Recaps

Shen Ye warned the boys about seductive tricks while explaining the Tower of Tarot's Newcomer Deck. He learned that 54 Official Cards guaranteed admission to the Three Great Academies, and discovered that Xiao Mengyu was a five-star Official Card.

• Shen Ye gathered the boys and taught them how to avoid being manipulated or exposed by girls, prompting them to share their own uneasy experiences.
• Shen Ye received a card identifying him as a provisional member of the Newcomer Deck and learned that it let him look up basic exam information.
• Shen Ye learned that the deck had 54 Official Cards, each guaranteeing admission to the Three Great Academies if its holder kept the status through the exam.
• Shen Ye discovered that 3,579 examinees were competing, while 1,603 Aristocratic Family children and 105 ordinary examinees had entered the deck as provisional cards.
• Shen Ye asked whether Xiao Mengyu was in the deck and learned she was a five-star Official Card and the undisputed top swordswoman among the examinees.

Shen Ye explored the Newcomer deck, met other examinees, and learned more about the candidates and the fallen heroes traveling with them. After practicing moves from Frost Moon Shakes Heaven, he earned one star and became a full member of the deck, though his card portrait remained ridiculous.

• Shen Ye added Xiao Mengyu as a friend, learned about the Tower of Tarot's benefits, and viewed the official rankings, where Nangong Sirui was the sole six-star and the undisputed top-ranked newcomer.
• Shen Ye met Zhang Xiaoyi and joined him, Guo Yunye, and other boys in playing cards while the supervisors let them enjoy their time before arrival.
• Qian Rushan and Yu Sihai discussed Shen Ye's potential, Yu Sihai's recovery, and the children of fallen heroes brought to the examination after an A-Class Calamity devastated the southeastern provinces.
• Shen Ye accepted Guo Yunye's friend request and, frustrated by his Provisional Card status, practiced the incomplete Frost Moon Shakes Heaven sequence in the bowling alley.
• The card recognized Shen Ye's moves as a potentially consequential lost legacy, advanced him to one star, and granted him the privilege to refuse one challenge per hour.

Shen Ye arrived at Cloud Mountain Port for the joint entrance exam and learned that the admission cards assigned dangerous tasks and ratings. His card identified him as a “Drowning Person” and ended by announcing a challenge he could not refuse.

• Shen Ye learned that becoming an official one-star Newcomer had already drawn attention to him.
• Qian Rushan brought Shen Ye to Cloud Mountain Port, where Shen Ye saw the sky ruins and learned about Jialan, Guixu, and Xirang High Schools.
• Shen Ye received an Admission Ticket that merged with his Newcomer card and assigned him an impossible-sounding task from the Tower of Tarot.
• Qian Rushan explained that examinees would receive ratings and assistance, while aristocratic students could target newcomers to raise their own ratings.
• Shen Ye saw Ayi injured after a fight with an aristocratic student and learned that killing an examinee meant disqualification and prison.
• Shen Ye's card declared that Xiao Mengyu had challenged him and that he could not refuse.

Shen Ye reunited with Xiao Mengyu, who had broken through after his healing, and learned that she was being pressured by Aristocratic Families to marry an older man. After she explained the danger surrounding Zhao Yibing and the Skinner, they discussed how she planned to escape her family’s control by entering one of the Three Great High Schools, while Shen Ye remained unsure which school to choose.

• Shen Ye met Xiao Mengyu at the port and learned that his healing had helped her break through.
• Xiao Mengyu protected Shen Ye from a four-star newcomer who tried to challenge him, then took him to a soundproof training hall.
• Xiao Mengyu told Shen Ye that Zhao Yibing was no longer human and that the Skinner’s remains had been taken by a dark shadow.
• Xiao Mengyu explained that someone had cut communications to cover for the Skinner’s killings and that several Aristocratic Families were pressuring her to marry a recently widowed man in his fifties.
• Xiao Mengyu said she was buying time until she could enter one of the Three Great High Schools, and Shen Ye admitted he did not know which school to choose.

Xiao Mengyu offered to teach Shen Ye several Luo Family techniques, and Shen Ye discovered that his newly increased Comprehension let him correct and perform Thunder Palm better than she could. He received her Thunder Palm Essentials booklet and learned the Comprehension required to master it.

