Recaps

Qin Ze read Old Huang’s diary and learned that the second-generation Star Gate was cracking and Old Huang expected to die, while he worried about Miss Sword Case. The diary ended with the Goddess of Life revealing a plan that could end everything and bring Old Huang back from the dead.

• Qin Ze read that cracks had appeared in the second-generation Star Gate and that Old Huang had refused Qin Ze’s offer of his Source of God of War.
• Qin Ze realized Old Huang’s sorrowful reference to “that child” meant Miss Sword Case, whom Old Huang had built into the Star Gate.
• Qin Ze continued reading Old Huang’s diary, but found that Old Huang kept postponing his promised record of his ultimate techniques.
• Qin Ze read that Old Huang had secretly chosen a burial site and believed the live-in son-in-law was visiting more often because he might soon die.
• Qin Ze learned that the Goddess of Life had awakened and told Old Huang she had a new plan that could end everything and bring him back from the dead.

Qin Ze read how Old Huang built the Oracle Holy Temple to block Chaos, then left for Chaos as the Star Gate neared collapse and the gods faced renewed danger. After closing the Chronicle of Time, Qin Ze activated Fate Oracle to find the remaining children.

• Qin Ze learned from Old Huang’s diary that the Oracle Holy Temple was part of the Goddess of Life’s plan and stopped Chaos from seeping into the Land of the Gods.
• Old Huang recorded that the God of Machinery and other gods had turned against them, while cracks spread through the Star Gate and Spirit Divination Stick appeared.
• Old Huang left to seek answers in Chaos after the goddess’s plan remained unfinished and the Star Gate approached collapse.
• Qin Ze closed the Chronicle of Time and discussed with his clones whether Old Huang might succeed in Chaos.
• Qin Ze activated Fate Oracle and asked it to help find the remaining children.

Qin Ze asked the Fate Oracle to find the three remaining swords belonging to Miss Sword Case, and it used its power to bind him to them. With the swords still missing and Qin Ze close to breaking through to Level Nine, he decided to go home and introduce Miss Sword Case to his closest friend and teacher.

• The Fate Oracle awakened, mocked its surroundings, and agreed to help Qin Ze find Miss Sword Case's three remaining swords.
• Miss Sword Case had Fire Child attack the Fate Oracle after it insulted her, then called the swords back and let it proceed.
• The Fate Oracle invoked its power, bestowed God-Given Mortal Body on Qin Ze, and turned into starlight that formed a subtle connection between him and the Abyss.
• Miss Sword Case searched Qin Ze for her missing children, while Qin Ze told her the Fate Oracle's power would take time to work.
• Qin Ze said he was close to breaking through to Level Nine and decided to go home to introduce Miss Sword Case to his closest friend and teacher.

Qin Ze and Miss Sword Case approached Penglai City as Qin Ze grew excited and nervous about returning home. Meanwhile, Fairy and Ma Yan accepted a mission to go to Snow City, rescue Leo and Cancer, and seize the Hall of Stars.

• Miss Sword Case promised to be friends with Qin Ze’s old friend as the Abyss Puppet flew toward Penglai City.
• Sagittarius confronted Fairy and Ma Yan over their previous missions, but Fairy argued that they had not failed and demanded a reward.
• Sagittarius ordered Fairy and Ma Yan to go to Snow City when the Hall of Stars opened, rescue Leo and Cancer, and seize the Hall of Stars.
• Fairy accepted the mission immediately and left the gray fog with Ma Yan.
• Qin Ze and Miss Sword Case drew near Penglai City, and Qin Ze shouted that their king had returned.

Qin Ze returned to Snow City, where the Saber King warned him to stay out of the Fairness Society’s renewed activity in Otherworld No. Zero while he prepared to break through. Back at the Circus base, Qin Ze reunited with the starving Big Black and tried to meditate, but ended up falling asleep.

• Qin Ze and his clones returned to Snow City, and the Saber King appeared to comment on Qin Ze’s imminent breakthrough.
• The Saber King told Qin Ze that the Fairness Society had become active in Otherworld No. Zero and advised him to remain in Snow City until he broke through.
• Qin Ze agreed to stay in Snow City, and the Saber King left to guard the Gate of the Abyss.
• Qin Ze returned to the Circus base and found Big Black thin and distressed after being left alone without food.
• Qin Ze fed Big Black, released the clones into the warehouse, and took Miss Sword Case upstairs to meditate.
• Qin Ze failed to find the feeling of a breakthrough and fell asleep in a recliner.

