Chapter Summaries

Qin Yuan and his companions reached Flat Top Mountain, where Zhao Chenying prepared to reunite with her mother, Jiang Feng, the Flame Witch. As Jiang Feng approached and called for Xiao Ying, Ye Xin Xia translated her words.

• Qin Yuan and his group crossed the Sand Wasting River and reached Flat Top Mountain, where Zhao Chenying said her mother was waiting.
• Qin Yuan left Ding Yumian and Tiger Girl to deal with the Zhao family while he and Ye Xin Xia carried Zhao Chenying to the summit.
• Qin Yuan checked in at the Star Whisper Heavenly Tree and received Emperor Yan's Blood, a Fire God Egg, and a Heaven-tier Revival Card.
• Zhao Chenying and Ye Xin Xia found Jiang Feng beside the Star Whisper Heavenly Tree, and Jiang Feng floated toward Zhao Chenying.
• Ye Xin Xia used her Mind Element Ability to translate Jiang Feng's call for Xiao Ying.

Zhao Chenying reunited with her mother, Jiang Feng, and Qin Yuan used frost armor to let them embrace safely. After they shared their story, Qin Yuan approached the fading Star Whisper Heavenly Tree to help Flame Belle be born, with Jiang Feng trusting him to proceed.

• Zhao Chenying and Jiang Feng recognized each other, but Jiang Feng initially held back from embracing her for fear that her flames would burn her.
• Qin Yuan proposed protecting Zhao Chenying with soul ice, and Jiang Feng and Zhao Chenying each volunteered to endure the cold instead.
• Qin Yuan covered Zhao Chenying in frost armor, allowing her and Jiang Feng to embrace while the Snow Empress stood by to maintain the protection.
• Jiang Feng and Zhao Chenying spoke about their separation, the disaster, and the Ghost Wife, while Ye Xin Xia interpreted for them.
• Qin Yuan noticed the Star Whisper Heavenly Tree weakening and went to help Flame Belle; Jiang Feng warned that Flame Belle might not agree to become his Contract Beast, but trusted his intentions.

Qin Yuan used Emperor Yan's Blood to bring Flame Belle into the world as an Advanced Commander Grade creature with Emperor Yan fire. Flame Belle agreed to form a contract with him, then joined the Snow Empress on his shoulder as the two little girls began arguing.

• Qin Yuan revealed Emperor Yan's Blood, and its pressure alarmed the people at the foot of Flat Top Mountain and teams crossing the Sand Wasting River.
• Qin Yuan infused the Star Whisper Heavenly Tree's Fire Tribulation Fruit with Emperor Yan's Blood, causing the fruit to crack and draw fire elements from across Scorched Plains North Corner.
• Flame Belle emerged from the shattered fruit as an Advanced Commander Grade creature with Emperor Yan fire and called Qin Yuan “Daddy.”
• Qin Yuan asked Flame Belle to call him “Brother,” and she agreed to form a Summoning System soul contract with him.
• Flame Belle transformed into a little girl and sat on Qin Yuan's shoulder, prompting the jealous Snow Empress to withdraw Zhao Chenying's frost garment and confront her.

Qin Yuan revived the dying Star Whisper Heavenly Tree with a Heaven-tier Revival Card and named it Xing Yu. He learned that the tree controlled Scorched Plains North Corner’s fire tribulations and could be moved to Sky City while continuing to nurture Flame Belles.

• Qin Yuan calmed Snow Empress and Little Yan Ji by seating them on his shoulders, while Flame Belle reunited with Jiang Feng and Snow Empress went to Zhao Chenying.
• Qin Yuan told Ye Xin Xia that he wanted to revive the Star Whisper Heavenly Tree and bring it to Sky City as a guardian.
• Qin Yuan crushed the Heaven-tier Revival Card, reviving the Star Whisper Heavenly Tree and causing a new flame to appear that could grow into another Flame Belle.
• Qin Yuan named the tree Xing Yu and asked whether it could still nurture Flame Belles if moved from Scorched Plains North Corner.
• Xing Yu said she could control the fire tribulations and dense fire elements, explaining that her roots covered an area larger than Scorched Plains North Corner.