• Xiao Mengyu demonstrated the Luo Family’s One-Character Thrusting Fist and offered to teach it to Shen Ye.
• Xiao Mengyu demonstrated her Wave-Treading Sword Technique, then offered to show Shen Ye several other techniques, including Thunder Palm.
• Shen Ye recognized Thunder Palm as the technique he still needed for the secret, assigned all 10 Attribute Points to Comprehension, and raised it to 11.
• After watching Xiao Mengyu perform Thunder Palm, Shen Ye identified a flaw and demonstrated a strike that produced a rumble of thunder.
• Xiao Mengyu gave Shen Ye the green-quality Thunder Palm Essentials booklet, and he read the Comprehension requirements for each level of mastery.

After mastering Thunder Palm and reaching Two-Star Newcomer status, Shen Ye went to the Human Martial Arts Group tower, where a sudden, mysterious illness left him near death. An icy aura and a strange Breathing Technique kept him alive, and he gradually gained control of it.

• Shen Ye attained minor mastery of Thunder Palm, and Xiao Mengyu told him that his resonance affinity made the technique unusually easy to learn.
• Shen Ye discovered that his card had made him a Two-Star Newcomer, but its new hairstyles, clothing, and slogans disappointed him.
• Shen Ye asked Xiao Mengyu to investigate the Skinner, and they suspected that Zhao Yibing and the Skinner had both returned to life.
• At the Human Martial Arts Group tower, Shen Ye practiced his techniques and considered why the system had led him to learn obscure moves from the Nightmare World.
• After touching his phone, Shen Ye suffered a sudden, agonizing collapse, but an icy aura repeatedly revived his consciousness and led him to survive through a strange Breathing Technique.
• Shen Ye continued breathing as visions of the universe, a riverbed rock, and the moon came to him, gradually gaining a steady grasp of the technique.

After mastering Moonlit Divine Sight, Shen Ye gained the ability to perceive the Dharma Realm and unlocked the complete Frost Moon Shakes Heaven technique. He discovered and dispelled an otherworldly spell attached to him, but learned its master could use it again.

• Shen Ye mastered Moonlit Divine Sight, increased his attributes and resonance, and received a hint about earning a True Person-rank evaluation tag.
• Shen Ye learned that Frostwind, Deer Walk Beneath the Moon, Thunder Palm, and Shadow Clone Technique formed the purple secret technique Frost Moon Shakes Heaven, whose power Moonlit Divine Sight tripled.
• Qian Rushan called Shen Ye, scheduled afternoon training and an evening welcome banquet with newcomers from the Three Great Institutions, and learned Shen Ye had been unconscious for a day.
• Shen Ye noticed that his new sight revealed explanations for his tags and exposed a blood-red thread around his neck.
• Shen Ye identified the thread as Otherworld God Spellcraft that let its master locate and teleport to him within five hundred li; the spellcraft vanished after he detected it, though its master could use it again.

Aristocratic scions plotted to make Shen Ye fail his exam at Cloud Mountain Port, while Gong Wu secretly revealed himself as Skinner and reported to Zhao Yibing. Zhao Yibing recruited him to hunt the scions for their flesh and souls, leaving their plans centered on the exam venue.

• A group of aristocratic scions decided to arrange Shen Ye's failure at the exam and let their families' chief retainer supervise the plan.
• Gong Wu appeared before the scions as the Assassin Alliance's leader and promised that no mission would fail again.
• After ending the call, Gong Wu revealed that he was Skinner and knelt before Zhao Yibing.
• Zhao Yibing ordered Skinner to accompany her to Cloud Mountain Port and retrieve the King of the Myriad-Fallen Evil Ghosts' curse power from the exam venue.
• Zhao Yibing agreed to join Skinner's hunt for the aristocratic scions, claiming their souls for herself and leaving their flesh and blood to him.

Shen Ye discovered that his awakened Moonlit Divine Sight had raised his strength rating to five stars, but he concealed it to avoid drawing attention from enemies. During training, Sun Biao explained the Three Great High Schools and resonance, then presented Shen Ye with techniques to learn.

