Chapter Summaries

Xu Jingming outlasted every contestant in the Offense-Defense Competition, then joined Catherine and Su Yu to receive the Peak Competition awards. His victories made him the most celebrated contestant at the Global Genius Exchange Competition.

• Catherine learned that Xu Jingming conserved his strength through extensive combat experience gained in the Wilderness Area and on Great Xia's Frontline Battlefield.
• Xu Jingming eliminated the final ferocious beasts on Arena No. 1 after fighting for more than four days, becoming the only contestant left in the Offense-Defense Competition.
• Xu Jingming withdrew from the competition and returned to the stadium, where spectators cheered for him as the champion.
• The commentator announced that Xu Jingming, Catherine, and Su Yu would receive the Peak Competition awards and that the top one hundred contestants qualified for the Qingfeng Secret Realm.
• Xu Jingming, Catherine, and Su Yu lifted their trophies as the crowd celebrated, with Xu Jingming singled out as the competition's most dazzling contestant.

The 21st Global Genius Exchange Competition ended, with Xu Jingming winning both the Peak and Offense-Defense competitions. Back at the Thunder Martial Hall headquarters, he assessed the combat skills he needed to improve and learned that Song Qiuyun and Jiang Chuxuan had chosen a championship reward for him.

• Andrei took third place in the Offense-Defense Competition, while Su Yu placed fourth, and the ceremony marked the end of the 28-day competition.
• Xu Jingming exchanged contact information with Catherine and Andrei before leaving the arena.
• Xu Jingming returned to his villa and considered his rewards, including his Guardian Talisman, SS-rank equipment, and cultivation resources.
• Xu Jingming identified his spear technique and movement skill as weaknesses and planned to learn stronger Battle Techniques in Oceania.
• Jiang Chuxuan brought Xu Jingming tea, and Song Qiuyun said she and Jiang Chuxuan had chosen his championship reward but would reveal it after dinner.

After Xu Jingming returned from the Virtual World, he soaked Song Qiuyun and Jiang Chuxuan in the Azure Feather Lightning Bird's blood to strengthen their bodies. Meanwhile, Ling Shuang prepared to brief Xu Jingming on the difficult mission to take over the Melbourne and Sydney branches and went to find him.

• Xu Jingming ate a large dinner, then entered the bath while Song Qiuyun and Jiang Chuxuan went to prepare his champion's reward.
• Song Qiuyun and Jiang Chuxuan joined Xu Jingming in the bath, where the three spent more than two hours together.
• Xu Jingming drained the bath and filled it with blood from the Azure Feather Lightning Bird, heating it with Du Tian Divine Lightning to help Song Qiuyun and Jiang Chuxuan strengthen their bodies.
• Ling Shuang returned to her villa after arranging the Oceania mission with Su Qingli and worried about taking over the Melbourne and Sydney branches from their Eighth-Order Peak directors.
• Ling Shuang decided Xu Jingming could help with the mission and opened a Space Gate to go find him.

After absorbing the Azure Feather Lightning Bird’s blood, Xu Jingming was interrupted by Ling Shuang while bathing with Song Qiuyun and Jiang Chuxuan. The next morning, Ling Shuang told him he would travel with her to Oceania as an instructor at Thunder Martial Hall’s Elite Training Camp, though his main purpose would be hunting ferocious beasts.

• Xu Jingming, Song Qiuyun, and Jiang Chuxuan absorbed the blood’s energy, improving their Qi-Blood and physiques.
• Ling Shuang unexpectedly entered Xu Jingming’s bathroom through a Space Gate and sensed what was happening beneath the water.
• After returning home, Ling Shuang grew curious about what she had witnessed and searched online for novel positions.
• Xu Jingming visited Ling Shuang’s Director’s Office the next morning, and she told him they would leave for Oceania on December 1st.
• Ling Shuang explained that Xu Jingming would be assigned as an instructor at the Oceania branch’s Elite Training Camp, and he agreed to follow her arrangements.

