Chapter Summaries

Xu Jintang and Wei Zixuan rose in the rankings after taking points from Yang Tuo’s group and killing a third-tier demonic beast, then prepared for a sudden demonic beast siege. They found a cave occupied by two rival groups and introduced themselves after Yu Wanyao spotted them.

• Xu Jintang took points from Yang Tuo’s tied-up lackeys, reached fifth place, and helped Wei Zixuan reach seventh, while Yang Tuo escaped into the forest.
• Xu Jintang and Wei Zixuan killed the weakened mantis beast, split its points, and left camp as night fell.
• The military academy examiners debated Xu Jintang’s methods, while examinees in the safe zone suspected she and Wei Zixuan had teamed up to steal points.
• The next day, Xu Jintang and Wei Zixuan hunted second-tier demonic beasts until a broadcast announced a rampage and siege battle with doubled points.
• Xu Jintang and Wei Zixuan hurried to find shelter and encountered Jing Yuanzheng and Yu Wanyao’s groups disputing over a cave.
• Yu Wanyao spotted Xu Jintang and Wei Zixuan, and Xu Jintang explained that they only wanted to shelter in the cave.

Xu Jintang and Wei Zixuan joined Jing Yuanzheng and Yu Wanyao in a cave as the demonic beast rampage began, then helped defend it against a wave of beasts. Xu Jintang slowed the attackers while Jing Yuanzheng trapped dozens in his Heavenly Remnant Kan Water Diagram, and Yu Wanyao charged into the pack.

• Jing Yuanzheng called a truce with Yu Wanyao so their groups could work together through the demonic beast rampage, and Xu Jintang and Wei Zixuan joined them in the cave.
• Jing Yuanzheng organized the sixteen students into rotating teams, assigning Xu Jintang and Wei Zixuan to his group with Yu Wanyao.
• When the rampage began, Yu Wanyao threatened to beat up Xu Jintang and Wei Zixuan over rumors that they stole points.
• Xu Jintang slowed a pack of beasts chasing fleeing students, and Jing Yuanzheng let the newcomers shelter in the cave before summoning his Heavenly Remnant Kan Water Diagram.
• Jing Yuanzheng absorbed dozens of beasts into the diagram, while Xu Jintang expanded Domain Slow and Yu Wanyao charged into the slowed pack.

Xu Jintang and Wei Zixuan helped defend the cave during the demonic beast rampage, but Yang Tuo exposed their identities and accused them of betraying his team. The cave’s occupants kept the two pairs apart, and as night fell, Yang Tuo objected when Xu Jintang volunteered to take the first watch.

• Yu Wanyao shielded the cave from a horde of tier-one demonic beasts, and Xu Jintang proposed that the survivors split the points equally.
• Xu Jintang and the others helped Yang Tuo fight off another beast horde, after which Yang Tuo recognized her and accused her and Wei Zixuan of using false names and eliminating his teammates.
• Xu Jintang and Yang Tuo gave opposing accounts of their earlier conflict, and Jing Yuanzheng stopped them from fighting by ordering them to stay apart until the rampage ended.
• Xu Jintang repeatedly charged out to kill beasts and collected enough points to pass a thousand, while the cave’s occupants grew wary of her and Wei Zixuan.
• After night fell, Xu Jintang volunteered for the first watch with Wei Zixuan, and Yang Tuo protested that he did not trust them.

After the demonic beast rampage ended, Xu Jintang and Wei Zixuan intercepted Yang Tuo and took his points, pushing Xu Jintang to third place and Wei Zixuan to fifth. With their nutrient solutions gone and three days left in the joint examination, they decided to return to the safe zone.

• Xu Jintang explained that she had taken back points from a friend who stole them, while Yu Wanyao and Jing Yuanzheng listened during the night watch.
• The demonic beast rampage ended at dawn, and Yang Tuo hurried out of the cave before Xu Jintang and Wei Zixuan followed him.
• Xu Jintang and Wei Zixuan attacked Yang Tuo, stole his points jade token, and transferred its points before Wei Zixuan crushed it, eliminating him.
• The rankings updated with Xu Jintang in third place and Wei Zixuan in fifth, prompting examinees to speculate about their point thefts.
• Xu Jintang drank her last nutrient solution, and Wei Zixuan said they needed to return to the safe zone because they had run out with three days remaining in the examination.

