Chapter Summaries

As Jia Yingxia searched for Xize, Bitter Solitude Temple declared war on the Federation Comprehensive Academy, while the Blood Card Adept Corps came under attack from its enemies. In the Jungle, Chen Mu’s Wood Character Camp gathered abundant materials, equipped its battalions with new cards, and reached the forest’s edge, ready to return to public view.

• Jia Yingxia ordered her subordinates to mobilize every department and find Xize.
• After Xianluo’s death, Bitter Solitude Temple’s hall master declared war on the Federation Comprehensive Academy.
• The Blood Card Adept Corps received reports that the Snow Silk Worm Card Adept Corps, Faya, and unidentified forces were attacking its bases.
• Xiao Bo and Sang Hanshui launched Operation Carpet Sweep, sending Wood Character Camp’s battalions to gather materials throughout the Snow Forest.
• Chen Mu designed new cards from the collected materials, and Raphael’s battalion won the second equipment upgrade.
• Wood Character Camp completed its upgrades, loaded Shuttlecraft with rare materials, and reached the edge of the Jungle.

A young man was assigned to lead his Lineage’s negotiations in Thousand Lakes City while a woman crossed illegally into Tiandongli District. Chen Mu’s Wood Character Camp arrived at Xideli City, where its overwhelming strength frightened the city’s defenders, and Chen Mu ordered the force to keep advancing in formation.

• The middle-aged man told the young man that the Lineage would make him and his wife core members if he secured enough benefits, and he was tasked with leading negotiations and the Elite Tournament delegation.
• A Shuttlecraft dropped illegal migrants at the Tiandongli District border, and a rigid-faced woman slipped into the forest as the others headed toward the district.
• The Guard Bureau director released his perception at the approaching force outside Xideli City, prompting fifteen level seven Card Adepts to answer with their own perception fluctuations.
• Chen Mu climbed out of the Jungle Shuttlecraft and asked Xiao Bo about the situation, while Qiu Shanyu explained that the force’s battle formation might have alarmed the city.
• Chen Mu told the Wood Character Camp to continue marching in formation and led it toward Xideli City.

Luo Xiju rejected the Star Academy principal’s request and warned Nick that Tang Hanpei might be waiting to use card machinery technologies to build a powerful force. Meanwhile, Chen Mu prepared the Wood Character Camp for closed training and used a day of leave to expose Kuang Shi’s attempt to contact an outside ally.

• Luo Xiju told Nick he would not serve the Star Academy and suspected Tang Hanpei had engineered several conflicts while waiting to obtain card machinery technologies.
• Nick urged Luo Xiju to escape with him and rescue his parents, but Luo Xiju said he could not leave them behind.
• The Wood Character Camp took control of Xideli City, maintained strict discipline, and boosted local trade by selling rare materials and buying supplies at fair prices.
• Chen Mu completed preparations in his laboratory and granted the camp members staggered leave in Xideli City before a month of closed training.
• Kuang Shi disguised herself, evaded suspicion, and entered a long-distance communications office to call her memorized contact.
• The Wood Character Camp’s monitoring team detected an anomaly at the communications office on 97 Beili Street and began its operation.

Tang Hanpei ordered the mass production of jungle communication devices while the Federation Comprehensive Academy began researching an Energy Glove that could let people fight without perception talent. In Xideli City, Kuang Shi and other spies tried to report what they had learned about the Wood Character Camp, but Chief Steward White’s trap caught them before they could send their intelligence.

• Sun Yuan showed Tang Hanpei the Jungle Pigeon prototype, and Tang ordered it mass-produced for the troops.
• Sun Yuan described the Energy Glove project, and Tang ordered the institute to speed up its research.
• Tang Hanpei remembered that Chen Mu had developed even more advanced jungle communication technology and wished he could recruit him.
• Kuang Shi concluded that Chief Steward White’s camp possessed valuable reconnaissance and communication devices and might be able to mass-produce cards.
• Kuang Shi tried to contact her organization, but her communication card failed to connect.
• Wood Character Camp card adepts surrounded and captured Kuang Shi, while similar arrests took place across Xideli City.

