Chapter Summaries

Lu Ling and Lina reconciled after he promised to be her partner, and they discovered that physical contact with him rapidly strengthened her. A week later, the couple strolled through Cairo while their elements continued to improve.

• Lina accused Lu Ling of mistreating her, then calmed down when he said he would be her partner.
• Lu Ling and Lina exchanged names, and Lina apologized for underestimating him after realizing his power was strengthening her.
• Lina pinned Lu Ling and initiated more intimate contact after discovering its benefits.
• A week later, Lu Ling and Lina walked hand in hand through Cairo, where Lina asked him to buy her a doughnut.
• Lu Ling's Chaos and Space Elements reached the Super Level, his Sound Element reached Intermediate Level 3, and Lina began learning Dimensional Element magic.

Lu Ling brought Lina to the Sunset Temple, where he collected a Corrosive Evil Eye and searched the snake people's territory for Apas. He located her, but the chapter ended before they met.

• Lu Ling and Lina shared doughnuts while wandering through Cairo City, then headed toward the Sunset Temple to find Apas.
• Lu Ling explained that the Sunset Temple was an abandoned palace where hunters died mysteriously, and Lina sensed the dark energy there but refused to use it.
• Lu Ling detected the Corrosive Evil Eye at the temple entrance and used Instantaneous Movement to take himself and Lina inside.
• Lina sensed the Corrosive Evil Eye's deadly effect, and Lu Ling collected it in his portable space.
• Lu Ling used his mental domain and Sound Element sensing to survey the snake people's patrols and found Apas.

Lu Ling rescued Apas from the ruins, gave her clothes, and unexpectedly contracted her. Apas discovered the contract had made her his slave and could not refuse or resist him.

• Apas pretended to be a helpless human girl abandoned by a hunter team, while Lu Ling recognized that she was hiding her identity.
• Lu Ling caught Apas, realized she had been hiding because she lacked proper clothes, and gave her a dress.
• Lu Ling washed Apas with water and helped her put on the dress, then learned her name was Apas.
• Lu Ling placed his hand on Apas's head and contracted her before she could refuse.
• Apas revealed her Medusa eyes and angrily demanded to know what Lu Ling had done to her.
• Shen Xi explained that Lu Ling's immense spiritual power and evolved contract had made it an overbearing slave contract.

Lu Ling revealed his Emperor-level power to Apas and offered to help her claim the Scorpion Empire after killing Khufu. Apas accepted her new role as his Contract Beast but chose to return for her sisters once she was stronger.

• Lu Ling teased Apas after contracting her, and Apas realized he had known her identity and targeted her from the start.
• Lu Ling told Apas that Khufu was dead and revealed his Emperor-level aura, shocking her.
• Lu Ling offered to help Apas kill her two elder sisters and rule the Scorpion Empire, but she decided to wait until she was stronger.
• Apas accepted Lu Ling as her backer, while Lina asked about Apas's age and joked about Lu Ling eating her.
• Apas watched Lu Ling and Lina's strange exchange and wondered what kind of creature Lina was.

Lu Ling accepted Dean Xiao’s request to mentor Pearl Academy’s Alps exchange group and met the students at the foot of the mountains. He arrived with Apas, then reunited with Mo Fan and Zhao Manyan, who were surprised to learn he would lead their group.

• Lu Ling decided to leave Egypt and accepted Dean Xiao’s request to serve as a mentor for the Alps trip.
• Lu Ling brought Apas to the snowy foothills, sent her back to the Spirit Realm when she complained about the cold, and waited for the group.
• Mo Fan and Zhao Manyan arrived with the Pearl Academy students and greeted Lu Ling.
• Lu Ling revealed that he was the group’s mentor, shocking Mo Fan and Zhao Manyan.
• Professor Li introduced Lu Ling to the students, who recognized him as the famous World College Tournament winner.

Lu Ling and the Pearl Academy group arrived at Alps Academy, where the normally arrogant school treated them with unusual courtesy because Lu Ling was the Lord of Spirit City. Dean Perry welcomed Lu Ling as a potential investor, but Lu Ling insisted he was visiting as Pearl Academy’s representative.

