Chapter Summaries

Zhang Yu quickly learned basic Mana Conversion Paths from Teacher Yan and prepared for the Magic Competition while repaying his loan. Liang Qin gambled away the money he earned spying on Zhang Yu, as a man plotting against Zhang Yu prepared to act before the next Monthly Exam; the chapter ended with Zhang Yu and his classmates heading to the competition.

• Zhang Yu mastered several basic Mana Conversion Paths, impressing Teacher Yan, who hoped he would outperform the students who skipped make-up lessons.
• Zhang Yu paid Zhou Chechen 15,000 toward his loan and worried about how quickly his savings were disappearing.
• Liang Qin reported on Zhang Yu to a man who paid him, then gambled away the 500 yuan and resolved to keep spying for more money.
• Su Haifeng learned that the man had sent Liang Qin to watch Zhang Yu, while the man said he intended to settle matters before Zhang Yu signed a contract with the Student Union after the next Monthly Exam.
• Over the following days, Zhang Yu raised his Dao Heart Level to Level 2 (42%) and his Magical Power to 15.4 while practicing for the competition.
• Teacher Yan led Zhang Yu, Bai Zhenzhen, Qian Shen, He Dayou, and the others onto a bus to the first-year Magic Competition venue in Songyang City.

Songyang High School’s contestants arrived at Red Pagoda High School for the Magic Competition, where Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen met teams from several elite schools. Bai Zhenzhen introduced Zhang Yu to two students from Saintly Women’s Academy, including its top freshman, Ye Xianyun.

• On the bus, Zhang Yu learned from Bai Zhenzhen that she planned to introduce him to poor students from Mangshan High School and Saintly Women’s Academy, including Soul Cultivators attending as spectators and assistants.
• At Red Pagoda High School, Qian Shen checked the contestants’ exam scores while Zhang Yu sensed Spiritual Energy surging as White Dragon High School’s top students arrived.
• Song Hailong, White Dragon High School’s towering leader, explained that he had just acquired a Heavenly Spiritual Root and struggled to control its pressure.
• Lian Tianji arrived with Ziyun High School aboard a Flying Boat and pointed Zhang Yu out to Le Mulan, who nodded to him.
• Red Pagoda High School’s team arrived, and Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen wondered what talent its red-panda-like Demon Descendant student possessed.
• Bai Zhenzhen led Zhang Yu to meet Wu Qingqing and Ye Xianyun, whom Wu introduced as Saintly Women’s Academy’s top freshman.

Bai Zhenzhen introduced Zhang Yu to the Alliance of the Wealth-Haters and tried to secure investment, then urged him to earn a strong result in the Magic Competition. The competition began with a flying-sword challenge, leaving Zhang Yu shocked by the sponsor-backed event.

• Bai Zhenzhen told Mo Tianyi that Zhang Yu had rejected Spark True Person and introduced him as a talented student worth knowing.
• Mo Tianyi sent Bai Zhenzhen 2,000 yuan, and she pushed for more support by promising Zhang Yu’s results could justify an investment.
• Bai Zhenzhen explained that she wanted to learn how the Alliance’s boss had avoided being tied to a school or Student Union, and that competition results could help them gain influence.
• Zhang Yu saw Liang Qin watching from the stands and resisted the temptation to bet after Bai Zhenzhen warned him about gambling.
• The Magic Competition began, and the organizers announced that its first event involved flying swords sponsored by a flying-sword manufacturer.

Zhang Yu and the other students competed in a flying-sword round that rewarded familiarity with the expensive devices as much as magical-power control. After Song Hailong set a perfect score, Zhang Yu entered the arena and considered how to overcome the advantage of students who had practiced with flying swords.

• The host explained that competitors would use Nine Heavens Flying Swords to hit airborne signal plates, and Han Xingye activated his Heaven's Eye Talisman to assess the students.
• Qian Shen scored 72 points, Lian Tianji scored 90, and Le Mulan raised the top score to 95.
• Han Xingye saw Bai Zhenzhen's unusually extensive evaluation as she scored 34 points, then learned from her that Song Hailong's long hair was a removable External Spirit Root.
• Song Hailong used his External Spirit Root and flying-sword experience to score 100 points, becoming the round's top competitor.
• Zhang Yu entered the arena and realized that his lack of flying-sword experience put him at a disadvantage, so he decided he could not use a conventional flying sword.

