Chapter Summaries

Lu Wu helped Shen Yuerong reunite with her grandfather, Shen Shitian, who learned that his son and daughter-in-law might still be alive. After leaving the outpost, Lu Wu returned to Magic City with Shen Yuerong and Mu Nujiao, while Shen Shitian stayed behind to help search for his missing family.

• Lu Wu explained Shen Yuerong’s past to Shen Shitian, who recognized her through her father’s unusual left index finger and their familiar magic-equipment crafting technique.
• Shen Shitian reunited with Shen Yuerong and learned she had grown up in a small town in Maple Leaf Country without knowing she had a grandfather.
• Lu Wu and Mu Nujiao left Shen Yuerong with Shen Shitian, then dealt with Mochizuki Chiharu, who refused to forget what had happened between her and Lu Wu.
• Shen Shitian decided to help the Military Department watch over the captives and use its resources to search for the town where Shen Yuerong had grown up.
• Lu Wu took Shen Yuerong and Mu Nujiao back to Magic City after promising Shen Shitian to protect Shen Yuerong, and Shen Shitian encouraged him to consider the World Academy Competition and its Divine Seal Praise.

Lu Wu returned from the outpost with Shen Yuerong and Mu Nujiao, while Mo Fan accompanied Tang Yue to learn about the Skyscraping Snake and was drawn into its upcoming molting period. The chapter ended with Tang Yue discovering a report that contradicted earlier news and appeared to frame the Skyscraping Snake for two deaths.

• Shen Yuerong questioned Lu Wu about his strength and rapid cultivation, but he refused to reveal his secrets.
• Mu Nujiao and Shen Yuerong discussed how their Demon Phoenix Insect eggs could aid cultivation and influence future magic awakenings.
• Tang Yue told Mo Fan that the Skyscraping Snake was sealed beneath West Lake and asked him to help during its molting period.
• Mo Fan agreed to consider Tang Yue's request, despite the dangers posed by the snake, a possible clan mole, and the Black Vatican.
• Tang Yue received a report claiming two hunters had died from the Skyscraping Snake's poison, although an earlier announcement had said there were no casualties.

Mo Fan accompanied Tang Yue to a Magic Court meeting where Zhu Meng demanded the Totem Black Snake be handed over after two people were found dead. The group learned that the Black Snake was about to shed and planned to move it somewhere safe, with Mo Fan going along despite Luo Mian's doubts.

• Zhu Meng accused the Magic Court of shielding the Totem Black Snake and gave them two days to hand it over or face his intervention.
• Tang Yue challenged Zhu Meng's claim that the Black Snake killed the two victims, and Tang Zhong supported her demand for evidence.
• After Zhu Meng left, Tang Zhong revealed that the Black Snake's shedding period was imminent and that its strength would drop while it became dangerously irritable.
• Hei Yu suspected that a clan mole had revealed the secret shedding schedule to Zhu Meng.
• Tang Zhong asked Tang Yue to take the Black Snake somewhere safe and said Mo Fan could accompany her because he was not an Advanced Mage.
• Luo Mian questioned whether Mo Fan could be trusted or help, but Tang Zhong insisted he might prove useful.

Mo Fan helped Tang Yue take the Totem Black Snake away while Zhu Meng and Luo Mian devised a new plan to capture them. Meanwhile, Lu Wu arrived in Bai Town with Mu Nujiao and Shen Yuerong, where he learned about an epidemic and the giant snake reported in Hangzhou.

• Mo Fan warned Xin Xia that he would be away, while she treated students with a strange illness in her dormitory.
• Zhu Meng ordered Tang Yue arrested, but Luo Mian explained that the Black Snake could sense powerful pursuers within twenty kilometers and proposed sending trainee adjudicators to delay him.
• Zhu Meng ordered everyone available mobilized to apprehend Tang Yue.
• Lu Wu, Mu Nujiao, and Shen Yuerong arrived in Bai Town and learned that guests had to be examined for an epidemic.
• A receptionist told Lu Wu that the epidemic began after a giant snake appeared in Hangzhou, and Lu Wu suspected the snake had been real.

