Chapter Summaries

The Upper Academy students demonstrated the power of their cultivation disciplines during the Test Boulder examination, while Ma Jingjing explained how Talismans and arrays worked. Ma Jingjing split the boulder with her flaming sword and returned to Bell’s group, where Bell wondered why she seemed to have no friends.

• Bell learned that a Talisman Cultivator could strengthen a Basic Talisman by leaving it unfinished, while Arrays Cultivators could use prepared array disks in the test.
• Ma Jingjing explained that arrays had limited direct combat use but could overwhelm stronger opponents if their formations were completed.
• Ma Jingjing teased Bell about flirting with Hermione, and Bell kept his arm around Hermione as she tried to pull away.
• Ma Jingjing summoned her sword and sent a flaming dragon attack into the Test Boulder, splitting it cleanly down the middle.
• Ma Jingjing returned to Bell’s group proudly, and Bell privately wondered whether she had no friends at the Academy.

Bell praised Ma Jingjing’s sword technique, and she explained the lost Chi Xiao Sword’s connection to her Hundred Dragons Dancing move. During the Spirit Power Control Test, Shanna completed the most difficult model despite the strain.

• Ma Jingjing showed Bell her powerful sword strike, and his sincere praise pleased her.
• Ma Jingjing explained that the Chi Xiao Sword had carried the original spell behind Hundred Dragons Dancing, but the sword had been destroyed and could not be replicated.
• The Academy began the Spirit Power Control Test, where participants shaped spirit power to match models.
• Shanna chose the tenth model and, despite becoming strained, successfully finished shaping it.

After the morning tests, Bell and his group rested before the afternoon duels, which the Academy considered too dangerous for Lower Academy children to watch. The instructors assigned Shanna to compete with Upper Academy first-years and Bell with third-years, leaving Shanna visibly unhappy about her promotion.

• Shanna asked Bell how she had done on the test, and he praised her enthusiastically.
• Bell and Hermione stood out in the Magic Power control tests, while the other three ranked near the bottom.
• Bell’s group went to the Dining Hall after the morning tests, and the Academy prepared to keep the Lower Academy children away from the dangerous duels.
• An instructor told Shanna Menethil she would compete with Upper Academy first-years and Bell Menethil with third-years.
• Shanna pouted and glared at the instructor after hearing her assignment.

Shanna threw herself into the academy matches to advance to third year and quickly earned a fearsome reputation with her explosive victories. As the matches neared their end, she faced Ma Jingjing, who challenged her and threatened to take down Bell next.

• After the notice about Bell's advancement upset Shanna, she vowed to win her matches and reach third year so she could share a classroom with her Gege.
• Shanna defeated her first opponent almost instantly with an Explosion Curse and became known around Yandu Academy as its Number Two Female Demon.
• Luna, Hermione, Roy, and Senior Bridget competed, but all were eliminated as the older students advanced.
• Bell returned to Hermione after winning his match and learned that the group had gone to watch Shanna face Ma Jingjing.
• Ma Jingjing taunted Shanna before their match, saying she would defeat her and then take down Bell.

Shanna faced Ma Jingjing in a match, while Bell secured an aerial viewing spot by volunteering to help maintain order. The match began with Ma Jingjing attacking by Flying Sword and Shanna dodging at supersonic speed, though Bell realized Shanna had broken the rules.

• Ma Jingjing exploded at Shanna's dismissive snort and urged the officials to begin the match.
• Bell claimed his role as Hogwarts' Team Professor and persuaded an official to let him watch from above while helping oversee the crowd.
• The officials restored order, and the match between Ma Jingjing and Shanna began.
• Ma Jingjing sent her Flying Sword at Shanna and precisely redirected it to intercept Shanna's Explosion Curse.
• Shanna used her Flying Shoes to break the sound barrier and evade the Flying Sword, prompting Bell to realize she had violated the rules.

