Chapter Summaries

Lin Lan and the others wiped out the Crimson Ornament Guild members in the village, then joined a three-country mission to eliminate the guild and claim a Dark Noble Cloak. At White Head Port, Mayor Lauren blocked the student teams from attacking Kaso’s base and defended his plan to grant the pirates amnesty.

• Zhao Manyan endured Oni’s attacks while Mo Fan and Lin Lan identified the villagers’ attackers as pirates from the Crimson Ornament Guild.
• Lin Lan summoned the Extreme Frost Lightning Eagle, and the group killed every Crimson Ornament Guild member, including Oni, before government officials arrived.
• The National Academy Team received a mission with two other countries to eliminate the Crimson Ornament Guild, with a Dark Noble Cloak offered as the reward.
• Mayor Lauren led Military Mages to seal off the routes to Kaso’s barge as Shao He Gu, Nan Jue, and the Japan Team confronted him.
• Lauren claimed the pirates would be incorporated into the military and argued that his city needed their knowledge to defend against sea monsters, while Nan Jue’s communicator lit up with the Temple of Freedom’s emblem.

Lin Lan’s group reached White Head Port and confronted Kaso and the Crimson Ornament Guild as several forces joined the harbor battle. Lin Lan turned Kaso’s own magic against him, leaving him gravely wounded as the fight continued.

• Lin Lan kicked Mayor Lauren into the sea and led Mo Fan, Jiang Shaoxu, Zhao Manyan, Mu Ningxue, and Mu Nujiao to White Head Port.
• Lin Lan admitted that he had killed Oni and threatened to destroy the Crimson Ornament Guild, prompting Kaso and his men to attack.
• Ming Busong and Shao He Gu arrived with Japan Team reinforcements, while the Indian female mage led her people into the battle.
• The fighters split up, with Mo Fan and Zhao Manyan taking opponents as Kaso confronted Lin Lan.
• Kaso cast Heavenly Veil Slaughter, but Lin Lan used Chaos magic to amplify and return the sandstorm, breaking through Kaso’s Poison Element defense and tearing into him.

After Lin Lan helped capture Kaso, the Crimson Ornament Guild collapsed and China earned first place in the joint mission, with Lin Lan receiving the Dark Noble Cloak. The Chinese National Academy Team advanced through Mexico to the United States, where they discovered the American National Pavilion’s record of failed challenges.

• Kaso transformed himself with Poison Element magic, but two temple mages stopped Lin Lan from killing him and the Temple of Freedom took him into custody.
• The Crimson Ornament Guild collapsed after Kaso’s capture, freeing Vanilla Village and other communities from its control.
• Olunna’s report secured first place for the Chinese National Academy Team, and Lin Lan received the Dark Noble Cloak in Mexico.
• The Chinese team defeated the Mexican contestants and won a medal before continuing toward New York.
• Olunna welcomed the team to the United States National Pavilion, where Jiang Shaoxu and Zhao Manyan saw that every recorded challenge by the American reserve team had ended in failure.

After the American National Pavilion Team was defeated, Lin Lan and his companions encountered an Executioner who attacked Lin Lan during a sudden, devastating hailstorm in New York. Lin Lan repelled the first assault, but the powerful Black Vatican mage confronted the group and prepared to continue fighting.

• Lin Lan, Ai Jiangtu, and Mo Fan crushed the American National Pavilion Team, and Olunna presented them with medals.
• While the group walked through New York, a strange summer hailstorm began, wrecking cars and injuring people with enormous, explosive hailstones.
• At a coffee shop, Lin Lan met an Eastern girl, then used his Chaos magic to redirect ice spikes aimed at him, Mo Fan, and the girl.
• A hooded man in blue robes revealed that he had come to kill Lin Lan and threatened the others with his powerful ice domain.
• Lin Lan told Mo Fan to move the girl to safety, while Mu Ningxue recognized the attacker as a likely member of the Black Vatican.

Lin Lan broke Pei Li’s ice domain with Little Dragon Princess’s lightning, defeated him, and exposed his ties to the Temple of Freedom. Pei Li revealed why he had joined Leng Jue’s mission, leaving Li Yu'e to absorb the painful account of his daughter’s death.

