Chapter Summaries

Dongfang Chen moved the Snow Woman Clan to a new home near Jinlin City and helped them settle in with their Sacred Vein. He checked on the girls’ Dou Qi cultivation, finding that several had progressed quickly while others were still occupied with their own affairs.

• Dongfang Chen counted the Snow Women with Xue Yue and Xue Xing, then opened a temporary Space Wormhole to the Magic Plane and packed up their Sacred Vein with Space Force.
• Dongfang Chen brought the Snow Women to a wilderness site near Jinlin City, where Xue Yue thanked him and Xue Xing led her sister in kissing him.
• Dongfang Chen checked the girls’ cultivation in Jinlin City and found Ding Yumian and Qin Yuer had refined a trace of Dou Qi, while Liu Xian and Liu Ru had already become Dou Zhe.
• Dongfang Chen noted that Chenying had reached the Eighth Stage of Dou Qi, and that Xuexue, Jiao Jiao, Ai Xiao Tu, Baitingting, and Baimanyu had promising cultivation or Alchemist potential.
• Mu Tingying, Nanrong Ni, Mochizuki Chiharu, and Aoluna began cultivating Dou Qi in Jinlin City, while Nan Jue, Jiang Shaoxu, Tang Yue, Leng Qing, Ye Chang, and Lingling remained occupied with other responsibilities.

After returning to Magic City, Dongfang Chen reassured Mofan about Zhao Manyan’s progress and agreed to visit Mingzhu Academy with him. He then went to Qingtian Hunter Club to see Lingling, but found Leng Qing at the counter and kissed her instead.

• Dongfang Chen opened a long-term Space Passage to Magic City so the girls could return home after cultivating in Jinlin City.
• Mofan confronted Dongfang Chen about Bora, then asked about Zhao Manyan; Dongfang Chen said Zhao Manyan was likely stabilizing the Zhao Clan after Baxia helped him wound Zhao Jing.
• Mofan told Dongfang Chen that Dean Xiao wanted them to visit Mingzhu Academy about their graduation rewards, and Dongfang Chen agreed to go when he had time.
• Dongfang Chen visited Qingtian Hunter Club to see Lingling about cultivating Dou Qi, but found Leng Qing at the counter.
• Dongfang Chen leaned in and kissed Leng Qing, who called him bolder and pressed her heel against his foot.

Dongfang Chen kissed Leng Qing, but Lingling caught them and stormed upstairs. He followed her, soothed her jealousy, and explained his plan to take the sisters to Jinlin City to learn Dou Qi, leaving Lingling intrigued by the cultivation system and warning him to guard it from people with ill intentions.

• Dongfang Chen crowded close to Leng Qing at the bar, embraced and kissed her, and Lingling caught them before running upstairs in anger.
• Leng Qing pushed Dongfang Chen away and sent him to coax Lingling.
• Dongfang Chen entered Lingling's room, apologized for not visiting her first, and explained that he would take her and Leng Qing to Jinlin City to experience Dou Qi cultivation.
• Lingling asked about Dou Qi's strength and whether others could cultivate it, and Dongfang Chen said only people close to him could learn it.
• Lingling warned Dongfang Chen that others would covet the cultivation system, and he reassured her that few people could challenge his strength.

Dongfang Chen took Lingling and Leng Qing through a Space Passage to Jinlin City, where he taught them how to refine Dou Qi. After returning to the Qingtian Hunter Club to fetch Lingling’s laptop, he learned that influential figures wanted to meet with him and agreed to go after delivering the computer.

• Dongfang Chen brought Lingling and Leng Qing to Jinlin City through the Space Passage in his home, and Lingling and Leng Qing discussed studying the passage and Dou Qi.
• Dongfang Chen taught Lingling and Leng Qing how to refine Dou Qi, and Lingling asked him to fetch her laptop so she could record information about it.
• Dongfang Chen returned to the Qingtian Hunter Club and found Old Man Bao waiting to tell him that someone wanted to meet him.
• Dongfang Chen agreed to meet the visitors after delivering Lingling’s laptop, while Old Man Bao urged him not to embarrass him in front of his old friends.

