Recaps

Wang Yao and Little Turtle argued over whether Jiang Fan was Little Turtle’s master while fighting the Church of Justice’s Holy Son and his black-robed followers. After the Holy Son escaped with a teleportation talisman, Wang Yao returned to find Jiang Fan gone and demanded that Little Turtle tell her where he was.

• Jiang Fan recovered from his injuries with Body Restoration Pills and told Little Turtle he no longer needed guarding.
• Little Turtle joined Wang Yao and insisted Jiang Fan was not its master, but Wang Yao argued that he was hiding his identity.
• The Church of Justice’s Holy Son used a teleportation talisman to escape, though Wang Yao struck his face with her whip as he vanished.
• The Holy Son appeared several dozen li away with a cross-shaped welt on his face and vowed revenge against Wang Yao and the thief who stole his Spirit Weapon.
• Wang Yao returned to Jiang Fan’s spot, found it empty, and grabbed Little Turtle’s hair as she demanded to know where he had gone.

Jiang Fan reached the secret realm’s entrance with the Spirit Weapon but found the Zhou Family and the Church of Justice blocking the way, each waiting to intercept whoever emerged with it. Injured and unable to slip past unnoticed, he faced the risk that a search would expose his spatial ring.

• Wang Yao made Little Turtle agree that she was the woman it remembered, then went with it to wait for Jiang Fan at the secret realm’s entrance.
• Zhou Xi led the Zhou Family members toward the entrance, and the remaining Church of Justice members followed.
• Jiang Fan recalled Big Black and hurried to the entrance, where he found the Zhou Family and Church of Justice confronting each other beside a dead Zhou Family member.
• The two groups traded accusations and insults over the dead man and the Spirit Weapon but held back from fighting until its holder appeared.
• Jiang Fan realized that the two groups’ elite fighters had sealed off the exit, and that his injuries and the risk of exposing his spatial ring left him with no easy way out.

Jiang Fan stayed hidden in the sea of mist, killing Mist Scorpions and gaining enough points to prepare for a qi-and-blood boost while he waited for a chance to escape. Outside the secret realm, Zhou Lingxing and the Church of Justice’s leader confronted each other over the stolen Spirit Weapon, with neither side backing down.

• Jiang Fan killed Mist Scorpions as people heading for the exit found their corpses and credited the slaughter to an anonymous benefactor, bringing him a wave of points.
• Jiang Fan saw that his points had reached 50,000 and planned to exchange them for 50 Qi and Blood Fruits.
• Jiang Fan remained hidden after the Zhou Family and the Church of Justice refused to let even thoroughly searched people leave the secret realm.
• Zhou Lingxing accused the Church of Justice of abducting children and committing murder and arson, while its leader defended the church’s actions and invoked the Sacred Lord’s gift of the Spirit Weapon.
• Zhou Lingxing and the black-robed old man declared their rival claims to the Spirit Weapon and ended their exchange without resolving the conflict.

Jiang Fan broke through to the late stage of the second rank after killing a Mist Scorpion, while the Zhou Family and the Church of Justice learned that an advanced psychic had taken the Spirit Weapon. As Wang Yao planned to lure Jiang Fan out, a fight erupted inside the secret realm, and everyone outside watched the entrance for whoever might emerge.

• Jiang Fan reached the late stage of the second rank after killing the Mist Scorpion.
• Zhou Xi learned that the advanced psychic had taken the Spirit Weapon and that Zhou Yu had been killed by the Church of Justice.
• The Church of Justice decided to join forces with the Zhou Family to stop the advanced psychic, who could only use part of his power.
• Wang Yao guessed that Jiang Fan was hiding nearby and planned to create chaos so he could escape.
• Zhou Chuan was struck by a dart and vanished into the entrance while trying to leave, prompting Zhou Xi and the Zhou Family to confront the Church of Justice.
• Jiang Fan seized the chance as the two factions began to fight, while Zhou Lingxing and the others outside watched the secret realm entrance ripple.

