Recaps

At her ability awakening ceremony, Xu Jintang discovered that her rare domain ability could detect and slow targets, but the instructor judged it average and suited to support work. As the ceremony continued, another student awakened the prestigious Vermilion Bird Token, leaving Xu Jintang’s future uncertain.

• Xu Jintang, a transmigrated student who had worked hard to excel at Dawn Junior Academy, took part in the age-fifteen ability awakening ceremony.
• The energy stone revealed that Xu Jintang had awakened a domain-type ability, but its strength registered as pale purple.
• Xu Jintang activated her domain and sensed everything within five meters, including through obstacles; the guide determined that it slowed targets no stronger than her.
• The guide told Xu Jintang that her ability was fairly average and best suited to a support role, and Jiang Lu comforted her.
• The guide reacted with surprise when Song Tianqi awakened the Vermilion Bird Token, an ability ranked among the interstellar top hundred.

Xu Jintang collected her new ability-user subsidy and accepted a rush mission to gather Snow Spirit Grass in Blizzard Forest. After helping Xiao Yiming’s group find a Blizzard Ape colony, she sensed a Phantom Cat Demon and used Domain Slow to hinder its attack, leaving the beast suspended in mid-pounce.

• Song Tianqi awakened the Vermilion Bird Token and was taken to a higher star region to develop his ability.
• Xu Jintang collected a monthly subsidy of fifteen hundred star coins and received a spatial bracelet from the administrative bureau.
• Xu Jintang accepted a mission to gather ten Snow Spirit Grass plants and traveled to Blizzard Forest.
• Xu Jintang gave Xiao Yiming directions to the Blizzard Ape colony and accepted a level-two water-attribute defensive inscription in return.
• After completing her gathering mission, Xu Jintang sensed a Phantom Cat Demon and warned Xiao Yiming and his teammates of its location.
• The Phantom Cat Demon leaped at Xu Jintang, but she activated Domain Slow and slowed its movements.

Xu Jintang encountered the Ice Soul Dragon, who forced a transformation on her and moved into her sea of consciousness to escape hunters. After waking, she demanded to know what she would gain, and the dragon explained that its bones and flesh would improve her physique as she grew stronger.

• Xu Jintang left the forest outskirts after parting ways with Xiao Yiming and examined the defensive Inscription Talisman he had given her.
• An enormous Ice Soul Dragon appeared and offered to live in her sea of consciousness in exchange for helping her grow stronger.
• Before Xu Jintang could agree, the Ice Soul Dragon entered her body and painfully remade her with its bones, flesh, blood, and scales.
• The Ice Soul Dragon settled in Xu Jintang's sea of consciousness, concealing himself from the humans hunting him, while Xu Jintang fell asleep.
• After Xu Jintang woke and asked what she would gain, the Ice Soul Dragon explained that his remains would continually improve her physique as she trained.

Xu Jintang learned that the Ice Soul Dragon had awakened a star-attribute ability in her, which could let her become an inscriptionist, and she bought a secondhand inscription pen to try making a talisman. The chapter ended as she channeled her star-attribute mental power into the pen and prepared to trace a formation.

• The Ice Soul Dragon explained that it had added an ice attribute to Xu Jintang’s domain ability and awakened her second, star-attribute ability, whose manifestation was a set of scales.
• The Ice Soul Dragon told Xu Jintang that it now existed as her ice ability, warned her to hide its presence, and revealed that her body had been transformed into a heavenly treasure.
• Xu Jintang delivered ten stalks of Snow Spirit Grass to an inscriptionist at the Inscriptionist Association just before his assessment deadline and received a thousand star coins.
• Xu Jintang researched inscriptionists, then bought a secondhand inscription pen and ten raw stones at the secondhand market for 150 star coins.
• Back in her dorm room, Xu Jintang asked the Ice Soul Dragon for help and began channeling her star-attribute mental power into the inscription pen.

Xu Jintang learned to make defensive and healing inscriptions, while the Ice Soul Dragon explained that her powerful abilities exceeded her current control. At school, she reassured Jiang Lu about her future and planned winter training with the dragon, but Xu Bohan challenged her position as practical combat class representative.

