Recaps

Wen Jing fought a large red ant in the Ancient Wilderness and developed combat techniques suited to her insect body. After mastering new combat and movement skills, she evolved her mouthparts into sharp pincers and gained the upper hand.

• Wen Jing dodged the red ant's resin attack and charged at it after recognizing its pheromone taunt.
• Wen Jing evaded the ant's mandibles and stinger while landing small bites, adapting her human fighting knowledge to her insect body.
• Wen Jing developed insect-specific combat techniques and broke through the ant's exoskeleton, mastering Advanced Combat Lv1 and Advanced Movement Lv1.
• Wen Jing spent one skill point to evolve her mouthparts, gaining the Sharp Pincers trait.
• Wen Jing bit the ant's forelimb again and found her evolved pincers could pierce it with ease.

Wen Jing escaped the giant ant army’s resin barrage by using Gravity Silk, evolved resistance to the ants’ venom, and was pursued by an even larger force. She entered a strange scorpion’s territory and dodged its repeated attacks as it guarded a blue-purple fruit.

• Wen Jing broke the giant ant’s forelimb and antenna, but an ant army swarmed her branch and tried to trap her.
• Wen Jing escaped into the air with Gravity Silk, while the ants built a tower and then fired sticky resin shells at her.
• Wen Jing dodged the barrage, gained an advanced movement skill, and evolved specialized resistance to ant venom after resin struck her back.
• Wen Jing landed beyond the ants’ sight, but a larger swarm pursued her, and she decided to confront them.
• A strange scorpion guarded a fungus-covered branch and its blue-purple fruit, then lunged at Wen Jing as she approached.
• Wen Jing dodged the scorpion’s first strike and more than a dozen follow-up stabs.

Wen Jing lured the ant army into firing resin shells at the scorpion, then reached the blue-violet fruit and ate it despite its poisonous spores and flesh. She evolved to gain abnormal status immunity, survived trapped in resin, and flew back toward the fruit after the ants defeated the scorpion.

• Wen Jing guided the ant army’s resin barrage into the scorpion and rode a shell toward the blue-violet fruit.
• Wen Jing ate part of the fruit, gaining a surge of energy before its poison paralyzed her and began killing her.
• Wen Jing called for poison resistance and fell into resin as the scorpion fought the ants.
• The ant army overwhelmed and killed the scorpion, then began dismantling its body.
• Wen Jing completed her evolution with abnormal status immunity, escaped the resin, and flew back toward the fruit.

Wen Jing survived the poisonous fruit, gained Abnormal Status Immunity I, and brought a venomous scorpion tail back from the Ancient Wilderness. After selling it to Xie Ming for eight points, she checked her updated awakener information, which still showed 4% compatibility and an F-rated Wilderness Body.

• Wen Jing finished the poisonous fruit and gained Abnormal Status Immunity I, along with increased stats and seven skill points remaining.
• Wen Jing used Gravity Silk to take the scorpion tail, followed the ants to their nest, and returned safely to the registration center in six minutes.
• Wen Jing sealed the tail in a cheap container and refused the registration center's offer to sell it for her.
• An Operations Department group returned with minor spoils and injuries, then asked staff what Wen Jing had brought back.
• Xie Ming bought Wen Jing's scorpion tail for eight points and suggested she bring him similar insect materials for possible research.
• Wen Jing left the academy's testing center and saw that her personal information still listed 4% compatibility and an F-rated Wilderness Body.

After improving her compatibility, Wen Jing advanced her cooking skills while preparing Wilderness Beast meat at the Deep Space Vortex. There, she encountered Tan Wenshan and Tan Junhao, whose attempt to belittle her as a working chef faltered when she said she was there to make money.

• Wen Jing’s compatibility update gave her three credits, kept her first in her class, and doubled her human body’s base attributes.
• Wen Jing prepared Wilderness Beast meat for the Deep Space Vortex’s premium members and advanced Cooking - Knife Skills to proficient.
• The restaurant manager asked Wen Jing to meet the diners, and Wen Jing agreed after saying it would cost extra.
• Tan Junhao used Wen Jing’s presence as a chef to teach Tan Wenshan that people followed different paths, and Tan Wenshan regained his confidence.
• Tan Wenshan mocked Wen Jing for working at the restaurant, but Wen Jing said she was there to make money and reminded him that he did not like eating the dish.

