Recaps

Qingming devised a deceptive attack plan for his group’s practical assessment, and the five initially caught the assessment teacher off guard. After their combined attacks injured and angered him, the teacher activated his defensive Soul Skill and began overwhelming them, leaving Wright and Zhao Xiaolong badly beaten.

• Qingming, Su Xiaoxi, Wend, Wright, and Zhao Xiaolong introduced their Soul Skills and agreed to Qingming’s plan to vary their attack sequence and feign exhaustion.
• When the practical assessment began, Wright and Zhao Xiaolong engaged the teacher at close range while Qingming, Su Xiaoxi, and Wend attacked from behind.
• Su Xiaoxi stunned the teacher with Water Wave Strike, allowing Wend and Qingming to combine Wind Blade and Flame Bullet and wound him.
• The teacher activated his First Soul Skill, Hardening, and launched a furious assault on the group.
• With Qingming’s ranged support ending after his sixth attack, Wright and Zhao Xiaolong could no longer withstand the teacher, and Wright was the first to give way.

Qingming learned that Su Xiaoxi’s record-breaking score brought lavish rewards, including a medicinal liquid that he recognized as his diluted Life Solution No. 7. Three months later, he continued studying at Hilrey, where his theory skills and low-ranked placement made him famous, while Su Xiaoxi remained under the principal’s protection.

• Su Xiaoxi earned first place with a score of 738 and received a villa, a deluxe annual card, library access, cultivation time, Gold Soul Coins, and a medicinal liquid worth two thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Qingming recognized the medicinal liquid as his diluted Life Solution No. 7 and realized the Carter Auction House had resold it for far more than the five hundred Gold Soul Coins it paid him.
• Principal Yinte gave Su Xiaoxi a thousand Gold Soul Coins as pocket money and explained that her grandparents had arranged support and resources for her at Hilrey.
• Yinte told an instructor that this year’s students were unusually gifted, including Qingming, whose theoretical knowledge had impressed him.
• Three months later, Qingming had advanced another Soul Power rank and used his monthly library visit to study on Hilrey’s third floor before the librarian made him leave.
• Qingming’s exam results, seventh-place ranking despite having rank-fifteen Soul Power, and refusal to accept challenges made him a controversial figure, while Su Xiaoxi’s popularity and the principal’s protection kept others from harassing her.

Su Xiaoxi pressed Qingming to accept her offer to act as her flower guardian in exchange for books and rare materials, and he agreed. Meanwhile, Wang Teng prepared to enter the deadly Yaoguang Peak, hoping to find a chance to advance beyond the twelfth level of Body Tempering.

• Su Xiaoxi's admirers gave Qingming trouble, but he fended them off by threatening to accuse them of maliciously injuring a fellow student.
• Su Xiaoxi persuaded librarian Gu Tong to let Qingming borrow two books and then demanded an answer about her offer to make him her flower guardian.
• Su Xiaoxi revealed that she had reached level twenty-two as a Soul Grandmaster and promised to protect Qingming, who ultimately accepted her terms.
• Wang Teng considered the Spirit Beast Sect's peaks and the restrictions that kept him from forming a spirit-beast contract at his current cultivation level.
• Wang Teng decided to enter Yaoguang Peak in search of an opportunity to reach the thirteenth level of Body Tempering and began borrowing money and buying supplies for the dangerous trip.

Wang Teng used the daily reset to gather contribution points and buy high-grade cultivation resources, advancing from the eleventh to the twelfth layer of Body Tempering. He reached a bottleneck while pursuing the thirteenth layer and set himself a one-year limit to find an opportunity before gathering Qi, then decided it was time to explore beyond the Spirit Beast Sect.