Xu Jintang and Wei Zixuan used their bandit reputation to obtain nutrient solution before hunting Second Tier demonic beasts. In the forest, they discovered Yan Zitao and Yan Yuting were impersonating them to rob examinees, and subdued the siblings after a fight.

• Xu Jintang and Wei Zixuan demanded nutrient solution from examinees while offering payment, but their bandit reputation frightened their victims.
• The pair hunted Second Tier demonic beasts together and retreated when they neared territory where Third Tier beasts might appear.
• Xu Jintang and Wei Zixuan overheard Yan Zitao and Yan Yuting pretending to be them while robbing examinees of points.
• Xu Jintang attacked Yan Zitao, and Wei Zixuan summoned a Peak Third Tier demonic beast to help subdue the siblings.
• Xu Jintang took Yan Zitao's points jade token and asked how many examinees they had robbed, while Yan Yuting pleaded for leniency.

Xu Jintang and Wei Zixuan’s attempt to clear their names only strengthened the rumors that they were bandits. On the final day of the joint examination, a ten-thousand-point red flag drew the examinees into a tense standoff, and a boy with a folding fan proposed an all-out melee.

• Xu Jintang took back the eight hundred points Yan Zitao had stolen and had Yan Zitao and Yan Yuting promise to tell others she and Wei Zixuan were good people before letting them go.
• Yan Zitao and Yan Yuting tried to correct the rumors, but the teams they met assumed they had been threatened, further damaging Xu Jintang and Wei Zixuan’s reputation.
• Two days later, the joint examination entered its final day with Yu Wanyao in first place, Jing Yuanzheng in second, Xu Jintang in third, and Wei Zixuan in fifth.
• The examination announced a capture-the-flag mode that would award ten thousand points to the first person to pull out the red flag and immediately end the exam.
• Xu Jintang and Wei Zixuan watched from trees as examinees gathered around the flag; when one boy tried to seize it, the others attacked and drove him back.
• A boy carrying a folding fan proposed settling the standoff with an all-out melee.

At the joint examination’s red flag, Xue Zhongqi’s attempt to seize first place sparked a chaotic battle, but Xu Jintang used her large supply of inscription talismans to reach the flag first. She won the examination, and the remaining examinees stopped fighting as the result became final.

• As the examinees stalled around the red flag, Xue Zhongqi launched inscription talismans to trigger a battle and tried to reach the flag, but Yu Wanyao dragged him down and attacked him.
• Xu Jintang and Wei Zixuan revealed their plan: Xu Jintang went for the flag while Wei Zixuan distracted Jing Yuanzheng, who tried to pull Xu Jintang back with the Kan Water Diagram.
• Xue Zhongqi sent more than twenty offensive inscription talismans at Xu Jintang, but she broke them apart with over sixty of her own, clearing her path to the flag.
• Xu Jintang grabbed the red flag, earned 10,000 points, and was announced as the joint examination’s first-place winner.
• The red flag’s capture ended the examination; the fighting stopped, Xue Zhongqi stared at Xu Jintang, and Yu Wanyao and Jing Yuanzheng acknowledged the result.

Xu Jintang took first place in the All-Star-Region Joint Examination Competition and chose Leikedasi Military Academy. After receiving her admission letter and uniform, she prepared to register with Wei Zixuan.

• Xu Jintang and Wei Zixuan’s joint examination results were locked, and the teachers discussed Xu Jintang’s use of Inscription Talismans.
• Zhuang Silin announced Xu Jintang’s first-place finish and the Joint Examination Red Ranking examinees’ right to choose among the five great military academies.
• Xu Jintang, Wei Zixuan, and Yu Wanyao said they planned to apply to Leikedasi, while Xue Zhongqi questioned Xu Jintang about her Inscription Talismans.
• Dawn Academy celebrated Xu Jintang’s victory, and Liu Hongfang traveled to the Federation Star Region to support her choice of academy.
• Xu Jintang submitted Leikdasi Military Academy as her sole preference, returned her visiting student nameplate to Zhuang Silin, and received an admission letter and uniform.
• Wei Zixuan told Xu Jintang that they could register at the academy and check into their dormitories the next day.

