Chapter Summaries

Demonized Mo Fan killed Lu Nian, then fled while struggling to control the pain and rage caused by the Demon Element. Zhan Kong reunited with Mu Ningxue and the others, and Fu Ye revealed he had secretly protected their classmates; two and a half months later, Ai Tutu was in Fu Ye’s office.

• Demonized Mo Fan destroyed Lu Nian’s armor, killed him, and vanished after throwing Zhan Kong away and admitting he could no longer control himself.
• Mu Ningxue, Ai Tutu, and Mu Nujiao explained the training exercise to Zhan Kong, who said the military would search for Mo Fan.
• Fu Ye appeared beside Zhan Kong and the women, revealing he had rescued their classmates and sent them to Principal Song He's office.
• Two and a half months later, Ai Tutu entered Fu Ye’s private office and quickly ended up weak in his arms.

Fu Ye and Tang Yue discussed the Totem Black Snake’s unrest as Salang came to Hzhou and drew the serpent’s attention. After Salang escaped, Luo Mian used the Black Snake’s appearance and alleged plague evidence to turn the Hzhou Magic Association against it.

• Fu Ye warned Tang Yue that someone intended to target the Totem Black Snake while they met at the World Trade Building.
• Salang arrived in Hzhou to see Fu Ye, but the Black Snake sensed her and pursued her through the city.
• Salang escaped through a teleportation array after seeing Fu Ye watching from the building, and the Black Snake lost track of her.
• At an emergency conference, Luo Mian blamed the Black Snake for frightening the public and presented evidence linking it to Hzhou’s plague.

At a tense council meeting, Luo Mian pushed to restrain or kill the Black Snake, while Fu Ye reunited with Ye Chang and learned more about her motives. Later, Fu Ye told Tang Yue that the Black Snake’s restlessness might be linked to its molting and began explaining the history of human magic, leaving the account of its second era unfinished.

• Luo Mian urged the council to activate an emergency plan against the Black Snake, and Tang Zhong’s allies opposed him as the association split into factions.
• Ye Chang visited Fu Ye, who revealed that he had long known her identity and her connection to Xin Xia, the Parthenon Temple, and her revenge.
• Fu Ye invited Ye Chang to return when she was ready to stop causing trouble, telling her that Xin Xia missed her.
• Tang Yue told Fu Ye that the Black Snake had been restless and that her uncle suspected it was nearing its century-long molting period.
• Fu Ye explained the first era of human magic, when people lived in symbiosis with Totem Beasts, then began describing the second era as magic and early magical organizations emerged.

Fu Ye explained the history of Totem Beasts and warned Tang Yue that people planned to seize the Black Snake’s Totem Power during its coming molting period. After Tang Zhong ordered Tang Yue to move the Black Snake to the Tianshan Mountains, Fu Ye secretly sent it there and kept Tang Yue with him.

• Fu Ye told Tang Yue that magical organizations rose over the ages, driving Totem Beasts toward extinction and leaving only a few alive.
• Fu Ye warned Tang Yue that the Black Snake’s approaching molting period made it a target for those seeking its Totem Power, and said Tang Zhong could not oppose the H Province Magic Association’s orders.
• Tang Zhong called Tang Yue and ordered her to take the Black Snake to the Tianshan Mountains, where an ancient ice-and-snow barrier could hide it and hasten its molting.
• Fu Ye used a magical constellation to send the Black Snake from West Lake to the Tianshan Mountains while Tang Yue remained with him.

Tang Yue and Fu Ye investigated a fast-spreading plague in White Town and discovered that contaminated Blood Agent made with Plague Claw Rat Sick Blood was the likely cause. Fu Ye revealed that military leaders may have pursued the outbreak to seize the Black Snake’s Totem Power, while Tang Yue asked him how to treat the toxin.

• Tang Yue received news of a plague in White Town and went there with Fu Ye to investigate.
• At the overcrowded medical station, Tang Yue learned that infected Guard Mages and Hunter Mages had been active in military areas and suffered rapidly progressing symptoms.
• Fu Ye identified the symptoms as poisoning from Sick Blood, a Plague Claw Rat substance that could be used to make toxic Blood Agent.
• Tang Yue reported the suspected Blood Agent contamination to his uncle, Tang Zhong, while Fu Ye showed him a bestiary describing the rats and their spreading toxin.
• Fu Ye claimed military higher-ups had intended to kill the Black Snake and take his Totem Power, and Tang Yue asked how to cure the plague toxin.

Tang Yue and Fu Ye investigated the Eagle Red Grass shortage and suspected Luo Mian’s group had engineered the plague to frame the Totem Black Snake. Councilman Zhu Meng arrived to investigate the snake, but Fu Ye persuaded him to focus on the Blood Agent conspiracy instead.

