Chapter Summaries

Scarface, also known as Liu Xiao, intercepted the two red-robed pursuers and killed one while the other escaped. After Liu Xiao left to chase the survivor, Lu Yuan and Celicia decided to part ways, with Celicia preparing to break through to seventh-order Upper Rank.

• The red-robed figures took pills that boosted their speed and began catching up to Little Ice, Lu Yuan, and Celicia.
• Liu Xiao arrived and attacked the pursuers with his Thunder God Fist and Lightning Storm.
• One red-robed figure escaped using a life-saving treasure, while the other was killed by Liu Xiao's lightning.
• Liu Xiao identified Lu Yuan and Celicia, introduced himself, and left to pursue the surviving red-robed figure.
• Celicia said she would return to prepare for her breakthrough, and she complained that Lu Yuan's rapid advancement made her own progress feel unimpressive.

Lu Yuan returned to Shencheng Supernatural University with Cecilia, intending to use its teleportation array to reach Tiangong City and reunite with Xia Qingyin. Xia Qingyin welcomed him at the school, met Cecilia, and asked whether she was also Lu Yuan’s girlfriend.

• Lu Yuan rode Little Ice to Shencheng Supernatural University and agreed to drop Cecilia off on the way to the teleportation array.
• Little Ice’s arrival drew the students’ attention, and they recognized Lu Yuan as he entered the university with Cecilia.
• Cecilia looked around the campus with Lu Yuan until Xia Qingyin came over and embraced him.
• Xia Qingyin greeted Cecilia and asked if she was also Lu Yuan’s girlfriend.

Lu Yuan reunited with Xia Qingyin after Little Ice transformed into a dragon, and she took him to her dorm. While she showered, Lu Yuan wondered whether Ye Qingyue was still undergoing a breakthrough and practiced the second level of his Spirit Refining Technique.

• Xia Qingyin and Little Blue were shocked to see that Little Ice had become a dragon, and Lu Yuan explained that a heavenly treasure had improved its bloodline.
• Xia Qingyin sent Little Ice to play with Little Blue, then invited Lu Yuan to her dorm, and he flew them there on his Ice Wings.
• Lu Yuan and Xia Qingyin ran into Wang Youzhu and Liu Yuan, who left together for a hotel after Wang Youzhu took Liu Yuan by the hand.
• Xia Qingyin led Lu Yuan into her bedroom and went to shower while he checked his messages to Ye Qingyue and wondered if she was still breaking through.
• Lu Yuan studied the second level of the Observation of Hidden Moon Starry Sky Scripture until Xia Qingyin returned wearing only gossamer-thin gauze.

Lu Yuan reunited with Xia Qingyin, told her about Celicia, and visited his teacher Qin Tianlong. After revealing that he had reached seventh-order Lower Rank, he joined Qin Tianlong and Hu Dahai for a drinking session.

• Lu Yuan gave Xia Qingyin an herb for her grandfather, and Xia Qingyin thanked him.
• Lu Yuan spent the next day shopping and chatting with Xia Qingyin, then explained how he had met Celicia in the Underground World.
• Ye Qingyue struggled to break through to the next level, while black scales appeared on her body unnoticed.
• Lu Yuan visited Qin Tianlong and revealed that he had reached seventh-order Lower Rank, shocking Qin Tianlong and Hu Dahai.
• Qin Tianlong brought out his saved liquor, and Hu Dahai collapsed first while Qin Tianlong insisted he was not drunk.

Lu Yuan entered the Grandmaster Temple after returning to Tiangong City, where the Grandmasters welcomed him as a new member. News of his unprecedented achievement spread, leaving several people stunned, and Lu Yuan declined an offer of a tour.

• After returning to Tiangong City, Lu Yuan received a notification that he had joined the Grandmaster Temple and entered it through his virtual reality device.
• Lu Yuan walked into the palace, where the Temple announced his arrival and the gathered Grandmasters recognized him as a new Grandmaster under twenty.
• News of Lu Yuan's breakthrough spread through virtual reality, and Celicia predicted he might soon surpass her.
• Amy saw the news, believed it meant William had failed, and collapsed unconscious as her maids rushed to help her.
• Fang Yi was stunned by Lu Yuan's achievement, while a man in a pocket dimension resolved to meet him after completing his seclusion.
• Lu Yuan declined an offer from someone who wanted to show him around the Grandmaster Temple.

