Chapter Summaries

Jiang Xiaopi sparred with Song Chunxi after dodging Wu Yao’s challenge to a drinking contest. He used his powerful Star Skills to overwhelm Song Chunxi, then charged at her with the Xia Family Blade Art.

• Wu Yao mocked Jiang Xiaopi for avoiding a fight, then challenged him to drink; Jiang Xiaopi accepted after discovering she spoke Russian and was from Dameng Province.
• Jiang Xiaopi challenged Song Chunxi to a spar, and she formed a massive double-edged battle blade from black flames.
• Song Chunxi charged through Jiang Xiaopi’s attacks and blasted him across the arena, but he got back up unharmed.
• Jiang Xiaopi repeatedly used Voice of Silence to extinguish Song Chunxi’s black flames and disrupt her Star Power.
• Song Chunxi stumbled toward Jiang Xiaopi while vomiting blood, and he charged with the Twelfth Form of the Xia Family Blade Art.

Jiang Xiao fought Song Chunxi in close combat, relying on Silence and his exceptional Endurance to survive her attacks. As Song Chunxi continued fighting through her injuries, Jiang Xiao’s Xia Family Blade Art advanced to Gold Quality.

• Jiang Xiao struggled to hit Song Chunxi as she dodged his blade and resisted his Green Glow.
• Song Chunxi struck Jiang Xiao in the throat, but he survived and continued fighting.
• Song Chunxi summoned black flames and drifting shadows, prompting Jiang Xiao to unleash Silence and disrupt her attack.
• Jiang Xiao endured the backlash from Silence, knocked Song Chunxi backward, and pursued her as she counterattacked with a kick.
• Jiang Xiao blocked Song Chunxi’s kick with his blade, and his Xia Family Blade Art upgraded to Gold Quality Lv.0.

Jiang Xiao defeated Song Chunxi in a brutal sparring match after his Xia Family Blade Art reached Gold quality, and He Xu reattached her severed leg. Wu Yao tried to recruit Jiang Xiao for a World Cup team, but he refused and said he would rather watch from the audience.

• Jiang Xiao used the newly advanced Gold-quality Xia Family Blade Art to sever Song Chunxi's leg during their fight.
• Song Chunxi lifted Jiang Xiao but stopped before twisting his neck, then whispered for him to tell her the answer; Jiang Xiao told her she had won.
• He Xu used water to reattach Song Chunxi's leg while Jiang Xiao replenished his Star Power with a Star Pearl and lent her his blade hilt as a crutch.
• Wu Yao praised Jiang Xiao's combat ability, teased him, and asked whether he would join a World Cup team; Jiang Xiao declined, saying he was a novice who would watch and eat melon.
• Wu Yao called Jiang Xiao a coward, and he challenged her to drink before clarifying that he meant he was the coward.

Jiang Xiao met Wu Yao at the Martial Arts Arena and went with her to a dinner gathering for Han Jiangxue’s World Cup team. The chapter ended with Wu Yao continuing to make a drunken Jiang Xiao drink at the hot pot restaurant.

• Jiang Xiao took a photo with Wu Yao without her permission and posted a teasing caption about her on Weibo.
• Wu Yao waited for Jiang Xiao outside his apartment while he changed and showered, and Gu Shi'an mistook her for a foreign girl and became interested in her.
• Jiang Xiao told Gu Shi'an that Wu Yao was a fourth-year Strength Warrior on Han Jiangxue’s World Cup preparation team, and Gu Shi'an eagerly sent him off to dinner.
• Jiang Xiao joined the group at a hot pot restaurant, where Wu Yao drank him under the table and urged him to keep drinking.

After a meal, a drunken Jiang Xiao and his companions encountered exhausted fourth-year students returning from dangerous missions, and Liu Lei showed his resentment toward the World Cup contenders. Song Chunxi explained that the groups served different duties, leaving Han Jiangxue to take her words to heart before the team’s sparring match the next day.

