Recaps

Xu Jintang passed the first two inscription master assessments while pretending to work more slowly than she could. Her fast engraving drew the attention of Sun Yuantian and Xue Zhongqi, and she waited as the remaining candidates attempted the second assessment.

• Xu Jintang deliberately acted as if she were struggling, then completed the mental-power thread assessment three minutes before the deadline under the name Qian Duoduo.
• After recovering her barely spent mental power, Xu Jintang began the formation diagram engraving assessment and ruined her first raw stone when observers noticed she was close to finishing quickly.
• With Xue Zhongqi watching, Xu Jintang slowed down and completed a level-one basic inscription; the proctoring system recorded her result as 1 hour, 8 minutes, and 54 seconds.
• Sun Yuantian confirmed Xu Jintang's inscription was valid and told her she had passed the second assessment, while Xue Zhongqi was astonished by her speed.
• Xu Jintang waited while the other candidates continued, until the last candidate ruined his tenth raw stone.

Xu Jintang passed the final inscription master assessment and joined the Inscriptionist Association. She agreed to represent the association in the All-Interstellar Inscription Master Competition, hoping its prize would help her obtain a rare cultivation method, and returned to the academy to check the association’s internal network.

• After falling asleep during the previous assessment, Xu Jintang woke to learn that the third round would be held the next morning, while Sun Yuantian and Xue Zhongqi discussed her hidden ability.
• Xu Jintang completed the attribute-adding assessment in forty-three minutes and twenty seconds, passed all three assessments, and officially joined the association.
• Sun Yuantian invited Xu Jintang to compete in the All-Interstellar Inscription Master Competition with Xue Zhongqi, and she agreed after learning the winner would receive one million star coins.
• Xu Jintang learned that the association’s star-attribute mental power cultivation method cost one hundred thousand contribution points, then asked whether winning the competition would let her borrow it.
• Sun Yuantian promised Xu Jintang access to the association’s cultivation methods and treasures if she won, and she later returned to her dorm and logged into the association’s internal network.

Xu Jintang mastered level-two inscriptions during the break and sold her talismans for nearly a hundred and twenty thousand star coins. At Leikdasi Military Academy, she was assigned to the support class and appointed class monitor, but Cao Xing'an objected to the choice.

• Xu Jintang failed repeatedly at making a level-two inscription before finally succeeding with her last attributeless raw stone.
• Xu Jintang made several dozen level-two inscriptions during the break and sold her stock for nearly a hundred and twenty thousand star coins.
• Xu Jintang found herself assigned to the support class, where she reunited with Xue Zhongqi and learned Jing Yuanzheng had joined an army internship while Yu Wanyao was likely in the melee class.
• Wu Jinghong appointed Xu Jintang class monitor and Xue Zhongqi deputy class monitor based on their joint examination rankings.
• Cao Xing'an objected, and Wu Jinghong challenged anyone who considered themselves stronger than Xu Jintang and Xue Zhongqi to stand up and challenge them.

Xu Jintang became support class representative and challenged Leikedasi’s exclusion of support students from the Military Academy League selection trials. She and Xue Zhongqi brought their protest to year director Zhuang Silin, who explained that the rule had stood for over a century and was beyond her authority to change.

• Wu Jinghong named Xu Jintang class representative and Xue Zhongqi deputy after no one else challenged them.
• Qin Shuxue asked why support classes could not enter the Military Academy League trials, and Wu Jinghong explained that support students were excluded because of their weaker combat prospects at higher tiers.
• Xu Jintang backed her classmates’ protest and invited them to confront the academy leadership, but only Xue Zhongqi agreed to accompany her.
• Xu Jintang and Xue Zhongqi went to the administration building, where Xu interrupted a teachers’ meeting about the team selection rules.
• Xu Jintang told Zhuang Silin that she was protesting the support class’s ineligibility, and Zhuang Silin replied that she could not change the century-old rule.

Xu Jintang and Xue Zhongqi asked Leikedasi's teachers to let support ability users enter the Military Academy League selection, and the teachers gave them two months to prove their strength. After discussing a simulated battlefield challenge with Wei Zixuan and Yu Wanyao, Xu Jintang trained and learned that reaching the second tier would take six months unless she used more flood dragon blood essence.

