Chapter Summaries

Tang Miao absorbed the energy from the Kirin Jade and broke through to the Advanced Level in the Shadow Element. After Mu Ningxue returned, their private moment was interrupted by Mu Nujiao, and Tang Miao demanded to know what he meant to Mu Ningxue.

• Tang Miao concealed that collecting the Kirin Jade made the fountain vanish and caused the surrounding herbs to wither, then left with Jiang Shaoxu and Zhao Manyan.
• The three followed Nan Jue’s marks to their seaside lodging, where Tang Miao learned that Mu Ningxue’s room was beside his.
• Tang Miao used the Kirin Jade’s energy to break through the Shadow Element’s Nebula barrier while meditating in Mu Ningxue’s room.
• Mu Ningxue returned, noticed Tang Miao’s breakthrough, and tried to leave, but Tang Miao stopped her and drew her close.
• Mu Nujiao knocked and called for Tang Miao, prompting Mu Ningxue to tell him to go; Tang Miao pressed her for an answer about his place in her heart.

Tang Miao reunited with Mu Ningxue, then spent a week cultivating in Blue Stone Town before learning that the national team would hunt the Red Ornament Guild for a rare Dark Duke Cloak. The mission would involve Japan and India, and Tang Miao became interested in the prize.

• Tang Miao pressed Mu Ningxue to say what he meant to her, accepted her answer, and left her room after telling her he believed her.
• Tang Miao spent the night unable to find Mu Nujiao, then reported to her the next morning and cultivated more than seventy Shadow Element Star Seeds over the following week.
• Tang Miao ran into Nan Jue as she gathered the team, and she told him that their new training mission was to capture the Red Ornament Guild.
• Nan Jue explained that the mission’s reward was the Dark Duke Cloak and that the Japanese and Indian national teams would join them in the hunt.
• Tang Miao became interested in the cloak’s value as a rare Shadow Element support tool, while Guan Yu continued to pursue Mu Ningxue.

Nan Jue explained the Red Ornament Guild’s strength as the teams waited for the Japanese and Indian National Teams to arrive in Blue Stone Town. At Seagull Park, Tang Miao and his friends argued with Ming Busong over their remarks about a Japanese student, and Tang Miao pulled Jiang Shaoxu into his arms as Ming Busong tried to flirt with her.

• Nan Jue warned that the Red Ornament Guild was a powerful mage organization, while Jiang Shaoxu dismissed it as unimpressive after seeing Tang Miao defeat some members.
• The Japanese and Indian National Teams arrived in Blue Stone Town and met the Chinese team at Seagull Park.
• Tang Miao, Mo Fan, and Zhao Manyan commented on a Japanese student’s appearance, and Ming Busong scolded them.
• Tang Miao and Zhao Manyan challenged Ming Busong, while the Japanese student said the comments had caused no harm.
• Ming Busong turned to flirt with Jiang Shaoxu, but Tang Miao pulled her into his arms.

Tang Miao publicly claimed Jiang Shaoxu and kissed her after she explained she had only flirted with the other teams for fun. The teams then discussed joining forces against the Red Ornament Guild, but Tang Miao rejected the Japanese team’s demand to claim the Dark Duke Cloak in exchange for its intel.

• Tang Miao embraced Jiang Shaoxu and taunted Ming Busong, who threatened to make him regret it at the National Prefecture Competition before being led away.
• Jiang Shaoxu questioned Tang Miao’s intentions, and he kissed her; she then clung to him and explained that her flirting with the other teams had meant nothing.
• Mu Ningxue and Mu Nujiao arrived and saw Jiang Shaoxu holding Tang Miao’s arm, while Mu Nujiao grew angry at his behavior.
• Nan Jue and the team representatives discussed the mission, and Shao He Gu offered Japanese intel and leadership in exchange for support from China and India.
• Ming Busong demanded that the Japanese team receive the Dark Duke Cloak for providing the intel, but Tang Miao argued that the treasure should go to whoever had the strength to claim it.

Tang Miao agreed that the Huaxia team would lead the operation against the Red Ornament Guild, despite Ai Jiangtu and Nan Jue’s concerns. As the teams prepared to leave after nightfall, the Japanese team’s advance knowledge raised suspicions, while Tang Miao returned to cultivating.

