Chapter Summaries

The Xida Prestigious University Freshman Tournament final began between Shencheng Supernatural University and Modu Supernatural University, with both teams entering the virtual arena. After the singles matches ended in a 3–2 split, the outcome depended on the team competition, which began with both sides activating their support abilities.

• Jiang Ting regretted that Modu Supernatural University had not offered Lu Yuan more resources when recruiting him.
• The packed crowd gathered as Xiang Jun welcomed Shencheng Supernatural University and Modu Supernatural University into the final.
• Jiang Xingyu waved to the spectators, but most of the senior sisters watched Lu Yuan instead.
• The finalists entered the virtual reality arena, and the singles matches ended with a 3–2 score.
• The support players activated Natural Spirit Dew and Clear Heart Jellyfish to boost their teams for the team competition.

Lu Yuan overwhelmed Modu Supernatural University in the freshman tournament final with the SS- rank skill Extreme Ice Phantom Kill Array, ending the match in under half a minute. His performance stunned the crowd and led Song Liyuan to decide to grant him the university’s highest student privileges.

• Lu Yuan’s Extreme Ice Phantom Kill Array astonished the spectators, and Jiang Xuanran recognized it as a skill above S-rank.
• Song Liyuan realized Lu Yuan had mastered the SS- rank skill book he had given him and decided to grant him the university’s highest student privileges after the competition.
• Lu Yuan sent twelve ice swords at the Modu Supernatural University team, eliminating four members as they failed to dodge.
• Li Zhi survived several strikes briefly, but two ice swords pierced his chest and eliminated him.
• The final ended in less than half a minute, leaving the arena silent as spectators compared Lu Yuan’s abilities with their own.

Lu Yuan received the school’s highest student privileges and a pass to the No. 7 Ruin after his performance at the freshman tournament. Xia Qingyin returned to her dorm, still hiding the real reason for her frustration.

• After the celebration dinner was announced, Lu Yuan noticed Xia Qingyin seemed unhappy and asked if she was all right.
• Xia Qingyin claimed she felt unwell and refused Lu Yuan’s offer to take her to the infirmary.
• Song Liyuan summoned Lu Yuan to his office and granted him the school’s highest student privileges, including discounted resources and unlimited access to skill books.
• Song Liyuan gave Lu Yuan a No. 7 Ruin Pass and explained that the ruin was in Aodalia’s Victoria Desert and was best explored after Lu Yuan reached the fourth rank.
• Xia Qingyin returned to her dorm.

Wang Youzhu encouraged Xia Qingyin to tell Lu Yuan how she felt, and Xia Qingyin agreed to try. After recovering, she met Lu Yuan and headed with him to the celebration banquet at the newly opened Gathering Immortals Tower in Shencheng City.

• Wang Youzhu urged Xia Qingyin to pursue Lu Yuan, saying she believed he liked her too, and Xia Qingyin decided to give it a try.
• Xia Qingyin stayed awake worrying about how to bring up her feelings, then woke to Lu Yuan's message checking on her and confirming the banquet details.
• Xia Qingyin told Lu Yuan she had recovered and learned that the celebration banquet would begin at eight that evening at Gathering Immortals Tower.
• Xia Qingyin left her dorm early, met Lu Yuan on the way, and went with him to the busy restaurant.
• Lu Yuan and Xia Qingyin arrived at Gathering Immortals Tower, a new Shencheng branch of the restaurant chain he had visited in Jiangzhan City.

After dinner with his friends, Lu Yuan walked by the river with Xia Qingyin. Inspired by witnessing a marriage proposal, Xia Qingyin confessed her feelings to him, and Lu Yuan began considering his response.

• Lu Yuan and his group ordered dinner and Lie Xin Wine, then shared a meal at the Gathering Immortals Tower.
• After dinner, Xia Qingyin stayed behind and asked Lu Yuan to take a walk with her by the river.
• Lu Yuan and Xia Qingyin saw a man propose to Feng Shiqi with a ring and an iPhone 17, and Feng Shiqi accepted.
• At a secluded spot, Xia Qingyin confessed that she liked Lu Yuan and asked him to be together.
• Lu Yuan smiled and thought about Xia Qingyin's beauty and personality as he considered her confession.

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.