Recaps

After confirming their relationship, Xia Qingyin and Lu Yuan prepared for their first date and set off together from their dormitories. Their affectionate outing drew attention from students who recognized Lu Yuan and realized he had a girlfriend.

• Xia Qingyin returned to the dormitory and told Wang Youzhu that she and Lu Yuan were together.
• Xia Qingyin asked Wang Youzhu to help choose an outfit for her date with Lu Yuan.
• Lu Yuan skipped his usual morning training to spend the day with Xia Qingyin.
• Xia Qingyin came out wearing a white dress, and Lu Yuan praised her appearance.
• Lu Yuan and Xia Qingyin walked off holding hands as students recognized them and remarked that Lu Yuan had a girlfriend.

Lu Yuan and Xia Qingyin enjoyed their first date, taking a photo together and buying ingredients to make mooncakes for the Mid-Autumn Festival. After visiting several date spots, they returned to Shencheng Supernatural University in the early evening.

• A photography student asked to take a picture of Lu Yuan and Xia Qingyin, and they posed together.
• Lu Yuan teased Xia Qingyin by asking for a kiss in exchange for the photo, and she kissed his cheek before taking it from him.
• Xia Qingyin suggested making mooncakes, and the two bought ingredients and supplies at Yonghui Mall.
• Lu Yuan and Xia Qingyin walked beside a lake and made matching jewelry at a DIY craft shop.
• Lu Yuan and Xia Qingyin returned to Shencheng Supernatural University in the early evening.

Lu Yuan used a Blood Vitalizing Pill and three days of cultivation to temper his blood and reach the fourth stage of the Profound Nether Ice Soul Body. He left the training room with his Qi and Blood greatly increased, ready to eat and continue cultivating.

• Lu Yuan went on a morning run with Xia Qingyin, then returned to cultivation after their day of dating.
• Lu Yuan swallowed the Blood Vitalizing Pill in the B-rank training room and used Ice Elemental Energy to temper his blood.
• Lu Yuan completed blood tempering in three days and advanced the Profound Nether Ice Soul Body to the fourth stage.
• Lu Yuan checked his status panel and saw his Qi and Blood had increased by 500 calories.
• Lu Yuan left the training room hungry, and the staff member remarked on how long he had stayed inside.

Lu Yuan met Xia Qingyin in a revealing outfit she had chosen to surprise him, and reassured her that he liked it. As they walked around campus afterward, Xia Qingyin learned that Lu Yuan had reached the Fourth Level of the Body Tempering Art and was far ahead of her in cultivation.

• Lu Yuan rode to the garden and found Xia Qingyin wearing an off-the-shoulder dress and thigh-high stockings as her surprise.
• Xia Qingyin admitted Wang Youzhu had suggested the outfit, and Lu Yuan told her he liked it.
• Lu Yuan asked Xia Qingyin to wear the revealing outfit only in front of him, and she agreed.
• Xia Qingyin changed into more conservative clothes, then walked around campus with Lu Yuan.
• Xia Qingyin asked what Lu Yuan had cultivated, and he revealed that he had used a Blood Vitalizing Pill to reach the Fourth Level of the Body Tempering Art.
• Xia Qingyin compared their cultivation and realized Lu Yuan was also a major realm ahead of her.

Lu Yuan and Xia Qingyin shared a passionate farewell before he boarded a train home for the Mid-Autumn Festival. He returned to his new home, reunited with Fang Wan, and introduced her to his Companion Beast, Little Ice.

• Xia Qingyin drove Lu Yuan to Shencheng City High-Speed Railway Station, where they kissed goodbye inside her Mercedes.
• Lu Yuan boarded the train from Shencheng Station to Tianyuan Station and returned to Mingyue Residential Area.
• Lu Yuan greeted his mother, Fang Wan, and entered their bright, spacious new home.
• Lu Yuan released Little Ice from the Containment Ball, and Fang Wan mistook the Companion Beast for a snake.
• Lu Yuan introduced Little Ice to Fang Wan and told it that she was its master's mother.

Xia Qingyin returned to her family and agreed to begin grueling training, while her grandfather Xia Jianfeng concealed a recurring illness from her. After ten days of intense practice at the Ice Snow Supernatural Ability Hall, Lu Yuan tested a powerful enhanced ice spear.

