Recaps

Wen Jing ate the golden shell and grade C Empowerment Stone Dean Ailin had given her, gaining skill points, a massive increase in her attributes, and new traits. When the stone gave her no superpower talent, she suspected that someone had extracted it and began questioning what the Federation knew about transferring talents.

• Wen Jing ate the golden shell, raising her attributes by 20 points and gaining the Sharpness trait.
• A golden pearl fell from Wen Jing as she ate; she swallowed it and gained 100 skill points.
• Wen Jing ate the grade C Empowerment Stone, gaining 100 points in each attribute and the Extreme Speed and Calmness traits.
• Wen Jing waited for the stone to grant her a superpower talent, but no notification appeared.
• Wen Jing reasoned that the grade C stone might have been emptied of its talent and considered whether the Federation could extract and transfer superpowers.

Wen Jing learned how her new traits worked, then visited Dean Bai, who revealed a one-use Secret Treasure Gate and let her choose an item from within. As Wen Jing used Mental Vision to search the gate, she spotted a golden light larger and brighter than the object closest to her.

• Wen Jing tested Sharpness, Extreme Speed, and Calm, discovering that each converted her energy into a specialized enhancement.
• Wen Jing returned to Mystic Radiance Academy and told Dean Bai she had received no ability from the Empowerment Stone.
• Dean Bai explained the Treasure Shell’s effects and its one-use limit, and Wen Jing said it had improved her strength.
• Dean Bai opened the Secret Treasure Gate, which could be opened once every five years and allowed each other person to take one item.
• Wen Jing reached into the gate and used Mental Vision, spotting several lights and identifying a golden one as the largest and brightest.

Wen Jing obtained a high-grade Wilderness Weapon from Dean Bai’s Secret Treasure Gate: antique glasses that revealed people’s glowing auras and trait tags. After testing the glasses and concealing them, she learned the Gate was created by Dean Bai’s mother, leaving her curious about Dean Bai’s family.

• Wen Jing dislocated her elbow to reach an item in the Secret Treasure Gate and retrieved a pair of antique glasses before the Gate disappeared.
• Dean Bai identified the glasses as a high-grade Wilderness Weapon, and Wen Jing bound them to herself and discovered they showed a person’s aura and trait tags.
• Wen Jing and Dean Bai tested the glasses on people from nearby campuses, and Wen Jing inferred that aura colors indicated relative combat strength while tags revealed prominent traits.
• Wen Jing made the glasses invisible with her Isolation Layer and Mimicry effects to keep the weapon concealed.
• Dean Bai explained that the Secret Treasure Gate was a law created by her mother and that she was its only key, surprising Wen Jing.

Dean Bai explained that her mother, a missing S-rank awakener, created the Secret Treasure Gate and that the Taman Family and factional opponents threatened her interests. The next morning, Wen Jing tested her Tactical Glasses at the main league venue, where Dean Fu and Dean Ailin noticed her gaze.

• Wen Jing learned that Dean Bai's mother was the Federation's latest S-rank awakener but had been missing for eighty-three years.
• Dean Bai explained that the Taman Family and two other conglomerates coveted her inheritance while also relying on her mother's legacy for support.
• Dean Bai described the conservatives, reformists, and neutrals in the Federation, identifying herself and Old Xie as reformists and Dean Ailin as a conservative.
• Dean Bai told Wen Jing that her Freshman League championship strengthened the reformists' position and warned her to watch for the Taman Family's underhanded tactics.
• Wen Jing went with Dean Bai to the main league venue and used her Tactical Glasses to view entries, prompting Dean Fu and Dean Ailin to notice her.

Wen Jing tested her Wilderness Weapon at the league venue and then entered a scorching Ancient Wilderness region to explore with her new tactical glasses. After the glasses revealed that the sun might be a powerful Wilderness Beast capable of inflicting scorching thirst, she hid underground to recover and considered abandoning the world.

• Wen Jing confirmed that top-tier Awakeners could detect her Wilderness Weapon, then left the venue to enter the Ancient Wilderness again.
• Wen Jing greeted Lin Yuan at Mystic Radiance’s registration center and traveled to a random location in a vast, volcanic wasteland.
• Wen Jing tested her tactical glasses and discovered that eating the dry gravel worsened her dehydration.
• Wen Jing glanced at the sun through the glasses, triggering a supernatural attack that rapidly evaporated half the moisture in her body.
• Wen Jing burrowed beneath the gravel, used Revival to recover, and reasoned that the sun was likely a powerful Wilderness Beast behind the region’s scorching thirst.

