Chapter Summaries

Song Jie used the Death Crystal to extend the Snake Mother's life and witnessed her name Apas as her successor before returning to Cairo. There, Heidi fell into Song Jie's arms, and he kissed and teased her as she struggled to hide her growing feelings.

• Song Jie brought Apas to the Scorpion Empire and gave the Snake Mother the Death Crystal, which she swallowed to gain a few more years of life.
• The Snake Mother announced Apas as her successor, and the Monarch-level scorpions accepted her decision without objection.
• Song Jie gave Apas and the Snake Mother time together, then returned to Cairo with Apas and checked that his payment had arrived.
• Song Jie knocked on Heidi's door and found her in a bathrobe after she had showered.
• Heidi slipped into Song Jie's arms, and he carried her to the sofa, kissed her, and teased her as she blushed and protested.

After Song Jie and Heidi secretly slept together, Blanche visited and reported that powerful mages were watching the hotel. Song Jie captured the spies and learned that Su Lu had sent them, leaving him ready to face whatever Su Lu planned next.

• Heidi let Song Jie kiss and touch her, and the two had sex before he went to shower.
• Blanche arrived looking for Song Jie, and he claimed he was using Heidi's bathroom because the one in his room was broken.
• Blanche spotted blood on the sofa, and Song Jie told her Heidi had cut herself while peeling fruit.
• Song Jie told Blanche he was waiting for Egypt's representative before deciding where to go next, and she warned him that Super Level Mages were watching the hotel.
• Song Jie, Heidi, and Blanche went to confront the watchers, and Song Jie froze two men who claimed to belong to the Asian Magic Association.
• Song Jie had Xiao Hei question the two men and learned that Su Lu had sent them to spy on him.

Su Lu learned that Song Jie had contracted the Black Dragon Emperor and planned to target him. Song Jie realized Li Rui had been kidnapped and heard her captor use her to threaten him.

• Su Lu told his gathered allies that Song Jie had contracted the Black Dragon Emperor, and they discussed changing their plans to target Song Jie.
• Song Jie identified Su Lu as the man behind the surveillance and warned the women close to him to stay cautious.
• Song Jie realized he had forgotten that Li Rui was traveling to Cairo and learned he could summon her back if she was nearby.
• Song Jie waited at the airport with Heidi and Blanche, but Li Rui did not arrive.
• Li Rui called Song Jie and began telling him not to worry before her captor silenced her and threatened Song Jie with her.

Song Jie traveled to Ruili to rescue Li Rui after Su Lu’s people kidnapped her and lured him away from the city. He reached the grasslands and confronted Su Lu, who planned to capture the Black Dragon Emperor and had expected Song Jie to come eventually.

• Song Jie learned from Ling Ling that Li Rui had been intercepted and went to Ruili, refusing Blanche and Heidi’s offer to help.
• Su Lu revealed that he had arranged Li Rui’s kidnapping as an opportunity to seize the Black Dragon Emperor and ordered his people to lure Song Jie to the grasslands.
• Song Jie followed a false lead to a hired messenger, learned nothing about Li Rui, and later received a new message directing him toward the grasslands.
• Song Jie flew across the grasslands on the Ice Emperor Wind Eagle, sensed Li Rui nearby, and approached the group waiting below.
• Su Lu welcomed Song Jie and said he had expected him to come eventually.

Su Lu tried to take the Black Dragon Emperor by killing Song Jie, but Song Jie revealed his strength and fought back while the Black Dragon Emperor battled the Forbidden Curse Mages. Su Lu and Fei Lunlong were left facing the loss of their forces and the realization that Song Jie was far more dangerous than expected.

• Su Lu admitted he had cut off communications and planned to kill Song Jie before taking the Black Dragon Emperor, so Song Jie summoned the dragon.
• Su Lu's men attacked Song Jie as the Forbidden Curse Mages targeted the Black Dragon Emperor, but Song Jie killed several Super Level Mages with his mental skill and Space Crush.
• Su Lu ordered two Super Level Peak Mages to attack Song Jie, but Song Jie demonized and killed both before they could escape.
• The Black Dragon Emperor killed a Forbidden Curse Mage with Black Flame, forcing the remaining mages to back away.
• Fei Lunlong told Su Lu that the Black Dragon Emperor was overwhelming their forces, then learned that Song Jie had killed two Super Level Peak Mages.

