Chapter Summaries

Xu Jingming, a transmigrator with an E-rank ability, discovered that his system’s Newbie Gift Pack contained 200 Ability Points and the S-rank Purple Heaven Divine Lightning. He decided to wait until he got home to claim it, while the National College Entrance Exam was only a day away.

• Xu Jingming confirmed that he had transmigrated into a world of ferocious beasts and metahuman abilities, where his body had awakened the E-rank ability Weak Electricity.
• He learned that the National College Entrance Exam was scheduled for the next day and that his weak ability made admission to Metahuman University unlikely.
• After Xu Jingming asked for a system, the Deep Blue System activated and offered him a Newbie Gift Pack.
• Xu Jingming learned that the gift contained 200 Ability Points and the S-rank metahuman ability Purple Heaven Divine Lightning.
• When his deskmate warned him that Chen Fan had arrived, Xu Jingming chose to wait until he was home to claim the gift and listened to class.

Xu Jingming faced the risk of the Martial Arts College Entrance Examination despite his E-rank ability, expecting to receive a rare S-rank ability from his system. At home, he completed the transformation into Purple Heaven Divine Lightning, unleashing a destructive surge that alarmed Jiangcheng before the sky cleared.

• Homeroom teacher Chen Fan warned students that the Martial Arts College Entrance Examination could be deadly and urged those with abilities below D-rank, including Xu Jingming, to reconsider.
• Xu Jingming refused to change his exam choice when his friend Zhang Hao asked, and he returned to the house left by his parents, who had died in a Beast Tide.
• Xu Jingming claimed his starter pack, received 200 Ability Points, and began transforming into the S-rank ability Purple Heaven Divine Lightning.
• Lightning destroyed Xu Jingming's living room and set off alarms among neighbors as dark clouds and purple lightning threw Jiangcheng into panic.
• A bolt of purple lightning struck Xu Jingming as the transformation reached 100%, then the clouds dispersed and he discovered his new power.

After awakening the S-rank Purple Heaven Divine Lightning, Xu Jingming used his beginner gift pack’s Ability Points to strengthen his fundamental attributes before the college entrance examination. His lightning had wrecked his living room, and the chapter ended with firefighters kicking down his door and finding him unharmed.

• Xu Jingming inspected the damage caused by his Purple Heaven Divine Lightning and realized he had narrowly prevented the building from collapsing.
• The system explained that Ability Points could be earned by killing ferocious beasts and spent on attributes and skills, and Xu Jingming reviewed his panel.
• Xu Jingming spent all 200 Ability Points evenly on Physique and Spirit, raising both attributes by 20 points and improving his control over his lightning.
• Xu Jingming considered his chances in the Jiangnan Province college entrance examination and acknowledged that other candidates had advantages he lacked as an orphan.
• Firefighters kicked down Xu Jingming’s door, found no raging fire and saw him standing unharmed.

After bringing a fire under control, Xu Jingming went to Thunder Martial Hall to test his improved strength before the college entrance exam. There, he ran into his cousin Tang Qi and her friends, who learned that he planned to take the dangerous martial arts exam despite his E-rank ability.

• Xu Jingming told the firefighters that his Lightning Ability had controlled the fire, and the captain offered him a future job at the Jiangcheng Fire Department.
• Xu Jingming left home with his spear and traveled to Thunder Martial Hall to train and assess his strength.
• Xu Jingming greeted Tang Qi at the martial hall, then went to the training room after learning she had come with friends.
• Tang Qi told Xiao Ya and the others that Xu Jingming had an E-rank ability, dampening Xiao Ya's interest in him.
• Tang Qi worried that Xu Jingming was risking his life by taking the Martial Arts College Entrance Examination, but her friends changed the subject.

Xu Jingming tested his strength at Thunder Martial Hall and found that Purple Heaven Divine Lightning and Lightning Gale Slash let him unleash attacks comparable to a First-Order High-Rank Metahuman. After he left the damaged training room, Tang Qi and her companions investigated the powerful impact they had heard.

• Xu Jingming tested his physical strength with the Black Obsidian Spear and recorded an attack of 321 cards.
• Xu Jingming used Purple Heaven Divine Lightning to strike the target for 3012 cards, nearly ten times his physical strength.
• Xu Jingming combined Purple Heaven Divine Lightning with his spear technique, and Lightning Gale Slash destroyed the Memory Metal target and its wall-mounted equipment.
• Xu Jingming concluded that the strike rivaled a First-Order High-Rank Metahuman and left, anticipating the college entrance examination.
• Tang Qi, Xiao Ya, and their companions heard the impact, sensed its metahuman-level power, and headed toward the training rooms to investigate.

