Chapter Summaries

After Xu Jingming’s S-rank mission victory earned him and his companions a fortune, he distributed the rewards and entered the newly opened Virtual World. He arrived alone in a futuristic city with his abilities and system panel unavailable, and examined the fairy-like guide on his shoulder.

• Xu Jingming and his companions received their betting winnings, while Thunder Martial Hall’s forum filled with complaints from students who had bet against him.
• Xu Jingming divided the 30,000-Point mission reward and roughly 2 billion Great Xia Coins in spoils between himself and his companions.
• Xu Jingming took the group to dinner, then returned to Leng Yuexi’s villa to await the Virtual World’s opening with their Consciousness Helmets.
• At nine o’clock, Xu Jingming connected to the Virtual World and appeared in a crowded city filled with neon lights and newly arrived users.
• Xu Jingming found that he could not access Deep Blue or use his metahuman ability, and he examined the fairy-like guide on his shoulder after failing to find his companions.

Xu Jingming entered the Virtual World for the Global Genius Exchange Competition and learned that its technology and capacity had advanced dramatically since the previous competition. After the competition was announced, he registered and discovered that more than 156 million people had already signed up.

• Eva appeared as a miniature girl and explained that exclusive artificial intelligences could enter the Virtual World through a reserved interface, though she had failed to hack its mainframe.
• Eva told Xu Jingming that the Virtual World was far more realistic than before and already had over 500 million people online, despite the competition venue having opened less than two minutes earlier.
• A proclamation announced the twenty-first Global Genius Exchange Competition, its November 1 start date, and its participation requirements.
• Xu Jingming registered after confirming he met the age and Metahuman ability requirements, receiving serial number 156320832.
• Eva explained that cheap Telepathy Helmets had made registration accessible to far more young people than in previous years.

Xu Jingming explored the Virtual World, tested its lifelike food, and exchanged communication numbers with friends and colleagues. After returning to approve their friend requests, he accepted Teacher Ling Shuang's remote teleportation invitation and vanished from the city.

• Xu Jingming changed his participant information to Great Xia, then visited a Virtual World restaurant and discovered it could reproduce the taste of food.
• Xu Jingming realized that the Virtual World left his real body without Heart Net's passive perception, so he disconnected and decided to enter only from a safe place.
• Xu Jingming told Lin Hui and the others that he had registered for the Global Genius Exchange Competition, and they exchanged Virtual World communication numbers.
• Xu Jingming found messages from friends, family, and teachers asking for his communication number, then sent it to them and re-entered the Virtual World to accept friend requests.
• Eva told Xu Jingming that Ling Shuang had sent a remote teleportation invitation, and Xu Jingming accepted it and vanished from the city.

Xu Jingming met Ling Shuang in the Virtual World, repaid her for helping him win a wager, and learned that other hidden SS-rank Awakeners would compete in the Global Genius Exchange Tournament. Ling Shuang teased him about looking at her foot, and he actually squeezed it before she kicked him out of the villa.

• Ling Shuang welcomed Xu Jingming to the Virtual World at Thunder Martial Hall headquarters and explained its features and his login point.
• Xu Jingming repaid Ling Shuang ninety thousand points, including her share of his wager winnings, and said he planned to return to Myanmar to hunt fierce beasts after his handover.
• Ling Shuang told Xu Jingming that Great Xia and America each had a secret SS-Class Awakener who had reached the sixth order and would enter the tournament.
• Ling Shuang teased Xu Jingming after noticing him glance at her foot, and Xu Jingming reached out and squeezed it.
• Ling Shuang used her authority to teleport Xu Jingming out of the villa and regretted having teased him.

Xu Jingming reunited with Song Qiuyun and Jiang Chuxuan in the Virtual World, then went with Leng Yuexi to seek help repairing the Radiant Lightning Ring. The top Weapon Master in the Chaotic Triangle Area could not repair it, so Leng Yuexi offered to take Xu Jingming to a place rich in light elements.

