Recaps

Red Earth Academy’s ranking competition awarded the top twenty exchange invitations to Azure Jade Academy and Mystic Radiance Academy, while Wen Jing spent most of the event cultivating and easily defeated first-place finisher Nie Xuan. As news of her upcoming visit reached Azure Jade Academy, its students began preparing to respond to the champion’s arrival.

• Dean Bai announced that the top twenty contestants would accompany Wen Jing on exchanges to Azure Jade Academy and Mystic Radiance Academy, and the students fought hard for the invitations.
• Wen Jing continued cultivating during the competition, while no contestant chose to challenge her.
• Wan Ling survived to claim twentieth place, and Nie Xuan won first place after Xia Yun met his attack without dodging.
• Wen Jing defeated Nie Xuan in a brief final duel, confirming the competition rankings and exchange slots.
• News of Wen Jing’s upcoming exchange reached Azure Jade Academy, where students discussed her arrival and invitations circulated to welcome the exchange students.

Ocher Soil Academy’s exchange group arrived at Azure Jade Academy, where Wen Jing saw the planet’s ocean-covered beauty and learned the arrangements for the three-month program. As the students reached their dormitories, Azure Jade students singled out Wen Jing and challenged her.

• Song Zhi greeted Wen Jing aboard the spaceship and congratulated her on her success and his own breakthrough.
• Dean Bai led the fifty-two Ocher Soil exchange students to Azure Jade Star, where Dean Fu received them before leaving them with the academic affairs director.
• Wen Jing connected her terminal to Azure Jade’s network, received the exchange handbook, and found that she could attend Azure Jade courses while keeping her Ocher Soil rankings.
• The Ocher Soil group arrived at its assigned dormitories and noticed Azure Jade students watching them intently.
• A group of Azure Jade second-years approached, and one of them challenged Wen Jing.

Wen Jing rejected a challenge from a low-ranked Azure Jade student and challenged Azure Jade's current top ten for the right to live in their academy-awarded villas. Her declaration stirred controversy across the academies, and Zou Jie, Azure Jade's fifth-ranked second-year, accepted.

• Wen Jing refused to fight a forty-seventh-ranked challenger, called him too weak, and challenged Azure Jade's top ten on the condition that a defeated opponent surrender their villa residence.
• News of Wen Jing's challenge spread across the three academies' forums, where students argued over her confidence and Azure Jade's ability to defeat her.
• Dean Bai told Dean Fu he had an urgent mission and asked him to be understanding if Wen Jing caused trouble at Azure Jade.
• Zou Jie, the fifth-ranked second-year, accepted Wen Jing's challenge, and Ocher Soil students briefed her on his C-rank potential, defensive abilities, and recent rise in strength.

Wen Jing accepted Azure Jade’s challenge from fifth-ranked Zou Jie despite the opponent’s choice of an arena that suppressed mental power. The duel was set to begin in the Suspended Falling Alloy arena, where Wen Jing saw Zou Jie’s abilities and prepared to face him.

• Song Zhi told Wen Jing that Zou Jie specialized in defense and that Azure Jade’s first-ranked student was Rong Feng.
• Wen Jing asked to schedule the duel before six in the morning so she could continue her daily attacks on the jellyfish in the Ancient Wilderness.
• Azure Jade proposed the Suspended Falling Alloy arena, and students from both academies argued over whether its suppression of mental power made the venue unfair.
• Wen Jing asked whether the academic affairs office had approved the transfer of residency rights, then agreed to fight in the arena as soon as possible.
• An hour later, Wen Jing and Zou Jie arrived at the arena before a large crowd of Azure Jade students and the Ocher Soil exchange students.
• Wen Jing used her tactical glasses to identify Zou Jie’s abilities as [Echo] and [Gaseous Transformation], then entered the inner arena.

Wen Jing faced Zou Jie in Azure Jade’s suspension arena, where he used sonic detection and his hurricane-like Wilderness Body to counter her invisibility and physical attacks. As Zou Jie pressed her with a storm of Wind Blades and called for her surrender, Wen Jing calmly analyzed the weakness of his form while her shield neared breaking.

• Wan Ling reassured the others that Wen Jing had confidence in the challenge, and Azure Jade’s academic director started the duel after learning the dean expected Wen Jing to win.
• Wen Jing and Zou Jie traded taunts before the countdown ended and both vanished from the audience’s sight.
• Zou Jie flew to the arena’s center, used sound waves to locate Wen Jing, and transformed his body into a vast hurricane that her sword passed through.
• Zou Jie filled the arena with wind and fired Wind Blades at Wen Jing, leading Azure Jade’s spectators to believe she was trapped.
• Wen Jing analyzed that Zou Jie’s expanded molecules filled the arena, while her tier-three shield weakened under his concentrated assault and he demanded her surrender.

