Chapter Summaries

Garen began training with his father and discovered an Upgrade System in the Coiling Dragon World. After opening its starter pack, he prepared to pursue the system’s quests and build his strength.

• Garen’s father, Clark, taught him the Qi-Gathering Stance and explained that hard training was essential for surviving as an ordinary person.
• Garen recalled his past life as Hua Dong and realized he had transmigrated into the Coiling Dragon World.
• Clark told Garen that they would train every morning and take him to the provincial capital for a magic test that afternoon.
• Garen inspected the Upgrade System, found its quests, and saw that his Qi-Gathering Stance practice had earned him one warrior experience point.
• Garen opened the starter pack and received a Space Ring, a Steel Blade, leather armor, a Wind-Style Super Talent Card, and ten thousand gold coins.

Garen traveled with Clark to Blazing Sun City for a magic aptitude test and revealed extraordinary talent in both wind and fire magic, along with exceptional mental strength. He accepted an invitation to Ernst Institute and received an admission letter to register before turning twelve.

• Clark took Garen to Blazing Sun City for a magic test and reassured him as they waited in line at the Magic Guild.
• Garen demonstrated super-grade affinity for wind and fire magic and mental strength forty times that of children his age.
• Teachers from several academies rushed to recruit Garen, including a representative from Ernst Institute.
• After Clark encouraged him and a side quest appeared, Garen accepted Ernst Institute's invitation and received an admission letter.

After Garen was accepted into Ernst Magic Academy, Irene taught him to meditate, and he began a year-and-a-half journey with a merchant caravan toward Fenlai City. Now a Level 3 Mage, Garen entered the Magical Beast Mountain Range with the caravan and witnessed the guards defeat a herd of Bloodthirsty Iron Bulls.

• Clark told Garen that he had found a merchant caravan to take him to Ernst Institute, and Garen left home with Luke after a month of preparation.
• Garen traveled with the caravan for a year and a half, refining Fire-style magic power until he reached Level 3 Mage.
• Luke warned the caravan to stay alert as they approached the Magical Beast Mountain Range, and Garen became excited to see magical beasts.
• A dozen Bloodthirsty Iron Bulls charged the caravan, and the Guard Team surrounded and killed them with only minor injuries.
• The guards collected the Bloodthirsty Iron Bulls' Magic Crystal Cores and cut away their best meat.

Garen persuaded Luke and Lucas to let him fight low-level magical beasts, then joined the Guard Team’s battle against a pack of Wind Wolves. He killed his first Level Three Wind Wolf and gained experience, eager to keep fighting.

• Garen demonstrated his Level Three Fireball Technique and convinced Luke and Lucas to let him fight a low-level magical beast.
• A pack of nearly a hundred Wind Wolves surrounded the caravan, and Lucas ordered the Guard Team to form a circle and fight.
• Lucas and Luke charged into the wolves while the guards blocked incoming Wind Blades.
• Garen climbed onto a carriage and used a compressed fireball to kill a Level Three Wind Wolf.
• Garen received 24 experience points and a 100-point side quest reward for the kill.

Garen fought with the Guard Team against a pack of Wind Wolves, gained experience, and discovered an Enhancement Stone that upgraded his leather armor. After several uneventful months on the road, danger approached as the caravan was leaving the Magical Beast Mountain Range.

• Garen fired compressed Fireball Techniques during the battle while Captain Lucas fought and killed the Wolf Leader, causing the Wind Wolves to scatter.
• Garen killed a fleeing Level Three Wind Wolf and gained 26 experience points, then learned the fallen warrior's family would receive the pack's Magic Crystal Cores as compensation.
• Garen collected a Primary Enhancement Stone from one of the Wind Wolves and found Magic Crystal Cores, which he donated to the fallen warrior's family.
• Garen used the Enhancement Stone on his leather armor, improving its protection against Magical Beasts below Level Five.
• Over the next few months, Garen killed two Unicorn Wild Boars and an Earth Scorpion, but the system gave him no experience for the lower-level Scorpion.
• As the caravan neared the edge of the Magical Beast Mountain Range and its members relaxed, danger quietly approached.

Garen used the system’s Map Function to warn the Guard Team of a bandit ambush, then killed a stronger bandit and underwent his first transformation into a Tiger-Striped Warrior. He survived the attack but mourned Luke and the other fallen guards, vowing to grow stronger as the battered team continued toward Fenlai City.

