Chapter Summaries

Liu Xingsi revealed that a secret realm would appear when the Grand Exam ended and announced the teams’ provisional targets for earning entry. As the ranking battles began, Su Lingyue revealed that she had achieved manifested energy at Level 15, while Xia Chuan watched Chen Ming, still keeping the Alliance’s hidden records to himself.

• Liu Xingsi announced that a secret realm would emerge when the Grand Exam ended and explained that the Alliance had trained ten teams to compete for entry.
• Liu Xingsi set provisional targets: every team member had to reach Class Level 25, and each team’s main combatant had to achieve Energy Manifestation before Level 20.
• The previous cohort reacted to the targets and resolved to compete with the ten teams for secret-realm slots.
• Liu Xingsi began the ranking battles, and Su Lingyue declared that she had achieved manifested energy at Level 15.
• The city lords watched the previous cohort react to Su Lingyue’s announcement, while Xia Chuan exchanged a knowing smile with Inspector Lin and looked toward Chen Ming.

Chen Ming announced that he had achieved energy materialization at Level 6, stunning the gathering after Su Lingyue and Gu Feng reported their own accomplishments. The arena erupted in disbelief, while Xia Chuan was left speechless by Chen Ming’s unexpected claim.

• Gu Feng announced that he had achieved energy manifestation at Level 13, surpassing the previous Alliance record and impressing the previous cohort.
• Pei Jiuge praised Gu Feng, and Xia Chuan provoked him by suggesting Gu Feng still needed time to mature.
• Pei Jiuge asked Xia Chuan what Jiangnan Province’s Class Changers had achieved, prompting Chen Ming to step forward.
• Chen Ming announced that the Morning Light Squad had completed its objective and that he had achieved energy materialization at Level 6.
• The crowd and Elder Liu reacted with shock and disbelief, while Xia Chuan froze, having expected Chen Ming to report Level 10.

At the Provincial Selection, Chen Ming claimed he had achieved energy manifestation at level 6, prompting disbelief from the city lords and other competitors. Gu Feng challenged him to prove it in a fight, and Chen Ming accepted with a condition of his own.

• Xia Chuan wondered whether Chen Ming had achieved energy manifestation before level 10, but Inspector Lin admitted he had never seen Chen Ming's pre-level-10 combat ability.
• The city lords doubted Chen Ming's claim until Xia Chuan cited Chen Ming's feat of crossing the Boundary Turbulence, leaving them stunned and suspicious.
• Gu Feng and Su Lingyue accused Chen Ming of making up his results, while Elder Liu asked whether he had proof.
• Sun Yang offered to testify that he had seen Chen Ming achieve energy manifestation in the Bone Burial Ground, but Lin Wei pointed out that his testimony would seem biased.
• Gu Feng challenged Chen Ming to remain undefeated against him, offering to accept the level-6 claim if Chen Ming succeeded; Chen Ming countered that Gu Feng would lose if he made him take half a step back.

Chen Ming and Gu Feng began their one-on-one fight before the teams’ competition, and Gu Feng’s powerful sword strike barely hurt Chen Ming. The chapter left Gu Feng realizing how abnormal Chen Ming’s defenses were as Chen Ming urged him to break through his shield quickly.

• Gu Feng summoned his Seven-Star Sword and faced Chen Ming as the teams and spectators cleared space to watch.
• Gu Feng asked Chen Ming to reveal his spatial class, but Chen Ming refused and stood still as Gu Feng launched his First Sword attack.
• Gu Feng shifted his blade from Chen Ming’s chest to his shoulder, but the strike dealt only one point of damage and triggered Chen Ming’s shield.
• Chen Ming’s defenses shattered Gu Feng’s armor and inflicted damage, forcing Gu Feng to retreat in shock.
• Chen Ming praised Gu Feng for sparing him a lethal strike and said Gu Feng should be glad his level was higher; he then urged Gu Feng to break his shield before his Constitution recovered.

Chen Ming endured Gu Feng’s attacks and reflected devastating damage through his shield and Exclusive Armor Piercing, leaving Gu Feng badly weakened. Gu Feng unleashed his Seventh Sword as a final gamble, but Chen Ming’s shield reappeared and absorbed the blow with only 1 damage.

• Gu Feng realized Chen Ming’s shield and apparent damage reduction had nullified his Seven-Star Sword, while the city lords recognized Chen Ming’s powerful Exclusive Armor Piercing.
• Gu Feng used his Third Sword’s seven rapid strikes to break Chen Ming’s shield, but the repeated counterattacks cut Gu Feng’s Constitution by more than half.
• Chen Ming fully recovered his Constitution, while Gu Feng decided to stake everything on his strongest attack rather than prolong the battle.
• Gu Feng unleashed his Seventh Sword as a manifested hiltless greatsword, which shattered Chen Ming’s remaining shield before Chen Ming’s shield appeared again and reduced the strike to 1 damage.