Wen Jing defeated Azure Jade’s fifth-ranked student Zou Jie by freezing his gaseous body, winning his three-month villa residency rights. The match ended Azure Jade’s attempt to humiliate her, while the other academies began reassessing her strength.

• Zou Jie shattered Wen Jing’s shield and attacked her with a hurricane of wind blades, but her Frost Vein Silk spread through the arena and rapidly lowered its temperature.
• Wen Jing froze Zou Jie into an ice sculpture, leaving him unable to concede until Azure Jade’s dean of academic affairs thawed him.
• Zou Jie conceded, and the dean transferred his three-month villa residency rights to Wen Jing while banning further challenges for villa rights.
• Wen Jing left with the Ocher Soil students, while Azure Jade students struggled to understand how she had defeated Zou Jie so quickly.
• News of the match spread to Ocher Soil and Mystic Radiance, where students discussed Wen Jing’s strength and whether the top four Azure Jade students would dare challenge her.

Wen Jing moved into Azure Jade’s villa district and enrolled in thirty-six electives before beginning the popular Energy Structure Method course. The chapter ended as she listened to the teaching assistant explain its breathing technique.

• Mystic Radiance students speculated that Wen Jing had gained a new ability, while a group plotting against her discussed her possible Wilderness Weapon and the chance to act while Bai Xiao was away.
• Wen Jing moved into a seaside villa at Azure Jade and discovered that the academy covered training-room repairs.
• Wen Jing selected thirty-six electives, taking every available course that did not conflict with another.
• After training in the Ancient Wilderness, Wen Jing attended Energy Structure Method with the other Ocher Soil exchange students.
• Professor Ye opened the class, and his teaching assistant began explaining the technique’s breathing method.

Wen Jing memorized the Energy Structure Method’s particle diagram almost instantly and demonstrated remarkable skill in the class test. The chapter ended with her reaching 80% proficiency after connecting the technique to her Ice Domain, while Azure Jade students suspected she had prepared in advance.

• The teaching assistant displayed a moving diagram of light points, and Wen Jing immediately recited the number of points and their trajectory changes from memory.
• The teaching assistant explained how to apply the Energy Structure Method, and Wen Jing followed the lesson while Azure Jade students doubted she understood it.
• A Azure Jade student passed the class test with a score of 110 and challenged Wen Jing to take the test herself.
• Wen Jing struck the testing device and scored 150, leaving the Azure Jade students stunned and the Ocher Soil students pleased.
• Wen Jing realized that constructing her Ice Domain’s Frost Vein Silk had prepared her to control energy at the particle level, and her proficiency reached 80%.

Wen Jing impressed Azure Jade Academy with her rapid progress in class and revealed that she had enrolled in thirty-six courses, leaving students across the academy shaken by her learning ability. Professor Ye dismissed her performance as showing off, while Professor Saerjia learned that Dean Bai’s student was among the Ocher Soil exchange students.

• Professor Ye dismissed class without acknowledging Wen Jing’s performance, then told his assistant to slow her lesson plan because he believed she had studied ahead and was showing off.
• Wen Jing joined the Ocher Soil students heading to their next class and said she had enrolled in thirty-six courses, prompting the news to spread across Azure Jade Academy.
• As Wen Jing attended courses and performed exceptionally in each, Azure Jade students began to question their own abilities, while students at Mystic Radiance avoided discussing her.
• Professor Ye casually prompted Professor Saerjia to ask about the new students, and Saerjia learned that Wen Jing was among the Ocher Soil exchange students.

Wen Jing withstood Professor Saerjia’s deliberate pressure in Prism Shield class and expanded her shield to protect the Ocher Soil exchange students beside her. After the incident became a dispute between Azure Jade and Ocher Soil, Xie Ming told Wen Jing that Saerjia was likely targeting her because of her teacher, Bai Xiao.

• Saerjia ignored the teaching assistant and pressured the students’ shields, clearly singling out Wen Jing.
• Wen Jing’s Prism Shield held against Saerjia’s pressure, then expanded to protect the six Ocher Soil students around her.
• The teaching assistant called the class over before Saerjia could attack Wen Jing, and Saerjia left.
• News of the confrontation spread, and Xie Ming contacted Wen Jing after her final class.
• Xie Ming explained that Saerjia’s hostility likely stemmed from Bai Xiao’s past at Mystic Radiance Academy.

