Chapter Summaries

Tang Miao’s accumulated lightning and Mu Ningxue’s domains wiped out the Egypt Team’s Undead and revealed their dependence on Pharaoh’s Spring. Huaxia won the match, leaving Tang Miao with the stolen supply and the Egypt Team unable to expose what they had done.

• Tang Miao’s lightning domain destroyed the Undead while he and the Kirin absorbed the Pharaoh’s Spring.
• Said and Mios realized Tang Miao was stealing the Pharaoh’s Spring, and the Egypt Team tried to recall its Commander Level Undead.
• Tang Miao’s attacks broke through the Egypt Team’s defenses and knocked out its members, while Ai Jiangtu and the others defeated the Commander Level Undead.
• Nefru surrendered, then passed out after the Egypt Team’s substitutes entered and surrendered the match.
• Tang Miao collected the Pharaoh’s Spring, and Huaxia’s officials celebrated the victory and its increased competition rewards.

Tang Miao used the Pharaoh's Spring to advance his Lightning Element to High Level, Level Three while the competition's fourth round revealed Greece's powerful new mage, Asha Ruiya. He emerged from seclusion with only two days before the championship match and found his teammates worried about Greece, while Jiang Shaoxu questioned how he knew Asha Ruiya's name.

• Tang Miao attended Shao Zheng's celebratory banquet after the first three competition rounds, then entered seclusion inside the Kirin Jade to absorb the Pharaoh's Spring.
• Greece's team overwhelmed the United States Team with Asha Ruiya's Space Element magic, and Egypt surrendered during the three-way battle for third place.
• Asha Ruiya displayed power approaching the Super Level in Greece's match against the United Kingdom, while Zhe Luo also broke through his limit.
• Tang Miao broke through to High Level, Level Three in the Lightning Element, greatly increasing his magic's power and casting speed.
• Tang Miao left seclusion two days before the championship match, and Zhao Manyan told him Greece had a formidable new mage.
• Tang Miao identified the mage as Asha Ruiya, prompting Jiang Shaoxu to suspect he was familiar with her.

Tang Miao admitted that he knew Asha Ruiya, then reassured a jealous Jiang Shaoxu before the world tournament’s final opened in Venice. Huaxia sent Ai Jiangtu, Nan Jue, Mo Fan, Jiang Shaoxu, and Zhao Manyan to face Greece, leaving Tang Miao off the starting lineup.

• Tang Miao told Shao Zheng that he had teamed up with Asha Ruiya during the Ancient Capital Cataclysm and warned that she possessed powerful magic equipment.
• Feng Li and the instructors discussed Huaxia’s lineup while Jiang Shaoxu took Tang Miao shopping and spent the night with him.
• Jiang Shaoxu questioned Tang Miao about Asha Ruiya, and he insisted their relationship was only friendship before she fell asleep.
• Several days later, Venice opened the final on a protected island arena surrounded by ships and fireworks.
• Ai Jiangtu led Huaxia’s starting lineup of Nan Jue, Mo Fan, Jiang Shaoxu, and Zhao Manyan against Asha Ruiya and the Greek team, while Tang Miao remained on the sidelines.

Mo Fan and Ai Jiangtu opened the match with a coordinated attack, but Asha Ruiya trapped them while the Greek team pressured Zhao Manyan, Nan Jue, and Jiang Shaoxu. The Huaxia team fell behind as Tang Miao remained on the bench, insisting the match was not over.

• Zhao Manyan raised an Earth Wall Castle while Nan Jue listened for the Greeks and Mo Fan prepared a Lightning attack.
• Ai Jiangtu teleported Mo Fan beside the Greek team, whose defenses absorbed the first strike before Mo Fan unleashed a powerful Rushing Thunderstorm and followed it with fire magic.
• Asha Ruiya used Dark Night Prison to trap Mo Fan and Ai Jiangtu, then sent Gamonon and the others to attack Zhao Manyan, Nan Jue, and Jiang Shaoxu.
• Gamonon's Poison Element and the Greek team's attacks pushed the three Huaxia mages onto the defensive, leaving the Huaxia team at a disadvantage.
• Han Ji criticized Feng Li for leaving Tang Miao out of the lineup, but Tang Miao said he was not confident he could defeat the Greeks alone and urged everyone to keep watching.
• Feng Li watched anxiously as the battle continued to turn against the Huaxia team.