• Mu Nujiao and Mu Ningxue failed to break Pei Li’s ice domain, so Lin Lan formed a lightning domain and shattered Pei Li’s Ice Coffin with Little Dragon Princess’s help.
• Lin Lan used spatial control to catch Pei Li off guard, then struck him with nine Thunder Halberds and imprisoned him in a lightning array.
• Li Yu'e recognized Pei Li as a former Temple mage and identified him as the sanitation worker uncle.
• Pei Li explained that he had taken the blame for his superior, lost his magic, and later joined Leng Jue’s mission after his daughter was killed and his superior could not save her.

After the Black Vatican stole a forbidden item from the Temple of Freedom, Lin Lan left the National Academy Team and returned to Magic City at Commander Hua’s request. Commander Hua gave him a Star Sea Vein to help him break through to Super Rank, leaving Lin Lan to begin his advancement.

• Ai Jiangtu explained that Pei Li had served as a diversion while the Black Vatican stole a forbidden item from the Temple of Freedom.
• Lin Lan left the National Academy Team for home, and Mo Fan guessed he was returning to break through to Super Rank.
• Lin Lan said goodbye to his teammates and flew home with their mentor.
• Lin Lan returned to Magic City and found Commander Hua waiting at his apartment with Ai Tutu.
• Commander Hua gave Lin Lan a Star Sea Vein and said he would return after Lin Lan broke through.

Lin Lan used a Star Sea Vein to advance his Space Element to the Super Rank. He gained the skills Reverse Time and Spatial Illusionary Domain, leaving him confident that he could defeat almost any opponent below Emperor-level or Forbidden Curse Mages.

• Lin Lan returned to his apartment with two Star Sea Veins and decided to use one to advance his Space Element before cultivating his Lightning Element.
• Lin Lan directed the Star Sea Vein’s energy into his Space Element and shattered the barrier around its star river.
• Lin Lan completed the breakthrough quietly, expanding his spiritual world without disturbing Ai Tutu.
• Lin Lan gained the Space Element skills Reverse Time and Spatial Illusionary Domain.
• Lin Lan realized that his new abilities made him nearly invincible against anyone below Emperor-level or Forbidden Curse Mages.

Lin Lan returned to the apartment after breaking through to the Super Rank and accidentally demolished his bedroom while killing a mosquito. Commander Hua congratulated him and discussed his two new awakenings, leaving Lin Lan set on the Shadow and Earth elements.

• Lin Lan accidentally destroyed his bedroom door and window with an overpowered Mind Control spell while killing a mosquito.
• Lin Lan told Ai Tutu he had become a Super Rank Mage, and she doubted him before asking him to buy her dinner.
• Commander Hua visited Lin Lan, congratulated him on his breakthrough and powerful Space Element skill, and asked what elements he wanted to awaken.
• Lin Lan considered several options with Commander Hua and chose the Shadow and Earth elements.

Lin Lan reached the Super Rank and arranged for state-funded awakenings of the Shadow and Earth Elements before joining the national team in Venice. He began his fourth awakening at Guo Liyu’s chamber, with the Earth Element set to awaken first and the Shadow Element afterward.

• Commander Hua told Lin Lan that he would join the national team in Venice for the final battle and must not use Super Rank magic.
• Lin Lan visited Guo Liyu’s awakening chamber, where Xiao Mian and Guo Liyu were shocked to learn he was already a Super Rank Mage.
• Lin Lan asked Guo Liyu to switch guidance stones between awakenings so he could awaken both the Earth and Shadow Elements.
• Guo Liyu prepared the awakening stone and placed the Earth Element guidance stone as Lin Lan began his fourth awakening.

Lin Lan awakened a black Earth Element and a Shadow Element, then tested his Earth magic in the wilderness and discovered it had a powerful additional effect. He left with a new spell, Rock Mountain Spike, capable of wiping out a grove and killing a Commander-level creature.

• Lin Lan awakened the Earth Element, whose stardust shone black instead of the usual brown.
• Lin Lan told Guo Liyu that he awakened two elements each time, and Guo Liyu placed the Shadow Element guiding stone.
• Lin Lan awakened the Shadow Element and revealed that he possessed shadow matter through Humble Craftsman.
• Lin Lan traveled to the wilderness near Magic City and cast Rock Mountain Spike with his newly awakened Earth Element.
• Lin Lan saw the spell raise a hill and send rocky spikes through a grove, confirming his Earth Element had a powerful additional effect.

Lin Lan reunited with the National Academy Team in Venice after training at Thunder Marsh Mountain and Pearl Academy, where he advanced his magic. As the World School Tournament opened, the draw matched Z Country against Japan in the first round.

