Chapter Summaries

Xu Jingming kept his promise to let Chen Hai attack for one minute without striking back, drawing disbelief from the spectators. Chen Hai began his assault, but Xu Jingming effortlessly dodged his first blade arc, leaving the outcome of the duel unresolved.

• Li Hao and several instructors dismissed Xu Jingming's chances against Chen Hai, while Ling Shuang privately trusted Xu Jingming's fighting ability.
• Chen Hai accepted Xu Jingming's challenge and publicly reminded him of his promise to take no action for the first minute.
• Xu Jingming confirmed he would keep his promise, thrilling Chen Hai and surprising the audience.
• At the match's start, Chen Hai activated his Double Horn Black Goat ability and charged toward Xu Jingming, who neither drew his spear nor activated Divine Thunder.
• Chen Hai fired a scarlet blade arc at Xu Jingming, who dodged it with a slight tilt of his head without moving his feet.

Xu Jingming used Heart Net to evade Chen Hai’s attacks throughout their match, even as Chen Hai unleashed his strongest combat skill. The Thunder Martial Hall instructors recognized the technique as Su Qingli’s signature skill and wondered when Xu Jingming had learned it.

• Xu Jingming dodged Chen Hai’s rapid blade strikes by the narrowest margins, astonishing the audience.
• Xu Jingming taunted Chen Hai after avoiding all his attacks for fifty seconds.
• Chen Hai used Wheel Blade Slash, while Xu Jingming activated Thunder Extreme State and continued evading as the strikes sped up.
• A Thunder Martial Hall instructor recognized Xu Jingming’s predictive dodging as Su Qingli’s Heart Net Combat Skill.
• The instructors wondered how Xu Jingming had learned Heart Net after only a little over a month as Su Qingli’s disciple.

Xu Jingming defeated Chen Hai by evading every strike with Heart Net, then the Black Dragon Legion’s 12th Team realized he may have killed a sixth-order King-Level Ferocious Beast. Cao Ren, excited by the news, challenged Xu Jingming to a battle.

• The instructors and audience praised Xu Jingming for mastering Su Qingli’s Heart Net as he continued evading Chen Hai’s Wheel Blade Slash.
• Chen Hai’s final strike missed, and he conceded after Xu Jingming asked whether he wanted to continue.
• Wu Shuo learned from Team Leader Zhou that a powerful Lightning Type Metahuman had likely killed the Azure Fang Mad Lion before the 12th Team arrived.
• Wu Shuo and his team suspected Xu Jingming was the Lightning Type Metahuman, and Cao Ren overheard their conversation.
• Cao Ren publicly requested a battle with Xu Jingming.

Cao Ren challenged Xu Jingming to a wagered fight, demanding that Xu use his Elementalist abilities. Xu agreed and revealed the Radiant Lightning Staff, shocking the Genius Training Camp with proof that he was a twenty-year-old Elementalist who had killed a Sixth-Order King-Level Ferocious Beast.

• Cao Ren challenged Xu Jingming, and Xu accepted on the condition that they wager one billion Great Xia Coins.
• Cao Ren agreed to the wager and required Xu to fight using Elementalist methods, revealing Xu's record of killing a Sixth-Order King-Level Ferocious Beast.
• The spectators reacted in shock to Xu's Elementalist status and his feat, while Su Qingli realized that the beast was how Xu had obtained his Yuan Spirit Fruit.
• Xu agreed to fight as an Elementalist and said he had already recovered from his previous battles.
• Xu replaced his spear with Su Qingli's Radiant Lightning Staff, confirming his Elementalist abilities and stunning the crowd.

Xu Jingming faced Cao Ren in a highly anticipated arena match after revealing that he had become Great Xia Country’s youngest Elementalist. The fight began with Xu Jingming activating Thunder Extreme State, but Cao Ren dodged his Thunder Prison and created twenty-three Gale Phantom Body figures, challenging Xu Jingming to identify the real one.

• Spectators marveled that Xu Jingming had become an Elementalist at twenty, breaking Great Xia Country’s record, while arguing over whether he could defeat the older Cao Ren.
• Xu Jingming and Cao Ren took their positions on the arena, each wielding an Elemental Weapon, and Liu Wei started the match.
• Xu Jingming activated Thunder Extreme State and cast Thunder Prison to restrict the airborne Cao Ren.
• Cao Ren dodged Thunder Prison with a burst of speed and boasted that Xu Jingming’s Battle Technique proficiency was too low to catch him.
• Cao Ren used Grandmaster-level Gale Phantom Body to create twenty-three copies of himself and challenged Xu Jingming to find the real one.