• Tang Yue learned that Eagle Red Grass had been bought up three days earlier, leaving pharmacies across Hzhou City without medicine for the White Town plague.
• Fu Ye told Tang Yue that records related to the Blood Agent had been tampered with and suggested Luo Mian might be behind the scheme.
• Zhu Meng confronted Tang Yue about the Totem Black Snake, and she presented evidence linking the plague to Plague Claw Rat venom.
• Fu Ye told Zhu Meng the snake was being framed and urged him to investigate Luo Mian, the Blood Agent suppliers, and whoever had ordered the plot.
• Zhu Meng accepted that Fu Ye’s explanation made sense and asked how long he and Tang Yue had been investigating.

Fu Ye heard Ling Ling connect the White Town plague to the White Demon Eagles’ attack on West Fortress, suggesting someone had deliberately lured the Monarch-level Silver Dome Lord toward plague patients. The evidence implicated Luo Mian’s nephew, but Fu Ye and Tang Yue were left facing an unfolding conspiracy.

• Fu Ye pulled Tang Yue into his arms and teased Zhu Meng about their relationship, while Tang Yue embarrassed him with a remark about their private life lasting three to five days.
• At West Fortress, a Monarch-level White Demon Eagle led a huge flock in an attack, and its bloodline pressure drove the tamed Sky Eagles to turn on the fortress’s mages.
• Zhang Xiaohou freed his Sky Eagle instead of killing it, then rushed through the chaos toward the communications room.
• Zhu Meng received news of the plague in White Town and the White Demon Eagles’ attack on West Fortress, and Fu Ye kicked him out of the café when his magic shook the room.
• Ling Ling showed Fu Ye evidence linking the plague toxins to Plague Claw Rats and military purchases of Blood Agent tied to Luo Mian’s nephew.
• Ling Ling proposed that infected Plague Claw Rats had contaminated the White Demon Eagles’ food supply, drawing the Silver Dome Lord toward plague patients, and Tang Yue realized the attack had been deliberate.

Zhu Meng uncovered Luo Mian’s hidden stockpile of poisoned Blood Agent, but left to defend the quarantine zone from the Silver Dome Lord. As the Black Snake flew toward Hzhou City to confront Luo Mian, Luo Mian framed Wang Yicheng, who confessed publicly and killed himself.

• Fu Ye warned Zhu Meng that Luo Mian’s men might be obstructing the search for the poisoned Blood Agent, so Zhu Meng took charge of the investigation.
• Zhu Meng found a concealed underground chamber containing more than a hundred Blood Agent samples dated to the start of the plague.
• After learning that the Silver Dome Lord was attacking the quarantine zone, Zhu Meng left judges to secure the evidence and rushed to defend the civilians.
• Fu Ye sent Tang Yue to the Tianshan Mountains, where she explained to the Black Snake that someone had blamed it for the plague.
• The Black Snake flew toward Hzhou City with Tang Yue to find Luo Mian, while Luo Mian arranged for Wang Yicheng to take the blame and kill himself after confessing.

The Black Snake killed Luo Mian and drove the Silver Dome Lord from West Fortress, ending the immediate threat to Hzhou City. Three days later, Zhu Meng reported the plague’s toll and moved to protect the Black Snake, while Fu Ye spoke with Ling Ling at West Lake.

• Luo Mian was swallowed by the Black Snake after it appeared above his confinement cell.
• The Black Snake erased the White Demon Eagles and forced the injured Silver Dome Lord to flee, ending the battle at West Fortress.
• The Black Snake returned to West Lake with Tang Yue, then fled when it sensed Fu Ye’s aura and mistook him for a high-ranking emperor.
• Zhu Meng supervised distribution of the last Eagle Red Grass medicine and learned that forty-one people had died while ninety-seven percent of the infected had recovered.
• Zhu Meng ordered arrests of Luo Mian’s associates and told the Magic Association to grant the Totem Black Snake the same right to protection as the city.
• Fu Ye stood with Tang Yue by West Lake and denied Ling Ling’s accusation that he was a philanderer.

Mu Nujiao and Ai Tutu discussed Zhou Shuming’s attempts to court Mu Nujiao before Fu Ye returned and told them about the World University Tournament. He left them with the demanding cultivation standards they would need to meet to join the National Team.

• Ai Tutu showed Mu Nujiao Zhou Shuming’s suggestive post and explained that he was pursuing her to benefit the Zhou Family.
• Mu Nujiao rejected the idea of becoming a bargaining chip in a marriage arrangement, while Ai Tutu offered to confront Zhou Shuming.
• Fu Ye returned and gave Ai Tutu and Mu Nujiao boxes of Wood Alcohol Sugar.
• Fu Ye told them about the World University Tournament, prompting both women to consider competing for the National Team.
• Fu Ye said they should cultivate both magic elements to full intermediate level and show potential to reach Advanced Level.

