Recaps

Gu Qing defeated Li Zhan with Void Flash, but Li Zhan regenerated his severed body by absorbing Spiritual Energy and resumed the duel. Li Zhan dodged Gu Qing’s next strike and counterattacked, only for his punch to pass through Gu Qing’s phantom and devastate the arena.

• Gu Qing cut Li Zhan in half with Void Flash, stunning Zhang Zhibei and the Night Court leaders.
• Elder Liang stopped Guan Qi and the referee from entering the arena, insisting the duel was not over.
• Li Zhan’s body absorbed Spiritual Energy and rejoined its severed halves, revealing his automatic healing ability.
• Li Zhan charged Gu Qing, who used Void Flash again; Li Zhan dodged and declared the move would not hit him again.
• Li Zhan punched at Gu Qing’s scarlet phantom, but his fist passed through it and tore up a wide stretch of the arena.

Gu Qing and Li Zhan exchanged brutal attacks in the Night Court deputy captain selection, revealing Li Zhan’s ability to regenerate and predict the timing of Void Flash. After Li Zhan wounded Gu Qing with a hair-based attack, Gu Qing realized Li Zhan had dodged by anticipating the skill but could not determine how he did so.

• Li Zhan charged Gu Qing, but Gu Qing used Void Flash to cut him in half and evade his attack.
• Li Zhan fired a powerful beam of Qi and Blood Power at Gu Qing, who used Void Flash again to pass through it and cut Li Zhan’s upper body apart.
• Spiritual energy particles reconnected Li Zhan’s severed body parts, restoring him to full health and mana in under two seconds.
• Li Zhan charged again and dodged Gu Qing’s Void Flash by predicting its timing, then threw vital-energy-coated strands of hair at him.
• Gu Qing narrowly dodged the hair, but its Qi and Blood Power cut his face before his Martial Soul healed the wound.
• Gu Qing realized Li Zhan dodged by predicting Void Flash but wondered what gave him such confidence in his predictions.

Gu Qing discovered that Li Zhan could rapidly reconstitute his body by drawing on the surrounding Spiritual Energy, then accepted Li Zhan’s challenge to fight without Void Flash. After Li Zhan’s headbutt backfired and Gu Qing began pummeling him, the fight remained unresolved.

• Gu Qing used consecutive Void Flash attacks to bisect Li Zhan, who quickly reconstituted his body by absorbing Spiritual Energy.
• Wu Chuchu, Liu Zhiyi, and Elder Liang debated whether Li Zhan’s recovery would let him outlast Gu Qing, while Elder Liang predicted Li Zhan would win.
• Li Zhan challenged Gu Qing to trade blows, and Gu Qing formed Blood Armor with Qi and Blood Release before accepting.
• Li Zhan caught Gu Qing off guard with a powerful headbutt, but Gu Qing’s Source-Devouring Attribute absorbed its force and Qi and Blood Rebound sent it back, exploding Li Zhan’s head.
• Li Zhan reconstituted his head, and Gu Qing repeatedly punched him, humiliating him as he struggled to understand what had happened.

Gu Qing battered Li Zhan with his martial soul and ancient martial arts, while the spectators debated the source of his abilities. Li Zhan recovered from his injuries, then began gathering Spiritual Energy to unleash his superpower.

• Li Zhan repeatedly recovered from Gu Qing's attacks as Spiritual Energy repaired his battered body, but Gu Qing sent him flying with a powerful kick.
• Wu Chuchu and the other leaders questioned Gu Qing's abilities, and Elder Liang concluded that Gu Qing had awakened a martial soul and used ancient martial arts techniques.
• Liu Zhiyi reconsidered Gu Qing's secrecy as a possible attempt to surprise her, while He Haikun grew suspicious and left the Arena to prepare to flee.
• Li Zhan healed back to full strength and asked Gu Qing how he had absorbed and rebounded his Qi and Blood Power, but Gu Qing told him to reveal his superpower.
• Li Zhan declared that he would end the fight, mobilized his supernatural power, and drew the battlefield's Spiritual Energy toward himself.

