Chapter Summaries

The Mage Association and several major forces investigated why the Wu Family and others had joined Sky City, but a warning from the Imperial Capital forced them to back down. In the Imperial Capital, Pang Lai reviewed Qin Yuan’s remarkable profile as attention turned to Sky City.

• Mu Zhanxing agreed to let Mu Nujiao handle the family’s response to Qin Yuan and Sky City without interference.
• Mei Quanli’s Mage Association learned that the Wu Family and other families had cut ties with them, apologized for past abuses, and joined Sky City.
• Mei Quanli arranged an inspection of Sky City with the Hunter Alliance and other forces to investigate what had caused the families to join.
• A warning from the Imperial Capital told the forces to leave Sky City alone, and they traced the message to the Western Military Region and a powerful figure from the Nan Family.
• Pang Lai reviewed Qin Yuan’s age, cultivation, suspected six elements, strength, and establishment of Sky City.

Pang Lai and the mentors decided to conceal Qin Yuan’s true importance by naming him an official National Government Team member with captain-level treatment. As the officials prepared to contact him, Nan Jue asked how he had annexed so many families without resistance.

• Pang Lai asked the mentors to assess Qin Yuan’s file, and they agreed he deserved a place on the team and captain-level status.
• Feng Li proposed presenting Qin Yuan as an ordinary team member so Huaxia could keep him hidden as a trump card alongside Ai Jiangtu.
• Pang Lai approved Feng Li’s plan and ordered the decision kept secret, choosing an official team position to reduce the chance of conflict.
• Feng Li wondered whether Qin Yuan might become an Archmage before the competition, but Pang Lai said they should support his growth and conceal his cultivation if necessary.
• Pang Lai told the mentors to contact Qin Yuan and inform him he had been selected as an internal team member with captain-level treatment.
• At Jinyuan Apartment, Nan Jue told Qin Yuan her family supported Sky City and asked how he had annexed so many families without resistance.

Qin Yuan proposed selling tamed Lizard-skull Giant Demons to Nan Jue’s Western Military Region, claiming he could make an entire tribe obey orders. Nan Jue agreed to a trial transaction, while her cousin Nan Xi remained astonished by Qin Yuan’s ability.

• Qin Yuan thanked Nan Jue for using her family’s influence to resolve trouble and said he also wanted to cooperate with her because of her backing.
• Qin Yuan offered to sell the Western Military Region Lizard-skull Giant Demons that he could tame and promised to provide two hundred as a demonstration.
• Nan Jue questioned whether Qin Yuan was serious, and he assured her that he had tested the method himself.
• Qin Yuan proposed prices for demons of different grades, and Nan Jue agreed to meet him at the Biyi City garrison one month later.
• After the call, Nan Jue asked her cousin Nan Xi how many demons they would buy, and Nan Xi expressed disbelief at Qin Yuan’s claimed ability.

Nan Xi and Nan Jue deduced that Qin Yuan may have tamed several Demon Tribes, while Qin Yuan planned to build Sky City into an international Demon Taming City and focus on his cultivation. Ding Yumian graduated from Pearl Academy and joined Mu Nujiao at Qin Yuan’s apartment, where she revealed that she had awakened the Space Element.

• Nan Xi and Nan Jue connected the Magic Wolf Clan and White Demon Eagle Tribe’s actions at Sky City’s former site to Qin Yuan and agreed to keep their suspicions secret.
• Qin Yuan planned to gain recognition in Huaxia, eventually expand Sky City, and pursue official status while strengthening his physical and magical cultivation.
• Ding Yumian told Qin Yuan she had completed her graduation assignment and planned to go to Sky City after graduating from Pearl Academy.
• Qin Yuan pulled Mu Nujiao into his embrace and learned that she had successfully awakened the Space Element with the Guidance Stone.