Chen Mu revealed that his devices had exposed spies in the Wood Character Camp, then learned that Bagnell’s forces had already destroyed the Blood Card Adept Corps. He prepared to take the camp to Thousand Lakes City, where he planned to reunite with Bagnell and honor his agreement with Qiu Shanyu.

• Chen Mu explained that he, Wei'a, and Little Bu Mo had installed communication-monitoring devices throughout Xideli City, enabling the purge of suspected spies.
• Xiao Bo and Sang Hanshui told Chen Mu that the Blood Card Adept Corps had been wiped out by the Snow Silk Worm Card Adept Corps, led by Bagnell.
• Chen Mu decided to take the Wood Character Camp to Thousand Lakes City to meet Bagnell and warned Qiu Shanyu that the journey might be dangerous.
• Chen Mu promised Qiu Shanyu the tactical regulations in exchange for Faya's pressure on the Blood Card Adept Corps, but told her to wait until Thousand Lakes City to transmit them.
• After Chen Mu publicized the identities of those purged, members of the Wood Character Camp exposed several more suspected spies, and the camp prepared to leave Xideli City.

Cang Lan and three other underworld leaders joined forces to attack the Wood Character Camp, while Cang Lan challenged Xize to a duel. As their armies raced toward Xideli City, Chen Mu remained unaware of the danger and encountered trouble of his own.

• Cang Lan agreed with Yan Yu to join Yu Jiaran, Shi, and Meng Chen in targeting the Wood Character Camp and discussed using its resources to build another alliance with Xize.
• Cang Lan wagered his [Serpent Tide] against Yan Yu capturing Chief Steward White within fifteen days, and Yan Yu departed with the Azure River Army.
• Cang Lan, Yu Jiaran, Shi, and Meng Chen accused the Wood Character Camp of stealing vital technologies and declared that anyone aiding it would be their enemy.
• The four leaders dispatched their armies toward Xideli City, and Cang Lan publicly challenged Xize to a battle.
• Chen Mu led the Wood Character Camp away from Xideli City, unaware that the four armies were pursuing them, and ran into trouble.

Chen Mu’s perception reached the level-seven breakthrough threshold as dozens of Wood Character Camp members underwent breakthroughs using the Snow Pit Method. While rival forces advanced toward the camp, Xiao Bo’s snow pit exploded, and he emerged scorched but alive.

• Chen Mu pushed his perception to exhaustion through card-making and training, bringing it to the threshold of a level-seven breakthrough.
• Thirty-six Wood Character Camp members showed signs of imminent breakthroughs, so the unit stopped and guarded them as they trained in snow pits.
• Sang Hanshui and several other Card Adepts completed their breakthroughs, while Chen Mu and Xiao Bo remained inside their respective training areas.
• Yan Yu raced ahead toward Xideli to attack the Wood Character Camp, while Yu Jiaran, Shi, and Meng Chen’s forces advanced at a more measured pace.
• Xiao Bo’s snow pit exploded, and he emerged blackened and scorched, cursing that even the breakthrough could explode.

While Chen Mu remained in a crucial breakthrough, Wei'a infiltrated the Azure River Army's camp during a freezing storm and identified Yan Yu as its leader. Wei'a prepared to strike just as Yan Yu sensed his killing intent.

• After two days without movement from Chen Mu, Wei'a left to scout the Azure River Army as a storm grounded both forces.
• Wei'a learned from two Azure River Army Card Adepts that four elite units were hunting the Wood Character Camp, then entered their camp unseen.
• Wei'a decided not to return for help because he feared the weather would soon clear and disturb Chen Mu's breakthrough.
• Wei'a hid beneath accumulating ice and identified Yan Yu as the camp's feared leader and the strongest target.
• Yan Yu thought about Chief Steward White and Xize, then felt Wei'a's killing intent and froze in alarm.