• Eva teased Xu Jingming about Ling Shuang, and he linked his Thunder Martial Hall villa as his Virtual World login point.
• Xu Jingming invited Song Qiuyun and Jiang Chuxuan to the villa, reunited with them, and promised to visit them at Magic University after returning home.
• Xu Jingming caught up with relatives and old friends in the Virtual World before logging out at midnight.
• Leng Yuexi told Xu Jingming she had found a Weapon Master and accompanied him to meet the specialist the next morning.
• Master Feng examined the Radiant Lightning Ring but said he could not confidently repair its unusual patterns.
• Leng Yuexi offered to take Xu Jingming to a place with a high concentration of light elements so he could try repairing his elemental essence.

Xu Jingming tested whether Little Yang Valley could repair his damaged Light Elemental Essence, but learned it would take decades there. Eva identified the Qingfeng Secret Realm as a better option, while Leng Yuexi asked about a team killed at the 3rd Civilization Relic, and Xu Jingming concealed what he knew.

• Leng Yuexi took Xu Jingming to Little Yang Valley, where his Light Elemental Essence absorbed the dense light elements.
• Eva estimated that repairing the Elemental Essence in the valley would take about one hundred years, so Xu Jingming put it away.
• Eva told Xu Jingming that the Qingfeng Secret Realm's seven Elemental Pools could quickly restore his Elemental Essence and that a top-one-hundred finish in the Global Genius Exchange Competition would earn him entry.
• Leng Yuexi recalled that the William Family was troubling the deputy commander of the Wanei Legion over the deaths of his team at the 3rd Civilization Relic.
• Xu Jingming denied seeing anything suspicious at the relic, and Leng Yuexi accepted his answer.

Xu Jingming drove Leng Yuexi to the Spirit Fox Guild’s grounds while news of his victory over Miao Pu spread across Myanmar and Great Xia. The viral video revealed his Seventh-Order combat power, leaving Wang Dong uneasy about whether he could still outrank him in the upcoming Global Genius Exchange Competition.

• Xu Jingming took Leng Yuexi in her sports car toward the Spirit Fox Guild after Little Yang Valley proved unable to repair the Elemental Essence.
• Leng Yuexi told Xu Jingming that a video of him defeating Miao Pu had drawn more than five million views in Myanmar.
• The video spread across Great Xia, where headlines and Thunder Martial Hall supporters celebrated Xu Jingming’s Seventh-Order combat power.
• Chen Hai rushed to Wang Dong with news of Xu Jingming’s strength, and Wang Dong admitted he felt pressured by the possibility that Xu Jingming had surpassed him.
• Wang Dong told Chen Hai to avoid Xu Jingming in the training camp and said he would try to restore his standing by ranking above him in the Global Genius Exchange Competition.

Xu Jingming trained with Eva before meeting the Thunder Martial Hall team sent to rebuild the branch in the Chaotic Triangle Area. He agreed to stay for the public execution ceremony the next morning, then signed a photograph for an Elite Training Camp student.

• Xu Jingming trained under Eva's guidance at the Spirit Fox Guild and left with Lin Hui to meet the arriving Thunder Martial Hall team.
• Feng Nian introduced himself as the person responsible for the branch handover and praised Xu Jingming for defeating Miao Pu.
• Feng Nian said headquarters planned to execute Miao Pu and his people publicly the next morning and seek compensation from the Black Lion Guild.
• Xu Jingming agreed to remain in the Chaotic Triangle Area until after the ceremony before returning to Great Xia.
• A young Elite Training Camp student asked Xu Jingming for an autograph, and he signed her photograph of his fight with Miao Pu.

Xu Jingming returned to Thunder Martial Hall headquarters after completing his mission in the Chaotic Triangle Area and studied the SSS-rank Thunder Sea Meditation Technique on the flight home. Upon his arrival, Su Qingli summoned him to her villa, where he could seek her help understanding the art.