• He Xu carried the drunk Jiang Xiao back toward school with Song Chunxi, Wu Yao, Han Jiangxue, and Xia Yan.
• Jiang Xiao and his companions stopped as two lines of battered students returning from missions marched past them.
• Liu Lei spat near Song Chunxi, and a teacher ordered him to stand at attention while the rest of the formation ran on.
• Song Chunxi thanked Liu Lei for his effort, then explained that the students had different responsibilities and none was more noble than another.
• Wu Yao criticized Liu Lei, while Song Chunxi cautioned her and encouraged Han Jiangxue to focus on the next day's sparring match.

Jiang Xiao and the Emperor Capital Star Warrior students faced a sudden Flame Tribunal invasion after Wu Yao explained how often Different Dimension Spaces opened. They brought down a Troll Flame Master, but a Troll Flame Warrior appeared at the gate, leaving the group facing an even greater threat.

• Wu Yao told Jiang Xiao that Different Dimension Spaces had opened around Emperor Capital Star Warrior seventeen times in her three years there, and that authorities concealed most incidents from the public.
• A Space Gate opened, and Song Chunxi ordered the students to prepare for battle, but Liu Lei fled into the woods.
• A Troll Flame Master emerged from the Flame Tribunal gate and unleashed an attack that turned the road into a volcanic inferno.
• Jiang Xiao silenced the Troll Flame Master while He Xu shielded him with a Water Sphere and Han Jiangxue and the other students attacked the creature.
• The students overwhelmed the Troll Flame Master, but a Troll Flame Warrior appeared at the gate, and Wu Yao charged forward to face it.

Wu Yao and the others fought a pair of Flame Tribunal creatures that unleashed a giant flaming whip, forcing the students to enter the Other Dimension Space. Jiang Xiao charged in to use Silence, but the Troll Flame Warrior grabbed Wu Yao and battered her while she called for Grass Tower Lai Lai.

• Wu Yao struck the Troll Flame Warrior with her Soul Shred whip, but a Troll Flame Maiden calmed it and joined it in combining their Flame Whip skills into a massive flaming lash.
• The Troll Flame pair's whip swept through the portal, scorching and hurling Jiang Xiao in his Water Sphere and wrecking the path as the students dodged.
• Song Chunxi urged the group to enter and kill the creatures before they summoned more of their kind, and Han Jiangxue agreed to go in with Jiang Xiao.
• Wu Yao cleared the way toward the portal while He Xu and Han Jiangxue followed, and Jiang Xiao charged into the Flame Tribunal with Silence activated.
• The Troll Flame Warrior seized Wu Yao by the ankle and repeatedly slammed her into the ground, while she dazedly called for Grass Tower Lai Lai.

Jiang Xiao and his allies fought Troll Flame creatures in the Flame Tribunal, where He Xu revealed powerful support abilities and Han Jiangxue overwhelmed a newly arrived troll couple. The battle continued as Han Jiangxue’s Ice Roar transformed the burning battlefield into a frozen expanse.

• Jiang Xiao used Silence on the Troll Flame Warrior while He Xu protected Wu Yao with a starlight kasaya.
• The kasaya rebounded the Troll Flame Warrior and shattered, and He Xu struck Wu Yao with a golden cudgel to clear her head so she could escape the Silence Domain.
• Jiang Xiao recognized He Xu’s golden cudgel as an ability associated with Ancient Tower Peak and considered how Star Skills could combine with martial arts.
• Song Chunxi attacked the Troll Flame Maiden, while He Xu slowed Jiang Xiao’s flight with layers of water curtains and extinguished the flames on him.
• Han Jiangxue battered a newly arrived Troll Flame couple with repeated Platinum Ice Roars, freezing the battlefield and leaving the creatures bloody and disoriented.

Jiang Xiao and the others fought off several Troll couples in the Flame Tribunal until a Troll Flame Master unleashed a devastating meteor shower, forcing them to flee. After Song Chunxi dragged Han Jiangxue through the Space Gate, an unseen opponent pulled back on her whip, and Jiang Xiao rushed back inside to help.

