Chapter Summaries

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.

After Xu Jintang’s team won the semifinal, she collapsed from the strain of using dragon blood’s power and recovered in the medical center. She and Song Tianqi chose to compete in the final despite Song Duoduo’s injury, and learned about their Class Three opponents as they prepared for the match.

• Yao Wenna and Gao Boshan surrendered after Xu Jintang defeated Xu Bohan, giving Xu Jintang’s team the semifinal victory.
• Xu Jintang visited the injured Song Duoduo, then passed out because her body could not withstand the power of dragon blood; the Ice Soul Dragon said she had slept for a day and absorbed some of its energy.
• After waking, Xu Jintang checked on Song Duoduo and insisted that she and Song Tianqi compete in the final, and Jiang Lu agreed on the condition that they protect themselves.
• Song Tianqi told Xu Jintang that their opponents included Shangguan Lang, who controlled wind, a lollipop user whose sweets boosted attack damage, and a fighter with a lightning dagger.

Xu Jintang and Song Tianqi faced Shangguan Lang’s team in the championship match, and both sides unleashed powerful combined attacks. After an explosion shook the arena, Liu Hongfang revealed he had evacuated all five students for their safety, leaving the winner undecided.

• Shangguan Lang planned to use his team’s combined mental power to defeat Xu Jintang and Song Tianqi, believing Xu Jintang could not repeat her earlier burst of strength.
• At the championship match, Liu Hongfang refereed and warned both teams that attacks must stop when an opponent conceded or could no longer fight.
• Shangguan Lang’s teammates transferred their mental power to him while Li Ruxuan gave him a lollipop, and he formed a massive Storm Vortex.
• Xu Jintang lent her mental power to Song Tianqi, who activated Blazing Flame Burst and successfully formed a Crimson Flame Fireball.
• Shangguan Lang launched the Storm Vortex as Song Tianqi hurled his fireball; Xu Jintang secretly added ice energy, triggering a huge explosion when the attacks collided.
• Liu Hongfang sent all five students out of the arena to protect them, then explained that the explosion exceeded their ability to withstand; Shangguan Lang asked how the winner would be decided.

Xu Jintang and Song Tianqi’s team won the placement assessment championship, and Dean Wang awarded them three second-tier magical treasures to share with the injured Song Duoduo. As Xu Jintang presented the prizes in the medical center, Song Duoduo hesitated to choose first because she had missed the last two matches.

• Liu Hongfang judged that Xu Jintang’s team would have defeated Shangguan Lang’s team and declared Xu Jintang’s team the winner.
• Jiang Lu congratulated Xu Jintang and Song Tianqi but ordered them to submit written reflections, while Dean Wang decided to arrange rewards for the top teams.
• Jiang Shiyi gave Xu Jintang, Song Tianqi, and Song Duoduo three Myriad Treasures Pavilion free-purchase cards, and Song Tianqi said he would leave for Leikedasi the day after tomorrow.
• Xu Jintang told Jiang Shiyi she planned to apply to Leikedasi, and Dean Wang later presented her with three second-tier magical treasures for the team.
• Xu Jintang brought the Lightning Sword, Mystic Dark Shield, and Disguise Mask to Song Duoduo, who declined to choose first because she had not taken part in the last two matches.

Xu Jintang chose the disguise mask from the artifacts and helped Song Duoduo receive the other two before Song Tianqi and Jiang Shiyi left for Leikedasi. She bought flood dragon blood essence at the Myriad Treasures Pavilion and began absorbing its power in her dorm under the Ice Soul Dragon’s guidance.

• Xu Jintang took the disguise mask, while Song Tianqi gave both remaining artifacts to Song Duoduo to help her prepare for the joint examination.
• Song Duoduo resolved to recover and train for the military academy entrance exam instead of relying on her teammates.
• Xu Jintang saw Song Tianqi and Jiang Shiyi off on a passenger aircraft bound for the Federation Star Region.
• At the Myriad Treasures Pavilion, Supervisor Sun offered Xu Jintang flood dragon blood essence, and the Ice Soul Dragon advised her to buy it and assured her she could absorb it safely.
• Xu Jintang used her complimentary purchase card to obtain the blood essence, then returned to her dorm and began cultivating as the Ice Soul Dragon guided her through absorbing its power.

Xu Jintang boarded a passenger craft with the other Dawn Academy candidates to travel to the All-Star-Region Joint Examination in the Federation Star Region. The examiners secretly began an additional simulated battlefield assessment aboard the craft, and Xu Jintang grew suspicious when she felt no airsickness despite expecting it.

• After three months of preparation, Xu Jintang and Song Duoduo learned that candidates would travel together to the Federation Star Region for the joint examination.
• Xu Jintang and her classmates boarded the craft, where the crowd separated her from Song Duoduo, and Jiang Lu and Liu Hongfang saw them off.
• The craft remained at the transit hub as an energy wave drew every candidate into a simulated battlefield without their knowledge.
• Zhuang Silin, Shi Lekang, and the other chief invigilators watched the candidates through surveillance feeds and discussed the secret assessment.
• Xu Jintang woke after a jolt, realized she had forgotten her airsickness medicine, and then noticed she did not feel airsick despite the craft seeming to travel at high speed.

