Recaps

Xu Jintang became the Command Camp’s captain, survived the simulation’s abrupt collapse, and led her team through increasingly demanding training. During the three-day joint assessment, she used coordination and unconventional tactics to defeat Lei Wenche’s regular troops, leaving the trainees victorious.

• Xu Jintang defeated the challengers for overall captain, organized the Cabin Alliance’s supplies, and helped evacuate trainees when an avalanche struck the simulation battlefield.
• After the simulation system was attacked and the trainees were ejected, Gu Xiuwen became their instructor and assigned Xu Jintang, Mo Yuqi, Fatty Fang, Fang Kexin, and Wang Qian to his team.
• Xu Jintang’s team trained under Gu Xiuwen, toured the Armament, Logistics, and Recruit Camps, and passed a surprise assessment by coordinating their responses to a demon beast.
• Wang Yile announced a three-day siege assessment against regular troops, and Xu Jintang organized trainees from all four camps to defend the main city.
• Xu Jintang and the camp leaders denied the regular troops water, countered their attacks during a fire rain, and fought Lei Wenche’s night assault on the city.
• Xu Jintang used ice to redirect lava toward the regular army, destroyed guarded springs, and tricked Lei Wenche’s team with a supply crate rigged to release a beetle’s stench.
• Lei Wenche infiltrated the city in disguise but was exposed and eliminated by Xue Zhongqi, after which Xu Jintang’s tracking missiles helped repel the regular troops’ attack.
• Xu Jintang eliminated a fifth-tier unit commander, and the trainees defeated the remaining regular soldiers to win the assessment.

Xu Jintang and Leikedasi’s reserve team traveled with Yu Wanyao’s squad as it swept the academy challenge circuit, then investigated substandard medicine at Alice’s pharmaceutical factory. Back at the Federation Star Region, Xu Jintang won the freshmen games and prepared to auction rare treasures, including the Five Skandhas Spirit Fruit and Cinnabar Blood Grass.

• Xu Jintang’s trainee unit passed its assessment, and the group left camp as Leikedasi’s reserve team for the challenge circuit.
• Yu Wanyao’s team defeated Aierteng Military Academy and Suofei'er Military Academy, while Xu Jintang and Song Tianqi secretly cleared floors at the Heaven Ascension Platform.
• Alice recruited Xu Jintang and her companions to investigate substandard medicine at her family’s pharmaceutical factory, where Song Yueyue gave Xu Jintang a note pointing to the Quality Inspection Bureau.
• Xu Jintang’s group stopped pursuing the factory investigation as the scandal spread, and Leikedasi completed fifteen academy challenges with a perfect win rate.
• Xu Jintang and Jiang Yingxue won the freshmen games, and Xu Jintang began sorting the treasures she had accumulated.
• Xu Jintang sold or consigned treasures at the Myriad Treasures Pavilion, then ate a Snow Crystal Jujube after the Ice Soul Dragon revealed its mutation.
• The Myriad Treasures Pavilion announced Xu Jintang’s Five Skandhas Spirit Fruit and Cinnabar Blood Grass as the auction’s finale lot, and Xu Jintang and her companions arrived for the event.

Xu Jintang prepared for the Military Academy League as two unexpected teams advanced, while suspicions about disguised competitors grew. During the league break, she traveled to the Land of the North Sea, cleared several trials, and entered a hard trial that ended with an old man inviting her to tea.

• Song Tianqi won the Red Mountain Pearl Fruit, and the auction finale ended with Xu Jintang buying the Five Skandhas Spirit Fruit and Cinnabar Blood Grass for 230 million star coins.
• Leikedasi defeated Imperial Military Academy in an exhibition match, then won the arena title as Xu Jintang supported Jiang Yingxue through her first-year assessment.
• Xu Jintang and her teammates spread false rumors about the reserve teams, while the Green-Membrane Archaeopteryx called her to help defend his tribe from human troops.
• Xu Jintang stole a thousand-year-old Spirit Frost Vine Grass from the Crimson Flame Lions, returned safely to Star City, and reached the peak of the fourth tier after a month of training.
• Xu Jintang and her teammates prepared for the league, improved their skills, and watched Green Sail Vine Military Academy and Grande Military Academy emerge as powerful dark horses.
• Xu Jintang suspected Grande Military Academy's masked members had criminal identities, and both dark horse teams advanced to the main league before Zhuang Silin announced a seven-day survival format and a two-month break.
• Xu Jintang traveled to the Land of the North Sea, joined Li Caizhe's party, and cleared the beginner and advanced trials before entering the hard trial.
• Xu Jintang recognized a Song Duoduo phantom in the bamboo grove, defeated the archer who attacked her, and reached a bamboo house where an old man invited her to tea.

Xu Jintang passed the North Sea trials, survived attacks and a demonic beast siege, and returned to Leikedasi as the Federation investigated the assaults. As the Military Academy League resumed under new rules restricting the major academies, Xu Jintang prepared a response with the other teams.

• Xu Jintang passed the bamboo cottage and hard trials, then used the Thunder Dragon King's Lightning Space to break through to the fifth tier before traveling toward Star City.
• After escaping two peak eighth-tier pursuers by entering the Tongbao Spirit Realm, Xu Jintang gathered treasures with Feng Qianyue and other competitors before leaving the realm early.
• Xu Jintang and her companions were attacked in flight and reached Star City, where Xu Jintang helped defend the city against Dragon-Tiger Lions and Gu Xiuwen used his Star Compass to repel a wider beast assault.
• Zhuang Silin brought Xu Jintang and the others to Leikedasi, where they reported their abilities and discussed the attacks, and the Federation later blamed members of the Reform Society, though Xu Jintang doubted that explanation.
• Xu Jintang advanced to peak sixth tier while the Military Academy League was postponed, then prepared with her teammates as competitors and spectators returned to the Central Star Domain.
• At the league opening, Qin Tiangang announced rules barring instructors from coaching, restricting switches between main teams and reserves, and removing the five major academies' direct entry to elimination rounds.
• After the major academy teams gathered at Leikedasi to discuss the restrictions, Xu Jintang said they could respond without breaking the rules, and the opening ceremony proceeded.