Chapter Summaries

Luo Jun learned from Wan Guiyuan that Midnight had left him a luck-boosting blessing, while Wan Guiyuan had not uncovered the Dice of Heavenly Secrets. After returning to Ningdong, Luo Jun summoned Midnight to confirm the blessing and asked whether the remains from the Death Challenge had been a Saint; she confirmed he had been the last Saint in the Great Thousand World.

• Wan Guiyuan sensed a fate-related Treasure Tool around Luo Jun, recognized Midnight's Protection, and told him to tell Old Yuan that the Heavenly Origin Tournament prize had been prepared for him.
• Old Yuan explained that Wan Guiyuan had mastered the Eye of Destiny and said Luo Jun needed to win the tournament, which was also a test for him.
• Luo Jun returned to Ningdong after spending several days recounting his maze experiences to the association, then used the Dice of Heavenly Secrets to confirm Wan Guiyuan had not discovered its identity.
• Luo Jun summoned Midnight with the Midnight Mask, and she explained that her harmless blessing gave his luck a slight boost so she could find him if he broke their promise.
• Luo Jun asked Midnight whether the remains that fought him during the Death Challenge had been a Saint, and she confirmed he was the last Saint in the Great Thousand World.

Midnight explained how mortals developed Ascension after the Gods fell silent and how an ancient race’s Saints once rivaled immortals. She revealed that the last Saint was killed by the Ascension Alliance, then reacted with shock when Luo Jun said he had found evidence of Deities only a few thousand years ago.

• Midnight told Luo Jun that mortals created the Ascension Realm after the Gods stopped answering prayers, and that the ancient race could cultivate the Body Refinement Realm to its tenth level and become Saints.
• Midnight explained that the last Saint found a God Ruins, grew powerful enough to surpass immortals, and was killed after the Ascension Alliance slaughtered his people and he fought back.
• Midnight said the alliance destroyed the Saint’s remains, and clarified that the fragment Luo Jun defeated in the Trial of Death held less than one ten-thousandth of his former strength.
• Luo Jun questioned how long ago the Gods disappeared, then told Midnight that he had found traces of Deities in Amgilla only a few thousand years ago.
• Midnight widened her eyes in shock at Luo Jun’s claim.

Luo Jun took Midnight, also called Zi Ye, out to experience modern life, and the two shared a meal while discussing the Main World’s history and the mysterious great door. Their outing ended awkwardly when Midnight’s teasing about their relationship upset Ling Xin, who left the restaurant.

• Midnight refused to explain what she knew about the true god-level existence, then asked Luo Jun to show her the modern world.
• Luo Jun took Midnight to Qianyue Mall, explained its attractions, and chose a war movie for them to watch.
• Luo Jun and Midnight ate hotpot, and Midnight remarked on how dramatically human civilization had advanced over a few thousand years.
• Midnight told Luo Jun she could not explain the great door but said he would learn the answer soon.
• Lao Miao Miao and Ling Xin arrived, and Lao Miao Miao mistook Midnight for Luo Jun’s girlfriend.
• Midnight teased that their relationship was far beyond being a couple, and Ling Xin left after Luo Jun called them ordinary friends.

Luo Jun took Midnight to dinner and a movie, where they ran into Ling Xin and Lao Miao Miao and passed Midnight off as his Senior Sister. Afterward, Midnight revealed that she had come to the Main World to reach Yingzhou, and she and Luo Jun flew east together under concealment.

• Luo Jun and Midnight went to a movie and unexpectedly met Ling Xin and Lao Miao Miao, who had tickets for the seats beside them.
• Midnight intimidated Ling Xin and Lao Miao Miao, then claimed she was Luo Jun's Senior Sister, and Luo Jun improvised an explanation about his Vital Energy teacher.
• Ling Xin sat beside Luo Jun for the movie, while Lao Miao Miao reminded him that training camp began the day after tomorrow and the Five Schools Tournament was next month.
• After the movie, Midnight told Luo Jun she needed to go somewhere remote, then used a globe to identify Yingzhou as her destination.
• Luo Jun took Midnight to a secluded place outside the city, gave her an Invisibility Talisman, and flew east with her using his Assassin's Cloak and Myriad Jun Hammer.

Luo Jun and Midnight reached the Toba Shrine in Old Capital, where they learned that the Night Sky Purple Pure Jade had begun glowing again. Midnight triggered the jade herself, leaving Toba Gensuke and Toba Reina to wonder what connected her to it.

• Luo Jun and Midnight arrived in Yingzhou, killed several Federal Soldiers who tried to touch Midnight, and headed for Pure Jade Mountain.
• The pair crossed the mountain’s detection barrier and met Toba Reina, who confronted them at the shrine before Toba Gensuke stopped the fight.
• Toba Gensuke explained the jade’s history and led Luo Jun and Midnight to the genuine Night Sky Purple Pure Jade in a guarded secret chamber.
• Midnight raised her hand toward the jade, causing it to glow and flash again.

