Recaps

The trainee unit won the internship assessment, and Xu Jintang and her classmates prepared to return to school. At a farewell meal, Gu Xiuwen agreed to reveal his ability, shocking everyone with his Star Compass and its power to predict and interfere with the future.

• Lei Wenche realized Xue Zhongqi had used Life Sharing to eliminate him, and Wang Yile announced that the trainee unit had passed the assessment.
• Jing Hongyi praised the trainees and warned the regular soldiers that their training would become more intense; Xu Jintang and Xue Zhongqi gained fame for their performance.
• Yan Yuting told the group they would serve as a reserve team when Leikedasi challenged other military academies, with Yu Wanyao's team as the main lineup.
• Xu Jintang persuaded Gu Xiuwen to treat the group to a farewell meal, where Feng Ruihan hinted that he recognized her as Foodie from the Mask Squad.
• Gu Xiuwen demonstrated his Star Compass ability at the training grounds, and Xue Zhongqi explained that it could predict and interfere with the future with up to ninety percent success.

After leaving the military camp, Xu Jintang and her classmates returned to the Federation Star Region, where Zhuang Silin immediately sent them onward to challenge military academies in a medium star region. Leikedasi had to beat more than ten academies while maintaining a 100% win rate, and Xu Jintang’s experimental class was assigned as the substitute team.

• Gu Xiuwen demonstrated Star Compass, and Xue Zhongqi warned Feng Ruihan that predicting and interfering with the future could be dangerous.
• Xu Jintang and the others departed the camp, and Xu Jintang vomited from airsickness before the medical team cleared her dizziness.
• At the central space hub, Zhuang Silin told Xu Jintang’s group they would immediately head to a medium star region for the challenge circuit.
• Zhuang Silin explained that Leikedasi had to challenge more academies than Clifford had the previous year and maintain a 100% win rate; Yu Wanyao’s team would compete, with Xu Jintang’s experimental class as substitutes.
• Xu Jintang and the others arrived at Medium Star Region K006, where Xu Jintang hurried off the spacecraft and breathed in the fresh air.

Xu Jintang and her teammates traveled with Zhuang Silin to Aierteng Military Academy for a challenge, while Yu Wanyao prepared seriously and the others remained relaxed. They arrived at the crowded training ground shortly before the match, where Aierteng's principal greeted them as the spectators watched.

• Zhuang Silin briefed the teams on Aierteng's main team and warned them about captain Xie Gaoyi's peak third-tier mental power and wide-area mechanical-gun ability.
• Yu Wanyao and her teammates practiced tactics while Xu Jintang and her teammates rested, and Jiang Shiyi arrived at the hotel.
• Aierteng's principal urged students and staff to attend the challenge, then reassured Xie Gaoyi and his teammates that they should simply do their best.
• Yu Wanyao insisted that Xu Jintang and her teammates stop snacking and get ready to leave for the match.
• Zhuang Silin led the group into Aierteng Military Academy, where the crowded spectators fell silent as they arrived.

Leikdasi and Aierteng began their best-of-five challenge match, with Yu Wanyao's main team facing Aierteng in the opening round. Leikdasi unleashed its abilities immediately, and Wei Zixuan summoned a peak third-tier Flying-Winged Jiaolong as the battle began.

• Xu Jintang and the other Leikdasi substitutes relaxed with drinks and snacks before Zhuang Silin led them to the private lounge.
• Xie Gaoyi warned his Aierteng teammates not to underestimate Leikdasi, then gathered with them to review their tactics.
• The host announced the best-of-five rules, and both teams introduced themselves and revealed their mental power levels.
• The referee started the first round, and Mu Guang charged forward while Yu Wanyao spread ice across the arena.
• Wei Zixuan summoned a Flying-Winged Jiaolong, whose peak third-tier power alarmed the spectators.

Leikdasi Military Academy defeated Aierteng Military Academy in the first match after Yu Wanyao eliminated four opponents with her new ice skill and Wei Zixuan’s Twin-Winged Jiaolong pressured Xie Gaoyi. The teams prepared for the second match, with Xie Gaoyi hoping Wei Zixuan would summon a weaker beast next time.

