Chapter Summaries

At his engagement banquet, Lu Wu learned that several countries planned to break into the blood coffin and decided to explore it with Shen Shitian. After the banquet, he and Mu Nujiao noticed Mu Ningxue waiting outside their bridal home.

• Hei Guan told Shen Shitian that Super Level Mages from several countries would try to break through the blood coffin's spatial barrier in half a month.
• Lu Wu asked Shen Shitian to go investigate the blood coffin, and Shen Shitian agreed to leave in ten days.
• Lu Wu asked why stronger figures in the military regions were not acting, and Hei Guan suggested they wanted to create a strategic powerhouse.
• After the engagement banquet, Lu Wu and Mu Nujiao returned to their bridal home and realized Mu Ningxue had been waiting nearby.
• Lu Wu told Mu Nujiao he had seen Mu Ningxue earlier, then kissed her and reassured her that she was equally incomparable.

Lu Wu and Mu Nujiao traveled to Hanging Coffin Swamp, where the military and foreign mages were gathering around a blood coffin tied to the Chongming Bird. As Lu Wu joined the camp, he learned Mu Ningxue had already faced the foreign youths, and he headed toward a meeting with Grandpa Shen and the others.

• Mu Nujiao urged Lu Wu to see Mu Ningxue, then accompanied him as he chose to leave her feelings for her to resolve herself.
• Mu Ningxue watched Lu Wu’s apartment go dark and decided to focus on cultivation.
• Lu Wu learned that the blood coffin had been made by a Forbidden Curse expert using Space and Chaos magic, and told Shen Shitian that the Chongming Bird had entered it.
• Lu Wu, Mu Nujiao, Ai Tutu, and Nangong Pei traveled with Hei Guan to the military camp at Hanging Coffin Swamp.
• Hei Guan explained that foreign mages from Maple Leaf Country, Japan Island Country, and the Philippines had arrived and that Mu Ningxue had already fought their young mages.
• Lu Wu reached the camp near the volcanic crater and saw that Grandpa Shen and the other leaders were in a meeting.

Lu Wu and his companions arrived at the military camp, where Zhou Youhong and Mu Xinghu provoked Nangong Pei over his departure from the Nangong Family. Nangong Pei held back from attacking immediately but vowed to challenge Mu Xinghu in the afternoon arena.

• Lu Wu and his companions recognized Zhou Youhong among the young people at the camp, while Zhou Youhong told Mu Xinghu that Lu Wu had ruined his engagement with Mu Ningxue.
• Hei Guan led Lu Wu's group to the tents, where Mu Xinghu insulted Nangong Pei for associating with Lu Wu and leaving the Nangong Family.
• Nangong Pei defended Lu Wu and warned Mu Xinghu not to provoke him, but Mu Xinghu mocked Nangong Pei's strength and his promise to reclaim the Nangong Family.
• Zhou Youhong urged Nangong Pei to challenge Mu Xinghu, and Lu Wu cautioned him not to act rashly.
• Nangong Pei said he would not attack impulsively but would definitely challenge Mu Xinghu in the afternoon arena.

Lu Wu provoked Mu Xinghu and Zhou Youhong ahead of the afternoon duels, then used his Chongming Bird’s parasitic double pupil to study the blood coffin and glimpse ancient characters in its shifting black lines. He left to search for a way to identify them, while the expected fights drew closer.

• Lu Wu learned from Hei Guan that challenges required both sides’ agreement and could have deadly consequences, then insulted Zhou Youhong and Mu Xinghu as they prepared to duel him and Nangong Pei that afternoon.
• Lu Wu chose a tent and examined the blood coffin, whose distorted space became visible through his parasitic double pupil.
• Nangong Pei admitted he planned to challenge Mu Xinghu despite knowing he could not win, hoping to secure a chance to take the Nangong Family away.
• Lu Wu saw the blood coffin’s black lines form ancient characters, memorized their strokes, and went to his tent to search online for clues, but found no internet connection.
• Lu Wu left his tent as Military Mages headed to guard the swamp, then teased Mu Nujiao and Mu Ningxue after seeing them emerge from the same tent.

