Recaps

Li Yu prepared the materials and drew a Position Magic Array into the floor for Asuna. He activated it and explained how long it would last, and Asuna paid him for the completed work.

• Li Yu carefully ground the Crystal Cores and mixed them with the other materials while explaining the process to Asuna.
• Li Yu sensed the room's magic flow and spent over half an hour drawing the complicated array as Asuna and the others watched.
• Li Yu infused the array with magic power, causing a second array to descend and fuse with the floor.
• Li Yu demonstrated how to activate the hidden array and told Asuna it could run eight hours a day and last two or three years.
• Asuna transferred ten thousand yuan to Li Yu and thanked him for his work.

Li Yu received payment from Yukino Yukinoshita and Kato Megumi for making their Magic Arrays, then signed a lease and moved into his new home. Asuna invited him to dinner, and he promised to cook for her the next day.

• Yukino Yukinoshita and Kato Megumi paid Li Yu in advance and gave him the materials for their Magic Arrays, which he agreed to set up the next afternoon.
• The group helped Asuna restore her room before saying goodbye and leaving together.
• Li Yu signed a lease, paid six months' rent, and moved his belongings into his new home.
• Asuna invited Li Yu to eat dinner at her apartment, and he agreed to treat her to a meal the next day.
• Li Yu praised Asuna's cooking after tasting her food and said she would make a wonderful wife and mother.

Li Yu set up a Magic Array at home using mixed materials, then woke stronger and reached the third tier. He went to school with Asuna, whose Magic Array had made her oversleep, and arrived to help his classmates study.

• Li Yu returned from Asuna's home, prepared the materials for the next day, and used some of the mixed materials to build a Magic Array in his room.
• Li Yu stored the remaining materials, activated the array, and meditated while reading aloud before falling asleep.
• Li Yu woke refreshed and found that the overnight meditation had made him a third-tier mage with several Beginner Magic spells mastered.
• Li Yu met Asuna in the elevator, and she told him his Magic Array had worked so well that she had overslept.
• Li Yu and Asuna walked to school together, where Li Yu noticed fewer Patrol Squad members on the streets and wondered whether the spatial rift had been dealt with.
• At school, Li Yu's classmates gathered around and asked him to explain their lessons.

Li Yu learned that the city’s Dimensional Rift was a Dungeon from the world of Orario, and that Special Class students who reached the third tier would be sent to explore its first ten floors. He realized the two worlds were already beginning to connect, while Asuna wondered whether the monsters they had fought came from the Rift.

• Li Yu explained True Qi refinement to his classmates, helping them understand how to advance to the third tier.
• Zhang Li announced that students at the third tier or above would enter the Dimensional Rift starting next Monday to train on its first ten floors.
• Li Yu recognized the Rift as a Dungeon from Orario and asked Zhang Li how long it would take for the two worlds to fully connect.
• Zhang Li explained that the worlds were already connecting, though the Rift currently showed only projections and contact with people from the other world was rare.
• Zhang Li urged the students to reach the third tier and prepare their gear over the weekend before dismissing them for self-study.
• Asuna asked whether the monsters they had fought came from the Dimensional Rift, and Li Yu said the Goblins were likely from its first floor while the Minotaur had come from deeper inside.

Li Yu answered his classmates’ questions about Dungeon monsters and recommended Sister Mi’s weapons shop to Kato Megumi and Yukino Yukinoshita. He then helped the class realize they could focus on whichever path, martial arts or magic, suited their talents, and he and Yukino began tutoring them.

• Yukino asked Li Yu and Asuna about the monsters they had fought, but they could only describe goblins and a Minotaur.
• Kato asked Li Yu where he bought his Tang Dao, and he recommended Jimmy Weapons and explained that the shop kept its better weapons off display.
• Yukino arranged to visit the shop with Li Yu after school, and Li Yu agreed to take her.
• Li Yu advised his classmates to focus on magic if they were more talented in it, since the teacher required them to reach Tier Three but did not specify a discipline.
• Many students changed their plans to prioritize magic, while Li Yu tutored those focused on martial arts and Yukino helped other classmates.