• Tang Miao agreed to let the Huaxia team lead the Red Ornament Guild mission, and Shao He Gu privately reassured Scheming Bitch that the Japanese team would still get the item.
• Nan Jue and Ai Jiangtu suspected the Japanese team had known about the mission before the others, and Ai Jiangtu asked Tang Miao if he could handle the Red Ornament Guild.
• Tang Miao said he was unsure but knew others would also take action, while Flame Ji remained asleep after absorbing his remaining power.
• Jiang Shaoxu invited Tang Miao to explore Blue Stone Town, but he went back to rest, so she went shopping with Mu Tingying instead.
• Zhao Manyan dragged Mo Fan away to find an interesting place in town, while Tang Miao found Mu Ningxue with Mu Nujiao and returned to his room to cultivate.

Tang Miao searched for Jiang Shaoxu after she went missing and followed her painted distress signals to a ruined residential complex. He rescued her from Oni and the Red Ornament Guild, killing Oni and devastating the attackers.

• Nan Jue noticed Jiang Shaoxu was missing, and Tang Miao left the group to search for her.
• Tang Miao found a painter controlled by Jiang Shaoxu, who had painted arrows and the number 95 as distress signals.
• Tang Miao followed the signals to a ruined complex, where Oni and Red Ornament Guild mages were attacking Jiang Shaoxu inside a triangular water mirror.
• Tang Miao killed several attackers with lightning and fire magic, then pinned Oni with a Giant Shadow Nail.
• Tang Miao struck Oni with Silent Thunder Death Ray, reducing her to ashes while the attack grievously injured the fleeing Red Ornament Guild mages.

Tang Miao rescued Jiang Shaoxu from the bandits, then hurried with her toward Baitou Port after she warned that the Red Ornament Guild might pose a greater threat than they expected. At the port, Mayor Lauren’s forces blocked the national team from attacking the guild, claiming its members had been recruited as Military Mages.

• Tang Miao killed Oni and more than thirty bandits, then checked Jiang Shaoxu for injuries.
• Jiang Shaoxu urged Tang Miao to meet the main group at Baitou Port because she had overheard troubling talk about the Red Ornament Guild.
• Shao He Gu led the young Mages toward the Red Ornament Guild’s ship, but Mayor Lauren’s blue-uniformed troops blocked the routes.
• Shao He Gu told Mayor Lauren that the team had come under the Temple of Freedom’s orders to destroy the guild, but Lauren ordered them to leave.
• Nan Jue accused the government of cooperating with the guild, and Lauren said its members had been recruited as Baitou City Military Mages.
• Ai Jiangtu challenged Lauren’s claim, pointing out that the guild members were notorious criminals.

Tang Miao defied Mayor Lauren’s order to leave and attacked him after the mayor refused to move against the Red Ornament Guild. He forced the government soldiers aside with his lightning magic and continued toward Baitou Port, while other National Team members followed.

• Mayor Lauren defended his decision to cooperate with the Red Ornament Guild and ordered the National Team to leave, threatening to arrest them if they used magic.
• Nan Jue and Shao He Gu urged Mayor Lauren to oppose the guild, but he refused and defended the city’s need for protection from Sea Monsters.
• Tang Miao punched Mayor Lauren, declared that he would wipe out the Red Ornament Guild, and headed toward Baitou Port.
• Mayor Lauren ordered his soldiers to surround Tang Miao, who gathered a threatening storm of lightning above them.
• Tang Miao warned the soldiers to get out of his way, and they stepped aside as he strode past.
• Several National Team members moved toward Tang Miao, angering Mayor Lauren further.

Tang Miao reached Kaso’s ship while the National Teams fought their way through the soldiers at the harbor. As Kaso ordered his men to attack, Tang Miao unleashed a lightning domain across the vessel, and two hidden observers held back to see what would happen.

• Mayor Lauren ordered the soldiers to stop the National Teams, so Ai Jiangtu and Nan Jue led them into a fight with the troops.
• Kaso laughed at the fighting and admitted that he planned to loot Baitou City and abandon the battle against the Sea Monsters.
• Tang Miao used space magic to appear on Kaso’s ship, while the National Teams arrived at the harbor below.
• Kaso dismissed Tang Miao as a young intruder and ordered his subordinates to capture him.
• A woman in black and gold and a man communicating with her decided to wait when they saw Tang Miao spread a powerful lightning domain over the ship.

Tang Miao fought Kaso, the Red Ornament Guild leader, aboard the ship and overwhelmed him with lightning, ice, fire, and spatial magic. The chapter ended with Kaso trapped under Tang Miao’s spatial compression as his subordinates fled or lay injured.

• Kaso attacked Tang Miao with sand magic while his subordinates prepared to join the fight, but Tang Miao defended himself with Ice Wall.
• Tang Miao unleashed a Thunderstorm that injured Kaso and his subordinates, stunning the hidden Temple members.
• Kaso transformed his body and surrounded Tang Miao with windblown sand, preventing the lightning from reaching him.
• Kaso vanished and charged at Tang Miao, but an automatic Ice Wall blocked him, allowing Tang Miao to strike him with Fierce Fist—Nine Jiao.
• Tang Miao used Spatial Rhythm—Compression to restrict Kaso, while pirates below began fleeing after many were killed or injured.

