Chapter Summaries

Saber King broke Virgo’s spatial barriers after Qin Ze secretly reclaimed the Source of the World, allowing Ram, Ma Yan, and Fishes to escape while Virgo fled into the void. After the battle, Saber King confronted Qin Ze and called him the Chosen One.

• Saber King attacked the spatial barrier, while Virgo tried to repair it with a droplet of the Source of the World.
• Qin Ze reclaimed all twenty-seven units of the Source of the World, causing Virgo’s array and the barrier to weaken.
• Saber King shattered the barriers; Ram and Ma Yan teleported away, and Fishes escaped through his mirror.
• Virgo absorbed his subordinates’ life force and fled into the void with the flagpole after Saber King struck him, leaving a shriveled arm behind.
• Saber King sent Kun Peng and the enforcers away, then confronted Qin Ze and called him the Chosen One.

Saber King mistook Qin Ze for the Chosen One, spared him, and gave him cultivation supplies and a Source Crystal. Meanwhile, Qin Ze’s team recovered Fan Mingjie’s body and returned to the hotel, where Qin Ze explained the night’s events before everyone went to rest.

• Saber King threatened Qin Ze, then sheathed his saber and gave him three A-rank Soul Orbs and a Source Crystal to help him grow stronger.
• Fatty led the professional team to the coordinates Qin Ze had sent, where they found Fan Mingjie dead among robot wreckage and carried his body away.
• Qin Ze waited at the hotel and told the team what had happened at the stadium, crediting Saber King while hiding his own involvement.
• Qin Ze claimed a law enforcement officer had told him where Fan Mingjie died, then changed the subject and suggested they celebrate after turning in the mission.
• The team returned to their rooms, while Brother Devour and Giant Overlord waited in Qin Ze’s bedroom.

Qin Ze learned that the A-1 Nuclear Fusion Battery could power combat robots and asked the Circus to investigate their developers. He planned to visit the Myriad Races Black Market in Penglai City, while Saber King arrived to meet an old man in the Northern Territory.

• Qin Ze examined the USB drive’s report and discovered that the battery could power a humanoid combat weapon project with an estimated eighty-five percent chance of success.
• Qin Ze decided to keep the USB drive and asked Brother Devour to have the Circus identify the robot developers and investigate their progress.
• Qin Ze sorted through his haul, keeping the purified Soul Orbs and Source Crystal and noting that he could spend Fan Mingjie’s crystals at the Myriad Races Black Market.
• Qin Ze arranged to visit Penglai City for an auction and planned to stop at the Myriad Races Black Market while trading for a cane.
• Saber King arrived beneath an ice tree to meet an old man in the Northern Territory.

The Saber King accepted Qin Ze as the Chosen One after recognizing his self-sacrifice, then returned to the Abyss to buy him time. Meanwhile, Virgo plotted against the Saber King, and Qin Ze’s team reported that they had completed their task by bringing Fan Mingjie to the deputy manager in a sack.

• The Saber King admitted that Qin Ze’s burning passion made him worthy of being the Chosen One and left for the Abyss.
• Virgo returned to his residence furious and wounded, while Ma Yan helped suppress the saber qi in his severed arm.
• Fishes confronted Virgo about his reckless plan and demanded to be told every step going forward.
• Ram clarified that Lion had not sent him and that he was only passing through Sea Capital.
• Qin Ze and his team told the deputy manager they had completed the task of bringing Fan Mingjie to him.
• Fatty dropped a sack in front of the deputy manager to show him Brother Jie.

Qin Ze and the professional team completed their mission by bringing Fan Mingjie's body to the deputy manager, then returned to Sea Capital and collected their rewards. Back at the dorm, Qin Ze realized the trip to the Blue Flame Realm was approaching and swallowed a Soul Orb before Qin Yu called.

• The deputy manager confirmed Fan Mingjie's death and paid Qin Ze's team, while a phone call revealed the research institute had taken the sample and A-1 development would be halted.
• Qin Ze and the professional team spent a day in Pearl City, then returned to Sea Capital by bus and discussed the mission in the chat group.
• Scholar reported that Saber King had returned to the Abyss to meet Guardian Yao, and Qin Ze worried that matters there were not going well.
• The team collected double merit points for completing the level five mission, while Huai Xu, Wen Jing, and Fatty went to choose Martial Artifacts.
• Qin Ze returned to his dorm, noted that the Blue Flame Realm trip was two days away, swallowed a Soul Orb, and received a call from Qin Yu.

Qin Ze agreed to enter the Hundred Schools Competition with his team and traveled to the Blue Flame Realm with Brother Devour, Dharma King, and Giant Overlord. As the realm’s daily opening window continued to shrink, they headed for the Flame Temple to help the Great Sage fulfill his final wish.