Dongfang Chen and Mofan joined Huaxia’s senior officials at Mingzhu Tower, where Shao Zheng warned that a nationwide Sea Monster War was approaching. The meeting began with a call for ideas to strengthen coastal defenses, while the officials also intended to assess Dongfang Chen’s immense power.

• Li Shuang sarcastically questioned Dongfang Chen’s lateness, but Dongfang Mo said his nephew was already downstairs.
• Dongfang Mo brought Dongfang Chen and Mofan into the conference hall, where Hua Zhanhong had invited Mofan to attend.
• Dongfang Chen greeted the assembled officials and sat beside Zhu Meng and Han Ji.
• Shao Zheng explained that rising sea levels and the Sea Demon Empire threatened Huaxia’s coast, while the military was already stretched thin by land-based Demon invasions.
• Shao Zheng asked the officials to pool their ideas and help develop defenses against the coming Sea Monster Calamity.

Shao Zheng and Hua Zhanhong sought the magical families’ support for the coming Sea Monster War, while Dongfang Chen received a system task to help the Jia Ma Empire defeat the Izumo Empire. He recognized the system’s mistaken names as references to Huaxia and the Sea Demon Empire, and resolved to fight for the Heavenly Tomb trial qualification.

• Shao Zheng’s appeal prompted the Dongfang, Mu, Bai, and Lu families and others to promise supplies for the coastline defense.
• Hua Zhanhong warned that even mobilizing every Forbidden Curse Mage would likely not stop the Sea Demon Emperors, leaving the meeting hall silent.
• Dongfang Chen reviewed the system task and inferred that the Jia Ma Empire meant Huaxia and the Izumo Empire meant the Sea Demon Empire.
• Dongfang Chen considered the Heavenly Tomb’s cultivation benefits and decided he would defeat the Sea Demon Empire to earn access to it.
• Shao Zheng asked Dongfang Chen for his view on the coming war, and Dongfang Chen weighed how to help defeat the Sea Demon Empire without simply doing it all himself.

Dongfang Chen proposed using powerful defensive arrays and stable Space Passages to strengthen coastal defenses and move supplies and reinforcements during the Sea Monster War. He opened a passage between the conference hall and Mingzhu Tower, and Hua Zhanhong and Zhu Meng stepped inside to test it.

• Dongfang Chen offered to install layered defensive arrays in key coastal cities, and Hua Zhanhong agreed that their price could be negotiated.
• Dongfang Chen proposed using Space Passages to transport supplies and reinforcements between coastal cities.
• Dongfang Chen explained that his passages could operate stably and be learned by Mages with Archmage-level Space Element abilities.
• Dongfang Chen opened a Space Passage from the conference hall to Mingzhu Tower, and Hua Zhanhong and Zhu Meng entered to try it.

Dongfang Chen presented the Space Passage to Hua Zhanhong and negotiated a low price for the Military Department to establish passages along the coast. He then unveiled the Dongfang Family’s Star Sea Pill, leaving the major forces eager to secure supplies as the Military Department received priority purchasing rights and a donation for the coming Sea Monster War.

• Hua Zhanhong, Zhu Meng, and other meeting attendees tested Dongfang Chen’s Space Passage and praised its speed and convenience.
• Dongfang Chen offered to establish Space Passages in coastal cities for one hundred million each and train the Military Department to maintain them for ten billion.
• Hua Zhanhong agreed to have the Military Department discuss the Coastline Strategy arrangements with Dongfang Mo.
• Dongfang Chen introduced the Star Sea Pill, which could help High Level Mages advance to Archmages with a ten percent success rate and no limit on repeated use.
• Dongfang Chen promised the Military Department priority purchasing rights for half of the Star Sea Pills produced each year, donated some pills for the Sea Monster War, and set the price at four billion each.

