Chapter Summaries

Qin Yuan confronted Zu Huiyin over Zu Jiming’s death and threatened the Zu Family, while Shao Zheng encouraged his willingness to challenge powerful clans. The chapter left Qin Yuan offering to have Sky City replace the Zu Family’s roles.

• Shao Zheng treated Qin Yuan as an equal, thanked him for helping secure victory, and hinted at new arrangements for him in the World Academy Competition.
• Shao Zheng introduced his secretary Zu Huiyin, who questioned Qin Yuan about why he had not saved Zu Jiming.
• Qin Yuan mocked Zu Huiyin for placing Zu Jiming on the National Government Team and said he had chosen not to save him.
• Qin Yuan intimidated Zu Huiyin and warned that the Zu Family should consider how many Demon Tribes it could withstand.
• Qin Yuan offered to let Sky City wipe out the Zu Family and take over its posts and duties.

Qin Yuan used Sky City's power to force Zu Yinhui to apologize and compensate, giving Grand Speaker Shao Zheng leverage to curb the Aristocratic Families. The chapter ended with Zhao Manyan explaining to Mo Fan that Qin Yuan's lack of political ambition made him a powerful ally for Shao Zheng, while the Zhao Clan prepared for its influence to decline.

• Han Ji warned that taking over the Zu Family's affairs could take a week, and Shao Zheng asked Zu Yinhui what she thought of Qin Yuan's threat.
• Zu Yinhui realized Shao Zheng had used Qin Yuan to pressure her and bowed to apologize, offering compensation on behalf of the Zu Family.
• Qin Yuan accepted the compensation and withdrew his aura, while Shao Zheng apologized and privately recognized that his authority over Zu Yinhui had shifted.
• Zu Yinhui stood quietly as Shao Zheng spoke with Qin Yuan, and Zhao Manyan decided to warn his family to rein in its behavior.
• Zhao Manyan told Mo Fan that Shao Zheng saw Qin Yuan as a powerful check on the Aristocratic Families because Qin Yuan wanted strength and a peaceful life rather than political power.

Qin Yuan and Shao Zheng planned to use Earth Element demons to build coastal defenses against the future Sea Monster Calamity. After the other third-round World Academy Competition matches concluded, China prepared to face Germany.

• Qin Yuan told Shao Zheng he had established a Sky Abyss Pavilion in Fei Niao City to prepare for the rising coastline and the Sea Monster Calamity.
• Shao Zheng described his abandoned plan to build ancient walls along Huaxia’s coast, and Qin Yuan suggested using tamed Earth Element demons as labor.
• Qin Yuan agreed to locate Earth Element demons while Shao Zheng arranged intelligence gathering and plans to transport the demons to coastal regions.
• Greece defeated America, Britain defeated France, and Egypt defeated Canada in the first three third-round matches.
• Jiang Yu analyzed Germany’s strong team, including its third-ranked Destruction Mage, as the Chinese team prepared for its match.

The Huaxia National Government Team sent its less experienced members to face Germany, relying on Qin Yuan and the other substitutes to take over if needed. After Ruidi’s defense-weakening talent and a summoned sub-dragon helped Germany eliminate several competitors, Qin Yuan entered the arena and immediately froze a Mind Element Mage.

• Qiaosen urged Ruidi to exploit his talent against Qin Yuan, and the German team went to face Huaxia.
• Jiang Yu, Mu Tingying, Nanrong Ni, Zhao Manyan, and Guan Yu began the match while Qin Yuan, Mo Fan, and Ai Jiangtu stayed on the sidelines.
• Ruidi’s Hellfire shattered Zhao Manyan’s Sand Bunker, and both teams fought across the arena.
• Germany’s White Rock Sub-Dragon helped eliminate Nanrong Ni and Mu Tingying, prompting Ai Jiangtu and Mo Fan to enter the match.
• Guan Yu was eliminated after advancing too far into enemy territory, and Qin Yuan took his place and froze a Mind Element Mage.

