Chapter Summaries

Xue Jing confirmed that Xue Wan’s Sacred Mark had regenerated a small amount of divinity and learned that his tournament performance had made him a viral celebrity. He brought Xue Wan to watch his friend’s match, where she unexpectedly confronted Kou Chengjian and Du Mingluan, who were already being filmed as a supposed couple.

• Xue Jing absorbed a small amount of regenerated divinity from Xue Wan’s Sacred Mark.
• Xue Wan showed Xue Jing the trending posts calling him “My Husband,” while she complained that people at school now called her “Sister-in-law.”
• Xue Jing invited Xue Wan to watch his friend’s match and used Ordinary Glasses to disguise himself.
• At the gymnasium, Du Mingluan explained that Xue Jing’s popularity had drawn more spectators, while Kou Chengjian moved away from him to avoid being filmed together.
• Xue Jing and Xue Wan entered the competitors’ viewing area, where Xue Wan asked why Kou Chengjian and Du Mingluan were standing so far apart; both men broke into a cold sweat.

Xue Jing pushed Hidden Dragon Jing to Lv7 and discovered that his True Dragon could leave his body as Dragon Qi, then prepared for his afternoon tournament match and the Intersection Zone. The chapter ended with him entering the Maple City Gymnasium as the round of sixteen began.

• Xue Jing overtrained with the Shaking Armor Skill, raised Hidden Dragon Jing to Lv7, and awakened a materialized Dragon Qi that strengthened his attacks.
• Xue Jing spoke with Void Blade, who arranged to pick him up after his match, then playfully slapped Ning Fengwan and was punished in return.
• Ning Fengwan forcibly removed her five Serpent Slayer Vanguard claws so Xue Jing could carry their serpent-slaying power into the Intersection Zone.
• Xue Jing brought Ning Fengwan to Xue Wan, then rode with Yin Muhu to the Maple City Gymnasium for his U19 match.
• The sold-out round of sixteen began, with the commentator announcing Xue Jing among the day's anticipated competitors.

Xue Jing faced the heavily armored Gu Hongding and ended their match with a single overwhelming strike. After defeating him, Xue Jing checked the time and found he had finished exactly at five o’clock.

• While watching Ji Huaiyu defeat Si Liyuan with the Dragon-Tiger Combined Strike, Xue Jing learned from Jiang Siwei about the mysterious Secret Martial Society and heard that his own match was coming up.
• Gu Hongding prepared to fight Xue Jing by putting on full-body titanium alloy armor and taking up a three-meter pole-blade, while his friend Deng Jizhou encouraged him to surrender if necessary.
• The commentators introduced Gu Hongding and Xue Jing, and the audience greeted Xue Jing with overwhelming cheers before the match began.
• After apologizing that he was in a hurry, Xue Jing unleashed his dragon aura, pinned Gu Hongding to the arena floor, and struck him through gaps in his armor with the Eye Piercing Style: Shaking Starfire.
• Xue Jing checked his phone after Gu Hongding was knocked out and saw that it was exactly five o’clock.

After defeating Gu Hongding at the U19 competition, Xue Jing left with Void Blade aboard a Dragon Core Machine. During the flight, she explained that the Dragon Mother in orbit produced dragons that dominated the skies and could not be killed, leaving Xue Jing to learn the scale of the threat.

• Xue Jing defeated Gu Hongding with a single punch, and spectators marveled at his visible Supple Strength.
• Void Blade arrived in a hovering black aircraft and took Xue Jing from the stadium.
• Shan Xiao explained that the Dragon Core Machine used a dragon's Core Organ to fly, while Void Blade described the dangers of Edge Cities.
• Xue Jing saw a dragon outside the aircraft, and Void Blade explained that dragons had driven most aerial species to extinction.
• Void Blade told Xue Jing that the superorganism Dragon Mother produced dragons at an immense rate and lived in orbit, surrounded by a million-strong dragon swarm.

