Chapter Summaries

Li Chen calmed the attacking tree demons and discovered that their energy was strengthening Su Zhe as they chased him. After regrouping beside the altar, the team learned other islands had also been attacked, and Li Chen approached the bones before a powerful figure crashed down from the sky.

• Jianping urged Meng Xi to flee as the tree demons overwhelmed them, but Li Chen arrived and used his ability to calm the creatures.
• Jianping led Meng Xi to safety while Li Chen watched a tree demon chase Su Zhe and noticed Su Zhe growing stronger as he absorbed its energy.
• Su Zhe collapsed from exhaustion, and Li Chen finally calmed the tree demon that had been striking him.
• Luo Lin told Li Chen that Instructor Yu was on the way and that teams on other islands had also sent distress signals after being attacked by unknown monsters.
• Li Chen followed red lines among the skeletons toward the altar, sensing that something beneath the bones was drawing him in.
• A figure fell from the sky and struck the ground, releasing an oppressive aura as Su Zhe called it a human meteor.

Faluo introduced himself as the group’s new Sequence Master and tested their resolve after they survived the Tree Demons. He sent them out of the Secret Realm with a teleportation talisman and ordered them to return the next day, while Su Zhe headed to the infirmary with his badly swollen butt.

• Faluo emerged from the smoke, introduced himself as the group’s new Sequence Master, and said the Tree Demons had been part of a training exercise.
• Faluo offered the students the chance to leave the special class, but none of them quit.
• Faluo gave Li Chen a Forbidden Object teleportation talisman, and Luo Lin used it to bring the group out of the Secret Realm.
• Faluo told the students to meet him again the next day, and Li Chen handed the talisman back to him.
• Li Chen refused to let Su Zhe skip the infirmary, and Jianping teased him about showing his injured butt to the young ladies there.

Li Chen explored the colored doors in the darkness and was forcibly expelled after approaching the Black Door. The next day, he and his classmates learned that elimination matches had begun and prepared to return to Jungle Island.

• Li Chen resisted the White Door's invitation and sensed different energies on the colored doors, then approached the Black Door despite the pain and whispers it caused.
• The White Door shone on Li Chen, the Red Door sealed the Black Door with a Blood-Red Rune, and a cracking sound threw him out of the dark space.
• Li Chen, Jianping, and Su Zhe crossed Student Island and noticed many Special Class students were gone.
• Jianping explained that students were being defeated and losing their Special Class qualifications through the Elimination System, prompting Li Chen to resolve to work harder.
• Meng Xi and Luo Lin joined the group, and they agreed to return to Jungle Island to explore it and fight the Tree Demons again.

Yu Qingnian and Faluo sent the trainees into the Secret Realm without extra protection, where the lantern-lit Tree Demons attacked them. Li Chen discovered he could compress the forest’s energy into an explosive attack, and the chapter ended with him devastating a vast area of the forest.

• Yu Qingnian told Faluo to let the trainees find their own way through the Secret Realm, and Faluo agreed to train them alone.
• Meng Xi revealed that she and Luo Lin had obtained the taboo item, and the group entered the Secret Realm.
• The lantern-bearing Tree Demons attacked Li Chen and the others, but Li Chen deflected their strikes by controlling energy.
• Li Chen compressed energy from the forest into a green orb, while Luo Lin warned the others to move away as it grew unstable.
• Li Chen hurled the orb, destroying a vast area of the forest and astonishing Su Zhe and the others.

Li Chen experimented with powerful energy techniques in the Secret Realm while Yu Qingnian explained why the Special Affairs Bureau had concealed Li Chen’s S-rank ability. The chapter ended with Li Chen using countless energy blades to strike down a Tree Demon.

• In Magic City, masked members of the Special Affairs Bureau attacked suspected God-Binding Cult members who were discussing abandoning their mission to open Pandora.
• Li Chen rested after testing a powerful technique, then watched Su Zhe, Jianping, Luo Lin, and Meng Xi train against Tree Demons before resuming his own experiments.
• In the monitoring room, Faluo learned from Yu Qingnian that Li Chen had an S-rank ability that the Special Affairs Bureau had concealed by listing him as B-rank.
• Yu Qingnian said Li Chen’s ability should remain secret until he had grown stronger, with the academy tournament in a year providing a chance to reveal his true talent.
• Li Chen formed a sharp energy blade, split it into countless fragments, and used them to strike an enormous Tree Demon, though the technique consumed much of his mental energy.

