Recaps

Wang Yao reunited with Jiang Fan and revealed her feelings, leaving Wang Shuhe stunned and heartbroken when she realized she had fallen for the same man. A sudden worldwide darkness passed, and Wang Yao identified it as another Spiritual Tide, though she did not yet explain what that meant.

• Wang Yao clung to Jiang Fan and insisted she would marry no one but him, while Wang Shuhe struggled to process their relationship.
• Wang Yao noticed Wang Shuhe's glance at Jiang Fan and realized her descendant had fallen for him.
• The sky abruptly turned pitch-black, and Jiang Fan spread his Psychic Power across a vast area engulfed in darkness.
• After half a quarter of an hour, the darkness lifted and the crowd began discussing the frightening event.
• Wang Yao called the phenomenon another Spiritual Tide, then linked arms with Jiang Fan again as he asked what she meant.

Wang Yao explained that a second spiritual energy revival had begun, and Principal Lu Chengjun announced that Blue Star’s volume had increased a hundredfold. As Jiang Fan and Zhou Yanchen headed back, they discovered a bizarre creature eating a person in an alley.

• Wang Yao told Jiang Fan that the sudden increase in spiritual energy was a second spiritual tide.
• Lu Chengjun assembled the students and announced that Blue Star had grown a hundredfold as spiritual energy revived again.
• Lu Chengjun suspended classes without explaining what other changes might occur.
• Jiang Fan told Zhou Yanchen they should return to Zhou Yanchen’s place to check on their families.
• Jiang Fan and Zhou Yanchen found a humanlike monster with serrated teeth, sharp claws, and three pupils eating a person.

Jiang Fan killed a First-Molt Ruins Species and learned from Yan Tianyang that the monsters came from the Ruins Realm, which was linked to Blue Star by the Heaven-Reaching Tower. The tower showed signs of being breached, but Yan Tianyang said it had not yet been fully breached.

• A First-Molt Ruins Species lunged at Jiang Fan and Zhou Yanchen, and Jiang Fan beheaded it, earning 50 points and a lottery draw.
• Zhou Yanchen found a Blood Crystal, and Yan Tianyang identified it as a substance that could rapidly increase a martial artist’s vitality.
• Yan Tianyang explained the Ruins Species’ ranks and said the Divine Wind Camp’s leadership had concealed information about the Ruins Realm.
• Jiang Fan guessed that the Divine Wind Camp guarded the Heaven-Reaching Tower, and Yan Tianyang confirmed it was a gateway connecting Blue Star to the Ruins Realm.
• Yan Tianyang said the tower showed signs of being breached but had not been fully breached, leaving Jiang Fan to question how the Ruins Species had appeared.

After the second spiritual energy resurgence, Jiang Fan learned that seventy-seven gateways to the Ruins Realm had appeared across Blue Star, including thirty-seven in Great Xia. Lu Chengjun announced that martial schools and factions would send people through the gateways to kill Ruins Species before war began.

• Jiang Fan learned from Yan Tianyang that new gateways had appeared after the second spiritual energy resurgence.
• Jiang Fan saw that people and martial artists had grown stronger overnight, while Ye Qizhen boasted about his rapid advancement and psychic power.
• Jiang Fan decided to return to the Outer Wilderness Zone and dragged Ye Qizhen along, but the school summoned all students to the field.
• Lu Chengjun explained that the Heaven-Reaching Tower connected Blue Star to the Ruins Realm and told the students about the Ruins Species.
• Lu Chengjun announced that seventy-seven small gateways had appeared across Blue Star, thirty-seven in Great Xia, and said the Divine Wind Camp had ordered martial schools and factions to send people through them to kill Ruins Species.

Lu Chengjun explained the dangers and rewards of entering the Ruins Species gate and invited students to join a team heading to Gate No. D045. Jiang Fan signed up eagerly, but uncertainty over how the gate would suppress his strength left his friends urging him to wait.

• Lu Chengjun announced that a ten-person team would gather at Gate No. D045 in three days and explained that Ruins Species carried Blood Crystals that could boost and replenish martial artists.
• Jiang Fan eagerly volunteered to enter the gate, followed by Lan Shengxue, Ye Qizhen, and Wang Yao.
• Lu Chengjun explained that only martial artists below third rank could enter, though stronger fighters could suppress their strength, and that the gate's spatial laws would weaken them further.
• Ye Qizhen asked whether Spirit Masters would also be suppressed, but Lu Chengjun said no Spirit Master had entered a gate before, so he did not know.
• Ye Qizhen and Lan Shengxue urged Jiang Fan to wait because his strength might be heavily suppressed, and Wang Yao offered to have her clansmen give him any Blood Crystals they found.