• Xu Jintang successfully made a defensive inscription, then crafted four more and improved her speed before exhausting her mental power.
• The Ice Soul Dragon told Xu Jintang that inscription-making had strengthened her Scales Ability, but she was not yet strong enough to summon its manifestation or fully control her abilities.
• After staying up late making healing inscriptions, Xu Jintang fell asleep in class, and Jiang Lu urged her to prepare for the joint entrance examination.
• Xu Jintang asked Jiang Lu about an ability manifested as scales, then declined the academy's winter training after the Ice Soul Dragon offered to take her to Blizzard Forest.
• Xu Bohan questioned whether Xu Jintang should remain practical combat class representative because she had awakened a support ability.

Xu Jintang tested the improvements from the dragon bone and dragon blood by accepting Xu Bohan’s challenge in the arena. She defeated him with her Domain Slow ability and enhanced combat skills, while Huang Binhan explained how she had won.

• Xu Bohan challenged Xu Jintang to a spar, and Huang Binhan approved the duel.
• Xu Jintang slowed Xu Bohan with her domain and tracked his movements, but he used mental power to break free.
• Xu Bohan charged again, and Xu Jintang strengthened her domain, moved behind him, and restrained him.
• Huang Binhan declared Xu Jintang the winner and explained that Xu Bohan had lost because he lowered his guard after breaking through her domain.
• Huang Binhan taught the class practical techniques for using abilities in combat.

Xu Jintang earned money selling her first inscriptions, bought more raw stones, and practiced carving through the night. While Dawn Academy began its winter special training, she went to Blizzard Forest with the Ice Soul Dragon to learn how her Domain of Ice could counter a Flowing Fire Lizard.

• Xu Jintang sold eight level-one inscriptions for sixteen hundred star coins and decided to develop her inscription-making skills while keeping her abilities secret.
• Xu Jintang bought all fifty-eight of the stall owner's attribute-free raw stones, then returned to her dorm and practiced making defense and attack inscriptions late into the night.
• Jiang Lu reprimanded Xu Jintang for sleeping in class and urged her to join Huang Binhan's winter special training, but Xu Jintang declined and promised a surprise after the break.
• Huang Binhan began training the students who had joined, while Xu Bohan noticed Xu Jintang was absent and wondered what she was doing.
• At Blizzard Forest, the Ice Soul Dragon explained that Xu Jintang's faint ice attribute could counter a Flowing Fire Lizard, and Xu Jintang understood that his divine status made even a trace of her ice powerful.

Xu Jintang spent a month training against Flowing Fire Lizards in Blizzard Forest and grew much stronger. After her special training ended, she faced a Jade Purity Snow Wolf but was interrupted when Huang Binhan and the other students arrived, and he reprimanded her for coming alone.

• The Ice Soul Dragon forced Flowing Fire Lizards from their caves so Xu Jintang could practice, and she learned to defeat them with increasing speed.
• After a month, Xu Jintang ended her training and prepared for Dawn Academy’s new-semester assessment, hoping to surprise her homeroom teacher.
• A peak first-tier Jade Purity Snow Wolf attacked Xu Jintang, who used her Domain of Ice and an attack inscription to fight it.
• As Xu Jintang prepared another Domain of Ice attack, a golden, red-tasseled spear struck the snow wolf and killed it.
• Song Duoduo called Xu Jintang over to Huang Binhan and the winter-break training group, and Huang Binhan scolded her for entering the forest alone.

Xu Jintang completed winter break combat training, sold some of her demonic beast cores, and returned to Dawn Academy as rumors spread about Song Tianqi and visiting student Jiang Shiyi. After deciding to prepare for an application to Leikdasi Military Academy, she welcomed Jiang Shiyi to class as the new semester began.

• Xu Jintang joined Huang Binhan's team for forest training, and Song Duoduo delivered the fatal blow to a tier-one Phantom Cat Demon.
• Xu Bohan's team killed three tier-one demonic beasts, and Huang Binhan announced that students had two days to rest before the new semester.
• Xu Jintang sold twenty-five tier-one Flowing Fire Lizard cores at a Have You Earned Money? branch for 750 star coins.
• Song Duoduo told Xu Jintang that Song Tianqi was returning to Dawn Academy and that Jiang Shiyi from Leikdasi Military Academy had come with him.
• Xu Jintang met Jiang Shiyi when she moved into the neighboring dorm room and decided to prepare to apply to Leikdasi Military Academy.
• Jiang Lu introduced Jiang Shiyi as a visiting student who would attend classes but not take part in academy assessments, and Xu Jintang applauded her welcome.