Lu Wu explained the danger posed by the Assassin Hall and planned to leave the Ruler-level Dark Fire Ape with Mu Nujiao while he handled a task. As the plague killed its first victims, Lu Wu arrived to meet Mr. Lu, who had been told Lu Wu possessed a special flame.

• Shen Yuerong worried that her father might send powerful assassins after her, while Lu Wu reassured Mu Nujiao that Little Fire could protect her.
• Lu Wu told Mu Nujiao that Shen Yuerong belonged to the Assassin Hall and explained that he had expected to deal with its people in Magic City, not Bai Town.
• Lu Wu said Mu Nujiao could accompany him on his task, but planned for Little Fire to protect her if she went shopping.
• The first three plague victims died after seven days of illness, and Zhu Meng confronted Tang Zhong as they debated whether the Totem Black Snake was responsible.
• Mr. Lu agreed to receive Lu Wu after learning that Grandma Song had sent him, and asked about Lu Wu's special flame.

Lu Wu used his Nirvana Fire to slow the plague’s progression in Bai Town, giving infected people more time while the authorities sought a cure. He kept treating patients as the Totem Black Snake’s role in the outbreak remained disputed.

• Mr. Lu asked Lu Wu to test whether his Nirvana Fire could delay the plague, and Lu Wu agreed.
• Lu Wu’s flame dried a patient’s festering wound and stopped its corrosion, leading Mr. Lu to estimate that it would at least double the time before symptoms worsened.
• Zhu Meng demanded that Tang Zhong hand over the Totem Black Snake so they could develop a cure, while Tang Zhong hesitated to condemn it outright.
• Lu Wu treated the weakest patients with Nirvana Fire, continuing past one hundred and two hundred people as Mr. Lu and the others watched.

Lu Wu treated hundreds of plague patients while Zhu Meng and Tang Zhong struggled to determine whether the Totem Black Snake caused the outbreak. After Tang Yue and Mo Fan returned with the snake’s blood, they were taken into custody, but news of a White Demon Eagle invasion brought another crisis to Hangzhou.

• Lu Wu had treated more than eight hundred patients without rest, while Mr. Lu admitted he had not developed plague antibodies.
• Zhu Meng urged Tang Zhong to prioritize the plague, then learned his guards had failed to retrieve the Totem Bead but had brought back Tang Yue and Mo Fan.
• Tang Yue gave Zhu Meng a vial of the Totem Black Snake’s blood for Mr. Lu to use in developing medicine, and Lu Wu stopped treating patients to rest.
• Zhu Meng ordered Tang Yue and Mo Fan detained while the blood was tested, and Tang Yue glanced at Lu Wu as she was led away.
• A military commander reported that a huge flock of White Demon Eagles was attacking from Teng Ridge and flying toward Hangzhou, leaving Zhu Meng and the others alarmed.

The White Demon Eagle invasion crippled West Fortress’s aerial defenses when a Monarch Level eagle demon’s aura terrified and enraged the tamed Sky Eagles. Wang Xiaoyun disobeyed orders to kill every Sky Eagle and sent Gray flying into the forest, leaving the fortress to face the flock without him.

• The Military Mages discovered that their Sky Eagles feared the White Demon Eagles and would not take off, then learned a Monarch Level eagle demon was making them turn against their handlers.
• Wang Xiaoyun played his flute for Gray, his gray-white Sky Eagle companion, on the ninth watchtower as the fortress alarm sounded.
• A beast tamer ordered Wang Xiaoyun to kill Gray because every Sky Eagle was to be executed before the Monarch Level eagle demon arrived.
• Wang Xiaoyun played his flute and sent Gray flying into the forest, defying the order to kill him.
• The beast tamer berated Wang Xiaoyun for releasing Gray and warned that he might join the White Demon Eagles against the fortress.

As the plague threatened Hangzhou and the White Demon Eagles approached the West Fortress, the officials agreed to seek the Totem Black Snake’s bile while sparing its life if a cure could be found. Lu Wu reached the fortress and began attacking the incoming eagles alone, leaving the defenders stunned as he prepared to fight before their Ruler arrived.

