Recaps

Chen Nian persuaded Rika to return to World Tree Academy with him instead of killing her, then reunited her with Tang Rou. Yaxin allowed both women aboard the World Tree Train after warning that they would undergo strict screening, and the train departed for the academy.

• Rika explained that she had sent her younger self ten years into the future and demanded that Chen Nian kill her, but Chen Nian refused and insisted on taking her back to the academy for help.
• Rika tried to kill herself, but Zero Barrier stopped her, and Chen Nian convinced her to come with him by threatening to tell her sister.
• Chen Nian told Rika that the Chen Nian in her world had died after fighting Calamity alone and killing seven Origin Demon Gods, then said he was going to find Tang Rou.
• Chen Nian reunited Rika and Tang Rou, and Tang Rou warmly welcomed Rika after learning who she was.
• Chen Nian brought Tang Rou and Rika to the World Tree Train, where Yaxin agreed to let them travel to the academy subject to strict screening.
• The train departed for World Tree Academy, and Tang Rou shared crackers with Rika while teasing Chen Nian.

Chen Nian brought Tang Rou and Rika to the academy, where a security scan revealed Rika’s Calamity energy and triggered an attempt to execute her. Headmaster Merlin intervened, and he explained that Tang Rou’s life-related ability might help free Rika from the Demon God power inside her.

• Chen Nian arrived at the academy with Tang Rou and Rika, and inspectors began scanning them for security.
• The scanner detected Calamity energy in Rika, prompting two guardians to attack her.
• Chen Nian used Word Spirit-Sovereign to stop the guardians, but Rika knocked him away to keep him from being implicated.
• Headmaster Merlin caught the guardians’ blades, sealed Rika’s power, and let Chen Nian explain how he had brought her to the academy.
• Headmaster Merlin said removing the Demon God power would kill Rika, but Tang Rou’s life-related ability might make an operation possible.

Chen Nian learned that the academy had made his combat record public, then Instructor Liu took him to meet the World Tree’s avatar. The avatar awarded him 20 Performance Points and showed him ways to improve his power, leaving him to consider what to redeem.

• Tang Rou was taken to the medical department to study for three days before her surgery, while the dean told Chen Nian to accept his punishment.
• Chen Nian found students at the academy gates teasing and praising him after Nanako’s detailed combat record went viral on the academy forum.
• Chen Nian confronted Nanako about recording his intimate moments, but two colleagues saw them together and mistook the scene for proof of the rumors.
• The dean sent Instructor Liu to take Chen Nian to the World Tree Courtyard, where the World Tree’s avatar offered him 20 Performance Points.
• Chen Nian reviewed the available rewards, including levels, abilities, weapons, and equipment, and considered how to spend his points.

Chen Nian spent his 20 Performance Points on the Sun and Moon Mystic Weapon and the Word Spirit Intangibility, then left the consciousness space after learning he had earned an unusually large reward. Tang Rou began training in the academy’s medical department, where her attempts to save virus-infected mice all failed.

• Chen Nian exchanged 10 Performance Points for the Sun and Moon Mystic Weapon, raising his ability score from 500 to 820.
• Chen Nian spent his remaining 10 Performance Points on the Word Spirit Intangibility, which made him intangible for one second when activated.
• Chen Nian told Instructor Liu he had received 20 Performance Points, and Liu dismissed him after reacting with surprise.
• Tang Rou entered the medical department and was told by a senior student to learn the basics and pass an assessment within three days.
• Tang Rou tried to use her ability to keep virus-infected mice alive, but thirteen mice died during the day’s experiments.
• Tang Rou insisted on trying again and caught another mouse despite having earlier called the mice pitiful.

Tang Rou passed her medical assessment, allowing Dean Merlin to operate on Rika and extract the Demon God's power. The surgery succeeded, and Rika survived as Tang Rou joined the medical department.

• Chen Nian took Tang Rou to the cafeteria, where they encountered An Qingluo and Sun Qian, and he sent An Qingluo a strawberry mousse cake.
• After three days of training, Tang Rou passed her assessment with a one-hundred-percent success rate and was accepted into the medical department on probation.
• Dean Merlin brought Rika to the medical department, where Chen Nian urged her to live and face her past mistakes before she entered the operating room.
• During the operation, Dean Merlin stripped the black energy from Rika while Tang Rou maintained her vital signs through the ordeal.
• Rika survived the successful surgery, and Tang Rou's senior congratulated her on becoming a colleague.