Zhang Yu scored 80 points in the flying-sword event by using precise magical-power control to spin his sword like a disc, despite complaints from other students. The second event then began, testing how quickly competitors could dissolve Special Magical Power, with medication allowed and schools preparing an array of drugs and injections.

• Zhang Yu used a rapidly spinning flying sword to hit the signal plates and earned 80 points, while Han Xingye recognized the maneuver's difficulty and dismissed the students who called it cheating.
• Other students tried Zhang Yu's technique and failed, and Teacher Yan praised him before sending Bai Zhenzhen to fetch him water.
• The host announced that the second event would test competitors' ability to dissolve Special Magical Power and allow approved medication, including Purple Cloud Company's Magic Dissipation Pills.
• Teacher Yan gave Zhang Yu medicine, which he accepted while planning not to take it, and schools across the arena prepared competitors with drugs and injections.
• Ziyun High School used Meridian Expansion Injections, Red Pagoda High School's coach fed Xiong Bufan veterinary medicine, and White Dragon High School distributed Kang Ling Needles to its students.
• A student was carried out foaming at the mouth and convulsing, and the second event officially began after the competitors finished preparing.

Students competed to dissolve injected Special Magical Power, with the fastest times earning the highest rankings. Le Mulan took first place, but Zhang Yu’s quick finish put him in fourth and gave Songyang High School a place among the leaders.

• Judges injected contestants with heating-type Special Magical Power, and Zhang Yu countered it with low-temperature Magical Power while enduring intense pain.
• Song Hailong dissolved the foreign power in 1:29 and held first place as White Dragon High School students filled the top ten.
• Xiong Bufan of Red Pagoda High School climbed to second place in 1:35, and two more students from his school entered the top ten.
• Le Mulan of Ziyun High School took first place in 00:25, with Song Hailong and Xiong Bufan finishing second and third.
• Zhang Yu finished in 1:38 and entered the rankings in fourth place, prompting Teacher Yan to photograph the results.

Zhang Yu struggled with the final round’s unfamiliar Energy Circulation Diagram, which tested converting magical power into Body Protecting Qi, while students from the famous schools relied on extensive training and resources. After Bai Zhenzhen’s punches revealed that the diagram could combine with her martial arts to form Limitless Cloud Hand, Zhang Yu began practicing the complete technique with the Feather Scroll.

• After the first two rounds, Zhang Yu’s total score fell outside the top ten, and Teacher Yan calculated that he needed four more points to qualify.
• The final round began with contestants using an Energy Circulation Diagram to transform magical power into Special Magical Power.
• Le Mulan recognized the diagram as a Body Protecting Qi method, Song Hailong began oscillating his magical power, and Xiong Bufan’s coach expected him to finish first.
• Zhang Yu struggled with the unfamiliar method and realized that the wealthy schools’ preparation gave their students a major advantage.
• Bai Zhenzhen practiced six martial arts moves, and Zhang Yu recognized that they completed the diagram’s method as Limitless Cloud Hand.
• Zhang Yu switched the Feather Scroll’s Specialization to Limitless Cloud Hand and began practicing it.

Zhang Yu took second place in the third round and fourth place overall in the Magic Competition, drawing attention from rival schools and investors. White Dragon High School tried to recruit him, but Teacher Yan intervened, and Zhang Yu left with his place at Songyang High School unchanged.

• Zhang Yu completed seven Magical Power oscillations and released a towering pillar of Astral Qi, placing second in the third round behind Xiong Bufan.
• The final standings put Song Hailong first, Le Mulan second, Xiong Bufan third, and Zhang Yu fourth overall with 273 points.
• Ziyun High School's coach and Lian Tianji considered recruiting Zhang Yu, but Le Mulan rejected the idea because of his school background.
• Han Xingye offered Zhang Yu a place at White Dragon High School, but Teacher Yan stepped in and led Zhang Yu away.
• Bai Zhenzhen pressed Mo Tianyi for more investment in Zhang Yu, and Mo Tianyi agreed to seek additional funding while lamenting that he had noticed Zhang Yu too late.

