Chapter Summaries

Shen Shitian fought William to force him to hand over the lightning Soul Seed promised to Lu Wu. Shen Shitian unleashed a nine-headed flame python, but William swallowed it with his Void Black Hole, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Shen Shitian stepped in to fight William so Lu Wu could claim the lightning Soul Seed, while William vowed revenge for Smith.
• Shen Shitian bombarded William with the Thousand-Petaled Flame Flower, but William’s spatial shield protected him from the purplish-black flames.
• Shen Shitian expanded his domain and drew distant magma into a nine-headed flame python, prompting the watching mages to recognize his immense power.
• Lu Qinghuan explained that Shen Shitian’s attack combined his heavenly flames with the Hellfire Gate: Molten Vein spell.
• William cast Space Compass: Void Black Hole and swallowed the charging flame python, remaining unharmed as he faced Shen Shitian.

Shen Shitian defeated William in a devastating clash of Super Level magic, leaving William’s country with no hope in the contest. Shen Shitian returned to his team and left the remaining battles to them, with Mu Chong volunteering to fight next.

• William stopped using his void black hole and attacked Shen Shitian with Space Compass: Death Axis, but Shen Shitian blocked it with magma and purple-black flames.
• Shen Shitian summoned multiple Nine-Skulled Flame Pythons, forcing William and the others to defend against their spatially destructive assault.
• A clash between the flame pythons and a second Space Compass unleashed a space storm that drove both teams to flee and damaged the folded space near the blood coffin.
• Shen Shitian emerged with his Fire Element mana exhausted, while William survived with a Shield Magic Tool and withdrew to his camp.
• Shen Shitian told William to prepare the Lightning Soul Seed, then returned to Lu Qinghuan and the others and said the next battles were up to them.
• Mu Chong volunteered to take the next fight, and Lu Qinghuan agreed.

After the earlier matches against Maple Leaf Country, Lu Qinghuan chose the five fighters for the next day’s battle against Japan Island Country, and Lu Wu was accepted as captain. The battle began with both sides launching coordinated attacks, and the Golden-Eyed Winged Tiger entered a berserk state as it charged at the opposing team.

• Mu Chong won a hard-fought match using Ice, Space, Earth, and Water magic, while Lu Wu learned that Lu Qinghuan’s scarlet Elemental Demon could transform into her weapon and disguise itself as a beard.
• Lu Qinghuan selected Lu Wu, Mu Xinghu, Nangong Pei, Mu Ningxue, and Mu Nujiao for the next day’s battle, and the remaining matches against Maple Leaf Country left only Shen Shitian and Lu Qinghuan victorious among the four Super Level mages.
• Mu Xinghuan proposed having a captain, but Nangong Pei and the others chose Lu Wu, frustrating Mu Xinghuan.
• As the battle against Japan Island Country began, Lu Wu tried to pull Mochizuki Chiharu toward him while Shen Yuerong protected her with Light magic.
• Muranoo spread freezing frost, Mu Xinghu launched ice chains, and Lu Wu summoned the Golden-Eyed Winged Tiger, which Mochizuki Chiharu trapped in a vine prison.
• Okamoto Ichirou struck the Golden-Eyed Winged Tiger with a Blazing Fist, but it activated Bloodthirsty Berserk, reached the Warrior Advancement Stage, and charged toward the enemy team.

Lu Wu’s allies and Mochizuki Chiharu’s group clashed in a chaotic battle as they tried to capture the Golden-Eyed Winged Tiger. After Muranoo petrified the tiger, Lu Wu enhanced it, and it forced the petrification out.

• Muranoo formed an ice coffin while Okamoto Ichirou prepared a lightning strike, but Lu Wu shielded the Golden-Eyed Winged Tiger from the lightning as Mochizuki Chiharu’s vines caught it.
• Mu Nujiao’s vines disrupted the opposing group, while Mu Xinghu froze Okamoto Ichirou and another mage with Ice Lock Coffin.
• Nangong Pei attacked with crimson flames, and Mu Ningxue used a tornado to tear away the vines holding the Golden-Eyed Winged Tiger.
• Mochizuki Chiharu urged Shen Yuerong to protect the frozen mages, while Muranoo petrified the Golden-Eyed Winged Tiger with Rock Demon’s Eyes.
• Lu Wu cast Summoning Enhancement, empowering the Golden-Eyed Winged Tiger until it forced the petrifying power out of its body.

