Recaps

Lu Wu defeated Mo Fan, then continued fighting while meditating and recovering, using the Golden-Eyed Tiger and Slant-Scaled Demon Snake to face successive challengers. He reached eighty victories before Dean Xiao declared him the winner, leaving the dispute over the students’ resources for Dean Xiao to handle.

• Mo Fan and Lu Wu unleashed powerful attacks, but Dean Xiao’s shields protected them, and Mo Fan conceded after recognizing Lu Wu had three elements.
• Lu Wu rejected the chance to stop after the match and summoned the Slant-Scaled Demon Snake as more students challenged him.
• Riding the Golden-Eyed Tiger, Lu Wu dodged attacks while meditating, recovering his strength as the count climbed.
• Lu Wu cast another Intermediate Fire spell and reached eighty victories, after which no one else challenged him and Dean Xiao declared him the winner.
• Mu Nujiao warned Lu Wu that students might resent him for taking their resources, and Lu Wu replied that hers were included too.

After winning the Beast Fighting Tournament, Lu Wu faced complaints from students and teachers who wanted their lost resources back, but Dean Xiao rejected their arguments. At dinner with the Mu Family, Lu Wu refused to become dependent on them even after Mu Zhanxing offered him a Wind Element Spirit Seed.

• Teachers and students protested that the tournament had unfairly concentrated the new students' resources on Lu Wu, but Dean Xiao challenged them for objecting only after he won.
• Lu Wu, Mu Nujiao, and Ai Tutu went to Fresh Food City, where Mu Zhanxing invited Lu Wu to discuss the Mu Family's terms.
• Mu Zhanxing said the Mu Family would provide Lu Wu with cultivation resources if he worked for its merchant association after graduation.
• Lu Wu refused the offer and said he would help the Mu Family when needed because he was with Mu Nujiao, but would not become dependent on the family.

Lu Wu refused Mu Zhanxing’s offer to bind himself to the Mu Family for cultivation resources, insisting he would earn what he needed himself. After Dean Xiao warned him about his innate dual elements and offered him a choice of academy rewards, Lu Wu chose Fire Element crystals.

• Lu Wu told Mu Zhanxing he would help the Mu Family when able but would not become dependent on it, despite the threat that this could make marrying Mu Nujiao difficult.
• Mu Zhanxing learned of Lu Wu’s performance at Pearl Academy’s Green Campus and asked Mu Nujiao to tell the academy that Lu Wu was on good terms with the Mu Family.
• Dean Xiao warned Lu Wu and Mo Fan to act cautiously because they both possessed innate dual elements, then gave Lu Wu a rune-inscribed box for his Thought Stone.
• Lu Wu rejected the academy’s basic Stardust Magic Tool and beast-refining blood rewards, asking instead for energy-rich resources.
• Dean Xiao said the academy could obtain Fire Element crystals through the Dongfang Family’s merchant association, and Lu Wu chose to exchange his rewards for them.

Lu Wu accepted a large resource reward from Dean Xiao and later heard the Lu Clan’s lavish recruitment offer, which he and Mo Fan both declined. Afterward, the two introduced themselves properly and agreed that Mo Fan might call on Lu Wu for future Hunter Union jobs.

• Lu Wu chose crystals over magic tools as part of his reward from Dean Xiao and left with beast refining blood and a card worth over two million.
• Lu Wu learned that Old Master Mu Zhanxing had offered ten million in resources, then spent several days cultivating while waiting for crystals.
• Lu Tingfeng summoned Lu Wu and Mo Fan and offered them Spirit Seeds for every element, at least five magic tools each, and room to name further terms on behalf of the Lu Clan.
• Lu Wu and Mo Fan declined to join the Lu Clan, and Lu Tingfeng accepted their decisions and left.
• Lu Wu and Mo Fan introduced themselves and discussed how tempting the Lu Clan’s offer was, while Mo Fan said he might seek work through the Hunter Union.
• Lu Wu offered to help Mo Fan with troublesome demon beasts, and Mo Fan agreed to contact him if a suitable job came up.

