Chapter Summaries

Fang Li killed all seven Golden Eyes sent by Diluk, after demonstrating that their combined strength could not defeat him. Diluk accepted the loss as the price of learning how much Fang Li had grown and considered what Fang Li’s challenge about the Lonely Poison Witch meant.

• Fang Li explained that the Black Cat Agency served Diluk and said Diluk had sent seven Golden Eyes because he valued him as a threat.
• Fang Li defeated the black-clad man, but the man attacked his afterimage with shadow thorns, so Fang Li killed him with a dagger.
• The black-clad man’s death left all seven Golden Eyes dead in the deserted ruins.
• Diluk watched the spatial window go dark and concluded that none of the seven cats had survived.
• Diluk revealed he had sent the Golden Eyes to gather intelligence rather than kill Fang Li, and pondered Fang Li’s challenge to send the Lonely Poison Witch.

Fang Li returned to Jie Long after his secret game with Diluk, then was summoned with the other disciples to discuss the approaching Griffin Star Martial Festival. When Fang Li declined to compete, the conversation turned to his high unofficial rankings, prompting Fan Xinglu to propose a ranking battle.

• Fang Li returned to Jie Long, where Zhao Hufeng confronted him about meeting Sylvia and left after Fang Li gave him a signed photo.
• Fan Xinglu summoned Fang Li, Wu Xiaohui, Cecily, Zhao Hufeng, Li Shenyun, and Li Shenhua to finalize Jie Long's team for the Griffin Star Martial Festival.
• Fang Li declined to participate and said his ranked senior brothers and sisters should compete instead.
• Zhao Hufeng told Fang Li that he ranked seventh on Poem's Mead and eighteenth on Sixty Thousand Pantheon, while the Lonely Poison Witch topped both lists.
• Fan Xinglu proposed holding a ranking battle.

Fan Xinglu ordered Fang Li and Wu Xiaohui to hold an Official Ranking Battle despite concerns that revealing Wu Xiaohui’s strength could benefit rival academies. Both agreed because they wanted to test their progress, and the fight began in the academy arena.

• Fan Xinglu announced that Fang Li and Wu Xiaohui would hold a ranking battle, while Zhao Hufeng objected that it could expose their abilities before the Griffin Star Martial Festival.
• Fan Xinglu dismissed Zhao Hufeng’s concerns, and Wu Xiaohui said he wanted to settle things with Fang Li and repay his kindness through his own change.
• Cecily and Zhao Hufeng admitted they wanted to see Fang Li’s progress, while the Li Siblings voiced concerns about the competition before falling silent.
• Fang Li agreed to fight Wu Xiaohui, and Fan Xinglu arranged the ranking battle in the academy arena to keep outsiders from watching.
• Fang Li and Wu Xiaohui faced each other on the arena stage as Fan Xinglu and the other disciples watched from the stands.

Fang Li faced Wu Xiaohui in a ranking battle, and Wu Xiaohui revealed that he now fought to satisfy both Fan Xinglu and himself. The duel began with Wu Xiaohui pressing Fang Li with a powerful staff technique and detonating Fang Li’s Moon Blade, leaving the fight amid a blast of flame.

• Wu Xiaohui told Fang Li he would fight at full strength and invited him to use Bō Xié, but Fang Li chose to fight with Moon Blade instead.
• Fang Li asked Wu Xiaohui why he practiced martial arts and sought strength, and Wu Xiaohui said he wanted to satisfy both Fan Xinglu and himself.
• The duel began, and Wu Xiaohui attacked with a rapid series of staff thrusts that built up force against Fang Li’s Moon Blade.
• Fang Li retreated from Wu Xiaohui’s next thrust, then threw Moon Blade after recognizing Wu Xiaohui’s hand seal.
• Wu Xiaohui chanted “Edict,” causing Moon Blade to explode and engulf the area in fire and explosive wind.

Wu Xiaohui unleashed a powerful Star Immortal Technique by using his weapon as a talisman, then trapped Fang Li and seemingly dismembered him with eight wind blades. Fang Li revealed that the body was only an afterimage and confronted Wu Xiaohui from behind, declaring that he was stronger now.