Mo Fan killed Kaso and helped the Military Mages capture the Red Ornament Guild, while Mayor Lauren abandoned his alliance with the bandits. After Mo Fan secured a promise of a bounty and a recommendation, the team continued to Bang'ersa City with its lineup unchanged.

• Kaso attacked Mo Fan with a Wind Disk, but Mo Fan swallowed the tornado with a spatial rift and burned Kaso to ashes with Sky Flame Funeral.
• The fleeing Red Ornament Guild members were captured by the Military Mages, and Mayor Lauren realized Mo Fan had defeated the bandits.
• Temple Mage Aoluna played a recording revealing Kaso planned to abandon the city, and Mayor Lauren vowed to eliminate the remaining guild members.
• Mo Fan asked Aoluna for a bounty, and she promised to apply for it and report his actions to the International National Team Tournament organizers.
• Mo Fan reunited with Mu Nujiao and the others, and the team arrived in Bang'ersa City with no changes to its lineup.

Tang Miao and the Chinese National Team collected Mexico’s National Emblem and traveled to New York to challenge the United States’ National Pavilion. At Temple of Freedom, they met Aoluna and her brother Feiluomu, while Jiang Shaoxu made her possessiveness toward Tang Miao clear.

• Feng Li gave Tang Miao his Dark Duke Cloak and scolded him for attacking the mayor and acting impulsively.
• Tang Miao and the team easily obtained Mexico’s National Emblem and headed for the United States.
• The team arrived at Liberty Island, admired the goddess statue, and learned that visitors could not enter Temple of Freedom.
• Aoluna welcomed the Chinese National Team and offered to show them the American National Pavilion.
• Tang Miao flirted with Aoluna, provoking her brother Feiluomu, and Jiang Shaoxu joined them by linking arms with Tang Miao.

Tang Miao and Jiang Shaoxu argued over his flirting with Aoluna, and Jiang Shaoxu bit his arm until he surrendered. After the pair rejoined the team, Tang Miao noticed Mo Fan and Guan Yu trying to get Mu Ningxue’s attention while she remained distant.

• Tang Miao told Jiang Shaoxu he wanted personal space, and she accused him of flirting with Aoluna and insulted her.
• Aoluna led the national team toward the National Pavilion while Tang Miao and Jiang Shaoxu stayed behind to argue.
• Jiang Shaoxu bit Tang Miao’s arm until it bled, then let go after he apologized and surrendered.
• Tang Miao and Jiang Shaoxu caught up with the group, and Jiang Shaoxu fussed over his injured arm.
• Mo Fan and Guan Yu tried to get Mu Ningxue’s attention, but she remained cold toward both of them.

The Huaxia National Team arrived at the American National Pavilion and found that every country listed on its challenge board had lost, including Huaxia, which Feiluomu claimed had been marked down in advance. After Feiluomu mocked them and Tang Miao challenged the American team to a bet, pavilion captain Boblin prepared to test the Huaxia Team.

• Jiang Shaoxu noticed the challenge board, and the team discovered that every country's record showed a loss.
• Feiluomu said the Huaxia Team's defeat had been entered in advance because the captain expected the same result.
• Nan Jue and Ai Jiangtu objected to Feiluomu's contempt, and Tang Miao offered to fight the whole American team while holding back two elements.
• Aoluna stopped Feiluomu from accepting Tang Miao's bet and led the Huaxia Team to meet the pavilion guardians.
• Boblin heard Feiluomu's account of Tang Miao's boast and proposed starting the challenge, believing Huaxia's recent victory over the Red Ornament Guild had been luck.

Tang Miao provoked the Red Ornament Guild’s National Pavilion and challenged five of its members alone. The match began with Aoluna refereeing, while the Huaxia team watched without sending anyone to help.

• Tang Miao ignored Boblin’s warning and declared that he would face the entire team alone.
• Aoluna offered to have a drink with Tang Miao if he spared her brother, and Tang Miao agreed while Jiang Shaoxu reacted jealously.
• Tang Miao taunted the pavilion guards, and Boblin selected Feiluomu, Wangchi, Linda, and Bolis to fight him.
• Ai Jiangtu and Nan Jue declined Boblin’s invitation to send another fighter.
• Aoluna started the five-against-one match as Tang Miao faced the four selected team members and Boblin.