Tan Junhao tried to recruit Wen Jing into the Operations Department, but she ignored him and left after his attack failed to affect her. The next morning, the restaurant manager told her Deep Space Vortex would no longer employ her, and Wen Jing accepted the setback calmly.

• Tan Junhao offered Wen Jing a place in the Operations Department, but she refused and continued addressing only the restaurant manager.
• After Wen Jing ignored his warning and walked away, Tan Junhao attacked her with a venomous energy serpent, which vanished without harming her.
• Tan Junhao abandoned his recruitment plan and contacted the owner behind Deep Space Vortex after the team-building event ended.
• The next morning, the restaurant manager told Wen Jing that Deep Space Vortex could no longer work with her, and she accepted the decision without surprise.
• Wen Jing reflected that she had earned enough credits for the month and viewed losing the job as a minor obstacle while her strength continued to grow.

Wen Jing received a black-market contact, learned the Level One Energy Shield, and returned to the Ancient Wilderness to test her stronger insect body against a swarm of big ants. The chapter left her fighting successive waves while adapting her human energy-control techniques to her insect form.

• The restaurant manager gave Wen Jing contact details for AAA Express Delivery Old Wang, a trustworthy source for earning money or points outside the academy.
• Wen Jing bought the Level One Energy Shield elective, mastered the skill quickly, and declined Joel's offer to enroll in his Energy-Shaping Weapon class without a discount.
• Wen Jing told Yu Yang and the others that she had visited the Ancient Wilderness and planned to return after class, then registered for another trip.
• Wen Jing arrived in her enlarged insect body, provoked the big ants, and fought several attackers at once to adapt to her improved strength and agility.
• As more ants joined the fight, Wen Jing kept battling and began applying the energy-control techniques she had learned in her human body.

Wen Jing evolved her antennae to interpret and imitate ant pheromones, allowing her to rally the ant army and explore the giant tree. After surveying the nearby branches, she led the ants upward along the trunk, where signs of danger began to appear.

• Wen Jing used her skills to provoke the ants, but they repeatedly abandoned their pursuit until she entered their nest and drew them out.
• Wen Jing spent six skill points to evolve Antennae II, gaining Pheromone Perception and Pheromone Simulation.
• Wen Jing imitated the ants’ pheromones, turning their signals into a call to gather and charge, and led the army toward the upper tree layers.
• Wen Jing explored around the ant nest, spotted a large light-cyan mantis guarding the branch where she had found fruit, and left it undisturbed.
• Wen Jing led the ant army upward along the main trunk, where the bark grew lighter, boreholes multiplied, and the ants began signaling danger.

Wen Jing’s attempt to lead the ant army up the giant tree failed when black worms and a predatory red-and-white bird blocked the way. She retreated, then explored the misty lower trunk and cautiously investigated glowing flowers whose centers attracted her.

• Wen Jing tried to bite into the tree’s bark, but a black worm lunged from a hole and forced her to retreat as countless worms emerged.
• A red-and-white bird swooped at Wen Jing; she used her Energy Shield and Gravity Silk to escape, then watched it eat and shock the black worms.
• Wen Jing led the ant army away from the upper trunk and headed down toward the damp, mist-covered lower section.
• Wen Jing found glowing white flowers growing among blue-gray vines and tested their safety by tossing two ants into the thicket.
• Wen Jing approached a flower with her Gravity Silk, confirmed she could bite its petals, and cautiously crawled toward its nectar-filled center.

Wen Jing discovered that the glowing flowers trapped insects but could not harm her, allowing her to feast on their nectar and raise her attributes. As she headed back through the vine jungle, a camouflaged vine lizard attacked, and she lured it toward the upper trunk.

• Wen Jing was trapped inside a glowing flower but escaped by biting through its petals, unharmed by its digestive fluid.
• Wen Jing tested the flower on an ant and found that its nectar paralyzed ordinary insects, while her Abnormal Status Immunity protected her from its effects.
• Wen Jing gained a nectar-decomposing enzyme and harvested the flowers sustainably by using Gravity Silk to evade their weight-triggered traps.
• Wen Jing explored deeper into the vine jungle, raising her life and spirit attributes to 2.5 and 3 before deciding to return.
• A camouflaged vine lizard attacked Wen Jing, but she dodged its tongue and drew it into a chase toward the upper trunk.

Wen Jing and the ant army trapped and killed a vine lizard, but its tail transformed into a second body and fled before she caught and killed it. After eating some of its energy-rich meat, Wen Jing evolved a specialized digestion trait as night approached.