• Han Jiangxue battered the Troll couples while Jiang Xiao used Silence and Light of Reversal to support her and the others.
• Wu Yao used Double Pupil Light to attack a Troll Flame Warrior, and He Xu explained that the Platinum Star Technique came from a level-five Star Down.
• The Troll Flame Master summoned Skyfall Meteor Fire, and Song Chunxi, Wu Yao, He Xu, Jiang Xiao, and Han Jiangxue fled toward the Space Gate.
• Song Chunxi pulled Han Jiangxue through the Space Gate, but someone tugged back on her Black Flame whip and nearly knocked her off balance.
• Jiang Xiao shoved He Xu away and plunged back through the Space Gate to help Song Chunxi.

Jiang Xiao fought through the Troll Flame Master's meteor barrage to rescue Han Jiangxue from the Flame Tribunal. He pulled her out with a Torch Fire Whip, but the barrage began moving toward them, forcing them to flee while the Troll Flame Master remained hidden.

• Jiang Xiao entered the Flame Tribunal and found Han Jiangxue trapped between the Troll Flame Warrior's fire whip and Song Chunxi's black-flame whip as meteors battered her shield.
• Han Jiangxue opened Shattered Space to shield herself from the meteor barrage, while Jiang Xiao used Voice of Silence to disable the Troll Flame Warrior and Troll Flame Maiden.
• Jiang Xiao upgraded his Star Power and used Green Glow to knock meteors aside as he crossed the battlefield toward Han Jiangxue.
• After a meteor struck Jiang Xiao, he created a Decoy, grabbed Han Jiangxue's Torch Fire Whip, and used the Decoy to kick himself out of the barrage's range.
• Jiang Xiao pulled Han Jiangxue to safety, but the Troll Flame Master's meteor attack shifted toward them, so Han Jiangxue dragged him away while he searched for the hidden enemy.

Jiang Xiao and Han Jiangxue remained trapped inside the Flame Tribunal while Fang Xingyun and the Triumphant Army waited outside for the Pioneers to rescue them. After more Troll couples arrived, the siblings used a decoy to evade them and planned to hide in a tunnel near the Portal.

• Fang Xingyun blocked the meteor stream with a Space Gate, learned that Han Jiangxue and Jiang Xiaopi were still inside, and ordered students to seal off the area while the Triumphant Army waited for the Pioneers.
• Jiang Xiao and Han Jiangxue watched the overlapping Portals from behind a slope and realized the Troll Flame Master was drawing new arrivals with its Skyfall Meteor Fire.
• The siblings spotted two Troll couples approaching and tried to move west, but Han Jiangxue discovered two more couples nearby.
• Jiang Xiao sent a Lure Jiang Xiao toward the Portal and used Blessing on a pursuing Troll Flame Warrior, while Han Jiangxue sent a Flame Puppet and Flame Little Puppets to distract the Trolls.
• Jiang Xiao and Han Jiangxue circled to a nearby hill and agreed to use Green Glow to dig a tunnel where they could hide and wait for rescue.

Jiang Xiao and Han Jiangxue hid in a cave while Platinum trolls continued attacking outside, and Jiang Xiao sought a way to escape with her using the Void Calamity Shadow Star Bead. He raised his Star Power to Star Cloud Stage, Level 10, absorbed the Star Bead successfully, and gained both of its Star Skills.

• Jiang Xiao and Han Jiangxue sealed themselves inside a cave as Skyfall Meteor Fire and troll roars shook the area.
• Jiang Xiao realized that Calamity Shadow Ruins might let him shelter Han Jiangxue, so they retrieved the Void Calamity Shadow Star Bead from the broken meteorite.
• Jiang Xiao weighed the Star Bead's absorption risk against advancing to Star River Stage, then raised his Star Power to Star Cloud Stage, Level 10.
• Jiang Xiao absorbed the Void Calamity Shadow Star Bead with a 99% success chance and gained both Space-Time Gap and Calamity Shadow Ruins.

Jiang Xiao tested his new Space-Time Gap skill and discovered that it drained nearly all his Star Power, while Light of Reversal restored it through Han Jiangxue. He also found that his Decoy had become tangible, though its attempt to hold Han Jiangxue's hand made him kick it away.