Tang Miao overwhelmed the American pavilion defenders, enduring their strongest attacks before turning the fight around with his Shadow Element and summoned beast. Aoluna stopped the match after the defenders realized they could not overcome him.

• Feiluomu and the other defenders attacked Tang Miao, but his Ice Element Domain erased their first strike and repaired the cracks in his Ice Wall.
• Boblin ordered the team to stop holding back, and Wangchi charged Tang Miao while the others prepared High-level Magic.
• Tang Miao used Ice Crystal Prison to withstand the defenders' combined High-level spells, though the barrage consumed much of his Ice Element mana.
• Tang Miao unleashed Night Dominion and summoned Little Black, whose Great Commander-level presence terrified the defenders.
• Aoluna ended the match and told Feiluomu and the others to leave the field because Tang Miao had outmatched them.

Tang Miao defeated the American National Pavilion team, earned its medal, and took Aoluna out around New York. Their flirtatious date was interrupted by a hailstorm and an attack aimed at Tang Miao, leaving them under threat.

• Boblin admitted defeat after Tang Miao broke the American National Pavilion's undefeated record, and Aoluna presented Tang Miao with a medal.
• Jiang Shaoxu took the girls out, while Tang Miao left with Aoluna and angered Feiluomu by taking his sister away.
• Tang Miao flirted with Aoluna as she showed him New York, and she teased him about being a playboy and his connection to a young girl.
• A sudden hailstorm battered the streets, and Tang Miao shielded Aoluna with an ice barrier as people fled for cover.
• An unseen attacker sent Ice Cones toward Tang Miao, who used Space Magic to neutralize them.

Tang Miao and Aoluna fought a powerful Blue-Robed Deacon who attacked them with ice magic, while Tang Miao countered with fire, lightning, and spatial magic. The Deacon’s attacks were neutralized, but he resolved that Tang Miao could not be allowed to live.

• The Blue-Robed Deacon unleashed an ice-spike forest at Tang Miao and Aoluna, and Tang Miao shattered the spikes with his Soul Fire.
• Aoluna attacked with High-level Light Element Magic, but the Deacon blocked it with an Ice Wall and used reflective walls to create illusory copies of himself.
• Tang Miao formed a Lightning Element domain and blasted the Ice Walls with Silent Thunder Death Ray, while Aoluna warned him about the danger to nearby people.
• The Deacon launched spiked ice chains at Tang Miao and Aoluna, but Tang Miao tossed Aoluna aside, escaped with spatial magic, and struck the Deacon with Fierce Fist: Nine Jiao.
• The Deacon unleashed a widening storm of ice blades, but Tang Miao’s lightning clashed with and neutralized the attack, prompting the Deacon to decide he had to kill Tang Miao.

Tang Miao survived an assassination attempt by a Black Vatican executioner, who escaped after a Temple Mage arrived. He returned to the national team’s lodgings and told the girls what had happened, leaving them concerned about his safety.

• Tang Miao broke free of the executioner’s Ice Coffin with Flame Ji’s power and the Calamity Flame and Azure Phoenix Flame.
• A purple-wind Temple Mage arrived, and the executioner withdrew after warning Tang Miao that he would kill him later.
• The Temple Mage and Aoluna identified the attacker as a likely Black Vatican executioner and warned Tang Miao he might strike again.
• Tang Miao declined the Temple Mages’ invitation and left while Aoluna and the others stayed to help the wounded and contain news of the attack.
• Tang Miao returned to the national team’s lodgings and told Jiang Shaoxu, Mu Nujiao, and Mu Ningxue that a Black Vatican executioner had attacked him.
• Jiang Shaoxu checked Tang Miao for injuries as Mu Nujiao and Mu Ningxue showed concern.

Tang Miao reassured his companions after his clash with the Black Vatican executioner, then spent time with Mu Ningxue before the executioner attacked him again. Tang Miao met the attack with his Ice and Lightning domains, and the chapter ended as his lightning blade struck at the executioner’s Ice Phoenix.

• Tang Miao told the others he could have defeated the executioner, then returned to his room and spoke with Mu Nujiao, who insisted they were over.
• The next day, Tang Miao declined Jiang Shaoxu’s invitation and took Mu Ningxue out, where they grew closer and discussed why the Black Vatican had targeted him.
• The executioner appeared across the street, and Tang Miao used his Ice Element domain and the Snow Woman’s power to contest the executioner’s control of the ice.
• Tang Miao used Instantaneous Movement to attack with a lightning blade, shattering the executioner’s Ice Wall.
• The executioner summoned an Ice Phoenix that froze the surrounding buildings, and Tang Miao swung his enlarged lightning blade at it.