Chapter Summaries

Xu Jingming entered the Global Genius Exchange Competition's first-stage selection round in the 73rd Division, where contestants had to earn Points over ten days to qualify for the next stage. He arrived in a modern city and prepared to begin hunting for opponents.

• The contestants received their division assignments, with Xu Jingming placed in the 73rd Division, Lin Hui in the 24th, and Xia Lan in the 62nd.
• Xu Jingming confirmed his S-rank combat suit, Flowing Cloud Gold Peak Spear, and Radiant Lightning Ring before the competition began.
• The contestants were teleported to their divisions, and a vast ranking board appeared in the Virtual World.
• Hu Jinyu asked Su Qingli whether Xu Jingming could reach the top thirty-two, and Su Qingli said she expected him to do better.
• Ling Shuang rejected Li Hao's invitation through Hu Jinyu, who then left the Virtual World.
• Xu Jingming arrived in the 73rd Division, guarded himself with Du Tian Divine Lightning, and checked the rules showing that the top 100 contestants would advance after ten days.

Xu Jingming spent the first seven days of the Selection Competition practicing with the Radiant Lightning Ring and Flowing Cloud Gold Peak Spear after eliminating the contestants in his building. As the competition entered its seventh day, he decided to hunt surviving high-point opponents and leaped from a ninth-floor window toward several nearby Fifth-Order Metahumans.

• Xu Jingming read the 73rd Division’s rules and used Du Tian Divine Lightning to eliminate the 43 contestants inside his building, raising his score to 43 points.
• Nearby contestants fled after seeing Xu Jingming’s lightning, while he began practicing with the Flowing Cloud Gold Peak Spear and Radiant Lightning Ring.
• Factions around the world tracked the rankings, but Xu Jingming’s score barely changed over the following days as he continued training.
• After seven days, Xu Jingming had mastered the Radiant Lightning Ring and decided to target several nearby Fifth-Order Metahumans.
• Xu Jingming stored his weapons and leaped from a ninth-floor window to begin his hunt.

Xu Jingming attacked a four-person team in the 73rd Division and eliminated all four with his SS-rank Du Tian Divine Lightning. His ranking surged to 52nd place, prompting people outside the competition to celebrate his rise.

• Yuan Ge and three other Fifth-Order Metahumans discussed their chances of advancing and agreed to stay cautious about Sixth-Order opponents.
• Xu Jingming landed near the team, and Yuan Ge recognized him and warned everyone to run.
• Xu Jingming unleashed Du Tian Divine Lightning, eliminating three of the fleeing Metahumans and gravely injuring Yuan Ge.
• Xu Jingming struck down Yuan Ge with another bolt of lightning and eliminated him.
• Xu Jingming's points rose to 13,850 and his rank climbed to 52nd, while people outside the competition celebrated.

Xu Jingming began hunting contestants in the 73rd Division, rapidly climbing the rankings and reaching eighth place. He then detected Wang Mang nearby and raced toward him to eliminate him.

• At Modu University City, Tang Qi, her parents, Song Qiuyun, and Jiang Chuxuan watched Xu Jingming's unchanged ranking and worried about his chances.
• Jiang Chuxuan spotted Xu Jingming leap to 54th place, while Ling Shuang also saw his ranking rise and felt relieved.
• Xu Jingming flew through the division, killing contestants with lightning and climbing into the top ten after eliminating more than a hundred people.
• Xu Jingming detected Sixth-Order Metahuman Wang Mang within Heart Net's range and headed toward him to eliminate him.

Xu Jingming encountered Wang Mang during the Genius Competition and used Thunder Prison and Du Tian Divine Lightning to eliminate him. After gaining only a little over a thousand Points, Xu Jingming left the area still in eighth place.

• Xu Jingming recognized Wang Mang and confronted him over their previous encounter at Song Daoyuan's birthday banquet.
• Wang Mang threatened to settle the score in the real world and tried to flee, but Xu Jingming trapped him with Thunder Prison.
• Xu Jingming rejected Wang Mang's offer of five billion Great Xia Coins and slowly killed him with Du Tian Divine Lightning.
• Xu Jingming gained a little over a thousand Points from Wang Mang's elimination and remained in eighth place.
• Xu Jingming reflected that Wang Mang had copied his strategy of waiting to gather Points, then left the area.

After Wang Mang was eliminated from the Preliminary Competition, he blamed Xu Jingming and arranged for assassins to target Song Qiuyun and Xu Jingming’s other women. Meanwhile, Xu Jingming continued slaughtering contestants in the 73rd Division and unleashed a devastating Thunderball Technique.

