Chapter Summaries

Bell and the Hogwarts group returned to Yandu Academy after their winter break and learned the Four Academy Tournament would begin in a month. They traveled with the competing teams to a beach for the tournament, where Bell realized the sea might be the setting for the first event, then remembered they were there to compete.

• After the Spring Festival, Bell and the others stayed near the Academy and spent the rest of winter break sightseeing.
• An instructor explained the Four Academy Tournament rules to the four Yandu Academy teams and said the tournament would begin in one month.
• Bell studied until late March, then joined the Academy students as they traveled to the tournament site on April 1.
• The Yandu Academy students arrived at the beach, where Bell suspected the first event would involve naval combat, and played in the sea with his sister.
• After lunch, Bell and the other competitors were summoned for special meals and accommodations, and Bell remembered they had come to compete.

The Four Academy Tournament’s first event required contestants to swim through Sea Serpent-infested waters to find an island, defeat poisonous Golden Beaked Chickens, and eat their meat to obtain Points Tokens. Bell, Shanna, and Hermione set out across the sea, with Bell and Shanna eager to hunt Sea Serpents while Hermione focused on winning.

• The organizers announced the Chicken Eating Competition and explained that contestants had to reach a hidden island through waters filled with hungry Sea Serpents.
• The rules required contestants to eat poisonous Golden Beaked Chickens to retrieve Points Tokens, while the island’s herbs offered a possible antidote and teams could steal tokens from one another.
• At the referee’s command, the contestants entered the sea and searched for the island without knowing its location.
• Bell and Shanna eagerly hoped to catch Sea Serpents, while Hermione spotted a distant black dot and asked Bell if it was the island.
• Bell identified the dot as an ordinary reef and noted that he and Shanna might be the only contestants hoping to encounter Sea Serpents.

Shanna attacked a Sea Serpent and was nearly swept into the sea before Bell rescued her and finished off the creature. The group cooked and ate the Sea Serpent while Hermione worried that they were wasting time.

• Shanna rushed toward a Sea Serpent and struck it with repeated Explosion Curses and a Sectumsempra, badly wounding it.
• The Sea Serpent blasted Shanna into the sea and tried to escape, but Bell used Transfiguration and golden spells to kill it.
• Bell pulled Shanna from the water, dried her off, and warned her not to relax before a battle was over.
• Shanna vowed not to make the same mistake, and the group held a barbecue feast on the sea.
• Hermione asked Bell whether they were wasting time, and Bell told her to swallow the meat in her mouth before speaking.

Bell and his companions spent much of the competition’s first day feasting on Sea Serpent meat before resuming their search for the island. As night fell, they had encountered more Sea Serpents and contestants but still had not found their destination.

• Hermione worried that the group was wasting time, but Bell reassured her that reaching the island was only a warm-up.
• Bell and the others ate Sea Serpent meat for nearly an hour, while Shanna froze the leftovers despite Bell’s advice.
• The group used the remaining Sea Serpent meat as a boat and continued traveling across the sea.
• Shanna fought the Sea Serpents they encountered, with Roy, Bridget, and Hermione helping when multiple beasts attacked.
• Other contestants avoided Bell’s group and their corpse-built vehicle, while the group continued searching as night fell.

Bell and his companions settled on the island for the Four Academy Tournament, prioritizing rest and their Sea Serpent meat before setting out to find herbs needed to prepare the poisonous Golden Beaked Chicken. The chapter left them wandering through the forest, with Bell meditating while unable to identify the plants.

• Bell and Shanna celebrated reaching the island and looked forward to eating the Golden Beaked Chicken.
• Bell chose a conspicuous mountaintop campsite despite Hermione's objections, and he and Shanna used Transfiguration to build a house beside the Sea Serpent carcass.
• Bell and his companions rested for a day while the tournament officials watched their leisurely approach to the competition.
• After breakfast the next morning, Bell led his companions into the forest to search for herbs that could neutralize the Golden Beaked Chicken's poison.
• Bell meditated as he walked, while admitting he could not distinguish the herbs they needed.