Mo Fan escaped Asha Ruiya’s control and blasted Gamonon out of the arena, giving the Huaxia Team a chance to counterattack. Asha Ruiya joined the fight with a Dark Knight and Shadow creatures, leaving the teams battling in darkness.

• Mo Fan appeared behind Gamonon and used Flame Dragon to blast him out of the arena.
• Nan Jue urged the Huaxia Team to attack, and Jiang Shaoxu’s Psychic Tide disrupted the Greek team’s Mind Mage while Mo Fan and the others struck their opponents.
• Caloos and two teammates retreated toward Asha Ruiya as Zhao Manyan raised earthen pillars to block their path, but Caloos cleared the way with a Fire Python.
• Mo Fan tried to stop the fleeing Greek team members with Spatial Gravity, but their Mind Mage disrupted his spell.
• Asha Ruiya summoned a Dark Knight and spread a Shadow domain, trapping the Huaxia Team in darkness as Mo Fan and Nan Jue warned them of an attack from the left.

Asha Ruiya’s dark ambush badly injured Huaxia’s team, but Ai Jiangtu and Tang Miao helped them escape the Greek team’s attacks. Huaxia sent in substitutes, and Asha Ruiya pursued Mo Fan and Ai Jiangtu to prevent them from receiving healing.

• Asha Ruiya trapped Huaxia’s team in darkness, but Ai Jiangtu struck back and gave the others a chance to escape, leaving Nan Jue and Jiang Shaoxu unable to fight.
• Mo Fan’s lightning and fire failed to harm Asha Ruiya after she donned black armor, while Zhao Manyan and Ai Jiangtu were left badly injured.
• Huaxia substituted Tang Miao, Mu Ningxue, and Nan Rongni, and Mu Ningxue immediately knocked out the Greek team’s new fighter.
• Asha Ruiya and her teammates bombarded Mo Fan and Ai Jiangtu, but Tang Miao broke her Space Magic formation and shielded them with Ice Walls.
• Tang Miao escaped with Mo Fan and Ai Jiangtu, and Asha Ruiya ordered her team to pursue before Huaxia’s Healing Mage could treat them.

Tang Miao fought off a Greek ambusher while Asha Ruiya’s team pursued him, but Mu Ningxue intercepted them and clashed with Asha Ruiya. Their opposing ice and darkness spells collided, and a terrifying elemental storm erupted across the battlefield.

• Tang Miao used spatial magic to send a Greek ambusher flying as he raced ahead of Asha Ruiya and her teammates.
• Mu Ningxue fired a blizzard arrow at Asha Ruiya, and Caloos and two teammates shielded her with Venice’s water beads and their defenses.
• Asha Ruiya summoned a Dark Vortex and armored herself as Mu Ningxue gathered ice power for a stronger attack.
• Asha Ruiya unleashed Dark Dawn while Mu Ningxue fired Silent Arrow, and the spells destroyed each other’s visible effects.
• A white light flashed at the battlefield’s center, then a powerful elemental storm exploded in every direction.

Tang Miao returned to face Asha Ruiya after Mu Ningxue exhausted herself fighting her, and used his Lightning Domain to absorb energy from both women’s domains. The chapter ended as Asha Ruiya brought down a stronger dark-powered sword strike and Tang Miao countered with gravity magic and gathered lightning.