Fu Ye promised Mu Nujiao and Ai Tutu that he would help them pursue national team spots, then Dean Xiao asked him to take in Ding Yumian, a Mind System Calamity Bearer whose power was becoming difficult to control. Fu Ye agreed to meet her, and Dean Xiao revealed that she was waiting in the next room.

• Fu Ye told Mu Nujiao and Ai Tutu to train hard for Pearl Academy's selection and promised he could secure them main-team or reserve spots if they met the standard.
• Ai Tutu revealed that her brother, Ai Jiangtu, had already been designated as this year's national team captain.
• Three afternoons later, Dean Xiao summoned Fu Ye and explained that Ding Yumian's Calamity-Bringer Physique was growing harder to restrain.
• Dean Xiao asked Fu Ye to help Ding Yumian, and Fu Ye agreed to meet her after warning that taking in another Calamity Bearer carried risks.
• Dean Xiao told Fu Ye that Ding Yumian was waiting in the meditation room next door.

Fu Ye met Ding Yumian and explained how her growing Calamity-Bearer Physique could overwhelm her will if she failed to keep pace with it. Ding Yumian signed Fu Ye’s contract of servitude, and he planned to put her on the National Government Tournament reserve team.

• Dean Xiao introduced Ding Yumian to Fu Ye, who warned her that her Mind System Calamity-Bearer Physique could eventually take control and destroy everything around her.
• Ding Yumian told Fu Ye that her physique was growing stronger and asked him to take her in before she lost control at the academy.
• Fu Ye offered Ding Yumian cultivation resources and a contract of servitude, explaining that she would eventually manage his industries and would need at least ten years to reach the Forbidden Curse level.
• Ding Yumian accepted Fu Ye’s terms and signed the contract by dripping her blood onto it, forming a connection between them.
• Fu Ye told Ding Yumian he would arrange for her to join the National Government Tournament reserve team, with her chance to become an official member depending on her ability.

Fu Ye stabilized Ding Yumian’s overloaded Spiritual Power with a carefully formed Space Seal. Seven days later, Ding Yumian faced Mo Fan in the Fire Academy Challenge Week final and countered his Fire and Lightning attacks with precise Mind System magic.

• Fu Ye formed a dynamic Space Seal around Ding Yumian’s sea of consciousness, easing her Spiritual Power overload and steadying her Mind System fluctuations.
• Seven days later, Ding Yumian entered the Fire Academy Challenge Week final against Mo Fan, who boasted that he would take first place.
• Mo Fan opened with Fierce Fist · Earth Fiend, but Ding Yumian disrupted his focus and evaded the flames.
• Mo Fan followed with Thunderclap · Wild Dance, and Ding Yumian used Soul Capture and Mind Control to distort the lightning and close in.
• Mo Fan unleashed a combined Fire and Lightning barrage, and Ding Yumian answered with Mind Ripple as she read the attacks and his movements.

Ding Yumian defeated Mo Fan with her Mind magic after realizing she no longer needed to suppress her Calamity-Bringer Physique. Meanwhile, Fu Ye and Ling Ling investigated a vampire-related death in Punan and discovered that the dead girl Liu Xian had a sister who looked exactly like her.

• Ding Yumian overwhelmed Mo Fan with Ripple of the Mind and defeated him in the arena.
• Dean Xiao celebrated Ding Yumian's strength and believed she could help Divine Land win the World University Tournament.
• Ling Ling and Fu Ye began investigating a vampire leader linked to unnatural deaths and disappearances in Punan Old Town Area.
• Ling Ling identified Liu Xian's suspicious death and found surveillance footage of an unnatural shadow near her home.
• Ling Ling and Fu Ye visited Liu Xian's home and met Liu Ru, who said her healthy sister had died suddenly after going to the academy.

Fu Ye and Ling Ling investigated the surveillance footage around Liu Ru’s home and found a blurred shadow, then met Mo Fan and Zhao Manyan, who were also investigating Liu Xian’s death. Fu Ye revealed that Liu Xian had likely been transformed into a member of the Blood Clan, leaving the group with a new lead about the vampire Nie Dong.

• Ling Ling searched nearby public and private surveillance footage but found only indistinct images of a shadow around the Liu Family home.
• Fu Ye and Ling Ling encountered Mo Fan and Zhao Manyan outside Liu Ru’s home as the two arrived to investigate Liu Xian’s death.
• Zhao Manyan mistook Ling Ling for a child and insulted her, so she showed her Level 7 Hunter Master badge and made him apologize.
• Fu Ye told Mo Fan and Zhao Manyan that they were pursuing the vampire Nie Dong and that Liu Xian had probably become one of the Blood Clan.
• Fu Ye explained that the Blood Clan were revived human corpses sustained by a Blood Clan Source and strengthened by drinking blood.