Gu Feng's seventh sword failed to harm Chen Ming, forcing Gu Feng to admit defeat in their arena match. Xia Chuan claimed the victory over Pei Jiuge, while Gu Feng remained unconvinced and believed he could counter Chen Ming if they fought again.

• Gu Feng's seventh sword dealt only one damage to Chen Ming and triggered another shield, so Gu Feng put away his Seven-Star Sword and conceded.
• The students watched Chen Ming's aura rise as deep azure flames manifested around him, and Chen Ming realized that his current stats let him reach energy manifestation at 1000%.
• Pei Jiuge told Gu Feng not to underestimate opponents, while Xia Chuan recognized that Chen Ming's strength went beyond short-term combat.
• Pei Jiuge acknowledged Xia Chuan's victory, and Xia Chuan comforted Gu Feng by saying Chen Ming was simply too strong.
• Gu Feng accepted the loss but remained unconvinced, thinking he could prepare ways to counter Chen Ming's abilities.

Chen Ming agreed to test his attribute energy after defeating Gu Feng, and his Pale Flame attack produced a staggering 1,050% reading. The result stunned the arena and left Elder Liu convinced that the Alliance could not contain Chen Ming in the future.

• Su Lingyue tried to send away the energy-testing device, but Chen Ming and Elder Liu both told the burly man to bring it onto the field.
• The burly man explained that the device measured attribute energy amplification and that a result above 100% indicated energy manifestation.
• Chen Ming fired a small Pale Flame pellet at the test rig, which recorded 1,050%.
• The crowd erupted, and Gu Feng realized Chen Ming’s power could overwhelm him outright.
• Chen Ming remarked that the device seemed accurate, while Elder Liu watched the result and concluded that the Alliance should not make an enemy of him.

Elder Liu considered the resources Chen Ming would need to reach his potential and wondered whether he might one day enter the Divine Domain. After Chen Ming defeated Gu Feng, the teams began the ranking battle, and no one challenged Chen Ming when he claimed first place.

• Elder Liu reflected that Chen Ming might need resources beyond what the Alliance could provide after the late stages of the Second Realm.
• Elder Liu wondered whether Chen Ming could become the Alliance’s first Class-Changer in the Fifth Realm, then set the thought aside as premature.
• Elder Liu announced Chen Ming as the winner of his match against Gu Feng and explained the ranking battle rules.
• Chen Ming led Qin Zhixue and the other two to claim the number one position.
• Gu Feng led the Purple Firmament Team into second place, while the Yuqing Team took third and the other seven teams avoided challenging Chen Ming.

The Ranking Battle ended with Morning Light, Purple Firmament, and Yuqing taking the top three places, while the city lords discussed Chen Ming’s strength and the coming secret realm. As Inspector Jiang told the ten teams that their real show was beginning, the Elf Race arrived at the arena, including a woman Chen Ming had met in an Abyss instance.

• Su Lingyue defeated a challenging SS-rank team with her SSS-rank area-attacking class, the Jade Envoy of the Clear Boat.
• The Ranking Battle ended with Morning Light, Purple Firmament, and Yuqing in the top three, and Lu Shan's Golden Steel Squad in sixth place.
• Xia Chuan spoke with the city lords about Chen Ming's 1,050% First Domain result and the secret realm that would involve the Elf Race.
• Inspector Jiang told the ten teams that their real show was just beginning after the previous cohort left the arena.
• Chen Ming sensed a large-scale spatial teleportation as dozens of Elf Race Class Changers appeared overhead, including a woman he had met in the Climb the Highest Peak Abyss instance.

Chen Ming met the Elf Race’s young geniuses, who welcomed him as “Blue Star Superman” because of his actions at the Spatial Node and his help to Qing Muyu. After the Alliance and Elf Race leaders reached an agreement, an elven elder began a ceremony that stirred spatial energy and powerful mental fluctuations in the arena.

• Chen Ming sensed the Elf Race’s powerful class changers and learned that their group included three SSS-rank classes.
• Qing Muya introduced his younger sister Qing Muyu, who thanked Chen Ming for helping her in the Spatial Node dungeon.
• The elves called Chen Ming “Blue Star Superman” and explained their admiration stemmed from his feats and from stopping the Black Dwarf Race from claiming the Spatial Node.
• Alliance and Elf Race leaders joined the groups on the grounds, and Xia Chuan remarked on how quickly the young people had gotten along.
• An elven elder raised his staff and played a flute melody that set off spatial energy and a dense surge of mental power throughout the arena.

