Recaps

Qin Ze learned that Yao Yuan led the Stars, a resistance movement seeking to restore order and unite humanity against the forces threatening its survival. After explaining the organization’s mission and strength, Yao Yuan revealed that the war had already begun and that his breakthrough to level nine would decide its outcome.

• Zither Woman brought Qin Ze to the Stars’ headquarters, where Yao Yuan appeared and praised his assessment.
• Yao Yuan explained that Qin Ze had passed because he chose to stand with the Stars, whose goal was to resist those destroying order and unite humanity.
• Qin Ze agreed with the Stars’ ideals and joked about taking the center position, while Yao Yuan said he could have it once he was strong enough.
• Yao Yuan told Qin Ze that the Stars had nine million members, four Advanced Martial Artists among its Eight Vajras, and accepted people from all backgrounds who shared its ideals.
• Yao Yuan declared that the war had already begun and that his breakthrough to level nine would be the moment the Stars made their winning move.

Qin Ze cultivated intensely in the Shelter Space and broke through to level three, while his companions also made progress. After his team finished their Mystic Dream Otherworld training, they planned to choose another mission, but intensive training began and disrupted their plans.

• Teacher Yao told Qin Ze that Xu Feng had suggested using Chen Zhong for Qin Ze's assessment after declining recruitment by the Stars.
• Qin Ze spent ten days cultivating in the Shelter Space and broke through to level three, while Dharma King, Brother Devour, and Giant Overlord reached level four.
• Thousand Faces and Qin Ze's professional team members also advanced through cultivation and training.
• Qin Ze told the team he had reached level three, and they agreed to visit the mission hall the next day.
• Intensive training began and interrupted the team's plan to take a mission.

Qin Ze and his team arrived in Shi'an City for a training camp and noticed unusually heavy security around the city. He also reconnected with the group-chat Daoist, buying a bundle of talismans while the reason for Shi'an's heightened defenses remained unclear.

• Qin Ze, his teammates, Teacher Song, and teaching assistant Nangong Qianrou traveled to Shi'an City for the ten-day training camp.
• Qin Ze noticed the city's unusually strict security, which Wen Jing and the others had initially overlooked.
• Teacher Song checked the team into the hotel and reminded them to attend the mobilization meeting the following night.
• Qin Ze released several hundred clones near the hotel, then saw that Catch a Fox Spirit had emerged from seclusion in the group chat.
• Qin Ze arranged for a clone to collect one hundred of Catch a Fox Spirit's talismans and bought several varieties to test.

Qin Ze and the professional team explored Shi'an City, where they found many businesses sealed and the streets unusually quiet. His clones learned that Anomalies were reportedly causing deaths across the city, and Qin Ze called Thousand Faces and Dharma King over to investigate.

• Qin Ze discussed fox spirits and the Pure Fox Clan in the group chat, then waited for the Daoist's talismans to arrive.
• Qin Ze joined Huai Xu and the team to explore Shi'an City, while Nangong Qianrou declined their invitation.
• Qin Ze noticed several shops sealed by the City Defense Bureau and found a deserted shop in disarray without signs of blood or a fight.
• Qin Ze's clones investigated the sealed locations and gathered reports that Anomalies had haunted Shi'an City for ten days, killing people.
• Qin Ze summoned Thousand Faces and Dharma King to come to Shi'an City and investigate the reports.

Qin Ze reunited with old classmates in Shi'an, where they discussed the upcoming Hundred Schools Competition and learned how much he had advanced. After walking Xie Xueying back to her hotel, Qin Ze heard Thousand Faces announce that it had found a lead.

• Qin Ze met Xie Xueying in the hotel lobby, and she invited him and Fatty to dinner with their former classmates.
• Qin Ze and Fatty joined Xie Xueying, Fang Songhua, and Zhang San for dinner, where Qin Ze revealed that he had reached level three.
• Qin Ze walked Xie Xueying back to the hotel and learned that Fang Songhua's father had died during the beast tide and his family company had gone bankrupt.
• Qin Ze returned to his room, where Thousand Faces announced over the Local Area Network that it had found a lead.

Qin Ze and his companions investigated the hauntings in Shi'an City and learned that a Ghost-Type Exotic Beast had been attacking residents. As they prepared to deal with the threat, Qin Ze received talismans from the Daoist, who revealed that he was heading to Shi'an too.