Rika returned to her own world after ten days away and discovered that ten years had passed there. She learned from Xiao Rika’s diary that Xiao Rika had spent those years leading the resistance, defeating the Origin Demon God with An Qingluo, and liberating Blue Star.

• Chen Nian and Tang Rou learned that the dean had removed the Demon God's power from Rika, but the dean later used his strength to stop the world's rules from erasing her.
• Rika returned to her world through Reverse Space and Time and found Linhai City rebuilt, while Xiao Rika was nowhere to be found.
• Rika saw the date 2044 and realized that ten years had passed in her world during the ten days she spent with Chen Nian and Tang Rou.
• Rika found Xiao Rika's diary hidden in a statue and learned that Xiao Rika had become a hero by fighting Calamity for ten years.
• Xiao Rika and An Qingluo defeated the Origin Demon God, freed Blue Star, and began rebuilding before Xiao Rika left a diary for Rika.

Big Rika returned to warn Chen Nian that the world had erased Xiao Rika after she came back to the same timeline, but everyone had already forgotten her. The World Tree's incarnation offered to send Chen Nian into the cracks between worlds where Xiao Rika had been banished.

• Big Rika used Reverse Space and Time to return and told Chen Nian and Tang Rou that Xiao Rika's return had caused the world to erase her and their memories of her.
• The story showed Xiao Rika returning home after ten years, only to find that Arina, her grandfather, and the villagers could neither see nor hear her.
• Chen Nian discussed the strange emptiness he felt with An Qingluo, who urged him to ask the dean about the world's rules.
• The dean told Chen Nian that only the World Tree's incarnation could help recover someone erased by the world's rules.
• The World Tree's incarnation told Chen Nian that Xiao Rika had been banished into the cracks between worlds and offered to send him there.

Chen Nian entered the cracks between worlds to find Rika, while Tang Rou and Big Rika tried to preserve his memory. He found Rika in the village and promised that the thoughts of all living beings might help them escape.

• Chen Nian accepted the risk of entering the cracks between worlds and received a seed that could grow into a blade capable of cleaving worlds open.
• Chen Nian returned to Linhai City with Tang Rou and Big Rika, but Tang Rou forgot him as soon as they arrived.
• Big Rika showed Tang Rou her notes about Chen Nian, and Tang Rou began searching for his close companions so they could remember him.
• Chen Nian found Rika alone in the village, and she cried in his arms when she realized he could see her.
• Chen Nian's memories of Rika returned, and he explained that the seed could help them escape if the will of all living beings made it sprout.

Tang Rou rallied Chen Nian’s companions and allies across several worlds to remember him, sending their collective will into the rift between worlds. Chen Nian and Rika returned to reality, where they reunited with the older Rika, who then set out to travel through time and space to save other versions of herself.

• Tang Rou reminded Su Jinyu, Zhao Yixue, and Ye Hongling of Chen Nian, and each acted to help restore memories of him.
• Gu Qingyue, Tamamo-no-Mae, Haruna, and Qin Yu spread Chen Nian’s deeds and encouraged people across their worlds to remember him.
• Su Jinyu posted in the guild chat, Zhao Yixue focused on her memories of Chen Nian, and Ye Hongling promoted his deeds online until they became a trending topic.
• In the cracks between worlds, Chen Nian used the will of living beings to empower the World Tree’s seed and split the rift with a sword of light, returning with Rika.
• Chen Nian and Rika reunited with the older Rika and Tang Rou, and the older Rika said she would travel through time and space to save other versions of herself.
• Chen Nian embraced the older Rika as she entered the river of time, then Rika and Tang Rou left to visit Rika’s family.

Rika returned to the village as an adult and reunited with Arina and Chen Nian, then gave Chen Nian an earring from An Qingluo. When a Heavenly Torrent arrived to abduct her, Rika killed him instantly and destroyed his Calamity Artifact.

• Rika returned to the village grown up, and Arina recognized her after a shocked reunion.
• Chen Nian stayed to protect Rika and planned to take her to the World Tree Academy to have her power sealed against divination.
• Rika sneaked out at night to ask Chen Nian why he had rescued her, then gave him an earring from An Qingluo.
• Chen Nian told Rika that An Qingluo had also helped him in the present and offered to take Rika to meet her.
• A Heavenly Torrent arrived above the village and tried to capture Rika with the Calamity Artifact Yin Gourd.
• Rika blocked the artifact with Zero Barrier, crushed the Heavenly Torrent in a spatial prison, and shattered the Yin Gourd.

