Recaps

Lu Wu awakened the Fire Element and activated the Sacrifice System, which strengthened his stars while leaving him unconscious during the ceremony. After waking in the infirmary, he confirmed he was well and invited Mu Nujiao to Fresh Food City, hoping to buy Demon Beast organs for the system.

• Lu Wu awakened the Fire Element at Magic City Seventh Magic High School and activated the Sacrifice System, claiming a reward that strengthened his stars.
• Jia Wenshang found that Lu Wu would not wake, summoned a healer, and had him taken to the infirmary.
• Lu Wu woke after an hour and told Mu Nujiao that his awakening had succeeded and that he felt fine.
• Mu Nujiao kept her awakened element secret, and Lu Wu complimented her dress before suggesting they visit Fresh Food City.
• Lu Wu planned to explore whether Demon Beast organs from the restaurant could serve as offerings to the Sacrifice System.

Lu Wu and Mu Nujiao were harassed by two men at Fresh Food City, and Lu Wu accepted their challenge to meet them upstairs. He ordered a whole Azure Wind Python gallbladder sashimi to gain strength before confronting them, while Mu Nujiao worried he would get hurt.

• Two men approached Lu Wu and Mu Nujiao, harassed Mu Nujiao, and threatened them after Lu Wu struck one of them.
• Fresh Food City's security guards stopped the men from fighting in the dining hall, and the men challenged Lu Wu to meet them in third-floor room 108.
• Lu Wu told Mu Nujiao he would go after the men, and she warned him to be careful and offered to call her older brother.
• Lu Wu ordered a whole Azure Wind Python gallbladder sashimi, intending to sacrifice it for a reward that could make him stronger.

Lu Wu sacrificed the Azure Wind Python's gallbladder and gained a Servant Level Dark Fire Ape, which he summoned to punish two men who had threatened him and Mu Nujiao. After the ape defeated them, Lu Wu injured one man's hand and warned them to watch what they said in public.

• Lu Wu sacrificed the Azure Wind Python's gallbladder and received the Dark Fire Ape as a reward from the Sacrifice System.
• Lu Wu saw the spiritual imprint linking him to the Dark Fire Ape and left Mu Nujiao, who called for backup.
• Lu Wu summoned the Dark Fire Ape in the private room where two men had been threatening him and Mu Nujiao.
• The Dark Fire Ape beat the two men until they could no longer fight, then returned to Lu Wu's shadow.
• Lu Wu smashed a piece of the broken table onto the thin man's hand and warned both men to watch what they said in public.

Lu Wu and Mu Nujiao celebrated their awakenings at Fresh Food City, where mages investigated a suspected demon beast. After finding two injured men in a private room, Mu Shengniu questioned Lu Wu about what had happened.

• Mu Shengniu and his mage squad traced a demonic aura to a private room and prepared to investigate it.
• Lu Wu emerged from the room as two men inside cried for help, and he claimed they had been fighting each other.
• Mu Nujiao arrived and told Mu Shengniu that she and Lu Wu had awakened the Plant Element and Fire Element and come to celebrate.
• Mu Shengniu's team found no demon beast in the room, but discovered the two men with several fractures and damaged porcelain slabs.
• When Mu Shengniu pressed Lu Wu for an explanation, Lu Wu admitted that he had broken a few of the men's bones after they started fighting.

Lu Wu concealed the Dark Fire Ape and convinced the mages that the two injured men had been beaten by a mysterious old mage. After collecting compensation and returning with Mu Nujiao, he planned to spend the money while testing which kinds of organs could complete a sacrifice.

• Lu Wu led the mages to the injured men and prompted them to explain what had happened.
• The fat man and his companion claimed that a mysterious old mage had beaten them, and Mu Shengniu accepted their account and called off further investigation.
• Lu Wu refused to call an ambulance until the men paid compensation, then took twenty thousand from their briefcase.
• Lu Wu offered Mu Nujiao ten thousand and suggested they spend the rest on an expensive meal.
• Lu Wu reflected that intact organs had worked for a sacrifice and planned to test partial and cooked organs next.

