Recaps

Jiang Lan hunted and joined military clearing operations as a growing beast tide threatened Base City, using his rewards to raise his Indestructible Diamond Body to level thirty-one. He grew closer to Shen Qingqiu, surpassed Wei Chong as a sparring partner, and attended an urgent meeting with military officers.

• Jiang Lan used essence blood and Spiritual Energy Chamber sessions to reach level twenty-four while Wei Chong approved further hunting trips.
• Jiang Lan reassured Shen Qingqiu that he wanted him by his side, and Shen Qingqiu promised they would not part.
• Su Wan assigned Jiang Lan and the other Special Admissions Students to military patrol squads after powerful beasts drove other beasts toward Base City.
• Jiang Lan earned Zhou Yi’s squad’s trust by swiftly killing fourth-tier beasts, then returned home when fifth-tier sightings forced the squads to withdraw.
• Jiang Lan advanced to level twenty-five, treated Shen Qingqiu to dinner, held his hand on the walk home, and later kissed his forehead.
• Jiang Lan joined a second clearing operation and killed the mid-fifth-tier Red-Maned Lion King after volunteering to protect Zhou Yi’s retreating squad.
• Jiang Lan exchanged his spoils for essence blood and advanced his Indestructible Diamond Body to level thirty-one.
• Wei Chong admitted he could no longer spar with Jiang Lan, and Jiang Lan attended an urgent meeting where Su Wan stood with two military officers.

Jiang Lan survived a Tier Six beast encounter, joined the Guardian Manor, and grew stronger through Spirit Vein Ore and dangerous missions. After escorting ore to Jiangnan Base City, he set his sights on earning enough contribution points to obtain a Spirit Source Fruit for Shen Qingqiu.

• Jiang Lan held off a Tier Six Ferocious Beast so Han Zheng and the Vanguard Team could escape, then returned to the Academy and upgraded his Indestructible Diamond Body.
• Jiang Lan found an abandoned Spirit Vein Mining Area and later passed the Guardian Manor’s assessment by retrieving Spirit Vein Ore from a cave guarded by a peak-Fifth Tier Savage Bull.
• Jiang Lan received his Guardian Manor Identity Token, used Spirit Vein Ore to reach level 38, and discovered the Inner Domain’s shops and mission board.
• Jiang Lan cleared a deep Wilderness Zone nest, killing a peak-Fifth Tier python and a pursuing Tier Six Ferocious Beast to complete his mission.
• Jiang Lan upgraded his Indestructible Diamond Body to level 39 and accepted an escort mission to transport Spirit Vein Ore from a mining area to Jiangnan Base City.
• Jiang Lan defeated two fifth-tier beasts along the route, delivered the ore to the Guardian Manor outpost, and headed out to earn contribution points for a Spirit Source Fruit for Shen Qingqiu.

Jiang Lan discovered that the Ancient Ruins were preparing Blue Star for harvest and found a way to temporarily disable their arrays by removing their Spiritual Qi Cores. After reaching level 60 and reporting his discovery, he was stopped by the gray-robed man, who asked whether he had something to tell him.

• Jiang Lan cleared a ferocious beast den, sold its essence blood and Beast Core, and bought a Spirit Source Fruit that raised Shen Qingqiu’s cultivation.
• Jiang Lan explored an Ancient Ruin, defeated its Energy Body, recovered Spirit Vein Ore and a strange sphere, and received 600 contribution points after the Guardian Manor identified the site as the eighteenth Ancient Ruins.
• Jiang Lan won the Three-School Alliance ranking tournament, then joined Shen Fang’s team to investigate Ruins No. 7.
• Jiang Lan’s team explored the ruins and found a spiritual qi siphon before an array separated him from the others and drew him to a lower level.
• Little Ball awakened Xing, who explained that the arrays were accelerating Blue Star’s evolution for eventual harvesting and that removing their Spiritual Qi Cores could temporarily halt integration.
• Jiang Lan removed a core and concealed Xing and the core from his teammates, then returned home and used the core to raise his Indestructible Diamond Body to level 60.
• Jiang Lan tested his greatly increased strength and speed, received coordinates for the other six ruins from Xing, and learned that one core alone would not stop integration permanently.
• Jiang Lan reported the core’s effect at the Inner Domain meeting, where the gray-robed man declared core removal the only confirmed way to disable an array and then stopped Jiang Lan to ask if he had something to tell him.

Jiang Lan helped recover Spiritual Qi Cores and warned Ji that the Ruins’ integration would bring Harvesters and intensify Beast Tides. After defending the city and negotiating with the Federation, Jiang Lan became commanding officer at Sunny Sky Base and agreed to train Qin Ling’s team.

• Jiang Lan told Ji that removing the Spiritual Qi Cores could slow integration, then guided Shen Fang’s team through two Ruins and retrieved their cores.
• Jiang Lan used the cores to raise his Indestructible Diamond Body, while Shen Qingqiu took a Marrow-Cleansing Pill and broke through into the Blood Exchange Realm.
• Jiang Lan explained to Ji that the Ruins’ integration was stirring Ferocious Beasts and warned that Harvesters would come, then lent the three recovered cores to the Guardian Manor for research.
• When a Beast Tide struck Huaguo’s Base Cities, Jiang Lan used Xing’s Combat Assistance System to kill powerful beasts and defend the outer line.
• Jiang Lan initially rejected the Federation’s offer, then agreed to cooperate after Xing warned that future beasts might overwhelm him without organizational resources.
• Jiang Lan allowed Qin Ling and her group to accompany him to the base, where Qin Longtian granted them a temporary chance to prove themselves.
• Jiang Lan completed the Handover Ceremony and became commanding officer, while Shen Qingqiu defeated a challenger who had objected to their joining the base.
• Qin Ling asked Jiang Lan to lead her team, and he agreed to assess and train them while promising them the best resources.