Chapter Summaries

After returning from the Bo City disaster, Lu Wu reunited with Mu Nujiao and they became a couple. Shen Shitian then gave Lu Wu guidance on using the Thought Stone to strengthen his Mental Realm and restore his connection with the Dark Fire Ape.

• Lu Wu returned to Magic City, where Mu Nujiao embraced him, and the two agreed to be together.
• Lu Wu and Mu Nujiao celebrated their relationship at Fresh Food City, and Lu Wu promised to earn the Mu Family’s approval.
• Lu Wu and Mu Nujiao spent the first days of summer vacation together in Magic City.
• Shen Shitian asked Lu Wu about his connection with the Dark Fire Ape and explained how the Thought Stone could nourish his soul.
• Shen Shitian told Lu Wu to carry the Thought Stone and cultivate for ten days, predicting that his Mental Realm would reach the Second Realm.

Lu Wu absorbed the Thought Stone’s luster, broke through to the Second Mental Realm, and later advanced his Summoning System to Intermediate Level. He sensed his new Contract Space and considered what kind of powerful Contract Beast to seek.

• Shen Shitian awakened the Thought Stone’s suppressed luster, and Lu Wu meditated until he shattered the barrier to the Second Mental Realm.
• Lu Wu learned he had cultivated for fourteen days, reunited with Mu Nujiao, and spent the following months balancing cultivation with dating her.
• Lu Wu heard that the Slant-Scaled Demon Snake had transformed into a Lesser Warrior, claimed territory in the Summoning Plane, and found a female snake.
• Lu Wu broke through his Summoning System to Intermediate Level, forming a Nebula and sensing his first Contract Space.
• Lu Wu considered seeking a Great General or stronger Demon Beast with a high bloodline as his Contract Beast.

After breaking through, Lu Wu discussed his progress with Shen Shitian and received his first Demon-Slaying Tool, a fang pendant forged from the Winged Azure Wolf. Shen Shitian planned to take Lu Wu and Nangong Pei to gather Mystic Ice in the Hengduan Mountains, while Lu Wu considered investigating Shen Shitian’s missing granddaughter.

• Lu Wu finished cultivating, researched beast taming, and decided that a dragon might make a good mount if he could afford one.
• Lu Wu told Shen Shitian about his breakthrough, and Shen Shitian said his mental realm was nearing the peak of the Second Realm.
• Shen Shitian gave Lu Wu a Demon-Slaying Tool forged from the Winged Azure Wolf’s fang and warned him to save it for emergencies.
• Lu Wu thought about investigating Shen Shitian’s missing granddaughter and considered asking Tang Yue to help watch for information.
• Shen Shitian explained that he had used saved Mystic Ice Water and material refined by Nangong Pei to forge the pendant.
• Shen Shitian said he would take Lu Wu and Nangong Pei to gather Mystic Ice in the snowy ridges of the Hengduan Mountains.

Lu Wu, Nangong Pei, and Shen Shitian searched Snow Ridge for Mystic Ice, finding the area eerily empty of demon beasts. Shen Shitian sent Lu Wu and Nangong Pei to dig near a waterfall while he covered them, and Lu Wu began melting through the snow and ice.

• Shen Shitian led Lu Wu and Nangong Pei across Snow Ridge toward a mountain stream where Mystic Ice could be found.
• Lu Wu noticed the lack of demon beasts and the strangely clean bones, while Nangong Pei suspected a greater demon beast was nearby.
• The group followed the stream to a waterfall, where Shen Shitian explained that Mystic Ice might lie deep beneath the snow and ice.
• Shen Shitian told Lu Wu and Nangong Pei to search while he guarded against demon beasts.
• Lu Wu used his flames to melt a pit near the pool and continued burning down through the ice.

Lu Wu discovered a cicada pupa draining a massive piece of Mystic Ice and was attacked by swarms of Blue-Blooded Ice Insects. Shen Shitian identified the pupa as their queen and decided to leave it alone; Lu Wu then found that Nangong Pei had uncovered another huge piece of Mystic Ice.

• Lu Wu found a cicada pupa absorbing the energy from a huge piece of Mystic Ice, then fled when Blue-Blooded Ice Insects swarmed around him.
• Shen Shitian judged that the pupa might be the insects’ queen undergoing transformation and warned Lu Wu not to attack it.
• Shen Shitian decided they had enough Mystic Ice and told Lu Wu they would stop digging.
• Lu Wu hurried to Nangong Pei’s ice pit, slipped down its softened stairs, and discovered the enormous Mystic Ice beneath him.
• Nangong Pei said the piece should be enough for Master Shen.

Lu Wu sacrificed the mystic ice and received a Magic Awakening reward, awakening the dormant Blue-Blooded Ice Worm Broodmother and triggering a battle over the ice. After the broodmother instantly froze a Snow Ridge Giant Ape, Shen Shitian identified it as at least a Great Commander, and Lu Wu considered whether Little Fire could benefit from the ape as food.