• Wen Jing used a chemical signal to direct the ant army to coat the vine lizard with resin shells and ant venom.
• Wen Jing pinned the trapped lizard and destroyed its brain, while the ants joined in to subdue it.
• The lizard severed its energy-filled tail, which transformed into a new body and escaped into the vines.
• Wen Jing tracked down the transformed tail and killed it before it could escape again.
• Wen Jing ate some of the lizard's meat and saw her life and strength increase, but her digestion could not keep pace.
• With night approaching, Wen Jing spent one skill point to acquire a meat-decomposing enzyme trait.

Wen Jing evolved Digestion I to devour a lizard and gained Basic Mimicry, then returned from the Ancient Wilderness with a poisoned ant. At the registration center, a staff member pitched her a free algorithm upgrade service, and Wen Jing doubted the offer.

• Wen Jing spent her remaining skill points to evolve Digestion I, allowing her to rapidly digest the lizard meat and bones.
• After eating the lizard, Wen Jing grew larger and stronger, then acquired the Basic Mimicry trait and changed her shell to match the vines.
• Wen Jing returned to the vine area, collected a poisoned ant, and used a cocoon to travel back to the material universe.
• Wen Jing arrived at the registration center before six and placed the ant in a containment box for Xie Ming's insect catalog.
• The staff member offered Wen Jing a free algorithm version upgrade service, and she questioned how such a service could be legitimate.

Wen Jing signed up for a coordinate-analysis membership and went to challenge the Trial Tower, where her classmates and other students waited to see her results. When she failed to appear on the rankings, Terry mocked her, and her classmates defended her as the chapter ended with his resentment over her class rank explained.

• Wen Jing joined Pin Hao Suan after learning she could avoid its annual fee by submitting three coordinates each month.
• As month-end Trial Tower challenges began, Yu Yang and Wan Ling discussed their expected results before Wen Jing arrived.
• Wen Jing told her classmates she could not predict her rating, and nearby students bristled at her growing reputation.
• Ji Shuang earned an A on the third floor, while Du Ran reported seeing Wen Jing at the equipment area.
• Wen Jing did not appear on the rankings, prompting Terry to suggest she was getting worse; Yu Yang and Wan Ling defended her and recalled Instructor Joel's confidence in her.
• Terry's resentment stemmed from Wen Jing holding first place while he ranked fourth, and the chapter noted that class rankings could determine access to academy resources.

Wen Jing’s second Trial Tower challenge appeared to end in a near-failing F rating, prompting her classmates to assume she was injured and Terry to celebrate. She immediately attempted the tower again and broke its historical record with an S rating, while her first battle of that attempt showed her controlling the fight through precise evasion.

• Terry argued that Wen Jing had likely entered the Trial Tower rather than wandered outside, as the students waited for her result.
• Wen Jing’s second challenge result appeared with a 14:59 clear time and an F rating, leading Terry to believe she was no longer a threat to his class ranking.
• Wan Ling and the other students guessed that Wen Jing had been injured while exploring the Ancient Wilderness, while her friends and the Operations Department members waited for her to emerge.
• Ji Shuang and others realized Wen Jing had not left because she had likely begun her third challenge, and the hall’s spectators waited anxiously.
• Wen Jing broke the academy’s historical first-floor Trial Tower record with a six-second clear and earned an S rating, prompting a celebration across the academy.
• In the battle preceding the record, Wen Jing precisely evaded the black-clad guardian’s attacks and controlled the fight’s rhythm.

Wen Jing experimented with learning Energy-Shaping Weapon from the Trial Tower guardian, then realized its simulated body could not teach her the technique. She quickly defeated the first-floor guardian, continued onward, and broke the academy record on the second floor, stirring excitement and pride across Red Earth Academy.

• Wen Jing studied the guardian’s energy circulation and attempted to form a longsword, but her imitation failed and the first-floor challenge ended with an F rating.
• Wen Jing realized the guardian’s simulated internal workings likely did not match a human body, then reentered and defeated it in six seconds for an S rating and 15 credits.
• Wen Jing accepted the invitation to continue and entered the second-floor challenge, where the guardian had twice her energy.
• The academy announced that Wen Jing had cleared the second floor in ten seconds and set a new historical record, prompting students and staff to celebrate.
• Terry and his group were stunned, while Yu Yang, Wan Ling, and the other students cheered and took pride in Wen Jing’s achievements.

