Chapter Summaries

Kitahara Takuma discovered Sakuragi Rin had visited Ishida Taiichi’s office and rushed there, only to find her devoted to Xu Jingming. Xu Jingming killed Takuma, provoking the furious response of his father, Kitahara Sosuke.

• Kitahara Takuma learned that Sakuragi Rin had gone to Ishida Taiichi’s office and suspected she was hiding a connection to Sato Ken’s death.
• Xu Jingming offered to help Sakuragi Rin rule the Sakura Country, and she gratefully pledged herself to him.
• Kitahara Takuma burst into Ishida Taiichi’s office and found Sakuragi Rin kneeling before Xu Jingming with her upper body bare.
• Sakuragi Rin declared Xu Jingming her Master, and Kitahara Takuma recognized him as the killer of Sato Ken.
• Xu Jingming incinerated Kitahara Takuma with Chaos Divine Lightning, and Kitahara Sosuke roared in fury from another building.

Xu Jingming killed Kitahara Sosuke after learning that he had caused the Beast Tide that killed Sakuragi Rin’s parents, and Sakuragi Rin avenged them with her shikigami. When two American Martial Saints confronted Xu Jingming, he declared that he was taking Sakura Country.

• Kitahara Sosuke learned his son Kitahara Takuma had died, attacked the Headquarters Building, and discovered Xu Jingming inside.
• Kitahara Sosuke hid his anger and welcomed Xu Jingming, but Xu attacked him with Chaos Divine Lightning and explained that the Heavenly Defense Dojo had once tried to eliminate him.
• Sakuragi Rin confronted Kitahara Sosuke over withdrawing Fukuoka’s defenses fourteen years earlier, which had led to her parents’ deaths and more than ten thousand other fatalities.
• Sakuragi Rin’s shikigami devoured the weakened Kitahara Sosuke, and she thanked Xu Jingming and vowed to serve him for life after life.
• Two American Ninth-Order Martial Saints arrived and challenged Xu Jingming, who told them to inform their council that he was taking Sakura Country.

Xu Jingming killed Kitahara Sosuke, forced Sakura Country’s Heavenly Defense Dojo to accept Sakuragi Rin as its Grand Supervisor, and used the Slave Heart Seal to control its Grandmasters. He ordered the dojo to absorb all other Metahuman forces, then hunted ferocious beasts to gain Ability Points.

• Two American ninth-order Metahumans warned Xu Jingming that they would report his actions to the Pope, then retreated.
• Xu Jingming ordered the Heavenly Defense Dojo’s Grandmasters to gather and demanded that they appoint Sakuragi Rin as Grand Supervisor.
• Xu Jingming used the Slave Heart Seal to control all 21 Eighth-Order Grandmasters and ordered them to expand the dojo and eliminate other Metahuman forces in Sakura Country within a month.
• Xu Jingming took Sakuragi Rin to a ferocious-beast enclosure and unleashed a 20-kilometer Thunderstorm Zone, killing the beasts and rapidly increasing his Ability Points.

America’s National Assembly decided not to confront Xu Jingming over his takeover of Sakura Country, instead demanding compensation from Great Xia. As Sakura Country’s citizens realized America would not rescue them, Xu Jingming continued consolidating control and gained 2.314 million Ability Points.

• Kane reported that Xu Jingming had killed Kitahara Sosuke and Kitahara Takuma, driven away America’s Ninth-Order members, and intended to claim Sakura Country.
• Kane warned that Xu Jingming’s ties to Aimer and his growing strength made attacking him too risky, and Evelyn agreed to let him have Sakura Country while pressuring Great Xia for compensation.
• Sakura Country’s citizens reacted to the video of Xu Jingming’s victory, with many sympathizing with Sakuragi Rin and blaming Kitahara Sosuke for exploiting the country on America’s behalf.
• America issued a brief statement condemning Xu Jingming and demanding compensation from Great Xia, but offered Sakura Country no direct help.
• Xu Jingming finished killing the fierce beasts at Sakuragi Rin’s second breeding ground, raising his Ability Points to 2.314 million.