Qin Ze rested in Snow City and learned from the Hunter group chat that Fairy had returned from Otherworld No. Zero and was drawing the Hunters to the city. As he wondered what she intended, a white-haired woman and A Niu arrived at Snow City, dragging a bronze coffin through the snow.

• Qin Ze woke to find Miss Sword Case had painted his face, then checked the Hunter group chat while resting by the fire.
• The Hunters discussed Fairy and Ma Yan’s retreat from Otherworld No. Zero, where they had faced the Grand Consul and the Twelve Zodiac Signs.
• Fairy challenged Slacking on the Sidelines and announced that she would come to Snow City, prompting several Hunters to plan a gathering there.
• Qin Ze suspected Fairy had deliberately summoned the Hunters but could not work out her purpose.
• A white-haired woman rode on a bronze coffin as A Niu dragged it through the snow, and they reached the outskirts of Snow City.

Qin Ze heard a tavern tale about two gods who vanished after battling in the Northern Territory, then learned that a clone had found their supposed treasure in Snow City. Two masked men discovered a bronze coffin and were stopped from taking it by an unseen speaker who claimed it as a trophy.

• A civil official told the tavern crowd a legend about a snow god and a demon god battling over the Northern Territory.
• Qin Ze dismissed the story as a myth and left the tavern with Miss Sword Case as a blizzard covered the streets.
• A clone announced over the Local Area Network that the two gods’ treasure had been found in Snow City.
• Leopard and Peppa found a bronze coffin in a basement, but touching it froze Leopard’s arms, which Peppa cut off.
• An unseen voice warned Leopard and Peppa to keep away from the coffin, calling it their trophy.

After Peppa and Leopard were killed while searching a hidden basement, Qin Ze sent the Circus to find the stolen bronze coffin. Brother Devour caught up with the thieves and fought A Niu, while another Circus member confronted the woman who had accompanied him.

• A woman and A Niu killed Peppa and Leopard, took the bronze coffin, and left their bodies in the basement.
• Qin Ze learned that the coffin had vanished and ordered the Circus to search Snow City, promising the first finder a chance to open it.
• Brother Devour returned to the basement, spotted A Niu and the woman nearby, and attacked them.
• Brother Devour and A Niu traded powerful punches, each recognizing the other's formidable physical strength.
• A masked Circus member appeared above the woman and struck at her with a claw of lightning.

The Dharma King, A Bing, and the Mist Lord attacked a white-haired woman whose uncanny ability let her evade every strike and turn their attacks against them. As the fighting spread, Qin Ze summoned the Super Wings, and Lao Dao left the Abyss Gate to respond.

• The Dharma King’s lightning repeatedly missed the woman, who dodged effortlessly and used the lightning scars in the snow to make a picture.
• A Bing’s Plague Pollen and Smiley Face Pollen backfired, leaving the Dharma King coughing before A Bing restored him.
• The Mist Lord trapped the woman in Fog of War, but she evaded the Dharma King’s Thunderbolts and the Mist Lord’s Mist Blades.
• Qin Ze guessed that the woman could predict her opponents’ moves and told the Dharma King that the ability must have a cost.
• Brother Devour and A Niu continued trading increasingly powerful blows, destroying the abandoned buildings nearby.
• Qin Ze used his magic card to summon the Super Wings, and Lao Dao left the Abyss Gate after seeing the golden pillar of light.

A woman with uncanny luck evaded the Heavenly Kings’ attacks before the Saber King arrived and attacked her and A Niu. Fairy and Ma Yan rescued them, and Lao Dao revealed that the woman’s power came from the same source as the Hall of Stars, leading Qin Ze to realize the group had come for him.

• The Heavenly Kings withdrew as Super Wings approached, leaving A Niu and the woman to face the Saber King.
• The woman’s luck repeatedly altered Lao Dao’s attacks, while A Niu defended her and took heavy injuries.
• The woman’s power began transforming her, but Fairy’s flowers and grass soothed her before Fairy and Ma Yan removed her and A Niu in a dark Domain.
• Lao Dao told Qin Ze that the woman’s power came from the same source as the Hall of Stars, where Yao Yuan remained.
• Qin Ze concluded that the group had come because of him.

