Chapter Summaries

Xu Jingming broke the Freshman Competition record, and the instructors recognized his spear technique as Grandmaster-level. Song Qiuyun then dominated her round with her Light-type ability and halberd, advancing in first place.

• Xu Jingming's record of defeating 102 freshmen impressed the instructors, who judged his spear technique to be Grandmaster-level.
• Xu Jingming spotted Li Chengzhi avoiding his gaze and decided to challenge him during the competition's second stage.
• Liu Wentao advanced from the third round after defeating nine opponents, and Qi Dongxia advanced from the sixth after defeating twelve.
• Song Qiuyun entered the eighth round, revealed her Second-Order Low-Level Light-type ability, and drew the attention of the Meteor Guild.
• Song Qiuyun used her light-based techniques and halberd to defeat forty-five opponents in under ten minutes and take first place in her round.

After the first phase of the Freshman Competition, Xu Jingming challenged and decisively defeated Li Chengzhi in the Free Challenge Tournament, punishing him for provoking him earlier. As Li Chengzhi recovered under Eva’s protection, Song Qiuyun challenged him next.

• Dean Sun announced the first-phase rankings, with Xu Jingming first, Song Qiuyun second, and Li Chengzhi third, then began the Free Challenge Tournament.
• Xu Jingming challenged Li Chengzhi, citing the earlier provocation, and Eva assigned their match to Arena No. 74.
• Li Chengzhi activated his Berserk Blood Lion King ability and charged Xu Jingming, but Xu Jingming’s spear strike overpowered him.
• Xu Jingming engulfed Li Chengzhi in Purple Heaven Divine Lightning until Eva stopped the match and protected Li Chengzhi with an energy shield.
• After Li Chengzhi recovered and Xu Jingming left the arena, Song Qiuyun challenged Li Chengzhi.

Song Qiuyun challenged and defeated Li Chengzhi after he recovered from Xu Jingming’s earlier victory over him, and the Freshman Competition ended with Xu Jingming ranked first. The academy selection began, with the Element, Weapon, and Tactics Academies introducing their requirements and training philosophies.

• Song Qiuyun challenged the injured Li Chengzhi and arranged to fight him after he received treatment.
• After recovering, Li Chengzhi fought Song Qiuyun and lost to her in ten minutes.
• The Freshman Competition ended with Xu Jingming in first place, Song Qiuyun second, and Li Chengzhi third; Qi Dongxia ranked twenty-sixth, Liu Wentao thirty-ninth, and Lei Zhou ninth.
• Dean Sun announced that freshmen’s assessment privileges and credits had been issued, then began the academy selection.
• The Element Academy, represented by its speaker, and Zhou Hui for the Weapon Academy announced their admissions and training approaches.
• Long Ke introduced the Tactics Academy, welcoming Mental Type ability users and other tactically minded students.

After the academy assignments and Freshman Competition ended, Xu Jingming was approached by Meteor Guild president Wu Yuan, who offered him a vice president position and substantial resources. Another guild representative interrupted to criticize the offer, leaving Xu Jingming’s recruitment undecided.

• Xu Jingming chose the Weapon Academy and was assigned to first-year class 2, with Su Yu as his counselor.
• Dean Sun announced that successful freshmen would receive apprenticeship invitations and dismissed the opening ceremony and competition.
• Xu Jingming agreed to treat Song Qiuyun, Liu Wentao, and Qi Dongxia to a meal at Qingya Residence.
• Wu Yuan introduced himself as Meteor Guild president and offered Xu Jingming a vice president position, a semester allowance, and access to guild resources.
• A nearby voice interrupted Wu Yuan and called the Meteor Guild’s offer stingy.

Xu Jingming received offers from Meteor Guild and Ashes Guild, including Wei He’s offer to make him Ashes Guild’s vice president and eventual successor, but asked for time to decide. After leaving the recruitment area, he encountered Jiang Chuxuan, whose warm greeting surprised Liu Wentao.

• Wei He offered Xu Jingming the Ashes Guild vice presidency and the chance to inherit the presidency after Wei He graduated, while Wu Yuan’s Meteor Guild could not offer him the same advancement.
• Xu Jingming asked for a few days to consider the offers, and Wei He and Wu Yuan exchanged contact information with him.
• Wu Yuan and Wei He invited Song Qiuyun, Liu Wentao, and Qi Dongxia to join as ordinary members, but the three chose to consider the invitations.
• Xu Jingming advised Liu Wentao to choose a guild suited to his plans for tactical command, then told the many recruiters he would decide later.
• Xu Jingming and his companions left with a stack of recruitment flyers and headed toward Qingya Residence.
• Jiang Chuxuan greeted Xu Jingming warmly as her junior, leaving Liu Wentao astonished by her change from her usual aloof manner.

