Chapter Summaries

Mo Fan nearly killed Lu Yilin for framing him and trying to take his life, but Tang Miao and Ai Jiangtu stopped him after Mu Ningxue spoke up. The team continued toward the Ruined Ancient City, where a colossal tornado wrapped in purple-gold lightning appeared ahead.

• Mo Fan lifted Lu Yilin with telekinesis and attacked him, while Nan Jue, Jiang Yu, and Zhao Manyan urged him to spare Lu Yilin and let the team handle the matter.
• Mo Fan hurled Lu Yilin toward Gobi Valley, but Tang Miao stopped him after Mu Ningxue asked him to reconsider.
• Ai Jiangtu intervened, warned Lu Yilin to stop denying his actions, and ordered Jiang Yu to keep watch over him as the team resumed its journey.
• Nan Jue reported that the team was nearing the Ruined Ancient City and that the Wind and Lightning elemental reactions were growing stronger.
• Zhao Manyan spotted a towering black-gray tornado threaded with purple-gold lightning rising ahead in the wilderness of western Peru.

The group approached the dangerous lightning storm over Ruins City after Tang Miao’s attempt to sneak into the women’s tent failed. Before they reached the storm, Tang Miao traded a valuable crystal to Zhao Manyan for help obtaining a Star Seed control tool, while Zu Jiming urged the group to turn back.

• The group camped near Ruins City, and Tang Miao tried to sneak into the women’s tent but fled when he realized it was Nan Jue’s.
• Jiang Shaoxu guessed that an intruder had come looking to cop a feel, while Nan Jue left the tent to search for him.
• Tang Miao showed Zhao Manyan a rare crystal from Gobi Valley and asked him to obtain a tool to help control Star Seeds.
• The group set out toward the lightning storm, and Zu Jiming suggested they leave before reaching it.
• Jiang Shaoxu mocked Zu Jiming for acting like a coward, and he ignored her.

After finding little of value in the ruins, the group was attacked by a huge flock of strange birds and fled into the deadly lightning storm. Tang Miao discovered that the storm’s lightning and wind posed little threat to him as the birds pursued them to its edge.

• The group searched the ruins for nearly half a day, found almost nothing, and decided to rest before considering a return.
• Strange birds with green bodies and blue wings appeared in vast numbers and surrounded the group.
• Zhao Manyan explained that the birds had been pursuing the team since they entered a forbidden zone in Peru a month earlier.
• Ai Jiangtu urged the group to escape the birds by entering the lightning storm, and everyone ran inside.
• Lightning and cutting winds struck the group, but Tang Miao easily withstood them while the strange birds followed.

Tang Miao realized the green birds chasing the group were soulless puppets and suspected a forbidden technique had drawn them to Nazca. The group sheltered in the lightning storm and planned to seek answers at Peru's National Pavilion, while Lu Yilin laughed at the prospect of everyone dying.

• Ai Jiangtu led the group into the storm as they fought off the green birds, and Nan Jue tried to keep them in formation.
• Tang Miao discovered the birds had no souls and urged everyone to conserve magic and retreat deeper into the storm.
• The group blamed Jiang Yu for leading them into danger, but Tang Miao proposed that a forbidden technique had unleashed the puppet birds in search of someone or something.
• Zhao Manyan recalled ignoring an old man's warning and entering Nazca's forbidden territory, so Tang Miao suggested asking Peru's National Pavilion about recent attacks.
• Lu Yilin laughed that the group would die with him, and Mo Fan moved to drag him outside before Tang Miao stopped him.

Tang Miao followed the glowing bead into the lightning storm with Jiang Shaoxu and Nan Jue, discovering an ancient lightning restriction hidden inside. As Nan Jue prepared to decipher it, Tang Miao enclosed them in an Ice Crystal Prison to protect them and give her room to work.

• Tang Miao set out to investigate the bead’s direction, and Jiang Shaoxu and Nan Jue went with him while the rest of the group waited.
• Tang Miao shielded the women from the storm’s lightning as they advanced toward a dense barrier of yellow lightning.
• Nan Jue recognized the lightning as an ancient magical restriction and agreed to examine it.
• Tang Miao drew an Ice Element Star Constellation and created an Ice Crystal Prison around the three of them so Nan Jue could work in safety.