Xu Jintang and Wei Zixuan registered at Leikdasi Military Academy and settled into their dormitories. Xu Jintang then disguised herself to visit the Federation Inscriptionist Association, where she began an admission assessment and learned how difficult inscription work was.

• Song Duoduo chose to apply to Red Ridge Military Academy, and she, Xu Jintang, and Wei Zixuan celebrated together before parting.
• Xu Jintang and Wei Zixuan registered at Leikdasi Military Academy, received permission to move into the dormitories during the break, and explored their new rooms.
• Wei Zixuan told Xu Jintang that their incoming class might participate in the military academy league three years later.
• Xu Jintang disguised herself and entered the Federation Inscriptionist Association to ask about joining and investigate her second ability.
• Sun Yuantian explained the three parts of the admission assessment, while Xue Zhongqi praised Sun Yuantian's exceptional talent as an inscriptionist.

Xu Jintang registered for the Inscriptionist Association assessment under the name Qian Duoduo and spent two days reviewing tasks she had already learned. At the assessment, she tried to keep a low profile, but Xue Zhongqi noticed her basic inscription pen; the first task began with Xu Jintang observing how slowly the other candidates formed mental power threads.

• Xu Jintang registered for the assessment under the name Qian Duoduo and arranged to take it the day after tomorrow.
• Xue Zhongqi tried to exchange contact information with Xu Jintang, but she refused and later ran into him again at the military academy.
• Xu Jintang reviewed the assessment handbook, realized she already knew all three tasks, and spent two days practicing how to slow her inscription speed.
• Xu Jintang arrived at the association for the assessment, where Xue Zhongqi noticed her secondhand inscription pen but said nothing.
• Sun Yuantian began the timed mental power thread linking task, and Xu Jintang watched the neighboring candidates struggle while the boy ahead of her formed one complete thread.

Xu Jintang passed the first two inscription master assessments while pretending to work more slowly than she could. Her fast engraving drew the attention of Sun Yuantian and Xue Zhongqi, and she waited as the remaining candidates attempted the second assessment.

• Xu Jintang deliberately acted as if she were struggling, then completed the mental-power thread assessment three minutes before the deadline under the name Qian Duoduo.
• After recovering her barely spent mental power, Xu Jintang began the formation diagram engraving assessment and ruined her first raw stone when observers noticed she was close to finishing quickly.
• With Xue Zhongqi watching, Xu Jintang slowed down and completed a level-one basic inscription; the proctoring system recorded her result as 1 hour, 8 minutes, and 54 seconds.
• Sun Yuantian confirmed Xu Jintang's inscription was valid and told her she had passed the second assessment, while Xue Zhongqi was astonished by her speed.
• Xu Jintang waited while the other candidates continued, until the last candidate ruined his tenth raw stone.

Xu Jintang passed the final inscription master assessment and joined the Inscriptionist Association. She agreed to represent the association in the All-Interstellar Inscription Master Competition, hoping its prize would help her obtain a rare cultivation method, and returned to the academy to check the association’s internal network.

• After falling asleep during the previous assessment, Xu Jintang woke to learn that the third round would be held the next morning, while Sun Yuantian and Xue Zhongqi discussed her hidden ability.
• Xu Jintang completed the attribute-adding assessment in forty-three minutes and twenty seconds, passed all three assessments, and officially joined the association.
• Sun Yuantian invited Xu Jintang to compete in the All-Interstellar Inscription Master Competition with Xue Zhongqi, and she agreed after learning the winner would receive one million star coins.
• Xu Jintang learned that the association’s star-attribute mental power cultivation method cost one hundred thousand contribution points, then asked whether winning the competition would let her borrow it.
• Sun Yuantian promised Xu Jintang access to the association’s cultivation methods and treasures if she won, and she later returned to her dorm and logged into the association’s internal network.