• Xie Gaoyi faced Wei Zixuan’s peak third-tier Twin-Winged Jiaolong while his teammates engaged Yu Wanyao, Yan Zitao, and Qin Shuxue.
• Xu Jintang and Jiang Shiyi predicted the match would end within five minutes because Yu Wanyao had grown stronger.
• Yu Wanyao used Frenzied Dance of Ice to freeze two Aierteng Military Academy fighters and kick them out of the arena.
• Yu Wanyao joined Yan Zitao and Qin Shuxue to eliminate two more opponents, leaving Xie Gaoyi alone against Leikdasi Military Academy.
• Xie Gaoyi surrendered under pressure from the Jiaolong and Yu Wanyao’s ice attack, giving Leikdasi Military Academy the first match in four minutes.
• Xie Gaoyi encouraged his teammates by betting that Wei Zixuan would summon a weaker demonic beast in the next match, while Yu Wanyao warned her team that Xie Gaoyi might target them.

Leikedasi took a two-match lead over Aierteng, and the third match began with Wei Zixuan summoning a peak third-tier mammoth. As the teams clashed and Xie Gaoyi prepared to stake everything on the round, Aierteng’s principal visited Leikedasi’s lounge and questioned Xu Jintang about the reserve team.

• Xu Jintang explained that Yu Wanyao was stronger than an ordinary third-tier ability user and had held back during her earlier fight.
• Wei Zixuan summoned only a peak second-tier beast in the second match, but Yu Wanyao and her teammates defeated Aierteng again, putting Leikedasi two wins ahead.
• Aierteng’s supervising teacher urged Xie Gaoyi and his teammates to recover their confidence and fight to win the match-point round.
• Wei Zixuan summoned a peak third-tier mammoth in the third match, prompting Xie Gaoyi to gather his teammates and call for an attack on the beast.
• Yu Wanyao’s team gathered to face Aierteng, and Mu Guang attacked first with the Xiaoshan Cauldron after they decided to target Xie Gaoyi’s teammates.
• Aierteng’s principal visited Leikedasi’s lounge, questioned why the academy had prepared a reserve team, and heard Xu Jintang and the others describe their strength as average.

Leikedasi defeated Aierteng Military Academy 3–0, and the team prepared for its next challenge against the stronger Suofei'er Military Academy. While the main team trained, Xu Jintang and Song Tianqi went to the Heaven Ascension Platform to try its arena challenges.

• Xie Gaoyi and Yu Wanyao unleashed their ultimate moves, and the clash forced most contestants out of the arena while Wei Zixuan stayed on the mammoth's tusk.
• The referee declared Leikedasi the winner of the match and the school challenge, and Xie Gaoyi and Yu Wanyao exchanged respectful words afterward.
• Videos of Leikedasi's sweep spread across the Star Network, and Principal Alice prepared Suofei'er Military Academy for its upcoming challenge.
• Zhuang Silin warned Yu Wanyao's team that Suofei'er was stronger and advised them to prepare, while Xu Jintang and the other reserves were left to their own devices.
• Xu Jintang and Song Tianqi traveled to the Heaven Ascension Platform, where they decided to try its challenges.

Xu Jintang and Song Tianqi challenged the Heaven Ascension Platform and cleared its first four floors with surprising speed. They kept their battles private from the fifth floor onward, leaving spectators and staff unable to see how far they would climb.

• Song Tianqi bought tickets for Xu Jintang and himself, and the pair entered the Heaven Ascension Platform together.
• Xu Jintang defeated her first-floor opponent in seconds, and Song Tianqi also cleared the floor quickly, drawing attention from spectators and staff.
• Xu Jintang and Song Tianqi cleared the second and third floors in quick succession as more spectators gathered.
• Xu Jintang cleared the fourth floor and chose to keep her battles private from the fifth floor onward.
• Song Tianqi cleared the fourth floor and also made his subsequent battles private, preventing spectators and staff from watching.

Xu Jintang and Song Tianqi advanced rapidly through the Heaven Ascension Platform, drawing accusations that its staff were staging a publicity stunt. Xie Gaoyi joined the challenge, and Xu Jintang reached the eighth floor as a new record appeared under the name [Mask Squad Foodie].