Xu Jingming celebrated the end of the Freshman Competition with Jiang Chuxuan, Song Qiuyun, Liu Wentao, and Qi Dongxia, then escorted the two drunk women back to their dormitories. When he returned to his villa, counselor Su Yu was waiting with his competition rewards.

• Jiang Chuxuan joined Xu Jingming and his friends for dinner, and they ordered Flame Fruit Wine to celebrate the end of the Freshman Competition.
• Jiang Chuxuan recounted how Xu Jingming had saved her three times in the Wilderness Area, shocking the others with the dangers she described.
• Liu Wentao and Qi Dongxia left early, and Xu Jingming supported the drunken Jiang Chuxuan and Song Qiuyun as he took them back to their dormitories.
• Xu Jingming returned to his villa and found Su Yu, the Weapon Academy freshman class 2 counselor, waiting to deliver his Freshman Competition rewards.

Xu Jingming received his rewards for winning the Freshman Competition and used the A-rank Core Strengthening Pill to boost his Mental Strength. The chapter left him with 1,037 Hz of Mental Strength, surpassing a thousand.

• Counselor Su Yu gave Xu Jingming a fingerprint-locked safe and added him to the class 2 group chat.
• Xu Jingming opened the safe and claimed a ten-cubic-meter Space Ring and a black pill, while Liu Wentao wondered how Xu Jingming had avoided conflict between Song Qiuyun and Senior Jiang.
• Liu Wentao summoned Eva, who identified the pill as a Fifth-Grade Core Strengthening Pill that could greatly enhance Mental Strength.
• Xu Jingming checked his attributes, swallowed the pill, and watched his Mental Strength rise from 987 Hz to 1,037 Hz.

Xu Jingming sold two Space Rings and went to the Pharmacy Department to sell or process Exotic Flowers and Rare Herbs. There, Jiang Chuxuan offered to refine them, revealing that she planned to pursue the pharmacist path full-time.

• Xu Jingming took a Fifth-Grade Core Strengthening Pill, called Zhang Hao about Jiang Chuxuan's signed photo, and trained for two hours.
• Xu Jingming mailed the photo to Zhang Hao and sold two Space Rings to the Moda Equipment Department for 70 million Great Xia Coin.
• Xu Jingming went to the Pharmacy Department with Exotic Flowers and Rare Herbs and cultivated while waiting for his turn.
• Jiang Chuxuan met Xu Jingming and offered to refine his herbs, saying she had a Second-Rank Pharmacist Certificate and would pursue pharmacy full-time.

Xu Jingming trusted Jiang Chuxuan with his Exotic Flowers and Rare Herbs so she could refine them, then bought pills with her advice. After his teacher Yang Zhentian summoned him, Xu Jingming headed to the Teacher Villa District, where his senior disciples were waiting to meet him.

• Jiang Chuxuan told Xu Jingming she was shifting her videos toward concocting pills and potions after deciding the Wilderness Area was too dangerous for her.
• Xu Jingming gave Jiang Chuxuan his Exotic Flowers and Rare Herbs, and she agreed to return the finished pills in a week.
• Xu Jingming gave Jiang Chuxuan his queue ticket, then followed her upstairs and spent nearly 600 credits on pills she recommended.
• Yang Zhentian called Xu Jingming to Villa No. 23 after returning to campus, and Xu Jingming hurried to meet him.
• Xu Wei and Tong Yue discussed Xu Jingming's reputation with Liu Ming, while Tong Yue remained unsure whether Liu Ming had exaggerated his junior brother's abilities.

Xu Jingming reunited with his teacher and senior apprentices, then demonstrated the S-rank Battle Technique Netherworld Lightning Armor. The chapter ended with Yang Zhentian steadily increasing the power of his lightning attacks while Xu Jingming's armor remained unharmed.

• Xu Jingming arrived at Yang Zhentian's villa and met his senior apprentices Xu Wei and Tong Yue, who gave him a Yuan Energy Pill and 200 credits.
• Liu Ming explained that his newly regrown legs still needed a few days for their nerves to reconnect, and Xu Jingming confirmed he had mastered four A-rank Lightning Type Battle Techniques.
• Xu Jingming credited his rapid progress to his natural comprehension, and Yang Zhentian praised his talent and proposed a belated celebration for his competition victory.
• Xu Jingming asked Yang Zhentian to test his S-rank Battle Technique, Netherworld Lightning Armor, after Xu Wei withdrew from the offer.
• Xu Jingming formed the lightning armor, and Yang Zhentian struck him with increasingly powerful crimson lightning that failed to damage it.

