Chapter Summaries

Xu Jingming proved he had mastered the Thunder Flame Battle Technique, winning the wager and becoming Thunder Martial Hall’s Head Coach. Back at the villa, he let Xia Lan stay and upgraded Phantom Lightning Step to Beginner.

• Xu Jingming demonstrated the mastered Thunder Flame Battle Technique, confirming that Wang Chun had lost the wager.
• Liu Shan promoted Xu Jingming to Head Coach and demoted Wang Chun to ordinary instructor; Wang Chun congratulated Xu Jingming and left.
• Ling Shuang congratulated Xu Jingming and invited him and Xia Lan to dinner before returning to work.
• Xu Jingming told Xia Lan she could continue living in his villa, and she offered to cook him a meal.
• Xu Jingming spent 4,000 Ability Points to upgrade Phantom Lightning Step to Beginner.

Xu Jingming tested his newly mastered Phantom Lightning Step by sparring with Xia Lan in the Virtual World. He effortlessly dodged her attacks, leaving Xia Lan unable to hit him.

• Xu Jingming mastered the Phantom Lightning Step and decided to test it against Xia Lan in the Virtual World.
• Xia Lan prepared a meal from a Fifth-Order Water-Bearing Sky Tiger before agreeing to spar with Xu Jingming.
• Xu Jingming entered the battle without enhancement states or Heart Net's passive perception, while Xia Lan set her strength to Seventh-Order Upper Position.
• Xia Lan used Void Flash to attack Xu Jingming from behind, but he dodged with the Phantom Lightning Step.
• After more than ten minutes of missed attacks, Xia Lan gave up, unable to hit Xu Jingming without using Space-type restraint techniques.

Xu Jingming raised his Phantom Lightning Step proficiency and awaited news about the Qingfeng Secret Realm while planning to study more battle techniques. He helped complete his new SS-rank spear, tested its lightning-enhanced speed, and named it the Molten Obsidian Spear.

• Xu Jingming spent 30,000 Ability Points to raise Beginner Phantom Lightning Step to Grandmaster-level Proficiency and checked his status.
• Xu Jingming planned to study his SS+ Rank and SSS-rank battle techniques with Director Su while waiting for arrangements for the Qingfeng Secret Realm.
• Weapon Master Kevin called Xu Jingming to his forge to finish the SS-rank spear with his Du Tian Divine Lightning.
• Xu Jingming infused the black spear with lightning, synchronizing its patterns and completing the forging.
• Xu Jingming tested the spear and found that his lightning flowed through it smoothly and increased his thrusting speed.
• Xu Jingming named the weapon the Molten Obsidian Spear.

Xu Jingming celebrated becoming Head Coach of the Elite Training Camp with Ling Shuang and learned that he might soon visit the Qingfeng Secret Realm. At the competition assembly, officials announced when and where the realm would open and arranged private planes for the top 32 geniuses.

• Ling Shuang thanked Xu Jingming for becoming Head Coach, which had prompted members unhappy with Liu Shan to approach her.
• Ling Shuang told Xu Jingming that the Qingfeng Secret Realm could offer another set of SS+ Rank cultivation resources, and he said he might leave in a few days.
• Xu Jingming entered the Virtual World and met the top 100 competitors, then rejected Catherine's invitation to visit America and see the Lord's miracles.
• A competition official announced that competitors had to arrive in Madan Country by 9 a.m. on December 13th for the Qingfeng Secret Realm opening.
• The official said the top 32 geniuses would receive private-plane pickups, while the other competitors had to travel on their own.

Xu Jingming learned about the three opportunities in the Qingfeng Secret Realm and prepared to travel there. After arriving at the Melbourne gathering point, he spotted a familiar figure.

• A white man explained that the Qingfeng Secret Realm contained a Yuan Energy Pool, seven Elemental Pools, and challenges against Bell Norton.
• The geniuses discussed whether Xu Jingming could evolve his ability again, and the white man said the Elemental Pools had only transformed twelve abilities among two thousand contestants.
• Bell Norton offered cultivation resources to those who lasted against him, with an SS-rank reward for anyone who defeated him.
• Xu Jingming registered his location, packed his equipment, and set off for the Qingfeng Secret Realm gathering point.
• Xu Jingming arrived at Caesar Square in Melbourne and spotted a familiar slender figure.

Xu Jingming reunited with Catherine in Melbourne before traveling with the other prodigies to Madan for a month-long expedition into the Qingfeng Secret Realm. As Norton opened the realm, Eva identified it as the Flower Goddess Ruins Space.