Wen Jing explored the scorched wilderness, hunting Jeboas to ease her thirst before encountering a crystal-armored lizard hiding in quicksand. She began fighting the creature, which she named Bulbasaur, and used Gravity Silk to pin its tail as she attacked its armor.

• Wen Jing emerged from the ground and tested whether the Stellar Beast had locked onto her Tactical Glasses before continuing her exploration.
• Wen Jing hunted and ate a nest of Jeboas, easing her scorching thirst and learning that their entries could include her subjective assessment of their meat.
• Wen Jing calculated that her remaining moisture limited her current exploration range and abandoned the idea of evolving resistance to scorching thirst.
• Wen Jing found a red crystal concealed in quicksand and attacked the creature hiding beneath it.
• The crystal-armored lizard triggered explosions and tried to flee, but Wen Jing caught its tail with Gravity Silk and attacked its armor.

Wen Jing defeated a Bulbasaur in the Scorching Thirst World by using Howl of the Hunt, then ate it and gained Elementary Heat Resistance before ending her exploration with two crystals. Back at Mystic Radiance, she brought the crystals to the registration center, while news of her Freshman League championship and her status as Dean Bai's sole student continued to reshape reactions across the academies and Federation.

• Wen Jing broke through the Bulbasaur's crystal armor, then killed it with Howl of the Hunt when it dragged her into the quicksand.
• Wen Jing ate the Bulbasaur, acquired Elementary Heat Resistance, and collected its back and tail crystals before cocooning safely for the night.
• Wen Jing returned to the Mystic Radiance registration center with the crystals and bought two packaging boxes instead of selling them.
• Mystic Radiance staff promoted the cheap boxes as the champion Wen Jing's choice, causing their sales to surge.
• Mystic Radiance won both main-league championships, while the Freshman League drew greater attention because Wen Jing, an F-rank Awakener, had won it.
• Ocher Soil students reached their academy's highest main-league ranking in ten years, and Federation insiders learned Wen Jing was Dean Bai's sole student.

After returning from the Freshman League, Wen Jing received the champion’s rewards, began studying Dean Fu Yuan’s mental power course, and returned to Red Earth Academy to find herself enrolled in three majors. She resumed exploring the Ancient Wilderness and flew toward a newly discovered stretch of rift terrain.

• Wen Jing spent 4,999 league reward points on the remaining levels of the Pagoda Secret Scroll and studied Dean Fu Yuan’s Mental Power Fundamentals course aboard the return spaceship.
• Wen Jing returned to Red Earth Academy as the Freshman League champion, and the crowd greeted her while shielding their eyes from her title’s glow.
• Wen Jing learned that she had been enrolled in the Energy Shaping, Enhancement, and Heteromorphism majors after their instructors argued over which department should claim her.
• Wen Jing returned to her regular routine of cultivation, classes, and Ancient Wilderness exploration.
• Wen Jing flew toward the rift terrain she had spotted on her previous trip.

Wen Jing explored the dark interior of the rift and discovered a swarm of tiny, light-absorbing insects living on the rock walls. She found the swarm was a nutritious source of food and water, but her growing sense of danger suggested a predator might be nearby.

• Wen Jing descended into the rift, resisted mental interference, and found a gourd-shaped cavern filled with powerful winds.
• Wen Jing used an Energy Pulse to reveal black moss whose tiny insects released glowing paralytic scale powder when she approached.
• Wen Jing discovered she was immune to the powder and identified the moss insects as a new Wilderness Beast.
• Wen Jing ate the insects and moss, finding them delicious and nutritious enough to raise her attributes and provide abundant water.
• Wen Jing harvested the moss in patches for sustainable growth, but grew increasingly wary when no other creatures appeared.

Wen Jing witnessed a giant subterranean insect harvest moss and discovered that its residue could create new moss fields, then collected the residue and crystals for research. She brought the samples and her high-grade Wilderness Weapon to the research institute, where Xie Ming was ready to test them.

• Wen Jing hid from a giant armored insect that emerged from the rift, harvested the moss, and continued upward.
• Wen Jing watched the insect surface to absorb heat before it plunged back underground, then found glowing residue on the rock wall it had scraped.
• Wen Jing identified the residue as cold ash that catalyzed moss growth, sampled it, and collected more for research.
• Wen Jing brought the cold ash and crystals to the research institute and met Xie Ming, who had prepared testing equipment for her high-grade Wilderness Weapon.