Li Yu quickly learned the Lightness Technique in magic class and tested how it improved his jumps and speed. After Asuna and Yukino Yukinoshita mastered it too, Li Yu challenged Asuna to a weapon sparring match to test the spell in combat.

• The magic teacher taught the class the Lightness Technique and gave the students time to practice.
• Li Yu mastered the spell quickly and tested it by jumping from the third floor, landing safely.
• Li Yu experimented with the spell's duration, speed boost, and jumping height on the field.
• Yukino Yukinoshita and Asuna mastered the spell and joined Li Yu outside to test it.
• Li Yu invited Asuna to a weapon sparring match, and she accepted.

Li Yu fought Asuna and copied her sword techniques and talent, overwhelming her with her own style. After he demonstrated an even faster sword speed, Asuna questioned the value of her talent and decided she would not fight him again.

• Li Yu accepted Asuna's challenge and fought her on the field while Yukino Yukinoshita watched.
• Li Yu activated Kenkeiko and copied Asuna's sword techniques and weapon-focused talent, forcing her onto the defensive.
• Li Yu defeated Asuna by placing his sword on her shoulder, and she admitted she understood why Yukino Yukinoshita avoided fighting him.
• Li Yu claimed brute force explained his speed, then used Yukino Yukinoshita's physical-strength control to demonstrate an even faster sword flurry.
• Asuna was left questioning whether her talent was useful and agreed that she would not fight Li Yu again.

Asuna quit sparring with Li Yu, while the magic teacher gave Li Yu a special lesson and taught him several practical spells. Li Yu asked to learn elemental magic, and Teacher Li began demonstrating wind and water spells on the field as the class watched.

• Asuna put away her sword and left after deciding that fighting Li Yu was boring.
• Li Yu returned to the field to practice magic as his classmates learned the Lightness Technique.
• Teacher Li asked Li Yu whether he could learn spells after seeing them cast, then taught him a Protection Barrier, a sensing spell, and the Healing Technique.
• Li Yu asked to learn offensive elemental magic and told Teacher Li that he had an affinity for every element.
• Teacher Li agreed to teach him wind and water magic, and the students gathered their attention as he began the lesson on the field.

Li Yu mastered beginner spells quickly, but Teacher Li refused to teach him intermediate magic until he reached the fourth tier. During Shizuka Hiratsuka’s afternoon sparring drills, Li Yu’s brutal bouts and advice made the girls fear Yukino Yukinoshita might slap them, while Xia Yu broke through to the third tier.

• Li Yu learned every beginner spell Teacher Li taught him and asked for intermediate magic, but Teacher Li warned that casting it before the fourth tier could cause unrecoverable mana depletion.
• Teacher Li told Li Yu to return after reaching the fourth tier, then let the students practice their spells on their own.
• Shizuka Hiratsuka raised the class’s training difficulty and had Li Yu and Yukino Yukinoshita spar with their classmates to encourage breakthroughs.
• Li Yu beat the boys black and blue and told Yukino Yukinoshita to slap her sparring partners, prompting Shizuka Hiratsuka to agree with him.
• Xia Yu broke through to the third tier while sparring with Yukino Yukinoshita, then warned the next girl that Yukinoshita might take Li Yu’s advice and slap her.

Li Yu brought Kato Megumi and Yukino Yukinoshita to Sister Mi’s shop to buy weapons, then watched the shop as his classmates arrived to prepare for the Dungeon. Sister Mi showed the girls the shop’s better weapons upstairs, while more students bought weapons downstairs and left satisfied with Li Yu’s discount.

• Li Yu brought Kato Megumi and Yukino Yukinoshita to Sister Mi’s shop, where Kato Megumi asked for a dagger and Yukino Yukinoshita asked for a short sword.
• Sister Mi took the girls upstairs to view better weapons and left Li Yu in charge of the shop.
• Xia Yu and her friends arrived, found the weapons downstairs too ordinary, and followed Li Yu upstairs to see the more expensive stock.
• More classmates came in, bought weapons downstairs, and received discounts of up to five percent from Li Yu.
• Sister Mi checked the payment notifications and asked the girls upstairs whether they had chosen weapons.