• Garen detected more than fifty bandits approaching and warned the Guard Team, whose leader Lucas ordered everyone to take cover and wait for the attackers.
• Garen hid beneath a wagon and used Triple Fireball to kill a level-four bandit, completing a side quest and receiving Bloodline Atavism.
• Bloodline Atavism transformed Garen into a tiger-striped humanoid, raising his Warrior Level to three and his Transformation State to level five.
• Garen emerged to find the Guard Team devastated and discovered that Luke was dying; Luke gave him an unregistered Magic Crystal Card from Garen’s father before he died.
• Garen mourned Luke and the fallen guards, vowed to eliminate bandits he encountered, and used the dropped experience card to raise his Warrior experience to 1068.
• The Guard Team finished tending to the dead and wounded, with fewer than twenty of its original thirty-three members remaining.

Garen enrolled at the Ernst Institute, where his exceptional magical talent astonished the staff and other students. After befriending Linley, Reynolds, George, and Yale, he began cultivating Tiger Blood Battle Qi and saw rapid progress.

• Garen registered at the Ernst Institute and tested with superlative Fire-style and Wind-style affinity and spiritual force sixty times that of his peers.
• Garen received the Tiger Stripe Secret Manual as a quest reward and planned to prioritize warrior training while continuing to study magic.
• Garen met George, Linley, Yale, and Reynolds in the dormitory and joined them for dinner, where Bebe devoured a feast before falling asleep.
• Garen used the Tiger Stripe Secret Manual to cultivate Tiger Blood Battle Qi and gained thirty experience points in one session.

Garen studied magic and trained at Ernst Institute for three and a half years, steadily advancing as both a warrior and a mage. After reaching fifth year and attaining Magic Level 5, he won approval for an expedition to the Magical Beast Mountain Range.

• Garen learned the academy schedule, trained his Tiger Blood Battle Qi, and attended Fire-style and Wind-style classes taught by Angela and Trey.
• Garen trained for half a year until his Warrior Level reached Level 5 and his transformation reached Level 7.
• Over the next three and a half years, Garen became a fifth-year student, reached Warrior Level 6, Transformation Level 8, and Magic Level 5, and was hailed alongside Dixie as one of Ernst's Two Great Geniuses.
• Garen failed to teach himself stone sculpting, abandoned the effort, and reapplied for an expedition after reaching Magic Level 5.
• The academy approved Garen's expedition to the Magical Beast Mountain Range.

Garen prepared to train in the Magical Beast Mountain Range and bought a powerful magic longbow with Yale’s help. He left with the bow and two Magic Crystal Cores, determined to repay Yale and grow strong enough to protect him.

• Garen decided to buy a longbow and treat Yale, Reynolds, George, and Linley to a meal before leaving for the Magical Beast Mountain Range.
• Linley warned Garen about the dangers of the range, while Garen joked that Linley would be responsible if he died.
• Yale took Garen to his family’s weapon shop, where Garen chose a Mithril magic longbow crafted by Jax.
• Yale negotiated the bow’s price down to fifty thousand gold coins and paid for it, then persuaded the shop to include thirty Alloy Arrows.
• Garen bought wind- and fire-type Level Six Magic Crystal Cores, then resolved to repay Yale and prevent the misfortunes he knew awaited him.

Garen spent a month combining wind and fire magic and adapting the Purple Dragon Bow before heading toward the Magical Beast Mountain Range. He ambushed a band of bandits on the way, killed them all, and collected their loot.

• Garen created Explosive Overlord Spear and Spiral Burst by combining wind and fire spells, though using Spiral Burst or Gale Explosive Arrow drained his mental strength.
• Garen modified the Purple Dragon Bow to fire Gale Arrows, Explosive Arrows, and their combined Gale Explosive Arrow.
• Near the Magical Beast Mountain Range, Garen spotted more than ten bandits with the System Map and killed their leader with an Alloy Arrow.
• Garen used arrows to kill several bandits, then transformed into a Tiger-Striped Warrior and hunted down the rest as they fled.
• Garen searched the corpses and obtained a Primary Enhancement Stone, magic crystal cores, and over four hundred gold coins.

