Chapter Summaries

Bell returned to Shanna and Hermione after meeting with the Academy’s leaders, then prepared to give a speech introducing the British Wizarding World at Yandu Academy’s opening ceremony. The ceremony ended with familiar boasts about Yandu Academy’s greatness.

• Bell told Shanna that he had only chatted with the Academy’s leaders and asked Hermione to help prepare his opening ceremony speech.
• Hermione quickly wrote Bell a speech and repeatedly urged him to deliver it seriously, while Bell escaped toward the podium.
• Luna laughed at Bell’s retreat, easing Hermione’s anxiety and prompting Roy and Bridget to laugh with her.
• Yandu Academy’s opening ceremony lasted about an hour and introduced its history while praising the Academy as the best in the world.

The Sorting results placed Bell in Upper Academy third year, Hermione in first year, and Sanna in second year, leaving Luna alone in the Middle Academy. Bell reassured the girls and decided to have Sanna and Hermione visit Luna more often.

• Hermione learned that Bell had been assigned to Upper Academy third year Class One, separating them by year for the first time.
• Hermione heard that Sanna had been assigned to Upper Academy second year Class One and grew angry that the thirteen-year-old had skipped three years.
• Sanna resented being placed in a different class from Bell and regretted not using her magical items against Ma Jingjing.
• Bell offered to arrange for Luna to live near Sanna so she could help Luna travel between the Middle and Upper Academies.
• Luna calmly declined Bell's offer, and Bell urged her to visit often and tell them if she encountered trouble.
• Bell decided that Sanna and Hermione should visit Luna in the Middle Academy more often.

Bell joined Third Year Class One, where Ma Jingjing introduced him to her classmates and explained the Upper Academy’s elective course system. The class began choosing courses for the coming year.

• Bell arrived at Third Year Class One and learned that Ma Jingjing had skipped the opening ceremony because she expected to be assigned there.
• Ma Jingjing was surprised that Shanna had been placed in Second Year Class One and complained that five students in her class had been replaced by lower-class students.
• Ma Jingjing introduced Bell to Zhang Xu and Lü Feitian, whom she jokingly called her underlings.
• Ma Jingjing handed out course selection forms and explained that Upper Academy students had to choose at least three electives each semester.

Bell chose his electives at the Academy, focusing on weapon refinement and related studies while Ma Jingjing welcomed the chance to spar with him in combat classes. The class meeting ended when Si Ma Yan, a teacher Bell recognized, began the required Spell Class.

• Ma Jingjing explained that Spirit-Rootless Person Political System Analysis prepared students for work with the Cultivator Alliance.
• Bell checked five electives, including Weapon Refinement, Arrays, Talismans, Combat Practice, and Close Combat Techniques, and signed the form.
• Ma Jingjing spotted Bell's choices of Combat Practice and Close Combat Techniques and looked forward to fighting him in class.
• Ma Jingjing accidentally shot spiritual power at Bell, and Bell quickly blocked it with his glowing blue palm.
• Si Ma Yan introduced himself as the class's responsible teacher and Spell Class instructor, then warned the students to pay attention.

Bell began his first day at Yandu Academy and met DuGu Sheng, whose excitement over his ancestor DuGu QiuBai left Bell wary of the Cultivation World’s sword lineages. Zhang Xu then took Bell on a tour of the Academy, which Bell found beautiful but less intriguing than Hogwarts.

• Mr. Si Ma Yan ended the class meeting, and Bell listened as classmates discussed his strict reputation and Mr. Wu Shuang’s sparring habits.
• DuGu Sheng introduced himself to Bell and became excited when Bell mentioned DuGu QiuBai, his ancestor.
• Bell explained that he had learned DuGu QiuBai’s name from Chinese records, and DuGu Sheng left the classroom in a daze.
• Zhang Xu offered to show Bell around Yandu Academy, and Bell reluctantly went with him instead of exploring with his sister and girlfriend.
• Bell compared Yandu Academy with Hogwarts, finding its grounds spacious and scenic but its interior less suited to adventure.