Mu Nujiao invited Qin Yuan and Ding Yumian to dinner with Mu Nu Xin, who hoped to discuss cooperation with Sky City. Mu Nu Xin thanked Qin Yuan for helping Mu Nujiao advance and built rapport over dinner, while Qin Yuan left the evening with Ding Yumian and Mu Nujiao flustered by his teasing.

• Mu Nujiao told Qin Yuan that Mu Nu Xin had invited him and Ding Yumian to dinner mainly to discuss cooperation with Sky City, and Qin Yuan said he would not put Mu Nujiao in a difficult position.
• Qin Yuan pulled Mu Nujiao and Ding Yumian into his arms for dessert before dinner.
• Qin Yuan and Ding Yumian arrived at Mu Nu Xin's suite with Mu Nujiao, and Mu Nujiao explained that Ai Tutu had returned to the Ai Family after her brother came back from the Northern Military Region.
• Mu Nu Xin served dinner, thanked Qin Yuan for helping Mu Nujiao become a High-level Mage, and chatted with him without raising business.
• After dinner, Ding Yumian teased Qin Yuan through voice transmission, and Qin Yuan responded by claiming she wanted a second half that night, leaving Ding Yumian and Mu Nujiao panicked.

Mu Nu Xin proposed that the Mu Family cooperate directly with Qin Yuan, whom she considered the real power behind Sky City. After Qin Yuan confirmed he alone controlled Sky City, they began discussing the Mu Family’s plans to develop malls there.

• Qin Yuan teased Ding Yumian and Mu Nujiao, then welcomed Mu Nu Xin and tried her desserts.
• Mu Nujiao took Ding Yumian upstairs, leaving Mu Nu Xin alone with Qin Yuan to propose representing the Mu Family in a partnership.
• Qin Yuan said Sky City had only one voice—his—and praised Mu Nu Xin’s business ability, prompting her to say she valued his recognition.
• Qin Yuan agreed to discuss cooperation with Mu Nu Xin, who asked whether he truly represented all of Sky City and received a joking answer about the Nan Family.
• Mu Nu Xin proposed a long-term partnership in which the Mu Family would develop malls in Sky City’s Inner City and Outer City and split profits fifty-fifty.
• Mu Nu Xin said the Mu Family wanted a magical-resource trading network in the Inner City and an ordinary mall in the Outer City.

Qin Yuan agreed to the Mu Family’s marketplace cooperation with Sky City, and Mu Nu Xin asked to join Sky City in her personal capacity. He accepted her offer, leaving Mu Nu Xin pleased and joking with him about letting a wolf into the house.

• Qin Yuan agreed to cooperate with Mu Nu Xin on developing the marketplace for Sky City and the Mu Family.
• Mu Nu Xin proposed a separate personal partnership, explaining that she wanted a future beyond serving the Mu Family as a business tool.
• Qin Yuan asked why she wanted to leave the Mu Family, and Mu Nu Xin said she wanted a way out and more control over her own life.
• Qin Yuan accepted Mu Nu Xin's offer to work in Sky City and said he would inform Ling'er.
• Mu Nu Xin asked whether Qin Yuan feared letting a wolf into the house, and Qin Yuan joked that he was a perverted wolf himself.

Mu Nu Xin thanked Qin Yuan for trusting her, kissed him, and agreed to help manage Sky City. A month later, Qin Yuan arrived at Xizhao Valley to join Nan Xi, Nan Jue, and Li Man on a secret mission.

• Mu Nu Xin thanked Qin Yuan for trusting her and promised not to disappoint him.
• Mu Nu Xin kissed Qin Yuan for a few seconds, told him it was her first kiss, and fled into the living room.
• Qin Yuan joined Ding Yumian, Mu Nujiao, and Mu Nu Xin on the sofa without revealing Mu Nu Xin's actions.
• A month later, Li Man waited at Xizhao Valley with Military mages to escort Nan Xi and Nan Jue on a secret mission.
• Qin Yuan arrived on a summoned flying creature, surprising Li Man, and apologized to Nan Xi and the others for keeping them waiting.