• After 360 days of resets, Wang Teng found that his available resources could no longer help him advance beyond the eleventh layer of Body Tempering.
• Wang Teng borrowed ten thousand contribution points from Uncle Lin and obtained more from three loan sharks, bringing his total to nearly fifty thousand.
• Wang Teng spent the contribution points on high-grade medicines and cultivation supplies, then used the resets to continue refining his body.
• After two months, Wang Teng reached the twelfth layer of Body Tempering but chose not to gather Qi because he felt he had not reached his limit.
• Three months later, Wang Teng hit the thirteenth-layer bottleneck and set himself a one-year deadline to find an opportunity before gathering Qi.
• Wang Teng, weary of repeating the same days inside the Spirit Beast Sect, decided to go out and see the world.

Qingming, a poor commoner determined to pursue immortality through research, studied Soul Power in Soft Bone Rabbits and tested his optimized Life Solution No. 7. He left the wounded rabbit alive overnight, hoping its survival would prove the solution useful and help fund his experiments.

• Wang Teng used time resets to socialize safely, but avoided physical intimacy and fighting so he would not reveal his twelfth-level Body Tempering cultivation.
• Qingming reflected on how poverty and restricted access to knowledge limited his cultivation, so he relied on libraries and independent research.
• Qingming dissected Soft Bone Rabbits and found that their Soul Power gathered around wounds, while draining their blood left most of their Soul Power intact.
• Qingming injected Soft Bone Rabbit No. 13 with Life Solution No. 7 after removing its legs, then left it to see whether it would survive.
• Qingming returned an hour later to find No. 13 alive, treated its wounds with more solution and nutrient fluid, and planned to check on it the next day.

After two months of using Life Solution No. 7, Qingming reached level fifteen and entered Hilrey Intermediate Soul Master Academy’s admission tests. He passed the theory exam and joined a practical combat group whose members began discussing their abilities and tactics.

• Qingming realized Life Solution No. 7 had strengthened his body and rapidly increased his Soul Power, giving him confidence that he could reach the Titled Douluo realm despite having level two Innate Soul Power.
• Two months later, Qingming had reached level fifteen and applied to Hilrey Intermediate Soul Master Academy in Sibin City.
• Qingming finished the theory exam quickly, expanded his answers, and submitted his paper before going to the square for the practical combat test.
• Wolf Wright proposed that the five applicants elect him captain, but Su Xiaoxi revealed she was only eleven and already had level nineteen Soul Power, surprising the group.
• Wolf Wright, Wend, and Zhao Xiaolong described their Martial Souls and first Soul Skills as the group prepared to face a teacher for five minutes.

After confirming that death did not end his time reset, Wang Teng repeatedly fought Qi Refining Stage beasts on Yaoguang Peak to sharpen his perception of spiritual Qi and pursue the thirteenth layer of Body Tempering. Half a year later, he had grown far stronger but was still stuck challenging a Silver-Backed Mystic Tiger, which continued to eat him.

• Wang Teng woke after dying and discovered that the time reset had preserved his life and that his cultivation had advanced slightly.
• Wang Teng learned that reaching the thirteenth layer of Body Tempering required sensing spiritual Qi, and he chose to repeatedly face death as a way to develop that perception.
• Wang Teng began challenging an early-stage Qi Refining Azure Light Wolf and defeated it after half a month of repeated fights and resets.
• Wang Teng spent half a year fighting Qi Refining beasts, grew much stronger, and sensed the spiritual Qi within himself several times without yet breaking through.
• Wang Teng challenged a late-stage Qi Refining Silver-Backed Mystic Tiger repeatedly, eventually trading blows with it, but the tiger still ate him after their latest fight.

After three months of avoiding dangerous territory, Wang Teng confronted a Marked Deer and narrowly escaped its powerful parents, only to die when the stag caught up with him. On his eighty-second attempt, he defeated a Silver-Backed Mystic Tiger and broke through to the thirteenth layer of the Body Tempering Stage, gaining a self-sustaining supply of spirit Qi and formidable close-combat strength.