Bell asked Zhang Xu about his history with Ma Jingjing and learned why the major families had lost influence in China’s Cultivator World. Zhang Xu revealed that history books had whitewashed the families’ tradition of staying out of wars, leaving Bell wary of trusting what he read.

• Bell asked Zhang Xu how he had become Ma Jingjing’s underling, and Zhang Xu explained that their childhood rivalry had led to his repeated defeats.
• Zhang Xu asked whether Bell and Ma Jingjing had a special relationship, but Bell said they had only met two days earlier and that he already had a girlfriend.
• Bell asked why students from major families were so common in Yandu Academy, and Zhang Xu explained that their families retained powerful inheritances despite losing political influence.
• Zhang Xu said the major families had refused to join a devastating war decades earlier, after which the Cultivator Alliance suppressed them.
• Zhang Xu explained that Cultivators had increasingly avoided wars involving Spirit-Rootless People and that history books had concealed this tradition to restore the major families’ prestige.
• Bell reconsidered how much he could trust historical accounts.

Shanna complained to Bell that Yandu Academy lacked Hogwarts’s fun animals and places, and he comforted her by pointing out its alchemy lessons and Fina. On the third day of term, Bell arrived at his first artifact-forging class and watched the students gather around the magma pools as their instructor descended.

• Shanna pouted at Bell for leaving her alone, then explained that Yandu Academy had no Magical Animals or places like Hogwarts’s Black Lake and Forbidden Forest.
• Bell comforted Shanna by reminding her about alchemy and suggesting she spend time with Fina, who was playing games with Penelope.
• By the third day of term, Bell went to the Academy’s forging plaza for his first artifact-forging class.
• Bell observed the Endless Flame and the magma pools before the students gathered and sat down at their places.
• A burly, bare-chested instructor descended from the sky and ordered the students to sit properly.

Bell attended Weapon Refinement Class at Yandu Academy, where instructor Tie Zhesheng assessed his knowledge and examined a sword he had forged. After finding Bell's work respectable for a beginner, Tie Zhesheng began a lesson on adding low-ignition plant materials to molten metal.

• Tie Zhesheng introduced himself and asked Bell how much he knew about the Weapon Refinement Technique.
• Bell explained the three realms of weapon refinement and said he had gained a basic grasp of the Hammering Technique.
• Tie Zhesheng asked Bell to show him a finished work, and Bell levitated a longsword for him to inspect.
• Tie Zhesheng judged the sword's balance and internal structure imperfect but praised Bell's level as respectable for a beginner.
• Tie Zhesheng began teaching the class how to incorporate plant-based materials with low ignition points into molten metal.

After Weapon Refinement Class, Bell arranged to study the Spirit Refinement Technique early and comforted Hermione after she struggled in Arrays Class. Shanna showed him her first Strength Enhancement Pills, and Bell confirmed that one temporarily increased his strength by about ten percent.

• Bell asked Tie Zhesheng when he could learn the Spirit Refinement Technique, and Tie Zhesheng invited him to visit the Weapon Refinement Hall for early study.
• Hermione told Bell that she could not understand Arrays Class, and Bell promised to prepare an introductory guide for her.
• Shanna showed Bell the Strength Enhancement Pills she had refined and recorded his suggestion to add Jian Mi Beast milk for flavor.
• Bell ate one of Shanna’s pills and felt his strength increase by around ten percent.

Bell praised Shanna's Magic Power, then shared dinner with Shanna and Hermione and learned that Luna still had no friends. When Bell and Shanna missed dessert, he called someone from his Personal Terminal, interrupting Little Fina just as it was about to score its first kill.