Garen upgraded his weapons and hunted bandits on the road to the Magical Beast Mountain Range, gaining experience and equipment. After clearing six gangs over half a month, he prepared to enter the range for real.

• Garen used a Primary Enhancement Stone to upgrade his Steel Blade, then spotted bandits near a pond and decided to attack them.
• A level-six Saw-Toothed Crocodile ambushed a Bloodthirsty War Pig while the bandits surrounded the surviving female and piglets.
• Garen killed the bandit leader with his Purple Dragon Bow, then used Extreme Speed and Rapid-Fire Arrows to wipe out the bandits.
• Garen transformed, caught the fleeing Saw-Toothed Crocodile underwater, and killed it with arrows after throwing it onto the bank.
• The crocodile dropped a Primary Enhancement Stone, which Garen used to upgrade his blade into an Alloy Blade.
• Over the next half month, Garen cleared six bandit gangs, collected about sixty thousand gold coins, upgraded his blade again, and prepared to enter the Magical Beast Mountain Range.

Garen fought a pack of Fang Wolves to test his swordsmanship, then recovered from his injuries and found a sleeping Earth-Walking Dragon. He approached the level-six beast intending to practice against it.

• Garen traveled deeper into the Magical Beast Mountain Range and attacked two level-six Fang Wolf leaders with his Alloy Blade.
• Garen killed both Wolf Leaders and several other Fang Wolves, but the pack wounded him before fleeing.
• Garen collected Magic Crystal Cores, examined his Alloy Blade, and used Tiger Blood Battle Qi to recover while reflecting on his mistakes.
• Garen spotted a sleeping level-six Earth-Walking Dragon and charged at it with his Alloy Blade to practice his swordsmanship.

Garen hunted Level Six and Seven Magical Beasts for a month to improve his swordsmanship and strengthen his equipment, then narrowly escaped a massive Level Nine Stone-Slaying Rat Tide. He left the encounter shaken after discovering that his God-Slaying Blade could not pierce the rats’ defenses.

• Garen killed an Earth-Walking Dragon and a Tri-Horned Venomous Snake with the God-Slaying Blade, gaining experience and continuing to train against stronger Magical Beasts.
• Over a month, Garen killed hundreds of Level Six beasts, more than a dozen Level Seven beasts, and several assassins while improving his magic, swordsmanship, and equipment.
• Garen upgraded the Purple Dragon Bow with Level Seven Magic Crystal Cores and saved Primary Experience Cards and gemstones for later use.
• Garen spotted more than ten thousand Magical Beast rats on his Map Function, led by two golden Stone-Slaying Rats, and fled toward the outskirts of the mountain range.
• Garen transformed, used Extreme Speed, and barely escaped the rat tide after his blade failed to pierce a Stone-Slaying Rat’s defenses.

After reaching Level Seven, Garen survived a clash with a wounded Level Nine Cat-Bear and returned to the academy to recover and strengthen his foundations. Two years later, Linley invited him to train in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, and Garen considered joining him.

• Garen used a Primary Experience Card to reach Level Seven and fought the Level Nine Cat-Bear, which eventually fled after their exchange left both wary.
• Garen returned to the academy, met with Linley and their friends, and gave Yale two Level Seven Magic Crystal Cores to repay his debt for the Purple Dragon Bow.
• Garen resumed his studies and training at the academy, steadily improving over the next two years.
• After reaching Level Five as a Mage, Linley invited Garen to join him on a training trip to the Magical Beast Mountain Range.

Garen and Linley returned to the Magical Beast Mountain Range to train, where Garen concealed the extent of his abilities while helping Linley gain combat experience. After Linley fought off a pack of Wind Wolves, Garen discovered and killed a man stalking them as they left.

• Garen and Linley set off for the Magical Beast Mountain Range after saying goodbye to Yale and the others.
• Garen detected twelve bandits before Linley could sense them, and the brothers killed them and divided their Magic Beast Cores.
• Garen let Linley handle the weaker magical beasts as they traveled and warned him that people in the range could be enemies too.
• Linley killed one Wind Wolf and wounded another, then fought off more than twenty wolves with a Level Five Gravity Spell while Garen watched from the air.
• Garen shot a black-robed man who had been following them, looted his pack, and left the area with Linley.

Garen and Linley reached Mist Valley, where Linley found Blue Heart Grass and revealed his Dragonblood Warrior heritage. Garen revealed that he was a Tiger-Striped Warrior, bringing the two closer as they prepared to collect the herb.