• Wang Teng finally entered the territory of stronger beasts but retreated from a tiger’s roar and chose to fight a ninth-layer Qi Gathering Stage Marked Deer instead.
• After Wang Teng bullied the deer, its two Liquid Condensation Stage parents appeared, and he used the little deer as a hostage to retreat before fleeing with a Divine Movement Talisman.
• The stag tracked Wang Teng down and struck him so hard that he died, while the doe stayed behind to protect their injured child.
• On his eighty-second attempt, Wang Teng defeated a Silver-Backed Mystic Tiger and used his heightened spiritual senses to begin sensing the spirit Qi within his body.
• Wang Teng successfully broke through to the thirteenth layer of the Body Tempering Stage, forming a self-replenishing cycle of spirit Qi in his flesh and blood.

Wang Teng spent ten years using time reset and unlimited resources to build overwhelming cultivation and combat strength while concealing himself from the Spirit Beast Sect. After losing his old goal and remaining wary of the sect’s powerful cultivators, he decided to leave through a weak point in its defenses and set out for the Starfall Mountain Range.

• Unable to obtain the resources he needed to keep tempering his body, Wang Teng began gathering Qi and quickly reached the first level, then restored his cultivation to the third level of Qi Gathering over the next month.
• As his cultivation advanced, Wang Teng found no traces that his body had cultivated before and privately questioned whether his soul had truly transmigrated.
• Over ten years, Wang Teng reached the fifteenth level of Body Tempering and the Middle Liquid Condensation Stage, defeated Yaoguang Peak’s demon beast kings, and spared Xiao Luer’s parents when he finally surpassed them.
• Wang Teng concealed his cultivation with numerous methods and decided to leave the Spirit Beast Sect rather than risk drawing the attention of its powerful leaders.
• After midnight triggered time reset, Wang Teng got out of bed and prepared to enter the Starfall Mountain Range through a weak point in the sect’s defenses.

Wang Teng entered the Starfall Mountain Range to fight Core Forging Stage demonic beasts and discovered that his Body Tempering Stage strength let him overpower a Wind Lion King. The Wind Lion King fled to the Illusory Poison Butterfly for help, leaving Wang Teng facing two demonic kings as he pursued his plan to fight until he died.

• Wang Teng left the Spirit Beast Sect's outpost and traveled deep into the Starfall Mountain Range, seeking powerful demonic beasts.
• Wang Teng confronted a Core Forging Stage Wind Lion King and caught its claw, revealing that he had broken through the thirteenth layer of the Body Tempering Stage.
• Wang Teng overwhelmed the Wind Lion King with his strength and defense, while the beast's demonic core managed only to give him a light wound.
• The Wind Lion King fled to the Illusory Poison Butterfly's territory, and the butterfly joined forces with it against Wang Teng to repel the human invader.
• The Wind Lion King warned the Illusory Poison Butterfly about Wang Teng's strength, while Wang Teng accepted the two-on-one fight as part of his plan to kill demonic kings or die.

Wang Teng endured repeated time resets and used them to build favor with young women, but avoided intimacy and fights so he would not reveal his Twelfth Layer Body Tempering cultivation. He feared that the sect would react badly if his strength became known.

• Wang Teng relied on chatting with young women to keep himself sane during the time resets.
• Wang Teng used the resets to avoid missteps and increase the women’s favorability toward him.
• Wang Teng refrained from pursuing physical intimacy because the women might beat him.
• Wang Teng avoided fighting because a move could reveal his Twelfth Layer Body Tempering cultivation to the sect.

On his eighteenth birthday, Lu Xuan waited to be selected by Paradise but received no sign, after three years in a world shaped by reincarnators and a devastating global war. Exhausted, he fell asleep in class and was called on by his teacher, leaving him standing at the front of the room.

• Lu Xuan recalled how he had transmigrated into a teenager whose family died in a battle between reincarnators, and how an influential reincarnator arranged generous compensation and a villa for him.
• Lu Xuan described the alternate world's history, in which Zhu Youjiao strengthened Da Ming and a century-long global war later reshaped the world.
• Lu Xuan, now a student in Hongdu Commandery City, waited through the night for Paradise to select him on his eighteenth birthday, but nothing happened.
• Lu Xuan fell asleep during class, failed to explain the teacher's problem, and was ordered to stand and wake himself up.