Wei'a ambushed the Azure River Army camp and killed Yan Yu before slaughtering hundreds of Card Adepts in the darkness and storm. The survivors finally illuminated the camp, but Wei'a had already retreated, leaving them to discover the devastation and Yan Yu’s headless body.

• Yan Yu overloaded his Energy Shield to withstand Wei'a's ambush, but Wei'a shattered it with a punch and killed him with an Air Technique.
• Wei'a took Yan Yu's head, then vanished into the darkness as the Azure River Army Card Adepts attacked him.
• Wei'a killed 211 Card Adepts in three minutes, while the panicked soldiers struggled to locate him and organize a response.
• Several Card Adepts who flew into the storm were struck by lightning and killed.
• After seven minutes and 541 deaths, a Card Adept used a Lighting Card, prompting the squads to illuminate the camp and prepare to fight.
• Wei'a retreated as more than a thousand Lighting Cards lit the camp, revealing frozen corpses everywhere and Yan Yu's headless body.

The Star Academy considered sending Qingqing to reach Chen Mu before the underworld forces, while Lei Zi and Lan Feng clashed with Xiong Shen during a negotiation trip. Chen Mu emerged from a breakthrough to find the Azure River Army closing in, and he ordered the Wood Character Camp to assemble.

• The Star Academy's Nick and the fat man discussed Chen Mu's chances and concluded Qingqing might be able to reach him first.
• Mobley thanked Qingqing for helping him train, then A Zhe arrived with a grim expression as Qingqing's Wrist Device rang.
• Lei Zi challenged Xiong Shen's disrespectful behavior toward Lan Feng, and the couple decided they would leave the Xiong Family.
• Chen Mu emerged from his breakthrough with level-seven perception, and the Wood Character Camp celebrated its forty-seven level-seven Card Adepts.
• Wei'a returned carrying Yan Yu's severed head and revealed that the Azure River Army's leader had been among the attackers.
• Sang Hanshui identified Yan Yu as the Army's second-in-command, and Chen Mu ordered everyone to assemble as the Azure River Army approached.

Chen Mu coordinated a surprise attack on the Azure River Army, using the Young Guard’s long-range [Waveburst Bomb] barrage to devastate its camp. As Sang Hanshui’s Wood Character Camp launched an assault on the stunned survivors, the battle began in earnest.

• The Azure River Army’s captains debated their next move, then decided to fight rather than return defeated to Cang Lan.
• Chen Mu located the enemy camp with the Fern Disks and ordered the attack to proceed according to plan.
• Xiao Bo led the Young Guard in firing a hundred [Waveburst Bombs] at the Azure River Army’s camp from ten kilometers away.
• The [Waveburst Bombs] struck sector A6, shattering many Energy Shields and leaving the Azure River Army dazed.
• Sang Hanshui ordered the Wood Character Camp to attack the battered Azure River Army.

The Wood Character Camp unleashed its optimized Digital Series Cards against the Azure River Army, overwhelming them with coordinated ranged attacks and a devastating charge by Zheng Tie’s Fifth Squad. The Azure River Army’s final counterattack began to collapse, and Sang Hanshui ordered forces to tighten the encirclement.

• The Second, Third, and Fourth Squads devastated the Azure River Army with [Rainfire], [Tail-Shedding Shuttle-2], and [Crow] after the [Waveburst Bomb]s threw their camp into chaos.
• The Azure River Army regrouped and returned fire, while its captains recognized the Wood Character Camp’s Ghostfire and grew alarmed at its strength and possible connection to the Snow Silk Worm Card Adept Corps.
• An Azure River Army captain led more than three hundred Close-Combat Card Adepts in a charge, and Zheng Tie ordered the Fifth Squad to meet them head-on with [Xi Bird Charge].
• The Fifth Squad’s charge nearly annihilated the enemy attackers without suffering casualties, breaking the Azure River Army’s morale.
• Raphael judged that the Azure River Army’s intensified firepower was its final counterattack, and Sang Hanshui ordered Card Adepts to move behind the enemy and strengthen the encirclement.