After months of training, Lu Wu still could not control his seventh Star, so he traveled to Rongcheng to visit Grandpa Shen and seek ways to strengthen Little Fire. At the Hunter Union, he discovered that Master Shen Shitian was recruiting a Fire Element mage for a dangerous mission, and he followed the crowd to learn more.

• Lu Wu spent more than four months cultivating and working, but could not make his seventh Star fall into line.
• Lu Wu decided to visit Grandpa Shen in Rongcheng and consider ways to improve Little Fire’s combat ability.
• Lu Wu arrived in Rongcheng and visited the Hunter Union, where a young man unsuccessfully tried to recruit him into a Demon-Hunting Squad.
• The Hunter Union announced that Master Shen Shitian was recruiting a Fire Element mage to travel to Hanging Coffin Swamp for three hundred thousand.
• Lu Wu followed the crowd to the second floor to look into Master Shen Shitian’s recruitment mission.

Lu Wu entered Shen Shitian’s recruitment test despite lacking mage credentials, where Fire Element mages tried to melt a piece of hundred-year Mystic Ice. Nangong Pei succeeded with his Fire Element seed, but Shen Shitian dismissed him after Lu Wu called out his poor character.

• Lu Wu rushed past the crowd and entered the second-floor room despite having no mage badge or credentials.
• Shen Shitian explained that applicants had to melt some hundred-year Mystic Ice, but the Fire Element mages who tried failed.
• Nangong Pei used his incomplete Fire Element seed to melt a drop of the Mystic Ice and hoped to become Shen Shitian’s disciple.
• Lu Wu criticized Nangong Pei’s character, and Nangong Pei offered to treat him to a meal to preserve his image before Shen Shitian.
• Shen Shitian praised Nangong Pei’s talent with regret, then told him to go back where he came from.

Lu Wu reunited with Shen Shitian, learned about mystic ice and Shen’s artifact-crafting, and asked for help controlling his seventh star. Shen reassured him that the final threshold to becoming a mage could take time.

• Shen Shitian rejected Nangong Pei and warmly reunited with Lu Wu, then brought him away with Jiang Chun.
• Lu Wu asked about the mystic ice Shen Shitian carried and learned it came from ice elemental energy accumulated over a hundred years and strengthened crafted magic artifacts.
• Lu Wu became interested in mystic ice as a possible sacrifice material, while Shen Shitian offered to teach him artifact-crafting after he mastered his magic.
• Lu Wu told Shen Shitian and Jiang Chun that he had controlled six stars and had been unable to control the seventh for over a month.
• Shen Shitian said the seventh star was the final threshold to becoming a mage and urged Lu Wu to be patient.

Lu Wu began training with a rare Thought Stone to strengthen his mental power, while Shen Shitian concealed the stone’s hidden essence and set a threshold for its benefits. On New Year’s Eve, Shen Shitian told Lu Wu about the family he had lost and revealed that he once had a granddaughter around Lu Wu’s age who went missing.

• Shen Shitian told Lu Wu to pause training his seventh Star and practice controlling a Thought Stone to develop his mental strength.
• Shen Shitian gave Lu Wu the Thought Stone, whose hidden essence would nourish him only after he reached the Second Realm of mental strength.
• Lu Wu spent the day trying to sense the Thought Stone, then went to eat in Rongcheng and spoke with Mu Nujiao, who agreed to visit after the New Year.
• Four days later, Lu Wu prepared a New Year’s Eve meal for Shen Shitian, and they shared drinks together.
• Shen Shitian told Lu Wu about his wife, children, and grandchildren, then revealed that his granddaughter had gone missing ten years earlier.