Wen Jing broke Trial Tower records on the first four floors, earning S ratings before the fifth-floor guardian’s overwhelming stats slowed her down. Meanwhile, at Azure Jade Academy, Ochre Soil exchange students endured the Operations Department’s contempt until news of Wen Jing’s achievement reached them.

• Wen Jing earned S ratings and broke historical records on the third and fourth Trial Tower floors, astonishing the lobby and Ji Shuang.
• Wen Jing cleared the fifth floor with a D rating because her attacks could not quickly penetrate the guardian’s sixteenfold-enhanced defense, but she unlocked a 65% discount on a combat technique course.
• At Azure Jade Academy, Operations Department members complained about accommodating Ochre Soil exchange students and dismissed their standing and resources.
• Song Zhi visited the Operations Department team leader with a gift for the injured Xiao Wu, while a Azure Jade member mocked the gift and the exchange students.
• Azure Jade students and the Ochre Soil exchange students received news that first-year Wen Jing had earned an S rating and broken Red Earth Academy’s first-floor Trial Tower record.

Wen Jing earned S-rank ratings on four Trial Tower floors and broke records, bringing attention from Azure Jade and Mystic Radiance academies. Dean Bai took her to the academy treasury, while Song Zhi learned the personnel department had mistreated her and ordered Tan Junhao’s entire team dismissed.

• Wen Jing’s four S-rank Trial Tower results spread to Azure Jade and Mystic Radiance, filling both academies’ towers with students trying to break records.
• Dean Bai congratulated Wen Jing and took her to the academy treasury.
• Song Zhi learned that Ochre Soil’s personnel department had offended Wen Jing and that Dean Bai had taken her away.
• Song Zhi ordered Tan Junhao and all twelve members of his team removed from their posts.
• Tan Junhao protested as robots packed the team’s belongings and demanded to see the president.

Wen Jing visited the academy treasury with Dean Bai and Xie Ming, where she learned about Empowerment Stones made from the Superpower Cores of Awakeners who suffered Genetic Collapse. She discovered that the stones could grant unpredictable benefits, and Dean Bai explained that the points shop’s inventory varied with an Awakener’s compatibility level.

• Song Zhi ordered the HR department to stop approaching Wen Jing about a contract and said he would sign her himself after returning from the exchange.
• Wen Jing checked her results and saw that she had risen to class rank 1 and year rank 2785, bringing her closer to the top ten.
• Dean Bai took Wen Jing to the academy treasury beneath Xie Ming’s research institute and led her to choose from the outermost ring of stored treasures.
• Dean Bai identified the most valuable items in that section as Empowerment Stones, which were created from Superpower Cores recovered from Awakeners who suffered Genetic Collapse.
• Xie Ming explained that Empowerment Stones could grant a range of unpredictable benefits, while Dean Bai said the points shop’s available inventory depended on an Awakener’s compatibility level.

Wen Jing chose to save her Empowerment Stone reward for use in the Ancient Wilderness, while Dean Bai and Xie Ming discussed the academy’s finances and their hopes for her. Back in her dorm, Wen Jing rejected a flood of long-term job offers and found messages from Kewo Life Company and Gaia still unread.

• Wen Jing decided to keep the Empowerment Stone in the vault until her next visit, planning to try using it in the Ancient Wilderness.
• After Wen Jing left, Xie Ming worried that her promise to choose rewards next month meant she would break another record, while Dean Bai looked forward to her future success.
• Xie Ming explained that Red Earth Academy was spending beyond its means, and he later used Wen Jing’s results to strengthen an insect research proposal.
• Wen Jing sorted through her inbox, found more than a hundred recruitment contracts with terms of at least 100 years, and rejected them all.
• Wen Jing found a recruitment offer from Kewo Life Company that would cancel her life loan and interest, along with an unread message from Gaia.

Wen Jing received her first-in-class points and bought the Energy-Shaping Weapon course, then discovered her title made her appear dazzling to classmates. In the course, she grasped the technique’s principle and formed an energy shield almost immediately, leaving the instructor startled.

• Wen Jing received 15 points for ranking first in her class and spent 28 points on the discounted Energy-Shaping Weapon course.
• Wen Jing learned that her First in Class title made her glow on classmates’ retinal displays, with the effect lasting three days and shining especially brightly because her score far exceeded the class average.
• Wen Jing attended Joel’s Energy-Shaping Weapon class, where he explained that shaping weapons required forming an inverse energy mapping inside the body.
• Wen Jing understood the technique and condensed a shield in her hand before Joel finished telling her to try.