Dongfang Chen accepted an honorary councillor title from Shao Zheng, who asked Mofan to search for Totem Beasts in exchange for cultivation resources. The system then tasked Dongfang Chen with founding the Tianfu Alliance, and he went to Hangzhou to investigate the Magical Beast King Family and visit Tang Yue.

• Shao Zheng offered Dongfang Chen an honorary councillor title, which Dongfang Chen accepted, while Mofan declined a future councillor position.
• Shao Zheng asked Mofan to search for Totem Beast clues and promised cultivation resources as a reward; Dongfang Chen agreed to help with what he knew.
• The system tasked Dongfang Chen with establishing the Tianfu Alliance, a coalition of four top-tier powers allied with the Magical Beast King Family.
• Mofan went to the library to research Totem Beasts, while Dongfang Chen traveled to Hangzhou to investigate the system's requirement and visit Tang Yue.
• Tang Yue took the day off to spend time with Dongfang Chen.

Dongfang Chen recruited the Mysterious Snake into the Tianfu Alliance and arranged for Tang Yue and the other women to cultivate Dou Qi. After Jiang Shaoxu arrived in Magic City, she asked him to accompany her to the Taklamakan to search for clues about her missing brother, Jiang Shaojun.

• Dongfang Chen decided Tang Yue should take leave from the Judgment Department and cultivate Dou Qi in Jinlin City.
• Dongfang Chen visited the Mysterious Snake on Lake Heart Island, fed it strength-enhancing pills, and recruited it as the Tianfu Alliance's totem elder.
• Dongfang Chen took Tang Yue to Jinlin City, where Chenying began teaching her the basics of Dou Qi, and he checked on the other girls' cultivation progress.
• Dongfang Chen learned that Ashariyya had become a dual-element Archmage of Space and Shadow and that she and Xin Xia were cultivating Dou Qi in Jinlin City.
• Jiang Shaoxu met Dongfang Chen at Magic City Airport and asked him to help search the Taklamakan for clues about her missing brother, Jiang Shaojun.
• Dongfang Chen promised to investigate clues about Jiang Shaojun and told Jiang Shaoxu to go to Jinlin City to cultivate Dou Qi while he arranged their trip.

Dongfang Chen gathered Jiang Shaoxu, Lingling, Qin Yuer, and Chenying for a trip to the Taklamakan, where he hoped to search for treasures and clues about Jiang Shaoxu’s brother. On the military plane, their group clashed with members of the Golden Battle Hunter Group, and Captain Ge Ming recognized Dongfang Chen and Jiang Shaoxu.

• Dongfang Chen planned to seek the Earth Core in the Taklamakan and consider using it with his Eternal Life Lotus to refine a pill.
• Dongfang Chen invited Lingling, Qin Yuer, and Chenying to join him and Jiang Shaoxu on the trip; Chenying had just advanced to the Dou Zhe level.
• Jiang Shaoxu and Lingling chose ordinary air travel over Dongfang Chen’s offer to open a Space Passage, so the group boarded a military aircraft bound for the Taklamakan.
• Zheng Tong approached the women and offered for them to travel with the Golden Battle Hunter Group, but Jiang Shaoxu angrily told him to get lost.
• Lu Fang criticized the group’s lack of preparation, and Captain Ge Ming recognized Dongfang Chen and Jiang Shaoxu from the World Academy Tournament broadcast and apologized.

Dongfang Chen put the Golden Battle Hunter Group in its place aboard the military aircraft and reached Taklamakan with Jiang Shaoxu and the others. After landing, they planned to search the Military Department for clues about Jiang Shaoxu’s brother, while Lingling studied a route through the dangerous desert.

• Zheng Tong and the Golden Battle Hunter Group mocked Dongfang Chen and the National Institute Team, so Dongfang Chen restrained them with Space Element Magic.
• Ge Ming apologized for his teammates, and Patrol Mage Zhang Wu recognized Dongfang Chen as a Councillor and asked him to release the Hunters.
• Dongfang Chen released the Golden Battle Hunter Group and teased them before the group landed at a military base in Taklamakan.
• Jiang Shaoxu chose to look for clues about her brother at the Military Department’s Taklamakan headquarters, and Dongfang Chen declined Zhang Wu’s offer of an escort.
• Lingling studied a freshly surveyed map and began planning a route through Taklamakan’s demon-infested desert.

