Chapter Summaries

Xu Jintang stole a thousand-year-old spirit herb from the Blazing Flame Lions, with Ice Soul Dragon helping her escape. After satellite alarms exposed Ice Soul Dragon’s aura and forced them to avoid surveillance, Xu Jintang encountered Song Ziqian’s group on the path to Star City and joined them.

• Xu Jintang fought through the Blazing Flame Lions and seized the spirit herb while Ice Soul Dragon scattered the lions and blocked the commander lion’s attack.
• Ice Soul Dragon’s aura triggered an advanced satellite alarm, alerting demon beasts and Star City’s border defense forces.
• Green-Membrane Archaeopteryx destroyed the satellite, then flew Xu Jintang away from further surveillance before they landed on a path toward Star City.
• Xu Jintang met Song Ziqian’s group and claimed she was a Leikedasi student who had trained alone in the Demon Beast Forest.
• Song Ziqian accepted Xu Jintang’s explanation and invited her to travel back to the city with the group.

Xu Jintang traveled toward Star City with Song Ziqian and her Xihe Alliance Military Academy teammates while hiding her role in provoking the demon beasts. When the Blazing Flame Lion pride chased them, the Green-Membrane Birds intervened, allowing the group to escape and return safely to the city.

• Song Ziqian welcomed Xu Jintang into her group and warned her about the dangerous demon beasts in the forest.
• During a rest stop, the Blazing Flame Lion pride caught up with the group, forcing them to flee as the lions attacked with fireballs.
• The Green-Membrane Bird army appeared behind the group, and Song Ziqian prepared her teammates to fight when they seemed trapped.
• The Green-Membrane Birds attacked the Blazing Flame Lions, giving Xu Jintang and the others a chance to escape toward Star City.
• Song Ziqian's group rested, then continued without further trouble and returned safely to Star City.

After returning from the Demon Beast Forest, Xu Jintang secretly cultivated with the Spirit Frost Vine Grass and reached the peak of the fourth tier during a month of training. As the new semester approached, she went shopping with Yan Yuting and Jiang Shiyi, whose spending reminded Xu Jintang that she was the young lady of the Myriad Treasures Pavilion.

• Xu Jintang listened to rumors in Star City about the Ice Soul Dragon, fighting demon-beast tribes, and humans colluding with demon beasts, then returned to the Federation Star Region.
• Xu Jintang told her companions she had gone to the Demon Beast Forest for combat training, then identified the stolen spirit herb as a thousand-year-old Spirit Frost Vine Grass and began cultivating with the Ice Soul Dragon guarding her.
• After a month of training, Xu Jintang reached the peak of the fourth tier, and the Ice Soul Dragon told her that part of her Power of Dragon Blood had also been unsealed.
• Xu Jintang agreed to go shopping with Yan Yuting and Jiang Shiyi before school started, while street conversations about the Military Academy League caught her attention.
• Jiang Shiyi bought all the hair accessories she had tried on, and Xu Jintang remembered that Jiang Shiyi was the young lady of the Myriad Treasures Pavilion.

Xu Jintang, Yan Yuting, and Jiang Shiyi went on a shopping spree, then attended a Wood Spirit Show concert where Shen Mucheng’s ability improved the audience’s mental power purity. They returned to the villa late and faced Song Tianqi and Xue Zhongqi’s angry complaints about being left behind.

• Xu Jintang and her friends shopped until Song Tianqi and Xue Zhongqi called to complain that they had been abandoned in the dorm.
• A shop owner gave Xu Jintang, Yan Yuting, and Jiang Shiyi tickets to a Wood Spirit Show concert, so they went to the venue.
• Jiang Shiyi and Yan Yuting explained that Shen Mucheng’s Illusory Color Butterfly ability could boost fans’ mental power purity, and Xu Jintang felt the effect during his performance.
• After the concert, Xu Jintang and her friends returned to the villa in the early morning and admitted to Song Tianqi and Xue Zhongqi that they had gone to the show.
• Song Tianqi threatened to tell Teacher Zhuang that the experimental class was already fighting, while Xu Jintang dismissed his anger and went to bed.

