Chapter Summaries

Li Qi explained how he had used an Immortal Technique in the arena and prepared for the coming Secret Realm Assessment, where an Imperial Princess would be watching. Sofiyuna arrived secretly on Academy Planet to find Li Qi, but Effiecia confronted her first.

• Li Qi defeated Milia and Shen Cong in the simulated battle, then explained that his flames were an Immortal Technique rather than magic.
• Li Qi told Milia to prepare to build a mecha and said he planned to enter the Secret Realm Assessment for its meteoric-metal rewards.
• Shen Cong mentioned that Imperial Princess Sofiyuna would attend the assessment, and Li Qi urged everyone to focus on training.
• Sofiyuna secretly arrived on Academy Planet to find Li Qi, hoping not to scare him away.
• Effiecia confronted Sofiyuna, who said she had come because Richie was there, leaving Effiecia stunned.

Sofiyuna threatened Effiecia over Richie, then Li Qi heard from Zoe that the Mystic Realm Assessment might contain the Power System of an Inheritance Mecha, which could aid cultivation. Li Qi began considering pursuing it if Zoe’s information proved true.

• Sofiyuna deduced that Effiecia knew where Richie was and warned her to stay away from him, threatening to kill her if she interfered.
• Sofiyuna had a subordinate escort Effiecia from the hotel, then opened Kili Weber’s information file.
• After training late, Li Qi found Zoe waiting outside the Combat Building and reluctantly agreed to hear her news at a café.
• Zoe told Li Qi that her family had heard the Mystic Realm contained the Power System of an Inheritance Mecha.
• Zoe explained that Inheritance Mechas represented parts of the universe’s laws and could help cultivators advance, prompting Li Qi to consider seeking the Power System if it existed.

Hongye met Li Qi, who was disguised as Kili Weber, after entering Alfland Academy for the Mystic Realm Assessment. Effiecia warned Li Qi that Sophie had arrived looking for him, but Li Qi believed Sophie already knew his identity and was afraid to meet him.

• Hongye reflected on giving up the Imperial Royal Academy to join the Revival Society and contacted the believer Osrin had arranged for her to meet.
• Hongye met Li Qi, disguised as Kili Weber, and he agreed to help her at Alfland Academy while warning that he could not guarantee her safety in the Mystic Realm.
• After Hongye left, Li Qi considered why the Revival Society had sent her and worried that the organization might seek the Inheritance Mecha in the Mystic Realm.
• Effiecia found Li Qi by recognizing his scent and warned him that Sophie had arrived and was looking for him.
• Li Qi concluded that Sophie already knew his identity and had not approached him because she feared he did not want to see her.

Effiecia was tempted by the Revival Society with a chance to reclaim her status and Li Qi’s love. As the Mystic Realm Assessment began, Sofiyuna spotted Li Qi and demanded to watch Kili Weber and Lana compete.

• Effiecia met a Revival Society recruiter disguised as a waiter, who offered to help her regain the position of Ninth Imperial Princess and win Li Qi’s heart in exchange for her cooperation.
• Li Qi joined the Mecha Pilot team at the Mystic Realm Assessment and exchanged a smile with Sofiyuna across the venue.
• Sofiyuna asked the academy principal about Kili Weber and learned that Lana had ranked ahead of him.
• Sofiyuna insisted that the assessment broadcast show both Kili and Lana’s performances.

Li Qi entered the Secret Realm trial, where participants could choose to conquer, gain fame, or slaughter the world, and discovered that more than a hundred had already been eliminated. After disguising himself and searching for civilization, he encountered May Gratt, whose malfunctioning mecha had crashed into the forest.

• Lana complained that Li Qi had let her win the Grade Head contest, but he denied holding back.
• Li Qi entered the Secret Realm and read the trial objectives, which allowed unrestricted combat and point theft.
• Li Qi checked the rankings and saw that more than a hundred participants had been eliminated shortly after the trial began.
• Li Qi disguised himself as a golden-haired, red-eyed young man and walked through the forest to find the local civilization.
• A pink mecha crashed nearby, and its pilot, May Gratt, climbed out and destroyed a Communication Device rather than answer her captain.

Mei Saint Grat wrecked her training mecha and became hostage to Li Qi, who discovered that he had returned to a future version of the Magic World now under the Interstellar World’s control. As Mei led him toward a city, she revealed her family’s connection to his past identity and recognized the Weiboer surname.