Mo Fan, Zhao Manyan, Ling Ling, and Fu Ye followed Liu Ru as she appeared to leave the dormitory under mental influence, but Liu Ru revealed she was luring Nie Dong into an attack. Her silver dagger failed to kill him, and Nie Dong began describing how he had tortured her sister, Liu Xian.

• Fu Ye explained vampire abilities, weaknesses, hierarchy, and rules to Mo Fan and Zhao Manyan.
• Liu Ru let a mental force take control of her as she left the dormitory, while secretly keeping a silver dagger ready.
• Mo Fan and Zhao Manyan followed Liu Ru, and Ling Ling and Fu Ye monitored her from behind.
• Nie Dong approached Liu Ru in a forest clearing, and she stabbed his heart with the dagger hidden in her sleeve.
• Nie Dong pulled out his heart with the dagger lodged in it, then turned it to blood and absorbed it back into his body.
• Nie Dong approached the terrified Liu Ru and described how he had drained and tormented Liu Xian for months.

Mo Fan and Zhao Manyan fought Nie Dong to protect Liu Ru, but the vampire escaped before the City Demon Hunting Team arrived. Ling Ling complained to Fu Ye for watching instead of helping, then climbed onto his back.

• Mo Fan and Zhao Manyan launched a surprise attack on Nie Dong as he was about to bite Liu Ru.
• Zhao Manyan used his defensive magic tools to withstand Nie Dong's blood and mental attacks while helping Mo Fan counterattack.
• Mo Fan and Zhao Manyan wounded Nie Dong, but he escaped by splitting into blood shadows as the City Demon Hunting Team approached.
• Mo Fan and Zhao Manyan discovered Liu Ru had disappeared and left before the official personnel arrived.
• Ling Ling confronted Fu Ye for letting the fight drag on, then climbed onto his back.

Fu Ye used a Demon Element potion mixed with his blood to transform Liu Xian into a vampire and bestow her ancestral blood, leaving her awakening as his loyal subordinate with at least Commander-Level strength. Ling Ling protested Fu Ye’s treatment of Liu Xian as the newly transformed vampire came around.

• Ling Ling complained to Fu Ye about Liu Ru’s fate while he comforted her.
• Fu Ye opened a spatial gate and showed Ling Ling the unconscious Liu Xian, explaining that she had been turned into a vampire but lacked ancestral blood.
• Fu Ye mixed a drop of his blood into a Demon Element potion and injected it into Liu Xian, while Ling Ling worried about how powerful she might become.
• Liu Xian’s body transformed violently, and Fu Ye predicted she would awaken at Commander Level or higher as Ling Ling scolded him for looking at her.
• Liu Xian woke, instinctively called Fu Ye her master, and obeyed when he told her to stand.
• Fu Ye examined Liu Xian and praised her appearance, prompting Ling Ling to hit him for taking advantage of her.

Fu Ye took Liu Xian to confront Nie Dong as he began turning Liu Ru into a vampire, promising the sisters a chance to kill him themselves. He prepared a potion for Liu Ru while teasing Ling Ling, who refused to go home with him.

• Fu Ye told Liu Xian that Liu Ru would be turned into a vampire within half a month and promised the sisters could kill Nie Dong themselves.
• Fu Ye spent time with Liu Xian at Pearl Academy, while word spread that she had become his attendant.
• At Qingtian Hunter Institute, Fu Ye left with Liu Xian and Ling Ling after learning Nie Dong had begun acting against Liu Ru.
• Fu Ye, Liu Xian, and Ling Ling watched Nie Dong bind Liu Ru to a vampire transformation array in Modu's West District.
• Fu Ye added his blood to a Demon Element potion for Liu Ru, stopped Liu Xian from taking it, and teased Ling Ling, who refused to go home with him.

Mo Fan and Zhao Manyan found Liu Ru transformed into a vampire, but she fled in panic before Fu Ye dragged her back and gave her a potion. Nie Dong confronted Mo Fan and Zhao Manyan, leaving them torn between fighting him and helping Liu Ru, though Liu Ru had already seen that her sister was alive and unharmed.

• Mo Fan and Zhao Manyan found Liu Ru with vampire eyes and bite marks, and she fled after believing she had become a monster.
• Fu Ye stopped Liu Ru and poured a Demon Element potion mixed with his blood into her mouth.
• Nie Dong blocked Mo Fan and Zhao Manyan, boasting that he had turned Liu Ru into a vampire and taunting them about her sister.
• Zhao Manyan and Mo Fan attacked Nie Dong, but he blocked their spells and evaded their counterattack as his strength had nearly recovered.
• Nie Dong used Liu Ru's cries to distract Mo Fan and Zhao Manyan, unaware that she was overwhelmed with relief after seeing her sister alive and unharmed.