Xu Jintang and her four teammates received intelligence about rival military academies and agreed to set aside their quarrel until the Military Academy League ended. As delegations began arriving in the Federation Star Region, Xu Jintang reunited with Song Duoduo, who joined her and Song Tianqi for a meal.

• Song Tianqi and Xue Zhongqi confronted Xu Jintang over being left out, but Zhuang Silin urged the five teammates to focus on league preparations.
• Zhuang Silin briefed the team on Xihe Alliance Military Academy's reserve squad, including Song Ziqian's Peak of the Fourth Tier mental power and ability to challenge stronger opponents.
• Zhuang Silin shared that Imperial Military Academy had recruited a student with a verified god-tier ability, and warned the team not to underestimate other competitors.
• Xu Jintang proposed that the five pause their dispute until the league ended, and they agreed before resuming team battle training.
• Military academy students began arriving in the Federation Star Region, and Xu Jintang reunited with Song Duoduo after nearly a year apart.
• Song Duoduo met Song Tianqi at a restaurant, where he offered to treat her to a meal.

Xu Jintang, Song Tianqi, and Song Duoduo met their former teacher Jiang Lu after he arrived in the Federation Star Region with students ahead of the Military Academy League. They welcomed him, reunited over a meal, and heard him reflect on his past before he decided to rest for the students’ sightseeing plans.

• Song Duoduo shared rumors that some lower-ranked military academies planned to combine their strongest students for the league, while the five great military academies kept their rosters secret.
• Jiang Lu called Xu Jintang from the terminal, and she went with Song Tianqi and Song Duoduo to meet him and the students he had brought along.
• Jiang Lu introduced Xu Jintang and Song Tianqi as exemplary seniors, and the students eagerly asked them about entering Leikedasi.
• Xu Jintang and Song Tianqi jokingly presented themselves as well-behaved students until Jiang Lu ended the conversation and sent them to rest.
• Jiang Lu invited the three former students to dinner, toasted their futures, and recalled his disappointment at not getting into First Military Academy.
• Jiang Lu put aside the sad memories, stopped drinking, and said he needed to take the students sightseeing the next day.

Xu Jintang and her friends prepared for the Military Academy League while strengthening their teamwork and abilities. After buying Phantom Darts, Xu Jintang customized them with inscriptions and living spirit alloy, then went to test them alone.

• Jiang Lu reassured Xu Jintang and Song Tianqi over dinner after they said they had not made Leikedasi's main team, and the friends parted ways while looking forward to the league.
• Xu Jintang trained with Jiang Shiyi, Song Tianqi, Yan Yuting, and Xue Zhongqi as their abilities advanced and they improved their group coordination.
• Xu Jintang visited Myriad Treasures Pavilion and bought the fourth-tier Phantom Darts after testing their attack power.
• Xu Jintang added tracking, attack, critical hit, and other inscriptions to the darts, reinforced their edges with living spirit alloy, and went alone to test them that evening.

Xu Jintang avoided suspicion after the Federation publicized a wanted notice for a suspected traitor, while Jing Hongyi worried the Ice Soul Dragon and Green-Membrane Archaeopteryx might be involved. Two months later, Yan Yuting and Xue Zhongqi reached peak third tier; Yan demonstrated an illusion-resisting bun, and Xue began testing his new skill on Xu Jintang.