• The clash between Mu Ningxue and Asha Ruiya devastated the battlefield, while Tang Miao survived the shock wave after throwing Mo Fan and Ai Jiangtu out of bounds and using his defenses.
• Asha Ruiya warned Mu Ningxue that another arrow could cost her life, but Mu Ningxue prepared to fire again rather than back down.
• Tang Miao arrived, stopped Mu Ningxue, and told her to leave the rest to him.
• Tang Miao provoked Asha Ruiya and spread his Lightning Domain, absorbing energy from the domains of Asha Ruiya and Mu Ningxue.
• Asha Ruiya attacked with a dark-powered sword strike, and Tang Miao increased its gravity while gathering the lightning falling around him.

Tang Miao and Asha Ruiya unleashed Super Level power in their battle, while Mu Ningxue and the spectators’ protectors watched anxiously. After Tang Miao damaged Asha Ruiya with an explosive Hellfire attack, she replenished her magical energy with her necklace, and he rushed to attack before she could recover further.

• Tang Miao formed a lightning hammer and clashed with Asha Ruiya’s descending giant sword as Mu Ningxue held back from joining the fight.
• The sword vanished into Asha Ruiya’s hand, and she and Tang Miao fought at close quarters until they had devastated most of the battlefield.
• Asha Ruiya unleashed One Character Sword, and Tang Miao countered with Thunderous Might before striking with Sky Flame Funeral.
• Asha Ruiya absorbed Tang Miao’s flaming stone through a space rift, but he detonated it and sent her staggering backward.
• Asha Ruiya used her necklace’s blue radiance to replenish her Shadow Element’s magical energy, and Tang Miao attacked her before she could recover further.

Tang Miao and Mu Ningxue defeated Asha Ruiya in the final, earning Huaxia its first National Government competition championship. After celebrating in Venice, Tang Miao woke up to find his companions gone and Zhao Manyan sick from drinking.

• Tang Miao interrupted Asha Ruiya's recovery with a thunderous hammer strike, then blocked her counterattack with his weapon.
• Mu Ningxue shot Asha Ruiya with the Ice Crystal Brake Bow, and Tang Miao strengthened the arrow with his Ice Element domain.
• The attack froze Asha Ruiya and left her unconscious, so Tang Miao withdrew his domain and the referee declared the Huaxia Team the winner.
• The Huaxia Team celebrated its historic first-place finish, and the team spent the following days reveling in Venice.
• Tang Miao woke to find Jiang Shaoxu, Mu Ningxue, and Mu Nujiao gone, then went to Zhao Manyan's room and found him vomiting from drinking.

Zhao Manyan struggled with troubling thoughts about his father and hesitated to tell Tang Miao what was really bothering him. After they parted, Baxia emerged from the waters, destroyed Venice’s coastal causeway, and carried Zhao Manyan away, leaving the city to assume he was dead.

• Zhao Manyan told Tang Miao that his father had fallen ill and missed seeing their victory, but he kept his deeper worries to himself.
• Tang Miao suggested that Zhao Manyan go to the artificial island to clear his head, and the two parted ways.
• Baxia roared from the waters near Venice and tore through the coastal causeway as the city panicked.
• Baxia disappeared into the sea, and Venice’s mages arrived to find the causeway destroyed.
• The National Prefecture team discovered Zhao Manyan was missing, while Venice promised to investigate and search for him.

Tang Miao and the Huaxia National Team traveled to the Parthenon to receive the Divine Seal Praise, but Knight Hall’s master Hailong treated them dismissively. The team continued pursuing the reward despite the insult, while Tang Miao remained openly critical of the Parthenon.

• Tang Miao and the Huaxia National Team traveled to Greece to receive the Divine Seal Praise after Zhao Manyan remained missing.
• The team climbed Sacred Mountain and Tang Miao criticized the Parthenon, prompting Feng Li and Pang Lai to warn him to watch his words.
• At Knight Hall, Feng Li introduced Hailong, who ignored the team until his lecture ended.
• Hailong mocked Pang Lai and dismissed the team’s request for the Divine Seal Praise as a trivial matter.
• Pang Lai explained that Hailong resented him because he had beaten him when he was young, and Feng Li decided to endure the slight so the students could receive their reward.