Xie Ming explained how Wilderness Body rank let unqualified awakeners hold professorships while capable assistants did the teaching, then asked Wen Jing to help challenge the system through the Education Committee. The committee approved a three-month trial granting Wen Jing authority to assess her professors’ skill, with professors who proved less proficient than her demoted and their assistants promoted.

• Wen Jing questioned why teaching assistants taught Azure Jade classes while professors did not, and Xie Ming described how rank rather than professional ability determined advancement across the Federation.
• Xie Ming proposed using Wen Jing’s case to challenge Azure Jade and expose professors’ lack of teaching ability, and Wen Jing agreed despite the risks.
• Dean Fu told Saerjia that Ochre Soil had filed an official complaint and that he would have to defend his conduct before the Education Committee.
• The Education Committee debated Saerjia’s conduct and the broader problem of professors delegating their teaching to assistants.
• The committee approved a reformist proposal allowing Wen Jing to assess her course professors’ proficiency during her three-month exchange, demoting any professor less skilled than her and promoting their teaching assistant.

Wen Jing’s challenge to Azure Jade’s professors gained momentum as she mastered the thirty-six courses and began teaching Ocher Soil students herself. Her success turned students against the professors’ instruction, and the chapter ended with a Azure Jade student asking to join Wen Jing’s study group.

• The Education Committee’s plan spread through the academies, and Wen Jing drew attention as she began her evaluation at Azure Jade.
• Professor Ye assigned a teaching assistant to instruct Wen Jing while offering the other Azure Jade students his own teaching, splitting the class into two groups.
• During her second month, Wen Jing’s skills reached mastery in batches, and she explained techniques to the Ocher Soil students, whose progress improved.
• Sang Qing recorded Wen Jing’s lessons while Saerjia berated a Azure Jade student for watching the other group.
• The Azure Jade student left Saerjia’s group and asked to study with Wen Jing; Sang Qing agreed.

Wen Jing survived a chain of explosions that destroyed the underground world and exposed a deeper abyss, then evolved her Gravity Silk Gland. She left the chapter with new traits and a chance to explore the newly revealed depths after gathering the remains.

• Sang Qing invited Wen Jing to join her Prism Shield optimization project, and Wen Jing accepted as more teaching assistants began supporting her.
• Wen Jing's mental lashes overloaded the jellyfish, triggering a chain of explosions that engulfed the underground world in freezing flames.
• Wen Jing survived the blast with Sang Qing's optimized Prism Shield and discovered that the collapse had opened a vast abyss with strange lights below.
• Wen Jing chose to evolve Gravity Silk and upgraded her Gravity Silk Gland, gaining five traits and Spacetime Curvature Sensing.

Wen Jing used her upgraded gravity abilities to harvest the Cold Flame Jellyfish remains, then ventured deeper into the Ancient Wilderness and discovered a luminous floating island. Inside it, she found a gigantic giant worm frozen in a lifelike pose.

• Wen Jing tested her new Inertia Manipulation, Gravitational Lens, and Gravitational Field abilities, then devoured the exposed Cold Flame Jellyfish and other Wilderness Beasts.
• Wen Jing raised her attributes but failed to obtain the jellyfish's [Energy Siphon] trait.
• Wen Jing descended through the giant rift, improved her cold resistance, and traveled deeper into the underground darkness.
• Wen Jing followed a brightening light toward a vast floating island made of luminous crystal as the temperature approached absolute zero.
• Wen Jing saw a giant worm over a thousand meters long encased inside the island and realized it appeared to be dead.

Wen Jing accidentally triggered the strange light surrounding the floating islands and was sealed in place, unable to return from the Ancient Wilderness. When nightfall failed to free her, alarms sounded at Azure Jade Academy, and her friends and teachers feared for her safety.

• Wen Jing found enormous Wilderness Beasts sealed inside glowing floating islands and realized the area was like a museum of powerful creatures.
• Wen Jing cracked the crystal containing a giant scorpion, triggering a bright light that froze her body and sealed her senses and consciousness from the outside world.
• Wen Jing discovered that the panel still let her think, but she could not evolve an escape method or cross back to the material universe.
• Wen Jing waited for the day-night transition to carry her out of the Ancient Wilderness, but she remained frozen after evening arrived.
• Azure Jade Academy's transit registration center raised the alarm when Wen Jing exceeded her allotted time, and students and teachers at both academies grew anxious.

