Chapter Summaries

Lin Lan and Mo Fan fought the vampires at the North Country Club, where Lin Lan used his clones and Spatial Magic to overwhelm them. He crushed the two Warrior Rank vampires, while Pike and the other Commander Level vampires remained trapped under his pressure.

• Lin Lan killed Jack with a Phantom Claw strike, enraging the vampires and prompting them to attack him and Mo Fan.
• Lin Lan's three clones confused the vampires, who tore apart the illusions before realizing his true body had disappeared into space.
• Mo Fan used his Blood Beast Boots and flames to fend off attacks from a female Commander Level vampire and Qing Xue.
• Lin Lan appeared and used Spatial Rhythm—Compression to pin the vampires beneath crushing pressure while sparing Mo Fan.
• Mo Fan kicked the Blood Fangs from Qing Xue and another Warrior Rank vampire, and Lin Lan's Spatial Magic ground both into powder.
• Pike and the other Commander Level vampires erupted in fury while remaining trapped under Lin Lan's pressure.

Lin Lan held off the vampires while Mo Fan was attacked by Night Blade Bats, then Little Dragon Princess and the Extreme Frost Lightning Eagle emerged from the cellar and turned the fight. Lin Lan launched a Sound Element attack as Pike considered retreating.

• Pike redirected the vampires’ Blood Claws and Blood Blades toward Mo Fan, who escaped using his Shadow Element.
• The vampires summoned swarms of Night Blade Bats, forcing Mo Fan to summon the Swift Star Wolf and retreat while attacking.
• Lin Lan revealed that Little Dragon Princess and the Extreme Frost Lightning Eagle were clearing the vampires’ cellar.
• Little Dragon Princess and the Extreme Frost Lightning Eagle emerged and destroyed many Blood Blade Bats, shocking the vampires with their strength.
• Pike considered retreating, but Lin Lan formed a Sound Element star map and unleashed Sound—Blast against the three vampires.

Lin Lan used the Little Dragon Princess's possession and his Heavenly Judgment Domain to destroy the vampires at North Country Club. After he found an Essence Soul, Ling Ling recognized something in it that reminded her of the Red Demon.

• Lin Lan possessed the Little Dragon Princess and trapped the vampires in his Heavenly Judgment Domain.
• The Extreme Frost Lightning Eagle carried off Pike's mate, while Lin Lan killed the other vampires and tore out their Blood Fangs.
• Pike transformed into a vampire monster, but Lin Lan blasted him apart and absorbed his soul.
• Lin Lan discovered a dark, blood-colored Essence Soul just as Mo Fan, Zhao Manyan, and Ling Ling arrived.
• Ling Ling saw Pike's soul and became furious and excited because it reminded her of the Red Demon.

Ling Ling recognized Pike’s dark-red soul as a clue connected to her missing previous partner, while Lin Lan sold vampire Blood Fangs to Huo Tuo and stayed to collect his magic equipment. Lin Lan also expected Zhu Meng’s representative to deliver the Ice Soul Seed that afternoon.

• Ling Ling studied Pike’s dark-red Spirit Essence and told Mo Fan she had been searching for souls with that color because her previous partner had disappeared due to one.
• Lin Lan left the vampire family’s remains for the Hunter Alliance and shared Spirit Seed fragments with Mo Fan and Zhao Manyan for helping.
• Lin Lan returned to Huo Tuo’s place, where Huo Tuo agreed to buy three sets of Commander Level and three sets of Warrior Rank Blood Fangs.
• Huo Tuo offered seventy million per Commander Level set and twenty million per Warrior Rank set, then promised to finish Lin Lan’s magic equipment that afternoon.
• Lin Lan decided to wait at Huo Tuo’s place because Tang Yue had said Zhu Meng would send someone with the Ice Soul Seed that afternoon.

Huo Tuo completed the Mysterious Snake Magic Armor for Lin Lan, who then received the ice-element Soul Seed Frost Soul Extreme Ice from Wu Pingjing. Lin Lan planned to absorb it before gathering people to head for the East Sea.

• Huo Tuo finished forging the Mysterious Snake Magic Armor, and Lin Lan admired its comfort, poison resistance, and defensive abilities.
• Huo Tuo offered Lin Lan a discount on future forging work, and Li Junnan drove him to the Magic City Magic Association.
• Wu Pingjing delivered Frost Soul Extreme Ice to Lin Lan on Zhu Meng's behalf.
• Wu Pingjing explained that Frost Soul Extreme Ice had a Frost Soul Domain, boosted ice magic fivefold, and possessed an additional Absolute Freeze effect.
• Lin Lan told Wu Pingjing the Soul Seed was for his girlfriend, and Wu Pingjing left to return to Hangzhou for a meeting.