• Xu Jintang argued that support ability users should be allowed into the selection, and Zhuang Silin said they would need to prove they were not weaker than combat ability users of the same tier.
• Xu Jintang told Xue Zhongqi she had no plan yet, then went with him to eat in the cafeteria.
• Yu Wanyao questioned whether Xu Jintang's ability was really a support type, and Xu Jintang confirmed that it currently was.
• Xu Jintang explained the teachers' challenge to Wei Zixuan and Yu Wanyao, and they suggested using a simulated battlefield to demonstrate support abilities.
• Xu Jintang cultivated after eating and completed a mental-power circulation faster than usual.
• The Ice Soul Dragon said Xu Jintang could reach the second tier in six months, or advance sooner with flood dragon blood essence at the risk of destabilizing her foundation.

Xu Jintang rallied the support class to challenge the melee and ranged classes at Leikedasi, and Wu Jinghong agreed to relay their challenge while leaving the competition to the students. As the school buzzed about the match, Yu Wanyao began organizing the melee class’s response and asked Yan Zitao to predict Xu Jintang’s next move.

• Xu Jintang persuaded the support class to stop yielding and agree to challenge the melee and ranged classes.
• Wu Jinghong taught the class about third-tier Ability Trait Assimilation, then agreed to deliver the challenge to the other classes’ teachers.
• Xu Jintang told Xue Zhongqi and Qin Shuxue to prepare for the match, and Qin Shuxue said she welcomed the chance to test her strength.
• News of the challenge spread around Leikedasi, and the melee class’s teacher left the decision to the students.
• Yu Wanyao asked Yan Zitao, who had met Xu Jintang during the joint examination, to analyze what Xu Jintang would do next.

Xu Jintang arranged a week-long siege challenge in which the support class would defend against the melee and ranged combat classes, then began gathering information to plan the defense. As the weekend arrived, the school provided free advanced simulation pods for the challenge.

• Mu Guang and the ranged combat class agreed to perform normally after Wei Zixuan explained that Xu Jintang was protesting the support class's exclusion from the Military Academy League selections.
• Xu Jintang and Xue Zhongqi proposed a siege battle, with the support class defending for a week against the other two classes.
• Xu Jintang told Song Duoduo about the coming challenge, then met Yu Wanyao and Mu Guang, who agreed that their classes would attack.
• Wu Jinghong and the other teachers made a hot spring trip the reward for the winning team, and Xu Jintang asked her classmates to submit information about their abilities.
• Xu Jintang reviewed the submitted abilities and began considering how to use them in the defense strategy.
• The weekend arrived, and the school agreed to provide free advanced simulation pods for all three classes.

A teleportation bug sent Xue Zhongqi to the attackers’ camp and Yan Zitao to the defenders’ city, leaving both sides to secure the misplaced students. As snowfall and falling temperatures strained the preparations, Xu Jintang considered how to recover Xue Zhongqi, while Yu Wanyao wondered whether the defenders would attempt a rescue.

• Xu Jintang and the support class entered the city as the siege began, while students and teachers watched the match livestream.
• Xue Zhongqi appeared in the attackers’ tent and was tied up, while Yan Zitao was captured and questioned by Xu Jintang in the defenders’ city.
• Yan Yuting reported that the support class was missing Xue Zhongqi, and the attackers confirmed that Yan Zitao was missing from their ranks.
• Snow began falling, and Xu Jintang considered how to get Xue Zhongqi back as Yu Wanyao distributed heating fuel to the attackers.
• Yu Wanyao told Mu Guang that losing Yan Zitao mattered less than gaining Xue Zhongqi, and Mu Guang asked whether Xu Jintang’s class would try to rescue him.

Xu Jintang and Yan Yuting sneaked into the attackers’ camp, rescued Xue Zhongqi, and set fire to the supply tent before returning to the main city. With most of their heating fuel destroyed, Yu Wanyao and Mu Guang decided they had to accelerate the siege while keeping a retreat option open.

