Chapter Summaries

Dongfang Chen purified the Ninghua Evil Pearl, while Lu Kun discovered its loss and sent the Tailcoat Butler after the thief. Lu Qingyao uncovered the vampire butler and Lu Kun’s Red Demon secret, and Lu Kun began strangling her before the Tailcoat Butler’s severed head flew into the hallway.

• Dongfang Chen destroyed the Evil Soul inside the Ninghua Evil Pearl and left its pure magical energy intact.
• Lu Kun found the red fruit missing, knocked out everyone in Lu Family Manor with red mist, and sent the Tailcoat Butler to capture the thieves.
• Lu Qingyao resisted the mist with Dongfang Chen’s necklace and realized that the Tailcoat Butler was a vampire.
• Lu Kun caught Lu Qingyao discovering his secret, transformed into a Red Demon, and lifted her by the neck with Demonic Energy.
• The Tailcoat Butler’s severed head flew through the shattered hallway window.

Dongfang Chen, Lingling, and Leng Qing confronted Lu Kun after he revealed himself as Iqiu and tried to justify his crimes. When Lu Kun used his control over the Lu Family mages to attack them, Dongfang Chen pulled him into a Black Light Ring with the opening form of the Great Heaven Creation Palm.

• Lu Kun discovered Tailcoat Butler's severed head, then learned that Dongfang Chen, Lingling, and Leng Qing had identified him as Iqiu.
• Dongfang Chen rescued Lu Qingyao from Lu Kun's Demonic Energy, while Leng Qing accused Lu Kun of exploiting prisoners and killing people.
• Dongfang Chen attacked Lu Kun with a wall, and Lu Kun escaped into the garden and hurled a fountain pool at him.
• Lu Kun revealed that he had controlled Old Master Lu and many Lu Family mages, who unleashed magic against the group.
• Dongfang Chen used the opening form of the Great Heaven Creation Palm to drag Lu Kun into a Black Light Ring.

After Dongfang Chen killed Lu Kun and freed the Lu family from his control, Old Master Lu offered him Lehuo Town and Imprisonment Mountain. The offer came with a request that Dongfang Chen take Lu Qingyao with him, leaving her and Dongfang Chen caught off guard.

• Dongfang Chen confirmed Lu Kun was dead, and Lingling wept in his arms while he kept the real Red Demon True Body's survival secret.
• Dongfang Chen told Old Master Lu that Lu Kun had been an Evil Spirit, and the Lu family members under his control returned to normal.
• Old Master Lu offered Dongfang Chen Lehuo Town, Imprisonment Mountain, and their surrounding businesses and factories without payment.
• Old Master Lu asked Dongfang Chen to take Lu Qingyao with him, prompting jealous reactions from Lingling and Leng Qing and leaving Lu Qingyao embarrassed.
• Dongfang Chen accepted the offer of Lehuo Town, while Old Master Lu said he would still give it to him even if he did not want Lu Qingyao.

Dongfang Chen agreed to let Lu Qingyao stay by his side as long as she got along peacefully with the others, then went with the Judgment Department to answer questions about the events at Imprisonment Mountain. At the Mingzhu Magic Tower, he introduced Lu Qingyao, Leng Qing, and Lingling to his uncle Dongfang Mo, who was startled to see him holding Lingling’s hand.

• Dongfang Chen accepted Lu Qingyao’s offer, and she agreed not to compete with the other women for his favor.
• Wen Rong arrived with High-Tier Judgment Department officers and asked Dongfang Chen to come to the Mingzhu Judgment Department to explain what happened at Imprisonment Mountain.
• Dongfang Chen invited Leng Qing and Lingling to meet his uncle, and Lu Qingyao eagerly joined them.
• Dongfang Mo greeted the group at the Mingzhu Magic Tower and called Lu Qingyao Dongfang Chen’s girlfriend.
• Dongfang Mo noticed Dongfang Chen holding Lingling’s hand and wondered why his nephew looked a little criminal.

Dongfang Chen told Dongfang Mo that he expected to reach Super Rank soon, while Lingling and Leng Qing reported the events at Imprisonment Mountain. After Leng Qing made Lingling return to school, she and Dongfang Chen kissed, and their relationship took a sudden step forward.

• Dongfang Chen admitted his relationship with Lingling to Dongfang Mo and said he planned to reach Super Rank before returning to the National Institute Team.
• Lingling and Leng Qing reported the Imprisonment Mountain incident to the Judgment Department and felt relieved that their father's murderer had been avenged.
• Leng Qing refused to let Lingling skip class to pursue the Drowning Curse bounty and escorted her to school with Dongfang Chen.
• Leng Qing kissed Dongfang Chen on the cheek and challenged him to prove himself if he wanted to pursue her.
• Dongfang Chen chased after Leng Qing, kissed her, and insisted she had to take responsibility for kissing him.