Xue Jing and the Sixth Agency learned about the Dragon Mother and the core of the Roaring Waterfall Intersection Zone while traveling by Dragon Core Machine. When a Sky Pirate Gang tried to rob the aircraft, Xue Jing manifested a black armored giant and killed one attacker with a single arrow.

• Void Blade and Shan Xiao explained that more than a million dragons protected the Dragon Mother in space and that destroying an Intersection Zone’s core would stop its extreme changes.
• Four Sky Pirates spotted the Dragon Core Machine and decided to steal it, despite the gaunt woman’s warnings.
• Void Blade explained that the Pure-Blooded Dragon Species was Roaring Waterfall’s core creature and cautioned Xue Jing against trying to kill it.
• The aircraft’s radar detected the approaching Sky Pirates, and Void Blade went out to negotiate while Xue Jing climbed onto the aircraft to help.
• Xue Jing summoned a black armored giant that shot a massive arrow through the long-haired Sky Pirate, cutting him in half.

Xue Jing revealed himself as a Child of Divine Choice and fought the sky pirate leader Zhong Ge using his Shadow Flame armor and varied abilities. Xue Jing cut Zhong Ge's neck while Void Blade and Shan Xiao dealt with the other pirates, and the surviving woman escaped.

• After Xue Jing shot Tan Hao down, Zhong Ge led Wan Bang and the gaunt woman toward the plane while Void Blade recognized Xue Jing and questioned whether he was a Blessed One.
• Xue Jing called himself a Child of Divine Choice, formed Shadow Flame into Entangling Armor, and charged Zhong Ge as Void Blade engaged the other two sky pirates.
• Zhong Ge covered himself in living Purple Crystal Armor and fought Xue Jing, whose intuition helped him evade crystal spikes and a Gatling gun before he summoned roots and Shadow Flame Ravens.
• Xue Jing used the flock to distract Zhong Ge, then struck through a hidden gap in the Purple Crystal Armor and opened a deep wound in his neck.
• Void Blade killed Wan Bang, Shan Xiao shot the gaunt woman, and the wounded woman escaped after taking a capsule.

Xue Jing fought the air pirate leader after he transformed into a giant Living Crystal Seed wolf, and upgraded Shadow Flame to Lv5 to meet the threat. He defeated the wolf by locating and striking the leader inside it, then returned to the plane with his captive.

• The air pirate leader's ISE transformed into a giant purple crystal wolf, which Void Blade identified as a Level 5 threat.
• Xue Jing sent Void Blade into the plane and upgraded Shadow Flame to Lv5, creating a giant armored black form.
• Xue Jing struck the crystal wolf with a whirlwind punch, endured its crystal spike barrage, and cleaved its body with a Black Flame sword.
• Xue Jing spotted the air pirate leader inside the wolf, broke through the crystal around him, and knocked him unconscious with a punch.
• The crystal wolf shattered, and Xue Jing returned to the plane carrying the captive leader as Shan Xiao offered to swear brotherhood with him.

After Xue Jing defeated the air pirate leader, Void Blade examined the corpse while the group discussed the valuable custom equipment and the possibility that a powerful force had backed the attack. As their aircraft crossed the Fifth City Circle toward Roaring Waterfall, Xue Jing reflected on his gains and the chapter ended near Edge City 328, at the boundary of the Wasteland.

• Shan Xiao questioned how Xue Jing had become strong enough to kill the air pirate leader, and Xue Jing claimed he had been chosen by an alien god as a Child of Divine Choice.
• Void Blade confirmed that the air pirate leader was dead, found his Superior Enhanced Repair Device disabled, and noted that his high-grade ISE and custom Alien Plant Bodies would be difficult for anyone else to use.
• Xue Jing let Void Blade sell the leader's equipment through her black-market contacts, while she suspected the air pirates had a powerful backer.
• Xue Jing checked his status panel aboard the aircraft and saw that Aim and Combat had reached Lv8 and Acting had reached Lv4.
• Xue Jing tested his enhanced vision and used Moonlight Slash to startle rabbits and expose a fox hiding in the grass below.
• Void Blade showed Xue Jing Edge City 328 and explained that the Wasteland lay beyond it, while warning that he might not be able to enter Roaring Waterfall.

