Vol. 8Lightning and Inheritance

Xu Jingming gained Zakri’s inheritance, strengthened his powers, and helped Leng Yuexi win the Spirit Fox Guild succession contest. He returned to Great Xia, killed Lu Wenliang, and created an unnamed SSS-Class Body Tempering Art.

  • Xu Jingming killed Feng Kuan with his lightning techniques, revealing his Seventh-Order strength.
  • At the Director Conference, Xu Jingming defended Ling Shuang, and Su Qingli appointed her Melbourne Branch director and him vice-curator.
  • Xu Jingming found Zakri’s Mental Strength fragment in an underground base in Japan and began its three-stage inheritance trial.
  • Xu Jingming mastered Calming Spirit in seconds using Ability Points, impressing Zakri.
  • Xu Jingming became Zakri’s student, suppressed Liu Yushan’s Essence Soul Seal, and used a Slave Heart Seal to control Ishida Taiichi.
  • Xu Jingming hunted in the Wilderness Area, found two SS+ Rank Yellow Stamen Flowers, and saved them in case they could help Leng Yuexi’s father.
  • Xu Jingming helped Leng Yuexi’s team defeat Leng Shu’s team, securing Leng Yuexi’s succession as Spirit Fox Guild president.
  • Xu Jingming killed Lu Wenliang at a Heaven’s Mandate Sect gathering and upgraded his Divine Lightning Undying Body into an unnamed SSS-Class Body Tempering Art.
Chapters 701–800 Read from ch. 701

Arc 29The Melbourne Appointments

Xu Jingming killed Feng Kuan, grew stronger, and helped Ling Shuang secure support from Su Qingli while their relationship deepened. At the Director Conference, Xu Jingming publicly defended Ling Shuang, and Su Qingli appointed her Melbourne Branch director and Xu Jingming vice-curator before beginning to reveal the reason for Liu Shan’s removal.

  • Feng Kuan trapped Xu Jingming in his Hunting Domain, but Xu Jingming entered Thunderstorm State and killed him with his lightning techniques, revealing his seventh-order strength.
  • Ling Shuang told Liu Shan that Feng Kuan’s attack was a Heaven's Mandate Sect trap, then secured her appointment as deputy director and Xu Jingming’s appointment as Grand Supervisor.
  • Xu Jingming and Ling Shuang grew closer, and Ling Shuang received an inheritance from the Phoenix Hairpin that contained Void God’s SSS-rank space-type Battle Technique.
  • Ling Shuang told Xu Jingming that Void God had identified her as an inheritance candidate and directed her to find the Divine Kite Pearl.
  • Su Qingli agreed to remove Liu Shan and appoint Ling Shuang director of the Melbourne branch, with Xu Jingming as deputy, after learning Xu Jingming had killed Feng Kuan.
  • At Thunder Martial Hall headquarters, Xu Jingming sparred with Su Qingli, and Ling Shuang told her that Xu Jingming was her boyfriend.
  • At the Director Conference, Xu Jingming defended Ling Shuang from Li Hao, defeated him, and revealed to the gathered directors that he was a Seventh-Order Metahuman.
  • Su Qingli appointed Ling Shuang Melbourne Branch director and Xu Jingming vice-curator, then began playing a video to reveal why Liu Shan had been removed.
Chapters 701–725 Summaries Read

Arc 30Zakri’s Inheritance Trial

Xu Jingming traveled to Japan to harvest ferocious beasts and investigate an underground Civilization Relic, where he encountered Zakri’s Mental Strength fragment. After demonstrating that he could master Calming Spirit almost instantly, Xu Jingming began Zakri’s three-stage inheritance trial.