Bell and his companions spent three days on the island gathering herbs and growing vegetables, while their relaxed approach frustrated the competition’s organizers. As Bell complained beside the campfire, an explosion sent him shielding the group from another distant battle.

• Bell assigned Shanna to find herbs, Hermione to assist her, Roy and Bridget to guard the group, and himself to prepare a place to relax.
• Bell planted seeds and used a growth spell to establish a vegetable garden on the island.
• Bell and the others ate hot pot made with their garden’s vegetables and mushrooms after three days without encountering any chickens or other people.
• Dean Dong complained about Bell’s group turning the competition into a food broadcast, while the Academy students’ food consumption rose.
• Bell ate roasted meat beside the campfire as Lü Feitian asked whether he planned to stay on the island, then Bell cast Protego Totalum to shield the group from an explosion’s gale.

Shanna and Ma Jingjing spent the seventh day of the island competition fighting, while Bell and Lü Feitian guarded their camp and waited for the scouting group to return. Bell sensed that Zhang Xu, Hermione, and the others were close, leaving the teams still stuck on the island with their search for Golden Beaked Chickens unfinished.

• Ma Jingjing challenged Shanna, who used Wood Escape and Earth Escape to evade her attacks and keep the fight going without either girl winning.
• Bell explained that Shanna had spent the past year mastering the Five Elements Great Escape to counter Ma Jingjing’s sword attacks.
• Bell and Lü Feitian guarded the vegetable garden and dinner while keeping watch over the exhausted fighters.
• Bell used a Perception Mark to sense that Zhang Xu, Hermione, and the other scouts would return in about five minutes.
• Bell and Lü Feitian let the other teams inspect their camp openly, leading them to conclude that the two groups were broke losers.

Hermione’s scouting squad finally found traces of a Golden Beaked Chicken, giving the teams a chance to earn points after a week of searching. Bell used their dwindling meat supply to push everyone toward hunting it, while Shanna and Ma Jingjing remained locked in their rivalry.

• Teams converged on Bell’s group, but after two days of searching, they found no Golden Beaked Chickens or feathers.
• Shanna and Ma Jingjing paused their ongoing fight when Bell called them to eat, then resumed competing over who returned and ate more.
• Hermione told Bell that her scouting squad had found Golden Beaked Chicken traces but had returned because it was dark and they were exhausted.
• Hermione tried to persuade Shanna and Ma Jingjing to focus on earning points, but they ignored her and continued eating.
• Bell announced that their meat supply was running low and warned that they would soon have to live on grass unless they replenished it.

Bell and the others hunted Golden Beaked Chickens and tested ways to handle their poisonous meat, with Bell and Lü Feitian suffering repeated bouts of metallization. The chapter left Jia Yu treating Lü while begrudgingly accepting that Shanna’s chicken stew outperformed his pills.

• Bell’s group and Ma Jingjing’s team caught Golden Beaked Chickens, then split up to hunt for more.
• Ma Jingjing’s team caught more chickens than Bell’s group, and Ma Jingjing smugly celebrated her team’s lead.
• Bell volunteered to taste-test the poisonous chicken meat while Hermione treated him, and repeated experiments caused his organs to turn metallic.
• Lü Feitian also suffered from the toxin as Jia Yu tested his pills on him, while Bell teased him about being worse off.
• Jia Yu treated Lü Feitian while envying Shanna’s more effective chicken stew and wanting to return to his pill research.

Shanna continued developing Potions to counter the Golden Beaked Chicken’s toxin while Bell and his team ate the chicken they had captured. Bell found a Points Token hidden in a bone, and he predicted the Four Academy Tournament would end soon as the chickens dwindled.

• Shanna used Potions, supplemented by alchemy, to make a more effective toxin remedy than Jia Yu’s pills, but she remained frustrated that she could not fully treat Bell.
• Bell ate chicken in front of the hungry Lü Feitian, then spat out a Points Token hidden inside a chicken bone.
• Bell called Hermione over, and she and the others gathered around the token, pleased that their team had earned a point.
• Bell asked Shanna for a different way to cook the chicken, but she said the island lacked the ingredients she needed.
• Bell told Hermione that the tournament would likely end soon because battles had grown more frequent and fewer Golden Beaked Chickens remained.

