Chapter Summaries

Qin Ze learned that Ma Yan was safe and had gained control of the reversal reagent’s side effects, then used an S-rank Soul Orb to empower a clone with the Power of the Giant. Meanwhile, Ma Yan revealed she had reached level seven and challenged Ram over her chance to join the Twelve Zodiac Signs.

• Ma Yan called Qin Ze, said she was safe and could control the reagent’s side effects, and told him she was entering seclusion.
• Qin Yu called Qin Ze to check that he had survived the Jiang City beast tide and suggested he apply to Haidu Academy if he placed first in the martial exam.
• Qin Ze gave an S-rank Soul Orb to a clone, who gained the Power of the Giant, reached the peak of level two, and declared himself the Circus’s second-in-command.
• Ma Yan showed Ram that she had broken through to level seven and asked when she could join the Twelve Zodiac Signs.
• Ma Yan joked that she could kill Ram to take his Aries position, and Ram said he would report her breakthrough to the president.

Qin Ze collected his reward, then took the written portion of the college entrance exam while preparing for the martial exam. After passing the written test, he headed to the martial exam venue determined to surprise the other examinees.

• Qin Ze refused to let his current clones devour the Soul Orb, choosing to save it for the next generation, and sent the old clones off to temper their bones.
• Qin Ze rejected his clones' offer to help him cheat on the written exam and completed the test, confident he had passed.
• Qin Ze chatted with the class monitor after the exam and learned that the martial exam would take place the next day.
• Qin Ze saw Fairy claim she could grow stronger without cultivating and chatted with the group about preparations for the martial exam.
• Qin Ze received a call from his mother, went to bed early, and arrived at the martial exam venue ready to shock the examinees.

Qin Ze learned that the martial exam’s Heaven-Reaching Tower was inside the Mystic Dream Otherworld and that the Gate-Sealing Stele used a fragment of a slain Void Beast’s core to open the gate. After entering the tower, he discovered that all his clones were gone.

• Jiang City officials reviewed the martial exam preparations and listed the year’s promising candidates, while the city lord called Qin Ze’s qi and blood result average.
• At the exam venue, Qin Ze sensed a Void Beast’s aura from the Gate-Sealing Stele and asked the chat group about it.
• Yao Yuan explained that the stele contained a fragment of a slain Void Beast’s core and that the fragments opened unstable spatial passages between locations.
• The education minister activated the Gate-Sealing Stele, and the candidates were pulled through a spatial vortex into the Heaven-Reaching Tower.
• Qin Ze arrived in the tower’s first-floor room and found that all his clones had disappeared.

Qin Ze sped through the Heaven-Reaching Tower and cleared it in two minutes and seventeen seconds, setting a new record. After the exam, he learned the ninth-floor guardian beast had defeated itself, and the local network was restored when he was teleported outside.

• Qin Ze discovered that the Otherworld had blocked his connection to his clones just as the exam began.
• Qin Ze destroyed the guardian beasts on the first two floors and raced up the tower, clearing each floor in seconds.
• The experts watching the exam heard that Qin Ze had cleared the tower in two minutes and seventeen seconds, breaking the record, and confirmed that the result was genuine.
• Qin Ze realized the ninth-floor guardian beast had tangled and attacked itself until it died without him moving.
• The Otherworld teleported Qin Ze outside and unblocked the local network.

Qin Ze learned that he had cleared the Heaven-Reaching Tower in two minutes and seventeen seconds, a record-breaking result that stunned the other examinees. After the first round ended, he ranked first and left the grounds to find his homeroom teacher celebrating, while martial universities across the country began to take notice.

• Qin Ze woke after clearing the Heaven-Reaching Tower and watched other examinees emerge from the Mystic Dream Otherworld, many pale and exhausted.
• Qin Ze read the chat group as Deer Cry Yo-Yo announced her time, and Yao Yuan revealed that someone in Jiang City had cleared the tower in two minutes and seventeen seconds.
• Qin Ze kept his record-breaking achievement secret from the chat group to preserve his persona.
• The minister of education ended the first round and announced Qin Ze in first place, with all nine floors cleared in two minutes and seventeen seconds.
• Qin Ze left the examination grounds, and his homeroom teacher excitedly congratulated him as news of his result spread to martial universities across the country.

