Chapter Summaries

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.

Qin Ze and the others watched a recording left by Yuan, the eighty-ninth Great Sage of the Blue Flame Race, who explained how his world and its Hunters developed. Yuan's account ended with the sudden appearance of a giant beast, which threatened the Blue Flame Race's golden age.

• Dharma King offered Qin Ze, Brother Devour, and Giant Overlord unpurified Soul Orbs, but Qin Ze declined and focused on activating the Image Recording Stone.
• Qin Ze and the others watched Yuan's recording, in which he introduced himself as the Blue Flame Race's Great Sage and Chosen One.
• Yuan explained that Chosen Ones could communicate with the World Will and described how the Blue Flame Realm grew strong enough to produce Source of the World.
• Yuan said Source of the World led to Otherworlds and Hunters, and showed that his key took the form of a tree despite the World Will appearing as a flame.
• Yuan recounted how five Hunters helped usher in a golden age for the Blue Flame Race, until a giant beast appeared.

The Great Sage explained that the giant beasts came from the Abyss and that he had arranged a formation to use the earth's core fire to keep them at bay. Qin Ze agreed to repair the formation in exchange for the remaining Source of the World, and the Great Sage began explaining how to reach and fix it.

• The Great Sage recounted how a rift appeared in the North Ridge and brought giant beasts from beyond the Blue Flame Realm.
• The Great Sage theorized that the beasts sought the Source of the World and explained his plan to sever their region and burn them with the earth's core fire.
• The Great Sage revealed that a formation released the fire at set times to conserve it, but the formation would fail within two hundred and fifty years.
• The Great Sage offered Qin Ze the remaining Source of the World if he repaired the formation, and Qin Ze accepted.
• The Great Sage bowed to Qin Ze and began explaining how to enter and repair the formation.

Qin Ze learned how to reach and repair the Blue Flame Race’s formation beneath the Flame Temple, then agreed to help the Great Sage’s people. After the Black Cross Pirates were caught, Qin Ze returned to the dorm, where Wen Jing invited him to visit the Mystic Dream Otherworld.

• The Great Sage explained that the earthfire formation lay beneath the Flame Temple and could be repaired with a token on the sixth day of each month, when the earthfire was weakest.
• Qin Ze read the Blue Flame Race’s calendar and found it was July 7, so he would have to wait a month before repairing the formation; he agreed to help the Great Sage’s race.
• Qin Ze told Brother Devour and Dharma King that Brother Yuanzi did not need repayment for the Source of the World, then allowed Giant Overlord to return.
• The Sea Capital Law Enforcement Department announced that the Black Cross Pirates’ leader had been apprehended, and Xia Huai'an told Qin Ze that the pirate denied robbing her ship.
• Qin Ze returned to the dorm and teased Huai Xu about his drunken story of a failed relationship before telling him to eat breakfast.
• Wen Jing invited Qin Ze to visit the Mystic Dream Otherworld, and Qin Ze agreed to go after breakfast.

Qin Ze entered the Mystic Dream Otherworld and raced through its simulated combat lessons, defeating the increasingly difficult puppets with ease. He completed all the training in two and a half hours, breaking the Mystic Dream Stele record, before an unexpected voice greeted him.

• Qin Ze, Huai Xu, and Wen Jing bypassed the long line by showing their campus cards and entered the Mystic Dream Otherworld.
• Qin Ze shattered the first two combat puppets before their lessons could finish explaining the scenarios.
• Qin Ze defeated fifteen puppets with a White Tiger Fire Movement Fist and discovered that combining the Fire Movement Technique with the Four Symbols Technique greatly increased its power.
• Qin Ze defeated the final Level Three puppet and completed all simulated combat lessons in two and a half hours.
• Huai Xu, Wen Jing, and the people in the plaza saw Qin Ze take first place on the Mystic Dream Stele, breaking its record.
• A surprised voice greeted Qin Ze inside the arena.

Qin Ze spoke with the World Will, learned that the world faced an urgent threat, and saw his record-breaking simulated combat time make him a campus sensation. After his friends trained for half a month, Qin Ze agreed to take a mission and invited Lu Tongtong to join them.

• Qin Ze met the World Will in the Otherworld, where it urged him to grow stronger quickly because exotic beasts and other races threatened the world.
• Qin Ze returned to the plaza and discovered he had set a new Heaven-Reaching Tower record, drawing the attention of students around him.
• Qin Ze told Huai Xu and Wen Jing they would take a mission once they finished simulated combat training, while Fatty worked to raise his mental power for a class change.
• Qin Ze followed the chat group and, over the next half month, Fatty neared four stones of mental power as Huai Xu and Wen Jing completed nearly two-thirds of the training course.
• Huai Xu and Wen Jing asked Qin Ze to take a mission, and Qin Ze invited Lu Tongtong to join their group before arranging to meet her at the mission hall.