  • Su Qingli removed Liu Shan as Acting Curator, appointed Ling Shuang Curator and named Xu Jingming Vice-Curator of the Melbourne Branch.
  • Xu Jingming returned to Magic City with Ling Shuang, reunited with Song Qiuyun and Jiang Chuxuan, and gave them cultivation resources while helping the Song Family resist the Li Family’s pressure.
  • Xu Jingming and Ling Shuang returned to Melbourne, where Xu Jingming acquired an SSS-Class Black Soul Combat Suit and prepared to visit Japan for a Civilization Relic.
  • Xu Jingming met Sakuragi Rin in Japan and used Golden Lightning to annihilate her stockpile of ferocious beasts, advancing to Seventh-Order Middle-Level.
  • Xu Jingming killed Kudo Hidekazu and Sato Ken after Kudo discovered his identity, while Eva falsified their life-monitor data to conceal the deaths.
  • Xu Jingming found an underground base in Kumamoto Prefecture and encountered a skeleton and Mental Strength fragment that claimed to be Zakri, a Ninth-Order Peak Mental Type Metahuman.
  • Zakri agreed to test Xu Jingming as an inheritor and set three trials requiring him to learn B-, A-, and S-rank Mental Type Combat Skills.
  • Xu Jingming learned Calming Spirit and used Ability Points to raise it to Perfect Level in seconds, impressing Zakri.
Chapters 726–750 Summaries Read

Arc 31The Sydney Contest and the Beast Hunt

Xu Jingming became Zakri’s student, used his inherited techniques to take control of Ishida Taiichi, and agreed to help Leng Yuexi compete for the Spirit Fox Guild’s leadership. He strengthened his abilities through Wilderness Area hunts and returned with rare healing flowers that might help Leng Yuexi’s father.

  • Xu Jingming mastered Zakri’s techniques, became his student, and learned that Liu Yushan’s Essence Soul Seal could let its caster control him, so he suppressed it with the Soul Suppressing Pagoda.
  • Xu Jingming killed Ishida Taiichi’s heart and made him submit to a Slave Heart Seal, then promised Sakuragi Rin he would help her kill the Grand Supervisor and control Sakura Country.
  • Xu Jingming warned Ling Shuang and Cao Jun about Liu Yushan’s seal, developed the S+ Rank Thunder Sword Formation, and agreed to join the Martial Hall Exchange Competition.
  • Leng Yuexi asked Xu Jingming to help the Spirit Fox Guild compete against Heaven’s Mandate Sect, and Xu Jingming agreed in exchange for a guild resource.
  • Xu Jingming defeated Leng Yuexi in a spar, sold her guild 1.5 billion Blue Star Coins’ worth of beast materials, and refused Leng Shu’s offer to change sides.
  • Xu Jingming hunted in the Wilderness Area, raised his Thunder Sea Meditation Technique to the fifth level, and barely escaped a Ninth-Order Gale Black Hawk after testing a dangerous lightning technique.
  • Xu Jingming killed an Azure Scale Python and discovered two SS+ Rank Yellow Stamen Flowers, which he preserved in case they could help Leng Yuexi’s father.
Chapters 751–775 Summaries Read

Arc 32The Lightning Overlord

Xu Jingming helped Leng Yuexi win the Spirit Fox Guild succession contest, then returned to Great Xia and killed Lu Wenliang during a Heaven’s Mandate Sect gathering. After studying Lu Wenliang’s notes, Xu Jingming transformed his Divine Lightning Undying Body into an unnamed SSS-Class Body Tempering Art.

  • Leng Yuexi’s team defeated Leng Shu’s team three rounds to one after Xu Jingming killed Wu Xuan, securing her succession as Spirit Fox Guild president.
  • Xu Jingming declined a vice president position and extra shares, took his promised guild shares and treasury rewards, and exchanged the Thorn Sword Grass cultivation plan for Silver Moon Commerce shares.
  • Xu Jingming brought Catherine to Great Xia, where Song Qiuyun and Jiang Chuxuan used elemental essences to evolve their abilities to S+ Rank, and he protected them with Soul Suppressing Pagodas.
  • Xu Jingming accepted Su Qingli’s mission to identify and kill Lu Wenliang, then watched a Heaven’s Mandate Sect gathering with Catherine and Yang Yao until Lu arrived.
  • Xu Jingming attacked the gathering, killed its Divine Blood Envoys, and fought Lu Wenliang after he used the Divine Blood Secret Technique and a Blood Burst Pill to increase his strength.
  • Xu Jingming killed Lu Wenliang, gave Zhou Yu his corpse for confirmation, and declined her offer of a deputy director position.
  • Xu Jingming studied Lu Wenliang’s notes and spent 390,000 Ability Points to upgrade his Divine Lightning Undying Body into an unnamed SSS-Class Body Tempering Art.
Chapters 776–800 Summaries Read
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