• Thousand Faces reported that a Ghost-Type Exotic Beast had caused the hauntings and killed twenty-one people in an apartment building.
• Thousand Faces said two level-five adjudicators had failed to see or catch the Ghost Type, and that the Law Enforcement Department had sought help from a martial arts master specializing in the mind.
• Qin Ze told the group not to risk their brains by confronting the Ghost Type, while Dharma King and the others joked about attacking it.
• Qin Ze opened a package from the Daoist and examined the Divine Travel, Healing, Evil-Warding, Golden Bell, and Five Elements Talismans.
• The Daoist told Qin Ze that the talismans should be used sparingly and said he was heading to Shi'an.

Qin Ze and the other seeded students attended the opening meeting for Shi'an's training camp, but a security guard possessed by a Ghost Type attacked and died before the creature appeared. Law enforcement began checking everyone for possession, leaving Qin Ze convinced the Ghost Type was still at large.

• Qin Ze learned in the group chat that a Daoist was heading to Shi'an City to deal with a Ghost Type exotic beast.
• Teacher Wang explained the one-week training camp schedule to the assembled seeded teams.
• A blood-eyed security guard lunged at a student, and Teacher Wang pinned him to the wall with an invisible force.
• The guard convulsed and died without the Ghost Type appearing, while Qin Ze moved his team toward an exit in case a fight broke out.
• Teacher Wang and a Judicator arranged checks with a magic tablet, and law enforcement began searching the hotel's guests for signs of possession.
• Qin Ze returned to his room as the training camp group chat received an announcement about the incident.

After a guard died in a suspected ghost-type attack, Qin Ze and his clones began searching Shi'an City while the training camp continued. The Daoist arrived to investigate, but his compass could not locate the beast, and the chapter ended with a law enforcement officer reporting that he had successfully infiltrated.

• Qin Ze read Little Deer's account of the auditorium attack and discussed whether the unseen creature could be a ghost-type with an unusual ability.
• Dharma King urged the clones to capture the creature and claim its Soul Orb, so Qin Ze ordered his clones to watch for signs of it across Shi'an City.
• The seeded contestants traveled to Shi'an Academy for two days of theory classes taught by veterans of the Abyss Battlefield.
• The Daoist arrived in Shi'an City, tried to locate the ghost-type with his bagua compass, and found that its needle spun without stopping.
• A law enforcement officer escorted the Daoist to the Law Enforcement Department and secretly reported, “Successfully infiltrated.”

Qin Ze’s crew used Thousand Faces to infiltrate the Shi'an Law Enforcement Department and keep the Daoist close as he investigated the apparent Ghost Type attacks. After the Daoist found no traces of a Ghost Type despite examining every crime scene and corpse, Thousand Faces announced that the Ghost Type had appeared.

• Qin Ze’s crew abducted an officer, and Thousand Faces took his appearance to infiltrate the Law Enforcement Department.
• Thousand Faces escorted the Daoist to the adjudicator, then joined teams one and two as they followed the Daoist to investigate the crime scenes.
• The Daoist searched the restaurant and other crime scenes with talismans, a compass, and white powder, but found no Ghost Type traces.
• The Daoist examined the victims’ corpses and found brain atrophy consistent with Ghost Type attacks, leaving him unable to explain the evidence.
• Thousand Faces rushed into the morgue and told the Daoist that the Ghost Type had appeared.

Qin Ze followed the Taoist’s investigation of a suspected Ghost Type to Shi'an No. 1 Middle School, where a possessed student had attacked a teacher. After the boy exploded during Qin Ze’s attempt to strike him, a translucent ghost lunged at Qin Ze.

• Qin Ze declined Xie Xueying’s invitation to dinner and left with Dharma King to investigate the incident at Shi'an No. 1 Middle School.
• A scarlet-eyed student attacked a teacher at the school before fleeing across the sports field, and the teacher later died from severe brain atrophy.
• The Taoist and a Level Five Adjudicator arrived with law enforcement officers, identified the threat as a Ghost Type, and began searching the school.
• Qin Ze entered the campus under cover of the Shelter Space and found the thin boy crouching in the gymnasium.
• Qin Ze fired lightning at the boy, who dodged it and then self-destructed; a translucent ghost immediately lunged at Qin Ze.

Qin Ze and a Daoist priest fought a silent apparition at the school, then discovered it was a Spirit rather than a Ghost Type. Qin Ze suspected the recent attacks had been engineered and left the school with the priest after concealing what they had learned from the Judicator.