Wen Jing tested her Wilderness Weapon and materials with Xie Ming, who gave her Deepwater Algae that could grant immunity to water pressure. The next day, she entered the Ancient Wilderness and began eating the algae, trying to digest as much as possible before its effect expired.

• Wen Jing used the Tactical Glasses to read Xie Ming's entries and privately noticed his secret-crush entry.
• Xie Ming tested Wen Jing's Wilderness Weapon, appraised her Ancient Wilderness materials, and offered to extract the informational substance from the cold ash.
• Xie Ming gave Wen Jing Deepwater Algae, explaining that the amount she digested would determine her water-pressure immunity.
• Wen Jing returned to the Ancient Wilderness, inspected how the cold ash had changed the rock wall, and started rapidly eating the Deepwater Algae.

Wen Jing finished the Deepwater Algae and discovered that it gave her proportional immunity to water pressure, surviving a test at fifteen thousand meters. Dean Bai then told her that Azure Jade and Mystic Radiance had invited her to study as an exchange student, and Wen Jing chose to visit Azure Jade first.

• Wen Jing used [Extreme Speed] to finish the Deepwater Algae and gained the Deep Diving trait.
• Xie Ming tested Wen Jing in a pressure chamber, where she endured pressure up to the chamber’s fifteen-thousand-meter limit.
• Wen Jing explained that the algae gave her proportional water-pressure immunity, and Xie Ming estimated the reduction factor was over fifty.
• Dean Bai told Wen Jing that Azure Jade and Mystic Radiance had invited her to exchange, with twenty additional places for students in her year.
• Wen Jing chose to visit Azure Jade first so she could consult Dean Fu about Mental Power Fundamentals: Complete Edition.
• Dean Bai planned to assign the additional exchange places through the next year-group ranking tournament.

Wen Jing trained her invisibility in Wei Si’s class, then returned to Gale Rift Valley and used cold ash extract to conceal herself as she boarded the giant insect heading underground. She left the story riding the creature into the depths to explore the unknown ecosystem below.

• Wei Si taught the heteromorphic students that talent was linked to individual will, and Wen Jing considered whether her panel was her true ability.
• Wen Jing practiced invisibility by evading classmates’ smart-terminal lights, improving her Advanced Movement Technique.
• Wen Jing explored the wasteland and dry riverbed around Gale Rift Valley, then returned to feed on the mature moss-and-insect colony.
• Wen Jing waited for the giant insect to emerge, then used Gravity Silk, Isolation Layer, and information from cold ash extract to attach herself between its carapace segments.
• The giant insect carried Wen Jing back underground as she set out to explore the hidden depths.

Wen Jing rode the giant worm into the underground world, where she discovered a glowing ecosystem and narrowly escaped a reverse waterfall of supernaturally cold droplets. She began exploring away from the cliff and spotted enormous jellyfish-like creatures whose traits were all gold.

• Wen Jing endured the giant worm's scorching body as it carried her through rock for more than eight hours.
• The giant worm emerged into a vast underground realm filled with glowing moss, fluorescent mushrooms, and floating jellyfish-shaped creatures.
• Wen Jing leapt off before the giant worm plunged farther down a cliff and encountered a reverse waterfall of drifting droplets.
• A droplet froze Wen Jing's foreleg, so she severed the damaged part and fled to safety before her body regenerated.
• Wen Jing began exploring along the cliff at low altitude and saw giant jellyfish-like creatures with the gold traits [Phase-Change Body], [Cold Flame Core], [Energy Siphon], and [Symbiosis Network].

Wen Jing encountered a rock-assimilating worm and a frost spider in the underground moss jungle, gaining a brief meal before the spider attacked. She fought the spider with Energy-Shaping Weapons and Gravity Silk, keeping pace with its deadly strikes.

• Wen Jing attacked a segmented worm, but it petrified itself and exploded, destroying the coral-like plant it had been eating.
• Wen Jing detected a giant frost spider underground after its silk web slowed her, then revealed herself and fired an Energy Pulse at it.
• The spider covered Wen Jing's path with freezing silk, but she used Extreme Speed to break through a weak spot in the web.
• Wen Jing met the spider's ice-cone chelicerae with Energy-Shaping Weapons and fought back, using Gravity Silk to evade attacks and disrupt its balance.

Wen Jing killed and devoured a powerful giant spider in the underground world, gaining major attribute increases and two new traits. Back in her villa, she tested Frost Vein Silk and discovered it could not be used at the same time as Gravity Silk.