Qin Ze advanced through the martial exam while a tide began, prompting warnings about dangerous Hunting Beasts. He defeated Xie Xueying and Zhang San to reach the final, leaving the exam close to its conclusion.

• Yao Yuan warned the chat group that the tide had begun and told Qin Ze and Deer Cry Yo-Yo to open their Shelter Spaces and beware of Hunting Beasts.
• Qin Ze's first opponent forfeited by flipping off the arena, and his next four opponents also withdrew, allowing him to advance to the top eight.
• Xie Xueying challenged Qin Ze, but he redirected her charge and sent her off the arena; she vowed to catch up to him.
• Qin Ze faced Zhang San in the semifinal and knocked him out with a single strike.

Qin Ze defeated Fang Songhua in the martial exam final and received Jiang City's top-scorer award. As the celebration began, five enormous cyclones appeared in the sky, and the education minister recognized an approaching tide.

• Qin Ze learned that Little Deer had won first place in her martial exam, then joined the livestreamed final against Fang Songhua.
• Fang Songhua revealed his level-one defensive Martial Artifact and claimed Qin Ze could not break through it.
• Qin Ze unleashed a tiger-like pressure that cracked Fang Songhua's armor and sent him flying unconscious off the arena.
• Qin Ze received the top-scorer certificate and ten blood crystals while his clones discussed celebrating and holding a memorial service.
• Qin Ze noticed five enormous cyclones in the clear sky, and the education minister identified them as a tide.

A Five-Vortex Tide descended on Jiang City, unleashing nearly two hundred thousand exotic beasts as Qin Ze realized the city faced a catastrophe beyond his ability to fight. He waited for Dharma King and the others to arrive so they could escape using the Shelter Space, as the defenders opened fire.

• The minister of education told Qin Ze that a Five-Vortex Tide had arrived and brought him to a shelter reserved for the families of high-ranking martial artists.
• Qin Ze activated the Shelter Space inside the shelter, then returned outside and headed for the city wall.
• Qin Ze found Niu Zhida, Babyface, and Skinny Dog on the wall as the Five Vortices filled the sky with colorful light.
• The vortices released nearly two hundred thousand exotic beasts, including many mid-level beasts, which charged toward Jiang City.
• Qin Ze told Dharma King and the others to meet him so they could escape, while the city's fire-control commander ordered the defenders to open fire.

Qin Ze drew the beast tide away from Jiang City after the Hunting Beast tore open the Shelter Space, then killed the creature and repaired the breach. The beasts turned back toward the city, and Qin Ze opened the chat group when the key vibrated.

• Qin Ze spotted the Hunting Beast, which tore open the Shelter Space and exposed his aura to the beast tide.
• Qin Ze spent five points of Source of the World to repair the breach and glided away from Jiang City, drawing the beasts after him.
• The Hunting Beast repeatedly tried to widen the crack while Qin Ze evaded the flying beasts and waited for repairs to finish.
• Qin Ze deactivated the Shelter Space, stunned the Hunting Beast with Little Azure Dragon, and killed it with a powerful slap.
• Qin Ze reactivated the Shelter Space as repairs completed, and the beasts lost his aura and turned back toward Jiang City.

As a five-vortex beast tide overwhelmed Jiang City, Qin Ze and his clones decided to enter the battle despite the city being abandoned and reinforcements being delayed. The chapter ended as the Circus charged into the city to fight the beasts.

• On Cloudfall Mountain, the old man learned that Jiang City faced a five-vortex tide and ordered Guardian Yao to guard the Abyss defensive line while he awaited Guardian Gu.
• Qin Ze learned from Yao Yuan that Jiang City would receive no reinforcements until the tide stopped depositing beasts, though Guardian Gu was heading there.
• Exotic beasts broke through Jiang City's gate, and Babyface, Blade Man, Skinny Dog, Niuniu, and the defenders struggled to hold them back.
• Qin Ze decided to fight alongside his clones, who agreed to make a stand as the Circus.
• As the city lord and City Defense Bureau director despaired over Jiang City's fall, martial artists in black suits and animal masks charged into the city.

The Circus joined Jiang City’s defense, retook the gate, and helped secure the city walls. As Qin Ze coordinated the fighters, a high-rank exotic beast emerged from underground.