Ye Qingyue’s inherited illness erupted while she was breaking through, and Lu Yuan found her covered in black scales. She told him to leave and feared she would not live to see his future growth.

• Ye Qingyue’s black scales appeared during her breakthrough, revealing the illness that had killed her grandfather Ye Mo and her father.
• Ye Qingyue recalled that she had sought Ice-type prodigies to pass on her family’s secret arts, and that she had grown fond of Lu Yuan as his teacher.
• Lu Yuan entered Ye Qingyue’s residence and found her in the training room, covered in black scales.
• Ye Qingyue told Lu Yuan to leave because he could not help her and said she was glad to have become his teacher.
• Ye Qingyue said she feared she would not witness Lu Yuan’s growth, leaving him panicked.

Lu Yuan left Ye Qingyue to break through to an SSS-rank supernatural ability, hoping to gain enough strength to repay her before her time ran out. He succeeded and returned to Tiangong Supernatural Ability Academy with the Extreme Ice Emperor Throne ability.

• Lu Yuan guessed that Gu Li had given him the means to advance and decided to break through immediately for Ye Qingyue's sake.
• Lu Yuan rode Little Ice beyond Tiangong City to avoid damaging the academy or the city during his breakthrough.
• Lu Yuan swallowed Gu Li's potion, and his ice power transformed as his crown and throne reformed amid a devastating storm.
• Lu Yuan took his place on the new throne and absorbed the light of a frozen star river.
• Lu Yuan checked his System Panel, confirmed his supernatural ability had become Extreme Ice Emperor Throne (SSS), and rode Little Ice back toward Tiangong Supernatural Ability Academy.

Lu Yuan used his newly reached SSS-rank ability to suppress Ye Qingyue’s Black Scale Disease for fifty years. After treating her for more than ten hours, he fainted onto her thighs.

• Ye Qingyue, believing she had little time left, wrote instructions to leave her resources to Lu Yuan.
• Lu Yuan returned and told Ye Qingyue his ability had reached SSS-rank and could temporarily suppress her disease.
• Ye Qingyue undressed, and Lu Yuan used ice and snow to shrink the black scales on her body.
• After more than ten hours, Lu Yuan cleared the scales from the affected areas, giving Ye Qingyue fifty years before the disease would return.
• Ye Qingyue realized Lu Yuan had fainted and fallen onto her thighs.

Lu Yuan remained unconscious for weeks while Ye Qingyue and Jiang Xuanran worried over him, and a Law Saint found no physical cause. Inside a strange collapsing space, Lu Yuan realized his coma was a side effect of his breakthrough, and he finally woke in a hospital room.

• Ye Qingyue asked a ninth-rank plant-type Law Saint to examine Lu Yuan, but the Law Saint found his body and Primal Energy normal and could not explain his unconsciousness.
• Ye Qingyue blamed herself for Lu Yuan's condition after he saved her from Black Scale Disease, but Jiang Xuanran reassured her and said Lu Yuan would wake up.
• Lu Yuan recognized that his coma was the side effect of his ability breakthrough and believed he would awaken once it passed.
• The Law Saint gave Ye Qingyue pills for Lu Yuan to take daily, saying they might work after about a month.
• As the strange space around him collapsed, Lu Yuan's eyes opened and he found himself in a hospital room.

Lu Yuan woke after a month-long coma and learned that his ability had reached SSS-rank, earning congratulations from Ye Qingyue and Jiang Xuanran. After returning to his dorm and apologizing to Little Ice for leaving her in the Containment Ball, he reunited with Jiang Xuanran that night.

• Ye Qingyue congratulated Lu Yuan on reaching SSS-rank and learned that his ability was called Extreme Ice Emperor Throne.
• Jiang Xuanran rushed to the hospital room, embraced Lu Yuan, and congratulated him on reaching the Seventh-rank Grandmaster realm.
• Lu Yuan returned to his dorm while Jiang Xuanran went back to class and planned to explain her absence to her instructor.
• Lu Yuan released Little Ice from the Containment Ball, explained that he had been unconscious for a month, and then resumed studying the second level of the Observation of Hidden Moon Starry Sky Scripture.
• Lu Yuan and Jiang Xuanran reunited that night, and he carried her to the bathroom to help her wash.