Xu Jingming tested the limits of his Netherworld Lightning Armor and revealed that Thunder Extreme State greatly strengthened its defense. On the way to lunch, he considered which guild to join and began to see the value of building a force to gather resources for him.

• Yang Zhentian's attacks shattered Xu Jingming's Netherworld Lightning Armor at ten times Third-Order Peak strength, showing it could withstand attacks from many Fourth-Order Metahumans.
• Xu Jingming activated Thunder Extreme State, revealing that his Thunder Undying Body had reached its third level, and Yang Zhentian needed twenty times Third-Order Peak strength to break through the armor.
• After changing clothes, Xu Jingming left with Yang Zhentian, Liu Ming, Xu Wei, Tong Yue, and Uncle Fu for a hotel in central Magic City.
• Xu Jingming asked Liu Ming which guild to join, and Liu Ming recommended the Meteor Guild because the Ashes Guild faced pressure from Wang Linyang's family.
• Yang Zhentian urged Xu Jingming to eventually build his own force to gather resources, and Xu Jingming recognized it might help him obtain more Ability Points.

Xu Jingming balanced his packed university schedule with regular hunts in the Yangcheng Wilderness Area, steadily building his Ability Points and strength. Two months later, he demonstrated precise control of his Purple Heaven Divine Lightning in class, earning praise from an Element Academy instructor.

• Xu Jingming attended Weapon Academy and Element Academy courses, then began spending each weekend hunting ferocious beasts in the Wilderness Areas.
• He upgraded to the Azure Sky Black Flood Dragon Spear, earned 800 credits by breaking Thunder Martial Hall’s Second-Order punching-force record, and gained Ability Points in the Tongxiang and Yangcheng Wilderness Areas.
• Xu Jingming made the Yangcheng Wilderness Area his regular hunting ground while continuing to study, train, and buy cultivation resources over the next two months.
• On November 3, Xu Jingming shaped his Purple Heaven Divine Lightning into forms such as a serpent and a spear during Elemental Ability Control class.
• The instructor praised Xu Jingming’s rapid progress, while freshmen discussed his demanding schedule and weekend hunts.

Xu Jingming continued refining his Purple Heaven Divine Lightning control while wondering whether accumulating more Ability Points would let him upgrade his S-rank ability. After the university announced a voluntary Study Tour in the Wilderness Area, he received a meeting notice alongside Song Qiuyun and the other top fifty freshmen.

• Xu Jingming completed a classroom demonstration, and his instructor praised his control of the Purple Heaven Divine Lightning.
• Xu Jingming reviewed his system panel, noted that his Ability Points had reached 13,134, and decided to wait another month to see if a plus sign appeared beside his metahuman ability.
• Song Qiuyun met Xu Jingming after class and told him that the Freshman Study Tour would begin in a week and bring freshmen from three universities to the Wilderness Area.
• The university announced that the Study Tour would depart on November 10, last a month and a half, and offer participating freshmen a base reward of 20 credits.
• Xu Jingming, Song Qiuyun, and the other top fifty Freshman Competition participants received notices to attend a meeting.

Magic University’s freshmen learned that their Study Tour would take place in the Seventh Demon Cave, where they would compete against two other universities for resources. Xu Jingming accepted responsibility for securing the school’s fifth consecutive championship, but Ling Shuang warned him that Qingjing Metahuman University had recruited an S-rank contender.

• Magic University’s top fifty freshmen gathered for a meeting, and Xu Jingming arrived with Song Qiuyun, greeting his classmates, including the apologetic Li Chengzhi and Lei Zhou.
• Ling Shuang appeared through a spatial doorway and announced that she would lead the Study Tour.
• Ling Shuang revealed that the freshmen would hunt beasts in the Seventh Demon Cave in Shun'an City, Qian Province, and earn rankings that determined resource allocations.
• Ling Shuang entrusted Xu Jingming with leading Magic University to its fifth straight Study Tour championship, and he agreed.
• Ling Shuang warned Xu Jingming that Qingjing Metahuman University had recruited an outside contender with an S-rank metahuman ability.

Vice-Principal Ling Shuang told Qingjing Metahuman University’s freshmen that their Study Tour would include Kiran Rao, a Third-Order Low-Rank S-rank exchange student from India, but Xu Jingming remained confident. The night before departing for the Seventh Demon Cave, Jiang Chuxuan visited Xu Jingming and brought him pills she had prepared.