Xu Jingming prepared for the Martial Arts College Entrance Examination after an unexplained attack in his training room left Tang Qi and her companions wondering who had caused it. At the city stadium, his changed appearance drew attention from his classmates, and his bus departed for the examination venue.

• Xu Jingming passed Tang Qi in the corridor, and her group found the training room he had used with its Memory Metal walls shattered; they dismissed the possibility that he was responsible, though Tang Qi began to doubt her judgment of him.
• The next morning, Xu Jingming equipped his Black Obsidian Spear and combat gear and set out for the Martial Arts College Entrance Examination.
• Tang Qi's mother asked her to help protect Xu Jingming if they met at the examination, and Tang Qi agreed before leaving for the stadium.
• Xu Jingming arrived at the city stadium, boarded the bus for Jiang City Second High School's Senior Year Class 5, and surprised his classmates with his sharp new presence.
• After the final Class 5 examinee arrived, homeroom teacher Chen Fan confirmed the roster and ordered the bus to depart.

Xu Jingming and the other candidates arrived at the Ruined Town for Jiangcheng’s Martial Arts College Entrance Examination, where they learned the rules and received their equipment. The exam was about to begin, and Xu Jingming felt ready to enter even its most dangerous areas.

• More than forty buses brought the candidates to the Military Region, where they saw ferocious beasts, including a Unicorn Rhino, inside the Ruined Town.
• Zhou Mingyang of First High School dismissed the nervous candidates, and Liu Jie told Xu Jingming about Zhou’s abilities and reputation.
• Chief Commander Wang Haiyang explained the exam’s twelve-hour duration, the dangers in each zone, and how candidates would earn points by killing ferocious beasts.
• Soldiers distributed Tactical Backpacks containing Smart Watches, Energy Bars, and safety balls, and Xu Jingming put on and packed his equipment.

Xu Jingming entered the Martial Arts College Entrance Examination alone and headed toward Ruined Town’s Core Area. He killed a Shadow Cat with his spear, beginning his first battle in the testing grounds.

• Lin Qingyuan invited Xu Jingming to join her team, but he declined and chose to compete alone.
• Liu Jie warned Xu Jingming about entering alone, and Xu Jingming boasted that he would become Jiangnan Provincial Top Scorer.
• Wang Haiyang announced the start of the examination, and the candidates charged into Ruined Town as the livestream began.
• Xu Jingming verified his identity on his Smart Watch, checked the map, and headed toward the Core Area.
• A Shadow Cat attacked Xu Jingming, and he pierced its throat with his spear, killing it.

Xu Jingming killed ferocious beasts on his way toward the Central Area, improving his spear technique through combat and earning Ability Points. After advancing his Spear Technique to Intermediate and spending points to upgrade it again, he unleashed four rapid thrusts in a second.

• Xu Jingming killed a Shadow Cat with his Black Obsidian Spear and discovered that killing ferocious beasts earned Ability Points.
• Xu Jingming headed for the Central Area, fighting ferocious beasts without using Purple Heaven Divine Lightning so he could conserve his ability and hone his spear technique.
• Xu Jingming killed more than forty ferocious beasts and realized his Spear Technique had advanced to Intermediate.
• Xu Jingming checked his status, found he had 213 Ability Points, and used them to upgrade Spear Technique.
• Xu Jingming thrust his spear four times in a second, moving with the speed of black lightning.

After advancing his Spear Technique, Xu Jingming headed toward the Central Area and met Lin Qingyuan and her team. After he left, they found a recently killed Unicorn Rhino and discovered that Xu Jingming had ranked 46th with 256 points.

• Xu Jingming used 200 Ability Points to raise his Spear Technique to the advanced level, then set out toward the Central Area.
• Xu Jingming met Lin Qingyuan and her four teammates in a ruined residential complex and told her he had traveled alone.
• Xu Jingming said goodbye to Lin Qingyuan and continued on while her team examined a recently killed Unicorn Rhino.
• Lin Qingyuan's teammates noticed spear wounds on the Unicorn Rhino and checked Xu Jingming's score ranking.
• Lin Qingyuan and her teammates saw that Xu Jingming was in 46th place with 256 points and were shocked.

