Chapter Summaries

Xu Jingming left for Sakura Country despite Catherine asking to see him, while Sakuragi Rin prepared to meet him. Sato Ken resented Rin’s rejection and followed her as she left the dojo.

• Xu Jingming departed for Sakura Country after telling Ling Shuang he was leaving, then declined Catherine’s invitation to meet before flying out.
• Catherine waited beneath the Thunder Martial Hall building, felt frustrated when Xu Jingming ended their call, and left.
• Sakuragi Rin bathed, dressed carefully, and left the Heavenly Defense Dojo to meet Xu Jingming.
• Sato Ken complimented Sakuragi Rin, but she coldly told him to use her full name and said her destination was none of his concern.
• Sato Ken cursed Sakuragi Rin after she left, then decided to follow her.

Xu Jingming arrived at Sakuragi Rin’s ferocious beast stockpile, where she greeted him as her master while Sato Ken watched from nearby and misunderstood their relationship. Xu Jingming asked Sakuragi Rin to lead him to the beasts, leaving Sato Ken intent on investigating him.

• Sato Ken followed Sakuragi Rin to the restricted ferocious beast training field and watched from a distance.
• Xu Jingming arrived in a Scarlet Cloud-grade Warplane after Eva bypassed Sakura Country’s warning systems.
• Sakuragi Rin recognized Xu Jingming despite his altered appearance, sensed his seventh-order power, and knelt before him, calling him master.
• Sato Ken saw Sakuragi Rin kneel and assumed she had a secret romantic role-playing relationship with Xu Jingming.
• Xu Jingming decided not to question Sakuragi Rin’s behavior and asked her to take him to the ferocious beast stockpile.

Xu Jingming used Sakuragi Rin’s shikigami to conceal a massive fierce-beast stockpile before unleashing his SS-rank Myriad Lightning Sky Prison Draw across the ruins. The attack annihilated beasts over a 120-square-kilometer area, sending his Ability Points soaring.

• Xu Jingming praised Sakuragi Rin for gathering nearly ten thousand fierce beasts in the abandoned city ruins.
• Xu Jingming flew with Sakuragi Rin to the center of the stockpile and asked her to hide the activity from outside observers.
• Sakuragi Rin summoned thousands of shikigami and spread gray mist across the area, blocking perception while Sato Ken waited outside.
• Xu Jingming activated Thunderstorm State and his Radiant Lightning Ring, then called down Golden Lightning across the ruins.
• The lightning annihilated countless fierce beasts, and Xu Jingming’s system notifications showed his Ability Points rapidly increasing.

Xu Jingming gained 1.12 million Ability Points from the ferocious beasts and used most of them to advance to Seventh-Order Middle-Level. After clearing the remaining beasts with Sakuragi Rin, he offered to help her take revenge on Kitahara Sosuke, but Sato Ken and Deputy Supervisor Sato Hidekazu confronted them at the exit.

• Xu Jingming's lightning devastated the ruined city, terrifying Sakuragi Rin and alerting Sato Ken to his powerful aura.
• Xu Jingming spent 1.05 million Ability Points to advance to Seventh-Order Middle-Level, greatly increasing his physique and mental strength.
• Xu Jingming cleared the remaining ferocious beasts, gained another 70,000 Ability Points, and asked Sakuragi Rin to stockpile stronger beasts for him.
• Xu Jingming offered to help Sakuragi Rin kill her enemy, Kitahara Sosuke, if she completed her task well.
• Sato Ken and Deputy Supervisor Sato Hidekazu confronted Xu Jingming and Sakuragi Rin as they emerged from the base.

Xu Jingming's cover was exposed when Kudo Hidekazu challenged his identity at the Heavenly Defense Dojo. After Kudo attacked and revealed an Eighth-Grade Guardian Talisman, Xu Jingming killed him instantly, leaving Sakuragi Rin and Sato Ken facing the consequences.

• Kudo Hidekazu demanded that Sakuragi Rin explain why an unknown Seventh-Order Grandmaster was with her, and she claimed Xu Jingming was Aoyama Toyomi.
• Kudo rejected Sakuragi Rin's story, pressured Xu Jingming to identify himself, and transformed with his snake-based ability.
• Xu Jingming attacked Kudo with Berserk Golden Lightning, but Kudo's Eighth-Grade Guardian Talisman blocked the strike and revealed Xu Jingming's identity.
• Kudo drew his sword and decided to kill Xu Jingming, hoping to flee to America afterward.
• Xu Jingming used Thunder Piercing Demon Slaughter Spear to pierce Kudo's head and kill him instantly, splattering blood over Sato Ken.