Chen Mo and Lin Yaodong arrived in Han, identified the world as The Legend of Qin: Nine Songs of the Moving Heavens, and went to the Purple Orchid Pavilion. Chen Mo began making a conspicuous show of wealth to attract Zi Nu, while Lin Yaodong remained uninterested in women because he had become a father.

• Chen Mo launched satellites after the pair arrived in a populated city, then froze time in Han’s palace and searched King An’s memories to identify the world.
• Chen Mo shared what he learned about the world and its powerful figures with Lin Yaodong before taking him away from the palace.
• Chen Mo teased Lin Yaodong about seeking entertainment, but Lin Yaodong refused because he was committed to taking responsibility for his daughter.
• Chen Mo and Lin Yaodong went to the Purple Orchid Pavilion, where Chen Mo argued for a Heaven or Earth private room and tried to draw Zi Nu out.
• Chen Mo flaunted a large gold ingot and claimed he never paid when entertaining his brother, leaving Lin Yaodong embarrassed.

On Earth in the Swallowed Star Great Thousand World, Li Shiyin missed Master-gege and had grown into a Golden Core Stage cultivator. A mysterious voice had begun calling to her more often since her breakthrough.

• Li Shiyin marked the six hundred and seventy-seventh day since Master-gege left and said she missed him.
• Li Shiyin dealt with lecherous rogues who were drawn to her appearance, breaking the limbs of the less fortunate.
• Li Shiyin noticed a voice calling to her with increasing frequency after she reached the Golden Core Stage.
• Li Shiyin broke through to the Golden Core Stage and gained another Innate Divine Ability.

Branch Master Liu tried to avoid a confrontation between Lin Yaodong and the Xuanming Sect, while Black Impermanence sent headquarters underlings to seize Lin and Ziyi. Lin killed them with a single spatially empowered slash and led Ziyi away; she asked him to spend a day with her after he tried to part ways.

• Branch Master Liu yielded the chance to capture Lin Yaodong and Ziyi to Black and White Impermanence, then argued with Black Impermanence when he was stopped from leaving.
• Lin Yaodong led Ziyi out of the encirclement while the Xuanming Sect branch members were too afraid to interfere.
• Black Impermanence ordered headquarters underlings to seize Lin and Ziyi, and Lin killed more than a dozen of them with one slash.
• Lin Yaodong let his presence overwhelm the remaining Xuanming Sect members, then took Ziyi away from the scene.
• Ziyi asked Lin Yaodong who he was and begged him to spend a day with her after he tried to leave.

Three years after transmigrating into a parallel world, Lu Xuan waited for Paradise to choose him on his eighteenth birthday, but he fell asleep in class instead. The chapter left him standing in class, still unsure whether his fate would change.

• Lu Xuan recalled how he had taken over the body of a youth whose family had died in a battle between reincarnators, and how a sympathetic reincarnator had secured compensation and a villa for him.
• Lu Xuan described the world's history, where Zhu Youjiao and reincarnators had helped Da Ming conquer the globe before a century-long world war reshaped the nations.
• Lu Xuan, a student at Hongcheng No. 1 Experimental Middle School, realized he had dozed off after staying awake all night awaiting Paradise's choice on his eighteenth birthday.
• The teacher called on Lu Xuan to explain a problem, and Lu Xuan admitted he did not know how to solve it, so the teacher ordered him to remain standing.

Lu Xuan, a transmigrator in a world shaped by reincarnators and Paradise, spent his eighteenth birthday waiting to see if Paradise would choose him. The chapter left him still at school, having missed the chance to be chosen and receiving a lecture from his teacher for falling asleep in class.

