Chapter Summaries

Miao Mingzhi and Zhuang Silin suspected Jing Hongyi was downplaying the attack on the military academies because he resented their growing influence, while the Tongbao Spirit Realm opened and Xu Jintang joined a group exploring it. After Liu Zichang helped defeat a Giant-Winged Tiger, he argued against continuing toward a nearby treasure site, and the team leader offered to scout ahead.

• Jing Hongyi ordered the tournament to proceed while promising to continue investigating the attack, and Miao Mingzhi later warned Zhuang Silin that Jing Hongyi was dissatisfied with the academies’ influence.
• The Tongbao Spirit Realm opened, and Xu Jintang used her map knowledge to blend into a group heading toward a mountain treasure site.
• A Giant-Winged Tiger attacked the group with a mental roar, but Xu Jintang resisted it and Liu Zichang’s throwing knives helped kill the beast.
• Liu Zichang joined the team, then urged them to change direction before they reached the caves, while Xu Jintang argued that a treasure site was nearby.
• The team leader proposed scouting the mountains before deciding whether the group should turn back.

Xu Jintang split from Liu Zichang after he rejected her belief that a treasure site lay in the mountains, then joined Feng Qianyue’s team and reached the site with several other groups. Liu Zichang later arrived with his team, and Xu Jintang exposed their earlier disagreement before someone called out that they had found something.

• Liu Zichang led most of the team away from the mountains, while Xu Jintang and two others continued toward the treasure site.
• Xu Jintang killed most of an ambush of demonic beasts herself, revealing her strength to her two teammates.
• Xu Jintang’s group met Feng Qianyue, whose treasure-seeking needle had led her team to the large treasure site, and they agreed to travel together.
• Feng Qianyue’s team met another group with a treasure-seeking needle, and both groups agreed to search for a way to open the site together.
• Liu Zichang arrived with his team after following another group’s treasure-seeking needle, and Xu Jintang explained their earlier disagreement to Feng Qianyue.
• Someone shouted that they had found something.

Xu Jintang helped lure a fifth-tier demonic beast from the newly opened treasure cave and revealed her strength to the group. After they killed the beast, she volunteered to draw out the remaining creatures, while Liu Zichang was left humiliated and ignored.

• Xu Jintang opened the treasure site by touching the winged statue, and the mountain split to reveal a cave filled with demonic beasts.
• Xu Jintang suggested Liu Zichang scout ahead, and Feng Qianyue and the others agreed; Liu Zichang entered the cave and proposed luring the beasts outside.
• When Liu Zichang cried for help, Xu Jintang went into the cave, then leaped out as a Songyuan Wolf lunged after her.
• Feng Qianyue led the group in attacking and killing the wolf while Liu Zichang escaped the cave in a sorry state.
• Liu Zichang accused Xu Jintang of hiding her strength to mock him, but she dismissed him and offered to lure the remaining beasts; the group accepted.

Xu Jintang and Feng Qianyue’s team joined forces with Chu Er’s group to enter the central treasure site, an underground tomb filled with mechanisms. After discovering the staircase was looping or otherwise leading nowhere, Xu Jintang’s team found and opened a hidden door, leaving them poised to explore what lay beyond.

• Xu Jintang helped exterminate the cave’s demonic beasts, and the group agreed to give her an extra share of the supplies while allowing Liu Zichang his usual share despite his limited contribution.
• A week later, Xu Jintang, Feng Qianyue, Chu Er, and more than a dozen teams gathered at the central treasure site, where Chu Er proposed cooperation with Xu Jintang’s team.
• Chu Er secretly activated the treasure-site mechanism, then persuaded the gathered teams to enter and rely on their own abilities; his and Xu Jintang’s teams went in first.
• Inside the underground tomb, Xu Jintang realized the long staircase was not leading them to the interior and told everyone to search for a hidden passage.
• A team member turned a lamp base, causing the passage to shake and revealing a hidden door; Xu Jintang led the group toward it.

Xu Jintang and Chu Er survived the tomb’s traps, found its treasure chamber, and triggered the tomb’s destruction when Xu Jintang used the mechanism token. After everyone escaped, the Tongbao Spirit Realm announced that it would close in seventy-two hours and revealed a map of the remaining treasure sites, while the military academies faced chaos after their teams were ambushed.

• Feng Qianyue warned the group about waves of concealed weapons, and Xu Jintang used her ice power and Phantom Darts to help stop them.
• Xu Jintang and Chu Er found the crystal coffin, opened it, and recovered a mechanism token among the skeletal remains.
• Xu Jintang discovered a hidden room containing twenty-five treasure chests, then realized the token belonged against the crystal coffin.
• Xu Jintang pressed the token to the coffin, triggering the tomb’s collapse, and gathered the treasure chests before escaping through an emergency exit.
• The Thunder Dragon King told Xu Jintang that Chu Er and the others had escaped through other emergency exits.
• The Tongbao Spirit Realm announced that it would close in seventy-two hours and revealed a real-time map of unopened treasure sites, while outside the realm, teams from the five major military academies had been ambushed and seriously injured.