After placing fourth in the Magical Power Competition, Zhang Yu received the right to use the Limitless Cloud Hand and celebrated with Bai Zhenzhen. He began training the martial art at an unfinished building and raised it to Level 2.

• Zhang Yu received the Limitless Cloud Hand usage agreement and his fourth-place prize money, then promised to treat Bai Zhenzhen to dinner.
• Liang Qin fell from the stadium, but a teacher and other cultivators caught him with Astral Qi; he claimed he had lost his footing and planned to jump elsewhere.
• Zhang Yu asked Bai Zhenzhen about the six moves she had discerned, and they agreed to attend Teacher Yan's competition tutoring classes.
• Zhang Yu switched his Feather Book Specialization to the Limitless Cloud Hand and practiced its six moves at the unfinished building.
• Zhang Yu raised the Limitless Cloud Hand to Level 2, improving his Formless Cloud Gang control and reducing the wisps of Gang Qi rising from his hands.

After placing fourth in the citywide Magical Power Competition, Zhang Yu continued training and attracted attention and envy at school. He received the equipment he had ordered to improve his Physical Strength ahead of next month’s Martial Arts Competition.

• Zhang Yu practiced Limitless Cloud Hand overnight, raising it to level 6 while alternating training with recovery and work on his Dao Heart.
• Zhou Chechen and Lan Ling decided to make Zhang Yu sign with the Student Union after the Monthly Exam so they could train him for future competitions.
• Zhao Tianxing worried that Zhang Yu’s success had put distance between them, but Zhang Yu invited him to lunch with Bai Zhenzhen and Zhou Tianyi.
• Zhang Yu learned that classmates attributed his success to luck and connections, then asked the cafeteria auntie for extra meat as the citywide competition’s fourth-place winner.
• Zhang Yu received the items he had ordered to improve his Physical Strength before next month’s Martial Arts Competition.

Zhang Yu trained with a weighted suit and the Muscle Growth Spiritual Root, improving his cultivation and martial arts while preparing for the Monthly Exam. As pressure from the Student Union and the Ritual mounted, the exam arrived with attention focused on him and Bai Zhenzhen.

• Zhang Yu began wearing a 150-kilogram weighted suit and maintaining the Desolate Ox Soul-Suppressing Heart Sutra while training, eventually raising Limitless Cloud Hand to Level 10 and improving his Physical Strength and Dao Heart.
• Zhou Tianyi told Zhang Yu that Liang Qin had dropped out after his parents discovered his gambling debts and withdrew him from school.
• Bai Zhenzhen collected 20,000 yuan from the Student Union and transferred 8,000 to her card, then warned Zhang Yu to hide his goal of reaching the top ten while negotiating with them.
• Zhang Yu rented the Muscle Growth Spiritual Root and extended his Quiet Room session by an hour to support his physical training.
• Lei Jun gave Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen extra martial arts lessons, where Bai Zhenzhen repeatedly exploited Zhang Yu's weak points and suppressed his attacks.
• After another week of studying, cultivation, and training, Songyang High School's Monthly Exam began, drawing attention to Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen.

Zhang Yu completed the Monthly Exam, reached Dao Heart Level 3, and began cultivating the Heavenly Martial Heart Refinement Art. The chapter left him facing a lengthy new training regimen as storms gathered around his place in the school’s Competition Team.

• Zhang Yu continued brutal training in the Unfinished Building and told Zhou Chechen he would discuss the Student Union contract after the Monthly Exam.
• Zhang Yu defeated Qian Shen in their combat exam after agreeing to use the Limitless Cloud Hand, while Bai Zhenzhen quickly beat He Dayou.
• Zhang Yu endured the Dao Heart Exam’s virtual Happy Powder injections and pressed the button twice before the exam ended.
• Wang Hai told Zhang Yu that the Student Union appeared to be blocking his entry into the school Physical Competition team.
• Zhang Yu reached Dao Heart Level 3 and switched his Feather Book Specialization to the Heavenly Martial Heart Refinement Art.
• Zhang Yu practiced the method’s nine martial arts sets and discovered that completing them took nearly fourteen minutes.