• Jiang Xiao checked his Inner Star Map and joked to Han Jiangxue about gaining another One Star Double Technique with Platinum-quality skills.
• Jiang Xiao used Space-Time Gap to teleport to the far end of the cave, delighting Han Jiangxue as she reflected on his growth and her earlier guilt over absorbing their parents' Shattered Space Star Pearl.
• Space-Time Gap exhausted Jiang Xiao's Star Power, so Han Jiangxue gave him Wildling Star Pearls to absorb until he recovered.
• Jiang Xiao used Light of Reversal through Han Jiangxue to refill his Star Power and realized Space-Time Gap consumed most of his reserves.
• Jiang Xiao summoned a tangible Decoy, then kicked it away when it tried to hold Han Jiangxue's hand.

Jiang Xiao and Han Jiangxue explored the space created by his new Calamity Shadow Ruins Star Technique and discovered its cramped, bounded interior. Jiang Xiao began imagining turning it into a stocked hideaway, while Han Jiangxue warned that it could be destroyed in battle.

• Han Jiangxue stopped Jiang Xiao from kicking Lure Jiang Xiao, and Jiang Xiao explained that the decoy was a physical version of himself that could only disappear by dying.
• Jiang Xiao used Han Jiangxue's Star Power to open the Calamity Shadow Ruins gate, which consumed most of his energy and required Star Power to keep open.
• Han Jiangxue sent Flame Little Puppets into the space, and she and Jiang Xiao entered to inspect its rocky ground, distant pillar, and star-filled sky.
• Han Jiangxue tested the space's limits with her Flame Little Puppets and Torch Fire Pillar, then found that invisible Air Walls enclosed the area on every side.
• Jiang Xiao suggested stocking the space with snacks and games as a refuge, but Han Jiangxue pointed out that attacks could smash it apart.

Jiang Xiao tried to escape the Flame Tribunal as soldiers prepared to enter and contain its spreading war, but the Portal closed before he could reach Earth. He found himself back in the Calamity Shadow Ruins, unsure how he had gotten there.

• Jiang Xiao discovered that Space-Time Gap could not teleport Han Jiangxue, so he left her behind in the Calamity Shadow Ruins and went alone into the Flame Tribunal.
• Jiang Xiao and Lure Jiang Xiao surveyed the enormous battle, where Troll Flame creatures and other Platinum-rank Star Beasts filled the battlefield.
• Liu Chenle ordered Assassin Warriors to search for the Sacred Ruins and lead the Star Beasts away from the Portal, then assembled the Pioneering Squads and Triumphant Army for a one-way mission into the Flame Tribunal.
• Jiang Xiao used Voice of Silence, Light of Reversal, and Space-Time Gap to reach the Portal, while a Troll Flame creature killed Lure Jiang Xiao and Jiang Xiao kicked away an attacking meteor before diving through.
• Fang Xingyun closed the Space Gate as Jiang Xiao emerged, leaving him stranded among the meteors and pillars of the Calamity Shadow Ruins.

Three days after the Flame Tribunal disaster, Huaxia mourned the 29 fallen soldiers and the missing students Han Jiangxue and Jiang Xiaopi, while their classmates grieved for them. The siblings were alive but trapped in another Star Warrior’s Calamity Shadow Ruins, waiting for its door to open.

• Authorities reported the Flame Tribunal disaster, and cities across Huaxia held memorials for the 29 soldiers who died.
• The public learned that Han Jiangxue had been left behind and Jiang Xiao had returned to the Flame Tribunal to search for her, and many mourned the siblings as heroes.
• Song Chunxi wept at a martyrs’ memorial, while He Xu crouched beside her and Wu Yao held an umbrella over her.
• Xia Yan sat by the Emperor Capital Star Warrior’s south gate and pleaded for Jiang Xiao and Han Jiangxue to return.
• In a Calamity Shadow Ruins, Jiang Xiao and Han Jiangxue remained trapped for three days and searched the meteorite wreckage for useful belongings.
• Han Jiangxue made a bowl from a damaged steel basin, while Jiang Xiao found clothes and shoes for them to change into.