Jiang Fan decided to enter the gateway despite the danger, and several companions insisted on going with him. The chapter left Fatty asking to join after Wang Yao declared Jiang Fan her precious darling.

• Ye Qizhen teased Lan Shengxue about making a move on Jiang Fan, and Lan Shengxue accused him of being jealous.
• Wang Yao gave Little Turtle to Jiang Fan to accompany him into the gateway, and Little Turtle reluctantly agreed after she threatened his hair.
• Zhou Yanchen insisted on joining Jiang Fan, and Jiang Fan agreed after warning him that he might die.
• Jin Kai mocked Zhou Yanchen, but backed down when Jiang Fan reminded him he had killed someone in public and threatened to do so again.
• Fatty asked to go with Jiang Fan, but Wang Yao pushed him aside and told Jiang Fan that he was her precious darling.

Jiang Fan drew ten temporary points-binding targets and prepared to use them in the Doorway, though his attempts to recruit Zhou Yanchen and Zhou Zhengjiao led to misunderstandings and chaos. Three days later, Jiang Fan brought his squad to the D045 Doorway, where Divine Wind Guards checked entrants.

• Jiang Fan drew temporary points-binding targets x10, allowing him to bind ten people for 72 hours.
• Jiang Fan considered binding Zhou Yanchen to train him, but Zhou Yanchen misunderstood his stare and offered to arrange backdoor business.
• Zhou Yanchen sent Zhou Zhengjiao to Jiang Fan, who also misunderstood and began undressing; Jiang Fan blasted him through the door and several trees before shouting that Zhou Yanchen was dead.
• Jiang Fan brought the ten-person squad to the D045 Doorway three days later, where Divine Wind Guards verified their information before allowing entry.
• Fatty marveled at the spiritual energy spilling out from the Doorway and wondered whether it was denser inside.

Jiang Fan’s group entered the doorway and discovered that its dense spiritual energy could help them cultivate, while spatial rules sharply suppressed Jiang Fan’s martial strength. The group learned that only people under thirty could enter, and Jiang Fan remained formidable thanks to his unaffected Psychic Power and Beast Tamer abilities.

• Jiang Fan led his group through the doorway, where they found a dark world illuminated by glowing specks of dense spiritual energy.
• Lan Shengxue, Zhou Yanchen, and the others absorbed the spiritual energy, while Jiang Fan stayed standing because the spatial rules had suppressed his strength to early-stage second rank.
• Ye Qizhen teased Jiang Fan about the suppression, then backed down when Jiang Fan challenged him to spar.
• Little Turtle warned Jiang Fan that it would not help unless they faced a life-or-death crisis, while Zhou Yanchen confirmed that Jiang Fan’s Psychic Power was unaffected.
• Fatty and Ye Qizhen explained that entry was restricted to people under thirty and that sending powerful Spirit Masters inside would risk losing them.
• Zhao Zhidong and the others asked after Jiang Fan, who reminded them that he could summon his Earth-Splitting Rhinoceroses.

Jiang Fan led his team through the gate, killing Ruins Species and collecting Blood Crystals while Little Turtle reacted to seeing his master's shadow in Jiang Fan. After Jiang Fan rallied his tired teammates, they charged toward a tribe of more than two hundred Ruins Species.

• Three Ruins Species appeared, and Jiang Fan quickly killed them and extracted their Blood Crystals.
• Little Turtle saw his master's shadow in Jiang Fan, then angrily accused him of looking down on him.
• Zhao Zhidong explained the Blood Crystals' value and the prices they fetched, while Jiang Fan urged the group to hunt deeper in the gate.
• Jiang Fan and his teammates killed Ruins Species for points and prize draws, but Su Xiaoyan suggested taking a break.
• Jiang Fan rallied the team with a speech and led them toward a nearby tribe of more than two hundred Ruins Species.

Jiang Fan’s team attacked a Ruins Species tribe, where he killed a hidden Second-Molt Ruins Species and earned system rewards. After leading the group through dozens more tribes, he spotted Chao Yang among a nearby group.

• Jiang Fan led his team against a tribe of roughly two hundred Ruins Species and warned them that the creatures were stronger than the ones they had fought earlier.
• Ye Qizhen used Psychic Power to kill two fleeing Ruins Species, then a concealed Second-Molt Ruins Species attacked him and Jiang Fan cut it in half.
• Ye Qizhen said he had trusted Jiang Fan to protect him, while Lan Shengxue accused Ye Qizhen of being in love with Jiang Fan and openly staked her claim beside him.
• Jiang Fan led the team through more than fifty tribes and received ten temporary points-binding targets from the system after killing a Second-Molt Ruins Species.
• Jiang Fan noticed a nearby group that included Chao Yang, a favored Shenwu student whose father and uncle served as Second-Class Divine Wind Guards.