During the entrance test, Shanna used her Fire Escape Technique to turn the arena into a sea of flames and put Ma Jingjing on the defensive. Shanna held the initiative, but sustaining the fire consumed enormous Magic Power, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• Bell noticed that Shanna had used Flying Shoes, which were against the test rules, and made her stop using them through their Magic Mark.
• Shanna crouched to make a small pit beneath Ma Jingjing, then used the opening to cast Incendio and engulf the arena in flames.
• Ma Jingjing charged through the fire with her Flying Sword but could not find Shanna, who revealed she was using the Fire Escape Technique taught by her Gege.
• Shanna sent flame beasts and attacks from every direction, forcing Ma Jingjing to defend herself with Sword Qi.
• Ma Jingjing gave up trying to locate Shanna and recognized that the enclosed arena favored her opponent, though Shanna's flames were draining her Magic Power.

Ma Jingjing escaped Shanna’s oil-fueled fire trap by breaking the arena’s Defense Array, turning the fight into an aerial battle. Shanna pursued her with the Fire Escape Technique as Ma Jingjing recovered in the sky.

• Ma Jingjing conserved her spiritual energy while Shanna secretly prepared a trap around the arena.
• Shanna cracked the arena floor and released oil, which ignited and intensified the flames around Ma Jingjing.
• Ma Jingjing shielded herself with Sword Qi and broke the Defense Array to escape the arena, while the instructors contained the spreading flames.
• Shanna gathered the remaining burning oil into a flaming projectile and attacked Ma Jingjing as she recovered on her Flying Sword.
• Shanna used the Fire Escape Technique to appear behind Ma Jingjing and continue the aerial pursuit.

Shanna and Ma Jingjing fought to a stalemate in the sky as teachers struggled to protect the spectators and prepare a Defense Array. Ma Jingjing’s fiery attack forced Shanna to deflect her flying sword, leaving their duel ongoing.

• Shanna used the Five Elements Escape Technique and Curses against Ma Jingjing, who defended herself with sword phantoms from the Ten Thousand Swords Technique.
• The two exchanged attacks in the sky while teachers intercepted stray blows and hurried to set up a Defense Array.
• Bell placed Flame Totems around the plaza, raising crimson barriers to protect the students from incoming attacks.
• Hermione worried that Shanna might be hurt, and Bell reassured her that he could intervene if necessary.
• Ma Jingjing sent a Fire Dragon at Shanna, who countered it with Magic Power Impact before using an Obstruction Charm to knock the flying sword off course.

Shanna lost her match against Ma Jingjing, and Bell explained the strengths and drawbacks of Sword Cultivator methods before advising her how to improve. Ma Jingjing later lost her next match after exhausting herself, and she blamed Bell with an unfriendly glare.

• Shanna conceded to Ma Jingjing after an hour-long match and sought comfort from Bell.
• Bell explained that Ma Jingjing's Ten Thousand Swords Technique gave her spiritual power a destructive Sword Sense, but warned Shanna that Sword Cultivator methods made other magic harder to control and use.
• Shanna decided not to cultivate a Sword Cultivator method, and Bell told her to improve her Fire Escape Technique and strengthen the Magic Power in her Curses.
• Ma Jingjing lost her next match to a third-year Magic Cultivator because she had spent too much energy fighting Shanna.
• Ma Jingjing glared at Bell as though she blamed him, and Bell accepted the blame as Shanna's Gege.

Bell won the academy test’s final match without being touched, then accepted Wu Shuang’s challenge. Wu Shuang brought Bell into his Mountains and Rivers Plate, where they prepared to fight away from the crowd.

• Bell defeated the burly body cultivator and was declared the winner of the test.
• Wu Shuang appeared and challenged Bell to a match, and Bell accepted after the instructors stayed silent.
• Bell signaled Shanna and Hermione to move away, then followed Wu Shuang into the Mountains and Rivers Plate.
• Wu Shuang explained that the plate contained a separate landscape for their match and invited Bell to attack first.