Dongfang Chen crushed the Egypt Team beneath his Space Force after Mios insulted him at the Huaxia National Pavilion entrance. Bai Dongwei released them and accepted the Egypt Team’s challenge, leading both teams inside.

• Dongfang Chen met Seyed and the Egypt Team at the National Pavilion entrance, where Mios demanded that he let them in and threatened him.
• Dongfang Chen used gravity to force Mios and the rest of the Egypt Team to their knees, and Mu Nu Jiao and the National Pavilion students came out to watch.
• Bai Dongwei asked Dongfang Chen to release the Egypt Team, and Dongfang Chen warned Mios to restrain her arrogance.
• Sind explained that the Egypt Team had come to use one of its three chances to challenge another country’s team.
• Bai Dongwei accepted the challenge and invited the Egypt Team inside.

The Egypt Team chose individual matches, and Seyed challenged Ai Tu Tu to a rematch. Ai Tu Tu revealed her High-Level Light Magic, destroyed his undead, and knocked him off the Fighting Stage.

• Sind proposed a team match, but Seyed and Mios pushed for individual matches, with each side sending three fighters and the first to win two taking the challenge.
• Seyed challenged Ai Tu Tu, who accepted, and Dongfang Chen agreed to referee their rematch.
• Ai Tu Tu opened with Blue Silver Vines, but Seyed used his Shadow Element to evade them and summoned two undead.
• Ai Tu Tu unleashed her High-Level Light Magic, raining Light Arrows down until they vaporized Seyed's Gray Cloth Iron Corpse and Death Saber Mummy.
• Ai Tu Tu struck Seyed with a vine and sent him spinning off the Fighting Stage.

Ai Tu Tu and Mu Nu Jiao defeated the Egypt Team in the first two rounds of their pavilion challenge. After losing, Sind considered challenging the pavilion himself but was persuaded to save his strength for the official competition.

• Ai Tu Tu defeated Seyed with High-Level Magic, giving the Huaxia National Pavilion the first win.
• Shruif volunteered to fight next, but Mios stepped in after recognizing Mu Nu Jiao as a dangerous opponent.
• Mu Nu Jiao used her Ghost Wood Hand to overpower Mios's sand attack and revealed a Wind Soul Seed Domain.
• Mu Nu Jiao sent Mios off the stage with a tornado, securing the pavilion's second victory and ending the match.
• Sind angrily proposed another one-on-one challenge, but a teammate urged him to preserve his strength for the official Academy Competition in Venice.

After the Egypt Team left Huaxia defeated, Dongfang Chen focused on his cultivation and absorbed the Wind Element Heaven Seed Zhedan Tianfeng. He reached Archmage in the Wind Element and gained a powerful Forbidden Realm that could suppress magic other than Wind Element Magic.

• Mios vowed to get a Domain Soul Seed and take revenge on the Huaxia mages at the World Academy Tournament, while Sind suspected Dongfang Chen might be the Huaxia team’s captain.
• Several teams from smaller countries challenged the Huaxia National Pavilion and were defeated by its students.
• Dongfang Chen trained the National Pavilion students before returning home to cultivate and break through to Third-level High-rank.
• Dongfang Chen advanced to Archmage in the Wind Element using the magical energy from the Ninghua Evil Pearl, while his Dou Qi Cultivation reached Eight-star Dou Ancestor.
• Dongfang Chen absorbed the Wind Element Heaven Seed and learned it was called Zhedan Tianfeng, an ancient Emperor Rank creature’s namesake with the Absolute Wind Realm Forbidden Realm.

After awakening the Super Level penetration effect in addition to his Wind Element’s annihilation effect, Dongfang Chen set out for Tianshan to find Qin Yuer, bringing Lingling along. They ventured into the mountains, where he summoned Xue Yue and Xue Xing to deter nearby Demon.

• Dongfang Chen’s Wind Element gained the Super Level penetration effect, combining with Zhedan Tianfeng’s annihilation effect to pierce defenses and potentially threaten Monarch Level creatures.
• Mu Nu Jiao and Ai Tu Tu continued guarding Huaxia’s National Pavilion, while they were chosen to join the National Institute Team’s new trial site.
• Dongfang Chen left for Tianshan to search for Qin Yuer and brought Lingling, whose skills at finding people could help locate her in the vast Crack of Ruin.
• Dongfang Chen and Lingling traveled from Xilan Town into the cold Tianshan Foothills, using Dou Qi to warm her and playing in the snow along the way.
• When Commander Level Demon lurked nearby, Dongfang Chen summoned Xue Yue and Xue Xing, whose increased strength in the cold drove the creatures off.

