Recaps

Myriad Treasures Pavilion's auction began, and Xu Jintang and the others in the VIP box amused themselves by bidding on lots and driving up prices. During the intermission, Song Yuanlang and an Armament Bureau captain arrived, both apparently seeking the Five Skandhas Spirit Fruit.

• Song Tianqi bid two million star coins for the Red Mountain Pearl Fruit and won it without competition.
• Xu Jintang briefly raised the price of five mind-calming inscriptions before a guest in seat eighteen won them for one million five hundred thousand.
• Xu Jintang and the others continued placing bids for fun, while Xue Zhongqi's popular lot sold well above market price.
• Guests speculated that the VIP box was deliberately inflating bids when its occupants repeatedly stopped bidding before winning.
• Song Yuanlang arrived with Administration Bureau members and took a seat in the first row.
• An Armament Bureau captain arrived, greeted Song Yuanlang, and sat beside him as both prepared to bid on the Five Skandhas Spirit Fruit.

The auction's finale brought the Federation Branch Bureau and Armament Camp captains into a fierce contest for the Five Skandhas Spirit Fruit and Cinnabar Blood Grass, driving the price to 230 million. The Federation captains ran out of budget, and they accused the Armament Camp of having suspiciously deep pockets.

• Song Yuanlang and an Armament Bureau captain drove the price of a rare spirit herb up to twelve million after the captain deliberately bid against him.
• Song Tianqi's lot sold, the second-to-last lot went for eighty million, and the auction unveiled the Five Skandhas Spirit Fruit and Cinnabar Blood Grass as its finale.
• The bidding for the combined lot quickly rose past one hundred million as Song Yuanlang and the Armament Camp captain competed.
• Xu Jintang's companions discussed dinner while the bids climbed, and she promised to treat them at the Fragrant Aroma Pavilion.
• The Armament Camp captain bid 230 million, exhausting Song Yuanlang's authorized budget and stopping the Federation Branch Bureau captains from bidding further.
• The Federation captains accused the Armament Camp of having enormous or questionable wealth, while its captain smiled at their remarks.

Xu Jintang and her companions celebrated the auction’s record sale, then prepared for a more competitive Military Academy League as registration expanded and the Federation Bureau’s actions raised suspicions. The chapter left them arriving at the warm-up venue to watch an exhibition match.

• The Armament Camp captain defended his camp’s spending, and the Five Skandhas Spirit Fruit sold to Xu Jintang for 230 million star coins as the auction’s final lot.
• Xu Jintang and her four companions celebrated at the Fragrant Aroma Pavilion after the auction, and the sale became a trending topic online.
• Zhuang Silin announced that Leikedasi would double its training for the Military Academy League, while Jing Hongyi broadened registration to include academies founded within the last two years.
• Miao Mingzhi learned that Federation Bureau representatives had tried to recruit a Leikedasi administrator and told the academy to focus on the warm-up events for now.
• Xu Jintang and her companions went to Interstellar Plaza to watch Yu Wanyao and the others compete in an exhibition match, then entered the spherical venue with a staff member.

Xu Jintang and Chu Er compared their academies’ reserve teams while the five great military academies prepared for the livestreamed exhibition matches. After the draw paired Leikdasi with Imperial Military Academy, Imperial’s captain Song Renyi rallied his team, and both sides were called to the arena.

• Xu Jintang and Chu Er exchanged polite remarks, then privately acknowledged that their reserve teams were about as strong as their main teams.
• Zhuang Silin announced the elimination format and that the exhibition and arena defense matches would be livestreamed.
• The draw paired Leikdasi Military Academy against Imperial Military Academy and Quiet Moon Military Academy against Clifford Military Academy, while Xihe Alliance Military Academy received a bye.
• Chu Er said Imperial’s main team was only average, while Song Renyi accepted his team’s difficult matchup and urged them to do their best.
• After the promotional video, Zhuang Silin welcomed Leikdasi and Imperial Military Academy’s main teams to the arena.