• Xia Qingyin returned to the Xia Family, where her grandfather Xia Jianfeng welcomed her and suffered a spell of chest tightness and shortness of breath.
• Xia Jianfeng took medicine for his recurring hidden injury, then asked whether Xia Qingyin was certain she wanted to start the family training.
• Xia Qingyin agreed to endure the grueling training so she would no longer be someone her family had to protect.
• After Mid-Autumn Festival, Lu Yuan returned to Shencheng Supernatural University and trained at the Ice Snow Supernatural Ability Hall for ten days, occasionally video-calling Xia Qingyin.
• Lu Yuan summoned an enhanced ice spear and measured its impact force at 6,250 kilograms.

Lu Yuan abandoned his cultivation plans after the school announced an SS-rank mission to help soldiers repel a beast siege at Shencheng City Base No. 2. He arrived at the Mission Center as students weighed the danger, and Jiang Xuanran’s appearance encouraged many to sign up; Lu Yuan saw the siege as a chance to gain Evolution Points.

• Lu Yuan saw the SS-rank mission notice on the Heart in Shen Da app and rode to the Mission Center instead of going to the Ice Snow Supernatural Ability Hall.
• Students learned that the mission would send them to Shencheng City Base No. 2 to face mostly third- and fourth-order beasts, including Fifth Order Lower Rank beasts, and many hesitated despite the rewards.
• Jiang Xuanran arrived, and her West Tier Upper Rank cultivation and S-class Jade Pure Divine Thunder ability prompted many students to sign up.
• Lu Yuan thought of Jiangzhan City and the Fire Fox Team, then decided the beast siege could be an opportunity to earn Evolution Points.

Students from Shencheng Supernatural University, Xinghai Supernatural University, and Hongbang Supernatural University arrived at Shencheng Base No. 2 to respond to a fierce-beast attack. Lu Yuan sensed two people watching him, including Xinghai student Xie Sheng, whose ice ability had recently mutated from A-rank to S-rank.

• Jiang Xuanran identified herself as the Shencheng Supernatural University team leader and led the students into the base.
• Students from Xinghai Supernatural University and Hongbang Supernatural University arrived, and the teams entered the Underground World together.
• The students reached the city wall and saw that the first- and second-order fierce beasts had caused little damage before being killed with firearms.
• Lu Yuan sensed that two people were watching him while he spoke with Jiang Yan.
• Xie Sheng was revealed as an Xinghai student whose A-rank ice ability had mutated into an S-rank ability two weeks earlier.

Du Chen challenged Lu Yuan to a match after the mission, but Jiang Xuanran intervened and Lu Yuan refused to waste time on him. The first wave of ferocious beasts then appeared outside the city, and Jiang Xuanran organized the students’ defense.

• Du Chen provoked Lu Yuan and challenged him to fight in the Arena District after the mission, but Lu Yuan refused.
• Jiang Xuanran reminded Du Chen that they were still on a mission, and Du Chen left.
• Jiang Yan guessed that Du Chen resented Lu Yuan for winning the Freshman Tournament at Xida Prestigious University.
• Jiang Xuanran spotted the approaching beasts, including nearly twenty third-tier beasts behind hundreds of first- and second-tier beasts.
• Jiang Xuanran ordered students to attack with ranged skills or firearms and to defend the wall.

Lu Yuan upgraded Extreme Ice Phantom Kill Array and discussed Shencheng Supernatural University's graduation standards with Jiang Yan and Jiang Qing. Jiang Xuanran warned that the next wave was approaching as nearly a thousand ferocious beasts charged toward the city wall.

• Lu Yuan spent 7,800 Evolution Points to raise Extreme Ice Phantom Kill Array to Advanced proficiency and gained the ability to release fifteen ice swords.
• Jiang Yan praised Lu Yuan's strength, and Jiang Qing explained that ordinary graduates needed to reach Third Order Middle Rank while distinguished graduates had higher requirements.
• Lu Yuan asked why Jiang Xuanran stayed at school, and Jiang Yan said she wanted to lead Shencheng Supernatural University to another national competition victory before graduating.
• Jiang Xuanran announced that the next wave was approaching, and nearly a thousand ferocious beasts charged toward the city wall, shaking the ground and nearly knocking people over.