Bell and Wu Shuang began their battle inside the Mountains and Rivers Plate as students and teachers watched. Bell destroyed Wu Shuang’s defensive array with Sectumsempra, prompting Wu Shuang to unleash five elemental attacks.

• Shanna flew above the Mountains and Rivers Plate and cheered for her thumb-sized Gege, while the teachers projected the battle for the students to watch.
• Bell opened the fight with a probing Breaking Curse, which Wu Shuang blocked with a defensive array plate.
• Wu Shuang urged Bell to use the powerful move he had used against the Test Boulder, and Bell struck the shield with Sectumsempra, nearly cutting the array plate in two.
• Wu Shuang tossed five array plates overhead and sent Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth attacks toward Bell.

Bell struggled against Wu Shuang’s varied array attacks, then used deception and a powerful Magic Power Impact to send him crashing into a mountain. Wu Shuang survived unharmed and announced he was getting serious, while Bell answered with Annihilation.

• Wu Shuang’s combined elemental light pillars overwhelmed Bell, who vanished using Side-Along Apparition.
• Wu Shuang used a search array plate to draw out Bell, but Bell’s underground decoy let him surprise Wu Shuang with a Magic Power Impact.
• Wu Shuang was hurled nearly a thousand meters into a mountain, then reappeared without a visible injury.
• Wu Shuang declared the warm-up over and prepared to fight seriously, and Bell cast Annihilation.

Wu Shuang used the Five Elements Revolving Grand Array to battle Bell, switching between its formations as Bell repeatedly escaped and counterattacked. After weakening Bell’s options and secretly preparing the battlefield, Wu Shuang activated the Four Pillars Demon Sealing Array, leaving Bell’s fate unresolved.

• Wu Shuang blocked Bell’s curse with a Five Elements Revolving Grand Array and then unleashed a rain of light that Bell evaded with Side-Along Apparition.
• Wu Shuang changed the array’s formation and used earth attacks to force Bell out of his Earth Escape Technique, swallowing Bell’s water dragons with earth mouths.
• Bell escaped the attacks again, while Wu Shuang realized he had inflicted almost no lasting damage and decided to use his trump card.
• Wu Shuang revealed that the rain of light had scattered spiritual power across the battlefield and activated the Four Pillars Demon Sealing Array.

Bell escaped Wu Shuang’s Four Pillars Demon Sealing Array with a fire-infused, spinning spear, but the effort left him dizzy and weak. As Wu Shuang tried to trap him again with a larger Five Elements Array, Bell’s prepared torrent of silvery-white liquid swept away the unfinished Array Patterns.

• Wu Shuang activated the Four Pillars Demon Sealing Array and trapped Bell inside its golden barrier.
• Bell burned apart the array’s chains with fire, while Wu Shuang began drawing a larger array outside it.
• Bell concentrated his flames around a rapidly spinning spear and pierced the sealing array’s barrier, escaping with the Metal Escape Technique.
• Bell emerged dizzy and exhausted as Wu Shuang hurried to complete the larger Five Elements Array.
• Bell unleashed a torrent of silvery-white liquid that erased Wu Shuang’s Array Patterns and dispersed the spiritual energy in the ground.

Bell escaped Wu Shuang’s Four Pillars Demon Sealing Array by drilling through it with Thousand Changes, but Wu Shuang resumed attacking him with his Five Elements Array. The fight continued with Bell dodging and resisting the flames, and Bell prepared to cast a spell as he worried about being burned bald.

• Bell secretly shaped Thousand Changes into a spinning spear and drilled through the Four Pillars Demon Sealing Array to escape.
• The compressed liquid metal surged from the hole and flattened everything nearby, ruining Wu Shuang’s attempt to form a new array.
• Wu Shuang attacked the dizzy Bell with beams from his array plates, while Bell used his Flying Shoes to bounce around and evade them.
• Wu Shuang formed the Five Elements Revolving Grand Array and sent scorching flames after Bell.
• Bell resisted much of the fire with his Fire Escape Technique and protective gear, then raised his Wand to cast as he feared losing his hair.