Lin Lan prepared for a dangerous expedition to the East Sea, investing in cultivation resources and seeking intelligence about its demon creatures. He recruited Lei Hanhai, Lei Hao, and Lin Wanqing for the planned team, while declining Mo Fan’s request to join him.

• Lin Lan considered the dangers and opportunities of the Ancient Capital Cataclysm, then told Wu Pingjing he would enter the World School Tournament but avoid traveling with the team early on.
• Lin Lan spent his wealth on cultivation resources, equipment, and faction development, and planned to gather information before exploring the East Sea.
• Lin Lan met Mo Fan and Zhao Manyan at a Zhao Family auction house and explained how Secret Information Scrolls collected unverified but valuable field intelligence.
• Lin Lan said he intended to use the scrolls to learn about East Sea demon activity and plan a route toward Liupo Mountain, where the Totem Beast Kui Ox was believed to be.
• Mo Fan asked to join Lin Lan’s expedition, but Lin Lan refused and told him to follow his own opportunities.

Lin Lan, Mo Fan, and Zhao Manyan bought Secret Information Scrolls, and Mo Fan discovered that Yan Ji might be nurturing new life in the Scorching Plains. Lin Lan learned about mermaid-like sea demons in the East Sea and began reading a scroll about the dangerous route there.

• Zhao Manyan bought Secret Information Scrolls for Lin Lan and Mo Fan at a discount.
• Mo Fan read that Swordfin Sea Demons had been sighted in the Huangpu River, then found a report that Yan Ji might be nurturing new life in the Scorching Plains.
• Zhao Manyan explained Yan Ji’s rarity and value, and Mo Fan resolved to gather complete information and pursue her as a Contract Beast.
• Lin Lan read that Commander Level sea demons had overrun the Liupo Mountain region and could be countered with Mind System and Sound Element Mages.
• Mo Fan remarked that the fish-tailed, humanoid sea demons sounded like mermaids, and Lin Lan opened another scroll about the dangerous route to the East Sea.

Lin Lan prepared to travel to the East Sea for the Kui Ox and told Mo Fan what he knew about Yan Ji before Mo Fan set off for the Scorching Plains with Zhao Manyan. To face mind-bewitching sea demons, Lin Lan asked Ding Yumian to accompany him, openly explaining that he was a Sound Element Mage.

• Lin Lan studied scrolls about the routes to Liupo Mountain and the Totem Guardians, then decided to begin preparing for his East Sea trip.
• Lin Lan declined to join Mo Fan in Dunhuang and shared key information about Yan Ji, including his warning that humans might betray the Yan Ji Guardian.
• Mo Fan persuaded Zhao Manyan to travel with him toward the Scorching Plains to investigate Yan Ji.
• Lin Lan went to the Pearl Academy library and asked Ding Yumian to accompany him to the East Sea as a Mind System Mage.
• Lin Lan told Ding Yumian that he was a Sound Element Mage and needed her help to counter the sea demons' mind-bewitching abilities.

Lin Lan persuaded Ding Yumian to join him, hoping to help her develop her talents while keeping the Holy City from noticing. He began assembling a trusted team for a dangerous East Sea mission to find the totem Kui Ox and told Lin Wanqing they were heading there.

• Ding Yumian agreed to help Lin Lan after sensing his sincerity and trusting his abilities.
• Lin Lan and Ding Yumian walked across campus, and he explained that his Lightning Element was a growth-type Devouring Seed rather than an Innate Soul Seed.
• Lin Lan considered how his unusual Lightning talent might attract the Arbitration Council's attention, though he believed his backing would deter them.
• Lin Lan called Lei Hanhai and Lei Hao to recruit them for the search for the totem Kui Ox.
• Lin Lan went to Pearl Academy and asked Lin Wanqing, a Healing Mage, to join the East Sea mission.

Lin Lan assembled an elite team to travel to Liupo Mountain in the East Sea in search of the Totem Beast Kui Ox. As the group prepared to fly toward the wilderness, he revealed that he possessed six elements, shocking his companions.

• Lin Wanqing agreed to join Lin Lan’s expedition after Lin Lan explained that the team would travel by land toward Liupo Mountain.
• Lin Lan finalized a five-person team with Lei Hanhai, Lei Hao, Ding Yumian, and Lin Wanqing, and planned to give the others most of the expedition’s gains.
• The group set off and Lin Lan summoned his Commander Level Extreme Frost Lightning Eagle to carry them part of the way.
• Lin Wanqing asked why Lin Lan had brought no supplies, and Lin Lan offered to store everyone’s heavy belongings in his Space Element storage space.
• Ding Yumian questioned how Lin Lan could have a storage space when she knew him to possess Lightning, Summoning, and Sound elements.
• Lin Lan revealed that he had Innate Dual Element in every element and possessed Space, Lightning, Summoning, Ice, Chaos, and Sound, leaving the others astonished.