Xu Jingming evolved his Enhancement Type ability into the SSS-rank Ancient Azure Dragon and raised Heavenly Secret Eyes to Perfect Level, gaining the power to analyze Metahumans and see through clothing. He returned Sakuragi Rin to the Heavenly Defense Dojo headquarters while setting off for the Wilderness Area himself.

• Xu Jingming spent 1.47 million Ability Points to evolve Tai Xu Azure Dragon into the SSS-rank Ancient Azure Dragon, greatly increasing his strength and intimidating Sakuragi Rin and those at the Heavenly Defense Dojo base.
• Sakuragi Rin congratulated Xu Jingming on his breakthrough, and he used his remaining Ability Points to upgrade Heavenly Secret Eyes to Perfect Level.
• Xu Jingming used Heavenly Secret Eyes to examine Sakuragi Rin and her Snow Woman shikigami, spotting flaws in the shikigami's Mental Strength.
• Xu Jingming returned with Sakuragi Rin to the Obsidian-grade Warplane and instructed her to go back to Heavenly Defense Dojo headquarters while he headed for the Wilderness Area.

Xu Jingming returned to southern Sakura Country to hunt beasts after speaking with Zhou Yuanwu, while Heaven's Mandate Sect ordered Tian Hen to kill him. Tian Hen waited near the Heavenly Defense Dojo for half a month, then spotted Xu Jingming's warplane arriving.

• Xu Jingming told Zhou Yuanwu he would pay any compensation America demanded, but Zhou refused to give in and instructed Xu to attend a United Nations conference in Iceland.
• Xu Jingming arrived in southern Sakura Country and resumed hunting beasts for Ability Points.
• Heaven's Mandate learned Xu Jingming had killed six of its bishop-level members and ordered Tian Hen to eliminate him.
• Tian Hong reported that the Li Family was open to contact, and Heaven's Mandate noted that killing Xu could help bring the family over to their side.
• Tian Hen searched for Xu Jingming near the Heavenly Defense Dojo, waited for half a month, and then spotted his warplane approaching.

Xu Jingming reviewed his gains from hunting in Sakura Country and learned that public opinion had turned in his favor, then returned to the Heavenly Defense Dojo headquarters. As Sakuragi Rin welcomed him, Tian Hen ambushed him with the Netherfire Ghost Mask and swallowed him in its flames.

• Xu Jingming counted 8.54 million Ability Points and used them to advance his Thunder and Lightning Domain and Refining Spirit Art.
• Eva showed Xu Jingming that Sakura Country's public opinion now praised him and Sakuragi Rin, partly because Kitahara Sosuke had left a terrible impression.
• Xu Jingming arrived at the Heavenly Defense Dojo headquarters, where Sakuragi Rin knelt to welcome him and the Eighth-Order Grandmasters bowed.
• Tian Hen attacked Xu Jingming with his SSS+ Rank Netherfire Ghost Mask, engulfing him in a massive maw of dark-purple flames.

Xu Jingming broke free of Tian Hen’s Netherfire Ghost Mask and defeated the Ninth-Order Upper-Level Mage Saint, then captured him alive. Unable to penetrate Tian Hen’s mind, Xu Jingming called High Priest Aimer for help and planned to make further arrangements in Sakura Country before meeting him.

• Sakuragi Rin ordered the civilians evacuated and emergency protocols activated as Tian Hen attacked the Heavenly Defense Dojo.
• Xu Jingming used Starlight Thunder Aegis to break out of Tian Hen’s Netherfire Ghost Mask and charged through his Magma Giant Wall.
• Xu Jingming’s thunder dragon swallowed Tian Hen’s flames, weakened him, and trapped him in a prison of Dark Lightning.
• Xu Jingming’s Slave Heart Seal and other mental Battle Techniques failed against the protection in Tian Hen’s Sea of Consciousness, so Xu Jingming left him barely alive and called High Priest Aimer.
• Aimer agreed to try to find information about Heaven’s Mandate Sect, and Xu Jingming said he would meet her after arranging the situation in Sakura Country.

