Chapter Summaries

Qin Yuan forced Mayor Lauren to let the allied mages pass, then used overwhelming Space Power to crush the Red Ornament Guild’s ship and incapacitate its leader, Kaso. The Red Ornament Guild was left defeated, while Qin Yuan’s companions and the people watching were stunned by his strength.

• Mayor Lauren refused to let the allied mages pass, insisting that the Red Ornament Guild was the only way to secure White Head City’s future.
• Qin Yuan offered to help capture the Red Ornament Guild for its bounty, but Mayor Lauren rejected the plan and again ordered the group to leave.
• Qin Yuan immobilized Mayor Lauren and the military mages with psychic pressure, then tossed them aside.
• Qin Yuan compressed the Red Ornament Guild’s bar ship with Space Power, crushing the people inside and silencing their screams.
• Kaso escaped the shrinking ship, but Qin Yuan trapped him in midair and shattered most of his bones, leaving him helpless before the onlookers.

Qin Yuan ignored the Freedom Temple mages’ request to take Kaso back for trial and killed him with his Space Power. Aoluna objected and argued with Qin Yuan, but the encounter ended with her awkwardly letting go of his arm.

• Qin Yuan mocked Kaso and intensified the spatial pressure as Kaso neared death.
• Aoluna and Feiluomu arrived and told Qin Yuan they had come to bring Kaso back for trial.
• Aoluna said Kaso would face execution, but Qin Yuan argued that his allies might silence him before the trial.
• Qin Yuan crushed Kaso to death with Space Power despite Aoluna’s protests.
• Qin Yuan teased Aoluna about holding his arm, and she pulled her hand away in embarrassment.

After the Red Ornament Guild’s plot was exposed, Mayor Lauren agreed to eliminate its remaining members, but remained doubtful that the Freedom Temple would protect White Head City. Qin Yuan offered Lauren a different path by pledging Sky City’s support in exchange for his loyalty, and Lauren accepted.

• Aoluna released Mayor Lauren and played a recording revealing that Kaso and his subordinates planned to take the money and flee.
• Aoluna warned Lauren that cooperation with the Red Ornament Guild would endanger White Head City, and Lauren promised to wipe out its remaining members.
• Aoluna, Feiluomu, and the visiting National Academy Team Members left, while Qin Yuan stayed behind to speak with Lauren.
• Qin Yuan offered Lauren Sky City’s protection and control of a Commander-level Sea Monster Clan in exchange for his loyalty and responsibility for Sky Abyss Pavilion.
• Mayor Lauren accepted Qin Yuan’s offer, eager to secure protection and an army for White Head City.

Qin Yuan subdued several Sea Monster Clans before rejoining the National Government Team and traveling with them to Bonza City. The instructors held a sparring test to assess the team’s growth, and Feng Li gave Qin Yuan the Dark Lord Cloak while warning him that powerful forces had begun to notice his strength.

• Qin Yuan used Chaluo and the God Devouring Larvae to control Lauren and the others, then entrusted Lauren with Sky Abyss Pavilion’s plans and blueprints.
• Qin Yuan subdued three Sea Monster Clans in the Caribbean Sea Area, left two hidden there, and sent a powerful Organ Hunter clan near White Head City for Lauren to control.
• Qin Yuan rejoined the National Government Team, and its members discussed which teammates might be at risk in the upcoming evaluation.
• After the team arrived in Bonza City, the five instructors ordered the High-level Mages to spar so they could assess their strength, though no elimination was planned.
• Feng Li awarded Qin Yuan the Dark Lord Cloak for his role in defeating the Red Ornament Guild and warned him that his self-created magic and Space Magic had attracted the attention of powerful forces.

Qin Yuan learned that the Holy City had taken notice of his magic and Beast Taming Method, but remained confident while Feng Li urged him to keep a low profile. After the team secured the Mexico National Hall badge, they headed to New York to challenge the American National Hall.

• Feng Li warned Qin Yuan that the Holy City had heard rumors about him, but Qin Yuan showed little concern.
• Guan Yu lost his sparring match to Mu Tingying, whose improved strength had received help from Qin Yuan and the Mu clan.
• Feng Li revealed that the sparring match had only tested the team and warned everyone they could still be replaced if they fell behind.
• Ai Jiangtu and the others defeated the Mexico National Hall guardians and claimed the badge.
• Feng Li advised Qin Yuan to avoid participating in the American National Hall challenge as the team traveled to Freedom Island in New York.

Qin Yuan checked in at the Freedom Temple and received a Golden Winged Great Peng Cub, a Dragon God Rib, and another rare reward. Aoluna welcomed him and led the National Government Team to the American National Pavilion, where they learned the team had never lost a challenge except to Qin Yuan’s group.