Wu Shuang and Bell’s three-hour battle in the Mountains and Rivers Plate left the spectators bored and hungry, while neither fighter could overcome the other. The students headed for the Dining Hall as Bell tried to end the match, but Wu Shuang refused and the battle continued.

• The students and instructors grew tired of watching Wu Shuang and Bell’s prolonged fight, so the instructors sent the students to the Dining Hall.
• Bell assessed Wu Shuang’s formidable defenses and admitted that neither of them could land a decisive blow.
• Bell asked Wu Shuang to call the match, but Wu Shuang refused because he wanted to protect his winning streak and make up for the damage to his Mountains and Rivers Plate.
• Bell dodged Wu Shuang’s Water Dragon and conjured a spinning metallic tornado beneath him.

Bell and Wu Shuang continued their fierce duel, with Bell trying to talk his way into an opening while Wu Shuang fought to protect his sixty-two-win streak. The fight remained unresolved as Bell appealed to Wu Shuang to stop because school started the next day.

• Wu Shuang emerged unharmed from Bell's attack and roared that he could not let his sixty-two-win streak end.
• Bell questioned whether Wu Shuang's victories over students counted toward his streak, then claimed he was a fifteen-year-old student.
• Wu Shuang blocked Bell's suspicious ID with an Earth Wall, which corroded into a dangerous blackish-purple puddle.
• Wu Shuang attacked with arrays that sent trees and flames at Bell, but Bell cut through them and escaped with magic.
• Wu Shuang vowed to take Bell down, while Bell complained that he had classes to attend the next day.

Bell persuaded Wu Shuang to settle their fight with one attack, but Wu Shuang’s amplified array collided with Bell’s spatial rift and caused it to expand. Bell fled the danger, leaving Wu Shuang to demand a solution while Bell admitted he could only try repairing the rift if the attack stopped.

• Bell proposed that Wu Shuang attack him once within ten seconds, with the result determining whether Wu Shuang won or they drew.
• Wu Shuang activated the Five Elements Revolving Grand Array and enlarged it with five Five Elements Array Flags.
• Wu Shuang unleashed a multicolored pillar of light, and Bell tore open a spatial rift to absorb the attack.
• The pillar forced the spatial rift to expand, so Bell ran a thousand meters away while Wu Shuang worried about the danger.
• Wu Shuang demanded that Bell fix the rift, and Bell said he might try if Wu Shuang could stop his attack.

Bell sealed the spatial rift caused by Wu Shuang’s attack, then returned to Hermione and Shanna. The next morning, he and the Hogwarts group headed to Yandu Academy’s opening ceremony, where the Sorting results were about to be announced.

• Bell used Ancient Runes to stop the spatial rift from widening and then closed it.
• Bell called his clash with Wu Shuang a draw and left the Mountains and Rivers Plate, while Wu Shuang lamented the damage and missing soil and rock.
• Bell woke beside Hermione in his guest courtyard at Yandu Academy and explained where they were.
• Bell recalled that he had refused Shanna’s request to stay with him so she could make friends in the student dormitories.
• After breakfast, Bell and the Hogwarts group followed the crowd to the Academy gates for the opening ceremony and Sorting announcement.

Bell was summoned to meet the leaders of Yandu Academy, who grew concerned about the strength he had shown against Wu Shuang and wanted to learn more about European Wizards. He left the meeting still unsure of their true motives.

• A gentleman summoned Bell to meet the dean at the platform-side preparation room.
• Yandu Academy’s leaders discussed Bell’s strength against Wu Shuang and worried that Wizards might rival or surpass Cultivators.
• Dean Han Baisong introduced himself and the other senior figures, then asked Bell about the Academy and the European Magical World.
• Bell answered cautiously while suspecting that the leaders had ulterior motives.
• Bell left the meeting puzzled that the leaders had assembled such an imposing group merely to ask basic questions about Wizards.