Xu Jingming captured Tian Hen alive, then ordered Sakuragi Rin to consolidate Sakura Country’s Metahuman forces and send him seventy percent of the Heavenly Defense Dojo’s resources. After bathing at the dojo, he dismissed the women Sakuragi Rin had prepared but asked her to stay with him.

• Xu Jingming captured Tian Hen alive and ordered an Eighth-Order Grandmaster to guard him while the others joined him in the conference hall.
• Sakuragi Rin reported that ninety percent of Sakura Country’s Metahumans belonged to the Heavenly Defense Dojo and that she expected to bring all Metahuman forces under its control within a month.
• Xu Jingming ordered Sakuragi Rin to send him seventy percent of the dojo’s monthly resources and to conceal his killing of a Heaven's Mandate Sect member.
• Xu Jingming left Sakuragi Rin in charge of Sakura Country and went to bathe before visiting Teacher Aimer.
• Sakuragi Rin brought twenty women to serve Xu Jingming at the hot spring, but he dismissed them and asked her to stay.

After serving Xu Jingming, Sakuragi Rin recovered and ordered a meeting to carry out his wishes. Meanwhile, Xu Jingming arrived at Aimer's Villa, where his senior siblings expected him to be scolded for neglecting his Heavenly Secret Eyes training.

• Sakuragi Rin woke in the hot spring, learned Xu Jingming had left, and postponed her meeting because her legs were too weak to stand.
• Moon Shadow Divine Official, Lu Rui, and Jie La discussed the United Nations conference and Xu Jingming's Heavenly Secret Eyes training, noting that he had not sought Aimer's guidance for half a month.
• Xu Jingming arrived at No. 1 Floating Island with the charred Tian Hen, and Moon Shadow Divine Official introduced him to Lu Rui and Jie La.
• Aimer summoned Xu Jingming into the Villa before his senior siblings could remind him about Heavenly Secret Eyes.

Xu Jingming asked Aimer to use her Heavenly Secret Eyes to uncover information about the Heaven's Mandate Sect, learning that its Arctic Continent headquarters was protected by a Supreme Expert. After Aimer reprimanded him for neglecting cultivation, Xu Jingming claimed he had already mastered the Heavenly Secret Eyes, and she demanded that he demonstrate it.

• Xu Jingming presented the captured Tian Hen to Aimer, who used her Heavenly Secret Eyes to locate the Heaven's Mandate Sect headquarters and warned that its founder was a Supreme Expert.
• Xu Jingming killed Tian Hen and gained 1,000,000 Ability Points.
• Aimer examined items from Li Hao and other Heaven's Mandate Sect members, showing Xu Jingming fragmented visions that he shared with Eva to analyze.
• Aimer told Xu Jingming that Eva's main body aboard the Hope spacecraft would soon awaken in the Kindling World.
• Aimer reprimanded Xu Jingming for spending half a month killing low-level ferocious beasts instead of cultivating the Heavenly Secret Eyes.
• Xu Jingming said he had already learned the Heavenly Secret Eyes, and Aimer challenged him to demonstrate the technique.

Xu Jingming revealed that he had mastered the Heavenly Secret Eyes at Perfect Level, astonishing Aimer, who gave him the Purple Heaven Divine Eyes technique and invited him to the United Nations conference in Iceland. After he left, Aimer realized he had inadvertently seen through her with the technique’s X-ray vision.

• Xu Jingming activated his Heavenly Secret Eyes, and Aimer recognized that he had reached Perfect Level after only half a month of practice.
• Aimer examined Xu Jingming’s eyes and praised their flawless perfection, unaware that he could see through her.
• Aimer gave Xu Jingming a Martial Imprint for the Purple Heaven Divine Eyes and warned him that the technique was harder to master than the Heavenly Secret Eyes.
• Aimer invited Xu Jingming to travel with her group to Iceland for the United Nations conference, and he agreed before leaving to find his senior brothers and sisters.
• After Xu Jingming left, Aimer remembered that Perfect-Level Heavenly Secret Eyes could see through people and realized he had seen her exposed.