Qin Yuan demonstrated his tamed Lizard-skull Giant Demons to Nan Xi and the Western Military Region, proposing a trade with the Nan Family. After Li Man witnessed the demons obeying commands, Qin Yuan again tried to recruit her, promising powerful training and equipment.

• Nan Xi and Nan Jue met Qin Yuan at Xizhao Valley, where Nan Xi reacted warmly to his flattery and Nan Jue tried to keep them focused on business.
• Li Man led the group through Xizhao Valley to an open area, and Qin Yuan called forth the Lizard-skull Giant Demons he had tamed.
• Qin Yuan stopped the demons and revealed that his force consisted of one hundred and eighty Servant Grade and twenty General Grade Lizard-skull Giant Demons for trade.
• Nan Xi and the others inspected the demons and tested commands, confirming that they obeyed Qin Yuan.
• Li Man asked Qin Yuan how he had tamed them, and he offered to train and equip her if she joined Sky City, including a Commander-level Demon Mount.

Qin Yuan agreed to supply the Western Military Region with thousands of tamed demons and learned more about the preselected National Government Team members. Nan Jue left after Qin Yuan drew her into criticizing Zu Jiming, while Nan Xi praised Qin Yuan as a potential match.

• Li Man considered joining Sky City, while Nan Xi ordered two thousand Servant Grade demons, two hundred General Grade demons, and one Commander-level demon from Qin Yuan for delivery before the New Year.
• Nan Xi arranged for military transport planes and trucks to take the two hundred Lizard-skull Giant Demons to the Western Military Region.
• Nan Jue told Qin Yuan that he and she had been preselected for the National Government Team and named the other known members, including captain Ai Jiangtu and Zu Jiming.
• Qin Yuan mocked Zu Jiming and speculated about the Zu Clan's motives, nearly drawing Nan Jue into an open discussion before she walked away in annoyance.
• Nan Xi asked Nan Jue what happened and described Qin Yuan as kind-hearted, generous, and handsome enough to make a good match.

Over three months, Qin Yuan expanded Sky City and advanced his cultivation, achieving Great Accomplishment in the Pure Yang Hegemon Body. The chapter ended with Mu Nujiao telling him that Mo Fan had seemed dazed during his match against Dongfang Lie's team.

• Nan Jue and Nan Xi left after Nan Xi teased her sister about Qin Yuan, and Li Man praised Qin Yuan before he teased her into chasing after him.
• The Western Military Region ordered another batch of Lizard-skull Giant Demons after their battlefield success, bringing Qin Yuan nearly five billion Huaxia Coin from the two deals.
• Mu Nu Xin oversaw Sky City's rapid development as its membership grew beyond ten thousand, while Li Man trained its defensive forces and Qin Yuan divided members into elite and ordinary ranks.
• Qin Yuan achieved Great Accomplishment in the Pure Yang Hegemon Body and reviewed his rapid magical cultivation progress.
• Mu Nujiao told Qin Yuan that Mo Fan had seemed dazed during his team's match against Dongfang Lie's team.

Qin Yuan traveled to the Ancient Capital with Mo Fan and He Yu to investigate Zhang Xiaohou’s disappearance, while the system rewarded him with a new undead-summoning talent. The group identified the villages where Zhang Xiaohou went missing and prepared to search for him.

• Mu Nujiao told Qin Yuan that Mo Fan had killed Dongfang Lie after taking his Fierce Fist head-on, and Qin Yuan decided to travel the next day.
• Qin Yuan arrived in the Ancient Capital, where he met Mo Fan and He Yu, and the three set out to investigate Zhang Xiaohou’s reported death.
• Instructor Fei Jiao told them Zhang Xiaohou and his companions had vanished during a rescue mission between Yangyang Village and Hua Village, with no bodies found.
• Qin Yuan checked in at the Ancient Capital and received an Undead Element Awakening Card, the Undead Calamity talent, and Earth Sacred Spring.
• Qin Yuan awakened the Undead Element and learned that Undead Calamity could assemble bones into powerful, re-formable skeleton undead.
• Mo Fan suggested hiring experienced hunters to guide them to Yangyang Village, and Qin Yuan and He Yu agreed.