• Qin Yuan checked in at the Freedom Temple and received a Golden Winged Great Peng Cub, a Dragon God Rib, and a Supreme Star Sea Heavenly Meridian.
• Aoluna met Qin Yuan and the National Government Team, then offered to guide them to the National Pavilion.
• Qin Yuan joked with Aoluna about repaying him, and she agreed to treat him to a meal after the challenge.
• Aoluna led the group to the National Pavilion, where they saw the record board showing every visiting country had failed its challenge.
• Jiang Shaoxu noticed that the cross behind Huaxia’s flag had been erased, and Aoluna explained it was removed after the team witnessed Qin Yuan’s strength.

Qin Yuan declined to join the Huaxia National Government Team’s five-versus-five duel against Boblin’s American National Pavilion team, leaving Ai Jiangtu and four teammates to fight. As the Huaxia team gained the advantage, Aoluna proposed a bet with Qin Yuan, who argued that their promised favors were not equal.

• Qin Yuan told Aoluna and Feiluomu that he would sit out the match and hoped they could hold out against the Huaxia team.
• Aoluna led Qin Yuan and the others to Boblin, who agreed with Ai Jiangtu to a standard five-versus-five duel.
• Ai Jiangtu chose Mo Fan, Zhao Manyan, Jiang Shaoxu, and Nanrong Ni to fight alongside him, while Qin Yuan refused Boblin’s challenge.
• The duel began, and Ai Jiangtu’s team coordinated well enough to put Boblin’s team at a disadvantage.
• Aoluna bet that all five of Boblin’s team would not be defeated within fifteen minutes, offering an unconditional favor either way.
• Qin Yuan rejected the bet as unequal, explaining that his influence as Lord of Sky City made his favor worth more than Aoluna’s as a Temple Mage of the Freedom Temple.

Qin Yuan persuaded Aoluna to wager that she would join Sky City and manage Sky Abyss Pavilion in the Americas if his team won. Ai Jiangtu’s team decisively defeated Boblin’s group, leaving Aoluna bound by the wager as the Huaxia team continued its undefeated run.

• Qin Yuan proposed that Aoluna leave Freedom Temple and manage Sky Abyss Pavilion in the Americas if she lost their bet, while he would grant her one request if she won.
• Aoluna accepted the wager just as Mo Fan, Jiang Shaoxu, Nanrong Ni, Zhao Manyan, and Ai Jiangtu overwhelmed Boblin’s team with coordinated magic.
• Ai Jiangtu’s team won in about twelve minutes, and Aoluna realized she had agreed to join Qin Yuan’s organization.
• Qin Yuan told Aoluna to work hard and then went to Jiang Shaoxu, while Aoluna resented how he had seemingly planned the wager from their first meeting.
• Boblin and his teammates admitted defeat and apologized, and Ai Jiangtu’s group received the National Pavilion Badge, extending Huaxia’s undefeated record.

Qin Yuan spent the evening in New York with Aoluna, whose jealousy surfaced after he chatted with Li Yu'e at a coffee shop. He teased Aoluna as they walked, and she guided him toward her private villa near Freedom Temple.

• Aoluna treated Qin Yuan to dinner and took him around New York, where they stopped at a coffee shop.
• Qin Yuan chatted with Li Yu'e, gave her his contact information, and left with Aoluna after she interrupted them.
• Li Yu'e watched Qin Yuan leave, regretted not giving him her number, and searched his name online.
• Aoluna sarcastically questioned Qin Yuan about his pleasant conversation with Li Yu'e, and he teased her by saying Li Yu'e had still been working.
• Qin Yuan pulled Aoluna along to take her home, and she led him toward her private villa near Freedom Temple.

Qin Yuan visited Aaluna’s luxurious villa, where their flirtation and wine led to them spending the night together. The next morning, Qin Yuan healed Aaluna and helped her recover from exhaustion before they began another intimate encounter.

• Qin Yuan teased Aaluna about her influence in the Freedom Temple and joked that Sky City had a hundred million masters.
• Aaluna poured wine for Qin Yuan, then asked to become one of Sky City’s masters and invited him to stay the night.
• Qin Yuan and Aaluna kissed and spent the night together at her villa.
• Qin Yuan woke beside Aaluna and used Healing Sacred Medicine to ease her injury.
• Qin Yuan refreshed Aaluna with blue energy, and the two began another intimate encounter.

Qin Yuan returned to the Freedom Temple with Aoluna and gave her the Golden Winged Great Peng Cub Xiao Yi as a protector and future aide in managing Sky Abyss Pavilion in the Americas. After parting from Aoluna, he learned that the Black Vatican had stolen something from the temple and began suspecting the Yan Emperor was behind the raid.