The Huaxia delegation endured a four-day wait before the Parthenon Temple Mother performed the Divine Seal Praise ceremony at a mountain near the Mediterranean. Tang Miao received the first blessing, and the chapter ended with the delegation entering month-long seclusion to absorb their seals.

• Golden Knight Hashir confined the Huaxia delegation to the Knight Hall, where they waited two days without hearing from the Temple Mother.
• Pang Lai lost his temper, prompting Vice Hall Master Cass to promise to report the delay to the Temple Mother.
• On the fourth day, the Temple Mother led the delegation to a mountain near the Mediterranean for the Divine Seal Praise ceremony.
• Tang Miao refused to kneel, then focused the blessing on his Lightning Element as the Temple Mother imprinted it into his magic system.
• The Kirin Jade absorbed the full 2.5 times the divine seal's energy from Tang Miao's blessing.
• After the ceremony continued for two days, Pang Lai departed and Feng Li stayed with the students as they began a month of meditation in seclusion.

After stabilizing his cultivation on Sacred Mountain, Tang Miao encountered Mo Fan’s Parthenon trials and forced the Blood Clan powerhouse Bola to submit to him. Mo Fan passed the trials, but saving Ye Xin Xia still looked bleak.

• Tang Miao continued cultivating on Sacred Mountain until his Elements stabilized, and Snow Woman awakened at Monarch Level while Little Flame Ji remained stalled.
• An alarm announced an intruder on Star River Mountain Path, and Tang Miao flew to the mountain’s foot, where Han Ji, Pang Lai, Zhu Meng, and Old Man Bao watched Mo Fan’s trials.
• After Mo Fan passed the first two trials, Tang Miao ordered the vampire guarding the third trial to come down, and Bola knelt under the pressure of Tang Miao’s bloodline.
• Bola joined Tang Miao and helped Mo Fan pass the fourth trial, then stood obediently behind Tang Miao.
• Mo Fan thanked Tang Miao, who doubted Mo Fan could save Ye Xin Xia without the Demon Element or the Dark Serpent.

As Mo Fan tried to rescue the accused Salan from the Parthenon, news that Yi Zhisha’s body had been mutilated pushed the temple into crisis. Conti revealed herself as Salan, poisoned Judge Reina, and Tang Miao stepped forward to confront her.

• Tang Miao explained that his unusual blood let him control Bola, while Mo Fan emerged from the mountain carrying the woman marked for execution.
• Kulun and a Sage warned Mo Fan that rescuing her would make him an accomplice, as the Parthenon and the Holy Court prepared to fight.
• A Female Sage reported that Yi Zhisha’s body had been cut into eight pieces and that a trainee priestess had died by suicide beside it.
• Conti admitted she had arranged the desecration to test the Parthenon’s Resurrection Technique, then poisoned Judge Reina with a gesture.
• Tang Miao identified Conti as Salan and stepped forward to confront the Black Vatican’s Red Cardinal.

Tang Miao exposed Salang and confronted the Parthenon and Holy Court of Judgment over their attempt to protect her and condemn Ye Xin Xia. As the factions clashed over his accusations about Yi Zhisha and the Parthenon Divine Soul, Tang Miao rescued Asha Ruiya from her pursuers.

• Tang Miao named Salang as the Black Vatican's Red Cardinal, and she threatened him while revealing that she had the Temple Mother Pamish and judge Rainer under her control.
• Pamish ordered the Golden Radiant Knights to stop Tang Miao, but he accused the Parthenon and Holy Court of protecting Salang while targeting Ye Xin Xia.
• Tang Miao claimed that Durank wanted the Parthenon Divine Soul inside Ye Xin Xia and told Mo Fan that saving her required challenging Hai La; Durank ordered Ye Xin Xia's Dark Judgment.
• Tang Miao told Old Man Bao that Yi Zhisha had staged the conspiracy and was still alive, leaving Durank unwilling to investigate with them.
• Asha Ruiya ran from Mei Ruola and the Blue Gold Hall Master, and Tang Miao used his ice wings to reach her and trap her pursuers in an Ice Crystal Prison.