Chao Yang’s squad counted their Blood Crystals and discussed Jiang Fan and Ye Qizhen while Jiang Fan’s group listened nearby. After Jiang Fan used the system’s ten point-binding targets on the squad, he asked how many Ruins Species they had killed, and his reaction to their total left them wondering how much more his group had earned.

• Chao Yang’s squad counted twenty-eight Blood Crystals and chose Body Restoration Pills over consuming the crystals to recover.
• Chao Yang’s teammates discussed Jiang Fan and Ye Qizhen, and Chao Yang suggested they were close because of love.
• Jiang Fan overheard the conversation and moved away from Ye Qizhen, who protested that he would not let anyone break his spine.
• Jiang Fan led his group to meet Chao Yang’s squad and used all ten point-binding targets on them.
• A teammate proudly reported that the squad had killed twenty-eight Ruins Species, but Jiang Fan’s disdainful reaction made them suspect his group had collected many more Blood Crystals.

Jiang Fan led his exhausted team through a relentless hunt, but agreed to rest when Lan Shengxue asked. Meanwhile, Chao Yang’s team ran out of Blood Crystals while fleeing a huge Ruins Species horde, leaving them on the verge of being caught.

• Jiang Fan offered Chao Yang’s team a chance to join his hunt, but Chao Yang refused and left with his teammates.
• Jiang Fan drove his team from tribe to tribe, feeding Zhou Yanchen Blood Crystals and pushing them to keep fighting until Lan Shengxue persuaded him to allow a ten-minute rest.
• Ye Qizhen sensed that Chao Yang’s team was being pursued by more than a thousand Ruins Species after they entered a tribe led by three female Third Molt Ruins Species.
• Chao Yang ordered his teammates to absorb Blood Crystals while running, and they repeatedly spent their reserves to keep ahead of the horde.
• After the team used up its last Blood Crystal, Chao Yang’s exhausted teammates feared they were doomed and lamented what they would leave behind.

Jiang Fan charged into a horde of Ruins Species to rescue Chao Yang and his team, who mistook his actions for a heroic sacrifice. After giving them Blood Crystals and protection, he fought alongside them and the arriving Ye Qizhen and Lan Shengxue, until a third-molt Ruins Species leader declared its desire to make him a male consort.

• Chao Yang and his teammates faced Ruins Species on both sides and prepared to fight to the death.
• Jiang Fan rushed past them and plunged into the Ruins Species horde, prompting Chao Yang and his team to charge in after him.
• Jiang Fan gave Chao Yang's exhausted teammates Blood Crystals and assigned an Earth-Splitting Rhinoceros to guard each of them.
• Ye Qizhen, Lan Shengxue, and the others arrived, easing the team's pressure as Jiang Fan and Ye Qizhen fought together.
• A third-molt Ruins Species leader charged toward Jiang Fan and demanded that no one hurt him because it wanted him as its male consort.

Jiang Fan and Lan Shengxue fought the female Ruins Species who had mistaken Jiang Fan for their desired man. The last survivor realized that Jiang Fan was another Spirit Master.

• Jiang Fan joked with Ye Qizhen about which of them the female Ruins Species wanted, but the three females rushed past Ye Qizhen to pursue Jiang Fan.
• Lan Shengxue killed one of the females and refused Jiang Fan's offer to help with the other two.
• As a Ruins Species tried to attack Lan Shengxue from behind, Jiang Fan stabbed her through the heart.
• The last female Ruins Species saw Jiang Fan's saber and stammered that he was another Spirit Master.

Jiang Fan gained 100 cubic meters of storage space, shared a huge haul of Blood Crystals with the Chao Yang Squad, and continued hunting Ruins Species with them for three days. The group then discovered a massive tribe led by two exceptionally powerful Ruins Species, and Ye Qizhen asked whether they could defeat them together.

• Jiang Fan received 100 cubic meters of storage space as a reward for killing a third molt Ruins Species, and learned that each additional cubic meter would cost 10,000 points.
• Jiang Fan urged the Chao Yang Squad to divide the mountain of Blood Crystals equally, earning their admiration and agreement to team up again.
• Jiang Fan, Ye Qizhen, and the Chao Yang Squad hunted Ruins Species together for three days, while Jiang Fan gained ten temporary point-binding targets twice.
• Jiang Fan sensed a tribe of seven or eight thousand Ruins Species five thousand meters ahead, including twelve third molt creatures and two leaders near elite strength.
• Ye Qizhen asked whether their combined strength could handle the two leaders, while Jiang Fan instinctively moved away at her mention of their twin swords.

