Chapter Summaries

Si Dongkou arrived in East Rui City to recruit the Taishu Family, while Mobley weighed the Snow Silk Worm Card Adept Corps’ dangers and ordered an investigation into whether Chen Mu was with the Taishu Family. After biaoqing was suppressed, Chen Mu resumed working and assembled a device designed to make Little Child’s calculations more efficient.

• Si Dongkou reached East Rui City and targeted the Taishu Family, whose lack of expert Card Adepts offered the Federation Comprehensive Academy an opening.
• Mobley warned A Zhe that the Snow Silk Worm Card Adept Corps was no easy prey and prioritized the Snowflake Card Adept Corps’ upcoming Card Adept Elite Tournament.
• Mobley told A Zhe to investigate whether Chen Mu was with the Taishu Family, then sent him to carry out the order despite his hesitation.
• Chen Mu felt relieved that biaoqing had been suppressed, but continued working harder as he worried about everyone’s survival.
• Chen Mu assembled a small piece of card machinery meant to let Little Child handle energy-structure calculations while he did other work.

Chen Mu tested his new [Calculation Box], which could optimize card energy structures but consumed enormous amounts of energy. At the Rain Legion headquarters, an old man and Zhi Hao discussed a possible creator of the Digital Series Cards, the attack on Faya, and Chief Steward White’s connection to Xize.

• Chen Mu activated [Calculation Box] with [Little Child] and began optimizing the structure of a One-Star Energy Card.
• Chen Mu realized the device could record optimized structures for later study, but its high energy use and slow calculations limited what it could handle.
• At the Rain Legion headquarters, Zhi Hao told the old man that a card crafter who may have created the Digital Series Cards had understood the Energy Glove drawings and bought card-machinery materials.
• The old man ordered Zhi Hao to find the card crafter without telling Yu Wen, then discussed the expert who had fought Fang Shi and helped Qiao Yuan abduct Madam Faya.
• Zhi Hao suggested Chief Steward White might be Qiao Yuan in disguise, but the old man said Yu Wen believed White was Xize’s successor.
• Zhi Hao left to prepare the young lady’s gift for Rong Ming’s daughter’s birthday banquet.

The Blood Card Adept Corps sent an elite force to seize the Snow Silk Worm Card Adept Corps’ purple glimmer extraction technology, leaving Bagnell and his team heavily outmatched and isolated. Bagnell studied the surrounding forces and began plotting a response involving East Rui City.

• The Snow Silk Worm Card Adept Corps’ recruits grew stronger through Jiang Liang’s harsh training and won repeated battles against prowling Card Adepts.
• Xi Ping reported that the Blood Card Adept Corps had sent the three-thousand-strong Blood Hammer Division and was trying to surround the base.
• Bagnell concluded that the corps could not surrender its extraction technology or rely on the Snowflake Card Adept Corps, and that holding the base was too dangerous.
• Xi Ping described the corps’ supplies and valuable stored purple glimmer extract, while Jiang Liang displayed a map of the surrounding forces.
• Bagnell located East Rui City on the map and hinted that he had devised a plan to lure the Blood Card Adept Corps into a trap.

At Rong Ming’s daughter’s birthday banquet, Taishu Yong warned Chen Mu that Rong Ming might have recognized his identity as Qiao Yuan and revealed the Taishu Family’s rising influence. Chen Mu grew wary of Tan Yuwen after she questioned him about Qiao Yuan, leaving the banquet unsure whether she had uncovered his secret.

• Taishu Yong told Chen Mu that Rong Ming might have ties to Frostmoon Cold Isle and could already know Chen Mu’s identity.
• Chen Mu considered the strength of his team and worried about Faya’s many level-seven Card Adepts while staying in East Rui City.
• Taishu Yong brought Chen Mu to Rong Ming’s heavily guarded birthday banquet, where powerful figures from East Rui City had gathered.
• Tan Yuwen asked Chen Mu who would win if Qiao Yuan fought Chief Steward White, and Chen Mu denied having the skill to challenge Qiao Yuan.
• Chen Mu escaped Tan Yuwen’s conversation and wondered whether she had recognized him and why she was paying him special attention.

At Rong Ming’s birthday gathering, Faya’s envoy Xiao Man presented a legendary six-star illusion card, [Eternal Night], shocking Chen Mu and the guests. The chapter ended with Xiao Man confirming that it was the only six-star card Master Nance Rein had successfully created.