• Professor Li explained that male students usually had to wear tracking bracelets at Alps Academy, but the guides did not give them any.
• Sheryl and Edith greeted the visitors politely, surprising the professors with their uncharacteristic friendliness.
• Lu Ling used Mind Eyes to read Sheryl and Edith’s thoughts and realized Alps Academy had an objective involving him.
• Dean Perry and a gathering of Alps Academy teachers and students welcomed Lu Ling as the Lord of Spirit City.
• Zhao Manyan explained to Mo Fan that Spirit City was wealthy, connected to major families, and had deployed powerful creatures to defend the coast.
• Lu Ling inferred that Alps Academy wanted Spirit City’s investment and told Dean Perry he was there as a teacher representing Pearl Academy.

Lu Ling visited Alps Academy, where Blanche guided him to Faelun Waterfall. He passed through the waterfall and entered a cavern, where he encountered Heidi and startled her with a disguised voice.

• Dean Perry welcomed Lu Ling and Pearl Academy, then asked Blanche to show Lu Ling around.
• Blanche guided Lu Ling through the academy, and he recognized her as a Super Level mage in four elements.
• Blanche explained that Faelun Waterfall could train a mage's mind, and Lu Ling chose to enter it.
• Lu Ling passed through the waterfall unharmed and used dimensional power to imitate Qingluo's voice.
• Heidi sensed Lu Ling, wrapped herself in a rug, and demanded to know who had entered.

Lu Ling pranked Heidi after finding her naked in a cavern, then reunited with Blanche and continued touring Alps Academy. He asked Blanche whether she knew of any earth-shattering events in the Alps over the past twenty years, leaving her about to answer.

• Lu Ling pretended to be a timid exchange student and implied Heidi had a habit of staying naked, then left her a dress and teleported away.
• Heidi realized Lu Ling's Instantaneous Movement had been impossible for her to sense and suspected he had terrifying cultivation.
• Lu Ling returned to Blanche and lied that he had sensed someone cultivating but had not disturbed her.
• Blanche identified the person as her student Heidi, and Lu Ling and Blanche continued touring Alps Academy as evening approached.
• Lu Ling asked Blanche about earth-shattering events in the Alps over the past twenty years, and she began to consider his question.

Lu Ling searched the Alps for the place where his master had found and raised him, uncovering evidence that Uriel’s Fire Element Forbidden Curse had struck there. After finding his master’s blood beneath the ice, Lu Ling carved out a vast chamber and Shen Xi sensed signs of life nearby.

• Lu Ling learned from Blanche that Uriel had pursued a witch in the Alps twenty years earlier.
• Lu Ling found traces of Uriel’s Fire Element Forbidden Curse in an ice cavern and searched for the ice lotus platform where he had been born.
• Netherworld sensed a familiar aura beneath the ice, and Lu Ling excavated a blood-red ice crystal left by his master.
• Lu Ling used Li Fire Domain to melt open a hundred-meter chamber beneath the glacier.
• Shen Xi sensed an aura of life in a particular direction.

Lu Ling found Snow Woman, a sleeping ice elemental holy spirit, beneath the Alps and contracted her. After Shen Xi taught Snow Woman to speak, Lu Ling introduced himself as her master and invited her to see the outside world.

• Lu Ling melted through the glacier and discovered Snow Woman sleeping on an ice lotus platform in a sealed chamber.
• Shen Xi identified her as an ice elemental holy spirit and named her Snow Woman, while Lina and Apas rebuked Lu Ling for calling her a future Contract Beast.
• Lu Ling sensed that Snow Woman was already at Monarch Level and used contract magic to awaken her.
• Shen Xi gave Snow Woman a crash course in speech, then pulled Netherworld into the Spirit Realm after Netherworld pressed her to repeat her smug little hmph.
• Lu Ling told Snow Woman that he was her master, and she accepted the title without resistance.
• Lu Ling invited Snow Woman to leave the glacier and see the outside world, and she agreed to follow him.

Lu Ling encountered Edith, a Parthenon agent hiding at Alps Academy, and used his Mind Eyes to uncover her role in concealing the truth behind Yulai’s death. He learned that Merola gave Edith her orders and decided to take her to the Parthenon, while promising to expose the truth soon.

