Recaps

Qin Ze challenged four veteran students at once and revealed that he was already a Level Two Martial Artist. He overwhelmed the veterans on the arena, while Lu Tongtong discovered that her ability could not deduce anything about him.

• Qin Ze insulted the veterans and insisted that none of them could force him to take one step back.
• A Level Two veteran charged Qin Ze, but Qin Ze used Black Tortoise Shield to withstand the punch and sent him flying from the arena.
• Nangong Qianrou recognized Qin Ze's aura, and Qin Ze revealed his Level Two Martial Artist strength to the stunned audience.
• Lu Tongtong tried to use her ability on Qin Ze, but it failed and caused her a sharp pain and dizziness.
• The three remaining veterans formed a triangle and attacked Qin Ze together, but his body did not budge under their blows.

Qin Ze challenged the Martial Dao Academy’s veterans and invited fifty of them to fight him at once. He effortlessly defeated them all, then called for the next round as more challengers lined up.

• Qin Ze provoked the veterans after tossing two of them off the stage, while Wen Jing recognized that he was trying to establish his authority.
• Nangong Qianrou ended the freshman welcome challenge, but Qin Ze called out more veterans and gathered about fifty onstage.
• Qin Ze announced a one-against-fifty spar and had Huai Xu and Fatty collect entry fees for another round.
• The fifty veterans attacked Qin Ze together, but he used the Vermilion Bird Step to evade them and kick them off the stage one by one.
• Qin Ze defeated all fifty veterans and told the crowd to begin the next round.

Qin Ze defeated the Martial Arts Academy’s second-years and became a campus sensation, while a group chat revealed more mysteries about lifeless worlds and the Blue Flame People’s realm. That night, sailors used knockout incense to incapacitate Dharma King and the others, then approached them with daggers to claim their sea beast.

• Qin Ze collected his prize after nobody else dared challenge him, and he left the martial arts hall with Huai Xu and the others.
• Campus videos and friend requests flooded in as Qin Ze became the school’s hottest star.
• Qin Ze learned in the group chat that Running Man had found a lifeless world and that Yao Yuan had been unable to enter the hole at the center of the Blue Flame People’s world.
• Qin Ze decided to return to the Blue Flame People’s world with Giant Overlord and Dharma King.
• Three sailors used knockout incense to drug Dharma King and the others, then entered their cabin with daggers to claim the level three sea beast.

Dharma King and Giant Overlord foiled a pirate crew’s attempt to drug and rob them, then forced the captain to reveal information about newly surfaced ruins in the Blue Flame Realm. The Flying Circus crew sailed from Thousand Streams Island with a map marking the ruins’ approximate location.

• The bearded sailor’s knife failed to pierce Giant Overlord, and Dharma King subdued him after lightning knocked out two other sailors.
• Dharma King confronted the captain, whose crew had planned to steal their Level Three sea beast using knockout incense.
• The bearded sailor revealed that the captain had ordered the robbery and promised the crew a share of the proceeds.
• The captain offered information about a newly appeared complex of buildings in the Blue Flame Realm to save his life.
• The captain gave Dharma King a monocular and a map marking the ruins southeast of the realm’s entrance.
• The Flying Circus ship sailed out of Thousand Streams Island the next morning.

Qin Ze listened to a history lesson about the Pan-Human Alliance while arranging to meet his companions at Human-Fish Wharf. After discovering that sea beasts contained Source of the World, he decided to head to the island sooner, though the key-shaped ornament Dharma King had bought proved ordinary.

• Qin Ze read the group chat’s debate about whether Xu Baichuan was alive and learned that Slacking on the Sidelines planned to leave his strange world soon.
• Qin Ze slipped out of class after Dharma King messaged that the group had arrived at Human-Fish Wharf.
• Brother Devour and the clones showed Qin Ze their ship and a captured level-three sea beast.
• Qin Ze recovered 27 millionths of a unit of Source of the World from the sea beast and concluded that the world’s source might be found elsewhere.
• Qin Ze tested Dharma King’s key-shaped ornament, found it had no effect, and kept it despite declaring it ordinary.
• Qin Ze told the group to learn the ship’s basic controls and announced that they would land on the island the next day.

Qin Ze and his clones sailed to Thousand Streams Island to explore a distant complex of buildings in the Blue Flame Realm before the world caught fire. After a warning from a departing martial artist, Qin Ze pressed on toward the ruins with Brother Devour and the others.