Dongfang Chen traveled with Lingling, Jiang Shaoxu, Chenying, and Qin Yuer to the Taklamakan Military Headquarters Base. There, he was reunited with Li Man, who had been stationed at Tarim Fortress for half a month.

• Lingling grew tired during the desert walk, so Dongfang Chen cleaned the sand from her feet and carried her on his back.
• Lingling explained that her Demon Detector could monitor demons within ten kilometers, and the group decided to use Ground Wave to travel faster.
• Dongfang Chen and the others reached the enormous Tarim Fortress in under an hour and received permission to tour it using his status as a Councillor.
• Two female Military Mages came to receive the group, and Dongfang Chen recognized one of them as Li Man.
• Li Man told Dongfang Chen that she had arrived at Tarim Fortress half a month earlier, after his Academy Competition had ended.

Dongfang Chen and his friends met Li Man and her sister Shaowen at Tarim Fortress, where Shaowen awkwardly tried to match Li Man with him. Their visit was interrupted by a Dust Storm Magic Midge infestation in Anjiao Town, and they agreed to help with the rescue.

• Dongfang Chen spoke with Li Man and learned she had come to Tarim Fortress to coordinate with the Military Department.
• Shaowen teased Li Man by asking Dongfang Chen what he thought of her, then bluntly offered to marry her to him, embarrassing Li Man.
• Jiang Shaoxu told Shaowen that she was Jiang Shaojun's younger sister, and Shaowen offered her the journal Jiang Shaojun had left behind.
• A military commander reported that Dust Storm Magic Midges had breached Anjiao Town's Safety Barrier and that the town had sent a distress signal.
• Shaowen ordered reinforcements to rescue Anjiao Town's residents, and Jiang Shaoxu offered to help with Dongfang Chen's group.

Dongfang Chen and Lingling warned Shaowen that the Dust Storm Magic Midge might have evolved fire resistance, prompting her to recall the thousand-Mage vanguard. The swarm attacked the retreating Legion anyway, and Dongfang Chen vanished after offering to save them.

• At the command camp, Shaowen explained that the Fire Element Mage Legion would enter Anjiao Town to rescue survivors and investigate the failed Flame Barrier.
• Lingling and Dongfang Chen warned Shaowen that the Dust Storm Magic Midge could have evolved fire resistance, and Lingling presented data indicating a greater than sixty percent chance.
• Shaowen ordered Fan Liang to withdraw the thousand-member Legion, and he began retreating under a Flame Barrier.
• The Dust Storm Magic Midge charged at the Legion despite the flames, and Li Man concluded that the swarm was fireproof.
• Shaowen ordered reinforcements and the evacuation of nearby towns, while Dongfang Chen offered to save the Legion and then disappeared.

Dongfang Chen and Qin Yuer rescued Fan Liang’s unit from the fire-resistant Dust Storm Magic Midges, then turned their attention to the swarm near Anjiao Town. Qin Yuer corrected Dongfang Chen’s familiar address and told him to call her Sister Yuer.

• Lingling and the others reassured Shaowen that Dongfang Chen could handle the Dust Storm Magic Midges, and Qin Yuer flew to assist him.
• The Dust Storm Magic Midges overwhelmed Fan Liang’s unit, but Dongfang Chen formed a barrier with the Three Thousand Burning Flame and stopped the swarm.
• Qin Yuer attacked the Midges with ice magic, then asked Dongfang Chen to lower his flames after they melted her ice tiger.
• Dongfang Chen protected the unit with a Space Barrier while Qin Yuer killed the remaining Midges and brought Lingling a live specimen.
• Qin Yuer reported that the Midges near Anjiao Town were retreating, and Dongfang Chen asked her to stop them from escaping.
• Qin Yuer told Dongfang Chen to call her Sister Yuer, and he agreed.

