Chapter Summaries

Lu Su and Wu Di began their high-profile arena fight, revealing their Silver grade cards to the spectators. Lu Su’s coordinated defenses held against Wu Di’s opening assault, leaving Wu Di facing a battle of attrition.

• Lu Su kept reporters guessing about why he had challenged Wu Di, while Ghost Shadow Soldiers kept them at a distance.
• Lu Su and Wu Di summoned their cards, revealing four Silver grade cards each, including Melinoë among Wu Di’s death-system cards.
• Jiang Wang identified Wu Di’s cards as Meng Po, Melinoë, Liu Yuanda, and Shi Wenye, while Gu Wu predicted Lu Su would win.
• After the referee signaled the start, Xue’s gale created an opening for Lily to attack the fan-wielding man, whose hammer-wielding ally blocked her strike.
• Wu Di sent a blood-yellow river at Lily, but Unohana Retsu and Xue reinforced her defenses, prompting Lu Su to threaten to wear Wu Di down.

Lu Su sent Unohana Retsu into close combat, revealing her hidden berserker strength and self-healing as she fought Wu Di’s cards. After she was swallowed by Meng Po’s river, Wu Di realized Lily had disappeared from the arena.

• Wu Di’s Meng Po blocked Unohana Retsu’s Field Card-enhanced lightning attack, leaving Lu Su to choose a new tactic.
• Unohana Retsu used Flash Step to reach Wu Di’s cards, then revealed her true strength by blocking the Golden Hammer and striking back.
• Unohana Retsu dodged attacks and healed her wounds while fighting Wu Di’s four cards, but the injuries gradually overwhelmed her.
• Meng Po’s river swallowed Unohana Retsu as Lu Su calmly watched, while Wu Di’s father could not warn him about the plan.
• Wu Di realized Lily had disappeared somewhere within the arena.

Lu Su revealed Lily’s concealed Excalibur and unleashed Caliburn against Meng Po and the other cards, devastating the arena. When the beam faded, Wu Di’s lone surviving woman card remained, and he declared that he would take the victory.

• Wu Di searched for Lily while Meng Po and the others attacked Xue and Nylro, unaware of Lily’s hidden charge.
• The spectators noticed the Barrier’s ripples as Xue withdrew her concealment, revealing Lily’s full-power modified Wind King Barrier.
• Lily unleashed Caliburn, and the golden torrent battered Meng Po’s group and flattened much of the arena.
• After the beam dissipated, a woman surrounded by undead souls remained where Meng Po and the others had stood.
• Wu Di laughed and announced that he would take the victory.

Lu Su appeared close to defeat when Wu Di’s Nemesis Melinoë overwhelmed his remaining fighters, but Nylro transformed into a green-haired swordswoman and revealed a powerful new form. The chapter ended as Nylro invoked “Sing, Antelope Knight,” and pale-red spiritual energy surged from the ground.

• Wu Di’s spirits pressured Xue, Lily, and Nylro after Lily lost the Sword of Golden Vows, while spectators and Gu Wu believed Lu Su was about to lose.
• Lu Su told Nylro to do what she could, and she ran in front of Xue and Lily despite her fear.
• Nylro transformed in a burst of pink smoke into a green-haired woman with a sword and a number 3 tattoo.
• Nylro fired pale-red energy at Melinoë, who remained standing but became disheveled.
• Nylro held her blade horizontally and said, “Sing, Antelope Knight,” as pale-red spiritual energy surged from the ground.

Lu Su unleashed Nylro's Resurrección, overwhelming Wu Di's Melinoë despite the immense Spiritual Power it consumed. Nylro destroyed Melinoë and secured Lu Su's victory, leaving the stunned spectators to realize the duel was over.

• Nylro transformed into her Resurrección form, revealing a powerful half-human, half-antelope body and a Double-headed Lance.
• Nylro's oppressive presence kept Melinoë's wraiths from obeying her, and her lance shattered Melinoë's divine power and wounded her.
• Wu Di urged Melinoë to fight on as Nylro warned that her next strike would finish the battle.
• Nylro hurled her lance through Melinoë's wraiths and divine protection, pinning her against the Barrier until she dispersed into light.
• The spectators watched in stunned silence as they realized Lu Su had won.

Lu Su defeated Wu Di after Nylro revealed a second transformation, and Bai Yueming exposed Wu Di’s cruelty to the public. As the Wu Family’s feud with Bai Yueming hardened, Wu Yun began plotting to have the Spirit Summoning Society kill Lu Su.