Li Zhan formed a towering humanoid energy construct that shocked the Night Court leaders and made several Transcendents reconsider their plans to grow stronger in the Origin Land. He confronted Gu Qing, boasting of his power and revealing that he knew Gu Qing had awakened a Martial Soul.

• Li Zhan absorbed spiritual energy and formed a ten-meter humanoid energy construct around himself.
• Wu Chuchu, Wu Mingjue, and Liu Zhiyi were stunned by Li Zhan's strength, and Liu Zhiyi resolved to train harder in the Origin Land.
• Song Anni asked to go to the Origin Land, but agreed to first complete the mission to wipe out the Rat God Cult and the Fox Woman Clan.
• Xia Shuran worried that Gu Qing would struggle against Li Zhan, then cheered him on as Gu Qing waved in response.
• Li Zhan told Gu Qing that his superpower was beyond the understanding of those who had not entered the Origin Land, then said he knew Gu Qing had awakened a Martial Soul.

Gu Qing revealed a seventy-meter Martial Soul Dharma Form, whose flames dwarfed Li Zhan’s energy construct and stunned the spectators and Night Court leaders. The chapter left Gu Qing standing before the blazing phantom as the battlefield’s protective barrier contained its heat.

• Gu Qing absorbed part of Li Zhan’s powered punch with Source Devouring, but was blasted backward and badly injured before Qi and Blood Rebound could take effect.
• Li Zhan mocked Gu Qing and urged him to reveal his Martial Soul, confident his energy construct was superior.
• Gu Qing released his suppressed qi and blood power, igniting the air and summoning a seventy-meter scarlet Martial Soul Dharma Form.
• The battlefield’s stone pillars formed a hemispherical barrier to protect the spectators from the spreading flames.
• The spectators and Night Court leaders, including Elder Liang, Deacon Tian, Liu Zhiyi, and Song Anni, reacted with shock at the Martial Soul’s size.

Gu Qing defeated Li Zhan, the Origin Land War God, with his massive martial soul dharma form and refined him until he surrendered. The crowd recognized Gu Qing as the Night Court’s leading young talent, and Gu Qing dismissed his martial soul as the chapter ended.

• Li Zhan charged Gu Qing’s seventy-meter martial soul dharma form and struck at it with his energy giant.
• Gu Qing knocked Li Zhan into a crater, but Li Zhan restored his energy giant and launched a final attack.
• Gu Qing caught Li Zhan and his energy body, burned the giant away with martial true intent, and made Li Zhan surrender.
• Gu Qing threw Li Zhan into the pit and privately imagined becoming invincible across Earth.
• The onlookers discussed Gu Qing’s victory, his talent, and the effects of spiritual energy revival.
• Gu Qing basked in the crowd’s praise, then disintegrated his martial soul dharma form into crimson mist that returned to his body.

After defeating Li Zhan, Gu Qing drew Elder Liang’s offer to train in the Origin Land and added him on WeChat, hoping to learn about Bai Ningyu. As Xia Shuran and her friends congratulated him, Gu Qing wondered how Wu Jiahao had awakened his Gene Fusion Superpower.

• The barrier dissipated after Gu Qing withdrew his Martial Soul Dharma Form, and the lingering heat spread through the Arena as spectators struggled to endure it.
• The referee declared Gu Qing the winner, but Li Zhan insisted that only his Earth self had surrendered and challenged Gu Qing to face him in the Origin Land.
• Elder Liang offered to train Gu Qing in the Origin Land, promised rapid advancement, and gave him a week to decide after they added each other on WeChat.
• Gu Qing thought about using Elder Liang to learn how Bai Ningyu was doing in the Origin Land, while Xia Shuran congratulated him and told him his family had seen the duel video.
• Liu Yue and Wu Jiahao arrived on the overheated field, and Wu Jiahao accused Gu Qing of pretending to be a Paranormal Contact before Gu Qing asked how Wu Jiahao’s Gene Fusion Superpower had awakened.

After winning the final, Gu Qing was summoned by Deacon Tian to have the Supernatural Origin in his body tested. At the crowded Transcendent Testing Room, he found Elder Liang and Li Zhan scouting new Transcendents to take to the Origin Land for training.