• Mr. Lu told the council that medicine made from the Totem Black Snake’s blood could resist the plague but could not cure it, and Tang Zhong urged Tang Yue to obtain the snake’s bile.
• Zhu Meng pleaded with Tang Yue to help save Hangzhou and promised the Totem Black Snake would not be killed if they found a way to save everyone; Tang Yue agreed to summon it to West Lake.
• At the West Fortress, the commanders worried that their forces lacked the means to fight the approaching White Demon Eagles without the Sky Eagle System and waited for reinforcements.
• Lu Wu flew out to meet the eagle vanguard and killed more than thirty White Demon Eagles, including Warriors and a Great General, with Blazing Fist: Sky Breaker.
• Lu Wu sensed a powerful Ruler approaching and decided to kill more White Demon Eagles before it arrived.

Lu Wu joined the defense against the White Demon Eagle assault on Hangzhou, using his Nirvana Domain to hunt the beasts and discover that their Soul Remnants nourished him through the Chongming Bird and Demon Phoenix Insect. As a Great Commander Four-Clawed Demon Eagle charged him, Lu Wu unleashed a massive Nirvana Fire punch.

• Lu Wu realized the Chongming Bird and Demon Phoenix Insect were absorbing Soul Remnants and returning strength to him, so he activated his Nirvana Domain to hunt more White Demon Eagles.
• Military Mages and other defenders arrived, and Lu Wu organized them into two teams to fight alongside him against the approaching flock.
• The defenders attacked the White Demon Eagles while Lu Wu used Flame Rain to burn many of them and kill several Four-Clawed Demon Eagles.
• A Great Commander ice Four-Clawed Demon Eagle broke through an Earth Mage's Heavenly Veil and charged at Lu Wu.
• Lu Wu struck downward with Nirvana Domain: Fierce Fist: Nirvana Fire, Heaven Blast, gathering the domain's fire into a giant punch around his own.

Lu Wu devastated the White Demon Eagles attacking the West Fortress, killing a Four-Clawed Demon Eagle and holding off the flock alone while the other mages withdrew to build defenses. He continued unleashing his magic and summoned a massive explosion among the enemy as the battle remained underway.

• Lu Wu burned the Four-Clawed Demon Eagle with Nirvana Fire, pierced it with a Golden Toe Spear, and sacrificed its heart and kidneys for Stars enhancement.
• Lu Wu used Wind Disk and Space Rhythm to restrain and crush White Demon Eagles as the other Advanced Mages joined the aerial battle.
• Yun Feng ordered Advanced Mages to support the watchtowers and directed the remaining forces to prepare defenses at the West Fortress.
• Lu Wu told the exhausted mage teams to return to the defensive line, then stayed behind to fight the White Demon Eagles alone.
• Lu Wu unleashed Thunderbolt, Nirvana Fire, and Wind Disk spells, then detonated his Fierce Fist to clear a vast space through the flock.

Lu Wu held back the White Demon Eagle flock at West Fortress until a Ruler drove its beasts into a frenzied assault, forcing him to retreat while injured. He captured a Four-Clawed Demon Eagle alive and brought it to the outskirts of Hangzhou, where the Golden-Eyed Winged Tiger and its family began devouring it.

• Lu Wu fought alone against the White Demon Eagle flock while Mu Nujiao and Shen Yuerong watched from West Fortress.
• A hidden Ruler sent the White Demon Eagles and Four-Clawed Demon Eagles into a reckless attack, and Lu Wu used his Armor Magic Tool, Nirvana Domain, and beast transformation to survive.
• Lu Wu blasted a path through the flock and flew toward the fortress, but a wounded Four-Clawed Demon Eagle pierced his armor and injured his right chest.
• Lu Wu subdued the Four-Clawed Demon Eagle and dragged it toward West Fortress, stunning Yun Feng and the other mages before changing course.
• Lu Wu summoned the Golden-Eyed Winged Tiger and its family outside Hangzhou, and they began devouring the captured Four-Clawed Demon Eagle.