• Lu Xuan reflected on his transmigration, his family's deaths in a battle between reincarnators, and the compensation he received from the government.
• Lu Xuan recalled how reincarnators and Paradise had shaped the history and power structures of the world.
• Lu Xuan fell asleep during class after staying up through the night on his eighteenth birthday, hoping Paradise would choose him.
• Lu Xuan's teacher called on him to solve a problem, and Lu Xuan admitted he did not know how.
• Lu Xuan's homeroom teacher lectured him about losing focus during his crucial final year, and Lu Xuan explained that it was his eighteenth birthday.

Lu Xuan entered the virtual network expecting to play Journey, but instead found himself in a place that seemed to be Paradise. He realized it was his eighteenth birthday and suspected something had gone wrong with his helmet.

• Lu Xuan recalled how advanced virtual technology was in this world compared with his previous life.
• He described spending months grinding in Journey, where he ranked among the top hundred and led an elite legion.
• Lu Xuan jokingly claimed that putting on the helmet would make him untouchable in the mortal world.
• After the system welcome was interrupted, Lu Xuan found himself among nearly a hundred people in unfamiliar clothes and wondered where he was.
• Lu Xuan realized it was his eighteenth birthday and suspected he had arrived in Paradise.

Lu Xuan entered Paradise as a new recruit and learned that he had to survive a dangerous trial mission to become a true reincarnator. Guide Liu offered the newcomers a chance to join the Da Ming Empire Reincarnators' Legion for resources and help, and Lu Xuan faced the choice as the briefing continued.

• Lu Xuan put on his virtual helmet, arrived in Paradise, and realized he had been selected as a reincarnator on his eighteenth birthday.
• Guide Liu silenced the crowd and explained that newcomers had to survive a trial mission or die, while warning them about reincarnator rules and power restrictions in the real world.
• Guide Liu explained that innate skills affected trial survival rates and offered newcomers government support through the Da Ming Empire Reincarnators' Legion.
• Guide Liu warned the group not to spend their thousand Paradise Coins in the overpriced store and introduced a cheaper legion store and resources for recruits.
• Wang Chao admitted he had already spent all his Paradise Coins and chose to join the legion; Guide Liu used an imperial cube to collect recruits' reincarnator numbers and innate skill details.
• Guide Liu said legion members would receive tailored resources and advice, while nonmembers could access the legion store but would have to rely on themselves; one newcomer then raised another question.

Liu Rujun offered the newcomers membership in the Da Ming Empire Reincarnators' Legion and explained its resources and protection. Lu Xuan learned that SSS-class talents had almost no chance of surviving the trial, then returned to the crowd while keeping his own talent secret.

• Liu Rujun invited the newcomers to join the legion, warned them not to spend their Paradise Coins, and opened a discounted shop through an emperor-bestowed cube.
• Wang Chao, having spent all his coins, agreed to join the legion and submitted his reincarnator information.
• Lu Xuan asked Liu Rujun how reincarnator numbers worked and learned the legion could shield members' identities during ordinary communications and trades.
• Lu Xuan asked about survival rates for the highest talent grades, and Liu Rujun said no registered SS-class reincarnator had survived while the only known SSS-class survivor was the Holy Ancestral Emperor.
• Lu Xuan slipped back into the crowd, concealing his SSS-class Hundredfold Critical Hit talent and reckoning that his survival chances were nearly zero.

Lu Xuan reviewed his attributes and prepared for his trial, deciding that survival depended on cunning rather than combat strength. Paradise sent him into Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons on nightmare mode, where he had three months to obtain a hair from Sun Wukong; he resolved to find Chen Xuanzang and exploit the monkey’s feigned weakness.

• Lu Xuan considered the histories of Zhu Youjian and Napoleon and concluded that intelligence and the right method mattered more than strength.
• Lu Xuan bought a dagger, a revolver with ammunition, and discounted supplies from the Da Ming Empire legion store without joining the legion.
• Paradise assigned Lu Xuan’s SSS-class talent to nightmare mode and selected Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons as his trial world, doubling the rewards for completion.
• Paradise gave Lu Xuan three months to obtain one hair from Sun Wukong beneath Five Elements Mountain, with failure resulting in obliteration.
• Lu Xuan recognized the danger of confronting Sun Wukong directly and decided to find Chen Xuanzang, hoping to take a hair while the monkey pretended to be powerless.