The Wood Character Camp wore down the Azure River Army in a prolonged battle while gaining experience, and Chen Mu and Sang Hanshui let the force learn through combat. As the Azure River Army tried to break out, Sang Hanshui prepared to face a level-seven enemy Card Adept.

• The Azure River Army fought on despite heavy losses, while Chen Mu watched the Wood Character Camp improve its coordination and resolve.
• Raphael asked Sang Hanshui to send the First Battalion into battle, but Sang Hanshui refused so his men could continue learning.
• Two Azure River Army captains decided to send some survivors to warn Boss Lan while the other captain stayed behind to hold off the Wood Character Camp.
• Sang Hanshui noticed the enemy's movements and quietly sent Raphael and the First Battalion to prepare for the coming breakout.
• The Azure River Army unleashed a fierce attack, then split into fleeing men and a group charging Sang Hanshui.
• A level-seven Card Adept attacked Sang Hanshui with seven circular light blades, and Sang Hanshui accepted the challenge as the Wood Character Camp's Card Adepts cleared space.

Sang Hanshui unveiled a devastating new [Explosive Bomb] technique that helped break the Azure River Army’s fighting spirit as the battle splintered into scattered clashes. Little Bu Mo then ambushed and killed a fleeing captain, while the wider fight remained costly for both sides.

• Sang Hanshui used four chained explosions to accelerate a fifth bomb and destroy a level-seven Azure River Army captain with [Explosive Bomb: Chain-Pressure Burst].
• Sang Hanshui’s strike shook the remaining Azure River Army Card Adepts, who scattered in an attempt to escape as the Wood Character Camp pursued them.
• The battle became a series of small, deadly skirmishes, and Raphael’s squad waited in vain for enemies to reach its ambush position.
• Little Bu Mo waited in the jungle for three hours and watched a vigilant Azure River Army captain approach without raising an Energy Shield.
• Little Bu Mo stayed hidden until the captain dipped back beneath the canopy, then lunged from the leaves and broke his neck.

Jia Yingxia struggled to understand the threats gathering around Frostmoon Cold Isle while Bagnell’s group set out toward Thousand Lakes City to find Chen Mu. After defeating the Azure River Army, Chen Mu learned three more powerful forces were closing in and devised a daring plan to escape through the gap left by the army’s destruction.

• Jia Yingxia learned that Xize remained missing, the Wood Character Camp’s origins were unknown, and Miss Yue would arrive in about three days.
• Bagnell and his companions decided to travel toward Thousand Lakes City openly, hoping Chen Mu would hear of their movements, while keeping their connection to him secret from the Luo Family.
• Chen Mu reviewed the Wood Character Camp’s losses and learned that Cang Lan had sent the Strategy Guard Camp, the Golden Stockade Tribe, and the Blue Steel Corps after them.
• Chen Mu concluded that the three remaining forces would leave a gap behind them and planned to escape by retracing the Azure River Army’s route.
• Chen Mu ordered his troops to bury the dead, leave traces of battle, and plant false signs that they had fled southeast.
• Alone with the map, Chen Mu admitted that his confidence had been an act and began preparing backup plans for the risky escape.

Chen Mu led the Wood Character Camp through the enemy rear, and Xiao Bo secured supplies and Energy Cards from Rainflower Town by posing as Lord Cang Lan’s Direct Guard. Replenished, the camp sped up its escape before the Underworld Coalition could discover them.

• The Wood Character Camp avoided enemy scouts during three days of high-speed stealth travel, aided by Chen Mu’s upgraded Fern Disks.
• Sang Hanshui spotted Rainflower Town, confirming the camp had reached the rear of the Underworld Coalition.
• Xiao Bo and dozens of level seven Card Adepts frightened the mayor and his subordinate, then Xiao Bo convinced the mayor to requisition the town’s Energy Cards and supplies.
• The mayor handed over a large convoy’s worth of supplies for ten Odi and promised to keep the camp’s movements secret.
• Chen Mu decided to make use of Xiao Bo’s scheming, and the Wood Character Camp increased its speed to leave Northwatch Continent before the Underworld Coalition found them.

