Chapter Summaries

Fang Li and Sylvia learned that returning Ursula’s body might not wake her consciousness, but Fang Li agreed not to interfere with Matthias’s affairs once the body was returned. Matthias decided to trust Fang Li’s judgment and told Valda to sever her connection to Ursula’s body as soon as possible.

• Sylvia panicked when Matthias warned that Ursula might not wake, and Fang Li calmed her before asking him to explain.
• Matthias said Valda’s five years of suppressing Ursula’s consciousness had left it exhausted, so Ursula might awaken or remain asleep permanently.
• Fang Li promised not to interfere in Matthias’s affairs or reveal what he knew once Ursula’s body was returned, invoking his master Fan Xinglu’s relationship of mutual non-interference with Matthias.
• After Fang Li and Sylvia left, Valda questioned Matthias’s willingness to trust Fang Li, but Matthias said he would follow his judgment.
• Matthias told Valda to find another suitable body and relinquish Ursula’s as soon as possible.

After helping Sylvia recover Ursula, Fang Li returned to Jie Long and went with Cecily and Zhao Hufeng to meet their eldest senior brother, who had emerged from seclusion. The chapter ended with Fang Li recognizing the imposing man beside Fan Xinglu as Wu Xiaohui.

• Sylvia left Fang Li to rest, asking him to tell her if Matthias brought any news.
• Fang Li returned to Jie Long, where students admired him as the Phoenix Star Martial Festival champion and a disciple of the Myriad Heavenly Net.
• Cecily asked Fang Li about his request to the Festival Operations Headquarters, and he said he only had to wait for the Omni-element Crystal to arrive.
• Cecily and Zhao Hufeng told Fang Li that their eldest senior brother had emerged from seclusion, and Fang Li agreed to visit Fan Xinglu with them.
• Fang Li entered the hall with Cecily and Zhao Hufeng and identified the imposing man beside Fan Xinglu as Wu Xiaohui.

Fang Li met Fan Xinglu’s elusive senior disciple, Wu Xiaohui, and recognized his puppet-like nature as Fan Xinglu invited her disciples to watch their spar. In Huangchen Hall, Wu Xiaohui launched a seemingly ordinary but immensely powerful palm strike at Fan Xinglu, and the clash began.

• Wu Xiaohui appeared before Fang Li, Cecily, and Zhao Hufeng, who greeted him as their senior brother.
• Fang Li called Wu Xiaohui a puppet, and Fan Xinglu confirmed that he had seen through her disciple’s nature.
• Fan Xinglu introduced Fang Li to Wu Xiaohui and invited everyone to watch her test Wu Xiaohui’s progress.
• Fang Li noticed Fan Xinglu seemed unusually listless at the prospect of sparring with Wu Xiaohui and suspected he knew why from the original story.
• In Huangchen Hall’s Xuanwu Chamber, Fan Xinglu told Wu Xiaohui to attack with everything he had.
• Wu Xiaohui concealed his presence, rushed forward, and struck Fan Xinglu’s raised hand with a palm that unleashed a powerful shockwave.

Fan Xinglu tested Wu Xiaohui in a fierce sparring match, where his martial arts and Star Immortal Technique suppressed her defense. Fang Li recognized Wu Xiaohui’s fatal weakness, intervened, and received Fan Xinglu’s permission to take over the match.

• Wu Xiaohui attacked Fan Xinglu with powerful martial arts while she calmly deflected his blows.
• Cecily noticed Wu Xiaohui using hand seals to disrupt Fan Xinglu with Star Immortal Techniques, and Zhao Hufeng marveled at their battle.
• Fang Li realized Fan Xinglu was deliberately testing Wu Xiaohui and that he had a fatal weakness.
• Fang Li stepped between Fan Xinglu and Wu Xiaohui, catching Wu Xiaohui’s incoming strike with his palm.
• Fang Li asked to take over the spar, and Fan Xinglu agreed before telling Wu Xiaohui to perform well.

Fang Li challenged Wu Xiaohui’s blind reliance on Fan Xinglu’s teachings and demonstrated that he could predict and evade his senior brother’s attacks. He used his familiarity with Fan Xinglu’s techniques to seize Wu Xiaohui and slam him to the ground.