Zhang Yu advanced the Heavenly Martial Heart Refinement Art while the Student Union escalated pressure on him and Bai Zhenzhen for refusing to sign contracts. After both lost school opportunities, they agreed to endure the retaliation as Bai planned to seek help from the Poor Ghost Alliance.

• Zhang Yu cultivated the Heavenly Martial Heart Refinement Art to Level 3 and learned from Wang Hai that the Student Union had kept him off the school's Physical Competition Team.
• Zhou Chechen ordered Lan Ling to get Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen to sign their contracts within seven days after they rejected the Student Union's offer again.
• Zhang Yu received a message from Teacher Yan saying his tutoring money had been refunded and he could no longer join future Magic Competitions.
• Bai Zhenzhen told Zhang Yu that the Student Union would keep suppressing them, but Zhang refused to sign and said he was aiming for the top ten.
• Bai Zhenzhen promised to endure the pressure with Zhang and said she would seek a way into university from the leader of the Poor Ghost Alliance.

Zhang Yu learned that the Student Union was stripping away his opportunities and benefits, then found his elder sister Zhang Pianpian waiting in his apartment with an offer to take him to White Dragon High School. She offered another way to protect him and Bai Zhenzhen, but warned that its protection would last only six months; Zhang Yu had not yet answered.

• Zhao Tianxing arrived early to check the Monthly Exam rankings, where Zhang Yu placed first, Bai Zhenzhen second, and Zhao Tianxing eighth.
• Zhang Yu discovered that his free Spirit Root rental was blocked and learned that the school planned to postpone his Martial Arts Competition opportunity for another year.
• Zhang Yu considered escaping Songyang City but worried about leaving Bai Zhenzhen behind, then returned home and found Zhang Pianpian waiting for him.
• Zhang Pianpian told Zhang Yu to sign a contract with Zhou Chechen, but when he refused, she offered to take him to White Dragon High School and let him take the top ten exam.
• Zhang Yu asked Zhang Pianpian to protect Bai Zhenzhen too, and she proposed that they qualify as Divine Assistants to gain protection while warning that it would end when she entered college in six months.

Zhang Yu registered for the Divine Assistant assessment at Zhang Pianpian’s recommendation and spent the night using medicine to strengthen his Dao Heart and willpower. After resting, he entered the Spirit Realm for the assessment, where the chapter left him as it began.

• Zhang Pianpian explained that Zhang Yu could become a Divine Assistant, take Bai Zhenzhen as an intern, and use her standing as Songyang City’s Strongest High School Student to help protect them.
• Zhang Yu applied for the Patrol Department’s Divine Assistant assessment, listed Zhang Pianpian as his recommender, and received a nine o’clock appointment for the next morning.
• Zhang Yu bought medicine from Wang Hai and received a Spirit Realm Mask sent by Zhang Pianpian.
• Zhang Yu trained through the night with the medicine, raising his Physical Strength to 1.35, his Dao Heart to Level 3 (5%), and the Heavenly Martial Heart Refinement Art to level 6 (3/60).
• Zhang Yu put on the Spirit Realm Mask and entered another world when the assessment began.

Zhang Yu passed the Divine Assistant assessment after Zhang Pianpian bribed the Gong Cao Small God to lower its difficulty. She gave him a Patrol Department work Talisman Book and prepared to confront the Songyang High School Student Union with him.

• Zhang Yu woke from an illusion of his bleak high school life and rejected an Evil God’s offer, remembering that he was taking an assessment to become a Divine Assistant.
• Sun Jiayi, the Gong Cao Small God overseeing the assessments, failed wealthy and high-achieving applicants while watching Zhang Yu reject increasingly dangerous Evil God temptations.
• Zhang Pianpian contacted Sun Jiayi and used a Goodwill Talisman to send him money, persuading him to lower Zhang Yu’s assessment difficulty.
• Zhang Yu passed by choosing No when an illusion asked whether he would accept an Evil God’s temptation, then learned from Zhang Pianpian how she had influenced the assessment.
• Zhang Pianpian met Zhang Yu, gave him a Patrol Department work Talisman Book and permit, and said they would speak with the Songyang High School Student Union.