Chen Nian returned to the academy with Rika and asked the headmaster to seal her power, then arranged to meet An Qingluo. He presented her with a matching earring, leaving her stunned.

• Chen Nian waited on Blue Star with Rika until the World Tree Train arrived, and Yang Wei learned that Rika was the woman traveling with Arina.
• Chen Nian returned to the academy with Tang Rou and Rika, and the headmaster agreed to seal Rika's power under conditions that Chen Nian accompany her outside and that she study with a professor.
• Chen Nian asked the headmaster not to treat Rika as the academy's secret weapon, and the headmaster promised to prioritize the children's safety.
• Chen Nian asked Rika to introduce him to An Qingluo and decided to return an earring that belonged to her.
• An Qingluo skipped a tea party to meet Chen Nian at the sports field, where he gave her the matching earring and left her frozen in surprise.

Chen Nian told An Qingluo that her future self had given him a jade-white earring, but An Qingluo kept it focused on finding her missing sister. Meanwhile, Twin Wings sought Mo Fu’s divination and learned she would meet the most important person in her life—and fight her to the death.

• Chen Nian told An Qingluo the earring came from her future self, but she refused to take it back and said she would meet Rika herself.
• An Qingluo returned to the dorm, where Sun Qian teased her about seeing Chen Nian and warned her not to expect too much from her search for her sister.
• An Qingluo recalled how her older sister had raised and protected her before they were separated fifteen years earlier, and held the earring close as she hoped to find her.
• Twin Wings visited Mo Fu at Calamity’s headquarters and offered all her battle merits for a divination.
• Mo Fu foretold that Twin Wings would soon meet the most important person in her life and that the two would fight each other to the death.

Twin Wings accepted a mission to G-23 World, while the academy announced that Gao Yue had gone missing there and assigned an emergency S Rank mission to find him. Chen Nian, still weakened from forcing open a gap, tried to join the mission but was told to rest as the academy began assessing candidates.

• Twin Wings received orders to travel to G-23 World and mine energy crystal ore, with power to take over the Origin Demon God power in her if she betrayed her lord.
• Chen Nian felt weak and sleepy, and the dean told him to rest while his body recovered from the strain of forcibly splitting open a gap.
• At the weekly assembly, the dean announced that Gao Yue had gone missing during his mission in G-23 World and issued an S Rank emergency mission to find him and eliminate the Calamity forces.
• The dean selected An Qingluo and Mu Yun as the two Tier Six students for the mission and announced a seven-day assessment to choose two more students.
• After hearing that others saw him as out of the running, Chen Nian asked the dean how to recover quickly and asked An Qingluo for an internal recommendation, but both told him to rest.

During the seven-day assessment, Chen Nian rested instead of competing, falling to last place with a score of -520 while Yu Jing and Wang Tianyi dominated the rankings. On the final day, Chen Nian woke early with his strength restored and prepared to earn points.

• The assessment began, and Chen Nian overslept Instructor Liu's class, earning a 100-point deduction while Hao Jin explained that Chen Nian had slapped him when he tried to wake him.
• Chen Nian appeared at the bottom of the live rankings, and Tang Rou teased him at lunch while stealing food from his plate.
• Over the following days, Yu Jing and Wang Tianyi held the top two spots as Chen Nian rested and accumulated further penalties, reaching -520 points by the sixth day.
• Sun Qian joked about Chen Nian's fall in the rankings, while An Qingluo said his condition stemmed from physical aftereffects and worried that he might miss the difficult mission.
• On the final morning, Chen Nian missed roll call again, but he had woken early feeling fully recovered and resolved to earn points.

Chen Nian tested the Snow Moon Sword in Tier Five training and broke the records for Abyss Level, Hell Level, and Demon God Rank Calamity Beast hunting. His successive records alarmed the students, who realized he might be making a last-day push up the leaderboard.

• Chen Nian used the Snow Moon Sword's new moon, half-moon, and full moon forms to destroy the Calamity Beasts in his training scenario.
• Chen Nian killed 59,232 Calamity Beasts and broke the Tier Five-Abyss Level record.
• The students saw Chen Nian's record notification and dismissed him as a threat because his points were still negative.
• Chen Nian broke the Tier Five-Hell Level record, bringing his points back into positive territory.
• Chen Nian broke the Tier Five-Demon God Rank record, leaving the students completely rattled.

Chen Nian broke every Tier Five Calamity Beast hunting record, then climbed the points leaderboard through arena victories and advanced to Platinum. After reaching third place, just 200 points short of second, he began a Tier Six trial to try to break its records.