Lu Wu's enhanced Golden-Eyed Winged Tiger forced the opposing mages onto the defensive, while Shen Yuerong tried to free Okamoto Ichirou and Gong Liefu. The clash escalated when Lu Wu unleashed his Soul Fire, leaving Muranoo to burn his last-resort magic scroll to protect Mochizuki Chiharu and the others.

• Lu Qinghuan recognized the strength of Lu Wu's enhancement as the Golden-Eyed Winged Tiger shook off Rock Demon's Eyes.
• Shen Yuerong used a magic tool to free Okamoto Ichirou and Gong Liefu, while Mochizuki Chiharu moved to defend her companions.
• Mochizuki Chiharu's Raging Waves dispersed the attacks from Nangong Pei, Mu Nujiao, and Mu Ningxue as Muranoo prepared to fight the Golden-Eyed Winged Tiger.
• Muranoo wounded the Golden-Eyed Winged Tiger with Fierce Wind Slash, but Lu Wu answered with a powerful Soul Fire Fierce Fist aimed at Mochizuki Chiharu and the others.
• Muranoo burned his last-resort magic scroll and cast Rock Demon's Eyes: Heavenly Veil to defend against Lu Wu's attack.

Lu Wu broke through Muranoo’s Heavenly Veil and seized him to force Mochizuki Chiharu to stop attacking the Golden-Eyed Winged Tiger. When Mochizuki refused, Lu Wu freed the tiger and engulfed Muranoo in Nirvana Fire, leaving Mochizuki retreating before his power.

• Muranoo’s Heavenly Veil nearly failed to stop Lu Wu’s Fierce Fist while the Golden-Eyed Winged Tiger attacked Shen Yuerong’s group and swallowed Okamoto Ichirou and another man.
• Mochizuki Chiharu restrained the wounded Golden-Eyed Winged Tiger with thorny vines as Muranoo maintained his barrier against Lu Wu.
• The Golden-Eyed Winged Tiger gathered blood mist into a bolt of lightning, and Lu Wu asked Mu Nujiao to carry him toward the beast.
• Lu Wu’s second Fierce Fist shattered Muranoo’s Heavenly Veil, and Lu Wu seized Muranoo to make Mochizuki stop.
• Mochizuki threatened to kill the tiger unless Lu Wu released Muranoo, but Lu Wu burned the vines with Nirvana Fire and the tiger broke free.
• Lu Wu engulfed Muranoo in flames, and Mochizuki retreated as she faced his overwhelming power.

Watanabe intervened to stop Lu Wu from killing Mochizuki Chiharu, but Lu Wu broke free of his Super Level telekinesis and escaped with Mu Nujiao, Mu Ningxue, and Nangong Pei. The enemy trapped Lu Wu, Lu Qinghuan, Shen Shitian, and the others in a spatial formation, leaving them cut off from the blood coffin; Shen Shitian said he could force a way out if given time.

• Watanabe used Super Level telekinesis to pin Lu Wu and the Golden-Eyed Winged Tiger down, intending to capture Lu Wu and send him to East Sea Battle City.
• Lu Wu activated Beast Transformation, his Nirvana and Wind Domains, and his Armor Magic Tool, broke Watanabe's grasp, and retreated with Mu Nujiao, Mu Ningxue, and Nangong Pei.
• Watanabe and his allies used Instantaneous Movement to evade Shen Shitian's Space Death Axis, while a spatial formation sealed Shen Shitian, Lu Qinghuan, Lu Wu, and the others inside.
• Lu Qinghuan and Shen Shitian assessed the formation and decided to search for a way out so they could deliver news and seek reinforcements.
• Lu Wu worried about the Chongming Bird remaining inside the blood coffin and asked Shen Shitian whether they could break through the spatial barrier.
• Shen Shitian examined the formation and told Lu Qinghuan and Lu Wu that he could force it open, though it would take time.

As the folded space vanished, Watanabe and the other mages tried to claim the blood coffin, but William succumbed to its curse and forced it open. Two powerful creatures escaped, and Watanabe recognized them as Intermediate Monarchs.

