Chapter Summaries

Lin Lan strolled by West Lake with Tang Yue, discussing his rapid cultivation and the dangers of their future plans. Tang Yue began telling him about her childhood hometown, leaving the reason for her invitation still unexplained.

• Tang Yue asked Lin Lan about his cultivation, and he explained that he had lit 108 Ice star particles but still relied on a Constellation Book for high-level Ice Magic.
• Lin Lan considered the dangers of his planned trip to the East Sea and the need for a powerful Mind System Mage.
• Tang Yue joked that the Black Vatican might experiment on Lin Lan, and he reminded her they had already sent a powerful assassin after him.
• Lin Lan teased Tang Yue about the purpose of her invitation, but she said the matter was serious and began telling him a story.
• Tang Yue described her childhood hometown as a village surrounded by scattered little lakes and ponds.

Tang Yue told Lin Lan that her village outside the Safe Zone was protected by a powerful totem snake living in West Lake. When Lin Lan summoned the Extreme Frost Lightning Eagle, the Totem Mysterious Snake emerged and stared at him without showing hostility.

• Tang Yue explained that her village had a god whose protection kept demons away from the area around West Lake, and Lin Lan joked with her about the snake totem and becoming her village's son-in-law.
• Tang Yue invited Lin Lan into the village and took him to a boat to cross the lake.
• Lin Lan summoned the Extreme Frost Lightning Eagle to travel faster, despite Tang Yue warning that the Totem Mysterious Snake was shedding and might be angered.
• The Totem Mysterious Snake burst from West Lake and immobilized the Extreme Frost Lightning Eagle with its aura.
• The Totem Mysterious Snake stared at Lin Lan but showed him no hostility, leaving him to wonder whether it saw him as someone connected to Tang Yue.

Lin Lan met the Totem Mysterious Snake and learned from Tang Yue that she was a Totem Guardian protecting Hangzhou. After bringing him to the village’s island, Tang Yue began explaining the danger facing the snake and why she needed his help.

• Tang Yue introduced Lin Lan to the Totem Mysterious Snake, explained that she trusted him, and gained its agreement to let him help it hide during its molting period.
• Lin Lan and Tang Yue crossed the lake to the island at Three Pools Mirroring the Moon, where Da Sheng initially objected to Lin Lan entering but accepted him after Tang Yue called him her student.
• Tang Yue showed Lin Lan the pavilion’s ancient murals and explained that her family had guarded the Totem Mysterious Snake for generations as it protected Hangzhou.
• Tang Yue told Lin Lan that magic organizations opposed the powerful Totem Beast and that few Totem Guardians remained.
• Lin Lan noted Tang Yue’s roles as a Totem Guardian, Arbitration Council member, and his former teacher, then asked her to reveal what she wanted him to do.

Tang Yue asked Lin Lan to help protect the Totem Mysterious Snake during its vulnerable shedding period, and he later visited Xin Xia and Mo Fan in Hangzhou. At dinner, Lin Lan recognized the Mysterious Snake and reflected on Xin Xia’s Parthenon Soul and the power it could grant him.

• Tang Yue told Lin Lan that the Totem Mysterious Snake would soon shed and become vulnerable, and Lin Lan agreed to help guard it.
• Lin Lan flew the Extreme Frost Lightning Eagle over Hangzhou and visited Xin Xia, whom Mo Fan had come to see as well.
• Lin Lan searched Hangzhou auctions for a powerful ice-element Soul Seed but found none that met his standards.
• Mo Fan treated Lin Lan and Xin Xia to dinner at a high-rise restaurant, where Lin Lan spotted the Totem Mysterious Snake outside.
• Lin Lan considered Xin Xia’s Parthenon Soul and his hope of receiving the Void Altar as a National Competition reward, while Xin Xia asked him not to take Mo Fan out of the city.