• Xu Jingming greeted Catherine at Caesar Square, and she promised to preach to him again after finding a new method.
• Xu Jingming and the other gathered prodigies flew from Melbourne to Madan, where a Ninth-Order Metahuman explained that sulfur trenches kept ferocious beasts away from the islands.
• Xu Jingming arrived at the beach the next morning with the other top hundred prodigies and heard Norton's warning about the Qingfeng Secret Realm's dangers.
• Norton opened the Qingfeng Secret Realm with a stone that released Space Power, and Eva told Xu Jingming that the place seemed to be the Flower Goddess Ruins Space.

Xu Jingming entered Flower Goddess's Secret Realm with the other geniuses and learned about the powerful Plant Life she had cultivated. The group set off for the distant Yuan Energy Pool and Elemental Pool, while Eva planned to help Xu Jingming search for Plant Life later.

• Norton and the other Ninth-Order Metahumans led Xu Jingming and the geniuses into Flower Goddess's Secret Realm.
• Eva explained that Flower Goddess had cultivated conscious Plant Life capable of growing powerful and forming armor, and offered to help Xu Jingming find some.
• Norton closed the entrance, and Eva explained that a Second Civilization Era Space-type Supreme Expert had created the independent spaces used by the Supreme Experts.
• Norton and the other Ninth-Order Metahumans flew toward the pools more than two hundred kilometers away.
• Catherine, Xu Jingming, and other geniuses headed for the destination using their abilities and other means of travel, while Su Yu sprinted into the forest.

Xu Jingming reached the secret realm’s Yuan Energy and Elemental Pools, tested the cultivation speed, and discovered his damaged Light Elemental Essence could recover by absorbing energy from the Light Elemental Pool. He left it to recharge despite a contestant’s objection, while Norton allowed the matter to stand.

• Xu Jingming overtook Catherine in flight and reached the pools, where he tested Phantom Lightning Step and found it increased his flying speed.
• Xu Jingming declined Norton’s offer to challenge him and cultivated in the Yuan Energy Pool, finding its cultivation speed was six times normal.
• Xu Jingming brought out his damaged Light Elemental Essence, and it began absorbing light elements from the Light Elemental Pool.
• Eva told Xu Jingming the essence would take thirty-six days to fully recover, so he left it absorbing energy, expecting it to reach about ninety percent in thirty days.
• A Black man objected that the essence would harm light-type Metahumans’ comprehension, but Xu Jingming intimidated him into backing down as Norton watched without intervening.

Xu Jingming placed two Elemental Essences at the Elemental Pools, arranged for Su Yu and Catherine to guard them, then flew to search the Flower Sea for Plant Life. Near the northeastern region, he found a city in the Flower Goddess’s Spatial Remains and was confronted by a middle-aged man.

• Xu Jingming learned that the Water Elemental Essence would recover in about twenty-seven days and chose not to interfere with Catherine absorbing light elements.
• Xu Jingming asked Su Yu to guard his Elemental Essences while he visited the Forest Area, and Catherine volunteered to watch the Light Elemental Essence.
• Xu Jingming consulted Eva’s map and flew northeast toward the Flower Sea where the Flower Goddess had cultivated plants.
• Xu Jingming discovered a city in the Flower Goddess’s Spatial Remains, where the people moving through it were at least seventh-rank metahumans.
• A stern-faced middle-aged man surrounded by sharp gales rose from the city and shouted at Xu Jingming to halt.

Xu Jingming learned that Qingfeng City was restricted to seventh-order Metahumans and searched the forest for Plant Life instead. After finding no Mental Strength in a deadly patch of vines, he spotted Erin approaching with two treants and decided to follow her.

• A Great Xia Grandmaster stopped Xu Jingming from entering Qingfeng City and explained that he could qualify to enter after reaching the seventh order.
• Xu Jingming asked Eva where else to search for Plant Life, and she suggested looking through the forest because High-Order Metahumans had taken over the Flower Sea.
• A Gale Dire Wolf entered a thicket of murderous vines, which drained its blood and killed it.
• Xu Jingming sensed no Mental Strength in the vines and concluded they were not the Plant Life he sought.
• Xu Jingming sensed Erin approaching with two treants and hid his aura so he could follow her.

Xu Jingming followed Erin through the Qingfeng Secret Realm, hoping her ability to locate special plants would lead him to Plant Life. After Erin ran into a cave and was captured by a dangerous plant, Xu Jingming destroyed its vines with Thunder Prison, leaving her free but shaken.