The Elf Race brought the Alliance teams into the Dust Domain Pure Land, where they could train against immortal guardians without exhausting their mental power. Qing Muya demonstrated that crystals could create multiple fighting copies of him, revealing another function of the Pure Land.

• Elder Liu explained that the Elf Race used a special item to transport the teams’ spiritual power into a Mental Domain while their bodies remained in the martial arena.
• Chen Ming and Qing Muyu surveyed the Dust Domain Pure Land and learned that its guardians were immortal opponents for nonstop skill training over fifteen days.
• Qing Muyu hinted that the Pure Land had another powerful function, leaving Chen Ming curious.
• The Elf Race officials gathered the teams by a crystal pillar, which displayed Qing Muya’s mental potential as 29%.
• Qing Muya threw twenty-four crystals into the Pure Land, and they became translucent copies of him that began fighting guardians across its regions.

The Elf Race elder explained that Class Changers could leave mental clones fighting in the Pure Land while their real bodies leveled up elsewhere. Chen Ming revealed his 29% spirit potential and created twenty-eight clones, leaving himself only 1% for the next fifteen days.

• Qing Muya and Qing Muyu, followed by three SS-rank Elf Race Class Changers, demonstrated how mental clones battled Pure Land guards to raise skill levels.
• The Elf Race elder explained that each 1% of spiritual potential produced one clone, advised the Alliance to retain 5% for combat, and said real bodies could leave to level up while their clones stayed behind.
• Chen Ming stepped forward for the Alliance, and the crystal pillar revealed his 29% spirit potential.
• Chen Ming created twenty-eight mental clones, leaving himself 1% and deciding to rely on passive skills and basic attacks.

Chen Ming split his spiritual power into twenty-eight avatars and assigned them to train his skills in the Pure Land, while the other Class-Changers followed the Elf Race’s advice and retained 5%. As battles filled the Pure Land, Chen Ming’s Spatial Domain quickly reached level 1, and Xia Chuan explained why different races had different attribute strengths and weaknesses.

• Chen Ming assigned eighteen avatars to train Spatial Domain and ten to improve Battle-Hardened, Annihilation Strike, and Shield of Reversal through repeated close-range combat.
• Over the next fifteen days, Chen Ming’s avatars fought the Pure Land Guardians, producing a stream of notifications as they trained his skills.
• The Morning Light Squad and the other teams split off spiritual avatars, with everyone except Chen Ming retaining 5%; Sun Yang could create only four avatars.
• Xia Chuan assured the group that Chen Ming could manage with 1% Spiritual Power and explained that the Elf Race traded lower constitution and defense for stronger spirit attributes.
• Chen Ming realized that Spatial Domain had reached level 1.

Chen Ming and the Alliance Class Changers began rapidly leveling their skills in the Dust Domain Pure Land, while Gu Feng resolved to catch up to Chen Ming. Xia Chuan explained the exchange of resources between the Alliance and the Elf Race, and the group noticed Elder Liu’s spiritual potential displayed at the entrance.

• Chen Ming upgraded Spatial Domain and watched his skills gain levels as his twenty-eight mental clones automatically trained them.
• Gu Feng compared his fifteen mental clones with Chen Ming’s and made Chen Ming his target to catch up to and surpass.
• Pei Jiuge recognized Gu Feng’s ambition but worried about him measuring himself against Chen Ming, who had crossed the Boundary Turbulence.
• Qin Zhixue, Sun Yang, and Lin Wei discussed how the Elf Race’s skill-level resources came at the cost of having few dungeons and slower class-level progression.
• Xia Chuan explained that the Alliance would provide profession-level resources to the Elf Race’s ten teams in exchange for the Elf Race’s skill-level resources.
• Chen Ming and the others saw Elder Liu’s spiritual potential, listed at 71%, on the crystal pillar at the Pure Land entrance.

The Alliance and the Elf Race began a fifteen-day training period, with thousands of challenging dungeons and healer support prepared in the eastern district. Chen Ming aimed to reach Level 20 in seven days and chose a dungeon to challenge.

• Liu Xingsi left a spiritual avatar at the crystal pillar before the group returned to the training ground.
• An Elf elder opened the spiritual domain to the Dust Domain Pure Land for fifteen days, and the Alliance led everyone to the eastern district.
• Pei Jiuge explained that the eastern district held 11,036 Dungeon Rune Stones, teleportation arrays, and teams of healers, including a Saint Grade healer.
• The Elf Race and Alliance Class Changers began choosing dungeons as a screen displayed their teams and cleared-dungeon counts.
• Chen Ming saw that his Spatial Domain had reached level 2, set goals to reach Level 20 in seven days and Level 25 in fifteen days, then selected Falling Star Cliff.