Zhou Chuan emerged from the secret realm poisoned and told Zhou Lingxing that an advanced psychic had taken the Spirit Weapon. Zhou Lingxing and the black-robed elder were stunned by the revelation, and Zhou Chuan began to explain what had happened to the psychic.

• Zhou Chuan stumbled out of the entrance with a poisoned dart in his back, and Zhou Lingxing caught him as Zhou Zhengjiao gave him an antidote pill.
• Zhou Chuan told Zhou Lingxing that the Spirit Weapon had been found but taken by someone, prompting the black-robed elder to assume the Church of Justice's Holy Son had seized it.
• Zhou Chuan denied that the Church of Justice had taken the Spirit Weapon and said an advanced psychic had taken it instead.
• The black-robed elder suspected Yan Tianyang had secretly sent the advanced psychic into the secret realm, while Zhou Lingxing realized the person might be Brother Thigh's disciple.
• Zhou Lingxing urgently asked where the advanced psychic had gone and whether he was hurt, but Zhou Chuan could only begin to answer before his strength failed.

Zhou Lingxing learned that Jiang Fan had taken the Spirit Weapon and been seriously wounded by the Church of Justice's Holy Son, while Yan Tianyang and Wei San had assumed Jiang Fan was only a Spirit Master. The revelation left Yan Tianyang shocked and convinced that Jiang Fan possessed extraordinary talent.

• Zhou Chuan told Zhou Lingxing that Jiang Fan had obtained the Spirit Weapon but was seriously wounded by the Holy Son's Pseudo Spirit Weapon, then passed out.
• Zhou Lingxing, alarmed by Jiang Fan's injuries, immediately called Yan Tianyang's camp.
• Yan Tianyang explained to Wei San that he trusted Jiang Fan to steal the Spirit Weapon and expected Master Li to contact Zhou Lingxing for help.
• Yan Tianyang and Wei San learned from Zhou Lingxing that the wounded Advanced Psychic was the one Yan Tianyang had sent.
• Yan Tianyang realized Jiang Fan was an Advanced Psychic and declared that his talent was unmatched by anyone except the Legendary-Level Psychic in history.

Yan Tianyang learned that Jiang Fan had become an advanced psychic and decided to retrieve the injured teenager himself, but the pontiff of the Church of Justice arrived to intercept him. Their clash left the Divine Wind Camp shaken, and the pontiff revealed that he knew Jiang Fan was an advanced psychic hidden in the secret realm.

• Yan Tianyang regretted letting Jiang Fan go and decided to bring him back despite Wei San's objections.
• A terrifying force approached the Divine Wind Camp, and Yan Tianyang flew up to confront the intruder, the pontiff of the Church of Justice.
• The pontiff recognized Thousand Tribulations and told Yan Tianyang that Master Li Qianjie had once received the saber from the Holy Lord, though the pontiff had wanted it for himself.
• Yan Tianyang and the pontiff exchanged attacks, and the shock waves forced most people in the Divine Wind Camp fortress to the ground.
• The pontiff revealed that he knew Jiang Fan was an advanced psychic and praised Yan Tianyang for secretly sending him into the secret realm.

Jiang Fan used the fight between Wang Yao and the Church of Justice to disguise himself as a Zhou Family member and provoke a larger melee. He escaped through the secret realm entrance while his opponent was still trying to understand what had happened.

• The pontiff told Yan Tianyang that he intended to kill the advanced psychic, and Yan Tianyang held back from fighting him to avoid a catastrophe.
• Wang Yao attacked members of the Church of Justice, provoking them into fighting her and creating an opening for Jiang Fan.
• Jiang Fan kidnapped and disguised himself as an unconscious Zhou Family member, then urged the Zhou Family to join the fight.
• Jiang Fan charged the Emissaries of Justice guarding the entrance, prompting Zhou Xi and others to move and setting off a melee.
• Jiang Fan pretended to be struck and flew into the secret realm entrance, escaping as the black-robed man stared in confusion.

Jiang Fan emerged from the secret realm between the Zhou Family and the Church of Justice, concealing his identity while both sides questioned him. When a Church member accused him of being suspicious, Zhou Lingxing and the black-robed elder fought to seize him, and Zhou Lingxing pulled him behind himself.