• Mei Saint Grat found her Alchemy Mecha too badly damaged to repair and panicked over the compensation she would owe.
• Li Qi restrained Mei with ice spikes, questioned her about her name and location, and made her his hostage and guide to the nearest city.
• Li Qi learned that Mei’s ancestor Angel Saint Grat was the daughter of Li Qi Grant, confirming that this was the distant future of the Magic World.
• Li Qi concluded that the assessment’s real objective was to gain the Magic World’s recognition and help integrate it into the Interstellar World.
• Li Qi gave Mei the name Ronnie Weiboer, and she recognized Weiboer as one of her family’s ancestral surnames.

Li Qi learned how the Grant Family descended from him and Lilian Grant, and how Mei Mei had inherited its legacy. As Li Qi and Mei Mei traveled by airship toward Urno City, he studied the world’s alchemy and considered how to earn points in the competition.

• Mei Mei explained that Angel Grant had developed alchemy, created protective Alchemical Dolls, and founded the Grant Family’s reputation before the family declined after opposing the Great Unification.
• Mei Mei vowed to revive her family, admitted she might sell its heirlooms to pay for a damaged mecha, and said she trusted Li Qi by intuition.
• Li Qi entered a city with Mei Mei and boarded an airship, where he examined its alchemical systems and the Magic Devices used by its Sky Knights.
• Li Qi checked the Ranking Board, saw that his points remained at zero, and decided he should earn points before the competition ended.
• Mei Mei showed Li Qi Urno City, the former capital of Uno where he had once lived.

Li Qi followed Mei Mei to the Grant Family’s impoverished home in Urno City, where he discovered a locked box left by Angel and opened it to reveal a Magic Device. Outside, Mei Mei argued with officials who were still trying to take her house, and Li Qi reacted with dangerous anger.

• Li Qi learned that the Grant Family’s former estate had become a historical site and followed Mei Mei to the family’s small, run-down home.
• Mei Mei revealed that she had sold the family’s antiques to pay the house’s operating fees and stop the city from demolishing it.
• Li Qi found a box left by Angel in the storeroom and recognized the special characters in its alchemical lock from his Alchemy Notes.
• Li Qi carefully defeated the box’s changing Magic Lock and opened it, finding a Magic Device inside.
• Mei Mei argued with someone outside who was still trying to take her house despite a signed contract, and Li Qi narrowed his eyes angrily.

Mei Mei faced eviction after the Housing Management Office claimed she owed 300,000, and Ronnie emerged with the Grant Family heirloom box opened. Using the Personal Mecha inside, Li Qi revealed overwhelming power and turned against the men seizing the house.

• Housing Management Office men demanded that Mei Mei pay 300,000 in housing taxes or surrender her house, dismissing her status as an Intern Alchemist.
• Ronnie came out of the house, asked how much the men claimed Mei Mei owed, and demanded to see their paperwork.
• Mei Mei recognized that Ronnie had opened the Grant Family's heirloom box and saw the ancient Magic Device in his hand activate.
• The Magic Device transformed Ronnie into a Mage Master uniform, summoned a staff, and revealed his identity as an A-Rank Mage Master.
• Li Qi used the Personal Mecha's power to kill two of the Housing Management Office men's subordinates and realized that he could perceive and control this world's rules.

Li Qi killed two rent collectors and fought off the capital’s Enforcers when they tried to arrest him and Mei Mei. After a powerful newcomer countered Li Qi’s Magic Array and clashed with his water dragon, the old man asked where Li Qi had learned his Ancient Uno Style Magic Array.

• Li Qi killed two rent collectors, and Mei Mei urged him to flee before the Enforcers arrived.
• The Enforcers surrounded Li Qi and Mei Mei, but Li Qi stopped their cannon fire and destroyed their barrier with an explosion in the sky.
• The Brown-Haired Youth attacked Li Qi with a magic saber, but Li Qi shattered it, kicked him into a building, and protected Mei Mei with layered barriers.
• A flaming streak attacked Li Qi, whose Magic Array failed to stop the flames; he answered with a water dragon covered in Magic Arrays.
• The old man swept away the steam and asked Li Qi where he had learned his Ancient Uno Style Magic Array.

Li Qi confronted the White-Robed Elder after the Property Tax Bureau bullied Mei Mei, then used his mastery of magic to overwhelm the elder and threaten Urno City with a Destruction Formation. He demanded the city for Mei Mei, and the elder agreed to negotiate to prevent its destruction.