Xue Jing arrived at the Roaring Waterfall Intersection Zone to install monitoring scanners and make contact with its human natives. After he entered, the zone suddenly fused with the Mirror World, trapping him inside.

• Xue Jing reached the wasteland camp with Void Blade and Shan Xiao, where Shen Da explained the scanner mission and warned him to avoid the Pure-Blooded Dragon Species.
• Shen Da gave Xue Jing a recording bracelet and equipment, and Xue Jing spent the night at camp before preparing to enter the zone.
• After agency personnel tested his equipment, Xue Jing stepped through the light curtain into Roaring Waterfall.
• A ring of light descended and transformed the Intersection Zone, prompting Shen Da to identify a Reflection Fusion Phenomenon with the Mirror World.
• Shen Da told Void Blade that Xue Jing could not come back out.

Doctor Shen explained that the Mirror World had fused an illusion into the Intersection Zone, making its core the flaw Xue Jing would need to destroy to escape. Unaware of the danger or the Pure-Blooded Dragon Species’ role, Xue Jing explored the altered zone and killed a special creature, gaining divinity.

• Doctor Shen told Void Blade and Shan Xiao that Reflected Fusion had changed the Intersection Zone and that Xue Jing needed to kill the Pure-Blooded Dragon Species and destroy its Core Organ to escape.
• Xue Jing entered a fertile grassland, found that his tablet could detect a monitor but not the exit or the other monitors, and set off with Black Flame carrying his backpack.
• Xue Jing entered a forest and heard a monster attack a young girl, whose yellow monkey was killed with a single slap.
• Xue Jing impaled the monster with Shadow Flame spears and made them burst through its body, killing it.
• Xue Jing checked his status panel and saw that killing a special creature with divinity had raised his Divinity by 12.

Xue Jing learned from Renia that the Intersection Zone was home to two tiny countries, tamed Da Lu Ka, and a Dragon God whose shrine maiden could not tame dragons. After leaving Renia to hunt for divinity, he encountered a dragon species and killed it, gaining 32 divinity.

• Xue Jing questioned Renia, learned that she was This Country’s Dragon God Shrine Maiden, and discovered that Vomit Beasts were widespread Da Lu Ka.
• Xue Jing parted from Renia and spent more than three hours killing Intersection Zone creatures, but none yielded divinity.
• Xue Jing considered hunting the distant Pure-Blooded Dragon Species and using the dragon-slaying claws Ning Fengwan had given him to overcome its strength.
• A dark-yellow wyvern attacked Xue Jing, who caught its tail and smashed it into the ground.
• Xue Jing received a notification that killing the special creature had granted him 32 divinity.

Xue Jing investigated the divinity in the Roaring Waterfall’s dragons, then hunted one and roasted its meat. After capturing and questioning a local dragon-hunting group, he obtained their map and decided to clear the dragon territories from the outskirts inward.

• Xue Jing considered whether dragons and Vomit Beasts possessed divinity because they shared the Dragon God's bloodline or because they were Core Creatures, then resolved to kill the dragons in the Intersection Zone.
• Void Blade reported the incident to Wu Youqing, who criticized White Crow’s lack of preparation before saying Xue Jing attracted complex anomalies and ordering the team to come to Sunny City with a God Relic.
• Xue Jing roasted and ate the Long Tail Dragon’s meat as a group led by Captain Apawa approached to capture it.
• Xue Jing bound Apawa’s group with Shadow Flame restraints, learned they were dragon hunters from Other Country, and obtained their map of dragon territories.
• Xue Jing released the group and studied the map, deciding to hunt dragons around the perimeter before moving toward the center.

Xue Jing hunted dragon-type creatures across the unexpectedly vast Intersection Zone, earning divinity and rapidly improving his skills. After using the last monitor, he concluded that the monitoring mission had effectively failed and decided to focus on killing the dragonkin and possibly the Dragon God.