Ling Shuang gave Xu Jingming a Space Ring and discussed his upcoming trip to Oceania. Xu Jingming then asked Su Qingli for advanced Battle Techniques, receiving recommendations for movement and spell techniques while learning that Thunder Martial Hall lacked an SSS-rank Lightning Type spear technique.

• Ling Shuang gave Xu Jingming a Space Ring with a capacity of 1,000 cubic meters and offered him a larger one if he performed well in Oceania.
• Xu Jingming visited Su Qingli to ask for higher-level movement, spear, and long-range spell Battle Techniques.
• Su Qingli recommended the S+ Rank Phantom Lightning Step, which could adjust Xu Jingming's movements using nearby Lightning Type abilities.
• Su Qingli offered to lend Xu Jingming the SSS-rank Myriad Lightning Sky Prison Draw from the Library for his trip to Oceania.
• Su Qingli recommended the SS+ rank Azure Lightning Overlord Spear Slash and explained that Great Xia had no SSS-rank Lightning Type spear technique because no Ninth-Order Martial Saint had combined Perfect Level Spear Technique with Lightning Type abilities.

Xu Jingming prepared to depart for Oceania with Su Qingli's help, received a specially reforged Space Ring from Ling Shuang, and spent his remaining days with Song Qiuyun and Jiang Chuxuan. His championship fame brought celebration and major opportunities for his hometown, his aunt's shop, and the Song family's Limit Equipment business.

• Su Qingli arranged for Xu Jingming to borrow the Azure Lightning Overlord Spear Slash and meet Oceania Weapon Master North Kevin to forge an SS-rank Alloy Long Spear.
• Su Qingli explained that Ling Shuang had planned a reward for Xu Jingming before the competition ended and had a one-thousand-cubic-meter Space Ring reforged in a masculine design for him.
• Xu Jingming spent his last days before leaving for Oceania training and studying Battle Techniques with Song Qiuyun and Jiang Chuxuan.
• Thunder Martial Hall and Magic University celebrated Xu Jingming's championship, while Jiangcheng erected his statue and his former high school publicized his connection to him.
• Xu Qingwan's shop received valuable orders with no delivery deadlines, and Song Feng's Limit Equipment was overwhelmed by new business after Xu Jingming's victory.
• Song Hai told Song Feng that Hui Yang Equipment's deputy manager was asking about their business, and Song Feng welcomed the inquiry while anticipating his eldest brother's reaction.

Song Zhan learned that Xu Jingming’s championship had brought major equipment contracts to Song Feng’s Limit Equipment Company, making him question his earlier judgment. On Xu Jingming’s twentieth birthday, he left for Oceania with Ling Shuang, Xia Lan, and other Genius Training Camp members.

• Song Zhan reviewed Huiyang Equipment’s recovery and praised himself for rebuilding the company after leaving the Song Family.
• Song Hai sent Song Zhan a folder of major procurement contracts secured by Limit Equipment, stunning the people at the meeting.
• Song Hai told Manager Wu that Xu Jingming’s championship had attracted the orders and that Limit Equipment would surpass Huiyang Equipment within six months.
• Xu Jingming celebrated his twentieth birthday and departure with Lin Hui, Xia Lan, Song Qiuyun, Jiang Chuxuan, and others.
• Xu Jingming joined Ling Shuang, Xia Lan, and other trainees aboard a warplane bound for Melbourne in Oceania.

After losing the Genius Competition, Catherine chose to travel to Oceania to sharpen her combat skills instead of returning to America. Meanwhile, the Mind-Controlling Beast God ordered the Heaven's Mandate Sect to help eliminate humanity's potential threats before the Holy Lord awakened within four years.