Leikdasi Military Academy's main team defeated Imperial Military Academy after Song Renyi's desperate counterattack briefly turned the match around. The chapter ended as Quiet Moon Military Academy and Clifford Military Academy began their long-anticipated match.

• Yu Wanyao, Wei Zixuan, and their teammates fought Song Renyi's Imperial Military Academy team, with Song's Golden Bell Ancient Elephant ability powering his attacks.
• Song Renyi unleashed his strength and forced Yu Wanyao and Wei Zixuan back, while Qin Shuxue was knocked out of the arena.
• Imperial Military Academy's team mounted a counterattack, but Yu Wanyao, Wei Zixuan, and Mu Guang overwhelmed Song and his teammates.
• Imperial Military Academy conceded, and Zhuang Silin declared Leikdasi Military Academy the winner after more than seven minutes.
• Quiet Moon Military Academy and Clifford Military Academy introduced themselves and began their match.

Leikdasi won the exhibition tournament and dominated the following arena challenge, while Xihe Alliance Military Academy lost to Clifford. As Leikdasi’s second-year finals approached, Xu Jintang went to support her anxious junior Jiang Yingxue at the first-year assessment, where the rules were about to be explained.

• Clifford Military Academy defeated Quiet Moon Military Academy, and the draw gave Leikdasi Military Academy a bye.
• Clifford Military Academy overcame Xihe Alliance Military Academy, setting up the final against Leikdasi.
• Xu Jintang and Chu Er left before the final, and Leikdasi went on to win the exhibition tournament and defend its arena title.
• Xu Jintang reassured Jiang Yingxue, who was worried about her first-year final assessment and the attention she had received after winning the welcome ceremony.
• Xu Jintang joined Song Tianqi and Xue Zhongqi in the spectator stands as the first-year director began explaining the assessment rules.

Xu Jintang and her teammates planned to expose rivals investigating the military academies’ reserve teams by spreading false information. After Jiang Yingxue passed her assessment, rumors identifying the Mask Squad as a secret team from Clifford or Quiet Moon Military Academy spread online.

• Xu Jintang, Xue Zhongqi, and Song Tianqi discussed investigating the other academies’ reserve teams during the end-of-term assessment.
• Jiang Yingxue defeated Qi Shan, then earned the third-highest total score and passed the assessment.
• Xu Jintang told Jiang Yingxue she would be busy next term and might not be able to teach her, then shared a farewell meal with her.
• Xu Jintang, Yan Yuting, Jiang Shiyi, Song Tianqi, and Xue Zhongqi decided to spread false information to draw out people investigating the reserve teams.
• A rumor claimed the Mask Squad was Clifford Military Academy’s secret team, and Chu Er’s team responded by spreading a competing claim that it belonged to Quiet Moon Military Academy.

Xu Jintang and the experimental class trained through their holidays after the Military Academy League rumors suggested Imperial Military Academy could be their strongest rival. Their training was interrupted when the Green-Membrane Archaeopteryx said humans had attacked his flock and he needed to return to save them.

• Xu Jintang and the others began Zhuang Silin’s special additional training after finals week ended.
• Song Tianqi finished his strength training, dropped his weight, and complained about the exhausting holiday regimen.
• The Green-Membrane Archaeopteryx told Xu Jintang that humans had attacked his flock and he needed to go back before it lost the chance to reproduce.
• Xu Jintang asked whether the attack was serious, and the Green-Membrane Archaeopteryx said it was a little serious and he could not delay.

Xu Jintang accompanied the Green-Membrane Archaeopteryx to the Green-Membrane Bird tribe after the Federation military launched an extermination attack. His arrival turned the battle around, but the general ordered a retreat and planned to report that a human was associating with demon beasts.

• Xu Jintang agreed to return with the Green-Membrane Archaeopteryx, and the Ice Soul Dragon said he would help if necessary.
• After the terminal suspended train services, the Green-Membrane Archaeopteryx flew Xu Jintang through the forbidden zone toward his tribe.
• The general ordered the troops to intensify their attack, and soldiers broke through the Green-Membrane Birds' defenses and attacked the tribe.
• The Green-Membrane Archaeopteryx arrived and scattered the attacking troops, rallying the Green-Membrane Birds.
• The general ordered a retreat after learning the leader had returned and that a human had traveled with him; the Green-Membrane Archaeopteryx pursued the withdrawing soldiers as Xu Jintang leapt down.