• Lu Su’s transformed Nylro defeated Wu Di, leaving Jiang Nanxi convinced she could never catch up to Lu Su and prompting Jin Ping to raise Lu Su’s clearance level to the highest.
• Lu Su reminded Wu Di of his promise, but Bai Yueming’s spell forced Wu Di to confess his actions and contempt for ordinary people on live broadcasts.
• The audience turned against Wu Di, while Wu Yun ordered a servant to bring his son back and silently acknowledged that the Imperial Court and Association constrained the Wu Family.
• Wu Yun left after deciding the Spirit Summoning Society could be used to kill Lu Su and strike back at Bai Yueming.

After his battle with Wu Di, Lu Su was summoned by Miaoxuan and learned that President Jin Ping had promoted him to Sixth Master of the Spirit Summoning Society. He accepted his new authority and a set of familiar card materials while keeping his undercover identity secret.

• Lu Su received Miaoxuan's message and went to her office.
• Miaoxuan told Lu Su that Jin Ping had raised his clearance to the highest level, making him Sixth Master beneath Gu Wu.
• Lu Su learned he could sense contracts and command Society members with lower clearance, and tested the authority by making Miaoxuan bark.
• Miaoxuan said Lu Su's undercover identity would remain undisclosed and gave him three card materials as a subsidy.
• Lu Su accepted the materials for Xiao Ren and left Miaoxuan's office with the Ghost Shadow Soldier.

Bai Yueming warned Lu Su that the Wu Family might ask the Spirit Summoning Society to target him, and urged him to stay with his Fourth Senior Disciple Sister in Nandu. Lu Su instead agreed to buy a home nearby, while Wu Yun arranged to contact a high-ranking Spirit Summoning Society member to have Lu Su killed.

• Bai Yueming visited Lu Su and warned that the Imperial Court and Spirit Summoning Society had an ambiguous relationship and that the Wu Family might seek their help against him.
• Bai Yueming told Lu Su to stay at his Fourth Senior Disciple Sister's home, but Lu Su persuaded him to accept a plan to buy a place next door instead.
• Wu Yun urged several elderly men to help him contact Jin Ping and kill Lu Su, but they refused to contact Jin Ping.
• Wu Yun persuaded the elderly men to provide contact information for the highest-ranking Spirit Summoning Society member they could reach, arguing that Lu Su resembled Ye Zhou and posed a threat to the Wu Family.

Lu Su rewrote Ren Xiaxin’s story so she inherited her friend Sheng Zi’s Monster Slayer title without turning her into a servant, then summoned her and became her kin. When the Wu Family hired the Spirit Summoning Society to assassinate him, Lu Su arranged to let the contract proceed as a trap, and Mo Yu headed for his home after Kurumi’s aura was drawn away.

• Lu Su bought the manor beside Kurumi’s estate and used Miaoxuan’s materials to create Ren Xiaxin as the Monster Slayer who honored Sheng Zi’s wishes.
• Lu Su summoned Ren Xiaxin, and she turned him into her kin, granting him greatly increased physical strength.
• Miaoxuan told Lu Su the Wu Family had asked the Spirit Summoning Society to assassinate him, so he instructed her to accept the commission and turn it against them.
• Mo Yu met Wu Yun and Wu Di, accepted their payment, and agreed to attack only if Kurumi was absent.
• Wu Yun revealed the Wu Family planned to draw Kurumi away, and a wave of power swept across Nandu the following night.
• After sensing Kurumi’s aura moving away, Mo Yu set out for Lu Su’s home to kill him.

Lu Su subdued Mo Yu, the Spirit Summoning Society assassin sent by the Wu Family, and revealed that he was Mo Yu’s superior, Luo Six. After Mo Yu staged an attack to deceive Kurumi, she returned and promised to help Lu Su take revenge on the Wu Family.

• Mo Yu searched Lu Su’s estate, found him in his study, and was forced to sit under Lu Su’s control.
• Lu Su identified Mo Yu and claimed the title of Sixth Master, revealing he had ordered the assassination mission himself.
• Lu Su told Mo Yu to stage a failed attack and to target Wu Di if he found an opportunity.
• Mo Yu caused an explosion in the courtyard, and Lu Su used Xue’s Psychic Whirlwind to make himself look badly exhausted.
• Kurumi returned after being lured away by the Wu Family, and Lu Su told her the attack had failed and he was unharmed.
• Kurumi accepted Lu Su’s explanation, then quietly vowed to help him get revenge.

Mo Yu captured Wu Di and brought him to Lu Su, who revealed that he had belonged to the Spirit Summoning Society from the beginning before killing Wu Di. Lu Su ordered Mo Yu to hide while he explained the incident to the Society.