Song Jie stopped the Black Dragon Emperor when Fei Lunlong threatened Li Rui, but Li Rui revealed herself as a vampire and killed Fei Lunlong. As the Black Dragon Emperor and Li Rui slaughtered the Forbidden Curse Mages, Song Jie confronted Su Lu, who summoned an Ancient Behemoth.

• Fei Lunlong threatened to kill Li Rui unless Song Jie stopped the Black Dragon Emperor, and Song Jie ordered it to halt.
• Song Jie refused to release his enemies, and Li Rui transformed into a vampire and killed Fei Lunlong.
• Song Jie ordered the Black Dragon Emperor and Li Rui to kill the group, and they overwhelmed the Forbidden Curse Mages as Su Lu tried to flee.
• Song Jie blocked Su Lu's escape and destroyed his lightning attack with a Holy Sword spell.
• Su Lu summoned a constellation and called for an Ancient Behemoth, whose enormous head began emerging from the Summoning Plane.

Song Jie defeated Su Lu and the Emperor-level ancient behemoth, then left the country with Li Rui to avoid attracting trouble. After Li Rui thanked him, Song Jie teased her about repaying him with her body.

• Song Jie combined demonization with Little Yan Ji's power and attacked Su Lu's ancient behemoth, trapping it beneath a sea of flames.
• Song Jie overwhelmed the ancient behemoth with flames, Space Power, and Light while Su Lu realized his plan had failed.
• Li Rui and the Black Dragon Emperor returned after defeating Su Lu's allies, and Song Jie had the Black Dragon Emperor kill the wounded ancient behemoth to obtain its Essence Soul.
• Song Jie burned Su Lu to death, then left the area with Li Rui and the others before the Military Mages arrived.
• Song Jie traveled to a neighboring country on the Ice Emperor Wind Eagle and settled in a city with Li Rui.
• Li Rui thanked Song Jie, and he teased her by asking if she planned to repay him with her body.

After dealing with Su Lu’s situation, Song Jie decided to help Aoluna and returned to Cairo with Li Rui. There, Shaja, the Archangel Gabriel, approached him with information about advancing a Summoned Beast to Emperor-level and asked whether his magic mutation enabled his contract with the Black Dragon Emperor.

• Song Jie used Mind Control on Li Rui, and the two slept together before he decided to contact Aoluna and visit Cairo for handover ceremonies.
• Song Jie told Aoluna he would visit in the next few days, then returned to Cairo with Li Rui the following evening.
• Heidi and Blanche asked Song Jie about the people he had dealt with, and he reassured them that he could handle any trouble.
• Song Jie noticed Shaja waiting openly on the hotel rooftop and learned she knew he had killed Su Lu but would keep it secret.
• Shaja offered information about helping a Summoned Beast advance to Emperor-level in exchange for learning how Song Jie contracted the Black Dragon Emperor.
• After they went to a convenience store to talk, Shaja asked whether Song Jie’s magic mutation had allowed him to contract the Black Dragon Emperor.

Song Jie agreed to help Aoluna search a dangerous spatial world for the Spring of Life, which could let her inherit her family’s power. Two days later, he arrived in the United States with Heidi and Blanche to join Aoluna, who had arranged their transportation and dinner.

• Shaja asked Song Jie about the Black Dragon Emperor and his five Contract Beasts, and he introduced her to Feng Zhoulong as a fellow magical researcher.
• Song Jie exchanged contact information with Shaja, who said she would visit him in China.
• Aoluna asked Song Jie to help her find the Spring of Life in her family’s spatial world, explaining that the spring would secure her inheritance and that the world held dangerous Demon Beasts.
• Song Jie agreed to join Aoluna and bring Heidi and Blanche, then traveled with them to the United States two days later.
• Aoluna met Song Jie, Heidi, and Blanche, took them to her car, and said the other two people she had recruited were helping her out.

Aoluna gathered Song Jie, Heidi, and two Temple Mage colleagues to compete for the Spring of Life and her family’s leadership. After her relatives opened the sealed entrance, the group prepared to enter the spatial world.

• Aoluna introduced Song Jie and Heidi to Aoban and Doma, who challenged Song Jie’s qualifications until he revealed he had reached the super level in three elements.
• Aoluna stopped the argument, and after dinner Song Jie pulled her into his room.
• The next day, Aoluna and the others met her two rivals and learned that whoever obtained the Spring of Life would inherit the family leadership.
• The middle-aged man took the group to a forest, collected their devices and space rings, and brought them to a stone wall concealing the spatial world.
• Several people recited an incantation to open the seal, and Aoluna and Song Jie headed toward the entrance.