Dongfang Chen and Lingling reached Scar of Tianshan to find Qin Yuer, while Dongfang Chen also sought a Heavenly Scar Sacred Tiger or Sky Scar White Tiger as a Contract Beast for Mu Ningxue. The search began at the abyss of Scar of Tianshan, where Xue Xing teased Xue Yue about having a Snow Woman with Dongfang Chen.

• Dongfang Chen and Lingling crossed Tianshan’s dangerous depths and located the underground Rift Valley believed to be Scar of Tianshan.
• Dongfang Chen explained that Qin Yuer was sealed below and that her talent could let her reach the Forbidden Curse level if she grew up safely.
• Dongfang Chen told Lingling he also wanted a Heavenly Scar Sacred Tiger, or a Sky Scar White Tiger, to withstand Mu Ningxue’s Ice Crystal Bow as her Contract Beast.
• Xue Yue remarked that a newly born Snow Woman could have served as Mu Ningxue’s Contract Beast, but none had been born in decades.
• Xue Xing teased Xue Yue about having a Snow Woman with Dongfang Chen, then asked him if he wanted to have a child with her.

Dongfang Chen led Lingling, Snow Yue, and Snow Xing into the Scar of Tianshan to search for Qin Yuer, where they found the Extreme Cold Ancient Eagles’ nesting ground. The sisters fought the eagles as the group charged through, with Snow Xing revealing her brutal fighting style.

• Dongfang Chen carried Lingling into the Rift Valley with Snow Yue and Snow Xing following, and the group admired the vast frozen landscape below.
• Snow Xing wondered where the Snow Women Clan might settle after moving from the Summoning Plane, and Snow Yue said she wanted to stay near Dongfang Chen.
• Dongfang Chen used his Soul Power to locate Qin Yuer and led the group toward the Extreme Cold Ancient Eagles’ nesting ground.
• Lingling identified the honeycomb-like holes in the glaciers as eagle dens and warned that the clan included many powerful Demons.
• Dongfang Chen chose to fight through the nesting ground, and more than a hundred Extreme Cold Ancient Eagles poured from their dens.
• Snow Yue froze charging eagles with her Ice Snow Domain, while Snow Xing pierced them with ice spikes and sometimes froze their blood into spikes.

Dongfang Chen used the Myriad Beast Spirit Fire to stop the Extreme Cold Ancient Eagles, then tracked a faint life sign to a woman sealed inside the glacier. He broke through the ice and revealed the sleeping silver-haired woman, leaving her identity unknown.

• Dongfang Chen used the Myriad Beast Spirit Fire to halt the Extreme Cold Ancient Eagles and command the flock to stand aside.
• Dongfang Chen and Lingling discussed the flock’s strength and why it lacked a Great Lord-level ruler before continuing onward.
• Dongfang Chen sensed a faint life sign inside the glacier and told Lingling, Xue Yue, and Xue Xing to move back.
• Dongfang Chen used Flame Wave Splitting Ruler to melt a passage through the glacier.
• Dongfang Chen and the others found a silver-haired woman asleep inside a separate block of ice, and Lingling reacted with surprise.

Dongfang Chen freed Qin Yuer from her ice crystal prison, but the process burned away her clothes and left her waking in his arms. Distrustful and alarmed by her nakedness, Qin Yuer unleashed the power of her Calamity Talent, plunging the surroundings into a blizzard.

• Dongfang Chen used Bone Spirit Cold Flame to evaporate the ice crystal and its restriction, accidentally burning away Qin Yuer's clothes while leaving her unharmed.
• Qin Yuer fell into Dongfang Chen's arms, and Lingling, Xue Xing, and Xue Yue teased him about the incident.
• Dongfang Chen sent Xue Yue through a Spatial Rift to retrieve clothes for Qin Yuer.
• Qin Yuer woke and questioned Dongfang Chen's motives, wary after her family's betrayal and the Holy Court's judgment.
• Qin Yuer noticed she had no clothes and unleashed her Calamity Talent, darkening the sky and bringing down heavy snow.

Dongfang Chen carried Lingling and Qin Yuer away from an approaching battle between Monarch Level Demons, then intervened when two Extreme Cold Ancient Eagles ambushed a Sky Scar White Tiger. He wounded one eagle with a powerful Black Wind Slash, and the battle continued.

• A roar from the glaciers alerted Lingling and Dongfang Chen to an approaching fight between Monarch Level Demons, so Dongfang Chen carried Lingling and Qin Yuer away.
• Lingling identified the white tiger as a Sky Scar White Tiger, and Dongfang Chen spotted two Extreme Cold Ancient Eagles attacking it.
• Dongfang Chen gave Qin Yuer his coat and went to help the injured Sky Scar White Tiger.
• One Extreme Cold Ancient Eagle pinned the tiger while the other attacked its back from the air.
• Dongfang Chen struck the airborne eagle with a Black Wind Slash, cutting through half its wing and forcing it to release the tiger.