• Nangong Pei left the ice pit after Lu Wu told him Shen Shitian had already found mystic ice.
• Lu Wu sacrificed the mystic ice, received a Magic Awakening reward, and saw the Blue-Blooded Ice Worm Broodmother emerge as the ice around them began to collapse.
• Shen Shitian used spatial power to bring Lu Wu and Nangong Pei above the waterfall as the broodmother drew energy from the surrounding mystic ice.
• A Snow Ridge Giant Ape appeared and focused on the broodmother, while Shen Shitian explained that the two beasts were enemies competing over territory.
• The broodmother plunged into the Snow Ridge Giant Ape and froze it instantly, prompting Shen Shitian to estimate that the ape was an Intermediate Commander and the broodmother was at least a Great Commander.

Lu Wu learned that the creature behind the Blue-Blooded Ice Insects was a transformed Blue-Winged Wolf Spider, then discovered he had awakened the Light Element. At the magic college entrance exam, Mu Nujiao demonstrated Intermediate Wind and Plant magic, while Lu Wu waited to be assessed for Pearl Academy's Fire Institute.

• Lu Wu, Shen Shitian, and Nangong Pei fled Snow Ridge after the Snow Ridge Giant Ape crumbled into bones and the unseen insect creature followed them.
• Lu Wu discovered that a Blue-Winged Wolf Spider had parasitized the Blue-Blooded Ice Insects and used their energy and blood essence to complete its transformation.
• Lu Wu found golden stardust in his fourth element and identified it as the Light Element.
• Lu Wu applied only to Pearl Academy's Fire Institute and attended the magic college entrance exam with Mu Nujiao and Wu Ya'er.
• Mu Nujiao released Intermediate Wind magic, earning an immediate SSS+ rating, then asked to be tested in the Plant Element.
• The examiners learned that Mu Nujiao had Intermediate Plant magic and said she did not need to take a test.

Lu Wu took his magic examination before a huge crowd and demonstrated the overwhelming power of his spirit-grade fire seed. His display stunned the examiners and board members, who began investigating and considering how to recruit him.

• Mu Nujiao cast an intermediate-level Wind Disk and received three S+ grades, prompting students to discuss her talent and her relationship with Lu Wu.
• Cai Jianwen and Jia Wenshang asked Lu Wu to wait, then Cai announced his examination over the school broadcast and invited younger students to watch.
• More than a thousand people gathered as Lu Wu began his examination in an expanded testing area, while Mu Zhanxing and other board members watched.
• Lu Wu unleashed a Fierce Fist of blazing flame that burned the wooden dummy before impact and damaged the grounds, revealing the strength of his spirit-grade fire seed.
• An examiner tried to stop the Fierce Fist with a Heavenly Veil, but Lu Wu sent it into the sky, where it swept up clouds and punched open the sky.
• Mu Zhanxing ordered someone to investigate Lu Wu, the board members considered his potential, and the crowd cheered for him.

Lu Wu impressed the examiners and students with his Blazing Fist: Sky Breaker, then openly declared his relationship with Mu Nujiao to her grandfather, Mu Zhanxing. After rejecting offers to join other factions, he left with Mu Zhanxing’s invitation to visit the Mu Family.

• Lu Wu’s spell stunned the training grounds, and chief examiner Tan Zhiyuan praised his talent and said he could enter top academies.
• Mu Zhanxing introduced himself as Mu Nujiao’s grandfather, and Lu Wu respectfully acknowledged his relationship with Jiaojiao and asked for his blessing.
• Luo Yu and other directors tried to recruit Lu Wu, while Cai Jianwen asked him to encourage the students; Lu Wu urged them to cultivate rather than remain beneath him.
• Mu Zhanxing asked about Lu Wu’s ties to the Lu Clan, but Lu Wu said he did not know of any such clan.
• Lu Wu refused to join any faction and said he would become part of the Mu Family as Mu Nujiao’s husband, prompting Mu Zhanxing to invite him to visit.
• Cai Jianwen praised Lu Wu after the directors left, and Lu Wu said he would return to the school when he had the chance.

Lu Wu enrolled at Pearl Academy with Mu Nujiao and reunited with Xu Zhaoting in his dorm, where he fought Tan Wenya over a bunk. The chapter ended with Tan Wenya demanding that Lu Wu prove himself with magic.

• Lu Wu received a two-hundred-thousand reward as the top graduate and prepared to enroll at university with Mu Nujiao.
• Lu Wu and Mu Nujiao registered at Pearl Academy's Green Campus, and Mu Nujiao refused his suggestion that they rent a place together.
• Lu Wu claimed an upper bunk in his dorm, but Tan Wenya demanded it for a Lightning Element student and refused to back down.
• Xu Zhaoting arrived, recognized Lu Wu, and chose the bunk beneath him.
• Tan Wenya challenged Lu Wu, who kicked him down and repeatedly interrupted his attempt to cast magic.
• Tan Wenya demanded that Lu Wu prove his ability with magic.