Qin Yuan took the Star Whisper Heavenly Tree and invited Jiang Feng to live in Sky City with Zhao Chenying. At Flat Top Mountain, the Zhao family and Military mages arrived and learned that Chenying was on the mountain with Qin Yuan.

• The Star Whisper Heavenly Tree explained that she could nurture Flame Belles through fire tribulations, move by reburying her roots, and leave with Qin Yuan whenever he wished; Qin Yuan stored her in the System Space.
• Qin Yuan invited Jiang Feng to Sky City, and Jiang Feng accepted so she could stay with Zhao Chenying and avoid the Zhao family’s attention.
• Qin Yuan led the group away from Scorched Plains North Corner, and they collected the remaining Fire Cloud Fruits on the way.
• At Flat Top Mountain, Zhao Manyan greeted the arriving Zhao family team, while the Zhao family and Military mages questioned him about Chenying’s whereabouts.
• Zhao Manyan said Chenying was on the mountain with Qin Yuan and that the guardian demon would not harm her, leaving Zhao Yulin confused and Ghost Wife agitated about the Fire Tribulation Fruit.

Ling Ling exposed the White Cloth Person as the wanted criminal Ghost Wife, prompting Nan Jue and the military mages to surround her. Ghost Wife abandoned her disguise and threatened Ling Ling, who hid behind Ding Yumian as the others prepared to deal with her.

• Ding Yumian's group blocked Zhao Yulin and Nan Jue from climbing the mountain, and Ling Ling warned them that a wanted criminal was among Zhao Yulin's companions.
• Ling Ling identified the White Cloth Person as Ghost Wife and revealed that she had been secretly preparing Mind and Curse magic.
• Nan Jue ordered the White Cloth Person to remove her covering and raise her hands while the military mages surrounded her.
• Ling Ling accused Ghost Wife of stealing Jiang Feng's identity and plotting to use Chenying against her biological mother.
• Ghost Wife dropped her pretense and threatened Ling Ling, who retreated behind Ding Yumian.

Ding Yumian subdued the Ghost Wife by overpowering her Mind Element magic, and Zhao Chenying and Jiang Feng confronted her over her betrayal. Jiang Feng killed the Ghost Wife in revenge, then scattered her ashes.

• The Ghost Wife used Soul Path Control on Zhao Yulin and the others, but Ding Yumian dispelled the spell with a single word.
• Ding Yumian and the others suppressed the Ghost Wife, and Zhao Manyan told Zhao Yulin the truth about what had happened over a decade earlier.
• Qin Yuan arrived with Zhao Chenying and Jiang Feng, then left the Ghost Wife's fate to Zhao Chenying.
• Zhao Chenying prepared to kill the Ghost Wife, but Jiang Feng stopped her and chose to take revenge herself.
• Jiang Feng burned the Ghost Wife to death and reduced her body to ashes.

Jiang Feng rejected Zhao Yulin’s attempt to reconcile and chose to stay with Zhao Chenying, while Zhao Yulin led the Zhao family group away. Nan Jue thanked Qin Yuan for dealing with Ghost Wife, learned that he had the Fire Tribulation Fruit, and received several Fire Cloud Fruits from him.

• Zhao Yulin apologized to Jiang Feng and offered to restore her, but she refused and went to speak with Zhao Chenying.
• Zhao Chenying told Zhao Yulin she would stay with her mother for a while, and he led the Zhao family group away to search Scorched Plains North Corner for heavenly treasures.
• Nan Jue introduced herself to Qin Yuan and offered him a military reward for exposing Ghost Wife and eliminating her.
• Qin Yuan pointed out Little Yan Ji as the Fire Tribulation Fruit, surprising the others who recognized her as Flame Belle.
• Nan Jue prepared to leave, but Qin Yuan gave her several Fire Cloud Fruits to take back.