• An Evil-Warding Talisman protected Qin Ze from the apparition, and his telekinetic Little Azure Dragon immobilized it while the Daoist priest destroyed it with a red talisman.
• Qin Ze told the priest that his uncle had sent him to investigate the supposed Ghost Type, and the priest recognized the Evil-Warding Talismans as his own work.
• The priest explained that the apparition was a Spirit formed after a person died, and Qin Ze realized an external force must have kept it active and outside its body.
• Qin Ze suspected the Ghost Type attacks were man-made and thought the company was involved.
• When the Judicator asked about the investigation, Qin Ze claimed the apparition had escaped, and later told the priest that the Judicator already knew the truth.

Qin Ze explained that someone inside the Law Enforcement Department was concealing the truth about the apparent Ghost Type attacks, and he recruited the Daoist to investigate the boy whose spirit had left his body. As the Daoist reached the boy’s home, an unseen enemy revealed that they had noticed him.

• Qin Ze told the Daoist that an insider had erased the victims’ records to buy time for the people behind the incidents.
• The Daoist agreed to investigate with Qin Ze, who directed him to the boy’s home while keeping himself and his clones out of sight.
• The Adjudicator told a man over the phone that he had kept the Daoist in the dark, then learned that a spirit had left its body and ordered people sent to the boy’s home.
• A homeless man slipped the Daoist a note with the boy’s address, and the Daoist hurried through the rain to the slum.
• The Daoist saw the boy’s worried family waiting at home, but an unseen figure called him a rat just as he approached.

The Daoist killed the four deathsworn sent by the Judge, then visited the boy’s family while Qin Ze watched from a distance. The next morning, Qin Ze learned that the Dawn Mobile Squad had been established as a company security force, as news broke of a fire at Green Manufacturing Group’s headquarters.

• The Daoist used talismans and his enchanted wooden sword to kill all four deathsworn, then covered the trench he had made and went to the boy’s home.
• The Judge learned the deathsworn had failed and ordered his organization to destroy its records and stop recruiting volunteers.
• Qin Ze had Brother Devour and the others keep watch on the Daoist, then returned to bed after the Daoist left the boy’s home.
• Qin Ze watched a report announcing the establishment of the Dawn Mobile Squad, a ten-thousand-person armed security force for Chamber of Commerce companies.
• News reported a fire at Green Manufacturing Group’s headquarters, and its president blamed the companies’ mobile squad for arriving too late.

Qin Ze guided the Daoist’s investigation into the Green Group while Thousand Faces infiltrated its building. After the training camp announced a wilderness exercise for the next day, the Son of the Version sent word back late that night.

• The Daoist told Qin Ze that four deathsworn had tried to kill a boy’s family, and that the boy’s notebook linked him to a well-paid job at the Green Group.
• Qin Ze suspected the Green Group’s records-room fire had been deliberate and told the Daoist to investigate the company’s partners, business dealings, and funding.
• Qin Ze sent Thousand Faces to search the Green Group while Dharma King and Brother Devour waited outside to provide backup.
• The Daoist discussed Qin Ze’s trial with Beast Tamer and reported that the Ghost Type trouble in Shi’an City was a trick; Fairies Don't Poop offered to help investigate.
• Teacher Song announced the next day’s wilderness training, and Nangong Qianrou’s professional team met to introduce themselves and prepare.
• The Son of the Version sent word through the Local Area Network late that night.

Thousand Faces discovered that Green Group’s Project Zero had recruited the boy as a volunteer, while the Daoist confirmed that Green Group was controlled by Black Mountain Biotechnology. Qin Ze joined the five-day Cold Mountain training hunt as a thin white mist began descending from the summit.

• Thousand Faces found a Project Zero volunteer list at Green Group and reported that the boy was on its second batch.
• The adjudicator let the chamber of commerce’s mobile squad investigate the fire, then agreed to assist the company with a secret operation.
• Teacher Wang briefed the training teams on the five-day hunt for exotic beasts and Soul Orbs on Cold Mountain.
• The Daoist told Qin Ze that Black Mountain Biotechnology directed Green Group’s projects, and said he would search for its secret research institute with help from a friend.
• Qin Ze’s professional team entered the mountain with Nangong following as their bodyguard, and white mist began spreading down from the summit.