• Catherine continued slaughtering seventh-order beasts on the northern icefield until her mother, Pope Megan Evelyn, urged her to stop blaming herself for losing to Xu Jingming.
• Catherine rejected Evelyn's suggestion to return to America and chose to train in Oceania, where the Holy See had a base.
• On an island in the Pacific, a hooded Heaven's Mandate Sect member and powerful ferocious beasts watched recordings of the Global Genius Exchange Competition.
• The hooded human warned that Xu Jingming and the other SS-rank awakeners could threaten the Holy Race and proposed killing Xu Jingming in Oceania.
• The Mind-Controlling Beast God said the Holy Lord would awaken within four years and ordered the Heaven's Mandate Sect to target humanity's high-level fighters, with humans under its control assisting them.

Ling Shuang and her group arrived in Melbourne and found that the local Thunder Martial Hall branch had not sent anyone to receive them. After confronting the branch’s assistant, Ling Shuang learned that Xu Jingming’s separate villa would not be available until the next day.

• Ling Shuang arrived in Melbourne with Xu Jingming and the other students in a private warplane.
• Xu Jingming noticed that no one from Thunder Martial Hall was waiting for them at the Aviation Port.
• Ling Shuang teleported the group to the Melbourne Thunder Martial Hall building after saying they would go there themselves.
• Zhao Song apologized for the missed reception and offered accommodations and dinner, but Ling Shuang asked for dinner to be delivered to their villas.
• Ling Shuang requested a separate villa for Xu Jingming next to hers, and Zhao Song said none could be arranged until the next day.

After Zhao Song assigned the visitors inadequate accommodations, Ling Shuang explained that Liu Shan was trying to provoke them into a confrontation and warned them to avoid direct conflict. Xu Jingming settled into the villa with Xia Lan and had Eva scan it, where she discovered listening devices in every room.

• Zhao Song led Ling Shuang, Xu Jingming, Xia Lan, and the other trainees to their villas after promising to change the accommodation arrangements the next morning.
• Ling Shuang dismissed the trainees and invited Xu Jingming and Xia Lan to dinner before explaining that Liu Shan was trying to provoke them into giving him grounds to expel them.
• Ling Shuang told Xu Jingming and Xia Lan to avoid direct confrontations but assured them they could fight back if the branch staff went too far.
• Xu Jingming and Xia Lan returned to their shared villa, where Xu Jingming chose the second floor and asked Xia Lan to call him Jingming.
• Xu Jingming summoned Eva, who hacked the villa's Main Control Intelligence and found audio recorders in every room, disabling them.

Xu Jingming discovered listening devices in the villas, then consumed the Vermillion Blood Dragon Fruit and gained a dramatic increase in Qi-Blood. Meanwhile, Liu Shan dismissed Ling Shuang’s anger and remained determined to keep control of the Melbourne branch; Xu Jingming ended the chapter practicing with his newly enhanced strength.

• Xu Jingming and Eva found listening devices in every villa except Ling Shuang’s, and Xu Jingming told Eva to keep them active while feeding them ordinary recordings.
• Xu Jingming examined his SS+-rank Vermillion Blood Dragon Fruit and White Jade Spirit Focusing Elixir, then swallowed the fruit whole.
• Liu Shan questioned Zhao Song about Ling Shuang and Xu Jingming, dismissed Ling Shuang’s anger, and reaffirmed his confidence in retaining authority over the branch.
• Xu Jingming absorbed the fruit’s energy and raised his Qi-Blood to 24,013, gaining more than 1,700 Qi-Blood.
• Xu Jingming began adjusting to his increased strength by practicing spear techniques with the Flowing Cloud Gold Peak Spear.

After increasing his Mental Strength and studying combat techniques, Xu Jingming reported to Thunder Martial Hall and was introduced as the Elite Training Camp’s new instructor. He left after a brief welcome, while students approached Xia Lan.

• Xu Jingming took a White Jade Spirit Focusing Elixir, raising his Mental Strength by about 250 points, then studied the Phantom Lightning Step manual through the night.
• Xu Jingming and Xia Lan went to Thunder Martial Hall with Ling Shuang, where Liu Shan welcomed them and confirmed Xu Jingming’s role as an instructor.
• Zhao Song led Xu Jingming and Xia Lan to the Elite Training Camp’s students and introduced Xu Jingming as their new instructor.
• Xu Jingming briefly introduced himself and left, while He Xin and other girls stopped Xia Lan to greet her.

