Chapter Summaries

A mysterious girl with Blood Seed power escaped Uriel’s attack in the Alps, leaving him uncertain whether she had died. A year later in Bo City, Lu Ling lived under the care of a blonde master who finally allowed him to leave the house, provided he stayed alive.

• The girl discovered a child with a Blood Seed aura in an Alpine ice cavern as Uriel and Holy Judgment Mages caught up with her.
• The girl unleashed the Blood God against Uriel, and their powers clashed across the Alps before her aura vanished, leaving only a pool of blood.
• Uriel returned to the Holy Judgment Mages, who welcomed him to the Holy City, while he questioned whether the girl had escaped through Dimensional Magic.
• A year later, Lu Ling studied magic in a Bo City house where his blonde master had kept him confined.
• Lu Ling’s master decided to keep raising him and allowed him to go outside on the condition that he did not die.

Lu Ling explored Bo City after leaving his secluded home, then spent the next ten years hiding his extraordinary magical awakenings while growing close to Mu Ningxue. After Mu Ningxue awakened Ice magic, Lu Ling helped her manage the strain of using her mother’s ice crystals and left to return to Xin Xia.

• Lu Ling met Ye Chang in the mountain forest, learned he was in Bo City, and set out to find Mu Ningxue.
• Ten years later, Mu Ningxue celebrated awakening the Ice Element while Lu Ling watched the banquet with her from a hill.
• Lu Ling recalled that he had awakened eight different magic elements since gaining the Light Element eight years earlier, with his master concealing each phenomenon.
• Mu Ningxue asked about Lu Ling’s master and remembered how the master’s Demon Judgment Sword had protected Lu Ling from Mu Zhuoyun’s group.
• Lu Ling held Mu Ningxue’s hand, learned she had used the last ice crystal from her mother a month earlier, and told her to come to him if she felt cold.
• Lu Ling left to return to Xin Xia, while Mu Ningxue watched him go with concealed reluctance.

Lu Ling's annual awakening produced the rare Blessing Element, which his master warned him to conceal because of its connection to Ye Xin Xia and the Parthenon. He also asked about his mysterious origins and learned that his master had found him as a baby on an ice lotus dais in the Alps.

• Lu Ling returned to Ye Xin Xia and continued secretly trying to control the Parthenon Divine Soul within her, hoping she would regain the ability to stand.
• Ye Xin Xia's power triggered Lu Ling's annual awakening, and he gained the Blessing Element.
• Lu Ling's master identified the element as exclusive to the Parthenon Temple and warned him not to reveal or use it where the Temple might discover it.
• Lu Ling asked his master whether he had parents or was human, and she explained that she had found him on an ice lotus dais in the Alps and had once mistaken him for an Ice Element holy spirit.

Lu Ling learned that his master had suppressed his cultivation to contain his dangerous magic, then spent a year tempering himself before seeking a totem at Lanyang City. He bonded with the Vermilion Bird’s feathers and accepted the totem’s plea to protect it.

• Lu Ling vowed to grow strong enough to help his master, who admitted she was hiding from the Holy City and removed the shackles suppressing his cultivation.
• His master told Lu Ling to cultivate for a week while she observed him, and one year later he was exploring a water treatment plant in Lanyang City.
• Lu Ling used Fleeing Shadow to reach a Lightning Fire Altar and found the Vermilion Bird’s feathers, while sensing that an Earth Fire Pistil lay deeper underground.
• Lu Ling ignited the feathers with his crimson-gold flames, causing them to reveal a golden feather that flew into his mental world.
• The other feathers entered Lu Ling as well, and he sensed the totem’s message: protect the Vermilion Bird.

Lu Ling used the Vermilion Bird Vessel to accelerate his cultivation and eventually reached the fifth realm of spiritual power, allowing him to contact the Summoning Plane and contract a white dragon. A month later, he revealed the dragon during Pearl Academy’s special admissions assessment.

• Lu Ling considered how to gain access to Pearl Academy’s Three-Step Tower and decided to take things one step at a time.
• After half a year, Lu Ling reached the fifth realm of spiritual cultivation and successfully contacted the Summoning Plane.
• Lu Ling found a sleeping juvenile white dragon and persuaded her to fight alongside him by promising to help her grow faster.
• One month later, Lu Ling began his Pearl Academy special admissions assessment and summoned the white dragon onto the training grounds.

Lu Ling impressed Dean Xiao with his powerful pureblood dragon and numerous magical talents, then asked to earn Three-Step Tower cultivation time by winning the freshman Beast Fighting Competition. Dean Xiao agreed to seek him half a month of access if he held off two hundred freshmen, and Lu Ling ended by asking about Old Man Bao from the Azure Sky Hunter Agency.