• Qin Ze reviewed the university's cultivation rules and merit points before setting out for Human-Fish Wharf after class.
• Qin Ze and his clones sailed the Flying Circus Man to Thousand Streams Island, enduring a chaotic voyage.
• Qin Ze entered the Blue Flame Realm with Brother Devour, Dharma King, and Giant Overlord, then used a telescope to locate six ruined buildings.
• A mustached martial artist warned Qin Ze that fire would soon sweep across the world and urged him to leave.
• Qin Ze turned into lightning and sped toward the ruins with Brother Devour and the others following.

Qin Ze and his companions crossed the deadly blue flames and entered a buried spire, where murals revealed the Blue Flame People's rise and their discovery of cultivation. They descended to what appeared to be a library, where Dharma King found a basketball.

• Qin Ze sheltered Brother Devour and the others from the blue flames, then tested their danger by sending out a clone that burned to ash.
• Qin Ze's group reached the spire, examined statues and an inscription, and found stairs leading underground.
• Qin Ze and his companions studied a mural showing the Blue Flame People's evolution, civilization, and the discovery of a flame that led them to cultivate.
• Brother Devour and Dharma King proposed different theories about how the flame had brought disaster to the Blue Flame People.
• Qin Ze's group descended to a library where the books crumbled, and Dharma King shouted that he had found a basketball.

Qin Ze and his companions activated a recording stone and watched scenes of the Blue Flame People’s prosperous past, where a Great Sage was developing the Fire Movement Technique. The recording began showing him teaching the improved technique to students, giving Qin Ze a chance to learn it.

• Qin Ze used one unit of Source of the World to activate the golden-patterned black sphere and reveal it as a recording stone.
• Qin Ze and his companions saw a bustling Blue Flame city and learned that the stone showed scenes from its past.
• A Blue Flame man called the Great Sage studied the Fire Movement Technique and told a visitor he planned to test his improvements on students.
• The recording showed the Great Sage meditating until a blue flame appeared above his head, then returned to the ruined room.
• Qin Ze and his companions sat behind five youths as the Great Sage began teaching his improved Fire Movement Technique.

Qin Ze learned the Blue Flame Race’s Fire Movement Technique from the Great Sage’s recordings, while Brother Devour discovered a hall filled with bones beneath the tower. After three years of lessons shown by the recording stone, Qin Ze mastered the technique.

• Qin Ze cultivated the Fire Movement Technique, which tempered his flesh and blood as well as his bones, and assigned clones to practice it.
• Dharma King, the other two, and the five children failed to form flames at first, while the Great Sage worried about the Blue Flame Race’s crisis.
• The Great Sage taught the five students Blue Flame Release, a combat method that intensified their physical abilities and could shape flames into attacks.
• Qin Ze and his clones repeatedly practiced from the recordings as Brother Devour explored the tower and found at least eight hundred skeletons on its first floor.
• The recording stone showed three years of lessons, during which nearly every academy student learned the improved Fire Movement Technique, and Qin Ze declared that he had mastered it.

Qin Ze and the others watched the recording stone reveal how the Great Sage faced the Blue Flame civilization’s devastating giant beast crisis. The chapter ended with the Great Sage preparing to sever part of the world, determined to stay behind and carry out the final plan.

• The Great Sage praised his students and watched them affirm their loyalty to Blue Flame before the recording scene vanished.
• Brother Devour and Giant Overlord reported that the skeletons below showed no signs of a fight, while Qin Ze wondered whether the Great Sage had been evil.
• The Great Sage consulted the blue flames atop the tower, then flew to fight giant beasts attacking North Ridge.
• Eight years into the crisis, the Great Sage learned that the eastern territory had fallen and the giant beasts were approaching the capital, so he authorized the final plan.
• The Great Sage told the elders that they would sever the capital and Eastern Domain from the main world, leaving two-thirds of the world's source to the younger generation.
• After the elders departed to gather the source needed for the plan, the Great Sage stayed behind and vowed to complete the severing himself.

The Great Sage separated the Eastern Domain from the main world to protect the Blue Flame Race, with Ling and the other evacuees carrying the civilization’s hope. He and thousands of volunteers sacrificed themselves to fuel the separation and unleash the earthfire, which burned the invading beasts to ash.