Midnight took the Night Sky Purple Pure Jade from the Toba Family and led Luo Jun to Xia Yue Island, where the recent global earthquake had an epicenter. After she broke through a military cordon, senior representatives of the Holy See, the Federal Supernatural Foundation, and the Yuan Cultivation Society confronted her.

• Midnight claimed the Night Sky Purple Pure Jade, defeated Toba Reina and Toba Gensuke, and escaped the shrine with Luo Jun.
• Midnight and Luo Jun flew to Xia Yue Island, where locals warned them that foreign forces had sealed off a valley after a major earthquake.
• Midnight headed toward the valley despite the warning and demolished the military base guarding it, leaving the soldiers wounded.
• Midnight destroyed missiles aimed at her and met Roland, Evelyn, and Xu Jiahe, who identified themselves as senior representatives of their organizations.

Midnight defeated the three Foundation experts and revealed her ability to manipulate distance and tear through spaces. At the Testing Ground, she produced the Night Sky Purple Pure Jade and offered to help open the mysterious door.

• Midnight outmaneuvered Evelyn, Xu Jiahe, and Bishop Roland, binding Roland with her hair while sending Xu Jiahe flying.
• Roland sacrificed himself to create a blood-red Different Space, and Evelyn and Xu Jiahe transformed to attack Midnight inside it.
• Midnight tore apart the Different Space, pulled Roland from the gap between it and the Main World, and subdued all three experts.
• Midnight brought everyone to the Testing Ground, controlled distance to remove the researchers, and revealed the Night Sky Purple Pure Jade.
• Midnight said she had come to help the researchers completely push open the door.

Midnight used the Night Sky Purple Pure Jade to turn the unstable Spatial Turbulence into an Otherworld Gate, but her weakened projection could not keep it stable. After sending Luo Jun away, she left the arriving Ascension Experts to contain the expanding turbulence, and Luo Jun prepared to teleport out.

• Midnight explained that she intended to stabilize the proto-gate and transform it into the Main World's Thirteenth Door, while Xu Jiahe, Evelyn, and Roland warned Luo Jun that doing so could cause a catastrophe.
• Luo Jun flipped a coin, got heads, and let Midnight use the jade to turn the turbulence into a standard Otherworld Gate.
• The gate became unstable again, and Midnight's projection grew transparent as the three officials fled from the expanding turbulence.
• Midnight told Luo Jun that the jade was a device she had left in the Main World and that she had come to repair the gate, then warned him that the gate remained dangerous.
• Midnight sent Luo Jun dozens of kilometers away, where he saw Yulia and other Ascension Experts arrive to contain the turbulence.
• Luo Jun realized Midnight had delayed the officials to give them time to summon reinforcements, then took out his Teleportation Staff to escape.

Luo Jun met the students chosen for the Exchange Meeting and learned that Professor Yu Qiudi would supervise them. After Tie Jingang forced Yu Qiudi to take training seriously, the students endured more than ten days of grueling drills, and Luo Jun left for the Yuanqiang Black Market on its opening day.

• Luo Jun arrived at the academy gymnasium and met Zhai Xixi, who had returned from her exchange at Tianjing University to claim a place on the Exchange Meeting team.
• Ling Xin asked Luo Jun whether he wanted to compete for a place in the Heavenly Origin Tournament, and Luo Jun said he did.
• Yu Qiudi arrived in animal pajamas and initially showed the students old competition footage instead of training them.
• Tie Jingang used an embarrassing secret from Yu Qiudi's past to make her take responsibility, and Yu Qiudi began putting the students through brutal daily training.
• Yu Qiudi gave the students a day off before the Exchange Meeting, and Luo Jun went alone to the Yuanqiang Black Market after Ling Xin told him how to enter.

Luo Jun visited the Yuanqiang Black Market seeking an unusual Legendary Treasure Item, but instead bought an Epic Enchanting Magic Wand after recognizing how useful its risky effects would be with his dice. As he arranged for the merchants to alert him about future Legendary finds, a cloaked figure began following him.

• Luo Jun told Qian Baldy he wanted a Legendary Treasure Item and revealed that he was the young man who had cleared the Tier A Mission.
• Qian Baldy gathered several black-market merchants, who showed Luo Jun three Legendary treasures and two unusual Epic items, but he rejected them all.
• Old Gap-toothed Man presented an Enchanting Magic Wand, and Luo Jun realized his dice could make its four remaining uses valuable.
• Luo Jun negotiated Old Gap-toothed Man down to two Rare-level items and bought the wand.
• Luo Jun exchanged contact information with Qian Baldy so he could hear about future Legendary Treasure Items, while a cloaked figure followed him from a distance.