Qin Yuan and the Huaxia National Government Team crushed Germany to advance to the winners' bracket, further impressing the powerful factions watching the competition. After the team returned from the arena, Zhao Yougan approached Qin Yuan to discuss cooperation between the Zhao Clan and Sky City.

• Qin Yuan used teleportation and ice magic to eliminate most of Germany's team, while Mo Fan defeated Ruidi and Ai Jiangtu beat Qiaosen.
• The Chief Referee declared Huaxia victorious, and the audience and Archmages marveled at Qin Yuan's strength as a Holy City elder watched him coldly.
• Shao Zheng and the others celebrated the victory and discussed Huaxia's position in the winners' bracket, whose finals would begin on the third day.
• Zhao Yougan met Qin Yuan and invited him to dinner to discuss cooperation on behalf of the Zhao Clan.
• Qin Yuan accepted Zhao Yougan's invitation, and Zhao Yougan led him to a nearby five-star hotel.

Zhao Yougan offered Qin Yuan a partnership in which the Zhao Clan would pay Sky City for protection and a share of its auction profits. Qin Yuan challenged Zhao Yougan’s reliance on connections over strength, while Zhao Yougan insisted he could win the Zhao Clan patriarch position through strategy.

• Zhao Yougan hosted Qin Yuan in a hotel suite and introduced Shan Xia, the daughter of an international bank president whom their families intended to marry to Zhao Yougan.
• Zhao Yougan proposed that Sky City protect the Zhao Clan in exchange for money and a share of its auction profits.
• Qin Yuan questioned why the Zhao Clan needed Sky City when it already had powerful experts, and Zhao Yougan said he wanted the partnership to be his own achievement.
• Qin Yuan demonstrated Shan Xia’s vulnerability to someone without cultivation, prompting Zhao Yougan to defend his plan to become patriarch through strategy and his friendship with Qin Yuan.
• Zhao Yougan clarified that Shan Xia was not yet his fiancée and that their marriage was only intended by their families.

Qin Yuan agreed to work with Zhao Yougan while secretly turning him into a puppet, intending to control the Zhao Clan without betraying his friend Zhao Manyan. After exposing Zhao Yougan’s betrayal of his fiancée Shan Xia, Qin Yuan prepared to leave, teasing her about whether she planned to offer herself to him.

• Zhao Yougan described the Zhao Clan’s factions and asked Qin Yuan to support his bid to become clan head.
• Qin Yuan agreed to cooperate, while privately deciding to control Zhao Yougan rather than help him harm Zhao Manyan.
• Zhao Yougan left Shan Xia and the other women behind for Qin Yuan, and Qin Yuan called his ambition to become clan head a path to becoming a puppet.
• Shan Xia revealed that she and Zhao Yougan were engaged, and Qin Yuan told her he had already used God Devouring Larvae to make Zhao Yougan his puppet.
• Qin Yuan stood to leave, and Shan Xia nearly repeated his joke about being quick before he teased her about offering herself to him.

Qin Yuan brought Shan Xia and her maids into his Space-Time Realm, while Huaxia advanced through the World Academy Competition as Egypt emerged as a formidable rival. After Asharuiya reunited with Qin Yuan, she asked him to let her team win the championship.

• Shan Xia offered to become Qin Yuan's exclusive decorative vase, and he accepted her while bringing her maids into his Space-Time Realm.
• Huaxia defeated the United Kingdom National Government Team after it fielded weaker members, and Egypt beat Greece with its undead tactics.
• Egypt's Mios, Shreif, and Said anticipated Huaxia's defeat in the final, while captain Xinde warned them not to underestimate Qin Yuan.
• Asharuiya visited Qin Yuan in his Space-Time Realm after Greece's loss and became intimate with him.
• Asharuiya asked Qin Yuan to let her have the championship.

After spending two days in the Space-Time Realm, Qin Yuan learned that Asharuiya had persuaded the Black Dragon Emperor Austin to accompany her, while the Totem Sacred Tiger awakened and grew stronger. The Grand Final Battle’s third round began, and Huaxia sent Qin Yuan, Ai Jiangtu, Mo Fan, Mu Ning Xue, and Mu Nujiao to face Egypt’s undead team.