• Xu Jintang and Song Tianqi cleared the fifth floor quickly, prompting spectators to accuse the Heaven Ascension Platform of using insiders to fake results.
• The staff denied the accusations, but the crowd grew as Xu Jintang and Song Tianqi advanced to the seventh floor.
• Xie Gaoyi and his four teammates arrived, heard the rumors, and Xie Gaoyi decided to challenge the platform.
• Xie Gaoyi bought a ticket and began clearing floors while Xu Jintang and Song Tianqi continued their challenges.
• Xu Jintang cleared the seventh floor and advanced to the eighth, where the record appeared under the name [Mask Squad Foodie].

Xu Jintang and Song Tianqi ended their Heaven Ascension Platform challenges after Zhuang Silin called them back for Principal Alice’s banquet, though their Mask Squad identities were revealed to spectators. They returned to the hotel and joined Zhuang Silin’s group at Alice’s residence, where Alice welcomed them.

• Xu Jintang and Song Tianqi chose random teleportation destinations ten kilometers away and hurried back to the city after Zhuang Silin summoned them.
• Spectators learned that the challengers who used the names Mask Squad Hot Air Balloon and Foodie were members of the Mask Squad, and fans rushed to the Heaven Ascension Platform.
• Xu Jintang and Song Tianqi met at the hotel, where they told Yan Yuting, Xue Zhongqi, and Jiang Shiyi that they had visited a nearby attraction.
• Zhuang Silin led the group to Principal Alice’s estate, where a butler showed them Alice’s lavish mirrored palace.
• Alice welcomed Zhuang Silin and the students from Leikdasi Military Academy and invited them to sit for tea and desserts.

Alice hosted Xu Jintang, Song Tianqi, and Leikedasi’s group for afternoon tea, then later sought Zhuang Silin’s help in secret. The chapter left Alice revealing that inspections had found a large batch of substandard medicine at her family’s pharmaceutical factories.

• Alice showed Zhuang Silin and the students her Divine Bodhi Tree ability, which could heal and extend lifespans, before hosting them for afternoon tea.
• Xu Jintang and Song Tianqi were reprimanded by Zhuang Silin for appearing at the Heaven Ascension Platform, and she assigned them extra training and written self-criticisms.
• Leikedasi defeated Suofei'er Military Academy 4:1, and Zhuang Silin began reviewing the challenge match with Yu Wanyao and the other students.
• Alice secretly met Zhuang Silin at the hotel and asked her to bring Xu Jintang and Song Tianqi along to a private teahouse room.
• Alice asked the group for help and revealed that inspections had uncovered a large batch of substandard medicine at her family’s pharmaceutical factories.

Alice recruited Xu Jintang and the other members of the substitute team to investigate how substandard medicine appeared in the Alice Family’s pharmaceutical factory. After learning that Alice had recognized them as the Mask Squad, Zhuang Silin warned Miao Mingzhi about their exposed identities, and the team prepared to go undercover at the factory.

• Alice explained that a spot check found a large batch of substandard medicine in the factory warehouse, though production inspections and surveillance had revealed no clues.
• Zhuang Silin agreed to let Xu Jintang and the other substitute-team members investigate, with Alice’s shadow guards protecting them and the mission limited to investigation.
• Alice revealed that she had recognized the five as the Mask Squad because she was a devoted fan, and promised to keep their identities secret.
• Zhuang Silin told Miao Mingzhi that the Mask Squad had been recognized, and he advised her to let events take their course.
• Yan Yuting, Xue Zhongqi, Song Tianqi, and Jiang Shiyi joined the investigation; Alice offered a list of possible culprits and arranged for the team to enter the factory as new interns.
• That evening, the five prepared to enter the brightly lit pharmaceutical factory alongside the interns undergoing facial recognition scans.

Xu Jintang and her companions began investigating Alice Pharmaceutical Factory for the source of its substandard drugs, splitting up to question employees about supervisors. After their first day yielded no leads, Xu Jintang and Jiang Shiyi tried to investigate Superintendent Wang Xiaohong at night but found his lounge inaccessible and planned to look into him further.