Qin Yuan, Mo Fan, and He Yu hired a short Hunter Mage to guide them to Yangyang Village and search for Little Hou. After paying the commission, they waited until morning to leave while Qin Yuan studied his Undead Calamity talent.

• At the Hunter Alliance, the short Hunter Mage explained that most rescue commissions were actually requests to collect corpses and offered to guide the group to Yangyang Village for ten million.
• Mo Fan balked at the price, but Qin Yuan paid the commission and told He Yu to put the debt on Little Hou’s tab.
• The short Hunter Mage warned them that other clients would join the trip, and the group finalized the commission agreement through the Hunter Alliance.
• As night fell, Qin Yuan, Mo Fan, and He Yu stayed at a hotel and planned to set out after daybreak.
• Qin Yuan studied Undead Calamity and discovered that his Undead Element could house countless Skeleton Undead, including powerful Skeleton Giants, Skeleton Witches, and Bone Dragons.

Qin Yuan joined a Hunter Mage team heading toward Yangyang Village and recognized the veiled Asharuiya, Saintess of the Parthenon Temple. He left her curious about how much he knew of her while refusing to answer her questions about his own power.

• Qin Yuan advanced his Undead Element cultivation to Elementary Level Two and nearly reached Level Three.
• Qin Yuan, He Yu, and Mo Fan met the short man and his companions at the southern outer gate, where they encountered Asharuiya.
• The eight-person team registered at the city gate and set out toward Yangyang Village.
• Mo Fan warned Qin Yuan that Asharuiya carried unsettling dark energy, but Qin Yuan said she would struggle to defeat him.
• Asharuiya joined Qin Yuan on the journey, and Qin Yuan identified her as the Saintess of the Parthenon Temple.
• Asharuiya asked how Qin Yuan knew her identity and about his past feats, but he declined to explain and told her to guess.

Qin Yuan traded information with Asharuiya for a promise that she would look after someone at the Parthenon Temple. After he revealed knowledge of her closely guarded secret, Asharuiya believed his claim that he could tell fortunes.

• Asharuiya offered to explain why she had come to the Ancient Capital in exchange for Qin Yuan answering her question, but he refused.
• Qin Yuan used Asharuiya's failure to find Austin to bargain with her, and she chose to ask who he was and what he wanted.
• Qin Yuan asked Asharuiya to take care of someone who had not yet gone to the Parthenon Temple and to inform him if anything major happened; she agreed.
• When Asharuiya pressed Qin Yuan about his identity, he claimed he could know the future and pretended to tell her fortune.
• Qin Yuan began to reveal that Asharuiya was a fallen—, and she covered his mouth and urgently said she believed him.
• Asharuiya sent her attendants away and told Qin Yuan that she now believed he really could tell fortunes.

Qin Yuan convinced Asharuiya that he could divine the truth about Salan and revealed that Austin was still alive, though he withheld further details. As night fell on the way to Yangyang Village, Mo Fan rejected the Gray Garlic meant to hide the group from the undead, and a Black Tomb opened nearby as undead emerged.

• Qin Yuan accurately described Asharuiya’s deal involving a Gray-White Cloth Person and evidence against Salan, but refused to reveal Salan’s identity.
• Qin Yuan told Asharuiya that Austin was still alive but might no longer recognize her, then said he did not know where Austin was.
• Asharuiya stayed beside Qin Yuan on the journey to Yangyang Village and tried to draw more information out of him.
• Big Strong Man offered the group Gray Garlic to conceal their scent from the undead, but Mo Fan spat it out and refused to eat it.
• Undead emerged from the soil, and Mo Fan kicked a crawling undead head away.
• A Black Tomb opened behind Mo Fan, and more undead began crawling out from its burial tunnels.