Luo Jun staged an attack to draw out the person stalking him, only to discover Ling Xin had been following him and suspected that someone else sometimes took his place. He misled her into believing Lin Feng was a powerful Summoned Creature, and Ling Xin urged him to find his own path to strength.

• Luo Jun used Lilith and Ailongtan to stage a desperate attack outside the city, hoping to force his hidden pursuer to reveal herself.
• Ling Xin appeared and drove off the attackers, then stopped chasing them when Luo Jun pretended to be injured.
• Luo Jun realized Ling Xin had followed him from the black market, and she admitted she wanted to confirm whether he was really himself.
• Ling Xin said she sensed another person sometimes replaced Luo Jun and correctly named that person Lin Feng.
• Luo Jun claimed a Treasure Tool had summoned a powerful creature that imitated him, and Ling Xin urged him to rely on his own cultivation and consider other paths to success.

Ling Xin told Luo Jun about a monster deity’s cultivation method that might allow power beyond Ascension, and agreed to ask her brother for its records. Back home, Luo Jun upgraded several treasures, improving the Dominator’s Necklace and Chaos Key, then activated a Grocery Store Admission Ticket.

• Ling Xin explained that her brother, Ling Yao, had recovered records of a monster deity’s cultivation method from ancient ruins, and Luo Jun persuaded her to ask him for a copy.
• Luo Jun upgraded the Dominator’s Necklace into the Legendary Dominator’s Eye, which could hold five loyal followers and let him borrow one of their abilities.
• Luo Jun found that the Grocery Store Admission Ticket and Heaven Returning Mirror could not be upgraded with the Enchanting Magic Wand.
• Luo Jun upgraded the Chaos Key, allowing it to trigger random Tier A Missions and reducing its cooldown to fifteen days.
• Luo Jun activated a Grocery Store Admission Ticket to see what the legendary store offered.

Luo Jun visited the Ten Thousand Realms Grocery Store to trade for powerful Treasure Tools and found several items that could strengthen his collection. He reserved a set of rare goods for next month and left a Legendary Treasure Tool as a deposit.

• Luo Jun entered the Ten Thousand Realms Grocery Store and learned that its shopkeeper traded in unusual goods and Treasure Tools.
• Luo Jun showed the shopkeeper several Legendary and Epic Treasure Tools, then examined her stock lists for items to acquire.
• Luo Jun chose the People-Trampling Boots, Heinlein's Helmet, the Legendary Combination Module, and Holy Domain Chess, which he believed could combine with his Elemental Construct Box.
• Luo Jun asked the shopkeeper to find additional Lockpicks, Fusion Evolution Components, Enchanting Magic Wands, and Universal Chargers before his return in one month.
• Luo Jun agreed to leave a Legendary Treasure Tool as a deposit and gave the shopkeeper Eileen's Lace Lingerie.

Luo Jun and the Ningdong Academy students traveled to Puhua Mountain for the Exchange Meeting and discussed Tianjing University’s strongest candidates while waiting for their bus. The chapter ended when Xue Lan, the silver-haired student who had defeated Ouyang Da, boarded and surprised Luo Jun.

• Luo Jun used his storage equipment to stow the students’ luggage, and Zhai Xixi hypnotized a couple who had seen him do it.
• The group flew to Puhua Mountain, where Lao Miao Miao led the students while Yu Qiudi slept through the journey.
• At the airport, the students met their pickup and discussed Tianjing University candidates, including Bai Renxin and the student who had defeated Ouyang Da.
• Xue Lan boarded the bus, and Luo Jun recognized her as the Ice Queen’s granddaughter and the rising talent of the Mo Bei Xue Family.

Luo Jun and the Ningdong team traveled to Puhua Mountain Academy for the exchange meeting, where tensions rose with Tianjing’s students before his reputation drew everyone’s attention. After meeting Sun Xiaowei and Zhuge Zi at the dormitories, Luo Jun was warned that many contestants wanted to challenge him.

• Xue Lan’s identity as the Ice Queen’s granddaughter surprised the teams, and she recognized Luo Jun as an old acquaintance.
• Ouyang Yu and other Tianjing students provoked Ningdong’s team, while Zhai Xixi defended her teammates and named Luo Jun their hidden ace.
• Xue Lan identified Luo Jun, causing the Tianjing students to treat him as a powerful figure because of his famous mission achievement.
• Xu Lin ended the teams’ arguments, and the bus passed through Puhua Mountain Academy’s hidden barrier into its secluded mountain grounds.
• Luo Jun and the Ningdong team reached their dormitory courtyard, where Sun Xiaowei and Zhuge Zi warned that contestants wanted to challenge him.