• Qin Yu told Qin Ze that Huai'an's birthday was next Monday and said she would pick him up.
• Huai Xu, Fatty, and Wen Jing showed Qin Ze the Martial Artifacts they had exchanged for, and the team agreed to enter the Hundred Schools Competition.
• Qin Ze found the New New New Flying Circus Man patched up at Fisherman's Wharf and ordered Captain Hook to sail it to Thousand Streams Island the next morning.
• At Thousand Streams Island, the ticket inspector warned Giant Overlord that the Blue Flame Realm was burning longer each day and its safe opening window had shrunk to two hours.
• Dharma King destroyed a stallholder's treasure map, and Qin Ze entered the Blue Flame Realm with his companions and set off toward the Flame Temple.

Qin Ze and his companions discovered a massive beast tide emerging from the Abyss entrance at North Ridge and suspected it was connected to the Flame Temple. When the beasts detected them on their way there, Qin Ze summoned nearly a thousand clones to fight the pursuing horde alongside Dharma King.

• Dharma King spotted a huge beast tide heading toward the world entrance, and Qin Ze identified its source as a blood-red spatial rift at North Ridge, the entrance to the Abyss.
• Qin Ze led the group toward the Flame Temple, hoping to find out why the beasts had begun pouring out of the rift.
• A flesh worm tracked the group, and Qin Ze used the Shelter Space to escape its beast detachment, but a Hunting Beast tore the Shelter Space open and exposed them again.
• Qin Ze knocked aside the nearby Hunting Beast and summoned nearly a thousand clones to face the pursuing detachment of about three thousand exotic beasts.
• Dharma King transformed and unleashed a vast net of golden lightning, shredding more than a hundred beasts.

Yao Yuan warned Thousand Streams Island that a massive beast tide was approaching from the Blue Flame Realm, prompting an evacuation and wartime mobilization. As Thousand Faces slipped away from the island, the clones fought the horde, and Qin Ze and Brother Devour pinned down a Class C falcon just as a blue-flamed giant rose nearby.

• Yao Yuan ordered the island director to evacuate civilians and request reinforcements, saying at least a hundred thousand exotic beasts were being sent from the Blue Flame Realm.
• After leaving the office, Yao Yuan changed his appearance back to Qin Ze, then Thousand Faces boarded Captain Hook’s ship and left the island.
• Thousand Streams Island broadcast a level-one wartime alert and sent civilians to shelters while martial artists assembled at the southern plaza.
• In the Blue Flame Realm, Dharma King helped the clones fight the exotic beasts while two Class C falcons attacked Giant Overlord and Brother Devour.
• Qin Ze struck one falcon with Fire Element Fists, and Brother Devour restrained it while Giant Overlord held off the other falcon.
• A giant wreathed in blue flames rose from the ground and announced that execution was beginning.

Qin Ze and his clones fought through a beast tide while Qin Ze headed for the Flame Temple to release the earth fire. Meanwhile, the beast tide entered Thousand Streams Island, where the director's forces engaged it.

• Qin Ze and his allies killed the falcons, then joined Dharma King in cutting down the beast pack.
• Dharma King spotted half the beast tide heading toward them, and Qin Ze went to the Flame Temple as the clones stayed behind to hold off the advancing beasts.
• The clones charged into the beast tide, fighting and self-destructing to destroy their enemies as another wave poured through the world entrance.
• At Thousand Streams Island, the director sent a guard to check for the beast tide, but an exotic beast emerged from the spatial gate and swallowed the guard.
• The director ordered his forces to fight, and they attacked the beasts with cannons before advancing into close combat when two cannons malfunctioned.

A beast tide overwhelmed Thousand Streams Island until Sea Capital's reinforcements and the Grand Consul defeated the Void Beast and sealed the spatial gate. In the Blue Flame Realm, Qin Ze broke the barrier beneath the Flame Temple and descended into the black hole, where a Hunting Beast emerged behind the statue.

• The chief fought a three-headed A-rank python as beasts poured through the spatial gate and the Void Beast appeared.
• The Void Beast deployed dozens of beasts at once, and the island's defenders were nearly overwhelmed.
• Sea Capital's reinforcements arrived, and the Grand Consul pierced the Void Beast with his spear, stopping the spatial ripples.
• The Grand Consul entered the spatial gate while the reinforcements fought to exterminate the remaining beasts.
• Qin Ze used the Great Sage's token at the Flame Temple to shatter the barrier, then descended into the black hole after his clone survived.
• A Hunting Beast emerged from the void behind the statue.