After the Green-Membrane Bird tribe suffered heavy losses in an attack, Xu Jintang gathered spirit herbs and learned of a rare ice-elemental herb nearing maturity in the Crimson Flame Lions’ territory. She entered the territory as the herb was about to mature and was chased by a pride of lions while trying to reach it.

• Xu Jintang reunited with the Green-Membrane Archaeopteryx after the enemy attack, and he left her to explore while he arranged care for the injured and counted casualties.
• Xu Jintang gathered spirit herbs outside the tribe and learned from the Ice Soul Dragon about a thousand-year-old ice-elemental herb in the Crimson Flame Lions’ territory.
• Xu Jintang froze and teased a Blue-Eyed Long-Eared Rabbit, then let it go and hid near the lions’ watering place to wait for the herb to mature.
• A Crimson Fire Green Xun Beast fled into the area, drawing the lions’ attention and exposing Xu Jintang, who defended herself against their fireballs with ice.
• After the Ice Soul Dragon warned that the herb was about to mature, Xu Jintang rushed into the lions’ territory, and a large pride pursued her as she asked how much longer she had to run.

Xu Jintang stole a thousand-year-old spirit herb from the Blazing Flame Lions, with Ice Soul Dragon helping her escape. After satellite alarms exposed Ice Soul Dragon’s aura and forced them to avoid surveillance, Xu Jintang encountered Song Ziqian’s group on the path to Star City and joined them.

• Xu Jintang fought through the Blazing Flame Lions and seized the spirit herb while Ice Soul Dragon scattered the lions and blocked the commander lion’s attack.
• Ice Soul Dragon’s aura triggered an advanced satellite alarm, alerting demon beasts and Star City’s border defense forces.
• Green-Membrane Archaeopteryx destroyed the satellite, then flew Xu Jintang away from further surveillance before they landed on a path toward Star City.
• Xu Jintang met Song Ziqian’s group and claimed she was a Leikedasi student who had trained alone in the Demon Beast Forest.
• Song Ziqian accepted Xu Jintang’s explanation and invited her to travel back to the city with the group.

Xu Jintang traveled toward Star City with Song Ziqian and her Xihe Alliance Military Academy teammates while hiding her role in provoking the demon beasts. When the Blazing Flame Lion pride chased them, the Green-Membrane Birds intervened, allowing the group to escape and return safely to the city.

• Song Ziqian welcomed Xu Jintang into her group and warned her about the dangerous demon beasts in the forest.
• During a rest stop, the Blazing Flame Lion pride caught up with the group, forcing them to flee as the lions attacked with fireballs.
• The Green-Membrane Bird army appeared behind the group, and Song Ziqian prepared her teammates to fight when they seemed trapped.
• The Green-Membrane Birds attacked the Blazing Flame Lions, giving Xu Jintang and the others a chance to escape toward Star City.
• Song Ziqian's group rested, then continued without further trouble and returned safely to Star City.

After returning from the Demon Beast Forest, Xu Jintang secretly cultivated with the Spirit Frost Vine Grass and reached the peak of the fourth tier during a month of training. As the new semester approached, she went shopping with Yan Yuting and Jiang Shiyi, whose spending reminded Xu Jintang that she was the young lady of the Myriad Treasures Pavilion.

• Xu Jintang listened to rumors in Star City about the Ice Soul Dragon, fighting demon-beast tribes, and humans colluding with demon beasts, then returned to the Federation Star Region.
• Xu Jintang told her companions she had gone to the Demon Beast Forest for combat training, then identified the stolen spirit herb as a thousand-year-old Spirit Frost Vine Grass and began cultivating with the Ice Soul Dragon guarding her.
• After a month of training, Xu Jintang reached the peak of the fourth tier, and the Ice Soul Dragon told her that part of her Power of Dragon Blood had also been unsealed.
• Xu Jintang agreed to go shopping with Yan Yuting and Jiang Shiyi before school started, while street conversations about the Military Academy League caught her attention.
• Jiang Shiyi bought all the hair accessories she had tried on, and Xu Jintang remembered that Jiang Shiyi was the young lady of the Myriad Treasures Pavilion.