Cao Ren attacked Xu Jingming with his Grandmaster-level Gale Phantom Body, but Xu Jingming revealed that his Thunder Barrier had reached Perfect Level Proficiency and blocked the wind blades. As Cao Ren prepared a stronger attack with his phantom bodies, Xu Jingming called out Lightning Chain.

• Cao Ren created twenty-three phantom bodies and launched wind blades at Xu Jingming.
• Xu Jingming instantly raised a Thunder Barrier that deflected all the wind blades without damage.
• A Thunder Martial Hall instructor identified Xu Jingming's Thunder Barrier as Grandmaster-level or possibly Perfect Level Proficiency.
• Cao Ren began gathering energy for a stronger Battle Technique while his phantom bodies scattered above Xu Jingming.
• Xu Jingming called out Lightning Chain.

Xu Jingming fought Cao Ren on nearly equal terms with lightning techniques despite their difference in rank, but his ability energy dwindled. He refused to concede and summoned Thunder God Descends, leaving the arena stunned by its divine aura.

• Xu Jingming’s Lightning Chain destroyed Cao Ren’s Gale Phantom Bodies, and Cao Ren used Gale Barrier to withstand the attack.
• Cao Ren dodged Xu Jingming’s Heavenly Lightning Art after sensing its buildup, and the two exchanged lightning and wind attacks across the arena.
• The spectators and observers recognized Xu Jingming’s surprising skill as an elementalist while he battled Cao Ren without falling behind.
• After several minutes, Xu Jingming admitted that his ability energy was nearly depleted, but he refused Cao Ren’s offer to concede.
• Xu Jingming activated Thunder God Descends, summoning a lightning-wreathed figure whose overwhelming aura made spectators wonder if it was a god.

Xu Jingming unleashed a powerful Lightning-Type Battle Technique during his match against Cao Ren, shocking the Thunder Martial Hall instructors, who mistakenly thought Su Qingli had created it. Cao Ren was trapped and overwhelmed by Xu Jingming's attacks before surrendering.

• The instructors recognized the phantom aura above Xu Jingming as evidence of a powerful, unfamiliar SS-rank Battle Technique and assumed Su Qingli had created it.
• Su Qingli explained that Xu Jingming had obtained the Battle Technique himself, likely from the No. 9 Civilization Relic, and refused to decide whether he should share it.
• Deputy Director Hu Jinyu offered an SSS-rank Cultivation Resource in exchange for the technique, but Su Qingli rejected his attempt to claim Xu Jingming's opportunity.
• Xu Jingming used Thunder Spear and Thunder Prison to trap Cao Ren, then shattered Cao Ren's Wind Spirit Barrier with seven lightning spears.
• As Xu Jingming's lightning gathered for another attack, Cao Ren surrendered.

Xu Jingming defeated Cao Ren, who conceded and paid him the wager, earning acclaim for his extraordinary casting speed. Cao Ren invited Xu Jingming to fight again in the Virtual World during the upcoming Global Genius Exchange Competition, and Xu Jingming agreed to participate.

• Liu Wei announced Xu Jingming's victory, and spectators marveled that he had defeated the higher-ranked Cao Ren with rapid spellcasting.
• Wang Dong decided he could not target Xu Jingming without cause and planned to keep him beneath his own ranking in the Global Genius Exchange Competition.
• Cao Ren transferred Xu Jingming one billion yuan, then said the arena was too small for him to fight at full range.
• Cao Ren proposed they rematch in the Virtual World when the Global Genius Exchange Competition began, and Xu Jingming agreed to compete.
• Cao Ren exchanged contact information with Xu Jingming and said he would contact him when the competition's Virtual World opened.

After Xu Jingming’s victory in the assessment competition, Su Qingli brought him back to her villa and asked about the powerful Battle Technique he had used. She then introduced him to the top-tier SS-rank Thunder Dragon Art, leaving him ready to begin a new stage of training.

• Xu Jingming finished the first day of the competition and went with Ling Shuang to meet Su Qingli and Thunder Martial Hall’s Deputy Directors Hu Jinyu and Gu Ming.
• Li Hao pressured Hu Jinyu to accelerate the Li Family’s effort to take control of Thunder Martial Hall, and Hu Jinyu agreed to do his best.
• Xu Jingming returned to Su Qingli’s villa and told her that his Battle Technique came from an inheritance in No. 9 Civilization Relic, while keeping Thunder God’s identity secret.
• Su Qingli gave Xu Jingming the manual for the Thunder Dragon Art, a top-tier SS-rank Battle Technique created by Thunder Martial Hall’s founder, Lord Luo Heng.