• Asharuiya persuaded Austin and found a way to keep the Black Dragon Emperor temporarily by her side, giving the Parthenon Temple a powerful guardian.
• Qin Yuan’s Sky Abyss Rending Saint Halberd’s weapon spirit, the Totem Sacred Tiger, awakened at the peak of the Lesser Emperor level and began advancing toward the Middle Emperor level.
• America lost to Greece again after Asharuiya joined the Greek team, while Britain defeated France.
• Feng Li warned Huaxia’s team about Egypt’s undead tactics, and Qin Yuan proposed that all five of them compete.
• Qin Yuan, Ai Jiangtu, Mo Fan, Mu Ning Xue, and Mu Nujiao entered the arena to face Egypt, whose team relied on Pharaoh’s Spring to remain undefeated.

Sind's team summoned Crimson Mummies empowered by Pharaoh's Spring, but Qin Yuan demonstrated his power by teleporting Naifuru to Ai Jiangtu and then helping wipe out the undead. As the Egyptian team summoned hundreds more, a towering axe-armed Mummy appeared, leaving the battle poised to escalate.

• Sind's team summoned more than a hundred Crimson Mummies using their blood and Pharaoh's Spring.
• Qin Yuan vanished, captured Naifuru, and tossed him to Ai Jiangtu, who had Mo Fan eliminate him.
• Sind's team ordered the Crimson Mummies to attack, while Qin Yuan and the others each cleared a section of the horde with their magic.
• Qin Yuan's golden lightning annihilated the remaining Mummies, and the Archmages recognized it as a Lightning Element Heavenly Seed.
• Sind, Mios, and the others summoned at least three hundred more Crimson Mummies, including a giant wielding Corpse Splitting Axes.

Qin Yuan crushed Egypt’s summoned Saber Axe Mummy, prompting Sind to concede the match and send Huaxia to the finals. Egypt’s team planned to save its Pharaoh Spring for the Three-way Melee and a possible Monarch-level mummy, while Qin Yuan later gathered with his women for dinner.

• Qin Yuan used Space Power to destroy the Saber Axe Mummy in a single move, convincing Sind that Egypt could not win without summoning Monarch-level mummies.
• Sind weighed conceding to preserve Pharaoh Spring against continuing the fight, while Qin Yuan urged Egypt to summon more mummies.
• As Qin Yuan’s team prepared to eliminate them, Sind conceded, and the Chief Referee declared Huaxia the winner and finalist.
• Mios and Said vowed to summon a Monarch-level mummy and win the championship, while Sind warned that Britain and Greece might join forces against Egypt in the Three-way Melee.
• Qin Yuan held a private family dinner at the hotel with Mu Ning Xue, Asharuiya, Eileen, and his other women.

Qin Yuan explained how Greece and the United Kingdom could counter Egypt’s endless mummy summons, then watched Asharuiya and Eileen prepare to compete against each other in the Three-way Melee. The chapter ended as the teams gathered for the match and Huaxia’s members received Venice Rings, which Ai Jiangtu suspected they had because of Qin Yuan.

• Qin Yuan told Asharuiya and Eileen that Egypt used Pharaoh Spring to summon mummies and advised them to collect the undead’s spirit essences and remnant spirits with Soulless Vessels.
• Qin Yuan warned Asharuiya and Eileen to hide their plan so Egypt would not surrender early to preserve its Pharaoh Spring.
• Asharuiya and Eileen teased Qin Yuan about which team he wanted to win, then vowed to compete without going easy on each other.
• Two days later, Huaxia advanced to the final while Greece, the United Kingdom, and Egypt prepared to fight for the other place.
• The teams entered a vast ring-shaped battlefield for the Three-way Melee and received Venice Rings that would protect their wearers in danger.
• Ai Jiangtu guessed that the Venice officials had treated Huaxia well because of Qin Yuan and Sky City.