Xu Jintang, Yan Yuting, and Jiang Shiyi went on a shopping spree, then attended a Wood Spirit Show concert where Shen Mucheng’s ability improved the audience’s mental power purity. They returned to the villa late and faced Song Tianqi and Xue Zhongqi’s angry complaints about being left behind.

• Xu Jintang and her friends shopped until Song Tianqi and Xue Zhongqi called to complain that they had been abandoned in the dorm.
• A shop owner gave Xu Jintang, Yan Yuting, and Jiang Shiyi tickets to a Wood Spirit Show concert, so they went to the venue.
• Jiang Shiyi and Yan Yuting explained that Shen Mucheng’s Illusory Color Butterfly ability could boost fans’ mental power purity, and Xu Jintang felt the effect during his performance.
• After the concert, Xu Jintang and her friends returned to the villa in the early morning and admitted to Song Tianqi and Xue Zhongqi that they had gone to the show.
• Song Tianqi threatened to tell Teacher Zhuang that the experimental class was already fighting, while Xu Jintang dismissed his anger and went to bed.

Xu Jintang and her four teammates received intelligence about rival military academies and agreed to set aside their quarrel until the Military Academy League ended. As delegations began arriving in the Federation Star Region, Xu Jintang reunited with Song Duoduo, who joined her and Song Tianqi for a meal.

• Song Tianqi and Xue Zhongqi confronted Xu Jintang over being left out, but Zhuang Silin urged the five teammates to focus on league preparations.
• Zhuang Silin briefed the team on Xihe Alliance Military Academy's reserve squad, including Song Ziqian's Peak of the Fourth Tier mental power and ability to challenge stronger opponents.
• Zhuang Silin shared that Imperial Military Academy had recruited a student with a verified god-tier ability, and warned the team not to underestimate other competitors.
• Xu Jintang proposed that the five pause their dispute until the league ended, and they agreed before resuming team battle training.
• Military academy students began arriving in the Federation Star Region, and Xu Jintang reunited with Song Duoduo after nearly a year apart.
• Song Duoduo met Song Tianqi at a restaurant, where he offered to treat her to a meal.

Xu Jintang, Song Tianqi, and Song Duoduo met their former teacher Jiang Lu after he arrived in the Federation Star Region with students ahead of the Military Academy League. They welcomed him, reunited over a meal, and heard him reflect on his past before he decided to rest for the students’ sightseeing plans.

• Song Duoduo shared rumors that some lower-ranked military academies planned to combine their strongest students for the league, while the five great military academies kept their rosters secret.
• Jiang Lu called Xu Jintang from the terminal, and she went with Song Tianqi and Song Duoduo to meet him and the students he had brought along.
• Jiang Lu introduced Xu Jintang and Song Tianqi as exemplary seniors, and the students eagerly asked them about entering Leikedasi.
• Xu Jintang and Song Tianqi jokingly presented themselves as well-behaved students until Jiang Lu ended the conversation and sent them to rest.
• Jiang Lu invited the three former students to dinner, toasted their futures, and recalled his disappointment at not getting into First Military Academy.
• Jiang Lu put aside the sad memories, stopped drinking, and said he needed to take the students sightseeing the next day.

Xu Jintang and her friends prepared for the Military Academy League while strengthening their teamwork and abilities. After buying Phantom Darts, Xu Jintang customized them with inscriptions and living spirit alloy, then went to test them alone.