• Wang Mang learned that he had ranked 1,283rd and vowed to take revenge on Xu Jingming.
• Wang Mang ordered the butler to hire a Sixth-Order Space-type assassin to kill Song Qiuyun and another Sixth-Order assassin to target Xu Jingming’s other woman.
• Wang Mang arranged to flee to Sichuan Province before his father could confront him about his elimination.
• Xu Jingming continued hunting contestants, and survivors recognized him as the Thunder Emperor and fled.
• Xu Jingming launched a five-meter golden thunderball into a city, destroying buildings and killing every contestant caught in its blast.

On the ninth day of the Preliminary Competition, Xu Jingming rose to fifth place in Division 73 and prepared for the final day, when the map would shrink and bring the strongest contestants together. As the division began contracting at midnight, he awaited the battles ahead.

• Xu Jingming continued hunting contestants but gained little rank until he killed a Sixth-Order Metahuman and rose from sixth to fifth place.
• With fewer than a thousand contestants left in Division 73, Xu Jingming rested on a skyscraper rooftop before the map shrank.
• Su Qingli and Ling Shuang discussed the first- and second-ranked contestants, Li Ming and Zhou Hui, and agreed Xu Jingming could defeat them even if they joined forces.
• Spectators and powerful Metahumans gathered in the Virtual World to watch the final day begin.
• At midnight on the tenth day, the announcement declared the Preliminary Competition's final day, and Division 73 began shrinking.

Xu Jingming searched the shrinking 73rd Division for the four contestants ranked above him, hoping to take first place. He confronted Li Ming and three Violent Bear Martial Hall competitors, then killed their Mental Type fighter with a mental counterattack.

• The 73rd Division shrank to 100 square kilometers, and the Peak Competition Preliminary Competition entered its final 24-hour countdown.
• Xu Jingming flew past nearby Metahumans without attacking them and searched the division for the four contestants ranked above him.
• Xu Jingming found Li Ming and three other Sixth-Order contestants hiding together in a building, then challenged them for first place.
• Li Ming and his teammates activated their abilities, and a black-haired Mental Type contestant imposed negative effects on Xu Jingming.
• Xu Jingming entered Thunder Extreme State, resisted the mental effects, and counterattacked by making the black-haired girl's head explode.

Xu Jingming killed the four strongest contestants in the 73rd Division and claimed first place, then unleashed a massive lightning attack on nearby contestants and pursued those who fled. His victory shocked observers in the Virtual World, while his friends and supporters logged off after seeing him take the lead.

• Xu Jingming killed the Black-haired Girl with a Mental Strength attack, then struck down the Support Type and Enhancement Type contestants with Lightning Chain.
• Xu Jingming grievously injured Li Ming with lightning, caught him as he fled, and killed him with the Flowing Cloud Gold Peak Spear.
• Xu Jingming's Points rose to 411246, putting him in first place in the 73rd Division.
• Xu Jingming used Du Tian Divine Lightning to engulf everything within a thousand-meter radius, killing many contestants before pursuing those who escaped.
• Observers in the Virtual World realized Xu Jingming had killed Li Ming, Zhou Hui, Qian Yuan, and Wang Dongyu, and his supporters logged off after confirming his first-place ranking.

Song Qiuyun cultivated in her dormitory after reflecting on Xu Jingming’s success, while a Bloodwing Assassin infiltrated the university to kill her. The Crimson Radiance Gilded Guardian detected the attack and killed the assassin before he could strike.

• Song Qiuyun cultivated with the remaining resources from Xu Jingming’s Yuan Spirit Pill and resolved to become Magic University’s strongest student.
• A Bloodwing Assassin arrived outside Modu Metahuman University and prepared to kill Song Qiuyun at three in the morning.
• The assassin entered Song Qiuyun’s bedroom undetected and began his attack as the clock struck three.
• The Crimson Radiance Gilded Guardian emerged from the mural, detected the intruder, and severed his head before he could use his Space-type Ability.

While Xu Jingming finished the Preliminary Competition by wiping out his entire division, assassins attacked Song Qiuyun and Jiang Chuxuan, prompting Eva to capture one and investigate who sent them. After the competition ended, Xu Jingming was transported with the other division winners to a new space, where he learned that Great Xia had another SS-rank Metahuman Ability awakener.

• Song Qiuyun discovered an assassin's corpse in her bedroom and called Magic University's security office.
• Eva took control of the Crimson Radiance Gilded Guardian beside Jiang Chuxuan, which disarmed and maimed the assassin; Jiang Chuxuan woke and began interrogating him.
• Eva warned that Xu Jingming's two wives were in danger, then infiltrated the assassins' communication wristwatches to investigate.
• Xu Jingming waited out the final minutes of the Preliminary Competition after killing every other contestant in the 73rd Division, earning 480,000 Points and first place.
• The competition organizers teleported Xu Jingming and 99 other first-place winners to a new world, where he met Cao Ren and learned of another SS-rank awakener in Great Xia.
• Cao Ren pointed out the other SS-rank awakener, a confident young man who exchanged a friendly nod with Xu Jingming.

