Chapter Summaries

Xu Jingming accompanied Song Qiuyun to her family’s banquet, where he impressed Song Daoyuan by revealing that he had reached the fifth rank. After meeting the Song elders and other guests, he rested with Song Qiuyun until a cousin approached them with a young man.

• Xu Jingming and Song Qiuyun went to the third floor to meet her great-grandfather, Song Daoyuan, whose chest bore an incurable wound from a Dark-Type Beast Emperor.
• Song Daoyuan recognized Xu Jingming’s fifth-rank strength, praised him, and suggested he and Song Qiuyun marry and have children; Song Qiuyun protested that they were too young.
• Xu Jingming presented Song Daoyuan with a gift and met the Song Family elders.
• Song Feng and Zhou Tong introduced Xu Jingming and Song Qiuyun to the banquet’s faction representatives before letting them mingle on their own.
• Xu Jingming rested with Song Qiuyun, then a woman in a red formal dress approached with a young man wearing an earring.

At Song Qiuyun’s birthday banquet, Xu Jingming beat Wang Mang after he insulted Song Qiuyun and dismissed Xu Jingming’s warning. As the guests reacted to Wang Mang’s defeat, a tall, long-haired young man arrived and addressed Xu Jingming as someone who had lost to him before.

• Song Ye introduced Wang Mang, the young master of Apex Wing Heavy Industries, to Xu Jingming and Song Qiuyun.
• Wang Mang ogled Song Qiuyun and dismissed Xu Jingming, while Song Ye sided with Wang Mang and told Xu Jingming he was being too sensitive.
• Xu Jingming slapped Wang Mang, grabbed him, and kneed him in the abdomen.
• Wang Mang attacked Xu Jingming with his tiger-claw ability, but Xu Jingming trapped him in a Thunder Net and knocked him unconscious with Golden Lightning.
• A tall, long-haired young man entered, applauded, and told Xu Jingming they had met again after Xu Jingming defeated him.

After Xu Jingming defeated Wang Mang at the Song Family banquet, Cao Ren recognized him and the two discussed Xu Jingming’s strength, his relationship with Song Qiuyun, and his upcoming trip to Myanmar. Cao Ren offered to spar and later help Xu Jingming access a Frontline Battlefield.

• Cao Ren praised Xu Jingming after the guests learned Xu Jingming had defeated him in Thunder Martial Hall’s training camp assessment.
• Song Feng let Xu Jingming off with a warning after Wang Mang was taken away for treatment, and he marveled at Xu Jingming’s Lightning Ability.
• Xu Jingming introduced Song Qiuyun as his girlfriend, and Cao Ren joked that he was robbing the cradle before realizing they were nearly the same age.
• Cao Ren invited Xu Jingming to spar, but Xu Jingming said he was going to Myanmar for a mission and Wilderness Area training.
• Xu Jingming mentioned wanting to visit a Frontline Battlefield later, and Cao Ren agreed to help him.

Xu Jingming returned to the Thunder Martial Hall headquarters, planned how to use his Ability Points, and met the teammates Lin Hui and Xia Lan had gathered for their mission. The team gained a Public Security Bureau veteran and a young woman whose Spirit Body Summoning ability could question recently deceased people.

• Xu Jingming left the Song Family villa, returned to the Thunder Martial Hall headquarters, and learned that Lin Hui had found the team members and Xia Lan had recruited someone.
• Xu Jingming considered whether the Deep Blue System could deduce an SS-rank Body Tempering Art from his growing knowledge, but decided to focus on studying techniques and save Ability Points.
• Lin Hui and Xia Lan arrived at Xi Ye Cafe with Li Xiang and Du Wan, and Xu Jingming agreed to let the team call him Captain.
• Lin Hui introduced Li Xiang as a Sixth-Order Lower-Rank Mental Type A-Rank ability user with Public Security Bureau interrogation experience.
• Xia Lan introduced Du Wan as an upper Fourth-Order student with the Special Type A-Rank ability Spirit Body Summoning, which let her summon and question the soul of someone who had died within the past day.
• Xu Jingming was shocked to learn that Du Wan could summon human souls.

Xu Jingming recruited Li Xiang and Du Wan for the mission to investigate the destruction of Thunder Martial Hall’s Myanmar branch, then received advice from Ling Shuang before preparing to leave. The next morning, he and his four teammates departed for the Chaotic Triangle Area.

• Xu Jingming welcomed Li Xiang, a Public Security Bureau interrogation expert, and Du Wan, who could summon souls from corpses, onto his team.
• Xu Jingming set the team’s departure for the next morning and said he would handle combat while the others focused on finding clues.
• Ling Shuang took Xu Jingming to her office and told him to use his full strength in Myanmar, prioritize his safety, and use his trump cards when needed.
• Xu Jingming prepared pills, supplies, and his spear, spending more than fifty million Great Xia Coin.
• Xu Jingming and his four teammates gathered at the martial hall headquarters, went to the airport, and boarded a flight to the Chaotic Triangle Area.

