Chapter Summaries

Qin Yuan left the retreating team at night to hunt the Giant Lizard Pseudo Dragon, leaving Mu Ning Xue and Mu Nujiao under Snow Empress’s protection. He tracked the demon to the Lizard-skull Giant Demons’ nest and found it sleeping atop the hive-like mound.

• Qin Yuan told Mu Ning Xue and Mu Nujiao he planned to pursue the Giant Lizard Pseudo Dragon, and Mu Ning Xue trusted his confidence while Mu Nujiao worried about him.
• Qin Yuan summoned Snow Empress to guard the two women, then flew away on his Magic Shadow Wings without alerting the rest of the team.
• Qin Yuan and the Blaze Wolf tracked the Giant Lizard Pseudo Dragon to the Lizard-skull Giant Demons’ nest.
• Qin Yuan realized the shadow covering him came from the sleeping Giant Lizard Pseudo Dragon atop the nest.

Qin Yuan used Tiger Girl, the Totem Sacred Tiger, to subdue the sleeping Giant Lizard Pseudo Dragon and offered it the chance to advance beyond its Pseudo-Dragon bloodline. The Giant Lizard Pseudo Dragon accepted Qin Yuan as its master.

• Qin Yuan summoned Tiger Girl above the sleeping Giant Lizard Pseudo Dragon and had her reveal her Supreme Monarch aura.
• Tiger Girl crushed the Lizard-skull Giant Demon Nest and pinned the Giant Lizard Pseudo Dragon, which begged for mercy.
• Qin Yuan offered the Giant Lizard Pseudo Dragon a choice between submission and being forcibly controlled.
• Qin Yuan promised to help the Giant Lizard Pseudo Dragon obtain Sub-dragon and True Dragon bloodlines, weakening its resolve to resist.
• The Giant Lizard Pseudo Dragon addressed Qin Yuan as its master and submitted.

Qin Yuan used Chaluo's God Devouring Larvae to take control of the Giant Lizard Pseudo Dragon while the creature cooperated. At sunrise, Mu Ning Xue and the others found the students’ shelter in ruins and began gathering the survivors.

• The Giant Lizard Pseudo Dragon submitted, and Chaluo began assimilating its soul with three God Devouring Larvae.
• Qin Yuan had the Lizard-skull Giant Demons search for toxins while he trained against them, and Chaluo cultivated five more larvae as her control of the female dragon neared completion.
• Mu Ning Xue, Mu Nujiao, and Bai Tingting found the destroyed church after defeating the Great General Grade Bewitching Demon Spider.
• Zhao Manyan, Mo Fan, Luo Song, and Xu Zhaoting emerged from the rubble, while Bai Tingting treated the injured Song Xia and Mu Ning Xue and Mu Nujiao found Jingjing and Zhao Mingyue.
• Lu Zhenghe, Liao Mingxuan, Xu Dalong, and Ming Cong crawled out of the central rubble, but Xiao Feng remained missing.

After the students recovered Xiao Feng’s body and left the city, they encountered Lu Nian’s military mages, who ordered them killed. Qin Yuan seized Lu Zhenghe and confronted Lu Nian, tearing off Lu Zhenghe’s arm as the chapter ended.

• Qin Yuan arrived, learned that Liao Mingxuan had killed Xiao Feng while bewitched, and joined the others in finding the body.
• Ming Cong decided to carry Xiao Feng’s body back, and Qin Yuan led the subdued students out of the city.
• The group encountered a squad of military mages led by Lu Nian, while Lu Zhenghe recognized an opportunity for revenge.
• Lu Nian ordered his mages to kill everyone he considered irrelevant, and Qin Yuan seized Lu Zhenghe with his Space Element.
• Lu Nian recognized Qin Yuan as a High-level Space Element Mage and asked whether he knew him, while Qin Yuan tore off Lu Zhenghe’s arm.