Jiang Xuanran used her Ten Thousand Volts skill to kill the approaching West Tier vicious beasts, but a Thunder Tiger hidden beneath a corpse escaped her attack. Lu Yuan anticipated its ambush and launched his Extreme Ice Phantom Kill Array as it sprang out.

• The students panicked at the sight of West Tier beasts until they learned Jiang Xuanran was at the West Tier Upper Rank.
• Jiang Xuanran unleashed Ten Thousand Volts and killed the Silver-Gray Armor Birds and Thunder Tigers in the horde.
• Lu Yuan watched Jiang Xuanran's attack and resolved to become stronger.
• A Thunder Tiger hidden under a Third Order beast's corpse sprang out as Jiang Xuanran rested.
• Lu Yuan attacked the Thunder Tiger with Extreme Ice Phantom Kill Array, forming fourteen ice swords and startling Du Chen.

Lu Yuan's overwhelming strength shocked the crowd, and Du Chen apologized for provoking him. As the group rested, Jiang Xuanran noticed signs of a stronger threat, and a fifth-tier ferocious beast began approaching.

• The crowd recognized Lu Yuan as a freshman whose strength far surpassed theirs, while Du Chen feared the consequences of having challenged him.
• Du Chen apologized to Lu Yuan and bowed, and Lu Yuan accepted the apology without pursuing the matter.
• Lu Yuan decided to save his 58,200 Evolution Points because he lacked enough Ice Elemental Energy to usefully strengthen Extreme Ice Phantom Kill Array.
• After an hour of rest, Jiang Xuanran suspected that a fifth-tier ferocious beast would appear in the area.
• A roar and violent tremors warned the group that a beast was approaching, but none could see it, so Lu Yuan used Detective Skill to investigate.

Jiang Xuanran and the other fighters struggled to hold back three Fifth Order beasts while waiting for military reinforcements. After seven minutes, Fifth Order espers from the army arrived.

• A messenger told the defenders that military reinforcements would arrive in ten minutes.
• The Extreme Flame Eagle attacked the defenders with huge fireballs, and Lu Yuan's ice swords melted before reaching it.
• Jiang Xuanran drank a berserk potion and used Thunderstorm Technique to hold back the Titan Bear.
• Jiang Xuanran and her silver-white wolf fought the Extreme Flame Eagle while members of the Silver Wolf Team and two esper universities forced the earth dragon above ground.
• Seven minutes later, several Fifth Order Middle Rank and Upper Rank espers from the army arrived.

After the SS-rank mission, Lu Yuan received second prize and spent Evolution Points upgrading his realm and several skills. He reached Third Order Middle Rank, greatly increased his Ice Elemental Energy capacity, and left with 16,000 Evolution Points.

• A soldier warned the students that the military would launch a major operation and advised them to stay on campus and stop taking missions.
• The students returned to the Mission Center, where Lu Yuan received second prize and 700 Credit Points.
• Lu Yuan spent 22,000 Evolution Points to advance to Third Order Middle Rank, raising his Spiritual Power to 1024 Hz and Blood Energy to 3061 cal while increasing his Ice Elemental Energy capacity by 30%.
• Lu Yuan upgraded Detective Skill to Master proficiency, allowing him to sense his surroundings across a range of up to 20,000 meters.
• Lu Yuan upgraded Frost Spear Continuous Attack to Advanced and Ice Blade to Master proficiency, leaving himself with 16,000 Evolution Points.

Lu Yuan repeatedly trained against Thunder Tigers in virtual reality, improving through repeated defeats. Qin Tianlong told him that the Sacred Ice Spring would open in three days, and Lu Yuan headed toward Jingbei City for the trip.

• Lu Yuan fought a Thunder Tiger in virtual reality and killed it with a spear thrust through its skull.
• Lu Yuan summoned more Thunder Tigers and died repeatedly before eventually killing two at once.
• Lu Yuan trained against three Thunder Tigers, honing his abilities through repeated battles.
• After leaving virtual reality, Lu Yuan found missed calls from Qin Tianlong and Xia Qingyin and messaged them.
• Qin Tianlong called Lu Yuan and told him the Sacred Ice Spring would open in three days.
• Three days later, Lu Yuan prepared to travel from Shencheng City to Jingbei City, over 4,000 kilometers away.