Hu Jinyu tried to use Xu Jingming’s Myanmar mission to undermine his reputation while Wang Dong trained to surpass him. Xu Jingming and his team arrived safely in the Chaotic Triangle Area, where he began noticing differences in the city.

• Hu Jinyu told Wang Dong that Xu Jingming’s mission was dangerous and urged him to use the time to master the Heavenly Flame Control Technique.
• Hu Jinyu ordered Wang Dong to spread word that Xu Jingming had borrowed a hundred manuals and taken them to Myanmar, hoping to stir public criticism.
• A soundwave-type Metahuman concealed the fighter jet’s noise as Xu Jingming and his four companions flew from Ningnan City to the Chaotic Triangle Area.
• Xu Jingming and his group left the airport armed, and Lin Hui explained why Elemental Weapons were generally too fragile to be made as close-combat weapons.
• Xia Lan offered to search for a replacement Elemental Weapon for Xu Jingming, but he declined because he lacked the money.
• Xu Jingming entered the city with his team and noticed subtle differences from an ordinary city in Great Xia Country.

Xu Jingming’s team met Lu Qi, the surviving branch leader, and learned that the Myanmar branch had been devastated by an attack. The attackers were six Seventh-Order Metahumans, including one near Eighth Order, leaving the team facing a dangerous investigation.

• Lu Qi met Xu Jingming’s team at the airport and led them toward the temporary base outside the Triangle Domain.
• On the drive, Lu Qi explained that the attack had reduced the branch’s 134 members to 23 survivors, only 11 of whom could move around normally.
• Xu Jingming invited Lin Hui, Xia Lan, Li Xiang, and Du Wan to question Lu Qi and help investigate the attack.
• Li Xiang asked about the attackers, and Lu Qi reported that six Seventh-Order Metahumans had attacked the branch, including a Seventh-Order Peak Grandmaster close to reaching Eighth Order.
• Xu Jingming’s team realized that the six powerful attackers would make the mission exceptionally dangerous.

Xu Jingming uncovered Lu Qi as a traitor who had led the group toward a hidden ambush at the martial hall's temporary base. After Xu Jingming knocked Lu Qi unconscious, more than twenty Metahumans attacked, leaving Lin Hui and the others facing a powerful group of enemies.

• Lu Qi told Li Xiang that the martial hall branch had suffered only minor conflicts before its attack, giving the group few clues about the culprit.
• Xu Jingming led the group through the wilderness toward the concealed temporary base, but stopped before they reached its entrance.
• Xu Jingming bound Lu Qi with Golden Lightning and accused him of inventing the claim that six Seventh-Order Grandmasters had attacked the branch.
• Xu Jingming revealed that Heart Net had detected more than twenty Metahumans waiting inside the courtyard, then electrocuted Lu Qi unconscious.
• More than twenty Metahumans charged out of the courtyard, including one Sixth-Order Peak and three Sixth-Order Middle opponents, alarming Lin Hui and the others.

Xu Jingming confronted the Myanmar Metahumans who had ambushed him and his companions, then unleashed his full strength and devastated their group. He killed all the Fifth-Order attackers, while four Sixth-Order Metahumans remained alive.

• The Myanmar Metahumans charged Xu Jingming and his companions, but Xu Jingming told Lin Hui, Xia Lan, Li Xiang, and Du Wan to stay back.
• Xu Jingming activated Thunder Extreme State and Thunder God Descends, terrifying both the attackers and his companions with his powerful aura.
• The burly leader attacked Xu Jingming, who flew out of reach with Thunder Dragon Wings and blocked the group’s elemental attacks with Thunder Barrier.
• Xu Jingming cast Thunderball Technique and Lightning Chain, shattering the attackers’ wind shield and killing every Fifth-Order Metahuman.
• The four Sixth-Order Metahumans survived the barrage.

Xu Jingming trapped and repeatedly blasted the burly enemy leader with Heavenly Lightning Art after protecting his companions with Thunder Barrier. With the leader badly wounded and unable to withstand more strikes, Xu Jingming asked if they could talk.

• The burly man activated Berserk and attacked Xu Jingming, but Xu flew away and avoided his blade.
• The burly man ordered Zagu, Aima, and Gulina to attack Lin Hui and the others, but Xu Jingming shielded them with Thunder Barrier.
• Protected by the barrier, Lin Hui led a counterattack as Du Wan summoned spirit bodies, Xia Lan used Space Stealth, and Li Xiang attacked the enemies with Mental Strength.
• Xu Jingming trapped the burly man in Thunder Prison and struck him twice with Heavenly Lightning Art, badly wounding him.
• Xu Jingming told the stunned burly man that he could cast Heavenly Lightning Art repeatedly and asked if they could talk.