Lu Wu discovered that contaminated blood serum was spreading the plague, and the Imperial Palace sent the warning to Hangzhou. With the Totem Black Snake still trapped and West Fortress facing a White Demon Eagle assault, Zhu Meng ordered Wu Pingjing to lead reinforcements to the fortress.

• Lu Wu accepted blood serum from Mu Nujiao, but his body rejected it and a blister briefly appeared on his chest, revealing the serum was contaminated.
• Lu Wu called Tang Yue, who did not answer, then contacted someone else to report his discovery.
• At West Lake, Zhu Meng considered killing the wounded Totem Black Snake before reinforcing West Fortress, while Luo Mian and Wu Pingjing urged caution.
• Li Jin reported that West Fortress faced a Monarch-Level Creature, the Sky Eagle System was paralyzed, and the White Demon Eagle army threatened Hangzhou.
• Wu Pingjing relayed the Imperial Palace's warning that blood serum was very likely the plague's source, and Mo Fan and Tang Zhong urged the group to protect the city.
• Zhu Meng ordered Wu Pingjing to take the palace guards to reinforce West Fortress.

Mo Fan and Tang Yue sought a way to free the Totem Black Snake after the blood serum exposed the real cause of the plague, but Zhu Meng left the Thunder Punishment Grand Formation active. Lu Wu returned with evidence and offered to break the formation, though the lightning made its energy source dangerous to reach.

• Wu Pingjing led Zhu Meng’s palace guards to West Fortress, while Zhu Meng left the Black Snake trapped and Luo Mian began looking for a scapegoat.
• Mo Fan and Tang Yue learned that Zhu Meng had ordered people to keep them away from the formation, while Zhu Meng delayed freeing the Black Snake until after the battle.
• Mo Fan contacted Lu Wu, who agreed to return and help in exchange for a piece of the Black Snake’s shed hide.
• Lu Wu returned with problematic blood serum, gave it to Mr. Lu to develop an antidote, and insisted the Black Snake was innocent.
• Lu Wu said he would pull out the formation’s energy sources, but Tang Yue warned him that the lightning made approaching them deadly.

Lu Wu entered the Thunder Punishment Grand Formation to take specially processed mineral crystals for the Chongming Bird and the Demon Phoenix Insect, despite the danger and the Totem Black Snake’s hostility. After Luo Mian confronted him but left when witnesses arrived, Lu Wu returned with the crystals, and Tang Yue agreed to give him the Black Snake’s bile for antidotes if he helped free it.

• Lu Wu found mineral crystals rich in elemental energy and braved the lightning to reach them, relying on his nirvana power to endure the damage.
• The Totem Black Snake’s reaction provoked the formation, and Luo Mian arrived to accuse Lu Wu of defying Zhu Meng’s orders.
• Lu Wu defended the Black Snake and challenged Luo Mian about his duty to reinforce the West Fortress; Luo Mian left when Mo Fan, Tang Yue, and others approached.
• Lu Wu took the crystals for the Chongming Bird and the Demon Phoenix Insect, then returned from the dangerous inner part of the formation.
• Mo Fan said the formation had weakened and the Black Snake might soon break free; Tang Yue offered to meet Lu Wu’s demands, and he asked for the Black Snake’s bile to make antidotes.

Lu Wu freed the Totem Black Snake from most of the Thunder Punishment Grand Formation, then left it to finish shedding its skin with the remaining lightning. He joined the battle at West Fortress, where the Chongming Bird and Demon Phoenix Insect recovered to their peak as they absorbed Soul Remnants and Soul Essences.

• Lu Wu collected the formation crystals and learned that Black Snake bile could help the Demon Phoenix Insect eggs grow, while Tang Yue calmed the injured Totem Black Snake.
• The Totem Black Snake used the remaining lightning halberds to continue shedding its skin, so Lu Wu left with Mu Nujiao and the others.
• Tang Yue asked Mo Fan to help find an energy source for the Black Snake, whose shedding would require a great deal of energy.
• Lu Wu arrived at West Fortress with Mu Nujiao and Shen Yuerong and joined the fight against the White Demon Eagles.
• The Chongming Bird and Demon Phoenix Insect absorbed Soul Remnants and Soul Essences until they recovered to peak condition, then stopped to prepare for their own breakthroughs.