Xu Jintang mastered level-two inscriptions during the break and sold her talismans for nearly a hundred and twenty thousand star coins. At Leikdasi Military Academy, she was assigned to the support class and appointed class monitor, but Cao Xing'an objected to the choice.

• Xu Jintang failed repeatedly at making a level-two inscription before finally succeeding with her last attributeless raw stone.
• Xu Jintang made several dozen level-two inscriptions during the break and sold her stock for nearly a hundred and twenty thousand star coins.
• Xu Jintang found herself assigned to the support class, where she reunited with Xue Zhongqi and learned Jing Yuanzheng had joined an army internship while Yu Wanyao was likely in the melee class.
• Wu Jinghong appointed Xu Jintang class monitor and Xue Zhongqi deputy class monitor based on their joint examination rankings.
• Cao Xing'an objected, and Wu Jinghong challenged anyone who considered themselves stronger than Xu Jintang and Xue Zhongqi to stand up and challenge them.

Xu Jintang became support class representative and challenged Leikedasi’s exclusion of support students from the Military Academy League selection trials. She and Xue Zhongqi brought their protest to year director Zhuang Silin, who explained that the rule had stood for over a century and was beyond her authority to change.

• Wu Jinghong named Xu Jintang class representative and Xue Zhongqi deputy after no one else challenged them.
• Qin Shuxue asked why support classes could not enter the Military Academy League trials, and Wu Jinghong explained that support students were excluded because of their weaker combat prospects at higher tiers.
• Xu Jintang backed her classmates’ protest and invited them to confront the academy leadership, but only Xue Zhongqi agreed to accompany her.
• Xu Jintang and Xue Zhongqi went to the administration building, where Xu interrupted a teachers’ meeting about the team selection rules.
• Xu Jintang told Zhuang Silin that she was protesting the support class’s ineligibility, and Zhuang Silin replied that she could not change the century-old rule.

Xu Jintang and Xue Zhongqi asked Leikedasi's teachers to let support ability users enter the Military Academy League selection, and the teachers gave them two months to prove their strength. After discussing a simulated battlefield challenge with Wei Zixuan and Yu Wanyao, Xu Jintang trained and learned that reaching the second tier would take six months unless she used more flood dragon blood essence.

• Xu Jintang argued that support ability users should be allowed into the selection, and Zhuang Silin said they would need to prove they were not weaker than combat ability users of the same tier.
• Xu Jintang told Xue Zhongqi she had no plan yet, then went with him to eat in the cafeteria.
• Yu Wanyao questioned whether Xu Jintang's ability was really a support type, and Xu Jintang confirmed that it currently was.
• Xu Jintang explained the teachers' challenge to Wei Zixuan and Yu Wanyao, and they suggested using a simulated battlefield to demonstrate support abilities.
• Xu Jintang cultivated after eating and completed a mental-power circulation faster than usual.
• The Ice Soul Dragon said Xu Jintang could reach the second tier in six months, or advance sooner with flood dragon blood essence at the risk of destabilizing her foundation.

Xu Jintang rallied the support class to challenge the melee and ranged classes at Leikedasi, and Wu Jinghong agreed to relay their challenge while leaving the competition to the students. As the school buzzed about the match, Yu Wanyao began organizing the melee class’s response and asked Yan Zitao to predict Xu Jintang’s next move.

• Xu Jintang persuaded the support class to stop yielding and agree to challenge the melee and ranged classes.
• Wu Jinghong taught the class about third-tier Ability Trait Assimilation, then agreed to deliver the challenge to the other classes’ teachers.
• Xu Jintang told Xue Zhongqi and Qin Shuxue to prepare for the match, and Qin Shuxue said she welcomed the chance to test her strength.
• News of the challenge spread around Leikedasi, and the melee class’s teacher left the decision to the students.
• Yu Wanyao asked Yan Zitao, who had met Xu Jintang during the joint examination, to analyze what Xu Jintang would do next.