Qin Ze struggled to find the conviction or crisis needed to break through to Level Nine, while his companions searched Snow City for a mysterious coffin. The chapter ended with Fairy confronting White Hair and A Niu about the coffin, which White Hair called her trophy.

• Qin Ze asked Lao Dao how he had broken through to Level Nine, and Lao Dao explained that conviction mattered as much as cultivation.
• Lao Dao urged Qin Ze to identify what he wanted to protect or seek a life-and-death battle, but Qin Ze could not find a suitable challenge.
• Qin Ze praised Miss Sword Case’s new drawing, then decided to sleep instead of returning to Chaos.
• Magician brought Big Black to search for the coffin, while Qin Ze ordered the clones to dig through the ground for it.
• Fairy scolded White Hair and A Niu in a cave, then Ma Yan asked where they had found the bronze coffin.
• White Hair called the coffin her trophy and added that it belonged to A Niu too.

Fairy suspected the president had arranged for Scorpio to find the bronze coffin, while Qin Ze's search for it in Snow City came up empty. The Tree Keeper then reported that he had lost even his faint sense of the Hall of Stars, leaving Qin Ze worried that Brother Yuanzi was in danger.

• White Hair recounted how she and A Niu had found the bronze coffin, and Fairy discovered that her vines froze when they touched its lid.
• Fairy ordered White Hair and A Niu to guard the coffin while she and Ma Yan left the cave.
• Fairy told Ma Yan that Scorpio resonated faintly with the coffin and suspected the president had used the rescue mission as cover to retrieve it.
• Qin Ze woke in Snow City, heard that his clones had failed to find the coffin, and told them to keep searching.
• The Tree Keeper contacted Qin Ze through the World Tree and said he could no longer sense the Hall of Stars, prompting Qin Ze to fear Brother Yuanzi was in danger.

Qin Ze prepared to leave for the Spirit Clan to help Brother Yuanzi, but weighed several risky ways to break through from Level Eight to Level Nine. Echo offered to help in exchange for half a heart, until Fairy sent word that she would help him cultivate that night.

• Qin Ze decided to set out for the Spirit Clan despite the danger, and summoned his clones to discuss their options.
• Thousand Faces suggested that Niuniu could help Qin Ze cultivate, while Qin Ze considered making a deal with Echo through the Magic Conch.
• Echo offered to help Qin Ze reach Level Nine in exchange for his heart, then reduced the price to half a heart.
• Qin Ze nearly agreed to sacrifice a clone's heart before Fairy messaged him to meet at the summit of the Ring Mountains at eight that night.
• Qin Ze declined Echo's offer after receiving Fairy's message.

Qin Ze and the others gathered at the summit of the Ring Mountains after Fairy summoned them, while several hunters discussed their difficulty breaking through to Level Nine. Taoist had recently reached Level Nine, and the chapter ended with Fairy appearing and challenging Fast Man to a fight.

• Qin Ze canceled the trip to the Molten Steel Civilization and sent his clones back to digging in the snow.
• Qin Ze read Fairy's invitation to meet at the summit of the Ring Mountains and wondered why she had summoned everyone.
• Qin Ze arrived early and noticed that Taoist had broken through to Level Nine.
• Slacking on the Sidelines, Little Deer, Brother Biao, and Scholar arrived and argued about whether Fairy could be trusted.
• Fairy emerged from a giant rosebud and called Fast Man out to die.

Fairy reunited the Hunters and revealed that Yao Yuan had ordered her to stage his apparent betrayal and arrange their future breakthrough. She presented one of his keys and opened the way for Qin Ze and Lin Zhiyuan to join the group, leaving them poised to enter the Breakthrough Otherworld.

• Fairy bound and whipped Slacking on the Sidelines, then greeted Lu Tongtong and the other Hunters.
• Fairy revealed Taoist had reached Level Nine, though his unstable realm could still fall back.
• Fairy said Yao Yuan had ordered her apparent betrayal and arranged a gathering to help the Hunters break through.
• Fairy explained that a Breakthrough Otherworld required nine keys and showed Yao Yuan's split key, which counted as half.
• Fairy called for the missing key-holder, and Lin Zhiyuan emerged from the Shelter Space as Qin Ze revealed himself to the Hunters.