• Wen Jing advanced her Fighting skill while battling the giant spider, then used a mental attack to interrupt its web assault.
• Wen Jing struck the spider's vulnerable abdomen-thorax junction and killed it, though the fight left her badly injured.
• Wen Jing devoured the spider, raising her Life, Strength, and Speed by more than fifty points each and acquiring Intermediate Cold Resistance and Frost Vein Silk Gland I.
• Wen Jing returned to her villa and tested Frost Vein Silk, learning that she could release it instead of Gravity Silk and that it produced intense cold.

After damaging her villa’s training room with her improved strength, Wen Jing returned to the underground world and raided a Frost Spider’s food stores, then escaped a larger spider and its young. After half a month of hunting, she returned to the registration center and discovered she could manifest a shape-changing chitinous weapon on her human arm.

• Wen Jing paid compensation for the damaged training room, requested more durable equipment, and returned underground to seek out the Frost Spider’s nest.
• Wen Jing followed the spider’s silk through underground caverns and ate frozen Stingy Worms and other creatures from its ice-silk cocoons.
• Wen Jing encountered a spider mother with more than a dozen young spiders and escaped after her imitation Frost Vein Silk briefly slowed them.
• Wen Jing spent half a month hunting underground creatures and collecting Faint-Glow Fungus Cores, which she sold to the academy rather than eat because they interfered with her Mimicry.
• Wen Jing returned to the registration center and discovered she could form tough, shape-changing chitin armor and biomass weapons on her human arm.

After Wen Jing’s compatibility reached 60%, she fought Dean Bai to test the strength of her partial Wilderness Body transformation. Dean Bai concluded that Wen Jing could defeat D-grade opponents and warned her to keep her true strength secret before her exchange visit to Azure Jade.

• Wen Jing updated her compatibility information at the testing center, and Dean Bai arranged a fight to assess her breakthrough.
• Dean Bai’s luck repeatedly disrupted Wen Jing’s attacks until Wen Jing abandoned her plans and fought on instinct, triggering new combat and movement skill breakthroughs.
• Wen Jing partially transformed her Wilderness Body and landed a bloody scratch on Dean Bai before the training ground’s overload alarm sounded.
• Xie Ming healed Wen Jing and Dean Bai, while Dean Bai concealed the session’s records and advised Wen Jing to keep her strength secret from Iron Curtain.
• After Wen Jing left, Dean Bai told Xie Ming that Wen Jing could kill him in a fight to the death, despite suffering serious injuries herself.

After her compatibility rose above 60%, Wen Jing explored the Ancient Wilderness more often and accepted a Genetic Collapse containment mission. She joined four third-year students at the disaster site in Anning City, where the team entered the danger zone to begin the rescue and containment operation.

• Dean Bai reassured Xie Ming about his fighting ability and said he was curious to see how far Wen Jing would go.
• Wen Jing's Ancient Wilderness entry interval shortened to ten hours, and she bought the Level Three Energy Shield combat technique with research-project points.
• Wen Jing accepted an F-rank containment mission after a Genetic Collapse occurred in a city whose name would be revealed when she accepted.
• Wen Jing was assigned to a five-person team with four third-year students, who welcomed her as their leader when they met at the academy.
• The adviser briefed the team on the incident involving Jiang Qin at the Energy Gathering Group in Anning City, where eight employees were caught in the affected area.
• Wen Jing led her teammates into the marked danger zone, and they landed safely in a world that still looked normal.

Wen Jing and her team entered Jiang Qin’s out-of-control zone, where she directed her teammates to rescue trapped people while she searched for the Superpower Core. Using Mental Vision, she tracked the moving core and noticed a distinctive fragment inside a hafnium-fiber harp embedded in a steel tree.

• Han An explained how out-of-control zones and Superpower Cores worked as the team approached the central area.
• The office buildings vanished, and the five entered a steel forest above a mire filled with grasping hands and staring eyes.
• Wen Jing used an Energy Pulse to burn through the mire, then sent her teammates in pairs to rescue trapped people while she pursued the core.
• Wen Jing used Mental Vision to trace the largest moving planetary core and locate intact mental bodies where survivors might be.
• Wen Jing noticed a fragment marked by a distinctive point of light and found a hafnium-fiber harp protruding from a giant steel tree.

Wen Jing discovered that devouring fragments in the out-of-control zone could give her skills while exposing her to Jiang Qin’s memories and emotions, so she resolved not to absorb Superpower Cores until she could resist their influence. She caught up with Jiang Qin’s moving Superpower Core and tried to contain it, but its afterimage ability let it evade her.