Trapped in spacetime amber in the underground Wilderness Beast museum, Wen Jing realized her consciousness could still evolve even though her body was frozen. She sacrificed her Howl of the Hunt trait for skill points and began evolving a way to split her consciousness, but the result was not yet clear.

• Wen Jing failed to escape the spacetime amber, while twelve hours passed outside and Azure Jade marked her missing; Dean Fu kept the rescue equipment on standby.
• Wen Jing concluded that her body and spirit body were frozen, but the part of her consciousness anchored to the panel could still think and change.
• Wen Jing conceived of evolving an ability to split her consciousness so a newly created consciousness could escape the amber.
• When she lacked enough skill points for the evolution, Wen Jing converted Howl of the Hunt into 800 skill points.
• Wen Jing spent all 1,010 skill points on the evolution and felt her sense of self become unusually distinct.

Wen Jing escaped the Spacetime Amber by splitting her consciousness and traveling to the Ancient Wilderness palace, but her body was weakened and she was trapped in a partitioned space. When bronze beast-headed statues appeared, she prepared to fight them.

• Wen Jing split her consciousness at the transition between day and night, allowing one half to escape the Spacetime Amber while the other remained sealed.
• Wen Jing’s body regenerated in the palace, and her species level rose from 613 to 11772 even as her physical attributes and abilities weakened.
• Wen Jing tried to leave the palace, but chime bells rang and white light revealed shadowy figures rising from the floor.
• Wen Jing found that her Gravitational Field, Ice Domain, and Energy Pulse could not reach beyond the four floor tiles enclosing her in a separate spacetime.
• Dozens of golden bronze statues with beast heads and human bodies emerged from the shadows, and Wen Jing readied herself for battle.

Wen Jing returned from the chime-bell world badly injured, then resumed studying and teaching on Azure Jade, where her dual consciousness accelerated her learning. The chapter ended with her considering how to obtain more skill points by devouring civilization ruins.

• Wen Jing fought a wolf-headed bronze piece after realizing the strange chamber operated like a chessboard.
• Wen Jing returned to Azure Jade on the second night of her disappearance, and Xie Ming used his energy to help restore her as Dean Fu noted damage to her Wilderness Body and spiritual body.
• Three days later, Wen Jing insisted on continuing her studies while injured, and Xie Ming agreed to let her resume them.
• Wen Jing's two independently thinking consciousnesses helped her skills break through mastery, impressing Azure Jade's professors and teaching assistants.
• Wen Jing checked that she had 105 skill points and concluded that devouring civilization ruins could provide them in larger quantities.

Wen Jing returned to the Chime Bells World to seek more skill points and advance toward the door beyond the chessboard. After defeating two wolf-headed pieces, she encountered a monkey-headed piece that challenged her to craft a stronger bronze sword, and she began improving the sword by adding material from her own shell.

• After ten days of recovery, Wen Jing left a gravity-made false image in Azure Jade's villa and entered the Chime Bells World.
• Wen Jing chose the door ahead and defeated two wolf-headed pieces in succession.
• A monkey-headed piece demonstrated how to cast a bronze sword, and Wen Jing replicated the process to earn one skill point for mastering bronze-sword casting.
• Wen Jing realized she would need to make a sword better than the monkey-headed man's and found that he would not let her leave the crafting area.
• Wen Jing added powdered material shaved from her exoskeleton to the molten bronze alloy to strengthen the sword.

Wen Jing exploited the Ancient Wilderness chessboard’s craft contests to gain skill points by improving her forged weapons, then sought ways to study metal smelting in the modern world. She left the chessboard before encountering a deer-headed piece and later asked her classmates for help pursuing her new interest.

• Wen Jing used a piece of her exoskeleton as a special casting material, won the bronze sword contest, and gained proficiency points after the weapon was tested.
• She defeated another artisan by forging a bronze dagger-axe with the same method, then earned thirty skill points after beating three monkey-headed men and two wolf-headed men.
• Wen Jing returned from the Ancient Wilderness, ate a late-night meal, and emailed Xie Ming for advice on metallic materials.
• After reading Xie Ming’s recommendations, Wen Jing found little useful information because the Federation’s materials science was far beyond her old world’s technology.
• Wen Jing told the Ocher Soil members and the teaching assistant that she was interested in refining impure minerals, surprising them with a hobby beyond studying.