• Yu Wanyao and Mu Guang discussed their plans, confident the smaller support class would not dare attack their camp.
• Xu Jintang and Yan Yuting entered the camp, subdued Xue Zhongqi’s guard, and freed Xue Zhongqi.
• Xu Jintang took the guard’s jade token and set fire to the supply tent while Xue Zhongqi and Yan Yuting waited outside.
• The trio fled through the snow, and Xu Jintang crushed the guard’s jade token after they reached the main city.
• Yu Wanyao discovered Xue Zhongqi and his guard were missing and realized Xu Jintang had raided the camp.
• After most of their heating fuel burned, Yu Wanyao and Mu Guang agreed to speed up the siege while leaving room to retreat.

Xu Jintang prepared the support class to defend the main city after its barrier disappeared, while Yu Wanyao led an assault and Mu Guang’s squad tried to steal supplies. Xu Jintang stopped the theft, helped repel the attackers, and eliminated Wei Zixuan, leaving her and Xue Zhongqi to target the enemy’s strongest fighters.

• Yu Wanyao planned a diversionary assault while Mu Guang led a squad through a dog hole to steal the support class’s supplies.
• Xu Jintang confronted Mu Guang, whose Xiaoshan Cauldron disrupted her with its humming, and he escaped with his teammates; she then blocked the dog hole.
• Yu Wanyao led more than sixty attackers against the gate tower, while Xue Zhongqi used Soul Link to restrain Wei Zixuan’s giant eagle.
• Xu Jintang fought Wei Zixuan, took his jade token, and crushed it, eliminating him and dismissing his giant eagle.
• Xu Jintang asked about the cooldown on Xue Zhongqi’s chain and proposed eliminating the attackers with the strongest abilities first.

After the attackers lost ten people in their failed siege, Yu Wanyao planned to target Xu Jintang and Xue Zhongqi in the next assault. Xu Jintang used Yan Yuting to feed Yan Zitao misleading information about a nighttime raid, while her team prepared an attack of its own and the attackers waited in vain.

• Yu Wanyao ordered a retreat after the attackers suffered ten eliminations, and she later admitted that her team had gone into the siege without a plan.
• Yu Wanyao and Mu Guang discussed the defenders’ strength, and Yu Wanyao decided that Xu Jintang had to be eliminated as soon as possible.
• Xu Jintang revealed that Yan Yuting was meant to let Yan Zitao escape with false information, and Yan Yuting reported that she had given him a false raid time.
• Yan Zitao returned to camp and told Yu Wanyao that Xu Jintang planned to attack at ten, but Yu Wanyao suspected it was a trap and kept the camp on guard.
• At ten, Yan Zitao reported that no attackers had appeared, and Yu Wanyao told him to wait another half hour before letting everyone rest.

Xu Jintang, Yan Yuting, and Xue Zhongqi launched a conspicuous midnight raid on the attacking camp, eliminating five students before escaping. Yu Wanyao chased them but her Black Armor Turtle recoiled from Xu Jintang’s aura, and the shaken camp prepared to resume its siege the next day.

• Xu Jintang gave Yan Yuting and Xue Zhongqi attack inscription talismans and waited with them for the camp to settle for the night.
• Xu Jintang eliminated a night watchman and the trio scattered attack inscriptions through the tents, waking the camp and throwing it into chaos.
• Mu Guang used his Xiaoshan Cauldron to block the air blades while Yu Wanyao chased Xu Jintang, and the raid eliminated five camp members.
• Yu Wanyao sent her Black Armor Turtle to freeze the fleeing trio, but it sensed Xu Jintang’s divine beast aura and hid in its shell, allowing them to escape.
• Yu Wanyao returned to camp and told Mu Guang that Xu Jintang had gotten away; he restored order as the team resolved to continue the siege the next day.

Yu Wanyao and the military academy teachers investigated why the Black Armor Turtle feared Xu Jintang’s ability as an extreme-cold disaster began in the simulated battlefield. With a new supply drop announced, both sides prepared to compete for supplies in the valley in Zone A.