• Shen Ye’s card rated him five stars because he had awakened a Dharma Eye, and he concealed three stars so he could appear as a two-star candidate.
• Xiao Mengyu and Qian Rushan warned Shen Ye to avoid challenges and save his strength for the examination.
• Sun Biao introduced the Three Great High Schools and explained that resonance let people gain recognition from the Dharma Realm and use inherited powers and techniques.
• Sun Biao gave Shen Ye several booklets, and Shen Ye noticed that Beidong Divine Fist was rated green while the other techniques were common.

Shen Ye chose Beidong Divine Fist for the upcoming exam, then encountered a powerful old man who tested his abilities and recognized his Dharma Eye. Elsewhere, the Luo Family patriarch rejected plans to retrieve his granddaughter and set off for the South Qiong Golden Coast, intrigued by Shen Ye’s rare talent.

• Shen Ye chose Beidong Divine Fist and wondered how he could break the Otherworld Deity Technique.
• Outside the gym, Shen Ye dodged the old man’s surprise attack and saw his fiery sword with Moonlit Divine Sight.
• Shen Ye and the old man exchanged blows, and the old man recognized that Shen Ye had opened his Dharma Eye before vanishing.
• The Luo Family patriarch killed a middle-aged man who urged him to retrieve his granddaughter and ordered the others to stop contacting the outside world.
• The Luo Family patriarch headed for the South Qiong Golden Coast and remarked that Shen Ye’s talent had not appeared in five hundred years.

Shen Ye invited Xiao Mengyu to attend a banquet with him and asked her to join the Human Martial Arts Group, while she faced pressure from her family to marry into a powerful family. After receiving sword techniques from her grandfather, Xiao Mengyu returned to Shen Ye and agreed to go to the banquet together.

• Shen Ye watched Xiao Mengyu practice swordsmanship and learned that Skinner had once been involved in an expedition where a seal was broken.
• Xiao Mengyu told Shen Ye that her family was preparing betrothal gifts for a marriage she did not want, and Shen Ye invited her to dinner and offered to help her join the Human Martial Arts Group.
• Xiao Mengyu received a message telling her to head east, where her grandfather sent her the Luo River Goddess Sword Art.
• Xiao Mengyu returned to Shen Ye and explained that both of them had to attend the exam banquet, then invited him to go together.

Shen Ye, Xiao Mengyu, and Qian Rushan climbed to the floating palace for the newcomers’ welcome banquet, where Shen Ye learned about the powerful institutions and the danger of being challenged by Aristocratic Family youngsters. They arrived at the palace entrance as the banquet began, with Shen Ye still unaware of who planned to target him.

• Shen Ye and Xiao Mengyu flew to the Human World Martial Arts Tower, where Qian Rushan warned that Aristocratic Family newcomers might try to establish their authority by challenging them.
• Qian Rushan led Shen Ye and Xiao Mengyu up the floating staircase toward the palace and warned Shen Ye that he could not simply refuse a formal challenge.
• As they climbed, Qian Rushan and Xiao Mengyu explained the influence of the Aristocratic Families, the Three Great Organizations, and other groups.
• When Shen Ye asked who was targeting him, Qian Rushan said he had caused the trouble himself but told him not to worry and to enjoy the banquet.
• The three reached the palace entrance, where Shen Ye asked what would happen if he killed someone, prompting Qian Rushan to insist that such a thing could not happen.

Shen Ye and Xiao Mengyu attended a banquet for the Newcomer Deck, where Qian Rushan kept Shen Ye away from potential challengers and warned him not to risk his condition before the exam. After reporters interviewed them, Shen Ye offered a string of exam slogans, and he ended the chapter sneaking candy from the table.

• Shen Ye and Xiao Mengyu reviewed the Newcomer Deck rankings, and Xiao Mengyu swiftly discouraged Wang Jiuyan from challenging her.
• Shen Ye suspected the Skinner might be disguised as one of the Archaeological Association's candidates because Zhao Yibing was missing.
• Qian Rushan steered Shen Ye through the banquet, using help from Xiao Mengyu and Wenna to avoid guests who wanted to approach him.
• Qian Rushan stopped Shen Ye from eating cake, saying he wanted to keep him safe before the exam, and reporters arrived to interview the group.
• Shen Ye told the reporter he was nervous about his first interview, then gave a long list of exam tips and motivational slogans.
• Shen Ye quietly took a piece of candy while the reporters prepared to interview Xiao Mengyu.