Lu Yuan went to challenge the Peak Tower after his SSS-rank ability evolved, while students watched Celicia’s combat power surge after she advanced another level. After greeting Celicia, Lu Yuan entered the tower and reached the ninth level.

• Li Ming complained that his game account had been banned for stealing a kill.
• Lu Yuan left after preparing breakfast for Jiang Xuanran and flew to the Peak Tower to test his strength.
• Students discussed Celicia’s progress and Lu Yuan’s expected performance as Celicia’s combat power rose sharply after clearing another level.
• Celicia greeted Lu Yuan, and they briefly acknowledged that they had not seen each other in a month.
• Lu Yuan entered the Peak Tower and reached the ninth level.

Lu Yuan and Little Ice climbed the Peak Tower, defeating successive groups of Volcanic Bears as the multiplier rose. After Little Ice struggled on the thirteenth floor, Lu Yuan recalled it and faced two seventh-order Upper Rank Volcanic Bears himself on the fourteenth floor, winning the challenge.

• Little Ice grew into a fully grown ice dragon and defeated two seventh-order Lower Rank Volcanic Bears with Ice Breath, raising the multiplier to 130%.
• Little Ice swept away three more Volcanic Bears on the tenth floor, increasing the multiplier to 150%.
• Little Ice defeated the enemies on the eleventh and twelfth floors, but struggled against the thirteenth floor's opponents.
• Lu Yuan recalled Little Ice before the fourteenth floor and confronted two seventh-order Upper Rank Volcanic Bears himself.
• Lu Yuan conjured an ice dragon with the Profound Ice Overlord Spear, destroyed the bears' fireballs, and completed the challenge.

Lu Yuan defeated the Crimson Flame Demonic Bear and rapidly cleared the Peak Tower’s sixteenth and seventeenth floors. As he continued upward, the students watching below grew increasingly excited.

• Lu Yuan pierced the seventh-order Crimson Flame Demonic Bear’s heart with Extreme Cold Piercing Kill, and the bear died as its multiplier rose to 300%.
• Lu Yuan entered the sixteenth-floor challenge and killed an eighth-order Crimson Flame Demonic Bear with Ice Blades, raising his multiplier to 340%.
• Lu Yuan used Mystic Ice Strangling Array to defeat two Crimson Flame Demonic Bears on the seventeenth floor, increasing his multiplier to 380%.
• Lu Yuan continued toward higher floors while the students gathered beneath the Peak Tower grew more excited.

Lu Yuan defeated an eighth-order Lower Rank Crimson Flame Demonic Bear on Peak Tower's 18th floor and advanced to the 19th floor. He remained confident he had not reached his limit, while the students watching below were shocked by how quickly he cleared the challenge.

• Lu Yuan scanned the Crimson Flame Demonic Bear and discovered it had reached eighth-order Lower Rank.
• Lu Yuan's golden Ice Blades pierced the bear's Flame Jet, and the bear unleashed its strongest move, Volcanic Eruption.
• Lu Yuan used Myriad Flower Ice Mirror and multiple ice dragons to counter the eruption and bring the bear close to death.
• Lu Yuan launched four more ice dragons, killing the Crimson Flame Demonic Bear and raising his coefficient from 380% to 420%.
• Lu Yuan was carried to the 19th floor and said he would keep trying, while the students below stared in shock.

Lu Yuan defeated two eighth-order Lower Rank Crimson Flame Demonic Bears on the Peak Tower's 19th floor, surpassing Celicia's record and advancing to the 20th floor. After waking from her rest, Ye Qingyue reflected on her recovery and wished Lu Yuan would go shopping with her.

• Lu Yuan killed the two Crimson Flame Demonic Bears with a simultaneous attack of more than ten thousand Ice Blades and raised his multiplier to 460%.
• Lu Yuan ascended to the Peak Tower's 20th floor as students noticed he had surpassed Senior Celicia's record.
• Celicia calmly accepted that Lu Yuan had surpassed her, having expected it since the end of the whole-school student competition.
• Ye Qingyue woke refreshed and reflected that Lu Yuan had recovered and her Black Scale Disease had been suppressed by her SSS-rank ability.
• Ye Qingyue decided she wanted to go shopping and thought it would be nice if Lu Yuan came with her.