• Yu Wanyao told Mu Guang and Yan Zitao that the Black Armor Turtle had seemed afraid of Xu Jintang, and they questioned whether her Domain Slow ability concealed something unusual.
• Xu Jintang, Yan Yuting, and Xue Zhongqi discussed the worsening snowfall and prepared for a likely fight over new supplies.
• Extreme-cold weather began, and an announcement revealed that supplies would drop in the valley in Zone A while the main city remained protected.
• Xu Jintang decided to leave after warming up, while Yan Yuting warned that the cold could greatly strengthen Yu Wanyao’s ice-type Black Armor Turtle.
• Yu Wanyao and Mu Guang prepared their team to head to the valley, confident that the cold favored them.
• Zhuang Silin told the military academy teachers that Xu Jintang’s ability had shown signs of evolution and that she had once displayed a faint ice attribute.

Wen Ruide concluded that Xu Jintang was likely evolving toward a powerful ice-type ability, while Xu Jintang led her support-class team through the frozen battlefield to collect supplies. She split the group into five squads to search more efficiently and evade Yu Wanyao's team, leaving Xue Zhongqi concerned about her going alone.

• Wen Ruide told Zhuang Silin that Xu Jintang was very likely evolving toward an ice-type ability, prompting plans to transfer her to a combat class after the challenge match.
• Xu Jintang activated her ability to withstand the extreme cold, then led her classmates toward the supply drops in Zone A.
• Xu Jintang's team defeated a pack of Ice Blue Crystal Beasts, and Xue Zhongqi retrieved supplies from a cave.
• Xu Jintang proposed splitting the team into five squads and using Yan Yuting's toast speed buff to escape Yu Wanyao's group.
• Qin Shuxue, Cao Xing'an, and Yan Yuting volunteered to lead squads, while Xu Jintang assigned Xue Zhongqi to lead another.
• Xue Zhongqi questioned whether Xu Jintang should search alone, worried that she would be in danger.

Xu Jintang split her teammates into groups to collect supplies while she ran into Yu Wanyao’s team and used Inscription Talismans and Teleportation Inscriptions to evade capture. Yu Wanyao eventually ambushed her with ice, but Xu Jintang broke free and kept running as the other teams gathered supplies.

• Xu Jintang divided the group into four teams, handed out Yan Yuting’s bread, and sent them to collect supplies from separate locations.
• Xu Jintang encountered Yu Wanyao’s team, attacked with an Inscription Talisman, and fled as Yu Wanyao ordered everyone to chase her.
• Xu Jintang lured Yu Wanyao’s team into surrounding her, then escaped with a Teleportation Inscription and hid in a cave.
• Xue Zhongqi, Yan Yuting, and Cao Xing'an’s teams collected supplies without encountering the siege team.
• Yu Wanyao ambushed Xu Jintang outside the cave and froze her feet, but Xu Jintang shattered the ice and ran as Yu Wanyao caught up behind her.

Xu Jintang escaped Yu Wanyao after overpowering her with ice abilities, then stole supplies from a standoff between Mu Guang and Xue Zhongqi. The support-class squads regrouped with six batches of supplies, and the chapter ended with Xue Zhongqi explaining that his family had made him apply to Leikedasi.

• Xu Jintang overpowered Yu Wanyao with her ice ability and escaped, while Yu Wanyao admitted that she could not defeat her.
• Xu Jintang seized supplies during Mu Guang and Xue Zhongqi's confrontation, then escaped using Domain Slow as the remaining supply markers vanished.
• Xu Jintang and the support-class squads regrouped and counted six batches of supplies before returning to the main city.
• Yan Yuting distributed heating embers and Xu Jintang lit the stove with special heating fuel as night fell.
• Yan Yuting asked about everyone's dreams, and Xue Zhongqi said he wanted to live carefree before revealing that his family had made him apply to Leikedasi.

Yu Wanyao and Mu Guang launched a two-pronged night assault on Xu Jintang's support class after deciding to risk everything for supplies. Xu Jintang directed her classmates to defend both gates, but Mu Guang unexpectedly smashed open the rear gate with one blow of the Xiaoshan Cauldron.