• Chen Mu met Rong Ming and his young daughter at the gathering, and the girl asked why he wore a mask.
• A servant informed Rong Ming that someone from Faya had arrived, and Rong Ming allowed her into the hall.
• Chen Mu recognized the envoy as Xiao Man, whom he had last seen fighting Qiao Yuan in Luoyou City.
• Xiao Man greeted Rong Ming and revealed that he ranked sixty-third on the Tiandong Ranking, angering him and surprising the guests.
• Xiao Man offered Rong Ming a six-star card, [Eternal Night], and Chen Mu realized it was an illusion card created by Master Nance Rein.
• Xiao Man confirmed that [Eternal Night] was the only six-star card Nance Rein had successfully created.

At Rong Ming’s birthday banquet, Xiao Man offered Faya’s six-star card [Eternal Night] as a reward for rescuing the abducted madam, putting Chen Mu’s identity as Qiao Yuan at risk. The chapter ended with Rong Ming shielding the masked Chief Steward White as Xiao Man challenged him for protecting a suspect.

• Rong Ming refused to accept Xiao Man’s lavish gift, recognizing the danger of possessing a six-star card.
• Xiao Man revealed that Faya wanted help rescuing its abducted madam and offered [Eternal Night] for Qiao Yuan’s capture or the madam’s rescue.
• The guests reacted to the bounty, while Chen Mu realized Faya’s announcement would put him in immediate danger.
• Xiao Man recognized Chief Steward White as familiar and accused him of being Qiao Yuan when he refused to remove his mask.
• Rong Ming ordered the guests who insulted Chief Steward White removed, and Xiao Man confronted him for shielding a suspect.

Tan Yuwen revealed that Chief Steward White was the disciple of Slaughter God Xize, forcing Xiao Man to back down after she had accused and threatened him. Chen Mu then challenged Xiao Man to survive ten moves, intending to kill her without exposing his identity.

• Rong Ming challenged Xiao Man’s authority, and Tan Yuwen arrived to defend Chief Steward White while confronting Xiao Man over Faya’s accusations.
• Tan Yuwen claimed to know Chief Steward White’s background and named Slaughter God Xize as his teacher, frightening everyone in the hall.
• Xiao Man apologized to Chen Mu, while Rong Ming tried to calm him and prevent trouble at the birthday gathering.
• Chen Mu declared that Xiao Man would pay for slandering him and demanded ten moves, regardless of the outcome.
• Chen Mu resolved to use [Myriad Change] to kill Xiao Man within ten moves without revealing his identity.

Chen Mu fought Xiao Man after she revealed Faya’s [Blue Ice Floating Wings], using carefully planned attacks to draw her into close range. The chapter ended with Chen Mu gaining a sliver of initiative as he faced her ice wings at point-blank distance.

• Xiao Man activated [Blue Ice Floating Wings], startling the guests and revealing that Faya possessed the renowned card and its legacy.
• Chen Mu entered the Zero Style State and discovered he could not yet deconstruct the wings’ structure.
• Chen Mu dodged Xiao Man’s three Energy Blades and formed an energy-thread net, which her wings sliced apart.
• Chen Mu turned the severed threads into a rain of Energy Needles, but Xiao Man used her wings’ speed and protection to escape.
• Chen Mu met Xiao Man at close range as she burst through the needle attack, and he finally began to model her wings.

Chen Mu shattered Xiao Man’s Blue Ice Floating Wings with a precisely aimed punch, then fought to survive her increasingly dangerous attacks. He escaped her explosive Energy Blade sphere and disappeared into the distance as Xiao Man fell, apparently defeated.

• Chen Mu struck a weak point in Xiao Man’s Blue Ice Floating Wings, shattering most of the wings and knocking her into the floor.
• Chen Mu charged at the injured Xiao Man, but she vanished with the wings’ speed and counterattacked with Energy Blades.
• Chen Mu dodged Xiao Man’s attacks with a Moon-Wave Turn as Rong Ming evacuated the guests and ordered the Card Adepts to raise their shields.
• Xiao Man exploded her remaining left wing, surrounding Chen Mu with a contracting sphere of Energy Blades.
• Chen Mu charged into the converging blades and escaped the explosion covered in blood, while Xiao Man fell to the ground and lost control.

The Snow Silk Worm Card Adept Corps convoy encountered eight hundred Card Adepts from the Dawei Card Adept Corps, and Jiang Liang ordered an immediate attack. The corps unveiled [Odi Burner] in battle, leaving the enemy trapped as its flames drained their Energy Shields.

• Xi Ping regretted the destruction of the base while Bagnell said its ruins would make way for something new.
• Su Liu Cherou calmed her nervous Medical Card Adepts as the convoy continued through the sky.
• Unibrow Man reported eight hundred Card Adepts ahead, and Jiang Liang ordered all units to prepare for combat.
• The Dawei Card Adept Corps demanded that the convoy stop, but the Snow Silk Worm Card Adept Corps attacked on Jiang Liang's command.
• Three hundred teams unleashed 300,000 [Odi Burner] flames, which clung to the Dawei Card Adept Corps' Energy Shields and began absorbing their energy.