Mu Xinghu defeated Nangong Pei with his advanced Ice Element magic and sealed him inside an ice coffin, while Lu Wu watched and resisted intervening. As Mu Xinghu stood over his trapped opponent, Lu Wu sensed fire-element energy gathering beneath the marsh, hinting that Nangong Pei was preparing a counterattack.

• Lu Wu teased Mu Nujiao and Mu Ningxue about their closeness, and the three went to watch Mu Xinghu duel Nangong Pei.
• Nangong Pei opened with Blazing Fist: Sky Breaker, but Mu Xinghu dodged it with Drifting Shadow.
• Nangong Pei tried to trap Mu Xinghu with Earth Wave: Collapse, but Mu Xinghu raised Ice Locks beneath his feet.
• Mu Xinghu cast Ice Coffin: Sky Coffin and sealed Nangong Pei inside, then declared that the Nangong Family would always be beneath the Mu Clan.
• Hei Guan stopped Lu Wu from intervening, and Lu Wu noticed fire-element energy gathering beneath the marsh as Mu Xinghu sensed something was wrong.

Mu Xinghu attacked Nangong Pei, who used an Advanced Level scroll but appeared to die in the flames. The Military Mages found Nangong Pei alive, while Lu Wu denied saving him and Mu Xinghu suspected a powerful mage had intervened.

• Mu Xinghu pierced Nangong Pei with Ice Locks, and Nangong Pei revealed that he had been gambling on his defenses and cast Flame Rain from a scroll.
• Mu Xinghu protected himself with a Shield Magic Tool while leaving Nangong Pei exposed, and the flames appeared to consume Nangong Pei.
• Mu Xinghu mocked Lu Wu for seeming unmoved, and Lu Wu knocked Zhou Youhong away with spatial telekinesis after Zhou Youhong challenged him.
• Hei Guan warned Lu Wu not to attack again, while Mu Xinghu recognized Lu Wu's strength and rebuked Zhou Youhong.
• Military Mages discovered Nangong Pei alive and carried him away for treatment; Lu Wu denied intervening, and Mu Xinghu suspected Nangong Pei's powerful master had saved him.

Lu Wu challenged Smith of Maple Leaf Country after learning that Smith had badly injured two people and mocked the Chinese group. Their wager put Mu Nujiao and Mu Ningxue at risk if Lu Wu lost, and the chapter ended as Lu Wu opened the fight with a spatial attack that Smith dodged using his Rock Lizard Beast.

• Smith and the riders from Maple Leaf Country mocked the Chinese group, while Hei Guan explained their history of defeating the locals.
• Lu Wu accepted the chance to challenge Smith, and Mu Ningxue warned him that Smith had crippled opponents and disfigured one of her friends.
• Smith proposed that he would accept two challenges and that, if they lost, Mu Nujiao and Mu Ningxue would join his group for a barbecue; both women agreed.
• Hei Guan confirmed the fight as the onlookers gathered, and Smith mounted his Rock Lizard Beast and taunted Lu Wu.
• Lu Wu attacked Smith with Mind Control: Phantom Claw, but Smith's Rock Lizard Beast dodged the spatial strike.

Lu Wu entered a battle with Smith and his dragon-blooded Rock Lizard Beast, then summoned the powerful Golden-Eyed Winged Tiger to fight it. Smith was forced off his beast, and he realized Lu Wu’s Contract Beast might be even stronger than the summoned tiger.

• Observers discussed the Rock Lizard Beast’s mutated pseudodragon bloodline and judged Smith a formidable opponent.
• The Rock Lizard Beast struck at Lu Wu, but Lu Wu landed without visible injury and assessed its strength.
• Lu Wu summoned the Golden-Eyed Winged Tiger, whose aura impressed the spectators and drew the Japanese group’s attention.
• The Golden-Eyed Winged Tiger clashed with the Rock Lizard Beast, biting its neck and sweeping its tail toward Smith.
• Lu Wu used Mind Control: Phantom Claw against Smith, but Smith blocked it with Rock Barrier: Stone Shield and landed safely.
• Smith recognized that Lu Wu’s Contract Beast could be stronger than the Golden-Eyed Winged Tiger, which was only his Summoned Beast.