During the Three-way Melee, Greece and the United Kingdom joined forces against Egypt, while Asharuiya and Eileen’s teams secretly drained the Pharaoh Spring by collecting spirit essences and Remnant Spirits. Sind decided Egypt would summon a Lesser Monarch mummy against Huaxia in the finals, but the chapter ended with his team discovering their supply had been exposed and more than half depleted.

• Jiang Yu and the others watched the match as the Egyptian National Government Team summoned a large undead army and the United Kingdom and Greece teamed up against it.
• Qin Yuan predicted Greece would win because Asharuiya had more hidden cards and was more skilled at scheming than Eileen.
• Asharuiya and Eileen’s teams harvested spirit essences and souls from the undead while the Egyptian team failed to notice the Pharaoh Spring was being depleted.
• Sind and his teammates discussed Huaxia’s strength and agreed to summon a Monarch-level mummy immediately in the finals.
• Naifuru warned Sind that the opposing teams were approaching, and Shreif discovered that more than half of the Pharaoh Spring was gone.
• Sind ordered his team to retrieve the Pharaoh Spring, but the others had already taken most of its contents and taunted Egypt to keep summoning.

The United Kingdom and Greece eliminated Egypt after its team exhausted the Pharaoh Spring and failed to defeat them with two Demon-Devouring Worms. Greece then turned on the United Kingdom, and Asharuiya repeatedly used a spatial artifact to keep Zhe Luo off the battlefield while her team overwhelmed his teammates.

• Asharuiya ordered Greece and the United Kingdom to attack Egypt, and Said spent the remaining Pharaoh Spring summoning two Demon-Devouring Worms.
• Asharuiya's Greece team and Zhe Luo's United Kingdom team defeated the worms, then eliminated Said and the Egyptian reserves.
• Egypt became the first team eliminated from the Three-way Melee, and its leaders lamented losing their chance at the top three.
• Greece and the United Kingdom immediately fought one another, while spectators debated which team would win.
• Asharuiya used a Space Magic Artifact three times to send Zhe Luo out of the battlefield, giving Greece time to nearly eliminate the United Kingdom team.

Greece National Government Team defeated Zhe Luo’s team, while Huaxia remained confident that Qin Yuan could overcome their strongest tactics. Two days later, Huaxia and Greece entered the finals on Venice Battle Island.

• Asharuiya eliminated Eileen, and Greece National Government Team defeated Zhe Luo through coordinated control and attrition.
• Zhao Manyan reminded Huaxia’s team that Qin Yuan could overcome Greece even if his teammates were eliminated, easing their concerns about Asharuiya’s Space Magic Artifact.
• Asharuiya and Eileen spent the night with Qin Yuan, and Eileen told him that her family supported their relationship.
• Asharuiya asked Qin Yuan to go easy on Greece in the final, and he promised to put friendship first.
• Two days later, Huaxia National Government Team and Greece National Government Team entered the finals at Venice Battle Island, where spectators cheered for both teams.

Qin Yuan and the Huaxia National Government Team overwhelmed the Greece National Government Team in the final match. Qin Yuan used the Sky Abyss Rending Saint Halberd to eliminate Asharuiya and her teammates, leaving spectators and powerful mages stunned by his strength.

• The final match began, and both teams launched powerful spells while the Greece National Government Team followed Asharuiya's plan to defend against Huaxia's attacks.
• Qin Yuan confronted Asharuiya, froze her great sword with his space-time ability, and she broke free using her Darkness Power.
• Qin Yuan summoned the Sky Abyss Rending Saint Halberd, shattered Asharuiya's great sword, and swept her out of the match.
• Qin Yuan eliminated the remaining Greece National Government Team members with a few halberd strikes, nearly injuring a referee who tried to intervene.
• Spectators and Archmage-level observers around the world were shocked by the halberd's power and Qin Yuan's strength.