Tang Miao, Jiang Shaoxu, and Nan Jue tried to cross a barrier of yellow lightning, with Tang Miao enduring the strikes while Nan Jue searched for a safe path. They continued through a less dangerous stretch, though stronger lightning and wind blades still lay ahead.

• Tang Miao teased and kissed Jiang Shaoxu while Nan Jue worked to break the lightning barrier, and Jiang Shaoxu demanded that he marry her to make him stop.
• Nan Jue failed to break the barrier completely, so Tang Miao raised Ice Walls and followed her plan to force their way through.
• Yellow lightning shattered the Ice Walls and struck Tang Miao, who drew it into himself and reassured Jiang Shaoxu that his Soul Thunder protected him.
• Nan Jue chose a route to the left, and she teased Jiang Shaoxu about caring for Tang Miao despite calling him a bastard.
• The three continued along Nan Jue's route as the lightning weakened, while Tang Miao restored the Ice Walls when bolts struck them.

Tang Miao, Nan Jue, and Jiang Shaoxu discovered a preserved city inside the storm and explored its ancient streets. Tang Miao followed the bead to a fountain, where it absorbed some strange energy before he bottled the rest.

• Nan Jue, Tang Miao, and Jiang Shaoxu passed through the restriction and found a flower-filled landscape with a vivid city beyond it.
• Tang Miao identified the hidden space as a likely entrance to a treasure site, and the three entered the city.
• Jiang Shaoxu explained the history and uses of the rare Li Fan Flower as she searched the city for any surviving specimens.
• Tang Miao followed the bead's directions to a fountain and smashed the statue at its center, revealing a pool of luminous energy.
• The bead absorbed about a third of the energy, and Tang Miao collected the remainder in a bottle for Contract Beasts.

After leaving the small city, Tang Miao and the others traveled to Peru’s Royal Felipe Castle to investigate reports of strange birds. General Mott showed them the birds massing over the northern coast and blamed them for provoking the Nazca Ancient Beast.

• Tang Miao, Jiang Shaoxu, and Nan Jue left the small city after finding what they had sought, unaware that yellow eyes watched them from above.
• Ai Jiangtu reported that the strange birds had apparently left, and the team returned to their resting place with Lu Yilin in custody.
• Ai Jiangtu handed Lu Yilin over to the instructors, then led the team to Royal Felipe Castle to ask whether strange birds had attacked nearby cities.
• Osto welcomed the team, but General Mott arrived and ordered them to the watchtower, accusing them of bringing trouble to Peru.
• General Mott pointed out a vast emerald-blue cloud mass on the northern horizon, and the team recognized the strange birds approaching.

Tang Miao and the National Team were forced to leave a military stronghold as a vast flock of monster birds approached. They reached an old seaside fortress for shelter, but knew it could only delay the danger.

• General Mott ordered the National Team out of the city and threatened to kill them if they refused.
• Nan Jue challenged Mott, while Jiang Shaoxu warned him not to provoke the forces backing Huaxia.
• Osto urged the team to flee south to an old fortress and investigate how they had angered the Nazca Ancient Beast.
• Zu Jiming initially refused to leave, then followed the others after seeing Mott's murderous expression.
• Tang Miao summoned Flame Ji, and the group raced along the coast until they reached the old fortress by the cliffs.

The team took shelter in Sea Cliff Ancient Castle while Nan Jue tried to restore its barrier, and Tang Miao asked everyone to hold off the strange birds for ten minutes. When Little Flame Ji still had not evolved, Tang Miao fought the birds alone until a world-destroying flame erupted from the castle.

• Nan Jue found a barrier in Sea Cliff Ancient Castle, and Ai Jiangtu assigned everyone to defend it while she worked to restore it.
• Tang Miao asked the team to hold off the birds for ten minutes, then warned Zu Jiming after he accused him of planning to flee.
• Tang Miao waited with Little Flame Ji, but she showed no signs of evolving even after nine minutes had passed.
• At Royal Felipe Castle, General Mott and Osto discussed the birds and the team's chances of survival as a powerful aura appeared in the distance.
• After the team held out for ten minutes and rested, Tang Miao went out alone and used magic to keep the birds from breaking through.
• Little Flame Ji still did not change, but a world-destroying flame suddenly shot into the sky from inside the castle.

Flame Ji evolved into a Supreme Monarch and wiped out the monster bird army, leaving the national team stunned. After the temporary effects of the Liquid of Time faded, she returned to her little-girl form and told Tang Miao that he needed to raise his Fire Element to Advanced Level Two for her to advance again.