As officials watched the Martial Arts College Entrance Examination rankings, Second High School’s homeroom teacher Chen Fan was stunned to discover that Xu Jingming had risen into the top fifty despite being an E-rank Awakened. Xu Jingming entered Ruined Town’s beast-filled Central Area, where he saw the remains of the city’s massacre.

• Officials praised Zhou Mingyang’s score and discussed the schools’ standings as Jiang City First High School dominated the top ten.
• Principal Zhao Yao noticed Xu Jingming among the top fifty but assumed he might be a hidden student from another class.
• Chen Fan recognized Xu Jingming as his Class 5 student and wondered how an E-rank Awakened had earned such a high score.
• Xu Jingming entered Ruined Town’s Central Area after half an hour of travel and heard ferocious beasts nearby.
• Xu Jingming walked past ruined cars, dried bloodstains, and scattered human skeletons left from the city’s fall.

Xu Jingming entered the Central Area and used his advanced spear technique to kill ferocious beasts and harvest Ability Points. He continued hunting there, saving the Core Area for the final two hours while his exam score climbed.

• Xu Jingming encountered a First-Order Low-Rank Arm Blade Tiger and killed it with his spear without using his ability, gaining 10 Ability Points.
• Xu Jingming decided to seek out more ferocious beasts after noting that the First-order kill had yielded nearly twice as many Ability Points as an Unranked kill.
• Xu Jingming planned to stay in the Central Area for now and enter the Core Area during the exam's final two hours.
• Xu Jingming discovered that Ability Point rewards depended more on a beast's strength than its rank, then continued hunting without resting.
• Xu Jingming's Ability Points and exam score rose as his kill count grew, while his actions caused a major commotion outside the testing ground.

At the Martial Arts College Entrance Examination, the teachers discovered that Xu Jingming was in Chen Fan’s ordinary Class 5, not the Rocket Class. Chen Fan celebrated his student’s success, then watched in astonishment as Xu Jingming’s ranking kept climbing.

• Second High School’s teachers discussed the rankings and wondered which class Xu Jingming belonged to.
• Chen Fan told his rival Li Jun that his Class 5 student had reached the top fifty, then revealed that the student was Xu Jingming.
• The teachers congratulated Chen Fan for producing an outstanding student in an ordinary class.
• Chen Fan found Xu Jingming ranked 32nd with 328 points, then watched him rise to 25th with 372 points.

Xu Jingming’s ranking surged as he killed ferocious beasts during the Martial Arts College Entrance Examination, drawing the attention of Jiangcheng’s school leaders. After he entered the top ten, the livestream revealed him wielding a spear and killing another beast in one strike.

• Xu Jingming gained forty-four points in four seconds, jumping from thirty-second to twenty-fifth place.
• Zhao Yao, Zhang Wenshan, and Liu Hang discussed Xu Jingming’s strength and learned from Chen Fan that he had awakened the E-rank ability Weak Electricity.
• Xu Jingming continued climbing the rankings, passing twenty-first, sixteenth, and twelfth place before reaching ninth.
• Chen Fan and Zhao Yao celebrated as Xu Jingming entered the top ten, and Zhang Wenshan waited for his battle footage.
• The projection showed Xu Jingming surrounded by dead ferocious beasts, and he killed the last beast with a single spear thrust.

Xu Jingming entered the exam’s top ten after rapidly hunting beasts in the Ruined Town’s Central Area, while teachers watching his fight praised his spear skills and lamented his E-rank ability. After spending all his Ability Points to strengthen his physique and mental attributes, he headed toward the Core Area to hunt stronger beasts.

• Xu Jingming killed a Shadow Cat with a swift spear strike, impressing the teachers watching the exam projection.
• Xu Jingming accumulated 312 Ability Points and discovered he had reached ninth place, prompting a tracking camera drone to follow him.
• Xu Jingming concluded that he could not advance to Metahuman without learning a Metahuman Cultivation Method, which he planned to obtain after entering university.
• Xu Jingming spent 200 Ability Points on his physique and 112 on his mental attribute, increasing them to 181 Qi-Blood and 182 Hz.
• Xu Jingming decided his improved strength was enough to enter the Core Area, checked the map, and sprinted toward it with the drone following.

Tang Qi recognized Xu Jingming’s rise to the top ten and wondered how he had achieved it with an E-rank ability. Xu Jingming entered Ruined Town’s Core Area, found a pack of Arm Blade Tigers, and prepared to fight their First-Order Mid-Rank king.