Qin Ze’s team fought its first beasts in thick fog, discovering that even low-level creatures showed abnormal strength and resilience. After a distant explosion interrupted their discussion, the team faced a new danger.

• Teacher Wang ordered her assistant to check with the weather bureau and arrange hourly contact with the teaching assistants as fog spread over the training grounds.
• Qin Ze tightened the team’s formation and had Huai Xu scout ahead, then directed everyone to surround a black-furred boar.
• Huai Xu’s arrow and Wen Jing’s Iron Fist badly wounded the boar, but it survived and knocked Wen Jing aside before Qin Ze killed it with a tiger-shaped strike.
• Qin Ze warned the team not to assume beasts were dead, and the group later encountered two more creatures with strength and recovery beyond their apparent levels.
• Nangong Qianrou agreed that the beasts were abnormal, and a distant explosion sounded through the thickening fog.

Qin Ze discovered that robots had attacked the training teams and went into the fog to rescue the captives. Elsewhere, a Daoist learned that Black Mountain's Shi'an research institute was on Cold Mountain.

• Qin Ze's group found the Shi'an Academy captain badly wounded, and he said seven robots had defeated the assistant instructor and taken the others.
• When Nangong could not contact the command room, Qin Ze sent her to lead the group downhill with the injured captain and went after the robots alone.
• A missile narrowly missed Qin Ze, and several silver robots emerged around him in the fog.
• A Daoist tortured the Green Group president for information, learning that Black Mountain was hunting released volunteers and that its Shi'an research institute was on Cold Mountain.

Teacher Wang sent a law enforcement team up Cold Mountain after losing contact with every training team, while Qin Ze discovered the fog was artificial and found the S-rank exotic beast Smoke Ghost at the summit. Qin Ze realized the Shi'an Research Institute was behind the missing students and stood before the beast that generated the fog.

• Teacher Wang ordered the training stopped and sent a law enforcement team into the fog to find the students, then asked his assistant to gather additional high-level personnel because he distrusted the adjudicator.
• Thousand Faces told Qin Ze that the adjudicator had entered the mountain with people posing as law enforcement officers, and Qin Ze sent Dharma King and Brother Devour after them.
• Catch a Fox Spirit told Beast Tamer that the Shi'an Research Institute was at Cold Mountain's summit and might have taken the students for Project Zero, and Qin Ze confirmed he was preparing to rescue his classmates.
• Catch a Fox Spirit and Fairies Don't Poop set out for Cold Mountain while Beast Tamer asked them to look after Qin Ze.
• Qin Ze discovered that the fog confused his senses, flew above it, and found that it covered only the lower mountain.
• Qin Ze followed the fog to its source and found the S-rank exotic beast Smoke Ghost swallowing clouds and spewing fog.

Qin Ze infiltrated the research institute and found the captured students, while he and his allies prepared to free them and reach Smoke Ghost. The chapter ended as two masked researchers approached the holding room.

• Qin Ze discovered Smoke Ghost trapped in a laser cage and watched a clone die when it touched the barrier.
• Two mercenaries brought Zhang San, Fang Songhua, and other captured students to the mountaintop, and Qin Ze followed them down into the institute.
• Qin Ze learned in the group chat that the Daoist and the others had been captured after the mountain fog led them back toward the summit.
• Yao Yuan arranged for a Sea Capital Law Enforcement team to investigate and support the group, while Qin Ze prepared to find the institute's main control room.
• Brother Devour and Dharma King joined Qin Ze near the holding room, and two masked researchers approached them.

Qin Ze infiltrated the Project Zero laboratory and learned that its researchers were testing whether spirits could be extracted from bodies. After his clone showed extraordinary mental power, the researchers began extracting its spirit, leaving Qin Ze to witness the process from the Shelter Space.

• Qin Ze and his clones disguised themselves as researchers and a volunteer, then entered the core laboratory marked Zero.
• Professor explained that Project Zero had shifted from brain transplants to direct spirit transfers, using the students as test subjects.
• Qin Ze heard the middle-aged company representative question whether the company wanted longevity, then watched the clone undergo a mental-power test that measured forty shi.
• Professor ordered the researchers to test the clone, and the equipment caused Qin Ze, Dharma King, and the others to suffer intense pain for ten minutes.
• The assistant reported that the clone's spirit and consciousness had stabilized, and the researchers extracted a shifting mass from its body as Qin Ze wondered if it was his spirit.