• Xu Jintang and her four companions entered Alice Pharmaceutical Factory, where Wang Hongxiao gave them universal access cards and warned them to keep their investigation discreet.
• Xu Jintang split the group into two teams to count and investigate supervisors and above for involvement in replacing the drugs.
• Xu Jintang and Song Tianqi questioned employees in several processing areas but found that the supervisors they checked had been absent too often to commit the crime.
• The teams reunited without finding any leads and agreed to continue investigating the next day.
• Xu Jintang and Jiang Shiyi decided to investigate Wang Xiaohong, but their universal access card failed to open his private lounge that night.
• Jiang Shiyi cautioned that Wang Xiaohong was not necessarily the one replacing the drugs, though they still needed to investigate him.

Xu Jintang and her companions investigated the Alice Pharmaceutical Factory’s medicine substitution, eventually suspecting Wang Xiaohong, but a security alarm and reports of Reform Society intruders disrupted their inquiry. Xu Jintang fled the guards to search the warehouses and found Song Yueyue there, questioning how she had reached the area.

• Yu Wanyao’s five-person team continued winning school challenges, drawing widespread attention online.
• Xu Jintang’s group investigated the factory for three days but found no likely culprit among the supervisors except Wang Xiaohong, whose private break room they could not access.
• An alarm announced unidentified personnel in the core workshop, and security guards arrested Xu Jintang and more than a hundred others for questioning.
• After overhearing guards mention the Reform Society, Xu Jintang escaped her pursuers and searched the warehouse zones, suspecting the intruders were connected to the inferior medicine.
• Xu Jintang encountered Song Yueyue hiding in the warehouse area and questioned how she had gotten there from her workshop assignment.

Xu Jintang fought Song Yueyue, a Reform Society member, then escaped the factory chaos with a clue pointing toward the Quality Inspection Bureau. After Alice’s team concluded that someone had substituted substandard medicine, Xu Jintang suggested the Bureau might be involved, and Alice left the investigation open while rewarding the group.

• Song Yueyue attacked Xu Jintang, and the security team surrounded them as Song Yueyue offered information in exchange for help escaping.
• Xu Jintang froze Song Yueyue and slipped her a Teleportation Inscription, while Song Yueyue passed Xu Jintang a note reading “Quality Inspection Bureau” before teleporting away.
• Xu Jintang escaped the warehouse district, and the security team’s arrests and investigation continued until Alice secured the group’s release.
• Song Tianqi identified Chief Manager Wang Xiaohong as the suspected source of the substandard medicine, but Alice rejected the accusation, and Xu Jintang proposed investigating the Quality Inspection Bureau.
• Alice asked the group to keep the suspicion confidential and paid them with treasure chests containing valuable items and ten million Star Bank Cards.

After the Alice Pharmaceutical Factory scandal led to heavy penalties for the Alice Family, Xu Jintang and her companions watched Leikedasi’s final military academy challenge. Yu Wanyao was unexpectedly knocked out by a last-minute substitute with a poisonous silver-liquid ability, leaving the match’s outcome uncertain.

• Xu Jintang warned her companions to stay out of the investigation into the Alice Pharmaceutical Factory, and news of the factory’s substandard medicine scandal spread.
• After a week of turmoil, the factory was ordered to suspend operations and the Alice Family lost half its yearly revenue to fines; Xu Jintang suspected Alice had accepted the penalty willingly.
• Leikedasi won five more military academy challenges, leaving only its final opponent before completing its assignment.
• Xu Jintang and her companions attended the final challenge, where a blue-haired substitute used poisonous west silver to knock Yu Wanyao out of the arena.
• Zhuang Silin explained that the opposing team had changed a member at the last minute, while Wei Zixuan and the other three Leikedasi fighters remained in the match.

Yu Wanyao’s team recovered from losing the first match, won the remaining matches, and completed their academy challenges with a perfect record. After returning to the Federation Star Region, Xu Jintang and her companions settled back into student life, where Xue Zhongqi showed off his new novelty inscriptions.