Li Chen refined his green energy blades while Di Li and her allies tracked him down, bringing a gigantic Looking River Realm Tree Demon into battle. Li Chen, Jianping, and the others fought it off, and the chapter ended with Di Li’s group abandoning their control of the Tree Demon as Li Chen’s attacks overwhelmed it.

• Li Chen assessed the limits of his green energy blades and decided that making more of them was safer than compressing them further.
• Di Li and Lin Hua located Li Chen’s group and set out to avenge their earlier defeat and take their rankings.
• Jianping sensed a powerful Tree Demon approaching as the nearby trees fled and the ground shook.
• The gigantic Tree Demon attacked, but Jianping cut through its vines while Li Chen blasted them with compressed green energy spheres.
• Di Li realized the Tree Demon’s injuries were burdening her, and Lin Hua and the others jumped down from it as Li Chen protected his group and replenished his energy.

Li Chen and his companions faced the group that had controlled the Tree Demon and attacked them the day before. Su Zhe chose to fight rather than apologize, and the two sides clashed, with Li Chen confronting the enormous Tree Demon and Jianping battling Lin Hua.

• Jianping recognized the approaching group, and Su Zhe explained that they had clashed with them the previous day while fleeing Tree Demons.
• The other group demanded an apology, but Su Zhe refused and challenged them to fight after Li Chen offered to handle the Tree Demon.
• Lin Hua formed plant armor and a spear, then led his teammates into battle as Su Zhe, Jianping, and the others charged to meet them.
• Li Chen sent countless glowing fragments toward the Looking River Realm Tree Demon while Jianping faced Lin Hua.
• Jianping blocked Lin Hua's spear and counterattacked with a red slash that cut through his shield and left a small wound on his forehead.

Yu Qingnian and Faluo watched students clash in the forest as Li Chen fought the Tree Demon’s controller and Su Zhe faced a werewolf. Li Chen rescued the unconscious Di Li while the Tree Demon went berserk, and Su Zhe chose to fight his opponent head-on.

• Yu Qingnian said the student fights would help teams build rapport, and Faluo welcomed the return of the academy’s fighting spirit.
• Li Chen cut through the Tree Demon’s vines and reached Di Li, who had controlled it until her mental power ran out and she fell unconscious.
• Li Chen carried Di Li down from the frenzied Tree Demon and prepared an energy bomb to destroy it.
• Su Zhe fought the boy in the green hat, who transformed into a werewolf and challenged him.
• Su Zhe threw away his stick, stepped forward with fighting spirit, and roared for the boy to fight.

Su Zhe fought a werewolf while Luo Lin and Meng Xi faced two classmates who targeted them with archery and Amplification. Luo Lin countered the attackers with Telekinesis as the fight continued and Meng Xi remained behind a damaged barrier.

• Su Zhe clashed with the werewolf, trading blows and taking a deep claw wound as he tried to buy time for the others.
• Meng Xi sat down to prepare her ability while Luo Lin faced Eagle Eye and her male teammate with floating boulders.
• Eagle Eye fired arrows at Meng Xi, and Luo Lin blocked them and shielded her with a stone barrier.
• The man used Multiplication to kick Luo Lin and then revealed that he and Eagle Eye were targeting Meng Xi together.
• The man used Amplification to leap at Luo Lin and smash through her stone walls, but she sent a barrage of small stones at him with Telekinesis.

Meng Xi put the opposing students to sleep with her Dream ability, and Faluo took the defeated students away after giving Luo Lin’s team advice. Meanwhile, Li Chen prepared a compressed energy bomb against the Tree Demon as Di Li woke up, leaving the attack’s result unknown.

• Luo Lin’s stones struck the man while Meng Xi’s arrows blasted through the boulder barriers.
• Meng Xi awakened from her Dream and sent a dreamlike current over the group, putting the bow-wielding woman and the man to sleep before she herself fell asleep.
• Faluo praised the fight, advised Luo Lin’s team to be more decisive, and carried away the defeated students as Luo Lin lifted Meng Xi.
• Li Chen continued fighting the Tree Demon while holding the unconscious Di Li and compressing an energy bomb.
• Di Li woke up, and Li Chen dropped her before sending the energy bomb floating toward the Tree Demon.