Lu Wu used the Golden-Eyed Winged Tiger and his magic to kill Smith’s Rock Lizard Beast, then captured Smith as the battle turned against him. Smith warned Lu Wu that his teacher was nearby and argued that killing the beast had already repaid the two mages he had crippled.

• Lu Wu’s Mind Control: Phantom Claw loosened the Rock Lizard Beast’s grip, allowing the Golden-Eyed Winged Tiger to break free and take it into the air.
• Smith summoned a Wind Sparrow and flew toward the fight while Lu Wu used Mind Control: Repulse against the Rock Lizard Beast, but its stone-hard eyelids blocked the attack.
• Lu Wu secretly struck the Rock Lizard Beast’s head, killing it; Smith spat blood as the beast fell from the sky.
• The Golden-Eyed Winged Tiger flew toward Smith, and Lu Wu used Mind Control to pull him over, took his magic tool, and grabbed his neck.
• Smith admitted defeat but warned Lu Wu that his teacher was in the tent and claimed the Rock Lizard Beast’s death was enough repayment for the two mages he had crippled.

Lu Wu punished Smith for crippling two mages and threatening Mu Nujiao and Mu Ningxue, then refused to stop when Smith’s teacher William intervened. With Shen Shitian and the Military Mages enforcing the battle rules, Lu Wu stood ready to kill Smith, leaving William’s threat unanswered.

• Lu Wu used Mind Control to tear off Smith’s left arm, stopped the bleeding, then tore off his right arm and prepared to cripple his legs.
• Kelly warned Lu Wu about William, while Hei Guan, Mu Ningxue, and Mu Nujiao watched without intervening.
• William appeared and demanded that Lu Wu stop, but Lu Wu retreated with Smith’s arms and challenged him for breaking the rules.
• Shen Shitian blocked William and warned that he would kill him if he interfered.
• Lu Wu burned Smith’s arms to ash, revealing his Fire Element, and William threatened to let Smith die and start a conflict.
• Lu Wu declared that the rules allowed him to kill Smith, while William recognized Lu Wu’s growing killing intent.

Lu Wu traded a Lightning Soul Seed for Smith’s life and learned that the gathered mages planned to explore the blood coffin before trying to force it open. After visiting the injured Nangong Pei, Lu Wu left the Hanging Coffin Swamp for Rongcheng with Shen Shitian, Jiaojiao, and Mu Ningxue.

• William offered a Lightning Soul Seed in exchange for Smith’s life, and Lu Wu accepted before William took Smith away for treatment.
• Grandma Lu praised Lu Wu and suggested he join the military region, but Shen Shitian refused on his behalf.
• Shen Shitian warned Lu Wu that his domains could not stop William, and Lu Wu said he had other trump cards.
• Shen Shitian told Lu Wu that the mages would jointly explore the blood coffin within days and might force it open if they failed within ten days.
• Shen Shitian warned Lu Wu to hide the Chongming Bird in his Contract Space if the gathered forces began fighting over it.
• Lu Wu visited the injured Nangong Pei with Shen Shitian, Jiaojiao, and Mu Ningxue, then left the Hanging Coffin Swamp for Rongcheng.

Lu Wu deciphered an inscription linking a crystal blood coffin to the First Emperor and the suppressed Phoenix Insect, while Shen Yuerong revealed that the Demon Phoenix Insect’s recovering blue form was inside the coffin. Shen Yuerong then learned that Young Master Mochizuki planned to use the coffin to help Senior Watanabe advance and capture an Ice Element Monarch.

• Lu Wu translated the Small Seal Script inscription, which said the totem Double-Pupiled Blood Bird died fighting a demoness and Phoenix Insect, and that the coffin was made to suppress the Phoenix Insect’s body.
• Lu Wu suspected the coffin was connected to the First Emperor and wondered whether the Phoenix Insect and the Demon Phoenix Insect were different creatures, then invited Mu Nujiao and Mu Ningxue to a tea market.
• Shen Yuerong removed her human-skin mask and wondered whether Lu Wu’s grandfather resembled her father because he might be her grandfather.
• Shen Yuerong told Young Master Mochizuki that the Demon Phoenix Insect’s corpse was likely inside the blood coffin and revealed that its blue-lit form had been recovering by absorbing human-supplied energy.
• Young Master Mochizuki said Senior Watanabe could refine the blood coffin, advance to a higher level, and capture an Ice Element Monarch for Sea Battle City.