Qin Yuan’s strength astonished Huaxia’s factions and drew wariness from powerful organizations around the world as the World Academy Competition concluded. Huaxia claimed the championship, while Qin Yuan received a new check-in mission directing him to Parthenon Temple.

• Dean Xiao and Dean Fu praised Qin Yuan’s growing strength, while Qin Yuer and the women watched him from Sky City and teased one another about their relationships with him.
• The Mu and Zu Clans grew alarmed over their conflicts with Qin Yuan, while Zhao Yougan secretly gathered trusted subordinates within the Zhao Clan under Qin Yuan’s guidance.
• Leaders of major international organizations became wary of Qin Yuan and Sky City but chose not to provoke them.
• The Chief Referee announced Huaxia as the World Academy Competition champion, and the crowd celebrated as Song of Huaxia played and the Huaxia flag rose.
• Qin Yuan received a no-time-limit check-in mission at Parthenon Temple but focused on the celebration alongside his fellow Huaxia competitors.

After the Huaxia team celebrated winning the World Academy Competition, Qin Yuan revealed that he had reached the Undead Forbidden Curse realm and gained powerful new abilities. At the Parthenon Temple, he checked in for rewards and planned to help Ye Xin Xia take control of the temple.

• The Huaxia team and its leaders celebrated their championship victory in the water, proud that their country had finally won.
• During the days of celebration in Venice, Qin Yuan told Mu Ning Xue that his Undead Element had reached the Forbidden Curse realm and explained his Lord of Undead gift and strengthened undead army.
• Mo Fan told Qin Yuan that Zhao Manyan had been abducted by a Great Demon, but Qin Yuan chose to let events unfold because Zhao Manyan was not in mortal danger.
• Qin Yuan and the others traveled to the Parthenon Temple for the Divine Seal Ceremony, and Qin Yuan said he expected to see Ye Xin Xia and intended to help her take control of the temple.
• Qin Yuan checked in at the temple and received the Zhe Zi Secret, an improved Shapeshifting Pill, and two White Magic Awakening Cards; he awakened Healing and Blessing Elements and decided to give the pill to the Totem Sacred Tiger.

Qin Yuan and his companions traveled through the Parthenon Temple to receive the Divine Seal Ceremony, while Qin Yuan privately explored the temple and met its Saintesses. The chapter ended with Ye Xin Xia, Asharuiya, Ande, and Panne Jia gathered to greet him.

• Ai Jiangtu and Pang Lai discussed the absent Goddess and the Divine Seal Ceremony as the group began climbing the Sacred Mountain.
• Qin Yuan admired the scenery, reshaped part of the Space-Time Realm to resemble it, and noticed Bora among the statues.
• Hylon stopped the group near Goddess Peak, greeted Qin Yuan respectfully, and arranged for everyone to rest until nightfall.
• Qin Yuan went alone to the Goddess Hall, where knights and female attendants escorted him to Ye Xin Xia and Asharuiya.
• Ye Xin Xia and Asharuiya welcomed Qin Yuan, while Ande and Panne Jia were also present.

Qin Yuan learned that the Goddess election had been postponed until after the Divine Seal Ceremony, then spent five days in the Goddess Hall with Panne Jia and the others. He also brought Panne Jia’s supporters under his control, leaving Ye Xin Xia as the only Goddess Candidate with backing as Yi Zhi Sha’s awakening approached.

• Ande greeted Qin Yuan, who asked Ye Xin Xia and Asharuiya why the Goddess election had been postponed.
• Panne Jia said she knew the general reason and asked Qin Yuan to spend the night alone with her in exchange for the information.
• Qin Yuan kissed Panne Jia, and the two became intimate while Ye Xin Xia, Asharuiya, and Ande watched.
• The Mother of the Temple repeatedly delayed the Divine Seal Ceremony, and Qin Yuan stayed in the Goddess Hall for five days, later bringing Mu Ning Xue and the other women.
• Qin Yuan gained control of the forces backing Panne Jia, leaving Ye Xin Xia as the only Goddess Candidate with supporters as Yi Zhi Sha neared awakening.