Recaps

Shen Hui awakened a world of his own, but it was only one kilometer across and filled with Death Negative Energy that could not support life. His unusual world left his classmates laughing at him.

• At Qingshui Middle School's awakening ceremony, Wang Dan awakened an eight-kilometer martial artist world, while Zhang Xinxin and Li Chuanzhi failed.
• Qingxue awakened a sixty-kilometer world filled with superpower energy, drawing excited attention from the students.
• Shen Hui placed his hand on the Awakening Stone and successfully awakened a world as Zhang Hu and Wang Erdan failed.
• Shen Hui discovered his world was a tiny, lifeless void filled with black mist and Death Negative Energy.
• The teacher announced Shen Hui's world's size and energy, and the students mocked it as a useless world.

After awakening to a tiny world saturated with deathly negative energy, Shen Hui decided to build an eldritch civilization instead of giving up. Back in his rental, he spent World Origin Power to create Sadako, who emerged from a well in a dead forest.

• Shen Hui reassured his classmates, including Qingxue, while secretly planning to use the negative energy to create Eldritch Beings.
• The teacher announced an assessment in three days, and Shen Hui returned to his rental to inspect his Level 1 Death World, which held 100 World Origin.
• Shen Hui chose to skip creating ordinary life-forms and directly make a powerful hero unit based on the urban legend Sadako.
• Shen Hui shaped a dead autumn forest and dried-up well inside his world, then summoned Sadako from the well.
• Sadako crawled out, revealed one pitch-black eye, and startled even Shen Hui, her creator.

Shen Hui created Sadako as a Rare-quality Hero in his Death World and prepared to show his supposedly useless world at the school assessment. The teachers were evaluating the students’ worlds when they discovered that Shen Hui’s lifeless world contained a Hero.

• Shen Hui learned that Sadako was a Rare Hero with physical immunity, resurrection, teleportation, psychokinesis, and an electronic curse, and he was pleased with her abilities.
• Shen Hui checked that 20 World Origin remained, entered his Death World, and confirmed he was satisfied with the setting for his Ghost Story World.
• Three days later, Shen Hui returned to school, where students discussed their progress and Qingxue’s rapidly developing world while mocking his one-kilometer lifeless world.
• The principal explained the assessment process, and the students used wrist devices to connect their World Origins for evaluation.
• Teachers praised Qingxue’s world with an A+ before noticing Shen Hui’s supposedly lifeless world and reacting to the Hero Unit inside it.

Teachers gave Shen Hui’s unconventional Death World an A+ rating after the principal praised its potential, and the students later saw that it tied for first place with Qingxue. The ranking display showed Shen Hui’s ghostly Hero approaching the screen and frightening the crowd.

• Teachers debated whether Shen Hui’s tiny, lifeless Death World and its ghostly Hero deserved an A+ rating, and the principal decided that its originality merited one.
• A teacher announced that the world assessment results were ready and reminded students that the combat assessment in five days mattered even more.
• Students gathered around the ranking display, where Qingxue and Shen Hui were tied for first place with A+ ratings.
• The display showed Shen Hui’s deadwood forest and the disheveled woman beside its withered well, unsettling the students.
• The woman moved toward the screen and suddenly appeared in a close-up, making several students scream and some girls cry.

After creating Sadako in his Death World, Shen Hui earned an A+ rating and received funding and supplies alongside Qingxue. He left with resources to develop his world further and considered what second Eldritch Being to create.

• Shen Hui explained to Qingxue and the other students that his Death World could create nonliving Eldritch Beings and named his Hero Unit Sadako.
• The principal announced the students' rewards, scheduled a practical test in five days, and invited Shen Hui and Qingxue to his office.
• The principal advised Qingxue to develop more ordinary humans before building a Hero, while Shen Hui said he already had a plan for his Death World.
• The principal gave Shen Hui and Qingxue 500,000 World Coins each to support their cultivation.
• Shen Hui and Qingxue collected a Low-Level World Origin Potion, a Building Construction Card, and a Time Flow Rate Card apiece.
• Shen Hui considered using the potion to restore World Origin Power and create a second Eldritch Being.