Hermione, Roy, and Bridget worried about the dangers of the tournament’s final stretch, while Wang Shouqiang’s team confronted Bell’s group to steal their Points Tokens. Hermione’s offer to give Wang’s team some points left Bell and Wang awkwardly staring at each other.

• Roy and Bridget realized that they were among the weakest contestants and feared the battles ahead.
• Bell warned Shanna to be courteous before resorting to force, and she put away her Wand and returned to her stew.
• Wang Shouqiang emerged from the woods and explained that his team had targeted Bell’s group because they needed points and believed its members were vulnerable.
• Bell welcomed Wang Shouqiang and tossed him a cucumber, which Wang eagerly ate.
• Hermione suggested that Bell give Wang Shouqiang’s team some points, leaving both men at a loss for words.

Hermione nearly gave Wang Shouqiang points after hearing his convincing tale, but Bell stopped her and Wang launched his planned ambush. Bell drew Wang away from the Points Tokens, and the two faced off in a forest clearing.

• Hermione sympathized with Wang Shouqiang and decided to give him some of her Points Tokens, but Bell and Wang both urged her not to.
• Hermione abandoned the offer when Bell compared giving points to cheating and hugged the bundle protectively.
• Wang Shouqiang abruptly attacked Bell, who dodged and used the fight to draw him away from the Tokens.
• Wang Shouqiang charged through the forest after Bell, then worried that Bell was too fast to hold back.

Wang Shouqiang challenged Bell with his newly forged Steel Armor, confident that he could hold him back. Bell revealed his advanced Human Transfiguration by turning into a giant bear and sent Wang Shouqiang flying.

• Wang Shouqiang summoned the Steel Armor he had forged and explained why he believed it would let him fight Bell.
• Wang Shouqiang charged Bell and struck him with a powerful punch that created successive shockwaves.
• Bell blocked Wang Shouqiang’s punch with a transformed bear paw, surprising him with his mastery of Transfiguration.
• Bell transformed into a giant bear and swatted Wang Shouqiang through the woods.

Bell and Wang Shouqiang continued their first match, testing the Wang Family’s Thousand Transformations against Bell’s bear form and overwhelming strength. Both fighters recovered from injuries and resumed their clash, leaving Wang Shouqiang badly shaken internally despite Bell’s many superficial wounds.

• Bell healed the hole in his palm and recognized the value of the Wang Family’s Thousand Transformations, which combined Shapeshifting with transforming armor.
• Wang Shouqiang recovered, reformed his armor, and charged Bell again after both fighters’ injuries and numbness had eased.
• Bell and Wang Shouqiang exchanged heavy blows, with Wang’s armor changing into spikes, a greatsword, and a shield as Bell dodged and struck back.
• Bell healed wounds across his body while Wang struggled to withstand the force of their collisions and neared coughing up blood.

Shanna used darkness and a Dream Grafting spell to disorient Wang Shouqiang's team while Bell kept Wang Shouqiang occupied. The other fighters remained trapped in the dark, and Shanna continued targeting them with tricks.

• Bell's agility and strength kept Wang Shouqiang on the defensive as Wang Shouqiang waited for his teammates to finish their fight.
• Chen Hua tried to gather his teammates, but Gao Zeyuan ordered everyone to hold their positions and defend.
• Shanna cast Darkness Descends, leaving everyone except herself unable to see in the area.
• Shanna used a Dream Grafting spell to distort sounds, and Chen Hua attacked Gao Zeyuan after mistaking Shanna's voice for her location.
• Gao Zeyuan warned Chen Hua not to rely on sound, while Shanna laughed and continued trying to turn the team against itself.

Gao Zeyuan’s attempt to break Shanna’s Darkness Descends curse blinded the fighters, but Shanna used the opening to knock him away as his teammates rushed Hermione for the Points Token. Elsewhere, Hermione and Roy struggled to hold off their opponents while Bridget fought through a serious arm injury, leaving Roy hoping Hermione had a way to turn the battle around.