Qin Ze led Huai Xu, Wen Jing, the fatty, and Lu Tongtong to accept a mission to capture fugitive Fan Mingjie in Pearl City. As they traveled, the team discussed the fugitive’s likely motives and shared their abilities, with Qin Ze revealing a small blue flame in his palm.

• Lu Tongtong arrived as Qin Ze’s outside help, surprising Huai Xu, the fatty, and Wen Jing with her combat outfit and hidden B-grade strength.
• Qin Ze chose a low-reward mission to capture level two martial artist Fan Mingjie and led the team to Pearl City.
• On the bus, the team reviewed Fan Mingjie’s theft and murder, and Lu Tongtong suggested he had exposed himself to pressure his buyer into raising an offer.
• Qin Ze warned the team not to underestimate their target, then asked everyone to explain their abilities.
• Huai Xu described Eagle Eye, the fatty described Teleportation, Wen Jing described Blood Burning, and Lu Tongtong described Deduction.
• Qin Ze showed the team the small blue flame that represented his ability.

Qin Ze and his team investigated the theft of a prototype battery at Fan Mingjie's former workplace and found evidence that it had vanished through a Shelter Space-like ability. After checking into a hotel to wait for his clones to search Pearl City, Qin Ze recognized an old acquaintance among law enforcement officers arriving to search the hotel.

• Qin Ze and his team visited Fan Mingjie's company, where the deputy manager explained that a confidential prototype battery had disappeared despite heavy security.
• Qin Ze and Lu Tongtong watched footage showing the battery vanish without triggering alarms, and they suspected the Shelter Space.
• The deputy manager said Fan Mingjie had been on duty when the battery disappeared and that his partner had been found murdered in the restroom.
• Qin Ze declined to search the area that law enforcement had already swept and took the team to a hotel to rest while his clones searched Pearl City.
• Law enforcement officers arrived at the hotel with a search warrant, and Qin Ze recognized the leading officer as an old acquaintance.

Qin Ze and his companions investigated a theft in Pearl City while his clones searched for Brother Jie, but the day mostly turned into sightseeing and food. Number Three joined Qin Ze for dinner, heard the mission details, and advised him to abandon it.

• Number Three led an enforcement team through the hotel but found no suspicious people, while Qin Ze discussed the theft and a possible Shelter Space in the group chat.
• Qin Ze ordered his clones to keep looking for Brother Jie, though they spent much of their time enjoying the city instead.
• Qin Ze took Lu Tongtong, Huai Xu, the fatty, and Wen Jing sightseeing and sampling local food before bringing them to a barbecue stall.
• Number Three sat with Qin Ze, congratulated him, and explained that he had returned to Pearl City because headquarters was short-staffed and career advancement was difficult.
• Qin Ze described his mission to Number Three, who frowned and advised him to give it up.

Qin Ze's team learned that their mission to catch Fan Mingjie could involve Virgo of the Twelve Zodiac Signs, but decided to pursue Fan Mingjie anyway. After they returned to the hotel, Qin Ze watched Pearl City through his clones, and late that night they received word that Brother Jie had appeared.

• Number Three warned Qin Ze's team that Fan Mingjie's trading partner was Virgo and urged them to abandon the mission, explaining Fan Mingjie's suspected strength and concealment ability.
• Qin Ze argued that the team only needed to catch Fan Mingjie, not fight Virgo, and the group voted to continue the mission.
• Number Three left after paying only for the grilled kidneys, leaving Qin Ze to cover the rest of the bill.
• Qin Ze told the team to rest while they waited for his contact to report any news of Brother Jie.
• After returning to the hotel, Qin Ze monitored the city through his clones, and a late-night message announced that Brother Jie had appeared.

Virgo prepared for a mission with Fishes while Ram visited with Ma Yan and warned that the Saber King was hunting Virgo. Virgo brushed off the threat and set out with them to make his return to the martial world.

• Virgo tortured a man, drained two burly servants, and teased Fishes, who pressed him to move ahead with their mission.
• Virgo told Fishes that everything was going according to big sister's plan and promised he might help Fishes become a middle-seat constellation.
• Ram arrived with Ma Yan, introduced her as his assistant, and agreed to help Virgo because he was short on hands.
• Ram warned Virgo that Gu Hongchang, the Saber King, had come to Sea Capital and destroyed fourteen of their strongholds.
• Virgo dismissed the Saber King's threat and led the others out to exercise and announce his return to the martial world.