Chapter Summaries

Lin Lan defended his demand for seventy percent of the Lightning Institute’s resources and prepared to confront those who had exploited its rules. As his public declaration went viral, he overheard Bai Mo arranging backup and left the arena to call Ling Ling.

• Qian Kun told Lin Lan that the Institute’s rules remained in force and asked him to provide evidence of unfairly obtained resources, while tacitly accepting his actions.
• Lin Lan argued that the rules had harmed promising students and declared that he would take resources from those who had used underhanded methods.
• Zhao Manyan, Mo Fan, Ai Tutu, and Mu Nujiao reacted as Lin Lan’s words and feats spread across campus and became the top trending topic.
• Bai Mo and Liu Zheng planned to gather allies and let Zhang Yuan deal with Lin Lan, then fight him with reinforcements.
• Lin Lan overheard Bai Mo’s plan with his Sound Spiral and told Qian Kun he would take on anyone who challenged him one at a time.
• Lin Lan left the platform and called Ling Ling.

Lin Lan asked Ling Ling to investigate Lightning Institute students plotting against others, then fought Shen Muqing in the arena and summoned a powerful Blizzard Spirit Eagle. The creature froze the arena, but Shen Muqing remained standing, and the crowd watched the battle continue.

• Lin Lan asked Ling Ling to identify everyone involved in plotting against others at the Lightning Institute so he could challenge them for their resources.
• Ling Ling agreed to investigate and asked Lin Lan to take her along on a future trip to the East Sea.
• Lin Lan returned to the venue and met Shen Muqing, who challenged him and thanked him for saving her younger brother, Shen Mingxiao, during the Desolate City training.
• Students including Su Hao and He Song hesitated to challenge Lin Lan after seeing his strength, while others began leaving the venue.
• Lin Lan opened a Rift Gate with a moon-white Star Orbit and summoned an Advanced Stage Warrior Rank Blizzard Spirit Eagle.
• The Blizzard Spirit Eagle froze the arena, but Shen Muqing remained standing, revealing that she seemed to possess an ice-element Spirit Seed.

Lin Lan faced Shen Muqing in the arena with his Advanced Stage Warrior Rank Blizzard Spirit Eagle, letting her attack first while holding the beast back. Shen Muqing lost after a fierce clash of ice and lightning, and the chapter ended with her proposing a meal with Shen Mingxiao and Lin Lan.

• Su Hao and He Song abandoned their plans to challenge Lin Lan after seeing the Blizzard Spirit Eagle, while teachers recognized its overwhelming strength.
• Lin Lan let Shen Muqing make the first move, and she attacked with Spirit Seed-enhanced Ice Locks that the Blizzard Spirit Eagle shattered with ice spikes.
• Shen Muqing used lightning magic to break the remaining ice spikes and dodge their fragments.
• The Blizzard Spirit Eagle charged Shen Muqing through her lightning attack, then overwhelmed her with ice crystals and forced her to concede.
• Shen Muqing thanked Lin Lan for holding back and suggested inviting Shen Mingxiao to a meal, and Lin Lan said he did not eat beef.

After defeating Shen Muqing, Lin Lan found that no one else dared challenge him and received Ling Ling’s list of more than thirty people who had used dirty tricks. He returned to the arena to confront those gathered there, while others still at the Lightning Institute remained on the list.

• Lin Lan defeated Shen Muqing with the Blizzard Spirit Eagle, and the crowd stopped challenging him.
• Lin Lan told Qian Kun he would leave to obtain a list and promised that none of the people involved in the dirty tricks would escape judgment.
• Lin Lan checked Ling Ling’s messages and found more than thirty names, including Zhou Shuming and Dongfang Qing.
• Ling Ling told Lin Lan that the gathered people were heading to Pearl Academy and warned him they might be plotting against him.
• Lin Lan reassured Ling Ling, promised to take her demon hunting, and returned to the arena as the waiting crowd anticipated the coming battles.