Song Jie entered the enormous forest realm and recruited a pack of Unicorn Wolves to search for Heidi and Aoluna. He defeated the Green Shell Giant Turtle guarding a pool, claimed the Water Grass from its depths, and asked the Unicorn Wolf about other nearby territories.

• Song Jie entered the forest realm alone, encountered a Unicorn Wolf, and followed it to its pack with Little Green.
• Song Jie beat the Commander-level Unicorn Wolf into helping him and sent over a hundred Unicorn Wolves to find Heidi and Aoluna.
• The Unicorn Wolf led Song Jie to a pool guarded by a Green Shell Giant Turtle, and Little Green subdued the Great Monarch creature.
• Song Jie retrieved the emerald-green Water Grass from the pool and collected the dead turtle's Essence Soul.
• Song Jie asked the Unicorn Wolf whether there were any other Demon Beast territories nearby.

Song Jie searched for the Spring of Life and reunited with Heidi, who had broken through after being chased by two Monarch-level Demon Beasts. He learned what had happened to her and prepared to take revenge.

• Song Jie ordered the Unicorn Wolf to help find its pups and searched the forest with Little Green, collecting treasures but not finding the Spring of Life.
• Huoban’s group discussed their rivals, and Aoban and Doma offered to spy for Huoban in exchange for the same treatment as his allies.
• Song Jie secretly recorded Aoban and Doma’s betrayal, then continued searching for treasures with Little Green and the Unicorn Wolf in tow.
• Song Jie found Heidi, who told him she had broken through after two Monarch-level Demon Beasts chased her.
• Song Jie comforted Heidi and vowed to avenge her.

Song Jie and Heidi attacked the Flying Eagles’ territory, where Song Jie killed the leaders and uncovered a colossal dragon skeleton. The Black Dragon Emperor killed the Polar Eagle lord, and Song Jie avenged Heidi before taking the beast’s corpse and Essence Soul.

• Heidi guided Song Jie to the Flying Eagles’ mountain, where he killed the two Minor Monarch Polar Eagles that had chased her.
• Song Jie summoned the Black Dragon Emperor, which drove off the Sublime Emperor Polar Eagle while Song Jie and Heidi entered the mountain.
• Little Green led Song Jie and Heidi underground, where they uncovered a giant skeleton larger than the Black Dragon Emperor.
• Song Jie asked the captured Polar Eagle about the skeleton, but it knew nothing, so the Black Dragon Emperor killed it on Song Jie’s command.
• Song Jie collected the Polar Eagle’s Essence Soul and corpse, then told Heidi he had avenged her.

Song Jie reunited with Aoluna and joined her search for the Spring of Life, then followed a Unicorn Wolf’s report to a staged confrontation between two groups. An De’s side confronted Song Jie, Heidi, and Aoluna, and Song Jie offered to reveal a secret.

• Song Jie and Heidi found Aoluna, who said she had found no Spring of Life and explained that its location had changed since her family last visited.
• Song Jie showed Aoluna evidence that Aoban and Doma had betrayed her, but the group pretended to welcome the pair and searched together.
• After three fruitless days, a Unicorn Wolf told Song Jie that two groups were fighting, so the group went to investigate.
• Song Jie sensed an ambush, and Huoban and An De revealed themselves after a spell caught Aoban and Doma off guard.
• Huoban’s people chased Aoban and Doma while An De confronted Song Jie, Heidi, and Aoluna, and Song Jie offered to share a secret.

Song Jie persuaded An De to work with Aoluna’s group after revealing that Huoban had allied with Aoban and Doma. The groups turned on Huoban, but Huoban warned that obtaining the Spring of Life required ten human sacrifices.

• Song Jie showed An De video proof that Huoban had joined forces with Aoban and Doma, and An De sent a companion to confirm it.
• An De agreed to work with Song Jie and Aoluna’s group and revealed that a human blood sacrifice was needed to obtain the Spring of Life.
• An De and Song Jie’s groups pretended to fight, while Huoban’s team waited to attack them afterward.
• Huoban’s group surrounded Song Jie’s team, but An De’s side attacked Huoban instead, and a surge of Space Power stopped Aoban and Doma from joining the fight.
• Huoban’s teammates fell, and Huoban warned Heidi and Aoluna that ten people had to be sacrificed to obtain the Spring of Life.

Song Jie and the others watched An De defeat Huoban, Aoban, and Doma, only to discover An De intended to sacrifice them to reach the Spring of Life. Song Jie revealed his strength and trapped An De’s group, leaving them unable to escape.