• Mo Yu attacked Wu Di in the Wu Family study and carried the unconscious man away.
• Mo Yu returned to Lu Su's estate with Wu Di, and Lu Su angrily agreed to deal with him there.
• Daren drained Wu Di's Spiritual Power as Lu Su confronted him and rejected his pleas to join the Spirit Summoning Society.
• Lu Su told Wu Di he had been part of the Society from the beginning, then killed him and ordered Mo Yu to erase the evidence.
• Lu Su told Mo Yu to stay out of sight while he explained the incident to the Society.

Lu Su learned that Kurumi had killed Wu Yun and told Miaoxuan that he had killed Wu Di, then traveled with Nanda University's Battle Club to Sucheng City for training and a match against Suda University. While exploring the city, he sensed Spirit Summoning Society members dying and found two injured men facing a stitched, dangerous enemy, just as another man in a black suit appeared.

• Kurumi returned with Wu Yun's head and told Lu Su that she could not find Wu Di, while Lu Su concealed that he had killed him.
• Lu Su told Miaoxuan that the Wu Family was finished and explained what Mo Yu had done, then returned to classes at Nanda University.
• Chai Hao arranged Secret Realm training and a match against Suda University, and Lu Su joined the Battle Club's trip to Sucheng City.
• Lu Su sensed many Spirit Summoning Society members in Sucheng City and noticed that their contracts were disappearing near the outskirts.
• An injured young man urged the burly man carrying him to flee, but a stitched man cornered them after their cards went on cooldown.
• A man in a black suit appeared before the stitched man could attack the two injured men.

Lu Su discovered that Guiyi Cult members were operating in Sucheng City and arranged for the Card Master Association to investigate while concealing his identity as Gu Wu. The child who delivered his note pointed out an empty space after Lu Su vanished, leaving only a bag of snacks behind.

• Ren Xiaxin subdued and drained a Guiyi Cult member who had attacked two Spirit Summoning Society members.
• Lu Su learned the Guiyi Cult's gathering site address and decided to report it to the Card Master Association rather than attack it himself.
• Lu Su had Ren Xiaxin snap the captive's neck and dispose of the body in his shadow, then let the two Society members leave after introducing himself as Gu Wu.
• Lu Su bribed a child with snacks to deliver a note containing the gathering site's location to the Card Master Association and made sure a nearby camera recorded Gu Wu's appearance.
• The child delivered the note, then pointed toward where Lu Su had been standing, but the staff saw only an abandoned bag of snacks.

Lu Su and the Nanda University Battle Club arrived at Suda University for a sparring exchange, where students flocked to see him. After Lu Su judged his teammates’ strength and Liu Yu entered the arena, Suda’s Xiao Dou challenged Lu Su, but Liu Yu insisted she face him first.

• Lu Su returned to a shopping mall restroom through a Ghost Shadow Soldier and then traveled with Chai Hao and the Battle Club members to Suda University.
• Students crowded Suda University’s gates to see Lu Su, and Liu Yu suggested that he take the final match of the day.
• Zhang Zhixuan welcomed Chai Hao and Lu Su, then led both groups to the battle arena and raised a Barrier.
• Lu Su watched his three teammates compete and concluded that Du Jing was at a normal level while Sun Jian and You Mengnan were weak.
• Liu Yu entered the arena, and Suda University’s Xiao Dou asked to fight Lu Su; Liu Yu and the teachers told her to face Liu Yu first.

Luo Su returned to Shanghai City after Liu Yu defeated Xiao Dou, checked on Jiang Wang, and visited his old school, where he showed his classmates the Ghost Shadow Soldiers. Just as he prepared to leave, a crash sounded at the school gate.

• Liu Yu defeated Xiao Dou with his storm-enhanced cards, and Chai Hao praised Suda University’s showing despite the loss.
• Luo Su flew back to Shanghai City, messaged Bai Yueming about the lockdown in Sucheng City, and confirmed that Jiang Wang was not part of the Spirit Summoning Society.
• Jiang Wang told Luo Su that the Association might send him to manage a smaller city after he reached Gold Grade, and Luo Su then headed to Shanghai City No. 1 High School.
• Luo Su reunited with Song Qian, Jiang Nanxi, Lin Yue, and his former classmates, then summoned Ghost Shadow Soldiers that handed out snacks.
• A thunderous crash came from the school gate just as Luo Su was about to leave.

Lu Su confronted a Guiyi Cult Werewolf who attacked Shanghai City No. 1 High School, protecting the students and teachers while defeating and restraining him. Before Lu Su could learn the cult’s plan, the Werewolf’s head exploded, leaving the reason for the attack unknown.