• After Xu Jingming left, students discussed his reputation and one regretted not asking him for an autograph to sell.
• Xu Jingming told Leng Yuexi and her sister that he would return to Great Xia, then Feng Nian executed Miao Pu and the others before faction representatives.
• On the flight home, Xu Jingming studied the Thunder Sea Meditation Technique and decided to ask Su Qingli for help understanding it.
• Xu Jingming and his group arrived at Thunder Martial Hall headquarters, and he agreed to have dinner with Xia Lan and the others.
• Su Qingli contacted Xu Jingming mentally and summoned him to her villa, so he flew there while Lin Hui watched enviously.

Xu Jingming returned from his S-rank mission and reported its success to Su Qingli, who rewarded him for recovering the supplies. He then showed her the Thunder Sea Meditation Technique, whose aura shocked her.

• Xu Jingming arrived at Su Qingli’s villa, where Liu Wei noticed his rapid growth and led him to the study.
• Xu Jingming recounted how he recovered the mission supplies with Leng Yuexi’s help, while keeping his Elemental Essence and encounter with Eva’s original body secret.
• Su Qingli cautioned Xu Jingming that Guardian Talismans and teleportation could not protect him from a Ninth-Order Metahuman’s attack.
• Su Qingli told Xu Jingming that the recovered supplies were worth 32.4 billion Great Xia Coin and awarded him 100,000 Points for his contribution.
• Xu Jingming showed Su Qingli the Thunder Sea Meditation Technique and identified it as an SSS-rank Spirit Refining Art, leaving her shocked by its aura.

Xu Jingming shared an SSS-rank Spirit Refining Art with Su Qingli and offered to teach her the SSS-rank Lightning Type Battle Technique Thunder God Descends. He also asked her to find a Weapon Master who could repair a damaged top-tier Lightning Type-exclusive Elemental Weapon he had found in the Chaotic Triangle Area.

• Su Qingli was astonished when Xu Jingming showed her the SSS-rank Spirit Refining Art, and she agreed to research it with him while keeping its existence secret.
• Xu Jingming offered to teach Su Qingli Thunder God Descends, and she accepted his instruction.
• Su Qingli playfully called Xu Jingming Director Xu, and he asked her about finding a Weapon Master to repair an Elemental Weapon.
• Xu Jingming revealed that he had found a damaged top-tier Lightning Type-exclusive Elemental Weapon in the Chaotic Triangle Area, surprising Su Qingli.

Xu Jingming gave Su Qingli the Yuan Spirit Pills and revealed that he had created an SS-rank Body Tempering Art, astonishing her. As Xu Jingming taught Su Qingli the SSS-rank Thunder God Descends technique, Ling Shuang arrived and found the two in unexpected teacher-student roles.

• Su Qingli gave Xu Jingming four bottles of Yuan Spirit Pills, kept one for herself, and set aside another for Ling Shuang.
• Su Qingli asked whether Xu Jingming would challenge Wang Dong, but he declined and said the Global Genius Exchange Competition would determine their rankings.
• Xu Jingming told Su Qingli that he had created an SS-rank Body Tempering Art, and she urged him to have the research department certify it.
• Xu Jingming began teaching Su Qingli the SSS-rank Thunder God Descends technique, and she studied it while asking him questions.
• Ling Shuang teleported in and was confused to see Xu Jingming teaching Su Qingli.

Xu Jingming paid to have the Radiant Lightning Ring repaired, then studied the Thunder Sea Meditation Technique with Su Qingli before flying back to Magic City. Song Qiuyun and Jiang Chuxuan welcomed him at the airport and took him to Jiang Chuxuan’s secluded villa.