• Huoban urged Song Jie, Aoluna, and Heidi to join him against An De, but An De’s group overwhelmed him.
• Aoban and Doma attacked the weakened Huoban, then pledged allegiance to An De.
• An De’s group turned on Aoban and Doma when they prepared to attack Song Jie, and An De claimed he would let Song Jie and the others leave.
• An De’s teammate attacked Song Jie, Aoluna, and Heidi with Ice Seal Coffin, but Song Jie destroyed it.
• An De admitted he needed ten people to obtain the Spring of Life and planned to sacrifice Song Jie and the others.
• Song Jie suddenly appeared in two places, killed two of An De’s teammates, and immobilized the rest of the group.

Song Jie forced An De to reveal how to obtain the Spring of Life, then secured An De's allegiance to help Aoluna take power. After Aoluna collected the Spring of Life, Song Jie asked what it could do.

• Song Jie used Xiao Hei to make An De reveal the Spring of Life's location and took Aoluna and Heidi there.
• An De explained that throwing bodies into a ravine would cause the Spring of Life to seep from the nearby cliff, and Song Jie had ten bodies thrown in.
• A creature roared from the ravine, while Aoluna collected the golden liquid that appeared on the cliff.
• Song Jie gave An De the choice of dying or helping Aoluna take power, then had Apas place Medusa's curse on him.
• An De agreed to help Aoluna, and she finished collecting the Spring of Life as Song Jie asked what it did.

Song Jie and Aoluna returned with the Spring of Life, and Aoluna’s family began moving toward her becoming family head. After Heidi advanced to Super Level Mage, Song Jie, Heidi, and Blanche celebrated; the chapter ended with Song Jie carrying the drunk Blanche to her bedroom.

• Aoluna explained that the Spring of Life could extend a person’s life by ten years the first time it was used, with diminishing effects on later uses.
• After seven days, Song Jie, Aoluna, An De, and one other survivor emerged with the Spring of Life, and Aoluna handed it to her family.
• Song Jie returned to the villa with Heidi, while Aoluna stayed behind to face her own path; the next morning, Blanche learned that Heidi had advanced to Super Level Mage.
• Blanche cooked a celebratory dinner, and Song Jie said he might return to China to help Vine Snake, Baxia, and the Black Snake improve their cultivation.
• Blanche and Heidi drank too much wine and got drunk, so Song Jie carried Heidi to her room and then carried Blanche toward hers.

Song Jie spent the night with Blanche before helping Aoluna advance her bid to become family head, then returned to China and visited Yu Shishi in Ning Xue City. After the system upgraded his Summoning Element magic, he reunited with Yu Shishi and began teasing her.

• Blanche and Song Jie accidentally fell onto the bed, and she shyly helped him after he teased her; the next morning, she and Heidi left for Alps Academy.
• Aoluna thanked Song Jie for helping secure her chance to become family head and explained that she needed to pass a business assessment.
• Song Jie offered Aoluna half of his business in Egypt and promised to connect her with someone there, then spent the evening with her.
• After Aoluna's situation stabilized, Song Jie left Lighthouse Country and returned to Magic City, where the system announced that Summoning Tide had transformed into Tide Replication.
• Song Jie traveled to Ning Xue City, found Yu Shishi in the rear mountain, and teased her after she recognized him.

Song Jie returned to Yu Shishi and strengthened Vine Snake and Baxia with Essence Souls before using the Heavenly Crown Purple Linden Divine Tree’s crown leaves to bring Moon Rabbit Phoenix out of her chrysalis early. He planned to accompany her to the Qinling Mountains and begin unifying China’s Demon Beast world, with Ling Ling gathering information on powerful Demon Beasts.

• Song Jie reunited with Yu Shishi, learned Moon Rabbit Phoenix planned to return to the Qinling Mountains, and said he had come to improve the totems’ strength.
• Song Jie gave Vine Snake and Baxia Essence Souls, and the two began refining them in secluded cultivation.
• Song Jie gave the Heavenly Crown Purple Linden Divine Tree’s crown leaves to Moon Rabbit Phoenix, whose chrysalis absorbed their energy and broke open.
• Song Jie decided to travel to the Qinling Mountains with Yu Shishi and Moon Rabbit Phoenix while planning to unite China’s Demon Beasts.
• Song Jie asked Ling Ling to gather information on China’s powerful Demon Beasts, and Yu Shishi agreed to set off the next day.