Lu Wu returned to the dorm and learned that Wang Qingshan and Chen Tao had helped Xu Zhaoting deal with freshmen angry over the public resources Lu Wu had taken. Meanwhile, Mo Fan began a Hunter Agency assignment with the young Hunter Master Ling Ling after they found evidence that a demon had left a client’s home, and they searched nearby households for it.

• Lu Wu thanked Xu Zhaoting for helping protect the dorm and explained that the Mu Family had not supplied his cultivation resources.
• Xu Zhaoting declined Lu Wu’s offer to introduce him to the Mu Family, and the two discussed resources and Hunter Union missions.
• The Mu Family supplied the freshmen with the resources Lu Wu had taken, prompting more rumors that his strength came from their support.
• Mo Fan took a protection assignment at Azure Sky Hunter Agency, where a husband and wife each suspected the other of being a demon beast.
• Ling Ling found human skin in the bathroom and suspected the missing wife had gone to attack someone nearby.
• Mo Fan searched the nearby area while Ling Ling stayed with the child, and he learned that six households had potential targets.

Mo Fan and Ling Ling investigated the Molting Demon attacks, but the female demon escaped after Mo Fan found it attacking three students. Lu Wu killed the male demon and rescued the child, then hurried back to Mu Nujiao, while the chapter ended with him kissing her outside the cinema.

• Ling Ling identified a Pearl Academy apartment as the likely target, and Mo Fan found a female Molting Demon attacking students there.
• The female Molting Demon escaped across the buildings, and Ling Ling warned Mo Fan that the husband was molting and targeting the child.
• Lu Wu killed the male Molting Demon with Beginner Magic and rescued the crying child, while the female demon escaped.
• A living man emerged from the male demon's charred corpse, and Lu Wu left to check on Mu Nujiao.
• Lu Wu told Mu Nujiao about the danger and suggested they stay off campus, but she refused and accused him of being unsafe.
• Lu Wu kissed Mu Nujiao outside the cinema, and she stopped him and told him to take her back to the dorm.

Lu Wu rushed to Pearl Academy after learning that mutated Scale-Skin Demon Soldiers had infected students at a concert. With the Scale-Skin Mother Demon likely hiding inside the venue, the group planned to send Lu Wu in without alerting her.

• Mo Fan told Lu Wu that Scale-Skin Demon Soldiers had infected many people at the school and warned him not to use excessive force against transformed hosts.
• Lu Wu reached the sealed venue, where Ling Ling and the Hunter Union explained that killing the Scale-Skin Mother Demon would cause the parasitic soldiers to die.
• Ling Ling used demon-blood readings to identify the lift platform near the main screen as the mother demon's likely hiding place.
• Lu Wu offered to enter the venue and kill the mother demon, and Wang Qingshan proposed opening a tiny gap in the barrier so he could get inside using Shadow Escape.

Lu Wu, Wang Qingshan, and Mo Fan entered the venue to kill the Scale-Skin Mother Demon and save the students, while Zhao Manyan arranged to claim the credit in exchange for compensation. As they moved toward the demon, the Scale-Skin Mother began gathering her soldiers, and a technician transformed into a monster beside Cu Cu.

• Ling Ling sent Lu Wu and Wang Qingshan inside, explaining that their strength and Intermediate Mage status gave them the best chance to kill the Scale-Skin Mother Demon without triggering a massacre.
• Lu Wu and Wang Qingshan used Shadow Escape to reach Mo Fan, where Zhao Manyan offered compensation for the group to let him claim credit for the rescue.
• The group agreed to Zhao Manyan's proposal and moved through the venue while Ling Ling warned that more Cyan-Yellow Demonesses were approaching and the Scale-Skin Mother Demon was preparing to gather her soldiers.
• When volunteer demon soldiers blocked the corridor, Zhao Manyan distracted them by chatting while Lu Wu asked Wang Qingshan to take him toward the Scale-Skin Mother Demon.
• A technician confronted Cu Cu in the lift area, revealed her monstrous scaled form, and left the singer frozen with fear.

Lu Wu and Wang Qingshan killed the Scale-Skin Mother Demon during the concert attack, while Zhao Manyan received the main credit and Mo Fan secretly gained a valuable Soul Essence. After collecting a large Fire Element crystal, Lu Wu successfully sacrificed it and received a Shadow Demon enhancement reward.

