Chapter Summaries

Xu Jingming learned and unleashed the S-rank Thunder God Finger in one practice session, astonishing Chen Lin and nearly damaging the Teacher Villa District. Chen Lin realized his mission to guide Xu Jingming was over, while Xu Jingming returned home considering how to manage the skill’s enormous energy cost.

• Xu Jingming practiced Thunder God Finger under Chen Lin’s guidance, quickly mastering its opening steps and communicating with the lightning of heaven and earth.
• Xu Jingming condensed the lightning into a giant golden finger and successfully unleashed Thunder God Finger, but could not withdraw it.
• Chen Lin struck the finger with deep-blue lightning, containing the attack as its energy fluctuations withered the flowers in the garden.
• Xu Jingming returned the manual to Chen Lin and hurried away, leaving Chen Lin to realize his teaching mission was finished.
• Xu Jingming reflected on Thunder God Finger’s power and heavy energy consumption, and decided he would need more ability-restoring pills.

Xu Jingming spent most of his credits on third-rank elixirs and A-rank cultivation resources, then trained ahead of the new term. After Magic City Superpower University posted lucrative missions against the Heaven's Mandate Sect, he accepted one and told Song Qiuyun he planned to leave the next day.

• Xu Jingming bought third-rank elixirs and A-rank cultivation resources, leaving fewer than a thousand credits, and went to train.
• Magic City Superpower University posted a flood of high-reward Heaven's Mandate Sect missions, stirring excitement across campus.
• Song Qiuyun asked Xu Jingming whether he would take a mission, and he said he had already chosen one and would leave tomorrow.
• Song Qiuyun asked what class Xu Jingming's mission was, hoping she might be able to join him.

Xu Jingming accepted an S-rank mission to investigate and eliminate a Heaven's Mandate Sect branch in Jinning City, and prepared to travel there. He boarded a train to Jinning City, where he was due to meet local police the following evening.

• Xu Jingming accepted the S-rank mission in Jinning City, and Song Qiuyun considered asking Jiang Chuxuan to team up with her on another mission.
• Xu Jingming declined invitations from Liu Ming and Meteor Guild members, then learned that the mission required him to coordinate with the Jinning City Public Security Bureau.
• Xu Jingming called the bureau and arranged to meet its personnel at Muxi Cafe at eight-thirty the next evening.
• Xu Jingming learned the Aura Concealment Technique and spent 1,150 Ability Points raising it to Advanced.
• Xu Jingming met Tang Qi, Zhou Mingyang, and the others, then boarded the seven o'clock train to Jinning City.

Xu Jingming met the Jinning City Public Security Bureau metahuman squad assigned to cooperate with him on a mission against the Heaven's Mandate Sect. The team learned he was an S-rank ability user at Third-Order Low-Rank, then introduced themselves and began coordinating.

• Cai Ju and his squad waited at Muxi Cafe for Xu Jingming and discussed the Heaven's Mandate Sect intelligence they had uncovered.
• Cai Ju told Sun Yan, Xiang Shan, and Zhang Tong that Xu Jingming was a nineteen-year-old Magic University freshman with an S-rank ability and combat strength around Third-Order Peak.
• Xu Jingming arrived at the cafe, and Cai Ju greeted him and led him into their reserved private room.
• Cai Ju introduced Sun Yan, Xiang Shan, Zhang Tong, and himself to Xu Jingming as the squad members who would cooperate with him to locate and eliminate a Heaven's Mandate Sect branch.

Xu Jingming met Cai Ju’s team to discuss their leads on the Heaven's Mandate Sect and volunteered to handle Leng Chang while they targeted Zhao Wuhao. The team agreed to the split operation for the next day, and Xu Jingming began reviewing intelligence with Eva.

• Cai Ju told Xu Jingming that Zhao Wuhao of the Fierce Tiger Society and Blue Ocean Technology CEO Leng Chang were suspected members with authority in the Heaven's Mandate Sect.
• Cai Ju proposed that the team capture Zhao Wuhao first, while explaining that Leng Chang was protected by a Fourth-Order Middle-Rank bodyguard.
• Xu Jingming insisted on going after Leng Chang alone, despite Cai Ju’s team doubting he could defeat the bodyguard.
• Cai Ju gave Xu Jingming a USB drive, a communicator, and instructions to coordinate his operation with the Jinning City Public Security Bureau the next morning.
• After Cai Ju’s team left, Xu Jingming asked Eva to analyze the files about Leng Chang and Blue Ocean Technology.