After Shaowen's forces rescued Anjiao Town from the mutated Dust Storm Magic Midges, Liu Zhuo revealed that the swarm had first been drawn toward the Boundary Chamber. The group found the Boundary Core drained, and a messenger reported that someone had tried to steal its energy.

• Shaowen reunited with Dongfang Chen and Li Man after the midges were defeated, while the damaged town's residents emerged from the underground shelter.
• Shaowen questioned Liu Zhuo, who recalled that the swarm had headed toward the Boundary Chamber before abruptly changing course.
• Li Man explained that the Boundary Chamber held a fragment of an Earth Core that powered Anjiao Town's boundary.
• Shaowen led the group to the Boundary Chamber, where Liu Zhuo discovered that the Boundary Core's energy was gone.
• A messenger told Shaowen that a Hunter Team had reported someone trying to steal the Boundary Core's energy.

Dongfang Chen killed Shi Qianshou and took the Earth Core before he could use it to endanger more towns. After the Dust Storm Magic Midge crisis was resolved, Dongfang Chen gave Shaowen the Blazing Sunset Soul Fire as compensation for Tarim Fortress.

• Dongfang Chen learned that Shi Qianshou had obtained the Earth Core and searched for him with his Soul Power.
• Shi Qianshou prepared to drive another swarm of Dust Storm Magic Midge toward a town so he could recharge the Earth Core.
• Dongfang Chen ambushed Shi Qianshou, took the Earth Core, and left his body to the returning Dust Storm Magic Midge.
• Shaowen learned of Shi Qianshou's death and concluded that the Earth Core had been eaten, while Lingling's insecticide made Tarim Fortress safe from the midges.
• Dongfang Chen's group spent several more days in Taklamakan, and he gave Shaowen the Blazing Sunset Soul Fire to help protect Tarim Fortress.

After returning to Magic City, Dongfang Chen examined the depleted Earth Core and offered it to Qin Yuer if she needed it to reach the Forbidden Curse stage. Qin Yuer shyly thanked him with a kiss, and the next morning Dongfang Chen woke beside the girls and prepared to visit Mingzhu Academy to complete his graduation procedures.

• Dongfang Chen returned to Magic City and asked Lingling to examine the Earth Core, which she said was nearly out of energy.
• Lingling agreed to research the Earth Core's uses and stayed overnight at Dongfang Chen's villa to play games with him.
• Dongfang Chen offered Qin Yuer the Earth Core to help her reach the Forbidden Curse stage, and Qin Yuer kissed his cheek to thank him.
• Chenying confessed to Dongfang Chen during the previous night's ranked games and joined his team queue.
• Dongfang Chen woke beside Chenying, Jiang Shaoxu, Liu Xian, Liu Ru, Baitingting, and Baimanyu, then quietly dressed to visit Mingzhu Academy.

Dongfang Chen brought Jiao Jiao, Ai Tu Tu, and Ding Yumian to Mingzhu Academy for their graduation assessments, where Dean Xiao appointed them and Mofan as mentors. Dongfang Chen chose Dongfang Lie and Feng Nannan as his students for the upcoming graduation projects.

• Dongfang Chen picked up Jiao Jiao, Ai Tu Tu, and Ding Yumian in Jinlin City and brought them to Mingzhu Academy for graduation assessments.
• Dongfang Chen took Ding Yumian to visit Dean Fu, then met Mofan on the way to Dean Xiao's office.
• Dean Xiao offered Dongfang Chen, Mofan, Ding Yumian, Mu Nu Jiao, and Ai Tu Tu mentor status so they could lead graduating students through assessments.
• Mofan agreed to mentor students after Dean Xiao promised rewards, and each of the five received a list of early-graduating students.
• Dongfang Chen asked why Dongfang Lie was graduating instead of mentoring and learned that Lie had refused mentors weaker than himself.
• Dongfang Chen chose Dongfang Lie and Feng Nannan to join his team.