Chapter Summaries

Wen Jing completed the Ancient Wilderness insect research project with Xie Ming, then continued growing stronger by devouring the giant tree and its inhabitants. As the Freshman League approached, her compatibility reached 34%, and she prepared to travel to Mystic Radiance Star for the competition.

• Wen Jing left Xinpu City, and three days later Xie Ming told her the insect research project was ready to submit.
• Wen Jing accepted second authorship after Xie Ming explained that Xu Yin's contribution would be treated as unreliable material in review.
• The project was approved, granting Wen Jing a monthly subsidy of 10 points, and she continued transiting to the giant tree to devour it.
• Wen Jing ate a mutant poison frog, gained its potent toxin through her Toxin Generation trait, and brought back its shed skin.
• Wen Jing entered the final month before advancing to her second year as the Freshman League at Mystic Radiance Star approached, and her compatibility reached 34%.

Wen Jing bought the Pagoda Secret Scroll and spent five days struggling to master its visualization-based meditation, eventually learning it at 23% proficiency. As the league competition approached, a debt-collection notice from the population factory arrived, threatening further interest or professional collectors unless she cooperated with asset verification.

• Wen Jing exchanged her Empowerment Stone reward for points and bought the first three levels of the Pagoda Secret Scroll despite the shop’s suspicious warnings.
• Wen Jing used virtual reality to study the secret art’s stone-tower visualization, failed repeatedly to construct it mentally, and realized that she needed to perceive its intent.
• Wen Jing continued practicing the Pagoda Secret Scroll over the next five days while the academy grew tense ahead of the league competition.
• Wen Jing learned the Pagoda Secret Scroll at 23% proficiency and received a population-factory notice demanding that she cooperate with asset verification or face more interest and debt collectors.

Wen Jing recognized that a debt notice was meant to pressure her before the Freshman League, but refused to repay her life loan by selling growth resources or borrowing from acquaintances. Seeking a fast, independent way to earn five million credits, she contacted Old Wang and learned that his delivery business used awakeners to travel between planets through the Ancient Wilderness.

• Wen Jing realized the suspicious debt notice was likely part of an effort to unsettle her before the Freshman League and decided she would not cooperate or pay unnecessary interest.
• Wen Jing rejected exchanging her points or valuable Ancient Wilderness resources for credits and chose not to ask Song Zhi, Dean Bai, or Xie Ming for help.
• Wen Jing contacted Old Wang, asked for a way to earn five million credits without borrowing, and received coordinates for a meeting.
• Wen Jing worked at the giant tree, continued devouring its trunk and black threadworms, and left without taking resources to sell.
• Wen Jing disguised herself with Basic Mimicry and met Old Wang in White Rock City, where he explained that his main business was interstellar express delivery by awakener travel through the Ancient Wilderness.

Wen Jing entered an underground arena to find a quick way to earn money and discovered her instructor Louisa preparing to fight there. After Wen Jing revealed herself, Louisa pulled her aside and demanded to know why she had come.

• Old Wang explained that courier work required upgraded algorithms and planetary access rights, and that wager fights offered Wen Jing a faster way to earn money.
• Old Wang brought Wen Jing to an underground arena, where newcomers needed to complete preliminary wager fights before entering high-stakes matches.
• Wen Jing noticed Louisa in the fighters' waiting area and left Old Wang to approach her.
• The arena's energy-sealing field prevented fighters from using ranged techniques and forced them to rely on physical combat.
• Louisa recognized Wen Jing by her voice, pulled her into a quiet corner, and asked why she was there.

Wen Jing entered the underground arena on Louisa’s recommendation and rapidly won her placement matches, reaching Silver III with a perfect record. She earned millions of credits and sharpened her Energy Amplification Method, while the crowd adopted her old nickname as a victory chant.

• Louisa recommended Wen Jing for the competition and promised to supervise her training until she reached gold, using Wen Jing’s underground fighting as leverage.
• Wen Jing’s first opponent, Skull Crusher, attacked at the start of their match, but Wen Jing knocked him out in one move and won instantly.
• Wen Jing completed ten consecutive placement wins, and the spectators chanted “Lean Muscles Are the Best” even after she changed her competitor nickname to Pagoda.
• Wen Jing received Silver III rank and a post-tax payout of 4,432,114 credits, bringing her earnings after repaying her life loan to over six million credits.
• Wen Jing’s Energy Amplification Method proficiency reached 67% as the danger of real underground matches accelerated her training.