Xu Jingming defeated the Bloodscar Mercenaries and interrogated Lu Qi, who revealed that the martial arts school survivors had been killed after he betrayed them. The chapter left Xu Jingming and the others reeling at the possibility that Lu Qi was the only survivor.

• Xu Jingming weakened the four surviving Bloodscar Mercenaries with lightning and learned that Lu Qi had hired them to kill his team.
• Xu Jingming had Lin Hui wound Lu Qi, then ordered Li Xiang to use Mind Manipulation to question him.
• Lu Qi said he had betrayed the group after encountering the attackers who destroyed the martial arts school branch, but he could not remember who they were.
• Li Xiang concluded that a powerful Mental Type Metahuman had invaded Lu Qi's mind and erased his memories.
• Lu Qi revealed that the other sixteen survivors had been killed and their bodies destroyed, leaving him to lure headquarters into a trap.

Xu Jingming’s group tried to restore Lu Qi’s memories, but a planted Mental Strength seed caused him to explode and revealed that they had been exposed. Du Wan summoned Lu Qi’s soul, which gave them a lead on the Black Lion Guild before the questioning ran out of useful details.

• Xu Jingming ordered Li Xiang to restore Lu Qi’s memories, but a planted Mental Strength seed triggered Lu Qi’s self-destruction and sent his recent memories to its owner.
• Xu Jingming contained the blast with golden lightning and asked Du Wan to summon Lu Qi’s soul.
• Du Wan questioned Lu Qi’s weakened soul, which could not remember the people who had erased his memories.
• Lu Qi’s soul named the Black Lion Guild as a possible suspect, citing a business conflict with his martial arts school.

Ma La Nian learned that Xu Jingming was among the Thunder Martial Hall investigators and ordered the Black Lion Guild to avoid provoking them. Xu Jingming killed the surviving Bloodscar Mercenaries after taking their bank card, leaving the group with the Black Lion Guild as their only lead.

• A Black Lion Guild subordinate told Ma La Nian that Lu Qi had been killed and identified Xu Jingming and his companions as Thunder Martial Hall students.
• Ma La Nian recognized Xu Jingming as Great Xia’s SS-rank awakener and ordered his people to lie low, leave the seized supplies untouched, and avoid further conflict.
• Xu Jingming found no useful information beyond the Black Lion Guild lead and used Du Tian Divine Lightning to erase Lu Qi’s soul.
• The Bloodscar Mercenaries’ leader offered Xu Jingming a bank card containing 500 billion Myanmar kyat in exchange for his life.
• Xu Jingming accepted the card, killed the leader, and then killed the three remaining injured mercenaries in under two seconds.

Xu Jingming questioned and killed the Bloodscar Mercenaries, then investigated the burned Thunder Martial Hall branch for leads on the Black Lion Guild. After waiting at the mercenaries’ courtyard, he caught Leng Yuechan, who claimed she belonged to the Spirit Fox Guild.

• Xu Jingming had Du Wan summon the slain mercenaries’ souls, confirmed their answers, and destroyed the souls before collecting their loot with Xia Lan’s group.
• Xu Jingming kept the loot until the mission ended and led the group to inspect the ruined Thunder Martial Hall branch and investigate the Black Lion Guild.
• Xu Jingming sent Lin Hui to check for a backup database and took Xia Lan to question nearby shopkeepers about the raid.
• Xu Jingming returned to the courtyard and waited there for over two hours in case someone came to investigate.
• Xu Jingming seized Leng Yuechan when she arrived, and she told him she was from the Spirit Fox Guild, not the Black Lion Guild.

Xu Jingming learned that the Spirit Fox Guild was gathering intelligence on the Black Lion Guild and had discovered who attacked the Thunder Martial Hall branch. He accompanied Leng Yuechan to the guild, while rumors and wagers about his S-rank mission spread through Thunder Martial Hall’s forums.

• Leng Yuechan told Xu Jingming that the Spirit Fox Guild had learned Lu Qi betrayed Thunder Martial Hall and identified the attackers who destroyed its branch.
• Xu Jingming agreed to verify Leng Yuechan’s claims at the Spirit Fox Guild and flew her to its complex in the main urban area.
• Thunder Martial Hall trainees argued online about Xu Jingming taking valuable Battle Techniques manuals abroad, and the debate expanded into wagers over whether he could complete his S-rank mission.
• Leng Yuechan led Xu Jingming through the Spirit Fox Guild complex, where greetings from its members convinced him of her identity.
• Xu Jingming learned that the guild president, Leng Cang, was Leng Yuechan’s father and that she had seven or eight siblings born in the same year.