Xia Lan befriended He Xin and other trainees while defending Xu Jingming from Baker's insults. After Xu Jingming arranged for Kevin to forge his SS-rank spear and returned to Thunder Martial Hall, he arrived just as Baker taunted Xia Lan about him.

• Xia Lan shared Xu Jingming's accomplishments with He Xin and the other girls, who were impressed by his feats.
• Xia Lan overheard Baker and his companions insulting Xu Jingming's appointment as an instructor, but she dismissed their remarks.
• Xu Jingming told Weapon Master North Kevin that he wanted a swift, fierce 2.2-meter spear, and Kevin said it would be ready in about ten days.
• Xu Jingming decided to ask Teacher Ling how to join the frontline forces and flew back toward Thunder Martial Hall.
• Baker pressured Xia Lan for her contact information, then insulted her and the other girls after she refused and tried to leave.
• Xia Lan teleported back and demanded that Baker apologize, but he mocked her and Xu Jingming before Xu Jingming's voice sounded from the entrance.

Xu Jingming confronted Baker for bullying Xia Lan and the other trainees, but Head Coach Wang Chun challenged his authority and fitness to teach. Xu Jingming proposed a contest to restore equally incomplete S-rank Combat Skills, with both sides risking their positions and Baker’s group facing expulsion.

• Xu Jingming arrived as Baker intimidated Xia Lan and the other trainees, then heard Xia Lan explain what had happened.
• Xu Jingming ordered Baker and his companions to apologize and leave the Elite Training Camp, but Coach Wang Chun intervened.
• Wang Chun dismissed Baker’s behavior as a joke and questioned Xu Jingming’s ability to teach.
• Wang Chun said he would recognize Xu Jingming as an instructor if he could restore an S-rank Combat Skill manual.
• Xu Jingming proposed that they restore equally incomplete S-rank Combat Skills in a contest, with Wang Chun’s position and Baker’s group’s expulsion at stake.

Xu Jingming wagered against Wang Chun on repairing S-rank combat skill manuals, with the winner taking the Elite Training Camp Head Coach position. After Wang Chun chose two Thunder-type skills, Xu Jingming learned that Thunder Flame had been created by a Ninth-Order powerhouse from the First Civilization Era.

• Wang Chun called Liu Shan, who approved his wager with Xu Jingming and told him to choose both manuals, while promising him an SS+-rank Cultivation Resource if he won.
• Xia Lan, He Xin, and the other trainees warned Xu Jingming that Wang Chun had extensive experience repairing combat skill manuals, but Xu Jingming said he knew what he was doing.
• Wang Chun proposed repairing two offensive S+ Rank manuals that were each ten percent incomplete, and Xu Jingming agreed as long as both skills matched in type, rank, and incompleteness.
• Wang Chun chose Falling Thunder Art for himself and Thunder Flame for Xu Jingming.
• Eva told Xu Jingming that the Thunder Flame Honored One, a Ninth-Order powerhouse from the First Civilization Era, had created Thunder Flame by researching how to convert lightning into fire.

Xu Jingming accepted Wang Chun’s wager to restore the S+ Rank Thunder Flame Battle Technique, despite Eva’s warning that it would be exceptionally difficult. He then went to Ling Shuang’s Villa, where her old friend Bai Sha was visiting with her daughter.

• Eva warned Xu Jingming that Thunder Flame was far harder to restore than Wang Chun’s Falling Thunder Art, but Xu Jingming accepted the wager anyway.
• Wang Chun promised Xu Jingming the Head Coach position if he finished restoring Thunder Flame first, then expelled Baker and the other trainees from the Elite Training Camp.
• Xu Jingming learned that Ling Shuang had returned to her Villa and left to speak with her.
• Ling Shuang talked with her old friend Bai Sha, who explained that her husband Ding Cai had sent her to seek Ling Shuang’s favor.
• Xu Jingming arrived at Ling Shuang’s Villa while Bai Sha and her daughter were there.