Shen Hui planned to challenge ownerless worlds at the World Association, and Qingxue decided to join him. After receiving cultivation resources, Shen Hui used a World Origin Potion and began creating a Pig-headed Butcher tale, leaving a dilapidated slaughterhouse taking shape in his Death World.

• Shen Hui told Qingxue he planned to challenge an ownerless world at the World Association, and she asked to go with him and challenge one herself.
• Shen Hui and Qingxue agreed to travel to the World Association together the next day, then parted at a crossroads.
• Shen Hui bought ingredients at the market and came up with an idea for his next Eldritch Tale after seeing a butcher chopping pork.
• Shen Hui drank the World Origin Potion, raising his Death World's World Origin to 170, and prepared to create a new Eldritch Being.
• Shen Hui devised the story of the Pig-headed Butcher and used his Building Construction Card to begin forming a dilapidated slaughterhouse in his Death World.

Shen Hui created the Rare hero Pig-headed Butcher and tested the Demon Pigs it could summon. The next morning, he and Qingxue traveled to the World Association, where they arrived together.

• Shen Hui built a slaughterhouse in his Death World and created the Rare hero Pig-headed Butcher, whose mask allowed it to be reborn if it survived.
• Shen Hui ordered the Pig-headed Butcher to summon three Demon Pigs and inspected their abilities.
• Shen Hui checked that his Death World had 30 World Origin remaining, then left the world and continued his daily life.
• Qingxue called Shen Hui early the next morning, and he invited her over for breakfast before they traveled together.
• On the bus, Shen Hui told Qingxue that he had created another hero, surprising her.
• Shen Hui and Qingxue arrived at the World Association.

Shen Hui and Qingxue registered with the World Association and paid to enter the Sea of Stars Borderlands soon after awakening their worlds. They arrived beneath a star-filled sky and headed toward the area where Awakeners chose Unclaimed Worlds to challenge.

• Shen Hui and Qingxue registered as members of the World Association.
• Shen Hui applied to enter the Sea of Stars Borderlands and challenge an Unclaimed World, and the staff member warned that it was early for newly awakened students.
• Shen Hui paid 100,000 World Coins for access to the Borderlands equipment, and Qingxue decided to join him.
• Shen Hui used a projection helmet to enter the Sea of Stars Borderlands and met Qingxue there.
• Shen Hui and Qingxue headed toward the huge ball of light where Awakeners chose Unclaimed Worlds.

Shen Hui challenged a level 1 world and found a dying world inhabited by a starving Orc tribe. After the Orcs entered his dead forest and attacked Sadako, she drove one Werewolf to tear out his own heart, while the others remained under threat.

• Shen Hui spent 20,000 World Coins to challenge a randomly matched level 1 world and discovered it was a declining world of Orcs.
• Shen Hui merged his world with the grassland, drawing the last twenty Orcs from their forest to investigate the new woodland.
• The Orcs entered Shen Hui's dead forest in search of food and encountered Sadako climbing out of a dry well.
• The Orcs attacked Sadako, but their claws passed through her spirit form and she vanished from their midst.
• Sadako appeared on a Werewolf's back, terrifying him until he tore out his own heart and died.
• Sadako disappeared again, and another Orc felt her chilling presence behind him.

Sadako used her powers to kill and terrify the beastmen, driving the survivors into the Pig-headed Butcher’s slaughterhouse. There, the hungry beastmen mistook the butcher and his piglets for threats they could control, but the piglets attacked and their strange eyes transformed some of them into pigs.

• Sadako used mind control and sudden appearances to make three beastmen kill themselves, then killed more as the survivors fled.
• Shen Hui noticed the beastmen were running toward the slaughterhouse, while Sadako stopped at the boundary of the Pig-headed Butcher’s territory.
• The beastmen entered the warehouse in search of meat and encountered the Pig-headed Butcher, who picked up his cleaver and called them food.
• Three piglets charged the beastmen, knocked three down, and began tearing into them.
• Some beastmen looked at the eyes atop the piglets’ heads and began crawling and oinking, believing they were pigs.