Lin Lan challenged Zhou Shuming, who proposed a five-on-one fight with all five fighters’ Lightning Institute resources at stake. Lin Lan accepted, leaving the match set to begin.

• Lin Lan gave Qian Kun a list of thirty-one people to challenge, and Qian Kun named Zhou Shuming as his first opponent.
• Zhou Shuming delayed coming onto the stage while discussing a plan with others, as Ai Tutu and Mu Nujiao watched and worried about the matchup.
• Zhou Shuming finally took the stage, where Lin Lan accused him of scheming and said he intended to claim the group’s resources.
• Zhou Shuming demanded that Lin Lan kneel and apologize, then offered all five fighters’ Lightning Institute resources if Lin Lan defeated them together.
• Lin Lan immediately accepted Zhou Shuming’s five-on-one challenge.

Lin Lan accepted a five-on-one challenge against Zhou Shuming and four of the Lightning Institute’s strongest students, despite the crowd’s alarm. He summoned the Blizzard Spirit Eagle to face the opponents as the battle began.

• Zhou Shuming beckoned Bai Mo, Zhang Yuan, Liu Zheng, and Dongfang Qing onto the arena to challenge Lin Lan together.
• Spectators and Wei Rong, Bai Mei, and Qian Kun objected to the unfair matchup, but Lin Lan calmly agreed to fight all five.
• Ai Tutu condemned the opponents, while Mu Nujiao, Mo Fan, and Zhao Manyan trusted Lin Lan to win.
• Qian Kun approved the challenge, and Lin Lan used Dimensional Summon to bring the Blizzard Spirit Eagle onto the arena.
• Lin Lan assigned the Blizzard Spirit Eagle to fight Zhang Yuan and Dongfang Qing, promising to promote it if it gathered materials; Zhang Yuan then called Bai Mo to help bring the creature down.

At the Battle at the Lightning Institute, Bai Mo, Zhang Yuan, and Dongfang Qing struggled to contain the Blizzard Spirit Eagle while Lin Lan overwhelmed Zhou Shuming and Liu Zheng. Lin Lan’s lightning battered their last defensive barrier, leaving the outcome of the fight unresolved.

• The Blizzard Spirit Eagle unleashed ice cones, and Bai Mo and Dongfang Qing shielded Zhang Yuan while he cast Giant Shadow Nail—Twins to bind it.
• Bai Mo and Dongfang Qing attacked the eagle with lightning and fire, but its blizzard nullified their spells and erased Zhang Yuan’s bindings.
• Bai Mo raised an Earth Wall against the blizzard, then ordered Dongfang Qing and Zhang Yuan to spread out when it began cracking.
• Lin Lan dodged Zhou Shuming’s Earth Fiend flames and struck Zhou Shuming and Liu Zheng with Lightning Calamity, destroying their magic tools and shattering Liu Zheng’s Holy Shield.
• Zhou Shuming crushed a one-use Water Element defensive magic tool, but Lin Lan caught a bolt with Lightning Attraction and hurled it at their water curtain, leaving both men injured as it shook under the impact.

Lin Lan used his Level Five Thunderbolt to defeat Bai Mo, Zhang Yuan, Dongfang Qing, Liu Zheng, and Zhou Shuming, then forced them to surrender and hand over their resources. The chapter ended with the audience recognizing that Lin Lan stood far above the other students at Pearl Academy.

• The crowd and Mo Fan discussed Lin Lan's Soul Seed and the enormous cost of strengthening Thunderbolt, while Liu Zheng and Zhou Shuming struggled to recover from Lin Lan's Level Four Thunderbolt.
• Zhang Yuan tried to prepare a Destruction Magic spell, but Lin Lan unleashed his Level Five Thunderbolt and trapped all five opponents in a web of Lightning Chains.
• Wei Rong and the other teachers recognized the power of Lin Lan's attack, while Qian Kun urged him to stop because the five could no longer speak.
• Lin Lan stopped the lightning, then ordered the Blizzard Spirit Eagle to threaten the fallen opponents until Bai Mo surrendered on behalf of the group.
• Bai Mo and the others admitted their wrongdoing and agreed to give Lin Lan all their resources before being carried away on stretchers.