Qin Yuan secured Nan Jue’s cooperation by giving her Fire Cloud Fruits and revealed that he was the Lord of Sky City. He then gave Mo Fan a Fire God Egg as a Contract Beast, leaving Mo Fan grateful and excited.

• Qin Yuan persuaded Nan Jue to accept the Fire Cloud Fruits, then asked her to use her status to help Sky City develop quietly.
• Nan Jue agreed to discuss cooperation with her family and left with the military mages after Qin Yuan reminded her about his payment.
• Ding Yumian teased Qin Yuan about Nan Jue, and Qin Yuan playfully pinched her cheek.
• Qin Yuan gave Mo Fan a Fire God Egg and explained that it was a fire-elemental Elemental Holy Spirit that could hatch with fire-element treasures.
• Mo Fan accepted the egg and thanked Qin Yuan, saying he owed him a favor.

Qin Yuan’s group earned a fortune hunting monsters in the Sand Wasting River, then returned to Sky City, where various forces were trying to claim a share of his territory. Qin Yuan welcomed their arrival and brought his companions to the city, which was still being rebuilt.

• Qin Yuan’s group hunted monsters in the Sand Wasting River and collected treasure worth about 1.2 billion Huaxia Coin.
• Mo Fan and Zhao Manyan returned to Modu, Zhang Xiaohou went back to the military district, and Qin Yuan’s remaining companions headed to Sky City with him.
• Southern forces learned that Qin Yuan owned Sky City and began testing his limits while trying to gain control of parts of it.
• Feng Ling’er and the others wanted to drive the intruders away, but Qin Yuan told them to let the forces come.
• Qin Yuan’s group traveled from Wuyi Airport to Sky City on a Swift Wind Falcon and saw the city and its surrounding land, much of which was still being rebuilt.

Qin Yuan kept his secret command over the Magic Wolf Clan and White Demon Eagle Tribe hidden while welcoming rival families into Sky City so they would develop its economy for him to claim later. He met Feng Ling'er at the city’s garden residence as the families, mistaking his silence for weakness, intensified their land grabs.

• Qin Yuan told Ling Ling that the Magic Wolf Clan and White Demon Eagle Tribe would lie low until Sky City was developed enough for them to guard it, and he asked Mu Nujiao, Zhao Chenying, and Jiang Feng to keep the secret.
• Qin Yuan led the group through Sky City and explained that he had allowed outside families to enter because he wanted them to build up the city’s economy before he took control of the gains.
• Feng Ling'er arrived, greeted Qin Yuan, and led him and the others toward the garden she had designed as his residence.
• The families saw Qin Yuan’s lack of protest as weakness, received orders to seize more property, and sent additional people to Sky City.
• Feng Ling'er brought Qin Yuan’s group to the garden residence, which she had guarded from the encroaching families.

Qin Yuan and his companions explored Sky Abyss Forest, his new residence in Sky City, and planted the Star Whisper Heavenly Tree there. As they shared dinner beneath the tree, Qin Yuan outlined a simple three-part division for Sky City.

• Qin Yuan praised Feng Ling'er for overseeing the construction of Sky Abyss Forest and toured the garden with her.
• Qin Yuan summoned Flame Belle and Snow Empress, then planted the Star Whisper Heavenly Tree, whose roots spread across the garden and beyond.
• Ye Xin Xia and the others came to see the tree, and Qin Yuan teased Ling Ling before the group gathered around it.
• The Star Whisper Heavenly Tree made a natural table and chairs, and everyone ate dinner together.
• Feng Ling'er asked how to divide Sky City, and Qin Yuan proposed a core area around Sky Abyss Forest, an Inner City, and an Outer City.

Qin Yuan planned Sky City's expansion and prepared to punish the forces plundering its Inner City. After learning about the Wu Family's history and strength, he left no doubt that he intended to target them next.