• The Great Sage entrusted Ling with two-thirds of the Source of the World and sent him to lead the evacuated survivors toward the Blue Flame Race’s future.
• Ling and over ten thousand residents teleported out of the capital, while the old man revealed that he and eight hundred councilors had chosen to stay behind.
• The Great Sage recorded the plan to separate the Eastern Domain and release the earthfire, then asked the city guards to offer themselves as sources.
• The city guards and councilors sacrificed themselves, and the Great Sage used one-third of the Source of the World to separate the Eastern Domain from the main world.
• The token flew out of the tower, and a towering wall of blue fire swept through the capital, reducing the giant beasts to ash.

Qin Ze and his companions explored the Blue Flame capital, learned of the Blue Flame Race’s sacrifice, and found a sealed source of 327 units of Source of the World. Unable to enter the hole or retrieve the Source of the World, they left the Blue Flame Realm.

• Qin Ze and his companions finished watching the Great Sage’s recording, buried his bones with the councilors, and took the recording stone and his ring.
• Qin Ze searched the surrounding buildings and led the group to the temple where the token had disappeared in the recording.
• Qin Ze discovered 327 units of Source of the World inside a sealed hole, but the barrier prevented him from entering or recovering it.
• Dharma King placed the token in a matching recess, but it did not open the seal, and his lightning attack had no effect.
• Qin Ze marked the temple’s location and left with Dharma King and the others, then Dharma King emerged from the space gate before a stunned ticket inspector.

Qin Ze returned from the Blue Flame Realm and learned about a possible spatial gate to the Abyss before sailing back to Sea Capital. Back at school, he received notice of an upcoming strange-beast combat class and saw Slacking on the Sidelines urgently call for help.

• Qin Ze and his companions entered a tavern on Thousand Streams Island, where the man with the pencil mustache was shocked that they had survived the Blue Flame Realm.
• The man with the pencil mustache told Qin Ze about strange-beast roars and described finding a spatial gate that had once taken him and his companions to the Abyss; Qin Ze marked its location on his map.
• Qin Ze returned to the ship with Dharma King, while Giant Overlord and several clones stayed behind to explore the Blue Flame Realm.
• The repaired Flying Circus Man sailed to Fisherman's Wharf, and Qin Ze criticized the captain and sailors for their poor sailing.
• Qin Ze returned to school, learned from Teacher Yao that a strange-beast combat class would take place next Wednesday, and saw Slacking on the Sidelines urgently ask the group for help.

Qin Ze learned that Slacking on the Sidelines had fallen into danger in the Abyss and heard about a charitable Circus operating in the Northern Territory. Back at Haidu Academy, he teamed up with Huai Xu and Wen Jing for an upcoming exotic beast combat exercise before receiving a call from Qin Yu.

• Slacking on the Sidelines sent incoherent messages about being chased by two Moon Clan elders and having an eye grow on his hand, then stopped responding; Yao Yuan used a Divine Travel Talisman to go help him.
• Qin Ze worried that Slacking on the Sidelines might not survive and that Fatty would lose his chance to use the man's cane for a class change.
• Passerby A told the group about a Northern Territory organization called the Circus, whose clown-masked vice leader and members had helped him for free; Qin Ze realized they might be impersonating his Circus.
• Huai Xu told Qin Ze that the exotic beast combat exercise would put groups of three against a sickly beast, and Qin Ze chose Huai Xu and Wen Jing as his teammates.
• Qin Ze received a phone call from Qin Yu.

Qin Ze met Qin Yu’s best friend, Xia Huai'an, and learned that pirates might have seized one of her ships. He set out with the Circus to hunt the Black Cross Pirates, though their headquarters remained unknown.

• Qin Yu called Qin Ze and insisted he join her for dinner with her best friend, while Qin Ze told Huai Xu to study exotic beasts.
• Qin Ze and Qin Yu ordered nearly the entire menu before Xia Huai'an arrived and introduced herself as Qin Yu’s friend.
• Xia Huai'an told Qin Ze about her sea-beast hunting fleet and said one of her ships had likely been captured by the Black Cross Pirates.
• Qin Ze grew eager to pursue the pirates, and the Circus sailed out from Fisherman's Wharf under cover of night.

Qin Ze treated his roommates to a late-night feast while Yao Yuan reached the world where Slacking on the Sidelines was trapped and freed him from parasitic eyes. As Yao Yuan and Slacking on the Sidelines prepared to leave, countless eyes opened across the landscape and a gigantic blood-red eye appeared in the sky.