Xu Jingming investigated Blue Sea Technology Park and decided to force his way in at eleven to find Leng Chang. Before he could act, he unexpectedly ran into his former high school class monitor, Lin Qingyuan.

• Cai Ju and Zhang Tong agreed to focus on their own mission and support Xu Jingming as soon as they could.
• Xu Jingming learned that Blue Sea Technology Park was heavily guarded and found no weakness after scouting it the next morning.
• Xu Jingming contacted Wang Gang's Special Operations Team and told them he would force his way into the park at eleven to search for Leng Chang.
• Lin Qingyuan arrived at the juice bar with friends, recognized Xu Jingming, and asked what he was doing there.

Xu Jingming unexpectedly met his former class monitor, Lin Qingyuan, and joined her group to enter Blue Sea Technology Park for a technology exhibition. At the entrance, guards noticed he was not on Lin Haima’s registered list and challenged the group over the extra person.

• Xu Jingming reunited with Lin Qingyuan and impressed her friends after she introduced him as Jiangnan Province’s Martial Arts College Entrance Examination Top Scorer.
• Xu Jingming learned Lin Qingyuan’s group was attending a technology exhibition at Blue Sea Technology Park, where Leng Chang would appear, and asked to enter with them.
• Lin Qingyuan and her uncle, Lin Haima, agreed to bring Xu Jingming into the park, so he told the Special Operations Team to remain on standby.
• Lin Haima led the group to the entrance, where guards verified their identities and found that Xu Jingming was not among the four registered accompanying personnel.
• The guards moved warily toward Xu Jingming as one of them questioned why Lin Haima had brought an extra person.

Xu Jingming entered Blue Sea Technology Park with Lin Haima's group and learned that Leng Chang would attend the expo. After Cai Ju warned him that the Fierce Tiger Society had escaped and Leng Chang was their only lead, Xu Jingming spotted Leng Chang arriving at the event.

• Xu Jingming restrained his Du Tian Divine Lightning after its aura briefly frightened Lin Qingyuan.
• Lin Haima argued with the guards, and Team Leader Li let his group into Blue Sea Technology Park.
• At the expo, Xu Jingming asked Lin Qingyuan whether Leng Chang would attend, and she confirmed he would.
• Leng Chang told his bodyguard Wu Hang that they would attend the expo before leaving Jinning City.
• Cai Ju told Xu Jingming that the Fierce Tiger Society had escaped and urged him not to let Leng Chang get away.
• Leng Chang arrived at the expo with his bodyguard, and Xu Jingming told Cai Ju he had found him.

Xu Jingming confronted Blue Ocean Technology CEO Leng Chang at an exhibition after the Public Security Bureau linked him to the Heaven's Mandate Sect. When Leng Chang’s bodyguard Wu Hang revealed his own affiliation and attacked, Xu Jingming began recording the fight.

• Cai Ju led his team toward Blue Sea Technology Park to assist Xu Jingming in finding Leng Chang.
• Xu Jingming arrived at the exhibition, ordered the bystanders to move aside, and publicly accused Leng Chang of belonging to the Heaven's Mandate Sect.
• Xu Jingming identified himself as acting for the Public Security Bureau and told Leng Chang’s bodyguard Wu Hang to stand aside for investigation.
• Wu Hang dismissed Xu Jingming as a Third-Order Low-Rank Metahuman, shocking Lin Qingyuan and her classmates, then admitted his ties to the sect.
• Xu Jingming activated a recording drone, and Wu Hang charged at him with his broadsword and launched Blood Tiger Slash.

Xu Jingming faced Wu Hang at the technology expo and used his Thunder Extreme State to kill the Fourth-Order Metahuman. Leng Chang kept the trapped attendees from fleeing, leaving him and the Heaven's Mandate Sect's threat still confronting the survivors.

• Wu Hang unleashed his Qi-Blood and slashed at Xu Jingming, but Xu Jingming dodged the attack.
• Leng Chang warned the attendees not to run and revealed that he had jammed signals throughout the technology park.
• Xu Jingming entered his Thunder Extreme State and formed a golden Thunder Spear from the surrounding lightning.
• Xu Jingming hurled the Thunder Spear through Wu Hang's chest, destroying his heart and organs.
• Wu Hang tried to stay alive by activating his ability, but Xu Jingming crushed his head and killed him.

Xu Jingming killed Wu Hang, captured Leng Chang, and sealed the exhibition venue so no one could leave before the Heaven's Mandate Sect investigation was complete. After returning to normal size, he explained his mission to Lin Qingyuan and called the Special Operations Team, whose confused response left him with questions.