Qin Ze reunited with the Hunters and introduced them to Miss Sword Case before they opened the Breakthrough Otherworld. The Hunters entered the trial, where Qin Ze hoped to reach Level Nine and unlock the Hall of Stars.

• Little Deer and the other Hunters tearfully welcomed Qin Ze back after learning he had survived.
• Qin Ze introduced himself again as the Human Race's eighth-seat Hunter, Beast Tamer, Circus leader, and Haidu Academy freshman, then introduced Miss Sword Case to the group.
• Fairy and the Hunters agreed to open the Breakthrough Otherworld for Qin Ze, while Lu Tongtong said her Deduction ability would help her cultivation without it.
• Fairy counted the group and Passerby A revealed he had been overlooked; everyone then activated their keys around Qin Ze.
• A great tree appeared behind Qin Ze, and seven-colored light opened the Breakthrough Otherworld and carried the Hunters inside to begin the trial.

The Breakthrough Otherworld placed Qin Ze, Taoist, Slacking on the Sidelines, and Scholar in scenes drawn from their memories as they faced their respective trials. Qin Ze set off across the sea with an illusion of Yao Yuan, while the others confronted moments from their pasts.

• Qin Ze met an illusion of Yao Yuan, who told him that safeguarding the Human Race's golden age required strength, and the two raced across the sea toward Level Nine.
• Taoist found himself back at the Yin-Yang Temple, practicing under his master and relishing their time together.
• Slacking on the Sidelines relived being sixteen as his father pushed him to run faster and prepare to survive.
• Scholar returned to his childhood study, used his ability to recite everything he had learned, and left after telling his teacher she had nothing more to teach him.

The Breakthrough Otherworld sent Passerby A, Wang Biao, Lu Tongtong, and Fairy into scenes from their pasts, forcing them to confront choices and unexpected encounters. It left Qin Yu and Xia Huai'an discovering Qin Ze split open again in his bedroom.

• Passerby A recognized his junior-high class outing and tried to warn the class not to board the bus, but he could not speak and was dragged aboard.
• Wang Biao realized he had returned to the night he escaped with Hao Qiang and persuaded him not to go to the Law Enforcement Department.
• Lu Tongtong followed a lost little girl toward the direction a voice had indicated and encountered a much younger Qin Ze.
• Fairy transformed into Qin Yu and Xia Huai'an in Qin Yu's house, and the two went to investigate a groan from Qin Ze's bedroom.
• Qin Yu and Xia Huai'an found Qin Ze split open again.

Taoist tried to prevent his master's death during the hundred-city beast tide, but failed to stop the Dominator from escaping or save the old Taoist. After his master died, Taoist accepted his own identity as Xuanbei, and the Otherworld began to collapse.

• Taoist learned that his master intended to send him into seclusion on the eve of the hundred-city beast tide and warned him that the Dominator's escape would kill him.
• The old Taoist recognized Taoist as his future disciple but refused to leave, believing that wounding the Dominator would protect others.
• Taoist found a powerful man resembling Qin Ze reinforcing the seal, then prepared arrays to stop the Dominator when it escaped the next day.
• Taoist failed to kill the Dominator, repaired the cracking seal, and later found his mortally wounded master in the courtyard.
• The old Taoist told Taoist to be himself rather than imitate his master, then died in Taoist's arms.
• Taoist declared himself Xuanbei, the twenty-eighth master of the Yin-Yang Temple, as a mysterious aura entered him and the Otherworld collapsed.

During the beast tide, Slacking on the Sidelines froze in terror as an S-rank octopus beast attacked Shelter No. 2. After Cheetah Kid sacrificed himself to protect him, Slacking on the Sidelines overcame his fear and charged the beast, then returned from the Otherworld.

• Slacking on the Sidelines panicked as the Yan Family took orders to defend Shelter No. 2, haunted by memories of his family dying in the beast tide.
• Inside the shelter, Cheetah Kid befriended Slacking on the Sidelines and revealed that he came from another world.
• An S-rank octopus beast tore open the shelter, and Slacking on the Sidelines froze while Cheetah Kid fought the attacking small octopuses.
• Cheetah Kid exploded himself to destroy the swarm and protect Slacking on the Sidelines.
• Slacking on the Sidelines overcame his fear, awakened his resolve, and charged the giant octopus before white light ended the Otherworld.