• Bell watched Shanna snap a thick tree with a Magic Power punch, praised her, and repaired the tree.
• Bell asked Shanna about Luna, and Shanna said Luna still had no friends but that she had warned the Middle Academy students not to bully her.
• Hermione worried about Luna, and Bell suggested that Shanna visit her more often or bring her over to play.
• Bell, Shanna, and Hermione finished a huge meal, and Bell realized the Dining Hall served no dessert after dinner.
• Bell called a contact on his Personal Terminal after Shanna asked for pudding, interrupting Little Fina's attempt to get its first kill in a game.
• Little Fina missed the kill and wailed at the screen.

Bell called Fina and sent her racing to fetch desserts for him at the Academy, where Ma Jingjing joined them for a meal. Later, Bell, Shanna, and Hermione spent a quiet evening studying and practicing in their courtyard.

• Bell changed Fina’s Personal Terminal settings so his call interrupted her game, then ordered her to fetch desserts, including Cream Cherry pudding.
• Fina ran through the forest to the Dining Hall and delivered the desserts from a pouch around her neck.
• Ma Jingjing visited Bell, admired the desserts, and joined him and Hermione for a meal.
• Bell, Shanna, and Hermione returned to their courtyard and spent the evening practicing Occlumency, studying Arcanite, and catching up on Arrays.

Ma Jingjing challenged Bell in Close Combat Techniques class to avenge her earlier defeat, but he dodged and blocked every attack despite claiming he had never studied the subject. She left in frustration, while Bell continued observing her swordsmanship and the other students hurried to spar with one another.

• Ma Jingjing recalled losing to Bell in Combat Practice Class and decided to challenge him in close combat.
• Ma Jingjing chased Bell with her sword for nearly ten minutes, but he dodged every strike and said he had learned dodging techniques.
• Bell threw aside his sword and used Magic Power to block Ma Jingjing's attacks for more than twenty minutes.
• Ma Jingjing gave up and left after Bell said he had learned blocking techniques, while Bell tried to persuade her to continue.
• Bell turned toward the other students, who quickly paired off to spar as the class ended under the instructor's watch.

Shanna took her Flying Car out for a spin, but after other students mocked her and broke the Academy speed limit, she sped off and started an impromptu flying race. Bell recognized her car as it thundered overhead, and an anxious man soon came looking for Professor Menethil, likely because of Shanna.

• Shanna became angry when a student mocked her Flying Car and made an insulting gesture at her.
• Shanna accelerated past the speed of sound, sending students flying and then returning an insulting gesture to the crowd.
• The students chased Shanna, and she slowed down to let them catch up, turning the pursuit into Yandu Academy's first Flying Competition.
• Bell recognized Shanna's Bena among the Flying Cars roaring overhead and wondered why she had not gone to visit Luna.
• An anxious man called for Professor Menethil, and Bell suspected he had come because of Shanna.

Shanna turned a playful flight into a chaotic Flying Car race across the Academy, forcing Bell to intervene before the instructors lost their tempers. He stopped the racers, and they were left to face the consequences of breaking Academy rules.

• A man brought Bell to stop Shanna, who had been racing students on her Flying Car and defeating their Flying Swords and Flying Shoes.
• More students joined in with Flying Cars, and Shanna sped up while taunting the racers behind her.
• After instructors trying to stop the race were knocked aside, Bell promised to intervene and flew off at tremendous speed.
• Bell caught up with the racers, landed on the Bena, and persuaded Shanna to slow down.
• Bell cast a large-scale Obstruction Jinx to stop the other Flying Cars, then warned the students to prepare for the instructors' questions.

After the Academy instructors confronted Shanna about the flying incident, Bell took her away and continued studying the Weapon Refinement Technique. Bored at the Middle Academy, Shanna started a Quidditch game where she encouraged the students to use dangerous spells, only to discover they had never learned them.