Xu Jintang arranged a week-long siege challenge in which the support class would defend against the melee and ranged combat classes, then began gathering information to plan the defense. As the weekend arrived, the school provided free advanced simulation pods for the challenge.

• Mu Guang and the ranged combat class agreed to perform normally after Wei Zixuan explained that Xu Jintang was protesting the support class's exclusion from the Military Academy League selections.
• Xu Jintang and Xue Zhongqi proposed a siege battle, with the support class defending for a week against the other two classes.
• Xu Jintang told Song Duoduo about the coming challenge, then met Yu Wanyao and Mu Guang, who agreed that their classes would attack.
• Wu Jinghong and the other teachers made a hot spring trip the reward for the winning team, and Xu Jintang asked her classmates to submit information about their abilities.
• Xu Jintang reviewed the submitted abilities and began considering how to use them in the defense strategy.
• The weekend arrived, and the school agreed to provide free advanced simulation pods for all three classes.

A teleportation bug sent Xue Zhongqi to the attackers’ camp and Yan Zitao to the defenders’ city, leaving both sides to secure the misplaced students. As snowfall and falling temperatures strained the preparations, Xu Jintang considered how to recover Xue Zhongqi, while Yu Wanyao wondered whether the defenders would attempt a rescue.

• Xu Jintang and the support class entered the city as the siege began, while students and teachers watched the match livestream.
• Xue Zhongqi appeared in the attackers’ tent and was tied up, while Yan Zitao was captured and questioned by Xu Jintang in the defenders’ city.
• Yan Yuting reported that the support class was missing Xue Zhongqi, and the attackers confirmed that Yan Zitao was missing from their ranks.
• Snow began falling, and Xu Jintang considered how to get Xue Zhongqi back as Yu Wanyao distributed heating fuel to the attackers.
• Yu Wanyao told Mu Guang that losing Yan Zitao mattered less than gaining Xue Zhongqi, and Mu Guang asked whether Xu Jintang’s class would try to rescue him.

Xu Jintang and Yan Yuting sneaked into the attackers’ camp, rescued Xue Zhongqi, and set fire to the supply tent before returning to the main city. With most of their heating fuel destroyed, Yu Wanyao and Mu Guang decided they had to accelerate the siege while keeping a retreat option open.

• Yu Wanyao and Mu Guang discussed their plans, confident the smaller support class would not dare attack their camp.
• Xu Jintang and Yan Yuting entered the camp, subdued Xue Zhongqi’s guard, and freed Xue Zhongqi.
• Xu Jintang took the guard’s jade token and set fire to the supply tent while Xue Zhongqi and Yan Yuting waited outside.
• The trio fled through the snow, and Xu Jintang crushed the guard’s jade token after they reached the main city.
• Yu Wanyao discovered Xue Zhongqi and his guard were missing and realized Xu Jintang had raided the camp.
• After most of their heating fuel burned, Yu Wanyao and Mu Guang agreed to speed up the siege while leaving room to retreat.

Xu Jintang prepared the support class to defend the main city after its barrier disappeared, while Yu Wanyao led an assault and Mu Guang’s squad tried to steal supplies. Xu Jintang stopped the theft, helped repel the attackers, and eliminated Wei Zixuan, leaving her and Xue Zhongqi to target the enemy’s strongest fighters.

• Yu Wanyao planned a diversionary assault while Mu Guang led a squad through a dog hole to steal the support class’s supplies.
• Xu Jintang confronted Mu Guang, whose Xiaoshan Cauldron disrupted her with its humming, and he escaped with his teammates; she then blocked the dog hole.
• Yu Wanyao led more than sixty attackers against the gate tower, while Xue Zhongqi used Soul Link to restrain Wei Zixuan’s giant eagle.
• Xu Jintang fought Wei Zixuan, took his jade token, and crushed it, eliminating him and dismissing his giant eagle.
• Xu Jintang asked about the cooldown on Xue Zhongqi’s chain and proposed eliminating the attackers with the strongest abilities first.