• Lu Wu struck the Scale-Skin Mother Demon with a Fierce Fist, and Wang Qingshan followed with lightning that helped kill her.
• The Scale-Skin Demon Soldiers collapsed, and Zhao Manyan used Holy Light to remove the Mother Demon's scales before the group left the venue.
• At the commendation ceremony, Zhao Manyan received the main credit, while Lu Wu, Wang Qingshan, and Mo Fan were credited with assisting.
• Lu Wu learned that Mo Fan had obtained a Warrior Level Soul Essence and spent it, along with Zhao Manyan's money, on a Lightning Element Spirit Seed.
• Dean Xiao gave Lu Wu a storage claim card for a high-quality Fire Element crystal, which Lu Wu collected from the Great Mist Auction House.
• Lu Wu transported the crystal to a secluded place and sacrificed it, receiving a Shadow Demon enhancement reward.

After Little Fire reached Orthodox Commander, Lu Wu spent the rest of the vacation cultivating and living with Mu Nujiao and Ai Tutu. Wang Qingshan recruited Lu Wu and his companions for a hunt involving Cloud Rock Sparrow eggs and a Wind Element spirit seed.

• The Sacrifice System used Dean Xiao’s high-quality Fire Element crystal to raise Little Fire from Lesser Commander to Orthodox Commander.
• Lu Wu focused on cultivating his Light Element, while he, Mu Nujiao, and Ai Tutu shared a rented suite during the vacation.
• Wang Qingshan invited Lu Wu to join a Monster Hunting Squad after finding a place that might contain a Wind Element spirit seed.
• Lu Wu brought Mu Nujiao and Xu Zhaoting to meet Wang Qingshan, Chen Tao, and the twin sisters Tong Weiwei and Tong Wanwan.
• Wang Qingshan offered each squad member ten million to help obtain two Cloud Rock Sparrow eggs guarded by one Great General.
• Wang Qingshan revealed that the nest was near a Wind Element spirit seed in a gale-filled valley, which Lu Wu could claim after they drove the birds away.

Lu Wu joined Wang Qingshan’s team to find Cloud Rock Sparrow eggs and accepted the Wind Element Spirit Seed as payment, while Shen Shitian warned him about the dangers beyond Magic City and gave him more magic tools. After ten hours of travel into the Wuyi Mountain Range’s outskirts, the team discovered their map was inaccurate and stopped to rest.

• Wang Qingshan offered Lu Wu, Mu Nujiao, and Xu Zhaoting the Wind Element Spirit Seed as payment, and they agreed to leave for the expedition.
• Lu Wu told Shen Shitian about the Lu Clan’s involvement, promised to avoid its internal struggles, and received magic tools for himself and Mu Nujiao.
• Lu Wu and Mu Nujiao joined Wang Qingshan’s seven-person team and traveled through Great Sparrow City toward the Wuyi Mountain Range.
• Lu Wu guided the team around demon-beast territories using his perception, taking extra care after his encounter with the parasitic Scale-Skin Mother Demon.
• After ten hours, Lu Wu realized the map was inaccurate, and Wang Qingshan decided the team would rest and continue at dawn.

Lu Wu joined Wang Qingshan’s team in a plan to steal two Cloud Rock Sparrow eggs from a Great General-level bird. After Xu Zhaoting’s attack agitated the bird, Lu Wu took the eggs, but a new cry sounded before he could escape.

• Lu Wu camped near the Cloud Rock Sparrow nest and prepared to climb up while Wang Qingshan’s team distracted the bird.
• Xu Zhaoting struck near the nest with Thunder Seal: Python Mark, drawing the Cloud Rock Sparrow’s attention without making it leave.
• Lu Wu climbed beneath the nest and paused when the bird stopped moving above him.
• Xu Zhaoting’s next attack set the nest burning, and Lu Wu moved to a safer spot while the Cloud Rock Sparrow grew agitated.
• As the Cloud Rock Sparrow approached its eggs, Lu Wu rushed out, stored both eggs in the bracelet, and startled the bird into flying away.
• Lu Wu prepared to leave, but another cry sounded and two sounds grew louder.