Jiang Fan and Ye Qizhen planned to infiltrate the Ruins Species tribe by using their looks to get captured and reach its leaders. Lan Shengxue reluctantly let them go without her, and Jiang Fan and Ye Qizhen approached the tribe while pretending to be exhausted and pursued.

• Jiang Fan warned Ye Qizhen that the tribe’s leaders and ten other Third Molt Ruins Species were too strong to confront directly.
• Ye Qizhen proposed that Jiang Fan pose as a captive to get close to the tribe’s female Ruins Species and its husband-and-wife leaders.
• Lan Shengxue objected, but Jiang Fan persuaded her to stay behind by promising to protect her and take responsibility for her safety.
• Jiang Fan invited Ye Qizhen to join the plan, and Lan Shengxue insisted on going before Jiang Fan refused and convinced her to remain hidden.
• Jiang Fan and Ye Qizhen reached the tribe’s vicinity, left the bushes, and pretended they were exhausted fugitives as they walked toward it.

Jiang Fan and Ye Qizhen posed as exhausted travelers to lure Ruins Species into capturing them, but Anseka and Sailuoke took them to the tribe’s birthday banquet as gifts for Lady Tanfan'er. The chapter ended as Tanfan'er showed interest in the human males and a guest began mocking Sailuoke.

• Jiang Fan and Ye Qizhen’s act convinced the Ruins Species hiding nearby to surround them.
• Anseka and Sailuoke argued over their past romantic scandals before remembering they needed a birthday gift for Lady Tanfan'er.
• Anseka and Sailuoke decided to offer both Jiang Fan and Ye Qizhen to Tanfan'er, and Jiang Fan stopped Ye Qizhen from resisting.
• Sailuoke brought the captives to the tribe’s birthday banquet and reported that she had found two handsome human males for Tanfan'er.
• Tanfan'er became interested in the humans, and a guest began speaking mockingly to Sailuoke.

Jiang Fan and Ye Qizhen entered a Ruins Species birthday banquet as gifts, and Jiang Fan’s looks sparked a fight among the female guests. When chief Kawena arrived to restore order and promised to kill the human herself, she saw Jiang Fan and froze.

• Sailuoke brought Jiang Fan and Ye Qizhen to Tanfan'er's birthday banquet, where their appearance stunned the Ruins Species guests.
• Several female Ruins Species demanded Jiang Fan and Ye Qizhen as repayment for favors and debts, then fought over them despite Tanfan'er's warning.
• Kawena arrived, scolded the guests for fighting over a human, and said she would kill him herself.
• Kawena turned toward Jiang Fan, recognized his striking appearance, and stopped mid-sentence in shock.

Kawena took Jiang Fan and Ye Qizhen to her tree hollow, where they prepared to act against her. Before they could move, her husband Linyasi arrived and confronted her, leaving Jiang Fan and Ye Qizhen waiting to see how the situation unfolded.

• Kawena stopped Tanfan'er from killing Jiang Fan and Ye Qizhen, saying she would take both men to interrogate them.
• Kawena led Jiang Fan and Ye Qizhen to her tree hollow, where she ordered Jiang Fan to attend to her and teased him.
• Jiang Fan and Ye Qizhen considered attacking Kawena but held back to avoid drawing reinforcements.
• Linyasi entered the tree hollow in a rage and accused Kawena of betraying him.
• Kawena offered to let Linyasi have a side piece, and he asked if she was serious.

Jiang Fan and Ye Qizhen attacked Linyasi and Kawena after the couple agreed to take them, then joined forces with Lan Shengxue’s group to fight the tribe. Jiang Fan killed the couple and received two Psychic Fruits, leaving him stunned by the system notifications.

• Linyasi asked Kawena to give him Jiang Fan and Ye Qizhen, and she agreed.
• Jiang Fan and Ye Qizhen wounded the couple and fought them while Ye Qizhen sensed reinforcements approaching.
• Jiang Fan summoned Earth-Splitting Rhinoceroses and unleashed his psychic power as Lan Shengxue and the others attacked the tribe from outside.
• Lan Shengxue killed a Ruins Species, while Fatty and Zhou Yanchen exchanged gossip during the battle.
• Jiang Fan killed Linyasi and Kawena, and the system awarded him two Psychic Fruits.