• Lu Ling introduced Long Zhanye as a pureblood Heavenly Star White Dragon, astonishing Dean Xiao and the examiners.
• Dean Xiao assigned Lu Ling to the Summoning College after confirming that his Fire Element and Summoning System were at the Intermediate Level.
• Lu Ling demonstrated his Space and Chaos Elements and revealed his fifth-realm mental strength, prompting Dean Xiao to ask whether he was a Calamity Bringer.
• Lu Ling asked for access to the Three-Step Tower and proposed winning the Beast Fighting Competition; Dean Xiao offered to seek him half a month of cultivation time if he held off two hundred freshmen.
• Dean Xiao gave Lu Ling a mind-steadying magic artifact, and Lu Ling asked whether he knew Old Man Bao from the Azure Sky Hunter Agency.

Lu Ling joined the Azure Sky Hunter Agency as an unusually powerful mage and was paired with Ling Ling. A week later, Ling Ling investigated a club where a middle-aged man tried to entice her with a drink, but Lu Ling stepped in as the man prepared to follow her.

• Lu Ling showed Old Man Bao his four revealed magic elements and flying Summoned Beast, impressing him enough to earn a place at the agency.
• Old Man Bao introduced Ling Ling as Lu Ling's hunting partner, and Lu Ling proposed hunting a vampire to obtain a tooth.
• A week later, Ling Ling visited the North Country Club and complained to a middle-aged man that the bartender would not let her order an adult drink.
• The middle-aged man offered Ling Ling his drink, then watched her leave and decided to follow her.
• A white-haired youth approached the middle-aged man before he could follow Ling Ling.

Lu Ling confronted the vampires at the North Country Club and summoned Long Zhanye to destroy the venue and attack them. As the middle-aged vampire broke free and struck back, Lu Ling recognized him as an elder of the family and used Stasis.

• Lu Ling entered the bar, named Nie Dong as the person he sought, and identified the middle-aged vampire as a suitable target when the man denied knowing him.
• Lu Ling summoned Long Zhanye, who emerged through a Dimensional Gate and demolished the club while pinning the middle-aged vampire beneath her foot.
• Lu Ling used enhanced Holy Light to burn the vampires and block their Shadow Element abilities as Long Zhanye battered several of them.
• The middle-aged vampire unleashed his blood energy, escaped Long Zhanye's grip, and attacked Lu Ling with Blood Demon Sickle.
• The other vampires tried to flee, but the elder forced them to turn back and attack Lu Ling; Lu Ling recognized the middle-aged vampire as the family's elder and cast Stasis.

Lu Ling defeated the vampire patriarch and his followers, then continued working with Ling Ling while planning to search for Totem Beasts. As Pearl Academy’s welcome day approached, Leng Qing arrived and introduced herself to Lu Ling.

• Lu Ling strengthened his spatial restraint, froze the vampires with icy chains, removed their Blood Fangs, and had Long Zhanye stomp them to death.
• Lu Ling burned the vampire corpses, collected their Remnant Souls, and gave Ling Ling two Blood Fangs worth about forty million at auction.
• At Jinyuan Apartment, Lu Ling considered using his knowledge to save Liu Xian, then spent his days cultivating and completing commissions with Ling Ling.
• Lu Ling told Ling Ling to stay on standby at Pearl Academy and asked her to help gather information about Totem Beasts.
• Leng Qing arrived at the apartment, and Ling Ling identified her as her older sister.

Lu Ling arrived at the Beast Fighting Competition as the Summoning System’s only new student and challenged the other schools to face him. He summoned the formidable Heavenly Star White Dragon, leaving the crowd frightened as Dean Xiao offered all Intermediate Mages the chance to fight it together.

• Jiang Yunming told Lu Ling that he was the Summoning System’s only new student and urged him to stay safe, but Lu Ling eagerly accepted the challenge.
• Dean Xiao explained that the Summoning System had to withstand one hundred opponents to defend its resources, or two hundred to claim all the new students’ resources.
• Lu Ling entered the arena and taunted the crowd, saying he would accept teams of fifty.
• Lu Ling summoned Long Zhanye, whose immense white dragon form frightened the students and impressed the teachers.
• Dean Xiao identified the dragon as Warrior Level Advanced Stage and allowed all Intermediate Mages to fight it together in one battle.
• Lu Ling mocked the students for hesitating, and they shouted that they would fight.

Lu Ling defeated the Intermediate Mages who challenged his Heavenly Star White Dragon at the Beast Fighting Competition, then claimed the resources for every department. A week later, Dean Xiao awarded him fifteen days in the Three-Step Tower and advised him on how to use the cultivation time.