Cao Jun introduced the world’s strongest young contestants and revealed that the Genius Competition’s generation included four SS-rank ability awakeners. After sending the others away, he called Xu Jingming and Su Yu over and explained his longstanding connection to Xu Jingming’s teachers and his own past assistance.

• Cao Ren told Xu Jingming that Su Yu was a Sixth-Order Mid-Rank SS-rank Enhancement Type Divine Beast Type awakener.
• Cao Jun addressed Great Xia’s top hundred young contestants and announced that six were S-rank and two were SS-rank ability awakeners.
• Cao Jun showed footage of powerful contestants from other countries, including Catherine Hepburn and Andrei, and said the generation had thirty-five S-rank and four SS-rank awakeners.
• Xu Jingming resolved to raise his level by hunting in No. 4 Devil's Nest and felt excited by the prospect of facing strong rivals.
• Cao Jun announced that the second stage would begin in two days and promised extra rewards if Great Xia secured one-quarter of the top thirty-two spots.
• Cao Jun kept Xu Jingming and Su Yu behind, recalled his ties to Su Qingli and Ling Shuang, and revealed that he had sent Blood Sword to assist Xu Jingming in Sakura Country.

After the Preliminary Competition, Xu Jingming learned that Wang Mang had arranged an attack on Song Qiuyun and Jiang Chuxuan through Blood Wing. Enraged, he decided to travel to Sichuan Province and kill Wang Mang.

• Cao Jun introduced Xu Jingming to Great Xia's other SS-rank prodigy, Su Yu, and advised Xu to aim for the top eight while Su Yu faced the other SS-ranks.
• Catherine and Andrei each dismissed Xu Jingming as a serious threat because he was only at the upper Fifth Order.
• Xu Jingming returned from the Virtual World and learned from Eva that Song Qiuyun and Jiang Chuxuan had been attacked the previous night.
• Eva traced the attack to Blood Wing and discovered that Wang Mang had issued the mission in retaliation for Xu Jingming killing people from Heaven's Mandate Sect.
• Xu Jingming ordered Eva to book him the earliest flight to Sichuan Province so he could kill Wang Mang.

Wang Mang learned that Blood Wing’s attempts to assassinate Xu Jingming’s women had failed because Crimson Radiance Gilded Guardians protected them. Xu Jingming tracked Wang Mang to his villa and attacked him, but Wang Mang’s Eighth-Grade Guardian Talisman blocked the first strike as he called his father for help.

• Wang Mang’s butler told him that Blood Wing’s assassins had failed to kill Song Qiuyun and Jiang Chuxuan, and one assassin had been captured.
• Wang Mang refused Blood Wing’s offer to try again and resolved to wait for another chance to make Xu Jingming suffer.
• Xu Jingming arrived at Wang Mang’s villa and broke through the reinforced bedroom wall.
• Xu Jingming attacked Wang Mang with Du Tian Divine Lightning, but Wang Mang’s Eighth-Grade Guardian Talisman formed a barrier and stopped the strike.
• Wang Mang warned Xu Jingming that his father, Wang Zhen, was a Ninth-Order Martial Saint, then called him for help.

Xu Jingming killed Wang Mang after using a Space Beast Bone to bypass his Guardian Talisman, then flew back to Thunder Martial Hall headquarters to seek Su Qingli’s help. Su Qingli assured him he had acted lawfully and promised to handle Wang Zhen if he came after him.

• Xu Jingming used the Space Beast Bone to enter Wang Mang’s Guardian Talisman barrier and killed him before destroying the phone connected to Wang Zhen.
• Xu Jingming erased the corpse with Golden Lightning and flew away while Eva warned that Wang Zhen might pursue him.
• Xu Jingming called Su Qingli and explained what had happened, then returned to Thunder Martial Hall headquarters.
• Wang Zhen saw an alert that Wang Mang’s Smart Bracelet had been destroyed and rushed off after realizing his son was in danger.
• Su Qingli told Xu Jingming that Wang Mang had violated the law, said Xu was not at fault for killing him, and promised to deal with Wang Zhen.

After killing Wang Mang, Xu Jingming received Su Qingli’s support and prepared for Wang Zhen’s likely retaliation. As Xu Jingming studied his tournament opponents, Wang Zhen arrived at Thunder Martial Hall demanding to see him.