• More than four hundred Circus clones charged into the beast horde, using self-destruction and relentless attacks to open a path through it.
• Giant Overlord grew into a ten-meter giant, blasted through the beasts with his eye beam, and helped retake the gate within five minutes.
• Dharma King struck flying beasts with lightning while Brother Devour rescued Niuniu and sent clones to destroy the ladders at the wall.
• The Circus reinforced the defensive line, and Qin Ze guided their attacks from the Shelter Space as the defenders regained hope.
• A black tentacle burst from the ground and wrapped around a tall commercial building, revealing the arrival of a high-rank exotic beast.

As Jiang City’s defenses collapsed under a huge octopus and its swarm, Brother Devour and Dharma King fought back while Qin Ze searched for a way to redirect the tide. Qin Ze realized the shrinking vortexes might retrieve the exotic beasts and tried to open a spatial gate, but the Key said he lacked enough Source of the World.

• A gigantic octopus emerged in the city center and sent a swarm of small octopuses against the city wall as the tide’s vortexes began to vanish.
• The swarm destroyed the defenders’ antiaircraft positions, and martial artists fled as the wall’s defenses faltered.
• Brother Devour left the wall to fight the swarm alongside Dharma King, who absorbed a blood crystal and returned to battle.
• Qin Ze repeatedly toggled the Shelter Space and Source of the World to redirect the beasts, but the tactic eventually stopped working.
• After Yao Yuan explained that spatial vortices retrieved deployed exotic beasts, Qin Ze asked the Key to open a gate, but it reported that his fifteen units of Source of the World were insufficient.

Qin Ze opened a spatial passage from the Abyss to the Pan-Continent while the mutant beasts overran Jiang City, then rushed to defend a shelter full of civilians. He fought the giant octopus to protect them, but the giant octopus struck him down.

• Qin Ze borrowed fifty points of Source of the World from Yao Yuan and began opening a spatial passage that would admit mutant beasts.
• As the passage's countdown ran, mutant beasts flooded Jiang City and the giant octopus attacked the defenders on the western wall.
• The mutant beasts breached a shelter, and Qin Ze arrived in his giant form to save the civilians and destroy the beasts surrounding it.
• Qin Ze drew the giant octopus away from the shelter and used his brief sage time to catch its tentacles, but the giant octopus shattered his four arms.
• Qin Ze released his full power and declared his courage as the shelter's residents cheered him on.
• The giant octopus attacked Qin Ze from all sides and knocked him down.

Qin Ze survived the giant octopus’s attack, used the completed spatial gate to draw the Five-Vortex Tide into a vortex, and saved Jiang City. After the survivors celebrated, he vanished with the clones, leaving the city lord to wonder whether the World Will had protected them; a saber-wielding man then emerged from a spatial rift.

• Qin Ze rose despite losing much of his giant body and stalled the octopus until the spatial gate opened above Jiang City.
• Qin Ze ordered the key to close the gate, and the resulting spatial vortex sucked the exotic beasts and the giant octopus away.
• The Five-Vortex Tide disappeared, and Jiang City’s defenders celebrated their victory.
• Qin Ze took his mask from Yaya, answered her question about becoming a giant, and vanished before she could introduce him to her mother.
• The clones left the western wall with their companions’ bodies, and the city lord let the mysterious heroes go.
• A middle-aged man carrying two sabers stepped through a spatial rift above Jiang City.

Saber King returned to Jiang City after the beast tide vanished and learned that a spatial vortex had swallowed the beasts. While Ma Yan left the area with Aries, Qin Ze dreamed of the World Tree and learned that the World Will had fully approved him as its chosen one.

• Saber King arrived in ruined Jiang City, revealed he had become a Level Nine Guardian, and asked the city lord about the missing beast tide.
• Zhao Wuji told Saber King that a spatial vortex had swallowed the strange beasts after a Void Beast emerged from a rift, and Saber King left to investigate.
• Aries stopped Ma Yan from returning to Jiang City and suggested he pursue a place among the Twelve Zodiac Signs in Sea Capital.
• Qin Ze recovered at the Circus headquarters while the clones celebrated the battle and named him MVP.
• In a dream, Qin Ze met an old man beside the World Tree, who told him the World Will had fully approved him and called him the chosen one.