• Xu Jintang tested her improved dart and saw the strength tester register peak fifth-tier damage.
• Jing Hongyi discussed the suspected traitor and the Ice Soul Dragon’s appearance in the Demon Beast Forest with Federation leaders, then ordered a wanted notice and bounty.
• The blurry wanted notice stirred online accusations, but commenters speculated that the person riding the Green-Membrane Archaeopteryx must be a ninth-tier expert.
• Xu Jintang decided to stay quiet as suspicion shifted toward ninth-tier experts, then returned to practicing with Song Tianqi and Yan Yuting.
• Two months later, Yan Yuting and Xue Zhongqi reached peak third tier, and Yan demonstrated that her Custard Cheese Bun could resist illusion attacks for up to five minutes.
• Xu Jintang volunteered to test Xue Zhongqi’s new skill, and he formed a large, galaxy-patterned round mirror in the arena.

Xu Jintang and her teammates tested Xue Zhongqi’s Mirror of Stars, prepared for the Military Academy League, and attended the opening day of the preliminaries. After the Wood Spirit Show Idol Group performed, the host began the team draw and matching stage.

• Xue Zhongqi explained that Mirror of Stars stored incoming attacks and released them after thirty seconds, but Xu Jintang’s Ice Blade Storm shattered it and showed its limit was around the fourth tier.
• Xu Jintang and her teammates discussed how Xue Zhongqi’s and Yan Yuting’s new support skills had improved their team, while Yu Wanyao’s team complained about repeated challenges from other academies.
• The Federation announced a preliminary round for the league, and Xu Jintang’s group received tickets to watch the matches.
• Xu Jintang and her companions entered the packed Central Auditorium, where Shen Mucheng and the Wood Spirit Show Idol Group performed before the preliminaries.
• The host announced that the preliminaries would run for a week and began the team draw and matching stage.

Xu Jintang and her teammates watched the preliminaries, where the Joint Military Academy Team won its opening match before being upset by the newly founded Green Sail Vine Military Academy. After learning that the obscure academy fielded five competitors with mental power above the fourth tier, Xu Jintang's team grew wary of its strength.

• The Joint Military Academy Team defeated the Ur Military Academy Team, but Xu Jintang and her teammates judged its coordination weak.
• The Green Sail Vine Military Academy Team defeated the Joint Military Academy Team, surprising the spectators with an upset.
• Yu Wanyao and the others learned that Green Sail Vine Military Academy had been founded only the previous year and that all five competitors had mental power above the fourth tier.
• After returning to the villa, Qin Shuxue reported that the academy had an ordinary staff, fewer than a hundred people, and a founder whose mental power was only at the seventh tier.
• Xu Jintang and her teammates questioned how the academy had gathered such strong competitors and grew concerned that it might be more than it appeared.

The five great military academies faced mounting pressure as powerful dark horse teams emerged during the qualifiers, prompting extra training and a mixed-team battle won narrowly by Xu Jintang’s squad. In the elimination stage, Green Sail Vine Military Academy and Grande Military Academy were placed in separate brackets, and Green Sail Vine’s first match began before an enthusiastic crowd.

• Grande Military Academy and Green Sail Vine Military Academy emerged as dark horse teams whose strength rivaled the five great military academies.
• Shi Anyu told Grande Military Academy’s members to continue training and keep their disguise masks on, while Wang Qian worried about the Reform Society’s plan.
• Miao Mingzhi and Zhuang Silin reviewed Green Sail Vine’s polished combat footage, and Zhuang Silin arranged extra training for the experimental class and Yu Wanyao’s squad.
• Xu Jintang and Yu Wanyao led shuffled teams in a mixed five-on-five training match, which Xu Jintang’s team won narrowly before Zhuang Silin reviewed their weaknesses.
• The live draw placed Green Sail Vine Military Academy and Grande Military Academy in separate brackets, disappointing Xu Jintang and her teammates.
• Green Sail Vine Military Academy began its elimination match against a team ranked outside the top hundred as the crowd cheered them on.

Green Sail Vine Military Academy and Grande Military Academy advanced through the preliminaries, prompting Xu Jintang to suspect Grande’s disguised members were connected to the Reform Society. With two months remaining before a radically changed seven-day survival elimination league, Zhuang Silin gave the team a break and freedom to train or rest.