Lin Lan revealed his six magical elements and powerful spiritual strength as the group traveled to Liupo Mountain in search of Swamp Poison Tumor Frogs. After reaching the swamp, they encountered a Commander Level frog and discovered that more frogs were gathering nearby.

• Lin Lan disclosed his six magical elements and explained that his Innate Dual Element talent still required resources to become truly powerful.
• Lin Lan led the group aboard the Extreme Frost Lightning Eagle and traveled with them to Liupo Mountain.
• Lin Lan detected and killed four Bone Thorn Wolves with his spiritual power, then revealed that he could briefly reach the Sixth Realm.
• Lin Lan froze the swamp around the group and confirmed that his ice element possessed a Soul Seed.
• A Commander Level Swamp Poison Tumor Frog emerged from the mud, while Lin Lan sensed more than a dozen Warrior Rank Fierce Poison Frogs nearby.
• The calls of additional Swamp Poison Tumor Frogs sounded from the surrounding swamp, suggesting the group had found a nest.

Lin Lan and his companions fought a group of poison frogs in the marsh, where Lin Lan revealed that his Mysterious Snake Magic Armor made him immune to their venom. He trapped five Swamp Poison Tumor Frogs in an ice coffin, and Lei Hanhai and Lei Hao recognized the armor as being forged from the Mysterious Snake’s armor.

• Lin Lan froze the marsh, but the Swamp Poison Tumor Frogs summoned Fierce Poison Frogs to attack the group.
• Lin Lan killed most of the charging Fierce Poison Frogs with Annihilation, and Lei Hao finished off the survivors with his Thunder Spear.
• Lin Lan charged into the midst of five Swamp Poison Tumor Frogs wearing the Mysterious Snake Magic Armor, which absorbed their venom without harming him.
• Lin Lan phased away from the frogs’ tongues and struck them with high-level Ice Element magic, sealing them beneath a massive ice coffin.
• Lei Hanhai and Lei Hao recognized Lin Lan’s armor as being made from the Mysterious Snake’s armor and realized it granted him Poison Immunity.

Lin Lan and his team killed five Swamp Poison Tumor Frogs, then faced two larger frogs that attacked with corrosive toxic mist. They killed the pair with coordinated attacks and continued toward the coast, the most crucial area ahead.

• Lin Lan froze five Swamp Poison Tumor Frogs with the Ice Coffin, and the team killed them with lightning, ice, and fire magic.
• Two larger Swamp Poison Tumor Frogs emerged from the shadows, and Lin Lan warned the group that a Monarch Level creature might be nearby.
• One frog sprayed corrosive toxic mist, so Lei Hanhai raised an Earth Wall to shield the team.
• Ding Yumian's Earth Fiend flames failed to harm the fire-resistant frogs, and Lei Hao wounded them with his Thunder Spear.
• Lin Wanqing's ice blade and Lin Lan's lightning struck the frogs, killing them as Lei Hao retreated from the attack range.

Lin Lan and his companions reached a fishing village on the coast while searching for Liupo Mountain. The villagers defended their home from the group, then warned them that everyone at Liupo Mountain had been bewitched.

• Lin Lan led the group along the coast toward Yandang Mountain and Liupo Mountain.
• The group found a fishing village despite the reports of sea monsters and demons in the area.
• An old man attacked the five travelers with Thunderbolt magic, but Lei Hao absorbed the lightning.
• The village's young men confronted the travelers, and Lin Lan explained that they were looking for clues about Liupo Mountain.
• After Lei Hao admitted their purpose, the old man and the young men warned them that everyone at Liupo Mountain had been bewitched.

Lin Lan's group questioned a fishing village about Liupo Mountain, the Bewitching Sound Sea Demon, and the Kui Ox, then learned that a Monarch-level sea demon ruled the village. Lin Lan left with the group to investigate the village's suspicious behavior and plan their next move.

• Lin Lan suspected the Bewitching Sound Sea Demon was behind the bewitching at Liupo Mountain and asked whether the villagers had been affected.
• Wu Tian warned Lin Lan's group to leave and dismissed Lin Lan's claim that he might be a High Mage, while Lei Hao grew angry and Lin Lan restrained him.
• Wu Tian revealed that the village had been captured and forced to give its daily catch to a Monarch-level Bewitching Sound Sea Demon, but refused to discuss the Kui Ox.
• Lin Lan asked why the villagers remained clear-headed, and Wu Tian could only guess that the demon needed them to keep fishing.
• Lin Lan thanked the villagers and led the group away, then told Lei Hao they would investigate the suspicious village and seek information about the Kui Ox themselves.

At the shore, Lin Lan and his companions faced a mermaid and a swarm of sea demons attacking the fishing village. They resisted the mermaid’s bewitching song and moved to capture her, but her voice proved to carry illusion magic.