• Xu Jingming secretly followed Erin as she searched for special plants, while Eva urged him to keep going.
• After more than an hour, Erin received a signal from her treants and hurried deeper into the forest toward a cave.
• Xu Jingming followed Erin into the cave after his Heart Net perception lost track of her and he heard her cry out.
• Xu Jingming found Erin and her treants bound by slime-covered vines, which he annihilated with Thunder Prison.
• Erin fell to the cavern floor after being freed and remained shaken.

Xu Jingming and Erin found Black Purple Vine in a cave, then faced an attack from the far more valuable Thorn Sword Grass hidden deeper inside. Eva explained the plant’s rarity and value as Erin recognized it with excitement.

• Xu Jingming rescued Erin from the Black Purple Vine’s vines and learned that its slime could heal injuries and paralyze.
• The Black Purple Vine attacked again, and Xu Jingming restrained it with Thunder Prison.
• Sword-shaped leaves shot from the cave depths, but Xu Jingming’s Thunder Barriers stopped them from hitting him and Erin.
• Xu Jingming and Erin saw the six- or seven-meter-tall Thorn Sword Grass, and Eva explained that it was rare Plant Life far more valuable than Black Purple Vine.

Xu Jingming subdued the Thorn Sword Grass and turned it into protective armor after admitting to Erin that he had followed her to claim a Plant Life. He left for the Yuan Energy Pool, while Erin accepted the loss and hoped to find another Plant Life before her time in the Qingfeng Secret Realm ran out.

• Xu Jingming used Berserk Golden Lightning to exhaust and contain the Thorn Sword Grass's attacks, then subdued it with a Mental Strength Imprint.
• Erin offered to buy the Thorn Sword Grass, but Xu Jingming refused and revealed that he had followed her because he wanted a Plant Life.
• Xu Jingming transformed the Thorn Sword Grass into Plant Armor and tested its defensive strength with Du Tian Divine Lightning.
• Eva said she could use a formula to help the Thorn Sword Grass reach the seventh order in less than a month if they had enough resources.
• Erin asked whether Xu Jingming would have taken the Thorn Sword Grass even if he had not saved her, and he left without answering directly.
• Xu Jingming flew toward the Yuan Energy Pool, while Erin resigned herself to seeking another Plant Life in the Qingfeng Secret Realm.

Xu Jingming spent his final days in the Qingfeng Secret Realm hunting beasts, then used his accumulated Ability Points to advance to Sixth-Order Middle-Rank before resting ahead of his fight with Norton. On the last morning, he had still not returned, leaving the contestants worried that something had happened to him.

• Xu Jingming accumulated 510,000 Ability Points by hunting ferocious beasts and advanced from Sixth-Order Lower-Rank to Sixth-Order Middle-Rank.
• Xu Jingming told Eva to wake him after ten hours of sleep, confident that he would have enough time to challenge Norton.
• Contestants challenged Norton for rewards, with Catherine, Su Yu, and Andrei lasting five minutes or more, and Catherine lasting over ten minutes.
• At 8:31 on January 13, the contestants noticed Xu Jingming had not returned and speculated that an Eighth-Order ferocious beast might have attacked him.

Xu Jingming returned to the Qingfeng Secret Realm after a month of hunting, collected the replenished Elemental Essences, and challenged Norton. He revealed that he had reached Sixth-Order Middle and defeated Norton’s Seventh-Order Middle-Level strength with a powerful spear strike.

• Xu Jingming returned to the contestants and collected the Water Elemental Essence at 100% integrity and the Light Elemental Essence at 89% integrity.
• Xu Jingming thanked Catherine and Su Yu, who each asked him to treat them to a meal when they reached Oceania.
• With fifteen minutes left before the Qingfeng Secret Realm closed, Xu Jingming accepted one of his three challenges against Norton.
• Xu Jingming revealed that he had reached Sixth-Order Middle and charged at Norton as soon as the challenge began.
• Xu Jingming struck Norton with Azure Lightning Overlord Spear, and Norton conceded the challenge after blocking the attack with Seventh-Order Middle-Level strength.

Xu Jingming defeated Norton with a single SS-rank spear technique and received a Black Phoenix Fruit before leaving the Qingfeng Secret Realm. Back in Oceania, Ling Shuang learned that the Bewitching Butterfly Sect’s Master might attend a paired gathering and decided to wait for Xu Jingming to return so he could accompany her.