Lin Lan defeated the Lightning Institute’s top students and continued through his challenges, overwhelming or frightening his opponents into surrendering their resources. After Qian Kun criticized the students for giving up, Lin Lan reunited with his friends and invited them to dinner.

• Lin Lan defeated five of the Lightning Institute’s strongest students, prompting Teacher Gu Han and the spectators to marvel at his strength.
• Lin Lan challenged Lin Yuyan, who surrendered seventy percent of his resources after seeing Little Dragon Princess unleash her lightning.
• Lin Lan continued challenging the Lightning Institute’s top fifty; most opponents conceded, while those who resisted were beaten and lost their resources.
• Qian Kun praised Lin Lan’s demonstrated ability but criticized the Lightning Institute students for retreating and urged them to reflect on their shortcomings.
• Lin Lan left the arena and met Mo Fan and the others, then offered to cook dinner and invited Ding Yumian, Xu Zhaoting, and Zhang Lulu.

Lin Lan invited Ding Yumian to help research demons in the East Sea, then prepared to advance the Blizzard Spirit Eagle to Commander Level. The chapter ended as Lin Lan began the risky advancement, hoping the eagle would survive.

• Lin Lan invited Ding Yumian to dinner and asked her to research the demon species and distribution in the East Sea, and she agreed.
• Huang Xingli teased Ding Yumian and Lin Lan before leaving them to talk.
• Lin Lan returned to the apartments, where Lin Wanqing and Bai Tingting offered to heal him while Mo Fan and Zhao Manyan joked about his admirers.
• Lin Lan gathered materials for the Blizzard Spirit Eagle's advancement, including a Beast Soul, bone powder, and eagle bloodline, and sold a Pseudo-Terror Demon seed for 70 million.
• Lin Lan began preparing the Blizzard Spirit Eagle's painful advancement and urged him to pull through.

Lin Lan guided the Blizzard Spirit Eagle through a dangerous advancement using rare materials and the Beast Soul of a Wind Flame Lightning Vulture. The process succeeded, leaving the eagle transformed into a powerful Commander Level Extreme Frost Lightning Eagle.

• Lin Lan prepared the Blizzard Spirit Eagle for advancement while Little Dragon Princess cheered and playfully crackled with lightning.
• Lin Lan strengthened the Blizzard Spirit Eagle’s bones and replaced half its blood with fresh Commander-level eagle blood.
• Lin Lan used his spiritual power and a Commander Level Essence to restrain the Wind Flame Lightning Vulture Beast Soul as the Blizzard Spirit Eagle fought to shape it.
• The Blizzard Spirit Eagle overcame its fear and defeated the invading Beast Soul under Lin Lan’s guidance.
• Lin Lan celebrated as the Blizzard Spirit Eagle advanced into an Extreme Frost Lightning Eagle, growing to more than thirty meters long and gaining immense icy and lightning power.

Lin Lan traveled to Dongting Lake to hunt demons and find a Commander-level corpse, while a Magic Hunter team searching for an earth-element spirit seed was devoured by a disguised Armored Giant Lizard. Lin Lan arrived at the beast’s back and provoked it, then ordered the Extreme Frost Lightning Eagle to attack.

• Lin Lan took the newly advanced Extreme Frost Lightning Eagle to Dongting Lake to hunt demons and obtain a Commander-level corpse.
• Lin Lan crushed the Lizard Skull Demons in a swamp with Spatial Rhythm—Compression and rode deeper into the valley.
• Zhang Feng’s team detected no elemental energy near the Flowing Swamp spirit seed and realized the raised ground beneath them was a giant creature.
• The Armored Giant Lizard rose from the swamp, threw the Magic Hunters from its back, and swallowed the team.
• Lin Lan landed on the Armored Giant Lizard, recognized its disguise, phased through its attempt to bite him, and ordered the Extreme Frost Lightning Eagle to attack.