Su Qingli gave Xu Jingming the SS+ Rank Thunder Dragon Art and advised him to hunt vicious beasts in Myanmar instead of joining the Frontline Battlefield. After Ling Shuang suggested an S-rank mission there, Xu Jingming accepted the assignment to find the attackers who destroyed the Thunder Martial Hall branch and rebuild it.

• Su Qingli gave Xu Jingming the Thunder Dragon Art and told him to ask her for help with high-rank Battle Techniques.
• Xu Jingming asked Su Qingli where he could hunt vicious beasts, and she recommended Myanmar rather than the tightly controlled Frontline Battlefield.
• Ling Shuang suggested that Xu Jingming take an S-rank mission in Myanmar after Su Qingli described the attack on the Thunder Martial Hall branch.
• Su Qingli explained that the mission was to find the culprit who killed the branch's Metahumans, including its Seventh-Order director, and rebuild the branch for 30,000 Points.
• Xu Jingming accepted the mission, and Su Qingli told him to arrive in Myanmar within a week.

Xu Jingming received protection from Su Qingli and discussed creating combat techniques and competing in the Global Genius Exchange Competition. He then invited Ling Shuang to dinner, and they headed to Following Star Garden together.

• Su Qingli gave Xu Jingming an eighth-grade peak Guardian Talisman and advised him to study lower-ranked Body Tempering Arts before attempting to create an SS-rank one.
• Su Qingli told Xu Jingming about the Global Genius Exchange Competition in three months and predicted he could reach the top fifty, while Ling Shuang said he could aim for the overall championship at the next competition.
• Xu Jingming invited Ling Shuang to dinner, and she agreed to accompany him to the Commercial Street.
• Ling Shuang suggested they eat at Following Star Garden, and Xu Jingming agreed.

Xu Jingming ate with Ling Shuang at Shunxingyuan Restaurant and discussed how to prepare for his S-rank mission in Myanmar. Ling Shuang gave him a Space Beast Bone, then left him to arrange a team and study the mission.

• Xu Jingming took Ling Shuang to Shunxingyuan Restaurant, where they ordered a set meal and ate together.
• Ling Shuang advised Xu Jingming to recruit Lin Hui and Xia Lan to help investigate the martial arts hall branch's destruction in Myanmar.
• Ling Shuang lent Xu Jingming an Emperor Beast-grade Space Beast Bone because the mission site was at the limit of her teleportation range.
• Ling Shuang told Xu Jingming to visit places like the restaurant less often, then departed through a Space Gate.
• Xu Jingming paid the bill and planned to study the S-rank mission and contact Lin Hui and Xia Lan.

Xu Jingming reviewed an S-Class Mission in Myanmar and agreed to attend Song Qiuyun’s great-grandfather Song Daoyuan’s 120th birthday before setting off. Song Qiuyun began planning his visit to Sichuan Province and the gifts they would buy.

• Xu Jingming examined the martial hall’s S-Class and higher missions and chose an S-Class Mission in Myanmar’s Chaotic Triangle Area.
• Xu Jingming contacted Lin Hui and Xia Lan to meet the next morning so he could find someone to help with the mission.
• Xu Jingming told Song Qiuyun he had swept the Genius Training Camp’s first-year assessment matches.
• Song Qiuyun invited Xu Jingming to her great-grandfather Song Daoyuan’s 120th birthday celebration, and Xu Jingming agreed to come to Sichuan Province.
• Song Qiuyun planned to meet Xu Jingming at the Rong City airport and shop with him for outfits and gifts.

Xu Jingming studied the SS+ Rank Thunder Dragon Art before meeting Lin Hui and Xia Lan to invite them on an S-rank mission to Myanmar’s dangerous Chaotic Triangle Area. Both agreed to join his team, with rewards to be divided according to each member’s contributions.

• Xu Jingming called Jiang Chuxuan, then spent the night studying the Thunder Dragon Art manual and gained a rough understanding of one-fifth of it.
• At Xi Ye Cafe, Lin Hui told Xu Jingming that his victory over Cao Ren had made him famous at the training camp and earned him the nickname “Thunder Emperor.”
• Xu Jingming explained the Myanmar mission and warned Lin Hui and Xia Lan about the dangers of the Chaotic Triangle Area.
• Xia Lan and Lin Hui agreed to join Xu Jingming’s team, with the mission rewards going to whoever contributed the most.