• Fang Li asked Wu Xiaohui why he practiced martial arts, and Wu Xiaohui said he wanted to become stronger to satisfy Fan Xinglu.
• Fang Li told Wu Xiaohui that he could not defeat him this way, then began the fight.
• Wu Xiaohui unleashed a rapid barrage of attacks, but Fang Li evaded every strike by anticipating his movements.
• Fang Li explained that he had trained against Immortal Tools engraved with Fan Xinglu’s techniques and recognized that Wu Xiaohui’s moves were nearly identical.
• Fang Li slipped through Wu Xiaohui’s attack, grabbed his throat, and slammed him into the ground with Flash Sheath—First Wind.

Fang Li defeated Wu Xiaohui in a sparring match and exposed how Wu’s blind imitation of Fan Xinglu had become a weakness. Fan Xinglu suspended Wu’s training so he could find his own way, then chose Fang Li as her new sparring partner.

• Fang Li pinned Wu Xiaohui and told him he had lost, leaving Wu stunned by how decisively he had been defeated.
• Wu Xiaohui apologized to Fan Xinglu for disappointing her, but she explained that she had expected him to learn from the match, not necessarily win.
• Fang Li told Wu Xiaohui that he copied Fan Xinglu’s techniques and movements so completely that his fighting style was predictable and could never become his own.
• Fan Xinglu told Wu Xiaohui not to become her puppet and suspended his training until he had thought about her words.
• Fan Xinglu praised Fang Li and appointed him as her new sparring partner in Wu Xiaohui’s place.

After a week of sparring with Fan Xinglu, Fang Li received Matthias's message and went with Sylvia to the treatment center to see Ursula. Ursula was alive but still asleep, and Matthias also gave Fang Li the Omni-element Crystals he had requested.

• Fan Xinglu trained Fang Li through nightly sparring, but he never managed to defeat or even touch her.
• Fang Li received an anonymous message from Matthias saying that everything had been taken care of and to come to the treatment center.
• Sylvia worried that something had happened to Ursula, but Fang Li reassured her as they followed Matthias inside.
• Sylvia found Ursula asleep in a hospital bed, and Matthias explained that she had no serious mental injury but might not wake for six months to several years.
• Fang Li spoke with Matthias outside the room, and Matthias handed him a metal box containing the Omni-element Crystals.

Fang Li received six pieces of Omni-element Crystal from Matthias and chose to remain in the Instance World for three days before returning to the Main God Space. After Matthias left, Fang Li found Sylvia beside the sleeping Ursula, while a song filled the ward.

• Matthias gave Fang Li six pieces of Omni-element Crystal on behalf of the six major Integrated Enterprise Conglomerates and warned that they would monitor him.
• Fang Li chose to remain in the Instance World for three days after completing all Main Quests.
• Fang Li and Matthias reaffirmed their mutual non-aggression agreement, and Matthias left while intending to continue monitoring him as a festival official.
• Fang Li returned to the ward and saw Sylvia holding Ursula's hand as Ursula slept.
• A melodious song echoed through the ward.

Sylvia sang to Ursula in the hospital and shared a quiet moment with Fang Li on the rooftop afterward. She thanked him and offered him a greater reward, then leaned in and kissed him.

• Sylvia held Ursula's hand and sang a song that stirred memories of her past with her teacher.
• Sylvia tucked Ursula's hand beneath the blanket and left the hospital room with Fang Li.
• Sylvia bought drinks for herself and Fang Li, then thanked him for helping her find Ursula.
• Sylvia told Fang Li he could ask for more reward, and he struggled to resist the intimate mood between them.
• Sylvia called Fang Li an idiot and kissed him.

Fang Li and Sylvia shared a kiss and acknowledged their growing feelings, but Fang Li warned her that being with him might mean leaving this world. He said he would depart in three days, leaving Sylvia uncertain about where he was going and whether she would still call herself his lover.