Xu Jintang realized the aircraft was a simulated battlefield and concluded that the joint examination had begun. After a violent disturbance caused panic among the candidates, she calmed them by explaining that the incident was their first test and urged them to wait for the aircraft to reach its destination.

• Xu Jintang learned from the Ice Soul Dragon that the galactic view was an illusion and suspected the examination had already begun.
• Xu Jintang found Wei Zixuan and explained that they were likely inside an advanced simulated battlefield after they discovered the staff were missing and the aircraft was on autopilot.
• The military academy teachers watched Xu Jintang identify the simulation, briefly competed to recruit her, then lost interest after seeing her support ability was Domain Slow.
• The aircraft shook violently, sending candidates tumbling and prompting them to fear that they would die without a pilot.
• Xu Jintang told the panicked candidates that the aircraft incident was an illusion and their first test, and she urged them to stay calm until they reached their destination.

Xu Jintang led the examinees in War Zone No. 11 against a horde of demonic beasts, while Wei Zixuan’s summoning ability brought a powerful ally into the fight. As the battle dragged on and the examinees began to fall, Xu Jintang continued fighting with severe injuries.

• Xu Jintang recognized that the examinees had to fight the beasts after their aircraft landed in War Zone No. 11, and she rallied them to charge out.
• Xu Jintang used her domain to slow the first-tier beasts while the examinees attacked and pushed them away from the aircraft.
• Xu Jintang was wounded by a beast, then used her ruby sleeve crossbow to kill one and returned to the fight.
• Wei Zixuan summoned a Four-Horned Rhinoceros, surprising Xu Jintang and the other examinees with its power above the third tier.
• In the operations room, Shi Lekang explained Wei Zixuan’s Random Summoning ability and said he had rejected a special admission offer to pursue Leikedasi; Zhuang Silin declined to name the other students who had caught her interest.
• As the prolonged battle exhausted the examinees and they began dying, Xu Jintang kept fighting despite her many wounds and struck at another beast with her ruby sleeve crossbow.

Xu Jintang survived the simulated battlefield assessment with Wei Zixuan and ranked ninth overall, surprising the military academy teachers. After recovering from airsickness aboard the aircraft, she went to the buffet dinner, where she reunited with Song Duoduo.

• Xu Jintang and Wei Zixuan survived until the supplementary assessment ended, and Captain Zhao explained that scores would depend on beasts killed and survival time.
• The assessment rankings placed Xu Jintang ninth and Wei Zixuan tenth overall, prompting surprise from the military academy teachers.
• A medical worker relieved Xu Jintang's airsickness, while Wei Zixuan called for help from the next room.
• Xu Jintang and Wei Zixuan went to the aircraft's buffet dinner, where Wei left to greet old classmates.
• Song Duoduo spotted Xu Jintang at the banquet hall and ran over to greet her.

Xu Jintang and Wei Zixuan discovered they had placed ninth and tenth in the additional assessment, drawing attention to their lower star region, and decided to hide their identities. At the joint examination base, chief examiner Zhuang Silin explained that the ranking would remain visible and update with candidates' scores, then asked Xu Jintang to stay behind for questions.

• Xu Jintang reunited with Song Duoduo, who said she had performed poorly in the additional assessment and noted that Yao Wenna and Xu Bohan had stayed in the combat zone longer.
• Xu Jintang arrived in the Federation's main city and saw that she and Wei Zixuan ranked ninth and tenth on the additional assessment ranking.
• Wei Zixuan worried the ranking would make them targets, so he chose the alias Wang Tieniu while Xu Jintang chose Xu Lanxing.
• At the joint examination base, Zhuang Silin announced that the top-ten ranking would remain displayed, prompting complaints from other candidates.
• Xu Jintang asked whether the ranking would appear during the official examination, and Zhuang Silin confirmed it would update as candidates earned points.
• Zhuang Silin asked Xu Jintang to stay behind so the examiners could question her.

After discovering that her airsickness had exposed a flaw in the simulated battlefield, Xu Jintang arrived in the Federation Star Region for the joint examination. She learned about formidable top-ranked examinees, prepared inscription talismans, and watched examinees from across the interstellar regions gather for the competition.

• Xu Jintang explained that airsickness had revealed the simulated battlefield bug, and the military academy teachers said they would have it fixed.
• Xu Jintang cultivated in her dormitory, then met Wei Zixuan and Li Tongfu in the cafeteria to discuss the top-ranked examinees.
• Li Tongfu described the powerful abilities and inscription skills of the top three examinees, while Xu Jintang and Wei Zixuan pretended their own top-ten rankings were mostly due to luck.
• After hearing that inscription talismans were allowed in the examination, Xu Jintang returned to her dormitory and began making more talismans.
• Examinees from other star regions arrived over the next two days, and Xu Jintang and Wei Zixuan's names appeared on the main city's top-ten rankings.