• Wen Jing devoured a hafnium-fiber harp fragment and gained Jiang Qin’s harp performance skill along with fragments of his memories and feelings.
• Wen Jing realized that accumulated memories and emotions from Superpower Cores could alter her personality and potentially strengthen the dangers of the out-of-control zone, so she decided against devouring them for now.
• Wen Jing reached the suspended fortress and recognized the glass tree frog as Jiang Qin’s Wilderness Body, understanding that its futile pursuit of the stairs reflected his desire for promotion.
• Wen Jing opened her containment device and tried to trap the tree frog, but it used its afterimage ability to leap away unseen and escape the cage.

Wen Jing helped complete a containment mission by capturing the Glazed Tree Frog and rescuing all five survivors, then reflected on ordinary workers’ lives as she returned to the academy. In the underground caverns, she launched a third attack on the Frost Vein Spider King, using an incandescent strike to catch it off guard before it counterattacked.

• Wen Jing used Mental Vision to predict the Glazed Tree Frog’s path and capture it with the containment device.
• An Ya, Brandon, and the others finished rescuing all five survivors, completing the mission and earning academic credits and points.
• As the aircraft departed, Wen Jing watched office workers enter the newly reopened buildings and decided not to dwell on hypothetical versions of her life.
• After nearly a month hunting Frost Spiders and improving her traits, Wen Jing returned to the Frost Vein Spider King’s nest for a third attempt.
• The Spider King and its spiderlings ensnared a decoy with silk, but Wen Jing attacked from another direction with incandescent light.
• The Spider King struck back while spiderlings blocked Wen Jing’s escape routes, and she taunted it in ant language.

Wen Jing used her new Phase Jump ability to evade the Spider King and weaken its Ice Domain, then exploited the cavern above its nest to trigger a collapse. She escaped upward through the falling debris as rocks and webs crashed down on the Spider King and its offspring.

• Wen Jing used Phase Jump to confuse the Spider King while Energy Pulse killed young spiders and melted parts of its ice-blue web, cracking its Ice Domain.
• The Spider King devoured surviving young spiders to replenish its strength, then covered itself in frost armor and shielded its offspring from Wen Jing's Energy Pulse.
• Wen Jing used Howl of the Hunt to knock the young spiders unconscious and stun the Spider King, but it unleashed Frost Vein Impact at her apparent figure.
• Wen Jing's figure proved to be an afterimage, and she struck a weakened point in the nest's dome with all her strength.
• The cavern ceiling collapsed, and Wen Jing leaped upward on the falling debris while the rocks and webs crashed toward the Spider King and its offspring.

Wen Jing killed the Spider King by collapsing the cavern over its nest, then devoured it and gained new traits that transformed her body and abilities. She tested her Ice Domain and discovered that its range was limited by the energy stored in her new core, while her Elementary Cold Extreme Physique could let her draw strength from cold.

• Wen Jing collapsed the caverns above the Spider King's nest, burrowed through the rubble, and killed the gravely injured Spider King with Energy Pulses.
• Wen Jing devoured the Spider King, grew larger, and acquired the Compressed State trait, which let her shift between her normal giant form and a small form that attracted nearby matter.
• Wen Jing gained the Elementary Cold Extreme Physique and Domain Vein Silk Gland traits, along with pale coloring, blue compound eyes, and dark-gold markings.
• Wen Jing used her ice-blue silk to create an Ice Domain, moved through it at extreme speed, and found that its current range extended a little over a hundred meters.
• Wen Jing realized that her Ice Domain's expansion depended on the energy stored in its core, while her new physique let her draw strength from cold rather than merely resist it.

Wen Jing strengthened her extreme cold core and Ice Domain, then wore down the Cold Flame Jellyfish with daily mental attacks. She attended Red Earth Academy’s second-year rankings tournament, where the academy arranged special matches for her because her compatibility exceeded the virtual reality limit.

• Wen Jing tested the reverse waterfall’s extreme cold and discovered that her core absorbed it while increasing the potential of her Ice Domain.
• After mastering Dean Fu’s mental power course, Wen Jing repeatedly attacked the Cold Flame Jellyfish with Howl of the Hunt while her Ice Domain protected her from their counterattacks.
• Wen Jing expanded her Ice Domain to two hundred meters and doubled the size of her extreme cold core by absorbing cold energy in the reverse waterfall.
• Wen Jing arrived at the second-year rankings tournament and went to the judges’ stand, drawing the students’ attention.
• The director of logistics announced that students could challenge Wen Jing in special matches because her compatibility had exceeded 60 percent and she could not safely compete in virtual reality.