• Green Sail Vine Military Academy defeated its opponent with the captain’s Phoenix Feather skill, and Xu Jintang’s group noticed the team’s strength as they left the arena.
• Grande Military Academy won through polished coordination, and the Ice Soul Dragon told Xu Jintang its members wore upgraded disguise masks; Xu suspected their identities were criminal and possibly linked to the Reform Society.
• Xu Jintang noticed one Grande member’s movements reminded her of Song Yueyue, but the Ice Soul Dragon advised her to keep her suspicions secret.
• Grande Military Academy and Green Sail Vine Military Academy both advanced to the main league after topping their respective preliminary brackets.
• Zhuang Silin told the team the league would use a seven-day team-based survival elimination format and announced a two-month break without assigned special training.

Xu Jintang joined an adventuring party heading into the Land of the North Sea, where she entered a beginner-level trial and encountered a powerful lake monster. As the creature attacked and manipulated the lotus leaves beneath her, the Ice Soul Dragon warned her about its ability.

• Xu Jintang agreed to travel to the Land of the North Sea for training at the Ice Soul Dragon's suggestion.
• Xu Jintang joined Li Caizhe's adventuring party after demonstrating mental power far beyond the third tier.
• Li Caizhe explained the North Sea's four trial levels as the group entered the area, where Xu Jintang noticed Song Ziqian heading into a trial.
• Xu Jintang entered the beginner trial and began crossing a lake by jumping between lotus leaves.
• A huge black creature erupted from the lake and attacked Xu Jintang, breaking free of her ice pillars.
• The creature controlled the lotus leaves and dragged Xu Jintang aside, prompting the Ice Soul Dragon to warn her.

Xu Jintang cleared the introductory and advanced trials on her own, then joined Li Caizhe and his team to clear the advanced trial twice more. The group was stopped from attempting it again after reaching the daily limit.

• Xu Jintang froze the lake, defeated the unknown creature, and cleared the introductory trial.
• Xu Jintang noticed the illusory glass could be moving and shattered the glass maze with a concentrated mental power attack, clearing the advanced trial.
• Li Caizhe mistook Xu Jintang for a newcomer and explained that cleared trials granted mental power irrigation and could be attempted up to three times per day.
• Xu Jintang joined Li Caizhe and the team, helping them shatter the glass maze and clear the advanced trial twice.
• The team received a notice that a member had exceeded the permitted number of attempts and could not enter the trial again.

Xu Jintang entered the hard trial’s bamboo grove illusion and defeated a phantom of Song Duoduo before killing an archer who attacked her. She then found a bamboo house and met an old man who invited her in for tea, while she remained wary.

• Li Caizhe led his team into the hard trial, and Xu Jintang entered the bamboo grove illusion last.
• Xu Jintang recognized that the Song Duoduo she encountered was a phantom, fought her, and watched an archer destroy the phantom by striking its left chest.
• The archer explained the phantom’s weak point, then attacked Xu Jintang; she defeated him with Ice Blade Storms and punches to his left chest.
• Xu Jintang continued through the grove and found a bamboo house beside a stream, where an old man invited her to sit and drink tea.

Xu Jintang entered the bamboo cottage and fought an opponent who looked exactly like her, eventually realizing the double was a disguise and passing the old man's test. The old man sent her back to the real world, where she woke in bed to a food delivery knocking at the door.

• The old man offered Xu Jintang tea, which stirred the mental power in her sea of consciousness, and invited her to experience the bamboo cottage.
• Inside the cottage, Xu Jintang encountered a lookalike and battled her through repeated, evenly matched clashes.
• Xu Jintang kept up a measured rhythm of attacks until her opponent began falling behind, revealing that their thoughts and judgment were not identical.
• Xu Jintang told the opponent she had suspected the disguise from the start, and the figure transformed back into the gray-bearded old man, who declared she had passed the test.
• The old man sent Xu Jintang out of the bamboo cottage and told her to return to the real world; she later woke in bed when a food delivery knocked at her door.