Xu Jintang formed a three-person assessment team with Song Duoduo and Song Tianqi, then faced Yao Wenna’s attempt to recruit Song Tianqi and challenge their abilities. After rumors spread about their team, the class began practical combat training in simulated battle pods, with the battlefield settings being configured.

• Jiang Lu announced that the school assessment would be three-person arena battles, and Xu Jintang teamed up with Song Duoduo and Song Tianqi.
• Song Tianqi said Jiang Shiyi was a peak third-tier ability user sent to train with him as punishment, and the Ice Soul Dragon urged Xu Jintang to prepare for Leikdasi Military Academy.
• Yao Wenna invited Song Tianqi to join her team, but he refused and stood by Xu Jintang and Song Duoduo; Xu Jintang said they would compete for first place.
• Rumors spread that Xu Jintang had teamed up with Song Tianqi to improve her chances, and Song Duoduo complained that people were overlooking her.
• Huang Binhan explained the combat simulation pods and confirmed they could simulate battles with demonic beasts up to the fourth tier without risking real injuries or consuming real weapons and inscriptions.
• Huang Binhan configured the simulated battlefield environment and demonic beast level for the practical combat class.

Xu Jintang, Song Tianqi, and Song Duoduo tested their abilities as a team in a simulated battlefield and quickly killed a tier-one Grass Vine Snake. Their success triggered the assessment’s exit condition, astonishing Huang Binhan and setting a new academy record.

• Xu Jintang, Song Tianqi, and Song Duoduo entered the simulated battlefield and explained their abilities to one another.
• Xu Jintang detected a hidden Grass Vine Snake, while Song Duoduo’s datura ability disrupted it and Domain Slow hindered its escape.
• Song Tianqi attacked with nine crimson flames, and the team killed the Grass Vine Snake in under two minutes.
• A golden beam transported the three students out of the simulation after they completed the mission.
• Huang Binhan learned that the team had killed a tier-one demonic beast in less than five minutes, breaking the academy record.

Song Tianqi’s team and Xu Bohan’s team completed their simulated combat missions early and went to the cafeteria, where they encountered Jiang Shiyi. After Jiang Shiyi downplayed their victory, Xu Jintang suggested that their group try hunting a tier-two demonic beast next time.

• Song Tianqi, Song Duoduo, and Xu Jintang finished their mission by defeating a tier-one demonic beast and left the simulation early.
• Xu Bohan’s team also completed its mission, while other teams were sent back into the battlefield to continue theirs.
• Xu Jintang’s group went to the cafeteria, and Song Tianqi invited Jiang Shiyi to join them.
• Jiang Shiyi met Xu Bohan’s team at the cafeteria entrance, gave Xu Bohan’s questions about practical combat class brief answers, and went to sit with Xu Jintang’s group.
• Song Tianqi said his team had defeated a tier-one Grass Vine Snake in under two minutes, and Jiang Shiyi dismissed the achievement as expected against simulated beasts.
• Xu Jintang suggested that their group try hunting a tier-two demonic beast next time, making Song Tianqi worry that it might be too strong.

Xu Jintang’s team drew Class Two’s team for the first elimination match of Dawn Academy’s assessment, while Jiang Lu and Jiang Zhongtian argued over Xu Jintang’s support ability. The teams entered the arena and introduced themselves as the match was about to begin.

• Jiang Lu approved Xu Jintang’s suggestion to challenge second-tier demonic beasts, and students later heard that Xu Jintang’s and Xu Bohan’s teams had completed their tasks quickly.
• Xu Jintang submitted her team roster naming herself captain, with Song Tianqi and Song Duoduo as members, while teachers anticipated an exciting assessment.
• Xu Jintang learned from the Ice Soul Dragon that her unusually large sea of consciousness made cultivation slower but gave her greater mental power reserves.
• At the assessment draw, Xu Jintang drew number one and learned that her team would face a Class Two team led by Xue Haoqiong.
• Jiang Lu and Jiang Zhongtian argued about Xu Jintang’s support ability as the two teams took their positions on the arena.
• Xue Haoqiong introduced himself, Xu Jintang, Song Tianqi, and Song Duoduo introduced themselves, and Huang Binhan leaped onto the arena.