• Jiang Lu reassured Xu Jintang and Song Tianqi over dinner after they said they had not made Leikedasi's main team, and the friends parted ways while looking forward to the league.
• Xu Jintang trained with Jiang Shiyi, Song Tianqi, Yan Yuting, and Xue Zhongqi as their abilities advanced and they improved their group coordination.
• Xu Jintang visited Myriad Treasures Pavilion and bought the fourth-tier Phantom Darts after testing their attack power.
• Xu Jintang added tracking, attack, critical hit, and other inscriptions to the darts, reinforced their edges with living spirit alloy, and went alone to test them that evening.

Xu Jintang avoided suspicion after the Federation publicized a wanted notice for a suspected traitor, while Jing Hongyi worried the Ice Soul Dragon and Green-Membrane Archaeopteryx might be involved. Two months later, Yan Yuting and Xue Zhongqi reached peak third tier; Yan demonstrated an illusion-resisting bun, and Xue began testing his new skill on Xu Jintang.

• Xu Jintang tested her improved dart and saw the strength tester register peak fifth-tier damage.
• Jing Hongyi discussed the suspected traitor and the Ice Soul Dragon’s appearance in the Demon Beast Forest with Federation leaders, then ordered a wanted notice and bounty.
• The blurry wanted notice stirred online accusations, but commenters speculated that the person riding the Green-Membrane Archaeopteryx must be a ninth-tier expert.
• Xu Jintang decided to stay quiet as suspicion shifted toward ninth-tier experts, then returned to practicing with Song Tianqi and Yan Yuting.
• Two months later, Yan Yuting and Xue Zhongqi reached peak third tier, and Yan demonstrated that her Custard Cheese Bun could resist illusion attacks for up to five minutes.
• Xu Jintang volunteered to test Xue Zhongqi’s new skill, and he formed a large, galaxy-patterned round mirror in the arena.

Xu Jintang and her teammates tested Xue Zhongqi’s Mirror of Stars, prepared for the Military Academy League, and attended the opening day of the preliminaries. After the Wood Spirit Show Idol Group performed, the host began the team draw and matching stage.

• Xue Zhongqi explained that Mirror of Stars stored incoming attacks and released them after thirty seconds, but Xu Jintang’s Ice Blade Storm shattered it and showed its limit was around the fourth tier.
• Xu Jintang and her teammates discussed how Xue Zhongqi’s and Yan Yuting’s new support skills had improved their team, while Yu Wanyao’s team complained about repeated challenges from other academies.
• The Federation announced a preliminary round for the league, and Xu Jintang’s group received tickets to watch the matches.
• Xu Jintang and her companions entered the packed Central Auditorium, where Shen Mucheng and the Wood Spirit Show Idol Group performed before the preliminaries.
• The host announced that the preliminaries would run for a week and began the team draw and matching stage.

Xu Jintang and her teammates watched the preliminaries, where the Joint Military Academy Team won its opening match before being upset by the newly founded Green Sail Vine Military Academy. After learning that the obscure academy fielded five competitors with mental power above the fourth tier, Xu Jintang's team grew wary of its strength.

• The Joint Military Academy Team defeated the Ur Military Academy Team, but Xu Jintang and her teammates judged its coordination weak.
• The Green Sail Vine Military Academy Team defeated the Joint Military Academy Team, surprising the spectators with an upset.
• Yu Wanyao and the others learned that Green Sail Vine Military Academy had been founded only the previous year and that all five competitors had mental power above the fourth tier.
• After returning to the villa, Qin Shuxue reported that the academy had an ordinary staff, fewer than a hundred people, and a founder whose mental power was only at the seventh tier.
• Xu Jintang and her teammates questioned how the academy had gathered such strong competitors and grew concerned that it might be more than it appeared.

The five great military academies faced mounting pressure as powerful dark horse teams emerged during the qualifiers, prompting extra training and a mixed-team battle won narrowly by Xu Jintang’s squad. In the elimination stage, Green Sail Vine Military Academy and Grande Military Academy were placed in separate brackets, and Green Sail Vine’s first match began before an enthusiastic crowd.