• Xu Jingming surprised the contestants by defeating Norton with one spear technique, and Norton awarded him a Black Phoenix Fruit.
• Xu Jingming accepted Norton’s advice to wait until the Seventh Order before consuming the fruit.
• Xu Jingming and the other contestants left the Qingfeng Secret Realm, and Catherine asked him to treat her to a meal after they returned to Oceania.
• Liang Ya reported that the Bewitching Butterfly Sect’s Master might appear at a gathering requiring a male-female pair to attend.
• Ling Shuang decided to wait for Xu Jingming to return so he could accompany her to the gathering.

Xu Jingming arrived in Melbourne, learned that Erin was Silver Moon Commerce’s heiress, and returned to Thunder Martial Hall, where Hall Master Liu Shan summoned him and Ling Shuang to a meeting. The chapter left them heading to the Martial Hall Building.

• Xu Jingming and the other prodigies arrived at Melbourne's Aviation Port, where travelers recognized them and Holy Church believers prayed to Catherine.
• Erin introduced herself to Xu Jingming as the vice president of Silver Moon Commerce's Melbourne Branch and revealed that the company's president was her great-grandfather.
• Erin offered Xu Jingming a cultivation plan for his Thorn Sword Grass, then left to report to the branch.
• Catherine invited Xu Jingming to dinner, then flew away; Xu Jingming spread his Thunder Dragon Wings and headed to Thunder Martial Hall.
• Ling Shuang and Xia Lan welcomed Xu Jingming home, and he ate dinner with them.
• Hall Master Liu Shan summoned Ling Shuang to a meeting, and she told Xu Jingming to come with her because he was a head coach.

At a Thunder Martial Hall meeting, Liu Shan assigned Xu Jingming to face Holy Spirit Martial Hall’s S-rank Head Coach and pressed Ling Shuang about the Bewitching Butterfly Sect mission. Xu Jingming accepted the challenge and publicly rebuked Vice-Curator Gan for questioning Ling Shuang.

• Liu Shan announced that Holy Spirit Martial Hall would visit in a month and assigned Xu Jingming to spar with its lead Head Coach, Defoe George.
• Xu Jingming agreed to face George, while Liu Shan praised him and said he would watch the match.
• Liu Shan asked Ling Shuang about her progress on the Bewitching Butterfly Sect mission, and she said she would root out its sect master within five days.
• Gan Gui challenged Ling Shuang over what would happen if she failed, and Xu Jingming defended her by asking who Gan Gui thought he was.
• Liu Shan intervened to excuse Gan Gui’s question and claimed the mission was important.

After Liu Shan plotted to undermine Ling Shuang and Xu Jingming, the two left the Thunder Martial Hall and discussed Xu Jingming’s rapid advancement and the challenge posed by Eighth-Order Grandmasters. Ling Shuang then asked Xu Jingming to pose as her husband at a Bewitching Butterfly Church gathering the night after tomorrow.

• Gan Gui complained about Xu Jingming, while Liu Shan explained that he had arranged for George to challenge Xu Jingming and planned to hold Ling Shuang accountable if she failed her mission.
• Xu Jingming told Ling Shuang that he had obtained an SSS-rank Cultivation Resource, found a rare Sixth-Order Peak Plant Life, and advanced to Sixth-Order Middle Position.
• Ling Shuang warned Xu Jingming that an A-Rank Eighth-Order Grandmaster could still be far stronger than he expected and advised him to test himself in the Virtual World.
• Ling Shuang told Xu Jingming about the Bewitching Butterfly Church mission and asked him to attend its gathering as her husband.
• Xu Jingming agreed to accompany Ling Shuang, while privately wondering what the gathering would involve.

Xu Jingming set a steep price for the Thunder Flame Battle Technique, then reviewed Erin’s costly Thorn Sword Grass cultivation plans. He chose the fastest, most balanced plan and decided to invest his savings in the plant.

• Xu Jingming priced the Thunder Flame Battle Technique at one hundred Points per hour, with a minimum purchase of three hundred hours, intending to make Thunder Martial Hall’s executives pay to view it.
• Ling Shuang added the manual to Thunder Martial Hall’s Library, where students and instructors showed interest, while Lightning Type executives competed to view it first despite the high cost.
• Eva showed Xu Jingming three Thorn Sword Grass cultivation plans, which ranged from roughly 5.3 to 10.1 billion Blue Star Coins and took three to seven months to reach the seventh order.
• Xu Jingming learned that a faster ten-day cultivation plan would cost tens of billions of Blue Star Coins, far beyond what he could afford.
• Xu Jingming decided to spend his 24.3 billion Great Xia Coins on the balanced Thorn Sword Grass plan, valuing its combat support and potential to become powerful armor.