• Qin Yu and Xia Huai'an left the restaurant for a dinner party after Qin Ze transferred Qin Yu another hundred thousand yuan.
• Qin Ze brought a large late-night meal to the dorm, where Huai Xu and the fatty ate while Wen Jing continued meditating.
• Yao Yuan arrived in the lifeless forest world, where the trees bled and grew masses of flesh after he cut them.
• Yao Yuan found Slacking on the Sidelines, pinned him to a tree, and removed the parasitic eyes from his face.
• Yao Yuan explained that the eyes had parasitized Slacking on the Sidelines and gave him a robe to wear.
• As Yao Yuan and Slacking on the Sidelines prepared to leave, a vast red eye opened in the sky and countless eyes appeared across the landscape.

Qin Ze learned that his crew’s ship was the vessel reported missing by Xia Huai'an, while the crew prepared to return to Thousand Streams Island for repairs. He also heard from Yao Yuan about the dangers of dead worlds in the Abyss and decided to focus on developing his strength.

• Dharma King asked Qin Ze to find out what Xia Huai'an’s missing ship looked like, and Qin Ze received a picture that revealed it was their own ship, the Flying Circus Man.
• Qin Ze told Dharma King to return to Thousand Streams Island and repair the badly damaged ship before they went looking for pirates.
• Qin Ze joined the group chat and learned that Yao Yuan had rescued Slacking on the Sidelines from a world full of parasites and nearly fought its World Overlord.
• Yao Yuan warned the group that World Overlords arose in dead worlds and that the Maka Race might be concealing its motives.
• Qin Ze arranged to visit Slacking on the Sidelines in Penglai City for their trade and resolved to focus on getting stronger.

Qin Ze attended an early Otherworldly beast combat lesson with the freshman top-scorer class, where students had to fight beasts in groups of three. The first group panicked against a weakened three-headed wolf, and the lesson continued with the next group entering the arena.

• The fatty brought Qin Ze, Huai Xu, and Wen Jing food, and Qin Ze urged him to raise his mental power to five shi.
• Qin Ze resumed attending class while the Flying Circus Man fished, Brother Devour prepared a score, Giant Overlord ate sand, and Slacking on the Sidelines returned to Penglai City.
• Qin Ze and his classmates gathered at the training hall and learned that their top-scorer class had an unexpectedly early Otherworldly beast combat lesson.
• A female teacher explained that groups of three would face increasingly powerful beasts, with a teacher ready to intervene if needed.
• The first group froze in fear when a weakened three-headed wolf emerged, and the academy dean cut the beast down before it could kill them.
• After the first group was carried out and the arena was cleaned, the second group entered as Qin Ze watched.

Lu Tongtong led Han Yi and A Yan to defeat an exotic beast with precise coordination, revealing her remarkable command skills and hinting at a predictive ability. Qin Ze, Huai Xu, and Wen Jing then entered the arena, where Wen Jing attacked a giant flesh monster as Huai Xu hesitated.

• Lu Tongtong directed Han Yi and A Yan to disable and defeat an eight-meter-tall headless giant, earning cheers from the arena.
• Teacher Yao praised Lu Tongtong's potential, while Qin Ze suspected her innate ability let her predict opponents' moves.
• Lu Tongtong, Han Yi, and A Yan withdrew from the challenge, and Lu Tongtong told the group chat about their victory.
• Qin Ze, Huai Xu, and Wen Jing entered the arena as spectators mocked Qin Ze and Huai Xu prepared his bow.
• A ball of flesh expanded into a towering humanoid monster, and Wen Jing charged up it and smashed half its head apart with one punch.

Wen Jing and Huai Xu helped Qin Ze’s team set a new pace in the exotic beast combat challenge, with Wen Jing defeating four beasts before Qin Ze took over. Qin Ze instantly killed an F-rank beast and demanded that the challenge continue so he could claim the Mystic Dream Otherworld as a home.

• Wen Jing furiously defeated the first three exotic beasts, while Huai Xu and Qin Ze watched from outside the arena.
• Huai Xu’s arrows disrupted a two-headed F-rank rattlesnake, giving Wen Jing time to recover and kill it, tying the record at four beasts.
• After learning that more kills would extend his Mystic Dream Otherworld reward, Qin Ze volunteered to continue the challenge.
• Qin Ze yanked an F-rank beast from the passage and killed it with a single White Tiger Fist, astonishing the spectators and Teacher Yao.
• Qin Ze told the female teacher to release the next beast, saying he was in a hurry to get home.