• Xu Jingming killed Wu Hang instantly, then used Thunder Prison to capture Leng Chang alive for interrogation.
• Xu Jingming subdued Leng Chang and sealed the venue with a Thunder Net, ordering everyone to stay until the investigation was complete.
• Xu Jingming returned to normal size and explained to Lin Qingyuan that he had come to find the Heaven's Mandate Sect branch on a university mission.
• Xu Jingming called the Special Operations Team and told them to enter, but a bewildered voice answered.

Xu Jingming and the Special Operations Team seized Blue Ocean Technology Park, where Xu had already killed Wu Hang and captured Leng Chang. After Sun Yan extracted the Heaven's Mandate Sect branch's location and forces, Xu Jingming decided to handle the assault without reinforcements.

• The Special Operations Team entered Blue Ocean Technology Park and took control with almost no resistance.
• Wang Gang told Cai Ju that Xu Jingming had already captured Leng Chang and dealt with the situation.
• Cai Ju found Wu Hang's headless, charred corpse and realized Xu Jingming had killed the Fourth-Order Metahuman decisively.
• Sun Yan extracted the Heaven's Mandate Sect branch's location and its forces: over two hundred disciples, eight Third-Order Metahumans, and four Fourth-Order Divine Blood Envoys.
• Cai Ju asked whether they should request reinforcements, but Xu Jingming said he could handle the branch himself.

Xu Jingming led Cai Ju’s team to the Heaven's Mandate Sect branch hidden inside a mountain outside Jinning City. He left the branch’s defenses in ruins with Thunder God Finger, clearing the way for the assault.

• Xu Jingming sent Lin Qingyuan and her group to rest under the Public Security Bureau’s supervision while Cai Ju assembled a forty-person team.
• Xu Jingming and the team traveled into the outskirts and used Sun Yan’s shared vision to reveal the hidden mountain entrance and its armed guards.
• Cai Ju realized the alloy gates and concealed gun positions made a direct assault dangerous, while Zhang Tong said her fire ability could not break through them.
• Xu Jingming swallowed an Ability Recovery Pill, activated Thunder Extreme State, and unleashed Thunder God Finger on the mountain.
• Xu Jingming’s attack twisted the alloy gates and destroyed nearly half the mountain, exposing the branch’s defenses and shocking Cai Ju and the team.

Xu Jingming led the assault on the Heaven's Mandate Sect base, slaughtering its defenders with Du Tian Divine Lightning. After learning the Divine Blood Envoy was at the Blood Pool, he killed the disciple who had surrendered and headed toward the remaining target.

• Xu Jingming blasted through the mountain and entered the base while Cai Ju and Zhang Tong led the other Metahumans inside.
• Deacon Wang rallied the Heaven's Mandate Sect Disciples, but Xu Jingming struck him down before they could attack the Public Security Bureau team.
• More than eighty disciples attacked Xu Jingming, and his Thunderstorm Zone killed most of them, leaving fewer than thirty alive.
• A disciple surrendered and revealed that the Divine Blood Envoy was at the Blood Pool in the deepest part of the mountain.
• Xu Jingming killed the surrendered disciple and declared that surrender had never guaranteed anyone's survival.

Xu Jingming and Cai Ju’s squad advanced through the Heaven's Mandate Sect’s mountain base, where Xu Jingming discovered the sect’s gruesome experiments and found the Blood Pool. At the sealed gate, Xu Jingming killed Zhao Wuhao with a lightning-fast spear thrust, astonishing Cai Ju and the others.

• Xu Jingming had Eva scan the remaining Heaven's Mandate Sect Disciples, and he killed all twenty-four after Eva identified them as wanted fugitives.
• Xu Jingming told Cai Ju that the bishop and Divine Blood Envoy were likely at the Blood Pool, and the group hurried deeper into the mountain.
• Xu Jingming and his companions passed through a high-tech base filled with mutated-beast and human corpses, then learned the route to the Blood Pool from a captured disciple.
• At the Blood Pool’s sealed gate, Cai Ju recognized Zhao Wuhao among more than ten third-order Heaven's Mandate Sect Metahumans.
• Xu Jingming killed Zhao Wuhao with a lightning-fast thrust of the Azure Sky Black Flood Dragon Spear, leaving Cai Ju and the others stunned by his spear skill.

Xu Jingming and Cai Ju’s group overwhelmed the Heaven's Mandate Sect disciples, capturing the survivors before opening the Blood Pool. When they found the cave and its crimson pool, Xu Jingming sensed something strange and hurled a lightning spear inside to test it.