• Fan Xinglu recognized that Wu Xiaohui had refined the Moon Blade into a talisman and praised his technique.
• Wu Xiaohui attacked Fang Li with real and illusory staff strikes, forcing him to defend while retreating.
• A talisman snared Fang Li's feet, allowing Wu Xiaohui to summon eight wind blades that appeared to cut Fang Li into pieces.
• Wu Xiaohui blocked Fang Li's surprise attack from behind, revealing that the dismembered body had been an afterimage.
• Fang Li praised Wu Xiaohui's martial arts and Star Immortal Techniques, then said he was stronger now.

Fang Li defeated Wu Xiaohui in their ranking match after overpowering him with a series of devastating techniques. He offered Wu Xiaohui a rematch, and Wu Xiaohui accepted his hand.

• Fang Li overwhelmed Wu Xiaohui with his killing intent and struck him with Flash Sheath—Flower Mirror.
• Wu Xiaohui detonated talisman traps around Fang Li, but Fang Li cut through the explosions with Flash Sheath—Ten Lives.
• Fang Li used Flash Run—Double Six Fish and Flash Run—Flying Moon to slam Wu Xiaohui into the stage and damage his school badge.
• The arena declared Fang Li the winner, and the stands erupted in cheers.
• Fang Li offered Wu Xiaohui another match, and Wu Xiaohui took his hand.

Fang Li discussed the fame and new title he gained after defeating Wu Xiaohui and becoming Jielong's second-ranked student. His conversation with Sylvia ended when he sensed that someone might be looking for trouble with her.

• Fang Li complained to Sylvia that his victory over Wu Xiaohui had brought unwanted media attention, sponsors, and cheering fans.
• Sylvia noted that Fang Li's fame had spread, as his Sixty Thousand Pantheon ranking rose to tenth and Poem's Mead ranked him third.
• Fan Xinglu gave Fang Li the title "One-sided Rakshasa" after his display of killing intent in the battle.
• Wu Xiaohui reclaimed a ranking by defeating Jielong's third-ranked student, leaving him in third place behind Fang Li.
• Fang Li fell silent at Sylvia's warning about the coming Griffin Star Martial Festival and asked whether it was different if someone else was looking for trouble with her.

A masked operative from the Black Cat Agency led Fang Li to a ruined site in the pleasure district, where he encountered Ophelia Landlufen, the Lonely Poison Witch. Their first meeting left both convinced they could never coexist.

• A masked man appeared while Fang Li spoke with Sylvia and said someone was waiting for him.
• Fang Li recognized the man as a combat operative of the Black Cat Agency and agreed to follow him after Sylvia told him to be careful.
• The operative led Fang Li through the pleasure district to ruins where men in black suits writhed in agony amid a corrosive aura.
• Fang Li recognized the girl standing among the victims as Ophelia Landlufen, the Lonely Poison Witch.
• Fang Li and Ophelia looked at each other and both thought they could never coexist.

Fang Li and Ophelia met amid the ruins and recognized that their opposite views of life made them hate one another. Ophelia declared that her sorrowful fate had been decided long ago and that no one could shatter it.

• Ophelia and Fang Li silently faced each other while poisoned gangsters groaned around them, and the cat disappeared.
• Ophelia questioned Fang Li's calm attitude toward death, while Fang Li accused her of using her poisonous power to take away what she treasured.
• Fang Li and Ophelia realized they could never understand or coexist with each other, and they both admitted they hated one another.
• Ophelia said Diluk had warned her that Fang Li was dangerous, and Fang Li regretted seeking her out after learning she had abandoned all hope.
• Fang Li called Ophelia's attachment to sorrow hypocritical, and Ophelia insisted that her fate was settled and no one could shatter it.

Fang Li challenged Ophelia's belief that her fate could not be broken, and she unleashed her immense Star Pulse Energy and miasma arms against him. The attack devastated the ruins, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Fang Li realized Ophelia had given up her will and followed what she believed was fate.
• Fang Li told Ophelia that her own helplessness did not prove that no one could break her fate.
• Ophelia challenged Fang Li to prove he could shatter her fate, which she linked to her school badge.
• Ophelia released a vast surge of Star Pulse Energy, and Fang Li answered with a more controlled wave of his own.
• Ophelia summoned countless toxic miasma arms, which smashed into the ruins and reduced abandoned buildings to rubble.