• Garen and Linley bathed at a lake, where Bebe chased off a Seventh-Level Velociraptor.
• Garen killed a Level Six assassin with one strike and realized he had mastered Weightless Strength, prompting the other assassins to retreat.
• Linley found Mist Valley and spotted Blue Heart Grass growing on a cliff face.
• Linley explained that he belonged to the Dragonblood Warrior Clan and that Blue Heart Grass could counteract a Saint Realm dragon's living blood.
• Garen transformed into a Tiger-Striped Warrior and revealed his heritage, then offered to guard Linley while he picked the herb.

Linley and Garen found Blue Heart Grass in Mist Valley, where swarms of powerful magical beasts attacked them. After Garen and Bebe fought off the Winged Dragons, Linley chose to return to the academy while Garen continued into the valley alone.

• Linley and Garen gathered Blue Heart Grass in a valley crowded with high-level magical beasts.
• Garen killed a Green-Veined Giant Python, and he and Linley fought off attacking Winged Dragons as Bebe joined the battle.
• Linley felt discouraged by his inability to contribute, but Doehring Cowart urged him to keep moving forward, and Linley regained his resolve.
• Linley decided Mist Valley was too dangerous for him and returned to the academy to train before adventuring again.
• Garen let Linley leave and entered Mist Valley alone.

Garen descended into Mist Valley and hunted magical beasts to gain experience, reaching the middle stage of Level 7 as a Warrior and improving his equipment. He planned to raise his Warrior Level to 8 before venturing deeper into the valley to hunt Fire Dragons and Green Dragons.

• Garen killed more than a dozen Green-Veined Giant Pythons while descending into Mist Valley and invested their experience in his Magic Level.
• Garen learned the Level 7 Flight Spell after half a month of study, then killed more than a hundred Green-Veined Giant Pythons and raised his Warrior Level to the middle stage of Level 7.
• Garen reinforced the God-Slaying Blade, upgraded his equipment with gems, and used a Socketing Stone to add a Blessing Stone to the Tiger God Armor.
• Garen killed more than eighty Velociraptors, reinforced the Tiger God Armor, combined two Level 1 Black Gems into a Level 2 Black Gem, and socketed it into the armor.
• Garen decided to raise his Warrior Level to Level 8 and then hunt Fire Dragons and Green Dragons deeper in Mist Valley.

Garen spent months hunting magical beasts in Mist Valley and cultivating before returning toward the academy. On the way, he comprehended Momentum through falling snow, then learned Yale, Linley, and the others were on the academy’s back hill.

• Garen reached Warrior Level Eight, failed to enhance the God-Slaying Blade with a Primary Enhancement Stone, and continued improving the Tiger God Armor.
• Garen built a cabin in Mist Valley, cultivated sword techniques, and hunted solitary Level Eight magical beasts for nine months, while the Fire Dragons and Green Dragons fled from him.
• After exhausting the ground-dwelling beasts and deciding to return to the academy, Garen spent two months traveling back toward Fenlai City.
• Garen comprehended the Momentum of Heaven and Earth as snow fell and demonstrated it with a powerful sword slash that cleared the sky above him.
• Garen returned to the academy and learned Yale, Linley, and the others had gone to the back hill, so he hurried there through the snow.

Linley emerged from an eleven-day sculpting trance, reunited with his friends, and set off for the Magical Beast Mountain Range while Garen graduated and began traveling home. Two months later, Garen subdued a Golden Sun Eagle named Palston and formed a soul contract with it.

• Garen, Yale, George, and Reynolds watched as Linley completed five lifelike sculptures of Alice and recovered from his trance.
• Linley asked Yale to protect the Dream Awakening Sculpture and left with Bebe for the Magical Beast Mountain Range, while Garen announced he would graduate and travel home.
• Garen revealed that he was a Tiger-Striped Warrior and urged Yale, George, and Reynolds to cultivate so they could reach the Saint Realm.
• Garen graduated after demonstrating Level Six Fire-style magic, then chose to cross the Magical Beast Mountain Range on his way to the Rhine Empire.
• Two months later, Garen overpowered a Golden Sun Eagle, forced it to submit, and bonded with it through a Soul Contract Magic Array, naming it Xiao Pa.