• The Heaven's Mandate Sect disciples offered Xu Jingming a cardinal's position if he spared them, but he refused and revealed that he had killed their Holy Son.
• Xu Jingming identified himself as the S-Rank from Magic University and killed two disciples in quick succession as Cai Ju and the others joined the fight.
• Xu Jingming and Cai Ju's group reduced the eleven remaining disciples to five, then captured and cuffed those survivors alive.
• Xu Jingming used Zhao Wuhao's access card to open the crimson alloy door, revealing a dim cave containing a pool of crimson water.
• Xu Jingming warned Cai Ju that the cave seemed strange, formed a lightning spear, and launched it into the Blood Pool.

Xu Jingming bombarded the Blood Pool with Thunder Spears until four Divine Blood Envoys emerged, then entered the cave to fight them. After activating his Thunder Extreme State and Netherworld Lightning Armor, he shrugged off their combined attack and taunted them.

• Xu Jingming repeatedly blasted the Blood Pool with Thunder Spears, forcing four Divine Blood Envoys to reveal themselves.
• Xu Jingming told Cai Ju and the others to wait outside while he entered the cave alone.
• The Red-Clothed Divine Blood Envoy declared that the Divine Blood Envoys were superior to ordinary humans, and Xu Jingming challenged him to prove it.
• Xu Jingming activated his Thunder Extreme State and Netherworld Lightning Armor before attacking the Red-Clothed Divine Blood Envoy.
• Three other Divine Blood Envoys struck Xu Jingming, but their blades failed to hurt him, and he mocked their attacks as a massage.

Xu Jingming killed four Divine Blood Envoys and helped complete the mission to wipe out the Heaven's Mandate Sect branch. After celebrating with Cai Ju and the others, he returned to his hotel and discovered a jar of scarlet liquid and a manual called “Divine Blood Secret Technique” among the loot.

• Xu Jingming killed the Red-Clothed Divine Blood Envoy, then defeated the three remaining Divine Blood Envoys after they swallowed Blood Burst Pills, earning 4,500 Ability Points in total.
• Xu Jingming collected the four Space Rings and confirmed that Eva had recorded the battle as Cai Ju and the others praised him.
• Xu Jingming and the team searched the Heaven's Mandate Sect base, then handed it over to the arriving Public Security Bureau force.
• Cai Ju and the others took Xu Jingming to a celebration banquet, where they drank until late in the evening.
• Xu Jingming bought a high-speed rail ticket back to Magic City and messaged Lin Qingyuan that he would return the next day.
• Xu Jingming broke the Red-Clothed Divine Blood Envoy's Space Ring imprint and found a jar of scarlet liquid and an ancient manual titled “Divine Blood Secret Technique.”

Xu Jingming examined a Divine Blood Secret Technique manual, sorted his spoils, and spoke with Song Qiuyun after completing his mission. The next morning, he left Jinning City by train while Lin Qingyuan invited him to a winter vacation class reunion and resolved to work harder at becoming a Metahuman.

• Xu Jingming discovered that the manual described how the Heaven's Mandate Sect created Divine Blood Envoys through a dangerous blood pool, but the technique was useless to him and its crucial pages were missing.
• Xu Jingming transferred useful items from three Space Rings, checked his system panel, and decided to prioritize spending Ability Points on raising his level.
• Xu Jingming accepted Song Qiuyun's video call and told her that he had already completed his mission in Jinning City; she said she and Chu Xuan had a B-rank mission the next day.
• At Jinning City's high-speed rail station, Lin Qingyuan invited Xu Jingming to a winter vacation class reunion in Jiangcheng, and he said he should be able to attend.
• After Xu Jingming boarded his train to Magic City, Lin Qingyuan watched him leave and resolved to become a Metahuman before her freshman year ended.

Xu Jingming submitted the materials for his S-level Heaven's Mandate Sect task at Magic University's Mission Hall. After the task was verified, he received 10,000 credits and took first place on the Glory Ranking List.

• Xu Jingming returned to Magic City and went to the Mission Hall to submit his task materials.
• Students in line speculated that Xu Jingming had completed an A-level task and debated whether he could match fourth-year student Zhang Yue.
• Xu Jingming handed his student ID and combat recorder to the staff member for verification.
• The Mission Hall confirmed that Xu Jingming had completed an S-level task and issued 10,000 credits to his account.
• A special announcement and ranking display placed Xu Jingming first on the Glory Ranking List, ahead of Li Cang and Zhang Yue.
• The staff member explained that the spectacle was a special effect for completing an S-level task during the Heaven's Mandate Sect task period.