Chapter Summaries

Lei Zhan challenged Amamiya Eri at Magic University, hoping to test her strength for Li Ziyu. Her shikigami effortlessly blocked Lei Zhan’s strongest attack, leaving the students doubting whether Li Ziyu could defeat her.

• Lei Zhan arrived at Magic University and took the arena to challenge Amamiya Eri.
• Amamiya Eri dismissed Lei Zhan as too weak and asked when Li Ziyu, Magic University’s strongest student, would arrive.
• Lei Zhan attacked Amamiya Eri with Indestructible Lightning Slash, intending to force her to reveal her full strength for Li Ziyu.
• Amamiya Eri’s shikigami blocked Lei Zhan’s blades without a mark and threw him away.
• Sun Qiming watched the shikigami stop Lei Zhan’s attack and feared that even Li Ziyu might not defeat Amamiya Eri.

Amamiya Eri’s shikigami defeated Lei Zhan with one strike, leaving Magic City Martial Arts University’s students and reporters fearing that no one in Great Xia’s younger generation could match her. The reporters looked to Li Ziyu as their last hope, while worrying that a loss to Amamiya Eri would devastate his young admirers.

• Amamiya Eri dismissed Lei Zhan’s strength and ordered her shikigami to end the battle.
• Lei Zhan charged the shikigami to defend Li Ziyu’s honor, but its punch sent him flying out of the arena and knocked him unconscious.
• Magic University’s students and reporters reacted in shock as they realized Amamiya Eri had defeated Lei Zhan effortlessly.
• The reporters debated whether Wang Wuyang could challenge Amamiya Eri and concluded that Li Ziyu might be Great Xia’s only hope.
• The reporters worried that if Li Ziyu lost to Amamiya Eri, the defeat would shatter the faith of the younger generation who idolized him.

As Sakura Country’s shrine maiden continued defeating Magic University’s students, Li Ziyu answered Yu Ningmo’s call and said he was coming to face her. He arrived by airship as the crowd watched, while Amamiya Eri rested before their match.

• Ge Yanzhou asked Yamamoto to pause the competition, but Yamamoto refused because Amamiya Eri had barely used her strength.
• Yu Ningmo received Li Ziyu’s communication request, sent him a video of Amamiya Eri’s attack, and learned he would arrive in three minutes to meet her.
• Li Ziyu’s confidence lifted Ge Yanzhou and Yu Ningmo’s spirits, prompting Yamamoto to have Amamiya Eri rest until Li Ziyu arrived.
• Amamiya Eri took spirit medicine and meditated on the arena while students speculated about whether Li Ziyu would come.
• The crowd spotted Li Ziyu’s airship approaching Magic University.

Li Ziyu arrived at Magic University to face Amamiya Eri, who summoned her three strongest shikigami and prepared a counter to his known techniques. The duel was about to begin as Amamiya Eri focused on Inohana.

• Li Ziyu descended from the airship and landed lightly before Amamiya Eri on the arena.
• Amamiya Eri recognized Li Ziyu's strength and summoned Yamazawa, a one-armed swordsman, and Inohana.
• Li Ziyu assessed the shikigami's roles and praised their coordinated formation.
• Amamiya Eri empowered her shikigami with the Shikigami Skill—Sacrifice Me and invited Li Ziyu to strike first.
• Amamiya Eri watched Inohana, confident she had a method to counter Li Ziyu's known techniques.

Li Ziyu faced Amamiya Eri’s shikigami while refusing to draw his weapon or use both hands. He crushed Yamazawa with his bare hand and challenged the One-armed Swordsman Shikigami, leaving Amamiya Eri shocked by his strength.

• Amamiya Eri expected Jinghua to reflect Li Ziyu’s weapon attacks and ordered her three shikigami to attack him.
• Li Ziyu let Amamiya Eri make the first move and used only his right hand to defend himself.
• Yamazawa charged with its shield and spear, but Li Ziyu seized the shield and crushed it.
• Li Ziyu struck Yamazawa’s chest, destroying the shikigami and injuring Amamiya Eri through their contract.
• Amamiya Eri questioned how Li Ziyu could be so strong without using the Great Sun Body Tempering Method, and he told her to defeat him before he answered.
• Amamiya Eri ordered the One-armed Swordsman Shikigami to attack Li Ziyu.

Li Ziyu overwhelmed Amamiya Eri’s shikigami with his speed and strength, then guessed that her last shikigami could reflect weapon attacks. Amamiya Eri baited him into attacking it with the Nine Strikes Thunder Blade, but the chapter ended with Yamamoto Ryusuke leaping up in shock at what happened.