Wen Jing perfected the Energy Amplification Method, gained the Revival trait, and mastered the Pagoda Secret Scroll just before leaving for the Freshman League on Mystic Radiance Star. She boarded Red Earth Academy’s spacecraft with the other students and contestants, then settled in to meditate during the one-day journey.

• Wen Jing defeated the Platinum contestant Qingfeng in her Gold promotion match, perfected the Energy Amplification Method, and raised her arena rank to Gold.
• Wen Jing reached 200 vitality while devouring the giant tree and acquired the Revival trait.
• Wen Jing stopped competing in the underground arena and mastered the Pagoda Secret Scroll on the morning the academy group departed.
• Dean Bai and the academy students and contestants boarded the spacecraft for Mystic Radiance Star, where Wen Jing received greetings from fourth-year league contestants.
• Wen Jing meditated in her cabin during the spacecraft journey.

Wen Jing arrived at Mystic Radiance Academy for the Freshman League after mastering a mental power secret technique. She registered and learned that her compatibility ranked 472nd among more than sixteen thousand competitors, far ahead of the other Ochre Soil freshmen.

• Wen Jing shaped a stone tower in her consciousness and realized that the mental power technique could make her attacks more efficient, stable, and safe.
• Wen Jing saw Mystic Radiance Star and learned that the Federation's political center had two polar cities, including Mystic Radiance Academy.
• Dean Bai led Red Earth Academy's delegation through registration after a Mystic Radiance representative welcomed them with distant politeness.
• Students from the other academies discussed Wen Jing's Trial Tower records and searched the Ochre Soil group for her.
• Wen Jing registered and received the competitor roster, which placed her 472nd with 47% compatibility and an F-rated Wilderness Body.

Wen Jing’s compatibility ranking surprised competitors from the other academies, while rival teams assessed her before the Freshman League began. The organizers revealed a shifting mobile-continent battlefield with dangerous terrain, beast tides, and encroaching night zones, then led the competitors into the venue.

• Wen Jing ranked 472nd in compatibility, drawing attention from students across all three academies and reflection from Luosi, whose ranking was one place above hers.
• A Azure Jade competitor, reminded by his tactical analyst to take Wen Jing seriously, resolved to defeat her and recover the face he had lost aboard the spaceship.
• Wen Jing compared the registration rankings with the intelligence she had reviewed and recognized that several competitors had concealed their strength or gained new innate abilities.
• The organizers revealed that the league would take place on a mobile continent with shifting terrain, resource points, randomly distributed beasts, and periodic beast tides.
• The organizers explained that survival time determined rankings and that encroaching night zones would eventually eliminate competitors; after receiving the rules, the competitors entered the venue.

Wen Jing entered the Freshman League, defeated a mimicry Wilderness Beast, and began assessing the virtual battlefield. Elsewhere, Ochre Soil students faced dangerous terrain and attacks, and Yu Yang spotted Wen Jing from the water and shouted for help.

• The dean of Mystic Radiance Academy announced the Freshman League rewards and reminded contestants that survival came first.
• Wen Jing landed in a polar canyon, fought and killed a mimicry white-furred ape, and deduced how its predictable behavior differed from that of a real Wilderness Beast.
• Contestants appeared across the battlefield, where some fought beasts, sought resources, hunted opponents, or headed toward the center; the first contestant was eliminated after five minutes.
• Three Ocher Soil students struggled through dangerous water as shark Wilderness Beasts circled them, and a Azure Jade contestant attacked from above.
• Yu Yang spotted Wen Jing on the shore and shouted to her for help.

Wen Jing rescued Yu Yang and Kevin, then confronted Azure Jade students clearing out Ochre Soil contestants. She eliminated both Azure Jade pursuers and claimed a Speed Enhancement resource pack.

• Wen Jing tricked Wei Tianlei with a false call of her name, then killed him with a Wind Blade, making him Azure Jade Academy’s first eliminated contestant.
• Wen Jing rescued Yu Yang and Kevin and invited them to travel with her.
• Wen Jing told Yu Yang and Kevin to wait while she approached two Azure Jade students attacking Ochre Soil contestants.
• Wen Jing blocked one Azure Jade student’s pursuit and killed him with a rapid punch.
• Wen Jing pursued and killed the second Azure Jade student despite his Afterimage and Wind’s Protection talents.
• Wen Jing collected the blue resource pack and received a Speed Enhancement.

