Chapter Summaries

Dharma King and Giant Overlord accepted a fishing boat’s offer to take them to Thousand Streams Island, while Qin Ze attended his top-scorer class meeting and reunited with Teacher Yao as his new homeroom teacher. Teacher Yao appointed Qin Ze class monitor and told him to lead the class in the welcome challenge, then asked him to come to her office.

• The fishing boat captain offered to take Dharma King and Giant Overlord to Thousand Streams Island, and they brought the Flying Circus Man aboard along with the unicorn shark’s carcass.
• Dharma King learned about Thousand Streams Island’s otherworld entrance and sea beasts while Qin Ze planned to visit the island over the weekend.
• Qin Ze recognized Lu Tongtong as likely being Deer Cry Yo-Yo when Huai Xu identified her as a top scorer and innate ability user.
• Teacher Yao arrived as the top-scorer class’s homeroom teacher and appointed Qin Ze class monitor after praising his Heaven-Reaching Tower record.
• Lu Tongtong introduced herself as a Level One, Stage Two Martial Artist with an undisclosed innate ability, and Teacher Yao asked Qin Ze to meet her in her office.

Teacher Yao gave Qin Ze an invitation card for a trial that would reveal part of the world’s truth, while Dharma King and the other clones explored Thousand Streams Island’s gate to another world. The chapter ended with Giant Overlord recognizing the dusty ornament Dharma King had picked up as something belonging to Qin Ze.

• Teacher Yao gave Qin Ze a black-raven card and told him to attend a trial in two months, after trying to reach level two.
• Qin Ze asked Teacher Yao for another S-rank Soul Orb to help him pass, but she told him to scram.
• Teacher Yao spoke with Yao Yuan, who assured her Qin Ze had more tricks than she realized and could handle the entrance trial.
• Dharma King and the other clones decided to explore Thousand Streams Island before returning to the Sea Capital the next morning.
• Dharma King haggled for a supposed treasure map and took a dusty ornament from the stallholder, then tore up the map.
• Giant Overlord recognized the ornament as something belonging to Qin Ze.

Dharma King and Giant Overlord entered the world behind the door, discovered ruins in a barren landscape, and barely escaped its daily blue fire. Qin Ze learned the world belonged to the extinct Blue Flame Race and planned to investigate, then went with his roommates to the freshman welcome challenge, where he spotted an unexpected figure among the judges.

• Dharma King and Giant Overlord found a small tree-shaped ornament matching the key on Qin Ze's chest and entered the world behind the door with their group.
• Dharma King and the others explored the desolate world and found six pillars and a raised platform that suggested a civilization had once lived there.
• A towering blue wall of fire swept across the world, forcing Dharma King and Giant Overlord to carry their companions back through the spatial gate.
• The ticket inspector told Giant Overlord that the world burned every day from two in the afternoon until five the next morning, and the group decided to return to Sea Capital with their finds.
• Qin Ze read that the world had belonged to the Blue Flame Race, whose civilization had vanished, and decided to investigate it himself.
• Qin Ze went with his roommates to the freshman welcome challenge and noticed an unexpected person among the student council judges.

Qin Ze watched the freshman welcome challenge at Haidu Academy, where second-year veterans overwhelmed several freshmen despite suppressing their qi and blood. Lu Tongtong repeatedly evaded her opponent and then struck him hard enough to nearly knock him off the stage.

• Nangong Qianrou noticed Qin Ze staring at her, while her chubby-cheeked companion teased her about him.
• The challenge began, and two ordinary-class freshmen and then two newly level-one top-scorers were quickly defeated by a second-year veteran.
• Han Yi brought Lu Tongtong onto the stage to challenge a veteran who mocked the top-scorer class.
• Qin Ze messaged Fairy about a junior attending Haidu Academy, then recognized that Lu Tongtong had dodged the veteran six times.
• Lu Tongtong ducked a punch and hit the veteran with a straight punch that sent him more than ten meters back, nearly off the stage.

Lu Tongtong defeated a veteran before Nangong Qianrou stopped him from attacking her, and Huai Xu and Wen Jing lost their match against another veteran. Qin Ze then stepped onto the platform alone and challenged the four remaining veterans to fight him together.

• Lu Tongtong dodged the veteran's attacks and nearly knocked him off the platform, but Nangong Qianrou threw him off and declared the freshmen winners.
• Qin Ze exchanged messages with Lu Tongtong, who admitted she was relieved that Beast Tamer's junior did not recognize her.
• Huai Xu and Wen Jing fought a Level Two veteran, but Wen Jing collapsed from exhaustion and Huai Xu conceded before carrying him off the platform.
• Qin Ze volunteered for the final match, refused a partner, and challenged all four remaining veterans at once.

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.