Xu Jingming killed Kudo Hidekazu and Sato Ken after they threatened to expose his relationship with Sakuragi Rin, while Eva concealed their deaths from Heavenly Defense Dojo. He left for the southern Wilderness Area, and Sakuragi Rin began eliminating witnesses at the base.

• Kudo Hidekazu and Sato Ken attacked Xu Jingming, but he killed both of them.
• Sakuragi Rin warned Xu Jingming that Heavenly Defense Dojo would investigate the deaths, and Eva explained that she had falsified their life-monitor data.
• Eva offered to give Sakuragi Rin a Sub-body and planned to report Kudo Hidekazu's death as occurring in the Wilderness Area.
• Xu Jingming asked Sakuragi Rin about changes to the southern Wilderness Area, then left by fighter jet to investigate it.
• Sakuragi Rin decided to kill the Metahumans at the base and blame their deaths on a ferocious beast riot.

Xu Jingming found and opened the hidden research base beneath Kumamoto Prefecture with help from Eva and the Thorn Sword Grass. The base’s interior blocked his Mental Strength, so he sent the Thorn Sword Grass ahead to scout.

• Xu Jingming reached the overgrown ruins of Kumamoto Prefecture and searched underground with the Thorn Sword Grass.
• Xu Jingming sensed a large underground space about sixty meters below and ordered the Thorn Sword Grass to dig down to it.
• Xu Jingming found a massive alloy gate, and Eva used sixty-five Energy Modules to open it.
• Xu Jingming found that neither his Mental Strength nor Heart Net could perceive beyond the gate, while Eva reported that the base had no functioning electronic equipment.
• Xu Jingming ordered the Thorn Sword Grass to enter the dark base and scout ahead.

Xu Jingming entered a buried research base and discovered a skeleton whose aura appeared to belong to a Ninth-Order Peak Metahuman. He realized the threat might be a bluff, returned underground, and learned from Eva that the base had belonged to Zakri, a powerful Mental Type Metahuman who died in the Second Civilization Era.

• Xu Jingming sent Thorn Sword Grass into the base, but a hidden attacker swiftly severed most of its vine.
• Xu Jingming entered the base under protection and used a Thunderball Technique to illuminate its instruments, scattered chairs, and skeletons.
• A purple-black skeleton raised its skull and released a killing aura that Xu Jingming recognized as Ninth-Order Peak strength.
• Xu Jingming fled the base, then questioned why the apparent Ninth-Order Peak had not killed him with a thought.
• Eva agreed the aura could have been a bluff and identified the base's owner as Zakri, a Ninth-Order Peak Mental Type Metahuman who died during the Second Civilization Era.

Xu Jingming defeated and captured a fragment of Mental Strength in the research base, who identified himself as Zakri and claimed to be seeking an inheritor for his Mental Type Combat Skills. After Eva verified his story, Xu Jingming asked to receive the inheritance despite not being a Mental Type Metahuman, and Zakri reluctantly agreed to try.

• Xu Jingming destroyed the skeleton and trapped the fleeing Mental Strength fragment with his Thunder Domain.
• Xu Jingming tortured the fragment with Golden Lightning until it identified itself as Zakri, an S-rank Mental Type Ninth-Order Peak Metahuman from Jin Country.
• Eva accused the fragment of impersonating Zakri and explained that the real Zakri had died fighting the Blazing Fire Demon Ape.
• Zakri explained that he was a separated Mental Strength fragment tasked with finding an inheritor and passing down his Combat Skills.
• Xu Jingming offered himself as an inheritor, and Zakri reluctantly agreed to try despite Xu Jingming not being a Mental Type Metahuman.

Xu Jingming accepted Zakri’s unusually difficult inheritance trial, which required him to learn B-, A-, and S-rank Mental Type Combat Skills under time limits. After Zakri transmitted the first skill, Xu Jingming used Ability Points to raise it to Perfect Level, astonishing Zakri.

• Zakri set a three-stage inheritance trial requiring Xu Jingming to learn B-, A-, and S-rank Mental Type Combat Skills within increasingly long time limits.
• Xu Jingming accepted the trial after realizing Zakri could transmit the manuals directly through Mental Strength.
• Zakri transmitted the B-rank skill Calming Spirit, and Xu Jingming gained a preliminary understanding of it immediately.
• Xu Jingming spent Ability Points to upgrade Calming Spirit to Perfect Level in seconds.
• Xu Jingming used Calming Spirit on Zakri, who sensed its power and suspected it had reached Perfect Level.

Xu Jingming passed Zakri’s tests by mastering two Mental Type Combat Skills at Perfect Level with astonishing speed, and Zakri accepted him as his student and offered his inheritance. Zakri revealed two key techniques for Xu Jingming to study, while warning that humanity still faced the threat of the Magma Giant Beast.