• Sylvia kissed Fang Li, surprising him with her initiative and saying she would not let her status constrain her feelings.
• Fang Li accepted Sylvia's invitation to be greedier, and they kissed again with their fingers intertwined.
• Sylvia shyly wondered if they were lovers, and Fang Li reminded her that she had called the kiss a reward.
• Fang Li warned Sylvia that being with him might require her to leave this place and perhaps never return.
• Fang Li told Sylvia he would leave in three days for a place beyond her imagination and asked if she would still call herself his lover.

Fang Li told Sylvia he might have to leave, and she chose to go with him despite her ties to the world. Sylvia asked for time to settle her concerns, then kept Fang Li’s life-sharing contract and told him to come get her after she used it.

• Sylvia said she would follow Fang Li even if the place he planned to go was like hell.
• Sylvia explained that she still worried about the girls at the academy, the King Dragon Star Martial Festival, and Ursula, and asked Fang Li for time.
• Fang Li showed Sylvia a contract that would let them share their lives and rely on each other.
• Sylvia took the contract and told Fang Li to remember to come get her after she used it.

Fang Li said farewell to Fan Xinglu and left Jie Long, while Sylvia publicly explained that she had cleared her schedule to be with the most important person in her life. As Fang Li watched her press conference, his stay in the world ended and he was automatically returned to the Main God Space.

• Fan Xinglu realized Fang Li planned to leave and let him go after he thanked her for her teachings.
• Fan Xinglu told Fang Li that, as her disciple, he must keep growing stronger and should not return if he had become weaker.
• Fang Li left Huangchen Hall and Jie Long, then changed into casual clothes and walked through Battle City.
• Sylvia told reporters she had turned down work around the world because she needed to be with the most important person in her life.
• Fang Li laughed as the system announced that his stay had ended and returned him to the Main God Space.

Fang Li returned to the Main God Space after clearing Asterisk City of Warring Academies and earned an Ex Rank evaluation, substantial rewards, and the chance to make the world his Personal World. He chose to designate it and discovered that a spar with Wu Xiaohui had earned him a Reforging scroll.

• Fang Li returned to his personal quarters and felt lonely as he remembered his attachment to the world he had left.
• The system evaluated Fang Li's completed missions and raised his clearance rank to Ex after he used the Evaluation Stone.
• Fang Li received 50000 Exchange Points, 30 Free Attribute Points, and a Fourth Level Lucky Draw Chest.
• Fang Li designated Asterisk City of Warring Academies as a Personal World so he could return there during rest periods.
• Fang Li reviewed the hidden mission he had completed by sparring with Wu Xiaohui and examined his Reforging scroll and Lucky Draw Chest.

Fang Li completed his Upgrade Missions and became a Fourth Level Main God Envoy, then spent his Free Skill Points upgrading all five of his skills. He used a Lucky Draw Chest and was left stunned by the item it produced.

• Fang Li submitted his Upgrade Mission request, and the system confirmed that he had completed all three missions and advanced to Fourth Level.
• The system raised Fang Li’s attribute, skill, equipment, mission-difficulty, and Space-authority limits.
• Fang Li used four Free Skill Points to upgrade Flash Sheath, Flash Run, Slayer, and Assassin to Lv.2, then used his last point to raise Holy Mark to Lv.2.
• Fang Li considered how much stronger he could become during his ten days of rest and resolved to keep challenging the Trial Tower.
• Fang Li used the Lucky Draw Chest, and a dazzling light revealed an item that left him stunned.

Fang Li drew the Reiji Maigo from a Lucky Draw Chest and used it to reforge his Spinning Step Boots into powerful flying equipment. He then headed to the Trading Area to complete his equipment and prepare for another Trial Tower challenge.

• Fang Li recognized the Reiji Maigo as a distinctive item from the world of Shakugan no Shana and realized the Lucky Draw Chest had extracted it from that world.
• Fang Li decided to use the Reiji Maigo to reforge his Spinning Step Boots.
• The reforging raised the boots to Fourth Level, increased their movement and jumping bonuses, and granted them the ability to fly.
• Fang Li named the reforged equipment Hermes Long Boots and equipped them.
• Fang Li set out for the Trading Area to spend his Exchange Points on equipment before challenging the Trial Tower again.