• Su Qingli served Xu Jingming breakfast and asked what he would have done if she had refused to protect him; he explained his backup plans.
• Xu Jingming told Su Qingli he had mastered the Thunder Sea Meditation Technique and reached its second level, then answered her questions about Thunder God Descends.
• Xu Jingming planned to hunt in the Demon Cave during the later tournament break and entered the Virtual World to reassure Song Qiuyun and Jiang Chuxuan.
• Wang Zhen learned that Xu Jingming had killed Wang Mang and set out for Thunder Martial Hall to avenge his son.
• Xu Jingming watched footage of Catherine demonstrating her Sacred Angel ability, and Wang Zhen arrived outside demanding that Xu Jingming come out.

Wang Zhen confronted Xu Jingming at Thunder Martial Hall’s headquarters over the death of his son, Wang Mang. Su Qingli and the other directors defended Xu Jingming and drove Wang Zhen away, though he threatened to take the matter to the National Assembly.

• Wang Zhen arrived at Thunder Martial Hall and unleashed his aura, prompting Xu Jingming and the directors to fly out to meet him.
• Wang Zhen attacked Xu Jingming with his Qi-Blood, but Su Qingli blocked it and demanded to know what he was doing.
• Wang Zhen accused Xu Jingming of killing Wang Mang, and Su Qingli explained that Wang Mang had targeted Xu Jingming’s family by hiring assassins.
• Wang Zhen argued that Xu Jingming should have left the matter to the Public Security Bureau, but Su Qingli said Wang Zhen had no right to interfere either.
• Su Qingli, Hu Jinyu, and Gu Ming stood together against Wang Zhen, who withdrew and threatened to report the matter to the National Assembly.

Xu Jingming joined the 100,000 contestants gathered for the Global Genius Exchange Competition’s arena stage, where officials explained the battle royale format and assigned groups. After learning he would compete on the fifth day, he arranged with Cao Ren to hunt in No. 4 Devil's Nest beforehand so he could prepare for battle.

• The National Assembly delayed any decision on Xu Jingming’s case involving Wang Mang and Wang Zhen until its meeting on the 20th.
• Xu Jingming and the other advancing contestants gathered in the Virtual World and heard that the arena stage would begin with 1,000 battle royale groups, each sending ten survivors to the one-on-one matches.
• Xia Lan worried about Xu Jingming’s dispute with Wang Zhen, and he told her Director Su had advised him not to worry.
• Xu Jingming received Group 856, while Lin Hui received Group 134 and Xia Lan received Group 352; Group 856 was scheduled to compete on the fifth day.
• Xu Jingming asked Cao Ren to notify the Black Dragon Legion that he would hunt ferocious beasts in No. 4 Devil's Nest and give the legion all the beast materials, and Cao Ren agreed.

Xu Jingming hunted for Ability Points and asked Su Qingli to help him reach a frontline battlefield before his next Peak Competition rest period. She identified the dangerous Senbai Canyon and warned him about the opponents in his upcoming arena melee, while Xu Jingming declared his goal was first place.

• Xu Jingming spent four days hunting in No. 4 Devil's Nest but gained only 50,000 Ability Points, leaving him short of the amount needed to advance to the sixth order.
• Xu Jingming delivered his gathered ferocious beast materials to Cao Ren, then asked Su Qingli about fighting on a frontline battlefield.
• Su Qingli said fighting was quiet on the northern and western fronts but a new war threatened at Senbai Canyon, where Ninth-Order Metahumans had been called to guard the area.
• Su Qingli agreed that Xu Jingming could visit the battlefield and showed him three American contestants who might team up against him in the arena melee.
• Xu Jingming said he could defeat the three Americans and aimed to win first place, while Su Qingli cautioned that older SS-ranks from Great Xia, America, and Bear Country would be difficult opponents.

Xu Jingming recovered from his prolonged beast hunt and entered the Virtual World for his National College League rumble melee. He reached the preparation area as contestants in his group eyed him warily and discussed teaming up to eliminate him.

• Xu Jingming asked Su Qingli how she had advanced from the Sixth-Order Peak to the Dharma Saint realm in just over two years, but she said the method was secret.
• After resting for more than ten hours, Xu Jingming confirmed that his strength had recovered and logged into the Virtual World.
• Xu Jingming teleported to the Martial Arts Arena, where Song Qiuyun, Jiang Chuxuan, and his relatives watched the competition with him.
• Xu Jingming's group was called to prepare, and he teleported into the preparation area after saying goodbye to his family.
• The other contestants recognized Xu Jingming and discussed whether they could join forces to eliminate him.