Fang Li confronted Ophelia Landlufen amid the ruins left by her destructive power, arguing that she could refuse to surrender to fate. He charged through her miasmic attacks and cut her school emblem in two, leaving the outcome of their fight unresolved.

• Ophelia surveyed the destroyed redevelopment district and lamented that her power had taken everything around her again.
• Fang Li emerged atop a pile of rubble and challenged Ophelia’s belief that her destructive power was her fate.
• Ophelia said she hated Fang Li, but he told her she was afraid of becoming like him and urged her to shatter tragic destiny.
• Fang Li charged at Ophelia as she formed a gigantic miasmic hand to strike him.
• Fang Li used Flash Sheath—Hell Gate to shred the giant hand and cut Ophelia’s school emblem in two.

Fang Li defeated Ophelia and revealed that she had been made an artificial Star Pulse Generation through human experimentation. He explained how her uncontrolled power had destroyed everything around her, leaving her to regard her ability as a curse.

• Fang Li defeated Ophelia by breaking through her ability and cutting her school badge in two.
• Fang Li explained that Ophelia relied on her overwhelming natural power but lacked the training to fight once her ability failed.
• Fang Li revealed that Ophelia had been an ordinary orphan who was taken to a laboratory after her orphanage fell into debt.
• Experiments at the Alcant Research Institute accidentally turned Ophelia into an artificial Star Pulse Generation and a witch of the strongest rank.
• Ophelia's power ran wild, destroying the laboratory and the surrounding life before a special unit saved her and transferred her to Leof Black Academy.
• Fang Li told Ophelia that her fate was tied to the life-corroding ability within her, not to her school badge.

Ophelia explained that the Integrated Enterprise Conglomerate had made her into a valuable research subject and that she believed she could not escape her fate. Fang Li revealed that he, too, was an artificially created Star Pulse Generation, leaving Ophelia stunned and chasing after him.

• Ophelia told Fang Li that defeating her could not change her fate while Leof Black Academy and the Integrated Enterprise Conglomerate remained in control.
• Ophelia asked why Fang Li stayed calm around death and whether life meant anything to him.
• Fang Li said he understood life's value but had grown accustomed to death and could not grieve when life withered.
• Fang Li turned to leave, then revealed that he was also an artificially created Star Pulse Generation.
• Ophelia stood stunned, then realized she had followed Fang Li.

Fang Li left Pleasure Street with Ophelia following him, and she chose to accompany him after telling Diluk she still had things she wanted to know. They arrived at Jielong Seventh Academy, where Fan Xinglu welcomed Ophelia as a promising new arrival.

• Fang Li asked Ophelia why she was following him as they slipped through the distracted crowd and left Pleasure Street.
• Diluk contacted Ophelia through a spatial window, but after she said she still had things she wanted to know, he allowed her to do as she pleased.
• Fang Li brought Ophelia back to Jielong Seventh Academy, where they appeared in the Audience Chamber.
• Fan Xinglu recognized Ophelia as the strongest witch and eagerly praised her strength.

Fan Xinglu let Fang Li take Ophelia away, warning him that others would see her arrival as trouble. In the Chamber of Stars, Ophelia resisted its gravity with her overwhelming Star Pulse Energy, leaving Fang Li unsure how to contact Sylvia without causing a confrontation.

• Fan Xinglu judged Ophelia to be a disappointing, lifeless presence and called her a troublesome problem for Fang Li.
• Fang Li said Ophelia had followed him herself, and Fan Xinglu agreed to ignore their arrival while telling him to handle the consequences.
• Fan Xinglu used Omni-element to transport Fang Li and Ophelia to the Chamber of Stars.
• The Chamber of Stars pressed down on Ophelia, but she raised her Star Pulse Energy until she forced its gravity back.
• Fang Li realized Ophelia's raw power exceeded his, though his abilities and close-combat skill countered her.
• Fang Li decided not to call Sylvia because seeing Ophelia in his room could provoke their existing grudge.

Fang Li allowed Ophelia to stay and share his bed, then answered her questions about how he became part of the Star Pulse Generation and explained his personal view of power and kindness. Ophelia wondered whether meeting him was fate and fell asleep beside him.