Xu Jintang, Song Tianqi, and Song Duoduo defeated Xue Haoqiong’s team in their first arena match through Xu Jintang’s domain and Song Tianqi’s flames. Afterward, Jiang Lu praised them, and they left to rest and prepare for the next round.

• Huang Binhan explained the elimination match rules and started the fight between the two teams.
• Xue Haoqiong filled the arena with gray mist, but Xu Jintang used her domain to locate his team and rushed into the mist.
• Xu Jintang slowed Xue Haoqiong’s teammates and signaled Song Tianqi to attack, then pinned Xue Haoqiong and declared him out.
• Huang Binhan shielded Xue Haoqiong’s two teammates from Song Tianqi’s flames after they surrendered, and announced Xu Jintang’s team as the winners.
• Xue Haoqiong apologized to Jiang Zhongtian, who reassured him, while Xu Bohan and Yao Wenna watched with concern.
• Jiang Lu praised Xu Jintang’s team, and they left to rest and prepare for the next round.

Xu Jintang and her teammates celebrated their arena win, then trained in the simulated battlefield against second-tier demonic beasts. The chapter ended as they prepared to fight a group of Fierce Spirit Green Poison Scorpions in a rain-soaked cave.

• Song Duoduo told Xu Jintang that their homeroom teacher and Jiang Lu had long been rivals over a woman, and Jiang Shiyi promised the team an additional reward if they won the championship.
• Xu Jintang cultivated and found that her mental power had improved slightly, though the Ice Soul Dragon said reaching the second tier before the joint exam would be difficult.
• Xu Jintang, Song Duoduo, and Song Tianqi decided to train against second-tier demonic beasts after spotting Xu Bohan's team heading to the simulated battlefield room.
• The trio entered a rainy Blizzard Forest simulation and sought shelter in a cave after Xu Jintang sensed demonic beasts inside.
• Xu Jintang identified a second-tier Fierce Spirit Green Poison Scorpion leader and four first-tier underlings, then assigned Song Duoduo and Song Tianqi to help eliminate the underlings first.

Xu Jintang, Song Duoduo, and Song Tianqi defeated the tier-one Green Poison Scorpions, then faced the tier-two Fierce Spirit Green Poison Scorpion. With their control abilities ineffective against it, Song Tianqi began using the Vermilion Bird Token while Xu Jintang and Song Duoduo prepared to buy him time.

• Song Duoduo dazed the first Green Poison Scorpion with hallucinogenic pollen, and Song Tianqi killed it with his Crimson Flames of the Nine Heavens.
• Xu Jintang drew two Green Poison Scorpions away with her attack inscriptions and killed one with her dagger; Song Duoduo and Song Tianqi killed the other.
• The tier-two Fierce Spirit Green Poison Scorpion emerged, and its venomous needles forced the three to dodge as they began their attack.
• Song Duoduo warned that her ability and Xu Jintang's Domain Slow would not work on a higher-tier beast, while Song Tianqi said he needed time to use a trump card.
• Xu Jintang confirmed with the Ice Soul Dragon that she could hold the scorpion off for seven seconds, and Song Tianqi summoned the glowing Vermilion Bird Token.

Song Jintang, Song Duoduo, and Song Tianqi tested their combat abilities against a tier-two Green Poison Scorpion, then learned that Federation experts were searching their star region for the Ice Soul Dragon. The chapter ended with Blizzard Forest locked down after a high-tier demonic beast was reported there.

• Song Duoduo trapped the Green Poison Scorpion in a hallucination while Xu Jintang slowed it with her Domain of Ice.
• Song Tianqi blasted the scorpion with Crimson Flame Burst, accidentally knocking out his teammates in the simulated battlefield.
• Xu Jintang returned to her dorm, where the Ice Soul Dragon warned her that high-tier ability users had arrived to track it down.
• Xu Jintang's team won their round-of-sixteen match, but the academy postponed the assessment as Federation experts gathered to hunt the missing Ice Soul Dragon.
• Song Duoduo told Xu Jintang and Song Tianqi that the Federation feared the Ice Soul Dragon might retaliate, while Jiang Shiyi said some hunters wanted its flesh and blood.
• Xu Jintang received an urgent notice that Blizzard Forest was under complete lockdown after a high-tier demonic beast was suspected to have appeared there.