• Lin Lan visited Thunder Marsh Mountain, where Elder Lei marveled at his progress and the Lei Clan's strength impressed him.
• Lin Lan studied the Space Element with Dean Xiao and advanced his Shadow and Earth Elements before traveling to Venice.
• Lin Lan rejoined the National Academy Team as visitors and thirty-two national teams gathered for the tournament's opening ceremony.
• Venice's governor Fabio welcomed the assembled representatives, and Lin Lan watched Pang Lai, Z Country's Half-Forbidden Curse Mage, among them.
• Ai Jiangtu drew Z Country's first-round opponent, and the Japanese team celebrated after learning they would face Z Country.

Feng Li selected the National Academy Team’s five contestants for the opening match against Japan, while Lin Lan revealed that he had reached the Super Level. Pang Lai then offered to guide Lin Lan and urged him to play a major role in the tournament.

• Feng Li ruled that the injured Mu Tingying, Nan Rongni, Li Kaifeng, and Zu Jiming would sit out the opening match.
• Feng Li chose Mu Ningxue, Jiang Shaoxu, Ai Jiangtu, Mo Fan, and Mu Nujiao to fight Japan’s team.
• Pang Lai arrived with Han Ji and Jiang Yu, and Han Ji confirmed that Lin Lan had reached the Super Level.
• Pang Lai invited Lin Lan to walk with him and asked when Lin Lan’s Summoning Element would reach the Super Level.
• Lin Lan said he planned to advance his Lightning Element first, and Pang Lai offered to teach him and urged him to make a major contribution to the tournament.

After China defeated Japan, Prince Banbo provoked the National Academy Team before its match against Spain, and Mo Fan baited him into betting on the outcome. Lin Lan staked five hundred million on China, while Zhao Manyan also placed a huge bet on Mo Fan’s bluff, leaving Mo Fan panicking as the match began.

• Lin Lan returned to find that the National Academy Team had defeated Japan, while Prince Banbo continued bothering Mu Ningxue and the other girls.
• Jiang Shaoxu and Jiang Yu told Banbo to leave the Chinese team’s area, and Court Chief Mage Pang Lai intervened before ordering Banbo back to his own side.
• Mo Fan baited Banbo by proposing a wager, and Banbo agreed to bet one hundred million on Spain.
• Lin Lan placed five hundred million on China after asking Zhao Manyan about the betting process.
• Song He warned Mo Fan about gambling, and Mo Fan realized Zhao Manyan had gone to place a bet based on his bluff.
• As the match began, Mo Fan tried to stop Zhao Manyan, but Feng Li pulled him onto the arena, and the odds display showed China’s betting pool rising.

After China defeated Spain, Lin Lan and her teammates celebrated their winnings and learned that the tournament’s top prize was Divine Seal Praise, a permanent boost to a mage’s base power. The Treasure Scramble Tournament then began, with 160 students sent into a dangerous demon region to seek hidden treasures, and Lin Lan prepared to seize its resources.

• Lin Lan’s team won against Spain, and Zhao Manyan showed Mo Fan that their bets had paid out, including Lin Lan’s 500 million wager.
• Feng Li, Song He, and Pang Lai warned the team that future opponents would be stronger and revealed that first place would receive Divine Seal Praise from the Parthenon Temple.
• Han Ji explained that Divine Seal Praise raised a mage’s base power from 1 to 1.5, while the second-place reward was the Void Altar and third place received magical equipment.
• Feng Li warned the students that the Treasure Scramble Tournament could involve deadly danger, and Lin Lan decided to pursue its resources.
• The Chief Referee sent the 160 students from sixteen countries into a demon region in randomized order and instructed them to use their Space Scrolls to escape mortal danger.

Lin Lan entered the Treasure Scramble Tournament’s warped independent space and ambushed competitors who had fought over a Stone Heart. After robbing them of their essence crystals, he pursued the Italian student Angelo, who had escaped with the Stone Heart.

• Lin Lan entered the tournament’s spatial arena and followed magical auras toward a group battling over a Mountain Top Rock Demon.
• After the Italians fled with the Stone Heart, Lin Lan attacked the remaining French and Japanese students with three lightning domains and took their essence crystals.
• Angelo celebrated escaping with the Stone Heart, but a gigantic demon beast darkened the sky ahead of him.
• Lin Lan appeared beside Dragon Girl Ji as Angelo realized the black curtain was a demon beast.