• Fang Li decided to tolerate Ophelia staying with him and let her sleep beside him.
• Ophelia asked Fang Li when and how he became part of the Star Pulse Generation, and Fang Li said it happened a year earlier through a mysterious power.
• Ophelia called his transformation fate, but Fang Li rejected that idea and said he had chosen to become part of the Star Pulse Generation.
• Fang Li told Ophelia that he cared for people he liked but would kill those he hated, including the people who had experimented on her.
• Ophelia wondered whether meeting Fang Li was also fate, then closed her eyes and fell asleep.

Fang Li faced Wu Xiaohui, Zhao Hufeng, Cecily, Li Shenyun, and Li Shenhua in a training battle in the Black Tortoise Chamber. He countered their coordinated attacks, but Wu Xiaohui launched a powerful staff thrust as Fang Li finally ignited his Star Pulse Energy.

• Wu Xiaohui, Zhao Hufeng, Cecily, Li Shenyun, and Li Shenhua surrounded Fang Li and attacked together.
• Zhao Hufeng rushed Fang Li with a pair of sweeping kicks, but Fang Li blocked them and sent him staggering back.
• Cecily called down lightning on Fang Li, but he dodged the strike and rode the blast away.
• Li Shenyun and Li Shenhua attacked Fang Li from opposite sides, but Fang Li saw through their illusion and invisibility, caught Li Shenhua’s punch, and threw her aside.
• Wu Xiaohui charged Fang Li with a powerful thrust of his long staff, and Fang Li ignited his Star Pulse Energy.

Fang Li defeated Wu Xiaohui in their sparring match by using a solid clone to escape the group’s restraint and shatter Wu Xiaohui’s school badge. After three weeks of daily training, Fan Xinglu acknowledged that everyone’s progress had exceeded her expectations.

• Wu Xiaohui blinded Fang Li with a talisman while Zhao Hufeng, Cecily, Li Shenyun, and Li Shenhua restrained his limbs.
• Wu Xiaohui thrust his staff through the restrained Fang Li, but the figure proved to be a solid clone created with Fang Li’s Flash Run technique.
• Fang Li emerged behind Wu Xiaohui and used Flower Mirror to shatter his school badge, securing the victory.
• Fan Xinglu ended the sparring session, and the group exchanged the customary post-match salutes.
• Fan Xinglu said that after three weeks of daily sparring, everyone’s progress had exceeded her expectations.

Fang Li’s training helped Wu Xiaohui and the others learn to fight as a team, and Fan Xinglu named them the Yellow Dragon Team ahead of the Griffin Star Martial Festival. Ophelia continued following Fang Li in silence, leaving him to wonder whether the festival would be the point when she finally stopped.

• Fang Li recalled how he had trained Wu Xiaohui, Zhao Hufeng, Cecily, Li Shenyun, and Li Shenhua for three weeks, helping them learn to cooperate despite never winning against him.
• Fan Xinglu praised the five disciples’ teamwork and admitted that Fang Li’s strength had made her eager to fight him.
• Fan Xinglu named Wu Xiaohui, Zhao Hufeng, Cecily, Li Shenyun, and Li Shenhua the Yellow Dragon Team, and they vowed not to fail her trust.
• After practice, Fang Li walked toward the Stellar Hall while Ophelia followed him as she had throughout the past three weeks.
• Fang Li wondered whether the Griffin Star Martial Festival would be the deadline for Ophelia to stop following him.

As the Griffin Star Martial Festival’s opening ceremony began in Battle City, Fang Li watched Sylvia and Matthias Mesa from Jie Long’s VIP lounge. He left to meet Sylvia, while Ophelia lingered over Diluk and Matthias before departing toward an unexpected encounter.

• Battle City filled with visitors as the Griffin Star Martial Festival opened, and the renovated Sirius Dome hosted the ceremony.
• Fang Li watched Sylvia at the ceremony and decided to see her after it ended, while recalling their three weeks apart and her acceptance of Ophelia’s presence.
• Fang Li noticed Matthias Mesa looking toward him during the chairman’s speech, then left the VIP lounge to meet Sylvia.
• Fang Li told Ophelia to return without him, and she watched Diluk and Matthias before leaving the lounge, unaware that a sudden encounter awaited her.