Han Jiangxue and Jiang Xiao discussed the missing owner of the Calamity Shadow Ruins, and Jiang Xiao asked her to call him by his real name. Fang Xingyun opened the ruins and found the two students alive, leaving her hopeful that the twenty-nine missing soldiers might have survived as well.

• Han Jiangxue worried that the owner of the Calamity Shadow Ruins might have died, and Jiang Xiao comforted her and asked her to call him Jiang Xiao.
• Fang Xingyun remembered the twenty-nine soldiers who had vanished when the Flame Tribunal collapsed and struggled with grief over their fate.
• Fang Xingyun traveled to an astral beast research institute and opened the Calamity Shadow Ruins under the soldiers' guard.
• Soldiers entered the ruins and discovered Little Firemen and the supposedly dead Han Jiangxue and Jiang Xiao inside.
• Fang Xingyun watched Han Jiangxue and Jiang Xiao emerge alive and wondered whether the missing soldiers might also still be alive.

Dai Lun confronted Song Chunxi and blamed her for the deaths of Jiang Xiaopi and Han Jiangxue, but news soon arrived that the siblings had returned alive. After reporting their account to Principal Yang, the siblings left with Fang Xingyun as students hailed them as heroes.

• Dai Lun accused Song Chunxi of leading the freshmen into danger, and He Xu shoved him before Song Chunxi stopped Wu Yao from escalating the confrontation.
• Mi Yan told Dai Lun that Fang Xingyun had brought Han Jiangxue and Jiang Xiaopi to the Administration Building, and Dai Lun concealed his anger while calling their return good news.
• Jiang Xiao and Han Jiangxue told Principal Yang how they had survived in the Flame Tribunal, while withholding information about Jiang Xiao's Space-Time Gap and Calamity Shadow Ruins.
• Principal Yang granted the siblings three days of leave and advised them to avoid interviews, and Fang Xingyun offered to host them at her quiet home.
• Fang Xingyun led the siblings out of the Administration Building, where students cheered them as heroes, and Jiang Xiao hurried through the crowd to her car.

After learning that soldiers had died trying to rescue them, Jiang Xiao mourned them and decided to honor their sacrifice by pursuing victory at the World Cup. He reunited with Han Jiangxue at Teacher Fang Xingyun’s home and left to meet Two Tails, carrying a bold new resolve.

• Teacher Fang Xingyun brought Jiang Xiao and Han Jiangxue to her home, where Jiang Xiao read news about the three days they had been missing.
• Jiang Xiao learned that soldiers had tried to rescue them and died, then posted a memorial message on Weibo.
• Jiang Xiao contacted Xia Yan and replied to friends who had asked whether he was safe.
• Jiang Xiao called Two Tails, who had come to the Imperial Capital after hearing he had died and wanted to take him away.
• Jiang Xiao decided to honor the fallen soldiers by striving for victory at the World Cup and arranged to meet Two Tails at a hotel.

Jiang Xiao met with Two Tails after she rushed to the capital believing he might be dead. He told her about his new abilities and arranged for his Decoy to train with her team, while he stayed at school.

• Xia Yan arrived at Fang Xingyun’s apartment drenched in rain and clung to Han Jiangxue, who carried her to the bathroom.
• Jiang Xiao told Han Jiangxue he was going to meet Two Tails, then changed into clothes Fang Xingyun had arranged and drove to a hotel near the school.
• Jiang Xiao met Two Tails in a hotel room and told her he had absorbed the Space-Time Gap and Calamity Shadow Ruins and gained a One Star Double Technique.
• Jiang Xiao asked Two Tails to take his Decoy along so it could train its combat skills, and explained that the Decoy’s lack of Star Skills made it unsafe to leave at school.
• Two Tails agreed to bring the Decoy with her team and said she would recruit two apprentices to give herself more autonomy, then called Jiang Xiao and his Decoy equally burdensome.