Xu Jintang learned that people were hoarding fire-attribute inscriptions because of the search for the Ice Soul Dragon, then taught herself to make and sell them while the academy remained on alert. As she waited for the Federation and military academy experts to leave, the Ice Soul Dragon explained how humans and demonic beasts had come to fight over territory and resources.

• Xu Jintang asked a secondhand-market stall owner about the search and learned that fire-attribute inscriptions had become scarce and expensive.
• Xu Jintang extracted fire elements from fire spark grass and successfully infused them into an Inscription Talisman.
• Xu Jintang made and discreetly sold batches of fire-attribute attack inscriptions while classes and assessments remained suspended.
• Jiang Lu warned the students to keep a low profile, and Xu Jintang told Song Duoduo and Song Tianqi to wait for further instructions rather than train.
• Xu Jintang asked when the Federation and military academy experts would leave, and the Ice Soul Dragon said they would likely return within a month if they failed to find it.
• The Ice Soul Dragon explained that humans and demonic beasts had developed a long-standing conflict over territory and resources after spiritual energy allowed both to cultivate.

Xu Jintang trained for the resumed assessment and successfully made an inscription talisman infused with demon beast core energy. After struggling to control Song Tianqi’s destructive ability in the simulation, she devised a new battle tactic for her team without relying on it.

• The Federation announced that Blizzard Forest would be permanently sealed because dangerous high-rank beasts had been confirmed there, and Xu Jintang learned the joint alert operation had ended and the assessment would resume.
• Zhuang Silin arrived at Dawn Academy to check Song Tianqi’s progress, and Jiang Shiyi recommended Xu Jintang as a student worth watching.
• Xu Jintang, Song Duoduo, and Song Tianqi struggled in the simulated battlefield when Song Tianqi’s second-form ability killed their team along with their enemy.
• Xu Jintang returned to her dorm and successfully infused a Flowing Fire Lizard core into an inscription talisman, despite the core’s energy invading her mental sea.
• Xu Jintang realized how to improve her and Song Duoduo’s battle tactics without relying on Song Tianqi’s uncontrollable ability, then decided to sleep instead of cultivate.

Xu Jintang’s team faced Liao Qizheng’s team in the quarterfinals, using Song Tianqi to draw their opponents’ attacks while Xu Jintang empowered Song Duoduo’s hallucination-inducing flowers. The match continued as the Vermilion Bird’s bloodline drove Liao Qizheng’s Green Chant Eagle away, drawing Zhuang Silin’s approval.

• Xu Jintang and Song Duoduo tested their new tactic, and Song Tianqi trained for two days in the simulated battlefield.
• Xu Jintang’s team drew Liao Qizheng’s team, whose plan was to eliminate Song Tianqi first.
• Zhuang Silin arrived to watch the quarterfinals and asked when Song Tianqi’s team would fight.
• At the start of the match, Liao Qizheng summoned a Green Chant Eagle whose mental attack briefly dazed Xu Jintang.
• Song Tianqi drew all three opponents toward him while Xu Jintang channeled her mental power into Song Duoduo, who grew three hallucinatory datura flowers.
• Song Tianqi summoned the power of the Vermilion Bird, frightening the Green Chant Eagle into flying away, and Zhuang Silin praised the divine beast’s bloodline.

Xu Jintang’s team won the elimination match after Xu Jintang and Song Duoduo helped Song Tianqi incapacitate Liao Qizheng’s team with datura pollen and a coordinated attack. Zhuang Silin questioned Xu Jintang about her unusual mental power and offered her a visiting student place at Leikedasi, leaving Xu Jintang weighing the offer.

• Song Duoduo used her datura flowers to spread hallucinogenic pollen while Xu Jintang supplied her with immense mental power, leaving Liao Qizheng and his teammates unable to fight effectively.
• Song Tianqi struck the incapacitated opponents with nine balls of scarlet flame, and Huang Binhan intervened before the attacks could hit them; he then declared Xu Jintang’s team the winner.
• Jiang Lu brought Xu Jintang to meet Zhuang Silin, who asked where her unusually large mental power came from.
• Xu Jintang claimed her support ability might evolve, explaining that an ice attribute had appeared and that her mental sea was larger than others’ at the same tier.
• Zhuang Silin offered Xu Jintang a visiting student place at Leikedasi for a year, with a chance to become a regular student after passing an internal assessment.