• Grande Military Academy and Green Sail Vine Military Academy emerged as dark horse teams whose strength rivaled the five great military academies.
• Shi Anyu told Grande Military Academy’s members to continue training and keep their disguise masks on, while Wang Qian worried about the Reform Society’s plan.
• Miao Mingzhi and Zhuang Silin reviewed Green Sail Vine’s polished combat footage, and Zhuang Silin arranged extra training for the experimental class and Yu Wanyao’s squad.
• Xu Jintang and Yu Wanyao led shuffled teams in a mixed five-on-five training match, which Xu Jintang’s team won narrowly before Zhuang Silin reviewed their weaknesses.
• The live draw placed Green Sail Vine Military Academy and Grande Military Academy in separate brackets, disappointing Xu Jintang and her teammates.
• Green Sail Vine Military Academy began its elimination match against a team ranked outside the top hundred as the crowd cheered them on.

Green Sail Vine Military Academy and Grande Military Academy advanced through the preliminaries, prompting Xu Jintang to suspect Grande’s disguised members were connected to the Reform Society. With two months remaining before a radically changed seven-day survival elimination league, Zhuang Silin gave the team a break and freedom to train or rest.

• Green Sail Vine Military Academy defeated its opponent with the captain’s Phoenix Feather skill, and Xu Jintang’s group noticed the team’s strength as they left the arena.
• Grande Military Academy won through polished coordination, and the Ice Soul Dragon told Xu Jintang its members wore upgraded disguise masks; Xu suspected their identities were criminal and possibly linked to the Reform Society.
• Xu Jintang noticed one Grande member’s movements reminded her of Song Yueyue, but the Ice Soul Dragon advised her to keep her suspicions secret.
• Grande Military Academy and Green Sail Vine Military Academy both advanced to the main league after topping their respective preliminary brackets.
• Zhuang Silin told the team the league would use a seven-day team-based survival elimination format and announced a two-month break without assigned special training.

Xu Jintang joined an adventuring party heading into the Land of the North Sea, where she entered a beginner-level trial and encountered a powerful lake monster. As the creature attacked and manipulated the lotus leaves beneath her, the Ice Soul Dragon warned her about its ability.

• Xu Jintang agreed to travel to the Land of the North Sea for training at the Ice Soul Dragon's suggestion.
• Xu Jintang joined Li Caizhe's adventuring party after demonstrating mental power far beyond the third tier.
• Li Caizhe explained the North Sea's four trial levels as the group entered the area, where Xu Jintang noticed Song Ziqian heading into a trial.
• Xu Jintang entered the beginner trial and began crossing a lake by jumping between lotus leaves.
• A huge black creature erupted from the lake and attacked Xu Jintang, breaking free of her ice pillars.
• The creature controlled the lotus leaves and dragged Xu Jintang aside, prompting the Ice Soul Dragon to warn her.

Xu Jintang cleared the introductory and advanced trials on her own, then joined Li Caizhe and his team to clear the advanced trial twice more. The group was stopped from attempting it again after reaching the daily limit.

• Xu Jintang froze the lake, defeated the unknown creature, and cleared the introductory trial.
• Xu Jintang noticed the illusory glass could be moving and shattered the glass maze with a concentrated mental power attack, clearing the advanced trial.
• Li Caizhe mistook Xu Jintang for a newcomer and explained that cleared trials granted mental power irrigation and could be attempted up to three times per day.
• Xu Jintang joined Li Caizhe and the team, helping them shatter the glass maze and clear the advanced trial twice.
• The team received a notice that a member had exceeded the permitted number of attempts and could not enter the trial again.

Xu Jintang entered the hard trial’s bamboo grove illusion and defeated a phantom of Song Duoduo before killing an archer who attacked her. She then found a bamboo house and met an old man who invited her in for tea, while she remained wary.

• Li Caizhe led his team into the hard trial, and Xu Jintang entered the bamboo grove illusion last.
• Xu Jintang recognized that the Song Duoduo she encountered was a phantom, fought her, and watched an archer destroy the phantom by striking its left chest.
• The archer explained the phantom’s weak point, then attacked Xu Jintang; she defeated him with Ice Blade Storms and punches to his left chest.
• Xu Jintang continued through the grove and found a bamboo house beside a stream, where an old man invited her to sit and drink tea.