Kato Megumi and Li Yu’s classmates bought weapons from Sister Mi, who also offered to find them Space Rings. Asuna and Yukino Yukinoshita learned that Sister Mi had a Space Backpack in stock, but its 30-million price left Li Yu marveling at how expensive spatial equipment was.

• Kato Megumi bought a dagger from Sister Mi for 300,000, and Yukino Yukinoshita and the other classmates also purchased weapons, including Asuna, who bought a rapier.
• Sister Mi thanked Li Yu for bringing her customers and offered to buy materials and help them find spatial equipment.
• Asuna and Yukino Yukinoshita asked Sister Mi to look for Space Rings, then added her as a friend along with the other girls.
• Sister Mi offered Asuna a Space Backpack measuring three meters in each dimension for 30 million.
• Li Yu grumbled to himself that the Space Backpack was far too expensive for ordinary families.

Asuna bought a Space Backpack from Sister Mi and registered it with her magic power while Li Yu learned the Magic Lock spell. After leaving the shop, Li Yu went with Yukino Yukinoshita and Kato Megumi to draw Magic Arrays at their homes, and Yukino’s apartment revealed an unexpected setup.

• Asuna called her father for money, then paid Sister Mi for the Space Backpack.
• Sister Mi activated the backpack’s lock, and Asuna registered it with her magic power.
• Li Yu recognized the Magic Array as related to a new spell, Magic Lock.
• Li Yu and the others left the shop and headed toward Yukino Yukinoshita’s home before Kato Megumi’s.
• Yukino Yukinoshita opened her apartment to find her two Hajimi fighting, then put them in their cage.
• Li Yu entered and saw that Yukino Yukinoshita had moved her belongings out of her room and set up her bed in the living room.

Li Yu finished drawing Magic Arrays at Yukinoshita's and Kato Megumi's homes, then headed to the market with Asuna to shop for dinner and supplies. Asuna chose beef brisket with potatoes, and Li Yu planned to make potions himself before their Monday Dungeon trip.

• Li Yu completed the Magic Array at Yukinoshita's home, and Yukino stayed behind to tidy up.
• Li Yu drew a Magic Array at Kato Megumi's apartment, and Kato thanked him for helping her prepare to reach the third rank.
• Li Yu and Asuna left Kato's home and agreed to have beef brisket stewed with potatoes for dinner.
• Asuna reminded Li Yu that they needed medicine for Monday's Dungeon, and Li Yu said he would learn to make potions himself.
• Asuna offered to buy Li Yu's potions if they worked well, and the two went to the market to shop.

Li Yu and Asuna shared dinner, and he settled his old apartment deposit before studying potion-making materials through his phone. After memorizing the books, he headed out near noon to buy supplies so he could brew potions himself.

• Li Yu cooked beef brisket with potatoes for Asuna, and they agreed that she would bring ingredients when she came over for another meal.
• Asuna went back upstairs, and Li Yu received his deposit from his former landlord.
• Li Yu downloaded books about potion brewing and medicinal substances, then listened to basic potion material while meditating overnight.
• The next morning, Li Yu read the remaining material and memorized it with the help of Kenkeiko's photographic memory.
• After finishing the books near noon, Li Yu went downstairs to buy supplies for making potions.

Li Yu bought medicinal herbs and alchemy equipment to make Mana Recovery Potions and True Qi Recovery Potions himself, hoping to avoid expensive shop prices and earn money by selling extra potions. After spending two-thirds of his available funds at Treasure Tree Hall, he headed home to start making them.

• Li Yu calculated that ordinary herbs would let him make several Mana Recovery Potions for far less than shops charged.
• Li Yu decided he could make extra potions and sell them cheaply to his classmates.
• Li Yu ordered five jin each of several herbs for Blue-Red Potions at Treasure Tree Hall and requested tools and potion pouches.
• Li Yu inspected the herbs and equipment, confirmed everything was in order, and paid for his purchase.
• Li Yu realized the purchase had left him with only a few thousand yuan and planned to make potions at home and sell them to Asuna.

Li Yu began making Red Potion at home, and Asuna, Kato Megumi, and Yukino Yukinoshita came to watch and consider buying some. He successfully produced a concentrated batch, then asked about adjusting its flavor, prompting Yukino to warn him not to add anything strange.