Wen Jing rescued Ocher Soil students and began gathering them into a group, while spectators questioned whether unity could help the academy. She effortlessly defeated a D-rank opponent who challenged her, then continued linking up with Ocher Soil contestants across the battlefield.

• Wen Jing examined a resource pack’s speed-boost effect and reunited with Yu Yang, Kevin, and the Ocher Soil students she had rescued.
• Wen Jing asked the Ocher Soil students to join her, while spectators watched her attempt to unite the academy’s scattered contestants.
• Luosi used his True Sight ability to spot hidden resource points as he flew over the arena.
• ■■■ abandoned his prey and charged Wen Jing, but she dodged his Stunning Roar and killed him with one punch.
• Analysts praised Wen Jing’s combat skill, and the Ocher Soil student she had rescued joined her growing group.

Wen Jing united more than four hundred Ochre Soil contestants and explained the competition’s resources before leading them to face the first beast tide. She charged alone into the oncoming beasts, leaving the team to hold formation behind her.

• Wen Jing’s strength and leadership drew Ochre Soil students into a force of more than four hundred, who shared their resources and information with her.
• Wen Jing reviewed the five single-use resource types and stopped the team at a terrain junction to prepare for the six-hour terrain change and beast tide.
• Wen Jing told the uneasy contestants to stay together and resist the beast tide, then ordered those with strong defenses to take the front as the beasts approached.
• Wen Jing’s Wind Blades tripped charging bison, briefly slowing the tide, while the contestants formed a V-shaped defensive formation behind her.
• Wen Jing charged alone into the beast tide, moving through it like lightning as spectators watched in amazement.

Wen Jing used a Decoy Beacon to divert the first beast tide and save the Ocher Soil team, sacrificing a rare strategic resource. The team grew into a thousand-strong battle group, survived the third beast tide together, and became a force that other contestants feared.

• Wen Jing’s team struggled to hold against the first beast tide as analysts predicted the front-line fighters would eventually falter.
• Wen Jing used a Decoy Beacon to draw the beasts away, allowing all four hundred-plus Ocher Soil students to survive.
• After the team expanded to a thousand members, Wen Jing led them in contests for resources against Azure Jade students, driving nearby opponents to flee.
• The Ocher Soil students shared their skills and worked together to survive the third beast tide with ease.
• The Ocher Soil battle group drew widespread attention, though some powerful figures dismissed its members as rabble.

After the first zone shrink and a beast tide, Wen Jing’s huge Ocher Soil battle group split into smaller units to avoid becoming a target, with Wen Jing moving between them to strengthen their fighting. She left Lin Yuan eliminated and the Ocher Soil contestants still competing through guerrilla tactics.

• The first zone shrink forced contestants toward the center, while Wen Jing’s Ocher Soil battle group remained too formidable for other teams to challenge directly.
• After the second zone shrink, a beast tide, and the appearance of a golden Decoy Beacon, Wen Jing declined to pursue it and ordered her group to collect nearby resources.
• Wen Jing split the Ocher Soil battle group into teams of about a hundred and moved between them, boosting their combat strength.
• Wen Jing blocked Lin Yuan’s attack on a smaller Ocher Soil group, and Lin Yuan unleashed her thunderstorm field.
• Wen Jing closed through Lin Yuan’s lightning and eliminated her, leaving Lin Yuan brooding over Wen Jing’s remark about their classmates’ bonds.

Wen Jing used Ocher Soil's teamwork to gather battlefield intelligence and help more than fifty of its contestants reach the top thousand. As the arena narrowed, Luosi demonstrated his Angel Wilderness Body and eliminated a Azure Jade contestant, while Wen Jing raced toward three Ocher Soil contestants carrying a rare terrain controller.

• Wen Jing directed Ocher Soil's contestants to avoid elimination and gather intelligence, using their numbers and cooperation to improve the academy's rankings.
• The arena's active area shrank, and the contestant count fell below one thousand; more than fifty Ocher Soil contestants remained, an unprecedented result for the academy.
• After the top thousand were decided, three Ocher Soil contestants fled from a Azure Jade and a Mystic Radiance contestant, and one passed a purple terrain controller to a teammate.
• Wen Jing rushed to meet the trio as the two pursuers tried to eliminate them and seize the resource.
• Luosi arrived openly, unleashed a crystalline wing of light, and eliminated the Azure Jade contestant with a force-field attack; the Mystic Radiance contestant escaped.