Qin Yuan tortured Lu Zhenghe to force Lu Nian to explain why he had defied orders, while Lu Nian turned three students into stone statues to threaten the group. Lu Nian revealed that Mo Fan was the intended subject of an experiment meant to help humanity fight demon creatures, leaving the students shaken by his claims about humanity’s true place in the world.

• Qin Yuan dislocated Lu Zhenghe’s arms and legs and then his jaw, demanding that Lu Nian explain why he had brought people there.
• Lu Nian used Rock Demon's Eye to turn Liao Mingxuan, Xu Dalong, and Ming Cong into statues and threatened to kill everyone unless Qin Yuan released Lu Zhenghe.
• Lu Nian offered Qin Yuan a place in his group, but Qin Yuan refused and continued to hold Lu Zhenghe hostage.
• Lu Nian explained that his experiment was intended to change humanity’s desperate situation and that Mo Fan was its best candidate.
• Mo Fan condemned Lu Nian for killing students, and Lu Nian claimed that demon creatures treated human mages as livestock and that humanity’s victories were misleading.
• The students fell silent as Lu Nian’s claims challenged what they believed about mages and the world.

Lu Nian revealed that he had chosen Mo Fan for a brutal experiment to create a New Element because of his Innate Dual System. After Qin Yuan killed Lu Zhenghe and blocked Lu Nian’s attack with his self-created ice magic, the others fled while Qin Yuan held the enemy back.

• Lu Nian explained that Mo Fan’s Innate Dual System made him a suitable subject for the New Element experiment, despite the risk of mental collapse or death.
• Lu Nian claimed Mu Zhanxing had approved the experiment and failed to object to the measures meant to keep it secret, leaving Mu Nujiao devastated.
• Qin Yuan killed Lu Zhenghe and defended the group from Lu Nian’s Petrification with Extreme Cold Profound Ice—Myriad Flower Ice Mirror.
• Lu Nian was shocked to discover Qin Yuan could use self-created magic, and the others realized he possessed four Magic Elements and an Innate Dual System.
• Qin Yuan urged the group to escape; Luo Song, Shen Mingxiao, Mo Fan, Zhao Manyan, and Xu Zhaoting began fleeing, but Mo Fan stopped before reaching the forest.

Qin Yuan revealed that he could command the Giant Lizard Pseudo Dragon and set it upon Lu Nian after the others fled. The creature began fighting Lu Nian while Mu Ning Xue, Mu Nujiao, Jingjing, and Zhao Mingyue demanded an explanation.

• Mo Fan fled separately to draw Lu Nian’s forces away, while Song Xia and Bai Tingting left and Mu Ning Xue and Mu Nujiao stayed with Qin Yuan.
• After the Myriad Flower Ice Mirror shattered, Lu Nian sent Jiang Yi and around twenty military mages after Mo Fan and prepared to attack Qin Yuan.
• Qin Yuan summoned the Giant Lizard Pseudo Dragon, which obeyed his order and crushed the military mages beside Lu Nian.
• Lu Nian barely escaped the creature’s first claw strike, and Qin Yuan ordered the Giant Lizard Pseudo Dragon to finish him within five minutes.
• The Giant Lizard Pseudo Dragon charged at Lu Nian as Mu Ning Xue, Mu Nujiao, Jingjing, and Zhao Mingyue asked Qin Yuan why it obeyed him.

Qin Yuan had the Giant Lizard Pseudo Dragon kill Lu Nian, secretly placed God Devouring Larvae in Jingjing and Zhao Mingyue, and left Golden Forest Wasteland City with Mu Ning Xue and Mu Nujiao. Mo Fan returned to the city to draw Lu Nian's men away, but Jiang Yi's forces caught up and ordered their Sky Eagles across the Black Pool.