At a banquet, Shen Ye faced Madam An’s attempt to discredit him and separate him from Song Qingyun, but he denied remembering Qingyun and refused to trade his independence for a recommendation admission. He then asked Madam An to investigate the deaths of people close to him and help obtain justice.

• After two aristocratic newcomers destroyed the private room during a spar, Xiao Mengyu said no one else could interfere in her combat with Shen Ye, and Qian Rushan told Shen Ye to conserve his energy for the exam.
• Madam An confronted Shen Ye about an old claim that he had trained dogs to bite Song Qingyun, and Shen Ye challenged her account by pointing out that she knew nothing about his recent illness.
• Madam An offered Shen Ye a recommendation admission and financial support if he stayed away from Qingyun, and Shen Ye agreed before revealing that he did not know who Qingyun was.
• Shen Ye refused to claim any connection to Song Qingyun or accept the recommendation admission, then asked Madam An to investigate why Chief Luo and his best friend had died and to get them justice.

At a banquet, Xiao Mengyu defied her family’s arranged engagement, defeated Luo Erlang, and claimed the Luo Family’s divine sword. She then told Shen Ye that jealous aristocratic scions had hired assassins whose killings included her brother, his best friend, and tens of thousands of others.

• Madam An questioned Xiao Mengyu about her supposed engagement, while Shen Ye challenged her rumors and redirected the conversation toward the investigation.
• Luo Erlang arrived and ordered Xiao Mengyu to leave with him for her arranged engagement, but she refused because her grandfather and father had not approved it.
• Xiao Mengyu’s Sword Saint entry appeared, and she defeated Luo Erlang with one strike, then claimed the Luo Water Sword as it acknowledged her.
• The rankings shifted, placing Xiao Mengyu in a tie for first with Nangong Sirui, while Shen Ye considered how equipment and resources affected the rankings.
• Xiao Mengyu told Shen Ye that assassins hired by jealous aristocratic scions had killed her brother, his best friend, and tens of thousands of people.

At the admissions banquet, Shen Ye and Xiao Mengyu confronted Madam An and the Aristocratic Families over their crimes, then faced a hidden threat from a youth in white. Shen Ye began fighting the youth’s invisible black snake, and the important figures realized he could see it with the Dharma Eye.

• Xiao Mengyu offered evidence against Song Qingyun, but Madam An called it fabricated and the gathered scions defended Song Qingyun.
• Shen Ye condemned the Aristocratic Families, and Zhao Qianjun attacked him before Xiao Mengyu drove the youth back with her sword.
• Madam An tried to have Kunlun suppress the incident, but Kunlun refused because the admissions selection had to remain unaffected.
• A youth in white challenged Xiao Mengyu, but Shen Ye stopped her after noticing a black snake coiled around him.
• Shen Ye conceded their battle so Xiao Mengyu could win, then challenged the youth in white himself.
• Shen Ye struck at the invisible black snake, prompting the important figures to realize he had awakened the Dharma Eye.

Shen Ye defeated the white-shirted youth and his invisible black snake by using his newly awakened Dharma Eye, overwhelming strength, and boosted Beidong Divine Fist. He held the youth at the end of the chapter, threatening to kill him as the frightened opponent screamed for help.

• Shen Ye saw and fought the black snake, then drove it away while clashing with the white-shirted youth.
• Shen Ye endured the youth's staff and punches without injury, caught him, and boosted his Beidong Divine Fist during the beating.
• Shen Ye used the white-shirted youth as cover to evade the black snake and continued overpowering him with punches.
• Shen Ye knocked the black snake aside, seized the youth by the neck, and stopped the snake from attacking by threatening to kill its master.
• Shen Ye taunted the youth about challenging Xiao Mengyu and demanded his name, prompting the youth to scream for help.

Shen Ye exposed the boy in white’s allies’ willingness to let him die, but an examiner stopped their sparring before it could turn fatal. As the three-academy examination prepared to begin, Shen Ye discovered that an examinee had stolen his Candle Flame, leaving him unable to see in the examination grounds.