Lu Wu endured the Thought Stone’s crushing pressure and awakened stronger mental strength, then formed his Star Path and prepared to meet Mu Nujiao and her friend at Rongcheng Wildlife Park. He bought three expensive tickets after waiting for them, but the meeting had not yet begun.

• Lu Wu concentrated on the Thought Stone until its luminous image shrank, then collapsed and was carried to bed by Shen Shitian.
• After waking, Lu Wu called Mu Nujiao, who was angry that he had missed her calls and told him to meet her and her friend at Rongcheng Wild Demon Beast Park.
• Lu Wu learned that his soul had transformed under the Thought Stone’s pressure, then easily formed a Star Path and realized he could release Fire Element Beginner Magic.
• Lu Wu carefully put away the Thought Stone and traveled to Rongcheng Wildlife Park.
• Lu Wu bought three group tickets for three thousand yuan and waited while Mu Nujiao kept telling him that she was almost there.

Lu Wu and Mu Nujiao toured Rongcheng’s demon beast park, where seeing an Azure Wind Python up close frightened them and other visitors. They encountered Nangong Pei, who challenged Lu Wu to compete in a demon-hunting show without magic, and Lu Wu accepted.

• Lu Wu met Mu Nujiao after she waited for him, and they rented an electric bike to tour the park.
• At the Azure Wind Python enclosure, the beast’s aura frightened visitors, while Lu Wu steadied Mu Nujiao.
• Nangong Pei confronted Lu Wu and mocked him for being afraid of the python.
• Nangong Pei challenged Lu Wu to compete in the demon-hunting show without using magic, and Lu Wu agreed.

Lu Wu agreed to enter the Demon Beast Park’s demon-hunting show to test his magic, despite Mu Nujiao’s objections. After revealing that he could already cast magic, he comforted her over her disappointment, then entered the arena with Nangong Pei, where the organizers left the two of them to face the One-Eyed Demon Wolf themselves.

• Lu Wu accepted Nangong Pei’s challenge to enter the demon-hunting show, while Mu Nujiao tried to stop him.
• Lu Wu told Mu Nujiao he could already cast magic, and explained that he had cultivated with a Stardust Magic Tool; she felt she could no longer keep up with him, and he hugged her to comfort her.
• Lu Wu and Nangong Pei arrived at the crowded arena, where a powerful One-Eyed Demon Wolf stood bound and spectators shouted for the fight to begin.
• The captain of the Beginner Mages announced that the park would not involve Lu Wu and Nangong Pei, and told them to handle the situation themselves.

Lu Wu burned Nangong Pei with Fire Burst after Nangong attacked him with medicinal powder, but the powder also provoked the One-Eyed Demon Wolf into a frenzy. Trapped alone with the charging beast while purple-black flames sealed off the others, Lu Wu gathered his magic and charged toward it with one chance to survive.

• Nangong Pei threw medicinal powder at Lu Wu and advanced with Earth magic, but Lu Wu hit him with Fire Burst, leaving him badly burned.
• Two Intermediate Mages extinguished the flames and challenged Lu Wu, while he accused them of knowingly allowing Nangong Pei to attack him.
• The wounded One-Eyed Demon Wolf went berserk and charged at Lu Wu, who realized Nangong Pei's powder had gotten onto him.
• Purple-black flames formed cages around everyone else in the arena, leaving Lu Wu alone with the approaching One-Eyed Demon Wolf.
• Lu Wu drained his Fire Element Stars to enlarge a fireball, then charged toward the beast as it rushed at him.

Lu Wu killed the One-Eyed Demon Wolf by burning its wounded belly, then left the arena wary of the powerful person who had trapped him with purple-black flames. He reunited with Shen Shitian and learned the bald old man believed Lu Wu might be able to help forge an artifact from Mystic Ice.