• Qin Yuan secretly had Chaluo place God Devouring Larvae in Jingjing and Zhao Mingyue, bringing them under his control.
• The Giant Lizard Pseudo Dragon killed Lu Nian and then left for Dongting Lake at Qin Yuan's instruction.
• Qin Yuan declined to help Mo Fan, saying Jiang Yi and his men would give him an opportunity, and departed with Mu Ning Xue, Mu Nujiao, Jingjing, and Zhao Mingyue.
• Mo Fan returned to Golden Forest Wasteland City to draw Lu Nian's men away and help Zhao Manyan and the others escape.
• Jiang Yi and his men pursued Mo Fan on Sky Eagles, and Jiang Yi ordered them to cross the Black Pool and chase him on the ground.

Mo Fan fled from Jiang Yi and his men into a new Lizard-skull Giant Demon nest, then was forced to rely on the soldiers’ protection when the demons attacked. As he prepared to escape amid the chaos, a commander-level presence descended and interrupted his Shadow Escape.

• Mo Fan and the Swift Star Wolf entered the Lizard-skull Giant Demons’ new nest to evade Jiang Yi and his men.
• Mo Fan pretended to welcome being taken back as an experiment subject, and Jiang Yi ordered two Military mages to guard him while the others fought the horde.
• The Military mages killed many Lizard-skull Giant Demons, but a Fire-dead Giant Lizard killed Awei and disrupted their formation.
• Mo Fan tried to use Shadow Escape to flee, but a howl and commander-level pressure interrupted his Star Track and slowed everyone down.

Mo Fan crushed Jiang Yi’s Blood Droplet and underwent Demonization, slaughtering the Lizard-skull Giant Demons as the Giant Lizard Pseudo Dragon abruptly withdrew. Zhan Kong arrived and warned that the Demon Element would consume Mo Fan’s soul, but Mo Fan fled before he could be stopped.

• Jiang Yi gave Mo Fan a Blood Droplet as the Giant Lizard Pseudo Dragon dived toward them, and Mo Fan crushed it to undergo Demonization.
• Qin Yuan ordered the Giant Lizard Pseudo Dragon to leave through Chaluo, and Mo Fan turned on Jiang Yi and the other Military mages.
• Mo Fan summoned a Wolf Soul Shadow that killed the Fire-dead Giant Lizard and attacked the other Lizard-skull Giant Demons.
• As the Demon Element eroded Mo Fan’s mind, Zhan Kong arrived and warned him that the power would cost him his soul.
• Zhan Kong offered to take Mo Fan back to the military for Demon Spirit Essences, but Mo Fan roared and fled at incredible speed.

After the Golden Forest Wasteland City disaster, Mo Fan left to attack the Demon Tribe of Dongting Lake while Zhan Kong took the survivors back to the Imperial Capital. A week later, Qin Yuan asked Mu Zhuoyun for advice on establishing his own force, and Mu Zhuoyun began explaining how a force needed a distinctive foundation.

• Zhan Kong condemned Jiang Yi and the other surviving Military mages, told them Lu Nian had died, and took them and the bodies back to the Imperial Capital.
• Mo Fan flew toward the Demon Tribe of Dongting Lake, beginning a bloody massacre.
• The military and academy were shocked by the deaths in Golden Forest Wasteland City, and the military's effort to punish Jiang Yi and the others drew opposition from the academy and victims' families.
• Qin Yuan and Mu Ning Xue visited Mu Zhuoyun after Mu Nujiao and Bai Tingting returned to Modu, and Qin Yuan asked for advice about establishing a force.
• Mu Zhuoyun explained that a force needed a distinctive specialty and described the Mu Clan's Ice Element strengths and the Zhao Clan's auction houses.

Mu Zhuoyun explained how a fledgling force could grow, and Qin Yuan decided to prioritize securing territory because he could provide loyal people himself. He proposed taking land from a Demon Tribe, leaving Mu Zhuoyun and Mu Ning Xue shocked but reassured by his confidence before Mu Zhuoyun left the couple alone.