After learning that the five military academies’ teams had been ambushed, Xu Jintang left the Tongbao Spirit Realm early and met up with Song Tianqi, Yan Yuting, and Xue Zhongqi to return to school. Their aircraft was attacked en route by a military reconnaissance drone, and Xu Jintang and her companions faced concealed weapons from an unseen remote operator.

• Miao Mingzhi and Zhuang Silin ordered experimental class and official team members to return to their academies after serious injuries struck the five major military academies’ teams.
• Xu Jintang used her Heaven and Earth Token to close the Tongbao Spirit Realm early, then left for the transit terminal.
• Song Tianqi offered Xu Jintang a ride back, and she joined him, Yan Yuting, and Xue Zhongqi aboard his aircraft.
• Xu Jintang told her companions that pursuers above Seventh Tier had targeted her after hunting Song Ziqian, and she had escaped by hiding in the Tongbao Spirit Realm.
• A reconnaissance drone struck the aircraft, shattering its windows, and Xu Jintang dodged concealed weapons while Xue Zhongqi identified the drone’s attack pattern as remotely controlled.

After their aircraft was attacked, Xu Jintang and her companions landed outside Zone F Border Defense Star City and were trapped beyond its closed gates. A Dragon-Tiger Lion herd then attacked the city, forcing them to flee through the battlefield.

• Xu Jintang destroyed the attacking drone, but the damage forced the group to reroute their aircraft to Zone F Border Defense Star City.
• Xu Jintang reported the attack to Zhuang Silin, while Jing Hongyi agreed to postpone the Military Academy League after pressure from the five major military academy leaders.
• Xu Jintang and her companions landed outside the city, found its gates closed under alert, and camped on the outskirts while awaiting help.
• Song Tianqi spotted signs of an approaching herd, and Xu Jintang recognized that a demonic beast attack was beginning.
• The city launched missiles at the charging beasts, and Song Tianqi identified the attackers as a Dragon-Tiger Lion population.

Xu Jintang and her companions were stranded outside Zone F Border Defense Star City as war broke out and the Dragon-Tiger Lions attacked. Xu Jintang attempted to slip past the city’s defenses, but the super-powered missile cannon targeted her as she approached.

• Xu Jintang and her companions encountered the charging Dragon-Tiger Lions, and Xue Zhongqi’s inscription array briefly held them back before it shattered.
• Xu Jintang proposed entering Star City by timing the missile launches, and Xue Zhongqi prepared to guide the group using his compass.
• Xu Jintang volunteered to scout ahead and raced toward the city between missile strikes while evading surveillance.
• The communications room detected Xu Jintang, and the commanding captain kept the alert rules in place as she approached through the battlefield.
• An automatic emergency alert activated the super-powered missile cannon, which fired at Xu Jintang while her companions watched in alarm.

Xu Jintang forced her way into Star City while satellite missiles attacked her, then convinced Commander Gu Xiuwen to open the gates for those stranded outside. As the adventuring team struggled to withstand a missile, the city defenses powered down and the gates opened, giving them thirty seconds to enter.

• Xu Jintang fought through missile fire, reached Star City's gate tower, and destroyed incoming missiles before a security worker brought her to Gu Xiuwen.
• Gu Xiuwen ordered the gates opened so the dozen or so people still outside could enter.
• Outside the city, Xue Zhongqi, Yan Yuting, Song Tianqi, and the adventuring team defended themselves against a satellite missile as it threatened to overwhelm them.
• A gate tower announcement lifted the alert and disabled the missiles, and a uniformed worker opened the gates for thirty seconds.
• The adventuring team hurried toward the open gates.

The Dragon-Tiger Lion pack broke through Zone F Border Defense Star City's defenses, forcing Xu Jintang and the defenders into battle while Gu Xiuwen confronted the pack's leader. After the lions began rampaging, the defenders retreated into the city as Gu Xiuwen prepared to use the Star Compass against them.

• The Dragon-Tiger Lion pack destroyed satellite systems and attacked the city's protective barrier, which Gu Xiuwen warned would fail within ten minutes.
• Xu Jintang froze the city to halt the lions, and Song Tianqi, Xue Zhongqi, and the others attacked as the pack charged inside.
• The Dragon-Tiger Lion King threatened the defenders with a massive lava fireball, but Gu Xiuwen arrived and pinned it beneath his Star Compass.
• Xu Jintang and the defenders launched coordinated attacks that drove the lion pack back, but the Lion King's roars sent the pack into a rampage.
• Xue Zhongqi formed a barrier to stop the charging lions while the defenders retreated into the city, and Gu Xiuwen poured mental power into the rising Star Compass.