• Tang Qi killed a First-Order Low-Rank Shadow Cat and saw Xu Jingming ranked ninth, concluding that he was her cousin.
• Liu Jie regretted not sticking close to Xu Jingming, while Lin Qingyuan’s team celebrated his entry into the top ten and set a goal for themselves.
• Xu Jingming sprinted into the Core Area, where only First-Order Low-Rank and Mid-Rank ferocious beasts roamed.
• Xu Jingming followed the densest roars to a Fitness Plaza and spotted ten Arm Blade Tigers gathered around a half-eaten Unicorn Rhino.
• Xu Jingming identified the First-Order Mid-Rank Arm Blade Tiger King and looked forward to fighting the pack for Ability Points.

Xu Jingming slaughtered an Arm Blade Tiger pack without using his ability, earning 106 Ability Points and heading for another location. Students at Jiang City Second High School watched his fight on the exam broadcast and became thrilled by his strength and spear technique.

• Xu Jingming killed five charging Arm Blade Tigers with a spinning spear, then finished off the wounded beasts as the rest of the pack approached.
• Xu Jingming fought the Arm Blade Tiger King and four remaining tigers, killing them all in less than two minutes without using Purple Heaven Divine Lightning.
• Xu Jingming gained 106 Ability Points, cleaned his spear, and hurried toward his next location.
• Students at Jiang City Second High School watched Xu Jingming's broadcast, first worrying when he faced the pack and then cheering as he defeated the tigers.

Xu Jingming entered the Core Area and overwhelmed a pack of First-Order Arm Blade Tigers, impressing students and teachers with his Advanced Spear Technique. He rose to first place before the exam ended, while Second High School’s leaders celebrated their newfound recognition.

• Xu Jingming’s score jumped to sixth place after he defeated the Arm Blade Tigers, and the students realized he had entered the Core Area and killed First-Order beasts.
• Teachers and principals watched Xu Jingming fight ten Arm Blade Tigers, and Zhang Wenshan identified his spear technique as Advanced Spear Technique.
• Liu Hang congratulated Zhao Yao on Second High School’s likely first-place finish, and Zhang Wenshan promised to recommend a city reward for the school.
• Xu Jingming’s score continued to soar, and he surpassed Zhou Mingyang to take first place before the examination ended.

Xu Jingming encountered Zhou Mingyang in the Core Area and slaughtered a pack of twelve ferocious beasts alone. He left after claiming he had a Lightning-Type Ability, leaving Zhou Mingyang baffled by what he had witnessed.

• Xu Jingming found a battle between four Unicorn Rhinos and eight Arm Blade Tigers, then discovered Zhou Mingyang hiding nearby.
• Zhou Mingyang warned Xu Jingming that the pack included two First-Order Mid-Rank beasts and offered to join forces, but Xu Jingming charged in alone.
• Xu Jingming killed eight beasts in under three minutes and finished off the remaining four, including the Arm Blade Tiger King.
• Xu Jingming collected Ability Points from the kills and quickly left the area.
• Zhou Mingyang asked whether Xu Jingming had an Enhancement-Type Ability, and Xu Jingming called back that it was Lightning Type.
• Zhou Mingyang remained bewildered and grumbled that Xu Jingming had stolen the beasts he had been waiting to hunt.

Zhou Mingyang learned that Xu Jingming’s overwhelming score came from killing nearly two hundred Ferocious Beasts in the Core Area, leaving other students with few targets. Outside the exam, Jiangcheng’s officials and teachers celebrated Xu Jingming’s record-breaking result and recognized the scale of his achievement.

• Zhou Mingyang searched the Core Area for Ferocious Beasts but found none, then met three Rocket Class classmates who said Xu Jingming had killed the beasts there.
• The bald boy showed Zhou Mingyang the rankings, where Xu Jingming led with 3435 points and Zhou Mingyang stood second with 1103.
• The bald boy calculated that Xu Jingming had killed nearly two hundred Ferocious Beasts in the Core Area, and Zhou Mingyang realized the beasts had been nearly wiped out.
• Zhao Yao, Zhang Wenshan, and Chen Fan celebrated Xu Jingming’s score, which was expected to rank in Jiangnan Province’s top ten and set a Jiangcheng record.
• Zhang Wenshan noted that Xu Jingming had killed nearly half of the Core Area’s Ferocious Beasts in three or four hours, and Chen Fan said Xu Jingming’s parents had died in a Beast Tide.