Chapter Summaries

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.

Red Earth Academy’s ranking competition awarded the top twenty exchange invitations to Azure Jade Academy and Mystic Radiance Academy, while Wen Jing spent most of the event cultivating and easily defeated first-place finisher Nie Xuan. As news of her upcoming visit reached Azure Jade Academy, its students began preparing to respond to the champion’s arrival.

• Dean Bai announced that the top twenty contestants would accompany Wen Jing on exchanges to Azure Jade Academy and Mystic Radiance Academy, and the students fought hard for the invitations.
• Wen Jing continued cultivating during the competition, while no contestant chose to challenge her.
• Wan Ling survived to claim twentieth place, and Nie Xuan won first place after Xia Yun met his attack without dodging.
• Wen Jing defeated Nie Xuan in a brief final duel, confirming the competition rankings and exchange slots.
• News of Wen Jing’s upcoming exchange reached Azure Jade Academy, where students discussed her arrival and invitations circulated to welcome the exchange students.

Ocher Soil Academy’s exchange group arrived at Azure Jade Academy, where Wen Jing saw the planet’s ocean-covered beauty and learned the arrangements for the three-month program. As the students reached their dormitories, Azure Jade students singled out Wen Jing and challenged her.

• Song Zhi greeted Wen Jing aboard the spaceship and congratulated her on her success and his own breakthrough.
• Dean Bai led the fifty-two Ocher Soil exchange students to Azure Jade Star, where Dean Fu received them before leaving them with the academic affairs director.
• Wen Jing connected her terminal to Azure Jade’s network, received the exchange handbook, and found that she could attend Azure Jade courses while keeping her Ocher Soil rankings.
• The Ocher Soil group arrived at its assigned dormitories and noticed Azure Jade students watching them intently.
• A group of Azure Jade second-years approached, and one of them challenged Wen Jing.

Wen Jing rejected a challenge from a low-ranked Azure Jade student and challenged Azure Jade's current top ten for the right to live in their academy-awarded villas. Her declaration stirred controversy across the academies, and Zou Jie, Azure Jade's fifth-ranked second-year, accepted.

• Wen Jing refused to fight a forty-seventh-ranked challenger, called him too weak, and challenged Azure Jade's top ten on the condition that a defeated opponent surrender their villa residence.
• News of Wen Jing's challenge spread across the three academies' forums, where students argued over her confidence and Azure Jade's ability to defeat her.
• Dean Bai told Dean Fu he had an urgent mission and asked him to be understanding if Wen Jing caused trouble at Azure Jade.
• Zou Jie, the fifth-ranked second-year, accepted Wen Jing's challenge, and Ocher Soil students briefed her on his C-rank potential, defensive abilities, and recent rise in strength.

Wen Jing accepted Azure Jade’s challenge from fifth-ranked Zou Jie despite the opponent’s choice of an arena that suppressed mental power. The duel was set to begin in the Suspended Falling Alloy arena, where Wen Jing saw Zou Jie’s abilities and prepared to face him.

• Song Zhi told Wen Jing that Zou Jie specialized in defense and that Azure Jade’s first-ranked student was Rong Feng.
• Wen Jing asked to schedule the duel before six in the morning so she could continue her daily attacks on the jellyfish in the Ancient Wilderness.
• Azure Jade proposed the Suspended Falling Alloy arena, and students from both academies argued over whether its suppression of mental power made the venue unfair.
• Wen Jing asked whether the academic affairs office had approved the transfer of residency rights, then agreed to fight in the arena as soon as possible.
• An hour later, Wen Jing and Zou Jie arrived at the arena before a large crowd of Azure Jade students and the Ocher Soil exchange students.
• Wen Jing used her tactical glasses to identify Zou Jie’s abilities as [Echo] and [Gaseous Transformation], then entered the inner arena.

Wen Jing faced Zou Jie in Azure Jade’s suspension arena, where he used sonic detection and his hurricane-like Wilderness Body to counter her invisibility and physical attacks. As Zou Jie pressed her with a storm of Wind Blades and called for her surrender, Wen Jing calmly analyzed the weakness of his form while her shield neared breaking.

• Wan Ling reassured the others that Wen Jing had confidence in the challenge, and Azure Jade’s academic director started the duel after learning the dean expected Wen Jing to win.
• Wen Jing and Zou Jie traded taunts before the countdown ended and both vanished from the audience’s sight.
• Zou Jie flew to the arena’s center, used sound waves to locate Wen Jing, and transformed his body into a vast hurricane that her sword passed through.
• Zou Jie filled the arena with wind and fired Wind Blades at Wen Jing, leading Azure Jade’s spectators to believe she was trapped.
• Wen Jing analyzed that Zou Jie’s expanded molecules filled the arena, while her tier-three shield weakened under his concentrated assault and he demanded her surrender.