• Flame Ji revealed her mature Supreme Monarch form, and Tang Miao sent her to attack the monster birds.
• Flame Ji burned more than a thousand birds with a fire lotus, then used her Space Element to drag others into a vortex of fire.
• Flame Ji transformed into a giant bird of flame and destroyed the remaining monster birds in less than a minute.
• Flame Ji returned to Tang Miao and affectionately embraced Mu Nujiao, while Tang Miao and the exhausted team rested.
• Half a day later, the Liquid of Time wore off and Flame Ji reverted to a little girl, then indicated that Tang Miao had to raise his Fire Element to Advanced Level Two for her to advance.

The National Team returned to Royal Felipe Castle to confront General Mott and collect Peru’s National Pavilion Chapter. Mott and other officers were dismissed, then received news that Demon Beast hordes had attacked several cities and surrounded Yalie Mine.

• Ai Jiangtu and the National Team confronted General Mott over driving them out and leaving them without help.
• Jiang Shaoxu warned Mott he would lose his post, while Ai Jiangtu said they had come to collect their things.
• Osto brought out Peru’s National Pavilion Chapter, and Ai Jiangtu crushed it and threw it at Mott’s feet.
• A military messenger delivered a document dismissing General Mott and the Black female staff officer.
• Another messenger reported Demon Beast attacks across several southwestern cities and a horde trapping thousands of miners at Yalie Mine.

After General Mott’s decision drove Huaxia’s soldiers away from Peru’s mines, the Nazca monsters besieged Yalie Mine and trapped thousands of people. Tang Miao agreed to help end the crisis in exchange for doubled National Team resources, a Mind Element necklace, and information about a person, then set out with Jiang Shaoxu for a mine.

• General Mott learned that the Huaxia soldiers had withdrawn and that attacks on the mines had caused many casualties, including a siege at Yalie Mine.
• Tang Miao refused Osto’s initial pleas for help, explaining that the monsters would stop once they recovered what had been stolen from them.
• Jiang Shaoxu urged Tang Miao to help, and Osto offered her a necklace that enhanced Mind Element Magic.
• Tang Miao agreed to help in exchange for twice the resources allocated to each National Team member, the necklace, and information about one person.
• After Osto accepted the terms, Tang Miao took the information and left the castle with Jiang Shaoxu and escorts for the mine where the uncle was staying.

Tang Miao persuaded General Motte to bet half the Yalie Mine on his ability to stop the Strange Apes, then led Jiang Shaoxu into the horde. He killed a Golden-Tailed Strange Ape, causing the attacking apes to vanish, while Jiang Shaoxu watched in shock.

• At the Yalie Mine, General Motte struggled to rescue trapped workers as the Strange Apes multiplied and overwhelmed his troops.
• Tang Miao arrived with Jiang Shaoxu, proposed a diversion, and bet that he could resolve the crisis in exchange for half the mine.
• General Motte accepted Tang Miao’s offer after his staff officer pointed out the value of Huaxia’s free protection.
• Jiang Shaoxu worried that Tang Miao was leading her into danger, but he told her to rest until nightfall.
• Motte’s troops drew the apes’ attention while Tang Miao and Jiang Shaoxu entered the back mountains.
• Tang Miao used Mind Control to identify and kill a Golden-Tailed Strange Ape, and the horde vanished into smoke.

Tang Miao and Jiang Shaoxu exploited the Nasca demon beasts’ weakness to rescue the Yalie Mine workers and recover the Nazca Gem. After returning the Eye of the Nazca Strange Bird, they ended the disaster and collected their promised rewards.

• Tang Miao and Jiang Shaoxu discovered that killing demon beasts with special tail feathers made the creatures they had created disappear, then fought through the horde toward the mine.
• Tang Miao forced the mine mages to open the barrier, ordered them to find Shelton, and captured him when he tried to flee.
• Tang Miao’s search party found the Nazca Gem hidden in a hollow rock, and he left Shelton behind as bait while he and Jiang Shaoxu escaped.
• Tang Miao returned the Eye of the Nazca Strange Bird, ending the disaster and allowing the Yalie Mine workers to emerge safely.
• Tang Miao gave Ai Jiangtu seven parts of the proceeds and kept three, while Osto exchanged the remaining resources for Tang Miao’s requested items and gave Jiang Shaoxu her promised magic item.