• Mu Zhuoyun described wealth, members, and territory as the foundations of a new force, drawing on the Mu family's rise in Bocheng.
• Qin Yuan decided to seek territory first, reasoning that he could supply loyal members himself and that people and wealth were closely connected.
• Mu Ning Xue explained the costs of acquiring and clearing territory, and Qin Yuan proposed taking land occupied by a weak Demon Tribe.
• Mu Zhuoyun and Mu Ning Xue warned that even a weak Demon Tribe had a Commander-level Demon and thousands of demons, but Qin Yuan insisted he had a sure way to win.
• Qin Yuan reassured Mu Ning Xue and held her hands, while Mu Zhuoyun accepted their relationship, sighed, and left.
• After Mu Zhuoyun departed, Qin Yuan pulled Mu Ning Xue into his arms and kissed her.

Qin Yuan told Mu Ning Xue that he planned to survey three Demon Tribes before choosing where to act, then spent the night with her. The next morning, he reassured her that he would marry her if she became pregnant, and the two fell asleep together.

• Qin Yuan described the White Demon Eagle Tribe, the demon wolf packs, and the Lizard-skull Giant Demon Tribe as possible targets, and said he leaned toward surveying Dongting Lake first.
• Qin Yuan and Mu Ning Xue shared an intimate night, while Snow Empress watched from nearby.
• The next morning, Mu Ning Xue asked Qin Yuan what he would do if she became pregnant, and he promised to propose, offer betrothal gifts, and marry her.
• Qin Yuan brought Mu Ning Xue breakfast, then held her as she fell asleep; he soon fell asleep beside her.

Military mage Li Man investigated reports of Lizard-skull Giant Demons dying under strange circumstances and tracked the newly dubbed “New Death God” to Xizhao Valley. After finding an enormous field of freshly killed demons, she pressed deeper despite suspecting she could not defeat whatever had killed them, then realized her body was becoming unusually heavy.

• The Survey Team reported to Qiu Xin that Lizard-skull Giant Demons had died from fire, lightning, and brute force, and that their souls or Remnant Spirits were missing.
• Li Man left Biyi City to investigate the deaths herself, while Qiu Xin later received a message from his junior brother about the strange phenomenon.
• At Xizhao Valley, Li Man found demon corpses bearing ice, lightning, crushing, and sharp-object wounds, suggesting several different methods had been used.
• Li Man reached the valley and found countless Lizard-skull Giant Demon corpses that had been killed only hours earlier, then continued pursuing the powerful “New Death God.”
• As Li Man ventured farther into the valley, her legs grew heavy and she realized something was wrong.

Li Man was poisoned in the valley and nearly died before Qin Yuan rescued her with help from his Blaze Wolf, Xiao Yan. She woke in a cave with Qin Yuan and began recovering, embarrassed by how tightly she had clung to him while unconscious.

• Li Man discovered that poison had spread through her legs, and her antidote failed to stop it.
• Unable to call for help or signal safely, Li Man hid as night fell and Lizard-skull Giant Demons prowled nearby.
• A Blaze Wolf slaughtered the Lizard-skull Giant Demons, found Li Man, and Qin Yuan rescued her before the poison reached her heart.
• Qin Yuan carried Li Man to a cave and used his blood to counteract the poison while Xiao Yan guarded the entrance.
• Li Man woke beside Qin Yuan, learned that Xiao Yan was his Summoned Beast, and realized a young mage had saved her.
• Qin Yuan offered Li Man water and dried meat, but she was too weak to hold them and dropped them.

Li Man and Qin Yuan spent the night sheltering in a cave, where Li Man clung to him in her sleep and woke up embarrassed. Qin Yuan left to pursue his plans in Xizhao Valley, while Li Man set out to warn Hunter Mages about the danger.

• Li Man offered to help Qin Yuan obtain the Spirit Seed Flowing Marsh if he warned the hunters, but he said he was not interested and left her to decide whether to stay.
• Li Man decided to recover before warning the hunters and planned to buy more antidote from Qin Yuan so she could remain in Xizhao Valley.
• While asleep, Li Man moved close to Qin Yuan and embraced him, and Qin Yuan accepted the warmth as they both slept under the watch of their companions.
• The next morning, Li Man woke up wrapped around Qin Yuan and sprang away in embarrassment; Qin Yuan assured her he had not slept with her.
• After Li Man made an awkward joke and Qin Yuan teased her, he rode away on Blaze Wolf, while she went into the forest to warn the Hunter Mages.