Li Chen left the fallen Tree Demon to help his teammates, while Lin Hua battled Jianping until the Demon Blade took control and nearly killed him. Faluo rescued Lin Hua and prepared to face the forbidden weapon himself.

• The Tree Demon collapsed after Li Chen's explosion, and Li Chen left Di Li behind to help his teammates.
• Lin Hua and Jianping exchanged attacks, with Lin Hua using plant armor and a massive plant hammer against Jianping's blood-red sword strikes.
• The Demon Blade took control of Jianping, and its wielder cut through Lin Hua's hammer and severed his hand.
• Faluo appeared, gave Lin Hua a pill, and teleported him away with a talisman.
• Faluo confronted Jianping and prepared to test the Demon Blade, ranked thirty-second among forbidden objects.

Faluo fought the sword-possessed Jianping until the taboo object retreated, then they headed toward the remaining battle. Li Chen arrived in time to save Su Zhe and confronted the werewolf, whom Luo Lin lifted with her telekinesis as Li Chen’s blades closed in.

• Faluo attacked Jianping, and the sword’s bloody aura withdrew after Jianping’s body reached its limit.
• Faluo and Jianping headed to watch the other fights, while Su Zhe continued enduring the werewolf’s attacks.
• Li Chen arrived and pierced the werewolf with an energy blade, saving Su Zhe and reuniting with him.
• The werewolf realized Li Chen had defeated the Tree Demon and attacked as Li Chen formed eight blades of light.
• Luo Lin used telekinesis to lift the werewolf as Li Chen’s blades approached.

Li Chen defeated the werewolf in the Secret Realm, then left with his companions as Yu Qingnian explained the academy’s ranking system. Meanwhile, black-robed figures in Shenzhou City guarded a Pandora’s Box and prepared to carry out their plan.

• Li Chen overwhelmed the werewolf with light blades, but the man escaped using a talisman, and Yu Qingnian confirmed that the fight had been recorded by the Secret Realm’s cameras.
• Faluo, Jianping, Su Zhe, and Luo Lin regrouped with Li Chen, and Yu Qingnian sent them out of the Secret Realm.
• Yu Qingnian told Faluo that the academy would rank students according to their strength and ordered him to find Cang Lao for a forbidden item to repair the damaged Secret Realm.
• Li Chen and his companions discussed the special class and the ranking struggle, which they knew was beginning ahead of the inter-academy competition.
• In Shenzhou City, black-robed figures discussed protecting their Pandora’s Box and pledged to open the Forbidden Door for their lord.

Masked figures discussed bringing Pandora into every city as a chaotic era approached, while Li Chen continued cultivating and rose to eleventh place in the academy rankings. Before his next battle, Ji Shao introduced herself and said she would wait for him afterward.

• A person wearing a spider-lily mask said Pandora had been brought into every city and that they only needed to wait for the chaotic era to begin.
• A month later, Li Chen wondered why he had not reached the Looking River Realm despite absorbing energy constantly, while Su Baozi and Jianping had already broken through.
• Li Chen continued facing daily challenges as the eleventh-ranked student, and he met Jianping and Su Zhe at the Battle Institute.
• Ji Shao introduced herself to Li Chen and said she would wait for him outside the Battle Institute after his battle.
• An announcement summoned Li Chen to the arena to face his challenger.

Li Chen easily defeated Wang Hao in a battlefield challenge, revealing another powerful use of his abilities while spectators speculated that he could contend for the top rank. Elsewhere, Jianping faced a masked scythe-wielder who announced his intent to claim a top-five spot, and their clash began.

• Li Chen faced Wang Hao on icy terrain, where Wang Hao charged with a halberd that shattered against Li Chen’s invisible defense.
• Li Chen urged Wang Hao to surrender, but Wang Hao formed an ice armor and attacked again, so Li Chen sent eight light blades after him.
• Spectators discussed Li Chen’s strength and the possibility that he could reach the top ranks, while one man abandoned his plan to challenge him.
• Jianping met a masked man carrying a black scythe, who declared that he would take a top-five spot, and their swords and auras clashed.
• Li Chen used brightened blades infused with Compressed Bomb to pierce Wang Hao’s armor and end the battle, then left the battlefield.

Ji Shao offered Li Chen up to 30,000 Study Points to join her team for the upcoming Canglan Tournament, but he refused. Afterward, Li Chen learned that Jianping had been badly hurt by a challenger, while Shi Nie discussed the tournament and the top-ten rankings with his associates.