Wen Jing overwhelmed her classmates in combat training, then harvested nectar and hunted vine lizards in the Ancient Wilderness. After disguising herself as an ant, she entered the colony’s nest and began decoding its complex pheromone network.

• Wen Jing formed a radiant energy sword that easily shattered the weapons of the second- and third-ranked students, and her combat skills gained new progress.
• Wen Jing traveled to the fluorescent flower field, where she harvested nectar and hunted three vine lizards, pushing her life and strength attributes past 20.
• Wen Jing avoided exploring deeper into the mist after sensing a danger greater than the red-and-white bird, then noticed ants returning to their nest.
• Wen Jing mimicked ant pheromones and used Basic Mimicry to disguise herself as a giant mutant ant before entering the colony’s nest.
• Wen Jing analyzed the nest’s dense pheromone signals as she tried to bypass the colony’s alarms and defenses.

Wen Jing infiltrated the ant nest, stole emerald crystal grains from workers, and consumed enough to greatly increase her attributes. She reached the queen’s hall, where the queen’s overwhelming mental influence took control of her and forced her to approach.

• Wen Jing entered the nest after its alarm system lowered its alert level and followed workers carrying emerald crystal grains.
• Wen Jing used Gravity Silk to steal a grain, discovered it increased all her attributes, and followed the worker toward a mine.
• Wen Jing excavated and ate dozens of emerald crystal grains, raising her Life and Strength to 26, Speed to 7, and Spirit to 16.
• Wen Jing tracked the workers’ signals to the emerald crystal warehouse and found the blood-red ant queen laying eggs in the ant hall.
• The queen’s influence overwhelmed Wen Jing despite her Abnormal Status Immunity, and she crawled toward the queen under its command to devote everything to it.

Wen Jing remained under the queen ant’s control until nightfall, when she was suddenly transported out of the nest and spat from a Shadow Wolf’s mouth. She landed in an unfamiliar place, disoriented and bouncing across the ground.

• The queen ant tried to make Wen Jing mate, then ordered worker ants to eat her, but they could not pierce her body.
• The queen ant ordered Wen Jing to work, and she became an exceptionally efficient miner, hauler, and defender in the ant nest.
• At night, Wen Jing vanished from the nest as the Ancient Wilderness’s return time arrived.
• A staff member at Red Earth Academy noticed Wen Jing had missed the six o’clock return deadline and activated the emergency protocol.
• A Shadow Wolf tried to howl, choked, and coughed Wen Jing out into the night.
• Wen Jing regained her awareness as she spun through the air and bounced across the ground.

Wen Jing returned to the place where she had first entered the Ancient Wilderness and realized the ant queen’s mind control had nearly trapped her in its nest for life. After fighting the Shadow Wolf in both physical and shadow form, she found a way to wound it and resumed her attack when it returned to three dimensions.

• Wen Jing recognized the location and remembered how the ant queen’s control had made her believe she was a worker ant, prompting her to consider developing resistance to mind control.
• The Shadow Wolf pounced on Wen Jing, but she evaded it and attacked one of its eyes with her Energy-Shaping Weapon.
• The Shadow Wolf became a two-dimensional shadow and bit Wen Jing’s shadow, causing her real health to drop until she escaped by moving her shadow’s position.
• Wen Jing formed an enormous, paper-thin sword and struck the wolf shadow, discovering that overlapping their shadows could injure it.
• The Shadow Wolf returned to physical form, and Wen Jing fastened Gravity Silk to it and continued her assault.

Wen Jing fled a Shadow Wolf pack and reached an ancient altar with blue flames that burned away her skill points and drained her attributes. After spending all her points trying to evolve resistance, she gambled on the flames’ subtle attraction and reached toward them, only for them to destroy her Gravity Silk.

• Wen Jing abandoned her hunt and fled when a Shadow Wolf summoned its pack, but the wolves pursued and began surrounding her.
• Wen Jing escaped through the pack’s attacks, advanced her Movement Technique three levels, and reached an ancient altar with deep-blue flames.
• The Shadow Wolves stopped at the altar’s boundary, while pale flames appeared on Wen Jing and her skill points began to vanish.
• Wen Jing spent all her remaining skill points trying to evolve resistance, but her attributes began steadily falling instead.
• Wen Jing chose to approach the blue flames, and the invisible fire destroyed the Gravity Silk she extended toward them.