• Li Yu returned home from Treasure Tree Hall and began extracting medicinal liquid from the medicines he had bought.
• Asuna smelled the medicinal fragrance, went downstairs to watch Li Yu work, and contacted Kato Megumi and Yukino Yukinoshita about buying potions.
• Kato Megumi and Yukino Yukinoshita visited Li Yu and quietly watched as he carefully mixed the first batch of Red Potion.
• Li Yu finished a crimson potion concentrate and explained that it needed to be diluted before use.
• Li Yu asked whether they wanted a different flavor, and Yukino Yukinoshita warned him against adding anything strange.

Li Yu diluted his homemade potions, and Asuna, Kato Megumi, and Yukino Yukinoshita tested them and placed a large order at a discounted price. With their help, he finished preparing their Red and Blue Potions before dinner, while Yukino asked him to tell her when he could make Intermediate Potions.

• Li Yu diluted his potion mixture with water and packed the Red Potions into 25 bags.
• Asuna, Kato Megumi, and Yukino Yukinoshita tasted the potion, confirmed it worked, and asked to buy some.
• Li Yu offered the potions for 200 yuan per bag, and Asuna, Kato Megumi, and Yukino each ordered 30 bags of both Red and Blue Potions.
• Li Yu and the three women worked together until he finished their orders before dinner.
• After dinner, Yukino Yukinoshita asked Li Yu to tell her when he could make Intermediate Potions.

Li Yu researched ways to make flavored Basic Potions and developed ingredient substitutions that might preserve their effectiveness. The next morning, he discovered he had reached the fourth tier and that his talent grew stronger as his strength increased.

• Yukino Yukinoshita, Asuna, and Kato Megumi encouraged Li Yu to tell them when he began making Intermediate Potions, then left as he continued planning new flavors.
• Li Yu researched unusual Basic Potion recipes and decided to replace Inula Flower with clover and evening primrose, then adjusted the Blue Bottle recipe as well.
• After studying and meditating overnight, Li Yu noticed that his ideas and practiced moves had improved, then realized his magic power had advanced to the fourth tier.
• Li Yu concluded that his talent grew stronger with his strength and that he could eventually become like Yasuri Nanami without suffering from illness.

Li Yu made strawberry-flavored Red Potions and blueberry-flavored Blue Potions, then trained until his martial arts reached the fourth tier and he could project True Qi. The next morning, he prepared for the Dungeon and met Asuna waiting downstairs with her gear and an assortment of supplies.

• Li Yu experimented with herbs and successfully made strawberry-flavored Red Potions and blueberry-flavored Blue Potions without changing their effects.
• Li Yu produced and stored the potions, then spent the day training with his Tang Dao.
• Li Yu broke through to the fourth tier of martial arts and learned to project True Qi into his hand and Tang Dao.
• Li Yu studied pharmacology overnight, packed for the Dungeon, and headed to school the next morning.
• Li Yu met Asuna waiting downstairs with her rapier, Spatial Bag, kitchen utensils, and ingredients.

Li Yu showed Asuna the strawberry- and blueberry-flavored Red and Blue Potions he had made, impressing her with his low-cost method and prompting her to ask for more later. At school, Teacher Zhang Li discovered that Li Yu had reached the fourth tier and examined him with her True Qi.

• Li Yu gave Asuna his fruit-flavored potions, and she tasted them and confirmed that they still worked.
• Li Yu explained that evening primrose and other herbs had flavored the potions without increasing their cost, and Asuna asked him to make her another batch later.
• Li Yu and Asuna walked to school, where classmates noticed their backpacks and weapons.
• Teacher Zhang Li recognized that Li Yu had broken through to the fourth tier, surprising Asuna and the nearby classmates.
• Zhang Li placed her hand on Li Yu's shoulder, told him not to resist, and checked him with her True Qi.

Li Yu impressed Zhang Li and his classmates by reaching the fourth rank in magic as well as martial arts, while the rest of the class had all reached the third rank. As Zhang Li prepared to take the class to the Dungeon, Asuna shared Li Yu’s newly flavored potions, leaving Kato Megumi and Yukino Yukinoshita wishing they had waited before buying ordinary ones.