After leaving Peru, Tang Miao’s team traveled overland toward Mexico while discussing the dangers along the route and the Amazon. Tang Miao gave Mu Ningxue Ice Element resources and kissed her, and the chapter left the team passing through villages where Zhao Manyan wondered why so few women were around.

• The team left Peru for Mexico, and the instructors required them to cross the countries between them on foot while Mo Fan, Zhao Manyan, and Mu Nujiao joined the official team members.
• Zhao Manyan, Jiang Yu, and Nan Jue discussed the Caribbean route, notorious thieves, and the dangers of the Amazon as the team traveled through Colombia.
• Tang Miao brought Mu Ningxue behind a rock and offered her Ice Element resources, then kissed her when she tried to refuse.
• Mu Ningxue accepted the resources and returned to the team, while Tang Miao followed a few minutes later.
• As the team passed through tropical villages, Zhao Manyan wondered why they had seen so few women.

Tang Miao turned back toward Vanilla Village after his bead began glowing, while Jiang Shaoxu joined him despite Ai Jiangtu’s orders to keep moving. They slipped past the village entrance, where several guardian mages watched over the festival preparations.

• The National Team reached the beautiful coastal Vanilla Village, but an ornament-covered woman told them travelers could not enter during its festival.
• Ai Jiangtu led the team onward, while Tang Miao said he would catch up in town and Jiang Shaoxu insisted on going back with him.
• Zhao Manyan turned back to flirt with the woman guarding the entrance, while Ai Jiangtu and the others continued toward town.
• Tang Miao explained that his bead was glowing, and he and Jiang Shaoxu used Zhao Manyan’s distraction to sneak up the slope.
• Jiang Shaoxu noticed the village had several guardian mages as she and Tang Miao continued toward its densely packed houses.

Tang Miao and Jiang Shaoxu entered a village where a band of mages was extorting the villagers, but Tang Miao refused to intervene while Jiang Shaoxu wanted to help. The bandits still faced no opposition from the pair when the chapter ended.

• Jiang Shaoxu mistook Tang Miao’s reason for visiting the village as a romantic gesture, and Tang Miao changed the subject by asking about Consort’s Fragrant Grass.
• Tang Miao and Jiang Shaoxu entered the village and saw hundreds of villagers surrounded by dozens of seasoned mages.
• Xige told the Village Chief that the villagers could buy back their people, homes, land, and grass, and a young woman spat at him.
• Jiang Shaoxu explained that the group were bandits and urged Tang Miao to call Ai Jiangtu and the others to drive them out.
• Tang Miao refused to get involved, arguing that they could not protect the village from future retaliation, while Jiang Shaoxu remained angry about the villagers’ plight.

Tang Miao and Jiang Shaoxu confronted Xige and the Red Ornament Guild to protect the villagers, then overwhelmed the bandits with their magic. As stronger enemies approached from the mountain path, Tang Miao remained ready to fight.

• Jiang Shaoxu urged Tang Miao to help the villagers, and he agreed on the condition that she follow his orders.
• Tang Miao struck Xige with lightning and froze many Red Ornament Guild bandits with Ice Vine.
• Xige threatened the villagers and had one killed, but Tang Miao continued attacking while Jiang Shaoxu interfered with the enemies’ magic.
• Tang Miao and Jiang Shaoxu defeated more than fifty bandits, leaving Xige and a few Intermediate Mages alive.
• Jiang Shaoxu warned Tang Miao that stronger guards were approaching from the mountain path, and he prepared to face them.

Tang Miao’s group defeated Oni’s bandits, then followed the bead’s signal to a fountain in the rear mountain. The bead absorbed another portion of its energy, while the Kirin Jade began drawing in the fountain’s water, leaving Tang Miao wondering whether a Huaxia totem was nearby.

• Zhao Manyan mistook the bandits for villains attacking Vanilla Village, and Tang Miao corrected him before Oni attacked him.
• Tang Miao unleashed a thunderstorm that destroyed the bandits, while Oni escaped down the mountain.
• Jiang Shaoxu told Tang Miao that the bandits had bounties on them, but he had already killed them all and continued toward the rear mountain.
• Tang Miao found a fountain among the vanilla and placed the bead above it, allowing it to absorb another third of its energy.
• Tang Miao placed the Kirin Jade at the fountain and watched it draw in the water, prompting him to wonder whether a Huaxia totem was there.