• Shen Ye waited as the boy in white realized Madam An’s allies wanted him killed, then struck at him until a Jialan Academy examiner intervened and saved him.
• Madam An comforted the boy in white, who threatened Shen Ye and insisted their different social classes would determine their futures.
• The Divine Artifact gave Xiao Mengyu the Team Leader evaluation and Shen Ye the Unyielding One evaluation, and both received a Candle Flame for the examination.
• Shen Ye’s card revealed that an examinee with the exploitation evaluation had stolen his Candle Flame, while the aristocratic scions and chief examiner watched knowingly.

At the banquet, Shen Ye exposed the Aristocratic Families’ persecution of ordinary candidates and publicly challenged them to face him during the exam. As the exam began, he was transported with the other examinees, while Dragon King Cang Nanyan urged him to stay alive.

• The boy in white mocked Shen Ye and attacked an ordinary candidate, but Shen Ye stopped Xiao Mengyu from retaliating and told her the situation was expected.
• Shen Ye addressed the candidates, condemned the Aristocratic Families, and declared that he would never kill himself or let them finish him off during the exam.
• Shen Ye asked the Exam Proctor whether he could defend himself against exam-time attacks, received permission, and challenged the scions to come after him.
• Nangong Sirui introduced himself as the top-ranked candidate and invited Shen Ye to discuss their Dharma Eyes later.
• Cang Nanyan praised Qian Rushan and encouraged Shen Ye to prioritize surviving the exam, then the examiners transported all the candidates away as the exam began.

The first exam task began, requiring examinees to reach a floating island, and Shen Ye and Xiao Mengyu teamed up and rode his Ghostfire Motorcycle down to it. As Zhao Yibing began hunting Shen Ye, Xiao Mengyu explained that his ability to see hidden beings might mean he had awakened a Dharma Eye.

• When the exam transported everyone into darkness, Xiao Mengyu escaped the crowd and jumped from the Temple toward the floating island after Shen Ye told her to jump.
• Shen Ye tried to summon Calamity Skull to bluff his attackers, took a hit, and successfully formed a team with Xiao Mengyu, boosting their strength by two hundred percent.
• Shen Ye and Xiao Mengyu rode the Ghostfire Motorcycle to the floating island as the cards announced the first task and warned that failure meant elimination.
• Nangong Sirui descended toward the island in a sedan chair carried by four Beautiful Maidservants, while Guo Yunye transformed into a small animal and Zhang Xiaoyi reacted in shock.
• Zhao Yibing recognized the awakened Evil Ghost Power in Shen Ye and began hunting him with the ordinary-looking boy, descending toward the island on fine threads.
• While they rode, Xiao Mengyu explained the Dharma Realm and told Shen Ye that seeing hidden beings might indicate he had awakened a Dharma Eye.

Shen Ye and Xiao Mengyu searched the island for a deity statue that could protect them from the Wailing Tide, but their search brought them into conflict with Zhao Yibing and an unfamiliar boy. The exam’s noncombat rule forced their enemies away, while a spellcraft mark on Shen Ye warned that Zhao Yibing could find and teleport to him again.

• Shen Ye and Xiao Mengyu learned that their team had to find a deity statue, fulfill its commands, and obtain its promise to survive the Wailing Tide.
• They asked a fallen God of Evil Dance for protection, but Shen Ye attacked it after it demanded his blood and Xiao Mengyu’s undressing and dance.
• Shen Ye and Xiao Mengyu questioned a war deity’s mount about its rider, but the horse’s head was struck away before it could answer.
• Zhao Yibing and an unfamiliar junior high school student confronted Shen Ye and Xiao Mengyu, and Zhao Yibing revealed that she was already dead after Shen Ye’s Dark Whisper made her speak.
• The exam expelled Zhao Yibing with a powerful force for attempting unauthorized combat, while the boy retreated and Shen Ye discovered a spellcraft mark that could let Zhao Yibing sense and teleport to him.

Shen Ye and Xiao Mengyu realized that finding a suitable deity statue depended on resonance, then discovered a Sword Spirit in a greatsword that answered Xiao Mengyu’s swordsmanship. After Xiao Mengyu bonded with the sword through practice, it agreed to help them face the Tide of Wailing.