• Xue Jing noticed that the Intersection Zone seemed far larger than White Crow's survey predicted and suspected an unknown change after finding that the GPS and earlier monitors were missing from his tablet.
• Xue Jing killed a Red Scale Dragon with his Shadow Flame giant hand and gained 29 divinity, then began clearing dragon territories from the outer perimeter inward.
• Over two days, Xue Jing killed nearly thirty dragon-type creatures and defeated a powerful fish-like dragon, gaining 91 divinity and reaching 1,029 divinity held.
• Xue Jing reviewed his status and found that Fitness had reached Lv10, while several other skills had also gained levels and substantial experience.
• Xue Jing planted his last monitor and realized the Intersection Zone was too large for the available equipment, so he resolved to hunt the dragonkin and consider killing the Dragon God.

Doctor Shen and Void Blade sent Mirror Man to find Xue Jing, while Renia encountered him in a stream’s reflection. After upgrading Shadow Flame to Lv6, Xue Jing used Shadow Dive to ambush and mortally wound a Flame Cry Dragon, leaving Renia and her companions watching the wounded dragon struggle in the sky.

• Void Blade persuaded Mirror Man to enter the Mirror World and contact Xue Jing, and Mirror Man agreed because Wu Youqing had promised him freedom.
• Renia traveled with a patrol through This Country, stopped by a stream, and spotted Mirror Man sitting on her reflection.
• Xue Jing used Divinity to raise Shadow Flame to Lv6 after the Flame Cry Dragon’s Dragon Breath burned his armor and injured him.
• Xue Jing hid within the dragon’s shadow, then struck its back with a Spiral Spear reinforced by Whirlwind Thunder and Twin Birth Power.
• The Flame Cry Dragon screamed and thrashed through the air as Renia and the patrol recognized it and saw a figure standing on its back.

Xue Jing defeated the Fire Dragon after a prolonged battle and gained Divinity, while improving his skills enough to unleash blade qi in his normal state. Renia and a group from This Country set out to investigate the dragon, accompanied by the Mirror Person, who wanted to meet Xue Jing.

• Xue Jing used Shadow Flame reins to ride the Fire Dragon, but it dove toward the ground at nearly supersonic speed, forcing him to leap away before it crashed.
• Xue Jing fought the badly injured Fire Dragon for nearly three hours and killed it, gaining 233 Divinity.
• Xue Jing studied the Dragon Species Distribution Map, considered using the Serpent Slayer Vanguard against the three stronger dragons near the Rumbling Great Waterfall, and restored and changed his clothes.
• Xue Jing saw that Health Preservation, Weapon Combat, and Riding had leveled up, then discovered that he could unleash circular blade qi with a casual swing of the Futu Blade.
• Renia and a middle-aged man decided to investigate the Flame Cry Dragon, while the Mirror Person urged Renia to take it to Xue Jing.

Xue Jing learned from GOD-1108 Man that the Intersection Zone had fused with the Mirror World and that its core was a juvenile Pure-Blooded Dragon Species. With only days to escape and reach his competition, he asked Renia to help him kill the Dragon God, leaving her two days to decide.

• This Country's Patrol Team discovered the Flame Cry Dragon dead and found Xue Jing grilling its meat; Renia went to meet him with a bowl containing GOD-1108 Man.
• GOD-1108 Man told Xue Jing that the Mirror World had merged with the Intersection Zone and that destroying its core was the only way out.
• Xue Jing revealed that the core was a juvenile Pure-Blooded Dragon Species, while GOD-1108 Man despaired and Xue Jing extracted 851 divinity.
• Xue Jing realized he needed to defeat the core within days and considered using the Serpent Slayer Vanguard to overcome it.
• Xue Jing asked Renia whether she would help him kill the Dragon God and gave her two days to answer.

After clearing nearly every dragon species in the Intersection Zone, Xue Jing prepared to challenge the three Guardian Dragons and tested a plan to counter their Dragon Thunder. He contracted and enlarged a Dragon Thunder Tree, leaving the Mirror Person impressed by his unusual abilities.