Grade Two student Lan Ling used a sparring session to punish Bai Zhenzhen, but Zhang Yu arrived and trapped him with a Detention Talisman. The chapter left Lan Ling pinned by golden hands as the students reacted to Zhang Yu’s unexpected intervention.

• Grade One students gathered for practical combat guidance from Grade Two seniors, and Lei Jun singled out Bai Zhenzhen to spar with Lan Ling.
• Bai Zhenzhen struck Lan Ling, but he seized her ankle and threw her toward the Training Field wall; Lei Jun rescued her before she hit it.
• Lan Ling demanded that Bai Zhenzhen continue sparring, while Lei Jun suspected the Student Union had ordered the confrontation and warned Lan Ling not to go too far.
• Zhang Yu entered the Training Field and called Lan Ling a bully for targeting his intern.
• Zhang Yu activated a Detention Talisman, and nine golden hands pinned Lan Ling in place.

Zhang Yu used his Patrol Department Talisman Book to stop Lan Ling, but Zhou Chechen challenged him over interfering in the spar. Zhang Pianpian arrived and intimidated Zhou Chechen with a Coercion Talisman, leaving the conflict unresolved as Chu Chengxuan stepped in to smooth things over.

• Zhang Yu used a Detention Talisman to stop Lan Ling, then revealed his Patrol Department Talisman Book when Lan Ling broke free.
• Zhou Chechen arrived and had Shuang Youpeng criticize Bai Zhenzhen and Lan Ling’s spar before accusing Zhang Yu of attacking a senior.
• Zhang Yu challenged Zhou Chechen not to attack a Divine Assistant, and Zhang Pianpian entered the Training Field to defend her temporary worker.
• Zhang Pianpian activated a Coercion Talisman that displayed her exam score of 699 and bank balance of 2.5 billion, overwhelming the students and preventing Zhou Chechen from acting.
• Zhou Chechen backed down and apologized to Zhang Pianpian, who warned him not to harm Zhang Yu; Chu Chengxuan then said she was joking.

Zhang Pianpian revealed that her apparent billions were a talisman-made illusion and warned Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen that they had to grow strong enough to challenge Songyang’s elite. After setting them the goal of becoming the city’s strongest first-year students, she concealed their unusual potential and borrowed money to cover the cost of helping them.

• Zhou Chechen accepted Chu Chengxuan’s advice to wait until university before retaliating against Zhang Pianpian, Zhang Yu, and Bai Zhenzhen.
• Zhang Pianpian revealed that her displayed bank balance had been faked with a modified Coercion Talisman and explained how talisman spells could manipulate information.
• Zhang Pianpian warned Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen that Songyang’s Student Union would target them if they pursued admission to a top university, and they declared that they would still aim for one of the Ten Great Top Universities.
• Zhang Pianpian told Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen to take the top two places in every remaining first-year competition before she would explain their next steps.
• Zhang Pianpian arranged Bai Zhenzhen’s Patrol Team internship, told the two to keep their relationship secret, and said their parents were safe in a village.
• Zhang Pianpian concealed Zhang Yu’s unknown potential and Bai Zhenzhen’s hidden-evolution spirit root, then told a woman on the phone that both might keep up with her and asked to borrow money.

Bai Zhenzhen borrowed Zhang Yu’s Talisman Book, while Zhou Tianyi finished a delivery before setting out to target Zhang Yu. Back in his room, Zhang Yu explored the Talisman Book’s functions and learned that the Great God of All Living Beings had sensed his reverence.

• Bai Zhenzhen persuaded Zhang Yu to lend her the Talisman Book until they reached the station, then they parted ways.
• Su Haifeng told Zhou Tianyi that Zhang Yu was protected by Zhang Pianpian and had used one free talisman spell, making that day an opportunity to attack him.
• Zhou Tianyi completed his guaranteed food delivery before heading to Zhang Yu’s rental building, where he planned to wait for Zhang Yu to go to the Unfinished Building.
• Zhang Yu used his Magical Power to open the Talisman Book and examined its follow mode, his Faith Levels, and the Department of All People’s divine options.
• Zhang Yu selected Worship the God, and the Talisman Book reported that the Great God of All Living Beings had sensed his reverence.