• Lu Wu charged beneath the One-Eyed Demon Wolf and burned its wounded belly with a fireball, leaving it to collapse and die.
• Yang Qiwen and the Ice Element Intermediate Mage decided to withdraw after realizing the flame cage's creator was too powerful to challenge.
• Lu Wu avoided Mu Nujiao and left through a passage, suspecting the hidden flame-wielder had arranged his fight with the One-Eyed Demon Wolf.
• Lu Wu found Shen Shitian, Jiang Chun, and a bald old man waiting in the passage, and learned Shen Shitian had created the purple-black flame cage.
• The bald old man suggested Lu Wu might help Shen Shitian forge an artifact, but Shen Shitian put away the Mystic Ice until Lu Wu had rested.

After Lu Wu survived the One-Eyed Demon Wolf, Mu Nujiao confronted the elders for putting him at risk, then embraced him in relief. Shen Shitian and Elder Luo advised Lu Wu to strengthen his body, and after he proved he could melt Mystic Ice, Shen Shitian asked him to prepare for a trip to Hanging Coffin Swamp to help refine a magic tool.

• Mu Nujiao scolded Shen Shitian and Elder Luo for letting Lu Wu face the One-Eyed Demon Wolf, then hugged Lu Wu and confessed how afraid she had been.
• Shen Shitian and Elder Luo warned Lu Wu that his soul was growing stronger than his body and advised him to exercise and improve his physical strength.
• Elder Luo suggested tempering Lu Wu's body at Hanging Coffin Swamp, but Shen Shitian said Lu Wu first had to prove he could melt Mystic Ice.
• Lu Wu used his Fire Element magic to melt the Mystic Ice, revealing his unusual talent and delighting Shen Shitian and Elder Luo.
• Shen Shitian asked Lu Wu to cultivate for a month before helping refine a magic tool at Hanging Coffin Swamp, and Luo Long promised to send him a Stardust Magic Tool.

After receiving compensation and a Stardust Magic Tool, Lu Wu greatly extended his meditation time and shared the tool with Mu Nujiao as they cultivated for more than twenty days. The chapter left them on the Hunter Union’s seventh floor, where Mu Nujiao prepared to try controlling her seventh Star.

• Shen Shitian and Luo Long questioned Lu Wu about his unusually powerful Beginner Fire Magic, and Lu Wu said it had been his first time casting magic.
• The Rongcheng Hunter Union gave Lu Wu a hundred thousand in compensation and discovered that Nangong Pei’s group had used powder made from the One-Eyed Demon Wolf’s child to make it berserk.
• Luo Long gave Lu Wu a top-tier Spirit-grade Stardust Magic Tool, and Lu Wu used it to meditate for twelve hours before reaching soul fatigue.
• Lu Wu arranged to share the Stardust Magic Tool with Mu Nujiao, and the two cultivated on a daily schedule for more than twenty days.
• Mu Nujiao asked Lu Wu to accompany her to the seventh floor so she could try controlling her seventh Star, and they went to a practice area with wooden dummies.

Lu Wu demonstrated his improved Fire Element magic as Mu Nujiao successfully cast her first spell, then bought Demon Beast organs from the Hunter Union to strengthen himself and Little Fire. His sacrifices enhanced Little Fire and slightly improved Lu Wu’s stars, leaving him eager to sacrifice the remaining organs.

• Lu Wu rapidly cast Fire Burst and Bone Burning, while Mu Nujiao successfully used Vine: Growth for the first time.
• Lu Wu learned from Jiang Chun that the Hunter Union stored Demon Beast organs and went to buy them.
• Lu Wu spent over eighty-nine thousand on three sets of organs and brought them to the outskirts in a refrigerated truck.
• Lu Wu summoned Little Fire, who ate the Servant Level organs while Lu Wu sacrificed the Slant-Scaled Demon Snake gallbladder.
• The gallbladder sacrifice upgraded Little Fire, who grew larger and stronger.
• Lu Wu sacrificed the Phantom Sound Poison Toad organs and received a star enhancement that made little noticeable difference.