• The instructors learned from Shanna why the students had been flying recklessly, and Bell promised to discipline her before taking her away.
• Bell forbade Shanna from driving the Flying Car for the rest of the day, then returned to his courtyard to study the Weapon Refinement Technique.
• Shanna, bored at the Middle Academy, recruited students to play Quidditch with her and taught them her version of the game.
• Shanna told the players they could attack opponents with spells, including the Imperius Curse, as long as they avoided lethal or powerful controlling spells.
• The students admitted they did not know the spells Shanna had named, and Shanna learned that students at their level had not been taught them.

Shanna taught a group of young Cultivators Quidditch, then overwhelmed them so badly with spells that they refused to let her play. Luna took her place, and Bell arrived to find the match underway in chaotic fashion.

• Shanna demonstrated the Obstruction Jinx and made the young Cultivators repeat Quidditch’s rules.
• During the match, Shanna used curses against the players until they banded together and forced her off the field.
• Shanna threatened the group to keep them from spreading word that one player had messed his pants, while the unfortunate Cultivator remained tied to a tree.
• Luna joined the match after Shanna left, and the players enjoyed the chaotic game.
• Bell found Shanna shouting orders as the match continued and asked what everyone was doing.

Bell visited Shanna and watched her students play her version of Quidditch, which had spread throughout Yandu Academy using Flying Shoes. He declined Wang Shouqiang’s invitation to play and went to meet Vice-Principal Liu, who urged him to call her Grandma Liu.

• Bell visited Shanna as she watched little Cultivators play Quidditch and comforted her after she complained that they would not let her join.
• Shanna explained that she had tied up a Cultivator who kept trying to dive into the ground on a Flying Broomstick, and Bell watched the chaotic match with her.
• Quidditch spread through Yandu Academy, where students used shared Flying Shoes for matches because Flying Broomsticks were unavailable.
• Wang Shouqiang invited Bell to play Quidditch, but Bell declined because he was going to see Vice-Principal Liu.
• Vice-Principal Liu welcomed Bell and asked him to call her Grandma Liu instead of using her formal title.

Bell visited Vice-Principal Liu to secure approval for leaving the Academy, but she kept him chatting for over an hour and forgot to ask about the information she wanted from him. She went to check on his pass, leaving Bell to upgrade her teapot before he left.

• Bell asked Vice-Principal Liu to approve his application to leave the Academy, and she said his pass would take time to arrive.
• Vice-Principal Liu kept Bell talking over tea for more than an hour, but forgot to question him about Europe's Magical World.
• Bell asked when his pass would arrive, and Vice-Principal Liu went to check on it.
• While Vice-Principal Liu was away, Bell dismantled the teapot and used his Wand to modify its Ancient Runes as thanks for her help.

Bell Menethil visited the Odd Jobs Shop and met its sleepy receptionist, Nanami Misora, who had forgotten the shop’s name. When Nanami realized Bell belonged to the Menethil family, she panicked and begged him not to get her fired.

• Bell arrived at a run-down office building and found the Odd Jobs Shop on the fifth floor.
• Nanami Misora forgot the name of her workplace and improvised a welcome for Bell.
• Bell explained he had come to see the boss, and Nanami promised to keep helping him if he would not report her sleeping at work.
• Bell gave Nanami his name, and she recognized Menethil as her real employer.
• Nanami pleaded with Bell not to fire her and promised to memorize the shop’s name.

Bell visited Sakamoto, the person in charge of the family’s Japan branch, and accidentally frightened Nanami, who mistook him for someone about to fire her. Sakamoto recognized Bell and welcomed him, while Bell reassured Nanami and gave her a light punishment for forgetting his name.

• Nanami cried after realizing Bell was a Menethil and fearing he could have her fired.
• Sakamoto rushed out to protect Nanami, then recognized Bell as the family’s young master.
• Sakamoto apologized on Nanami’s behalf and recalled how he had hired her after discovering she was an Onmyoji in need of help.
• Bell explained that Nanami had not offended him and that he had no intention of firing her.
• Bell told Nanami to stop crying and write his name five hundred times for forgetting it.