• Xu Jingming mastered Zakri’s B-rank Calming Spirit Combat Skill in one minute, then raised the A-rank Object Manipulation Technique to Perfect Level.
• Xu Jingming demonstrated that he could manipulate a seventy-ton battle blade at tremendous speed, convincing Zakri that he was a Mental Type genius.
• Zakri waived the third test and asked Xu Jingming to become his student, and Xu Jingming accepted and performed the ceremony of taking a master.
• Xu Jingming told Zakri that the Third Civilization Era still faced ferocious beasts, and Zakri expressed hope that it could defeat the Magma Giant Beast.
• Zakri advised Xu Jingming to focus on his Lightning Ability and study the SSS+ Rank Slave Heart Seal and SSS-rank Soul Suppressing Pagoda.

Xu Jingming received Zakri’s Mental Strength inheritance and learned that his Essence Soul Seal could be used to control him. Zakri advised him to suppress it with the Soul Suppressing Pagoda, then departed to seek a way to restore his remnant soul, while Xu Jingming and Eva considered whether experts from the Second Civilization Era had survived.

• Zakri gave Xu Jingming his Battle Technique inheritance, including five SSS-rank Battle Techniques and the Purple Soul Meditation Technique.
• Zakri examined Xu Jingming’s Essence Soul Seal and warned that its flaws could let its caster brainwash and control him.
• Zakri told Xu Jingming that the Soul Suppressing Pagoda could neutralize the seal and that the Slave Heart Seal could eventually control its caster in reverse.
• Zakri left the Civilization Relic to search for a way to repair his remnant soul and explore the Third Civilization Era.
• Xu Jingming and Eva discussed whether experts from the Second Civilization Era had survived through the Fire Seed Project.

Xu Jingming used ability points to learn the Heart Taming Seal and Soul Suppressing Pagoda, then suppressed Liu Yushan’s hidden Essence Soul Seal in his Sea of Consciousness. After Eva inventoried the Civilization Relic, Xu Jingming stored its contents and left to test whether the Heart Taming Seal could control ferocious beasts.

• Xu Jingming spent ability points to learn the Heart Taming Seal and Soul Suppressing Pagoda.
• Xu Jingming used the Soul Suppressing Pagoda to suppress the Essence Soul Seal Liu Yushan had planted in his Sea of Consciousness.
• Xu Jingming resolved to report Liu Yushan’s actions to Great Xia’s higher-ups after returning to Oceania.
• Eva reported that the Civilization Relic contained research instruments and two powerless Crimson Radiance Gilded Guardians.
• Xu Jingming stored the relic’s contents, left with Eva, and set out to test the Heart Taming Seal on ferocious beasts.

Xu Jingming failed to enslave another powerful ferocious beast and learned that such attempts usually ended in the beast’s death. After leaving the southern Wilderness Area, he learned that Sakuragi Rin was about to face questions from Heavenly Defense Dojo’s Kyoto Headquarters over Kudo Hidekazu’s disappearance.

• Xu Jingming used the Slave Heart Seal on an eighth-order Cyan Fur Giant Ape, but its head exploded and he collected its corpse for Ability Points.
• Xu Jingming asked Eva whether Mental Strength users had successfully controlled ferocious beasts, and she said successful cases had been rare.
• Xu Jingming decided to visit Sakuragi Rin before returning to Oceania to hunt beasts and earn more Ability Points.
• Xu Jingming left the southern Wilderness Area of Sakura Country after avoiding the ninth-order beasts there.
• Eva told Xu Jingming that Kyoto Headquarters was investigating Kudo Hidekazu’s disappearance and was preparing to question Sakuragi Rin.

Sakuragi Rin was interrogated by Ishida Taiichi about Kudo, Sato Ken, and the Combat Training Field incident. Xu Jingming arrived, admitted killing Kudo and Sato Ken, and offered Ishida two choices: submit or die.

• Sakuragi Rin went to Ishida Taiichi's office for questioning while the Asahikawa Branch worried about the investigation.
• Ishida Taiichi accused Sakuragi Rin of lying about Sato Ken and Kudo, then threatened to search her memories with his Mental Type Ability.
• Eva told Sakuragi Rin that Xu Jingming had arrived, and he entered the room.
• Xu Jingming admitted that he had killed Kudo and Sato Ken, then struck Ishida Taiichi with Golden Lightning and destroyed his heart.
• Ishida Taiichi survived by forming a replacement heart with Mental Strength and recognized Xu Jingming.
• Xu Jingming told Ishida Taiichi to submit or die.

Xu Jingming forced Ishida Taiichi to submit and enslaved him with the Slave Heart Seal. Ishida became Xu Jingming’s servant, while the threat from Kyoto Headquarters remained unresolved.