Fang Li bought Fourth Level equipment and the Ion Spark accessory, then entered a Fourth Level training ground to test his progress against a simulated Shiki Nanaya. The chapter left him facing Shiki Nanaya in a dim alley.

• Fang Li bought Breath of Lightness, Seeker's Wish, and Heavy Silver Hand at the Auction House, completing several equipment slots.
• Fang Li purchased Ion Spark to convert Reiji Maigo's Power of Existence into Star Pulse Energy, then bought other items and auctioned off replaced equipment.
• Fang Li saved his remaining Exchange Points for future expenses but rented a Fourth Level training ground for one day.
• Fang Li used the training ground to simulate Shiki Nanaya and prepared to test his progress against him.

Fang Li defeated Shiki Nanaya in under a second, proving that his mastery of the Seven Nights Assassination Technique had surpassed the famed Killer Demon’s. He then spent his rest period climbing the Trial Tower, reaching the twenty-eighth floor in ten days and rapidly strengthening as a Fourth Level Main God Envoy.

• Fang Li faced Shiki Nanaya in a simulated battle and killed him with Flash Sheath—Gale and Flash Sheath—Swift Wind.
• Fang Li realized he had surpassed Shiki Nanaya’s mastery of the Seven Nights Assassination Technique after half a year of training under Fan Xinglu.
• Fang Li left the training ground and began challenging the Trial Tower during his rest period.
• Fang Li advanced from the twenty-third floor on his first day to the twenty-eighth floor by his tenth day.
• Fang Li gained twenty attribute points and raised his Exchange Points above 100,000, while using sixty Free Attribute Points to gain eighty attributes.

After reaching Fourth Level, Fang Li used two special items to select a solo Instance World mission in Shakugan no Shana. The chapter ended with his three objectives: kill a Crimson King, obtain Crimson Treasures, and earn Exchange Points.

• Fang Li reviewed his increased attributes and concluded that he could now defeat Wu Xiaohui and Ayato Amagiri without relying on his strongest abilities.
• Fang Li requested entry into an Instance World and used an Instance Group Order and an Instance Command to alter the matching mission.
• Fang Li designated Shakugan no Shana as the Instance World using Reiji Maigo as an indicator.
• Fang Li reduced the number of participants to one and received a mission to kill a Crimson King, obtain three Crimson Treasures, and earn 20,000 Exchange Points.

Fang Li arrived in Misaki City and recognized it as the world of Shakugan no Shana when Reiji Maigo reacted to its surroundings. As he walked through the city, he saw that many residents were Torches—substitutes left behind after Crimson Realm Denizens devoured their existence—and his Ice-Blue Demon Eyes revealed the deaths surrounding him.

• Fang Li emerged from an apartment in Misaki City at dawn and saw Misaki Grand Bridge and the Minami River.
• Fang Li sensed Reiji Maigo responding to the city and concluded that he had entered the world of Shakugan no Shana.
• Fang Li noticed ghostly blue flames burning inside some of the people around him and identified them as Torches.
• Fang Li recalled that Crimson Realm Denizens devoured human existence, leaving Torches that would eventually disappear.
• Fang Li stopped walking as his Ice-Blue Demon Eyes revealed the deaths around him.

Fang Li used his Ice-Blue Demon Eyes to kill a nearly extinguished torch in Misaki City, while a man who monitored the city noticed the torch had vanished unnaturally. The man promised Marian he would investigate and awakened several dolls to search for what had happened.

• Fang Li saw Death Lines covering the torches around him and realized a Denizen in Misaki City was consuming their Power of Existence.
• Fang Li struck a nearly extinguished torch with his crescent-moon-shaped dagger, causing it to vanish in blue flames while passersby ignored the scene.
• A man in a white suit noticed a torch disappear from his miniature model of Misaki City and said it should have lasted another two or three days.
• Marian suggested that someone had deliberately destroyed the torch, and the man promised to investigate.
• The man snapped his fingers, causing several dolls around him to awaken.