Xu Jingming revealed that he had mastered the Heavenly Secret Eyes at Perfect Level, and Aimer took him and her other students to Iceland for the United Nations conference. Their arrival drew the attention of reporters and the four Supreme Experts, who came out to greet Aimer.

• Aimer told Jie La that Xu Jingming had completed the Heavenly Secret Eyes at Perfect Level, shocking Jie La, Moon Shadow Divine Official, and Lu Rui.
• Aimer announced they were leaving for Iceland early, and Xu Jingming and her other students accompanied her.
• Aimer's pale golden warplane arrived at the United Nations Headquarters in Iceland, where reporters recognized her and the Thunder Emperor, Xu Jingming.
• Great Xia's Zhou Yuanwu, America's Evelyn, Bear Country's Artur, and the European Union's Charlotte flew out to meet Aimer.

Xu Jingming joined the Great Xia Ninth-Order Councilors at the Blue Star United Nations conference, where he clashed with Wang Chaoyang and discovered the others were eager to buy Supreme Divine Blood. He announced an auction at Thunder Martial Hall headquarters for the evening after next.

• Xu Jingming exchanged a defiant glare with Evelyn before Aimer and the Supreme Experts went upstairs for the conference.
• Xu Jingming entered the hall and joined Cao Jun, Blood Sword, and the other Great Xia Councilors, who warmly congratulated him on reaching Ninth-Order.
• Wang Chaoyang mocked Xu Jingming for becoming Aimer's disciple, and Xu Jingming insulted him as the Li Family's dog.
• Cao Jun and the other Councilors rebuked Wang Chaoyang and defended Xu Jingming, while Blood Sword explained that their support stemmed from his Supreme Divine Blood.
• Xu Jingming announced that he would auction Supreme Divine Blood and other rare resources at Thunder Martial Hall headquarters the evening after next.

Xu Jingming attended the United Nations Conference, where Great Xia’s councilors learned of his extraordinary help to Su Qingli and Ling Shuang. The conference revealed that Ninth-Order Beast Emperors had violated the peace agreement, and Blue Star entered Level Three combat readiness, giving Xu Jingming a chance to fight on the frontlines and gain Ability Points.

• Xu Jingming arranged an auction of Supreme Divine Blood with Blood Sword and other Ninth-Order Martial Saints, then welcomed Su Qingli when she arrived at United Nations headquarters.
• Great Xia’s councilors learned that Xu Jingming had raised Su Qingli’s ability to SS-rank and cured her breakthrough-limiting side effect, and that he had also prepared an SS-rank ability for Ling Shuang.
• The United Nations Conference began with Evelyn introducing the experts and newly advanced Ninth-Order Councilors, including Xu Jingming.
• Evelyn reported that Ninth-Order Beast Emperors had entered the frontlines, killing three Ninth-Order Councilors and destroying more than ten small cities.
• Evelyn proposed Level Three combat readiness, and Zhou Yuanwu and the other Supreme Experts agreed to prepare half of the Ninth-Order Councilors for frontline deployment.
• Xu Jingming considered that the breach of the peace agreement might mark the beginning of coming chaos, but saw frontline fighting as an opportunity to gain Ability Points.

After Eva located the Great Xia Heaven's Mandate Sect headquarters in Magic City, Xu Jingming and Su Qingli prepared to investigate it. As Magic City officials began arranging an evacuation, Xu Jingming used a Martial Imprint to examine a new battle technique.

• During the United Nations meeting, Eva told Xu Jingming she had identified the Heaven's Mandate Sect headquarters as the Holy Radiance Sect in Magic City's Jinshan District.
• After the meeting ended, Xu Jingming and Su Qingli flew back to Great Xia and learned that the Holy Radiance Sect had more than a million members and was led by Sixth-Order Metahuman Xie Shi.
• Xu Jingming declined Su Qingli's suggestion to bring other Ninth-Order Metahumans, and asked Eva to contact Zhou Yu about evacuating Jinshan District's population.
• Xu Jingming checked his system panel, took a pale violet Martial Imprint from his Space Ring, and pressed it to his forehead.