• Xu Jintang and her classmates discussed their hopes, then prepared for a possible attack because the opposing team lacked supplies.
• Yu Wanyao blamed their earlier failures on chasing Xu Jintang and ordered her team to make an all-out attack that night.
• Xu Jintang enjoyed the cold outside before returning to a discussion about the Military Academy League and mental power levels.
• A scout warned Xu Jintang that Yu Wanyao and Mu Guang had split their forces to attack the front and rear gates, so Xu Jintang sent Xue Zhongqi to the rear gate and assigned Yan Yuting to defend the front.
• Mu Guang led his team to the rear gate and smashed it open with the Xiaoshan Cauldron.

Xu Jintang and Xue Zhongqi trapped Mu Guang’s team inside the city and used an Inscription Talisman formation to eliminate nearly all of them. Xu Jintang defeated Mu Guang despite her injuries, then hurried toward the front, where Xue Zhongqi had gone to face Yu Wanyao.

• Yan Zitao scouted through the rear gate and reported that no defenders were nearby, so Mu Guang led his team inside.
• Mu Guang realized no one had checked behind the gate leaves, and Xu Jintang and Xue Zhongqi emerged and shut the gates.
• Xue Zhongqi combined the remaining Inscription Talismans into a formation that eliminated every member of Mu Guang’s team except Mu Guang.
• Xue Zhongqi left to reinforce the front, where three support-class students had already been eliminated, and said he would face Yu Wanyao.
• Mu Guang used the Xiaoshan Cauldron to injure Xu Jintang, but she pretended to be unable to fight, threw him down, and crushed his jade token.
• Xu Jintang ran toward the front of the city despite her injuries.

Xu Jintang led the support class to defeat the attacking team after Xue Zhongqi eliminated himself and Yu Wanyao, and the support students celebrated their unexpected victory. Zhuang Silin then told Xu Jintang and Xue Zhongqi that they would join a new five-member experimental class, whose remaining details were still secret.

• Xue Zhongqi rushed into a clash of abilities and was eliminated, taking the tethered Yu Wanyao out with him.
• Xu Jintang ordered the defending team to counterattack after Mu Guang and Yu Wanyao were eliminated, and the support students overwhelmed the attacking team.
• The last two attackers crushed their jade tokens, and the announcement declared the defending faction the winner.
• After the students left the simulation pods, Zhuang Silin called Xu Jintang and Xue Zhongqi to her office and said Xu Jintang's ability was showing signs of evolution.
• Zhuang Silin told Xu Jintang and Xue Zhongqi they would join an experimental class with Song Tianqi and Jiang Shiyi, and that one of its five places remained undecided.

After the support class celebrated its challenge-match victory at a hot spring, Leikedasi revised its rules to let support students enter Military Academy League selections and take elimination assessments. Zhuang Silin told returning trainees Song Tianqi and Jiang Shiyi about Xu Jintang’s achievement, and Song Tianqi was stunned to learn she had enrolled at Leikedasi.

• Xu Jintang read the academy forum’s praise for the support class, then attended a class meeting where Wu Jinghong announced the promised hot spring reward.
• The close-combat and ranged-combat teachers reprimanded their students for losing, while Xue Zhongqi teased Yu Wanyao about the defeat.
• Xu Jintang led the support class to the hot springs, where the students soaked and discussed the upcoming Ability User Competition.
• Leikedasi announced that support students would join Military Academy League selections and take elimination assessments, prompting excitement and debate on the forum.
• Zhuang Silin told Song Tianqi and Jiang Shiyi that Xu Jintang had led the support class to victory, and Song Tianqi exclaimed that the class president had entered Leikedasi.

Xu Jintang and four classmates agreed to join Zhuang Silin’s experimental class, which would secretly prepare them for the Military Academy League three years later. Zhuang Silin warned them to conceal their training and abilities, and Xue Zhongqi questioned how they could hide information already known from the joint examination.

• Wu Jinghong taught students from all three groups about human star regions, demonic-beast forests, and the realities of future battlefields.
• Song Tianqi returned to class, introduced himself to Yan Yuting, and reunited with Xu Jintang; Jiang Shiyi also arrived.
• Zhuang Silin summoned Xu Jintang, Song Tianqi, Jiang Shiyi, Xue Zhongqi, and Yan Yuting to discuss establishing an experimental class.
• All five agreed to join the class, which would receive preferential resources to prepare for the Military Academy League.
• Zhuang Silin instructed them to keep their identities, abilities, and training confidential, and Xue Zhongqi asked how they could conceal abilities revealed in the joint examination.