The [Odi Burner] devastated an 800-adept force, but Bagnell warned that its power would attract new enemies to the Snow Silk Worm Card Adept Corps. A Dawei Card Adept Corps survivor discovered a way to shake the flames off an energy shield, revealing the weapon’s weakness.

• The [Odi Burner] engulfed the opposing card adepts before they could fire, horrifying the hidden reconnaissance teams.
• Bagnell told Xi Ping and the others that the [Odi Burner] resembled an upgraded combat shuttlecraft and would draw the attention of factions throughout the Federation.
• Bagnell warned that the Snow Silk Worm Card Adept Corps lacked Faya’s strength and would attract enemies seeking the [Odi Burner] as well as its purple glimmer ore extraction technology.
• The lead card adept of the Dawei Card Adept Corps used Coaxial Spin Impact before withdrawing his energy shield, scattering the flames clinging to it.
• The other survivors copied the technique, while the hidden reconnaissance card adepts recorded their discovery of the [Odi Burner]’s weakness.

The Snow Silk Worm Card Adept Corps annihilated the Dawei Card Adept Corps with a coordinated volley from forty-eight [Threaded Sniper Shuttle] users, shocking the watching Card Adepts. Bagnell then ordered the corps into an assault formation and sent it advancing at full speed.

• The surviving Dawei Card Adepts escaped the sea of fire and scattered in different directions while spectators recognized the value of the unknown card they had witnessed.
• Forty-eight Snow Silk Worm Card Adepts fired [Threaded Sniper Shuttle] simultaneously, killing all forty-eight fleeing Dawei Card Adepts.
• The spectators realized that the Snow Silk Worm Card Adept Corps had an unprecedented number of sniper Card Adepts and that its new technology could threaten traditional snipers.
• Bagnell ordered all units to form an assault formation and advance at full speed, killing anyone who blocked or harassed them.
• Jiang Liang acknowledged Bagnell's order as the Snow Silk Worm Card Adept Corps formed up like an unsheathed blade.

After Chen Mu killed Faya captain Xiao Man in a ten-move match, the six-star Illusion Card became the prize in a deadly pursuit. Chen Mu returned badly bloodied but with only superficial injuries, and Wei'a showed him the card at the chapter's end.

• Rong Ming kept the guests from grabbing Xiao Man's six-star card and let Faya's Card Adepts carry her body and the card away.
• Card Adepts ambushed the Faya group on its way back to base, and a hidden attacker stole the wooden box as the pursuers closed in.
• Chen Mu returned to the building covered in blood and told Xiao Bo, Sang Hanshui, and Qiu Shanyu that he had killed Xiao Man.
• Chen Mu warned Xiao Bo and Sang Hanshui that Faya might retaliate, while they and Bu Mo vowed to fight back.
• Wei'a showed Chen Mu the black six-star card and asked whether it was useful.

A recording of the Snow Silk Worm Card Adept Corps’ victory alarmed major powers, while the Blood Hammer Division advanced to attack them and factions struggled to understand why they had rejected recruitment offers. The chapter ended with news of Slaughter God Xize’s student drawing attention to East Rui City.

• A Zhe watched the recording of the Snow Silk Worm Card Adept Corps and regretted that the Snowflake Card Adept Corps had rejected them as an ally.
• Major powers and the military circulated the recording and speculated that the Snow Silk Worm Card Adept Corps could train sniper card adepts on a large scale.
• Wu Yan and Shi Fengfei bickered as the Blood Hammer Division flew toward the Skal Region, while Wang Yong and Qi Li discussed the formidable enemy and the loss of allied factions.
• Bai Yue learned that the Snow Silk Worm Card Adept Corps had refused offers from Frostmoon Cold Isle, the military, and every other power.
• News spread that Slaughter God Xize’s student had appeared, after Qiao Yuan killed a high-level Faya card adept and the six-star card [Eternal Night] disappeared.

Chen Mu worried about Bagnell’s clash with the Dawei Card Adept Corps while security tightened around him in East Rui City. At night, masked attackers ambushed the building, and Raphael, Sang Hanshui, and Xiao Bo engaged powerful opponents as the battle continued.

• Chen Mu fretted over Bagnell and the others, while Taishu Yong sent more Card Adepts to guard him and Taishu Cheng dismissed the employees.
• Raphael detected an ambush, evaded an attack that killed two Card Adepts, and used a flash of light to hinder the unseen assailant.
• Sang Hanshui arrived to help Raphael and blasted through the building with Explosive Bombs as he attacked the hidden enemy.
• Xiao Bo faced a gaunt masked man, blocked his flexible Light Spear with a Small Sequence Wave Wheel, and eagerly prepared to continue their fight.