• Leikedasi lost the first match against a team whose blue-haired member wielded an unfamiliar silver ability, but Yu Wanyao’s team won the next two matches and claimed the challenge round.
• Leikedasi completed challenges against fifteen military academies in eighteen days with a one-hundred-percent win rate, surpassing Clifford’s previous record.
• Alice met Xu Jintang and Zhuang Silin at the hotel, arranged for their group to fly in the top-tier radiant gold cabin, and saw them off.
• After the group landed in the Federation Star Region, Zhuang Silin took Yu Wanyao’s team to report back while Xu Jintang and her companions returned to their villa dormitory.
• Xue Zhongqi demonstrated his novelty fireworks and water-spraying inscriptions, and Xu Jintang and Song Tianqi tested and collected some of them.

Xu Jintang and her classmates attended Leikdasi’s freshman ceremony, where seniors paired with freshmen for games. Their firework inscriptions drew attention and helped them find partners, and the ceremony began with the Flower Ball Plucking challenge.

• Zhuang Silin explained that seniors and freshmen would pair up for games assessing the newcomers and helping them get acquainted.
• At the training grounds, freshmen crowded around Yu Wanyao and her teammates, while Xu Jintang’s group initially received little attention.
• Xu Jintang gave Jiang Yingxue firework inscriptions and demonstrated them, drawing curious freshmen who wanted inscriptions and senior partners.
• Song Tianqi, Xue Zhongqi, Yan Yuting, and Jiang Shiyi also handed out firework inscriptions, and all five classmates found partners.
• Zhuang Silin introduced the Flower Ball Plucking warm-up, in which pairs would earn points by reaching a flower ball suspended above the training grounds.

Xu Jintang and Jiang Yingxue entered the flower-ball-plucking contest, where teams earned points for making their retrievals spectacular. After Yu Wanyao and her partner took first place with a display of ice and blooming roses, Xu Jintang began a grand icy performance to help Jiang Yingxue challenge their score.

• Zhuang Silin explained that judges would reward teams for spectacular flower-ball-plucking performances, and Xu Jintang and Jiang Yingxue planned a routine combining their abilities.
• The lights selected Yu Wanyao and her junior, who used ice and blooming roses to create a sea of flowers and earned an average score of nine points.
• Jiang Yingxue told Xu Jintang that Yu Wanyao's partner was the joint examination's top scorer who had once forced her to surrender her points, and Xu Jintang promised to help her take first place.
• After several average performances, the lights selected Xu Jintang and Jiang Yingxue, drawing the attention of students who remembered Xu Jintang.
• As the countdown began, Xu Jintang raised Jiang Yingxue on an ice lotus, filling the area with miniature lotuses and cold air.

Jiang Yingxue and Xu Jintang won the first minigame with a dazzling ice-and-wind performance, taking the lead before the competition shifted to a two-minute battle royale. When the fight began, Xu Jintang brought Jiang Yingxue to Yu Wanyao's group for protection, and Song Tianqi soon joined them with his junior.

• Jiang Yingxue used the Wind-Greeting Bells while Xu Jintang's ice lotuses supported her descent, and they earned an average score of 9.5 to take first place.
• Yu Wanyao's junior questioned Xu Jintang's strength, and Yu Wanyao told him not to provoke her group.
• Zhuang Silin announced a two-minute battle royale in which a pair would both be eliminated if either partner was knocked out.
• As teams charged at them, Xu Jintang grabbed Jiang Yingxue and ran toward Yu Wanyao's group, then asked them to protect the pair.
• Song Tianqi brought his junior into the protective circle, while Xue Zhongqi, Jiang Shiyi, and Yan Yuting formed an alliance elsewhere.

Xu Jintang and Yu Wanyao joined forces in the third round, a flower-passing game where the player holding the ball when the bell stopped would be eliminated. Xu Jintang froze much of the field as the bell sped up, leaving the other teams trapped in the escalating fight.

• After the free-for-all ended, Zhuang Silin announced that twenty-seven groups remained and explained the rules for the flower-passing round.
• Yu Wanyao, Xu Jintang, Song Tianqi, Xue Zhongqi, Yan Yuting, and Jiang Shiyi teamed up before the game began.
• Yu Wanyao threw the flower ball, and a junior girl caught it before passing it to Xu Jintang.
• Xu Jintang used ice to trap participants and hurled the flower ball toward them while their seniors attacked to protect their teammates.
• As the bell rang faster, Xu Jintang and Yu Wanyao attacked together and covered the field in ice, immobilizing everyone who was fighting.