Lin Lan and the Extreme Frost Lightning Eagle fought the Armored Giant Lizard, a swamp lord, and the Eagle’s Extreme Frost Lightning Domain left the beast critically wounded. Lin Lan ordered a final attack, which slammed the lizard into the swamp.

• Lin Lan commanded the Extreme Frost Lightning Eagle to attack the Armored Giant Lizard as he emerged from Phasing.
• The Extreme Frost Lightning Eagle struck with ice spikes and lightning, but the Armored Giant Lizard blocked them with its armor and countered with its tail.
• The Extreme Frost Lightning Eagle unleashed its Extreme Frost Lightning Domain, and the Armored Giant Lizard answered with poisonous mist.
• The domain’s lightning-ice spheres overwhelmed the poisonous mist, shattering the lizard’s armor and badly wounding it.
• Lin Lan ordered the Extreme Frost Lightning Eagle to attack again, and its lightning-ice pillar drove the Armored Giant Lizard into the swamp.

Lin Lan killed the Armored Giant Lizard and wiped out a group of Lizard Skull Demons before taking the Extreme Frost Lightning Eagle deeper into the valley to confront the Swamp Poison Centipede. He left the Eagle to test its strength against the centipede.

• The Thunder-Ice Pillar fatally wounded the Armored Giant Lizard, and Lin Lan watched as it died and its corpse sank into the swamp.
• Lin Lan complained that the Armored Giant Lizard left only a fragmentary soul, then struck approaching Lizard Skull Demons with Heavenly Punishment—Thunderbolt—Wild Dance.
• Lin Lan rode the Extreme Frost Lightning Eagle deeper into the valley to find the Swamp Poison Centipede.
• The Swamp Poison Centipede sensed Lin Lan and the Eagle, charged beneath them, and raised itself to attack.
• Lin Lan jumped onto the canyon top and ordered the Extreme Frost Lightning Eagle to fight the centipede.

Lin Lan and the Extreme Frost Lightning Eagle defeated the Swamp Poison Centipede in the valley, with Lin Lan using Little Dragon Princess’s possession to destroy it with a Lightning Flood Dragon. He then collected the Flowing Swamp Earth Element Spirit Seed and planned to buy Lightning Element Spirit Seeds for Little Dragon Princess.

• The Swamp Poison Centipede attacked Lin Lan with venom, but Lin Lan sealed it in ice while the Extreme Frost Lightning Eagle fought it.
• The Extreme Frost Lightning Eagle struck the centipede with ice and lightning, then Lin Lan took over the fight at Little Dragon Princess’s request.
• Lin Lan summoned a Lightning Flood Dragon that broke through the centipede’s defenses and killed it.
• Lin Lan used his spiritual power to repel the centipede’s soul, then went to the dried-up riverbed to find Flowing Swamp.
• Lin Lan excavated the rare Flowing Swamp Spirit Seed, which could harden like rock or become an adhesive, poisonous quicksand swamp.

After killing two Commander Level demons near Dongting Lake, Lin Lan realized he had ruined the corpse needed for a commission and hunted another Commander to sell. He met Ding Yumian at Pearl Academy to receive information on demons in the East Sea Liubo Mountain region, leaving her surprised that he hunted Commanders despite usually acting alone.

• Lin Lan killed the Armored Giant Lizard and Swamp Poison Centipede, and the surrounding demons stopped advancing without their leaders.
• Lin Lan remembered his commission for a Commander Level corpse and found the Swamp Poison Centipede too damaged to use.
• Lin Lan sold another Commander Level demon corpse and went to Pearl Academy to meet Ding Yumian.
• Ding Yumian gave Lin Lan a USB drive containing information on most demons in the East Sea Liubo Mountain region.
• Ding Yumian asked whether Lin Lan had gone demon hunting, and he admitted that he had hunted a Commander Level demon with other mages.