Si Dongkou infiltrated the building during the attack, hoping to seize the notebook or card machinery that Tang Hanpei believed Chief Steward White possessed. He encountered Little Bu Mo in the corridor, and the chapter ended as the child prepared to fight him.

• Si Dongkou recalled how Tang Hanpei ordered him to investigate Chief Steward White and obtain Xize's notes on card machinery.
• Si Dongkou slipped into the building amid the fighting and made his way toward Chief Steward White's Training Room.
• Si Dongkou found Little Bu Mo blocking the corridor and underestimated him because of his small size.
• Little Bu Mo resolved to protect Blockhead and Wei'a, took a fighting stance, and prepared to defeat Si Dongkou.

Sang Hanshui battled Faya’s Assassin Card Adept, but Fang Shi intervened and tried to recruit him after saving the assassin. Elsewhere, Xiao Bo and the gaunt man continued their fierce clash, which ended with both still facing off.

• Sang Hanshui used Explosive Bomb: Shrapnel to wound the hidden Assassin Card Adept, then trapped him with Three-Snake Constriction.
• Fang Shi appeared and cut apart the converging shock waves with Flower Realm, sparing the Assassin Card Adept and offering Sang Hanshui a place with Faya.
• Sang Hanshui rejected Fang Shi’s offer and prepared to fight him as peach blossoms filled the corridor.
• Xiao Bo formed Four-Wheel Dragon Elephant and sent a powerful energy slab at the gaunt man.
• The gaunt man broke his Light Spear into energy threads to cushion the slab, then crushed it after stopping its momentum.

Little Bu Mo fought Si Dongkou, whose five-star Assault Shield and Wave Blades initially trapped the young Uncard Flow practitioner. Little Bu Mo broke through with a self-developed Double-Handed Punch Air Technique, and Si Dongkou recognized a possible connection to Qiao Yuan before Little Bu Mo charged again.

• Si Dongkou activated his five-star Assault Shield as Little Bu Mo vanished and struck it with a powerful kick.
• Little Bu Mo used his speed to attack from behind, but Si Dongkou released all twelve Wave Blades to cut off his escape routes.
• Little Bu Mo fired a Double-Handed Punch Air Technique, shattering one Wave Blade and slipping through the opening.
• Si Dongkou recognized the Air Technique and asked Little Bu Mo what his relationship with Qiao Yuan was.
• Little Bu Mo ignored Si Dongkou and lunged at him again, determined to end the fight quickly.

Xie Yanbai interrupted Fang Shi’s attack on Sang Hanshui and forced Fang Shi to leave, then requested an audience with Chief Steward White. As Xiao Bo’s decisive clash with the gaunt Card Adept shook the area, Little Bu Mo defeated Si Dongkou, but Wei’a pulled him away from a sudden blaze inside the building.

• Xie Yanbai appeared during Fang Shi’s confrontation with Sang Hanshui, identified himself, and warned Fang Shi that he was injured.
• Fang Shi withdrew, and Xie Yanbai asked Sang Hanshui to announce his request for an audience with Chief Steward White.
• Xiao Bo and the gaunt Card Adept unleashed their final attacks, [Eight-Wheel Void Shock] and [Jiamu Snake Spear], and their collision shook the area.
• Little Bu Mo exploited Si Dongkou’s distraction to strike his throat and break his bone.
• Wei’a seized Little Bu Mo and pulled him away as a dazzling blaze rose inside the building.

A massive explosion destroyed the Taishu Family’s building during the battle, and Chen Mu’s group escaped before it collapsed. After they regrouped and recovered, Xie Yanbai explained his connection to Xize and warned Chen Mu that the attackers belonged to the powerful Bitter Solitude Temple, leaving Chen Mu puzzled about why they had targeted him.

• A dazzling explosion erupted in East Rui City, drawing the attention of Rong Ming, Mei Ji, and other Card Adepts.
• Wei'a carried Chen Mu, Qiu Shanyu, and Little Bu Mo away from the blast, while Chen Mu directed him to the injured Xiao Bo; they then reunited with Sang Hanshui and Xie Yanbai.
• The damaged 160-story building collapsed, and the group moved away from the dust before resting and recovering from the battle.
• Xie Yanbai told Chen Mu that his teacher had received guidance from Xize and that he had challenged Pafuchake to repay that debt.
• Xie Yanbai identified Xiao Bo’s opponent as a powerful Card Adept from the Bitter Solitude Temple’s West Temple, leaving Chen Mu wondering why the temple had targeted him.