• Wu Jiahao and Xia Shuran resolved to grow stronger and enter the Deputy Captain Election later that year.
• Liu Zhiyi and Song Anni congratulated Gu Qing, and Liu Zhiyi invited him and Xia Shuran to talk at her apartment.
• Deacon Tian stopped Gu Qing before he left the Arena and took him to test his Supernatural Origin; Liu Zhiyi and Xia Shuran went along.
• Song Anni followed with several team members, hoping to see Gu Qing's test results.
• Gu Qing entered the crowded Transcendent Testing Room and spotted Elder Liang and Li Zhan scouting newcomers for Origin Land training.

Gu Qing waited to have his Supernatural Origin tested while learning how the Night Court recruited Awakened and agreeing to join Song Anni’s Monster Assault Team. As Elder Liang called him forward, another newcomer scored 10%, leaving Gu Qing to await his own result.

• Deacon Tian explained that the Night Court recruited Supernatural Awakened and gathered them for group testing before sending promising prospects to the Origin Land.
• Gu Qing noticed Jiang Wanqiao among Song Anni’s team and agreed immediately to join the Monster Assault Team to help fight the Rat God Cult and Fox Woman Clan.
• Song Anni became excited by Gu Qing’s praise of her leadership, but Elder Liang interrupted and called Gu Qing over for his test.
• A newcomer named Deng Guicong tested at 10% Supernatural Origin, drawing astonished reactions from the room.
• Gu Qing hoped his own test would exceed 10% as he approached the testing pod.

Gu Qing entered the supernatural testing pod while Night Court members and newcomers speculated about his potential. The test revealed his supernatural origin content was an unprecedented 20%.

• Elder Liang recruited Deng Guicong after his supernatural origin content tested at 10%, promising him rapid advancement if he trained in the Origin Land.
• Li Zhan dismissed Deng Guicong’s result and watched Gu Qing enter the pod, while Song Anni, Liu Zhiyi, and others expected Gu Qing’s potential to exceed 12%.
• Elder Liang told Deng Guicong that Gu Qing had awakened a powerful superpower, and Deng Guicong assumed his own 10% result was higher.
• Deng Guicong accepted Chen Shijun’s flattery and exchanged WeChat contacts with him.
• Gu Qing completed the test, and the pod displayed a supernatural origin content result of 20%.

Gu Qing's 20% supernatural origin test result stunned the Night Court leaders, who confirmed it with repeated tests. He revealed that he had awakened twice and possessed two superpowers, then demonstrated psychic control by lifting Li Zhan into the air.

• The Testing Pod overloaded from the supernatural origin in Gu Qing's body, and he stabilized it with his mental power before stepping out.
• Elder Liang asked Gu Qing to remove his Storage Bag and retake the test, and Gu Qing entrusted it to Xia Shuran.
• Gu Qing tested at 20% three times, confirming a result far above the Night Court's previous 13% record.
• After the leaders examined and questioned him, Gu Qing explained that he had awakened twice and had a vital energy-type martial soul and psychic control.
• At Liu Zhiyi's request, Gu Qing demonstrated psychic control by lifting Li Zhan into the air and pinning him in place.

Gu Qing demonstrated his second superpower, prompting Elder Liang to invite him to train in the Origin Land, but Gu Qing declined for now. In Deacon Tian’s office, Gu Qing revealed that he and Xia Shuran had deliberately awakened their Martial Souls, then refused to explain how.

• Elder Liang concluded that Gu Qing had awakened a psychic superpower after Gu Qing pinned Li Zhan in midair with telekinesis.
• Elder Liang warned Gu Qing that Li Zhan was far stronger in the Origin Land and invited him to train there in a week, but Gu Qing declined.
• Deacon Tian opened a space rift and took Gu Qing, Xia Shuran, and Liu Zhiyi to his office, leaving Song Anni behind.
• Deacon Tian asked why Gu Qing and Xia Shuran had both awakened a Martial Soul, and Gu Qing said it had been deliberately induced.
• Deacon Tian asked Gu Qing to explain how they awakened their Martial Souls, but Gu Qing refused to discuss it.