• Li Qi challenged the White-Robed Elder and spread a powerful Magic Array over the Royal Capital in response to the mistreatment of his junior.
• The elder attacked with Modern Magic, but Li Qi rapidly adapted his formation and turned the elder’s magical attacks into harmless rain.
• Li Qi seized control of the elder’s magic and used it to destroy the Flaming Needles aimed at his Destruction Formation.
• Realizing the formation could devastate Urno City, the elder begged Li Qi to name his price.
• Li Qi demanded that Urno belong to him, like Mei Mei’s home belonged to the Property Bureau, and the elder agreed that everything was negotiable.

Sophie learned that Kili was her fiancé Richie and resolved to take him back after the competition, while Hongye and the One-Eyed Girl fled underground as a powerful Destruction Magic spell threatened Urno City. The chapter left the contestants’ arena and the capital under threat.

• Sophie questioned the old dean about using Small Worlds as arenas, and he explained the risks and the candidates’ efforts to hide from local powerhouses.
• The old dean noticed Kili using the world’s Ancient Spell Formula, and Sophie revealed that Kili was her fiancé, Richieblais Sarnak.
• Sophie decided to take Li Qi back after the competition, fearing the women around him and planning to secure their relationship.
• Hongye saw a vast Magic Array forming over Urno City, and the One-Eyed Girl identified it as Destruction Magic cast by a Transcendent Mage Master.
• The One-Eyed Girl hurried Hongye into a sewer to escape the spell, while Hongye worried that her search for the Inheritance Mecha had led her into danger.

Li Qi confronted Ulogis’s president over Mei Mei’s mistreatment, then changed his demand after learning Adams descended from Remus and asked for the Grat Family Old Residence instead. Meanwhile, One-Eyed Girl and Hongye uncovered the hidden passage Lilith used to leave Uno, believing it led to the God of Alchemy’s secret treasure.

• Li Qi rejected Adams’s proposed compensation and threatened to take Urno City, while Adams warned that Ulogis would fight him if he persisted.
• Li Qi learned that Adams was descended from Remus Allerchius, who had once cared for him, and agreed to change his demand.
• Li Qi introduced Mei Mei as Mei Saint Grat and demanded the Grat Family Old Residence, now a museum, for her.
• In Urno City’s sewers, One-Eyed Girl explained that Lilith had used an underground passage to leave Uno with the young Angel after Li Qi’s death.
• One-Eyed Girl used an Ancient Magic Wand to open a hidden passage and announced that she and Hongye had found the route to the God of Alchemy’s treasure.

One-Eyed Girl and Hongye entered Li Qi’s underground passage and used the Grant Family’s pure blood to activate an elevator leading to a hidden room. There, they found a girl in a coffin who opened her eyes as One-Eyed Girl approached, while Mei Mei returned to her room and wondered whether the Blonde Youth liked her.

• One-Eyed Girl explained that Li Qi’s theories were the true treasure and led Hongye through the passage without encountering traps.
• At a sealed wall, One-Eyed Girl discovered modern alchemical runes and used a precious vial of Grant Family blood to activate the mechanism.
• The floor became an elevator and carried One-Eyed Girl and Hongye to a room filled with alchemical equipment, papers, and a coffin bearing the Grant Family emblem.
• The coffin’s lid turned transparent, revealing a doll-like girl inside, who opened her eyes as One-Eyed Girl approached.
• Mei Mei returned to her room, fancied that the Blonde Youth might have fallen for her, then reconsidered when she saw his contemptuous gaze.

Li Qi investigated the Grant Family’s lost Alchemy legacy and followed a rune to Angel, who revealed her connection to a descendant of her former disciple. Angel recognized the arriving Li Qi as her father, leaving everyone stunned.

• Li Qi found that many of the Alchemy teachings he had left behind were missing and sent Mei Mei to research the Grant Family’s history.
• Li Qi dismantled the Magic Device’s runes, causing a golden rune to fly away, and went after it while invisible.
• Angel emerged from a coffin, restrained Hongye and the One-Eyed Girl with a War Puppet, then released them and learned they sought the God of Alchemy’s Secret Treasure.
• Angel recognized the One-Eyed Girl as a descendant of her expelled disciple and said she had destroyed her father’s unsuitable Alchemy knowledge.
• Angel retrieved the rune and saw Li Qi descend into the room; she called him Dad, and everyone fell silent.