During the chase showdown, Xu Jintang and the other chasers struggled to catch the runners, who joined forces to defend themselves. After Song Tianqi drew the chasers’ attention, they agreed to target him, and the chase erupted into a fight.

• Zhuang Silin ended the flower-ball game, then assigned the competitors randomly as chasers or runners for the fourth game.
• Xu Jintang and Yan Yuting became chasers, while Song Tianqi, Xue Zhongqi, and Jiang Shiyi became runners.
• Xu Jintang pursued the runners with ice, but one runner escaped when a golden lightning bolt shattered the ice.
• The runners joined forces to defend themselves, prompting the chasers to gather and discuss whom to catch first.
• Song Tianqi taunted the chasers, so Xu Jintang and the others agreed to target him and charged into the runners’ group.
• Miao Mingzhi and the other judges watched the ensuing clash and remarked that the freshmen were strong.

Xu Jintang and Jiang Yingxue survived the final elimination draw and took first place in the freshman welcome games at Leikedasi's military academy. After the ceremony ended, Xu Jintang returned to her villa dormitory and began organizing the growing stock in her storage space.

• Xu Jintang and the pursuers eliminated Song Tianqi, Xue Zhongqi, and several other runners, leaving only four runners uncaught with two minutes remaining.
• Jiang Shiyi and Yan Zitao protected their freshman teammates so effectively that the pursuers gave up trying to catch them.
• Zhuang Silin ended the game, eliminating eight teams and leaving twelve teams in the competition.
• Xu Jintang and Jiang Yingxue blindly selected Wang Yuze and Sun Yuyu, then Yan Zitao and Wang Li, leaving themselves in the competition.
• Zhuang Silin announced Xu Jintang and Jiang Yingxue as the first-place team, and the freshman ceremony came to a close.
• Back at her villa dormitory, Xu Jintang began sorting her storage space, which was a third full with payments, rewards, and spirit herbs from the Extreme Cold Forest.

Xu Jintang consulted the Ice Soul Dragon about her treasures, then sold most of them through the Myriad Treasures Pavilion and bought a Snow Jujube. Back at her villa, the Ice Soul Dragon revealed that the jujube was a rare Snow Crystal Jujube.

• The Green-Membrane Archaeopteryx identified the Five Skandhas Spirit Fruit and Cinnabar Blood Grass among Xu Jintang's treasures, and the Ice Soul Dragon advised her to keep the fruit and seek a thousand-year-old Jade Frost Bamboo.
• Xu Jintang visited the Myriad Treasures Pavilion, bought a thousand-year-old Snow Jujube, and offered her surplus treasures for sale.
• The deputy manager accepted nineteen treasures for auction and agreed to buy seven others, while planning to postpone the auction for a week.
• Xu Jintang returned to her villa, where the Ice Soul Dragon removed the Snow Jujube's seal and revealed that it had mutated into a Snow Crystal Jujube.

Xu Jintang ate the Snow Crystal Jujube, then learned that the Myriad Treasures Pavilion was auctioning her Five Skandhas Spirit Fruit and Cinnabar Blood Grass as its finale lot. After she and her friends added more consignments, the auction became a major event, and it began with an unidentified man in gray taking a front-row seat.

• Xu Jintang took the Snow Crystal Jujube from the cold pool, ate it, and began cultivating as its icy energy spread through her body.
• The Myriad Treasures Pavilion postponed its auction and announced that the Five Skandhas Spirit Fruit and Cinnabar Blood Grass would be the finale lot, driving ticket prices sharply higher.
• Xu Jintang told Song Tianqi, Yan Yuting, and Xue Zhongqi that the finale lot was hers, and they decided to auction more than thirty items they had received from Alice.
• The Myriad Treasures Pavilion's manager added every new consignment to the auction and promoted it as a grand, once-in-a-century event.
• Xu Jintang and her companions arrived and were shown to a private box, while an inconspicuously dressed man in gray took a seat in the front row.