Xu Jintang declined special admission to Leikedasi and chose to earn a regular cadet place through the joint entrance exam, while accepting a visiting-student nameplate as a fallback. After her team drew Xu Bohan’s team for the assessment tournament semifinals, she traded in her damaged dagger and bought a ruby sleeve crossbow to improve her offensive ability.

• Xu Jintang declined Zhuang Silin’s visiting-student offer at first, saying she would take the joint entrance exam and enter Leikedasi as a regular cadet.
• Zhuang Silin gave Xu Jintang a Leikedasi visiting-student nameplate as a safety net, and Xu Jintang accepted it.
• Xu Jintang told Jiang Lu about the offer and her potentially evolving ability, and Jiang Lu encouraged her to make the most of the opportunity.
• At the assessment tournament semifinal draw, Xu Jintang and Xu Bohan drew the same number, matching their teams against each other.
• Jiang Lu told Huang Binhan to keep Xu Jintang’s visiting-student spot and possible ability evolution private.
• Xu Jintang traded in her damaged dagger and bought a ruby sleeve crossbow for sixteen thousand star coins.

Xu Jintang discovered that making inscription talismans had caused the mysterious scales to move, then trained and prepared for her team’s semifinal against Xu Bohan’s. After Xu Bohan provoked her, she agreed to fight him in the arena, where their match was about to begin.

• Xu Jintang made more than a dozen inscription talismans, and the scales in her sea of consciousness trembled after she used star-attribute mental power.
• Xu Jintang defeated a Vajra Copper-Toothed Monkey in under five minutes using her inscriptions, Ice Slow, and ruby sleeve-arrow, then learned that more than ten thousand students would take the joint entrance exam.
• Xu Jintang told Song Duoduo that she planned to apply to Leikedasi, and the two encouraged each other before the semifinals.
• Xu Bohan deliberately knocked Xu Jintang's meal onto the floor and insulted her, so she accepted his challenge to fight in the arena.
• Song Tianqi and Song Duoduo defended Xu Jintang, while Xu Bohan decided to test her hidden abilities before the semifinal; Xu Jintang taunted him as they prepared to fight.

Xu Jintang defeated Xu Bohan in a sparring match, revealing her strength while learning that he had not fought at full power. The next morning, their teams prepared for the assessment as Dean Wang learned that Xu Jintang’s Domain Slow might be evolving toward an ice attribute.

• Xu Bohan challenged Xu Jintang to a ring match as Yao Wenna and Gao Boshan watched, hoping to assess her strength.
• Xu Jintang overcame Xu Bohan’s Metal Hardening by targeting his unprotected head and outlasted him until his mental power ran out.
• After the match, Yao Wenna and Xu Bohan decided to revise their team’s tactics, while Xu Jintang warned Song Duoduo and Song Tianqi not to underestimate them.
• The next morning, both teams gathered for their assessment match, and Liu Hongfang told Dean Wang that Xu Jintang’s Domain Slow might be evolving toward an ice attribute.

Xu Jintang’s team fought Xu Bohan’s team in the semifinal, and Xu Bohan injured Song Duoduo with a surprise punch after she agreed to leave the arena. Xu Jintang unleashed her hidden dragon blood power and knocked Xu Bohan out of the arena, while Song Tianqi continued fighting Yao Wenna.

• Xu Jintang and Yao Wenna traded fierce blows while Gao Boshan hypnotized Song Tianqi with his bell.
• Xu Bohan punched Song Duoduo from behind and knocked her out of the arena, seriously injuring her despite her agreeing to leave.
• After the match resumed, Xu Jintang and Song Tianqi identified Gao Boshan’s bell as a mental attack and tried to reach him.
• Xu Bohan’s metal defenses drove Xu Jintang back, but Brother Long’s icy current cleared her mind as the bell’s effects began to overwhelm her.
• Xu Jintang burned her mental power and dragon blood power, then struck Xu Bohan out of the arena and injured him.
• Song Tianqi scorched Yao Wenna’s cat tail as the fight continued.