Tang Miao revealed overwhelming power, killed Durank, and turned on Salang, but the Sin Stones appeared and trapped Ye Xin Xia in a Dark Judgment as Mo Fan collapsed trying to stop them. The chapter ended with silver light appearing around Salang.

• Mei Ruola urged the Temple Mother and Durank to capture Asha Ruiya and Tang Miao, but the Temple Mother ignored her.
• Durank confronted Tang Miao, who transformed and seized him before killing him with a sword of fire.
• Tang Miao turned toward Salang as the Golden Radiance Knights tried to block his path.
• Sin Stones appeared around Ye Xin Xia and formed a Dark Judgment mark on her forehead, cutting her off from Mo Fan and Asha Ruiya.
• Mo Fan tried to transform and stop Ye Xin Xia from being taken, but collapsed in pain as silver light appeared around Salang.

Tang Miao failed to stop Salang from escaping, then turned to face Hai La as the God of Death emerged in the Dark Execution Ground around Xin Xia. He charged at Hai La, leaving the fight to save Xin Xia unresolved.

• Tang Miao unleashed a combined attack of ice and fire that struck Salang, but she escaped through a Space Magic Array.
• Tang Miao blamed the Temple Mother and the Holy Court of Judgment for letting Salang get away, then refused to keep fighting them.
• Mo Fan begged Tang Miao to save Xin Xia as Hai La rose from a vast pool of black sludge in the Dark Execution Ground.
• Asha Ruiya warned Tang Miao that Dark Judgment had killed even Wen Tai, but Tang Miao teased her and prepared to fight Hai La.
• Tang Miao charged toward Hai La while Xin Xia remained trapped by the Guilty Stone beneath the Dark Judgment mark.

Tang Miao entered the Dark Execution Ground and overwhelmed Hai La with destructive lightning, combined elements, gravity, and Snow Woman’s ice. He left Hai La badly wounded and its Dark Domain overtaken by his lightning domain.

• Tang Miao broke through the light barrier and struck Hai La as it reached for Ye Xin Xia.
• Tang Miao fused flames and ice to break Hai La’s claw and blast it back, then used Thunderstorm Hammer to strike its head with lightning.
• Hai La released clouds of Black Corpse Worms, but Tang Miao burned them away and used Spatial Gravity to immobilize Hai La.
• Tang Miao fused with Snow Woman and froze the Dark Execution Ground, trapping Hai La in ice.
• Tang Miao smashed Hai La’s wounded head with his hammer, shattering the ice and continuing to strike it with precise lightning.
• Hai La roared in agony as Tang Miao’s lightning domain took over its Dark Domain.

Tang Miao unleashed a destructive fusion of ice and fire against Hai La, but a mysterious darkness swallowed the attack and transformed the battlefield into a black mist space. Hai La survived, while Tang Miao faced an unknown force that even he found unsettling.

• Hai La regenerated from the black bugs after enduring Tang Miao’s thunder attack.
• Tang Miao fused his ice and fire elements into a massive Ice Phoenix Fire Phoenix and restrained Hai La with spatial magic and a sandstorm.
• Tang Miao’s attack devastated the Dark Execution Ground and much of Athens City as Yi Zhisha and the Holy Court of Judgment watched in shock and anger.
• A powerful darkness appeared before Hai La and silently swallowed the Ice Phoenix Fire Phoenix, leaving Tang Miao and Ye Xin Xia stunned.
• The black mist spread across Athens City and pulled Tang Miao and Hai La into a strange space, where weakened streams of ice and fire emerged from the darkness.