Xu Jingming learned how to join Melbourne’s frontline battles and left for the Wilderness Area while disguised, planning to hunt beasts before the Qingfeng Secret Realm arrangements were announced. Back at Thunder Martial Hall, trainees discovered that the Thunder Flame technique Wang Chun had chosen for their repair bet had never been repaired, and Xia Lan could not reach Xu Jingming to warn him.

• Xu Jingming told Ling Shuang about his bet with Wang Chun, and she supported his attempt to become head coach.
• Ling Shuang warned Xu Jingming that the Heaven's Mandate Sect targeted human geniuses and explained how he could join the Dejaka Battle Group.
• Eva told Xu Jingming to log into the Virtual World on December 11 for the Qingfeng Secret Realm entry arrangements, so he planned a short trip to the Wilderness Area.
• Xu Jingming disguised his appearance, aura, and ability, then left for the Wilderness Area with the incomplete Thunder Flame Battle Technique.
• Trainees on the Elite Training Camp forum said Thunder Flame had never been repaired and suspected Wang Chun had set Xu Jingming up to lose the bet.
• Xia Lan learned Xu Jingming had already left for the Wilderness Area and could only wait for him to return.

Xu Jingming traveled to the Bangor City Ruins while studying the incomplete Thunderfire combat skill, then used Ability Points to restore and master it. After discovering it was weaker than a regular lightning attack, he decided to return to Melbourne before the Qingfeng Secret Realm announcement.

• Xu Jingming chose the Bangor City Ruins and traveled there on foot through the Oceania Wilderness Area, killing beasts along the way.
• Xu Jingming studied the incomplete Thunderfire manual at night and hunted beasts by day after reaching the ruins.
• Xu Jingming spent 20,000 Ability Points to restore and master the Thunderfire combat skill.
• Xu Jingming tested Thunderfire against a lightning ball and learned that the lightning attack was about one-fifth more powerful.
• Xu Jingming decided to return to Melbourne before the Qingfeng Secret Realm opening-time notification arrived on December 11th.

Xia Lan worried that Wang Chun had trapped Xu Jingming with an impossible bet and urged him to ask Ling Shuang to cancel it. Xu Jingming returned and arranged a meeting with Wang Chun and witnesses, while Wang Chun prepared to resist and called Director Liu Shan for support.

• Xia Lan finished training in the S-rank combat skill Void Chaotic Skewer Kill and worried that Wang Chun's Thunder Flame manual was nearly restored.
• Xu Jingming returned to the villa, and Xia Lan warned him that Thunder Flame could not be restored and urged him to cancel the bet.
• Xu Jingming called Wang Chun to arrange a meeting at the Martial Hall headquarters with the Elite Training Camp trainees as witnesses, then informed Teacher Ling.
• Wang Chun agreed to the meeting but decided not to cancel the bet and called Director Liu Shan for support.

Xu Jingming returned to the Elite Training Camp and revealed that he had repaired the Thunder Flame Battle Technique, fulfilling his bet with Wang Chun. Wang Chun recognized the manual was complete but denied it, and Xu Jingming summoned golden lightning and flames to prove his claim.

• Students gathered at the martial hall, where Liu Shan and Ling Shuang arrived to watch Xu Jingming and Wang Chun settle their bet.
• Wang Chun accused Xu Jingming of intending to cancel the bet, but Xu Jingming announced that he had repaired the Thunder Flame Battle Technique and presented the manual.
• Wang Chun examined the five restored sections and realized the technique was complete as students watched in amazement.
• Wang Chun denied the repair and offered to have other instructors inspect the manual, hoping to avoid losing his position as Head Coach.
• Xu Jingming called Wang Chun an old geezer and conjured golden lightning surrounding blazing flames.