• Jiang Fan emerged from the secret realm and found the Zhou Family and the Church of Justice confronting each other outside.
• Zhou Lingxing claimed Jiang Fan as a Zhou Family member and warned the black-robed elder against taking him.
• Zhou Zhengjiao brought Jiang Fan behind Zhou Lingxing, and Jiang Fan claimed the secret realm was in chaos and that the Advanced Psychic had been injured.
• Jiang Fan pretended to be hurt and accepted a Body Restoration Pill, then told the black-robed elder he had not seen the Church's Holy Son.
• A Church member was whipped out of the secret realm and accused Jiang Fan of being suspicious.
• The black-robed elder tried to pull Jiang Fan toward him, but Zhou Lingxing used his full strength to drag Jiang Fan behind him.

Jiang Fan tried to escape the clash between the Zhou Family and the Church of Justice, but Zhou Zhengjiao suddenly recognized him as someone worth protecting and clung to his leg. As the Zhou Family fought to shield him and people died, Jiang Fan joined the battle by attacking the Church of Justice’s weaker members with Ice Flame Hedgehog Spines.

• Jiang Fan tried to retreat, but Zhou Lingxing ordered Zhou Zhengjiao to restrain him, and Zhou Zhengjiao’s pressure pinned him in place.
• Jiang Fan tried to distract Zhou Zhengjiao with a flying saber and flee, but Zhou Zhengjiao grabbed his thigh and declared that he would protect him.
• The black-robed elder ordered the Church of Justice to kill Jiang Fan, while Zhou Lingxing ordered the Zhou Family to protect him to the death.
• As the two sides fought and Zhou Zhengjiao was wounded, Jiang Fan asked why he was being protected, and Zhou Zhengjiao claimed it was an honor to defend a future pillar of Great Xia.
• Shaken by the sacrifices made for him, Jiang Fan attacked the Church of Justice’s weaker Emissaries of Justice with Psychic Power-wrapped Ice Flame Hedgehog Spines.

Jiang Fan used his Psychic Power to kill hundreds of Emissaries of Justice, but his injuries left him vulnerable until Jin Changfeng arrived to help Zhou Lingxing protect him. The chapter ended with Jin Changfeng learning that Jiang Fan was an advanced psychic, not an intermediate psychic.

• Jiang Fan killed hundreds of first- and second-rank Emissaries of Justice with a massive Psychic Power attack, leaving himself badly injured.
• Jin Changfeng arrived, and he and Zhou Lingxing traded taunts before the black-robed elder attacked Jiang Fan.
• Zhou Lingxing and Jin Changfeng teamed up to drive the black-robed elder back and protect Jiang Fan.
• Jin Changfeng explained that Crazy Old Man had asked him to rescue Jiang Fan, and said he hoped his grandson could become Jiang Fan's thigh accessory.
• Zhou Lingxing told Jin Changfeng that Jiang Fan was an advanced psychic, surprising him.

Jiang Fan watched the Divine Wind Guard turn the battle against the Church of Justice before Wei Jiu led him away. Wang Yao arrived searching for Jiang Fan and killed several Church members who failed to answer her, then Little Turtle knocked down a man who tried to attack her.

• Jin Changfeng learned that Jiang Fan was an advanced Spirit Master, while the black-robed elder resumed fighting the Zhou Family.
• The Divine Wind Guard arrived and used their coordinated attacks to drive back the Church of Justice.
• Wei Jiu secretly approached Jiang Fan and took him away from the battle.
• Wang Yao emerged from the secret realm and killed four black-robed men while demanding to know where Jiang Fan was.
• A late-stage fourth-rank black-robed man charged at Wang Yao, but Little Turtle kicked him into a wall.

Little Turtle defeated the Church of Justice elder and was recognized as Black Tortoise Baxia, one of the Church's ancient divine guardian beasts and the Holy Lord's contracted beast. When the elder said the advanced psychic was with the Zhou Family, Little Turtle and Wang Yao turned to Zhou Lingxing to demand his whereabouts.