Xu Jintang and Wei Zixuan overslept after drinking with Song Duoduo and arrived late for the All-Star-Region Joint Examination. They entered the simulated battlefield an hour after the top examinees, and Xu Jintang found herself alone in the Death Forest.

• Xu Jintang spent two days cultivating and making Inscription Talismans before agreeing to dinner with Song Duoduo and Wei Zixuan.
• The three drank Fragrant Jade Dew Wine, became drunk, and playfully declared themselves sworn siblings.
• Zhuang Silin opened the joint examination and began calling examinees into the simulated battlefield while Xu Jintang slept through the roll call.
• Xu Jintang and Wei Zixuan rushed to Examination Area One, where the proctor made them wait until the other examinees had entered.
• Zhuang Silin allowed them to take part but delayed their entry by an hour as punishment for arriving late.
• Xu Jintang entered the simulated battlefield and found herself alone in the Death Forest.

Xu Jintang learned how the joint examination awarded points and joined Li Tongfu’s group to spend the night safely. She discovered Li Tongfu was eliminating sleeping teammates by stealing and crushing their points tokens.

• After Yu Wanyao took first place, Xu Jintang killed demonic beasts and learned they earned points through tokens.
• Xu Jintang met Li Tongfu and joined his group to camp for the night.
• Li Tongfu warned Xu Jintang that candidates could steal points from one another, and she remained wary of him.
• Xu Jintang saw Li Tongfu steal a sleeping teammate’s points token, crush it, and make the teammate disappear.

Xu Jintang caught Li Tongfu stealing points from his sleeping teammates, defeated him, and rose to sixth place, though examinees mistakenly believed she had ambushed people. The next morning, she reunited with Wei Zixuan at a safe zone, learned that supplies cost points, and began considering hunting stronger demonic beasts for a larger score.

• Li Tongfu entered the girls' tent to steal points, but Xu Jintang caught and restrained him.
• Xu Jintang took Li Tongfu's points, reached sixth place on the Joint Examination Red Ranking, and eliminated him by crushing his token.
• Wei Zixuan and other examinees heard Xu Jintang's ranking announcement, and some wrongly suspected she had robbed sleeping competitors.
• Xu Jintang woke in a tree, learned of a nearby safe zone, and discovered that examinees were wary of having their points stolen.
• Xu Jintang told Wei Zixuan what had happened, then learned that supplies cost points and tier-two demonic beasts earned more than tier-one beasts.

Xu Jintang and Wei Zixuan hunted a peak second-tier Poison-Scaled Fox and defeated it with inscriptions and a summoned bear. Yang Tuo and his team arrived to claim a share of the points, and Xu Jintang agreed to divide them while Yang Tuo demanded that the siblings accompany him for the next few days.

• Xu Jintang and Wei Zixuan left the safe zone and headed deeper into the forest to hunt second-tier demonic beasts.
• Xu Jintang gave Wei Zixuan a teleportation inscription, and he summoned a second-tier Silver-Glowing Black-Feathered Bear to help find the territory's lord beast.
• Xu Jintang lured the peak second-tier Poison-Scaled Fox from its cave and attacked it with dozens of air-blade inscriptions while Wei Zixuan's bear struck it down.
• Yang Tuo arrived with five teammates and demanded an equal share of the Poison-Scaled Fox's points, citing his rank as the joint exam's eighth-place contestant.
• Xu Jintang collected the fox's 200 points and proposed giving each of the eight people 20 points, with the remaining 40 going to Yang Tuo.
• Yang Tuo accepted the split and told Xu Jintang and Wei Zixuan to accompany him for the next few days.

Xu Jintang and Wei Zixuan lured Yang Tuo’s team into a fight with a third-tier demonic beast, then revealed their strength when the team was in danger. The chapter left Yang Tuo charging at them as Wei Zixuan summoned a peak third-tier Earth-Breaking Stone Ancient Bird.

• Xu Jintang persuaded Yang Tuo to hunt a third-tier demonic beast by promising him most of the points, and Yang Tuo agreed after his ranking fell to ninth.
• The group found a Mantis Electric Feather Beast, but Xu Jintang and Wei Zixuan withdrew from the battle while Yang Tuo and his five lackeys fought it.
• When Yang Tuo’s team began to falter, Xu Jintang used Domain Slow and defeated all five lackeys while Wei Zixuan watched.
• Yang Tuo drove back the Mantis Electric Feather Beast and charged at Xu Jintang and Wei Zixuan, threatening to get them eliminated with him.
• Xu Jintang told Wei Zixuan to summon a demonic beast, and he brought forth a peak third-tier Earth-Breaking Stone Ancient Bird.