• Qin Yuan named the Golden Winged Great Peng Cub Xiao Yi and asked her to stay with Aoluna as protection and help with Sky Abyss Pavilion.
• Qin Yuan and Aoluna returned to the Freedom Temple, where Mu Ning Xue and the National Government Team met them and accepted Aoluna.
• Ai Jiangtu and Jiang Yu told Qin Yuan that the Black Vatican had raided the Freedom Temple, stolen something, and lost several members, including an Archmage.
• Qin Yuan suspected the Yan Emperor had orchestrated the theft and thought about taking precautions to protect Xin Xia.
• Qin Yuan asked Aoluna to coordinate with Lauren on establishing Sky Abyss Pavilion in the Americas, then left for training.

Kant and his companion discovered an enormous Sea Territory Mammoth skeleton drifting toward Tinoaya, and Qin Yuan spotted it from a plane and identified it as a Monarch-level Sea Demon. The group wondered what could have killed it so cleanly, and Qin Yuan began to explain what he knew.

• Kant and his companion mistook an enormous skeleton in the sea mist for a ship before realizing it was a Sea Demon corpse and collapsing in fright.
• The middle-aged mage said he would notify the alliance while Kant remained too shaken to move.
• Qin Yuan spotted the skeleton from the passenger plane and told Mu Ning Xue and Nan Jue it was about the size of a giant cruise ship.
• Qin Yuan identified the corpse as a Monarch-level Sea Territory Mammoth, and Nan Jue explained the creature's reputation to the group.
• Zhao Manyan doubted Qin Yuan's sighting, but declined Qin Yuan's wager of a luxury cruise ship.
• Jiang Shaoxu asked what could have killed the mammoth so cleanly, and Qin Yuan began to answer with a grave expression.

Qin Yuan joked that he did not know what threatened them, then the team found a freshly stripped Monarch-level Sea Territory Mammoth skeleton at the harbor. After Qin Yuan decided to investigate the Jellyfish Villain Maggot, Mo Fan and Mu Ning Xue also chose to leave with him, despite the danger.

• Qin Yuan admitted he did not know what was behind the eerie threat, frustrating the others with his anticlimactic joke.
• Qin Yuan teased Jiang Shaoxu about her dream as their plane landed.
• Jiang Yu and Nan Jue identified the gigantic skeleton as a recently killed Monarch-level Sea Territory Mammoth, and Ai Jiangtu ordered the team to leave the coast.
• Qin Yuan decided to pursue the Jellyfish Villain Maggot and asked Ai Jiangtu to let him leave the national pavilion challenge.
• Mo Fan volunteered to go with Qin Yuan, and Mu Ning Xue unexpectedly joined them.

Qin Yuan and Mu Ning Xue investigated reports of people drowning themselves under a curse in Tinoaya and connected the phenomenon to the Sea Territory Mammoth’s corpse. Qin Yuan summoned Ling Ling to help identify the parasitic creatures behind it, then spent a private moment with Mu Ning Xue while they waited for her arrival.

• Jiang Shaoxu, Mu Nujiao, and Nan Jue stayed behind so Qin Yuan and Mu Ning Xue could have time alone, while Mo Fan headed toward the giant skeleton and Ai Jiangtu led the others toward the Portugal National Hall.
• Qin Yuan and Mu Ning Xue learned from an old man that people in Tinoaya had been rushing into the sea and drowning themselves, with three cases reported that month.
• Qin Yuan told Mu Ning Xue that a special kind of Parasitic Worm was likely behind both the Drowning Curse and the death of the Sea Territory Mammoth.
• Qin Yuan contacted Ling Ling, who eagerly agreed to investigate, and sent the Haidongqing God and the Silver Dome Lord to escort her from Huaxia.
• Qin Yuan and Mu Ning Xue shared a private moment by the shore, where Mu Ning Xue asked how powerful Qin Yuan had become.

Qin Yuan told Mu Ning Xue about his formidable strength, then shared an intimate moment with her by the sea. The Haidongqing God and the Silver Dome Lord arrived with Ling Ling, who reunited with Qin Yuan and Mu Ning Xue.

• Qin Yuan told Mu Ning Xue that he could kill any Monarch creature and contend with a Sub-Emperor, despite not yet being a Forbidden Mage.
• Qin Yuan checked on Tiger Girl and found that she had reached Emperor-level and was advancing toward Lesser Emperor.
• Mu Ning Xue asked whether Qin Yuan preferred her white or black hair, and Qin Yuan told her that he loved her regardless of her hair color.
• Qin Yuan and Mu Ning Xue shared an intimate moment by the sea before Qin Yuan spotted Ling Ling approaching with the Haidongqing God and the Silver Dome Lord.
• Ling Ling jumped from the Haidongqing God's head, and Qin Yuan used Space Power to catch her before warning her not to do it again.

Ling Ling told Qin Yuan and Mu Ning Xue about a huge Hunter Alliance bounty for solving the drowning curse, and Qin Yuan revealed that Jellyfish Villain Maggots caused it. They planned to find evidence and try taming the maggots, then left to search for them.