Young Master Mochizuki left Hanging Coffin Swamp with the map, intent on helping Senior Watanabe gain a breakthrough and improve his younger brother’s situation. Later, Lu Wu told Mu Nujiao and Mu Ningxue about the blood coffin and the Chongming Bird, and their discussion connected an ancient calamity-bringing demoness to a powerful Psychic Element mage.

• Shen Yuerong questioned Young Master Mochizuki about why the Twin Guardian Pavilion had not sent its own people to pursue the blood coffin, but he refused to explain.
• Young Master Mochizuki took the map and left Hanging Coffin Swamp alone, determined to help Senior Watanabe and his younger brother.
• Lu Wu stayed overnight at a tea suite with Mu Nujiao and Mu Ningxue and told them he planned to stop the blood coffin from being opened.
• Lu Wu explained that the blood-red light was an ancient totem beast undergoing nirvana and that the blood coffin was its tomb.
• Mu Nujiao recalled an ancient account of a calamity-bearing woman who controlled minds and sparked a war during the First Emperor’s reign.
• Mu Ningxue proposed that the woman had been a Psychic Element Calamity Bearer who might have reached the Forbidden Curse level, while Lu Wu suspected the Phoenix Insect might also be undergoing nirvana.

Lu Wu encountered Mochizuki Chiharu after a crowd mistook her for a man entering the women’s restroom. Her disguise was exposed, and she left without explaining why she had hidden her identity.

• Lu Wu left Mu Nujiao and Mu Ningxue shopping and headed to the restroom, where he learned a supposed man had been caught entering the women’s restroom.
• Mochizuki Chiharu tried to explain that she was a Japanese woman, but the crowd refused to believe her and a woman demanded proof.
• Mochizuki Chiharu removed her mask and headpiece, revealing her identity, then changed into traditional Chinese clothing in the restroom.
• Lu Wu recognized Mochizuki Chiharu as Young Master Mochizuki from Hanging Coffin Swamp, and Mu Nujiao and Mu Ningxue joined him.
• Mu Ningxue questioned Mochizuki Chiharu’s hidden identity, but Mochizuki Chiharu ignored them and left without answering.

Lu Wu spent the day with Mu Nujiao and Mu Ningxue after arguing with Mochizuki Chiharu, then reunited with Mu Ningxue at Rongcheng’s wildlife park. Mu Ningxue told him that her family was likely moving to Hangzhou, where Mu Nujiao’s family could help them settle.

• Mu Nujiao and Lu Wu confronted Mochizuki Chiharu after her disguise was exposed, and Lu Wu traded insults with her.
• Lu Wu, Mu Nujiao, and Mu Ningxue spent the day shopping, eating, and drinking tea together.
• The next day, Mu Nujiao woke late after spending the night with Lu Wu and suggested he win over Mu Ningxue too because she could not keep up with him alone.
• Mu Ningxue visited Rongcheng’s wildlife park and reflected on how much stronger she had become since seeing the Azure Wind Python as a newly awakened mage.
• Lu Wu found Mu Ningxue at the park and learned that her family planned to head to Hangzhou, with Mu Nujiao offering to help them settle there.
• Mu Ningxue said her father faced pressure from the family’s extravagant members and that they needed to work rather than rely on the family for everything.

Lu Wu and the Mu sisters encountered Mochizuki Chiharu surrounded by Heavenly Wind Grass Wolves. Lu Wu refused to rescue her for free, and the chapter ended with Mochizuki Chiharu offering to grant him one reasonable request.

• Lu Wu explained the Golden-Eyed Winged Tiger's growing strength as he and the Mu sisters traveled toward Rongcheng.
• Lu Wu sensed a battle nearby and had the Golden-Eyed Winged Tiger fly toward it.
• The group found Mochizuki Chiharu trapped on a vine amid Demon Beasts, with more Heavenly Wind Grass Wolves approaching.
• Mochizuki Chiharu called for help, but Lu Wu told her to use her Demon-Slaying Tool and handle the remaining wolves herself.
• Mochizuki Chiharu offered Lu Wu one request in exchange for rescuing her.