• Little Turtle kicked a Middle-Stage Sixth Rank martial artist through a wall, then blasted the black-robed elder away with water from his nostrils.
• Little Turtle explained that he had blown out his snot, disgusting Wang Yao and the onlookers while the elder coughed and vomited.
• The black-robed elder recognized Little Turtle as Black Tortoise Baxia, and Zhou Lingxing told Zhou Zhengjiao that Baxia was one of the Church of Justice's four divine guardian beasts and the Holy Lord's contracted beast.
• The elder claimed the advanced psychic was with the Zhou Family, and Little Turtle and Wang Yao demanded that Zhou Lingxing tell them where he was.

After escaping the Zhou Family, Jiang Fan was confronted by Wei Jiu, who demanded the Spirit Weapon and tried to force him to hand it over. Jiang Fan refused and prepared to fight back as an enraged roar approached.

• Zhou Lingxing realized Jiang Fan had vanished, and Little Turtle carried Wang Yao away to pursue him.
• Wei Jiu told Jiang Fan that Yan Shuai had sent him to ensure Jiang Fan's safe departure and demanded the Spirit Weapon.
• Jiang Fan denied having the Spirit Weapon and rejected Wei Jiu's demand to surrender it for Divine Wind Camp researchers.
• Wei Jiu used his aura to crush Jiang Fan, but Jiang Fan resisted and challenged him to attack.
• Wei Jiu grabbed Jiang Fan by the collar, and Jiang Fan gathered his remaining Psychic Power to strike as an furious roar approached.

Jiang Fan confronted Wei Jiu over the Spirit Weapon until Wei San intervened and revealed that Yan Tianyang had chosen Jiang Fan as a successor. After Yan Tianyang ended his standoff with the pontiff, Wei San took the injured Jiang Fan toward Yuanwu, while Wang Yao and Little Turtle found his blood and set out to search for him.

• Wei San stopped Wei Jiu from holding Jiang Fan and revealed that Jiang Fan was one of Yan Tianyang's personally chosen successors.
• Jiang Fan asked whether Yan Tianyang wanted the Spirit Weapon, and Wei San said he had given no such order.
• Wei San called Yan Tianyang, who ended his standoff with the pontiff without fighting and warned that the Church of Justice would search for Jiang Fan.
• Wei San told Jiang Fan to recover and conceal his identity, then took him toward Yuanwu.
• Little Turtle found Jiang Fan's blood, and Wang Yao insisted he was nearby and went to search for him.

Yan Tianyang punished Wei Jiu for injuring Jiang Fan, while Jiang Fan sought a large supply of Body Restoration Pills to treat his wounds. At Fortress No. 31, Crazy Old Man learned that Jiang Fan had claimed the Spirit Weapon, but Zhou Lingxing admitted his people had been killed before they could help.

• Yan Tianyang ordered Wei Jiu to guard the lowest level of the Heaven-Reaching Tower for injuring Jiang Fan, and Wei Jiu accepted while secretly resenting Jiang Fan.
• Jiang Fan stabilized his injuries with his last Body Restoration Pill and asked Fatty for more.
• Fatty offered Jiang Fan several pills, then agreed to contact the Pill Pavilion after Jiang Fan requested seven or eight hundred, or even a thousand.
• Crazy Old Man anxiously called Zhou Lingxing to ask about Jiang Fan after the secret realm closed.
• Zhou Lingxing told Crazy Old Man that Jiang Fan's side had taken the Spirit Weapon and admitted that the Church of Justice had killed the people he sent to help.

Crazy Old Man learned that Jiang Fan had become an advanced psychic, survived a Pseudo Spirit Weapon attack, and brought the Spirit Weapon out of the secret realm. Their conversation turned to the Church of Justice’s Holy Son and the broken seal on the Spirit Weapon.