Lu Wu learned that Councilor Luo Mian had caused the plague by putting diseased blood from Sharp-Clawed Plague Rats into blood agents, while the White Demon Eagle army threatened Hangzhou. As the Totem Black Snake attacked the eagles, Lu Wu collected their Soul Remnants and Soul Essences.

• Mu Nujiao told Lu Wu that Ling Ling had identified Sharp-Clawed Plague Rats' diseased blood as the cause of the plague and that Eagle Red Grass was the cure.
• Lu Wu learned that Wang Xiaoyun and his impure-blooded Sky Eagle had died bringing back Eagle Red Grass, which Luo Mian had stolen.
• Lu Wu warned Mu Nujiao to be careful and said the Chongming Bird could handle the Silver Skylord.
• Mo Fan and Ling Ling watched the White Demon Eagle army approach Hangzhou, and the Totem Black Snake rose to defend the city.
• The Totem Black Snake released poisonous mist that brought down many White Demon Eagles, while Lu Wu collected their Soul Remnants and Soul Essences.

The Totem Black Snake protected Hangzhou by poisoning the White Demon Eagles, while Zhu Meng took advantage of the Silver Skylord’s distraction to trap it with Nine Rings of Prohibition. The Silver Skylord sacrificed its own troops to break free and wounded the defenders, leaving Zhu Meng to charge again in his unused Heavenly Thunder Palace Armor.

• The Totem Black Snake created a poisonous mist barrier that killed White Demon Eagles and protected the evacuated elderly people near Hangzhou.
• The Silver Skylord’s attention shifted toward the Totem Black Snake, allowing Zhu Meng to complete Nine Rings of Prohibition and trap it in a lightning cage.
• The Silver Skylord ordered White Demon Eagles to throw themselves into the lightning, weakening the cage until it shattered.
• The Silver Skylord attacked the defenders with blade feathers, badly injuring Wu Pingjing and Zhu Meng as Tang Zhong urged them to retreat.
• Zhu Meng refused to withdraw and donned his Heavenly Thunder Palace Armor before flying toward the Silver Skylord with a blazing lance.

The Totem Black Snake intervened after Zhu Meng was defeated, overwhelming the Silver Skylord and protecting Hangzhou. It left the Silver Skylord bloodied and fleeing, while the people recognized the Black Snake as their guardian.

• The Silver Skylord shattered Zhu Meng’s Heavenly Thunder Palace Armor and slammed him into the ground, leaving him badly injured.
• The Totem Black Snake attacked the Silver Skylord, ignoring its White Demon Eagle army and overpowering it with its fangs and tail.
• The Black Snake used the Heavenly Stele Seal to smash the Silver Skylord into an abyssal crater.
• The people of Hangzhou realized that the Black Snake was protecting their city and hailed it as their guardian god.
• The Silver Skylord called on its White Demon Eagles to distract the Black Snake, then fled the outskirts covered in blood.

After the Black Snake helped save Hangzhou, Zhu Meng dropped plans to target it, and Luo Mian was exposed and arrested. Lu Wu obtained the Black Snake’s bile, which awakened the Demon Phoenix Insect eggs and hinted at the insect’s command of ultimate ice.

• Yun Feng credited Lu Wu with helping halt the White Demon Eagle army, while Zhu Meng questioned Lu Wu about his background.
• Zhu Meng agreed to remove the Totem Black Snake from his Hidden Danger Strategy after acknowledging that it had saved Hangzhou.
• The Black Snake spat out Luo Mian, and Zhu Meng confronted him over the spatial bracelet linked to Wang Xiaoyun.
• Tang Yue took the bracelet from Luo Mian and gave Lu Wu the Black Snake bile he had requested.
• Lu Wu shared the bile with Mu Nujiao and Shen Yuerong, and the insect egg meant for Mu Ningxue hatched into a blue crystalline insect.