Wen Jing challenged Luosi after taking a purple resource pack, surprising spectators who expected her to flee. She revealed flight and used her mysterious Gravity Silk to evade Luosi’s attacks, then broke through his Halo Barrier with a powerful punch and drove him back.

• Luosi eliminated three contestants from Ocher Soil with a single attack and moved to claim their purple resource pack.
• Wen Jing took the resource pack and charged toward Luosi instead of escaping.
• Wen Jing and Luosi clashed, and she evaded his attacks while revealing that she could fly.
• Luosi used True Vision to spot the mysterious threads around Wen Jing, but his attack passed through them.
• Wen Jing combined Wind Blades with a forceful punch to shatter Luosi’s Halo Barrier and send him flying backward.

Wen Jing fought Luosi on even terms, using her mastery of common combat techniques to challenge his A-rank abilities. Luosi unleashed Holy Judgment, but Wen Jing answered with a refracted Energy Pulse, and both contestants' energy signatures vanished in a mutual destruction.

• Wen Jing matched Luosi's attacks and endured his Holy Pressure while their battle devastated the canyon.
• Wen Jing and Luosi healed their injuries, but neither backed down because losing meant elimination.
• Luosi activated his ultimate move, Holy Judgment, and locked Wen Jing beneath a beam of light that followed her movements.
• Wen Jing transformed the terrain into a crystal-cluster rift and piled up crystals to refract and amplify her Energy Pulse.
• Luosi launched Holy Judgment as Wen Jing sent a web of refracted Energy Pulse beams at him, and the two attacks swallowed both fighters in a massive explosion.
• Nearby top contestants found that both Luosi's and Wen Jing's energy signatures had vanished, indicating that they had destroyed each other.

Wen Jing survived her mutual elimination with Luosi by regenerating through his Holy Judgment, then turned invisible and became the arena’s hidden threat. As viewers investigated her unusual ability and questioned her F-rank assessment, analysts traced her mysterious Wilderness Body to an Ocher Soil research project.

• Luosi was eliminated at rank 834 after his battle with Wen Jing, and viewers debated whether Wen Jing had deliberately traded a higher placement for the fame of defeating an A-rank.
• Luosi asked whether he or Wen Jing had been eliminated first, but his team discovered Wen Jing’s name was missing from the recent eliminations.
• Viewers realized Wen Jing’s livestream was still moving and replayed the fight, finding that she had regenerated through Holy Judgment before turning invisible.
• Wen Jing remained concealed, healed her injuries, and planned to hunt the other contestants, who believed she had already been eliminated.
• Viewers questioned how Wen Jing could have invisibility while ranked F, and analysts found an Ocher Soil research paper on insect-type Wilderness Bodies that listed Wen Jing as its second author.

Wen Jing remained hidden after her apparent mutual elimination with Luosi, then ambushed and instantly eliminated top contestant Keluо on the final day. Keluо and Luosi realized Wen Jing had outplayed them, while ■■■ regained his confidence and hoped she would climb higher in the rankings.

• Xie Ming noticed that downloads of Red Earth Academy's insect research paper had surged after analysts studied Wen Jing's ability, and he increased the project's budget.
• Analysts concluded that Wen Jing's invisibility relied on optical mimicry, suppressed her energy and aura, and limited her speed.
• As the safe zone shrank on the final day, Keluо returned from the nightfall zone and rushed toward a golden resource point.
• Wen Jing ambushed Keluо from invisibility and eliminated him with a single amplified kick, leaving him unsure who had attacked him.
• Keluо discovered that Wen Jing had eliminated him, while Luosi recognized that her earlier battle with him had been a setup.
• ■■■ regained his composure and urged Wen Jing to eliminate more contestants.

Wen Jing’s ambushes were blamed on Mo Lan, who became a target while trying to clear her name. After Qin Yongge’s illusions failed to affect the real Mo Lan, she revealed herself by eliminating him, leaving nearby contestants to recognize her as the attacker.

• Wen Jing continued ambushing top contestants, and survivors mistook her for the invisible Mo Lan.
• Colin and Alice attacked Mo Lan together in a lava zone, but she escaped into shadow space; Rong Feng then found and pursued her.
• Mo Lan realized someone was impersonating her and blamed Keluо, prompting contestants to question whether he was behind the attacks.
• The third-to-last zone contraction reduced the field to the top hundred, where contestants began negotiating over rankings and benefits.
• Qin Yongge used his illusions when he sensed Mo Lan approaching, but the real Mo Lan emerged from invisibility and eliminated him at rank 85.