• Chen Nian broke all four Tier Five hunting records, drawing attention from students and instructors as he rapidly earned points.
• Wang Tianyi skipped class to chase points, while An Qingluo and the instructors watched Chen Nian’s progress.
• Chen Nian won five arena matches, earned 300 points, and passed Instructor Liu’s one-minute Platinum promotion assessment by hiding in the Chaos Space-Devouring Beast.
• Wang Tianyi matched with Chen Nian, but Chen Nian recovered his strength and defeated him with Word Spirits, ending the fight when Wang Tianyi surrendered.
• Chen Nian won ten consecutive arena matches and reached 3,500 points, 200 behind Wang Tianyi, but Platinum students stopped queuing against him.
• Unable to find another arena opponent, Chen Nian returned to the training grounds and entered the Tier Six trial to pursue more points.

Chen Nian broke into the Tier Six leaderboard by defeating ten Heavenly Cascade opponents and earning 500 assessment points, rising from last place to second. Exhausted, he fell asleep in a girl’s embrace as students across the academy celebrated his rise.

• Chen Nian entered the Tier Six Heavenly Torrent Rank training instance and defeated all ten opponents, using his powers and fighting on after exhausting his extraordinary energy.
• Chen Nian set a record of 2 minutes and 21 seconds, earning a scholarship and 500 assessment points.
• The updated leaderboard placed Yu Jing first, Chen Nian second, and Wang Tianyi third, while students and the academy forum celebrated Chen Nian’s rise.
• Girls in the medical department and dormitory discussed Chen Nian, and An Qingluo said his strength would help on their upcoming mission.
• A crowd of girls surrounded the exhausted Chen Nian when he left the training grounds, and he fell asleep in one girl’s embrace.

An Qingluo took the exhausted Chen Nian to her dorm, where he woke to find himself surrounded by teasing women. Meanwhile, Instructor Liu finally kissed Miao Xin after Chen Nian’s leaderboard victory settled their bet, and Chen Nian left the girls’ dorm by flying out the window.

• An Qingluo found junior girls carrying the exhausted Chen Nian into the girls’ dorm and took him to her room.
• Instructor Liu approached Miao Xin to return her cup, then admitted he wanted to kiss her and kissed her after she pressed him about his feelings.
• Chen Nian woke in An Qingluo’s dorm, where Sun Qian congratulated him on an upcoming mission with An Qingluo.
• Chen Nian stepped into the corridor and was surrounded by women inviting him to their rooms.
• An Qingluo pulled Chen Nian back from the crowd and ordered him to leave through the window, and he flew out of the dorm.

Chen Nian’s team chose the unstable Demon Sword Laevateinn as their equipment, then traveled to G-23 World to investigate the missing student and recorder. After locating the recorder’s black box, they reached its position and prepared to learn what had happened.

• The dean briefed Mu Yun, An Qingluo, Yu Jing, and Chen Nian before their S Rank mission, telling Chen Nian to protect An Qingluo.
• At the equipment department, Chen Nian and An Qingluo claimed the unstable Demon Sword Laevateinn after a damaged artifact caused a fire in the laboratory.
• An Qingluo failed to activate the sword despite releasing six magic circuits, and Chen Nian let her keep it for now.
• Rika placed a protective barrier technique on Chen Nian before the team departed for G-23 World.
• Mu Yun used a detector to locate the previous recorder’s black box, and the team traveled toward its signal until they reached its position.

After discovering that Gao Yue had betrayed and killed the recorder, Chen Nian’s team buried her and set out to stop the enemy’s search for energy crystals. Meanwhile, Twin Wings—whose real name was An Ran—searched the town for her younger sister, An Qingluo; the chapter ended with Chen Nian learning that Mu Yun also had a younger sister.

• Chen Nian located the dead recorder, but her body exploded when Mu Yun approached; the team survived and recovered the black box.
• The black box revealed that Gao Yue had defected, killed the recorder, and left a warning that he was hunting her.
• An Ran, the Origin Demon God known as Twin Wings, entered a town to search for her younger sister, An Qingluo, while Muddy considered following her.
• Chen Nian’s team buried the recorder, and Chen Nian vowed to kill Gao Yue before they turned toward the nearby city to gather information.
• The team changed into local-style clothing and entered the city, where Chen Nian learned that Mu Yun had a younger sister.