• Lu Ling reflected on the ice lotus dais and decided that his master, rather than his origins, was what made a place home.
• Lu Ling confronted Edith as she prepared to commit violence, then took her into the Spirit Realm.
• Lu Ling used his Mind Eyes to discover that Edith worked for the Parthenon and was concealing its role in Yulai’s death.
• Edith revealed that Merola passed her orders, and Lu Ling decided to bring her to meet Merola and Yi Zhisha.
• Lu Ling pressured Edith into obeying him and removed her nun’s habit.

After disposing of Edith’s handiwork, Lu Ling wandered around Alps Academy and met Aimeila in Roa Garden, where he advised her on the soil beneath her snow lavender design. He then confronted Heidi, revealed that he was a man, and stopped her magic with Mind Shock, leaving her unable to cast even a Beginner Magic spell.

• Lu Ling told Edith to stay in bed and cleaned up the evidence of her handiwork before strolling around the academy.
• Lu Ling met Aimeila in Roa Garden and recognized that she was using snow lavender to depict Alps Academy’s crest.
• Lu Ling told Aimeila that she needed to replace the soil in a bare patch, and she hurried off after realizing something about Roa Garden’s history.
• Heidi confronted Lu Ling to defend herself, then realized he was the man who had tricked her the previous day.
• Heidi tried to attack Lu Ling with magic, but he repeatedly dispersed her Star Constellation with Mind Shock, preventing her from casting even a Beginner Magic spell.

Lu Ling revealed that Roa Garden’s soil had been replaced twelve years earlier, uncovering the truth behind a tragedy connected to Yulai. He left with Blanche and Heidi for breakfast, where Blanche offered him meat after noticing the academy had prepared none.

• Heidi asked Lu Ling his name, and Blanche arrived to question him about the soil in Roa Garden.
• Blanche introduced Lu Ling to Heidi as Spirit City’s lord and a Super Level competitor of their age.
• A Plant Element mage examined Roa Garden and confirmed that its soil had been replaced twelve years earlier.
• Perry thanked Lu Ling for uncovering the truth, and Lu Ling told Blanche that he had met Yulai’s father and had sought the truth deliberately.
• Blanche took Lu Ling to the dining hall for breakfast, and Heidi followed after claiming she had not eaten enough.
• Blanche offered Lu Ling some meat after realizing that Alps Academy had not prepared any for him.

Lu Ling visited Alps Academy, where Blanche appealed for his investment in the school’s orphan program, and he considered starting an orphanage of his own. At Yulai’s grave, the Nine Nether Queen traced her soul to Red Demon Yi Qiu in China, and Lu Ling left through a Gate of Space, promising to return to the academy.

• Lu Ling told Blanche he would consider investing in Alps Academy after she explained the school’s growing need to support orphans.
• Lu Ling asked Blanche and Heidi to take him to Yulai’s grave near the Holy Judgment Court.
• The Nine Nether Queen used the Soul-Chasing Demon Art and found that Yi Qiu had taken Yulai’s soul to China.
• Lu Ling left flowers at Yulai’s grave but kept the truth about her soul from Blanche and Heidi.
• Lu Ling said he would return in a couple of days, then departed through a Gate of Space, astonishing Blanche and Heidi.

Lu Ling tracked Yi Qiu to the Qinling Mountains and killed the Red Demon after recovering Yulai's and Qin Zhan's souls from him. With Yi Qiu destroyed, Lu Ling turned to strengthening the Nine Nether Queen as she approached Emperor-level.

• The Nine Nether Queen sensed Yi Qiu in the Qinling Mountains, and Lu Ling flew there to find him.
• Lu Ling used the Divine Eye of Space and Time to seize Yi Qiu and bring him into the sky, where he revealed himself as a Supreme Monarch-level Red Demon.
• Lu Ling used White, elemental, and Mind magic to torture Yi Qiu and uncover his memories.
• Lu Ling controlled Yi Qiu and released Yulai's and Qin Zhan's souls, then sealed them in the Spirit Realm.
• Lu Ling destroyed Yi Qiu's body and soul with Light and Fire spells, ending the Red Demon and removing Mo Fan's chance to ascend to Emperor through his Demon Element.
• Lu Ling promised to prioritize Monarch Level Soul Essences for the Nine Nether Queen so she could reach Emperor-level sooner.