As the Wood Character Camp raced toward Thousand Lakes City, the underworld leaders discovered the Azure River Army had been wiped out and began mobilizing against their enemies. The chapter left the Star Academy’s elite force fighting the underworld’s allied army, with Yu Jiaran, Shi, and Meng Chen ordering Qingqing captured alive.

• Chen Mu studied a map while the exhausted Wood Character Camp pushed toward Thousand Lakes City, estimating they had five more days to leave underworld territory.
• Yu Jiaran, Shi, and Meng Chen uncovered the dead Azure River Army and Yan Yu’s headless body, then suspected Xize had helped the Wood Character Camp defeat them.
• Yu Jiaran, Shi, and Meng Chen decided to withdraw, alert Cang Lan, and establish defensive lines to delay the Wood Character Camp.
• Su Heim­ing vowed to make the Desert Camp famous in his father’s name and ordered all forces to move out.
• Luo Xiju and Nick secretly left the Star Academy on a mission while guards failed to notice an empty room elsewhere on campus.
• Qingqing and forty Star Academy Level Seven Card Adepts fought the underworld army; Yu Jiaran, Shi, and Meng Chen recognized them and ordered Qingqing taken alive.

Chen Mu led the exhausted Wood Character Camp toward Bomen City, their final obstacle before leaving Cang Lan’s sphere of control. As the city’s garrison confronted them, the chapter ended with both forces poised for a possible fight.

• Chen Mu chose to lead the Wood Character Camp straight through Bomen City and gave everyone five hours to rest.
• After resting, the Wood Character Camp assembled, and Chen Mu urged them to break through the city before ordering them to advance at full speed.
• The Wood Character Camp flew openly toward Bomen City, impressing onlookers with its speed, discipline, and precise formation changes.
• Chen Mu slowed the force and shifted it into a defensive formation after spotting the crowded airspace around Bomen City.
• A roughly two-thousand-strong force blocked the Wood Character Camp, which changed formation and faced the opposing garrison in tense silence.

Chen Mu ordered the Wood Character Camp to attack Cang Feng’s force after Cang Feng threatened to kill them on sight. As the battle escalated and a thousand reinforcements arrived, Sang Hanshui and Xiao Bo prepared their strongest strikes.

• Cang Feng identified himself as Cang Lan’s nephew and demanded that Chen Mu’s unit land for inspection.
• Chen Mu ordered the Wood Character Camp to kill Cang Feng’s force, and its Card Adepts killed Cang Feng and scattered the rest with a barrage of Tail-Shedding Shuttles.
• The Wood Character Camp used sound wave cards to shatter the approaching force’s Energy Shields, then its Xi Bird Charge tore through their ranks.
• Sang Hanshui gathered his Explosive Bombs into an Explosive Bomb: Twin Cores while Xiao Bo assembled nine Small Sequence Wave Wheels into Nine Wheel Annihilation.
• Sang Hanshui and Xiao Bo completed their strongest strikes at the same time.

Chen Mu’s Wood Character Camp routed Bomen City’s garrison, looted its supplies, and prepared to leave before Cang Lan could respond. As the force departed, Chief Steward White and the camp’s growing reputation had become widely known, and Chen Mu set their destination as Thousand Lakes City.

• Sang Hanshui and Xiao Bo’s combined strike devastated the battlefield, prompting Bomen City’s Card Adepts to surrender.
• Chen Mu decided not to conquer Bomen City, while the Wood Character Camp seized government stores and supplies without robbing citizens or local organizations.
• After resting, Chen Mu ordered Sang Hanshui to prioritize bearer Money Cards, combat necessities, materials, card machinery equipment, and food, and told Xiao Bo to reveal their identity.
• Sang Hanshui ordered the camp to burn or destroy anything it could not carry, and the convoy departed Bomen City at noon the next day.
• Chen Mu learned that the Wood Character Camp’s victories had made Chief Steward White famous, then ordered the force toward Thousand Lakes City.