• Zhang Li examined Li Yu, confirmed his strong foundation and healthy body, and learned that he had reached the fourth rank in magic.
• Asuna and Li Yu’s classmates gathered around him after hearing about his breakthrough, and Li Yu credited his progress to his talent.
• Kato Megumi and Yukino Yukinoshita arrived and reacted with surprise to Li Yu’s advancement.
• Asuna offered Kato Megumi and Yukino Yukinoshita Li Yu’s strawberry-flavored Red Potion and blueberry-flavored Blue Potion, and they confirmed the drinks tasted good and worked normally.
• Kato Megumi and Asuna regretted buying ordinary potions before trying Li Yu’s versions.
• After the class gathered and registered, Zhang Li praised every student for reaching the third rank and prepared to lead them to the Dungeon.

Zhang Li led the students toward the Dungeon for a training trip, while Teacher Li taught Li Yu about Intermediate Magic on the bus. Li Yu learned about the Weapon Storage spell, though Teacher Li said it could not store anything besides weapons.

• Zhang Li told the class that teachers would only intervene to prevent deaths in the Dungeon, and no students chose to withdraw.
• Zhang Li led the class to a row of buses, and Li Yu boarded Teacher Li's bus with Asuna and the others following.
• Li Yu asked Teacher Li to teach him Intermediate Magic, and Teacher Li agreed after noticing Li Yu had reached the fourth tier.
• Teacher Li explained how to enhance Beginner Magic and demonstrated the Weapon Storage spell, which drew a wand from a purple Magic Array.
• Li Yu asked whether Weapon Storage could hold other items, and Teacher Li told him it could store only weapons.

Teacher Li taught Li Yu a spell to store his Tang Dao in his Magic Array and explained how it could be used in combat. The bus reached a heavily guarded facility with a Dimensional Rift, where Li Yu and the other students waited for instructions.

• Teacher Li explained that the weapon-storage spell used a magical mark and a contract, and Li Yu learned it and stored his Tang Dao in his Magic Array.
• Li Yu realized the spell might store other things through a marked medium, though he would have to summon the whole medium to retrieve them.
• Teacher Li warned that fighters could summon weapons unexpectedly in close combat, and Li Yu resolved to stay alert.
• Teacher Li taught Li Yu about other kinds of magic during the bus ride while Asuna and the others struggled to follow their conversation.
• The bus arrived at a massive, tightly secured facility, and the students saw a glowing blue Dimensional Rift before lining up to await instructions.

Director Wu briefed the students on the Dungeon and restricted them to its first ten floors before the teachers formed teams and handed out Mind Power Potions. Li Yu drank his potion and discovered he had somehow learned its secret recipe, then prepared to enter the Dungeon.

• Director Wu warned the students that monsters grew stronger deeper in the Dungeon and that they could explore only the first ten floors.
• Zhang Li, Shizuka Hiratsuka, and Teacher Li told the students to explore in teams of four and said the teachers would intervene only if lives were in danger.
• Asuna, Kato Megumi, and Yukino Yukinoshita joined Li Yu's team while the other students formed their own groups.
• Zhang Li gave each student a free Mind Power Potion and instructed them to drink it before entering the Dungeon.
• Li Yu drank his potion, felt its effects, and found that its ingredients and preparation method had appeared in his mind.

Students entered a newly appeared Dungeon for an exam with no time limit, and Li Yu led them through its first passages. After warning everyone that monsters could emerge from the walls, he split the group up to explore, and his team encountered and killed three Goblins.

• Li Yu and the other students entered the Dungeon after Shizuka Hiratsuka explained that they could decide how long to stay.
• At a junction, Li Yu suggested that the teams split up, explore the first level, and remember their routes.
• Li Yu warned the students that monsters might emerge from the walls and urged them to stay alert.
• Most students chose other passages, while three teams followed Li Yu down an unchosen path.
• Goblins emerged from the walls and attacked the exploring teams.
• Li Yu sensed three Goblins about to emerge and killed them with a spell; their bodies vanished, astonishing his group.