• The Mirror Person warned Xue Jing that a Pure-Blooded Dragon Species wielded Dragon Thunder and was far beyond his strength, then explained the hierarchy among God Relics.
• Xue Jing removed his Ordinary Glasses, and the Mirror Person realized why Wu Youqing had been so anxious to warn him.
• One day later, Xue Jing had killed nearly every dragon species on the map and set his sights on the Three Nobles, Guardian Dragons born from the Pure-Blooded Dragon Species.
• Xue Jing upgraded Plant Contract, then went to a valley near a Guardian Dragon's territory and found a Dragon Thunder Tree.
• Xue Jing contracted the tree and used Plant Contract to grow it into a towering tree, revealing his plan to use plants resistant to Dragon Thunder.

Xue Jing attacked a Life-Element Tree Dragon and discovered that Serpent Slayer Vanguard made the dragon instinctively avoid contact. He reached its Core Organ and pierced it, leaving the Tree Dragon crashing to the ground.

• Xue Jing identified the sleeping Tree Dragon as a Life-Element dragon, and the Mirror Person warned that its powerful regeneration would make it nearly impossible to kill by ordinary means.
• Xue Jing ambushed the Tree Dragon with his Shadow Flame giant and used a Dragon Thunder Plant to block some of its lightning, but the dragon regenerated after he severed its head and blasted the giant apart with a lightning beam.
• The Mirror Person estimated the Tree Dragon's danger rating at 5.5 and guessed its Core Organ was in its belly, while Xue Jing dodged its lightning and charged at it with Serpent Slayer Vanguard.
• The Tree Dragon's flesh tore itself away from Serpent Slayer Vanguard, allowing Xue Jing to enter its body and locate its lightning-crackling Core Organ.
• Xue Jing pierced the Core Organ with Serpent Slayer Vanguard, and the Tree Dragon let out a terrified wail before crashing to the ground.

Xue Jing killed the Tree Dragon with the Serpent Slayer Vanguard claw and gathered Dragon Thunder Plants to prepare for the Pure-Blooded Dragon Species. He tested the plants against the Flower Crown Dragon, discovered they could block Dragon Thunder, and left the story poised for a fight in which he armored a giant plant Buddha with Black Flame.

• Xue Jing emerged from the Tree Dragon's exploded body and learned that one Serpent Slayer Vanguard claw had extinguished its Life Force, while the Mirror Person warned that more claws would be needed to kill a Pure-Blooded Dragon Species.
• Xue Jing collected Dragon Thunder Plants and spent eight hundred Divinity to raise Plant Contract to Lv5.
• Xue Jing bound the Flower Crown Dragon with seeds that grew into a mass of golden plants, then drilled through its scales while searching for its Core Organ.
• The Flower Crown Dragon released corrosive gas that weakened the plants, broke free, and attacked Xue Jing with Dragon Thunder.
• Xue Jing used the plants to shield himself from the lightning, then formed them into a giant Buddha and covered it with Black Flame armor.

Xue Jing killed the Flower Crown Dragon by surviving its Dragon Thunder explosion and slowly cutting apart its regenerating Core Organ, gaining divinity and advancing his skills. He then hunted down the final Guardian Dragon, leaving every dragon species in the Intersection Zone dead.

• Xue Jing used the armored giant Buddha to batter the Flower Crown Dragon, then retreated when it exploded itself into a sphere of Dragon Thunder.
• Xue Jing armored himself in Shadow Flame and Dragon Thunder Plants, charged through the lightning sphere, and seized the Flower Crown Dragon’s Core Organ.
• Xue Jing repeatedly cut the regenerating flesh until the Core Organ stopped moving, gaining 336 divinity and raising Aim and Combat to Lv9.
• Xue Jing discovered that he could combine Turning Golden Scales and Whirlwind Thunder, then set out for the final dragon while wondering why the Pure-Blooded Dragon Species had not reacted.
• Five hours later, Xue Jing killed the last dragon in the Intersection Zone and declared that he had slaughtered every dragon species there.