Xu Jingming prepared to leave for Myanmar by borrowing Lightning Type Body Tempering Arts from Thunder Martial Hall’s Library as references for improving his teacher’s technique. Su Qingli approved him to borrow one hundred manuals, including one SS-rank and three S-rank arts, and Xu Jingming packed them into his Space Ring.

• Xu Jingming told Lin Hui and Xia Lan he planned to depart for Myanmar on August 1 and asked them to find capable Mental Type Metahumans to help track clues.
• Xu Jingming searched Thunder Martial Hall’s Library and found 362 Lightning Type Body Tempering Combat Skills, then asked to borrow one hundred manuals.
• Su Qingli approved the request, allowing Xu Jingming to borrow one SS-rank manual, three S-rank manuals, and any number of lower-ranked manuals up to the total of one hundred.
• Xu Jingming selected Thunder Vajra Body as his SS-rank manual, chose three S-rank arts, and added around twenty A-rank arts among his selections.
• The Library staff brought over Xu Jingming’s chosen manuals, and he stored them in his Space Ring.

Xu Jingming borrowed a hundred Battle Technique manuals from Thunder Martial Hall and flew to Rong City, where Song Qiuyun greeted him at the airport. They left together to shop before visiting her family for her grandfather’s birthday.

• Xu Jingming collected a hundred Battle Technique manuals from the library and left without paying a deposit.
• Xu Jingming flew to Rong City and studied Body Tempering Arts during the journey.
• Xu Jingming arrived at Liu Shuang Airport, where people recognized Song Qiuyun as a talented member of the Song Family waiting for someone important.
• Song Qiuyun ran to Xu Jingming and embraced him, surprising the onlookers who had speculated about her being single.
• Xu Jingming and Song Qiuyun left hand in hand, and Song Qiuyun said they needed to buy things before heading to her home.

Xu Jingming met Song Qiuyun’s parents at the Song family estate and got along well with them. After Song Qiuyun took him to his room, Song Feng revealed that her great-grandfather might survive only another two or three months.

• Xu Jingming spent about one billion Great Xia Coins on formal clothes and gifts with Song Qiuyun before asking nervously about meeting her parents.
• Song Qiuyun reassured Xu Jingming that her parents knew about Jiang Chuxuan and had no major objections.
• Song Qiuyun brought Xu Jingming to the Song family estate, where Zhou Tong recognized his fifth-order strength and welcomed him.
• Song Feng returned home, and he, Zhou Tong, Xu Jingming, and Song Qiuyun shared a pleasant dinner.
• After Xu Jingming presented his gifts, Song Qiuyun took him to his room, while Song Feng told Zhou Tong that the family patriarch might last only two or three more months.

Song Feng told Zhou Tong that Song Daoyuan’s injuries left little hope and that the Song Family would have to retreat from vulnerable businesses and Demon Cave zones. Meanwhile, Xu Jingming trained late into the night before Song Qiuyun visited him in his room, where she undressed in front of him.

• Song Feng explained that Councilor Wu could not treat Song Daoyuan’s severe injuries, and Zhou Tong recognized that there was no hope of recovery.
• Song Feng decided the Song Family would abandon some businesses and withdraw the Glory Battle Group from major Demon Cave operating zones.
• Song Feng praised Song Qiuyun’s boyfriend, Xu Jingming, for his rare SS-rank ability and exceptional cultivation talent, while noting he could not yet protect the family.
• Xu Jingming practiced spear techniques in the training room, then showered and returned to his bedroom.
• Song Qiuyun appeared in Xu Jingming’s room late at night and undressed in front of him.

At Song Daoyuan’s birthday banquet, Song Qiuyun arrived with Xu Jingming, drawing attention from the gathered guild and faction representatives. The younger Song family members had learned Xu was her boyfriend, while Wang Mang disparaged his Thunder Emperor title; the chapter ended as guests recognized Xu’s identity and status.

• Song family youths discussed rumors that Song Qiuyun was dating Thunder Emperor Xu Jingming and planned to ask him for autographs.
• Wang Mang mocked Xu Jingming’s Thunder Emperor title, and Song Ye dismissed the youths’ objections.
• The youths learned Wang Mang was a Sixth-Order Metahuman and the heir of the powerful Wang Family.
• Song Qiuyun and Xu Jingming arrived at the banquet, where the gathered guests focused their attention on Xu.