Chen Nian and Mu Yun searched the city for information and discovered that Calamity’s forces were hunting for energy crystal ore. Gao Yue sent a bomb disguised as a gift to Mu Yun, and Chen Nian shielded the girl who delivered it as the bomb exploded in the restaurant.

• An Qingluo split the group, sending Chen Nian and Mu Yun to gather information while she and Arina looked for lodging.
• Chen Nian and Mu Yun learned that a monster army had appeared in the north, and Chen Nian recognized a woman in black by her familiar jade-white earring.
• Gao Yue spotted Mu Yun at the restaurant and persuaded a hungry little girl to deliver him a brocade pouch.
• The pouch swelled and triggered Atomic Burst, so Chen Nian pulled the girl close and activated Judgment while Mu Yun raised a protective barrier.

Chen Nian followed the woman in black after she stopped an explosion, and discovered she knew An Qingluo when she recognized her earrings. After the woman teleported them away, Mu Yun and An Qingluo confronted Gao Yue and his allies, and a battle began outside the city.

• Chen Nian left Mu Yun and the others to follow the woman in black, who had vanished after the brocade pouch failed to explode.
• The woman in black trapped Chen Nian outside the city, but released him after he showed her An Qingluo’s earrings and said he was her boyfriend.
• The woman in black teleported herself and Chen Nian away as two groups rushed toward the battle site.
• Mu Yun and An Qingluo arrived at the site and confronted Gao Yue and several Heavenly Cascades.
• Mu Yun attacked Gao Yue while An Qingluo and Yu Jing fought the other three Heavenly Cascades.

An Ran secretly saved An Qingluo and Mu Yun from Gao Yue’s attack, then concealed her identity and arranged to celebrate her sister’s birthday through Chen Nian. Afterward, she returned to the Heavenly Cascades and ordered them to stay away from the city for three days.

• Mu Yun and Gao Yue fought while An Qingluo and Yu Jing battled the other Heavenly Cascades, and An Qingluo used Sea Mirror and explosive bullets to help Yu Jing.
• Gao Yue detonated a barrage of energy near arriving soldiers, but Mu Yun shielded most of them with his sword formation and was wounded.
• Gao Yue formed a Super Atomic Burst and forced Mu Yun and An Qingluo to choose between fleeing and protecting the people behind them.
• An Ran appeared in a mask and erased Gao Yue’s energy sphere with Seventh-circuit magic, Void, prompting the Heavenly Cascades to retreat.
• An Ran returned the Thousand Fox Mask to Chen Nian and asked him to deliver birthday presents to An Qingluo, and he agreed to help.
• Gao Yue questioned An Ran about the masked woman, and An Ran reprimanded him for acting without orders before forbidding the Heavenly Cascades from visiting the city for three days.

Chen Nian arranged a birthday meal for An Qingluo and reunited her with her long-lost sister, An Ran. An Qingluo invited An Ran to join them, though the sisters still belonged to opposing factions.

• Chen Nian returned to the meeting point, where An Qingluo scolded him for disappearing while she, Mu Yun, and Yu Jing had fought Gao Yue.
• The group exchanged information about the Calamity forces, and Mu Yun privately asked Chen Nian to teach him how to impress people.
• Chen Nian took An Qingluo, Mu Yun, and Yu Jing to the Moon-Gazing Pavilion and presented An Qingluo with rice sugar cakes for her birthday.
• An Qingluo recognized the cakes from her childhood and called out for her sister, prompting An Ran to reveal herself after hiding nearby.
• An Ran explained that she had been taken away by Demon Gods after protecting An Qingluo when they were children, and that Chen Nian had helped her find her sister.
• An Qingluo welcomed An Ran to join the meal, while Chen Nian clarified that he had pretended to be An Qingluo's boyfriend to help bring them together.

An Ran reunited with her younger sister An Qingluo, but left in the night after learning that the Calamity army was heading for an energy crystal mine. An Qingluo tracked her north, where the sisters seemed destined to face a deadly battle.

• An Qingluo happily recounted her adventures while An Ran kept her own violent life as Twin Wings to herself.
• Chen Nian and Yu Jing gave the sisters three days to catch up, during which An Qingluo and An Ran shopped, ate together, and talked at night.
• An Ran received a message that the energy crystal mine had been found and the Calamity army was assembling, then put An Qingluo into a deep sleep and left without saying goodbye.
• Mu Yun returned with news of the mine, and An Qingluo revealed that a magic mark on the bracelet she gave An Ran was moving north.
• An Ran continued north, remembered Mo Fu's prophecy that she would fight a fatal battle with the most important person in her life, and prepared to face it.