Lu Wu took Little Fire out to exercise, then joined a cautious expedition into Hanging Coffin Swamp to help refine a magic artifact. There, he agreed to let Nangong Pei assist with the refining, and Luo Long promised him a Spirit-grade Stardust Magic Tool if they succeeded.

• Lu Wu accepted Little Fire’s improved strength and took it for a ride outside, promising to let it out more often.
• Lu Wu and Mu Nujiao traveled with Luo Long, Shen Shitian, and the others into Hanging Coffin Swamp to prepare for refining a magic artifact.
• At the party’s huts near a giant boulder, Lu Wu asked Shen Shitian why they would refine the artifact in Demon Beast territory.
• Luo Long explained that Nangong Pei could melt Mystic Ice and asked Lu Wu to accept his help; Lu Wu agreed as long as Nangong Pei did not cause trouble.
• Luo Long promised Lu Wu the Spirit-grade Stardust Magic Tool if the refining succeeded, then sent someone to bring Nangong Pei over.

Lu Wu and Zu Yanzhi were brought by Shen Shitian to an underground magma cavern to help craft a giant bone sword from a Northern Plains Ice Vulture’s leg bone. They began melting profound ice to protect the sword during the crafting, and Lu Wu challenged Zu Yanzhi to see who could keep working longer.

• Shen Shitian teleported Lu Wu and Zu Yanzhi into a vast cavern beneath a giant rock, startling them both.
• Lu Wu saw a huge bone sword hovering over the magma and learned that it was made from a Northern Plains Ice Vulture’s leg bone.
• Shen Shitian explained that Lu Wu and Zu Yanzhi needed to melt profound ice into water so the sword would not crack while he fused in other materials.
• Lu Wu and Zu Yanzhi each began melting profound ice in specially made iron buckets, and Lu Wu cast his flames faster than Zu Yanzhi.
• When Zu Yanzhi told Lu Wu to rest if he could not keep going, Lu Wu challenged her to a bet that he would last longer.

Lu Wu and Zu Yanzhi wagered on who could keep a flame burning longer while melting profound ice, and Lu Wu won after Zu Yanzhi collapsed from exhaustion. As Lu Wu continued the month-long task and practiced casting while distracted, he sensed a faint presence deeper in the cavern, though he could not confirm it.

• Zu Yanzhi challenged Lu Wu to a fire-endurance wager, with the loser agreeing to make food for the winner after they left.
• Lu Wu and Zu Yanzhi maintained flames to melt profound ice while Grandpa Shen collected the water.
• Zu Yanzhi became dizzy and toppled, and Lu Wu caught her before she hit her head.
• Zu Yanzhi admitted defeat and rested while Lu Wu returned to melting the profound ice.
• While cultivating, Lu Wu sensed a faint presence drawing him toward the cavern's depths, but the feeling vanished when he opened his eyes.
• Lu Wu practiced casting while scanning his surroundings and found that divided attention made his spells slower and harder to control.

Lu Wu and Zu Yanzhi finished melting enough Mystic Ice for the next fifteen days, then returned to camp, where Lu Wu’s teasing bet and Mu Nujiao’s jealousy left him rushing after her. Nangong Pei made peace with Shen Shitian, while Shen Shitian and Luo Long discussed a dangerous, distant location for the group’s body-tempering training.

• Shen Shitian took Lu Wu and Zu Yanzhi back to the surface and reported that their Mystic Ice work had gone smoothly.
• Mu Nujiao gave Lu Wu a bracelet and chili powder, but became displeased when Zu Yanzhi insisted on roasting meat for him; Lu Wu followed Mu Nujiao to explain.
• Nangong Pei reflected on how far Lu Wu surpassed him and apologized to Shen Shitian for his past offenses against Lu Wu.
• Shen Shitian accepted Nangong Pei’s apology, and Nangong Pei went to tend the bonfire.
• Luo Long told Shen Shitian he had found a dangerous, distant place for body tempering, and Shen Shitian suggested that Jiang Chun take the group to inspect it.