Xu Jingming met Leng Yuexi, the Spirit Fox Guild branch president, who recognized him as a fellow Magic University alumnus. Leng Yuexi gave him intelligence about the Black Lion Guild’s attack on the Thunder Martial Hall branch, setting him up to pursue the investigation.

• Leng Yuechan brought Xu Jingming to the Spirit Fox Guild compound and introduced him to her sister, Leng Yuexi.
• Leng Yuexi recognized Xu Jingming from news reports, and Leng Yuechan learned that the man who had defeated her was the famous SS-rank awakener.
• Xu Jingming and Leng Yuexi discovered they were both Magic University alumni, and Leng Yuechan eagerly asked Xu Jingming to call her Senior as well.
• Leng Yuexi recalled that she and Su Qingli had competed in the same Global Genius Exchange Competition, though Su Qingli had advanced far beyond her.
• Leng Yuexi explained that the Spirit Fox Guild had investigated the Black Lion Guild’s attack and handed Xu Jingming a Smart Watch containing the intelligence for free.

Xu Jingming obtained intelligence from Leng Yuexi that could help his team solve the attack on the martial hall branch, while Leng Yuexi discovered that his SS-rank lightning ability might open a sealed ancient base. After learning that people had wagered millions of points on whether his team could complete its S-Class Mission, Xu Jingming considered betting on himself.

• Xu Jingming left Leng Yuexi's villa after discussing his fight with Leng Yuechan, and Leng Yuexi learned that the runes sealing a Kanda Wilderness Area base might respond to Xu Jingming's lightning ability.
• Leng Yuexi decided to ask Xu Jingming to accompany her to the unexplored ancient base.
• Xu Jingming met Lin Hui, Xia Lan, Li Xiang, and Du Wan at a tavern and shared Leng Yuexi's intelligence identifying the Black Lion Guild vice president and five others behind the martial hall raid.
• Xia Lan told Xu Jingming that training camp forums were hosting betting pools worth at least five million points on whether his team would complete the S-Class Mission.
• Xu Jingming became interested in betting on his own team to profit if they succeeded.

Xu Jingming arranged for his team to monitor Miao Pu while he trained in the Kanda Wilderness Area, and considered betting on his own mission success. Xia Lan decided to wager nearly all her Points on him, leaving the group to prepare for his departure the next morning.

• Xia Lan told Xu Jingming that the largest forum bet favored mission failure three to one, and he asked her to spread discouraging information so the odds might rise.
• Xu Jingming said he would travel to the Kanda Wilderness Area to grow stronger before confronting Miao Pu, and instructed the team to track the suspects without acting.
• Xia Lan explained that betting would remain open for a week and the mission bet would last two months, so Xu Jingming agreed the timing worked.
• Xu Jingming and the others booked hotel rooms, and he told the team to follow his plan before leaving for his room.
• Lin Hui asked whether Xia Lan would bet, and she said she would wager twenty thousand Points because she trusted Xu Jingming.

Xu Jingming found he lacked enough Points to bet on completing his S-rank mission, then agreed to join Leng Yuexi on an expedition into the Kanda Wilderness Area. Meanwhile, rumors that he had been badly injured drove more trainees to bet against him, and Ling Shuang called to check on his condition.

• Xu Jingming found Wang Dong had wagered 100,000 Points against the mission’s success, but he had fewer than 10,000 Points and considered borrowing money to bet.
• Leng Yuexi called Xu Jingming and invited him to join her trip into the Kanda Wilderness Area, where she had crucial intelligence about a place he wanted to visit.
• Lin Hui leaked misleading hints about Xu Jingming’s mission, prompting trainees to post rumors that Xu Jingming and his team were badly injured and had reached a dead end.
• Trainees increasingly bet that Xu Jingming would fail, pushing the odds to 1:4, while Ling Shuang worried about his safety and called him.
• Xu Jingming agreed to leave with Leng Yuexi the next morning from Supply Base No. 4, then answered Ling Shuang’s call.

Xu Jingming spread false news about being gravely injured to improve the odds on his S-rank mission bet, borrowed 40,000 Points from Ling Shuang, and wagered all 50,000 Points he had. The next morning, he met Leng Yuexi at No. 4 Supply Base, ready to enter the Kanda Wilderness Area with only her.

• Ling Shuang called Xu Jingming after seeing forum posts claiming he was near death, and he admitted he had spread the rumor to raise the betting odds.
• Xu Jingming borrowed 40,000 Points from Ling Shuang and placed all 50,000 of his Points on himself completing the mission.
• Xu Jingming studied the Thunder Dragon Art manual briefly before going to bed, planning to continue his training after the Wilderness Area expedition.
• Xu Jingming arrived at No. 4 Supply Base the next morning and saw Metahumans of varying ranks gathering to enter the dangerous Kanda Wilderness Area.
• Leng Yuexi arrived in a black combat suit and told Xu Jingming that Leng Yuechan was too weak to join them, so the two of them would go together.