• Ling Ling explained that the Hunter Alliance bounty pool for the drowning curse had grown to 350 million.
• Qin Yuan identified Jellyfish Villain Maggots as the likely cause of the curse and suggested taming them to gather intelligence on Sea Demons.
• Ling Ling agreed that they needed evidence and a way to counter the maggots, so the group set out to find them.
• Ling Ling teased Qin Yuan and Mu Ning Xue about their earlier intimacy, embarrassing Mu Ning Xue and prompting Qin Yuan to change the subject.
• Ling Ling jumped onto Qin Yuan's back and asked him to carry her, and he agreed.

Qin Yuan and his companions investigated Eva’s death and discovered a Jellyfish Villain Maggot in her body. They successfully controlled the creature, bringing Ling Ling closer to developing a vaccine against the drowning curse.

• Qin Yuan, Ling Ling, and Mu Ning Xue found Eva dead in a courtyard and learned from her sister Ino that the curse had driven Eva to try to reach the sea, so Ino had restrained her at home.
• With Ino’s permission, Ling Ling examined Eva’s body and extracted a Jellyfish Villain Maggot from her blood.
• Qin Yuan summoned Chaluo, whose God Devouring Larva successfully took control of the maggot.
• Ling Ling placed a tracking mark inside the controlled maggot and said it would help them develop a vaccine.
• Qin Yuan and his companions told Ino what had caused Eva’s death before leaving.

Qin Yuan protected the Jellyfish Villain Maggot while testing the Sea God Trident against groups of Sea Demons. The maggot led Qin Yuan, Mu Ning Xue, and Ling Ling to a dark stretch of sea to pursue a Black Sea Pseudo-Dragon, where Qin Yuan began clearing the other creatures.

• Qin Yuan entered the sea with the Sea God Trident and used its power to crush a Sword Sea Demon threatening the Jellyfish Villain Maggot.
• Qin Yuan drew in a group of Sword Hedgehog Sea Demons and defeated them with Sea Creatures formed from the surrounding seawater.
• Qin Yuan agreed to let the Jellyfish Villain Maggot pursue a stronger creature while Ling Ling watched its progress and Mu Ning Xue stayed on the boat.
• The Jellyfish Villain Maggot led them to an ink-black stretch of sea containing a Black Sea Pseudo-Dragon, Thunderstorm Squid, and a tribe of Sea Monkey Monsters.
• Qin Yuan calmed the Black Sea Pseudo-Dragon's roar and sent Sea Creatures to attack the Thunderstorm Squid and Sea Monkey Monsters.

Qin Yuan captured a Black Sea Pseudo-Dragon and helped Ling Ling develop a prototype vaccine for the Drowning Curse, then organized Jellyfish Villain Maggots to aid Sky City's ocean expansion. After the Azure Sky Hunter Agency received credit for resolving the curse, the National Government Team prepared to leave Portugal for Egypt, but an emergency rescue mission in the Sahara put their participation in doubt.

• Qin Yuan lifted and restrained the Black Sea Pseudo-Dragon with Space Power, then let Ling Ling use it to develop a prototype Drowning Curse Vaccine.
• Ling Ling warned that the vaccine would only treat the symptoms, while Qin Yuan proposed exploring the ocean and sent captured Jellyfish Villain Maggots to find hosts among sea demons.
• Qin Yuan and Mo Fan discussed the danger of Jellyfish Villain Maggots disguising themselves as humans, including the possibility that one could impersonate a high-ranking official.
• The National Government Team gathered to leave Portugal for Egypt, where Qin Yuan received a check-in mission in Puchini.
• The team received an emergency rescue mission in the Sahara, and Nan Jue explained that those who refused would lose eligibility for National Government resources next time.

Qin Yuan joined Mo Fan and the others on a rescue mission along the Sahara Desert’s outskirts, where a missing group had vanished inside the Strange Maze Realm. The team entered the crimson sands and discovered that the maze distorted distance and direction while disabling their communications.

• Mo Fan agreed to go to the Sahara for resources, and Ai Jiangtu split the team between those continuing to the next Training Ground and those joining Qin Yuan on the rescue mission.
• Qin Yuan, Mo Fan, Zhao Manyan, Mu Ningxue, Mu Nujiao, Jiang Shaoxu, Nan Jue, and Jiang Yu traveled to the Sahara, where Nan Jue warned that the Strange Maze Realm could disorient even an Archmage.
• Nan Jue explained that the missing group had last sent a message near the maze and likely entered it to escape a powerful sandstorm moving south.
• Nan Jue arranged the group into a Dragon Array, instructed them to keep within one kilometer of each other, and warned them not to move if they became lost.
• The group entered the crimson sands and found that distances shifted unpredictably, the sky was affected by the maze, and their communication devices stopped working.