• Mochizuki Chiharu and Shen Yuerong watched the blood coffin emerge from the collapsing folded space as Watanabe planned to transport it south and divide its contents.
• Donald Harriwen and Mochizuki Chiharu discussed Lu Wu's four elements and his formidable strength.
• William became obsessed with the blood coffin, approached it despite Watanabe's warnings, and used Thunder Ring Punishment to break open its lid.
• A hundred-meter blood-red bird and a blue, feathered flying insect fled from the coffin.
• Watanabe recognized both creatures from an earlier hunt and realized they had become Intermediate Monarchs.

Shen Shitian and the other Super Level mages faced a Great Monarch undead released from the blood coffin, while the Earth Pistil inside it drew their attention. Trapped within the restriction, Lu Wu realized the battle outside might give them a chance to escape, though they would then face the undead themselves.

• A curse-condensed undead emerged from the blood coffin, and Shen Shitian and Lu Qinghuan recognized it as a Great Monarch filled with fused curses and resentment.
• Watanabe urged the mages to kill the undead and seize the Fire Element Earth Pistil, and William recovered after losing control and opening the coffin.
• The undead asked where Ying Zheng was, then cursed him as a faithless man, while Lu Wu and his companions worried about the threat and joked about the First Emperor's romantic debts.
• The Super Level mages from Maple Leaf Country and Japan began fighting the undead, and Lu Wu considered using the battle to break the restriction and escape.

The Super Level Mages attacked the Specter Ruler with lightning and Light Element magic, revealing that the apparent Great Monarch was only an obsession attached to a ruined Armor Magic Tool. When Nagashima Akio’s strike released a lucid woman with a physical form made of pure soul, she overwhelmed the mages and recognized Lu Wu as carrying the aura of Ying Zheng’s ancient beasts.

• William cast Lightning Ring Punishment: Nine Rings Prohibition, and the lightning halberds pinned down the curses around the blood coffin.
• Nagashima Akio used Sacred Judgment: Demon Judgment Sword to cleave through the specter’s curses and expose the ruined Armor Magic Tool.
• Nagashima Akio rushed toward the blood coffin for the Earth Pistil, but his body exploded as a woman appeared.
• Lu Wu realized the woman had condensed a physical form from pure soul, while Shen Shitian said they should wait for her soul to weaken before escaping.
• The woman appeared atop the magical restriction and told Lu Wu that he carried the aura of the ancient beasts led by Ying Zheng.

Ban Yuehuang captured Lu Wu and the others, then forced Lu Wu to lure the Double-Pupiled Blood Bird to her so she could kill it. As she tormented Lu Wu, she challenged Mu Nujiao and Mu Ningxue’s faith in him by proposing that he could escape his pain by coupling with Mochizuki Chiharu.

• Ban Yuehuang shattered the magical restriction and revealed that the Super Level Mages, including Watanabe and William, were under her control.
• Lu Wu admitted that he had obtained Nirvana Fire through his contract with the Double-Pupiled Blood Bird, and Ban Yuehuang ordered him to lure the bird back so she could kill it.
• Ban Yuehuang restrained Lu Wu and used her mental power to inflict pain through his bond with the Chongming Bird, while Shen Shitian, Lu Qinghuan, and the others became her puppets.
• Mu Nujiao and Mu Ningxue reacted to Lu Wu’s screams, and Ban Yuehuang confronted them about their feelings for him.
• Ban Yuehuang brought the puppet Mochizuki Chiharu over and claimed Lu Wu would betray the two women if coupling with her would end his suffering; Mu Nujiao said she did not believe it.

Ban Yuehuang forced Lu Wu to choose between sleeping with Mochizuki Chiharu and saving himself, hoping to prove that he would betray Mu Nujiao. Lu Wu refused to abandon the others, and Ban Yuehuang’s reaction revealed that her past hurt involved the First Emperor, Ying Zheng.