Xu Jintang cleared the hard trial, absorbed its mental power reward, and entered the purgatory trial to meet the Ice Soul Dragon’s old friend, the Thunder Dragon King. The Thunder Dragon King brought her to his Lightning Space to train, where she began tempering herself with lightning.

• Xu Jintang saw through an illusion of her former home and shattered it to complete the hard trial.
• Xu Jintang absorbed the hard trial’s mental power infusion, expanding her mental sea by at least a fifth.
• Xu Jintang entered the purgatory trial and met the Thunder Dragon King after the Ice Soul Dragon called out to him.
• The Ice Soul Dragon told the Thunder Dragon King that Xu Jintang was his partner and asked him to help improve her strength.
• The Thunder Dragon King took Xu Jintang to his Lightning Space and explained how its lightning could temper her body and benefit her mental power.
• Xu Jintang summoned lightning to strike her and began cultivating through the pain.

Xu Jintang broke through to the fifth tier in the Land of the North Sea and agreed to let the Thunder Dragon King join her sea of consciousness, which caused the trial stages to stop working. On her way to Star City, she tested her new powers and encountered Song Ziqian fleeing two attackers.

• Xu Jintang absorbed lightning in Lightning Space until her mental power reached its limit and she began breaking through to the fifth tier.
• The Ice Soul Dragon unsealed more of the dragon bone's energy, helping Xu Jintang complete her breakthrough and unlock thirty percent of its power.
• Xu Jintang agreed to cooperate with the Thunder Dragon King, who moved into her sea of consciousness two days later.
• After Xu Jintang returned from the final trial stage, she learned from the Thunder Dragon King that the Land of the North Sea's trials had closed because he no longer powered them.
• Xu Jintang traveled toward Star City and tested Road of Frost and her enhanced physical strength in a forest.
• Song Ziqian ran toward Xu Jintang while two people in black pursued her and attacked.

Xu Jintang fled from two powerful pursuers with Song Ziqian, but the man chasing her trapped her in his Wine Gourd Grotto-Heaven. Her Tongbao Spirit Realm Heaven and Earth Token broke the trap and forced the realm to open early, allowing Xu Jintang to escape inside while the pursuer remained outside.

• Song Ziqian and Xu Jintang fled from two attackers, then split up at a fork, with the wine-gourd wielder pursuing Xu Jintang.
• Xu Jintang fought back with Road of Frost, but the pursuer destroyed her attack and later trapped her in his Wine Gourd Grotto-Heaven.
• The Tongbao Spirit Realm Heaven and Earth Token released energy that shattered the trap and announced the realm would open ahead of schedule in thirty minutes.
• Xu Jintang entered the Tongbao Spirit Realm early to escape the pursuer, becoming its only occupant so far.
• The Thunder Dragon King told Xu Jintang that both pursuers were peak eighth-tier experts, leaving her to wonder why they had targeted Song Ziqian and her.

Xu Jintang used the Heaven and Earth Token’s map to find and clear a treasure site in the Tongbao Spirit Realm, while outside, attacks on military academy students sparked calls to postpone the upcoming league. The chapter ended with Commander-in-Chief Jing Hongyi resisting the principals’ proposal to delay the competition.

• Xu Jintang discovered that the Heaven and Earth Token revealed a map of the spirit realm and set off for the nearest treasure site before other entrants could arrive.
• Xu Jintang opened a concealed cave, fought a nimble fancy rat, and froze it with Road of Frost.
• Xu Jintang collected wood frost grass, left the cave, and the treasure site sealed behind her.
• News spread that students from three major military academies had been injured in targeted attacks, while the Tongbao Spirit Realm had opened ahead of schedule.
• At a Federation General Bureau meeting, Miao Mingzhi and other academy principals proposed postponing the Military Academy League, but Jing Hongyi argued against changing its announced dates.