Zhuang Silin secretly transferred Xu Jintang and four other students into an experimental class and took them to the Myriad Treasures Pavilion auction as a welcome gift. At the auction, Xu Jintang learned a thousand-year snow lotus could strengthen her ice ability and help her absorb more dragon blood, and she entered a private room with the others as the auction approached.

• Zhuang Silin explained that she would hide the five students’ experimental-class training behind special missions, and Xu Jintang and the others agreed to keep the class secret.
• Jiang Shiyi revealed that she was a fourth-tier mental power user who had stayed back a year to compete in the Military Academy League with Xu Jintang’s group, prompting Xu Jintang to resolve to cultivate harder.
• The academy quietly transferred the five students out of their classes, and Xu Jintang answered her friends’ questions about her supposed special mission by saying the details were classified.
• Zhuang Silin promised each student one item from the Myriad Treasures Pavilion auction and took them to the pavilion’s main store.
• The Ice Soul Dragon sensed a thousand-year snow lotus nearby and told Xu Jintang it could strengthen her ice attribute and help her absorb another ten percent of the dragon blood stored in her body.
• A staff member led Xu Jintang and the other four students to a private auction room while Zhuang Silin was called away to discuss something.

At the Myriad Treasures Pavilion auction, Xu Jintang won a thousand-year snow lotus with the military academy’s money, then learned that her experimental class faced an assessment the next morning. She used the lotus overnight to absorb dragon blood power and reached the peak of the first tier, with physical strength comparable to a third-tier ability user.

• Xu Jintang and her classmates attended the auction, where Yan Yuting won a magical treasure, Xue Zhongqi bought a lightning-attribute spirit plant, and Song Tianqi chose high-level demon beast blood essence.
• Xu Jintang outbid the other guests for the thousand-year snow lotus, while Song Tianqi revealed that Jiang Shiyi’s family owned the Myriad Treasures Pavilion.
• Zhuang Silin announced that the experimental class would undergo a comprehensive assessment at eight the next morning, with anyone who failed the standards expelled.
• Xu Jintang returned to her dormitory and followed the Ice Soul Dragon’s guidance to use the snow lotus while absorbing dragon blood power throughout the night.
• Xu Jintang finished cultivating at the peak of the first tier, and the Ice Soul Dragon told her that her physical strength rivaled that of a third-tier ability user.

Xu Jintang joined the experimental class’s strength assessment after cultivating all night, while Yan Yuting struggled to meet the passing standard. Xu Jintang challenged the requirement for support users and argued that Yan Yuting’s buffs could strengthen the whole team; Zhuang Silin had not yet ruled on her objection.

• Xu Jintang arrived late, explained that she had cultivated overnight, and was punished by having to meet twice the usual standards in every assessment.
• Zhuang Silin had the students report their mental power tiers and explained that the strength test required two hundred jin for First Tier, five hundred for Second Tier, and two thousand for Fourth Tier.
• Song Tianqi scored 750 jin, Xue Zhongqi passed with 200 jin on his second attempt, and Jiang Shiyi reached 2,000 jin.
• Yan Yuting scored 125 jin and then 150 jin, falling short of the requirement and fearing she would be removed from the experimental class.
• Xu Jintang objected that Yan Yuting’s support ability could boost her teammates’ strength and argued that the team’s combined gain could outweigh Yan Yuting’s own shortfall.

Xu Jintang proved her strength by hitting one thousand jin, securing Yan Yuting's place in the experimental class. The class then prepared for a one-minute combat assessment against five stronger third-year students.

• Zhuang Silin challenged Xu Jintang to produce eight hundred jin of force to resolve Yan Yuting's failed test.
• Xu Jintang struck the strength-testing machine and registered one thousand jin, so Zhuang Silin let both her and Yan Yuting return to the lineup.
• Zhuang Silin announced that the class had to keep at least one student standing for one minute against five third-year seniors.
• Jiang Shiyi said she was sixty percent confident and suggested Xu Jintang might have hidden strengths.
• Xu Jintang reassured the team and began explaining her tactics while the seniors prepared to attack without holding back.