The Totem Mysterious Snake appeared in central Hangzhou, frightening the crowds before quietly vanishing without causing damage. Lin Lan learned that the authorities had discovered the snake was molting and summoned him to meet the councilors.

• The Totem Mysterious Snake revealed itself between a bank tower and a hotel, and Mo Fan and the restaurant crowds panicked at its immense size.
• Lin Lan noticed the snake was watching Xin Xia and stayed calm because he had met it before.
• A long-haired man confronted the Sky-Piercing Serpent and warned it not to run wild in the city, but the serpent ignored him and vanished within thick mist.
• The giant snake's appearance set off online discussions, and Tang Yue called Lin Lan to say the authorities knew it was molting and the councilors had summoned him.
• Lin Lan suspected Zhu Mengluo and Mian were behind the summons and resolved to make them pay if they caused him trouble.

Lin Lan was summoned to a Hangzhou Magic Association meeting, where Zhu Meng accused him of protecting the Totem Mysterious Snake and demanded that it be handed over. Zhu Meng gave the Totem’s defenders two days before he would eliminate it himself, while Lin Lan suspected Luo Mian was concealing his role in the deaths blamed on the snake.

• Lin Lan learned that hunters had died in the giant snake incident and suspected Luo Mian’s plague had caused their deaths.
• Tang Yue brought Lin Lan to the Arbitration Council chamber, where Zhu Meng accused him of helping the Totem Mysterious Snake.
• Lin Lan denied helping the snake and challenged Zhu Meng, who backed down after Chief Arbitrator Tang Zhong intervened.
• Zhu Meng’s faction argued that the Totem Mysterious Snake was a threat, while its defenders insisted the deaths were being falsely blamed on it.
• Tang Yue and Tang Zhong demanded evidence, but Zhu Meng declared the snake a threat and gave its defenders two days to hand it over.

After Zhu Meng left with the Imperial Guards, Tang Zhong explained that the Totem Mysterious Snake was approaching its vulnerable molting period and ordered Tang Yue to take it somewhere safe. Hei Yu objected to Lin Lan joining the mission, but Lin Lan claimed he could call in a Super Rank Mage.

• Zhu Meng departed with the Imperial Guards, and the remaining attendees dispersed until only Tang Zhong, Luo Mian, Hei Yu, Tang Yue, and Lin Lan remained.
• Tang Zhong revealed that the Totem Mysterious Snake would soon molt, leaving it unusually vulnerable, and Hei Yu suspected a traitor had leaked the information to Zhu Meng.
• Tang Zhong told Tang Yue to take the Totem Mysterious Snake to a hidden safe location and explained that it would tolerate Tang Yue and Lin Lan near it.
• Hei Yu volunteered to protect Tang Yue and the Totem, but Tang Zhong assigned Lin Lan to help because the Totem had not attacked him before.
• Hei Yu questioned whether Lin Lan was capable of handling the mission, and Lin Lan answered that he could bring in a Super Rank Mage.

Lin Lan claimed he could call on a powerful Magic City councilor, making Luo Mian abandon the meeting in alarm. Lin Lan and Tang Yue then arranged reinforcements and secretly moved the Skyscraper Snake in a Totem Bead, leaving the planned confrontation to come.

• Lin Lan told Tang Zhong and the others that a Super Rank Mage who was a Magic City councilor owed him help, and Luo Mian hurried away to investigate.
• Lin Lan reassured Hei Yu and Tang Yue that he would protect the Totem, while planning to gather allies and trap Luo Mian after the Skyscraper Snake finished shedding.
• Lin Lan and Tang Yue contacted Councilor Lei Yuan, Lei Hanhai, and Lei Hao for support, and Lin Lan asked Mo Fan and Ling Ling to investigate the plague incidents.
• Tang Zhong gave Tang Yue a Totem Bead that could safely hold the Skyscraper Snake as long as it contained enough life energy.
• Tang Yue and Lin Lan secretly removed the Skyscraper Snake under cover of night, while Zhu Meng's forces prepared their operation and failed to keep Lin Lan under surveillance.