Wen Jing perfected bronze spear casting and passed the deer-headed figure’s sacrifice trial, which opened the doors to a larger palace and a new board. She arrived there and began studying its grouped pieces, including unfamiliar warriors and craftsmen.

• Wen Jing used ancient-style hobby videos and ores from Xia Yun’s friends to prepare for bronze casting.
• Wen Jing crafted a bronze spear with part of her forelimb and earned 26 skill points by perfecting the casting skill.
• The deer-headed figure sacrificed its antlers to calm the disasters, and Wen Jing offered the figure’s head instead, perfecting the ritual skill.
• The chime bells rang, the doors opened, and Wen Jing moved from the previous palace’s board to a larger board in a new palace.
• Wen Jing noticed that the new board grouped its pieces by type and included tiger-headed warriors and ox-headed craftsmen.

Wen Jing realized the board game was governed by social rank and gained eleven wolf-headed followers by defeating their leader and commanding them to kneel. With her movement range expanded, she headed toward the craftsmen, but two tiger-led forces moved to block her.

• Wen Jing chose the warriors’ path, and a tiger-headed leader and sixteen wolf-headed men attacked her together.
• Wen Jing recognized that the board’s rules reflected social hierarchy and that defeating a leader could let her advance and command followers.
• Wen Jing killed the tiger-headed leader and five defiant wolf-headed men, then used Mental Link to make the others kneel and submit.
• Wen Jing returned to the board with eleven wolf-headed followers, whose presence expanded her movement range to eight squares.
• Wen Jing moved toward a group of craftsmen, but the craftsmen retreated as two tiger-led forces advanced from either side to block her.

Wen Jing expanded her force in the chessboard world by defeating a tiger-headed leader and capturing its soldiers, then learned that Ji Shuang had been injured and removed from a Azure Jade expedition team. Wen Jing offered to replace Ji Shuang despite her own serious injuries.

• Wen Jing realized that becoming a faction drew the attention of every nearby army and led her troops into battle against a tiger-headed faction.
• Wen Jing ate the tiger-headed leader’s bronze battle-axe, confirmed that craftsmen provided replacement weapons, and killed the leader after disrupting its attacks with her Gravitational Field.
• Wen Jing’s soldiers captured sixteen enemies, raising her force to twenty-seven, and she returned from the chessboard world rather than pursue the craftsmen or priests.
• Two days later, Wen Jing noticed Ji Shuang was absent from Energy Structure Method class, and Song Zhi explained that she was recovering from an expedition injury.
• Eve said Azure Jade’s Operations Department had removed Ji Shuang from the team to claim a rare treasure without sharing the reward, and Wen Jing offered to take her place.

Wen Jing insisted on replacing the injured Ji Shuang in Azure Jade's exploration and secured the team's reluctant agreement. After asserting her strength at a tense tactical meeting, she entered the magma-filled world with the Azure Jade team, partly to avoid a risky unanchored transit near her clone.

• Wen Jing visited Ji Shuang in the hospital and announced she would take her place on Azure Jade's exploration team.
• Wen Jing persuaded the Ocher Soil students that she could safely help retrieve the haul, and Azure Jade's Student Council agreed she had priority under the exchange agreement.
• Two days later, Wen Jing attended the tactical meeting, where Yu Yu explained that she would freeze a magma passage in Zone C to let the team cross.
• When Chris challenged Wen Jing, she dropped the room temperature to minus twenty degrees; Yu Yu made Chris apologize and ordered the meeting to continue.
• Wen Jing joined Yu Yu, Chris, Jialong, and Peggy at the registration center and transited to the magma-filled world using its Locator Stone.

Wen Jing silently reached Zone C, collected the rare coral, and entered Zone D to hunt a powerful lava monitor lizard. As the Azure Jade team debated whether to help her, Wen Jing’s battle with the beast caused the lava lake to boil and an earthquake to shake the surrounding zones.

• Wen Jing ignored the Mental Link messages, found the purplish-red coral in Zone C, and left frozen arrows to guide the Azure Jade team.
• Wen Jing entered Zone D and attacked a giant lava monitor lizard, using Ice Domain and Frost Vein Silk against its eye.
• The lava monitor lizard retaliated with lava breath and attacks, while Wen Jing used her Gravitational Field and Prism Shield to evade and strike its weak points.
• Lu Zhou, Peggy, Chris, and Yu Yu heard the battle and debated whether to rescue Wen Jing, but Chris argued they should stay in Zone C.
• Wen Jing continued wearing down the lava monitor lizard until it stopped chasing her, then the lava lake boiled and an earthquake shook the zones.