With Dongfang Chen's help, the Sky Scar White Tiger wounded two Extreme Cold Ancient Eagles, and Dongfang Chen killed them as they fled. He then invited Qin Yuer to join his faction, and she accepted, leaving Tianshan with the possibility of living a normal life.

• The Sky Scar White Tiger wounded the two Extreme Cold Ancient Eagles, but they escaped before it could kill them.
• Dongfang Chen pursued the fleeing eagles and burned them to ashes, collecting their Spirit Essences.
• Qin Yuer asked Dongfang Chen why he had rescued her, and he said he wanted her to join his faction.
• Dongfang Chen told Qin Yuer that his girlfriend, Ding Yumian, was also Calamity-Afflicted and lived a normal life.
• Qin Yuer hesitated over whether she could live normally, then accepted Dongfang Chen's invitation.

Qin Yuer explained why she trusted Dongfang Chen enough to leave Tianshan, while he recruited a Heavenly Scar White Tiger as a Contract Beast for Mu Ningxue. The tiger agreed to descend the mountain after Dongfang Chen offered it a pill that could improve its bloodline.

• Qin Yuer recalled her loneliness on Tianshan and how the Holy Court’s suspicion had led to her being sealed away, then decided to stay with Dongfang Chen and meet his Calamity-Afflicted girlfriend.
• Lingling remarked that Dongfang Chen had lured another pretty girl away as the Heavenly Scar White Tiger thanked him for intervening.
• Dongfang Chen asked the tiger to become Mu Ningxue’s Contract Beast, but it initially refused because the White Tiger clan ruled Tianshan.
• Dongfang Chen offered the tiger a seventh-grade Dragon Tiger Profound Water Pill, and it eagerly agreed to form a contract in exchange.
• The Heavenly Scar White Tiger chose to trust Dongfang Chen and agreed to come down the mountain with him.

Dongfang Chen returned to the National Pavilion on his final day as instructor, where the British Team arrived to challenge Huaxia in a four-on-four match. As the selected students prepared to fight, the National Institute Team’s mentors arrived, and one young woman rushed toward Dongfang Chen as an excited fan.

• Dongfang Chen returned to Magic City with Qin Yuer, introduced her to his girlfriends, and saw her bond with Ding Yumian.
• Dongfang Chen went to the National Pavilion, where Bai Dongwei told him the British Team had challenged them to a four-on-four match.
• Dongfang Chen encouraged the students to fight, and Mu Nu Jiao, Ai Tu Tu, Lu Yilin, and Li Kuang volunteered.
• Feng Li, Song He, and a Mingfa Master Tower vice president arrived to watch the match, followed by two young women and a young man.
• A braided young woman spotted Dongfang Chen and hurried toward him, calling him her idol.

Dongfang Chen met Feng Nannan, Feng Li’s granddaughter, who admired him for saving Ancient City and eagerly talked with him before the National Pavilion match. As the Huaxia and British teams prepared to compete, the British lineup revealed four High-Tier Mages.

• Feng Nannan embraced Dongfang Chen and told him she had long wanted to meet her idol.
• Feng Li explained that Feng Nannan admired Dongfang Chen because he had helped save her mother during the Ancient City Catastrophe.
• Feng Nannan pulled Dongfang Chen to the spectator seats, where they discussed the upcoming match and Feng Li said the British Team was favored to win.
• Song He said Dongfang Chen could give the National Institute Team its best chance at winning the championship.
• Mu Nu Jiao, Ai Tu Tu, Lu Yilin, and Li Kuang prepared to compete for the Huaxia National Pavilion against a British lineup of four High-Tier Mages.

The British Team defeated the Huaxia National Pavilion in a challenge match, exposing the gap between the teams. After Dongfang Chen declared the result, Shade challenged him to a rematch and offered to leave the challenge badge if Dongfang Chen won.

• Ailin greeted Mu Nu Jiao and asked Dongfang Chen to referee the match against the Huaxia National Pavilion.
• Lu Yilin attacked with Yellow Lightning, but Ailin blocked it with Water Curtain Sky Screen.
• Shade’s Golden Gryphon and a British Mage’s superior Lightning magic overwhelmed the Huaxia team, eliminating Li Kuang and Lu Yilin.
• Mu Nu Jiao and Ai Tu Tu resisted briefly before admitting defeat, and Dongfang Chen declared the British Team the winner.
• Shade challenged Dongfang Chen to fight the British Team, promising not to take the challenge badge if Dongfang Chen defeated them.