• The old man and the burly man realized that Lei Hao had absorbed the old man’s Thunderbolt and regretted letting such a powerful group leave.
• Lin Lan, Lei Hao, Ding Yumian, Lin Wanqing, and Lei Hanhai heard a strange song by the sea and spotted a mermaid with dozens of crab-like sea demons.
• The sea demons attacked the fishing village, and the mermaid’s song caused the villagers to lose themselves and drop their magic.
• Lin Lan ordered the group to attack and said he would try to capture the mermaid; Lei Hao, Ding Yumian, and Lin Wanqing fought the sea demons while Lin Lan and Lei Hanhai moved toward the mermaid.
• The mermaid unleashed a stronger song that disoriented Lin Lan and Lei Hanhai, then used an illusion to evade Lei Hanhai’s lightning strike.

Lin Lan and Lei Hanhai fought the mermaid and her sea demon guards, then captured her with Lei Hanhai’s Nine Rings Prohibition. With the fishing village’s crisis temporarily resolved, the group considered questioning the mermaid and discovered Lei Hao was trying to wake a bewitched man.

• The mermaid sent sea demons to attack Lin Lan and Lei Hanhai while her illusions and song hindered them.
• Lin Lan searched the sea with his Sixth Realm Spiritual Power, found the mermaid hiding behind a reef, and placed a Spatial Mark on her.
• Lei Hanhai summoned nine Lightning Halberds and used Nine Rings Prohibition to knock the mermaid unconscious without killing her.
• Ding Yumian and Lin Wanqing joined Lin Lan and Lei Hanhai after defeating the remaining sea demons, and Lin Lan said the village’s crisis was temporarily resolved.
• Lei Hanhai asked where Lei Hao was, and Lin Wanqing explained that Lei Hao was slapping a bewitched man to wake him.

Lin Lan's group subdued the Bewitching Sound Sea Demon and learned from Wu Tian that his fishing village served the Totem Tribe at Liupo Mountain. Wu Tian did not know the Kui Ox's location, but he revealed that something had happened there long ago and the totem guardian had not appeared since.

• Lei Hao explained that he had beaten Wu Tian and the other villagers after they attacked him while bewitched, and Wu Tian apologized once he regained control of himself.
• Lin Lan examined the captured mermaid and warned that a Monarch Level sea demon could make the situation dangerous.
• Wu Tian told Lei Hao that his village had been enslaved and had tried to resist, mistaking the arriving sea demon for people bewitched by Liupo Mountain.
• Lin Lan demanded information about the Kui Ox and the sea demons, and Wu Tian revealed that the fishing village was a vassal of the Totem Tribe at Liupo Mountain.
• Wu Tian said he did not know where the Kui Ox was, but it had not appeared since something happened at Liupo Mountain long ago.

Lin Lan and the others learned that the Kui Ox might be imprisoned and agreed to investigate Liupo Mountain with help from Wu Tian’s tribe. After accepting a mysterious heirloom stone and planning their route, they prepared to set out the next morning, while Ding Yumian worried that events had gone too smoothly.

• Lin Lan concluded that Liupo Mountain might be under the Bewitching Sound Sea Demon’s control, and Wu Tian revealed a hidden cave that could lead there.
• Wu Tian offered two Water Element Spirit Seeds and a strange heirloom stone in exchange for the group’s help; Lin Lan accepted the stone but left the Spirit Seeds with the tribe.
• Wu Le brought out the dark blue stone, and Lin Lan and Lei Hanhai sensed that it held powerful, mysterious energy.
• Wu Tian offered to guide the group, and Lin Lan agreed to rest overnight before departing for Liupo Mountain in the morning.
• Wu Tian explained that incense from his tribe could guide them through the fog and traps at Yandang Mountain; Ding Yumian then said she feared something was wrong because everything had gone too smoothly.

Lin Lan’s group discovered that the mermaid had died, then followed Wu Tian and Wu Le along the coast toward the hidden cave near Liupo Mountain. On a rocky island, Lin Lan effortlessly killed a group of Crimson Ling Demons and brought back one survivor, leaving the clan members stunned by his strength.

• Lin Lan examined the dark-blue stone but could not activate it, then put it away to focus on finding the Kui Ox.
• The group found the mermaid dead, and Lin Lan concluded that she had likely taken her own life.
• Wu Tian and Wu Le led Lin Lan’s group north along the coast toward the hidden cave near Liupo Mountain.
• The group found claw marks and debris on a rocky island, and Ding Yumian identified the nearby sea demons as Crimson Ling Demons.
• Lin Lan revealed that he had killed more than a dozen Warrior Rank Crimson Ling Demons and brought back one, astonishing Wu Tian and Wu Le.