• Ji Shao invited Li Chen to join her team to challenge Su Xian and offered him 20,000 Study Points, raising the offer to 30,000.
• Ji Shao explained that the Canglan Tournament would let top-ranked students form sequence teams for the Academy Tournament.
• Li Chen declined Ji Shao’s offer, and she told him he could approach her later if he changed his mind.
• Li Chen found Su Zhe supporting an injured Jianping, who said challengers had been growing stronger in recent days.
• Shi Nie switched off a projection of a failed challenger and asked whether the Canglan Tournament date had been set.

Canglan Academy moved up the Canglan Tournament as its elders prepared to challenge Imperial Capital Academy. In Magic City, the God-Binding Cult mobilized to place Pandora’s Box, while Li Chen sensed the sealed black fog stirring and learned that travel to Magic City had been suspended.

• Yu Qingnian told Cang Lao and the other elders that Gu Xingyun had ordered the Canglan Tournament to start early, and an elder proposed changing its rules to defeat Imperial Capital Academy in the academy competition.
• The God-Binding Cult’s Ninth Seat ordered its servants in Magic City to mobilize and place Pandora’s Box at a designated location.
• The Special Affairs Bureau received reports of attacks across Magic City and sounded a level-two precautionary alarm as cultists appeared in the streets.
• Poison Ghost urged Blood Charm to stop killing and hurry to the meeting place for the Ninth Seat’s task.
• Li Chen saw black fog pressing against the sealed door in his inner space, then returned to reality when Su Zhe arrived with news that transportation to Magic City had been suspended.

As the God-Binding Cult attacked Magic City, Poison Ghost opened Pandora's Box and released a Calamity Realm monster. The Shen Monkey captain ordered everyone to retreat and learned that the Seventh Sequence was on the way.

• Su Zhe worried about Magic City's invasion, but Li Chen reminded him that the Special Affairs Bureau would handle it and that he was too weak to help.
• Poison Ghost and Blood Charm attempted to open Pandora's Box as the Special Affairs Bureau closed in.
• The Shen Monkey captain and his squad broke Poison Ghost's venom shield, but found him drained of blood beside the opened box.
• A gigantic black box appeared, and a monster's claw emerged as its whispers overwhelmed some Bureau members.
• The Shen Monkey captain ordered a retreat and called for a level-one alert after sensing the Calamity Realm monster awakening.
• The Shen Monkey captain learned that the Seventh Sequence was on the way.

A Calamity Realm creature emerged in Magic City and attacked Shen Monkey Captain’s team, prompting him to activate a Rules Formation and fight until reinforcements arrived. At Canglan Academy, Li Chen learned of the threat and sensed a powerful presence behind the black door within him.

• The creature burst from the magic box and killed Xiao Xu while Shen Monkey Captain’s team tried to stop it.
• Shen Monkey Captain blocked the creature’s attack, realized its strength exceeded his own, and ordered the Rules Formation activated.
• The creature struck Shen Monkey Captain through several buildings, but he commanded his team to hold it back until reinforcements came.
• Four pillars of light formed a barrier around the battlefield as Special Affairs Bureau personnel waited for Lord Seventh Sequence.
• At Canglan Academy, Li Chen recalled sensing a powerful presence behind the black door within him as it briefly opened.
• A television announcement warned students from Magic City to stay in Canglan because a Calamity Realm creature had appeared there.

Shen Monkey Captain and his teammates used the Ghost-God Needles to fight the creature emerging from Pandora’s Box while Blood Charm tried to steal the box. As Shen Monkey Captain held the creature off, a gray-haired man entered the formation and was identified as the Seventh Sequence.

• After Xiaorou died, Shen Monkey Captain and his wounded teammates injected themselves with Ghost-God Needles, restoring their strength at the cost of their life and potential.
• Shen Monkey Captain blocked the creature’s attack and continued fighting as the power of the needle surged through him.
• Blood Charm attempted to reach Pandora’s Box with his skeletal hand, but Xiaoche shot him and forced him to withdraw.
• Shen Monkey Captain kept fighting while Special Affairs Bureau personnel outside the formation urged him to hold on for reinforcements.
• A gray-haired man in a black trench coat walked into the formation, and the Special Affairs Bureau ordered its members to withdraw because the Seventh Sequence had arrived.