Li Man recovered in a cave with Qin Yuan, then accidentally clung to him in her sleep and traded teasing remarks with him the next morning. Qin Yuan left to pursue his plans, while Li Man set out to warn Hunter Mages away from Xizhao Valley.

• Li Man asked Qin Yuan to warn the hunters about Xizhao Valley and offered to help him obtain the Spirit Seed Flowing Marsh, but he said he was not interested in it.
• Li Man decided to warn the hunters after recovering, then fell asleep beside Qin Yuan as his Pure Yang Hegemon Body affected her.
• The next morning, Li Man woke up wrapped around Qin Yuan and became embarrassed, then joked suggestively about their bodies.
• Qin Yuan left the cave on Blaze Wolf, and Li Man went into the forest to warn the Hunter Mages entering Xizhao Valley.

Qin Yuan attacked the injured Swamp Poison Centipede in Xizhao Valley and killed it with a barrage of magic and a final Sky Rend Claw. He left Chaluo to handle the corpse and waited for the Giant Lizard Pseudo Dragon to confront the Martial Shell Giant Lizard.

• Qin Yuan sent the arriving Giant Lizard Pseudo Dragon to subdue the Martial Shell Giant Lizard alive while he targeted the Swamp Poison Centipede.
• Qin Yuan struck the poisonous swamp with an Ice Seal Coffin, forcing the Swamp Poison Centipede out of the mud.
• Qin Yuan joined with Xue'er and froze the Swamp Poison Centipede using his ice domains.
• Qin Yuan broke several of the centipede's legs with plant, lightning, and dimension magic as it struggled against the ice.
• Qin Yuan killed the Swamp Poison Centipede with a Sky Rend Claw, and his White Tiger Vessel collected its Remnant Spirit.
• Qin Yuan left the centipede's corpse to Chaluo.

Qin Yuan had Chaluo use God Devouring Larvae to control the Martial Shell Giant Lizard and ordered the Giant Lizard Pseudo Dragon to manage the Lizard-skull Giant Demon Tribe. As he prepared to leave and choose a location for his main base, he ran into Li Man, two Military mages, and Mo Fan.

• The Giant Lizard Pseudo Dragon brought the wounded Martial Shell Giant Lizard to Qin Yuan, who decided to take it for his own use.
• Chaluo sent God Devouring Larvae into the unconscious Martial Shell Giant Lizard until sixty had assimilated with its soul, and she said it would take three days to control it while it remained unconscious.
• Qin Yuan assigned the Giant Lizard Pseudo Dragon to manage the Lizard-skull Giant Demon Tribe, forbade it from attacking human cities, and ordered it to collect treasures in exchange for the Sub-dragon bloodline.
• The Giant Lizard Pseudo Dragon carried the Martial Shell Giant Lizard away to recover, while Qin Yuan planned to survey two other tribes and choose a main base.
• Li Man, two Military mages, and Mo Fan emerged from nearby, and Qin Yuan noted that Mo Fan had recovered well from his Demonization.

Qin Yuan joined Mo Fan, Zhang Xiaohou, and Li Man after killing the Swamp Poison Centipede, then prepared to leave. Li Man kissed him as thanks for saving her life, and Qin Yuan invited her to join the faction he planned to build, leaving her interested but needing to settle her affairs first.

• Qin Yuan explained that the Swamp Poison Centipede had already been badly injured, and offered to sell its corpse to Li Man's military mages while giving Mo Fan a thirty-percent share for the God of Death's help.
• Li Man thanked Qin Yuan for saving her and gave him her contact information, then kissed him as her first kiss before he could leave.
• Qin Yuan gave Li Man his contact information and invited her to join his future faction, promising to help her become an Archmage.
• Li Man watched Qin Yuan leave and decided she was interested in his faction, but first needed to arrange and settle some matters.