Wen Jing defeated Azure Jade’s fifth-ranked student Zou Jie by freezing his gaseous body, winning his three-month villa residency rights. The match ended Azure Jade’s attempt to humiliate her, while the other academies began reassessing her strength.

• Zou Jie shattered Wen Jing’s shield and attacked her with a hurricane of wind blades, but her Frost Vein Silk spread through the arena and rapidly lowered its temperature.
• Wen Jing froze Zou Jie into an ice sculpture, leaving him unable to concede until Azure Jade’s dean of academic affairs thawed him.
• Zou Jie conceded, and the dean transferred his three-month villa residency rights to Wen Jing while banning further challenges for villa rights.
• Wen Jing left with the Ocher Soil students, while Azure Jade students struggled to understand how she had defeated Zou Jie so quickly.
• News of the match spread to Ocher Soil and Mystic Radiance, where students discussed Wen Jing’s strength and whether the top four Azure Jade students would dare challenge her.

Wen Jing moved into Azure Jade’s villa district and enrolled in thirty-six electives before beginning the popular Energy Structure Method course. The chapter ended as she listened to the teaching assistant explain its breathing technique.

• Mystic Radiance students speculated that Wen Jing had gained a new ability, while a group plotting against her discussed her possible Wilderness Weapon and the chance to act while Bai Xiao was away.
• Wen Jing moved into a seaside villa at Azure Jade and discovered that the academy covered training-room repairs.
• Wen Jing selected thirty-six electives, taking every available course that did not conflict with another.
• After training in the Ancient Wilderness, Wen Jing attended Energy Structure Method with the other Ocher Soil exchange students.
• Professor Ye opened the class, and his teaching assistant began explaining the technique’s breathing method.

Wen Jing memorized the Energy Structure Method’s particle diagram almost instantly and demonstrated remarkable skill in the class test. The chapter ended with her reaching 80% proficiency after connecting the technique to her Ice Domain, while Azure Jade students suspected she had prepared in advance.

• The teaching assistant displayed a moving diagram of light points, and Wen Jing immediately recited the number of points and their trajectory changes from memory.
• The teaching assistant explained how to apply the Energy Structure Method, and Wen Jing followed the lesson while Azure Jade students doubted she understood it.
• A Azure Jade student passed the class test with a score of 110 and challenged Wen Jing to take the test herself.
• Wen Jing struck the testing device and scored 150, leaving the Azure Jade students stunned and the Ocher Soil students pleased.
• Wen Jing realized that constructing her Ice Domain’s Frost Vein Silk had prepared her to control energy at the particle level, and her proficiency reached 80%.

Wen Jing impressed Azure Jade Academy with her rapid progress in class and revealed that she had enrolled in thirty-six courses, leaving students across the academy shaken by her learning ability. Professor Ye dismissed her performance as showing off, while Professor Saerjia learned that Dean Bai’s student was among the Ocher Soil exchange students.

• Professor Ye dismissed class without acknowledging Wen Jing’s performance, then told his assistant to slow her lesson plan because he believed she had studied ahead and was showing off.
• Wen Jing joined the Ocher Soil students heading to their next class and said she had enrolled in thirty-six courses, prompting the news to spread across Azure Jade Academy.
• As Wen Jing attended courses and performed exceptionally in each, Azure Jade students began to question their own abilities, while students at Mystic Radiance avoided discussing her.
• Professor Ye casually prompted Professor Saerjia to ask about the new students, and Saerjia learned that Wen Jing was among the Ocher Soil exchange students.

Wen Jing withstood Professor Saerjia’s deliberate pressure in Prism Shield class and expanded her shield to protect the Ocher Soil exchange students beside her. After the incident became a dispute between Azure Jade and Ocher Soil, Xie Ming told Wen Jing that Saerjia was likely targeting her because of her teacher, Bai Xiao.

• Saerjia ignored the teaching assistant and pressured the students’ shields, clearly singling out Wen Jing.
• Wen Jing’s Prism Shield held against Saerjia’s pressure, then expanded to protect the six Ocher Soil students around her.
• The teaching assistant called the class over before Saerjia could attack Wen Jing, and Saerjia left.
• News of the confrontation spread, and Xie Ming contacted Wen Jing after her final class.
• Xie Ming explained that Saerjia’s hostility likely stemmed from Bai Xiao’s past at Mystic Radiance Academy.