• Gao Zeyuan cast Inverted Yin Yang and shattered the stone holding the light from Shanna’s Darkness Descends curse, unleashing a blinding flash.
• Gao Zeyuan urged his teammates to seize the Points Token, but Shanna appeared behind him and sent him spinning into the forest.
• Chen Hua mourned Gao Zeyuan, then he and the other two teammates charged at Hermione while Gao Zeyuan shouted for them to continue.
• Hermione checked on Bridget after a Mountain Whipping Spell injured his left arm, and Bridget insisted on fighting.
• Bridget’s Protego Totalum briefly gave Hermione and Roy time to recover, but Roy warned that they could not hold out much longer.

Hermione’s team lost their Points Token after Shanna refused to help, while Bell fought Wang Shouqiang elsewhere. Bell returned to comfort Hermione and joined Shanna in vowing to punish Wang Shouqiang’s team.

• Hermione called for Shanna’s help, but Shanna pretended she was too busy fighting Gao Zeyuan and let the robbers take the Points Token.
• Hermione, Roy, and Bridget held off Wang Shouqiang’s teammates for five minutes before their defensive line collapsed.
• Wang Shouqiang used his Wind Come Cannon to escape from Bell, who then returned to the campsite.
• Hermione apologized to Bell for losing their points, and Bell comforted her and promised to make Wang Shouqiang’s team pay.
• Shanna agreed with Bell and decided she still needed to beat the other three members of Wang Shouqiang’s team.

Hermione told Bell that their team had twenty-six points left after losing thirty, while Wang Shouqiang regrouped with his team and learned that Gao Zeyuan had returned badly beaten after recovering their points. The chapter ended with Wang Shouqiang staring at Gao Zeyuan’s pig-like appearance.

• Hermione told Bell their points had been stolen, then admitted that twenty-six remained.
• Wang Shouqiang reached the team’s clearing, where Chen Hua struggled to recognize him through his injuries.
• Wang Shouqiang checked his reflection and blamed Bell for targeting his handsome face.
• Chen Hua told Wang Shouqiang that Lao Gao was behind them, but his dramatic delivery made Wang think the man was dead.
• Gao Zeyuan emerged and reported that he had completed the mission and snatched the points back.
• Wang Shouqiang saw Gao Zeyuan’s badly beaten appearance and asked what had happened to him.

Bell and Hermione finished the first match of the Four Academy Tournament in sixth place, while Li Xin’s team took first and Yandu Academy’s other teams drew criticism. During the week before the second match, Hermione focused on catching up with class notes and Bell sought teachers who could help him study Weapon Refinement Technique.

• Bell and his companions finished the match in sixth place after finding two more Golden Beaked Chickens, while Li Xin’s team scored sixty-three points and took first.
• Yandu Academy’s teachers reprimanded Ma Jingjing’s and Wang Shouqiang’s teams for their low scores, and Hermione scolded Bell for watching their misfortune.
• The contestants began a weeklong break intended for recovery and study, and Hermione hurried to borrow notes for her exams.
• Bell prepared to ask the gathered teachers about Weapon Refinement Technique and approached Mr. Gongshu.

The second event was a five-stronghold Capture the Flag competition, and the rules put the lone Bell Team at a severe disadvantage. Bell chose to focus on defending their flag and built a castle before the competition began.

• The professors announced that teams would capture rival Academies’ command flags underwater, while stolen flags and Bell Team’s flag carried different point penalties and rewards.
• The contestants were sent to their strongholds to prepare, and Bell recognized that rival teams could outmaneuver the Bell Team rather than confront him directly.
• Bell used Transfiguration to raise a huge castle around the Bell Team’s Commanding Platform.
• Hermione, Roy, and Bridget reinforced the castle and set magical traps, while Shanna devised her own contraptions.
• Bell stopped Hermione’s preparations so the team could rest and preserve their Magic Power before the competition started.