Lin Lan and Tang Yue met the Totem Mysterious Snake at West Lake, where Tang Yue persuaded it to leave with them. After placing it in the Totem Bead, they prepared to escape before Zhu Meng and Luo Mian's schemes could catch up with them.

• Tang Yue called the Totem Mysterious Snake from beneath West Lake while Lin Lan watched and worried about the danger ahead.
• The Totem Mysterious Snake surfaced and looked at Lin Lan, whose unease grew as he noticed mages gathering nearby.
• Lin Lan urged Tang Yue to leave, but she explained that the Totem Mysterious Snake needed time to communicate with her.
• Tang Yue spoke with the Totem Mysterious Snake until it agreed to leave, then placed it in the Totem Bead.
• Lin Lan and Tang Yue set out to flee West Lake before their pursuers could reach them.

Lin Lan guided Ling Ling and Mo Fan toward investigating the Hangzhou plague while he and Tang Yue escaped with the Totem Mysterious Snake. Zhu Meng and Luo Mian plotted to intercept them, unaware that Lin Lan had arranged powerful allies and that the snake could sense pursuers.

• Ling Ling told Lin Lan that the plague had spread to Hangzhou Academy and resisted Healing Element magic, and Lin Lan advised her to investigate the poison and test detoxifying herbs.
• Tang Yue placed the Totem Mysterious Snake in the Totem Bead, then she and Lin Lan fled Hangzhou by boat toward Bai Town and the caves of White Mountain.
• Zhu Meng raged over the snake's escape and ordered an arrest warrant for Tang Yue, while Wu Pingjing explained how his guards had failed to track her and Lin Lan.
• Luo Mian told Zhu Meng that the snake's heightened perception during molting had helped it evade the guards, then proposed using Intern Judges to delay Tang Yue until reinforcements arrived.
• Luo Mian revealed that Lei Yuan had been kept occupied, while Lei Hanhai and Lei Hao were already on their way to protect the totem at Lin Lan's request.

Zhu Meng mobilized Judges and ambitious Mages across Hangzhou to pursue Tang Yue and Lin Lan, while many Reserve Judges eagerly joined the operation for a chance at promotion. As Lin Lan and Tang Yue traveled west with the Totem Mysterious Snake, Tang Yue feared the coming pursuit and considered staying behind if Lin Lan ran out of magical energy.

• Zhu Meng ordered the Imperial Guards to mobilize Intern Judges, Reserve Judges, and other Mages to capture Tang Yue and locate the Totem Mysterious Snake.
• Liu Yilin accepted his brother’s offer to join the mission, hoping to earn promotion within the Arbitration Council.
• Reserve Judges across Hangzhou set out to pursue Lin Lan and Tang Yue.
• Lin Lan and Tang Yue left Hangzhou on foot and avoided High Mages with help from the Totem Mysterious Snake.
• Lin Lan reassured Tang Yue that he could protect her and the snake, but Tang Yue worried that he might exhaust his magical energy and considered staying behind.

Lin Lan and Tang Yue entered plague-stricken Bai Town, where residents blamed the Totem Mysterious Snake for the outbreak. Tang Yue remained troubled by the accusation, while Lin Lan knew the plague’s true origin and planned to explain it to her.

• Tang Yue offered to do anything Lin Lan asked in return for his help protecting the god, and Lin Lan comforted her instead of asking for resources.
• Lin Lan learned from a man in the checkpoint queue that many Bai Town residents had been quarantined and that the plague had infected many people.
• Lin Lan and Tang Yue passed the inspection and found Bai Town nearly deserted, with masked residents and shuttered stalls.
• At an inn, the proprietress blamed the Totem Mysterious Snake for spreading the plague, but Lin Lan dismissed her claim and led Tang Yue away.
• Tang Yue stayed silent because she feared the snake might still be the epidemic’s source, while Lin Lan decided to explain what he knew about the plague.