• Ban Yuehuang suppressed Mochizuki Chiharu’s magic and used a Maple Leaf Country Healing mage to restore Lu Wu after his torment.
• Lu Wu worried about protecting Mu Nujiao and the others, while he sensed that the Chongming Bird had shared his pain and had not broken their soul contract.
• Ban Yuehuang demanded that Lu Wu sleep with Mochizuki Chiharu in exchange for his life, but Lu Wu bargained for the others’ safety and refused to settle for surviving alone.
• Ban Yuehuang threatened Lu Wu with a golden soul arrow, but Mu Nujiao stepped in front of him before the arrow stopped inches from his head.
• Mu Nujiao told Ban Yuehuang that Lu Wu had not betrayed her, provoking Ban Yuehuang’s fury and violent fluctuations in her mind as the others suspected her past involved Ying Zheng.

Ban Yuehuang used her control over Lu Wu, Mu Ningxue, and Mochizuki Chiharu to torment Mu Nujiao, but the Chongming Bird’s arrival ended her assault and left Lu Wu’s soul badly damaged. After sending the others away, Lu Wu chose to return toward the battle to help Grandpa Shen and the Chongming Bird.

• Ban Yuehuang moved Lu Wu beside Mu Ningxue and Mochizuki Chiharu and forced them into an ordeal while making Mu Nujiao watch helplessly.
• The Chongming Bird arrived in Nirvana Fire and drove away the power harming Lu Wu, though his soul remained torn and his vision turned blood-red.
• Mochizuki Chiharu tried to attack Lu Wu, but Mu Nujiao bound her with vines and stopped her.
• Lu Wu had Little Fire use Shadow Escape to take Mu Nujiao, Mu Ningxue, and Mochizuki Chiharu away from the battle.
• Lu Wu saw that Grandpa Shen and the Chongming Bird were still fighting Ban Yuehuang, so he flew back and sacrificed the blood coffin, a Fire Crystal ore vein.

Lu Wu sacrificed the blood coffin, revealing the Fire Element Earth Pistil, a crystal magic artifact, and the battered Armor Magic Tool that housed the phoenix-crowned woman's true body. As the Chongming Bird struggled against the phoenix-crowned woman’s forces, Lu Wu compressed his Nirvana Fire into a powerful fireball and dropped it onto the golden lotus protecting the artifacts.

• Lu Wu sacrificed the blood coffin and drained its energy until it collapsed into rubble.
• Lu Wu discovered the Fire Element Earth Pistil, a crystal magic artifact, and the battered Armor Magic Tool containing the phoenix-crowned woman's true body inside the golden lotus.
• The phoenix-crowned woman fired ten golden soul arrows at the Chongming Bird, while the Demon Phoenix Insect rushed in and shielded it with an ice barrier.
• Lu Wu used all his Fire Element Stars to create Nirvana Fire and compressed it into a three-meter fireball.
• Lu Wu dropped the fireball onto the golden lotus, ready to destroy its protection even if the Earth Pistil was damaged.

Lu Wu destroyed Ban Yuehuang's blood coffin and lotus barrier, then used Holy Light to make the curses in her battered Armor Magic Tool erupt. As Ban Yuehuang and the Chongming Bird fought, Nirvana Fire emerged from Lu Wu's spine and enveloped him, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Lu Wu's compressed Nirvana Fire exploded, destroying the lotus barrier and blood coffin while scattering Ban Yuehuang's battered Armor Magic Tool.
• Ban Yuehuang rushed toward the falling Armor Magic Tool, and Lu Wu used Holy Light to trigger the curses inside it before her soul arrow struck him unconscious.
• The curses erupted from the Armor Magic Tool as Ban Yuehuang's soul weakened and the Chongming Bird and Demon Phoenix Insect attacked the controlled Super Level Mages.
• The Chongming Bird cried out, and a strange Nirvana Fire emerged from Lu Wu's spine and enveloped his body.
• Ban Yuehuang realized the Chongming Bird was approaching and wondered how Lu Wu had made the blood coffin disappear.

Ban Yuehuang launched a final attack on Lu Wu and the Chongming Bird before losing consciousness and becoming a mindless Demon Beast. The awakened Super Level Mages fought over the Earth Pistil, but Little Fire killed one mage and attacked William, Watanabe, and the others.