Luo Jun met Professor Zhang Wentai, who revealed that he had learned a dangerous forbidden art from Old Yuan and was restricted from meeting him after a past disaster. At the exchange meeting, Zhuge Zi narrowly beat Lei Tianyang in the speed race, and Ling Xin stepped forward to compete in the ten-ton shot put.

• Zhang Wentai thanked Luo Jun for saving Sun Xiaowei and Old Yuan, and said he was one of Old Yuan's disciples who had learned a forbidden secret technique.
• Zhang Wentai explained that the Yuan Cultivation Society had restricted meetings between Old Yuan and his disciples after a disaster, then left as Zhuge Zi showed the delegation around Puhua Mountain Academy.
• Luo Jun and the other students attended the exchange meeting, where Lei Tianyang and Zhuge Zi raced against contestants from other academies.
• Lei Tianyang activated Elemental Avatar and caught up with Zhuge Zi, but the replay showed Zhuge Zi had crossed the finish sensor 0.02 seconds before him.
• The contestants prepared for a ten-ton shot put, and Ling Xin stepped forward before Lu Fei or Xiao Tian could volunteer.

Ling Xin and Xue Lan competed in the shot put event, with Xue Lan winning after throwing the ten-ton shot put 50.2 meters. After two days of arena events in which Luo Jun did not compete, the Exchange Meeting announced an unfamiliar Link Link contest, and Luo Jun volunteered to try it.

• Ling Xin used a golden spring to throw the shot put 48.5 meters, beating the other contestants so far.
• Xue Lan formed an ice hand to launch the shot put 50.2 meters and win the event.
• Luo Jun watched the remaining arena competitions from the stands because Ling Xin and the others considered his realm too low for the events.
• The host announced Link Link as the final event and explained its pattern-matching rules.
• After the team discussed memory and chose Zhai Xixi as their best candidate, Luo Jun raised his hand and offered to compete.

Luo Jun used chatter and his terrible singing to disrupt the other contestants during the Link Link memory competition, while retaining an astonishingly accurate memory himself. After the others were eliminated with low scores, Luo Jun stood alone and prepared to continue despite his large negative score.

• Luo Jun volunteered for Ningdong’s final event and joined contestants Zhu Xixi, the bald Puhua Mountain contestant, the Guanxi glasses-wearer, and Ouyang Yu in Link Link.
• Luo Jun drew fourth and asked whether time penalties could make his score negative; the host confirmed that negative scores would not eliminate him.
• After the first three contestants scored ten points each, Luo Jun delayed his turn by chatting and singing, distracting the others while refusing to choose any pairs.
• Luo Jun selected ten correct pairs after nearly twenty minutes, then scored another ten in the next round while Ouyang Yu and the others struggled.
• Ouyang Yu was eliminated with three points, and the remaining three contestants were eliminated in the sixth round with scores of thirty-eight, twenty-seven, and twenty-nine.
• Luo Jun remained undefeated but had a score of negative one thousand seventy-three; he asked to continue choosing pairs and prepared to show his real ability.

Luo Jun won the final Arena Stage event by matching every tile, lifting Ningdong Academy to second place overall. As the team prepared for its combat-stage match against Tianjing University, Zhai Xixi returned with their opponent’s lineup order, obtained through her Master.

• Luo Jun revealed all 14,400 matching patterns without error, won the Link Link event, and helped Ningdong Academy finish second in the Arena Stage.
• At a team celebration, Yu Qiudi praised Ningdong’s fighters but said Luo Jun’s true strength was hard to judge; Luo Jun admitted he had used Treasure Tools to slack off during training.
• The team discussed Luo Jun as a possible weak point in combat, then learned Ningdong would face Tianjing University the next afternoon.
• Zhai Xixi said her Master could find out Tianjing’s lineup order, left to call him, and returned asking for paper and a pen.

Luo Jun experimented with borrowed Wind Control Technique and used the experience to develop a way to imitate wind with Gang Qi. After Ling Xin left, he discovered he could use his vast reserves to fly, naming the technique Carefree Roaming.

• The group planned its match order against Tianjing Team, assigning Luo Jun to face Xue Lan and arranging the other fighters around their opponents.
• Unable to sleep, Luo Jun went to a secluded waterfall and used Dominator's Eye to borrow Ailongtan's Wind Control Technique, practicing flight and Wind Blades.
• Ling Xin revealed she had watched Luo Jun and learned he had upgraded Dominator's Eye; he explained he hoped experiencing abilities would help him reach the Heart Refining Realm.
• Luo Jun demonstrated Gang Qi shaped to imitate wind and a gliding technique Ling Xin identified as Carefree Step.
• After Ling Xin left, Luo Jun formed a thick stream of Gang Qi beneath himself, flew above the waterfall, and named his technique Carefree Roaming.