Gu Xiuwen drove the Dragon-Tiger Lions away from Star City, but warned that other demonic beast populations were stirring and a wider war might be imminent. As reinforcements were dispatched, Xu Jintang suspected a third party had provoked the beasts, and the city prepared for an approaching attack.

• Gu Xiuwen used the Star Compass to suppress the Dragon-Tiger Lions until their king ordered a retreat, then warned that nearby demonic beast populations might attack together.
• Gu Xiuwen explained that frightened high-tier demonic beast lords may be uniting against the Federation after the Ice Soul Dragon was hunted, and he requested reinforcements while Xu Jintang and the adventuring team agreed to help defend the city.
• The Federation General Bureau detected abnormal activity among more than a dozen demonic beast populations in Zone F Border Defense and raised the alarm.
• Gu Xiuwen told the city command meeting that the Federation expected a widespread demonic beast war and had dispatched troops, while Xu Jintang considered whether a third party had stirred up the beasts.
• An alarm announced that enemies were rapidly approaching the border defense zone, and Gu Xiuwen ordered everyone to hold their posts until reinforcements arrived.
• Xu Jintang returned to the military camp's rest area and spent the night watching the darkness while Yan Yuting cultivated nearby.

Xu Jintang learned that Gu Xiuwen had predicted unrest at Zone F Border Defense before more than seven demonic beast groups launched a surprise attack on Star City. With the city’s defenders facing a siege and reinforcements delayed, Jing Hongyi prepared to lead troops there himself.

• Xu Jintang spoke with Gu Xiuwen, who said his ability had predicted unrest but that intervening in the future took too much out of him.
• More than seven demonic beast groups attacked Star City, triggering alarms and the Federation’s highest alert.
• Jing Hongyi announced that he would personally lead a force to defend Zone F Border Defense and assembled troops at the Federation General Bureau.
• Gu Xiuwen learned that Star City had only 109 combat-ready personnel and seven pieces of military equipment, while reinforcements were at least three hours away.
• Xu Jintang and the other defenders grew panicked as the infrared shield began to fail and people discussed fleeing.
• More than seven demonic beast groups assembled outside Star City and began besieging it.

Xu Jintang and her companions escaped Zone F Border Defense Star City as Gu Xiuwen used his Star Compass to calm the demonic beasts and stop their attack. The Federation General Bureau began investigating the incident, with Jing Hongyi announcing a coordinated inquiry.

• Xu Jintang led her group toward the emergency escape passage, and they broke open its jammed security door with a combined attack.
• Gu Xiuwen summoned his Star Compass over the city, halting the demonic beasts’ assault and then driving them to retreat.
• Jing Hongyi ordered the military units to stand down after learning that Gu Xiuwen had intervened.
• A Federation record noted that Gu Xiuwen had prevented a demonic beast war and that Zone F’s city defense personnel had suffered no casualties.
• Jing Hongyi told the Federation General Bureau that officials had begun a coordinated investigation into the sudden attack.

Xu Jintang and the others returned safely to Leikedasi, where the academy leaders began reviewing their recent experiences and cultivation progress. The chapter left the experimental class reporting their mental power levels, with Song Tianqi revealing a rare Vermilion Bird bloodline ability.

• Zhuang Silin brought Xu Jintang and the others aboard an aircraft bound for the Central Star Domain, and Gu Xiuwen joined them.
• During the flight, the group discussed the hunt against members of the five great military academies and the ongoing Federation investigation.
• After the others left the lounge, Gu Xiuwen coughed up blood from the side effects of using his ability, and Xu Jintang helped him to his room.
• Xu Jintang and the others arrived in the Central Star Domain and returned to Leikedasi for a review meeting.
• Song Tianqi reported that he had reached the peak of the fourth tier and revealed that his Vermilion Bird Token could activate a bloodline buff state.

Xu Jintang and her classmates introduced their abilities to Leikedasi's leaders, who were impressed by the team's support skills, inscription expertise, and exceptional cultivation. Xu Jintang's second ability stunned the leaders, and they learned that she had once entered the Ability User Competition as the Mask Squad's captain.

• Song Tianqi revealed his Vermilion Bird Bloodline buff, and Yan Yuting explained how her toast could provide powerful, rapidly produced combat buffs.
• Xue Zhongqi introduced his support ability and his skills as a level-three inscription master, impressing the leaders.
• Jiang Shiyi announced that her mental power had reached the sixth tier and introduced her Superpower Rocket Launcher ability.
• Xu Jintang introduced her peak fifth-tier Domain of Ice and revealed her second ability, Tilting Scales, along with her inscription skills, leaving the leaders astonished.
• Zhuang Silin explained Xu Jintang's rise from having only a support ability in a lower-tier star region, and the leaders realized that the Mask Squad from the Ability User Competition belonged to their academy.