Lu Wu and his companions faced the returning Cloud Rock Sparrow pair after taking their eggs, with the Cloud Rock Peacock attacking Wang Qingshan’s group and the Cloud Rock Peahen pursuing Lu Wu. The Peahen’s piercing cries hinted at a mental attack as Lu Wu dodged its strikes and retaliated with a Fierce Fist.

• The Cloud Rock Sparrow pair returned, and Wang Qingshan explained that they would not let outsiders keep their intact eggs.
• Mu Nujiao, Wang Qingshan, Xu Zhaoting, Chen Tao, and the Tong Family Sisters fought off the Cloud Rock Peacock as it endured their magic and smashed through Chen Tao’s stone shield.
• Lu Wu dodged the Cloud Rock Peahen’s fast wing strikes with Wind Track: Drifting Shadow.
• The Cloud Rock Peahen’s piercing cry caused a slight ache in Lu Wu’s head, alerting him that it could affect its target’s mental state.
• Lu Wu launched a massive Blazing Fist, which the Cloud Rock Peahen evaded before crying out again.

Lu Wu defeated the Cloud Rock Peahen with a fiery attack while Wang Qingshan and the others struggled to keep the Cloud Rock Peacock from reaching him. Xu Zhaoting broke through during the fight, and Lu Wu joined the battle against the Peacock with a Wind Disk spell.

• Lu Wu baited the Cloud Rock Peahen into diving, then rode on her back and struck her with Fierce Fist, melting her feathers and bringing her down.
• Lu Wu cast Fierce Fist: Nine Palaces, engulfing the Cloud Rock Peahen in pillars of fire.
• Wang Qingshan, Mu Nujiao, Chen Tao, the Tong Family Sisters, and Xu Zhaoting tried to restrain the Cloud Rock Peacock as he moved to leave.
• Wang Qingshan pinned the Cloud Rock Peacock with Giant Shadow Nail, and Xu Zhaoting spent his remaining mana on a lightning attack before beginning a breakthrough.
• Lu Wu cast Wind Disk: Shred at the Cloud Rock Peacock from a distance.

Lu Wu drove off the Cloud Rock Peacock, but a pack of Black Beast Demons and Cursed Beast Demons ambushed the exhausted group. As Lu Wu and his companions fought back, Chen Tao called for help against three Cursed Black Beast Demons.

• Lu Wu weakened the Cloud Rock Peacock with wind and sent it flying while Wang Qingshan and the others marveled at his strength.
• Mu Nujiao and the others noticed the stench of Black Beast Demons, and Xu Zhaoting recognized the creatures as they launched a surprise attack.
• Mu Nujiao blocked a Cursed Beast Demon with her Vine Armor Shield while Tong Weiwei, Chen Tao, and Wang Qingshan counterattacked the demons.
• Lu Wu and Mu Nujiao killed the Cursed Beast Demon attacking her, and the Golden-Eyed Tiger tore through the Black Beast Demons.
• Chen Tao called for help as three Cursed Black Beast Demons threatened his group, and Lu Wu unleashed a wide-area Fire Seed spell.

Lu Wu’s team escaped an ambush by the Black Vatican and rested before continuing toward the Wind Element Spirit Seed. Wang Qingshan suspected the Black Vatican had targeted him, but Lu Wu doubted his reasoning as the team pressed on.

• Lu Wu defeated the Cursed Beast Demons, then led the team away while the Black Vatican’s Reverend learned that the ambush had failed.
• Lu Wu had the six others recover in the forest while he stood guard, and the team later continued toward the Wind Element Spirit Seed.
• Mu Nujiao warned the team not to assume the Black Vatican had given up, and Wang Qingshan said he believed they had come to kill him because he had questioned the map.
• Lu Wu doubted Wang Qingshan’s suspicion and noted that Wang Qingshan’s rivals might have reason to target him.

Lu Wu discovered that the Black Vatican had used the Wind Element Spirit Seed as bait to draw out a hidden Mountain Pine Commander, which attacked both him and the cultists. He fled through the forest as the Commander pursued him, and the chapter ended with the Commander killing the Black Vatican woman.