Lu Yuan arrived at the Ice Snow Supernatural Ability Hall headquarters to attend the Sacred Ice Spring event, but he could not find the way to the Underground World passage. As he prepared to ask the guard for directions, Ji Yunxi approached him.

• Lu Yuan arrived at the headquarters and showed the guard the Sacred Ice Spring Entrance Ticket Qin Tianlong had given him.
• Lu Yuan entered the headquarters and admired its enormous ice-crystal hall, founded by the SS-rank ice-type Great Grandmaster Ye Qingyue.
• Lu Yuan realized he did not know where to find the Sacred Ice Spring entrance and turned to go back to ask the guard.
• Ji Yunxi, an S+-rank ice-type ability user and Ye Qingyue's student, walked toward Lu Yuan after traveling from Tiangong City to use the Sacred Ice Spring.

Lu Yuan entered the Underground World with Ji Yunxi to reach the Sacred Ice Spring, where he planned to use his entrance ticket. After separating at a fork, Lu Yuan passed through the mechanical gate and saw the spring’s strange, ice-crystal-filled chamber.

• Ji Yunxi learned that Lu Yuan was a college freshman and was shocked by how quickly he had reached the third rank.
• Ji Yunxi decided to recommend Lu Yuan to Mentor Ye Qingyue and invited him to seek her out if he attended Tiangong Supernatural Ability Academy.
• Lu Yuan and Ji Yunxi entered the Underground World, a vast mechanical structure, and followed floating mechanical spheres toward the Sacred Ice Spring.
• At a fork where each path allowed only one person, Ji Yunxi and Lu Yuan went separate ways.
• Lu Yuan presented his entrance ticket at the mechanical gate, entered the Sacred Ice Spring chamber, admired the icy spring, and began taking off his clothes.

Lu Yuan learned that supernatural abilities evolve when their Primal Energy Purity reaches the threshold for a higher rank, and that raising purity becomes increasingly difficult. After discovering his purity was 73%, he left the Sacred Ice Spring grateful to Teacher Qin for the opportunity and resolved that Evolution Points might be an easier path forward.

• Lu Yuan saw that Little Ice had evolved into an Ice Shard Giant Python, reaching Fifth Order Upper Rank, and kept his original name after teasing him about becoming Big Ice.
• Lu Yuan checked his attributes and discovered a new System Panel entry showing his Primal Energy Purity at 73%.
• Lu Yuan asked the mechanical ball about Primal Energy Purity and learned that it measured effective Primal Energy and determined ability rank.
• The mechanical ball confirmed that reaching 80% purity would evolve Lu Yuan's ability to SS-rank, while warning that purity was difficult to raise and repeated methods had diminishing effects.
• Lu Yuan realized the Sacred Ice Spring had raised his purity by about 3%, felt grateful to Teacher Qin, and concluded that Evolution Points were easier to obtain.

Lu Yuan encountered and killed a dozen Second Order ferocious beasts rampaging through Jingbei City, then recognized signs that the Black Blood Cult had improved its method of breeding beasts. He left the story suspecting the attack was connected to the cult’s experiments.

• Lu Yuan chose Jingnan City No. 2 Ability Base and took a taxi toward the train station, but the driver changed routes after spotting ferocious beasts rampaging ahead.
• Lu Yuan got out and used Ice Blade and his Cold River Sky Splitting Spear to kill the Second Order beasts, earning 2,000 Evolution Points.
• Two young women recognized Lu Yuan, including the woman who had asked him for a photo on the plane, and he agreed to take pictures with them.
• Lu Yuan noticed that killing the beasts had barely changed the Bloodthirsty Qi inside him and suspected the Black Blood Cult had advanced its beast-breeding method.

Lu Yuan arrived at Jingnan City No. 2 Ability Base, registered, and entered its Underground World before using his Master-level Detective Skill to survey the nearby beasts. Xia Qingyin told him she had reached Second Order Middle Rank and continued training to catch up with him.

• Lu Yuan arrived at Jingnan City No. 2 Ability Base and recognized Tang Hai and the others from the Jingbei City station.
• Lu Yuan received a video call from Xia Qingyin, who told him she had reached Second Order Middle Rank; he reassured her that he would be careful.
• Xia Qingyin resumed studying the SS-Grade skill Thorn Stab, and her aunt Xia Juan realized she had applied for training to catch up with Lu Yuan.
• Lu Yuan paid 5,000 Blue Star coins to register, received his ability base ID and a map, and entered the Underground World.
• Lu Yuan left Jingnan City No. 2 City and used his Master-level Detective Skill to detect beasts within a 10,000-meter radius, including several kinds of first-order beasts and larger creatures farther away.