Lu Xuan found Chen Xuanzang and the monk he believed was Buddha’s incarnation, then shamelessly insisted on becoming the monk’s disciple so he could stay near a powerful protector. After a miserable day begging for alms, Lu Xuan remained determined to stay, while the monk tried to send him away.

• Lu Xuan found the monk being chased for stealing a chicken and followed him to the temple, where he met Chen Xuanzang.
• When the monk sent Chen Xuanzang to subdue a fish demon, Lu Xuan begged to become the monk’s disciple and refused to go along.
• Lu Xuan promised to beg for alms, took the temple’s robe and bowl, and went out to find food; the monk later failed to divine his identity and called him a variable.
• Lu Xuan shaved his head and spent most of the day begging, managing to return with only one steamed bun.
• The monk urged Lu Xuan to leave, but Lu Xuan insisted on staying and offered to beg for wine and meat instead.

Lu Xuan endured a brutal beating and public humiliation to obtain goose meat and wine, convincing himself that each ordeal was Buddha’s test. By evening, he was heading back to the ruined temple as a storm gathered.

• After Lu Xuan left, the monk ate the steamed bun and considered teaching him skills if he could endure a grueling process.
• Lu Xuan begged the roast goose seller for meat, was beaten by her and a crowd, then received a piece of goose after struggling back to his feet.
• One of the three bloody scratches on Lu Xuan’s forehead healed when he obtained the goose meat.
• At a tavern, Lu Xuan crawled between the owner’s legs and endured being urinated on to earn a bowl of wine, while a second forehead scratch healed.
• Lu Xuan limped toward the ruined temple at dusk, repeating that his suffering was Buddha’s test as thunderclouds gathered.

Lu Xuan endured a deadly ordeal to deliver wine and meat to the monk, convinced it was Buddha’s test, and awoke healed with greatly increased attributes. The monk took him as a nominal disciple named Sannan, and Lu Xuan began preparing to travel with Senior Brother Chen Xuanzang to find Sun Wukong.

• In a torrential downpour, Lu Xuan broke his legs and lost the wine, but crawled through floodwater to deliver the spoiled meat and dirty water to the monk before passing out.
• The monk ate the spoiled goose and drank the dirty water, praising both as delicious.
• After three days unconscious, Lu Xuan woke fully healed and discovered his physique and spirit had risen dramatically.
• The monk accepted Lu Xuan as a nominal disciple, named him Sannan, and sent him out to beg for vegetarian food.
• Lu Xuan reflected that the three wounds represented tests of body, spirit, and conviction, then planned to follow Senior Brother Chen Xuanzang to find Sun Wukong.

Lu Xuan joined Chen Xuanzang on the journey to Five Elements Mountain to find Sun Wukong, while treating every danger as a test from the Buddha. After Miss Duan’s group captured them, Zhu Ganglie appeared, leaving Lu Xuan frightened as Miss Duan pulled him and Chen Xuanzang onto her war chariot.

• Lu Xuan saw Chen Xuanzang return and decided to accompany him to Five Elements Mountain to seek Sun Wukong.
• The Buddha sent Chen Xuanzang to find Sun Wukong for help subduing Zhu Ganglie and allowed Lu Xuan to go with him.
• Lu Xuan and Chen Xuanzang traveled together, and Lu Xuan earnestly studied Three Hundred Children's Songs as the Demon-Subduing Compendium.
• Miss Duan and her companions ambushed the brothers and captured them, while Chen Xuanzang tried to protect Lu Xuan.
• Zhu Ganglie appeared as Miss Duan prepared to take Chen Xuanzang aboard her war chariot, and she grabbed Lu Xuan and brought him along too.