• Xu Jingming rejected Ishida Taiichi’s warning about Kyoto Headquarters and threatened to kill him.
• Ishida Taiichi pretended to submit, hoping to find a chance to inform the Grand Supervisor later.
• Xu Jingming demanded that Ishida open his Mental Strength and formed a Slave Heart Seal.
• Ishida tried to contain the seal with his Mental Strength, but it took root in his Sea of Consciousness.
• Ishida’s eyes went vacant, and he returned to clarity as he respectfully called Xu Jingming “Master.”

Xu Jingming controlled Ishida Taiichi and ordered him to help Sakuragi Rin rise within the Heavenly Defense Dojo. After learning that Sakuragi Rin sought revenge for her parents’ deaths, Xu Jingming tasked her with helping him control Sakura Country, then departed for Oceania.

• Xu Jingming ordered Ishida Taiichi to conceal Kudo Shuichi and Sato Ken’s deaths and obey Sakuragi Rin.
• Sakuragi Rin told Xu Jingming that her parents had died when a Beast Tide breached a city after the Grand Supervisor transferred away its defenders.
• Xu Jingming promised to help Sakuragi Rin kill the Grand Supervisor and required her to help him control Sakura Country.
• Xu Jingming left for Oceania, and Ishida Taiichi advised Sakuragi Rin to return to Kyoto Headquarters to gain resources and influence.
• Sakuragi Rin anticipated that rising within the Heavenly Defense Dojo might change Xu Jingming’s attitude toward her.

Xu Jingming returned to Melbourne and told Ling Shuang about Zakri's inheritance and the hidden flaw in Liu Yushan's Essence Soul Seal. They contacted Cao Jun in the Virtual World to report their concerns, leaving him ready to hear the details.

• Xu Jingming returned to the Melbourne Branch of Thunder Martial Hall and found Ling Shuang working in her office.
• Xu Jingming told Ling Shuang about meeting Zakri's spirit body and receiving a Mental Type Battle Techniques inheritance.
• Xu Jingming warned Ling Shuang that Liu Yushan's Essence Soul Seal contained a backdoor for mental manipulation and might be intended to control him.
• Ling Shuang contacted Cao Jun, and he invited them to meet in the Virtual World.
• Cao Jun greeted Xu Jingming and Ling Shuang, joked about their future marriage and children, then asked what important matter they needed to discuss.

Xu Jingming told Cao Jun that Liu Yushan might have used a backdoor in his Essence Soul Seal to manipulate his Mental Strength, but Cao Jun only agreed to investigate. After learning about the upcoming Martial Hall Exchange Competition, Xu Jingming revealed to Ling Shuang that he had reached Seventh-Order Middle-Level and flirted with her in her office.

• Xu Jingming recounted his suspicions about Liu Yushan's Essence Soul Seal, and Cao Jun said he would arrange an investigation while questioning whether Zakri had deceived him.
• Cao Jun explained that the Martial Hall Exchange Competition would take place in three months and invited Xu Jingming to participate as a strong Seventh-Order fighter.
• Ling Shuang warned Xu Jingming to be careful around Liu Yushan, and Xu Jingming revealed that he had advanced to Seventh-Order Middle-Level.
• Xu Jingming told Ling Shuang that he had found additional opportunities in Sakura Country, and she joked that she wanted to travel with him next time.
• Xu Jingming teased Ling Shuang about helping him deal with something, then stopped her from teleporting away and said he preferred the scholarly atmosphere of her office.

Xu Jingming created and tested the S-rank Lightning Type combat skill Thunder Sword Formation, then prepared to improve it and enter the Wilderness Area. In Sydney, Leng Cang gathered the Spirit Fox Guild’s leaders to choose his successor, naming Leng Shu and Leng Yuexi as the two leading candidates.

• Ling Shuang told Xu Jingming that she would join him in the Martial Hall Exchange Competition and explained that Hu Jinyu’s assignment of Liu Shan away from the previous competition had helped leave Great Xia in third place.
• Xu Jingming combined the A-rank Object Manipulation Technique with his Lightning Type ability and used eighteen lightning-wreathed blades to kill an Eighth-Order Middle Position Bloodthirsty Tyrant Bear.
• Eva rated Xu Jingming’s newly created Thunder Sword Formation as an S-rank Combat Skill, and he considered improving it with stronger blades and further practice.
• Xu Jingming continued testing the Thunder Sword Formation in the Virtual World and planned to prepare before heading into the Wilderness Area.
• Leng Yuexi told Leng Yuechan that she had won the support of three eighth-order elders, while Leng Shu had the support of five.
• Leng Cang gathered the Spirit Fox Guild’s senior figures and announced that he would choose his successor, identifying Leng Shu and Leng Yuexi as the leading candidates.