Qin Ze reached the earthfire control formation beneath the Blue Flame Realm and discovered signs that the realm was being burned hollow. After considering whether to repair or destroy the formation, he left its fate undecided and admitted he could not fulfill the Great Sage’s dying wish.

• Qin Ze reached the cracked formation controlling the earthfire, confirmed it contained 319 units of the Source of the World, and waited before repairing it.
• Qin Ze killed his injured clone and sent more than ten clones to explore the vast underground cavern.
• A Hunting Beast ambushed Qin Ze, but he repelled it; the beast escaped before he could capture it for a Soul Orb.
• Qin Ze’s clones reported that the cavern was enormous, naturally formed, and marked by ash, leading him to suspect the earthfire had burned out the underground.
• Qin Ze concluded that the Blue Flame Realm was nearing collapse and that exotic beasts had opened a route from the Abyss to use it as a stepping stone toward the Pan-Continent.
• Qin Ze weighed repairing the formation against letting the earthfire destroy the realm, then said he could not fulfill the Great Sage’s dying wish.

Qin Ze tried to destroy the array rather than repair it, but the Blue Flame Realm’s weakened world will stopped him from reclaiming the Source of the World. After Qin Ze argued that the realm would collapse regardless and could endanger the surviving Blue Flame People, the world will reconsidered and offered to release the Source of the World if he met one more condition.

• Qin Ze prepared to smash the array, but the world will of the Blue Flame Realm contacted him through his key and stopped him.
• The world will explained that Qin Ze could not claim the Source of the World without permission, since the Great Sage had arranged for it to be payment for repairing the array.
• Qin Ze argued that the earthfire would destroy the realm soon anyway, and the world will revealed that its remaining strength protected the surviving Blue Flame People with the Source of the World and world imprints.
• Qin Ze warned that the newly opened Abyss Gate and the beast tide threatened the Pan-Continent and the Blue Flame People, then threatened to destroy the array.
• The world will admitted Qin Ze might be right, but made one more condition for him to take the Source of the World.

Qin Ze recovered the Source of the World after agreeing to help any Blue Flame People he might encounter, then prepared the Circus to retreat before the world collapsed. At the realm entrance, the Grand Consul fought a giant octopus emerging from an Abyss rift, but a gigantic eagle appeared before he could finish it.

• Qin Ze agreed to help the remaining Blue Flame People if he encountered them and recovered 3,119 units of the Source of the World.
• Qin Ze learned the world would collapse seven days after the earth fire was released and told the Circus to retreat toward him in five minutes.
• The Grand Consul entered the Blue Flame Realm and saw the Circus battling the beast tide as they retreated toward the world's depths.
• The Grand Consul attacked an Abyss rift held open by tentacles and drew a giant octopus out of it.
• The Grand Consul's white dragon severed the octopus's tentacles and pierced its body, but a gigantic eagle emerged from the rift.

The Grand Consul fought a goshawk while the giant octopus reopened the Abyss rift and let exotic beasts flood into the world. Qin Ze destroyed the Flame Temple’s control formation, unleashing earthfire that engulfed the Blue Flame Realm.

• The giant octopus widened the Abyss rift as the goshawk used hurricanes to keep the Grand Consul away, and the Grand Consul struck the goshawk with a golden spear.
• The Hunting Beast waited outside the Flame Temple for Qin Ze, but Brother Devour and the clones reached the temple and jumped into the underground cavern.
• Qin Ze recalled his clones and learned from Brother Devour that a Level Nine Martial Artist was fighting near the Abyss rift.
• Qin Ze broke the control formation with a Haymaker and sheltered Brother Devour, Dharma King, and Giant Overlord as earthfire erupted through the cavern.
• The earthfire killed the two Hunting Beasts outside and spread across the Blue Flame Realm, burning the exotic beasts to ash.

Qin Ze’s blue fire drove the exotic beasts back into the Abyss while the Grand Consul defeated the wounded goshawk, which escaped before the rift closed. Qin Ze and his companions returned to the devastated island under Shelter Space, and the Grand Consul learned from the World Will that Qin Ze was considered the world’s only hope.

• A pillar of blue fire swept across the battlefield and burned the exotic beasts, causing the giant octopus to retreat into the Abyss.
• The Grand Consul struck the goshawk with his spear, but the beast healed and escaped through the rift after their clash.
• The Grand Consul found traces of Shelter Space and spoke with the World Will, which called Qin Ze the world’s only hope.
• Qin Ze and his companions left through the spatial gate and found the island devastated as Sea Capital’s martial artists cleaned up the battlefield.
• Qin Ze credited the reinforcements, then headed toward the port under Shelter Space without revealing his identity.