Sophie worried over Li Qi’s secrets and the sudden loss of several arena screens while Li Qi confronted a doll claiming to be Angel. Li Qi and Angel began communicating through alchemical runes, leaving the One-Eyed Girl transfixed by their extraordinary exchange.

• Sophie questioned whether Angel’s call of Li Qi as her father was a mistake, then learned she could not enter the assessment arena.
• Several screens in the First Arena and some in the Second Arena went dark, and the old dean left to investigate as Sophie feared for Li Qi.
• Li Qi asked the doll whether she was Angel, and Angel demanded to know who he was and how he had solved her alchemical puzzles.
• Li Qi and Angel used alchemical radiance and runes to communicate, astonishing Hongye and the One-Eyed Girl.
• The One-Eyed Girl recognized their exchange as communication between two God of Alchemy-level alchemists and became absorbed in watching them.

Angel recognized Li Qi through a secret book cipher and learned that her world had been turned into a trial watched by higher worlds. After they secretly exchanged information, Li Qi and Angel pretended to negotiate over the Grant family’s last direct-line heir, then Angel asked the intruders to identify themselves.

• Angel discovered that the shifting alchemical runes concealed a book cipher and identified Li Qi Grat's Alchemical Notes as their codebook.
• Angel deciphered Li Qi's warning that their world was being used as a trial and that outsiders could observe everything they did.
• Li Qi and Angel secretly exchanged messages, then staged a conversation about Li Qi protecting the Grant Family's last direct-line heir.
• Li Qi left the fate of the trespassing One-Eyed Girl and Hongye to Angel, who asked the One-Eyed Girl's name.
• The One-Eyed Girl introduced herself as Camilla Grat, a collateral descendant and the Ninth Generation Head of the Grat Family.

Mei Mei woke to find Angel, her legendary ancestor, cooking with Li Qi at the Grant Family home, and learned that Angel was a Bionic Doll recovered from the family’s Ancestral Land. After Angel explained the previous night’s events, Mei Mei’s captain arrived to confront her for skipping work.

• Mei Mei woke late and found Angel preparing breakfast in the kitchen.
• Li Qi explained that Angel was a Bionic Doll carrying the memories and knowledge of Mei Mei’s ancestor.
• Angel and Li Qi discussed the Grant Family’s decline and Mei Mei’s poor study habits while Mei Mei protested.
• Angel told Mei Mei about the previous night over breakfast.
• Mei Mei opened the door, saw someone outside, and slammed it shut before her captain shouted at her for skipping work.

Li Qi, Angel, and Mei Mei were escorted to the Grant Family's Ancestral Land after Mei Mei was named a Second Lieutenant. On the way, a mechanic attacked them with an anti-magic spear, and Li Qi seized control of it and hurled it back toward the Inner City.

• Uri Monger dragged Mei Mei out of the Grant Family estate, but Li Qi called her back as two units of Flying Mage Masters arrived.
• The Enforcers announced Mei Mei's promotion to Second Lieutenant and escorted her, Li Qi, and Angel toward the Grant Family's Ancestral Land.
• Uri activated his Magic Device and followed the group, worried about Mei Mei.
• A Mechanical Spear tore through the Enforcers' combined Barrier Spell and flew toward Li Qi.
• Li Qi deflected the spear with his staff, identified its anti-magic properties, seized control of it with Consciousness Power, and hurled it toward the Inner City.

Li Qi repelled an ambush in the Inner City, while Sophie learned that the Martial Union and Sage Society planned to attack the arena. The chapter ended as Klund’s Starry Sky Behemoth appeared beyond the planet and sent a meteor shower toward the arena.

• Li Qi’s flying machine struck the two contestants who had attacked him, crushing their Consciousness Power and forcing the male Mecha Pilot to flee with the female mechanic.
• Li Qi’s returning arrow eliminated the female mechanic, while the male Mecha Pilot escaped in his red Mecha.
• Li Qi and Angel resumed their journey toward the Grant Family after discussing his new alchemy and personal Mecha.
• Sophie watched footage of Li Qi’s ambush and resolved to punish the attackers, then learned from the old dean that the Martial Union and Sage Society planned to attack the arena.
• An evacuation alarm sounded, and Sophie and the old dean saw Klund’s Starry Sky Behemoth beyond the planet as its falling growths became a meteor shower aimed at the arena.