Lu Wu fought Tan Wenya after Tan Wenya launched a lightning attack in their dormitory, then took him to the dorm supervisor. Xu Zhaoting realized Lu Wu could use Wind Element magic and suspected he had Innate Dual Element talent.

• Lu Wu introduced himself and his roommates, but Tan Wenya attacked him with Thunder Seal after threatening him over the bed.
• Lu Wu dodged with Wind Track: Drifting Shadow, and the lightning struck Xu Zhaoting and damaged the dormitory instead.
• Lu Wu burned Tan Wenya's clothes and hair, pinned him down, and stopped short of causing serious injury.
• The dorm supervisor arrived and ordered Tan Wenya to dress and go to the infirmary with him.
• Xu Zhaoting recognized Lu Wu's Wind Element magic and concluded that he had Innate Dual Element talent.

Lu Wu settled into his Pearl Academy dorm after the fight with Tan Wenya and discussed campus life and the Beast Fighting Tournament with Mu Nujiao. He and Mu Nujiao arrived at the tournament hand in hand, stirring up outrage among the students who admired her.

• The old dorm supervisor questioned Lu Wu and Xu Zhaoting about Tan Wenya’s injuries, but they claimed they did not know what had happened, while Tan Wenya stayed silent.
• Lu Wu asked Mu Nujiao if he could move out of the dorm, but she refused and warned him to take advantage of the academy’s resources and avoid unnecessary danger.
• Mu Nujiao urged Lu Wu to prepare for the Beast Fighting Tournament, where Summoning System freshmen would compete for resources against students from other elements.
• Xu Zhaoting asked Lu Wu and Lu Tingfeng whether they would enter the tournament, and the three decided to go separately.
• Lu Wu met Mu Nujiao outside the girls’ dorm and hugged her before they walked to the Green Fighting Pavilion hand in hand, prompting jealous students to demand a duel with him.

Lu Wu attended Pearl Academy’s Summoning System freshman event with Mu Nujiao and her best friend, Ai Tutu. After Dean Xiao introduced the seven leading Summoning System freshmen, Ai Tutu shouted that Lu Wu wanted to challenge them all, leaving him publicly committed to a fight.

• Lu Wu met Ai Tutu near the Green Fighting Pavilion, where she teased him for holding Mu Nujiao’s hand and tried to separate them.
• Lu Wu sat with Mu Nujiao and Ai Tutu as students gathered around the beast-fighting arena, and he endured Ai Tutu’s teasing.
• Dean Xiao urged Pearl Academy’s students to pursue supreme magic and protect humanity rather than seek only wealth and comfort.
• Dean Xiao introduced the seven leading Summoning System freshmen, and Lu Wu recognized someone among them.
• Ai Tutu goaded Lu Wu to enter the arena, and when he said there was no need, she shouted that he wanted to challenge all the Summoning System freshmen alone.

Lu Wu accepted a challenge to fight a hundred new students in a gauntlet after Dean Xiao offered him substantial resources if he succeeded. As the crowd and Summoning System students reacted, Lu Wu stood by his declaration and prepared to face them.

• Ai Tutu’s remark was exaggerated by the crowd into a claim that Lu Wu wanted to challenge every new student, and Dean Xiao asked him to confirm it.
• Mu Nujiao and Ai Tutu urged Lu Wu to refuse, but Lu Wu declared he would take on a hundred-person gauntlet if he could win the resources.
• Dean Xiao learned Lu Wu had a Second Realm Mental Realm and promised resources that would satisfy him if he survived the challenge.
• Lu Wu formally challenged new students of every element, prompting angry reactions from the crowd and the Summoning System students.
• Wang Liting urged the Summoning System students to defend their reputation, while Mo Fan stayed back because Old Wolf had not recovered.
• Xu Zhaoting and Lu Tingfeng watched Lu Wu, with Xu Zhaoting resolving to ask him about the challenge later.

Lu Wu accepted Dean Xiao’s challenge to face the freshmen, with the Mu Family backing his million-worth wager if he lost. He opened the fight against Hai Dafu’s White Armored Battle Sting by blasting it down in one strike, leaving the freshmen stunned.

• Dean Xiao asked what Lu Wu would offer if he lost, and Lu Wu promised resources worth over a million as compensation.
• Mu Nujiao said the Mu Family could cover the wager, and Dean Xiao invited Lu Wu into the arena.
• Lu Wu chose to begin with Fire Element magic while keeping his other abilities concealed.
• Hai Dafu entered first and summoned his White Armored Battle Sting, while the other Summoning System students left the arena.
• The White Armored Battle Sting charged at Lu Wu, but his Fire Burst blasted it into a crater and left it badly injured.