Lu Yuan fought the newly evolved eighth-order Lower Rank Blazing Hell Demonic Bear with his ice abilities and overwhelmed it with repeated attacks. After the bear fell, Lu Yuan sensed a faint fluctuation of Primal Energy and prepared for the corpse to explode.

• Lu Yuan learned that the Volcanic Bear had evolved into a Crimson Flame Demonic Bear and then an eighth-order Lower Rank Blazing Hell Demonic Bear.
• The Blazing Hell Demonic Bear reveled in its increased power and challenged Lu Yuan.
• Lu Yuan summoned the Extreme Ice Emperor Throne, and the bear felt an involuntary urge to submit despite its Supreme-grade bloodline.
• The Blazing Hell Demonic Bear unleashed Netherworld Flame Explosion, but Lu Yuan countered with ice dragons and a spear attack combining two Martial Skills.
• Lu Yuan relentlessly bombarded the bear with dozens of ice dragons until it crashed to the ground.
• Lu Yuan sensed a faint fluctuation of Primal Energy and cast Myriad Flower Ice Mirror four times before the bear's corpse erupted in a violent explosion.

Lu Yuan cleared the twentieth floor of Peak Tower, then invited Celicia to dinner and privately told her his ability had reached SSS-rank. After their meal in Tiangong City, they left the restaurant together.

• Lu Yuan emerged from the Peak Tower capsule, and Celicia was surprised that he had cleared the twentieth floor while still at seventh-order Lower Rank.
• Lu Yuan told Celicia he had mastered a new spell, then invited her to dinner as promised.
• While flying to the restaurant, Lu Yuan apologized and privately revealed that his ability had advanced to SSS-rank.
• Lu Yuan and Celicia ate together at the restaurant in Tiangong City, chatted, and left after he paid the bill.

Lu Yuan returned to Ye Qingyue’s residence, where she asked him to treat her as a friend and call her Sister Yue. She gave him the SSS-rank skill Falling Stars, then invited him to take a stroll with her.

• Lu Yuan arrived late at Ye Qingyue’s residence and apologized after she chided him.
• Ye Qingyue told Lu Yuan he did not need to act deferentially around her, and he agreed to treat her like a friend.
• Ye Qingyue asked Lu Yuan to call her Sister Yue, and he awkwardly accepted the new form of address.
• Ye Qingyue gave Lu Yuan an SSS-rank skill scroll for Falling Stars, a large-area attack skill.
• Ye Qingyue invited Lu Yuan to take a stroll with her, and he agreed.

Lu Yuan and Ye Qingyue flew beyond Tiangong Supernatural Ability Academy and spent the day strolling, eating, and enjoying themselves. Ye Qingyue thanked him for helping her feel happy again, and they prepared to return to the academy as evening came.

• Ye Qingyue noticed Lu Yuan had formed Ice Wings and was surprised that he had reached the tenth level of Body Tempering Art so quickly.
• Ye Qingyue checked that Lu Yuan felt well, and he reassured her after she worried he might be hiding discomfort.
• Lu Yuan and Ye Qingyue visited a mall, a rare-plant eco-park, a musical fountain, and an amusement park, then bought and ate candied hawthorn.
• Ye Qingyue thanked Lu Yuan for the enjoyable day and said she had not been this happy in a long time.
• Ye Qingyue formed an Ice Wing and suggested that they head back as it grew late.

Lu Yuan accepted Celicia’s invitation to lunch as thanks for rescuing her in the Underground World, while he and Jiang Xuanran spent the morning pursuing their own plans. The chapter ended with Lu Yuan and Celicia ordering food together at her chosen restaurant.

• Wang Youzhu recalled advising Jiang Xuanran to use her figure to get closer to Lu Yuan, and credited herself for the success.
• Celicia invited Lu Yuan to lunch to thank him for saving her, and he accepted.
• Lu Yuan teased Jiang Xuanran after she woke, then made breakfast before they went to their separate activities.
• Lu Yuan studied the Observation of Hidden Moon Starry Sky Scripture and the Falling Stars spell until noon.
• Lu Yuan flew to Celicia’s chosen restaurant, where she greeted him and invited him to order whatever he wanted.