• The One-armed Swordsman Shikigami’s dual-blade attack missed Li Ziyu, who appeared behind it and destroyed it with a light strike.
• Li Ziyu guessed that Amamiya Eri’s Red Clothed Shikigami could reflect weapon attacks, and Amamiya Eri’s reaction confirmed his suspicion.
• Amamiya Eri challenged Li Ziyu to defeat her with his blade technique, and he summoned the Demon Moon battle blade and used the Nine Strikes Thunder Blade on Little Red.
• Amamiya Eri and Yamamoto Ryusuke expected Little Red to reflect Li Ziyu’s attack at twice its power, but Yamamoto Ryusuke suddenly stood up in shock.

Li Ziyu withstood the Red Robe Shikigami’s reflected attacks and weakened it with a stronger slash. Amamiya Eri revived her other Shikigami and sacrificed all three to transform herself, revealing her strongest technique as the battle continued.

• Li Ziyu discovered that the Red Robe Shikigami reflected attacks at double strength, but its reflected blow left him unharmed.
• Li Ziyu struck the Red Robe Shikigami again, making it dim as its reflection also failed to hurt him.
• Amamiya Eri realized Li Ziyu had reached Grandmaster Level and declared she would use her full strength.
• Amamiya Eri restored Yamazawa Shikigami and Dao Yu Shikigami, then changed all three Shikigami into puppet-like forms.
• Amamiya Eri used Shikigami Skill—Sacrifice Me! to absorb the three Shikigami and cover herself in their power.

Li Ziyu overwhelmed Amamiya Eri after she revealed her Shikigami-enhanced power, forcing her to concede. She invited him to meet at Magic University's back hill that night to discuss the Shikigami secret, while the crowd reeled at his strength.

• Amamiya Eri attacked Li Ziyu with a powerful blade beam, and the spectators recognized that her aura had reached Grandmaster Level.
• Li Ziyu dodged the blade beam, seized Amamiya Eri, and repeatedly kicked her before she could fight back.
• Amamiya Eri unexpectedly asked Li Ziyu why he had stopped, then regained her composure, conceded, and invited him to meet at the back hill that night.
• The students watched in shock as Li Ziyu defeated the same Amamiya Eri who had killed Lei Zhan with one move.
• Ouyang Hao, watching Li Ziyu after recovering from his injuries, recalled his own defeat and wondered what kind of monster Magic University had produced.

After Li Ziyu defeated Amamiya Eri, the spectators and Magic University leaders celebrated his emergence as a young Grandmaster. Amamiya Eri recovered at her villa and looked forward to meeting Li Ziyu that evening, hoping his strength could help her unlock a relic.

• Sun Qiming, Lei Zhan, Ge Yuanzhou, and Yu Ningmo reacted with pride and amazement when Li Ziyu was revealed to have reached the Grandmaster realm.
• Yamamoto Ryusuke suspected that Magic University had cheated, while Ge Yuanzhou mocked him and claimed Amamiya Eri would not rank among Great Xia's top hundred talents.
• Okamoto vowed to avenge Amamiya Eri, then went to her villa and left after receiving no response.
• Amamiya Eri relaxed in her bath after Okamoto left and thought about Li Ziyu's strength and the relic she hoped he could help her open.
• Amamiya Eri checked the time and prepared to meet Li Ziyu in Magic University's rear mountains at nine that evening.

Li Ziyu returned to Magic City University as a Grandmaster and received a Spatial Teleportation Stone from Principal Yu Ningmo for defeating Sakura Country’s divine maiden. Yu Ningmo asked whether he planned to graduate and stay at the university as an instructor, leaving his future plans undecided.

• Fatty Sun Qiming enthusiastically followed Li Ziyu around Villa Number One and offered to celebrate his return, but Li Ziyu said he had other plans.
• Li Ziyu considered Amamiya Eri’s invitation to meet at the back mountain and decided to go, while wondering whether it might be a trap.
• Yu Ningmo summoned Li Ziyu to her office, praised his rapid rise to Grandmaster, and gave him a Spatial Teleportation Stone as a school reward.
• Li Ziyu recalled that Zhang Beihai’s Spatial Teleportation Crystal had saved him in the caverns and considered whether spatial stones could help him comprehend a spatial domain.
• Yu Ningmo told Li Ziyu that rare Spatial Teleportation Stones might be found below the thirty-fifth cavern layer and asked whether he would graduate and work as an instructor at Magic City University.

Li Ziyu met Amamiya Eri at Magic University’s back mountain, where she invited him to explore an ancient ruin in Great Xia that only people under twenty could enter. He considered her offer and wondered whether the ruin was connected to the ancient-civilization ruin he had explored before.