Qin Yuan protected the group from the undead and joked with Mo Fan and Asharuiya as they traveled toward Yangyang Village. The group learned that the Sand Wasting River riot had intensified the Death Qi and that the Undead Emperor remained unseen, while gray garlic was too rare to make warding off undead easy.

• Mo Fan swallowed gray garlic, and the undead turned away from him, but they fled from Qin Yuan until Asharuiya held his arm.
• Qin Yuan joked that he had died twenty years ago, then refused Mo Fan's request for a hug and said he only hugged unattached women.
• The short man explained that the Sand Wasting River riot had thickened the Death Qi and described rumors of an unseen Undead Emperor.
• Asharuiya asked Qin Yuan about the Undead Emperor, and he teased that he would send her to meet it.
• The short man and big strong man led the group near Yangyang Village, while Qin Yuan collected bones and corpses for his Undead Element.
• The bearded attendant suggested using gray garlic to hunt undead, but the short man explained it was rarer than gold and only Weiju Village residents knew how to harvest it.

The group reached the mapped location of Yangyang Village and found only ruins, while Qin Yuan revealed that its people had been turned into undead by a person. They set out for Hua Village despite running short on gray garlic, relying on Qin Yuan’s strength as a High-level Mage.

• The group reached Yangyang Village’s mapped location and found scattered ruins with no bodies or bloodstains.
• Strong Man searched the wreckage in distress, while He Yu confirmed the map marked the site as Yangyang Village.
• Qin Yuan told Asharuiya that a person, rather than undead, had turned the villagers into undead, but refused to name them.
• Strong Man regained hope that the villagers might have gone to Hua Village and led the group toward it.
• The short man warned that their gray garlic would run out before they reached Hua Village, and Qin Yuan proposed conserving it and pressing on.
• Qin Yuan confirmed he was a High-level Mage and urged the group to leave before more undead arrived.

Qin Yuan’s group lost their gray garlic during a sudden downpour and fled a swarm of undead. With the undead closing in, Qin Yuan revealed his Undead Element and summoned Skeleton Undead, leaving the group stunned as his new forces appeared.

• Qin Yuan collected bones from weak undead while the group followed Strong Man’s route away from Yangyang Village.
• A large burial pit released a growing swarm of undead, but the group’s gray garlic concealed their living auras until a sudden storm began.
• Strong Man dropped the gray garlic into the mud and rain, and the group ran when the protection failed and the undead pursued them.
• Qin Yuan revealed his Undead Element and completed the Undead Calamity spell as Asharuiya and the others watched in shock.
• Qin Yuan summoned twelve Skeleton Demon Soldiers and twelve Skeleton Archers, astonishing Mo Fan with their clean skeletal forms.

Qin Yuan’s Skeleton Undead repeatedly reassembled after being destroyed, helping the team fight off the undead as dawn approached. A Great Corpse General attacked after He Yu recognized the woman growing from its body as Jia Xi, and Qin Yuan struck it with two powerful rifts.

• Qin Yuan commanded his Skeleton Undead to attack, and they killed undead despite being easily dismantled.
• Qin Yuan used Death Qi to reshape the scattered bones, reviving his Skeleton Undead and increasing their numbers to forty.
• The team saw a Great Corpse General approaching, and He Yu recognized its embedded head as Jia Xi, a military officer who had gone on a mission with Little Hou.
• The Great Corpse General charged He Yu and smashed the Skeleton Undead, so Mo Fan pulled her back and tried to reassure her about Little Hou.
• Qin Yuan cast Space Rhythm—Rift and Order—Rift, splitting apart part of the Great Corpse General.