• Qin Yuan outlined plans for the Core, Inner City, and Outer City, aiming to build a force powerful enough to stand in the Magic World.
• Feng Ling'er told Qin Yuan that families and independent mages were scrambling for spoils in the Inner City, and Qin Yuan ordered her to identify them so he could attack them that night and their families the next day.
• Qin Yuan found the Wu Family among the recorded forces, and Ling Ling explained that the family had once nearly become a clan before an abnormal mage's actions caused its decline.
• Ling Ling described the Wu Family head and its Archmages, including Wu Di, while Qin Yuan decided that the family would face consequences for its actions in Sky City.
• Ling Ling reminded Qin Yuan of his promised wish, and Qin Yuan reassured her that she could ask him directly for anything.

Qin Yuan teased Ling Ling, then flew with Feng Ling'er to Sky City's Inner City as family and independent cultivator factions gathered to fight over Sky Abyss Mall. The chapter ended with Wu Ju threatening Le Zhi and boasting that his new Earth Element Soul Seed would give his faction the advantage.

• Ye Xin Xia and Ding Yumian warned Qin Yuan that his teasing of Ling Ling could cause trouble, and he agreed to rein himself in.
• Ling Ling called Qin Yuan handsome, and the group finished their first meal in Sky City.
• Qin Yuan asked Xing Yu about the Star Whisper Heavenly Tree's root network, then carried Feng Ling'er toward the Inner City on his Magic Shadow Wings.
• Nearly three thousand newcomers gathered in Sky City's Inner City, where family forces and independent cultivators claimed territory and prepared to seize Sky Abyss Mall.
• Wu Ju and the family faction confronted Le Zhi, Wei Long, and Wei Hu over the mall, and Wu Ju threatened them with his Earth Element Soul Seed.

Qin Yuan confronted the families and independent cultivators occupying Sky City, then revealed he knew why the city mattered and ordered Xing Yu to act. The ground beneath the crowd began to surge like an enormous Earth Wave Magic.

• Wu Ju used his Soul Seed and the major families’ resources to pressure Le Zhi and the independent cultivators into surrendering part of Sky Abyss Mall.
• Wu Ju warned that destroying Sky City would provoke the authorities, then claimed the major forces had seized it because Qin Yuan had no Great Terror protecting him.
• Qin Yuan and Feng Ling'er descended into the plaza, and Qin Yuan said he had claimed Sky City through strength rather than luck.
• Qin Yuan told the occupiers to stay in Sky City forever, then ordered Xing Yu to act.
• Xing Yu answered Qin Yuan as the ground beneath everyone rose and fell in waves.

Qin Yuan sealed Sky Abyss Plaza and used Chaluo’s God Devouring Larvae to take control of more than a thousand people, turning them into loyal members of Sky City. He ordered his allies to gather the remaining people in the city, screen their backgrounds, and summon reinforcements from their families as he began building Sky City into a major force.

• The Star Whisper Heavenly Tree trapped everyone in Sky Abyss Plaza inside a barrier of roots, and Qin Yuan declared they would pay for crossing him.
• Qin Yuan had Ling'er, Xue'er, Flame Belle, Xiao Yan, and Chaluo carry out their plan while the roots, Blaze Wolf, and elemental spirits secured the plaza.
• Chaluo’s God Devouring Larvae controlled more than a thousand people, and Qin Yuan ordered them to contact the others still in Sky City.
• Qin Yuan told Feng Ling'er to investigate everyone’s backgrounds and kill those deemed depraved or mentally twisted.
• Wu Ju described the Wu Family’s strength, and Qin Yuan ordered him to summon his father and relatives to Sky City under the pretense of a discovery resembling a Soul Seed.
• Qin Yuan had people contact their families for reinforcements and planned to establish Sky City’s power before the outside world could react.

Qin Yuan drew the major family factions to Sky City by spreading a false rumor that a Soul Seed had appeared. Wu Di and the Wu Family entered the city intending to seize the seed and take control, unaware that Wu Ju was misleading them.