Lin Lan discussed his plans to search for the Kui Ox in the East Sea with Ding Yumian, then met Dean Xiao to discuss the World School Tournament. Dean Xiao offered him a direct recommendation to the National Academy Team and gave him a Mind Stone, making Lin Lan reconsider whether he could skip the tournament.

• Ding Yumian praised Lin Lan's strength and composure, and Lin Lan credited his achievements to luck and others' help.
• Ding Yumian worried about Lin Lan hunting in the dangerous East Sea, and Lin Lan explained that his team would include a Super Rank Mage.
• Lin Lan invited Ding Yumian to a meal to thank her for compiling demon information.
• Dean Xiao told Lin Lan that the academy had resolved the fallout from his victory at the Lightning Institute and advised him to cultivate quietly.
• Dean Xiao offered to recommend Lin Lan directly to the National Academy Team and gave him a Mind Stone to aid his spiritual cultivation.

Lin Lan accepted Dean Xiao’s Mind Stone and discussed Little Dragon Princess’s Emperor-level potential and his advanced elements. After collecting abundant rewards from the Lightning Institute, he returned home to hear that the Mu Family wanted him as a live-in son-in-law, and he readily agreed.

• Lin Lan accepted the Mind Stone from Dean Xiao and vowed to compete in the World School Tournament.
• Lin Lan told Dean Xiao that Little Dragon Princess was a rare Thunder Element Holy Spirit with the potential to reach Emperor level, and that three of his elements had reached the advanced level.
• Lin Lan went to the Lightning Institute to collect the many resources he had earned through its challenge tournament.
• Lin Lan returned to the apartment and learned from Ai Tutu that Mu Nujiao’s family head wanted to recruit him as a live-in son-in-law.
• Lin Lan agreed to the proposal, joking that he would receive a beautiful mage and free resources.

Lin Lan joked with Ai Tutu about marrying into the Mu Family before heading to the Three-Step Tower to advance his ice element. After his breakthrough, Mu Yin invited him for barbecue and drinks, then recognized him as a High Mage.

• Ai Tutu teased Mu Nujiao about liking Lin Lan and suggested he marry into the Mu Family, while Lin Lan said he would accept even without resources.
• Ai Tutu explained that Mu Nujiao would need to marry a young High Mage from a powerful family, and Lin Lan dismissed the idea of joining the Mu Family as a retainer.
• Lin Lan returned to the Three-Step Tower, where two Star River Veins were ready for his ice element to advance.
• Mu Yin emerged from the tower celebrating his breakthrough and invited Lin Lan, who was disguised as a male student, to eat and drink.
• At a barbecue stall, Mu Yin recognized Lin Lan on his phone and realized that he was a High Mage.

Lin Lan reunited with Mo Fan and Zhang Xiaohou in Magic City, and the three exchanged gifts and caught up on their lives. Zhang Xiaohou planned to study in Ancient Capital, while Lin Lan and Mo Fan discussed the dangers of its undead and Mo Fan’s need for a Star River Vein.

• Mu Yin realized Lin Lan was a formidable High Mage and awkwardly excused himself after their meal.
• Lin Lan met Mo Fan and Zhang Xiaohou at a Hunan restaurant, where Zhang Xiaohou embraced him after two years apart.
• Zhang Xiaohou gave Lin Lan a Spirit Calming Magic Artifact, and Lin Lan returned the gesture by giving Zhang Xiaohou the earth-element spirit seed Flowing Swamp.
• Zhang Xiaohou told Lin Lan and Mo Fan that he was with He Yu and would soon head to Ancient Capital for further studies.
• Lin Lan warned Mo Fan about the dangers of Ancient Capital and offered to sell him a Star River Vein for 120 million.
• The chapter ended with a description of Ancient Capital’s undead emerging from their graves after dark.