• Li Ziyu told Yu Ningmo he probably would not stay at Magic University after graduation and planned to visit his family in Xujiang City during winter vacation.
• Amamiya Eri went to the back mountain to meet Li Ziyu, while Okamoto followed her from a distance.
• Amamiya Eri revealed that she had gained her shikigami inheritance from the outskirts of a ruin in Great Xia and invited Li Ziyu to explore it with her.
• Amamiya Eri explained that only people under twenty could enter the ruin and that she needed Li Ziyu’s help to pass its trial and reach the interior.
• Amamiya Eri offered to take only thirty percent of the gains, and Li Ziyu wondered whether her ruin was connected to the ancient ruin where he had found the Blade of Destiny and Armor of Hope.

Li Ziyu agreed to meet Amamiya Eri in the Desert North after her exchange tournament in Kimchi Country. Okamoto joined the Zeroing Cult’s plot to kill Li Ziyu, while Li Ziyu encouraged Sun Qiming to train harder.

• Amamiya Eri explained that Sakura Country had sent her to challenge alliance-country geniuses, and arranged to meet Li Ziyu in the Desert North in half a month.
• Okamoto spied on Amamiya Eri and Li Ziyu, then agreed to help the Zeroing Cult kill Li Ziyu and demanded Amamiya Eri’s corpse.
• A Zeroing Cult agent in a Magic City café planned to sacrifice Li Ziyu and Amamiya Eri to please his Lord, then agreed to exchange contact details with a young woman.
• At the Magic City Grand Hyatt Hotel, Sun Qiming praised Li Ziyu’s cultivation and vowed to train more, while Li Ziyu encouraged him.

Li Ziyu returned to Xujiang City and learned that his aunt and uncle were preparing to welcome him, while their medicinal-materials business faced ruin after Lin's Pharmaceutical used its connection to a Jiangnan Martial Arts University dean to squeeze them out. His relatives decided to hide their troubles from him, leaving Li Ziyu unaware of the crisis at home.

• Li Ziyu traveled from Magic City Martial Arts University toward Xujiang City and reassured a taxi driver about his son’s chances of entering a Martial Arts University.
• Li Ziyu recalled his former low blood-energy reading and wondered whether Xu Mengyao would attend the classmates’ reunion.
• Yun Shuhui and Zhao Yanan prepared a meal for Li Ziyu’s return while Zhao Li struggled to delay a creditor’s demand for repayment.
• Zhao Li told Yun Shuhui that Lin's Pharmaceutical had blocked sales of their medicinal materials and was forcing their business toward bankruptcy.
• Zhao Li and Yun Shuhui agreed not to tell Li Ziyu about their financial troubles so he would not worry.

Li Ziyu visited his aunt Yun Shuhui, uncle Zhao Li, and cousin Zhao Yanan in Xujiang City, sharing a warm family meal before planning to visit his former teacher and classmates. He noticed his aunt and uncle were troubled by a business dispute but left without learning the details, intending to stay at the villa the mayor had given him.

• Zhao Yanan welcomed Li Ziyu and marveled at his growth and martial arts achievements.
• Yun Shuhui and Zhao Li greeted Li Ziyu and served him a family meal with Level 2 Fierce Beast meat.
• Li Ziyu told Zhao Li he planned to visit his former homeroom teacher Liu Yanfang and classmates at Third High School before returning to Magic Capital.
• Li Ziyu noticed Zhao Li receiving troubling calls and offered to help, but Yun Shuhui dismissed the issue as business matters.
• Li Ziyu left his aunt's home to stay at the villa the mayor had given him.

Li Ziyu returned to Third High School for an unannounced visit, where his immense strength astonished Class Six and its new homeroom teacher. The principal and Liu Yanfang arrived to welcome him, and the principal proposed that he speak to the students.

• Li Ziyu entered Third High School after Grandpa Wang recognized him as the National Martial Arts Examination Champion.
• Wang Hai taught Class Six about the Martial Arts Exam while his students doubted they could meet the martial arts university admission standard.
• Li Ziyu’s powerful aura startled Wang Hai and the students, and he explained that he had come to visit his former teacher, Liu Yanfang.
• Li Ziyu learned that Liu Yanfang had become the grade director and turned to leave when she was not in the classroom.
• Principal Chen Youde and Liu Yanfang arrived, welcomed Li Ziyu, and Chen Youde proposed that he give a speech to the students.