Gu Qing explained his second awakening to Deacon Tian and was officially promoted to deputy captain of the Night Court. As a Rat God Cult expert approached Gu Qing’s home to attack his family, a colossal eyeball appeared over the residential community and nearly killed him with fear.

• Gu Qing claimed an elusive expert had guided him and offered to pass along the Night Court’s interest in cooperation.
• Gu Qing explained that surges in his qi-and-blood and mental strength had triggered his second awakening and rapid growth.
• Deacon Tian named Gu Qing a deputy captain, raised his salary to one million a month, and issued him an annual Grade B supernatural resource reward.
• Gu Qing and Xia Shuran left Deacon Tian’s office, while Liu Zhiyi stayed behind to speak with him.
• A Blue-Suited Man from the Rat God Cult arrived at Gu Qing’s residential community, intending to kill his family and later target Gu Qing.
• A giant eyeball appeared above the community, reviving the Blue-Suited Man’s stopped heart and terrifying him into trying to flee.

The Blue-Suited Man was driven mad by eyes sprouting across his body as the Giant Eyeball watched him from the sky. At Night Court headquarters, Gu Qing agreed to let Xia Shuran become his subordinate, then watched Wu Jiahao argue with Chu Yuqin, who rejected him for being a junior college student.

• The Giant Eyeball’s gaze caused eyes to grow all over the Blue-Suited Man, and he fled to the woods and mutilated himself trying to remove them.
• Xia Shuran asked Gu Qing to make her his first subordinate, and he agreed.
• Gu Qing and Xia Shuran joked about their boss-and-subordinate roles and headed to the Storehouse so Gu Qing could redeem his B-Rank Reward.
• They saw Wu Jiahao arguing with Chu Yuqin, whose label read [Boxing Champion].
• Chu Yuqin rejected Wu Jiahao, saying their educational backgrounds made them incompatible, while Wu Jiahao vowed to become the strongest of the Night Court’s younger generation within a year.

Gu Qing exchanged his reward for the Mist Flag to protect his family and was invited by Song Anni to meet his Monster Assault Team teammates over hot pot. He learned that Jiang Wanqiao had temporarily joined the team for mentoring, and the chapter ended as he entered the private room and saw five conspicuous labels.

• Gu Qing rejected Chu Yuqin's request to add him on WeChat, then invited Wu Jiahao to browse the Storehouse with him.
• Gu Qing redeemed a Mist Flag with his B-rank reward, planning to install it at home for his family's protection.
• Gu Qing agreed to Song Anni's invitation to meet his Monster Assault Team teammates at Cafeteria Two and brought Xia Shuran along.
• Gu Qing met Jiang Wanqiao, who explained that she had temporarily joined the Monster Assault Team to receive mentoring while her instructor was away.
• Gu Qing entered the private room with Xia Shuran and Jiang Wanqiao and saw five conspicuous labels.

At a Monster Assault Team dinner, Jiang Yijia collapsed after secretly probing Gu Qing’s mind, and the team took her to the Medical Building. Guan Qi found severe mental contamination from a force that seemed not to come from Earth and asked whether she had visited an unusual place.

• Song Anni welcomed Gu Qing and Xia Shuran to dinner and introduced them to the Monster Assault Team members Zhou Yang, Gu Yifeng, Tan Wenxing, and Jiang Yijia.
• Jiang Yijia secretly used her mental power to probe Gu Qing’s mind, then screamed, collapsed, and wet herself in terror.
• Tan Wenxing suspected Jiang Yijia’s mind had been contaminated, so Song Anni carried her to the Medical Building while the others followed.
• Gu Qing flew there with Xia Shuran in his arms, surprising Zhou Yang, Gu Yifeng, and Tan Wenxing with his speed.
• Guan Qi examined Jiang Yijia and said her severe mental contamination seemed to come from a force not native to Earth, then asked whether she had visited the Origin Land or mysterious ruins.

After the mysterious forces contaminating Jiang Yijia’s mind resisted Guan Qi’s Purification Art and infected him, Qin Lei and Elder Liang also collapsed when Qin Lei tried to cleanse them. Elder Liang stabilized their injuries with pills, but Jiang Yijia’s condition continued to worsen as the group suspected the forces came from the Origin Land or an ancient ruin.

