Chapter Summaries

The Freshman League battle plunged into chaos, and Wen Jing’s success made her the audience’s clear favorite as the contestants dwindled. With five contestants secretly remaining, Helian used a Decoy Beacon to lure the others into danger, revealing that a hidden fifth contestant was still in play.

• Qin Yongge accepted his defeat, while Mo Lan continued blaming different people for the arena’s chaos as contestants fought through the confusion.
• Alice and Colin used terrain adjusters to turn the battlefield into an ocean and then lava; Colin killed Alice, setting the top ten.
• Wen Jing’s performance drew widespread attention and praise as the contestants were eliminated.
• With five contestants left, Colin and Rong Feng pursued Mo Lan into the nightfall zone while Helian stayed behind in the safe zone.
• Helian used a Decoy Beacon to draw a powerful beast tide toward the three fighters, then raised a shield to block their return.
• A second Decoy Beacon landed in the nightfall zone, exposing the hidden fifth contestant; Rong Feng was stunned, and Mo Lan guessed it was Keluо.

Wen Jing defeated Helian with Mental Shock to win the Freshman League, securing Red Earth Academy’s first championship. The arena crowd erupted in celebration, and Ochre Soil students finally confronted the other academies with newfound confidence.

• Two Decoy Beacons summoned enormous tentacles that eliminated Colin, Rong Feng, and Mo Lan, leaving Helian and Wen Jing as the final contestants.
• Wen Jing reappeared, and Helian challenged her, believing his Leyline Barrier made him invulnerable to her attacks.
• Wen Jing revealed she had waited to confirm Helian had only defensive abilities, then eliminated him with Mental Shock.
• The Freshman League ended early, and the venue erupted as Red Earth Academy celebrated its first championship.
• Ochre Soil students shouted Wen Jing’s name and stood up to a dismissive Mystic Radiance student, while students from the other academies noticed their numbers and confidence.

Wen Jing won the Freshman League championship and became a source of pride across Red Earth Star, while Dean Bai worried that the attention would expose her to powerful threats. Dean Bai admitted to Xie Ming that she had not offered to take Wen Jing as her student, and revealed that Fu Yuan also wanted to teach her.

• Wen Jing received the champion’s C-rank Empowerment Stone from the academy deans, and Dean Bai celebrated with her.
• News of Wen Jing’s victory spread across Red Earth Star, inspiring ordinary residents and low-rank awakened; Xu Yin wondered whether Wen Jing had an insect-type Wilderness Body.
• A figure brought strange ores to a secret base, where a middle-aged man considered whether Wen Jing’s achievements could challenge the theory of talent ranks.
• Ochre Soil students celebrated Wen Jing’s championship, and Dean Bai joined them, setting aside her worries for the night.
• Dean Bai told Xie Ming that Wen Jing’s paper and championship had attracted powerful attention, and admitted she had not asked Wen Jing to become her student.
• Dean Bai said she feared a champion would be targeted and revealed that Fu Yuan had expressed interest in taking Wen Jing as his student.

After winning the Freshman League, Wen Jing received offers from powerful groups but paid to upgrade her travel algorithm so she could reach the Ancient Wilderness without exposing her secret. Dean Bai asked Wen Jing to become her formal disciple, and Wen Jing accepted despite the danger from Dean Bai’s powerful enemies.

• Xie Ming warned Dean Bai that Wen Jing already faced a bounty and that Dean Bai had underestimated her strength.
• Wen Jing found sponsorship offers and other proposals in her inbox, then spent 500 points to upgrade her algorithm for Mystic Radiance Star’s orbit.
• Wen Jing attended the main league as its glowing Freshman League champion and met Dean Bai at the venue.
• Dean Bai asked Wen Jing to become her formal student and warned that several fully awakened grade A enemies would target her.
• Wen Jing accepted and called the danger a challenge; Dean Bai named her first-in-line heir and took her to meet people at the main league venue.

Wen Jing met Dean Ailin and Fu Yuan, who gave her welcome gifts after Dean Bai introduced her as her student. She then headed to Mystic Radiance’s exploration registration center, where a dismissive staff member recognized her as the Freshman League champion only after she filed a complaint, but Wen Jing had already departed for the Ancient Wilderness.

• Dean Bai introduced Wen Jing to Dean Ailin and Fu Yuan, and Ailin gave Wen Jing a golden shell while Fu Yuan sent her his mental power course.
• Dean Bai told Wen Jing to visit her that night, and Wen Jing left the league venue to register for transit to Mystic Radiance’s orbit.
• Wen Jing ignored offers to trade for her Class C Empowerment Stone and went to Mystic Radiance’s exploration registration center.
• A staff member ignored Wen Jing until she filed a complaint and gave him her name and ID number.
• The staff member recognized Wen Jing as the Freshman League champion and panicked, but Wen Jing stepped onto the transit platform and vanished.

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.