Jiang Fan gained three Psychic Fruits from the Ruins Species family and advanced to Great Psychic, stunning Ye Qizhen. As Kawena lay dying, she formed a seal just as Jiang Fan turned to leave.

• Jiang Fan discovered that killing the Ruins Species couple had yielded two Psychic Fruits and absorbed them, bringing his psychic power close to the Great Psychic threshold.
• The system awarded Jiang Fan another Psychic Fruit and points for the unborn child inside Kawena, and he absorbed the fruit to become a Great Psychic.
• Ye Qizhen was shocked by Jiang Fan’s breakthrough, then resigned himself to the difficulty of catching up with him.
• Kawena, still barely alive, threatened Jiang Fan, and he declined to finish her off because he knew she was already doomed.
• As Jiang Fan turned to leave, Kawena gathered her remaining strength and formed a seal.

After a Ruins Species cursed Jiang Fan with a mark that would make him an enemy of her kind, he learned the curse would draw Ruins Species to hunt him. Jiang Fan welcomed the prospect of more targets and rewards, while Ye Qizhen wanted Commander Yan to find a way to remove the mark.

• Kawena cursed Jiang Fan before collapsing into a husk, and Ye Qizhen called Little Turtle for help.
• Jiang Fan regained consciousness with a blood-red mark on his forehead, and Little Turtle explained it would identify him as an enemy to the Ruins Species.
• Little Turtle warned that Jiang Fan could become the enemy of the entire Ruins Realm, but Jiang Fan was delighted by the prospect of earning points and rewards.
• Little Turtle returned to Jiang Fan's pocket and planned to grow stronger before Wang Yao learned the truth about Jiang Fan.
• Ye Qizhen suggested asking Commander Yan to remove the curse, but Jiang Fan said he liked how the mark looked.

Jiang Fan drove Zhou Yanchen and Fatty into battle after discovering they had made no contributions, then pursued fleeing Ruins Species despite Chao Yang’s warning. Chao Yang grew suspicious of Jiang Fan’s unexplained battlefield rescues, while Ye Qizhen calmly insisted Jiang Fan would return safely.

• Jiang Fan found that Fatty and Zhou Yanchen had contributed nothing, so he launched them into a mass of Ruins Species and made them fight for their lives.
• Zhou Yanchen accidentally revealed that he had let Jiang Fan’s secret slip, prompting Jiang Fan to leave them surrounded while secretly protecting Zhou Yanchen with his Psychic Power.
• Jiang Fan and the others had killed four or five thousand Ruins Species, but the exhausted Chao Yang warned that their group could not kill them all.
• Chao Yang recalled Ruins Species dying inexplicably whenever he was in danger and began to suspect that someone other than Ye Qizhen had been helping him.
• Jiang Fan chased more than a thousand fleeing Ruins Species into the woods, and Ye Qizhen stopped Chao Yang from following, saying Jiang Fan would return soon.

Jiang Fan returned after killing nearly a thousand Ruins Species, leaving Chao Yang suspicious of how he had done it. The group then rescued two Pill Pavilion members, who revealed that Sister Shuhe and the others had been captured.

• Chao Yang questioned Jiang Fan about the fleeing Ruins Species, and Jiang Fan produced nearly a thousand Blood Crystals, claiming he had killed them all.
• Jiang Fan told Ye Qizhen that they should kill Chao Yang, then bickered with him over who should become the Divine Wind Camp's future commander.
• Jiang Fan noticed something ahead and told the group to take cover as two humans fled from pursuing Ruins Species.
• Fatty recognized the two as members of his Pill Pavilion, and Jiang Fan quickly killed their pursuers to rescue them.
• The rescued members said Sister Shuhe and the others had been captured, and Jiang Fan recognized Shuhe as someone resembling Wang Yao.

Jiang Fan and his companions set out to rescue Wang Shuhe and the other Wang Family members by posing as sacrifices and infiltrating the Ruins Species tribe that captured them. At the tribe’s altar, they discovered an orange tabby that Little Turtle identified as a rare Ruins Spirit.

• Two escaped Wang Family members told Jiang Fan that Wang Shuhe and the others had been captured by a large Ruins Species tribe for a sacrificial ceremony.
• Jiang Fan decided to infiltrate the tribe using their old trick, and Lan Shengxue gave him her hair ribbon to cover the mark on his forehead.
• Jiang Fan and Ye Qizhen pretended to be badly injured, were captured, and were taken to the tribe’s sacrificial altar.
• Jiang Fan and Ye Qizhen saw a plump orange tabby lying atop the altar, and Little Turtle recognized it as a rare Ruins Spirit.