaintance named Xiaofeng.
• Lan Huaiyu, Borg, and Nora stayed behind to fight the [Wind and Thunder King] as Slyder went to confront [Earthshaker] and protect the students by drawing its attention.
• Slyder summoned a colossal blade from the metal in the earth and slashed through [Earthshaker]’s earthen dragons, shaking the battlefield with the impact.
• Wan Lan shielded the group from the shock waves, Mu Bingge warned them not to lower their guard, and Yark woke bleeding and urged them to go because [Earthshaker] was coming.

Ye Buyu and her teammates fought to delay [Earthshaker] while Lou Guanshan faced its pursuit over the Planetary Core. When [Earthshaker] abandoned its body and possessed Lou Guanshan, the group searched for a way to help him regain control.

• Mu Bingge used [Abyssal Erosion] to block [Earthshaker], while Kou Ying and Su Wuwei helped hold it back.
• Ye Buyu used Compulsory Cost and soul bullets to force [Earthshaker] to answer that it pursued Lou Guanshan because of the Planetary Core, then flee under an assault from Panshi Star's remnant souls.
• The [Wind and Thunder King] warned [Earthshaker] that he would leave after three more minutes as Lan Huaiyu and her companions fought him.
• [Earthshaker] abandoned its body and entered Lou Guanshan, prompting Ye Buyu to use [Life Breath] while Kou Ying asked Yark to enter dreams.
• Yark used a soul hypnosis bullet to fall asleep, and Little Whale told Ye Buyu that a powerful shock to Lou Guanshan's primary consciousness might help him regain control.

Lou Guanshan fought [Earthshaker] for control of his mind and body while his teammates tried to strengthen his resolve. When [Earthshaker] took control and attacked them, they restrained its body and gave Lou Guanshan a chance to fight back.

• Ye Buyu, Wan Lan, Kou Ying, and Mu Bingge praised Lou Guanshan, helping his consciousness grow stronger against [Earthshaker].
• [Earthshaker] took control of Lou Guanshan’s body and punched Kou Ying, then threatened to make Lou Guanshan kill his teammates.
• Ye Buyu and the others retreated, then used the Spear, Compulsory Cost, and their abilities to bind and attack [Earthshaker].
• Wan Lan and Ye Buyu reminded Lou Guanshan that his teammates would not die, while Kou Ying urged him to keep fighting.
• Lou Guanshan bit and battered [Earthshaker] inside his mind as his teammates restrained his body and Wan Lan targeted the parts under the Calamity’s control.

Ye Buyu realized that Thousand Tides Tracing the Moon could restore the remnant wills inside Panshi Star's planetary core, giving the team a chance to resist [Earthshaker]. She attempted the skill by combining [Life Breath] with Soul Power while her teammates held off the Calamities.

• Ye Buyu kept Lou Guanshan alive while Wan Lan beat him, and the team attacked [Earthshaker] as it possessed his body.
• Ye Buyu explained that [Earthshaker] was trapped in Lou Guanshan and that awakening Panshi Star's will could let him devour its consciousness; she asked Duke Slyder to remain their fallback.
• Little Whale warned Ye Buyu that pouring in unfamiliar Soul Power would suppress the remnant souls and told her to recall the skill it had first given her.
• Ye Buyu recognized Thousand Tides Tracing the Moon as the key and asked Mu Bingge, Su Wuwei, and Kou Ying to protect her while she tried it.
• Ye Buyu combined [Life Breath] and Soul Power to activate Thousand Tides Tracing the Moon, causing the moon's phases and the tides of energy to reverse.

Ye Buyu used Thousand Tides Tracing the Moon to awaken Panshi Star’s buried souls inside Lou Guanshan’s Mindscape, where they resumed their unfinished battle against [Earthshaker]. As the battle raged within, Ye Buyu lay drained and helpless beside Lou Guanshan’s motionless, bloodied body, unsure whether her skill had worked.

• Ye Buyu’s lunar skill entered Lou Guanshan’s Mindscape and awakened Xiaofeng and Xiaoling from the planetary core.
• Xiaofeng and Xiaoling rallied the resurrected soldiers of Panshi Star to attack [Earthshaker], and Lou Guanshan joined them with his Soul Mo Dao.
• [Earthshaker] remembered its planet’s destruction, its arrival at Panshi Star, and the humans who had resisted it across the ages.
• [Earthshaker] cast aside its plans to ascend, acknowledged its defeat by humans, and charged into battle to finish the unfinished fight.
• Ye Buyu collapsed from the skill’s mana cost, while Lou Guanshan remained motionless and bled profusely.

The struggle inside Lou Guanshan manifested as two giants fighting across Panshi Star’s remains, while Ye Buyu and Little Whale watched from his Mindscape. [Earthshaker] and the heroes of Panshi Star made their final charge, ending the centuries-spanning war and leaving humanity’s will manifest.

• The earth shook and rose as [Wind and Thunder King] fought Lan Huaiyu and the others, while Slyder struck him with a steel fist.
• Lan Huaiyu’s group found the Hold Up the Heavens Team surrounding Lou Guanshan, who had been possessed by [Earthshaker], and learned that Ye Buyu’s attempt to help had an unknown result.
• Two giants formed from the wills battling inside Lou Guanshan, and Little Whale brought Ye Buyu into his Mindscape to witness their fight.
• [Earthshaker] and the battered heroes of Panshi Star exchanged a final blow, scattering into golden rain as the war ended.
• Little Whale declared that [Earthshaker] had faded and humanity’s will now stood manifest, while Ye Buyu watched the dissipating will in silence.

After [Earthshaker] lost to Panshi Star, he entrusted [Wind and Thunder King] with the secrets of the Three Calamities and passed away. Ye Buyu questioned Little Whale about the Calamities’ history, then woke from the battle completely drained by Thousand Tides Tracing the Moon.

• [Earthshaker] told [Wind and Thunder King] that the Three Calamities had never defeated humanity, explained their differing choices, and shared [Tempest Fiend]’s final words before dissipating.
• [Wind and Thunder King] rejected the idea that [Tempest Fiend] had willingly sacrificed himself for the Present World and fled while cursing the humans.
• Ye Buyu woke, learned from Little Whale that [Earthshaker] had sought to finish the ancient battle, and called Wan Lan down.
• Ye Buyu pressed Little Whale about the Three Calamities, and Little Whale suggested investigating [Tempest Fiend]’s death and visiting [Abyssal Erosion]’s old territory.
• Ye Buyu decided not to pursue both leads immediately, then found herself too exhausted to stand after using Thousand Tides Tracing the Moon.