• Shen Ye and Xiao Mengyu concluded that their best chance was to seek statues compatible with their resonance, with Xiao Mengyu looking for sword-related ones and Shen Ye searching for Moonlit System statues.
• Shen Ye kicked away a deity’s head after it demanded the arms of two examinees as an offering, then raced off with Xiao Mengyu.
• Xiao Mengyu found a damaged pottery figurine holding a greatsword, and Shen Ye noticed that the sword—not the figurine—had an evaluation tag identifying a Sword Spirit.
• The greatsword asked Xiao Mengyu to perform ten slashes, ten thrusts, and ten sword dances, and she fulfilled its request with her techniques.
• Xiao Mengyu understood the sword’s loneliness and continued practicing with it until it flew freely and bowed to her.
• Shen Ye realized the trial was teaching examinees about resonance, and Xiao Mengyu told him the greatsword was willing to help them.

Shen Ye and Xiao Mengyu gained sword techniques from the greatsword and searched for another divine statue before the Wailing Tide erupted. When they learned the tide would arrive in ten minutes, they set out together to find a stream, hoping it would lead them to a statue connected to Shen Ye’s Flowing Moon resonance.

• The greatsword taught Xiao Mengyu sword-control techniques and passed Shen Ye the lethal finishing move Great White.
• The boy in white and several aristocratic scions attacked Shen Ye and Xiao Mengyu, but the stage’s rules repelled them.
• Zhao Yibing used a ritual to absorb the souls of arranged corpses and began casting a spell that would change the examination.
• Shen Ye and Xiao Mengyu searched for a moon-related statue until their Ghostfire Motorcycle ran out of power, then the greatsword suggested that the moon was connected to streams.
• The Cards announced that the Wailing Tide would erupt in ten minutes and that Candle Flame illumination was no longer needed.
• Xiao Mengyu refused to let Shen Ye investigate the stream alone, and the two set off together.

Shen Ye and Xiao Mengyu found the Moonlit System Sacred Tree Woodcarving while searching for shelter from the Wailing Tide, then fled into a cliff fissure as monstrous creatures emerged from the black mist. The wood came to life and offered to protect them if they supplied water, sunlight, and fertilizer, but Shen Ye and Xiao Mengyu had only managed to satisfy its water requirement when the chapter ended.

• Shen Ye followed a faint sensation underwater while Xiao Mengyu and the greatsword defended the deep pool from a giant centipede and an enormous hand covered in eyeballs.
• Shen Ye found a piece of wood identified as a Moonlit System Sacred Tree Woodcarving, and he and Xiao Mengyu escaped the approaching Wailing Tide by hiding in a fissure Xiao Mengyu cut into a cliff.
• As the Wailing Tide filled the woods with bloody mist and powerful monsters, the wood grew roots, branches, and leaves and said it would protect them if they supplied water, sunlight, and fertilizer.
• Shen Ye poured soda onto the wood's roots, satisfying its water requirement, while Xiao Mengyu shone the Candle Flame on it; the wood indicated that the light was not sunny enough.

Shen Ye and Xiao Mengyu used their offerings to gain the protection of the Moonlit System’s wood, then fought off a Dark Red Centipede and the Blood-Colored Giant. They killed the giant with a coordinated sword strike, while Big Skeleton asked Shen Ye to bring it giant meat.

• Shen Ye completed the wood’s offerings by praising it and reciting a moon poem, and it declared that it would protect him.
• The Blood-Colored Giant and a Dark Red Centipede attacked the mountain crevice, and the greatsword revealed that the giant’s head was its weakness.
• The wood drew the centipede’s attacks, allowing Shen Ye and Xiao Mengyu to kill it, while Big Skeleton asked Shen Ye for a piece of its flesh.
• The giant targeted Xiao Mengyu, but Shen Ye and Xiao Mengyu passed the wood back and forth to distract it and create an opening.
• Xiao Mengyu struck the giant’s head, and the greatsword followed her cut to finish it off.
• Big Skeleton cheered and asked Shen Ye to bring it a piece of the giant to eat.