• More than forty Intermediate Mages attacked Long Zhanye, but the Heavenly Star White Dragon brushed off their spells and scattered them with her wings and roar.
• Three students ambushed Lu Ling with prepared spells, but he stopped their attacks with Space Rhythm, Time Lag, and threw them aside with Mind Control.
• The mages surrendered, and Lu Ling claimed the resources for every department before leaving the Green Fighting Pavilion.
• A week later, Lu Ling met Dean Xiao, who confirmed he had earned fifteen days in the Three-Step Tower and advised him to divide the time into three sessions.
• Dean Fu voiced concerns about Lu Ling to Dean Xiao, who said Lu Ling might be able to help Ding Yumian.

Lu Ling climbed to the fourth floor of the Three-Step Tower and used its concentrated elements to rapidly advance his magic systems. After every element reached Intermediate Level Two, the Vermilion Bird, Ice Crystal Bow, and Parthenon Divine Soul manifested in his mental world, and he awakened the Li Fire Domain.

• Lu Ling climbed alone to the fourth floor of the Three-Step Tower, where elemental concentration was 160 times higher than outside.
• Lu Ling cultivated his Summoning System, advancing it to Intermediate Level and then spending the rest of the day unsuccessfully trying to reach the Advanced Level.
• Over the next four days, Lu Ling raised his other five Basic Level Three systems to Intermediate Level.
• Lu Ling pushed his Light Element to Intermediate Level Two on the final day, completing his goal of bringing every element to that level.
• Lu Ling's mental world shook as the Vermilion Bird, Ice Crystal Bow, and Parthenon Divine Soul entered it and strengthened his magic systems.
• Lu Ling opened his eyes with crimson-gold firelight and released the Li Fire Domain, which let him see the fire elements in the Three-Step Tower.

Lu Ling returned to Bo City after two years away and discovered that his transformed Shadow Element shared the same power as his master’s. After his master examined his spiritual world and warned him to hide his unusual abilities, he reunited with Ye Xin Xia at the Mu Family Manor.

• Lu Ling returned to his old home in Bo City and found his master awake after sleeping for two years.
• At his master's request, Lu Ling cast his blood-colored Shadow magic, and she revealed that it was the same power only she could use.
• Lu Ling told his master how he had awakened the ability, and she inspected his spiritual world, recognizing the magic tool, totem fire, and Parthenon Divine Soul within it.
• His master concluded that Lu Ling could learn powers he had encountered and warned him not to reveal his extraordinary talent before reaching the Forbidden Curse level.
• Lu Ling visited Ye Xin Xia at the Mu Family Manor, and she joyfully threw herself into his arms when she realized he had returned.

After reuniting with Ye Xin Xia at Mu-Style Manor, Lu Ling left to investigate the coming rain that would bring disaster to Bo City. When the rain began, he found Wu Ku casting the Frenzy Spring storm and attacked him with Long Zhanye and the Heavenly Star White Dragon.

• Lu Ling reunited with Ye Xin Xia, promised to heal her legs, and carried her around Mu-Style Manor.
• Mu Zhuoyun told Lu Ling that Mu Ningxue would return for a magic duel, but Lu Ling left before she came back.
• Mo Fan defeated Yu Ang and won the right to cultivate at the Earth Sacred Spring while Lu Ling searched the hills around Bo City for the rain's mastermind.
• When the strange rain began, Lu Ling located Wu Ku casting the storm on a hill outside Bo City.
• Lu Ling summoned the Heavenly Star White Dragon and used Giant Shadow Nail and Time Lag to immobilize Wu Ku.
• Lu Ling formed a Chaos magic blade and cut off the hand Wu Ku used to hold his water prayer beads.

Lu Ling killed Wu Ku by redirecting Long Zhanye’s dragon breath through a Chaos Vortex, then absorbed the Water Element Calamity and awakened water magic. He flew to confront the Winged Azure Wolf, freezing it with an ice arrow as Mu Ningxue sensed his presence.

• Lu Ling strengthened Long Zhanye’s dragon breath, then used Chaos Domain and Chaos Vortex to bypass Wu Ku’s water-prayer-bead barrier and kill him.
• Lu Ling picked up Wu Ku’s scorched prayer beads, awakened the Water Element Calamity, and absorbed the water elements sustaining the rain.
• Lu Ling and Long Zhanye flew toward the Winged Azure Wolf, which had arrived at the Yinmao Building.
• Lu Ling formed an Ice Crystal Bow and struck the Winged Azure Wolf with an arrow made from condensed water, freezing the beast and the Yinmao Building.
• Mu Ningxue sensed the ice attack, felt the cold in her body disappear, and wondered whether Lu Ling had returned.