Lin Lan robbed Angelo of a Stone Heart and then reunited with Mo Fan and Mu Ningxue, who were forming a bandit group. Ailin joined them as their Mind Element specialist, and the four planned to use Pupil Eagles to find targets and Lin Lan’s Extreme Frost Lightning Eagle to strike quickly.

• Lin Lan used his triple domains to paralyze Angelo’s team, took their Stone Heart, and escaped before returning to kick Angelo and reveal that he had the Sound and Mind Elements.
• Lin Lan spotted Mo Fan and Mu Ningxue searching for targets and agreed to join their plan to rob other contestants.
• Mo Fan named their group the Lan Fan Xue Bandit Group and proposed Lin Lan as captain.
• Ailin emerged from hiding, explained that she was alone after her former team disbanded, and asked to join the group as a Mind Element mage.
• Mo Fan set the group’s shares, and Lin Lan proposed using Ailin’s Mind Element to control Pupil Eagles and locate targets for quick raids.

Lin Lan’s group targeted the Egyptian and Spanish teams to steal a Soul Seed, but Mo Fan’s successful theft led him into a trap. The enemy team surrounded him and wondered where Lin Lan was.

• Ailin spotted the exhausted Egyptian and Spanish teams carrying a Soul Seed, and Lin Lan proposed approaching cautiously while he followed behind.
• Mo Fan sneaked up on Mios and stole the Soul Seed pouch, then taunted her before retreating.
• Pinol’s team activated a watery barrier that trapped Mo Fan, while Mios caught up and vowed revenge.
• Pinol noted that only Mu Ningxue and Ailin were behind the Extreme Frost Lightning Eagle and asked where the other person had gone.

Mo Fan was surrounded by contestants from several countries while Lin Lan remained hidden, and Mu Ningxue and Ailin joined Mo Fan at his request. As the international broadcast followed the confrontation, Lin Lan waited in Phasing space for the fight to begin.

• Yak, Angelo, Hannah, and other contestants cornered Mo Fan inside a barrier prepared to capture him and demanded to know where Lin Lan was.
• The tournament broadcast showed Mo Fan’s predicament, while officials and viewers debated the Chinese team’s raids and searched the footage for Lin Lan.
• Shao Zheng and the other officials spotted Mu Ningxue and Ailin leaving their hiding place and rushing to Mo Fan.
• Mu Ningxue and Ailin joined Mo Fan as Yak and the others watched, while Hilbert and Beth accused Ailin of siding with the robbers.
• Lin Lan watched silently from Phasing space as the contestants traded insults and waited for the fight to start.

Mo Fan and his allies fought the coalition forces of six nations despite being heavily outnumbered, relying on Mu Ningxue and the Extreme Frost Lightning Eagle’s powerful Domains. When Bailey threatened Ailin with curses, Lin Lan emerged from Phasing space to protect her.

• Mo Fan attacked Yak with a Level Five Fiery Fist, then summoned Flying River White Wolf as Ailin protected their mental domains and Mu Ningxue unleashed her Solid Ice Domain.
• Mu Ningxue and the Extreme Frost Lightning Eagle combined their Domains, suppressing the enemy mages’ magic as Hannah’s lightning attack failed to harm the Eagle.
• Bailey attacked Ailin with an Evil Spider Trap and concealed Ghost Punishment, but Ailin interrupted the curse with Crushing Heart Sonata.
• A Canadian student joined the attack on Ailin, but Lin Lan appeared and blocked the incoming spells with a Chaos Vortex.

Lin Lan used Dragon Girl Ji’s possession to unleash a devastating lightning attack that defeated the ambushing mages, then led Mo Fan, Mu Ningxue, and Ailin toward the valuable Battlefield Treasure. The group reached the poisonous Black Gas Lake valley and descended through its Poison Gas to explore the swamps below.

• Lin Lan let Dragon Girl Ji possess him and used golden Thunder Dragons to overwhelm the attacking mages, while Mo Fan, Mu Ningxue, and Ailin finished off those who got back up.
• The worldwide audience and officials watched Lin Lan’s power, and Chief Speaker Shao Zheng praised his strength and tactics.
• Lin Lan told his teammates about the Battlefield Treasure in the Poison Gas valley, and they agreed to pursue it.
• The four traveled to the Black Gas Lake, where they found a vast, complicated valley covered in Poison Gas.
• Lin Lan used his Chaos Element to open a way through the gas, and the group descended to the valley floor amid rotting swamps.