• Wang Qingshan suggested that the Black Vatican might be targeting him, so Lu Wu went to the Wind Element Spirit Seed to test the theory.
• Black Vatican members appeared and revealed they had used the Wind Element Spirit Seed to lure out a hidden Mountain Pine Commander.
• The Mountain Pine Commander killed the Cursed Beast Demons and attacked Lu Wu, who blocked one strike with his Rock Crocodile Shield before escaping into the forest.
• Lu Wu used fire magic to repel the Commander’s roots and then relied on Shadow Escape to evade its pursuit.
• The Mountain Pine Commander caught up with the fleeing Black Vatican woman, shattered her Holy Shield, and pierced her chest with a root.

Lu Wu rescued the gravely wounded Mu Ningxue after two Commander-level Demon Beasts clashed, then treated her as best he could. Mu Ningxue woke and told him her senior sister was badly injured, leaving Lu Wu to continue treating her wounds.

• Lu Wu lured the Mountain Pine Demon away from Jiaojiao and the others, then encountered another Commander-level presence.
• The Mountain Pine Demon struck Mu Ningxue from the sky and shattered her Shield Magic Tool, leaving her badly injured in the forest.
• A Red-Skulled Demon Snake appeared and fought the Mountain Pine Demon, giving Lu Wu a chance to return to Mu Ningxue.
• Lu Wu used potions to treat Mu Ningxue and carried her away from the battlefield, but she coughed up more blood on the way.
• Mu Ningxue woke and told Lu Wu that her senior sister was badly injured; Lu Wu prepared to set her arm and treat her chest wound.

Lu Wu treated Mu Ningxue’s chest wound and stayed to watch over her while she recovered, as Mu Nujiao’s group debated whether to go back for him. After the commanders’ battle ended, Mu Ningxue woke the next day to find Lu Wu still caring for her.

• Lu Wu bandaged Mu Ningxue’s chest wound despite her protests, and she passed out after the treatment.
• Mu Nujiao wanted to find Lu Wu, but Wang Qingshan and the others persuaded her to follow Lu Wu’s instructions and leave.
• Lu Wu stayed beside Mu Ningxue as the commanders’ auras receded and night fell, giving her water when her breathing weakened.
• The battle between the Red-Skulled Demon Snake and the Mountain Pine Demon ended, though Lu Wu did not know which had won.
• Mu Ningxue woke the next day and saw Lu Wu roasting meat and preparing water for her.

Lu Wu cared for the badly injured Mu Ningxue as she recovered, and she came to trust him after he saved her and treated her respectfully. After discussing how the Red-Skulled Demon Snake had hunted her group, Lu Wu asked why she had refused to spar with him in Bo City, and Mu Ningxue admitted she had thought he was a lecher.

• Lu Wu gave Mu Ningxue water and fed her roasted Heavenly Wind Grass Wolf meat while she recovered from her broken hands.
• Mu Ningxue explained that a mutated snake egg had led the Red-Skulled Demon Snake to attack her group, and that she had lured it away from the others.
• Lu Wu planned to take Mu Ningxue back once she could move and considered tracking the Red-Skulled Demon Snake for its organs and a Contract Beast.
• Mu Ningxue felt grateful to Lu Wu and developed trust in him as he cultivated beside her.
• Lu Wu asked why Mu Ningxue had refused to spar with him in Bo City, and she said she had thought he was a lecher.

Mu Ningxue and Lu Wu pursued a Hundred Herbs Sparrow after she learned its heart could heal her injured hands. They caught it, but Mu Ningxue revealed that its heart only worked if one person ate all of it.

• Lu Wu and Mu Ningxue spotted a Hundred Herbs Sparrow near their campsite, and Mu Ningxue explained that its heart had powerful healing properties.
• Mu Ningxue asked Lu Wu to help her catch the bird, and he carried her on the Golden-Eyed Tiger as it chased the sparrow through the forest.
• Lu Wu held Mu Ningxue close and urged the Golden-Eyed Tiger to accelerate, allowing it to catch and kill the Hundred Herbs Sparrow.
• Mu Ningxue said the sparrow's freshly dead heart should still be soft enough to eat, then warned Lu Wu that one person had to eat the whole heart for it to work.