• Xu Jingming left Ling Shuang and Su Qingli to have dinner with Lin Hui and the others after celebrating their S-rank mission.
• Xu Jingming found Weapon Master Ma Hong, learned the Radiant Lightning Ring would cost around 200,000 Points to repair, and paid for the work.
• Xu Jingming studied the Thunder Sea Meditation Technique with Su Qingli for more than ten hours, then flew back toward Magic City.
• Song Qiuyun and Jiang Chuxuan waited at Magic City Airport and discussed Xu Jingming’s rapid progress and strength.
• Song Qiuyun and Jiang Chuxuan embraced Xu Jingming when he arrived, and he suggested they go to Jiang Chuxuan’s secluded villa.

Xu Jingming reunited with Song Qiuyun and Jiang Chuxuan, then explained that he planned to train in Myanmar before the Global Genius Exchange Competition. He gave them Eighth-Grade Yuan Spirit Pills to speed their cultivation, leaving them stunned by his supply of SS-rank resources.

• Xu Jingming told Song Qiuyun and Jiang Chuxuan that he planned to go to Myanmar after a few days to raise his strength before the Global Genius Exchange Competition.
• Song Qiuyun and Jiang Chuxuan acknowledged that they would not match Xu Jingming in the competition, and Xu Jingming urged them to cultivate before it began.
• Xu Jingming produced an Eighth-Grade Yuan Spirit Pill and explained that it was an SS-rank cultivation resource that could accelerate their cultivation.
• Song Qiuyun urged Xu Jingming to keep the pill for himself, but he revealed four bottles and offered one each to her, Jiang Chuxuan, and Teacher Yang while keeping one for himself.
• Song Qiuyun and Jiang Chuxuan were astonished that Xu Jingming had obtained four bottles after only a little over three months at Thunder Martial Hall.

Xu Jingming gave Song Qiuyun and Jiang Chuxuan powerful Crimson Radiance Gilded Guardians, then reunited with Yang Zhentian and shared cultivation resources and techniques with him. After several days in Magic City, Xu Jingming left for Myanmar with forty-five days remaining before the Global Genius Exchange Tournament.

• Xu Jingming, Song Qiuyun, and Jiang Chuxuan cultivated with Yuan Spirit Pills, and Xu Jingming gave each woman a Crimson Radiance Gilded Guardian for protection.
• Xu Jingming spent the night with Song Qiuyun and Jiang Chuxuan, then visited Yang Zhentian at Magic City Superpower University the next morning.
• Xu Jingming gave Yang Zhentian Yuan Spirit Pills and the Divine Lightning Undying Body manual, and they discussed body-tempering techniques through the morning.
• Xu Jingming trained with Song Qiuyun and Jiang Chuxuan, met Tang Qi, Zhou Mingyang, and others for dinner, and continued studying the Thunder Sea Meditation Technique with Su Qingli in the Virtual World.
• On September 16, Xu Jingming boarded a fighter jet for Myanmar, forty-five days before the Global Genius Exchange Tournament.

Xu Jingming spent one and a half months fighting in the Kanda Wilderness Area, reaching Fifth-Order Upper Rank and building up a large reserve of Ability Points before heading for the exit. Leng Yuexi and Leng Yuechan waited there to see him off, and Leng Yuexi admitted she had feelings for him despite believing he did not return them.

• Xu Jingming entered the Kanda Wilderness Area and planned to return to Great Xia before the Global Genius Exchange Competition began on November 1st.
• Leng Yuexi and Leng Yuechan waited at Entrance No. 4, where Leng Yuechan teased her sister about her feelings for Xu Jingming.
• Leng Yuexi admitted that she had some feelings for Xu Jingming but had decided not to pursue him because he did not seem to feel the same way.
• After forty-three days of fighting, Xu Jingming reached Fifth-Order Upper Rank, raised his Mental Strength through the Thunder Sea Meditation Technique, and accumulated about 200,000 Ability Points.
• Xu Jingming raced toward Entrance No. 4, still short of the Ability Points needed to advance to Sixth Order.