Li Ziyu returned to Third High School and attended a lesson taught by Liu Yanfang. Meanwhile, Wang Anqi visited Xujiang City, discovered Chen Xiaoya’s ice-elemental talent, and was offered sixty percent of Lin's Pharmaceutical Group as an introductory gift if Chen Xiaoya became her disciple.

• The students recognized Li Ziyu as Third High School’s legendary senior, and Liu Yanfang eagerly took over Wang Hai’s class to teach him.
• Li Ziyu sat in his preserved seat while Liu Yanfang taught a lesson she found unforgettable.
• Chen Mingyuan welcomed Wang Anqi to the Xujiang City Martial Arts Association and thanked her for helping him in the past.
• Chen Mingyuan introduced his granddaughter Chen Xiaoya, whose blood vitality was 1.6, and Wang Anqi discovered that she also had ice-elemental talent.
• Wang Anqi promised to take care of Chen Xiaoya at Jiangnan Martial Arts University, while Chen Mingyuan offered sixty percent of Lin's Pharmaceutical Group as an introductory gift for her discipleship.

Wang Anqi accepted Chen Xiaoya as her student, warned her to focus on martial arts, and left to investigate Senior Li Ziyu. Li Ziyu reunited with Wang Hao at a class gathering, where Wang Hao learned that Li Ziyu had reached Level Five and they headed upstairs to meet their classmates.

• Wang Anqi accepted Chen Xiaoya as her student after Chen Mingyuan gave her sixty percent of Lin's Pharmaceutical's shares.
• Wang Anqi advised Chen Xiaoya not to let business distract her from martial arts and told her to avoid cultivating other battle techniques before entering Jiangnan Martial Arts University.
• Wang Anqi left to contact the university principal and Zhang Beihai about Senior Li Ziyu.
• Li Ziyu met Wang Hao outside Xujiang City Grand Hotel, where Wang Hao proudly revealed that he had become a Level 2 Martial Artist.
• Li Ziyu told Wang Hao he was around Level Six, though his system panel showed he was at Peak Level Five, and the two went upstairs to join their classmates.

Li Ziyu reunited with his former classmates at a banquet, where they celebrated his martial arts achievements and gradually overcame their nervousness around him. After Xu Mengyao left, Li Ziyu began guiding Wang Hao in the Yak Body Tempering Method.

• Li Ziyu arrived at the banquet and greeted his classmates, who were awed by his presence and his National Youth Martial Arts University League championship.
• Xu Mengyao spoke briefly with Li Ziyu, then left after he made no effort to persuade her to stay.
• Wang Hao helped the classmates relax and led them in toasting Li Ziyu.
• Li Ziyu asked Wang Hao to demonstrate the Yak Body Tempering Method and judged it suitable for his talent and physique.
• Li Ziyu began pointing out several things Wang Hao needed to improve in his practice.

Li Ziyu corrected Wang Hao’s Yak Body Tempering Method and offered combat guidance to his former classmates. Chen Xiaoya entered after overhearing his advice and offered him twenty percent of Lin’s Pharmaceutical’s shares in gratitude.

• Li Ziyu identified weaknesses in Wang Hao’s Yak Body Tempering Method and showed him how to improve his form and address his lack of speed.
• Wang Hao felt his technique had improved and estimated his strength had increased by at least twenty percent.
• Li Ziyu invited Dazhuang and the others to demonstrate their battle techniques and guided them in the private room.
• Chen Xiaoya entered after overhearing Li Ziyu’s advice and apologized for interrupting by offering to pay for the group’s orders.
• Chen Xiaoya thanked Li Ziyu for resolving a question that had troubled her and offered him twenty percent of Lin’s Pharmaceutical’s shares.

Chen Xiaoya learned that Li Ziyu’s aunt’s company was Zhao’s Pharmaceutical and hurried away after realizing Lin’s Group had been targeting it. Zhao Li then received word that Lin’s Group would yield the Xujiang City market to Zhao’s Group, and he suspected Li Ziyu had arranged it.

• Li Ziyu told Chen Xiaoya that his aunt’s company was Zhao’s Pharmaceutical, and Chen Xiaoya realized Lin’s Group had been targeting it.
• Chen Xiaoya left in a hurry, insisting that Li Ziyu accept sixty percent of Lin’s Group’s shares.
• Zhao Li received an apology from Lin’s Group, which promised to hand Zhao’s Group the Xujiang City pharmaceutical business and compensate it threefold.
• Zhao Li concluded that Li Ziyu must be behind Lin’s Group’s sudden concession and decided to ask him about it.
• Zhao Li prepared a celebratory meal and told Yun Shuhui that their company’s crisis was over, but she suspected he was mistaken.