• Qin Yuan used Flame Belle and the Star Whisper Heavenly Tree to make Sky Abyss Plaza seem filled with fire elements while his allies cleared stragglers from Sky City.
• Wu Di arrived with three trusted subordinates and planned to claim the Soul Seed and seize Sky City for the Wu Family.
• Wu Di learned that several other family factions had also sent representatives, but he dismissed them as weak and worried instead about Feng Ling'er intervening for Qin Yuan.
• Wu Di's subordinates raised the possibility that Qin Yuan and Feng Ling'er were lovers, and Wu Di said he would deal with her if she appeared.
• Wu Ju met Wu Di and falsely claimed that Qin Yuan and Feng Ling'er were absent and that the other factions were waiting at the plaza.
• Wu Di praised Wu Ju for locating the Soul Seed and promised to give it to him once his Fire Element reached the Advanced level.

Wu Di arrived at Sky Abyss Plaza and discovered that Qin Yuan had turned the gathered mages against him and his companions. After Qin Yuan defeated and took control of the four, he ordered Wu Di to lure the rest of the Wu Family to the plaza.

• Wu Di and his group arrived at Sky Abyss Plaza, where the gathered people ignored him and Wu Ju revealed himself as a traitor.
• Qin Yuan and Feng Ling'er confronted Wu Di, and the crowd declared their allegiance to Sky City.
• Wu Di threatened to report Qin Yuan, but Qin Yuan trapped the four with roots and ordered his allies to attack them.
• Feng Ling'er and the other mages defeated Wu Di's group, and Chaluo used God Devouring Larvae to bring them under Qin Yuan's control.
• Qin Yuan ordered Wu Di to contact the Wu Family and lure its remaining Archmages and members to Sky Abyss Plaza.

Qin Yuan told Ye Xin Xia that the great families had surrendered and were helping build Sky City, then welcomed Liu Xian and Liu Ru into the city. As the evening gathering ended, he realized he and Ding Yumian had been away from Pearl Academy far longer than their approved leave.

• Qin Yuan explained that Feng Ling'er had helped him secure the families' surrender and put the Wu Family in charge of managing them as they worked on Sky City's construction.
• Ye Xin Xia, Ding Yumian, and Feng Ling'er joined Qin Yuan on the tower balcony, where he flirted with them.
• Qin Yuan welcomed Liu Xian and Liu Ru to Sky City after helping them awaken Wind and Fire magic, and told them they could treat their stay as a job.
• Ling Ling teased Qin Yuan about returning to school, and Qin Yuan agreed to let her play through the summer vacation.
• Ye Xin Xia said she would return to school the day after tomorrow, while Mu Nujiao reminded Qin Yuan that their Pearl Academy leave had already lasted half a month.

Qin Yuan welcomed Zhao Chenying’s decision to stay in Sky City, assigned Feng Ling’er to settle the incoming vampires, and spent the night with Mu Nujiao. Days later, Sky City’s rapid rise drew the attention of the Mu Family, whose leaders debated how to respond while withholding the reason a marriage alliance with Qin Yuan would offer little benefit.

• Qin Yuan told Zhao Chenying to stay in Sky City with Jiang Feng and directed Feng Ling’er to settle Carol and the Dracula Family as Sky City’s covert operatives.
• Mu Nujiao visited Qin Yuan late at night, thanked him for their trip, and the two kissed and spent the night together.
• News spread that the Wu Family and other families had joined Sky City, raising it to the level of a major clan and making Qin Yuan a topic of discussion among Huaxia’s forces.
• Mu Zhanxing convened the Mu Family’s leaders to discuss Sky City’s rise and asked what choice their family should make.
• Mu Hua suggested a marriage alliance through Mu Nujiao, but Mu Shan argued it would bring little benefit, and Mu Zhanxing and Mu Shan kept the reason to themselves.