The Pig-headed Butcher slaughtered the orcs after surviving decapitation and transforming into a giant wild boar. Shen Hui then consumed and merged their world, gaining World Origin and a Replication Trait Card.

• The Pig-headed Butcher cut down an orc, ate its organs, and healed as the others attacked him.
• An orc severed the Pig-headed Butcher's head, but the head kept speaking and grew a new body.
• The transformed Pig-headed Butcher and the piglets hunted down and killed every orc in the world.
• Shen Hui merged the dying world with his own and gained 120 World Origin, expanded the Death World to 29 kilometers, and obtained a Replication Trait Card.

Shen Hui fused the World Will’s world into his Death World, gained a Replication Trait Card, and decided to use it to create Tomie. He returned to the Borderlands while the Pig-headed Butcher leveled up in his world, and Qingxue eventually woke from focusing on her own world.

• Shen Hui’s world absorbed the fused world, spreading its deathly aura and growing to 29 kilometers across.
• Shen Hui obtained a Replication Trait Card and decided to use it to create Tomie, whose cells could reproduce endlessly.
• Shen Hui returned to the Borderlands and saw that Qingxue was still focused on her world, where a battle was going poorly.
• The Pig-headed Butcher began leveling up after killing and eating beastmen, and Shen Hui waited for its transformation to finish.
• After wandering for a while, Shen Hui returned to Qingxue, who opened her eyes a little over ten minutes later.

After Shen Hui and Qingxue both succeeded in their first world challenges, they returned home, and Shen Hui prepared to create his third hero. He strengthened the Pig-headed Butcher and created Tomie, leaving her newly brought into existence in the Death World.

• Qingxue told Shen Hui she had won her challenge against a declining monster world, and Shen Hui said he had succeeded against a declining world too.
• Shen Hui and Qingxue left the World Association together, where a staff member checked their records and was stunned that both had succeeded.
• Shen Hui returned home and found that the Pig-headed Butcher had reached Level 2, strengthening its attacks, defenses, and summoned Demon Pigs.
• Shen Hui used the Death Resentment of the 20 slain Half-Orcs to create 20 Demon Pigs.
• Shen Hui used the Replication Trait Card and World Origin Power to create Tomie as his third hero.

Shen Hui created Tomie, whose regenerative clones escaped her three-day death limit, and spent his remaining World Origin building her a home. Three days later, he and Qingxue traveled with Qingshui Middle School to the regional practical test, which would determine the schools’ rankings and resource allocation.

• Shen Hui reviewed Tomie's abilities and learned that the original would die in three days, while her powers could create independent clones from even a fragment of her body.
• Shen Hui ordered Tomie to pull out a strand of hair, and it grew into a clone without the death countdown.
• Shen Hui spent his remaining 40 World Origin to build Tomie a simple Japanese-style house, then rested until the test day.
• Qingxue called Shen Hui, and the two traveled to school together by bus.
• Shen Hui and Qingxue joined their classmates in the plaza, where students gathered for the regional practical test.
• The principal urged the students to earn Qingshui Middle School a good ranking, and they boarded buses for the training grounds.

Qingshui Middle School arrived at the practical test base, where Ye Long of the Ye Clan offered Qingxue a generous recruitment deal. Qingxue refused and recommended Shen Hui instead, leaving Ye Long and the gathered students stunned.

• Shen Hui and his classmates arrived at the practical test base and heard other schools discuss Qingxue's large world and Shen Hui's unusual Death World.
• Ye Long of the Ye Clan approached Qingshui Middle School and invited Qingxue to join his family, offering her ten million World Coins a month and free resources.
• Qingxue declined Ye Long's offer, saying she did not want to join an organization yet.
• Qingxue recommended Shen Hui, saying his strength should exceed hers, which shocked Ye Long and the students because Shen Hui had awakened a one-kilometer Death World.

Qingxue recommended Shen Hui to the Ye Clan, but both of them declined Ye Long’s invitations. At the practical test site, city lord Wang Xinhai announced that the top ten students would earn entry slots to a newly discovered Nascent World, and Shen Hui saw a chance to obtain precious resources.