Xu Jingming returned from the Kanda Wilderness Area and met Leng Yuexi and Leng Yuechan before flying back to Great Xia for the Global Genius Exchange Competition. The sisters discussed his improved strength and the competition’s formidable field after he departed.

• Xu Jingming returned to Supply Base No. 4 and booked a flight to Great Xia, where he ran into Leng Yuexi and Leng Yuechan.
• Xu Jingming treated the sisters to lunch and told Leng Yuexi he planned to go to Senbai Canyon after the competition rather than return to the Kanda Wilderness Area.
• Xu Jingming promised Leng Yuexi he would help her if she needed anything, then flew away on his Golden Thunder Dragon Wings.
• Leng Yuexi realized Xu Jingming had advanced to Fifth-Order Upper Position and said he could contend for a high ranking in the competition.
• Leng Yuechan explained that this year’s competition was unusually strong and set her goal at the top five hundred before leaving with Leng Yuexi.

After recovering from his exhausting time in the Kanda Wilderness Area, Xu Jingming learned of Song Daoyuan’s death and Yang Zhentian’s breakthrough. He reclaimed the repaired Radiant Lightning Ring and discovered it greatly amplified his lightning and stored four times his energy reserves.

• Xu Jingming woke after sleeping nearly two days and learned that Song Daoyuan had died, leaving the Song Family vulnerable to losing its holdings.
• Eva told Xu Jingming that Yang Zhentian had become an Eighth-Order Grandmaster and that the Weapon Master had finished repairing the Radiant Lightning Ring.
• Xu Jingming contacted Song Qiuyun to comfort her, congratulated Yang Zhentian, and collected the repaired Radiant Lightning Ring from Thunder Martial Hall’s Equipment Department.
• Xu Jingming tested the Radiant Lightning Ring and found that it amplified his lightning power by nearly sixty percent.
• Xu Jingming filled the ring with energy equal to four times his reserves, giving him five times his usual total energy to draw on.

Xu Jingming reconstructed the Radiant Lightning Ring for the Global Genius Exchange Competition while the Song Family argued over whether Song Qiuyun should marry Wang Mang to secure the Wang Family’s support. Song Feng refused the alliance and, facing a threatened family split, placed his hopes on Xu Jingming’s future strength.

• Xu Jingming selected a spear and reconstructed the Radiant Lightning Ring in the Virtual World, where it had weaker effects than the real weapon.
• Song Zhan urged Song Feng to accept the Wang Family’s offer of help in exchange for marrying Song Qiuyun to Wang Mang.
• Song Feng refused, citing Wang Mang’s character, Song Qiuyun’s wishes and her relationship with Xu Jingming.
• Song Zhan threatened to take the dispute to the Council of Elders and split the family, then left with nearly half the Song Family members.
• Song Feng told Song Hai that Song Zhan had long wanted control of the family and was using the marriage dispute to force a split.
• Song Feng decided to lie low and rely on Xu Jingming’s growth to restore his branch’s standing.

After registration closed, Xu Jingming learned that more than a billion contestants had entered the Global Genius Exchange Competition and studied its rules for the Peak and Offense-Defense competitions. As the opening approached, Thunder Martial Hall and Modu Metahuman University rallied their students, while powerful contestants including Catherine and Su Yu prepared to compete.

• Xu Jingming read that 1,012,891,874 contestants had registered and learned how the competition would select winners in its Peak and Offense-Defense events.
• Xu Jingming joined the Thunder Martial Hall plaza, where Su Qingli demanded that all 358 Genius Training Camp members pass the selection round or be expelled.
• Yang Zhentian announced competition rewards to the gathered students at Modu Metahuman University, where Song Qiuyun and Jiang Chuxuan set their sights on passing the selection round.
• Catherine defeated a mid-Sixth-Order Icefield Giant Scorpion with her holy sword and agreed to represent the Holy See and America.
• Su Yu declared that he would prove himself Great Xia's number one genius as the competition drew near.