Lu Ling told Mochizuki Chiharu that he had killed Red Demon Yi Qiu and promised to take her back to the Twin Guardian Pavilion. He then returned to Alps Academy, where Edith submitted to him as Sheryl watched, while the Casa Clan arrived to a formal welcome.

• Lu Ling called Mochizuki Chiharu, told her he had killed Red Demon Yi Qiu, and said he would take her to the Twin Guardian Pavilion when he had time.
• Lu Ling examined Qin Zhan's and Yulai's souls, sealed them in the Spirit Realm, and teleported to Alps Academy.
• Sheryl confronted Lu Ling after he appeared in Edith's room, but Edith knelt before him and asked him to be gentle.
• Dean Perry welcomed the Casa Clan's delegation, while Blanche and Heidi felt uncomfortable under their appraising gazes.
• Heidi thought about Lu Ling and resolved to ask him for cultivation guidance when he returned.

Lu Ling returned to Alps Academy, where he met Aimeila and unexpectedly encountered Blanche without her veil in the falling snow. Blanche invited him inside, leaving their reunion poised to continue.

• Dean Perry introduced Blanche to Hekasa, but Blanche excused herself, and Hekasa’s group began a friendly sparring exchange with the others.
• Edith comforted the upset Sheryl, thanked Lu Ling for making her life easier, and stayed behind as he left.
• Lu Ling used his Sound Element perception and Mental Detection near Roa Garden, then met Aimeila and promised to see her flowers when they were finished.
• Blanche slept in, went outside to enjoy the snow, and found Lu Ling standing across the courtyard fence.
• Lu Ling greeted Blanche, and she blushed before inviting him inside for a while.

Lu Ling and Blanche shared roasted potatoes in a cabin as he helped her learn about wilderness survival. Their conversation led to Lu Ling kissing Blanche and pressing her down on the cushions, while she protested that they could not do this; the chapter ended with him kissing her again.

• Lu Ling roasted potatoes and offered Blanche seasonings, which she eagerly tried.
• Blanche asked Lu Ling to teach her basic survival skills after admitting she had only gone on one practical training trip.
• Lu Ling stroked Blanche's hair, lifted her chin, and kissed her; Blanche did not pull away.
• Lu Ling pushed Blanche down onto the cushions and kissed and touched her until she told him they could not do this.
• Lu Ling accused Blanche of inviting him into her bedroom with designs on him, then kissed her again as she protested.

Lu Ling and Blanche discussed his potential support for Alps Academy, and Lu Ling proposed that they establish a separate academy for orphans, with Blanche helping manage it. Blanche accepted the proposal tentatively, and the two ended the conversation together in the Spirit Realm.

• Blanche asked Lu Ling whether he had decided to invest in Alps Academy, and he urged her not to tie her worth to the school.
• Lu Ling noted that Dean Perry had invited the Casa Clan and said that investing in Alps Academy offered him no clear benefit.
• Lu Ling offered enough funding to support a thousand people cultivating to the intermediate level and proposed founding his own academy for orphans.
• Lu Ling asked Blanche to help manage the new academy, and she accepted the idea despite calling him a baddie.
• Blanche asked Lu Ling whether he liked her, then blushed and buried her face in his chest.

Lu Ling found Heidi at Alps Academy and spent several hours teaching her about magic at Feilun Falls. He then brought her into the Spirit Realm, confronted her about mistaking him for a woman, and forcibly kissed her.

• Lu Ling searched Alps Academy for Yan Qiu and encountered Heidi, who asked him for guidance with her magic.
• Lu Ling took Heidi to Feilun Falls, teased her about the embarrassing incident there, and explained that his spatial teleportation required a treasure comparable to a Forbidden Curse.
• Lu Ling demonstrated his Space, Sound, and Chaos magic for Heidi, who thanked him for the lesson.
• Lu Ling brought Heidi into the Spirit Realm and questioned her about treating him as a woman.
• Lu Ling offered to let Heidi try on his clothes, then forcibly kissed her.