• Qingxue refused to join the Ye Clan and recommended Shen Hui to Ye Long, who invited him to join.
• Shen Hui politely declined Ye Long’s invitation because he wanted to pursue his own path without relying on others.
• Ye Long left, and Qingxue asked Shen Hui why he had turned down the offer; he explained that his unprecedented path required him to explore alone.
• Wang Xinhai arrived to oversee the practical test and announced that rankings would determine students’ resources.
• Wang Xinhai revealed that the top ten students would receive slots to enter a newly captured Nascent World.
• Shen Hui recognized that the Nascent World’s Chaos Mist and rare treasures could help improve his world.

Shen Hui began the practical test and cleared its first two levels, using Sadako and the Pig-headed Butcher to defeat groups of bandits. As he started the third level, teachers watching the rankings noticed Shen Hui’s name.

• Wang Xinhai announced the start of the practical test, and Shen Hui entered his world with Sadako, the Pig-headed Butcher, and Tomie ready.
• Sadako drove the first group of twenty bandits into killing one another, clearing the first level.
• Sadako routed fifty bandits on the second level into the slaughterhouse, where the Pig-headed Butcher and his piglets killed them.
• Shen Hui activated the device to begin the third level.
• Teachers discussed the students reaching the third level, then one of them spotted Shen Hui’s name on the rankings.

Shen Hui’s forces defeated the silver-armored knights who entered his world, despite Sadako being temporarily destroyed by their Holy Light Power. After the knights were wiped out, Shen Hui started the fourth level.

• Thirty knights wielding Holy Light Power entered the withered forest to investigate strange deaths and attacked Sadako.
• Sadako used Teleportation and mental control to kill ten knights and turn two against their comrades, but the knights’ enchanted weapons eventually made her dissipate.
• The knights found Sadako crawling inside a dry well and realized she had returned after they thought they had killed her.
• The Pig-headed Butcher and Demon Pigs arrived with support from Tomie, and the knights charged them.
• Sadako and the Pig-headed Butcher killed the remaining knights, and Shen Hui activated the fourth level.

Tomie destroyed the Fourth Stage’s fifty-knight squad by turning the knights against one another and making them kill themselves. Back at the Combat Training Base, students saw that Shen Hui had advanced to the Fifth Stage, ahead of Qingxue and the major families’ challengers.

• Shen Hui confirmed the start of the Fourth Stage, and a Knight Captain led fifty knights into his world.
• Tomie approached the knights, whose infatuation with her quickly turned into a fight over who would protect and marry her.
• A knight killed Tomie and dismembered her, but her fragments multiplied into forty-two identical Tomies.
• The Tomies persuaded the surviving knights to kill themselves, clearing the Fourth Stage.
• Eliminated students checked the leaderboard and were shocked to see Shen Hui challenging the Fifth Stage alone.

Shen Hui’s success in the practical challenge impressed school staff and influential faction leaders, who learned he had conquered an Unclaimed World on his first attempt. He cleared the Fifth Stage and advanced from the Sixth to the Seventh Stage, leaving the other challengers and spectators stunned.

• Shen Hui’s progress made the teachers and principal of Qingshui School celebrate, while representatives of major families dismissed or questioned his achievement.
• Chi Yan revealed that Shen Hui had challenged an Unclaimed World three days earlier and succeeded on his first attempt in less than an hour, prompting the influential guests to consider recruiting him.
• Shen Hui’s Heroes defeated the Fifth Stage’s knights and mages in the Deadwood Forest, and he advanced to the Sixth Stage.
• After many talented students were eliminated in the Fifth Stage, they saw Shen Hui as the sole challenger in the Sixth Stage on the rankings screen.
• Shen Hui advanced from the Sixth Stage to the Seventh Stage, surprising the gathered students.

Shen Hui, Ye Long, and Xiao Xiangyan reached the tenth stage of the ranking challenge, while the other challengers were eliminated. Xiao Xiangyan withdrew from the trial and discovered that Shen Hui had taken second place, leaving him and Ye Long still competing.