Lu Wu and Mu Ningxue reached a strange clearing after Mu Ningxue ate the Hundred Herbs Sparrow’s heart. Lu Wu was drawn into a vision of a fiery bird, and the pair were restrained beside a half skull as the forest burned; the chapter ended with Lu Wu trying to escape.

• Lu Wu fed Mu Ningxue the Hundred Herbs Sparrow’s heart, which healed her enough to meditate and cast magic.
• The Golden-Eyed Tiger’s roar drew Lu Wu’s attention to a barren patch of sand and gravel, and his left eye turned red and grew hot.
• Lu Wu saw a fiery bird with blood-red double pupils in a vision while flames erupted around him, and Mu Ningxue could not wake him.
• Telekinetic power carried Lu Wu and Mu Ningxue to the clearing, where Lu Wu’s flames melted the ground and revealed half of a huge skull.
• The half skull’s spiritual telekinetic power restrained them, and Lu Wu recognized it from his vision before trying to summon Little Fire and flee.

Lu Wu learned that his left eye and the flame in his Contract Space were connected to the Ancient Totem Chongming Bird, whose Nirvana Fire could make him nearly invincible wherever fire existed. The chapter ended with Shen Shitian questioning Lu Wu about the mysterious fire after hearing how it entered his Contract Space.

• A flame burst from the skull into Lu Wu's Contract Space as he and Mu Ningxue fell, and the white bones turned to ash when they landed.
• Lu Wu and Mu Ningxue returned to Great Sparrow City, where he reunited with Mu Nujiao and later searched unsuccessfully for clues about the ancient legend.
• Lu Wu learned from information Hei Guan sent that Great Sparrow City's legend concerned the Chongming Bird, an Ancient Totem.
• Shen Shitian told Lu Wu that the pupil fused with his left eye belonged to the Chongming Bird and that obtaining its Nirvana Fire could let him stand undefeated wherever there was fire.
• Lu Wu described the blood-colored fire that had entered his Contract Space, and Shen Shitian pressed him to clarify what he had seen.

Lu Wu formed a contract with the Chongming Bird undergoing nirvana, whose power and a Thought Stone’s essence pushed his Mental Realm into the Third Realm and remade his body. After being unconscious for ten days, he woke to Mu Nujiao’s worry and went to see Shen Shitian.

• Lu Wu sent a soul contract seal toward the flame in his Contract Space, and the Chongming Bird undergoing nirvana accepted it.
• The contract’s psychic force overwhelmed Lu Wu, while a Thought Stone emerged and poured its essence into him, helping his soul break through to the Third Realm.
• Shen Shitian recognized the Chongming Bird’s involvement and stayed with Lu Wu as the Nirvana Fire remade his body over the next two days.
• Ten days later, Mu Nujiao watched over the unconscious Lu Wu and expressed her frustration at being unable to help him.
• Lu Wu woke, reassured Mu Nujiao, and learned that Shen Shitian had told her he damaged his soul by forcing a breakthrough.
• After kissing Mu Nujiao, Lu Wu left his room to see Shen Shitian while she stayed behind.

After recovering from his breakthrough, Lu Wu sought Dean Xiao’s permission to cultivate in Pearl Academy’s Three-Step Tower. Guided by a purple-haired senior, he learned the tower’s dangers and reached its second layer, then decided to climb higher.

• Lu Wu told Shen Shitian that his soul had grown stronger, his body could support it, and he wanted to cultivate in the Three-Step Tower.
• Lu Wu took Mu Nujiao home, then contacted Dean Xiao after learning the Thought Stone had been used up.
• Dean Xiao brought Lu Wu to the Three-Step Tower, where a purple-haired senior explained its layered spaces and warned that excessive energy could kill him.
• Lu Wu climbed the suspended stairs, reached the first layer, and found its dense elemental energy far richer than the outside world.
• Lu Wu continued to the second layer but was not satisfied and prepared to climb higher despite the increasing energy drain.