Lu Yuan hunted through the wilderness for three days, gaining Evolution Points and killing a Third Order Lower Rank Black Wind Three-headed Dog. He continued onward and discovered a large temporary cave made of branches, weeds, and stones.

• Lu Yuan spent the first day killing First and Second Order beasts and gained 3,000 Evolution Points.
• Lu Yuan killed a Second Order Upper Rank Giant Hippopotamus with his Cold River Sky Splitting Spear and gained 700 Evolution Points.
• Lu Yuan tracked down and killed a fleeing Black Wind Three-headed Dog, gaining 6,000 Evolution Points.
• Lu Yuan killed more Second Order beasts as he continued through the wilderness.
• Lu Yuan discovered a huge temporary cave made from dead branches, weeds, and broken stones.

Lu Yuan secured the Jade Spirit Spring and escaped from a team from Jingbei Supernatural University, leaving the Moonlight Grass behind. After running until he was exhausted, he overheard a skinny man and a fat man mention that they were on patrol nearby.

• Lu Yuan froze the Jade Spirit Spring as a team from Jingbei Supernatural University entered the cave.
• Lu Yuan stored the frozen spring in his Spatial Ring, left the Moonlight Grass behind, and escaped through the cave wall under a frost shield.
• The team captain chose not to pursue Lu Yuan and instead focused on checking the S-grade Moonlight Grass.
• Lu Yuan ran until he was exhausted, then hid when he heard two men approaching.
• The skinny man and the fat man discussed sneaking away to smoke, and Lu Yuan realized their mention of patrols might signal something important nearby.

Lu Yuan discovered that a hidden passage led to a Black Blood Cult experimental base, where Awakened were being used as test subjects and hundreds of vicious beasts were held. He sensed the base’s strength and located the beasts, leaving him poised to target them.

• Lu Yuan suspected the nearby recruitment and experiments were connected to the Black Blood Cult after his Spiritual Power sensing detected nothing.
• Two men left their smoke break and returned through a hidden passage, and Lu Yuan followed them.
• Lu Yuan crossed an illusion that concealed a gigantic black building and entered the base behind the men.
• Inside, Lu Yuan sensed 52 first-tier, 17 second-tier, and 4 third-tier Awakened, along with laboratories where people were subjected to horrific experiments.
• Lu Yuan found more than five hundred living or half-dead vicious beasts concentrated on the building’s southeast side and calculated their potential Evolution Points.

At the Black Blood Cult’s experimental base, Lord Zhang crushed resistance to his plan to use humans as test subjects. Lu Yuan infiltrated the beast experiment area, killed a guard who spotted him, and entered a room filled with mutated animals.

• Lord Zhang intimidated the third-tier ability users and forced them to accept his plans for human experimentation.
• Lu Yuan changed into the skinny man’s clothes and used the path to reach the base’s southeast section.
• Lu Yuan passed a Black Blood Cult member in a lab coat and found a room holding about fifty ferocious beasts.
• When a guard challenged him, Lu Yuan killed him with an Ice Blade before he could call for help.
• Lu Yuan took the guard’s access card and jacket, opened the door, and entered a large room filled with cages of animals grafted with ferocious-beast flesh.

Lu Yuan fought through a massive horde of mutated beasts and Black Blood Cult members after Lord Zhang ordered the beasts released. He killed half the beasts without being harmed, while the remaining cultists opened fire.

• Lord Zhang dismissed the report of the outsiders' arrival and ordered his people to release the mutated beasts.
• Lu Yuan checked his Evolution Points, then used Detective Skill to locate the approaching horde of beasts and armed Black Blood Cult members.
• Lu Yuan spent 9,000 Evolution Points to raise Ice Seal Shield to master proficiency, allowing it to block ordinary bullets.
• A third-order ability user triggered the charge, and Lu Yuan attacked with Extreme Ice Phantom Kill Array, Ice Seal Shield, and Frost Spear Continuous Attack.
• Lu Yuan killed half the mutated beasts without injury, while the Black Blood Cult members raised their rifles and began firing at him.