• Shen Hui cleared the eighth stage and entered the ninth, followed by Ye Long and others as the field narrowed to five challengers.
• Shen Hui, Ye Long, and Xiao Xiangyan advanced to the tenth stage, while the other two challengers were eliminated.
• In the tenth stage, Shen Hui's heroes faced the attacking forces in a withered forest, while Ye Long and Xiao Xiangyan struggled to defend their worlds.
• Xiao Xiangyan ended her trial after her demonic beasts suffered heavy losses, expecting to place second behind Ye Long.
• Xiao Xiangyan checked the rankings and saw that she was third, with Shen Hui in second and Ye Long still challenging.

Shen Hui broke the record by clearing the tenth level, then ended his challenge when a Hero Unit appeared on the eleventh. After Ye Long also cleared the tenth level, the great families competed to recruit Shen Hui, but Ye Long stepped in and said Shen Hui would join no faction.

• Shen Hui opened the eleventh level, recognized its golden-haired leader as a Hero Unit, and ended his challenge to avoid damaging his world further.
• Ye Long cleared the tenth level and returned to find that he had tied with Shen Hui for first place, but Shen Hui had broken the record before him.
• After the combat test ended, representatives from the factions approached Shen Hui and Qingxue, and Xiao Xiangyan invited Shen Hui to join the Xiao Family.
• The Wang Family and Zhang Family representatives also tried to recruit Shen Hui, while the factions argued over his choice.
• Ye Long arrived and said Shen Hui would not join any faction, since he had already refused Ye Long's invitation to join the Ye Family.

Shen Hui declined faction offers but made friends with Ye Long and Xiao Xiangyan, then joined Qingxue and Huang Jie at a meeting with Chi Yan. Chi Yan explained how the ten Nascent World spots were assigned and was about to describe the world and their entry time.

• Shen Hui refused the clans’ improved offers, and Ye Long suggested they become friends; Xiao Xiangyan joined in, and the three exchanged contact information.
• Ye Long and Xiao Xiangyan went to approach Qingxue, while Shen Hui escaped a crowd seeking to curry favor with him.
• A staff member brought Shen Hui, Qingxue, and Huang Jie into the base, where Shen Hui and Qingxue discussed refusing factions and making useful friends.
• Wang Xinhai introduced Chi Yan, the World Association branch president, who praised Shen Hui and explained that Shen Hui and Qingxue earned two of the ten Nascent World spots, while Huang Jie received one of the remaining spots.

Chi Yan explained the Nascent World competition and rewarded Shen Hui and Qingxue with Intermediate Member status for making the top ten. Outside the meeting room, Huang Jie mocked Shen Hui until Shen Hui revealed his Level 2 World and challenged him to a life-or-death arena, leaving Huang Jie speechless.

• Chi Yan explained that Shen Hui and Qingxue would represent their branch in the Nascent World resource competition and upgraded their World Association memberships as a reward.
• Huang Jie resented Shen Hui for winning the practical test and receiving the reward, believing Shen Hui’s world was useless.
• Shen Hui confronted Huang Jie outside the Training Base, and Huang Jie mocked him in front of the gathering students.
• Qingxue defended Shen Hui, but Huang Jie insisted that breaking a record did not guarantee future strength.
• Shen Hui released the aura of his Level 2 World and challenged Huang Jie to a life-or-death arena, leaving Huang Jie horrified and silent.

After Shen Hui’s Level 2 World impressed the crowd, Huang Jie lost his faction for offending the Ye Clan. Shen Hui and Qingxue accepted an invitation to a celebration and received rewards from their school for their practical test results.

• Huang Jie backed down from Shen Hui, and the faction he had joined cut ties with him after Ye Long criticized his conduct.
• Shen Hui left with Qingxue, Ye Long, and Xiao Xiangyan, and explained that raising a Hero’s level had helped his world reach Level 2.
• Ye Long invited Shen Hui and Qingxue to a celebration at the Nine Phoenix Pavilion, and both agreed to attend.
• The principal praised Shen Hui and Qingxue for placing in the top ten, then awarded each a bottle of Low-Level World Origin Potion and one million World Coins.
• Shen Hui and Qingxue collected their potions and received a message confirming their practical test rewards had been issued.