• Song Anni suggested that a Ratman’s poison might have caused Jiang Yijia’s contamination, but Guan Qi explained that the poison only affected the body.
• Guan Qi used the Purification Art on Jiang Yijia, but the mysterious forces resisted and surged into his mind, leaving him injured and contaminated.
• Qin Lei arrived with Elder Liang and attempted to purify Jiang Yijia and Guan Qi, but the forces injured her and Elder Liang as well.
• Elder Liang took a medicinal pill and gave more to Qin Lei, Guan Qi, and Jiang Yijia, stabilizing the adults’ injuries while Jiang Yijia’s condition worsened.
• Guan Qi told Qin Lei that the contaminating forces likely came from the Origin Land or ancient ruins linked to other alternate spaces.

Gu Qing learned from the Magic Mirror that Jiang Yijia had been injured after using her mind-reading ability to see the Divine Maiden in his memories. Elder Liang saved Jiang Yijia with a rare flower, and Song Anni and her veteran teammates promised to help him expand Night Court’s territory in the Origin Land after eliminating the Rat God Cult and the Fox Woman Clan; Elder Liang left Gu Qing urging him to join the expedition in a week.

• Gu Qing questioned how Jiang Yijia had been contaminated, and the Magic Mirror explained that she had incurred the Divine Maiden’s punishment by peering into his memories.
• Qin Lei said she could not treat Jiang Yijia, while the Magic Mirror warned that Jiang Yijia’s mind would collapse unless someone intervened.
• Elder Liang offered to save Jiang Yijia with a Genshin Impact Flower petal, which would restore her mind to its state three months earlier but erase those memories.
• Song Anni, Zhou Yang, Gu Yifeng, and Tan Wenxing agreed to help Elder Liang expand territory in the Origin Land after their team eradicated the Rat God Cult and the Fox Woman Clan.
• Elder Liang gave Jiang Yijia the petal, saving her life, and explained that she would wake after a day or two without memories of the past three months.
• Elder Liang urged Gu Qing to join him in the Origin Land in a week, then left the infirmary.

Elder Liang arranged for a powerful Steward to investigate Gu Qing, while the Divine Maiden allowed the Nation-Destroying Witch to serve her in Gu Qing’s mind. At a team dinner, Gu Qing learned about the Monster Assault Team and its dangerous organized enemies, and Song Anni began praising Jiang Wanqiao.

• Elder Liang decided a Chief Captain was not powerful enough to investigate Gu Qing and persuaded a Steward to take the assignment.
• The Divine Maiden summoned the Nation-Destroying Witch, who feared punishment but instead massaged the Divine Maiden’s shoulders.
• Song Anni toasted Gu Qing’s admission to the Monster Assault Team, and Gu Qing privately mocked her claim that her leadership had raised the team’s strength.
• Xia Shuran tasted the beer left in Gu Qing’s glass, while Jiang Wanqiao tried some of Song Anni’s milk and suspected it was unusual.
• Song Anni described strange monsters and warned that the organized Rat God Cult and Fox Woman Clan were far more troublesome.
• Song Anni turned the conversation to Jiang Wanqiao and began praising the novice Transcendent in front of Gu Qing.

Gu Qing learned more about Jiang Wanqiao’s powerful support magic and watched Xia Shuran join Song Anni’s Monster Assault Team as logistical support. He left the cafeteria with Xia Shuran to return home, but their motorcycle ride began at a dangerous speed.

• Gu Qing learned that Jiang Wanqiao had 10% supernatural origin content, seventh-order mental strength, and short-lived spells that boosted speed, defense, and healing by about five percent.
• Xia Shuran asked Song Anni to join the Monster Assault Team as a logistics worker, and Song Anni agreed because of her close relationship with Gu Qing.
• Gu Qing left the gathering early to celebrate his deputy captain position with his family, then bought ghost-shadow squid meat from the cafeteria proprietress and paid her twenty thousand.
• Gu Qing and Xia Shuran went to the rooftop, where she asked to ride his motorcycle home instead of flying, and he agreed.
• Gu Qing set the motorcycle on the road and let Xia Shuran drive, but she immediately accelerated to two hundred kilometers an hour despite this being only her second ride.