After the World Tree made Qin Ze its Chosen One, he returned to Jiang City and prepared to attend Haidu Academy in Sea Capital. His plan to enter through Qin Yu’s connections fell through, but he set off anyway with his clones and a place as the top scorer.

• Qin Ze rejected the Chosen One’s duties, but the World Tree marked him with its power and formed a white fruit in its canopy.
• After Qin Ze vanished, Gu Hongchang met Elder Xu and asked him to answer questions about the Chosen One.
• Qin Ze returned to his sofa, saw the group chat discussing the vanished Five-Vortex Tide, and learned more about Haidu Academy from Fairy.
• Qin Ze applied to Haidu Academy and received an acceptance letter, while Fatty chose the same school and the class monitor chose Shi'an Academy.
• During summer vacation, Qin Ze accumulated clones and advanced to Level Two, allowing him to produce two and a half clones a day.
• Qin Yu told Qin Ze that the academy had caught and punished the friend she hoped would help him, and Qin Ze locked up his home before leaving for Sea Capital.

Qin Ze arrived in Sea Capital, registered at Haidu Academy, and moved into a dorm with the fatty and two new roommates. After asserting his strength, he made the roommates accept him as the dorm boss and prepared to take them out.

• Qin Ze reached Sea Capital, released his three hundred clones to explore, and left the station with Qin Yu in her best friend's sports car.
• Qin Yu drove Qin Ze to Haidu Academy, where he registered for the top scorer class and received his student ID and official-ranked martial artist certificate.
• Qin Ze found the fatty already in his dorm; the fatty explained that he had signed up for martial arts and was assigned to the room because his class had no vacancies.
• Qin Ze challenged his two withdrawn roommates, Long Hair and Crew Cut, and overwhelmed their auras with his level two cultivation.
• Crew Cut and Long Hair accepted Qin Ze as their boss, and Qin Ze announced that he would take the dormmates out for a stroll.

Qin Ze and his dormmates ate sea beast meat, and Qin Ze discovered it contained Source of the World. After ordering his clones to investigate Fisherman's Wharf, he returned to the dorm with his new roommates.

• Qin Ze and his three dormmates ate at a restaurant, where the owner explained that sea beast meat could strengthen the body and boost qi and blood.
• Wen Jing and Huai Xu told Qin Ze about Haidu Academy's welcome challenge, where sophomores fought freshmen two at a time, and urged him to participate.
• Qin Ze ate all four plates of sea beast meat and recovered two millionths of a unit of Source of the World.
• Qin Ze asked where to buy sea beast meat, then ordered his clones to go to Fisherman's Wharf.
• Qin Ze returned to the dorm with his roommates and opened the group chat to ask about sea beasts.

Qin Ze questioned why he alone could sense the Source of the World in sea beast meat, then planned to attend a freshman challenge match to look for Little Deer. Meanwhile, Dharma King and Giant Overlord sailed out on a patched-together boat to investigate sea beasts, and Dharma King kicked a clone overboard as bait.

• Qin Ze asked Fairy and Little Deer whether eating sea beast meat had revealed anything beyond a boost to qi and blood, and both said it had not.
• Little Deer told Fairy she had signed up for a veterans-versus-freshmen challenge match, and Qin Ze decided to attend and look for her.
• Dharma King and Giant Overlord took ten clones aboard their homemade boat, named the Flying Circus Man, and headed out to sea to investigate sea beasts.
• The group reached the hunting grounds and watched large ships use bait and Martial Artifact cannons to kill sea beasts.
• After a clone pointed out they had brought no bait, Dharma King kicked him into the sea.

Dharma King lured a rare level-three Unicorn Shark to his boat and killed it with lightning and Giant Overlord’s attack, but the fight left their small boat sinking. A fishing boat that had fled the battle returned as Dharma King’s group faced the problem of getting back and hauling in the enormous shark.

• Dharma King had his clones bleed into the sea and release qi and blood fluctuations to attract a sea beast.
• A fifty-meter Unicorn Shark appeared, swallowed the two clones, and attacked Dharma King’s small boat.
• Dharma King struck the shark with lightning, and Giant Overlord pierced its head with a beam from his third eye.
• The Unicorn Shark died, but Dharma King’s boat began sinking, leaving the group unsure how to return or recover the carcass.
• The fishing boat that had fled the level-three sea beast returned.