• Zhou Lingxing told Crazy Old Man that Jiang Fan had won the Spirit Weapon, routed the Church of Justice, and defeated its Holy Son, then revealed he believed Jiang Fan was an advanced psychic.
• Crazy Old Man called Jiang Fan, scolded him for hiding his advancement, and grew alarmed when Jiang Fan said a Pseudo Spirit Weapon had pierced him.
• Jiang Fan asked Crazy Old Man for Body Restoration Pills, and Crazy Old Man promised to have Xiao Yan send some.
• Crazy Old Man asked about the Holy Son’s appearance, and Jiang Fan described how a woman had disfigured the feminine-looking man.
• Jiang Fan recounted the Holy Son’s actions, and Crazy Old Man concluded he was not the person they suspected.
• Jiang Fan confirmed he had brought out the Spirit Weapon and told Crazy Old Man that its seal had been broken.

Jiang Fan and Crazy Old Man discussed how Jiang Fan had used the Spirit Weapon, while Crazy Old Man dreamed of the man who had rescued him as a child. Three days later, Jiang Fan and Fatty attended class, where a rare transfer student was announced.

• Jiang Fan told Crazy Old Man that his blood had caused runes and purple lightning to appear on the Spirit Weapon, and Crazy Old Man guessed that Jiang Fan had refined it anew.
• Crazy Old Man dreamed of his childhood, when his master rescued him from kidnappers and carried him home.
• Three days later, Jiang Fan and Fatty arrived at class, and their teacher announced that a transfer student had joined them.
• The students wondered who the transfer student was, knowing such arrivals at the five elite martial arts schools were rare.

Wang Yao transferred into Jiang Fan’s class and probed him about how he had overcome his congenital deficiency. Jiang Fan left rather than answer, while Wang Yao revealed that she had enrolled to search for someone from the secret realm.

• Wang Yao arrived as a transfer student, startling Jiang Fan, who worried she had come for the Spirit Weapon.
• Wang Yao introduced herself and sat behind Jiang Fan and Xiao Sanjin, making both men uneasy throughout class.
• After class, Xiao Sanjin revealed that Wang Yao was his cousin, and he introduced her to Jiang Fan.
• Wang Yao asked Jiang Fan what opportunity had strengthened his qi and blood, then teased him with an offer of dinner.
• Jiang Fan rejected the offer and walked out; Little Turtle praised his resistance to Wang Yao’s charms.
• Wang Yao admitted she had become a student to search for someone from the secret realm, and Xiao Sanjin asked how she planned to find him.

Wang Yao warned Fatty that someone inside the Pill Pavilion had leaked his whereabouts and urged him to secure his place as the Wang Family heir. At Yuanwu, Zhou Zhengjiao arrived searching for his missing nephew Zhou Yanchen and began to suspect Jiang Fan was someone he had met before.

• Wang Yao told Fatty that the Blood Fang abduction attempt likely involved a leak from inside the Pill Pavilion.
• Wang Yao urged Fatty to claim his role as heir so he could protect the family and help Brother Fan, and Fatty resolved to do so.
• Wang Yao told Fatty to stay alert and contact her if danger arose; Fatty said Xiao Gang, Brother Fan, and her protective will were with him.
• Jiang Fan decided to keep Big Black and his Spirit Weapon hidden from Fatty and Wang Yao as he walked across campus.
• Jiang Fan learned that Zhou Yanchen had disappeared and saw Zhou Zhengjiao arrive at Yuanwu with a large group to search for him.
• Zhou Zhengjiao stopped Jiang Fan and scrutinized him, saying his gut told him they had met before, while Jiang Fan denied recognizing him.

Jiang Fan found Zhou Yanchen buried alive in a coffin beneath the Yuanwu campus and helped Zhou Zhengjiao rescue him. Grateful and overwhelmed, Zhou Yanchen clung to Jiang Fan’s thigh and vowed to follow him.

• Jiang Fan learned that Zhou Yanchen had vanished from campus and used his psychic power to search Yuanwu for him.
• Jiang Fan discovered disturbed lawn and buried four-leaf clovers behind the library, then sensed a coffin underground containing Zhou Yanchen.
• Jiang Fan told Zhou Zhengjiao and Xing Wu where to look, and Xing Wu blasted open the earth to expose the coffin.
• Zhou Zhengjiao freed Zhou Yanchen and gave him a Body Restoration Pill, saving him from his near-death condition.
• Zhou Yanchen thanked Jiang Fan by calling him his second father, then clung to his thigh and promised to obey him.