Gu Qing and Xia Shuran encountered He Haikun, who used his Shadow Superpower to demonstrate his strength and secretly test Gu Qing’s intentions. Gu Qing pretended to be eager to serve as a Double Agent for the Fox Woman Clan, while He Haikun continued plotting to deceive and discredit him.

• Xia Shuran braked when the sky darkened, and Gu Qing used Psychic Control to keep them and the motorcycle from crashing.
• A shadow enveloped Gu Qing and Xia Shuran, stripping away their senses before shrinking into He Haikun.
• Gu Qing recognized He Haikun’s display as an attempt to establish his authority and played along with his explanation that it was a joke.
• He Haikun mentioned Gu Qing’s victory over the Origin Land War God, and Gu Qing sent him a recording of the final.
• He Haikun privately asked whether Gu Qing still intended to become a Double Agent for the Fox Woman Clan, and Gu Qing enthusiastically agreed.
• He Haikun praised Gu Qing and pretended to welcome his future success, while privately planning to ruin his reputation and make him a Night Court traitor.

Gu Qing and Xia Shuran headed home after discussing He Haikun, but the Magic Mirror warned that a Rat God Cult Follower had targeted Gu Qing’s family. The attacker fled before reaching them, and Gu Qing arrived home with Xia Shuran, where Gu Yao saw him fly for the first time.

• He Haikun privately worried that Gu Qing’s awakening would ruin his plans, then fled when Deacon He questioned him about their conversation.
• Xia Shuran told Gu Qing she distrusted He Haikun, while Gu Qing admitted he was unsure he could defeat the veteran deputy captain.
• The Magic Mirror warned Gu Qing that a Rat God Cult Follower had gone to kill his family, then reported that the follower had fled and his family was safe.
• Gu Qing took Xia Shuran home at high speed, while Deacon He followed and wondered about the Magic Mirror and Gu Qing’s sudden rise.
• Gu Qing landed on his balcony with Xia Shuran, and Gu Yao was shocked to see that her older brother could fly.

After securing his family’s apartment with the Mist Flag, Gu Qing learned that a powerful Rat God Cult Follower had targeted his family to retaliate against the Night Court. He found the injured follower hiding beneath a hollow tree on Haicheng’s outskirts, while Deacon He secretly followed him to investigate his origins.

• Gu Qing entered the apartment with Xia Shuran, checked that his parents were safe, and planted the Mist Flag to protect the home.
• Gu Qing asked the Magic Mirror about the Rat God Cult Follower and learned that the advanced eighth-stage enemy was more than ten kilometers away to the south.
• The Magic Mirror revealed that the Rat God Cult leader had sent the follower to kill Night Court’s young geniuses, starting with Gu Qing and his family.
• Deacon He followed Gu Qing through the clouds, suspecting that Gu Qing’s unusual abilities concealed a major secret.
• Gu Qing searched a mountain forest outside Haicheng, found the injured follower hidden beneath a hollow tree, and burned the tree away with Qi and Blood Heat Rays.

Gu Qing confronted the badly injured Blue-Suited Man, a Rat God Cult Follower, and learned that a strange Giant Eyeball had appeared above his residential community. After Gu Qing overwhelmed him, the Blue-Suited Man summoned the Rat God, leaving Gu Qing rushing to attack before the Purple-Black Phantom struck.

• Gu Qing forced qi and blood power into the tunnel, driving the Blue-Suited Man out of hiding with severe wounds and strange eyes growing across his body.
• The Blue-Suited Man asked Gu Qing about the enormous eyeball above his residential community, then attacked after deciding Gu Qing was stalling.
• Gu Qing used Void Flash to cut the Blue-Suited Man in half and blasted through his rat head with Qi and Blood Heat Rays.
• As he neared death, the Blue-Suited Man sacrificed his body and called on the Rat God, summoning a Purple-Black Phantom above the mountain forest.
• Gu Qing combined his qi and blood power, supernatural origin, and evil god origin to charge toward the Blue-Suited Man with Void Flash.