• Lu Su sensed the Guiyi Cult’s presence at the school gate, transformed into Arrogance, and Lily severed the Werewolf’s arm.
• The Werewolf regenerated and attacked the teaching building, but Xue’s Telekinesis protected it and Nylro’s Release overwhelmed the attacker.
• Lu Su used Nylro to drive the Werewolf toward the field and pin him in a crater, then had Unohana Retsu restrain him with Five Pillar Iron Prison.
• Lu Su questioned the Werewolf about the Guiyi Cult’s plan and its staged attack, but the Werewolf’s head exploded before he could answer.

Lu Su defeated a Guiyi Cult Grafted Demon at Shanghai City No. 1 High School, then returned to Nandu as the crisis spread across several cities. He created the Silver Arm card for Lily and discovered its powerful Chain effects with Altria, leaving him surprised by the card’s potential.

• Lu Su reported killing a Guiyi Cult Grafted Demon to his group, and Bai Yueming explained that the cult had tried to open secret realms in cities.
• Xiao Yifei arrived at Shanghai City No. 1 High School, collected the demon’s corpse, and told Lu Su that the city’s casualties would likely be severe.
• Lu Su declined to return to the Association with Xiao Yifei, said goodbye to Principal Xie and the teachers, and flew back to Nandu.
• Bai Yueming told Lu Su that the Guiyi Cult had opened secret realms in some cities and that the Spirit Summoning Society had helped suppress the cult around Shanghai City.
• Lu Su crafted the Unreturned Holy Sword · Silver Arm for Lily and discovered that it had a powerful Chain effect with the Pure White Knight Princess · Altria card.

Lu Su tested the Silver Arm with Lily and confirmed that it greatly enhanced her combat ability. He then led his Nanda University teammates into the Infinite Eye Secret Realm for training, where the group headed toward a demon-infested zone while Lu Su warned them to stay alert.

• Lu Su equipped the Silver Arm, tested its Holy Sword Enhancement, and realized it could support Lily's future advancement into the Lion King.
• Lily used Fleeting Flash, Silver Arm in Lu Su's courtyard, and Xue contained the blast as it carved a ravine into the ground.
• A week later, Chai Hao led Lu Su, Liu Yu, You Mengnan, Du Jing, and Sun Jian to a guarded base and briefed them on the Infinite Eye Secret Realm.
• The five entered the Secret Realm beneath a Blood Moon and traveled toward Zone C-3 using Lu Su's Shadow Kingdom vehicle.
• Lu Su warned the group that the demons might be able to replace their eyes, then concluded that the possibility was unlikely because the demons had already been defeated by stronger card makers.

Lord Ming sacrificed many eyes to create an eye like Lord Xin’s and implanted it, then confronted Lu Su and his companions in the Secret Realm. As the group prepared to retreat from the encirclement, Lord Ming revealed his new power, the Eye of the Heart.

• Lord Ming ordered the Black-Robed Men to kill the assembly’s witnesses and gather their eyes, then used them in a blood Magic Array to create a replacement for Lord Xin’s eye.
• Lord Ming implanted the new eye and, after sensing approaching outsiders, prepared to test its power on them.
• Lu Su noticed a flash from the eye on the moon and warned Liu Yu, You Mengnan, Du Jing, and Sun Jian that the Secret Realm seemed dangerous.
• Lu Su’s Ghost Shadow Soldiers failed to report back, and he transformed into his Arrogant Form after learning that one of his cards had dispersed.
• Lu Su and his companions were ambushed by a laser, then surrounded by Black-Robed Men led by Lord Ming; Lu Su arranged a retreat while the others prepared to hold off their attackers.
• Lord Ming opened his right eye and declared that he would show them the power of a god, the Eye of the Heart.

Lu Su and his teammates fought Ming, whose Eye of the Heart turned their fears against them and summoned a Blood Giant. Lily destroyed the giant with Silver Arm, but Lu Su prepared to punish the traitorous Sun Jian before someone stopped him.

• Ming’s gaze altered Liu Yu, You Mengnan, Du Jing, and Sun Jian, while frightening creatures appeared beside the first three.
• Lily and Nylro fought Ming and Sun Jian as Ming summoned a Blood Giant in Lord Ling’s form.
• Ming’s Blood Giant survived Lily’s first powerful attack, but Lily struck its chest with Silver Arm and destroyed it.
• The Eye of the Heart remained as an Item Material, and Lu Su confronted the unconscious Sun Jian for betraying them.
• Someone called Lu Su to stop, and he asked whether they intended to plead for Sun Jian.