• Ban Yuehuang gathered her soul power and curses into golden-black arrows, but the Chongming Bird and Demon Phoenix Insect joined forces to protect Lu Wu.
• Ban Yuehuang exhausted herself with one final attack, then lost consciousness and was replaced by a mindless Demon Beast.
• Shen Shitian, Lu Qinghuan, and the other Super Level Mages awakened with their mana depleted and tried to pursue a mage heading for the Earth Pistil.
• Shen Shitian used Hellfire Gate to block the mage, but Little Fire seized and killed him before he could reach the Earth Pistil.
• Little Fire attacked William, Watanabe, and the other mages, and Watanabe urged them to flee.

After Lu Wu stopped the cursed Great Monarch, Mu Nujiao and Mu Ningxue brought him back to the survivors, where Shen Shitian could only confirm that powerful forces were protecting his damaged soul. Lu Wu eventually woke in his room, leaving him to face Mu Nujiao’s relief and Mu Ningxue’s plan to leave.

• Little Fire returned with Mu Nujiao and Mu Ningxue carrying the barely breathing Lu Wu to the Dark Fire Ape.
• Shen Shitian found two powerful forces protecting Lu Wu and could not examine his badly damaged soul.
• Lu Qinghuan arranged for the survivors and captives to return to Great Sparrow City while an old senior was asked to deal with the Great Monarch.
• Mu Ningxue told Mu Nujiao she planned to leave once Lu Wu woke up.
• Lu Wu opened his eyes, and Mu Nujiao broke down crying as he comforted her.

After recovering from the battle, Lu Wu advanced his Summoning System to Advanced Level and contracted the weakened Demon Phoenix Insect. He then explained to Shen Shitian and Lu Qinghuan how he had triggered the curse that defeated the woman in the phoenix crown, while keeping the blood coffin’s destruction secret.

• Mu Nujiao told Lu Wu that Shen Shitian was holding the foreign Super Level Mages prisoner, and Lu Wu agreed to decide their fate after recovering.
• Lu Wu and Mu Nujiao spoke about Mu Ningxue before Lu Wu discovered that the Chongming Bird and Demon Phoenix Insect wanted him to open another Contract Space.
• Lu Wu advanced his Space Element to Intermediate Level and his Summoning System to Advanced Level, then contracted the Demon Phoenix Insect in his new Contract Space.
• Lu Wu told Shen Shitian and Lu Qinghuan that he had triggered the curse on the damaged Armor Magic Tool, claiming the woman in the phoenix crown had made the blood coffin disappear.
• Shen Shitian and Lu Qinghuan praised Lu Wu’s new strength and Fourth Realm mental willpower, saying Super Level Mages might struggle to oppose him.

Lu Wu visited the detained mages and decided their factions could ransom them, while Super Level Mages would be kept to help clear land for the Military Department’s new city. He recovered the Demon Phoenix Insect’s three eggs and forced the prisoners to surrender their valuables, leaving Shen Yuerong among the captives.

• Lu Wu told Lu Qinghuan to keep the Super Level Mages for clearing land and let the other prisoners’ factions ransom them, then learned the Military Department planned to recommend him for the next World Academy Competition.
• Lu Wu and Hei Guan entered the restricted camp, where Lu Wu drew a stone seal to himself and the Demon Phoenix Insect took the three eggs hidden inside into its Contract Space.
• Shen Yuerong emerged from a tent demanding her stone seal, but Lu Wu ordered all the prisoners to hand over their valuables and identify their factions for ransom.
• When a mage from Maple Leaf Country objected, Lu Wu killed him with Mind Control: Phantom Claw and warned the others not to resist.

Lu Wu and Hei Guan stripped the captured mages of their magic equipment to support the Military Mages, then Lu Wu recognized Shen Yuerong, who had been disguised among them. He kept her equipment and contacted Grandpa Shen, intending to bring her to meet him.

• Lu Wu immobilized the captives with his Wind Domain and threatened them with Nirvana Fire until they offered up their valuables.
• Hei Guan accepted the equipment for the Military Mages, and Lu Wu arranged searches that uncovered far more gear than the captives had first surrendered.
• Shen Yuerong protested as a female Military Mage searched her, and Lu Wu realized she was the person he had been trying to find.
• Lu Wu took Shen Yuerong's equipment, asked her to restore her appearance, and learned that Mochizuki Chiharu may have seen through her disguise.
• Lu Wu contacted Grandpa Shen and told him to meet at the ward holding the Intermediate and Advanced Mages.