Xu Jingming mastered the SSR-rank Purple Heaven Divine Eyes and used them to inspect Su Qingli before arriving in Magic City. Searching the Holy Radiance Sect headquarters, he found a powerful Ninth-Order presence hidden underground.

• Xu Jingming spent 120,000 Ability Points to cultivate the Purple Heaven Divine Eyes to beginner proficiency and saw Su Qingli's weaknesses and blurry future fragments.
• Xu Jingming and Su Qingli arrived in Magic City, where Zhou Yu briefed them on the evacuation around the Holy Radiance Sect headquarters.
• Xu Jingming used his Thunderbird-empowered Mental Strength to search the headquarters but found no unusual activity above ground.
• Xu Jingming searched beneath the building, discovered a Ninth-Order aura, and declared that he had found his target.

Xu Jingming tracked down and killed Tian Hong, the Heaven's Mandate Sect's hidden Grand Master, after exposing his identity at the Holy Radiance Sect. With no system notification after Tian Hong's apparent death, Xu Jingming suspected a clone-like ability and began searching for clues with his Purple Heaven Divine Eyes.

• Tian Hong worried that Tian Hen had failed to kill Xu Jingming and met with Zhou Yu at the Holy Radiance Sect.
• Xu Jingming appeared beside Zhou Yu, exposed Tian Hong as the Heaven's Mandate Sect's Grand Master, and struck him with Dark Black Lightning as he tried to flee.
• Xu Jingming entered Thunderstorm State and obliterated Tian Hong with a massive lightning sword while Zhou Yu watched.
• Xu Jingming, Su Qingli, and Eva discussed whether Tian Hong's Enhancement Type ability let him survive through multiple sub-bodies.
• Xu Jingming used his Purple Heaven Divine Eyes to examine the place where Tian Hong had died for clues.

Xu Jingming tracked down Tian Hong’s hidden sub-bodies and killed them as Tian Hong’s consciousness transferred from one to the next. With only his weakest body remaining, Tian Hong knelt before Xu Jingming and offered to reveal the Heaven's Mandate Sect’s secrets in exchange for his life.

• Xu Jingming used his Purple Heaven Divine Eyes to locate Tian Hong’s awakened sub-body and flew to attack him.
• Tian Hong revealed that his S-rank ability let him create progressively weaker sub-bodies and transfer his consciousness when a body died.
• Xu Jingming annihilated Tian Hong’s eighth-order sub-body with black lightning, then tracked and killed the next bodies as Tian Hong fled between them.
• After losing nearly all his sub-bodies, Tian Hong realized Xu Jingming could locate him and decided to surrender rather than flee.
• Tian Hong knelt before Xu Jingming and offered to disclose every secret of the Heaven's Mandate Sect if Xu Jingming spared his life.

Xu Jingming enslaved Tian Hong with the Slave Heart Seal and learned about the Heaven's Mandate Sect’s branches in Great Xia and the Magma Giant Beast’s possible early arrival. He ordered the branches to go dormant and brought Tian Hong and Su Qingli to the Holy Radiance Sect to retrieve Tian Hong’s hidden resources, including an SSR-rank Body Tempering Art.

• Tian Hong offered intelligence and hidden resources in exchange for his life, and Xu Jingming enslaved him with the Slave Heart Seal.
• Tian Hong revealed that Great Xia had nearly twenty Heaven's Mandate Sect branches and eight Eighth-Order Grandmasters, but he did not know the headquarters’ location.
• Tian Hong said the Magma Giant Beast might arrive in three to five years, and Xu Jingming deferred to Lady Aimer’s arrangements about sharing the information.
• Xu Jingming kept Tian Hong alive, ordered Great Xia’s branches to become dormant, and told him to summon Divine Blood Envoys above sixth-order to Magic City.
• Xu Jingming took Tian Hong and Su Qingli to the Holy Radiance Sect to find Tian Hong’s secret resources and an SSR-rank Body Tempering Art.