Lu Wu defeated Hai Dafu’s White Armored Battle Sting with a single fireball, forcing the freshmen to recognize his overwhelming strength. Hai Dafu left after warning that only Intermediate Level mages should challenge Lu Wu, and Dean Xiao opened the challenge to the Green Campus freshmen.

• Lu Wu blasted Hai Dafu’s White Armored Battle Sting aside and broke through its armor with one attack.
• The spectators cheered for Lu Wu, while Mu Nujiao and Ai Tutu recognized how much stronger he had become.
• Jiang Yunming told Hai Dafu to leave the field, and Dean Xiao encouraged him not to let the defeat crush him.
• Hai Dafu admitted defeat and warned that anyone below the Intermediate Level was not qualified to challenge Lu Wu.
• Dean Xiao restricted challenges to Intermediate Level mages, then invited the Green Campus freshmen to challenge Lu Wu for his resources.
• Jiang Yunming told his students they could team up against Lu Wu, while one Summoning System freshman chose to sit out.

Lu Wu fought four Pearl Academy students who joined forces to challenge him, demonstrating his speed and powerful magic against their coordinated attacks. The battle continued amid the dust after his Fierce Fist struck Chen Tao’s stone defenses.

• Mo Fan decided he still wanted to test himself against Lu Wu, while Wang Liting proposed a group attack.
• Wang Qingshan and Chen Tao joined Zheng Bingxiao and Wang Liting to face Lu Wu together, summoning their beasts and naming their magic elements.
• Zheng Bingxiao’s Rock Demon Warrior blocked Lu Wu’s fireball, but Wang Qingshan’s lightning struck only Lu Wu’s afterimage.
• Lu Wu used Drifting Shadow to flank the group and cast Blazing Fist: Sky Breaker at Chen Tao.
• Chen Tao raised a Rock Barrier: Stone Shield, and Lu Wu’s Fierce Fist shattered the rubble wall before crashing into the shield.

Lu Wu defeated Wang Qingshan and Chen Tao’s coordinated team, then continued fighting until forty freshmen had entered the arena. Exhausted and bloodied, he lay on the field, laughing and demanding more opponents.

• Chen Tao’s cracked stone shield shattered, and Wang Qingshan sent purple lightning at Lu Wu while Wang Liting’s Bone Gnawing Demon struck him down.
• Lu Wu rose despite his injuries and summoned a tornado that swept up the Bone Gnawing Demon and Rock Demon Warrior, forcing Wang Liting and Zheng Bingxiao to withdraw their beasts.
• Wang Qingshan and Chen Tao accepted defeat, and the stands cheered for Lu Wu as Dean Xiao called the next opponent.
• Lu Wu continued through the following battles, and by the time forty freshmen had fought, every Summoning System freshman except Mo Fan had been defeated.
• Lu Wu lay exhausted and bloodied in the arena, then laughed and called for more opponents.

After Lu Wu defeated more than forty Intermediate Mages, Dean Xiao praised his growth and tactical thinking as Mo Fan stepped forward to challenge him. Lu Wu entered the Summoning Plane and imprinted a Golden-Eyed Tiger, preparing it to fight Mo Fan’s Ghost Wolf Beast.

• Dean Xiao refused to have Lu Wu treated and explained that Lu Wu’s ability to learn and adapt in battle was the key to his victories.
• Mo Fan entered the arena, summoned his advanced-stage Ghost Wolf Beast, and vowed to fight Lu Wu with everything he had.
• Xu Zhaoting watched Mo Fan and Lu Wu and resolved to devote himself to cultivation so he could protect his loved ones.
• Lu Wu opened a rift to the Summoning Plane and searched for a beast to fight Mo Fan’s Ghost Wolf Beast.
• Lu Wu found a Servant Level Advanced Stage Golden-Eyed Tiger and sent a mental imprint toward it.

Lu Wu revealed his summoning system and called a Golden-Eyed Tiger, then battled Mo Fan with fire and wind while their summoned beasts fought separately. The match reached a tense pause as Lu Wu announced he had enough mana for one final attack.

• Lu Wu tempted the Golden-Eyed Tiger with promises of fine food, established a spiritual brand, and summoned it.
• Wang Qingshan, Dean Xiao, and Jiang Yunming realized Lu Wu had displayed a third element, while Mo Fan prepared for the fight.
• Mo Fan sent the Ghost Wolf Beast to draw the Golden-Eyed Tiger away, and the two mages began trading fire and lightning spells.
• Lu Wu and Mo Fan exchanged intermediate spells, damaging the arena as they dodged each other's attacks.
• Lu Wu's Fierce Fist broke through Mo Fan's, singeing him, before Lu Wu said he had little mana left and called for one last attack.