Lu Ling helped defeat the Winged Azure Wolf and the Black Vatican during Bo City’s crisis, then returned to the Mu Family Manor and reunited with Mu Ningxue and Ye Xin Xia. He revealed that he had been bearing the cold side effects of Mu Ningxue’s Ice Bow, leaving her deeply moved.

• Lu Ling and Long Zhanye killed the frozen Winged Azure Wolf with the Heavenly Star White Dragon’s breath.
• Lu Ling drove off nearby Demon Beasts, killed several Black Vatican members, and landed at the Mu Family Manor after the military could handle the remaining threat.
• Lu Ling told Mu Zhuoyun’s gathered family that the Demon Beasts had mostly been killed and that they could return inside.
• Zhan Kong thanked Lu Ling for saving Bo City, and Lu Ling handed over the corpses of Black Vatican members, including Yu Ang and Bai Yang.
• Lu Ling reunited with Mu Ningxue and Ye Xin Xia, then told Mu Ningxue he had been bearing the cold from her Ice Bow.

Lu Ling reunited with Mu Ningxue, reassured her with a kiss, and left the blonde girl’s mountain home after she gave him more instruction and vanished with the house. Half a month later, he returned to Magic City with Ye Xin Xia and showed Dean Xiao that he had awakened a Water Element Calamity and could control other people’s powers.

• Mu Ningxue admitted she was jealous of Ye Xin Xia, and Lu Ling kissed her until she felt reassured.
• Lu Ling agreed to visit Ye Xin Xia and said he would return to Pearl Academy with her.
• The blonde girl taught Lu Ling more, said goodbye, and vanished with the little Western-style house after forming a silver-lit hand seal.
• Half a month later, Lu Ling brought Ye Xin Xia to his rented apartment in Magic City and went to see Dean Xiao about using the Three-Step Tower.
• Lu Ling showed Dean Xiao his Water Element domain and explained that he could control unstable power, including other people’s.

Lu Ling persuaded Dean Xiao to help him meet Ding Yumian and transferred to the Fire Institute. During challenge week, he challenged Ding Yumian, ranked 76th, from his own rank of 1403rd.

• Lu Ling told Dean Xiao he could identify Ding Yumian as a fellow calamity survivor if he touched her, then asked to transfer to the Fire Element so he could fight her.
• Three weeks later, Lu Ling arrived at the Fire Institute's challenge week, where Director Wei Rong presided over the matches.
• Wei Rong recognized Lu Ling as the transfer student who had missed roll call and reacted angrily to his late arrival.
• Lu Ling approached Wei Rong and chose Ding Yumian as his opponent, confirming the challenge despite Wei Rong's doubts.
• Wei Rong announced that Lu Ling, ranked 1403rd, would challenge Ding Yumian, ranked 76th.

Lu Ling faced Ding Yumian in a ranking challenge at Pearl Academy, where she used psychic magic to interrupt his spellcasting and then struck with Fierce Fist, Groundbreak. As her flames erupted beneath him, Lu Ling calmly began to respond with Li Fire.

• Wei Rong started the challenge between Lu Ling and Ding Yumian, whose ranking was far higher than Lu Ling's.
• Lu Ling welcomed Ding Yumian and told her she should smile more, while she insisted they take the battle seriously.
• Ding Yumian repeatedly used Mind Shock to disrupt Lu Ling's Fire Element Star Map as he continued tracing it.
• Ding Yumian intensified her Mind Shock, completed her Fire Element Star Map, and unleashed Fierce Fist, Groundbreak beneath Lu Ling.
• Lu Ling remained calm in the spreading flames and began casting Li Fire.

Lu Ling defeated Ding Yumian in the arena by enduring her Groundbreak and overpowering her with close-range fire magic, then shielded her from the blast. Afterward, Ding Yumian thanked him and smiled, while Lu Ling sensed the immense mental power of her Psychic Element Calamity Survivor ability.

• Ding Yumian struck Lu Ling with Groundbreak, but he emerged unharmed and charged at her through the flames.
• Ding Yumian cast Mind Shock, but Lu Ling resisted it, reached her, and seized her by the throat.
• Lu Ling slammed Ding Yumian into the arena and unleashed Heavenly Flame Funeral, then used golden light shields to protect them from the fire.
• Lu Ling apologized, covered Ding Yumian with his jacket, and she thanked him for honoring his promise and protecting her.
• Lu Ling sensed Ding Yumian's vast mental power as the next spell, Fierce Wave, Flood Roll, was called.