Xu Jintang and Jiang Shiyi tested their new skills in a sparring match after the Military Academy League was postponed, while an investigation blamed the Reform Society for attacks on the competing academies. The chapter ended with Jing Hongyi telling someone at the Federation General Bureau that the pursuit operation had been poorly arranged.

• Leikedasi’s leaders discussed the injuries at rival academies and warned Xu Jintang and the others to limit their outings while the investigation continued.
• Jiang Shiyi used her sixth-tier Single-Gun Soul-Seizing Cannon against Xu Jintang, whose Road of Frost met the blast; the arena’s safety system ejected both fighters, and Xu Jintang’s consciousness remained unaffected.
• Two weeks later, the Federation announced that members of the Reform Society had pursued competitors from the five major military academies, though Xu Jintang doubted that explanation.
• Jing Hongyi watched recordings of the pursuit at the Federation General Bureau and criticized someone for failing to arrange the operation properly.

Jing Hongyi ordered the Military Academy League to resume in three days despite objections from the injured academies. As the competitors prepared, Xu Jintang absorbed spirit herb energy and advanced to peak sixth tier before Zhuang Silin organized Leikedasi's 3v3 tactics.

• Jing Hongyi ended the pursuit plan and insisted the league resume in three days, despite the other four principals' concerns about injured competitors and lingering danger.
• The principals discussed how the five great military academies might fare in the league, and Miao Mingzhi urged the others to rely on their reserve teams during the early rounds.
• With the Thunder Dragon King guarding her, Xu Jintang absorbed spirit herb energy for a day and night and advanced to peak sixth tier.
• Zhuang Silin briefed Xu Jintang and the others on the league's impending return and presented three possible 3v3 lineups for them to practice.

As the Military Academy League prepared to resume, Xu Jintang and the Leikedasi reserve team met Song Duoduo and Wu Hanhai before arriving at the opening ceremony. Xu Jintang spotted Chu Er among Clifford Military Academy’s competitors, whose reserve team had avoided the earlier manhunt by participating in the Tongbao Spirit Realm.

• Zhuang Silin gave Leikedasi’s competitors information about rival teams and urged them to defend the academy’s standing, and they promised to give their all.
• Fans flooded the Central Star Domain, filling hotels and buying up league tickets as media outlets and betting dens focused on the competitors.
• Song Duoduo and Wu Hanhai argued with Su Pengtian of rival Giant Wave Military Academy before leaving to meet Xu Jintang and the Leikedasi team.
• Song Duoduo reunited with Xu Jintang, and Wu Hanhai introduced himself to the Leikedasi competitors and asked to spar with them after the league.
• The Military Academy League resumed with its opening ceremony, and Xu Jintang noticed Chu Er in Clifford Military Academy’s waiting area.

The Military Academy League barred accompanying teachers from giving guidance and announced that only main-team members could compete unless they were incapacitated. As the opening ceremony approached, Qin Tiangang began revealing the revised rules, leaving teams and spectators to consider how the changes would affect the tournament.

• An event staff member announced that accompanying teachers had to leave and could no longer guide the teams; Zhuang Silin left Xu Jintang in charge.
• Xu Jintang’s team and the students of several other major academies stayed calm while other teams panicked, and the league’s livestream drew a large audience.
• Qin Tiangang introduced himself as the league’s chief official and announced that he would oversee the event for two months.
• At the opening ceremony, Qin Tiangang announced that only main-team members could compete, with substitutes allowed to take over only if a main member became unable to fight.
• Spectators debated whether the rule would let the five great military academies keep their strongest students off their main teams early in the league.

The five major military academies reacted angrily to league rules that weakened their advantages, and their teams gathered to discuss how to respond within the rules. After Xu Jintang hinted they had options, the opening ceremony began with elaborate elemental displays.

• The academy teams learned that instructors could not coach, main-team members and reserves could not switch freely, and the five major academies had lost direct entry to the elimination rounds.
• Chu Er and the other cadets discussed how the rules targeted their academies, while Xu Jintang, Jiang Shiyi, and Xue Zhongqi considered how the new restrictions would affect the reserves.
• Song Tianqi angrily condemned the rules, but Yan Yuting urged him to stay calm at the venue.
• Chu Er visited Leikedasi's rest area, and teams from all five major academies gathered there to discuss the changes.
• Xu Jintang said they could respond without violating the league rules, and the teams leaned in to hear her ideas.
• The opening ceremony began with displays of blue fire, lightning, flame, and ice before the host introduced the performance.