• Ling Shuang introduced Kiran Rao, an Indian S-rank freshman who was two years older and had reached Third-Order Low-Rank.
• The freshmen worried that Kiran would make the Study Tour much harder, while Xu Jingming calmly trusted his abilities and his chances in the beast-killing rankings.
• Ling Shuang approved of Xu Jingming’s confidence and ended the meeting, telling the students to prepare for the Study Tour in seven days.
• Xu Jingming resumed classes and visited the Yangcheng Wilderness Area on Thursday to collect more Ability Points.
• The night before leaving for the Seventh Demon Cave, Jiang Chuxuan visited Xu Jingming in his training room and gave him seven or eight bottles of pills.

Jiang Chuxuan gave Xu Jingming pills she had refined for him and Song Qiuyun, while Xu Jingming put aside thoughts of romance until he became stronger. The freshmen boarded an ancient airship for their study tour, and Vice-Principal Ling Shuang used her spatial ability to send it on its way.

• Jiang Chuxuan gave Xu Jingming eight bottles of second-rank pills and asked him to bring her exotic flowers and herbs from the study tour.
• Xu Jingming recognized Jiang Chuxuan's feelings but decided to focus on becoming stronger before pursuing romance.
• Xu Jingming handed Song Qiuyun the four bottles Jiang Chuxuan had prepared for her.
• Liu Wentao explained that the freshmen would travel by aircraft, and an enormous ancient airship arrived at the training field.
• Ling Shuang concealed the airship within a separate space, and Eva activated its engines for departure.

Modu Metahuman University arrived at Shun'an Supply Base, where Xu Jingming settled into his dormitory and went to inspect the training field. There he met Kiran Rao, Qingjing Metahuman University's S-Class student.

• Vice-Principal Ling Shuang and Modu Metahuman University's students arrived at Shun'an Supply Base and were welcomed by its supervisors.
• Staff guided Xu Jingming and the other students to their dormitory building and gave them room cards.
• Xu Jingming unpacked, changed into training clothes, and met Song Qiuyun outside their adjoining rooms.
• Xu Jingming and Song Qiuyun went to the training field, where they saw Qingjing's Kiran Rao training.
• Kiran Rao approached Xu Jingming, introduced himself, and greeted him in fluent Chinese.

Xu Jingming and Song Qiuyun sparred and explored the Demon Cave before a fanatical religious zealot attacked a little girl. Xu Jingming killed the attacker with a single spear strike, leaving the family safe but the scene covered in blood.

• Kiran greeted Song Qiuyun with Western etiquette, but Xu Jingming stopped him and warned him not to use it in Great Xia.
• Xu Jingming and Song Qiuyun sparred in a private training room until she was exhausted.
• Xu Jingming and Song Qiuyun ate Qian Province specialties and left the restaurant to explore the area.
• A middle-aged religious zealot preached about the Heavenly God, then drew a dagger and attacked a little girl.
• Xu Jingming turned back and killed the zealot by stabbing his head with his spear.

Xu Jingming killed a Heretical Sect member who tried to murder a little girl, then gave a statement to the Public Security Bureau and explained his headshot habit to Song Qiuyun. As they returned to the training hall, a powerful Glory Battle Group team approached, and its captain recognized Song Qiuyun as “Young Miss.”

• Xu Jingming killed the attacker with a spear strike to the head and rescued the little girl.
• Zhou Jian of the Public Security Bureau questioned Xu Jingming, confirmed the witnesses’ accounts, and let him leave without further procedure.
• The rescued girl's father thanked Xu Jingming and offered him payment, so Xu Jingming gave him his aunt’s business contact information.
• Song Qiuyun questioned Xu Jingming about his headshot, and he explained that he usually aimed for the heads of ferocious beasts to preserve their materials.
• A Fourth-Order team from the Glory Battle Group approached, and its captain recognized Song Qiuyun and called her “Young Miss.”

Xu Jingming and Song Qiuyun ran into her cousin Li Bin, then attended a briefing for the joint study tour at the Demon Cave. Meanwhile, Heaven's Mandate Sect plotted to sacrifice the university elites and sent someone to retrieve god blood, leaving the freshmen poised to enter the cave under strict rules.

• Song Qiuyun introduced Xu Jingming to her cousin Li Bin, a vice-captain of the Glory Battle Group, who teased them before leaving with his team.
• A gray-robed Heaven's Mandate Sect archbishop learned that Xu Jingming had reached Second-Order High-Rank and ordered the elites from three universities sacrificed in a month.
• The archbishop gave a middle-aged subordinate a God Blood Indicator and ordered him to retrieve the god blood without acting in the sect's name.
• Xu Jingming and Song Qiuyun resumed separate training and later joined the freshmen from three universities at a briefing in Shun'an Supply Base.
• Vice-principal Xu Ping explained the study-tour rankings and rewards, while officials warned that Smart Bracelets would record beast kills and detect cheating.