Lu Wu rescued Mochizuki Chiharu, who traded him an intelligence scroll about a possible crystal ore vein, and warned her to leave before the blood coffin became a battleground. After seeing the dangerous spatial steps around the coffin, Lu Wu returned to camp and asked Nangong Pei what unusual event had accelerated its exploration.

• Mochizuki Chiharu gave Lu Wu an intelligence scroll in exchange for his help, and he used Mind Control: Phantom Claw to bring her onto the Golden-Eyed Winged Tiger.
• Lu Wu threatened Mochizuki Chiharu to keep her in line, then warned her that she would be their enemy if she continued toward the swamp.
• Lu Wu and Mochizuki Chiharu each probed whether the other knew what was inside the blood coffin, but neither revealed what they knew.
• Lu Wu's group saw over a hundred dangerous spatial steps around the blood coffin and noted that the camps had been moved farther away.
• Lu Wu returned to camp, found Nangong Pei recovering, and asked him what unusual event had happened to the blood coffin the previous day.

Lu Wu learned that the folded spaces around the blood coffin were disappearing on their own, bringing the Super Level mages closer to competing over the creatures inside. As the camps prepared for conflict, Lu Wu worried about the Chongming Bird and considered how to protect it.

• Nangong Pei told Lu Wu that two spatial steps had vanished overnight and that the blood coffin might emerge within about twenty days.
• Lu Wu and Mu Nujiao realized the Super Level mages had paused their exploration to renegotiate how to divide the blood coffin and the two Ruler creatures.
• Lu Wu introduced Mochizuki Chiharu to Nangong Pei, and Mochizuki Chiharu left for her country's camp.
• Lu Wu reflected that the Chongming Bird had saved him and feared that others would try to enslave it.
• Mu Nujiao and Mu Ningxue stood beside Lu Wu as he urged them to stay out of danger if the coming conflict reached them.

Lu Wu and the others discussed the coming blood coffin battles and what lay inside the coffin. The Military Department sought its Flame Earth Vein Pistil to build a major city, while the Chongming Bird and another Sub-Monarch Demon Beast were also inside.

• Lu Wu asked Shen Shitian and Lu Qinghuan whether he could kill his opponents in the upcoming battle, and they told him not to hold back.
• Lu Qinghuan asked Lu Wu what he knew about the blood coffin, and he confirmed it contained the Chongming Bird and the Demon Phoenix Insect.
• Lu Wu recounted the ancient history of the Chongming Bird and Demon Phoenix Insect, while Lu Qinghuan said the Military Department's intelligence had supported the same conclusions.
• Lu Qinghuan revealed that the Military Department wanted the Flame Earth Vein Pistil inside the blood coffin to build a major city.
• Lu Wu worried that the two Sub-Monarch Demon Beasts might have consumed or damaged the Earth Vein Pistil, and Shen Shitian assured him they could not absorb its energy quickly.

Lu Wu secured Lu Qinghuan’s promise of Military Department support in exchange for helping obtain the Earth Pistil, while Mu Xinghu and Mochizuki Chiharu prepared for the coming battles. Shen Yuerong weighed how to get the Demon Phoenix Insect using the Demon Phoenix Insect Stone Seal, leaving her unsure whether to fight Lu Wu’s side directly or find another way.

• Lu Wu confirmed that Lu Qinghuan would help with other tasks and obtain a Sub-Monarch Demon Beast corpse if he helped the Military Department get the Earth Pistil.
• Mu Chong told Mu Xinghu to prepare for the coming battles and promised rewards if he helped the Mu Clan secure what the Forbidden Curse Mage left in the blood coffin.
• Mochizuki Chiharu returned to her camp, dropped her disguise, and learned from Muranoo that Senior Watanabe had called a meeting about the blood coffin.
• Mochizuki Chiharu entered the main tent, explained that Lu Wu had discovered her identity, and urged Watanabe to let her choose the fighters because the group knew too little about Lu Wu.
• Shen Yuerong considered whether to join the battle to reach the spoils and use the Demon Phoenix Insect Stone Seal, or seek another way to take the Demon Phoenix Insect.