Lu Wu tried to make peace with Mu Nujiao, then learned about Luo Long’s swamp training method for tempering the body. He set off with Mu Nujiao, Zu Yanzhi, and Nangong Pei to try it, escorted by Jiang Chun.

• Lu Wu followed Mu Nujiao and tried to cheer her up, finally drawing her out by mentioning body-tempering training.
• Nangong Pei acknowledged Lu Wu’s strength and apologized for his past hostility, and Lu Wu accepted his apology.
• Luo Long explained that he had prepared a mire where sludge would squeeze trainees as they struggled to escape its binding force.
• Lu Wu decided to test the mire, and Mu Nujiao, Zu Yanzhi, and Nangong Pei chose to go with him.
• Shen Shitian assigned Jiang Chun to escort the group and limited each training session to two hours.

Lu Wu entered a swamp to temper his body, enduring crushing pressure and repeated blows while discovering that the mud’s dense elemental energy helped heal his wounds. After Shen Shitian pulled him partway out, Lu Wu began adapting to the ordeal and tried cultivating within the swamp.

• Lu Wu stepped into the swamp and was dragged toward its center by a powerful force, while Jiang Chun stopped the others from attacking what he recognized as part of the cultivation process.
• Submerged in the mud, Lu Wu endured intense pressure and repeated blows as Shen Shitian told him to try moving without using magic.
• Lu Wu struggled against the pain and began sinking deeper, so Shen Shitian ordered Luo Long to pull him up.
• Lu Wu noticed that his wounds were recovering and realized the swamp’s elemental energy was entering through the injuries and healing them.
• Lu Wu slowly moved through the mud, then started cultivating with its elemental energy as Shen Shitian and Luo Long watched and nodded to each other.

Lu Wu tempered his body by enduring painful elemental energy in the swamp while the group continued refining items and cultivating. After a month, the younger mages ventured out to explore Hanging Coffin Swamp, where Lu Wu sensed danger before Wang Chong returned to warn them they had taken the wrong path.

• Lu Wu discovered that converting fire-element and earth-element energy in the swamp tempered his entire body, while Nangong Pei tested the mud and recoiled from its pain.
• After the swamp’s energy was drained, Uncle Jiang took Lu Wu to a hot pool, where Lu Wu washed and saw the scars left by the ordeal.
• With Nangong Pei joining the item-refining process, the group spent twenty-five days cultivating and refining; Lu Wu consolidated the second level of his Fire Element and shortened his magic casting time to a second and a half.
• Shen Shitian gave the group a two-day break, and Lu Wu, Mu Nujiao, Zu Yanzhi, Nangong Pei, and Wang Chong set out to explore the swamp.
• Lu Wu sensed a demon beast’s aura ahead, and Wang Chong rushed back to tell the group they had taken the wrong path.

Lu Wu and the others investigated a fight between a Heavenly Horned Toad Demon and a Slant-Scaled Demon Snake, but withdrew when more demon beasts appeared. After Wang Chong revealed the combatants had been fighting over a treasure, the group returned and found an Earth Element Spirit Seed that Lu Wu estimated would mature in about three days.

• Lu Wu agreed to approach the demon beasts cautiously, but when he sensed more creatures joining the fight, the group left the swamp.
• Wang Chong admitted that the Heavenly Horned Toad Demon and Slant-Scaled Demon Snake had been fighting over something, so the group decided to investigate.
• Wang Chong led Lu Wu, Mu Nujiao, Zu Yanzhi, and Nangong Pei through the aquatic plants to a bloodied depression.
• The group saw several Heavenly Horned Toad Demons devouring the Slant-Scaled Demon Snake and noticed a concentrated mass of earth elemental energy nearby.
• Lu Wu identified the mass as an Earth Element Spirit Seed that would mature in about three days and suggested returning for help from Grandpa Shen or Uncle Jiang.