Scholar revisited an ordinary afternoon from his past in the Breakthrough Otherworld, where Snow Leopard humbled him and taught him not to rely on Words Become Law for everything. After Scholar emerged, Passerby A noticed a masked boy aboard the bus and suspected the mask resembled the Circus’s style.

• Scholar met his grandfather in the recreated past and agreed to meet the new teacher waiting in the garden pavilion.
• Scholar challenged Snow Leopard to a knowledge contest, but Snow Leopard answered his questions and kept testing him with subjects he had never studied.
• Scholar admitted defeat, accepted Snow Leopard as his teacher, and shouted that he was nothing without his ability as the Otherworld collapsed.
• Passerby A watched a boy named Liu Hui board the bus, then recognized the boy’s Peppa mask as resembling the Circus’s style.

Passerby A relived the bus massacre that had haunted him since childhood, but Peppa’s words helped him understand how to use his ability. He destroyed the rhinoceros beetle in the Otherworld’s recreation of the tragedy and emerged with a surge of qi.

• A mutant beast alert sent the school bus back toward Great City, but an S-rank rhinoceros beetle appeared and overturned the bus.
• Peppa realized the beast had attacked, called on Passerby A to help, and urged him to believe that no ability was useless.
• Peppa blinded the rhinoceros beetle with a flash from his body, then ran for safety and was melted by its venom.
• Passerby A remembered how his ability had made the beast overlook him during the original massacre and realized he could use it to approach unseen.
• Passerby A struck the rhinoceros beetle with a heavy punch, collapsing the Otherworld’s recreation and bringing a surge of qi into his body.

Wang Biao brought Hao Qiang to meet the Dark Night Lion King and asked him for access details to the underground organ black market beneath the Rubik's Cube Building. The Lion King agreed to help and join their mission, which they planned to begin the next day.

• Wang Biao led Hao Qiang through the slums to the Dark Night Lion King's home, where Hao Qiang mistook their meeting for something illicit.
• Wang Biao explained that the company had infiltrated Law Enforcement and asked the Dark Night Lion King for the black market's security code and Law Enforcement's communications frequency.
• Wang Biao recalled how the black market had cost his friends their lives, including Hao Qiang, and resolved to prevent that regret in this chance to start over.
• The Dark Night Lion King agreed to provide the information on the condition that Wang Biao take him along to fight the company.
• Wang Biao accepted, and the Dark Night Lion King proposed scouting the Rubik's Cube Building the next day before making their move at night.

Wang Biao and the Dark Night Lion King broke into the Rubik's Cube Building to free the black market prisoners, but Wang Biao was nearly killed by its powerful gatekeeper. The prisoners' encouragement helped him break through Level Nine and defeat the man, though the shattered surroundings revealed the battle was part of the Breakthrough Otherworld.

• The Dark Night Lion King proposed two plans for entering the closed Rubik's Cube Building, but Wang Biao chose to attack immediately.
• Wang Biao smashed through the alloy entrance and fought past the security guards while the Dark Night Lion King led him to the black market's core.
• The Dark Night Lion King opened the prisoners' rooms, and Wang Biao told the freed people to follow him.
• A Peak of Level Eight gatekeeper overwhelmed Wang Biao, shattered his golden body, and left him badly wounded.
• The Dark Night Lion King and the prisoners urged Wang Biao to keep fighting, and their qi helped him break through Level Nine and strike down the gatekeeper.
• The gatekeeper and the surrounding area shattered like a mirror as a voice remarked on the martial artists of Wang Biao's world.

Lu Tongtong found herself in a past version of her hometown, where she met a younger Qin Ze and joined him and a lost little girl for a day of begging. That night, the girl revealed that her name was Lu Tongtong, leaving Lu Tongtong stunned by the apparent meeting across time and space.

• Lu Tongtong met a younger Qin Ze, who warned her that children had been disappearing and advised her not to take the lost girl to Law Enforcement.
• The little girl refused to leave Qin Ze, so Lu Tongtong went with them as Qin Ze and his Mighty Tiger Gang underlings begged in the street.
• Qin Ze taught Lu Tongtong how to beg, while the little girl’s charm helped the group earn more than usual.
• Qin Ze took Lu Tongtong and the girl to his unfinished mansion, where they ate the food he had bought with their earnings.
• The little girl said she belonged to the Lu family and introduced herself as Lu Tongtong, shocking Lu Tongtong.