Qin Ze’s Spirit left his body and gained the ability to float and see through objects, but it began to fade after two minutes. When researchers tried to control it through data cables, Qin Ze seized the institute’s network and systems, turning the facility into an extension of himself.

• Qin Ze observed the laboratory through his Spirit and discovered that it could see through one wall and perceive people’s strength as colors.
• The professor and assistant confirmed that the Spirit had separated successfully with nearly all of its consciousness intact, while the middle-aged man demanded detailed data within three days.
• The assistant warned that the Spirit would dissipate unless it returned to the body soon, and Qin Ze dismissed its brief-range abilities as limited.
• When the assistant tried to control the Spirit through data cables, Qin Ze destroyed the intruding consciousness and then flooded the cables with energy.
• Qin Ze spread his consciousness through the institute’s network, gaining access to its cameras, doors, power, and computers, and triggered an alarm as the firewall failed.
• The assistant identified the Spirit as the source of the network intrusion.

Qin Ze took control of the research institute through Spirit and turned the tables on the professor and his allies. As students broke out of their holding area and the Daoist reached the institute, the group began searching for the central control room and Qin Ze.

• Teacher Wang and the students arrived at the institute with the bald adjudicator, who claimed he planned to frame the chief commander for colluding with evil forces.
• Qin Ze used Spirit to seize the institute’s central processor, seal the lab, and pump its air outside, leaving the professor and assistant trapped.
• The middle-aged man rescued the professor and arranged for a replacement quantum computer to arrive in three hours, while Qin Ze warned they had less time than that.
• Qin Ze unlocked the students’ electronic handcuffs, and Wen Jing led them in overpowering the guards.
• Huai Xu, Nangong Qianrou, Lu Tongtong, and the others set out to find the central control room as Qin Ze released the elevator and the Daoist reached the institute.

Taoist arrived during the detention-area riot, killed the Level Five Arbiter, and helped the students escape. Meanwhile, Qin Ze released Smoke Ghost from its cage, and Taoist discovered that Qin Ze’s Spirit had left his body.

• Taoist followed the mobile squad to the detention area and killed the Arbiter before defeating the remaining guards and squad members.
• Taoist directed the students to the exit elevator, where Qin Ze would help them escape, then followed the arrows leading toward Qin Ze.
• Qin Ze shut down the laser cage holding Smoke Ghost, triggering an alarm that he promptly silenced.
• The middle-aged man left the laboratory to investigate Smoke Ghost’s escape and encountered Taoist and the professional team.
• Taoist saw Qin Ze inside the enclosure and realized that Qin Ze’s Spirit had left his body.

Brother Devour and the clones killed the helpless Smoke Ghost and gave his Soul Orb to Private, who gained the Fog of War ability and became Mist Lord. As Teacher Wang and the students emerged from the elevator, helicopters attacked them, and Dawn Mobile Squads moved in to surround everyone.

• The clones attacked Smoke Ghost, but he remained passive until Brother Devour realized his teeth and claws had been removed and his limbs broken.
• Brother Devour killed Smoke Ghost and pulled out his Soul Orb, which the clones argued over before giving it to the level-two clone Private.
• Private absorbed the Soul Orb, rose to level three and a half, and gained Fog of War, a mist domain that strengthened allies and confused enemies.
• Dharma King called for the elevator to bring Qin Ze and the group down as they prepared to head into the research institute.
• Five helicopters arrived and fired rockets at Teacher Wang and the students, but Dharma King intercepted them with a net of lightning.
• Five Dawn Mobile Squads landed and moved to surround the clones and students.

Teacher Wang and the students were caught between a one-eyed mercenary’s forces and Dharma King’s clones, who fought to open an escape route for them. As the students fled, Dharma King and Brother Devour faced the mercenary, who revealed a scarlet eye.

• The one-eyed mercenary ordered his forces to kill everyone, but Dharma King arrived and gave Teacher Wang and the students a chance to escape.
• The mercenary’s reinforcements blocked the group again, and Dharma King transformed while Mist Lord filled the mountaintop with Fog of War.
• The clones charged the encirclement, using explosions to open a path and escort the students through it.
• The students and Teacher Wang escaped down the mountain as the clones turned back to fight the pursuers.
• Brother Devour trapped the mercenary’s arm inside his body while Dharma King struck him with lightning, but the mercenary freed himself and removed his eyepatch to reveal a scarlet eye.