Lin Lan and Tang Yue escaped Bai Town’s lockdown on the Extreme Frost Lightning Eagle and headed toward White Mountain, where trainee judges tried to stop them. Lin Lan’s group defeated Li Ke and continued onward as Captain Wu Pingjing prepared to intervene.

• Lin Lan told Tang Yue that Ling Ling was developing an antidote, and they agreed to leave Bai Town after nightfall.
• Lin Lan summoned the Extreme Frost Lightning Eagle to carry him and Tang Yue through the town’s barrier while Wu Pingjing watched from a tower and dismissed Lin Lan’s threat.
• A trainee judge used Plant Element magic to trap the eagle in the grassland, but Lin Lan ordered the eagle to freeze her vines and overpower her Earthly Forest.
• Lin Lan asked the defeated trainee judge her name, and she identified herself as Li Ke.
• As other trainee judges and Reserve Judges approached, Lin Lan and Tang Yue flew toward White Mountain, while Wu Pingjing waited for his forces to hold them back before attacking.

As a plague ravaged Hangzhou and infected more than a thousand people, Zhu Meng blamed the Totem Mysterious Snake and demanded its death while Tang Zhong pleaded for time to find a cure. The chapter left the snake’s fate uncertain as Zhu Meng refused to spare it.

• Mr. Lu warned Zhu Meng and Tang Zhong that the plague was rapidly worsening and its victims would likely die within seven days.
• Zhu Meng cited the 1,011 infected people and evidence linking the blistering illness to the Totem Mysterious Snake to pressure Tang Zhong to condemn it.
• Tang Zhong said he would investigate the plague and ask Tang Yue to bring back the snake’s shedding fluids in hopes of finding an antibody.
• Tang Zhong pleaded with Zhu Meng to spare the Totem Mysterious Snake, even if it had to be exiled.
• Zhu Meng declared that the Totem Mysterious Snake had to die, arguing that it posed a threat to Hangzhou’s people.

Lin Lan and Tang Yue fled toward White Mountain with the Totem Mysterious Snake while Zhu Meng’s forces pursued them. When the pursuers caught up, Lin Lan unleashed overwhelming Heavenly Thunder against Dongfang Ming, leaving the enemy stunned.

• Zhu Meng vowed to kill the snake that night, while Tang Zhong warned that his forces could not catch it.
• Lin Lan sensed a Commander Level creature and several flying pursuers approaching, but the Totem Mysterious Snake did not alert them.
• Tang Yue assigned Lin Lan to fight the Colorful Cloud Sparrow, its trainee arbitrators, and the two Wing Demon Tool users while she handled the Feather Sparrow.
• Liu Zhongming contacted Captain Wu Pingjing for reinforcements and ordered the pursuers to stop Lin Lan and Tang Yue from reaching White Mountain.
• Dongfang Ming dived at Lin Lan with Spirit Seed flames, but Lin Lan’s Heavenly Punishment—Thunderbolt—Wild Dance swallowed the flames and shocked Liu Yilin.

Lin Lan faced Dongfang Ming and Liu Yilin, who attacked him with fire and ice magic while he was possessed by Little Dragon Princess. His golden lightning overwhelmed their spells, and he rose into the air to launch Lightning Fist Shattering Sky.

• Dongfang Ming redirected Lin Lan's lightning strike into his Wing Demon Tool, saving himself but badly damaging the tool.
• Dongfang Ming used his fast-casting talent to launch a Fiery Fist, but Lin Lan dodged it and was surrounded by stubborn pale azure flames.
• Liu Yilin joined Dongfang Ming, mistaking Lin Lan for a Summoning Element High Mage and believing his ice magic could help pin him down.
• Dongfang Ming unleashed Fiery Fist—Nine Palaces as Liu Yilin attacked with Ice Lock—Pierce, but Lin Lan called for Little Dragon Princess to possess him.
• Lin Lan's golden lightning swallowed their fire and ice attacks, then he rose into the air and prepared Meteor Dawn: Lightning Fist Shattering Sky.