Chen Ming led the Morning Light Squad into the second-tier Falling Star Cliff dungeon and let waves of Crystal Rock Beasts attack him while Qin Zhixue’s support skills kept him recovering. After building his Stacking Attack damage to 5000%, Chen Ming unleashed his Manifested Avatar and Shadow-Bearing Blade, killing the first three beasts as the battle continued against six more.

• Chen Ming entered Falling Star Cliff with Qin Zhixue and the other two members of the Morning Light Squad.
• Three Crystal Rock Beasts attacked Chen Ming while Qin Zhixue boosted his attributes and recovery.
• Chen Ming let the beasts strike him as his Stacking Attack damage rose, and six more Crystal Rock Beasts joined the fight.
• Chen Ming reached 5000% Stacking Attack damage, summoned his Manifested Avatar, and blasted the beasts away.
• Chen Ming drew the Shadow-Bearing Blade and slashed all nine Crystal Rock Beasts, killing the first three and gaining experience, a beast core, and Constitution Rune Stones.

Chen Ming cleared the Falling Star Cliff Dungeon by killing its Crystal Rock Beasts and defeating the Crystal Rock Lord before it finished climbing onto the cliff. After Morning Light Squad rose to the top of the leaderboard, Chen Ming immediately led the team into another dungeon, leaving the injured Hurricane Squad stunned.

• Chen Ming camped at the cliff edge and killed the Crystal Rock Beasts as they climbed up, then attacked the Crystal Rock Lord before it could emerge.
• Chen Ming killed the Crystal Rock Lord in a few strikes, earning a Perfect clear and reaching Level 14.
• The injured Hurricane Squad saw Morning Light Squad reach Rank 1 after clearing a high-difficulty dungeon and recognized Chen Ming as the reason.
• Chen Ming returned to the camp, selected another Alliance-marked dungeon, and led Qin Zhixue and the other two teammates through the teleportation array without resting.
• The Hurricane Squad watched Morning Light Squad leave and wondered how Chen Ming could keep challenging dungeons despite his limited retained strength.

Chen Ming bulldozed through the Bloodred Mountain Forest dungeon, killing Bloodthirsty Demon Spiders as his attack boost reached its limit. The Golden Dawn Squad discovered that his team had beaten them to the first clear of an Energy Manifestation dungeon and began to suspect Chen Ming was stronger than they had imagined.

• Chen Ming used Pale Flame to kill four Bloodthirsty Demon Spiders and collected their beast cores and Strength Rune Stones.
• The Golden Dawn Squad returned to camp and saw that Morning Light Squad ranked first with an Energy Manifestation dungeon clear.
• Qing Muyu ruled out a difference in dungeon difficulty, leading the Golden Dawn Squad to wonder whether Chen Ming alone had surpassed their team.
• Chen Ming held the entrance to a cellar, killing Bloodthirsty Demon Spiders and burning the swarms of tiny spiders that burst from their corpses.
• Chen Ming’s attack boost reached 10700%, and Spirit Annihilation leveled up to level 8 with its cap raised to 10800%.

Chen Ming defeated the Bloodthirst Spider Queen by reflecting its rapid attacks, cleared the Bloodred Mountain Forest, and headed out to challenge another dungeon. At camp, the Golden Dawn Squad wondered how he could keep going and discussed asking him to team up with Qing Muyu.

• The Bloodthirst Spider Queen struck Chen Ming 150 times, and his Shield of Reversal reflected 243,000 damage, killing it without him attacking.
• Chen Ming received experience and rewards, cleared the Bloodred Mountain Forest with a perfect rating, and decided another dungeon could help him level up.
• Chen Ming returned to the Eastern District Camp with the Morning Light Squad, where Qing Muyu saw that they had cleared two high-difficulty dungeons and watched Chen Ming leave for another challenge.
• Qing Muya told the Golden Dawn Squad that Chen Ming might be a dual-class user and suggested that Qing Muyu try forming a team with him before level 20.

Chen Ming cleared three high-difficulty dungeons in one day, reached Level 15, and raised his mental potential to 32% by using his stock of pure mental resources. As he planned to restock them from the Black Dwarf Race, Qing Muya’s squad found a special dungeon that required two teams to attack and defend together.

• Chen Ming’s third dungeon clear raised him to Level 15, leaving Morning Light Squad first on the rankings with three high-difficulty clears.
• Chen Ming meditated at camp and consumed his pure mental resources, raising his mental potential to 32%.
• The Elf Race Class Changers recognized Chen Ming’s resources as originating from the Black Dwarf Race and wondered how he had obtained so many.
• Chen Ming decided to ask City Lord Xia about other Alliance Abysses that might connect to the Black Dwarf Race’s world so he could restock safely.
• Qing Muya’s Golden Dawn Squad returned from its second dungeon, and a member reported finding a special Fusion Dungeon requiring two teams to attack and defend simultaneously.