Qin Ze effortlessly killed a string of F-rank exotic beasts, then joined Wen Jing and Huai Xu to face an E-rank tortoise. They tore open its belly with a coordinated attack and stood inside the hole as it crashed to the ground.

• Qin Ze killed ten F-rank exotic beasts in single strikes, stunning the veterans and impressing Lu Tongtong.
• The dean praised Qin Ze and said the freshmen might be sent into the Abyss ahead of schedule because time was short.
• Qin Ze challenged the E-rank tortoise and coordinated with Wen Jing and Huai Xu to attack it.
• The tortoise charged Qin Ze, who met it with a Black Tortoise phantom and launched it into the air.
• Huai Xu wounded the airborne tortoise with an arrow, and Qin Ze and Wen Jing punched through its belly together.

Qin Ze and his friends won entry to the Mystic Dream Otherworld after defeating the arena’s exotic beasts, while Dharma King’s crew finally encountered the Black Cross Pirates at sea. The pirates approached the Flying Circus Man expecting easy prey, only to be met by grappling hooks from the supposedly distressed ship.

• Qin Ze, Huai Xu, and Wen Jing received campus-card stamps allowing them to enter and leave the Mystic Dream Otherworld freely, and the arena ended practical combat class early after they killed all the prepared beasts.
• Qin Ze invited Huai Xu and Fatty to celebrate, while Wen Jing returned to the dorm; Huai Xu and Fatty remarked that Wen Jing had seemed unlike himself.
• Dharma King and the clone sailors complained about eleven days of fruitless sea patrol before spotting a ship that appeared to be a freighter.
• Dharma King recognized the armed, battle-hardened crew as likely Black Cross Pirates and ordered the Flying Circus Man to stop and send a distress signal.
• The Black Cross Pirates’ bearded captain ordered his crew to seize the apparent freighter, but the Flying Circus Man launched grappling hooks that pulled the ships together.

Dharma King and more than a hundred clones boarded Beard’s pirate ship, defeated the pirates, and forced Beard to offer up his treasure to save his life. Beard led Dharma King toward the treasure, while Captain Hook emerged with the ship’s parrot.

• Dharma King attacked the pirates with lightning, and Beard promised half the opposing ship’s cargo to whoever took him down.
• More than a hundred masked Level One Martial Artist clones boarded the pirate ship and overwhelmed its crew.
• Dharma King beat Beard in their fight, and the clones killed the remaining pirates without taking prisoners.
• Beard knelt before Dharma King and offered to reveal the treasure he had accumulated during seven years of piracy.
• Dharma King ordered Beard to lead the way, and Captain Hook came out holding a parrot.

Captain Hook’s crew sank Big Beard’s ship, renamed their own vessel, and raided Big Beard’s hidden vault for treasure. Dharma King found an Image Recording Stone said to come from another world, and the crew sailed back toward the Sea Capital with their haul.

• Captain Hook declared the sunken Flying Circus Man’s name for the crew’s new ship, and they set sail with Big Beard tied up aboard.
• Dharma King’s crew reached a barren island, where Big Beard opened a hidden vault filled with treasure.
• The clones loaded the treasure onto the ship while Dharma King took a chest of unpurified Soul Orbs for Qin Dog.
• Dharma King uncovered an Image Recording Stone and learned from Big Beard that it came from another world.
• At dusk, the Flying Circus Man departed the island for the Sea Capital with a full load.

Qin Ze and his companions discussed signs that the strange fire in the Blue Flame Realm was lasting longer and heard that exotic beasts might still be crossing through the Abyss Gate. After dinner, Qin Ze left for Human-Fish Wharf as the New Flying Circus Man arrived late that night.

• Giant Overlord reported hearing an exotic beast and said the strange fire had been burning for increasingly long periods.
• Qin Ze ran into Wen Jing arguing with his brother, a crew-cut fighter, before they joined Huai Xu and Fatty for hot pot.
• Wen Jing explained that Haidu Academy students could enter the Mystic Dream Otherworld twice a month to practice combat.
• Qin Ze told Wen Jing and Fatty to train this month and postpone taking missions until next month.
• After returning to the dormitory, Qin Ze left school and headed to Human-Fish Wharf, where the New Flying Circus Man arrived late that night.