Lin Lan defeated Dongfang Ming and Liu Yilin with a devastating Thunder Fist, then joined Tang Yue and crippled the two beasts attacking her. After the group finished recording their victories, a huge figure appeared in the distant sky.

• Lin Lan blasted Dongfang Ming and Liu Yilin into a crater with Thunder Fist, leaving them unable to fight.
• Lin Lan recorded Dongfang Ming and Liu Yilin's names and fingerprints, then silenced Dongfang Ming when he tried to threaten him.
• Lin Lan rushed to help Tang Yue, who had wounded the Sharp Feathered Sparrow and Colorful Cloud Sparrow but was injured herself.
• Lin Lan used Mind Control to cripple the Sharp Feathered Sparrow and recorded both beasts, while Tang Yue asked him not to kill them.
• The Extreme Frost Lightning Eagle won its fight, everyone signed, and a huge figure appeared in the distant sky.

Lin Lan and Tang Yue fought to escape a powerful mage legion pursuing them and the molting Extreme Frost Lightning Eagle. Tang Yue headed for White Mountain with the Totem Bead while Lin Lan and the eagle attacked the pursuers, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Lin Lan heard Bai Tian and his companion hiding in the grass, and Tang Yue struck them with Blazing Fist - Nine Palaces.
• A Steel Rock Horn Dragon and a large force of mages, including three High Mages, advanced on Lin Lan and the injured Tang Yue.
• Tang Yue offered to stay behind so Lin Lan could flee with the Extreme Frost Lightning Eagle, but Lin Lan gave her the Totem Bead and chose to fight.
• Tang Yue used Shadow Dodge to head toward White Mountain as Lin Lan mounted the Extreme Frost Lightning Eagle and vanished using his Space Element ability.
• Lin Lan and the Extreme Frost Lightning Eagle reappeared beside the mage legion and sent paralyzing lightning-charged ice spikes toward the Intermediate Mages atop the Steel Rock Horn Dragon.

Lin Lan merged with Little Dragon Princess and overwhelmed Jiang Zhi’s group with powerful lightning magic. After the mages barely blocked his Thunder Arm, Lin Lan unleashed dozens of Lightning Swords at them.

• The Wind Element mages and Steel Rock Horn Dragon defended against the ice spikes and lightning, while Lin Lan merged with Little Dragon Princess.
• Jiang Zhi ordered Xu Feng and a squad of Intermediate Mages to hold off the Extreme Frost Lightning Eagle while the others confronted Lin Lan.
• Lin Lan formed a Thunder Arm and launched it at Jiang Zhi’s group.
• Jiang Zhi, the Steel Rock Horn Dragon, and the Intermediate Mages combined their defenses to block the Thunder Arm, but their barriers were shattered and several were injured or drained.
• Lin Lan summoned dozens of Lightning Swords and sent them flying toward Jiang Zhi and the others.

Lin Lan overwhelmed Jiang Zhi and the opposing mages with his Lightning Swords, then summoned a pack of War General Wolves to join the battle. The enemy group faced a Commander Level Bloodthirsty Demon Wolf and saw little chance of victory.

• Jiang Zhi and Xu Feng led the mages in combining defensive and destructive spells to withstand Lin Lan’s Lightning Swords.
• Lin Lan’s Lightning Swords broke through the group’s defenses, striking five Intermediate Mages and paralyzing others who tried to rescue them.
• Lin Lan opened a high-level summoning gate and summoned more than twenty War General Wolves.
• A Commander Level Bloodthirsty Demon Wolf emerged from the gate and intimidated Jiang Zhi’s group with its presence and roar.