Jiang Fan rescued Zhou Yanchen from being buried alive and earned a large number of points, but Jin Kai accused him of the crime. Zhou Yanchen defended Jiang Fan and then accused Jin Kai, prompting Zhou Zhengjiao to regard Jin Kai with killing intent.

• Jiang Fan freed Zhou Yanchen, received 100 points for saving him, and heard Zhou Yanchen thank him while calling him Brother Thigh.
• Jiang Fan explained how he found Zhou Yanchen, then learned that Zhou Yanchen had been knocked out and buried after being abducted.
• Jin Kai arrived and accused Jiang Fan of burying Zhou Yanchen, causing the onlookers to look at Jiang Fan suspiciously.
• Zhou Yanchen fiercely defended Jiang Fan and insisted that he would never harm him.
• Zhou Yanchen accused Jin Kai of burying him to retaliate for being caught bullying a female student, and Zhou Zhengjiao turned a murderous gaze on Jin Kai.

After Zhou Yanchen was rescued from underground, Zhou Zhengjiao accused Jin Kai, then took his nephew home. Wang Yao pressed Jiang Fan for the truth about how he found Zhou Yanchen, followed him to the cafeteria, and revealed that she and Fatty went back to his birth.

• Zhou Zhengjiao grabbed Jin Kai and accused him of burying Zhou Yanchen, but Jin Kai denied it and left after being threatened.
• Zhou Yanchen clung to Jiang Fan's thigh and offered to buy him a meal, but Zhou Zhengjiao dragged him home to see his grandfather.
• Wang Yao cornered Jiang Fan and questioned his claim that he had heard Zhou Yanchen underground, but Jiang Fan insisted his hearing was exceptional and walked away.
• Wang Yao followed Jiang Fan to the cafeteria, where Fatty joined them and bought her a hawthorn drink.
• Fatty explained that he was nicknamed Sanjin because he weighed three jin at birth, and Wang Yao recalled holding him as a tiny baby.

Jiang Fan watched a news interview with Lan Shengxue and learned she had earned a substitute spot on the Five-School League by defeating Qingwu's existing substitutes. When a reporter downplayed Jiang Fan's achievements as luck, Lan Shengxue defended him, leaving Wang Yao teasing him about her public confession.

• Jiang Fan questioned how Wang Yao knew so much about Fatty's birth, and Wang Yao joked that she was far older than him.
• A cafeteria broadcast reported that Lan Shengxue had advanced to early-stage second rank in three months.
• Fatty asked Jiang Fan about his relationship with Lan Shengxue, and Jiang Fan said they counted as friends.
• Lan Shengxue told a reporter she had challenged and defeated Qingwu's substitutes to secure a place as a substitute for the Five-School League.
• Lan Shengxue insisted Jiang Fan was a peerless prodigy whose success was not luck, and Wang Yao teased him about her public confession.

Jiang Fan grew uneasy after hearing about Ye Qizhen and Lan Shengxue’s rapid cultivation, then drew Wang Yao’s interest with his extraordinary beast-taming aptitude. He stopped Fatty from revealing the secret of his failed contracts and insisted that Fatty keep it hidden.

• Jiang Fan heard that Ye Qizhen had reached mid-stage first rank and that Lan Shengxue had nearly caught up to his cultivation, leaving him wondering how quickly they had improved.
• Wang Yao asked Jiang Fan about his contracted beast, and Fatty revealed that Jiang Fan had 99 soul power and had broken the soul-threshold testing machine.
• Wang Yao offered Jiang Fan a place in the Pill Pavilion and promised to find him a four-star demonic beast.
• Fatty began to reveal that Jiang Fan’s contracts involved dead demonic beasts, but Jiang Fan stomped on his foot and dragged him out of the cafeteria.
• Jiang Fan warned Fatty not to tell anyone, not even his cousin, about the demonic beasts that had died after he contracted them.