The Grand Consul concealed Yao Yuan’s role in warning Thousand Streams Island about the Blue Flame Realm beast tide, while Qin Ze’s crew returned with a huge haul and hunted a Two-Headed Shark for Xia Huai'an’s birthday. After rejecting and humiliating a butler who tried to buy the shark, Qin Ze spent the night cultivating and headed to school to see the returning third-years.

• The Grand Consul told the director to claim he had discovered the beast tide and keep Yao Yuan out of the report.
• Qin Ze kicked two complaining clones overboard, then had the crew catch and kill a near-level-five Two-Headed Shark as a birthday gift for Xia Huai'an.
• The Flying Circus Man returned to port with the shark, drawing astonished onlookers and prompting a butler to offer ten million for it on his young master’s behalf.
• The crew mocked the butler, and Dharma King struck him with Palm Thunder when he threatened them.
• Qin Ze left the shark in the crew’s care, stayed at the harbor base, and opened the Shelter Space for an all-night cultivation session.
• Qin Ze woke to his clones’ complaints and headed to school to see the returning third-years.

Haidu Academy welcomed back its third-year veterans, but the return ceremony honored forty-three students killed in the Abyss. Afterward, Qin Ze opened a Shelter Space for his clones and browsed a forum story about a beast tide on Thousand Streams Island.

• Qin Ze joined Fatty, Huai Xu, and Wen Jing to watch six hundred returning veterans march into Haidu Academy.
• Wen Jing explained that martial students faced real dangers on the front line, including an incident in which an S-class exotic beast killed more than seven hundred third-year students.
• Student council president Fang Hao reported that 650 of the 693 veterans due to return were present, and forty-three coffins were carried into the plaza.
• The principal praised the dead as heroes and declared that humanity would continue fighting the Abyss; Huai Xu then gave up on becoming a school legend.
• Qin Ze returned to the dorm, opened a Shelter Space for his clones, and browsed a forum story about a beast tide on Thousand Streams Island.

After the Blue Flame Realm collapsed, Qin Ze reflected on its disappearance and the end of the sea beasts being created there. Elsewhere, Lord Ling learned that the World Will was gone, leaving his people without their imprint as they faced an urgent council meeting.

• Qin Ze read forum posts about the Blue Flame Realm’s destruction and sent Captain Hook and the others out to fish before returning to his phone.
• Qin Ze spent the following week cultivating, reaching level 2.7, while his dormmates focused on study and training.
• Qin Ze learned that the entrance to the Blue Flame Realm had vanished and that its World Will had perished; the key chat group concluded its disappearance was a good thing.
• A tiny blue flame vanished before Lord Ling, who told several men that the World Will had perished and they had become wanderers.
• Several men asked Lord Ling whether they could fake the World Will’s existence until the council election, but he said it could not be done.
• A soldier summoned Lord Ling to the council, and he agreed to go.

Qin Ze attended Xia Huai'an's birthday party, where Qin Yu tried to set them up with a pair of magical pearls that he confiscated. The party was interrupted by Young Master Qian's extravagant sea-beast gift, and Qin Yu's criticism provoked him into challenging Qin Ze.

• Qin Ze arrived at Xia Huai'an's birthday party and joined Qin Yu, who urged him to pursue Xia Huai'an and give the Qin family an heir.
• Xia Huai'an greeted Qin Ze before leaving to welcome other guests, and Qin Yu gave him a pair of Twin Pearls meant to attract their wearers to each other.
• Qin Ze confiscated both Twin Pearls after learning their effects, then went to the buffet and ate five plates of sea beast meat.
• Young Master Qian presented Xia Huai'an with an intact level-three sea serpent and tried to confess his feelings, but Xia Huai'an politely dismissed him.
• Qin Yu called the sea serpent a frightening gift, prompting Young Master Qian to insult her and challenge Qin Ze to find a higher-level intact sea beast or eat one.

Qin Ze brought Xia Huai'an a gigantic Two-Headed Shark as a birthday present, upsetting Young Master Qian and amusing Xia Huai'an. As the banquet began, a commotion outside announced that the corpse had come back to life.

• Qin Yu urged Qin Ze to impress Xia Huai'an, but Qin Ze chatted with Young Master Qian instead and praised his sea snake.
• A courier delivered a huge, tarp-covered object, and Qin Ze revealed it was a Two-Headed Shark for Xia Huai'an.
• Xia Huai'an said she liked the shark, while Qin Ze offered Young Master Qian a knife, fork, and bag to eat or take it home.
• Xia Huai'an brought the guests inside for the banquet, where she chatted with Sea Capital's business magnates.
• A commotion erupted outside as people shouted that the corpse had come back to life.